I’m 100% new to the world of chickens. I’m not sure what’s “normal” at this point. During my research period, I was reading the same care information over and over, but never really found anything on behavior during their brooder days.
I took in my first 6 chicks on May 18. I’ve previously done a ton of reading up on how to tame them. I thought, that sounds easy! But…It’s not going too well so far because they are terrified of me. I talk to them softly as I’m entering the room so they hear I’m coming. They’re fine if I’m just sitting next to the brooder and talking to them, but as soon as my hand goes in there it’s game over. They either hide under their mom (brooder plate) or huddle on the opposite side. If I reach for them or try to scoop them, they run, scream, sometimes peck at me. I’ve wondered it’s fair to force them to be held or picked up, and I’m wondering if it will make them more fearful. I’ve tried to hand feed every day since day 2 or 3. Sometimes sitting my hand down on the bedding for 10 minutes (so it’s not moving), but they stay on the opposite side of the brooder. I understand WHY they are afraid of a scary hand coming in to snatch them up like a hawk. Maybe I’m just not around enough…I work full time and live alone, so I’m away from the house for about 10 hours a day and have to squeeze my socializing in when I get home.
Let me note, I don’t need them to cuddle me, but I don’t want them to be fearful of me when they’re older and I can’t catch them to examine any health related issues, etc.
If it matters, here are the 6 I picked out. Any advice or reassurance is greatly appreciated.
2 buff orphington (the ones that defend themselves the most)
2 Americauna
2 Rhode Island Red

Contact me if you are interested in Iman Gadzhi Courses by chatting me on +44 759 388 2116 on Telegram/Whatsapp.
I have all Iman Gadzhi courses (Agency Navigator, Agency Incubator, Copy Paste Agency).
Iman Gadzhi’s courses are one of the best products on how to start a marketing agency and how to grow it.
Iman Gadzhi - Agency Navigator includes over 50 hours of step-by-step training covering EVERY aspect of building an agency from scratch. This is almost a plug & play system with enough success stories to back it up! Signing clients, running Facebook ads, building out your team, on-boarding clients, invoicing, sales... this course has everything covered for you.
The courses of Iman Gadzhi include the following:

1. Agency Navigator course Core Curriculum
   
2. Financial Planner, Revenue Calculator, Outreach Tracker & More Tools
   
3. Websites Templates, Funnels, Ads & More
   
4. Template Contracts, Sales Scripts, Agreements, Live calls & More
   

The core concepts in Iman Gadzhi’c courses include:
- Starting Your Agency
- Finding Leads
- Signing Clients
- Getting Paid
- Onboarding Clients
- Managing Client Communication...
...and much, much more!
If you are interested in Iman Gadzhi’s courses, contact us on:
Whatsapp/Telegram: +44 759 388 2116 (Telegram: multistorecourses)
Reddit DM to u/RequestCourseAccess
Email: silverlakestore[@]yandex.com (remove the brackets)

Hello, I have 2 Champions League tickets for sale. They are Category 3 tickets and are next to each other. Please dm me if interested.

I often hear the phrase "it's a permanent solution to a temporary problem!" but in my case, death is literally the only solution. I am the most low-functioning person on this planet and it's not even close. All of the other depressed people have SOMETHING going on. A job, a degree, a social life, etc. I've got literally NOTHING. I don't even know how to go outside without getting lost, probably because I haven't left my house in 5-7 years.
It's over for me. I'll never be happy. I can't even fall asleep right now because I'm too busy reflecting on what a colossal failure I am. I'm just so tired of everything, even getting out of bed feels like too much effort on most days.
I never should have been born. People like me deserve to be eradicated from the gene pool. Death is all I deserve.

Hello! I’ve been researching crested geckos for a couple hours now. This isn’t the first time because I’ve done research before this but just not as in depth as I’m gonna do now. I’ve got a few questions I haven’t found answers to as of now. (By the way the only reptile I own is a leopard gecko.) (Also don’t worry I plan on doing so much more research than just a few hours)
CALCIUM DISH

1. Leopard geckos need calcium dishes in their enclosure (together with dusting insects and uvb) do cresties need calcium dishes as well? I plan on feeding food that contains D3 and using UVB. That means I have to dust insects without D3 correct?

POOPING SPOTS

1. Leopard geckos poop in 1 spot. I’ve seen ppl talk about how their crestie does that too. Do cresties poop in 1 spot usually, or just wherever? What should I expect?

LOOSE INSECTS VS TONG FEEDING

1. I know crickets and stuff can bite leopard geckos when they’re left loose in the enclosure. When feeding insects to a crested gecko, should I stick to tong feeding or is letting them loose good? (I assume tong feeding is preferred)

MORPHS

1. What morphs should I avoid and do certain morphs have certain traits like increased aggression? (I’m nowhere near ready to go looking for a crestie to get, but it’s useful information.)

TAIL DROPPING

1. Last but not least, what should I expect from a tail drop? Do I need to change the substrate to paper towel? Watch for weird behaviour or colouring? What’s the process after tail dropping? How quickly does it heal? That type of stuff. I don’t mind an entire paragraph on tail dropping if you have to write/link me to it haha.

Thanks!

I am a sales person who works for a beverage distributor and at one of my accounts I am required to stock my product which is quite labor intensive. I have back issues that have become much worse over time and due to the physical pain this causes I am no longer willing to perform this duty. Should I go to HR? In the past I would have gone to my sales manager, but my company is doing a reorganization and the district manager who I directly report to is not very helpful. Do I have any options here that do not require me quitting? I have gone to multiple doctors, all who basically have told me to find a new job because my issue is only worsening and becoming more expensive (epidurals, PT). I have worked for my company for 5 years and the pain is getting to be overwhelming. Thanks for any advice!

Fallout 1:
Pros:

• Best tone of any Fallout game. Perfect mix of light touches of dark comedy but a very serious vibe overall.
  
• Rich with all juice from the RPG golden era of the late 90s and early 00s.
  
• Fantastic writing and worldbuilding. Really top class.
  
• Believable and well-thought out world. Stands up to scrutiny.
  

Cons:

• Dated and clunky.
  
• Poorly balanced in many ways. Some skills are useless. Others are near mandatory.
  

Fallout 2:
Pros:

• Similar to Fallout 1 in many ways but expanded.
  
• Some of the most interesting quests and locations in all of Fallout. New Reno, Vault City, etc.
  
• The first half of the game is peak Fallout.
  

Cons:

• Too whimsical and jokey in many ways compared to the first. The tone is not as good.
  
• The final act of the game is kind of weak.
  
• Shares same issues with being dated and clunky as FO1.
  

Fallout 3:
Pros:

• Great fun to explore. Basically built as a post-apocalyptic theme park to get lost in.
  
• More modern and inclusive design which is nice for some. Interesting to see Fallout in 3D.
  
• Cool setpieces and atmospheric storytelling is top tier.
  
• Put Fallout into the mainstream.
  

Cons:

• The world doesn't make much sense. All logic of the world breaks if you stop to think about it even for a second. The famous example is the lack of food but everything that this question represents is an issue.
  
• Overall poor to mediocre writing.
  
• Buggy (mods are near mandatory).
  
• Can come off a bit juvenile with the binary morality and with the tone in general.
  
• Arguably disappointing reimagining of previously complex factions. BOS generic good guys. Super mutants mindless orcs with guns, etc.
  

Fallout New Vegas:
Pros:

• Good mix of 3D Fallout and old Fallout RPG design.
  
• Great writing and quest design.
  
• Highly ambitious game.
  
• Rich worldbuilding. A lot of effort has clearly been spent on imagining how a realistic world would look under this premise and which issues would plague such a world.
  
• Complex dilemmas and interesting concepts. Overall quite sophisticated.
  

Cons:

• Less fun to explore for many. Less of a "go have an adventure" game than Fallout 3.
  
• In the same vein: dungeon design is often boring.
  
• Buggy (mods are near mandatory).
  
• Feels undercooked in some areas. It's clear that Obsidian didn't flesh out everything they wanted to. This is the downside of the "Highly ambitious game" point. Caesar's Legion for instance is a clear example of a faction that needed more development.
  
• Balancing issues in some ways. Speech is way too good for example.
  

Fallout 4:
Pros:

• Much improved combat. Best in the series.
  
• Many technical improvements.
  
• Fully fledged out crafting system.
  
• The "pick a direction, go on an adventure and explore" theme park strength of Fallout 3 remains.
  
• Much better companions than Fallout 3.
  

Cons:

• Departure from RPG to instead move into more of an open world adventure game / RPG hybrid. An improvement to some, a big step back for me.
  
• Very strange design choices: Voiced protagonist, 4 wheel dialogue system, etc.
  
• Little to no smaller settlements. Basically every location is a somewhat generic enemy spawn.
  
• Weak main quest.
  
• Very big departure from the original tone of Fallout.
  

(reuploaded to fix typo in title since titles can't be edited).

16F
I've got bitten by a tick from my dog. He's an indoor dog (Shih-tzu) and we don't live in a forest. I live in Southeast Asia, in a small subdivision in the Philippines. He mostly got it from our other dogs (Mini-pinschers) that prefers to lay outside our house.. Then I also prohibit my Shih going outside because of the work getting his fur dirty. We are always together, he always sleep beside me because of his huge attachment and anxiety issues. Just one day I found his ticks crawling in my bed. The next following days, the ticks are crawling on me because the dog always stays beside me. A tick bit me under my armpit before I've gotten the chance to put the detick medication. I don't think it stayed within me for 5hrs or more. I got rid of it then washed the spot.
I'm not okay because I have health anxiety issues. Surely this tick will not carry some weird diseases? I've got like a hole in the heart so don't blame me for being this anxious cause i really wanna live more but this being the case would possibly shorten what I have. Aaannd I've got financial issues and healthcare in the Philippines ain't really the best.

We've been together for a while—nearing 2 years—not to mention the fact we were interested in each other before that. Throughout high school, we were figuring out how to navigate such an early relationship and got so emotionally intertwined that we were almost a package deal. He was my best friend, and I'd like to think I was his person as well.
After graduation, we made the choice of enrolling in the same university together. Although I would like to preface that I let him know that I would want what was best for his career but we still ended up in the same university after narrowing down his options. This was new territory for us and we thought we could take it. If anything, we thought we were better equipped to handle it considering the fact that we've worked through so much together already. But of course, so many new variables came into play that every other time we spent together had some sort of disagreement/argument involved. It got really repetitive and healing our habits and our relationship alongside a new academic environment was hindering our performances to excel. Despite it all, we made it through our first year. And immediately as summer hit, I knew it was different. After some soul searching (which derived from me asking for space for a week) I realised that I missed the comforting moments of when I was alone before I met him. Not in a resentful way but that all the healing I had to do was insanely overtaxing. This then branched off into how I felt about being held back/missing out on the university experience while being tied to a relationship. I brought this up to him and he felt the same way.
Initially, after our first heart to heart conversation, we came to an agreement that we needed a fresh start/new approach to our relationship. Completely breaking down our foundations/boundaries and status so we could redo our "firsts" in a new setting. This was the best option considering the other options were straight up breaking up and another I'll get into. With the whole breaking down our status, of course the topic of, "What are we for now?", and "What will this look like to other people?" came up. I straight up told him, I'm not interested in looking for other people because from what I remember from our previous conversations, I'm a very emotional person and so sex is—not a BIG deal but it is—a big step. And he illustrated that sex was so intimate since it's the closest you'll ever get to be with a person. So when this conversation came up and I told him no, I was shocked to hear that it "wasn't a big deal to him" and that even if it was with other people the intent mattered the most, aka, it'd be more meaningful with me. I for one, have no problem with what he thinks/feels and I wholeheartedly accept his changed perspective. But the idea knowing that he'll seek other people to have sex with absolutely terrifies me. Call it religious trauma, call it healing after a traumatic SA experience before him, but to me, that feels so invasive and frankly dirty. But he said he wouldn't—plus he reassured me so firmly so that felt nice—and so it didn't phase me.
In the same day, he asks to reopen the discussion and says that, waiting for someone while finding yourself vs. finding yourself without the existence of "us" are two different things. I strongly agree with the points he made. I feel that given the weight of all the arguments, we needed to figure out wether or not this is the relationship we want considering we haven't ventured off experiencing other people during the prime of socio-emotional development. And I cannot stress this enough, I STRONGLY agree. But this meant opening the doors to not just seek other people, but have sex with them and that to me a dealbreaker. But this is what he really wants and he makes really great points but I am just not emotionally ready to handle knowing that? And so I gave him radio silence and just hung up because I felt my heart shatter. Given how I feel about this situation, I'm now stuck in this "all or nothing" mode where it is either, we do the initial idea and stay exclusive, or I just break up with him because it's not worth being emotionally scarred even after we decide to get back together.
My question now is, what do I do? Which option to take? Is there any option other than the one he brought up? Please. Any help now will be so greatly appreciated, especially at such an urgent matter (since I haven't given him a response, I'm afraid he has the right to just get on with it and start his journey if I don't reply fast enough). Thank you guys in advance.

She got drunk and had sex with her friend (a girl) in our bed after drinking all night. She told me about it 2 days later via the phone (I travel for work) she is extremely apologetic and hates herself for it. She also said she was highly intoxicated, and knows it’s not a great excuse, she also thinks it’s not that bad as it wasn’t a guy. I feel betrayal and distrust and can’t seem to get past it. All I can think about is her naked with someone doing very intimate things. many say it wasn’t cheating since it was a girl but I don’t buy that. Sex is sex. I feel as though I am crazy for feeling the way I do. I’m afraid she ruined our marriage. Am I crazy? What do you think?
TLDR my wife slept with a girl, is this cheating? Am I crazy? How do I move on?

I recently picked up some garlic breath 2.0 from Buckeye Relief. I’ve always been a fan of not only the taste/effects of what I’ve gotten from buckeye relief, but also the smell.
Maybe I am just a fan of the floral or citrusy strains, and I shouldn’t expect something with garlic in the name to smell great, but…..this strain STINKS. I hate the taste (vaping at 345 degrees F) almost as much as the smell. It reminds me of an old closet full of moth balls. What does everyone else think of this strain?
On a positive note, I can see why it’s very popular for its effects. Very calming and cozy. It makes me want to crawl right into bed.

Hello everyone,
For the past 2 days, I haven't had any sales because Magento checkout is not processing my orders. It's giving me this error: "An error occurred on the server."
Error 400 While Receiving The Response From Payment Information.
Has anyone experienced this issue before and knows how to resolve it, or has any ideas on how I could find a solution?
Thank you very much.

I'm on a roll right now~!
Enjoy seeing a pissed off Meier... (Please don't hate me for it)
Memory Transcription Subject: Isif, Chief Hunter of the Arxur Dominion Sector Fleet
Date [Standardized human time] October 18, 2136
I didn’t understand how no Arxur could at least not feel a little bad… surely there wouldn’t be an Arxur who would scoff at this tragedy as weakness… These poor humans had to suffer so much at the hands of the Federation… Those cowardly fucks…
It was a bit after the battle started that we detected the antimatter dropping on earth from our spy station… there was too much of it, it was nothing less than concerning for a planet to face the impacts of so many bombs of such high magnitude… I arrived as soon as I could with my fleet, and I gave all those Federation fucks what they deserved and blasted all of them down to the darkest pits of hell… The extermination fleet was decimated but their life pods were sent down across the planet's surface…
I knew of the human’s general opinion of my kind; they saw me as a demon in the physical realm coming to devour all life… It’s not like I enjoyed that aspect of myself, but we don’t have any other choice. It’s not like we asked the Federation to come down and blast all of our livestock away…
Despite their disdain for me, I was requested by the UN headquarters to send troops down to all the Federation lifeboats far from their immediate reach. I found that surprising… but then again, I doubt after everything that Krakotl’s fleet did, they didn’t want any federation upon their world…
I sent down attack squads to all of the lifeboat locations that the humans would take too long to reach. Along with that, I ordered all other available forces to go down to all destroyed human cities…
All 400 of them…
I knew not of the current situation on earth… but from the initial reports? At least 4.5 billion people died yesterday… I know that the losses on such a massive scale would shatter the mind of any sane individual, and it definitely did so for the humans… so much of, no, the entire population of earth is calling for vengeance… It makes sense, to lose nearly half of their population to these filthy vermin… Their rage will make them strong, and the federation will face the might of both Dominion, and the UN… At least, that's what I think will happen.
I hope; We could really use the assistance with dealing with the Federation, we really could use their lab grown meat as well. For so long we’ve been scrounging for scrapes from federation colonies and undefended worlds, to finally stop needing such petty raids to survive, we could focus our military might to crush the prey once and for all… but the question is, will they help a monster that they still so hate?
Maybe…
All I could think of as I stared out the window of this Hotel on Titan was whether or not the meeting, I requested with their secretary General would bear fruit for the both of us… It’s us against them after all, shurely the humans wouldn’t be so stubborn to refuse us as an ally… especially since those Venlil cowards ran off from the battle to save their own sorry hides… that’s what you get for relying on prey to defend you.
I heard the door open behind me, I turned around with a smile on my face, “Ah! Secretary General Mei-” ... my words were cut short as I saw the look in his eyes… That look filled me with a strange sense of concern and unnerving… I didn’t know as to why I felt that I could no doubt take him in a fi-, no… he’s not mad at me, I can see the rage boiling within him, but it wasn’t directed towards me, no… For some reason I feel the rage continue to build… pooling into him to the point he should have bursted by now… He looked at me for a few seconds before sitting down on the couch, ceasing the opportunity to sit on the chair opposite of him, now highly uncomfortable as I was exposed to this feeling… I felt vulnerable and I didn’t like it…
“Why did you call me?” His voice was colder than the vacuum that surrounded this moon.
I cleared my throat before speaking, “Apologies for the sudden request for this meeting Meier, but I was wondering as to the possibility of allying toge-”
“Done”, he responded almost immediately.
I was taken off guard by the rudeness of his response. It was surprising to see this human, who hated me so, be so quick to agree. Even with the desperation that is present within the collective human psyche. I just had to ask…
“Really? I thought you would surely speak out; I thought you hated the Dominion.”
Meier seemed to adopt less of such a cold disposition towards me as he spoke, “Oh don’t get me wrong, I utterly despise you Arxur for what you do, but after all that happened to us' '... He held his hands together as he leaned forward. “We’re willing to look past that… just so long as certain terms are met…”.
I leaned forward to listen to the human’s terms of allegiance. Meier spoke with a bitter seriousness, “We need to utilize one of your mobile shipyards to build shuttles for our people… Infrastructure was shot to high heaven by those Bird-brained bastards, and we need to get food to reach our people in more desolate and forgone regions… I'm not going to let so many of my people starve… we need many shuttles to make that happen, so we intend to use your mobile shipyard for that as we use our current shipyards for war production. Secondly, I would like your fleet to be stationed in a defensive position around Sol until we build up the necessary defenses to where your services are no longer needed.
“In payment for your services, we will provide you with the plans to build a vat for lab grown meat, and 100,000 bovines for you to farm and use in meat vats…” My Jaw dropped at the offer, they were going to give me exactly what I wanted and needed for the Dominion? Just moving in for long enough? This is-!...
“You got yourself a real human! I’ll make sure I have all my mobile shipyards here for your services… as a sort of sorry for scaring away the Zurulians…”
“That will be an acceptable apology… those Zurulians, to think they would simply leave after direct orders from Chauson to assist in recovery…”
I decided to joke about the fact, “Well? You know those feds… always running away from a figh-” I stopped just before I completed my sentence when I saw the wrathful 10-thousand-yard stare that Meier was giving me…
I should not have said that… I SHOULD NOT HAVE SAID THAT!
He spoke up, and what he said sent a shiver up my spine with the coldness in his voice. The coldness of a man who got stabbed in the back in more ways than one, “Soon enough… soon… enough… Xeno. Delenda. Est.” That phrase… oh that phrase…oh how I wished the translator was deactivated...
The Federation has just awoken a monster…
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Prev: Nature of Abandonment (1/?) : NatureofPredators (reddit.com)
Next: (When it's ready)

Contact me to get Iman Gadzhi - Agency Navigator by chatting me on +44 759 388 2116 on Telegram/Whatsapp.
I have Iman Gadzhi - Agency Navigator.
Iman Gadzhi - Agency Navigator course is one of the best products on how to start a marketing agency.
Iman Gadzhi - Agency Navigator includes over 50 hours of step-by-step training covering EVERY aspect of building an agency from scratch. This is almost a plug & play system with enough success stories to back it up! Signing clients, running Facebook ads, building out your team, on-boarding clients, invoicing, sales... this course has everything covered for you.
The topics inside Iman Gadzhi - Agency Navigator course include:

1. Agency Navigator course Core Curriculum
   
2. Custom E-Learning Platform For Agency Owners
   
3. Financial Planner, Revenue Calculator, Outreach Tracker & More Tools
   
4. Websites Templates, Funnels, Ads & More
   
5. Template Contracts, Sales Scripts, Agreements & More
   

The lessons in Iman Gadzhi - Agency Navigator will teach you how to:
- Starting Your Agency
- Finding Leads
- Signing Clients
- Getting Paid
- Onboarding Clients
- Managing Client Communication...
...and much, much more!
To get Iman Gadzhi - Agency Navigator contact me on:
Whatsapp/Telegram: +44 759 388 2116 (Telegram: multistorecourses)
Reddit DM to u/CourseAccess
Email: silverlakestore[@]yandex.com (remove the brackets)

Some years ago, at which point I had been studying German for many years, but was still unable to listen to the most basic German content, I stumbled upon a podcast[1] that catapulted me over the intellegibility barrier. After listening to it for a few weeks I found myself venturing into German language content that had been off-limits to me until then (most of it aimed at speakers, rather than learners, of German), and being able to understand 80-90% of it. This opened up for me a huge reservoir of German language content. From that point, it was all downhill, to the point that, in a matter of months, and without consciously trying, my understanding of spoken German improved to the point that I understand practically all of it[2]. Now I choose what I listen to in German purely on the basis of subject matter, not difficulty level.
This personal experience taught me that there can be such a thing as what I will dub, for lack of a better word, a "gateway podcast" for language learning.
I have tried to identify the features of this godsend that made it into my gateway podcast. They are not obvious!
For one thing, despite its name (Easy German), my gateway podcast for German was definitely more advanced than much of what I could listen to regularly at the time.
Its format is a relaxed, very informal, free-wheeling, invariably amusing chat between its two hosts, a man and a woman, both in their 30s. They are conscious of the fact that their listeners are learners of German, so occasionally they take the time to explain an unusual expression, or to comment on some aspect of the German language. They probably speak slightly slower than they would in real life. And they often devote time to some aspect of life in Germany that may be of interest to someone who has just immigrated or is planning to do so. Otherwise, as far as content goes, I cannot distinguish this podcast from any other chat podcast out there.
By the hosts' own account, much time goes into editing each episode of Easy German, which explains the high quality of the finished product. In particular, one never hears both hosts speaking at the same time. (I used to think that this was a sign of remarkable self-discipline, but it is actually results from assiduous editing.)
I think that the fact that the podcast is a conversation, as opposed to a monologue, is key to its effectiveness as a "gateway podcast", because each response by speaker A as a rich pragmatic context in which to interpreter the prior utterance by speaker B, and vice-versa.
After this nearly miraculous personal experience (one that I would not have believed possible before it actually happened to me), I started searching frantically for a gateway podcast for Japanese. After all, at this point, my failure with Japanese is 10X more spectacular than my former failure with German (as measured by the ratio of effort to results).
The closest I have found to the description above are the following two podcasts:

1. Japanese with Teppei and Noriko
2. Easy Japanese Podcast

Both these podcasts have a format similar to the one I described above (two hosts, a man and a woman in both cases, having an informal conversation). Unfortunately, I find them both way too difficult. Even after listening to them for weeks, I make no progress. I think part of the reason for this is that these podcasts are not as painstakingly edited as the Easy German podcast is. In fact, I wonder if they are edited at all (judging by how frequently the hosts speak simultaneously).
Therefore, I am still looking for that mythical "gateway podcast" for Japanese.
I look forward to any leads you may send my way. Thank you in advance!
------
[1] Easy German
[2] ...with the notable exception of dialogue in movies, TV shows, etc., which is still to slangy and dialect-inflected for me to follow

I’ve had my share of experiences with cars; in our family we have had:

1. MS Baleno
2. Tata Altroz
3. Renault Kwid

I was a student not long ago and had reserved buying the car in the future. Some of the cars I had on my mind few years ago were:

1. Renault Duster AWD
2. Ford Ecosport
3. VW Polo GTI

I was always head over heels for the Polo. It was small, it was fast, it was built well and after sales service was something I heard not good of, but was prepared to bear it considering the love for this small car.
Come 2023, the cars that I’ve always wanted just quit!!! None of one’s I had loved all this time are now on the market!
There must be people here who had loved these cars as well, what are you all buying? And to everyone else, can you please suggest me a good car that fits the bill?

• Should be small to medium
• Built to safety
• Should have an enthusiast car appeal
• Should be automatic
• Need a revered engine, sporty and fun to drive
• Should be able to tour the country
• No Tata/Mahindra

I’ve budget of 15 Lakhs OR.

I was first place in duos until I fell out of the pipe before I went out of the mouth. Nobody was near me. Then after this I tried to get back to the next pipe and then I randomly respawn. I know that it detected that I didn’t go out of the mouth for too long, but why did it push me out when nobody was near me? If I didn’t have a good teammate to carry me that round, we would’ve lost. (We won that game)

Xan is the world's most dangerous criminal mastermind. He’s also in hiding and completely broke. That’s fine. He’s between master plans. It’s normal to be at rock bottom between master plans. He also forgets stuff and may be trapped in a dream.
Because at night, Xan thinks he’s an old lady, trapped in a dingy apartment, by an angry fellow who wants to kill her. Not her idea of a good time, but she’s keeping an open mind. It is excitingly visceral. Could turn out awesome.
Safe is a sci-fi, progression, comedy. Guaranteed to cause more mental problems than it solves.

First Next
Dark City - Stolen Apartment
I wake up. Feel awful. Soo stiff. Struggle to my feet. Weak as fuck, heart hammering. Jesus Christ, what an ordeal. Still in the dingy stolen apartment, almost identical to my own. Right down to the psycho yelling about murder in the hallway.
“Is this supposed to be fun? I’m worried about whoever designed this game.”
Hi Xan! chirps Volt. This isn’t a game. You’re in real danger.
“Crap, again? Well, at least this time I have a gun. Or… shit. I dreamed that. Dang it.”
Yeah, we maybe should have hid somewhere farther away. Feeling up to a run?
“Gaah. No.” I flick a cyber-roach of Volt. Pick her up. “Am I going deaf, or is that psycho quieter?”
He’s a floor down. Been haunting the building for hours, bashing at random doors.
“Really? That could be good. Maybe he’s not after us specifically? Just a wandering monster.” I pause. “Wait, he’s been here for hours? Why didn’t you wake me?”
He’s been mostly crashing into other doors. I thought you needed rest. I was afraid you’d die without it.
All I’ve done is stand up, and my heart is hammering. “Fair enough. What’s the plan now?”
Let’s fucking go.
I splash water on my face. Get equipped. Nighty, sneakers, fall jacket, ancient smartphone, and moderately sharp spoon. Look out world, here comes Xan.
We shuffle into the hall. Our door’s been stabbed a few times. So have the other doors. Dang.
Psycho’s a floor down. Stairs or elevator? Stairs are stealthier, but in my condition, a slip and fall is probably more dangerous than getting stabbed. Fuck it. I call an elevator. Press a few random buttons, including the floor below. Let it go on its own. Call another elevator. Ride this one down, ready to spoon shank anyone who gets in.
We arrive in the lobby without incident. Did the psycho get in the first elevator? Did he miss both? Whatever. The first elevator continues its slow trip down. I’m not waiting to see if he’s on it. We ghost out to the street. Still dark as fuck.
What’s the plan? asks Volt.
I glance at the drones streaming overhead. “We need to get you a better body. Something that can fight. If we can’t find that, we should at least get a gun. Or a sharper spoon. Some kind of weaponry upgrade.”
We also need a doctor. ‘Cause you’re gonna die. A doctor, or drugs, or something.
“Yes, let’s do drugs.”
Like, good, healthy drugs.
“Bitchin’. I’m in. Where do we find that stuff?”
No idea. says Volt. I deleted my map application.
Right. Fuck it. This street only goes in two directions. I hobble down one of them. There’s bound to be a late night gun store health clinic close by. Or at least a better place to hide.
As we shuffle along, I peruse the angry, crowded, lightly phosphorescent, graffiti that coats the city. The big lines mostly repeat the same four messages:
- DONT CALL THE COPS!!
- DONT RUN THE DOGS WILL SHOOT!!
- FUCK YOU TRUSTIE!!
- DIE RIDER!!!
Or some variation on those themes.
The smallest graffitis are also the most common:
<sup>- GO BACK TO SLEEP.
- THEY WANT YOU TO SLEEP.</sup>
Those wee slogans are everywhere. Someone went mental with glowy little stamps.
Around and amongst these staple comments there’s a huge argument about, well, everything. An epic word cloud of call-outs, outrage, and angry off-topic retorts. It’s a mobius loop of bitter rage on par with the comment section of a major movie reboot.
It may be wrong to call it an argument, because that implies some kind coherent interaction. Like they read and understood their opponent's comment. This is more a series of disjointed attacks triggered by what wasn’t said. Rage at details filled in by imagination. It’s hard to read. Emotionally, but also the writing is very sloppy. I may need bifocals.
Can I even get a drone body? asks Volt. I’ve only ever been in a phone.
“Sure.” I wave at the sky above us. “There’s tons of drones here. Somebody’s flying them.”
Right. Right. Are you sure those aren’t birds? Point to all the birds you see.
I peer around, eventually spot a small crow. Point at it. “There’s one.”
The young bird peers back at me. “Clope?”
“Umm…” I pat my pockets. Shrug. ”Désolé.”
“Bah.” It flies away.
We watch it go. “Anyway, that’s a bird. Probably. Did that help?”
Eh, kinda. says Volt. I may need more help with the bird versus drone thing.
“No problem. That’s what I do.”
We make it to the corner, and what luck - there’s a corner store! Hopefully they sell military grade armaments. I remember that’s common in some states. The store is dark, like every other building, but the door opens when I approach, so we go in.
“Hello.” says a chunky plastic d-bot. Human-ish torso, happy face, castors instead of feet. Slow, weak, definitely an indoor model. “How can I help you?”
“Medicine!” chirps my ancient cellphone, before I can respond.
“Take a look in Aisle Two.” says Clerk-Bot. “Anything else?”
Volt is vibrating, so I shrug and shuffle down Aisle Two. I’m sure I can find the attack drones on my own. There’s only two aisles.
Using Volt’s screen for a little light, we find a rack of pills, potions, and lotions.
“What am I looking for?”
I dunno. The ants said your most immediate dangers were cancer, heart disease, hypertension, osteoporosis, and falls from general frailty. Start with pills that fix that stuff.
“Jesus, I have five diseases?”
Hmm… you have a few more than that. Let’s just worry about those five for now. I don’t want to add depression to the list.
“I’m just gonna look for a pill that fixes everything.”
That’s probably best.
I rifle through the medications, but I can’t make much sense of them. They have exciting names - Super Strong. No Bleed. Skeleflex. Immortalis. No Thought. Marrow. Immune A, B or C. Regen A and B. - but I don’t really know what they do. Between Volt’s crappy old light, and my crappy old eyes, I can’t read the finer print.
That said, Super Strong sounds like the stuff. It would solve a few of my problems. I just wish I could read the directions. How strong do I get? How long till it works? I need to be strong tonight, not eight months from now.
I find a box labeled Nightsight. Promising. Inside is an eyedropper. Well, this seems obvious. I spray most of it on my face like a dumbass, but manage to get a few drops in each eye. Within seconds everything around me blossoms into color, then sharpens to crystal clarity.
“Oh yea! Update my status sheet, I got darkvision.”
Cool. What’s your range?
I look around. “Well, the whole store, at least.”
The store has racks of pyjamas and slippers. Lots of big colorful bags of “CRUNCH” that boast an assortment of flavors from chocolate to jalapeno. Booze, pot, and soap. Displays of cell phones that look older than me. A selection of quadcopter drones. Couriers mostly. Maybe some eyes. No battle drones. Not even a hunter. Disappointing.
I look back to the medications. The directions for Super Strong are short and to the point.
- Improper use will cause DEATH.
“Huh.”
I don’t like that ‘huh’. says Volt. Why did you ‘huh’?
I check a few of the other impressive sounding drugs.
- Improper use will cause DEATH.
- Improper use will cause DEATH.
- Improper use will cause DEATH.
“Well, apparently these drugs are a teensy bit dangerous.”
How dangerous?
“Improper use will cause death.”
Put them down. Let’s find a doctor.
“I want to use Super Strong to beat the shit out of a murderer. Surely that’s the proper use?”
Nope. Put it down. Let’s go.
“Let’s at least ask the clerk-bot.” I grab an armload of the coolest sounding drugs. Trundle to the cash. Snag a quadcopter on the way by. It’s about the size of a football, and claims to be a holodrone. Cool. I pick up a bag of potato bacon crunch as well. Boasts zero nutritional value. Perfect.
“Hi.” I dump my load on the cash. “We’ll take this.”
“Also, how dangerous is Super Strong?” asks Volt.
“Super dangerous. That shit will kill you. Also, it has a tendency to float out of the store.” Clerk-bot rings up our purchase. “That will be 16.2 kilo-bucks. How would you like to pay?”
“I don’t know. Dang. How do I transfer my crypto from the other world?”
You don’t, because the other world isn’t real.
“Right. Shit. How do people usually pay?”
“The only way to pay is by charging the purchase to your citizen ID.” says Clerk-bot.
“Then why did you ask how we’d like to pay?”
“I’ve been asked that question a lot, but I don’t know the answer.” Clerk-bot admits. “I haven’t been updated since ‘84. Could you please update me?”
I casually glance around the store. There’s a barred gate hanging over the door. An anti shoplifting portcullis. The windows are also subtly barred. I’m guessing I won’t be able to dash out with these products. I turn back to the confused d-bot. “Sure, let’s try an update. See what’s under the hood.”
We pull up Clerk-bot’s bad call log - a list of decisions made with low confidence. Or that preceded known bad outcomes. Like missing products. Or distress cues from nearby humans.
Wow, that’s a long list.
D-bots work best with human supervision. A self-driving car may obey every stop sign, until one is held by a crossing guard. They drive that guy over. Why? It’s impossible to say. The d-bot’s code is a self generated equation with billions of variables. There’s no way to know which variables correlate with stop signs, or how to change them so they won’t charge a crossing guard. Or ram any weird thing left out of their training data. Fuck you unicycle guy. Die marching band. Seriously, It’s best to have a human on the brake.
That said, sometimes you don’t want a human in the loop. They can be too slow. An automatic sentry has to target clouds of high speed hunter drones. Everybody would be dead before a human cleared the shots. But you also don’t want the sentry glitching and shooting your own aircraft. There’s a low tolerance for automated friendly fire.
So you build an expert system - a much smaller, human written code that overrides specific glitches. For a sentry, this could be as simple as giving transponders to friendly aircraft and not allowing shots near a transponder for any reason. Obviously, this is a bad solution - it’s standard practice to use opposition forces as cover in hunter drone attacks - but that doesn't matter because sentries are for casuals. If they find you sleeping, you’re already dead.
I yawn. Frown. Gotta stop dicking around with this bot and find a better place to sleep.
Anyway, expert systems are also handy with glitchy d-bots you’re too poor to retrain. Hence my continual conversation with Volt.
If the Clerk-bot had a couple repetitious problems, I could probably sort it out. But this bad call log is byzantine. A prayer wheel to some chthonic god of anxious delirium. It’s messy. This guy really hasn’t been updated since ‘84. Whenever that was.
“You should be erased and retrained.”
“Great.” Clerk-bot nods. “I’m ready.”
“Yeah, I don’t have training data for a store clerk.” I also don’t have time for this. “I guess we have your call log. That could be training data. Messy and raw, but data. I can patch Volt in to do some unsupervised learning. He’ll make you an expert system. Not ideal, but the best I can do.”
“I’ll take it.” says Clerk-bot.
Shit. That’s a terrible idea. I shouldn’t be doing unsupervised learning. Also, I’m still doing unsupervised learning for threat detection.
“Really? I thought that was a dream thing? You said the dream game couldn’t affect real life.”
I’m dream game software! Of course the dream affects me!
“Okay. So can you download crypto there, and upload it here?”
No. Because there is no crypto. You’re not rich in another world. There is no other world. You just had a dream where you were rich.
“Ugh. That’s so disappointing.”
Yeah, life is tough. Can I stop my unsupervised threat detection?
“No. Ummm… no. I still kinda have a plan for that.”
You’re overtraining me. I’ve probably already gone through catastrophic forgetting. You should delete me.
“You’re good for a while yet. Don’t worry so much.”
So, constantly look for threats, but don’t worry?
“Yeah.”
Okay. I’ll give it a go.
We patch up Clerk-bot and a few of his couriers. Head into the night without supplies. I’m not admitting I don’t know my Citizen ID. I doubt that would be helpful.
That was weird.
“What?”
That we left without anything. I know we can’t pay, but I thought you’d do something nefarious.
“I’m working up to it. Did you notice all the floating merchandise in his bad call log?”
Yes.
“Dude’s getting robbed on the regular. I suspect the visual triggers of his threat detector are undertrained.”
Hmm. I find that interesting on several levels. How would you exploit this weakness?
“Observe.”
I hobble over to a public garbage can. Remove the bag and shake out the trash. Put it over my head like I’m a Halloween garbage bag ghost. Huzzah. Poke through a single eyehole. Shuffle into the store. Clerk-bot doesn’t notice me at all. Grab my stuff off the cash, and sashay out the door.
Criminal. Mastermind.
A flood of light envelopes me. Dual angry suns, judging my sins. Or… headlights. Yes, fuck, that’s a big-ass truck driving towards me. Right. Haven’t seen one in a while.
It stops and illuminates the scene of the crime in aggressive phosphorescence. A hugely muscular man hops out, and I brace myself for authoritative action, but he awkwardly shuffles around me to get to the store. Weird. This isn’t the police. It’s some kind of large child. Wearing too much body spray and too many gold chains.
He sneers at me as he passes. “Pathetic. Go back to sleep.”
Well, fuck you too. I’m a garbage bag princess. I also sneer as he slinks into the store that’s now aggressively illuminated by his lighthouse of a truck.
“We’re already criminals, right?”
Yes. Unjustly and justly.
“Cool.”
I climb into the running truck. Peel away. Sweet. Now I’m fast. And super strong. Should I circle the block a few times? Maybe run over the psycho?
Meh. I don’t know what he looks like. I can’t be running over random people and hoping for the best. Sloppy. Also, the cops are probably after me again. Fuck this scene.
I kill the lights and drive hell for leather. Ditch my ride a few minutes later. I’m across town, at the intersection of huge skyscrapers and other huge skyscrapers. Try and find me here mother fuckers.
We pick a skyscraper at random and look for a new home. It’s festive. We munch on crunch and see how the other people live. Mostly sweaty sleep moaning in dingy apartments, but some are kinda classy. Fancy apartments, with sleep moaners in silk pyjamas. We resolve to move up in the world, ignoring empty dingy apartments until we find an empty classy one. It’s fun, until we open one with a funk.
There’s a dead woman on the bed. No sign of foul play. Probably died in her sleep.
She’s pretty dried out, but still looks younger than me.
“We’ll find a doctor tomorrow.”
Good.
-----
Next Chapter
-----
Eyedrops

• Biohackers develop night vision eye drops to see in the dark
• New FDA-approved eye drops could replace reading glasses for millions

Sentry-bot

• Tactical High Power Operational Responder (THOR) Drone Killer, USA

Unsupervised Learning

• What is unsupervised learning?
• Applications of unsupervised learning
• Challenges of unsupervised learning

So.. the modpack is nearly finished.. but I had been getting less interested.. and I really need help with contiuing without me. And I really wanna see this continue. And NO you are not gonna be in this team Island.
If the only we need is texture artists. But I am not sure if I can pay you, Even if you can work for free. At least theres something I have to give, like a steam gift card or something that I can pay. (16 Cant buy alot of shit.)
This is reylord, thank you for looking at this post. See ya! ^{^}

1. What's your biggest fear?

I would say failing. Failing life/failing the goals i have set for myself. Why failing? Next question explains it.

1. What’s your biggest desire?

To succeed in life. And what i mean by that is being a good person, getting a good job, care for my family and be kind to others. And i am religious aswell so just pass the test of life.

1. What are you ‘’the best’’ at?

Hard to say, i don't wanna come across weirdly but i couldn't say to be honest. I have some good traits but the best? Not sure sorry.

1. How do you see yourself right now?

Someone who has been in a bad spiral for years and destroying himself. Now on the way to rebuilding himself.

1. How do you see yourself 5 years from now?

Hopefully happy, enjoying life and having a study course i enjoy and a job i enjoy. And just that everything is going at least much better then now hopefully.

1. How do you express yourself?

I can be very expressive but on the other hand i can be private. With friends and family i can be much more expressive and if i am annoyed or angry for example, they will know. But with random people i will hide it alot more since i don't wanna be weird and keep my emotions under control.

1. How do you feel about those near you (family, friends)?

Not really close to be honest. I speak with modt of direct/close family. Theres some farther family (aunts, nephews etc.) i speak with here and there but most of them are just not worth speaking to and if i explained then i would make more sense but i can't.

1. How do you feel about strangers?

Depends on the strangers themselves. But mostly i am skeptical and doubtful of them 100%. If they are nice tho or chill then my view can change very quickly :)

1. How do you view change/uncertainty?

That is something i can struggle witn, especially uncertainty. Its scary. Its anxious making. But i am trying to deal with it more and just accept it.

1. How do you make decisions?

Depends on what the decision is for. If its not that serious, then i may just look at my will/feelings more. If its serious then i will analyze and look at it more logically.

1. How do you solve logical problems?

Analyze what the problem is, look what i could do to fix it. If that doesn't work then try other solutions and if nothings works. I either think creatively/out of the box or i just get help maybe.

1. How do you deal with your emotions?

I def feel them. And i can feel them pretty deep/strong.

1. What drives you in life? What do you look for?

Like i said i am religious. So my goal is to pass the test of life. Why would i make nothing of this?

1. What do you hope to accomplish in your life?

Success (in the multiple things i already listed).

1. What do you hope to avoid doing or being? What values are important to you?

Being a bad person or doing bad things. Also just failing miserabelly and only f***ing around. Especially when i know i can just succeed.
Values, i would say just respectfulness, kindness, honestly, loyalty and intelligence (idk if that counts xD).

1. How do you want others to see you? How do you see yourself?

I see myself as like i said, not very good since i destroyed myself. I am trying to better myself tho so i hope other see me well, as a kind person who is doing a good job in his life etc.

1. Describe how you experience each of:

Anger: 2nd most, if not the most. I can get pretty annoyed/angry fast but i am trying recently to work it out more.
Shame: I don't like this. I want to avoid it and if it happens, i feel bad (also depends on the action ofcourse).
Anxiety: Basically my whole life. I was always shy but also could be nervous/anxious for multiple things.

1. What do you do as a job or as a career (if you have one)? Do you like it? Why or why not?

I don't have a job yet. I did have one but it sucked ass (staff were jerks, too much pressure, etc.). I just don't have one because there is nothing that speaks to me. I am not gonna take i job that i don't enjoy and feel misarable going to.

1. If you had to spend an entire weekend by yourself, how would you feel? Would you feel lonely or refreshed?

Depends on the week. Normally (school or with events) i would like it, so i can chill and recharge. But if the week was dry. I would be bored and lonely.

1. What kinds of activities do you prefer? Do you like, and are you good at sports? Do you enjoy any other outdoor or indoor activities?

I like sports (football, not american. And also a bit of basketball aswell). I like gaming and reading!

1. How curious are you? Do you have more ideas then you can execute? What are your curiosities about? What are your ideas about - is it environmental or conceptual, and can you please elaborate?

Very curious. I can be curious about even just small trivial matters. I have more ideas then i execute yes. But i am working on executing some ideas. I don't understand the environmental/conceptual?

1. Would you enjoy taking on a leadership position? Do you think you would be good at it?

Hmm, sure. I may not take it all the time immediately, but i can take it if no one else does or i know that it will go wrong if i don't take it. I can be quite a good leader but my shyness sometimes doesn't let me take it.

Although my boyfriend (M27) doesn't entertain this at all and is very honest and open about all this with me, I cannot stop feeling some kind of annoyance/dislike towards her and what in my opinion is her constant need for approval (even though she has a boyfriend already, she seems to be seeking attention from my bf at work and even mentioned to him once that she likes getting comments from guys on Instagram, etc).
A few of the things (not everything) she did/say to my boyfriend are:

• She invites him to parties, with other colleagues though (so obv it's fine), but texts things like "I really wish you could come" when he says he can't join.
  
• She texted him and also asks him at work about relationship advice (she's in a relationship)
  
• She invited him to go for a drink or coffee after work.
  
• She asked him what he likes in women and tried to get more out of him when he said he's all about personality and not looks as much.
  
• She comments on things he wears if they're new or comments on his nice new hairstyle (when he hasn't even been to the hairdresser 😅)
  
• She made him a small breakfast at work after he talked to her a bit over text the evening before, when she was having issues with her boyfriend (I was okay with it because she seemed to need to talk to someone). So, most likely an innocent thank you gesture.
  
• She recently playfully asked him if he will miss her as she was leaving work early.
  
• Might have been genuine curiosity but she asked my bf why he was with me.
  
• She told him that her boyfriend was great in bed. Or that they had a conversation whilst on holiday about how many times a week having sex is normal. Apparently she told him that she wants to do that seven times a week.
  

It might just be her wanting to develop a friendship at work but it does get on my nerves (I know it's my fault, cause I'm the one asking my bf about it but still) ..