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TLDR: Suggestions for good educational video games, old and new, for twin 3.5 year-old boys who already know how to read and write. Low stimulation preferable. So I have twin sons who are just over 3.5 years old. Both already know how to read and write, and my sister regularly jokes that their handwriting is already better than hers. They know phonics and shapes, are counting to 150, and are reading 1st-grade books. We're also already getting some basic math in, too. We have not given them unfettered access to tablets (to them, a "tablet" is their little drawing doodle tablets). We have one, but it is brought out VERY sparingly (like maybe once a month), and the only thing on it is a drawing app and ABC Mouse, which they love. But that being said, my husband and I are big gamers, and I am big into retro gaming and have a whole CD collection of the old educational games my parents bought for ME in the 90s. I wanted to make a list of educational games that would be good for 3-6-year-olds for me to get them. Platforms we have access to include: Android phones/tablets, PCs, Nintendo Switch, XBox Series X, Steam Deck, and Nintendo 2DS XL. Here is a list of PC Games I've already begun putting together, but most of them are late-90s to early 2000s games; * Disney Animated Storybooks (Winnie the Pooh, 101 Dalmations, Lion King, Pocahontas, Hercules, etc) * Disney Activity Centers (Toy Story, Lion King, etc) * Math Blaster Jr * Reading Blaster Jr * JumpStart (Pre-K to 1st-Grade) * Blue's Clues games * Clifford Games * Magic School Bus Games * Arthur Games * Spy Fox * Pajama Sam * Putt-Putt * Freddi Fish * Carmen Sandiego Apps: * ABC Mouse * PBS Kids * DuoLingo ABC * LingoKids * Vooks Anything else you remember loving that I could add to the list?

TLDR: Suggestions for good educational video games, old and new, for twin 3.5 year-old boys who already know how to read and write. Low stimulation preferable. So I have twin sons who are just over 3.5 years old. Both already know how to read and write, and my sister regularly jokes that their handwriting is already better than hers. They know phonics and shapes, are counting to 150, and are reading 1st-grade books. We're also already getting some basic math in, too. We have not given them unfettered access to tablets (to them, a "tablet" is their little drawing doodle tablets). We have one, but it is brought out VERY sparingly (like maybe once a month), and the only thing on it is a drawing app and ABC Mouse, which they love. But that being said, my husband and I are big gamers, and I am big into retro gaming and have a whole CD collection of the old educational games my parents bought for ME in the 90s. I wanted to make a list of educational games that would be good for 3-6-year-olds for me to get them. Platforms we have access to include: Android phones/tablets, PCs, Nintendo Switch, XBox Series X, Steam Deck, and Nintendo 2DS XL. Here is a list of PC Games I've already begun putting together, but most of them are late-90s to early 2000s games; * Disney Animated Storybooks (Winnie the Pooh, 101 Dalmations, Lion King, Pocahontas, Hercules, etc) * Disney Activity Centers (Toy Story, Lion King, etc) * Math Blaster Jr * Reading Blaster Jr * JumpStart (Pre-K to 1st-Grade) * Blue's Clues games * Clifford Games * Magic School Bus Games * Arthur Games * Spy Fox * Pajama Sam * Putt-Putt * Freddi Fish * Carmen Sandiego Apps: * ABC Mouse * PBS Kids * DuoLingo ABC * LingoKids * Vooks Anything else you remember loving that I could add to the list?

TLDR: Suggestions for good educational video games, old and new, for twin 3.5 year-old boys who already know how to read and write. Low stimulation preferable. So I have twin sons who are just over 3.5 years old. Both already know how to read and write, and my sister regularly jokes that their handwriting is already better than hers. They know phonics and shapes, are counting to 150, and are reading 1st-grade books. We're also already getting some basic math in, too. We have not given them unfettered access to tablets (to them, a "tablet" is their little drawing doodle tablets). We have one, but it is brought out VERY sparingly (like maybe once a month), and the only thing on it is a drawing app and ABC Mouse, which they love. But that being said, my husband and I are big gamers, and I am big into retro gaming and have a whole CD collection of the old educational games my parents bought for ME in the 90s. I wanted to make a list of educational games that would be good for 3-6-year-olds for me to get them. Platforms we have access to include: Android phones/tablets, PCs, Nintendo Switch, XBox Series X, Steam Deck, and Nintendo 2DS XL. Here is a list of PC Games I've already begun putting together, but most of them are late-90s to early 2000s games; * Disney Animated Storybooks (Winnie the Pooh, 101 Dalmations, Lion King, Pocahontas, Hercules, etc) * Disney Activity Centers (Toy Story, Lion King, etc) * Math Blaster Jr * Reading Blaster Jr * JumpStart (Pre-K to 1st-Grade) * Blue's Clues games * Clifford Games * Magic School Bus Games * Arthur Games * Spy Fox * Pajama Sam * Putt-Putt * Freddi Fish * Carmen Sandiego Apps: * ABC Mouse * PBS Kids * DuoLingo ABC * LingoKids * Vooks Anything else you remember loving that I could add to the list?

Luciy (essence name – Lark looking for well) is an outcast everywhere. Too strange for the city dwellers, too ordinary for the inhabitants of the magical desert. A Satanist, a hired killer and the son of a witch. He doesn't look for adventures, because they are looking for him. Unicorn hates the city he moved to, but can't return home, for a reason known only to him. He tries to be a simple and unremarkable guy, but in reality he speaks almost exclusively in riddles. I loove Luciy and lore around him, will use him in an rp soon probably :p

Good evening apes, I know emotions are running wild and understandably so. Mine are as well. I thought it would be a good time to take a step back, support my company, and remain zen. I know, it’s been a long 84 years boss. But it’s just the beginning. Picked up some Deadpool Topps cards at my local gme. Nothing pleasures my smooth brain more than owning stock in my favorite company, and going to purchase product from them. Some cool hits on the second image. 🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌

​ Empty Chairs is a simple idea. Book a table, leave a few empty chairs and make it easy for anyone to join for a chat (the host will be wearing something orange so you can easily spot them) Empty Chairs isn't a club or a therapy session, its just a friendly table where you can sit down, feel welcomed and chat. It exists to create connection. There is no need to sign up and no pressure to spend money or stay longer than you want to. If you need somewhere to go, or just a reason to leave the house, there are 2 Australian Empty Chairs waiting for you this week. If you'd like to host your own Empty Chairs, head to emptychairs.org.uk and fill out the hosting form. You can also find full venue addresses and future meet ups on our website. Mich 🧡 \#emptychairs \#loneliness  \#mentalhealth

I’m selling my complete iQuanta CAT 2025 book set (Verbal Ability, Reading Comprehension, LRDI, Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Modern Math, Theory of Numbers, etc.) These books genuinely helped me a lot during my CAT preparation and played a role in helping me secure admission to a good college. Since I’ve moved on to the next chapter of life, I’d rather pass them on to someone preparing for CAT 2026 instead of letting them collect dust. ✅ Complete set ✅ Hardly used / well maintained ✅ Great for CAT 2026 aspirants ✅ Can be delivered anywhere in India 💰 Price: ₹5,000 (Negotiable) If you’re serious about CAT prep and want quality material at a much lower price than buying new.. Kindly DM

I’m wrapping up Day 3 in Shanghai, and the energy has shifted from "affordable alternatives" to straight-up "engineering madness." We are seeing brands move past just mimicking Western designs and instead experimenting with some of the most aggressive integration I’ve ever seen. **The Highlights:** * **The "Fork-Bar" Revolution:** We’ve officially reached peak integration. **VOOK** debuted a concept where the handlebars and fork are one single, continuous piece of carbon. It’s a mechanic's nightmare with zero adjustability, but the claimed stiffness-to-weight ratio is mental. * **Pogačar's "Marginal Gains" Tech:** I tracked down the **Colnago Y1RS** used by Team UAE. It features a Bikone bottom bracket shell with hidden notches to smooth out airflow—plus, he’s running a massive 56T carbon chainring. * **The Sub-1kg Club is the New Standard:** The race to the bottom (weight-wise) is over. Multiple brands are showcasing their sub-1000g 50mm deep wheelsets. * **World Record Gearing?** I spotted a 100T chainring at one booth. I'm not sure if it’s for a land-speed record attempt or just to prove they could do it, but it’s the biggest piece of machined aluminum I’ve ever seen on a bike. One day left to go, watch the coverage below: * Day 3: [https://youtu.be/D7AreR7KNkE](https://youtu.be/D7AreR7KNkE) * Day 2: [https://youtu.be/LExx8gpwvfc](https://youtu.be/LExx8gpwvfc) * Day 1: [https://youtu.be/zMfhPsuMsfo](https://youtu.be/zMfhPsuMsfo) https://preview.redd.it/xpwg0wa4zszg1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=b89c6e898bb88f7e79772ff9c7b4ef8386269d42

Update: This list is actually my wish list 😭😭 Out of 300++ here, I only have about 200+ so I have 100 more to go to complete it 🥹 Hi ! I’m a lightstick collector and I’m sharing a visual list I made to keep track of my collection 😄 Few are not entirely kpop. The top part is group’s lightstick and bottom will be soloist. I mostly categorized by debut year and then alphabetically in each year (there might some exceptions here and there). The list is updated as of April 2026. Please let me know if I missed any 😍

Completed book 4 of WOT. Thankfully i don't have any complaints. I loved this vook the most. It was full of action or interesting plot or something happening. I just have a few questions. 1) Will Elayne letters will be revealed later or is it just thrown to readers imagination? 2) What Perin had done to Falcon when she had slapped him multiple times in Way gate. It was shown that he snapped and then... the scene just shifted... Was it revealed later? please tell me what had he done? Had he kissed her? Or threw her? or tacked her? 3) What was actually plan of Rand? He was becoming mysterious so i thought it would be revealed later. But i think i didn't understand what happened exactly. Like, Rand had suspected that forsaken ones were following him, but i don't understand what Trap he had layed. What was he planning to do and what he is playing to do now? 4) It's plot related question, which may be answered with RAFO, but i still ask... Is lanfear wants Rand to convert AND LOVE him, or just Love him. What i understand now that is that she is trying to keep Rand safe from other forsaken ones till he learn to channel. But will she change sides or what I don't understand. 5)What did, exactly Rand did to Elayne? like the girls group was behaving as of he had slapped or rejected her, but neither Rand nor I understand what was his crime. What i understand is that he didn't asked her to stop ans stay with him.. did he said something harsh along the line? (like how fool blacksmith had trated the falcon) And at last thank you for reading. Edit: And , i forgot to write earlier, but as much as i dislike Egewenes character (please remember dislike doesn't mean i hate her), it still bothers me that Egewene has 50 percent chance that she'll die, from Min's vision.

Un allot of show vooks ane that I seen ans deeplyag anyslied and emapised and conect the dots and shit and token mentalt notes with . Amrd abput the shadow work sgit I admire. I ntoced that the lifht we and allor of uss that we try to chase and fail to get to or even i call rhat "lumos" is not found by want or desiring it . And doesnt play wity the cards of nicest smartest or evnw that most ope pres or that shit and even qith the card of good or evil anit , hero villain basically all that shit we lavel and name nd list nad shit . = not achieving or fallo18ng or even masterfestijg at all any or a single drop fo our grey or pur own lumos . Intsead we get i call "holly" the false kind of light that is produce by both likw lumos wuth our sub + conscpus toghter sense they i leanred and. Ntoced contral both sides when all is one But the truth is whay cral jung when he and some discovered in the realm of dark psycholhy = the shadow sidw of mankind. Amd as the japses2e discovered the ying and yang nad tou. This is the same thing . = without the darkness and intgergatwing with that and accppetinf it and bot letting it boecke rampaged our of contral. Or harm yourself and others and hinder but help ypu. Then the yang = the lumos side of uas and entity within all of us will return and self emapthy and also dark disclpine = the stongerest levwl i leanred of spturalt mentalt emtonal lgocgilc, psychilty, and all will be gained with the connection to the shadow I call the "darma" side of us . And sense the darma and the lumos are the ones that destory and stop what the holly = our own pride , ego, false expectations goals, pains, memros7es, paths , deceptions for ourselfs, and other shit liek that . Then that siad darma with any kind of shadow work is what we I disvored we mist work on to conect and gains also the light to make thigns grey un shit and becoem a better self and accpet the species growing up we grown away from ourselfs by accident casue of fear parania, anxiety, wanitng to fit in , and shit. So without the darkness and sytep8ng into it . Then thwre will never be genuine and relaisexrixness that dakrness has for us that gives ups bakc our light side in our subs+ consulsc .

I think that the 2 Alice books that Jacob sent to Alice may be the actual books that have been passed down through the Landry family. Alice notices that the 2 sets og books are the same edition. Is Alice the one who is responsible for bringing these vooks into the Landry family? For reference, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was first published in 1865 (with a widely available reprint dated 1866). The sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, was published shortly after in 1871 (dated 1872). Both were written by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by John Trnniel. So, depending on thr edition, the vooks could have been introduced anytime after 1871. I don't think we know who was the original Landry owner of the books. We know that Del passed them down to Alice from Kat. When Alice compares the books, she sees that the page with a illustration of a key that has Jacobs note to her is missing. She may end up seeing where the pen has made marks into the following page. Maybe this tells Alice that she needs to take the books to through the pond to a Landry in the past. Having the 📚 books with her will determine where the pond takes her.

I’m a PhD student in clinical psychology in France. Last year I spent around 40 days just transcribing interviews by hand. One hour of audio would take me 6 to 8 hours to clean properly. I looked into solutions. Some colleagues use transcription pedals like [that one](https://www.amazon.fr/Transcription-OM-SYSTEM-dactylographe-Logiciel/dp/B0D49VHH1L), but I couldn’t justify spending \~200€ (and I also find it a bit odd that this still exists!). I also looked up a few AI transcription platforms, but most of them don’t clearly guarantee confidentiality. And anyway even with good tools, I still need to review and correct transcripts so it's not only about the accuracy but the refinement tooling too. Our university let use use a local installation of whisper but it's not really good. This year I’m using [humanlogs.app](http://humanlogs.app) (built by my husband) and it gives me a very solid first draft and lets me edit everything in just the time listening back the audio. It comes after trying out [goodtape.io](http://goodtape.io) (not bad, but a bit more expensive and the editor wasn't as good as humanlogs) and [vook.ai](http://vook.ai) (I think that one is only in french, no editor after transcription) What do you use on your side?

So its been a couple of months now that I iterated on a product in the current startup I am working in. The product is for an australian founder of his vision to automatically generate strategies and build SOA docs, etc. The above being a context, I"m a software dev or now called an AI dev, having close to 3 years of experience. I"ve worked and interned in startups since i had a thrill of making money you know. I'd be very honest, for each individual i guess at some point money is a driving force. Coming to the point, you see i've validated some ideas in these few months but i dont seem to go anywhere from there, i mean how do i even get my ideas to the market. How do i acrually connect to a genuine founder who also has some ideas maybe, or a business person or anyone who'd actually drive business to generate money. I had this idea of a travelling agent and by that i dont mean another chatbot giving an itienerary tbough that was the first thing i vuilt but who"d pay for that and now MMT, Ixigo eveeyone has that layer of the chatbot. What I wanted to try now was am agentic end to end platform scoped to short trips. Say Bangalore to Munnar, 3 days, 6k budget. The user would type in we"d have a convo of his prefered arrival, departure, how many of them , etc. and boom, he'd get an itienerary, get all the buses option within his criteria, hotels and we'd backtrack to the budget the user gave. The user woukd select from that sample set , pay and thats it, done. Within a click everything happened. The user has to take no tention of vooking the bus, hoyel, itienerary etc. Now how woukd we charge, business, etc was sonething i kept for later. I just eanted to ideate if its even posisble so later we coukd even generalize. But the indian travel ecosystem felt more of a hassle of compliance than actual innovations. No apis for bus travel, the selevtive ones requirw a ton of docs just for an api etc. So i left that idea for now. Now i"m looking forward to ideate. i have 2-3 things in mind which i want to validate. 1. Agentic Insurance Buyouts. : So right now, the insyrance market is increasing but people in india sfill dont have insurance to their name. And the insuranxe is still the manual labor task. its the same 20-30 companies selling same insurance and its the ssme call eveeytime with followups. How woukd it sound where a user comes to our platform, we take them through a conversational journey so they dont feel like filling up random big forms, after the agent has finished vonversing it goes tajes all of rhis data into cinsideration runs a simulation and then checks with all the lesding insurers. Once that is done, we recommend the user and display othee insuranve too. we keep clarity on why and tradeoffs. the user chooses we directly send the notif to that insurance agent with all the data to close the deal. This coukd be looked from the lens of the sales team too or from new insurance companies to have their clients not wait for hours. they integrate and the user leave the apo buying the insuranvce. 2. Agentic Systems for - Tier 2/3 colleges : Havent thought a unified product but yhe target user would be colleges who'd use our product tobstreamline a lot of things makung the work of a student and a teacher easier. 3. Government Work Agent: You know like taking a niche into it just like how cleartax did but making it automated to certain extents. so with just a conversation or a few click and document submit, for the user the work"s done. example apply for driving license. user clicks on this card we get the relevant details and voila done. applied. I mean these are just example, could be stupid or vague too. 4. Finally, a consulting business by that i mean buikfing Ai Products for companies startups cafes etc in every state and esrning money from the clients. This is a very tested conxept in India but how to position pitching clients actually closing a deal is where it all gets clumsy. so this requires someone who is equally involved anr inter3sted. Get clients, take a percentage or hire and tell them the same. so on and so forth. Plus India being such a wide nation there"s scope in every state. So what do you"ll feel folks ? also if genuine founders who sre ideating buikfing, looking for someobne to build an agency with, can get vlients, etc. Dm. connect. I hope This year doesnt hit me seeimg people makinh money and kiving ytheir life with risk and reyurns.

I think if your toddler sees the time out, that is an action that would prevent her from laughing when told no. My son also copied older kids when he went to preschool and that is something he brought back home. So I understand it's difficult because that's not how you're raising your kid. I think you're doing what you can by putting her on time out and taking toys away. If she gets mad just let her get mad and don't give in. For the food, maybe if you tell her to get bigger and stronger you're going to have to eat solid foods that may work. You could also present a "reward" everytime she eats solid foods, like a sticker. This can also be applied to potty training. The tablet is tricky. You could put a timer and tell her she can use it but only present books that can be read aloud on YouTube rather than a show. I let my son watch "vooks" when he is tired of playing or doesn't want to read any books, sparingly though. Another one, you can download games, perhaps something with learning alphabets or numbers or matching. Regardless, you still need to talk to the parents and figure out their parenting styles, and present boundaries of what you expect when she's at your home. If they were gonna go to a preschool eventually, there's rules, so why not start now.

A million weeks have gone by and we are left with Walsh’s wildcard team and about 12 hours until the GW32 deadline. No editing, no music, no chapters, and no nice audio this time — Alon is out of town and we had to get this out quickly. * Apple: [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gw32-wildcard-walshs-wildcard/id1024068765?i=1000760602727](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gw32-wildcard-walshs-wildcard/id1024068765?i=1000760602727) * Spotify: [https://open.spotify.com/episode/5kDGuURSRepVOokOwd3GR8?si=VJ40YQKrQ1er5OnZIquRtw](https://open.spotify.com/episode/5kDGuURSRepVOokOwd3GR8?si=VJ40YQKrQ1er5OnZIquRtw) * Youtube: [https://youtu.be/AwHKuieSO9c](https://youtu.be/AwHKuieSO9c)

On YouTube the 'Vooks' videos are different books read by a lady with a soft spoken voice and are usually calming for my kids. Maybe you can also try offering two choices of 5 more minutes of TV or 10 more minutes, or whatever times work for you, and keep giving reminders ever 3 to 5 minutes that he has x amount of minutes left. Maybe also try melatonin occasionally? These are tricks that work with my twin girls.

If you start as an apprentice/helper, it's 30 months to get permission to test for both A&P. You'll wanna keep logbooks of all your hours/work performed. The FSDO may or may not want to see it along with a letter of recommendation from your work. Standard AMT school program is 18 months, while expedited varies. If you go to community college, it should not cost more than 15k for course, vooks, etc. Some even include testing and others don't.

Its pretty new, I think. And the stories are improving. They are shorter, usually 6 chapters, but the chapters are longer and there are some sequels. Some of the chapters seem very long. I actually kind of like this over some apps and having to play 3 or 4 seasons to finish the story. I think they still have room to grow and some characters have attraction, when it really isnt shown why or the build up. So the romance is a little superficial and they could use some work on the sex scenes - they seem pretty short, though again i think it may be improving some. The cgs so far (in my experience) have the MC look like the character on the cover (hair and race), so if you want to match your cg, your mc needs to match the cover. I did buy vip for a year for $60 if I recall correctly. Id recommend this if you want to read many. I never need to buy diamonds with daily logins and I probably play 5ish chapters a week with full diamond runs. The outfit shown in the cgs is also the vip only outfit, which is one reason I bought vip. Im not sure on the ratio but there are female love interests in some of the books but not all. And I think some push a male love interest or partner even if you pursue the female. The stories seem to vary quite a bit in plot, so that's kind of nice. I dont think to matters if you get the "goal" for a certain stat, as ive still had good endings without reaching them. No diamond rush but there aren't that many stories that you shouldn't be able to unlock the choices just logging in daily and collect the rewards for reading, as long as you space out playing. It seems like you can take all the diamond options without ruining a relationship with someone else. Some characters will show jealousy but no one breaks up with you. Bound by darkness is new and shows characters from other books (I know you can romance at least one in another book, hes not a love interest in this book but it was nice to see some characters again). It has a female love interest and 2 male so far. But again it has you having a prior male love interest (you dont have to repursue him in this vook), even if you only want to romance the female love interest. Unsteel my heart has a male love interest (not sure if this character can be a girl) that you are in an established relationship at the beginning. And then a second love interest that you can choose as male or female. I liked foulborn well enough but only male love interests. I like girl in a boy band and lying lips but both seem to only have male love interests too. I believe the undeliable can be a male or female love interest and is a one love interest story. My scandalous heiress has a female love interest but you do kiss a male at the beginning and their is a storyline involving a male love interests, which you can turn down/not take his diamond scenes. New releases may have bugs but they do seem to fix fairly quickly. Im not sure how quickly it updates but it seems every week or two, they update a few and start a new story or two. It does seem like a newer app, so they probably will have some growing pains. You could also try senses (no events but the path you choose really changes your character/story, they are now integrating cgs matching their skin tone), another worlds stories (they have diamond rush and tea party once a month), Your Storyland (has diamond rush once a month, next is the 24th, but their translations can be a bit rough), and Lagerta (they have one DR event a month anf their newer stories are really good). Im not sure on senses (I think it is male love interests only but not sure, but lagerta and another world only have male love interests. Another world had female love interests but recently removed them because of Russian law I believe, hopefully they come back. Your storyland does have female love interests in most books. And then seven worlds has a dr but choices dont save, they have female love interets though. I can't remember if league of dreamers has female love interests, but they give one book free play once a month, where all choices save and are free. And then choices, which is american and has much more lgbt things than any of the other apps.

I like both cast iron and stainless steel. Cast iron is a better conductor of heat than stainless steel. So heat spreads out more evenly. Cast iron : 80 W/mK Stainless : 14 W/mK But my electric bill doesn't really reflect which kind of pan I vook in. The higher heaefficiency of cast iron is trivial. It also has a lower coefficient of friction. Cast iron : 0.25 Stainless : 0.40 With a bit of oil, these are cut in half. But I cook with both. My stainless pots, I treated them to a burnishing paste to even out their surface. It also makes them stick resistant. When my big skillet got rusty because I left it in the rain after feeding my dogs in it, I gave it the same treatment. I think it was a fine grade of grinding compound (1200 maybe?). Cook with whatever brings you joy.

Ah, *My Time at Sandrock,* the “bigger and better” sequel to *Portia* that promised epic workshops, heartfelt romance, and wholesome desert vibes. What we got on November 2, 2023 was peak Pathea: an unfinished, buggy mess straight out of Early Access hell, where the cozy aesthetic had to work overtime to distract from the fact that the game could barely run without face-planting every five minutes. Nothing says “we nailed the 1.0 launch” like performance so bad it turned your Switch into a expensive paperweight and had PC players restarting more often than their workshop machines. # The Launch “Masterpiece” (Lol) Even after years in Early Access, the full release dropped in what reviewers flat-out called a **broken and early state**. On PC it was a carnival of fundamental bugs: quests that ghosted you, save corruption roulette, NPCs doing their best impression of broken robots, and UI that locked up like it owed Pathea money. Consoles? Absolute clown show, especially the Nintendo Switch version, which launched as a stuttering, pop-in nightmare with frame drops, endless loading screens, floating characters, and crashes so regular you could set your watch by them. Reviewers and players were not kind: “buggy and unfinished” became the official tagline, with console ports taking the biggest L. Pathea immediately dove into hotfix mode (pumping out hundreds of fixes like it was a full-time job), but the launch felt less like a finished product and more like “here’s the game, you beta test it while we figure out how to make it stop imploding.” # Fast-Forward to 2026: Still a Buggy, Unfinished Mess And here’s the kicker: as recent reviews, Steam discussions, and Reddit posts continue to indicate, *My Time at Sandrock* **still feels like an unfinished buggy mess** years later. Switch players in 2025 were still reporting memory leaks that demand a full restart every few days just to avoid crashing, lingering performance hiccups, visual glitches, and the general vibe that Pathea never quite finished polishing the turd. PC isn’t immune either, with occasional oddities and the sense that “quantity over quality” won the day again. Pathea keeps churning out updates and DLC like it’s progress, but the core stability? Still playing hide-and-seek. # This Is Textbook Pathea Pattern, Baby Right after the Red Shell spyware sneak-attack and the unpaid voice actors “miscommunication” circus, *Sandrock* delivered the technical faceplant we all saw coming. Dream big on Kickstarter and Early Access hype, ship the messy version anyway, slap on some cozy storytelling, and hope the subreddit’s goodwill (and endless hotfixes) papers over the cracks. Radio silence until the reviews torch you? Check. Promising a polished sequel then delivering a glitchy grindfest? Double check. The cozy exterior keeps the loyal fans grinding through the desert, but for everyone else it’s the same old “ship first, accountability later” energy. # Sources (because actual finished games and transparency would be nice): * Medium article nailing it as “Buggy and Unfinished” at launch: [https://xander51.medium.com/my-time-at-sandrock-is-buggy-and-unfinished-23f8eed65c8c](https://xander51.medium.com/my-time-at-sandrock-is-buggy-and-unfinished-23f8eed65c8c) * Nintendo Life on the rough Switch performance and patch scramble: [https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2024/01/my-time-at-sandrock-receives-huge-update-on-switch-here-are-the-full-patch-notes](https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2024/01/my-time-at-sandrock-receives-huge-update-on-switch-here-are-the-full-patch-notes) * Gayming Magazine review calling out the “rocky performance” on Switch: [https://gaymingmag.com/2023/11/my-time-at-sandrock-review-a-rocky-performance-for-switch-players/](https://gaymingmag.com/2023/11/my-time-at-sandrock-review-a-rocky-performance-for-switch-players/) * Recent 2025 Reddit threads still complaining about Switch crashes and bugs: [https://www.reddit.com/r/mytimeatportia/comments/1kidmd7/anyone\_play\_this\_on\_switch\_in\_2025\_is\_the/](https://www.reddit.com/r/mytimeatportia/comments/1kidmd7/anyone_play_this_on_switch_in_2025_is_the/) and [https://www.reddit.com/r/MyTimeAtSandrock/comments/1o78zy1/overly\_buggy\_game/](https://www.reddit.com/r/MyTimeAtSandrock/comments/1o78zy1/overly_buggy_game/) * Steam Known Issues and ongoing bug reports: [https://steamcommunity.com/app/1084600/discussions/0/3942398662637115271/](https://steamcommunity.com/app/1084600/discussions/0/3942398662637115271/) * Vooks Switch review highlighting the choppy mess: [https://www.vooks.net/my-time-at-sandrock-switch-review/](https://www.vooks.net/my-time-at-sandrock-switch-review/) So, did you jump into Sandrock at launch and immediately regret your life choices, or are you one of the masochistic desert survivors in 2026 still dodging crashes like they’re part of the core gameplay loop? Did the endless hotfixes finally make it playable, or does it still feel like Pathea’s idea of “finished” is whatever compiles without immediately exploding? If Red Shell was the privacy stab, voice actors got the paycheck ghosting, and Sandrock was the technical clown car, the pattern’s clearly still rolling strong in the cozy indie scene. Your save files (and sanity) deserve better.

*Blue Magic*, nota anche come *Blue Blink*, è una serie anime di genere fantastico di 39 episodi da 25 minuti l'uno creata da Osamu Tezuka e trasmessa in Giappone dal 7 aprile 1989 al 16 marzo 1990 sulla rete televisiva NHK. In Italia è andata in onda nei primi anni novanta su RAI 1 all'interno del programma per ragazzi *Big!* come riporta il [Radiocorriere](https://archive.org/details/Radiocorriere-1991-04/page/n55). [Locandina originale della serie](https://preview.redd.it/9wei4ta1crtg1.jpg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fdc41383f23cbcac8ac16fd0799993349b731ba6) Stando a quanto riportato in [questo topic](https://waitingfor.forumfree.it/?t=42782750), è stata trasmessa pochissime volte, se non una sola. È irreperibile doppiata in italiano. 😩

I assume its a scribe right? If so, technically you're not in danger of being killed (unless you find a demonic vook/have an accident) I guess But a lot of low level jobs in the Imperium, at least in Hive Worlds, are basically slave labor. Sure you just gotta count books and write in records, but imagine doing that 16+ hours a day I know it varies depending on a planet per planet basis (and city per city by extension), but i recall some Orks captured a Hive and were gonna put the people to work. The orks were surprised to hear that their idea of "slave labor" was actually more relaxing than the conditions they had to work in under imperial rule

Did you try grain zero, I'm exactly at your position my male cat 1.5-2yrs old, i was feeding him purepet just got to know theres nothing so pure aboug it rather poisonous to cats so im planning on switching and im on budget too. People suggested home vooked food but cant afford to give nonveg every dag but i will try. So some one suggested grain zero and also saw a youtube video of it that it has 48% real mear and omega, vitamins etc..should i go for it did you give it to your cat?

Mine is almost 3, and I don’t think we’ll have a tablet for a while. I would suggest locking down YouTube - it has an approved content only mode if you go into settings and then select the child’s name, or uninstalling it entirely. We like the PBS Kids or Khan Academy apps when he ends up using my phone when he’s near-meltdown at a restaurant or family gathering. I think moving towards restricting the tablet to those occasions only would be a good move. We watch the Vooks (video books) channel on YouTube sometimes, and I think they mention having an app, though I don’t know if it’s free or paid.

I have to give students independent activities fairly often, I like to do turns, student A works with me (he/she is in the ‘speech hot seat’ lol) and student B does something independently then we switch. I do a lot of audio stories (Get Epic especial the Read to Me ones, Vooks, Storyline Online), but sometimes if I need turns to be shorter (3-5 minutes) I’ll have them play with mini objects and kinetic sand (find objects that have the …. Sound in it or find all the animals etc or do a puzzle (jigsaw planet on ipad is my favorite). ‘Wraps ups’ are popular with kids (like for practicing math facts). It’s just survival. I just try to make the activity good for their brains in some way.

Our toddler seemed more receptive to pooping in the little potty first (always an option of using pull up to poop next to the small potty) especially if we let him watch a Vooks episode on YouTube called Lil Poo, or Elmo's Potty Time song. Otherwise we had to catch him in the act before anything came out, and get him on the potty in time. Once he had that down, we transitioned him to the big potty with a potty seat and step stool. Also a lot of practice sitting on the big potty with clothes on when no urge to go. I also had him participate in a clean up session (after the shower, I bundled up the soiled clothes so he wouldn't be actively touching poop. I had him carry it to the sink where I was hand washing off the solids before sanitizing in the washer) Otherwise, a lot of reinforcement with potty books/episodes (Daniel Tiger Potty Time book, Time to Pee by Mo Wilems, and the other two aforementioned videos).

Reading more slowly than you used to likely means you're engaging more deeply with the themese etc in a novel. In high school I burned through a novel every 2-3 days, but I didn't really care about what the author was trying to say beyond the direct text, and I wasn't engaging with the themes. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is a vook that I would have read in like 2 days as a teenager. It took me ~3 weeks to read when it came out last year because I was engaging with the themes. It's not just a scary monster revenge story ahhhhhh, it's aboout colonialism and the extermination of native americans and assimilation and hate and indifference and regret and penance and what those things mean and how they affect people and societies and history. Hell it takes my boyfriend and I 2 hours to get through a 40 minute episode of supernatural because we're constantly pausing it to talk about what the writer is saying when they like. Make the villain for the season a comically evil government body or whatever, or reflect in the fact like by season 4 we have a handful of human villains and every one of them is a black man. We paused in season 13 and had a conversation longer than the episode itself about how this episode has the first female character in it that doesnt fit neatly into any of the 4 consistent archetypes the show has established for women (mom, dead, hot, bitch) Going slow isn't a problem when you're having a good time or engaging in the media you're consuming

Hello! Just a question I have been curious about lately. I know there is a difference between nuns and sisters so I suppose this applies to both. Are priests and nuns or sisters able to develop friendships? I know even with fully cloistered nuns there are some interactions with priests via the mass and confessions. However, I know personally as a layperson, have in the past had conversations with priests outside of the confessional and conversations that didn’t necessarily need a confessional settings. I am wondering if nuns (semi-cloistered)/sisters might have the need for similar conversation? Additionally I know that conversations could lead to the formation of friendships, is there anything prohibiting this? Especially if the friendship were furthering/strengthening faith and spiritual contemplation. Some time ago I read a (fictional) book which took place in a convent and the priest in this vook frequently joined the sisters for lunch. If I remember correctly he also took care of certain logistical things such as the shared car. I don’t believe there was any friendship in the book between these characters, but id this a common arrangement? As I type this I also wonder if this would be applicable to monks? I have visited an active monestary in the past when I was in a youth group, but I cannot recall discussion of the mass/interaction with laypeople for the brothers. Thank you for your time!

Documents: 1. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2012/EFTA02731341.pdf 1. (Translated) https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2012/EFTA02731465.pdf 1.5. (contains some information from document 1, and some new stuff) https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00155037.pdf 2. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2012/EFTA02731361.pdf 3. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2012/EFTA02731393.pdf I've translated these 1st documents' code, later finding out there was a separate document with the already translated code, the others had seperate pages with the translated code there. It is about a young female victim who is telling an unknown recipient about what is happening to her. Probably a journal/diary in code. From what I've gathered, this is mainly about the abuse this poor girl went through, and her having a child, and the mental and emotional break she went through. And also about her "relationship" with Epstein. The child is/was his. On the first document, page 9, there is a letter from an unknown person talking about how you only meet the right person once in your life. Then, later on page 15, the girl puts a collage of images that say "The Art of Perfomance: The Making of a more powerful family." She also mentioned multiple people, all referring to them as "Mr/Mrs", but the only 2 people she uses first names with is Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. Later she states that Epstein and Maxwell are fighting because they believe the baby is his. The girl went to Maxwell for a lot of things it seems, but Maxwell sometimes seemed to have resented her. I believe Maxwell was jealous of the girls "relationship" with Epstein, and the child. Also, she talks about a lot of places she was taken to by these people, such as yacht, DC, NY, Palm Beach (Ocean Blvd), etc. The fact that she was taken all to all these places with Epstein and she was able to have this notebook and seemed to have been writing this for a long period of time. The timeline of the pages are jumbled, and its kind of hard to figure out what happened when. She then seem to have escaped, her friends and mother got her. She doesn't go in depth about how. Possibly her mother and friends found her on one of those trips She then writes about when the baby was delivered. Soon after the delivery, the baby was immediately taken from her, it is unknown what happened to the baby after this. She explains that she had a miscarriage after the first child. It is unclear what happened to this girl.

My twins love Sesame Street, Vooks, Ms. Moni and old 90s shows. Their favorite movie (long format) is Ponyo. We don’t do small screens and focus on low stimulating shows that focus on education. We do watch Ponyo a lot because my son asks for it specifically (19 months). I do try to focus on making sure they are calm before we watch tv instead of using it to calm them (not to pacify behavior). My husband will use it like a cigarette if he’s over stimulated.

I feel you, big time. Don't feel guilty. Check out Ms. Raven on YouTube. If you've got a library card, do you have access to Kanopy or Vooks online? Kanopy for Kids has a ton of animated books. I felt better about watching the book videos because they're like reading. Also, Trash Truck on Netflix is sweet and low-stim. I also spent a lot of second first trimester (with an almost 2yo at the time) laying on the Nugget Couch in his toddler-proofedish playroom while he did his own thing. Yes, there were times I fell asleep. But he was safe.

I would cut out YT unless you're monitoring and selecting stuff with them on the TV (like a specific show or video such as Vooks or something you're comfortable with them watching.) That said, I would opt for PBS kids, Netflix, or Disney+ for children's content. You can also check out PBS kids games and Khan Academy which offer interactive learning games for kids (there are others but those come to mind immediately). As someone else stated, YT and YT kids are both unfortunately filled with a lot of low quality and questionable content as well as short-form content which creates problems with attention... Not only that but you'll see more addictive behavior with using or allowing unfettered YT access compared to careful usage of other sources mentioned above.

Instant pot. I own 3 (only ever use 2 at a time to vook rice and an entree), the early version and then a couple of the upgraded ones. I did have all 3 going a few times when we were doing more meal prep on the weekend type cooking, now I work fully remote so I can start meals in the afternoons. Used them to make the best yogurt I've ever had, and tons and tons of great meals. Most recently used it last week. Had a breadmaker decades ago and used it a ton. Kids moved out and it sat on the shelf, finally donated it. Tried again last year, got 2 beautiful loaves, then something changed and I haven't fully figured out whether it's a recipe or ingredient problem. That's all the trendy kitchen gadgets I own. Oh my stove has a wifi connection and an app, but I bought it because it was the best priced slide-in with flat grates on top and convection. Wifi was just there, not a sought feature. But I will say it's nice to start the preheat from the patio, and we turned off the kitchen breakers to fix a light, and when I turned it back on the clock flashed *00:00* for a few minutes, then when I glanced at it later it showed the correct time. So that right there might be worth adding wifi 🤣

Vooks and Old school 1970s Eric Carle animations ; I bought a YouTube subscription so no adds and I made a playlist of Vooks and Eric Carle animations , I let my son watch them on the Roku TV to avoid the touch screen. Keeps it super basic, I use my phone as the remote, and buys me a few minutes as a single mom. Vooks are lightly animated story books, they’re super sweet and slow, really engaging for a kid who’s never seen paw patrol lol 😂. Eric Carle animations are just classic. I also downloaded audio of these and put them on creative tonies for my son to listen to at bedtime. If I’m feeling reeeeeallly spicy then I’ll let him watch Puffin Rock. That’s it.

Daniel Tiger is hands down the best, IMO. The social stories and emotional lessons and songs are just all so amazing. Also, my kid really likes “Genevieve’s Playhouse” or something like that. It’s quite bland, IMO, and the grand majority of it is a guy speaking while you see him maneuver toys and puzzles and the like through different playhouses and settings. It seems calm & benign and my kid will mimic it and talk about it so there is some mental engagement, and far moreso than many other shows they’ve tried. It bores me like mad though, lol. Others to try include Little Bear, Octonauts, Dragon Tails, and Vooks. We also sometimes watch “readalongs” like Vooks on YouTube together, especially when my voice needs a break. Basically just video of the book pages and someone reading them.

Keep calling them and ask other dealers in your area on call, they will tell you what they have in stock and if you find your colour there just cancel your vooking from current dealer and proceed with where its available. I had booked on 28th January and in between i escalated it on Kia india they were saying Adas models are slow in production and sometimes ivory silver color isnt available, I asked my dealer to cancel my booking and next day they called me that your car is available still after 2 weeks today I ll be going for the delivery

A giant vook called the worldwide history of dress https://www.amazon.com/Worldwide-History-Dress-Patricia-Anawalt/dp/0500513635/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=3AVYC7WZHZDR9&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ZoSluHYHAWJfo_Y0pPBCIc2eul2ijUdDfEbEjLw3yz4wpGpVxoEsJwXqhQg6UylzWYjGaTKKGWU1712p812xEs8mkU_TE5L0NFSXFpg2OE84jzYEUINjT5jNoXQdD3r5cCxu1Ba_-8Qz2ytBtaOpRJUiMIWac3KxuATNSynxDmL_epRbuXKmPgDemevuA8pRgnFOjbFxcRFCUXwaS3latw.U2XXKFaTq9fpkrj50LVOoOMPeSJKJgChDsw2eZBCNZk&dib_tag=se&keywords=complete+worldwide+history+of+dress&qid=1774374735&sprefix=complete+worldwide+history+of+dres%2Caps%2C258&sr=8-1

[https://www.vooks.net/miinews-alert-tomodachi-life-living-the-dream-preview/](https://www.vooks.net/miinews-alert-tomodachi-life-living-the-dream-preview/) This one is my personal favourite so far, the reviewer was already a big fan of the original game and seems to understand where the enjoyability comes out of it. Rec reading through. [https://www.nintendolife.com/previews/first-impressions-the-diary-of-a-first-time-tomodachi-life-player-am-i-living-the-dream](https://www.nintendolife.com/previews/first-impressions-the-diary-of-a-first-time-tomodachi-life-player-am-i-living-the-dream) Check the mii's ritual over the photo-realistic bunny. I am obsessed. [https://www.videogameschronicle.com/features/tomodachi-life-living-the-dream-preview/](https://www.videogameschronicle.com/features/tomodachi-life-living-the-dream-preview/) He played this one alongside his daughter and it's pretty cute (confirmed being able to set family statuses with other miis, but idk if that was just for his look-a-like). Incredible Jack Black mii as well. [https://www.screenhub.com.au/news/features/tomodachi-life-living-the-dream-preview-2696456/](https://www.screenhub.com.au/news/features/tomodachi-life-living-the-dream-preview-2696456/) Reviewer goes into good detail on how the mii's interact. It seems theres going to be a lot more nuance. These were all the english ones I could find with new screenshots. A lot of them used the direct photos instead. But it does seem like theres a way to get system screenshots to your device, I am assuming a third party capture card. I'm going to go to websites that aren't english next and see what I can find, might comment them below. It already all looks so good, I cannot wait!!!

Oh, do not tell me that libraries it librarians have to do more or "upskill" whatever the fuck that buzzword is supposed to mean. We're already the social workers, the RMV, the tax people, the job and unemployment troubleshooters, the tech help, oh, and we're doing more progrmming than ever. And, we do it all for usually about three quarters of what the teachers get in this state. Oh, and, books are more expensive than ever because everyone thinks we pay 9.99 for ebooks (hint, libraries don't get consumer prices on ebooks, they're much more expensive for us), for the moment we can still get ok priced physical vooks, but, we just had one of the two massive book jobbers shut down too. So, say a prayer or two for Ingram.  So, do more? Do more? Fuck that shit.

I homeschool our kids (3 under 6). We also aim for quality since we try to use the tablets sparingly and intentionally. These are the apps we use on the kids' Fire tablets, and that my kids actually enjoy & learn from (most are also available on iOS/Apple products) - all are ad-free, unlinked & limited data collection or have total data privacy, limited or no in-app purchases: \- **Kahn Academy Kids**: FREE, can have multiple profiles, ages 2-8, no ads, standard-aligned reading/math/phonics and more. Our 6yo loves using it. \- **ABC Mouse:**  Edit To Add: if you download the app, do the CLASSIC version for lower stimulation. I just checked the new one, I feel like it’s too much compared to the classic.  we pay a yearly subscription for this (black friday deal, i think it was like $45-50 for the whole year) both our 3 & 6 yo LOVE this and are definitely learning and retaining a lot from it. Multiple profiles/ages, lessons are all based on common core standards. I also pay for it because it also includes learning assessments for Preschool to 2nd grade, great for making sure we’re on track homeschool-wise. The kids can use it on tablets, phones, or on the computer through their website. I think there are free features, at the very least a free trial, to see if it’s worth it for you. \- **Duolingo ABC:** FREE, for Preschool-2nd, focused on phonics and learning to read. It’s cute, engaging, and each lesson is based around interactive stories. Our 6yo plays is on and off. No in-app purchases, ad-free, can play offline. \- **Dinosaur Park: FREE**, my kids actually discovered this on their tablet and I like it because it introduces you to paleontology - you have to ‘dig’ up dinosaur bones, then assemble to bones to make a dinosaur skeleton that then comes to life and you collect food and things after. super simple but my kids, especially our 3yo, loved playing. **- Vooks: I** LOVE Vooks, it’s read aloud storybooks. We usually watch these on YouTube together and just realized that they have an app! All the stories are from actual physical books that you can buy, but they lightly animate them, keep all the words so kids can follow along. Full access does cost $9.99/mo or $69.99 annual subscription. I’ve been looking into other learning apps and these are some of the others I found that look good educational-wise, are ad-free, have good or total data privacy: \- **Pok Pok: (iOS and Andriod)** labels itself as a Montessori-style preschool learning app but usable from ages 2-8. You do have to pay a subscription. Low-stimulation, no ads, no winning/losing games, very open-ended - theres no ‘true’ directions/instructions so kids poke around and figure out how to use the open-ended games. I really like how it looks, I only poked around myself for a bit. \- **Thinkrolls:** ages 2-8, can try for free but the full package app requires a monthly or yearly subscription. I really liked this one - very STEM focused (math, logic, physics, coding, creativity) Tons of games and puzzles that really get your kids problem solving. They have the individual apps you can purchase as stand-alones or you can subscribe to the full package. If you have an updated Fire Tablet, they do have some of them included with the amazon kids subscription which is nice. \- **Dinosaur Coding Trucks:** FREE, (same developer that makes Dinosaur Park) you control a little robot dino and complete puzzles by putting action blocks in the correct order (move forward/back/up/down, use your mini laser to melt ice, etc). starts very simple and guided (shows you which blocks to click and where to drag) I just introduced this to my kids so they’re still getting used to it. The only thing I don’t like is the distracting pics of their other learning apps at the start screen. of course the kids immediately click those. I’m looking into other apps for coding games. **Star Walk Kids:** FREE, super cute app to learn about space. Looks wicked simple, very basic so not too complicated for kids. My kids will sometimes ask me to open my StarWalk app to look at different constellations so it’s cool to have a similar app for them. Not sure if it does the live sky for them (upon first look around, i don’t think it does) but has a lesson-by-lesson map for learning about our solar system. \- **Endless Learning Apps: Endless Alphabet, Numbers, Reader, Wordplay, Academy** FREE & PAID, free trial or some limited free access, we discovered these on our local library’s tablets and my 6yo enjoys it. You can do the individual apps (most of which seem to cost money) or it looks like a subscription for the Endless Learning Academy. Cute, not super stimulating, This looks really all encompassing but I have to fiddle around with it more. I’m still browsing around but so far these are the ones I’m liking.

- Armani Si Eau de Perfum - Armani Si Eau de Parfum Intense Would you? Or do you purchase **testers**? I purchased these two from a supplier here. This is not my first time purchasing testers. I've bought a few testers and they are pretty awesome. The testers tend to be sold here at a *nice* discounted price. Due to them not being sealed or come in a fancy box or sometomes without a cap.

What about just music? Mine is really into the wiggles. I try to save tv for critical work time and use music for chill work time. My 18 month also loves playing with a ball, and loved running around outside so I take my laptop out there with her. Also stickers. Really into those. As far as tv shows you can also try less stimulating ones where it can serve as background like little bear or vooks. Good luck

theres definitely been a lot of steps between when i was considered the "persecutor" of our system and now. i still hold a lot of our anger and its easy for me to lose control of it. i used to cause a lot more problems for us-- saying horrible things both internally and externally, making really stupid impulse decisions, ruining relationships... it took a lot of understanding and effort to get me to a point where it wasnt actively distressing to everyone for me to have thoughts and feelings. during that process, bat came out of dormancy. i dont really know when or how, but i became intensely protective of her, the inner child that my anger lost. her thoughts and feelings are so simple and innocent. she melts right through my anger and keeps me grounded, and in return i keep her safe from the world that corrupted someone like her into someone like me.

theres definitely been a lot of steps between when i was considered the "persecutor" of our system and now. i still hold a lot of our anger and its easy for me to lose control of it. i used to cause a lot more problems for us-- saying horrible things both internally and externally, making really stupid impulse decisions, ruining relationships... it took a lot of understanding and effort to get me to a point where it wasnt actively distressing to everyone for me to have thoughts and feelings. during that process, bat came out of dormancy. i dont really know when or how, but i became intensely protective of her, the inner child that my anger lost. her thoughts and feelings are so simple and innocent. she melts right through my anger and keeps me grounded, and in return i keep her safe from the world that corrupted someone like her into someone like me.

The name of this manhwa is The Bunker Days. It’s still very new, so I can’t say much for sure yet, but the male lead definitely has strong yandere potential. The female lead is an orphan, and her aunt kicks her out of the house, telling her to go stay with a friend. However, she doesn’t actually have any friends, so she ends up staying in a bunker. When she wakes up, she sees the male lead someone she used to know. In the past, everyone avoided him because his father was a killer. She felt sorry for him because he was being bullied and tried to get close to him, but later she got scared and stopped being friends with him. In the bunker, the male lead lies to her, saying that the door is locked and that they can’t get out. When someone comes to rescue them, he even tells her not to make any noise and manipulates her again with another lie. I definitely recommend it! It gave me a bit of the same vibe as the manhwa Classmate.

TL;DR - Solid 40k baragan bike, "well equipped and well built but not well-assembled" with caveats. Buy it, then have an expert mechanic take care or even fully reassemble it before actually riding it. (most cheap bikes need this IMO) Bring out your best TraceVelo/Hack&Bodge skills Pros: - Has the usual sensible upgrades out of the box (OSPW, 1x flat narrow-wide chainring, 165mm cranks, 360mm dropbars for xs size, tubeless ready wheelset!) - Decent stock flat pedals, blunt pedal spikes, the perfect starter amenities until the inevitable transition to cleats - Stock gearing is enough for the average cyclist to conquer Antipolo climbs and the R/11T- F/50T max gears is typical for top speed - Comes in a Canyon style box, quick assembly and ride - 4mm allen wrench for most screws - Paint quality is good, design and markings / logos are a personal taste but it isn't ugly IMO Cons: - SEAT TUBE IS NOT DE-BURRED WILL SCRATCH YOUR SEATPOST - Undersized rim tape, replace it ASAP or it will cause tape related tube punctures - Non-standard 13 speed equipment, shifters breaking would mean 0 shopee/lazada replacements (as of Feb 2026?) - The brakes are swapped out of the box (UK style) - Both wheelsets are not true - UDH hanger and RD has around 1mm gap, enough to cause shift problems at the largest cog, RD screw flange needed to be filed down to let the rd and UDH properly align ( siraniko technique) - No proper cable management in the bottom bracket area, just a the downtube hole lol - Sensah shifter cable is too stretchy and inconsistent, buy any branded shifter cable for tuning peace of mind YMMV - Sensah / Sram single paddle system is hard to get the hang of - Difficult sizing for 5' or shorter people - Semi-integrated but not full internal (weird design choice to expose bare cable going to the RD when everything else is nearly hidden) - 6 bolt disc hub is not future proof - Potentially a general issue for big cassettes as per Reddit, backpdalling at the biggest cog causes the chain to drop 3 gears (unsolved issue of mine) - Stock tyres, inner tube and brake pads are good enough, but are an ASAP upgrade in my opinion - Stock brake caliper actuation is far (which is great for no rubs) but feels spongy, you need to modify the brake pads (add shims), and adjust the hidden free stroke adjustment inside the shifter - left shifter movement is not disabled despite having no mechanisms, awkward to hold - missing cable management part on the stem, product pictures have it, the shop says it's not present. ultimately didn't matter because I needed a shorter stem - Shifters aren't aligned and straight on mine ootb

They snuck in ai images and videos throughout the video, idk if it's just bad cgi or not but I can tell when things are ai generated and there are ton in blackpink go music video. Why is this such a growing trend? The companies can afford to pay artist in making these visual but they choose not too and take the most money cutting way. SM has been coming first in this race btw as each and everything they put out has to ai generated to some extent. It just looks so cheap and unfinished, and no it doesn't look good at all. Hire actual artist for your work!

In Prophecies there are 26 elite skills that can only be captures in Missions and/or end-game quests, making them very tedious and time consuming to get. These are, * Eviscerate * Hundred Blades * Backbreaker * Warrior's Endurance * Gladiator's Defense * Barrage * Incendiary Arrows * Markman's Wager * Greater Conflagration * Spike Trap * Word of Healing * Shield of Deflection * Shield of Regeneration * Restore Condition * Order of the Vampire * Soul Leech * Aura of the Lich * Grenth's Balance * Panic * Fevered Dreams * Migraine * Mantra of Recovery * Lightning Surge * Mind Burn * Ether Prodigy * Ether Renewal In addition, there are 3 elite skills that are incredibly far out in the Southern Shiverpeaks and far away from an outpost, * Earth Shaker * Punishing Shot * Feast of Corruption This is in contrast with the other 2 campaigns, Factions and Nightfall, where you can capture elite skills much easier and earlier as well. To give Prophecies a big quality of life boost give the bosses in the Crystal Desert these elite skills. There is also the issue that you obtain your first Signet of Capture in Prophecies through the quest Malaquire's Test, which is in Kryta, but there are no bosses in that part of the game with elite skills, even though the quest tells you to look out for bosses with elite skills. Fortunately there are 6 level 28 bosses of each profession in The Black Curtain that make excellent candidates to get an elite skill, Rage Maulhoof, Winglord Caromi, Tree of Judgment, Shadow of Death, Gack the Mindwrecker, and Frash the Cold. There is even a Krytan Herald NPC in the Temple of the Ages that warns the players about these 6 bosses specifically, putting the attention of the players towards them. Bull's Charge, Quick Shot, Healing Hands, Tainted Flesh, Echo, and Glyph of Renewal make good candidates for early elite skills in Prophecies as they are good low investment elite skills that won't lock the player to a specific build, don't see a lot of play and aren't too strong for that part of the game either. As for which elite skill to give to which boss in the Crystal Desert that also fits their builds the best, I suggest the following. Give the Dragon's Lair mission elites, Gladiator's Defense, Melandru's Resilience, Shield of Regeneration, Grenth's Balance, Mantra of Recall, and Lightning Surge to the Losaru Centaur bosses Aguo Gruffmane, Caze Windedcalf, Mina Brillianthaunch, Zalo Soulhaunch, Gret Waveringmane, and Doro Icehide. Give the Forgotten elite skills, Warrior's Endurance, Marksman's Wager, Word of Healing, Order of the Vampire, Mantra of Recovery, and Ether Renewal to the Hydra bosses Graf Wask Derg, Brol Migo Hinga, Rept Parn Freg, Jewk Swem Pleg, Chak Hack Schawack, and Sheg Zamn Mada. Give the Titan elite skills Eviscerate, Greater Conflagration, Aura of the Lich, Panic, and Mind Burn to the Devourer and Scarab bosses Gralf Angonytip, Ness Orangeclaw, Plunk Trudge, Krunk Wadle, Trech Schmoogle, Vook Foomble, Jonk Shuffle, and Zwack Ramble. Since the Scarab bosses have no Elementalist bosses, change Jonk Shuffle and Zwack Ramble into Elementalist bosses. Why these two? It works best considering their spawn location since it will prevent a Scarab boss spawn location having 2 random bosses with the same elite skill. As for the remaining Devourer boss Flange Sullenrange, give it Barrage. Gralf Angoytip and Ness Orangeclaw share a spawn location the Salt Flats, making it thematically a bit more appropriate that those 2 have the Titan elites like the Scarabs who share spawn locations. Gralf Angonytip will need to be changed from a sword warrior to an axe warrior. Since there is no Monk Titan boss, give the Monk Scarab boss Bleck Oogle Mark of Protection instead since the other Monk Scarab boss Kephket Marrowfeast already has that elite skill. Give Hundred Blades to the Warrior Desert Griffon bosses Featherfist and Divingbeak and Restore Condition to the Monk Griffon bosses Perchingbyrd and Screamingclaw. Give Backbreaker to the Drake boss Monaru Chippedfang and Elemental Attunement to Ghilaparu Stormstone. Why Elemental Attunement? It's already being used by another Drake boss in Perdition Rock, Geckokaru Earthwind, and the other 2 Drake bosses in Perdition Rock have Tainted Flesh and Bull's Charge which we gave to Rage Maulhoof and Shadow of Death in The Black Curtain. That makes all of the Drake elite skills from Perdition Rock earlier to capture. Then there are the 3 elite skills that are obtained from the 3 Rider bosses in the Ring of Fire mission, Shield of Deflection, Migraine, and Ether Prodigy. As luck would have it there are also exactly 3 Rider bosses with the same profession in Salt Flats. Sul Sandstorm, Sevv Squallfroth, and Ginz Hailflare. Give these bosses these 3 elite skills. Next are the 2 Minotaur bosses Stoofed Chargehoof and Cootle Sizzlehorn. Give them Earth Shaker and Soul Leech. For the Mesmer Elemental bosses Clarion Shinypate and Pell Glitterglatter, give them Fevered Dreams. For the Elementalist Elemental bosses Lucid Jewelstone and Tang Stonecut, give them Obsidian Flesh. We already gave Maxine Coldstone's elite skill Quick Shot to Winglord Caromi, so we can give Harn Coldstone's elite skill Obsidian Flesh to the Elementalist Elemental bosses as it first their skill bar quite well. For Spike Trap, give it to the 2 Pinesoul Ranger bosses in the Southern Shiverpeaks, Poisonbought and Afhrul Deeproot since they lack an elite skill to capture, unlike the non-Ranger Pinesoul bosses, and Pinesouls in HM have Spike Trap making it a perfect fit for them. Now we have run out of bosses that we can give elite skills to, but still 3 elite skills left, Incendiary Arrows, Punishing Shot, and Feast of Corruption. In the Crystal Desert that are 2 enemy types that do not have a boss, Dune Burrowers and Sand Wurms. Create 2 Ranger Dune Burrower bosses and give them Incendiary Arrows and Punishing Shot respectively and 1 Necromancer Sand Wurm boss that has Feast of Corruption. Where to place them? The Arid Sea and Skyward Reach. The Arid Sea only has 1 single Hydra boss that patrols the area and has multiple Dune Burrower enemies, so place 1 Dune Burrower boss in The Arid Sea. For some reason Skyward Reach has no bosses which makes it prime real estate for the remaining Dune Burrower boss and the Sand Wurm boss. Updating the skills bars of these bosses will make a whopping total of 33 elite skills way easier to capture for Prophecies characters. It also gives non-Prophecies characters a big incentive to go to the Crystal Desert. I'm sure this will be a very welcome change for both the old and the new players. https://preview.redd.it/bucli0hkqilg1.png?width=321&format=png&auto=webp&s=3d1009c754a0150552d3bec72dd85f0c13a7ece9 https://preview.redd.it/4t0mjkjmqilg1.png?width=328&format=png&auto=webp&s=4fd5a709bd2dba21f8381df3d6bc65dbb05917eb https://preview.redd.it/0spq4unnqilg1.png?width=395&format=png&auto=webp&s=93160417a4a365636f652c0625f0564de3f688a3