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2023.05.29 23:46 heet00 [WTS] 9mm upper,carry handle sight set, ar15 upper parts, Glock g5 comp, 1911 comp barrel... FREEBIES!
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unknown front sight and bca carry handle with logo blacked out, came on a rifle I bought used in good condition $50 shipped
upper part lot, used 0.750 f marked front sight with bayonet lug, includes new taper pins, new sling loop, new rivet, new round handguard endcap, and used barrel nut and delta ring assembly $45 shipped
Suarez Street comp for gen 5, didn't work for my p80 $30 shipped
centaur systems quadra-comp II barrel, guide rod, and adjustable slide release, instructions, all install parts, plus some spares, even an old newspaper ad. Came installed on a 1911 I bought, put the original parts back in and sold it $200 shipped
kak blade brace
"this is the way" patch
a 5pc sticker bundle (4 total)
fobus sp11 holster springfield xd/xdm
fobus owb holster
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pistol buffer tube pad (3x black 1x fde)
pair of 308 pmag dust covers
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hello gafs! i have some parts for sale
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NO NOTESdibs rules apply!
alpha shooting sports 9mm complete upper 5" nitride barrel, 1/2x28 threads, a2 flash hider, nitride Glock bcg, 4" mlok hand guard with a finger stop, only 150rds fired, going bufferless $200 shipped
unknown front sight and bca carry handle with logo blacked out, came on a rifle I bought used in good condition $50 shipped
upper part lot, used 0.750 f marked front sight with bayonet lug, includes new taper pins, new sling loop, new rivet, new round handguard endcap, and used barrel nut and delta ring assembly $45 shipped
Suarez Street comp for gen 5, didn't work for my p80 $30 shipped
centaur systems quadra-comp II barrel, guide rod, and adjustable slide release, instructions, all install parts, plus some spares, even an old newspaper ad. Came installed on a 1911 I bought, put the original parts back in and sold it $200 shipped
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https://imgur.com/a/O3Bmi2Wkak blade brace
"this is the way" patch
a 5pc sticker bundle (4 total)
fobus sp11 holster springfield xd/xdm
fobus owb holster
vertical grip, pic rail, no screw
qd optic mount
sling
pair of vortex lens caps
pistol buffer tube pad (3x black 1x fde)
pair of 308 pmag dust covers
2023.05.29 23:35 Efficient_Option_615 I need some advice/opinion on something
So I’m 21 and I just started to get into Grateful Dead. Dead & Company are going to be in Philly in a few weeks and I don’t know if I should see them or not.
So far, the songs that I really know are Shakedown Street, Truckin, Touch of Grey, Uncle Johns Band, and a few others.
I don’t smoke or do drugs. Do you think it would be worth going to see them? It would be around $200 total to see them for two tickets. I know their set list shuffles around each concert.
What do you guys think?
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So far, the songs that I really know are Shakedown Street, Truckin, Touch of Grey, Uncle Johns Band, and a few others.
I don’t smoke or do drugs. Do you think it would be worth going to see them? It would be around $200 total to see them for two tickets. I know their set list shuffles around each concert.
What do you guys think?
2023.05.29 23:14 TommySeashell Psevdis; Siren of Dread
Lore
When he first came to the mortal world, he had no form, and was nothing more than a mass of flesh; he hid himself away from the humans and burrowed deep underground beneath Noxus.As time passed, he began to feel his hunger grow more insatiable and he was eventually forced to crawl out from underground to feed, slinking through the darkness and shadows to fight the perfect prey.
During the dark of the night he found a lone man exit a tavern and begin staggering his way home down the empty streets, and something about him made the demon's hunger go wild; when he stopped to relieve himself in an empty ally way he snuck up behind him and quickly enveloped him, wrapping his formless body around him and devouring him.
With the man's body added to his own he began to go through a sort of metamorphosis, his body began to gain form; long and gaunt legs and arms, a body that malnourished, and a head with a face that looked eerily like that of the man he consumed, but with the harrowing lack of eyes and nose.
Before he could become accustomed to his new form he smelt something from across the city, a scent similar to his first victim; he followed it and was eventually lead to another man, a soldier that was still dressed in his armor.
He didn't sneak up on him this time, and instead approached him with confidence as his hunger began to grow again; the guard spotted him, and horrified by his appearance he drew his sword and pointed it at him, demanding him to stay back.
Psevdis quietly laughed, and out of what felt like instinct he began to sing a deep harrowing melody, and for some unknown reason, the man lowered and sheathed his sword, as if he had just forgot about him.
When he was close enough, he stopped singing and the guard turned to him, screaming loudly in sheer horror for a mere moment before Psevdis opened his mouth, his neck extending above the soldier, and bit down on him, crushing and breaking through his collarbone as he tore off his head and neck, devouring it before quickly consuming the rest of his body.
When he finished, he went through another metamorphosis as his body grew larger and a second head and neck grew in place of his right arm; as he examined his new form another man came from around the corner, dressed in a black cloak and wielding a lantern who's light shown with him just out of it's reach.
He called out, demanding to know who was there, and claiming he was armed and unafraid, and with that, Psevdis' hunger flared up again and he finally discovered what it was that brought it upon him; the lies and deceit of others.
He started singing his harrowing song again as he approached the man, stopping when he was close enough and quickly devoured him as well, sprouting a third head in place of his left arm; he took the cloak the man was once wearing and dressed himself with it so he could hide in plain sight and wonder the world, sniffing out and hunting down the Liars of Runeterra so he could feed upon them without needing to wait for them to come to him.
Stats
Fighter / Assassin- Health: 590 - 2120 +90 P/L
- Mana: 360 - 1210 +50 P/L
- Attack Damage: 63 - 131 +4 P/L
- Movement Speed: 350 UpS
- Attack Speed: 0.686 - 1.00 +2.75% P/L
- Health Regen: 5 - 39 +2 P/L
- Mana Regen: 10 - 44 +2 P/L
- Armor: 40 - 74 +2 P/L
- Magic Resist: 35 - 56.25 +1.25 P/L
- Attack Type: Melee
- Attack Range: 250 Units
Abilities
P Flesh to Flesh
When ever Psevdis executes an enemy champion he'll devour them and add their flesh to his own, increasing his size by 5% and his attack range by 10 units as well as heal himself for 5% - 15% (+0.002% Bonus Health) of their Maximum Health- Every 5 kills causes him to sprout an additional head, allowing him to cast Harrow Maw and Unending Reach an additional time within 5 seconds before the ability goes on Cool Down
- Health Restored (Champion): 5% Target Maximum Health (+5% at levels 7 / 13)
Q Harrowed Maw
PassiveIf Harrowed Maw kills an enemy champion while not holding a Minion or Neutral Monster, Psevdis will devour them, permanently increasing his AD by 1% and increasing the ranges of Harrowed Maw and Unending Reach by 50 Units
Active
Psevdis extends his arm forwards from beneath his cloak, revealing the disfigured head at the end of it as he strikes enemies in front of him
- If he strikes an enemy Minion or Small Monster he'll devour it, holding it in the mouth of the head for up to 8 seconds
- If he strikes an enemy with Harrowed Maw while holding a Minion or monster, he'll deal 50 - 150 (+80% AD) Physical Damage, knock them back 200 units and stun them for 0.5 Seconds
- When he reals his arm back he can recast Harrowed Maws to throw the Minion or Monster in a straight line, dealing 75 - 275 (+110% Bonus AD) Physical Damage to the first Enemy Champion and all non-champion enemies it hits
- If he strikes an enemy Champion without hitting a Minion or Small Monster, he'll bite them, dealing 100 - 300 (+90% AD) Physical Damage
- Cast Time: 0.5 Seconds
- Cast Duration (Arm): 1.25 Seconds
- Projectile Range (Arm): 800 / 150 Units
- Projectile Speed (Arm): 700 UpS
- Projectile Range (Minion / Monster): 700 / 150 Units
- Project Speed (Minion / monster): 1000 UpS
- Cost: 60 Mana (+10 P/R)
- Cool Down: 15 Seconds
- Physical Damage (Strike): 50 (+25 P/R)
- Physical Damage (Bite): 100 (+50 P/R)
- Physical Damage (Throw): 75 (+50 P/R)
W Unending Reach
Psevdis raises his two heads and slams them down, striking enemies in front of him dealing 25 - 125 (+90% AD) Physical Damage- For the next 8 seconds afterwards his Basic Attacks will gain an additional 200 Units of Attack Range and will strike a second time as well as an additional time for each head he's gained from Flesh to Flesh, he'll also gain 20% Bonus Attack Speed which stacks every time he uses Unending Reach
- Cast Time: 0.75 Seconds
- Effect Range: 400 / 150 Units
- Cost: 70 Mana
- Cool Down: 15 Seconds
- Physical Damage: 25 (+25 P/R)
- Second Attack Damage Scaling: 20% AD (+10% P/R)
E Forget Me Not
Psevdis begins singing a harrowing melody that alters the minds of enemies that hear it- While singing, enemies will forget about him, causing him to become invisible and untargetable to them while they're facing away
Pesvdis can not be seen by wards of any type while Forget Me Not is Active
- Cast Time: 1.5 Seconds
- Effect Range: 600 Units (+100 P/R)
- Cost: 5% Maximum Mana P/Second (-1% P/R)
R As above, So Below
Psevdis digs his arms into the ground and extends them to a targeted location over 2 seconds, once they arrive they burst forth, knocking up enemies they strike for 1.25 seconds and dealing 150 - 450 (+80% AD) Physical Damage- Afterwards, he'll grab hold of every enemy he knocked up and drag them under, removing them from the map for 1 second as he brings them back to himself
- Cast Time: 1.5 Seconds
- Cast Duration: 5.75 Seconds
- Cast Range: 800 Units
- Effect Radius: 175 Units
- Cost: 100 Mana
- Cool Down: 160 Seconds (-35 P/R)
- Physical Damage: 150 (+150 P/R)
2023.05.29 23:05 TheRetroWorkshop Hard & Accurate Sci-fi Tip #2: Space Military Structure (Namely, Space Opera):
This is going to be one of my more serious, long posts, so strap in, as they say (though I cannot possibly detail out everything you might need to know. That would require at least three posts). To quote -- and set the stage through -- Dostoevsky (from Notes from Underground):
'Is it [history] many-coloured? May be it is many-coloured, too: if one takes the dress uniforms, military and civilian, of all peoples in all ages--that alone is worth something, and if you take the undress uniforms you will never get to the end of it; no historian would be equal to the job. Is it monotonous? May be it's monotonous too: it's fighting and fighting; they are fighting now, they fought first and they fought last--you will admit, that it is almost too monotonous.
In short, one may say anything about the history of the world--anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational. The very word sticks in one's throat. And, indeed, this is the odd thing that is continually happening: there are continually turning up in life moral and rational persons, sages and lovers of humanity who make it their object to live all their lives as morally and rationally as possible, to be, so to speak, a light to their neighbours simply in order to show them that it is possible to live morally and rationally in this world. And yet we all know that those very people sooner or later have been false to themselves, playing some queer trick, often a most unseemly one.
Now I ask you: what can be expected of man since he is a being endowed with strange qualities? Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, so that nothing but bubbles of bliss can be seen on the surface; give him economic prosperity, such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes and busy himself with the continuation of his species, and even then out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick. He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element. It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself--as though that were so necessary--that men still are men and not the keys of a piano, which the laws of nature threaten to control so completely that soon one will be able to desire nothing but by the calendar.'
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I would only add that he was rather harsh on the soldier and his general. Many-coloured, is he! The eternal shine of the ten million blades, the wooden hilt; the forgotten hammer, the ships of our forefathers. Ah! Such a pity to see nought in it but blood and sand -- now, that is monotonous. If man is to mean anything at all, it must be finding some honour in life... and death. War, it must be known, is the great stage-play of time. Surely, then, the warrior is the greatest (male) part to play? Otherwise, it's all for nought!
If you're going to, as the author, gift your setting a military and its honour, you have to actually put yourself inside the mind of the general, the trooper, the law-maker, the wife at home, the child in the street; otherwise, it's going to be a hollowed-out system, a mere mote. It does not matter to me if you believe in war or not, or if all war is just (certainly, it's not): what matters is that you do your setting and peoples justice, regardless of what they may find themselves. After all, this is your job as the writer, as the artist. It's your job to let your characters and their stories free, and follow them, as to see where they may lead.
I'm not even going to dig into the elements at play, such as brotherhood, inter-national conflict resolution, national defence, social structure, and physical fitness. These elements ought to be known to you all: they are some of the clear benefits to warfare and boot camp/training, in general. I have not yet found a defeatist army, for example -- or yet a nation without some kind of guarder force, vast or not. (Note: there are some claims that actual warfare did not exist until around 9,000 BC, but I find this very difficult to believe, and have seen some counter-evidence. For example, Jane Goodall and de Waal find that chimps go to war (raiding parties, sometimes wiping out entire tribes); and there are strong indications that pre-historic human tribes were war-driven, just on smaller scales, and often using wooden weapons (thus, no direct evidence is found). We know that modern hunting (and fire-making, and related matters) existed at least 1.5-2 million years ago, according to the books I own and more recent research. That's the entire history of humanity, ultimately. There is no way these spears and slings were not used against man.)
Well, a big part of space opera is, indeed, warfare (typically in relation to defence of the Good [nation] and psychomachy). Anyway, without further ado, I give to you...
Part One: A Brief History of Battles, Great and Small
Let's begin with Alexander the Great, because why not (though I could have started with Sargon of Akkad many years prior). Alexander's army was a powerful, fast-moving, and relatively small force of 40,000 men (equal to a Napoleonic corps or so). Often credited with inventing genius 'shock' tactics (the so-called hammer and anvil tactic) to overwhelm equally-sized forces. He even managed to break up, and then defeat, the vast Persian army under King Darius III (around 1500,000 strong). Alexander the Great's army is as close to the cinematic glory of 300 (2006) as you're likely to find. Soon after, Alexander was crowned King of Asia in a lavish ceremony.
Moving forward a few hundred years, at its peak, the Roman military possibly had over 500,000 soldiers across its regions (around 0.5% of citizens -- which is a fairly reliable standard across history) by 306 AD during the reign of Constantine I. Compare this to the Roman conquest of Britain under Plautius, with just a 40,000-man force (four legions and 20,000 auxiliary troops, including Thracians) in 43 AD. (It's also worth mentioning, if you're in a long-term space war, individual companies, legions, or otherwise could stay outfitted for as long as 500 years at a time without issue. The Roman Legion, Legio IX Hispana, for example, existed for at least 150 years, and led the conquest of Britain. And, within the Warhammer 40,000 universes, a single Space Marine sees battle for about 400 years before he's KIA (killed in action).)
During the Battle of Hastings in 1066 AD, each side only had upwards of 5,000-8,000 men (around 15,000 in total). This was actually a common trend, from what I found: equally common was the notion of 'law of war' and related, which meant that each side wanted to be roughly equal to the other side. This is one of the most profound discoveries of my life (more on this later). (The Japanese invasion of China, for example, taught me that having too much control over your enemy leads to madness -- there must be an innate drive to some sense of honour, fair challenge in war-making. When men are without equals, they become titans, as it were. And, if you know anything about some of the Greek titans: they were not very friendly or sane.)
Around this time (960-1279 AD), the Song Dynasty of China had a remarkable standing army of over two million men, and made use of tank-like carts and newly-invented 'grandes' (known as 'thunder crash bombs'). However, this was financially exhausting, but it was sometimes capable of fighting against invading Khitans, Jurchens, and Mongols, largely thanks to the great iron industry. Individual battles, however, were quite small.
By the time of the First Italian War (1494 AD), Europe was really starting to take its modern shape, and there were hundreds of what are ultimately power struggle wars and rebellions across Europe as we moved out of the Middle Ages. This was the opening phase of the Italian Wars, which existed between 1494 and 1559 AD. The Battle of Marignano was the last major engagement of the War of the League of Cambrai (aka the wars between 1508 and 1516 AD, within the Italian Wars. The main participants were the French, Papal States, and Republic of Venice) and took place in 1515 AD, southeast of Milan. The Battle of Marignano pitted the French army, led by Francis I and the best heavy cavalry and artillery in Europe, against the Old Swiss Confederacy (within the Holy Roman Empire -- this was the precursor of the modern state of Switzerland), whose mercenaries until that point were regarded as the best medieval infantry force in Europe. The French had German landsknechts (mercenaries famed for pike and shot formations) on their side. The French won and suffered just half the losses, and did so with a fairly stronger force -- possibly 35,000 men compared to 22,000 on the Swiss side. This led to the Treaty of Fribourg, which established the 'Perpetual Peace', and ensured good relations between the two nations for nearly 200 years. This event is largely what led to Switzerland's world-famous diplomatic autonomy and militaristic neutrality. Nonetheless, this battle -- and countless others at the time -- saw similar numbers to centuries past: roughly 20,000 on each side.
Part Two: An Introduction to Military Divisions & the Numbering System
Enter Maurice de Saxe circa 1710 AD, whom you can thank, at least in part, for the modern military system, largely due to the major increase in soldiers by the 18th century, and his advanced thinking in response. A major battle felt by a young de Saxe was the Battle of Malplaquet during the War of the Spanish Succession. Battles pressed on in this manner, and at some point, de Saxe began to write about it. He wrote Mes Reveries, a profound work on the art of war, which was published after his death in 1757 AD.
He had the grand idea of reshaping the regiment system into large 'legions' (modern divisions), so that the effective officers were not wasted on smaller, single regiments. These divisions would consist of four regiments and would have a more even mix of veteran soldiers and new recruits, as well. On top of this, he -- along with some other key theorists at the time -- had the idea of simply numbering the divisions and regiments, replacing the traditional system of naming them by their commanders or by locations/regions: because that's a very temporary, rigid system that only works for small, tight-knit groups. The divisional system also allowed soldiers to climb the ranks, and effectively learn from the veterans.
The regimental system shatters command structure and weakens mobility, despite the fact you have smaller, often lighter units. Too many small, separate, disorganised units is highly ineffective when you're dealing with large armies, and quite an advanced enemy (be it the British or Prussians, in this case). What de Saxe noticed was a failing system of rigid tradition. He also hated this sort of grenadier mentality of the 17th and 18th centuries, as it displaced all the strongest and most experienced soldiers. Of course, de Saxe was not against the existence of grenadiers: the strongest soldiers, leading the assaults, such as storming fortifications. He simply wanted to evenly spread them out across all the regiments, and legions, so that every single unit was an effective tool. (This grenadier concept actually survives to this day, as a grenade launcher specialist of a typical four-man fireteam (traditionally, sharing much in common with WWII-era shock troops), and you see it all the time in movies, where he is still typically the biggest, strongest of the team.)
Battles were increasingly crossing the 100,000 mark in terms of soldier count; whereas, not long ago (that is, around 1650 AD), the numbers were more likely in the range of 20,000 for most battles, other than a few outliers.
Then, de Saxe died before he had the opportunity to actually implement his system, though the Duke de Broglie led some successful experiments with it during the Seven Years War, but it took until the French Revolution for the 'division' concept to be enforced, systematically. This ultimately fell at the hands of the French Revolutionary Army.
Enter Lazare Carnot. Like de Saxe, Carnot saw that some regiments were full of veterans, whilst others -- namely, the new revolutionary brigades -- were filled with barely-trained recruits. And, like de Saxe, his solution was to separate out the veterans and embed them within these new brigades. More importantly, he embraced de Saxe's idea of the 'division'. The new demi-brigades (regiments, as the Revolutionary Government hated and removed the term regiment) would be combined into brigades, and brigades would be combined into divisions. Later, under Napoleon, divisions themselves were combined into corps (which is and has always been the highest level of operational units for actual combat, with all units larger than corps being purely administrative, with a clear exception being Napoleon's Armee (i.e. modern field army), and a few other, smaller army groups).
This wonderfully created an intermediate level of control between the general and the brigade commanders. The Revolutionary Army became at once an army of mass and mobility. This allowed the army to move faster and more decisively than their enemies, who were still commanding at regiment or brigade level.
Full implementation of the divisional system was not realised until the French Revolutionary Government, in their centralising and anti-aristocratic ways, when they decided to entirely remove the old system of naming regiments after their commanders. They saw all of this as part of the 'ancien regime' (i.e. 'the System' or 'old system', language also used by Hitler in relation to what he called the 'Weimar Republic'. Not uncommon language from any new system). The second factor at play was that the French Revolutionary Government also didn't like the idea of merely naming regiments after regions of France. The final factor was scale: the Army was larger than ever, which made it very difficult to give specific names.
As a result, the Government began numbering their units by the late-1700s. Although the Roman legions themselves had been numbered, and de Saxe argued for it many years prior, some scholars believe that this was purely an administrative decision. (Obviously, your naming convention can be more on the religious/traditional or seculamodern side, depending on just how the entire system is set up. Warhammer 40,000 is a good example of a more Roman-inspired system, despite its far-future nature, so it's not uncommon to find very traditional, religious naming conventions within Warhammer 40,000, coupled with simple, administrative systems. And, again: Nazi Germany and other 20th-century powers, such as America and England, also shifted towards numbered and/or lettered systems for pretty much everything. Not shockingly, this is heavily featured in sci-fi, as well.)
Part Three: Napoleon & the Birth of Modern War:
Although the concepts of the 'corps' and 'battalion carre' (that is, four corps) existed, they were also not implemented until the time of Napoleon in the early-1800s. He began grouping divisions into corps, making the largest units in history -- equal to entire armies of older periods (three divisions and some cavalry regiments, for upwards of 30,000 men). He commanded dozens of these corps (I think, around 20 of them for his Grande Armee when he invaded Russia in 1812 AD -- or, 500,000-600,000 men, equal to the entire core Roman military at the height of its power).
Napoleon's genius -- despite his supreme failure to invade Russia -- was ensuring that these corps were typically independent fighting units. This meant they were self-sufficient armies unto themselves. This allowed for a vast force, without the whole system becoming sluggish and disorganised. Of course, as with Alexander the Great before him, this ultimately led to major decentralization and failure once the leader is defeated; thus, without a singular ruler, and without endless success, the entire system breaks down (unless there is something else binding them).
Nonetheless, by now, all the European powers had adopted the divisional system. The first British divisions were established by Arthur Wellesley in 1809 AD, for example. The Napoleonic corps system then became standardised, as well.
On the other hand -- and other side of the world -- the U.S. had its own 'legion', wholly separate from the European divisional evolution. They were independent units for the western wilderness, not sub-elements of a larger army. The U.S. finally adopted a more European system by WWI, however. (Mostly because the U.S. was simply not a large enough force yet, though it did have some major battles and unit examples.)
Regardless, the primary building block for all was still the regiment or division. This remained true through WWII and beyond.
Part Four: The Four Spatial Forms of Sci-fi
I shall skip modern history, because it's -- shockingly -- not much different to older history. This further tells me that there are some universal themes and elements to warfare, unless something changes beyond measure. As of 2023 AD, the basic building block of most armies is still the regiment or division, and 'shock' tactics, of smaller units are back in style, and have been since the 1960s or so. (I do have a few things to say about WWI and beyond, but I cannot fit it in this post, and it's not required reading.)
Technically, there is a fifth: space warfare proper (an admixture). But, we shall simply focus on the four primary. I use the term 'spatial forms' because I don't know a better term. See below.
An interesting, real-world example is America's Space Force. This is fundamentally army-and-naval driven (i.e. Marines), despite its primary air force-like nature in simple terms of the vessels and how it would function in a war. This is evidenced by the fact its ranking system and such is built around the Marine Corps. I guess, that means, going with American Marines (a complex admixture of both soldier and sailor) is not such a bad idea in sci-fi. We all know this is a decent idea, anyway, and it's seen heavily in sci-fi since the 1940s (hence, the term 'space marine'). Other marine forces are fairly in line with this, as well. The typical route here is space as an ocean. The ships are merely carrying the marines to their location (planet or otherwise). You see this with Star Wars' Stormtroopers (though I did not mention such above, I shall now: this stems from late-WWI when Germany created new advanced tactics for storming British trenches. But, most of all, it speaks to Hitler's Stormtroopers, fused with some kind of space marine position; thus, we end up with Lucas' forgetting Stormtrooper force). (Of course, the Rebels of Star Wars and the Empire's TIE Fighters go with the space as air with less stuff trope. And, there is a general sense of both army and navy from the Empire. You rarely get the 'submarine feel', in this case.)
Star Trek (at least, the original) takes the spaceships as submarines trope much of the time (other than the fact, their ships are far too wasteful, volume-wise -- but that's mostly for filming purposes, so I can accept it). I actually love this mode (though I don't care for Star Trek's version so much).
Battlestar Galactica (new series), among others, seems to take a mixed view.
Which form or mode you run with, primarily, really depends upon the exact setting, culture, story, theme, and style you're going with. I suggest figuring out which you want/which fits best, and then trying to stick to that singular vision as much as possible. To get ideas, you can research as much as possible -- both real science/history and fiction.
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'Is it [history] many-coloured? May be it is many-coloured, too: if one takes the dress uniforms, military and civilian, of all peoples in all ages--that alone is worth something, and if you take the undress uniforms you will never get to the end of it; no historian would be equal to the job. Is it monotonous? May be it's monotonous too: it's fighting and fighting; they are fighting now, they fought first and they fought last--you will admit, that it is almost too monotonous.
In short, one may say anything about the history of the world--anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational. The very word sticks in one's throat. And, indeed, this is the odd thing that is continually happening: there are continually turning up in life moral and rational persons, sages and lovers of humanity who make it their object to live all their lives as morally and rationally as possible, to be, so to speak, a light to their neighbours simply in order to show them that it is possible to live morally and rationally in this world. And yet we all know that those very people sooner or later have been false to themselves, playing some queer trick, often a most unseemly one.
Now I ask you: what can be expected of man since he is a being endowed with strange qualities? Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, so that nothing but bubbles of bliss can be seen on the surface; give him economic prosperity, such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes and busy himself with the continuation of his species, and even then out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick. He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element. It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself--as though that were so necessary--that men still are men and not the keys of a piano, which the laws of nature threaten to control so completely that soon one will be able to desire nothing but by the calendar.'
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I would only add that he was rather harsh on the soldier and his general. Many-coloured, is he! The eternal shine of the ten million blades, the wooden hilt; the forgotten hammer, the ships of our forefathers. Ah! Such a pity to see nought in it but blood and sand -- now, that is monotonous. If man is to mean anything at all, it must be finding some honour in life... and death. War, it must be known, is the great stage-play of time. Surely, then, the warrior is the greatest (male) part to play? Otherwise, it's all for nought!
If you're going to, as the author, gift your setting a military and its honour, you have to actually put yourself inside the mind of the general, the trooper, the law-maker, the wife at home, the child in the street; otherwise, it's going to be a hollowed-out system, a mere mote. It does not matter to me if you believe in war or not, or if all war is just (certainly, it's not): what matters is that you do your setting and peoples justice, regardless of what they may find themselves. After all, this is your job as the writer, as the artist. It's your job to let your characters and their stories free, and follow them, as to see where they may lead.
I'm not even going to dig into the elements at play, such as brotherhood, inter-national conflict resolution, national defence, social structure, and physical fitness. These elements ought to be known to you all: they are some of the clear benefits to warfare and boot camp/training, in general. I have not yet found a defeatist army, for example -- or yet a nation without some kind of guarder force, vast or not. (Note: there are some claims that actual warfare did not exist until around 9,000 BC, but I find this very difficult to believe, and have seen some counter-evidence. For example, Jane Goodall and de Waal find that chimps go to war (raiding parties, sometimes wiping out entire tribes); and there are strong indications that pre-historic human tribes were war-driven, just on smaller scales, and often using wooden weapons (thus, no direct evidence is found). We know that modern hunting (and fire-making, and related matters) existed at least 1.5-2 million years ago, according to the books I own and more recent research. That's the entire history of humanity, ultimately. There is no way these spears and slings were not used against man.)
Well, a big part of space opera is, indeed, warfare (typically in relation to defence of the Good [nation] and psychomachy). Anyway, without further ado, I give to you...
Part One: A Brief History of Battles, Great and Small
Let's begin with Alexander the Great, because why not (though I could have started with Sargon of Akkad many years prior). Alexander's army was a powerful, fast-moving, and relatively small force of 40,000 men (equal to a Napoleonic corps or so). Often credited with inventing genius 'shock' tactics (the so-called hammer and anvil tactic) to overwhelm equally-sized forces. He even managed to break up, and then defeat, the vast Persian army under King Darius III (around 1500,000 strong). Alexander the Great's army is as close to the cinematic glory of 300 (2006) as you're likely to find. Soon after, Alexander was crowned King of Asia in a lavish ceremony.
Moving forward a few hundred years, at its peak, the Roman military possibly had over 500,000 soldiers across its regions (around 0.5% of citizens -- which is a fairly reliable standard across history) by 306 AD during the reign of Constantine I. Compare this to the Roman conquest of Britain under Plautius, with just a 40,000-man force (four legions and 20,000 auxiliary troops, including Thracians) in 43 AD. (It's also worth mentioning, if you're in a long-term space war, individual companies, legions, or otherwise could stay outfitted for as long as 500 years at a time without issue. The Roman Legion, Legio IX Hispana, for example, existed for at least 150 years, and led the conquest of Britain. And, within the Warhammer 40,000 universes, a single Space Marine sees battle for about 400 years before he's KIA (killed in action).)
During the Battle of Hastings in 1066 AD, each side only had upwards of 5,000-8,000 men (around 15,000 in total). This was actually a common trend, from what I found: equally common was the notion of 'law of war' and related, which meant that each side wanted to be roughly equal to the other side. This is one of the most profound discoveries of my life (more on this later). (The Japanese invasion of China, for example, taught me that having too much control over your enemy leads to madness -- there must be an innate drive to some sense of honour, fair challenge in war-making. When men are without equals, they become titans, as it were. And, if you know anything about some of the Greek titans: they were not very friendly or sane.)
Around this time (960-1279 AD), the Song Dynasty of China had a remarkable standing army of over two million men, and made use of tank-like carts and newly-invented 'grandes' (known as 'thunder crash bombs'). However, this was financially exhausting, but it was sometimes capable of fighting against invading Khitans, Jurchens, and Mongols, largely thanks to the great iron industry. Individual battles, however, were quite small.
By the time of the First Italian War (1494 AD), Europe was really starting to take its modern shape, and there were hundreds of what are ultimately power struggle wars and rebellions across Europe as we moved out of the Middle Ages. This was the opening phase of the Italian Wars, which existed between 1494 and 1559 AD. The Battle of Marignano was the last major engagement of the War of the League of Cambrai (aka the wars between 1508 and 1516 AD, within the Italian Wars. The main participants were the French, Papal States, and Republic of Venice) and took place in 1515 AD, southeast of Milan. The Battle of Marignano pitted the French army, led by Francis I and the best heavy cavalry and artillery in Europe, against the Old Swiss Confederacy (within the Holy Roman Empire -- this was the precursor of the modern state of Switzerland), whose mercenaries until that point were regarded as the best medieval infantry force in Europe. The French had German landsknechts (mercenaries famed for pike and shot formations) on their side. The French won and suffered just half the losses, and did so with a fairly stronger force -- possibly 35,000 men compared to 22,000 on the Swiss side. This led to the Treaty of Fribourg, which established the 'Perpetual Peace', and ensured good relations between the two nations for nearly 200 years. This event is largely what led to Switzerland's world-famous diplomatic autonomy and militaristic neutrality. Nonetheless, this battle -- and countless others at the time -- saw similar numbers to centuries past: roughly 20,000 on each side.
Part Two: An Introduction to Military Divisions & the Numbering System
Enter Maurice de Saxe circa 1710 AD, whom you can thank, at least in part, for the modern military system, largely due to the major increase in soldiers by the 18th century, and his advanced thinking in response. A major battle felt by a young de Saxe was the Battle of Malplaquet during the War of the Spanish Succession. Battles pressed on in this manner, and at some point, de Saxe began to write about it. He wrote Mes Reveries, a profound work on the art of war, which was published after his death in 1757 AD.
He had the grand idea of reshaping the regiment system into large 'legions' (modern divisions), so that the effective officers were not wasted on smaller, single regiments. These divisions would consist of four regiments and would have a more even mix of veteran soldiers and new recruits, as well. On top of this, he -- along with some other key theorists at the time -- had the idea of simply numbering the divisions and regiments, replacing the traditional system of naming them by their commanders or by locations/regions: because that's a very temporary, rigid system that only works for small, tight-knit groups. The divisional system also allowed soldiers to climb the ranks, and effectively learn from the veterans.
The regimental system shatters command structure and weakens mobility, despite the fact you have smaller, often lighter units. Too many small, separate, disorganised units is highly ineffective when you're dealing with large armies, and quite an advanced enemy (be it the British or Prussians, in this case). What de Saxe noticed was a failing system of rigid tradition. He also hated this sort of grenadier mentality of the 17th and 18th centuries, as it displaced all the strongest and most experienced soldiers. Of course, de Saxe was not against the existence of grenadiers: the strongest soldiers, leading the assaults, such as storming fortifications. He simply wanted to evenly spread them out across all the regiments, and legions, so that every single unit was an effective tool. (This grenadier concept actually survives to this day, as a grenade launcher specialist of a typical four-man fireteam (traditionally, sharing much in common with WWII-era shock troops), and you see it all the time in movies, where he is still typically the biggest, strongest of the team.)
Battles were increasingly crossing the 100,000 mark in terms of soldier count; whereas, not long ago (that is, around 1650 AD), the numbers were more likely in the range of 20,000 for most battles, other than a few outliers.
Then, de Saxe died before he had the opportunity to actually implement his system, though the Duke de Broglie led some successful experiments with it during the Seven Years War, but it took until the French Revolution for the 'division' concept to be enforced, systematically. This ultimately fell at the hands of the French Revolutionary Army.
Enter Lazare Carnot. Like de Saxe, Carnot saw that some regiments were full of veterans, whilst others -- namely, the new revolutionary brigades -- were filled with barely-trained recruits. And, like de Saxe, his solution was to separate out the veterans and embed them within these new brigades. More importantly, he embraced de Saxe's idea of the 'division'. The new demi-brigades (regiments, as the Revolutionary Government hated and removed the term regiment) would be combined into brigades, and brigades would be combined into divisions. Later, under Napoleon, divisions themselves were combined into corps (which is and has always been the highest level of operational units for actual combat, with all units larger than corps being purely administrative, with a clear exception being Napoleon's Armee (i.e. modern field army), and a few other, smaller army groups).
This wonderfully created an intermediate level of control between the general and the brigade commanders. The Revolutionary Army became at once an army of mass and mobility. This allowed the army to move faster and more decisively than their enemies, who were still commanding at regiment or brigade level.
Full implementation of the divisional system was not realised until the French Revolutionary Government, in their centralising and anti-aristocratic ways, when they decided to entirely remove the old system of naming regiments after their commanders. They saw all of this as part of the 'ancien regime' (i.e. 'the System' or 'old system', language also used by Hitler in relation to what he called the 'Weimar Republic'. Not uncommon language from any new system). The second factor at play was that the French Revolutionary Government also didn't like the idea of merely naming regiments after regions of France. The final factor was scale: the Army was larger than ever, which made it very difficult to give specific names.
As a result, the Government began numbering their units by the late-1700s. Although the Roman legions themselves had been numbered, and de Saxe argued for it many years prior, some scholars believe that this was purely an administrative decision. (Obviously, your naming convention can be more on the religious/traditional or seculamodern side, depending on just how the entire system is set up. Warhammer 40,000 is a good example of a more Roman-inspired system, despite its far-future nature, so it's not uncommon to find very traditional, religious naming conventions within Warhammer 40,000, coupled with simple, administrative systems. And, again: Nazi Germany and other 20th-century powers, such as America and England, also shifted towards numbered and/or lettered systems for pretty much everything. Not shockingly, this is heavily featured in sci-fi, as well.)
Part Three: Napoleon & the Birth of Modern War:
Although the concepts of the 'corps' and 'battalion carre' (that is, four corps) existed, they were also not implemented until the time of Napoleon in the early-1800s. He began grouping divisions into corps, making the largest units in history -- equal to entire armies of older periods (three divisions and some cavalry regiments, for upwards of 30,000 men). He commanded dozens of these corps (I think, around 20 of them for his Grande Armee when he invaded Russia in 1812 AD -- or, 500,000-600,000 men, equal to the entire core Roman military at the height of its power).
Napoleon's genius -- despite his supreme failure to invade Russia -- was ensuring that these corps were typically independent fighting units. This meant they were self-sufficient armies unto themselves. This allowed for a vast force, without the whole system becoming sluggish and disorganised. Of course, as with Alexander the Great before him, this ultimately led to major decentralization and failure once the leader is defeated; thus, without a singular ruler, and without endless success, the entire system breaks down (unless there is something else binding them).
Nonetheless, by now, all the European powers had adopted the divisional system. The first British divisions were established by Arthur Wellesley in 1809 AD, for example. The Napoleonic corps system then became standardised, as well.
On the other hand -- and other side of the world -- the U.S. had its own 'legion', wholly separate from the European divisional evolution. They were independent units for the western wilderness, not sub-elements of a larger army. The U.S. finally adopted a more European system by WWI, however. (Mostly because the U.S. was simply not a large enough force yet, though it did have some major battles and unit examples.)
Regardless, the primary building block for all was still the regiment or division. This remained true through WWII and beyond.
Part Four: The Four Spatial Forms of Sci-fi
I shall skip modern history, because it's -- shockingly -- not much different to older history. This further tells me that there are some universal themes and elements to warfare, unless something changes beyond measure. As of 2023 AD, the basic building block of most armies is still the regiment or division, and 'shock' tactics, of smaller units are back in style, and have been since the 1960s or so. (I do have a few things to say about WWI and beyond, but I cannot fit it in this post, and it's not required reading.)
Technically, there is a fifth: space warfare proper (an admixture). But, we shall simply focus on the four primary. I use the term 'spatial forms' because I don't know a better term. See below.
- Space as an ocean (navy propeoceanic)
- Spaceships as submarines (navy/subaquatic)
- Spaceships as tanks (army/ground)
- Space as air with less stuff (air force/air)
An interesting, real-world example is America's Space Force. This is fundamentally army-and-naval driven (i.e. Marines), despite its primary air force-like nature in simple terms of the vessels and how it would function in a war. This is evidenced by the fact its ranking system and such is built around the Marine Corps. I guess, that means, going with American Marines (a complex admixture of both soldier and sailor) is not such a bad idea in sci-fi. We all know this is a decent idea, anyway, and it's seen heavily in sci-fi since the 1940s (hence, the term 'space marine'). Other marine forces are fairly in line with this, as well. The typical route here is space as an ocean. The ships are merely carrying the marines to their location (planet or otherwise). You see this with Star Wars' Stormtroopers (though I did not mention such above, I shall now: this stems from late-WWI when Germany created new advanced tactics for storming British trenches. But, most of all, it speaks to Hitler's Stormtroopers, fused with some kind of space marine position; thus, we end up with Lucas' forgetting Stormtrooper force). (Of course, the Rebels of Star Wars and the Empire's TIE Fighters go with the space as air with less stuff trope. And, there is a general sense of both army and navy from the Empire. You rarely get the 'submarine feel', in this case.)
Star Trek (at least, the original) takes the spaceships as submarines trope much of the time (other than the fact, their ships are far too wasteful, volume-wise -- but that's mostly for filming purposes, so I can accept it). I actually love this mode (though I don't care for Star Trek's version so much).
Battlestar Galactica (new series), among others, seems to take a mixed view.
Which form or mode you run with, primarily, really depends upon the exact setting, culture, story, theme, and style you're going with. I suggest figuring out which you want/which fits best, and then trying to stick to that singular vision as much as possible. To get ideas, you can research as much as possible -- both real science/history and fiction.
2023.05.29 23:01 toholdyourhand Brooklyn
Once I was in Brooklyn. You were angry with me. I cried because I couldn't touch you. We were gone for just one night.
On the second day we did a lot of walking. My mother and I counted each brownstone, took note of what features we would put in our own homes:
Wooden doors with knockers carved into the head of a lion, just like ours at home. Windows with shades that covered only the bottom half, so you could see the chandelier in the hallway, a glimpse of a person's life. Stained glass reminiscent of the ancient churches on every block. Window boxes, checkered tile at the entrance, castle gates.
I tried not to think about you. I tried not to think about you and me and a big dog in a brownstone. I tried not to think about you when we walked to a memorial park I don't know the name of, and saw couples on blankets watching their children pass a soccer ball. I tried not to think about you when I saw couples mesh into each other on park benches, new and fresh and loving. I tried not to think about you as I got anxious ordering coffee, knowing you would have told me it would be alright. I tried not to think about you.
As we crossed the street, I saw graffiti on a box attached to a telephone pole. Some sort of electric circuit, I suppose. I saw this, and I thought of you. In messy spray painted writing it said quite simply: "I Miss you".
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On the second day we did a lot of walking. My mother and I counted each brownstone, took note of what features we would put in our own homes:
Wooden doors with knockers carved into the head of a lion, just like ours at home. Windows with shades that covered only the bottom half, so you could see the chandelier in the hallway, a glimpse of a person's life. Stained glass reminiscent of the ancient churches on every block. Window boxes, checkered tile at the entrance, castle gates.
I tried not to think about you. I tried not to think about you and me and a big dog in a brownstone. I tried not to think about you when we walked to a memorial park I don't know the name of, and saw couples on blankets watching their children pass a soccer ball. I tried not to think about you when I saw couples mesh into each other on park benches, new and fresh and loving. I tried not to think about you as I got anxious ordering coffee, knowing you would have told me it would be alright. I tried not to think about you.
As we crossed the street, I saw graffiti on a box attached to a telephone pole. Some sort of electric circuit, I suppose. I saw this, and I thought of you. In messy spray painted writing it said quite simply: "I Miss you".
2023.05.29 22:27 Beginning_Yellow1235 A little something different
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2023.05.29 21:29 lbabinz [Amazon] Weekly Figure Price Drops (May 22 - 29)
2023.05.29 21:13 Meyohimeyoi [WTS] Spyderco Street Beat & Tops Street Scalpel Bundle
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LNIB Spyderco Street Beat, VG-10, custom purple taco kydex sheath. Original ownecarried a few times, but it's been sitting in its box since. If you're looking for a pocket fixed blade, this could be the perfect companion for you. Fred Perrin's designs do not disappoint. Put $130 to the blade and $30 to the sheath.
SV 130 Shipped (G&S fee included in SV)
Tops Street Scalpel, 1095 steel, micarta scales (dyed purple), spare kydex sheath. This was the first knife that really got me curious about defensive fixed blades. The Street Scalpel has been tested at Ed's Manifesto organic medium courses and it performed extremely well. Put $110 to the blade and $40 to the spare sheath.
SV 85 Shipped (G&S fee included in SV)
Take them both for $200 Shipped
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LNIB Spyderco Street Beat, VG-10, custom purple taco kydex sheath. Original ownecarried a few times, but it's been sitting in its box since. If you're looking for a pocket fixed blade, this could be the perfect companion for you. Fred Perrin's designs do not disappoint. Put $130 to the blade and $30 to the sheath.
SV 130 Shipped (G&S fee included in SV)
Tops Street Scalpel, 1095 steel, micarta scales (dyed purple), spare kydex sheath. This was the first knife that really got me curious about defensive fixed blades. The Street Scalpel has been tested at Ed's Manifesto organic medium courses and it performed extremely well. Put $110 to the blade and $40 to the spare sheath.
SV 85 Shipped (G&S fee included in SV)
Take them both for $200 Shipped
PayPal G&S
2023.05.29 19:54 lbabinz [Amazon] Weekly Video Game Price Drops (May 22 - 29)
2023.05.29 19:44 abcfinnxyz APARTMENT FOR RENT RIGHT NEXT TO CCNY
Hey! My roommate Ella and I just signed a lease on a 3 BDR 1 BTH fully renovated apartment on 139th and Amsterdam. Right across the street from Compton Goethals, 3 minute walk away from the NAC. If you live at The Towers and want to move out or you are looking to move to West Harlem, this is the apartment for you! Rent is $1,200 a month. We are both students at CCNY. Message me on Instagram for more details, /abcfinnxyz.
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2023.05.29 19:32 Jazzlike_Section9287 Brooklyn Streets
Does anyone have the Brooklyn Streets map? Its the patreon version of Brooklyn Park. I would very much appreciate the help!
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2023.05.29 18:37 MeanderingJared Itinerary Check - My Upcoming 4 Day Visit to the City
Hey all! I have only ever been to NYC once and it was a 3 hour visit to Times Square while on a business trip. Needless to say I don’t think that counts 🤪 I currently live in VA but will be moving away soon… I’ve got an opportunity to take 4 days and dive in solo! Would you be able to help check my current itinerary and offer suggestions to help me get the most out of my brief stay? I’d like to see a little bit of a everything thing, enjoy a show, some sights, and some nightlife. Aside from one planned dinner, Midtown suggestions?, I plan to eat along the way. I’ll have my pup and found a very pet friendly hotel in Midtown, I’ll need to go check in on him at the very least for breakfast and dinner but will pop in throughout the day. No real budget… I’m fine with both frugal and fancy.
Friday: - 1500 Check-in @ Hotel (Midtown) - 2230 DJ set @ Everywhere (Brooklyn)
Saturday: - 1000 9/11 Memorial (Financial District) - 1200 Lunch at The Dead Rabbit (Financial District) - 1400 Central Park Walk w/ Dog ~2-3 hrs, have a cocktail @ 67 Orange Street. - 1900 Show @ Orpheum (🇺🇦 Village) - 2100 Cocktail Bars and Speakeasies (East Village)
Sunday: - 1000 Circle Line Cruise @ Pier 83 (Midtown)* Or… chartered public boat tour BYOB - 1700 Dinner @ Marea (Midtown)* - 1900 Book of Mormon @ Eugene O’Neill (🎭 Dist)*
Monday: - 1200 Check-out
Possible? Too much? Miss the mark on anything? Any tips/tricks to help me along the way? Thanks all!
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Friday: - 1500 Check-in @ Hotel (Midtown) - 2230 DJ set @ Everywhere (Brooklyn)
Saturday: - 1000 9/11 Memorial (Financial District) - 1200 Lunch at The Dead Rabbit (Financial District) - 1400 Central Park Walk w/ Dog ~2-3 hrs, have a cocktail @ 67 Orange Street. - 1900 Show @ Orpheum (🇺🇦 Village) - 2100 Cocktail Bars and Speakeasies (East Village)
Sunday: - 1000 Circle Line Cruise @ Pier 83 (Midtown)* Or… chartered public boat tour BYOB - 1700 Dinner @ Marea (Midtown)* - 1900 Book of Mormon @ Eugene O’Neill (🎭 Dist)*
Monday: - 1200 Check-out
Possible? Too much? Miss the mark on anything? Any tips/tricks to help me along the way? Thanks all!
2023.05.29 18:34 DonCheezo My landlord is charging me for a gate repair that spans over 3 properties, do I need to pay?
*Not sure why the flair is Debt & Money as I didn't get a choice in selecting one*
Hello,
I rent a property in England that shares a back area with 3 other properties. The landlord owns mine and the one next to it and he does not own the third house. There is a latch gate to enter the back area from the side of my property for all 3 houses. The latch gate is physically attached to the property I am renting.
It has been broken and never worked since I moved in around 1 year ago. I have a dog and a situation arose last week where the dog had run away because we had no gate so he was freely able to run out onto the street and he was handed in around 5 hours later. I was using my trash bins to block the alley but they get moved as there are 2 other houses tenants needing to access the back area constantly. I went in just to put my shoes on and he was already gone. After this, I explained that the gate needs sorting as I didnt want this to happen again. I spoke to him about the idea of him getting to repaireplace the gate and he was ok with the idea. During this time, I had also mentioned that I needed to get a replacement lock on the front door as it was never used but I needed to start using it. He asked me to get 2 quotes regarding both of these issues, stating that he is getting all of his tenants to do this as part of his budget aware approach. There was never any mention of me needing to pay for this repair as at the time, we believed this fell under the exterior part of the property which he must cover the costs for. He may have known that I would have to pay but he never told me this.
The gate in question was in tatters, most of the panels were just on the floor on the alley. The repair is just them hammering new nails in to hold the panels onto the main gate frame and then attaching it back onto the side pillars. This is apparently costing £170. There is no new materials used, just his joiners doing some repair work on the existing gate materials. Just to clarify, the gate is now fixed.
Now he has sent me a message saying that I have to pay the costs of this gate as "part of the agreement is for us to look after the house externally meaning (structurally). However, the gate does not fall under this definition (Deemed as non-essential)."
If I was told before the gate was repaired that I would be paying for the repairs, I would have just fixed it myself as I said earlier, all the materials for the gate were still on the alley, it just needed a day to hammer in new nails and attach it back onto the side beams but because I assumed this was part of the external property as its attached to this property that I would not need to carry out the work myself, especially since it was broken before I moved it.
Who is responsible for the gate maintenance if he is claiming that it is a non-essential repair? Do I have any leg to stand on?
I'm really pissed that he is making me pay £170 for a gate repair I could've done in a day if I had known that I would have to pay for it. The whole time it was implied that he would pay for it. Is it legal for him as a landlord to not tell me I need to pay for it, complete the repair and then tell me I have to pay for the repair? The latch on the gate still doesnt work very well and requires a bit of fiddeling to get the lock on.
Just to add, one of my best mates is a landscaper and had offered to completely replace the gate with a new one and do it for me at £200 at a mates rate, £30 more expensive than the repair job they did. However because I mentioned it was the landlord paying, he said it would be charged as a business expense from his own company to the landlord, and that he would be charging his usual day rate cost on top of a new gate and side beams. My friend gave a quote of £350 as it wouldn't be me paying for it. This was the quote I gave to my landlord to get a new gate installed.
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Hello,
I rent a property in England that shares a back area with 3 other properties. The landlord owns mine and the one next to it and he does not own the third house. There is a latch gate to enter the back area from the side of my property for all 3 houses. The latch gate is physically attached to the property I am renting.
It has been broken and never worked since I moved in around 1 year ago. I have a dog and a situation arose last week where the dog had run away because we had no gate so he was freely able to run out onto the street and he was handed in around 5 hours later. I was using my trash bins to block the alley but they get moved as there are 2 other houses tenants needing to access the back area constantly. I went in just to put my shoes on and he was already gone. After this, I explained that the gate needs sorting as I didnt want this to happen again. I spoke to him about the idea of him getting to repaireplace the gate and he was ok with the idea. During this time, I had also mentioned that I needed to get a replacement lock on the front door as it was never used but I needed to start using it. He asked me to get 2 quotes regarding both of these issues, stating that he is getting all of his tenants to do this as part of his budget aware approach. There was never any mention of me needing to pay for this repair as at the time, we believed this fell under the exterior part of the property which he must cover the costs for. He may have known that I would have to pay but he never told me this.
The gate in question was in tatters, most of the panels were just on the floor on the alley. The repair is just them hammering new nails in to hold the panels onto the main gate frame and then attaching it back onto the side pillars. This is apparently costing £170. There is no new materials used, just his joiners doing some repair work on the existing gate materials. Just to clarify, the gate is now fixed.
Now he has sent me a message saying that I have to pay the costs of this gate as "part of the agreement is for us to look after the house externally meaning (structurally). However, the gate does not fall under this definition (Deemed as non-essential)."
If I was told before the gate was repaired that I would be paying for the repairs, I would have just fixed it myself as I said earlier, all the materials for the gate were still on the alley, it just needed a day to hammer in new nails and attach it back onto the side beams but because I assumed this was part of the external property as its attached to this property that I would not need to carry out the work myself, especially since it was broken before I moved it.
Who is responsible for the gate maintenance if he is claiming that it is a non-essential repair? Do I have any leg to stand on?
I'm really pissed that he is making me pay £170 for a gate repair I could've done in a day if I had known that I would have to pay for it. The whole time it was implied that he would pay for it. Is it legal for him as a landlord to not tell me I need to pay for it, complete the repair and then tell me I have to pay for the repair? The latch on the gate still doesnt work very well and requires a bit of fiddeling to get the lock on.
Just to add, one of my best mates is a landscaper and had offered to completely replace the gate with a new one and do it for me at £200 at a mates rate, £30 more expensive than the repair job they did. However because I mentioned it was the landlord paying, he said it would be charged as a business expense from his own company to the landlord, and that he would be charging his usual day rate cost on top of a new gate and side beams. My friend gave a quote of £350 as it wouldn't be me paying for it. This was the quote I gave to my landlord to get a new gate installed.
2023.05.29 18:03 ScoreImaginary5254 Sauron’s Armies(Lord of the Rings) invade New York City. Can NYPD stop them?
There are portals that suddenly open and Sauron’s armies come out and attack the city. They come out through The Brooklyn, George Washington, Verrazano, Triborough, Whitestone, Throgs Neck and Bronx Whitestone Bridges. Each Bridge has 2 million Orcs, 500 Uruk Hai, 200 Trolls, Half Trolls and Ogres and 10 Great Beasts. The NYPD gets all the weapons they use. Round 1: Random Encounter. Round 2: NYPD is aware that they are coming and gets 1 week to prepare. Round 3: They get help from the US Military with 5,000 Soldiers and 20 Tanks.
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2023.05.29 17:46 Antique-Ebb5690 Random thoughts
As I head back to the Cancun airport here are my sentiments I take away most from the experience:
No where near as dangerous as online made it seem. Stuck to mostly tourist areas but definitely good to have situational awareness when venturing out.
The hospitality of Tulum was like no other. The people are friendly, hospitable, and service is next level experience.
Expensive, expensive, expensive. Probably the most I spent on a trip. But then again we went for the 1st class experience with boutique jungle theme hotel on water, and five star restaurants. You can easily drop $200 dinner for one at a top restaurant. But you can expect the most spectacular show like a Mayan fire performance comparable to a Vegas show. The quality of the food is out of this world. I think I ate the best steak I ever had in my life at Bak.
Vendors, yes annoying. You constantly feel harassed like every other minute on the beach. But do yourself a favor and spend the $10 on a 50 cent bracelet. You will make a 5 year old girl’s day.
Swim with the alligator, snorkel through the bat infested caves of the cenotes even if feeling reminiscent of one of those horror flicks where they discover some terrifying new species deep within lol. Learning the Mayan rituals history despite its gruesomeness was magical to be there.
I hate im too cheap to buy one of those beautiful Mayan style dresses but if any locals have insider tips for an online store I can get cheaper lol help a girl out.
I’m sad for the Mexican people that the only beach area I witnessed the locals enjoying was this rough area with stones and boulders whilst the tourists enjoyed the pretty sandy beaches. Yes the sargassum is bad, doesn’t smell. You can find some areas cleaned daily by the resorts. The water is nice.
Be ready for the mosquitoes. Those things are like ninjas, you’ll never see them coming. No amount of repellant will prepare you for battle. My ankles are covered in welts 😩
I think if I were to visit again I would find an Airbnb, rent a car, eat the street food, and venture out. We were two girls English speaking only so played it safe going into this. So much development going on in Tulum, I can only imagine what it will be like in ten years, better or worse. I definitely appreciate the experience.
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No where near as dangerous as online made it seem. Stuck to mostly tourist areas but definitely good to have situational awareness when venturing out.
The hospitality of Tulum was like no other. The people are friendly, hospitable, and service is next level experience.
Expensive, expensive, expensive. Probably the most I spent on a trip. But then again we went for the 1st class experience with boutique jungle theme hotel on water, and five star restaurants. You can easily drop $200 dinner for one at a top restaurant. But you can expect the most spectacular show like a Mayan fire performance comparable to a Vegas show. The quality of the food is out of this world. I think I ate the best steak I ever had in my life at Bak.
Vendors, yes annoying. You constantly feel harassed like every other minute on the beach. But do yourself a favor and spend the $10 on a 50 cent bracelet. You will make a 5 year old girl’s day.
Swim with the alligator, snorkel through the bat infested caves of the cenotes even if feeling reminiscent of one of those horror flicks where they discover some terrifying new species deep within lol. Learning the Mayan rituals history despite its gruesomeness was magical to be there.
I hate im too cheap to buy one of those beautiful Mayan style dresses but if any locals have insider tips for an online store I can get cheaper lol help a girl out.
I’m sad for the Mexican people that the only beach area I witnessed the locals enjoying was this rough area with stones and boulders whilst the tourists enjoyed the pretty sandy beaches. Yes the sargassum is bad, doesn’t smell. You can find some areas cleaned daily by the resorts. The water is nice.
Be ready for the mosquitoes. Those things are like ninjas, you’ll never see them coming. No amount of repellant will prepare you for battle. My ankles are covered in welts 😩
I think if I were to visit again I would find an Airbnb, rent a car, eat the street food, and venture out. We were two girls English speaking only so played it safe going into this. So much development going on in Tulum, I can only imagine what it will be like in ten years, better or worse. I definitely appreciate the experience.
2023.05.29 17:34 TokyoTesla Where to buy local art?
I normally try to buy something local when traveling, typically pop/street style art- on canvas or print- I haven’t been having much luck and on my last day in London.
Any recommendations? I had tried Spitalfields but that seems more like .. bull production stuff.
Budget- anywhere up to maybe $500 realistically or a bit less.. typically closer to 100 or 200
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Any recommendations? I had tried Spitalfields but that seems more like .. bull production stuff.
Budget- anywhere up to maybe $500 realistically or a bit less.. typically closer to 100 or 200
2023.05.29 17:29 Sheik-mon Wolf head done by Eli at Smith Street Tattoo Parlor in Brooklyn
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2023.05.29 17:11 Trader_Kamikaze Turkish Lira Falls After Erdogan Wins Another Five Years in Power
 | Turkey’s lira weakened toward a record low after Recep Tayyip Erdogan won a presidential runoff election on Sunday, extending his time as the nation’s longest-serving leader in a tenure that has increasingly alienated foreign investors. submitted by Trader_Kamikaze to Economic_Times [link] [comments] Stocks jumped and dollar bonds were mixed as investors awaited appointment of a new economic team that he promised would have “international credibility,” hinting at a potential turn away from an unorthodox policy mix based on ultra-low interest rates and heavy state intervention in markets. Erdogan is expected to announce his new cabinet as soon as Friday, according to two Turkish officials familiar with the matter. The lira dropped 0.5% to 20.0785 per US dollar, near a record low, as of 1:55 p.m. in Istanbul. Wall Street analysts see more weakness ahead, with Morgan Stanley warning it may slide 29% toward 28 per dollar by the end of the year should Erdogan decline to change course. Wells Fargo & Co. expects the currency to hit 23 by the end of the quarter. “An Erdogan win offers no comfort for any foreign investor,” said Hasnain Malik, a strategist at Tellimer in Dubai. “With very high inflation, very low interest rates, and no net foreign reserves, a painful crisis affecting all assets could be on the way.” Erdogan easily cinched victory in the second round, winning 52% of the vote according to the unofficial count, and by shortly after 8 p.m. on Sunday he was delivering a victory speech to a throng of supporters from the top of a bus in Istanbul. Already in power for 20 years, the win gives him another five-year term. https://preview.redd.it/ojsl0rcmds2b1.jpg?width=507&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=942a28432e727161417c352538addaf5920a5bb5 Erdogan’s unorthodox approach to interest rates — he believes lower rates lead to lower inflation — has left markets beholden to an unpredictable mix of ad-hoc regulations and interventions, with new measures introduced informally and on a near-daily basis. They’ve also sent investors fleeing, with total foreign holdings of Turkish stocks and bonds decreasing by about 85%, or nearly $130 billion, since 2013. “It’s obvious that the current economy model doesn’t work,” said Burak Cetinceker, a money manager at Strateji Portfoy in Istanbul. “Erdogan is probably also aware of that, and a modest transition to an orthodox policy in the near future is likely because otherwise, it is not sustainable. Any signal toward this would be welcomed by the market.” The policies have also been expensive, with the central bank spending nearly $200 billion over the past year and a half to prop up the lira, net foreign-exchange reserves turning negative, and inflation soaring above 80% last year before falling to 44% in April. Traders are more bearish than ever on the Turkish currency, betting that market forces will eventually overwhelm government controls. The extra cost to protect against lira declines in the coming six months — versus hedging against gains — rose to a record 21.4 percentage points on Monday, doubling from 10.7 in January, according to risk reversals. In the equities market, Turkey’s benchmark index BIST-100 rose as much as 4.8% on Monday, with companies that have foreign-currency income, including glassmaker Sise ve Cam Fabrikalari and national carrier Turkish Airlines, among the biggest contributors to the advance. The index was trading 3.8% higher as of 1:55 p.m. https://preview.redd.it/c9npvoguds2b1.jpg?width=507&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d5c25e4813c3997a81e65a5e24a20448c051a8ac The first signs of any revision to the current policy mix is likely to come with appointments to key economic positions, including the Ministry of Treasury and Finance, and to the central bank. All of the current ministers won seats in parliament two weeks ago, which they would have to relinquish if they were to be reappointed to a cabinet position. The opposition’s weaker-than-expected effort in the first round of the presidential elections on May 14 led to a steep surge in credit-default swaps, a more than 20% slump in banking stocks and a retreat in the Turkish currency. “Some corrections have to be made to avoid running out of FX reserves at least,” said Viktor Szabo, an investment director at Abrdn in London. Policy announcements will be awaited, because “the current heterodox policies are unsustainable.” |
2023.05.29 16:56 bimbo_wannabe_ [I Accidentally Joined The Mafia In South Brooklyn] Chapter 6: On The Organizational Habits of Unrested Spirits and The Taste of Demon's Blood, Part 1.
![[I Accidentally Joined The Mafia In South Brooklyn] Chapter 6: On The Organizational Habits of Unrested Spirits and The Taste of Demon's Blood, Part 1.](https://preview.redd.it/8u7ykhosst2b1.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=5b744f64a6da09632ac427471bc1cbaa47eb9911 "[I Accidentally Joined The Mafia In South Brooklyn] Chapter 6: On The Organizational Habits of Unrested Spirits and The Taste of Demon's Blood, Part 1.") | Previous Part: https://www.reddit.com/redditserials/comments/13trg6g/i_accidentally_joined_the_mafia_in_south_brooklyn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button submitted by bimbo_wannabe_ to redditserials [link] [comments] Becca invited me to her apartment when we made it back, sent me through the alley behind the building to keep the prying eyes at the minimum. That was fine with me as I was a lot more noticeable than I liked to be, at the moment. I had already lit a cigarette by the time she opened the back door of the stairwell to let me in. It was the last in the pack, and I'd only opened it this morning. The temperature on my phone screen had finally hit zero. "You're gonna have to give me a second, B, I don't wanna smoke around you in your condition but I really need one." She gave me another watery grin. "Little too much blood in the nicotine system, huh?" "Exactly, my young friend, exactly that." She propped the door open and sat herself down on the ground. I could tell the high heels were starting to hurt her because she kicked them off and set them neatly to the side, though I knew the concrete had to be freezing her feet off. She tucked her skirt between her legs and sat with her back against the wall, her elbow propped on her bent knee, the other leg stretched out straight before her. It was exactly how what was left of Antoni had been sitting beside me less than two hours ago. I was getting a little tired of all the patterns appearing in my life these days. I flipped to my news app, as was my habit. There was an article at the top of page about the preparations the SDNY were making to get ready for the coming storm, but frankly I didn't really give a fuck so I just kept scrolling. "Your old neighborhood is in the news, B." "You ain't had enough bad news?" Beccs asked with a rueful laugh. "Eh, I like to stay abreast of current events. I mean, you got me pegged, B. I'm a nosy fuck. But, uh, fifteen years on the inside, you learn that it pays to pay attention to the shit other people don't notice, cause you never know when the information you pick up is going to end up being the information you need." She gave me a look that said she had to yield to my point. "So what's the news from Koreatown?". "Somebody shot a wedding up, apparently. Says seven were killed, including the bride and groom and the bride's father, as they was leaving the reception. You know, most of these names are Rhees. Ain't nobody you know, is it? Kinda feel like you've had enough death for the day, kid." There was another look on her face, one I couldn't quite read even with all my people-watching prowess. "Lemme take a wild stab at it. Two of those names are Rhee Seong-Min and Rhee Bong-Cha." "Yeah," I nodded. "You do know 'em. I'm sorry, B." She gave a low, almost rumbling, chuckle. It gave me a little shiver, not from the cold, and not one of enjoyment, either. She flashed a sign, one I'd seen her flash before, but it wasn't from any gang I knew personally, and lacking any official affiliation of my own, I'd dealt with my fair share of different gang members in the Upstate Correctional Facility. Double E's, one backwards, one forwards, three quick shakes of each hand. "God bless old K-town. But you ain't got to worry about it. I'll not shed a tear over any of them. They's family, but they ain't exactly family, you know. I might tell you about it one day." The last sentence had a note of finality to it, so I didn't ask any further questions in that regard, but I was still as curious as always. "If all your family has Korean names, how the hell did you end up as Rebecca and your Dad as Sam?" "My Dad's name is Park Kyung-Sam. Just Sam was easier to tell people and he, uh, he wanted me to have the same benefit of blending in in American society, and he liked the name Rebecca. So, Rhee Rebecca Hyo-Jin. My Mom's name was Rhee Chung-Cha, but everybody just called her ChaCha, like from Grease." "So your Mom was the Rhee?" She made an affirmative noise and nodded. "She didn't exactly wanna give up her family name, and… my Dad didn't exactly give a fuck cause he was in love with her crazy ass. You know, that's where I get this from. Except my Moms, if she was still around she'd make me look like I grew up to be a calm, quiet girl." I'd hate to see what was worse than Beccs. "You done?" Becca asked. I nodded, tossed my cigarette into the sand-filled bucket we kept here for just that purpose. I followed B inside and we climbed the stairs to the third floor. I leaned against the wall as she pulled a ring of keys from her coat pocket and waited while she unlocked the knob and the three deadbolts on her door. "Pretty serious about your home security, B?" She shot me a look but didn't say anything as she opened the door. A steady beeping greeted us, and Becca stopped just inside and punched in a code on a security panel. As I stepped around her and entered the apartment, I understood why. Do you know that part in Coming To America where Akeem comes home to his dilapidated Queens apartment and realizes Semmi has filled it with expensive furniture? Well, it was exactly like that. Becca locked the door back behind her, threw her stilettos onto the shoe rack, and hung her coat on the brass tree beside it. I did the same, removed my boots to place them on the rack as well. "Jesus Christ, B, this place looks amazing." There was a gray suede sectional in the center of the living room, a 152 inch Panasonic plasma bolted to the wall. The coffee table, the wool Oriental rug beneath it, and the end tables looked antique, as well as the green velvet chaise set near one window. There were three ornately-carved bookcases set against the far wall between the two windows facing the street, one filled with DVDs, and on the other two almost all the books were old and leather bound. The kitchen was open to the room, separated by a butcher block bar from the living room, all matching stainless steel appliances and black marble countertops. All along the walls were family pictures dotted between massive paintings held in golden Baroque style frames. They were… stunning was the only word I could think to describe them. Most of them were portraits done in a slightly impressionist style, impasto if my memory served me, seemingly random strokes of thick paint that somehow managed to form the perfect images of faces and a few nudes. "Jesus Christ, these paintings must have cost a fortune alone." Becca stepped beside me, her arms crossed over her chest as she surveyed the painting I was looking at. It was done in mostly black and red, the image of a sleeping nude man, one arm tucked behind his head, his other draped across his stomach, his hips and legs covered with a sheet. If I touched it, I could have felt the wrinkles in the bunched fabric. There was something oddly familiar about it. "They didn't cost shit," she answered. That made me look away from the painting and back to Beccs. "What the hell? Did you rob a gallery?" "No, you mook, I painted them. They didn't cost anything but the price of the canvas and the paint, which, you know, I stole most of that from school." "You painted them," I repeated, looking back. As I looked closer at the canvas, I realized why it was familiar. The sleeping man was our dear friend Antoni Zabrowska. I had mistaken his tattoos for shadows, though I had to admit I had never seen him look quite so relaxed. As I glanced around the room, I realized I recognized many of the paintings. I was able to pick out her father's face, Rossi's, and I realized the model for the two female nudes was none other than Nia Bianchi. There was one of a woman in white with bloody skeletal wings that bore a strong resemblance to Becca and I imagined that was the infamous ChaCha. "That's what I go to Columbia for. Visual Arts." "You're a goddamn genius, B." She scoffed. "No, I'm fucking serious, kid. My sister collects art, and she refuses to go for the big names. Shit like this, she pays 10 to 20 grand for a painting half this size, more if it's one of the artists she likes." Now she snorted. "What? Your sister got a money tree?" "No, my older sister Aurie's a writer. She wrote her first book when she was ten. She's published 20 so far, but she's got 30 or 40 more in backlog that she's still tweaking. She's kind of a perfectionist when it comes to writing, but I guess it pays off. Her books sell like fucking hotcakes everytime she puts one out, two of her series got picked up by Netflix, and Lion's Gate turned her seventh book into a movie. She even got to be involved in the productions. "She's got a penthouse on the Upper East Side that she bought about six years ago. That's where I lived when I got out of the Upstate. Aurora, she's a fucking Saint, you know. I mean, I had a shitty PO that was up my ass every five minutes but Aurie never said a word about it. She just… always told me she was glad I was home, which, you know, was nice to hear considering that according to my grandparents I died 19 years ago. She was the one that helped me get this place down here, paid in full for a two year lease." Becca raised an eyebrow at me. "No offense, Tony, I can tell you're crazy about her, but she couldn't have picked a better place for you than this hell hole?" I laughed as softly as I could, to save the muscles in my stomach. "I picked this place myself, B. Cheapest apartment I could find in any of the boroughs, and it even had three bedrooms. I was thinking about having space for a library and a home gym." Becca snorted. "Yeah, it's cheap cause the fucking place is about 90 years old. Nobody's been able to get a hold of the slumlord who owns it for repairs in 8 months, but I bet you the motherfucker still collects the rent checks we deposit in his fucking bank account every month." "Yeah, I figured that out just about as soon as I moved in, but beggars can't be choosers. Besides, Antoni always used to help me out whenever something broke." Becca gave a small smile. "They did that for everybody. I used to call them the apartment elves, cause instead of making shoes they were skittering around fixing fucking toilets and sinks, and rewiring burned up outlets and bringing in new refrigerators and stoves when shit broke in everybody else's places. And they bought it all with their own money. Everybody tried to pay them, but they never took a dime for any of it. Ironically enough, Pops used to talk about Antoni all the time because of all the money he'd spend over there every week. Said he had a good heart, just no good sense when it came to what was his responsibility and wasn't. You know, I had my own opinions about Antoni's heart, but I kept them to myself." "I really wish I had paid more attention when Antoni was working on the boiler, though. Instead of just passing him tools and running my mouth." "Yeah, you're good at that," she replied with a smirk. "And fuck you, too, Miss Rebecca. You might be the strong type, but you're not exactly silent yourself." She laughed. "Make yourself comfortable. I'll be right back." I nodded and obeyed as she exited into what I saw was the bathroom as she opened the door and closed it behind her. The sectional was goddamned heaven, and she'd said make myself comfortable so I kicked out the recliner and leaned back. I closed my eyes for a moment and sighed, and when I opened them I nearly jumped out of my skin. I barely managed to stop myself from letting out a yell as I jerked back up to sitting. Antoni's corpse was standing by the picture wall, looking intently at a photo of a child Becca wearing a ruffled, cream colored dress with a ribbon in her long black hair. It was the picture of her first Communion. "Goddamn, you can't give somebody a warning before you do that?" He neither answered me nor turned to look at me because he was using the stumps of his wrists to adjust several of the frames back straight again. "Fucking neat freak," I laughed. "She wasn't lying." He finally turned toward me. You ever seen a corpse try to look annoyed when he's missing about a quarter of his face? I mean, what am I saying, you probably haven't, but suffice to say, it's pretty fucking funny. He raised his left wrist, and if he had hands, he'dve been shooting the bird. Almost hysterical laughter burst out of me as Becca exited the bathroom. "Least the pipes ain't frozen yet," she muttered. She gave me a strange look. "Who are you talking to out here? And what's so funny?" I glanced back to Antoni, but he was gone again. "Don't mind me, B, I'm pretty sure I got a concussion. I'm pretty much seeing pink elephants at this point." Or, you know, the mutilated corpse of my best friend, but it's probably best I leave it at elephants. "Yeah," she answered, and crossed the room to hand me something. "Speaking of." It was a mouth guard. "What is this for?" She didn't answer me, but headed to the kitchen and opened a cabinet, withdrawing a cut crystal scotch glass and then opening the refrigerator and withdrawing… two bags of blood. Nia's blood, to be exact. She unscrewed the cap at the bottom of one, punctured the seal with a fresh insulin needle, and to my supreme discomfort squeezed some into the glass. The mouth guard suddenly made sense. It was so I wouldn't break my teeth or bite my tongue off when the convulsions started and my jaw locked down from consuming demon blood. "Oh no, B, I don't want that." "Yeah. That's why I didn't tell you why I wanted you over here, cause I knew you was gonna be a pussy about it." I tried one more last-ditch effort. "You need that more than me, B." "I can just take my next dose early, but you, you can't go down and see Ma looking like that. She's gonna ask too many questions." That one stopped me. "I've had enough of interrogations for one day, B." "There ain't no interrogation when it comes to Ma. She just puts it in your head that you ain't got no choice but to tell her the truth, and you do. She's made state witnesses get up on the stand and confess their own crimes, pleading the fifth be damned." She screwed the cap back onto the bag and carried them and the glass over to the coffee table and set them down. She walked over and opened a closet door, pulling out an IV pole with a little box attached to it, and grabbed a small cardboard box from off a shelf and what looked like a tackle box. She set it on the coffee table after she pulled the pole over to the sectional and plugged it into the wall, opened the cardboard box and removed a cassette from inside and inserted it into the box on the pole. "What's that?" "It's a blood warmer for rapid transfusions, so I don't go into hypothermia or hemolysis. Little bastard cost 137 thousand, but at least you can buy them online. You put a fresh cassette in every time, the blood runs through it, by the time it gets to my arm it's body temp." She opened the tackle box and removed two fresh lines, attaching one to the bottom of the warmer and one to the top, hanging the bags of blood but not connecting the first of them yet. The top had a drip chamber with a filter, and the bottom held the flow regulator and the hypodermic needle with the cannula inside. "You know, it's not fucking fair, B, you shouldn't have dealt with half the shit in your life that you have." She snorted and her lips pursed with anger as she sat down beside me. "You sound like Rossi with that shit. That's why he wouldn't let me die, said it wasn't fair. I was ready to go into hospice, fuck it, I was ready to see my Mom again. But I'll tell you the same thing I told his stupid old ass. Life ain't fair. Cause if it was I'd have my mother and my baby's father and Jimmy's ass would be the one laying in the morgue. You think it's fair you almost lost a finger because of what he ordered?" I laughed. "No, I actually think that's pretty fair. That's karma, B. I was usually the one doing the beating. How do you think I ended up in prison?" She looked hard at me for a moment. "I mean, you never told me. You were pretty open about having gone to prison, but you never said why." "Well, I learned to be open about it. Some people get real upset when they find out they're dealing with someone who's been through the system, so I didn't really wanna go through that again. So now I just tell people up front, let them decide for themselves if they wanna deal with me or not. That way they can't throw it back in my face, say I lied to them." Becca let out a bitter chuckle. "So what's your story?" "Well, we still ain't finished your story, yet, but we'll take a detour. The whole thing started my Senior year of high school. First game of the year, I blew my knee out, big as a bitch, tore everything there was to tear, shit was basically hanging on by the skin alone. Orthopedics said I had two choices, keep playing football or, retain the ability to walk on that leg, so… there went all my big dreams of college ball and making it onto the Giants." "Linebacker?" I nodded. "Middle linebacker. I was good at it. 6'7, 265 pounds but light on my feet, all muscle. Back then I was running 7 percent body fat, and wasn't even trying. Shit just… all came natural to me. It all blew up in my face. Shitloads of surgery and physical therapy, and then one day the pain pills stopped but the pain didn't. Everyday, every night, I was still hurting." She nodded. "I know about bone pain. I could always tell when I needed to up the dose when my bones started hurting. When I started out all it took was an insulin needle. Now I take so much, I'm not even sure I qualify as human. But I guess I won't be much longer. That's always been the plan. Just keep me alive till 30 and Ma's gonna make me like her. That's the preferred age for the Entrance, something to do with the Trinity." I nodded. "I started asking around school if anyone knew where to get some Percs but pain management keeps that shit so tight I could only get a few at a time. Not only was they expensive, it wasn't enough. I got hooked up with this kid named Alessandro, he told me if I really wanted to control the pain, he could get me something better and cheaper. He took me to meet his uncle, Colombian guy named Marco. First shot is free and it was… it was beautiful. Everybody always gets sick the first time, but I didn't. And then after that, all my free money from my after school job started going to horse, and uh, I got my last six months off school. I already had all the credits I needed from AP classes, started working full time. They didn't piss test. But, my tolerance was rising faster than my income was." I took a deep breath. "I'd been buying enough that Marco was offering me fronts but I never took it. So next time I went, I asked him for my usual and I asked how much it would be for two O's on the front, cause I knew a lot of other users and I was thinking of starting to sell myself. So, he told me he'd give me a pound, and we could settle up at the end of the month." "Jesus Christ, if you were selling a pound a month you must have been making bank." I shook my head. "I wasn't in it for the money. I was in it to keep myself supplied. If I kept my prices right, I could use for free, and I had enough left over to pay my portion of the rent and help pay for the groceries. I got good at it, I'd take a shot, and nod out for a few minutes, then get up and start walking the streets." Becca snorted. "You wasn't standing on a street corner?" "Fuck no. Too visible. I did all my business by phone. I had a burner and gave everyone the number, and when they needed some they'd give me a call and I'd meet them or they'd meet me. I had ethics. I used to have people offering me fucking blowjobs for a bag, but I always said no, shit felt wrong. All they had to do was pay me by the end of the month but, sometimes…" She gave a grin. "But sometimes, 'Bitch, where's my money?'" "Yeah, sometimes people would try to skip out, so I had to apply a little pressure to persuade them to pay. I never killed nobody, it's hard as hell to get money out of a dead man. But, black a few eyes and break a few bones and suddenly they had money they didn't before. Being my size, there wasn't many of them that could fight back. But, I fucked up the wrong lowlife. "There was this prick, he'd been dodging me for weeks. He owed me like two grand, I'd given him that much because I knew he had money, so when I finally caught up to him, I was pretty mad and, the bitch, he told me he wasn't going to pay me. Thought he was better than me, thought he could fuck me and get away with it. So I beat the mortal hell out of him, took his wallet. He had five grand in there but I figured, 3K surcharge for wasting my time." I shook my head. "But I should have done some better research on who I was going after. Turned out the little prick had a socialite for a mother and his Daddy was a hedge fund manager and… I'd hurt him pretty bad. First three months, not only was I dealing with DTs, I was waiting to see if they were going to add Murder to my charges. He was in a coma for that long, and when he woke up, he had to learn to walk again, how to feed himself. I beat him so bad I gave him brain damage." "Goddamn, Tony." "Apparently his parents knew their son's habits and knew exactly who I was, cause they went straight to the police, and two days later SWAT showed up, turned the house upside down. I smashed my phone into pieces, flushed it so they couldn't get my contacts, but I didn't think about the fact I still had the wallet with his driver's license in it. My grandparents disowned me, right then and there. I had just reupped so they caught me with 14 ounces, all it takes is 8 for Class A felony possession. I spent 13 months in Rikers, but my sister got me a good lawyer, he knew the judge and the prosecutor personally, golfed with them, so he got me a plea deal. I was looking at life in prison, but he argued that I was a good student that had made a bad mistake because of a chronic pain issue, and they were both first offenses, so if I pled guilty, agreed to go through a substance abuse program and anger management, then they'd give me the minimum sentence. "15 years, Class A Felony Drug Possession, 3 years, Class B felony First Degree Assault, intentionally causing grievous bodily harm while in the commission of another felony. But, at my sentencing, the judge said I was a big guy, with a big anger problem. I hadn't killed anyone, but it wasn't for lack of trying. Said I was a danger to society, so when I got to the UCF, they put me in dark red." "Supermax?" I nodded. "23 hours a day in a box by myself, no visitors, barely saw the guards. But, I stayed quiet, made no problems. Prison was overcrowded so I ended up with a cellmate, and I was glad to see him. It could have been Hannibal Lecter and I would have gave him a hug. He might have been a murderer but he was actually a decent guy. Him and his crew had knocked over some jewelry stores in Manhattan, last job went bad. He'd killed three cops, so he wasn't never getting out. Neither was his wife. Life in Bedford Hills." "That's where they was gonna send me if Ma hadn't got the jury to give me a Not Guilty verdict." I knew Becca had a tendency to get in trouble because beside the cheerleading pictures in the bodega, there was also a mugshot. "What did you do?" She gave a bitter chuckle again. "Unlike you, I killed someone. 2021, this fucking crackhead tried to rob the store. He shot the customer that was in there, old guy named Mickey, killed him. He used to live in your apartment. Tried to shoot me, too, but the gun jammed and I had the aluminum baseball bat under the counter. I just started swinging. He went down, but I jumped the counter, and hit him again. Blood lust is a real thing. Once I saw he was bleeding, I wanted to see more. I beat his brains out, literally, he was dead long before the cops ever got there. Bat looked like a toothpick when I was done. "They arrested me, and the DA himself showed up at my arraignment. Said self defense didn't apply, sent me straight up to Murder 2, requested I be denied bail because I had a passport and plenty of money so I was a flight risk. But we all knew the truth. He was still pissed that he hadn't been able to send Rossi away for longer, and I was the next best thing. Ma had to pull a lot of strings to make sure I still got my transfusions when I was in lockup. I was in Rikers for four months, had my eighteenth birthday sitting in the Singer Unit." "Goddamned patterns," I muttered, then raised my voice again. "You, me, and Antoni all got that in common, except he wasn't like us. He was already in prison. That's what the rose meant, turned eighteen in prison. Life sentence, triple murder." "He told you that?" She looked betrayed, so I was quick to answer. "No, the tattoos told me that. Google is my best friend, B. That's what the skull and crossbones, and the coffins on his arm meant." She swallowed, and nodded again. "But, I moved down," I continued. "Went to orange when they moved me to Gen Pop, and I had friends waiting for me. Marco was very appreciative of me keeping quiet about my source at trial, so outside Abuela Bogota's was where I hung out the most. But I had friends all over. My sister was smart. She always put way more in my account than I could spend, so whenever I heard that somebody needed something, I'd go to the canteen and buy it myself and pass it to 'em. Nobody had to owe me shit. All I wanted was to be left alone, so I had people watching my back from all sides. I ended up in blue, got moved to the dormitory, started working in the kitchen, ended up running it, cause I was a 'model prisoner.'" "You ever fool around with any of your cellmates?" Becca asked with a grin. "Cause I did." I gave an uncomfortable laugh. "I mean, yeah. 15 years is a long time to be alone. I don't consider myself bisexual even, but if somebody offers, you know…" I shrugged. "I think the word you're looking for is heteroflexible. That's how Antoni referred to himself. He had a thing for you, you know." That stopped me dead. "You're fucking with me, B." "Nope. He asked me once if I'd mind if he ever got the chance to hook up with you, and I told him no, as long as he didn't mind I still hooked up with my old girlfriends from high school. But he never asked you, said he loved you too much, was afraid of ruining your friendship." "Jesus Christ," I shook my head, finally decided I needed time to process that, and moved on. "But, my last year there, Covid hit, and, I volunteered to work in the infirmary, but pretty soon the infirmary was filled, they started keeping people in the hallway, and finally they just ended up leaving them in their beds, I was all over the place. People dropping like flies. Everytime someone coughed or sneezed, everbody'd get nervous. I been smoking since I was 16, so I cough my lungs out every morning. "People was looking at me like I was Death Incarnate. But I never caught it, not even once. And I was all around the sick, I was taking the bodies out to the truck outside the gate. Could've run but I didn't. Only had a few years left. It worked in my favor. They cut the last three years off my sentence, put me on supervised release and now, here I am, 36 years old, and just starting my adult life." "Rossi got let out of lockup right before lockdown, poor bastard. Me, him, and my Dad all quarantined at Ma's, but of course, you know, me and Dad was essential workers so at least I got to get out of the house everyday. I graduated early, at 16, been working seven days a week since." I glanced at the glass on the table. "So let's get back to your story." She shook her head, lips pursed again. "Uh-uh, you're not wasting anymore time. Take the blood, but first," she reached out, quicker than I could even register, and used her thumbs to set my broken nose back straight. I let out a yell, momentarily unable to see as my eyes filled with tears. "Jesus wept, Becca, fucking hell, goddamn." "Sorry. It would've hurt more if you'd known it was coming. Besides, you're a good looking guy, Tony, you don't wanna ruin your face." "Thanks, B," I muttered as I pressed the toilet paper back to my freshly bleeding nose, tears streaming down my cheeks. "Need a haircut though." "Nah, you oughta keep it. It's very The Dark Knight Joker, just black, not blonde and green." I laughed quietly. "Not sure that's the best association, B. A little too psychotic and violent." She raised an eyebrow at me. "Alright, alright. It's probably an accurate association, just a little less arson and murder." I sighed and looked at the scotch glass. "So how do I do this, B?" "Think about it like a tequila shot. Take the shot and then slip the guard in quick. Then sit back, try to relax." I nodded and grabbed the glass before I lost my nerve. I raised it in her direction. "Saluti." "Geonbae." She responded. |
2023.05.29 16:17 Piratedad83 [USA-CO] [H] Playstation Games: PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, PSP [W] Paypal
Hey all! Thinning out some of my collection. Happy to post pics of anything that you might be interested in. Shipping is $5 for the first game or 2, and then goes up from there.
Also! Feel free to check out my Nintendo games post here:
https://www.reddit.com/GameSale/comments/13n6q9v/usaco_h_nintendo_games_and_consoles_nes_snes_n64/
And my Sega and Xbox games post here:
https://www.reddit.com/GameSale/comments/13dxcl4/usaco_h_sega_and_xbox_games_genesis_dreamcast_og/
PS1 (CIB unless noted)
Army Men: Sarge's Heroes (Disc Only) $5
Army Men: World War - Team Assault $10
ATV: Quad Power Racing $5
Ball Breakers $5
Bowling $3
Brave Fencer Musashi (Case and Disc) $80
Breath of Fire III (PAL) $45
Cool Boarders 3 $5
Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back $15
CTR: Crash Team Racing $20
CTR: Crash Team Racing (Disc Only) $10
Dragonball Z: Ultimate Battle 22 (Disc Only) $5
Driver (Sealed) $50
Dune 2000 (Disc Only) $10
Final Fantasy Tactics $80
Final Fantasy VII $45
Final Fantasy VII (Case and Disc) $35
Final Fantasy VIII $20
Final Fantasy Anthology GH (New/Sealed) $45
Final Fantasy Chronicles $40
Frogger $10
Gekido: Urban Fighters (Disc Only) $20
Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko (Disc Only) $10
Gran Turismo $15
Gran Turismo 2 $15
Grand Theft Auto 2 (Disc Only) $5
Gunfighter: The Legend of Jesse James $10
Herc's Adventures $125
IHRA Drag Racing $3
Knockout Kings $5
Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete (Big Box, Jewel case and discs, Hardcover manual, Omake Box w/map and character cards $200
Madden NFL 2004 $10
Metal Gear Solid $45
Metal Gear Solid (Case and Disc) $40
MLB: Pennant Race $3
Monopoly $3
Namco Museum Vol. 1 $5
Namco Museum Vol. 1 (Disc Only) $3
Namco Museum Vol. 3 (Disc Only) $5
Nascar 99 (Disc Only) $3
Need For Speed: High Stakes (Disc Only) $5
Need For Speed: V-Rally $10
Nuclear Strike $10
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (Case and Disc) $15
Parappa the Rapper (Disc Only) $50
Parasite Eve $75
Patriotic Pinball $5
Rally Cross 2 $5
Return Fire (Longbox) $45
Road Rash 3D $5
Shockwave Assault (Disc Only) $10
Spec Ops: Covert Assault $5
Spec Ops: Stealth Patrol $3
Spyro: Ripto's Rage (Disc Only) $5
Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi (Disc Only) $5
Street Racer $10
Stuart Little 2 $5
Suikoden II $275
Syphon Filter 2 (Case and Disc) $5
Syphon Filter 3 $15
The Game of Life $10
The King of Fighters '95 (Disc Only) $25
The King of Fighers '99 $20
Thousand Arms (Case, manual, game) $175
TNN Motor Sports: Hardcore 4x4 $3
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear $10
Tomb Raider II $10
Tomb Raider II (Disc Only) $5
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (Disc Only) $5
Triple Play 2000 $5
Vanishing Point (Disc Only) $5
Warhawk (Long Box) $20
World Soccer Winning Eleven '97 (Disc Only) $3
Worms Armageddon (Case and Disc) $15
You Don't Know Jack: Mock 2 (Disc Only) $3
PS2 (CIB unless noted)
Ace Combat 4: Shattered Skies (Case and Disc) $5
Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Jet Fusion $10
Alvin and the Chipmunks (Case and Disc) $5
Army Men: Sarge's Heroes 2 (Case and Disc) $10
ATV Offroad Fury 2 (x2) $5
Battle Racing Ignited: Burnout Dominator $10
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (Disc Only) $4
Black $10
Blitz: The League (Case and Disc) $5
BMX XXX (Case and Disc) $20
Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (Case and Disc) $5
Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (Disc Only) $3
Call of Duty: Finest Hour $5
Call of Duty: Finest Hour (Disc Only) $3
Call of Duty: World at War Final Fronts (Disc Only) $5
Celebrity Deathmatch (Disc Only) $5
Commandos Strike Force (Case and Disc) $5
Contra: Shattered Soldier (Disc Only) $10
Cool Boarders 2001 $5
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon $5
Crazy Taxi $10
Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2 $10
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down $5
Devil May Cry (Demo Disk) (Disc Only) $10
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening (Special Edition) (Disc Only) $5
Disney Sing It: Pop Hits $3
Dragonball Z: Sagas $15
Duel Masters (Limited Edition) $5
Enter the Matrix (x2) $5
Enthusia: Professional Racing $15
Escape from Monkey Island (Disc Only) $5
Eye Toy Demo Disc (Disc Only) $5
Eye Toy: Operation Spy (Sealed) $5
Eyetoy: Antigrav $3
Fifa 07 (Disc Only) $3
Fight Night 2004 (Disc Only) $3
Ford Mustang: The Legend Lives $3
Gadget Racers $10
Game Shark 2: Official Cheat Codes For Splinter Cell (Disc Only) $20
Gauntlet: Dark Legacy (Case and Disc) $20
God of War (Disc Only) $7
Gran Turismo 3 $3
Grand Theft Auto III $10
Grand Theft Auto III (Disc only) $5
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City $10
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Case and Disc) $5
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (Disc Only) $5
Guitar Hero II (Disc Only) $5
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Disc Only) $5
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith (Disc Only) $4
Heroes of the Pacific $5
Hitman: Contracts (Disc Only) $3
Ico (Disc Only) $10
Jak 3 (Case and Disc) $10
Jax X: Combat Racing $10
Legaia 2: Duel Saga $20
Lego Star Wars: The Video Game (Case and Disc) $5
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events $5
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers $5
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Disc Only) $3
Lord of the RIngs: Return of the King $10
Mace Griffin: Bounty Hunter $5
Madden 06 $5
Madden 2005 (Disc Only) $2
Mafia (Disc Only) $5
Max Payne $10
Max Payne (Disc Only) $4
Medal of Honor: Frontline $5
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Disc Only) $5
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Disc Only) $7
Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence $45
MLB 2K5 (Disc Only) $2
MLB 2K7 (Sealed) $5
MLB: The Show 08 (Disc Only) $2
MX: World Tour featuring Jamie Little $3
MX: World Tour featuring Jamie Little (Case and Disc) $1
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja (Case and Disc) $5
Naruto: Uzumaki Chronicles 2 (Disc Only) $5
Nascar Thunder 2003 $5
NBA 2K2 (Disc Only) $2
NBA Live 06 (Case and Disc) $5
NBA Live 07 $3
NBA Live 2004 $3
NCAA 06: March Madness $5
NCAA Football 2002 (Disc Only) $2
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 $10
Need for Speed: Pro Street $10
NFL Game Day 2003 Demo Disc (Disc Only) $5
NFL Head Coach (Case and Disc) $5
NFL Street (Case and Disc) $10
NHL 2002 (Disc Only) $2
NHL 2004 (Disc Only) $2
Over the Hedge $5
Pirate's of the Caribbean: At World's End (Manual and Disc) $5
Primal DEMO DISC (Disc Only) $10
R: Racing Evolution $10
Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2 (Case and Disc) $5
Resident Evil Soutbreak: File #2 (Disc Only) $30
Rockband (Disc Only) $3
Rockband Track Pack: Volume 2 (Disc Only) $5
Scooby-Doo! Unmasked (Disc Only) $10
Shrek 2 $10
Shrek the Third $5
Silent Hill 3 $200
Singstar 80s $5
Singstar Pop $5
Singstar Pop Vol. 2 $5
Sled Storm $10
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (Disc Only) $10
Smuggler's Run $5
Smuggler's Run 2: Hostile Territory $10
Socom: U.S. Navy Seals $5
Socom: U.S. Navy Seals (Case and Disc) $3
Socom: U.S. Navy Seals (Disc Only) $2
Spyhunter $10
Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly $10
Syphon Filter: Omega Strain (Disc Only) $3
Tekken Tag Tournament (Disc Only) $5
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (JAP) $10
The Fast and the Furious $10
The Godfather $15
The Simpsons: Road Rage $10
The Sims $5
The Spongebob Squarepants Movie $10
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003 (Disc Only) $2
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 $5
TimeSplitters $20
TimeSplitters 2 $20
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon $5
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon (Disc Only) $3
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell $5
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 $10
Tony Hawk's Underground $10
Top Gun: Combat Zones (Disc Only) $3
Twisted Metal Black (Disc Only) $7
Up (Case and Disc) $5
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Disc Only) $5
World Championship Poker $3
World Rally Championship (Disc Only) $5
Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions $5
WWE: Smackdown vs Raw 2009 (Disc Only) $3
WWE Smackdown: Here Comes the Pain (Case and Disc) $30
PS3 (CIB unless noted)
Alien: Isoloation (Nostromo Edition) $10
Alpha Protocol (Case and Disc) $7
Assassin's Creed $10
Assassin's Creed II $5
Assassin's Creed III $5
Assassin's Creed IV $5
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood $5
Assassin's Creed: Ezio Trilogy $5
Batman: Arkham Asylum $5
Batman: Arkham City $5
Battlefield 3 $3
Battlefield 3 (Limited Edition) $5
Bioshock $5
Borderlands 2 $5
Call of Duty: Black Ops $10
Call of Duty: Black Ops II (Case and Disc) $10
Call of Duty: Ghosts $5
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare $5
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 $5
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 $5
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (Ultimate Edition) (Disc only) $10
Dark Sector (Disc only) $3
Dark Souls $10
Demon's Souls (Case and Disc) $20
Dirt $10
Dishonored $5
DJ Hero $5
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Case, Disc, and map) $5
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim $3
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Legendary Edition) $10
Farcry 3 $5
FEAR 2 $10
Fifa 11 $5
Fifa 12 $5
Fifa 2010: World Cup South Africa $5
Final Fantasy XIII $10
Final Fantasy: XIII-2 (Case and Disc) $8
God of War III $10
God of War: Ascension $30
Gran Turismo 5: Prologue (Disc only) $3
Grand Theft Auto IV $10
Grand Theft Auto V $10
Grand Theft Auto V (Disc only) $5
Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock $10
InFamous $10
Killzone 3 $5
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning $10
L.A. Noire $5
Lair $10
Lego: Harry Potter: Years 5-7 $10
Lego: Jurassic World $10
Little Big Planet (Game of the Year Edition) $10
Little Big Planet: Karting $10
Lost Planet 2 $10
Madden 07 $5
Madden 08 $5
Madden 09 $5
Madden 10 $3
Madden 11 $3
Madden 12 $3
Madden 13 $5
Madden 25 $5
Mass Effect 2 (Disc only) $3
Midnight Club: Los Angeles $10
MLB 13: The Show $5
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe $10
MX vs. ATV: Reflex (Case and Disc) $5
MX vs. ATV: Untamed $10
NBA 2K11 $5
NBA Live 08 (Case and Disc) $3
NBA Street: Homecourt $20
Need For Speed: Carbon $15
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (Case and Disc) $8
Need For Speed: Undercover $10
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare (Case and Disc) $5
Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare $10
Resistance 2 $5
Rockband 2 $5
Saints Row 2 $10
Saints Row 3 $5
Skate 2 $10
Skylanders: Spyro Adventures (Disc only) $5
Sleeping Dogs $5
Sniper: Ghost Warrior $5
Soul Calibur V $10
Sports Champions $3
SSX $10
The Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection $15
The Last of Us $10
The Sims 3 $5
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 $10
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves $5
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception $5
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune $10
White Knight Chronicles (Disc only) $5
PS4 (CIB unless noted)
Battlefield 1 $5
Borderlands 3 $10
Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII $10
Call of Duty: WWII $10
Dark Souls III (Disc Only) $5
Destiny $5
Fallout 4 (Case and Disc) $5
Final Fantasy XV (Disc only) $3
Madden 17 (Case and Disc) $3
Marvel Spider-Man $10
Minecraft (Case and Disc) $15
Minecraft Dungeons: Hero Edition (New/Sealed) $20
NBA 2K16 (Case and Disc) $3
Sniper Elite 3 (Disc only) $4
Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (Case and Disc) $5
The Hunter: Call of the Wild 2019 $20
The Order 1886 $10
Titanfall 2 (Case and Disc) $5
Tropico 5 $10
UFC 3 $5
PSP (CIB unless noted)
Final Fantasy $20
God of War: Chains of Olympus $25
Spider-man 2 (Movie) (Disc only) $5
Steamboy $5
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Also! Feel free to check out my Nintendo games post here:
https://www.reddit.com/GameSale/comments/13n6q9v/usaco_h_nintendo_games_and_consoles_nes_snes_n64/
And my Sega and Xbox games post here:
https://www.reddit.com/GameSale/comments/13dxcl4/usaco_h_sega_and_xbox_games_genesis_dreamcast_og/
PS1 (CIB unless noted)
Army Men: Sarge's Heroes (Disc Only) $5
Army Men: World War - Team Assault $10
ATV: Quad Power Racing $5
Ball Breakers $5
Bowling $3
Brave Fencer Musashi (Case and Disc) $80
Breath of Fire III (PAL) $45
Cool Boarders 3 $5
Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back $15
CTR: Crash Team Racing $20
CTR: Crash Team Racing (Disc Only) $10
Dragonball Z: Ultimate Battle 22 (Disc Only) $5
Driver (Sealed) $50
Dune 2000 (Disc Only) $10
Final Fantasy Tactics $80
Final Fantasy VII $45
Final Fantasy VII (Case and Disc) $35
Final Fantasy Anthology GH (New/Sealed) $45
Final Fantasy Chronicles $40
Frogger $10
Gekido: Urban Fighters (Disc Only) $20
Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko (Disc Only) $10
Gran Turismo $15
Gran Turismo 2 $15
Grand Theft Auto 2 (Disc Only) $5
Gunfighter: The Legend of Jesse James $10
Herc's Adventures $125
IHRA Drag Racing $3
Knockout Kings $5
Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete (Big Box, Jewel case and discs, Hardcover manual, Omake Box w/map and character cards $200
Madden NFL 2004 $10
Metal Gear Solid $45
Metal Gear Solid (Case and Disc) $40
MLB: Pennant Race $3
Monopoly $3
Namco Museum Vol. 1 $5
Namco Museum Vol. 1 (Disc Only) $3
Namco Museum Vol. 3 (Disc Only) $5
Nascar 99 (Disc Only) $3
Need For Speed: High Stakes (Disc Only) $5
Need For Speed: V-Rally $10
Nuclear Strike $10
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (Case and Disc) $15
Parappa the Rapper (Disc Only) $50
Parasite Eve $75
Patriotic Pinball $5
Rally Cross 2 $5
Return Fire (Longbox) $45
Road Rash 3D $5
Shockwave Assault (Disc Only) $10
Spec Ops: Covert Assault $5
Spec Ops: Stealth Patrol $3
Spyro: Ripto's Rage (Disc Only) $5
Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi (Disc Only) $5
Street Racer $10
Stuart Little 2 $5
Suikoden II $275
Syphon Filter 2 (Case and Disc) $5
Syphon Filter 3 $15
The Game of Life $10
The King of Fighters '95 (Disc Only) $25
The King of Fighers '99 $20
Thousand Arms (Case, manual, game) $175
TNN Motor Sports: Hardcore 4x4 $3
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear $10
Tomb Raider II (Disc Only) $5
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (Disc Only) $5
Triple Play 2000 $5
Vanishing Point (Disc Only) $5
Warhawk (Long Box) $20
World Soccer Winning Eleven '97 (Disc Only) $3
Worms Armageddon (Case and Disc) $15
You Don't Know Jack: Mock 2 (Disc Only) $3
PS2 (CIB unless noted)
Ace Combat 4: Shattered Skies (Case and Disc) $5
Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Jet Fusion $10
Alvin and the Chipmunks (Case and Disc) $5
Army Men: Sarge's Heroes 2 (Case and Disc) $10
ATV Offroad Fury 2 (x2) $5
Battle Racing Ignited: Burnout Dominator $10
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (Disc Only) $4
Blitz: The League (Case and Disc) $5
BMX XXX (Case and Disc) $20
Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (Case and Disc) $5
Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (Disc Only) $3
Call of Duty: Finest Hour $5
Call of Duty: Finest Hour (Disc Only) $3
Call of Duty: World at War Final Fronts (Disc Only) $5
Celebrity Deathmatch (Disc Only) $5
Commandos Strike Force (Case and Disc) $5
Contra: Shattered Soldier (Disc Only) $10
Cool Boarders 2001 $5
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon $5
Crazy Taxi $10
Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2 $10
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down $5
Devil May Cry (Demo Disk) (Disc Only) $10
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening (Special Edition) (Disc Only) $5
Disney Sing It: Pop Hits $3
Dragonball Z: Sagas $15
Duel Masters (Limited Edition) $5
Enter the Matrix (x2) $5
Enthusia: Professional Racing $15
Escape from Monkey Island (Disc Only) $5
Eye Toy Demo Disc (Disc Only) $5
Eye Toy: Operation Spy (Sealed) $5
Eyetoy: Antigrav $3
Fifa 07 (Disc Only) $3
Fight Night 2004 (Disc Only) $3
Ford Mustang: The Legend Lives $3
Gadget Racers $10
Game Shark 2: Official Cheat Codes For Splinter Cell (Disc Only) $20
Gauntlet: Dark Legacy (Case and Disc) $20
God of War (Disc Only) $7
Gran Turismo 3 $3
Grand Theft Auto III $10
Grand Theft Auto III (Disc only) $5
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City $10
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Case and Disc) $5
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (Disc Only) $5
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2023.05.29 16:11 DooDooBagginz Wolf head done by Eli at Smith Street Tattoo Parlor in Brooklyn
| | Flew up here from Austin, Texas for a wedding, and my wife and I were able to check getting tattooed at Smith Street off the list. Eli is one of the coolest dudes, it was a pleasure to sit in the shop and hang out. My sleeve isn’t done yet (finishing up over the summer,) but I got it on my hand so that work of this quality will always be visible. submitted by DooDooBagginz to traditionaltattoos [link] [comments] |