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the-firebird69 · 8 months ago

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This is the idiot stuff and it's the mini Max from motor Corp and they don't do any of it they don't build any of these bikes and they're seriously delinquent in paying bills and they're going to lose everything and they keep jerking people around calling them assholes and they have enough money to pay the bills and they're not paying and they're pertaining they're going down when they are going down and it's pathetic as hell it's kind of dangerous but people know about it and are trying to stop them when we can't seem to do it so some red flag and a serious one and we do have remedies for other problems but this is a big problem these guys are really stupid and still know they're kind of screwed somehow and we do know what they think but they do have a plan and others will follow it luckily. Right now we have some more news and it's new

-it's about what's going on here they're bothering him harassing him walking around saying dumb s*** screwing around with him threatening him trying to get him go back to the apartment he doesn't have anything to do and sitting on him calling him names so he decided to pull the card found out a few things they're fighting over the tunnels around Florida the bugs are building up in the aquifer they're getting sick as hell and they're not taking medicine for it and they're dying and then love don't care cuz they're so sick and we need to clear them out they are still fighting and they're not taking the small ships out and the trumps need the stuff real bad and we'll probably start it off shortly there being a really aggressive

-there's other stuff happening the group is starting to listen to people and it's not good and they're getting upset and they should be they're full of crap and they're evil but they're not slowing down. Though

-they're saying the incident was recorded this morning and people see what they're saying it's their code and it's annoying anyways girlfriend is persnickety assholes and fill the place up and it's evil and you see I'm missing messing with the bike then on camera they see him changing what he's wearing and they started to go after him

-there are more things happening some of them are not very pleasant one of them is he's getting attention and it's kind of weird stuff but it's getting negative stuff all the time that's pretty much what it is

-I have a lot of alerts here but we have news

-we do have news it's fairly good size it is about the eastern hemisphere 35% empty yes and the pseudo empire bases are being attacked around the Northern Africa area they are down to 70% operational in the northern hemisphere of Russia they are down to 65% operational and the northern Europe and far northern Europe they're down to about 60% operational and yeah Europe is falling easier and they're going to flood the place they said

-other news they're after the bunker systems here and they're planning a large attack on all the Bunches of the pseudo empire and bases and 50% of the laser bases overseas they did not attack the bases or laser bases no they did 10% of the laser bases 30% of the regular basis the regular bases are half gone and we expect the whole thing and there will be replies reprisals on individuals and groups of them

-there's more in the news the ships on for the United States are cordoned off more or less they have products and trumpsters are not allowing them through bja went out there and he said what are you doing yeah he was a dick this morning and he said okay so he went after them start to hit them and said I am so sick of you God damn assholes ruining our own stuff and he said why don't you get out of the way and they wouldn't so they started firing heavy and blew them out of the water and they're gone just like anybody else and have fun on Titan by the way so the assholes issuing threats right in front of him and he's a skinny and scrawny p**** asking for trouble and he has to turn his hearing aid up I guess and yeah right how annoying so just sitting there pussies and they're going to get hit. They look like f****** retards okay these people are f****** retards and they need to leave so Brian hit them and he blew up all their boats completely they said go to hell and it wasn't that sizeable but the ships came through and we'll probably assist but we're kind of sick of this happening everyday with this Trump a****** I'm going to start pulling them out and he'll have to and we're going to keep doing it pull him out of ships pulling out of everything taking his stuff it's a matter of fact I'm going to start taking the ship so I want this guy out he's a huge loser I'm putting a hit on him now

-those other things happening and we're going to start going after it and we're going to make it work for us we have about 50 people that don't understand anything and we're going after him but this morning is

-besides tonight's huge attack in the West they're ramping it up in the east and trying to go after the pseudo empire because they lost their fleet although bja has it and he's going after Mars and they're now fighting is increasing the pressure on them and two high degrees Trump is too but he is at the fueling stations of the pseudo empire and he lost his and he's trying to take shifts and isn't working and he is sending tons of troops right now. In the Eastern hemisphere is sending 0.03% the forest it's a massive Force

-further we are witnessing a whole bunch of wise ass comments and he's ignoring them because their weaklings and sissies and makes stupid a****** comments except for Trump was a threat and we are negating it and getting him

-the further we have some attacks going on here in the pseudo empire is planning to strike back and playing to take them down we didn't anticipate Titan to begin shortly but it seems that Trump is going to sit around and reduce his assets and manpower significantly because he thinks he can run it with AI and doesn't need anybody interfering when in fact they run other defenses but that's what he says says he can run it all with a computer and that's why he dies so we have to sit here and listen to this pots whittle himself away

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We can't stand him anymore he's such a puke and no the computer won't do it you don't have a mega computer they're not they didn't even attempted you stupid a****** they had Mars and you're f****** dumb

Dan

They had other Giants there yeah I don't know who they were this sucks real bad and we're wondering what the hell's going on I'll tell you what I don't know what he's saying now he's saying my stuff sucks everybody knows it I got to go up there and try and run something and won't work so what I'm going to do it this is why don't you get the f*** out of here if they're not on your side you have less stuff I said well they're beating me up and I can't get out of here cuz of them move out no I won't yes you will you have to you don't live there it's not on the contract and you're breaking the law by doing it and after time it's criminal and someone pointed it out it's called squatting well I guess they're going to go after me good lame piece of s*** I'm putting a hit on you Trump you'll sit there and dream about leaving stupid f***. Actually had enough from everyone who gives a s*** he bothered me I'm going to f*** you up until you're dead nobody does that to you stupid f*** I don't have any problems like this except from you you're the biggest f****** a****** here and you're overcoming Tommy f no he's way behind now and he was shot at me three times and didn't do anything I'm going to f*** you up you're going to be gone.. well I guess that's it says Billy Hicks

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brookstonalmanac · 10 months ago

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Events 2.6 (after 1950)

1951 – The Canadian Army enters combat in the Korean War. 1951 – The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history. 1952 – Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya. 1958 – Eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers are killed in the Munich air disaster. 1959 – Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit. 1959 – At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished. 1973 – The Ms  7.6 Luhuo earthquake strikes Sichuan Province, causing widespread destruction and killing at least 2,199 people. 1976 – In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. 1978 – The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of four inches an hour. 1981 – The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War. 1987 – Justice Mary Gaudron becomes the first woman to be appointed to the High Court of Australia. 1988 – Michael Jordan makes his signature slam dunk from the free throw line inspiring Air Jordan and the Jumpman logo. 1989 – The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe. 1996 – Willamette Valley Flood: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest. 1996 – Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 people on board. This is the deadliest aviation accident involving a Boeing 757. 1998 – Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport. 2000 – Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile. 2006 – Stephen Harper becomes Prime Minister of Canada. 2012 – A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits the central Philippine island of Negros, leaving 112 people dead. 2016 – An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 strikes southern Taiwan, killing 117 people. 2018 – SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, a super heavy launch vehicle, makes its maiden flight. 2021 – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken suspends agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to send asylum seekers back to their home countries. 2023 – Two earthquakes measuring Mww 7.8 and 7.5 struck near the border between Turkey and Syria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XII (Extreme). The earthquakes resulted in numerous aftershocks and a death toll of 57,658 people.

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flaremberts · 3 years ago

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In case you didn't know...

In 2018, unhappiness at the workplace drove an early departure. Dan's boss, who had a turnover rate of 110%, was making the decision to move back to Florida a premature one. Yes, we always knew we wanted to get back to Florida, but always thought it would be after Ian graduated high school. After a long job search and much deliberations, October 1st, became the new anniversary date for work.

Jo (Jordan) was the next to join the parade of Remberts refugees in December. She transferred to the local Publix and started taking classes at Eastern Florida State College (Go Titans). Amy and Dan traveled to and fro by finding the cheapest airline tickets available (Amy more than Dan because...well beach time may have played a factor).

On a very momentous weekend in August of 2019, we found our future home. Dan had been searching for a while, but nothing came clear until one Sunday afternoon. We knew we wanted "Beach Side" and most likely a townhome or condo to downsize, but also had a price range. We luckily sold our SC home in a week and closed a month after, so rent was our main payment of the month...1 in Greenville, 1 in Florida, 1 in Clemson, and 1 in Charleston (Coral studied abroad...yeah, we know the irony). Once we found this place by the beach, we knew it was perfect for us! Priced the same as "used" homes, but with that new-car-smell. We had plenty of time to watch and take photos of the construction progress since we knew 4 rent payments were less than 3 rent payments and a mortgage check. Completion date was scheduled for January so March was expected (and granted).

Round about February 2020, Amy was to join the "working from home" crew with her company, when it seems the rest of the world joined her on this quest soon after. A little thing called COVID-19 (the artist formerly known at Coronavirus) caused everything to shut down.

Our closing was outdoors, we had to spray the keys for the u-Haul, the movers wore masks, and our new furniture was left in our garage. All the new normal, but tough on moving. The good news was we had plenty of time to turn our new home into living quarters instead of boxes of junk.

Soon after our move in date of March 28th, we got ready for two graduations. One happened, but the other fell short. Ian was lucky to walk with his high school class, but Coral had to only be happy with her Clemson ring and Architecture degree. After a few weeks on his own, Ian joined us in Florida getting ready for his freshman year at Florida Atlantic University. Coral moved to Charlotte to get her Master's at UNCC. Everyone seemed to be right where they were supposed to be all along.

Now that we have our beautiful home by the sea and things are getting back to social, we are excited to welcome visitors. If you have the time to get away, look us up!

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thecollegefootballguy · 3 years ago

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The Real 2020 Season: Week 12

Welcome back to The Real 2020 Season! We’re imagining how things would have gone in the 2020 football season if COVID hadn’t ruined everything.

Check out the previous weeks here if you’d like a bit of context: Week 0, Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, Week 10, Week 11

The Rankings

Week 12 College Football Playoff Rankings

1. Alabama 10-0 (6-0) 2. Notre Dame 10-0 3. Texas A&M 10-0 (6-0) 4. Florida 9-1 (7-1) 5. Oregon 9-1 (6-1) 6. Ohio State 9-1 (7-0) 7. Clemson 9-1 (7-0) 8. Georgia 8-2 (5-2) 9. Indiana 9-1 (6-1) 10. Iowa State 8-2 (6-1) 11. Cincinnati 10-0 (6-0) 12. Oklahoma 8-2 (5-2) 13. Oklahoma State 8-2 (5-2) 14. Texas 8-2 (5-2) 15. Auburn 8-2 (4-2) 16. Northwestern 8-2 (5-2) 17. Iowa 8-2 (5-2) 18. Tulsa 8-2 (5-1) 19. LSU 7-3 (4-2) 20. UCF 8-2 (4-2) 21. Coastal Carolina 10-0 (6-0) 22. Liberty 10-0 23. Wisconsin 7-3 (5-2) 24. USC 7-3 (6-2) 25. North Carolina 7-3 (5-1)

The Narrative

Last week, the Big 12 had their own week of agony the same way that the Big Ten did in the first two weeks of the season. Removing Texas and Oklahoma from the Playoff picture effectively closes the book on the conference for the season. The Big Ten *might* still get #6 Ohio State into the Playoff but things are complicated. The SEC will have at least one bid, potentially two depending on how things shake out between #1 Alabama, #3 Texas A&M, and #4 Florida. #2 Notre Dame has probably punched their ticket already. Fighting with OSU is #5 Oregon and #7 Clemson, the other remaining serious contenders.

The Games

It’s the second to last week of the regular season so you know there are some big games. Let’s see how things shook out.

Winning teams are highlighted in bold.

#11 Cincinnati at #20 UCF East Carolina at Temple Houston at SMU UT Martin at Memphis Navy at South Florida Tulane at #18 Tulsa #25 North Carolina at Boston College #7 Clemson at Wake Forest Florida State at Syracuse Louisville at #2 Notre Dame #22 Liberty at NC State Virginia Tech at Duke Miami FL at Georgia Tech Pittsburgh at Virginia Baylor at West Virginia #10 Iowa State at #14 Texas Kansas at #12 Oklahoma #13 Oklahoma State at Kansas State Texas Tech at TCU #9 Indiana at Michigan Maryland at Penn State Rutgers at Michigan State #6 Ohio State at Illinois #17 Iowa at Purdue #16 Northwestern at Minnesota Nebraska at #23 Wisconsin Charlotte at Marshall Old Dominion at Florida Atlantic FIU at Western Kentucky Middle Tennessee at Connecticut Louisiana Tech at Vanderbilt Rice at North Texas UTSA at Southern Miss UAB at UTEP Western Michigan at Akron Bowling Green at Eastern Michigan Buffalo at Ohio Kent State at Miami OH Ball State at Central Michigan Toledo at Northern Illinois New Mexico at Air Force Boise State at Wyoming Utah State at Colorado State San Diego State at Fresno State Hawaii at San Jose State Stanford at California #5 Oregon at Washington State Arizona at Oregon State Colorado at Washington Utah at Arizona State #24 USC at UCLA New Mexico State at #4 Florida #8 Georgia at Kentucky Louisiana at Missouri Wofford at South Carolina Troy at Tennessee #3 Texas A&M at #1 Alabama Louisiana-Monroe at Arkansas #19 LSU at #15 Auburn Alabama A&M at Mississippi State Georgia Southern at Ole Miss Appalachian State at #21 Coastal Carolina Georgia State at South Alabama Arkansas State at Texas State Army at Massachusetts North Alabama at BYU

The SEC West was finally decided in the titanic clash between #1 Alabama and #3 Texas A&M. At least, that’s what was supposed to happen. Instead the Crimson Tide ran the Aggies out the building. It was a crushing defeat by four touchdowns, even calling into question A&M’s claim to an at-large bid in the Playoff. Time will tell if Texas A&M can stake that claim, but they’ve dug themselves in a hole with this defeat. #1 Alabama now plays #4 Florida in the SEC title game to decide the SEC Champion’s virtual auto-bid in the Playoff. The field wasn’t complicated much otherwise. #2 Notre Dame took care of business against Louisville and #5 Oregon stomped on Washington State. The Ducks now likely take up the 4th spot as A&M will likely be busted down a few pegs.

#6 Ohio State rolled Illinois to keep their outside bid for the Playoff alive. #7 Clemson won as well, overwhelming Wake Forest in Winston-Salem. #25 North Carolina kept their push on the ACC Coastal with a road win over Boston College. While the Big Ten East conformed to the Vegas odds, the Big Ten West’s leading teams suffered crippling losses as #16 Northwestern and #17 Iowa lost to supposedly weaker division foes. #10 Iowa State overcame #14 Texas in Austin to keep their advantage in the Big 12. The Cyclones are only a few wins away from their first conference title in over 100 years. In the SEC, #15 Auburn stomped on #19 LSU, leading some to reevaluate just how good the defending champions really are. Especially as people start reevaluating Texas.

#11 Cincinnati edged out #20 UCF to further solidify their grip on the G5′s NY6 spot. #21 Coastal Carolina blew past usual division champion Appalachian State. The Chanticleers are having a hell of a season but it may not even amount to a major bowl if the Bearcats go undefeated.

The Standings

The Big Picture

We’re rapidly approaching the end of the division and conference races. #1 Alabama will meet #4 Florida in the SEC Championship Game, likely deciding the first seed in the Playoff. #2 Notre Dame has their ticket punched assuming they can beat #24 USC in the season finale, and even if they somehow don’t win they’ll still be in the conversation as a 1-loss team. #5 Oregon is eagerly eyeing the standings, hoping to have leapt #3 Texas A&M following the Aggies’ bad loss. #6 Ohio State and #7 Clemson are also happy to be moving up the pecking order with anxious glances at the 4th seed following the SEC Championship Game.

#14 Texas is now out of the running for the Big 12 Championship Game. #10 Iowa State will face either #12 Oklahoma or #13 Oklahoma State in two weeks. #24 USC has the PAC-12 South sewn up. The Trojans will meet the Ducks in Santa Clara in two weeks with revenge on their minds. With both #16 Northwestern and #17 Iowa losing, #23 Wisconsin has taken the lead in the Big Ten West race for the first time since losing to Indiana in Week 1. The Badgers will have to beat the Hawkeyes next week to clinch the division. #25 North Carolina remains in control of the ACC Coastal. The Tar Heels will have to beat their similarly surging rivals NC State in order to face #7 Clemson in the ACC Championship Game.

The G5 race goes through #11 Cincinnati. The Bearcats once again clung on to their perfect season after scraping by #20 UCF. Of course, Cincinnati will have to face one of their conference rivals once more in the American CG. The rest of the G5 really doesn’t have a shot to profit off the chaos except for #21 Coastal Carolina. The Chanticleers may sneak in if the Bearcats are upset by a 3 loss team, but even if it’s 2 loss Tulsa I have a hard time imagining that they’ll give the NY6 spot to CCU.

The New Rankings

Week 13 College Football Playoff Rankings

1. Alabama 11-0 (7-0) 2. Notre Dame 11-0 3. Florida 10-1 (7-1) 4. Oregon 10-1 (7-1) 5. Ohio State 10-1 (8-0) 6. Clemson 10-1 (8-0) 7. Texas A&M 10-1 (6-1) 8. Iowa State 9-2 (7-1) 9. Georgia 9-2 (6-2) 10. Cincinnati 11-0 (7-0) 11. Indiana 10-1 (7-1) 12. Oklahoma 9-2 (6-2) 13. Oklahoma State 9-2 (6-2) 14. Auburn 9-2 (5-2) 15. USC 8-3 (7-2) 16. Wisconsin 8-3 (6-2) 17. Tulsa 9-2 (6-1) 18. Stanford 8-3 (7-2) 19. Texas 8-3 (5-3) 20. Coastal Carolina 11-0 (7-0) 21. Arizona State 8-3 (5-3) 22. Northwestern 8-3 (5-3) 23. North Carolina 8-3 (6-1) 24. BYU 9-2 25. Iowa 8-3 (5-3)

#4 Oregon is on the cusp on returning to the Playoff for the first time since 2014. If the Ducks can finish strong it’ll be the PAC-12′s first bid since 2016. #5 Ohio State is hoping that #1 Alabama beats #3 Florida badly enough for the Buckeyes to leap over them. #6 Clemson is likely on the outside looking in, they’ll have to hope for a bit more chaos to make the Playoff.

Next up is rivalry week! All of the division races culminate here!

#college football #Alabama Crimson Tide #Notre Dame Fighting Irish #Florida Gators #Oregon Ducks #Ohio State Buckeyes #Clemson Tigers #Texas A&M Aggies #Iowa State Cyclones #Georgia Bulldogs #Cincinnati Bearcats #NC State Wolfpack #Purdue Boilermakers #Minnesota Golden Gophers #Auburn Tigers

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Amicitia – Estonian student sorority. Freemasons-Knight's Templar, 32nd Degree K.Ö.St.V. Almgau Salzburg - Austrian Catholic Student Association[34] K.a.V. Danubia Wien-Korneuburg im ÖCV - Austrian Catholic Student Association Popular culture[edit] Appears on the hull of the ship 'Searcher' in the second season of Buck Rogers. Garrison Keillor routinely references the phrase as the only Latin phrase he cared to remember on A Prairie Home Companion.[35][36] Per Aspera Ad Astra is a Soviet Russian science fiction film by Richard Viktorov, written by Kir Bulychov. Rip Torn says this phrase to David Bowie in the film The Man Who Fell to Earth. Tomo Milicevic of the band 30 Seconds to Mars has a tattoo on his right forearm reading 'per aspera et astra', with the band's logo in the background in red. Aspera! Per aspera! Per ardua! Ad astra! is the refrain of the song "Aspera" by Erin McKeown on the album We Will Become Like Birds. American singer, rapper, dancer, actress, and songwriter Kiely Williams has "Per aspera ad astra" tattooed on her right forearm. Title of a play depicting the history of the fictional Maycomb County in To Kill a Mockingbird, in which the translation is given as from the mud to the stars. Title of a song by Haggard, from the album Eppur Si Muove. The name of an album by Abandon Kansas. It is one of many hidden messages in the 2009 video game The Conduit. Motto of the Martian Imperial Commandos in Kurt Vonnegut novel, The Sirens of Titan. Title of a song by Seattle-based band Acceptance. Title of a song by Goasia, appearing on the album From Other Spaces (Suntrip Records, 2007) Appears on right side shoulder patch in Star Trek Enterprise, on the "newer" uniform style shown on the series finale. In Star Trek The Next Generation it is shown to be the motto of Starfleet. The official motto of Solforce in the videogame Sword of the Stars. The phrase is used as the name of the tenth track on the score for the film Underworld: Rise of the Lycans by Paul Haslinger. Title of a song by the band Spiritual Beggars from their album Ad Astra. Title of a song by the band Die Apokalyptischen Reiter from their album Samurai. The final mission (Chapter 15) in the Mafia II video game In a tattoo piece in The Raven The phrase has been spoofed slightly by the band Ghost in the song "Per Aspera Ad Inferi" from their album Infestissumam[37] literally meaning "Through hardships to hell".[38] Title of a background music from the Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire video games which plays during a voyage into space. In the 2015 film The Martian, at the end of the film astronaut Mark Watney is giving his first lecture to the Astronaut Candidate Program and the phrase appears embedded in the central floor area of the lecture hall around a logo In Bioware's Mass Effect 3, this phrase is set in the middle of the wall of names dedicated to the fallen crew members of the main ship, the SSV Normandy SR2. Title of character leveling achievements in Mistwalker's mobile game Terra Battle Found in the Gravity Falls Journal #3, penned on the title page. Appears on the journal both in the show and on the real-life replica.[39] The title of a Pee Wee Gaskins album (2010). The title character in Ottessa Moshfegh's novel Eileen accepts and smokes a Pall Mall and refers to the motto on the package translated as "Through the thorns to the stars." On the ship the students find in Astra Lost in Space, there is a plaque with this saying on it. The motto of the Golds in Pierce Brown's Red Rising Series. Ad Astra is a 2019 American science fiction film by James Gray. Appears in the logo of the Universal Paperclips Advanced AI Research Group. Others[edit] As part of the official team crest of Arendal Football As part of the team crest of the former Collingwood Cricket Club. A plaque honoring the astronauts of Apollo 1 at the launch site where they perished. A tribute exhibit to the Apollo 1 Astronauts "Ad Astra Per Aspera - A Rough Road Leads to the Stars" opened on January 27, 2017, the 50th anniversary of the loss of the crew, at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Inscribed on the crest of Pall Mall cigarettes packages[40] The theme of "POR CC XXI" by Kolese Kanisius Jakarta Part of a custom paint job in World Of Tanks Tradewinds Swiss[41] Space Development Network[42] Part three of the book Jepp who Defied the Stars by Katherine Marsh has the phrase as its title.[43] Appears in Morse code on the track titled "Sounds of Earth" on the Voyager Golden Record that has copies aboard the Voyager 1 & 2 spacecraft that are currently in interstellar space. [44] See also[edit] Per ardua ad astra ("Through adversity to the stars") Per ardua ad astra, additional uses with reference to above article Ad astra per aspera, additional uses Per aspera ad astra, references this article References[edit] ^ "Decorations of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin". Archived from the original on 2008-08-29. ^ "Seal of Kansas". Kansapedia. Kansas Historical Society. March 2014. Archived from the original on 2020-07-06. 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Dredd's first stories take place in the year 2099, 122 years after its publication date in 1977. His regular stories are generally set 122 years after their real-world publication date unless otherwise stated as a flashback or prequel story.

The setting of Judge Dredd is a dystopian future Earth damaged by a series of international conflicts; much of the planet has become radioactive wasteland, and so populations have aggregated in enormous conurbations known as 'mega-cities'.[25] The story is centred on the megalopolis of Mega-City One, on the east coast of North America. Within Mega-City One, extensive automation (including intelligent robots) has rendered the majority of the population unemployed.[26] As a consequence, the general population is prone to embracing any fashion or craze they encounter.[27] Mega-City One is surrounded by the inhospitable "Cursed Earth".[28] Much of the remaining world's geography is somewhat vague, although other mega-cities are visited in the strip.

Mega-City One's population lives in gigantic towers known as City Blocks, each holding some 50,000 people.[29] Each is named after some historical person or TV character, usually for comic effect. For example, Joe Dredd used to live in the Rowdy Yates Block – Rowdy Yates was a character in the American TV cowboy drama Rawhide, played by a young Clint Eastwood. Eastwood would later play the lead in Dirty Harry – one of the thematic influences by which Judge Dredd was inspired. A number of stories feature rivalries between different blocks,[30] on many occasions breaking into full-scale gun battles between them[31] (such as in the story "Block Mania").[32] The story Origins revealed that Mega-City One was formed by urban sprawl rather than deliberate design, and by 2051 it was recognised as the world's first mega-city. The Judges' powers reflect the difficulty of maintaining order. Mega-City One extends from Boston to Charlotte; but extended into Florida before the Apocalypse War laid waste to the southern sectors.[33] At its height, the city contained a population of about 800 million; after the Apocalypse War, it was halved to 400 million. Following Chaos Day in 2134, the city was reduced to 50 million. However, immigration quickly increased the population to 72 million by 2137.[34]

There are four other major population centres in Dredd's Northern America: the first is Texas City, including several of the southern former United States and based on Wild West manners.[35] South of the city is Mex-City. Far north is Uranium City. Canada, now called Canadia, remains a nation with scattered communities. Mega-City Two once existed on the West Coast, but was destroyed in 2114 during the world war known as Judgement Day.[36] Nuclear deserts and destruction elsewhere in the world are also extensive: much of the North Atlantic is severely polluted, and is now known as the "Black Atlantic".[37] An underwater settlement known as Atlantis exists in the Atlantic, half-way along a tunnel from Mega-City One to Brit-Cit (England).[38]

Nuclear desert also stretches across western Europe. The British Isles are Brit-Cit, Cal-Hab (Scotland), and Murphyville in Ireland.[39] The continent has Euro-City (eastern France and part of Germany), Ciudad España (eastern Spain), the Ruhr and Berlin Conurbs in Germany, Vatican City, and a scattering of other city-states. Russia's East-Meg One was destroyed by Dredd at the climax of the Apocalypse War in 2104.[40] Further east is East-Meg Two,[41] which has other territories under the "Sov Block" banner. Mongolia, lacking a Mega-City or Judge system, has called itself the Mongolian Free State and criminals have flocked there for a safe haven; East-Meg Two performed vicious clearances there in 2125.[citation needed]

Compared to North America and Europe, South America is shown to be in much better condition. Large fertile farmlands still exist and feed many cities worldwide, as do jungles and a variety of wild life. The main population centres are the highly corrupt cities of Ciudad Barranquilla in Argentina and Pan-Andes Conurb in the Andes on the Bolivian and Peruvian borders. Formerly two other cities existed, South-Am City and Brasilia, both of which were annihilated on Judgement Day.

In Asia, separated from East-Meg Two by an extensive nuclear desert, are Sino-City One (destroyed during Judgement Day) and Sino-City Two in eastern China, with Hong Tong built in the remains of Hong Kong. Hondo City lies on the remains of the islands of Japan.[42] Nu-Delhi (previously Indo-Cit and Delhi-City) is in southern India. Surrounding Sino-City 2 is the Radlands of Ji, a nuclear desert containing outlaw gangs and martial arts schools.[43] In the Pacific, cities survive in southeastern Australia or "Oz" (the Sydney-Melbourne Conurbation), the Solomon Islands (Solomon City), Tonga (Friendly City), and the New Pacific City; New Zealand is said to exist as well. All of Indonesia's islands are now linked by a network of mutant coral called "The Web", described as a lawless hotbed of crime, although a city called Djakarta did exist there at one point but was lost on Judgement Day.

The Middle East is without many major cities, being either nuclear or natural deserts, and only the mega-city of Luxor, Egypt has survived; the Mediterranean coast is heavily damaged by mutagens. In Africa much of the south is nuclear desert and a 'Great African Dustbowl' has formed in the northwest; but a large number of nation states have survived, whereof Simba City (Gabon), New Jerusalem (Ethiopia), Zambian Metropolitan, and Dar es Salaam are the largest cities. Nuclear fallout and pollution appear to have missed Antarctica and the Arctic, allowing one mega-city (Antarctic City) to be constructed there.

The high levels of pollution have created instances of mutation in humans and animals. The mega-cities largely operate on a system of genetic apartheid, making expulsion from the cities the worst punishment possible.[44] Mega-City One ended apartheid in the 2130s, but encourages mutants to move to Cursed Earth townships instead of remaining in the city.

Earth's moon has been colonised, with a series of large domes forming Luna City;[45] another colony, Puerto Luminae, exists but is lawless.[citation needed] In addition, many deep space colonies have been established. Some are loyal to various mega-cities, while many are independent states, and others still face violent insurgencies to gain independence. The multi-national Space Corps battles both insurgencies and external alien threats. The newly discovered planet 'Hestia' (which orbits the Sun at 90 degrees to Earth's orbit) has a colony; there are some references to colonies on Mars; Saturn's moon Titan has a judicial penal colony;[46] and Mega-City One is known to have deep space missile silos on Pluto.[47]

The paranormal is both common and often openly visible and so is accepted by both civilians and Judges. Ghosts, demons, ancient gods and two different creatures both claiming to be Satan have appeared in Mega-City One, with the Grand Hall itself known to be haunted by a disgraced former Chief Judge. Magic is real and has been practiced by some criminals. Psi-Divisions worldwide tend to be the main defence against such threats.

The Judge systemEdit

Main article: Judge (2000 AD)

Street Judges act as police, judge, jury, and executioner. Capital punishment in Mega-City One is rarely used,[48] though deaths while resisting arrest are commonplace. Numerous writers have used the Judge System to satirize contemporary politics.

Judges, once appointed, can be broadly characterised as "Street Judges" (who patrol the city), and administrative, or office-based Judges. Dredd was once offered the job of Chief Judge; but refused it.[49] The incorruptibility of the Judges is supposedly maintained by the Special Judicial Squad (SJS), although SJS Judges have themselves broken the law on occasion, most notably SJS head Judge Cal who killed the Chief Judge and usurped his office for himself.[50] The Judge System has spread world-wide, with various super-cities possessing similar methods of law enforcement. As such this political model has become the most common form of government on Earth, with only a few small areas practicing civilian rule. There is an international "Judicial Charter" which countries and city states join upon instituting a Judge System.[51]

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For @verdantmoth who asked for tragic happy and Idk if this fits, but here, darling. It’s a little over 3k so, AO3 if you prefer.

~*~

“I've been to Titan but I've never been anywhere else,” Peter confesses one night when tears have taken the place of whiskey.

“He promised to show me the world,” he says, and it’s not--it’s not quite asking for something.

It’s not not asking either.

“I’ve been everywhere,” Bucky says, and there’s a hint of Winter in his voice that makes Peter’s head roll to look at him. “But I don’t think I’ve seen anything.”

~*~

They’re bound together, now.

Not necessity, really--there were other people, for both of them, people who understood better what each was going through.

But they found each other, often enough, at the memorial, that it became easy, falling into each other’s space.

And Winter watched him, when Peter tripped too close to dangerous, when the grief loomed large and inescapable, tugged him back, into the cool metal embrace.

They never talk about it--about why Winter watches him or why Peter trips along the edges of buildings or the endless nights sitting silent next to a silent stone.

There’s no real need.

~*~

They died.

And they came back and Peter thinks--it’s not fair. Because he didn’t want to come back without Tony.

“Sometimes I wish they hadn’t succeeded,” he murmurs, and Bucky looks down at him, his eyes bright and sad and knowing.

“Me too, kid.”

~*~

“We could go,” Bucky says one day. It’s the end of a bad day, the end of a bad week, and he feels wrung out, scraped raw, the ghosts that haunt them clinging too tight, and Peter is still, for the first time, in his arms.

He wonders if it’s exhaustion or the skunky smoke billowing through the apartment.

“Where?” Peter asks. Where can we go that we won’t see them?

“Anywhere. Everywhere. See the whole world.”

Peter is quiet, long enough Bucky thinks he’s dismissed it. And then, soft and shy. “Yeah. I think--yeah.”

~*~

They take three weeks to get things at home in order, and then Peter arrives at Bucky’s door, and Winter frowns at him, at the too light bag on his back and the gauntness of his frame, and sighs. “Feed you first. Then we’ll go.”

~*~

It sets the tone. Winter frets over him, feeds him every time they stop--they drive the length of the eastern seaboard, stopping in tiny tourist towns that Peter finds fascinating and reminds Bucky of his life before the war. They avoid big cities and their memories and memorials, and Peter traces the arc reactor in the ice on the window, one morning, but aside from that, they don’t talk about it.

They don’t talk about much, Bucky realizes.

~*~

Peter cries, sometimes. It makes something in Bucky ache, hearing his near silent sobs. They stop on a stretch of highway between towns, and he sits on the beach and Bucky can almost believe the salty drops sliding down his face is sea spray and not tears.

“Do you miss him?” he asks and Bucky doesn’t know how to answer.

Yes, so much it hurts, so much sometimes he can’t breath.

No. Steve has been gone for so much longer than he can say, since before Titan, since before Hydra and that goddamn train.

“Yeah,” he says, and it’s soft. A quiet admission.

Peter looks at him. “Did you love him?”

Bucky doesn’t answer, and Winter doesn’t answer, and the wind sweeps over them, and washes the questions away.

~*~

He does miss Steve.

But he also knows it’s different. It’s not the bone deep ache, the kind that wakes Peter in the night screaming, the kind that makes him dance on the edge of roofs, daring the wind to snatch him away and Winter to let it.

He misses Steve because he loved Steve, will always love him, in his own life altering way.

But Peter--every day, he spends with Peter, and every day, he thinks--this could be my true north.

~*~

Peter wakes up screaming three times in Florida, screaming and sobbing, begging Winter to let him go, begging for Tony, scratching at his skin and metal, until he slumped, exhausted and limp, in Bucky’s arms and cried himself back to sleep.

For the first time, Winter wonders if he should let him go.

~*~

They get on a plane, after that, leave behind the states and the inadvertant memories of what they lost. Peter sleeps against Winter’s shoulder, soft and insistent, and it coaxes something in him to loosen, to relax. His arm slips around the sleeping spider, holds him close, and his heartbeat pounds too loud in his throat, but he closes his eyes and thinks maybe they’re going to be ok.

Maybe, somewhere else, they can be ok.

~*~

Peter is quiet in Paris. He wanders the streets, presses too close and pulls away too far, and it’s confusing and expected. They go to the Louvre and Bucky trembles as Peter leans into him, pointy chin hooked over his shoulder.

They go to the Eiffel Tower and Peter blinks away tears.

They stay in a shitty hostel, and Peter crawls into his bunk and Bucky slips into his, and if he cries, the boy doesn’t mention it, the next morning. He just sits close and leans his head on Bucky’s metal shoulder as they sip their hot chocolate and watch pigeons.

Later, when they’ve walked so far that even Peter’s tireless energy has begun to flag, Bucky buys flaky croissants and sharp cheese and they sit on the curb of the street, sharing it, and Bucky tells him about the first time he came to Paris, during the war.

Peter listens, and their ghosts feel very far away.

~*~

They spend a day holed up in a hotel in London. Peter teaches him how to play poker. Bucky teaches him how to play with knives. He goes out once, and comes back with beer, thick and cheap and bitter on Peter's tongue, but it's easier to sleep, when he drinks.

"Tony used to drink too much," he says, once, when his eyes are drifting closed and the beer is gone. Bucky pets his hair back, and he thinks that should be strange, but it's not.

They go to the West End and Piccadilly Square and Peter drags Bucky on a red, double decker bus, riding it across London Bridge and past Big Ben.

"I could climb that," he says, lazily and Bucky laughs, something he feels against his back and he smiles.

They eat in a tiny pub that's tucked between a bookstore and a tailor. Bucky sneaks Peter his beer and Peter licks his salty fingers, and eats his way through two plate fulls of fish and chips, until his belly is full and his mind is fuzzy and he thinks maybe when he sleeps this time, he won't dream.

"Do you dream of them?" he asks, once, when they're collapsed in their separate beds.

"Yes," Winter murmurs and Peter blinks, bites back his shiver.

~*~

Stonehenge is deserted in the rain, and Peter thinks, Bucky standing in the rain and stone circle, hair clinging to his face and water sliding down his metal arm, looks like an ancient and pagan god.

Winter looks at him, his eyes bright in the gloom, and Peter smiles at him.

They go north, follow the road til it ends in the sea, and Peter sits there.

"Why do you like the water?" Winter asks, settled behind him and Peter leans back into his warmth.

"I don't know. I think--it reminds me of him? It's wild. Cold, but soothing too."

Winter doesn't respond to that.

"Can we go to the highlands, next?" Peter asks and Winter nods.

"Anywhere you want."

~*~

Sometimes, Peter will stop and he'll look at Bucky. It always startles him when it happens, because he can never tell when it will. But Peter will stop and he'll stare, his gaze piercing and intense, and sometimes--sometimes that's all, he looks away and turns the conversation and they move on, and he dismisses it as stray thoughts and things they don't talk about.

But sometimes, Peter will look at him and a smile will curl at the corner of his lips, shy and not quite there, but the hint of something that Bucky wants to chase, wants to tease out.

He wants to see something other than sadness and guilt in Peter's eyes, wants to see something other than lines on his face.

He wants to see Peter smile, and more than that--he wants to be the reason Peter smiles. It's terrifying and the day he realizes it--they're still in Scotland, in the Highlands, Peter loves it, the endless green mountains and rocky cliffs and the little hamlets they spend their nights in, with squinty eyed suspicious locals and food so good he doesn't even have to badger Peter into eating, he does it all on his own--he bolts away, spends almost twenty four hours gone, not quite lost, but hidden away enough that Peter can't find him, and he watches his boy.

He only comes back when he sees Peter curled in his bed, crying, and only because guilt is eating at his stomach, and he let's Peter curl against him, hand fisted in Bucky's shirt and trembling.

"You can't leave me," he whispers. "Not like--"

Not like Tony. Not like Steve.

"I won't," he promises.

~*~

Peter seems to shake the melancholy when they reach Copenhagen. It lingers in his eyes, but there’s excitement too, and his hand, gripping Bucky’s, is eager and tight, tugging him behind as they weave through the crowds. They see the Little Mermaid and Rosenborg Castle. Bucky holds him in a loose embrace, and Peter lets him, leans back into the embrace like this is normal for them.

He lead Peter through the market at Strøget, buys them piles of hot meatballs, sticky bread, a little bowl of pate and crispy crackers. Peter wrinkles his nose at that, but he licks his fingers clean, after, his pink tongue chasing the taste of it, and Bucky has to swallow hard and look away, biting into the last of their frikadeller before he crumples the trash together and tosses it aside.

“Where to next?”

The grin Peter gives him is bright and wicked.

~*~

Amsterdam is trouble.

Winter hates it, but Peter--Peter comes to life under the neon lights and cobbled streets. They go to a club, and he dances there, with Winter’s gaze heavy on him, a pale writhing, beautiful thing.

Other people watch him too. One is handsy, his grip on Peter loose and low on his hips and it burns, hot ugly jealous, in Winter’s throat, watching Peter smile at him, watching them grind together.

But he hears, the low dirty voice, and higher, clearer, Peter’s.

He hears no .

Winter moves fast, faster than he realized, crossing the distance and jerking the guy away from Peter. He gets a quick glimpse of Peter, the shock and disgust, the bruised wet lips, and then he’s hitting the bastard, the man who dared touch what isn’t his, and he can hear people screaming, but he can only hear Peter, his voice high and outraged, and saying no.

“Bucky,” Peter shouts, catching his fist. The guy is slumped, bloody and broken at his feet, and Peter is trembling and close, close, close--

“Come on,” he hisses, and drags him out of the club.

~*~

They stumble into their hotel, and Peter trembles, and Bucky doesn’t know if it’s the adrenaline or the fury, but he’s trembling and there are tears in his eyes that haven’t quite fallen.

He reaches for the joint, lights it and offers it up to his boy--his boy, when did Peter become his-- and when he doesn’t immediately take it, Bucky sighs.

He drags Peter onto the bed, situates him so they’re close, knees pressed together, and draws on the joint, letting the smoke fill him up, before tugging Peter close, close, almost close enough.

He wants to close that tiny distance, wants to cover up that stolen kiss with something softer and gentle and wanted.

Peter doesn’t want him.

Peter wants a ghost, and Bucky wants Steve, and they are nothing more than companions forced together by life and loss.

He opens his mouth and offers up the pungent smoke like a lifeline and Peter leans into it, sighs and takes the gift.

~*~

Bucky watches him.

Winter watches, but Bucky--Bucky watches him and it’s different.

It’s heavier.

It feel warm and waiting, like if Peter will just turn into that gaze, there will be... something... waiting for him.

He sees the fury on Winter’s face in the club, and the hunger on Bucky’s in their hotel, and he knows it’s dangerous, tilting toward him in the narrow bed, and letting smoke cloud his head.

He licks his lips and Bucky makes a noise, low and indistinct, and Peter.

Peter smiles.

~*~

He has nightmares in Berlin, and Peter shakes him awake, sits next to him on the couch, pressed together shoulder to thigh. They don’t talk. Sometimes, he thinks, they don’t talk because they understand each other far too well to need words.

Peter sits there, until the sun rises and creeps into their room and says, “Come on. Let’s find somewhere happier.”

~*~

They go to Greenland.

This time, they avoid the major cities, go to a tiny cabin in the middle of a field of ice, a place Bucky knows. He doesn’t say, but Peter thinks it must be a safehouse Hydra used. It’s dusty and dark, but it’s warm and dry, and Peter collapses into the big bed, a puff of dust coming from the sheets. Bucky busies himself with their bags, and he smiles, faint but happy, when he sees Peter, snoring softly.

They stay for a week. Peter spends half of it sleeping, and joins Buck on his long walks through the cold snow. They take a brief trip to Scorsby Sound, and watch whales and icefloes and Peter’s cheeks go pink and windburnt and beautiful.

“I like it here,” he says.

“I used to come here, after missions. Before I got pulled back in. It was empty. I liked it, the quiet.”

Peter looks at him and Bucky flushes under those heavy eyes, until Peter smiles, and catches his fingers, squeezing delicately.

The fourth night in Greenland, they spend under the stars, and Peter says, “I miss them, sometimes.”

“What was it like?” Bucky asks, softly. Carefully.

“Big,” Peter says. “I remember how small I felt, like I was going to get lost in the vastness of it.”

He doesn’t say, Tony wouldn’t let me.

He doesn’t say, I did get lost.

“I’m glad you came home,” Bucky says, hoarse, and Peter turns away from the stars, away from the shimmering Northern Lights to smile at him, bright and clear.

~*~

There is only one bed, and Peter thinks it should be stranger than it is. But falling into bed next to Bucky, curling into his warmth and listening to the soft beat of his heart under his ear--it’s not strange.

It’s natural and right, and he wakes from a nap, and stares at Bucky, at his stubble and the hair falling over his face, the lines that have eased around his eyes, and he thinks--he would keep this, if he could.

He thinks it’s the first thing he’s wanted to keep since Tony died.

~*~

Peter refuses to go some places. Italy and Malta. They skip over both and land in Greece for trips through the Parthenon, and long mornings on beaches in Crete and bottles of ouzo. They eat olives soaked in spices and oils, pita bread stuffed with lamb and greens, until Peter lazes against Bucky’s shoulder and Winter doesn’t worry about how skinny he is.

They skip Africa and Mexico--too many bad memories, Bucky says--and wander through the Amazon for a few weeks. Peter still refuses to touch his suit, but for a few days, Peter swings through the trees, high above Bucky’s head, and it feels nothing like New York, nothing like Titan, nothing like life with Tony--and maybe that is why he can do this.

They spend a few days in Rio, and a week in Chile, and Peter dangles his legs from the edge of an Ande mountain and almost gives Winter a heart attack before he smiles, and they move on.

He notices the laughter there, echoing off mountains that scrape the sky, and he notices Peter’s slumped, tensionless shoulders in India, when he pets an elephant, and thinks--

There haven’t been nightmares in weeks.

Maybe.

He holds his breath and he hopes.

~*~

New Zealand reminds Peter, a little, of Scotland. It’s endless ancient beauty, the vibrant green, the aliveness of it all.

“It almost feels like it never happened, here,” he whispers, and Winter doesn’t ask what he means, just hugs him a little bit closer.

He leans into it, and it doesn’t ache, not like it used to.

~*~

He has seen Peter in a thousand places, it feels like, has watched him under moonlight and sunshine, in rain and snow, under bright lights and shadow, in streets and cities and wilds, all around the world.

He thinks, sometimes, he has gotten used to looking at him.

And then Peter spills onto a beach in Australian, board shorts indecently low on his hips, a smile wild and wide and aimed right at Bucky, and it takes his breath away, all over again.

“Come snorkel with me,” Peter coaxes, and he does, follows, helpless to do anything else with this boy.

~*~

“Where next?” Peter asks, one day. They’re in Thailand, and Bucky rolls his head to look at his boy, lazy and content next to him in the heat. The sea shimmers beyond their stilted hut, and Peter looks--

Happy.

He looks happy.

“Anywhere,” he says, and Peter peeks at him.

“I’d go anywhere with you,” he says, honestly.

~*~

He’s seen the world, through a veil of tears and grief peeled back slowly, and when it was--when the agony gave way to relentless beauty of the world, bright and living around him, he saw the world , exotic and beautiful and laid at his feet.

He saw Bucky, patient and worried, Winter, quiet and waiting. Always, always, watching him.

~*~

Peter kisses him carefully, and it tastes like seaspray and sand, like the mango and coconut curry he woke Peter with, and Bucky’s hands close over his hips, hold him steady, drag him closer, rocks them together as Peter kisses him and kisses him and kisses him.

~*~

“Where next?” Peter asks, later. He’s naked and Bucky is mouthing at his hip, absentmindedly. Bruises are fading on his hips, and come is smeared on his belly and Winter flexes his fingers, just to feel Peter shudder and push back against them.

Too tired, he decides, to do anything. But the little whine Peter makes when he rubs his thumb over Peter’s swollen rim is delicious.

“Wherever you want, sweetheart,” he murmurs.

Not doll.

Not baby.

Not anything they might have used.

But Peter smiles at him, shudders as he spreads his fingers and closes his eyes. Maybe not too tired.

“Alaska,” he huffs a moment before Winter kisses him, a moment before he slides deep, and the word twists into a groan.

He can see it now--Peter in the snow and sunlight, cheeks stained red and naked in front of a fire.

Bucky smiles. “Anywhere, sweetheart.”

#winterspider #arei writes fic #bucky barnes #peter parker #angsty fluff

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Out of Time: Atemporal Machines in the Garden-- Contemplating the “West” in two films by Andre de Toth and Robert Aldrich

“…(T)he essential impurity of cinema…this thesis has signified above all that the passage of an idea in a film presupposes a complex summoning forth and displacement of the other arts (theatre, the novel, music, painting…), and that as such ‘pure cinema’ does not exist…” - Alain Badiou, Philosophy and Cinema in Infinite Thought; Truth and the Return to Philosophy

“The pastoral ideal has been used to define the meaning of America ever since the age of discovery, and it has not lost its hold upon the native imagination…here was a virgin continent! Inevitably the European mind was dazzled by the prospect…(i)t was embodied in various utopian schemes for making America the site of a new beginning for Western Society” - Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden; Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

Those who led the ‘march of civilization’ from the 18th century on were inclined to be contemptuous of the countryside, the home of the backward farmers, shaggy yokels, or pleasure-seeking aristocrats living on their feudal rents, not on profits wrung from trade and manufacture…” - Lewis Mumford, “Suburbia-and Beyond” in The City in History; Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects

We have here, on the one side, as if in the form of brackets (let us say), a vision of America stretching as far back as the 15th century, and a bit later during the age when Shakespeare wrote his New World play, The Tempest, where rugged, New Europeans tested their mettle against God and Nature starting in the Florida, Massachusetts and Virginia forests and then, some two centuries later after the Louisiana Purchase, forced their way past the Mississippi River and into the plains and foothills; the avant-garde of these settlers pushing deep into the land and space of the imagination, further westward, but also northward, into the Wyoming mountains. These people constitute the eastern, right-hand side of these conceptual brackets that make up the idea of the West.

On the other side, far away from the mountainous peaks of Wyoming, lay the land of California (along with that almost eschatologically-absolute body of water, the Pacific Ocean), which was to become, if not the formative space and land of the imagination, describing what America is as a whole, then at least its most rugged and constitutive metonymic representative; California as the United States.

Between the right-hand bracket of the Wyoming mountains and the left-hand bracket of California and the Pacific is where much of our nation’s imagination has oscillated back and forth, throughout half of our history, between an individualistic view of nature and land as something to be tamed and controlled, and a view in which the land is envisioned as a cornucopia of plenty, given to all those who live in it, free of charge. A “laissez-faire” Elysium Field where we write our most holy myths of life, youth and infinitude…“God’s country”, as perhaps that most paradigmatic of Western individualists, the actor Ronald Regan, might say.

Both the movies by Andre de Toth, Day of the Outlaw, and Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly, can be seen as engaging with these conflicting yet intertwined views of the American West. De Toth’s movie renders the Wyoming landscape as brutal and difficult, yet it can be seen as an idyllic representation of the Pastoral Ideal (1), where individuals race against Nature to carve out their own identities and senses of belonging, ultimately finding success after harsh trials and tribulations. On the other hand, Aldrich’s movie sets upon the stage, in a future over a century later and within the now overrun idyllic landscape, the machine of the city (2), which has rooted itself as an a-historical being that feeds upon older ideas of individuality along with contemporary “newness”, only to spit back a similar kind of loneliness and emptiness that the rugged West shot back at the original Pioneers.

Also, this is the case not just in the way the stories unfold (they are, in their narrative construction, typical Hollywood cinematic storytelling vehicles), but perhaps more significantly in the way each director, with his cinematographer, situated the camera and then chose the precise shot in the editing room. Both filmmakers would end up using very talented lensmen and editors (3) to execute their respective visions of the West--It is here, in the “Range of Light” (4), that the great conflict in conceptualizing the West is set in these films, a situation which one could argue continues to this day.

Day of the Outlaw

If we look at de Toth’s Day of the Outlaw as a conflicted arena of forces pitting the idyllic concept against the realities of nature (whether physical, or even psychological), we can see it reflected most effectively in both the composition of the shots and some of the editorial decisions.

Right from the start, in the transition from the first scene to the second, evidence of this conflict is alluded to, as the main male protagonist Blaze finishes his conversation with a local townswoman (with whom he has a love interest), the editor performs an L-cut transition, letting the sound and dialogue from within the saloon’s interior carry over into a shot that shows the great expanse of mountains behind a portion of the town’s buildings. This strategy creates an excellent mood for mixing the interior world of humanity and the exterior world of nature, which can be viewed as being separate and antagonistic, yet combined, forming an unstable whole.

Likewise, the latter part of the second scene shows Blaze exiting the saloon by allowing his upper body to come into the right of the fame in close up, while the rest of the frame shows the mountains beyond, along with small figures of other townsmen walking on the dirt road that constitutes the main avenue in the town.

In these two examples, the mixing of far-off nature and in-close humanity is exactly the kind of visual trope that illuminates this film as a space of atemporal conflict of no resolution between nature itself and the local residents. Cerntainly, this is by no means unique to this particular film, but the manner in which de Toth and his cinematographer render it gives it an artistic weight that creates a dialog with other photographic renderings of the West (c.f., 4).

Another cinematographic technique in line with this idea, used a bit later on, is one in which the filmmakers panned the camera in an almost 180-degree arc, starting at the opening of the town’s road, pointing out to the peaks of the nearby range, and turning across the town’s few buildings nearly stopping at the other end of the road. The whole time, the gigantic range of mountains behind loom over the ramshackle buildings, de-scaling them into insignificance even though they take up most of the frame. This flattening of the picture plane meshes figure and ground relationships, yet, at the same time, puts into conflict the idyllic landscape and the humans trying to live in it.

A point in this film which is not only pivotal, but also an integration of outer and inner worlds, is a moment when the male protagonist is in his hotel room staring out his window at the mountain range that is to be his and so many other men’s fateful space of reckoning. After a moment, the camera tracks him from behind as he moves towards a mirror in his room and then stares into this alternate looking glass. Indeed, mirrors will prove pivotal at several moments in this movie serving as symbolic surrogate for either the interiority of the character or the outside world itself (5).

As the story continues, de Toth has the camera play these tricks of in-and-out compression of space (6) more voraciously. For instance, as the dance scene whirls the camera round and round, figured in the earlier, near 180-degree pan that showed us the town’s main street and looming mountain range, the director then, in an excellent effort to transition from one scene-space into the next, pulls the camera outside the bar to look in through the window as we view the whirling dancers. Then, a direct cut is performed that reveals the “docs” place, which leads to a cut to the exterior shot of the town and its main road finishing with a fade back into the bar.

Such complex maneuverings of camera and editorial decision-making are well thought out artistic choices that completely enclose the space of the town and its residents with their (unfriendly) visitors, yet at the same time open all of them into the surrounding environment. This is part and parcel the kind of technique that is often used in cinema of this genre to rewrite, time after time, the story of idyllic nature and “man’s” place in it as a completely conflicted being wrestling with both internal conflicts of various sorts and the mighty untamed bear of Nature (7).

The penultimate scene of this film is one that has Blaze surviving most of the antagonists on a desolate peak above his town. Here, he (predictably) defeats his remaining enemies by outlasting them in the cold. The most interesting feature of this scene is the space in which de Toth decided to shoot the “showdown”. In this space, there are several rock outcroppings in a fairly flat spot of ground that eerily mimic the mountain peaks as seen from down below in the town. It’s as if Blaze and his final two enemies have been transformed into allegorical giants hovering above the Lilliputian town, thrashing and outwitting each other in a final clash of titans, as this space can be viewed as the very edge of existence itself (8). Indeed, it is the eastern edge of the idyllic West, a space that had to be won and conquered from not only unwanted “Indians”, but by the very struggle of “White Man’s” battles within himself to define who he is and how this land may be conceptualized; either as magnificent place of plenty, or (no)place of resistance and fury.

So, we see that no matter where any of the characters turn, gaze, place themselves, consecrate as their home, love, or die, they are always battling between an individualistic view of nature as something to be tamed and controlled, and a view in which the land is envisioned as a nourishing blessing--De Toth’s camera is both a magnificent witness and constructor of this tangle of myth and Being.

Kiss Me Deadly

Though the vision of Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly is of a different order both spatially and historically (the West has long been “won” and we are thrown into a metaphysical no-place that eats history up in the name of progress and finds the protagonist awash in an atemporal space much akin to Day of the Outlaw), the resulting experience of the West is (not so) strangely the same. That is, even in mid-twentieth century Los Angeles, the West has not changed much as a conflicted conceptual entity of combined myth equipped with an antagonistic view of nature.

In the beginning of Aldrich’s movie, a rhythmic repetition is established between the dividing-lines on a road, the running footsteps of our soon-to-die heroine and two different close-ups of her running towards the camera. This cinematic progression is repeated three times as cars pass on the road, ignoring her until the main male protagonist, Mike Hammer, stops and picks her up.

This action of repetition, though seemingly different from the ins-and-outs of de Toth’s camera, performs the same recombination of spatial features between character and “Nature” but in a tighter circle: less expansive outside of the character’s body (9), yet still rotating around them in a similar fashion. As we shall also see, this kind of spatially tight, enclosing repetition will find its way into the various decaying architectures that constitute the city of L.A. in the 1950’s. An L.A. that was quickly disappearing, from Bunker Hill to the Chavez Ravine; a victim of progress and various urban issues emanating from this era which would come to a head in the 1970’s (10).

Many of the shots in Kiss Me Deadly are tilted and/or at an angle, starting with the hospital exterior where the camera starts out below Hammer and then shows a shot above from the rooftop, looking down to the figures on sidewalk. This kind of back-and-forth is similar to the shots in Day of the Outlaw where the characters were combined with the idyllic landscape and mountains, but the main difference with Aldrich’s movie is that we see very little of what is beyond, and only view pieces of street intermixed with buildings.

The most significant scene where this kind of hermetically sealed camera work is in play, is the “shadowing” scene where Hammer is stalked at night by a crook armed with a switchblade. Here, the camera sets itself at various 30 to 45-degree angles to follow the characters as they play a short game of detective cat-and-mouse. The camera sets itself up to capture light, shadow, store fronts, close-ups of faces, back to angles of shops, close-ups of shoes, back to the faces now in profile, cigarette machines with mirrors…this whole cinematic, German Expressionistic menagerie ending with Hammer beating up the crook and sending him down a monstrous flight of stairs.

The back-and-forth, in-and-out action that the camera executes in Aldrich’s film is, again, similar to de Toth’s choice of movement. By keeping the camera’s cuts between the figure and its immediate surroundings locked together in a dance (11), Aldrich ends up stripping the idea of the landscape down to its bare minimum--Here in L.A., at the outer limits of the West, there is no landscape to speak of. Here, there is no grounding outside of a person’s immediate surroundings. It is indeed, a “silent land”. Ironically, this situation locks the characters into the very atemporal sense of time that the others experience in Day of the Outlaw. The West may now be a barren wasteland filled with decaying buildings, but it is still the purveyor of space qua space and only space.

The spaces within the architectures in Hammer’s city are just as self-referential in layout as they are in occupying the city grid. Each clue or potential source he finds (12) leads him to a stunning array of labyrinthian houses and hotels from the Victorian era. And, each of these architectures contain within themselves an almost Danielewski-like (13) set of staircases:

The first lead takes Hammer to a very old Victorian mansion possessing a large flight of stairs (the building is subdivided or turned into an apartment complex, like many large old houses in the area; an early hint that the domestic spaces of L.A. are voraciously fragmented).

Hammer then helps an old mover lug a trunk into the building. Camera shoots from above, looking down, then looking up as they ascend. Old guy tells Hammer where Christina’s roommate moved. Hammer goes to where she supposedly lives and finds it also has a huge flight of stairs going up to her room. He climbs these stairs and we watch him from above, looking down through the maze of a rectilinear spiral staircase that goes upward to some unseen floors.

Later on, after a few other scenes, Hammer drives to another lead at a certain Hillcrest Hotel. Here we see him arriving in his car, driving underneath a pair of cable-car looking trolleys that pass overhead in opposite directions (This is the old Bunker Hill part of LA that has long since faded). Hammer gets out of his car and climbs the longest set of stairs so far, in order to get to the hotel only to have to climb another flight of stairs to access the room to meet his lead.

All of these stairs lead to dead ends (or to themselves); none of them are truly passages to any place whatsoever, and the camera locks us, along with the characters, into the labyrinth that is L.A., and the West--Whether we are trapped in the great range of the Rocky Mountains, or some dank set of stairs that spiral into the darkness of reality itself, there is no (meta)physical escape “way out here”, and we are doomed to circle our own wagons in fear of a place without any sense of time or history.

But, this space of repeating stairs and soon-to-vanish Victorian architecture is not the most sublime “no-places” Aldrich builds for us. That discovery is reserved for the end of the film where we encounter the Malibu beach house in the final scene, placed as it is on the edge of the Pacific Ocean, the very outer limit of the West.

It is in this house that Christina’s (supposed) roommate takes control of an object that is the primary source of mystery in the story, now given as an anti-matter, anti-MacGuffin Pandora’s Box (and she as Lot’s daughter who is to open the box, which results in her–all of our?–death via nuclear detonation).

What the viewer ultimately finds in this box is the limit of the Western conception of Nature and “man’s” place in it--The absolute expression of which is the atomic bomb. This is the eschatological warning and “clue” for humanity in Aldrich’s film, as we cower like the two figures in this closing scene, stuck in the no-place between the beach’s shore and the Pacific Ocean, our backs to the infinite darkness, with the fiery winds of history, and the future, howling all around us.

NOTES:

(1) The Machine in the Garden; Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. Leo Marx, Oxford University Press, 1964 and 2000.

In this magnificent and very influential book, Marx writes about the long-standing contradictory views we as Americans have built up concerning technology and progress and its effect upon the landscape. It may seem an obvious observation that there are those that would see the land as mainly a source of profit and those that would see it as a paradise to protect, but Marx delves deep into the American cultural psyche, as well as older European origins, to thoroughly illuminate the deep rift in our cultural vision concerning this vast body of land that we call home. I am deeply indebted to his book for the general thrust of my thesis.

(2) The City in History; Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects. Lewis Mumford, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1961, 1989.

Los Angeles is, of course, one of America’s largest cities. However, due to the automobile (especially through the influence of the Firestone company and family in the 1930’s), L.A. as a whole is more of a mass form of suburban sprawl. Therefore, I am tending to conceptually treat the whole city as such in this essay. For an excellent historical survey of how suburbia became such a powerful American urban form, Mumford’s book is an excellent point in which to start any research on the matter. The section I have in mind is “Suburbia–and Beyond”, pgs. 482-524. Please note that his research covers historical developments through 1960.

(3) Both of these movies have some of the best Hollywood cinematographers and editors available as crew. Day of the Outlaw boasts cinematographer Russell Harlan, a six-time Oscar nominee who also lensed To Kill a Mockingbird, and editor Robert Lawrence, also an Oscar nominee, who cut films such as Spartacus. Also, it should be mentioned that for sound, the great Alexander Courage, (nominated for two Oscars and winner of an Emmy) of Star Trek theme song fame (as well as all of the Trek movies up until his death last year), composed the music. He was also responsible for the theme song from Lost in Space and was lead composer/sound designer for Audrey Hepburn’s classic, My Fair Lady.

Though the film is chock-full of formal and post-production errors (bad V.O. over-dubs, inconsistent match-on-action cuts, etc.), Kiss Me Deadly has an equal class of lensmen and editors. Cinematographer Ernest Laszlo is an Oscar winning cameraman who also shot Stalag 17. Editor Michael Luciano (nominated four times for an Oscar) was also responsible for cutting The Dirty Dozen, The Grissom Gang and The Longest Yard.

(4) What I am referencing here is Ansel Adams’ great photographic “essay” Yosemite and the Range of Light which engages not only the Yosemite, but much of the surrounding and nearby lands that compose the Rocky Mountain range (‘Range of Light’ was Adams’ term for this particular geographical region). But, aside from Adams, Edward Weston, Carleton Watkins, and a number of other West Coast photographers (some, not 20 years earlier) had gone on to photographically capture (or project) something of this concept of nature in the West, whether they were consciously after it or not. All of these master artists’ work photographing the West is something that has embedded itself into our national psyche, and one can fairly postulate that the cinematographer for the film had seen at least some of these men’s work, and perhaps absorbed their influence.

(5) There is the mirror in Blaze’s hotel room that he consults, and then there is also the mirror in the saloon. This mirror eventually gets broken by the outlaws when one of them throws a fit because they can’t drink or rape the townswomen as they are wont to do. It is certainly the pivotal axis point in the movie when this mirror gets smashed. Afterwards, the plot starts rolling towards its inevitable conclusion and is situated exactly mid-point in the film, almost as if it were a textbook example of Aristotelian poetics that has a story build up into a high, mountainous and climatic point, and then roll back down to its eventual conclusion.

(6) There is always compression or reconstitution of space in both of these films, but there is little temporal configuration. As a matter of fact, there is little sense of time outside of the one we physically experience while watching these movies (i.e. we sense the passage of time because we are watching a movie, not because of the movie and its narrative). These films are almost entirely spatial entities. There is no History associated with the lands shown in either of these films, whether it’s the vast open mountain ranges of Wyoming, or the urban wasteland of Los Angeles. We are trapped, scene-by-scene, in an atemporal machine that only re-circulates the space around itself.

(7) It is interesting to note that this particular Western (and many others in the genre) shows no other animals aside from the horses. The wilderness is replete with frightening giants like the Grizzly and lesser-sized, but no less fierce, beasts such as the wolf. Perhaps it is just a matter of money available for the use of trained animals in a production, but one would think that if a Western truly wanted to show what it is like for “man” to wrestle with the great outdoors, they could throw in a wolf or a bear, for good measure, into the plot.

(8) The only dialogue between Blaze and the Cheyenne Indian:

C.I., “You see anything?”

Blaze, “Not much.”

C.I., “There’s nothing to see…”

This is perhaps the most lucid and significant dialogue in the movie. At the very top of the mountain, one reaches a limiting edge (of the concept) of the West; there is nowhere else to go. Later on, we will experience another, similar physical limit upon both the concept and the space that constitutes the West in Kiss Me Deadly.

(9) A very interesting discussion for unifying the body and the earth in both a cultural and physical manner can be found in Wendell Berry’s book The Unsettling of America; Culture & Agriculture. This is an excellent small volume that concerns itself with farming and sustaining the land for use in an agricultural sense.

(10) For an excellent glance into the issues of environmental, economic, and population studies that were to overwhelm the American city by the 1970’s, please reference The Prospective City, edited by Arthur P. Solomon. The issues brought up in this book were just starting to be sensed in the 1950’s when Kiss Me Deadly was filmed: intra-metro population distribution of African-Americans (not to mention Hispanics); the changing roles of city centers; industrial locations in relation to populated urban areas; transportation issues. All of these matters are an integral part of the perception we now have of our cities, but we can sense their presence within the fragmented urban space of the Los Angeles as portrayed in this movie.

(11) An interesting parallel between cinematic movement and urban planning can be found in Wayne Attoe and Donn Logan’s book, American Urban Architecture; Catalysts in the Design of Cities. In their book, Attoe and Logan propose the concept of “catalysts” to both describe what goes on in downtown redevelopments, as well as use it to help model potential sites of change that could be targeted for efficient redevelopment.

The tie with cinematography is in the way singular urban spaces (such as a particular business, or park, etc.) link to others by becoming economic/social moving agent/forces (catalysts) which direct their own growth, as well as the (now) connected spaces. It’s almost like looking at a combined map and shot list for moving though a scene/city during a film.

(12) Hammer’s “need to know” takes on epic and mythical proportions well beyond a typical detective’s drive to find clues in a story. For instance, there is a scene when he is in his girlfriend/secretary’s apartment and she whispers in his ear, “Va Va Voom says your Greek name would be “Mikela Sulfuris’…” What is so interesting about this is that in the Christian Bible, burning sulfur is referred to as “brimstone”, or, more to the point, fire and brimstone (this word will appear in the dialogue, again, at the apocalyptic end of the movie). Subjects for such sermons were “eternal damnation”, and the like. Hammer must find out all there is to know, even at the risk of experiencing eternal damnation himself…

Taking the director’s cue in attaching mythical significance to a character, one could conceivably view Va Va Voom as a figuration of tekne; the Greek word for artisanship, craftsmanship, or even (like the philosopher Martin Heidegger interprets it) technology itself. He is, after all, a mechanic with craftsman-like skills.

(13) The House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski, Pantheon, 2000.

This book has perhaps one of the most frightening staircases ever conceived in the history of literature. It resides behind some walls in a sweet, 1930’s Palmer-like suburban house on some street in Anytown, U.S.A. (thoughmuch of the novel is focused within Los Angeles). This staircase not only lives, breathes and growls, it grows and shrinks to epic proportions, all underground... Growing from being only a couple stories deep, it becomes several thousands of miles deep (at one point I believe it is theorized that it goes further in depth than the circumference of the earth). Basically, it is a spatial demon one can walk through, and, some of the staircases in Kiss Me Deadly must be the early relatives of this later monster.

#west #westerns #westernfilm

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OWL Season 2 Preseason Ranking

20. Toronto Defiant

I really wanted to put Washington here because I have no faith in that team. But the Toronto has a main tank I’m unfamiliar with and Main Tanks were extremely important in OWL way before goats meta. I see Neko and Envy and it really inspires me. I see Bishop and I’m like wow. But Bishop doesn’t really have a history of winning in Overwatch lately. From London to Cloud9 he really hasn’t been producing W’s. I like the roster a lot and maybe the meta shifts heavily in there favor but right now I don’t think Neko can fix a frontline issue.

19. Washington Justice

I do not like this roster. The late addition (they were all late) of Gido and Ado really inspires me but if Ado wasn’t enough to get Shanghai 1 W than he won’t be enough in what mite possibly be a more difficult season. 28 games and more down time in between. Well rested players, highly practiced, and prepared for there matches. Janus is really strong in this lineup and so are the coaches. I guess this roster would do pretty good in NA contenders.

18. Chengdu Hunters

I don’t trust the roster or the process. Highest level league play does something to teams with potential. It chews them up and spits them out. Maybe this is the good side of the Chinese scene that Shanghai never showed us in season 1. I probably have them ranked too low but what the Dragons did in season 1 worries me.

17. Guangzhou Charge

Either this team will be surprisingly good or really bad. It really depends on the coaching staff and how well they are supported by the org. A lot of there season depends on Rio and how well he works with the different players on the roster. They mite catch themselves halfway thru the season and start playing well.

16. Florida Mayhem

I like the roster a lot. I know BQB was accused of boosting but he’s extremely talented. xepheR is really good. Solid DPS, decent tanks, good supports (hopefully way better than last year). Coaching staff and org staff still seems really small. They could surprise people depending on the meta.

15. Boston Uprising

Huk, Could be worst team in the league. Three main tanks. Poorly coached and managed. Extremely talented players.

14.Shanghai Dragons

I don’t want to rank them this low but I’m floating 3-4 teams around this spot. They haven’t won a game in OWL yet. Hopefully they have a nice schedule of lower level teams and they can produce some quality wins. Org seems ready to commit this season so I expect huge problems will be scorched away quickly.

13. Seoul Dynasty

Fissure is cool I guess. They have a balanced roster, experienced team, and a schedule system that will highly benefit them. Older players mite not listen to new in game leadership this far into there careers. I’m not very confident in there synergy and I wanted to rank them a few spots back. They do have piles and piles of talent tho.

12. San Francisco Shock

If we remove all the DPS players from the roster and look closely will see some problems. Mid tier off tanks and mid tier main tanks. New season same problem. One of there main tanks need to play at a higher level. Off tank can exist well enough if there main tank plays well enough. Support trio could be strong depending on the meta.

11. Houston Outlaws

I have my personal disagreements with how they play. I’m a fan of them and they upset me from time to time. In a goats meta having someone like Spree who can slide into that 2nd DPS spot and play Zarya is amazing. They won’t use Spree like that. Houston is going to fuddle thru the season and end up worse than 11th. Could easily reach top 8 if they make good decisions before matches even start. They prepare pretty poorly and depend to heavily on classic 2/2/2 roster lineups to play the game. Polar opposite of what the Eastern OW scene has been doing lately.

10. Atlanta Reign

May have similar issues with Houston. Roster has built in solutions to potential problems but the team mite not use them. I’m very big on the roster even without Dafran. Front line has synergy. Backup Academy front line also has great synergy. Supports are questionable but Academy support duo is extremely experienced and reliable. DPS is very solid for a trio. Has 1 map sub potential which can be very powerful in OWL. Team is built to work no matter what. Mite not be lead in right direction to succeed.

9. Los Angeles Valiant

There mistakes finally show up in there results. Remember when “development” was a big part of there OW decision making??? Suddenly you have an APEX coach and his players are at the top of the roster. This team goes as far as Kariv can take them while covering every hole on the roster. Honestly if this team finishes top 4 with Kariv starting at DPS he’ll deserve OWL MVP. \

8. Dallas Fuel

I’m very high on them and very low on them at the same time. Added players, added coaching staff, re commitment to the team on a whole. Schedule change will be huge for them. New season same problem. What happens when a projectile meta happens??? They’ll be able to play it but main players who aren’t as good as the bench players will have to play or bench players will have to step into major roles. Could cause problems with how well they’ll play this season. Dallas and Seoul need to remember how to win to be successful again.

7. Vancouver Titans

They will have problems. May it be there org or just how there playing. They will struggle. But this team has too much experience and inner support to just fall apart. Where the org or players fail the fans and team will pick up. They won’t get this far and go down without a fight. The talent difference will start to show throughout the season but they will overcome it as a team.

6. Los Angeles Gladiators

I got a little down on them but than I remembered how well they play. The support trio will play well no matter what. Surefour will show up. Decay and R0ar will show up. Void should be better this season if they don’t want to play Bischu. Will win games like they’ve been here before.

5. Philadelphia Fusion

I got a little down on them. I love what Elk will bring to the team but he’s just a Lucio. Poko is the only off tank. When will Eqo run out of talent? Will they even play Fragi during goats meta? But they are a force of nature. Carpe won’t give up. Much like the Gladiators they’ve been here before and it will show.

4. Hangzhou Spark

I am extremely high on this team. And also a huge X6 Gaming fan. Krystal and Godsb (a widow god). Ria and Nosmite AND Guxue if they want to mix up the main tank role. I love this roster and its potential. Mite step into the league like NYXL.

3. Paris Eternal

Maybe I forgot to rank them a few spots ago and just put them here (maybe). I was very high on France in the OWWC and was a little disappointed. The roster and staff is fucking stacked to the roof. From Kruise on Support leading the team, Main tanks Benbest and Lhcloudy, and to the stacked DPS lineup of Soon and Shadowburn. If OWL ever goes into a Dive meta they will near the top.

2. New York Excelsior

Hmmm.

Hmm.

Could be #1. They have the roster to go 28-0. But its 28 games will bigger breaks between games this season. I like to think that benefits the next team the most.

1. London Spitfire

Back to back champions? Barely any change to the roster and that’s ok. The biggest offseason addition was the change to the regular season format. Strong new teams should challenge London but I knew a few will bow before the world champions. Look out for a repeat.

Conclusion

I wrote this far too fast and without enough research (LOL I guess). I’ve watched a lot of Hangzhou Spark players already on X6 Gaming. We already know how good some of these teams already are. This is mostly speculation. And meta shifts could turn this list upside down at any moment.

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the-firebird69 · 8 months ago

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Dog Takes Nap a Little Too Close to Stairs #shorts

So the dog came back up and lay down the same place almost he's doing on purpose because he is wanting to know when people are leaving cuz she's so afraid people leave him behind and he says this it's not their fault they're not coming back ever and you got angry and said what do I do to get trapped inside and he's trying to figure out what you're saying and she's watching them certain things and turning the locks will serve able to be turned. And he says usually we have someone come by and it's a relative for theirs or so he says okay but I don't want them to go and just saying this we don't want you falling down the stairs they tried putting up a gate and the gate get pushed over a few times he keeps rolling down the stairs cuz he moves around like that so they told him not to and you can't do it he kept doing it because he wants his friends to be around and this is what they're saying they're having a problem for walks and see people and just try not to be sad but it gets sad and he's saying people do when people go away I said there's more people and they told him someone else will help them and they said this guy seems to have a shiny spirit and they said he's different if something happens to us he will help you. He said I kind of like him he's smart and they slept good and ate good and said we don't want you to go and we're sad and then they forget but then they remember it cuz it's happened a few times to them. It's going on now and it is the empire and they admit to the scenario with Trump and Dan. And I said is laughing at Trump he's a real dick and a mean person to him he says you're putting it out there and needs to be out there and he says okay and heats it up Saturn and the foreigners. And we have a lot to report there's a lot of stuff going on we have several people that are on their way out and they know it and they're ugly and a whole bunch of people fighting them it is Sunday however there are things happening not a ton basically we announced losses and that's occurring shortly and even about the foreigners and the empire and we're going on to say that we have a few more things but it's not many

-these girls here need to shut up but they won't so they have stuff to do has big stuff important stuff and yeah we need it done and it's going to start already has started and the movies that are pretty close to be done and they're pulling these kinds of ships out and it's happening all over the Earth and are some on Titan. He goes there he uses his old fleet which has huge ships and crushes the pseudo empire up there. Takes a whole bunch of ships and then he gets his ass hended to him and by his own son. Things are going to change pretty quick around here real soon as they become weaker they try and get stuff and get very hit and the status of the caches in the Western hemisphere are down 64% roughly and this time it's happened and it didn't go up like we saw it and the eastern hemisphere is preparing and they have a lot of stuff to grab we estimate 10 to 15% and it's already at 45%. There are several things going on they were going to invade and they did not they have huge forces gathered at Georgia and Alabama and they're going to get hit today and the flotilla is going to get rated and you don't continue like that until they stop doing it or try and this is a huge losses cuz they're just getting wiped out and he'll continue until it stopped doing it and boy I said tell him it's dumb and the ships are coming out offshore huge Squall is going to come down hardly today till last time but the ships coming out they'll be out of it and finished at the northwest offshore of Florida possibly today but we think a few days it's kind of dragging on but he says he needs the time and he really does there's a few things that we're doing it'll help we are coming in here to Florida and not letting them do what they want and they'll be a minority the evacuation is on we're expecting possibly 3% today from the 17%. That's a lot and it's a lot of campers it's a huge number of campers there will be several Billion and campers leaving. It will be a huge Exodus and yeah Taylor Swift evacuates a little late it's later on and this is a camper. And it's a huge day it's very important today the reason is that people are meeting and planning what to do tomorrow. We also have meetings in we plan what to do we are having no fun here this has been a horrible night and day coming up so far this guy Trump has to go he has to get out of here and the Sun they are horrendous it was saying way too much but we got to get it done I want them out I want the people out to start building up here again we need the money in control the project is going well on Neptune we have a lot of progress and it is going to come to a close soon and we really need to get going on it

Thor Freya

I'm going to put the pedal to the metal and get this done we we need assistance and I'm calling out what we need and put you there up on the board right now and his kids want to see it and others too

Uriel and Goddess wife

We're here too we want the Sun we are father and mother of the chans and the Li families and we are god and goddess of China and we need to have things moving and we need a lot of stuff and put it up there what we need but we need more than that and we had someone's poking around but really you don't have a ton of access to this project and we figured out what's going on no they're saying it and they're going to help that they see what it is and they're moving

Good

We have a few things that we got we're getting more and we're getting them from here too and they're helping and what else are we going to get it okay and it's really his kids are kind of treated badly already. But they know things needed so it's a little odd I guess they were doing it and he says they weren't and stuff like that but okay they really needed he says and that's our son and daughter and I put in too much on there but we have to get it done and that's what I see so we're going to go for it we really need the stuff and we really need a lot of it and these people don't need any of it and we hear that

Frank Castle hardcastle

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aut2imagineart · 6 years ago

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Here's another speculative evolution post for you all, this time with future versions of the genus Suidae (pigs, hogs, and boars). Most of them are descendants of wild boars and feral hogs though at least one species is a descendant of the warthog. Here are the species descriptions: Shieldbeest: Descendants of warthogs, Sheildbeests fill an ecological niche left behind by several African ungulates, primarily wildebeests. Their name derives from the shape of their downward facing heads as well as the elaborate patterns they sport (one of the many inspirations the Elves found in nature*). These patterns are used to intimidate predators when while forming protective circles as well as for mating display. Burrowing Hog: Though around the same size as the extinct (currently critically endangered) pygmy hog, Burrowing Hogs are not closely related. This diminutive descendant of wild boars is a social burrower who has evolved several adaptations for digging such as forward pointed tusks, bristles around the snout, and claw-like hooves at the end of all four limbs. Prairie boar: among the largest mammals in North America (around 2m at the shoulder), the Prairie Boars are large grazers that replace the Bison herds that once spread across the continent. River Hog: One of the first mammals to become fully aquatic in millions of years, the River Hog resembles and replaces long extinct manatees and dugongs. In spite of their name, they actually inhabit brackish water and will tolerate sea water to travel to new locations. This has lead to subspecies emerging down along the eastern coasts from Florida to the entrance of the Amazon River. Pit Boar: Unlike the other species, the Pit Boars didn't evolve naturally. They were semi domesticated and selectively bred by the Orcs* to be hunting companions. Highly intelligent and sporting claw-like hooves and strong, jagged-toothed jaws that can open up to 75 degrees, Pit Boars are deadly hunters in their own right. Woolly Boar: the pig equivalent of Woolly Mammoths, the Woolly Boars travel all across the Tundra in large herds. They use their larges tusks and short, flexible trunks to shovel around snow in search of food. Woolly Boars are the primary source of meat for the Giants* who also utilize their fur and tusks for clothing and shamanistic decoration. Titan Boar: Bearing strong resemblance to long extinct elephants, the Titan Boars and the largest pig species and one of the largest terrestrial mammals in the world (comparable in size and mass to the Sloth Man*). They evolved as tree browsers inhabiting the tropical regions of India. They use their tusks to pull branches towards them the use their trunk to shove the leaves of said branches into their mouths *I've mentioned several posthumans here so you can look at my older stuff for info about them. As always comments and critiques are welcome

#Speculative Evolution #speculative biology #pig #boar #future evolution #creature design #hog #my art #digital art #Digital Illustration #digital color #species #speciation #Dougal Dixon #After man

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thereturnofthedirtyblog · 6 years ago

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STATES VISITED BY GHOST ADVENTURES

Alabama :

1.05 – Sloss Furnaces: Birmingham, Alabama, US 4.07 – Vulture Mine: Wickenburg, Arizona, US

Alaska :

Arizona :

2.05 –Birdcage Theater: Tombstone, Arizona, US 4.20 – Jerome Grand Hotel: Jerome, Arizona, US 6.03 – The Copper Queen Hotel & The Oliver House: Bisbee, Arizona, US 10.08 – Apache Junction: Apache Junction, Arizona, US 10.09 – Return to Tombstone: Tombstone, Arizona, US 11.7 – Grand Canyon Caverns: Peach Springs, Arizona, US 12.8 – Hell Hole Prison: Yuma, Arizona, US 12.9 – The Domes: Casa Grande, Arizona, US 12.12 – Stardust Ranch: Buckeye, Arizona, US 13.3 – Palace Saloon: Prescott, Arizona, US 15.10 – Phelps Dodge Hospital: Ajo, Arizona, US

15.11 – The Slaughter House: Tucson, Arizona, US 16.4 – Old Gila County Jail and Courthouse: Globe, Arizona, US

Arkansas :

4.10 – Fort Chaffee: Fort Smith, Arkansas, US

California :

2.01 – Preston Castle: Ione, California, US 2.03 – La Purisima Mission: Lompoc, California, US 3.07 – Linda Vista Hospital: Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California, US 3.10 – Clovis Wolfe Manor: Clovis, California, US 4.08 – USS Hornet: Alameda, California, USNovember 5, 2010 4.11 – Amargosa Opera House: Death Valley Junction, California, US 4.15 – Pico House Hotel: Los Angeles, California, US 4.23 – Sacramento Tunnels: Sacramento, California, US 5.03 – Old Town San Diego: San Diego, California, US 5.04 – Winchester Mystery House: San Jose, California, US 6.04 – The National Hotel: Nevada City, California, US 6.05 – Return to Linda Vista Hospital: Los Angeles, California, US 7.03 – Point Sur Lighthouse: Big Sur, California, US 7.08 – Brookdale Lodge: Brookdale, California, US

7.09 – Tor House: Carmel, California, US 7.15 – Market Street Cinema: San Francisco, California, US 7.17 – Glen Tavern Inn: Santa Paula, California, US 8.03 – Tuolumne General Hospital: Sonora, California, US 8.05 – Yost Theater & Ritz Hotel: Santa Ana, California, US 8.08 – Alcatraz: San Francisco, California, US 9.1 – Sharon Tate Ghost/The Oman House: Los Angeles, California, US 9.6 – Heritage Junction: Santa Clarita, California, US 9.7 – Fort MacArthur Museum/Battle of Los Angeles: Los Angeles, California, US

9.11 – Whaley House: San Diego, California, US 10.1 – Queen Mary: Long Beach, California, US 11.6 – Los Coches Adobe: Soledad, California, US, Salinas, California, US 11.8 – Haunted Hollywood: Los Angeles, California, US 12.1 – Black Dahlia House: Los Angeles, California, US 12.2 – Secret Scientology Lab: Los Angeles, California, US 12.3 – Bracken Fern Manor/Tudor House: Lake Arrowhead, California, US 12.5 – Chinese Town of Locke: Walnut Grove, California, US 12.6 – Star of India: San Diego, California, US 12.11 – Return to Winchester Mystery House: San Jose, California, US 13.4 – Reseda House of Evil: Los Angeles, California, US 13.5 – Dorothea Puente Murder House: Sacramento, California, US 13.10 – Zalud House: Porterville, California, US 14.2 – Freak Show Murder House: Los Angeles, California, US 14.5 – Silent Movie Theater: Los Angeles, California, US 14.10 – The Viper Room: West Hollywood, California, US 16.1 – Ripley’s Believe It or Not: Hollywood, California, US 16.2 – The Alley of Darkness: North Hollywood, California, US 16.3 – Kennedy Mine: Jackson, California, US 16.5 – Hotel Léger: Mokelumne Hill, California, US 17.2 – Westerfeld House: San Francisco, California, US 17.3 – Crisis in Oakdale: Oakdale, California, US 17.5 – Terror in Fontana: Fontana, California, US 17.6 – Riverside Plane Graveyard: Riverside, California, US

Colorado :

4.05 – Stanley Hotel: Estes Park, Colorado, US 6.02 – Peabody-Whitehead Mansion: Denver, Colorado, US 7.07 – Cripple Creek"Cripple Creek, Colorado, US

Florissant, Colorado, US 13.1 – Colorado Gold Mine: Idaho Springs, Colorado, US 14.6 – Exorcism in Erie: Erie, Colorado, US 15.4 – Museum of the Mountain West: Montrose, Colorado, US

Connecticut :

3.05 – Remington Arms Factory: Bridgeport, Connecticut, US 6.06 – The Galka Family: Granby, Connecticut, US

Delaware :

Florida :

1.04 – The Riddle House: Royal Palm Beach, Florida, US 2.02 – Castillo De San Marcos: St. Augustine, Florida, US

Georgia :

2.07 – Moon River Brewing Company: Savannah, Georgia, US 9.10 – Haunted Savannah: Savannah, Georgia, US

Hawaii :

Idaho :

1.08 – Idaho State Penitentiary: Boise, Idaho, US 11.11 – Lava Hot Springs Inn: Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, US 15.3 – Albion Normal School: Albion, Idaho, US 17.1 – Idaho State Reform School: St. Anthony, Idaho, US

Illinois :

5.01 – Ashmore Estates: Ashmore, Illinois, US 7.02 – Excalibur Nightclub: Chicago, Illinois, US

Indiana :

7.05 – Black Moon Manor: Greenfield, Indiana, US 8.10 – Thornhaven Manor: New Castle, Indiana, US 9.9 – Fox Hollow Farm: Carmel, Indiana, US

Iowa :

4.13 – Villisca Axe Murder House: Villisca, Iowa, US 11.1 – Edinburgh Manor: Scotch Grove, Iowa, US

Kansas :

10.6 – Sallie House: Atchison, Kansas, US

Kentucky :

1.01 – Bobby Mackey’s Music World : Wilder, Kentucky, US 4.03 – Return to Bobby Mackey’s: Wilder, Kentucky, US 4.04 – Waverly Hills Sanatorium: Louisville, Kentucky, US 4.25 – Kentucky Slave House: Maysville, Kentucky, US 5.08 – Rocky Point Manor: Harrodsburg, Kentucky, US

Perryville, Kentucky, US 8.11 – Battle of Perryville: Field Hospitals"Perryville, Kentucky, US

Louisiana :

2.04 – Magnolia Plantation: Natchitoches, Louisiana, US

7.14 – New Orleans: New Orleans, Louisiana, US 9.2 – The Myrtles Plantation: St. Francisville, Louisiana, US

Maine :

Maryland :

Massachusetts :

1.02 – Houghton Mansion : North Adams, Massachusetts, US 4.18 – Valentine’s Day Special(Longfellow’s Wayside Inn): Sudbury, Massachusetts, US 4.19 – Salem Witch House/Lyceum Restaurant: Salem, Massachusetts, US 5.05 – Lizzie Borden House: Fall River, Massachusetts, US 8.06 – Haunted Victorian Mansion: Gardner, Massachusetts, US 13.9 – Dumas Brothel: Butte, Montana, US

Michigan :

Minnesota :

7.04 – The Palmer House: Sauk Centre, Minnesota, US 10.7 – Nopeming Sanatorium: Duluth, Minnesota, US

Mississippi :

7.18 – Kings Tavern: Natchez, Mississippi, US

Missouri :

7.10 – Union Station: Kansas City, Missouri, US 8.04 – Missouri State Penitentiary: Jefferson City, Missouri, US 8.07 – The Exorcist House: Bel-Nor, Missouri, US 10.2 – Lemp Mansion: St. Louis, Missouri, US 11.9 – Odd Fellows Asylum: Liberty, Missouri, US 15.5 – Pythian Castle: Springfield, Missouri, US 15.6 – The Titanic Museum: Branson, Missouri, US

Montana :

9.4 – Bannack Ghost Town: Dillon, Montana, US 11.2 – Old Montana State Prison: Deer Lodge, Montana, US 13.6 – Hotel Metlen: Dillon, Montana, US 13.8 – Twin Bridges Orphanage: Twin Bridges, Montana, US 13.9 – Dumas Brothel: Butte, Montana, US

Nebraska :

Nevada :

3.06 – Old Washoe Club and Chollar Mine: Virginia City, Nevada, US 4.09 – La Palazza Mansion: Las Vegas, Nevada, US 4.16 – Goldfield: Goldfield, Nevada, US 4.17 – Bonnie Spring Ranch: Blue Diamond, Nevada, US 4.22 – Madame Tussauds Wax Museum: Las Vegas, Nevada, US 5.02 – Mizpah Hotel: Tonopah, Nevada, US 5.07 – Return to Virginia City: Virginia City, Nevada, US

6.07 – The Riviera Hotel: Las Vegas, Nevada, US 7.16 – Goldfield Hotel: Redemption: Goldfield, Nevada, US 8.01 – Pioneer Saloon: Goodsprings, Nevada, US

Sandy Valley, Nevada, US 8.09 – Mustang Ranch: Clark, Nevada, US 9.12 – Overland Hotel and Saloon: Pioche, Nevada, US 11.10 – Clown Motel and Goldfield High School: Tonopah, Nevada, US

Goldfield, Nevada, US 12.4 – Return to the Riviera: Las Vegas, Nevada, US 12.10 – Nevada State Prison: Carson City, Nevada, US 12.13 – The Haunted Museum: Las Vegas, Nevada, US 13.2 – Mackay Mansion: Virginia City, Nevada, US 15.8 – Eureka Mining Town: Eureka, Nevada, US 15.9 – Sin City Exorcism: Las Vegas, Nevada, US 16.7 – The Washoe Club: Final Chapter: Virginia City, Nevada, US 17.7 – Gates of Hell House: Las Vegas, Nevada, US

New Hampshire :

New Jersey :

1.06 – Abandoned Psychiatric Hospital: Cedar Grove, New Jersey, US

New Mexico :

9.8 – St. James Hotel: Cimarron, New Mexico, US 11.5 – Haunted Harvey House: Las Vegas, New Mexico, US 14.4 – Double Eagle Restaurant: Mesilla, New Mexico, US

Las Cruces, New Mexico, US 14.7 – Skinwalker Canyon: Ojo Amarillo, New Mexico, US 14.8 – Upper Fruitland Curse: Upper Fruitland, New Mexico, US 16.8 – Lewis Flats School: Deming, New Mexico, US

New York :

3.08 – Execution Rocks Lighthouse: Port Washington, New York, US 4.02 – Rolling Hills Asylum: Bethany, New York, US 5.06 – Letchworth Village: Haverstraw, New York, US 7.13 – Sailor’s Snug Harbor: Staten Island, New York, US 9.3 – George Washington Ghost/Morris Jumel Mansion: Manhattan, New York, US,Smithtown, New York, US

North Carolina :

North Dakota :

13.11 – Dakota’s Sanatorium of Death: San Haven, North Dakota, US

Ohio :

3.04 – Ohio State Reformatory: Mansfield, Ohio, US 3.09 – Prospect Place: Trinway, Ohio, US 9.13 – Old Licking County Jail: Newark, Ohio, US

Oklahoma :

10.3 – Zozo Demon: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, US 14.1 – Stone Lion Inn: Guthrie, Oklahoma, US 14.3 – Samaritan Cult House: Guthrie, Oklahoma, US

Oregon :

6.01 – Shanghai Tunnels: Portland, Oregon, US 15.1 – Golden Ghost Town: Golden, Oregon, US 15.7 – Wolf Creek Inn: Wolf Creek, Oregon, US 16.6 – Enchanted Forest: Turner, Oregon, US

Pennsylvania :

2.06 – Eastern State Penitentiary: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US 3.02 – Pennhurst State School: Spring City, Pennsylvania, US 4.01 – Gettysburg: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US 4.06 – Hill View Manor: New Castle, Pennsylvania, US

Rhode Island :

South Carolina :

5.10 – Old Charleston Jail: Charleston, South Carolina, US

South Dakota :

Tennessee :

4.24 – Hales Bar Marina and Dam: Haletown, Tennessee, US 4.27 – Loretta Lynn’s Plantation House: Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, US 10.5 – Bell Witch Cave: Adams, Tennessee, US 11.4 – Old Lincoln County Hospital: Fayetteville, Tennessee, US

Texas :

4.21 – Yorktown Hospital: Yorktown, Texas, US 7.01 – Central Unit Prison: Sugar Land, Texas, US

Huntsville, Texas, US 7.11 – Crazy Town: Mineral Wells, Texas, US 8.02 – Black Swan Inn: San Antonio, Texas, US 10.11 – Texas Horror Hotel: Seguin, Texas, US,San Antonio, Texas, US 13.12 – De Soto Hotel and Concordia Cemetery: El Paso, Texas, US 13.13 – Goatman’s Bridge: Denton, Texas, US

Utah :

4.26 – Tooele Hospital: Tooele, Utah, US 9.5 – Fear Factory: Salt Lake City, Utah, US 12.7 – Leslie’s Family Tree: Santaquin, Utah, US 13.7 – St. Ann’s Retreat: Logan Canyon, Utah, US 14.9 – Witches in Magna: Magna, Utah, US 14.11 – Asylum 49: Tooele, Utah, US 15.2 – Ogden Possession: Ogden, Utah, US 16.9 – Kay’s Hollow: Kaysville, Utah, US 17.4 – Tintic Mining District: Eureka, Utah, US

Vermont :

Virginia :

Washington :

4.14 – Kell’s Irish Pub Restaurant: Seattle, Washington, US 10.10 – Demons in Seattle: Bothell, Washington 11.3 – Manresa Castle: Port Townsend, Washington, US

West Virginia :

1.03 – Moundsville Penitentiary : Moundsville, West Virginia, US 3.01 – Ghost Adventures Live – The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum: Weston, West Virginia, US

Wisconsin :

Wyoming :

7.12 – Wyoming Frontier Prison: Rawlins, Wyoming, US

OTHER PLACES VISITED :

1.07 – Edinburgh Vaults: City of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK] 2.08 – Ancient Ram Inn: Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, England, UK 3.03 – Poveglia Island: Venice, Veneto, Italy 4.12 – Olde Fort Erie: Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada 5.09 – Rose Hall: Montego Bay, St. James Parish, Jamaica

10.4 – Island of Dolls: Xochimilco, Mexico City, Mexico

#submission #zakbagans #zak bagans #ghost adventures #ghostadventures #dirtyblog #dirty blog #thedirtyblog #the dirty blog

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thecollegefootballguy · 4 years ago

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The Real 2020 Season: Week 3

Hello everyone, welcome to Week 3 of The Real 2020 Season! We’re imagining how things would have gone in the 2020 football season if COVID hadn’t ruined everything.

Check out the previous weeks here if you’d like a bit of context: Week 0, Week 1, Week 2

The Rankings

Week 3 AP Poll

1. Clemson 2-0 (2-0) 2. Alabama 2-0 (0-0) 3. Georgia 2-0 (0-0) 4. Oklahoma 2-0 (0-0) 5. Oregon 2-0 (0-0) 6. Florida 2-0 (1-0) 7. Texas 2-0 (0-0) 8. Notre Dame 2-0 9. Auburn 2-0 (0-0) 10. Texas A&M 2-0 (0-0) 11. Ohio State 1-1 (0-0) 12. Oklahoma State 2-0 (0-0) 13. Washington 2-0 (0-0) 14. LSU 1-1 (0-0) 15. UCF 2-0 (0-0) 16. Minnesota 2-0 (0-0) 17. Utah 2-0 (0-0) 18. Iowa 2-0 (0-0) 19. Indiana 2-0 (1-0) 20. USC 1-1 (0-0) 21. Cincinnati 2-0 (0-0) 22. Penn State 1-1 (0-0) 23. Missouri 2-0 (1-0) 24. Liberty 2-0 25. Memphis 2-0 (0-0)

The Narrative

The biggest news around the college football landscape are the ripples emanating from three upsets of top ten teams the week before. Ohio State’s and Penn State’s losses in particular are severely hurting the Big Ten. The whole league, widely regarded as the second strongest conference in the nation after the SEC, now more or less looks like they have no team with a wide open shot at the Playoff only 2 weeks in. It’ll be a continuing problem for the whole season. LSU’s loss to Texas in Baton Rouge shocked the defending champions, but the SEC as a whole is in a much stronger position relative to the Big Ten even with the Tigers’ loss. They have 5 teams in the top ten after all.

Oregon’s win over Ohio State finally means the PAC-12 has a legitimate Playoff contender. It has been a long time in the wilderness for the Conference of Champions but the Ducks are definitely building momentum for a huge season.

As for the G5, the AAC has a huge lead over the rest of the conferences at that level. Even if a Boise State or an App State has a huge season they’ll have to defer to the American champ unless the league eats itself.

Many teams still haven’t played a quality opponent so far in the season so there still is a lot shrouded in mystery.

The Games

We’re beginning to see a blending of both non-conference games as well as league play within several conferences. It still isn’t a super-exciting slate for many fans, but the game of the week is certainly the contest between #2 Alabama and #3 Georgia.

Winning teams are highlighted in bold.

Incarnate Word at Baylor UNLV at Iowa State Boston College at Kansas Vanderbilt at Kansas State Western Illinois at #12 Oklahoma State UTEP at #7 Texas Arizona at Texas Tech Maryland at West Virginia Ball State at #19 Indiana Arkansas State at Michigan San Jose State at #22 Penn State Rutgers at Temple #18 Iowa at #16 Minnesota South Dakota State at Nebraska Central Michigan at Northwestern Air Force at Purdue Appalachian State at Wisconsin Charlotte at Duke Florida Atlantic at Georgia Southern FIU at Old Dominion Marshall at Ohio Virginia Tech at Middle Tennessee #24 Liberty at Western Kentucky Prairie View A&M at Louisiana Tech SMU at North Texas #14 LSU vs Rice Jackson State at Southern Miss UAB at Miami FL Grambling State at UTSA Akron at #1 Clemson Miami OH at #21 Cincinnati Kent State at Kentucky Northern Illinois at Eastern Michigan Western Michigan at #8 Notre Dame Florida State at Boise State Northern Colorado at Colorado State New Mexico at New Mexico State Utah State at #13 Washington #17 Utah at Wyoming Nevada at South Florida UCLA at San Diego State Portland State at Oregon State #20 USC at Stanford Idaho at Washington State BYU at Arizona State Colorado at #10 Texas A&M South Alabama at #6 Florida #3 Georgia at #2 Alabama #23 Missouri at South Carolina Furman at Tennessee Arkansas at Mississippi State #9 Auburn at Ole Miss Duquesne at Coastal Carolina Louisiana at Georgia State NC State at Troy Texas State at Louisiana-Monroe Connecticut at Virginia Albany at Massachusetts Norfolk State at East Carolina Houston at #25 Memphis Navy at Tulane Northwestern State at Tulsa #15 UCF at Georgia Tech Murray State at Louisville Colgate at Syracuse Villanova at Wake Forest James Madison at North Carolina Richmond at Pittsburgh

Well it’s still not exactly a banner week. The titanic clash between #2 Alabama and #3 Georgia sort of lived up to expectations, although the Bulldogs really did look a step too slow for the Crimson Tide. It doesn’t necessarily mean that UGA is out of the Playoff race, the SEC champion will be in the Top 4 under basically any circumstances, but they’re gonna need an answer for the likely rematch with Alabama if they do make it to Atlanta.

The rest of the top five breezed through their matchups as #1 Clemson dispatched Akron and #5 Oregon brushed aside Hawaii. #4 Oklahoma was off this week. The rest of the major Playoff contenders in the top ten handled their foes easily. Aside from UGA’s loss we won’t see much of a shakeup at the top.

The only other ranked vs ranked matchup of the day belonged to #18 Iowa’s surprisingly easy victory over #16 Minnesota. With Wisconsin seeming to have taken a step back with their loss to Indiana, perhaps the Hawkeyes will return to the top of the West Division standings in the Big Ten. The only other ranked team that lost aside from Georgia and Minnesota was #20 USC on a road trip to rival Stanford. The loss is the Trojans’ second and knocks them out of the Playoff race early.

The G5 is experiencing their traditional September culling at the hands of the P5 and each other. The AAC is down to 4 undefeated teams in Cincinnati, Memphis, SMU, and UCF. The Sun Belt is sitting pretty with Coastal Carolina, Louisiana, and Troy. The Mountain West is already down to just Boise State. Conference-USA and the MAC already have 0 undefeated teams, putting them at an early disadvantage for the NY6 race. Boise does own the G5 game of the week with an easy home win over struggling Florida State.

There were several out-of-conference rivalry games being played such as WVU-Maryland, New Mexico-NMSU, and Marshall-Ohio but for the most part the results wouldn’t interest people who aren’t fans of those programs. Overall it wasn’t too exciting of a week.

The Standings

Conference games are now being played by every league, though most of the teams have still only played non-league contests. The standings are still not very indicative of real team quality of the Playoff race, but they’re still fun to look at.

The Big Picture

The Playoff picture hasn’t been altered nearly as much in the past week as it did in weeks 1 and 2. Georgia’s loss doesn’t necessarily doom them. If the Bulldogs can rally to win the East and then beat Alabama in the rematch you know they’re heading to the semifinals. However, the fact remains that even with so much talent in the SEC it’s looking like the Crimson Tide might be in a class of their own this year, with LSU and UGA seemingly unable to compete. We’ll see how Auburn, A&M, and Florida fare.

The rest of the P5 didn’t have any seismic shifts. The Big Ten is definitely still languishing in the basement after all of their top programs took Ls in their first two weeks. They all rebounded in Week 3 but that barely takes the edge off the humiliation. We could seriously be looking at a Playoff without the Big Ten for the first time since the inception of the tournament. Clemson should still run through the ACC without hassle. The Big 12 is shaping up to be contested at least, with Texas and Oklahoma State lining up behind the Sooners. Oregon is definitely leading the PAC-12, but it’s harder to trust the Ducks with going something like 12-1 even though they beat Ohio State.

Not surprisingly, the AAC is absolutely lapping the competition in the G5 race. With their win over Georgia Tech, UCF now has two P5 scalps in this young season. If they go undefeated, the Knights will again have a compelling case for inclusion in the Playoff. That may be a big if, with Cincinnati and Memphis and perhaps others providing some internal competition. The Mountain West, usually the second strongest of the G5 conferences, is once again putting all of its eggs in one basket with Boise State, the only remaining undefeated team in the league. The Sun Belt, usually one of the weakest conferences, is in a stronger position than usual, though this time it looks like either Coastal Carolina, Louisiana, or Troy will try their hand at supplanting Appalachian State. The Mountaineers already have two losses on the season. It’s unlikely that C-USA or the MAC will be able to put a team into a NY6 bowl with the way things have developed so far.

The New Rankings

Week 4 AP Poll

1. Alabama 3-0 (1-0) 2. Clemson 3-0 (2-0) 3. Oklahoma 2-0 (0-0) 4. Oregon 3-0 (0-0) 5. Florida 3-0 (1-0) 6. Texas 3-0 (0-0) 7. Notre Dame 3-0 8. Auburn 3-0 (1-0) 9. Texas A&M 3-0 (0-0) 10. Ohio State 2-1 (0-0) 11. Oklahoma State 3-0 (0-0) 12. Georgia 2-1 (0-1) 13. Washington 3-0 (0-0) 14. LSU 2-1 (0-0) 15. Iowa 3-0 (1-0) 16. UCF 3-0 (0-0) 17. Utah 3-0 (0-0) 18. Indiana 3-0 (1-0) 19. Missouri 3-0 (1-0) 20. Cincinnati 3-0 (0-0) 21. Penn State 2-1 (0-0) 22. Stanford 3-0 (2-0) 23. Liberty 3-0 24. Memphis 3-0 (1-0) 25. Miami FL 3-0 (0-0)

The polls didn’t change a whole lot because almost all of the top 25 cruised through their games against weaker opponents. Despite the relative lack of movement, we have a new #1 as Alabama supplants Clemson as the highest regarded team in the nation following their win over Georgia. The Bulldogs fell out of the Top Ten following their loss to the Tide, but only just. USC and Minnesota drop out of the polls following their losses and were replaced by Stanford and Miami.

The American remains the only G5 conference with any teams in the poll, and they have three with UCF, Cincinnati, and Memphis. Though of course the voters are keeping even those programs an arm’s length away from the top ten, UCF even fell down a spot as Iowa leapt over them following the Hawkeyes’ big win over the Gophers. It’s a hard luck world for the G5.

Week 3 is in the books! Stay tuned to see how the rest of the Real 2020 Season plays out!

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