So, I wanted to play a New Game + but it seems that Ubisoft didn't want me to... After struggling with an infinite white loading screen that ended up crashing almost every time I clicked NG+, I managed to get through it and into the first cut scene, and now my game keeps crashing after 3 to 5 or 10 minutes after I loaded a save. I've tried launching the game as administrator, disabling the Ubisoft Connect overlay, updating my graphics card drivers, and checking the integrity of the files... But there's nothing I can do, my game keeps crashing... Do you have any idea how to fix this problem?

Hello everyone! My day job has been keeping me down, but I am back! You can find the last post here.
Today we are talking about hands and starting to think more about our overall game feel.
What do we need to think about when deciding on a hand size and method of refilling our hand?
The main factor we want to think about is game pacing, a common trope in this genre is aiming for 45 minute to 1.5 hour runs, meaning there is only so much time you want your players to spend on a turn, and even if you are planning a more longform game there is only so much time you can ask your players to stay focused on one fight (look up Exit Points for more information on this).
Because of timing, and not wanting people to be paralysed by having too many choices, we want to limit the number of options our players have.
There are also technical limitations to think about, how are you going to have people see and remember all of those cards on screen at the same time? (You can cheat a bit like this) How are you going to show your hand size limit? If your cards change during play, can people easily see this?
People will start recognising your cards by their art, you can see how Star Vaders is able to just use small icons, but you will know every card in your deck by sight by the end of a run. This allows room for the board and the fire effect when a card will be burnt, but cards that change over time are harder for people to see (for example Rampage increasing in power each play in Slay the Spire).
How does the game feel?
Let’s look at the “Slay the Spire” feel. You draw five cards and have enough energy to play about half your hand at a base level and every time your turn ends you draw a new hand and you have a ten card hand limit. This means every turn you are generally thinking about a new tactical situation, it is very easy to pick up since people can just think about doing the best in the now.
The recent Wildfrost has a hand that persists between turns, you can play one card at a time and you use an action (or get it for free by using enough cards) to get a new hand. This promotes the timing on playing cards, do you save this card for a later use? Should you sacrifice a turn to get a new hand? A lot of people found this game very difficult and I think the need to be quite precise with your hand added to this vibe.
In Sentinel Point Heroes you have a hand of five that isn’t refreshed until you press a button to draw two cards which takes time, giving your enemies a chance to strike at you. This method let’s you hold cards in hand to combo or holding cards to defend yourself with and giving you an interesting choice on when you can afford to refill your hand.
Here are some general tips for adjusting your hand to adjust your game feel:
- Larger hands mean longer turns, which is worse if you have many fights but give your players the option to make more interesting turns (note that StS does this at the end of a run when you have fun cards, not the start with boring cards).
- The more cards you can play, the more you can impact the game and the more powerful you will be and feel
- Being able to preserve cards in hands means longer turns, more ability to combo and more forward planning required
- The more complex your cards/battles or the more battles you have, the simpler you want your hands
I really wanted to talk about deck sizes and more on game feel but it turns out there is a lot to think about with just hands! Expect another post soon. Until then post in the comments about how your choices have affected the feel of your game.

First off. I'm sorry about the wall of text, but loopholes and leaving info out bothers me for whatever reason. My friends like to call me an info dump when I'm explaining something. It's more than deserved and it doesn't mean I'm always right about something lol. Some of the info here is basic stuff, some isn't. I also play her primarily as a point tank because she benefits from being near where the fight is centered around. If you don't want to read all of it, there's one thing I'm trying to spread about her that's super cool in the Royal Presence section that I bolded. Funny enough KamiVS just did it in a new video he posted yesterday so there's footage of it. I won't be offended if you don't read all of this, I was just answering another post and it ended up being way too long so I'm putting this here.
On to the guide and feel free to correct me on things or put your own ideas of the character in the comments!
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General
Nyx is a much better point tank than a lot of people think. Being patient also really helps with her; not just in learning her, but also in stealing the point. She's not broken or the best, but she's good and can be pretty versatile when you get her down. It just takes bit of time to get a playstyle that works with her down.
The first thing to know is that she does a LOT of damage, but it's slow. You have to play point patiently with her and take your opportunities when you see them. She's great at denying space and dealing wide areas of damage. Even if that damage seems small, it adds up. Which you'll see me say over and over again. Instead of holding point more defensively than offensively like say an Inara would, Nyx does the opposite. She uses slow sneaky damage to steal the point and try and angle herself where she can poke a little close, but safe. You always want to be where your support can see you and protect them even more than another tank would. They're your lifeline and only source of healing.
When you use either her shield or presence and don't have a need for it to be active anymore, then re-activate them to end the effect so that you can get your cooldown back faster.
Last thing is that if your support isn't very good you're going to have a ton of trouble staying up so you have to play a lot safer and use your poison, rift slash, and poke to try and steal what space you can. If your dps isn't very good, then a lot of the slow damage you're doing is going to get wasted. It's your job to weaken the enemy and their job to finish them off. Not that you can't still get picks and burst people down, but bad dps is really going to make things much harder on you than another tank would especially if their target priority isn't good. Making enemies back up or just die is how you're going to survive along with knowing when to back yourself. But if your dps and/or your support is at least decent you can create so many opportunities for your team, which makes the character a lot of fun.
Weapon
Her weapon shots gets +75 damage within 20 units, which is not far at all. It's essentially nose to nose, but when you think it's within survivable space, try and get into that range for the extra dps. She goes from ~483 dps to ~608 dps if she hits all bonus damage shots in one combo (about 3 seconds when I timed it. Someone could correct me if I'm wrong there though.) It will really benefit you to move strafe forward and then back a little when you fire to try and get that bonus damage, but also maintain a little space. Mess around with it in the shooting range to get used to that if you don't already do it.
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Abyssal Fortress
I have four tips for for the shield:
1.) When using it to protect yourself try to keep it close to you and of course strafe through it if enemies try and walk through to hit you. You can look a bit in front of you or straight down at the ground, but just remember 30 units isn't far and 1500 less shield is best to avoid when you can help it.
2.) Place the shield facing towards where the danger is. If most of the damage is in front of you, then place it there. If you're dueling the enemy tank because they're killable and there's two dps to your right, then place it towards them to block their damage.
3.) If you seen a teammate (especially your support) in need of protection don't be afraid to place the shield farther away near them to keep them from dying or to aid their retreat. If you're fighting point and think the save is more valuable, then retreat off point and protect the teammate by throwing a rift slash at whoever is chasing them or poking with your weapon if you can. But get away from the point if it'll kill you.
4.) If the enemy tank (like Barik, Ash, Atlas, or another Nyx) places their shield down before you do, don't be afraid to walk forward and put your shield past theirs to negate their value if you think it's survivable space.
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Rift Slash
Rift slash isn't just good for damage or trying to get picks. It's also a great zoning/area denial tool. Don't be afraid to use it to keep people from being in a certain spot if you think you'll find more value than just damage. Also great for pushing the support from line of sight from their tank.
Also don't just use it for yourself. It can really help your flank get that pick if you notice it.
Using it is easier when you charge it for distance instead of damage. The distances are 25 units for 0-49% charge, 50 units for 50-99% charge, and 100 units for full charge. The damage increase is on the initial hit only and you can add more with your weapon than charging will and some players (not a lot, though) will hear the charge and know they need to dodge it, so faster is also better. Additionally, the hitbox when it's a projectile is smaller than the hitbox when it's stationary, so Show of Force cripple is easier to hit as well if you place it correctly. You'll still want to aim directly for enemies, but knowing this can make it a lot easier to hit. You also sometimes want to walk forward or back to get the the area where the slash will stop.
Pre-firing Rift Slash can be a good idea, especially if you know the enemy is going to be near a certain distance. But if the charge will go farther than the enemy you want to hit you have three options:
1.) Hit the enemy with the claw projectile
2.) Hit an object ~15 units near them (includes deployables)
3.) If you're on high ground, aim at the ground near them.
Last thing I'll add on this is that if you need to retreat, hit enemies with the slow or put it in a spot that'll get in their way so you can get out of trouble more safely.
FOR ENEMIES WITH SHIELDS: Fire your rift slash above them at roughly the units you would need to diagonally to get that initial hit damage (and cripple on Show of Force.) Sometimes you'll still hit the shield, but hey we tried. They'll still take the pulse damage like they would have if you just hit the shield.
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Royal Presence
For Royal Presence (her F,) don't think of it as just a defensive ability that makes the damage you take slower. It's great for that, but it's also a great offensive ability for punishing enemies for grouping up near you and racking up that ult charge! You'll be surprised how fast you'll get it with Abyssal Authority and Center of Combat. Sure the damage on the poison is slow, but you don't have to aim it and it can only really be cleansed by ethereal like Grohk & Seris' movement abilities, Zhin billow, and Koga dash.
The poison can also be re-procced, so if you touch an enemy with the aura again near before it ends, they take double damage. Meaning with Center of Combat 5 they can take a total of 30% health over 12 seconds. That's 3 times the damage at base and 6 times if you just got it one them once! People will really just stand in it and not respect the slow damage, but even if it can seem minimal it really does add up; damage is damage after all!
The pull is also really useful for getting a support out of position and then throwing Rift Slash on them, stopping the momentum of an enemy trying to run away, or trying to get an enemy off of one of your teammates. The hitbox for it is a small cone in front of you.
If you didn't know, you can cleanse all temp damage from presence with her ult. But a really cool thing about Royal Presence is that there's a small window where any damage you would take as purple health is automatically healed back up; without even having to use your ult for it. This window is less than a second and basically where her wings go in front of her right when you first activate presence. You don't need to activate the chain pull at all, so you still also get all the other perks of the ability and can save your ult! This means that you can run into Drogoz ult and right before he hits you, pop presence and you'll take no damage. Good Drogoz players will adapt and choose a different target or dodge you, but it's an awesome counter to a death sentence. This also works for tanking Jenos ult, Skye ult, etc. Any big burst damage, but also really any damage in that small window. You can practice this against the Cassie bots in the shooting range. Just wait before one of them fires at you and pop the first activation of Presence. Of course this doesn't work against Vora ult. No idea about Maeve's Street Justice talent however, but to me that's nearly impossible to time.
Last two things to touch on for Presence, but important is you can use it to retreat to get back to your support. You can also touch the enemy tank and hopefully the support with the poison, throw a rift slash if you need to, back up and heal/poke, and then re-proc the poison to add more damage and point pressure. The ability is really a nice mix of offense and defense.
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Ultimate
For her ult you almost always want to use it while using Presence. You can pop Presence and run into the enemy and ult to cleanse all that damage you took and to make space or punish them for being too closely grouped up and then put rift slash on whoever got caught up in it. Also don't be afraid to use the cleanse from her ult defensively just to survive! Sometimes an enemy will still get hit by it or get pulled out of position. There's also three other things you can do with your ult I'll add:
1.) Use Rift Slash before ulting to slow enemies so they can't just run out. This is also way better in Show of Force since anyone you hit with it will be crippled and unable to use a movement ability to dodge the ult. This also works with Subjugation's root on Presence pull.
2.) Use the chain pull from presence right before ulting so their momentum is going towards you or to try and get an additional enemy into it. This ends your aura early, so any damage you take after the initial cleanse from your ult will be taken normally. Use this when you know it's safe too.
3.) If your shield is off cooldown, you can put it in front of you before you ult to block damage or pull them through it if you run the Abyssal Breach talent (you can do the same with chain pull.) You can also just put the shield down just before enemies come out of stun to block their damage and keep space/retreat.
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Items
As for items the best items in my opinion for her are:
Chronos - She's really depends on her cooldowns both defensively and offensively. A lot of my damage is often half ability damage or more.
Rejuv - She gets a scaling 20% healing bonus near the objective. So 20% on it and still a bonus even if you're just a bit away from it. I'm still not sure where that bonus ends, but both of these together also stack against caut. So at Rejuv 3 on point and 90% caut, you're only in 40% caut. Still try to get out of combat (ideally still near the objective, but out of enemy sightlines) to get healed up by your support. But if you have to fight on point in caut, then you have to wait until you can use your shield to cleanse it.
Nimble - No movement ability means you need faster movement speed to get in and out of fights. A lot of value for not a lot of credits, but there are situations where you might not have space to buy it
Haven - Less damage better. Especially in Royal Presence.
Resilience - CC can really mess up your day, so resi is a must buy for her in those situations.
Points if you noticed that three of her items (Nimble, Resi, Rejuv) are actually pretty low cost, so getting your build up can be pretty fast sometimes.
As for her best item starts (if your support is something like Jenos or Corvus or a solo damage furia, start a Rejuv build):
1.) Chronos + Nimble - If you buy this, your third buy should almost always be rejuv unless there's a situation that calls for something else like something that needs counter or your support is just cracked and doesn't need it quite yet. But Rejuv is inevitable on this character.
2.) Rejuv + Resi - Best start when there's CC you don't want to deal with. Once Resi is at 2 you can start building out more, but rush that unless your opponent isn't very good with CC.
3.) Rejuv + Nimble / Rejuv alone - You need more healing
Redundant items for her are:
Illuminate - You can actually just track enemies that are invisible with the tick damage from royal presence and then throw rift slash on them, hit them with your weapon, and either kill them or push them out. It takes some getting used to for you to hit your shots just tracking the numbers, but it's nice to have the item slot freed up.
Morale Boost - You get so much ult charge from Presence ticks if you have her build set up right with Center of Combat and Abyssal Authority, so only reason to really buy this is if you really need your ult and your build doesn't include those.
Last thing about items is that while she isn't great with Wrecker, if your team is low on it and you feel like you need it: get it.
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Cards
Onto her cards, I'll preface by saying that strong card go brrrr isn't always the best option on this character. She's got a lot of stuff that's a little weak in base kit, but much stronger when you buff it. So a balanced spread can help you out a lot. But also some of this is my opinion and you do you; if you want a card at 5 then that's your expression of the character. Remember that you should try to build characters to suit your own playstyle.
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Best (No particular order):
Abyssal Authority - Getting more enemies in your aura means more passive damage. That means more ult charge, damage numbers for credits, and adding kill potential to your team even for enemies you aren't actually looking at. It doesn't seem like a lot at first, but it adds up as I mentioned above. If you're point tank you want this card at 3-4. 5 is kind of overkill, but do you.
Center of Combat - This is where a lot of your damage numbers will come from. Boosting aura damage is great. I have this at 4 on my main build which can rack up to 26% max health on a single target over 12 seconds. There's still a good benefit to 5, but I like to put that point elsewhere to balance my build out. Except in a Nyx mirror. They go 5 then you go 5 on this card.
Forever Changed - HP adds to your bulkiness which can really help you out. But if you'd rather go for something else, totally respectable. But have at least one build that has this card at 4 or 5 if you notice you find yourself in a situation that demands bulkiness.
The Little Things - Rift Slash is a hugely important tool on this character, so reducing it's cooldown is fantastic. Personally I have this at 2 because I have my points elsewhere and at this level I rarely don't have slash when I need it. But it still happens now and again. 4-5 is kind of overkill unless you're going off-tank though.
Devastating Blows - This card is amazing when you need it. You'll find yourself against enemies that usually won't be close to you though. Which negates the benefit of the card. That's why I have a build that just uses this as a filler card. I find that at 3 you're generally in the space you would be fighting another tank on point, but if you find that space to put it at 4 then go for it! 5 isn't too far off from 4 though, so the benefit in a point in another card is a little better, but that's just my opinion.
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Pretty Good:
All Will Kneel - Rift slash is amazing at denying space, so adding some radius to it's pulses. That's 200 damage total over 2s or 300 over 3s in Show of Force, but the slow is the biggest benefit.
Unchecked Power - I've faced Nyx's that send this card and ngl it can be pretty annoying at start until resil is up. Even at just 2-3 there's value in this card, but I personally don't use either this or the previous one because I find more than enough value with base rift slash and I like buffing other things better for my playstyle.
Brutal Pursuer - This card is ONLY good if you're going off tank. Otherwise you're better off putting points elsewhere. The value of the move speed just isn't high enough on point tank.
Unyielding Advance - This is a pretty good filler card. If you find it suits you, then go for it! But it doesn't have a lot of value past 1-2 compared to others.
Frontline Commander - This card is amazing! On another character. Nyx's base kit needs too much boosting to justify space for this at a level where it's really useful. She's pretty CC heavy, so the move speed decrease just gives resi more value against her. But still give it a shot if you like it, despite what I said it's a pretty fun card. Just remember that my take on this card is an opinion despite me wording it like it's a fact.
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Meh:
World Torn Asunder - When you get used to Rift Slash, it's not super hard to hit even at 100 units as long as you space yourself correctly. So the real value in this is hitting agile enemies like Vatu, Maeve, or VII. But it's not a card you want to put a lot of points out of, and you can still work around having it. Not a bad idea to have it as a 1-2 pointer to deal with champions like that though if you find it helps you! I'm just saying in general there's much more value elsewhere. Personally I don't use it at all, but give it a shot still to draw your own conclusion.
A Swift End - Devastating blows gets you way more value. It's there all the time and this is only usable on shield. At level 5 this adds ~360 damage to a single combo (3s), but that number really isn't exact and is likely a little lower. Just an estimate. Biggest argument for this card is you can re-proc it by strafing your shield, so it's shield duration + 3s. But if an enemy shield is in your way then you lose value unless your aim is to try and burst down the shield. The card is still fun though. So if you're not looking to be optimal, go for it! Same applies to some other cards above.
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No:
True Freedom - If you take one thing away from this comment. Don't use this card. It's a scrub trap. There's better one pointers and when you get used to the character you'll find this card is just training wheels that don't even really need to exist. Even if you miss a hit on your weapon or hold it for a bit longer, the value is just too small.
The New Order - Not as bad as True Freedom is, but the value is way too low and other cards are just way better. Most chains will hit 1-2 enemies max. Even at 5 that's a 150-300 shield for way too many points.
Unyielding Advance - It's like using Guardian as an item: don't. People will buy wrecker and decimate your shield even with this at 5. And if they don't your shield will last more than long enough.
Face to Face - I mean, you can kind of meme with this, but even then the value is just bad. Base pull does it's job just fine, and using this to soften the blow from the other team building resi doesn't help a whole lot in comparison to other cards.
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Builds
If anyone wants my builds for reference, I'll put them here. Just remember this is for how I play the character and what personally found me the most success:
AA= Abyssal Authority, CoC = Center of Combat, FC = Forever Changed, TLT = The Little Things, DB = Devastating Blows, BP = Brutal Pursuer
Balanced - CoC 4, AA 3, FC 3, DB 3, TLT 2. Main build I use almost all the time.
Bulky - FC 5, CoC 4, AA 3, TLT 2, DB 1. I use this build either when I need more health, or more often when I know enemies are going to be farther from me so I won't get value out of DB.
Damage - CoC 5, AA 4, DB 3, TLT 2, FC 1. I use this build when facing another Nyx or really bulky comps. Especially with Lilith as the support with 2 tanks. Really messes with her resources.
Off-Tank - CoC4, DB 4, TLT 3, BP 3, AA 1. As off tank you need that extra bit of movement speed. Even though it isn't substantial, it helps a lot. You're not the center of the fight as off-tank, so AA doesn't get as much value, but CoC adds to your damage. DB is at 4 so you can get stronger pokes from a bit farther and TLT 3 lets you rift slash more and keep that move speed up. Don't use it exclusively for the speed though.
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Talents
Show of Force - This is my favorite talent for her by far. The extra second lets you deny more space and the cripple increases pick potential for you and your team. Biggest downside if there's a lot of CC on your team you'll lose value so you might be better off going Abyssal Breach in those cases. But you can definitely still work around it even then.
Abyssal Breach - The talent I used on point before they buffed Show of Force. Having your shield more often on point is really helpful and it punishes anyone trying to push past your shield in narrow spaces or catch you while you're strafing it in open ones. Great if your team has a lot of CC like I pointed out above. Also don't forget you can use your chain pull to bring people through the shield for that extra damage if you find a good chance for a pick. This goes for pulling enemies through it with your ult as well, but if resi is up it's not nearly as viable tech.
Subjugation - A lot of people say it's her best, but I say it's situational. If you end your aura early with it, you lose a lot of that nice damage and ult charge. But this talent is still really useful. Great as an off-tank talent if your team doesn't have a lot of useful CC so you get more value out of this from forcing resi or someone on the enemy team ignoring resi. Make sure to track who has it for you picks. On point you would only use this if you know the enemy has an agile champion your comp isn't equipped to deal with and you know you won't hit those Show of Force cripples. If your team has a lot of CC then Show of Force is the better off-tank talent.
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Well, that's the end of the guide. I know that was a lot of text, but so are her ability descriptions in game lol. I hope that some of the info that I put here was found useful by someone. Take care and glhf!

Situation: Low budget, hoping to generate MP4 files this weekend to grab clips to be played at a memorial service next weekend. The events were videotaped onto VHS, approx 20 years ago. They're in good condiion.
I first tried an experiment to see if I could converting a VHS video directly to mp4, through using OBS Studio. I hadn't used OBS before other than having a look at it years ago and deciding it was too complex, but I found a great YouTube video and have come pretty close. Using a USB 2.0 cable that has RCA and S-Video connections, I can see the VHS video in OBS and hear the audio, but the audio is initially a little bit off from the video and I think that'll probably get larger and larger the longer the clips that I make, and of course all the more so if I try to convert an entire VHS into a single MP4.
I found some seemingly good advice videos on how to calculate the exact gap and I see how to enter that figure into obs to have it slow down, for example, the audio to match up to the video. It'll take a while to do the testing especially to then test it on creating a one and a half hour or so video, and I wanted to see if a better approach would be to not go directly from the VHS to mp4, but instead to use a device that has both a VHS player and a DVD writer in it, and then to take the DVDs that that would create, put those DVDs into my computer's DVD drive, and use some sort of program, I don't know what, to convert the DVDs to MP4.
I looked for devices for sale that could create a DVD from VHS. None are available for local pickup on eBay near me. I found an ad on craigslist for a Sharp DV-RW55. The seller doesn't know if DVDs made by it can easily be turned into mp4 videos on Windows. I don't want to end up making the investment ($80 and a lot of time) if it won't help me get to MP4 files.
I'm curious also whether the DVDs themselves would have any audio vs video mismatch
Do you know, can DVDs made by this device be used in a Windows computer to generate MP4 files?
And, any recommendation please for free / low cost way to turn (rip?) the DVDs into MP4 files.
Is there some other way to quickly end up at video files I then can view at high speed, identify parts to make copies of, and then to cobble the clips together to provide to our congregation's zoom etc coordinator to be played on cue at the memorial? There also will be video and maybe audio-only submissions by people who won't be able to attend. I perhaps will want or need to incorporate those to make a single file to be played.
Thank you so much, and may you have a meaningful Memorial Day weekend.

I played EDH back when "Commander" was just a gleam in WOTC's eye. We had people playing power 9 cards, Chaos Orb and all kinds of nonsense. It was a good time! I took a break from Magic from about 2014 until a couple of months ago.
When I went to my LGS to play some Commander recently, the first question I was asked was what "power level" my deck is. I went down the rabbit hole of cEDH and how players now define power level of a deck - and that gets to the issue at the heart of this post; in a format where turn 1/2/3 wins are not only possible but consistently achievable by the best decks, I fundamentally don't understand the presence of most of the cards on the banlist, and the fact that some specific cards are not banned.
To elaborate - I don't think there is a realistic case for banning Lotus or Moxen on power alone when Sol Ring, Mana Crypt and Jeweled Lotus exist. In the old days my play group all mutually agreed not to play Sol Ring or Mana Crypt because they turned the format from 100 card singleton to 98 - they are simply too good not to auto-include in every deck. The real reason for banning these cards has to come down to accessibility for there to be any consistency of thought, and I think that's reasonable - but then why not go ahead and ban Workshop, Tabernacle and other very powerful but absurdly expensive and difficult to acquire Reserve List cards? If you want to argue that it is a question of power level, how do you justify Sol Ring, Mana Crypt and Jeweled Lotus (mana vault to a lesser extent)? In fact I would argue that having more free artifact mana would be better for the format because you would see less of the crazy variance where someone starts the game with Jeweled Lotus -> play commander, and everyone else plays Land>Go for 2 or 3 turns. Let everyone do consistently powerful things on turn 1/2!
Now I think the more interesting question is around the rest of the ban list - Sylvan Primordial, Sundering Titan, Braids, Rofellos, Erayo, Prophet, Titan, Upheaval, Yawg Bargain.... all powerful cards to be sure, especially in a multiplayer format, but no more game-warping or un-fun than losing to a cEDH deck on turn 1/2/3. If one deck at the table is power level 10 and everyone else is level 5, the game is not going to be fun for those lower power level players. It fundamentally comes down to player responsibility, unless Wizards takes an incredibly heavy-handed approach to banning. If someone sits down with Rofellos as their commander but the deck is power level 5, they're going to get thrashed by higher power level decks and obviously by cEDH lists. The real question should be, would unbanning Rofellos affect the top-end of the format and create totally meta warping and oppressive cEDH strategies. I don't think you can make the case that any card on the banlist, if unbanned, would have that effect at the top power level. If you're not catering the banlist to the top power level, then what purpose is it serving? If I throw Sylvan Primordial into my power level 5 Karador deck, which does not include any tutors or something like Natural Order, am I now competing with cEDH decks at the table? Did my deck's PL immediately jump to 6 or 7, and if it did would that be a bad thing or just something to be aware of when we're sorting out the game?
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{Not sure if this next part violates rule 5, as I'm not trying to split the community but I don't want to criticize without offering an alternative;}
Instead of just bitching about it, I wanted to offer my preferred rule-set.

1. Sub-Formats; "Vintage" EDH, "Legacy" EDH and "Standard" EDH (ok, we can find better names)
2. Vintage EDH is the least restrictive; it's where cEDH will live and nothing else can survive
3. Legacy EDH removes the game-warping power of BOTH Lotuses, the 5 mox, Sol Ring, Mana Crypt, Mana Vault, Mishra's Workshop...think similar to normal Legacy
4. Standard further bans tutors (excluding those that search up lands) and cards that are "unfun" and aligned with the current philosophy on Commander banlist (Braids, Sylvan primordial)

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I think in my proposal, most players would want to play the "Legacy" variant. You can play nearly any card and any strategy. If you play Rofellos or Braids you're going to put a target on your back. If you reanimate Griselbrand on turn 2, someone is probably hitting it with Pongify/Swords or one of the other cheap removal spells and you put a target on your back. You could also retain the idea of power levels to help ensure games aren't terrible.

I have no idea why this happens, anyway this is the crash log:
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---- Minecraft Crash Report ----
// Why did you do that?
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Time: 2023-05-27 21:39:59
Description: mouseClicked event handler
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java.lang.RuntimeException: Mixin transformation of net.minecraft.class_459$class_462 failed

at org.quiltmc.loader.impl.launch.knot.KnotClassDelegate.getPostMixinClassByteArray([KnotClassDelegate.java:456](https://KnotClassDelegate.java:456)) at org.quiltmc.loader.impl.launch.knot.KnotClassDelegate.tryLoadClass([KnotClassDelegate.java:246](https://KnotClassDelegate.java:246)) at org.quiltmc.loader.impl.launch.knot.KnotClassDelegate.loadClassOnly([KnotClassDelegate.java:164](https://KnotClassDelegate.java:164)) at org.quiltmc.loader.impl.launch.knot.KnotClassDelegate.loadClass([KnotClassDelegate.java:150](https://KnotClassDelegate.java:150)) at org.quiltmc.loader.impl.launch.knot.KnotClassLoader.loadClass([KnotClassLoader.java:228](https://KnotClassLoader.java:228)) at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass([ClassLoader.java:520](https://ClassLoader.java:520)) at net.minecraft.class\_6599.method\_25426(class\_6599.java:29) at net.minecraft.class\_437.method\_25423(class\_437.java:427) at net.minecraft.class\_310.method\_1507(class\_310.java:1079) at net.minecraft.class\_458.method\_19872(class\_458.java:29) at net.minecraft.class\_4185.method\_25306(class\_4185.java:94) at net.minecraft.class\_4264.method\_25348(class\_4264.java:57) at net.minecraft.class\_339.method\_25402(class\_339.java:187) at net.minecraft.class\_4069.method\_25402(class\_4069.java:38) at net.minecraft.class\_312.method\_1611(class\_312.java:98) at net.minecraft.class\_437.method\_25412(class\_437.java:540) at net.minecraft.class\_312.method\_1601(class\_312.java:98) at net.minecraft.class\_312.method\_22686(class\_312.java:169) at net.minecraft.class\_1255.execute(class\_1255.java:102) at net.minecraft.class\_312.method\_22684(class\_312.java:169) at org.lwjgl.glfw.GLFWMouseButtonCallbackI.callback([GLFWMouseButtonCallbackI.java:43](https://GLFWMouseButtonCallbackI.java:43)) at org.lwjgl.system.JNI.invokeV(Native Method) at org.lwjgl.glfw.GLFW.glfwWaitEventsTimeout([GLFW.java:3474](https://GLFW.java:3474)) at com.mojang.blaze3d.systems.RenderSystem.limitDisplayFPS([RenderSystem.java:234](https://RenderSystem.java:234)) at net.minecraft.class\_310.method\_1523(class\_310.java:1241) at net.minecraft.class\_310.method\_1514(class\_310.java:801) at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main([Main.java:237](https://Main.java:237)) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke([NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:77](https://NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:77)) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke([DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43](https://DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)) at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke([Method.java:568](https://Method.java:568)) at org.quiltmc.loader.impl.game.minecraft.MinecraftGameProvider.launch([MinecraftGameProvider.java:527](https://MinecraftGameProvider.java:527)) at org.quiltmc.loader.impl.launch.knot.Knot.launch([Knot.java:82](https://Knot.java:82)) at org.quiltmc.loader.impl.launch.knot.KnotClient.main([KnotClient.java:28](https://KnotClient.java:28)) 

Caused by: org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.transformer.throwables.MixinTransformerError: An unexpected critical error was encountered

at org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.transformer.MixinProcessor.applyMixins([MixinProcessor.java:392](https://MixinProcessor.java:392)) at org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.transformer.MixinTransformer.transformClass([MixinTransformer.java:234](https://MixinTransformer.java:234)) at org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.transformer.MixinTransformer.transformClassBytes([MixinTransformer.java:202](https://MixinTransformer.java:202)) at org.quiltmc.loader.impl.launch.knot.KnotClassDelegate.getPostMixinClassByteArray([KnotClassDelegate.java:451](https://KnotClassDelegate.java:451)) ... 33 more 

Caused by: org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.injection.throwables.InjectionError: Critical injection failure: Argument modifier method setMessage(Lnet/minecraft/class_2561;)Lnet/minecraft/class_2561; in #inventorytabs:inventorytabs.mixins.json:ControlsListWidget$KeyBindingEntryMixin_SoftConflict from mod inventorytabs failed injection check, (0/1) succeeded. Scanned 1 target(s). Using refmap inventorytabs-refmap.json

at org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.injection.struct.InjectionInfo.postInject([InjectionInfo.java:468](https://InjectionInfo.java:468)) at org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.transformer.MixinTargetContext.applyInjections([MixinTargetContext.java:1385](https://MixinTargetContext.java:1385)) at org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.transformer.MixinApplicatorStandard.applyInjections([MixinApplicatorStandard.java:1062](https://MixinApplicatorStandard.java:1062)) at org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.transformer.MixinApplicatorStandard.applyMixin([MixinApplicatorStandard.java:402](https://MixinApplicatorStandard.java:402)) at org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.transformer.MixinApplicatorStandard.apply([MixinApplicatorStandard.java:327](https://MixinApplicatorStandard.java:327)) at org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.transformer.TargetClassContext.apply([TargetClassContext.java:421](https://TargetClassContext.java:421)) at org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.transformer.TargetClassContext.applyMixins([TargetClassContext.java:403](https://TargetClassContext.java:403)) at org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.transformer.MixinProcessor.applyMixins([MixinProcessor.java:363](https://MixinProcessor.java:363)) ... 36 more 

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A detailed walkthrough of the error, its code path and all known details is as follows:
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-- Head --
Thread: Render thread
Stacktrace:

at org.quiltmc.loader.impl.launch.knot.KnotClassDelegate.getPostMixinClassByteArray([KnotClassDelegate.java:456](https://KnotClassDelegate.java:456)) at org.quiltmc.loader.impl.launch.knot.KnotClassDelegate.tryLoadClass([KnotClassDelegate.java:246](https://KnotClassDelegate.java:246)) at org.quiltmc.loader.impl.launch.knot.KnotClassDelegate.loadClassOnly([KnotClassDelegate.java:164](https://KnotClassDelegate.java:164)) at org.quiltmc.loader.impl.launch.knot.KnotClassDelegate.loadClass([KnotClassDelegate.java:150](https://KnotClassDelegate.java:150)) at org.quiltmc.loader.impl.launch.knot.KnotClassLoader.loadClass([KnotClassLoader.java:228](https://KnotClassLoader.java:228)) at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass([ClassLoader.java:520](https://ClassLoader.java:520)) at net.minecraft.class\_6599.method\_25426(class\_6599.java:29) at net.minecraft.class\_437.method\_25423(class\_437.java:427) at net.minecraft.class\_310.method\_1507(class\_310.java:1079) at net.minecraft.class\_458.method\_19872(class\_458.java:29) at net.minecraft.class\_4185.method\_25306(class\_4185.java:94) at net.minecraft.class\_4264.method\_25348(class\_4264.java:57) at net.minecraft.class\_339.method\_25402(class\_339.java:187) at net.minecraft.class\_4069.method\_25402(class\_4069.java:38) at net.minecraft.class\_312.method\_1611(class\_312.java:98) at net.minecraft.class\_437.method\_25412(class\_437.java:540) at net.minecraft.class\_312.method\_1601(class\_312.java:98) at net.minecraft.class\_312.method\_22686(class\_312.java:169) at net.minecraft.class\_1255.execute(class\_1255.java:102) at net.minecraft.class\_312.method\_22684(class\_312.java:169) at org.lwjgl.glfw.GLFWMouseButtonCallbackI.callback([GLFWMouseButtonCallbackI.java:43](https://GLFWMouseButtonCallbackI.java:43)) at org.lwjgl.system.JNI.invokeV(Native Method) at org.lwjgl.glfw.GLFW.glfwWaitEventsTimeout([GLFW.java:3474](https://GLFW.java:3474)) 

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-- Affected screen --
Details:

Screen name: net.minecraft.class\_458 

Stacktrace:

at net.minecraft.class\_437.method\_25412(class\_437.java:540) at net.minecraft.class\_312.method\_1601(class\_312.java:98) at net.minecraft.class\_312.method\_22686(class\_312.java:169) at net.minecraft.class\_1255.execute(class\_1255.java:102) at net.minecraft.class\_312.method\_22684(class\_312.java:169) at org.lwjgl.glfw.GLFWMouseButtonCallbackI.callback([GLFWMouseButtonCallbackI.java:43](https://GLFWMouseButtonCallbackI.java:43)) at org.lwjgl.system.JNI.invokeV(Native Method) at org.lwjgl.glfw.GLFW.glfwWaitEventsTimeout([GLFW.java:3474](https://GLFW.java:3474)) at com.mojang.blaze3d.systems.RenderSystem.limitDisplayFPS([RenderSystem.java:234](https://RenderSystem.java:234)) at net.minecraft.class\_310.method\_1523(class\_310.java:1241) at net.minecraft.class\_310.method\_1514(class\_310.java:801) at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main([Main.java:237](https://Main.java:237)) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke([NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:77](https://NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:77)) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke([DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43](https://DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)) at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke([Method.java:568](https://Method.java:568)) at org.quiltmc.loader.impl.game.minecraft.MinecraftGameProvider.launch([MinecraftGameProvider.java:527](https://MinecraftGameProvider.java:527)) at org.quiltmc.loader.impl.launch.knot.Knot.launch([Knot.java:82](https://Knot.java:82)) at org.quiltmc.loader.impl.launch.knot.KnotClient.main([KnotClient.java:28](https://KnotClient.java:28)) 

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-- Last reload --
Details:

Reload number: 1 Reload reason: initial Finished: Yes Packs: vanilla, fabric, file/3d-item-models-v1-5-0.zip, continuity:default, continuity:glass\_pane\_culling\_fix, essential 

Stacktrace:

at net.minecraft.class\_6360.method\_36565(class\_6360.java:49) at net.minecraft.class\_310.method\_1587(class\_310.java:2413) at net.minecraft.class\_310.method\_1514(class\_310.java:820) at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main([Main.java:237](https://Main.java:237)) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke([NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:77](https://NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:77)) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke([DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43](https://DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)) at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke([Method.java:568](https://Method.java:568)) at org.quiltmc.loader.impl.game.minecraft.MinecraftGameProvider.launch([MinecraftGameProvider.java:527](https://MinecraftGameProvider.java:527)) at org.quiltmc.loader.impl.launch.knot.Knot.launch([Knot.java:82](https://Knot.java:82)) at org.quiltmc.loader.impl.launch.knot.KnotClient.main([KnotClient.java:28](https://KnotClient.java:28)) 

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-- System Details --
Details:

Minecraft Version: 1.19.4 Minecraft Version ID: 1.19.4 Operating System: Windows 10 (amd64) version 10.0 Java Version: 17.0.3, Microsoft Java VM Version: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (mixed mode), Microsoft Memory: 452565440 bytes (431 MiB) / 905969664 bytes (864 MiB) up to 2147483648 bytes (2048 MiB) CPUs: 12 Processor Vendor: GenuineIntel Processor Name: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12400F Identifier: Intel64 Family 6 Model 151 Stepping 5 Microarchitecture: Alder Lake Frequency (GHz): 2.50 Number of physical packages: 1 Number of physical CPUs: 6 Number of logical CPUs: 12 Graphics card #0 name: AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT Graphics card #0 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (0x1002) Graphics card #0 VRAM (MB): 4095.00 Graphics card #0 deviceId: 0x73ef Graphics card #0 versionInfo: DriverVersion=31.0.14037.1007 Memory slot #0 capacity (MB): 8192.00 Memory slot #0 clockSpeed (GHz): 2.67 Memory slot #0 type: DDR4 Virtual memory max (MB): 29773.82 Virtual memory used (MB): 16336.68 Swap memory total (MB): 21768.40 Swap memory used (MB): 674.49 JVM Flags: 9 total; -XX:HeapDumpPath=MojangTricksIntelDriversForPerformance\_javaw.exe\_minecraft.exe.heapdump -Xss1M -Xmx2G -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:G1NewSizePercent=20 -XX:G1ReservePercent=20 -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=50 -XX:G1HeapRegionSize=32M Fabric Mods: advancementplaques: Advancement Plaques 1.4.9 ambientsounds: Ambient Sounds (Fabric) 5.2.19 appleskin: AppleSkin 2.4.3+mc1.19.4 armor\_hud: BerdinskiyBear's ArmorHUD 0.3.8 audioplayer: AudioPlayer 1.19.4-1.5.2 badpackets: Bad Packets 0.4.1 balm-fabric: Balm 6.0.2 betteradvancements: Better Advancements [0.3.1.157](https://0.3.1.157) betterf3: BetterF3 6.0.2 betterthirdperson: Better Third Person 1.9.0 blur: Blur (Fabric) 3.0.0 midnightlib: MidnightLib 1.2.1 satin: Satin 1.11.0 boathud: BoatHud 1.1.3 bookshelf: Bookshelf 18.0.2 camerautils: Camera Utils 1.19.4-1.0.4 collective: Collective 6.54 continuity: Continuity 3.0.0-beta.2+1.19.3 craftingtweaks: Crafting Tweaks 17.0.2 creativecore: CreativeCore (Fabric) 2.10.12 net\_minecraftforge\_eventbus: eventbus 6.0.4 dcch: DCCH 1.2 dynamicfps: Dynamic FPS 2.2.0 com\_moandjiezana\_toml\_toml4j: toml4j 0.7.2 easiervillagertrading: EasierVillagerTrading 1.19.3-fabric0.68.1-1.5.4 gbfabrictools: GBfabrictools 1.3.4+1.19.3 eatinganimationid: Eating Animation 1.9.3 ecs: Elytra/Chestplate Swapper 1.3.0-MC1.19 enchdesc: EnchantmentDescriptions 15.0.1 entityculling: EntityCulling-Fabric 1.6.2-mc1.19.4 essential-container: essential-container 1.0.0 essential-loader: essential-loader 1.0.0 fabric-api: Fabric API 0.82.0+1.19.4 fabric-api-base: Fabric API Base 0.4.26+1e9487d2f4 fabric-api-lookup-api-v1: Fabric API Lookup API (v1) 1.6.27+504944c8f4 fabric-biome-api-v1: Fabric Biome API (v1) 13.0.8+348a9c64f4 fabric-block-api-v1: Fabric Block API (v1) 1.0.7+e022e5d1f4 fabric-blockrenderlayer-v1: Fabric BlockRenderLayer Registration (v1) 1.1.36+c2e6f674f4 fabric-client-tags-api-v1: Fabric Client Tags 1.0.17+504944c8f4 fabric-command-api-v1: Fabric Command API (v1) 1.2.29+f71b366ff4 fabric-command-api-v2: Fabric Command API (v2) 2.2.8+504944c8f4 fabric-commands-v0: Fabric Commands (v0) 0.2.46+df3654b3f4 fabric-containers-v0: Fabric Containers (v0) 0.1.56+df3654b3f4 fabric-content-registries-v0: Fabric Content Registries (v0) 3.5.11+ae0966baf4 fabric-convention-tags-v1: Fabric Convention Tags 1.5.1+fe8721bef4 fabric-crash-report-info-v1: Fabric Crash Report Info (v1) 0.2.16+aeb40ebef4 fabric-data-generation-api-v1: Fabric Data Generation API (v1) 11.4.2+504944c8f4 fabric-dimensions-v1: Fabric Dimensions API (v1) 2.1.47+7f87f8faf4 fabric-entity-events-v1: Fabric Entity Events (v1) 1.5.15+504944c8f4 fabric-events-interaction-v0: Fabric Events Interaction (v0) 0.5.1+76ba65ebf4 fabric-events-lifecycle-v0: Fabric Events Lifecycle (v0) 0.2.54+df3654b3f4 fabric-game-rule-api-v1: Fabric Game Rule API (v1) 1.0.34+a1ccd7bff4 fabric-item-api-v1: Fabric Item API (v1) 2.1.19+504944c8f4 fabric-item-group-api-v1: Fabric Item Group API (v1) 3.0.7+043f9acff4 fabric-key-binding-api-v1: Fabric Key Binding API (v1) 1.0.34+504944c8f4 fabric-keybindings-v0: Fabric Key Bindings (v0) 0.2.32+df3654b3f4 fabric-lifecycle-events-v1: Fabric Lifecycle Events (v1) 2.2.17+1e9487d2f4 fabric-loot-api-v2: Fabric Loot API (v2) 1.1.29+75e98211f4 fabric-loot-tables-v1: Fabric Loot Tables (v1) 1.1.33+9e7660c6f4 fabric-message-api-v1: Fabric Message API (v1) 5.1.3+504944c8f4 fabric-mining-level-api-v1: Fabric Mining Level API (v1) 2.1.41+49abcf7ef4 fabric-models-v0: Fabric Models (v0) 0.3.32+504944c8f4 fabric-networking-api-v1: Fabric Networking API (v1) 1.3.3+504944c8f4 fabric-networking-v0: Fabric Networking (v0) 0.3.43+df3654b3f4 fabric-object-builder-api-v1: Fabric Object Builder API (v1) 7.0.5+504944c8f4 fabric-particles-v1: Fabric Particles (v1) 1.0.25+f1e4495bf4 fabric-recipe-api-v1: Fabric Recipe API (v1) 1.0.10+a1ccd7bff4 fabric-registry-sync-v0: Fabric Registry Sync (v0) 2.2.2+504944c8f4 fabric-renderer-api-v1: Fabric Renderer API (v1) 2.3.0+52cca24ef4 fabric-renderer-indigo: Fabric Renderer - 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cloth-basic-math: cloth-basic-math 0.6.1

 fullbrightnesstoggle: Full Brightness Toggle 3.0 iceberg: Iceberg 1.1.9 indium: Indium 1.0.15+mc1.19.4 inventoryprofilesnext: Inventory Profiles Next 1.10.2 inventorytabs: Inventory Tabs 0.9.0-beta-1.19.3 iris: Iris 1.6.3 io\_github\_douira\_glsl-transformer: glsl-transformer 2.0.0-pre13 org\_anarres\_jcpp: jcpp 1.4.14 org\_antlr\_antlr4-runtime: antlr4-runtime 4.11.1 itemborders: Item Borders 1.2.0 java: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 17 jei: Just Enough Items [13.1.0.11](https://13.1.0.11) krypton: Krypton 0.2.2 com\_velocitypowered\_velocity-native: velocity-native 3.2.0-SNAPSHOT ksyxis: Ksyxis 1.1 lambdynlights: LambDynamicLights 2.3.0+1.19.4 pride: Pride Lib 1.2.0+1.19.4 spruceui: SpruceUI 4.2.0+1.19.4 languagereload: Language Reload 1.5.5+1.19.4 lazy-language-loader: lazy-language-loader 0.3.2 legendarytooltips: Legendary Tooltips 1.4.3 libipn: libIPN 3.0.1 litematica: Litematica 0.14.3 lithium: Lithium 0.11.1 lod: Distant Horizons 1.6.11a logical\_zoom: Logical Zoom 0.0.19 malilib: MaLiLib 0.15.4 marlows-crystal-optimizer: Marlow's Crystal Optimizer 1.0.0 minecraft: Minecraft 1.19.4 notenoughcrashes: Not Enough Crashes 4.4.0+1.19.4 prism: Prism 1.0.4 quilt\_loader: Quilt Loader 0.18.10 reeses-sodium-options: Reese's Sodium Options 1.5.0+mc1.19.4-build.72 searchables: Searchables 1.0.3 sodium: Sodium 0.4.10+build.24 sodium-extra: Sodium Extra 0.4.18+mc1.19.4-build.100 caffeineconfig: CaffeineConfig 1.1.0+1.17 crowdin-translate: CrowdinTranslate 1.4+1.19.3 voicechat: Simple Voice Chat 1.19.4-2.4.8 Loaded Shaderpack: (off) NEC status: Has NEC: INVALID Launched Version: quilt-loader-0.18.10-1.19.4 Backend library: LWJGL version 3.3.1 build 7 Backend API: AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT GL version 3.2.0 Core Profile Context 23.3.1.230305, ATI Technologies Inc. Window size: 2560x1080 GL Caps: Using framebuffer using OpenGL 3.2 GL debug messages: Using VBOs: Yes Is Modded: Definitely; Client brand changed to 'quilt' Type: Client (map\_client.txt) Graphics mode: fancy Resource Packs: vanilla, fabric, file/3d-item-models-v1-5-0.zip (incompatible), continuity:default (incompatible), continuity:glass\_pane\_culling\_fix (incompatible) Current Language: en\_us CPU: 12x 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12400F Client Crashes Since Restart: 1 Integrated Server Crashes Since Restart: 0 Suspected Mods: Minecraft (minecraft) 

It's actually been a childhood dream of mine to get the gold trainer card, I saw videos of it on YouTube but I guess at some point I just stopped caring
But now I really want to go for it, here's what the rules are gonna be

1. I'm gonna do it on an emulator, given that I don't have a GBA or the Emerald Cartridge, and it's practically impossible to find. This being said, everything will be done legitimately
   
2. Cheats will ONLY be used for event only key items. Eon Ticket, Old Sea Map, etc. As I know, goppier and his friend undeadxreality did recreate the roms for each of the events. I would love to try doing that on an emulator. This being said, whenever I try to access mystery gift on the starting screen, it says I need a wireless cable, so if anybody has any idea keep me updated.
   
3. National dex optional, I am curious if it'll be possible however. Johto starters are a nightmare to get in the Gen 3 games since it necessitates getting the Hoenn Dex in 3 separate cartridges, this without mentioning needing to finish FireRed and LeafGreen as well
   
4. Assuming that I actually get the gold card, I may genuinely attempt to get a legit Emerald cartridge and a GBA/DS, plus whatever tools that may allow me to transfer the save file over to it. As I know, Amazon Renewed do have consoles and refurbished cartridges, though I do wonder if they replaced the batteries for the cartridges
   

I am genuinely wondering if I should even do that, overall even if I give up on the goal, I'll still have fun playing Emerald

Either way life's a bitch and my only way to vent rn is reddit because only have my therapist at thursdays and journaling seems like a bad idea before I start uni and actually get a busy schedule instead of days blurring together
Life should be more simple, you shouldn't be dealt a shit deck of cards in what was honestly a jackpot game
She was amazing, smartest person I have ever known, beautiful like a flower with a shining smile and idfk, we talked everyday, if we didn't talk at all in a day something was wrong, then idk what is wrong with me I kept fantasizing of being with her that I never actually did anything forward, the everlooming fear of it all being one-sided and running not just a "friendship" but also my overall self esteem and relationship with my classmates, most of us were all kinda of a close group.
She was pretty confortable around me but I was really nervous back then (kinda still am now but nothing like back then), though she being confortable around me was in a way relaxing too beyond my general nervousness. But my nervousness had to win ofc. We're playing cards on a free class, she is spectating our game, standing behind me and holding herself on my sholders, but that's apperantly not allowed according to my friend. "Cmon her name, you're making him nervous hahahaha".
9th grade ends we promise shit, I had started watching a show just for her back in 8th, which was kinda how we got closer in the first place. I asked her to watch some movies I love over the summer, but decided to never ask her about it during the summer and it kinda vanished from anyone's plans ig. We also decided to start going to school together, we were neighbours after all.
In my massive charisma I manage to not say a word on the way to school and we never do it again. Splendid.
Soon enough a year later we barely talk. We're friends on paper but nothing more than classmates, really. Not someone she thinks worthy to invite to her birthdays anymore. I get so detached that she even starts using the nickname she used for me on a classmate of ours who shares my name, literally feeling myself dissapear from reality, the end of school felt like such a dissociative mindfuck
We still go home together with our group of friends and we always end up alone at the end because we're neighbours but there comes a point that even small talk is hard to come by and yet again I didn't help my situation either. Or when we're all going home together and everyone's teasing her of liking this dude in school while she playfully says she doesn't and I die inside in silence
Last time I talked with her was some months after graduation via the phone because she mixed my contact with the friend I mentioned earlier who shares my name and hanged up once she noticed it, nothing afterwards which honestly just fucking hurts like donkey balls
Most likely she never felt the same I did towards her, and if she did she obviously grew out of it
And yet, after doing nothing to move my passion for her forward, I can't manage to grow out of it. After almost a year of not seeing her or having a proper conversation, I can't manage to grow out of it. This shit haunts me and it's getting tiring. I'm tired of reminiscing about what could be. I'm tired of being at the train, glancing at a girl with just her hairstyle and glasses and wanting fucking collapse on the spot. I'm tired of being unable to open instagram because checking her posts out is somehow too emotionally overwhelming to me.
I'm tired of caring too much for something that will never leave the realm of fantasy. I'm tired of staying late at night and eventually ending up thinking about her when she is most likely living out her life, me? I couldn't even get in college because I failed my entry exams since 12th grade me was a fucking mess
But whatever, this is just a 3 AM rant that no one is gonna read because i aint reading allat

The upcoming changes to the username system will be one of, if not the most negatively perceived Discord updates in its history. The justification that this is a beneficial update focussed on everyday users is also...interesting. "Oh yeah some users wanted to be called Mike or Jane, but there where already 9,999 users called Mike or Jane....So to solve this now there can only be 1!" (If only it was possible to make a 4 digit discriminator 6 digits)
While it is easy to mock some of the worst corporate justification for a terrible decision I've seen in a while, or to suggest solutions that would so easily solve the outlined issues and would be superior in almost every way. It's more interesting to ask why they have taken this route, and where it is likely to lead the app in the coming years.
After all, the people who made this decision are well aware that
-This will be tremendously unpopular and will lead to resentment from the community and some spite cancellations of nitro
-The "solution" they are pushing will require a significant amount of time from engineering and QA teams and will likely lead to a massive strain on there CS team in the short term
-They have removed a key feature of nitro
-They have voluntarily created a blackmarket of rare usernames which will lead to all sorts of fun down the line (As someone who has been involved in these on various platforms and games the people in these are usually giga unhinged so GL)
-Similar to my first point but pushing a update as negatively perceived as this, when your business is entirely reliant on nitro is a pretty wild thing to do (How are you gonna feel about paying X amount of money a month for a messaging service that just took away the username you used for 6+ years?)
So with all this in mind, why was the decision made? How does doing this actually benefit Discord?
This part is more of a question than anything, I really can't come up with a coherent answer as to why this decision has been made.
One potential answer is that we are witnessing a massive shift in Discords business model. I'm not basing this on anything tangible but perhaps we are witnessing a shift away from nitro being the sole revenue of discord and to a more advertiser friendly platform. The first steps of this change being the usernames, so that large companies can have Nestle or Ford handles and nobody else can.
Then maybe in early 2024 we see Discord take the tried and true silicon valley approach to monetisation, remove features from the free version and turn them into paid features for the premium version. Currently most users (My self included) see very little reason to purchase nitro, if I get it for free, great I'll probably forget I even have it within the week. But let's say Discord take the step forward with ads, either in the form of targeted DM's from companies pushing products, or pop ups that might play a video for 15 seconds when you try to join a call. In that scenario, I now see the value in nitro and would consider much more seriously consider buying it. Discord are now also monetising all those millions of users who will never touch nitro.
Anyway interested to hear everyones thoughts on this, I think I may be reading to much into a username change, but you never know.

Tonight in chalk, in front of the steps of my old south Brooklyn walk-up, scrawled in blood red chalk read the words, "U GO DOWN 101010101". I have to tell this tale in case something happens to me and I don't get another chance.
It all began with lunch.
"I once threw a cat out a window!" he blurted, mouth full of burrito. He was my new manager. His name was Tony.
"Was there a fire?" I asked.
"Naw man!" Tony responded, his voice no longer just edgy. It was now agitated too.
"Were you on the first floor?" I asked.
I tried a slow deep breath through my nostrils. I felt my trapezius muscles tense.
"Naw! It wasn't no first floor!" Tony retorted. The edge sharper. The agitation more frenzied.
Now his full mouth soliloquy gnashed meth fast. I blinked hard.
"Why did you do that?" I asked, releasing the breath that could never have been deep enough for this meshugge.
But here I was. Tony was the one who interviewed and hired me when nobody else wanted to. And now Tony looked warpath angry.
"I DON'T KNOW!" he barked. A man and a woman with ID cards around their necks looked up from their big salads then quickly away. Their faces wore an uncomfortable look.
I was jealous. I wished I was merely uncomfortable. What I was, was raging nauseous. I could feel adrenaline enter my stomach with acid and gravitas.
My skin was crawling beneath the July sun while the yachts bobbed nonchalantly in the marina behind our office as we ate our lunch.
This was my third day on the job. And it was right then and there I heard that little voice in my head that I was first introduced to at the age of five when my parents split inform me, once again, "I was doomed."
I thought of my bank account. I thought of rent. I thought about my advancing age. I thought about the job interview at a big bank I had just walked out of two weeks before that. Why had I walked out? Because the dude wrote down a bunch of names of fruit down on a piece of paper with associated prices and then a kumquat with no price and asked me how much it would cost.
Like I say, I had a relationship with IT full stack development gigs and the inevitable egos, irrationalities and EMO like prima donna pettiness the way Sean Penn had a relationship with paparazzi in the 1980s.
And there it was again. That little familiar voice whispering in my ear; dude; you are fucking doomed like Christ on the cross. You are doomed like Joan of Arc at a French fry. You are doomed like the third season of Family Guy. You are Charlie Brown football interruptus doomed.
So, after spending the better part of the last twenty-five years as a software developer, engineer or whatever the cool kids are calling my job these days I can tell you this with no equivocation; I.T. consulting sucks.
Why does it suck?
Firstly, as a consultant or sub-contractor you are not subject to the vast majority of rules, regulations and policies that protect the full time corporate employee from being treated like a disposable object. Generally speaking you are subject to one and only one rule; the golden rule; i.e.; they who's got the gold makes the rules. And, I thought I was okay with that. I've tried full time work and my soul bled.
Hell, I wouldn't even be a consultant if my comic book mail order subscription club hadn't gone belly up during the infamous Comic Book Distributor Wars of the mid to late 1990s. But I don't feel sorry for myself; sometimes a dream ends in bliss and sometimes, or always in my case; fiasco. But I never believed in evil before. I never looked into a face and saw true evil. I can't say that anymore.
Well, like I said I knew IT consulting sucks but what I did not know is the operation I'm sub-contracting for is being terrorized by a malevolent spirit more evil and insidious than anything I've ever dealt with. And about the only thing I am absolutely certain of is the malevolent force is not feline.
Fast forward a couple of years later and I have witnessed Tony yell at my colleagues at the top of lungs menacingly; ladies who had given over three decades of their lives to the company at the top of his lungs. I have seen Tony shred everybody's code always finding a reason why it was unacceptable.
I have seen Tony get three other consultants fired for being, "unable to do the job," after he lied about non-existent memory leaks to Mohan that turned out to be simple configuration issues he prevented my predecessors from fixing.
But somehow, perhaps because I grew up with a crazy mad single divorced Mom I knew how to read Tony. Slowly I put together my resources and made lateral moves with Tony's boss Mohan that continuously minimized my time with Tony. And then I was granted full time remote status.
I thought we were free of Tony.
And then Mohan informed us a couple of weeks ago we were subject to a disaster recovery exercise and I had to build a new version of our application and deploy it to a new site in less than twenty-four hours. And that's when Tony began to shred me and my team's work.
He cornered me in a meeting and told me, "You can lose your job. I don't think you can do it. It's not the 80s anymore! It's not the 80s! Get it? You shbot down my idea to trash the data dictionary and rewrite that old piece of shit! You made me look bad! Yea, you can lose your job!"
"Tony, if that's the case I will just thank you all for a wonderful two years or so. I've met so many wonderful people. But I have a call so if you'll excuse me I have a hard stop now."
"Yea! No problem! No problem!" Tony barked untruthfully.
I called a meeting with Elena and Dina. They had been there running the main system for over thirty years. They had worked with all my predecessors. They had watched them disappear into the aether as one by one they had incurred Tony's wrath and then, had poisoned Mohan against them. And then they were gone. I told Elena and Dina I had gone to Mohan and I was going to tell tales.
Later that day two years of evil bubbled to the surface. The cat. Tony's spastic-macho stories of how he always wielded a baseball bat in hand whenever answering the front door of his Bronx home.
Tony had once explained to me; "I'm from the Bronx! I hate liars. I know jiu-jitsu and I can dead-lift 400 lbs. Anybody rollup on my front door looking for trouble; batter up!"
The following Monday after the cat incident Tony, mouth full of donut turned to me and said, "I was at Chuck E. Cheese with my son and he bit this kid and the mother came up to my son and I said, 'OHNONOBODYCOMEUPTOMYSON!!!!!IWASGONNA!'"
And there I was finally, two years later in a meeting with Mohan and our chief compliance office, Dave. I felt the dam burst.
I told Mohan how Tony had once screamed at Elena on my fourth day on the job in front of the office so loud that my ear drums hurt for hours. I told him how once Daisy, the nice lady who was the office admin and my friend who watched sunsets with me and sat next to us offered him a homemade cookie once.
Tony barked, his three chins trembling with rage, "I don't eat candy!"
Daisy, unperturbed, offered me a cookie. I gratefully accepted and as Daisy walked away Tony swiveled at me, eyes unnaturally red, spittle dripping from the corner of his mouth blurting out, "I hate DAISY!"
Six months later Daisy was dead. There had never been an announcement formally. It was just casually mentioned in a meeting. I was bereft.
And there I was, for the first time in my entire life, ratting someone out to their boss.
I finished telling my twisted Tony tales to Mohan.
Mohan asked Dina and Elena if what I said was true.
Elena explained that Tony was a bully and had humiliated people in meetings for things that they simply never did or he had misunderstood. Dina explained people had made remarks or complained informally countless times and that things were, "not very pleasant with Tony."
Finally, when all was said done Mohan said, "Well, I can't have silos. Tony is our top architect. I need you to still meet with him regularly and I need this disaster recovery done fast."
"He threw a cat out a window, Mohan!" I heard myself exclaim. "I don't think we can trust him with a disaster recovery. I think he's a disaster waiting to happen."
Mohan looked at me and said, "I have worked with some evil horrible people. Sometimes we all have to. If I am nothing you know that I am pragmatic."
"I won't give him any oxygen," I heard my voice say. "I have to go. We'll have to find a way around but right now I'm too upset for this meeting."
A few days later a recruiter called me with a job that seemed my perfect escape.
It turned out it was at my company doing the exact same thing I do.
The recruiter said, "Man, I think something is up."
I thanked him. He didn't have to do that.
The next day I was told by Mohan I have until Friday to simulate a disaster and recovery in 24 hours.
It feels like a setup.
Then tonight I saw it in the chalk.
U GO DOWN 101010101
I looked around and I thought I saw an ominous fat fucking figure that looked like Tony under the tears of the weeping willow that stands guard over the community garden across the street from my apartment.
I turned and broke into a jog to cross the street. Then with the Doppleresque certainty of the alarm's increasing red glare I was prevented by an FDNY ambulance from crossing.
When it finally passed there was no sign of Tony.
But, even more disturbingly, when I went back to take a picture of the red chalked threat at the foot of my building; it too was gone.
Just. Gone.
I am not superstitious. I am a rational person and I know what I saw. I know what I saw.
The dread I feel now in the pit of my stomach is like none other and somewhere in the distance I hear the sound of a tortured cat's mewling. I feel like I am the victim in a crime not yet committed.
Please advise?

Respect Kyoshi

Only justice will bring peace.

History: Long ago, the Four Nations did not always live in harmony. The Avatar, the sole master of all four elements reincarnated in each generation, was responsible for bringing balance to the world, and the world was in disarray after the previous Avatar's death. It was up to the new Avatar, an abandoned street urchin named Kyoshi, to discover her destiny and save the world.
Kyoshi went on to become a legendary figure in her 230 years of life. She trained the elite Kyoshi Warriors and the Dai Li, defended the world from conquerors and kings alike, and remained a mythic figure hundreds of years after her death.

Source Key Citation in link: The Rise of Kyoshi = RoK [Chapter Title] The Shadow of Kyoshi = SoK [Chapter Title] Citation in superscript: Avatar: The Last Airbender Season # & Episode # = A:tLA S#E# Escape From the Spirit World, Chapter 2 = ESW 

Notes:

• Feats during RoK occur when Kyoshi is 16, with little training
• Feats during SoK occur when Kyoshi is almost 18, when she is more experienced
• All animated feats occur during Kyoshi's adulthood, after reaching full mastery

Scaling: Jianzhu,Rangi, Yun, Shirshu, Wan

Strength

• Lifting/Throwing
  • Lifts a heavy container she carries through a manor
    • The container is so heavy it would take two grown men to lift it
  • Picks a man up by the neck one-handed and cracks an ice wall behind him while strangling him
  • Bowls over men with a dense wooden game board before flinging it at others
  • Rangi stands on her knee while Kyoshi does exercise squats
  • Throws a teenager a distance away out of a vault and into a hallway
  • Pulls away a big man in a blink
  • Flings one man into two others, bowling them over
• Striking
  • Catches herself from an attacker beneath her pulling her under ice, then stamps her foot down and crushes their face before pulling herself free from the ice
  • Swings a maul at a trunk repeatedly and splits it apart
    • Another woman could not pull the maul out of the stump Kyoshi retrieved it from
  • Kicks over a cauldron large enough to immerse a grown man
  • Tackles two men at once, sending them flying away from the men around them
  • Tears people fighting eachother apart, knocks their heads into eachother, and tramples over them when running

Durability

• Injured while freeing herself from ice and gives pursuit while bleeding
• Fights through paralytic poison incapacitating her moments ago to tackle a man off a mountain side, ignoring the pain when she lands to start fighting
• Lifted into the air and slammed into the ground before being nearly suffocated into unconsciousness
• Falls a distance onto a hard stone ground and gets up to do so again throughout her training
• Endures lightning that nearly snaps her spine in two, allowing further bolts to pass through her into the ground before counterattacking and entering the Avatar State to win her duel before ultimately passing out from the pain
• Fights through a garrote coated in shards of glass around her neck
• Pelted with clay training discs Yun flings at her, taking the last one to the jaw, and keeps fighting

Speed

• Using earthbending she catches a stone thrown at her and returns it hard enough to draw blood
• Uses earthbending to bisect pebbles thrown at her and returns them
• Catches a man striking out with his knife and breaks his fingers with her fan in one swift motion
• Blocks poisoned darts fired at her instinctually
• Instinctively guards her face with her gauntlets from shrapnel
• Evades several rapid fire projeciles from Yun while delivering attacks of her own
• Blocks a spike of earth Yun attacks her with, grinding it down a foot from her face

Earthbending

• Projectiles
  • Pulls a room-sized boulder toward her from behind her opponent
  • Pulls a massive cube of stone out of a canyon from a distance away
  • Using earthbending she catches a stone thrown at her and returns it hard enough to draw blood
  • Kicks rocks at targets and raises walls
  • Uses earthbending to bisect pebbles thrown at her and returns them
  • Alters the trajectory of thrown stones, sending them out to see so far their splash is inaudible
  • Fires bullets of stone off a giant column in the center of a room, then throws the entire column so that it slices through the manor she is in to the outdoors
• Structures
  • Constructs a training area, including a balance beam
  • Creates a 50 foot ramp and surrounds a manor with a massive trench
    • Reference for estate's size
  • Raises and lowers a bridge
  • Raises a ramp up to an isolated cliff
  • Raises a crag to the isolated hut to allow those on it to leave, something noted earlier to require an extremely skilled bender
• Ground
  • Creates a trench in a street to try to entrap shirshu's leg
  • Sinks Rangi into the ground up to her shins to trap her in place
  • Attempts sinking Yun's limbs into the earth to trap him
  • Sends out a radial blast that throws the men surrounding her away ^ESW
• Power
  • Jianzhu refers to her as possessing the ability to break mountains whenever she remembered to
  • Bounces a teahouse into the air a half inch
  • The teahouse was large, possessing a partially-built second story
  • Lifts the teahouse again in combat, tilting it to one side to spill out several people
  • Fires a pebble at Jianzhu and struggles for control over it with him before struggling for control over an entire building Jianzhu tries to bring down, matching even the greater effort of his death throes as Jianzhu dies. The building then lifts up and slams down and Kyoshi needs a brief pulse of the Avatar State to hold it together
    • This was a 3 story building described as larger than the teahouse Kyoshi lifted earlier
    • Kyoshi and Jianzhu were both recovering from poison during this struggle
  • Rips the foundations away from a hut and nearly collapses a cliff, holding it into place
  • When Yun rips apart a grove and separates the trees with tremendous effort he notes that Kyoshi could have done it easily
• Mobility
  • Sprints through several walls, crushing through them as though were rice paper
  • After initial failure, learns the unique art of dust stepping to reach higher ground
  • Uses dust stepping to escape a militia
  • Plows downward through 14 stories of a building
• Misc.
  • Reaches through a brick wall and pulls someone through it
  • Suffocates several men with clay to intimidate them
  • Retrieves shards of glass from a wound around her neck
  • Blocks a spike of earth Yun attacks her with, grinding it down before it ever touches her
  • Engraves a tombstone

Firebending

• Blasts
  • Breathes fire her first time firebending, but could not summon more fire shortly after
  • Lost control of a spout of flame her second time firebending
  • Soon learned to firebend properly and felt like a natural at it, and kicks out a crescent of flame
  • Rockets herself forward into a tackle, then releases a massive ball of flame that destroys a stone defense Yun hastily raises
• Utility
  • Heats up an iron lock between her hands in order to break it
  • Summons a tornado of fire and air
  • Lights her way down a dark hallway with fire
  • Heats up iron shackles, preparing to break them
• Misc.
  • Notes that she has bending strength far surpassing the best of the best firebenders as she deflects, catches, and charges through their fireblasts

Airbending

• Blasts
  • Throws a ball of wind to blast away a man next to her sending the man flying down a hallway
  • Flattens a clump of people fighting one another
  • Holds a door shut with a continuous blast of air while whipping men around a hallway into the walls and ceilings until they collapse
  • Kicks out air that fills a hallway, smashing scrubbing it clean and smashing tables to bits
  • Gusts the clothing off a man ^{A;tLA S2E5}
• Utility
  • Plays with a breeze
  • Summons a tornado of fire and air
  • Catches several papers thrown into the air

Waterbending

• Utility
  • When caught by surprise she waterbends the first time by catching some thrown at her
  • Creates a raft to quickly navigate the canals of Ba Sing Se
  • Lifts herself and another to the surface from underwater and holds them there
  • Amplifies her swimming to sink faster
• Power
  • Aided by the moon and a waterbender providing control, Kyoshi lifts the contents of a pond and washes it through a building to spill out the guards within
    • Reference for estate's size
  • Sweeps a ship 100 yards out to sea and snaps the ropes mooring it to shore, then freezes it in the air with talons of ice
  • Lures Yun into arm's length to place her palm on his chest, then freezes his lungs solid to kill him
    • The technique is said to require too much raw power for most benders
    • Kyoshi spent a month learning healing before gaining the technique
• Healing
  • Heals a cut around her neck, though the water doesn't glow like it normally should
  • Heals superficial injuries of wounded guards, and knows how to stop bleeding and pop joints into place
  • Spends a month studying healing
  • Stabilizes Rangi and helps to save her life after Rangi suffers impalement

Avatar State

• Pulls a column of stone from a sea floor that tilts over a boat, then washes pirates away with a wave of water and pulls up more earth that snap ships apart as she boils the sea
  • Bent earth from over 200 paces away, exceeding the capabilities of Jianzhu
  • This was her first time entering the Avatar State, and she was so exhausted afterward she immediately passed out
• Described as imbuing her with the skills and knowledge of all past Avatars as well as vast amounts of energy and the previous Avatar destroyed an island before mastering the Avatar State
  • Further detail about the destroyed island
• Blacks out, waking up to find she ripped trees up by their roots, pushed over hilltops, and caused landslides, though she retains consciousness thereafter
• Raises herself and an opponent into the sky on a column of air, lights soldiers and fields of rice ablaze, creates a vortex where her opponent cannot breath, redirects flame he fires at her, and drops him to his death
  • Afterwards she reflects that she was in complete control of herself, and after a few minutes passes out from the pain of the lightning bolts she endured
• Opens up the ground to reach the well water beneath, then uses it to heal Rangi's impalement and save her life
• Throws 2 massive statues ^{A:tLA S2E3}
• Creates a fissure in the earth, raises a wall of lava, and gusts off the end of a peninsula to create Kyoshi Island ^{A:tLA S2E5}

Skill

• Combat/Tactics
  • Prior to training she could move large amounts of earth easier than precise amounts, the reverse of how most earthbenders learned
  • Teaches herself to levitate a small clay turtle, but accidentally breaks it
  • Underwent grueling training to implement her fans into a fighting style
  • Trained in firebending while balancing during sparring sessions and was comfortable dropping to her stomach on the balance beam
  • Studied Jianzhu's tactical manuals, navigating a fight within a building using said knowledge
  • Takes out over two dozen armed men while fighting in a confined space
• Stealth
  • Learned to step quietly during her time as a servant
  • Sneaks up on Kirima
  • Automatically scans her environs for weaknesses in their security
• Spirituality
  • Unconsciously recited a previous Avatar's poem word for word
  • Feels a prickle on her neck in a spiritually resonant location
  • Meditates to summon the previous Avatar to speak with her
  • Possesses a later Avatar's body to testify in court after her death ^{A:tLA S2E5}
  • Experiences difficulty communicating with her previous life at first
  • Communing with past lives is said to be extremely difficult
  • Connects with Kuruk's memories upon meditating with a spiritual guide, who is impressed with how quickly she did so
  • Nearly drowns herself to successfully establish contact with Kuruk
  • Proves skilled at detaching herself from the physical world, and connects with her past life Yangchen

Equipment

• Wears chainmail armor
  • Protects her from an arrow
  • A sword breaks against her shoulder
  • Makes her chainmail even heavier
  • Stands up to earthbent shrapnel that killed several others, including armored guards
• Uses her mothers bronze war fans, headdress, and makeup
  • Her fans helped her mother continue to airbend as her powers dwindled
  • They also help her to waterbend for the first time
  • Her fans assist Kyoshi in bending with precision so well it feels like cheating
  • Breaks a man's fingers fingers with her fan in one swift motion
• Wears armored metal gloves that do not impede her bending and guard against darts

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Imagine, if you will, you are a massive fan of Cuba. History, culture, customs, etc. The country has been closed to tourism for decades, but then all of a sudden you see that an airline will be allowed to fly there. It is a one-time-only flight. One single planefull of people will be permitted to land. There will be no others. Excited, you mark your calendar and make sure your funds are ready. You and your family will remember this trip for years to come.
The big day arrives and you are installed at your computer with the airline's website pulled up and ready to go.
Finally, the flight goes live and you start the process of reserving 4 tickets. They are priced at $250 each, round trip, which is a great deal. You get all the way to the checkout window and are putting your credit card information into the system when you get a popup message saying that the flight is sold out. You can't believe it! You had 4 reservations pending and just had to put a few numbers in and it was locked in. In frustration you refresh your screen, go back to the previous page, and even try some pages in your history panel to try to recover the session. This must be a mistake. The flight was literally on sale for 8 minutes!! How could they have sold over 200 seats so fast??
Finally, you go back to the initial flight data page to give it one last sad look before logging off. Much to your shock and amazement, the flight is available again! You quickly refresh the page to make sure it's not a cached version. The page loads quickly and the flight is confirmed available. However, you notice that the tickets are now $295 each. That's odd, but still an average price.
You already promised everyone you were going, so you go for it and throw 4 tickets in the cart and start the process of filling out all the names and information. Once again, when you get to the payment page, as you're about to click "submit" the pop-up comes back. The flight is sold out. Again.
You are getting frustrated. You go through the same process as last time, going back a page and clicking back through, hoping it was a glitch. You load the initial flight page again, hoping... But, no luck. Irritated, you get up to get a drink and come back to your computer.
You are caught off guard when you sit back down because the flight is available again. But now the tickets are $350 each! No longer a good price, but you're on a mission this time. As quickly as you can you add 4 tickets and fill out the information. Unfortunately, because you were away getting a drink, you got a late start and lost valuable time. You don't even make it to the credit card page before the dreaded popup comes back, stating the flight is sold out.
At this point, you're angry. But you have caught on to the game. You want the tickets out of principle, and you're going to get them. You stare at the web page, refreshing every 15 seconds or so. As a precaution you type everyone's names on a word doc so all you have to do is copy/paste when the time comes. You do the same for your credit card number. You won't be denied this time! A few minutes go by and you start to question if you missed your last chance. Then... Finally.... it's open again and it's go time!
Your copy/paste plan works out to your advantage and, at long last, you manage to get 4 tickets reserved and paid for. SUCCESS! You are elated! Then you check the price on the receipt and your stomach sinks. You paid $415 per ticket for flights that, 25 minutes ago, were $250. You've never seen a company do this and you're almost disgusted to have given them your money.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This brings me to the question... If this had been your experience, would you ever fly with that airline ever again? Personally, I would think long and hard before supporting that kind of nonsense and manipulation ever again, and likely would avoid them as much as possible. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Now... Replace the flights to Cuba with a reverse proof Libertad. Or a peanuts coin. Or some other limited edition coin. Replace that airline with a company we all know called Apmex.
Why do people stand for their nonsense and still shop there?
TLDR: Apmex is shady and you should spend your hard earned money elsewhere.

Hi everybody this might be a little long but I will try my best to keep it short so that I can get some advice or even to see if anyone relates to me.
Back in February I discovered this sub and I was amazed. My entire life I had been doing this and I had no idea a name existed for it. I just figured it was something different and I didn't realize how much it really has negatively affected me. For myself and what seems like a ton of others on this subs main trigger is music. And I pace around my room or the park listening and daydreaming. I am not trying to quit but I would like to go into detail on my situation…
I’m 22M and for as long as I can remember music has been my entire identity. However I never listened to music for just the enjoyment of music but rather to simply fuel my daydreams. I would listen to love songs mainly that related to my life and imagine that I was the one who wrote it for this girl and everybody's watching me perform it and is so impressed. Sometimes I imagine a crush watching an imaginary music video I am in and being impressed. I noticed it mainly happens when I get rejected by a girl or when I am faced with a situation I don't like. (maybe to cope with the embarrassment?).
I went through phases with artists as well:
ages 6-9 with Elvis: I became obsessed with his music and my parents bought me costumes and I would pretend like I was him.
age 9-10 with Micheal Jackson: I also bought costumes and started taking dance classes to learn how to dance because of him.
then ages 11-15 with The Beatles, Beach Boys, and the Rolling Stones and most other classic rock acts: I began to learn the drums, bass and guitar and imagine I was Ringo John Bonham or Jimi Hendrix or Eric Clapton. I even grew out my hair like most of the 60s British bands and had to buy the exact same drum or guitar brand these artists had.
Age 16-18 with Tame Impala/Mac Demarco: I discovered these indie acts who incorporated the sound and style of the 60s-70s artists I like with a modern twist and recorded all of the instruments themselves. Something I could relate to as I owned and kind of played all these instruments as well. I would save up to buy the exact same gear as Mac or Kevin Parker even though that's not the reason they wrote these great songs.
then age 18-19 with John Coltrane: This one was a brief period but I couldn't relate to love songs or songwriting stuff anymore during this period because I got a girlfriend and so I picked up a saxophone and became obsessed with Coltrane and jazz improv. After she broke up with me I quit..
Age 20-22: tons of “bedroom pop” who are a one man band: It seems like the past two years for me I have just been finding all these different artists who play all the instruments and write the songs as I feel an identity to that. I guess I think its really cool and impressive and others would think that too. I go as far as getting into an artist I like and researching their home studio and buying similar gear to that then getting into a different artist and then returning or selling that gear for a loss and the cycle continues. I have gone as far as using a credit card that I can't afford to pay off and putting my account in the negatives just to get this gear. It's sickening..
I know none of this might not make any sense to people here and you might not want to take the time to read this (which I totally understand). But I need/want to change; however I am aware this is not going to be easy. Music has literally been my entire identity as you can see and I dont know what to think anymore. However, my social life and ego have suffered because of this. After high school I studied music at a community college for a bit but then quit and went to different majors or got random jobs for a few months then quit. I am not sure if I ever wanted to pursue music. I just want fame and to be liked and be ‘cool’. That's not a reason to do music and I can see that clearly now. I am now in my early 20s with no direction, I’m currently not going to school or working and some of my friends are already graduating college.
I am writing this because if anyone out there can give me advice or can relate please respond or PM as I would love to talk or possibly quit music together as I feel it would be easier done with someone else. We need to make a change! Thank you!

I proudly buy 90% of my vinyl from Amazon and they are by far the best out of everyone. They have the lowest prices (often by $10 or more), great packaging, hassle free returns and are the fastest. No one else comes close. My second choice is walking into Barnes and Noble and buying straight off the rack. Hell I'd rather buy a record from Kohl's or Cracker Barrel than support indie record stores.
Fuck Discogs, fuck the mom and pop record stores and everybody else. Every single time I buy online from discogs or "Billy Bob's records" I get a dinged up record with half the shrink coming off that was falsely advertised as "Near Mint". Hopefully all you Mom and Pop losers go under soon, I will be spending my five digit budget for records with Jeff Bezos.
Buy Amazon.
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I proudly buy 90% of my vinyl from Amazon and they are by far the best out of everyone. They have the lowest prices (often by $10 or more), great packaging, hassle free returns and are the fastest. No one else comes close. My second choice is walking into Barnes and Noble and buying straight off the rack. Hell I'd rather buy a record from Kohl's or Cracker Barrel than support indie record stores. I know I'm speaking to a wall here b/c I know no one on here can actually afford new records, I see all your cheap garage sale posts of your moldy used records but for people with money, buy Amazon.
Fuck Discogs, fuck ebay, fuck the mom and pop record stores and everybody else. Every single time I buy online from discogs or "Billy Bob's records" I get a dinged up record with half the shrink coming off that was falsely advertised as "Near Mint". Hopefully all you Mom and Pop losers go under soon, I will be spending my five digit budget for records with Jeff Bezos. Thank You Jeff, I will be a lifelong customer.
Buy Amazon.
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I'm 36 from Connecticut, I'm looking for someone who shares the same interests as me start things slowly and see where this road will take us. I don't like to force things nor do I have expectations I would like to find my player 2 but, I am more than comfortable with just having new friend's. Distances doesn't matter as long as the end game is to see each other.
I am mainly looking for someone to game with play Co-op games together playing story games and beating them or watch things together or even chill and listen to stuff.
I am an avid gamer. I play all kinds of game's sandbox, rpg, platformer, mmorpg's (wow for example), shooter's, battle royals, etc. Titles like 7 days to die, valheim, the forest, Resident evil, Battlefield, dying light, the Witcher 3, kingdom hearts, uncharted, the last of us, Final Fantasy etc. I am currently hooked on survival games would be cool to have someone to play them with or any Co-Op games in general.
I listen to music a lot. I listen to almost anything minus country and pop. There are a few songs from those genres that I think are pretty good, but overall I don't really listen to them. I mainly listen to rock, metal, indie, emo, punk and subgenres of rock. I am also very big with edm, not dubstep, not a fan of it. More into house, Trance and Vocal trance mainly artist like Tiesto, Dash Berlin, Axwell, Alesso, to name a few. If you like trance then I promise I will love you forever!!
I am also a big movie junkie. I am up to watching almost anything. I enjoy a lot of action movies and comedies. I am a big fan of old school action movies. Die hard, Terminator, Predator, Lethal weapon, Rocky, Rambo and etc. I am also into Star Wars and Lord of the ring's and etc...
I enjoy reading manga and watching anime but I am really behind on that. I've been very busy with work and when I'm not occupied with work I would usually chill and watch a show or game. I am a huge bleach fan and currently really enjoying demon slayer and my hero academia.
My DM's are open feel free to reach out to me. I prefer voice chatting, texting is just as fine. I mainly use telegram and discord.

I'm 36 from Connecticut, I'm looking for someone who shares the same interests as me start things slowly and see where this road will take us. I don't like to force things nor do I have expectations I would like to find my player 2 but, I am more than comfortable with just having new friend's. Distances doesn't matter as long as the end game is to see each other.
I am mainly looking for someone to game with play Co-op games together playing story games and beating them or watch things together or even chill and listen to stuff.
I am an avid gamer. I play all kinds of game's sandbox, rpg, platformer, mmorpg's (wow for example), shooter's, battle royals, etc. Titles like 7 days to die, valheim, the forest, Resident evil, Battlefield, dying light, the Witcher 3, kingdom hearts, uncharted, the last of us, Final Fantasy etc. I am currently hooked on survival games would be cool to have someone to play them with or any Co-Op games in general.
I listen to music a lot. I listen to almost anything minus country and pop. There are a few songs from those genres that I think are pretty good, but overall I don't really listen to them. I mainly listen to rock, metal, indie, emo, punk and subgenres of rock. I am also very big with edm, not dubstep, not a fan of it. More into house, Trance and Vocal trance mainly artist like Tiesto, Dash Berlin, Axwell, Alesso, to name a few. If you like trance then I promise I will love you forever!!
I am also a big movie junkie. I am up to watching almost anything. I enjoy a lot of action movies and comedies. I am a big fan of old school action movies. Die hard, Terminator, Predator, Lethal weapon, Rocky, Rambo and etc. I am also into Star Wars and Lord of the ring's and etc...
I enjoy reading manga and watching anime but I am really behind on that. I've been very busy with work and when I'm not occupied with work I would usually chill and watch a show or game. I am a huge bleach fan and currently really enjoying demon slayer and my hero academia.
My DM's are open feel free to reach out to me. I prefer voice chatting, texting is just as fine. I mainly use telegram and discord.