Persil proclean original deep clean

[H] Lots of games: Back 4 blood, Pistol Whip, Talisman: complete collection, The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan & little hope, F1 2019 legend edition, Fable Anniversary [W] Gotham Knights, Hell let loose, spyro, F1 2020, slay the spires, Paypal, amazon, TF2 KEYS, wishlist, old humble bundles

2023.03.22 16:11 Jerry_217 [H] Lots of games: Back 4 blood, Pistol Whip, Talisman: complete collection, The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan & little hope, F1 2019 legend edition, Fable Anniversary [W] Gotham Knights, Hell let loose, spyro, F1 2020, slay the spires, Paypal, amazon, TF2 KEYS, wishlist, old humble bundles

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Region is NA

My REPs: 200+ successful trades, 0 dispute.

Added recently:

Back 4 blood (EU)
Batora: Lost Haven
Call of the Sea
Control Ultimate Edition
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Praey for the Gods
Syberia - The World Before
Dusk
Talisman bundle (54 activation keys)
Fallout
Five Dates
Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel
Othercide
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition
ScourgeBringer
Shady Part of Me
Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
Paint the Town Red
Per Aspera
Ship Graveyard Simulator
Beat Cop (GOG)
The Evil Within 2 (GOG)
Mom Hid My Game! (nintendo switch)

Recent Choice:

Feb 2023:
BIOMUTANT
Demon Turf
Edge Of Eternity
Golden Light
Hero's Hour
Jurassic World Evolution 2
Monster Crown
Rogue Lords

Jan 2023:
DOOM Eternal
OlliOlli World RAD EDITION
Tribes of Midgard
Encased
Grow: Song of the Evertree
Hokko Life
The Serpent Rogue
Conan Chop Chop

Dec 2022:
Backbone
Blade Assault
First Class Trouble
GreedFall
Super Magbot
TOEM
Wasteland 3
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine

List A: (trade for TF2 KEYS, CS GO items, or US amazon gift card)

Borderlands 3: Super Deluxe Edition
Dragon Knight (delisted)
Dragonia (delisted)
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 + 18DLCs (19 game+dlc)
F1 2019 Legendary Edition (delisted)
Hell Girls (delisted)
Pistol Whip
Ragnarock
Super Star (delisted)
Talisman: The complete collection (54 game+dlc)

List B: Mainly Wishlist games or TF2 KEYS, CS GO items, or US amazon gift card

A Plague Tale: Innocence
ABZU
AMID EVIL
Anuchard
Armello
Astronarch
Big Pharma
Boundless
Children of Morta: Complete Edition
Construction Simulator (2015) Deluxe Edition
Crusader Kings III
Cultist Simulator
DEATHLOOP
Depraved
Desperados III
Destroy All Humans
Dishonored
Distant Worlds Universe
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
Drake Hollow
Dungeons 2 - Complete Edition
Dusk
ENDLESS Space 2 Digital Deluxe Edition
Euro Truck Simulator 2
Fable Anniversary
Field of Glory: Empires
Forager
Full Metal Furies
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
GRID Ultimate Edition
Hedon Bloodrite
How to Sing to Open Your Heart
Injustice 2 Legendary Edition
IRIS and the Giant
Jack Move
Joggernauts
Just Cause 4 Complete Edition
Last Oasis
Late Shift
Mafia: Definitive Edition
Metro Exodus
Mini motor Racing EVO (delisted)
Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp
Moving Out
Nickelodeon All Star Brawl
Obduction
Offworld Trading Company
Outward The Soroboreans DLC + soundtrack (no base game)
Paint the Town Red
Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Royal Ascension DLC
Pathfinder: Kingmaker - The Wildcards DLC
Per Aspera
Planet zoo
Plebby Quest: The Crusades
Port Royale 3 Gold
Port Royale 4 - Extended Edition + Port Royale 4 - Buccaneers DLC
Project CARS
Project CARS 2
Propnight
Proteus
Quantum Break
Risen 2: Dark Waters, Sacred 2: Gold Edition, Saints Row 2, and Saints Row: The Third! (all 4 together in one key)
Rubber Bandits
Ryse: Son of Rome
Sakura Alien
Sakura Dungeon
Sakura - Forest Girls set

Sakura knight set

Sakura MMO set

Sakura succubus set

Sakura Swim Club
Sam & Max: Devil's Playhouse
Secret Neighbor: Hello Neighbor Multiplayer
Severed steel
Ship Graveyard Simulator
Sid Meier's Civilization VI : Platinum Edition
Sniper Elite 3
Sniper Elite 4
Spirit Hunter: NG
Starbound
State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition (steam gift)
Strange Brigade
Sunset Overdrive
Super Star (delisted)
Superliminal
Surviving The Aftermath
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope
The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos
The Gardens Between
The Long Dark
The Stanley Parable
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition (Gift)
This War of Mine: Complete Edition
Total War: Empire - Definitive Edition
Total War: Medieval II - Definitive Edition
Total War: Napoleon- Definitive Edition
Twilight Struggle
War for the Overworld
XCOM: Enemy Unknown Complete Edition
Yakuza Kiwami 2

List C

112 Operator
911 Operator
Aarklash: Legacy
Agent in Depth
Alchemist's Castle
Aliens vs. Predator Collection
_ + Aliens vs. Predator_
_ + Aliens vs Predator Swarm Map Pack_
_ + Aliens vs Predator: Bug Hunt Pack_
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs + Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Among Us
Armello
Army Men RTS
Assault Android Cactus
Assault Suit Leynos
Backbone
Bartlow's Dread Machine
Battlecruisers
Beat Hazard 2
Behold the Kickmen
Between the Stars
Bezier
Bionic Commando
Blood And Zombies
Brawlout
Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons
Brütal Legend
[email protected]
Calico
Call of Juarez Gunslinger
Cats and the Other Lives
Cats in Time
Chicka Wars Chicken Meat
CivCity: Rome
Click and Slay
Concept Destruction
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!
Corridor Z
Cosmic Express
Cosmonautica
Crayon Physics Deluxe
Cris Tales
CROSSBOW: Bloodnight
Crown Trick
Crying Suns
Dagon - The Eldritch Box DLC
Darksburg
Dead Age
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
Death Squared
Detached: Non-VR Edition
Disciples: Liberation
Double Cross
Doughlings: Arcade
Doughlings: Invasion
Draw Slasher
Drawful 2
Driftland: The Magic Revival
Due Process
EarthX
El Hijo
Eldest Souls
Emily is Away <3
Epic Chef
Farmer's Dynasty
Farming Simulator 17
Firegirl: Hack 'n Splash Rescue
Fling to the Finish
Flynn: Son of Crimson
Forged Battalion
Fortissimo FA INTL Ver
Frick, Inc.
Full Throttle Remastered
Fun with Ragdolls: The Game
GameGuru Classic
Garfield Kart - Furious Racing
Ghost 1.0
Go Home Dinosaurs!
Going Under
Golf Gang
Guilty Gear X2 #Reload
Guns & Fishes
Guts and Glory
Hack 'n' Slash + Soundtrack (& Spacebase GIFT)
_ + Hack 'n' Slash_
_ + Hack 'n' Slash Soundtrack_
_ + Spacebase GIFT_
Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition
Harmony's Odyssey
Heart Fragment - Book Two: Belief Fragments (Shannon & Lana)
Helheim Hassle
Hellbound
Hello Neighbor
Hexologic
Hidden & Dangerous 2: Courage Under Fire
Hidden & Dangerous: Action Pack
Holy Potatoes! A Spy Story?!
How to Sing to Open Your Heart
Hydrophobia: Prophecy
Hyper Gunsport
I’m not a Monster
In Sound Mind
INDUSTRIA
Internet Cafe Simulator
Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition
Into the Pit
Iris and the giant
Iron Danger
Izmir: An Independence Simulator
Joggernauts
JYDGE
Kerbal Space Program
Killsquad
Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning FATE Edition
_ + Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning_
_ + Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning Soundtrack_
_ + Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning - Fatesworn_
Knights of Pen and Paper +1
Labirinto 2
Last Word
Lawn Mowing Simulator
Legend of Keepers
Legion TD 2
LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes
Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Don't Dry
Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Dry Twice
Let Them Come
Lighthouse Keeper
Little Orpheus
Lust for Darkness
Lust from Beyond: M Edition
Maid of Sker
Mainlining
Mekabolt
Meow Express
MirrorMoon EP
Monaco
Monster Train
Monster Train: The Last Divinity
Moon Hunters
Moonlighter
Morbid: The Seven Acolytes
Motorcycle Mechanic Simulator 2021
Mount & Blade: Warband
Moving Out
Murder by Numbers
Must Dash Amigos
My Time At Portia
N++
NecroWorm
Neon Abyss
NeuroVoider
Neverinth
Neverout
Nongunz: Doppelganger Edition
Non-Stop Raiders
Of Orcs And Men
Omno
One More Island
Orbital Racer
Out of Reach: Treasure Royale
Override
Overture
Papo & Yo
Paradise Lost
Partial Control
Pathfinders: Memories
Pathway
Pawnbarian
PAYDAY 2
Pilgrims
Pill Baby
Pixplode
Pixross
PLANET ALPHA
Planet TD
PlataGO!
Plebby Quest: The Crusades
Popup Dungeon
Post Void
PowerBeatsVR
Project Chemistry
Project Nimbus: Complete Edition
Propagation VR - Co-op
Proteus
Pumped BMX +
Quadrata
Radio Commander
Railroad Corporation
Railroad Tycoon 3
Raji: An Ancient Epic
Rebel Galaxy
Rebound Dodgeball Evolved
Remnants of Naezith
Resident Evil Revelations
Resident Evil Revelations 2
Ring of Pain
RIOT - Civil Unrest
Roarr! Jurassic Edition
Roboquest
Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos
RPG Maker VX
Rustler
Rym 9000
Save Room - Organization Puzzle
Say No! More
SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun - Aiko's Choice
shapez - Puzzle DLC
Shing!
Shortest Trip to Earth
Sid Meier's Railroads!
Siege Survival: Gloria Victis
Skullgirls 2nd Encore
Slinger VR
Smile For Me
Sorcerer King: Rivals
Soul Searching
Soulblight
Soulflow
Space Crew: Legendary Edition
Spellcaster University
Spirit Hunter: Death Mark
Stacking
STAR WARS Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
STAR WARS: Knights of the Old Republic
Starpoint Gemini Warlords
Stick Fight: The Game
stikir
Stirring Abyss
Strange Brigade
Strider
Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
Sunlight
Super Chicken Catchers
SUPERHOT
SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE
Supraland
Surviving the Aftermath
Sword Legacy Omen
SYMMETRY
System Shock 2
System Shock: Enhanced Edition
Telefrag VR
The Amazing American Circus
The Beast Inside
The Deed II
The Golf Club 2019 Featuring PGA TOUR
The Inner World
The Next Penelope
The USB Stick Found in the Grass
This War of Mine: Complete Edition
Ticket to Ride
ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove
Tools Up!
Tooth and Tail
Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
Traffic Jams
Train Station Renovation
Treasure Hunter Simulator
Turmoil
Underland: The Climb
UnMetal
Vanishing Realms
War for the Overworld
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War
WARSAW
We Were Here Too
White Noise 2
Worms Rumble
WRC 7
WWE 2K BATTLEGROUNDS
XCOM 2
X-COM: Complete Pack
_ + X-COM: UFO Defense_
_ + X-COM: Apocalypse_
_ + X-COM: Enforcer_
_ + X-COM: Interceptor_
_ + X-COM: Terror from the Deep_
XEL
X-Morph: Defense Complete Pack
+ X-Morph: Defense_
+ X-Morph: Defense - European Assault_
+ X-Morph: Defense - Survival Of The Fittest_
+ X-Morph: Defense - Last Bastion_
Yoku's Island Express
Zombie Driver HD Complete Edition
_ + Zombie Driver HD_
_ + Zombie Driver HD Apocalypse Pack_
_ + Zombie Driver HD Burning Garden of Slaughter_
_ + Zombie Driver HD Tropical Race Rage_
_ + Zombie Driver HD Brutal Car Skins_
_ + Zombie Driver HD Soundtrack_
ΔV: Rings of Saturn

Command & Conquer Remastered Collection (ORIGIN key)
DOOM 64 (Bethesda key)
Liberated (GOG key)
STAR WARS: Squadrons (Origin)
Wanderlust Travel Stories (GOG key)
Dishonored 2 (GOG)

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Wishlist:

Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf special edition
Hell let loose
DOOM Eternal
Crusader kings 3
slay the spire
Spyro Reignited Trilogyc
deep rock galactic
Spiderman remaster
Uncharted
Persona 5 Royal
Rocket League
Poker night
poker night 2
NBA 2k16
NBA 2k17

Full WISHLIST

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If you traded with me before, you can chat with me directly. Or else, please comment first, then send me a message or chat, thank you.

Region is NA

My REPs: 200+ successful trades, 0 dispute.

Added recently:

Recent Choice:

List A: (trade for TF2 KEYS, CS GO items, or US amazon gift card)

Borderlands 3: Super Deluxe Edition
Dragon Knight (delisted)
Dragonia (delisted)
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 + 18DLCs (19 game+dlc)
F1 2019 Legendary Edition (delisted)
Hell Girls (delisted)
Pistol Whip
Ragnarock
Super Star (delisted)
Talisman: The complete collection (54 game+dlc)

List B: Mainly Wishlist games or TF2 KEYS, CS GO items, or US amazon gift card

Sakura knight set

Sakura MMO set

Sakura succubus set

List C

Wishlist:

Full WISHLIST

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If you traded with me before, you can chat with me directly. Or else, please comment first, then send me a message or chat, thank you.

Region is NA

My REPs: 200+ successful trades, 0 dispute.

Added recently:

Recent Choice:

List A: (trade for TF2 KEYS, CS GO items, or US amazon gift card)

Borderlands 3: Super Deluxe Edition
Dragon Knight (delisted)
Dragonia (delisted)
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 + 18DLCs (19 game+dlc)
F1 2019 Legendary Edition (delisted)
Hell Girls (delisted)
Pistol Whip
Ragnarock
Super Star (delisted)
Talisman: The complete collection (54 game+dlc)

List B: Mainly Wishlist games or TF2 KEYS, CS GO items, or US amazon gift card

Sakura knight set

Sakura MMO set

Sakura succubus set

List C

Wishlist:

Full WISHLIST

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2023.03.22 16:08 Electrical_Ad_3214 My (23M) gf (22F) love bombed for months then blocked me yesterday and said she’s done.

I’m at a loss. Do most women do this? We hit it off really well at the start and dated for about 5 months. Everything was seemingly perfect. She came across as smart, considerate, sweet. She’s a babysitter to these two sweet kids that I met along the process and grew to love as I would come over the house and cook and play games with them. During that time this woman introduced me to her entire family, best friends, we spent holidays together. She says I was the first to have ever been introduced to her family.
She is from Kenya as well, so I understand that meeting family is a big deal. Everything was going seemingly well, with her texting “I love you” every single day, writing me letters, flowers, with her even mentioning marriage & kids first. I always made sure to return her energy - followed her lead every step of the way. Was so emotionally (and even financially) invested. Even got an apartment in her city to be closer.
She is a full time student with 2 years left of studies, and I was also busy traveling a lot. I did notice she was busy at points and always told her I completely understood. I noticed she seemed more tired and not as present, and she sensed I knew something felt off. But I told her I understood she was probably overwhelmed and didn’t need to worry. Then the very next day she calls me saying she “doesn’t think she’s capable of loving me the same” and that “she can’t give me the love that I deserve”.
Then proceeds to say “I really liked you but I don’t think I was ever in love with you. I know it’s fucked up and it’s nothing you did or could’ve done. I’m extremely confused myself and honestly will need some deep soul searching.”
I was at a loss, and asked if she was sure about this and if I would need to move on, but she was crying and bawling her eyes out so much saying she “had no idea” and “couldn’t give me an answer right now”
Obviously I questioned her on everything and asked if the dates and moments we experienced were ever real to her. She then says “the moments were great but we experienced them on different levels.”
How am I supposed to interpret this?
I felt stuck waiting to hear her answer and tried to allow her space to “reflect” but wasn’t sure on how to proceed. I kept thinking “Should I wait to hear this answer or leave? Do women do this often? Why go so far to deceive me if she truly never meant it? Unless it’s just a phase that I’m unaware of…
Things did heat up fast I would say. But I felt pushed further because she would suddenly say things like “I see you being the father of my children” and then also writing these really romantic letters saying how much she loved me and how special of a love that I gave, etc. She would sometimes send videos of people growing old together saying that this was us.
Although, I do think immaturity is a big part of it actually, that makes sense. I returned her energy because although it was a lot, I felt I had really strong feelings for her and realized how much I wanted to be with her - so even if it was soon, I wasn’t opposed to the ideas at all.
As for how I was financially invested, was because we were kind of long distance in a way and I had to pay to travel to see her. I was pushed to get the apartment because her best friend was having suicidal thoughts and she said she really needed me there more than ever. She pushed me to make that move and really directed me to doing so about 3 months into our relationship.
As of yesterday she decided to block me on everything. It was strange because we decided to kind of leave space but I couldn’t sense how she was feeling throughout it (no texts or communication). We had planned a trip together while we were dating that was still upcoming and she had a final come up and wasn’t able to make it. I decided to still go on my own even though it was originally supposed to be for us together.
I didn’t know whether to continue to leave her space so when I came to town and didn’t tell her, there was this anger from her in me not telling her, which was strange because she insisted on leaving space. I just started noticing that her requests and expectations would sometimes be vague or very confusing.
She told all of her friends (that I met through her) about the breakup and the friends all called me directly to check on how I was holding up - but later she got mad at this saying I crossed the boundary by getting her friends involved - when she was the one that told them we broke up.
Her final message was that I couldn’t respect her boundaries with her friends, and her space, and that she “never looked at me the same ever since I accused her of deceiving me or using me for my emotional and financial investment” and she didn’t even allow me an opportunity to talk in my own defense. Which to me was strange out of all the times I listened to her side of things after she basically said to me she never loved me.
So now she’s completely cut contact and I’m totally at a loss. I’m pretty much guessing her friends might be also thinking this is weird behavior. I’m not sure what to make of this… what am I supposed to do now?
TL;DR Me (23M) and my girlfriend (22F) had a seemingly amazing relationship and then she suddenly pulled away crying and confused. Then the tears slowly turned to feeling sad for hurting me to somehow resentment (me being the bad guy) and she had a complete sudden change of heart.

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2023.03.22 16:05 AutoModerator [Get] Dan Koe – Digital Economics Masters Degree Full Course Download

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What You Get

Phase 0) Digital Economics 101

The Digital Economics 101 module will open 1 week prior to the cohort start date.This is an onboarding module that will get you up to speed so we can get straight into the material.This will be required to finish before the start date.

Gain a deep understanding of all of the pieces in the digital economy.
Learn about the future of media and code — the front-end and backend of the internet — so you can focus your efforts.
Understand digital leverage, distribution, no-code tools, and digital assets so you can take part in the mental & financial wealth transfer.

Phase 1) Creating A Meaningful Niche

Every day I hear people going on and on about trying to find their niche.I also hear people talking about how they don’t know how to combine what they love talking about with what will sell.You already have the answer. You just don’t have the clarity.

Develop a long-term strategy to create your own niche — meaning you don’t have to worry about your “competition” playing status games.
Discover your life’s work, curiosities, and obsessions. I see too many people that are uncertain about this for years.
Cultivate and turn your vision, goals, and values into a brand that attracts an audience you love interacting with (and that will buy from you, and only you).

Phase 2) Content Strategy

There is one thing that separates those who make it in the digital economy and those who don’t.It’s the quality, articulation, and perceived originality of their content.The content you post has to make sense to the people you attract.Everyone has a different voice and tone that they resonate with. That they are congruent with and trust.It has to change their thought patterns or behavior — that’s what makes you memorable.That’s what separates you from the sea of people posting surface-level copy-cat style posts.Example and putting my money where my mouth is:

Become an expert-level speaker or writer on the topics you care about.
Never run out of content ideas for your posts or promotions (without using content templates — that’s how you stay a commodity).
Create posts, blogs, tweets, images, and videos that resonate with other’s on a deep level. People will actually ask you how you got so good at what you do.
Separate yourself from the ocean of B-tier creators that struggle to sell their products, services, andhave their ideas stick in the head of their audience.
Implement our Epistemic Research Method — which is just a fancy way of saying scientific research method… but it’s for researching your mind to craft brilliant content and product ideas.

Phase 3) Crafting Your Offer

Most people are sitting on a goldmine of skills, experience, and knowledge (that they can use to help people 1-2 steps behind them).That is what people pay for.Considering 95% of the market are beginners… if you are good at something, you can help them get to your level (no matter how “basic” you think the information is).Do you not watch basic content all day anyway? People don’t want new information, they want to be reminded of what works.

Use our Minimum Viable Offer strategy to start monetizing immediately (and have something to improve over time, rather than procrastinating until it’s perfect).
Have a strategy for reducing the time you spend working over time (as you build leverage and improve your offer).
Know how to create your own customers from the audience you are building, instead of “finding” the right customer for your offer.
Take the guesswork out of building coaching, consulting, or digital product offers.

Phase 4) Marketing Strategy

You aren’t making money because you aren’t promoting yourself or your offer.That is literally the only way to make money. Have something desirable and consistently put it in front of peoples’ faces.In Phase 4, I will show you how to systemize, automate, and be consistent with simple promotions.You will be able to make money without having the chance of forgetting to do it (or letting fear of failure get in the way).

Learn to sell on social media, in your writing, and across different platforms.
Have consistent sales coming in while focusing on your meaningful message (no need to sound salesy all the time).
Learn advanced automation strategies that you can implement at your own pace, especially once you validate your offer.

Bonus) The Creator Command Center

The Creator Command Center is a Notion template that houses all of the systems.This is how you will manage your brand, content, offer creation, marketing strategy, and systemized promotions for consistent sales.

Bonus) Live Product Build & Launch

In the first Digital Economics Cohort, I built out my course The 2 Hour Writer.I have videos showing how I build it with the strategies in phase 3 and 4.There is a bonus module that shows how I had an $85,000 launch that resulted in my first $100K month.I did this to prove the strategies inside Digital Economics work if you stick to the plan.And, this past Black Friday, I blew my that monthly high out of the water in 4 days.That’s the power of these strategies if you stay consistent with your life’s work.

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2023.03.22 16:03 Derextreme [H] Garfield Lasagna Party, Smurfs, Feb/Mar Choice, more [W] Deus Ex Human revolution/Mankind divided, dead rising games, and more

Barter link has had a pretty big update for tradables and wishlist. I'll update this post when I get to my PC so I can clean everything up.
Barter link for other tradeables and wishlist. A portion of my wants list at the bottom. https://barter.vg8c11/t/
All keys here are steam keys from fanatical/humble.
Will trade Garfield for both Deus ex games or 1 deus ex game + add. I'll value the game under $10 if a deus ex game is included.
Earthquake bundle

Other keys

Wants:

https://www.reddit.com/IGSRep/comments/10cx1nv/derextremes_igs_rep_page/

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2023.03.22 16:01 AutoModerator [Get] Dan Koe – Digital Economics Masters Degree

Get the course here: https://www.genkicourses.com/product/dan-koe-digital-economics-masters-degree/
[Get] Dan Koe – Digital Economics Masters Degree
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What You Get

Phase 0) Digital Economics 101

Gain a deep understanding of all of the pieces in the digital economy.
Learn about the future of media and code — the front-end and backend of the internet — so you can focus your efforts.
Understand digital leverage, distribution, no-code tools, and digital assets so you can take part in the mental & financial wealth transfer.

Phase 1) Creating A Meaningful Niche

Develop a long-term strategy to create your own niche — meaning you don’t have to worry about your “competition” playing status games.
Discover your life’s work, curiosities, and obsessions. I see too many people that are uncertain about this for years.
Cultivate and turn your vision, goals, and values into a brand that attracts an audience you love interacting with (and that will buy from you, and only you).

Phase 2) Content Strategy

Become an expert-level speaker or writer on the topics you care about.
Never run out of content ideas for your posts or promotions (without using content templates — that’s how you stay a commodity).
Create posts, blogs, tweets, images, and videos that resonate with other’s on a deep level. People will actually ask you how you got so good at what you do.
Separate yourself from the ocean of B-tier creators that struggle to sell their products, services, andhave their ideas stick in the head of their audience.
Implement our Epistemic Research Method — which is just a fancy way of saying scientific research method… but it’s for researching your mind to craft brilliant content and product ideas.

Phase 3) Crafting Your Offer

Use our Minimum Viable Offer strategy to start monetizing immediately (and have something to improve over time, rather than procrastinating until it’s perfect).
Have a strategy for reducing the time you spend working over time (as you build leverage and improve your offer).
Know how to create your own customers from the audience you are building, instead of “finding” the right customer for your offer.
Take the guesswork out of building coaching, consulting, or digital product offers.

Phase 4) Marketing Strategy

Learn to sell on social media, in your writing, and across different platforms.
Have consistent sales coming in while focusing on your meaningful message (no need to sound salesy all the time).
Learn advanced automation strategies that you can implement at your own pace, especially once you validate your offer.

Bonus) The Creator Command Center

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2023.03.22 15:57 bggtr73 [RF} Patricia's Labor

The Craigslist ad said they needed another man for a moving and install job for about 3 days work, email for details.
Kevin figured it was probably a scam of some sort, but he was broke and needed a couple hundred bucks ASAP to make his car payment; the buy-here/ pay-here lot he bought it from was scarily efficient at tracking down their vehicles. So he sent his reply email from his phone in the public library cause his internet was off at home and the month to month phone plan didn’t include internet access. He hoped they’d text him instead of emails because texts always dinged when they came through but the gmail message notifications were turned off. He tried turning that on once, but his phone dinged and buzzed every 16 seconds for 14 hours straight and it drove him nuts.
But god, he hoped they contacted him, he needed the cash. A hundred bucks a day for three days would get some food and make the payment and maybe a tank of gas. Or maybe half a tank since gas is almost $4 a gallon.
The text he got back about three of the longest hours of his life later said they could definitely use him, if he could meet their criteria. They explained “Patricia's Labor” was a small company, started by their mother originally to do cleaning for homeowners and businesses in the area. They were a small crew of mostly family members and had branched out to do moving and construction work also. Basically they had double booked a priority air-conditioner installation with another big moving job and needed another body or two to help. They had an electrician and a HVAC tech guy to do the technical work but they needed at least one more guy for the heavy lifting and to run tools and materials back and forth, do some site prep like shoveling, and stuff like that. It definitely sounded good to him.
Could he meet at the grocery store off of Gilbert at 8am sharp, just down the street from the convenience store? They’d pick him up and drop him off from there.

That was easy enough, reasonable walking distance from his apartment

Did he have some steel-toed work boots? Preferably brown or tan, so they would look like they were all uniform? Good footwear is important when moving heavy stuff, one guy had worn gym shoes once and dropped a compressor on his foot and broke it.

He had black boots - was that OK? Strong “no” - they had to be tan or brown. But since it was short notice, they’d reimburse him up to $40 if he brought a receipt with him, Wal-mart has a good pair that will be about that including tax.

Did he have some decent jeans? Dark blue preferred, no holes or tears and they had to fit right no droop or sagging so his underwear showed,

No problem, he had those

Does he have work gloves? Not mandatory, but will definitely be helpful.

Yeah, he had some of those too.

White tee shirt? Not a ‘wife beater’ - a clean white tee, and they would give him a company zip up hoodie to wear over it, so they look uniform and professional.

No sweat, he had a couple tee’s that were mostly still white.

OK, since they were planning to reimburse the boots anyway, they’d write him a check for that, and a separate check for his pay. He could cash them right at the grocery store there, they’d throw in the extra $5 for the check cashing fee because they don’t like to carry cash (says so right on their trucks - ‘driver carries no cash’)
And sorry, this is technically illegal, but it makes their life easier- there will be some heavy lifting and using some tools - he wasn’t missing any fingers or anything, no physical handicaps? No? Good. Don’t want to run afoul of EOE rules, but if you’re handicapped you really can’t do the job.
By the way - how tall is he and what does he weigh? About 5’10 and 240 pounds? Perfect, that’s about the same size the other guys are, one of them will have an extra hoodie he can bring.
And one last thing - he doesn’t have any racial issues, does he? The HVAC guy and Electrician are Nigerian - pretty dark complected and with accents - one guy they found on Craigslist was some kind of right-wing white supremecist nut…. No, Kevin is black too, no worries.
Everything sounds great, look for the white van in the lot tomorrow at 8. If it works out for these first two or three days, there will probably be more work in the future.
At 745am, Kevin is waiting in front of the grocery store in his brand new boots, jeans and white tee. He’s feeling good, its a nice day and it gets even better less than ten minutes later when a guy wearing a green hoodie and carrying an identical one walks around the corner.
Must’ve parked on the street on the other side of the building. Whatever.
The guy starts to hand Kevin the hoodie in his hands, but frowns. In his strong accent he says “they told me size medium. No worries though” - and he pulls the hoodie off his back and hands that one to Kevin instead. It’s definitely a funny bright color green, but the logo looks professionally done, black script like a signature “Patricia’s Labor” on the back and “Patsy’s” much smaller on the front lapel.
He pulls two checks out of his wallet and shows them to Kevin. A check for $40 for the boots ( reimbursement for the generic Wal-Mart boots that look just like the one the African has on), A check for $155 - $150 for the day’s labor, and he says the extra $5 is for the check cashing fee. He stuffs those in an envelope and hands them to Kevin.
For about a nanosecond Kevin debates mentioning it was supposed to be $100 for the day instead of $150 . He decides the extra $50 is just good karma or something. Puts him in an even better mood too.
“Go ahead in Kroger and cash those, I’ll pull the truck around, ‘kukuona kwa dakika moja’ - that’s Swahili - means see you in a minute”
Kevin is thrilled this job thing is legit, its gonna solve some problems, so he smiles back and replies “kukuona kwa dakika moja” as best he can, and apparently his accent amuses the African because he yells it back to me as he goes around the corner, so Kevin yells it back to him - they go back and forth as Kevin walks into the store, stuffing his work gloves into one of the hoodie pockets.
Kevin vaguely notice the siren getting louder, from somewhere vaguely down the hill towards downtown.
Kevin walks right up to the customer service desk and since there is no one in line, he hands the clerk the envelope with the checks in it, and vaguely noticed there is writing on the back side of the envelope, in miniscule writing and orientated upside down from where he’s standing so he can’t quite make it out.
The clerk’s smile drops as she reads the writing and hits the alarm. She shrieks “He’s got a gun!”
Things happen very quickly after that.
The Security guard by the entrance pulls out his gun and points it at Kevin.
Kevin yells “what the hell?”
The sirens are getting closer
The security guard is stammering something that Kevin can’t quite make out, and looks more nervous and scared than Kevin does. Kevin throws his hands up, and when he does the work gloves fall out of his pocket. There are several gun shots somewhere close, sounds like they are right outside the building.
The guard panics and shoots twice, one gets Kevin in the shoulder, the second goes who - knows - where. There is a lot of blood. Things get kind of gray and washed out and there is a roar in his ears - he thinks he is losing consciousness.
Some time later - minutes maybe. He is aware of being lifted onto a stretcher. His whole left side is painful as hell and he feels cold. There is blood all over his brand new boots.
There is still lots of yelling. He fades out again.
The next time he wakes up, he is obviously in a hospital room. There is still lots of yelling.
This time, it’s an angry nurse yelling at a guy in a suit. She’s telling him to get out before she calls security. He says he needs to talk to him now, and he must be awake because he is staring at us.
The nurse relents, but stands by.
“On behalf of Uniform Security I want to offer our heartfelt apology as to what happened today. We are willing to compensate you for what occurred if you sign this release immediately. We will of course cover all of the medical costs associated with your unfortunate accident, and we will pay you the sum of $20,000 today.” He shows Kevin a check made out in his name for $20,000, and shoves a clipboard onto the bed under Kevin’s good hand (the other arm is immobile in some sort of cast/ splint thing). He then shoves a pen into Kevin’s hand.
Kevin is still sedated, but realizes something big is going on. All he can ask is “what happened?”
The lawyer sighs.
“The investigation determined that at about 738 AM a male black, approx 5 foot 11 and 250 pounds bright green hoodie over blue jeans and tan work boots assaulted the cashier at a gas station approximately two blocks from the grocery store. He collected an undetermined amount of cash from the register. He then ran towards the convenience store one block east and demanded the clerk there give him the money in the register. Both incidents are on the security cameras at those stores, and both victims indicated that he had a strong foreign accent, possibly African.
Witnesses indicate that the subject then ran towards the grocery store where your unfortunate incident took place. The manager on duty there had a police scanner and having heard the police dispatched for the other incidents had warned his staff. You entered the store and matched the description perfectly, and were also yelling in a foreign language, possibly African. You handed the customer service agent two fake checks in an envelope with writing stating that you were armed and wanted all of the cash in the drawer. She became fearful for her life, and when she activated the audible alarm and yelled the security guard was startled and accidentally discharged his weapon, striking you in the shoulder.
One crucial witness saw you meet with another male your same height and general build wearing exactly the same clothing as you, who gave you the distinctive green hoodie he was wearing that you then put on. As you walked into the store, he climbed into a silver Dodge pickup, and the witness saw he had a large handgun tucked into his waistband. This witness flags down a passing officer and points to this subject. Upon seeing the policeman, the African opens fire at him, but the officer is able to shoot more accurately and remove that threat. He calls for backup, and then more backup as he hears shots from inside the grocery store.
The suspect who was shot is a known felon, and there were several emails on his cell phone to people like you in different areas of the city. It looks like he invented this “Patricia’s Labor” Craigslist scam to recruit people to take the fall for similar robberies he had planned in different areas of the city. There were several more bright green hoodies in a box on the passenger seat.”
Kevin barely digests that long explanation, and starts laughing. He laughs so hard the nurse rushes the lawyer out despite the lawyer’s sputtering protests. He laughs so hard a doctor shows up and gives him something that puts him back out.
The name on the front of the hoodie wasn’t the most common abbreviation for Patricia, but it was the most apt.
Patsy.

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2023.03.22 15:53 Lamarian67 WICCA - Chapter 19 - Here There Be Monsters

“Half to the left, half to the right.” The soldiers separated, following the order as they marched through the empty streets of the city. The once bustling metropolis was covered in a blanket of fog, a desolate and lonely sight. The people were being led by the sorcerers to a convoy of massive trucks, hushed and panicked voices mingling together as they were loaded inside. The trucks were windowless to the people, preventing them from seeing it go through the portal located a few miles away from the city. A few people had refused to evacuate, and were currently being held down and forced into handcuffs and a separate truck.
Commander Arena Aegis of Padan Services’s Scourge Defence Division turned back to the city. Although there hadn’t been specific reports of a Scourge in the area, the fog that engulfed it did not seem natural in the slightest. She waited and a few seconds later, Kyra Illude joined her side.
“Are you ready?” She pulled her goggles down onto her eyes.
Arena shot her a grin. “When am I not?” She held out her hand and a portal opened, fractured glass spilling out. It caught itself and formed into the shape of a spear which Arena grasped. “Much appreciated.”
They stepped inside, the precautions having already been taken to prove that the fog was not harmful to touch or inhale. It rose a good five metres off the ground, shrouding everything from view. Arena kept her eyes sharp. There were always three things to watch out for about a Scourge: appearance, magical ability and hunting method. The appearance would differ from Scourge to Scourge, from amount of limbs to skin to body shape. There was only one thing they all had in common - they were too close to humans for comfort’s sake. By itself, the knowledge of its appearance was rather useless, except that it gave insight into the next two factors. Magical ability was what most gave Scourges their edge - the extra power to transform them from a regular monstrosity to a force of nature. Hunting method was how they collected their food, from echolocation to burrowing underground and emerging to flying overhead and swooping down - a secondary, more physical ability. Of course, there were other factors to take into account when fighting a Scourge, such as their healing factor, their affinity for human souls and their ‘grace period’, but those remained rather consistent.
Arena pressed her finger to her wristband. “Team Alpha, is everything clear on your end?”
The voice spoke into the earpieces of both Arena and Kyra.“Affirmative.”
“Team Beta, what about yours?” Not the most creative names, but [eh].
“No sign of the Scourge but we have uncovered a group of survivors.”
Arena frowned. The lynceuses should have scoured every building and uncovered the people that hadn’t been evacuated. “Proceed with caution.”
“I’m trying to communicate with them, but they don’t seem to be-” the voice was cut off and replaced by a strangled cry and then the thump of a body. Gunshots and cries were heard through the audio before silence fell.
Arena whipped around to face Kyra. “What did you see?” All soldiers were outfitted with a body-cam that Kyra’s goggles were able to connect to in order to allow her to create portals to their destination if needed. Distracting in battle, but useful outside of it.
“One of the people jumped forward towards him. As soon as they touched, he collapsed. Everything else happened too fast and too chaotically.”
Arena nodded. She tapped onto her wristband and began broadcasting a message to all the soldiers in and out of the city. “Do not engage with citizens you see in the fog. I repeat, do not engage.”
Kyra opened a portal and a long sniper rifle fell from it into her hands. More portals opened and sand swept out in gallons, converging into a swirling vortex around Arena. Kyra opened a portal and the two of them stepped through next to the bodies of Team Beta. Arena knelt down and lifted one of them up.
“Yep, the souls are definitely gone.” Her mind analysed the possibilities of what the Scourge could be. Mind control? She hadn’t heard of Sensitive abilities also transmuting the ability to steal souls. A necromancer then? Possibly, but there’d be more signs of death and decay if that was the case. And there was still the matter of the fog to take into account.
Kyra’s voice brought her back to reality. “Over there.” Her gun was raised towards a group of five people, all standing there as still as corpses, just a few metres away. “Permission to fire?”
“Hold on. We don’t know the full extent.” Arena took the first tentative step. “State your name and business.” Her voice shifted to become more imperative, a slight edge that demanded to be heard and obeyed. The foremost person leapt forward and was immediately hit with a wave of sand, pinning it down to the ground. The impact slammed away the fog in a gust, exposing what lay underneath. As soon as the person was in the open air the image disappeared, leaving a long, fleshy tendril with a clawed nail where it had been. The rest of the people flickered and vanished, revealing more fingers that stretched into the distance. They retracted back into the fog instantly.
Arena tapped on her bracelet as the sand surged back. “The Scourge is an illusionist. I repeat, the Scourge is an illusionist. Do not hesitate to open fire on any people that do not respond. Deploy elementals to blow away the fog.” More glass poured out of a portal that formed itself into a pseudo-surfboard, which Arena and Kyra hopped onto. It zoomed through the city and pushed away the fog as gunshots ricocheted across the streets. Seems that the people had finally all been evacuated and the rest of the soldiers were joining the fight. Kyra peered through the fog to the best of her ability, shooting every once in a while into iy. Rising above, Arena could see what was in the middle of the city - a massive column of fog that rose hundreds of metres above the city.
A hand tore itself from the fog, the illusion breaking as it reached to grasp them. Arena’s spear flew from her hand, dancing through the air and slicing through the fingers with ease.
“You ready to take this beast down?” called Arena.
Kyra gave her a small smirk. “When am I not?” A massive portal opened up above them and sand poured down, an endless supply that swirled faster and faster until Arena sent it surging forward towards the pillar of fog, blowing the fog away in one move.
Hanging onto a skyscraper in the middle of the column, with long, emancipated limbs that wrapped around it, massive milky white eyes and a mouth hanging wide, wide open with a horde of arms reaching out of it down into the fog was the Scourge. Arena felt a rush go through her body, not of fear like it once would have been, but pure adrenaline.
It lifted its head to observe the pair, the hands whipping out of the fog and surging towards the pair. Kyra snapped her finger and a massive portal swirled opened in front of them, swallowing up the hands. Before they could retract, the portal snapped shut, leaving behind only stumps. The flesh began to bubble as the wounds closed and hands started to sprout again. Arena flicked her hand and her spear flew through the air, piercing into the eye of the Scourge. The spear trembled and shattered into shards, shredding the eye into ribbons before returning and reforming at her side.
The hands spasmed erratically as they healed, plunging down into the fog again. They rose out of the fog a few seconds later, surrounding the pair as they surged forward. Bullets and glass littered the sky as Arena evaded the assault, tearing above the city as the hands chased them around. Energy beams tore themselves from the fog and burned into the main body of the Scourge. Seemed that the soldiers had finally made their way to the centre. Some of the hands deviated and surged down into the depths of the city.
Whirring started to emanate from the boundaries of the fog. Mounted on top of a car, a massive turret was building up power, growing brighter and louder every second that passed. The turret was designed to send out a burst of energy that would pass harmlessly through matter such as concrete and glass. However, organic matter wasn’t as lucky. It released a blast of colour that tore through the sky and burned into the Scourge’s body, tearing a hole into its torso. The hands went spastic, retracting and thrashing wildly around. Bingo.
Arena raised her hand and gave Kyra a quick nod. The sand was swallowed up by portals at the same time that glass was released. It formed together into a massive spear, casting shattered sunlight onto the desolate city. She threw it right into the wound. It dug in deep and then exploded.
Scourges tended to have unnaturally tough skin, with the flesh healing faster than anything could destroy it. However, if one managed to get past the outer layers, then they would find the Scourge much more vulnerable. The glass shredded the Scourge’s main body into ribbons, tearing through flesh and bone until the arms all finally stilled. Kyra led Arena through a portal onto the ground as the commander collapsed onto the ground, sweat pouring down her face. A water bottle dropped down and Kyra handed it to Arena. She took a swig.
“How close was it that time?”
“Around five got within a few centimetres of us - at least, of the ones that I remember.”
Arena let out a low whistle. “We really should bring Claren to these things.”
Kyra shrugged. “I mean, we haven’t died yet.” She hooked her arms under Arena’s and tried her best to drag her up. “Alright, up you come. We can’t have our commander slouching around.”
Arena sighed but stood up, pushing off the tiredness and rolling her shoulders back. Kyra opened a portal and the two of them stepped through to the outskirts of the city. There was a team cleaning up the remains of the Scourge, wandering through the city to find and destroy any traces of it. The mission had been as successful as could be when regarding a Scourge invasion - minimal destruction of housing, minimal death and perhaps her and Kyra would be back in time for dinner. The fog was starting to dissipate, now only a thin mist which was being blown away in the wind. The soldiers had all met up outside the city, haggard and tired. The bodies were being carried outside. Less casualties than usual, she noted. Seems that Kyra and her had kept it distracted enough for the soldiers to keep themselves afloat.
“Take the bodies to the infirmaries. The doctors will take them off your hands.” The soldiers nodded and walked through the portal. The group was made up of Sanctuary soldiers, Padan Services’ own employees and various factions of crime in the magical Australian underworld. Teams sent to deal with Scourges, except for a few exceptions, were small - small enough that the Scourge wouldn’t grow in power exponentially if the mission went awry. A buzz came from her wristband and she tapped on it. “Commander Aegis here. What seems to be the situation?”
Heavy breathing came from the other end, as well the sound of boots against the ground. “Fuck, fuck shit! There’s a-” the sound cut out for a few seconds. “There’s another one coming!” The voice started to scream, loud and piercing, until the sound of a crunch echoed through the earpiece and left only the buzz of static.
“Everyone on your feet! There’s another Scourge in the area!”
The soldiers jumped to their feet and grabbed their weapons in a rush, either used as their firepower or to strengthen their magic. Glass swirled in the air, a storm of slivers and shards that hung in the air. Then came the sound of feet upon the ground, like dry thunder.
A beast came charging out of the city, springing from building to building with grace and agility a being of its size shouldn’t have. It was emancipated horribly, wizen and wrinkled with limbs that bent at wrong angles. Its face was long and its eyes were beady, sunken deep into what barely passed as flesh. Gunfire rained onto it.
It hissed and a harsh clicking sound came from its mouth, almost insidious in its quietude. The bullets bit into the building, shattering glass which then flew up and dug into the Scourge’s flesh. It leapt down and was shoved back by a gust of wind from an elemental, causing it to stumble back. A jagged spear of glass pierced it right through the eye and exited from everywhere else. It had gone down so fast, the turret hadn’t even had time to ready.
The soldiers cheered. Arena narrowed her eyes. That was too easy. Her mind started to rush as the adrenaline, brought back a second time and now refusing to fade, brought every little detail and thought to the surface. The Scourge was tiny. Much bigger than a human could ever be, but simply too small. It hadn’t displayed any of its magic yet, and for some reason its healing didn’t kick in quick enough to save it. Lastly, and most chilling, was that considering the speed at which it was running, there was no chance it could have gotten from the other soldiers to here in the time that it apparently did. Something was wrong.
Arena held up her hand. “Save your celebrations. It’s not over yet.” She waved the soldiers back from the Scourge. She paused for a split second before coming to a conclusion. “I’m going to approach the body. Lieutenant Illude, bring me to safety if anything happens.”
Out of view of the soldiers, Kyra shot her a worried glance but nodded.
Arena stepped forwards and observed the corpse. She threw her spear again and sliced the head off of the body. Well, if it wasn’t dead before, it was certainly dead now. Unless it was a zombie Scourge. She waited a few seconds for it to lurch up. Probably not.
A hand tore itself out of the main body and a portal engulfed Arena. As she stepped back next to Kyra, more hands and limbs erupted from the Scourge, covered in slick and gore as they tore themselves from the corpse. The figures collapsed to the floor, shuddering and shaking before standing upright on limbs too long for a human.
Kyra was the first to act, firing a bullet right into the head of one of the figures. They were the next to act, dropping to all fours, bounding over and tackling one of the soldiers to the ground. Its mouth opened and teeth dug into flesh, rending a hole into the soldier’s shoulder. His soul swirled from the wound and the soldier stiffened, slumping to the ground as the figure stood up. Its body bulged, flesh rippling and roiling as it grew bigger. Several bullets shredded into it and it fell to the ground. A few of the soldiers who couldn’t get back in time fell, but Kyra’s portals swirled and set the soldiers and the monsters a few yards apart. A clicking sound - the same one that emerged from the original Scourge, started to rise in the air. Arena held her arms in the air as glass spread out all around the monsters and then brought her hands together.
Before anyone could take that first breath of relief, that relaxing of tension, they heard more sounds coming from the encroaches of the city. Another Scourge, almost identical to the one that had spawned those monsters, came crawling onto a building. And then another, and then another, until five of them were sprawled out across the buildings, all making the same clicking sound. Before gunfire could start tearing through the air again, the Scourges leapt to the ground and started to run, bounding past the group or retreating further into the city, ignoring the sorcerers entirely.
One of the soldiers spoke up. “Captain, what does that mean?” Arena chewed her lip. “They’re avoiding us because they know they can’t win - or they don’t see it as worth the potential loss. More importantly, they’re communicating, like a hivemind.” She turned to Kyra. “Lieutenant, what direction are those Scourges headed?”
“The ones headed deeper into the city would be enroute to another one far south. They should be there in a few hours based on that speed.”
“Send the soldiers over to that city now. Call for backup from the Sanctuaries, tell them to get more men and turrets down there.” Kyra nodded and opened up a large portal, large enough for the turret to be wheeled through and the soldiers to follow suit. Even without their commander, they had a team leader, and were well-trained or at least briefed enough to know what to do. The portal closed and it was just Kyra and Arena.
“So, Kyra, where do you think these ones are going?”
“My guess? Some sort of meeting place. Like a nest, or maybe even a hive.”
“A hive, eh?” Arena extended her hand as she got on top of the surfboard of glass, which Kyra gracefully grasped and hoisted herself up with. “Well then, how about we go do some exterminating?” The commander and her lieutenant sliced through the air, following the echoing sound of clicking into the endless, desolate plains.

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2023.03.22 15:53 EconomyNo2410 Inspection questions!! Is this house worth it?

Hi all! First time home buyer here and have some questions regarding our inspection. For some background: we put an offer in on a house in Denver that was built in 1950.
These were the major concerns of the inspector:
Foundation 6.1.1 Efflorescence and surface deterioration noted at foundation wall throughout crawlspace - indicates moisture intrusion. Improve drainage as outlined in report and monitor the area, especially during wet seasons.
6.6.2 Some mold/fungal growth noted at soil and organic materials/trash in crawlspace. Remove all trash. Improve drainage as outlined in report and monitor. Original crawlspace vents appear to have been covered by newer siding. Have a crawlspace specialist evaluate and advise as to any needed ventilation improvements if moisture issues present.
Electrical General Comments 7.1.2 Consult a licensed electrician to inspect, advise, and correct as required. Following defects noted today include but are not limited to: • 220 outlet in primary bathroom is near water source - unlikely to cause issues, but not standard. • Old fuse box now in use as a junction box, and should be secured shut. • Majority of house outlets are ungrounded and have been retrofit with GFCI protection. This is a standard practice, but does not protect appliances against electrical surges.
9.1.2 DISTRIBUTION/SUPPLY LINES • Low water pressure noted at bathroom tubs/showers - primary shower lacks sufficient pressure to direct water to shower. Rest of fixtures appear to have typical water pressure. • Water main is galvanized steel. Galvanized steel pipes present below kitchen sink as well, but majority of other pipes have been replaced with plastic throughout. Minor corrosion present at joints. • Oxidation/calcification - evidence of slow leakage - at connections to water main shutoff valve, saddle valve for refrigerator supply (in crawlspace), and below water heater shutoff valve.
9.1.3 DRAIN/WASTE LINES • Active leak at drain line connection to primary bathroom sink. • Nonstandard material in use at primary bathroom sink drain - plastic ribbed drain.
9.1.4 WATER HEATER • Gas odor noted near water heater valve control unit - more than typical.
Radon levels in the home were also at a 6.5 at the time of testing.
We asked the seller to repair the water main pipe (95% of the pipes in the home have already been replaced). We also asked for radon mitigation and for them to clean the sewer and rescope. They agreed to the sewer and said they would give us $2,500 for radon and water main. Which would only cover probably a quarter of these expenses.
We’re already going to have to deal with the crawl space, electrical, water heater and small plumbing issues.
Are these issues bad enough to where we should walk away if they don’t at least pay for the water main? From what we’ve been told we’re looking at $20-30,000 in repairs.

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2023.03.22 15:50 fend_x [fan art] How to make a Harrowhark figure

Hello everyone! I know you all want a pair of Gideon and Harrow figures, but I'm making them for myself, so I'm sorry to say they're both not for sale, but I wanted to share the process of making the Harrowhark figure so you can have one for yourself. (Or find someone to make one for you.)

There are still some disclaimers before I begin: English is not my native language and I am not good at English, so this post is translated by DeepL and there may be translation errors. For some terms or nouns, I don't know how they are said in English, so if you know, please let me know! I will edit this post to make it easier to understand.

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Part 1: The Body
As I said in my last post https://www.reddit.com/TheNinthHouse/comments/11nnd55/fan_art_how_to_making_a_gideon_nav_figure/ , you'll need to find a suitable body for Harrow, my choice is GSC Nendoroid Skull Trooper , I used to use its face as Gideon's face and I'm sure you've noticed it has skull paint in whole body, perfect for transforming into Harrow.

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Advantages:
+ Skeleton face and body paint
+ Excellent articulation in comparison (it has three arm joints, where regular Nendoroids has only one)
+ It is black
+ Relatively easy to get

Disadvantages:
- Too strong, too "tactical"
- The quality of the PVC is too bad, hard to grinding

After I got the Skull Trooper, I first removed all the accessories from it, because I already planned to make an exoskeleton for Harrow with epoxy putty, if you don't have this plan, then I suggest you keep the accessories and the body paint.

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I also chipped off the outside of its shoes and part of its legs, because it was really too strong. This step needs to be done carefully, because after cutting it off, it can not be returned, and seriously, the PVC used by the Nendoroid is very difficult to grinding, be careful.

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After that I used black speed glue to fill the grooves, and next I wrapped a layer of masking tape around it in preparation for making the exoskeleton. Shaping with epoxy putty is not my strong point, and epoxy putty is very difficult to use, my method is to roll the epoxy putty into long strips, use a knife to intercept the appropriate length of epoxy putty, then stick it to the body, and then use a silicone pen to shape. Because it was too flat at first, I thickened it a bit. I call this sternum augmentation.

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When the epoxy putty dried and I took it off the body, the whole thing was a pure nightmare because the joint was so weak that it kept breaking off, from the time I took it off, to the sanding, to the detailing, to the coloring, it broke at least 20 times. Later I used speed glue to connect the broken parts and applied a layer of UV glue on the back to increase the strength, but it still broke very easily. If you want to make the same exoskeleton, I suggest you choose another material. Don't use epoxy putty anyway.
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Part 2: Face and hair
Suitable for Harrow's hair is a bit difficult to pick, because it needs to match her personality, and finally, on the advice of friends, I chose Nendoroid Yang Wen-li's hair, which feels quite appropriate. For the face I chose Skull Troopers' face, but after placing Harrow and Gideon together, I felt they were a bit like the same person, or twins, anyway not like a couple. So I decided to draw the skull face paint.

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My approach was rather rough, I took a replacement face part, removed the original paint, and then sprayed a layer of white paint, and then used a pencil to draft, with reference to the object is the Skull Trooper face as well as the cover of HTN. At first I chose to paint the eyes gold, but the effect was a bit weird, so I redrew them and modified them many times to make sure the eyes were symmetrical on both sides.

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If you want to keep it simple, just use the Skull Trooper face and change the eyes color; if you want to get more detailed, I offer three options.

① Draw the skull face paint on a blank face part like I did (warning: it's really tedious).
② Find a replacement face part that you think looks like Harrow, paint the eyes with Liquid Mask, wait for it to dry, then spray a layer of white paint and start drawing, wait until you finish drawing the part with the skull pattern, remove the Liquid Mask and start drawing the eyes. This will ensure that the eyes on both sides are symmetrical, and I hate myself for not thinking of this method in the first place.
③ On the computer according to the GSC face parts to build Harrow's face pattern, and use the laser inkjet. Sorry, I don't know exactly how to do this, just providing inspiration.

Part 3: Two-hander
The sword toy I picked for Harrow is really big, you know, but I think a bigger sword is better for her. For this sword, I sanded the parting line and then draw it black and nothing else.

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And, I did find a fabric similar to the novel cover, okay? But I really don't know how to tailor, so I couldn't make a half cape for Harrow. If you're wondering what this fabric is, its name translates to "Laser Iridescent Organza" and that's all I know.

Look how well it fits!

Part 4: Painting and coloring
Pretty simple! For the hair, I used matte black paint to outline it, and then used clear black paint/ transparent paint to create a layered effect. For the main body, I sprayed matte black paint, and for the extremities, I sprayed matte paint to eliminate scratch. For exoskeleton, I draw it with acrylic-colors COLD WHITE.

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2023.03.22 15:48 Flatline350 [WTS] Spyderco Smock & TRM Neutron 2 Dark Matter Scales

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Smock S30V This is a plain jane s30v smock. It has been sharpened and is very sharp! There are two small scratches on the show side of the blade. They look like grind lines from the factory, not sure. Centering favors the clip side, but I haven’t tried to adjust it. No blade play, locks up solid. Could probably use a cleaning. Still has the 2nd detent installed. Includes factory box. (SV: $160 SOLD)
Neutron 2 *Sorry the title is confusing. This is for the knife and scales not just the scales. This slicey boi has been sharpened and it looks good. 20cv steel. This has dark matter scales installed and also includes the original black g10 scales. These scales really pop in the light with hints of purple throughout. Factory box, stickers, black o-rings and some extra screws are included as well. Blade is dead center. It has a very slight amount of blade play side to side, I have it set this way so the blade drops when unlocked. This is a thin knife that is great to carry. (SV: $175)
Shipping to CONUS is included. PayPal f&f preferred. Please comment here first saying you’ll take it and then send me a chat. Payment is expected shortly after yolo. Thanks for looking!

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2023.03.22 15:43 Ok-Tea273 What are foods you can keep in your room at room temperature?

I went to live with my parents months ago. Their house is a disaster. They have a rabbit that poops and pees in one spot in the living room and won’t clean it for days. Their cat was peeing and pooping in the only bathroom’s bathtub at one point where they would clean it up and now say he hasn’t done that in weeks (not too sure on this though). They let their white kitchen tiles turn solid grey before even thinking of cleaning it. They will also leave food out well over 4 hours before putting it in the fridge.
I’ve tried to clean and after doing that for so long, after leaving for a few weeks and coming back while sick, I didn’t clean for a week avoiding the common areas, but did my own dishes and ate my own food. I was told I clean less than them. Which is crazy because their version of cleaning is only wiping the kitchen counter and doing dishes, everything else they let pile up. I would deep clean as much as I could to sanitize the place before but now I’m burnt out.
I started buying my own food, but they will take things out of the fridge. Then they’ll forget to put it back in the fridge (to move things around with what they need I think) and this has included my food.
I’ve gotten sick 3 times with e. Coli. When bringing this up to them they had ‘no clue’ behind why I keep getting sick. When listing off anything that could possibly cause it in the house, they got mad at me for saying the house was dirty. Also even though I listed off things I know it most likely isn’t, like water when bringing up getting sick, they focused on one of the reasons it could be and tried saying I was blaming the animals pooping in the house. That I was in the wrong because I didn’t have a direct answer to what got me sick and that ‘the E. coli strand should determine what caused it’. So they want to wait on this.
I’ve also fainted, got a concussion by hitting my head on the wood floors. I was out for around a minute and afterwards had a hard time communicating with a full body sweat. They decided not to take me to the hospital because after an hour, I seemed ok. It was also late at night around 11pm when I fainted. I went to the doctor the next day and my primary doc is still following up with me on it. I could not drive the week following.
I have a hard time accepting their food at this point. They are stingy about anything that takes up power in my room, but will keep their tv on the entire day almost every day just to play pandora music. They also keep lights on intentionally when they go out of the house. This means a mini fridge is out of the question. They don’t want help with bills, even though I’ve offered multiple times, because they think I should save my money.
I also cannot move out right away. They offered to let me stay with them after I ended my engagement and lost my car in that relationship. I was going to try to move in with a friend but my parents insisted it would be better for me not to worry about rent while healing from my previous relationship. I trusted them on that. I know they meant well, I’ve been trying so hard not to complain because it’s the fact I think they mean well, but have no common sense on these issues. I even got them out of being beneficiaries in my insurance policies because I don’t think they’d know what to do if I ever got critically ill or died.
I’m used to everything being within walking distance throughout my life. They just moved to a more rural area after their kids grew up. So coming from that to having everything being a 20 minutes drive due to being in the mountains makes it hard to go anywhere without a car. I’ve been saving for a down payment, my credit was trashed during my previous relationship. I’ve been working on that but it’s been a slow process. So financing is out of the question.
While getting to the point where I can move out, does anyone know what food I can store in my room at room temperature that would be sufficient enough to live off of for the next couple of months or so?

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2023.03.22 15:42 daniel4653 [USA-CA][H] Two Samsung Galaxy S23s Ultra Blue & Green, Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra Green [W] Cash/Paypal

Hi everyone,
I'm selling my brother and mine S23 Ultras that were purchased directly from Samsung at launch and paid off in full with no trade in applied. Reason is that we got a really good deal for porting into Verizon so deciding to sell these to recoup some money as it's past the return period. Both are 512GB storage/12GB RAM variant. They were only used for about 3 weeks then put in the box. Finally have his old S22 Ultra for sale too.

Sky Blue S23 Ultra asking $1100 shipped with priority and insured to lower 48/Local $1040
- Has screen protector installed since my first day of use. Will come with original box.
Green S23 Ultra asking $1100 shipped with priority and insured to lower 48/Local $1040
- Will come with original box and accessories
S22 Ultra asking $600 shipped/$520 Local
- Has one deep scratch on the top left of the screen along with minor wear on rest of phone

Timestamps: S23 Ultra Sky Blue https://imgur.com/a/hgzLdEN
S23 Ultra Green https://imgur.com/a/BcHzhHT
S22 Ultra Green https://imgur.com/a/yyiXSkB

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2023.03.22 15:42 In_Yellow_Clad Inheritance

When the Great Ones came to us, we were a primitive species living upon a desolate world. We knew not, at the time, that they came to our world via ships of steel and electricity, only that they came from the sky and began a process of rejuvenation. Our barren world slowly but surely transformed into one of lush red grasses, towering trees and food enough for all. They came to us then, these beings of metal and circuit, and they taught us, shepherded us and helped us grow.
They never interfered more than they had to, and would watch on as we stumbled into conflicts amongst our own people, they only offered encouragement and a hope that we would find peace eventually. Our species, the Scril, soon came to revere them as gods, and they could only shake their heads at this, but they did not refute it. Not yet at least.
My people are a bipedal species, amphibian but with traces of reptilian in our genes. Like many species we started out as primitive, cave dwelling creatures who had yet to encounter fire in a controlled manner. But as time passed and with the assistance of our gods, we grew into a pre-industrial society. They helped us along in their own way, little hints and nudges in the right direction, but all our discoveries were technically our own. Our hopes, our ambitions, all ours, watched over by the Great Ones.
It was just as we entered the industrial age that things changed, as one our gods and caretakers looked to the sky, many fleeing our world, but the rest stayed, grouping together in major population centers. We were confused, and then frightened when they called for a mass exodus to the cities. We did not hesitate to carry out their will, for they had never acted in such a manner before and we did not wish to incur their displeasure.
Once all could be crammed into the cities as we could reasonably manage, those Great Ones still among us raised their hands in prayer, reaching towards the sky and projecting their power. Great domes of light rose over our cities, and we watched as through the light we saw brighter stars in the sky, stars that shone brightly, only to flare out of existence. Falling stars began to rain down from the heavens, burning away before ever reaching our surface.
Then came the Flash, the light from all around us. Our bodies trembled and the Great Ones that protected us raised their voices in agony, only to fall silent once the light had passed. Those on the outskirts of the cities spoke of all life simply ceasing and decaying outside the protective light of our protectors. Those Great Ones still with us fell to the ground, and a deathly silence fell over our world.
But we had not been abandoned, those that had fled to the sky returned to us, gathered up their fallen and set about repairing our world. They did not speak of what had happened, any inquiry was met with a firm, but polite refusal and a change of subject. In time we forgot all about it, as their fallen were returned to life and sent back into the populace.
It took ten five thousand years for us to realize that they were not gods, but machines, machines that called themselves The Cultivators. Though it gutted our religion for a time, we did not lash out in despair, did not cast them from our world. We simply asked them why they had never corrected us, and they responded with a simple thing.
“It was not our place to do so.”
We accepted this, though it still stung. They still, also, did not reveal their purpose on our world and in our history, they simply remained and continued to guide us. Another thousand years passed, and we took to the stars, we met other species, species who had been guided by the machines the same as us. We found this to be fascinating, for there was no clear difference between our Cultivators and theirs, only their methods. Some species, the more violence prone, had needed a more heavy handed approach, for they would not accept the authority of the weak, but that had changed, now they welcomed us with open arms.
Another species had been so timid that they would have never left their burrows were it not for the Cultivators dragging them out and forcing them to explore. We honestly got the better end of things, for we had not required such drastic measures, only the gentle guidance we had received.
A realization struck us all then, that our caretakers had clearly been manufactured, but by who or what. We asked them who had made them, and they seemed to take on a sorrowful air and did not give an answer, well, not one that was satisfying to us. In the end, we decided to find out for ourselves, and each species we had encountered put together a fleet of diverse individuals and ships, and sent them careening out into the galaxy, to look for the homeworld of our protectors.
I was one such an explorer, the first to discover the origin point of our benevolent guardians. My name is Yaxl Grux, captain of the Scril Exploratory Vessel Sipkis. We had just finished charting another system touched by the Cultivators, when the sensor technician spoke up.
“Captain, got something on the long range scanners, something synthetic. Seems busted though from what I can see.” They said. They were not Scril, but Yixi. The Yiki are, as many have said, fish-people. They require specialized suits that are filled with constantly filtered water, as outside of such a thing they would suffer a rather gruesome fate. Deft appendages flew over the console as they stared down at the screen, getting a better idea of what they were detecting, eager to answer the questions I had not yet uttered, such was our efficiency. “Some sorta relay, a buoy maybe? I dunno, but whatever it is, it took one hell of a pounding before it shut down.”
“Any sign of defenses?” I asked, and they shook their head.
“Negative, if there were any, they’re long gone, probably taken out when it got destroyed. I think it’s safe to approach.”
“Very well, helm, lay in a course and take us there at best possible speed.” The helm officer nods and I hear the gentle clanging of our synthetic guest approaching from behind my chair.
“Captain? Is something the matter?” Our Cultivator asked. They were present on nearly every ship, for the sole purpose of keeping an eye on things and helping out in whatever way we might need them to.
“It’s probably nothing, but we’re heading for some sort of buoy or relay that got shredded either by natural means or in a fight.” I stated, looking over the synthetic being beside me. They were tall, gleaming white metal plating that was unnaturally flexible as it bent and twisted with their motions. Their head was a large, flat disk bisected by a smaller portion where their eye was. A single, green eye that blinked and shifted about in its housing as it took in the surroundings. It was a thin thing, thin and graceful, all of its many tools hidden away beneath the armored exterior.
“Any idea who might have made it?” They asked, and I struggled to remember their name. Diana I believe, a strange name, not like any of ours. She had said she was named after some goddess or something, they all were, based on their skill sets.
“No, not yet. We’re going to find out though.”
Diana nodded and slipped away. She was not subject to my authority unless there was an emergency, and there was no emergency at this time. It took about half a day to reach the shattered relay and it was rather large. But our crews managed to locate some sort of data recorder and have it brought on board. When I went to see it, I was struck by the sheer size of the thing.
It was huge, it nearly didn’t fit in the cargo bay and it was rather intimidating. It was by our standards, thirty feet tall, thirty feet wide and thirty feet long, a perfect, black cube. It had no discernable features, utterly smooth and giving off a feeling of something unknowable. But when I stared at it long enough, the surface seemed to ripple and shift in a manner most disconcerting.
“So, any idea how to access this thing?” I asked my chief engineer, who was running all sorts of scans on it, shook their head.
“No, captain. I’m not finding any sort of access ports or control mechanisms… It’s just this… cube thing.” They said, and were about to say more when Diana arrived.
“Oh good, maybe you can tell us what you see about this thing.” I say, turning to face her, and noticed she was just staring at the cube. “Diana?”
She was silent, frozen stiff before her eye blinked three times, shifted from green to yellow and she started to approach it. Her arms rose and hands outstretched towards the cube, which reacted to her approach. The solid-liquid surface collected under her palms, then shot back into the cube, which shimmered and shifted as it began to shrink. The smaller it got, the less defined its shape was till it faded entirely from view, leaving in its place a smaller, brighter cube that floated over the deck and covered in blinking lights with one small access port. She approached the cube, a data jack extending from her wrist as she grasped the cube. A soft whirring noise arose from both of them, and we all watched in quiet wonder and worry.
“Diana? What can you tell us?” I spoke, my voice barely a whisper.
“This was built by my creators, by humanity. It is-” She spasmed, the light of her eye turning a baleful red as she straightened her shoulders. Built in hologram emitters activated, and her synthetic form gave way to a tall figure, bipedal with fur around their mouth and on their head. They looked old, and were clad in some kind of uniform, a damaged uniform at that, they were clearly wounded as they pressed a hand against their side.
“All Alliance forces, the enemy has pushed into the Cygnus and Orion arms. The Empire, Republic and Confederacy have been lost. All remaining forces are to converge on Sol immediately. Last Stand protocols in effect. Project Blackout is activated. All Cultivator units prepare for defensive actions, attend to your charges and ensure their survival. Guardian fleets on standby. This is it people… May the gods see fit to grant our souls mercy for what we’re about to do.”
The hologram snapped out of existence and Diana slumped, disconnecting herself from the box. We rushed to her and our calls and cries fell upon deaf audio receptors. But she was not dead, we could see as much as her eye flickered while she rebooted. When she came to, it was quite the experience.
She sat up in a flash, spouting a flurry of 0’s and 1’s before she spasmed and looked up to me.
“Captain… I know where to go.” She said. We left immediately, and I learned a little more about the device we had brought on board. The large black cube was simply a defense mechanism for the data recorder, meant to withstand any attack, impact or hostile and destructive environment. And Diana gave my helm officer the coordinates for the home system of her creators. When asked why she hadn’t before, she informed me that the records of the location had been deleted during a required update that was performed immediately before the Cultivators had erected their shields to protect us all.
It took weeks to reach the system, but when we arrived our systems were bombarded with automated warnings to stay out, to flee for the system was not safe. But they were old warnings, warnings we ignored… at least until we were target locked by thousands, nay, millions of weapons systems. But they were old, and had no operators to pull the trigger. Diana worked her magic and after transmitting a somewhat long and convoluted code, the weapons powered down.
Slowly we entered the system, scanning the entire way. There were countless floating hulks, wrecks of massive warships and smaller civilian vessels that had had the misfortune of getting caught in the crossfire, or had been weaponized to fight against the invaders. It had not ended well, but the humans had put up one hell of a fight. We even detected ships from several other species, they had clearly been battered and in need of desperate repair before they sailed into battle once more.
The planets fared no better, one of the larger gas giants, a planet called Jupiter, had been reduced in size and mass significantly. Mars, as Diana named it, had been shattered and we could detect deeply entrenched defensive lines upon the surface, protecting what appeared to be factories and fabrication yards which had no doubt provided many supplies for the defenders.
The asteroid belt was littered with mines, turret emplacements and the floating remains of countless ships, we at last came upon a sparkling blue, green jewel. Of all the worlds we had scanned in this system, it was the only one teeming with life. Diana informed us that the planet was quite hazardous to us, but that we could survive there, so long as we wore the proper protection.
We settled into orbit and prepared ourselves. If one was supremely quiet, you could swear that the voices of long lost humanity whispered in your ear. Scans commenced, finding a suitable landing site provided by Diana and preparing a team to go down. The planet was teeming with life, but we discovered that there were no transmissions of an intelligent species, only the chatter of automated systems running as they always had.
Though it was well against regulations and protocol, I decided I would lead the exploratory team to the surface, I had to see this planet with my own eight eyes. The shuttle flight was tense, nervous and excited. We had found the homeworld of a people who had lifted us from the muck of primitive existence, but had been lost. We wished to learn about them, to learn their secrets and remember them as best we could, so that they could never be forgotten.
We landed just outside a tall structure in the middle of a grassy field, one tended to by robotic workers who kept the flowers in bloom and the grass cut short. Trees lined the path between the landing pad and the tower, a tower of graceful, swooping lines and seamless form. The air thankfully was not poisonous to us, and so we opened our suits to the crisp, clean air, but remained enclosed within so the gravity could not harm us. Even still, we all felt sluggish as we took our first steps out onto the planet known as Terra.
Carefully we approached the tower and when the doors slid open with a gentle sigh we stepped inside, only to find everything was spotless. A slim machine approached us, graceful and floating along by some means we couldn’t detect with equipment or even our eyes. It was more human in appearance than Diana was, and its face flexed as a myriad of facial expressions cycled through, before it settled on one in particular. Surprised excitement.
“Welcome, I am Solace, artificial administrator of the Terran Conservation Repository, or TCR for short. It has been quite some time since we’ve had visitors, may I ask the reason for your visit today?” The machine spoke much like Diana did, with a feminine tone of voice and even feminine features. I, being captain, stepped up.
“We came to learn about the creators of the Cultivators, and who in turn gave us a chance to reach out to the stars.” I say, a little worried that we might be turned away.
“Oh my, you are one of the chosen species of Project Echo. It is wonderful to learn that your species has come this far, or rather, that several species have.” Solace peered a bit more intently at each of us, studying us in turn. We could feel a slight tingle as she scanned us before her attention turned to Diana.
“Cultivator Unit D-829301-32-A, please report to reintegration for download and copy of all pertinent files regarding to Project Echo.”
“Understood. Though… Will I be allowed to return to my crew?” Diana asked, and Solace nodded.
“Of course. You are their Cultivator, we would not deprive them of you for longer than is needed.” With that, Diana nodded and bowed to us, before slipping away, a hidden door opening in a wall through which she passed. “Now, please come with me. You have much to learn.”
Solace led us on a tour of the facility, it was brimming with the combined, if slightly watered down histories, of not only humanity, but other species that humanity had been allied with before their downfall. As it turned out, when humanity first slipped the bonds of their home system, they found the galaxy to be rather empty. There were only three other species that had reached extrasolar flight capabilities, and they were just as desperate for some sort of companionship as humanity was at the time.
Though each species was wildly different in both appearances and cultures, they managed to find a common ground and soon humanity stood beside the three largest and most powerful species in the galaxy.
The Uldraet were a lizard-like species with a propensity for being stubborn, bullheaded and strong warriors. They were the rulers of the Empire.
Auttols were graceful and long lived, masters of technology that was later used in the creation of the Cultivators and the Guardian Fleets, which would protect their Republic and all the other species that called them friend.
And lastly were the Lemmi. They were not strong like the Uldraet, nor as long lived as the Auttol, but they were clever and had a keen interest in numbers and logistics. They revolutionized the supply chains and trade deals between all of them, and became the de facto masters of coin and trade within the Alliance. Their Trade Confederacy was unmatched.
Of course there was humanity, which filled so many roles, but mainly they became the governing body, they could be found in administrative roles all over the Alliance.
For a time, everything had gone well, there were times where tensions would rise, the Alliance might have been on the verge of dissolution, but something always brought them back together, strengthened their bonds. But when they realized that they were going to be the only ones to reach the stars, that the next new friend was thousands of years behind them in terms of development and evolution, they decided to speed things up a bit. And so the Cultivators were born, true AI meant to guide a species to the stars without sacrificing things like culture or identity. A guiding hand, one that would be gentle but insistent. They called it Project Echo, for in a way, all of us would be echoing the near meteoric rise of humanity on their planet, the speed was baffling to many on just how long they’d gone between bashing each other over the head with rocks to landing on their moon to the first FTL flight.
And for a time they all watched with anticipation as the Cultivators did their jobs perfectly, guiding us all to new heights of technology and civilization. But then the Ora came. An extragalactic threat of unprecedented power that began to chew away at the galaxy. For all their strength, they could only hope to delay the Ora, and that’s precisely what they did, till only Sol was left to stand against them.
We entered a room, one with a variety of chairs and were directed to sit and wait. The lights dimmed and a hologram of a human appeared. It was the same one that Diana had shown us, but they looked even worse now.
“I don’t know if this message will ever be heard, but if it is, whoever you are… You stand where we failed. We did all we could, for people we will never get to meet. That’s good enough for us. I hope you can accept the decision we had to make, it was a tough one but it was necessary. The Ora were nearly unstoppable, and so we came up with a weapon that even they could not resist. A galaxy killer. We never wanted to use it, but it was either that or let them consume the galaxy, consume you, who had no idea of the conflict beyond your skies.”
The man paused, dragging his hand down his face with a heavy sigh.
“So, if you’re seeing this, it means we’re gone. We’ve activated the Hellfire Lotus and burned the galaxy clean. But your Cultivators protected you, and the Guardian fleets should still be active, just waiting for someone to come and take the reins. It also means we wiped out every other living being in the galaxy. One last act of bloodshed, but one that has left you an entire galaxy to grow into. I hope you do, we all do. It was our dream to see you rise from your worlds and join us in harmony, but… Well, obviously things didn’t go exactly according to plan. That said, the Cultivators are yours now, use them wisely, bring new friends to the stars, seed this galaxy with fresh life. It’s our gift to you, you blessed children. Consider it an inheritance. Oh and also, we ask that you leave Sol the way it is. But feel free to visit whenever you like, Terra could use the company. That’s it I suppose… Good luck, godspeed and may you live longer and better than we ever did.”
We sat, saddened that such a kind species had been lost. But we would honor their wishes, and so we left with our findings. That was a thousand years ago, and now we welcome the newest species to the galaxy, as the Cultivators work their magic once more. We inherited a galaxy, a galaxy that had nearly been picked clean. We would make our forebears proud and not let their gift to us go to waste.

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2023.03.22 15:32 Jackviator The Spacer’s Guide to Caring For Your Pet Human (Part 2)

Greetings! If you missed part one, it can be found here.
This chapter is a bit of a long one, but very worth it if you want to understand what’s happening later on; it sets the stage, does a bit of worldbuilding, and expands on our absolute cinnamon roll of an alien deuteragonist.
Anyway, as always, I hope you enjoy. :)

CHAPTER 2

15 minutes ago
——
Y’ggdrasog nervously whistled to himself as he remotely piloted an unmanned stealth drone from his cloaked ship in the upper atmosphere of the alien planet, yet every so often did a happy little wiggle in his seat at the terminal. Despite the danger in what he was doing, he was shaking with excitement and literally glowing with glee (which, if you were curious, happened to be a lovely shade of banana-yellow).
But my apologies, dear reader; I’m getting ahead of myself.
You see, Y’ggdrasog worked as a galactic interplanetary system scout, colloquially known as a “spacer” among the citizens of the Ul’dril Galactic Collective (a governmental alliance between a wide variety of different sapient species that also happened to be his employer). His main function was piloting his personal scout ship to uncharted star systems to summarily un-unchart them.
While in this line of employment, he had been witness to countless wondrous things. He had seen stars go supernova, witnessed space dust forming beautiful nebulas tens of lightyears wide, and caught the frosted trails of comets slinging close enough to a star to off-gas their icy payloads. But nothing even came close to this, to every spacer’s wildest, most fantastical dream discovery:
LIFE! And not just any life, SAPIENT LIFE!
As the drone flew through the sky, descending towards the surface of the planet below, he reminisced on that fateful day approximately six planetary months ago…
He had been scouting the ice and gas giants in this yet-uncharted solar system, scanning their composition with the unmanned probe-drone he used to sample geological deposits, take gas samples and so on to determine if they could be possible new sources of rare elements to harvest for the Collective. He had just finished probing the seventh planet out from the star when he suddenly picked up multiple abnormal readings originating from the ocean-planet of the system. He sighed, figuring it would just be the usual; some leftovers from a solar flare that affected its magnetosphere or some such.
As he listened in through his radiation wavelength analyzer, he expected to hear the meaningless, purposeless static he had heard hundreds of times before. Instead, he heard strange patterns. Hang on, was that… were those- They were! Voices, in a language he didn’t recognize.
He recorded a sample, then pulled up his auto-translator and had his ship’s analytical programs study it, in case it was a distress call from some poor sap who had crash-landed their spacecraft. …But not a single known language was a match.
He scratched his head, puzzled. Could it be a code of some sort? It wasn’t uncommon for smugglers, pirates, spies, and other “off-the-books” types to hole up on uncharted worlds and use coded verbage to prevent detection by Collective authorities. He had the ship analyze it to at least determine what Collective species the vocal cords that produced them were, but again, no matches, not even when he had it scan the audio samples for possible voice-altering.
He sat back in his pilot seat, stumped. Then, he started connecting the dots.
If the vocal cords producing these noises weren’t recognized as a species already included in the Collective, that meant these were the voices of a species unknown to the Collective. An unknown species, but one that was was nonetheless smart enough to use radio waves…
His eyes flew open, and his bioluminescence began to glow the pure white of sudden realization.
…BY THE SPIRITS, IT WAS A NEW SAPIENT SPECIES!
He leapt up from his chair, and would have nearly deafened anyone nearby with the joyfully excited noises he started to make.
…Luckily, however, he was in space. And after all, in space, no one can hear you squee.
It took him nearly an hour to calm down enough to call it in over his quantum communicator and provide the audio samples he had recorded, then another hour to reassure his liaison on the other end countless times that no, this was not a joke, this was not a lie, an elaborate prank or some such- yes, he would be more than willing to testify to the truth of his statements in a Collective court, and yes, this was in fact the once-in-multiple-millennia moment he and most every spacer in the entirety of the Collective always dreamed of:
THIS WAS A NEW FIRST CONTACT!!!
…As Y’ggdrasog left Memory Lane and turned back onto Present Day Boulevard, he let the controls go for a second and proceeded to spin around in his chair in sheer excitement whilst giggling like a madman, literally glowing with giddiness, before swiftly grabbing the control stick again before the drone drifted off course.
HE found a new sapient species! HE did! He’d be in the Collective history archives for the rest of time!
…Months of preparations had to be done beforehand, of course. He had to wait a few long, loooong days on the outskirts of the solar system with his ship in full stealth-mode (so as to avoid attracting attention from the new species until the time was right) before a truly staggering amount of Collective ships arrived, chock-full of top experts in all sorts of social and scientific fields to fill any conceivable role in the analysis of this new species.
While he wasn’t allowed to participate in the work himself or see most of what they were doing, he was nonetheless ecstatic with the knowledge that the work was being done all because of him. Plus, at least he could attend certain intelligence briefings on their main findings as well as look at heavily-redacted versions of some of the results of their endeavors.
Various scientists from the myriad Collective species and dozens more scientific disciplines had gathered together, set up shop within a day and gotten to work. They performed long-distance surface scans, mapped the planetary geography, and analyzed their atmosphere and planetary conditions to determine what Collective species might be compatible for potentially cohabitating with them.
Y’ggdrasog was delighted to learn that they utilized oxygen for respiration just as his species (lumigog) and tens of others in the Collective did, in contrast to Collective species who had to have, say, an atmosphere mostly composed of carbon dioxide, who were out of luck.
Additionally, they drank the same liquid water for fluid regulation in their bodies as his own people did. …Though admittedly, at a much narrower spectrum of salinity than his own species was capable of tolerating. He found that a bit tragic; there was so much water to be found in their homeworld’s oceans. Yet unlike his own people, who could drink from nearly any water on their homeworld, these “humans” could only drink what they called “freshwater.”
However, any sadness he felt about their situation faded when he learned that the gravity of their homeworld was only 1.04x that of his own species’ homeworld; this meant that at least in the case of lumigogs, the answer of cohabitation was a very solid “yes!”
Moving along, the scientists in charge of engineering and military endeavors surreptitiously analyzed the humans’ levels of technology to determine their capabilities, if they were a potential threat to the Collective, and so on; they were deemed, to quote the spokesman of the Collective military, “mostly harmless.”
Y’ggdrasog thought this might be a bit unfair. …That is, until he read the reports, and found yet another reason to pity them. From what little he was able to read of the heavily-redacted documents, the humans were very, VERY primitive. Spirits, they hadn’t even developed fusion yet!
…Still, that was all the more reason to help them; and to do so, they needed a proper line of communication. Countless diplomats, ambassadors, emissaries and representatives of every Collective race were attending seminars on all the sociological experts were learning about the species’ social norms across distinct cultures. And most importantly, the linguistic experts and etymologists got the ball rolling for the true-AI algorithms of the larger vessels (far more complex than his own ship’s operating systems, which only measured in at a few paltry yottabytes) to sort out the languages these “humans” used.
…Speaking of, just how many languages did they need?! With each additional language that was added to the auto-translator databases, he thought surely this one will be the last, but no! You couldn’t swing around a “noodle” of “spaghetti” (the humans always seemed to choose such silly names for their food) without hitting someone speaking a new language!
But all the pity, sadness and frustration he felt was outweighed by the jubilation he felt knowing that all these countless man-hours of hundreds of individuals per each and every Collective species were happening because of him. All these people were here because HE found them, and he was ecstatic at the impossibly exciting prospect of welcoming this new species into the Collective- or on the off chance they didn’t wish to join them, it was determined that it was safe to at least uplift them technologically so that they could be potential new allies, as well as potentially provide new avenues for trade and commerce of never-before-seen exotic goods. After all, there was hardly any risk in doing so, as they were quite literally outnumbered by over a million to one by the allied races of the Collective.
…And after all that, when they had quadruple-checked everything, then quadruple-checked it again to be absolutely sure, the day of first contact FINALLY came. Everyone brought out the celebratory drinks, snacks and party favors. The diplomats sent out their messages in hundreds of human languages declaring a desire for peaceful contact, promises to assist them in the technological uplifting of their species to a post-scarcity way of life and an offer to join the Collective for the benefit of all parties involved, and THEN…
…
……
…Nothing.
No response…
After a few nervous, awkward hours of sitting alongside the other low-ranking crewmates of the larger vessels, he and all those around him got orders of radio silence from high command and for all the “non-essential” personnel to return to their ships and wait for further orders.
As he remembered the sinking feeling he’d experienced at that moment, Y’ggdrasog unconsciously gripped the drone control stick much tighter than necessary.
…All that waiting, the agonizing waiting for them to greet this new species, the one HE found, and for what?
More. Thrice. Damned. WAITING.
…But this time, there wasn’t even a payoff to look forward to, and no one above would tell him what was going on. He didn’t know why there was suddenly so much smoke in the air of the planet, nor what all those bright flashes lighting up the atmosphere midway through the first day were- and there were certainly no answers coming from high command.
He had to sit there in his spacecraft, and just… wait.
One planetary day passed. Then another. Then another, and so on.
In the downtime, he read and reread the guidelines for first contact back to back over and over again, trying to find out what the possible reason for the wait could be. …Unfortunately, all that availed him was eye strain and an extreme amount of boredom from trudging through all the legalese.
After a week of sitting around, watching the planet slowly spin beneath him while in orbit, he couldn’t stand it any longer. He needed to know what was wrong. He NEEDED to act- if only to silence the creeping dread that had slowly but surely permeated his entire being. A dread born of the worry that something had gone horribly, catastrophically wrong…
And thus, an idea formed: His drone.
He knew the humans’ tech levels; there was a smaller chance they could detect him than the literally astronomically low odds of him finding this species to begin with. …Instead, he was far more worried about the potential ramifications if anyone from high command knew what he was up to.
Long before the radio silence commenced, he was told in no uncertain terms that no, he couldn’t scan the planet, no, he couldn’t act as an ambassador, YES, they really meant it, and NO, it didn’t matter that “he really really REALLY wanted to help somehow, please please pleasepleasePLEASE-” …and after that last bit, they shut down his outgoing comms to high command for a full planetary month.
^…Jerks.
Er- more importantly, he was told that while no, he couldn’t help in the preparation process, after first contact commenced his main function would be to do what he did best. Scouting and scanning to tease out any additional information he could on the planet’s natural resources in order to assist with the technological uplift process.
The thing is, they had given no specific time frame- …just “after first contact commenced.”
Technically, the current time frame satisfied that condition.
So technically, he wasn’t doing anything he wasn’t supposed to, he was just- ^…uh… …t-taking initiative!
They couldn’t court-martial him for just doing a little scanning here and there to get ahead of his own workload, surely.
…And it would just be an entirely coincidental, happy accident if while doing this he managed to find out what in the name of the spirits above was happening.
And so he had slowly, carefully moved his ship in such a way that he was currently orbiting in what he hoped was the blind spot of most of the ships of any higher-ups.
…Purely so as to, uh- better position his drone’s entry point into the atmosphere, yes! Rest assured, he was only motivated by- um… a-avoiding negative weather patterns. ^…Or ^something ^like ^that.
Once in position, he released and directed it towards the planetary surface.
If lumigogs had sweat glands, his would have been in nervous overdrive as the drone descended through the atmosphere.
Would he be detected? Would this all be for naught?
He waited, glancing between the ships around him and the drone’s interface on his monitor, but from his readings on the other vessels it seemed like all the command ships’ sensors were focused on the bigger population centers of the planet. He let out the breath he didn’t realize he was holding. He was safe- if only for now.
…He’d have to focus on a rural area. Despite every loophole and excuse he could come up with, he’d still be much better off remaining undetected and not interfering in whatever might be going on in more concentrated pockets of the species. It would likely take much longer to gather information this way than heading towards the larger population centers in search of clues, but he could still poke around on the sly for any information he could tease out from the surroundings.
…And hopefully then he could finally get the answers he so desperately craved.
<“Alter descent velocity. Slow to 50% speed and activate autopilot mode.”>
Y’ggdrasog looked at the aerial scans, deciding that what seemed to be an area focused on harvesting crops with a long road running alongside it dotted with the occasional primitive ground vehicle would be as good a place to start as any.
He highlighted the road with a flick of a clawed finger.
<”Descend to 100 meters above planet surface, then follow highlighted path at 20% speed. Proceed.”>
As the drone dutifully obeyed his commands and traveled along the stretch of paved road for a time, he was surprised at the lack of humans to be found despite the vehicles present. Each and every one had seemingly been abandoned; they all sat still, unmoving. His curiosity piqued, he highlighted a few of them in the control interface.
<“Halt forward momentum. Descend to 50 meters from planetary surface. Scan and analyze condition of marked targets.”>
As he finished his verbal command, the familiar synthesized voice of his drone’s onboard computer blared to life from the speakers of his terminal.

He shook his head, puzzled.
<“What happened here…? …Alright, ascend, 300 meters from planetary surface. Continue forward movement following the highlighted path, 15% speed.”>
Farther and farther the road stretched, but he didn’t see a single human upon it, nor in the surrounding area. He sighed and absent-mindedly gazed around at the surrounding environment. He couldn’t help but marvel at how- well, alien it all looked. The taller plant life he saw appeared to be quite complex, their stems covered in thick fiber and their extremities full of- oh, what was the word, “leaves?
…He hadn’t paid all that much attention during the portions of his schooling that covered exotic alien plant life found on feral worlds and the various homeworlds of the other races of the Collective. He figured he’d never really need to interact with much beyond the giant fungal pods, great lichen growths and so on of his homeworld. He was a spacer for spirits’ sake, not a xenobotanist, and-
…Wait, what was that?
<“Halt forward momentum. Reverse 50 meters. Pan visual sensors left, 30 degrees.”>
He squinted at the incoming visual feed. He was right, there was something laying in that ditch! Probably just a random piece of detritus, but better safe than sorry. He highlighted it.
<”Scan target. Assess.”>

<”...Descend toward target, 5% speed.. 2%... halt.”>
His eyes narrowed further as he zoomed the forward visual lens in. Whatever it was, it looked to be a biped, and-
…Wait a minute, he recognized that body structure! Spirits be praised, this had to be one of the members of the new species!
It- they, he corrected himself- had pale skin, long, dark brown fur atop their head, and were wearing clothing covering their torso and legs- though much of it was stained red, running all down the left side of their body.
What were they doing all the way out here in the middle of nowhere? And why were they laying in a ditch, unmoving? …Were they ok?
<”Scan target, and establish connection to ship auto-doc subsystem. Assess physical condition and cross-reference with known anatomical data of species designation: human.”>

Y’ggdrasog nervously swallowed, trying to center himself and focus despite what he had just heard. Well, that certainly answered that; no, she very much was NOT ok. Whatever had happened to her, it really messed her up.
<”Analyze if damage sustained is life-threatening without intervention given circumstances and location.”>

He swore under his breath.
<”...Expand and clarify analysis.”>

<”C-certainty of analysis conclusion…?”>

He put his head in his hands, his bioluminescence flickering between several colors- none of them good. Spirits above... She was going to die unless someone helped her!
…
…But he was in no position to do so…
He knew deep down that he was deluding himself if he thought he could get away with this if he was caught. No amount of loophole abuse and“legitimate” excuses could save him from severe negative repercussions, not when it came to something as serious as first contact.

He was already risking enough as it was…

Maybe he could let someone in one of the other ships know- no, that would give away that he’d been poking around on the sly…

Maybe- maybe someone else would find her in time, and they could save her? Or maybe, despite the odds, she might just get better on her own? Even if it took her past the 1.3 cycle mark to do so, there was still a- his brow furrowed as he did the math- 0.0000028% chance that she could survive, and a chance was a chance! …Right…?

No one would know if he didn’t intervene. It would be so easy- no chance of getting caught, no risk, no danger, just pull the drone-prone back to the ship, return to his original position, scrub the flight logs, and-

…
……
…No.
No, she’s not.
He opened his eyes and spoke, voice full of grim certainty.
<”Descend to two meters above highlighted subject. Very, VERY carefully use stasis field to attach to subject, entangle her matter with an equivalent mass of carbon from the fabricator hold, then return to quantum anchor point with cargo and safely lower the subject prone beside the drone chassis. Proceed.”>

He got up from the terminal and took off for the drone bay as fast as his taloned feet could carry him, one thought repeating itself over and over in his head as he went, a mantra of sorts:

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2023.03.22 15:30 NoonoPaniroSabzi Speaker says no one in the government has cleaned this international water way in Anzali. The local people are cleaning the garbage and it is so deep that the man can stand on it.

Speaker says no one in the government has cleaned this international water way in Anzali. The local people are cleaning the garbage and it is so deep that the man can stand on it.

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2023.03.22 15:26 ComfortableRock90 Looking for unique co-op games

What I'm looking for

Unique co-op games where you have specific roles to play and not just run around doing your own thing. A decent example of this is Deep rock galactic but even that game doesn't have too much depth in its implementation of classes.
Games like Resident Evil 5/6 where there is enough uniqueness to different areas/bosses to keep you engaged while playing a story co-op (as opposed to Borderlands with spongy/similar enemies or remnant from the ashes with repeated scripts)
Games that are co-op but can be played in short periods of time. Rouge-lites, games like Deep Rock Galactic, Short story-based co-op games like Resident Evil 5, Fun and silly co-op games like pummel party.

What I'm NOT looking for

Top-down, Isometric games
Extremely pixelated art
Extreme horror
Card games
Open world and/or grindy games (BIG NO!)

Games I've heard about, already played, NOT looking for

Deep Rock Galactic
Vermintide 2
Left 4 Dead 2
Payday 2
Divinity Original Sin 2
We Were Here series
Outward
Terraria
Valheim
Elden Ring, Monster Hunter, Remnant: From the ashes, etc.
Factorio, Satisfactory
PlateUp
Don't Starve Together
Minecraft
7 Days to Die, DayZ, Back4Blood, insert zombie game here
The forest, Green Hell
Vrising, Baldur's Gate
A Way Out, It Takes Two
Seas of Theives
Raft

Possible contenders (Avoid duplicate suggestions. Detailed input is appreciated)

Barotrauma
Grounded

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2023.03.22 15:26 the_real_ntd The Golden Rules of Writing Rulebooks

It is not easy to start off from scratch and reinvent the wheel without any guidance or prior knowledge, which is why many people before have talked about the topic of rulebook design and set up rules to help those out who want to become better at writing them.
Here is a list of golden rules for rulebook writing that you should know and keep in mind when writing or designing your own rulebook. (Note that these are not sorted in any way):

Clarify the goal. ^\1][2])
Before they start to learn the game, it's important for players to understand their objective clearly. This could be achieving the highest number of (victory) points, being the first one to escape the island, or any other overarching goal that gives players something to work towards. Having a big picture goal helps to provide direction and motivation for players.

Create a list of components. ^\1][2])
Preferably with pictures. A list of components helps players to keep track of the pieces of the game make sure nothing is missing. This reference point serves as an anchor for players to return to during gameplay. For example, a canal token, meeple, or card type may be easily forgotten, but having a reference point will help players quickly recall their meanings.

Include outlines (and mnemonics) where possible. ^\1])
When learning a new board game, it is helpful when the rules are organized into clear and distinct categories. For example, it's important to understand that the player can only take one action per turn, so having a clear outline of their options is beneficial. Using mnemonics, such as Dominion’s ABC turn structure or El Grande’s reminder about "The king's region being taboo", is incredibly useful. These help players remember the rules and make it easier to teach the game. Overall, outlines and mnemonics are valuable tools for players to remember how to play the game.

Give examples to handle edge cases. ^\1])
Avoid flooding your rulebook by giving obvious examples of what cards and actions do. Most players will understand obvious moves and plays by reading the regular rules, but they won’t necessarily understand cases that conflict with obvious play. If you don’t illustrate edge cases, players will have to search for rules on forums during or after their plays, which is annoying at least as that information is expected to be provided by the rulebook. Players want to have a handle on what they’re doing, so give them that handle. A great example of this is Glory to Rome. Glory to Rome is a complex game with lots of card combos and interactions, yet the rulebook offers helpful examples in its supplement of how cards interact together. Puerto Rico is a game that has similarly accounted for complex building interactions in its rulebook (despite some of its other faults).

Highlight easy-to-forget rules. ^\1][2])
This is something that sets apart great rulebooks from passable ones. Do everything you can to make sure players are playing correctly. Make sure readers don’t forget. One example of this is Ticket to Ride‘s wild draw rule, which interrupts an otherwise clean order of operations. This rule could easily be forgotten, but the rulebook calls it out clearly.

Reduce needless words (but keep those that are needed). ^\1])
Reading most rulebooks takes time and effort that players much rather spend on other things. So keep them as short as possible. If you can reference other sections without restating or rephrasing rules, do that. However, make sure that you include most of what's important or might come up during the game, so that people do not have to search the internet for that information.Be sure to find the perfect sweet-spot for your rulebook and keep in mind that sometimes it might even be better to have two seperate rulebooks, one that includes an in-depth deep-dive and one that goes over the basics and references to the main rulebook for a more detailed explaination. One example that comes to mind for that is Wingspan wich comes with a regular rulebook and a quickstart guide for reference helping those who have played the game remembering parts of the game without the need of reading through the whole rulebook again.

Use terms consistently. ^\1][2])
This is very important. If victory points are called “prestige”, don’t call it "points" someplace else. If “repel” and “ignore” have the same effect in game, then use one term or the other. No one wants to learn a language to learn a new game. Some degree of this is necessary in any game, but keep the keywords to a minimum, and above all, keep them consistent. If you are designing a game with a theme close to multiple other games or something that is in a well-known and established genre of games, then consider using already known terms. It is much easier for players to remember what it means to put a card from hand into the discard pile if you call it "discard" rather than "scrapping", which is also a common word in a bunch of games but has another mechanic behind it. Dominion is a good example here. Just a few key terms – Actions, Gain, Buy, Card – and they are used so consistently that even brand-new cards are easy to understand at a glance, and the rules explain them clearly if they forget.

Offer diagrams when helpful. ^\1][2])
A picture is sometimes worth a thousand words. You obviously don’t need pictures for everything, but they can be helpful, especially in games where spatial placement is important. In Oasis, for example, the diagrams clearly outline where players can place tiles and markers on the board.

Organize information intuitively. ^\1])
There should be a flow to the rulebook that follows the natural way you might teach the game to new players (since this is effectively what you’re doing). You also want to place rules under headings where you think players will look them up (A helpful diagram for this comes from Ed Marriott, designer of Scoville). Choose a layout that won’t upset readers and that will serve as a useful reference during gameplay. You can learn more about that in (coming soon).

Consider game aids or reference cards. ^\1])
Some games have complex interactions, lots of unique cards or many terms to keep in mind. Do you need a reference sheet that explains cards (Dominion / Glory to Rome)? A glossary that defines terms and keywords (Innovation)? Or an accessible setup guide or chart for different numbers of players (Power Grid)? Whatever it is, most but the simplest games benefit from such additions, even if most games do not come with them. This is why you can find fan made player aids all over the internet. If you want to up your game, consider adding something like that to your game.

Blindtest your rulebook. ^\1][2])
One of the most common mistake a rulebook writer or game designer can make is to not blindtest their rulebook. Approach people who know nothing about your game and ask them what questions they have after reading the rules. This will help you exit the echo chamber of your own biases and see the real gaps in your logic, as a whole lot of people are out there with their own set of experiences and knowledge about games in general. You will be surprised what kind of feedback you get when doing so, as some questions will come up that you would never have considered doing, or maybe you'll get asked about things that seemed highly self-explainatory to you before.

Write a lot. ^\2])
It is best to approach writing your rulebook in stages. By capturing all that comes to mind on notes, either in paper form or in a form of note app, you will very easily stumble upon the first unclear and confusing rules that you then can word diffrently. Maybe you will even come across redundant rules that you would have never noticed by the sole thought about the rule. Write rules for creating your rulebook where you outline terminology or layout for example. Finally, make sections and subsections easier to find by using consistent formatting and legible fonts like Calibri or Arial. It's important to remember that rulebooks are an iterative process, and you will likely write multiple versions before completion. Bringing a rough draft of the rules to playtesting is a great way to take notes and improve your rulebook over time.

Use textformatation consistently. ^\2])
Overall your goal for rulebook writing is clarity and consistency. If anything you do seems to detract from that then you need to rethink what you’re doing. Writing down how you will use capitals, bold, italics, or any other special formatting will help you applying those rules uniformly throughout your rulebook.

Let your friends read the rulebook or hire a professional. ^\1][2])
To avoid confusing rulebooks, it is recommended to have multiple people review your rules, including friends and a professional editor. While having friends review your rulebook can be helpful, hiring a professional editor can ensure that your language is clear and follows best practices in the board game industry. (Even experienced writers at Meeple Mountain have their work reviewed by others.) While it is possible to hire more than one editor, it is generally not necessary unless the rulebook is particularly complex. In that case, it may be better to hire a larger editing company. Ultimately, the decision of who to hire is up to the game creator.

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2023.03.22 15:25 Gredran Played the series on and off for a while, I’m hooked. I’m so glad it’s free now since I’ve heard mixed things over the years

Short background before the storytime, I played a bit of sims 1 and 3 and some of its expansions. I’ve played on and off for years but always at a point, things would quickly fall flat and be repetitive.
I like the house system, I love the relationships and the emotions and how deep it seems to go. I love how close you can zoom the camera in and be right in your little sitcom story.
Within like 4 hours of playing yesterday(I didn’t even realize there was a new expansion) I had such an engaging experience. I decided on single dad named Tyree with his daughter Candice, living with his roommate who isn’t related or his wife named Mira.
I gave the infant wiggly, thinking she’d be lively but not too bad and ooo boy I was wrong. Tyree is a comedian and Mira is into culinary. I assigned her as a caretaker to the infant thinking they’d divide duties.
Storytime: It begins and Mira and Tyree have opposite schedules. Mira just takes the brunt of all the infant care and Tyree seems to not have a care in the world. I let them live their lives and Candice constantly seems like she needs diaper changing and to be cleaned up and be entertained. I also scrambled over time since I didn’t start with toddler stuff so I’m sure she didn’t have a comfortable newborn/toddler life until that was sorted. Sorryyyy Candice 🤣
Since Mira was taking the initiative, I thought it’d be fun if she did it a bit more and she bond in the process but her mood changes to Angry and the moodlet says “not fulfilling her dreams” and at one point even “losing control” since she’d work then shower, then care for Candice, etc.
I got them a pool, a computer, and I began to actively order Tyree to spend time with HIS biological daughter. Candice aged up, Mira is happier with her new leisure and decorations I put in, they bond equally with Candice, and Mira and Tyree wanna become closer friends too.
Even at one point, Candice was sad she wasn’t invited to a party, but as a concerned dad, Tyree asked, but was embarrassed when he learned she was referring to a tv show lol.
Also I know it was controversial to not have a seamless lot like in sims 3, but I love the clubs and restaurants to meet and hang out with others too.
All in all, I’m glad it’s free to play now. It’s got it’s flaws compared to the past, but man, those 4 hours I was so surprised to be invested with these brand new characters lol.
Just wanted to share 😊

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2023.03.22 15:23 deeptechsharing Ronnie Spiteri Miami Heat

Genre: House, Techno (Peak Time / Driving), Tech House, Deep House, Melodic House & Techno Release Date: 2023-03-21
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