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loverockawaitsyou · 1 year ago

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I put in my notice at my toxic live/work situation today.

MESSY STORY TIME PART 1 (BECAUSE I NEED TO GET IT OUT OF MY SYSTEM):

Of course, names have been left out.

TW: Workplace abuse

BUCKLE UP... THIS IS A LONG STORY THAT GETS MORE AND MORE RIDICULOUS AS TIME GOES ON

I did it. I finally put in my notice at my workplace. I’ve mentioned it before, but I was doing a work exchange (I lived where I work, with 11 other people including my bosses). I’ve been at this place for nearly three years.

Now, some work exchanges are pretty great if the owners have actual culture and work exchange at heart. However, in my situation, I was dealing with shady bosses who used a “community” of artists and economically vulnerable people to run a business without properly compensating them. And of course, they targeted people who were trying to live out their Big Hollywood Dreams.

Back in August of 2020, I answered an ad for a “Live-in writer/editor.” At the time I was living with family in San Diego and was looking for a way out. It was during the pandemic, and I actually wasn’t looking for a new place, but I found the ad coincidentally.

At first, it seemed too good to be true... and yeah, it was. But it took me a while to realize it. I had wanted to move to LA for so long, but due to paying rent to my family and other financial obligations, I struggled to save enough to move for years... that is until this live-in opportunity presented itself.

I can live somewhere in LA for free? How amazing! I thought.

Back in the ‘90s...(Bojack Horseman singing) and early 2000s my bosses (a married couple) had a brief stint with fame because they had a special on a major cable channel. Previous to that, my bosses were on public access and were locally famous. My bosses, the married couple were as follows: A sexy on-camera therapist who answered phone calls about sex and relationships, and her husband, an actual prince with no fortune and former pornographer and dirty magazine publisher.

During that time period, they made millions from their specials and coinciding phone sex business. So... yes, the business I ended up working for also operates a phone sex business out of their quarters, and they’ve done this for over 30 years. Additionally, they produced (and still produce) a little seen show with porn stars, artists, scholars, models, wannabes, stoners, junkies, and freaks... etc. They also threw wild parties after these shows and have thousands of hours of footage that is mostly pornographic. And before you ask, everyone who came through the building had to sign release forms for filming.

My bosses are totally for “ethical” hedonism (or so they say) so they adopted this bohemian lifestyle filled with sex and drugs and a hint of rock n’ roll.

So to run the phone sex business and show, my bosses created this community of live-in employees. I guess it was a sweet deal for some back in the day. Think about it: Weekly wild parties, free food, gorgeous ladies (and people in general), a prime LA location... They hired people to multitask as phone sex business receptionists as well as show producers, editors, photographers, office assistants, etc.

However, as my bosses’ popularity waned, changes in the adult entertainment industry occurred, and numerous lawsuits and financial troubles eclipsed the business, things changed. But on the other hand, they never really let go of their glory days and continued to persist with this “show” despite its nonexistent audience and their shaky finances.

Fast-forward to 2020, and I entered the picture during COVID. Gone were the days of yore where orgies regularly broke out and almost everyone working for the business was a hot young model or porn star or industry hanger-on...

My bosses’ business had relocated to a quieter side of LA county, and also due to the pandemic, in-person events had ceased. I never knew those wild party days, but some of my housemates did, including a guy I’d go on to be romantically involved with. He’d lived there for 10 years. He is the same age as me (I’m 30), but he started working for my bosses when he was 20 years old and a fresh college drop out. More on my relationship with him later and all those complexities.

Back to the ad I answered, even though I thought it was too good to be true, I answered the ad anyway and sent my writing samples. Later on, I talked with a nice office manager of the business. I did an edit test, a phone interview, and then was asked to come in person to meet the bosses and my future coworkers/housemates.

TO BE CONTINUED

#writing #true stories #rant #terrible bosses

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serifsans · 3 years ago

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Findr is destroying my dating life.

Well, perhaps destroy isn’t the right word. It’s successful enough when I bother to make an effort, although sometimes it results in people stealing my wallet. That’s only happened twice but that’s two times more than I expected, though I suppose that's on me. It’s a bit exciting though, isn’t it? It means you have to buy a another and then replace all your cards with pristine, new ones and also someone owns something of yours, so there’s a special connection there.

And maybe dating isn’t the right word either, come to think of it. I don’t really like placing labels on things. It’s messy. Unnecessary. There are a lot of hangups associated with the whole dating scene and I really don’t need that stress in my life. I simply enjoy meeting new people, visiting interesting places, eating food, and so on. We don’t need to call it anything. Also, apparently I’m just a giant hussy according to someone I broke up with in the 80s, so there’s that too.

I digress, even if Howard can go fuck himself.

At any rate, Findr’s garbage. I hate it. Despise it. Still use it.

It’s all so sterile. I don’t mean that in the reproductive sense, though yes, I suppose some dates might be less sterile than others. It’s just so formulaic. Swipe one way to say no, swipe the other way for yes. Condense your personage down into a few pithy quotes from The Office. Start every conversation by saying ‘hey.’ What exactly am I supposed to respond with when you just say hey, Edward? I don’t want to be the one carrying this entire conversation here. At least send a horrible pick up line because it will work.

I feel like every man posts the same picture of himself with a fish and that must mean that trout and bluegill are critically endangered. You know, Chasten, you can post that fish picture all you like but you’re a stockbroker in Maroa, so I really do not think you actually fish regularly. I think that you have gone on exactly one fishing trip for the sole purpose of taking a photograph of yourself with a fish for the dating site clout. You know, a lot of people on various social media mock cliches in regards to photos women might post on dating sites but we really have to hold these so-called fishermen accountable. If you post a photo of yourself with a fish, I expect that you’ll be able to provide me fish. I don’t eat fish because I am mostly a vegetarian (I’m not going to go down into the specifics of whether or not my fries at restaurants are cooked in duck fat or not; if I am at a party or event and there is no vegetarian option and it would be rude not to eat something, then I will not be rude) but if you’re going to show something off in a picture, you best be able to back your ability up. I am complaining primarily about men here because I see more men than women but also because I typically like women much more than men.

I’m not going to post my thoughts on the ability to send pictures because this is a PG-13 website. ;+)

There are so many expectations people may have of you based off of what you write, your pictures, your bio, your everything. Do I have to disclose my species? People always have notions when they hear what I am. I don’t know how to answer gender questions. What photos of myself do I post? If I post photographs of myself looking a certain way, am I then obligated to stay that way around them forever? Should I change to people’s preferences? I am older than this country and that complicates my dating life in so many ways. Practically none of the long-lived organisms use that blasted app and when they do, they’re always looking for something else entirely. I am just here to occupy my time between workdays. I don't want a thousand+ year commitment.

In conclusion, Findr is wretched and I still use it anyway.

Of course, it wasn’t that much better in days of yore. In ye olde days of history, you would have to rely on dating friends of friends and so on, and it always complicated your group of acquaintances because you’re always dating someone’s ex and they have feelings about that even if they aren’t even romantically involved anymore. After awhile, you’re exhausted all options and have to move cities and find new social groups just to go on a dinner date.

You could go to bars to pick someone new up. You still can, of course, but it used to be the primary option of more people and now they’re all on websites and don’t respond to you after you say ‘hey’ back. Bars can be extremely enjoyable but when you don’t live in a major city, sometimes your only option is a dingy, dank place and sometimes you're just not in the mood for that. When you don’t live in a major city, sometimes you’re the only alien around and what are you supposed to do then, die a virgin?

Humans have the right idea. They have separate bars for the bears and the little party boys and the straight people and so on, so you can visit wherever your preference goes. Because there are less extraterrestrials than humans, you don’t necessarily see the same specialization in every city. I would like to filter out the little party boys from my sight, personally. Be gone and leave me alone, please. They look at my typical appearance and think that I am going to lavish money on them and why would I do that when I can buy things for myself instead? Go away, darlings. I’m on the prowl for recent divorcees looking to live it up a little.

I was personally a big fan of personal ads. If you went to the right magazine stall, you could pick up an obscure publication geared towards an alien audience and then scan through the personal columns until you saw a brief, coded ad that seemed intriguidng. It was always great because there was an air of mystery until your date arrived. Of course, sometimes you wound up going on a date with the same person multiple times because they kept taking out ads but that’s life, darling. It was also great because then the magazines would also have advertisements for various products and all of them were terrible. Having nice things is nice but it's also interesting to try things that are wretched. It's an experience and I seek out experiences.

I suppose the world always changes and there’s nothing you can do about it. All I know is that if I see another trout, I’m going to scream.

Love and kisses but not in that way,

#my online diary

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universi-tea · 5 years ago

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thoughts on comparison

In the age of the internet it’s really, really hard not to compare yourself to like, everyone all the time. It seems like every one I follow on Instagram had a wonderful vacation in Mexico this summer. Good for them. It’s easy to look at the glamorous lives of the Insta-famous and be a little jealous. It’s also easy to say “oh, well of course they look like they’re having fun, they’re getting paid to”. Just like magazine ads for dresses or makeup in the days of yore, it’s a little easier to dismiss the flawless lives of social media influencers without beating yourself up too much for not making your own oat milk or planning the perfect homeschool curriculum for the children that you literally do not have.

But what about the people you know in real life?

That’s where it gets tricky. Because these are real people you know and maybe even love. And they’re out there vacationing in Greece, interning at glamorous companies and living their best lives. And you should be happy for them! And not at all jealous!!

Right. That’s a tough one. Because, yeah, I am really happy for my best friend about her new boyfriend. He seems great. And my friend who’s moving to NYC for her dream job? Couldn’t be prouder. Honest. But I can’t help but feel like Samatha did when Carrie got engaged -- a little left behind. And I know that’s dumb and selfish. But it’s true.

I don’t have anything to complain about. My life is pretty great -- I’ve worked hard and am getting a good education, and have had some really awesome experiences this year. I have great friends, a family who loves me, and even a dog who poses for pictures when I ask nicely. But I still find myself always looking at what other people are doing, and wondering if I’m doing things wrong.

When my sister was a senior in college, she was engaged. She spent spring semester remodeling a house her and her now-husband bought. Like, they owned a house while they were in college. Just take a second to think about that. Meanwhile, I still go to frat parties multiple nights a week and sometimes accidentally ghost boys I meet there. I definitely will not be buying a house with my husband any time soon. Or maybe even ever.

I know everyone’s timeline is different, but it’s a lot harder to not compare yourself to others when it seems like everyone else is making huge leaps forward and you still feel a little stuck and lost.

So, am I the only one out here trying to find that balance between “you go girl” and “oh my gosh i’m gonna die jobless and alone” ??

#personal #blog post

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adtothebone · 4 years ago

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#cats #pets #magazines #retro #vintage #antique #covers #art #Paul bransom #illustration #painting #flowers

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sundayswiththeilluminati · 5 years ago

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Sweet Business

“…I love my job.”

Type: Auto Rifle

Slot: Kinetic | Energy | Heavy

Element: Kinetic | Stasis | Strand

Perk: Payday - Larger magazine. Increased accuracy when firing from the hip. Picking up Special or Heavy ammo immediately reloads this weapon.

Trait: Business Time - Sustained fire boosts rate and range of fire.

Masterworked Trait: Serious Business - When this weapon is fully spun up, the flinch from incoming damage is greatly reduced.

Ornaments: Down to Business, Go About Your Business, Corporate Sponsorship

Origin & Description: Don’t be fooled by the Auto Rifle typing: Sweet Business is a minigun, plain and simple. It doesn’t have a “Listen to REASON” ornament yet, but it’s only a matter of time. Added as early as the D2 beta, it existed long before the Machine Gun weapon type and these days some have argued for it to be reclassified. Bungie hasn't said anything one way or another, probably because they know we're right but they'd have to retest the weapon with all the machine gun-related mods and bonuses and ain't nobody got time for that. Which, fair. We can't spend all our time yelling for new content and then getting on Bungie's case when they don't also somehow revamp old content too.

Now we all know that the correct way to fire a minigun is to sling it alongside one hip, Halo-style, then hold down the trigger and walk forward in the sure and certain knowledge that anything in front of you will no longer be a problem by the time you get there. Unfortunately in making Sweet Business human-portable instead of a true vehicle-mounted minigun some amount of power did have to be sacrificed, and in PvE Sweet Business is best used to sweep waves of weak red-bar enemies rather than pouring fire into larger targets.

Like any decent minigun it takes Sweet Business time to spin up and warm to its task, so the ideal way to use it is to never stop firing, ever. Lesser guns might protest that they have to stop in order to reload, but Sweet Business is above such things. Originally it would automatically reload any ammo picked up while firing, but was then buffed to auto-reload any time you picked up one of the abundant Primary ammo bricks. But then Destiny's ammo economy changed to eliminate Primary ammo bricks in favor of just giving all Primary weapons infinite ammunition, which in this one single edge case ends up being a debuff. Now it'll reload whenever you pick up Special or Heavy bricks, which is still a helpful ability, but no longer the thousand-round rampages of yore.

During Destiny 2's beta Sweet Business was, oddly enough, locked to Titans; it isn't anymore, but Titans do have a bit of an edge since they can further combine it with the exotic chest armor piece Actium War Rig, which steadily feeds ammo to equipped auto rifles, giving them a greater window of time to find a new ammo brick before being forced to reload by hand, like a peasant. If you can tank the return fire and you're looking to cut your way through a large group as quickly as possible, no frills, no synergies, no messing about with grenades or supers or similar nonsense, then...it's business time.

Destiny 2 Compendium Armarum Exoticarum

#Destiny 2 #Sweet Business #listen to REASON #Halo minigun returns #mini-minigun?#it's business time.#SERIOUS BUSINESS #I use this gun way less often than it deserves #Destiny Compendium Exoticarum #this is the wager of existence #Destiny

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rawiswhore · 4 years ago

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Bart Gunn x Fem Reader- “Do The Bartman”

I'm about to type perhaps the world's only Bart Gunn fanfiction.

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In 1998, the WWF has a new look, a new logo, a new era and a vast difference to the WWF of yore.

Stone Cold Steve Austin is now the face of the company, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Razor Ramon, Lex Luger, Kevin Nash, Sunny/Tammy Sytch and other 90's WWF wrestlers are gone, Isaac Yankem is now Kane, Hunter Hearst Helmsley is Triple H and no longer a classy 1800's Jane Austen gentleman, and Marlena is now Terri Runnels.

The WWF audience went from hardly holding up any signs throughout the 90's to the entire audience filled with people holding up signs and posters.

This year, you're really blown up in popularity in the WWF, making people forget about Sunny, guest starring on various TV shows, being considered for movie roles, being on the cover of non-wrestling magazines, and even making headline news.

1998 is your year.

It's the year the Attitude Era really began and blew up, the WWF began calling itself WWF Attitude and they really cranked the attitude up that year.

Even though this year there are many things in the WWF that are really going over with the audience, which includes yourself, there was something in the summer of 1998 during the Attitude era that didn't quite connect and go over with wrestling fans, even back then.

What was it?

The Brawl for All.

Where lower card wrestlers such as the Godfather, Johnny Maro, and other wrestlers that don't headline the WWF a la Stone Cold and the Rock box.

As in, do Muhammad Ali/Joe Frazer/Mike Tyson/Evander Holyfield boxing.

Except these wrestlers have almost no training in boxing and it doesn't involve ears being bitten off.

Even during the Attitude era, the Brawl for All didn't go over.

There is a certain wrestler in the Brawl for All who never did quite make it big in the wrestling world besides perhaps with the Smoking Gunns and sadly, the Brawl for All.

Who is he?

Bart Gunn.

The former partner to Billy Gunn in the Smoking Gunns and a partner in the severely short lived, one night only New Midnight Express.

Bart is the Marty Jannetty to Billy's Shawn Michaels.

Bart looks so much better now with longer hair, no facial hair, and without that cowboy look he had a few years ago.

He was pretty cute in 1996/1997, but Billy was the hotter one, and in 1998 he's gotten a lot hotter.

He looks like Val Kilmer and Randy Orton with long hair.

Since Bart has grown his hair out and shaved his face, you've gotten a crush on him, and even though he really wasn't used that much in the WWF besides the Brawl for All, now is your chance.

The Brawl for All is when people see him the most during his sexiest (in your opinion).

One night, in August of 1998, when Bart showed up for every Brawl For All, after a match he did was over, he walked back to the locker room, shirtless and completely sweaty.

When he entered the locker room, you were waiting for him in there, standing there topless, albeit a towel was hanging behind your neck and covering your breasts, and some short boxing shorts.

The camera showed you dressed in this outfit, and the males (both grown men and underage boys) in the audience offscreen got out of their seats and started cheering, going "yyyyyyyyyyyeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!".

You could even hear some of those corny "wolf whistles" in the audience.

You could hear the pops from the males outside, even if they were shown off screen.

"Well, aye carrrrumba Bart" you purred, walking up to him and your lips spreading a naughty smile, rolling the "r" in the word "carumba".

"Aye carumba, indeed!" Jerry Lawler shrieked. "Don't have a cow, Bart!"

You were standing right in front of Bart, your torso pressing against his torso, he looked surprised, his eyes growing bigger and mouth breaking out in a smile.

"Bart" you said, pressing your chest on his chest and your eyes looking up at him. "You're probably the sexiest man in the WWF right now".

Though, many women will beg to differ.

"Triple H grew that facial hair" you said, your eyes looking down at his chest and your index finger running up and down his sweaty chest. "That made me lose my attraction to him".

You stuck your bottom lip out and pouted in sadness.

"He is getting a little sexier now that he's shaved it this month" you admitted. "Though he's not as hot as he used to be".

Your eyes were eying Bart's body up and down.

Offscreen, some of the women in the audience got out of their seats and cheered, agreeing with you about how Triple H did lose his looks when he grew that facial hair.

"And Shawn Michaels hasn't been here during the majority of this year" you pouted, your face looking sad and glum, your eyes looking down at the floor.

All of the females in the audience screamed and shrieked their heads off, some of them going "yyyyyyyyyeaaaaaaaahhhh!!" and one woman shouting "You go, girl!".

"Though he has returned" Bart replied, saying that matter of factly.

Your eyes looked back up at him again, your lips breaking out into a faint little smile.

"But only temporarily" you frowned, your lips turning down into a frown (that rhymed) and your eyes looking down at the floor again.

Which is a shame, he got even sexier when he returned in the summer of 1998.

"And Billy Gunn has cut his hair!" you whined.

Why did Billy cut his hair into that silly little Backstreet Boys hair?

Plus, Rob Van Dam is back in ECW, the Hardy Boyz and Davey Boy Smith cease to exist, and even Bret Hart has left the company.

"But there is that cute little Val Venis" you mentioned, your eyes looking up at him and your lips widening your face to create a naughty, shit eating grin.

You and Val Venis are a match made in heaven, considering he's a ladies' man and porn star, and your character is a slutty nymphomaniac.

Some women in the audience even got out of their seats and cheered for you.

Many people would ship you and Val and say the two of you should form a tag team together.

Val is pretty hot, but he's kind of a butterface.

"But he's not as cute as you are" you purred, wrapping and draping one of your arms behind his head, your forearm resting across his shoulders, your voice sounding sexy and seductive.

Though your voice almost always sounds sexy and seductive, that's your character.

And speaking of Val Venis, you may as well say this...

"Bart, your last name is Gunn" you mentioned. "Does that mean you have a big 'gun' in your pocket?"

One of your hands was in between his thighs, grabbing onto his balls, although they were covered by his shorts and the camera was showing you and Bart above the forearms.

Bart looked down when he felt you grab his nuts.

He couldn't help but giggle sheepishly and embarrassedly.

"And is your gun cocked, loaded and ready to shoot?" you added.

People in the audience, both men and women, yelled and shouted when you said that.

You sounded like Triple H with his sexual innuendo in D Generation X.

Bart was speechless and didn't know what to say.

"Y'know, it's fitting you're a boxer in the Brawl for All" you purred. "Because you're a total knockout".

Ba-dum-tssssssh.

No, that sound effect didn't happen, but it may as well.

That joke is a classic corny dad joke.

"I may as well say that about her!" Jerry Lawler shrieked.

The camera then zoomed in to your face, where your face turned and you looked at the camera.

"I'm about to do the Bartman" you said. "And get bent!"

Wonder if the audience remembers that song and knows what it's referencing?

Everyone in the audience got out of their seats and cheered for you, not because of the Bart Simpson references, but because it's implied you're about to have sex with him.

Nobody better lay a finger on Bart (Gunn)'s butterfinger except for you.

The camera then zoomed out, now showing your head, neck and torso as well as Bart Gunn.

"You don't have to eat my shorts, Bart" you told him, both of your hands gripping onto the elastic waistband on your hips and pulling your shorts down. "But you can eat what's under them"

The camera didn't show your vulva or below your ass, but people could see you pull your shorts down.

Everyone in the audience, especially the males, got out of their seats and cheered their heads off, going absolutely nuts.

The camera then cut away from this, which definitely disappointed the people in the audience who hoped to see you and Bart get it on.

The whole point of this was to show some Bart Simpson-related sexual innuendo.

And next year, actually, at the end of 1999, when Stone Cold Steve Austin added beer to his character and gimmick, you, in a comedic moment, gave Stone Cold a white polo shirt, blue jeans, a box of pink donuts and a 6 pack of beer.

Why?

Because he, to you, looks like a redneck Homer Simpson with his bald head and beard, complete with his infatuation with beer.

Stone Cold Steve Austin and Vince McMahon is probably the most iconic feud of the Attitude era, and when you think about it, Stone Cold Steve Austin and Vince McMahon is like Homer Simpson and Mr. Burns.

Why?

Homer and Stone Cold are bald, bearded men who love beer, and Vince and Mr. Burns are Stone Cold and Homer's billionaire bosses.

#bart gunn #1998 #90s #wwf #attitude era #fanfiction

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mysteriouslytransparentwitch · 6 years ago

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Does Queen Elizabeth really deserve credit for modernizing the monarchy?

August 10, 2018

By Kaiser

Kate Middleton, Queen Elizabeth II, Royals

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This current issue of People Magazine is just People’s in-house promotion of their documentary special, The Story of the Royals, which airs on ABC on August 22 and 23rd. I’m not expecting the documentary to break any news, especially since People’s cover story seems to be so friggin’ lame and obvious. The House of Windsor is not in bad shape – Prince Harry and Prince William are pretty popular, and their wives are very popular too. The Cambridge children will grow up in front of the cameras and people will love that. Meghan will get pregnant and people will love that storyline too. That’s all this is, and all it’s ever been: a soap opera. A publicly funded soap opera. Let’s not kid ourselves.

Like all soap operas, there are storylines and “brands” and a “cast of characters.” What’s interesting now is who is getting credit for what. According to People, the Queen should get a lot of credit for “modernizing” and “allowing” William to marry the sainted peasant Kate of the Bucklebury Middletons. And Saint Kate’s entrance led the way for Meghan to marry Harry. So, basically, Queen Liz and Saint Kate are responsible for everything we see now.

There have been times of crisis when the House of Windsor creaked and almost crumbled. The tragic death of Princess Diana 21 years ago this month brought questions about how close the royals were to the feelings of the people they serve. And the gossip-laden ending of the marriages of Prince Charles and Diana and Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, coinciding with the fire at Windsor Castle (all in 1992), made it feel more soap opera than stately. But, after steadying the ship by agreeing to some modernizing changes, and, more significantly, permitting Diana’s sons Prince William and Prince Harry to marry Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle, respectively (commoners whom they simply fell in love with), Queen Elizabeth has strengthened the institution she has led for 66 years.

“She’s insuring the future of the monarchy by being open and flexible and adapting,” former palace staffer Colleen Harris says in this week’s issue of PEOPLE. “She’s allowing it to rebrand.” She notes how some people around the palace were “quite shocked” that William was marrying “an ordinary middle-class girl with no background in royalty or aristocracy,” when he wed Princess Kate in 2011. “People then sort of thought, an ordinary person can grow up and marry into the royal family. How exciting, how different! With [Meghan], that takes it even a step further.”

Harris, who was on Charles’ press team from 1998 until 2003 and was the first black member of the royal household, adds, “The Queen is allowing the royal family to modernize. We have come a real long way. They are not stuffy and immovable.”

It was Kate, for example, who was the prime mover behind the royals’ successful adoption of a strategy to tackle mental health challenges. Lorraine Heggessey, CEO of the Royal Foundation, which runs the charitable endeavors of the younger royals, says that the 36-year-old mom of three is “thoughtful, strategic and equally committed to bringing about change. And she often spots the nub of the issue or a critical thing that needs dealing with.”

[From People]

Saint Kate: Nub Spotter. No, scratch that. Saint Kate: Keen To Spot Nubs. I’m sorry, I can’t even type because I’m laughing at my own dumb joke. NUB SPOTTER. Who knew that Kate really was working this whole time? She was nub-spotting for YEARS. Literally, years.

As for the rest of it… yeah, I love 20th century royal history as much as the next person, so I know that it’s not like the Queen was some brilliant branding expert this whole time. A great deal of the credit for the royal family’s late-’90s rebrand should go to Tony Blair, who saw that the Queen’s bad instincts were going to destroy the institution completely. And it sort of pisses me off to see Charles’ erasure from this narrative too – Charles is far from perfect, but he has much better PR instincts than his mother as well, and he’s good at being patient and playing things out over the course of years.

As for “people were so surprised that William deigned to marry a peasant lass, a lowly nub-spotter of yore” stuff… literally no one was surprised that William married someone who was not an aristocrat or from any kind of “old family.” Kate had waity’d for a decade and people had gotten used to the idea that she was going to get the ring. The only surprise was that Kate seemed to be William’s ONLY option.

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Kate Middleton, Queen Elizabeth II, Royals

When Celebitchy is upset that Catherine and the Queen are considered women who have changed the monarchy oh sorry Meghan is still nothing because she married a 6th online

Catherine gagne toujours

#meghan markle #duchess of sussex #duchessofsussex #catherine middleton

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shirlleycoyle · 4 years ago

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Why Remote Access Software Is Almost Too Useful

A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail.

It’s not every day that I get to tell a story about a type of technology that was recently in the news for macabre reasons, but then again, it’s not often that water supplies get hacked using screen sharing technology, which is something that literally happened in Oldsmar, Florida recently, when a panel that controls city’s the water treatment system was modified to increase the amount of sodium hydroxide.

It was caught quickly—but still, scary stuff.

At the center of the debate is a tool that is perhaps at the peak of its cultural importance, but that naturally comes with inherent security concerns: The remote viewer application, which is incredibly useful when, y’know, people are remote, as is quite common right now. But it comes with complications, as seen in a certain community’s water treatment system.

And as you might guess, the evolution of remote desktop access technology goes back pretty far. How far back? Well, at first, you didn’t need a GUI.

“One conclusion that we may all have to come to is that connection with the network may force us toward a more standard way of handling terminals and their character streams in our monitors and terminal control hardware.”

— A passage from an early Request for Comments document, dating to 1971, that proposes the creation of an official protocol for Telnet, a key networking technology for accessing remote machines through a command-line interface. While not exactly the same as the modern-day remote viewers with graphical interfaces, many of the same strategies still apply today, with a primary difference being that modern remote viewers tend to be more platform-independent, allowing users to connect between different types of operating systems with a single tool.

No Windows, no problem: Remote access software dates back to the DOS days

Remote access has been a theme of computer software for decades—all the way back from the early days when people would access mainframe networks on dumb terminals. But the idea of connecting to a computer as if it’s in the room and having full access to it still feels a bit like magic to some users, despite the fact that we’ve been doing it for decades.

A key tool in the history of remote access software is Carbon Copy, an offering that allowed users to access remote computers from a distance and control them as if they were in the room. First offered in the mid-1980s, the software, initially produced by Meridian Technologies, used a trick to stay resident in memory in DOS, allowing remote users to call in and manage a computer over the phone line.

This was an impressive trick for its time, and a somewhat obscure one—a 1986 PC Magazine profile called the product category “new enough to qualify as a secret for most PC users.”

An ad for Carbon Copy Plus that promoted the fact you could work with two computers with just a single copy of the software. Get ready to mail some floppies. Image: Google Books

Carbon Copy, which received a glowing, in-depth profile in InfoWorld the next year, was seen as an early leader in the market, with other tools such as Norton’s pcANYWHERE first emerging around the same period. In these early days before the internet was commonplace, these platforms worked over standard modems, and required people to call into the remote machine.

Ironically for a product called Carbon Copy, the tool had problems with piracy. At one point in its history, Meridian Technologies had a bounty program in which it called on software users to turn in their colleagues for using unauthorized copies of Carbon Copy, a name that literally evokes cloning things.

“We are really going as far as we can to support the product, and all we’re asking in return is that people play fair with us,” the firm’s Charles Jones told PC Magazine. “Unfortunately, the world being what it is, I fully expect we will be paying several people $2,500.”

The promise of having remote access to more powerful computers was extremely tantalizing, especially so when a GUI was attached. In a 1988 article in InfoWorld, the Mac-based remote access tool Timbuktu, which worked over local networks and modems alike, was sold to users as a way to use more powerful computers on more modest hardware. (No color, though; them’s the breaks.)

“For about the price of an SE, you can use a Mac II chassis,” said Reese Jones of the company Farallon, which had acquired Timbuktu maker WOS Data Systems at the time.

Of course, this technology evolved over time and didn’t stay still; soon, tools like pcANYWHERE made the leap from DOS to Windows, and remote access tools increasingly became platform-independent, making machines easier to manage outside of the office.

The result is that remote access is a key part of the utility toolset for IT teams far and wide. But is it by no means a perfect tool.

The macOS-based app Screens.

Five common types of remote-access software you’ll likely run into today

Chrome Remote Desktop. Much of Google’s sales pitch in the modern day comes down to, “if you have a web browser, you can access this.” And this translates really well to Chrome Remote Desktop, which has been around for a decade and is perhaps the easiest way to remotely access computers on the market.

GoToMyPC. Around since 1998, the tool found great success around the turn of the 21st century because of its focus on ease of use, and found use among remote workers decades before it became the cool thing to do.

Apple Screen Sharing. While Apple has long offered a robust Remote Desktop application, it is generally overkill for normal users; for the rest of us, MacOS’ built-in Screen Sharing tool more than does the job, while Screens offers a decent third-party alternative.

Remote Desktop Services. Microsoft also offers an internal screens sharing tool in the form of Remote Desktop Services, which has a lineage that dates all the way back to Windows NT Server 4.0 a quarter century ago.

TeamViewer. This is the one that got the folks in Florida into trouble. A widely used tool for sharing screens that is typically used by IT teams for technical support and remote management, it has gained popularity in recent years for its flexibility and ease of use.

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The year that the RFB (remote framebuffer) protocol was first publicly released. The technology, developed at England’s Olivetti Research Laboratory in the ’90s, came to life thanks to interesting roots—it was first used as an interface that allowed a peripheral to connect to an ATM operating system. This unusually specific use case eventually evolved into something with an unusually broad use case: the basis for VNC (virtual network computing), perhaps the most broadly used open standard for remote viewers to this day. The research lab, at one point acquired by AT&T, was later the basis for its own company, RealVNC, in 2002.

The problem with remote access is that it is way too easy to misuse

You probably didn’t expect this story offering the basics of Remote Desktop technology to take a detour into a popular politician’s teenage years, but that’s the timeline we live in.

And in that timeline, a couple of years ago, onetime presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke made an announcement that he was once a hacker. Kind of.

See, he was once a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc, but not like the CDC), a decades-old group known for its work in the hacking scene, though in that role O’Rourke did more creative writing than actual hacking. (I promise, that’s not a slight; cDc was a DIY media group just as much as it was a hacking collective.)

It should be noted that many cDc members not named Beto O’Rourke also went on to respectable careers—lead member Mudge, birth name Peiter Zatko, once worked at DARPA and is now the head of security for Twitter.

Before Beto gave it a fresh shot of mainstream attention, the group was best known for creating one of the best-remembered hacking tools of the past 30 years—Back Orifice, a remote access tool that represented a “backdoor” tool that gave users full access to a Windows user’s computer. (The name, as you may have deduced, is a dirty joke that references Microsoft.) The tool, first announced at the DEFCON event in 1998, came to life as a way to encourage Microsoft to take security more seriously.

And when Microsoft failed to take it seriously enough, they released an upgraded version that was even more sophisticated. What made the tools dangerous was not simply that they could exploit computers; what made them dangerous was that it lowered the barrier of entry for hacking to those who didn’t know what they were doing.

The strange thing is, though, when broken down, Back Orifice is not that dissimilar to more modern remote administration tools, which also offer in-depth access to end-user machines.

The difference is the context, as well as the approach to security. Today’s remote access (usually, water treatment facilities notwithstanding) is highly secure, and allows administrators to manage highly sophisticated systems remotely. Many of our machines can be managed just like the Trojan-hacked Windows 98 machines of yore. The difference is that, rather than relying on the cloak-and-dagger approach, they do it through secure means.

Tools such as TeamViewer are incredibly common in the information technology space as a result. But they come with challenges, especially as security modernizes.

A good example of this is actually Symantec’s pcAnywhere, which found its security turned into a joke about nine years ago, when its source code had been stolen and released on The Pirate Bay after the hacker failed to extort money out of the company. The pcAnywhere software, which dated to the mid-1980s, was soon taken off the market entirely.

Remote access is something that can be easily exploited in the wrong hands, especially with poor security protocols.

“Many businesses use remote desktop to facilitate network access for remote employees over the Internet. But by granting such access, these businesses have made it much more likely they’ll be targeted and hacked,” says Matt Ahrens, the head of the security team at the cyber insurance firm Coalition, in a 2018 post for DarkReading.

Of course, given this risk, much remote software works on strengthening the moat so the access is in limited hands. Which is why the incident at the water treatment plant in Florida is basically the perfect example of what not to do with remote desktop access.

TeamViewer with the default password? Ending use of a high-access tool without actually removing it? Absolutely not the way you’d want to manage remote software that handles something as sensitive as a community’s water supply. Which is, of course, how it was set up.

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The increase in attacks over RDP-based clients in the past year, according to the security firm ESET. The problem, says the company, is that, because people are more remote now than they were a year ago, that cyberattackers are taking advantage of that fact to wreak havoc. So, if you’re not using VNC for anything, you may want to turn it off.

Remote access software is an incredibly useful thing in the right hands—I personally use it to manage access to my server as needed—but the wrong hands make it a potentially dangerous proposition.

It’s just like, if I were in a coffee shop, it would be a bad idea to leave my laptop open for a couple of hours while I go to the movies.

But unlike going to a coffee shop and going to the movies, remote access is something very desirable right now because of the way it expands reach.

It’s unfortunate that many people were introduced to its potential in a really dark, really bizarre way, because when broken down, a tool that allows people to manage mission-critical systems from the safety of their home is something we should be encouraging right now.

(The problem is, when those mission-critical systems are being managed, they need individual logins and tight security measures.)

In the years to come, there will most assuredly be books and oral histories written about what happened in Florida, the sheer folly of leaving remote access open with so little focus on security. But it should not be a knock on remote access, which was a super-novel concept back in the mid-’80s and is still pretty awesome today as it has improved along with GUIs and network access.

Really, it’s a knock on the fact that, all these years later, we suck at security when we should be good at it. The cDc warned us.

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Scary Christmas Stories: A History of the Holiday’s Ghostly Tradition

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“It always is Christmas Eve, in a ghost story” – Jerome K. Jerome, 1891

In the English countryside, dinner had ended, and the company retired to the drawing room. They gathered around the fire as the parson, who sat in a high-backed oak chair, proceeded to tell of goblins and ghosts. The squire, not a superstitious man himself, listened intently as the parson spoke about the crusader who rose from his tomb for a nighttime ride. The old porter’s wife added to the tale with her own of the crusader’s march on Midsummer Eve, when fairies became visible.

Such was Christmas Night at Bracebridge Hall, England, in 1820.

The story set in the fictional manor was written by American author Washington Irving, and published in 1820 in the fifth installment of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. This was less than three months before the world was introduced to the Headless Horseman in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” prior to the start of the Victorian era – and when Charles Dickens was only seven years old.

Twenty-three years before Ebenezer Scrooge changed his ways on the holiday in 1843, and 143 years before Andy Williams first sang about the most wonderful time of the year in 1963, Christmas had already been established as the season for telling scary ghost stories.

Irving’s English countryside story reminded readers of the idea of the paranormal and Christmas connection, but he didn’t invent it by a long shot.

Before it was “Christmas,” it was midwinter, solstice, Saturnalia, Sol Invictus, and Yule. It was the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. It represented death, and rebirth, and was a time when the veil between worlds was thin. And it took place around December 21.

Prior to the emergence of what we know as the seasonal mascot Santa Claus, there was Sinterklass, and Saint Nicholas before him. There was the long-bearded Odin who would lead a band of hunters, or fairies, or armies of the dead across the sky during Yuletide on the Wild Hunt of Old Norse and Germanic Pagan beliefs. And much like Odin, and solstice, were appropriated, or enveloped, into Christmas, so were seasonal pagan songs turned into carols.

As Christianity spread, folklore incorporated the supernatural with the religious holiday. The anti-Claus Krampus is possibly from a pre-Christian era, but the beast of Germanic and Eastern European origins became a counterpart to St. Nick, and appeared as a hairy goat-like demon with horns and cloven hooves. Written in the 9th-11th century, the Sagas of the Icelanders has some pretty heavy duty spectral action during the season, including revenants. And the underworld race of goblins known as kallikantzaroi emerged in Southeastern Europe in (approximately) late 14th Century with a mission to wreak havoc during the 12 Days of Christmas.

The idea of paranormal stories told during the winter had already been documented in fiction by 1589, when Christopher Marlowe wrote of the season’s tales of “spirits and ghosts” in The Jew of Malta. Shakespeare shortly thereafter wrote of a sad story best for winter, “of sprites and goblins” in 1623’s The Winter’s Tale — nearly two decades ahead of Oliver Cromwell banning, or trying to, Christmas celebrations in 1644 during the English Civil War.

Meanwhile, in the colonies, the Puritans rejected the pagan trappings and revelries of Christmas. Stephen Nissenbaum, author of The Battle for Christmas, writes that from 1659 to 1681, Massachusetts made public celebrations of the holiday a criminal offense carrying a fine. Notably, Captain John Smith of Jamestown celebrated the holiday in 1607, but festivities in America weren’t widespread. Christmas wasn’t even a national holiday until 1870.

By the time Irving came to write of English Christmas traditions, which also involved “mumming” and hanging mistletoe, it was a romanticized notion, and not likely being observed with much fanfare outside the countryside. In the industrial areas, December 25 was just another day of work.

But Irving’s story nonetheless connected with Charles Dickens. In his book Dickens, Peter Ackroyd writes the author had lived an idyllic life in the country until that happy existence abruptly ended, and his father was sent to a debtor’s prison when young Charles was just 12. So Irving’s Bracebridge — a setting familiar to Dickens, and based on the real-life Watt Family at Astor Hall — must have stirred up nostalgia for his childhood lost.

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In time, Dickens and Irving became friends, and the former credited the American author with influencing his own Christmas writings. A Christmas Carol, in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas was published December 19, 1843, but Dickens’ previous work The Pickwick Papers had already included a story about a Christmas Eve with ghost stories, reminiscent of Irving’s “Old Christmas.” He likewise introduced a proto-Scrooge in “The Story of the Goblins Who Stole A Sexton” in 1836 as a chapter of Pickwick.

Interestingly, from a paranormal perspective, Dickens’ “ghosts” in Carol are more inhuman entities than traditional spirits of those who have passed. Christmas Past is described as an “it” with a bright flame atop its head; Present is described as quite large with a wreath of holly and icicles; Christmas Yet to Come is the Grim Reaper-esque figure in a black shroud without a discernible face and body. The ghost of Marley is a familiar sort of ghost, though trapped in chains, returning when the veil is thin much like the old pagan tales suggested.

If Irving’s successful Sketch Book reminded English readers of the ghost story tradition, it was Dickens’ blockbuster hit that made it mainstream. Like any good creator, he gave the audience more, and wrote four additional Christmas books, and several essays on the topic – many of which involved supernatural elements, and promoted Dickens’ “Carol Philosophy” and themes of generosity.

After Jesus and Santa, Dickens gets a lot of well-deserved credit for how we celebrate Christmas. He helped remind the urban English population of the good ol’ days of Christmases of yore, and popularized the holiday as a secular charitable observance (and he coined the phrase “Merry Christmas”).

Though Dickens didn’t create the idea of Christmas ghost stories, he helped make it quintessentially British. Victorian magazines and newspapers took to publishing these themed stories for holiday fireside reading, and readers ate it up. Not surprisingly, other authors wanted in on the trend, even if they didn’t echo the Carol Philosophy.

Elizabeth Gaskell contributed the ghost yarn “The Old Nurse’s Story” to Dickens’ 1852 collection, A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire. The list goes on: John Burwick Harwood’s “Horror: A True Tale” (1861); Ada Buisson’s “The Ghost’s Summons” (1868); Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Markheim” (1885). Even American Edgar Allan Poe set his 1845 poem “The Raven” in “bleak December,” and American ex-pat Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw (1898) begins on Christmas Eve.

By 1891, English humorist Jerome K. Jerome commented on the popular tradition in Told After Supper:

“It always is Christmas Eve, in a ghost story. Christmas Eve is the ghosts’ great gala night. On Christmas Eve they hold their annual fete. On Christmas Eve everybody in Ghostland who IS anybody…comes out to show himself or herself, to see and to be seen, to promenade about and display their winding-sheets and grave-clothes to each other… Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve, they start telling each other ghost stories. Nothing satisfies us on Christmas Eve but to hear each other tell authentic anecdotes about spectres. It is a genial, festive season, and we love to muse upon graves, and dead bodies, and murders, and blood.”

This popularity of ghost stories in Christmas was aided by the fascination with the paranormal, and the rise of Spiritualism in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. As seances and the use of spirit boards became more vogue, so did the holiday trend. When the religious movement faded from the spotlight in the 1920s, the ghost story tradition stuck around even if the English slightly cooled on it during the early-to-mid war-torn 20th century.

M.R. James, the medieval scholar, and one of the best ghost story writers ever, took to telling fireside tales of the supernatural while he served as Provost at Eton College from 1918-1936. In North America, Canadian novelist Robertson Davies would do the same at Massey College, according to bibliographers Carl Spadoni, and Judith Skelton Grant. Meanwhile, American horror author (and racist) H.P. Lovecraft set his 1925 Necronomicon story “The Festival” during Christmastime.

Anecdotally, it seems Halloween now dominates when it comes to the season of the ghost, even in the United Kingdom. But the Christmas tradition has not entirely faded. The 1970s BBC special A Ghost Story for Christmas has returned in recent years, and The Guardian published five such stories over the course of as many days in 2013.

Contrary to the “scary ghost stories” lyric of classic American Christmas carol “It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” the U.S. didn’t take to the Christmas ghost story in the same way our British cousins did in the late 19th century (which makes it especially peculiar the song was written by two New York City kids, Edward Pola and George Wyle, and sung by Iowa’s own Andy Williams).

Rather, Christmas in America became especially defined by the jolly (but also supernatural) Santa Claus character presented in the 1931 Coca-Cola advertisement, painted by Haddon Sundblom, and inspired by Clement Clark Moore’s “A Visit from St. Nicholas” aka “Twas the Night Before Christmas.” The folklore of Christmas in America in the early 20th Century was candy cane sweet. Lacking was the ominous spookiness that reminds us to seek the light.

(The indigenous peoples of North America also celebrated solstice, such as with the Iroquois Haudeshaune; the Passamaquoddy tribe’s belief that frost giants returned north during this time; the general idea across different native nations that this time is a celebration of light returning to turtle island (Earth). These traditions were never incorporated into American culture, and were instead purged by colonization.)

Still, America has gradually been making up for its absence of Christmas ghosts and goblins. The angelic 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life, directed by Frank Capra and starring Jimmy Stewart, espouses enough of the Carol Philosophy of goodwill to make Dickens proud. In Dr. Seuss’ 1957 book, and 1966 animated special, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, the creature on Mount Crumpit is a modern-day Krampus. Rod Serling toyed, somewhat literally in one case, with the notion of magic and ghosts in his 1960-62 Christmas episodes of The Twilight Zone (“Night of the Meek,” “Five Characters in Search of an Exit,” and “Changing of the Guard”).

These days the holiday horror subgenre of film has channeled the scary nature of Victorian tales. Santa -as-slasher is well-tread territory thanks in large part to 1974’s Black Christmas, directed by Bob Clark (who also co-wrote and directed A Christmas Story). More than ghosts, the monsters of Christmas in American cinema has included Gremlins, Krampus, Jack Frost, Gingerdead Man, and the zombies of Anna and the Apocalypse. And the “real” Santa and his creepy elves themselves become the monsters in the Finnish film Rare Exports.

But perhaps with the exception of A Nightmare Before Christmas, and some of the more effective adaptations of A Christmas Carol, such as Scrooged, the sentimentality of Irving and Dickens is mostly absent from modern holiday tales of the supernatural. Yet they certainly bring us right back to the monsters and undead of the pagan tales.

However, with the seemingly nonstop demand for “content” across streaming platforms — and the seasonal English tradition gaining fresh attention on media outlets — we might be on the threshold of a new age of December-set stories populated with spirits and goblins.

Perhaps once more in the near future, every Christmas Eve will be a great gala night for ghosts.

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Magazine ads of yore: Milo Ventimiglia edition

Yes, guys, that's absolutely a 17-year-old boy in that still, not a grown ass man. Anyway, moving on.

Don't judge him. It took a while for us to get the Calvin Klein ad days out of our system.

Sooooo dark and moody!

Milo in the slutty Philadelphia Jess/Peter Petrelli era. Why does Greg Grunberg look.so confused?

The beginning of the slut era

Still in the slut era

Ten years later, the slut era has not worn off.

Guys, we don't care. We are here for the DILFness.

The pap shot that broke the Internet. Don't say Just Jared never did anything for us.

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Guns of the Frontier - Shotguns

Shotguns, in many ways, were like SMGs for a period of time in human history. While nothing else could offer as much power in a portable package as a shotgun, their cripplingly short effective range meant they were only useful in urban combat settings. Of course, however, the ability of shotguns to fire multiple unique types of load ensured that it stubbornly clung to life - bar a skeleton key, nothing else can open doors like a shotgun.

Also like SMGs, however, the expansion of modern combat into spaceborne settings - where long sightlines are uncommon and combat is cramped and brutal - has increased the issue of shotguns to spaceborne boarding forces. When the long ranges of terrestrial combat, even within cities, are almost entirely removed from the equation of combat, the shotgun becomes a devastatingly potent weapon - maximum damage, minimum penetration.

As usual, Pilots treat things a little differently. While it may be a problem for your average infantryman to close 100 metres to engage somebody with a shotgun before they reposition, this isn’t too big an issue for a Pilot - many take shotguns into urban combat zones knowing that they can minimize the risk of the short range they offer.

Wonyeon Defense EVA-8 Caliber: 18.5mm shell, commonly referred to as “12 gauge” Effective Range: 60 metres Action: Manual action, long-stroke gas piston Factory Fire Modes: Manual pump-action, semi-auto, Gen2 (below) added 165 RPM full auto Magazines: Gen1 (above) and Gen2 both issued with 20 round drum

The mainstay of Frontier breach teams, the EVA-8 was developed for IMC orbital raiding parties with extreme firepower. A shotgun for every season, the EVA-8′s initial design did not possess fully automatic fire; many soldiers using them, whether Pilots or vehicle drivers, performed aftermarket modification to enable this functionality, enough so that the second generation design released by Wonyeon included full auto fire as part of the package.

While civilian versions can be fed via tube or a box, no self-respecting soldier uses the EVA-8 without a twenty shell drum magazine - granting the shotgun considerable firepower. When used in ground combat the EVA-8 is typically loaded with flechettes to maximize armor penetration, though buckshot is also a common load to minimize overpenetration in sensitive environments. The EVA-8 carries a working pump; this exists to allow the weapon to load specialized low-recoil ammunition that otherwise wouldn’t generate enough impulse to drive the action.

Lastimosa Armory M1901 Mastiff Caliber: 18.5mm shell Effective Range: 60 metres Action: Delayed-stroke gas piston Factory Fire Modes: Semi-auto, approx. 78 RPM Magazines: 7 shell internal tube

The Mastiff is a shotgun that hearkens back to the pump actions of yore. Designed by Lastimosa Armory to fulfill a similar goal as the EVA-8 (that goal being close-quarters engagements in low or microgravity), the shotgun was designed with a highly unique “delayed-stroke” semi-automatic system - this, along with its massive muzzle brake, means that it kicks less than the EVA does per shot, which results in a more stable operator and more dead targets.

While on paper it is less effective than the EVA-8 - carrying a maximum of eight shells versus the EVA’s 21 and firing rather slowly - the Mastiff is one of the very few weapons on the Frontier that has been hardened enough to fire pure directed-energy ammunition for extended periods of time without causing significant damage to the barrel or firing mechanism. As such, plasma scattershot is one of the most common loads found being used with a Mastiff, which lends it a colloquial air of lethality - a direct hit from one of the shells will core out even Stalkers.

A peculiarity of the Mastiff’s barrel construction causes most of the shots it fires to spread out in a duckbill pattern - low vertical, but high horizontal spread. Many have modified their Mastiffs to get a more traditional spread pattern out of the weapon, but this tends to increase the recoil significantly.

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