Am I missing something?
Inflation keeps rising, and the BoE keeps on increasing interest rates, which become unaffordable for people at some point (personal to each mortgagee). Worse case scenario is people are forced to sell to clear their mortgage debt, or the bank takes the property.
In both cases, many properties probably get sold to unscrupulous commercial or private landlords at knock-down rates for quick sales, which restricts the housing market further for individual buyers, and they don't pass on savings to people they rent to to protect their own profits.
Those who already rent also have problems with interest rate rises as their landlords pass on those increases at the next opportunity.
Meanwhile, the cost of living is increasing most other places. Sure, energy prices have risen and the government's put in place some very limited measures to help with caps, etc - but people are still paying way more than they did, and they've now removed the additional cap and allowed energy providers to fiddle with standing charges and rates to continue to squeeze whatever they can out of people as the weather improves and energy use drops. They introduced a windfall tax, but then lots of loopholes that allow companies to get away without paying those windfall taxes, including if they "invest". Instead, the government could have increased taxes (and introduced permanent excessive profit taxes to all sectors), and then the government could use that to help with energy prices as well as deciding where and how to invest rather than leaving it to private enterprise.
Food and other goods have increased massively. For sure, this is in part due to increased costs - materials/ingredients, transport, etc, etc.
But clearly, there's also been a lot of bandwagon jumping - people hiding behind increased costs to make more money. This is evidenced by the rich continuing to get richer, corporations getting richer... But the average person having the biggest drop in living standards since records began, and the biggest gap between the average income and average house price since 1876.
And yet the BoE's increasing interest rates to try and stem inflation isn't working.
Why? Because a lot of people have already cut a lot of non-essential spending. They have little choice but to pay the inflated prices on housing, food, energy, transport, etc, etc.
Surely a much better way to control inflation would be to add strategic price controls?
Doing so should include rent price capping. With other goods and services, it seems a little difficult - because if you cap prices below what they cost to produce/provide, especially with rising costs, then that could cause companies to go bust. But there's maybe other ways to do it - maybe restricting profits (price above costs)?
Also, shouldn't we be considering dividends freezes or caps? Because those dividends often always seem to be paid - whether people are laid off, whether prices are increased... If there's less incentive to raise costs because the money can't be released to shareholders, would it help stem inflation?
I accept that none of these things are perfect solutions. Everything has potential issues, too. But what's happening now isn't working, and we need other solutions to help more people and not just serve to benefit the rich, the powerful and corporations? Sure, there will be balance points that need to be found - but carrying on as we are isn't working?

Happy to provide pics of anything you might be interested in. If you would like to buy, see my GameSale post!
If you are local to the Sacramento area I might be willing to do a local meetup. Cash/Paypal also acceptable on either side to help even out a trade.
Thanks for looking! Happy trading!
[HAVE]

PLAYSTATION
Playstation	Legacy of Kain Collectors Edition Triple Pack	SEALED This one does have some minor wear to the corners/seal as seen in the pics.. I would really like a big item from my list for this..
Playstation	DarkStalkers 3	BL - CIB - Minor Staining
Playstation	GranStream Saga	BL - CIB - Water damaged rear art
Playstation 2	Final Fantasy X Brady Games Strategy Guide	Very worn. Has tear in front cover. No poster.
Playstation 2	Final Fantasy X -2 Brady Games Strategy Guide	Moderately worn. Has smaller tear in back cover. Includes Poster.
Playstation 2	24 The Game	BL - CIB
Playstation 2	Crazy Taxi	BL - CIB
Playstation 2	.Hack Infection	BL - CIB - Cover art has some water damage
Playstation 2	.Hack Mutation	Missing DVD - Complete and pretty minty otherwise.
Playstation 2	Guitar Hero II	BL - CIB
Playstation 2	Guitar Hero Guitar Hero Encore Rocks the 80's	BL - CIB
Playstation 2	Myst III Exile	BL - CIB
Playstation 2	RPG Maker 3	BL - CIB
Playstation 2	Wheel of Fortune	BL - CIB
Playstation 3	Ace Combat Assault Horizon	BL - CIB
Playstation 3	BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend	Limited Edition Big Box - CIB - Includes Soundtrack, Art Book, and Calendar. Box has heavy wear. Everything else is pretty minty. Game case has some minor shelf wear.
Playstation 3	Diablo III	BL - CIB
Playstation 4	500 Million Dual Shock 4 Controller	Loose - Has crack in center but otherwise, pretty nice with very low usage.
Playstation 4	7 Days to Die	BL - CIB
Playstation 4	Call Of Duty Infinite Warfare	BL - CIB
Playstation 4	Dead Cells [Action Game of the Year]	BL - CIB
Playstation 4	Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age	BL - CIB
Playstation 4	Evolve	BL - CIB
Playstation 4	Final Fantasy XV Deluxe Steelbook Edition book w/Slipcover	BL - CIB
Playstation 4	Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8	BL - CIB - Spine damage/tear
Playstation 4	Middle Earth Shadow of War	BL - CIB
Playstation 4	Nascar Heat 3	BL - CIB
Playstation 4	Overwatch Origins	BL - CIB
Playstation 4	Resident Evil Village Deluxe Edition	BL - CIB
Playstation 5	Apsulov	CIB
Playstation 5	Babylon's Fall	Sealed
Playstation 5	Death Stranding	Sealed
Playstation 5	Rustler	CIB
Playstation 5	Thymesia	CIB - Case/art has some damage
PSP	PSP 1001 - Loose. PSP ONLY	Body and screen are pretty scratched up, includes a rubber grip cover and I can include a white replacement shell... Charge port can be touchy sometimes so it also includes a replacement port.
PSP	SanDisk Memory Stick PRO Duo	One 2.0GB Translucent Blue and one 512KB Translucent Green available.
PSP	Generation of Chaos	BL - No Manual
PSP	Sid Meier's Pirates! Live the Life	BL - CIB
PSP	Tekken 6	BL - CIB
PSP	PSP 3000 Box and tray only - No PSP included	Box has moderate to heavy wear with some creasing.
PSVITA	Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Plus	Loose
PSVITA	Wipeout 2048	Loose

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XBOX
Xbox	Blowout	BL - CIB
Xbox	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	BL - CIB
Xbox	Indiana Jones and The Emperors Tomb	BL - CIB
Xbox	Pac Man World 2	PH - CIB
Xbox	Return To Castle Wolfenstein Tides of War	PH - CIB
Xbox 360	4GB - 360 Slim Console	Includes OEM power supply and controller. I can probably include an HDMI cable if needed.
Xbox 360	250GB - 360 Slim Console	Includes OEM power supply, controller and Kinect. I can probably include an HDMI cable if needed.
Xbox 360	Dead Space 3	PH - CIB
Xbox 360	Dragonball Z Ultimate Tenkaichi	BL - CIB
Xbox 360	Fable 2 Limited Edition	BL - CIB* (No special features disc)
Xbox 360	Fable 3	BL - CIB
Xbox 360	Forza 4	BL - CIB
Xbox 360	Grand Theft Auto 5	BL - Boxed w/map
Xbox 360	Halo 3 Limited Edition Steel book w/sleeve (minor damage)	BL - CIB - Includes manual, but no book..
Xbox 360	Hitman HD Trilogy - Premium Edition w/ slipcoveartbook	BL - CIB - Moderate - Heavy wear
Xbox 360	Mortal Kombat	BL - Boxed (No Manual)
Xbox 360	NBA Live 2010	BL - CIB
Xbox 360	NBA 2K18	BL - CIB
Xbox 360	Portal 2	BL - Boxed (No Manual)
Xbox 360	Test Drive Unlimited	BL - CIB
Xbox One	Battlefield 4 Steelbook Edition	CIB
Xbox One	Battlefield Hardline	CIB
Xbox One	Dark Souls 3	CIB
Xbox One	Madden 22	CIB
Xbox One	Prototype BioHazard Bundle	CIB
Xbox One	Rare Replay	CIB
Xbox One	Skylanders Trap Team	CIB
Xbox One	UFC 3	CIB
Xbox One	Watch Dogs 2	CIB
Xbox One	Wolfenstein The New Order	CIB

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NINTENDO
NES	Nintendo of America Letter	w/ Official Nintendo Envelope, Cover Letter, Nintendo Power order form, service center list, Game Pak Directory, Replacement parts list, Nintendo history. Great little piece. Definitely shows some wear and a few markings but the order forms are blank. Not sure how to value this
NES	Bart vs The Space Mutants	Manual Only
NES	Gradius	Manual Only
NES	Mega Man 1	Manual Only
NES	Mission Impossible	Manual Only
NES	NES Advantage controller	Manual Only
NES	Zodas Revenge	Manual Only
NES	Kung Fu	Loose
NES	Ninja Gaiden II	Loose
NES	Skate or Die	Loose - Worn/snagged top label
NES	Wizards and Warriors III	Loose - Worn/torn top label
NES	GAME GENIE	Loose
SNES	DOOM	CIB** - Might be willing to trade box/contents separately.
SNES	Rockos Modern Life	CIB - Box is worn, includes insert, manual and warning slip.. both have some wear, Cart is in great shape! Might be willing to trade box/contents separately.
SNES	Buster Busts Loose	Manual Only
SNES	Hey Punk! Are You Tuff E Nuff?	Manual Only
SNES	Lawnmower Man	Manual Only
SNES	Mega Man X	Manual Only
SNES	World Heroes	Manual Only
SNES	GAME GENIE	Loose
N64	Standard N64 Console and gray controller. No wires, but I'd be willing to trade towards an OEM set.	Includes OEM expansion pack.
Wii	Just Dance 2017	BL - CIB (Inserts)
Wii	Just Dance 2018	BL - CIB (Inserts)
Wii	Donkey Kong Country Returns	BL - Boxed (No Manual)
Wii	Goldeneye 007	BL - CIB
Wii	Metroid Other M	BL - CIB
Wii	Red Steel	BL - Boxed (No Manual)
Wii	Red Steel 2	BL - CIB
Wii	Trauma Center Second Opinion	BL - CIB
	Wii Sports - Resort	BL - CIB
Wii U	The Legend of Zelda Windwaker HD Edition Wii U	Complete in box** - Super Hard trade
Wii U	The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess HD	SEALED
Switch	Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Edition OLED Switch	NEW
Switch	BloodRayne Fresh Bites	Sealed - w/card
Switch	Fire Emblem Three Houses	CIB
Gameboy	Ren and Stimpy Veediots	Manual Only
NDS	Red Super Mario Bros 25th Anniversary Edition DSi XL	Loose - With charger. Does have some minor wear and teascuffs on corners
NDS	Mario Party DS	Sealed - (Has some knicks/tear in seal.)
NDS	Pokémon Heartgold	CIB - NFR case, no big box or Pokewalker - Only considering trading this so I can upgrade.. Would also trade FOR the big box..
NDS	Spiderman Shattered Dimensions	Loose
NDS	Spyro The Eternal Night	Loose
NDS	DS Lite Car adaptecharger	NEW - Power A branded, Nintendo officially licensed.
NDS	DSi XL Stylus 5 packs. One of each color set available (2)	NEW - Power A branded, Nintendo officially licensed.
3DS	Animal Crossing New Leaf	CIB
3DS	Bravely Second End Layer	CIB - Minor damage to case/art
3DS	Super Smash Bros. 3DS	Loose

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SEGA
Saturn	Model 2 Console	Loose - Includes power cord + OEM controller
Saturn	Street Fighter Alpha 2	CIB
Dreamcast	Crazy Taxi	Loose

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[WANT]
Some specific items I'm after:

• 3D Dot Game Heroes
• Attack On Titan 2 or Final Battle PS4
• Baten Kaitos - Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean
• Castlevania Curse of Darkness - PS2
• Castlevania Lament of Innocence - PS2
• Castlevania Dracula X
• Conkers Bad Fur Day
• Chocobos Dungeon
• Clock Tower (all)
• Drakengard 2
• Earthbound
• Evil Dead (PS1-PS2)
• Folklore
• Geist - Gamecube
• Grandia Xtreme
• The Legend of Zelda Four Swords - Gamecube
• Majoras Mask N64
• Mario Party 6 - Complete only
• Mario Party 7 - Manual only
• Marvel vs Capcom 1 and 2 PS1/PS2 or Dreamcast
• Misadventures of Tron Bonne
• Mega Man 64 - Cart or CIB
• Paper Mario TTYD - Complete and NON Players Choice/Best Seller
• Parasite Eve II - Manual only
• Pokemon Crystal, Emerald, Ruby, and Silver
• Pokemon White, Black, HGSS (Big Box), Alpha Sapphire, Moon, Y, Ultra Sun/Moon
• Resident Evil - Saturn
• Resident Evil - PS1 Long Box
• Resident Evil Code Veronica - Gamecube
• Resident Evil Dead Aim (Also looking for other light Gun games like Point Blank, Time Crisis, House of the Dead..)
• Resident Evil Survivor
• Resident Evil Darkside Chronicles - Highly Prefer the Gun Bundle Version.
• Saga Frontier 2 PS1, Unlimited Saga PS2
• Shadow Hearts - PS2
• Shadow Hearts From the New World - Disc only
• Silent Hill Origins and Shattered Memories - PS2
• Suikoden, Suikoden II and Suikoden Tactics
• Tekken Long Box
• Twisted Metal Long Box
• Valkyrie Profile PS1
• Wario Ware/World - Gamecube
• Xenosaga Episode III - PS2 - Complete only. Lenticular preferred.

[General Wants]

• I'd like to bulk up my Gamecube and Sega collections; Dreamcast, CD/Saturn and Genesis.. I don't really need any hardware at the moment. But a CDX or Nomad would be cool though!
• PlayStation 5 games. Official Sony dual controller charger - CIB or New
• PS1 - PS4 Heavies
• PS Vita Games and maybe certain Vitas.
• PSP Games
• PSVR Games
• PS1 Long Box games
• PSX Console
• Special Edition Sony/PlayStation stuff.
• Switch games, SE Pro controllers
• Gameboys
• DS/3DS games

** Your lists/offers. I am not interested in loose discs or any sort of Greatest Hits, Platinum Hits, Players Choice, etc. Black Label/first print only. Most Carts are ok loose with the exception of games that came in plastic cases such as DS/Vita. If it had a cardboard box I can do without.

I have 2 versions of the depths/basement that reoccur.
I have the very common bunker type basement that usually "spawns" underneath the hotel/hospital. This basement is like some government bunker where they do bad things, i never knew exactly what it was. But in my dreams, im always breaking into this corridor and its so dark, a bit damp, and i know if i get caught im done for. It feels extra forbidden. The number 53 usually shows up on walls here and idk why, it may be random but its commonly when i wake up after i see this on the wall.
The second version of the basement usually spawns off the house on the hill or the mansion place. This is a terrifying basement filled with like, air conditioning tunnels with demons in them. It can also be a bit sewer like with ladders and tunnels the same way. Im usually with a group of other people and we try to traverse our way through it. Sometimes i am alone and i pop out the vent on the "other side" to somewhere else in the mansion like a secret backroom where things are going on.

Long story short we had a buyer on our property who told us and our REA they had the funds, didnt need to sell their property, were serious buyers and were ready to buy blah blah blah. This was back in Mid April. Under that understanding we accepted their offer and the house went under contract with a cooling off of 10 days.
9 days into the cooling off they asked for a furthur 10 day extension revealing that they needed to sell their property and they were still in cooling off because a developer had purchased their property. Then they wanted another 10 day extension, because again their purchaser was messing them around. But because our house had been under contract - noone else wanted to waste their time looking at our house so we were stuck with the prospect of losing this sale, and having to go back on the market so we granted the extention (albeit stupidly).
Low and behold when they finally sell their property, for a very tidy sum mind you and 3 times what our house would cost them, they back out. They back out after a month of being under contract, a month of lost momentum on the market and all they lost out of it was the .25%. Is there any legal avenues we can take considering they led us down the garden path saying they had the funds when we signed and there were no contingent sales?

Hi, we are the current tenants and the landlord has agreed to sell the flat to us. It’s a top flat on a terraced house (landlord owns both flats in property and freehold). It’s a period property so we knew the surveys may highlight some issues, however there was nothing, from living there, indicating big problems. Due to unrelated things some time has passed since our offer was accepted. Since then some issues with the roof have appeared and there are cracks on the walls. Not huge but they are quickly spreading to many places in just a few weeks. Landlord has sent a builder to check, who said a structural engineer is needed. I have a couple of questions: - is it the landlord’s responsibility to fix the issue before the sale? We will wait for our level 3 survey and their structural survey but will likely walk away if the issue is huge, but would like to know who the responsibility lies with and how to negotiate around it - we have the mortgage valuation surveyor coming in this week. Shall we point out all the cracks and tell them this is a recent issue(the biggest ones are between furniture, curtains and walls so not the most obvious place, although all others are very visible) or not? Many thanks for your time

Turns out Alan Kohler is One of Us:
Rose, “Love the podcast. We’ve been approached to invest directly in a start-up during their first capital raise, pre-revenue. This is totally new to us as we typically invest in companies via the stock market. We see it as a high risk, high reward type investment, but love the potential to be involved in a company more directly and support the founder’s vision. What general advice would you give to a newbie angel investor about this type of investing?
Well, after we sold our business, the Business Spectator and Eureka Report and I got a bit of money, I invested in five start-ups, thinking that, you know, the deal with start-ups, only sort of 10 per cent of them work out, one in ten work out.
You were hoping one in five?
I was going for one in five. I thought, all I need is one of these things to take off and I’m right.
And…?
And all went bust.
Right.
All of them, it was a bust from start to finish. So, Rose, investing in one start-up is a 10 per cent play, about that.
You’ve got a one in ten chance.
You’ve got to know that, Rose. This should be money you are happy to lose.
Yep, totally.
You can do all the due diligence you like and she’s talking about reviewing the pitch deck and taking it to lawyers, accountants and financial advisers, you can do all of that, in the end it doesn’t make any difference. This is high risk, most start-ups don’t work, maybe this one does and the whole thing with venture capital is that the one that works, works really, really well and more than pays for all the other investing that you’ve done that didn’t work.
Yeah. The one thing I’d say, is investing pre-revenue, so that’s before this thing’s made any sales, the other thing you could consider is most start-ups need multiple rounds of investment, so maybe you can say, “Hey, come back to us for the second round or the third round and you can see this thing, how it develops a little bit.”
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https://www.eurekareport.com.au/investment-news/housing-supply-supply-supply/152577

So I've worked at a hospital as a per diem physical therapist for almost four years now. When I got hired my manager was very clear that if I added availability for a shift I would get that shift unless the census was low. I can basically work as much as I want and create my own schedule. I'm unable to work full time because I have another job working for my family business. My mom owns the business and my siblings and I help run it, it has to do with care for the elderly. I started working for the family business about four years ago after I graduated physical therapy school. I make the least out of my 3 other older siblings who have all worked there longer and have more job responsibilities.
This post is about the hospital job. I noticed the dynamic was weird in the department from the very beginning, it can be competitive, clique and there is a lot of shit talking. I basically tried to stay out of it and do a good job at work. I always felt on the outs but was able to make a few friends...
However I recently got promoted to a lead position... On days I'm scheduled as a lead I come in an hour early to make the schedule and leave an hour early. I basically manage all calls coming in to the physical therapy department and I get paid 10% more. There were some full time people who were unhappy I got this opportunity and they didn't. However, those people were mostly either hired after me (lower seniority) or are physical therapy assistants (work under physical therapists).
I noticed a big shift in most of my relationships, the few friends I made faded away. The dynamic in the department became worse shortly after I was promoted when another per diem team member pointed out to the union that per diem workers get to choose the major and minor holidays they work every year according to our contract... Our manager had been breaking this rule for years unbeknownst to m. This employee had apparently read through the contract and brought it up to the union. Now all the full time people hate the per diem staff because they get to choose their holidays, even though I had nothing to do with this. They have said it's not fair we get to make our own schedule, they think we get paid too much, they don't think we should get choice of holidays to work and they don't think we should get to be in lead positions. However, this is standard practice for per diem staff in hospitals (I'm not sure about the lead part, but I know everything else is). My sister works as a per diem nurse at a hospital and said high pay, making your own schedule and choosing holidays are normal since you don't get benefits and most per diems have other jobs which is why the schedules are flexible.
Recently I've been having people make really weird comments towards me. This one girl asked why I work here if I work for my family business. I asked her what she meant and she said don't you own the business and make a lot of money? Without going into it I said no, I actually make more money at the hospital which is the truth and she was very surprised. I'm always pretty hush hush about my family business, I've told people what it is but not the name of it or where it's located. Then she asked what my husband does and I said he's a programmer and she went on to talk about how that job makes so much which is not true... He makes decent money, but $29/hour is not a crazy amount of money for Southern California. I just replied vaguely saying he makes okay money and left. She is also a per diem therapist with lower seniority than me. I have a feeling she would like more shifts, but we're scheduled according to seniority and she's brand new.
Another weird comment... Another girl who I like got really weird when I told her my husband and I were thinking about putting an offer on a house. I was excited and was making conversation which we usually do. She asked how much it was and I said $750,000 because that's the truth and there's no point in lying as housing sales are public record. She could not believe I could afford that and asked me, "How can you possibly afford that"... I changed the subject... She's not married, so maybe she doesn't understand joint income. She also lives in an underpopulated desert area in a different county where the cost of living is less. I live in Los Angeles County near my family and other job and commute to work. Right now in 2023 in Los Angeles county $750,000 for a 3 bedroom 2 bath in a safe neighborhood is average or below average actually according to my google search.
My manager who I loved just left, and one of the full time therapists who doesn't seem to like per diem therapists was hired as manager. I'm worried about the future, but we are bound by a union contract so there aren't a lot of changes that can be made. I heard the new manager got mad about the holiday thing and doesn't want per diems to be lead therapists anymore as a result which is totally unrelated and feels retaliatory. I've noticed more than 50% of the lead therapists are per diem. They all do a great job, maintain a professional attitude and stay out if the drama and cliques. It's a rumor though so we'll see.
I'm not sure what I'm even asking... Feeling isolated and constantly judged, it's been getting to me and this is the first time I've considered leaving this job even though my job pays very well, is flexible, I'm in a lead position and have earned seniority. Does this sound toxic to you guys? Am I missing something?

So everything has been so hectic recently. Sorry this is going to be long.
Quick background, I was diagnosed with both ADHD at the age of 26 after dropping out of a university and a community college. I finally got meds. I got married to a Wonderfull lady and we moved into a basement apartment in her parents house. I wasn’t too thrilled but we didn’t have much Money and it was cheap. I got a new job as a loss prevention investigator and my wife got a new job as a warehouse worker, a shift that ends at 1:30 am.
Since I worked mornings and spent the nights home alone, I decided to go back to school hoping it would lead me to a better job. I entered a program that helps former college drop outs prepare to return to college classes. With the meds I was actually able to focus and I easily passed the program. I enrolled at a university at a discounted price, thanks to the program, and its gone down hill since then. I started at the university in 2021, I’ve only passed one of the pervious 9 classes.
That class I past, happened to be one I retook several times. It bugs be because these are really easy classes that I know I should be able to excel in. Now, I am starting to fall behind again, but I also feel like everything else in life is fighting against me. I don’t get good sleep. Mainly because I try to be awake when my wife gets home (2am) I try to have dinner for her when she arrives.
By the time I get back to sleep I have to be to work in 5 hours. I am swamped with investigations at work and are behind on those as well.
On top of that, my In-Laws have told me they need to sell the house, so know we need to move. I am behind in school, behind at work, and now have to look for an apartment.
My wife has a weird relationship with stress and keeps putting things off.
Because of this she almost never does anything really productive.
Every time I try to get her to do something she claims she is too stressed to deal with it right now. So, I’ll stop talking about it and I plan on bring it up later when she is less distracted.
However, I’ll find out her mom approached her with the same exact issue. And she drops what she is doing and does these things with HER.
We have been married for almost two years and we still haven’t been able to set a budget up or even communicate about our finances.
She keeps buying furniture and other stuff that we have no room for. Now we are trying to find an apartment and her credit report is so bad, we’ve been rejected by almost a dozen places already.
I love my wife and she is the best to be around. She funny, smart, and caring. But I feel like her fear of stress is keeping us from progressing. She has never lived on her own and that is the main reason she pushed for us to move into her parents basement apartment.
When I am at work in the morning she goes upstairs and hangs out with her parents for the day. Somedays I feel more like a Roomate then I do her husband.
She’s soo against getting an apartment. She would rather we stay with her parents until we can afford a house.
Now that we have no choice and NEED an apartment. She’s gone quite. We couldn’t qualify for a loan anyways with how bad her credit score is. But she doesn’t even help in the apartment application process.
I’ve had to do all the calling, Walk through Appointments, and paperwork. Which I am currently doing right now.
It’s 1:12 AM and I am attempting to finish a apartment applications for a place we both really want, but we couldn’t finish it until my wife renewed her expired ID.
My wife had told me she planned to go renew it for the past week and a half. I have sat down and pretty much made her schedule an appointment 3 times. All three times she doesn’t go because she wasn’t feeling good. I told her I could go with her each time, but she always told me she would go by herself…..her mom took her this morning….I was a little annoyed at that, but I was also happy it was finally done.
Now I am doing the whole application process because she is to stressed to deal with it.
On top of this I am trying to catch up with work and my homework. My mind is running all over the place and I am having a hard time keeping up with what needs to be done.
I have a planner but I my mind is so jumbled with tasks I don’t even know where to start. Do I focus on the apartment search? School? Work? My Relationship?
Even when I am doing homework my mind is constantly thinking about the apartment application or about an investigation at work I got to finish.
When I am doing the application I’m thinking about school and work. How can anyone keep a straight mind when so much is going on in life?
Anyway I’m not really sure this all makes sense, but I just needed to vent. I am just super stressed and anxious all the time recently and can’t focus on anything.

Yesterday, I had a final interview scheduled for 8am and I was due to start work at 9am. So I got to the office early to do the Teams interview in the canteen. This meant that I got to my desk earlier than usual and started doing my work at 9:40 because I was just bored of browsing my phone. I didn't and won't get paid for that 20 minutes.
Anyways, there's currently road construction happening in the area for the next two years so it's a nightmare to get around. I usually take the 5:30 bus home that's located up a nasty hill (I have asthma too so fuck the hill), but with construction this means I don't get home til after 7. There's a bus at 5:05 that is a lot closer walking distance and nowhere near the hill. Imagine walking 5 minutes instead of 18 and getting home at 6 instead of 7:30.
So I'm the only one left in the office besides the cleaners at 4:45. My boss and coworkers had left for the day. I decided to take the earlier bus because of what I said above. So I leave the office at 4:53. Run to the bus stop and it's just turned 4:59. I see my HR rep get out of her car and walk to the door of what I assume is her house. I realise then she lives right next to the bus stop. She comes back out in gym clothes and then goes inside. The bus comes and I don't see her again.
I hope she didn't see me. My boss already hates me and will do anything to fire me. I mean, I could ask if they are OK with me leaving early, but my boss is the type of person who would ask you if you could reschedule a doctor appt or go to the appt using a holiday day. I tried to ask if I could work from home once to meet the boiler man and I was told no and to ask my husband if he can do it.
I'm anxiously awaiting a call from a recruiter about potentially having an offer somewhere. No guarantees just I had a final third interview that went well.
Do you guys think I shouldn't have left early? I'm not crazy, right?

Hi redditors,
My girlfriend and I have purchased our house at the start of this year and we are looking to invest into solar panels. We have received two different estimates and I am struggling (as I have limited knowledge) to figure out which estimate is the most interesting.
Estimate 1 (9900wp): 14.250 EU (incl. placement etc.)
Solar Panels - 22x Phono Solar - Mono 450 All Black half cut - datasheet
Inverter - 2x SUN2000-4.6KTL-L1 Hybrid
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Estimate 2 (9960wp): 15.040 EU (incl. placement etc.)
Solar Panels - 24x JW Smart E-grid Series II 415 WP - datasheet
Inverter - 1x 8k SMA or SolarEdge (exact type depending on availability)
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The sales person of estimate 2 told me that the inverter of Estimate 1 was a bit lower end and that the panels were P-type instead of N-Type which had a lower effiency in the long run. I am curious how you guys would evaluate both estimates. Small note: both have an extra placement cost because we have a slate roof.
Thank you for any advice.

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See the previous posts: https://www.reddit.com/JurassicPark/comments/1419mpy/jurassic_world_the_hegemony_of_biosyn_dominion/ https://www.reddit.com/JurassicPark/comments/142b35e/jurassic_world_the_hegemony_of_biosyn_jwd_rewrite/

Act III - The Gathering of the Clouds

Mia Everett
Visually confirming Rainn's revelation, Victoria is shown in a cage inside Amelia Everett's lab, within Biosyn's Citadel. Mia does her best to comfort the scared and depressed Achillobator and her motivations are explored shortly after. It's revealed that due to her experience within the team who made the Indominus and the Indoraptor, Biosyn tasked her with reviving InGen's IBRIS program by breeding raptors with high obedience potential. However, none of the achillobators cloned by Biosyn proved to be trainable enough for the program's ambitions (even though they attempted to mimic Owen's experience by having keepers being there at the animals' birth), which displeased Dodgson and the other higher-ups, who are now favouring another research team, who focuses on a more intrusive way of controlling dinosaurs. Basically treated as a second-class researcher amidst a rather toxic work environment, Mia became desperate enough to hire poachers to capture Blue, which she intended to breed with their achillobators in order to finally have trainable individuals. As Victoria is not sexually mature, Mia is in front of a considerable setback and fears that Dodgson will pull the plug due to her lack of results, especially in this troubled period for Biosyn.
The tying noose
The next day, the intel collected by the UN agents (people involved in the Black Market, Biosyn's connections with it) are sent to the nearby countries, including Italy, where an arrest warrant is launched against Kayla.
On his side, Isaac Gibbon is contacted by Bigelow who tells him about the debacle of their mission in Malta, saying that Claire and Owen saved the grey guards from disaster. He orders her to stay in Italy for the moment and wait for new orders. Shortly receives, he receives a candidate for a desk job in the DSD: It's Franklin. Gibbon tells Franklin he heard about his bravery during the 2019 incidents and his past connection with InGen (Before the DPG, Franklin worked for it as an IT Technician), before asking questions about Claire as he is aware that she collaborated with him not only on some occasions in the past few years but also in the 2019 Costa Rican incident, where Franklin was the couple's companion while they were running from InGen's agents and the authorities.
Dubrovnik
The inhabitants and tourists of the Croatian seaside city of Dubrovnik are surprised when a Biosyn Quetzalcoatlus descends upon the old town and starts attacking people. As a joke similar to one in TLW with the Japanese businessman and his reference to Godzilla, some extra could yell in Valyrian "I left Westeros because of this!" or "By the Seven, not again!" (Dubrovnik was one of Game of Thrones' filming location).
Ramsay's email
In a manner similar to the Hawaii attack scene in Gareth Edwards' Godzilla, the Dubrovnik scene cuts just as the Quetzal swoops on the bystanders and we are now in the bar of Biosyn's employee village. Wu is watching the news of the Dubrovnik attack on the TV (there is even a declaration from Zoe Murdoch, in which she denies the pterosaur came from Auronzo's Sanctuary and was probably created by a rival company who somehow put their hands upon Biosyn Quetzalcoatlus DNA. In the bar, someone whisper that one of their Quetzals did escaped from the valley thanks to the temporary deactivation of the invisible fence system and that Dodgson has launched an investigation to know who's responsible) when he receives a mysterious email from Ramsay, which includes the name of some woman. Wu search it on the internet and ends up on IMDB where he discovers that the adult "Charlotte" on the videos is actually an actress who lives in London.
Arrest
In Rome, early in the morning, Kayla is arrested in her flat by the police as she is accused of illegal smuggling.
Viscontini
Following all the incidents in the Alps, the clash in the Sabine Hills and the recent Dubrovnik attack, people gets pissed at Biosyn and protests occur in several locations, including Rome. In the Italian Ministry of the Interior, Viscontini has an argument with Pazzi, declaring that they need to take severe actions against Biosyn but the minister retorts that taking large-scale actions against the corporation might trigger a whole deal of undesirable consequences, including deteriorating US-Italian relations due to the close ties between Biosyn and the US government. He won't risk that just because of some rumours, weak proof and small incidents. Viscontini retorts that soon, Biosyn might have an angry mob showing at its gates with the goal of driving it out of Italy.
Following Vuillier's instructions, Claire, Owen, Nyamu and Dougal leave Malta the same day and fly to the Eternal City, where they have to meet Viscontini in the AISI headquarters. There, they have a video call with Vuillier. He and Viscontini wants to send the trio of WDMC agents to Auronzo Valley so they can infiltrate Biosyn's facility, find compromising information and transmit them to the Italian authorities, hoping to finally convince Pazzi and the rest of the government to take action against Biosyn. However, one of the agents points out that they will need an entrance ticket as one doesn't simply walk into Auronzo, since the borders of Biosyn's lands are guarded and monitored while some people disappeared after going too close from the Sanctuary (anti-Biosyn activists, reckless adventurers, Grendel Corporation's spies, others from the AISI's and Austrian government). Viscontini declare they might have that ticket.
We cut to Kayla in her prison cell. The guard announces she has visit and she is brought to a room where Viscontini and Dougal waits for her. The head of the AISI and the WDMC agent then negotiate with her: In exchange for her freedom, she will bring Dougal, Claire and Owen to Biosyn's Sanctuary. However, Viscontini precise he'll have her hunted down if she ever betrays them.
Kayla raises the fact that she can't show up at Auronzo like this and needs a motive. Viscontini and Dougal then talk about the animals seized in Malta's black market.
Theo's Mission
That day, Wu summons Theo, explain the whole issue with the fake Charlotte and ask him to go to London, find the actress and question her about the videos so they can have proofs to show Maisie, who started to really become insufferable because of Dodgson's bad influence (in that part of the story, one of the few scenes where she's likeable is one where she and Drummond bonds over the common passion for dinosaurs). The ex-mercenary soon leaves Auronzo, taking a bus for Venice in the nearest village while Wu explains to Pellegrino and Dodgson that Theo had urgent family matters to deal with in the UK.
Leaving San Francisco
Desiring to supervise the Dolomites Crisis more closely, Vuillier fly to Italy.
Nine containers
As evidence of Biosyn's possible connections to the Maltese black market has been discussed on the news, Dodgson knows it's a matter of time before Vuillier, the Italians or the Austrians send people in Auronzo and expose Biosyn's misdeeds.
We then follow Pellegrino's POV as she oversees the exit of nine large mysterious containers from the Citadel and their departure from the airstrip just outside the valley. One of her subordinates asks what's inside and she answers that she has no idea, with Dodgson only giving her a series of instructions. They watch the containers being flown abroad.
The following day, Pellegrino speak about it to Wu and other employees with anti-Dodgson sentiments like Drummond. She notices that Wu is uncomfortable as they talk about it and realize he must be hiding something. Ramsay, who just arrived from the US in preparation for a big corporate event in the Citadel, almost surprise their discussion. As they're not sure if they can trust him or not, they pretend it's nothing. Wu then phones Theo and asks him about his secret mission's progress.
London
In London, Theo finds the actress from the videos and initially posing as a reporter, filming her in an interview, he then ask her questions about the videos and after some hesitations, she concedes to give him answers and reveals among other things that the shooting occurred a few months ago in some local warehouse, that the director of those videos is none other than Colin Trevorrow (who, desperate for a job after the debacle of the Jurassic World film, accepted to participate to that project, oblivious that Biosyn was behind it since a dummy company took care of the production).
AISI
Vuillier arrives in Rome and meets with his agents, Nyamu and Viscontini in one of the AISI headquarters' conference rooms, where a map of Auronzo Valley and its surroundings has been laid. Kayla is also there and offscreen, our characters talk about the plan.
At the end of the meeting, everyone but Vuillier and Viscontini leave the room. Both have a secret conversation during which the Italian say that the Grey Guard's Mediterranean Company, supported by the Austrians and secretly by him (as he fears that Biosyn has informers within the Italian government), are deployed in one of the villages near Auronzo, and is supposed to act as a Plan B should the Claire-Owen-Dougal trio fail, by taking a secret path through an old mine and a mountain pass before breaking into Biosyn's citadel. The WDMC agents don't know that and when Vuillier ask why, Viscontini answers that it's better that way (should the agents be captured ant tortured, they won't tell Biosyn that there is a second team) and that the secret path isn't safer as one of his spy was killed by some creature after taking it and arriving in sight of the valley. He thinks that a small dozen of grey guards have better chances surviving the pass' guardian(s) than three civilian agents.
To the Dolomites
The next day, in the middle of the morning, Kayla is preparing her plane in some airstrip near Rome and the seized creature from the black market is loaded in the hold (I have no idea which species to choose). Equipped by the Italians, Claire, Owen and Dougal say farewell to Vuillier, Nyamu and Viscontini. The Frenchman tells Claire that it's time to unleash the She-wolf upon Dodgson but Claire correct him by saying "Not the She-wolf. The Dragon." (in this AU, she has a particular connection with the dragon-like Indominus), implying she'll get the mission done whatever it takes. He and the other two men wish them good luck and the trio of WDMC agents climb aboard the plane. They soon take off.
Biosyn's aerial defense
Kayla's plane arrives in sight of the mountains which delimit Biosyn's Sanctuary. Informed of their mission by Vuillier and Viscontini, one of the grey guards is watching the plane through his binoculars as it passes over the village where they are staying.
Kayla is soon contacted by the Citadel's control room as they detected the aircraft on their radars and they ask her why she's coming. The pilot answer that she collected an animal which might interest them (she told the WDMC agents and the Italians that Biosyn doesn't have this particular species in their Sanctuary) and ask to land on their airstrip. While the Biosyn employees discuss, the plane is about to enter Auronzo Valley by the east, as that part of the sanctuary is the furthest from most of the buildings (while the airstrip is in the northernmost parts of Biosyn's lands, beyond the mountains with the frozen dam lake) and thus where Claire, Owen and Dougal has the best chances of landing unnoticed. The trio of agents take their parachutes and prepare to jump, but at the same time, Dodgson, who heard that Kayla was arrested by the authorities just a few days ago, fears that her plane is a Trojan horse and decides to activate the valley's "aerial defense". On the screen of one of the room's monitors, we see a group of dots heading straight towards the plane. It's actually a group of pteranodons, from the same toothed variant as those who appeared in Jurassic Park 3 (there is even at least one black male identical to the scrapped one from Johnston's film), and they just collide with the plane, crashing against the cockpit and getting turned to shred by the rotors' blades, damaging the plane (the scene is partly inspired by a cutscene from the Ninth Mission of Paraworld's campaign). Owen wonder why those pteranodons behave in a suicidal manner. Suddenly, the pteranodons retreat and as their window is shrinking, the agents know they have to jump now (they've reached the middle of the valley and their trajectory deviated northwards, towards the mountain dam). Claire jumps first but as Owen is about to jump in his turn, the plane is attacked by a Quetzalcoatlus and the Raptor Whisperer sees another and a few pteranodons chasing her fiancée, whose parachute opened. Claire shakes the pterosaurs off by disappearing into the valley's dense forest. As they will be grabbed by the attacking pterosaurs as soon as they leave the aircraft, Owen, Dougal and Kayla stay inside it and brace for the crash. The plane crashes down at the surface of the frozen lake by the mountain dam in the northern part of the valley.
Back in Rome, Vuillier, Nyamu and Viscontini are worried as they heard the agents and the pterosaurs' screams (they had an open channel all that time with Kayla's plane). They hope the agents will survive this ordeal and activate the beacons they were given before their departure.
Note: The fate of the animal they took with them is still unclear for me. It really depends on the chosen species. If it's something large and potentially dangerous, Kayla would probably want to drop it in the valley in order to have a lighter plane and not deal with it after crashing. But if it's a creature about the size of a small dog for example, they could free it as they leave the wreckage.
Gigantoraptor
We then cut to Claire hanging in the trees but instead of a Therizinosaurus (which already appeared in TRQ. Moreover, Claire had a small arc with this species in that story), she is threatened by a Gigantoraptor. The scene plays out much like the Theri scene from Trevorrow's version, with Claire hiding in a pond etc.. Once the Gigantoraptor walks away, Claire gets out of the pond and sees the fumes from the plane's crash in the distance, behind the mountain dam.
The dam lake
Before it sinks in the lake, Owen, Dougal and Kayla leave her plane and step on the ice. Under it, they notice a large shadow and know they better move away from the lake. They notice a ladder by the dam but as they head towards it, a Quetzalcoatlus or a Pteranodon lands on their way. They step back, moving towards an opening on the lake's surface. Suddenly, a giant 9-meters long temnospondyl (based upon an unnamed and fragmentary genus from Lesotho) burst out the water, almost killing one of the characters. Ensue a scene where our three protagonists have to evade both the pterosaur and the amphibian. The pterosaur ends up being dragged underwater by the temnospondyl but other pterosaurs arrive and to escape them, our trio climbs on the dam and rushes to its elevator, going down in the valley. Down at the dam's base, they notice it's dilapidated and Kayla tell her two companions that Biosyn sell some of its power to the nearest villages.
Note: The main doubt I have about this scene is having a temnospondyl living in the icy water of a mountain lake. It might be too much of a stretch so if you think it's not realistic at all, it will be scrapped from the scene (and perhaps be replaced by a juvenile Baryonyx or something like this, an animal which could be also the one our characters brought with them in the plane.
Plan B
Since the agents lost their beacons during the pterosaurs' attack and the crash, they couldn't tell Rome that they were still alive. Vuillier and Viscontini fear the worst and send a message to Laurenzo Cesare.
Droppings
Meanwhile, Claire started walking towards the dam, hoping to find her companions on the way if they made it out alive from the crash. When she hears a racket in the woods, she hides and a Biosyn tyrannosaur arrives. But it's not on a hunting mode and instead, it just leaves some droppings on a log near Claire's hiding place. After the predator leaves, she approaches the log and smears her face with the droppings, remembering her "Walk in the Park" with Owen when they searched her nephews during the Fall of Jurassic World (the droppings hide her smell, dissuading the other animals to investigate her).
Argument
An argument bursts out between Owen, Dougal and Kayla while they're walking south. The first wants to find his fiancée, the second says that their mission is more important, and Kayla is mad at both men since she lost her plane (and livelihood) because of the WDMC's mission. And unsure about her intentions, the two men distrust her but she tries to reassure them by saying that Biosyn can fuck off since they are also responsible for destroying her plane.
However, the Sanctuary's denizens remind them that they better be united or else it will be the failure of their quest.
At some distance, in the middle of the fog, they see the recognizable silhouette of a sauropod, that of an Argentinosaurus (the species was seen in the distance and mentioned earlier in the story. Instead of Argentinosaurus, it could also be another large titanosaur). However, this herbivore has the particularity of having a symbiotic relation with some small carnivore species within Biosyn Sanctuary (I'm more thinking about a pterosaur or a flying/semi-arboreal theropod than a strictly ground-dwelling predator. For now, the baboon-sized Variraptor is my candidate), with the Argentinosaurus letting those carnivores eat its parasites and the insects flying around it while the carnivores will let out an alarm call shall a large predator approach. It could be illustrated in a scene where an Acrocanthosaurus (the one from the Drive-in scene) is spotted by the carnivores as it passes by. The Argentinosaurus turns to face the larger predator, adopt a defensive posture, and as the acro hasn't yet moved, the smaller carnivores take off from the sauropod and flies straight to the acro's head. Harassed by those creatures, the Acrocanthosaurus retreats. Thus, if those small carnivores (which we'll call the Argentinosaurus' suite) are brave enough to attack a megatheropod, our three protagonists know they're not safe and that they better move away.
The Sanctuary's true nature
While still heading north, Claire's path crosses that of a bull Shantungosaurus. She move out of his way and stay still. She and the audience recognize the animal as he was already in the JW rewrite and TRQ (in the first story, he gained some scars after a fight with a few Metriacanthosaurus), where he was a secondary "character" (and a threat in a few scenes). Both have a peaceful scene where they make eye contact but that quiet moment is shattered when a gunshot resounds in the forest and the hadrosaur flees, badly wounded. Claire hides and in the distance, she sees a hunter, accompanied by a couple of Biosyn security guards and another employee which she presume is some sort of supervisohunting guide. Watching how the hunter is dressed and how he behave in the wild, she knows he's not a professional hunter but just a rich hobbyist and then realizes the Sanctuary's true nature: It's a hunting reserve. As the Shantungosaurus escaped them, the hunter express his discontentment at the guide, which promise to find him another quarry. They leave and following the blood trail left by the hadrosaur, Claire finds him by a stream. His wounds are too grievous and he's too weak to lash out at Claire, who kneels by his head, trying to comfort him in his last moments, up until his last breath. Watching another of her former park's animals dying fills Claire with not only grief, but also anger. She change her plans and heads back south instead of continuing northward, following the hunting party's track.
Note: It doesn't necessarily have to be a Shantungosaurus in the role of the animal shot by the hunters, but it have to be a recognizable animal from the previous installments for emotional impact and Claire's development (another candidate could be the Therizinosaurus from TRQ)
She later finds another hunting party. One of its members, a Biosyn guard, pulls out an item she recognize: a raptor resonating chamber. The guard use it like a bird call and soon, an Achillobator, arrive, believing it heard one of its kind. The poor animal is shot by the hunters, who scream in satisfaction before taking a picture with their quarry. They then brings it to the Biosyn vehicle waiting nearby but before they leave (after having a short conversation during they mention that another team captured the rex and is bringing it the paddocks), Claire deliberately attract the attention of one of the guards, the same one which used the resonating chamber, and he say to his companions he won't be long. He move away from the road and deeper in the woods, he fall into Claire's ambush. She kill him, loot some of his equipment (including the resonating chamber), hide his body and leave. Worried for his colleague, the other guard with the hunters orders the guide to drive them back to the lodge, and search his friend. But he too is murdered by Claire, who takes a small metallic box on him. Activating the box, she realize it's a sonic weapon she has seen before, in the hands of InGen Security's elite troops during the fall of Isla Nublar (it's like a weaponized version of the box Dodgson and his companions have in Crichton's TLW). She turns it off, take it with her and follows the hunters vehicle's tracks on the road, towards the lodge.
However, Claire ignores she's being watched, and not by human eyes...
Over hill
Cesare and his men leave their accommodation and head for the frontiers of Biosyn's lands. Leaving their vehicles near a ruined fort, the grey guards start their trek while the sun is setting behind the mountains ahead of them.
A bed in the trees
As walking through the valley at night would be too dangerous, Owen, Dougal and Kayla decide to find a resting place and climb in a tree. From it, they have a panorama on a nearby lake and notice they are approximately halfway between the dam and the Citadel. At this moment, we also have peaceful scenes with the valley's denizens at dusk (Pelecanimimus fishing in the lake, herbivores drinking nearby, the same Spinosaurus from the report at the beginning peacefully sitting on the bank like an oversized duck...).
Theo's peace
In the evening, just a few hours before his flight to Venice, Theo also passes by his former home, which he left years ago before joining Ken Wheatley's mercenary company. His ex-wife still lives here and noticing that she started a new life with another man and seems happy, he walks away in peace, leaving behind him the last picture he had of himself and her (earlier in the story, Theo is seen looking at said picture).
The secret path
Back in Italy, the grey guards find the entrance of an old mine and enter it, taking the path that will allow them to pass under the limits of Biosyn's lands.
Mercenaries
Mercenary troops land in Biosyn's airstrip and their leader is brought to the Citadel. He has a discussion with Dodgson behind closed doors.
Foes... or allies?
A few hours after nightfall, Claire finally finds a large old chalet with typical Tyrolean architecture: The Hunting Lodge (it's implied that it was built way before Biosyn bought those lands, when the area was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, before WWI). Claire remarks it's surrounded by an invisible fence (identical to the one from Jurassic World Evolution 2's Biosyn DLC) which prevents the animals from getting too close. Aware that the lodge wouldn't be a shelter for her and that its occupants probably outnumber her, she turns away from it, continuing to wander in the woods. But just a few minutes later, she hears sound in the nearby bushes. Aware she might be hunted, she is ready to use the ultrasound box and fight for her life. A pack of Achillobators shows up, menacingly walking towards her. At the same time, it starts to rain.
Claire first thinks of using the box and running away while the predators would be bothered by the sound but she knows it will be useless in the long run as they could track her all across the Sanctuary. She then remembers the reports she read earlier in the story, and especially that of the 2001 incident on Sorna, where Alan Grant and his companions walked out alive and unharmed from a close encounter with raptors.
In dire straits, she makes up a desperate plan and carefully, she pulls out the resonating chamber she stole from the Biosyn guards. She uses it and due to their bad experience in the sanctuary with the resonating chambers' usual users, the raptors get agitated but their pack leader tells them to calm down as Claire doesn't seem to be a Biosyn guard or a hunter. The pack leader walks alone towards Claire and sniffs the dried blood on her hands and clothes, realizing it belongs to other humans. Nothing happens for a moment and then the pack leader lets out a bark. Behind Claire, two raptors move aside. Slowly walking backwards, watching carefully the raptors' moves, Claire exits the circle made by the surrounding predators and continues doing so until she's at a respectable distance. At the beginning, the raptors just watch her but as she's heading towards the Hunting Lodge, she hears them following her. However, she is aware that they would have already pounced on her if they wanted to eat her and knows that they're more intrigued. Meanwhile, the rain intensifies (there could also be a storm).
Claire reaches the invisible fence, crosses it, and searches for its power source. But as she's sabotaging it, the Lodge caretaker (a gnarly-looking old local man) spots her and frightened by her look, runs away towards the building. She is forced to catch him and, after a short struggle, kill him with her knife before he can raise the alarm. After showing some trouble due to killing a probable innocent, she resumes her sabotage and the fence is deactivated. The raptors cross it and see Claire entering the lodge. Near its entrance, she finds a sword hanging on the wall as a decorative element and noticing it's still sharp, she takes it along with its sheath and heads for the rooms. Behind her, the raptors open the door and silently enter in the lodge. In the hallway which leads to the rooms, Claire stays still when the raptors walk past her as they head to the rooms and grin as her audacious plan is working. Claire enters one of the rooms, raises her sword blade over a sleeping hunter and when the time comes, thrust it into his body. Meanwhile, the raptors open other doors and entering the rooms, they rush on the sleepers. Slaughter ensues and only those who locked up their doors have the time to wake up, grab a weapon and fight for their very survival. Some of the lodge's occupants offer some resistance in the lounge but there, Claire activates the sonic weapon she stole and an ear-piercing sharp sound comes from it. While the raptors back off behind her, their common enemies kneel and scream in pain and Claire (who put on some earplug) slashes their throats, deactivate the weapon, and let the raptors tear the hunters alive while she raids some items (stuff like snacks, water, a first-aid kit, a map...) and leave, disappearing in the woods.
A bit later, she finds a small cave whose entrance is high from the ground and rest in it, sleeping until mid-morning.
The mountain's pass
At the end of their night-long ascent, the grey guards arrive in a pass/cave where they found human bones, which they presume to be those of the AISI's spy Viscontini told them about, and the remains of a Biosyn drone. Soon after, they are attacked by the guardian animal(s) the corporation left there to kill any trespasser coming from that direction. (I haven't chosen any species yet). They manage to defeat it (or them) and dawn break out as they arrive at a vista point which overlooks the valley. The grey guards observe it, the eyes of Cesare stop on the Citadel for a moment, and they retreat back inside the mountain to rest a few hours before descending into the valley. They send a message to Vuillier and Viscontini, telling them that they're inside the Sanctuary.
Traces of a slaughter
During their early morning patrol, a security team discovers that a massacre occurred during the night in the Hunting Lodge. They find clues indicating that someone helped the raptors and participated in the killings. The control room check the Lodge CCTV footage and fear spreads like wildfire among the staff when they discover the culprit is a sinister-looking black-clad hooded woman. Seeing that one of the figure's hand is a prosthesis and that the other wear a silver ring with a red gem, they realize it's Claire and Dodgson pretty much start to crap his pants (partly because one of the hunters was a very wealthy and powerful foreign client whose disappearance won't go unnoticed). Since she made it out alive from the plane's crash, Dodgson fears that the other WDMC agents might have too. When asked about the slaughter itself, Dodgson orders his staff to cover it up for the moment, as he don't want to worry the board of directors who are set to arrive later that day for a big event he planned in the evening.
Theo's return
Theo returns to Auronzo and Wu, who just learned about Claire's presence in the valley, tells him that they must get Maisie out of the facility as soon as possible since disaster tends to follow Claire like a shadow.
Taking the gloves off
However, Maisie has meanwhile discovered that the videos were another lie, by recognizing one of the scientists from the video, who also work at the Citadel (and who didn't aged, even though the adult Charlotte's video was supposed to be taken fourteen years ago). Aware that the gentle method is no longer considerable, Dodgson decides to use the hard one and Doctor Lesser locks Maisie in a cell within her lab, to which Wu can't access. Lesser reveal that it wasn't Wu who told Dodgson that she was a clone but the spy he has among Lockwood Manor's employees, and that the only true part in the video was the one about the genetic disease: Charlotte did had it, just like her mother Elizabeth before that (she died in 1993 and it was because of her Lockwood and Hammond fell out), and had the car accident which took her life didn't happened, the disease would have killed her a few years later. As he wanted Maisie to have a long life, Benjamin Lockwood asked the scientists he hired (there is a whole subplot about what they became in TRQ) to cure it and they did find a way. As the scientists' notes were accidently destroyed, the solution is now within Maisie's body, and Dodgson wants it so he can put new drugs on the market.
Before it's too late, Wu and Theo, with Ramsay's help, start organizing Maisie's evasion. The geneticist mentions a secret trail from WWI in the northeastern mountains: It's their escape route. He then heads for his lab, planning something else.
Tracking Claire
Curious about Biosyn's movements around the Hunting Lodge, Owen, Dougal and Kayla investigate it after the departure of the security troops. They discover evidence of Claire's passage and Owen tries to follow her fiancée's tracks. Kayla and/or Dougal make comments about the slaughter of the hunters.
Bigelow's last chance
Isaac Gibbon gives Jessica Bigelow a new mission: Go to Auronzo and ensure the evacuation of Lewis Dodgson and Biosyn's most important research. The agent ask her boss why and he said that he just received news that Biosyn is compromised. He also precise that it's her last chance after the Malta fiasco. Bigelow leave her safe house in central Italy and goes north.
Shady preparations
Continuing south, Owen, Dougal and Kayla see mercenaries positioning some sort of moveable antenna on a ridge which overlooks the road which connects the Citadel to the valley's northern continue, as finding Claire and entering the Citadel is more urgent.
The gathering of the clouds
One of the control room's employees ask Dodgson to come. He shows him footage from the Biosyn lands's southern gate, near the employee village.
Before the gate, a group of Carabinieri stand, showing to the guards and the security cameras a search warrant: The government finally decided to act against Biosyn. But Dodgson refuses to open the gates for the Carabinieri and orders the mercenaries who arrived during the night to intimidate them. The Carabinieri move away from the gate, with their leader warning against the consequences of such an action. At a respectable distance from the gate, Vuillier, Viscontini and Nyamu watched the scene. Soon, other groups of Carabinieri are deployed along the other entrances to Biosyn's lands. The siege of Auronzo has started.
Hearing about the siege's situation, some employees leave their post and head for the metro (which connects the Citadel to the village. Another loop also connects the Citadel to the various facilities across the Sanctuary, including the seven towers and the dam), in order to go to the village and then hoping to be able to leave Biosyn's lands before things starts to get too ugly but Dodgson's has the metro's station locked and commands them to go back to their posts. Seeing their CEO starting to act like Hitler in his bunker, they are afraid.
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End of Act III.
See you tomorrow for Act IV

Since Season 1 of the show, Jim has been trying to search for answers. Like a rational human being trapped in a seemingly Silent Hill hellscape dimension.
Him and Jade spent a ton of time using their technical minds to create a communication tower. Which clearly lit a fire under others who maybe stopped trying for awhile like your Boyd's and the Priest who started looking for answers themselves. It all went to hell, but Jim got a response. Rationally he assumes it might be human. Sure it could be the monsters, it could be a lot of things. But the point that leads him to a completely rational thought of being watched like lab rats is the fact that they knew their names and exactly what his wife was doing.
Get to season 2 and NOBODY wants to talk about it. Tabitha as far as I remember has just kept all her info from Jim, and has been tunnel vision (no pun intended) about these dead children she keeps seeing and what went down in those caves/tunnels.
Jim tries to talk to Donna who is the only other person that actually heard it. But she at least told him that she didn't want him to stop, but basically she has her hands full with keeping bellies full, and now dealing with this sudden blight in the crops.
Boyd completely shut him down because he was tripping over his blood worms and the ballerina he keeps seeing. Then kills Smiley, and didn't even tell it to one of the few people like Jim or Jade who are as eager for answers themselves about it.
Jade seemingly doesn't care about this tower anymore and just wants to figure these symbols he keeps seeing. Tunnel vision like Tabitha.
So fast forward to Jim wandering around town lost in thought because nobody wants to just bring their minds together and ask some questions like a team. Skinhead Randall is just flying a kids drone around right over Jim's head.
So now Jim who has had no interaction with Randall since the collapsing house, didn't see any of his childish tantrums as far as I remember. Figures, "well I can thank him real quick and see if maybe I can borrow his help with that drone to get the only flying device in this hell and try to make contact with whatever I spoke to again".
Because I'm sure if the monsters wanted to chat, Jim would sit by the window and ask a hundred questions. But all they do is say the same things "you should come outside" "you should open the doowindow", but whatever or whoever was on that radio, sounded like someone in charge, or at least can see what is going on. He may not get them to let them go, but if he can get some kind of answer as to where they are, and what is going on. It's something to go off of as he searches for his next clue. Clue's that could be for everyone if they all just worked together!
Randall seeding the idea of a double-agent is obviously going to cause some friction, whether it's true or not. But it's also not a bad question to ask when there a plenty of oddly complacent residents who are making no effort to figure things out as far as Jim can tell since nobody wants to talk about things, and when you have a random voice on the radio tell you they know exactly who you are and what you're doing. It's not insane to think that either
A. There must be hidden camera's or something all around us. Microphones, something!
B. Someone here, who knows our name, and what we've been doing in the house, is relaying this back to whoever is pulling the strings in this Lovecraft nightmare.
So Jim has been completely fine, compared some characters who are succumbing to their hallucinations and trauma so badly they don't even want to talk to most people or any. Jade and Tabitha have basically been turning into Victor's, lost in thought, scribbling on paper, and talking to people less and less.
Randall sucks, but he's also got something Jim needs, and is literally the only person talking to him. It wasn't a drink at the bar and tell me about your thoughts on politics conversation. Randall probably isn't long for this show unless they want to make him a continuing thorn in the side of these characters.

Hey everyone, I’m currently a 22 year old looking to move out of the nest and hopefully find somewhere long term to live. I’ve settled on the Midwest/New England area and have highlighted some cities I’ve thought were maybe good fits for me based on a few loose criteria’s I’ve laid out for myself.
Criteria’s:
-> Somewhat climate change resilient.
-> Left or purple, politically leaning.
-> STEM opportunities, especially entry level.
-> Nature, especially hills and tall trees close by.
-> Cheap housing market, somewhere around $200,000 (I recognize this is probably not possible and that I’m just being wishful here).
Cities:
Duluth, MN. Minneapolis. Milwaukee. Pittsburgh. Philadelphia. Burlington, VT (Expensive and not many opportunities, but VT seems like such a nice state).
What do you guys think and if there are any cities I’m missing, please let me know so I can consider them.

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I know no one has a crystal ball to predict the future. Everyone around me keeps telling me I should wait to buy because house prices have fallen and will continue to fall as we see the sales for past months (as seen in the data the news link they send me).
I have a healthy deposit saved up from living with my parents and I do not have the rent vs mortgage payment debate where rent and mortgage payment are roughly the same. Before everyone was saying just to buy but now to wait it out. Please I would like to ask for other people’s advice or opinions.

I 21(F) have had driving lessons since I was 16. I am the "elder daughter" in both sides of my family and so I have had to be the "responsible one" since I was a kid. Everyone at my house just expects me to be the right person, do the right thing, be a fixer upper, provide advice, give emotional support, and arrange birthdays/events/gifts that make my family feel special (even though no one in my family has done anything on my except my younger sister, I love her, she has grown up to be an amazing teenager and I would like to say I had a part to play in her values growing up). Anyways fast forward to my grandfather's 75th birthday last month, I am the only one who can drive so well among my parents, aunt, and grandfather (my sister and cousin are minors). So naturally on my grandpa's birthday I drove to a restaurant we all love. Now the thing about this restaurant is that it has two parts, rooftop and indoors. I didn't want to go on the rooftop because it was ladies night and very loud music was playing. [Context: that very day on his birthday I took myself to the hospital because no one else would (despite ample family living around me), and the doctor told me that my wound (a few days ago my 3 y.o. cousin hit her head on my nose and I had headaches since) has turned into a ligament injury, but it is treatable by meds. Although I also had severe headache for days and when he checked me he was certain that I will have short term migraines and sinus headaches for 10 days. He gave me meds and I came home, got ready and drove me family to that restaurant.]
Back to the rooftop, my aunt insisted on going there. I told her and my dad that I don't want to but they brushed it off. The whole time there I was. hiding tears from my family. My head was hurting horribly. And my aunt decided to sit near the plants, she made me sit on the inside near the plants, cause she "doesn't like the smell of it" (WTF is wrong with her, why did she bring us to the plants then). Well in those 2 hours I took 2 painkillers and both my legs were covered in mosquito bites. By the time dinner ended I got up and left for downstairs. I met my parents there separately and told them that I was furious and this is unacceptable, they completely ignored me there.
(you can ignore the unbold text and move to next para also) They called me spoilt. This is after I have never literally asked them for anything, like my 12th birthday gift ask was a microwave because we didn't have anything to heat pre-made food and my mom had to use the stove, she was sick at the time so we had a lot of pre-made food. I got a camera for my 16th which I still use, I am a professional photographer now, but between 12 - 16 the only birthday gift I got was clothes on sale, and I never complained. That is what I have always gotten. My birthday falls on independence day sale time which is the biggest sale of the year and I stock up my clothes then. My birthdays have always led my family to fight with me and no one gives a shit other than my sister, but when she was a kid, she didn't like me getting attention so she would put menace on my birthday. I have had some bad birthday experience. My aunt used to make me cry and force makeup on me on my birthdays so that I look more girly, she started this when I was 13. So I was pissed that the people who ruined my birthdays just tried to ruin my day on someone else's birthday while I am sick.
Well when we drove back in the night, hahahahhaha, I was pissed. I stepped into the car with my parents, aunt and grandfather, and sister + cousin. It is a 7 seater for reference. And I started driving at 95 - 100 km/hr the second we exited the parking lot. The road after that restaurant for 5 kms has a bad short width but long height speed-breaker after every 500 meters. At each speed breaker I would purposefully not slow down and make sure to have a smirk on my face so that my dad can see. Before the right turn on the final speed-breaker I took the car so fast that everyone's head (except mine and dad's we were sitting up front) hit the car roof. It was not a big thing, thankfully nothing happened, but what I did was under my control. Although everyone was scared, especially my cousin sister, that was the only thing that made me feel bad. Okay, following up, but then after that right turn I slowed down my car to 20 km/hr speed which was annoying AF. Everyone behind thought that my dad got angry that's why I slowed, little did they know in that moment for the first time roles were reversed because my dad was scared, angry yes, but scared too. I saw it in his eyes. I love my dad, but I know my dad loves power. He never hit my mom but he has hit me a lot till I was 16 and a couple times even after.
That day I lectured in how I am a grownup, I earn, he even took money from me recently to give to some of his employees on short notice (which he returned); I told him that I have been grown enough to handle a lot of things since I was a kid and now at 21, I should be heard for myself too. This past year I have built a lot of courage and confronted my parents about a lot of shit they did.
Anyways my mom and aunt think I am an asshole and what I did is a proof that my driving rights should be taken away. Although they didn't do shit cause their emergency driver would go away if I stopped driving. But back to my question, AITA?
PS: I usually just read on reddit, but I feel like I wanted to post this.
#aita

I 21(F) have had driving lessons since I was 16. I am the "elder daughter" in both sides of my family and so I have had to be the "responsible one" since I was a kid. Everyone at my house just expects me to be the right person, do the right thing, be a fixer upper, provide advice, give emotional support, and arrange birthdays/events/gifts that make my family feel special (even though no one in my family has done anything on my except my younger sister, I love her, she has grown up to be an amazing teenager and I would like to say I had a part to play in her values growing up). Anyways fast forward to my grandfather's 75th birthday last month, I am the only one who can drive so well among my parents, aunt, and grandfather. So naturally on my grandpa's birthday I drove to a restaurant we all love. Now the thing about this restaurant is that it has two parts, rooftop and indoors. I didn't want to go on the rooftop because it was ladies night and very loud music was playing. [Context: that very day on his birthday I took myself to the hospital because no one else would (despite ample family living around me), and the doctor told me that my wound (a few days ago my 3 y.o. cousin hit her head on my nose and I had headaches since) has turned into a ligament injury, but it is treatable by meds. Although I also had severe headache for days and when he checked me he was certain that I will have short term migraines and sinus headaches for 10 days. He gave me meds and I came home, got ready and drove me family to that restaurant.]
Back to the rooftop, my aunt insisted on going there. I told her and my dad that I don't want to but they brushed it off. The whole time there I was. hiding tears from my family. My head was hurting horribly. And my aunt decided to sit near the plants, she made me sit on the inside near the plants, cause she "doesn't like the smell of it" (WTF is wrong with her, why did she bring us to the plants then). Well in those 2 hours I took 2 painkillers and both my legs were covered in mosquito bites. By the time dinner ended I got up and left for downstairs. I met my parents there separately and told them that I was furious and this is unacceptable, they completely ignored me there.
(you can ignore the unbold text and move to next para also) They called me spoilt. This is after I have never literally asked them for anything, like my 12th birthday gift ask was a microwave because we didn't have anything to heat pre-made food and my mom had to use the stove, she was sick at the time so we had a lot of pre-made food. I got a camera for my 16th which I still use, I am a professional photographer now, but between 12 - 16 the only birthday gift I got was clothes on sale, and I never complained. That is what I have always gotten. My birthday falls on independence day sale time which is the biggest sale of the year and I stock up my clothes then. My birthdays have always led my family to fight with me and no one gives a shit other than my sister, but when she was a kid, she didn't like me getting attention so she would put menace on my birthday. I have had some bad birthday experience. My aunt used to make me cry and force makeup on me on my birthdays so that I look more girly, she started this when I was 13. So I was pissed that the people who ruined my birthdays just tried to ruin my day on someone else's birthday while I am sick.
Well when we drove back in the night, hahahahhaha, I was pissed. I stepped into the car with my parents, aunt and grandfather, and sister + cousin. It is a 7 seater for reference. And I started driving at 95 - 100 km/hr the second we exited the parking lot. The road after that restaurant for 5 kms has a bad short width but long height speed-breaker after every 500 meters. At each speed breaker I would purposefully not slow down and make sure to have a smirk on my face so that my dad can see. Before the right turn on the final speed-breaker I took the car so fast that everyone's head (except mine and dad's we were sitting up front) hit the car roof. It was not a big thing, thankfully nothing happened, but what I did was under my control. Although everyone was scared, especially my cousin sister, that was the only thing that made me feel bad. Okay, following up, but then after that right turn I slowed down my car to 20 km/hr speed which was annoying AF. Everyone behind thought that my dad got angry that's why I slowed, little did they know in that moment for the first time roles were reversed because my dad was scared, angry yes, but scared too. I saw it in his eyes. I love my dad, but I know my dad loves power. He never hit my mom but he has hit me a lot till I was 16 and a couple times even after.
That day I lectured in how I am a grownup, I earn, he even took money from me recently to give to some of his employees on short notice (which he returned); I told him that I have been grown enough to handle a lot of things since I was a kid and now at 21, I should be heard for myself too. This past year I have built a lot of courage and confronted my parents about a lot of shit they did. Anyways my mom and aunt think I am an asshole and what I did is a proof that my driving rights should be taken away. Although they didn't do shit cause their emergency driver would go away if I stopped driving. But back to my question, AITA? PS: I usually just read on reddit, but I feel like I wanted to post this. #aita