#like genuinely I am baffled by this decision its been making this update so much harder to enjoy

[arolesbianism]

I've been playing the new cotl update and I generally like it but god do I fucking hate like all of the balance changes just let things be strong man

[hit-me-with-a-ladle]

This is Ch.2 for my creepypasta story.

Now this is the second chapter to my story and its description can be found in my blog, i manly update on wattpad does i still will be putting these chapters on tumblr (not as frequently doe :/). so yeah have fun and hope u like it.

A sharp pain was the first thing felt by the girl the moment she woke up from her coma. Laying on a dirty, ruined couch, she put a hand on her head and softly groaned. At that moment she heard the light murmur of male-sounding voices near her and tensed up. She was confused and dazed. She didn't know where she was or why she was there. Not knowing what to say or do she just overheard their conversation, hoping they wouldn't notice she was awake.

" I-I don't know what the-they were thin-king, bringing a young h-human girl to be the next middle-m-man. A-a-are the elite becoming that desper-des-desperate?" One of the men said. He sounded considerably young, around eighteen years old. The boy appeared to have a stutter. His voice was also soft, almost sounding more like a whisper than anything else though still audible. ' What is he talking about?' The girl thought to herself, her train of thought was abruptly stopped by another voice speaking up.

"I don't think it's smart to doubt the elite's decision Toby, even so, she seems to hold some attributes required in a middleman." A monotone voice spoke. A soft "yeah" was soon hear from one of the men and it sounded forced. Then a bone-chilling chuckle came from the same monotone man. "What's so funny?" One of the men spat, their voice was deep and husky. "Well if you must know," The other man said sounding amused "It's kind of funny that out of all of us you should know just how capable she is." He rudely remarked snickering. The other man seemed to growl under his breath "Wasn't she the one that knocked you down and stabbed you in the leg?" The monotone man finally said in a provocative tone.

"Well, now you're just begging me to kick your ass." The irritated man spoke in anger and stood up but promptly cringed from the shooting pain from the injury to his leg and sat down. "I'd like to see you try," The monotone man replayed amused by his comrade's actions. The irritated man was about to say something when another voice spoke up, "Can you guys stop fighting already, I mean there's an unconscious girl in the living room that we have to prepare for her inevitable death." A boy said, he also sounded young similar to the first man, but this time his voice was much louder and sounded naval.

When overhearing what the boy said, she loudly gasped in shock without thinking, that seemed to catch the men's attention and they quickly went quiet. The atmosphere was so tense you could cut it with a knife. An awkward and unbearable silence fell upon everyone. But soon it was ended by the rattling of chairs getting put aside and the pattering of loud footsteps approaching the room she was in. Not knowing what to do, panic was the only thing she could feel at that moment. As she laid there, not moving a muscle the first that spoke was the man in a white mask.

"So now you choose to wake up? Took you long enough." He said to her annoyed, she looked at his masked face and then looked around the room. It seemed to be a log cabin by the walls being constructed from wood, and by the general look of it, it was pretty big. The couch she was on was in a rather rough shape, and right across from it was a scratched up wooden coffee table. Then she noticed one of the men resting on an armchair in a similar state as the couch she was on. He seemed to be looking right at her, though it was hard to tell from the blue mask that covered his face.

"Where am I? And who are you, people?" The girl spoke in a harsh tone trying to seem strong, though, in reality, she was terrified, and the men appeared to notice. "Aren't you a snarky one? But don't try to act tough or else." The man in the feminine mask said boredly. "Now, as for who we are, my name is Timothy Wright, but you will call me Masky." He hardly spoke while pointing to himself. The girl scanned him from head to toe and noticed that one of his legs was wrapped in a now blood-stained bandage. 'Did I hurt him that badly? Well serves him right.' She thought while glaring at him. "That guy over there," He continued and pointing to the tall man sitting on the armchair with his legs crossed, "Is Jack or as he's better known, Eyeless Jack." The man, named Jack nodded his head in her direction. "That shorty over there." This time he pointed to a short boy whit blond hear leaning on the door frame to the room, "Is Benjamin Lawman or Ben Drowned." Ben waved at her and smiled, but the smile was more creepy than anything else. "And lastly," Masky said while pointing to a boy with orange-tinted goggles " That's Tobias Erin Rogers or Ticci Toby." The boy then spoke up, "Ju-just call me T-toby."

"You're in your new home." He emphasised. "Here you will live till the day you die. Now, as for your purpose, you have been assigned the role of a middleman from now on." He said while looking at her dead in the eyes. "You're kidding, right? Is this some sick joke? A middleman? What even is that? You must be insane if you think I'll believe you." She responded hysterically while frowned and glaring at the man even harder than before and crossed her arms. "Oh, but you will, you don't have a chose in the matter." The masked man responded, looking at the girl sternly, he then sighed "I guess I should explain your new job shouldn't I." What he said sounded more like a statement than a question, and he carried on explaining.

"You will be the middleman of this forest," He said while pointing to the windows and sure enough, on the outside, there was a forest ' How didn't I notice that before?' The girl asked herself. "You have the job as negotiator, judge, executioner, errand boy and among some other things. But that won't be as easy as it sounds, because in this forest reside evil monster, creatures, demons, killers and different mythical being. Things that you humans thought were only in legends and tales." He said that as if he'd said it a million time before and continued "Now, we four were ordered," He moved to point around the room, gesturing to the men. "To get you and bring you here. So in the range of the next six months, we can teach you everything you need to know about being a middleman and how to do it right. At the end of those six months, you will go thru a four-stage test that will prove just how much you have learned, but if you were to fail, you will get executed. Do you understand?" He finally finished while looking at her and tilted his head. The girl was baffled and couldn't believe what she heard, better said she didn't want to believe it.

"You can't be serious right? I mean do you expect me to accept everything you just said as fact" The girl protested while immediately standing, "I don't know who you think you are, but I'm certainly not staying here any longer." And as she was about to head for the door, Jack suddenly spoke up. "And where will you go? You don't have any clue where you even are. Do you think you can just go out of this forest like that? Well, I'm sorry for ruining your parade, but that's not going to happen." He responded to her in his usual bored voice that seemed to be laced in a thin veil of sarcasm. 'He has a point,' She thought while looking at him. 'But it can't be that hard to leave a forest, right?' She reassured herself. "Oh, and another thing, this isn't a normal forest. No, it's a portal between the human world and underworld." He smirked through his mask when he noticed the girls face turn pale, "Though it doesn't look like it, you are in a branch of hell, and the only way to get to the human world is by knowing where the portal is, and we certainly won't be telling you of its location anytime soon." He remarked this time in a way that was much more malicious, almost seeming like he wanted to make her mad or provoke her.

But the girl didn't budge 'Is what he's saying true? I hope it's not, but I can't afford not believing him.' Still not moving from the place she was standing, she glanced down, "Why me?" She said, defeated. Those two words seemed to catch the men off gourd. " W-well," The boy named Toby spoke up. "You we-were chosen b-b-by the Elite." He said softly. "Who are the elite? And what do you mean by they "chose me"." The girl was quick to ask. "The El-elite are four o-o-of the strongest creatures in the underworld, they are the on-ones that choose the midd-middlemen for every branch and reg-ion of hell." Toby said, "We were als-also told m-m-many thi-things about you, your n-n-ame, hobbies, what you aspired to b-be, your dark-est secret, and mu-much more." He finished. "Better said we know everything bout you, Y/N." The boy named Ben stated calmly while smiling. Hearing her name come out o his mouth sent shivers down her spine.

The girl collapsed on the couch in defeat and put her arms to her head, 'Is everything that they're saying genuine? It can't be, can it?' She was in a state of dread and didn't want to belive what they were saying. 'I need to calm down, there has to be a way out of here somehow, and I'll find it.' She kept reassuring herself." Now, as I was saying, we four will be teaching you everything you need to know," Masky spoke up again with his hands behind his back." Your room is upstairs to the left. You should get as much sleep as possible we will start training tomorrow at nine-thirty am," He said while looking into the girl's eyes, "Do NOT be late, or else." He finished while going near the front door of the cabin, "Oh, and don't even try to escape, someone will be standing guard to make sure you don't." And with that, he and everyone else left. She was left alone whit her thoughts in the empty cabin,

'I should go and check out my room shouldn't I, maybe I'll find a way out.' and with that, she went upstairs.

[riseofkingdomsguides]

Rise of Kingdoms Guide

Rise of Kingdoms Guide

Rise of Kingdoms Guide has been discharged. The universe of Rise of Kingdoms is shrouded in thick haze. Dispatch scouts to investigate this baffling area and reveal the concealed fortunes inside. Tons of chronicled figures who will fill in as your dependable commandants, from Julius Caesar and Sun Tzu to Joan of Arc and Kusunoki Masashige. Rise of Kingdoms is fantastically powerful in its ongoing interaction. You can station your soldiers anyplace, compel yourself into fights that are as of now going on, flee from fights that are causing you torment, and dispatch different commandants immediately. On the off chance that we contrast the advantages of France and different human advancements, we may discover them a piece disappointing. While they accentuate incredibly on asset assembling, all other essential parts of the game are being disregarded. Spain has its principle center around mounted force units. 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A debt of gratitude is in order for the clarification :) Warning : its a great deal addictive and time killing game play this game on the off chance that you have part leisure time, at that point just or it will make you like think each time just that game Sign in to see reasons why you might possibly like this dependent on your games, companions, and guardians you pursue. Note: This Early Access game isn't finished and could conceivably change further. Total assessed income versus current Google Play Store Top Grossing rank demonstrate this current item's pattern is appraised as Smooth Sailing. #8 positioned MARVEL Contest of Champions has been introduced on Android gadgets somewhere in the range of 50,000,000 and multiple times. We gauge that the activity game has created complete income some place close $170 million USD for designer Kabam. 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[techongq1-blog]

We asked, you replied: Did the fourth-era iPad come too early? Advance is the life of a technophile, yet some stress over future OS updates.

Third-era iPad proprietors: does the fourth-gen iPad anger you? We posed that question of Ars perusers on Wednesday this week, soon after Apple's second fall media occasion which presented the gadget (and also a lot of different items). We pondered what our perusers thought about Apple's shake-up of the item cycle—the fourth-era iPad was discharged just seven months after the third-era, leaving many (yet not all) third-gen iPad proprietors scratching their heads about whether they had settled on the correct decision.

For a lot of nerd sorts—which Ars perusers unequivocally are—the response to the question appeared glaringly sufficiently evident. All things considered, the third-era iPad works similarly also today as it did a week ago, and who needs to back off the advance of innovation? Yet, not surprisingly, our readership offered some all around contemplated reactions on both sides of this dialog. One individual's close to home utilize case doesn't really apply to every other person, and we may not all concur on each answer. Still, plainly individuals have put some idea into this question and into how Apple's activities this week may influence their future purchasing buys.

No irkage here

We'll begin with the individuals who had almost no issue with Apple's presentation of the fourth-era iPad. A hefty portion of the 300+ reactions we got from the primary article conceded some underlying aggravation subsequent to hearing the declaration however said they "got over it" not long after in the wake of acknowledging the amount regardless they esteem their present gadgets.

One such illustration was from Michael Bushnell: "I was rankled for around two seconds, however then I got over it. All I utilize my iPad 3 for is perusing books, perusing Ars, email, and so forth. Exceptionally lightweight utilize. I can comprehend why the individuals who utilize their iPads all the more intensely would feel insulted, however for me it has little effect in my consistently utilize. I'm quite recently happy I have the retina show."

Another client, swholliday, felt a similar way. "I'll admit to some inconvenience on observing the declaration since I purchased a third gen not long ago. Then again, I consider iPads multi-year gadgets, and past screen determination and capacity I'm not worried about specs, so it's not a major ordeal. When I come it down, the Lightning connector is the main thing that truly disturbs me, and that is more since it is pleasant to not need to stress over isolated links (an iPhone 5 is my exclusive other Apple cell phone.)"

Others made it clear that they'd preferably have Apple gain mechanical ground than clutch items to improve clients feel.

"Who cares?! I believe it's a decent move by Apple given that Microsoft's new Surface beats the iPad third gen in a few benchmarks though the new A6X fourth Gen iPad destroys it. That reality that Apple remains in front of the execution bend is something worth being thankful for," a client named Squuiid composed.

"I've been utilizing mine joyfully for quite a long time in the information that Apple would discharge another adaptation inevitably," DavidNielsen included. "I am not goaded by the way that innovation pushes forward however I didn't anticipate that them will revive the iPad this rapidly."

Truth be told, some wished Apple would treat its different items a similar way. "I'm really more joyful if Apple would discharge refreshed items on a more normal premise. In my psyche, Apple's moderate discharge plan frequently makes their items poor incentive as they get on in age (i.e. Macintosh Pro right now or the iMac starting a week ago)," ronm88 composed. "I'm in the market for another desktop (Mac Pro or iMac), and I've been quietly sitting tight for a refresh. I would be more joyful in the event that they would refresh their PCs at regular intervals or thereabouts, and afterward I wouldn't feel like I have to sit tight for the most recent and most prominent."

At that point there were the individuals who said they weren't wanting to redesign at any point in the near future at any rate, and the fourth-gen iPad doesn't entice them enough to make it beneficial.

"Doesn't trouble me, since I had dependably intended to keep my third gen iPad for no less than 2 eras. That had already likened to 2 years, yet in the event that I need to extend it to 3 eras (or all the more), so be it," composed rolphus.

Another peruser named aphoid concurred. "I'm not by any means goaded despite the fact that I purchased a The New iPad in August. Despite everything it works awesome. I have a dispatch day iPhone 4S, so I can in any case share links, not at all like in the event that I overhauled. The processor speed is sufficient, I haven't seen gradualness. The fourth gen doesn't settle my greatest protestation about mine: it's quite recently too overwhelming to hold for long stretches of perusing. Presently, on the off chance that they'd dealt with a huge weight drop notwithstanding the processor update, I may be irritated or if nothing else enticed to overhaul."

In any case, wally626 called attention to that third-gen iPad proprietors outside of the US may have more motivation to be baffled than others because of the gadget's LTE confinements—had they known a more perfect rendition was turning out a large portion of a year later, they may have held up. "Not incensed, I think I would be in the event that I purchased a LTE display in a nation that is not upheld by third Gen. be that as it may, is bolstered by fourth Gen," wally626 composed. "The screen is the same, the new connector may in the end be great, however for the present it is a less. Speedier is more pleasant, however I don't do anything that pushes the current iPad Gen. 3."

At last, Zoolook compressed the general feeling shared by many existing technophiles by indicating out this is the common movement for every single techy device, and the individuals who can't deal with owning immediately obsolete toys ought to escape the diversion.

"In case you're a technophile, you hope to get stung like this regularly. In the event that you purchase bleeding edge GPUs or CPUs or motherboards for gaming PCs (which I accomplished for the best some portion of 10 years) you're continually battling a losing fight. In the times of the "stupid" telephone, new models were discharged with thoughtless forsake; that is as yet the case in Android-arrive. Same is valid with some customer gadgets (just got the most recent plasma TV for $4000... gracious look, here's a superior one for a large portion of the value)," Zoolook composed. "Do individuals whimper? Probably not."

Miserable purchasers

However, while those reactions may resound with a specific statistic of clients, a lot of different Ars perusers were upbeat to clarify why they weren't excited with how things played out between the third-and fourth-era iPad presentations. The most widely recognized contention laid on Apple's emphatic out of date quality arrangement with regards to future iOS discharges, which, thusly, influences how outsider designers treat more established gadgets. Numerous iPad proprietors are additionally iPhone proprietors, and they comprehend what it resembles to claim a genuinely late gadget that doesn't bolster all the most recent OS highlights.

"It's inescapable that it would happen, and I don't think the iPad 3 is in peril of getting to be plainly old and unsupported at any point in the near future," Tridus composed. "Presently in the event that they drop bolster for it inside one more year? THAT will chafe."

Fulgan concurred. "What truly irritates me is that Apple has an exceptionally surely understood gadget out of date quality strategy: Current and past era gadgets get every one of the treats, the era before that gets less (and commonly overhauling the OS on such a gadget makes it moderate as ice sheets) and from that point onward, it's 'no a greater amount of anything for you' time."

"Better believe it, I was 'frustrated.'" eg0nomic included. "I felt that what I just purchased matured rapidly, substantially more rapidly than I had trusted. It's less about the gen 4 being superior to anything mine, it's that the general life is shorter."

As did iforget: "To be completely forthright, I'm more irritated that the iPad 1 I purchased was out of date just eighteen months after it cleared out the shop racks (regardless of having basically an indistinguishable equipment from the iPod Touch 4, which is still discounted and still bolstered). On the off chance that iOS 7 takes off one year from now and drops bolster for the iPad 3, then I'll be much more pissed, however I truly don't see that event. "

Another peruser, sakanagai, went above and beyond to clarify this line of considering. "The all the more alarming perspective originates from the bolster cycle. Two eras back is about to the extent iOS refreshes reach, and still, after all that the usefulness is constrained," sakanagai composed. "These updates are intended to exploit the most recent equipment discharge, so normally a few elements are forgotten in more seasoned models. Be that as it may, the first iPad is as of now out of the bolster circle. The iPhone 4 and fourth gen iPod Touch have a restricted form of the most recent rendition. Contingent upon the size of equipment revives, this fast turnaround could contract the bolstered life traverse impressively. What's more, if the following equipment isn't a noteworthy update, why dispatch/get it?"

No less than one peruser, tvalleau, highlighted how the short refresh cycle impacts autonomous or specialist designers—a refresh to the iPad line so not long after the last means engineers by and by don't claim the most recent gadget for testing. "As a solitary individual engineer, I should have the most recent and most noteworthy to test my product. $800 in April for an iPad; $400 a month ago for the iPod 5; now $800 more?" tvalleau inquired. "Rankled? YES."

In reality, in spite of the fact that I for the most part fall in the principal classification (the individuals who don't consider it to be such a major ordeal), I can identify with worries about future programming similarity. Notwithstanding the many reactions we got from the first article, I likewise got various individual messages and IMs that reverberated a similar opinion: individuals are worried that Apple may drop bolster for their third-era iPads six months sooner than it may have something else.

Obviously, there were as yet a couple of third-gen iPad proprietors who were irritated at the refresh for different reasons, however paltry they might be. Ars peruser nathanziarek, for instance, unmistakably likes to exchange his old gadgets at a decent cost. "I've generally despised that Apple items crumble after new models are discharged. It appears like they ought to hold some esteem," nathanziarek composed.