I'm gonna be honest and blunt here. I'm seriously convinced that modern texting/social media culture, especially in heavily social media-infused Gen Z, is toxic. I know this sounds very boomer of me but I'm a Gen Zer myself.
On top of the obvious negative effects that social media has on your mental health, I'll list some more effects that I seriously believe are damaging and are not talked about a lot.
In my experience, there's a LOT of stigma around "read receipts" and being left on "delivered"/"read"/"opened", particularly in respect to pursuing romantic relationships. (For my non-Gen Z friends, "delivered" is when you're messaging another person and they haven't opened your message. "Read"/"Opened" is when the other person has read your message and doesn't respond.) I see it a lot on Reddit (especially dating advice and online dating subreddits) and spaces where texting and digital communication are discussed a lot. "Oh no my crush left me on opened!!!!" "She ghosted me what do I do????" "She left my message on delivered but is active on social media!!!" "She left you on opened so you have no chance with her!!" "If she's interested she will reach out to you!!!"
I completely understand and agree that a lack of response to a message could indicate the other person is not interested in chatting or otherwise pursuing a romantic relationship, and you should NEVER constantly spam another person with messages, or send another message immediately after they don't respond to the previous one. Doing so may make the other person uncomfortable and possibly feel compelled to block you. While I don't think this logic is entirely incorrect, I believe it can become a bit oversimplified, especially if you apply it outside strictly romantic situations. Often times, people are genuinely just busy or forget to respond, and it can sometimes take more time to come up with an adequate response to a message than read the actual message. It usually doesn't mean the other person has anything against you.
A friendship ending because they left you on "read?" Claiming that it's over just because of little pixels on a screen saying the message has been "opened?" Really? I find the extreme stigma around read receipts and being left on delivered/read absolutely DISGUSTING.
I see a lot of "This girl ghosted me!!!" "This girl blocked me!!! What do I do???" "She left my Instagram DM on delivered!!!!" on Reddit, especially dating advice subreddits. And, quite frankly, I'm also very vulnerable to overthinking these types of situations and asking for constant validation and advice, even if the situation in question is not romantic. Here's my response to all of them, and I'll be blunt here:
I atrongly believe what a lot of people are missing is REAL LIFE INTERACTION with other people. I know for me that's literally the engine behind my social life, and I'm sure that's also the case for many other people. I find interactions and relationships with real-life humans more genuine than strictly text-based relationships, or any relationship where I haven't met the other person in real life.
I seriously don't understand the sheer emphasis that some people place on the number of matches they have on Tinder, being ghosted, and messaging random women on Instagram, as if that was their entire life, or perhaps their only method of interacting with humans. Even if they have other things going on in their life, the sheet emphasis placed on digital pixels on a screen still isn't healthy. I seriously believe more people need to go outside and interact with REAL LIFE humans. Join a club in school/university, talk with people in your classes, do literally anything that expands your social network.
Ghosting and otherwise not having your interest reciprocated sucks, that's for sure. But remember there are MANY people out there, many of whom you could have wonderful relationships and social interactions with. Why do you need to worry about ONE person who's not available for you on dating apps, and essentially giving them control over your mind and well-being? That's NOT healthy. If more people actually get off the dating apps or social networks and interact with other humans in real life, I'm sure they won't worry as much about people not responding to their messages or ghosting them on dating apps.

Hey Everyone!
My friends and I have a giant group of us that play what we call Nerdle (Thanks Smartless!) Daily we submit our scores for Wordle/Quordle and Octordle. I am trying to create a sheet that we can keep track of these daily scores for multiple people. So need to figure out how to have everyone’s name as rows but columns data is 3 numbers under each date. Ex of Data Dan from 6/7 has scores of 4,21,60 Brian from 6/7 has scores of 3, 26, 60

Hi,
I'm playing d4 with no vision. I'm having (mostly) no issue. The only problem I'm running into is the map. Would someone be able/willing to create a text-based or excel-based map? I would be willing to pay for their time. I just need area name, and possible points of interest, like dungeon, cellar, Campaign quest, etc. Excel sheet would be helpful because I would know how areas connect, and it would probably be less writing, but I'll take what I can get. Thanks!

Venting: I was a PT PM air bid driver for three years until 3/10/23. Two routes air routes were cut October,2022.. The most senior driver from the cut routes was able to bump me off my route 5 months later. I am now in the warehouse. I put my name on the 22.4 list in March .. application got approved mid April .. just to find out 4 weeks later though a text message ( yesterday) that the 22.4 bid got cancelled and a RTD bid sheet is going up this week if I’m still interested in driving.I’m beyond annoyed.

I’ve received massively different quotes for a flat roof project in my area (in addition to contractors that don’t want to do contracts). I’m wondering, based on your experience, what would you price a job that involves:
1) full tear off of 1900sqft roof down to the decking (including pumice removal)
2) Replacement of damaged decking (maybe 5-10 sheets)
2) installation of 6” of tapered polyiso to bring the roof to ~R30
3) 3-ply hot mopped mod bit with torched down cap sheet OR 80-mil PVC
4) replace 2 scuppers
5) add Z-flashing at perimeter
For reference, I’m located in the Southwest. Thank you in advance!

Obviously this only applies for stays of more than one nights. If a new guest stays in a room every night, obviously they hotel should clean the room.
But there’s really no need to clean a room every day if you’re staying there for like a week. I’d rather get a discount on my rate than get daily housekeeping every day.
At best, they’re cleaning what’s typically only a light mess and changing sheets, at worst they’re misplacing things.

Stupid old Ocky banged on about number stations all day long. His monotone drawl repeated the same facts about how if you tune into certain frequencies on your radio, you can hear streams of numbers spewed out by clipped English voices. Sentences that make no sense. And most bizarrely enough, the tinkle of music that sounded like an ice cream van. All message ciphers for government agents.
This is true, and fascinating, but once you understand the meaning behind such bizarre phenomena, most people move on with their lives.
Not Ocky. Ocky had his basement crammed with tech that buzzed with static. His jumpers may have had holes at the elbows, and his trousers did not reach his ankles, but he showed off new pieces of kit every week.
Stupid old Ocky. Always good fun though. After a few pints a story about North Korean shortwave signals was a good laugh.
‘Tell us about the ice cream vans Ocky,’ We would say, and he would adjust his glasses, and tell us once again of spies, and their streams of numbers hidden in plain sight.
One night Ocky burst into the pub, holding printed sheets of paper.
He rambled about hours spent cracking codes. How his equipment had been worth the investment, and the debt on multiple credit cards. After all this time, he had a location. An exact spot in Scotland where his precious number station existed.
‘Who wants to come?’ He shouted.
We cheered, and raised our hands. This was like finding a unicorn after bullying someone for wearing a horn on their head.
Ocky’s one condition was we had to leave tonight.
Four pints of cider each made this a brilliant game. Since we lived in Devon, we pooled the money for petrol, and crammed into the back of Ocky’s Mum’s Peugeot. We left around eleven that evening, and sped down dark country roads and glowing motorways. We stopped once for hot drinks and toilet breaks. I remember Ocky’s hands shaking on the steering wheel, even though his coffee remained untouched.
Ocky’s instructions pointed to a spot on the top of a small hill. The closest road ended near some rusted fencing, but we found a gap large enough to squeeze through. We clambered up the gradient, slipping and sliding on the damp grass in our smart trainers. The alcohol had dropped to a pang of regret, and my bladder begged for relief. Ocky was close to receiving a beating.
But the rising sun revealed our prize. We gasped at the ice cream van with the radar antenna on top. The faded signage displaying the tariff, and different types of unknown flavours. The grinning man peering through a mucky window, the cones in both of his hands dripping with grey sludge. And the never ending dirge of ice cream tunes, both familiar, and a tune from hell.
What had Ocky got us into now?

Had a dishwasher that was leaking, not sure for how long. It’s fixed, now noticing floor soft in places in front of it and a musty odor in kitchen. Floor is relatively new laminate. Very old house. Pulling up flooring is way above my skill level. Who do I call about this? TIA

Stupid old Ocky banged on about number stations all day long. His monotone drawl repeated the same facts about how if you tune into certain frequencies on your radio, you can hear streams of numbers spewed out by clipped English voices. Sentences that make no sense. And most bizarrely enough, the tinkle of music that sounded like an ice cream van. All message ciphers for government agents.
This is true, and fascinating, but once you understand the meaning behind such bizarre phenomena, most people move on with their lives.
Not Ocky. Ocky had his basement crammed with tech that buzzed with static. His jumpers may have had holes at the elbows, and his trousers did not reach his ankles, but he showed off new pieces of kit every week.
Stupid old Ocky. Always good fun though. After a few pints a story about North Korean shortwave signals was a good laugh.
‘Tell us about the ice cream vans Ocky,’ We would say, and he would adjust his glasses, and tell us once again of spies, and their streams of numbers hidden in plain sight.
One night Ocky burst into the pub, holding printed sheets of paper.
He rambled about hours spent cracking codes. How his equipment had been worth the investment, and the debt on multiple credit cards. After all this time, he had a location. An exact spot in Scotland where his precious number station existed.
‘Who wants to come?’ He shouted.
We cheered, and raised our hands. This was like finding a unicorn after bullying someone for wearing a horn on their head.
Ocky’s one condition was we had to leave tonight.
Four pints of cider each made this a brilliant game. Since we lived in Devon, we pooled the money for petrol, and crammed into the back of Ocky’s Mum’s Peugeot. We left around eleven that evening, and sped down dark country roads and glowing motorways. We stopped once for hot drinks and toilet breaks. I remember Ocky’s hands shaking on the steering wheel, even though his coffee remained untouched.
Ocky’s instructions pointed to a spot on the top of a small hill. The closest road ended near some rusted fencing, but we found a gap large enough to squeeze through. We clambered up the gradient, slipping and sliding on the damp grass in our smart trainers. The alcohol had dropped to a pang of regret, and my bladder begged for relief. Ocky was close to receiving a beating.
But the rising sun revealed our prize. We gasped at the ice cream van with the radar antenna on top. The faded signage displaying the tariff, and different types of unknown flavours. The grinning man peering through a mucky window, the cones in both of his hands dripping with grey sludge. And the never ending dirge of ice cream tunes, both familiar, and a tune from hell.
What had Ocky got us into now?

I'm sure this has been asked a million times here, but looking for suggestions for a good online option for sheet music. I played for a few years in middle school, but picked up a new sax and ready to get after it! I'm 38 now, but remember most notes (outside of flats and sharps) and still can kinda read sheet music.
I'd love to hear suggestions for jazz, punk/ska, and any other fun play alongs, and what sites or apps have the best variety.
I subscribed to one, but was pretty awful. Would like to hear other's thoughts before spending more money.

I just started on EZD6, and tried to fill out a character sheet. This went fairly well, but I have a few questions:

• Provided that the character is a Conjurerer, why is the section on "Circle of Sorcery" so big? What am I supposed to fill in here? A summary of the circle description perhaps?
• In the equiption section in theb book, there's an image of a d4 and a d6, accompanied by the text "D4 > D6", followed by four groups. This seems to mean that you have to roll a d4 to enter a group, followed by a d6 to roll for an item. Yet, the description says to roll a d6 for EACH group (or pick instead of rolling). I'm a little confused here. (Could it be that the mentioned "group" is referring to the common/specialty category?)
• I recon, normally you will start with "Moderate" wealth?

And one observation:

• Seems an entry is missing on the character sheet in which you can fill in your species' feature.

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Looking forward to my first session! :-)
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Hello guys! Currently working on my IR, i bought kings ir ground school and I am 80% done with the course. I have gained a lot of knowledge but I am still a bit lost on instrument flying(Like how to actually file, fly routes, I get very confused on if I can use gps and radio navigation at the same time… and overall have a mess in my head 😂), I have not started flight traning since I want to be the most prepared beforehand so I really make good use of the flight hours with the CFII. There are many books and cheat sheets and I dont know what to study for actual knowledge. I guess I have to start flight traning to make this puzzle start to click. Do you guys have any advice? Thanks! I have the IR oral guide, both FAA books, Pilots cafe cheat sheet, gold seal cheat sheet, and many powerpoints from friends that studied in pilot mills but those seem very unorganized…

Okay I literally finished the book a few minutes ago after spending 2 days binge reading it. I am going to mis a hilarous amount of details and important story bits, but I gotta stick with the vibe.
Here is the Dreadgod one Reddit - Dive into anything
You ready? No? Neither am I!
**SPACE ADVENTURES PART ONE**
Okay so we start in space again, and suriel and ozriel are like "yep we are def gonna die" and then eithan is like "Okay but hear me out...what if only one of us dies?" And suriel is like "You better not be up to some main character bullshit" and eithan then proceeds to pull a gandalf and fight the main baddy on his own while suriel goes back and goes to pick up something from Makiel, who would really like eithan to die please.
Makiel is looking for the ultimate killing tool everywhere and hopes to get it to kill ozriel, the mad king, and basically anyone who would fuck up the system. Suriel comes and is like "YOUR VIBES ARE ATROCIOUS AND YOU ARE UNDER ARREST" and makiel, having been a villian for a VERY long time, is like "bet. That makes sense."
Suriel, being the goodest girl, and not a hound, is super confused. Makiel explains, "Look I've seen like a billion villian stories. I knew after my final villianous act, I have to die to the hero or get diposed or something so I Was just gonna give up after I murdered your friend." Suriel who likes having friends, decides thats not okay and activates her trap card: Reaper's Gift!!!
By activating reapers gift, she can tap infinite black lands so long as she has the artifact equip. She then is like "Look...you've been a villian for a while." She then transfers the item to HIS character sheet "Wouldn't you rather go out like an anti-hero????" Makiel wasn't expecting someone to be nice to him, which might be a huge theme in this book.
So he says "fuck it we ball" and they go back to find eithan, SOMEHOW NOT DEAD YET, even though he has no super weapon, lost his mantle of ultimate protagonist power, and is literally fighting the solo boss with no equipment besides his pajamas. Makiel is like "Fuck dude I hate you." and ozriel is like "Feelings mutual buddy~" and the mad king tries to kill them both.
And then they realise that they both hate the same thing: Losing. Suddenly, united by the pettiness icon, Makiel and Ozriel trade weapons, and start wombo combing the Mad king like they are bros. They are both upset about the fact that they are actually doing really well. That said, its still a lot, and they are basically in a stalemate until eithan realises how to break it in a way that only he can.
By taunting the enemy in his final moments of life with a meme attack. He bops him on the head with the GOD SWORD OF AIM HAX and is like "Lmao get rektd" and then mcfucking dies, and then makiel super crits the mad king with the +100 sycthe of ultimate murder, and suriel jsut deletes him for good measure.
Then suriel is like "We gotta fix him, but he got mcfucking murdered, which is way worst than normal murder. What can we do?" And then makiel gives her his magic jacket and is like "One life...for another..." and suriel is like "WAIT YOU HATE HIM??? WHY WOULD YOU-"
"Because...nothing would piss him off more...than me going out like a hero...." and then he mcfucking dies to undo eithands death who comes back smiling, but on the inside, is morning the loss of his bro, the most petty man in existence. Truly and honor. Also everything has gone to shit.
**BABY BOX ADVENTURES** Back on baby box, Lindon and co go into the definitely not hyberbolic time chamber to super not go to super saiyan. Lindon is like 1/4 dreadgod and is ridiclously buff, and after having stolen everyones shit, makes sure to set up super training plans for everyone. But first, we gotta fix mercy, who got her ass kicked by her mom, because she's toxic. This will also be a theme for the book.
Mercy gets revived and is like "Fuck my mom IS the worst" and everyone side eyes because yeah, but shes having her time. After that, its time to get used to the weird training everyone has to do.
Orthos has to do cannibalism but not get feral or racist about it. He is very old, so its kinda hard to stop both of those things from happening, but he manages. Mostly. Drops a H slurr in there once.
Little Blue has to become a person. She makes a great mascot, but she has to get more substance to become a full fledged character with autonomy and shit.
Mercy has to deal with her mommy issues. No for real. Not a joke. She just has to deal with her mommy issues and get her own personality, outside of her mommy issues. This is a legitmate struggle for her, due to being the princess of the gaslight/gatekeep/girlboss empire.
Ziel needs to learn that he both has depression, and also, is a very angry person. Also to maybe not be so bloodthirsty. Also how to do time math. Also how to deal with the insanity caused by experiencing eternity....he has to deal with a lot.
Yerin is supposed to learn how to sword from her ghost dad, which lindon summons from a definitely not engagement ring box. Yerin pouts about this. Sword ghost dad says that she could probably get the sword icon if she just vibed correctly, and red faith agrees. She doesn't know WHAT vibe she is supposed to have though, until she thinks about eithan, and beating the shit out of red faith, and realises she REALLY wants to kill people. Like really bad. This is somehow ALSO a theme in this book.
Lindon...has to kill more dreadgods, each being a CR40 encounter. Also every time he does he has to make a will save or jsut straight up stop being a PC. This is fine he says. At least he still has the loot from the last one, right?
No one agrees with him.
Outside, Reigan shen decides to annoy lindon. Lindon responds by firing a **Death** arrow at reigan shen. He then runs the fuck a way because HOLY SHIT THE MAIN CHARACTER HAS A PROTAGONIST WEAPON NOW???? WTF GUYS WE GOTTA GET THEM!!!!
Malice + northsider agree, and decide to also annoy lindon. The more they annoy him, the less time he can spend digivolving his friends, and also prepping for the WEEPING DRAGON who is COMING TO FUCK EVERYONE UP. It is QUITE CROSS that SOMEHONE (hi lindon) MCFUCKING KILLED THEIR BRO!
Lindon uses his ghost dad jutsu to summon everyone has a ghost to fight...3 monarchs, 2 sages, a bunch of annoyances, and potentialyl a dreadgod. It is not a good day for him. Its not going to get better. Still, he has his protagonist weapon! And thats scary! Unforunately, being a protagonist weapon, he can only use as many times as the story allows...
Which is still enough to scare the shit out of reigan shin who just wants to end this all. So instead of using his usually gilgamesh bullshit, he instead uses his fusion ultimate doom attack of enkuidu + Enuma Ellish + Tiberian's Super Storm Beam of Triple Death. He is absolutely sure this combination of super attacks will wipe the protagonist off the face of the earth!
Unforunately, in his rage, he forgot that he was a villian that had just pulled out an ultimate weapon, which meant the hero HAD to pull out a hax option for the plot to continue. Said hax option, is literally just ghost eithan, who is like "bro, you sweep like this? Lemme show you how to clean house." He then proceeds to beat up all 3 monarchs in one attack and a dodge just to be a dick and is like "Oh btw that wasn't even like half my power, summon me when you have more juice homie."
Lindon, being tired of this bs, was like "Okay hear me out. How about 1v1s? You win, I stop being an asshole. I win, you fuck off." The monarchs, who had a lot more experience being assholes, accept this, and northstrider then proceeds to kick lindons ass. So much. So hard. His oracle codex is like "*He is weak. And dumb. And smelly. And he doesn't even sacred arts bro.*" and nothstrider is fine with that for a bit but then squints and reads the script again, and notices most of the lines were written over with sharpie.
Getting a copy of the ACTUAL script, he see's that lindon is drinking him, like a LOT and even stealing his icon and then slams him into the ground and points at Malice like "You want next?" malice, not giving a shit about men, says "Uhh nah im good." and fucks off back to her goth milf castle. Lindon then sighs because damn that was a long day. It'd be nice if he could get 5 minutes of-
Oh look shen found your hyperbolic time chamber, and is really mad that he's gotten his ass kicked twice today is going to take it out on all of your friends! Go lindon go! He does and shen is like "even if I am erased from the plot I am going to get ONE W IN THIS GOD DAMNED STORY!!!!" and lindon is like "Pls stop" and then shen does...but only after blowing up the door to the time chamber. Lindon is surprised that he was being so nice until he looked behind him and saw the weeping dragon charging up his forward smash.
Shen, being an asshole, decided that would have to due, and he'd have to rely on plan Q. He was...running low on plans. But at least he had more of them! Surely they couldnt all fail.
Back inside of the hyperbolic time chamber, yerin and co realise the door broke. Yerin is like "okay I...cut it open?" Breaking the fourth wall, and then, a door opened. Unforunately, she hadn't been specific when she wrote that and walked all the way to the rosegold continent. OOps.
Ziel and mercy also want to help, but are kinda weak. Ziel digivolves by learning how to harness the power of time, tbe universe, and everything, and mercy digivolves be realising that she honestly just wants to be a nice person and do nice things. She realises this by having a pity party about how she sucks and ziel being like "STFU you are a fucking main character. Act like it." and she realises, sHE IS!!!
So they go out to help lindon and he says "Okay uh no **GTFO**" because they will absolutely get stomped if they help. And they land...in the rosegold continent! How convient! Hey is that yerin using the death murder kill technique????
Anyway house eithan is fighting house shen and house shen is busted, with a herald who is a pixie, and a sage who is crazy, on team weeping dragon, and can regenerate from nothing. Which is absurd. Team eithan just has cladia, who is the best, but also an old lady. She has a thousand eyes, but could use more hands. Oh look, youths!
Mercy, being a nice young lady, helps her elder cross the battle field and annihilate threats. Cladia was sceptical about the girl until it slowly dawns on her that this girl is DEFINITELY a main character. In the super fight, yerin is learning how to murder death kill more effectively, but still doesn't have it down perfect. Ziel is trying to also murder death kill but it just isnt working, and instead, he's getting trolled by the calling storm sage, who seems to just like to see people suffer.
Ziel see's all his friends getting their asses kicked and decides "fuck man...that isnt cool" and unlocks the shield icon, as it turns out, he ALSO wants to be a protagonist, he just forgot. Together with mercy being nice, cladia being the best, and yerin using the art of murder death kill, they defeat house shen with style....but are also v tired. Cladia thanks the newly minted main characters and gives them the coveted mid story power up they will need to face the next boss: Weeping Dragon!
What is this powerup? Well a HUD of course! Turns out, very helpful to have. Also some of the weeping dragons stats. Turns out, its very good at lying and its dragons breath is *reads notes* THE MOST POWERFUL STRIKER TECHNIQUE ON THE PLANET. JUST. THE STRONGEST ONE. EVER. IT **CANNOT** Be blocked. In fact, as they get back to lindons side, the attack misses them entirely, firing mostly into the air....AND STILL NEARLY KILLS THEM. BY PROXIMITY!
luckily lindon kept them from being hyper murdered. Unforunately, as per the rules of cradle, in exchange he had to be hyper murded. So he just kinda falls over. Team main character take exception to this, and decide to beat the shit out of the dragon. The eight man empire is here and are trying to help, potentially in exchange for that SWEET SWEET LOOT...but also to not fucking die.
Also Orthos and Little blue got out of the time chamber and are now archlords! They go to find lindon to help him after super dying, and he says "Hey...you guys...are main characters...now..." And boom instantly, orthos becomes the black dragon sage, and little blue becomes a herald because, yeah he got that move from eithan in book 2. So now they can help fight! Also now everyone has a dross in them because reasons!
So they arent doing GREAT on that front because most of them are like broken and half and relying solely on hax to keep fighting. Few more than Laran, who got to use the protagonist bow for a little while!!! It felt good...like being significant....
ANYWAY, now its mercys turn to use it and WOOF that was scary...but oops that used up her protag powers.
Yerin, time to attack with the murder death kill move...which is great! But OOF that used up all of HER protag powers.
And so ziel is left with the s trongest monster who has like one bar of health left but hits for all of your HP. Can he do it? Its kick or carry time and...whats this? Is that ziel getting on the top ropes? With the DEATH ARROW? AND LOADING IT INTO HIS ALAPHABET ARRAY? AND INFUSING IT WITH TIME MAGIC! YO WATCH OUT **WATCH OUT**
And then THE MAN HIMSELF smites THE ULTIAMTE SUPER DRAGON with the INSTANT DEATH NO SCOPE HEADSHOT AIMBOT attack that kills god. Or almost kills god. He's got like...3 anime seconds to live.
Seeing that the fight was over, malice returns to be toxic and player kill all the exhausted PCs. She seems really eager about the idea for some reason and then right as she is about to kill lindon, she hears the weeping dragons timer about to run out. Quickly, she erases her own attack, because she is VERY genre savvy when it comes to romance, and if she kills yerin, the main male protagonist will DEFINITELY kill her.
Which he almost does anyway, because as soon as weeping dragon dies, lindon digivolveS AGAIN and nearly nukes her. She escapes, but FUCK man that was close. PHew. Live to gatekeep another day.
lindon and co return to their training fortress, and everyone is tired and sad. Lindon tries to cheer them up in the way he knows how: Advancement and new toys! They all groan.
lindon tries to cheer ziel up most of all, because he got the killing blow, and ziel is like "Bro I JUST got the chill icon, please no." and lindon smiles because that meant moRE LOOT FOR HIMSELF. Woo!
Mercy is fighting more of her mommy issues and is terrified that when she levels up to herald, itll kick her ass , because her mom's remnant was SUPER toxic and just started pking people to fuck with her. mercy prepares for the fight of her life...only to see that her spirit is a sweet bean and literally just wants to give hugs and encouragement. Mercy is very surprised that its being nice to her and everything goes perfectly fine because mercy is actually a very helpful and kind person. This is a small moment of celebration.
Taht is until he is YOINKED! GASP????? By what???Only reigan shen of course! He had taken sleeping ghosts binding and used it to summon lindon. Turns out, each time the dreadgods die, the rest of them get stronger...and smarter...and get more personalities. Like the bleeding phoniex deciding to be a she/they waifu apparently just to fuck with shen. Shen tries to convince her that he is a very important antagonist, and she responds with "You were." And this frightens him, given the page count. He tells her that she should get revenge on lindon and she is like "I dunno...I think I have a better plan for my otouto. ISn't that right Onii-chan?" She says to the wandering titan who was listening in over space discord. He agrees and shen realises that he has caught YET ANOTHER L.
Also where is emiriss? Wasn't she supposed to be helping??? Well she would be she got captured by northstrider who wanted to make sure that the protagonists had NO MORE ELDER MENTOR FIGURES! THEY HAD TO MANY! He is convinced that he can handle anything that happens...Which is why he is totally chill when lindon++ shows up and tells him to calm the fuck down and gives back tree grandma. Northstrider says fuck off, and lindon says "okay, but we are going to talk about this."
Northstrider thinks this is a threat. It was actually a promise, as he is pulled into lindons house and lindon is like "...So...I've been reading your character sheet...and it says you were...neutral good? And wanted to like...be a hero?" And northstrider squints because no one is supposed to read his cringe backstory. He tries to destroy it but lindon says "Ah ah ah...read it first." And then he relents because fuck this guy was a main character. What was the worst that could happen?
So he reads his character sheet and realises that he's been playing the character all wrong the whole time and was like "Fuck...I am kinda a dick now I...ya know what, I'ma drop before I get worse." And lindon is relieved that at least SOMEONE cared about being a dick. He also tells them how to get emiriss, who was happy to see that she only had to wait 5 dragon ballz minutes to get rescued. That was pretty short for an arc in her opinion.
Now back in the present lindon is dealing with 2 dreadgods, and regan shen at the time. Bleeding Waifu says, "Hey bro, we could just SHARE the planet and its fine!" and lindon says "mmm no sorry, kinda would be a shit ending to just change plot motivations here." The dreadgods nod and then try to kick his ass. Luckily he used the loot from his last 2 wins to summon his new god weapon Wavesplitter++, whose power is to fucking command super god lightning swords, and its companion Silent King.exe, that let dross be a pain in the ass, letting lindon temporarily digivolve to Dreadgod++
Which was JUST enough to survive a fight with 2 dreadgods...for a while....like about.....5 dragon ball z minutes.
So elsewhere, team friendship to go talk to malice, hoping she will be chill, Mercy, having realised the power of being nice, tries to be nice to malice. She is straight up like "Mom I know you are trying to be a protagonist but you are straight up Lawful evil rn. It's really fucked."
This goes very poorly. MAlice figures that being nice is a trap and only idiots are nice and if she has to kill her favorite person in the whole world, who is literally the embodiment of a good bean, she would rather be THE ABSOLUTE WORST. So she tries to kill all of the other people with hax abilities, constructs, powers, you name it, she has it.
Everyone is on the verge of death when dross is like "hey yerin, uh...if we want to live this, you are going to have to game out of control." And she is like "eh what else is new?" and is then overloaded with strats from every single sword artist in the entire series. In seconds, she almost manifests the sword icon, but then that would mean being a monarch. That was bad right? Thats what they were trying to get rid of.
And then Malice calls her a bitch, and yerin remembers that she REALLY wants to kill something. Like super bad. And then remembers wait...she wAS the fighty character...and she DID have a sword...and she DID love killing bad guys. Holy shit she could be the queen of killing. And so she does.
and then malice is like "Wait no what-" and then mcfucking dies to Yerin, monarch of murder death kill, apprentice of Eithan murder death kill. Charity, and mercy are very sad about this.
Back on the ship. Everyone is freaking out become lindon got yoinked and decide, alright we should all probably digivolve. Yerin points to ziel, "Okay time to fight your depression." He asks, "With like...meditation?" and then is immediately mauled by himself. He eventually realises he has a lot of self destructive tendencies and decides to keep the scars as a reminder to work on that. Dealing with his depression, for real this time, lets him be a monarch
Emriss then points to mercy and is like "You are a good person even if you are sad, and everyone actually likes you a lot." and she realises that omg, she doesnt have to be a gatekeeping,gaslighting,girlboss in order to succeed in the world. She could just be like...a good person. That revelation gives her so much relief that she actually becomes a monarch.
That said, this all took a while...like....4 dragon ball z minutes and 59 seconds.
Which is just enough time to save lindon! Hurray! The team works together and defeats wandering titan with a team attack, beat the shit out of the tiger boi, get sha miara on their side, and blow the fuck out of the bleeding waifu. Here's the problem. The second they do, lindon is going to go 100% Dreadgod x5 and...well thats less than ideal. Also means he can't finish the story....not yet.
So the crew all say their goodbyes really quick and decide OKAY WE CANNOT STAY ON BABYBOX! And so the like 7 monarchs leave and go to space.
**Space Adventures Part 2**
All of team babybox goes to space, including the rainbow baby monarch, and tree grandma. They decide they are done being characters and would like to leave the plot peacefully. The story allows that. The main characters ask where eithan is. Eithan, being a protagonist, appears and is very excited to see his squad. He is also excited to immediately get them back into trouble.
The Abidan is in DIRE need of protagonists. Actual DIRE NEED. If they don't get some more protagonists out there RIGHT NOW so many settings are going to collapse. But unforunately, they dont have a protagonist division, because every time they tried to make one, they kept getting ANTAGONISTS out of it. Something about raging against systemic injustice??? Anyway the new team become team protagonist and go do protagonist things which are so funny, I'll just list them out.
Yerin defeats an evil lich king in like 5 minutes and then leaves but not before becoming a legend...with the wrong name.
Mercy solves an ages old racism dispute by saying "I have fixed both of your systemic issues and if you do any more hate crimes, I am sorry, but I will have to kill you, please do not do any more hate crimes...or like any big obviously villianous plans like making an infiinite army of evil or making another sun to set everyone on fire. Okay? Again I fixed everything so just...be nice. Or you die."
Ziel writes a tax code and bill of rights for a planet likely destroyed by elon musk.
**Baby Box: Lindon Saga**
Lindon wakes up on baby box and is very upset that he couldn't go with his friends. So he does what anyone would do and bides his time until he can get everything back together. Has to take it easy ya know? he's on the path to recovery from his hunger addiction. So in order to chill out he-
Bribes the eight man empire with god weapons
Creates more god weapons
Establishes his sect more
Gets another icon
eats Reigan Shen's ghost and takes back his inheritence
meets li maruth, the wind god who killed him in book 1, who has all of the powers of every protagonist system, and smites the fuck out of him for daring to appear in the post credits scene
and generally just preps to leave baby box. Which is very hard considering everything has gone to fuck in space due to...a lot of people dying and being replaced.
**Space adventures part 3!**
So lindon finally gets to space! Woo! Orthos and Little blue are hyped! But oops...he landed on the bad guy side. And OOPS he had to fight a super bad guy like 5 minutes in. If only he had friends!
Akura fury, being trained to be a protagonist, could sense a good entry like a wolf, and thus came in as soon as there was a fight scene he could join in space. He was so happy. He then escorts lindon back to team protag, where lindon gives lindon 3 things she thinks she deserves.
A god killing sword of unspeakable power.
A wedding ring made out of one of the most powerful artifacts on their planet
And a mom...she's probably needed one of those for a while.
And then lindon and eithan hug. Its so pure.

I'm not going to talk about the epilogue but FUCK I LOVE CRADLE! This is easily my favorite magic system and series and OMG ITS SO GOOD AGGGGGHHHHHH

The Miami Heat will try to rebound against the Denver Nuggets in Game 2 of the 2023 NBA Finals at Ball Arena in Denver on Sunday, June 4 (6/4/2023) at 8 p.m. ET.
Miami Heat vs. Denver Nuggets Game 2 will air on ABC, and can be streamed live on fuboTV (free trial) and other live TV services.
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The Nuggets won 104-93 in Game 1, marking the first NBA Finals victory in the franchise’s history. Denver jumped out to a 17-point lead in the first half, and drove it even higher to 24 in the second half, from which Miami couldn’t recover.
Heat vs Nuggets live stream: How to watch NBA Finals game 2 online tonight, start time, channel By Henry T. Casey last updated about 10 hours ago The Finals finally begin with a Heat vs Nuggets live stream
Back to Denver tonight, for the Game 2 Heat vs Nuggets live stream. And you'll be excused if you think that the home team can repeat their Western Conference Finals performance in these NBA Playoff live streams.
HEAT VS. NUGGETS LIVE STREAM CHEAT SHEET Date: Today (Sunday, June 4) Time: 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT / 1 a.m. BST / 11 a.m. AEDT Watch in the U.S.: ESPN3 on Sling TV Orange, ABC on Fubo and in select markets on Sling TV Blue Watch from anywhere: with ExpressVPN.
Jimmy Butler and the Heat, possibly a little burned out after the Celtics pushed them to a Game 7, showed up in Denver's Ball Arena (yes, that's what it's called), and looked like victims of the higher altitude. But unless they play tremendously better when they're back home in Miami, that excuse won't hold up.
Right now, though, it looks like the Nuggets won that game on their own, as Nikola Jokic's latest triple-double didn't even feel like a necessary part of the game. The Nuggets went up early without him even shooting, thanks to the efforts of Aaron Gordon, Bruce Brown, Michael Porter Jr. and Jamal Murray.
As for Miami? Bam Adebayo led the team in points with 26, but the rest of the team not named Jimmy Butler struggled. Max Strus (0-10) and Caleb Martin (1-7) in particular looked like they left it all in Miami

The Miami Heat will try to rebound against the Denver Nuggets in Game 2 of the 2023 NBA Finals at Ball Arena in Denver on Sunday, June 4 (6/4/2023) at 8 p.m. ET.
Miami Heat vs. Denver Nuggets Game 2 will air on ABC, and can be streamed live on fuboTV (free trial) and other live TV services.
Stream the 2023 NBA Finals on fuboTV (free trial).
Go Live🔴>>➡Heat vs Nuggets Live Stream Free
Go Live🔴>>➡Heat vs Nuggets Live Stream Free
The Nuggets won 104-93 in Game 1, marking the first NBA Finals victory in the franchise’s history. Denver jumped out to a 17-point lead in the first half, and drove it even higher to 24 in the second half, from which Miami couldn’t recover.
Heat vs Nuggets live stream: How to watch NBA Finals game 2 online tonight, start time, channel By Henry T. Casey last updated about 10 hours ago The Finals finally begin with a Heat vs Nuggets live stream
Back to Denver tonight, for the Game 2 Heat vs Nuggets live stream. And you'll be excused if you think that the home team can repeat their Western Conference Finals performance in these NBA Playoff live streams.
HEAT VS. NUGGETS LIVE STREAM CHEAT SHEET Date: Today (Sunday, June 4) Time: 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT / 1 a.m. BST / 11 a.m. AEDT Watch in the U.S.: ESPN3 on Sling TV Orange, ABC on Fubo and in select markets on Sling TV Blue Watch from anywhere: with ExpressVPN.
Jimmy Butler and the Heat, possibly a little burned out after the Celtics pushed them to a Game 7, showed up in Denver's Ball Arena (yes, that's what it's called), and looked like victims of the higher altitude. But unless they play tremendously better when they're back home in Miami, that excuse won't hold up.
Right now, though, it looks like the Nuggets won that game on their own, as Nikola Jokic's latest triple-double didn't even feel like a necessary part of the game. The Nuggets went up early without him even shooting, thanks to the efforts of Aaron Gordon, Bruce Brown, Michael Porter Jr. and Jamal Murray.
As for Miami? Bam Adebayo led the team in points with 26, but the rest of the team not named Jimmy Butler struggled. Max Strus (0-10) and Caleb Martin (1-7) in particular looked like they left it all in Miami