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Even google home loves Tyler C
I’m watching The Bachelorette (DVR’d it) and on Hannah and Tyler’s last date when Tyler greets her with “hey girl,” my google home goes “okay, check out this playlist” AND STARTS PLAYING BETTER BY KHALID. I mean, if that’s not a sign I don’t know what is.
Me: Hey Google, play music in master bedroom. GHM: Sorry, I can't find a location named master bathroom. Me: Hey Google, play Better by Khalid GHM: Sure MILK SHAKE on Spotify, playing on Marshall Woburn 🤦🏽
Thoughts on first BG:EE playthrough, after a lifetime of BG2
I started playing Baldur's Gate II when I was 8 or 9 and instantly fell in love with it. It is the game I think of whenever I think about videogames, especially RPGs. I must have spent thousands of hours and dozens of playthroughs on it. I'd never played the first game: my older brother had bought the 2nd one standalone, and the story was pretty easy to catch up on. But I'd always wondered what I'd missed, so I decided to give it a shot. Bought BGEE a few weeks back and powered through as a Paladin. I took Jaheira & Khalid (had always wondered about their dynamic together), Imoen, Xan, and Rasaad. Just killed Sarevok last night, and thought I'd share my thoughts.
Banter & Voice Acting
This was by far the biggest difference I noticed. Outside of NPC introductions and the most dramatic moments, there was really very little voice acting, and I was devastated to learn there's no significant banter between the NPCs in your party. My favorite part of BGII was always the characters, their reactions to what you do, and the arguments/discussions they'd prompt between themselves. Without that, BGEE felt like...just another generic RPG, I guess. More than anything, it just drove home to me how much extra love and effort went into BGII. That commitment to dialogue (and good dialogue, at that!) elevated the sequel to a new level, and the characters seem so believable and lovable as a result. In the following 20 years of video games, the only game I've seen come close to this dedication to banter & dialogue is my recent playthrough of Hades...and that's probably why I loved the game so much.
World Size
After I'd played BGII so many times, it makes sense that the maps would feel a little small and predictable. But even still, I'd always wished there was a bit more "empty space" in BGII -- everything felt a little too compact. Having now played the original, I wonder if that compactness was an overcorrection from the first game. There is SO MUCH WILDERNESS in this game! I did enjoy the exploration, but it started to get old as I had to devise a methodical search pattern in each map to cover every square inch in order to find the next plot point. I did enjoy having to work my way through the Cloakwood maps to get to the mine - I think the only time in BGII you have to cross directly through one map to fast-travel to another is the City Gate. I understand why they stripped this tedious part down, but it feels like they went a little too far in the other direction with the sequel.
Difficulty
Holy crap, the early levels of BGEE are brutal. I played on Core Rules and got my butt handed to me, time and again, and not a single one of my usual BGII strategies seemed to work. It took some innovation to survive, but mostly it felt like a mixture of cheap/cheesy strategies and relying on luck. It's given me a deeper appreciation for how hard the early levels are in every edition of D&D, and made me miss starting at 7 or 8 in Irenicus's dungeon. I didn't get Stoneskin the entire game! Things got better, but I ultimately had to cheese the final few fights with summoned decoys and abuse of ranged weapons. Who thought it was a good idea to give the enemies Arrows of Detonation? I assume that's an Enhanced Edition change to make things harder. I was not a fan.
Storytelling
Again, this mostly just made me realize how much care went into BGII. So many moments that I'd expected to be dramatic just sort of...happened. People said things so quickly, repeated information you had already, and gave you flat instructions that you were supposed to blindly follow. So many NPCs teleporting me places against my will! Talk about railroading. The confrontation with Sarevok was especially disappointing: BGII had built him up as a huge scary badass, and he got, what, 10 lines of dialogue in the whole game? I'd expected him to play a much bigger part, just like I'd expected the city of Baldur's Gate to be more of a central base, like Athkatla was...maybe Baldur's Gate also had that intrigue, but it came too late in the gameplay, and by the time I reached the city I was tired of fetch quests and was just plowing through to the ending. The chapter break narrations were good, and it's fun to see the main character slowly realize their murderous heritage through those prophetic dreams. But nothing was more of a letdown than the ultimate reveal that you're a Child of Bhaal -- coming in a letter left among Gorion's possessions? You just read it? That's it? It's not even particularly well-written! Why not have Sarevok do that reveal? He could've appeared in the Candlekeep prison, for instance.
Favorite parts
This is all starting to sound like I hated BGEE -- I didn't! It was quite enjoyable, and I'm thankful for the chance to learn the whole story. It was also very fun to have new & unique fights. My favorite was probably running the dungeon under Candlekeep, where the doppelgangers imitate everyone you grew up with and yell out personal attacks as they try to murder you. Very fun, even chilling at moments! As I said before, the trek through Cloakwood was also a fun way to simulate searching the woods, and I generally appreciated the openness of the world. I didn't ultimately explore every Hills or Forests map, but I always enjoyed the artwork. Finally, I liked how cheery and even outright sassy Imoen was in this game. For the first time, I actually realized how much of a character change she underwent from her trauma at Irenicus's hands, and it's given me much more appreciation for her almost...melancholy disposition in BGII. She used to be so bombastic, and while she's still a good & caring person, her experiences have left deep scars.
Final thoughts
Ultimately, I enjoyed BGEE, but I'm not sure I'll replay it the way I replay BGII over and over. It's nice to know the backstory, but the way those pieces are introduced in BGII was also very well done, so I don't really feel like I missed much. I'm looking forward to importing my character and Rasaad into BGII:EE when I buy that (can I get a "whoop whoop" for finally completing the Golden Pantaloons easter egg quest?!?). I suppose I'll go back to before the final fight and play through the Tales of the Sword Coast expansion material as well. Not sure if Siege of Dragonspear is necessary/worthwhile, so I'd appreciate people's thoughts on that. Thanks for listening to me ramble! Baldur's Gate II remains my favorite RPG of all time, and I'm thankful for the Enhanced Editions that improve the experience so much and give me a chance to easily play all the material that's available. Looking forward to playing more in the weeks to come!
I personally live through music and can find any song to express how I am feeling. I just wanted to share a lot of songs that may help or help you cope with a breakup/breakups. Songs that can help you express your feelings of sadness, grief, anger, gaining your power back, betrayal, lost, and confusion. I personally have gone through all these emotions and thoughts. I would also love to hear what songs have helped/has been helping you through your breakup. So if any suggestions come to mind please share and I can add on to the list! Also, if you want any songs that do not even relate to breakups then just ask! I also have tons of more music that I did not put on this list, so ask if you want more! And sorry for any repeats or mistakes. I wrote this post on separate days. Songs that helped/helps me through breakups:
Sad Songs:
Pop:
I Can't Breath- Bea Miller
You Don't Know- Katelyn Tarver
How Can you Mend a Broken Heart- Bee Gees
She's Not Me, Pt. 1&2- Zara Larsson
Shattered- Backstreet Boys
Should've Been Us- Tori Kelly
Does It Feel- Charlie Puth
Who Am I Standing in Your Way- Chester See
Dangerously- Charlie Puth
Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)- Roxette
One of Us- ABBA
Tequila- Dan+Shay
Getting Over You- Lauv
The Lonely- Christina Perri
I Really Don't Know Anymore- Christopher Cross
Just A Dream- Nelly
Too Much To Ask- Niall Horan
The Other- Lauv
I Don't Wanna Live Forever- ZAYN & Taylor Swift
Lonely Girl- Symon
Dancing on My Own- Calum Scott
How Do We Make It- Jarryd James
Happier- Ed Sheeran
Payphone (Feat. Wiz Khalifa)- Maroon 5
In My Blood- Shawn Mendes
Reforget- Lauv
Breathe- Lauv
I Wanna Know (feat. Bea Miller)- NOTD
You Ruin Me- The Veronicas
Chasing Fire- Lauv
Closure- Jack & Jack
Youngblood- 5 Seconds of Summer
Want You Back- 5 Seconds of Summer
I Don't Want to Know- Sigrid
Amnesia- 5 Seconds of Summer
Hurts So Good- Astrid S
I Don't Wanna Know- Astrid S
How- Katherine McPhee
Broken- Brooke Butler
Stitches- Shawn Mendes
Come to This- Natalie Taylor
Somebody Told Me- Charlie Puth
Stone Cold- Demi Lovato
You Don't Do It For Me Anymore- Demi Lovato
River of Tears- Alessia Cara
Find What You're Looking For- Olivia O'Brien
Ashes (From Deadpool 2)- Celine Dion
Growing Pains- Maria Mena
Feelings Fade (feat. RKCB)- gnash
Bracelet- Lauv
Never Not- Lauv
Burning- Sam Smith
I'm Not the Only One- Sam Smith
If I Could Turn Back Time- Cher
Say Something I'm Giving Up on You- Sam Redden
Tell Me Why- Taylor Swift
It's Not Love- Imalive
Safe- Britt Nicole
Let You Go- Leroy Sanchez
Growing Pains- Alessia Cara
Face In The Hall- The Naked Brothers Band
Long Way to Happy- P!nk
Big Girls Cry- Sia
How Do You Sleep?- Jesse McCartney
Ordinary World- Katharine McPhee
Better Off Alone- Katharine McPhee
Never Love Again (feat. Jussie Smollett)- Empire Cast
Falling Stars- David Archuleta
Lights Off- Jay Sean
For the Lover That I Lost- Celine Dion
How Do You Sleep?- Lizzy Marella
Nostalgic- Rosie
Gone To Soon- Simple Plan
No Love- Simple Plan
The Worst Day Ever- Simple Plan
Better Off Alone- Ryan Pulford
Stitches- Shawn Mendes
Colder- Nina Nesbitt
My Heart- Christopher
What a Time (feat. Niall Horan)- Julia Michaels
Feeling of Falling- Cheat Codes & Kim Petras
Easier- 5 Seconds of Summer
Death By A Thousand- Taylor Swift
Cruel Summer- Taylor Swift
Colorblind- Mokita
Nightmare- Lillian Hepler
Strangers- Lillian Hepler
Even If It Hurts- Lillian Hepler
Downpour- Backstreet Boys
In Pieces- Backstreet Boys
Dancing With Your Ghost- Sasha Sloan
Alternative:
Hurts Like Hell- Fleurie
Boulevard of Broken Dreams- Green Day
Everglow- Coldplay
Sorry- Aquilo
Bloom- Lewis Capaldi
Don't Stay- X Ambassadors
You'll Be Okay- Michael Schulte
Falling Apart- Michael Schulte
I'm in Love Without You- Finneas
Twice- Christina Aguilera
Tangled Up- Parade of Lights
Dangerous Game (feat. Beginners)- Klergy
Fallingwater- Maggie Rogers
Carry You- Novo Amor
It's Not Love- Lontalius
The Story Never Ends- Lauv
Enemies- Lauv
Come Back Home- Lauv
Graffiti- CHVRCHES
Deliverance-CHVRCHES
My Enemy (Feat. Matt Berninger)- CHVRCHES
Really Gone- CHVCHES
Wonderland- CHVRCHES
All out of Love- Air Supply
Middle Finger- Phoebe Ryan x Quinn XCII
Hell- Chelsea Cutler
The Breakup- LANY
Visions- Dirty Heads
Thru These Tears- LANY
All Good Things (Comes to an End)- Nelly Futado
You Get What You Give- New Radicals
Loveless- X Ambassadors
Loveless- The Pale White
Eyes Closed- Halsey
Skinny Love- Birdy
IN MY REMAIN- LINKIN PARK
Easier To Run- LINKIN PARK
Heavy- LINKIN PARK
Nobody Can Save Me- LINKIN PARK
My Paper Heart- The All-American Rejects
The Poison- The All-American Rejects
Too Far Gone- The All-American Rejects
Fallin' Apart- The All-American Rejects
The Wind Blows- The All-American Rejects
Heart Attack- Sum 41
Makeshift- Good Charlotte
Victims of Love- Good Charlotte
Break Apart Her Heart- Good Charlotte
All Black- Good Charlotte
Broken Heart Parade- Good Charlotte
Cold Song- Good Charlotte
Old Flames- Coheed and Cambria
Heartbreaker- Bad Suns
Take My Love and Run- Bad Suns
Dancing On Quicksand
Salt- Bad Suns
Fools Gold- Fitz and The Tantrums
House On Fire- Fitz and The Tantrums
Picking' Up the Pieces- Fitz and The Tantrums
I Don't Wanna Love You Anymore- LANY
Numb- Meg Myers
Someone You Loved- Lewis Capaldi
Country:
I Can't Make You Love Me- Bonnie Raitt
Getting Over You- Jackie Lee
Let It Hurt- Rascal Flatts
Her World or Mine- Michael Ray
Buddy- Willie Nelson
As You Turn Away- Lady Antebellum
What Hurts the Most- Rascal Flatts
Memory I Don't Mess With- Lee Brice
Wish You'd Miss Me- CHASE WRIGHT
Die From A Broken Heart- Maddie & Tae
The Moment I Knew- Taylor Swift
Dance:
Bloodstream- The Chainsmokers
Cold as Stone (feat. Charlotte Lawrence)
Over My Head- Echosmith
Deep End- KREAM
Let You Go (Great Good Fine Ok)- The Chainsmokers
Happy Now- Zedd & Elley Duhe
Remind Me to Forget- Kygo & Miguel
Happier- Marshmello & Bastille
Drown (feat. Clinton Kane)- Martin Garrix
Listen to Your Heart- DHT
Breaking Me- Topic & A7S
Good Things Fall Apart- Illenium & Jon Bellion
Electronic:
You Can't Always Get What You Want- Ituana
Crawl Outta Love (feat. Annika Wells)- Illenium
Sound of Walking Away- Illeniums & Kerli
Too Far Gone (feat. Anna Clendening)- Lost Kings
Hard Rock/Rock:
Hiding My Heart- Adele
I Walk Alone- Tarja
The Chain- Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way- Fleetwood Mac
Broken Strings- James Morrison
Left Alone- blink-182
Actual Pain- Good Charlotte
Open Up Your Eyes- Daughtry
September- Daughtry
Ghost of Me- Daughtry
Learn My Lesson- Daughtry
No Surprise- Daughtry
Life After You- Daughtry
Deep End- Daughtry
It's Not Love- Dokken
She's Broken (He's Ok)- Marissa
Our Love Is Dead- Harry Drake
Let You Go- Grace Potter
Love Gone- The Felix
Lovers and Enemies- The Felix
Life to Fix- The Record Company
Bittersweet Memories- Bullet for My Valentine
Gone- Daughtry
Torches- Daughtry
Call Your Name- Daughtry
This Ain't a Love Song- Bon Jovi
Here Without You- 3 Door Down
Going Down in Flames- 3 Doors Down
Trying Not to Love You- Nickelback
Torn to Pieces- Pop Evil
sticks + stones- Jaris Johnson
Careless Whisper- Seether
Broken (feat Amy Lee)
Forever- Papa Roach
Save Our Last Goodbye- Disturbed
Lost in the Crowd- Shinedown
Angel- Theory of a Deadman
Love Me or Leave Me- Three Days Grace
Nothing to Lose But You- Three Days Grace
Drown- Three Days Grace
Take Me Under- Three Days Grace
Broken Glass- Three Days Grace
Last to Know- Three Days Grace
Without You- Three Days Grace
Wicked Game- Three Days Grace
Someday- Nickelback
Home-Nickelback
Breakeven (Falling to Pieces)- The Script
The Man Who Can't Be Moved- The Script
Hip-Hop/Rap:
Just A Dream- Nelly
Goodbyes (feat. Young Thug)
Metal:
Wither- Dream Theater
Another Day- Theater
R&B/Soul:
Nobody Knows- The Tony Rich Project
Cold Little Heart- Michael Kiwanuka
Bet Ain't Worth the Hand- Leon Bridges
It's Over Now- Tedy
Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart- Alicia Keys
Carry On (Her Letter to Him)- Ne-Yo
Either (feat. Zara Larsson)
Shot Down- Khalid
1 SIDED LOVE- blackbear
SingeSong Writer:
Such A Simple Thing- Ray LaMontagne
You- Callum James
Been a Long Day- Rosi Golan
Antidote- Faith Marie
Life Moves On- Finneas
Break My Heart Again- Finneas
Let You Go- Will Reagan & United Pursuit
Always- Gavin James
Be Alright- Dean Lewis
Hurricane- Heather Morgan
Fix It to Break it- Clinton Kane
Lost- Dermot Kennedy
Broken (feat. Daniel Gonzales)- Jake Dexter
K-Pop:
KILLING ME- iKON
JUST GO- iKON
GOODBYE ROAD- iKON
Soundtrack:
How's the World Treating You- Daniel Agee
The Winner Takes It All- ABBA & Siobban McCarthy
I'll Try (feat. KJ Apa)- Riverdale Cast
I Know Him So Well- Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson
Burn- Andra Day
You Will Always Find Me In Your Heart- Christopher Lennertz & Shaley Scott
Complete list of all the good posts in CritiqueIslam.
There is a lot of gold buried in this subreddit. As new posts keep piling up, the old gets buried deeper. To preserve the awesome work and effort of the critics, and for the ease of access, here is a list of all the good posts in no particular order. I will organize it in multiple categories in future, for now I request the mods to pin this post and create a wiki for the subreddit to catalogue the good posts. I will also create a bot to help partially automate the process of updating the catalogue with new posts. Arguments Against Islam:
The Ottoman rework has been teased for a long time so I know you’ll be happy to hear it is finally here and ready for you to enjoy! Not only that, but the National France rework comes with it two, along with several other new focus trees. We’ve also spent time working on other changes, such as letting you recall volunteers, along with many bug fixes and performance improvements. We hope you enjoy the changes and have fun playing Kaiserreich! Note: As always this patch isn’t save-game compatible. If you would like to continue your game please use the manual download found here: - The KR4 team Changes Notable Additions
Completely reworked the Commune of France’s generals, admirals, and military ministers
Russia’s foreign policy has been overhauled to accompany the changes to the Middle East and the Caucasus
Added “Recall Volunteers” button
Expeditionary Forces no longer count towards the division limit
New Focus Trees
Syria
Iraq
Hejaz
Georgia
Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem
Suez International Zone
Cyrenaica
Reworked/Expanded Focus Trees
Ottoman Empire
Egypt
Tripolitania
Jabal Shammar
National France
Tweaked Focus Trees
Russia
Russian Socialist Republic
Romania
Ireland
Portugal
Oman
Yemen
Germany
New Events
Romania
National France
Syria
Iraq
Hejaz
Georgia
Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem
Tripolitania
Ottoman Empire
Egypt
Cyrenaica
Jabal Shammar
Ikhwan
Tweaked Events
Russia
Commune of France
New Decisions
Ireland
Romania
National France
Portugal
Syria
Iraq
Hejaz
Ottoman Empire
Egypt
Cyrenaica
Jabal Shammar
Tweaked Decisions
Commune of France
Russia
New Custom Country Paths
Ottoman Empire
National France
Egypt
GFX
New focus icons for Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mittelafrika, Peru, the Union of Britain and Venezuela
New flags for Alash Orda, the Commune of France, Illyria, National France, the Ottoman Empire and Ulster
Adjusted the Africa loading screen to match the new situation
New or updated portraits for:
Afghanistan: Amanullah Khan
Armenia: Berç Kerestecıyan, Hamazasp Babadzhanian
Assyria: Agha Petros, Dawid d’Mar Shimun, Shimun XXI Eshai
Austria: Alfred Jansa, Alfred Klahr, Eduard Barger, Erhard Raus, Franz Böhme, Franz Dinghofer, Friedrich Adler, Friedrich Materna, Georg von Trapp, Heinrich Pergler von Perglas, Julius Ringel, Karl Eglseer, Karl Renner, Lothar Rendulic, Ludwig von Eimannsberger, Pierre Ramus, Sigismund Schilhawsky, Wilhelm Miklas, Wilhelm Zehner
Belgium: Adelbert I, Georges Timmermans, Jean Baptiste Piron, Maximilien de Neve de Roden, Victor Billet, Victor van Strydonck de Burkel
Britain: Anthony Pugsley, Ebeneezer Edwards, John MacCormick, John Strachey, Robert Oliver
Bulgaria: Ivan Variklechkov, Kimon Georgiev, Konstantin Bekyarov, Konstantin Lukash, Nikola Hadzhipetov, Nikola Nakov, Sava Ivanov, Teodosi Daskalov
Cameroon: Karl Atangana
Cyprus: Leontios II
Cyrenaica: az-Zubayr bin Ahmad as-Sharif
Don-Kuban: Andrey Shkuro
Egypt: Abbas II
France: André Lemonnier, André Marty, Charles Delestraint, Charles Luizet, Diego Brosset, Ernest Petit, Gaston BIllotte, Georges Blanchard, Georges Catroux, Henri Tanguy, Jacques Sadoul, Joseph Putz, Louis Buisson, Marcel Gensoul, Marie-Pierre Koenig, Philippe Auboyneau, Raoul Castex, Raoul Magrin Vernerey, René Olry
Hejaz: Abdullah bin al-Hussein, Abdul Qadir Pasha el-Jundi, Ghazi bin Faisal al-Hashmid
Hungary: Árpád Szakasits, Béla Kun, István Bethlen, Oszkár Jászi
Ireland: Frank MacDermot, Seán Murray
Ikhwan: Nidā ibn Nuhair, Sultan ibn Humaid ibn Bijad, Zaidan ibn Hithlain
Jabal Shammar: Abdallah ibn Mitab ibn Abd al-Aziz, Muhammad ibn Talil, Saud al-Subhan
Lebanon: Bechara el Khoury, Emile Edde, Emile Boustany, Farajallah el-Helou, Fuad Chehab, Pierre Gemayel, Saeb Salam, Youssef Chmeit
Lithuania: Augustinas Voldemaras, Mikas Reklaitis
Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem: Esat Sagay, Raghib al-Nashashibi
Najd: Saud bin Abuldaziz al-Saud
National France: Aimé Doumenc, André Mallarmé, Aubert Frère, Camille Chautemps, Edouard Daladier, Eugène Deloncle, François Darlan, François de la Rocque, Henri Mordacq, George Groussard, Georges Thierry d’Argenlieu, Henri Roger Marie Meric de Bellefon, Jean Decoux, Jean-Marie Charles Abrial, Jean Touzet du Vigier, Louis Franchet d’Esperey, Louis Marin, Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, Marcel Descour, Maurice Grisot, Philippe Leclerc, Pierre Boyer, Pierre Étienne Flandin, Pierre Lelong,
Ottoman Empire: Asim Gunduz, Cahit Toydemir, Fahrettin, Hayrullah Fisek, Kazim Orbay, Mehmet Ali Ülgen, Mehmet Hayri Tarhan, Kazim Karabekir, Fevzi Çakmak, Mustafa Kemal, Mustafa Muglali, Nafiz Gurman, Hüseyin Rauf Orbay, Mahmud Muhtar Katırcıoğlu, Nihat Anılmış, Nuri Yamut, Ömer Fahrettin, Osman Fuad, Sukru Okran, Tahsin Yazici
Syria: Adi bin Hassan, Akram Hourani, Aziz Ali al-Misri, Hashim al-Atassi, Husni al-Zaim, Khalid Bakdash, Muhammad Abdel Moneim, Rushdi al-Kikhiya, Said al-Jazairi
Tripolitania: Ahmad Faqih Hasan, Bashir Saadawi, Salim Bey al-Muntasir
Trucial States: Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa, Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
West Indies: Eustace Fiennes
Yunnan: Lu Han
Music Mod
Added Ottoman songs: Resadiye Marsi, Ottoman March, Izmir March, and March of the Ottoman Expedition
Added Indonesian song: Rayuan Pulau Kelapa
Added Polish song: Marsz Obozowy
Added Mongolian Song: Chingges Khaanii Magtaa
Added German Song: Komm Zurück! There’s also a new version of Das Gibt Nur Einmal (It’s the same recording, just with less background noise)
By request of the French Team, the French music list has been reworked. The new songs are: Ça ira mieux demain, Ce que c'est qu'un drapeau, Cocorico, Debout la France, Hymne de L'Infanterie de Marine, Ils ne la gagneront pas, Ils Reviendront, La France de demain, La Galette, La Royale, Le Chant des Girondins, Le Cuirassier, Le Rêve Passe, Marche des Tirailleurs, Nous autres de la chasse (Us of the Hunt)", La Renouveau, Rhin et Danube,Semons le Grain de la Lumière and a new version of La Marche Lorraine. French songs that have been removed: Partant pour la Syrie (main theme, will be re-added later), Au 31 du mois d'août, Maréchal Nous Voilà, La Victoire est à nous, Aida Triumphal March, La Grenadière, Primer Imperio Francés, Veillons au salut de l'Empire
Mapping
Ningbo is now a city
Added Poti and moved Batumi to Trabzon
Made the Trans-Saharan railway a special crossing
Split Wales into North and South Wales
Merged the Barotseland states
Strategic region updates for Britain and the Congo
Ifni is now a separate state from Rio de Oro
Added new border states in Panama and Costa Rica
Restored the correct borders of Burkina Faso
Removed Lake Volta, as it doesn’t exist in 1936
Split Flanders into Antwerp and Flanders
Split Wallonia into Hainaut and Liège
Curaçao and Qatar now have ports
Chinese provinces are now displayed on the state screen
Miscellaneous
Added a British Exile trait for CAN generals and admirals, showing which leaders will return to GBR when it is formed
Added coalitions for Uruguay, the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Panama
If Shanqing forms Qing, they can integrate parts of China
The Manchu Coup is no longer really democratic, and ends elections after 1945
Japan can no longer annex China for a smaller cost
Legation Cities now keep their current government when puppeted
Legation Cities can request allied Chinese concessions
MacArthur can now secure all of Texas and Oklahoma before the Civil War starts
Tennessee and North Carolina are now more likely to stay with MacArthur.
Added a way for Austria to bribe Bulgaria with Macedonia for an alliance if DAB exists after annexing Serbia.
Added the ability for Austria to give core Serbia to Illyria (it cannot core it).
Delayed Austria's entry into the WK - they’ll only do it if they’ve chosen their reform path and done the focus, and if Germany has lost Bavaria or has over 30% surrender progress.
If Canada is invaded by anyone other than America or one of its allies, a non-socialist America will join the war in favor of Canada.
Anqing and Nanjing Clique Yiguandao/KMT decisions have been improved and cleaned up.
Rocket artillery and motorized rocket artillery added to companies
Ireland now starts with an AuthDem Minister of the Interior, instead of NatPop
Romania's Iron Guard content expanded, especially the middle Legionary tree. King Nicolae I can succeed instead of Michael.
Michael I is now localized to Mihai, just as other Romanian kings are localised.
Gave player more control over whether or not Carol II dies in the assassination event.
Added decisions to Carol's post-unification path
American Union State can now join the Entente
Venice now begins with a military malus for a couple of months, when it revolts
Russia no longer sends volunteers to Xinjiang
Reduced Kumul's out of supply boni and lowered their starting troop count by 2
Transylvania can now be granted to a non-aligned Romania.
Several new event pictures for Russia and the Commune of France
Removed Volkerschau events
Portugal’s Colonial Development focuses have been turned into decisions.
Custom GUI in the stateview that shows which Province Chinese states belong to, similar to the new Ottoman GUI
The above GUI now shows the status of replacing the governors in the Reestablish Order decision tab for Anqing
Germany can now influence the Portugal-Mittelafrika peace deal
Redone the Socialist Anti-Colonial Committee focus for the Commune of France to match with the changes in National France
Added camels to the Middle East nations, Ethiopia, Somalia and National France
Internationale and Entente/Reichspakt countries will now embargo each other when joining the faction
Twilight Struggle is now removed if the Internationale is defeated.
The Internationale will now collapse if a suitable leader cannot be found.
Poland now gets claims on Germany upon allying with Russia.
Majors now have an increased factor towards researching CAS and NAV.
Moved the Isle of Man to Lanark
Poland now gets claims on Germany upon allying with Russia.
Poland can now annex Gumbinnen if it has annexed Konigsberg.
Can no longer go down to “Disarmed Nation” voluntarily
Removed Arabian cores on the Levant
NatPop SIC now more likely to join Entente
Added a couple of tooltips to three Russian events
Updated Persia-Russia peace deal
Ecuador now starts with a mountaineer template
Smedley Butler now dies after the Second American Civil War
GEA and RUS will now send lend-lease to the United Front if possible
Added Aland annexation decision
Added Romandie annexation decision
Aland is now demilitarized again at the end of wars
The Phalanstere's assistance can now be refused.
AI USA now builds more tanks
Xinjiang may now be given to the Central Asian Federation
Updated AI factors for the conscription laws
Chen Jiongming no longer invites a corrupt Zhao Hengti to the Federalists.
Legation Cities can now request concessions that their allies hold
Removed dates from loading quotes
Chile will now receive Tierra del Fuego if it can't be returned to Argentina by whoever is releasing it.
Belgium's AT ideas now give piercing boni instead.
Updated AI factors for the conscription laws.
Tags that revolt from Andesia now automatically join a faction to work together to crush Argentina
If Brazil is a puppet or was Balkanized by Patagonia then they too can join the faction to crush Andesia
When a tag revolts against Andesia it automatically goes to war, no longer can you opt to not go to war
Andesia now peaces out with the revolters after its full collapse
The NFA and GBR foci about the British-French relationship are now linked.
Added unit limit bonuses for the SCW
Added a small unit limit bonus for Yucatan
Russia can now invite Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to its faction
Hawaii can now be granted to GEA
Added an Ukrainian rename for Kuban
Some nerfs to the CSA military ideas
Lithuania will now refrain from rebelling before the WK
The UK will target in peace conferences, and then no longer release, Malaysia or Sarawak unless decolonised.
Romania’s Great Game decision category now warns you when you’re losing stability
Memel can be granted to an allied Lithuania
“Restoring Napoleon” loading tip replaced with “Restoring monarchies”
USA can now break the ceasefire if the PSA is losing against a third party
New unique American designers
Removed any mentions of Hitler or Heydrich
Added a dynamic description to the Siamese engineers event
Reduced the time for Yunnan's war declarations
The Brazilian Greenguards idea now has a more fitting effect
Guatemala will now try to get rid of Monroe as soon as possible
The UK now gets a claim on South Georgia alongside the Falklands
Russia will now refrain from attacking Japan while Germany is still alive.
Increased suppression values for armoured cars, camels, and bicycle battalions
The Third Internationale will now research oil tech more but has fewer bonuses for it.
Greece now gets Northern Epirus via the Treaty of Budapest.
Hawaii now gets two destroyers from each purchase
Russia's military AI should now focus less on Finland and more on EE
Changed the Russian attack on Germany to be focus-based
Occitania has been fully removed
Ukraine's mission to peace out with Germany now cancels if they reach 50% surrender progress
AI republican Poland will now wait for the WK to join a faction.
Foreign volunteers to the CSA are modifiable
Ulster’s parties have been redone
Transylvania will no longer rejoin a capitulated Romania.
TAN can now integrate China if led by a Han regime
The Gruppa di Difesa Della Donna template added for the SRI is no longer locked
SRI can no longer join the Third Internationale if it declares war on a fellow socialist country before joining the faction
All SRI decisions to build factories now require PP and civilian_factory_use, and take longer to build; they no longer need to be done only one at a time, however
The bonuses provided by many SRI economic and military ideas have been significantly nerfed across the board
Italian focuses which add resources have been moved to decisions, so they can be available to other tags if/when Italy is united
Legionary Italy now gets its navy back from Venice, upon taking Venice during the revolt
Fixes Notable Fixes
Fixed Portugal not joining the Entente if MAF is dead, again
The Netherlands no longer trade with their enemies
Fixed Japan's collapse resurrecting a dead Russia in Transamur
ROM can no longer release Greater Hungary
ANI Italy actually tries to beat Venice, for real this time
Other Fixes
America can now actually ask for their vote back in the Legation Council
Panama’s politics now make more sense
Fixed Legation Council vote timer appearing for nations not on the Council
Norway no longer has identical companies
Austria can still do their Secret Deal path
If the Left Kuomintang are a puppet then they will only be able to take Army/Navy/Air national foci to prevent your puppet from doing major changes to their government (1st congress etc) without your knowing.
Removed the white border around the Hunan flag
Fixed the resolution of the Rassid Arabia flag
Fixed Persia returning Herat to Afghanistan
Fixed MAF-released Rhodesia not owning Nyasaland.
Fixed a number of XSM typos
Fixed Persia returning Herat to Afghanistan.
Fixed France not getting claims on Wallonia if they annex all of Belgium
Fixed the Dutch Revolution news event using the wrong description
MAF can no longer release its constituents while at war
The CSA Constitutional Congress popularity gains now reflect the actual politics
Fixed a Yunnan focus bypassing incorrectly and added extra AI factors to their war foci
Post-ACW emergency mobilization is no longer locked
Fixed and improved the Hunan faction joining decisions
Fixed the post-Great Game trees' availables
WIF can no longer get spontaneous coups late game or when a conflicting game rule is enabled.
Fixed Fate of Kurdistan not transferring the states
The party popularity GUI now correctly reflects the party providing the PP gain
Fixed the Brazilian volunteer division not being removed when the ACW ends
Fixed the CAN-CSA peace triggering the Fall of Boston event incorrectly
Fixed the terrain around Vancouver
Fixed the endonym for Kisangani/Stanleyville
Fixed some misleading tooltips in the Unification Conference starter mission
Fixed Fengtian being able to join Japan's faction when already in it
Added an alternative response to the Manchu Campaign news event for their enemies
No more errors from unplanned offensives
Fixed Natal's tree being unlocked before the Boer War begins.
Fixed the Peruvian foreign policy foci.
Fixed frontline bug in Cabinda
Fixed a SIK decision giving steel while referring to oil deposits.
Romania can no longer join the Entente if at war
The LKMT no longer commits suicide by Japan
Fixed the inverted BHC civil war leaders.
State modifiers are no longer overlapping in the UI.
Some fixes and improvements to the Chinese army reform system.
Mongolia and Tibet can no longer join the Unification Conference
Some fixes and improvements to the Chinese army reform system
Mantetsu is now disabled if Japan dies
Fixed Russia starting an early WK by attacking Ukraine in the middle of their revolution.
Fixed a Yunnan focus not accounting for the exiled Federalists
Fixed Fengtian offering Japan protection
Fixed a wrong scope error in the UK files
Fixed and optimised a bunch of EGY-ETH rivalry events
increased AI CAN emphasis on suppressing Quebec
Fixed and improved the SAF-ENT peace deal
Riga now checks if it can actually declare war on Latvia in its focus
Fixed a broken ANQ tooltip
Canada can no longer get the Fate of New England
Fixed the spawns of the Romanian legionary volunteers
Illyria can no longer release Slovenia
Fixed the SOV Gosplan idea swaps
Belgium's AT ideas now give piercing boni instead
Yunnan's demand events now keep the original government when puppeting Hunan
MYS core is removed from Malabar Coast once the PRF revolt is done
Fixed an ANQ flag not being cleared and breaking the Conference event
Fixed a Greek focus not accounting for the Dodecanese and Cyprus
France now gets partisan bonuses
Fixed Edwin Barclay's portrait being overwritten by vanilla's
Fixed a broken failsafe in the LEP Move Quickly missions
Fixed a misleading Siamese event option
Fixed GXC not being able to declare war on FNG
Fixed original United Front member countries leaving the alliance
Fixed a post-war CSA event firing mid-ACW
No more irregular provinces in Zambia
Some rebalancing of the MAF building slots
Fixed the Peruvian foreign policy foci
Fixed Serbia coring Anatolia
Fixed Tang Jiyao leading two parties at once in the UPC.
Fixed a Yemeni focus only targeting Oman
Fixed and improved old Egyptian decisions
Fixed Egypt instantly getting rid of illiteracy
Renamed Andalucía to a more fitting name
Fixed Yunnan being able to peace out with Japan due to Burma
Fixed a duplicate JAP tooltip
Fixed Stalin being killed by Patagonia while in Russia
Bolivia no longer gets the Fate of Northern Chile
Fixed the USA not being able to purge the Longists
Fixed a number of BOL bypasses
When releasing Turkish borderlands with annexation decisions, cores are not granted to neighbors when the states are given to them.
Fixed KR operatives with non-KR portrait references
Added missing AI factors to a number of GEA decisions
Transylvania will no longer rejoin a capitulated Romania
Fixed a BOL war decision being visible when the targets are already owned
AI and performance improvements for the Swiss NatPop decisions
Qing now sends volunteers correctly
Fixed CAN not being able to release a claimed AST.
Fixed the Democratic CEN elections
KMT Yunnan can no longer use the generic Form China decision.
Fixed Sichuan moving its capital to Chongqing when it's already there
Fixed a Federalist focus not bypassing properly
Tried to improve the flow of the United Front code.
Fixed Mongolia not getting its claims when the Ma Clique sues for peace
Fixed the layout of the Zimbabwe army tree
Fixed a number of missing Shan icons
TAN can now integrate China
Fixed the missing checks for the formation of the Belgo-Dutch research group
The RKMT will no longer accept Federalist ultimatums
Fixed the UPC decisions not showing up correctly
AI Qing will no longer go for war decisions before 1938
Fixed MAF claiming Sudan
Fixed Wallonia not getting cores on Antwerp
Fixed an unlocalised FRA tooltip and improved the checks on the Phalanstere decisions
Liberia can now be released normally by NFA, GER or GBR.
Fixed the QIE ally integration decisions being visible while invalid.
Fengtian's attack decision now invalidates if the conditions are no longer met
Fixed Poland getting generic PatAut leaders
Some improvements and a fix to SQI's German Collaboration mechanic
Slight fix so Chinese tags don't get claims on their cores
CSA can no longer get rid of its org debuff before winning the ACW
Fixed a broken PUE idea desc
Fixed Fengtian being able to invite Japanese companies while at war with them
SAF's AI will now prioritise attacking direct neighbours when multiple targets are available
Fixed SIK keeping the Rumors of Discontent idea after winning the war
Liangguang now joins its targets' wars when puppeting KMT cliques
Fixed some TEX decisions not appearing correctly
Fixed a MTG-only ROM event firing for non-owners
Fixed two RUS loc bugs
Fixed a mass replace bug in the ENG naval OOB
Fixed the Beijing Government reverting to the Qing Empire.
Fixed Finland's suicidal AI
Fixed a couple of naval variant bugs
Fixed the broken targeting for albania.50
Fixed the CSA being released too late in Landon's route
Fixed the SAF annexation tree switches
Fixed the loc for the annexation of Dvinsk
Increased the AI factor for Romania coring Silistria
Fixed Egypt instantly getting rid of illiteracy.
Readded a bunch of missing US company logos
Fixed socialist SAF getting Nuweweld decisions
Fixed the Ma Clique peace and collapse events
Countries will now leave the Kaiser Wilhelm Society when no longer in the Reichspakt.
Fixed the Italian names of PAP's Catholic divisions
Fixed Russia not taking the Alands.
Fixed Manchu SQI causing a focus lockout for the LKMT
Fixed Wallonia not gaining cores on Liège
Fixed the double Momentum Lost ideas
The LKMT can no longer attack FNG before doing the prerequisite focus
Fixed the SZC NPA focus not allowing for joining it instead
Fixed Austria not getting a core on Burgenland.
Fixed FNG not getting cores on China when released by Japan
XSM will now give Chamdo to Tibet when releasing them
Fixed the traits of a CHI company
Fix your eyes, you’ve been reading the patch notes for too long
Fixed the Roads to Riga idea not being removed if Riga dies
Removed a meme description from the Persian Balochistan focus
Fixed the DEI focus tree building factories on INS states
Fixed a missing Sichuan loc entry and a typo
Fixed Yunnan not getting claims on Sichuan when forming the KMT government
Fixed Sichuan retaining cosmetic tags when puppeted
Fixed Japan getting the Fading Sun after annexation
Fixed Iceland staying in the Reichspakt's wars after breaking free from Denmark
Upon completion of the Cod War in Iceland, a unit is generated so that they have some form of defence for naval invasions
Added missing vanilla tooltip about extra aircrews
GEA will now lose the Vietcong ideas when peacing out with INC.
Jerusalem's province is no longer a desert
Fixed Nasir Shah not keeping his original trait when returning to Kumul
Reduced Kumul's out of supply boni
Fixed a MEX idea swap not giving any new modifiers
Fixed the United Front leader's faction not reforming properly if it was not the original leader of the faction
Fixed the duplicate decisions for leaving the United Front
Fixed FOP not being properly released by The Revolution Successful
Added a bunch of backup countries to Wilhelm's death event, so it finally fires correctly
Fixed the layout of the Zimbabwe army tree.
Iraq no longer gets a core on Qassim, and Britain no longer claims Kufra
Jin Shuren's mission to unify Xinjiang is now removed if Sheng Shicai takes over
Fixed Long Yun's non-civil war takeover not adding the correct ministers.
Serbia's decision to attack Austria now has ITA- and POL-specific targeting to preempt issues
Fixed DDR and GRU getting cores on Memel without owning Königsberg
Fixed all countries in the world going for Grand Battleplan
Replaced the UoB's concentrated-dispersed focus dichotomy with another idea level, to avoid needing tech triggers
Fixed the trigger for the Gumbinnen annexation
Fixed YUN losing manpower in a civil war event without combat
Removed a deprecated GER focus to invade Denmark (now better handled by a DEN decision)
Fixed a POR event referencing the wrong year
Fixed the POL-UKR peace deal having inverted loc
Fixed a GXC decision taking two years to complete
Fixed Japan ceding the Legation Cities to Fengtian via their foci
Fixed SOM being referred to as an empire
AI Fengtian will refuse to start the Conference if set to pro-Japan in the game rules
Fixed the peaceful HOL revolution not loading the socialist tree
Fixed the Harass Political Enemies decision for Romania decoupling the influence values
Fixed Serbia attacking Austria during the Venetian war
Fixed Serbia joining two factions at once
Fixed RUS not getting resistance on LAT and EST states
Austria's event to return lands now checks for any puppet- and ally-held areas as well
SAF is no longer arbitrarily restricted from releasing Namibia or Mozambique
Fixed Canada not getting the Fate of America
Fixed SOV's tree being blocked by a player finishing the war too quickly
Fixed missing infantry equipment bonus to camels (vanilla bug), by adding a new subcategory of mounted infantry (includes camels and cavalry)
Added missing bicycle and amtrak bonuses to some techs
Replaced `var:faction_leader` with the new `faction_leader` scope.
Added missing hardness bonuses to rest of motorized battalions from mech 1
Your soldiers now can learn both, how to ride a horse and how to shot from AT-rifle (vanilla bug of infantry AT weapons not applying to cavalry, and cavalry not being in category “all infantry”)
Adjusted airtech window grid to vanilla standards, removing the need to use scrollbars to see scout planes while using FullHD. You can now see all planes in same time
The Andesian Rebellion events now have localization
SRI attack decisions will now disappear if the target no longer exists
If syndicalist France is released after annexation, it is puppeted to the releaser if no faction exists for it to join
Removed the duplicate SRI decision to join the Phalanstere
SRI socialist welfare idea now costs consumer_goods_factor instead of adding it
Additional units are no longer transferred from Legionarry Italy to Venice upon the revolt breaking out; any Italian units left in Venice are teleported away
Romania’s AI should now core Transylvania much more efficiently
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Lately, I’ve been seeing people making complaints about the DL DPS Simulator on various points, most of which are either criticisms of how the sim is doing things (it’s not perfect, I agree) or are from a misunderstanding of how the sim functions. From what I see, it's mostly the latter. First, a little background of myself: Some of you may know me as Khalid or K from the maincord. Currently, I’m one of the contributors to the DPS sim, whenever I get free time. Like most of you, I had my own complaints about the sim back then (the builds were woefully out of date or were never worked on). The sim being a project run on Github meant I could make the changes I wanted to see. So I did that and headed over and made my changes. I first started out doing updates on specific units (one of my earlier builds was the S!Celery with S!Luca SS build that is still going strong). Eventually I started working on complete overhauls/updates of entire elements, from the top of the chart to all the way to the bottom) to make them up to date with the current geameta/knowledge, which I think some of you may have noticed when entire elements suddenly jump up/down out of the blue pre-2.0 Enough I want to go straight to the point and address some points people make about the sim, hopefully to clear some things up, in no specific order:
Why is nearly everyone using frostbite?
There are multiple reasons for this:
Nothing resists frostbite (yet)
All frostbite-inflicting skills apply a 21 second long frostbite. This is in contrast to other afflictions like poison, burn, or paralysis, which are 15 seconds or less (with exceptions)
Even without the frostbite affliction Karina and Xander skill shares are incredibly strong depending if the user is capable of capitalizing on the bonus damage from having lots of buffs on them.
His Clever Brother (20% frostbite punisher) is a 4 star wyrmprint. In a lot of cases, there aren't many worthwhile 4 star prints to use. An extra 20% punisher with a 50-80% uptime is incredible value for a single 4 star print slot.
You can expect to see something similar happening once Flashburn becomes more available as a skill share option along with a Flashburn punisher or similar print. If you still don't believe it, seeing is believing, and you should try it for yourself before knocking it down. Ironically, I noticed that the same people who want people to keep an open mind about character choice and builds are the same people who aren't welcoming the frostbite setup.
Why is nearly everyone in light built forDaikokuten?
Version 2.0 has indeed buffed up Daikokuten by that much. Even I didn’t believe it at first but seeing it ingame is a sight to behold. While I will most definitely want to try and make a character stand on their own to showcase their own performance, Daikokuten is just too good to not use. Daiko’s damage, along with light agito weapons’ dragon bar filling s3.2 and G!Mym's skill share is one hell of a combo here. And the DPS sim being a DPS sim... you get the idea :)
The sim is unrealistic.
This is correct. It IS unrealistic. There is currently no scenario in-game that exactly matches the sim’s, which is as follows:
The target is stationary
The target does not attack
The adventurer has no external buffs or teammates supporting them, other than a vague “team DPS” value.
Some team buffs are not considered (team SP haste, team energy, team inspiration, team skill damage buff, and Marth’s Last Boost)
The sim is intended to showcase each unit’s best case scenario given the above scenario. If you want to see how a unit does if we force them to do nothing, you can simulate that in the custom sim by changing the “dumb” value under Conditions (press the Conditions button)
It's the script used to simulate a unit's DPS, but in a fancy and (somewhat) easy to use interface. There are two main parts in the custom sim:
Settings, which consists of the equipment, coabilities, and the ACL. The first two are self explanatory. ACL is where you "program" the adventurer on how to perform their actions. Click on the "ACL Guide" button for more instructions.
Conditions, where you are able to set various values such as an external strength buff, doublebuff intervals, or external affliction sources.
It takes a bit of learning to use, but is a very good tool to learn to use if you want to get more serious with making your own good builds.
The sim makes no sense to me on how it came to these numbers
My best advice here is to check the custom sim (click Customize in the DPS chart) and check that unit’s kit in the wiki or ingame to see how that character functions. If you still don’t understand, ask around, maybe over in the theorycraft channel in maincord and someone should be able to help. The custom sim also has some neat features that you might want to check out to help you with this:
Log
This lets you see the exact rotation used by the unit in question, along with the buffs and afflictions, down to the millisecond.
Graph
This graph shows you the unit’s DPS over the course of the entire simulation period, along with team buffs and afflictions. The sim isn’t great at showing DPS spikes, so you can check them out here.
Why is Durant so high?
Due to the sim’s own scenario (see previous question), it favors self-buff spam units by allowing them to go wild and stack as many buffs as they possibly can, allowing them to constantly stay at their peak damage output. I don’t expect this point to change any time soon.
Why does the DPS sim not count Overdrive and Break states?
This is actually hard to implement in a way that makes sense. As a compromise, until there’s a solution, it simply applies any Overdrive punisher abilities at 35% efficiency, and Break Punisher abilities at 15% efficiency.
I don’t have X for this unit’s build. Can I use Y instead?
80% of the time, the answer is probably a solid no. If you’re missing one piece of the puzzle, the entire build may not function as intended (eg, using a Daikokuten build with Gala Thor or Cupid instead of Daikokuten). You will want to change the build around and find what works best with what you have available. Try to understand what the build is going for, and then make your changes.
Why is X unit not using one or both of their skills?
Sometimes, that’s just how things go. For example, Catherine’s s2 gets stronger at 3x stacks of Perfect Escort (from her S1). However, her standard attacks also get stronger with every stack. Using s2 resets your Perfect Escort stacks to 0, and you have to cycle back up to 3 stacks to finally do decent damage again with her standard attacks. For example, let’s take Catherine. Her S1 powers up both her standard attacks and her S2 with each stack of Perfect Escort. You’d think you want to get to 3x stacks of Perfect Escort and blow up the enemy with an S2 as soon as it’s ready, but consider the standard attacks getting weaker after every S2. To bypass that, she never uses S2 in the sim until at the very end for a big dps spike. In practice, there would be a lot of nuance on when to use S2, but I do believe using it on break is a good idea. Sometimes, the time spent in the skill’s animation is just not worth the time not spent charging up your better skills (eg, Incognito Nefaria pre-2.0’s s2)
Why are healers being run as DPS? They shouldn’t run as DPS!
I have two points for this:
There is currently no content where you actually need a healer to run with a full healer setup except for auto, where the sim doesn’t apply
If people are playing well enough, chances are, the occasional S1 heal is probably more than sufficient to keep everyone at max HP. At that point, you’re nothing more than dead weight. Might as well run something, right?
Of course, you can run something like P!Siren or Gaibhne & Creidhne, depending on what’s available or the team composition. But this is a DPS sim and we’re here for the DPS :D
I don't like the new DPS sim. The old one was better.
I keep seeing this statement but I don't understand it lol. It's literally the exact same sim, with the exact same people working on it. Nothing changed, other than what was needed to be added to accommodate for DL version 2.0's additions (5x print slots, affinities, etc).
The DPS sim is a tier list
No, it’s not. Use whoever you love to play as. I put a lot of work in making sure the "low tier" characters be as best as they can be on the DPS sim. If you love to use off-meta characters, do consider the builds used in there! Or if you think the build can be better or are lacking certain key pieces of the build, head over to the custom sim and make your own builds!
Why did an adventurer suddenly jump up or down the chart?
There can be many reasons for this, which can be one or a combination of the following:
New weapons, wyrmprints, dragons, or shared skills were released
Skill rotation optimization (ACL)
Equipment optimization
Bug fix
How buggy or accurate is the DPS sim?
No software is bug-free, but we strive to have it working as closely as possible as in-game, and that means going as far as simulating ingame bugs (eg, Zhu Bajie’s longer than intended s2 buff, Victor’s weird burn punisher on his stage 3 of s1) or weird behavior (Lathna’s extra hits ignoring Cat Sith and attack rate) Accuracy-wise, it’s very accurate, given the rules and assumptions the sim is operating in (a stationary sandbag that does not attack you). Do note that the sim is coded by humans. The general workflow of a new character is as follows:
Datamine the game files
Verify the datamined info with how the character behaves ingame
Translate how the character in question operates into code
Test said character in custom sim and make sure everything is correct (check logs for damage and timings)
Done
As you can see, the accuracy is entirely dependent on our understanding of the character in question. Simpler characters would be straightforward to translate into code, but someone with unique mechanics and effects (eg, Meene or G!Zena) would take a while until they’re ready and may even need a few bug fixes after they’re “done”. And sometimes, the bug can be just a typo in the code. We’re human after all. :) Some notable bugs/oversights that were fixed in the DPS sim recently:
FS buffer time is now considered (the time between the tap and the FS marker showing) This caused sword units to no longer prefer c2fs or c3fs as a combo.
Timing of some weapon FSs have been fixed (some were 1-2 frames faster than they should be)
Daikokuten was doing more hits than intended (he’s still best light dragon form though)
--------------------- I know it's a long post, but I hope this might cleared up some things about the sim for you. If you have any questions, feel free to ask here.
How to make minor chords sound 'happy' or energetic, and vice-versa ?
Hi :) So in an attempt to write better chords/melodies I have analyzed a few songs (mainly by Calvin Harris) to understand what kind of emotion/vibe each type of keys/scales give but I have not been able to pinpoint an easy enough method to detect/write chord progressions that sound a certain way (Happy/Sad/Uplifting). The songs I have gone through are as follows:
We Found Love w/ Rihanna : Ebmin, Ebmin7, Gbmaj, Dbmaj ;
This one for me is the most confusing one as it sounds imo the nicest out of the songs I've linked yet it is also written in a minor scale. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f_JiibvQAM Link to the instrumental version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6vcipv6MbA I have also found this post (https://www.reddit.com/musictheory/comments/b6zfgf/happysounding_minor_and_sadsounding_majo) where some users have mentioned in the replies that 7th chords play a major role (no pun intended) in making the minor chords sound happier and uplifting yet some of the songs I've linked here don't include any 7th chords. (Just to clarify, I have found the chords stated above by downloading MIDIs of the songs and ran them through a VST plugin called Scaler2, so I apologize if there are any mistakes as I am not a music theory expert; I also I'm in no way saying that minor scales are strictly sad-sounding I'm merely trying to associate certain chords with certain emotions in order to improve my writing skills.) With that being said, how can one write chords while having certain emotions (positive/negative) in mind? and which chords are associated with what emotions? Cheers.
Sometimes my econ students will ask me if I believe we should do student debt relief. Yes, absolutely. Its usually followed up with a question about my student loans but I don’t have any, that’s not why I am for it. I hate seeing people in generations after me with crushing debt. I want them to be free. My girlfriend was at the table last month reading a letter and then she put her head in her hands and cried really hard and I wanted to see what was making her cry, I was hoping I could make her feel better. Now I will say my girlfriend cries a lot. These are just some of the things I’ve seen her cry about the last two years: The Chiefs losing the Superbowl When we went to the Khalid concert at Sprint Center and he played Better and we danced up in the nosebleed section a work spreadsheet she didn’t understand John Legend’s Instagram post (even though she doesn’t listen to John Legend) when the NY photographer who took the famous Hosmer picture died of Covid when I beat her in Scrabble how beautiful a pony was playing in the snow a $39 ring I bought her at Ross Dress for Less in Olathe because I was thinking of her The stripper movie with Jennifer Lopez and Cardi B I know it sounds like I am making up that last one but we were at our favorite theatre, the BandB one in Shawnee with the big cushy leather chairs that lay all the way back and she cried and cried the one part where Jennifer Lopez is hugging that girl. I heard the sniffling and looked over and couldn’t believe it because honestly that movie was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen in my life. I’m just saying she is very sensitive. Only yesterday I found out when she gives the cat treats she heats them up for a little bit first, in the microwave. She said he likes them warm and it made me smile. I don’t give her a hard time because she is very very sweet. And so kind. You can imagine if she is that kind to a cat how kind she is to me. And she came into my life in a time when I needed kindness more than anything in the world. So the letter making her cry could have been anything. She let me see it and the letter said your student loans are going up from $700 to $1100 and it broke my heart. $1100 a month is terrible and it is a crushing amount for her to pay most of the rest of her life. I don’t want to see that anymore, for her or for any other Millennial. Or a Zoomer either for that matter. There aren’t a lot of positive aspects about growing up Gen X. We were the silent generation. We were told not to speak until spoken to. But then we were never spoken to. No one asked us anything. It didn’t matter if we wanted to go to church or not we had the mean early Boomers for parents (My house my rules they screamed). Go tell your dad its your birthday she said, we both forgot. Maybe we can go get some pizza or something. Our parents were the last generation to beat their kids, the last generation to force religion, the last generation to be openly racist. GenX was the generation given a key but never a say. But some things were good about growing up GenX. For one, we never had cell phones and the internet. I know that seems counterintuitive because the internet has cool stuff like porn and chess now but it also has God damn Facebook and Instagram, the dirge of my existence. I know I sound like an old man yelling at the clouds but everyone is so fidgety now, everyone is always swiping swiping God damn swiping. Always looking to see what is next, what celebrities are doing, what their friends and distant family are doing. One time I was in a KFC on a weekday lunch and there was a man there dressed up in a business suit and a tie and he had two sweet little daughters with him who were wearing dresses. It must have been take your daughters to work day but I remember they kept saying dad dad but he never heard them he was just swipe, swipe, swiping and it made me so sad. I wanted to shake him and say look at your sweet daughters this is precious time with them. I never said anything but since then I always try to put my phone away when I am with my kids. I try to live in the present. That seemed easier when we grew up GenX. Sometimes we would go to the ballfields by Avila and just play home run derby all day. Hours and hours we would try to hit home runs and try to catch balls in the air, that was my favorite, shagging fly balls. I remember one time going back back back for a long fly and catching it just as it was going over the fence. The momentum took me over and my hip was all scraped from the top of the chain link fence all bleeding and shit but I didn’t care, I held up the ball and everyone held their caps up and yelled fuck yeah, good catch! Hell yeah! We were just there all day. No one had to check their phones or scroll through post or Instagram anything. I remember reading Lil Nas X during the pandemic say he missed going to nightclubs and standing against the wall and then remembering to post to Instagram about how much fun he was having so he would take a quick picture dancing and then he would go back to standing against the wall. He was being sarcastic, he didn’t really miss that, no one does. But it was a good post because it made a lot of people think. Why do we do what we do? Is it for the gram? Is it so other people can see our lives and think we have our shit together? I miss the time before we had social media because we never stopped to think about whether or not we were missing something. We were right there with our friends, exhausted after hours of shagging balls, with our baseball gloves under our heads for pillows, staring up into that hot Missouri sky and realizing there was nowhere else we would rather be. One other good part about growing up GenX was the ridiculously low price of education. $700 was what I had to pay for tuition at Truman State University. Before every semester started I would go to the cashier and give her my check for the upcoming semester. My parents said they would pay for all my school if I went to a Christian University but I was disinterested, to say the least. I had already been kicked out of Christian high school, the last thing I wanted was to be kicked out of a Christian college. I did take one Christian college visit though, I visited an awful school called Liberty University in Virginia founded by a racist TV preacher named Jerry Falwell. The reason I took the visit was because my mom said she would buy me a plane ticket to go there on my own and when you are 17 and someone says they will let you ride in an airplane by yourself from Kansas City to Virginia you take it, no matter how bad the school seems. I was right though, the school was fuckin terrible. Everyone was wearing suits and dresses and for fun they had a animated movie with a mouse in it. But you had to sign out of the prison er I mean dorms to go see it. I stole a bike the second day and put on my headphones with contraband rap music I had taped off the radio and peddled as fast as I could into the town of Lynchburg. I found an arcade and a pizza parlor and watched all the R rated movies they were playing and didn’t ride back until late at night. Apparently that is a no-no with that University because a bunch of angry old white men had a meeting about me when I came back and threatened to call my parents but ended up just taking me to the airport at 8 am on Sunday and leaving me there just to be rid of me. Mr. Falwell himself told me that I was never welcome again on any campus of Liberty University. Good, fuck that place. Truman State was an amazing college. Lots of kids on the smarter side like me and I could listen to Dr. Dre as loud as I wanted. The $700 for my tuition I earned during the breaks. My girlfriend could never do anything like this because she is Millennial and all you guys got fucked on education. They told you that you needed it and then they priced it so high you would be in debt for life. My situation was better and I usually delivered pizza back home and saved up my $700. I drove for the Grandview Pizza Hut on 71hwy next to the abandoned Kmart first but the second winter break they didn’t need any drivers. They told me to go work at the Pizza Hut by Bannister Mall on James A. Reed. Now I don’t know if any of you remember the Bannister Mall area from the mid 90s but it was not nice. This was before cell phones so these places would be locked up twice- once at their apartment and once for the building itself. So you had to bang really loud on the building door and then when someone let you in you had to bang on the apartment door. Pretty scary late January nights in South Kansas City. My worst pizza delivery wasn’t scary, it was just sad. This delivery was to Bannister Mall itself and the Foot Locker on the lower level. That’s where I ran into Anthony from my high school football team. We hugged and then I asked him about school but he told me he dropped out. Anthony was the fastest motherfucker I had ever seen. When the college scouts came to watch him on that day he happened to forget his shoes. All his shoes, no tennis shoes, no cleats, no spikes, nothing. So he just told them he would run in his socks. These weren’t ankle socks, they were full length socks that he pushed down but as soon as he came off the blocks his fuckin socks flopped and flopped and flopped. God damn I will never forget watching him run his heart out that day, just sprinting for everything he wanted- for a college scholarship, for a chance for an education, for a chance to leave the Grandview Apartments and a childhood filled with poverty behind. And he got it too. That day shoeless Anthony ran the 40 yard dash in under 5 seconds, 4.8 seconds with no shoes on. The scouts all saw it too that day. He signed a full ride scholarship to a historically black college in the south and we all hugged him and were so happy for him and his ticket out of poverty. But God damnit that night I delivered the pizzas he was right back there working at Foot Locker like that dream never happened. He told me he was staying back at the Grandview Apartments but that was a misnomer. Because they were not Grand and there sure as hell was no View. I knew for Anthony like every other kid that couldn’t get out, he was back in the cycle. I threw my empty pizza warmer onto the passenger seat and cried because I knew his life and his talent and his dreams would die and it made me so sad. He said he was going to enroll in Longview College but everyone said that. Longview was a misnomer just like Grandview. It didn't take long to drop out and there was still no view. That night sitting in the parking lot of Bannister Mall I could see the future and it was Anthony living back in poverty at the run-down Grandview Apartments thinking about how life had passed him by. You can juxtaposition my worst pizza delivery with my best, a girl named Christina who was in my journalism class in high school. She was one of the only rich people I knew in my low income high school. Her dad had some kind of job in the stock market and they had a pool inside their house! And a fuckin hot tub, can you believe that? Inside the house! I didn’t even know that was legal. Certainly no one from Hickman Mills I had ever heard of had a pool inside their house. I delivered her pizza and she told me her parents left her money before they left for the weekend so this was her third time ordering pizza and she was glad it was me. Holy Shit had Christina gotten in shape since college. I had heard of the freshmen 15 for college girls adding weight but I never knew it could go the other way too. She told me she was a workout instructor now in Columbia and she lifted up her shirt and showed me her six pack. I whistled and said God damn girl, you are looking good! She asked me how long I had to deliver pizzas and I told her I got off at 10 so she said to come over after and we can get in the hot tub. She said it real suggestively too so I was thinking there were going to be some sparks afterwards. I rushed home between deliveries and snuck in and grabbed my swimsuit before my mom could say anything and jumped back in my car and drove back to Pizza Hut for the rest of my shift. When I got to her house just after ten she invited me in and grabbed my hand and took me to the room with the hot tub and the pool. She said if you want to get in the hot tub I am going to take these clothes off. And then she left. Well fuck, I was in a real dilemma. What did she mean she was going to take these clothes off? She was going to come out naked? Should I put my swimsuit on? Or get in the hot tub naked? I decided to get in the hot tub naked because that stupid fuckin Wayne Gretzky quote was in my head, you know the one that says "You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take." Or maybe that was Michael Jordan. Or Michael Scott. Can’t remember. All I know was that I was feeling like an asshole because she came out in a proper one piece bathing suit that looked like it was from the swim team. So she sat in the hot tub with me and then she was getting amorous but I was getting nervous because I had no pants on, I just kept shifting to the other side of the tub. I didn’t want her to think I was assuming we were just going to get naked or whatever, eventually I just had to say look I’m not wearing any pants. She laughed and I laughed and we made out but not sex because Jesus was watching and I was super scared of Jesus back then. So I drove home and reveled in being in the moment with the only rich girl in South Kansas City, and saving up $700 to pay for the college I loved, and how much my car still smelled like pepperoni.
Sometimes my econ students will ask me if I believe we should do student debt relief. Yes, absolutely. Its usually followed up with a question about my student loans but I don’t have any, that’s not why I am for it. I hate seeing people in generations after me with crushing debt. I want them to be free. My girlfriend was at the table last month reading a letter and then she put her head in her hands and cried really hard and I wanted to see what was making her cry, I was hoping I could make her feel better. Now I will say my girlfriend cries a lot. These are just some of the things I’ve seen her cry about the last two years: The Chiefs losing the Superbowl When we went to the Khalid concert at Sprint Center and he played Better and we danced up in the nosebleed section a work spreadsheet she didn’t understand John Legend’s Instagram post (even though she doesn’t listen to John Legend) when the NY photographer who took the famous Hosmer picture died of Covid when I beat her in Scrabble how beautiful a pony was playing in the snow a $39 ring I bought her at Ross Dress for Less in Olathe because I was thinking of her The stripper movie with Jennifer Lopez and Cardi B I know it sounds like I am making up that last one but we were at our favorite theatre, the BandB one in Shawnee with the big cushy leather chairs that lay all the way back and she cried and cried the one part where Jennifer Lopez is hugging that girl. I heard the sniffling and looked over and couldn’t believe it because honestly that movie was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen in my life. I’m just saying she is very sensitive. Only yesterday I found out when she gives the cat treats she heats them up for a little bit first, in the microwave. She said he likes them warm and it made me smile. I don’t give her a hard time because she is very very sweet. And so kind. You can imagine if she is that kind to a cat how kind she is to me. And she came into my life in a time when I needed kindness more than anything in the world. So the letter making her cry could have been anything. She let me see it and the letter said your student loans are going up from $700 to $1100 and it broke my heart. $1100 a month is terrible and it is a crushing amount for her to pay most of the rest of her life. I don’t want to see that anymore, for her or for any other Millennial. Or a Zoomer either for that matter. There aren’t a lot of positive aspects about growing up Gen X. We were the silent generation. We were told not to speak until spoken to. But then we were never spoken to. No one asked us anything. It didn’t matter if we wanted to go to church or not we had the mean early Boomers for parents (My house my rules they screamed). Go tell your dad its your birthday she said, we both forgot. Maybe we can go get some pizza or something. Our parents were the last generation to beat their kids, the last generation to force religion, the last generation to be openly racist. GenX was the generation given a key but never a say. But some things were good about growing up GenX. For one, we never had cell phones and the internet. I know that seems counterintuitive because the internet has cool stuff like porn and chess now but it also has God damn Facebook and Instagram, the dirge of my existence. I know I sound like an old man yelling at the clouds but everyone is so fidgety now, everyone is always swiping swiping God damn swiping. Always looking to see what is next, what celebrities are doing, what their friends and distant family are doing. One time I was in a KFC on a weekday lunch and there was a man there dressed up in a business suit and a tie and he had two sweet little daughters with him who were wearing dresses. It must have been take your daughters to work day but I remember they kept saying dad dad but he never heard them he was just swipe, swipe, swiping and it made me so sad. I wanted to shake him and say look at your sweet daughters this is precious time with them. I never said anything but since then I always try to put my phone away when I am with my kids. I try to live in the present. That seemed easier when we grew up GenX. Sometimes we would go to the ballfields by Avila and just play home run derby all day. Hours and hours we would try to hit home runs and try to catch balls in the air, that was my favorite, shagging fly balls. I remember one time going back back back for a long fly and catching it just as it was going over the fence. The momentum took me over and my hip was all scraped from the top of the chain link fence all bleeding and shit but I didn’t care, I held up the ball and everyone held their caps up and yelled fuck yeah, good catch! Hell yeah! We were just there all day. No one had to check their phones or scroll through post or Instagram anything. I remember reading Lil Nas X during the pandemic say he missed going to nightclubs and standing against the wall and then remembering to post to Instagram about how much fun he was having so he would take a quick picture dancing and then he would go back to standing against the wall. He was being sarcastic, he didn’t really miss that, no one does. But it was a good post because it made a lot of people think. Why do we do what we do? Is it for the gram? Is it so other people can see our lives and think we have our shit together? I miss the time before we had social media because we never stopped to think about whether or not we were missing something. We were right there with our friends, exhausted after hours of shagging balls, with our baseball gloves under our heads for pillows, staring up into that hot Missouri sky and realizing there was nowhere else we would rather be. One other good part about growing up GenX was the ridiculously low price of education. $700 was what I had to pay for tuition at Truman State University. Before every semester started I would go to the cashier and give her my check for the upcoming semester. My parents said they would pay for all my school if I went to a Christian University but I was disinterested, to say the least. I had already been kicked out of Christian high school, the last thing I wanted was to be kicked out of a Christian college. I did take one Christian college visit though, I visited an awful school called Liberty University in Virginia founded by a racist TV preacher named Jerry Falwell. The reason I took the visit was because my mom said she would buy me a plane ticket to go there on my own and when you are 17 and someone says they will let you ride in an airplane by yourself from Kansas City to Virginia you take it, no matter how bad the school seems. I was right though, the school was fuckin terrible. Everyone was wearing suits and dresses and for fun they had a animated movie with a mouse in it. But you had to sign out of the prison er I mean dorms to go see it. I stole a bike the second day and put on my headphones with contraband rap music I had taped off the radio and peddled as fast as I could into the town of Lynchburg. I found an arcade and a pizza parlor and watched all the R rated movies they were playing and didn’t ride back until late at night. Apparently that is a no-no with that University because a bunch of angry old white men had a meeting about me when I came back and threatened to call my parents but ended up just taking me to the airport at 8 am on Sunday and leaving me there just to be rid of me. Mr. Falwell himself told me that I was never welcome again on any campus of Liberty University. Good, fuck that place. Truman State was an amazing college. Lots of kids on the smarter side like me and I could listen to Dr. Dre as loud as I wanted. The $700 for my tuition I earned during the breaks. My girlfriend could never do anything like this because she is Millennial and all you guys got fucked on education. They told you that you needed it and then they priced it so high you would be in debt for life. My situation was better and I usually delivered pizza back home and saved up my $700. I drove for the Grandview Pizza Hut on 71hwy next to the abandoned Kmart first but the second winter break they didn’t need any drivers. They told me to go work at the Pizza Hut by Bannister Mall on James A. Reed. Now I don’t know if any of you remember the Bannister Mall area from the mid 90s but it was not nice. This was before cell phones so these places would be locked up twice- once at their apartment and once for the building itself. So you had to bang really loud on the building door and then when someone let you in you had to bang on the apartment door. Pretty scary late January nights in South Kansas City. My worst pizza delivery wasn’t scary, it was just sad. This delivery was to Bannister Mall itself and the Foot Locker on the lower level. That’s where I ran into Anthony from my high school football team. We hugged and then I asked him about school but he told me he dropped out. Anthony was the fastest motherfucker I had ever seen. When the college scouts came to watch him on that day he happened to forget his shoes. All his shoes, no tennis shoes, no cleats, no spikes, nothing. So he just told them he would run in his socks. These weren’t ankle socks, they were full length socks that he pushed down but as soon as he came off the blocks his fuckin socks flopped and flopped and flopped. God damn I will never forget watching him run his heart out that day, just sprinting for everything he wanted- for a college scholarship, for a chance for an education, for a chance to leave the Grandview Apartments and a childhood filled with poverty behind. And he got it too. That day shoeless Anthony ran the 40 yard dash in under 5 seconds, 4.8 seconds with no shoes on. The scouts all saw it too that day. He signed a full ride scholarship to a historically black college in the south and we all hugged him and were so happy for him and his ticket out of poverty. But God damnit that night I delivered the pizzas he was right back there working at Foot Locker like that dream never happened. He told me he was staying back at the Grandview Apartments but that was a misnomer. Because they were not Grand and there sure as hell was no View. I knew for Anthony like every other kid that couldn’t get out, he was back in the cycle. I threw my empty pizza warmer onto the passenger seat and cried because I knew his life and his talent and his dreams would die and it made me so sad. He said he was going to enroll in Longview College but everyone said that. Longview was a misnomer just like Grandview. It didn't take long to drop out and there was still no view. That night sitting in the parking lot of Bannister Mall I could see the future and it was Anthony living back in poverty at the run-down Grandview Apartments thinking about how life had passed him by. You can juxtaposition my worst pizza delivery with my best, a girl named Christina who was in my journalism class in high school. She was one of the only rich people I knew in my low income high school. Her dad had some kind of job in the stock market and they had a pool inside their house! And a fuckin hot tub, can you believe that? Inside the house! I didn’t even know that was legal. Certainly no one from Hickman Mills I had ever heard of had a pool inside their house. I delivered her pizza and she told me her parents left her money before they left for the weekend so this was her third time ordering pizza and she was glad it was me. Holy Shit had Christina gotten in shape since college. I had heard of the freshmen 15 for college girls adding weight but I never knew it could go the other way too. She told me she was a workout instructor now in Columbia and she lifted up her shirt and showed me her six pack. I whistled and said God damn girl, you are looking good! She asked me how long I had to deliver pizzas and I told her I got off at 10 so she said to come over after and we can get in the hot tub. She said it real suggestively too so I was thinking there were going to be some sparks afterwards. I rushed home between deliveries and snuck in and grabbed my swimsuit before my mom could say anything and jumped back in my car and drove back to Pizza Hut for the rest of my shift. When I got to her house just after ten she invited me in and grabbed my hand and took me to the room with the hot tub and the pool. She said if you want to get in the hot tub I am going to take these clothes off. And then she left. Well fuck, I was in a real dilemma. What did she mean she was going to take these clothes off? She was going to come out naked? Should I put my swimsuit on? Or get in the hot tub naked? I decided to get in the hot tub naked because that stupid fuckin Wayne Gretzky quote was in my head, you know the one that says "You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take." Or maybe that was Michael Jordan. Or Michael Scott. Can’t remember. All I know was that I was feeling like an asshole because she came out in a proper one piece bathing suit that looked like it was from the swim team. So she sat in the hot tub with me and then she was getting amorous but I was getting nervous because I had no pants on, I just kept shifting to the other side of the tub. I didn’t want her to think I was assuming we were just going to get naked or whatever, eventually I just had to say look I’m not wearing any pants. She laughed and I laughed and we made out but not sex because Jesus was watching and I was super scared of Jesus back then. So I drove home and reveled in being in the moment with the only rich girl in South Kansas City, and saving up $700 to pay for the college I loved, and how much my car still smelled like pepperoni.
“Suicide doesn’t stop the pain,” “It gives it to someone else.” - [ ] 1: We would miss you - [ ] 2: It’s worth it to be alive - [ ] 3: It does get better,believe it or not it will eventually get better. - [ ] 4: There’s so much you would miss out on doing. - [ ] 5: You are worth it don’t let anyone,even yourself tell you otherwise. - [ ] 6: God made you for a reason, you have a reason. - [ ] 7: There is always a reason to live! - [ ] 8: So many people care about you - [ ] 9: You are amazing - [ ] 10: I don’t even know you and I love you - [ ] 11: I care for you - [ ] 12: There are plenty of people that love you - [ ] 13: Youre literally perfect!! <3 - [ ] 14: There are plenty of people that care for you - [ ] 15: God loves you - [ ] 16: God cares about you - [ ] 17: Sometimes life is hard but it will make you a stronger person don’t worry! - [ ] 18: What about all the things you’ve always wanted to do?What about all the things you’ve planned,but never got around doing? You can’t do them if your dead. - [ ] 19: I want you to be alive - [ ] 20: So many people want you alive! - [ ] 21: You won’t be able to listen to Music if you die - [ ] 22: You’ll never be able to listen to your favorite song if you die. - [ ] 23: You’ll never be able to listen to your favorite singer if you’re gone - [ ] 24: You’ll never be able to listen to your favorite rapper if you’re gone. - [ ] 25: listening to really loud music - [ ] 26: Killing yourself is never worth it,you’ll hit both yourself & the people who care about you. - [ ] 27: There are so many people that would miss you,including me - [ ] 28: the clouds - [ ] 29: You are gorgeous - [ ] 30: Someone out there would die for you :’) - [ ] 31: How do you think your family would feel? - [ ] 32: Proving people wrong with your success. - [ ] 33: Watching the jerks that doubted you fail at life. - [ ] 34: You’ll never have the feeling of walking into a warm building on a cold day. - [ ] 35: You’ll never have the feeling of walking into a cold building on a hot day. - [ ] 36: Being stupid in public just because you can. - [ ] 37: Helping other people. - [ ] 38: You have a future to live for.. - [ ] 39: Being alive is good - [ ] 40: thinking about happy memories - [ ] 41: Finding your soulmate. - [ ] 42: All nighters!!! - [ ] 43: Sleeping in all day - [ ] 44: You can look back at yourself later in your life and be glad you didn’t commit suicide. - [ ] 45: Nobody could ever replace you - [ ] 46: You’re unique - [ ] 47: pets - [ ] 48: petting pets - [ ] 49: Netflix and movies - [ ] 50: Decorating the Christmas tree - [ ] 51: Dreams that make you smile - [ ] 52: Breakfast in bed - [ ] 53: New clothes - [ ] 54: New shoes - [ ] 55: New books - [ ] 56: Sunrises and Sunsets - [ ] 57: Friends - [ ] 58: The ocean - [ ] 59: Sunlight - [ ] 60: Your family - [ ] 61: Inside jokes - [ ] 62: Birthdays - [ ] 63: Christmas - [ ] 64: Family traditions - [ ] 65: The taste of your favorite food - [ ] 66: Favorite tv show - [ ] 67: Favorite movie - [ ] 68: Going to new places - [ ] 69: The ability to peruse what ever you choose (there are over 7 billion people on Earth,don’t be afraid to be you) - [ ] 70: To earn money and rewards - [ ] 71: You can always flip your life around. - [ ] 72: To find the perfect job/career for you - [ ] 73: Pizza - [ ] 74: Kittens - [ ] 75: New haircuts - [ ] 76: Moments you can look back to and laugh at - [ ] 77: The clouds - [ ] 78: The world is better with you in it - [ ] 79: Roller Coasters - [ ] 80: Showers - [ ] 81: Cake - [ ] 82:Growing old - [ ] 83: Growing old with the person you love - [ ] 84: Singing - [ ] 85: Sleeping - [ ] 86: Icecream - [ ] 87: Cookies - [ ] 88: food in general - [ ] 89: Movie nights - [ ] 90: Candy - [ ] 91: Popcorn - [ ] 92: Daydreaming - [ ] 93: Happy moments - [ ] 94: Halloween - [ ] 95: Sleepovers - [ ] 96: Parties - [ ] 97: Having a good personality - [ ] 98: Making people happy - [ ] 99: Bonfires - [ ] 100: Sitting on rooftops - [ ] 101: Vacations - [ ] 102: Hearing crazy stories - [ ] 103: Telling crazy stories - [ ] 104: Treehouses - [ ] 105: Starbucks - [ ] 106: You’ve changed someone’s life - [ ] 107: If you’re gone how will you achieve great things? - [ ] 108: Everyone has talent including you - [ ] 109: Eating crazy food - [ ] 110: Hanging out with your friends - [ ] 111: Nobody could ever replace you - [ ] 112: You have so much to live for - [ ] 113: Your dreams need some fulfilling to do - [ ] 114: Living life to the fullest - [ ] 115: Heck,I would miss you like crazy - [ ] 116: Your family and friends would be devastated if you were gone - [ ] 117: Someone out there is constantly praying to meet someone like you - [ ] 118: Your future - [ ] 119: You could save so many lives - [ ] 120: You are too beautiful to disappear - [ ] 121: You are bigger than any of your problems - [ ] 122: You are never alone during this struggle - [ ] 123: Tomorrow is a new day! - [ ] 124: You are worth more than you think - [ ] 125: But, the final and most important one is, just being able to experience life, because even if your life doesn’t seem so great right now, anything could happen! 💗💗 All suicide hotline numbers if you need someone to talk to : - [ ] Argentina: +5402234930430 - [ ] Australia: 131114 - [ ] Austria: 142; for children and young people, 147 - [ ] Belgium: 106 - [ ] Bosnia & Herzegovina: 080 05 03 05 - [ ] Botswana: 3911270 - [ ] Brazil: 188 for the CVV National Association - [ ] Canada: 1 .833 .456 .4566, 5147234000 - [ ] (Montreal); 18662773553 (outside Montreal) - [ ] Croatia: 014833888 - [ ] Denmark: +4570201201 - [ ] Egypt: 7621602 - [ ] Estonia: 3726558088; - [ ] Russian 3726555688 - [ ] Finland: 010 195 202 - [ ] France: 0145394000 - [ ] Germany: 08001810771 - [ ] Holland: 0900767 - [ ] Hong Kong: +852 2382 0000 - [ ] Hungary: 116123 - [ ] India: 8888817666 - [ ] Ireland: +44058457909090 - [ ] Italy: 800860022 - [ ] Japan: +810352869090 - [ ] Mexico: 5255102550 - [ ] New Zealand: 0800543354 - [ ] Norway: +4781533300 - [ ] Philippines: 028969191 - [ ] Poland: 5270000 - [ ] Portugal: 21 854 07 40/8 . 96 898 21 50 - [ ] Russia: 0078202577577 - [ ] Spain: 914590050 - [ ] South Africa: 0514445691 - [ ] Sweden: 46317112400 - [ ] Switzerland: 143 - [ ] United Kingdom: 08457909090 - [ ] USA: 18002738255 - [ ] Veterans’ Crisis Line: 1 800 273 8255/ text 383255 💗💗 songs that could make you happy 🥺 Personal by HRVY: u/YJpE I like me better by Lauv: u/ozwA Classic by MKTO: u/A4Ds Just friends by JORDY: u/eINM Eastside by Benny Blanco,Halsey,& Khalid: u/UvGY What makes you beautiful by 1D: u/-A4E Cheerleader by OMI: u/QfW8 Everybody talks by Neon Trees: u/84lE Dear future husband by Meghan Trainor: u/D_40 Backyard Boy by Claire Rosinkranz: u/shy8 Shut up and dance with me by WALK THE MOON: u/lx6Q iSpy by KYLE: u/gMPU Trap queen by Fetty Wap: u/NKio LMK by Lil XXEL: u/IC24 Dynamite by BTS: u/WNZg - fun facts! 1.Otters hold hands when sleeping is they don’t drift away from eachother 2.Penguins only have one mate their entire life,they also propose by giving them a pebble 3.Cows have best friends 4.you’re perfect <3 - another message : - 💗💗 To all those people being bullied - To all those people who have lost a loved one - To all those people who have lost a pet - To all those people being abused - To all those people going through depression - To all those people with anxiety - To all those people in poverty - To all those people going through a breakup - To all those people having a bad day - To all those people with insecurities - To all those people just having a hard time Don’t forget - Your weakness today - Is your strength tomorrow - It always gets better - Your loved ones will remain in your hearts - You always have the memories - Love yourself - Stand up for yourself - Money can’t buy happiness - Those lovers - Just weren’t right - Don’t abuse yourself - Don’t abuse others - Kill them with kindness - Treat people with kindness - We’ve all had these times - There will always be a hole in our chests But - Let’s all be each others’ strength - whether you’re - Black - White - LGBTQ+ - Christian - Atheist - Etc - Love yourself - Love others - Don’t cut - Don’t kill - Don’t criticize - Don’t beg - Don’t do drugs - Don’t starve yourself - Don’t starve others We aren’t supposed to do any of that - Just keep your strength - Keep your faith - Don’t change because you were told to - Be yourself - Sometimes playing a character,isn’t the best thing to do. Have a great day,and don’t stop spreading awareness about things that are happening currently in the world . ⚠️ this is not my text, that however doesn't mean that I don't agree with every single word said here. out of experience, it destroys people. Please don't be afraid to ask for help. Please, I beg you, please don't do it. You are worth it and there are people who love you.⚠️ I need everyone to pass this on
First | Previous | Next Heya guys, I hope all of you are doing well because I certainly am! The series is coming to an end (finally) and I'll tie it up with the very very start by the next or definitely by the sixth part anyway :) I'll probably write more stories set in this universe when I have way more free time like next summer so stay clued in for that if you like what I'm doing with this! Feel free to give me any advice/tips/criticism as it's all welcome by me. Edits: added links, replaced photo-absorbent with reflective plates and edited some minor details Sol System Hyperspace near Sol Newton’s Flaming Laser SwordResearch Vessel 13:09 December 2, 2338 AD Isabella was honestly mediocre in every sense of the word, with the most exotic thing about her being quite possibly her Afro-Brazilian ancestry, and she knew it. Isabella Santos had been born into a life of opulence on Earth, all money inherited from her ancestors who had been at the very top of the rung when automation really kicked in (pretty much old money at this point) and her family had been earning untold billions since then. Automation has drastically altered certain aspects of the economic system while leaving others relatively unchanged in comparison to the economic models employed by humanity during their information age - for example, private property and corporations certainly still existed along the supply chain from extraction to manufacturing to retail (though with very few humans involved). However, since automation and universal basic income meant incomes were no longer tied with survival and livelihoods, the UNE General Assembly passed a motion in 2157 that all software produced was to be open source and similarly all music, film & art was to be royalty-free. Copyright law ceased to apply to citizens, and only applied to corporations - where corporate activity was defined as earning income outside of their UBI in exchange for a good or service. This heralded the beginning of the human golden age of culture and arts, for removing the monetary incentive meant that content creators were driven only by their passion for the craft and their ambitions. Isabella had gone into the field of biological research mostly as a rebellious act against her parents and the aristocracy she had been born into which had only tied her down; she was tired of having to follow the paths already trodden on by those before her and only then to join them as forgotten predecessors. Her parents were slow to come to accept the idea of their dear Isabella being a researcher but came around in the only way rich, well-connected parents knew how to, by leveraging their extensive connections to secure a lucrative UNE research grant for Isabella and her research team. It had been a long day, having to get the ship retrofitted and then clearance to enter hyperspace but everyone on board was in high spirits after getting a few billion credits from the UNE Research Council to play around with. They were heading to a nearby solar system with a suspected habitable planet around it (of near-Earth gravity too!), and in the process were to become some of humanity’s very first xenobiologists. The research vessel had first lived life as an automated mining shuttle, before being purchased from a declining mining company by the UNE. Basic research stations, sensors and a pilot seat [1] were all fitted to the ship in preparation of being used for research purposes. The group of young xenobiologists had christened the vessel Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword after being granted it for the duration of their expedition. However, while Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword was stationary in the endless void that was hyperspace, Isabella noticed the ship’s EM sensors detecting undecipherable static across the spectrum. She wasn’t a physicist by any means but she knew that there were no EM sources out here in hyperspace, except the very odd photon. The ship AI had found no faults with the sensors and noted that the waves were very blue-shifted. This meant only one thing: something artificial was headed straight in their direction. The research team decided not to tempt fate and sped off towards their destination while using the quantum-entangled comms system to report the anomaly to the head research office of the UNE. For this exact reason, a hotline existed between the civilian and military branches of the UNE, especially with the existence of hyperspace, rapid response times to unknown threats meant the difference between life and death, victory and defeat, and the very survival of the human race. The anomaly was confirmed by drones sent out into hyperspace, and the reports were sent further up the hierarchy until it was astutely deemed a possible military threat by the UNE Director of Research and sent to a military commander via this very hotline. No actual physical calls were made, rather something similar to a forwarding system was used, with important alerts showing up in brain implants rather than a device meaning that they were impossible to miss. Within 4 minutes of Isabella’s discovery, the UNE military consisting of five battle groups stationed (mostly) inside the boundaries of the Asteroid Belt was put on high alert. All military fleet exercises were postponed and fleets were to be stationed on strategic points across the system, hoping to defend against the unknowable. It would take at least 10 minutes for all detached squadrons in navy exercises to merge back with the main fleet. Sol System Aerosynchronous Orbit (ASO) of Mars Battle Group Ceres UNE Justice,Ireland-class Supercarrier 13:15 December 2, 2338 AD Admiral Francis received the warning just two minutes prior and set the gears and cogs of the ship in motion almost immediately. Sailors were moving out to their positions along the length of the vessel [2], mechanic bots were on standby, and the various captains of the ships within Battle Group Ceres had received very clear orders from Francis: only fire once they fire the first shot, and then give them hell! Although their intentions were probably hostile, he was not about to sabotage proper first contact by having any of his subordinates get trigger happy and fire upon some innocent alien diplomats. Officers scrambled to the different portions of the ship, ready to command the sailors and assign fighter pilots to their fighters. The result was unadulterated chaos once the enemy battle group appeared through hyperspace, by a stroke of luck, a couple of dozen kilometres away - well within firing distance. Francis could only momentarily shudder at the thought of enemy ships tunnelling their way into normalspace right on top of his ships, resulting in instant mutual annihilation as the universe realised its grave mistake. For a fleeting moment, both fleets had stared each other off in a Mexican stand-off of sorts, orbiting at thousands of kilometres an hour around a somewhat densely populated celestial body. That was until a mass driver silently travelled the void between them with deadly accuracy directly towards the UNE Justice supercarrier. The ship AI had barely any time to even detect the 5kg of solid iron travelling at over 2% of the speed of light before putting the deflectors on full power. The deflectors worked by imparting momentum from the ship to the projectile so that it would change course, continuing its journey through space for endless aeons, or at least hit a less critical part of the ship. The AI also had to work out the positions of the other ships in the fleet to avoid inadvertently putting them in the firing line. For the crew, the groaning of the superstructure of the ship must have been near-deafening as the entire ship’s mass was being slightly displaced to deflect a simple iron projectile that might as well have been a nuclear warhead. Newton’s 3rd law in (very dramatic) action; the ship accelerated (nearly) imperceptibly to the side and the projectile was only able to score a glancing hit on the hull. The opening salvo that should have claimed the lives of hundreds on board instead claimed the several large external hull plates and was reduced to molten slag (a significant proportion of the projectile was atomised) travelling at nearly 1% c that was most likely going to ruin someone’s day at some point in the near or distant future [3]. Every crew member held at least a formal education that included physics, and everyone had it drilled in them that they were to either hit the target squarely or not fire at all. The AI had the firing under control but needed a human there to authorise firing the projectile (unless in exceptional circumstances and up to the discretion of the admiral or highest in command in the case of the admiral’s death or absence). Battle Group Ceres wasted no time in returning the favour, with several of the fleet’s destroyers unleashing their own mass driver rounds at various targets and the outpouring of fighters from the flight decks of Justice being oddly reminiscent of a swarm of angry bees whizzing out of their beehives. At that moment, two interstellar civilisations came to blows in the space just above the 35 million souls that called the red planet home. Within 5 minutes of the first shot, almost all Martians had seen videos of tiny non-moving specks of light in the sky or heard reports of a massive battle in aerosynchronous orbit of the planet [4]. The malevolent alien civilisation was unknown (assumed to be the ones who found the probe), but Battle Group Ceres was already lauded as Mars’ spear and shield that defended Mars from oblivion. Of course, nobody had a clue as to the nature of the invader’s intentions but nobody was going to assume anything but the very worst. All 1000 of these exoatmospheric fighters had been fitted with limited hyperspace capabilities being able to travel only a few AUs in hyperspace at a time, but each had an impressive arsenal of four small antimatter tipped missiles (only 1 kg in each) and two directed energy weapons (aka lasers) effective against normal hull armour (but not against special reflective hull plates; however these could only withstand several seconds of focused laser fire before deforming and breaking down). Of course, there’s no maximum speed they could go at but typically they’d be travelling a few kilometres per second in combat. Francis however, never liked to use up all his assets at once, that was a vulnerability that could be exploited by an accomplished and experienced enemy. He gave the order for half of the fighters to take off and move ahead striking the enemy from the top and bottom, acting as an invaluable distraction for the main fleet as well as important point defence against slower-moving projectiles. There were two other carriers each with 200 fighters at his disposal anyway, those would be his reserves. Meanwhile, the first casualty of the battle was a Luna-class destroyer on the edge of battle group Ceres, its deflectors simply overwhelmed by mass driver rounds from the enemy. Pacific went down with all hands, all 860 of the crew perished when a lucky mass driver slammed into the core of the vessel and on its way there, directly hit a bunch of antimatter-tipped missiles - for a split second, the battlefield was illuminated by a new star in the night sky. At least their ashes would continue to orbit the red planet they died to protect. As the populace of Mars prepared to head into underground bunkers (and in many cases, the derelict caves of abandoned automated mines) where the first colonies had set up to avoid the dangers of solar radiation, tens of thousands of personal and individual acts of heroism and bravery were taking place in the skies above Mars. Private Kaylee Harrison UNE Justice,Ireland-class Supercarrier Flight Deck 08 13:18 December 2, 2338 AD Officer Reynolds marched into the flight deck as stoically as ever. Even in the middle of a surprise attack by an enemy of unknown capabilities, his wrinkles betrayed only his experience and nothing of emotion. This was all from behind his plasma-resistant face visor of course as we all were required to wear a modern and efficient type of space suit and wetsuit hybrid out here. I’m not clued into the exact physics or the exact way it works but the outer part is as expected from a spacesuit with all the electronics and the hard kevlar-derivative stuff while the inner part is essentially an advanced wetsuit that covers everything below the neck. The wetsuit keeps the wearer from overheating with millions of microscopic pipe-like structures in the fabric carrying cool water, when the water heats up it is cooled by a refrigerator unit and recycled back into the wetsuit. A cutting-edge catalytic converter unit within the helmet converts exhaled carbon dioxide into oxygen, and that is supplemented with an external oxygen tank. Our radios almost crackled in anticipation. 'Stand at attention!' We certainly didn’t need to be told twice, a mixture of dark excitement and adrenaline had the entire squad already at attention before he could begin saying attention. 'Today, we have made hostile first contact as you are all aware and considering your line of duty, you’ll either be returning home alive or you’ll end up orbiting this majestic planet underneath us for all of eternity.' Honestly, after launching antimatter missiles to rip apart space-time, I came to realise that no matter how much at peace you are with your own mortality, nothing can ever prepare you for when you’re put in a potentially fatal scenario. Death cowers to no man, after all, my acceptance was but an illusion - but orbiting Mars for millennia to come might not be such a terrible fate, in a morbidly beautiful way. 'When I call your name out, you will head into your fighter and take off in an orderly and safe manner, am I clear?' 'Yes, officer!' The response echoed and reverberated within the deck, a vague hint to the expansive nature of the flight deck. A minute or two passed until my name was called, 'Private Harrison!' I could have sworn I saw a flash of regret in Officer Reynold’s eyes as I marched over to my fighter and deftly opened the cockpit before lurching into the seat of the fighter. Reynold was calling out the names of the few privates left before the sound of the MPD [5] thrusters drowned out his radio transmission. Taking off a moving ship was simply a matter of gentle thrust until you’re floating far enough away - there was a minute risk of the deflectors squashing you with immense momentum transfer if you sped away while too close to the ship. The most vulnerable part of the whole operation, but also by far the easiest. Technician Leopoldo Risi UNE Excalibur,Luna-class Destroyer Near the ship’s central AI computing core 13:30 December 2, 2338 AD The heat was sweltering even in these specially made technician suits, adapted from the military-grade spacesuits, but bulkier with greater cooling capacity as well more sensors and electronics integrated with the ship AI. It was of no surprise, considering only 5 metres of plating and hull separated my team and several hundred degrees celsius heat banks and radiators that kept the weaponry firing nearly constantly without melting and allowed the AI to make several sextillion operations per second (mainly calculating trajectories of both enemy and friendly projectiles as well as taking into account the gravity well of Mars). A quarter-hour of incredibly intense fighting had put all of the systems onboard to the test and of course, now we had to have a hull breach right beside the heat banks. The robots couldn’t fit down here so we were here to patch up the damage and report it to be fixed properly if we ever got out of this sticky situation alive. Luckily it was a very small breach and didn’t require the activation of energy-intensive atmospheric shields. Through the hole, I could see exotic coloured plasma a few hundred metres in cold hard space with innumerable pieces of debris slowly spreading out as a cloud. I needed to see no more, shutting my eyes and mentally praying to whatever deity was up there that their souls would rest in peace. I opened my eyes to red flashes of light flowing throughout the impromptu maintenance corridor. Waving away my two colleagues, Sabrina and Liang, they understood the gesture immediately - their protests against my spontaneous act of bravery restricted to surprised glares before they sprinted down the corridor. I couldn't have forgiven myself if they paid the price for having them stay here. It took several seconds for the autowelder to 3D print the exact shape of the hole and weld it in place, and mid-heel spin just before I could run- A thunderous groan made the corridor indecipherably blurry before it all went black. Captain Hassan Nasan UNEKhalid ibn al-Walid,Luna-class Destroyer Helm of vessel 13:35 December 2, 2338 AD The battle group silently drifted forwards through the void of space, as per the orders of the Admiral, to support the vanguard of the fighters moving ahead of the fleet towards the enemy. I pondered for a moment what the existence of alien sentients would mean for Islamic and general religious theology, I’m sure most major human religions would come to accept aliens amongst as full converts but maybe religion was largely unique to humans due to a quirk in our psychology (I didn’t see the drones of hiveminds having theology for example). Would their souls go to Jannah alongside human ones? That’s a problem for future imams and theologians to deal with, I’m here to make sure there is a future for humanity after all. A faint rumble shook the room very slightly with each mass driver that was electromagnetically propelled to ludicrous speeds, before an accompanying flash of light from the other end of the battlefield marking the enemy target. Slowly but surely, the ship AI was learning the weak points of the various enemy ship types to either disable or annihilate them from studying the light emissions from the target ship and determining the ship’s estimated efficiency relative to before it was hit with the force of a nuclear warhead. By the grace of Allah, the enemy had (mostly) overlooked us so far in targeting the main supercarrier and axillary carrier vessels - and we would make sure they didn’t live to regret that decision. We had already fired quite a few direct shots onto enemy frigates even though I knew that the deadly capacity of direct shots, although almost certainly deadly to some capacity, was limited by the development of atmospheric shields. Assuming these vessels have them as we do, these shields could contain the atmosphere after a breach but put a surprisingly high toll on the energetic demands of the ship. Energy was a resource like any other, and draining them of it would be critical to our success. Our directed energy weapons were much less effective at these distances, with the particle beams having an effective range of about 10-12 km. We were closing in quite fast, at a relative rate of maybe 20 kilometres per hour compared to the enemy battle group - however, we were already taking heavy casualties with the most recent reports of deceased crew members constantly updating by the dozens across the battle group. Those reinforcements coming from their postponed navy exercise would be greatly appreciated right about now. If they had any inkling of modern human warfare doctrine, they’d have known we won wars by cutting off supply and logistics and encircling the enemy. They’d have known of our incredibly lengthy militaristic history and how empires stretched thousands of kilometres mere centuries after the Iron Age began. They’d have the historical context to understand this ship’s name, Khalid ibn al-Walid, the very Sayf Allah (Sword of God) who defeated one empire and brought the other into a centuries-long decline! They’d have known that humanity only desires peace because, in the hellscape of war, we fear what we may become. As the ship creaked to deflect another projectile although I knew I would likely be dead if it had hit true, I found myself praying that the task force would come rushing to our aid from hyperspace at that instant. A growing number of flashes of light appeared behind enemy lines as a whole squadron of fighters raced out of hyperspace almost simultaneously with the vanguard arriving from the front. Mashallah! A smirk came to my face a mere instant before a mass driver erased it. High Admiral Icokera GUS Battle GroupAkkurbad Ger’kera Herra,Cadea-class Battlecruiser [6] Command debriefing room 13:37 December 2, 2338 AD Holographic video feeds surrounded the command room, showing the state of the battlefield from this battlecruiser as well as a few feeds from other ships. As the front half of yet another human (that was what they called themselves, even the way it sounded was somehow primitive) destroyer simply ceased to exist, I could only look on in barely contained rage at the battlefield sensor readings. A swarm of tiny, incredibly manoeuvrable vessels had come to surround us from the back - not only did this one system civilisation have a fleet that outnumbered us (thank the gods that our technology is the best in the galaxy!) but the fact that these tiny vessels came from hyperspace means they must have more of these mothercrafts! I would have to find the fool who let this happen and deal with them later if we got out this alive that is… the only weapons we have that were effective against this strategy was our directed energy weapons and they had to be focused on a target for at least a second or 2 before melting the hull plates, these fighters were just too manoeuvrable for our weapons to track them. Our mass drivers stood no chance, they fired too slowly to even come within a kilometre of the target and had zero tracking capability being fixed to the fronts and sides of our ships. Every civilised species that had reached space ran with the logic that larger guns were better and produced a few massive ships or vehicles to face each other in grand open battle. These deathworlders had instead swarmed their enemies using greater numbers. A part of me admired this novel tactic while the rest of me shuddered thinking of the historical conditions that could have made them employ such a strategy. Maybe we could take some of their military strategies after wiping them from existence of course. Our sensors were practically overloaded with hundreds of red dots in all directions around us, they had encircled us in all three dimensions. A military feat that had only been accomplished as an enemy made their final stand (relatively few ships were involved in battle after all), and these upstarts had done it to a technologically advanced race. Maybe the craziest thing about it all was the fact that the human capital ships still fired into the cloud of their own fighters - such little regard for their own kind that they would take some of their own down just to strike at us. I could only watch in horror and shock as antimatter missiles peppered and ate at the hull of ships across the battle group. It had reached a point where our ships were firing blindly, almost vainly, in the hope that the humans would fight us symmetrically. I was still alone in the command debriefing room, looking onto the reddish-green planet below and wondering what its name was since there was no harm in knowing the name of the planet which would hold my mortal body in its grasp soon. Mars, named after a Roman god of war. Of course, the one race we decided to get rid of was one with an impossible amount of resources which had named one of their celestial bodies after warfare. My hubris had put my asphx on the sphinx [7] and quite probably the entire galaxy’s too. I took out my holonotes and started dictating the course of the battle and my inner monologue, including my newfound respect for these humans, an exercise in futility as it was much too little, much too late. It is now of my opinion that this is indeed an existential war but not for the hum- The structure of Ger’kera Herra simply couldn’t hold up any longer, escape was impossible with an attempted entry into hyperspace only resulting in the certain very rapid and explosive deconstruction of the entire mammoth vessel. Key struts and braces had been incinerated in multiple hundred megatons of pure annihilation - although even if the ship had survived, exposure to the gamma radiation emitted would have finished them off anyway. What was left of the ship broke off into the void, and the 5,000 souls that were still on board joined their 15,000 comrades beyond the grave. Icokera’s last thoughts as he was ripped out of the command room into the inky, inhospitable void was those of awe and a certain kind of respect - a kind that only a military commander could give to another who had bested him in battle. The two remaining destroyers and three frigates of Battle Group Akkurbad surrendered just as the task force came out of hyperspace where the swarm of fighters had come from. Ceres had truly paid the blood price for this pyrrhic victory and now Mars, for the first time since the fall of Rome, stood with his iconic spear and shield and turned the gears of war in the name of humanity. Battle GroupCeres UNE Justice,Ireland-class Supercarrier Flight Deck 08 13:45 December 2, 2338 AD In the heat of battle, Kaylee was a different beast entirely. To her, it must have been all a blur, distant memories of a side of herself that she only endured because she couldn’t bear anyone else doing so. It was a matter of duty, but not pride to her. The killing of sentients was morally repugnant in her eyes in every way, you’d be hard-pressed to find a less suitable person for the armed forces. There was one single redeeming quality about her, outside of her talent as a pilot - as soon the first mass driver was fired, a switch flipped in her brain. Kaylee in battle truly embodied the 'shoot first, ask questions later' mentality, Her confidence transformed into her breathtakingly risky manoeuvres around the capital ship of the malevolent aliens, dodging death by mere metres at times. With the gentle reminder that she was travelling at least a few kilometres a second, it was one of the closest someone could stare into the Reaper’s face and still be able to tell the story afterwards. Her laser focus was expressed in her nearly perfectly timed release of both of her missiles into a deep hole in the hull carved by an earlier mass driver round. The missiles flew silently forwards into the hull and with the speeds she was travelling at, she put herself at almost 30 Gs of force momentarily to a hard bank to the left and avoid being a smear on the side of this gigantic ship. A flash of gamma radiation as well as photons from all over the spectrum went in all directions - the only thing saving her from acute radiation sickness and terminal cancer was the radiation shielding of her fighter and the 24/7 work of the billions of medical nanobots in her bloodstream. In that single press of a button, the superstructure of the ship had been made even more compromised and a further 237 alien combatants had perished. Deadliest of all, her self-sacrificing nature had very nearly shown itself, a very last resort to protect humanity at any cost. She put herself at insane levels of risk by volunteering to be the first human to enter hyperspace, and she had no qualms with being the first human to use hyperspace to annihilate an enemy fleet. And maybe irradiate half of Mars too. Humans were categorically insane but I mean that in the nicest way possible. Now, however, she was precariously piloting her fighter back to Flight Deck 08 of UNE Justice, dodging space debris from the decisive but very deadly battle, an easy task with the advanced radar system of her fighter but regardless, she had to be careful - especially of fast-moving micro fragments that could easily pierce the fighter’s thin armour. That was the main reason why the space fighter training program had taught them to limit their speeds while flying and only go faster than 500 m/s relative to the debris around you if absolutely necessary or in the heat of battle. The scarred supercarrier soon came into full view, while minuscule tiny corvettes with hastily made boarding groups rushed to the surrendered enemy vessels. A few fighters who had conserved their missiles continued to circle the vessels, ready to pull the trigger at any sign of foul play. The existence of the Geneva Convention certainly was of a welcome surprise to these soon-to-be alien prisoners of war (POWs), but also terrified a number of them once they learned about it (what kind of species needed rules of war, how bad were their wars and did they have unhonourable leaders?) An interesting fact about humanity was that they had codified rules of war, rather than being based on a vague sense of honour like most militaristic species. The Union had prohibited warfare within its jurisdiction anyway, so not having rules of war made sense. The very idea of killing citizenry in warfare was either abominable or seen as a fact of life, depending on the species. The latter was only true if the species had traditionally involved every single individual in the war effort so there were, technically, 'no civilians' to harm. In many ways, humanity was brutal and dishonourable but at least humanity realised their nature and tried to contain it. To think that she played a part in one of the briefest but most critical space dances over the increasingly green plains of Mars was astounding. The fact that she used to look up to mere navy exercises and now… it started to hit her. As the reverse thrusters of the fighter powered on, controlled by an inflight AI, which was orders of magnitude simpler than the main ship AI. The thrusters worked in coordination with a modified deflector system deployed by the carrier to slow the fighter down and automatically guide it to Flight Deck 08. All Kaylee had to do was sit back and feel the adrenaline fading away as she slowly returned to her out of combat self. Dull throbbing aches all over her body, formerly masked by her adrenaline, appeared - turns out those G-forces did a number on her body (and joints especially) and she’d need a post-flight medical examination but at least she was one of now only 650 humans (360 from her squadron of 500 and 290 out of the 400 fighters that came out of hyperspace) who could say they fought aliens in a fighter and came back to base in one piece. Even though the journey over to the enemy fleet took the better part of the battle, the fighters were way too spread out and tiny at that point to even suffer more than the very unfortunate few casualties due to stray mass drivers. Almost all of the casualties were from during the bombardment of the fleet with antimatter missiles, in a few collisions but mostly from antimatter detonations - the tragic first test of these barely out of prototype fighters. Once the corvettes had docked with the enemy destroyers and frigates, the enemy ship AI was deactivated and replaced by a human ship AI - the humans were taking zero chances, holding plasma weapons at each and every crew member, tying their appendages together using forcefield handcuffs. It was here that humanity first learned that these aliens weren’t homogenous, but very far from it, with at least 26 different sapient species on board - all with similar atmospheric requirements for breathing [8]. As UNE leaders were debriefed on the situation almost as soon as it occurred, it became clear that there must have been a whole council of these civilisations, with possibly trillions or even quadrillions of individuals in total. The total absence of robots on their decks signified that they had probably avoided automation in wider society, but even then in a protracted war, humanity was guaranteed to lose. Either diplomacy would prevail or a decapitation strike at a civilisation of unknown proportions and significantly ahead technologically would be necessary. The fact that they sent what seemed like an oddly small fleet meant that they either underestimated humanity or weren’t entirely willing to wage war. Sol System Planet Earth Nairobi, UNE East Africa Region UNE General Assembly Building (Emergency Special Session) December 5 - 10, 2338 AD In the most divisive emergency motion passed in the UNE General Assembly since the conclusion of the Climate Catastrophe, the votes were split between 162-158 passing “Motion to seek diplomatic normalisation of relations with unknown hostiles” with important caveats such as the payment of reparations, a redrafting of the Geneva Convention as well as most other human rights legislation to include sentient non-humans, the permission to reverse engineer advanced alien technology and the permission to vastly expand the UNE military for the foreseeable period, regardless of the results of the diplomatic overtures. The General Assembly was made up of 240 elected representatives of populations scattered across the major celestial bodies of the solar system, with the gradual dissolution of nation-states leading to the removal of individual governments picking representatives. Each colonised celestial body with over 50,000 citizens was given a single representative, and every 1,000,000 citizens after that meant an extra representative. This meant that Mars had 35 representatives, Venus had 20, Luna had 14, Titan had 5, Ceres had 3 and so on… This left Earth with 156 representatives, which were slightly in favour of passing the motion while almost all the Mars representatives were against the motion, having come so close to oblivion now the intention of the fleet was known from the POWs. The representatives from the outer solar system, knowing that if the hostile civilisation came again that fleets may well not be in a position to defend them, voted overwhelmingly to pass the motion. Venus and Luna were slightly opposed to the motion, and all this meant that it was about as divisive as a motion could get. The debating was fierce, with many Martian representatives just barely short of calling for the execution of all the captured combatants, but the vast majority of representatives disagreed on moral grounds as well as losing valuable intel from the POWs. A thin veneer of civility was only kept by the nonstop work of the council president, keeping order to the very best of his ability as tempers flared. A particularly talented representative from Pluto described the very fact that this civilisation was so multicultural, that humanity had a very real chance of making peace - it seemed like a militant faction of kinds did this without the approval of the full council at least. Still, he continued, that this would not mean humanity would bend over to alien interests but would sign a peace with honour, and if this opportunity was rejected then the olive branch was to be replaced with Mars’ sword and shield once again! The General Assembly seemed to generally agree with that sentiment, later making a statement in the formal motion that 'freedom and liberty were of paramount importance to humanity and we will take any necessary course to preserve those fundamental human rights'. Hyperspace around the Sol System Nairobi, UNE East Africa Region UNE General Assembly Building (Emergency Special Session) December 25, 2338 AD It was going to be a long Christmas for Magnus Friedrich, flying on a ship headed towards a large region in the Perseus arm of the galaxy known as the ‘Core Worlds’ to the aliens, who are in an expansive state called the Galactic Union of Intelligent Species. This was all information extracted in a humane manner from the POWs captured from the (as it's now known) Battle for Olympus, a reference to human mythology and a slight embellishment of the battle as one for the very throne of gods! As the lead diplomat, he had a lot of work to do and hoped the machine learning translators would do the job - they had a surprising amount of data to use by overhearing the conversations of some of the POWs with each other so they should be effective to a certain degree. He came with a small army of an entourage: a few elite ASTRO soldiers with full power armour and the latest M64 plasma rifles capable of both anti-personnel and anti-tank capability, a few xenobiologists and linguists (who helped sort out the whole translating business, it helped that the Union had a lingua franca in almost exactly the same way humanity did with English in the 24th century - one that everyone learned as their native or second language but other major languages existed), a few junior diplomats, a few POWs to be transferred as a sign of goodwill and five corvettes accompanying them - the very first to be retrofitted with reverse-engineered tech. Humanity was only offering this olive branch of peace because as thought by the late Hassan Nasan (posthumously given the Purple Star, the highest military award in the UNE; <> is the customary way that thoughts are transcribed into written word) [9]. References posted in the comments!
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