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2ofswords · 5 years ago

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Phi talks factions, ruling families, and endings yet again

After long long last I finished my talk about the factions! So let’s talk about them! There is some discourse about it on here and most of it is really interesting and I wanted to throw my own takes into the mix.

Also, will put this in the very beginning: This essay is very long and hinges on a lot of analysation of very broad topics of the game. It is very possible that I make mistakes in it. I would be delighted to know about them and engage in discussion, but please stay friendly. I tried my best to research and to stay analytical, but I am firstly human and secondly human with a memory that can fail me.

Anyway without further ado: Let’s begin the faction talk!

Prologue: Personal sympathy

This is supposed to be more of an analysation about how the factions work in my opinion. It is not supposed to be an explanation why my favourite faction is the Best™. Still, my opinions will obviously influence my own analysis. So for the sake of levelling the playing field and not even trying to play coy about it – or in case you were curious what my personal opinions are – I will start by listing my own opinions about the factions, the families and the endings.

I consider myself a Utopian but also have a soft spot for the Humble ideology. I just really like progress, I am an idealist who thinks striving for a perfect situation has value (even if I do not believe in practical perfection) and I just really like the Kains’ visions okay? Not their executions, mind you, but their visions. (I am just really really obsessed with magic that involves time and space as a concept…) And I think the concept of human potential is one of the most hopeful and important ones to society and trying to get more out of being a human being is just an important concept to me. But I also think the personal responsibility is really important and interesting and the thought about individuality vs. society is something that needs to be discussed, so the humbles are just really interesting to me and I sympathise with a lot going on there as well. Not that much of a Termite person though. Sorry

Concerning the endings: If I would be in a position to choose any ending for the town, I would choose the Termite Ending. I would just be really unhappy about it… But it is the only ending that doesn’t involve any direct sacrifice of life and I value that the most, even if I think the trade-off is still pretty devastating. I am still a Utopian, but potential lives in people. The ending I consider second best is actually the Utopian one and by process of elimination I like the Humble ending the least. You will probably learn why this is the case when we get to talk about the endings, so I am saving my argument for later. If it is about how much I like the endings from a narrative perspective: I am a passionate fan of the Utopian ending even though that is very frustrating since I see it in a rather… peculiar way, I think. I also love the Humble ending a lot and it just has the most personal tragedy and a lot to think about. The Termite ending… eh. It serves its purpose and is necessary but not really pleasing in analysis. Or if it is, it’s still a bit frustrating to talk about. It is very useful for writing fanfiction though. ^^

I don’t really have a favourite ruling family. I think the Saburovs are the most sympathetic, but I am also fascinated by the Kains. My favourite members are Victor and Capella.

Okay? Cool, now that we got that out of the way let’s start with the actual faction talk.

Part 1: What the factions are (and what they aren’t)

The factions are categories that are very broad and not very concrete. It is probably a good idea to talk about what they are first, before we make any statements about them. So, let us start how I look at them and what the factions stand for, before debating the rest.

Firstly: The factions are a part of classic Pathologic. From what I can tell and remember, they haven’t been mentioned in Pathologic 2 at all. Of course, we can see the struggle of different worldviews there as well, but the split cast of important NPCs is not mandatory in any shape anymore and in fact Artemy is now responsible for everyone in town. While the politics between the ruling families are mentioned and the Kains as well as the Olgimskys still share their beliefs, neither the term “bound” not “faction” is introduced in the game. However that might be because we are starting with the Haruspex as our protagonist. The factions are a bit more important in the other two routes of classic Pathologic after all. The Bachelor being concerned with its politics and the Changeling with its ideology itself. So the terms might be introduced later. For now, their conflict may be a part of Patho 2 and certain aspects can be definitely seen, but they aren’t present yet. So we are mostly talking about Classic Pathologic here.

The factions are introduced in two different ways. First and foremost, they are three different ideologies that are present in the town and by definition in the entire story. It is also told, that the whole town is split into these factions and that roughly one third of the town each belongs to either faction. It is also explained, that the factions are purely made by the ideology and that people of different gender, heritage, age and class can align with different factions. (Which means that they aren’t equivalent to the different parts of town that are at least roughly divided by social status). There is also a philosophical level that strengthens the ideological importance each faction holds, but in this essay, I will focus on the ideological part and how it affects society. That means there is another layer that we won’t be touching today, but believe me, we have enough to do as it is.

The other aspect of the factions is the bound of each healer. All of the bound collectively are described as “Simons friends” at least in the Bachelor route and all of them are now split into the three factions. The name “bound” however is to be taken literally. The characters are part of the agenda each faction follows, however, that doesn’t necessarily mean, that the person one hundred percent shares the ideology of the faction! Most of them do, but it is important to keep in mind that peoples belief-systems still vary and the aligning criteria is the importance to the goal of said faction and not necessarily their own way of thinking. People’s mindset and beliefs can vary after all and some of them even have dynamic arcs (tbh Most of them have). The other way around people can be not a part of the bound of a faction and still share their beliefs. This will be important later! For the Utopians the specific bound criteria is “people who have the potential to overstep human boundaries in any way or form”. They are needed for the creation and upholding of the Utopia as it is imagined. Its goal is in some way after all to create something that oversteps the boundaries of what should be humanly possible. For the termites… well… it’s children. It’s all about the children, it is the children who are able to carry the town in the future. And for the humbles it is the sinners, whose souls are rotten to the core (I guess…). That isn’t only because the Humbles just really like sinners but they are directly needed for Clara’s solution and the Humble’s ideology of willing self-sacrifice in order to maintain society.

Okay. But what are the factions? What do they believe in?

Let’s start with the Utopians, because their whole schtick is kind of in the name. This faction is all about the potential of humanity and striving to create perfection. This is happening with the awareness that such a feat is at least deemed impossible. So, their goal is the defeat – or the power to overcome depending on who you ask – of the nature that prevents them from this kind of progress not being achievable. They value this progress and the possibility to overcome those odds over personal as well as societal comfort and justify it with the belief, that said growth would benefit society in the long run. That being said, not every Utopian thinks this strive for growth needs to be shared by everyone, though a society collectively working towards breaking limits as a whole is preferred. (An example would be Maria's explanation of the town, stating that mundane human life is very much necessary to sustain a Utopia). The Utopians are prone to brash decisions, since part of their ideology is that they are necessary to disrupt the status quo and change – even enforced one – is needed to get rid of complacency and provoke new development of the unforeseen (which is very much needed since we are working against “nature” (the literal one as well as the nature of fate and possibility). Their drawbacks are that brashness and the disregard of comfort. Their potential elitism is shown by their value of humans who try to disrupt the status quo and their adamant protection of people who can move society as “more important” and thus worthy of more protection. (However it is noteworthy that a lot of this thinking was introduced by Georgiy in Pathologic 2 and Marble Nest. I still think it is a legitimate drawback but much less used in P1, where the factions are a thing.) This doesn’t necessarily relate to elitism of an elite class (it can though!) but more so to academic elitism. On the other hand, they have the drive to move things forward, they literally are the builder of society and developers of indescribable magic.

The Termites can be considered the opposite of the Utopians. I have struggled to put a definitive description of them for quite some time because they are the group whose representatives have vastly different ways of thinking. Anyways, I have seen the Termite ideology being described as “preservation” by RagnarRox in “Pathologic 2 is an underrated masterpiece” and I think, that fits amazingly. It is about protection and regaining a status quo where everyone can live their daily lives content and as it was before. The children are supposed to be leading the town into the future, but especially in Patho 1 this is more about taking what the past has already shaped and using this as a guide instead of implementing new ideas and philosophies as the utopians and the humbles do (for better and for worse). If we look at how Capella describes her vision of the town, we can also see that it is about togetherness and comfort. Which makes sense if it is the antithesis of the utopian dream. It doesn’t sacrifice progress just because it wants to but because it endangers people’s comfort and personal safety. Disrupting the status quo can lead to catastrophe and make people unhappy, therefore it should be avoided. People should serve the community but that also means not committing to self-fulfilment that can endanger this togetherness. Khan needing to give up on his own ambitions to serve Capella’s vision of the town might be a good example for that. While there is this bond of togetherness there is also the need for leadership. Again, preservation and comfort are highly valued with the Termites and it is established by a leadership that is supposed to act as gentle but firm guidance. With the children being the bound, there is a strong emphasis on parenthood and again Capella – as the white mistress and the termite's leader – is accepted as taking the leadership together with Khan who are ruling together with love as well as fierceness. Artemy also has his journey of establishing leadership within the kin and dethroning the person who is unfit for the role. It is implementing change but to restore balance and only inside the already established rules. I would say it fits more as a case of rightful leadership that still stems from the menkhu families and Artemy proves himself while using his father’s lessons and notes. And the kids themselves are fated to lead the town itself as the chosen ones that Capella implored Isidor to protect, and set its rules, so that there are the boundaries to keep a way of living established while not needing to change this status quo and what hopefully is a harmonic way of interaction between people. So. Now that we have established what the Termites are, I think with this specific faction it is still important to also name what they aren’t. Firstly: The Termites are an ideology of the town’s future. They aren’t the kids club. Yes, all the Termites are kids, but as mentioned before the factions in themselves are a third of the population with varying members who believe the Termites to have the best solution for the town at hand. There are other members (and I will later talk about the Olgimskys and big Vlad specifically as representatives of the Termite ideology) but the kids are the bound because they are specifically needed to set this new order that they want to established. I would argue that some of the kids have principles that are more adjacent to other ideologies. The obvious one would be Khan who has goals that do not align with his family but similar dreams and more radical ideals about overthrowing the status quo. But Grace also seems to be more of a humble, focusing on caring about others and being quite selfless and self-sacrificing in her care for the dead. That means, the kids fill an important role but we have the strange conundrum that most of this factions bound isn’t together because of their ideology. I will try to take them into account still, but if you see me focusing on Capella and Artemy, this is one of the reasons. There aren’t that many people who clearly speak about the Termite’s vision. The Termites also aren’t the Kin. They are connected to each other but again, the Kin is a specific part of the town which the ideology clearly avoids. (And parts of the Kin are not part of the town and actually stand in opposition to it. Moreso in Patho 2 but with the conflict of the herb gatherers we catch a glimpse of that.) And the children are also representatives of different parts of the town and not of the Kin. The Kin are obviously linked to the towns ancient tradition and preserving their traditions honourably is Artemy’s specific journey. Still, they aren’t the same and with both Aspity and Oyun we have characters who are Kin and also part of a different faction.

Speaking of the Humbles. What’s up with them?

The Humbles also have a name that speaks for itself: It is based around the main idea of being humble. There are different consequences of this main core. The first and in my opinion most important one revolves around responsibility and self-sacrifice. The Humbles expect the individual to sacrifice part of themselves for the whole. I mean… that is quite literally what the ending is about. As with the Termites there is a togetherness but this one doesn’t revolve around looking out for each other (at least not specifically) but about looking at oneself and what you could and should do for society to work best. It puts responsibility not on a collective and its leaders but on yourself and needs you to ask what you did right, what you did wrong and how to take consequences for your own actions. This includes a chance for redemption as well as condemnation. For the purpose of evaluating yourself in contrast to society it is also about self-reflection. You need to look at yourself and at your deeds constantly and this analysation and the realization that you can and will fail as well as that you as a human being have your own limits you cannot and should not cross are what lead to humbleness in the first place. Yulia as a sinner, whose very sin is shaping the very ideology and establishing her ideals over the self. This brings us to the second pillar of the humble ideology: fatalism. It is also to see yourself in context of a greater scheme and accepting these very boundaries. Fulfilling your duty in the way the universe demands of you and seeing yourself unavoidably as a puzzle piece of said force is a big deal for a lot of the Humbles. Yulia is the prime example. Lara actively dislikes her fatalism but still follows her father’s footsteps in her attempt to assassinate Block. Aspity moves in the constriction of the Kin and her fate while still being the one who advocates most for change. The Saburovs are all about law and order albeit in different ways. Oyun cannot do what is entrusted to him which causes his horrible deeds in the first place, because he cannot accept at first that he is not fit for the position (or as the words of a humble: not destined for it). And Clara is struggling with what her fate imposes on her and her very being while trying to control her circumstances as well as the fate of the people entrusted to her. It all is about analysing but also about abiding to the whims of fate and facing the consequences of acting either against it, failing it or resorting to violence against society to fulfil it in the first place.

As you may see, all of these categories are rather broad. Of course, they are, they are made to encompass very different views of the world from different characters. When Victor speaks about working towards overcoming bounds he sure as hell means something different than Andrey. Hell, Dankovsky has no idea what Georgiy is talking about half the time! Lara and Yulia are both Humbles, yet Lara explicitly states that she hates the way Yulia weaves her fatalism in her ideology about the self. And well… the Termites are a very special case regarding the factions in general, being more of a symbol of their ideology than its actual believers. So let's get to the meat of this whole post. We now have a grasp on what the factions are about, but… why? Why are they in the game, what are they trying to say?

Part 2: Presentation of the factions and the ruling families

Well… after making an incredibly long introduction, let’s stop talking around the bush. Here is my conclusion about the game’s stance of the factions: … … I am sorry to conclude, that all of them suck. All of them. They are the worst and none of them are worthwhile in themselves. I am sorry.

Okay, okay, okay. Obviously, they are not only terrible. They have their upsides and all of their ideals are rather beautiful. Making potential become a reality is great! So is comfort and stability, we all could sure as hell use some of that! And the principle of giving something of yourself into society, taking responsibility and the ability to care into consideration… boy is that a good idea! But still… the factions suck. And that is an inherent aspect of them just because they are ideologies. And very unsubtle and uncompromising ideologies at that. To quote novel author Dorothy Sayers “The first thing a principle does is killing somebody.” A principle, if it is used without reflection, always has destructive potential. Even if it is the principle to save as many lives as possible. Put into the wrong dilemma, it will kill. (A single glance at the healer’s path’s is enough to confirm that.) And all three factions have some really potentially bad implications exactly because their ideology is so vastly applicable. It isn’t only about emergency situations, but a lifestyle that regards one way of setting priorities as absolute. Of course, that on its own must go horribly wrong! Leave one single way of thought unattended and it will guide you into fucking catastrophe!

I think the easiest way to highlight this theory and the best prove of the game’s acknowledgement of this line of thought is to take a look at the ruling families. The fact that there are three of them is no coincidence. All three families do not only represent one of the factions but also the destructive extreme this faction can develop.

Let’s start with the Kains again, because their case is the most obvious one and the theme of Utopia and thus uncompromising perfection that has a destructive force is in the fucking title of the game. And creating a project that causes the plague in the first place, forcing the Kin to dig the very hole that tears into the heart of the earth – which they sure as hell did not agree with! – conducting human experiments with their buildings and manipulating the situation so that the Polyhedron gets saved even sacrificing the town for its sake… yeah these are some pretty shitty things to do and they all relate to the Utopian ideal and their strive for development, progress and forming humanity as well as society. And sacrificing everything in order to elevate progress is… obviously a bad idea, especially if it involves using people who never consented to such a sacrifice in the first place! With only development – social as well as personal – in mind the scope of said sacrifice cannot be measured at all, leading to devaluing peoples well-being. It is a horrible thing that harms a lot of people and the strict enforcement of the Kains bring a lot of harm to the town. This damage doesn’t only turn against the town but also has a self-destructive tendency. The self-sacrifice that is demanded to keep the spirit of Simon and Nina is eating the entire family alive. Their strict family loyalties seem to have driven Khan off in the first place (though since his role is “The Termite of the Kains” and he holds a strange middle ground I think he is kind of excluded from the “most extreme faction”-stance). Victor and Georgiy are losing their own identity and eventually their life for the sake of a soul that they consider of higher status than them. And Maria loses her own self to become the next mistress and lead what is left of the town into a new age, which Victor laments as her father because he is literally losing his daughter! The family – even if they “win” the whole town conflict – is actively falling apart and is completely fractured if not destroyed in the end. Not only is the sacrifice the town has to endure obviously morally unacceptable but the disregard of comfort in favour of a greater cause is inherently self-destructive. Which leaves the question: Who is this Utopia even build for, who benefits from it, if everything but it is sacrificed? So yeah, what the Kains are doing and especially the way they are using the Utopian dream in its purest form is absolutely and incredibly flawed.

Sooo… what are our alternatives? How about the Saburovs? They are righteous and they care about people! I mean… yeah. They do! Buuuuut… their handling of the situation is also very… debatable to put it nicely. Let’s start with the obvious: putting everyone in prison who seems mildly suspicious while a highly contagious plague is ravages the town is just… horrible. It is a prolonged and cruel death sentence to many people either desperate or innocent. And yes, he himself did it with the utmost desire to protect society as a whole from the criminals and organized street violence but… surprise, that is what the humble ideology is about! Judging the individual according to sin without taking circumstances into account is one of the extremes the Humble-ideology has. You should stay put and work towards the common good and acting against that should be judged harshly!! If taken to an extreme it disregards personal circumstances and even a human approach towards the individual. And even if it hits innocents, the few have to take personal sacrifice for the many. Giving your life to uphold stability should be considered a good thing… right? Of course, the faulty leader should also be held responsible… So the judge becomes the judged and the executor of the ideology is destroying himself. Again, we witness the ideology's self-destructive aspect when taken to the extreme. Judgement and assigning responsibility for overstepping with no account on the human situation, looking out for the other individual or questioning where established boundaries should be pushed, will lead to draconian law where the single human being doesn’t matter in the first place! And that… doesn’t sound like a society one wants to live in, does it?Katerina has her own case of judging people albeit in a religious way. Her view splits the world into the sinners and the righteous and sentences the former to death while the others will survive what she is seeing as the plague's judgement. Do I have to elaborate why this is a bad take and why judging people to death based on being a sinner is… just awful? Especially when we look at the humbles and how some of them may have done some shit but definitely not something that warrants death. (Yulia and Rubin being examples, but I also think Lara shouldn’t like… be judged with death. Well, truth to be told I think nobody should be judged with death… Ever.) So seeing the Changeling’s power as a saintly sign is… bad not only on a societal level but also bad because pressuring a teenager like that is just a the worst. Which brings us the Humble’s second point and the one that Katerina personifies as well: Personal responsibility. The Humble ideology isn’t only about sacrificing the individual and applying judgement but also about self-reflection and taking responsibility. Which sounds really good but can be devastating when taken too far. Which brings us to Katerina’s journey of becoming a mistress and her devastating experience of trying to fit into a role that was expected of her to fill. Desperately trying to fulfil a fate that seems to be yours can destroy you. Her despair of not fulfilling as a mistress as well as a wife (in her own terms) are honestly soul wrenching and tragic. And it is an example where letting go of personal duty and seeing to oneself would have been for the best.

Okay so the Saburovs establish a society that seems awful to live in and also actively destroy themselves (they also die with their ending, something they share with the Kains). Which leaves us with… the Olgimskys. And yeah… I think we all agree that they couldn’t exactly be called a beacon of goodness in the world… The way the bull enterprise is handled is exploitative to say the least, dividing the town and enabling even more racism and class distinction. But what does that have to do with the Termites? After all, only Capella is part of the bound. Which is true but the Termite bound is also the children bound and I would dare to argue that the Olgymskys are unassigned because they represent the ruling families of the Termites but cannot apply as their bounds because of age reasons. Capella is pretty much the head of the Termites, the way Maria and Clara or Katerina are the mistresses of the other ideologies and Big Vlad… well Big Vlad is what the other ruling families are to the other factions. The best reason to stay away from it. (And I could make a point about young Vlad but to not stretch this too much, I will keep it short. Let’s just say that he has a dynamic role in the factions and more or less grows to be a Utopian and is not even really acknowledged at the Bachelor Route. I would put him in the same category as Khan and say that the Kains in themselves still are connected to the Utopian ideology. There are some really interesting parallels between Khan and Young Vlad btw. Both have strong parental issues and feel confined in their role, both appear in the letter about the Bachelor’s and the Haruspexe’s decision as a hopeful addition that isn’t fixed… I am pretty sure there is something to say about that, but this essay is not the right place for it.) There are two main themes with the Termites that are very present in the Olgimskys: stagnation and oppression. I think how the Olgimskys are specifically oppressive and moreso than the other families is pretty self-explanatory. They do not want to bind people to the law or their ideas but to themselves and especially big Vlad is very keen on ruling the town and leading its people directly and forcefully. (And while Capella is obviously the kinder part of the family, she too shares this sentiment. Her alliance with Khan is to align the two families but also to gather force with his dogheads and establish rulership.) They want to be obeyed without question or an established guidebook that gives specific reason to their judgement. But why is this specifically a problem the Termite ideology faces? Well the Termites are about ensuring peoples comfort and life and they do this for any cost. One thing this entails, is saving people from their own ambitions and forming them according to this belief. (Again, Capella’s alliance with Khan and how she sees it is a nice example). They are establishing that humanity should remain in their natural ways, complacent so to speak, while a few chosen individuals lead the town and its people. (The Termites are supposed to do this in the future that is why they need to survive in the first place.) And if we drive this belief and this “ruling as family” ideology, we arrive at Big Vlad’s doorstep. He is the father, he will take care so exactly obey to his wishes without question. Preserve the system that allows you comfort without overstepping your boundaries. Preservation of a system also means preservation of the ruling system without further questions. (And I will remind you that Forman Oyun gets overthrown because the place is not rightfully his and he sucks because of this and the right order gets restored with the right ruling family watching over the Abattoir upholding their alliance with the Olgimskys even if it is now Capella.) In its extreme the Termite ideology can lead to oppression on the guise of guidance and questioning this is not only almost impossible but only allowed to the few people already chosen as the leading caste. (Also if you want to have another look at the connection between preservation and oppression, have a look at “The Void” or “Turgor” and its Brothers which is another game by Ice Pick Lodge. Their whole stick is preserving their realm by oppressing the sisters. The Void seems to reference similar themes in general and can kind of seen as the game’s antithesis… But I digress and just wanted to recommend the game. It’s good!) Why the other problem – stagnation – is a part of preservation is easy to see, but how does it afflict the Olgimskys? Well, firstly it is a big theme in the infight the family has and the conflict that tears the Vlads apart. While Young Vlad wants to follow his legacy, he doesn’t want to follow the exact ways leading to the family breaking apart. Vlads stubbornness and his unwillingness to rectify old mistakes and… I don’t know… open the Termitary is also part of this. Closing it – while done by Young Vlad – is done to preserve the status of the town and deny the plague and its changes to society for as long as possible. A plan that is very, very costly in the long run betraying the Olgimsky’s own duty to ensure their peoples life and safety in the first place! Again, the ideology eats itself.

Of course, only talking about the most extreme and negative example isn’t entirely fair. And I think there is worth in every faction. They obviously aren’t all bad and the ruling families are twisting and radicalizing what could be a good idea. So… was this whole talk about the ruling families just some intellectual pastime that proves how the rulers are shitty but the factions in themselves aren’t? Do they only kind of suck? Or can we actually find the games stance of this radicalization and how each faction alone could affect the town negatively on a larger scale?

Part 3: The endings of the game

So let’s talk about the endings, since they are literally established as the “successful” outcome for each of the factions. And with that I mean that the fate of the town is decided in favour of one of the factions, eradicating the others and their own hopes and ambitions in return. Best it is seen with the Utopians and the Termites, whose dreams are mutual exclusive by the destruction of the town or the Polyhedron alone. But if we consider that the ending also establishes a new way of living in town and a certain social system, we can see the same with the Humbles. (We can also see this if we think of the Humbles goal as a means to restore the town at its best in favour of personal sacrifice, which still doesn’t happen in the other endings, since part of the town gets destroyed.) For the factions, the plague also brings a chance to shift the power dynamics of a town to their direction and this is referenced by several characters trying to make use of this situation or at least struggling to maintain their power. (The ruling families are again the worst offenders of this. The Kains try to guide the Bachelor to their cause from the very beginning and a lot more deliberate in the second half. The rulers’ unwillingness to even acknowledge the plague, Saburovs’ abuse of administrative power, the way Katerina urges Clara to convert townsfolk, Capella’s alliance with the Haruspex… I can go on, but I think we have talked enough about the ruling families.) Long story short: The endings are distinctly aligned with one side of the power struggle. (By the way this isn’t necessarily the endgoal the healers are striving for. I think it is apparent by now, that I align the factions more with the ruling families rather than the healers, because the healers’ first priority is getting the plague problem solved one way or the other and there are different motives for their solutions. Also they can choose a different healers opinion so they aren’t like… one hundred percent absolutely bound by their ending even if they still align with it. But I digress yet again.) So, they – as the “win” of each faction – are a good way to see how they would hold up on themselves and without the other factions interfering. I will analyse the sacrifice they put on the town as well as the society they are striving to build up (since this is what the factions are about. Changing society). Will one of them hold up and present us with a good solution?

I will not even try to create suspense. We all know, I think that they don't. They all bear sacrifices in contrast to what we had before that make the situation actively worse. A video that sums it up better than I can is SulMatul’s “Heroism in Futility; Pathologic, The Void and the Hero Narrative”. The video is really good in general but it also makes a point of pointing out, that Pathologic as well as the void do not offer a standard “good end” where the hero saves the day, because every possible solution is tainted in one way or another. The heroism Pathologic shows (as well as “The Void”) is struggling against a doomed cause and a hopeless situation despite the odds and not about becoming victorious in it. The Artbook of Pathologic 1 states as much, describing the whole scenario of the game as a trap, where the problem is that every ending can be seen as a victory as well as a failure. So, we have some strong sources but still: Let us look at the endings again and see, if my thesis holds up, that it is the ideology of the factions and the remaining of one in each ending that amplifies the problem the town will face after the catastrophe.

We’ll start with the Utopians, yet again. I think they make the most immediate impression and are easiest to describe. Because, you know… destroying a town and killing the sick is really fucking bad. (Though I feel sometimes it’s forgotten that the healthy get “vaccinated” (immunised for some hours) and evacuated before. It’s not about eradicating all townsfolk. And if I would be a true hypocrite I could be like “Do you find any infected districts and sick people on day 12 that you can’t heal, huh?” But that would be… quite ridiculous and I’m sure the sacrifice of the sick is very much intended here. Let’s just assume that it does kill the sick.) It seems hardly worth it and it very much represents the harshness of the Utopians. So, let’s see how it applies to the ideology. The ending for the most part sacrifices life and comfort for humanities progress. This is what the protection of the Polyhedron is about. The Utopians are not protecting it because they find it kind of pretty and it also is not a preservation of something culturally cool (which would be more the Termite way of thinking) because the usage of it is supposed to vary after the end of the story. (The children are leaving the tower so that the soul of Simon can be housed in the building.) But it is supposed to make the impossible possible and ensure humanities triumph over nature, break boundaries and create new impossible ideas. The visions of the new town Peter describes, tell us as much. It is not only about a building but about a new order, where the impossible is created and where the amount of energy is a crucial aspect of the vision. So, if we weight the different solutions against each other from out outside player perspective, we can see how tied the concept of the solution is to the Utopian idea. We already have a very steep sacrifice for the Utopian ideology here. The other aspect of the Utopian ending establishes this “creation through destruction” mantra that the Utopian ideology can impose in a different light: The Utopian end focuses on eradicating the plague. Which is… actually a good thing for once but still tied to the themes of the Utopians and making their involvement in it stronger. If we look at the Utopian end from a cold analytical perspective, it is literally destroying the playing board creating a tabula rasa, to start this whole town project again. (Or at least that is what our mistress Maria alludes to and who is in charge after the whole ending?…) Which is a very radical use of what the Utopians are about, carry out your vision rash, immediate and drastic and if it doesn’t work, then leave it behind and try again (the stairways to heaven tell a similar story). Which ultimately leads to a sacrifice that is way too big because the losses aren’t supposed to be considered at all.

So what about the counter thesis? If the Utopian ending is so bad, then the termite ending must be the solution. Well… it solves some problems. Mostly people not dying. Which definitely is a really good thing! But it also comes with its own drawbacks. Namely the destruction of the Polyhedron first and foremost. Which you know… doesn’t seem like that important… It's just some building. Until we reapply the meaning of eradicating the chance to work for the impossible – which the Utopian ideology enables – and a strive to triumph over nature and improve humanity as a whole. Then it suddenly becomes a huge deal. Destroying the Polyhedron is not only about destroying some cool architecture project of some very bored capital graduates (even though this is sure a thing we are doing) but about preventing humanity's progress. We are saving life but we are also preventing the chance to develop a system where humanity can grow, develop new amazing and helpful things and might even reject their mortality as a whole. And even if the last part sounds kind of insane, please consider, that Pathologic is still very much set in a world where magic and miracles exist. We rely on the magic the earth provides in both other routes, see the prophecies of the mistresses and the theatre, visit a talking rat prophet and we can see the magic of the Polyhedron when we visit it as the Bachelor on day nine and of course in the secret ending. Acting like the ambitions as well as the magic of the Utopians is completely unreachable and should be outright rejected, undermines the cost the Termite ending takes to ensure their own victory. So I would argue that there is at least the possibility of the development of humankind and progress into new developments that can help people in general that get destroyed to ensure the lives of the sick as well as the old rules of the town. And that is definitely a costly exchange! This also brings me to an argument that I hear a lot and also want to deny here: “But if the town exists, more towers and miracles can be build again so its not really that great of a loss.” And while this can hold true for the very similar Diurnal ending (if we are really nice and not deny every form of magic, which is kind of the point of that ending… but I digress), the ending in favour of the Termites negates this. Firstly, it explicitly invents a “town of men” where this strive for destroying nature should be prevented. Secondly… the whole underground fluid thing still isn’t really fixed… because that is what gets saved by the Haruspex this is his goal. Which allows for the Panacea but also means that the plague and the traditions that cause the infection aren’t actually off the table. If we would create another Polyhedron the plague would appear again. The old ways of the town are hardly questioned, and they actually cannot be – at least in a way that implies substantial progress over nature – because the laws that get re-establishes actively prevent exactly this. The thread of the plague isn’t gone completely – even if certainly postponed because of the Polyhedrons removal. And that resources run out and the knowledge gets obscured is shown how littler there even is knows about Isidor's earlier experiments. So, we are either creating a word, where humanities progress is distinctly stopped or we create a situation in which the same mistakes that will cause the plague aren’t prevented at all and humanities mistake will repeat themselves. We created a situation, where movement is not possible and actually actively prevented.

The third one – the Humble ending – establishes a balance where both structures can be preserved but movement is still possible. Which first sounds like all is good and the life of only a handful of people could be worth the cost, if we outweigh them against the systematic costs the other endings provide… right? Well… apart from peoples life’s never being a “cost”… this only can hold true if we cannot find a societal problem with this. And we can. Again, with all endings we can see the broad ideologies coming into play and so the very problem of the endings are, that they follow the factions rules so exclusively and absolute. The Utopian end sacrificing life and comfort for progress and vision, the Termite end sacrificing progress and vision for comfort and life and the humble end… what does the Humble Ending do? Well the Humble end saves the precarious balance between the Town and the Polyhedron but at the cost of personal sacrifice. While all aspects of the town may exist the same is true for the plague that gets neither destroyed nor subdued but instead is still active and handled by constantly applying a cure. A cure made out of the humans blood of those who sacrifice themselves for sustaining this very system. Which does mean we will need constant human sacrifice to sustain this system at all. And since a town and a societal system should last for quite some time and there is no other solution in sight to deal with the plague without firing a shot after all… we are facing a plethora of problems. Firstly: If we assume that for some reason the Changeling – or at least her miracles – are now as immortal as Simon was and she will not suddenly disappear leaving us with no one to even make the cure that we need, then what happens if the sinners we have chosen at the end of the game run out? And if we assume that the town will not like disappear after some years – which shouldn’t be the goal at all! – that will happen eventually. Who gets chosen and for what reason? I remind you again, that this is not a personal thing that people can do if they want, there is a societal need for people to die, it is integrated into the very system of the town. So how do we decide that? Are we just sentencing people to “cleanse themselves by human sacrifice” and just choose the worst criminals? That can be faulty and – again – the death penalty is something that we shouldn’t apply to society! Do we accept a willing sacrifices? Great, now that sounds like important and innocent life being taken for all the wrong reasons and can also hit someone who suffers from suicidal depression! Do we hope that our dear mistress continues her burden and selects who should die next.? That sounds like a horrible fate for Clara and also like a very unjust system. But sentencing someone to death because of a systematic need sounds incredibly unjust in the first place! Plus… you know with a highly contagious and deadly plague sometimes roaming the town, a cure doesn’t mean that nobody will die because of the plague. There still is a high lethality, personal reasons to obscure things and just a frightening time limit. Not to mention that the sandplague hurts before it kills so the pain aspect and the fear of the disease is still lingering. It sure is better then everyone contracting it and dying and the cure is a solution but… not exactly to every aspect of the disease, especially when we do not have the means to subdue it, that we have in the other two endings.

I hope that I was able to show that the endings might solve the catastrophe at hand, but all of them with a cost so huge that the specific solution can become debatable. Defeating the plague for good while saving the possibility to proceed further is really amazing, but destroying the entire old structure and killing the sick is a horrible tradeoff. Subduing the disease is definitely good, but at the cost of destroying the potential to enhance future life or even save more people in the long run and with integrating the enablement of repeating the same old mistakes doesn’t sound like a complete solution and more like turning the wheel and waiting for it to reappear at the same side (or you know… stopping it from turning all together). Preserving the town as well as its wonders is absolutely miraculous but allowing the plague to partake in this new system and requiring human sacrifice as a societal solution is a pretty dystopian thought. Again, the Artbook of classic Pathologic describes the whole scenario and its solutions as a trap. And it is! Because there is no right answer, we have to choose what we apply as a necessary evil and this is all we can do. There is no good ending we can find.

Conclusion: The meaning of “Utopia”

So where does that leave us? And what does that have to do with the factions? Remember the quote I used at the beginning of my argument? “The first thing a principle does is killing somebody.” And we can see the effect of this with every of the factions. The rashness and costly sacrifice of the Utopian ideals is seen by the way the Kains’ act and the loss of live the Utopian solution provides. The Termites disregard of progress and the oppression that is its result can see in the way the Olgymskiys’ handle its people as well as the sacrifice of the Termite ending. The Humbles enforcement of punishment and their harsh self-reflection influences the Saburovs’ judgement and leads to their solution at the cost of constant human sacrifice in the end.

So… does this mean that there is no hope? Should we assume that all of these solutions and ideas suck and leave this whole essay this depressed? That would be a shame and also missing the mark of what Pathologic is about. It is a tragedy, that much is true, but it is definitely not without hope and humanity. Because all the examples I use have one thing in common: They are examples of the radicalization of each faction and in its sole survival against the other factions. A principle on its own might kill. But that is why there shouldn’t be only one principle. Clara is right when she reminds the other two healers that killing one part of the town of is still killing. That there is a balance that must be uphold and we can see this balance in other characters. We can see Notkin’s idealism that is still rooted in earthly matters and a deep care for his people. We can see Eva’s kindness being born of idealism combined with her will to give herself away to other people (although this also gets taken too far in the end). And there is beauty in all three ideas. Fighting against impossible odds, caring for what is right and should be maintained, watching ourselves to help your surroundings… all of this is good! And all of these things hold solutions for the other factions. When striving for progress we need to watch our own wellbeing and the negative consequences of our actions. When preserving what is old, we have to see what should be changed, where chances for progress are and we also need to look at ourselves and not only the concept we want to preserve. Looking at our own sins and self-reflection is important, but so is our own comfort and our own goals, even if they might seem outlandish at first. By applying the different ideologies on top the one we hold dear, we can balance them out.

The best ways the ideology work – the real utopia – is a balance of all three ideologies together. That means that the best state of the town is what we witness in the beginning of the game (even if I would never call that perfect either! The exportation of the kin shows as much!) But debating and changing through the reflection of all three ideologies is in my opinion how society can be driven to it’s best. Progression is useless without looking out for each other and keeping what works and helps. Preservation leads to oppression and stagnation if self-expression is forbidden. Responsibility and duty are needed but can lead to condemnation and self-destruction if it isn’t balanced out. But comfort while allowing progress. Duty while allowing self-expression. That is what can only be archived through active dialogue. This is, why this game is a trap. This is why every ending falls apart: Because we have to choose. Every end is a victory, but it also is a failure. Something has to be destroyed. And even a miracle can only work on the back of its people. But this choice is the exact reason why. Being only allowed to follow one of the factions by radicalizing all three of them at the end of the game we are not allowed to make a decision that could benefit everyone. And this is – at the end of it all – the tragedy of Pathologic.

#Pathologic #Pathologic factions #Spoiler warning #ending discussion #I sure hope you enjoy this essay!

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(cont.) 2. If anything, Ironwood erred toward compassion. He shouldn't have released/trusted RWBY, but he did. He didn't have to evacuate Mantle (infiltration risk) but he did. He could've declared martial law earlier, since he knew the city/Council was compromised (he didn't, and it cost him). He could've recalled important people to Atlas (eg Pietro) instead of letting them help Mantle (conservation of scarce resources). And as you said, he shouldn't have told people about Salem. (cont.)

itsclydebitches:

I’m so sorry, anon, I seem to be missing part one here. I don’t know if I accidentally deleted it at some point or if tumblr just ate it :/

But under the general subject of “RWBY failed to give Ironwood a truly callous response to these circumstances and thus far there are no ‘good’ plans here,” I’ve honestly been surprised by the number of fans emphasizing how (supposedly) useless Ironwood’s plan is in the long run. I’ve read through long breakdowns about how even if they’re high enough to escape the grimm they’d be unable to sustain themselves and everyone would eventually starve. With the takeaway being, “Ironwood’s plan kills Atlas in the long run so he’s more heartless for abandoning Mantle than we originally thought, since that sacrifice won’t even save a portion of the population in the end.” However, ignoring that this is a massive conclusion based on RWBY’s incredibly flimsy world building (I don’t think we know enough about Atlas to prove one way or the other whether the city could live self-sufficiently up in the sky/for how long), these responses are missing the point. Ironwood is buying time. He’s retreating to regroup. Not to fight Salem then and there because, you know, immortality - a lot of fans are also insisting that a retreat is only a valid option if he turns around and re-enters this specific battle - but rather to fight her in the long term. Days, weeks, months, even years later. He’s trying to ensure that his top fighters, two relics, a Maiden, and at least a portion of his people are out of Salem’s reach so that they can find a more hopeful solution down the road. It doesn’t matter whether Ironwood could only keep the Atlesian people alive for a month, or a week, or just three days. The point is that those three days are more time to think and strategize than they currently have with Salem literally on their doorstep. I think that’s why we don’t see a more complicated plan like the one you’ve laid out above: that takes at least a bit of time to think through, conceptualize, and weigh against other options. Ironwood heard out of nowhere that Salem had appeared, while in the middle of three other emergencies (heat down, grimm attacking, Salem’s men on the loose) and had to come up with a plan in a matter of seconds. Obviously we, the viewers, will always be able to come up with something “better” with months of time to think it over, in the safety of our homes. But retreating would provide some of that much needed space/time for everyone to think. Retreating might encourage Salem to back off if she can no longer access what she came for. Retreating will allow the group to recover, regain their aura, prepare for another fight. If Atlas is truly safe up there maybe the relics can stay while the people head back down, keeping them continually out of Salem’s reach. Even if they’re not safe limiting the grimm army to just the flying grimm is already a boost. Maybe with even an hour of time where they’re not fighting for their lives someone could come up with a plan. It’s true that we don’t know for sure what would come of buying time, but no one is going to find out what possibilities might be made into reality if Ironwood isn’t allowed to try.

To simplify things with another wonky comparison, pretend some evil supernatural killer has broken into your home. They’re blocking access upstairs to where a bunch of your friends are and you have no way to reach them. If you try to attack this creature you die. If you try to sneak past it you die. No one has come up with a solution that allows everyone to make it out of the house alive and the chances of death aren’t just high, they’re nearly guaranteed. How do you fight a creature that just reforms every time you do damage? How do you defeat them and protect your friends? No one has figured out an answer. Ironwood is the one going, “The back door is open! It’s horrific that we can’t get the people upstairs but we need to go. Head into the wood where maybe this creature won’t be able to find us. If we escape we might be able to figure out a way to still save some of our friends before they all perish. If we escape we’re going to keep this Magical Relic safe that’s potentially the key to defeating this creature in the long run, saving the whole world. At the very least we’ll survive and isn’t that better than all of us perishing?”

Team RWBY are the ones insisting that the only heroic option is to charge the creature head on. We don’t leave friends behind. Noble, but a death sentence - and one that does damage to the overall war (it’s not just a personal self-sacrifice). They’re also locking the back door to make sure Ironwood and others who might want to escape have to stay and fight with them, all while knocking out four allies for trying to get them to stand down.

Meanwhile, a good portion of the fandom is going, “Ironwood wants to run into the woods? That’s absurd. You can’t survive in the woods! They’ll get lost. They’ll starve. There are other creatures out there that I’m sure would kill them even though we’ve never heard about such creatures before. This isn’t a good long-term option.”

But it’s not meant to be a long-term option. It’s meant to be the one option that might a) keep them alive in the short term and b) allows them to come up with a plan. Any plan at this point. To still save some of Mantle. Or keep the relics safe. Or help ensure that the 1,000 year attempt to defeat Salem doesn’t end here and now. Something to make this situation a little less horrible.

That’s not coldblooded pragmatism. It’s common sense in the face of noble heroics. Team RWBY should be commended for their bravery and their devotion to the people of Mantle (even though they didn’t care about the people while stringing Ironwood along…), but that doesn’t mean what they’re doing is smart. They know about this war. They know that their decisions are so much bigger than themselves and the immediate problems in front of them. They know there’s a long-term to think about, but so far they haven’t demonstrated any willingness to take that into consideration. It wouldn’t be so bad if the story just framed this around their trauma - some in the group literally can’t leave people behind after the death of Pyrrha - but insisting that this is the only Good and Smart solution here doesn’t work.

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I was literally just thinking about this after running into one of those "here's all the reasons leaving Mantle means Atlas will die in the long run" posts. What those people don't seem to get is that with the only other plan on the table - stay and fight - there is no long term because in universe as of the finale, staying and fighting is a death sentence.

At least there is a long term to consider with Ironwood's plan. There will be time to regroup, recover, minimize the amount of combatants being faced, and take the time to come up with a new plan. Because yeah - odds are they can't stay up there forever. But they don't have to. They need to get out of reach to buy time for a better plan. Staying and fighting means game over - everyone dies, Salem gets two Relics and a Maiden, and the majority of the people that are in the loop about her threat are gone.

Is having to leave people behind tragic? Yes - but I think choosing to sit and let everyone die and let Salem get what she wants when there is a chance you can save some of them - maybe even most of them, depending on how much of Mantle has evacuated - and prevent her from being halfway to her goal of essentially killing the entire world is worse. I wouldn't sleep easy, but if I was in that office, I know who I'd be siding with - the guy that has a chance to save Atlas, part of Mantle, and the Relics, vs the girls that have proven to be liars and are advocating for an option that's essentially a suicide mission.

#rwby #james ironwood #general ironwood #rwby ironwood #ironwood rwby #itsclydebitches

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legendaryobservationpuppy · 5 years ago

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The Most Effective FRESH DOG FOOD DELIVERY IMO: HEALTH AND CONVENIENCE FROM THE FARMER'S DOG

At an occasion years ago, I talked with somebody who was a quite pet-savvy person. We spoke about dog food, as well as I mentioned adding fresh veggies-- carrots, beans, peas, etc.-- to the young boys' food. She looked aghast. "I don't feed my dogs individuals food," she said. "I don't want to transform them into beggars."

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The discussion seemed ridiculous to me, and now, say thanks to benefits, it's come cycle ...

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WHY FRESH DOG FOOD?

This is the large, underlying concern: Why feed your dog fresh dog food?

At the end of the day, food is food is food is food. What makes one meal different from another eventually comes down to just how it's made, right? Take the carrot example. Boiling and also steaming both prepare the carrots, however steaming protects its nutrients while steaming sheds 60% or more of the carrot's nutrients. Eating a raw carrot may not be best, either, though due to the fact that study shows that some food preparation techniques may really boost the carrot's antioxidant power. Basically, a steamed carrot is a carrot, a boiled carrot is a carrot, a raw carrot is a carrot, a dehydrated carrot extruded right into kibble form is still a carrot ... however they're not all nutritionally equivalent. I believe we can all settle on that, as well as I believe we can all concur that there's absolutely nothing grosser than a boiled carrot. (Actually, perhaps steamed asparagus is grosser?).

Anyway.

If you're mosting likely to eat food, which of course you are, and also if you're going to feed your dog food, which of course you are, wouldn't you want it to be the most nutritionally-rich food readily available? Obviously you do! We all do! And the advantage to our dogs is that they don't have to pick between, claim, a smoked poultry bust vs. drive-thru chicken nuggets because we make the decisions on their behalf. So, it stands to factor that if we know fresh food is best, as well as we're in position to make a decision the most effective food to feed our puppies, we 'd wish to go fresh, yeah?

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Backing up one fast action: When I wrote about The Farmer's Dog previously, we switched foods after getting the results of Cooper's allergic reaction examination. At the time, I really did not write a complete review due to the fact that I wasn't certain how handy it would be given that I was so focused on food allergic reactions. We were so pumped to find a recipe that really did not include a single allergen from Coop's list, and also while he's restricted to among the three solutions for that extremely reason, it's made measurable, obvious distinctions in his stubborn belly. I wanted to sing that from the roofs! However, SO numerous of you have actually connected with details concerns I really did not answer in that blog post that I believed I would certainly draw them together in a full evaluation nevertheless!

Note: Because I assume turning proteins is so very vital, we're still rotating in The Honest Kitchen due to the fact that 2 of the three solutions from The Farmer's Dog do include irritants on Coop's list.

The other large point is that our food manufacturing system is deeply flawed. Romaine lettuce, any person? I'm certain you've all seen the congeries as well as gobs of dog food remembers as a result of tainted active ingredients, too. Actually, there's a significant one underway as I kind this: FDA Alerts Pet Owners concerning Potentially Toxic Levels of Vitamin D in Several Dry Pet Foods.

It's critically essential to me that we're feeding Cooper a food where the active ingredients are properly sourced as well as the production is smaller range for much better quality assurance. I fully recognize that no food manufacturing system is excellent. For that, we would certainly have to expand as well as make our very own, which allowed's be straightforward, isn't taking place.

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I assume we can all concur that fresh food is the method to go, however that's not without a substantial list of pros vs disadvantages when it concerns pet food. It's not like you can stroll right into the produce area of your local pet store and also pick up a fresh dish, ya understand? Let's take a look at a few of the evident advantages and disadvantages of fresh dog food as well as fresh dog food delivery services:.

Price: Equal parts PRO/CON. I enter into this carefully below re: The Farmer's Dog, yet these services are definitely more costly than getting an average store bag of kibble (though there are several superior kibbles that are similar or even more costly). I do assume it's worth taking a look at the expense of health-related issues from fast food vs. wholesome foods. However you men understand me: I'm NOT somebody that says in a covering declaration kibble is bad. It's not. Although I advocate genuine, whole food, these solutions could not fit your budget plan. #noshame It's my viewpoint that The Farmer's Dog is priced at a reasonable worth. It's most definitely a stretch if you've been feeding normal kibble, however not if you've been feeding premium or, as we were, a dried alternative like The Honest Kitchen.

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Website/ordering: CON. You can not see the formulas till you create an account. I feel like that's a disappointment for those people that have dogs that are SO sensitive to active ingredients that we can't choose till we see every last active ingredient.

Ease: PRO! Extra on this below, yet having the food automatically shipped is a life saver.

Small-batch manufacturing: PRO! For all the factors mentioned above. And also each packet comes identified particularly for Cooper.

THE FARMER'S DOG VS OLLIE (OR NOMNOM NOW, PETPLATE, ETC.).

Fresh food + shipment is the future, y' all.

Hopefully by now you're on board with the fresh food item, yet shipment?

OK, so I know that you're busy. I'm hectic, you're active, we're all essentially extended so thin it's difficult to maintain. Grocery store pick-up has actually changed my life! I truthfully can't stand entering into the shop-- really, grocery buying is my single most despised chore-- so buying online then driving over and having a person tons it right into my auto is, in my opinion, the best invention of my life time.

At the very least it was.

Till ... Delivery!

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After my previous article, I got a lots of inquiries regarding exactly how The Farmer's Dog compares to Ollie. Truthfully? We've never attempted Ollie. I did Google a bunch of the brand names that are currently around, and also almost everything I read placed The Farmer's Dog towards the top for convenience, expense, and also alternatives. Right here's a testimonial from a food blog site I like if you want to check out some particular contrasts.

Just How Much DOES THE FARMER'S DOG COST?

It varies. It depends on the dimension as well as age of your dog as well as his or her everyday calorie requirements. Let's say you enjoy a sedentary pug. Well, your price is going to be reduced-- and also appropriately so!-- than my high-energy, perma-pup Am Staff mix. He needs a great deal of calories in the day to stay up to date with his skittering as well as cat chasing!

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At the end of the day, every person wants to do what's finest for their pup. That's it. All of us do the best we can with the criteria we have. No, this isn't mosting likely to be for everyone. It might not be a square meal option for you, either, yet the topper situation might work. Or, possibly you're ready to dive into something brand-new. Everybody's doing their ideal, and as long as you're caring your pet dogs, you're doing terrific. If part of that includes attempting The Farmer's Dog fresh dog food shipment service, I would certainly enjoy to assist you start with a discount: Click below to try it for 50% off!

What rocks have I left unturned? I attempted to answer the inquiries I had obtained via email as well as DM, but in case I missed something, or if an additional question cropped up for you as you were reading this, please leave them in the remarks! I 'd love to supply as much info as feasible, and if I do not understand the solution, I'm always satisfied to connect to the business to find the right information!

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furubase · 6 years ago

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Posting this ask from my main (gotta stay consistent)! Hope you don’t mind anon!

This is actually a great question because you’re right, I have no idea why I put Ayame/Mine and Arisa/Kureno on the same level. The truth is, outside his relationship with Yuki, I find Ayame very boring, so I don’t really mind his relationship status (don't know if him being gay would have changed anything though). Arisa and Kureno though? They’re both very interesting on their own, and I really like them. I think my interpretation of some of the core themes of the show isn’t too far off, but the way Kureno’s arc plays its part in it is very much a personal interpretation, so bear with me here.

So. To be quick, yes, the age gap is probably one of the issues, along with the way their romantic arc is the only thing that ties them together until issue 22 (and I tend to consider issue 23 as an epilogue of sort). Theirs is a very strange romance overall, and I think it all boils down to frustration.

I think most people aren’t squeamish about age gaps as much as they are about power imbalances, so to be fair, Arisa and Kureno are much better off on this front than Katsuya/Kyoko. Arisa is 18, eight years younger than Kureno, so at that ambiguous age where it’s “okay” to date someone older, but also weird when older men are interested in her. It’s pretty obvious that their relationship is heading towards romance but I’m of the mind they take it very slow, so it’s more how it happens that concerns me. (Still, I think it’s important to keep in mind all of the parallels between Arisa/Kureno and Katsuya/Kyoko, although they’re a much healthier version).

I really like that Arisa is given the revelation in chapter 127 that she knows next to nothing about Kureno. She’s intrigued, she has a crush, sure. But we’re only ever shown on one occasion that they would maybe be a good match together (same thing with Mayu/Hatori tbh, but at least we’re told that they’ve known each other for a long time). I don’t really see how her feelings for him evolved into more than a crush. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Where do their arcs lead to? Once she meets him, Uo doesn’t really have an arc that doesn’t revolve around her romance with Kureno. At the end of the series, she has to let go of Tohru, and she has to figure out what comes after high school (she just wants to work and start her life, without any specifics). I think it would have done wonders for her character to be shown struggling with the freedom the end of high school grants her, especially given her past. It would have given her an endpoint to look towards, but also a thematic motif that ties her to the Junichi and to Kureno especially - the one who lost the ability to fly.

Kureno’s arc is very dissonant, compared to the rest of the Zodiac. It’s all about freedom and what to do with it. He’s refused it once, and it shaped his life in a way that has hurt him in the long run. I think it’s fair to say that Kureno was a victim of emotional abuse - a dependency that started when Akito was very young and that he feels responsible for. There’s this ambiguity in Kureno in that he’s the most lonely of the twelve, and still that he’s completely shackled to Akito. So letting Akito go means setting himself up to be alone, and that’s probably something that scares him.

Kureno’s arc is infinitely bittersweet to me. All the other members of the Zodiac understand, with Tohru’s influence, that to help out the world and make it better they need to start with themselves. The easiest way to show that is to have them paired up - because love is always a bit selfish, isn’t it? Kureno hasn’t really grasped that lesson.

I don’t think this is all about Akito - Kureno needs to leave, but his words make it seem like he hasn’t grasped the simple truth that he should be doing it for himself. He’s leaving when everyone’s relationships is becoming easier, healthier. He's finally leaving, taking advantage of his freedom. He’s also ten years too late, and he's doing it with a mix of regret, devotion, and if the need to see the world finally is there, it’s pushed pretty far back.

I don’t really like that it’s Uo - someone he barely knows - and the thought of her, her words, that pushes him to leave his situation. He’d known for a while that it was bad, that he needed to leave for both his and Akito’s sake, but it’s so clearly entangled with his romantic arc in the manga that I can’t get fully behind it. He likes Arisa because she’s strong, and independent, and funny, and a breath of fresh air, and for all the right reasons (and that’s probably where the age gap might matter, because she might be strong but she’s still 18!), but I wish he took the time to figure out how he’s strong and independent on his own. He can still do that, obviously, but this kind of “I’ll follow you anywhere” mentality, in this context... I don’t think this was the solution I wanted for either of them.

So yeah. It’s not the worst relationship, and it might have been good had it been given the proper development, and if they each had individual character arcs (esp for Uo) that sustained such a deep connection so early in their relationship. This is a complicated situation that was given too simple a resolution. As I said, I deal with it by interpreting their last appearance as the hint that there is more to the story and more to deal with, but Takaya’s insistence on giving everyone a resolutely happy ending, while cute, sealed the deal on this one for me. I really do see the appeal though.

#kureno sohma #arisa uotani #kureno x uo #kureno x arisa #thanks for the question i hope it made sense and you didn't mind my arguments!#yuki/machi could have fallen into this pitfall #but they had tohru and kakeru and the students' council to sustain their respective arcs #fruits basket manga spoilers #fruits basket spoilers #my post

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scripturehomosexuality · 7 years ago

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Editorial: On the 2016 STD Bump

In September 2017, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) released a startling report on STD rates in the United States. The agency said that in 2016, STD infections reached their highest levels in history. That year, more than 2 million people were infected with chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis.

Below are some fast facts on this. Pay special attention to the last bullet point:

This is the third year in a row STD infections have increased. Compare that with data from a decade ago, when STD infections were at historic lows.

The increases were primarily among teens and young adults.

”Men who have sex with men” (MSM) constitute the majority of new infections. In cases where sexes of sex partners are known, 81 percent of new STD infections occurred among MSM, particularly with syphilis and gonorrhea.

Earlier this year, some were saying that America is heading into an STD epidemic. These figures seem to confirm that.

Furthermore, like increases in past years, this story especially concerns the “gay” community. Once again, they have the lion’s share of new cases. Their anal centric sex model also influences MSM who don’t identify as LGBT.

Many solutions are proposed for this. They include better education, more open discussion on STDs, more STD testing, and increased advocacy for condom use.

In making these proposals, medical authorities might not take historical context much into account. While implications of some developments might be acknowledged (like the rise of anonymous dating apps), other important ones might be left out.

Since I’ve been around long enough, I think I can make an analysis on this rise.

To me, our current situation has its roots in 2011.

That year, a study into sexual behaviors of LGBT-identified men revealed a surprising statistic. It showed that, contrary to popular belief, it showed that anal play was a minority practice. Instead, most preferred non penetrative practices. The study revealed that, for the first time in awhile, most “gay” men obviously did not view anal sex as true “gay” sex.

This evidently was a huge shock to the “gay” leadership. After all, for decades they were champions for the practice of anal sex. Yet, among their fellow “gay” men, most were shunning the practice, openly and unashamedly. The “gay” culture that depended on anal sex was visibly cracking, and was heading toward complete fracture.

In a normal community, its leadership would adjust themselves to what its people were actually doing. However, to the “gay” leadership, their community exists to spread a certain conceptualization of same-sex activity. This became evident in their response to the 2011 study.

In the wake of those findings, the leadership and media didn’t try accommodating the behaviors of their rank and file. They didn’t explore alternatives to anal play. They gave lip service to the idea that “gay” sex need not involve anal, but nothing more.

Instead, they doubled down on the messaging that only anal sex is true “gay” sex, and that “gay” men must have anal. Notice the glut of media output released between 2011 and now:

A 2014 Queerty article on the HBO show “Looking”, which explores the supposedly damaging problem of “anal shame”.

A 2013 Mambo Online article entitled “The Happy Bottom: Tips for Hotter, Safer Anal Sex”. A link is not provided because the article has since been taken down, after it was cited in this blog’s Leviticus commentary. Strangely enough, other 2013 articles from the site still exist.

A 2015 Huffington Post article entitled “Why do gay men have so little sex?” Within the article, and as indicated by the title, only anal sex counts as “sex” to this writer. As such, the writer isn’t focused on finding out the answer to that question, as much as giving tips for better anal sex.

A 2014 Queerty article entitled “Five Tips To Losing Your Anal Virginity With Aplomb”. The article contains this jaw dropping excerpt: “Bottoming is a rite of passage most gay men make at some point in their lives. (Unless, of course, they’re analphobic or one of those boring ‘total top’ types. In which case, they’re seriously missing out.)”

A 2017 LiveAbout Article entitled “Why Some Gay Men Aren’t Into Anal”. It treats avoidance of anal play as a strange aberration that only a minority practice. It also makes this very skeptical comment: “A lot of gay men seem to happily live their lives without any kind of anal intercourse.”

As you can see, the intent of these articles were quite clear. The “gay” leadership and media had no interest in accommodating the true desires of their fellow “gay” men. Instead, they were putting increasing pressure on them to conform to “gay” culture, and toe the party line.

It seems that their campaign was a complete success. After all, anal sex is an extremely effective way to spread syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia and other STDs.

In other words, while the CDC findings are shocking, they’re not surprising. They merely show the end result of the “gay” leadership’s pro-anal campaign. All of those articles finally are bearing fruit.

So I say this to the “gay” leadership and media: Congratulations, you’ve managed to preserve the anal sex ethos, and in the process, you threw your fellow “gay” men under the bus.

Upon reading this, some may object by saying the following: “Even if the prevalence of anal sex has increased, can’t condoms solve the problem? If people wore condoms every time they did anal, there’d be no problem at all.”

The truth is, it really doesn’t matter whether condoms are used en masse or not. Condoms can tear, and because the anus is rougher than the vagina, condoms tear much more easily inside the anus. In other words, condoms give a false sense of security. Don’t be fooled.

Plus, because of that false sense of security, those “gay” men might do anal more than they would otherwise. This results in a nonsensical paradox: by using condoms, “gay” men feel free to increasingly do something that can make them tear. This in turn increases the risk of STD transmission. So in sum, mass condom use doesn’t decrease STD risk, but actually increases it.

In truth, the only way to avoid most STD risk is to avoid anal play altogether. The “gay” movement won’t admit it, because the whole “gay” culture pivots on anal sex. If anal play ceases to be popular, “gay” culture begins falling apart.

Yet, when so many people are getting hurt, is the culture more important than the people? This blog and other outlets say no, but the “gay” movement effectively says yes. As long as they answer that way, people will used as mere fodder to sustain the culture.

Thus, I’m willing to make this statement: if you want healthy advice on male-male sexual activity, don’t listen to the “gay” media or the “gay” leadership. They are woefully negligent in doing their due diligence, and have abundantly demonstrated that cultures are more important than people.

Instead, listen to those who don’t insist on doing anal, such as the g0y movement and the Man2Man Alliance. They have the intellectual integrity to explain how anal increases STD risk. They show that hierarchies of risk do exist, and that certain modes of male-male contact carry low STD risk. You’ll be much more able to avoid STDs by using their advice.

Please note that “low risk” is not the same as “no risk”. If you imitate the extreme promiscuity of the “gay” world, where a man might have several sex partners in one night, even low risk modes can help transmit STDs. That is why both movements discourage that kind of promiscuity. Remember then that sex exists for the sake of relationships, and not the other way around. If you conduct yourself with that viewpoint, your risk of STDs will further decrease, because you’ll be more judicious with who you get physical with.

Your education can’t end there. You’ll have to move away completely away from the “gay” conceptualization of sex, so that you can go down a healthier road.

Thus, I urge you to read further on this site, to explore another way to think about same-sex activity. I urge you to read “The ‘Straight’-’Gay’ Dichotomy: How It Works”, to fully understand how that system functions. I also urge any who read this to go to “For Straight People (though not exclusively)”, which will point to philosophies and forms of same-sex behavior that don’t hinge on demonstratively false concepts. Also read the page “History of the Concept of Homosexuality”, to see how this concept evolved into its modern day meaning. Don’t be afraid of talking about what you learn to others, because that’s the only way progress will be made.

You don’t have to listen to the “gay” movement for sex advice. Other sources do exist, and if you take advantage of them, you’ll be better off for it.

#gay #stds #gay culture #lgbt culture #editorial #lgbt #bisexuality #Bisexual #homosexuality #homosexual

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faisalkhanlove · 4 years ago

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Is there any free whiteboard animation software?

You wish to pick the very best computer animation firm for your company video clip, yet there are loads of choices. You can surely locate off-shore options for a few thousand bucks, and also you can surely discover premium carriers for numerous hundreds of bucks. Between there are some terrific (and also some simply great) alternatives at differing cost factors. Just how do you choose which one to deal with?

Spending plan is a great area to begin. That is why we have separated our suggestions by rate groups listed below. Company designs differ from group to group and we have defined the subtleties there too, so you recognize what to get out of each computer animation firm.

Why Do Intend to Aid You Locate the Ideal Computer animation Firm?

In the past we dive into a worth and also profile contrast, we need to attend to the elephant in the room—isn't it odd that we are offering shouts bent on our competitors?

Many individuals could assume so. Yet we desire you to be certain that you are production the correct choice when you pick IdeaRocket. Our objective is to develop top quality computer animation that releases your message into orbit. We're respectable at it, if we do state so ourselves, however we're not the appropriate suitable for every service. When that is the situation, we desire you to discover the most effective computer animation firm for your spending plan and task. Why? Since we rely on the power of computer animation as well as we believe there is space at the table for everybody to prosper.

Nevertheless, we have not drawn punches. This listing consists of just the worthiest firms in each rate vary as well as we have been sincere regarding their toughness as well as weak points. Oh, and also we're leaving the home enjoyment firms off our listing entirely. Certainly the majority of organisations cannot manage to collaborate with Pixar.

Exclusive Agency-Client Workshops - $$$$

These firms commonly obtain their function from marketing and also advertising and marketing companies. Although they may periodically function straight with a firm, generally they do not market themselves straight to organisations. Their charges normally vary from the top 5 numbers to well into the six-figure range; the variety of individuals on their manufacturing groups can be as high as twenty or more.

Dollar Create: With workplaces in Brand-new York City, Los Angeles, and Sydney, Dollar Create was an computer animation giant for many years. They do not simply do computer animation, either, yet product packaging, tee shirts, publish, whatever. Here is a peek at the collection of brief movies they provided for Mailchimp Offers

Psyop: Established in Brand-new York City in 2000, Psyop currently has workplaces in Los Angeles also. Their specialized is premium, extremely outlined CGI work. They're the workshop behind Chick-Fil-A's well-known Xmas industrial "The Trigger" and also Coca-Cola's 2019 Extremely Dish Industrial highlighted listed below. They've ventured into web content and also video pc gaming systems as well.

Scholar: Started by Will certainly Johnson as well as William Campbell, Scholar began in Los Angeles previously increasing to Brand-new York. They operate in a range of strategies from online activity to CGI to standard computer animation. A number of those designs get on show in their advertisement for the 2020 Porsche 922.

These workshops do modern, stunning work that can possibly often go viral simply on the toughness of its awesomeness. Nonetheless, they run out allocate several brand names. These exclusive workshops usually function from ideas offered them by firms instead of functioning straight with organisations. Frequently, they'll do specification operate to win a large or respected job - and obviously, the set you back of their fell short specification pitches is amortized into task expenses.

Bottom-line: Exclusive workshops bill an exclusive cost and seldom work straight with brand names.

Costs Direct-to-Business - $$$ This is our group. These business like IdeaRocket may occasionally deal with firms - in our situation, it is regarding a quarter of our organisation - yet are more made use of to functioning straight with organisations. That suggests we are concept-to-delivery homes, offering calculated recommendations as well as copywriting along with computer animation manufacturing.

The common job charge for these firms remains in the reduce 5 numbers. Normally, their manufacturing groups are tiny - normally 2 to 6 individuals.

IdeaRocket: That is us! We have innovative workplaces in NYC and London sustained by first-rate manufacturing solutions in Buenos Aires. While lots of international firms are making use of the unbelievable computer animation ability in Argentina by outsourcing, IdeaRocket is the just US-based computer animation workshop with its very own long-term manufacturing center in Buenos Aires. Our management and our society is both multilingual as well as multicultural, enabling a one-of-a-kind international fluency and also mixing of ability from all over the world. We're additionally an employee-owned business, so you can felt confident that every participant of our group has actually a rate of interest in your success.

Trial Duck: Trial Duck is a Chicago-based company that frequently obtains superb outcomes by outsourcing to exclusive musicians all over the world as well as providing excellent imaginative instructions. Established in 2011, they began off developing trial video clips as well as screencasts. Today, they provide both computer animation as well as real-time activity for a range of sectors.

Epipheo: Cincinnati-based Epipheo Workshops was among the initially business in the Explainer video clip market in 2009. They expanded a customer base thank you partly to a top quality articles program. A lot of their design was imitated to fatality by others yet Epipheo has continuouslied restore itself and also produce engaging function. They additionally very own Video clip Brewery, a lower-cost manufacturing system coordinating up manufacturing groups with consumers.

All-time low line: Costs companies assistance your video clip development procedure from idea to distribution. We function straight with brand names to provide costs video clip web content.

Mid-Tier Direct-to-Business - $$

These business usually (however not constantly) work with tiered cost frameworks: various rate degrees for various high quality degrees. If you can not manage a costs top quality item, these are the following ideal best alternative.

Demoflick: Started by Albert Berry in 2011, Boston-based Demoflick was just one of the leaders of the explainer video clip area. Their streamlined computer animation design is the appropriate selection for some brand names and also messages. They provide custom-designed computer animations along with application/software application demonstrations, educating, and business interaction video clips.

White boards Computer animation: Focusing on white boards computer animation, Whiteboardanimation.com is centered in Brooklyn, NY as well as Union City, NJ. They occasionally integrate white boards with various other methods such as 3d, to develop crossbreed techniques. Rates is based upon the intricacy of the video clip. You will pay a costs for shade and also smooth scene shifts. Their moms and dad workshop, ideaMACHINE supplies various other computer animation designs.

Yum Yum Computer animation: Buenos Aires has ended up being a hotbed of computer animation, with a lot of workshops (consisting of ours) touching the amazing skill there. Regarding I understand, Yum Yum is the just Buenos Aires-based workshop trying to market itself straight to US firms, although they likewise do some white-labeling for various other workshops.

Economic situation Direct-to-Business - $

Firms in this rate complete greatly on cost. The set you back here's 3 to 4 numbers each min. Although several of these service companies make believe not to, the majority of contract out their computer animation to India or Pakistan. The operate you access this rate vary is commonly common, as well as the develop has the tendency to be thin.

Broadcast2World: Broadcast2World is centered in India with a sales and advertising workplace in New Jacket. They use infographic computer animation along with typical 2D computer animation. You may see their item in mid-priced studio's portfolios since they white-label a great deal of their operate. They supply great worth, yet you may wish to care for the creating on your own.

Kukuzoo: Kukuzoo was started by Wear Radhay in Toronto, Canada. They began by aiding tale authors to develop personality layouts and also computer animations. In 2014, they transitioned to explainer video clips. Unlike many workshops, they are clear regarding their rates. Their create is threadbare, however their creating benefits the rate vary.

Freelancer Systems - $?

Can possibly you go more affordable yet? Certain, if you utilize a consultant system such as Upwork or Fiverr. Occasionally, business will search for organisation on these websites, yet regularly it's solo professionals. It's truly hard to discover a person that incorporates the abilities to compose a manuscript, create, and also animate a video clip, so you may should contribute some creating or at the same time, cobble with each other a group on your own. Yet indeed, it's feasible to produce a video clip this manner in which will set you back hundreds as opposed to hundreds of bucks.

As you can possibly see, picking the greatest computer animation firm for your company depends mainly on your spending plan. In my eBook, Being successful With Computer animated Video clip, I discuss how you can establish an allocate your computer animated video clip based upon anticipated expenses as well as predicted returns. Sign up with our e-newsletter to obtain your free duplicate!

Find out ways to handle an computer animated video clip task for your company:

How you can choose just what does it cost? to invest Getting buy-in from your company Selecting a service provider and design for your video clip Collaborating with your stakeholders Dealing with the innovative group How you can determine ROI on your video clip task Ways to advertise your video clip Maintaining metrics so you can possibly find out

Leading Messages

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#whiteboard animation software #app explainer video

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davidanderson7162 · 4 years ago

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The Service to Expect From a Professional Tree Solution Business

Many individuals never realize the relevance of expert tree removal firms up until they awaken one early morning and also discover that a massive tree has dropped right in the center of your yard. This is when you will understand that they don't have the skills as well as the devices that are essential for an easy tree elimination. The only alternative for that reason is to seek for professionals to help out. If you ever before discover on your own in this scenario you may require the solutions of a tree solution business as outlined listed below;Arborist Service

Tree cutting

You could discover that there are specific trees in your substance that grow to big that they reach energy lines such as the electrical power lines. This can create serious electric faults which can result right into a variety of problems within the house. They can additionally grow also close to your house and risk shattering the house in times of tornados. Such call for tree trimming to tame their growth and also make them secure and also neater. For much better outcomes with such sort of trees, using an expert tree service business is your best alternative.

Tree elimination

In some instance, trees could require complete elimination from their location. This can occur when the tree breaks during a storm as well as leaves an unsafe stamp standing on the ground or it is merely dead and no longer offers its purpose. The procedure of tree elimination is very terrible as well as otherwise performed in the right fashion, it has the possibility of resulting right into even more injuries as well as this is why it's recommended that it must only be done by a tree service firm.

Watering of the trees

Tree irrigation is one more service you will certainly get from tree solutions business. You could be attracted to assume that this is a simple one however you require to be informed that various trees have their different water demands and also without the best expertise, you are most likely to provide more or less water to the trees and this can cause their fatality.

Illness control

Trees are additionally struck by conditions. The very best placed people who can figure out if a tree has been assaulted by a bug or a condition are the tree service specialists. They recognize the different kind of insects and also conditions that can attack the trees and also they have the appropriate pesticides to deal with the conditions and eliminate the pests. They can additionally assist on the very best techniques on just how to deal with the trees to prevent future bug strikes as well as conditions.

Treat Sick Trees With Tree Providers

Most individuals, when they think of tree solutions, right away think about their effectiveness for cutting down dead, dying, or otherwise hazardous trees. And also it's no surprise as well. Tree services conserve home owners millions of bucks a year by giving this solution that gets rid of trees that not do anything but add a dangerous element to an or else beautiful lawn. This solution saves property owners the costly repairs that a tree falling on their residences or triggering mold development against house siding would sustain upon them. Ultimately, over time, it is generally less costly to remove a tree that is a hazard to residences than to take the chance of taking care of the potentially catastrophic effects that might possibly result from overlooking the circumstance.

But this is not the only function that tree services give

There are services that definitely do focus on the particular job of getting rid of and cutting down trees in a safe and also effective fashion, yet this is much from the whole story either. Many tree services additionally employ people referred to as "certified arborist". These arborist are like the "veterinarians" of the plant globe. They focus on treating sick, infected, and also or else infested plants. Qualified arborist in some cases look like "tree whisperers" with their capacity to bring ailing trees back to health and wellness once again.

When cutting the tree down is not the right alternative

Some may question why this matters. I mean isn't it much easier just to eliminate a tree from the yard once it's been discovered that some sort of condition or infection has settled that may be intimidating a tree's presence and also making it a danger to your home? Well yes and also no. It depends on a variety of aspects. One, exactly how instant is the risk? Is the tree itself endangering to go down branches on your house as soon as possible? Does it look like the slightest gust of wind could fall it over tomorrow? After that indeed, possibly having actually the tree dropped is the right alternative for you to undertake Tree Elimination.

Yet possibly the condition has actually only simply started to be noticeable in the tree itself. It's new, it hasn't really established itself? Well in those situations the provider can have the arborist identify and deal with the plant rather than having its various other workers over to reduce the tree down. This is extremely helpful because treating a tree, when feasible, eliminates the risk of the diseased tree becoming a threat to your residence as well as maintains it from infecting the various other trees in your yard. It is likewise usually much cheaper than undertaking the expense and also time of rooting out a tree when it's not absolutely needed.

Many tree services provide more than just the one service of removing trees when they come to be a problem. The objective of any kind of effective and also liable business is to offer its clients with reliable options at inexpensive rates to manage any tree relevant trouble they might experience. Therefore, if you believe a tree in your lawn may be infected at all, call your regional tree service and have them send out over a certified arborist right away to detect the tree as well as see whether it requires to be gotten rid of or if the arborist might be able to treat it before the tree genuinely becomes a problem for you Tree Removal.

Why Home Owners Select Tree Service Providers

Aside from lawns and flowers, trees can likewise make buildings appealing as well as useful. Nonetheless, maintaining trees call for more time and efforts which some property owners do not have. Besides that, some homeowners do not have sufficient expertise in preserving trees. Due to this, increasingly more homeowners opt for the solutions of professionals. Of course, employing experts can be costly, yet these professionals can supply you with fantastic attributes. Below are several of the adhering to.

Make certain tree wellness

Among the main reasons why house owners go with tree service providers is to ensure its health and wellness. Naturally, like people, trees can additionally experience illness because of the unsteady weather as well as viruses. Due to this, wellness as well as look can be influenced quickly. By working with tree company, these problems can be prevented promptly. This is possible considering that these company have the skills and also expertise in detecting and dealing with trees. Consequently, trees can make residential properties better once again Tree Elimination.

Preserve trees properly

The following reason that property owners deal with provider is to keep trees correctly and efficiently. Water, trimming and also feeding are just some of the most crucial tasks home owners make to preserve their trees However, trees also have vital demands. And, provider can offer trees the ideal solution they require. As an example, when dealing with insects, house owners can use chemicals. Regrettably, there are instances when these things can not match your demands. The good news is, professionals can offer you with reputable services like micro-trunk shots. These solutions help trees in dealing with insects quickly.

Provide them with help in expanding trees.

One more factor home owners hire solution experts is to give them with help in expanding trees. Undoubtedly, some home owners wish to expand their own trees. However, achieving such task can be hard. It gets even worse if you do not have the right abilities and also knowledge. With the help of tree professionals, they can help you in accomplishing your objective.

Much better gain access to with different types of tree solutions

Finally, working with company can also assist property owners to have much better accessibility to associated services. Currently, there are numerous solutions property owners can choose from. As well as, each service offers the advantages for your trees. As a result, maintaining timber can be less complicated as well as a lot more reliable.

Why Residence Owners Go With Tree Company

Apart from grasses and flowers, trees can likewise make residential properties appealing and important. Nevertheless, preserving trees require more time and efforts which some homeowners do not have. Aside from that, some house owners do not have enough knowledge in maintaining trees. As a result of this, a growing number of home owners choose the services of professionals. Of course, employing professionals can be pricey, but these professionals can supply you with incredible functions. Below are several of the following.

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Note: If you make it to the end, know this post turned out much longer than I anticipated. And god forgive me saying and switching between opiate and opioid all over, my head is so scattered and I ... yeah.

I'm terrified.

Maybe in a way that is different from most--but it has to do with my meds. I was in a car accident when I was 17 years old, it'll be 10 years next September and I sustained a multitude of injuries:

Head injury

Glass/trauma under left eye that has led to my vision worsening in left eye

Fractured collarbone

Fractured first rib

Pnemothorax (collapsed lung) that now affects my breathing/problems with scar site

Hypersensitivity that circles around left breast and ribs

Herniated disc - back surgery in 2011 where there is now a scar with massive scar tissue

Fractured sacrum (My ass. I broke my ass.)

Fractured pelvis in 5 places

Severe damage to the sciatic nerve

All of these fractures and injuries were sustained to my left side, and continue to give me problems to this day. It was nothing I, or my family, thought and was told would be long lasting or "permanent". The orthopedic doctor, while I was still in my wheelchair and unable to walk told me I DID NEED PHYSICAL THERAPY (he was a fuckin' idiot, but that's an entirely different story that ends with me giving my mom and look and mouthing "I want it" and her nodding and saying "duh".). I was 17. I didn't know to ask questions. I didn't know what questions to ask. My herniated disc pressed on my sciatic nerve and was said to be the cause of my chronic nerve pain and that surgery would be the best route to seeing about a solution. My neurologist made me wait over a year after meeting him because I was so young and should easily gounce back and he wanted me to try more PT and go through tests. He also first wanted me to see a psychiatrist because all of this pain could be a coping mechanism.

For so long I thought I was making it up. I had no idea of what I was feeling, when my left foot would feel like it was actually catching fire when I put pressure on the heel of my foot in bed, how my last three toes on my foot were sensitive and couldn't stay warm.

Money. Money. More money. Surgery. I wake up. My settlement money gone from just trying to figure out why I was hurting when I was told I wouldn't. What was this burning sensation? Why couldn't I live without pain medication? Why was I having to tell my mother that I wasn't addicted to the pills and that I needed them.

Diagnosed: Depression/PTSD

Chronic and constant migraines

Fibromyalgia (how many times am I going to see an eye roll from people who actually do not believe I this?)

Is my story important? I'm unsure. But because of the opioid epidemic declared at the beginning of January, and even before then, I've slowly seen access to the medications I need--yes, considered controlled substances--become more difficult and harder to get. I have been lucky, but only because my pain and injuries are more than well documented and because I've plundered more than 50k into medical bills trying to fix it for documentation to exist. I've also been seeing the same doctor since my accident. This doesn't take away from the fact that I am a 25 year old depend on opiates to help my REAL and CHRONIC and CRIPPLING nerve pain/body pain/migraines/etc. I admit to being lucky in so far as you can define the word to my situation. There are those I know who are being ripped off their medications all around me--one, diagnosed for years with depression and with bipolar disorder was taken off a regime of medication that worked for him and had been a solid, study foundation he trusted and was put on a vitamin instead. Another woman had been on the same C2 classified medication for almost 30 years and was taken off of it without any warning, and was sent to a pain management clinic without any help for detoxification and given a prescription for Naproxen.

I am on Medicaid. While working to get my Bachelors degree, I could not work and this is how I've had to support my medical bills. I am grateful, so very grateful for the help this provided me in getting the medical care I cannot afford, but it is also difficult to have medication approved for use. If a dosage is deemed too high or because of the brand, or because of what it is--an opiate medication--I am to try another first.

I haven't had anything taken from me. Not yet.

So why am I scared?

This was the first time, after being prescribed a new medication by my doctor that we were both enthusiastic about helping my quality of life, the insurance company faxed my doctor a form of six other medications I had to try before I could try what my doctor had given me. This could easily be an experience of someone else's, but before my doctor could tell them simply, "No, she has been on this before. She has developed a tolerance/it did not work./etc. and I could usually get what I needed. Like Movantik. TMI or just a lesson for you, because we all have biological functions that are kind of icky, but those of us who are dependent on opioid medication to just survive a damn day without a little bit of pain have a hard freakin' time pooping. Movantik is a medication specifically targeted at opiate induced constipation and while it can be hard on your stomach, it is a god send for me when I'm having a difficult time using the toilet. There are a few kinks, so to say with it, but I cried when I saw there was something like this finally on the market. My insurance tried to basically give me a prescription for Miralax. I have these two big ass--I'm unsure if that's a pun intended to make some of you guys still with me have a good giggle--bottles of Miralax powder that ... mm ...

I've been on medication since I was still considered a teenager. For me, at least, this treatment is not helpful on its own. It makes me cramp and is painful because it does not do enough of what it is supposed to do--as in, it does not bring enough moisture back into my stool so I can easily go to the bathroom.

So I'm scared.

I'm finally back home.

After seven years I have finally graduated. So I'm closer to my doctor's office and we can finally get me onto a medication that better suits my needs than what I'd been given.

I'm put on Embeda. With is a medication that is "higher tech" and "tamper proof". It's an extended release medication that is Morphine Sulfate with 1.2 mg naltrexone hydrochloride. I am currently on a 30 mg dose. I've been on Morphine Sulfate before that was described as a more dangerous medication and one that is considered easier to abuse than this one here. I can't be put on Morphine Sulfate because once my body decides to become dependent on a medication, it sure doesn't like being put back on it in any shape or form.

I was so happy to be put on my intended medication before given this, but I was still hopeful. It's difficult to find something that works and I have a cautious doctor--which I'm not complaining about, thank god--who starts me out on a lower dose so we see how I react. We usually always have to go up. It's all in all, what one could typically chalk up to as a long day. Tiresome. But necessary. Something I'm willing to go through because this is the only thing that has been able to give me any sort of quality of life. I combine it with exercise, acupuncture treatments, and constant chiropractic care (the last two of which are not covered by Medicaid).

But why am I scared? Why have I taken up this much room on your dash? Because it isn't working.

I know I'm not a doctor. But I know my body. The difference between needing a higher dose and a different medication altogether hasn't failed me yet, and I could be wrong about this. Obviously, I could be. I want to be. Because my doctor wants me to try a higher dose before we switch me to another medication on this list.

I'm in so much pain right now because I cannot calm my sciatic nerve damage down right now. It's like my entire left leg and bottom is an inferno. My body is also hot. I'm afraid.

And I simply needed to tell somebody. I have no idea what this will do.

Nothing, most likely. I could get picked on for being a Medicaid recipient, given complete and utter shit for something perceived as wrong or inaccurate in what I have said. I am writing my personal experience. What I am currently going through. And I keep switching from opiate to opioid/s. Maybe someone will tell me I can get this right. Or that I'll be okay. Another could even help me. Or I could get this out to someone else and let them know that this is utter hell and sometimes ... sometimes the pain makes me want to go back and figure out a way around what happened.

Perhaps, I can reach someone else going through chronic pain. Someone seeing the repercussions of this "epidemic" that has been declared. Maybe I can be the one, if they got this far, to say I'm here. I feel like I'm dying, I am crying, and I wish someone would help me, but I will live. And I have a hand for you to hold.

God I just want some help. It's unbearable tonight. I never thought I'd post about this. Like I said, I don't propose to have knowledge. I'm speaking from a point in time that is filtering itself through pain.

I just wish to know ... is there someone like me? Getting that evil look when you step out the car and "take away" a handicapped spot from "someone who could really use it", terrified of the sort of pain and overwhelming sadness that comes from one moment in your life you had no control over (that I don't even remember), forgetting your pride to ask for gas to make it to even get the scripts that may not work for you in the first place. Laying in bed and writing in hopes of finding community. Tired. Hurting.

xx lyndz

#my head is all over the place i just have no idea what to do guys #fears #meds #life #sad #flustered #migraines #did i get anywhere with this?#depression #ptsd #injuries #chronic pain #fibromyalgia #car accident #other tags i cant even think of #long post #writing

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shervonfakhimi · 6 years ago

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The Under-the-Radar NBA Characters Who Can Shape the 2nd Half of the NBA Season

The 2nd half of the NBA calendar is about to begin (though it is technically the final 1/3 of the regular season). Teams are beginning a push one way or another, either for a playoff run or a Zion tankathon. There is still a lot to be figured out between now and June. With that being said, there are a few players that can determine how the rest of the season shapes out. I underwent a similar exercise at the beginning of the season, which looks... yikes. So let’s gasbag away and get to some of the players who can really impact the second half of the NBA season.

Chris Paul PG HOU: In case you’ve been living under a rock, James Harden is absolutely laying waste to this NBA regular season. Even though there have been games where it took garbage time, he’s found a way to score 30+ points in 31 consecutive games & piss off everyone associated with the NBA in the process. But there’s no damn way this is sustainable. His Usage Rate currently sits at 39.1%! Almost all of that has been due to the massive rash of injuries the Rockets have dealt with, from the likes of Clint Capela, Chris Paul and Eric Gordon, amongst others. But they all either are or will be back soon. Chris Paul came back January 27th. However, Harden’s usage rate in that span has *only* dipped to 38.5%. We’ve seen James Harden run out of gas in the playoffs, to the point where people tried to convince themselves the reason why was that he was point shaving in what could possibly be the greatest hot take ever uttered. This is where Chris Paul is both the solution and the problem. It is good to have another future hall of famer initiate more of the offense to allow Harden time to rest. The problem has come with Paul’s efficiency. His numbers have been down across the board this season compared to last season, where he was just as much as a 1v1 dynamo as his running beard teammate. Chris Paul boasted a 55.1 EFG% on Paul’s seemingly automatic pull-up jumpers last season, per NBA.com (Harden shot 55.3%). This season, that number has dipped to a paltry 47.6%, which is…. not great. He has struggled gaining separation from even bigs switched onto him, which was easy money for him last season. If Houston, already with glaring holes size wise and defensively (25th in defensive efficiency) really is going to challenge Golden State, they need the real CP3 to stand up and for CP3-6 weeks to never be heard from for the rest of the season. The Rockets season and status as NBA contenders depends on it.

Eric Bledsoe PG MIL: From Chris Paul to Chris Paul’s former backup. The Milwaukee Bucks have serged and transformed into a powerhouse, ranking inside the top 4 in both offensive and defensive efficiency. Obviously Giannis Antetokounmpo and the wealth of shooting around him along with the guidance of Mike Budenholzer (who constantly looks like he just stepped on a LEGO brick) has catapulted Milwaukee up to the top of the NBA standings, but Bledsoe has been a big part of it too. Not only has Bledsoe ranked 4th currently in ESPN’s Real Plus-Minus stat amongst point guards, he ranks 6th amongst point guards in Defensive Real Plus-Minus too. He’s shooting a career high 49.2% from the field and a career high 55.5 EFG%. It feels a little arbitrary and hot take-y, but it is another thing to see if it will sustain in the playoffs. With the massive amount of shooting surrounding Giannis, Bledsoe does not qualify, as he is currently shooting just 32.1% from 3. There hasn’t been much of a drop off whether Giannis has or hasn’t joined Bledsoe on the court this season. If that doesn’t change, it will be virtually impossible for Milwaukee to lose in the postseason. It’s up to Eric Bledsoe to maintain that pace and not turn to Drew Bledsoe.

Jimmy Butler SG/SF PHI: One time for General Soreness. The former T-Wolf has been fine this season in his new digs in Philadelphia, but some of Philly’s problems still persist. The Sixers rank 22nd in Clutch situations, despite Butler shooting 57% from the floor & over 60% in those situations. Butler’s usage rate in clutch situations currently sits at just 25% and 21.7% overall for the course of the season since joining the Sixers. The Sixers were still figuring this out before adding Tobias Harris at the deadline. Luckily for them and coach Brett Brown, they still have time to figure out how handle these late game situations and find what works best for them. Perhaps it is implementing more pick and roll with Jimmy Butler, which was the source of Butler’s well publicized film room scorn at the direction of Brett Brown. Maybe they play bully ball and attack the guard on the floor not running around with JJ Redick, which is a whole other type of difficult assignment. Regardless, it feels like Jimmy Butler will play a part of it. Philly brought him in to close out tough games, not just stand around and watch Al Horford torment Joel Embiid yet again. Trading for Tobias will help give him more room to operate, and does give Philly a safety net if Butler bolts in free agency, which doesn’t sound entirely implausible. How far the Sixers go, and how Butler is involved, will prominently determine how either situation fares.

Kyrie Irving PG BOS & Gordon Hayward SG BOS: The Celtics are so damn weird. Every stat you can find, and common bleeping sense, would tell you the Celtics are not better without Kyrie. Yet….. they are 9-2 without him and the youngins on their roster took off without him last season, coming 5 minutes within making the NBA Finals. Every intangible, like chemistry and fun, as Marcus Morris pleaded for, seems to be more profound when Kyrie isn’t there. Maybe that’s unfair to Kyrie, but I could see how young guys who want to evolve their games in their own right would salivate at the opportunity to do more rather than be glorified glue guys who may be shipped out for Anthony Davis. It’s up to Kyrie, ironically playing the best season of his career, to work his game around the rest of the team and pick and choose his spots, rather than be the 1 man wrecking crew he typically is. As for Gordon Hayward, he can be Boston’s de facto trade deadline acquisition. He has certainly had his moments of brilliance this season, but it has been inconsistent. However, he has shot 46.5% and 57.1% from the floor the last 2 months, including a stellar 52.4% mark from 3 in February. He’s been a little more decisive and fearless recently too as he still is recovering from that devastating leg injury. If he becomes 80-95% of what he was in Utah, then look out. The rest of the East made big, sexy moves, but the biggest impact ‘move’ could be Hayward stepping up.

LeBron James SF LAL: Ok, it feels stupid to call LeBron James ‘under the radar,’ but bear with me. This seems pretty simple. LeBron just needs to play hard. This Laker team can’t afford him take a lot of possessions off, which has been the case recently. He’s still the greatest player in the league. He literally can mess around and get a triple double like the great Laker fan O’Shea Jackson did on January 20, 1992. But not only does LeBron need to play hard, he has to rally his teammates. The Anthony Davis trade winds have found its way to wreck the Laker locker room, which you can argue was because of LeBron himself. It must feel weird the agent of your superstar teammate is trying to acquiesce his other superstar client’s demand to take your job to join your superstar teammate. That’s not to rip Rich Paul; it’s his job to do that, as with any other agent. Regardless, the trade didn’t happen, and LeBron has to work with what he’s got now. Perhaps you could argue missing the playoffs wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world for the Lakers: why get swept by the Warriors when you can give yourself a better trade chip for Davis? But missing the playoffs and wasting a season of LeBron’s seemingly never-ending prime that has to end at some point would be a colossal failure. The young players need to play better too, but it is up to LeBron to lead them. He seems to thrive when things look the most bleak, just look at the 2016 Finals and last season’s playoff run. And hey, if the Lakers avoid the Warriors, you’re telling me there’s anybody else in the west that’s going to make LeBron shook? Just a hypothetical here, what if the Lakers manage to get to the 7th seed, beat the inexperienced Nuggets, beat the overly (Legit Top 3 MVP Candidate) Paul George-reliant Oklahoma City Thunder, then get the Warriors in the Western Conference. What if the repeating champs suffer an unfortunate Steph ankle injury (I am not wishing. No I’m not that cynical. But just bear with me here). Maybe Draymond’s wildin’ out again. I’m just saying…...

Draymond Green PF/C GS: Now this one is even more simple. Don’t kick anybody in the nuts. Don’t call your superstar pending free agent a bitch. (Also, maybe find your jumper again?) Do that, and you 3 peat. See? Simple.

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I'm a very conscious person in regards to the environment and animals. There's a job opening id want to apply for but it requires me to work using a brand that is notorious for testing on animals. The only reason I would consider applying is because it's a makeup artist position and there isn't much of that in my city and I'd love to get out there and gain more experience in all aspects of the job. Is it hypocritical? I hate the thought of sacrificing ethics for this.

So it could go either way... I’ve experienced interesting dynamics like this in some ways when it has come to work. I️ think it depends on what speaks to you. Usually there are two types of people in this scenario. There’s one person who would never back down away from ethics when it came to literally anything and there’s the other that may take a job like this even if they don’t fully align with the company’s views because they need a job and it’s a temporary solution to possibly building a career of their dreams. I’m on the fence when it comes to this stuff. Obviously what you believe is important to you, but I️ see sometimes in situations like this... there could be a silver lining. Say you took the job to further your career as a makeup artist and for some reason someone higher up in the company crosses paths with you at some point while you’re working and something about the way you view the world, how you like to live it, your preferences when it comes to cosmetics somehow comes up while you’re talking to this person or even within earshot .... it could plant a seed that could later help evolve and bring change within at least that person’s view or the company. Ou neverrrr know 🤷🏻‍♀️ I️ know that’s a very specific scenario... but I represent Alo... not all of their products are vegan and I choose to only wear the vegan products they make and they take notice that I️ decline the non-vegan products. It might not change immediately but overtime they’ll start to know realize that maybe way more people have had the same outlook as I️ have. Sometimes a little action can bring big change. I️ also like to support brands who have some ethical items even if not all, because it shows them that people want the vegan/cruelty free/sustainable/eco friendly, etc product. And then they’ll continue to make more and maybe even fully transition. There was a time where I️ came across an interview for a management position in high end retail and even though it didn’t pan out, I️ did have the struggle of figuring out if I️ would take it if it got offered to me even though their ethics didn’t line up with mine. Jona told me how he has know many vegans who have worked “non vegan” jobs to make ends meet. It doesn’t have to be forever. I’ve also auditioned for commercials for companies who aren’t vegan like Wendy’s and was on hold for the job and almost booked two of them (universe decided otherwise for me...), but the particular product being advertised wasn’t an animal product and I️ didn’t have to eat anything..... you could take a portion of what you make and donate it to your local shelter or your favorite animal sanctuary, etc to give back to the industries you care about. If you sit on it and feel that it still isn’t right for you, brainstorm other ways you can start making a name for yourself in makeup. Is there any other brand you could connect with that may align more with your values? Even somewhere like Sephora has a mix of brands, some vegan and cruelty free (if there’s one near you)... or a different cosmetic brand that has some cruelty free products or something. Maybe there’s another job you can get and start doing makeup on the side and offer your services for weddings, etc. Not sure if this helps, but best of luck! The right thing will work out. If this job doesn’t pan out, it wasn’t meant to be.

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How to Save Your Consulting Business by Shifting Online

Leverage technology and processes to maintain your consulting business online.

March 17, 2020 11 min read

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.

With an increasing number of people working from home or practicing other forms of social distancing, it can be challenging to maintain a consulting business. All the plans and projections you’ve established can easily change on a day-to-day basis, leaving you concerned about how you’ll be able to sustain your business.

Although this situation is globally challenging, the solution for many consultants is clear: offer remote services.

I’ve worked as a business consultant for the past five years, 95 percent of my business is done remotely. Initially, this was done out of necessity, it was too challenging to consult onsite in Manhattan and make it back home to Brooklyn so I could pick up my children from daycare. Over time, I discovered it was much more efficient, and allowed me to grow my business by working with clients in other regions. I could also stack more meetings back to back — no commuting between appointments — allowing me to generate more revenue in a shorter period of time. This same skill (knowing how to effectively share knowledge remotely) proved useful as I started speaking at online conferences, some of them such at SEM Rush’s Global Marketing Day and Teachable’s Reach Summit draw more than 50,000 attendees.

My initial disadvantage, the need to work remotely, eventually became an extremely valuable skill. During my upcoming webinar How and Why to Shift Your Consulting or Speaking Business Online. I’ll teach you how to do the same. It’s free to attend and takes place on April 1st at 3 pm EST. Assuming you can’t wait until then to start transitioning your business, I’ve provided some immediate advice below. I should note, there are several “how to work remotely” articles going around these days. Check them out, I’m sure you’ll gain valuable insights. My goal with this article is to solely focus on the immediate needs of consultants.

Getting client buy-in for remote consulting

The first hurdle you’ll need to get over is making your clients feel comfortable with the value you can deliver remotely. In some cases, your impact may be diminished, acknowledge it. However, the value you’re still able to offer is most likely better than nothing at all. Be sure to stress the benefit of doing something as opposed to waiting for weeks, possibly months, for in-person meetings to occur. This may not be the ideal situation for many clients, but it’s not something we can avoid either. Or, as my dad would say, “It is what it is, now what are you going to do about it.” Don’t say that, but you get my point. You can also ease these concerns by being prepared with a plan of how you’ll move forward.

“I know this is a challenging situation but I have a solution that will help. We’re going to hold all meetings through a video conferencing platform, which I’ll record in case some of your team members are unavailable to attend. I’ve also created a Slack channel to make it easier for you and your team to ask one-off questions while you’re juggling additional responsibilities. My working hours will remain the same, but I understand you may have to ask questions based on your availability. I’ll do my best to accommodate.”

Related: 5 Questions Every Consultant Must Ask During a Sales Call

Leverage the right apps and gear

Set yourself up for success by leveraging the right apps and gear from the start. Below are a few of my favorites, you can see a complete list by checking out the Consultant Toolkit on my website.

Zoom

This tool is designed for hosting webinars, teaching online courses, conducting online training and video conferences. With the majority of my consulting taking place remotely, I use it almost daily. I’m also leveraging it for all my in-person speaking opportunities that have shifted to online. Although Google Hangouts offers some of the same features, Zoom allows you to record meetings. This is extremely helpful since it reduces the amount of notes your clients have to take. This will help them better focus on you, and the value you’re delivering. Beyond that, not everyone will be able to attend meetings live for one reason or another. Recording meetings makes the content accessible to everyone and simplifies the scheduling process.

Pro tip: Download the app as opposed to using the browser version. You’ll be less likely to experience lag, especially if you’re on a slower connection.

Yondo

Yondo allows anyone to sell live online consultations and videos on their own website. As previously mentioned, this is the tool used for Entrepreneur’s Ask an Expert platform. One of my favorite features is the ability to set your availability for consulting sessions, which syncs with your Google Calendar. No need to go back and forth coordinating, the client just selects a time and then pays immediately upon booking. No need to invoice!

Pro tip: Next time someone asks to “pick your brain”, send them a link to your Yondo account so they can pay you for your knowledge!

Again, I recommend recording these sessions. You should also consider adding a link to your Yondo account in the main navigation of your website. Over time, you’ll discover people booking paid sessions with you that you’ve never directly interacted with. Maybe they read an insightful blog you wrote or heard you speak on a podcast. In order to make the best use of everyone’s time, I also suggest providing a pre-call questionnaire. You can use this to collect some basic information and avoid saying things like “So, what’s your website? Is that .com or .co?”

As you can see, there’s some overlap between Zoom and Yondo. I use Zoom for long-term consulting engagements since these clients usually pay on a monthly basis. I leverage Yondo for hourly consulting. Again, there’s no need to invoice and your calendar is always up to date. I also include a link to Yondo in my signature to make it easier for people to immediately book a paid consultation with me.

HoneyBook

HoneyBook is an integrated project management, proposal, billing and invoicing software designed to help you automate various operational processes. Since you may be juggling other responsibilities while working remotely, this is a great way to get some time back. The ability to quickly send proposals and invoices is one of my favorite features. Once you have these setup, it takes about 5 minutes to send them out. Your clients can sign contracts online, which is beneficial since many of them may not have access to a scanner or printer.

HoneyBook also has a great mobile app, allowing you to keep track of all your invoices and upcoming payments without hopping on your laptop.

Pro tip: During times of uncertainty, it’s beneficial to bill clients on a retainer or project basis as opposed to hourly. This will make it much easier for you to forecast revenue, which will reduce stress.

Audio/visual gear

You may be working from a noisier environment than you’re used to, investing in a pair of noise-canceling headphones can be rather clutch. You’ll be able to hear better during meetings and lock in more while working. I’ve been wearing Bose for years and depend on them so much that I have one pair at home and one at my office. That said, you may be able to get away with the earphones that came with your phone. Either way, please don’t use the mic from your computer! It doesn’t work, even if you awkwardly lean towards it.

In regards to a camera, the one on your computer should be fine, but you can obviously get a webcam as well. That said, now isn’t the time to buy stuff just to buy stuff. See how things go with your built-in camera before investing in an external one. Depending on your working environment — and the clients you work with — you may also want to get a backdrop so you have a more professional looking background. You can purchase something for less than $100 on Amazon but this also falls into the category of not buying stuff just to buy it. My new “office” has been my daughter’s bedroom for the past four years so clients shouldn’t be shocked to see PJ Masks toys in the background. My hope and expectation is that everyone acknowledges we’re all doing the best we can these days.

Regardless of your background, the wrong lighting can take away from the experience you’re delivering, a $20 selfie light can help you avoid this issue. Many of them also come with a cell phone holder which makes it way easier to create video content for Social.

Pro tip: Now is the time for you to start creating and/or releasing valuable content. If you’re stuck, think of 10 questions your audience has, then answer them with content.

Related: How to Start a Consulting Business: Get Ready to Launch

Internet connection

If possible, use an Ethernet cable. Nothing ruins an online meeting faster than someone losing connection or — even worse — getting frozen with a silly look on their face. It makes the meeting go longer and interrupts the flow. Beyond that, if someone is paying you by the hour, you’re literally wasting their time and money. You can also get a signal booster or invest in a solution like Nest Wifi from Google. According to their website “Nest Wifi blankets your whole home in fast, reliable Wi‑Fi and keeps buffering at bay in every room.”

A steady internet connection is critical, invest money into solving for this if needed and available.

Related: 10 Golden Rules for Digital Entrepreneurs of This Decade

Emotional intelligence and soft skills

Working remotely may be new to the clients you interact with. Acknowledge this from the start and provide guidance to make them — and yourself — more comfortable. As a general rule, I prefer everyone to have their cameras on. It makes for a more personal experience and you can pick up a lot from non-verbal gestures. If someone has their camera off, I usually make a joke of it by saying “I’m going to assume you’re not catfishing me, but it would be great if you could turn your camera on”. Feel free to steal that one. This usually gets most people to turn their cameras on (or at least laugh) but you also want to respect boundaries. The person you’re talking to might be caring for a child, or may not want to be on camera for various other reasons. Although talking to a blank screen can be a bit of drag, you can maintain a high level of energy and just by standing up.

You should also expect technology hiccups to occur, your response will be crucial as to how your audience responds. Years ago, Adi Hanash taught me how to lead online classes through my role at General Assembly, a school that teaches the job skills of tomorrow. He shares a piece of advice “Smile through the problems. As the online host, people will be looking to you to make sure things are perfectly normal. So if problems come up, smiling as you handle them gives the audience confidence that you have things under control and will buy you some leeway as you handle any issues that have come up.”

To paraphrase, “Don’t freak out”. These days, not freaking out is probably good advice for all of us, regardless of the context.

Do you need help shifting your services online, or have other questions related to growing your business? Book at 1:1 session with me through Entrepreneur’s Ask an Expert platform.

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