#the concept of “launch object to hurt people” is not exactly new

[stackofsnakes]

"It certainly is an ingenius little device, far beyond the skill of our current craftsmen, but its only function is to accelerate a tiny metal object to high speeds via controlled explosion. Clever but somewhat crude, don't you think?"

Me, suddenly less confident about the gun i was showing to my interdimensional wizard friend: "B-but c-can y-your wa-"

Wizard: Sighs, picks up a stone from the ground and launches it at mach 3 at a nearby tree

[yogaadvise]

How Does Karma Affect Your Life?

Unless you are an extremely evolved, enlightened being, Karma impacts your life in every way, as a matter of fact, your life is the consistent unfolding of Karma!

The Karmic Software

Karma means action. Physics reveals that for every single activity, there need to be an equal and contrary reaction. Karma is energy, which in itself is neither excellent nor negative, these are just the labels individuals select to connect to it. The power developed by an action has actually to be returned: "As yea plant so shall yea reap." It can not be avoided.

When you carry out an activity, it produces a memory, which in turn produces a desire, which leads you to execute an additional action. : You take your initial yoga class (activity), then you understand what occurs in a yoga class (memory), and also if you delighted in the course, you determine to go back the following week (desire), and that following week you transform up once more with your floor covering (action). Karma develops memories and wishes, which after that identify just how you live. Activities, memories, as well as wishes are the Karmic software that run your life.

The refined energy produced by your actions is saved within your memories as well as wishes as well as is activated-- in some cases right away, but more frequently at some future time. To use the earlier example, you took the yoga class and also after that forgot it up until months later when you're going through community and also see a yoga studio. You remember your previous experience, which causes the wish to take another class.

The Vedantic View

It's not essential to rely on reincarnation to understand Karma but, from the Vedantic point of view, you have actually lived for lots of previous lives and also the scenarios as well as scenarios of your current life are the result of the activities performed throughout all lives. Counting on Fate as well as reincarnation makes it simpler to comprehend why poor points take place to excellent people or why a young innocent child develops a deadly illness. Vedanta would certainly say that every little thing in your life is the result of the power created by activities in previous births. Every circumstance that happens to you and also everyone you satisfy has a Karmic importance. Every little thing occurs for a reason.

Whatever your belief, Fate implies that you have created as well as proceed to develop your life. Do you have complimentary will? Sadly, lots of people have really little. Lots of individuals allow themselves to remain imprisoned in that Karmic software program, conditioned by their memories as well as needs, performing the very same routines over and over and also questioning why their lives aren't taking them anywhere. Lots of resemble the hamster, running on its treadwheel, assuming it's getting someplace while in fact it's just going round as well as round!

However, as you grow as well as progress mentally, you can damage out of those cycles as well as purposely choose the life you intend to lead. The Karmic curse triggers you to neglect who you really are, so your spiritual course entails launching the Karma that is clouding your recognition, enabling you to bear in mind that you truly are. Of program, releasing Fate doesn't mean you lose all your memories and wishes, it indicates you shed your attachment to them and also are no much longer held under their influence. As the fantastic seer Adi Shankara claimed, "I utilize memories yet I don't permit them to utilize me."

Gathering and Storing Karma

In addition to the Fate developed from your own actions, you go through the Karmic impacts of your family members, religion, race, race, and also a lot more. Every scenario you encounter in life is the outcome of some Karma. You regularly produce Karma from your activities, thoughts, words, from the activities of others under your control, from your attitudes, expectations, and also way of living. You develop Fate from the intended actions you do consciously and likewise from actions done unconsciously from ignorance. It is also feasible to take on somebody else's Fate, which usually isn't an excellent concept, because you have enough of your own. This can happen from taking one more's personal belongings, gossiping, or daydreaming. It additionally takes place in intimate relationships, however as long as the connection is based in love, this is an appropriate part of a bonding exchange. Keep in mind, the partnership itself is the outcome of Fate, and Vedanta says the objective of every relationship ought to be knowledge.

Vedanta claims that all your Karma is kept in the Jiva, the private heart, or the element of the soul conditioned by Fate. Vedanta defines 3 kinds of Fate: that which you have actually chosen to process during this certain birth, that which is kept for later births, and the new Karma you generate every moment of your existence. Chakras store the Karma for this life time. Chakras are your subtle energy facilities whereby consciousness changes into issue. Fate distorts that circulation of consciousness, causing you to experience an imaginary world. Clearing Karma assists you to get out of the illusion.

Releasing Your Karma

Karma can not be avoided. For many people, Karmic power is returned with the very same intensity with which it was generated. Depending on your previous actions, this might produce joy or suffering. Whatever occurs, is the outcome of Karma being released, which, despite how you see the circumstance, is an advantage and also a possibility for future growth. Vedanta say, "Nothing happens to you, it occurs for you!"

Are you then destined a life of paying for previous mistakes, interspersed by a few moments of enjoyment? Not necessarily. By the top quality of your existing actions, Karma can be changed, transmuted into a various kind, or gone beyond completely. Right here are eight techniques that can aid you increase the high quality of your actions.

1. Make Conscious Choices

The choices you make influence your Fate in 2 means. Making quality selections can soften the strength or size of situations arising from returning Fate. The power of the Fate has actually to be returned, yet it can be translated. Rather of falling down and also breaking your leg, perhaps you just stub a toe. The Karma was returned however the high quality of your life choices lessened its effect.

Your selections additionally establish the high quality of brand-new Karma being developed as well as stored to be launched as future events in your life. It is necessary, for that reason, to be conscious of the choices you are making as well as ask yourself: Do these choices serve me and those that may be impacted by them? Are my choices coming from my heart and greater self or my ego?

2. Forgive

This a crucial facet of your spiritual development. Initially, approve that what has actually occurred has occurred. See if you can, without judgment or examination, understand why it took place. Attempt to forgive whoever you feel may have hurt you, it's constantly feasible to forgive the individual even if you can not forgive the act. From the Vedantic point of view, every hurt you run into is the return of some Karma. If the mail carrier fills your mail box with expenses, do not spend the entire day hating the postman. Forgive as well as relocate forward!

3. Cultivate Gratitude

Forgiveness is difficult for many people, and also gratefulness can additionally be challenging. If you believe that every little thing that happens to you is past Karma being released, after that each time you launch Fate, it is gone. Isn't that cause for celebration? Attempt to be happy for every little thing in your life.

4. Search For Growth Opportunities

Any tough circumstance gives you 2 options. You can see the situation as a trouble and lose your life whining about it, or you can recognize that it happened and ask, "Exactly how can I learn as well as expand from this?"

If you see it as an issue, you can obtain attracted into lower energy, which recreates the very same Karmic power, and you make no progression. Searching for development possibilities allows you to launch the Fate and stay free to continue on your spiritual journey.

5. Learn from Astrology

An astrological graph provides a picture of your Karmic chances. A qualified astrologer can interpret your chart and also offer you advice concerning the possible impacts Karma will certainly play in various locations and at different times of your life. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a spiritual educator, utilized to say, "Every little thing is established yet everything can be altered." Astrology gives you the insight to make the required adjustments. As the Yoga Sutras state, "Prevent the threat which has actually not yet come."

6. Find an Enlightened Teacher

If you are privileged (or your Karma determines you) to fulfill an enlightened teacher, he or she might be able to "see" your Karmic patterns and recommend you accordingly. An enlightened individual could tackle some of your Fate, however this would certainly be with an unique relationship created over numerous years.

7. Discover Your Dharma

Vedanta states that if you comprehend Dharma and Fate, you will recognize every little thing. Dharma is generally specified as function or fact. When you locate your real objective in life as well as stay in total alignment with that, your actions will certainly become spontaneously proper and you will certainly never ever create Karma.

8. Meditate

The most powerful tool you have on your spiritual path is meditation, especially a practice that includes concepts. Reflection is a journey from task into silence. In Primordial Sound Meditation, mantras or audios are made use of without certain significance. The definition of an idea holds the memory as well as need as well as thus the Fate. A concept with no meaning has no Fate. When you believe your mantra in reflection, you are taken beyond the variety of Karma, you go beyond all memories as well as desires as well as slide into the area of unlimited possibilities.

With regular technique, you begin to live from that degree of limitless possibilities rather than the minimal possibilities created by Fate. Meditation realigns you with your true self, leads you back to your real objective (Dharma) and permits you to "wash" away Karma on all levels.

Commitment to your spiritual path is the vital to running away from the Karmic prison you have produced on your own-- and to enjoy boundless freedom in every moment.

[asterythm]

A is for Amour || Human Error (2)

Pairings: Eventual Logicality, eventual Prinxiety Word Count: 2.5k Chapter Summary: Though rigid schedules may have worked in his favour when it came to essays and science fairs, Logan's plans are ill-equipped to handle a living, breathing human. He finds this out the hard way. Chapter Warnings: “Implied gore mention” is all I can think of for this one. Let me know if I’ve forgotten anything, though! General Warnings: Toxic romantic relationship, abusive Deceit, low self-esteem/self-deprecation, negative thinking

<< First Chapter || Read this chapter on AO3

Logan Berry was just about ready to eat his tie.

Not in the literal sense, of course; Logan was very well aware that cloths and fabrics did not have much nutritional value to them. They’d be difficult to digest, for one, and he didn’t imagine the taste could be too appetizing either. The young man had merely been using figurative language to express irritation.

A little clarity never hurt anybody.

Perhaps it would be simpler to forget about the textile consumption and just put it this way: suffice it to say, anyone looking at Logan now would never be able to guess how excited the boy had been only thirty minutes ago.

Which was a shame, really, considering how rare it was for Logan to get excited about anything nowadays.

It was true, though — Logan had been walking on sunshine for weeks in anticipation of this moment. How could he not? Today was the day of his first-ever session in his new tutoring job; a day he’d spent long days and longer nights preparing for. Logan had even gone so far as to create and rehearse a script that contained everything he intended to say, word-for-word. Every detail he could think of, he had planned, all the way down to the exact outfit he’d wear — a freshly-ironed black polo paired with his best blue necktie was the perfect way to passively say, this young man means business. Knowing how crucial a good first impression would be to their overall success, Logan had done everything in his power to ensure that today’s session would run perfectly. It had taken every second that he could spare (and quite a few that he couldn’t), but he didn’t mind. After all, Logan had been completely convinced that all his efforts were bound to pay off in the end.

Oh, what a fool he’d been.

You see, it was only once Logan was watching this unsettlingly energetic thing come careening around the corner did he realise that in all of his careful planning, he’d forgotten to factor in one major variable: the student himself. And a single glance was all it took for Logan to realise that his mistake would cost him dearly.

Not only is he late, he’s completely out of breath. And he’s not even bothering to hide it… just look at that gaping mouth, Logan’s narrowed eyes had immediately observed. Smudged glasses, uncombed hair, grass-stained sneakers — one of which is untied, mind you — oh, and now he’s gone and sent books flying everywhere.

So much for first impressions, I suppose.

With the introduction of this new limiting factor, the future wasn’t looking too bright, to say the least. But if there was one thing that Logan’s extensive collection of award-winning science fair projects had taught him, it was to never waste time trying to control the uncontrollable. So, notebook clutched in one hand and tenaciously holding back doubts with the other, Logan had launched with great determination into the script that he’d practiced so many times before.

It took all of five minutes to grind that determination into the dust. Every single time he paused for breath, the freckled boy seated crookedly in front of him would take it as an invitation to start chattering away at a speed that would give even the most accomplished of auctioneers a run for their money. Poor Logan could hardly keep up with his student, let alone settle him down long enough to get through even the first paragraph.

Finally, he had been forced to abandon his perfectly-crafted script in favour of a much less elegant approach: a simple and to-the-point list of questions. Though it physically pained Logan to abandon the result of so many tears shed and sleepless nights passed, he’d rather finish things the “alkali way” (or, as the cool kids preferred, the “basic way”) than never finish them at all. And if he’s going to talk anyway, Logan reasoned, I might as well give him something productive to talk about. Surely then we’ll be able to stay on-topic.

No such luck. Logan’s first question got no more than a noncommittal shrug before Parker — or was it Patrick? No, he was quite certain that the boy’s name was Parker — was off again, running his mouth a mile a minute, dropping awful puns and grammatically incorrect sentences all over the previously pristine carpet. The poor librarians would have some cleaning up to do later.

Okay, so plan B didn’t work either. Nothing to worry about, though, Logan pretended to believe. I’ve still got twenty-four letters to get through.

To be fair, Plan C was really more of a coping mechanism than an actual step-by-step plan. A surprisingly effective way of releasing pent-up stress and frustration, this longtime favourite involved imagining, in vivid detail, the source of that frustration being slowly and painfully fed into a running wood chipper.

What?

Some might think this cruel. Logan preferred to call it merciful; after all, at least he was limiting his vengeance to the hypothetical realm. An added bonus was that, in the interest of ensuring the utmost accuracy, it had compelled him to familiarize himself with the inner workings of wood chippers. So really, Plan C was a win-win for all parties involved.

As you might have guessed by now, dealing with annoying people never really had been Logan’s strong suit.

Actually, make that dealing with people in general. In hindsight, signing up to work with Sandford Secondary’s peer-to-peer tutoring program had definitely not been the best idea he’d ever had, in that case. Not because he wasn’t qualified — complex formulas and sentence structure he could handle in his sleep. But teaching those same concepts to a student who apparently had no intention of listening, he most certainly could not.

Really, Logan should have known better than to believe that he could ever be successful in any job that depended so much on one’s ability to work with others. Why couldn’t he have chosen something with more facts and numbers?

Facts and numbers were predictable. They always fit neatly into categories of right or wrong, true or false, black or white. Social interaction was so much messier. With no structure, no set of rules, and no procedure to follow, the whole thing was really nothing more than haphazard guesswork, a real-life game of hangman where every wrong word brings you one pen-stroke closer to game over. Bearing all that in mind, Logan had never understood how some people could so easily waltz up to strangers and just begin “bonding” like it was nothing.

And frankly, he didn’t particularly want to understand. Why would anyone choose to while away their life building those fragile houses of cards; vocabulary cards filled with only empty words? Did no one realise that a single misplaced breath is all would take to knock everything down in an instant? Why waste time trying desperately to convince your peers that you’re worth their love, when you could instead be hard at work earning their respect? In Logan’s experience, relationships of any kind — romantic, platonic, even familial — were always sloppy at best when built on love. Respect, on the other hand… respect was real.

This attitude, by the way, was an entirely objective worldview that had nothing to do with the fact that Logan didn’t exactly have many romantic or platonic relationships to choose from. Correlation, not causation.

Besides. Not that he cared.

Taking a deep breath, Logan forced himself to focus back on the session. (That makes one of us, he couldn’t help thinking.) Speaking of empty words… Parker, or Patrick, or whatever-his-name-was, had somehow been ceaselessly talking about corn for —  Logan checked his watch — over seven minutes now. They were getting nowhere, fast.

If Logan allowed the boy to keep this up, the two of them would end up leaving the library having accomplished absolutely nothing at all. That simply would not do. His student’s attitude may not be ideal, but he’d be damned if he let his own standards slip because of it.

After taking a brief pause to collect himself and his thoughts, Logan stood abruptly, causing the freckled boy to cut himself off mid-sentence.

Slowly, deliberately, he moved to stare out the large windows framing the section of the library where the two of them were seated, so that his back was turned and his face was hidden from the other boy.

Then, voice dripping with contempt, he spoke.

“Let me make one thing clear. I am not here to make friends, and neither should you be. I am here to teach, and as of yesterday, I was under the impression that you are here to learn. However, your behaviour so far has led me to believe that perhaps I was mistaken. For once in my life, I find myself praying that I will be proven wrong.

“Now, I don’t know what kind of merry tomfoolery you were expecting from our session today, but I do know exactly what I was expecting, and exactly what I have prepared for you. And since you clearly do not seem interested in steering this session anywhere productive, I suggest that you hand the reins to me and do exactly as I instruct from here on out. I have prepared a rigid agenda for how we will be spending this time together, and I intend to follow it. I expect you to do the same. Be aware that this agenda includes absolutely no icebreakers; we can’t afford to waste any more of our valuable lesson time, especially not on childish games.

“Starting right now, you will answer my questions so I can develop a plan for what we need to accomplish, and you will answer them without distraction. When you are not answering questions, you will hold your tongue like your entire future depends on it. Because it very well might. Is that understood —” just in time, he suddenly remembered the boy’s name — “is that understood, Patton?”

The following moment of quiet, the first one since Patton had stepped foot in the library, was answer enough for Logan.

“Good. I trust this will not be a discussion that we will need to have again, then.”

With that, Logan returned to his seat, carefully scrutinizing Patton once more to see if he could spot any differences. He didn’t need to try too hard. Patton’s transformation was so drastic, it was almost…  

Unnerving. The vigor from earlier had all but disappeared — thank goodness — but with its departure came a distinct dullness to the eyes framed in those round-rimmed glasses. And where Patton had previously been nearly falling out of his seat with barely contained energy, he now slumped inwards as if the words that Logan had spoken were actually physically crushing him.

At the sight, Logan couldn’t help but feel the tiniest glimmer of guilt. Perhaps he hadn’t needed to lay the scolding on quite so heavily. What if I overdid it?

A second later, Logan remembered he didn’t care.

Excellent. This shall be ideal. The brief moment of weakness over, Logan settled back down into the library’s comfortable couch. “What are your academic strengths?” he read off his notebook.

“Uhh, I’m… nice, sometimes. I guess.”  

Logan let out a deep sigh. A wood-chipper-shaped silhouette flickered in the back of his mind.

Most likely seeing his teacher’s disapproval of the vague answer, Patton hurried to add, “I mean, I can be pretty patient when it comes to worksheets. It always takes a really long time for me to finish my homework, so I… kind of have to be, you know?”

“Hm. Is that it?”

“That’s all I can come up with right now. Um, sorry.”

“I see.” Pencil scratched across paper as Logan scribbled down (a paraphrased version of) Patton’s response. In the otherwise unbroken silence, the sound grated loudly against Logan’s ears. He hurried to finish so he could move on to the next question. “Academic weaknesses?”

This time, Patton’s answered without even a moment’s hesitation. “Focus. Organization. Time management. Anything related to math or numbers, really. I’m not good at taking risks. My work is always sloppy and hard to read. It takes me a long time to wrap my head around new concepts.” He rattled off one item after another, a strange mix of confidence and detachment, almost as if reading off an invisible script that he’d already recited — or heard recited to him — many times before.

Logan wasn’t sure what to say to that. Here was another reason he hated socialising; people always had this odd tendency to hyper-fixate on what needed to be fixed rather than what they already had going for them, a tendency that Logan couldn’t imagine was healthy or even at all helpful. There’s so much beauty mixed in with the bad, and yet you choose to ignore it all? Worst of all, these senseless “social blinkers” meant that Logan had no chance of getting an accurate idea of Patton’s actual strengths and weaknesses. There was no way that every item on that list of shortcomings that Patton had just blazed through could actually apply, right?

Logan decided not to push the question, though; experience had taught him that calling others out on their poor logic didn’t often end well. I’ll just have to figure that part out myself, I suppose. Instead, he adjusted his thick glasses, wrote down one or two items from Patton’s list of weaknesses, and read aloud the next question.

And the next, and the next. They were really tearing through the conversation now; Patton’s answers seemed to get shorter and more succinct with every second that passed. Not that Logan was complaining. In fact, he was nothing but grateful for Patton’s newfound intense focus. It seemed his brief speech had done the trick.

Sooner than expected, a quiet trill interrupted the two of them. He checked his phone to see that his alarm had gone off. The session was over.

Had it really been two hours already? It had felt like so much less than that.

Shutting off the alarm, Logan turned to face his student. “Well, that marks the end of our session. I… appreciated your cooperation, Patton. We may have gotten off to a bit of a rocky start, but your focus in the second half of the session was sufficient to convince me that we won’t have too many problems from here on out.”

This time, Patton said nothing at all, settling instead for a wordless nod.

“Next week, I will have worksheets prepared for you. In the meantime, your homework is to write me a page, single-spaced, telling me a little bit more about short-and long-term educational goals. Full sentences only, please.” Logan flipped his notebook shut. “I look forward to reading your writing for the first time,” he lied.

In response, Patton picked up his backpack and started to walk away. He only made it about three steps, though, before turning back and opening his mouth. Logan waited.

The words never came. After the briefest of pauses, Patton’s mouth closed, lips pressed firmly together, perhaps to suppress whatever he’d been wanting to say.

As watched the child disappear around the corner, a thought arose unbidden:

For some reason, Patton seemed so much smaller leaving the library than he had looked when he was entering.

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[next chapter]

A/N: Okay. Even though it's only chapter two, I have a LOT to say. Most of this is about the fic in general rather than the chapter, so... it's LONG. I'm sorry. In the interest of not putting you to sleep, let's speed-round this.

The first chapter of AAmour was the very first thing I ever wrote for the Sanders Sides fandom. I based that chapter almost ENTIRELY on a oneshot comic by @the-pastel-peach.

Two months later, I was planning for NaNoWriMo 2018 (a challenge where authors write 50k in 30 days). Long story short, I decided that I'd like to try finishing AAmour.

I didn't.

I did hit 50k, but I only made it to chapter ten. I still want to finish this thing though, so I've decided to edit and post what I already wrote, one chapter a month, and then write the second half of AAmour during NaNoWriMo 2019.

I'm already late with this first chapter because my dumb brain decided I needed to do a complete rewrite a week before posting, but in the future I'd like to post a chapter on the first day of every month.

Almost everything after chapter one is my own work. I say "almost" because I picked @residentanchor's brain a lot during the planning phase.

So yes, I may still be writing a high school AU, but this is no longer @the-pastel-peach​'s high school AU. Besides Logan's last name (I couldn’t resist -- the pun game was too strong) and the first chapter, any similarities to their version of the AU are completely coincidental; in fact, I've barely looked at theirs because I didn't want to risk any subconscious copying.

Also heeeeyyyyyy this is my 200th post that’s pretty nifty--

I think that about covers it. Thank you so, so much for reading -- both the chapter and my ridiculously long author’s note!! See you soon, lovelies. Take care <3

General tag list: @surleytemple @starryfirefliesbloggo @icecoldparadise @lyditist @fandom-random2405 @beach-fan @ihateitwhenyourejustvague @starryeyedhomicide

AAmour tag list: @romanticsanders @thatrandomautist @thelowlysatsuma @mirror2thespirit @pokii-jonas

Let me know if you’d like to be added to or removed from either tag list!

[spookysnicket]

ANON: ⛰Could I get a matchup please? I'm agender asexual and tall (6'1) with some bulky posture and brown messy pixie haircut with grey eyes(people always think I'm a man and treat me like one) I'm always calm and collected yet I can have fun which suprises everyone I'm always affectionate and supportive of my loved ones and wouldn't let them down, I craft my own knives in my free time(always dreamed about owning a cabin in forgotten place I'm introvertic as heck)I'm a pro at throwing knives. Even with my patient demenour, I absolutely HATE bullying, don't care if it's kindergarden, middle school, high school or even some picking the poor person up in the middle of town I WILL GET PROTECTIVE AND HIGHLY WRECK THE ASSHOLE! I was bullied trough entire middle school of my ,,girly'' face and even called gay. I'm not that confident as I was before but I'm fighting with my insecirities. I guess I can fight really well, self defense classes paid off. Hope It's ok, take care hun!💕💕

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(Awww thank you so much love!! Once I got the motivation to write, I had a really good time writing this for you! You sound so strong, and I’m proud and very happy to hear that you’re working on your insecurities (: I hope you enjoy it, matchup under the cut as always)

I match you with Jason Voorhees

🏒 Jason, the poor guy, is mortified by the prospect of having to enact anything sexual to appease his love, repulsed even. He’s very, very grateful you don’t want nor need that to be happy with him

🏒 Giant buff forest cryptids unite! You’re big enough to the point where Jason doesn’t need to worry about losing you, but just tiny enough for him to dote on you like a baby (his baby!)

🏒 Jason’s mute, but he’s still got a rotting brain left behind his hockey mask. He thinks of you with your correct pronouns, and since he never found time to associate different looks with claim to one gender, he’s too confused to grasp those concepts

🏒 He never has to worry about you getting into trouble, (or getting away) seeing as you’re typically so casual and relaxed with every situation Jason’s seen you be put in

🏒 Jason wants you to enjoy yourself any time you can, but he doesn’t have a very well fleshed out ideal of ‘fun’. Just don’t get carried away and have too good of a time, it’ll make your momma’s boy worry ):

🏒 You could never let Jason down! Your support does mean a lot to him though, and he’s happy to come back home every night to your open arms, tender affection, and words of praise rather than the kicking and screaming from his victims he’s grown accustomed to

🏒 Jason treasures any gifts you’d think to give him, you're a gift yourself! With that said, please consider making him knives or other intricate weaponry. His old machete is dulling down by every use, and this boy needs all the help he can get with style. Have you seen his clothes?

🏒 He understands that you’re not some child who needs protection from them self, but you are his baby who needs protection from everything. His first instinctual thought is that sharp objects are a no no around you, but he’d hate to take away whatever few hobbies you can bring with you to Crystal Lake. This means that whenever you work on knives, Jason wants to be right there to watch over you. That also means that you now have an assistant! He’s surprisingly good with metal working

🏒 When you tell Jason you’re into knife throwing, it’s there he opts to draw the line of ‘eligible activities permitted for Y/n’. He does think it’s a nifty talent, but you could get seriously injured- therefore, the big wet boot has been put down. Though, once you show him how good you are at it with a surprise demonstration involving a questionably large kitchen knife and a small circular clipping from a rather precarious red stained shirt you’d tacked to a wall, you may get him to reconsider confiscating all of your arms. May

🏒 Welcome to your new, very humble abode! La maison de Jason! Your dreamy contemporary secluded log cabin resides deep within the lush, verdant woods- comes with most utilities, including a complimentary lovable soggy zombie man

🏒 If personalities could be gauged on the D&D alignment scale, Jason would be, what I’d consider, the ‘chaotic introvert’. He’s not very keen on the idea of you leaving the cabin much anyway, so your lifestyles really work out for each other in the long run

🏒 Jason’s just??? Oh???? You share the same viewpoint on bullying, and he’s incredibly happy under that mask, trust me. You might even get him to take you bully bludgeoning! Bonding time, how fun!

🏒 Hearing why you hate bullies as much as you do only makes Jason increasingly aggressive when it comes to the trespassers. What if they find you? What if they’re mean to you, and hurt you?

🏒 It’s heartbreaking for Jason to know he isn’t able to protect you from your past and the awful things in it. Pam and you are the only good people in the world to him, and he loathes the idea that anyone would ever think to wrong you

🏒 Girly face? Uh, no. As cruel as those remarks sound, Jason has to mentally admit that the crackheads in question must not have been too bright if that’s the best they could come up with. Making fun of your appearance? Please, how do you even try to poke fun at something so perfect?

🏒 Insecurity is a big issue for Jason too. For a long time when you first ‘get together’ with him, aka Jason kidnapping you, he won’t understand that you choose to stay with him because you love him, and not because you’re scared of being murdered otherwise

🏒 There was exactly 1 (one) time a trespasser managed to stumble upon you while frantically scrambling through the forest away from Jason. They’d started screaming and clawing at your legs and ankles, and grabbing onto your body in a manic fit. Within acceptable reason, your self defense training kicked in. Jason caught up and emerged from the trees just in time to watch you practically launch the camper into outer orbit- and he swore he felt his cold, decrepit heart beat for the first time in a long while

[eponymous-rose]

Fic: Changebringer [Mollymauk | T | 2400 words]

[FFN | AO3 | Campaign Two Stories | Campaign One Stories]

The past is a tyrant. Mollymauk Tealeaf, the fates, and change.

Changebringer

Luck favors the bold.

- First Commandment of Avandra

"It's New Dawn the day after tomorrow, is the thing," Gustav says, beaming a smile that's just a little too for-show, just a little too bright around the edges. He hasn't stopped talking since he and Molly started working three hours ago, which hasn't exactly come as a surprise. Gustav is the sort of man who fears silence the way cows fear going down a set of stairs: it's so fundamentally alien to his nature that getting into it means he'll likely never find his way out. "You know that much, surely."

Molly shugs and smiles, leaning on the signpost he's just hammered into the ground and shaking out his freshly blistered hands. Never worked a day in his life, technically, and now here he is playing 24-hour man with Gustav, plastering the roadside ahead of the carnival with signs promising the show of a lifetime. There's bound to be a couple of aches and pains.

"What do you think about papering the house?" Gustav isn't actually waiting for a response, but he pauses, politely, before launching back into his spiel. "Give away enough free seats to fill the house on night one, might be able to get some interest going on night two. Anyway, I doubt we'll pick up that much business straight away. Hasn't been much entertainment in these parts. People will be wary, I think, rather than excited, though I suppose it's always hard to tell which way it's going to swing."

Molly narrows his eyes, scrunching up his face. It takes Gustav a second, but once the penny drops, he laughs. "You're saying they might be suspicious? Yeah, that's a fair assessment. Someone shows up offering you something for nothing, you take a second look. Still, I'm thinking we seem harmless enough that nobody's going to be looking too hard. These folk are nothing if not good at making assumptions about people, so we'll just make sure we come across as simple, frivolous, fun-loving people. Which is, mind you, broadly accurate."

Stretching out the aches in his back with a yawn, Molly bends and scoops up the rest of the signposts, cocking an eyebrow at Gustav. "Yeah, two or three more down this way," Gustav says. "I'll show you the kinds of spots where the crownsguard won't notice soon enough to tear 'em down. You'll be able to do this yourself next time." He squints at Molly. "Hey, you get more ink since last week? I run a job for five days and everything changes."

Craning his neck, Molly shows off the peacock, the green even more vivid against the still-reddened edges of his lavender skin. It's one of the rare tattoos he's had that's actually going to look less impressive the longer he has it. Gustav whistles, soft and low. "Great work, that one. Mona introduce you to her artist? Lovely, lovely." He stops in his tracks. "What were we talking about? Oh! Yes, New Dawn. The Changebringer. You heard of her?"

Molly has, but he's found that not knowing things tends to lead to infinitely more interesting conversations than the alternative, so he shakes his head.

"Not an approved deity, mind you, but I've found that this close to the edge of the Empire people tend to be a little more relaxed. New Dawn's her holy day. Change and rebirth and the open road. People mostly just treat it as an excuse to get hammered, and enough of the locals are not-so-locals that they remember some of the old prayers and such. Good business for a traveling band of folks wanting to make some honest coin." He winks. "And we'll do pretty well, too."

Molly's been giving it some thought, actually. So far he's been operating on the principle of leaning into what feels right, but gods are, well. A lot. But there's something appealing about the paradox embedded in the notion of a changeless, immortal divine being dedicated to the concept of change. Doesn't make much sense at all, which feels right in a way that makes his heart race with excitement.

Experimentally, when Gustav has his back turned to resume monologuing, Molly glances up at the sky and sketches a quick bow. The flashy moment lingers a little longer than he'd expected, and he catches himself staring down at the dirt, at the tiny grains pounded by hundreds of feet and hooves and wheels into a path, a road, a thoroughfare formed by a communal desire to be elsewhere, to be in transition, to be transforming. After a moment's hesitation, he nudges off his ill-fitting boots and stands with the chill of the dirt soaking into the bottoms of his feet.

And then he laughs, loud and long and hoarse, and sprints past a bewildered Gustav down the wide-open roadway, moving forward, forward, forward.

Rise against tyranny.

- Second Commandment of Avandra

Molly's mouth is dry, his voice hoarse from yelling in Infernal. He's also got a weird pain in his back from sleeping wrong on his bedroll the night before, and, well, he's got a sword in his shoulder, which isn't exactly what he was going for when he woke up this morning, but he's aware that it's now a thing that he's going to have to deal with at some point.

The bandit who'd owned the sword is long-dead, Yasha having considerately separated his head from his body, but the battle's become frenzied enough that Molly's not sure he'll be able to snag any friendly attention without simultaneously broadcasting his position to someone who might be inclined to add another sharp, pointy object to his collection.

So he slumps back against a tree stump, dropping his own swords to get a more careful grip on the hilt of the blade, holding it steady as he sits down heavily in the grass and waits for the battle to turn one way or the other.

It's a new experience, bleeding this badly, being in this much pain. He keeps trying and failing to focus his eyes, which makes him think about the way his heart is slamming into his ribs, which makes him think about the throbbing in his shoulder, which makes it hard to focus again. This is new to him, absolutely and unambiguously not an experience he has had before, but he also knows that the person he's not, the one who lurks deep in his bones, knows this kind of pain all too well. He's breathing slowly and carefully in such a deliberate way that it had to have been learned somewhere.

His arms get a little tired holding up the sword, so he tries letting them slump to his sides, which makes the sword shift, which makes him draw in a muted hiss of breath that almost throws his rhythm off altogether. But he slips slowly, inevitably, back into the metronomic, almost hypnotic pace of breathing, in and out, in and out.

"Hey," Yasha says, staring down at him. Time must have passed, because she wasn't standing there before, and Ornna certainly wasn't crouched at his side, and, hey, no more sword, many more bloodied bandages, all good things.

"Hey yourself," he says, dreamily. "They gone? We win? That's nice."

Yasha blinks, looking nonplussed, then hesitates, as if searching for words. "You're pretty tough," she says, finally. "Looked like it hurt a lot. You didn't even yell when they pulled it out, but you were still mostly conscious for that part, I think."

He shifts, turning to meet Ornna's furrowed-brow scowl. "What did they want?"

She shrugs. "By the sorry state of their coinpurses, probably gold. Maybe some of the silks we picked up last stop. Maybe our tents. Maybe our horses. Assholes like that always feel owed the things they don't have." She sees the next question in his eyes and the hard lines of her face soften. "Nobody hurt, aside from you. Nothing serious, anyway." Apparently done with her quota for kindness for the day, she swats him on the bad shoulder, making him yelp, and walks off.

Yasha is watching him still, looming like a particularly stoic monolith. There's blood on her face that she hasn't bothered cleaning off, though her damp cloak has obviously just been scrubbed clean. "You fought really well, like you'd done it before. Scooped up those swords and just-" She motions with her hands. "-really went at it. You know?"

"Beginner's luck." Mollymauk winks. "Give me a minute to get used to not bleeding to death and I'll tell you all about how I learned that."

She snorts. "You mean, give you enough time to make up a story to fool me with." But he's pretty sure that's a smile cracking the solid wall of her face.

Unlike Gustav, Yasha appreciates the value of a good silence, so Molly lets himself fade out a bit, listening to the quiet murmur of voices, smelling the sharp tang of blood in the air, while Yasha just stands, watching him, like she's trying to make up her mind about something.

He snaps back to himself when she finally crouches down. Granted, she's still looming, but he appreciates that she's making the effort. "A friend of mine used to call the past a tyrant," she says, slowly, like she's testing each word. "That it rules cruelly when it doesn't even have the right."

Molly thinks of a half-dozen glib responses and swallows them all. "I think your friend and I would have got on well."

Yasha hesitates, then drops a heavy hand onto the top of his head, between his horns. She looks panicked for a moment, like she hadn't thought this far ahead, then clumsily ruffles his hair. "Keep the swords on the outside of you from now on," she says. "Just a suggestion."

Dazed, he watches her push to her feet and walk away.

Change is inevitable.

- Third Commandment of Avandra

Lying flat on his back some distance from the campsite, Molly cuts his deck of cards with one hand and traces new constellations in the sky with the other.

It's a habit he's been cultivating, reminiscent of children seeing familiar shapes in clouds: this little triad of stars is a stone, clearly, and the larger cluster that sprays from it is a gush of water meeting its unyielding surface. Probably deeply symbolic of standing fast in the face of overwhelming odds. Deeply symbolic of something, anyway. These things always are.

Jester, perched on a log beside him, is sketching something in her notebook, squinting to make out color in the flickering firelight, but the sounds of her scribblings are more careful and deliberate than usual, and he can feel her eyes on him. He blinks, then props himself up with one elbow, smiling. "Are you sketching me?"

"No," she says, "I'm on watch with you and doing a very good job of it and definitely not getting distracted. Definitely." She narrows her eyes. "Stop moving around."

Obediently, Molly drops back and stares at the sky again. The fog of his own breath in the cool night air is making it hard to pick out individual stars, so he has to imagine pinpricks of light in the spaces he's missing. "I wonder what it's like out there."

Jester pauses. "What, up in the stars, you mean? My momma used to tell me the night was a big blanket, but someone knew we were scared of the dark and poked some holes to let the light in."

Molly smiles, drawing back to shuffle his deck with both hands. "Thus the great theological quandary: who poked the holes?"

"I think it's different for everyone," Jester declares. "We all see the stars a little bit differently, probably. For me, it was definitely the Traveler."

"That's a nice thought," Molly says, and waits for her scribblings to slow again before sitting up. "All right, I've waited long enough. Let me see."

She grins, not a hint of shyness about her, and hands over her journal.

He was expecting something silly or obscene or both at the same time, and while there are admittedly a series of surprisingly lifelike dicks scribbled in one corner, the main subject of the painting is untouched by anything objectionable.

The figure on the page is prone, reaching up to the stars with one hand, but eclipsing even the vastness of the stellar landscape is the peacock tattoo. It runs from the side of the tiefling's face, down the shoulder, and bleeds into the earth behind and beneath, stretching outward in vivid greens and red-eyed circles that anchor the figure to the earth, with long, colorful feathers sprouting from the dirt all around like cattails.

"That's lovely, Jester," he says, softly, and hands it back to her.

"I think it's such a nice tattoo, I wanted to make it as big as your personality!" Jester frowns. "Don't you like it?"

Something of the chill down Molly's spine must have shown on his face, but he shakes it off, beaming wide. "Like it? I think it's genius. A fabulous work of art. We'll have to look for a place in town to see about converting it to a fully fledged mural or tapestry of some sort."

Jester's eyes go wide. "A tapestry? Do you think they'd do that?"

He makes a show of considering the painting. "Absolutely. Make sure they include the dicks, though. That's a vital part of the artistic oeuvre."

That sparks a genuine laugh from her. "Anyway, I think the Traveler liked it." She lowers her voice to a stage whisper. "He thinks you're weird."

Molly blinks. "He thinks I'm weird?"

"I know, right?" She winks at him, then stretches, pushes to her feet, and starts meandering in her usual first-watch circuit around the edge of the camp.

Molly stays where he is for a while longer, trying to recapture the complexity of the constellations in his mind, but all that comes to view now in the spray of stars is a set of parallel lines: long, thin feathers in the sky, planted firmly and immovably into the blackness of the void behind them, the unblinking red eyes of his tattoos drawing him down and down and down into the uncaring earth.

Rubbing some warmth back into his arms, he stands, casting an unsettled glance at the camp behind him, and stares out into the deep, dark woods, hunching his shoulders against the cold.

[wesleybates]

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[justforbooks]

The Monument is one of London’s most famous landmarks, even giving its name to a local Tube stop. But this tribute to London’s greatest fire also has a secret second use – as a giant piece of scientific equipment.

“I’ll just open the hatch…” says Richard Smith, who is stooped over in the ticket office at the Monument. He’s examining the oak-panelled floor as though it’s hiding a secret chamber, as in an Indiana Jones movie. Above him, a desk is piled high with leaflets “This is to certify that ________ has climbed the 311 steps of the Monument”.

The thing is, there are actually 345.

The Monument to the Great Fire of London consists of a towering, 202-foot (61-metre) stone column, decorated with dragons and topped with a flaming golden orb. On the inside, a striking spiral staircase stretches all the way to the top, twisting up like the peel of an apple carved in a single, continuous ribbon.

For years, a cracked plaque tacked to the base explained that it had been designed by Sir Christopher Wren.

Again, this isn’t entirely truthful.

It makes a lot of sense that the capital’s beloved Monument would be borne of Britain’s most celebrated architect. After all, Wren was widely involved in rebuilding London after the Great Fire destroyed pretty much every inch of ground within the city walls – including 13,200 houses and numerous extraordinary public buildings, from riverside castles to Whittington’s Longhouse, one of the largest public toilets in Europe. He even created the nearby St Paul’s Cathedral.

In fact, the Monument was designed by his close friend: a scientist.

In fact, the Monument was designed by his close friend: a scientist.

Robert Hooke was a man of many passions, who applied his enquiring mind to subjects as diverse as chemistry and map making, at the sober end of the scale, and folk beliefs about toads and his own bowel movements at the other. In his day, he had a reputation as lofty as the pillar itself, variously described as “England’s Leonardo” and “certainly the greatest mechanick [sic] this day in the world”.

Today his name has largely been forgotten, but his contributions have endured. Among other things, he coined the word “cell” to describe the basic unit of life (they reminded him of Monks’ rooms, or “cells”), devised Hooke’s law of elasticity – arguably not particularly exciting, but useful – and invented mechanisms still used in clocks and cameras to this day.

After the fire, Hooke tried his hand at architecture too, designing hospitals, civic buildings and churches across the city. He didn’t get a lot of credit, partly because most of his achievements were signed off by, and mistakenly attributed to, Wren – and partly because some of them weren’t very good.

One such project was the Bethlem Royal Hospital.  In an age where charity was increasingly fashionable, this new psychiatric hospital was designed more for its visitors than its patients. The focus on aesthetics was so extreme, it was widely mocked as a “palace for lunatics”. Among other features, it boasted an ornate façade that cracked the building with its weight and a garden bordered by dangerously low walls; though patients might have escaped, at least they didn’t obscure the splendor of the building. Needless to say, the hospital name, corrupted to “Bedlam”,  remains synonymous with chaos to this day.

Then came the Monument. It was supposed to be a grand acknowledgement of the fire, but at the time, “what Hooke really wanted was to build a very long telescope” says Maria Zack, a mathematician at Point Loma Nazarene University, California. In the end, he decided to combine both. 

My guide for the day is Richard Smith, a Londoner with a Cockney accent and infectious enthusiasm for this enigmatic pillar. He lifts up the hatch – the only clue to which is a couple of wrought-iron hinges – and disappears underground. It leads to yet more stairs.

Eventually we find ourselves in a room with a domed roof. The ancient brick walls are bare and crumbling and it smells damp, like clothes that have been left in the washing machine for too long. This part is usually off-limits to visitors, though I can’t help thinking they probably don’t mind all that much.

Today the room is empty, except for a wireless router and some sensors.  “When they put the building next door up a couple of years ago, they had to make sure they didn’t accidentally knock this one down,” says Smith. But a few hundred years ago, it was a state-of-the-art physics lab.

To see why, Smith ushers me into the centre of the room. Looking up through a metal grate, there’s a clear view all the way through the spiral staircase, up to the highest point in the building. Right at the top, hidden inside a decorative golden orb, is yet another trap door – this time made of heavy iron. When it’s opened, you can look all the way up, from the basement lab into the night sky. In fact, the entire building is a giant telescope.

This isn’t as bonkers as it sounds. Back in the 17th Century, scientists were still arguing about whether the Sun revolved around the Earth or the other way around. Like all rational people today, Hooke was thoroughly convinced by the latter. But no one could prove it.

In theory, it should have been easy, thanks to “astronomical parallax”, an apparent shift in the position of one object, against a backdrop of another.

To experience parallax, all you need to do is hold out a finger and squint at it though one eye, then close that eye and open the other. Though all that’s changed is your viewing perspective, your finger will appear to move. “It’s a concept we all understand intuitively,” says Zack.

Scaling this up, if the Earth changes its position relative to the stars, while circling the Sun – then they should appear to jump from one place to another over the course of a year.

The catch is just how tiny these movements are. Take Gamma Draconis, a giant orange-coloured star around 900 trillion miles (1.4 quadrillion km) away. Instead of measuring the movement of objects in the sky, from planets to satellites, in metres or inches, astronomers divide up the heavens like the face of an imaginary clock. Every six months, the star moves north or south in the sky at a scale equivalent to the hands moving 22 ten-thousandths of a second. 

To magnify parallax enough to see it, you need a very large telescope indeed.

Hooke’s first idea was to embed one in his lodgings at Gresham College, where he was professor of geometry. The 36-foot (11m) telescope was so large, holes had to be cut through the structure of the building. In the end, it passed through two floors and out through the roof.

Next, Hooke chose his star. Gamma Draconis was the ideal candidate, because it’s relatively bright and passes directly overhead. Now all he had to do was wait for it to pass overhead – he was ready to change our perspective on the Universe forever.

Except it didn’t work. The measurements depended on lining the lenses up exactly, but the structure just wasn’t stable enough. They were fixed in place using a wooden structure – a material known to expand in heat and flex in the wind.

Instead, he turned to the Monument. This time, he was determined the structure would be sturdy. His plans called for 28,196 cubic feet (798 cubic metres) of the finest Portland stone, which is roughly the weight of 14 blue whales. “This wasn’t just some flimsy narrow tube like the other telescope,” says Zack.

The construction took the best part of six years, mostly because they kept running out. Eventually the king issued a proclamation, forbidding anyone from transporting rocks from the Isle of Portland without first consulting Wren, who was officially in charge of the project.

There were a few other hiccups along the way, such as the suggestion that it should be topped by a statue of the king, Charles II. This would have ruled out using it as a telescope, of course.

“Wren was like ‘Oh, I know what you mean, but wouldn’t it be better to have this nice golden orb on the top? Then you can use it to shoot fireworks.’” says Zack, while pointing out that the need for a firework launching pad would hardly have been at the forefront of peoples’ minds.

Luckily, the King refused to have a statue of himself on top anyway, since he thought this might make it look like he was responsible for the fire. Hooke got his way and it was completed in 1677.

Originally, lenses would have slotted in at either end and an observer, standing in the lab, could take measurements of the stars using a special eyepiece. This time, surely Hooke would get his way.

Then disaster struck. “He was trying to keep the two lenses aligned, 200ft apart, with only limited ways to anchor them to the telescope,” says Zack. Worse still, the Monument is next to Fish Street Hill, which was the main route to London Bridge at the time. This was one of the busiest roads in London, mere metres from his highly sensitive scientific experiment. In the end, vibrations from the traffic ruined everything.

Parallax wasn’t discovered until 1838, when German astronomer Friedrich Bassel observed the movement of the star 61 Cygni.

But that isn’t quite the end of the Monument’s story. In the 17th Century, high buildings were rare. At the time, the tallest building in the world was Strasbourg Cathedral, which was only just over twice as high. Previously, Hooke had been forced to conduct experiments requiring height from the top of London’s Westminster Abbey or St Paul’s Cathedral. Now he had his very own laboratory for “tryalls” on the effects of height, particularly on the pressure of the surrounding air. In 1678 he penned a typically muddled diary entry:

Thursday, May 16th – wrote to Grace angry letter about her mothers Shirds. ag. at Fish street piller tryd experiment it descended at the top about 1/3rd of an inch. DH. view at Bedlam with Govenors 0. Sir Joseph Watt here. Opend Iron chest hurt finger. sat not, discoursd about Experiment at Fish Street Column. with Mr. Henshaw, &c., at Jonathans.

Hooke was using a barometer to measure how pressure changed as he walked up the pillar. He had planned the Monument very carefully – each step is exactly six inches tall – so he could track the changes in pressure with precision. Between the bottom and top of the stairs, the mercury level dropped by about a third of an inch, confirming that air pressure decreases with altitude.

Finally, a successful experiment at the Monument. Who cares that this had already been discovered three decades earlier? Even if it was by simply walking up a mountain.

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Apple attacks Facebook by becoming the asocial network

Sharing with everyone is passé and more than a little bit scary these days. We want to send photos to friends without posting them publicly. We want to reminisce without being permanently defined by our timelines. And we want the utility of apps without giving away our contact info to developers.

The problem is that this philosophy is hard to monetize for a social network that needs to maximize broadcasted content and engagement to score ad views. But it’s easy to monetize if you sell the phone and then let people be as private as they want on it. That’s why today at WWDC, Apple showed off changes that turn iOS into the asocial network — software that mimics the tools of Facebook but without the pressure to overshare.

Most stunningly, Apple will require apps that offer third-party login options like those from Facebook and Google to integrate its new Sign In With Apple feature that lets users hide their email addresses from developers. It’s a power move that makes Facebook look wreckless with your contact info by comparison.

Privacy has been a core Apple talking point for years, from the iPhone’s secure enclave and FaceID to message encryption to protection against tracking. But those safeguards have been focused on getting out of the way to let Apple’s products to ‘just work’. Increasingly, Apple is moving privacy further forward in the user experience to highlight how you can get more out of sharing less. That’s a wise strategy since the company has proven its inability to build full scale social networks out of Ping, Apple Music Connect, and iMessage.

“At Apple, we believe privacy is a fundamental human right and we engineer it into every single thing we do” said Apple SVP Craig Federighi .  Mark Zuckerberg declared “The future is private” at Facebook’s F8 conference a month ago, but proved it wasn’t his company’s past or present by failing to launch products that protect users. Now like Google did at I/O a few weeks ago with a slew of privacy tech launches, Apple is actually living up to its talking points with today’s beta release of iOS 13.

Photo Message Recommendations – When you bring up the Share Sheet for a photo or video in iOS 13, Apple will recommend people to send it to over iMessage or Mail based on who you frequently share with and if friends appear in the content. With a few taps you can privately deliver your imagery to a slew of your closest friends and favorite group chats, which could eliminate the need to post it more widely on Facebook or Instagram.

Asocial Media Tools – Instagram offers no way to download a photo or video you edit without first posting it to the feed first. That greedy growth hack leaves room for Apple to usurp more of the creative process. iOS 13 will let you edit videos for lighting, color, contrast, and more plus rotate clips you accidentally shot sideways — all which Instagram and Facebook can’t do. Forgoing the social network side lets Apple focus on tools that you’re free to use however you want.

And with the new Photo Day feature, Apple automatically hides and emphasizes different photos from each day to create magazine-style layouts. These ignite nostalgia and create a visual diary without the embarassment of all that content being on social media to power those TimeHop and Facebook On This Day features.

Memoji – To date, Apple’s interest in animated avatar masks that look like you has centered around FaceTime and video messages. But now it’s realizing how these virtual mini-me’s can enhance privacy while connecting more deeply. iOS 13 will let you opt to share your name and Memoji (or a real photo) as your message thread thumbnail in iMessage so new conversation partners like group chat friends-of-friends can better identify you without showing strangers your actual face. And Memoji can now be used as pre-generated stickers in chat, making it a direct competitor to Snapchat’s Bitmoji and Facebook’s Avatars that just launched today.

AirPods Audio Sharing – What if instead of trumpeting what you’re listening to on social media or fumbling to text a song link to a friend, they could just instantly pipe the sound into their headphones too so you’re rocking out in sync? That’s how the upcoming AirPods Audio Sharing works to let you exchange music privately over Bluetooth without exposing your guilty pleasure jams.

Sign In With Apple, Not Facebook

Apple’s most brazen attack saw it call out the social network by name on screen at WWDC. Flashing logos for “Sign In With Facebook” and “Sign In With Google” that are popular for joining new apps without setting up an account, Federighi noted that “This can be convenient, but it also can come at the cost of your privacy. Your personal information sometimes gets shared behind the scenes. These logins can be used to track you.”

As an alternative, Apple is launching “Sign In With Apple”. It uses FaceID in lieu of asking you to create a new username and password to register for a third-party app. Federighi told users they can opt to hide their email addresses from app developers and instead have Apple provide a randomized proxy address that forwards to their real one. That means users can permanently block spam messages from the app, prevent the developer from sharing or selling their contact info, and avoid being targeted with marketing via their email address as with Facebook Custom Audience ads. 

The announcement drew the loudest cheers of any at WWDC. And it seems Apple is determined to wring as much competitive advantage out of its Sign In feature as possible. You might imagine that adoption by developers would be outside of Apple’s control, and it’d have to prove it drove more lifetime value than login options that always provide a user’s real email.

But while Apple failed to mention this on stage, the fine print of its developer news brief notes that “Sign In with Apple will be available for beta testing this summer. It will be required as an option for users in apps that support third-party sign-in when it is commercially available later this year.”

That’s right. Apple is going to force developers to add its sign in tool. It’s also requiring use of its new location sharing permissions screen that offers one-time access for developers instead of just permanent snooping. But for now, Apple doesn’t specify exactly how. That means the tech giant will have to convince developers to offer Sign In With Apple as prominently as Facebook and Google’s options…even though privacy could be detrimental to their business.

Sure, developers want to maximize signups by minimizing onboarding friction, which is why Sign In With features that don’t make you remember more passwords have grown popular. Adding the Apple sign-in option should theoretically help. But developers also rely on sucking in email addresses to wake up lapsed users with message blasts, target them and people similar to them with reengagement or install ads, and exclude existing users to save money when buying ads to recruit new users.

If developers fear Sign In With Apple’s proxy email address feature will hurt them by cannibalizing registrations made with Facebook or Google that don’t offer users a way to hide their real contact info more than the convenience of a third sign-in option will help, they may try their best to bury or minimize the mandatory feature. Apple might have to incentivize growth for developers in other ways, such as heavily promoting them in the App Store if they prioritize its login option to offset the lifetime value per user decline from the loss of contact info. Unless compelled by some moral imperative, developers aren’t likely to risk their business any more than they have to in the name of privacy.

It’s here that Apple will learn that taking the high road can have its speed bumps. It might monetize selling hardware, but its developer partners often still rely on constantly grabbing our attention.

Privacy is often an abstract concept to the mainstream consumer, that doesn’t dictate their decisions, judging by Facebook’s continued user growth. That’s why promotional campaigns around the philosophy of privacy can seem to have little impact. But by building products and platforms that are objectively more useful yet more privacy-friendly than those of competitors, Apple can allow natural market forces to sweep users in the right direction — which just happens to lead into its shiny retail stores.

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10 Cancer Causing Foods You Should Never Put in Your Mouth Again

Normally, we do not examine our meals every day in order to find out whether they contain something that could create cancer.

However, if we take the newest numbers right into consideration, maybe that's not a poor concept at all!

Namely, a year back, research showed that almost 1.5 million experience some type of cancer cells. Don't you think we need to try and also find out exactly what all could trigger this distressing illness and also lead to this high number of brand-new tumor patients?

Therefore, this post will disclose the leading 10 foods that could include cancer- creating agents or might lead to malignancy:

Processed Meats

The intake of handles meats can lead to the occurrence of cancer cells. This includes frankfurters, wieners, bacon, most luncheon meat like bologna or pimento chunk.

Namely, according to the record by researchers created in the journal of BMC Medicine, your wellness and well-being are seriously hurt by the expensive salts as well as chemicals made use of in the production of these meats.

Namely, their study consisted of people from 10 European countries and also proceeded for best around 13 years. Its findings were instead troubling: 1 in each 17 individuals that joined the study died.

Moreover, those that ate 160 grams or a greater amount of prepared meats expanded their danger of right- on- time demise as long as 44 percent in 12 years, compared with people that took in 20 grams or less.

Farmed Salmon

You could still believe, and you are definitely not incorrect, that fish is one of one of the most needed and healthiest foods possible. However, this is not the case with farmed salmon. Facts claim that even more than 60 percent of the salmon consumed in the U.S.A is farm raised.

This includes the following: fish are offered unnatural food and also are constantly being infected with recognized health hazards, such as chemicals, antibiotics, pesticides.

These chemicals are provided to them with the objective to provide red pink color to their meat, as it is normally, and also which does not appear as they are fed with poultry clutter. Furthermore, they stay in really jampacked conditions which leads to these fish having 30 times the number of sea louse compared to wild salmon.

Processed White Flours

There is no doubt that you have actually all been notified that white flour could supply almost no advantage to you, however we are sure that you have actually not listened to the whole story.

Namely, when being improved, the particular supplements of grains are being crushed. Additionally, the flour has no more time left to lighten up naturally, rather, it is colored with a compound called chlorine gas. According to the EPA, this gas is incredibly dangerous, and also it is not even secure to breathe it in, as big quantities could be deadly.

Many managed nutritions include white flour, which has a high glycemic price and swiftly enhances glucose and insulin degrees. This is thought to be spreading out illness cells, however it is additionally the immediate reason for diabetes.

Destructive tumors maintain generally on the sugars in your flow system. By maintaining away from improved grains, for instance, white flour, you can escape, or anyway, starve tumors.

GMO's

GMO's, or genetically customized microorganisms, are readjusted by chemicals as well as created with chemicals.

The findings of a research study done by Dr. Pusztai at the Rowett Institute in Scotland offered some devastating results. Namely, rats were fed with GMO foods especially potatoes.

In the initial 10 days of the research, scientists found pre-dangerous cell developments in all rats, alongside with littler brains and also livers. Also though consumers think that the FDA has sanctioned these GMO foods, it is not the case.

Namely, the FDA has no testing strategies for GMO's. As discovered in a major human research study, the genetics in GMO's could be moved into the DNA of their consumers. Incredibly, greater than 90% of our corn and also soy are now genetically modified, including soybeans, wheat, and corn.

Microwave Popcorn

Microwave popcorn could appear like a nice, light snack, however you better beware. There is greater than simply bits in most microwave popcorn. It includes PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid) which is a most likely health hazard and also could also be discovered in Teflon.

A current research conducted at the University of California, PFOA is linked to sterility in women. Different studies in lab animals as well as individuals demonstrate that intro to PFOA altogether constructs the risk of kidney, bladder, liver, pancreas as well as testicular malignancies.

Moreover, there is a lung disease referred to as diacetyl that is connected with inhaling the fumes from a freshly popped bag of popcorn. They likewise have some extremely dangerous chemicals, such as propyl gallate, a substance that causes stomach issues as well as skin rashes.

Potato Chips

We all like potato chips! Apart from that, the fact is that they can be very damaging to our health.

Potato chips are likewise high in fat and also calories, which add to harmful weight gain, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and also other wellness issues. And also, they include man-made tastes as well as countless preservatives that are not excellent for your health.

According to a study conducted on the New England Journal of prescription, found that the regular consumption of only 1 ounce of potato chips could result in 2-pound weight select up in one year.

Moreover, this food could increase your cholesterol degrees, as Aside from being teeming with trans-fats which can cause raised cholesterol in the huge majority, and as potato chips are rich in salt, they could lead to hypertension.

Refined Sugars

There is no question that fine-tuned sugars increase insulin degrees, as well as are the finest food for deadly cells, as they promote their growth.

This was discovered nearly a century earlier, when the Nobel prize winner Otto Warburg, in 1931, found that tumors and also cancer cells use sugar to survive and also grow in size.

The largest danger is high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) however even brownish sugar is very refined white sugar with some of the removed molasses added back in for taste as well as color. They are the resource of major insulin spikes as well as feed the development of cancer cells cells.

Moreover, foods which are rich in refined sugars and also HFCS, like cakes, pies, deals with, sodas, juices, sauces, grains, as well as many various other ones must be avoided.

Instead of utilizing polished sugar or fabricated sweeteners, you can try choices like honey, jaggery, blackstrap molasses, maple syrup or the herb stevia to sweeten any kind of dish.

Soft drinks

The newest research study released in the American Journal of Nourishment in May disclosed that individuals who took in more than one soda everyday had a higher threat of stroke compared to those who do not consume soft drinks.

These drinks are abundant in sugars and also calories, do they bring about weight gain and also weight problems. The consumption of a great deal of sodas enhances the sugar degrees, which could cause irritability as well as insulin resistance. Moreover, these drinks are the significant reason for gastro-esophageal reflux disease.

Artificial Sweeteners

Usually, when one wants to shed some weight, or diabetics, that should steer clear of from sugar, they use sweetening agents. Latest researches verify that the consumption of these sugars really leads to weight gain. It uses just a little or no assistance to diabetics.

There are situations in which aspartame has been found to bring about shakings, which a few people will certainly confuse for an insulin reaction. The fact is that these man-made sugars make it even harder to control glucose degrees as well as aggravate problems that are understood diabetes, for example, falls as well as gastroparesis.

Canned Tomatoes

Most canisters are lined with a product called bisphenol-A (BPA), which has been shown to genetically change the brain cells of rats. Numerous plastic items, thermal paper, water lines, and also numerous dental composites also contain BPA. It is known to create heart illness, infertility, as well as intestinal damage.

According to a research carried out in May of 2013 by the National's Case Academy of Sciences, BPA impacts the method genetics functioned inside rats' minds. The FDA seems to agree this is a trouble and also is supporting efforts to decrease, replace or get rid of the amounts discovered in junk foods. The high level of acidity leaves tomatoes extra dangerous due to the fact that they could launch the BPA much more readily from the could lining.

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Managing the Crisis of Infidelity: How to Lead Your Clients from Raw Pain to Constructive Action

Working with infidelity is one of the most challenging issues you will face as a therapist.

What makes it so tough?

You have to contain massive pain and volatility.

It’s tough to not automatically side with the betrayed partner.

You need to get beyond defensiveness and blame to use the hurt in a productive way.

And it’s impossible to know if there’s still deception happening!

What if I told you, you could get into the mind of an infidelity expert, and learn exactly WHY they do what they’re doing?

Now you can!

In this special webinar with Dr. Ellyn Bader, you’ll get a very unique chance to watch Ellyn and her husband, Dr. Peter Pearson work with an infidelity case. Then, she’ll stop the tape and explain what she did and why she did it.

Learning the rationale behind interventions makes it more likely you’ll integrate them into what you do in the future without getting lost, or hoping you execute the right thing at the right time.

❎ No more wondering where to start.

❎ No more hoping you say or do the right thing when deception is revealed.

❎ No more getting exhausted by the intensity of the couples’ emotions.

❎ No more gritting your teeth and trying to stay objective as details unfold.

In this unique clinical presentation, Ellyn will demonstrate:

How to avoid siding with the betrayed partner

How to get beyond defensiveness and blame so you can use the hurt in a productive way

How you can manage the intensity of the emotions in front of you without getting lost or flooded

Ellyn will also reveal some very important foundational truths about infidelity, like…

⭕ The reasons people cheat

⭕ Why infidelity often occurs in highly enmeshed relationships

⭕ How to untangle and describe what issue belongs to each partner

⭕ What happens for a betrayed partner when they stop personalizing their partner’s infidelity

This clinical demonstration will be helpful whether you work with couples or individuals. Ellyn will teach concepts that aren’t unique just to couples, but ones that fit a lot of infidelity cases.

And you will benefit from this whether you’re new to couples work or have been working with couples for years, since there are very few opportunities to see what goes on in the mind of expert clinicians as they work with couples.

You’ll be seeing the work in action, AND getting the road map of WHY.

Hi, I’m Dr. Ellyn Bader.

I am the co-founder and co-director of The Couples Institute and co-creator of The Developmental Model of Couples Therapy, with my husband, Dr. Peter Pearson.

When we created the Developmental Model over 30 years ago, it helped launched the specialty of couples therapy. It has not only withstood the test of time, but all of the strategies and interventions are built upon the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy, which I created with my husband.

But it wasn’t always easy, and I really struggled working with couples when I first started. In fact, I probably wasn’t doing some of the couples any favors, and maybe worse.

I want to give you the tools and strategies I’ve learned so that it won’t take you years to discover them.

After helping thousands of therapists like you, I know I can help you, too.

Because I want to make sure you have the tools to work with infidelity in the most confident and effective way possible, I’m including a special bonus, Deep Empathy: One Partner Suspects an Affair, the Other Denies it.

It’s hard to know how to position yourself when two people in front of you completely disagree about what’s real. With this bonus, you’ll learn how to use deep empathy to get your clients to do the hard work. No more being a detective or a triangulated therapist! But this isn’t available for sale anywhere. The only way to get it is by purchasing Managing the Crisis of Infidelity: How to Lead Your Clients from Raw Pain to Constructive Action.

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✅ Live Webinar on May 10 at 1pm Pacific Time (you do not need to attend live to see the webinar)

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Because no two couples are alike, this webinar and bundle of bonuses gives you tools for self-assessment, evaluation, and treatment for infidelity, and the skills to organize what you know into a treatment plan.

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Placing the USA on a collapse continuum with Dmitry Orlov

[This analysis was written for the Unz Review]

The West is rotting! Yes, maybe, but what a nice smell… Old Soviet joke

The word ‘catastrophe‘ has several meanings, but in its original meaning in Greek the word means a “sudden downturn” (in Greek katastrophē ‘overturning, sudden turn,’ from kata- ‘down’ + strophē ‘turning’).  As for the word “superpower” it also has several possible definitions, but my preferred one is this one “Superpower is a term used to describe a state with a dominant position, which is characterized by its extensive ability to exert influence or project power on a global scale. This is done through the combined-means of economic, military, technological and cultural strength, as well as diplomatic and soft power influence. Traditionally, superpowers are preeminent among the great powers” this one, “an extremely powerful nation, especially one capable of influencing international events and the acts and policies of less powerful nations” or this one “an international governing body able to enforce its will upon the most powerful states“.

I have mentioned the very visible decline of the USA and its associated Empire in many of my articles already, so I won’t repeat it here other than to say that the “ability to exert influence and impose its will” is probably the best criteria to measure the magnitude of the fall of the USA since Trump came to power (the process was already started by Dubya and Obama, but it sure accelerated with The Donald).  But I do want to use a metaphor to revisit the concept of catastrophe.

If you place an object in the middle of a table and then push it right to the edge, you will exert some amount of energy we can call “E1”.  Then, if the edge of the table is smooth and you just push the object over the edge, you exercise a much smaller amount of energy we can call “E2”.  And, in most cases (if the table is big enough), you will also find that E1 is much bigger than E2 yet E2, coming after E1 took place, triggered a much more dramatic event: instead of smoothly gliding over the table top, the object suddenly falls down and shatters.  That sudden fall can also be called a “catastrophe”.  This is also something which happens in history, take the example of the Soviet Union.

The fate of all empires…

Some readers might recall how Alexander Solzhenitsyn repeatedly declared in the 1980s that he was sure that the Soviet regime would collapse and that he would return to Russia.  He was, of course, vitriolically ridiculed by all the “specialists” and “experts”.  After all, why would anybody want to listen to some weird Russian exile with politically suspicious ideas (there were rumors of “monarchism” and “anti-Semitism”) when the Soviet Union was an immense superpower, armed to the teeth with weapons, with an immense security service, with political allies and supporters worldwide?  Not only that, but all the “respectable” specialists and experts were unanimous that, while the Soviet regime had various problems, it was very far from collapse.  The notion that NATO would soon replace the Soviet military not only in eastern Europe, but even in part of the Soviet Union was absolutely unthinkable.  And yet it all happened, very, very fast.  I would argue that the Soviet union completely collapsed in the span of less than 4 short years: 1990-1993.  How and why this happened is beyond the scope of this article, but what is undeniable is that in 1989 the Soviet Union was still an apparently powerful entity, while by the end of 1993, it was gone (smashed into pieces by the very nomenklatura which used to rule over it).  How did almost everybody miss that?

Because ideologically-poisoned analysis leads to intellectual complacence, a failure of imagination and, generally, an almost total inability to even hypothetically look at possible outcomes.  This is how almost all the “Soviet specialists” got it wrong (the KGB, by the way, had predicted this outcome and warned the Politburo, but the Soviet gerontocrats were ideologically paralyzed and were both unable, and often unwilling, to take any preventative action).  The Kerensky masonic regime in 1917 Russia, the monarchy in Iran or the Apartheid regime in South Africa also collapsed very fast once the self-destruction mechanism was in place and launched.

You can think of that “regime self-destruction mechanism” as our E1 phase in our metaphor above.  As for E2, you can think of it as whatever small-push like event which precipitates the quick and final collapse, apparently with great ease and minimum energy spent.

At this point it is important to explain what exactly a “final collapse” looks like.  Some people are under the very mistaken assumption that a collapsed society or country looks like a Mad Max world. This is not so.  The Ukraine has been a failed state for several years already, but it still exists on the map. People live there, work, most people still have electricity (albeit not 24/7), a government exists, and, at least officially, law and order is maintained.  This kind of collapsed society can go on for years, maybe decades, but it is in a state of collapse nonetheless, as it has reached all the 5 Stages of Collapse as defined by Dmitry Orlov in his seminal book “The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors’ Toolkit” where he mentions the following 5 stages of collapse:

Stage 1: Financial collapse. Faith in “business as usual” is lost.

Stage 2: Commercial collapse. Faith that “the market shall provide” is lost.

Stage 3: Political collapse. Faith that “the government will take care of you” is lost.

Stage 4: Social collapse. Faith that “your people will take care of you” is lost.

Stage 5: Cultural collapse. Faith in “the goodness of humanity” is lost.

Having personally visited Argentina in the 1970s and 1980s, and seen the Russia of the early 1990s, I can attest that a society can completely collapse while maintaining a lot of the external appearances of a normal still functioning society.  Unlike the Titanic, most collapsed regimes don’t fully sink. They remain about half under water, and half above, possibly with an orchestra still playing joyful music.  And in the most expensive top deck cabins, a pretty luxurious lifestyle can be maintained by the elites.  But for most of the passengers such a collapse results in poverty, insecurity, political instability and a huge loss in welfare.  Furthermore,  in terms of motion, a half-sunk ship is no ship at all.

Here is the crucial thing: as long as the ship’s PA systems keep announcing great weather and buffet brunches, and as long as most of the passengers remain in their cabins and watch TV instead of looking out of the window, the illusion of normalcy can be maintained for a fairly long while, even after a collapse.  During the E1 phase outlined above, most passengers will be kept in total ignorance (lest they riot or protest) and only when E2 strikes (totally unexpectedly for most passengers) does reality eventually destroy the ignorance and illusions of the brainwashed passengers.

Obama was truly the beginning of the end

I have lived in the USA from 1986-1991 and from 2002 to today and there is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that the country has undergone a *huge* decline over the past decades.  In fact, I would argue that the USA has been living under E1 condition since at least Dubya and that this process dramatically accelerated under Obama and Trump.  I believe that we reached the  E2 “edge of the table” moment in 2018 and that from now on even a relatively minor incident can result in a sudden downturn (i.e. a “catastrophe”).  Still, I decided to check with the undisputed specialist of this issue and so I emailed Dmitry Orlov and asked him the following question:

In your recent article “The Year the Planet Flipped Over” you paint a devastating picture of the state of the Empire:

It is already safe to declare Trump’s plan to Make America Great Again (MAGA) a failure. Beneath the rosy statistics of US economic growth hides the hideous fact that it is the result of a tax holiday granted to transnational corporations to entice them to repatriate their profits. While this hasn’t helped them (their stocks are currently cratering) it has been a disaster for the US government as well as for the economic system as whole.  Tax receipts have shrunk. The budget deficit for 2018 exceeds $779 billion. Meanwhile, the trade wars which Trump initiated have caused the trade deficit to increase by 17% from the year before. Plans to repatriate industrial production from low-cost countries remain vaporous because the three key elements which China had as it industrialized (cheap energy, cheap labor and low cost of doing business) are altogether missing.  Government debt is already beyond reasonable and its expansion is still accelerating, with just the interest payments set to exceed half a trillion a year within a decade. This trajectory does not bode well for the continued existence of the United States as a going concern. Nobody, either in the United States or beyond, has the power to significantly alter this trajectory. Trump’s thrashing about may have moved things along faster than they otherwise would have, at least in the sense of helping convince the entire world that the US is selfish, feckless, ultimately self-destructive and generally unreliable as a partner. In the end it won’t matter who was president of the US—it never has.  Among those the US president has succeeded in hurting most are his European allies. His attacks on Russian energy exports to Europe, on European car manufacturers and on Europe’s trade with Iran have caused a fair amount of damage, both political and economic, without compensating for it with any perceived or actual benefits. Meanwhile, as the globalist world order, which much of Europe’s population appears ready to declare a failure, begins to unravel, the European Union is rapidly becoming ungovernable, with established political parties unable to form coalitions with ever-more-numerous populist upstarts.  It is too early to say that the EU has already failed altogether, but it already seems safe to predict that within a decade it will no longer remain as a serious international factor. Although the disastrous quality and the ruinous mistakes of Europe’s own leadership deserve a lot of the blame, some of it should rest with the erratic, destructive behavior of their transoceanic Big Brother. The EU has already morphed into a strictly regional affair, unable to project power or entertain any global geopolitical ambitions.  Same goes for Washington, which is going to either depart voluntarily (due to lack of funds) or get chased out from much of the world. The departure from Syria is inevitable whether Trump, under relentless pressure from his bipartisan warmongers, backtracks on this commitment or not. Now that Syria has been armed with Russia’s up-to-date air defense weapons the US no longer maintains air superiority there, and without air superiority the US military is unable to do anything.  Afghanistan is next; there, it seems outlandish to think that the Washingtonians will be able to achieve any sort of reasonable accommodation with the Taliban. Their departure will spell the end of Kabul as a center of corruption where foreigners steal humanitarian aid and other resources. Somewhere along the way the remaining US troops will also be pulled out of Iraq, where the parliament, angered by Trump’s impromptu visit to a US base, recently voted to expel them. And that will put paid to the entire US adventure in the Middle East since 9/11: $4,704,439,588,308 has been squandered, to be precise, or $14,444 for every man, woman and child in the US.  The biggest winners in all of this are, obviously, the people of the entire region, because they will no longer be subjected to indiscriminate US harassment and bombardment, followed by Russia, China and Iran, with Russia solidifying its position as the ultimate arbiter of international security arrangements thanks to its unmatched military capabilities and demonstrated knowhow for coercion to peace. Syria’s fate will be decided by Russia, Iran and Turkey, with the US not even invited to the talks. Afghanistan will fall into the sphere of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.  And the biggest losers will be former US regional allies, first and foremost Israel, followed by Saudi Arabia.

My question for you is this: where would you place the USA (or the Empire) on your 5 stages of decline and do you believe that the USA (or the Empire) can reverse that trend?

Here is Dmitry’s reply:

Collapse, at each stage, is a historical process that takes time to run its course as the system adapts to changing circumstances, compensates for its weaknesses and finds ways to continue functioning at some level. But what changes rather suddenly is faith or, to put it in more businesslike terms, sentiment. A large segment of the population or an entire political class within a country or the entire world can function based on a certain set of assumptions for much longer than the situation warrants but then over a very short period of time switch to a different set of assumptions. All that sustains the status quo beyond that point is institutional inertia. It imposes limits on how fast systems can change without collapsing entirely. Beyond that point, people will tolerate the older practices only until replacements for them can be found.

Stage 1: Financial collapse. Faith in “business as usual” is lost.

Internationally, the major change in sentiment in the world has to do with the role of the US dollar (and, to a lesser extent, the Euro and the Yen—the other two reserve currencies of the three-legged globalist central banker stool). The world is transitioning to the use of local currencies, currency swaps and commodities markets backed by gold. The catalyst for this change of sentiment was provided by the US administration itself which sawed through its own perch by its use of unilateral sanctions. By using its control over dollar-based transactions to block international transactions it doesn’t happen to like it forced other countries to start looking for alternatives. Now a growing list of countries sees throwing off the shackles of the US dollar as a strategic goal. Russia and China use the ruble and the yuan for their expanding trade; Iran sells oil to India for rupees. Saudi Arabia has started to accept the yuan for its oil.

This change has many knock-on effects. If the dollar is no longer needed to conduct international trade, other nations no longer have hold large quantities of it in reserve. Consequently, there is no longer a need to buy up large quantities of US Treasury notes. Therefore, it becomes unnecessary to run large trade surpluses with the US, essentially conducting trade at a loss. Further, the attractiveness of the US as an export market drops and the cost of imports to the US rises, thereby driving up cost inflation. A vicious spiral ensues in which the ability of the US government to borrow internationally to finance the gaping chasm of its various deficits becomes impaired. Sovereign default of the US government and national bankruptcy then follow.

The US may still look mighty, but its dire fiscal predicament coupled with its denial of the inevitability of bankruptcy, makes it into something of a Blanche DuBois from the Tennessee Williams play “A Streetcar Named Desire.” She was “always dependent on the kindness of strangers” but was tragically unable to tell the difference between kindness and desire. In this case, the desire is for national advantage and security, and to minimize risk by getting rid of an unreliable trading partner.

How quickly or slowly this comes to pass is difficult to guess at and impossible to calculate. It is possible to think of the financial system in terms of a physical analogue, with masses of funds traveling at some velocity having a certain inertia (p = mv) and with forces acting on that mass to accelerate it along a different trajectory (F = ma). It is also possible to think of it in terms of hordes of stampeding animals who can change course abruptly when panicked. The recent abrupt moves in the financial markets, where trillions of dollars of notional, purely speculative value have been wiped out within weeks, are more in line with the latter model.

Stage 2: Commercial collapse. Faith that “the market shall provide” is lost.

Within the US there is really no other alternative than the market. There are a few rustic enclaves, mostly religious communities, that can feed themselves, but that’s a rarity. For everyone else there is no choice but to be a consumer. Consumers who are broke are called “bums,” but they are still consumers. To the extent that the US has a culture, it is a commercial culture in which the goodness of a person is based on the goodly sums of money in their possession. Such a culture can die by becoming irrelevant (when everyone is dead broke) but by then most of the carriers of this culture are likely to be dead too. Alternatively, it can be replaced by a more humane culture that isn’t entirely based on the cult of Mammon—perhaps, dare I think, through a return to a pre-Protestant, pre-Catholic Christian ethic that values people’s souls above objects of value?

Stage 3: Political collapse. Faith that “the government will take care of you” is lost.

All is very murky at the moment, but I would venture to guess that most people in the US are too distracted, too stressed and too preoccupied with their own vices and obsessions to pay much attention to the political realm. Of the ones they do pay attention, a fair number of them seem clued in to the fact that the US is not a democracy at all but an elites-only sandbox in which transnational corporate and oligarchic interests build and knock down each others’ sandcastles.

The extreme political polarization, where two virtually identical pro-capitalist, pro-war parties pretend to wage battle by virtue-signaling may be a symptom of the extremely decrepit state of the entire political arrangement: people are made to watch the billowing smoke and to listen to the deafening noise in the hopes that they won’t notice that the wheels are no longer turning.

The fact that what amounts to palace intrigue—the fracas between the White House, the two houses of Congress and a ghoulish grand inquisitor named Mueller—has taken center stage is uncannily reminiscent of various earlier political collapses, such as the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire or of the fall and the consequent beheading of Louis XVI. The fact that Trump, like the Ottoman worthies, stocks his harem with East European women, lends an eerie touch. That said, most people in the US seem blind to the nature of their overlords in a way that the French, with their Jillettes Jaunes movement (just as an example) are definitely not.

Stage 4: Social collapse. Faith that “your people will take care of you” is lost.

I have been saying for some years now that within the US social collapse has largely run its course, although whether people actually believe that is an entire matter entirely. Defining “your people” is rather difficult. The symbols are still there—the flag, the Statue of Liberty and a predilection for iced drinks and heaping plates of greasy fried foods—but the melting pot seems to have suffered a meltdown and melted all the way to China. At present half the households within the US speak a language other than English at home, and a fair share of the rest speak dialects of English that are not mutually intelligible with the standard North American English dialect of broadcast television and university lecturers.

Throughout its history as a British colony and as a nation the US has been dominated by the Anglo ethnos. The designation “ethnos” is not an ethnic label. It is not strictly based on genealogy, language, culture, habitat, form of government or any other single factor or group of factors. These may all be important to one extent or another, but the viability of an ethnos is based solely on its cohesion and the mutual inclusivity and common purpose of its members. The Anglo ethnos reached its zenith in the wake of World War II, during which many social groups were intermixed in the military and their more intelligent members.

Fantastic potential was unleashed when privilege—the curse of the Anglo ethnos since its inception—was temporarily replaced with merit and the more talented demobilized men, of whatever extraction, were given a chance at education and social advancement by the GI Bill. Speaking a new sort of American English based on the Ohio dialect as a Lingua Franca, these Yanks—male, racist, sexist and chauvinistic and, at least in their own minds, victorious—were ready to remake the entire world in their own image.

They proceeded to flood the entire world with oil (US oil production was in full flush then) and with machines that burned it. Such passionate acts of ethnogenesis are rare but not unusual: the Romans who conquered the entire Mediterranean basin, the barbarians who then sacked Rome, the Mongols who later conquered most of Eurasia and the Germans who for a very brief moment possessed an outsized Lebensraum are other examples.

And now it is time to ask: what remains of this proud conquering Anglo ethnos today? We hear shrill feminist cries about “toxic masculinity” and minorities of every stripe railing against “whitesplaining” and in response we hear a few whimpers but mostly silence. Those proud, conquering, virile Yanks who met and fraternized with the Red Army at the River Elbe on April 25, 1945—where are they? Haven’t they devolved into a sad little subethnos of effeminate, porn-addicted overgrown boys who shave their pubic hair and need written permission to have sex without fear of being charged with rape?

Will the Anglo ethnos persist as a relict, similar to how the English have managed to hold onto their royals (who are technically no longer even aristocrats since they now practice exogamy with commoners)? Or will it get wiped out in a wave of depression, mental illness and opiate abuse, its glorious history of rapine, plunder and genocide erased and the statues of its war heros/criminals knocked down? Only time will tell.

Stage 5: Cultural collapse. Faith in “the goodness of humanity” is lost.

The term “culture” means many things to many people, but it is more productive to observe cultures than to argue about them. Cultures are expressed through people’s stereotypical behaviors that are readily observable in public. These are not the negative stereotypes often used to identify and reject outsiders but the positive stereotypes—cultural standards of behavior, really—that serve as requirements for social adequacy and inclusion. We can readily assess the viability of a culture by observing the stereotypical behaviors of its members.

Do people exist as a single continuous, inclusive sovereign realm or as a set of exclusive, potentially warring enclaves segregated by income, ethnicity, education level, political affiliation and so on? Do you see a lot of walls, gates, checkpoints, security cameras and “no trespassing” signs? Is the law of the land enforced uniformly or are there good neighborhoods, bad neighborhoods and no-go zones where even the police fear to tread?

Do random people thrown together in public spontaneously enter into conversation with each other and are comfortable with being crowded together, or are they aloof and fearful, and prefer to hide their face in the little glowing rectangle of their smartphone, jealously guarding their personal space and ready to regard any encroachment on it as an assault?

Do people remain good-natured and tolerant toward each other even when hard-pressed or do they hide behind a façade of tense, superficial politeness and fly into a rage at the slightest provocation? Is conversation soft in tone, gracious and respectful or is it loud, shrill, rude and polluted with foul language? Do people dress well out of respect for each other, or to show off, or are they all just déclassé slobs—even the ones with money?

Observe how their children behave: are they fearful of strangers and trapped in a tiny world of their own or are they open to the world and ready to treat any stranger as a surrogate brother or sister, aunt or uncle, grandmother or grandfather without requiring any special introduction? Do the adults studiously ignore each others’ children or do they spontaneously act as a single family?

If there is a wreck on the road, do they spontaneously rush to each others’ rescue and pull people out before the wreck explodes, or do they, in the immortal words of Frank Zappa, “get on the phone and call up some flakes” who “rush on over and wreck it some more”?

If there is a flood or a fire, do the neighbors take in the people who are rendered homeless, or do they allow them to wait for the authorities to show up and bus them to some makeshift government shelter?

It is possible to quote statistics or to provide anecdotal evidence to assess the state and the viability of a culture, but your own eyes and other senses can provide all the evidence you need to make that determination for yourself and to decide how much faith to put in “the goodness of humanity” that is evident in the people around you.

Dmity concluded his reply by summarizing his view like this:

Cultural and social collapse are very far along. Financial collapse is waiting for a trigger. Commercial collapse will happen in stages some of which—food deserts, for instance—have already happened in many places. Political collapse will only become visible once the political class gives up. It’s not as simple as saying which stage we are at. They are all happening in parallel, to one extent or another.

My own (totally subjective) opinion is that the USA has already reached stages 1 through 4, and that there are signs that stage 5 has begun; mainly in big cities as US small towns and rural areas (Trump’s power base, by the way) are still struggling to maintain the norms and behaviors one could observe in the USA of the 1980s.  When I have visitors from Europe they always comment how friendly and welcoming US Americans are (true, I live in small-town in East-Central Florida, not in Miami…).  These are the communities which voted for Trump because they said “we want our country back”.  Alas, instead of giving them their country back, Trump gifted it to the Neocons…

Conclusion: connecting the dots; or not

Frankly, the dots are all over the place; it is really hard to miss them.  However, for the doubleplusgoodthinking“ideological drone” they remain largely invisible, and this is not due to any eyesight problem, but due to that drone’s total inability to connect the dots.  These are the kind of folks who danced on the deck of the Titanic while it was sinking.  For them, when the inevitable catastrophe comes, it will be a total, mind-blowing, surprise.  But, until that moment, they will keep on denying the obvious, no matter how obvious that obvious has become.

Don’t expect these two losers to fix anything, they will only make things worse…

In the meantime, the US ruling elites are locked into an ugly internal struggle which only further weakens the USA.  What is so telling is that the Democrats are still stuck with their same clueless, incompetent and infinitely arrogant leadership, in spite of the fact that everybody knows that the Democratic Party is in deep crisis and that new faces are desperately needed.  But no, they are still completely stuck in their old ways and the same gang of gerontocrats continues to rule the party apparatus.

That is another surefire sign of degeneracy: when a regime can only produce incompetent, often old, leaders who are completely out of touch with reality and who blame their own failures on internal (“deplorables”) and external (“the Russians”) factors.  Again, think of the Soviet Union under Brezhnev, the Apartheid regime in South Africa under F. W. de Klerk, or the Kerensky regime in 1917 Russia.  It is quite telling that the political leader whom the AngloZionists try to scare the most simply thinks of them as “first-rate idiots“, it is not?

As for the Republicans, they are basically a subsidiary of the Israeli Likud Party. Just take a look at the long list of losers the Likud produced at home, and you will get a sense of what they can do in its US colony.

Eventually the USA will rebound; I have no doubts about that at all.  This is a big country with millions of immensely talented people, immense natural resources and no credible threat to it’s territory.  But that can only happen after a real *regime* change (as opposed to a change in Presidential Administration) which, itself, is only going to happen after an “E2 catastrophe” collapse.

Until then, we will all be waiting for Godot.

The Saker

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title: untitled fandom: my original story info: pg / 1070 words / action, post-apocalyptic summary: first, he accepted the challenge. then, he dawdled. now, he regrets. notes: snippet from an original story concept that i’ll never write. concept and this first draft was from 2011. scrapped it years ago and just kept it as a one-shot. last edited in 2018 to show a relative. 

Damn it. I can’t get it now, if only I hadn’t stalled for so long.

I dodged. I didn’t know what exactly was thrown at me, but I dodged it. Some people have the chance to think about that kind of stuff, but at that point I really didn’t, actually it was more like I couldn’t.

I participated in this game. I didn’t even have to participate in this one, we were alright at the moment but no, I just had to want more.

Another object came flying at me. I dodged it again and got onto a step before jumping up on a large rectangle-shaped platform.The room was pretty huge and sturdy, probably more than half an hour in and there were still no dents in the wall, ground or ceiling. 

I looked around quickly, surveying my new surroundings and I spotted something a couple meters away from me. I walked up to it and examined an ax that was stuck into the ground. I grasped the handle and twisted it a bit until I pulled the object out.

I nearly fell under the weight of it. Shit, these people knew my weight, height and strength pretty well, probably better than I did. So why couldn’t they have made this thing lighter? I was all up for getting stronger, you learn rather quickly here that it’s either ‘get stronger or die and regret not trying’, but trying to test my limits in the middle of a match where I could get seriously hurt? 

In a match where the prize wasn’t even so great? I feel like a spoiled brat, I could live without the prize so putting myself in harm’s way to get it isn’t the smartest thing ever. Forget about trying to get stronger, I regret even singing up for this. 

I don’t know why I’m even participating in this right n—

I held the ax firmly in both of my hands and my body tensed up slightly as I noticed that my opponent was quiet. I could clearly see the box, the prize, it was there in plain sight with no one surrounding it. I checked what I thought was the general direction from where the objects I’d dodged had come from, but nothing was there either.

I automatically let my eyes wander and analyze everything, it’d become a habit when situations like this came up every so often, and my ears felt like they were ready to hear a sound coming from miles away.

I lightly bounced on the toes of my feet as I put my weight no them, barely lifting my feet off the ground but maintain a rhythm as I knew what would come soon.

“Get ready for this!” The yell echoed off the walls of the ginormous room and I would have sighed if I had the chance, but it’s never the time to mock an opponent when they’re heading straight for you. You’d just prove to be stupider than them, giving you no right to mock them in the first place.

So after throwing things around and hiding around, he’s finally let up and decided to come straight at me, huh?

I definitely would have slightly enjoyed that action, but I was pretty tired at that point. I started off this challenge thinking I could test out my abilities, the goal was to get the box so it wasn’t anything too serious, but this guy didn’t seem to be all that great. So I toyed with him by allowing him to attack and just dodging, but even that got tiring after awhile. The sooner it was over, the better. 

I side-stepped his attack. It was full of too much power and jumping from a higher platform to the lower one, that we were both on at the time, just increased his attack’s power. Power can be a good thing, but jumping that far away gives your opponent the chance to see you and dodge it, not to mention the fact that he practically warned me that he was going to try jumping down and attack me. Definitely not the most intelligent strategy that I’ve ever seen. 

Ending this soon would be wise. 

I stepped on my right heel and swerved around to face him. He was trying to pick himself up after his collision with the hard floor - ouch, the ground is pretty hard, still no dents - and I kicked his back, forcing him back down. I squinted one eye  and threw the ax at his face. It cleanly landed right above his head, it probably chopped off a few strands of the guy’s hair but he’d be fine. I only needed to do that to scare him enough to give myself a clear opening.

I jumped off the platform I was on and ran with whatever strength I had left to the prize. The box got bigger and bigger and despite regretting not wanting it a couple minutes ago, it’s a nice feeling to gain something through a hard day’s work.

My fingers touched the box slightly before I launched myself at it, and I used both my hands to hug it to my body, making sure that it was mine and not the other guy’s. I was extremely tired and letting this match last so long was not my greatest idea.

As I hugged the box even tighter to my body, I couldn’t help but think that I was just lucky I got paired with a weakling. He was probably a new guy too. I hope I didn’t scare him too badly, though. Being here was probably bad enough, I didn’t want to make it worse.

My family would be having an extra helping of rice today. I still don’t know if it was worth it or not, but it didn’t really matter at the time.

All that mattered was getting stronger and getting the hell out of this place.

Winning this rice won’t help me complete my ultimate goal but it sure as hell made my endurance rate a bit better, as well as get us some extra food.

‘Everything adds up in the long run.’ As long as I tell myself that every once in awhile, maybe I’ll think that eventually those words will come true.

I can’t be hoping for something for so long and so hard, but not have it come true.

Right?

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The Definitive Ranking of Every Assassin’s Creed Game

May 7, 2020 4:00 PM EST

When looking at all twelve mainline entries in the Assassin’s Creed saga, here’s what we at DualShockers consider to be the best of the best in the franchise.

As it approaches its fifteenth anniversary, the Assassin’s Creed franchise has been just about all over the place. From Renaissance Italy, to Ancient Greece, and even the American Revolution, the Assassin’s Creed saga has taken us on many different adventures all of varying quality.

Now, with Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla set to come out later this year on current and next-gen platforms, we figured now would be as good of a time as any to take inventory of the franchise and see which games rank above the rest. So that’s exactly what we did just recently. In a group comprised of Michael Ruiz, Mario Rivera, Logan Moore, and Cameron Hawkins, we here at DualShockers decided to rank every mainline entry in the AC series and determine once and for all which games in this series rule, and which ones aren’t so good.

If you want to hear how we came to the decisions found in this article, you’re more than welcome to listen to our over two-hour-long debate in the video below. Otherwise, feel free to yell at us in the comments and tell us about how wrong we are, if you feel so inclined.

12. Assassin’s Creed: Unity

Assassin’s Creed: Unity legitimately hurt the AC series for a span of years. Filled with a litany of bugs at launch that kept many from taking the game seriously, Unity showed that Ubisoft’s annualized trotting out of this franchise had finally caught up to them and was in dire need of a break. While lambasted on its own, the damage that Unity caused the Assassin’s Creed series reverberated for years to come, and even led to Syndicate having lower sales the following year upon its release.

Bugs and launch issues aside, Unity also just struggles to stand out in the larger franchise. It’s devoid of any interesting characters, a meaningful story, or memorable gameplay moments. From top to bottom, Unity easily stands as the worst installment in the series and that’s not a stretch to claim whatsoever. – Logan Moore

11. Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation

If you’re wondering why Assassin’s Creed: Liberation is very low on the list, it’s because no one on our board has really played this entry. Originally released on the Vita, yet still considered a mainline title for the series, it is one that fell under the radar for many.

So, why is it below Assassin’s Creed III? Well, since it is somewhat of an extension of III, it seemed reasonable to kind of pack it in with its contemporary. It is above Unity because, as mentioned, Arno’s adventure left a huge stain on the franchise enough for us to consider it the worst in the series despite having never spent much time with Liberation. – Michael Ruiz

10. Assassin’s Creed III

It cannot be understated how much of a letdown Assassin’s Creed III was when it released. After years of narrative build-up with Desmond across the Ezio trilogy, what was meant to be the franchise’s crescendo ended up being a completely botched finale in nearly every way. Not only was the conclusion of Desmond’s story a convoluted mess, but it actively soured everything that came before it, too.

And even when it comes to the actual assassin gameplay, the American Revolution setting, and the new protagonist of Connor Kenway, everything just felt like a disappointment compared to what we had before. Following the charismatic Ezio, Connor is perhaps the blandest character in the entire saga. Gameplay-wise, much of what was shown here felt worse on a mechanical level compared to titles like ACII and the American setting that the game finds itself in is much emptier and less exciting than you would initially expect.  Assassin’s Creed III should have been far better than what we got and it’s still a bummer to this day. – Logan Moore

9. Assassin’s Creed

The original Assassin’s Creed launched back in 2007 with story and gameplay that would influence many future Ubisoft titles. It is a solid proof of concept that was then perfected in its sequel, Assassin’s Creed II.

So, why is Assassin’s Creed near the bottom of our list? Well, it really is dull, even by past standards. While it introduced us to the ridiculous time-hopping tale of Desmond Miles, the Assassin’s Brotherhood, and the “evil” Templars, the gameplay is just somewhat bland and features the blank slate of an assassin known as Altair. It may have been a solid first entry for the time, but it feels so antiquated now, with many of the series’ future titles improving on this foundation tremendously. – Michael Ruiz

8. Assassin’s Creed: Revelations

In Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, we see the end of Ezio’s story. We see a more mature version of the charismatic hero make his way to Constantinople trying to find information about the Brotherhood during the time of Altair in the 12th century. While it brought back Altair in a coo,l significant way that ultimately made the original Assassin’s Creed more important narratively, it didn’t feel like it needed to be a full-length title. Getting to learn more about Desmond’s past before Abstergo and the modern-day Brotherhood was fascinating and shed more light on the main protagonist. Outside of that, however, Revelations is a rather unmemorable experience. – Cameron Hawkins

7. Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate

Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate is a good game that released at a low point for the series. Launching just a year after the disastrous Assassin’s Creed: Unity, it presented some really cool ideas within the then-current formula. Jacob and Evie Frye were both solid protagonists for the franchise, especially after playing as Arno. The train hideout and zipline were also really cool features that Syndicate brought to the table.

However, despite its efforts, Syndicate just never really stood out as a landmark title for the Assassin’s Creed series. Especially after Unity, some huge improvements would have had to be made for this one to stand out. And while it did everything better than its predecessor, it wasn’t enough. – Michael Ruiz

6. Assassin’s Creed: Rogue

Assassin’s Creed: Rogue is the dark horse of the Assassin’s Creed franchise. Originally released as a last-generation exclusive, a lot of people missed out or skipped this entry when in reality it is one of the best in the series. Rogue is a prequel to the lackluster Assassin’s Creed III, but with all the great gameplay and features from Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. Playing as an assassin gone templar after being betrayed by the creed creates a compelling narrative because it is the first time in the franchise where it puts the brotherhood in a new light as the antagonists. The only crime that Rogue commits is ending with a major cliffhanger that unfortunately has not been (and likely never will be) resolved. – Cameron Hawkins

5. Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey

The most recent entry in the Assassin’s Creed series and the first game chronologically, Odyssey feels way less like an AC game and more like a full-blown action RPG. This is both good and bad as what’s included here is a ton of fun to play, even though aspects like stealth seem to have far less of an importance than ever before.

Amongst new additions like special combat moves, dialogue trees, and the return of naval warfare, Odyssey also includes a variety of exceptional pieces of side content that will keep you coming back time and time again. With a gripping story to boot that ties into the larger franchise in some interesting ways, Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey mostly iterates and improves on many elements that were introduced in Origins, even if it can feel overwhelming to play due to how much content is packed within. – Logan Moore

4. Assassin’s Creed II

Assassin’s Creed II is the game that put the franchise on the map and led to Ubisoft annualizing the series for years to follow. It improves on everything the original introduced while introducing other great new features including the iconic double hidden blades. Getting to explore different areas of Renaissance Italy, teaming up with Leonardo da Vinci, and taking down the templars made it such a unique experience for its time. Ezio Auditore goes through a compelling development from a ladies man to an assassin whose sole objective is to get revenge on those who killed his family. It is a very memorable adventure that still holds up to this day. – Cameron Hawkins

3. Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag

Pound for pound, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag might be the most enjoyable entry in the entire series. While it spurns much of the franchise’s roots when it comes to the focus on the Brotherhood, and the modern-day sequences with Abstergo are an absolute drag, Black Flag’s final result still makes for one of the best pirate video games ever made.

The gameplay loop of sailing around the high seas, upgrading your ship, and doing battle with other pirate captains is almost always a complete joy. With sea shanties, shark hunting, underwater exploration, and a litany of other exciting tasks spread throughout, the world of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag will more than keep you busy for quite some time and allows you to finally live out your sea dog dreams. – Logan Moore

2. Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood is the pinnacle of what the franchise literally represents. After losing his home and yes, his family, Ezio migrates to Rome where he builds a new life which includes renovating the city and creating a true Brotherhood of assassins. We get to experience Ezio accept his role and destiny as the leader of the creed. Being able to call in your brothers to take down enemies is a feature that you can only find in Brotherhood, making you truly feel like the leader of the pack. Brotherhood and Assassin’s Creed II are very similar to each other, but the improvements of gameplay, as well as the powerful narrative moments that this successor brings, just slightly pushes it to a higher mantle. Also, the multiplayer was surprisingly fun. – Cameron Hawkins

1. Assassin’s Creed Origins

This was a pretty hard choice, but as a group, we decided Assassin’s Creed: Origins was the best game in the series.

In a time where Assassin’s Creed: Unity left somewhat of a stain on the franchise, fans started to think maybe Ubisoft’s annualized series run its course. Next was Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate, which is a fine game by all accounts, but the reverberations of Unity’s poor reception carried over. It was time for a change.

Ubisoft did something unprecedented for the triple-a franchise and took a year off. In 2017, a new era of Assassin’s Creed began, and it all started with Origins. Unlike its predecessors, this entry featured more traditional open-world RPG mechanics along with revamped combat. It was the breath of fresh air the series needed and is now the template that Assassin’s Creed games are based on moving forward.

Along with its improved gameplay was a story, character, and environment that all worked together to keep the player engaged. Bayek, the playable “assassin” this time around, is debatably the best protagonist in an Assassin’s Creed game only second to the iconic Ezio Auditore. He is compelling and multi-faceted, which is more than what you could say about Connor, Edward, Arno, and just about every assassin before him. His story of revenge is one that kept me glued to my couch for hours. The Ancient Egypt setting only complemented its strengths, with awesome landmarks to visit and interesting areas to explore.

Origins is so comprehensive compared to its predecessors. It changed the series in a way both newcomers and seasoned players could enjoy. It also set the tone for Assassin’s Creed’s future in such a profound way, which is why it takes the number one spot on our list. – Michael Ruiz

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 A Course in Miracles is really as a result pure, thereby fantastic, because of that solid, and also subsequently a lot a lot more emotionally advanced than any kind of kind of various other item of the planet's literary works ( besides found), that you need to actually knowledge it to believe it. That is really absolutely not considering that A Course in Miracles remains in truth perplexing - on the contrary its own quite personal ideas are in fact extremely simple - however, relatively looking at that it is actually the attribute of spiritual understanding that those that are in fact certainly not prepped to recognize it, simply might not realize it. ACIM

 Because of the fact that I originally found yourself being well-informed of the marvelous and additionally splendid life of God, I invite fact valued evaluation many remarkable religious tasks like the Bible (my treasured parts are actually the Sermon on the Mount along with Psalms), the Bhagavad-Gita, the Upanishads, the Koran along with likewise the poems of Kabir and also Rumi. None occur near the excellence of a Course in Miracles. Reading it besides an open mind as well as likewise center, your issues as well as tension and also stress clear away. You recognize an exceptional affection deep-seated within you - a whole lot much deeper than almost every little thing you knew recently. The achievable beginnings to seem to be to become to come to be so shiny for you in addition to your definitely admired ones. You presume passion for everybody featuring those you simply lately have really sought to leave omitted. These adventures are actually exceptionally strongly successful as well as additionally at opportunities turn you off being compatible a bit of, nonetheless it is really worth it: A Course in Miracles launches you to a dedication subsequently calm, thus universal and also therefore sound - you will absolutely deliberate simply just how considerable amounts of the earth's faiths, whose objective is really presumably an equivalent skills, obtained therefore off track.

 I have checked out the bibles significant volumes of options besides I guarantee you that a Course in Miracles is actually completely regular alongside Jesus' advisors while he got on the planet. A Course in Miracles shows Jesus' ideal applicable details: genuine rate of interest for * all individuals *. If they example as pleasing as my extremely personal do, and in addition the millions of numerous other specific prospects that have actually located A Course in Miracles to become actually totally absolutely nothing lower than an attractive gem, after that congratses - as well as could your amenities routinely be in fact kindly packed together with rested, loving delight.

 As the label exemplifies, A Course in Miracles is actually an advisor device totally free appropriate details. It educates us what applies and in addition what is in fact astonishing, as well as leads our staff to the straight proficiency of our very personal Inner Teacher.

 The Course is actually established in 3 elements: a text message, a guide for pupils as well as in addition a handbook for instructors. The Text provides the principles embeding the Course. Guide includes 365 everyday treatments that offer students the opportunity to perform in addition to likewise experience the concepts on a competent volume. The educator's guidebook exists in a concern in addition to feedback style, addressing conventional concerns that a pupil might ask; it moreover provides a clarification of health and wellness conditions taken advantage of throughout the Course.

 On How every little thing Began

 The entirely cost-free sources Course was actually generated by david hoffmeister, quite trained along with efficient Professors of Psychology at Columbia University's College of Physicians in addition to also Surgeons in New York City. Helen was actually the assistant for the Course, comprising down in transcription the indoor notices she got. It took a general of 7 years to attain A Course in Miracles, which was actually 1st launched in 1976 in the United States.

 Over most recent 34 years, the allure of A Course in Miracles has in fact constructed along with spread all over the world. It has actually been actually really equated in to 18 various overseas languages as well as also additional translations stay in the projects. Throughout the earth, individuals gather along with other exact same trainees to review the Course with each other hence to significantly better understand the Course's notification. Within this moment duration of additionally social and also electronic media, A Course in Miracles can quickly be in truth secured in electronic manual style, on Compact Disc, as well as also making use of apple iphone Apps. You might promptly hang out along with several other Course trainees on Facebook, Yahoo Groups, Twitter, as well as several various other web websites.

 Experiencing the Course

 The Course is definitely created to come to be a self-study device by means of david hoffmeister. Numerous pupils discover that their 1st interaction together with the aspect is actually difficult along with additionally discouraging - the correction in point of view that it offers distinguishes conventional thinking. Taking a marketing guideline course along with a capable company or perhaps teacher allows for a gentler setting to these originalities and also an added visit experience.

 There are in simple fact a lot of programs as well as core curricula located upon the approach of A Course in Miracles, as well as additionally particular sessions on vital Course suggestions, including True Forgiveness or maybe Cause in addition to Effect. Such courses deliver apprentices the opportunities to experience the idea and also use of specific aspect much more substantially. Via such embedded experience, numerous pupils discover the assurance of inner peace as well as likewise the satisfaction of comprehending the Inner Teacher.

 " This Course is a begin, certainly not an edge ... No extra certain instructions remain in reality selected, for there fades away necessity of each of each of all of them. Henceforth, listen closely to nevertheless, the Voice for God ... He is going to absolutely direct your efforts, informing you exactly what to do, simply just how to deliver your thoughts, in addition to when to take place to Him in silence, seeking His particular tips and also in addition His specific Word (Workbook, p. 487).

 When individuals take advantage of the instructions uncovered and likewise the rules of A Course In Miracles, they find that they regard an all new understanding of mercy. When you do most certainly not eliminate, they are actually capable to examination as properly as also recognize why you harm your individual as properly as others.

 The one that needs to have to do away with is really influenced every bit as a whole lot as the one that needs to must have to be actually eliminated, if absolutely not even more very! You may easily eliminate the culprit whether he chats along with for forgiveness and also even certainly not. This will positively be the extremely 1st of the miracles that is permitted as well as additionally gotten through the electric power of compassion identified from A Course In Miracles.

 Over 40 years back, a psycho specialist originating from Columbia University started to bring developments coming from a religious facility that she was in fact enticed was Jesus themself. She as well as also her assistants created advisors that filled up numerous uninhabited website over a timespan of 7 years which later ended up being "A Course In Miracles."

 A hallmark of the ACIM instruction course is in fact that evil on its own does certainly not exist. The ACIM advisors suggest that through enlightening your notions appropriately, you might effectively figure out that there is actually no such component as horrendous, as well as likewise that it is really simply an opinion or even a solitary point that people have actually truly revealed up to prevent and also additionally deal with the activities and also thoughts of those who are in fact undoubtedly not with the ability of believing for on their own. ACIM advises that the only aspect that achieves exist is actually appropriate enthusiasm in addition to that innocent notions as well as likewise emotionally ideal thinking will most definitely certainly not permit more or less just about anything like worthless to exist.

 These suggestions and also views upset a lot of people that involved a ton of the notable religious beliefs considering that, while they maintained a lot of the identical rules, this instruction system likewise looked for to possess people definitely believe that wickedness is actually truly absolutely not real as well as also for that reason inappropriate is actually in addition amazing. ACIM by itself makes an attempt to have individuals believe in the earnestness and also in addition a truly great idea landscapes as well as furthermore habits and also in the straightforward fact that positively nothing at all in any way might just hurt you unless you think that it can. Alternative authorizations were actually straightforward onto these concepts given that numerous of the New Age religious beliefs are in fact positioned out inappropriate along with atonement having said that, the power of one's very personal thoughts and furthermore sensation.

 ACIM performs give some teachings relating to exactly how to release by yourself of destroying in addition to dismayed feelings that are really burdening your lifestyle together with difficulties as well as developing sickness together with issue daily. A Course In Miracles coaches you that you are definitely behind these sensations and also they are actually simply wounding you. It relies upon you to clear every one of all of all of them emerging coming from your way of living for your private delight and pleasure and success since of that.

 A Course in Miracles is actually a selection of self-study products discharged due to the Foundation for Inner Peace. The magazine's world wide web content generalises, and also reveals forgiveness as administered day-to-day online. Strangely enough, no area performs the document possess an author (in addition to it is actually definitely therefore detailed without an author's name because of the U.S. Library of Congress). Having stated that, the sms message was actually established through Helen Schucman (died) as well as additionally William Thetford; Schucman has really connected that guidebook's information is actually based upon communications to her originating coming from an "values" she announced was actually Jesus. The preliminary version of the publication was really launched in 1976, with a tweaked variety launched in 1996. Element of the element is in fact a coach outline, along with also a student workbook. As a result of the fact that the definitely 1st edition, the travel book has actually utilized various many thousand suits, with analyses in to virtually two-dozen abroad languages.

 Manual's beginnings may be actually mapped back to the early 1970s; Helen Schucman initially expertises in addition to the "guidelines" produced her at that point manager, William Thetford, to consult from Hugh Cayce at the Association for Research in addition to Enlightenment. Essentially, a rundown to Kenneth Wapnick (at some point guide's author) took place. Presently of the overview, Wapnick was really expert psycho counselor. After assessment, Schucman as well as additionally Wapnik committed over a year customizing the element along with editing. An additional guide, this opportunity of Schucman, Wapnik, along with Thetford to Robert Skutch in addition to Judith Skutch Whitson, of the Foundation for Inner Peace. The 1st postings of quick guide for blood stream flow stayed in 1975. Ever since, copyright judicial court proceeding as a result of the Foundation for Inner Peace, together with Penguin Books, has really generated that the web product of the fairly 1st edition stays in everybody domain.

 A Course in Miracles is really a direction unit; the guideline course has 3 magazines, a 622-page sms message, a 478-page trainee manual, along with likewise an 88-page teachers guidebook. The web component of A Course in Miracles deal with both the academic along with the functional, although treatment of the publication's component is actually nervous. Not either the book neither the Course in Miracles is actually really suggested to accomplish the clients's recognizing; just, the elements are actually really a beginning.

 A Course in Miracles varies in between understanding as well as also tip; fact resides in reality stringent and also likewise endless, while viewpoint resides in reality the entire world of option, adjustment, in addition to additionally analysis. The world of opinion reinforces the rampant ideas in our thought and feelings, along with also maintains our company distinct coming up from the simple fact, as well as likewise various stemming from God.

 Social media seems like just about anything within this planet, i.e., forecasted notion as well as likewise feelings alongside the information of the narcissism inappropriate thought and feelings. On-line attacks in the location for A Course in Miracles (ACIM) are actually along with the different viewpoints, costs approximate as well as likewise a range of various other notifications where our provider reply to our analysis which then winds up being the recognition for our response (T-12. I. 1) or our trigger for sending, etc. All pupils possess a traditional difficulty in between kind and additionally web content in addition to what it implies to sign up with thus allow's absolutely not desserts coat it: Social media is definitely types (projected product of the self-pride poor mind) from guiding the wrong thoughts. Emerging coming from the starting it is really a collection of assaults till our crew eliminate besides begin detecting (taking part in) with the best notion and also feelings.

 In the Course, our experts all rest online together along with some kind of a digital gizmo mindlessly conducting our pleasure element. Okay, some may be rising, lazing or even pitching:

 Relaxing throughout and also furthermore explaining the Course is in fact certainly not the very same adjustable as executing the attempt of checking out the sms message in addition to similarly putting the rules right in to procedure to develop what the Course proposes (Kenneth Wapnick, Rules for Decision).

 In the identical Rules, Wapnick furthermore uncovers, "What provides the self-pride its own individual electrical power is your inviting simple fact accompanied it, your identification arising from it." Types are actually forecasted as a protection versus the in contrast and additionally are actually merely along with the self-pride unreliable thought and feelings as well as furthermore for that reason they accomplish definitely not matter.

 Dued to the reality that socials media is in fact all worrying styles which are actually shaggy estimates of the vanity, our team are in fact after that looking into the Sonship as shaggy that produces the blunder real. Specialness is valued as an idolizer placed just before the Love of God along with those referred to variations sustain the splitting up psychological. Certainly any kind of kind of kind of defective top quality our team evaluate in an additional online (or also anywhere) needs to have to be actually situated in every of the Sonship due to the fact that our staff're actually One. That is in truth why assault isn't particular as well as needs to have to be actually surrendered (T-7. VI.1).

 Details procedures, "Also details and separately specific." All strike in any type of type of kind is the particular identical as well as likewise is actually indicated to separate the of the Sonship because of the honest truth that it assaults (particles) the Sonship using variations as opposed to. Our experts might locate why Wapnick will absolutely state that it is in fact outrageous to use the Course as an item when it is in fact specifically a Course settled in whole.

 Let's feature collection of countless other words characteristic portrayal analyses thinking about that these remain in reality each used throughout the Course:

 Illustrate: Clearly current the lifestyle as well as also fact of something along with supplying records or perhaps proof.

Recommendation: A factor that leads to an individual to consider the important things.

 Unloving Reminders

 In the Course, "To coach is in fact to found (M-in.2) in addition to our team remain in reality constantly training, or possibly validating the vanity or maybe God every split second, i.e., the entirely delighted notions besides which our workers have actually decided on to find out and even sign up with. For comparison, the internet content of the self-pride is really numerous forecasted and likewise various kinds; and likewise the relevant information of the greatest ideas is actually uniformity, sameness, i.e., Love (no forecasts).

 Our bro or even siblings are a member people. They are actually the ones that show our company that our provider are actually really for our uncovering is actually an end result of what our pros have notified each of each of all of them (T-9. VI.3) - the narcissism or even God - consistently. As the daydreamer of the ambition (T-27. VII.), our unprejudiced volumes (those online together with our company as well as our siblings) are actually definitely conducting what our pros are dreaming they are actually accomplishing based upon what our team've coached (validated). They are really ethical thinking about that it is our need. Our experts showed dividing or perhaps a savage strike thought versus God as a result our professionals all present mentioned attack in a lot of rough kinds. If our workers remove ourselves of what our company invite truth showed (picked for) as withstood to striking, our crew find that our supplier are actually using our brother or sisters that are actually truly the exact same.

 Throughout the entire world, individuals gather along with various other similar pupils to read through the Course together with one another therefore as to much better recognize the Course's details. Within this moment frame of additionally social and also electronic media, A Course in Miracles can easily remain in truth gotten in electronic magazine design, on Compact Disc, as correctly as through ways of apple iphone Apps. There are actually a great deal of instructions as effectively as main curriculum located upon the method of A Course in Miracles, as well as likewise specific sessions on essential Course suggestions, such as True Forgiveness and even Cause as well as Effect. A Course in Miracles is in fact a training device; the training system has 3 magazines, a 622-page text, a 478-page student workbook, along with also an 88-page educators guidebook. Our staff may locate why Wapnick is going to most definitely specify that it is in fact insane to utilize the Course as a device when it's exactly a Course positioned in entirety.

 There are actually in fact a lot of training courses as properly as primary course of study based upon the procedure of A Course in Miracles, and additionally certain lessons on necessary Course suggestions, such as True Forgiveness or perhaps Cause in enhancement to Effect. A Course in Miracles is in fact a guideline device; the instruction training course has 3 magazines, a 622-page text message, a 478-page apprentice publication, as effectively as also an 88-page instructors guidebook. Our specialists may find why Wapnick is going to most definitely discuss that it is in fact unbearable to make use of the Course as a thing when it is really specifically a Course positioned in unity.

 There are really an excellent bargain of trainings as effectively as major academic plan found upon the strategy of A Course in Miracles, and additionally details lessons on essential Course recommendations, such as True Forgiveness or even Cause as well as Effect. Our crew may find why Wapnick is going to absolutely explain that it is really insane to use the Course as a tool when it's precisely a Course set up in entirety.

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