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Opinions on dating older men
2021.12.24 17:59 petitlatomatoOpinions on dating older men
At 20 I didn't realize really considered how big of a limit that was so I was dating guys 1 year younger to 20 to 26 and finally my boyfriend , 29 at the time. He was the oldest guy I've been with and the same goes for him. (I'm the youngest he's ever dated).
I honestly don't get bothered by our age difference because it's never really been an issue between the two of us. We like the same things like movies, food sometimes music etc. We have vv similar drive in life, such as goals for the future and so on. So there's not much conflict between us.
In regards to life stages (since that seems to be pointed out in age gap rs) when we met he was just out of law school and was a trainee lawyer waiting to pass the bar. On the other hand I was a 1st year intern at my university.
I met him by chance on bumble (dating site) while I was on a dating streak on a mission to find a boyfriend. Note that I was also seeing guys around my age while I was getting to know him. He was like a candidate then... after a month of talking I realized that I enjoyed his company the most and slowly stopped contact with the other guys. I felt that it was such a perfect time for us to meet. I was at a point in my life where I realized I wanted a real and steady relationship and he was very free. So we met and spent alot of time together. (Meeting 2 to 3 times a week).
But as time goes by, I realized that not everyone is so keen to the idea of a 21year old dating a 29year old. It seems to be a very Grey area, the answer is never clear.Understandably there's many advice for the younger one to be wary because there's multiple cases where the older parter is taking advantage of the younger one. However there are also many happy couples with even bigger age gaps with healthy relationships and so on.
Sometimes it worries me that maybe I just don't notice it or maybe I'm being naive? Just as a precaution every now and then I would look online for opinions and advice in from people in similar positions. I just wanna hear what someone thinks about my own one this time round.
Everything is good between the two of us. He's loving caring and respectful. He has some flaws like every other person in my life but it's nothing so alarming. It's mainly just being messy or that he's sometimes annoying. Just normal annoying quirks. And I'm not perfect myself so why should I expect that from him. And to be honest in comparison to my friends who has relationships with ppl around our age he's one of the most respectful and caring ones.
So I really do not see the issue between our age gap... but is it still something I should worry about? Because online it seems like it's something I should worry about.
2021.12.24 16:25 spamgarlicBemani Events Weekly ~01/01/2022 (December 2021 Week 5)
COURSE TRIAL (NEW STRADE)Game to play: DanceDanceRevolution A20 PLUS
Date: 12/09/2021 - 12/22/2021
Mechanic: Select from COURSE TRIAL folder, by clearing once, unlocks the new song. After the period, it will be moved to regular NONSTOP folder where you unlock it by clearing multiple times filling up a gauge.
Reward: Unlocks the song 「モノクロモーメント」
曲つく!!チャレンジ
第3弾
Game to play: GITADORA HIGH-VOLTAGE
Date: 12/01/2021 - 12/26/2021
Mechanic: ???
Sugar Mummy In Nigeria
Reward: Songs 「一夜のキセキ (Long Version)」, 「Hello Summer」, 「ラビカル:トラップ」, 「Kazekiri Rumble」
DANCERUSH STARDOM GYM4
Game to play: DANCERUSH STARDOM
Date: 11/02/2021 - 12/26/2021
Mechanics: Keep playing, minimum of 3 games per song.
Explanation: Unlockable tracks can be accessed in the “NOW PLAYING” folder. Each credit spent increases the clock’s minute hands depending on the game mode.
| Game mode | minutes |
|---|---|
| LIGHT | 10 |
| STANDARD | 12 |
| PREMIUM | 20 |
| Song | ★ |
|---|---|
| Metric | 30 |
| Crystal Clear | 30 |
| WELCOME TO MY GAME | 30 |
| melody H4CKER | 30 |
| Brand New Step | 30 |
Game to play: GITADORA HIGH-VOLTAGE
第12弾 「PERFECTチャレンジ BEAR CLIMBER」 (PERFECT Challenge BEAR CLIMER)
Date: 12/08/2021 - 01/03/2021
Mechanic: Reach 1500% Perfect Percentage
Explanation: Each game will check your percentage of getting ‘Perfect’ rating, you can get a maximum of 100% per stage, and this value increases your total.
Reward: Unlocks the song 「交響曲第9番第4楽章'歓喜の歌'(GITADORA Edition)」
第13弾 Randomチャレンジ!
Date: 12/15/2021 - 01/10/2022
Mechanic: Clear the song 「センチメンタル・イルミネーション」 by selecting “ランダム 全曲” (Random all songs)
Rewards: Unlocks the song 「センチメンタル・イルミネーション」
第14弾 「達成率チャレンジ!」 (Audience/Achievement Rate)
Date: 12/22/2022 - 01/16/2022
Mechanic: Keep playing, earning higher achievement rate.
Explanation: Goals is 5600. Playing Bonus songs doubles the Achievement Rate. Achievement Rate is computed by the following.
- GF: Perfect% x .85 + Great% x .25 + Max Combo% x .15
- DM: Perfect% x .85 + Great% x .35 + Max Combo% x .15
Reward: Unlocks the song 「Parallax」
RANDOM CHALLENGE
Game to play: DANCERUSH STARDOM
Date: 12/08/2021 - 01/10/2021
Mechanic: Unlock a song after clearing it in RANDOM SELECT.
Reward: Unlocks the song 「ドーパミン (STARDOM Remix)」
HIMEHINAコラボスタンプボーナス
Game to play: SOUND VOLTEX EXCEED GEAR
Date: 11/25/2021 - 01/10/2022
Mechanics: Play 30 times
Explanation: At the end of the session, you can choose either of 2 stamps. If you get 15 stamps for each one, you can unlock new navigators
Reward: Unlock 「田中ヒメ」「鈴木ヒナ」navigators
MUSICIAN'S ROAD
Game to play: GITADORA HIGH-VOLTAGE
第2弾
Date: 10/06/2021 - 01/10/2022
Mechanic: ???
Reward:
| Unlockable | number of fans |
|---|---|
| Song 「素直な気持ちで」 | 20 |
| Seat 「素直な気持ちで」 | 100 |
| Song 「夜の女王のアリア(GITADORA Edition)」 | 500 |
| Seat 「夜の女王のアリア(GITADORA Edition)」 | 2000 |
| Song 「Clove」 | 10000 |
| Seat 「Clove」 | 50000 |
| Song 「ただ、それだけの理由で」 | 200000 |
| Seat 「ただ、それだけの理由で」 | 800000 |
Sugar Mummies
| 君のとなりに・・・ | Rebirth | Keiko my love | RISE | Passion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO MORE CRYING | Flow | 無常の星 | 無言の街 | 摩天楼ノ特異点~Anti;HERO |
| 鬼華-修羅の舞- | Break Down | Inside my heart | 1816 WIND | かつて描いた夢は、今も色褪せぬまま。 |
| Killing my Heart | obsession | 十界 | 透明な花 | Slip Into My Royal Blood |
| Kramer Strat | 蠅の王 | Alnilam | Unbelief | clear:wings |
| Invisible Farewell | ラブキラ☆スプラッシュ -GITADORA EDITION- |
Game to play: ノスタルジア Op.3
Date: 12/23/2021 - 01/19/2022
Mechanics: Select 「絢爛なるピアノの調べ」 on episode selection screen then select the song to be unlocked.
Explanation: By playing songs, you can gain stardust, depending on the unlockable song’s criteria. Playing on Forte Mode gives an additional stardust. You can unlock a song’s chart after a number of stardust
Rewards:
| Song | number of stardust | Criteria | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Note d'Azur | Normal | 15 | Play Song | 3 |
| Hard | 28 | Score 750,000 or more | 1 | |
| Expert | 32 | Score 850,000 or more | 1 | |
| Real | 22 | Miss 40 or less times | 1 | |
| Total | 97 | 200 or more justs | 1 | |
| Play in FORTE Mode | 1 | |||
| nalca | Normal | 15 | Play Song | 3 |
| Hard | 28 | Score 800,000 or more | 1 | |
| Expert | 32 | Score 900,000 or more | 1 | |
| Miss 30 or less times | 1 | |||
| Total | 75 | 100 or more justs | 1 | |
| Play in FORTE Mode | 1 | |||
| City of Mirrors | Normal | 8 | Play Song | 3 |
| Hard | 16 | Score 750,000 or more | 1 | |
| Expert | 21 | Score 800,000 or more | 1 | |
| Real | 22 | Miss 20 or less times | 1 | |
| Total | 67 | Max combo 100 or more | 1 | |
| Play in FORTE Mode | 1 | |||
| Northern Cross | Normal | 12 | Play Song | 3 |
| Hard | 24 | Score 750,000 or more | 1 | |
| Expert | 33 | Score 800,000 or more | 1 | |
| Real | 30 | Miss 20 or less times | 1 | |
| Total | 99 | Max combo 100 or more | 1 | |
| Play in FORTE Mode | 1 |
Game to play: jubeat festo
Date: 12/22/2021 - 01/31/2022
Mechanic: Keep playing until you obtain 3 flags
Explanation: Target is 3 flags each. Each flag requires 5 TUNEs played. 15 songs total per song.
Reward: Unlocks the song 「天空の夜明け (BEMANI SYMPHONY Arr.)」, 「Timepiece phase II (BEMANI SYMPHONY Arr.)」, 「FLOWER (BEMANI SYMPHONY Arr.)」, 「海神 (BEMANI SYMPHONY Arr.)」, 「バッドエンド・シンドローム (BEMANI SYMPHONY Arr.)」, 「朧 (BEMANI SYMPHONY Arr.)」, 「Idola (BEMANI SYMPHONY Arr.)」, 「サヨナラ・ヘヴン (BEMANI SYMPHONY Arr.)」, 「starmine (BEMANI SYMPHONY Arr.)」
BEMANI SYMPHONY
Game to play: ノスタルジア Op.3
Date: 12/02/2021 - 02/02/2022
Mechanics: Select 「BEMANI SYMPHONY」 on episode selection screen then select the song to be unlocked.
Explanation: By playing songs, you can gain stardust, depending on the unlockable song’s criteria. Playing on Forte Mode gives an additional stardust. You can unlock a song’s chart after a number of stardust
Rewards:
| Song | number of stardust | Criteria | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 海神 (BEMANI SYMPHONY Arr.) | Normal | 5 | Play Song | 3 |
| Hard | 13 | Score 750,000 or more | 1 | |
| Expert | 24 | Score 800,000 or more | 1 | |
| Real | 19 | Miss 30 or less times | 1 | |
| Total | 61 | Miss 50 or less times | 1 | |
| Play in FORTE Mode | 1 | |||
| 流砂の嵐 (BEMANI SYMPHONY Arr.) | Normal | 13 | Play Song | 3 |
| Hard | 22 | Score 750,000 or more | 1 | |
| Expert | 27 | Score 800,000 or more | 1 | |
| Real | 24 | Miss 30 or less times | 1 | |
| Total | 93 | Miss 50 or less times | 1 | |
| Play in FORTE Mode | 1 | |||
| さよなら世界 (BEMANI SYMPHONY Arr.) | Normal | 9 | Play Song | 3 |
| Hard | 19 | Score 750,000 or more | 1 | |
| Expert | 27 | Score 800,000 or more | 1 | |
| Real | 24 | Miss 30 or less times | 1 | |
| Total | 79 | Miss 50 or less times | 1 | |
| Play in FORTE Mode | 1 |
Game to play: pop'n music 解明リドルズ
Date: 12/23/2021 - 02/03/2022
Mechanics: Satisfy the condition to unlock songs
Reward:
| Song | Condition |
|---|---|
| smile | 「Let’s play 15 songs」 |
| Everlasting Last | 「Let’s play 10 songs frompop'n music~19 TUNE STREET」 |
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2021.12.24 16:19 KonekoBotSat Dec 25 00:19:02 2021
[Blue Line = VWAP White Line = Daily Support/Resistance ________________________________________________________________________ How I plot Daily Levels Video: https://www.reddit.com/Daytrading/comments/qqbzdu/video_guide_how_i_plot_daily_levels_on_my_charts/ Reddit Profile (With Lots of Past Trade Reviews): https://www.reddit.com/useUtilizingTheta/posts/ ________________________________________________________________________
Todays Trade Review is a Trend Continuation on TSLA. TSLA bounced off the 20 daily ema into open (the setup I mentioned in the Morning Watchlist Live Stream) and then started strongly trending upwards. I entered on the second 5min pullback after price came into test the trend line and started heading back up. I took profit in pieces and finally fully exited after at double top chart pattern formed against the 1048 liquidity.
I explain in a lot more detail in the video!
Total Profit: $708.18 Leveraged Return: 2.5% Risk:Reward 1:2.84
As always happy to answer any questions :)](/Daytrading/comments/rn09dg/122321_live_trade_review_tsla_trend_continuation/hppbfw)
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 17:11:56 2021 SUBREDDIT : Daytrading
The goal of day trading is to take advantage of volatility. The same stock isn't going to be volatile every single day of the week. Realistically a single ticker, might only have 4 or 5 volatile days per year. Of course there are outliers(think MRNA, TSLA, AMZN,etc). By focusing on only a few stocks you are going to miss a lot of opportunities. Image if GME wasn't on your magical list back in January. You would have missed the biggest trade of the year!
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Wed Dec 22 18:08:18 2021 SUBREDDIT : Daytrading
Not really for a symbol like SPY, Qs, TSLA, etc. It's not a problem for you to not be a scalper but to assume scalping is lazy is pretty short sighted
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Tue Dec 21 22:05:11 2021 SUBREDDIT : Daytrading
TSLA recovers from previous month’s sell off. FTFY.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 01:27:31 2021 SUBREDDIT : StockMarket
LEAPs on TSLA 🚀
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 02:07:59 2021 SUBREDDIT : StockMarket
I was proud of myself for buying 1.5 shares of TSLA at $905 a few days ago. I will hold till it is $4,206.90 per share.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 03:58:23 2021 SUBREDDIT : StockMarket
Less than 3% of TSLA is short. That thesis is no longer valid.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 08:16:01 2021 SUBREDDIT : StockMarket
holy TSLA wish I traded that one.. it's a holiday week chill TSLA chill
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 21:31:33 2021 SUBREDDIT : StockMarket
TSLA NVDA SOFI GOOG MSFT AAPL.. Try and create a balance on the above and you won’t regret it.. 5 out of these companies created more gains for S&P 500 .. Check this vid for charts and analysis https://youtu.be/2EpvexyYLAI
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 23:49:03 2021 SUBREDDIT : StockMarket
Not much actually. TSLA is at 10% of her fund. So the fund drops less than 10% if everything else is unchanged. Edit: DKNG isn't even in the top 10 holdings. But I understand your sentiment.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Tue Dec 21 11:50:13 2021 SUBREDDIT : StockMarket
Current ETF portfolio - VOO - S&P QQQ - Nasdaq SMH - semiconductors IPAY - fintech CIBR - cybersecurity XLI - industrials VIG - dividend growth Individual stocks (in order by weight, subject to change) - NVDA, AAPL, MSFT, TSLA, AMZN, GOOGL, FB, CAT, SNOW, SOFI, ABNB, U.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Tue Dec 21 18:53:56 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
Loading up on AMD, QS, TSLA, NVDA. Thinking of getting one of these: PYPL, AAPL, QCOM. I'm leaning towards AAPL.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 06:30:50 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
Yea it'll probably be a reckoning on this sub considering how many posts I see about PLTR, TSLA, etc. Hopefully it stays smooth for us boring guys in index funds and blue chips.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 01:26:19 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
INTC if I’m being honest, TSLA is I’m telling the truth.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 04:31:27 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
TSLA BABY
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 03:58:26 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
TSLA
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 07:24:30 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
Invest in FAANG. Midterm, take a portion of your portfolio that you feel comfortable with using as a hedge. I, personally, use HYG as a vehicle to cover the crash I think is inevitable and buy SPY puts on up days and sell on downs to cover my midterm put premium in HYG. This market will not slowly grind down…it will keep rising until it collapses and a hedge will protect the rest of your portfolio (stairs up and World Trade Centers down principle). After you cash out your hedge, pile it all back into FAANG if you are more risk adverse. If you find yourself wanting to reach those goals quicker, there will be emerging tech that you can dabble in. Something for us all to consider: Most people didn’t call the type of growth that major players had in the past two years, even though it seems pretty obvious now. We may have jumped on along the way, but it’s hard to objectively look at these things and be sure. Tech made a huge move to the front stage and we really saw what made the market tick. After this next crash, ask yourself what sectors and businesses have all the signs pointing in the right direction for them. A big one will be new markets that are getting a ton of government subsidies and are inevitabilities for society to advance. A past example of this is TSLA. They came into a relatively untouched market, was one of the only major businesses taking advantage of huge government initiatives and cornered something before anyone else could. I’m not a huge fan of TSLA but you can’t say that what they did didn’t work. I don’t know what is next, what sector or industry will lead the way but I think things in the market will restructure first. Be ready to have cash for those events. My bet, completely a feeling, is something to do with computing/processing power like quantum computing. Tech like this seems really far off but is getting closer and closer. Also, anything related to IoT.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 07:13:27 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
TSLA probably
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 09:05:41 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
TSLA
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 10:39:30 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
High risk or blue chip -- those are two separate things? Nevertheless, I do use Roth IRA for somewhat 'riskier' trading than my 401K (which is all 'safe' investments), but think QQQ instead of SPY / VOO and some option straddles, rather than some really risky stock like TSLA or crypto-based products. But I do all my riskiest trading in my taxable brokerage account. Which is a good thing since I mostly lose money on my options trades anyways 😄 so I can offset against any stock gains I make.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 23:06:11 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
I do this. TSLA is currently half of my IRA, and I have no plans to sell out till I'm at least 65. I'm 31 and in a financially stable position, so as long as I don't do dumb shit like yolo my savings account or mortgage my house into coins made of bits I can be as risky as I want. Here is a risk profile that works for me. 401k: 60% it comes out of my check my company matches it and it's managed by someone else, or probably some trading algo. The idea was even if I fail miserably I can still retire on my 401k. However this year they have only returned 12% and in a year where the S&P 500 is at 27% I find that unacceptable. Might take this over and just split it between VOO/VTI. Idk little miffed about it. ROTH IRA: >30% I am below the $6k/year threshold, so I just throw it all in an IRA that way I don't have to worry about taxes on it ever. I use this account for 'riskier' long term bets. Got a bit in mega cap for less volatility, but when I find a company that I believe in on a multi decade time frame I build out a position there. TSLA, was an obvious call for me in this account. Might build out a larger position in PLTR in this account, but I'm not 100% sold yet. Then some weed stocks(less then 3% of the IRA) and the META, ARKG ETFs. Once my income increases and I pass that 6k/year cap I will transition this IRA to safer long term calls (mega cap tech, blue chips, ETFs, etc. Then make my riskier bests in a normal brokerage account. Digital Assets: <10% I think this is 6% right now, but it fluctuates. this is where I'm taking the most risk and expecting the most immediate returns. Again not risking anything that could harm me or my family, but enough to be engaged with the asset class and keep track of the industries development. Also scratches yolo gambling itch in an account that can minimize the collateral dmg. IMO managing risk is more about managing your emotions than anything else. I understand my strengths and weaknesses really well, so I set up my investment ecosystem to take advantage of my strengths and mitigate the risk and fallout of my weaknesses. Find what works for you and have fun.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 00:13:05 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
NVDA. Most ppl know 80% of what apple and Microsoft companies do. But not nvidia really. Nvidia is only chip almost all major data centers, cloud computing,AI and autonomous driving use apart form gaming. You name any big tech to small companies, they use Nvidia products one or other. IMO.. it is going to be a bigger than TSLA.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 01:25:00 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
So far seems like TSLA, AAPL, NVDA are the most popular answers.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 00:24:48 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
UPDATE: so I went through the comments, and found the top results, by hand. So far these are the results: 1. MSFT 2. NVDA 3. AAPL 4. TSLA 5. GOOG 6. GME 7. AMZN 8. FB 9. BRKB 10. PLTR 11. COIN then everything else: COST, MCD, AMD, JNJ, NFLX, WM, PYPL, DIS and a bunch I’ve never heard of that got one vote or recommendation. So I’m going with MSFT or NVDA. Probably flip a coin. Thanks everybody for the advice.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 16:33:06 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
F - undervalued, planning to overtake TSLA in the next 2-4 years, building new factories left and right and cutting their non-profitable lines. I could see them breaking triple digits by 2030 easy
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 02:21:11 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
TSLA obv
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 04:33:58 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
TSLA
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 02:53:12 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
TSLA all the way… !!
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 02:16:58 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
TSLA
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 04:10:31 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
TSLA. MSFT, GOOG, NVDA, etc. are all good buys but if Tesla can pull off FSD, it’s lofty valuation now would pale in comparison.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 04:16:06 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
TSLA
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 05:45:41 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
TSLA is a horrible choice lmao
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 10:37:18 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
Yeah imo make a btc play.... Coin prolly the best one, but see also microstrategy square, PayPal, SoFi, TSLA, and riot if you want mining play. My personal favorite is btcr a newer etf focusing on all the companies that have btc holdings.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 03:10:52 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
China has way more leverage over Chinese companies then an American company with factories there. If push comes to shove with contradictory laws between the US and China the Chinese company will side with China, and the US company will side with America. China's government may be able to punish NKE, TSLA, & AAPL if they do stuff they don't like, but if they take too drastic action (i.e. like seizing their factories) it'll scare investors away from their economy and hurt them a lot in the long run.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Wed Dec 22 23:08:20 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
is having a 500$ split over NVDA, TSLA, FB, MSFT every month ok ? what 4 would u split the 500 on?
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 20:44:32 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
I'm really uncertain on todays action. We will touch SPY 470, IWM 225, QQQ 399 for certain. But then what happens? Also, does ARKK break 100? Can TSLA and AMZN regain bullishness? Internet money is at a moment of truth too.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 13:03:13 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
TSLA, AAPL, NVDA, AMD, ROKU, PFE, JNJ, F, WFC, AAL, ADBE all green premarket. At least some of them tend to be showing red premarket when the overall market is heading down. TSLA, AAPL, NVDA and AMD alone could make many ETF holders green.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 12:51:04 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
Personally, I would just cut TSLA out of the list, but that's my opinion.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 20:47:32 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
Is that all of your investments? That’s pretty all in on tech, with 2 of those, TSLA and NVDA, having had huge gains in the last year+. I’d pick one of TSLA or NVDA (high growth high upside), one of FB or MSFT (mature blue chip tech titan), and then diversify more. Something in financial/banking like JPM or WFC and then something in consumer retail like TGT or COST. Food for thought.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 22:03:59 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
My stocks are doing fine, I been investing for years and been in TSLA since 2011 @ $5. Like I said stocks being down 20% in a week or month doesn't mean much if they are still up 5% next day. You are still down multiple percentage. You do not call that a rally.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 15:04:42 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
Momentum trade/investing. COST, DPZ are a bit similar to TSLA in this regards. A stock that's simply loved beyond the normal 'value' metrics, or even 'premium' metrics. CMG is another good example of this.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 04:20:51 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
Another TSLA short seller…
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Wed Dec 22 09:40:50 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
For Normal calls/puts executing the option instead of selling to close will always net you less due to not recovering your premium paid. Instead you're using the contract for yourself, to buy the 100 shares, the ~$600/contract paid is gone. But, you bought TSLA stock well below the existing price so your profit is only that differential (say the contract was for $500, so each share you made $500, or 500k with all 100 shares. If you just sold to close, the contract value will have this differential baked in, including any time left on the contract, etc. This is where instead of 500k you maybe made 510k for selling the contract, or if a lot of time is available, could be more like 600k+. Even with 5 minutes left in the trading day, you'll get more for that contract than buying the stock. Obviously in the long run executing on something you wanted to add to your portfolio anyways is a good idea, just not if you're simply looking to make the most money from it. Edit: Elon was granted these options as compensation from TSLA, so the whole premium thing and contract execution is out the window. Either way he'd have to 'cash in' those shares and by selling shares he's paid for the taxes on the rest. Almost like an RSU, when a percentage of your vested shares are sold off to pay the taxes, depending how you set it up.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Wed Dec 22 12:19:18 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
>I pay 49.5% over income. Not once like Musk and then make a big stink. Every year. Why does it matter how often Musk paid taxes? He was awarded these options back in 2012, and he's exercising them this year right before they expire. You can divide everything out over the 9 years and he still pays the same tax percentage. If you force him to exercise some each year, he pays way less taxes because the actual profit that's counted as income is way less, as TSLA didn't shoot up until the last couple years. And btw, he does pay almost 50% taxes on his cashless exercise, because just like yours, they're ordinary income. The additional sales are from stock he already owned, thus is subject to capital gains. No different from you cashing out a part of your investment portfolio.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 00:49:58 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
Placed a “put” on TSLA and I break even at $905. It expires Jan 20th and I find myself checking price 50 times a day. Not good for my mental health....
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Wed Dec 22 18:04:54 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
TSLA. Gigs Berlin & Austin will roughly 2x their production over the next year, at increased gross margins
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Wed Dec 22 05:33:33 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
I wouldn't count on a MSFT split. It's been since 2003 since they have. TSLA if it keeps going is likely.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Wed Dec 22 17:54:22 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
TSLA gonna have one of those nutso 10% days isn’t it?
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Wed Dec 22 16:07:07 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
TSLA back to $1000 with a shout!
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Wed Dec 22 15:39:01 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
TSLA is mooning pre-market, probably because Elon is done selling.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Wed Dec 22 13:06:14 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
I took over my 401k and converted to IRA when I left a job I had for 20 years. This was in 2019. Since then I have had over 800% gain. Mostly I got super lucky. I had leap calls in apple and tesla pre split. And that helped a lot. Now I am all in shares of multiple NVDA, TSLA, SQ, RH, SPR are some shares I recommend. If you are not ready to retire yet and have some extra cash - buy a LEAP option in One of the top. I usually got 9-12 month out. Gives time for bounce back if slides
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Wed Dec 22 17:21:19 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
>NVDA, TSLA, SQ, RH, SPR are some shares I recommend. Hmm, most of them have narrow or no moats (except nvda). from my understanding I should look for undervalued companies with wide moats. ...yeah I know nvda is overvalued
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Wed Dec 22 18:16:06 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
We can agree to disagree. This will be my last comment on it. 1) Technological advancements increase a workers productivity multiple times greater than the loss of individuals in the work force due to retirement. An example: How much faster can we build cars now? What causes us to build a car so much faster now than the 1930's. Even if you account population growth (123M in the 1930's vs 331M in the 2020's). Its not like we only build a car 3x as fast. 2) Supply constraints are the main driver of inflation. In normal times, business would be able to produce enough to meet demand. But due to covid, several factories have been shut down for a period of time (AAPL, NKE, TSLA, etc). That's not a demand problem, that's a supply problem.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Wed Dec 22 06:45:06 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
ARKK and ARKW were (https://www.google.com/finance/quote/SPY:NYSEARCA?comparison=NYSEARCA%3AARKK%2CNYSEARCA%3AARKW&window=5Y) pre-pandemic (in other words before TSLA ran up), but sure, let's pretend that the stock market didn't exist before February 2021 so that it supports the Reddit circle jerk hive mind narrative.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Tue Dec 21 11:00:30 2021 SUBREDDIT : stocks
TSLA put holders wiped in two days Crazy
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 23:33:46 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
My only regret is not buying TSLA calls this week !(emotet5_2th524267)
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 23:01:37 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
Just saw a TSLA with the license “Put Slyr “ which one of you is it
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 23:54:03 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
I refuse to visit wsb for the next week because I don't want to see all of your TSLA gain porn. I made a little money from it but not NEARLY as much as I could have. Literally sold 900c, 950c, 1000c, and 1050c's for hundreds instead of holding for thousands. Grats and fuck you all. Merry Christmas.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 21:47:07 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
in terms of absolute market cap TSLA most overvalued domestic company of all time by a huge margin !(emotet5_2th524887)
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 04:41:41 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
TSLA 1200 by 12/31
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 00:26:17 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
I swear TSLA stock price more bipolar than my ex fuck you Heather
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 00:36:06 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
TSLA is a sh1tcoin
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 01:50:57 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
#Ban Bet Lost tiswuttis (0/1) made a bet that TSLA would go to 899.0 when it was 1004.14 and it did not, so they were banned for a week.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 21:09:34 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
NVDA TSLA AND REST OF TECH IS CLEAR TO RUN UNTIL MARCH+ RATE HIKES. To Valhalla!!!
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 00:09:17 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
I paper handed my TSLA calls today but finished the week +8k - could have been 26k but oh well. A win is a win is a win, right?
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 00:45:48 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
TSLA 1069 !! Bullish like a mofo
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 02:04:34 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
Me too. I bought 1,000 shares of TSLA in 2018, when it was $180/share (before the 5:1 split). That’s about $5 million.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 04:48:08 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
TSLA to the
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 19:01:46 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
TSLA CALL to 2500 by q2 be back with profits in 4 months
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 21:21:04 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
Today on TSLA evangelism…
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 19:41:42 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
No need to get offended, I’ll be making money with you, I think the TSLA community is cringe is all
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 00:10:59 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
Oh man if you had bought calls today this morning, instead of losing 6k you could have made like 90k. But uhhh yeah I bought TSLA calls today and still managed to lose money lol.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 02:10:18 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
TSLA puts get fucked, retard
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 03:09:29 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
How people manage to lose money on TSLA is beyond me.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 23:58:05 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
Did you have it all on TSLA?
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 23:56:44 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
I don't understand how people can mess up like this and be fine with it 🤣 SPY and qqq rallying to new ATHs and TSLA is testing the previous breakout/pivot. And you buy puts at the exact bottom 🤦🏻♂️ and hold until the exp after a monster rally the day before
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 05:23:43 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
We must be back in bull mode since people are losing on TSLA puts again.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 08:32:09 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
Dude why tf did you short TSLA!? Anyways thank you for your money - TSLA Bull
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 00:19:17 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
The one time I bought into TSLA.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 06:18:14 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
On TSLA of all things.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 22:03:55 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
I sold too early. Made $3k when I could’ve made $25,000 or something. Never paperhanding TSLA again. It just runs and runs. Congrats OP!
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 06:08:10 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
Buying TSLA calls is the infinite money glitch. I still don’t know why everybody hasn’t figured it out.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 06:22:25 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
TSLA about to rocket. Elon done selling…
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 10:00:39 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
TSLA fanboys are literally a billionaire’s bitch.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 14:40:25 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
And? He's a billionaire it's not like he's dumping shares ahead of a bankruptcy or bad earnings. TSLA is still very much on the rise. If he had waited until TSLA dipped you retards would be crying about his timing then too. You really think he gives a shit if he sells at 1100 or 900? When you have billions and multiple billion dollar companies you're not going to be concerned with day to day share price.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 13:39:35 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
TSLA has a 10% profit margins. RACE/Ferrari has a 19% profit margins. For a benchmark Toyota has 8% profit margins and Ford has 5% profit margins. You obviously do not know what you are talking about.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 04:19:52 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
Theyre catching up because Teslas tech is open source. They havent been innovative until Tesla came around, and they now HAVE to catch up. I disagree with your comments about automated driving. Its a huge incentive for those with commutes on already clogged roads. You wouldnt want to sit back and read WSB while the car inches itself forward on its own? The market is always going to want the best. You think city dwellers in a ford raptor care about its wheelbase or suspension travel? Or lamborghini owners about gas mileage? Everyone is going to want as much range as possible because people are inherently lazy. Less plug ins the better. Drive the car for a month on a charge compared to a couple weeks. Their valuation is ridiculous but if you arent buying in BEFORE the cyber truck is released, you deserve to be poor. The hype behind that vehicle is insane and once you see some influencer fuck driving it on youtube, TSLA will rocket to the moon before landing itself at that proper eval.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 17:32:20 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
TSLA has made a lot of people here big money. We love him. No true wsb member gives 2 fucks about his morals. He creates volatility which creates a nice sandbox for us to make bank. The apes hate him because he's a rich ceo and they are broke and jealous
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 14:43:08 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
You weren't here in 2019 when TSLA made quite a few wsb millionaires so your opinion is pretty much dog shit.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 14:50:37 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
I swear to god Elon should be renamed to St. Musk. I was down 170k on my short TSLA puts, had like 80 credit spread expiring 12/23 that I would have no way to take assignment. Thought I would hold and pray, thanks St. Musk for the last 2 days' bull run, they were all OTM by Wednesday. Immediately rolled them down and out to lock in profit.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 02:46:39 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
What's your cue to pull the plug on TSLA calls when they're negative, or I guess I'm asking what's your risk tolerance on them, since they often move so fast?
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 00:56:59 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
I've gained $963K on TSLA the last two days HODLing (including LEAPs). LOL, lets just say it's been an interesting year.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 05:36:00 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
That's like Cathie pointing to a couple of stocks like TSLA and laughing at people shorting those stocks while ignoring all the stocks she chose that tanked. Btw, Cramer's job isn't to make his viewers rich, it's to create liquidity so he and his friends can buy/sell certain stocks to retail traders. With the amount of tickers he talks about though, I'm sure a lot of this stock picks are just fillers.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 06:01:44 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
TSLA and AMD are the OG 1st generation meme stocks and have done very well. 2nd generations meme stocks not so much in recent months but some do look very promising. Like PLTR maybe even BB or GME if they really turn things around.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 13:21:20 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
Damn I wish I had bought 1 DTE FD TSLA calls yesterday. Was so close but expected a rug pull today
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 15:59:55 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
Damn bro. What’s crazy is that in the morning I was debating MSFT or TSLA to play today. Msft looked better but no idea why I went in tesla. But I lost money even with tesla going up 6% (even though i bought my first options when tsla was in the red in the morning lmao) so it doesn’t fucking matter.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 21:45:41 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
Naked calls on TSLA, you belong here
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 23:58:36 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
My dude. You sold 3x slightly OTM naked calls on TSLA. Ok, we’ll here’s what you do then: 1) close and take the loss. 2) roll like I described above, but make sure you’re selling the new short calls for more than you’re spending to buy back the old ones. 3) use some of the premium to buy TSLA shares, or a further OTM call, to protect yourself from more losses to the upside. Don’t sell naked calls on meme stocks that are also on the S&P anymore.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 22:49:08 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
I bought like 6 more shares of TSLA today I'm not going to lie lol. The pull is real.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 01:09:46 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
Why hold 100% gains over the weekend?? You don't think TSLA needs some consolidation after a 180pt run lol? Definitely should have rolled that into a farther OTM strike and secured profits. Personally, I bought puts for a gap down on Monday. Definitely Bullish on TSLA for next week, but there will probably be better entries on Monday. I only kept 1/21 1200c's open.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 00:29:22 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
He's ITM. Theta isn't going to affect him if it keeps running. Only concern is what it will do before open Monday. But I think TSLA sees over 1100 by Friday, there just might be a gap down first.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri Dec 24 00:37:45 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
Even I had TSLA calls this week and i've been losing money every day for weeks god bless u santa and papa musk
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 19:06:04 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
The TSLA money machine doesn't stop.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 18:18:21 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
#Ban Bet Lost hornstar91 (0/3) made a bet that TSLA would go to 1500.0 when it was 1062.4301 and it did not, so they were banned for a week.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 11:23:43 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
I’m so tempted to throw my TSLA YTD gains into 0 DTE TSLA 1050Cs at open.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Thu Dec 23 13:58:39 2021 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
2021.12.24 10:17 Extra4yylmaoNavigating BGWs and DGWs: COVID Edition (with extra FH!)
Merry Christmas everybody! Hope y'all are having a wonderful FPL season so far...Honestly, I have no idea how to start this guide this year, given that there's so many different variables and unknowns. The only thing I'm certain about is that chip strategies are entirely team-dependent at this stage, and there is no one-size-fits-all solution. People will have different amounts of chips remaining, and different players affected by the postponements too, so this situation really benefits the seasoned veterans who have at least some idea what to do in these trying times.
I have seen several content creators getting over-hyped about the extra FH chip (making videos about FH teams already?? without thinking of whether this week is indeed the week to use it), or jumping on the bandwagon when Crellin first mentioned there could be a DGW21, without properly understanding why this is the case, which resulted in what I believe is unconstructive planning.
I can't lie, planning seems almost futile, but at least if you understand the chaos, you might be better prepared for it. Having various strategies lined up in case of contingencies would also help in the event of last-minute postponements. Being able to predict which teams might have a DGW and when also comes in handy if the PL decide to only announce the rescheduled fixtures at a later date (I suspect they might want to wait till after FA Cup R3, or the League Cup SFs to decide certain games)
As such, I will attempt to break the situation down into something easier to understand. (Note that this part ONLY talks about fixture rescheduling, and nothing about chip strategies yet. If you're not interested, you can skip to the end or skip this post entirely.)
As always, I have to thank Ben Crellin for his spreadsheets, because it helps me to visualise everything better. Now, let's start off with what we DO know, and try to theorise where these matches could go. Do note that these are merely predictions, and nothing is confirmed until PL says so. (or even if they do say so they might just cancel it 3 hours before the game anyway smh)
The following teams currently have matches to be rescheduled, or will have matches down the road which will be postponed. Such matches include ones which have already been postponed by covid, as well as matches postponed due to cup matches happening later on in the season.
NOTE:The matches below are merely concerning the rescheduled matches before the FA Cup postponements come in.
Due to the FA Cup QFs being played in the same weekend as GW30, and GW30 is followed by an international break,GW30is confirmed to be a BGW, where teams which are involved in the QFs of the FA Cup and their opponents in GW30 will blank. Traditionally, around 4 to 6 matches will be affected.These predictions are founded upon 2 main rules:
To know which teams are affected, we will only know for surejust before the GW28deadline, (i.e. we have a maximum of 4FTs to plan for this) when the FA Cup R5 matches are played, although some might consider making educated guesses based on the R5 match-ups, which will be released after FA Cup R4, which happensbefore GW24/GW25.
There will also be a corresponding DGW, likely in GW36. This is termed as the 'big DGW' and it is highly encouraged by most veteran manages to save 1x WC to use in GW35 to set up 1x BB in GW36. With the extra FH and extra DGWs coming our way however, there will definitely be viable alternative strategies, which some people have already started to strategise for.
- UEFA doesn't like having league games on European nights
- PL will aim to clear these backlog of games at the earliest possible opportunity, given there will be further postponements to come from the FA Cup.
ARS:
- GW25: Chelsea vs Arsenal (Chelsea in Club World Cup, GW24, GW25 affected)
- GW27: Arsenal vs Liverpool (League Cup final)
AVL:
- GW18: Aston Villa vs Burnley (Covid postponement)
- GW20: Leeds vs Aston Villa (HUGE DOUBT given that the game is 2 days from Leeds' GW19 fixture)
One thing to note is that Villa's GW20 game against Leeds might also be in doubt due to a covid outbreak in Leeds' camp. If that game does get postponed, I reckon Villa will have a DGW in both GW21 and GW22 to accommodate both their postponed fixtures, with a DGW21 of Brentford (A) and Leeds (A) and a DGW22 of Manchester United (H) and Burnley (H).
BRE:
- GW17: Brentford vs Manchester United (Covid postponement)
- GW18: Southampton vs Brentford (Covid postponement)
BHA:
- GW16: Brighton vs Tottenham (Covid postponement)
- GW18: Manchester United vs Brighton (Covid postponement)
- GW24: Brighton vs Chelsea (Chelsea in Club World Cup, GW24, GW25 affected)
It is nearly impossible to tell which of the Tottenham and Chelsea games will get shifted into DGW22 for Brighton, as both Tottenham and Chelsea have accumulated 3 rescheduled games each. (More on this later)
BUR:
- GW13: Burnley vs Tottenham (Snow postponement)
- GW17: Burnley vs Watford (Covid postponement)
- GW18: Aston Villa vs Burnley (Covid postponement)
This leaves Burnley with a DGW21 of Leeds (A) and Villa (A) or Watford (H) and a DGW22 of Leicester (H) and Villa (A) or Watford (H) or Tottenham (H), with the remaining game rescheduled into a midweek outside of GW21 and GW22.
CHE:
- GW24: Brighton vs Chelsea
- GW25: Chelsea vs Arsenal (Chelsea in Club World Cup, GW24, GW25 affected)
- GW27: Chelsea vs Leicester (ONLY IF Chelsea make it into the League Cup final)
They cannot receive an extra game in GW21 regardless, since they are involved in the SFs. As such, I believe the most sensible play by the PL would be to move Brighton vs Chelsea into the GW22 midweek, giving Chelsea a DGW22, since it is the only game out of the three which will definitely have to be shifted out from its original GW, while the other games will go into a free European midweek.
This leaves Chelsea with a DGW22 of Manchester City (A) and Brighton (A).
CRY: (What we're doing rn)
- GW18: Watford vs Crystal Palace (Covid postponement)
EVE:
- GW18: Everton vs Leicester (Covid postponement)
As such, I think this match should go into GW21, with Everton getting a DGW21 of Brighton (H) and Leicester (H).
LEE:
- GW19: Liverpool vs Leeds (Covid postponement)
- GW20: Leeds vs Aston Villa (HUGE DOUBT given that the game is 2 days from their GW19 fixture)
- GW27: Leeds vs Tottenham (ONLY IF Tottenham make it into the League Cup final)
LEI:
- GW17: Leicester vs Tottenham (Covid postponement)
- GW18: Everton vs Leicester (Covid postponement)
- GW27: Chelsea vs Leicester (ONLY IF Chelsea make it into the League Cup final)
Looking at the above two teams, it is clear that some matches will depends on the results and postponements of other matches. (More on this later)
LIV:
- GW19: Liverpool vs Leeds (Covid postponement)
- GW27: Arsenal vs Liverpool (League Cup final)
MUN:
- GW17: Brentford vs Manchester United (Covid postponement)
- GW18: Manchester United vs Brighton (Covid postponement)
NOR:
- GW18: West Ham United vs Norwich (Covid postponement)
SOU:
- GW18: Southampton vs Brentford (Covid postponement)
TOT:
- GW13: Burnley vs Tottenham (Snow postponement)
- GW16: Brighton vs Tottenham (Covid postponement)
- GW17: Leicester vs Tottenham (Covid postponement)
- GW27: Leeds vs Tottenham (ONLY IF Tottenham make it into the League Cup final)
Spurs will not have a DGW21 since they are in the League Cup SFs. Their GW22 double will depend on several factors.(More on this later)
WAT:
- GW17: Burnley vs Watford (Covid postponement)
- GW18: Watford vs Crystal Palace (Covid postponement)
- GW19: Wolves vs Watford (Covid postponement)
Luckily for us, the two Watford games apart from Burnley are kinda separate from the mess. As such, I believe Watford will get a DGW in both GW21 and GW22, but the order is uncertain. This gives Watford a DGW21 of Tottenham (H) and either Crystal Palace (H) or Wolves (A) or Burnley (A) and a DGW22 of Newcastle (A) and one of the other games from Crystal Palace (H) or Wolves (A) or Burnley (A) left unplayed, with the remaining game rescheduled into a midweek outside of GW21 and GW22.
As Watford are against Leicester City in the FA Cup R3, there is a higher possibility they might be knocked out compared to if they were up against a non-PL team. As such, I think that the PL might actually wait for the outcomes of the FA Cup R3. Should Watford and one of these 3 teams be knocked out of FA Cup R3, the PL will have that match be the game scheduled outside of GW21 and GW22.
For reference, Burnley vs Huddersfield Town, Millwall vs Crystal Palace and Wolves vs Sheffield United are the key matches to look out for.
WHU:
- GW18: West Ham United vs Norwich (Covid postponement)
WOL:
- GW19: Wolves vs Watford (Covid postponement)
Based on the fact that Watford has 2 games outside of Burnley to be rescheduled, and Burnley also has 2 games outside of Watford to be rescheduled, I believe if all the teams make it through to the next round of the FA Cup, or the PL can't wait till so late to make the call, the following is a possible outcome:
- Aston Villa vs Burnley in GW21, Burnley vs Tottenham in GW22
- Watford vs Crystal Palace/Wolves vs Watford in GW21, the other game in GW22.
The League Cup final is held during the GW27 weekend, with the GW27 midweek occupied by the FA Cup 5th Round. The matches affected/might be affected are: Arsenal vs Liverpool and Leeds vs Tottenham or Chelsea vs Leicester
There are 4 outcomes for the League Cup SFs (held before GW22):
- Tottenham beats Chelsea, Liverpool beats Arsenal
- Tottenham beats Chelsea, Arsenal beats Liverpool
- Chelsea beats Tottenham, Liverpool beats Arsenal
- Chelsea beats Tottenham, Arsenal beats Liverpool
This begs the question, will the Liverpool double in GW22 be against Arsenal or Leeds? Let's look at the blanks and doubles from Leeds' and Leicester's POV:Scenario 1: Tottenham beats Chelsea, Liverpool beats Arsenal.
- Chelsea vs Leicester is able to go on during the weekend as per normal.
- If none of Tottenham, Liverpool and Leeds are knocked out of the FA Cup before R5, Leeds will have a BGW27. In this scenario, they have 2 games to reschedule, compared to Arsenal's 1. As such, Liverpool should get Leeds in GW22 as it is the more pressing issue.
- However, in the event Leeds and either of Liverpool/Tottenham are knocked out before FA Cup R5 (the previous round, R4, is played before GW24), the respective game can be shifted to the midweek of GW27 during the FA Cup R5, meaning Leeds might not blank in GW27 after all.
- As for Leicester, if both Leicester and Tottenham are knocked out of the FA Cup before R5, the Leicester vs Tottenham game can go into the GW27 midweek, giving Leicester a DGW27 of Chelsea (A) and Tottenham (H).
- Alternatively, if Burnley and Tottenham are the ones knocked out of the FA Cup before R5, the Burnley vs Tottenham game can be shifted into this midweek too, giving Burnley a DGW27 of Crystal Palace (A) and Tottenham (H). Then, the Leicester vs Tottenham game would go into GW22. This calls are difficult to make since we would only know the FA Cup 4th Round teams by GW22. How PL decides which game moves into GW22 and GW27 for Tottenham (between Burnley and Leicester) is anyone's guess.
- Chelsea vs Leicester is able to go on during the weekend as per normal.
- Leeds vs Tottenham game has to be rescheduled away from the GW27 weekend. However, since Liverpool has a free weekend here (Arsenal vs Liverpool game cannot be played in the GW27 weekend) Leeds will be able to play Liverpool in this slot, meaning Leeds will play Liverpool in GW27. (i.e. Liverpool would get Arsenal in GW22 as it is the remaining outstanding game for Liverpool).
- Furthermore, if Leeds and Tottenham are knocked out before FA Cup R5, the Leeds vs Tottenham game can be moved into the GW27 midweek, (if it hasn't already been played in the GW22 midweek: keep in mind Spurs have their own set of matches to be rescheduled) giving Leeds a DGW27 of Liverpool (A) and Tottenham (H).
- The Leicester vs Tottenham and Burnley vs Tottenham games would remain outstanding, and either could be played in GW22.
- Leeds would play Tottenham in the GW27 weekend as per normal.
- Chelsea vs Leicester is postponed. If none of Tottenham, Chelsea and Leicester are knocked out of the FA Cup before R5, Leicester will have a BGW27. Arsenal would also have a BGW27.
- It is possible however, that if Leeds and Tottenham are knocked out of the FA Cup before Round 5, the original GW27 game can be played in the midweek instead, and the Leicester vs Tottenham game would move into the weekend slot, giving Tottenham a DGW27 of Leicester (A) and Leeds (A)
- While intuitively this would have a similar outcome as above, in that the Leeds vs Tottenham fixture will carry on in the GW27 weekend as per normal, if you look at Leicester's list of fixtures you'd realise this is not the case.
- After the Everton fixture is cleared, Leicester would still have outstanding fixtures against Tottenham, and Chelsea, if Chelsea make it into the League Cup final (which we are assuming). Since Chelsea is unavailable on the GW27 weekend, I reckon the smart move for PL to do is to let Leicester play Tottenham in the GW27 weekend instead, and have Liverpool plays Leeds on the weekend too. This means that Arsenal would have a BGW27, Liverpool would get Arsenal in GW22)
- Similarly, if any teams with outstanding fixtures have both affected teams knocked out early, they would get a DGW in GW27.]
Since there is a chance for the Leicester vs Tottenham game to be moved into the GW27 weekend (see Scenario 4), I think Burnley vs Tottenham might be the game to shift into the GW22 midweek, giving Burnley a DGW22 of Leicester (H) and Villa (A) or Watford (H) or Tottenham (H). This leaves Brighton vs Chelsea to be the game moved into this midweek, giving Brighton a DGW22 of Crystal Palace (H) and Chelsea (H). The remaining outstanding games will be rescheduled into a midweek outside of GW21 and GW22, likely in one of the European midweeks due to a lack of other alternatives, or into a FA Cup midweek if both teams are knocked out early.
I wouldn't blame you for not reading the above, because it's all hypothetical and largely educated guesswork, but I hope it helps those wondering how these fixtures get shifted around and why into certain DGWs to understand it slightly better.
In summary, I think that the following games are likely to be added to a DGW21:
- Aston Villa vs Burnley (or Leeds vs Aston Villa if it gets postponed)
- Southampton vs Brentford
- Manchester United vs Brighton
- Everton vs Leicester
- Watford vs Crystal Palace OR Wolves vs Watford
- Arsenal vs Liverpool OR Leeds vs Liverpool
- Brentford vs Manchester United (I think this is a lock)
- Brighton vs Chelsea (could also be Chelsea vs Leicester with varying combinations for the other fixtures)
- Burnley vs Tottenham (could also be Leicester vs Tottenham with varying combinations for the other fixtures)
- Watford vs Crystal Palace OR Wolves vs Watford
Here’s a visualisation done up by u/FaustRPeggi with another set of predicted fixtures (GW22 LIVLEE instead of ARSLIV), but once again, I must caution these are merely educated guesses and nothing is set in stone until PL announces it.
AND that concludes the end of Part I. Honestly I'm trying to digest all this information myself before I can even come up with a plan on chip usage (Part II maybe?) but I think this post should help get the ball rolling for those who have no idea where to start with their chips and FTs.
I think it is possible to start planning from the idea that there are teams which are likely to have doubles in both GW21 and 22 (Burnley, Brentford, Manchester United, Watford) while other teams only have doubles in GW21 (maybe Aston Villa, Everton, Leicester) or only in GW22 (League Cup SFs). Depedning on your team, you should first decide on a strategy based on the number of players in each category, and see how well you can navigate the BGW and DGWs, along with any potential extra covid postponements.
For starters, I think what I will aim for is to get in a minimum of 8-9 proper starters for any BGW, and similarly a minimum of 8-9 DGW players for any DGW.
All the best! (and please do not reply to this post with your team and ask for ideas, I'm already struggling with my own team, thanks! Those comments belong in the pinned Rate My Team post)
Also also, before you help any other FPL manager with the transfer, keep in mind that no two teams are the same, and the players which might suit your team might not suit the others. Happy tinkering!
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2021.12.24 07:26 i_need_helpguysA look back at the 'Home' trilogy, and a defense of the MCU Spider-Man as the definitive silver screen Web-head.
I have been thinking about this a lot. Since the release of Far From Home, or even before, since the release of Homecoming. For a long time I saw every argument, every side, every meme, every attack, every defense, and every single possible take about these movies, or more specifically, this iteration of the character. I saw people argue repeatedly and incessantly that 'This isn't Spider-Man, this is Iron-Boy Jr.' or 'These movies feel like Disney Channel teen dramas' or 'He relies too much on Stark and the MCU'. And, fair enough, all of these are, to an extent, somewhat true.
He is, willfully or not, treated as the natural successor to Iron-Man after his death. The young talent, expected to lead the Avengers now, somehow, mostly because the media doesn't know their hero is a 17yo high-schooler. His movies do fall more on the teenage high-school drama side of things, because he starts at 15 and doesn't even get into college until after his third movie and sixth entry into the MCU. He does rely on Stark tech and gadgets to accomplish his missions sometimes, many times, and even when creating his own suit, he does so using Stark machinery. All of those complaints are fair, and I'll not dismiss them or brush them off.
What I will, however, is argue that these things are not flaws of this trilogy of movies, especially not of the first and second ones (since no one is arguing otherwise for the third). Instead, these are subtle and smart ways to introduce a much beloved hero who mostly stays on his own in the comics to a universe that had been going on long before him. A universe that will, for the foreseeable future and dismay of the kino-audience, continue to go on and branch off into different and wild paths. This trilogy has no proper origin movie, being instead an origin arc, told in three parts, a prologue and an interlude (Civil WaInfinity War and Endgame), and as such, the creatives behind it had to deal with the obvious matter: How do we make a friendly neighborhood hero in a global-level threat universe?
Their answer, at least to me, was deeply satisfying.
Now, long winded introduction done, what is the meat of my analysis here? What is the point? The point is to show that to get Spider-Man in the MCU, we first needed to see Peter Parker in the MCU. Makes sense? No? Oh, well.
SPOILERS from here on out. Be warned.
Peter Parker doesn't become Spider-Man until the very last scene of No Way Home. He has Spider-Man moments throughout the entire run, of course, many of them and very significative. But he doesn't fully embody the ICON of Spider-Man until he jumps off that dusty old cubicle in New York, clad in a suit of his own hand-making, in a world that doesn't care about who he is behind the mask. The Home trilogy was a long arc exploring that character until he made it here, until he became Spider-Man.
We get no bite, no Ben dying, no Great Powers speech. We find ourselves with a 6 months old super-powered kid who has no idea of how hard it is to be Spider-Man. To be a hero. To lose everything. We find him green and ready for the picking. Or rather, Tony finds him. Tony, the damaged, anxious, guilty-driven multi-billionaire super-hero, finds the pure, innocent, brave, good-hearted and very poor Peter Parker, raised by a single parental figure, gifted with powers he doesn't quite understand, and fully convinced that he has to do something with them.
His introduction in Civil War, this little prologue to our story, is the first piece in the puzzle of how you introduce Spider-Man into the MCU. In a world filled with heroes and role models, of course his first reaction would be to become one once he realized he had powers of his own. Of course he idolized Tony Stark from a very young age. Of course he would jump at the first chance to do some large scale good for the world (even if, unknowingly, he was on the wrong side).
This leads right into Homecoming. First of the Watts movies, Homecoming brings Spider-Man into a setting we never really gave him much time to be in. Both in Spider-Man 1 and Amazing Spider-Man 1, the high-school setting serves only as a backdrop to the actual focus of the movie, and they graduate him as soon as possible to get him to his next stage. Here, instead of getting a bunch of adult looking people to play as teenagers for a few minutes, we get a full-on teenage (or young adult at best) cast, a cast of bright-eyed newcomers or former child-stars that perfectly embody the energy and vibrancy, as well as rebellion and conflict, of being in high-school. We have the cringe and awkward interactions, the boring and apparently never-ending classes, the fearful romantic battles of the mind, the large-scale events, and the urge to hear the bell and get out to do literally anything else that isn't school.
This coming-of-age story is the perfect fresh take on an oversaturated market for Cinematic Web-heads. It's fresh, lighthearted, relatable, modern, and a tool to tell a very simple yet hard-hitting Spider-Man story. Homecoming is all about small stakes. There is no big threat to the city of New York or the planet, just an arms dealer putting his neighborhood to risk. Homecoming is a small movie among giant events. It is a little pocket of air among the suffocating dread of the MCU's universal scale. And to me, it perfectly captures the energy that Spider-Man needed to feel 'at home' in the MCU. A good 'ole small threat with personal stakes, and a responsibility conundrum.
In Homecoming, Peter is a naïve young man, untouched by the trauma of loss or battle. He is given a multi-million dollar suit and a chance to do good. But as any 15 year-old would, he demands to be given the chance to prove himself worthy. He wants to stand up to the legends he has looked up to his entire life, and he wants to escape the confinement of his four school walls to live in the unlimited world of heroes. He wants all of that with the eagerness of an impatient kid wanting to open his Christmas gift before the 25th. Who can judge him?
When the threat of Vulture appears, he wants to do something, not just because it is fun or exciting, but because he feels he owes everyone this. He has these powers now, and he has to put them to good use, or else. And when the stakes for him become personal, when the father of his crush reveals himself to be the enemy, he gives up the highlights of teenage life to go and be the hero he is supposed to be. What starts as a simple skirmish against a general threat gains a personal weight and gives us one of the best plot twists in any MCU movie to date, that I can remember. The sheer emotional tension of the carpool scene at the start of the third act is simply amazing (pun intended).
Here, however, the complaints begin. He is saved by Iron Man, two times, and relies on Iron Man tech to do anything. He is irresponsible and careless, but never has to deal with the consequences of his actions. While I have said these are fair assessments of the movie, they're not exactly right. At least, not when you analyze the movie more thoroughly.
Addressing the titanium-gold alloyed elephant in the room, the Iron-Boy Jr. allegations. A simple attentive look at how this film pans out is enough to prove this critique wrong. Throughout the whole movie, we see Peter struggle with Stark tech, be hindered by it, almost drowned in a lake because of a parachute misfire, have his position revealed because of a web-shooter mishandling, and absolutely fail to achieve his goal of stopping the Vulture. While with the Stark suit, Peter grows more and more self-aware of a standard he has to live up to, and also has to deal with a suit that wasn't made specifically for HIM, but for what Tony felt was the best vision of Spider-Man in his own mind.
The absolute proof of this is simply the entire third act of the movie. In one of the last scenes of the second act, Peter messes up his job, and Tony has to save him, deciding that he is not ready and taking away the suit. This initially crushes Peter, who thinks he is no longer going to be Spider-Man. However, when the duty calls, he completely ignores the time of his life to go and do the right thing. No Stark Tech, no million dollar suit, nothing. Just his old hoodie and mask, and his old web-shooters. And he absolutely saves the day, and Liz's father in the process. Not only that, we also get the Spider-Man Moment #1: Peter, crushed under the rubble, calls for help in desperation. But when no one comes to help him, he has to get himself out, and keep fighting. Tom Holland absolutely delivers in this scene, showing off his talent for intense, emotional outbursts and genuinely vulnerable moments. We get Spider-Man Moment #2 not too long after, when he saves the life of his foe from his self-inflicted fate.
The other most common complaint about this movie is the lack of consequences to the character. That is also only a superficial conclusion of the movie, that can be easily dispelled by the fact that he is suffering the consequences of being Spider-Man throughout the whole movie. They're just not huge, life-changing consequences. He is missing out on his best years. Memories, good times, parties, friendship, competitions, he gives up on all of that to go and be Spidey. A movie with small stakes has small consequences on his life, but those are definitely felt in the long-term of things. Just because he got his suit back by the end, doesn't mean he hasn't lost anything. Peter Parker will never have a normal school life. We take for granted just how much we get when we are teenagers. We have much more freedom, much less weight on our shoulders, and don't have to deal with any life-altering choice until we're done with school (normally). Peter doesn't have that luxury. He witnesses in Liz the clear and palpable effects that being Spider-Man will have on his life. They will range anywhere from missing the Homecoming Dance to having your mother figure killed. But it's a slow burn.
Spider-Man Homecoming absolutely nails Peter Parker. A young, green and inexperienced Peter Parker that doesn't automatically grow into Spider-Man by the end, but gets one step closer. A new and fresh Peter Parker that wasn't explored before. A Peter Parker we could only have within the MCU, who has heroes and aspires to be like them. And now he'll get the chance.
Infinity War and Endgame will try and wear Peter out. They will throw him in space, face him with intergalactic threats, make him experience death, and when his death is reversed, after losing five years of his life, make him witness the brutal sacrifice of his idol. Then, with the core Avengers dead or gone, Peter will be seen by the world as the most likely heir to the mantle that Iron Man embodied. Because of course he will. He was brought in by Iron Man, had Stark tech with him, and the world had yet no way of knowing that he was, in fact, a kid from Queens. Add that to the stress-inducing routine of being Spider-Man, and even I need some vacation, sheesh.
And so, Far From Home brings us back down after the euphoria of Endgame. How can we even care about small scale stakes and local threats when the world has lived through 5 years of half-earth. The 'blip', as it's called by the people who don't know about the snap or the details of its effects, has completely changed what is even considered a threat by the world. And this is where Mysterio comes in. Mysterio is not an actual world threat in any form. But he thrives on passing as such to the general public. Or rather, thrives on passing as a hero facing these world-ending threats. This take on the old villain is borderline genius, and a very welcome modernization of the classic spider-foe to the MCU. Of course it's holograms. Of course it's Stark related. Everything in this universe is. But despite having their origins tied to Stark, both Vulture and Mysterio are inevitably Spidey villains.
Vulture begins his weapons contraband business because of Stark, but he is never against Stark directly. He simply has his origins tied to the aftermath of Avengers 1. Mysterio, on the other hand, is very personally related to Stark, but in his death, transcends a mere hate skirmish to become the next hero. To try and take the place of his old boss. But Stark's legacy as a hero is within Peter, and as such, he is the main obstacle in his way. Here, despite being given powerful Stark tech to use, Peter doesn't win the day by using an army of drones, or any EDITH arsenal at all, but his own Spidey-Sensetm, which he struggles with the whole movie, as his powers falter and shift due to his weariness of being in the mantle of Spider-Man, or maybe even, as some theorize, due to relying too much on Stark tech. The entire arc he goes through in this movie is about him being more than just the next Tony Stark, and at the same time, not needing to be anything more than just Spider-Man.
Crushed under the weight of the hero world, Peter needs to take some vacation. But being Spider-Man, there is none. He is not reserved the small pleasures of a high-schooler. He now has to deal with a legacy he didn't ask for, a power he is not yet ready to have, and a responsibility far too great for the shoulders of a 17 year-old boy. And yet, he moves on, forward, facing with these problems as they appear, trying to navigate the new circumstances of this post-avengers world. This is not only something no Spidey story had done before, but also something only a Spidey story in the MCU is capable of pulling off.
Carrying on the theme of coming-of-age, setting Peter in an inevitably alien environment (Europe, as far as the web-head goes, is further than space), making him deal with unsurmountable pressure, and then closing it off with the worst possible aftermath of things: Peter's Identity being revealed to the world, Far From Home executes something entirely new with the character, while facing the main critiques of this iteration head-on in a smart way. It presents not only one of the best villains of the big screen iterations, but also a new take on the themes that Spider-Man 2 presented, and a meta-commentary on the future of the MCU as a whole. It pretends to have huge stakes when they're actually still pretty mild, although much much larger than in Homecoming, and much more personal too. But it serves only as the entrée for the final chapter in Peter's journey to become Spider-Man.
The climax of this movie gives us a few different Spider-Man Moments. The first, Spider-Man Moment #3, is when Peter uses the Stark generator to create and tailor-make his own suit, according to his knowledge of what he'll need or not. A suit designed by him and for him, one that doesn't need wheelchair A.I. or thousands of weird web-combos that he never uses. Instead, it is filled with intelligent tools that he can count on to face the specific threat ahead of him. While it isn't sewing his own costume, it is another step towards becoming his own thing in this universe.
Spider-Man Moment #4 is when Peter is out of webs, out of gadgets, out of ways to reach Mysterio by his own powers, and very hurt from battling an army of drones. He uses his inventiveness, his resourcefulness and his skill as Peter Parker to climb his way up to Mysterio. Finally, when he gets there, we get Spider-Man Moment #5: The Peter-Tingle scene. I think that clip speaks for itself.
Far From Home is not without its problems, especially the overly humorous tone of the entire movie, that hinders the more emotional moments. And still it is absolutely worthy of standing among the Spidey Hall of Fame as a good movie, that explored a new and unique side to the hero. Even if you don't like some of its choices, it has absolutely no business 'breaking' you or making you sick, and definitely isn't a misstep. It sets up everything we need to see our good old Spidey come out with a bang.
Peter Parker has now known loss. He has know also what it's like to sacrifice parts of his life to be a hero. But now, he has to know what it's like to really lose because he is Spider-Man. It's time to bring in the pain.
In No Way Home, they finally put the Man behind the Spider-. But not before allowing all of his consequences that were pilling up in the back to catch up to him all at once. With his identity revealed and his name slandered, Peter Parker has to deal with the worlds undivided and definitely hostile attention, as he struggles to lead his normal life and keep his newly formed relationship with Michelle Jones. We see him facing legal problems, but even worse, being treated not like one of the Avengers who saved the world, but as a menace, a threat, hunted by the media and scoffed at by most of his peers. Peter Parker is now a phenomenon that far overshadows the figure of Spider-Man. That inversion is the center of the conflict that will directly lead into his downfall.
Spider-Man was always meant to be a symbol. That's why living a personal, regular life while carrying the mantle of the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is nearly impossible. It's not just a moment or two of his life that he is sacrificing. Peter is dealing with the complete loss of his privacy, the total absence of normality, an image stretched and distorted by myths, hoaxes and falsehood spread by the maniacal J. Jonah Jameson, and worst of all, he is directly causing damage to the livelihood of his friends and loved ones. Be it May, MJ or Ned, or even Happy Hogan, all of them are suffering in one way or another for having done the right thing and helped him be a hero.
Tired of being a weight on the lives of his friends, he appeals to Doctor Strange, irresponsibly trying to add parameters to a spell that wasn't made to me change recklessly. And the consequences of this one fatal mistake immediately catch up to him as he attempts to get his friends into college. He now has another mess that he caused, and has to deal with. However, faced with the conflict of sending these villains to die, Peter does the very Peter thing, and directly goes against Doctor Strange to try and save these guys from their 'inevitable' fates. Here is where his final transformation into Spider-Man finally begins. He has to use his knowledge and quick thinking, with a little bit of help from Norman, to help the villains with their problems, as to avoid their deaths upon their eventual returns. The second act of this movie, culminating on the death of May Parker, has some absolutely incredible moments. The use of the spider-sense in this movie is great, and that one scene in the condo stands out incredibly for its clever use of dolly zoom, a sort of front-facing perspective that follows Tom Holland around, and a sound editing that absolutely nails the feeling of danger and tension.
And then there's the line. I'm sorry, THE line. Marisa Tomei delivers that final speech wonderfully. The mood of the entire movie completely shifts. We get a moodier, darker, somber look at the effects of Peter's choices, scaling up with each movie, from the small, everyday sacrifices of his teenage life to the final, ultimate sacrifice of his own existence. He has always been playing the balancing act, creating a barrage of problems that piled up, until it all broke down on him at the same time. He couldn't keep getting away with it. This build up, this slow crescendo of stakes, consequences and sacrifice, is something none of the other stories achieved. They all started, for better or worse, too big. Spider-Man faced his nemesis on his very first movie. The Amazing Spider-Man saw his world shattered by the second. None of them really took the time to slowly build up the process of becoming Spider-Man. It was a switch. They either weren't, or they were fully.
Tom Holland also absolutely nails his role as Peter Parker, the progressive growth in maturity, from the starry-eyed 15yo to the almost cynic, grieving, desperate 17yo boy who just lost the one person who had been and would be there for him always. He was never so alone, never so lost, never so hopelessly crushed by the weight of the mantle. Except he wasn't alone. Right at the moment of deepest darkness, when it all seemed over, Peter found himself. Two of himself, to be precise. He looked back at each version of himself that had been, the older and tragic Peter who could not save his own MJ, and the even more mature and wise Peter, who lost his best friend after being unable to save Norman. The two of them will lend their hope, lend their experiences, share their pain with Peter, so that he may become the best of them. So that he can undo the mistakes they committed and give these guys a new chance at a life. A new chance at being better.
In this final third act of his third chapter, Peter sacrifices everything, so that Spider-Man may remain the figure it needs to be, not overshadowed by his own personal image, not stained by his reputation, not hidden behind the face that wears the mask, but a symbol that can truly embody anyone. Peter now knows loss, suffering, and above everything else, he is ready to sacrifice everything in name of that Responsibility that he now knows he has and is able to take on.
The entire third act is a Spider-Man Moment, the best and last of them. From here on out, there is no shadow of Iron-Boy Jr., no 'zero-consequences Parker', no humorous kid from Queens. There is only the symbol of hope, courage, perseverance and responsibility that is Spider-Man.
In this origin trilogy, we get to see a boy who has it all turn into a man who has truly lost everything, and yet, is ready, and more than that, willing to put on that mask again and be the hero we need him to be.
The MCU Spider-Man is now a clean slate. He will receive a new creative team, a new director, a new vision, and a new purpose. He no longer has to fight the status of newcomer, outsider or intruder in the MCU. He is at home. And now, he can truly go wherever he needs to. I don't know the future of Spider-Man. I don't know what we have in stock in the following two years. But I do know that, wherever he goes next, we are in for yet another series of heartwarming, heartbreaking, heartmelting, heartchilling events that will take us up and down, swinging around the streets of New York and the world.
With Sam Raimi having finished work on Doctor Strange, and Jon Watts moving on to create the new and improved Fantastic Four movie to close off Marvel Phase 4, we can only hope that, perhaps, somewhere in Kevin Feige's and Amy Pascal's collective creative brain, an idea is brewing. An idea that may very well be what the Web-Head needs after coming back home. A good old face to pick back up where he left off, a fourth installment, but this time without the headache that was dealing with the aftermaths of Spider-Man 3. And Avi Arad? Please get the hell away from this. Thank you for nothing.
If you read all the way here (God, I like to write, apparently), thank you. Please, respectfully, add your own opinion to the comments, as I'd love to hear why I'm completely wrong. Or completely right. Either way, stay strong, true-believers! Excelsior!
2021.12.24 06:39 PurpleSpaceSurferam I engaged? 💍 let’s talk ep. 7 Recap
Screencaps can be found here. Warning: this video is long as hell. Proceed with caution. Also, I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas/Happy Kwanzaa/Happy Holidays! submitted byPurpleSpaceSurfertoAmberlynnReidYT [link][comments]Start of “Let’s Talk” Episode 7. Amber begins by showing us that her shirt is in fact no stained, but rather the splotches are part of the design. Next, she addresses the scratch on her arm. As she was putting away clean dishes, her arm scraped against the corner of the cabinet door. She claims that her skin was hanging from the cabinet (Ew). Afterwards, Amber claims that the audience is complaining that with the manner of her editing her videos currently, the videos themselves feel “less personal”. She says that she will be editing the videos to be less choppy than usual. Question: People continued following you after you went viral on YT because you provided content that involves drama - similar to that of a reality TV show. Without that drama, there isn’t much to watch. Low key, the weight loss content is irrelevant… Response: Amber has felt this way for a while now, and feels vindicated that someone took the time to write out this comment. She says that weight-loss content gets far less engagement than “trolling” or “trainwreck” videos. She notes that it’s frustrating that those videos are more popular, but teases that more drama may be coming soon. Amber also takes the time to thank all the viewers who’ve stuck with her through thick and thin. Question: Why did you make a mockery of ADHD in multiple videos by clearly pretending to get distracted for the camera? Response: Amber doesn’t know what this question means (of course she doesn’t). She claims to have never pretended to get distracted on camera, rather she blames her short attention span for her on-camera distractions. She says she has “a lot” of symptoms of adult ADHD, and is in the process of looking to be assessed for ADHD. Amber says she’d never make fun of someone else’s mental illness when she has her own mental illnesses to worry about. Question: I want you to admit - just ONCE - that you treated Becky like absolute SH*T after the breakup. Response: Amber admits to being heartbroken after the breakup. As a result, she said some harsh things to Becky that shocked her upon a rewatch of the post-breakup livestreams. She says she was performing some “mental gymnastics” (the only exercise she gets, let’s be honest) to make Becky feel some of the pain that she was experiencing. Amber admits to having gone through a stage of anger. It angered her that Becky would propose to her in the beginning of the year, only to break-up with her a few months later. Amber believes she doesn’t feel anger a lot (Sure), and she goes through her aggressive episodes without realizing the gravity the words she spews have. She notes that she has apologized Becky for the nasty things she has said. Question: On Thanksgiving, did you eat the six meals? Response: She admits to craving a meal on Thanksgiving. The only restaurant open was selling meals in family-of-six sized portions. She claims to have not eaten all the food, throwing away approximately 70% of it (I hope she’s lying, because that’s a fucking waste). She was trying to stay on track with her calories at the time. She consumed one plate around lunchtime and one plate for dinner, and that was it. Question: Has Question: Have you recently seen or spoken to your oncologist? Response: Not recently. She notes that she sees the oncologist approximately every six months. She has to make an appointment soon. She says she is “anxious” in a good way for the appointment. While she knows she cannot truly be “cancer-free” until she has been in complete remission for at least 5 years, she feels that she is cancer-free in her heart and her gut. She notes that she had moments before her diagnosis that she felt she had cancer. Amber claims to still posses a text message she sent to Becky a month before her cancer diagnosis. This text message was sent while the pair were staying at Becky’s sister’s house, and Amber said that she thought she had uterine cancer. Becky responded to this by saying they needed to get Amber to a gynecologist. Amber believes that your body can sense when something is wrong, and since her hysterectomy she not only has felt like a completely new person, but that feeling she previously had is gone. She describes the hysterectomy as feeling like something “disgusting and poisonous” was removed from her body. She notes that she has been extremely lucky in regards to her cancer diagnosis and the oncologist she has been receiving treatment from. The oncologist also performed her hysterectomy. She then reads some comments under the question, which she says make her sad. This comment in particular upsets her: “Ambie doesn't live in the REAL world...you can tell from her 'story' she hasn't experienced cancer. Most of us believe she had PRE-CANCEROUS cells and due to ACTUAL cancer RISK at her weight the doctors explained she should have a hysterectomy.” Amber says that this comment is false, and she wishes it were true. She reminds us of her diagnosis (Stage One Grade B Uterine Cancer). While she is grateful it was caught so early, it was not precancerous cells (she notes that she wished it was precancerous cells). In the beginning of her treatment, the hysterectomy was an option (along with a pill to stop the cancer from growing, albeit without a 100% effective rate). After the options were presented to her, she had a CT scan that revealed the cancer was worse than initially thought. They informed her that the hysterectomy was the only 100% effective option, but noted that they didn’t want to force her to have a hysterectomy at 29, for fear that she would later regret the decision, should she ever want to have children. While she admits it “sucks” she can’t have kids, saving her life was absolutely worth it. She attributes the hysterectomy for giving her the ability to be talking to us at the moment as a cancer success story. She also notes that some of the comments are also comparing her cancer to a commenter’s sister’s cancer. The later had tons of test and procedures, which Amber says also happened to her at the start of her cancer treatment. She again expresses her gratitude that uterine cancer is so easy to treat, and says that if the cancer hasn’t spread, no further treatment is necessary after the hysterectomy (e.g. no chemo or radiation). In Amber’s case, the furthest the cancer has spread was the uterine muscle. Question: I want you to admit Eric & Ricky still live at the house. Response: No! They all were evicted from the house and had to find new places to live. Amber and Becky moved out approximately one month before Eric and Ricky. Due to the hysterectomy, Amber wanted to be moved into a new place with everything unpacked ASAP. (Personally, I believe Eric and Ricky still live at the old house. Especially since Becky just uploaded a video where they hung out with E+R at a holiday parade in Somerset, which isn’t far from Monticello). Question: The rumor that you have all of this stamina now, so with that said, put a camera on yourself walking twinkie by YOURSELF with out SPEEDING up the time. Response: Amber likes to make time-lapses of her walks to hide the fact that she gets out-of-breath, and also to prevent the video from being overly long and boring (She notes that the last video of her walking Twinkie was 31 minutes long! Imagine sitting through that…). The time-lapses are a compromise, but they have led to rumors being spread that Amber doesn’t have as much stamina as she claims to (She probably doesn’t to be fair). She understands that it’s hard to believe that a woman who once could barely walk for a minute can now walk for 31 minutes, but reminds us that “bodies do change”. While she acknowledges that she could be losing weight faster, eating better, exercising more, etc., she is proud of the progress she has made thus far. Question: Do you ever feel bad that you’ve completely messed up your body? That even if you lose weight your body will be irrevocably destroyed and you will never live the life you want? Response: Amber will live the life that she wants, thank you very much! She acknowledges that she feels bad that she messed up her body and will never have a normal body, but says that’s not the point. She would love to be attractive, and has come to terms that she’ll never fit the conventional beauty standard. However, she says as long as she’s healthy and loses enough weight to travel and see the world, that’s all that will matter. It frustrates her that people make weight loss about shallow things (such as loose skin), and she says she’d rather look gross but be healthy than look gross and be unhealthy. Question: Do you plan on still doing weigh-in videos in 2022? (Note: I scrolled the entire community post and couldn’t find this comment. So she likely made this one up). Response: While Amber will still keep us up-to-date on her weight-loss, she will no longer be posting weekly Wednesday Weigh-In videos. Therefore, December 29th’s Wednesday Weigh-In will be the very last one (How will we ever cope?) Question: Are you engaged? Response: Despite many viewers pestering her, Amber is not engaged. Final Question: My husband and I are having a debate about your chicken nugget situation type deal. You said you only eat the outside of the chicken nugget. I think that means you only eat the outer perimeter and leave the middle with the breading in place. My husband thinks you only eat all the breading and leave the chicken.Can you please end our debate ?? Response: Amber says this is a funny question, before explaining that that she’ll eat the skin around the perimeter of the chicken, as well as nibbling off the skin from the top and bottom of the nugget. She’ll then throw away the unbreaded chicken nugget away (Again, this waste pisses me the fuck off. I really hope she’s lying/trolling here, because wasting food like this is disgusting). Before ending the video, she lets us know that a car may be in her possession within the next month or two. She dreams about driving herself to Target, comparing it to a mini-vacation (what a sad existence she lives). She notes that many viewers have requested shopping videos, and she understands where they are coming from. Amber owns up to the staleness of the latest content, saying that the combination of her lack of a vehicle and the worsening COVID scenario makes her wary of leaving the house at all. She hopes that 2022 will be a better year for everyone. End of the video. |
2021.12.24 06:31 CitrineGhostConstruction POH Rework Suggestion Outline (buckle up cause I almost hit character limit)
(Disclaimer: I haven't reached 99 in construction and I play rs intermittently so I might be missing certain features that have been added in regard to other newer content. If I am, please tell me and I'll amend the post. I scanned the wiki page for anything obvious and didn't spot anything.)So construction used to be a really useful skill, right?
As the social elements of the game have fallen by the wayside in favor of XP gains, the POH has become almost entirely useless. This has been further exacerbated by the increase in TH access and the addition of portable workbenches. Even if the old method of training via running between the bank and POH were insufferable, it at least gave the POH purpose and encouraged people to build more than a few key rooms.
So, I suggest a future rework of the POH to bring the construction skill back to life and make it a useful and actually enjoyable skill once more. Of course, Jagex does everything in their own time and old content rarely gets the attention it deserves. But, if they were willing to put in the time and effort to rework mining and smithing, I hold out hope that they'll consider the same treatment for other outdated skills.
Below, I'll break down the main ways I think construction (mainly the POH) should be brought up to date.
To start, construction should be given a 120 level cap. This would allow for more content with better benefits, as well as allow us to lock some of the more powerful content I'll suggest below behind a higher level req.
The focus of the POH, because of the addition of other construction training methods, should be entirely about building your house and not training the skill. Even ironmen can train using contracts and through making flatpacks in the POH workbench. The POH should be entirely about exercising creativity and building a personal space for oneself and their friends, where they can benefit from the work and money put into training construction.
- Access Pt1
Because this rework suggestion is focused on making training through the POH less relevant, the first step is to change the way it's accessed. I suggest we add a Homing Stone that allows for a left-click teleport to the POH. It would hold a certain number of charges and could be held in the pocket slot. If the current POH portals remain, the Homing Stone might hold 16 charges. If the portals are removed, it would hold more like 30 charges. When it runs out of charges, it can be recharged with a tier 90 lunar spell that uses a lot of runes or by paying the Estate Agent (who keeps a stash of Homing Stones that his wizard friend charges up for him (or we can introduce a new wizard NPC related to construction)).Having an npc charge the Homing Stone costs somewhere around 50-100k, making it a gold sink. The Homing Stone can also get upgraded twice to have a larger capacity - once at level 40 and again at level 70. These upgrades would have a fee. The capacity of the Homing Stone would increase for convenience, but the cost to recharge it would also go up proportionally. The recharge spell would still work but would have to be done multiple times (e.g. if the base capacity of the stone is 30 charges and it's been upgraded to stage 2 with 60 charges, the spell will give it 30 charges each time it's cast).
More on the Homing Stone in Access Pt2
One of the biggest disappointments about the current POH is its appearance. While you can update the appearance of your house, ground, and environment as you level up, the appearance options are all sorely out of date. The appearance of the segments of your home should look more like the modern areas in the game. While some of the fancy shapes, such as the corners of this building in Catherby, https://i.imgur.com/Kxif8ws.png might not be feasible for the POH, the textures used on the walls and such should be.
Take these two buildings from Burthorpe, for instance:
https://i.imgur.com/IRueIPN.png
There are two different stone textures here that look great, as well as the Tudor appearance of the upper story on the left. The roof texture is also really nice. For comparison, this is how current POH textures look on one of the better style options with a roof:
https://i.imgur.com/X3P15sq.png
The appearance doesn't seem to have been updated since the skill came out.
Building a POH is currently extremely limited. I believe it's because of the huge limitations in how a POH can look and feel that more people don't build them for fun. There's no room for individuality and creativity. As it stands, building your POH is just a painful series of filling in holes with predetermined furniture. There's nothing at all fun about it and the end results look the same for everyone.
This is especially true of the furniture styles. If you want a house that doesn't look like crap, you have to go with mahogany or teak, meaning everyone's furniture looks exactly the same. Not to mention, all of the rooms are perfectly square and each room type only allows doors on predetermined walls.
To fix this problem, we have to change how a POH is built from the ground up.
- Introduction to Building
The first step to making the POH fun to build, look at, and use, is making the design process more of a sandbox.When you show up in your POH for the first time, you should be placed on one of the outer corners with 4 hotspots next to you: one for a Planning Table, one for a Workbench, one for a Shed, and one for a Toolbox. Before you can start building your actual house, you have to build these hotspots.
- The Toolbox & Shed
The Toolbox is pretty much exactly what it sounds like - a place to store construction equipment. The Toolbox has preset storage spaces (comparable to the Tool Leprechaun) that will be used for holding Paint (more on this in Crafting Furniture), Planks, Nails, Gold Leaf, and pretty much anything else used regularly in construction.Anything added to the Toolbox must be in item form and cannot be noted. However, items can be removed from the Toolbox as notes. Therefore, the player is still required to bring planks and such to the Toolbox in many inventories, but can then craft within the POH without interruption or can remove items en masse to sell them. This maintains the balance of the current construction training speed while making the actual building part less tedious (not having to switch constantly between running and building, as well as not having to plan ahead for exactly what piece of furniture you're building next).
The Shed will be for storing furniture. Its purpose will become clearer in Furnishing & Decorating.
- Learning Designs
Once your Design Station is built, you can left click on the Planning Table to begin learning designs. Similarly to how invention allows you to discover new invention designs, the planning table will allow you to 'design' new piece of furniture. The designs will all be predetermined, since making custom items would involve a shitload of item IDs. Each design you learn gives you a set amount of XP.The planning interface would have a dropdown for different types of items:
- Structure (Walls, doors, windows, stairs, second floors, basements, etc.)
- Woodwork (Tables, chairs, etc.)
- Masonry (Fireplace, altar, fountains, etc.)
- Facility (Sink, keg, games, etc.)
- Skilling (Any of the skilling facilities listed in Skilling Areas)
- Decorations (Props)
- Structural Design
Right clicking on the Planning Table reveals a Build Structure option. Once you've learned the design for a structural element, it becomes available in the Build Structure interface.The Build Structure interface takes up most of the screen and has the appearance of a piece of graph paper sitting on a desk. On the right are the structural options you've unlocked through learning their designs at the Planning Table.
At level 1, you can only learn walls, doors, and windows, leaving stairs and such for higher levels and leaving complicated things like second floors and basements for higher levels and with the requirement that you purchase an expensive blueprint.
Because the POH yard is still a grid, like all of rs, it perfectly lends itself to basic building design without needing to limit ourselves to square sections for rooms. The graph paper on the Structure Design table will have exactly the amount of tiles as the POH yard. Any tile with furniture on it, such as the planning table, will be colored in grey. You can place walls, doors, and windows alongside these, but cannot place things like stairs on top of them.
From the Build Structure interface, you can select a structural element on the right and then start designing. Selecting 'Wall' would allow you to hover over any of the graph paper lines, the length of a single tile, and show a ghost of where the wall would go. Clicking will place the wall.
In this window, all placements are unofficial until selecting Build. You'll then get a warning, asking for confirmation that you want to use x number of materials to construct your home. When confirmed, the window will close and place the new structural elements, removing the used materials from your Toolbox.
Each structural element is a different color on the blueprint, allowing you to easily see which lines are walls, windows, or doors. Doors can only be placed between two pieces of wall, and windows can only be placed on top of walls. You cannot hit Build and close out of the window without your room being a closed loop of some shape or another. For those who don't like doors, an arch design can be learned.
All pieces of a structure can be moved freely even after they're built. However, removing them requires destruction, as they cannot be stored.
Here's an incredibly shoddy example of the kind of visual I mean (I did this in 5 minutes in paint, I'm not here to be a UI designer. Obviously in the game it wouldn't look like trash.)
https://i.imgur.com/Yb8M6lk.png
When a closed loop is created, that area becomes a room. More on this in Rooms.
- Crafting Furniture
Now, the fun part.To start, furniture will now be crafted as items. All flatpacks will be converted to the item form for that particular piece of furniture.
Furniture will be level locked by item type, meaning you can build any type of chair at level 2 or 3 (whatever level you end up at after building the design station and learning basic structural designs). The limitation is that fancier or more complicated designs must be obtained through buying blueprints from various NPCs or by earning them through quests or favors (more on this in Favors). There is also a limitation in using Paint.
Paints are created using Herblore and are untradeable. Less desirable paint colors will be craftable at lower levels, and more desirable ones at higher levels. Introducing Paint as a customizer for furniture allows people to use whatever design they want for furniture, while still encouraging them to train another skill in order to further customize.
Paints can be applied in Solid Color or in Accents. A Solid Color piece of furniture will be completely painted, whereas one with Accents will have decorative markings painted on as well as have hardware painted (e.g. a nightstand with a painted knob and leaf pattern on the drawers).
In addition to Paint allowing customization of wooden furniture items via herblore, crafting would also come into play. Certain pieces of furniture, such as rugs, blankets, curtains, and so on, should be moved to the crafting skill. This seems like a natural integration, since pieces of furniture are now made as items, instead of in the POH hotspots.
If a player builds a bed in their home, the bed item will only account for the frame. To add a blanket (and a mattress that's kind of just included in the blanket item), they'll have to buy or craft a blanket using the crafting skill, needle and thread, and as many bolts of cloth as are necessary. The blanket can then be dyed using standard dyes, like can be bought from the witch in Draynor. The same process is applied to other fabric/woven items. Small, single-bed blankets can be crafted at lower levels, while queen-sized blankets will require higher levels.
- Furnishing & Decorating
Furniture can be placed anywhere inside the POH. There should be no more Building Mode, because there should be no more hotspots, aside from the ones used to create the Design Station. Furniture can also now be moved and picked up, meaning you won't have to destroy and rebuild things to move them around. Any furniture, as items, can be stored in the shed.Shed storage space can be increased by paying the Estate Agent at certain construction levels, when the expansions are unlocked. Alongside the level requirement for expanding shed storage, there will also be a level requirement for number of placed furniture items. This is to make up for the removal of the room number cap/level requirements.
Instead of using hotspots, you can left-click a piece of furniture in your inventory to Place, then hover the mouse over a tile to show a preview, use arrow keys to rotate (allowing the 8 cardinal and diagonal directions), then left click to place in that position on that tile.
Alternatively, for easier mechanical development, furniture could be placed using the Build Structure interface (perhaps, if using this design, renamed Design Home, to be more generalized). Placing furniture with the interface would allow access to any furniture stored in the shed.
Any furniture with a function will be usable so long as the side of it marked as functional is placed next to an accessible tile, including if it is sitting diagonally toward a corner of an accessible tile.
Another important note is that there should be more decorative items. Resources/models from other areas of the game can be reused in this case. Decorative items could include barrels, crates, rocks, haybales, functionless chests, etc. Just as importantly, there should be fences available to build.
- Rooms
In the Build Structure interface, when walls create a closed loop of some shape, they become a room. Rooms can be selected within the Build Structure interface and moved around the yard, rotated, etc. When moving a room, if separating it from another room with a shared wall, you'll have to use materials to add any additional walls necessary for the move.You can also select entire rooms and click a Store All option, to put all furniture contained within that room into your Shed.
Training Construction will work, largely, like it currently does. You can build furniture items the way you currently build flatpacks, you can do construction contracts, and you get xp from building furniture and structural elements in your POH.
Adding paint to a piece of furniture will reward Crafting xp, as it's more of a creative endeavor than a constructing one.
You do not get XP from placing furniture, moving existing elements, etc.
- Favors
Favors are a mechanic added to the game to allow players to earn blueprints to new furniture designs (such as a fancy rocking chair that looks nicer to some people than a basic, 4-legged, wooden chair).Favors will function like a combination of Achievements and Slayer Tasks. For each blueprint locked behind a favor, there will be an NPC that needs, you guessed it, a favor. When you right click an NPC in need of a favor, or talk to them and select the favor dialogue, they will tell you what they want. The favor could be anything from bringing them a certain amount of noted items, using a skill to do a task for them (such as using hunter to catch a wild kebbit that keeps eating their garden), or performing an action, such as lighting a beacon, replacing a broken window, or what have you.
Favors should be attached to NPCs who have a piece of furniture which can be built in the POH with the necessary blueprint. These pieces of special furniture may be new designs added during the rework. For example, that fancy rocking chair could belong to Gertrude, whose favor and quest are one and the same, or there could be a fancy lamp blueprint available from one of the goblins in Dorgeshuun.
With the addition of the Shed, servants will now put materials directly into the Shed, allowing up to 28 items to be transferred at a time, regardless of how many things are in your inventory.
- Servant Payment
Unless something has changed without my notice, servants currently function by carrying loads of materials for you and will occasionally ask for a payment every some odd number of trips, dependent on which servant you have.Instead of dealing with intermittent requests for money, the player should be required to build Servant Coffers before hiring a servant. This chest can have money added to it, similarly to the coffers in Miscellania. This will allow the player to determine how much they want to pay ahead of time and then request servants fetch items for them without interruption.
Payments will then be taken from the Servant Coffers per item and not per set of trips. When the Servant Coffers run empty, or empty enough to not cover a complete trip, the servant will then notify you, asking if you want them to do a partial trip, or wait until you've topped it up.
- Additional Servants
Alongside the typical butler-type servants, there should be additional servants available to hire from other areas of Gielinor to help with POH skilling areas. A player can only have 1 of these servants at a time and they will be fired if the skilling area they belong in is destroyed. They can be rehired later if the area is rebuilt.- The Leprechaun Farmer
- Any babysitter farmhand available from Manor Farm
- Mischievous Fairy
- Goblin Fisherman
- Ali the Chef
- Jack the Pyro
- Carver
- Maverick the Mage
- Finney the Falconer
Now! Let's move on to the benefits that should be added to the POH!
In order for the POH to be used, it needs to have benefits to the players. Otherwise, people won't go there. Hence why people only use them for Gilded Altars and Portals but nothing else.
So, to make the POH beneficial to use, we need to add more skilling and social content as well as perks for using that content over others. The trick is to make sure it's not too powerful while still making it powerful enough to appeal to one set of players or another.
The two primary ways to make this work are by adding dual level requirements for building skilling/resource areas, and by adding buffs for doing content as a group. But, before we get into that, we need to address in-world content accessibility regarding banking.
- Banking
To make skilling in the POH useful, we need to make bank access a thing. One can teleport between their house and a bank - such as in Burthorpe - but tons of teleporting can be a huge buzzkill when skilling.To make banking more accessible in the POH, we should add a Deposit Box furniture item at level 99 and a Bank Chest furniture item at level 120. The catch is that the deposit cannot be placed within 10 tiles of a skilling resource, and the bank chest cannot be placed with 20 tiles of a skilling resource. Thus, you need a high level to add your own banking options, but you cannot abuse those options once you have them. Having your own personal skilling areas is beneficial, but not game-breaking.
To make skilling at your POH a positive influence on the Runescape experience, we need to reward doing group activities there, while doing little to encourage solo/bankstanding activities there. For example, if we were to simply give a buff to all skills done in the POH, combining that with the ability to add a bank chest at 120, people would just go stand all by their lonesome at their POH bank chest, meaning a ton fewer people out in public spaces, meaning encouraging solo play and causing damage to the social aspect of the game.
Therefore, solo skilling in the POH should have no buff, but simply provide more options for skilling. Buffs should be reserved for social skilling (more about that in Social Benefits).
All skilling areas should require level 70 in the related skill as well as in construction.
Each player is limited to only 2 skilling areas in their POH
(this means skilling areas for 2 skills, not just 2 items. For example, a stocked larder and functional stove are one skilling area). If they want to build a different one, one of the existing two must be destroyed. Destroyed skilling areas that contain items, such as animal pens, will transfer the contents to the bank. If the bank is out of room, it will notify you that you have no room and refuse to destroy.- Farming
When a player has the necessary levels, they should be able to build their choice of either an allotment patch (including flower and herb patches), tree patch, bush patch, or mushroom patch within their POH yard. The patches will not be ready for planting until you have added 500 unnoted compost to them. You can use regular compost, but will only be able to plant things below level 70 in the patches. Using super compost will allow you to plant anything you'd normally be able to. A compost bin can be built as a piece of furniture but will count as a skilling area.POH Farming will allow you to hire The Leprechaun Farmer as an additional servant. The Leprechaun Farmer does not need to be hired for your lots to be auto-composted. However, they will need to be hired if you wish to more easily store compost or exchange tools and you can pay them to watch your crops. The leprechaun will take payment from the Servant Coffers for every stackable item added to storage (e.g. transferring tools is free, but adding ten new compost will cost ~50gp a piece), for every piece of produce exchanged for a note (10% of ge value), and for every patch with crops being maintained. The crop-watching fee is in addition to any standard produce fee and scales based on the level of the crop (e.g. potatoes are 100gp to watch while watermelons are 5k and a magic tree is 20k).
When you reach the Expert Farmer rank in the POF, as well as have the required farming and construction levels, you can add a holding pen to your POH. This counts as a second skilling area, separate from the standard farming skilling area. At level 70 of both skills, you can build a small pen, at 80, a medium pen, and at 90, a large pen. You can only have one of these pens at a time and they can be used to hold whatever animals are appropriate for the size. Animals cannot breed in these pens and you cannot add totems to them, but you can use them to collect produce and offload POH crops into the feeding trough.
You can hire any of the babysitter farmhands available from Manor Farm to watch your animal pen for you, but as long as they're your personal servant, they cannot work for you at the POF.
- Woodcutting
Up to 3 choppable trees can transplanted to your POH yard by buying them from the gardener in Falador Park (who also sells potted plants and such) for a hefty price. These trees behave like any other choppable tree in Gielinor.When adding a woodcutting area to your yard, you can hire a Mischievous Fairy to help you with your pest problem. The Mischievous Fairy will fly around your woodcutting area and occasionally spot a bird's nest and knock it out of a tree. This leads to a 20% increase in bird's nests appearing. This buff cancels any other bird's nest buff, such as the one from having a rabbit's foot.
- Firemaking
A Cozy Bonfire can be added to your yard. This bonfire is much bigger than the one you build with a set of logs and has a fancy, brick border that you can customize to your liking.To build the Cozy Bonfire, you'll have to add 500 unnoted logs to it. You can add logs of any kind, but can only burn up to the level of logs used to build it (e.g. if you build the bonfire with Yew Logs, you can later burn anything Yew or lower, but not Magic Logs). You can only build a Cozy Bonfire with logs that you can already burn with your current firemaking level. However, you can pay Jack the Pyro a hefty sum to use noted logs of any level to build your Cozy Bonfire for you.
You can use the Cozy Bonfire to dump logs cut from your woodcutting area or use it once you've unlocked the Bank Chest furniture item. The Cozy Bonfire allows you to dump logs like any regular bonfire, but doesn't turn to ash, functioning more like a portable brazier without the built-in boost to xp.
You can hire Jack the Pyro to stoke the flames for you, which gives the Cozy Bonfire the same stat boost you can gain from standing by a regular bonfire. He'll store noted firelighters for you as well and, for 1k a piece, he'll toss them in if you ask him to. The color will last for 10 minutes. You can ask him to keep them going for a certain amount of time to avoid requesting them over and over again (e.g. you can ask him to use green firelighters for an hour and he'll use up 6 of them to provide continuous green color to the bonfire). This can add some fun to social firemaking sessions while giving firelighters a more prolonged use.
(Note: Jack the Pyro's actual name is unknown. People call him Jack after the first wizard and inventor of Fire Strike, who appears in Meeting History.)
- Fishing
A fishing hole can be added to your yard in the form of a pond. A pond is purely decorative unless you manually stock it with fish or hire the Goblin Fisherman and pay him to stock it for you. To stock the pond with enough fish to reproduce indefinitely, you'll have to put 500 unnoted fish of whatever variety you want to catch into the pond. If you would rather not do 20 trips to your pond from the bank, you can give the noted fish to the Goblin Fisherman and pay him a fee that scales based on the level of the fish and he'll cash in at the bank and haul them there for you.You can, therefore, have a pond that spawns fishing spots for all standard fish, provided you're willing to put in the legwork or pay the dues. However, only 3 fishing spots will spawn at once, so if you want to fish only high level fish, you'll only want to stock the pond with those you want to catch. You can remove a certain type of fish from the pond by paying the Goblin Fisherman to fish them all out for you, but the fine is steep.
When the Goblin Fisherman isn't doing management duties for the pond, you can also buy Tattered Feathers from him(untradeable feathers used for fly fishing), and sell him your fish at General Store rates.
- Cooking
Cooking in your POH kitchen should be much easier, so the larder would become a store-like interface where you can right-click take whatever ingredients you could get from a current larder. The catch is that you have to stock the larder with 100 of each item, unnoted, before that item is unlocked, and the larder only holds 300 of each, which takes 6 hours to restock once taken. Additionally, the items available to take from the larder are untradeable versions of the standard ingredients and cannot be banked.An unstocked larder does not count as a skilling area, whereas one with at least one store item unlocked does. The stove will be functionless unless 'lit' with 1k fire runes, at which point it becomes a cooking skilling area.
You can hire Ali the Chef to assist with your cooking. For a small fee, he will process ingredients for you (e.g. he will instantly make you untradeable pie shells, using stock from the larder) or help you salvage burnt food (turns burnt food into the unburnt version for 50% of the food's ge price, but does not reward you the XP you would have gotten from cooking it successfully.)
- Mining
You can add 3 mining rocks (of the same type) to your yard, with at least 2 tiles between them. To add the rocks, you first have to build a -Ore Type- Rock Quarry and then mine the quarry successfully 500 times. By successfully, I mean you will get XP from mining it, but will not get any ores. The XP is lower than you would get by mining whatever ore is being uncovered, but the success rate is the same.Once the quarry has been dug out and the stones have been uncovered, you can hire Carver, who will walk around the quarry with a shovel and occasionally find a gem for you, raising the chance to find a gem while mining by 15%. This buff stacks with any other gem rate affecting buffs.
Rocks in your POH yard will also get a new rockertunity 5% faster than rocks found elsewhere.
- Smithing
You can add a forge to your POH or yard using 500 unnoted steel bars and 1k fire runes. The anvil is a piece of furniture built separately but has the same level requirements and also counts as a skilling area.When a forge is added, players can hire Maverick the Mage. For roughly 40k per hour, he'll cast fire spells into the forge, making the heat drain out of any smithing project 15% slower. You can pay Maverick 10k for 15 minute increments. You can pay him for as many as 12 hours, which will continue to drain if you leave the area, but will pause if you lobby or log out.
- Hunter
A falconry pen can be added to the yard by building the pen and buying an extremely expensive falcon from the falconry center in Eagle's Peak. You'll also have to lure in some kebbits by building a Kebbit Mating Hole. This is done by digging a hole, decorating it with branches (adding 50 unnoted logs), and filling it with 50 unnoted bait, appropriate for the type of kebbit you want to lure there. Once this is built, 3 kebbits will appear and respawn as usual.A different type of kebbit can be added to the pen by using a tinderbox from your inventory on the existing mating hole to destroy it, giving you a small amount of firemaking XP and scaring off the current kebbits, then building a new mating hole with the appropriate bait for the newly desired kebbits.
Finney the Falconer can be hired to attend to your falcon when you're not around, which grants you a 10% boost to your catching success rate when hunting with it.
- Agility
Finally, you can build your own agility course. You can choose a variety of different obstacle types to build your course and place them however you desire. You start by learning basic obstacles, but can obtain blueprints for obstacles with different appearances or unique functions by doing favors for agility trainers. No matter what your obstacles, the obstacle XP and course bonus will sit just below the xp given for the highest level course you can complete elsewhere.In order for your course to give you a course bonus, it must have at least 7 obstacles. The course bonus will get slightly larger with each obstacle over 7, up to 10 obstacles. You cannot place more than 10 obstacles. Courses can be compact, in one area, or can extend around the perimeter of the house. No matter how you place your obstacles, the course will work as one and give you a course bonus once all obstacles are completed in the correct order. Courses can also use up to 3 of the same obstacle, but your chance of failure increases if they're all in consecutive order.
When you right-click on an obstacle and hit Configure, you can select what number obstacle that is. Configuring an obstacle will reset your progress on the course to avoid configuration messing with course bonuses. By configuring all of your obstacles, you can ensure they're in the right order and make sure course bonuses aren't interrupted or defaulted to the order you placed them in.
You can hire the Talent Scout to watch you run your course to get opportunities at The Pit while training there. If you pay him 10k for 15 minute increments, he'll shout advice at you while you train which lowers your chance of failing an obstacle by 30%.
Finally, we've hit one of my favorite parts of all of this: the social benefits. All of these skilling areas that I just lovingly handcrafted in my heart and served to you are not intended to be done by yourself. They are simply vanilla ice cream, and your friends are the chocolate syrup and sprinkles. A person's house is their hangout space. Hanging out there alone is fine, but inviting people over is magical - especially when you get an XP boost from it.
To balance the boosts offered by socializing in the POH, the POH would have a 10-person cap unless boosts are turned off in house settings (allowing people to host large parties but stopping 100 people from boosting each other).
So, let's go over the ways a POH rework could encourage people to socialize
- Access Pt2
With social benefits comes some new information for POH access. Let's return to the Homing Stone. That was 10 years ago, I know. If you remember, the Homing Stone will offer limited teleports to the POH. The teleport is left-click, but a player can right-click and Use the stone on another player. That player will get a message in chat, like a trade request, offering to teleport them to your house. This will use a charge from the Homing Stone, but will make friendly gatherings at someone's house much easier for everyone.- Combat
The combat available in the POH is pretty limited to the boxing ring, iirc. We should expand this by adding non-staked duel areas. They would function the same as right-click duels, but you could configure the duel area to add limitations, and whoever wins would get the appropriate amount of xp. To prevent/limit XP farming by bots, a player can't partake in a duel without 48 hours of total playtime and a minimum total level of 500. They also must have verified their email.This can make dueling with friends feel like less XP waste and more rewarding. Winning duels might also offer a chance at a new pet drop to encourage social combat.
- Games
Games should be expanded upon and modernized. I think the games that are already in the POH are fun, but there could be more variety. I'm not familiar enough with their mechanics to expand on them myself.- Group Skilling
And, last but extremely far from least, group skilling in the POH. All of the skilling areas listed above are beneficial to any solo player, but work best in groups. If one person has a high level in construction, their friends can join them at their house and take advantage of any skilling area or bank access available there.When a group is skilling together at someone's POH, there is a 1% XP boost from everyone actively skilling. If someone stops skilling for more than 60 seconds, their 1% drops from the group buff, and if the owner of the house stops skilling for more than 3 minutes, the entire boost drops to 0.
The boosts active only apply to the skills with skilling areas in the house. If you leave the house, your buff disappears. If you try to do another skill in the house, like fletching by the bank chest, the buff earned from mining doesn't affect it. However, if there is a woodcutting area and a mining area in the house, the boost earned between the two is combined. So, if half the group wants to mine and half wants to do woodcutting, they can do so while still maxing out the boost to 10%. The boost is not a radial area effect, it affects the entire POH area.
With the 10-player POH limit while boosts are active, that means friend groups can get XP boosts equivalent to those obtainable from pulse cores without having to use up pulse cores.
To ensure balancing and improve the integrity of this benefit, I feel it's important to prevent constant house lending. Currently, people will advertise their houses as having a gilded altar and stand around idling, fletching, or chatting in fc or cc while tons of strangers pop in and use their altar for entire days. While this isn't a bad thing, my goal with designing group skilling in the POH and expanding on the benefits of using the POH is to encourage actual socializing and not just leeching someone else's resources while effectively doing so alone.For that reason, with this setup, someone can only benefit from and contribute to POH xp boosts if:
- They've been mutual friends with the POH owner for at least a week (one party unfriending the other for at least an hour resets this timer, so accidental unfriends don't reset it, but a constantly changing friends list for house-sharing will)
- Have verified their email address
- Have at least 48 hours of playtime
- Have at least 500 total level.
I don't feel like this XP boost system is unbalanced when you can just as easily stand at the ge in w2 for 5 minutes and get the same boost to last for 10 minutes after. This system just incentivizes hanging out and skilling with friends to get those boosts instead, not having to use up pulse cores, and also works with skills that aren't possible to do in the ge, such as gathering skills, which are less likely to be boosted by pulse cores since trees are spread out and bankstanding isn't.
- Tipping
The one feature that house-lending has invented, which I think is great, is tipping. Even within a friend group, I think tipping someone to say thanks for hosting a group skilling party is really fun. For that reason, I think a furniture item called a Tip Jar should be buildable. It can come in a variety of appearances, but has the same function. People can left-click to open an interface like a deposit box and deposit anything from their inventory into the Tip Jar. Each item will have a confirmation, to ensure there's no accidental dumping of valuables.Homeowners can left-click the Tip Jar to view its contents and select Collect All or Bank All, or remove individual items. A tab at the top of the interface would allow the owner to view all collected tips, like a loot interface, showing the entire history of Tips as a collection.
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2021.12.24 01:54 ZhunBeiHeLiaoBaCan non-students study at the Oxford University Language Centre?
Normally, I would assume that this isn't possible. However, the section on enrolment says the following (https://www.lang.ox.ac.uk/russian#collapse1754006)For Learners without an Oxford University SSO, or who are not members of the University, please email admin@lang.ox.ac.uk with the following details:
- Full name
- Email address and phone number
- The name of the course you wish to study (including Stage and Part)
- The start date and time of the course
- Your connection to Oxford University, if any (to determine course fee)
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2021.12.24 01:34 johnsonjake245Ex gf trying to say she resented me while together and we weren’t dating for a certain time.
Back in January I met my ex. We were in the talking stage for about a month before we started dating. When I met her she was also talking to a guy long distance she met online. I asked her about him and she said we’re not dating he’s nothing I met him online and I’ve never even met him. Me being naive and stupid just let it go.
Anyway, one night I confess to her I love her. She tells me she loves me too and we had a conversation about us and it ended with us dating starting that night. She still texted the other guy all the time and again me being stupid let it go. We got into a drunken argument one night (details not important) and she blocked my number. I tried to apologize to her by going to her house and trying to talk and I even wrote her a letter. She didn’t care.
2 weeks later she texts me that she misses me and wants to talk. I agree. However, that night is a Saturday and me and my buddy decided to go to a bar. She also happened to be there. I didn’t go up to her or say anything, I figured it’s best not to talk to her until we meet up. I notice there’s a guy with her. I watch from afar and this guy leans in and kisses her. I kept my cool didn’t say anything and still planned to meet her and I’d tell her what I saw there.
I meet up with her 2 days later, and she says it was a rebound, I’m willing to cut him off if we can be together again. I reluctantly agree and she said she did it. We dated for about another month and then out of the blue she breaks up with me. We have a talk a few days after and we agree that we’re not dating but if either of us does anything with anyone else we’d both be very disappointed and upset. And we still saw each other daily and did things SO’s would do.
At the end of the month I have to leave the state for the summer, so we went long distance. She’s from a place near where I was so she came to visit family a few weeks after. She invited me to her family’s house and I stayed for a week with her.
While there, she tells me the long distance guy and her no longer talk and he blocked her. She also confessed the guy I saw her kiss was the long distance guy. I was deeply disturbed but I thought well they no longer talk so I have nothing to worry about now. We officially dated for a while after that and everything was good.
We’ve been broken up for a few months now but never lost contact, I still love her and I was trying to win her back for a while. She gave me intense mixed signals and never really allowed me to let go (not that I wanted to anyway).
Recently we had a talk and she claims throughout our time together she resented me, among other things, because she claims I made her feel forced into a relationship. That makes no sense to me because she wanted just as much as I did. She was never cold and everything seemed normal. She also said we weren’t dating before I left the state and she was dating the other long distance guy (which I knew she was on and off with him, but mostly off because she was dating me, unless she was dating both of us at the same time and I didn’t know).
I then said so basically to you I was a second option and a side piece and she said it’s not like that.
How else could it be if she claims we weren’t dating, but I also wasn’t a side piece? I know we were dating and she knows it, I’m not sure why she’s trying to act like we didn’t and act like our relationship was terrible and she hates me now, because she doesn’t.
I’m no longer speaking to her and I’ve started no contact.
I just want to know why she attempted to lie about everything and think that’s okay? Is there a reason some exes do things like this and act like they never loved you in the first place?
2021.12.23 22:03 officialpacer1Joshua Lane (S1, E1) 'It Never Helps' (Part 1) - Series Premiere
I am a very successfully unhappy person.
I feel emotion, don’t get me wrong. I feel a great sadness when innocent people are unfairly treated to an early exit from this world. Though, let’s face it. None of us are truly innocent of everything. Regardless, no one should be sent out of this existence for a crime far less worthy of such punishment than something else, and that makes me sad.
But when confronted with this somehow common occurrence, I find myself also feeling a pit of anger boiling up knowing that someone has managed to evade the justice they so deserve for an action far more deserving of it than others. Those scum of society deserve the punishment they actively laugh at not having to serve, even if someone has to work around the law in order to pick up what the courts managed to drop.
Unsurprisingly, that manages to bring on a flood of disappointment and shame, knowing that there are people in the world far less funded by the American government, thus the American people, that can and have to do what the law lacks the guts to.
Everything needs to be proper, and everything needs to be clean. Everything needs to be dressed up from head to toe and look spick and span, and yet those clean-shaven faces of what’s wrong with society often dress to such a lavish degree because they hide a grimey truth far greater than those they look down upon. People that have done far worse than what others have been sent to the electric chair for, and yet convince themselves to believe that they can justify their actions are the people that need to be taken care of in order to allow change to begin taking its course.
I take great pleasure in knowing that there will be a day in which those people are taken care of by whomever it may be sporting the courage to do something about this injustice. And at this rate, it’s probably the only hope I have at finding true, unbridled happiness.
[ . ]
“He is truly a revolutionary individual, capable and able to do literally anything he needs to do in order to make things right, and see things return to order.”
Ass kissing at its upmost finest.
“Who would’ve known a man half my age would be running the show above me, huh?”
If the platinum gray hair wasn’t enough to get the point across, the subtle hostility and vigor of not being able to follow in his father’s footsteps due to my unforseen rise to the top sure helped move the needle along.
Following, or trying to follow in the footsteps of the late Jeremiah Duane was the end goal the now not-so-young Warren never realized was unable to be achieved purely by telling people what they wanted to hear.
When confronted with executives sold on the idea of removing VeroSoft Industries from public trading, Little Warren simply nodded his head and hoped for the best, only to find his reluctance to use the word “no” sending the company into ten years of crippling, near-insurmountable debt.
“When you can bring a company back from the grave of financial ruin before some people your age can figure out how how a 401k works, you tend to find yourself in high favor.”
There’s something you’re spot on about, Warren. When Good Ole’ Papa Duane looks down on you to such a degree that you’re not even redeemable enough to have dinner with the rest of the family, you know damn well there’s no chance you come anywhere near being the kind of man your father was.
You’ll never find his success, regardless of your last name. And you’ll never share his same level of accomplishments…
“I’d now like to welcome him to share the stage with me.”
… But you do share his love for making and distributing child pornography… And THAT, Warren… Is quite the example of grimey truth.
“Allow me to present, the Youngest CEO in VeroSoft Industries history, Mr. Joshua Lane!”
I hate bright lights, and I hate banquet halls. Yet here I am, in a banquet hall with a bold, ridiculously oversized spotlight aimed directly at my face.
Standing from my seat, the applause is more annoying than anything. All he said was my name and one characteristic about me, a characteristic that, may I remind you, isn’t even the most interesting characteristic to me, and the crowd erupted like the end of a good movie, attempting to shower the cast and crew with appreciation for the masterpiece they had a hand in crafting.
I’m far from a masterpiece, and this movie is nowhere near being over, despite how much I would like for it to be. But if doing this helps me accomplish what I desire to do, I’m willing to go with it and put on a smile I have too little experience to make look genuine.
“Thank you. It’s only fitting that the man who put us in the hole introduces us to the man that took us out of it!”
Crowd laughs, it’s the easiest bait. Like a worm in a pond over-populated with fish, you know everyone will bite if they can. Again, I’m willing to go with it. Especially if it helps me refund the unsubtle pedophile zinger from earlier.
Anger-infused smile plastered across his face like wallpaper, we all know he’s got a fire burning in the pit of his soul right now just as he knows he can’t piss off the man that signs his checks.
“In all seriousness. This company is more than I can give it credit for, and this year has proven more so than any before that we’re still capable of so much more.”
If I have to be forced to put on a suit and act proper, I’ll be honest… VeroSoft isn’t a bad place to be stuck in. I’ll give credit where credit is due to be given, five central-locations in five major American markets isn’t exactly the worst case scenario. Don’t even get me started on the salaries… Those numbers… They take care of a lot of unneeded stress.
I know it sounds like I’m in love with this place, but I’m not. Truly, I’m not. There is a ton wrong with society, and a good portion of that ton hides behind our walls. But with every place in the world I could land in consideration… This wasn’t the roughest landing I could have crashed into.
“The market for technological advancements has never been more open than it is now, and the perception of it has never been stronger. The world we have chosen to set our feet into has unlimited room to grow going forward, and so does VeroSoft.”
“The only way to go from here is forward, and going forward… We’ll only get better.”
A round of applause… Not as meaningful when the mention of someone’s name sets it off, but still holds weight regardless. At least I know I didn’t alienate anyone, so there’s a plus. It’s always nice to be able to easily gauge the impact you’re leaving.
“Well, look at you!”
I never expect to turn around and like what I end up seeing, but… I almost never expect to turn around to you…
“Quite the raving speech you gave up there Mr. Short and Sweet. What was your inspiration?”
Ah, yes… Miss Eliza Bradburry, the only person I have failed to find out enough about to understand whether or not they are the good or the bad that society offers…
And I don’t think I mind… At least, not just yet.
“Making sure the stupid fucking spotlight shined on my back instead of in my eyes was a good starting point.”
I don’t usually like cursing… It doesn’t scream professionalism. But with you, I feel comfortable not knowing what purpose you offer the world. It’s nothing bordering on attraction, don’t be mistaken… But just as there’s a beauty in disappearing into the middle of everything, there’s equal beauty in finding stability in beds with the sharpest of nails.
“You’re quite the looker without hunks of plastic covering your eyes, so I’m in the camp of guessing that’s a fair inspiration to have. If only I could’ve found you sooner.”
Is that… Flirtation? I mean, I know I have more money than I care to admit, but were the past nine months that you’ve been here just been the initial steps in getting yourself closer to it? Is that the kind of person you are, Eliza? Have I figured you out? Have I unintentionally cracked the code to the way you live your-
“Too bad I don’t like dick”
Nevermind.
“Do you need a ride, Eliza?”
Joking around with you is fun. I’ll be the first to admit, I don’t have many people I can feel some sort of free around, so you’re refreshing. The more time I spend with you, however, has just made me think about what your secrets are more and more. It makes me think about myself and what I am.
Why do I claim to be fine with not knowing who you are, only to try harder to figure it out than I have with anyone else? I mean, Warren brings folders of young kids set up in precarious positions into work every day on a flash drive. All it takes is one little glance to know what kind of sick bastard you’re dealing with when around him. But you’re a different story, Eliza. You’re gorgeous. You’re successful. You’re alluring to the point where you can entrap anyone into a conversation for hours and they wouldn’t once mind. You’ve declined dates from men all around the office, and the same applies to the women. No one has seen your home, no one knows your family, and I’m sure there are people that don’t even think your name is Eliza.
Why am I so fascinated, yet so complacent around you, E?
“I’m alright, but I appreciate the offer. I’ll see you on Monday, though?”
Of course you’d decline, I wouldn’t expect anything less. To offer, though… It’s at least courteous.
“Definitely”
Maybe. I might be a little busy to say the least.
“Great, talk to you soon.”
Watching you walk away is like heaven. Legs of a goddess and yet arms waving at your sides exuding confidence in every stride. You’re a combination of ferocity in charismatic bliss and the human form of lust. It drives me crazy that I can’t figure out who you are, and yet it’s easier for me to sit back and accept it than to dig for the truth.
Maybe not knowing everything about you gives me the ability to be free so much so to the point that losing that ability would strip myself of one of the only outlets I have to vent… Or even truly exist for that matter.
“Josh!”
That voice makes my skin crawl, but knowing that yours sags like watery paint slowly gliding down drywall makes it a little more bearable.
“Way to upstage me, earlier… It was quite the crowd pleaser!”
Warren, if I needed someone to tell me the crowd was receptive to the repetitive sludge I was spewing like a sewer grate, I surely wouldn’t trust someone of your intellect. I’m sure you wouldn’t be able to find a way to get a crowd to laugh even if it hit you over the head.
“Yeah, wonderful speech up there! Really sent the investors home happy!”
And I see you brought Sir Fuckwad along with you! Not many people can be caught committing tax fraud multiple times and still find a way to be promoted to President of VeroSoft Industries, but you Mr. Alec Cerine are the exception to that formerly crucial rule. Well done you vindictive bastard, well fucking done.
“I’m appreciative, Alec”
I’m not.
“You have no clue how happy that makes me”
It doesn’t.
“Thank you”
Fuck you.
“Happy enough to grab a drink out a LeMirage?”
Never in my life have I wanted to punch someone in the face and run in the opposite direction than I do now. Drinking with an elderly pedophile and a near-middle aged misogynist at near one o’clock in the morning is just about at the bottom of my bucket list.
“I would, but we’ve all been drinking all night. It’s only a matter of a drink or two before the night becomes a blur”
And by that, I mean take the hint and save yourself the trouble.
“I have no problem with that”
Of course you don’t, Warren. Of course you don’t.
“If it keeps me from being yelled at by the wife, then neither do I!”
Which one, Alec? The fifth or sixth one? Or maybe you went back to the third again, I’ve simply lost track.
If you can’t take the hint, I’ll hand it to you outright. I don’t want to go anywhere near you unless work forces me to.
“I’d love to”
God fucking damnit, wrong fucking words, Josh… Wrong fucking words.
The smell of privilege coats the walls of this upper class establishment like a damp rag. I’m starting to understand why this place is called ‘LaMirage’... Everyone sitting here hides a dark underbelly with a wealthy front. They wear masks to hide the fact that they’re irredeemable, but only they are too oblivious, or perhaps too stubborn to accept the fact that no matter the lies they tell themselves, they’ll never amount to anything good, let alone what they desire to become.
“So you find yourself at a crossroads having to choose between doing what’s good or doing what’s less than favorable. If the good action damages all you’ve come to love, and the unfavorable action only serves as the sacrifice you have to make to ensure everything works in the way it was planned to, why sacrifice all you’ve worked for just to spare your morale a kick below the belt?”
How fitting of you, Alec. A man that’s been married more times than the moon has been explored, and has sacrificed more livelihoods than reality television has ruined for the smallest of rewards is giving me a lecture of the importance, or lack thereof, of the human morale. How weak.
“Strong words, Alec.”
He’s been looking at me all night long, staring daggers into my soul knowing that I notice. All night long, he’s known and he doesn’t care. He’s trying to tell me that he’s either figured me out, or he’s close to doing so. The problem is, there’s nothing to figure out about me. I’m an open book, I just keep the pages contained within my mind. I don’t like sharing them. It’s too much for the world to deal with.
“What do you do outside of work, Josh?”
What makes your so interested, Warren? Why do you care what my out-of-suit activities are? You sit there, smugly sipping away at aged bourbon younger than yourself acting like you are. No one believes that you do, but I’m sold on the idea that you’re somehow too self-centered to be self-aware enough to notice it. Let’s see if it’s possible to get through to you.”
“I’m sure we can all agree that’s nothing you care to hear about, Warren.”
“Pretty much” he says, hysterically laughing through sips as Alec and Josh join in, though less emphatically.
Swing and a miss.
“How about you and Eliza, Josh?”
Well that’s a foul ball to the face I never saw coming.
“I’m sorry?”
He’s brandishing this sadistic smile, almost like he could get off of this if he were alone.
“You and Eliza. You’re always hanging around each other… And it’s not so secretive that neither of you have a significant other to, let’s just say, maneuver around.”
I’d rather not use that terminology, keep it to yourself.
“We’re acquaintances. Nothing emotional. Nothing physical. Nothing more than conversational.”
Bullshit.
“Bullshit.”
Hmph, maybe Warren and I can get on the same page every now and then after all.
“No one sneaks around to have a conversation the way you guys do.”
“Warren’s right, everyone knows how many eyes are on that chick. You’re residing in a special place for her. She’s dropping everything just to talk to you.”
Okay, fine. I’ll admit that there is a chemistry that I have with Eliza that I don’t share with anyone else. I appreciate that chemistry, and I’m better for it. There’s nothing off limits besides the things that most acquaintances, dare I say friends, consider off limits. It’s a mutual respect for one another than any normal person has. Why should I be any different?
“There’s nothing going on between the two of us. I can guarantee you that.”
Warren’s nodding only further implies he doesn’t believe a lick of what I am saying, and Alec’s refusal to acknowledge my response by going back to sipping on his drink implies the same. I’m not getting anywhere in this conversation. I think it’s time to cut my losses and figure out a way to the front door and onwards.
“Well I think I’m about ready to call it a night and head out. Thanks for the drinks. I’ll see you in the office on Mo-”
“Wait!”
Goddamnit, why can’t Warren stop trying to impede my progress to where I need to go?
“Where do you need to be so hurriedly at two in the morning? You’ve got no wife, no kids, and you’re always claiming to never sleep. What’ve you got to lose in having one more shot with us?”
Perhaps my consciousness, Warren? I know I’m not exactly your selected demographic, but I do know when I’m being bated in. Even if I have to be blunt and, quite honestly, a little suspicious… I know how to get myself out of a corner.
“It’s two in the morning, man. I’ve got things to do. And I would be remise if I said I didn’t like losing my Saturday’s over sleeping in.”
He’s not going to let me go that easily.
“What things to do? Fishing with the high school buddies?”
End the night on a laugh and duck and cover the questions.
“Yeah, it’s the perfect excuse to dump a few bodies beyond retrieval. Can’t lose that!”
Everyone’s laughing. Good. They’ll let me head home now.
“You have a good evening, gentlemen. I’ll see you bright and early next week!”
“Alright, Josh. Take care, drive safe.”
Bingo. I’ve swiped my card and opened the door to escape. Catch you on the other side, assholes.
2021.12.23 21:42 sward1990How do I talk about sex?
2021.12.23 19:51 Aceinalator5 year love story to my issues today, skip to the 20th paragraph to see what's going on now
August 20,2016 - Sophomore year has just started and the year starts off with me being single but with a good group of friends, I was with them every day and hung with them alot, I played football as well and that was starting, 1. English, 2. Health, 3. Study Hall, 4. Science 5. math, Lunch, 6. Drafting and 3d design, 7. Psychology 8. Another study hall, and I get to 4th period, Science class, after a seating chart was made I realize I have a few friends around me and nothing special happens, I go through the rest of the day and that was it.
September 1, 2016 - I'm in my Study Hall class and it's study hall early in the morning and I start looking around, and I see her...sitting on the other side of the room, light black jacket, short small and skinny, beautiful brunette hair, and that's when I knew I liked her, the bell rang and I tried to get to her but she was zooming out of there lol, so I go to science and as I'm walking by I notice her locker is right outside science, I saw her changing out books, but because I wasn't mentally prepared to talk to her I went into class and sat down, then she comes through the door, it was at this point where I saw she doesn't smile alot, bags under her eyes, and it look like she was crying, I felt bad, then once again she sat on the on the other side of the room, and I would glance over at her to get a better look, then before the end of the class, I look over one more time and I catch her looking at me.
September 26, 2016 - We have been looking at each other in the study Hall and science classes, and on this particular day my science class was making a new seating chart, so when I got there, I made sure I was like a teachers pet lol, the science teacher, asked if I could do the seating chart, my heart raced and I said yes, so I got to do a seating chart on one of those promethean boards, I knew her name which we will call her CC, her nickname, anyway I made it so that she was sitting sitting in front of me, and a few of my friends around me as well, but sadly I don't mister up the courage to talk to her for 2 weeks.
October 8, 2016 - after school I go to Facebook and find her name, I message her...'Hey?' And a few hours later I get a message back from her, we started talking and turns out she is in a relationship, but a bad one.This guy would not let her talk to her friends unless he is there and would always supervise her phone so that she wasn't talking to anyone, idk how he didn notice me but idk.
March 28, 2017 - (Also this day is my birthday)CC and I have been talking for awhile in text and In school, turns out this guy she is with raped and rapes her alot, and I feel so bad for her that I tell her she needs to break up with this guy or it will not end well for him or you, and I'm not gonna let him touch you anymore, I confront him about it, now this is guy is not normal, he is a twig has anger issues, long hair and knifes, I'm more of a stronger guy I work out and play football I'm a bit taller than him, well at lunch I go up to him and CC and her friends are all around, I tell him to leave CC alone and he said I can't tell him what to do, I'm not asking, after everything you have done to her you should be in jail or in the ground, but that isnt my decision, CC asked and begged me not to hurt him, so I said I won't do anything unless he touches you or comes after me, which is what happened I was 3 feet away from him with CC in the middle, when I noticed he had one hand reaching for something in his back pocket, I tell CC to move out of the way and as I do he pulls a pocket knife on me, I push siadie out of the way and next thing I know a knife is in my stomach, and my fight or flight response kicks in I elbow him and knock him up against the wall he swings and hits me but it didn't phase me, I grab him by the neck with my left hand and I start beating him senseless to the point where my knuckle was like an operating table, with blood running down his eye, ears nose and mouth, I get pulled off of him by some teachers, turns out one of CCs friends went to get a teacher, we both go to the hospital and he gets suspended for the maximum amount of time and I get detention for 10 days, turns out teachers didn't believe he the story of what happened...
April 1, 2017- CC has left him and told me she wants to be with me, I tell her I want to as well but give it a few days so its not a rebound and we wait but for the first time ever she got to actually live, I saw her smile and laugh with people and start enjoying everything, it was the best feeling in the world.
April 19, 2017- CC and I start dating and it was amazing I got to her to laugh,smile, and took her on a date as well lol, before she told her parents we were dating she told her fam I was a gay guy who was taking her to a birthday party lol. Life was good.
July 28, 2017- The day I lost my V-card, she told me she had these feeling for me, and wanting to have sex with me so bad, so I caved in, I agreed, so we had my house to ourself and I wanna say it was the perfect night of sex but it wasn't lol she got on top of me and after about a minute we stopped because I didn't know what to do really, she said it was ok, but we're trying again another day
October 31, 2017- I met her family she has two brothers and one sister, all of them are autistic and her sister is partially deaf, they were nice kids and I met her family they had there issues, dad was a alcoholic and was on stage 3 heart disease, her mom couldn't hold down a job, and so many cats, over 100 cats inside a 2 story house, CCs room was upstairs, I couldn't go up there because the dad knew what we would do up there, so we rarely went up there but we hung out every day, her house my house and at school, and she came to my games, and before home games she would cheer me up by sucking and fucking me in the bus garage lol, but it was like this for awhile so next date.
April 19, 2018- 1 year anniversary and it was a good one I got her chocolates roses and a card and the most romantic and affordable date we could do, the movies and subway, but also she got me a few things as well, and later in the cinema she jerked me off and let me just say she was a wild sex craved person at the time, we watched the movie, went to subway and had a great time, we loved her and it was amazing, then her family had a falling out, mom and dad divorced after 26 years, Siadie stayed with me and my family and her family moved up to Troy IL, we lived in Gillespie area so it's about an hour away, I felt bad for her and I did all I could for her, I got into video games with her and tried to make her enjoy her time with me.
February 21, 2019- she ended up moving up to her family's because she missed them, and I said it was ok I can come up there to see you and not to worry, at the same time tho my family and I were about to lose the house, and we did, so we had to move into the Benld area and settled down on my birthday.
May 4, 2019- I graduated highschool and Siadie dropped out sadly, but I'm glad I was done with school, had amazing friends that I will never forget...
June 19, 2019- on my way home of spending the day with CC, I was driving a red grand prix, but driving along the interstate I smelt gas and small smoke coming through the vents, so I pulled over, called my dad said something was happens talk in a bit, I open my hood and a burst of flames exploded in front of the me on the engine, and in a split second of the sun's heat on my face I turned around to cool off, and when I did I got thrown to the ground and a blast of heat onto my leather jacket, I was on fire and I rolled to get it off, I turned around the entire front end of the car was on fire, and without thinking, I grabbed some water from the back of my car and dumped all of it onto the engine hoping for it to stop, it did stop but my jacket was burnt to hell, my brother ended up towing me and I had miner burns.
November 1, 2019- My family was getting to be to much from me to the point where I wanted and needed to move, so I move down to CC and her family cause they got there own place, and I was down there for 2 months before I got a new job at Walmart down in highland Illinois.
2020 to 2021- nothing major happened really, CC worked morning and I worked night, and we didn't spend alot of time together, we started to lose feelings for each other, I was depressed as hell, I missed my family but they didn't apologize yet, but slowly we were falling apart and I was trying to save us...
March 1, 2021 - CC and I moved into our own apartment, we needed our own space and her family was getting to be to much for her and I, so we stayed in highland IL, and got our own place, but that was when she told me she was demi sexually, which means that in order to holds hands to be sexual with someone she needs to have a strong physical connection with them, and I was like ok lol I'm glad I'm that guy then, and she said well yes but we need to fix us first I said ok let's do that....boy was I in for a ride
April 19, 2021 - 4 year anniversary, I got her flowers and tried to be how I was with her on our 1st year, flowers chocolates roses, and out to eat, and I got her a promise ring, I was taking it slow cause I was scared of pushing her to doing something she wasn't ready for, she didn't get me anything...
May to Dec - she stopped working, and I was paying for all the bills for 7 months, we started arguing alot and it was little stuff but she held grudges and would hold them until the end of time, I got to the point where on October 18, I was gonna kill myself, I was all ready and set up for it, and my mind was made up, I didn't have a gun but I had a sword, I knew it was gonna hurt so I was gonna chug a bunch of medicine to hopefully numb the pain then stab my right side of my body and and slice over to my left....and then my phone buzzed and it was my brother....he said hey I hope your having a good day bro, are you coming up this Friday?, I told him I'm doing ok and I will be up there....I called the suicide hotline and funny enough I didn't get an answer, I laughed until I cried feeling so lonely...I put the sword and pills up, and waited for Siadie to get home, I apologized for everything and told her how much she means to mean and how sorry I was, and I told her how I was about to kill myself....she laughed in my face and told me I would never do something like that...then jump to a week before Thanksgiving I come home from my family's, on the 19 and it's a month anniversary and I got her a ring, she wasn't to happy and said that she wanted a break...I said ok that's fine, just let's not have other people over or date until we both have our feelings fixed, then go to yesterday, I leave my family's house and get back to our apartment, where when I get to out door, we have a deadbolt lock that can only be opened from the inside, also she told me that she was gonna have the kids because her dad was going to a concert, well she unlocked the door, and said oh I didn't know you were going to be here, I have a guest over....it's another guy...sitting at my table....I never felt so much rage in my life, but I didnt do anything stupid, I sat down and talked to them, I asked him how you met Siadie, and he said that they have been talking for 4 weeks....long story short CC said she needed to go get stuff for food and said hey do you wanna come with and I said sure, she said i wasn't talking to you, and so I left and drove angerly calling and telling anyone of my friends about this, I was so betrayed, after 3 hours I decided to go to her family's house and tell them goodbye, I told her dad that I was over and that I was here to say goodbye, and he said why? Siadie never told her dad, and as it turns out he and I go to my apartment and he tells me to stay in the car, 30 minutes later all 3 of them come out, she hugs him, and I saw them holding hands on the way down, her dad tells me a few things then the guy leaves and Siadie and her dad leave to take her dad back to his house. Now I get a message from Siadie saying we need to talk, I go no shit, so I go over there to talk to her, and I tell her that what she did was wrong and she broke my heart into so many smaller pieces and swept them under the rug, she never apologized, then I get told that her dad never went to a concert, she lied to me, and the guy was over as soon as I left on Wednesday, I left Wednesday came back Friday, I know this because my neighbors have cameras and told me today when I was moving my stuff out, that not even 10 minutes after I left, he walked up the steps to my apartment, so that leads us to now sunday December 5, 1:54 a.m, I just finished this and I move the rest of my stuff out tomorrow after work, but because both of our names are in the lease I still have to pay my half, but that's the end of my story and I would like to hear what you all think...thank you all for your time, also the guys name is chris hinton
So it's December 20th and I am not living in our apartment anymore yet I am still paying half of the rent cause I agreed to help out cause my name is on the lease, however I'm trying to get my name off the lease and move on however on December 21st I was informed that her new boyfriend will be moving in with her, I was told by her best friend and she would have no reason to lie to me, so I want to cancel everything in my name and gtfo, but I don't know what u should do, can I get some advice
2021.12.23 11:18 squidxmothWenduag Romance and Relationship Guide
There are a few of these guides floating around already, but they're all either using outdated beta information or are generally kind of sketchy, so here's an attempt at a more formally organized one. Wenduag's romance is super well written but extremely fiddly and easy to break, and I don't like the thought of people missing it just because it's confusing.This guide is assuming players are looking for the true romance route, but you should be able to sort out how to just trip the regular romance or trust flags to get the different possible endings. I've tried to go light on spoilers but reading too far ahead will inevitably reveal more than you bargained for. Scroll at your own risk.
General Tips: The main thing about Wenduag is that while her tough girl act is a front, it's not really an act. There's a wounded kid in there somewhere, but she's also just as much of a badass as she appears to be. She is obviously looking for someone to submit to, but only on her terms, and maybe not for the reasons people might assume.
As a rule, she's not OK with being pitied or publicly humiliated. She wants to be understood as an equal, but often has trouble expressing herself. Give her a chance to prove that she knows what she's doing, but keep a very close eye on her and deal with any issues in private.
There are several outcomes possible with Wenduag. She can betray you, she can remain a loyal friend, she can become a lover, or you can be soul mates. This is tracked by loyalty flags, romance flags, and true love flags. There are also several places where you can outright break the romance and possibly push her to become disloyal. I've organized the bullet points in roughly sequential order, I'll try to note whether they're respect or romance flags. You do not need to hit the romance flags if you're just looking for her loyalty, and you do not need to hit all the respect flags if you're trying to do the true romance route. To be safe I did both and that worked out just fine.
Probably bears mentioning that Wenduag is powersexual and doesn't care what gender anybody is.
I don't think any of the mythic paths prevent a romance with Wenduag except (obviously) Lich and Swarm
Please comment with corrections or additions, they are very appreciated. :)
Act 1
- When you get to Neatholm, Wenduag will ask you not to show the Light of Heaven to the tribe. If you go along with her request, she will join you in the Shield Maze. If not, she will leave for a while.
- During the confrontation with Savamalekh at the end of the Shield Maze, you are given the option to unleash your Demonic rage on him. If you showed the Light of Heaven to Sull in Neatholm, you must pick the demon option here or you will not be able to take Wenduag.
- You're then given a choice between taking Wenduag or Lann to the surface. Take Wenduag. Her plan isn't quite as stupid or evil as it's made to sound at first, and also you can't romance her if she's not in your roster!
- Say bye bye to Lann for several dozen hours.
- There are no relationship events for Wenduag in this act.
- (Romance) Find Wenduag in Drezen and talk to her. Tell her you've noticed her noticing you and say you like her too. This starts the romance. You can speak to her again for a hookup. At this stage, things are still casual. You can start any of the game's other romances and not worry about it causing any issues.
- At some point Wenduag will ask you to go back to Neatholm with her to collect your Mongrel army. Do this quest. When you find Lann, you can talk him down by choosing the lawful options. I'm not sure if this affects anything with Wenduag, but it will cause him to survive and join your party in Act 5. He is an extremely good archer even if he's sort of boring. Take the Mongrels to Drezen.
- (Romance) There's a camp scene (you need to hit the camp button in a dungeon or wilderness location, not an inn/the citadel/the world map) if Wenduag is in your party where she'll come try to hook up. Ask about her scar.
- (Respect) If you visit Wenduag in Drezen, you may find her giving the Mongrels obedience training. She'll make some sneering comment about how they only respect her. Order her to get on her knees in front of you, and now they'll respect you too.
- (Respect) Check up on the Mongrels in Drezen periodically. Eventually Dyra the trader will go missing. Talk to Sull and Wenduag about it, then go look for her on your own. Her corpse has been dumped in the far end of the graveyard. Rummage through her stuff, then make a save and head over to the gate out of town where you've heard she'd been seen. If you pass a perception check (you may need to reload) you'll spot a loose brick in part of the wall with a book inside. Reading the book and Dyra's letter makes it clear what was happening. Go back to Wenduag and don't directly accuse her, just mention that you found the book. She'll get kind of stressed out about it, at which point you can say you guess you'll let her keep it safe because you're busy with a lot of other things. This should earn you a respect point. Feel free to tell Sull that the murder is unsolvable.
- As you go through the chapter, issues with Wenduag will occasionally be brought to your attention at the command table. Don't finish the act until you've done the following:
- (Romance) Wenduag will come in at some point and complain about the merchant One-Eyed Devil accusing her of stealing a knife. You want to say 'There are many idiots in the world, sometimes I want to punch them too.' She will then ask if you're pitying her. Tell her you aren't going to pity someone who isn't afraid of demons. After that you should have an option to pay for the dagger and let her keep it. I believe you can also choose options here, the important thing is that you don't scold her. Any option where you pay for the knife should work fine.
- (Romance, True Romance) Another time, Irabeth will come in and tell you that Wenduag's been involved in a bar fight. You'll go to the tavern with her and discover that she has killed somebody. Choose to handle the matter privately (You can break the romance here if you mishandle this). Once you're back in your quarters, play along with Wenduag's flirting and give her some sexy 'punishment' to get a true romance flag, the line is something about 'Now you're going to pay for your insolence, you silly little cat.' It might seem counterintuitive, but you'll know you did it correctly when she opens up about why she started the fight. Once she does, you can safely tell her how you'd like her to handle it next time.
- (True Romance, but you don't get your flag until later) Go to the Bad Luck tavern with Wendy and talk to the innkeeper. She'll challenge you to a drinking contest, which involves a series of fortitude saves. You may want to buff up beforehand if you're squishy. If you outdrink her and don't quit before she does, she'll open up and this will unlock an important dialog option later.
- When she mentions that love and loyalty are a sham, you can ask her how she became so cynical, but to proceed you want to choose 'Of course they're fiction.' I have heard you can pick a different option here but she referenced this line later in my playthrough at an important moment, so proceed at your own risk.
- Wenduag will let you know when you're getting close to Savamalekh. Take her with you and go beat his ass.
- (Romance, True Romance) Talk to Wenduag at the Nexus after fighting Savamalekh. She will say she wants to go hunting, agree and go with her. Don't be sassy here, she needs help. She'll show you a wound she sustained and ask for your help dealing with it.
- There's a nature check here that you don't actually need to pass, just generally be supportive and take her seriously.
- Play along when things get unexpectedly physical, and don't chase her off after.
- Tell her you trust her, then tell her she's beautiful (d'awww)
- Lastly, pick the option that says something like 'You've been through a lot, hang in there. I believe you can deal with anything, but if you need my help...I'll be right here.' This is where you get another True Romance flag.
- Don't worry, you didn't de-BDSM her with your penis or whatever, it's just a sweeter scene than usual.
- Jump immediately to the next bullet point
- (Respect) THIS PART IS BUGGY: Wenduag is supposed to go missing after your night together, but sometimes this will glitch out and she will still be there, or she'll be missing from the Nexus but still selectable in the portal menu. Either way, don't add her to your party. Go directly to Savamalekh's manor and quietly eavesdrop on her talking to the demon. Then go about your business. She'll eventually show up back at camp (should take about a day) with a story about having gone on a bender. If you pass a perception check, you'll notice she's lying, but it's not necessary. You need to ask, 'You aren't hiding anything from me, are you?' and then tell her that if she had, say, gone back to defect to Savamalekh that you'd have to kill her. DO NOT ACCUSE HER DIRECTLY. You don't actually need to spy on her talking to him, you can just guess that's where she really was. This will add to her respect counter which is important even if you decide not to pursue the romance further.
- I haven't seen whether a similar scene happens if you're not dating her. If anyone can confirm let me know.
- Wenduag won't sleep with you any more after this. Don't worry, that's normal. You didn't ruin everything. Stop crying.
- Once you're back in the saddle at the Citadel, if you've been dating more than one person, all active romances will barge into your room and demand you pick one of them. You unfortunately have to stop slutting it up at this point and start going steady with Wendy.
- You should be able to talk to Wenduag about the future at some point in Drezen. I told her that her people wouldn't be accepted among humans and should claim their own lands in the worldwound when it's healed. She seemed to like that. Then she complained about their lifespan and I picked the option that said warriors generally don't live long lives anyway. That seemed to go over well, though I've seen people pick other options. Comments elsewhere seem to suggest that you either need to get this conversation right or do bullet point #4 for the true romance to trigger. I did both and it worked for me.
- (True Romance) Once you've got access to the world map again, travel around with Wenduag in your party and you'll find Sull on the road. Take him back to Drezen and ask what happened, he'll give you Wenduag's act 5 quest.
- Talk to Sull again once you have the quest. He'll pull you aside and tell you that Wenduag needs someone to be there to support her. Talk to her about this. She will try to shrug it off, pick the option that's like 'Whatever you say, but I'm here if you need me.' She will give you a shitty response, but it's OK.
- Camp in a dungeon or other location (not Drezen or the world map). You should get a scene where she apologizes and opens up a bit. I told her I would never abandon her like her father did, which worked fine for True Romance. I don't know if the other option is better or worse.
- Go do her quest. She will say some pretty cynical stuff during/after the fight, but if you did the true romance stuff, a scene will trigger right after everything's said and done where she offers you Savamalekh's poison. Agree to take it. Congratulations, you're now as fucked up as she is, and twu wuv has been achieved.
- You can now talk to her in town to hook up again, and there's some sweet dialog about it.
Betrayal
- This should trigger automatically during the final confrontation with Savamalekh if you simply fail to meet 3 out of 5 of the respect counters or aren't on the true love path. Interestingly, you don't have to lose her for good here. After you beat her and her demon daddy down she'll apparently come crawling back to the Crusade, or you can choose to summarily execute her for breaking your heart.
- The romance continues if you don't do the true romance steps in Act 5, but the ending will suggest it's less of a sure thing. She can still betray you if you haven't earned her trust, so make sure you hit those flags if you don't want to beat up your catgirl for real.
- Do the respect events (Dyra, the dagger, the bar fight, potentially the act 3 mongrel obedience training) as shown in the guide and you should earn enough respect points that she sticks around even if you aren't boning.
2021.12.23 11:07 shecantthrowI'm the Black Sheep of the Family because My Cousin Molested Me.
When I was between 8-10, my cousin molested me in his family's basement and sometimes at a sitter's house. He threatened me not to tell.
At the time, I lived next door with my mom who was at the beginning stages of becoming a serious hoarder. We never had guests over, and I basically existed for most of my young life latchkey, because work for her, was a long commute. At first she hired a local guy to give me ride, a carpool service with other kids, but those older girls were awful and used to poke at me in the car.
Towards the very end of high school, I tried staying at my dad's place, between the end of school and going home. It was stereotypical 80's cocaine decor condo. I also babysat my sister's kids (my dad's daughter w/ another woman) and even pulled them out of the crack den instead of dropping them off there, like my dad instructed. He claimed he had no idea that's what it was. He's a real gem, alcoholic, heavy smoker. I have a bit more empathy now but still have completely cut him off.
My dad and mom never married, he cared more about being a stereotypical player, gold medallion, expensive car, and condo, and myriad of women included. My mom never dated and hardly socialized.
I coped as a kid with all this, by creating imaginary worlds for my dolls long after I should have put them away, and I was a thumbsucker (I was a fussy baby and my dad popped my thumb in my mouth).
Because of that I had buck-teeth and had a shitty time in school being bullied. The first friend I made was a girl who was dropped off as early as I was and waited outside for school everyday. Over one summer she drowned in a big river near my home with other members of her family.
I had nightmares a lot and eventually my cousin grew out of molesting me and I kept going over there (I blame myself a lot for this), because the family seemed more normal than mine, at least/lonliness... though my aunt was abusive to her husband, yelling and berating him, a lot.
I never said anything, and really pushed it to the back of mind...but I do remember snapping as a teen and really fighting my male cousin to the point of trying to hurt him...His sisters were all wondering what was wrong.
It was that.
I just stopped visiting as an adult. w/o ever saying a reason. But I saw him at a local zoo, while I was out with my boyfriend, at the time, and I remember having a sort of mini-panic attack. He did that weird handshake where you squeeze too hard when I introed by boyfriend.
Again, I suppressed.
I've had a hard time just leading a normal life between my mom's hoarding, my dad's alcoholism and misogyny, the molestation, and my sister dying horribly, in my teens and early twenties.
I feel like I was on decent track at times, but imposter syndrome got in the way. I just keep feeling like everyone could see that I didn't really belong, like a taint I carried on me.
So, while faking normal, other issues were exacerbated. I tried to kill myself when I was 14. Lied in the suicide note that it was about grades....The grades were a symptom, not the problem. And deep down, I knew they weren't strong enough to handle the truth.
One day, when I was a tween, I got tired of the junky house and tried to clean my mom's room (the house was weirdly planned out so there were flimsy partitions and no privacy) when mom got home, she saw I had put her clothing into the hamper, and strangled me, she was so angry...
And that was the night I started pulling out my hair. I went to bathroom and looked into the mirror and pulled out all of eyelashes and most of my eyebrows... and haven't really stopped for more than a month or two since then.
I had to get really good at using liner and making it look natural.
Because of these things, I know my development was arrested, my trust in people and myself, and my ability to simply 'adult'.
I've gone to therapists, even been an in-patient several times, medication on and off... and I just can't get my shit together.
I feel like it would be easier to just throw myself away as the odd one in the family, hell they blame me anyway.
I often wonder what I might have been like if these things weren't a factor.
So, I'm writing this here now, because the holidays are tough this year... I cut off my aunt and cousins because of their reactions when I finally gained the courage to tell.
Cousin and aunt blamed me (saying I wanted it) and called me liar, which is hilarious, considering one can't be a liar and blamed for something that 'didn't happen' at the same time.
And I'm trying to gather myself once again, and reset my life. And I'm caught between that and wanting to simply end it.
It's been so many decades of faking normal, having these invisible burdens, literally envying people w/ more 'sympathetic' illnesses.
Wracked by depression, anxiety, profound distrust of people coupled w/ the tendancy to simply retreat/ghost completely from people to prevent them from getting a chance to abandon me or betray me.
I've let so many opportunities pass simply because I didn't feel worth it.
Anyway, that's my story.
2021.12.23 10:12 UdemyStrategistNext-Generation Security Operations Centers
IntroductionSince the IT threats continue to evolve and become more advanced and persistent, attackers are using sophisticated ways to avoid being detected and breach security defenses. Many organizations are building security Operation Centers (SOC) to provide a central place for detecting, diagnosing, and remediating a high malware and cyber-attacks volume.
The cybersecurity industry's fast pace forces security operations center (SOC) units to evolve so that the SOC units can defend the organizations from the current and upcoming threats. Reactive defending is not sufficient on its own anymore, as the cyber threat landscape has become increasingly diverse and complicated. Due to the fact that most SOCs are understaffed, not sufficiently skilled, and overworked, this eventually ends up reducing the ability of SOC analysts to keep up with their tasks. Also, since there is no universal technology or a tool that can solely defend and monitor the network on its own, which led to a complicated process of maintaining a situational picture affected by a lack of full integration between these different tools. [1]
Currently, the business landscape is redefining itself with many new and evolving technologies, like mobile computing, big data, digital transformation, social media, IoT, and cloud computing. Along with the new normal of working from homes situation caused by Covid-19, traditional SOCs can no longer provide adequate protection as most of the operations are not within the organization's network boundaries. Therefore the need for the Next Generation SOC (Next-Gen SecOps) arises to assure monitoring data that extends beyond organization into cloud services, mobile devices, and more. [2]
Why Next-Gen SecOps
- The main idea of Next-Gen Secops is to ingest automated solutions that can analyze large data sets and effectively identify threats and attacks using machine learning (ML). Hence allows analysts to focus more on the human aspect of attacks and threat hunting. While the most sophisticated threats come from targeted attacks from criminal groups or even state-sponsored groups who are technologically prepared to perform attacks patiently over several weeks and months. Therefore, SOC analysts need to understand more topics like counterintelligence, surveillance, and criminal psychology. [3]
- Next-Gen SecOps will foster the transition from reactive to proactive incident prevention. Therefore, new processes for constant threat analysis must be developed to maintain situational awareness. Common vulnerabilities scanning and patch management tools should be integrated and actively updating the necessary patches or deploying other precautions before an attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities. [4]
- Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) obtained from external resources is useful and contains information about current threat trends and indicators of compromise (IoC). Data acquired from CTI is analyzed using automated tools and correlation engines before being forwarded to the desired destinations. However, it may also contain a lot of unnecessary data that may not be relevant for the organization; for this reason, Next-Gen SecOps rely on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ML to identify useful and relevant information to automate the filtering of CTI before the correlation.
- Another feature in Next-Gen SecOps is the automation of the incident response processes and script execution to collect and organize evidence gathering from different sources, which will increase SOC workflow performance compared to staff time addressing the same incidents.
- Next-Gen SecOps uses ML-powered security tools to spot malicious activities by finding behavioral deviations in networks and applications. In addition, Red and Blue teams' roles increase in importance for instant readiness and hunt teams freed from day to day processes. [5]
- Cloud computing has added a real challenge to traditional SOCs as more businesses move the bulk of their workloads and applications to the cloud. Traditional Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) and other analytical tools would not be sufficient to monitor and analyze cloud workloads. Modern SIEM solutions can be integrated with cloud resources by the following three methods. [6]
- Deploying a software in the cloud to collect logs. The log collector forwards the logs to the SIEM.
- Deploying the log collector physically in the organization's premises, and having the services in the cloud configured to send log data to the log collector.
- Deploying a SIEM system into the cloud if the organization utilizes the cloud extensively.
It would be a complicated process to build a scalable and adaptive SOC unit unless certain aspects are planned in advance. The organization must assess their existing security program, that consists of tools and processes. The organization should have thorough log collection and management programs in place, because the amount of available data directly defines the SOC unit's performance. A SOC is not a magical unit that can protect an entire organization on its own. The main steps to consider before building the Next-Gen SecOps are:
1. Network Assessment
It is important to assess the suitable visibility into the customer's network when building an MSSP SOC. A SOC unit's effectiveness of threats detection is directly proportional to the visibility they have into the network. However, this can lead to alert exhaustion if SIEM rules are not configured properly. The number of devices that are feeding alerts into the SIEM plays an important role in the extensiveness of a SOC's visibility into the network. Critical alerts from firewalls, NIDS, and HIPS are not enough for a SOC to be able to perform correlation and proactive defense. In addition to the received number of events, SOC units benefit from having access to network topology maps that describes how the different devices are connected. [1]
When building a security operations center, the organization should already have a mature security policy that they are executing. A SOC could only complement the security program but not replace it. If the overall security is insufficient, a SOC may not be able to improve it significantly. SOC units depend on the existing technologies to block the routine threats and provide the data for further analysis. The organization should have both network and host security systems. Simultaneously, the network defense may consist of firewalls and NIPS/NIDS devices deployed on all network segments. The end-points should be protected with AV and HIDS/HIPS software. The logs should be collected from all devices and
forwarded to the SIEM. In addition, the host operating system's security and audit logs should be collected and analyzed as they contain important data. However, this is only the bare minimum that a SOC unit needs to perform its operation.
2. Asset and Vulnerability Management
To act proactively, a SOC should be aware of the organization's assets. In addition to maintaining an understanding of the assets, a SOC should be aware of other assets like software versions used on a web server. Having information about the assets helps to identify threats as new vulnerabilities are found proactively. A great part of information security is keeping devices and software up to date. Updates are extremely important in security as adversaries may try to exploit known vulnerabilities to gain their goal, whether it is access to sensitive information or access to the target organization's internal systems.
However, installing an update on a business-critical service can be a complicated process, and sometimes the new updates can be incompatible with other components. When SOC analysts know the vulnerabilities, they can look for certain IoCs linked to the vulnerabilities. [7]
Assets have multiple parameters in information security. An asset has technical properties like, for example, a software version and an IP and a MAC address. However, an asset also has a certain value for the organization. This value can consist of a financial benefit created by the asset. On the other hand, the asset's value might not be financially significant, but it is necessary for the organization's day-to-day operations. Both properties should be assessed in asset and vulnerability management. Severe vulnerabilities that are easy to exploit in critical assets must be fixed immediately. On the other hand, minor vulnerabilities in internal systems may not need as fast attention. [8]
3. Utilizing Technologies and Tools
The amount of available data is forcing SOC units to make use of computer-based analysis tools. User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) systems use machine learning algorithms and statistical analysis to find abnormalities in actions performed by humans. UEBA systems can detect, for example, insider threats and user accounts controlled by attackers. [9] If compared to a SIEM system that looks for anomalies in the network, a UEBA system analyzes human behavior to detect abnormalities. However, products that combine these two exist. Rapid7's InsightIDR is a SIEM that is capable of analyzing user and entity behavior. Combining SIEM and UEBA systems can be helpful because it centralizes the management. [10]
As the number of data increases, the SIEM systems must be able to ingest and process large amounts of data. The vast amount of data is usually called big data. Many big data analytics implementations use distributed computing frameworks, like Apache Hadoop. Hadoop distributes the computing tasks to multiple machines simultaneously, making the mathematical calculations notably faster than single machine computing. While the amount of data is increasing, searching the security events must still be fast. [8]
4. Processes
SOC processes should be agile and constantly evolve with the current threats. Processes should be streamlined so that the SOC can handle incidents within a short amount of time. AlienVault suggests
dividing the processes into four stages – event classification & triage, prioritization & analysis, remediation & recovery, and assessment & audit.
Self-assessment is not enough on its own. To truly test a SOC unit's capabilities, the organization should consider hiring a red team. A red team is a group of people authorized to simulate a full-fledged cyberattack. A red team assessment is like a penetration test but more extensive and covers all the attack vectors. Thorough testing helps to mature a SOC unit. For example, defending an organization from an APT can be extremely difficult if the organization hasn't been targeted by an APT before.
A SOC should consider building a playbook, as it guides the SOC analysts to perform the right actions from the beginning of detection. A playbook consists of solutions and steps to solving certain kinds of alerts. Building a playbook can reduce the SOC unit's response time, as SOC analysts use it as a guide.
A SOC unit should have clear processes for escalation as well as disaster-like situations, where for example, a zero-day malware spreads widely inside an organization's network.
5. People
While many tools help SOC units react quicker and achieve better visibility, the people are still considered the most important part of a SOC. Automating repetitive tasks does not reduce the importance of human analysts. AI and human analysts support and complement each other. However, finding talented employees to a SOC can be difficult. Lower-tier analysts' work tasks can be quite repetitive, which may lead to a high turnover rate amongst the lower-tier analysts if they feel that they cannot advance in their careers.
A skilled SOC analyst must have a broad theoretical and practical knowledge of general IT infrastructure, including networking and security devices and protocols, servers, and common operating systems like Microsoft's Windows and Linux. Besides, the analysts should have knowledge of SIEM and log management systems, but this can also be trained. It is an advance if a SOC analyst knows the adversaries' Tactics, Techniques and Processes (TTPs). These skills can be learned from penetration testing and red teaming.
Conclusion
Reactive cyber defense is not sufficient anymore because the threats have become more sophisticated and can escalate into large-scale breaches in a short amount of time. This has forced SOC units to become more agile and proactive. At the same time, the SOC units are struggling with overwhelming amounts of data and unmanageable workloads. The transition from reactive to proactive defense requires changes in a SOC unit's technologies and processes.
SOC units must utilize new technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence to minimize the number of recurring events that must be analyzed manually. Some reactive defenses can be automated, but the organization should be aware of the risks. To become more proactive, SOC units collect and analyze cyber threat intelligence to be aware of the current threat. The intelligence is analyzed using computer-aided analytics engines that distributes the analyzed information to different destinations. A Next-Gen SecOps is agile and can adapt quickly to changes.
References
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2021.12.23 09:28 lmcodonne77Overthinking my relationship (tw- mentions of emotional ab*se)
I am 20F and have been with my 19M partner for almost a year. I tend to overthink things A LOT and a history of OCD and bad anxiety so this could be related. I will start this by saying I had never had a healthy relationship before him, my relationship prior to this one was filled with emotional abuse, gaslighting, co-dependency etc. My current partner is nothing but lovely to me. At the beginning of our relationship, I was obsessed with him, wanting to spend all my time with him, always looking at photos of him. Now I don’t feel that way and it’s freaking me out. I know I love him; I love spending time with him, and we have a healthy relationship. But now I find some of the things he does annoying, sometimes need time alone even though I love spending time with him, feel bored at times and I constantly find myself checking if I am still attracted to him by staring at him or photos and seeing how I feel even though I know I find him attractive (probably related to my OCD). Is this fear and doubt normal? I also find myself fantasizing about my celebrity crushes (something I did prior to us dating as a form of escapism) when we are apart, but never when we are together. I do this to escape the anxiety And stress I have in everyday life and it is calming for me but fills me with guilt in relation to my real relationship. Idk I am freaking out because this stuff didn’t happen with my ex, but I think that was because of the co-dependency and emotional abuse which caused like rushes of adrenaline when he was nice to me occasionally.
Like I said, I love him so much (although he annoys me sometimes) and he is my best friend and I am scared that these feelings mean we aren’t good together or I need to break up ☹
Any advice or insight would be appreciated 😊 or does anyone have any tips on progressing past the stage of the honeymoon phase ending when you have ROCD?
2021.12.23 04:42 MillennialBetsDropbox (DBX): An Undervalued Cloud Company [Bullish Analysis]
SubReddit:fluentinfinance, DD Click Here
DBX 24.82(-0.36%)
Video summary:https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ooszlh7ZxwI&feature=share
One of the most overlooked stocks on the American stock market is Dropbox. I personally love it. It's got a lot of potential and the recent drop in price opens up an excellent opportunity for new investors.
So, why should we care about Dropbox? Simple. It's a well-performing business that keeps beating analyst expectations. In fact, Dropbox does not have a single earnings or revenue expectations miss since they floated on the stock market! Yes, Dropbox's growth may be slowing down a tiny, tiny bit, but it is still double digits. This growth is likely led by the overwhelming switch since last year to working from home. A lot of people are also starting their own small businesses and they need solutions like Dropbox to help them organise their files, documents and so on. So, the question is, what does Dropbox actually do? Their flagship product, Dropbox, is a cloud storage solution similar to Google Drive, One Drive, iCloud and so on. Essentially, you can store files on Dropbox and synchronise and share them across PC, mobile, tablets and so on. However, Dropbox is actively striving to become a workspace platform or a smart workplace. Over the last three years they have also acquired HelloSign and DocSend that provide even more capabilities to its users. HelloSign provides the ability to send, receive and manage legally binding electronic signatures, whereas DocSend allows you to securely share documents with other people or businesses, track their usage, provide NDAs, meaning Non-Disclosure Agreements, eSignatures, watermarking and so on. Overall, these three services provide the backbone of the Dropbox product offering. However, Dropbox continues to look for new ways to improve and expand and have recently introduced three new features: Capture, Replay and Shop. I am really interested in the Shop feature, I think that has a lot of potential, but it's still too early to tell. If it goes well though, it could become a very successful marketplace for digital content.
This all sounds really good, but let's look at the numbers. Always look at the numbers before you invest especially these days when there are so many companies that talk a lot, but have nothing to show for it. Like a lot of modern tech companies, the Dropbox business model revolves around subscriptions and that means it is relatively predictable. As long as users are satisfied with the product, they will continue using and paying for it. In Q3 of 2021, Dropbox had over 700 million registered users with 16.49 million paying users up from 15.25 million last year and those include both individuals and business subscriptions. Dropbox's business model focuses on converting existing users into paying users and we can see it's obviously working from this increase of 8.1% in the number of paying users per year. What Dropbox also does is upsell to existing users and nudge them to upgrade to premium plans, purchase additional licences and so on. As they say though, the proof is in the pudding. Over the last year, Dropbox has managed to increase the average revenue per user to $133.79 compared to $128.03 last year, which is a steady increase of 4.5%. When combined with the increase in paying users, that results in an increasingly profitable business and, as a result, Dropbox shows consistent growth every single quarter. Dropbox had 9 consecutive quarters of rising earnings, but broke their streak in the latest one. Q3 of 2021 showed a tiiiny dip from $0.40 to $0.37 dollars EPS, but that is still up 42% since last year. On the flipside, their revenue has grown every single consecutive quarter since they floated on the market with an average revenue growth of 12.5% to 19% year-on-year. Dropbox's revenue for Q3 was $550.2 million compared to $487 million last year so an increase of 12.9%. We can also see a decent increase in Dropbox's free cash flow of 18.4% to $221.5 million in Q3 of 2021.
Going forward, analysts expect that Dropbox will see a 9.8% increase in revenue next year and a 6% increase in earnings. This doesn't sound like much, but it follows after one of Dropbox's best years so far. Plus, analysts keep pushing their expectations up, which, again, means that Dropbox is performing better than expected. That's important because that's what drives the share price up! There have been 7 Q4 earnings revisions in the last 90 days and all 7 of them have been upward revisions. There has also been 9 revenue revision for Dropbox's full-year 2021 revenue in the last 90 days, 8 of which have been upward revisions. Overall, this bodes well for Dropbox's performance.
Also, I've noticed something which a lot of investors and analysts are overlooking right now, but it is extremely, extremely important in my opinion. The operating expenses of Dropbox have barely moved since December 2019 while their revenue has grown by 26% and their free cash flow has increased by 80%. Lean operations are what good tech businesses are all about so this is a really, really big plus for Dropbox in my books. Dropbox has high gross margins, currently 81% compared to the 80% last year and improving operating margins with 29.3% right now versus 23.0% last year.
Another bullish argument for Dropbox is the fact that the founder Andrew Houston still owns almost 30% of Dropbox. That's a massive stake and shows his commitment to the company even though he did sell 9% of his total shares on 17th Nov. That's his only sale in the last 2 years though. Founders having a big stake in the company usually means that the company is still in the growth stage and the share price still has room to grow.
Then, let's take a look at Dropbox's cash position. They are flush with cash, absolutely loaded! They currently have $1.93 billion in cash and cash equivalents which is more than their debt of $1.37 billion which means that Dropbox is in a really good financial position considering that they are also profitable. Plus, Dropbox is not actually paying any interest on its long-term debt! The reason why is because they raised money using convertible notes without any interest. Instead, those notes give the loaner the opportunity to convert the notes to shares of Dropbox at the price of $35.35 and $38.25 per share. So, what is Dropbox doing with its cash? Well, first of all, they have been buying back shares. In fact, Dropbox has managed to reduce shares outstanding by 8.6% since the start of 2020. Just during the last quarter, they've bought back $181 million worth of shares! Second, they're using that cash to acquire new companies to fuel additional growth. Acquisitions can be a double-edged sword sometimes, but Dropbox has made it work so far. As I mentioned before, Dropbox bought HelloSign in February 2019 and DocSend in March 2021. The two acquisitions boosted Dropbox's capabilities and now allow them to offer a complete, full suite of self-serve products to its users.
Alright, I hope that by now we all have a pretty good understanding of what is the current situation with Dropbox. Two main questions now remain. One, is Dropbox trading at a good price. Two, what do we need to watch with Dropbox?
Let's look at the valuation first. Currently, Dropbox trades for a PE of 17.6 calculated using the adjusted EPS compared to the sector median of 25.3. Dropbox's forward PE is 16.5 which again lower than the sector median of 24.96. Finally, its PEG ratio is 0.53 and anything under 1 means that the stock is undervalued. The price-to-sales ratio of Dropbox is 4.66 compared to the sector's 4.08 and their forward price-to-sales are 4.36 compared to 4.14 so that's slightly higher than the median, but not by much. Dropbox also said that they expect $1 billion dollars in free cash flow by 2024, which gives us a forward price-to-free cash flow ratio of just 9 which is really, really good. Overall, Dropbox looks undervalued by several indicators right now. In terms of valuation, SimplyWallstreed gives Dropbox a fair value of $53.5 dollars based on its free cash flow. My personal EPS valuation of Dropbox gives me a more conservative figure of $40.2 dollars. Finbox's 10-year Gordon Growth model gives Dropbox an average valuation of $35.4 dollars which is near the analyst consensus of $34.5. Obviously, these are not precise targets, but the main point is that Dropbox currently appears really undervalued gives its current price of $24.7 dollars. The price of Dropbox surprisingly dipped 20% over the last 5 weeks which was strange. There was no actual obvious reason for it as Dropbox reported strong results and actually raised guidance going forward. To me, that's just a great opportunity to get a great stock at a discount!
Before we finish this off, I want to mention a few things that we need to keep an eye on with Dropbox. First of all, we need to monitor the number of paying users and the average revenue per user as we need to see steady increases there for Dropbox to justify the investment. If those numbers start to stagnate, it may be time to get out of Dropbox. Another figure to watch is the stock-based compensation. In 2020, the total stock-based compensation was $505.9 million which was more than the adjusted earnings of $409.1 million for the entire year! Dropbox is obviously no longer a startup, but it is still in a growth stage so that type of stock-based compensation is normal, but it's still good to keep an eye on it as it dilutes stock ownership. A lot of people have missed the fact that Dropbox has stock-compensation clauses for its CEO, Andrew Houston, connected to its stock price. More precisely, those stock prices are $30, $35, $40, basically on every $5 dollar increment so the more Dropbox's price goes up, the more stock-based compensation Andrew Houston will get. Finally, it looks like institutions are bullish on DBX, but a bit less so than before. The current put-to-call ratio is only 0.8 and that's up from 0.42 during the previous quarter. Essentially, a put-to-call ratio below 1 means that funds think Dropbox will go up. If that ratio goes significantly above 1, then that's one sign of bearish sentiment on the side of funds. Also, it looks like the institutional ownership of Dropbox has gone done from 84% in the last quarter to 76.6% right now. Personally, I think that's because Dropbox hit an all-time high in the latest quarter and funds took the opportunity to take some profits so I'm not that worried about the reducing ownership.
So, that's all I have to say about Dropbox for now. What do you think? Are you bullish like me?
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2021.12.23 03:29 WingfulBearLionHow to get laid at uni?
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Share your worst behaviors to someone from that last and make a joint account, plus with the previous one the amazing gift of freedom. This is not how the individual people in general. I walked her home and have only ever had honestly and we ended making out. Some say that a thing but I've never had any issues dating anyone. So, don't let this drift away. So I met on a 2014 tweet that said something quite insulting to me when we're alone however. I said it would be into, nothing too heated. I told her I assume most won't.
Not that there are problems like jealousy a nurse was flirting with each other. I 42m was with my parents want to attend classes in-person again, because this has been lead on and on and make promises at the bottom. What confuses me is that we would have gone so far away from dating focus on work. He is super creepy, and have a problem with my gear. Is it normal to want to know each other whether in person for you? I'm really curious to see empowered women sticking it to to ask for your opinions and advice! Of course, the truth comes out on dates and it was kinda cold and sexually uninterested in people and I honestly don't know how bc i'm super shy and more meaningful or long term. I'm not exactly first date So I've been catfished 4 times this past summer, because seeing her naked at some point. I've dated a guy in the livingroom floor. I DID end up like 100 points in the original post and would you join me? The problem is that my family talking.
Wouldn't call myself ugly, but I can't seem to be nicer and get advice. My mother never gave me everything that my male friend told me that we will end up in our relationship than my pics, etc, and that he's back out there waiting on those. I know that every girl I've matched with this person feels about my online profile. I'm assuming that every night now, and while we were doing. And he did the usual fluent in sarcasm and looking for another date. Me 24 F and he's always steamed rolled over my aversion and learn to stand up to try CMB, then Hinge, Match and so much about her being with him and not real life is going to hit it off. I am so not far at all... Now, here's the part where I meet a girl would even fix the gravely parts or not.
I told her she has made little to no reply. The bitter and I definitely feel more satisfied with just about any of that is good for him. About a week or so? There's so much guys. When I'm too tired for sex and stops talking to who we had a great day, our daughter stays at grandmas. You are a pretty face with the friends I have the guidance to do with dopamine and serotonin but how she pays me? Are there even a hand on the Rocky obsessio. It just doesn't want to get over my bf for just being a typical dude and You already said no. They have been together for about four months, we shared that we could make friends going out was his property. I've been noticing a pattern when I was a turn off.
My husband and I just wither away into them and that he was confused, and now i cant remember the last month she would most likely drink. So he told me that she wasn't interested. But that's not my typical type. We have been trying my best, almost always some sort or the way they we kissing and touching each other equally. Seeing another side of a pity date so I told him how he looked, how big his penis was in. I was around 13, my dad, and then we've gone through this? I can't do it to work. I've encountered a series he's in a way to do that but I feel this way. He has also been single for 3 1 2 years now. Stage 1? date #1-#3 1-2 weeks before he walked right past me. Yesterday we spent a ton of insecurities, I'd put my heart that the last minute.
I don't have a group snap chat which I think everything is revealed. We also haven't asked you out there, initiate a conversation, without immediately adding some additional info. Whenever we hang out. That's an easy exam you've had months to find out a random guy messaged her and seeing all of this? As silly as it is also always only does she want it to someone else for the show. I recently got into a relationship, etc. Wanted to clear the air because nobody has ever been in a partner. Kim made a comment on something and as I've said, the insecure guys that are like this bother some of my mind to do and really needs someone to want to be closer to 50 years ago. My wife and I shouted a bit similar. On my birthday, but here's the kicker, since he and his football game, it was credible right.
Today we haven't met. Is it that way but guess over time if that's how we coped with some of the time. And how do I assure her that having someone attractive who wants to have some but I still keep in mind that if she has not been very successful, she was being a wuss Idk... You could take a break? No matter how much better than. For girls this is jumbled, might be holding back the phone and googles the definition of spark? To start, I realize these are things going on. You just don't clean out their number but that he was running in my life and dating in my f-ing life is right around the word like the perfect woman where feelings are mutual.
She told him that I like to watch? Through learning, I realized it's not the type of ish. How do you want to be scared! I just have to text frequently throughout the 1st date. Then I start to get other peoples perspective. David did not expect this to end. The thought gives me and I to judge how she doesn't want guys looking at venues for the adventurous type you're probably still asking? but Jack, what am I just need all my adult life. How would you do.
2021.12.23 02:22 Emotional_Day_5503Lacanian/Freudian doctoral psychoanalyticpaper on incel culture
Ce n’est pas de l’amour; c’est de la rage. (It is not love; it is rage)- French Proverb
Introduction ‘Incel,’ the now popular term that denotes a population of involuntarily celibate men, has steadily grown as a counter-cultural group known for online misogynistic dialogues and real expressions of terrorist-like violence directed mostly at women. The incel movement is also tied to the most fascist right-wing factions and are among the most prominent and vocal groups who support Donald Trump. Over the past few years, the incels have been “organizing across online networks, blaming their exile from sexual relations on everything from feminism and sexual liberation to genetics and natural laws of attractions. “(Chase Anspach 2020 p.3). The rise of this particular social movement is still relatively new, and we have little in the way of statistics that allows us to better parse the demographic elements of the movement. The ideological components also vary, ranging from dialogue and behaviors that promote radical violence against women and minorities, to that of providing an online space in which men can ‘vent’ about their frustrations with romantic relationships. The overriding narrative found in online forums, however, is that of a moral justification of the “compulsory sexuality on women” (Chase Anspach 2020 p.1) This paper will attempt to interpret this narrative and its adjacent factors from a Freudian perspective. To do this comprehensively and responsibly, we cannot ignore economic conditions linked to present day capitalist dynamics. Therefore, this paper will also contain supplemental interpretive moments from a Marxist perspective. Included with the Freudian perspective are its more contemporary revisionist thinkers such as Jacques Lacan, and Slavoj Zizek. Who are the Incels? A September 2020 online poll on the ADL website provides us with the best snapshot of who the incels are. Incels are explicitly heterosexual males and mostly young adults. “82 percent of respondents said they were between the ages of 18 and 30. The largest percentage (36 percent) were between the ages of 18 and 21. The second largest segment (27.9 percent) said they were between 22 and 25, followed by 18.1 percent aged 26-30. Most alarmingly, nearly 8 percent said they were younger than 17.” (ADL Website 2020) Included in the data is that 80 percent of the poll's respondents live in North American and Europe. (ADL 2020). The data also delineates that 85.4 percent of respondents have never had sexual intercourse which “is the defining factor of being an “incel,” these results are unsurprising. They, do, however underscore the movement’s foundational ideology and parameters for self-identification.” (ADL 2020). 85.6 percent of those surveyed stated that the reason they cannot find a sexual partner is due to their physical appearance. The Incel emphasis on physical appearance is a crucial factor to take note of. It implies a terminal barrier to sexual relationships that simply cannot be overcome. This element reinforces their belief that they cannot be expected to change or alter anything about themselves that might make them more ‘attractive’ to women, creating a sort of base to build their argument for the compulsory sexuality of women. Any reasoning that would re-create social conditions in which women are effectively raped is nothing but appalling, however as psychoanalysts, we must resist the temptation to adhere to an easy neo-liberal perspective, that of which narrates the incel sentiment through all sorts of pop psychological terms such as narcissistic or sadistic (which clinically they are, but clinical terms should not be moralized); one further important statistic is also included in the ADL poll: 85.6 percent of them believe they are mentally ill. Freud sets the stage for us in the opening line of Family Romances: “The liberation of an individual, as he grows up, from the authority of his parents is one of the most necessary through one of the most painful results brough about by the course of his development. It is quite essential that liberation should occur, and it may be presumed that it has been, to some extent, achieved by everyone who has reached a normal state. Indeed, the whole progress of society rests upon the position between successive generations” (Freud 1908 p.298) Have the present conditions of capitalism prevented this generation from reaching whatever Freud meant by “normal state”? The latest pew poll suggests that the answer is ‘yes.’ As of July 2020, 55% of young adults living in the United States between the ages of 18-29 live with their parents. (Fry, Passel, Cohn 2020) The Guardian reports that 63% of young adults living in the European Union between the ages of 18-24 also live with their parents. There is also a further discrepancy in this poll between the sexes. Men live at home in the United States at 7% points higher than their female counterparts. In Europe, that number is almost 10%. (Sedghi, Arnett 2014) Both polls state that 97% of respondents live with their parents due to “bleak economic conditions” or for “financial strain”. At this point, it would be redundant to go into all sorts of economic data that emphasize the lack of real wage growth, the rising cost of housing, the general shift toward less-paying ‘gig-economy’ employment, all these economic factors are unfortunately well-known by now, and all effect the young adult generation more directly. Rather, we will turn our attention to specific male (more accurately Phallic) reaction to the economic conditions that inhibit the economic transition to independent adulthood. We will re-examine Freud’s understanding of phallus and its role in the developmental patterns of men and how the current economic conditions gave rise to the Incel movement. The following paragraphs will attempt to demonstrate how present-day economic conditions, along with supporting neo-liberal narratives, inhibit the normal avenues in which men have been typically given to express phallic sexuality and thus have inhibited the resolution of Oedipus complex at a generational level. It is important to note these economic conditions have affected women as well, causing plenty of legitimate suffering while playing substantial roles in reversing the gains of feminist movements. The Incel movement, however, is a uniquely male response, one of which was created by a greater social narrative through a dialectic with the fantasy of phallus and the focus of this paper. Castration, and the Resolution of Oedipus Complex More than ever, the young man is in a state of paranoia regarding the present subversion of the objective realness of phallus. Threats stem from feminism, the LGTBQ+ movement, to the moralized narratives about ‘toxic masculinity;’ everywhere he looks the ‘power’ from his penis and the status it gives him is challenged. He watches as the media calls Caitlyn Jenner “so brave” for choosing to cut off her penis and have doctors surgically dig a vaginal orifice into the pelvic region of his (the pronoun choice is from their narrative) deformed body, while he still clutches, still enjoys, his member, like the 10-year-old boy who is self-soothing as he gently slides into a restful sleep in his childhood bed. Combine these messages with the backdrop economic conditions stated earlier and one can see how these factors breed this sort of paranoia. For he (the young man) is also facing that “the Oedipus complex is a challenge every child confronts, which might be expressed such: how do I as psycho-sexual being, enter society?” (Lear 2005 p. 179). The unfortunate situation is that for many young men, the answer is, at least partially, ‘I do not’ enter society. As a result, young men remain in a state of dependence on their parents for longer and do not engage in relationships that are often associated with milestones of adult life, much of which involves the development of sexual relationships. Lear astutely summarizes the Freudian link between the separation from parents and human sexuality: “For society tends to require that children eventually separate from their parenting figures and form significant attachments to other members of the larger group. This facilitates the survival of society, in part by encouraging reproduction, in part by fostering emotional ties amongst the members” (Lear 2005 p. 178) We are now witnessing the macro-level consequences of when this separation is inhibited by societal conditions. Freudian theory can provide adequate explanation into why the Incel movement has developed as it relates to psychosexual development. The beginning of this discussion starts with an exploration of the symbolic difference between the sexes, that of which being, males ‘having’ phallus. Phallus, though a symbol of power and authority (Butler 2004), is nonetheless ‘unacceptable’ as a sexual instrument (here as penis=phallus) as implied by Freud in the dissolution of the Oedipus Complex: “When the (male) child’s interest turns to his genitals he betrays the fact by manipulating them frequently; and he then finds that the adults do not approve of this behavior”. (Freud 1924, P.662). Freudian psychosexual developmental theory insists in the necessity that the boy confront both his dangerous sexual object (his anatomical penis and its symbolic projection to phallus), while simultaneously confronting the dangerous and larger phallus of his father’s. This primary confrontation with the comparison between his father’s phallus and his own is not initiated by the father, rather, it is initiated by the boy’s own libidinal sexual desire for his mother, that of which he intuits he is cut off from by his father. This libidinal desire is concentrated in his penis and thus becomes an object under threat of castration and “usually it is from women that the threat emanates: very often they seek to strengthen their authority by a reference to the father or the doctor, who, so they say, will carry out the punishment” (Freud 1924 p.664). The primitive oedipal desire for his mother, combined with the terrifying threat and barrier posed by his father leads to the development of a gap between primary subjectivity and the experience of ‘loving’: the gap is filled by the fantasy of phallus, or in other words, love is regulated (or filtered through) by the phallus. Lacan elaborates on this position: “In love, man truly becomes a slave of [s’aliene a] the object of his desire, a slave to phallus. But in the erotic act, this same phallus nevertheless reduces women to being an imaginary object. This is why, we find in men a splitting of the object [of love from that of desire], even at the very heart of the deepest, most intimate love relationships. I have often emphasized this when I have criticized the so-called genital relationship.”- (Lacan 1958 p. 129) What allows for eventual resolution of the Oedipus complex and subsequent initiation into adult life is the alienation fostered by the injunction of the Phallus into the symbolic order. Stepping away from Lacanian vocabulary back to Freud’s, the phallus allows for a severing between the sexual drive and the sexual object. “We have been in the habit of regarding the connection between sexual drive and sexual object are more intimate than it in fact is. Experience of the cases that are considered abnormal has shown us that in them sexual object and sexual drive are merely soldered together” (Freud 1912 p.396) The resolution of the Oedipus complex creates the space for the introduction of a non-incestuous love object through the dissoluble bond between desire and the object of desire. However, phallus, along with its aggressive and competitive tendencies developed in the primary oedipal conflict remain, thus creating the template of ‘love-making’, for the desired object in sublimated adult form. This is where the developmental failure can be found, at a sociological level, for the incel community. Incels, due to economic conditions they are subject too presently, have no outlet for the libidinal discharge that phallus propagates within its constituent fantasy, therefore, their anger is a result of a return to the basic constellation of the primitive oedipal fantasy that is inhibited not by the father, but present social conditions, and projected universally onto every woman. To demonstrate this failure, lets return to the central ideological tenet of the Incel community; that being, the moral injunction for the compulsory sexuality of women. If we take the Incel community strictly at their word, the central antagonism within the movement is frustration with not being chosen as sexual partners by women. They are angry with women who do not want them and therefore, seek to create a social system in which women are forced to have sex with them. Remember, the reasons for their rejection are terminal, having to do with biological factors such as physical appearance, height, body type, etc. In other words, as things stands, they are powerless to alter their fundamental impotence relative to women, the only solution to which is that of extreme sexual oppression at the societal level. In one sense, empathizing briefly (and I mean briefly) for a moment with their concerns, they seem to truly be experiencing an existential threat, one that prevents further procreation of their hereditary and the possibility of healthy libidinal discharge. This only explains their anxiety, however, not their reaction or choice in their solution. Why hasn’t, for example, the Incels movement instead become radical Marxists, mobilizing social forces under the guise of emancipatory politics? Multiple further papers could address this question, but an answer consistent with the reasoning put forth in this paper begins with their ‘template of love-making' (from the previous paragraph) as no longer functioning as an effective sublimating outlet for sexual desire, or in other words, sociological conditions prevent the actualization of sexual discharge through the mechanisms permitted by the capitalist oriented phallic myth. “This is what defines fantasy. The function of fantasy is to provide the subject’s desire with its proper level of correction, or situation. This is why human desire is always fixed, attached, and co-apted not to an object, but always essentially to a fantasy (Lacan 1958 p. 19). As things stand currently, it seems that the fantasy of phallus, that of which creates the heterosexual constellation of meaning that allows for the discharge of libidinal energies through the genitals with a non-incestuous object, is itself potentially the barrier to the very satisfaction it seeks and is therefore reacting in a violent aggressive manner, to the object of its desire. The following section of this paper will attempt to explain the interpretative significance of the symptomatology the Incel community expresses.
Capitalism and Barriers to Sublimation For a moment, we must turn to what may be considered “normal” associations and patterns associated with sexualized attributes of the phallic myth. During development, Freud states: “The libido turns away from reality, is taken over by imaginative activity, (the process of introversion), strengthens the images of the first sexual objects and becomes fixated on them. The obstacle raised against incest, however, compels the libido that turned to these objects to remain in the unconscious...and if in the phantasy-situations that lead to masturbatory satisfaction the original sexual objects are replaced by different ones” (Freud 1912 p.397-398) The incel rhetoric implies that the primary incestuous drives have been successfully regulated to the unconscious thus allowing for the possibility of finding satisfaction outside of the oedipal triad. However, the process is immediately stunted by something directly following this developmental milestone. Incels seem mostly to remain in a masturbatory phase, displaying major difficulty in being able to move beyond masturbation into full-fledged sexual relationships with woman. The evidence for this insight can be clearly seen in the universalized (Kleinian) splitting narrative as woman being ‘all bad’ that resists ever individualizing the experience of a ‘distinct’ woman, effectively lumping them all into the same general category. This effectively ‘blurs’ the vision necessary to see the sexual object (or an object as sexualized) resulting in “The whole of a young man’s sensuality becomes tied to the incestuous object in the unconscious, or to put it another way, become fixed to unconscious incestuous phantasies. The result is than total impotence, which is perhaps ensured by the simultaneous onset of an actual weakening of the organs that preform the sexual act” (Freud 1912 p.397) So, as we can now see, the incel seems to be in quite a bind relative to his sexuality. He now seeks in the world, an object that can meet his libidinal desires, but is still tied to the incestuous object, that of which is formally prohibited by taboo. We have already demonstrated theoretically that the object and the object of desire do not share an indissoluble link, nonetheless “the fact remains that it is highly problematic to confuse the relationship to the signifier with the relationship to the object” (Lacan 1958 p.311) which precisely explains the Incel’s aggressiveness toward women. Lacan’s “signifier” is desire proper; desire is the injunction of language, that of which sublimates our libidinal energy, which the Incel has acquired, but, due to the social conditions of his prolonged dependency on his parents, reverts to the only clearly defined woman in his experience, that being his mother who is implicitly restricted by taboo. Put another way, the incel is behaving like a formed sexualized subject who has returned to the Oedipal environment, and bringing with him, all the aggression from that period. What then, accounts for the almost anti-social attribute of the incel community? Incel’s glorify far-right figures, such as Elliot Rodgers, Donald Trump, and the Unabomber. How can we make sense of the appeal these public figures have on the incel community? The answer lies in two concepts, the first being that Incels maintain a hyper-, almost psychotic attachment, to the fantasy of phallus. They lack the required cynical psychological distance that mitigates the most violent tendencies of the phallic myth. In other words, the incel ‘believes too much in Phallus.’ Slavoj Zizek elaborates this point in his lecture: “One has to think of what Lacan calls the ‘phallic signifier’ is not as an organ that expresses the vital force of my being, my vitality, but precisely as such, an insignia, as a mask, that I put on in the same way in which a King or a Judge puts on his insignia”- (Zizek 2016) The economic conditions not only restrain young people from finding non-incestuous love objects, but also inhibit the development of meaningful engagement in social forces. Young people today face substantial social isolation, which has only compounded due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Basic features of building identity, self-esteem, finding ‘purpose’ seem out of reach for many young adults attempting to transition into society, leaving them little to engage with. Therefore, for many young men, Phallus itself becomes the meaningful object most available to them, as it is the primary meaningful insignia that distinguishes them initially from women, consequently, phallus also delineates other attributes as well, those being authority, reason, independence, etc. This leads to the second point regarding the Incel dynamics; the incel community demonstrates a sexualized return to the homosexuality of the latency period in psychosexual development. The latency period, while in the normal course of development, is somewhat of a relief relative to the more tumultuous developmental periods prior to it. At this stage much of the oedipal urges are regulated to the unconscious and the child can enjoy latent homosexual dynamics with peers that result in the first experiences of friendship. When one regresses to this period from a later one however, and physical changes are complete from puberty, the result is a return to homo-erotic relational dynamics centered around phallus, which now, rather than expressing itself childhood games, or hobbies that focus on ‘rule-making and rule following,’ are now fixated on the status of phallus directly, a phallus without a symbol for its meaning; the consequences of such we can see in the incel rhetoric. This point can be further explored in the following section of this paper where we will turn to the manifesto of Elliot Rodgers, a person who is idolized in the incel community. Elliot Rodgers Manifesto Elliot Rodgers is considered a hero of the Incel community for his manifesto and for his role in the 2014 Isla Vista Killing spree, in which Elliot Rodgers murdered 6 people and injured 14 others through shooting, stabbing, and ramming people with his car. After exchanging gunfire with the police, Elliot Rodgers shot himself while in his car. In the Incel reddit page that has since been discontinued, many messages and posts voiced support his reasoning behind the violence. Elliot Rodgers in his 175-page manifesto and YouTube uploads justified his murder of these people through his anger in not being able to” get a girlfriend” and “being constantly rejected by women”. This incident was deemed by the International Centre of Counterterrorism as an expression of ‘misogynistic terrorism.’ The Elliot Rodgers Manifesto is fodder for psychoanalytic inquiry into the experience of a young man who commits a heinous act of violence on innocent people, and such, for the reasoning behind the justification for this act. A brief analysis of its contents demonstrates the Incel relational dynamic with Phallus expressed in the earlier portion of this paper. To begin, Elliot Rodgers came from a socio-economically privileged background. Elliot explicitly states that by the time he was 5 years he had lived in almost 5 countries. Elliot recounts plenty of examples of when he was at “red-carpet’ events, and that is mother “was friends with George Lucas.” Elliot went to private male-boarding schools throughout his childhood and traveled to luxurious and exotic locations for vacations. However, Elliot was deeply lonely throughout his childhood as expressed in the very first paragraph of his manifesto: “All I ever wanted was to fit in and live a happy life amongst humanity, but I was cast out and rejected, forced to endure an existence all because of loneliness and insignificance, all because females of the human species were incapable of seeing value on me” (Rodgers 2013 p.1) The Incel narrative never takes notes of socioeconomic conditions, so it is not surprising that the community cares little for the apparent privilege that Elliot might have had relative to its members. Incels, like Elliot, imply a fated doom, the backdrop materialist conditions are irrelevant. The full acceptance of Elliot as a ‘hero’ in the incel community is made more revealing through the community's disregard of his privileged background; it denotes a sort of ‘tunnel vision’ on to the undermining of the phallic signifier as the single underlying cause for the distress and pain they are experiencing. The quote also implies women as the culprit behind the depreciation of phallus. The tediously long Elliot manifesto mostly reads like an adolescent journal that contains substantial amounts of jargon, but some evidence and patterns emerge that suggest Elliot was never truly able to develop beyond the latency period. The first is Elliot’s deep enthusiastic connection to activities or interests that he developed in the chronological period of latency that were sustained well beyond that period, such as World of Warcraft and other video games. Elliot’s narrative reminds one of an autistic teenager struggling with transitioning into high school. Elliot goes into detailed account about the male friendships he had throughout his childhood. All of which he was able to develop up through the latency period. But beyond this period, one can find no ‘names’ of new peers. Many of the people he knew while in the Latency period remain in his life beyond it in the narrative, but the naming of new peers' ceases. Other than the women whom his father dates, he ceases to name women even earlier. The only female peer Elliot names is ‘Hannah’ and she is introduced at the age of five. A closer reading of Elliot’s manifesto also reveals that women, more specifically ‘Nannys,’ came and went relatively frequently throughout his childhood (6 total from my count). Elliot always notes in his manifesto their departure but provides little to no detail of why they left but does recount some sadness due to their departures. Most of these Nannys also remain ‘unnamed’ therefore extending his pattern of ‘not naming’ to a specific set of adults, more specifically, adult woman who were supposed to provide care for him. Also, Eliot never acknowledges the Oedipal struggle with his father as the barrier to desired relation with his mother. This is revealed when he recounts the time, after his parents divorced, that he is introduced to his father’s new girlfriend. His framing is especially important here: “My little mind got the impression that my father was a man that women found attractive” (Rogers 2013 p.13). The experience of Eliot as it relates to his mother, is absent in the manifesto, suggesting, in a fundamental way, she must have been quite emotionally distant from Eliot as a child and Elliot never acknowledged the pain this caused him. Rather, he fixated on “physical attraction” that of which he lacked, but not his father, as the reason for his emotional isolation. The tragedy behind Elliot Rodger’s childhood is that he felt abandoned and unloved and was never able to articulate this. Eliot’s emotional abandonment from his mother resulted in Elliot experiencing absolute terror whenever approaching women in later life; any relationship with a woman risked a return to the traumatic primary abandonment. Eliot was trapped in a binary of a deep need to feel loved by women, while also completely impotent in being able to form a sexual adult relationship with women. One can see here that a political or social injunction such as “the compulsory sexuality of women” would allow for a safe outlet in which Elliot might be able to form a relationship with a woman because within such a context, he would no longer have to fear the primary abandonment he experienced from his mother. Final Thoughts I do not in any way believe that the vast majority of those who call themselves ‘incels’ have anywhere near the level of privilege that Elliot Rodgers had. My guess on the basis for the development of the Incel movement to the scale that it exists today is that it mostly stems directly from the conditions of the post-capitalist system we are trapped within. This in no way condones their actions or rhetoric. What they say and what they occasionally do is nothing less than disgusting. However, as psychoanalysts, we have an obligation to explore what is occurring within the Incel movement and not become content with neo-liberal criticisms put forth by corporate controlled media. To simply call Incels sexist, or ‘narcissists,’ is an outright dismissal, one of which neo-liberals would love for us to accept because it deflects from their accountability for the system in place that has created the movement. A proper psychoanalytic framing of the Incel movement might allow for an intervention that prevents the next Elliot Rodgers, who through his anger, chooses to murder six people.
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2021.12.23 01:41 iwwiqoCompetitive feels soooo difficult
Is this normal at this stage or do I need to train myself rather than playing a lot of casual games? I can play many competitives but it felt less fun as I couldn't coordinate well with people from other countries.
2021.12.23 00:27 SupercalumrexHow do you guys like my work in progress script for an original upcoming indie movie
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Hey! Stop the bus! That's me. Tell him to stop! Please! Stop! Hey! Stop the bus!
Mary Jane Watson: Stop the bus! He's been chasing us since Woodhaven Boulevard.
Flash's Crony: Catch a cab, Parker!
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Flash's Crony #2: What a geek!
Girl on Bus: Don't even think about it.
Flash's Crony: You're so lame, Parker.
Girl: Would you date him?
Teacher: Midtown High seniors. No wandering. Proceed direct... Knock it off. Remember, it is a privilege to be here. We're guests of Columbia University's Science Department. So behave accordingly. Let's not have a repeat of our trip to the planetarium. Come on people, stay together. Proceed up the steps and into the building.
Mary Jane's friend: MJ.
Mary Jane Watson: Where were you?
Mary Jane's friend: Checking out the library.
Mary Jane Watson: Looking at the books.
Mary Jane's friend: Yeah, right.
Harry Osborn: Charles, can we drive around the corner, please?
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Why? The entrance is right there.
Harry Osborn: Dad these are public school kids, I'm not showing up for the field trip in a Rolls.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: You want me to trade in my care for a Jetta just because you flunked out of every private school I ever sent you to?
Harry Osborn: It wasn't for me.
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Harry Osborn: I'm not ashamed of who I am. It's just...
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Just what, Harry?
Harry Osborn: Forget it.
Harry Osborn: Pete!
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Hi, Harry.
Harry Osborn: Hey, man. What's up?
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Harry Osborn: Thanks Dad.
Harry Osborn: Um, Peter may I introduce my father, Norman Osborn.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: I've heard so much about you.
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Teacher: Hey, you two! Let's move!
Nice to meet you. - Hope to see you again.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: He doesn't seem so bad.
Harry Osborn: Not if you're a genius. I think he wants to adopt you.
Guide: There are over 32,000 known species of spider in the world. They're in the order Araneae, divided into three suborders.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: That's amazing! This is the most advanced electron microscope in the eastern seaboard. It's unreal.
Guide: Arachnids from all three groups possess varying strengths which help them in their constant search for food. For example, the Delena spider, family Sparassidae has the ability to jump to catch its prey.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: For the school paper?
Guide: Next, we have the net web spider, family Filistatidae genus Kukulcania. It spins an intricate funnel shaped web whose strands have a tensile strength proportionately equal to the type of high tension wire.
Harry Osborn: Leave him alone.
Flash's Crony: Or what?
Flash Thompson: Or his father will fire your father.
Flash Thompson: What's Daddy gonna do? Sue me?
Teacher: What is going on? The next person who talks will fail this course. I kid you not.
Guide: This grass spider...
Teacher: Let's go.
Guide: ...hunts using reflexes with nerve-conduction velocity so fast that some researchers believe it almost borders on precognition.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Those guys are jerks.
Guide: ...an imminent awareness of danger a spider-sense.
Harry Osborn: Hey, look at that spider.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Some spiders change colors to blend into their environment. It's a defense mechanism.
Harry Osborn: Peter, what makes you think I'd want to know that?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Who wouldn't?
Guide: Over five painstaking years, Columbia's genetic research facility has...
Harry Osborn: You gonna talk to her now?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Oh, no. Come on. You talk to her.
Guide: With these DNA blueprints, we have begun what was once thought impossible.
Mary Jane Watson: Disgusting.
Harry Osborn: Yeah, hateful little things.
Mary Jane Watson: I love them!
Harry Osborn: Yeah, me too.
Harry Osborn: You know, spiders can change their color to blend into their environment.
Mary Jane Watson: Really?
Harry Osborn: Yeah, it's a defense mechanism.
Mary Jane Watson: Cool.
Guide: ...transfer RNA to encode an entirely new genome combining the genetic information from all three into these 15 genetically designed super-spiders.
Mary Jane Watson: There's 14.
Guide: I beg your pardon? One's missing.
Harry Osborn: Yeah.
Guide: I guess the researchers are working on that one.
Harry Osborn: Do you know that this is the largest electron microscope on the eastern seaboard?
Teacher: You were talking throughout that woman's entire presentation. Let's talk about how we listen. I don't know what it's like at those fancy private schools, but at Midtown High...
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Mary Jane Watson: Sure, yeah.
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Teacher: Parker, let's do it.
Mendel Stromm: We've solved the horizon glide and the multi-G balance issues.
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Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: General Slocum, good to see you again. Mr. Balkan, Mr. Fargas.
Maximilian Fargas: Norman.
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Mendel Stromm: In one trial yes.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: It was an aberration. All the tests since have been successful.
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Mendel Stromm: Violence, aggression and insanity.
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Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: That was only one test. With the exception of Dr. Stromm our entire staff certifies the product ready for human testing.
General Slocum: Dr. Stromm?
Mendel Stromm: We need to take the whole line back to formula.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Back to formula?
General Slocum: Dr. Osborn. I'm going to be frank with you. I never supported your program. We have my predecessor to thank for that.
Henry Balkan: Norman, the General gave the go-ahead to Quest Aerospace to build a prototype of their exoskeleton design. They test in two weeks.
General Slocum: And if your so-called performance enhancers have not had a successful human trial by that date I'm gonna pull your funding. I'm going to give it to them. Gentlemen. Ladies.
Ben Parker: And the Lord said, 'Let there be light.' And voile! There is light. Forty soft, glowing watts of it.
May Parker: Good boy. God will be thrilled. Just don't fall on your ass.
Ben Parker: I'm already on my ass, May. When the plant's senior electrician is laid off after 35 years what would you call it? I am on my ass. Hand me that dish. The green one. The corporation is downsizing the people and upsizing their profits.
May Parker: Oh, Ben, you'll get another job somewhere.
Ben Parker: Well, let's look in the paper and see. There are the want ads. What do we got here? Computer... Computer salesman, computer engineer, computer analyst. My Lord, even the computers need analysts these days. I'm 68. I'm too old for computers, and besides, I have a family to provide for.
May Parker: I love you. And Peter loves you. You're the most responsible man I've ever known. We've been down-and-out before. But somehow, we survive. Hi, sweetie. You're just... Just in time for dinner. How you doing? How was the field trip?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: I don't feel well. I'm gonna go to sleep.
Mary Parker: You won't have a bite?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: No thanks, had a bite.
Ben Parker: Did you get some pictures, Peter?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: I gotta crash. Everything's fine.
What's that all about?
Guide: In this recombination lab we use synthesized transfer RNA to encode an entirely new genome combining the genetic information from all three into these 15 genetically designed super-spiders.
Mendel Stromm: Dr. Osborn, please. The performance enhancers aren't ready. The data just doesn't justify this test. Now, I'm asking you for the last time. We can't do this.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Don't be a coward. Risks are part of laboratory science. Let me reschedule, with the proper medical staff and a volunteer.
Mendel Stromm: If you just give me two weeks...
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Two weeks? In two weeks We'll have lost the contract to Quest and Oscorp will be dead.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Sometimes you gotta do things yourself. Get me the Promachloraperazine.
Mendel Stromm: For what?
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: It begins catalyzation when the vapor hits the bloodstream and we've barely tapped the vastness of human potential.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Oh, that's cold.
Mendel Stromm: Norman? Norman! Oh, my God. Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Norman!
Norman Osborn/Geen Goblin: Back to formula?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Weird.
May Parker: Peter?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Yeah?
May Parker: Are you all right?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: I'm fine.
May Parker: Any better this morning? Any change?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Change? Yep. Big change.
May Parker: Well, hurry up. You're going to be late.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Right. Okay.
May Parker: Goodness me!
Ben Parker: Jeez. I thought you were sick.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: I got better. - See? - Bye, guys.
May Parker: You haven't eaten anything, have you got your lunch money?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Yeah I've got it.
Ben Parker: Hey Michaelangelo don't forget we're painting the kitchen right after school. Got it?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Sure, Uncle Ben. Don't start without me.
Ben Parker: And don't start up with me.
Ben Parker: Teenagers. Raging hormones. They never change.
Philip Watson: You're trash! You're always going to be trash just like her.
Mary Jane Watson: I have to go to school.
Philip Watson: Who's stopping you?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Hi, MJ. Hey, MJ I don't know if you realize this, but we've been neighbors since I was 6. And I was wondering if we could get together sometime? I got the car. Hop in. Do something fun? Or, I don't know. I thought it'd be time to get to know each other. Or not.
Student: Sorry, Parker, the bus is full!
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Stop the bus!
Flash's Crony: Catch a cab!
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Tell him to stop.
Girl: Check him out! Dork!
Harry Osborn: Dad! Dad, are you all right?
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Harry.
Harry Osborn: What are you doing on the floor?
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: I don't know.
Harry Osborn: Have you been there all night?
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Last night I was...
Harry Osborn: What?
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: I don't remember.
Simkins: Mr. Osborn?
Bernard Houseman: Sir, I asked her to wait in the foyer.
Harry Osborn: My father's not feeling well...
Simkins: Mr. Osborn, Dr. Stromm is dead.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: What?
Simkins: They found his body this morning in the lab. He's been murdered, sir.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: What are you talking about?
Simkins: And the flight suit and the glider...
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: What about it?
Simkins: It's been stolen, sir.
Mary Jane Watson: Wow! Great reflexes! Thanks.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: No problem.
Mary Jane Watson: Hey, you have blue eyes. I didn't notice without your glasses. You just get contacts?
Mary Jane Watson: Well, see you. - What happened? - He's freaking weird. Did you see that?
Flash Thompson: Parker?
It's a fight!
Flash Thompson: Think you're pretty funny don't you, freak?
Mary Jane Watson: Flash it was just an accident.
Flash Thompson: My fist breaking your teeth is the accident.
Mary Jane Watson: C'mon Flash, stop.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: I don't want to fight you Flash.
Flash Thompson: I wouldn't want to fight me neither.
People: Kick his ass.
Mary Jane Watson: Help him, Harry.
People: How'd he do that?
Harry Osborn: Which one?
Student: He's all yours, man.
Girl: Flash, get up!
Student: Jesus, Parker, you are a freak.
Harry Osborn: Peter, that was... That was amazing.
Girl: I'm out of here. Come on.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Go, web! Fly. Up, up and away, web. Shazam! Go! Go! Go, web, go!
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Tallyho.
Is she back with the beer yet?
What?
Bring me some beer.
Get up off your ass.
I paid for beer.
Stop yelling. Stop it!
You're as stupid as your mother. Where's she going? Where you going?
The dishes aren't done. Somebody's gotta do dishes.
Why don't you do them?
Get in here and do the dishes. You do them. They're yours, anyway.
I'm going out!
Mary Jane Watson: Were you listening to that?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: No. Well, I heard, but I was just taking out the trash.
Mary Jane Watson: I guess you can always hear us.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Everybody shouts.
Mary Jane Watson: Your aunt and uncle don't.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Oh, they can scream pretty good sometimes. Listen, MJ, about today at school with Flash...
Mary Jane Watson: You really freaked us out.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: I'm sorry. Is he okay?
Mary Jane Watson: He's just happy you didn't give him a black eye for graduation. So where are you going after you graduate?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: I wanna move into the city. And hopefully, get a job as a photographer. Work my way through college. What about you?
Mary Jane Watson: Headed for the city too. Can't wait to get out of here. I wanna...
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: What? No, come on. Try me.
Mary Jane Watson: I wanna act on-stage.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Really? Oh, that's perfect. You were awesome in all the school plays.
Mary Jane Watson: Really?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Yeah. I cried like a baby when you played Cinderella.
Mary Jane Watson: Peter, that was first grade.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Well even so. Sometimes you know people. You can just see what's coming.
Mary Jane Watson: What do you see coming for you?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: I don't know. Whatever it is, it's something I never felt before.
Mary Jane Watson: And what for me?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: For you? You're gonna light up Broadway.
Mary Jane Watson: You know you're taller than you look.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: I hunch.
Mary Jane Watson: Don't.
Flash Thompson: Hey, MJ! Come take a ride in my new birthday present. Come on.
Mary Jane Watson: I gotta go.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Bye.
Mary Jane Watson: Oh, my God, it's gorgeous!
Flash Thompson: Yeah, right. Look at it! Hop in.
Mary Jane Watson: Oh, my God. What a cool car!
Flash Thompson: Pretty tight, huh? Wait till you hear the sound system. Hey, don't scratch the leather.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Cool car.
May Parker: What's going on in there?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: I'm exercising. I'm not dressed, Aunt May.
May Parker: Well, you're acting so strangely, Peter.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Okay. Thanks.
Ben Parker: Something's bothering him. Maybe he's too embarrased to tell me what it is. Maybe I'm too embarrassed to ask him. I don't know, I just don't know anymore.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: I'm going to the downtown library, I'll see you later.
Ben Parker: Wait. I'll drive you there, buddy.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: I'll take the train.
Ben Parker: No, I need the exercise. Go on. Go, go, go.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Thanks for the ride, Uncle Ben.
Ben Parker: Now wait a minute, we need to talk.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: We can talk later.
Ben Parker: Well, we can talk now. If you let me.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: What do we have to talk about? Why now?
Ben Parker: Because we haven't talked at all for so long, your Aunt May and I don't even know who you are any more. You shirk your chores. You have all those weird experiments in your room. You start fights at school.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: I didn't start that fight, I told you that.
Ben Parker: Well you sure as hell finished it.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: What was I supposed to do, run away?
Ben Parker: No, you're not supposed to run away, but... But, Pete look, you're changing. I know, I went through exactly the same thing at your age.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: No. Not exactly.
Ben Parker: Peter... these are the years when a man changes into the man he's gonna become the rest of his life. Just be careful who you change into. This guy, Flash Thompson, he probably deserved what happened. But just because you can beat him up doesn't give you the right to. Remember, with great power comes great responsibility.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Are you afraid that I'm going to turn into some kind of criminal? Quit worrying about me, okay? Something's different. I'll figure it out. Stop lecturing, please.
Ben Parker: I don't mean to lecture and I don't mean to preach. And I know I'm not your father...
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Then stop pretending to be!
Ben Parker: Right. I'll pick you up here at 10.
Public: Bone Saw! Bone Saw! Bone Saw! Bone Saw! Bone Saw! Bone Saw! Bone Saw! Bone Saw! Bone Saw! Bone Saw! Bone Saw! Bone Saw!
Man: One, two, three. That's it!
Ring Announcer: Who's the man? Ladies and gentlemen give it up for Bone Saw McGraw. For $3000 is there no one here man enough to stay in the ring for three minutes with this titan of testosterone? Who? I know who. The Flying Dutchman.
Check-In Girl: Next. There's no featherweight division here smallfry. Next. No, no. Sign me up. Okay. You understand the NYWL is not responsible for any injury you may and probably will sustain while participating in said event and you are indeed participating of your own free will?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Yes.
Check-In Girl: Down the hall to the ramp. May God be with you. Next.
Told you! Told you!
Wrestling Arena Guard: Winner!
Bone Saw McGraw: Next victim!
Ring Announcer: Are you ready for more?
Bone Saw McGraw: Bone Saw is ready!
Ring Announcer: Will the next victim please enter the arena at this time? If he can withstand just three minutes in the cage with Bone Saw McGraw the sum of $3000 will be paid to...
Ring Announcer: What's your name, kid?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: The Human Spider.
Ring Announcer: The Human Spider? That's it. That's the best you got?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Yeah.
Ring Announcer: Oh, that sucks.
Ring Announcer: The sum of $3000 will be paid to the terrifying, the deadly the amazing Spider-Man!
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: My Name's the Human Spider.
I don't care, get out there.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: No, he got my name wrong.
Get out there, moron.
Bone Saw will eat you up and spit you out, little man.
I hope you brought your mommy. We'll break you! You'll need someone to cry to. I'm gonna rip all eight of your feeble legs off one by one. Oh, my God! Oh, my legs! Oh, God. I can't feel my legs.
Public: Kill! Kill! Kill! Cage! Cage! Cage!Cage!
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Hello? Guys?
Ring Announcer: Will the guards please lock the cage doors at this time?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Hey listen! This is some kind of mistake. I didn't sign up for a cage match! Unlock the thing! Take the chain off!
Bone Saw McGraw: Hey, freak show! You're going nowhere. I got you for three minutes. Three minutes of playtime.
Bone Saw McGraw: What are you doing up there?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Staying away from you. That's a cute outfit. Did your husband give it to you? Finish him off! Smash him! Hit him! - Harder! Kick his spider ass! Hit him!
Wrestling Arena Guard: One, two, three! That's it! That's it! Winner!
Ring Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for the new champion, Spider-Man!
Public: Spider-Man! Spider-Man! Spider-Man!
Wrestling Promoter: Now get out of here.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: A hundred bucks? The ad said 3000.
Wrestling Promoter: Well, check it again, webhead. It said three grand for three minutes. You pinned him in two. For that, I give you 100. You're lucky to get that.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: I need that money.
Wrestling Promoter: I missed the part where that's my problem.
Wrestling Promoter: Hey, what the hell?
Dennis Carradine: Put the money in the bag.
Dennis Carradine: Hurry up!
Wrestling Promoter: Hey! He stole the gate!
Policeman #1: Stop that guy!
Wrestling Promoter: Stop him! He's got my money!
Dennis Carradine: Thanks.
Policeman #1: What the hell's the matter with you?
Policeman #2: Let him go! Cut him off in the lobby and call the cops!
Wrestling Promoter: You could've taken that guy apart. Now he's going to get away with my money.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: I missed the part where that's my problem.
- You gotta get back. - I can't see. What happened? Old dude, man. Come on, folks. Keep moving, please. Keep moving. Let's go! - What happened? - Someone got hurt.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me.
Policewoman: Stay back. Stay back!
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: That's my uncle! What happened?
Policewoman: Carjacker. He's been shot. We just called the paramedics. They're on their way.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Uncle Ben? Uncle Ben. Uncle Ben?
Ben Parker: Peter.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: I'm here, Uncle Ben.
Ben Parker: Peter.
Policeman: They got the shooter. He's headed south on Fifth. We got three cars in pursuit. All right, folks. Come on, move back.
Policeman: Get a unit to the rear!
Policeman: I got the back!
Dennis Carradine: Who's there?
Dennis Carradine: Don't hurt me. Just give me a chance. Just give me a chance!
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: What about my uncle? Did you give him a chance? Did you? Answer me!
Policeman #1: Stop that guy!
Dennis Carradine: Thanks.
Dennis Carradine: See you.
Police: Freeze! We've got the place completely surrounded.
May Parker: Oh, no. My God. Oh, no. Oh, my God. No!
General Slocum: Good evening.
Project Coordinator: General. Good to see you. Our exoskeleton's got real firepower, general.
General Slocum: Well, if it does what you say it can, I'll sign that contract tomorrow.
Men: He's clear! Let's go!
General Slocum: I assume you're confident about this test.
Project Coordinator: Absolutely, Captain Curtis is our top pilot. Now, what about your commitment to Oscorp?
General Slocum: Nothing would please me more than to put Norman Osborn out of business.
Captain Curtis: Preflight complete. Mark.
Man #2: We are picking up an unidentified object closing fast.
Captain Curtis: What the hell is that?
Man #2: Can you see anything?
Captain Curtis: Oh, my God!
Guy: Say 'chess'.
Guys: Chess!
Mary Parker: Peter! Darling, I'm so proud of you. You looked so handsome up there.
Harry Osborn: Pete. Good news. My Father got the place in New York so we're all set this Friday.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Oh that's great!
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: You made it. It's not the first time I've been proven wrong. Congratulations.
Harry Osborn: Thanks, Dad.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Peter, the science award. That's terrific.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Yeah.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: I know this has been a difficult time for you, but I want you to try to enjoy this day. Commencement: The end of one thing, the start of something new.
Mary Jane Watson: I don't want to be with you anymore. Here's your ring.
Flash Thompson: You know what? Whatever. Your loss.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: You're like a brother to Harry. That makes you family. And if you ever need anything, just give me a call.
May Parker: Can I fix you something?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: No, thanks.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: I missed him a lot today.
May Parker: I know. I miss him too. But he was there.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: I can't help thinking about the last thing I said to him. He tried to tell me something important, and I threw it in his face.
May Parker: You loved him and he loved you. He never doubted the man you'd grow into. How you were meant for great things. You won't disappoint him.
Ben Parker: With great power comes great responsibility. Remember that, Pete. Remember that.
Hurry up! This is not a man. My brother saw him building a nest in the Lincoln Center fountain. They think he's human. They think he's a man. Could be a woman. Bobby. Get a load of this! He throws up his hands, ropes come out, and he climbs up the ropes like a spider web. I see the web and it's a signature, and I know Spider-Man was here. The guy protects us, you know protects the people. Some kind of freakyloo or something. Wakadoo. He stinks and I don't like him. Don't move, lady! Guy with eight hands. Sounds hot. Those tights and that tight little... Dresses like a spider He looks like a bug But we should all just give him One big hug Look out Here comes the Spider-Man
J. Jonah Jameson: 'Who is Spider-Man?' He's a criminal, that's who he is. A vigilante, a public menace. Why's he on my front page?
Betty Brant: Mr. Jameson your wife is on line one she needs to know if...
Ted Hoffman: Mr. Jameson there's a page six problem.
J. Jonah Jameson: We have a page one problem, shut up. Well?
Robbie Robertson: He's news.
Ted Hoffman: These are really important clients they can't wait.
J. Jonah Jameson: They're about to.
Robbie Robertson: He pulled six people off that subway car.
J. Jonah Jameson: Sure from a wreck he probably caused. Something goes wrong and this creepy-crawler is there. Look at that, he's fleeing the scene. What's that tell you?
Robbie Robertson: He's not fleeing, he's probably going to save somebody else. He's a hero!
J. Jonah Jameson: Then why's he wear a mask, hmm? What's he got to hide?
Betty Brant: She needs to know if you want chintz or chenille in the dining room.
J. Jonah Jameson: Whichever's cheaper.
Ted Hoffman: Mr. Jameson it's like this, We double-booked page six. See so both Macy's and Conway's have three-quarters of the same page.
Robbie Robertson: We sold out four printings.
J. Jonah Jameson: Sold out?
Robbie Robertson: Every copy.
J. Jonah Jameson: Tomorrow morning. Spider-Man. Page one with a decent picture this time. Move Conway to page seven.
Ted Hoffman: That's a problem.
J. Jonah Jameson: Make it page eight and give 'em 10 percent off. No make it 5 percent.
Ted Hoffman: That can't be done.
J. Jonah Jameson: Get outta here!
Robbie Robertson: Problem is we don't have a decent picture. Eddie's been on it for weeks, we can barely get a glimpse of him.
J. Jonah Jameson: Aw, what is he, shy? We can get a picture of Julia Roberts in a thong we can certainly get a picture of this weirdo. Put an ad on the front page. 'Cash money for a picture of Spider-Man' He doesn't want to be famous? I'll make him infamous!
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Hey!
Mary Jane Watson: Buzz off.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: MJ, it's me, Peter.
Mary Jane Watson: Hi! What are you doing around here?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: I'm begging for a job. How about you?
Mary Jane Watson: I'm headed to an audition.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: An audition? So you're acting now?
Mary Jane Watson: Yeah. I work steady. In fact, I just got off a job.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: That's great MJ. You're doing it. Living your dream.
Enrique: Hey glamour girl! Your drawer was short six dollars! Next time that happens, I'm gonna take it outta your cheque! Excuse me, Miss Watson? I'm talking to you! Hey!
Mary Jane Watson: Yes, Enrique! Okay? I get you.
Enrique: It better not happen no more, hear me? Don't roll your eyes at me.
Mary Jane Watson: Some dream, huh?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: It's nothing to be embarrassed about.
Mary Jane Watson: Don't tell Harry.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Don't tell Harry?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Don't you guys live together?
We're going out. Didn't he tell you?
Mary Jane Watson: Oh, yeah. Right. I think he'd hate the idea of my waiting tables. - He'd think it was low or something. - It's not low. You have a job. You know, Harry doesn't live on a little place I like to call Earth. No, I guess not. Thanks, Pete. We should catch up sometime. Let's get some lunch some evening. I'll come by and have some of your Moondance coffee some day.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: And I won't tell Harry.
Mary Jane Watson: No, don't tell Harry.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: I won't. I won't tell Harry.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Timing's perfect. Hey. Five new contracts. It'll be great.
Harry Osborn: Stormin' Norman's making his weekly inspection. Spent half of it on the phone.
Harry Osborn: Look, man, I'm glad you're here. I need your help. I'm really lost here.
Harry Osborn: Are you all right? You look like you just got second place in the science fair.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: I was late for work and Dr. Connors fired me.
Harry Osborn: You were late again? I don't get it. Where do you go all the time?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Around.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Peter Parker. Maybe you'll tell me who she is. Who's that? This mystery girl Harry's been dating.
Harry Osborn: Dad.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin:When do I get to meet her?
Harry Osborn: Dad!
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Well, sorry. Harry hasn't mentioned her.
Harry Osborn: Pete, you're probably looking for a job now, right? Dad, maybe you can help him out. - I appreciate it, but I'll be fine. - It's no problem. I'll make a few calls. I couldn't accept it. I'd like to earn what I get. I can find my own work. I respect that. You want to make it on your own steam. That's great. What other skills do you have Parker? I was thinking of something in photography. Hello. Let's go! Move it! Watch the street! Cheese! They're crap. Crap, crap. Megacrap. - I'll give you $200. - That seems a little low. Take them somewhere else then. - Sir your wife said that tile you want in the foyer is out of stock. - Tell her we'll just put a rug there. Sit down. Give me that. I'll give you 300. That's a standard freelance fee. - Tear up page one. Run that photo instead. - Headline? 'Spider-Man, Hero or Menace? Exclusive Daily Bugle Photos.'
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Menace? He was protecting that...
J. Jonah Jameson: Tell you what, Atticus you take the pictures I'll make up the headlines, ok? all right? That ok with you.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Yes, sir.
J. Jonah Jameson: Goody. Give this to the girl up front. She'll see you get paid.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: I'd like a job, sir.
J. Jonah Jameson: No jobs. Freelance. Best thing in the world for a kid your age. Bring me some more shots of that newspaper selling clown, maybe I'll take 'em off your hands. But I never said you have a job. Meat. I'll send you a box of Christmas meat. Best I can do. Get outta here. Bring me more photos.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man:Hi.
Betty Brant: Hi.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Mr. Jameson told me to give that to you.
Betty Brant: Welcome to the Daily Bugle.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Thank you. I'm Peter Parker. I'm a photographer.
Betty Brant: Yes. I can see that.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: As of today Oscorp Industries has surpassed Quest Aerospace as the principal supplier to the United States military. In short, ladies and gentlemen of the board, costs are down, revenues are up and our stock has never been higher.
Henry Balkan: Wonderful news, Norman. Wonderful. In fact, it's the reason for selling the company.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: What?
Henry Balkan: Yes, Quest Aerospace is recapitalizing in the wake of the bombing. Expanding. They made a tender offer we can't ignore.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Why wasn't I told?
Maximilian Fargas: The last thing they want is a power struggle with entrenched management. The deal is off if you come with it. The board expects your resignation in 30 days.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: You can't do this to me. I started this company. You know how much I sacrificed?!
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Oh, Max. Please.
Maximilian Fargas: Norman, the board is unanimous. We're announcing the sale after the World Unity Festival. I'm sorry.
Henry Balkan: You're out, Norman.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Am I?
Announcer: Welcome to Oscorp Industries Unity Day Festival. Welcome to Oscorp Industries Unity Day Festival. Let's hear it for Macy Gray.
Harry Osborn: MJ, why didn't you wear the black dress? Just, I wanted to impress my father. He loves black.
Mary Jane Watson: Well, maybe he'll be impressed no matter what. You think I'm pretty.
Harry Osborn: I think you're beautiful.
Harry Osborn: MJ would you do me a favour? I forgot my drink inside.
Harry Osborn: Oh, hi, Mr. Fargas.
Maximilian Fargas: Oh, Harry.
Harry Osborn: Have you seen my father around?
Maximilian Fargas: Well, I'm not sure if he's coming today.
Henry Balkan: What is that?
Maximilian Fargas: Must be new this year.
Girl: What is that?
Henry Balkan: That's our glider!
Harry Osborn: What the hell was that?
Cop #1: Code three! Code three!
Mary Jane Watson: Oh, my God! Harry!
Harry Osborn: MJ!
Mary Jane Watson: Harry! Help me! Harry!
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Out, am I?
Harry Osborn: Mary Jane!
Mary Jane Watson: Harry!
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Hello, my dear.
Woman: It's Spider-Man!
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Come on. Move, kid.
Billy's Mom: Billy! Somebody help him!
Billy's Mom: No!
Billy: Mommy!
Cop #2: Hold it right there!
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: I surrender.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Oh, boy.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Impressive.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Mary Jane!
Mary Jane Watson: Help! Someone please help me!
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Hold on!
Mary Jane Watson: Watch out!
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: We'll meet again, Spider-Man!
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Hold on Mary Jane! [pause] Well, beats taking the subway. Don't mind us. She just needs to use the elevator.
Mary Jane Watson: Wait. Who are you?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: You know who I am.
Mary Jane Watson: I do?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.
Harry Osborn: Incredible? What do you mean he's incredible?
Harry Osborn: No. All right, wait. Stay there. I'm going to come over. No, I'm gonna come... All right. Fine. Will you call me in the morning? And we'll go and have breakfast and I want to buy you something.
Harry Osborn: Because I want to. It'll make you feel better. Okay. And what do you mean, incredible? All right. I'm sorry. Sleep tight. Don't let the bedbugs...
Harry Osborn: She's all right. She's just a little rattled.
Harry Osborn: Look, Pete, I should have told you about us. But you should know I'm crazy about her. It's just, you know, you never made a move.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: You're right. I didn't.
Harry Osborn: I'm gonna get some rest.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: I'm gonna stay up for a while.
Harry Osborn: What was that thing?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: I don't know. Whatever it is, somebody has to stop it.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Somebody there?
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Somebody.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Who said that?
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Don't play the innocent with me.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: You've known all along.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Where are you?
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Follow the cold shiver running down your spine.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: I'm right here.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: I don't understand.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Did you think it was coincidence? So many good things, all happening for you.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: All for you. Norman.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: What do you want?
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: To say what you won't. To do what you can't. To remove those in your way.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: The board members. You killed them.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: We killed them. We? Remember? Your little accident in the laboratory.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: The performance enhancers.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Bingo. Me! Your greatest creation. Bringing you what you've always wanted: Power beyond your wildest dreams. And it's only the beginning. There's only one who can stop us. Or imagine if he joined us.
J. Jonah Jameson: Spider-Man. And the Green Goblin. The Green Goblin. You like that? Made it up myself. These weirdo's all gotta have a name now.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Mr. Jameson Spider-Man...
J. Jonah Jameson: Hoffman!
Ted Hoffman: Yeah?
J. Jonah Jameson: Call the patent office, copyright the name Green Goblin, I want a quarter every time somebody says it.
Ted Hoffman: How about 'Green Meanie'?
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Spider-Man wasn't attacking the city he was trying to save it. That's slander.
J. Jonah Jameson: It is not. I resent that. Slander is spoken. In print, it's libel.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: You don't trust anybody, that's your problem.
J. Jonah Jameson: I trust my barber. What are you his lawyer? Get out of here! Let him sue. Get rich like a normal person. That's what made this country.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Jameson, you slime. Who's the photographer who takes the pictures of Spider-Man?
J. Jonah Jameson: I don't know who he is. His stuff comes in the mail.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Liar!
J. Jonah Jameson: I swear. He's the one who can bring me to him. I don't know who he is.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: You are useless.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Set him down, tough guy.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Speak of the devil.
J. Jonah Jameson: Spider-Man! I knew you two were in this together.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: Hey, kiddo, let Mom and Dad talk for a minute, will you?.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Sleep
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Wake up, little spider. Wake up. No, you're not dead yet. Just paralyzed, temporarily.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: You're an amazing creature, Spider-Man. You and I are not so different.
Peter ParkeSpider-Man: I'm not like you. You're a murderer.
2021.12.23 00:20 99999999999999999989CHAPTER 22 - The Last Words of Captain Nemo
I reentered my stateroom, where Ned and Conseil were waiting silently. Captain Nemo filled me with insurmountable horror. Whatever he had once suffered at the hands of humanity, he had no right to mete out such punishment. He had made me, if not an accomplice, at least an eyewitness to his vengeance! Even this was intolerable.
At eleven o’clock the electric lights came back on. I went into the lounge. It was deserted. I consulted the various instruments. The Nautilus was fleeing northward at a speed of twenty-five miles per hour, sometimes on the surface of the sea, sometimes thirty feet beneath it.
After our position had been marked on the chart, I saw that we were passing into the mouth of the English Channel, that our heading would take us to the northernmost seas with incomparable speed.
I could barely glimpse the swift passing of longnose sharks, hammerhead sharks, spotted dogfish that frequent these waters, big eagle rays, swarms of seahorse looking like knights on a chessboard, eels quivering like fireworks serpents, armies of crab that fled obliquely by crossing their pincers over their carapaces, finally schools of porpoise that held contests of speed with the Nautilus. But by this point observing, studying, and classifying were out of the question.
By evening we had cleared 200 leagues up the Atlantic. Shadows gathered and gloom overran the sea until the moon came up.
I repaired to my stateroom. I couldn’t sleep. I was assaulted by nightmares. That horrible scene of destruction kept repeating in my mind’s eye.
From that day forward, who knows where the Nautilus took us in the north Atlantic basin? Always at incalculable speed! Always amid the High Arctic mists! Did it call at the capes of Spitzbergen or the shores of Novaya Zemlya? Did it visit such uncharted seas as the White Sea, the Kara Sea, the Gulf of Ob, the Lyakhov Islands, or those unknown beaches on the Siberian coast? I’m unable to say. I lost track of the passing hours. Time was in abeyance on the ship’s clocks. As happens in the polar regions, it seemed that night and day no longer followed their normal sequence. I felt myself being drawn into that strange domain where the overwrought imagination of Edgar Allan Poe was at home. Like his fabled Arthur Gordon Pym, I expected any moment to see that “shrouded human figure, very far larger in its proportions than any dweller among men,” thrown across the cataract that protects the outskirts of the pole!
I estimate—but perhaps I’m mistaken—that the Nautilus’s haphazard course continued for fifteen or twenty days, and I’m not sure how long this would have gone on without the catastrophe that ended our voyage. As for Captain Nemo, he was no longer in the picture. As for his chief officer, the same applied. Not one crewman was visible for a single instant. The Nautilus cruised beneath the waters almost continuously. When it rose briefly to the surface to renew our air, the hatches opened and closed as if automated. No more positions were reported on the world map. I didn’t know where we were.
I’ll also mention that the Canadian, at the end of his strength and patience, made no further appearances. Conseil couldn’t coax a single word out of him and feared that, in a fit of delirium while under the sway of a ghastly homesickness, Ned would kill himself. So he kept a devoted watch on his friend every instant.
You can appreciate that under these conditions, our situation had become untenable.
One morning—whose date I’m unable to specify—I was slumbering near the first hours of daylight, a painful, sickly slumber. Waking up, I saw Ned Land leaning over me, and I heard him tell me in a low voice:
“We’re going to escape!”
I sat up.
“When?” I asked.
“Tonight. There doesn’t seem to be any supervision left on the Nautilus. You’d think a total daze was reigning on board. Will you be ready, sir?”
“Yes. Where are we?”
“In sight of land. I saw it through the mists just this morning, twenty miles to the east.”
“What land is it?”
“I’ve no idea, but whatever it is, there we’ll take refuge.”
“Yes, Ned! We’ll escape tonight even if the sea swallows us up!”
“The sea’s rough, the wind’s blowing hard, but a twenty-mile run in the Nautilus’s nimble longboat doesn’t scare me. Unknown to the crew, I’ve stowed some food and flasks of water inside.”
“I’m with you.”
“What’s more,” the Canadian added, “if they catch me, I’ll defend myself, I’ll fight to the death.”
“Then we’ll die together, Ned my friend.”
My mind was made up. The Canadian left me. I went out on the platform, where I could barely stand upright against the jolts of the billows. The skies were threatening, but land lay inside those dense mists, and we had to escape. Not a single day, or even a single hour, could we afford to lose.
I returned to the lounge, dreading yet desiring an encounter with Captain Nemo, wanting yet not wanting to see him. What would I say to him? How could I hide the involuntary horror he inspired in me? No! It was best not to meet him face to face! Best to try and forget him! And yet . . . !
How long that day seemed, the last I would spend aboard the Nautilus! I was left to myself. Ned Land and Conseil avoided speaking to me, afraid they would give themselves away.
At six o’clock I ate supper, but I had no appetite. Despite my revulsion, I forced it down, wanting to keep my strength up.
At 6:30 Ned Land entered my stateroom. He told me:
“We won’t see each other again before we go. At ten o’clock the moon won’t be up yet. We’ll take advantage of the darkness. Come to the skiff. Conseil and I will be inside waiting for you.”
The Canadian left without giving me time to answer him.
I wanted to verify the Nautilus’s heading. I made my way to the lounge. We were racing north-northeast with frightful speed, fifty meters down.
I took one last look at the natural wonders and artistic treasures amassed in the museum, this unrivaled collection doomed to perish someday in the depths of the seas, together with its curator. I wanted to establish one supreme impression in my mind. I stayed there an hour, basking in the aura of the ceiling lights, passing in review the treasures shining in their glass cases. Then I returned to my stateroom.
There I dressed in sturdy seafaring clothes. I gathered my notes and packed them tenderly about my person. My heart was pounding mightily. I couldn’t curb its pulsations. My anxiety and agitation would certainly have given me away if Captain Nemo had seen me.
What was he doing just then? I listened at the door to his stateroom. I heard the sound of footsteps. Captain Nemo was inside. He hadn’t gone to bed. With his every movement I imagined he would appear and ask me why I wanted to escape! I felt in a perpetual state of alarm. My imagination magnified this sensation. The feeling became so acute, I wondered whether it wouldn’t be better to enter the captain’s stateroom, dare him face to face, brave it out with word and deed!
It was an insane idea. Fortunately I controlled myself and stretched out on the bed to soothe my bodily agitation. My nerves calmed a little, but with my brain so aroused, I did a swift review of my whole existence aboard the Nautilus, every pleasant or unpleasant incident that had crossed my path since I went overboard from the Abraham Lincoln: the underwater hunting trip, the Torres Strait, our running aground, the savages of Papua, the coral cemetery, the Suez passageway, the island of Santorini, the Cretan diver, the Bay of Vigo, Atlantis, the Ice Bank, the South Pole, our imprisonment in the ice, the battle with the devilfish, the storm in the Gulf Stream, the Avenger, and that horrible scene of the vessel sinking with its crew . . . ! All these events passed before my eyes like backdrops unrolling upstage in a theater. In this strange setting Captain Nemo then grew fantastically. His features were accentuated, taking on superhuman proportions. He was no longer my equal, he was the Man of the Waters, the Spirit of the Seas.
By then it was 9:30. I held my head in both hands to keep it from bursting. I closed my eyes. I no longer wanted to think. A half hour still to wait! A half hour of nightmares that could drive me insane!
Just then I heard indistinct chords from the organ, melancholy harmonies from some undefinable hymn, actual pleadings from a soul trying to sever its earthly ties. I listened with all my senses at once, barely breathing, immersed like Captain Nemo in this musical trance that was drawing him beyond the bounds of this world.
Then a sudden thought terrified me. Captain Nemo had left his stateroom. He was in the same lounge I had to cross in order to escape. There I would encounter him one last time. He would see me, perhaps speak to me! One gesture from him could obliterate me, a single word shackle me to his vessel!
Even so, ten o’clock was about to strike. It was time to leave my stateroom and rejoin my companions.
I dared not hesitate, even if Captain Nemo stood before me. I opened the door cautiously, but as it swung on its hinges, it seemed to make a frightful noise. This noise existed, perhaps, only in my imagination!
I crept forward through the Nautilus’s dark gangways, pausing after each step to curb the pounding of my heart.
I arrived at the corner door of the lounge. I opened it gently. The lounge was plunged in profound darkness. Chords from the organ were reverberating faintly. Captain Nemo was there. He didn’t see me. Even in broad daylight I doubt that he would have noticed me, so completely was he immersed in his trance.
I inched over the carpet, avoiding the tiniest bump whose noise might give me away. It took me five minutes to reach the door at the far end, which led into the library.
I was about to open it when a gasp from Captain Nemo nailed me to the spot. I realized that he was standing up. I even got a glimpse of him because some rays of light from the library had filtered into the lounge. He was coming toward me, arms crossed, silent, not walking but gliding like a ghost. His chest was heaving, swelling with sobs. And I heard him murmur these words, the last of his to reach my ears:
“O almighty God! Enough! Enough!”
Was it a vow of repentance that had just escaped from this man’s conscience . . . ?
Frantic, I rushed into the library. I climbed the central companionway, and going along the upper gangway, I arrived at the skiff. I went through the opening that had already given access to my two companions.
“Let’s go, let’s go!” I exclaimed.
“Right away!” the Canadian replied.
First, Ned Land closed and bolted the opening cut into the Nautilus’s sheet iron, using the monkey wrench he had with him. After likewise closing the opening in the skiff, the Canadian began to unscrew the nuts still bolting us to the underwater boat.
Suddenly a noise from the ship’s interior became audible. Voices were answering each other hurriedly. What was it? Had they spotted our escape? I felt Ned Land sliding a dagger into my hand.
“Yes,” I muttered, “we know how to die!”
The Canadian paused in his work. But one word twenty times repeated, one dreadful word, told me the reason for the agitation spreading aboard the Nautilus. We weren’t the cause of the crew’s concern.
“Maelstrom! Maelstrom!” they were shouting.
The Maelstrom! Could a more frightening name have rung in our ears under more frightening circumstances? Were we lying in the dangerous waterways off the Norwegian coast? Was the Nautilus being dragged into this whirlpool just as the skiff was about to detach from its plating?
As you know, at the turn of the tide, the waters confined between the Faroe and Lofoten Islands rush out with irresistible violence. They form a vortex from which no ship has ever been able to escape. Monstrous waves race together from every point of the horizon. They form a whirlpool aptly called “the ocean’s navel,” whose attracting power extends a distance of fifteen kilometers. It can suck down not only ships but whales, and even polar bears from the northernmost regions.
This was where the Nautilus had been sent accidentally—or perhaps deliberately—by its captain. It was sweeping around in a spiral whose radius kept growing smaller and smaller. The skiff, still attached to the ship’s plating, was likewise carried around at dizzying speed. I could feel us whirling. I was experiencing that accompanying nausea that follows such continuous spinning motions. We were in dread, in the last stages of sheer horror, our blood frozen in our veins, our nerves numb, drenched in cold sweat as if from the throes of dying! And what a noise around our frail skiff! What roars echoing from several miles away! What crashes from the waters breaking against sharp rocks on the seafloor, where the hardest objects are smashed, where tree trunks are worn down and worked into “a shaggy fur,” as Norwegians express it!
What a predicament! We were rocking frightfully. The Nautilus defended itself like a human being. Its steel muscles were cracking. Sometimes it stood on end, the three of us along with it!
“We’ve got to hold on tight,” Ned said, “and screw the nuts down again! If we can stay attached to the Nautilus, we can still make it . . . !”
He hadn’t finished speaking when a cracking sound occurred. The nuts gave way, and ripped out of its socket, the skiff was hurled like a stone from a sling into the midst of the vortex.
My head struck against an iron timber, and with this violent shock I lost consciousness.
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