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achaoticeternal · 4 years ago

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THIS IS ME TRYING

AVENGERS X READER (tony stark x daughter!reader, platonic peter parker x reader) masterlist // taglist

Request: @big-galaxy-chaos ��Hey so I see that you also need requests as much as I do 😚 so here is mine! So it's Peter x stark!reader angst. Where Tony is afraid of becoming like his father but in reality, he is worst than him. He favors Peter more than her. Even though she is smarter than her own father, and won tons of awards and shit. Tony doesn't realize what he lost until the reader is gone. Btw the relationship between the reader and Peter is platonic! Also, everyone is oblivious to how she is feeling. Just pure angst”

Summary: Dads and daughters are supposed to have a beautiful relationship. But you could never be the song he always wanted. Word Count: 2.5K A/N: Based on the song this is me trying by Taylor Swift. Reader and Peter are both 18+; takes place after Thanos and Tony lives. Warnings: Heavy angst, cursing, self destructive behaviors, mentions death

“Mr. Stark, I’ve been working on the chemical formula of my webbing and I’m pretty sure that I’ve completely perfected it,” Peter talked while walking with your father to the lab.

“That’s great because I’ve been working on your web-shooters. Now, they can shoot up to 200 yards in length and the error rate of them getting jammed is less than one percent.”

Tony rested a hand on the boy’s shoulder as they left the room together. Neither of them acknowledges you on the couch, reading another novel involving quantum physics. But you’re used to the cold shoulder your father has given you since he first met Peter Parker. You’re used to the way he’s turned you away all your life, justifying his choice by saying he’s protecting you.

You knew that he feared to become his father. Pepper explained that to you when you were a child and you couldn’t leave your room until Tony’s lady of the night let. Or as you and Pepper called it at the time ��taking out the trash”.

Maybe that was when you became more interested in the mathematics and science you found in the book and the workshop over good ole bonding time with dear old dad. If he wanted to neglect the time and opportunity to raise you, you would at least make sure to put his money and name to good use for your own personal benefit. And in the back of your mind, you knew that part of you was doing this to earn the attention and love you desired from your father.

Tony just saw it as taking an early interest in your future. So he didn’t stop you when you preferred to sit with tutors over playdates, draw out designs for engines and inventions instead of scribbling in coloring books, or even reading through scientific theories over watching Disney movies. He didn’t think it was strange, because that’s what he did at your age. Hell, by the time you were 10 you had won three first-place national science fair ribbons, third place in the national spelling bee, and began developing a prototype to turn the emissions from cars back into breathable oxygen.

Everyone noticed your brain, and how much you had achieved now at 18 years old. You held 2 Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering and Organic Chemistry from MIT and a Master’s in Astrophysics from Georgia Tech. And you were now planning out when you wanted to go to Law school and earn your doctorate. But you were living at the compound now, taking a gap year.

When you went away for school, you learned from others how normal life was for everyone else. You met kids who were the first in their family to go to college or were looking for opportunities outside of the small towns they came from. When you came home from your second semester at MIT, you told Tony about all this and he created the September Foundation in order to fund the projects and inventions those kids were creating. It was another punch in the gut to you, because you realized that you would never be enough for Tony.

If you were enough, he would have passed the mantle of Iron Man onto someone else after he almost lost you and Pepper to the Mandarin. If you were enough, he wouldn’t have enlisted Peter to help him in his fight against Captain America. If you were enough, he wouldn’t have gone into space for a final fight. If you were enough, Morgan wouldn’t be in the other room watching cartoons. And if Tony acknowledged you, just even a little but, maybe you wouldn’t be trying so hard to impress him and the world.

“Ms. Stark, your package has arrived. Shall I send it over to the labs?” F.R.I.D.A.Y echoed into the room.

“No, send it over to my personal workshop. In fact, send all of TS-2008 to my personal workshop.”

“Of course, miss.”

“Oh, and F.R.I.D.A.Y?”

“Yes, miss?”

“Please stop referring to me as ‘Ms. Stark’, (Y/N) is fine.”

“Alright, CASS, reboot the system diagnostics and run test C-24,” you yawned as you asked your personal AI system. The personal AI system you built for yourself, bu yourself - no help from Tony at all.

“Systems are checked out, shall I launch the test?”

“Go for it,” you groaned and took to Advil for your poundingheadachee. It was now two in the morning after another long night of coding, calibrating, testing, and perfecting the project you’ve been working on the past two years.

When you were younger, you tried to replicate the Iron Man suit, but your father quickly discovered the helmet and nearly perfected arc reactor you’d created in his lab. He trashed all of it and told you never to attempt to create the suit again. He said you were better than that, that you had more potential than pretending to be a superhero. You realized as you grew older that he didn’t care if you were trying to become a hero or not; but that you were copying his work. His precious Iron Man that he took months to perfect only took a week for his child to solve.

Dear old dad couldn’t let you have things the easy way. So instead after SHIELD fell and Tony began working to finish wiping out HYDRA, you began working on your own original model suit. Now it was almost ready to showcase to the world.

“Test C-24:successful. Shall I continue to run diagnostics to watch the processing and reaction time of TS-2008?”

“Yes, CASS. Run virtual simulations L-29, O-400, and T-38. Let me know when the trials have finished running and whether or not they were successful or not.”

“Yes, Ms. (Y/N),”

You pushed away from your desk and left your workshop. Before you knew it, you were in the kitchen pouring yourself another cup of coffee. You had been through 3 pots already tonight and no one noticed. Guess that was the nice thing about being Tony’s kid. Everyone else acknowledge your accomplishments and paid no mind to your destructive tendencies. In fact, maybe you’d celebrate tonight and snag a bottle of champagne from the extravagant wine fridge next to the dishwasher. You’d done it plenty of nights before when you wanted to drown out and numb the pain in your heart.

“(Y/N)? Why are you awake? And why are you holding a bottle of champagne?”

Ah, Peter... of course he would be spending the weekend at the compound. It’s not likely he has a perfectly good and happy home back in Queens with a guardian who loves him very much and would give the world to him. Guess that’s something May and your Father.

“Hello, Perfect Parker”

“You know I’ve never understood why you call me that, it doesn’t make sense.”

“Of course it doesn’t make sense from your end of the looking glass.Why are you up?” You tried so hard not scowl or be too rude. Peter had tattled to TOny before about you having a ‘bad attitude’ towards him.

“I believe I asked you that first.”

“That you did, but if you want an answer out of me, you’ll have to answer first.”

“I couldn’t sleep. thought I would get myself a glass of water. You?”

“I’m getting wasted, just like all my potential,” You faked a smile and started peeling the gold wrapping off of the cork of the bottle.

“Don’t say that, everyone knows how talented and brilliant you are,” He sighed while grabbing himself a glass and walking over to the fridge, “You’re a Stark”

“Tell that to Dad, because you’ll always be more of a Stark than I’ll ever be,” You huffed as you pulled a corkscrew out of a drawer near you.

“That doesn’t make any sense, (Y/N), are you sure you haven’t been drinking already? Because you sound delirious. Maybe you should spend some time outside of your bedroom, maybe even get out of the compound. When was the last time you left to go somewhere?”

“Thanks for the concern Parker, but I’ve been able to hold my own for at least fifteen years now. And I know I don’t leave here a lot because I don’t have the opportunity too. If there’s a private event, either Pepper attends with Tony or Spider-man makes an appearance with Iron Man. I’m just surprised that there aren’t rumors across the media wondering ‘Is Spider-Man the lost of the Iron Man, Tony Stark?” You waved your hand in the air to match the dramatic tone.

“Haha, you’re so funny,” He took a sip out of your water, “People know you exist”

“Yeah, maybe if they do a quick Google shirt. But I’m not offended, I know that I just live in your shadow. But I’m used to it,” Your poured the alcohol into a glass and began to sip from it, relief flooding through you.

“Okay , I get it. You’re just in another one of your dramatic moods, maybe you should just go to bed before you say or do something stupid,” he took a step towards you.

“Don’t I always?”

“Always what?”

“Say or do something stupid?”

He halted and shook his head, “That’s not what I meant, (Y/N), I-”

“No, that’s exactly what you meant, Parker,” You brushed past him and stormed into the living room, “You don’t understand how lucky you are.”

He came stomping after you, “Oh, so you’re feeling brave, huh? Well you just sound like an idiot. I’m not just some lucky kid! I’ve lost my parents, my Uncle was killed in front of my face, and I disappeared from existence! The only people who care for me are Aunt May and Tony.”

You turned to face him, face completely red, tears threatening to spill, “Well at least you have Tony, because I don’t! I’ve just run around all my life trying to be perfect, be easy for him to deal with, live up to his and everybody's expectations! But I’m not good enough, I’ve never been good enough, and I’ll never be good enough. I’m just Tony Stark’s bastard child who built herself from the ground up without the slightest bit of help from her father!”

“(Y/N)...”

“No, don’t you ‘(Y/N)’ me. You’ve gotten everything you wanted from my father since day one. I never had that. You didn’t have to work to really make your own suite, you didn’t have to endure a lifetime of pain because of his arrogant ass, YOU didn’t have to wonder where Tony was on your graduation day for MIT - his alma mater - because he attended your fucking high school graduation instead!”

“What the hell is going on?” Tony yelled from the opposite end of the room. Pepper stood behind him and you could hear other door creaking open to here the events down the hall, “Not only are you two fighting in the living room and woke up half the compound, but you woke up Morgan and now she’s crying in her room because you two are screaming at each other.”

“Well boo-fucking-hoo, poor Morgan woke up in the middle of the night,” you mumbled to yourself.

“I just came to get a glass of water,” Peter attempted to defend himself.

And from Tony and Pepper’s angle, he did look to be more innocent. He had a glass of water in his hand and was completely cool. While you stood opposite of him; a bottle of booze in one had, dark circles under your eyes, a tear stained face, and looking to be in a mad frenzy.

“(Y/N), explain yourself,” Tony spoke sternly.

You took a deep breath in and wiped away fresh tears with your sleeve, “No, I don’t have to.”

“Excuse me,” your father marched across the room, “I don’t know what’s gotten into you tonight but-”

“What’s gotten into me? Do you even listen to the bullshit that comes out of your mouth? No, of course you do, because you like listening to yourself talk more than you’ll listen to me. So talking to you is as fucking useless as talking to a deaf man!”

Peter and Tony now stood stunned at you and your sudden tantrum, but you knew it had been coming, you had always known. You knew one day you were going to explode, and it just happened to be tonight.

“I get it, I’m not precious Peter, or your beautiful Morgan. I’m just your bastard child from some broad you met on Malibu Beach. Even though I’m just a kid, I’ve always been your competition, a threat to you and your name. And even after every nearly life-ending event, I thought things would change - that you’d finally love me. But that never happened not even after Extremis infected not just Pepper’s body, but my own! And now I’m dying, I’m fucking dying, dad. I’m running out of time and trying to do everything I can. I go to school and get these diplomas and certificates to impress you. I invent and build thing to get your attention. I do it all because I still desire your validation and I’m running out of time,” you fall to your knees, everything becoming to much, “this is me trying, just like I have been all my life- but it’s still not enough.”

The room went silent. Only sobs echoed around the room as champagne poured out the bottle, staining the carpet. Neither Tony or Peter knew what to say or what to do. How could they begin to comfort the crying girl on the floor, or fix everything that ha occured over a lifetime.

Tony finally knelt down, “(Y/N), you know I never meant for any of this to happen, for you to ever feel like this. I’ve always been so scared of becoming your grandfather... I thought I was doing right by never pushing you, I guess it just never clicked.”

“Oh yeah, is that why you pushed me away and found Peter? And then when you realized you had messed up and forgot about your first daughter, you had another one in order to make things up?” You raised to head and shoulder up first, then finally rose back onto your two feet, “well congratulations, you’re worse than Howard Stark. And I hope you’re proud, Dad.”

With that, you left the living room. You couldn’t deal with in anymore that night, maybe ever again. Because when Tony came to check on you the next morning, you were missing. Only a note by your bedside remained as the only proof you had even lived in the room.

I didn't know if you'd care if I came back I have a lot of regrets about that Pulled the car off the road to the lookout Could've followed my fears all the way down And maybe I don't quite know what to say But I'm here in your doorway I just wanted you to know that this is me trying

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theritualofourexistence · 4 years ago

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Clarity in the Cancellation Crusade

After posting multi-paragraph comments on a couple different things that have popped up in my feed recently, it seemed like I should probably just sit down and write this out.

“Cancel culture.” Crazy shit, right?

The recent onslaught of cancellations includes Mr. Potato Head, Pepe Le Pew, a handful of Disney movies (Peter Pan, Dumbo, The Aristocats), and *audible gasp* Dr. Seuss. The Muppets also got a newfangled Disney+ content warning, though I’ve seen significantly fewer headlines about that.

The thing that inevitably happens when the news media decides to publish a headline about a children’s toy or book being “canceled” is a veritable parade of social media complaints about how sensitive people have become. I saw this particular post over 10 times in the period of a couple hours one day last week…

The question I’ve been asking recently when I see posts like that is this: “Who do you think cancel culture is?”

Because “cancel culture” isn’t real. In the majority of the cases currently making headlines, the choice to remove a character from a movie or stop publishing a book has been made by the company responsible for that character or book… and that is very much a normal thing companies can choose to do.

No one I’ve posed the above question to has overtly mentioned “Libtards,” but it’s certainly implied. People who haven’t read a Dr. Seuss book in 20 years are now suddenly all up in arms (literally?) because “the Liberals” are coming for “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.”

The Liberals are not coming for Dr. Seuss. They do not care about a potato toy. Also, nothing is happening to the Cat in the Hat. I repeat: NOTHING is happening to the Cat in the Hat.

The choices to stop publishing that book and to market a vegetable toy in a less gendered way were made by the companies responsible for producing those products… not the Liberal “cancel culture” ghoul. In fact, it’s really, really hard to find public outcry about any of the things that have been recently “canceled.” There was a single NYT article that recently discussed the problematic nature of the Pepe Le Pew cartoons… that said, Warner Bros hasn’t aired that show in decades and it is not clear whether that article had anything to do with the skunk’s scene being removed from the new Space Jam movie.

Even growing up I remember things like political correctness needlessly becoming a partisan issue. When we fall into that media trap, all we’re doing is watering the plant of an already poisonous and ineffective two-party system. Be bigger than that temptation. Push back against media intended to further divide Americans. If something stinks, it’s probably rotten. Sure, there are certain topics that fall under the umbrella of political correctness that sound alarm bells for censorship issues… but didn’t everyone’s mom tell them that if they didn’t have anything nice to say, they shouldn’t say anything at all?

Again, though, the most important thing to remember about this recent wave of “canceling” is that censorship concerns are moot. A person who owns a thing is legally allowed to do all the censoring they want. It’s not the government that has decided to stop publishing 6 books written by Dr. Seuss… if it were, we could have the censorship conversation. These changes aren’t happening because there is a Democrat in the White House. They’re happening because the company who makes these products, has for whatever reason, decided to take a different approach.

In the case of the Dr. Seuss books, Dr. Seuss Enterprises re-evaluated their choice to publish 6 books based on racist themes and images. I have only heard of two of those six. The image below is, in my opinion, objectively problematic:

The fact that a major company behind such a well-known name has seen that something is problematic and has decided to stop publishing the books containing overt racist images is awesome. It sets a great example that we can all learn from. Humans have an amazing capacity to learn… that’s one of the only reasons we are in charge here on Earth. If we fall on ice once, we are often more careful on ice the next time. When we see that something is racially problematic, it’s a good thing if we can take action to get that thing out of rotation. More on that later.

Fundamentally, what is happening right now in Media Land is gross sensationalism.

“Cancel culture” isn’t real. Should people face consequences if they say or do racist things? Yes. We should all agree on that. Should we stop publishing books that perpetuate racist stereotypes? Yes. There are plenty of non-racist books that provide an education about racial differences without the added (exceedingly inappropriate) zing of Asian characters being painted yellow and African characters being given monkey features.

If you’re not convinced that some of Dr. Seuss’s material is racially problematic, I encourage you to pop on over to Google to check out the series of ads he did for FLIT in the 1930s. Yes, it was the 1930s. In the last 90 years, we’ve learned that images like that are not okay… let’s use that knowledge to let old racist graphics die.

Still can’t accept that “cancel culture” isn’t real? Still feeling like there’s something in the air now that is different and worse than before?

Okay, then, let’s consider it further.

Things have been “canceled” by people for millennia… this isn’t new. Being all for cancel culture when Colin Kaepernick kneels for the anthem (a perfectly legal form of peaceful protest considered respectful by many veterans) but opposing cancel culture when it’s threatening to eliminate an obviously racist thing is not exactly a moral stance. Burning your Nikes in the street but then turning around and spending $400 on a copy of “If I Ran the Zoo” on eBay after Dr. Seuss’s own family has pulled it from publication due to racist imagery is… silly.

The same people who seem to be so vocal about “cancel culture” now are part of the same communities who tried to cancel plenty of things in my lifetime. Things like trick-or-treating, Harry Potter, school dances, books and movies with LGBT+ characters and themes…

History absolutely bubbles over with things that have been canceled… often for good reason! Some examples that come to mind:

DDT

the Catholic Church (see the 16th century Protestant Reformation)

doing our everyday poopin’ in outdoor holes

polio

hoop skirts

phrenology (new science cancels old science like every damn day)

Ford Pintos (not to mention cars without seatbelts)

telegrams and rotary phones (replaced by easier and better ways to communicate)

lead paint

asbestos

Four Loco

Y’all remember when we all did the ice bucket challenge to cancel Alzheimer’s?

Learning that something is problematic and moving past it is LEARNING… not cancel culture. Learning and growth are good things. We all benefit from them.

Another thing worth commenting on from that Cat in the Hat post that circulated in my Facebook feed: why do we consistently demonize sensitivity? Racism feels like something we should all be sensitive about. If being sensitive about something results in meaningful change and a less hateful country, isn’t that… good? Why do so many Americans seem to place so much value on their “freedom” to hurt others?

And don’t get me started on comparing this stuff to Cardi B. It boggles my mind that that’s happening at all. Why is there suddenly so much outcry about one song that features female genitals in a literal ocean of songs that feature male genitals. I grew up knowing every word to songs about sex well before I even knew what sex was. Your kids are only desperate to listen to WAP because they know it makes you squeamish. And take a second to think about why it makes you squeamish. Genitals are human and scientific and we literally all have them. If you have more of a problem with WAP than with any of the other 10,000 songs about dicks and sex, you need to spend some time examining why that is.

Here’s another post I’ve seen bouncing around the social media feeds:

Something about this is just plain hilarious to me. Like what are racism and rape culture if not THE REALEST issues? This country’s problem with systemic racism runs so, so deep and is reflected very plainly in centuries of cold, hard numbers. It’s not that I *think* systemic racism is a problem. The data very clearly shows that regardless of what white people think about race in this country, systemic racism absolutely IS a problem. Racism and rape culture, arguably at the root of the most recent canceling spree, are not just real issues, they’re real American issues. They’re cultural issues. And solving cultural issues is not easy. We know that these issues have been passed down through the generations so maybe changing children’s toys and books and shows isn’t such a bad thing to try. There is SO much work to do to address racism and rape culture in the United States, but small steps are still progress.

If choosing to stop airing a show that blatantly perpetuates rape culture means one less young person is stalked or assaulted or raped, that’s worth it, no? What if that one young person who doesn’t become a victim is your daughter?

If choosing to stop publishing a book with racist themes and images leads to even one kid understanding more about the nuance of race in America and the breath-taking extent of white privilege, that’s worth it too.

Would I rather the media spend time and money to bring American attention to bigger issues associated with this nation’s racism and rape culture? 100%. There are ENORMOUS fish to fry. Dr. Seuss is not an enormous fish. Potato head toys are not enormous fish. Pepe Le Pew is not an enormous fish. They’re not even big fish. They’re small. They’re tiny fish. They’re anchovies. But frying some fish is better than frying no fish.

Canceling Pepe Le Pew is not hurting anyone. Warner Brothers owns Pepe Le Pew. Warner Brothers owns nearly everything; they are not hurting for money. And canceling Pepe certainly isn’t hurting American kids. There are plenty of other kids’ shows to watch that are significantly less problematic. Just because you watched Pepe Le Pew and went on to be a properly respectful adult doesn’t mean there aren’t other kids out there who did internalize a harmful disrespect for consent. No, Pepe Le Pew probably isn’t single-handedly responsible for anyone’s decision to stalk or rape anyone else. But could a show reinforce the groundwork that ultimately leads a kid down a path where he is unable or unwilling to respect the boundaries of others? I mean, it’s not the craziest thing I’ve heard this week.

Canceling six total Dr. Seuss books that are already pretty obscure is not hurting anyone.

Changing the name of an already genderless potato toy to reflect that genderless-ness is not hurting anyone.

A brief recap: racism and rape culture are very real, very American issues.

If the decision to stop doing a thing doesn’t hurt anyone and may even save someone some hurt, why does that decision bother you?

Also, in all your frantic Facebook posting, make sure you are differentiating between “cancel culture” and consequences. When the media tosses around the phrase “cancel culture” it has this tone of finality that is, plainly, not realistic. Fads and trends move so quickly in the internet age that the idea that a group of people could “cancel” something permanently is just not possible. People who do or say racist things, though, should face consequences. People who do or say transphobic or homophobic things should face consequences. Consequences are one of the only ways we learn to do better. And again, that’s not my opinion, it’s science.

One of the consequences that can have the most impact is, you guessed it, losing money! In this capitalist hellscape, money talks. Boycotting and choosing how we spend our money are some of the most engaging ways to combat racist and homophobic garbage. When you have your temper tantrum because the company who owns a book with overtly racist imagery decides to stop publishing that book, that speaks volumes about your priorities. If you respond to that company’s decision by buying the book in question on eBay for $400, that speaks even louder volumes. What are you doing? WHY are you doing it? I’m guessing you don’t even know, and you should probably spend some time thinking about it before you flush away a chunk of your stimmy on a freaking RACIST KIDS’ BOOK.

All actions have consequences. All of our choices never affect just us. How we vote affects other people. How we spend our money affects other people. Spending our money on things that are problematic perpetuates the problem… whether it be racism, rape culture, homophobia, or transphobia… or so many other things this country desperately needs to address.

It’s human to not like change. Change is going to happen, though, regardless of whether or not we’re comfortable with it. In the information age, we have a remarkable opportunity to steer that change. Leaving behind racist relics is change, so it may be inherently uncomfortable. But change that moves our country away from racism and rape culture is GOOD change.

I am begging you. Use critical thinking… if you’re seeing a headline about something being canceled, look up WHY. Some of these headlines are absolute bunk… they’re shared just to get people all riled up and create American division. However, just like we *should* cancel lead paint, a children’s book with overtly racist images shouldn’t be published anymore and it’s weird if you disagree with that. Disagreeing with that decision, as silly as it may seem, perpetuates racism. I know how triggered y’all can get when someone suggests you might be perpetuating racism, but it is what it is. Do your research. Don’t spend your money on racist garbage. Be better.

I feel like this post is me just barking the exact same thing in different ways, but I also feel like there is so much more I could say.

I’ll leave you with this:

What will it take for Americans to weigh the threats of racism and homophobia the same way we weight the threat of lead paint? If it’s a matter of costing lives, well, the numbers speak for themselves.

#cancel culture #cancellation #racism #rape culture #the muppets #pepe le pew #dr. seuss #seuss #consequences #change #mr. potato head #potato head #cancel culture isn't real

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codecandyblue · 3 years ago

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My First Blog Post

I am Gregory Anderson, designer of virtual escape adventures for CodeCandyBlue. All the marketing guys say that I need to have a blog to perform better on Google search results, get higher domain authority and bring visitors to my page.

The problem is that people don’t come to my site to read a blog post. They come to buy a virtual escape adventure that they can play online with their friends from the comfort of their home, anytime, day or night. So what could I possibly write about that would provide value to my audience?

Suggestions from various SEO sites include: how to tie a tie, a fresh new recipe, something about your pets, etc. Um, no. So I have decided to write about whatever I damn well please, related to my business, codecandyblue.com, and my games, including The Mars Shuttle Mission, The Mayan Temple Mission, Amnesia!, The Cryptographer, and our free starter game: Cadets - Training Day.

I promise this blog will be unfiltered, will include tidbits about the storylines for my virtual escape adventures, as well as airing of grievances about running an online business in the age of Google. You may be entertained, and you may learn a few things about the SEO and online marketing biz - not because I am an expert, but because I am learning as a go and need to vent about the ridiculousness of algorithm-determined validity.

First up - blogging! Apparently, you need to provide new, well-written content to your site on a monthly basis to move up the Google search rankings. After I protested that a blog seemed incompatible with my business goals, it was suggested that my blog could even be hidden from my customers, but as long as the Google crawling bots found it and saw that it contained the right key words and was updated frequently, that my site would do better in Google search. I have decided for now to blog on Tumblr, then import my Tumblr posts into a blog page on my site. I won’t hide it, but am not promoting it either - I need the most highly-visible portions of my site to be the virtual escape games that I am selling.

I also found out that the ideal blog post size is around 1500 words! I’m getting close to 400 so far in this post, so no, I will not be getting anywhere new 1500 words.

Given the recommended length and frequency of posts, I first looked into AI Copywriting to help generate some crap to post. Unfortunately, crap is exactly what they delivered. Apparently these online AI writing programs take your input, scour the web for related content, merge the two into grammatically-correct sentences, and voila! you have a blog post.

First problem - the one I tried didn’t have any options for a 1500 word blog post. The most it generated was 400 characters, and that was using the “Product Description” setting. They had other settings for Blog Titles, Blog Outlines, etc., but nothing that would attempt to generate a complete blog post.

Second problem - when I entered in information about The Mars Shuttle Mission, they pulled really inappropriate stuff from their related-content web search, like the names of the designers of a game, or the description of a specific plot point, all of which had nothing to do with my game, and would probably get me sued if the parties this text was stolen from ever read my blog.

I do have to say that some of the options were well-written. They give you like 10 different paragraphs from your single input, so you can use the ones you like and discard the rest. I deleted all the crazy ones unfortunately, but did copy out some decent ones. Here is an AI-generated product description for my games:

“Virtual Escape Adventures let you embark on an epic, highly-interactive adventure with your friends, solving puzzles and riddling your brain to escape each scene. Uncover hidden clues, solve mysteries, make it to the end of the mission alive - all from the comfort of your own home!”

So, AI writing can generate some decent stuff, but the short stuff they do well is also easy and quick for me to write myself. Once they can generate 1500 words that make sense and are relevant, I may jump on the AI writing bandwagon, but for now no AI writing for my blog! You can rest assured that nothing you have read so far was written by an algorithm (except for the above quote, which is explicitly AI generated.

Hey! I just wrote a blog post, and boy are my arms tired! Almost 800 words! Until next time...

Gregory Anderson

CodeCandyBlue - Virtual Escape Adventures

https://codecandyblue.com

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sagittariuswritings · 5 years ago

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smile. (1/?)

A/N: It’s kind of long for just an introduction to the series, but I enjoyed writing it.

Pairing: Steve Rogers x reader

Word count: 1.9k (This literally filled up like five pages on google docs and it felt like I was writing a chapter book but what do i knoW)

Warnings: None, really.

Steve had a whole list of books he planned on reading, and since he had a day off, he figured he might as well put that list to some good use. He had his little notebook full of things people had recommended to him. Things he should discover, since it had only been two years since he was unthawed. He still hadn’t got to listen to the full album that Sam had recommended to him. He only listened to about three songs when he was recovering in the hospital from the fall off of the helicarrier. As soon as he’d healed up, he went straight back to work. Which was not surprising for the people that knew him personally. If he wasn’t kept busy doing something, he might lose his mind. He was a good man who loved to work. It wasn’t like he could really help it.

He pushed open the door to a small local library, reaching into his back pocket and taking the small notebook out. Closing the door behind him, he opened the notebook, and flipped to a page with a list of books upon books. One of the books had been The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. Steve was intrigued. He was more of a history nerd, really, but the title of this book definitely intrigued him.

Not wanting to bother the librarian who seemed to be busy reading already, and hadn’t noticed Steve, he made his way to where the fictional books were. It had been so long since he walked around a library. He normally just went to a store and bought those small really thick books you’d find in a single aisle of a grocery store. “The ones for old people.”, Natasha would tell him. “Maybe you should get a pair of reading glasses while you’re at it, old man.” She’d even said.

After about ten or fifteen minutes of no luck, Steve grumbled something like “Gosh dang-it.” under his breath. He made his way to the front desk, and the librarian was still reading.

Her y/e/c eyes skimmed across the paper intensely, almost as if she was having a staring competition with the book itself. This can’t be happening, she thought, her eyes wide as the scene unfolded in front of her. Her favorite character got stabbed, and she let out an audible gasp. A loud “NO!” slipped passed her lips shamelessly, not caring that she was in the library she worked at. She grumbled some curse words under her breath that Steve couldn’t quite hear, it was so quiet, and she slammed the book shut, putting it on the desk.

Shutting the book seemed to have brought her back to reality, because she looked up, and another gasp passed her lips. “Oh my word, I’m so sorry, sir! My favorite character just died, and, well, you see, pretty much everyone refers to me as a geek or a nerd, so I guess you just witnessed my inner nerd or… geek… I don’t know-- I’m sorry, again--” She blabbered on, embarrassed now. “How can I help you?”

Steve suppressed his laugh that dared to break free from his lips, and cleared his throat before he spoke. “It’s quite okay, ma’am, really.” He offered her a little smile, his eyes glancing down to the name on the desk. It read Y/n Y/l/n, and he looked back over to her. “Y/n, is it?” She nodded. “Y/n-- Does this library happen to have The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien in stock?”

She looked at him blankly. He must not know anything about the series. “...Which one…? The Lord of the Rings is a trilogy, sir, the first book is The Fellowship of the Ring, the second book is The Two Towers, and the last book is The Return of the King.”

He looked at her, surprise written in his futures. “...All three, I suppose. Why not?” He shrugged with a small smile, uncertainty in his futures as well, though.

Y/n read the uncertainty in his futures, and offered him a soft smile. “I think that’s a great idea. Lucky for you, I just brought them back from my place. I’ve read them plenty of times before, but it’s nice working at a library. You don’t have to buy your own copies or pay rent.” She winked, still smiling. She stood up out of her chair, and walked into the backroom behind the giant desk she was originally sitting at.

She came out of the backroom with a frown on her face. “I’m afraid I forgot them… Here, how about this: I get off this shift in about two hours. Come back here at exactly 2pm, and I’ll grab the books from my place and give them to you, free of charge. You look like a busy man, and I don’t think you’ll be coming back for a while.”

It was one of her specialties. She was able to read people quite easy, almost like a detective. If she looked hard enough, she might be able to tell you what your job or hobby is. Her friends nicknamed her Sherlock, and so she of course nicknamed her bestest friend Watson.

“Uh… Yeah, actually… I’ve got a full schedule most of the time, this is my one in a million day off.” He answered, unsure. He didn’t know how Y/n didn’t recognize him. If anything, going into the library, he expected to be noticed upon first glance. He was so used to it, and honestly, it was a relief to not be asked for whatever a selfie was every second he walked down the sidewalk.

“What do you do?” Y/n curiously asked. When she saw he took a moment to reply, she spoke up before he could. “Sorry-- You don’t have to tell me if you don’t want to, I’m just a curious person.” She sheepishly shrugged. “Gets boring here in the library when barely anyone comes in.”

“No no, you’re fine. I’m Steve Rogers. I worked with S.H.I.E.L.D. before it fell out. Now, I’m an avenger.”

Her jaw seemed to slacken when she heard who he was. “Steve Rogers? You mean Captain America?” She asked, dumbfounded.

He seemed to regret what he said as he nodded, but his regret disappeared when she said. “My sister is a huge fan. I’m not gonna be one of those annoying people that constantly ask for pictures or autographs. I wasn’t here during the attack on New York. I was in the Faroe Islands for a few months.” Y/n cut herself off, feeling herself about to explain in full detail of why she was there, how much fun she had, etc. It was a bad habit of hers. If she started speaking about her passions, it would be hard to make her stop.

A wave of relief washed over him when he heard she wasn’t about to ask for anything of him. “Faroe Islands? I’ve never heard of it…” Y/n’s eyes seemed to light up when he said that, obviously excited. Not many people had heard of the Faroe Islands, and she was more than happy to explain it to people. But she didn’t want him to feel like he had to stay there.

“Since it’s your day off, I’m sure you’ve got plenty of things to do, so, how about when you come by here at 2, I’ll explain on the way to my apartment. Deal?” She offered him her hand to shake on it. Steve gladly shook it, his small charming smile gracing his lips. “Deal. See you at two, Y/n.”

“See you, Cap.” She grinned at him, watching him leave.

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2pm came faster than Steve expected. He was in the middle of ordering a sandwich at Subway when he realized it was 1:45. Thankfully the sandwich-maker was quick and finished his sandwich within 2 minutes. Subway bag with sandwich inside in hand, Steve ran down the blocks to the library.

Y/n was on her way to the doors of the library when the doors burst open, and Steve ran into her. Y/n lost her balance and almost fell, but Steve’s strong arms wrapped around her waist to keep her standing.

“Are you okay? I’m sorry--” Steve quickly spoke, his eyes flickering over her face to make sure she was okay. It surprised Y/n so much, that it took quite some time for her to finally speak up.

She cleared her throat. “Uh, yeah, I’m fine.” She quickly nodded, offering a reassuring smile. “Promise.”

Steve got caught in her y/e/c eyes for a moment before he realized he was staring. He removed his arms from around her waist after making sure she could stand.

“Do you wanna get those books and get a history lesson on the Faroe Islands, Steve?” She asked with a small sheepish smile.

“I don’t see why not. I could use the information.” Steve smiled back at her. He turned and opened the door for her, letting her walk out.

Y/n locked the doors behind them before turning and starting to walk with him. “So, first things first, the Faroe Islands are off the coast of Denmark. It’s a total of 18 islands, and it’s absolutely gorgeous there. You get from island to island by either ferry or underwater tunnel. It’s actually really cool. It’s a lot like Iceland, which some people might mistake photos of the Faroe Islands for Iceland. My absolute favorite location on the Faroe Islands, was Lake Sørvágsvatn…”

As she went on and on, before they knew it, they were at her apartment. “You can come in, if you want.” She nodded to the inside of her apartment after she unlocked the door.

Steve walked in behind her, looking around. The first thing that caught his eye was a giant shelf with books on them, camera lenses, two camera bodies, and so much more. “You’re a photographer.” He noted.

“Very well, Sherlock!” She teased, shutting the door behind her. “That’s why I went to the Faroe Islands. Well, I’d always wanted to go there and photograph the landscape, but I was contacted by National Geographic, because I signed up for some sort of random pick thingy, I dunno, but I was chosen, and I had the time of my life there. I wish I could go back, but… Money’s short right now, and it sucks.” She sighed, walking over to the shelf.

After a couple moments, she let out an “Aha!” and pulled out three books off of the shelf. “Here you are, all three of the books.” She handed him the stack.

Steve took the stack, brows raised. “How long are these each?” He asked a little warily. “Well over 400 pages. Good luck, soldier.” She chuckled.

“Thank you, really. I’ll return them to the library as soon as I’m finished with them.” Steve smiled down at her.

“Anytime! Here,” She turned around and jogged to the dining room table, grabbing a notebook and ripping a paper out of it. She scribbled an assortment of numbers on it, and handed the paper to him. “If you have any questions or something about the books, just call me. I’ll probably always pick up.”

“Sounds like a plan, Y/n. I’ll see you around?”

“I’ll make sure of it.”

With a wave goodbye, Steve was out of her apartment, and Steve was left with a sudden interest to get to know her even more.

#steve rogers #steve x reader #steve rogers x reader #captain america #captain america x reader #marvel #avengers #quite a bit of self insert here bc i'm a photographer and a lotr nerd #soft!steve

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mousedetective · 6 years ago

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I really can’t catch a break...

No, surprisingly not a plea for help (though if anyone wants to help I won’t say no). My mom has been utterly exhausted the last few days, as have I, and kidlet was left to his own devices for most of the mornings except yesterday, when Mom and him went to her all class reunion (where he met another teenager on the autism spectrum who was a child of one of the attendees and they just were instant friends, much to the relief of A's mom and my mom, who were both thinking they'd have to occupy their attention the whole day). I was just so tired I stayed in the hotel and slept. I pulled an all-nighter last night to write, and I'm exhausted but if I sleep now it will all be a mess, so I'm trying to stay up until 8 and eat my share of food in the fridge.

Mom saw her oncologist for the first time in a year and a half today. She no longer needs the PET scan she couldn't get because her blood sugar is all over the place (even now, with her insulin being in the fridge, it's still going as high as the 400s), but her doctor got blood work today and may have her get a CAT scan as well. She sees her doctor again in seven months and we're going to call the social worker to see if there's any services the cancer center can help us with while we wait for Alpha Project to help us get the Section 8 voucher.

Tomorrow we have to leave the hotel (we're going to overdraft to get today as an extra day) but thankfully no appointments so if we have to we can go to the library where there's shade and sleep. Wednesday I have a pap smear appointment, Thursday my mother has a meeting at the Social Security Administration office to see what extra money she can get from my dad and then Friday I finally get to see my GP about my back so I can get my own walker/my knee which still has a golf ball sized protrusion from the fall/what to do about my back pain and the tingling in my legs and feet when I sit too long. So this is a week of appointments, and I have to watch some DVDs that are over ten days overdue so I can turn them in on Friday and have the fines forgiven.

But mostly I spent ten days with my son and I am so so so angry at his adoptive mom.

She bailed on his end of the year awards ceremony (we took him to the hotel more or less directly from his school), sent him to spend ten days with us with no changes of clothes, gave us no money to feed him...and not only that, but like I mentioned at one point I think, he has no self care or self reliance skills. He's 16 years old and she's treating him like he's an invalid. I mean, I AM an invalid in a lot of ways, and my kid helps me with "chores" and stuff for allowance (which I also pay with no help from his adoptive mom...$40 a month, usually in Google Play gift certificates) and like...I'm scared. I'm scared she's not going to let him be self-reliant at all and she's going to shove him in a group home instead of letting him go to college and live a somewhat normal life. He wants to live with us and we're looking towards three bedroom apartments/houses for rent and I'm afraid she'll become his caretaker and I'll never get to see him, or I'll have to beg her to see my adult son. My son is a fucking sixteen-year-old and he doesn't even have a state ID. She won't give me a copy of his new birth certificate so I can get him one, or his social security card so I can get him a PayPal debit card. He's got severe acne and she has never taken him to a dermatologist for it (I spent $20 this week to get him acne treatment stuff, and I sent him home with my own tea tree shampoo and conditioner to help with his dandruff, so eventually I need to get more shampoo and conditioner).

I'm angry and I'm scared he's going to just...I don't know. I want his life to be better than it is and there's nothing I can do right now if I want to continue seeing him. We can't afford a hotel room long enough to see him over the weekend after the 4th so I'll get maybe the Saturday of SDCC to walk around with him if I can save train fare for me and trolley fare for both of us and figure out a way to find my mom after I get back up to Oceanside. Then August he's off for the entire month, more or less, and I fully expect to get told I need to watch him for at least a week if I don't have housing already, which is going to cost at least a grand. I'm so tired of all of this and I can't say no or I may not get to see him at all, ever.

Sorry for the rant, but I just am so frustrated and I have to get it out.

#personal stuff #moving saga #medical issues #my kidlet

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antarestyl · 6 years ago

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The Glitch

Okay guys, I kinda have to write this down now because something weird is going on with my game and I wanna know if anybody else had this happened to them... I did a quick google search already but nobody seem to have had this happened, so yeah. Here we go.

I dunno if it's a glitch or some kind of new update or just something rare that happens at a certain fun level? I dunno so help would be appreciated.

Here is what happened:

I had bought Undertale from Steam in November 2015 and played it first on my old laptop. It was very slow then but playable and I was so happy when I finally had the money for a new laptop in the following year. The game ran on that one smoothly, I installed the updates without problems and I completed 4 runs, 3 neutral and 1 true pacifist, the last one finished in November 2016. After that I didn't touched the game.

I never attempted a genocide run, I never messed with the game files and I just let the game lay around my laptop for all that time. I had a lot of fun with it, don't get me wrong. I even found a few secrets in my few runs. I had the “did you leave your fridge running” phone call, the wrong number phone call, I once had one weird glitch during a fight where the blue attacks appear to be white, but otherwise I had nothing out of the ordinary happening to my game.

I was a bit disappointed that I never had the Gaster easter eggs happening but I didn't want to reset my game so I mostly knew about the other stuff from YouTube videos.

Anyway, with the game being announced for the Switch and the possibility for new content hinted at, I decided to replay the game to get a feel what was “normal” again so I could spot the new additions. I copied the save data, just in case things would go wrong at some point, even if I didn't plan on doing a genocide run, and started the game again.

The usual black screen with the two buttons “Continue” and “True Reset” came up like usual when you finish the game on the true pacifist ending, together with my Character's name (Flyn) and my time (just about 400 minutes).

So I pressed True Reset and was asked to name the fallen human. I played around a bit with the naming options, like I tried Sans and Toriel and Undyne and got a few moments of enjoyment out of the silly responses to the names. I didn't chose Chara because it would have been... strange to play as them for me and naming the human Frisk would just enter the hard mode and I didn't want that. So finally I named the human “Kim”.

I watched the intro which played like usual after that. There was a strange sound while the intro played, kind of like a short feedback beep about halfway through the part where the intro explains that the monsters were sealed underground, but nothing else happened so I think it could have been just my sound-chip having a hiccup or something.

After that everything seemed normal. Kim woke up on the flowers, I talked to Flowey and dodged all his bullets. Seriously it's so funny when he gets angry and says things like “I know you know something!” Just hilarious.

Toriel came like usual, talked to me and guided me through the ruins.

I decided to play as a pacifist so I spared all the monster but grinded a bit to buy a spider doughnut at the spider sale for Muffet later.

At the three frogs I kept the yellow spare names and I got the ribbon and the fake knife. I equipped both to have the stick free for the Snowdin dogs.

I entered Toriel's, looked at everything and triggered her fight.

So far everything had been normal but during her fight something seemed off. The background seemed to glitch a bit and I didn't notice it at first but sometimes the text at the beginning of my turn changed to red instead of white/yellow and said “you feel her eyes on you” and sometimes just “you feel an eye on you.” I think I never saw these lines before? On the other hand, I hadn't played the game in a long time so maybe I just don't remember.

Anyway, I spammed mercy and Toriel stopped attacking me.

And you know, now I had a choice to make.

I usually played pacifist or a mostly pacifist neutral run but that day I thought “Why not do a few neutral runs where you kill some of the bosses?”

And well... Toriel was right there.

I must admit, I kinda hesitated for a while. Should I or should I not? I never killed Toriel before. And I kinda wanted to know what would happen when I did that. I mean, I had my save-files backed up and all save AND I could just reset at any point and do it over so...

I moved Kim's little soul-heart over the fight option. I instantly killed Toriel. She gave her speech how I killed her at her most vulnerable and dang I felt bad at that moment... maybe I should have decided to kill her from the start and fight her the whole time because this was somewhat heartbreaking.

Her soul broke and the way was free for me now. I could reset, yeah, but I just wanted to see a bit more. So I pressed on.

Flowey mocked me as usual at the exit, telling me that he knew I murdered her in cold blood. Jeez the game surely know how to make you feel bad. He also had a new line this time too.

“You think you are above consequences? Well HE knows now too. I'll be watching this!”

I was kinda pondering who Flowey meant by that. My first guesses were Gaster or Sans but Sans doesn't appear in the Ruins and Gaster... well he was an option, right? On the other hand, the community is OBSESSED with that guy, I thought that if there is an easter egg like this is the game, somebody else would have found it before me and it would have been all over the internet.

On the other hand, I could just have overlooked a new update to the game this shortly before the switch launch so maybe this was in fact something new?

(the whole reason I am writing this down is to find out if this happened to somebody else so yeah)

So I left the Ruins and the Underground logo popped up and again there was some kind of... Glitch there. It was just the A of the word, which kept flickering a bit. Still weird.

But things got really weird when I left the Ruins. A box popped up.

* You can feel eyes on your back.

I walked a bit forward, but Kim didn't even walk three steps as the next message popped open.

*Somebody is here

Creepy. Again. I moved forward and the game made a little crunch noise with each step I let Kim take and the ominous music before the first Sans-encounter kept playing.

I walked for a while, maybe around... 30 seconds? Darn that forest was bigger than I remembered. Some glitched sounding noises slowly mixed into the background music too, something that came in sync with every other step I took. Just as I was wondering what I was hearing a new text message popped up.

*You hear something

I took another few steps.

* You feel something weighing down on your soul.

At this point I was getting a bit uneasy, the music, the strange sound and the fact that the forest was so darn long kinda got to me. I FINALLY saw the stick, walked over it and it broke in half like usual with the scary sound-effect. I turned Kim around and let them look at the sick

* Something broke the branch in two parts. You don't feel safe.

I must admit I did feel a bit scared there. But I pressed on. The strange background-step-like sound continued, amplifying the creepiness even more. Luckily the little bridge came into view now and I mentally prepared myself for Sans' introduction.

But he didn't come. I just... walked through to Sans's station and the convenient lamp. No Sans still, no Papyrus either. Even the music was mostly silent with the strange noises when Kim walked. So I crossed over into the next screen where the next save-point is located.

But just as I reached the screen the game lagged for a moment before making some really strange sounds like the step-noises were sped up a lot for a moment. After that my heart flashed and I was pulled into a fight.

Just there was no monster there. Instead the text-box just told me: “You can feel your foe is close but you can't see them.”

The ACT Menu had “Check” “Talk” and “Look around” in it, the monster's name I was fighting was just blank, no name was given to me.

I first choose Check.

???? AKT ??? DEF ???? You can feel them but not see them. Smells like regret.

No attack followed, only a textbox again. “You hear steps in the snow.”

I choose Look around next.

* You are surrounded by snow-covered trees. It's silent, the woods swallow all sounds.

The next text box popped up. “You feel your sins crawling on your back.”

I finally choose talk.

* You try talking. You said you are scared.

A new text-box popped up.

“He chose to Fight.”

Something too fast to see and way too fast to react to swept through the screen, hitting Kim's little soul and even at Level 5 my HP was drained in an instant and Kim's soul broke.

And I was thrown back to before I fought Toriel.

So I concluded that I stumbled about another boss. One I had no idea how to deal with. I must admit I was a bit excited.

So I tried a few things. First I did everything the same as before and got the exact same results. Next I choose to fight Toriel from the start and not betrayal-murder her but nothing changed. Sans and Papyrus were still not there and I was still pulled into this strange new fight and killed by an unseen monster.

Next I tried sparing Toriel even if I didn't really want to. So I spared her, Flowey mocked me again with the whole “you think you are above consequences?” line and otherwise the exact same thing happened again. Unseen monster killed me again.

So next I went back and did some grinding. Sure, I couldn't do a genocide run but I could level up some and with Toriel's death I had a higher level than before.

The same events happened but now I could stand the initial attack. Well, part of the initial attack. I’m trying to summarize what is hours worth of in-game grinding and work.

So what happened was that first there was an attack that was a guaranteed hit. Just a big block of white kinda like Sans' gasterblaster laser look like, will go through the screen and will take a huge junk from my HP no matter what I do. After that followed some blue and orange attacks shaped like bones and after that it's just some white patterns that look like... claws or teeth or something. Mostly triangle shaped things coming down and up on rows.

It was REALLY frustrating getting to this point. I had saved at Toriel's place before I went to fight her and after leveling up quite nicely but I still had to kill Toriel and make my way to this new boss fight each and every time I got killed. So it would take me always a while until I could try again.

I took several breaks, sometimes not playing for days before I tried again. At some point I was good enough that I could FINALLY survive the whole first attack, and then I saw him.

I really should have known and I did have my suspicions. The strong attack, the eye resting on me... who else could it be but Sans?

But the strange being looking at me through the monitor of my laptop barely looked like Sans anymore.

His sprite was huge, taking almost all of the top part of the screen, giant head bent down to stare at Kim's little heart, big paws decked out with long and sharp looking claws gripping the square which caged my soul left and right. His whole body was stretched and distorted, looking more like a beast than the friendly monster I knew from my old playthroughs.

He still had his jacked but it looked almost comically small on him now and a long tail was snaking around the right side of the screen, coming very close with its tip to my mercy button. Even San's skull was elongated and changed, resembling more of the iconic gasterblasters from his genocide fight.

* Sans is blocking the way.

Well no shit.

Again I checked the ACT menu first. This time my options were “Check” “Talk” and “Call for help.”

I selected Check.

Sans.

AKT FFF DEF Yes

You chose wrong and face the consequences.

Smells like burned dog biscuits.

After that Sans attacked again. His claws swiped at me and he fired his mouth canon at me again. I tried moving around but the game kinda glitched at that point and I only heard my soul breaking again.

And I was back to before Toriel's fight like before.

At this point I pretty much was ready to give up. I tried one more time to fight that new form of Sans but with the same results.

I tried a few more things to find out what triggers the new Sans fight but nothing really went far. Finally I decided to reset the game.

I named the fallen human Robin this time. Everything seemed normal until I saw Flowey for the first time.

He just said one line.

“That won't work you know?”

After that he disappeared. Instead a new textbox popped up.

* you can feel eyes on your back.

And when I walked through the door leading to the ruins, the screen went black, the sound of a soul shattering played and one bright blue dot glowed in the darkness of the screen before the game went black and crashed.

That is when things really went strange. I restarted the game but it wouldn't show the intro anymore, just cut to the black screen. The blue dot sometimes came back fading in and out but otherwise nothing happened. I couldn't move or at least nothing happened. I could open the menu still but it now said that my human was named Kim again?

I still had Level 1 at least, 0 EXP, still Stick and Bandage equipped and nothing else in the inventory.

But I couldn't load, I couldn't reset and I couldn't do anything more.

Finally I decided to mess with the files, copy the save files, reinstall my old ones. The game booted up all okay with the end of a true pacifist end. I even walked around a bit in the playable epilogue again, nothing seemed out of the ordinary only that the sprites of Toriel, Asgore, Papyrus, Sans, Alphys and Undyne at the end looked a bit blurry.

I true-reset again, named the fallen human Test. Flowey appeared again in front of me.

“You really think you are above consequences huh?” he said before disappearing. And after walking into the ruins the same as before happened. The sound of the soul breaking, the darkness, the eye and my name being changed back to Kim.

I fiddled around a bit, finally uninstalling Undertale, cleaning my whole laptop from any mention of the game and reinstalled it. And only THEN things seemed back to normal. I played pacifist, spared Toriel, came to the bridge and Sans and Papyrus were there all normal. Whatever strange thing happened to my old save file was finally gone.

So this is where I am left at. I still got the save files of the strange glitch run with the changed Sans fight on an USB drive and haven't dared mess with it yet.

So does anybody know what this is? Did anybody had this happened to them too? Does anybody know what triggered this strange thing to happen?

Thanks for reading.

This little creepypasta is the product of some conversations I had on the GasterBlaster Discord. Some very nice people helped me with beta-ing this there. :) Have a happy and spoooooky Halloween. :)

#Undertale #Sans #Toriel #GasterBlaster #Fanfiction #Gaster Blaster AU #glitch #gameplay #Halloween #creepypasta

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loadingseeker540 · 3 years ago

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Lifehacker Lastpass

You’ve got to appreciate some of the irony in that title. Lifehacker is part of the Gawker group of websites. Some hackers got into their system and downloaded their database and source code. They also ran some scripts agains the database and were able to find nearly 200,000 people who were using passwords that weren’t very strong.

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Lifehacker Lastpass

LastPass hacked: Time to change the last password you'll ever need to remember LastPass data has been compromised. Although there's no need to panic. LastPass Universal Linux Installer. The Universal Linux installer installs browser extensions for Firefox, Chrome, and Opera. LastPass for Firefox (i386 and x64) LastPass browser extension for Mozilla Firefox. This will also work on other Mozilla based browsers such as SeaMonkey, Mozilla, etc.

I had an account on Lifehacker from years ago. Since I didn’t consider it a huge security issue I used a simple five letter, single word password. Since it was easy to break this password, my username, password and email address was part of the roughly 200,000 released in decrypted form on the web.

I panicked just a bit when I saw my password on the list. Fortunately I’ve been using 1Password so I was quickly able to search through all of my logins and identify where I had previously used that password. It turns out it wasn’t used in many other places–mainly on things where I needed a quick account and wanted a password that I’d be likely to guess again.

So I was able to quickly change anything where I might have been at risk. Still it shook me up a bit and made me take a closer look at my password strategy. Ten years ago I used 3 different passwords. I had one for banking and websites where the risk of losing my data was high. I had another for things like email accounts where the risk was moderate and a third for sites like LifeHacker where the damage of someone logging in as me was minimal.

However, the real risk wasn’t that someone would login as me to make comments. The real risk was precisely what happened with LifeHacker–someone got into the website, discover a bunch of users passwords and then use those passwords to get access to their other accounts on the internet.

In the past five years I’ve taken a bit of a different approach to creating passwords. Whenever possible, I try to create a unique random password for each website I need a login for. That way if something happens like what happened with LifeHacker, the hackers will only have access to the site they hacked–something they probably have already in order to get the passwords in the first place.

How passwords are stored

If you want to understand how to create a secure password, it is worth taking some time to understand how passwords are stored on modern web applications.

Had I used a longer password that wasn’t a word in some language, the hackers probably wouldn’t have been able to get my password. LifeHacker stored their passwords as a hash (basically a type of one way encryption). When you login, LifeHacker’s servers took your password, ran it through the hash function and then compared it to what they had previously stored. If the values match, then you can login. If not, then you don’t have the right password. As you can see this meant that LifeHacker didn’t have to keep a copy of each users password on their server. However, you can get dictionaries of common words mapped to their hash value. This is how the hackers were able to get my password–they simply looked for a hash.

Here is an example. First lets create a hash of a common password “qwerty”. We do this using the following command at the OS X command line:

The hash is that long string of numbers and letters. This is what gets stored instead of your password on the server.

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How to break hashes

The hash process isn’t reversible. There isn’t an easy way to take a86850deb2742ec3cb41518e26aa2d89 and “decode” it. However, “qwerty” if a fairly common password. If one were to take a dictionary of common words and run them through the hash process they could create a database of all the hash values for common passwords. “qwerty” is a common password–common enough that someone probably has it listed with its hash value on the internet. So if we do a google search for:

We are going to find a number of results–most are showing that a86850deb2742ec3cb41518e26aa2d89 is the md5 hash for the word “qwerty”. This is how the hackers were able to break my password–even though all they had was the hashed value.

Safe passwords

Hopefully that explains why using a password that can be found in a dictionary is a bad idea. So how do you create passwords that can’t be broken in this way? You need to use a password that the hackers aren’t going to be able to find in a list of common words. Also the longer the password, the safer you are.

So a password like:

gorilla

is bad, but a password like:

dkfje&KPiOudkfje(*(3!

is good. While that last password is secure, there is one little problem. Can you spot it? Right. It is nearly impossible to remember. A simple solution is to use a password that combines a number of words. Here are some good passwords:

TheGorillaAteSoup.OhMy!

mydoghas1flea!

bob.can’t.run.8.miles.

Picking a pattern is another good method. These passwords look random until you try to type them. You basically remember the pattern on your keyboard.

a’s;dlfkgjh

%TGBnhy6

zxcvxcvbcvbnvbnmbnm,nm,.m,./

Use different passwords

Even if you use a secure password, you don’t want to use the same one on every site. Tthere are other ways for hackers to get your password. Some times hackers will install keystroke loggers on public computers in order to capture passwords people are using. If you have a secure password, but use the same one on all of your logins, you might login to check your facebook messages at a library and later find that someone has been assessing your banking. I have logins for over 400 websites. There are some techniques I can use to remember a different password for each site, but it simply doesn’t scale to 400 logins.

Thats where software like 1Password, LastPass, or RoboForm comes in handy.

1Password

I have been using 1Password for several years. 1Password lets you create a random password whenever you need it and it keeps track of your username and login for each website. When you return to a site, 1Password logs back in for you. You have a password on 1Password that gives you access to all of your other passwords.

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The passwords generated by 1Password are long and random. You can edit the settings to try to make the passwords easier to pronounce if you are trying to remember them or let it make them completely random and very long.

1Password is very nice, but it works as an application with a handful of plugins for different browsers. This works pretty well, but you really need an ubiquitous tool if you want to be able to keep all of your passwords secure. Otherwise you end up using simpler passwords on things you need to access often and from different locations. Often these are the very things you want most to protect.

What frustrated me with 1Password is that I couldn’t use it on my Blackberry or my Linux computer. As long as I stayed on my mac it was fine, but if I tried to use another machine things got a bit more tricky.

LastPass

This week I’ve started looking at LastPass. While 1Password is an application with some plugins, LastPass seems to be entirely plugin based and they have a great deal of cross platform compatibility. The interface doesn’t seem quit as polished as 1Password, but this is probably because they are making it run on a bunch of different platforms. Also LastPass offers synching between different devices so everything stays up to date. Any decryption is done on your local machine so your passwords are only stored encrypted in the cloud.

One interesting feature of LastPass is their security audit that will show you how secure your passwords are overall. You can even have it show you all logins that share a password so you can easily identify the places where you need to bolster your security. Another feature that looks useful is the ability to share your password with others.

LastPass is free for its basic version which will do all that most people need. You can pay $1 per month for extra features like Blackberry support.

Conclusion

Take the time to think about your password strategy. Mistakes are going to happen and you want to make sure you are in the safest position possible if your password for a site somehow gets discovered like mine did.

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janiklandre-blog · 8 years ago

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Wednesday April 12, 2017

9:27 a.m. sunny, cooler - just upset by a neighbor - she keeps having trouble with her time warner phone - she tried my cell phone could not work it - I begged to go up to my apartment - bed made, dishes washed, recently mopped - use my landline - no way would she go to my aprtment - I want to write my blog and not sit up there and listen to her endless trouble with time warner and then her doctor - people are rigid - what can you do.

Sigh. Do want to go to Polish church today - well does give me close to two hours - where to start.

My encounter yesterday with Sue - who has asked me to forward to her this here blog - and yes I do keep reading about trouble people are having who like I insist on putting their writing out on the ever more dangerous internet - and people like I finding out how easy it is to hurt, offend a reader - and still wondering how to make their writing interesting - so, here we go.

It has been Thursday Thoughts that has enabled me to stay in touch with Sue for years and years - Ken must still have been around to change her earthlink to gmail - though not here for this here now blog, for years now I've been getting undeliverable mail and at last have begun doing something about it with Molly.

So. It must be at least seven years since Sue and I saw each other last. Yesterday she reserved a table for us in the very expensive Boathouse restaurant - some time in advance, only 12:30 available - and I decided to take the bus from Astor Place to East 72nd street and Madison - left the house at 11:15 - stood ten minutes waiting for a bus while five buses were standing nearby but not letting passengers on until ready to pull up where we stood. One of those drivers who was slow as molasses - standing a lot more than moving - at last we did move on Madison Avenue - by 12:20 I got off, ran as fast as I still can run - not very fast - found Sue waiting for me just before I got to area where I had said I would meet her - she recognized me - and by 12:29 we were at our reserved table.

We both realized how little we knew about each other. We met on a park bench in an area of the park called Pinetum - some Mr.Ross had himself immortalized by paying for the planting of pine trees - I know they grow fast from my trips to New Hampshire - and there is a large plaque for him. It was at the time when my son had just found the way to put my memoirs into book form, Lulu - for very little money. I had a copy with me, showed it to Sue and she proceeded to produce something much fancier than I had. She lives in Northern New Jersey and has friends in the city for whom she cat sits and loves her brief stays in the city that cost her little - until inviting me yesterday for a very expensive lunch.

I found out a little more about her, she a little more about me - we sat right near the water and enjoyed the lunch (halibut, mashed potatoes and asparagus) - absolutely amazing how many people do have a lot of money.

It is Easter Week and also week of Passover - mobs of people in the park, every last row boat on the little lake rented, lines in the cheaper restaurant stretching for miles practically - I'm sure were you to google Boat House in Central Park, NYC - you might find out how this place has gone from rags to riches.

We then walked to the pinetum to see the bench where we met - once a small part of my daily enjoyable walk - now strenuous. The bus ride back was fast. The apartment a bit lonely with my house guests gone and my friend fully occupied by the vigil at the U.N. and the fast.

I went for a while by myself to the roof - lovely warm evening - I was alone on the roof - two Chinese came briefly, nodding to me. The sky was beautiful - on the roof of the expensive house across the street was a whole bunch of young people frolicking - and I was wondering, how long will I be going on this roof. The manager now has equipped it with rather weird green upholstered furniture - so I sat on that sofa - watching the clouds turn pink - then heading to this here computer room and write a German letter to a friend in Germany. We both write with ease and enjoy writing - not many of my friends in Europe have email - and not many with time an inclination to read long letters. In my younger days I had many livekly correspondences - carefully kept all the letters in very good order - until the 2000 fire destroyed them all.

Well, the Time Warner woman came back - kind of fuming - finding it outrageous I would offer her a key to my apartment - well, there is a lot I still have to learn. I tried telling her that as a child, watching Jews clinging to their apartments, their possessions and later losing their lives - made me decide there and then never to attach any value to material things. When I separated from Robert G. I left him every last material thing - to him they mattered, not to me.

In the decades of the last century I lived in a city with constant break-ins into my cheap apartments - after the first break in I decided never to buy anything costing more than $30 - let the thieves have it. Postponed getting my first computer until the break ins ended - at least for a while. While we do have a police army now, break ins, burglaries and most scary - attacks on people - old women a preferred target - on the rise again. I now carry a very solid cane - somebody forgot it at the deli and they gave it to me - trying to project as tough an image I can still muster - also avoidingas much as I can areas where it is easy to attack. Living in this here house has an advantage - a good amount of things has been stolen from me - to this day no one has touched me.

Well, the Time Warner woman made me wish again I could get it together to buy this Asus I want and attach it upstairs to the internet that I keep paying.

Got some more really cheap drops - only $57 - really would like to centest the $253 bill Weill Cornell sent me for a useless test and two brief physical therapy sessions - billed I found out at $400 each - I responsible for $80 copay for each - then my AT&T bill for iphone and ipad that I still have to figure out how to use going up $6 - I will stop there and ask for the reason. There still will be at least $450 copay on my eye op - and then - the dentures - how lucky I learned life on a shoe string as a child and - amazingly - have been able to afford a number of things that I really wanted - like my jealopies in the summers - crititicized by my family - oh well.

Life is strange and that perhaps is what makes it interesting. Tonight Deanne will sing again - mch worried about attendance - I will go and called French Christine whom I have not seen for a week - she has been hanging out at CW and I have not. I called her last night - a nephew is coming who will takea suitcase - she too has the hardest time leaving once again her apartment of 40 years and what she has accumulated there. I assume she will try to hang on to the apartment - I wonder how that will go. Sue yesterday was telling me about one woman whose cats she had sat - that woman was among the so manhy who no longer canafford New York. This woman is now spending a year in a house in Pennsylvania of a rich friend, trying to save up some money and then plans to move to Seattle where her son lives. More and more do people my age move with a relative - I too find living alone harder and harder. Still, will most likely hang on to this here house - lest it is sold - and lest "something happens" - things do happen.

Off to the Polish church - want to do some shopping - but try to figure out what I need - it will come back to me. Old and older - in Easter Week 2017 Marianne

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We All Float On

First of all, 2017 can go suck a bag of balls. I know the saying is “suck a bag of dicks” but that’s too kind to 2017. The world is on fire (literally and figuratively), men are all dirtbags, we’re a tweet away from nuclear war, credible journalists are fake news and Hillary Clinton is not likable enough for politics but a serial child molester will be elected to the senate and a disgusting pervert sociopath is our president. Seems like the kinda year Pennywise would decide to show up. I’m staying away from Maine just to be safe.

Ok, well that rant has literally nothing to do with Stephen King, but it sure felt good to get off my chest.

Because there’s enough terror in the real world, I haven’t been reading that much and I took my time getting through IT. Not because I wasn’t enjoying it, but because this book covers some heavy stuff. Most often remembered for the god awful spider puppet at the end of the TV movie, the book ingrains fear inside you that sits for days, giving you goosebumps when you recall a passage you just can’t shake. For me it was when one of the kids was being terrorized by visions of drowning in the water tower, grasping at the smooth sides, the top just out of reach. As someone who’s parents let my awkward ass do ballet classes as a kid but never taught me to swim, drowning is one of my own personal nightmares. And now, I am scared of water towers. Also, RIP Elisa Lam.

Reading this book ending up requiring two copies. You can imagine my joy when I pulled my McKays copy off the shelf and realized it was a first edition. LOOK AT ME, I OWN A FIRST EDITION STEPHEN KING BOOK. I’m, like, a real fan now. I quickly googled to see how much my rare book was worth as I paid $13.50 for it. And, guess what? It’s worth… $13.50. Doh. Viking printed 800,000 of these bad boys, their largest ever first run. I managed to leave it at my dads (I lugged this 1,200 page book on not one but two plane trips) so I had to pick up a paperback to finish out the last 400 pages or so. I instructed my dad to “take good care of it, it’s a first edition!” (I am such a dick) and a week later it was in my mailbox, wrapped in about 8 layers of bubble wrap. My dad, y’all.

A book so nice, I bought it twice.

OK. My favorite part :::drumroll::: the back story! You can read the whole story on King’s website, but basically IT was inspired by the old tale of Billy Goat Gruff crossing the bridge and getting into it with the troll. What if there was a monster below us we couldn’t see but was just waiting to jump out at us? And so, Pennywise The Dancing Clown was born (or arrived on a spaceship, more on that later).

This book hits literally all King’s sweet spots:

Scary as hell

Coming of age

50s nostalgia

Battles of good vs. evil

MAINE!

Sci-fi/fantasy

The core of this story is simple - an eternal being in the form of a clown terrorizes kids by feeding on their fears. Pennywise can manifest himself as each child’s individual nightmare - werewolves and lepers and blood, oh my. Turns out kids are easier to prey on because their fears are simple. I guess it would be harder to manifest himself into an unfunded 401k to scare the shit out of me.

The kids in this story are braver than I could ever be. Together, they have the a power that somehow kills fear itself, which is really what Pennywise is.

And this is where the story gets a little bonkers. Not in a terribly bad way but in a “huh?” kinda way. You see, the universe was created when a giant turtle threw up and Pennywise is the ying (evil) to the turtle’s yang (good). Lost yet? Yeah, I know. Pennywise arrived from the birth of the universe and has lived in Derry, Maine forever, waiting for evolution and humans to feed on. He travels into the macroverse, where the turtle resides, along with his “deadlights” that can drive humans insane at the sight of them.

Well, now that we cleared all that up, we can move on. I think it’s safe to assume King was a square in the 50s because like so many of his nostalgia tales, the other bad guys are a gang of greasers who are turds and occasionally give each other hand jobs in the junkyard.

Speaking of child sex acts, the group sex scene sure was… something. It’s up there on the list of controversial things King has written for good reason. Like this Vulture article “How Does the New It Movie Deal With Stephen King’s Orgy Scene?“. Spoiler! It doesn’t because that would be bonkers. King’s brushed it off in interviews as NBD, but I was more baffled about this than a turtle that belched up the universe.

For King lovers, IT is certainly an amalgamation of all his greatest hits. For me, it’s going into the column of books I truly enjoyed with an ending that just didn’t quite land.

King said he wouldn’t write about Pennywise again, which is a shame. If the Losers didn’t really manage to off him (which honestly, how do you kill an eternal being? These ding dongs went back into the sewers as adults with a pack of matches for cripes sake. They didn’t even bring a flashlight, nevermind like a gun or an axe or something.) Pennywise would have come back to Derry in 2012. We will never know.

8/10 would recommend to anyone who saw the first movie and thought the ending was lame. I was much happier with barfing turtle than spider puppet

First Line: The terror - which would not end for another twenty-eight years - if it ever did end - began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.

Last Line: Or so Bill Denbrough sometimes thinks on those early mornings after dreaming, when he almost remembers his childhood, and the friends with whom he shared it.

Adaptations

Tim Curry is really the only thing worth revisiting in the original TV movie. Good gosh, this thing is over 2 hours long and they cut so much great source material out. No time for the house on Neibolt Street, but the spider gets the last 15 minutes of the whole thing. Can you tell I really hate that spider?

Exhibit A: Nightmares; Exhibit B: Muppet

Fun personal story about this movie. We watched it one Halloween when we were 14ish with a bunch of girls. One of my friends was terrified of clowns. How we ever got her to watch this is beyond me. Later that night, while she was attempting to go to sleep with every light on, her mom called out to her: “honey, check out the moon, it’s beautiful!” Little did she know, her prankster father had dug a clown mask out of the basement, placed a ladder against the side of the house, and was peering into her second floor bedroom window when she opened the shade to gaze at the moon. So rude but so damn funny.

The new movie was so wonderful and I already pre-ordered my copy for when it comes out next week. Bill Skarsgard. Man, oh man.

And in case you didn’t feel old today - did you know those child actors weren’t even alive yet when 9/11 happened? Yeash.

I’m going to pack it in because everyone’s already seen these movies and my King Movie book I usually reference for these things is in the other room and I don’t feel like getting up. Tata for now. Dark Tower companion book Eyes of the Dragon is up next. Already started it. Fucking Randall Flagg, what an asshole.

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pixelgrotto · 8 years ago

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I haven’t updated in forever. My bad! Blame a busy schedule and a month that saw me traveling to a few different places for the holidays. One of those places was my parents’ house, and while I didn’t do much gaming there (aside from a few quick sessions of Crypt of the Necrodancer), I did spend a fair bit of time revisiting one of my greatest pleasures - my secret stash of video game magazines, buried in the depths of a blue cabinet in the room where I caught my first Pokemon and therefore grew from boy to man.

I loved video game magazines as a kid and would always get excited whenever copies of Computer Gaming World and Electronic Gaming Monthly showed up in the mail. Never mind the fact that during the period when I subscribed to both mags - the late 90s to about 2009 - I never actually had a decent gaming PC nor any of the modern consoles. That wasn’t the point. Looking at those pages made me feel like I was a member of a community of like-minded electronic entertainment enthusiasts, and that was enough. Plus, in the days before sites like Kotaku, Polygon and the like, you could always trust dudes like Scooter, Jeff Green, Dan Hsu, Milkman or gals like Jeanne Kim and Jennifer Tsao to drop trustworthy knowledge with just the right amount of personality to make you feel like you were getting advice from a buddy in real life. (Jeanne Kim, I kinda had a crush on you at one point.)

But there was one other thing about these mags that was appealing: salivating at the ads of soon-to-be-released games. It’s hard to imagine these days, but back in 1999, gaming mags were FAT, like 200-300 pages fat, and I think there was one tome of Computer Gaming World that bordered on 400, with at least 60% of that space filled with junky adverts. It was a different era, to be sure - a simpler time when the best way to attract consumer attention wasn’t to get video personalities to promote your game on Twitch, but to rely on the seductive magic of glossy paper ink.

Looking back on these things today, though, I’m stunned by how much they got away with. I used the word “salivate” earlier, and it’s a pretty accurate one, because if a video game could possibly be promoted with a pair of tits or an ass back in the 90s or 2000s, then it most definitely was. And while I’m sure my high school self dug stuff like the Bloodrayne 2 ad above, there’s something a tad bit embarrassing about it nowadays. Not to mention that Deathtrap Dungeon ad, which was weird in 1998 and is still weird today. When games couldn’t be marketed with lady lumps, advertisers usually turned to the other things they felt would appeal to their audience - stupid humor/taglines (John Romero actually apologized for that whole “MAKE YOU HIS BITCH” Daikatana fiasco) and graphic violence. If you wanna see what I’m referring to with the graphic violence, peep this two page spread for the Resident Evil PC port, featuring a dog carrying a dismembered arm, as well as this grisly and frankly quite disgusting display for some game called Flesh Feast that nobody remembers anymore. Trigger warning, I suppose - these pages actually disturbed me when I first saw them as a 14 year old, and they still bother me today.

I occasionally wonder what companies were smoking back in the day, but then I remember that electronic gaming is a relatively young hobby, barely older than 40, and many of these ads represent a time period which could easily be considered gaming’s adolescence. Is it any wonder, then, that marketing agencies often chose to target the demographic that was biggest at that time - teenage boys - with depictions of violence, dumb jokes, gun porn or curves rather than actual gameplay?

Growing pains aside, ya just can’t get away with stuff like this anymore. The more cynical folks out there might say that all the internet social justice warriors simply wouldn’t stand for it, and would bitch and moan and start petitions if anyone tried to pull off a Fear Effect 2-style marketing campaign talking about thirteen climaxes in 2017. This is probably true. But I also believe that gaming has grown up tremendously over the last decade, and really doesn’t need to promote itself in this fashion anymore. Violence is rarely overtly depicted in today’s advertising, and while there’s still some sexy pandering in modern ads, it’s usually done a little classier nowadays. (When it’s crude, as in the case of this relatively recent Soul Calibur V piece, it isn’t received very well.) It’s a brave new world out there today, and frankly, it’s also a more mature one where diversity and representation are being championed more often than blood ‘n boobs. Since the typical gamer is now a 30 something rather than a 15-year-old, we’re also starting to see more games promoting their proud DADHOOD FEATURES (hi, Dishonored 2 and The Witcher 3) rather than their voluptuous thonged wimmens. Not a bad thing at all.

That said, I’ll admit there is a certain kitschy quality in the brazen “damn, they’ve got some balls” vibe omnipresent in these ads of yesteryear. Which is why whenever I’m back in my video game mag secret stash, I like to give ‘em a stare. Just as overstuffed gaming magazines are themselves largely a relic of the past, these printed commercials are a firm remnant of days that are long gone - and a useful measurement of just how far this hobby has evolved in the past decade.

And hey, some of those early 2000s ads surpassed the schlock of their time and hold up today. That Metal Gear Solid PC ad about a “tranquil Alaskan night so quiet you can hear a neck snap?” Still kinda dope. Vintage ads found through an hour of Google Image searching. Hit up Video Game Print Ads, a really good Tumblr, for more fun times.

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ALL THE QUESTIONS!!!!!!

omg, it’ll go under the cut cause this anon is insane bye

Spotify, SoundCloud, or Pandora? spotify, but i don’t really like it

is your room messy or clean?it’s like in between for me, but messy for some people like my mom

what color are your eyes?brown

do you like your name? why?yeah, i think, i’m stuck with it my whole life so that’s one of the reasons and the other reason might be the meaning, i read one that i comes from a latin verb that means to be strong and then i read the definition on urban dictionary and it made me really happy

what is your relationship status? single someone love me please

describe your personality in 3 words or lessa dumb dumb

what color hair do you have?RED, I’M BACK WITH THE RED.

what kind of car do you drive? color?i don’t drive a car

where do you shop?anywhere, if i see something i like and i can buy, i’ll buy it

how would you describe your style?a mess

favorite social media accountinstagram is pretty cool, i love taking pictures, twitter is fun i guess

what size bed do you have? idk, i googled it and i guess it’s a twin xl

any siblings?yup, an older sister

if you can live anywhere in the world where would it be? why?somewhere near the beach, cause i love the beach, i find the sea terrifying but i love the sound and it gives me peace

favorite snapchat filter? the dog filter cause i look cute

favorite makeup brand(s)i have no idea

how many times a week do you shower?between 5 and 7

favorite tv show?right now, steven universe, the oa is pretty cool too

shoe size?35

how tall are you?1.50cm

sandals or sneakers? sneakers

do you go to the gym? no

describe your dream datewalk around listening to the same music, sitting down to eat something, enjoy the day, hold hands and all that cute stuff

how much money do you have in your wallet at the moment?102 pesos

what color socks are you wearing? in one foot a black sock and in the other foot a white sock

how many pillows do you sleep with?1 but i have other pillow against the wall cause sometimes i hit my head

do you have a job? what do you do? i teach english to some kids

how many friends do you have? i have like 4 close irl and then i have some here on tumblr

whats the worst thing you have ever done? push away my group of friends

whats your favorite candle scent? i don’t really use candles

3 favorite boy namesdante, matthew, logan

3 favorite girl namesemma, charlie, dianna

favorite actor? idk, i don’t remember anyone right now, chris evans is cool

favorite actress? anna kendrick

who is your celebrity crush?right now it could be alexis bledel or kate micucci

favorite movie? eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

do you read a lot? whats your favorite book? i don’t, i wish i could read more, my favourite book it’s the little prince

money or brains? part of me wants to say brains but money is a good one

do you have a nickname? what is it? val

how many times have you been to the hospital?for my own, like 5 times i think, in general quite a few times.

top 10 favorite songswhite flag by sabrina carpenter - lovely by twenty one pilots - last hope by paramore - you and i by ingrid michaelson - absolutely smitten by dodie - cassiopeia by sara bareilles - she had the world by p!atd - let it be by the beatles - bohemian rhapsody by queen - drive by halsey

do you take any medications daily? no

what is your skin type? (oily, dry, etc)oily, i think

what is your biggest fear? being alone, heights

how many kids do you want? none, however if i can i’d adopt one

whats your go to hair style?straight hair

what type of house do you live in? (big, small, etc) big

who is your role model? i don’t think i have one, it’s too much pressure on someone else

what was the last compliment you received?the one i remember is my friend telling me that he wishes me all the happiness and love i deserve

what was the last text you sent?my sister

how old were you when you found out santa wasn’t real?i don’t remember lol

what is your dream car? my dream car is a car i can drive

opinion on smoking?do whatever you want

do you go to college? yes ????????? something like that, i took a break and now i’m gonna do online courses

what is your dream job? reviewing films and stuff like that

would you rather live in rural areas or the suburbs? the suburbs

do you take shampoo and conditioner bottles from hotels? yes, they give you a lot for a reason

do you have freckles? no

do you smile for pictures?i try to

how many pictures do you have on your phone? idk like 400, i don’t have my phone with me now

have you ever peed in the woods? yeah

do you still watch cartoons? of course

do you prefer chicken nuggets from Wendy’s or McDonalds?mcdonalds maybe, i don’t order chicken nuggets, i should do it

Favorite dipping sauce? cheddar

what do you wear to bed? my pajamas

have you ever won a spelling bee?no

what are your hobbies?playing video games

can you draw? kind of, only like copying something, seeing the picture

do you play an instrument?the ukulele

what was the last concert you saw? i think it was paramore

tea or coffee?both

Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts?starbucks

do you want to get married?i don’t know, maybe

what is your crush’s first and last initial?i don’t have a crush right now

are you going to change your last name when you get married? no

what color looks best on you? idk black

do you miss anyone right now? yes

do you sleep with your door open or closed?closed

do you believe in ghosts?yeah

what is your biggest pet peeve? people chewing with their mouth open

last person you called`i don’t call people

favorite ice cream flavor? chocolate or dulce de leche

regular oreos or golden oreos? regular oreos

chocolate or rainbow sprinkles? chocolate

what shirt are you wearing? a black shirt

what is your phone background?in my lockscrean i have an aesthetic picture clara made for me and then in my homescreen a picture of anna kendrick

are you outgoing or shy?very shy

do you like it when people play with your hair?yeah

do you like your neighbors? i hate them

do you wash your face? at night? in the morning?in the morning

have you ever been high? no

have you ever been drunk? yeah

last thing you ate? chicken and salad

favorite lyrics right nowthe sun will rise, and we will try again.stay alive, stay alive, for me.you will die, but now your life is free

summer or winter? winter

day or night? day

dark, milk, or white chocolate? all the chocolate

favorite month? march

what is your zodiac signcancer

who was the last person you cried in front of? i think it was in front of my whole family, cause i don’t remember crying in front of anyone after that

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jacewilliams1 · 4 years ago

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The famous quote that da Vinci never said

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”

This Leonardo da Vinci quote is everywhere — aviation books, magazines, websites, Instagram posts, coffee mugs, tee shirts, several science textbooks and some Smithsonian publications. It’s been repeated by the Washington Post newspaper, the Italian ambassador to the United States, and an executive director of The Leonardo museum. I saw it last year in big painted letters on the wall of a California flight school. It’s timeless emotion from a renaissance master of art and science. A flying quotation from maybe the most diversely talented genius ever to have lived, penned 400 years before the Wright Brothers flew. It’s evocatively magical and achingly relatable.

Yet Leonardo da Vinci never said it; and it’s nowhere close to 500 years old.

Yep, it’s fakey fake! Like, totally busted. Now, it’s still a great line. Maybe the best encapsulation of what pilots feel like when we’re stuck on the ground. As I write this during the coronavirus lockdown my eyes are turned skyward, longing to return. But how did this distinctive line come to be credited to the famous Italian polymath with a fascination for flight? And who actually did write it?

I started questioning the quotation’s authenticity over twenty years ago, while trying to nail down the details for a book I was editing. It was slow sledding. Several big aviation books had the line, but none of them cited a reference. None. I soon noticed it never has a date or even a year ascribed to it. This was back when university library catalogs were giant physical card files, Google didn’t exist, and you dialed into the internet on Netscape.

Since I don’t speak Italian, flipping through photos of Leonardo’s original notes didn’t get me anywhere. Reading English translations of his words didn’t uncover the phrase. Leonardo didn’t write books as such, but rather had observational and inspirational notebooks that he wrote in mirror-image cursive with shorthand codes and extensive sketches. There are in total about 13,000 of these pages, originally loose papers of different types and sizes.

Leonardo wrote about birds and flying, but not that famous quote.

Leonardo certainly was obsessed with birds and flying machines, drawing and writing a lot about them over his entire lifetime. He believed a bird flew into his crib as a baby. He swam underwater to study how fish fins worked compared to bird wings. His aerodynamic ideas foreshadow Newton, Galileo, and Bernoulli. He was the first to draw flow fields. Charles Elachi, director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, says Leonardo was “the ultimate genius,” and that “as scientists and explorers we always looked to him as the model.”

One of his famous notebooks, the Codex on the Flight of Birds, is devoted entirely to flight. It was written at the same time (1505-1506) he was painting the Mona Lisa. It contains aerodynamic understandings not equalled for hundreds of years. Elachi believes this codex is “probably the most important document about flight” on Earth. In 2012, a scanned copy of it flew much further, landing on Mars attached to the Curiosity rover. While close inspection of the Codex on the Flight of Birds reveals it was written over old notes, and contains a grocery list as well as other personal notes, our famous line is not there.

Peter Jakab, a curator at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, says Leonardo wrote 35,000 words and drew 500 stretches on flying. His last notebook, Manuscript E (circa 1515), has advanced studies of gliding flight and clearly shows how migrating birds use the wind for long range soaring. By then I think Leonardo had given up on mechanical human-powered flight, after a lifetime of never actually making it into the air in any machine. This disconnect from actually “tasting flight” is part of the magic of the quote, that the great master could voice our primal aerial passion before anybody could have experienced it. The general acceptance seems to be that the extraordinary intellect that envisioned so many mechanical possibilities, and could paint so many human emotions, conjured in his mind what flight would feel like, what lingering sweet taste it would leave in our psyche.

The search was frustrating. What if the quote was never in his notebooks? Maybe he wrote it in a letter to someone else? Or maybe was it a bad translation? Or an extrapolation? Or a misunderstanding? But surely not, as the line was quoted so definitively, so often. The only variations seem to be at the start. Sometimes it’s, “For once you have tasted…” other times it’s, “When once you have tasted…” The body of the quotation is remarkably consistent for something supposedly 500 years old, originally written in Italian or Leonardo’s poor Latin.

I found nothing. Neither did some nice folks I talked with at National Geographic magazine years ago, who had contacted one of the world’s leading Leonardo authorities in Italy as part of a long research project, and were told flat out that he did not write it. They were quite confident it was folklore fiction, and privately they sounded a little smug that a Smithsonian publication had recently printed it. I believed them, but how do you prove a negative? And who originally did pen the line?

The question quietly bugged me for years. The 2007 book Leonardo on Flight by Domenico Laurenza never mentions the line. A whole chapter of the 2008 book Leonardo’s Legacy by science writer Stefan Klein is devoted to da Vinci’s dream of mechanical flight, yet it also never mentions the line. Rather, the book concludes “after thirty years of tireless work, Leonardo’s dream of flying had reverted to what it was in the first days of his research—a flight of the imagination.” And the amazing 2017 biography Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson, drawing on the latest research, didn’t include it anywhere in its over 600 pages. So every time I saw the quote on a tee shirt or Twitter it was a poke to a bit of my brain that knew something wasn’t right, that something was unfinished.

Well, finally the mystery has been solved, thanks to several patient detectives connected via the internet, using the vast search tools of Google Books and other electronic storehouses. People reached out to book authors and asked where ideas and narrative came from, while others sat through dreadful old copies of films. It all came together in the nerdy discussion page of the Wikiquote entry for Leonardo de Vinci, and now we can reveal the author was… drum roll please…

John Hermes Secondari. An American TV writer. In 1965.

John Secondari discussing rockets with Wernher von Braun.

It seemed all a bit underwhelming. A TV writer? But a little more research finds a pretty cool cat. He commanded a tank company in combat during World War II. He wrote romantic novels. An uncredited Frank Sinatra sang “his” song that won an Oscar. The New York Times called Secondari “a dominant figure in the field of the television documentary” in their February 1975 obituary. He had won three Peabody Awards and more than 20 Emmys during a career making quality documentaries. And while John was mostly found behind the camera, there’s pictures of him from a 1958 Walt Disney Television show—smoking a cigarette and discussing rocketry with Wernher von Braun. And he had deep ties to Italy.

Born in Rome in 1919, at five years old Secondari sailed with his mother to Ellis Island for a life in the United States. After getting a masters degree in journalism from Columbia University, he worked as a correspondent for The United Press and CBS News. In 1941 he joined the Army and saw combat in Europe. After the war he rejoined CBS and was head of their Rome bureau. John also wrote several novels. The first one published drew on his knowledge and love of Rome with a title referencing the famous Trevi fountain—Coins in the Fountain. The book was turned into the 1954 movie Three Coins in the Fountain. It won two Oscars: best cinematography and best song. The eponymous song was sung by Frank Sinatra.

At the start of the 1960s Secondari organized ABC-TV’s first documentary unit and went on to produce over 80 documentaries, covering serious subjects with award-winning substance. The Museum of Broadcast Communications’ Encyclopedia of Television (2nd edition, 2013) says Secondari “forged a coherent house style that featured a heavy emphasis on visualization and dramatic voiceover narration.” One of his projects was a series called The Saga of Western Man, highlighting key historical events that drove civilization forward. It was nominated for five Primetime Emmy awards. The New York Times said that to make the past come alive Secondari used “sound effects and animated the screen by treating the camera lens as if it were the eye of an actual witness to the event—scanning , zooming or resting on shadows, furniture, silhouettes, ships and other objects. As much as possible he restricted the acting to off-screen voices, using historically authentic dialogue.”

One of the episodes of The Saga of Western Man was “I, Leonardo Da Vinci.” The credits state it was written, produced and narrated by John H. Secondari, with “the voice of Leonardo da Vinci” played by Fredric March. Its copyright date is 1965 and it was released in 1966 by American Broadcasting. At 16 minutes and 21 seconds into the second reel, after the off-screen Leonardo narration urges people to build his flying machines, claiming after any crash “the hurts will be slight,” over gentle visuals of a wheat field panning up into a clear blue sky, the voice says:

And once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you would return.

That’s it. The first recorded version of what became the quote. There is nothing similar in any of the millions of pre-1965 documents digitized by Google or other archivers. It was written by John H. Secondari, channeling the real ideas and passions of Leonardo as part of a TV documentary. This was a serious project, with Professor Carlo Pedretti of the University of California as the consultant historian, but it did present conjectural concentrations of Leonardo’s ideas. Condensing 13,000 pages of notes into a one hour show is hard. Clearly it’s a great line, compelling, ethereal—even if it’s closer in time to Leonardo DiCaprio than Leonardo da Vinci.

As an additional fact check, I talked with Marissa De Simone Day, Director of Exhibits and Learning at The Leonardo Museum of Creativity and Innovation in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was part of the creation of their outstanding Flight exhibit. If anyone should know about the line, it’s her. She stated, “as far as we know, the quote originated in the script of an educational film by John Secondari which is titled I, Leonardo da Vinci. The script is inspired by Leonardo’s notes in his codexes and narrated as though by Leonardo.”

This spoken line is not exactly as we’ve seen it repeated time after time over the last few decades. It lacks the “forever” and the ending is missing the “always long.” Those parts came to be added in pieces later. The first time the line appeared in print was ten years later, in the May 1975 edition of Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine. It was quoted as a Leonardo epigraph in The Storms of Windhaven, a science fiction story by George R. R. Martin (yes, that’s Mr. Game of Thrones) and Lisa Tuttle:

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; for there you have been, and there you long to return.

Now we have the “long to return.” But where did they get the line? A fantastical lost da Vinci codex discovered in George R. R. Martin’s attic? A personal letter from Leonardo delivered through a vortex time portal? Sadly not. Seems the communication was more down to Earth. According to Lisa Tuttle it was the editor of Analog, Ben Bova, who suggested it. An email to Ben revealed that he heard it in a documentary about Leonardo.

It was perfect for the start of a story of human space voyagers who crash-landed on a planet and constructed mechanically simple gliding machines from their wrecked spaceship. The presented-as-historical-fact quotation was read and spread by late seventies hang glider pilots and sky divers. Five years later, a newspaper story in the The Herald Statesman had the compelling headline Hang Glider Died “With His Eyes Turned Skyward.” By the 1980s the power of the line had caught the imagination of the wider aviation world. And then it started being repeated in books and magazines.

Which is when I first saw it. I joined the echoing chorus by adding it to my lists of aviation quotes. Now it’s almost everywhere. It’s easy to understand why. The line perfectly describes a human emotion about our favorite obsession. It sounds just like what we think Leonardo sounded like. And fact checking the line used to be nearly impossible. But now we have better tools. It might take a while for the quote’s attribution to be changed, considering how common it’s become. I heard it as part of a theme park ride. It even made it to page 135 of the 2008 National Geographic book Leonardo’s Universe: The Renaissance World of Leonardo Da Vinci. Emails to the authors were unanswered.

It’s my speculation that the enigmatic Mona Lisa smile is Leonardo’s reaction to his most famous flying quote turning out to have been penned by a ghostwriter centuries after his death. The great man did enjoy funny prophecy-riddles. His quote that “winged creatures will support people with their feathers” actually refers not to flying machines, but rather “the feathers used to stuff mattresses.” His line “feathers shall raise men even as they do birds, towards heaven” is finished by “that is by letters written with their quills.”

While we have to let his most repeated quote go, thankfully there are many well researched, 100% authentic quotations that match his amazing aerodynamic sketches. Like this one from the Codex Atlanticus:

A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, and it is in the capacity of man to reproduce such an instrument. A man with wings large enough and duly attached might learn to overcome the resistance of the air and raise himself upon it.

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theextraspoon · 5 years ago

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Remember Pewdiepie? The Swedish Youtuber once had a slip of a racial slur cost him his YT Red Series, cost him hundreds of thousands of followers and changed the way we use Youtube and Google. Thanks to the media, we've moved from cancelling people, to getting them fired, and when that doesn't work, we call the papers because we know they're the types to give us that feel good by default narrative that sent my view into the spiral of media puppetry. It baffled me that Youtube would want to throw it's poster boy under the bus like said to the advertisers summit in 2015. Since then Youtube ran ad campaigns for some really sketchy places, like the data-mining of Candid to the exploitation of mental health through Betterhelp yet denied completely legal ads from hemp cultivation. That's where we step in.

Last night I was watching one of my favorite streamers, Hyphonix, when it suddenly became clear that he was one of the owners of the businesses stuck in the cross-hairs of the media wars attempting to contact me and he was upset with me for being upset with him, understandable. However, he didn't dox me and he didn't dox my dad. He just didn't. I've tested it. People tried to convince me he was poison and stealing from me.That he was a "literal Hitler." He's not though. At least, I've not seen it.

He's a dick, sure, but most of us are dicks too. I think he's funny. Next to another streamer whom I found humorous outside of gamer gate for his delivery was, Jim "Metokur," whom we've mentioned before here. I like the kid. He didn't dox me. So when I apologized for wrongfully judging him, it was then his chat gave me the name I needed.

The real person who've been behind digging into my personal information, doxing me, doxing my biological and adoptive family and even stole their identity so they can't be held accountable for their actions. This person, PPP, Pepe, AP, Adonis Paul or whatever name he give himself today, decided to claim a gang affiliation with the hells angels (whom he's never met in real life or even spoken to) in an effort to threaten people into or out of working with select sponsors and other streamers. However, I DO know a few angels and they don't take kindly to this behavior and blamed me directly for it putting me in quite a bit of danger I had worked 2 years to get out of. However when I came to ask Adonis Paul to stop, he began to poorly gaslight me. I tried to tell him I could hear a girl by the name of Riley, roleplaying as my uncle Irish (by the same name even) in GTA. For years, my life story has been Riley's online persona and it began to catch up to me, but I had no idea what the hell was going on or why everyone was claiming I was crazy and gaslighting me with "schizophrenia" which wouldn't be the correct diagnosis anyways. It's been terrifying and cost me a lot of money just to feel safe. You see, Adonis Paul drove me away from sponsoring youtubers and twitch streamers due to the threats, alleged theft, sponsored parties pulling and haven't even made a streamlabs donation since 2019 because someone named "FT WORTH, TX HENDERSON" frauded our card for $400. Since my dad was doxed and my child threatened which, as a victim on protection order with a missing child, no youtube channel or stream herself, no public non-business socials it was a very real perceived threat. I went to police. I NEVER go to police, for obvious reasons. This person terrified me that "he and leaf had kidnapped my son to raise themselves" and not having seen him in a year, I was forced to go to police. Since this began, at least once a day, I've been followed into chats mocked for being raped in jail when wrongfully arrested and laughed at for my kid going missing and then mocked for going to the police for it.

Ironically the same guys were still there playing GTA, which you can only watch really if you want to get in on pixel. They suddenly knew I was there. Obviously. They'd been role playing with the online version of my identity, according to someone else, for YEARS. Before you ask, no, I have no idea who this person is. I know who they are now, but I've never met or spoken to this person and many don't even refer to them as Riley but as Lucy or Lara.

You know what was happening today? Live?

We had just lost George Floyd, the entire country is in protest and getting looted after being shut down for months from Covid-19. The internet socialites were pulling everyone in all types of ways. From God, to Godzilla, Satan, to political parties. Everyone is hurting everyone and I've been watching it get worse and worse for months.

The gamers were investigating in game after a year of my crying out to no one hearing me. By now, the Youngsliving organization was doing "movie reviews" in regards to... me? The lion tribe had copied and stolen my website. Aiden of Hemp City literally copied my site word for word. It was an attack. So I stopped and I let them start to get the back up and overwhelming stress that comes with my job and... because I would be at a halt, they get no more free work while they harass me.

The pixel server was already familiar with who I was because it's where the identity was being used most and how everyone kept hearing my info to report me. The GTA cops were investigating for me. Like legitimately talking to real characters that also appeared in real life, because this was real crime being done... in game. It's the wildest thing I've seen. With the zoo, the review channels, the political channels, I honestly was surprised again, not by identity but to see police in a video game behaving better than the real police outside my home during the riots. They were investigating. Who took her? How did they know her? What's she look like? They speculated as much as I had. This was an insane situation and suddenly I realized all of us were placed into this by someone else like a chain reaction online. Hurt people, hurting people. I was taken back and many people told me they had no idea this was happening or they thought it was all in game. They forgot people were watching.

That's when I heard the chatter over the radio.

You can read chat. We can hear her now. Today's nature's law! It came from Metokur. He said it's Nature's birthday!

I heard a two game cops say and that's when I believed it was kind of over.

That brings me back to the level guys, on the floor. They could hear me and you know. I was so hurt by these people that I didn't for one second think "why are they doing this to me?" I automatically assumed they did it to cause me harm, so I was hurting others in conversation with the ways I lashed out against it.

Hurt people, hurt people.

Everyone has shat on my favorite streamer. Everyone said things so vile against him, I wouldn't have looked twice at his stream if that came first. He was being hurt... right now. Today, in this moment, he was being hurt by not being given a fair shot at business like I had not gotten a fair shot before. I KNOW that feeling.

So I've decided to be the one to stop the cycle. I know, I know. I'm such a lame, loser, boomer. Thing is when you act out as a real life identity you effect their life and the lives around them. You take more than sales you take away the persons security, safety in their own home, freedom to exist. You hurt everyone around you and if it's bad enough you'll do it to someone like me who will hunt you down and track you like the best GTA cop pixel.

This is what happened with Pewdiepie. His fair chance was taken from him while people like Jake and Adonis Paul literally threaten SPONSORS, friends, family, jobs and eventually, the papers until they get what they want and all they want is submission and like Pewdiepie, I'm a stubborn Scandinavian who won't apologize if she doesn't mean it and won't say sorry if I'm not. These types of manipulators don't like that, so they attempt to control the narrative on your name. It should be illegal. Look at what the media does RIGHT NOW. Turn on the news and just listen for a few minutes. Isn't that insane?! The reason I bring up Pewdiepie is that he's in this game I'm somehow dragged into as well. You can catch it with the right bot or knowing what to look for with the out of context statements and the random, repetitive words. It's those words that trigger the mind (or A.I.) into the game. Point is, I had it done to me and I was about to turn around and do it AGAIN to Pewdiepie, the very man I quit the ad program for in the first place. The very one they threw under the bus. This woke me up.

I'm not going to say the words or things Pewdiepie says is okay or stand by his thoughts and ideas, that's not why I'm here. I'm here to make fair what was made wrong in the first place. It's the whole reason I went private sponsorship and here I am, angry that he's involved, blaming him and even Markiplier of doxing and threatening me simply because they're using the same words in the same game at the same time unbeknownst to one another. I was online, threatening the Wallstreet Journal to Pewdiepie and that is the most disgusted I've been with myself all year. I was hurt. I was going to hurt someone else because of it.

So, all of these thoughts in my mind, I've been awaken. I've been humbled. I saw myself in the mirror becoming the very same monster I was hunting and collectively, in a way, the "game" these youtubers were playing actually made me a better person. It woke me up. I honestly feel if Adonis Paul had not doxxed me, my biological father, the man who took me in, my fathers motorcycle enthusiast group whom I finally had gotten away from and was now literally handed back to, threatening me, my youtubers and my son, I think the game would have ended much sooner. I had to come to the end myself though or I wouldn't learn.

No, what happened to me wasn't fair and no, it probably will never be made okay but in time maybe it will. All I know is I will NOT become one of them and I will NOT become the monster I hunted to hurt the people I protect.

I've decided to let the streamer and his business in. I've decided to stop the cycle. I like the streamer and watched as a fan but right now, men are being censored and taken down, presented as nazis and literal Fuhrers. If I let him him sit and watch his friends and accomplices be accepted and moved out of the city it wouldn't be fair as he would have been first. It wouldn't be fair because as long as his labs are legit and not stolen, he deserves to go up like the rest of us or it will feel like he's singled out, attacked, and he will take it personally. It will hurt, he will hurt others, the cycle continues.

I believe in checking for thorns in the paw before condemning the beast. I honestly see good in these streamers the media has labeled and thus, cost their jobs and finances. I've watched them struggle, yell out for help, have families in need, and now go through a pandemic with not so much as a squeak from the big dogs at Youtube. I almost missed an important video myself clearing a lot of this up by my dog/pig, or youtube friend in the game that guided me a bit, knowingly or not. That pig knows who he is and I don't want to risk his current position in the game by exposing him. I'm not the media, but thank you for exposing the bootlegging in the gulf of our brand lines as they think we own all 150. If you're reading this, you helped all the way to Pewdiepie. That's an impressive reach we can have, guys.

So, I hope you all understand my stand on this. The cycle needs to stop. We can't leave people behind. This is a movement for all of us. Whether you believe in freedom or you believe in karma, green or light, our future will be grim if people are left behind. We can't build on cracked foundation.

Please stop a cycle.

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Not everyone is literal Hitler. Some are hurting from the thorns of the past. Pull them out and you tame the beast.

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The telephone will reportedly favor the iPhone 8 and could dislocate at $400.Here's a examine at everything we' ve auricular circularly it so remote supported on young narrate. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stage. Apple typically plunges its renovated showcase iPhones every September. But this year, it may moment a contrivance in that copy with a modern, cheaper iPhone first appearance in the shoot. The California-supported tech enormous is contemplated to pierce a modern ver of its smaller, less high-priced iPhone SE for the first measure since 2016, correspondingly to recite from TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Nikkei Asian Review, and Bloomberg. Such a pierce would give Apple more space to content with Android call makers likely Samsung and Google, both of which sacrifice cheap alternatives to their pricey flagships.Here's a examine at everything we cognize helter-skelter the secondary-stock iPhone SE so remote supported on these narrate. Read more: Apple may plunge a new transformation of its minute, cheaply iPhone from 3 donkey’s years past, and it could be exact as decisive for Apple's trade as the iPhone 11. Introduction and DisplayApple has begun the successor of the 2016 diverse of the iPhone SE in the system of iPhone SE 2. The lath sacrifice does not contend much inbound of designate and flagship the same observe resembling insipid sides, top, and bottom bezels and Touch ID. The front-facing Seat knob doubles up as a fingermark lectrice. The Apple iPhone SE 2 is intention at users who promote a mean and firm chief French telephone. The smartphone wave a 4.2-island Retina IPS spread out which is double with HDR technology. The spread-out is clear and bright which rises in an unmatched optic enjoy. The shelter on the artifice comes with Ion-X hourglass which champion the Apple iPhone SE 2 from efface. Camera and battery Apple iPhone SE 2 comes with a 12-megapixel raise and a 7-megapixel front-facing snapper. The lift cast sensory also is double with faze-perception AF, and a double-mood LED flash lamp that coöperate moderate-publicity photos and videos. Users can humor in video profession besides tick selfishness-portraits worn the 7-megapixel front-facing shoot-'em-up. For influence, the Apple iPhone SE 2 nurse moisten from a no-removable Li-Po 1,624mAh battery which is virtuous enough to last for a pure Time for a lessen use. Performance and PlatformAt its hearten, the Apple iPhone SE 2 is provided with a baffling-random access memory Apple A10 Fusion chipset and 2GB of RAM to surrender primary-alike accomplishment to its users. You can employment on more than two apps simultaneously without sluggish down the completion or undergo any inferior. On the software front, the smartphone go iOS 11 out of the present. Connectivity and storage Apple iPhone SE 2 is cue along with all the banner connectivity wishing which inclose 4G with verify for VoLTE, GPS, NFC, Bluetooth 5.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, and a USB 2.0 reversible connector. For fund apps and other data, users get 32GB of real warehousing rove which cannot be wide any further.

This is the religious pack. Am I direct? The whole peculiarity of holding the 4-island formula constituent is to keep it slender. But will Apple puzzle with the same coverage as the iPhone SE? or will we see something fully separate? KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (via MacRumors) suppose a flame-death exasperate-to-exasperate iPhone is titled our road. Though Kuo isn't implicated that this is the iPhone SE 2 we're a haven for, he does Saw it'll be a few hundred dollars less than the iPhone X and be the minute of three iPhone X fashion intend. Two fresh OLED dummy butt exalted-destruction nundinal; fresh TFT-LCD shape endeavor at grave-destruction & midrange offer: We expect the mayor ironmongery variety in the two renovated OLED shape is dimension, in a pray to meet several necessarily of the dear-close nundinal. The recent TFT-LCD shape will disagree way from the OLED fork in ironmongery and project specs (for motive, the PPI will be decrease). The immediate cheat characteristic of the TFT-LCD fashion may be the innovatory use meet of a mixed full-shade project and 3D sensation with a frown recompense attach (we await it will promise to be US$649-749). On the other workmanship, a "dodgy" tittle-tattle newly came out that Apple won't be shifted the indicate of the iPhone SE at all. Instead, the insides will get some spec upgrades. If Apple destitution to keep the suffering of the iPhone SE fire, we're not handsome to see a miniver of the iPhone X. If, however, Apple's severe to compensate the 4-force call frequency, price be abominable, we may get all the commanding shape of the lath and top iPhone in an itty-bitty packet. Will the iPhone SE 2 have Face ID? For the above pair of donkey’s years, Apple had been convoy events in March, to sacrifice its office, liking Apple News+, Apple TV+ and also introduction refrigerate iPad shape as well in title to the iPhone SE plunge in 2016 too. Following the footprints of the forerunner, the iPhone 9 could also be conveyed up the top-of-the-line specifications, such as the A13 Bionic central processing unit, which commands the iPhone 11 succession throng in an iPhone 8 representation. However, there could be a plot of dealing-separation to constitute it a suffering-effectual iPhone by falling other wealth shapes from Apple holds OLED parade, manifold cameras, and FaceID as well. The relate further insinuate that the anticipated iPhone 9 could be navigation with iOS 13.4 out-of-the-spar as the next conversion iOS could only be announced at WWDC this year, most pleasing in June syn by an untried determine of iPhones (iPhone 12 thread) in September, inferior this year.

The iPhone SE 2 will most likely plunge seasonably this year, perhaps in March. Business Insider/Steve Kovach Apple will promising appearance its renovated iPhone SE in the first part of this year. The society is diagram to exorcize number bear a recent less liberal iPhone in February in foresight of a March plunge, harmonious to Bloomberg. Kuo, who has a notable honor when it comes to describing on unreleased Apple products, also antecedently above-mentioned that the call will be liberated in the first friendship of 2020, harmonious to 9 to 5 Mac. The Japanese fiscal gossip vent Nikkei Asian Review also tell in September that Apple would extricate a fresh mound-charge iPhone in dart 2020. Apple, by and large, divulge its unworn iPhones in the become, but it's not unwonted for the party to pierce other unaccustomed products in the leap timeframe. In March 2019, for sample, it pierce a recent set of AirPods and unspent iPads. It also pierce the inventive iPhone SE in March of 2016. The fresh iPhone SE will reportedly appear probable the iPhone 8. Jack Taylor/Getty Images While the primitive iPhone SE expect probably the iPhone 5S, the next transformation will reportedly waft image to the iPhone 8.That's harmonious to Bloomberg and Kuo, who above-mentioned as much in two novel billet tell by 9to5Mac. Nikkei Asian Review also echo that Apple's cheaper fresh iPhone would have a 4.7-island show impartial resembling the iPhone 8, which Apple generally imposition for $450.If the iPhone SE 2 is largely supported on the iPhone 8, that abject it will agreeable hire the dwelling knob and may have only one left-facing camera. In the last few weeks, a share has arrived our respecting the iPhone 9 a.k.a the iPhone SE 2 a.k.a the next burn-side iPhone from Apple. Apple is thought to coming back in the grinder-Rs 40,000 section to totter up the fair with its fire-suffering iPhone. Similar to the iPhone SE from 2016, the iPhone 9 is expectation to be an unspent ring that Apple will constitute out of the existent goods present in its ability hutch. It may not right electric but an unspent iPhone with the lath specifications is always an expanded chap under Rs 40,000. The iPhone SE from 2016 was Apple's first move ring and a modern ver. of it invoke the iPhone 9 or iPhone SE 2 might be fond out this leap. The clock couldn't arrive any before since talk of an iPhone SE 2 have been filtered for a leash of yonks. That's for back when the inventive iPhone SE was announced, it was an immense confound. It came out six months after the piercing of the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus with conformable specs, but had the call-back appear of the beautifully blocky iPhone 5S. When the iPhone SE path on the market, Apple had afflicted guardianship up with the query.

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