Mega million for december 27th

So I have had a urge to make a bloodborne like dnd campaign for ages now but only recently found the time to write it up and I would appreciate any changes or feedback you guys have for it.
So we start at the beginning of time where only the old ones exist there are 4 old ones, The Conscious, The Finality, The Spirit and The Beginning they are beings that represent the whole universe and all dimensions. The beginning creates the material plane which is basically the earth but it’s currently just a big rock with some oceans. The Conscious gets greedy for power as they want to control everything so he kills The Finality and absorbs their power. The other old ones obviously don’t like this so they lock him in a slumber as he is too strong for them to kill and that could cause massive issues with the universe (we will get back to his slumber in a bit). The body of The Finality has this golden like ichor in it and it falls on the material plane, which creates life and the first set of mortals called the precursors.
So back to the slumber of The Conscious. Because they are so powerful their dreams make a new plane called the dreamlands which currently are an earth like place where mini old ones or Elder Children reside and they currently terrorise The Conscious’s own set of mortals by killing them and feeding of their essence. These first mortals find a way to slay the Elder Children and kill all of them they can find. They call themselves the first hunters or The Deos Timont (can’t remember the Latin for it but it’s something like that) after they believe they have killed all the elder children they lock all their knowledge in a vault deep underground to prevent any of it getting into the wrong hands but to be used if the elder children ever return. Turns out though the children never were extinct but just hidden as in the material plane, the precursors had begun to believe in gods and when a large sum of mortals believe in a deity that deity is created and these precursors are like “ your god is fake ours is real” and so they have this massive war over who has the real god or not and some of these gods see the pure emotion used in this war and manipulate the mortals to their will corrupting their power making them Daemons and creating a new plane called the deep. The spirit and the beginning see this happen and realise the harm of seeing these powerful beings so they make all mortals close their minds eye (the capability to see gods and other deities) so the hunters believe they have eliminated all the children when they just can’t see them. The children then go into slumber for a while due to their losses.
Then life in the dreamlands go on similar to normal life they develop their technology till a point that mimics early Victorian era of our world and there is this scientist called John huston who is dying, he wants to find a way to cure his illness in any way possible as he believes his mind to be valuable to the progression of mortal life. He first tries to find a way to move one’s mind into a inorganic one like a humanoid doll. He finds a few “willing” interns and tried to make them part of the doll but all the methods he tries are fruitless and all the subject die. So plan two, he finds some old texts about the old hunters and reads about a golden fluid that is in all life which they used to cure illnesses and wounds in battle but the book is ripped up so he struggles to find out much more about it except how it’s extracted, using special bone needles to extract it from other people. These special bone needles are from the corpses of the elder children so he gets an archaeological team and eventually they find the fossils of one of these children. He fashions it’s bones into the needles and again gets some “willing” subjects and extracts what he calls life blood from the body. The then consumes the lifeblood and his illness is cured shortly after. He sees the monetary value of selling this cure to the public and devises a way to get mass quantities of it. He would grab homeless if the street and criminals serving a life sentence from prisons with a few good bribes no one would question it and he then extracted and sold all the life blood to anyone with the money to buy it and all who consumed it also was cured of all illness and physical wounds like scars and deep wounds. Everything was great until a few weeks after the life blood was rolled out to the public and people started turning into beasts. People who had consumed large amounts of life blood would turning into even worse monsters that represented there darkest acts like a cop that turned a blind eye on a few missing homeless people became a large gluttonous beast with no eyes.
At a similar point in time in the material plane, daemons from the deep had found a way to enter the material plane and Caused the event called hells rage where they killed millions of mortals. Eventual they were pushed back and mortals recovered but they left many corpses of daemons which people started to use and one things they used were the bones and they found out how to extract life blood though those who had their life blood extracted didn’t die but had their mind moved to another body in the dream lands specially to a body that had unalived itself during the day the monsters came. These people are called hollow and are undead with the lack of blood they are stronger and more durable to mortals but have no memories of their bodies past life till they learn them through echos, places significant to the body can awaken these echos and tell the possessor who they were and how they died.
We begin with our party who are captured but a cult who extract their life blood and and make them hollow and they party has to traverse the dreamlands and find a way to return to their normal bodies.
Sorry for it being so long but this is a shortened version with lots missed out so if you want a part two I can cover more I have written. This is also still a work in progress so any constructive criticism would be appreciated

Hello! As I'm sure you all know, DNA testing is the "new" thing to shake up the scene for adoptees trying to find answers and reuniting with birth family.
Lately I've seen some non-profit efforts to provide free or reduced cost DNA test kits to adoptees. Some of these are aimed at low-income adoptees, others at adoptees in specific situations, some as part of a broader research project.
I've looked into the ones that I was able to find, but each was a dead-end for different reasons. I will post the links to some just in case they might help someone else in their search efforts.
MyHeritage was running a "DNA Quest" effort very recently, where they provided free test kits to adoptees in an effort to help reunite birth families. Unfortunately, it looks like they've already concluded their applications and rollouts as of a couple months ago.
https://www.dnaquest.org/
I also found a similar effort conducted by the non-profit Adoptees United. They seem to be providing kits for low-income adoptees who are in US states with closed birth certificates, with a particular focus on those who were adopted before 1980. It appears that they took over the previous efforts of another group (Adoptee Rights Law Center).
I filled out the application, but never received word back. Looking at the info provided on their own site, they last updated the number of test kits available back in December 2021. This leads me to believe that they may no longer be offering the service, though this isn't explicitly stated to be the case.
https://adopteesunited.org/dna/
I found another program that sought to help re-unite families with Korean ties that have been impacted by adoption, death, and war. They appear to focus on those affected during the Korean War. Not being Korean myself, this was also a dead-end, but maybe someone here can find the link useful.
https://www.325kamra.org/
So, does anyone know of other similar initiatives? Particularly ones for those who are low-income?
Any information you might be able to provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to read this!

I’ve had this problem for I don’t know how long but I’ve only noticed for a little over a year. Basically the front and the top and back grow at very different rates, with the front growing significantly slower.
My hairline is 100% intact so I’m not sure if this is receding of any time. I’ve had sebopsoriasis for a while but as far as I know the sebderm is prevalent in the back as the psoriasis is located at the hairline region, but hasn’t exactly affected my hair (as far as I know)
My question is: Do specialists have some sort of microscopic devices to determine whether or not my hair follicles are dying out? And does anyone have a problem like this?
The pictures are as follows:

1. Current hairline,
   
2. October 2022
   
3. December 2022 (haircut)
   
4. Now
   

My mom and sister somewhat have a problem like this but I believe it may be traction alopecia on their end as they leave their hair tied back often

Hi everyone, I'm your friendly neighborhood suicidal here. Well, I was, I had quite a lucky weekend and it led me to some insights that changed my life. All I want is for you to read this, maybe it will snowball for you like it did for me, and maybe in a week you’ll understand why I felt compelled to write this. You don't have to be open minded, as you read this post, you're probably going to think things similar to what I would have thought a week ago. Maybe "this person is crazy," "what worked for you won't work for me," "if this worked so well why isn't everyone doing it." That's all fair. Go ahead and type the problems you find into the comments, just do me a favor, and don't click back. You can even skip to the end if you’re inpatient with the speech, totally fair, I’m very long winded.
For background I've had CPTSD symptoms as long as I can remember. I have had suicidal thoughts daily, I've had attempts, I've done inpatient/outpatient programs, 5 different antidepressants, ADHD meds, DBT twice. I'm fully NC with my parents. And today I would deny it if you asked if I had a mental illness. Not because I'm in denial, not because I don't think I was living in literal fucking hell or because I think you aren't either. I probably could have and still could lose my job for my symptom related problems... I'm a RN but I'll be the first to tell you that I'm very skeptical of the way we treat mental illness in this world. I am not offering medical advice; I'm simply saying this because I've had experience as the patient and as the person handing you your Abilify in the hospital while you wait for inpatient beds in full blown crisis. Point is I fucking get it.
And by now you're maybe mad, I haven't gotten to the point. Where is this going? Is she selling a book? Ayahuasca? Where’s the scam here? Again, I see how sus this looks. What my goal here is to do is guide you to the insight you need to forge your own path. It isn't so much about the insight or how you get there. The point is that nobody ever gave me a clue to get there when the destination will seem as obvious as the sky being blue. It's so overwhelming. Articles, videos, doctors, etc. Promising the cure in 3 easy steps. And while I can suggest some of those things, I'll link at the end, I don't think they are the point. Cognitively we understand exactly what we need, we just don't know how to get it and the overwhelming number of unhelpful things makes it much easier to freeze up. The goal of this guide is to combat that. All I want you to do is read this one thing. No cure, no 6-week class or book to read.
I'll cut to the chase; the short answer is that CPTSD symptoms mean you're closer to feeling better than the people who made you this way will ever feel. Your body and mind know how to make you better, but we've been conditioned to ignore them and listen to the "experts." All of us here will agree that we have unprocessed trauma that needs to come out. We tried everything to process it but all we do is get further and further from processing it. We cope and feel ashamed that we are doing everything right and it doesn’t help. Doesn’t fill the void. I'm going to list how I got here and what I realized to do this. The is a beta test as it were. My goal is to create a "protector" proof way to begin healing, the beginning of a healing avalanche. It's not meant as medical advice, a cure, anything other than a summary of my weekend and the insights I've had. I just want you to read. I've included optional links, there is no right way to read this. I just want you to read what speaks to you and do what speaks to you. If that's going into the comments and saying that this is the dumbest shit you've ever read, I more than welcome that because you’re already a step ahead. You’re giving yourself permission to feel/say what you want to do. If I can just push one person in the right direction then I'm happy and if you hate this entire guide and think I'm the dumbest person ever, that's still a step in the right direction. As you read, I'm hoping it'll make sense.
The boring and short answer that helped me:
IFS, a book, music, and missing my meds. But that’s not helpful to anyone, and to isolate each of those items and say it was any one thing or that this is the cure would be a total lie. First of all, don’t just drop your meds. Second of all, IFS is expensive and hard to find a therapist and many sites warn against independent use in severe trauma. I think these items happened to be a catalyst for me, but they won’t necessarily be for you.
The Longer Story:
About 2 weeks ago I missed a dose of medication and heard [a beautiful song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14PeAUjhEGk) on H3 Podcast. A small part of me was just so excited to feel. And it occurred to me that this woman couldn't have made such good music if she didn't feel. What was wrong with feeling? I began to ponder that. Still fully numbed to the world. You see, I spent the last 3 years in an avoidant Effexor haze/THC haze. I had been pondering my CPTSD for so long and I realized I could ponder it forever and ever, but I can't think myself whole. I have to feel it. But then I buried that part. How silly? I knew that part was there, and I knew I was burying it. Why was I doing that? But I started missing my meds more and more. I was opening up to the idea of feeling. I was flooded with suicidal thoughts, and I broke down and called Kaiser despite knowing how much kaiser has triggered me in the past. I needed something bigger and better than CBT/Coping/DBT/Pills. I would not allow them to stop me from feeling. I went off my meds (don't do that without consulting or reflecting first. I just knew it was a personal need and I was ready). And a snowball effect happened. Not because I am magic or stopped my meds. But because the cognitive part of me that knew I needed to feel to get better was trustworthy. A mess of signs in the world were occurring, and as a devoutly non-spiritual person it was clear. It had to be because I actually DO KNOW what's best, and I was choosing to see these things in the world because that part of me has always been there. Screaming for my attention but I wasn't listening. It turns out that I just needed to give myself permission to feel the bad things and that snowballed. But easier said than done. I can’t exactly pinpoint what did it for me, so below I’m going to list the items I used in tandem to warm myself up to healing. There are no right or wrong answers, but I think it would have been very very easy for anyone of these items to fail individually. It came down to a perfect storm for me, but one set off the other and they all worked as a collective. Importantly, there are many things I didn’t do.
What I didn’t do:
Stop “bad” habits: There is a reason I overeat, smoke ‘too much’ weed, oversleep, etc. An IFS model would say there are no bad parts. These things all are done with benevolent intentions. A part of you is putting out a fire. The second you set an intention to stop these habits, a part of you gets very uncomfortable. Honor these parts. You can die a carton-a-day smoker, but if you quit before that part is ready, I think it’s going to become much harder to feel whole. IFS is definitely a great model if you struggle with these things. I’ve now realized that traditional healthcare partially didn’t work because the parts of me are creative and stubborn. Alarm bells go off at the thought of being told they can’t do what they want.
Meditate/”self-care”/Mindfulness: Fuck those amiright? But seriously, after spending decades failing to feel anything positive from these things, I’ve learned it’s because people who don’t actually understand it do a terrible job of teaching this. It’s so isolating to hear that when it’s done nothing positive for you. I felt like such a failure. For me it turns out a part of me is terrified of emotions, sitting in “meditations” felt like torture, I would become so distracted and miserable. The idea of “watching thoughts go by and doing nothing” is less than ideal. It supports the misconception that there are bad or good thoughts or feelings. I’m a firm believer in looking at thoughts. Why am I thinking about hulk right now? What am I afraid will happen if I don’t think about hulk? Same goes for self-care. I think these things are methods we use to avoid feeling what being human feels like. Many of us will find we never felt what it’s like to be human. That’s okay, that part of you is in there.
Therapy: Every therapy session I’ve been to felt like I was just justifying my existence to someone else. If a therapist isn’t open to feeling, you will never get better. They probably don’t know even know they are afraid to feel also. The moment I said to myself “I am suicidal, I want to die. That’s okay. It means I need to fix something” instead of “Oh no I’m sick and I’ll never be happy and this feeling is wrong it means I’m bad.” Again, this all seems silly, its not something I can cognitively get into your head, it’s something you need to feel.
What I did do:
Feel: The simplest, biggest thing. Feeling is being human, for better or worse. I was lucky, I missed meds and found profoundly beautiful music that spoke to me. That may not be your life circumstance and it may not feel or be safe to feel yet. That’s okay. I had no agenda, I put on music I loved and got into my car and just listened to the music. As emotions came up, I just felt them. I KNOW THIS SOUNDS SMOOTHBRAINED! I’m very aware of that. But this is where the snowball happened for me the most. I think it’s important to find music that speaks to you, but my personal example was a little insane. I used to listen to a band called [“Beware of Darkness.” ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvPO5h_0UyE). In 2014 they had millions of fans and I hadn’t heard them probably since 2016 or so. When I decided it felt good to feel, even the most hurtful emotions, I knew this band meant a lot to me and the frontman had very profound lyrics and emotionally touching music. I put the band on and just drove, around the block, to the beach, to the carwash. I was feeling, the lyrics were saying everything I’ve been saying my whole life. I felt like if feeling all these things created this art, then feeling these things is fucking beautiful. And the lyrics are very dark, the writer admits to having been extremely depressed for most of his career. Anyway, this is when shit got weird. I had been listening to the music and feeling and reading on IFS, that all felt great. Things were falling into place. But guess what? I found out that this fucker released a book a couple months ago called “Thank God for Depression.” The odds? I don’t know, but the point is: many people will go their whole lives without feeling whole, but we have symptoms guiding us there, many people don’t. A part of you just wants to feel but you’ve been so conditioned not to that you don’t even know how. Deeper parts don’t know it’s okay.
Reading about IFS: I always read IFS was helpful, and I always knew of its existence. However, I never would have been able to really give IFS an authentic chance until I saw a glimmer of hope. I think IFS and music really fed each other into helping me. I also want to give credit to a redditor who posted his helpful [website](https://integralguide.com/IFS-Process). Much of the information above came from that. The only reason I didn’t just post “why you should do IFS” is because if it were that simple I’d have been cured a long time ago. I strongly believe in IFS for many reasons, but the biggest was that it provided many of the “What I didn’t do” items. Giving up on the idea that I’m sick and need to do XYZ and then I’ll be all better was huge, learning simply that I’m not broken because being sober or skinny didn’t fix anything was also huge. Also, everyone swears their methodology is best and I don’t want to debate that. I think it’s more about the restrictions we subconsciously put on ourselves than anything else, and for me, the idea of jumping into a new therapy or reaching out was not helpful. I also have a tiny thing I don’t love about IFS. It’s easy to get caught up into doing it “right.” I found myself asking “am I blended,” “am I making stuff up,” or “am I even doing this right” too many times. I think if you’re open to hearing what your parts have to say and honoring that then you can get a lot accomplished.
New perspective: Essentially that’s this whole post. I stopped seeing my CPTSD as a bad thing that I have but a blessing telling me how to honor myself and my feelings. And it’s so stupid sounding, but once you get through to enough “parts” or open up enough, quell the doubts, etc, a switch will flip and you will be amazed. It also gave me a spiritual side I didn’t know could exist. I’ve had about the closest thing a person can have to an ayahuasca experience in my bedroom with my computer, spotify, and weed. Because it turned out that a part of me was just scared I would be “cringe” or “lame,” if I felt better. Part of me thought I would be sellout if I healed. Like I’d be less cool, it seems crazy now but it’s a very valid fear. But you know, the lead singer of the band from earlier? He’s happy now and his music has never been better.
And this is where we get spiritual and woo woo and many of you are welcome to skip. But before you do, just know I have always been such a skeptic I didn’t even believe in Santa as a 4-year-old and I never once believed in God. I always thought spiritualism = religion = the cause of so much suffering.
Ayahuasca: I haven’t done it. It’s come up many times in this post though. From a more clinical perspective, ayahuasca can help people access the parts in IFS. I have another post with great discussion in the comments, but I would guess using both Aya and IFS together would have like a 99.9% efficacy rate in CPTSD, however nobody is going to do that research in the states anytime soon. Aside from the whole War on Drugs part of things, I think it would be disrespectful to use this plant medicine without a Shaman who knows how to respect it. But there is a saying “Ayahuasca starts working the moment you answer her call.” And as you read the post, you can see she has been calling me very loudly. Whether or not you believe in that quote, you can’t deny the serious of fortunate events that led me here. [8 Days ago]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldX32k3B6aE) someone discussed their experience with Aya on H3 Podcast and the host Ethan played this [Music]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr8rRm9kDhs) that next day. I was tapering my meds and as I mentioned, it felt so good. And that lead to me listening to [Beware of Darkness]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjAb9JNTmIs). Who's lead singer wrote “[Thank God for Depression] (https://www.amazon.com/Thank-God-Depression-Thing-Happen/dp/B0BPW62QWN) That author in the book? First page he is talking about Aya, the day I put on his music for the first time in years was after hearing that other music on a podcast, the very same podcast where a woman tells the host that Aya has helped her, the very day I missed my meds and first opened up to the idea that feelings are good. It’s turtles all the way down. Maybe you believe it’s more spiritual, but even on a more skeptical level, I made those connections because I knew what would help me. IFS would say it’s “Self Energy,” a Shaman might say it’s the divine, a Buddhist might say it’s enlightenment. But ultimately that’s the goal, whatever you call it. It’s the thing that fills the hole you don’t know how to fill.
Anyway, every second since I've "flipped this switch," "found self," etc I have another "aha" moment. The world makes more sense, the stars align, and I feel grateful for CPTSD. It's easy to tell myself I'm having a manic episode, it's only been a couple days, its the effexor withdrawal. I see how that would be the obvious answer to everyone. It would make sense. But on the other-side. From the perspective I've gained now, I have the hope and confidence to know that's not true. Because I've literally never felt whole until now. And I'm holding onto that wholeness. There is a lot of parts work I have to do, I'm seeing a shaman in a couple weeks, and there's still the economy/state of the world. But I have something to hold onto and just wanted to share it with anyone who wants that too. I want feedback, DMs, etc. I'm a baby in the world of being happy, so I'm not going to pretend I have anything together. But I have the thing and the thing is what matters.
Resources/things I've referenced:
HOLY GRAIL]( https://integralguide.com/IFS): LEVI you are a beautiful person and this webite imo is the holy grail. Shoutout to u/IntegralGuideAuthor
[Thank God for Depression] (https://www.amazon.com/Thank-God-Depression-Thing-Happen/dp/B0BPW62QWN): $10 on amazon, I haven’t even finished it but it’s been a huge source of insights. But it might just have worked because the author is so special to me.
[Podcast Clip 1]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldX32k3B6aE) 8 Days ago someone discussed their experience with Aya
[Music Ethan played next Day]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr8rRm9kDhs) Very relatable music. “Someone smiled at me today and I cried because I realized I don’t like myself.”- Elizabeth Homes, very new artist and talented foot soldier.
[MUSIC!]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjAb9JNTmIs) I forced myself to pick one song. If you need music ideas that’s my bread and butter. But this one song says more than this whole post could for me.
REDDIT! All of you were on my mind. All the posts here remind me how I’m not alone in this.
Ayahuasca: DM if you want to talk about this, I haven’t done ayahuasca yet and it would be a bad idea to act like I have. However, if after all this you feel it’s YOUR personal next step, I tell you the information I've found to point you towards a retreat.

Girls: Izzy
Boys: Ezekiel, Mal
Episode 24: Hawaiian Style
A riff from an electric guitar opened the episode, the scene fading into a close-up of a spinning blue globe. As the camera moved up across Africa and Europe, the words 'TOTAL' and 'DRAMA' appeared in white block letters with a flash, moving up at an angle to make room for 'WORLD TOUR' in two additional rows of larger letters. One final word, 'AFTERMATH', appeared below it in a shower of stars, and as the theme music reached a tentative low the gleam from the words took over the whole screen.
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Izzy, Sadie, Noah, and Mal grabbed a swan boat, and moments later, the boats splashed down into a river running through a hilly forest.
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The music entered a low point as the title screen was shown again, the words flaring up once more to transition to the next clip.
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Ezekiel Clone sniffed the air. He perked up and the camera cut briefly to the still berry-covered Owen washing up then back to him. The clone took the opportunity and launched himself at the fun guy and attacked him.
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A few laughs were heard and the Aftermath theme renewed itself, the title screen flaring up for a third time.
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Mal, Topher, and Sadie raced down the Wall as the camera panned down to show them moving faster. Sadie unknowingly skated towards the mine, causing her to be blown off the wall with a yell.
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The title screen showed up for the final time.
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Topher slipped on the puddle of oil, forcing him to land on his back while the cake splattered on the floor candle first.
The camera quickly panned rightward to the door at the side of the plane; it slammed open and countless animals ran out – a sasquatch, a bear, a horse, a seal, a duck, a bunch of rats and chipmunks, and Ezekiel Clone at the front of it.
The resulting explosion was shown from about a mile away, and the light completely enveloped the once-peaceful nighttime scene.
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The Aftermath's title sequence played once more, earning another round of applause from the unseen audience as the episode began.
"Hello, everyone!" the voice of Josh spoke out, walking in to a close-up shot of what looked like the host's couch in an outdoor set. "Welcome, to Total Drama Aftermath! We are coming to you guys live from the beautiful tropical shores of Hawaii!" The camera zoomed out. As he'd said the main parts of the Aftermath set had been transplanted to a beautiful white-sand beach, a smoking volcano off in the background. Two-tiered couches had been set up on either side like usual, but unlike usual, both held members of the Peanut Gallery: the left had Brick, Courtney, Cody, and Heather on the top row, Lightning, Jo, Amy, and Rodney on the bottom; the right-hand couches had Lindsay, Sky, and Shawn on the top, Beth, Harold, Duncan, and Ella on the bottom. Luna and Ron were also seated next to Ella.
"After traveling all around the world this season," Josh continued, "we had to wrap it up with a big shot of paradise. And I'm not relaxing on this beach by myself. Let's give a big welcome to our Peanut Gallery!" The audience cheered, the camera cutting from one half of the gallery to the other as the former contestants there smiled and waved to varying degrees.
"We've two episodes left before we declare this season's million dollar winner!" Josh said enthusiastically. "And it's going to happen right here."
He paused for a few seconds for the applause to die down, then continued. "First things first, we have to say hello to a few people who were boot off the show. Please welcome," he motioned to the side, "Noah, Sadie, Owen, and Eva!"
The crowd cheered again as the four were shoved into view by an unseen intern. "Why are we all being introduced at the same time?" Sadie asked.
"We're doing things differently today," Josh answered.
"Tell me we don't have to sing," Eva said. "I'm tired of raising my voice."
"We'll get to that soon enough," Josh told him. "But first, I want to ask you guys something." He cleared his throat. "Are any of you wondering why I'm here today instead of Blaineley as usual?"
"To be honest, yes," Shawn answered. "You haven't been in the past aftermath episodes."
"Did Blaineley get her job back or what?" Duncan asked impatiently.
"She definitely did, but that's not why she's absent today," Josh said. "She's out sick today, so I'm here to fill in for her."
"I do hope she gets better soon," Ella said with sympathy as she nurtured Ron and Luna.
"So do I," Sadie agreed as she sat down next to Ella, who frowned harder at her. "Are you not going to talk to me?"
"We'll talk after this episode is done. As for now, don't bother me," Ella said sternly.
Sadie sighed miserably, and even when Luna and Ron glared at her, her expression didn't change.
"I deserved that," she mumbled to herself.
"Hey Josh, don't forget to talk about Dawn and how she's stuck in Siberia," Harold reminded the man.
"I was getting to that," Josh continued. "Last episode, Dawn was nursing a wounded bear in Siberia. Thankfully, the bear's all better now!" he said brightly before frowning. "Sadly, the airport officials wouldn't let her fly home since she only had Blaineley's passport."
"Me and Shawn rented a helicopter to locate and find Dawn," Jo told the host.
"Thanks for that," Josh said as a quick aside. "The wait is over!" he said brightly, pointing dramatically off into the distance.
The crowd cheered as a green helicopter was shown approaching high over the set. Dawn leaned out the side door and waved at the camera, then called out "Hello! I'm so happy to see all of you!"
The bear from Siberia poked its head out as well, and the crowd gasped. "Behind you!" Harold cried in warning.
Dawn looked at the bear, then back at the crowd. "Don't worry about Bruno!" She and the bear quickly ducked back into the helicopter as it descended. A ladder was thrown out, and Dawn used it to climb down and land on the sand.
"Are you ready to return to co-hosting?" Josh asked Dawn. "Blaineley's sick in bed, so I'm taking over for her."
"Okay," Dawn agreed and was going to shake hands with Josh, only for heavy plodding footsteps to herald a strong right hook at Josh from the bear, who had apparently landed on the beach without issue.
The audience and gallery gasped and shrieked in shock. "Bad Bruno!" Dawn scolded the bear. "We don't hurt people, remember?" The bear hung his head in shame.
"He's gotten possessive of me ever since I fixed his paw," Dawn explained as Josh rubbed his face. "But he's really sweet and protective... as long as no one gets within three feet of me."
"How are we supposed to host if that bear is in our way?" Josh asked.
"We'll figure something out, don't worry," Dawn told him. "But right now, let's get back to hosting."
"The Peanut Gallery will soon have a say in who's gonna get the million bucks," Josh said as the crowd clapped.
"That's good," Eva spoke up, the shot cut to the left half of the gallery and revealed that she was in the top row while Owen was at the top. "I have some things I'd like to say about the Final Three."
"Mal can't win the finale," Owen added. "He's the only evil player left!"
"That's if they can live long enough to compete," Shawn said with Noah in the top row. "How are they going to get out of Drumheller?"
"The number one cause of death in Drumheller is being stranded there!" Duncan claimed.
"Are we sure they'll be here for the finale?" Dawn asked her cohost.
"These guys are survivors," Josh said. "Look at Izzy. She's like a Total Drama cockroach."
"I thought that was Mal," Jo remarked.
"Maybe Izzy is Total Drama lichen," Shawn theorized. "The stuff that survives forever."
"My point is," Josh went on, "they'll find a way here one way or another, and it'll be exciting however it goes down!"
"So who does the Peanut Gallery think will win?" Dawn jovially asked the camera.
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[A stereotypically Hawaiian tune began to play as the camera zoomed in on the monitor set up over the hosts' couch, which was now showing an image of peanuts dancing on two sets of tiered couches with a question mark between them. The question mark enlarged as the lyrics began, transitioning the screen to something else.]
"Who you gonna root for? Who's it gonna be?"
[Dawn sang over an image of three slot machine windows amongst a field of question marks. The windows started on question marks as well, before they started spinning rapidly.]
"Is it Mal, Ezekiel, or will you pick Izzy?"
[As Dawn sang, the reels stopped from left to right as each contestant was called in turn, showing stock images of Mike, Ezekiel, and Izzy all smiling.]
"There's Izzy, she's the new girl, and she's been playing hard!"
[Dawn sang, appearing on screen and doing a hula dance wearing a grass skirt, a lei around her waist, and flowers in her hair. Behind her, the scene changed to black-and-white clips of Izzy, showing her diving into the water to swim to the flag in Sweden, then her talking to a lobster in Newfoundland.]
"But she is too bizarre! She'd have! To pay! A bodyguard!"
[Dawn added. The clips continued behind her, showing Izzy jumping from ice floe to ice floe in the Yukon, then finding her barrel of oil in Drumheller.]
"Who you gonna root for? Who's it gonna be?"
[Dawn dropped back out of the scene as another few short clips played: Mal fulling exposing himself in China, Ezekiel being knocked to the floor in Greece, and Izzy talking about game shows in Japan.]
"Is it Mal, Ezekiel, or will you pick Izzy?"
[Another trio of clips accompanied the next line, this time showing Mal smirking down while climbing the Statue of Liberty in New York, Ezekiel singing in the cargo hold in Egypt, and Izzy being stretched in London before the beat dropped.]
"Ricki-tick-ity, you're gonna hear it from me!"
[Harold popped up on the screen wearing a dark baggy sweatshirt and beanie over his normal attire, and a gold chain and sunglasses. The music became a smooth hip-hop beat as he rapped. The black-and-white montage naturally became Ezekiel specific: him watching his clone be created in Area 51, then him being thrown off the plane by Chris.]
"The only one winning this is our man, Zeke!"
[Both he and the montage continued: showing Ezekiel playing his harmonica in Australia, then climbing up to the condor in Rapa Nui.]
"Pimpin' like a king, sippin' lemonade in the shade!"
[The montage continued: showing him crossing the finish line with Ace in China, being stuck in quicksand in Africa, and pulling out the pieces of his gold bling in Germany.]
"Kickin' it Hawaiian style! Gonna take home the cheddar!"
[Harold stuck a flower in his hair as Ezekiel was shown almost admitting that he likes Sadie to Jo in Paris, then taping up the broken pieces of his bling in the Amazon.]
"We're gonna be all smiles!"
[He rapped over a clip of Sadie carrying Ezekiel across the tightrope in Niagara Falls.]
"Partay!"
[Harold said to the camera as the next clip consisted of Ezekiel and Sadie kissing.]
"Why does he get to sing?"
"He doesn't. Harold!"
[Ella, then Dawn were heard saying over a clip of Ezekiel thanking Ella for helping him in the Yukon.]
"Ricki-ticki-ticki-todelle, give it up for Ezekiel!"
[Harold rapped over clips of Ezekiel panicking over the plane turbulence in Jamaica and he and Sadie getting captured by the Ripper in London.]
"Harold's in the house spittin' rhymes that are viral, a-viral!"
[He rapped over a clip of Ezekiel holding on to the camel's butt in Egypt.]
"Give me the microphone! The song is over!"
[Dawn said as she snatched the microphone from the dweeb's hands, the montage was frozen on the camel scene.]
///
"Your rapping is good, but you can't hijack a song like that," Dawn scolded as the music ended and the shot cut back to the host couch, Harold walking back to his seat.
"Your singing voice is nice to hear though," Josh complimented.
"My father did say I have a gift!" Dawn said sweetly and shook his hand.
Bruno rose up from behind the couch, swiped down with his paw to separate the two, then smacked Josh all the way into the ocean.
The audience and gallery gasped in shock, and Dawn cried out "Josh!" in fear. She quickly turned a glare towards the bear, saying "Bruno! I told you, don't hurt innocent people!"
Bruno hung his head in shame under her glare, and he trudged over to the right half of the gallery. Most of the contestants that had been sitting there screamed and ran away, leaving only Beth paralyzed in fear in the bottom-left corner. Bruno took the seat behind her, and leaned over to sniff her.
"Maybe we can calm the bear down with something?" Sadie asked
"We can use kava tea," Shawn suggested as Bruno began to lick Beth's head. "Kava is a root the native Polynesians used to calm minds."
"Is it also an appetite suppressant?" Beth asked in terror as the bear continued to lick her.
"Before the Peanut Gallery hold up their flags to show who they're supporting," Dawn said as she resumed hosting and Josh rejoined her dripping wet, "let's see how our finalists stack up!"
She motioned back up to the widescreen as trading-card-like pictures of Mal, Ezekiel, and Izzy appeared on screen against a yellow starburst pattern, then rapidly spun around in a circle.
"Who has the best chance of taking home the cash?" Josh asked, smirking in anticipation before he and Dawn looked back at the camera. "Let's see who earned it the hard way, with some...!"
XXX
A bout of static cut the scene to an image of a white man in a full-body cast lying on a stretcher with his left arm in a sling. He was suddenly sent flying as an ambulance crashed into him, a deep voice announcing "Total Trauma!" over the blare of the siren, the shot pulling back to show Chef sitting on top of the ambulance in a male nurse's outfit.
XXX
"Ezekiel took a bit of a beating this season," Dawn began over a montage of clips showing Ezekiel getting knocked off the condor's nest by the mother condor then sucking his finger after touching an artificial in Area 51. "Most of it physical."
"He formed a relationship with Sadie and overcame most of his insensitivity," Josh continued over a clip of Sadie hugging Ezekiel in Paris. "But with Sadie out of the game," Sadie was shown catching her own parachute and Ezekiel was shown digging holes with Topher in Drumheller, "Ezekiel had to work with Topher."
"Ezekiel also has skills to fall back on," Dawn said, the montage cutting away briefly to show the moonchild nodding. The widescreen showed a stock photo of the young man. "Although he's the physically weakest of the finalists," the montage continued, showing Ezekiel getting covered in bandages in Egypt, "and ignorant about some things," the next clip was of Ezekiel believing Mal's lie in Jamaica, "he's easily the smartest of the Final Three," Dawn finished over a clip of him figuring out his team's saying in Newfoundland.
"All and all," Josh said as the camera cut back to the hosts, "I'd say he's got a chance. And he's definitely saner than our next competitor."
"Izzy also managed to avoid serious injury all season," Dawn said as the stock image of the psycho was shown. "What can we say? She's unstable," clips were shown of her falling into pudding in Niagara Falls, then hitting a pole and sliding down in New York.
The camera briefly returned to Josh as he said "Despite being new to the game, Izzy made a name for herself with his high IQ, friendships, and happiness." Halfway through the sentence the clips resumed, showing her taking charge in Sweden, forming Team E-Scope with Noah and Eva in London, and being dressed like a mummy in Egypt.
"Despite all we've mentioned, she isn't without her flaws," Dawn said. "Her attitude has gotten people annoyed with her on more than a few occasions," a clip was shown of her pressing buttons while Chef tried to stop her, "and she took this year's biggest makeover in Area 51." The clip reel changed to a long-distance shot of Area 51, and Dawn asked "Could we see that clip again?"
The feed cut to static, and Izzy was shown stepping out the chamber with her face looking like a clown.
"I remember that moment!" Cody said. "It took her all night to wash the makeup off."
"Even with her clown appearance, she's still more rational than Mal could ever be," Jo replied.
"Speaking of Mal," Dawn said, looking back up at the widescreen as it cut to another round of clips.
"No one really knew much about Mal when he first showed up," Josh continued as the clip of Mal's first appearance in the Yukon was shown, "but he quickly established himself as a ruthless competitor willing to do anything to make people suffer. Whether it's by throwing someone out of a plane," he was shown letting Owen fall from the plane, "throwing animals at someone," Mal was shown hurling a dingo at Cody, "or just being intimidating in general," he was shown threatening Ezekiel to be in first class, "Mal has been the vilest villain this whole game," the clips finished with Mal shoving Lindsay into a pole.
"Also," Dawn added as the shot cut back to the hosts, "raise your hand if he's the reason you're here now!" The camera cut around the Peanut Gallery, showing Duncan, Ella, Lindsay, Sadie, and Sky raising their hands on the right couch and Cody and Owen raising their hands on the left one.
"He's got all of the abilities of Mike's other personalities," Josh added over clips of Mal finding easter eggs in Rapa Nui, "and has avoided a few eliminations of his own," he finished over a clip of him surviving being eliminated in Africa.
"He's in the Final Three because of luck," Duncan scoffed.
"And if Topher didn't blow up the plane and get disqualified, he wouldn't even be there," Shawn added.
"Nothing seems to stop him," Josh claimed as the widescreen was shown in static, "even if he did get a swollen eye or get hoofed in the nuts." Clips of those instances happening in Rapa Nui and Greece played.
"But anyone can still win. It's too close to call," Dawn chimed. "Let's take a look at what could stop our finalists in their tracks." She motioned back up to the widescreen, which cut to another series of clips.
XXX
"Izzy's biggest weakness, aside from his insanity getting in the way, is her style of thinking," Josh said over a clip of Izzy going through the lasers in Paris.
"If she doesn't become fully aware of herself," Dawn added as clips of Izzy glowing from being inside a radioactive box in the Yukon were presented, "then she could wind up losing her pride and effectiveness."
XXX
"As for Mal," Dawn said as the clip montage moved to Mal talking to Topher in the Amazon and him giving away chowder in Newfoundland, "he is one of Mike's personalities, not the main one."
"If the final challenge triggers any of Mike's other alters," Josh added over Mal eating cake in China, "that could spell the end for Mal."
XXX
"And Ezekiel?" Dawn continued as the recap footage shifted to Ezekiel running with a panda in Japan. "I'd say his biggest weakness is his emotions."
"Agreed," Josh chimed in. "He's been working on his social skills," the montage continued on to show Ezekiel checking up on a tarred Topher in Drumheller. "But if he lets Sadie being eliminated get to him, he could very well do something drastic towards Mal," he finished over Ezekiel being faux complimented by Mal in Sweden.
XXX
"And here's where it gets interesting," Dawn continued as the static cut away back to her. "It's time for the Peanut Gallery to vote for their favorite finalists!"
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The footage flashed ahead to a close-up of small flags bearing Izzy's face, the camera zooming out as the audience applauded to reveal them to be in the hands of Amy, Duncan, Eva, Lindsay, Noah, Owen, and Sky; they were now the only ex-contestants sitting on the left-side couches.
Cutting to the right-side couches revealed most of the rest of the cast sitting there holding Ezekiel flags: Beth, Brick, Cody, Courtney, Ella, Harold, Heather, Jo, Lightning, Luna, Rodney, Ron, Sadie, and Shawn.
"Figures nobody's a Mal fan," Duncan smiled, hurling all the Mal flags away.
"I don't see how Ezekiel can beat Izzy," Eva admitted. "He'd lose immediately in a fight against me while Izzy can fend me off for thirty seconds."
"But Ezekiel's the only finalist that hasn't gotten arrested or did something questionable," Shawn replied. "That has to count for something!"
The camera cut to Bruno as he walked up towards a nervous Beth with a red checkered bib around his neck. "Uh, is the tea ready yet?" she asked before Bruno roared.
The black male intern promptly arrived with a tea kettle and cup on a tray. "I'll take care of it," Shawn volunteered, grabbing the kettle off the tray. "I have some experience dealing with bears last season, especially hungry ones." He cleared his throat, then turned to face Bruno.
The bear roared again, but rather than flee, Shawn just shoved the kettle into his mouth, which immediately closed around the spout. Bruno blinked in confusion, then began to drink; he finished after a few seconds, took the kettle out of his mouth, and yawned contentedly.
"I still don't know how blessed I am to have you as my boyfriend," Jo said.
"After 44 days of traveling, Bruno can use some rest," Dawn talked to Josh.
"And he got it," Josh said, only to be interrupted by a roaring Bruno once again. The bear promptly fell asleep and dropped over onto Josh, pinning him to the ground as the audience gasped.
"Josh!" Dawn shrieked before noticing the camera still on her. "Err, coming up next, a few lucky members of the Peanut Gallery will face-off in an exciting surf challenge," she said quickly, "for a chance to win an advantage for their favorite finalist!" She nervously looked down at Josh.
"All that and more," Josh said, muffled by Bruno's sleeping head, "when we return on Total! Drama! Aftermath!"
"Can someone assist me here?!" Dawn asked as she tried to push Bruno off Josh herself and the audience applauded.
The show's title screen was shown again, the flaring letters leading in to the break.
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So I have had a urge to make a bloodborne like dnd campaign for ages now but only recently found the time to write it up and I would appreciate any changes or feedback you guys have for it.
So we start at the beginning of time where only the old ones exist there are 4 old ones, The Conscious, The Finality, The Spirit and The Beginning they are beings that represent the whole universe and all dimensions. The beginning creates the material plane which is basically the earth but it’s currently just a big rock with some oceans. The Conscious gets greedy for power as they want to control everything so he kills The Finality and absorbs their power. The other old ones obviously don’t like this so they lock him in a slumber as he is too strong for them to kill and that could cause massive issues with the universe (we will get back to his slumber in a bit). The body of The Finality has this golden like ichor in it and it falls on the material plane, which creates life and the first set of mortals called the precursors.
So back to the slumber of The Conscious. Because they are so powerful their dreams make a new plane called the dreamlands which currently are an earth like place where mini old ones or Elder Children reside and they currently terrorise The Conscious’s own set of mortals by killing them and feeding of their essence. These first mortals find a way to slay the Elder Children and kill all of them they can find. They call themselves the first hunters or The Deos Timont (can’t remember the Latin for it but it’s something like that) after they believe they have killed all the elder children they lock all their knowledge in a vault deep underground to prevent any of it getting into the wrong hands but to be used if the elder children ever return. Turns out though the children never were extinct but just hidden as in the material plane, the precursors had begun to believe in gods and when a large sum of mortals believe in a deity that deity is created and these precursors are like “ your god is fake ours is real” and so they have this massive war over who has the real god or not and some of these gods see the pure emotion used in this war and manipulate the mortals to their will corrupting their power making them Daemons and creating a new plane called the deep. The spirit and the beginning see this happen and realise the harm of seeing these powerful beings so they make all mortals close their minds eye (the capability to see gods and other deities) so the hunters believe they have eliminated all the children when they just can’t see them. The children then go into slumber for a while due to their losses.
Then life in the dreamlands go on similar to normal life they develop their technology till a point that mimics early Victorian era of our world and there is this scientist called John huston who is dying, he wants to find a way to cure his illness in any way possible as he believes his mind to be valuable to the progression of mortal life. He first tries to find a way to move one’s mind into a inorganic one like a humanoid doll. He finds a few “willing” interns and tried to make them part of the doll but all the methods he tries are fruitless and all the subject die. So plan two, he finds some old texts about the old hunters and reads about a golden fluid that is in all life which they used to cure illnesses and wounds in battle but the book is ripped up so he struggles to find out much more about it except how it’s extracted, using special bone needles to extract it from other people. These special bone needles are from the corpses of the elder children so he gets an archaeological team and eventually they find the fossils of one of these children. He fashions it’s bones into the needles and again gets some “willing” subjects and extracts what he calls life blood from the body. The then consumes the lifeblood and his illness is cured shortly after. He sees the monetary value of selling this cure to the public and devises a way to get mass quantities of it. He would grab homeless if the street and criminals serving a life sentence from prisons with a few good bribes no one would question it and he then extracted and sold all the life blood to anyone with the money to buy it and all who consumed it also was cured of all illness and physical wounds like scars and deep wounds. Everything was great until a few weeks after the life blood was rolled out to the public and people started turning into beasts. People who had consumed large amounts of life blood would turning into even worse monsters that represented there darkest acts like a cop that turned a blind eye on a few missing homeless people became a large gluttonous beast with no eyes.
At a similar point in time in the material plane, daemons from the deep had found a way to enter the material plane and Caused the event called hells rage where they killed millions of mortals. Eventual they were pushed back and mortals recovered but they left many corpses of daemons which people started to use and one things they used were the bones and they found out how to extract life blood though those who had their life blood extracted didn’t die but had their mind moved to another body in the dream lands specially to a body that had unalived itself during the day the monsters came. These people are called hollow and are undead with the lack of blood they are stronger and more durable to mortals but have no memories of their bodies past life till they learn them through echos, places significant to the body can awaken these echos and tell the possessor who they were and how they died.
We begin with our party who are captured but a cult who extract their life blood and and make them hollow and they party has to traverse the dreamlands and find a way to return to their normal bodies.
Sorry for it being so long but this is a shortened version with lots missed out so if you want a part two I can cover more I have written. This is also still a work in progress so any constructive criticism would be appreciated

My info 1. Spouse - stay at home mom for now and might find a job later for may be 100-150k 2. One 3month old daughter and 2 year old mini aussie dog 3. Planning for 1 more kid after 3-4 years. 4. Income - 300k from software job and no other income 5. NW - 200k (non retirement) and 200k retirement 6. H1-B for life as I am Indian and will stay in USA till kicked out, I will wait for my 3 month old US citizen daughter to grow up and sponser me. 7. No property in USA but I got some ancestral non income generating homes in India.
Probs with NJ I don't want to pay like 700k or 800k for a home which I am don't like or barely like and 6.5-7 % interest for 30 years(may be less rate in future) and high property taxes to go to public schools while I want private schools (for political reasons and my preference on schools). NJ New homes is only for families with close to a million dollars in bank for a cash offer or for families earning 500k+ yearly income to easily afford 160k down payment with good backup cash and 5-8k monthly payment on property which I am neither. I think I can only do either a small, old, ugly or far away home in NJ for 600k or less which I don't want.
Pros of Columbus I can get a big good looking home like 5bhk, 3bedroom 3k + sq feet on a 0.5 acre lot within 10-25 miles of the center of the city for 500k with low property taxes. The home will look better than any other friend's home I had seen in NJ with similar income. Decent private schools for 8-15k per year. (Just need to keep my remote job and future job changes might be hard, also social life needs to be restarted).
Requirements

1. City with good safety where my wife/daughter can walk at night
2. City where I can afford private schools for 10-15k per year
3. City with somewhat less state income tax and less property tax
4. City where I can buy a big home 2k -3k square feet with 4-5 bedroom and 3 bathrooms and backyard for my dog to play for a total price of 600k or less, preferably 400-500k.
5. I love the cold NJ/NY weather, my favorite outside is 50-60f (I can live with 40f but hard to tolerate 70f + ) and I can't stand the heat as I came from super hot Indian city.
6. I would like free space of 0.5 -2 acres around but not a requirement
7. I would like a single floor home so that I don't need to keep climbing up.
8. I work in software but permanent remote job. If there are some software in person jobs in the city it would be good as I can get the in person job if I am fired from remote job.
9. I mostly stay at home but I want some accessibility for music classes, self defense classes, gym, warehouse clubs,

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Disclaimer: I commented on this post, but only once and correcting another commenter. Also, this drama is a couple months old, so popcorn pissers beware. This is also my first writeup here, so I apologize for any formatting issues. I can also answer any questions anyone has.
Context: The Binding of Isaac is a roguelike. Each run is randomly generated; without using seeds, no two runs will be the same. As of the latest expansion, Repentance, there are 34 characters and 12 completion marks for defeating certain bosses. There's technically 24, one earned for beating the boss on normal mode and one for beating them on hard mode. However, beating the boss on hard mode also earns the mark for normal mode. Hard mode is available by default. There's another mode called Greed mode that has a mark. However, the hard mode of Greed, Greedier, is not unlocked by default. You'll have to play some Greed mode runs into order to unlock Greedier mode. (This is what my comment was about).
Some terms:
-T (example: T Lost, T Jacob): T stands for Tainted. It refers to the alternative forms of the 17 playable characters
-Eden token: The characters Eden and Tainted Eden require Eden tokens to play. Eden tokens are earned by beating certain bosses. All bosses that give Eden tokens give completion marks, but not all bosses that give completion marks give Eden tokens.
-Lost: The Lost is an unlockable character. You unlock the Lost by dying in a certain room holding a certain item. This revives you as the Lost. The Lost has no HP, any hit kills them. The Lost gets an innate Holy Mantle (an item that protects you from damage once per room) when 879 coins are donated in Greed(ier) mode.
-R Key: R Key is an active item that starts the current run over at the first floor, while keeping everything you've earned that run, such as health, items, and completion marks. Using R Key, you can earn mutually exclusive completion marks in one run.
A user posts a video to the subreddit, claiming to have gotten all completion marks with all characters. Their win streak is 230, and their stats show 0 deaths.
People are immediately suspicious:
I absolutely don't believe you

Has the same amount of Eden tokens as his streak
Never died a single time by a poorly designed room as T lost, T jacob and J&E
Never got telefraged by delirium as T lost
Didn't die after DYING and being revived with Missing Poster as The Lost WITHOUT MANTLE
🤡

-Never got telefraged by delirium as T lost
I cheesed it with Tainted Cain and had Gnawed Leaf as Tainted Lost.
-Didn't die after DYING and being revived with Missing Poster as The Lost WITHOUT MANTLE
Missing Poster revives you as The Lost even when unlocking it and actually if you have for example Dead Cat, it doesn't even turn you into The Lost, just unlocks it.
About Holy Mantle, I didn't even go alt path before unlocking it for The Lost for obvious reasons. (OOP)

Wait but you said you unlocked holy mantle before The Lost unless I'm reading this wrong?

Wdym? To be precise, I didn't "unlock" Holy Mantle because it is available from the beginning, I meant "Lost holds Holy Mantle". (OOP)

You need to donate like 4 Quintillion Coins to the Greed machine in Greed mode 🎃

Some users try to math it out:
There s no way this is real, cmon no deaths when characters like t.lost exist? Also you beat delirium lots of times in a row without dying once?
Edit: since there are 34 characters and 12 marks to get, the worst case scenario is gaining only a mark per run so the maximum number of runs assuming you get at least a new one each time is 408. Lets count the scenario where you get 3+ marks on a run, or even more insane, lets say you get 4 per every run, that will be 34 times (12 - 4) which is 272. Your run count is 230, so basically besides the fact that you didnt even die once you also managed to get an insane amount of R keys?
Edit 2: forgot to add that you also need to store the coins in greed mode to unlock keeper, and here are some runs wasted because of that

(This comment is deleted and I wasn't able to recover it, but based on the context it was probably pointing out that OOP had the same number of Eden tokens as their win streak)

Yeah, which means he must have never played either Eden character

Holy shit good observation

Uhh why is that can you explain i didnt get it

You have to spent Eden tokens to play him. Since his Eden tokens is the exact amount of wins he has that means played eden for free which isn’t possible

Wait? Arent eden tokens are not spent if you win as Eden. Or at least its spent unless you win and gain another token

Winning as a normal character would increase your Eden tokens by 1 and your win streak by 1. Because Eden costs a token to play and gives you one back when you win, your Eden tokens wouldn’t increase afterwards but your win streak would. Playing as Eden would make your winstreak increase but not your token count, so he can’t have played as either Eden because the winstreak and token count are identical. OP is also claiming the use of R keys as a way of balancing that, and I’m not totally sure how R key interacts with tokens and winstreaks, but that seems far less likely than them just having faked it.

Iirc you get a eden token at the end of it lives no? So if you R key you should be able to get 2 every run. Although even then he’d need an r key EVERY SINGLE FUCKING RUN AS BOTH T. AND REGULAR EDEN which is much less likely than it sounds (ESPECIALLY t.eden)

Optimally all completion marks need just 5 runs. For example:

1. Boss Rush + Hush + Chest
   
2. Dark Room + Mega Satan + Delirium
   
3. Mother
   
4. Home
   
5. Greed mode
   

That would be just 5*34 = 170 runs. More realistically it's 6 runs per character or 204 runs in total. I averaged 6.67 so I'd say it's not even that tight. (OOP)

may I remind you that at the start of a new file you need to beat mom's heart 9 times and get to satan and isaac a few times as well? you dont get this setup from the get go, you need additional runs where you get no marks

I believe the minimum is 5 runs to get all completion marks for a character, which would only be 170 runs, so that is actually believable
for example:
1st run: Boss Rush, It Lives!, Hush (ignore Deli), Isaac, Blue Baby, Mega Satan
2nd run: Satan, The Lamb, lucky Delirium
3rd 4th and 5th run for Greedier, Mother and The Beast respectively
you would still have to get lucky to get a Void portal on the last boss and not sooner, but even so you could still do a dedicated run and it would only be 6, which assuming you never got lucky the new minimum would be 204. This makes 230 runs perfectly believable for a minimum amount of wins but not to get them all in a row

I keep saying this but I explained in another comment that you cannot get the 5 runs minimum since you do not have these bosses unlocked on a new file

oh damn you're right, you'd need somewhere around 25 wins to unlock every ending. 10 for Sheol and Cathedral, 5 for both of them to unlock Chest and Dark Room, 3 wins against Hush to unlock the Void and Mother (first win you can still go to the Void by exiting and reentering however)
add those 23(+?) runs to the 170-204 minimum range and it gets pretty damn close, with 193-227
But honestly, it's not like the minimum amount of wins was really in question to begin with, it is pretty likely he went and got every mark without dying, he just cheated to do it or more likely edited the file to bring the death counter down and preserve his win streak

Someone asks for the Bestiary to be shown:
Show the beastiery, it will show you how many times you died to each enemy

It shows couple deaths but it doesn't take into account revive items so kinda meaningless. (OOP)

Then your not afraid to prove to the public, your beastiery.

Here https://streamable.com/pejo69. I counted 26 "deaths" (=revives). Many of the deaths are to so dumb characters they were probably for going through Dead Cat to get revived as another character. For comparison, my second file says 406 deaths but I counted 478 in bestiary. Scaling that number would mean 34.6 revives expected and I got just 26. (OOP)

The bestiary may not take revive items into account but the deaths counter does, if you die and revive it''ll still show as a death on the counter

In stats main page? No it doesn', you can test it yourself. (OOP)

I have, that's how I know

You haven't apparently I just tested it. OP may be a liar elsewhere, but they're right on this one. The death counter on the stats page does not increment if you die and revive. (PC, testing by giving 1up! with the debug console in case that matters)

Some users make jokes:
If real- you need to touch grass
If fake (which we all know this is)- you need to touch grass
In conclusion-go touch some goddamn grass

Now die 100 times to get the Scissors and Dead God

No. (OOP)

Sounds like a skill issue ngl

My bf and I broke up mostly mutually in January. The last time we saw each other it was very much heartfelt with both of us exchanging our goodbyes and tears and going our separate ways. With our time apart from each other I did have regrets - things I should have said last time I saw him back in January but didn’t. It was hard for me to move on and accept things so I sent him a message asking if we could meet as i felt things were not completely resolved. I said it was up to him and if he didn’t want to that was fine also. He replied saying he will let me know when he’s back in town and see how he feels then. That was back in March and since he has not replied. I assumed he didn’t want to meet, which I didn’t have a problem with, so I didn’t attempt to contact him since. Today however, I saw him and his new gf in a shopping centre. I’m not sure what I was thinking but I thought I could say a brief hello and how are you to him? I didn’t really consider the fact that his new gf was with him it was more so the fact that he was there. Looking back now this was a bad idea, they saw me right in front them and before I could even speak they just start giggling with each other, basically laughing at me and his gf is giving me a really evil look. I realised my mistake and speed walk out. I nearly started crying outside as never in a million years would I laugh at him the way he did at me. Around 5 minutes later i saw them walking towards me and I sort of jump behind a wall. Once they walk past his gf looked at me up and down and gave me another judgy look. It made me feel really small and although I understand the awkwardness of meeting your ex in public my ex and I were super close and sort of grew up together. I never had any bad feelings towards him as he stuck with me through a lot of bad times and he was the first person to basically love me. Now it feels like everything was false, he was the only one for a long period of my life to truly know me and it feels like a slap in the face. I’m sure it might just be the awkwardness of the situation so am i reading too much into this? If it does happen again I have learnt my lesson and will try to just ignore them. It’s incredibly difficult living in the same city as your ex and im worried that another incident like this will occur. Has this happened to anyone else?
TLDR: saw my ex of 2yrs and his new gf and they laughed in my face

So I have had a urge to make a bloodborne like dnd campaign for ages now but only recently found the time to write it up and I would appreciate any changes or feedback you guys have for it.
So we start at the beginning of time where only the old ones exist there are 4 old ones, The Conscious, The Finality, The Spirit and The Beginning they are beings that represent the whole universe and all dimensions. The beginning creates the material plane which is basically the earth but it’s currently just a big rock with some oceans. The Conscious gets greedy for power as they want to control everything so he kills The Finality and absorbs their power. The other old ones obviously don’t like this so they lock him in a slumber as he is too strong for them to kill and that could cause massive issues with the universe (we will get back to his slumber in a bit). The body of The Finality has this golden like ichor in it and it falls on the material plane, which creates life and the first set of mortals called the precursors.
So back to the slumber of The Conscious. Because they are so powerful their dreams make a new plane called the dreamlands which currently are an earth like place where mini old ones or Elder Children reside and they currently terrorise The Conscious’s own set of mortals by killing them and feeding of their essence. These first mortals find a way to slay the Elder Children and kill all of them they can find. They call themselves the first hunters or The Deos Timont (can’t remember the Latin for it but it’s something like that) after they believe they have killed all the elder children they lock all their knowledge in a vault deep underground to prevent any of it getting into the wrong hands but to be used if the elder children ever return. Turns out though the children never were extinct but just hidden as in the material plane, the precursors had begun to believe in gods and when a large sum of mortals believe in a deity that deity is created and these precursors are like “ your god is fake ours is real” and so they have this massive war over who has the real god or not and some of these gods see the pure emotion used in this war and manipulate the mortals to their will corrupting their power making them Daemons and creating a new plane called the deep. The spirit and the beginning see this happen and realise the harm of seeing these powerful beings so they make all mortals close their minds eye (the capability to see gods and other deities) so the hunters believe they have eliminated all the children when they just can’t see them. The children then go into slumber for a while due to their losses.
Then life in the dreamlands go on similar to normal life they develop their technology till a point that mimics early Victorian era of our world and there is this scientist called John huston who is dying, he wants to find a way to cure his illness in any way possible as he believes his mind to be valuable to the progression of mortal life. He first tries to find a way to move one’s mind into a inorganic one like a humanoid doll. He finds a few “willing” interns and tried to make them part of the doll but all the methods he tries are fruitless and all the subject die. So plan two, he finds some old texts about the old hunters and reads about a golden fluid that is in all life which they used to cure illnesses and wounds in battle but the book is ripped up so he struggles to find out much more about it except how it’s extracted, using special bone needles to extract it from other people. These special bone needles are from the corpses of the elder children so he gets an archaeological team and eventually they find the fossils of one of these children. He fashions it’s bones into the needles and again gets some “willing” subjects and extracts what he calls life blood from the body. The then consumes the lifeblood and his illness is cured shortly after. He sees the monetary value of selling this cure to the public and devises a way to get mass quantities of it. He would grab homeless if the street and criminals serving a life sentence from prisons with a few good bribes no one would question it and he then extracted and sold all the life blood to anyone with the money to buy it and all who consumed it also was cured of all illness and physical wounds like scars and deep wounds. Everything was great until a few weeks after the life blood was rolled out to the public and people started turning into beasts. People who had consumed large amounts of life blood would turning into even worse monsters that represented there darkest acts like a cop that turned a blind eye on a few missing homeless people became a large gluttonous beast with no eyes.
At a similar point in time in the material plane, daemons from the deep had found a way to enter the material plane and Caused the event called hells rage where they killed millions of mortals. Eventual they were pushed back and mortals recovered but they left many corpses of daemons which people started to use and one things they used were the bones and they found out how to extract life blood though those who had their life blood extracted didn’t die but had their mind moved to another body in the dream lands specially to a body that had unalived itself during the day the monsters came. These people are called hollow and are undead with the lack of blood they are stronger and more durable to mortals but have no memories of their bodies past life till they learn them through echos, places significant to the body can awaken these echos and tell the possessor who they were and how they died.
We begin with our party who are captured but a cult who extract their life blood and and make them hollow and they party has to traverse the dreamlands and find a way to return to their normal bodies.
Sorry for it being so long but this is a shortened version with lots missed out so if you want a part two I can cover more I have written. This is also still a work in progress so any constructive criticism would be appreciated

I'm at the December 24th events, and i barely got through Mementos part because i had only a few hp and sp recover items. Now that i got to the battle with the God of Control, i have only an all-members recover hp and my team with full SP and HP that i got in Velvet Room with Lavenza. I can barely get at the middle part of the battle without getting all my team with empty sp and dying right after. My secondary save is from Okumura's palace and i cant buy any item. Is there any hope for me defeating him?

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The BYU Religious Education department shares a video about their newest publication, "Battlefields to Temple Grounds," which explores how World War II Pacific battlefields in Guam and Micronesia have become peaceful temple grounds. Watch the video here.
Geoff Steurer's blog post discusses the importance of formal disclosure as part of the healing process after betrayal, as it helps partners face reality, reduce shame, and work on rebuilding trust. Read more here.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reports that Elder Gary E. Stevenson recently visited Brazil and met with the mayor of São Paulo, a Catholic Cardinal, and the leaders of the largest mosque in Brazil. Read more here.
Dan Peterson reflects on a recent trip to Jerusalem and revisits the significance of the Six-Day War in Israel's history, highlighting the significance of the event for Zionist Jews around the world. Read more here.
The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced the location of the Charlotte North Carolina Temple, which was announced by Church President Russell M. Nelson during the April 2023 general conference. Read more here.
Jeff Teichert reassures readers of "Meridian Magazine" that they can find perfection in Christ, even if their family situation is not ideal or picture-perfect, and emphasizes that being made perfect in Christ means being made whole through Him. Read more here.
Cali Black encourages us to ask for help and rely on our Heavenly Father in difficult times, using Matthew 26:39 as a guide in her One Minute Scripture Study podcast. Read more here.
Breck England discusses the meaning and significance of the sixth seal in the Book of Revelation, and how it relates to our spiritual foundations. He discusses how Joseph Smith, Jr. was called upon to receive revelations at a time when people were experiencing despair, and how we can turn to the Lord for guidance during difficult times. Listen to the podcast to learn more. Read more here.
In his article "Discovering Atonement Theory", mdavidhuston describes his initial discovery of atonement theory through a Wikipedia search, discusses its various interpretations, and reflects on its implications for one's view of the world and others. He then delineates four atonement theories held by various Christian philosophers, including the penal substitution theory and the adoption theory. This article encourages Latter-day Saints to study, understand, and appreciate the method by which our sins are remitted. read more here.
The Church News shares an interview with President Henry B. Eyring in honor of his 90th birthday, reflecting on his life, lessons learned, and his 38 years of Church service including his remarkable wife Kathy and his calling as a counselor in the First Presidency. read more here.
Richard Ostler interviews Debra Oaks Coe, an active LDS mother of 5, and longtime LGBTQ ally on his podcast, where they discuss the latest research on Gen Z, their mental health, and what can be done to help them feel needed and a clear feeling of belonging. Coe also shares practical examples about creating belonging in family and ward congregations, as well as how her family and congregation handled her gay son coming out. If interested in learning more, the podcast contains links to her Deseret News Op-Ed, a sheep story, and an earlier related episode. Read more
The AML Online Book Club is set to discuss Mikayla Orton Thatcher's memoir Beehive Girl on June 25th, and Thatcher herself will be joining the discussion. Beehive Girl is a unique memoir that offers a window into a forgotten Young Women's program, and follows Thatcher as she documents her personal journey fulfilling the original Beehive Girls’ requirements as a modern adult. The book is part memoir, part project book, and includes Thatcher's account of skills such as making furniture, milking a goat, and caring for a hive of bees. The discussion will be held on Zoom, and readers can request a link by replying to the AML post. Read more here.
Jeff Lindsay reflects on the universal scope of the atonement and salvation of little children in the Book of Mormon and how it reveals God's fairness and mercy towards all His children. Lindsay notes that the Book of Mormon provides meaningful echoes of these doctrines that are later revealed in the Doctrine and Covenants. He highlights 2 Nephi 9:23-26 and Jacob's teachings concerning the mercies of the Holy One of Israel and how they are claimed through the atonement of Christ. Lindsay argues that these teachings demonstrate the universal scope of God's love and should give us hope and faith in a fair, merciful God. Read more here.
BYU researchers are developing a prescription-like system for chronic back pain that will prescribe patient-specific back pain remedies like doctors would prescribe medication, in efforts to help reduce opioid addiction. BYU is one of 10 major universities (along with Harvard, Ohio State, and the University of Utah) tapped to help with this $150 million effort by the Back Pain Consortium Research Program. The research team is collecting data on both biopsychosocial well-being and spinal motion. Preliminary results have been very promising and show that spinal motion phenotypes correlate with biopsychosocial well-being; patients in certain phenotypes experience much more severe pain than others. These findings support the practice of motion-based diagnostics, as well as the theory that patients who exhibit similar phenotypes will respond in like manner to similar treatments. Ongoing research by the BYU team and others is dedicated to identifying the optimal treatments for patients with chronic low back pain according to their individual needs. Read more here.
Trevor Holyoak reviews the latest installment of The Joseph Smith Papers, which covers the first four and a half months of 1844, including Joseph Smith's announcement of his presidential campaign, the formation of the Council of Fifty, the increasing hostility from various sources, and new doctrines being brought forth, among other things, including all seven known versions of the King Follett Discourse. Read more here.
The Interpreter Radio Show discusses New Testament lesson 24, "Continue Ye in My Love" covering John 14-17 in their May 14 segment of the New Testament in Context. Read more here.
Pam Peebles explores the topic of personal identity and how we choose to identify ourselves, sharing one man's own self-identification as a disciple of Christ on the Third Hour blog. Read more here.
Ted Gibbons writes about the significance of praying in the name of Jesus Christ, emphasizing the power and authority found in doing so as a family member and invoking our elder brother's name with reverence and gratitude. Read more here.
Geoff Steurer discusses the importance of formal disclosure in healing from betrayal, including how it helps both partners enter reality, reduces shame, and encourages self-reflection, in his blog post "Why Formal Disclosure Matters (Part 1)." Read more here.
John Claybaugh offers teaching and study aids for Lesson 24 of the Come, Follow Me New Testament curriculum, with a focus on John 14 and the teachings on the two Comforters that Jesus promised to send to His followers. Read more here.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced the location of the Charlotte North Carolina Temple, which was revealed by Church President Russell M. Nelson during the April 2023 general conference. Read more here.
Elder Gary E. Stevenson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles meets with government and religious leaders, including the mayor of São Paulo, a Catholic Cardinal, and leaders of the largest mosque in Brazil, during his ministry tour in Recife and São Paulo, Brazil. Read more here.
Breck England, writing for Meridian Magazine, discusses the sixth seal and what it reveals about the last days, including a world haunted by war and despair. He also shares how the Lord provided guidance to help us navigate these troubled times. The article includes a podcast episode on this topic. Read more here.
In a recent blog post on The Interpreter Foundation, hosts Terry Hutchinson, John Gee, and Kevin Christensen discuss Lesson 24 in Come, Follow Me on John 14-17 in their New Testament in Context segment on the May 14 episode of Interpreter Radio. Read more here.
In his Listen, Learn, and Love podcast, Richard Ostler hosts Debra Oaks Coe, who shares the latest research on Gen Z, their mental health, the importance of belonging, and also talk about her experience as an active LDS mother of a gay son and shares her family love story. Read more here.
Cali Black reflects on a difficult time in her life and shares a lesson she learned through studying Matthew 26:39 in her latest blog post on the One Minute Scripture Study podcast. She encourages readers to ask for help when needed and reminds them that it is okay to do so. Read more here.
BYU Religious Education has released a new book titled "Battlefields to Temple Grounds," which shares the inspiring stories of how World War II Pacific battlefields in Guam and Micronesia became peaceful temple grounds. The book is edited by R. Devan Jensen and Rosalind Meno Ram and is available for purchase now. Learn more about the authors and get your copy on the RSC website. read more here.
In his blog on Patheos, Dan Peterson reflects on his experience attending a conference as a young graduate student in 1976 that featured prominent Latter-day Saint scholars such as Truman Madsen and Hugh Nibley, and how it impacted his scholarship and faith. He shares personal anecdotes and highlights the importance of intellectual rigor and spiritual sensitivity in the pursuit of truth. Read more here.
The Church News shares an interview with President Henry B. Eyring discussing the lessons he's learned in his 90 years of life, including the importance of serving the Lord in all things and how every good thing in his life has been a byproduct of that service, including meeting his wife. Read more here.
The AML Online Book Club will discuss Mikayla Orton Thatcher’s memoir, Beehive Girl, on June 25th with Thatcher herself joining the conversation, as former Mormon Young Women work is explored through a funny and heartfelt account of fulfilling the original Beehive Girls’ requirements. Read more here.
Jeff Teichert discusses in his article that being perfect in Christ starts with accepting that we are not perfect and being made perfect in Christ is not about being perfect in fact but borrowing from His perfection and allowing us to be made complete, which means being wholeness through Him. Teichert goes on to argue that we are strengthened by being perfected through Christ and can live an extraordinary and exemplary life no matter our circumstances. Read more here.
In his post "Cherishing the Book of Mormon’s Teachings on the Fairness of God, Including the Universal Scope of the Atonement and Salvation of Little Children" on the Arise from the Dust blog, Jeff Lindsay discusses how the Restored Gospel reveals a vastly more merciful God, who treats His children with fairness, and opens the gates of salvation to all who accept and follow Jesus Christ, including those who lived and died before Christ was born. He explores how doctrines related to the fairness of God can be found in the Book of Mormon, particularly in 2 Nephi, and provides insight on the universal scope of the atonement.
Trevor Holyoak reviews the latest volume of The Joseph Smith Papers, which covers the first four and a half months of 1844 and includes letters mostly to and from Joseph Smith, discourses, a revelation, a poem he wrote in an autograph book, and all known versions of the King Follett Discourse, among other documents, and notes how helpful the thorough notes and supplementary material are in contextualizing and understanding the documents. read more here.
mdavidhuston reflects on the discovery of 'atonement theory' and how it has expanded his understanding of the Atonement of Jesus. He calls the understanding of Jesus’ atoning work as a simple concept where being mortal meant that one was going to sin, resulting in necessary punishment, which Jesus took on to enable forgiveness, the “orthodox” view of atonement, which provides only one of the many ways atonement theory can be comprehended by Christians. He argues that the various ways of comprehending Jesus’ work of atoning can impact how Christians view and connect with the world around us. read more here.
The Back Pain Consortium Research Program, created by the NIH to find effective therapies for chronic low back pain, has tapped BYU, which is running clinical trials to find similarities between people for whom the same treatment is the most effective, developing a s system to prescribe patient-specific back pain remedies like doctors would prescribe medication, along with other key institutions in the program, to identify optimal treatment plans that can be shared among clinics and physical therapists, eliminating the current trial and error patients must go through, focusing on treatments including the medication Duloxetine, physical therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and enhanced self-care, with a multidisciplinary group of BYU researchers and students, working to collect data on both biopsychosocial well-being and spinal motion, including offering a prescription-like system for chronic low back pain that uses wearable nanocomposite sensors and AI to create a “Phenotype-Driven Perscription” individually tailored to each patient's needs. read more here.
The Leading Saints podcast rebroadcasts an interview with Brent Daines and Jason Coombs about Daines' ministering to Coombs during his struggle with addiction, including how Daines saw him as Christ would see him, and how Coombs eventually became able to change. read more here.
The Interpreter Foundation posts an article titled "Conference Talks: 'A theory! A theory! We have already got a theory, and there cannot be any more theories!'", which discusses the three common views regarding the translation of the Book of Mormon that are still held by some. Read more here.
The Interpreter Foundation shares a post titled "Conference Talks: 'A theory! A theory! We have already got a theory, and there cannot be any more theories!'" discussing three common theories regarding the translation of the Book of Mormon and their flaws. Read more here.

in general, Algerians dislike men who dress or behave like women, they regularly get hateful looks and comments, or even assaulted in some places
but for some reason, we make an exception for musicians, people like cheb mamidou have millions of followers
and this isn't even a new thing, take medahat singers for example: cheb abdou, a beloved Algerian musician, even if you don't know his name you heard his stuff
people bought his music and went to his concerts since the 90's, even with the rising influence of the FIS
why do you think the reason is?

This is probably nothing new, but there is a way to share leagues and teams among friends on PC. I figured I would share it just in case it wasn't known for SMB4
1: Disable Steam Cloud saves 1a: right click on game in steam library 1b: click properties 1c: uncheck the steam cloud save option 2: Navigate to %AppData%\Local\Metalhead\ 3: Copy the Super Mega Baseball 4 folder and save a copy somewhere as a backup 4: Delete the Super Mega Baseball 4 folder from %AppData%\Local\Metalhead\ 5: Receive someone else's Super Mega Baseball 4 folder 6: Copy/Paste their folder into %AppData%\Local\Metalhead\ 7: Launch the game, you now have that person's leagues

Hello I was just finally registered as a provider for IHSS. I will be working with my mother whom I live with but the form I received says I am only eligible for up to 90 days retroactive pay but when the social worker did the home visit she said I would be paid from the date we applied which was December. Has anyone gotten paid from the date of application? This is in California

As told by Plummer on "Half Forgotten History" to host Trey Wingo:
"I still can't even believe I played 10 seasons. Those few there in Arizona that were tough where we went 3-13 and got our asses kicked. But going to the Broncos was really a blessing: to play for that organization, to play for Mr. Bowlen [team owner], and play for an organization's that's main impetus was winning no matter what...that was a fun experience."
"I retired, talked to Mike [Shanahan] on the phone, told him my plans (to retire) and he said, 'Ah, I don't believe ya,' and hung up, then traded my rights to Tampa Bay.
"Come to find out, this is a money business, the NFL is all about money. So, I was due a bonus from the Broncos, a $3.5 million bonus. Mr. Bowlen was not going to do anything about it. It was just going to be there and be my money. But when I got traded to the Tampa Bay Bucs, that got transferred to them.
"So in the long run, they knew that it was a good gamble: they would either get me as a QB, which they wanted and [Coach] Gruden wanted. But if I didn't choose to play, they would get that $3.5 million into their account to use on their cap. It was two fold, good move for the Bucs.
"And for me? I was done, I didn't want to play anymore...I retired, and you can still trade retired players' rights to another team in case they want to come back. And that's what Mike did, got a 6th round draft pick out of of it and the Bucs got $3.5 million."

I know it might feel weird to realize it but I always had the feeling with Tom (Or Greg even), they had too much importance for moments on the show, they were so vigilante all the time, they knew they way of everyone in business motion and this is a show that always try to make you fall in love with what is "supposed to" happen to the family, to every sibling. They made us believe and love Kendall as the successor (apart of Shiv or Rome for moments) at any circumstances with his ambitions, and mega corporate business attitude EVEN when he was drawn on drugs. It was the not "supposed to" what ended it everything... That's when Tom is always an option in his actual context. You can even imagine a real conversation between Tom and Logan before the death on the plane (Never happened on screen), it's crazy but it fits. He can struggles in love terms with shiv but she cannot rely an empire to an addicted ambitious brother (I think she switched her final vote decision in the moment she saw Kendall and Stewy attitude on Logan's desk) so discarding the situation, she prefer to stay with her baby's dad. Simply as that. Also, Greg betrayed Tom in the last minute but the new CEO understand very well that he's also in that final position because of him. Greg is the real black sheep in the family. They are perhaps the most toxic relationship but the biggest in meaning at the end. My mind is full of awn and things wanting to be expressed right now but it's the excitement of the show finally over. I was also addicted to every episode, now the big time will be finding a new successor to watch!

I'm a passionate soon-to-be graduate from UCLA with a double major and a deep interest in healthcare technology. I've been working on some exciting projects using NLP and Python, such as developing an application to convert speech defects to fluent speech and creating an accurate Alzheimer's disease classifier using neural networks.
Education:

• NYU, Tandon School of Engineering (Expected December 2023)
• NYU Tandon Bridge course
• University of California, Los Angeles (Expected June 2023)
  • Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Science with a Computing Specialization
  • Bachelor of Arts in Economics, with a minor in Film and Television
• Relevant In-Progress Prep Courses:
  • Maths for Machine Learning (Linear Algebra, Multivariate Calculus, PCA)
  • Python Algorithms and Data Structures Certification
• Relevant Courses (UCLA):
  • Neural Networks Lab
  • Programming for the web
  • Introduction to C++
  • Python Applications
  • Matlab
  • Econometrics
  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Fundamentals of UX
  • How Brains Construct Models of the Environment

Projects and Research Experience:

1. Alleviating speech impediments (May 2023-Present)

• Developed an application using NLP, Python, PyDub, and Google Text-to-Speech to convert speech defects to fluent speech.
• Built a user database using SQL, backend with Flask, and frontend with React.

1. Alzheimers disease MRI image classifier (March 2023)

• Created a custom CNN model with eight layers to classify Alzheimer's disease using MRI scans.
• Achieved 97.25% accuracy by binarizing the data into "normal" and "has Alzheimer's" categories.
• Identified future steps for improvement, including combining aspects of ResNet101 and reintroducing multiclass classification.

1. CurioCity (January 2022-June 2022)

• Led a cross-functional team of 14 members to develop an application from scratch using React Native, Python, SQL, Figma, and Jira.
• Designed and validated key features through extensive user research, improving user experience and receiving positive feedback.

1. Safr (December 2021)

• Devised an app idea to create a platform for therapists and mental health providers, prioritizing client agency in choosing the best fit.
• Conducted market analysis and competitor research to create true product differentiation.
• Won a $250 micro-grant from UCLA Startup labs for the Safr pitch.

Research Experience:

• Multisensory Perception Lab (September 2022-April 2023)
  • Research Assistant, Multisensory language study
• Multisensory Perception Lab (September 2022-April 2023)
  • Research Assistant, McGurk study
• Multisensory Perception Lab (January 2021-June 2021)
  • Research Assistant, AVT study
• Fox Uncertainty Lab (April 2021-June 2021)
  • Research Assistant

Professional Experience:

• Nymble (June 2022-September 2022)
  • Business Development Intern
• SwetTailor (June 2021-September 2021)
  • Marketing Intern

Skills:

• Programming Languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, Python
• Tools: Figma, Agile Methodology, MS Excel, Product Management, Go-to-Market Strategy, Microsoft Office, iMovie, Adobe Photoshop, Bubble, A/B Testing, Jamovi, Canva, Google Analytics, Matlab, Jira, Tableau, R Studio, Google Ads, Webflow
• Languages: Hindi (Fluent), Spanish (Intermediate), Mandarin (Intermediate)

I'm seeking advice on how to break into the field of Healthtech. Any guidance, suggestions, or resources would be greatly appreciated! Or even how to get more work experieence in the same would be helpful!
Thanks in advance for your help!