#good post but the source is an insane scam blog now

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oh my god the image posted so much bigger than i expected lol woe read more be upon ye

different sort of draft check in but i am very close to being done with the 2019 section of my drafts

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honestly, the whole ai fight or disagreement thing is kinda insane. we’re seeing the same pattern that happened when the first advanced computers and laptops came out. people went on the theory that they’d replace humans, but in the end, they just became tools. the same thing happened in the arts. writing, whether through books or handwritten texts, has survived countless technological revolutions from ancient civilizations to our modern world.

you’re writing and sharing your work through a phone, so being against ai sounds a little hypocritical. you might as well quit technology altogether and go 100 percent analog. it’s a never ending cycle. every time there’s a new tech revolution, people act like we’re living in the terminator movies even though we don’t even have flying cars yet. ai is just ai and it’s crappy. people assume the worst but like everything before it it will probably just end up being another tool because people is now going to believe anything, nowadays.

Okay so...no. It's never that black and white. Otherwise I could argue that you might as well go 100% technological and never touch grass again. Which sounds just as silly. There are many problems with AI and it's more than just 'robots taking over'. It's actually a deeper conversation about equity, ethics, environmentalism, corruption and capitalism. That's an essay I'm not sure a lot of people are willing to read, otherwise they would be doing their own research on this. I'll sum it up the best I can.

DISCLAIMER As usual I am not responsible for my grammar errors, this was written and posted in one go and I did not look back even once. I'm not a professional source. I just want to explain this and put this discussion to rest on my blog. Please do your own research as well.

There's helpful advancement tools and there's harmful advancement tools. I would argue that AI falls into the latter for a few of reasons.

It's not 'just AI', it's a tool weaponised for more harm than good: Obvious examples include deep fakes and scamming, but here's more incase you're interested.

A more common nuisance is that humans now have to prove that they are not AI. More specifically, writers and students are at risk of being accused of using AI when their work reads more advance that basic writing criteria. I dealt with this just last year actually. I had to prove that the essay I dedicated weeks of my time researching, writing and gathering citations for was actually mine.

I have mutuals that have been accused of using AI because their writing seems 'too advanced' or whatever bs. Personally, I feel that an AI accusation is more valid when the words are more hollow and lack feeling (as AI ≠ emotional intelligence), not when a writer 'sounds too smart'.

"You're being biased."

Okay, here is an unbiased article for you. Please don't forget to take note of the fact that the negative is all stuff that can genuinely ruin lives and the positive is stuff that makes tasks more convenient. This is the trend in every article I've read.

Equity, ethics, corruption, environmentalism and capitalism:

Maybe there could be a world where AI is able to improve and truly help humans, but in this capitalistic world I don't see it being a reality. AI is not the actual problem in my eyes, this is. Resources are finite and lacking amongst humans. The wealthy hoard them for personal comfort and selfish innovations leading to more financial gain, instead of sharing them according to need. Capitalism is another topic of its own and I want to keep my focus on AI specifically so here are some sources on this topic. I highly recommend skimming through them at least.

> Artificial Intelligence and the Black Hole of Capitalism: A More-than-Human Political Ethology > Exploiting the margin: How capitalism fuels AI at the expense of minoritized groups > Rethinking of Marxist perspectives on big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and capitalist economic development

I want to circle back to your first paragraph and just dissect it really quick.

"we’re seeing the same pattern that happened when the first advanced computers and laptops came out. people went on the theory that they’d replace humans, but in the end, they just became tools."

One quick google search gives you many articles explaining that and deeming this statement irrelevant to this discussion. I think this was more a case of inexperience with the internet and online data. The generations since are more experienced/familiar with this sort of technology. You may have heard of 'once it's out there it can never be deleted' pertaining to how nothing can be deleted off the internet. I do not think you're stupid anon, I think you understand this and how dangerous it truly is. Especially with the rise in weaponisation of AI. I'm going to link some quora and reddit posts (horrible journalism ik but luckily I'm not a journalist), because taking personal opinions from people who experienced that era feels important.

> Quora | When the internet came out, were people afraid of it to a similar degree that people are afraid of AI? > Reddit | Were people as scared of computers when they were a new thing, as they are about AI now? > Reddit | Was there hysteria surrounding the introduction of computers and potential job losses?

"the same thing happened in the arts. writing, whether through books or handwritten texts, has survived countless technological revolutions from ancient civilizations to our modern world."

I think this is a logical guess based on pattern recognition. I cannot find any sources to back this up. Either that or you mean to say that artists and writers are not being harmed by AI. Which would be a really ignorant statement.

We know about stolen content from creatives (writers, artists, musicians, etc) to train AI. Everybody knows exactly why this is wrong even if they're not willing to admit it to themselves.

Let's use writers for example. The work writers put out there is used without their consent to train AI for improvement. This is stealing. Remember the very recent issue of writer having to state that they do not consent to their work being uploaded or shared anywhere else because of those apps stealing it and putting it behind a paywall?

I shouldn't have to expand further on why this is a problem. Everybody knows exactly why this is wrong even if they're not willing to admit it to themselves. If you're still wanting to argue it's not going to be with me, here are some sources to help you out.

> AI, Inspiration, and Content Stealing > ‘Biggest act of copyright theft in history’: thousands of Australian books allegedly used to train AI model > AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway

"you’re writing and sharing your work through a phone, so being against ai sounds a little hypocritical. you might as well quit technology altogether and go 100 percent analog."

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"it’s a never ending cycle. every time there’s a new tech revolution, people act like we’re living in the terminator movies even though we don’t even have flying cars yet."

Yes there is usually a general fear of the unknown. Take covid for example and how people were mass buying toilet paper. The reason this statement cannot be applied here is due to evidence of it being an actual issue. You can see AI's effects every single day. Think about AI generated videos on facebook (from harmless hope core videos to proaganda) that older generations easily fall for. With recent developments, it's actually becoming harder for experienced technology users to differentiate between the real and fake content too. Do I really need to explain why this is a major, major problem?

> AI-generated images already fool people. Why experts say they'll only get harder to detect. > Q&A: The increasing difficulty of detecting AI- versus human-generated text > New results in AI research: Humans barely able to recognize AI-generated media

"ai is just ai and it’s crappy. people assume the worst but like everything before it it will probably just end up being another tool because people is now going to believe anything, nowadays."

AI is man-made. It only knows what it has been fed from us. Its intelligence is currently limited to what humans know. And it's definitely not as intelligent as humans because of the lack of emotional intelligence (which is a lot harder to program because it's more than math, repetition and coding). At this stage, I don't think AI is going to replace humans. Truthfully I don't know if it ever can. What I do know is that even if you don’t agree with everything else, you can’t disagree with the environmental factor. We can't really have AI without the resources to help run it.

Which leads us back to: finite number of resources. I'm not sure if you're aware of how much water and energy go into running even generative AI, but I can tell you that it's not sustainable. This is important because we're already in an irrevocable stage of the climate crisis and scientists are unsure if Earth as we know it can last another decade, let alone century. AI does not help in the slightest. It actually adds to the crisis, we're just uncertain to what degree at this point. It's not looking good though.

I am not against AI being used as a tool if it was sustainable. You can refute all my other arguments, but you can't refute this. It's a fact and your denial or lack of care won't change the outcome.

My final and probably the most insignificant reason on this list but it matters to me: It’s contributing to humans becoming dumber and lazier.

It's no secret that humans are declining in intelligence. What makes AI so attractive is its ability to provide quick solutions. It gathers the information we're looking for at record speed and saves us the time of having to do the work ourselves.

And I suppose that is the point of invention, to make human life easier. I am of the belief that too much is of anything is every good, though. Too much hardship is not good but neither is everything being too easy. Problem solving pushes intellectual growth, but it can't happen if we never solver our own problems.

Allowing humans to believe that they can stop learning to do even basic tasks (such as writing an email, learning to cite sources, etc) because 'AI can do it for you' is not helping us. This is really just more of a personal grievance and therefore does not matter. I just wanted to say it.

"What about an argument for instances where AI is more helpful than harmful?"

I would love for you to write about it and show me because unfortunately in all my research on this topic, the statistics do not lean in favour of that question. Of course there's always pros and cons to everything. Including phones, computers, the internet, etc. There are definitely instances of AI being helpful. Just not to the scale or same level of impact of all the negatives. And when the bad outweighs the good it's not something worst keeping around in my opinion.

In a perfect world, AI would take over the boring corporate tasks and stuff so that humans can enjoy life– recreation, art and music– as we were meant to. However in this capitalist world, that is not a possiblility and AI is killing joy and abolish AI and AI users DNI and I will probably not be talking about this anymore and if you want to send hate to my inbox on this don't bother because I'll block your anon and you won't get a response to feed your eristicism and you can never send anything anonymous again💙

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Ed, Edd n Eddy Series Bible (1996) -Analysis-

You can all finally read/download Ed, Edd n Eddy's official Series Bible right here! Thanks again to Chuckletons for sharing this with me and to Joey/Kongiscool0518 for sharing it in the first place, the Holy Grail of lost Ed, Edd n Eddy trivia!

One of the first posts I made for this blog was the Series Bible page. It was a composite of every source we had ever seen reference the series bible so far-- storyboarders in interviews, CN's old character guides, and the biggest source, an old CN UK posting about the show. Well, I figure now that we have the official source, I better update the old page (so everyone knows it's out of date), and make this new Series Bible post using the official source! Not much new information, but I was intrigued to finally learn the true phrasings of some things we had only heard paraphrased, as well as at least one detail from the movie that I couldn't believe came up this early in conception...

Unfortunately, Tumblr has apparently updated its post system to only let me add 10 images? Gonna try and only use images for what I need since you can read the actual document above, I guess I'll transcribe it too for easier reference and so we don't ever lose some archive of this.

Quickly, let's review what a series bible is:

A series bible is how creators pitch shows to networks. They can be called “pitch bibles” as well. Bibles do not usually get posted publicly, because they are initially under a strict Non-Disclosure Agreement by the network; also the creator may simply not wish to share it because it reflects the earliest stages of development.

The pitch materials typically include early concepts for characters, locations and episodes. Sometimes it exposes secrets, in this case, Ed and Eddy’s home lives, and sometimes the stuff in it is completely abandoned because it’s so early in production, in this case, casual references to school and adults.

Alright, everybody, it's time to gather 'round and read the Ed, Edd n Eddy Bible!

THE YEAR IS 1996.

YOUR NAME IS LINDA SIMENSKY. YOU WORK AT CARTOON NETWORK. A FRIEND OF YOURS, DANNY ANTONUCCI, IS WRAPPING UP A SHOW ON MTV. YOU GET THIS FAX.

Linda Simensky immediately fell in love with this concept because as a child, she was best friends with 2 other Lindas for seemingly no reason other than the shared name.

I love how Danny decided last second to pencil in the correct names over each Ed, since they're arranged out of title-order.

"They're friends because they have the same name."

-the Logline for the series.

Fun fact: one storyboard artist for the movie observed that the movie is essentially all about challenging the series' original notion that the Eds are friends ONLY because of their name.

"A Danny Antonucci Cartuna"

-the label Danny used to use under announcements of new productions.

PAGE 1:

Ed, Edd n Eddy

They're best friends because they have the same name.

A gag laden, beat generated CARTOON bumper car ride of 3 misfit youths on a cul-de-sac in the suburbs of America.

Through summer vacation, part-time jobs, or just hang'n out at the corner mail box, they want to belong....but CAN'T.

From home chores, helping neighbors or eating jaw breakers, they want to fit in...but CAN'T.

Ed is into "B" monster movies, model kits and is quick to break out into rashes.

Lots of luck...

Edd is into chemistry, biology and prone to crushes.

Later...

Eddy is into pranks, is stylish and flaunts himself to the world.

Ya Right...

Ed, Edd n Eddy is a show about confusion and contradiction, that awkward part of youth, pimples, big feet, oily hair and... girls???.

Puberty is unforgiving.

I was fascinated by the lack of art on this page, it makes the pitch feel very focused. AKA logo in the corner, the title logo again up top, then the logline appears again below.

I really love the breakdown of Danny's vision of the show. "Gag-laden, beat-generated, CARTOON bumper ride." Very accurate, and I think "beat-generated" is the phrase that interests me the most. I typically think of "animation beats" as sort of a give-in-- technically all things fit a rhythm, so all stories are essentially just a montage of beats. But this does make me realize how important the strength of the beats and their rhythm are to the pacing of a cartoon and making you feel like "that was a good one." I feel like the "seasonal rot" viewers feel over the course of a show, and the way that perception differs from person to person, depends on the type of beats you want. Even though I am very into the experimental beats of a show in its later seasons, I can definitely see how season 1's beats are more typically appealing to a wide-audience, and how important a focus on that is to the longevity of a show.

I found it really interesting how the scams are initially conceived of here as "summer jobs." It adds to the sense that adults were originally meant to be present. Honestly a little surprised nobody with access to this bible had ever thought to mention that-- scams are not referenced ANYWHERE. Their image in the Series Bible is that they have summer jobs and help neighbors, which is certainly a much cleaner reputation than the Eds ended up with in the show. Makes me realize though, were some of the early scams, like Ed's Hive Bee Gone and their newspaper routes, supposed to be leaning into this early idea of them with almost legit jobs for unseen adults?

I was very amused by the repeated phrase that the Eds simply CAN'T fit in.

Loved to finally see the official phrasing for the confirmation that Peach Creek is in America. Not much different than I was led to believe, but still nice to have the true quote.

Also love Eddy being described as "stylish and flaunting himself to the world." The bold-print reactions to each micro-description is a cute idea too, I truly wonder who we were meant to picture saying those things in reaction. Each Ed? Kevin?

The "corner mail box" is an oddly specific phrase-- the Eds do hang around mailboxes throughout the series, especially seasons 1-3, and I believe the canon map does have a corner mailbox, but the idea that the Eds hang out at one specific mailbox went the way of Bro's supposed secret treehouses.

PAGE 2:

Ed, Edd n Eddy

Show Description

Gag laden. True cartoon style, inventive, non parody, fast paced, stretch and squash

Beat driven. (even when characters stop they hold with a bounce cycle. Adults never bounce. Music can play important part, not just fill.) But not a musical.

Cartoon surrealism. (viewers see the show as Ed, Edd n Eddy would, less important things tend to blend into the background, while objects of Ed, Edd n Eddy's desires are focused. Premise driven.)

The school year's over, (yeah!!!!) and the long HOT summer vacation begins (gulp). What to do?

Stuck on a cul-de-sac in the suburbs of America is the last place you want to spend summer break, especially when you find life confusing and contradicting.

Ed, Edd n Eddy is about friendship, and serves to remind us that they're no "good ole days," just smelly runners.

You can tackle anything, when your with your pals.

Their days are spent, for knowledge, acceptance and some cash for jaw breakers. Armed with pimples, big feet and oily hair the three amigos trek into the unknown.

Ed, Edd n Eddy are dying to be grown-ups, but they're kids, and attack adulthood as only kids would. Simple situations turn into a manic rollercoaster ride. (Don't forget your barf bag).

They just want to belong, and they're willing to pull off any insane stunt to prove it. First they need to figure out what it is they want to belong to.

Found it interesting that on this page, the show's logo is replaced with the title written in a jumbled font. Seems like the font from the show's end credits.

Hehe, the continued reactions to the descriptions. Allow me to be Double D for a moment and point out the increased use of parentheticals on this page, as well as one wrong "your".

I love Danny's insight that season 1 is framed by the context of how hyped everyone still is just to be out of school, but also the sense of pressure to make use of their break.

I really appreciate Danny getting further into the details of his summary of the show's style on the previous page. It only makes sense that he had this much of a vision that early.

A second confirmation of the cul-de-sac being in America! I'm also really into the repeated focus on the Eds finding the world "contradicting." I always loved how EEnE's inexplicable cartoon antics supported that sense that the Eds are highly aware of contradictions in both societal things and the actual characters.

WOW, so I'm fascinated by this dual reveal. Before the wiggling outlines, which Danny usually calls a "boiling line" and describes as a tribute to wiggling inking in early animation, the series bible instead refers to him wanting the characters to do the iconic Fleischer "bounce," which is a much more commonly recognized rubberhose animation technique. Very interesting that Danny decided not to stick to that. Did it feel too out of place? Or was the overseas team not willing to animate a weight-shifting for every single held pose? Haha, guess I can see why boiling was an easier compromise. I wonder if he had any other ideas for how to make it more of a 1930s cartoon.

The other reveal to me here is that the movie's choice, that adults don't always wiggle in the show, was an idea from the very beginning! I guess I can better understand now why it's just too difficult to communicate a stylistic choice like that overseas-- no point making Bro not wiggle, that'd just create confusion.

Also, really disappointed that my wish for a musical is officially squashed in the series bible itself. That's a tragedy. The show's over, ya couldn't let me dream, Danny!? Conversely, I love Danny's forethought to say "non parody," I definitely noticed and appreciated EEnE's avoidance of derivative parody humor.

My spouse had to point out to me that Danny probably means sneakers here, lol. Canadianisms!

The comments about the Eds wanting to grow up but needing to figure out what they want to belong to are so great and relate to the movie so well. I've heard those comments before, but the correct phrasing was cool to see.

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Ed, Edd n Eddy (image of Ed in right corner)

Character Description

Ed

Attention deficiency syndrome.

He has trouble...

He can't....um...

OK, he draws all day in class.

When Eddy gets a bright idea...Ed's in.

Ed is easily talked into doing Eddy's "hard work". He has great physical strength.

Ed's happiest with his Model kits and B-monster movies. He draws his knowledge from his movies.

Ed smells. Flies are attracted to him.

Ed has sayings for all situations

ED: "you can change your shirt, and Bingo was his name..."

Ed's perpetually a slave to his younger sister's whims and whines.

Ed may have to baby-sit his sister, or let her watch whatever she wants on TV, or let her dress him up in mom's clothes.

Ed breaks out in Rashes. He's allergic to practically everything, especially Guinea Pigs.

Ed's Mom xerox's his sketches and doodles for her therapist.

Ed's Dad hopes to pass on to his son, his knowledge on "pre-owned" auto sales.

Very cute bit wasting the space at the top of the page. Danny seems very invested in Ed's personality already. The old sources we used to have definitely tried to condense these down to simpler blurbs.

Weird how Danny wants to essentially diagnose Ed with ADHD here (phrasing it very poorly, but it was the 90s and... Canada?). I don't know enough on the subject to debate it, but I still gotta point out Ed's canonical cracked skull!

Interested in the comment about Ed being most allergic to Guinea Pigs. I don't think that animal was ever even mentioned in the show. Eddy mentioned an old gerbil once....

Neat to finally have the real phrasing of the official word on Ed's parents! I saw someone comment earlier that this seems to be hinting Ed's Dad is selling stolen cars. I've never thought to question the legality of his apparent second-hand-car dealership (I imagined he works with Eddy's dad, who has received a legitimate award for his salesmanship), but those quotation marks are certainly making Mr. Ed's practices questionable! Best case scenario, Danny meant that more like italics or something, but maybe Ed's dad IS up to no good...

PAGES 4 & 5 (Ed's turn sheet and expression sheet)

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Ed, Edd n Eddy (image of Edd in right corner)

Character Description

Edd

is really smart.

is really quiet.

Edd is unnaturally-- polite.

Edd hasn't been allowed to take gym ever since the Dodge ball incident. He's been excused to free study time in the library.

Edd doesn't like it when people touch his things.

EDD: "You may enter in my room, but don't touch my Lego robot. Thank you."

Edd's learning to play Peddle steel guitar. (his Mom makes him)

Edd's prone to "crushes". Girls in School, in his neighborhood, TV, anatomy books. He mails "true loves" his socks.

Edd is always ready for action, even though he can calculate the implications.

Edd constantly mumbles.

No one ever sees Edd's parents. They both work nights. They communicate to their son solely through Post-it notes. Edd's not allowed to touch anything in the house while they're gone. Anything.

Interesting how Danny slightly differentiates the barely-used space at the top here from Ed's description, to characterize Edd as more quiet and mumbly, adding an awkward "--" mid-sentence, perhaps to create the impression that Edd halts to choose words carefully.

Everything on this page feels familiar, from the character guides and other old sources. The most interesting thing to me here is that Edd's Mom forcing him to practice Pedal Steel Guitar is established this early, don't think I knew that, but I had noticed that it existed in his room from ep 1.

I love how the explanation in the beginning for why Edd goes along with their dumb schemes even though he's smart is basically just "he's always ready for action." ?!? I guess in a way???

That weirdly phrased Edd quote amuses me because it references Lego, just like the original concept background for his room before somebody nixed the copyright-namedrop.

Edd's prone to crushes thing has been reaffirmed over and over in character bios even though it really doesn't come up outside of the cupid magic in HPH and the pilot-episode heart eyes at Sarah that are barely canon. Still, I've always loved the truly disturbing statement that he mails "his true loves his socks" and how that managed to make it into canon with a comic book example, a cel animation example and a digital era example.

PAGES 7 & 8 (Edd's turn sheet and expression sheet)

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Ed, Edd n Eddy (image of Eddy in right corner)

Character Description

Eddy

Exhibitionist.

Megalomaniac. (quote from his report card)

Eddy is the unofficial leader of the trio.

He's always got a plan, a stunt or a weird noise.

Eddy's the "class clown". He loves showing off. He loves being the centre of attention-- no matter how stupid the reason is.

Eddy is the only kid in his grade to have been expelled for aw hole week from school. It was his turn to set up the video for science class. He switched "Our Friend Yeast", for a video he "borrowed" from his parent's room.

Before Eddy's brother went....away, he enlightened Eddy with the "legends" of the neighbourhood. Eddy knows where all the abandoned tree houses are, which sewer pipers are safe to spelunk, and the secret recipe for the "El Mongo Stink Bomb" (it's been in the family for years).

He is the one who is most able to pretend that he knows it all... and doesn't care what anyone else thinks about him.

His genes are working the fastest.

Eddy's Dad is constantly concerned that Eddy may grow up to be a ...figure skater.

Eddy's Mom never believes his little darling was involved in such a heinous act.

Funny choice that Eddy's wasted-top-space is just two one-word descriptions, and allegedly lazily swiped from his negative report card.

Wow, we knew the report card quote and the "Our Friend Yeast" story from the UK show guide, but now we also know Ed's page says that Ed draws in class, and now I realize that Ed and Eddy have series bible school blurbs to match Edd's classic dodgeball incident blurb. Anyway, it's great that Eddy's showed his entire school some sort of sex video his parents have.

Very interested that the phrasing for the Bro/El Mongo Stink Bomb blurb even seems to suggest it's a family recipe. Eddy's Dad did have prankster stuff in his closet in JJJ... did Bro learn his prankster ways from Dad?? The neighborhood's secret tree houses have come up in other descriptions (at best, I'd say this could be related to that creepy shack the Eds found in the woods), but I think it's new info that Eddy personally learned the sewer routes from Bro. Interesting...

Thankfully, I had already heard about the Bible's awkward reference to Eddy being the most pubescent as "his genes are working the fastest," lmao.

Once again the Double D in me comes out to point out that the description of Eddy's Mom seems to switch to the Dad's pronouns.

PAGES 10 & 11 (Eddy's turn sheet and expression sheet)

PAGES 12-14 (Sarah, Jimmy, Rolf, Jonny, Nazz, and Kevin lineup of all 6, then 2 zoomed in lineups of the first 3 kids and last 3 kids)

(Funfact: the kids' designs were allegedly freelanced to an outside studio, hence why their refined later-season designs are so different from these lizardy starting places, lmao)

PAGE 15: (images of Sarah and Jimmy next to their blurbs)

SARAH

Ed's baby Sister.

It's her way or the Highway.

She has everything done for her, if NOT she'll "make" them do it.

She can be quick to judge.

Whinney.

A tatrum for every occasion.

More than a handful for Ed...or Edd and Eddy.

Thinks Edd is kinda cute.

Wants Eddy to MOVE...to another planet.

JIMMY

Sarah's best friend

He is always playing with girls, boys are just too tough.

He is accident prone, when ever we see him he has a different affliction, ie: band-aids, patches, casts, lumps...etc.

He is very clean.

The Ed's frighten him, "They're such brutes".

I'm surprised how much of the UK guide was accurate to what was really in the bible for them! Also surprised Danny misspelled "whiney" and "tantrum," one right after the other. Is this how Sarah spells them? ...Sorry, Danny, I yam what I yam.

PAGE 16: (images of Rolf and Jonny next to their blurbs)

ROLF

First generation of a landed immigrant family.

Nationality not important.

He's proud of his heritage.

He has peculiar traditions and/or customs.

He eats "weird" things.

He has hair on his back..... "yuck".

He confuses the Ed's to no end.

He confuses the other kids to no end.

JONNY 2x4

He is a wanderer and very inquisitive

From early morning to supper time, he is always outside playing, with his buddy, "Plank".

"Plank" is a wooden board that Jonny drew a face on with a crayon.

Jonny has wonderful conversations with Plank. ...Plank is a piece of wood.

Jonny makes himself very "accessible" to the Ed's.

Found it interesting that Rolf's bio is less clearly phrased than the UK bio set it up to be-- there they made it sound more like he mixes up who the Eds/kids are, here it's unclear whether it means that or (more likely) just means the obvious statement that everyone finds him confusing. If it's that, what a lame hollow bio Rolf got. This kid's based on you Danny, show some of that personal side!

Always loved Jonny's description, his life sounds so cute. Playing outside literally all day. Interesting to have it confirmed that Jonny drew Plank's face, I preferred to think the Eds drew him and sold him to Jonny, but whatever.

"Accessible" has always been an important vague description of Jonny to me. It really only applies to how chummy they could be with him in season 1, but it still sorta applies to his personality throughout the series as well.

PAGE 17: (images of Nazz and Kevin next to their blurbs)

NAZZ

She's cool, calm and assertive.

She is the most matured of the kids, or so she thinks.

She's into make-up and fashion magazines and Boys.

Sarah thinks she's awesome, wants to be just like her when she grows up.

When she enters a scene, all activity stops... boys freeze, they sweat, their hearts beat faster and faster. They lose their ability to talk. When she leaves, they recover and conclude it was something They ate.

She thinks the Ed's are funny.

KEVIN

He is cynical and sarcastic.

He thinks he knows the "routine". That's because he watches "60 Minutes".

It got a big laugh out of me that Kevin's description is only 2 sentences long. Nazz even has a more detailed character description from inception than Kevin. Love this for them.

Who's the Eds' rival? Well, he's cynical, sarcastic and he watches 60 Minutes, doesn't that tell you enough!?

I love the "mature... or so she thinks" remark about Nazz, a grounded flaw for her to have, being a little overcommitted to being mature like Eddy. It also perhaps suggests naiveté that makes it a little more reasonable that they didn't notice they were dumbing her down at the end of the series, but I do think the movie version of her better reflects the Bible's concept.

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The Other Neighborhood Kids

Lineup of May, Lee and Marie.

The Kanker Sisters

These gals are tough. They bother, bully, provoke and bewilder everyone.

They live in a motor home park on the other side of the Cul-de-sac. The other kids have never been there.

They are proud of their Tammy Faye Baker memorabilia.

Their project "Cooking with Ketchup" closed down their school for a whole week.

No one likes them, especially the Eds.

They are determined to marry the Eds. They want them to do their dishes.

Amused that the Kankers are essentially being labeled backgrounds characters here, the role they mostly fell into in season 5. "Other" neighborhood kids...

I love that the Kankers have a school blurb to match each of the Eds', and that theirs has similar destructive-intentions to Eddy's video premiere story.

I believe all of this was all known from the UK guide as well, but still, neat stuff!

PAGES 19 & 20 (zoomed in Kanker lineup and their height chart with the Eds)

PAGES 21 & 22 (early promo art that used to be on CN's old Eds webpage, the art of the Eds eating jawbreakers at the end of ep 1 with the overhead text "Ed, Edd n Eddy love JAWBREAKERS!!!", and the art of the Eds all running with overhead text "Ed, Edd n Eddy see something shiny...."Jiggers." That weird "jiggers" statement at the end was normally edited out and I don't know what it means. Looked it up and it seems to be Chinook jargon (like when Ed said he was "skookum at X's and O's") usually said in the same sense as "CHEESE IT!")

PAGES 23+:

The rest of the pages in that bible download are from a 2004 storyboard test. The storyboard sample "It's Raining Eds," which we've seen some submitted samples of before, interpretations with Ed attempting to fly or chew gum and Edd making radioactive gum, I was surprised to find out the outline is just the original outline for the opening sequence to season 3's 'For Your Eds Only', seemingly Jonny was not written into the original outline (or was excised for easier testing purposes) but Kevin's brief cameo was. Now I wonder if they knew this would be used for a test when they wrote it, and if they would've come up with a less random way to include him if weren't forced to be a concise bit for testing's sake. (Your limit is typically 40 storyboard pages in my experience.)

I also noticed that in the included background references, the anonymous adult neighbor house next door to Ed's is officially just referred to as a "generic house."

My analysis ends here, but be sure to download that sometime and enjoy all the raw storyboard sketches at the end of the document!

[sailolive93-blog]

The best Guide to Reddit Marketing around 2019

"Yep, i do all my modelling in C4D as I just know the tools so well there. I do minimal retopology in Zbrush on organic shapes but any hard surfaces I make in C4D. I'd recommend the "Introduction to Subdivision modelling in C4D" by Shane Benson on Vimeo (he goes by Sheppard O'Neill on YouTube if you prefer that) and it was his tuts that got me into box and subdiv modelling.

I'm also releasing a modelling workshop in C4D and models from the kitchen scene that these belong to will be in there to learn. Just not these two as they belong to marketing for the workshop. very well "Brand new Reddit account with two extensive comments defending Boa Vista Orchards huh...? We joked earlier about spotting the Boa Vista account in here but it looks like we actually have lol! > I just talked to the dude who does the marketing for Apple Hill and he sent me this So you just randomly talked to the guy and he emailed over his entire statement...? " "I too wonder why they didn’t just create a new line and call it the mach-e instead of mustang, I believe it has something to do with the marketing department since they knew it’ll stir a lot of discussion" "Precedent suggests it depends on the marketing around the product being sold and the implied purpose. " "Wow, ha. The fact that you think that it’s ok for the government to strip away my personal health insurance so that I HAVE to be on the same shitty plan on everybody else is crazy. If healthcare is “free” and universal, the quality of healthcare is bound to decrease. I can choose to pay for whatever the fuck I want and whatever healthcare I want. I give to charity and I have plans on giving a lot more to charity as I get further in my career and start making more money. Believe it or not, you aren’t the only one that cares about people just because you want “free” healthcare for everybody. And there is also no such thing as free healthcare. It has to be paid somehow and middle class taxes will go up no matter how complicated you try to make the source of payment sound. And regarding free college, that will also raise middle class taxes. You keep bringing up this. 02% of financial transactions bullshit as if that’s going to cover all costs. Have you done studies on this yourself? Do you even know that? You act like all these things can be magically paid for without anybody in the middle class being negatively affected. I have a bachelor’s degree and I didn’t feel like college was very challenging. It was more like a series of annoying classes I didn’t need when all of college could have been boiled down into one year of the core classes of my major of marketing. College is a fuckin scam and it’s only truly necessary for a very limited amount of majors. You’re just another minion that kisses the feet of big-government Democrats that try to make us feel like horrible people for not allowing them to sucks insane amounts of money out of the economy and spend it how they would like to. inch "That's including the localization teams for every language though, as well as PR and marketing. >! Some of them might even be legacy accreditation for the Gen 6 models they're *still* using.! < " "Time is a cost and you should track where that cost is going. That said, if you are working on general administrative/nonbillable stuff within your own department, it's pretty easy to have that time automatically go to the right cost bucket, so generic entries for that sort of thing are fine imo. The stuff that really has to be tracked is anything for clients or for departments that are outside your default (e. g. engineer writes a blog post, that's marketing time etc). micron "I believe there are some lessons on Google Academy for Adss (now called Skillshop) but hands-on experience is tricky. Two ways are possible, 1) is for you to have your own website and use Google Ad Sense, but this is more from the advertiser side rather than publisher or technical side 2) ask a digital or marketing agency that is near you if you can shadow/assist/internship/work experience for a week or so. This may be difficult depending on where you live and agency people are always very busy, so if you do ask tell them how you could help THEM not the other way around. To be honest, start with Analytics and Paid Search as they are arguable more accessible and have more out there for you to learn" "We are in the same boat, but different industry. Here's my approach, starting this week: I'm joining business groups that my target clients are a part of, for example, manufacturer groups. Then I'm going to target that organization with our services. I'm then going to offer to speak about the service I offer and how it helps businesses. Not a marketing spiel, an educational talk. Good luck" "One might consider a lawsuit if a car or alcohol company advocated or implied the action of drinking and driving in their marketing" "This post has been removed for breaking Rule 1. No Spammy Titles. Do not mention anything about selling anything in the title. Absolutely ZERO marketing in the title. Do not even ask for people to contact you for more. Be enticing. Post quality pics with quality titles. Read the rules for info on how to market yourself here. If your posts keep getting removed then you will be banned. READ THE RULES! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Remember to[contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/? to=/r/feetpics) if you have any questions or concerns. *" "I came of grew up and came of age in Chicago during Jordan's time with the Bulls and the shortest answer is that it's almost incomparable because the level of fame basketball players before Michael Jordan was laughably lower than now. Even today MJ has a logo that might be more identifiable than the company that created it. I would argue no athlete in any sport has surpassed MJ's level of fame. MJ pioneered so many avenues of endorsements, its like comparing planes in the era of propeller planes with jet planes. Jordan like most greats, stood on the shoulders of giants, specifically Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. Those two spent the better part of the late 70's and early to late 80's dominating the sport of basketball. Also add in Isiah Thomas of the Pistons and arguably "Dr. J" Julius Erving of the 76ers and those four were the superstars of the four teams that won EVERY NBA championship of the decade. Before Michael Jordan won his FIRST NBA Championship in 1991, he was arguably bigger than all of them. Before MJ, being a big name athlete meant getting your name on a breakfast cereal box called Wheaties, and doing the commercial saying the plug line "Gotta eat your Wheaties! " That's not a joke. Check 'em out on youtube, they're cringe worthy. MJ's meteoric rise in my opinion was helped by a few special advertising campaigns. I think first would have been his Nike commercials with Spike Lee, another pioneer. He just made "Do the right thing" at a time when black people making movies with black people in the movies wasn't really a thing. Spike Lee also happens to like playing characters in his own movies and Mars Blackmon was a character in that movie that Spike Lee chose to portray in a series of commericals with Michael Jordan. Again, pardon me for repeating, but I have to say it again for context. You have a supremely talented and charismatic young athlete being marketed by a young shoe company (Converse Chuck Taylors were still THE basketball shoe) hiring a visionary and ground breaking director to do something that had not been done before. And they crushed it. Again, at this time Michael Jordan wasn't winning NBA championships. He was having savant level performances, but get bounced out of the first round by the Celtics, or getting manhandled in the playoffs by the Pistons. By the time he did win it all in 91, MJ was doing things that no one had done in fields well outside basketball. Michael Jordan in Flight is one of the first videogames to have 3D. He had already supplanted Dr J in the one on one basketball video game with Larry Bird. Gatorade put out a marketing campaign with the song "Be Like Mike" and that song was the top song for the summer of 92 in Chicago on most radio stations regardless of genre. You're already familiar with Space Jam, but before Space Jam, the Looney Toons were relegated to afternoon after school syndicated (rerun) television stations. Michael Jordan made Bugs Bunny cool again to a whole new generation that knows of them only through MJ. I hope that helps. inches "Yeah I don't want to turn it around and criticize Musk over this or anything, but Tesla is great at PR and marketing while convincing people they don't actually try to be. inches "No, you dont need more parties, you need to ban all parties and establish government funded elections where everyone with a certain amount of support by the people can run using government money and marketing channels. Equal funding, equal marketing, equal candidacy, by the people, for the people. Sounds too good to be true? Well fuck you, because parties are corrupt barbaric cavemen shit. " " Funny Cartoon Images for website content - Family Funny Images and illustrations, Ultimate single panel funny cartoons used for websites, social media and emails https://www.freecartoonsdaily.com https://www.cartoons.cafe   www.cartoons.cafe www.acmeblanks.com sign up now! Funny Cartoons, Funny family cartoon images, Custom Cartoons, Niche Cartoons, Humorous Illustration Services, Business Cartoons, Medical Cartoons, Custom Comic Strips, Book Illustration Services, Political Cartoons, funny hospital cartoons, cartoons for marketing, corporate cartoons, work cartoons, business cartoons, Computer Cartoons, farmer cartoons, farm cartoons, tractor cartoons, Pig cartoons, pig farmer cartoons, cor farmer cartoons, wheat farmer cartoons, soybean farmer cartoons.... inch "That's including people associated with the marketing and promotion of Sword and Shield, which means people at Nintendo and the Pokemon Company rather than actual programmers at Game Freak working on the game itself. The same article you're looking at gives 200 at Game Freak - which is likely wrong since Game Freak had 143 employees, and Game Freak openly stated most were working on Town. You could include the modelers from Creatures Inc, but given that the models are the same as those developed for X and Y by Creatures Inc years ago, they are likely still being credited for "work" on this game that was actually done quite some time ago. " "Imagine what a lucky break JonTron was for FlexSeal. Their products are actually pretty decent, but their marketing was almost typical infomercial stuff that no-one over fifty would've seen. Next, out of nowhere, some YouTuber makes them famous amongst younger customers. People make "that's a lotta damage, " and "I sawed this boat in half, " memes. Everyone knows who they are. Chances are, when you need some stuff like this you'll at the very least know about their existence and you might buy their stuff because at least you know they're legit. Some people will buy it when they need something like that, literally for the meme. All they have to do is keep the ball rolling with tweets like these (because, of course, people actually follow them on Twitter now). " "That's my point. The pub you linked to is disney land. I'm looking for somewhere that recreates the  a more authentic historical experience. I think these places have got their marketing wrong which is why they are closing. They should be trying to recreate an experience closer to that in the Pathe news reel. If you just sold fresh baked bread, potted Hare, a variety of local ales you could heat with a poker while smoking a hilarious pipe you could capture a huge slice of the real ale / hipster / foodie market. " "No game in the genre had been competition for the Diablo franchise since it's inception. D3 no matter how you look at it was a huge commercial success being in the top 10 video games sold of all time at one point. Diablo now has become what WoW was before, tons of games saying they are a WoW killer and none of them doing it. So now we looming at Diablo killers but they all end up falling off somewhere because they don't get the same $$$ support / marketing. inch "8M opening weekend bad = bad marketing. Bad quality movie would be revealed in the multiplier (word of mouth and no rewatches). In this case I don’t think there was anything compelling from the movie they could focus the marketing around which led to the 8M OW. " "I’m in the same boat. I have to get 14 credits by may2020. In the last 2 weeks I did principle of marketing 3 credits score 66 and principal of management 3 credits score 62. This week I’ll take precalculas which is 5 credits and calculus which is 4 credits. I did not pay the $89 for the test because I did modernstates which pays the testing fee. It also reimburses me for the $20 testing fee" "Marketing. McAf€€ gets money from users, Micro$oft gets money from McAfee. They beget the green, motherfuckers that they are. Sometimes  http://tipofmytongue.topreddit.info  who install 3^^rd party stuff tho, it's not only Microsoft. Anyway, it's a motherfuckery of bloatware if not malware. "McAfee antivirus is one of the worst products on the planet" -John McAfee" "You're arguing entirely from marketing hype instead of actual quality, which is entirely stupid and comes down entirely to Sont having far greater of a userbase and them having less games to pump more money behind. Besides, let's not pretend Sony has an actual library of games here. Both Xbox and Sony have completely shit the bed this console generation in terms of exclusive libraries. Sony has had like, 8 good games this entire generation as exclusives. You have Death Stranding, Uncharted 4, Horizon, Until Dawn, Bloodborne, God of War, MLB The Show... That's about it? I guess you also have Detroit and Last Guardian depending on who you ask, but I defo don't wanna throw Days Gone on that list. But in any case, you could lump all of those games into loke 3-4 genres. Am I missing anything? But yeah, stop saying dumb shit like "Well its not a household name so its irrelevant" because you're entirely missing the point and reducing the entire industry to what can or can't be marketed. As well, its telling that Sony has stated their goal next-gen is to have less games release but have them be bigger, where Microsoft is going the opposite direction. Keep the the big titles, bur also have a little something for everyone. Diversity is important. Your Battletoads reboot might not sell as well, but its important to folks who like it. Games shouldn't be live or die based on how well they fit in established and marketable trends. Its absurdly reductive" "I actually never had injected one, whats the main difference? And is it really a big improvement or rather a marketing bait" "It’s all part of his NYC persona. Marketing. inches

[phoorn]

SWORD

I'm a writer, a cliche. When I was young writing was easy. Now it's hard. How?

Well, you get scared, don't you? And too ambitious. Your mouth's bigger than your stomach, your arms are puny.

And you're not at school any more. That's the tricky part. There's no Sword of Damocles hanging over your head. You need one, or you sit around wasting your one and only life. It's insane, but that's how it is.

So let me organise one. I, **** ***** do pledge to have written this new story I've come up with before seven days have passed. It's 10 Dec right now, so let's say I get it done by the end of 17 Dec, next Thursday.

I'll say a bit more about my situation. I've been published -- a small publisher, the book sank. I mean, I think people bought it. But I never saw any of the money. I'm not sure to this day if I got scammed.

That was quite some time ago. I was contracted to write a follow-up, but terrible things happened, I went mad, I had no idea what I was doing, I slinked away into the shadows. As I say, I'm not sure to this day if I got scammed. I'm also not sure if scammed my publisher. I've kept my head down since.

It's been quite some time since then. What have I done? Well, not much, right? I did nothing for many years. In the past couple of years I've done some writing, finished one story, nearly finished a bunch of others. I mean, I've always got to the end of the first draft. I've retired from the race every time somewhere about the middle of the second.

Some of these stories are ... not bad. The truth is, though, they're not amazing. They're not what someone of my ego would expect from someone who was published for the first time as early as I was.

I HAVE BEEN HUMBLED. God knows I needed it. You're not as good as you think you are. Someone on Youtube a while ago said something like the tricky thing is we think we're great because we know we have great taste. We read books and go, "I'd do that part better." "I hate how she does this. God, is she stupid?"

It's like watching streamers on Twitch. They are in fact better than their audience, but their audience goes, "Why did he get supply-blocked there?" It's cause he was doing a bunch of things you don't have the eye to notice, and he's 2000 MMR higher than you, shut up.

But I am getting better. I can see improvement in all these stories. Each one is mostly better than the last. Sometimes the ideas are worse, but they're still better-executed.

I just need to do more. I'm not young. It's a bit scary, to have considered yourself a writer all your life but not to have really practiced.

So that's that; there's my pledge. I'm gonna post a diary entry every day, too. Short. I won't go on and on. I like talking, you know. I like writing. But I have no writer friends to talk to. I don't think you need them. Talking does help, though. Some of my best story ideas come from my talking to myself, explaining to imaginary journalists how I made my millions.

I'm putting the source on Gitlab. If you know about Git, you'll know you'll be able to go look at all of the different revisions. You might find it fun. I've thought about streaming on Twitch, too, so you can watch every word, every hesitaiton. But thinking about it today made me nervous, so, no, I won't bother.

This secret blog is about enough for me. It's public, but not really, cause it's unknown. Pretty perfect.

Here follows the first day of notes. They actually written in my diary. I won't post notes like this again. It'll all be in the repo.

I should also say I don't plan to be very comprehensible here. I don't plan to be a blogger, though right now in the throws of enthusiasm it seems to me doing this (pledge, blog) for every story is a very intelligent thing to do. But it's a means to an end. The end, by the way, is riches, fame, an editor. I'd give my right arm for an editor.

FIRST DAY

2020-12-10T06:26:36+00:00

I'm not going back to mogen. No. One day I will. Let's do something new. Yes. 5,000 words for real. I've had plenty of ideas. As usual I'm influenced by things I've been reading.

Something I've always loved is spies. Really I mean "darkfriends". In the Wheel of Time, there's darkfriends -- they follow Shai'tan. Anyone could be one. It was the thing that made WoT really good. A Song of Ice and Fire has the same thing -- people aren't "darkfriends", but they can betray you. There's always danger.

Though in a short story I don't think I can do that. I could write a story about a guy who's found a spy. Or a guy who's a spy himself. Though that would involve coming up with a palace/court. But I wouldn't have to go into detail. Do I have one already? Not really.

There's also the shogun's wife idea. A story about a shogun's wife trying to keep him occupied, save him / the country in some way.

Since it's a short story it could be about her trying to get his mistress back. She's leaving because he's unstable. But the wife needs her back because she keeps him stable.

A story about a spy who needs to get some papers for his country. That'd need a few more thousand words to be worth it.

A dangerous world. That's another idea I've been having. I've written it down. Worlds with danger -- monsters, weather -- in them are the best. Middle Earth is dangerous. Randland (WoT's world) is dangerous (because of darkfriends). The Shadow of the Echo of All That is Lost's (James Islington's trilogy, not its real name) world is dangerous -- it's full of ancient, dangerous powers.

Another idea I've been having is about a magic that's only "items". Only objects of power, no power that a person can themselves wield. But I've always liked that, fuck knows why.

A story about a magic artefact. That sums up 90% of fantasy.

A fun story about a fun girl.

Which of these do I want to write? I'll look briefly through my story ideas first.

OK, something important: I've made a note to write a story about a character that wants something, needs something else and cant have either. This is how Brandon Sanderson writes. I will make sure to do that.

Another pertinent note: it says to think of the "perfect" world, thinking of all the books, games and films I've read/played/watched.

Middle Earth: loneliness, emptiness. Xenoblade Chronicles: a world on a God's body. Final Fantasy VII: Midgar, black pipes. Final Fantasy VI: cold waste, mechs. The Shadow of the Whatever: an ancient place filled with dormant, dangerous things. WoT: the atmosphere of the first and second novels. The world isn't amazing, come to think about it.

CJ Cherryh's Alliance Universe: it's sci-fi, but there's a lovely tenuous feel. Everyone's vulnerable going through space, everyone's weak.

OK, let's think about that. There's a new season of Attack of Titan. That's got an incredible premise. I could do something similar.

Rather than huge monsters, let's have small beautiful people. Who are kind and intelligent. That's scary because you're the bad guy.

You're an ancient monster. You're perverted, you love fear and pain. Or maybe you're a human. And perverted -- actually perverted but also basically normal. But the "monsters" are these beautiful creatures. They're elven. And they have no respect for you. They'll lock you up or kill you if they find you.

You WANT: To be accepted You want to be one of them You've found a magic spell that can make you into one of them To escape To kill them all, start the human rebellion To escape with A magic artifact Something that could kill them all A weapon that could be used to wage war A portal or ship that could take you to the moon Your mother sister girlfriend father The monsters are: Humans that changed themselves Using a spell They gave themselves magic powers They look just like you, so you can't tell who's who at a glance You can tell pretty quickly, though

It seems ... OK. What the opposite of perfect monsters? Imperfect humans. Maybe it's our guy who is perfect. No, I wouldn't know how to write that.

Let's just try out a lot of these wants and needs.

He WANTS: To be accepted. He NEEDS: To live happily, discrimination-free?

So, he wants to be one of them, but needs to just be accepted. That's fine.

How does he go about getting what he wants? How do you become someone else? He could use the same magic spell they did. He could use a different one. They somehow do it the real way, he the fake way. A bit like Gattaca.

Let's make the community small. It's not a world, just a village. An interesting village, and this will have something to do with what changed the rest of them.

Well, first, how about people start disappearing and appearing outside? It's a bit Attack on Titan. And not that original. Really cool, though.

But that wouldn't come into it. That would have already happened. And maybe wouldn't be explained. So, they became the superior humans by this mysterious mechanism. He's trying to fake it.

They all left and seemed to become really happy/intelligent/healthy. But they won't come back into the city.

They keep disappearing. Are they being taken? I think yes. Finally our guy is the only one left in the town. And he leaves, tries to become one of them.

They look different. They're covered in hair. So he shaves all the dogs and cats in the city, covers himself in their hair and leaves.

He finds a small camp of them. They don't accept him.

Or they do, though they know he's not one of them. I mean, they don't care. Or maybe they do. Maybe whenever he gets close they leave. Or maybe they just accept him. Do what you want, they say. They don't run away. But they don't really talk to him.

If they run away, that'd be cool. Nasty. Lonely for him. If not, you'd be able to see what they say. Maybe it's only when he covers himself in fur they let him stay. But they know he's not one of them.

He'd need to figure out what happened to them. In the end he doesn't do it in time and they all leave.

Or maybe he does figure it out and they leave. He just doesn't get something.

So what is it?

A drug A book A religion A small sphere They keep going to the sphere, standing around, then leaving When he finds it, he stands around He doesn't feel anything, but he changes to look like them The next time he sees them, they're walking -- not as a group He follows, tries to talk to them and they don't say anything. A minstrel

That's a nice mystery. It's got a nice feel to it. Btw I just took a small detour -- 2020-12-10T08:17:37+00:00 -- to make rsn's random number not be based on the time.

Randomness in programs. You start by "seeding" a random number generator. The classic way to do this is "srand (time (NULL))". srand takes an integer. time (NULL) returns the current second (since the start of Unix time).

The problem with with this approach is if you run the program more than once in a second you get the same result. Because the seed is the same.

Now I'm reading from /dev/random:

int fd = open ("/dev/random", 0); int seed; if (fd != -1) { ssize_t ret = read (fd, &seed, sizeof seed); if (ret != sizeof seed) { /* warn ("Couldn't read from /dev/random: using time (NULL) instead"); */ seed = time (NULL); } } else seed = time (NULL); srandom (seed); if (fd != -1 && close (fd)) err (1, "Couldn't close /dev/random");

You will see it defaults to time (NULL) if for some reason /dev/random can't be opened.

/dev/random is a psuedo device. Linux "collects" entropy over time and sticks it in a kind of pool. I have no idea how that works. But you can read random numbers from /dev/random.

Back to the story. It's a nice mystery, one of those what's-going-on stories. Do I explain what's going on? Stephen King says that stories that don't show the monster are cheating. But when you do show the monster you lose something.

Let's just come up with a half-explanation. Like a book, drug or sphere. But say nothing else.

Maybe instead of them leaving they go back to the village and don't let him back in. "Get the fuck out! And stay out!" Or they just acts as if nothing's happened.

Maybe it's him that's put them out there. Magic.

How could he be responsible? It'd be hard for it to be him, if they're supposed to be content.

Maybe they're experiencing something more. They're actually logged into the magical multiverse net.

Maybe he spoils it in some way. And they don't get to ascend.

The important thing is what's the thing that's brought them out there.

It's got to be something weird or incredible. Let's favour weird. Let's get some random sentences:

Its a garbed jollified Its a refractable corrugate Its a remindful hiccupping Its a backboneless chum Its a upland erase Its a cacuminal compart Its a accented bishoping Its a emendatory deceive Its a isoperimetrical reground Its a agrostological appear Its a urticant hinnied Its a reunionistic presses Its a homodont barber Its a unscrupulous cellars Its a psychic harp Its a Laodicean prevaricate Its a clipped hurries Its a quartic worst Its a stimulant eulogised Its a tangiest processes Its a numerable dosing Its a cornered totalizes Its a raggle-taggle focussed Its a sacrificial dissuade Its a synoicous enable Its a kingly recapped Its a unconscionable woofs Its a silver depone Its a self-confessed heathenized Its a led flocks Its a microseismical cons Its a hypodermal rehangs Its a fogless trephined Its a urbanized mutating Its a bewitching trauchling Its a boozy untruss Its a unanxious blow-dries Its a elenctic platinise Its a usurpative alleviates Its a unsatisfiable overbids Its a Jugoslav embedded Its a redder booby-trap Its a torn rinsing Its a intelligible fans Its a decorative restrict Its a annalistic bandying Its a oral shikars Its a sejant outlast Its a sapindaceous mussitate Its a evoked antiquates Its a secular impaled

Of those I like:

Its a psychic harp Its a accented bishoping Its a silver depone Its a backboneless chum Its a refractable corrugate Its a secular impaled

A psychic harp. That's straightforward. It'd be just sitting out there, playing itself sometimes. Or is someone playing it? Our guy thinks about going up there, touching the empty space. That's scary.

The accented bishoping -- an accented bishop. Just a bishop, sitting out there on the hills. Not that great.

Its a silver depone. I'm not sure what a depone is. But it doesn't matter. I've settled on the psychic harp.

It's psychic. That means it can hear your thoughts. It can communicate, though, but only in music. Is it communicating, our guy thinks?

It could play folk songs. Our guy would know the words. But he'd know various words and wouldn't get far.

Maybe the crux of the story is the meaning of the tune it's playing. Is it "My Johnny Went off to War" or "The Silver Plate", which is about a woman who kills herself because her Johnny cheats on her?

Or maybe the songs are about the town, or God. Let's just say he listens and changes. He thinks about marching to war. And then everyone leaves.

Probably best to not bother with the words stuff. Won't be able to make it work. It's just a mesmerising tune, and it changes him.

And then people leave. This is fine. Will people think it's just weird / feel unsatisfied? I can't know.

I'm feeling a little self-conscious now because I'm thinking I'll go post this on my blog, announce that I'm going to finish this story in a week, put the repo on Gitlab, stream this on Twitch. I like the idea of it. Probably best not to bother with Twitch.

Alright, let's plan that. Where to post? I can stick it on my Tumblr. Toks has made a website, apparently. I could do the same. I won't, though.

Today Make repo, stick it on Gitlab. Write post for Tumblr, include these notes. Write All characters, names, etc -- temp names -- wants, needs Synopsis Clean kitchen Call Mother Put money on phone Read

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Prior to you do so, it is necessary to very first get aware of each type of website traffic resource available, as well as evaluate out their advantages and disadvantages. On top of that, you must clearly comprehend the functions and stats they offer-- and also which ones you'll need to pay the most focus to. All set to make some cash? Allow's enter!

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The Associate Advertising And Marketing Video Game: What Aspects Should You Take Into Consideration Prior To Selecting a Website Traffic Source?

Due to the reality that there are various elements to be considered when picking a website traffic resource, we will certainly provide the most vital ones to keep in mind:

The Specific Niche or Target Audience

The Total High Quality Supplied by the Website Traffic Source

Guidelines, Laws as well as Restrictions

The Price of the Traffic Ivy Source

The Amount of Website Traffic Available from the Website Traffic Source

The Targeting Alternatives that are Available

Currently, allow's broaden on these facets.

The Particular Niche or Target Audience

The appropriate specific niche is extremely essential. But, why?

Because, the only means to recognize a particular associate marketing vertical to a "T", is by focusing on a specific niche as well as finding out everything there is to learn about it. From there, you'll have the ability to easily work with the deal kinds of your specific particular niche.

Expert Idea: The affiliate marketing video game is everything about details. You'll see a lot even more success if you specify yourself and become fully familiarized with your certain vertical of option.

With that taken into consideration, you must examine every little thing around a particular website traffic source prior to jumping in to utilize it.

The General Quality Supplied From The Web Traffic Source

When establishing the overall quality of Traffic Ivy resource, there are two points you need to bear in mind:

The fact that some networks simply have reduced web traffic quality (even though the traffic is not bot web traffic)

The reality that there is a lot of bot website traffic available

The best torment in affiliate marketing-- referred to as associate scams-- has caused a significant impact for internet traffic sources. The clicks or site visits gotten are fraudulently generated from a click farm, therefore, aren't actual individuals. Associate fraudulence can create significant loan loss and also generate incorrect reports.

Image this: A well-known web traffic source is reported to be teaming with fraudulent website traffic. Would you still choose to collaborate with that web traffic source?

Possibly not.

One more instance of illegal shenanigans within the associate advertising and marketing realm?

Proprietors of unethical networks have the capacity to replicate conversions, causing a reflection of fake top quality. This functions, due to the fact that it gives the affiliate community an incorrect look of deal success. And also where there's deal success, there are people that end up being attracted as well as bet like insane on that details fraudulent network.

The moral of this tale? The more real traffic a network provides, the even more high quality the web traffic will be. The result? Higher ranks within the minds and hearts of associates. Make certain you are only playing with reliable web traffic sources with a tidy credibility in the market.

Guidelines, Rules as well as Restrictions

Some Traffic Ivy sources for web sites have hard restrictions that you must watch out for.

A good way to weed out these sorts of traffic sources, is to keep an eye out for deceptive banners made use of to bring in customers, yet which do not follow the basic guidelines as well as policies provided on each and every single other website traffic source. Take the extra time to read the restrictions of each website traffic source meticulously. Otherwise, you might get banned for damaging the policies.

Another point to take into consideration-- what sort of web content are you preparing to advertise?

For example: If you are planning to advertise adult material on an extremely traditional ad network, your projects might not get accepted!

The Cost of the Traffic Resource

There's one point you can rely on: Every website traffic source has a certain cost. Based upon the type of website traffic it has, the variety of GEOs you can monetize in, the quality of web traffic offered, etc

. This is where hefty amounts of research on various traffic sources will truly repay.

While some website traffic resources promote having web traffic that transforms well, others may not display the very same powerful converting stats. That claimed, because of exceptionally tough competitors, a number of website traffic sites are extremely expensive. On the various other hand, some are affordable-- and can in fact aid you make buckets packed with cash.

Once more, do your study.

The Amount of Traffic Ivy Available from the Website Traffic Resource

The quantity of prospective website traffic you might produce, varies from ad network to advertisement network. Equally as it differs from vertical to upright.

Because of that fact, you need to be clever when picking a connect with "a lots of web traffic available!".

In the advertising world, there are loads of networks that advertise their 'outpour' of offered traffic. Even if that holds true, the top quality of said web traffic is frequently extremely low!

So, take the deal you're planning to promote forward. From there, decide where to get traffic based upon which volumes you're offer/product would best grow in.

The Targeting Options that are Available

I believe we can all agree: Targeting is a very useful device in this sector.

Targeting permits you to choose precisely which specific aspects of your campaign need to be targeted.

Right here are some usual examples of targeting choices:

GEO

Sex

Age

Operators

Time of Day

Specific Web browsers

Operating Systems (iphone vs Android)

Tools (Desktop Computer vs Mobile)

Websites

Classifications

Languages

Traffic Ivy Sources, and so on

. There are some traffic sources that give restrictions as to precisely what/who you can target. Constantly assess the functions and restrictions connected with a particular web traffic source prior to diving in.

Expert Suggestion: As if you don't already understand now, targeting is HUGE! With the ability to choose that should see your advertisements, you're basically picking a select pool of individuals you RECOGNIZE will want your service/product. Which, certainly, will certainly bring about even more sales. It's all about the cash in affiliate advertising, am I best?!

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Developer: Cindy Donovan

Product: TrafficIvy

Release Date: 2019-Jan-23

Introduce Time: 9:00 EST

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Specific Niche: Social Media Site

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Every share you obtain is not simply getting you traffic, but you'll get to see specifically where it was published as well as by whom. You can see how that promo went and if you are not happy, just block that traffic source from advertising in the future (or simply upload a momentary ban).

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Scenarios and Systems I will probably not write

I've been immersed in the tabletop RPG world long enough that random things get my brain to churn out an idea for a scenario or a system at a distressingly regular rate. Distressing not because I dislike feeling creative and having ideas. But because, despite writing down the better ones to come back to later, I am fairly sure I will not find (make) the time to turn them into usable things. Because the editing and general fiction writing I do is a) more satisfying and b) expands to fill the available time, if allowed. I could fix this by just setting aside some time every week to just. freaking. write. these things. But then I'd have more projects in various states of incompleteness and each one would make less visible progress on a day-to-day basis. Which I would find more frustrating than having lists of scenario and system ideas I know I probably won't get to. It's entirely in my power to change the dynamics and make the time. I've just calculated for myself that the trade-off, right now , isn't worth it. Maybe that will change in the future, maybe it won't. But if it does, I've got my list of ideas I can use.

Scenarios ideas:

Giftschrank: I've written about this one (and the next one) for this blog before, but I haven't written the scenario yet, so it belongs on the list. The original posts went up March 14th 2016 and March 24th 2016 but the summary version is that Giftschrank literally means 'poison cabinet' and, in German, refers to the cabinet the controlled substances go in a pharmacy or, in a library, refers to a biohazard zone for information. Which just screams for a scenario in the Eclipse Phase universe about information escaping/being stolen from a research facility located on an exoplanet only accessible through a Pandora Gate with the players unsure which side they are or should be on. If I ever actually start writing scenarios, this will probably be first, just because it was the first one I wrote down and I really like the name.

Courrières Mining Disaster: I've also written about this idea, back on the 31st March 2016, but. In 1906, a very large mine in France exploded and then caught fire. It was an awful disaster that killed more than a thousand people, but the part that caught my attention was the group of miners trapped underground, in the dark, for more than a month  before rescuing themselves. To which I said, 'damn that would make a terrifying Call of Cthulhu scenario, the system already had a sanity mechanic.' Writing this one up would involve really learning the 1920s era Call of Cthulhu system, researching mining equipment, technology, and practices of the era, finding a map of the actual site (shouldn't be too difficult...), and building the characters, because no way in hell an I going to let the players build some insanely broken character taking a gun and no rope into the mine for some reason.

Base Raiders: I also have an idea for a base to loot. Well, more like a scene within the base. Let me give y'all the backstory first, because the idea came from understanding the Base Raiders setting. Base Raiders is a Fate system by Ross Payton where the players are in a world where superheroes existed before suddenly disappearing on a day. Left behind were are those superheroes' and supervillains' hidden bases, which you, as PCs, go raiding. Also, lots of the PCs are turning into superheroes themselves.

The idea for the base I'd write is that it's a superhero family and friends' ER and hospital.  Family and friends a superhero thought might be a target for hostage situations would be given emergency teleporters paired with medical monitoring devices. When the teleporter detects tampering or the monitoring service detects a problem, the user is teleported to the triage room of the base or, if the problem is severe enough or the facility is marked as currently slammed, directly into cryogenic freezing. This all came from expanding a scene in my head of a dead body on the floor of medical bay, face down in front of a gurney, having obviously bled out, based on the very old, dried pool of blood the corpse was lying in.

As for writing it up, I'd need to read the system (yes again) in order to make sure something like this doesn't already exist in canon, figure out power-levels of gear that could be looted (all of which would be medically based/themed), and see what kind of security other bases use. Then I'd need to figure out what sort of security would be compatible with a hospital. 

Systems: 

The first two system ideas come from encountering the flashbacks in the Leverage RPG (through the Drunk & the Ugly's APs) and Red Markets' non-linear time mechanic with scams in negotiations. Also how much I enjoy cop procedurals and heist films. ... And now that I'm thinking about it to write this post, Shadow Run and the inordinate amount of time I have spent planning how to hack, rob, extract, and otherwise do mischief to fictional corporations in a cyberpunk dystopia.

Any rate. 

The first is a system around criminal heists with Ocean's 11 style flashbacks while the second has cops investigating crimes with flashbacks to what the criminals did as the cops figure it out. Alternatively, combine the two where the players are both a cop and a criminal. The scenarios would start with a crime having been committed so you have the end result and the cops need to work backwards. When they figure out something, everyone switches over to their criminal character and there's a scene of what happened. I don't actually know where I'm going with this one, or really why/how is different than Leverage so there's a secondary reason this one probably won't see the light of day.

The next five are all systems I'd like to write using the Profit system found in Red Markers:

Running a community hospital

Stone Age tribe level survival

1800s escaped slaves survival

1800s colonization of the American West

Modern day survival scenarios  

So... a lot of survival games in there... It fits with the Profit system's focus on trade offs, opportunity costs, and resource scarcity. Which is how health care fits in with the rest of them for me: resource scarcity. What can I say, there's two ER doctors and a health policy economist in my family, I hear and talk about this sort of stuff more than the average lay person. For the community hospital, I think the players should be the administrative heads of various departments in the hospital. Each compete for resources and prestige in order to stay relevant (and an actual department) while having to use the resources to drive value to the hospital (along with all the other departments) so the hospital can keep their doors open.

I'm picturing the Stone Age tribal survival system as a semi-cooperative, narrative game. My idea is that players control a section of the tribe, like the hunters, the gatherers, the shamans, the elders, etc. instead of individual characters. So folks need to cooperate for the tribe and the characters they're responsible for survive but there's room for intra-tribe politics and changing what kind of society you're building. Sessions/scenarios would be things like going on a hunt, gathering resources, dealing with nature, or trying to build up a tribal improvement (like finding a good source of flint so the nappers can make better spears or something). I think I'd handle trying to change societal norms through an altered negotiations mechanic.

For the escaped slaves system, I was thinking of the American South but if I made this work I could expand it to other countries in the Western hemisphere during the same time period. For instance, I happen to know for a fact there are tribes of folks in Suriname (a small country north of Brazil) in the interior composed entirely of folks who ran from the plantations on the coast and reformed societies like the African ones they were stolen from. But the core idea came from a session recorded for Technical Difficulties (which hasn't been released yet) — it was a Call of Cthulhu game where the characters were escaped slaves who headed into the Great Dismal Swamp to escape pursuit. I'd be interested in stripping out the magic and making it just about survival and what risks the players are willing to take. Do you work towards making a life in the remote area you're hiding in? Escape to the North? The West? Canada? Flat out, can you avoid the slave catchers and are you willing to kill to stay free?

Thinking about that lead to the idea for a system in the American West about colonization. I'd want to write it so you could play the Americans pushing west (and stealing land from the Native Americans in the area) or as members of local Native American tribes. As an American, you're away from civilization, in remote areas, how do you survive? You're invading land someone else calls home under the belief of Manifest Destiny, that you deserve it more, that they're 'savages'. How far are you as a player willing to go as a character who believes those things, explicitly or implicitly? As a Native American, do you resist? Adapt to the changing social and political climate?

Both the last two systems would require a lot of research for me to feel comfortable contemplating writing. For the American West one, I would want to do as much research as possible before even attempting to approach members of the tribes in question to ask for advice. And I'm not a historian in training nor do I have the inclination during my free time. I mean, I'd do it because I have a specific goal and I'm good about working towards goals. But yeah, I am not unaware of how much work these two systems would require from me. At least I might be able to use the same information on tools and technology across the systems.

The last system, the modern day survival system, seems the easiest of the proposed systems. I'm already familiar with the time period :) Just have to research survival skills and craft a narrative around why the players are in such straits. I'm not saying that's not work, I'm just saying the other systems require researching skills and setting/time period. Thinking about the narrative, it feels like a system build around one-shots — here are your characters, here's the situation, survive. I mean, unless you're a Special Forces operator going through training, I'm not too sure why you'd end up in a series of life threatening survival situations. ... If you do, maybe it's time to look at your life choices. Anyway, I'm thinking of things like 'You're all average people from X country who just survived a plane crash in Y location. Survive until rescue or get yourselves back to civilization.' scenarios.

So there you have it, three scenarios for three different systems and six or seven full systems I probably will never write. Unless someone wants to collaborate on them and kicks my ass. I'm real good at working on things when I'm responsible to another person. ;)

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A distinctive aspect of my adult life has been a difficulty or inability to do simple jobs.  Jobs I’ve had like scooping ice cream at restaurants or selling paint at stores have usually ended in failure and confusion. The amount of energy and stress necessary to do very basic tasks overwhelmed me.  It’s difficult to describe what an extreme source of frustration this has been.  When I’ve had to scrape or had problems, the ability to succeed or establish a minimal level of competency at lower end jobs has been all the more difficult and usually resulted in a complete collapse.

A few months ago, I responded to a help wanted add on Craigslist and the experience allowed me to reflect on past difficulties as I’ve begun reestablishing myself after decades of humiliating failure.  The experience allowed me to contrast my past sense of things to my current state of mind, which is certainly not fully recovered but capable in ways that it didn’t used to be.  In this post, I’ll describe the events leading up to that day and during my several hours selling popcorn, cotton candy and flavored ice during a stadium event. As unspectacular as it may sound, it provided a remarkable opportunity to self-reflect.  

(More preamble as I tend to do….if the reader will excuse me.  This is a blog about me and the intricacies of my mind):

I’ve always had a suspicion that mentally I’m wired fairly well, save for something or some things relatively minor that have compounded problems for me and led to disaster; like a car with a clogged fuel feed or train with one or two cars set on the tracks slightly wrong.   I’ve discovered the “root” of my problems recently and I was entirely right.  

Basic everyday life duties have an EXTREME emotional charge attached to them that is mostly negative. This began in my childhood, where small events like forgetting things or cleaning my room were responded to by my mother with a vitriolic rage that is difficult to communicate in words.  Bared teeth, hysterics, threats, telling me my siblings wouldn’t be able to eat because I’d lost a winter cap at school and other acts of emotional terrorism.  

Simple acts like cleaning my room or organizing and paying bills throughout my life have been so stressful that I’ve been usually unable to approach them.  Dealing with these small tasks required a gargantuan level of hyping myself up to accomplish them and push through an extreme sense of hopelessness and shame.  Basic organization was impossible for me.  Ordinary activities took massive amounts of will and energy to complete.  I’ve begun learning how to “lower the emotional charge.” I’ve learned to see these activities as no big deal; both the need to accomplish them and actually accomplishing them.  No big deal. They are small things.  

One area of my life where I’ve achieved a good amount of discipline is physical health.  I’ve spoken to and assisted a few people who’ve tried getting in better shape and was always bothered by the extreme excitement I’d hear about when 5 or 6 pounds was shed.  There was something wrong there, even if I couldn’t put my finger on it. Summoning the will to eat better and exercise for a week or so is an EXTREME thing for some and the excitement of accomplishment seemed like part of a cycle.  Rolling this problem around in my head for several years helped me identify this issue in myself.  For many, gorging on food is a very emotional thing, as is *not* gorging on food.  Both have very, very high levels of emotional energy attached to them.  The goal I realized, is somehow getting to a place where food and exercise occupy less thought, both in the positive and negative.  This was the sticking point of my personal problems in life.  

Anyway, enough preamble.

 A few months ago, I once again found myself in a place where I needed money just to make it through the next week.  I’d been in this place more times than I could try counting.  Prior, I would invariably fall into a pit of shame and guilt that would overwhelmed me and is hard to describe.  I live with a crippling sense of guilt and shame still and always have. I’d be unable to act.  I’d just wait for the worst scenario to play itself out and retreat into whatever minor pleasures I could find in the meantime. Doing anything but mentally escaping required more energy than I could muster.  I’d think of how shameful getting into the situation was in the first place. Then I’d think of the shameful things I might end up doing like going to a food pantry or asking favors or sleeping in my vehicle.  The shame would collapse me and part of me sought the small degree of comfort that’s always available when the bottom is hit and you know you can’t go any lower. Basic activity to salvage myself would become impossible.  

I’ve begun thinking in terms of how high degrees of shame and guilt aren’t useful.  They not only cause me problems but cause problems for those around me and so I wasn’t going to indulge in those feelings.  I’ll tell myself I’m just super amazing or whatever else is necessary just to lower the crippling guilt and shame to the point where I can act

Scanning craigslist gigs isn’t a difficult task and I told myself this over and over.  The shame of having to do it was irrelevant.  This has all been made easier by a very real hope I’ve had recently at getting my life back on track and accomplishing things I never would have thought possible until recently, save for wild fantasies and plans I used to make.  I used to plan and even boast of the success I was sure to have in some endeavor because I was able to realistically imagine the mechanics of accomplishing something great, but wasn’t able to factor for the failure I’d experience in the small things. I took a certain degree of comfort in these fantasies and would tell others about them.  They seemed doable……..if I could only muster this impossible energy……….”This time I will” I’d tell myself, without understanding the basics of the problems I was having.  

Scanning craigslist and responding to adds was easy but still mildly overwhelming.  Understanding *why* I thought this overwhelming made it doable.  There were scam artists looking to just collect personal info on me and jobs that were themselves scams.  I received a few replies and one seemed kinda promising but only kinda.  It was gig as a vendor for a day at a local stadium. The specifics of the job were given. The pay was speculated as $150-$200 which sounded great but a little too good to be true.  The required black pants and black boots.  There were a few back and fourths and the person on the other end finally told me to show up at 11:45 that Saturday.

 The old me never would have gotten this far.  The aforementioned grief and shame would have prevented this job search in the first place and all of the fake or scammy jobs would have exhausted me.  I would have been unable to sort through them until I found something plausible.  As it so happened, there was a mild amount of hustle to this job.  $150-$200 was a very estimate but I was able to figure that half that would be fine. Making it there prior to 11:45 and wearing the agreed upon black pants and boots was an accomplishment when compared to my past endeavors.  It was easy.   In the past, the stress of something going wrong would have overwhelmed me.   Throughout my life I’ve been chronically late because as the time I’m supposed to leave approaches, I become stressed.  Even the thought of leaving early and getting there early was such an extreme emotional thing.  This time, I got there 10 minutes early and the big “breakthrough” was how no big of a deal this was.  I wasn’t hyper excited or felt some great sense of accomplishment……..other than recognizing how *not* registering this simple task as a great accomplishment was a giant leap for me.  Relative to my past self, very little emotional energy had been spent in order to get to this point. The horror and shame of finding this job, the chaotic thoughts and insanity involved and everything else would have brought me to a state of near panic if I had managed to move through the previous steps and made my way there.

 But there I was, at the stadium and cool as a cucumber.  I entered through the docks and this was also no big deal.  There were people running around everywhere and no sign of the vendor. This registered to me as “no big deal” and this state of mind allowed me to think clearly and make rational decisions in a way I wasn’t able to do previously.  NO.  BIG. DEAL.  It was a day gig that would have been nice to have, even if I’d only make half what was advertised but not the end of the world.  NO.  BIG. DEAL.

 I looked for the vendor and sent him another email via the craigslist relay.  No response.  The me of yesteryear would lost his mind at this points.  At an emotional level, I’d be sure he hated me or found something out about me and wanted nothing to do with me or saw me and decided I wouldn’t work. I’d feel hostility, shame and anxiety in a way that would have made me just leave.  I felt a tinge of these things still but was able to consider them for what they were and move forward.   I asked a few people if they knew of the vendor and the second person I asked was the vendor.  Easy peesy. He was relaxed and so was I.  We walked to a corner and waited there for the others to show up.

In my past, if I had made it to this point I’d have been hyper.  This sense of intense but desperate relief and anxiety would have now enveloped me.  I’d be partly stressed that I couldn’t just give up and remove myself from this completely chaotic situation (chaotic to me) and also hyper anxious that something else would go wrong.  

Another specific emotional impulse dawned on me that allowed me to consider my past self better:  My view of authority.  This has always been a problem.  For the most part, I saw everyone, particularly in a situation like this as in total and threatening authority over me or I over them. Emotionally, this was my reaction to these situations.  I’d have to engage in massive amounts of frontal lobe reasoning in order to calm down my sense of these authority figures doing something terrible to me.  In this instance, I was calmly (mostly) able to understand the hierarchy that existed and how not threatening or conflict oriented it all was……on an emotional level.  There were the people who worked for the stadium itself.  They were “in charge.”  Those were the people I had to listen to if they told me not to do something or go somewhere.  Then, there were the other vendors and the people performing.  On the authority chain, they were essentially in the same place I was. They were all their doing their thing as I was doing mine.  

Next up, was my dealings with the main vendor.   I was going to sell popcorn, cotton candy or flavored ice (at ridiculous prices)   He was going to take my wallet and cell phone as collateral.  I’d return with the money and keep one dollar for every item sold.   This would have caused my past self extreme stress.  His wanting collateral would have immediately caused me to imagine that a hostile relationship existed between us.  I would have felt anguish, shame and hostility. I would have thought that he didn’t trust me and was right not to trust me.  I might have made some bizarre comment about how he shouldn’t worry and what a reliable guy I was.  This time, I was able to frame this interaction appropriately and with very little stress.  

He didn’t know me and I didn’t know him.  He deals with hundreds of people doing this every year and had set up a system that prevented people from taking their first 10 popcorns and just leaving with $100 in their pocket.  It made perfect sense.  There was no animosity involved.  It was just a system.

The past me would have collapsed at several different points before arriving at this juncture with the vendor.

Next up was prioritizing. This is another area where the simple has crushed me over and over again in life.  I was able to figure out two things.  Firstly, none of this was life or death.  On an emotional level, that’s exactly how I would have felt in the past and that sense would have led to total mental chaos.  Nothing here was life or death.  Secondly, I was able to figure out that the two biggest potential problems I might run into were losing money (I was exchanging and pocketing lots) or losing an item.  Developing a simple plan to prevent this was easy.  I’d pocket the bills given to me in my left pocket and keep $5 and $10 bills (what I’d normally need for change) in my right.  I’d also pause after every few sales to arrange them.  Easy.  The past me would have been overwhelmed at chaos and just hoped for the best, very possibly (likely) losing a $10 bill or worse and ending up having to find money from elsewhere to get my phone and wallet back.  Everything else in this process was less critical than arranging my money easily and without a sense of impending doom, it was very easy.  

The intense sense of “You are forgetful Steve and you forget and lose things all the time” would have crept into my thoughts and required huge emotional energy to overcome, just to be able to do a simple job.

 I’ll pause at this point and go over what had taken place so far, and ponder how this relates to past problems in my life.  Extreme…………..EXTREME amounts of negative emotional energy were attached to basic everyday life functions and interactions I’d have with people and took EXTREME amounts of psyching myself up to overcome.  The results were chaos and total exhaustion.  I’d be unable to think clearly and do basic calculations about what was going on around me or what I needed to pay attention to because the majority of my emotional energy was consumed by fear of impending doom, shame, anger and hopelessness. This made life impossible for me.  

 Next up was selling. This was very illustrative on many different levels.

I’ve always been far better than average at abstract calculations, particularly those involving people.  I’ve also been able to size people up fairly well and converse with them better than most, but was rarely able to leverage that in any meaningful way because all of the little things prevented me from getting to a point where I could put that to much use.

With such a reduced stress level and so much energy available to commit to other things, I was able to go to work effectively.  After walking around a bit, a vendor at a stand tried telling me I couldn’t go through his area.  I ignored him because I understood what he was doing.  He was trying to fake me out.  I could walk anywhere I wanted to unless the staff of the stadium told me I couldn’t.  Even there I was able maneuver.  Big curtains blocked off the halfway points at each end of the stadium and they were guarded by stadium staff.  I figured correctly that the other vendors would avoid the other side of the stadium and I’d be able to sell more there, so I politely asked the guard in front of the curtain if I could quickly walk through to avoid having to go all the way downstairs and then up several flights of escalators to get to the other side. He waved me through.  For a solid hour, I was the only vendor selling anything on the other side of the stadium.  This required more footwork but I sold out my items in half the time as everyone else. When I returned after the third time, the guy running this operation asked what I was doing.

 Now………..the old me would have told him exactly.  “I’m going to the other side where nobody else is!  Haha.  I asked the security guard to let me walk through the curtain area and he said it was ok” I would have felt the need to boast. The old me would have been emotionally blown to bits at this point and felt the need to advertise a little success. This also would have been a way for me to feel “good.”  It was in these strange confessional ways that I could feel “honest” or upfront, even if much else I was doing was deceptive.  I was previously like a Dostoyevsky character who needed to confess something. Feeling like I could boast and be generous simultaneously would have caused me to tell him everything I was doing and why I was selling so fast.  Not this time.   Not his business.  I figured out how to work this to my advantage and so yay me.  I wasn’t doing anything dishonest by shrugging my shoulders and telling him that I must be extra charming or something.

I also figured out that movement = money.  The frozen ice trays were heavy.  They took more strength and endurance to haul around and so every time I returned, I asked for the popcorn or cotton candy.  I could move and move quickly.

 I also figured that the people in the upper level weren’t seeing many vendors BUT, they were less likely to buy on a per-person basis because those were the cheap seats.  I noticed that the other vendors hardly went up all the escalators to get there.  I developed a plan of walking up and down the stairs at the main level.  Proximity = sales.  Most of the people I sold to I walked right past.  Few people signaled they wanted to buy when I just waited at the bottom, so it was up and down every stair on the main level……..but then………….I decided that for one out of every three trips, I’d journey to the upper level and walk briskly along the base walkway, figuring the people who did want popcorn or whatever I was selling would signal to me because there were few other vendors who went up there.  I was right.  I sold out quickly there also and the extra effort paid off.

 And there’s something else……….the man running the vending operation told me to wave and point, particularly at kids who seemed excited so they’d guilt their parents into shelling out the ridiculous amounts I was selling popcorn for.

 That seemed shameful to me. That isn’t something I could have done in the past.  This is one of those ways I could justify being a “good person” by adhering to strange standards of politeness and boundaries.  I would have been overwhelmed with guilt at the thought of doing this.  In fact, walking into the stands would have been absolutely overwhelming by itself and was still difficult for me this time.  I still felt that tinge of guilt and shame at “bothering” people.  I would have been unable to see myself in the position I was in; as a guy doing something that the crowd was expecting beforehand.  I would have felt every eye on me and their rejection.  I would have taken some sense of moral satisfaction in not walking up and down the stairs and “bothering” them.  I would have felt they literally hated me and would have had to pause or sit down or find some way to hide.  I still felt little bits of this but was able to put it off to the side, particularly after the selling happened.  I was able to envision how being happy and smiling at the crowd made me less bothersome than looking sour and ashamed.  They were enjoying the show they had paid for, and I was enjoying the job I was doing, and understood they expected someone to be doing what I was doing, even if they didn’t plan to buy anything.   This allowed me SO MUCH more energy to accomplish this basic job and just think clearly.  

“No Big Deal no matter what happens, unless I lose money”

“Nobody hates me and nobody loves me.  I don’t need to make a big impression on anyone.  Nobody cares and they’re not paying much attention to me anyway.  That’s good”

“Just be friendly with the people I do interact with.  They’re the only ones that matter.  Nobody else counts”  

“After this is done, it’ll be like it never happened to everyone else.  It’ll be like I was never there.  I’ll just walk out with some much needed cash”

“Just relax and pay attention to where the other vendors are and aren’t and what’s selling”

 I was able to keep moving and be friendly and short with everyone that day.  It was a remarkable experience because it was so easy.  I came back with a much, much, needed $140, representing 11 stacks of popcorn, 2 cotton candies and 1 frozen ice tray.   Before leaving the main operator told me I’d sold 6 more than the next highest seller.  More importantly than anything, it was “no big deal” and having a sense of the no big deal made it possible.  So many things that used to crush me I can now envision as “no big deal” both in the threat of what they represent and the ability to overcome them and accomplish something.

 It’s amazing how much energy I used to waste and chaos I created over the simplest things.  

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The Lure Of A Payday Loan - Tips To Help You Assess Their Worth

TIP! For people who are thinking about taking out a payday loan, you have to know when you will be able to pay it back. The interest rate associated with a payday loan is high which can result in significant costs if not paid back promptly.

In a pinch for cash? Are your bills multiplying? You might benefit from a payday loan. While it might be a good option at the moment, you really should educate yourself first. This article will give you some of the most essential tips and advice that you need about payday cash advances.

TIP! There are lots of agencies that can offer you a payday loan. Once you have decide to take out a payday loan, you should comparison shop to find a company with good interest rates and reasonable fees.

Cash advance loans can have a lot of fees attached to them, so be sure to ask questions about the loan details. By doing this, you’ll know the exact amount you must pay back in exchange for borrowing the money. There are various interest rate regulations that can keep consumers like you protected. Payday loan companies avoid these regulations by increasing their fees. This can dramatically increase the total cost of the loan. The cost of this type of loan should discourage you from taking one out unless you have no other alternative.

TIP! Go over every company you’re getting a loan from very carefully. Don’t just go by the commercials you see.

Read the fine print in any payday loan you are considering. A lot of these companies are predatory. They earn money by loaning money to people who they know probably will not pay on time. More often than not, you may find that guarantees and promises of payday cash advances are accompanied with some sort of fine print that negates them.

TIP! Learn about late payment penalties. You no doubt are confident that you’ll pay it back on time, but sometimes things happen.

Don’t pick out a payday loan provider without doing some comparison shopping. Some may offer lower rates than others and could also waive fees associated to the loan. Some services will give you the money right away, while others require you to wait a day or two. If you shop around, you can find the loan that works best for your unique circumstance.

Private Information

TIP! There are organizations that can assist you in making arrangements to pay off your overdue payday loans. They will be able to help you for free and get you out of trouble.

When you start the payday loan application process, be guarded about your personal information. When applying for this loan, you have to give out private information like your SSN. Some companies are out to scam you and sell your private information to others. Always be sure the company you are working with is reputable.

TIP! If you’re constantly using payday loans to make ends meet, you may need to use a money management service to learn of what you can do to handle your finances. You can easily fall into the trap of repeatedly needing another loan, and it may be a continuous struggle to get out of debt.

Be aware of the date that you have to have your loan paid off by. APRs for payday loans are quite high to begin with, and can go even higher if you don’t pay the loan back on time. Keeping this in mind, make sure your loan is paid in full on or before the due date.

TIP! Do you know what fees you’ll be charged on your payday loan? You might have to pay up to 40 percent of what you borrowed. This would be a 400% annual interest rate, which is insane.

You must have a current work history before you can qualify to secure a payday loan. Many payday lenders will require a stable income source or a job history in order to qualify for a loan. The lender will usually require you to submit pay stubs to them as proof of your valid work history.

TIP! Don’t make the same mistakes twice when it comes to payday loans. After taking one out and paying it off, you may be angry at the fact that it probably cost you double what you borrowed because of interest and fees.

If you have a debt to pay, don’t run away from it. Payday lenders are known to use intimidating debt collectors who are going to cause misery for you and those around you when you fall behind. Therefore, contact the provider directly to negotiate an extension when you fall on hard times.

TIP! Once you have decided to get a payday loan, take your time to read all of the details of the contract before you sign. Some companies are phonies and are only after stealing your money.

It can be hard to deal with mounting bills and to desperately need money. If you had any questions about the benefits of payday loans, hopefully they’ve been answered in this article. Now prepare to face your financial troubles head on.

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Things to do and see in Siem Reap Cambodia

You may not have heard of Siem Reap, but it’s one of the coolest, most amazing, and interesting places to visit in the whole world. In fact, this province and small city of the same name in northern Cambodia is home to Angkor Wat, the world’s largest religious monument, as well as much more to do, see, experience, and eat! Here is my checklist for your next visit to Siem Reap:

1. Angkor Wat: As I mentioned, Angkor Wat is the highlight of Siem Reap, as it’s the largest religious site on earth. It’s actually the ruins and remains of an ancient temple that was the center of the mighty Angkor Empire (around 1200 AD or so), as well as a whole city of one million residents at that time – insanely large and advanced for that period. Most of the temple is still standing, and you can easily navigate around the architecture and grounds, finding out why it’s an UNESCO World Heritage Site.

2. Other temples: The main temple at Angkor Wat is the most visited, photographed (and crowded), but there are scores of smaller and less popular temple ruins you can visit in the area, taking days and day to meander around by bicycle, tuk-tuk, or on foot. Some of them are famous, like the temple from the Lara Croft Tombraider movie with Angelina Jolie (with a tree growing right out of the stone building!), and Angkor Tom, but many are virtually unknown and sometimes empty!

3. Charity work: You’ll notice almost immediately upon stepping foot in Cambodia that non-profits make up a big part of Cambodia’s identity. In fact, this once-poorest country in Asia had a brutal civil war in the 1970s that led to genocide under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge that wiped out about a quarter of the country’s population and set development back by decades. For that reason, there are an incredible array of international and local charities, non-profits, advocacy groups, religious and volunteer organizations at work in Cambodia these days.

In Siem Reap, you’ll see them everywhere, from orgs that promote massage and a special restaurant for the blind, to groups helping street kids, landmine victims, handcrafts by disabled people, and shops that sell artwork to help the victims of sex trafficking. Be sure to support some of these great (and reputable) charities and leave Cambodia better than you found it!

4. Shipping container complex I just found this little gem on my way out to the airport during my last visit to Siem Reap earlier in 2018, but it was really cool! They have a whole complex of bars, restaurants, and other entertainment venues made out of shipping containers! They’re multi-colored, stacked and placed at interesting angles, and decorated in different themes or motifs based on the establishment. It’s a great place to go walk around, get a few beers and some dinner, listen to a band, and try something off the usually Pub Street experience. I also spotted what looked like a giant Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome style two-story jail that was to be a bar, but it wasn’t open yet. Someone, please shoot us an email if you visit and see it!

Siem Reap, Cambodia is one of my absolute favorite places in the world for a short holiday, and I make it a point to go there at least once a year for a few days. In the first part of this review, I covered the first five things you must see, do, and eat or drink in Siem Reap, and here are the next five!

5. The Children’s Improvement Center orphanage: As I mentioned in the first part of this review, there are a myriad of charities, non-profits, and NGO’s (non-governmental organizations) active in Cambodia. Unfortunately, not all of them are doing business legitimately, do what they say they will, or are making good use of your funds. So, when it comes to volunteering in Siem Reap, one of the best options (and some of my favorite PEOPLE in the world) is CIO or the Children’s Improvement Organization. Located just a 20-minute tuk-tuk ride outside of the central town, it’s a wonderful compound for parentless children run by a caring, giving man named Sitha and his wife, Sreymom. I’ve been visiting and helping them for years, and there is no better charity around, and I encourage you to contact them on Facebook or their website and arrange a visit (and donation, please ), too!

6. Floating Village of Kompong Khleang The Tonle Sap lake is the largest in all of Asia, and every year during the rainy season, the lake waters swell and rise, flooding nearby communities and villages. In fact, its so prevalent that many villages right on the water now build with their houses and structures on high stilts, and a lot of “buildings” and homes are actually just floating structures or even boats! The best place to see that is in Kampong Khleang about an hour drive (car not tuk tuk) outside of Siem Reap. But there are two other floating villages closer, more popular, and pretty much glorified scams, so avoid those.

7. Night market Siem Reap has some of the best night markets in the whole country, with an incredible array of goods, crafts, clothing, and more fun stuff all ready for you to haggle over. The night markets are a perfect place to buy souvenirs for those back home or have fun walking around, and it’s pretty safe. (Just watch your wallet and phone no matter where you go in Asia.)

8. Bar hopping – and Mrs. Wongs One of the best parts of a trip to Siem Reap is its iconic and memorable Pub Streets area, which is about four city blocks closed off except to pedestrian s at night and alive with bars, carts, kiosks, food stalls, restaurants, and just about everything else you can think of. The nightlife is fun, colorful, and takes on a carnival-like atmosphere every single night.

And one of my favorite hidden little treasures in Siem Reap is the famous bar, Mrs. Wongs. Try any of the cocktails there named after my good friend and renowned mixologist, Jen Queen!

9. Bicycle around Of course, you can take tuk-tuk rides everywhere in Siem Reap, but it’s also fun to rent a bicycle (like $5 a day or less) and peddle all over the city or even to Angkor Wat. It’s a great way to see the nooks and crannies of the city and discover fun cafes, museums, art galleries, street art, and more! Just wear your helmet and realize that there are really no rules on the road!

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Confused By Cash Advance Loans? Get Help Here!

TIP! Remember that the interest rates on payday loans are very high, before you even start getting one. There are times where a particular company might have interest rates as high as 150% – 200% for extended periods.

Do you need cash without delay? Are you struggling to pay your bills? A payday loan might have been on your list of options to get you out of that situation. Although they can be a valid option for some people, it is important to get all the facts. The information included here can help you see whether a payday loan is a viable option for you or not.

TIP! There are a plethora of companies to choose from who will give you a payday loan. Check out all the firms available to you before you apply.

People who are experiencing a financial emergency can turn to cash advances to get short-term cash. Customers need to know what they are getting themselves into before they do it. These loans have high interest rates, and the fees involved can cause them to be difficult to repay.

TIP! There are a number of usery laws for the purpose of protecting consumers; however, payday lenders have found many ways to skirt these laws. Therefore, instead of interest, they’ll use fees that will add up to the interest they would charge.

Before making a decision on who to get a payday loan with, be sure to research if the company is reputable. This can be done on the Better Business Bureau website. You will find many shady companies that will scam people who are truly hard up. Take time to understand if the company you’re interested in can be trusted.

Interest Rates

TIP! Hold off from running to the nearest local payday loan company when you think you need fast cash. You certainly do know your neighborhood, but if you do some research on other companies in your city, you might find one that offers better terms.

Make sure you carefully check out the fees and interest rates on your payday loan. Thus, you can understand the true cost of the loan. Lots of regulations on interest rates exist in order to protect you. Companies skirt these regulations by charging insanely high fees. This can dramatically increase the total cost of the loan. This will allow you to figure out if it’s worthwhile to get a loan.

TIP! Know what the company wants to charge you before you take out the loan. Many borrowers are shocked by how much interest they are charged.

Research any payday loan company before filling out an application. There are many options out there, so you need to be sure the company is legitimate so that it is fair and manged well. Do some research and learn from people who have previous experience with your potential lender to gain greater insight.

TIP! Always be truthful on your loan application. Although you may be tempted to do this so that you can be approved for a large amount, putting knowingly false information on your application is fraud, which can result in a criminal prosecution.

Sometimes, you may not qualify for the sum of money that you request. The money you get depends on what kind of money you make. It is the lender who evaluates how much you make and determines how much of a loan you will qualify for. Therefore, understand this when you are setting your expectations for a loan.

Payday Loan

TIP! If you are going to be getting a payday loan, be sure that you are aware of the company’s policies. A lot of these companies will ensure you are employed and you have been for awhile.

You should avoid any payday loan establishments that are not clear about their interest rates and the terms of the loan. Payday loan companies that don’t give you all the information up front should be avoided as they are possible scams.

TIP! Always look as payday loans as your last resort and not as a first choice. Payday loans carry very high interest rates which actually have you paying close to 25 percent of the initial amount of the loan.

Do not think you are good after you secure a loan through a quick loan company. The next step is to make sure that you inspect your paperwork often, and be conscious of the date the loan is due. Then, be sure you pay it as soon as it is due. Missing payment deadlines is a very expensive mistake.

TIP! Make sure to use the money from your payday loan wisely and try to ensure you don’t get back into the same financial emergency position again. Don’t be lulled into a sense of complacency by the fact that the payday loan has saved your skin for the moment.

When you sign up for payday loans, be cautious when giving out your personal information. There are times that you may be required to give important information like a social security number. Just know that there may be scams that could end up selling this type of information to third parties. Because of this, it’s important to ensure the company you’re doing business with is reputable.

TIP! If you are looking for payday loans, shop for the top deal to get the best bang for your buck. Check out physical and online payday loans.

Make sure there is enough money in the bank for you to pay back the loans. You will end up in collections if you don’t pay it off. You will also get a NSF charge from your bank as well as extra charges from the loan company. Make sure you have the money to cover it when it is due.

TIP! Keep in mind that if you work on your own, it may not be possible to qualify for payday loans. Self-employment is not looked at as a reliable income source by some payday lenders.

Life can become very stressful when your bills become past due. If you had any questions about the benefits of payday loans, hopefully they’ve been answered in this article. Now prepare to face your financial troubles head on.