9z 🌎 2-1 🇩🇰 ECSTATIC

Ancient: 16-8 Anubis: 13-16 Nuke: 16-14
 
 

Map picks:

9z	MAP	ECSTATIC
X	Vertigo
	Mirage	X
✔	Ancient
	Anubis	✔
X	Overpass
	Inferno	X
	Nuke

 

Full Match Stats:

Team	K-D	ADR	KAST	Rating
🌎 9z
🇺🇾 dgt	78-51	88.3	77.1%	1.41
🇦🇷 try	64-54	77.5	75.9%	1.21
🇨🇱 dav1deuS	62-61	84.5	73.5%	1.12
🇺🇾 max	51-51	68.3	72.3%	1.06
🇦🇷 buda	48-59	73.5	69.9%	0.97
🇩🇰 ECSTATIC
🇩🇰 salazar	63-52	76.2	75.9%	1.13
🇩🇰 Queenix	57-57	73.5	71.1%	1.01
🇩🇰 kraghen	52-65	84.1	65.1%	0.94
🇩🇰 maNkz	53-70	79.1	68.7%	0.92
🇩🇰 Nodios	49-61	57.7	72.3%	0.85

 

Individual Map Stats:

Map 1: Ancient

Team	T	CT	Total
🌎 9z	12	4	16
	CT	T
🇩🇰 ECSTATIC	3	5	8

 

Team	K-D	ADR	KAST	Rating
🌎 9z
🇺🇾 dgt	25-13	87.7	83.3%	1.62
🇺🇾 max	21-13	102.4	79.2%	1.54
🇨🇱 dav1deuS	22-15	102.3	87.5%	1.44
🇦🇷 try	18-16	77.2	75.0%	1.28
🇦🇷 buda	16-18	72.7	75.0%	1.05
🇩🇰 ECSTATIC
🇩🇰 Queenix	15-19	79.5	62.5%	0.94
🇩🇰 kraghen	13-21	81.1	58.3%	0.82
🇩🇰 salazar	18-20	63.6	66.7%	0.80
🇩🇰 maNkz	16-23	85.7	58.3%	0.78
🇩🇰 Nodios	12-20	51.1	62.5%	0.63

Ancient detailed stats and VOD

 

Map 2: Anubis

Team	T	CT	Total
🌎 9z	11	2	13
	CT	T
🇩🇰 ECSTATIC	4	12	16

 

Team	K-D	ADR	KAST	Rating
🌎 9z
🇺🇾 dgt	25-17	87.4	79.3%	1.32
🇦🇷 buda	20-21	92.6	75.9%	1.20
🇦🇷 try	20-19	72.6	75.9%	1.11
🇺🇾 max	20-18	68.4	72.4%	1.10
🇨🇱 dav1deuS	17-23	63.9	65.5%	0.91
🇩🇰 ECSTATIC
🇩🇰 salazar	24-14	91.0	69.0%	1.42
🇩🇰 kraghen	20-23	91.8	65.5%	1.03
🇩🇰 Queenix	21-21	67.9	72.4%	0.95
🇩🇰 Nodios	16-22	61.8	79.3%	0.88
🇩🇰 maNkz	16-22	62.9	65.5%	0.86

Anubis detailed stats and VOD

 

Map 3: Nuke

Team	CT	T	Total
🌎 9z	6	10	16
	T	CT
🇩🇰 ECSTATIC	9	5	14

 

Team	K-D	ADR	KAST	Rating
🌎 9z
🇺🇾 dgt	28-21	89.7	70.0%	1.33
🇦🇷 try	26-19	82.5	76.7%	1.29
🇨🇱 dav1deuS	23-23	90.0	70.0%	1.08
🇦🇷 buda	12-20	55.7	60.0%	0.72
🇺🇾 max	10-20	41.0	66.7%	0.69
🇩🇰 ECSTATIC
🇩🇰 Queenix	21-17	74.0	76.7%	1.15
🇩🇰 salazar	21-18	71.9	90.0%	1.14
🇩🇰 maNkz	21-25	89.6	80.0%	1.14
🇩🇰 Nodios	21-19	59.2	73.3%	1.02
🇩🇰 kraghen	19-21	79.2	70.0%	1.00

Nuke detailed stats and VOD

 
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According to Sheng Peng, sharks are learning towards taking Will smith at 4th, with the picks ordered at bedard, fantili, and Carlsson. That leaves likely Michkov available for MTL. Thoughts?
https://www.instagram.com/p/CtUM8YrAoYY/?igshid=MmJiY2I4NDBkZg==

First of all, thanks for being patient with us. Our decision to shut the subreddit down for 48 hours was positively received (93% upvoted) by the community save for a couple of redditors. I've devoted a good chunk of my time to write this update to keep you informed before shite goes down, so I hope you'll read this post in its entirety.

How the AMA went

Steve Huffman or spez is reddit's current CEO and he held a disasterclass of an AMA yesterday. He ignored the users' most popular and upvoted concerns and cherry-picked from the lot, answering a whopping total of 14 questions.
He slandered Apollo's developer yet again, claiming Christian was two-faced with his communication privately and publicly but could not come up with any evidence. Steve then proceeded to lie about working with other third-party app developers when in truth, they were repeatedly IGNORED, like robocalls and Nigerian princes.
He also inadvertently revealed he was using canned responses, forgetting to remove the "A:" prepend after replying to a blind user... only to edit it afterwards. However! Make no mistake, this is a huge improvement over editing other users' comments by modifying their database entries. We all start somewhere :')
The AMA promised a whole lot of nothing that isn't immediately available to any of us, and the plan to charge outrageous prices for API access is running full steam ahead, like the Spurs' race for seis.

NBASpurs moderation, bots and you

With their API pricing model, this subreddit's game and post-game thread bot will be affected, particularly the box scores.
The free tier allows 100 or 10 queries per minute depending on authentication access. The bot is used by half of existing team subreddits to my knowledge, but might be decommissioned or heavily modified to stay within the free tier limits. Reducing the API call rate will render the feature useless as box scores in essence, provide real-time data, else they don't offer any substantial value to anyone.
Quoting the post Steve wrote, developers can contact reddit through a support ticket if their bots require access to the Data API above the free limits, but bigger developers have been ignored for months and months on end, so it doesn't exactly inspire confidence that they will get a free upgrade to a different tier. If push comes to shove, we'll replace it with another bot that creates game threads only, sans any other details.
Other bots that I'm currently developing will not be affected by the API pricing changes, but I'm on the fence whether it's worth it at this stage. I'm seriously thinking about quitting after the 30th. I know I just returned to publicly moderating this community, but this is not the reddit I've grown up and fell in love with. I'm 31 and I've been here since I was 15. I've seen how the site's quality went down year after year. By the time the IPO comes around, reddit will just be like any other social media website. And that's a damn shame.
u/SquandasNutCheese is also undecided at this point, and may leave if things go terribly awry.
There's also a possibility that Reddit admins might step in, remove the active mod team and replace it with users who align more with their interests. That being said, I can promise another WFSN surprise if they walk back on the changes, so you better support this protest because you're in for a real treat.

How you can support the protest better, by order of magnitude/effectiveness

• Cancel Reddit premium, even if you've never paid for it, as a big fuck you to the establishment.
• Stay off Reddit by blocking *.reddit.com from your router, VPN, firewall or browser. You can also set up apps like Forest to keep you off it for a set amount of time. Be productive in real life. Meet new people through Bumble BFF, Meetup, Tinder, Hinge, Grindr, Raya, Ashley Madison... The world is your oyster.
• Uninstall the official Reddit app on Android or iOS. Your storage space is running low, I heard. Give it the App/Play Store rating it deserves, which is a rotten egg.
• Uninstall all third-party apps. Remember them teats covered with basketball stickers? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

If you can't help but visit reddit during the blackout because doomscrolling is your favourite pastime and you're maidenless

• Do not post, comment on or upvote/downvote Reddit posts. I hear it can cause eye cancer. And cancer, is straight up a bloody turrible time.
• Install any of the third-party apps like Apollo, RIF, Sync, Boost, Relay and others. Discover what superior reddit browsing experience is like and lament the loss of a great product after the 30th.
• Browse old.reddit.com with ad-blocking software like uBlock Origin turned on. Nostalgia brings frisson. And frisson... makes you orgasm. I have the science to prove it.

Elsewhere on reddit

• AskHistorians has a very good bit on API access which I reckon is mandatory reading. It goes into detail how admins have promised minimal disruption; moderation support but did not or could not follow up on, and at times even reneged on. They all know how to dance the moonwalk, alright.
  
• u/Dall0o created Reddark to show the status of all subreddits who committed to the blackout. I suggest you bookmark it so you can watch them shutter without visiting Reddit. It's like watching the US vote for either Biden or Trump, but spicier because the internet does spicy best.
  
• 160/3588 subreddits have gone dark already as of writing, notably TIHI and wellthatsucks. TropicalWeather has decided to shut down indefinitely and will be a Discord-only community from here on. Huge communities such as music will follow suit, as well as videos, and the list is growing by the hour. Strength in numbers! Sincerely, Warriors fans.
  

Note: We're still sticking to the original schedule to avoid painting a target on our backs, plus coordination will result to an extremely sharp drop of reddit traffic instead of a sloping/downward trending curve. Making a statement, you know the works.

Outside reddit

• The Verge is covering the blackout period here, because we're the frontpage of the internet, baby!
  
• As we've been advertising since the beginning of time, the discord server will be up and running until a massive EMP disables all of Earth's internet infrastructure: http://discord.gg/NBASpurs
  
• Here's my Twitter list that aggregates all tweets from official channels, Spurs players and former ones, coaches, prolific beat writers and other reputable sources, with the exception of Jabari Young and Uncle Dennis. I included Kawhi in case the Moriah Mills of his life pops up and spills the secrets of the universe. And how can I forget our favourite Spur, **** *****!
  
• A list of podcasts to lend your ears to. Remember, I never said they were any good or up-to-date.
  
• RSS feeds for Spurs fans 40 years old and above. How's them knees and back?
  

I want to delete my account. I have had it with these mother-fucking snakes on this mother-fucking plane!

• Request and save your data first by submitting a GDPR or CCPA request. Prepare for an absolute cringefest as you walk through memory lane.
• Delete your post history using Redact or Power Delete Suite so the FBI doesn't come knocking on your door.
• Delete your account. If I learn you've returned using a different username... I see you Math Pro. I know you still want to be my husband, but girl's in a relationship with an American-Japanese guy called Hitachi. Nicole is also spoken for. Sorry, bud, but not sorry.

The future of the subreddit

We don't have any recommendations for a reddit alternative yet as we haven't tested any of moderators and users proffered (Lemmy, Mastodon, kbin social), but let us know if it interests you. You can also browse RedditAlternatives only to find out that admins banned one of the newly established subreddits detailing how to move to kbin. Shocking development, amirite?
Finally, you can vote to extend the blackout or re-open the subreddit through Strawpoll. All moderators prefer to the idea of extending the blackout until the Mod Council, third-party developers and reddit come to an agreement that will be honoured to a T, but this community belongs to everyone who's participated in it, old or new. I'm counting on you to vote WISELY.

Go Spurs Go! Por Vida!

With love, xx, till the butter flies

Apeks 🇪🇺 2-0 🇪🇺 MOUZ

Mirage: 16-12 Vertigo: 16-7 Ancient
 
 

Map picks:

Apeks	MAP	MOUZ
X	Nuke
	Anubis	X
✔	Mirage
	Vertigo	✔
X	Inferno
	Overpass	X
	Ancient

 

Full Match Stats:

Team	K-D	ADR	KAST	Rating
🇪🇺 Apeks
🇱🇹 jL	50-32	102.4	72.5%	1.43
🇳🇴 jkaem	40-36	86.3	74.5%	1.19
🇸🇰 STYKO	37-28	77.0	74.5%	1.14
🇸🇪 nawwk	32-23	63.9	78.4%	1.09
🇲🇰 kyxsan	33-32	72.2	72.5%	1.06
🇪🇺 MOUZ
🇮🇱 xertioN	35-40	91.8	62.7%	1.07
🇸🇰 frozen	35-35	75.9	64.7%	0.98
🇭🇺 torzsi	32-34	59.6	66.7%	0.94
🇩🇪 JDC	24-41	53.4	58.8%	0.71
🇦🇺 dexter	25-42	62.8	52.9%	0.67

 

Individual Map Stats:

Map 1: Mirage

Team	T	CT	Total
🇪🇺 Apeks	6	10	16
	CT	T
🇪🇺 MOUZ	9	3	12

 

Team	K-D	ADR	KAST	Rating
🇪🇺 Apeks
🇱🇹 jL	31-18	114.7	71.4%	1.63
🇸🇪 nawwk	20-14	72.3	82.1%	1.18
🇳🇴 jkaem	19-22	76.5	78.6%	1.07
🇸🇰 STYKO	18-15	55.5	67.9%	0.97
🇲🇰 kyxsan	13-16	58.9	75.0%	0.93
🇪🇺 MOUZ
🇮🇱 xertioN	18-23	85.8	67.9%	0.99
🇸🇰 frozen	18-19	72.8	67.9%	0.98
🇩🇪 JDC	18-21	66.5	64.3%	0.89
🇭🇺 torzsi	17-17	50.9	60.7%	0.89
🇦🇺 dexter	14-21	63.1	60.7%	0.78

Mirage detailed stats and VOD

 

Map 2: Vertigo

Team	CT	T	Total
🇪🇺 Apeks	8	8	16
	T	CT
🇪🇺 MOUZ	7	0	7

 

Team	K-D	ADR	KAST	Rating
🇪🇺 Apeks
🇸🇰 STYKO	19-13	103.2	82.6%	1.39
🇳🇴 jkaem	21-14	98.2	69.6%	1.35
🇱🇹 jL	19-14	87.4	73.9%	1.26
🇲🇰 kyxsan	20-16	88.3	69.6%	1.23
🇸🇪 nawwk	12-9	53.7	73.9%	0.98
🇪🇺 MOUZ
🇮🇱 xertioN	17-17	99.1	56.5%	1.18
🇭🇺 torzsi	15-17	70.3	73.9%	1.04
🇸🇰 frozen	17-16	79.7	60.9%	1.02
🇦🇺 dexter	11-21	62.3	43.5%	0.55
🇩🇪 JDC	6-20	37.5	52.2%	0.51

Vertigo detailed stats and VOD

 
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Current cards: AMEX Blue Cash Everyday, $34,900
Chase Amazon, $11,500
Citi Best Buy, $6,000
Citi Costco, $16,300
AppleCard, $11,000
FICO Score: 810-820
Oldest account age: e.g. 12 years, 1 month
Chase 5/24 status: Don't know what this is, but if I'm reading it correctly, my newest credit card is 3 years, 4 months.
Income: Household pretax income ~$345K and another ~$45K in bonuses (not guaranteed)
Average monthly spend and categories:
Dining: $750
groceries: $1,000
gas/parking/vehicle maintenance: $350
Open to Business Cards: No
What's the purpose of your next card? Travel
Do you have any cards you've been looking at? Chase Sapphire Reserve, Capital One Venture X
Are you OK with category spending or do you want a general spending card? Yes
My wife and I have done very little travel and I want to start changing that! We spend a fair amount. We go 50/50 on a joint checking account and all our mutual expenses and anything with the kids come out there. The rest we keep in individual accounts and that's our fun money for ourselves.
My wife likes arts & crafts, video games, makeup, etc. Me, I'm a homebody and most of my fun money gets spent on wine. Hence the travel bug to want to visit other wine regions. We have no debt other than our mortgage, credit cards are paid off in full every month. Most cards don't get utilized. We use the Amazon Card only for Amazon.com and Whole Foods purchases. The AppleCard is my own personal use card and she has one as well. Everything else (groceries, eating out, gas, household items, etc.) goes on the Costco card. We don't travel a lot, but I would like to start changing that, hence looking at the two travel cards mentioned.
Work travel has picked up a bit post-pandemic and more in person meetings now as well as wanting to ramp up our own small trips. I like the idea of diverting our credit card rewards to travel, instead of the Costco and Amazon cards that are cash back. If it helps, our level of spending on the Costco Citi Card has YTD rewards at $339 and I think we got a little over $600 last year, so I think we can get a better return than that on travel, but not sure which card to get. Thanks for any advice!

There’s a face in Apple Watch OS called Stripes, that let’s you pick how many strips, set their colour, their angle, etc.. It can be a simple decorative pattern to match your outfit, a set of team colours, or a set of patriotic or pride colours. Today, I’m using the stripes feature to rock an Aro-Ace sunset watch face.

Just looking for opinions on a white vs black case for my upcoming rig refresh.
I am going to pick up an RGB Lian Li Lancool 216, but I am not decided on white or black yet. These are the parts I am putting in the build (at least the ones relevant to the case question)
PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor	$439.00 @ Amazon
CPU Cooler	Noctua NH-D15 82.5 CFM CPU Cooler	$0.00
Motherboard	ASRock X670E Steel Legend ATX AM5 Motherboard	$284.99 @ Newegg
Memory	Corsair Vengeance 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL36 Memory	$95.99 @ Newegg
Video Card	XFX Speedster MERC 319 Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB Video Card	$629.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply	FSP Group Hydro G Pro 1000 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	$228.84 @ Amazon
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$1678.81
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-06-10 10:41 EDT-0400

The case I am looking at: Lancool 216
I have always built white/black builds in black cases. Should I try a white one this time?

#25
Mike Manzi

• Only predator on this list who didn’t say anything overtly sexual, so the Fairfield police were unable to charge him with a sexual crime. But, he had bad intentions, and his overall story is pretty good
• Math tutor
• “I really can’t afford to do this! No, I can’t! I won’t!”
• “This is harrible (horrible)!”
• “How’s your downward dog?” (Chatlog)
• “Did you blaze?” (Chatlog)
• Hansen: Come on. You’re 32! You had nothing better to do on a Sunday? Manzi: I was gonna watch football. Hansen: Yeah, here with a 13-year-old girl after you blazed.

#24
Gilbert Sutherland

• “She’s … 18. You’re telling me she’s not 18?!” (Pretends to look shocked)
• “I like girls. What can I say?”
• Ran out the door immediately after the cameras showed up at the end of Hansen’s interview

#23
Mohamed Abdallah

• “I was just passing by there.”
• Hansen: Wow, you’re a lucky guy! You’re just driving along, and this good-looking young blonde girl waves you in!
• “I’m an Egyptian. I’m Muslim. I don’t do this (zissa) stuff.”
• “I would never say it like that. Never! Never, ever!”

#22
John Elliott

• Screen Name: BaldBeaverHunter
• “I can tell you’re a therapist!”
• Laughed multiple times during his interview with Hansen
• “I don’t know why you’re asking me this stuff!”

#21
Nick Cocos

• The dopey predator
• “I’m Chris.”
• “Things lead to bad things sometimes.”
• (When Hansen asked him what the lesson was) “Just don’t try it. Someone could be lying to you.”
• Hansen: How about not trying to hook up with a 12-year-old girl? Cocos: Or that, too.

#20
David Kaye

• The rabbi
• (To the decoy) “We’ll see!” (chuckles)
• “You know I’m in trouble, and I know I’m in trouble, and I’m not interested in getting further into trouble.”
• “You don’t have any right!”

#19
Donald Morrison

• Arguably the biggest loser in the history of the show
• “Nup North”
• “I’ve met about a dozen of them.”
• (When Hansen asked what his family will think of his behavior) “I know my mom is going to take my computer and completely throw it away.”
• Hansen: You’re 48 years old, Donald! Why should you rely on your mommy to do discipline?

#18
Jeff Stacy

• Mickey Mouse voice predator
• “What’s wrong with that?”
• “It’s a question!”
• “The internet and real life are two different things.”

#17
Joshua Colon

• (To the decoy) “You look hotter than your picture.”
• (To the decoy, referring to the cupcakes) “Those are red velvet?”
• Recognized Chris Hansen immediately and said, “Oh … shit.”
• Admitted to Hansen what his intentions were
• Made the trip from Queens, NY to Fairfield, CT
• Hansen: Queens? You said Brooklyn!

#16
Ernest Timmons

• The sweaty predator
• “A friend told me to come here.”
• “A guy named Kevin.”
• “We just met on the base. He told me to come here and take- uh, bring the camera.”
• “I’m not telling you a lie, sir!”
• “No, please, sir!”

#15
Dustin McPhetridge

• Cerebral palsy predator
• (To the decoy) “Ah thought you was wantin’ to be shaved … down there.”
• “Wayll, Ah wasn’t gon’ do nothin’!”
• “Ah brought her a razor.”
• Detective: Was it in case you had sex with her? McPhetridge: Yeah, but Ah was gonna try not to.
• (When asked if he had child pornography) “There’s probably a few photos and a few videos.”

#14
Rolando Restocruz

• “Sir, PLEASE!”
• “Sir, can I go?”
• “Sir, I promise you … with my life.”
• “Please don’t put this on TV!”
• “I swear I will never do this again!”

#13
Stephen Coates

• The musician
• “I beg of you.”
• Hansen: How old are you? Coates: I’m stupid. Hansen: How old are you? Coates: 56.
• Maintains to this day that it was roleplay. Hmm.
• “So if this is a setup, I’ll never forgive you.” (Chatlog)
• “I just want you to know how serious it could be if anything goes wrong.” (Chatlog)
• “Promise me something. Ten years from now, you won’t think bad of me.” (Chatlog)
• Wrote an email to a TCAP content creator trying to guilt-trip him into removing a reaction video to his bust
• Wrote a song called “Thought Crime,” which was reflective of his arrest

#12
Jerry Kosis

• The alien predator
• “Wayyyyyyyy, way, way.”
• “Well, outside of maybe wanting to be, I guess, a mentor or something like that.”
• “Wellllllllllllllllll.”

#11
Jerry Griffitt

• Apple Pie predator
• “She was 22, and I don’t remember what her name was.”
• “She said her name was 22. No, she said she was 22.”
• “She said her name was Adrianna.”
• “I thought I was talking to Adrianna.”
• “I don’t know what to tell ya.”

#10
Marvin Lakhan

• Stripped naked in the stinghouse after the decoy asked him to
• Hansen: What are you doing?! Lakhan: Making a mistake. Hansen: Making a mistake? What is going on in your mind?!

#9
John Kennelly

• Stripped naked in the stinghouse after the decoy asked him to (day 1 of 2)
• Showed up at McDonald’s to meet another fake boy (day 2 of 2)
• Kennelly: I’m sorry. Hansen: Sorry doesn’t cut it!
• Hansen: Chatting?! You’re sitting in this kitchen naked, John!
• “Sir, I just came to get something to eat!”

#8
John Dupee

• “Steelers and the Ravens!”
• “I had no intentions with nothin’!”
• “Who’s Brittany?” [puzzled expression]
• “Me and a group of friends snuck into a mansion and partied for days.” (Chatlog)
• “I would love to be the first guy to make you [blank].” (Chatlog)

#7
Jesse Velez

• Prompted the iconic “Meeee, my mommy, and my daddy” line from the infamous decoy
• “Nothing sexual to that nature.”
• “I actually parked at that park right there.”
• “Something told me, ‘Do not walk through that door.’”
• “The lesson here is … don’t walk into no one’s house that you don’t know who even lives there. Don’t do the same thing to other people that you wouldn’t want done to you.”
• “This is not what it seems to be. This is not what it was going to be.”
• “I’m not walking into no one’s house ever again.”
• “Even in my profile, it said, ‘Hey, let’s chat.’”
• “Thank you for this extra experience, actually.”

#6
Michael (Jean Pierre) Wehry

• Probably the most creative fake story out of any predator in the history of the show
• “I thought I was looking for somebody.”
• “John Pedderson.”
• “I was gonna talk about some business.”
• “I heard there was a guy named John Pedderson in this area.”
• “A young man on the phone.”
• “No, I think he had my number.”
• “My problem is I was walking.”
• “I was gonna leave a note.”

#5
Anthony Palumbo

• “You can put that in the frigerata!”
• “You give good directions!”
• “Don’t get drunk with that!”
• “My brotha is home, my otha brotha. So I said I got to go to Atlantic City!”
• “I stopped by … to go there.”
• “I’m not a driver at night.”
• “No, not at all. You can smell my breath.”
• “I’m not gay or anything!”
• (When Hansen asked his age) “39 … 35 … 39.” (He was 46 at the time.)
• “No, you’re right! I did a stupid thing!”

#4
Dan Allen

• “I’m just CURIOUS.” [wildly gestures]
• “I didn’t bring any booze with me. Didn’t bring any condoms, no!”
• “My car’s outside. I can prove that to ya!”
• “It’s all cyberspace.”
• “A couple past experiences show that they’re never 13.”
• “I’ll shove that camera down his throat.”
• “Cut!”

#3
Maurice Wolin

• The doctor
• Spilled the drink, left before Chris Hansen had the chance for an interview after finding the camera crew’s hiding spot
• “Aw, man, I wasn’t doin’ anything!”
• “I didn’t do anything, but I did something stupid.”
• “I don’t remember.” (21 times to Detective Nelson)

#2
Lorne Armstrong

• 407-page chatlog
• Drove from Nashville, TN to Bowling Green, KY.
• Wanted to bring 13-year-old “Kayla” back with him to Nashville.
• “Hey, girrrrl!”
• “Wayll, yell at me why doncha!”
• “This is what I was afraid of. Stupid move!”
• “Oh, CAWD!”
• “I never even meant to do it!” (To Detective Gillingham)
• “Is Ms. Vagina thinking about Mr. Penis? What is she thinking?” (Chatlog)

#1
Jeff Sokol

• Went to Planet Pizza right before going to the stinghouse
• “The small pizza is almost as big as the big one.” (To decoy)
• “Why’d you let me come if you’re so nervous?” (To decoy)
• “Who’s this?”
• “I … I wanna know who you are.”
• “Who are you?”
• “Are you her dad?”
• “Do you also see that I was pretty apprehensive about the whole sex thing?”
• “Do I seem like a dishonest, dirty person?”
• “If you thought I came down here to have sex, why didn’t you wait to see if that happened?” (To Detective Kelley)
• “I didn’t think it was against the law to meet a girl.” (To Detective Kelley)
• “I thought it was against the law to have sex. To actually have sex.” (To Detective Kelley)
• “You better watch out. You’re a girl. Girls get fat easier haha. Don’t get fat. It’s not pretty.” (Chatlog)
• “Ballet is for girls.” (Chatlog)

Getting Rid of Most of My Flavors, Part 47
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Starting Flavor Count: 2,429 (down from 2,972)
TASK OR TRASH - Each flavor gets assigned at least one task or it goes in the trash.
 

FLAVOUR ART

 
Violet
Yup, that’s violet. It tastes very, very violet, without being perfumy. It’s sweet, too, with some chalky sweetness especially in the finish, like a violet candy. It will get a little laundry-soapish with too much, so start low, but it will turn anything floral-purple long before that happens. I don’t get anything I would call an off-note from this.
I need it to make more Mango Beauregarde TASK 1, to make a modernized remix of my old Paradise Cream recipe, and because I want to try Violet Hops, and Jazz Hands (while I still have some Holy Vanilla). There really isn’t much else I want to mix that uses it.
 
Waffles Vanilla
That is certainly a waffle. There’s a hint of vanilla baked in but I don’t know that it really warrants having vanilla in the name, it’s just a touch. It’s a bit doughy like it’s undercooked but considering how bad some other waffle flavors are, this is definitely one of the better ones. Although it tastes undercookied and doughy in the center and is overall a creamy feeling flavor, it has the nice crispy edges of a waffle. It is a bit nutty if I think about it too hard, around the edges, but I didn’t take hit and immediately go “nuts.” Since the OG INW Waffle is now long gone, I think this is probably my favorite waffle flavor. There isn’t really anything I want (or am able) to mix that uses it, so I’ll just start simple with an attempt at a waffle with butter and maple syrup.
Justwaffle V1 TASK 2

Co.	Flavor	%
FA	Waffles Vanilla	2
FA	Maple Syrup	1.5
VT	Butter Base	1
VT	Golden Syrup	1

 
Walnut
Walnut milk? Walnut water? I don’t know, but this flavor is wet. Juicy. Or at least, very moist compared to other nuts. I think that throws the accuracy off quite a bit, but it’s a little more walnutty than WF Walnut. It has that earthy, somewhat sharp top note that I expected from a walnut right up front, but a sweeter, much less distinct nutty thick body that also throws it off of walnut a ways. The whole thing was oddly wet. Could be very useful to combat the dryness that is so ubiquitous with nuts, without being tempted to do something gross like add cactus to them.
I’ll mix some more 2 Flavor Banger with twice as much nicotine as I usually use, perfect for when there’s an open bar. TASK 3
 
Watermelon (Red Summer)
Sort of like a very authentic watermelon, but not, because it’s so dry. I mean, wetness is like a watermelon’s most defining characteristic. It’s got water right there in the name. This is like freeze-dried astronaut watermelon. It’s also thin and just sort of has that natural watermelon top note minus all wetness and some of the sweetness that makes a watermelon a watermelon. It’s not a bad flavor, but it needs a lot of help.
I have a handful of recipes already in the queue that use this one. Of course I will not be tossing one of the components to the original Strap-On and several variations that I’ve already planned to try and/or try again. One that hasn’t been put on the list yet but will be there now: Fuzzy Strap-On. TASK 4
 
Whipped Cream
This is my #2 Whipped Cream (OoO is #1). It’s very milky, it manages to very clearly be a dairy product without tasting remotely rancid, like homemade whipped cream. Very full and satisfying, with a lingering milkfat feel like whipped cream. Just a touch of vanilla. It’s a somewhat soft and subtle flavor, lending it an airy, fluffy feel, but not at all drying.
Already picked out at least four recipes that use it, here’s a couple more.
Kahlua Coffee - SSA Tiramisu. If you’ve tried it, you know. TASK 5
hard furry creamy. This one is rated TV MA for coconut violence, but I think I can handle it. TASK 6
 
Whisky
Cheap scotch with a big splash of apple juice and a cherry in it. I guess it kind of tastes like whisky. Has a little boozy bite there. It has some peat moss in it that makes it tastes a little bit like cheap scotch but, with a weird and fairly prominent fruity sweetness, somewhere between an apple and a cherry.
I have to keep this (for now) to try Kopel’s Fireside recipe again, so I’ll keep it a little longer than than to try his Castle Longer as well. TASK 7
 
White Grape
Eating freeze-dried white grapes while wearing a little too much perfume. Very jammy sticky sweet and mostly tastes like white grapes, but vapes pretty dry, or at least not wet and juicy like a grape or grape juice. Maybe needs to be fixed with just a little cactus? But, not sure about that because it already packs quite a floral wallop and cactus might amplify that. There’s a little tart tannic grape skin note that’s appropriate but that musky and slightly bitter floral right on top is unfortunate. I’d use this maybe in a small dose to try to make a “purple” flavor taste a little more like a real grape, as well as add that nice jammy sweetness to it, but not for anything else. Almost certainly not as the main flavor in a mix.
Nothing that uses this is something I want to try, and it’s about time I threw something away this week. TRASH 1
 
White Peach
It really very accurately, almost freakishly, emulates the difference between a classic yellow peach and a sweeter, sugary white peach. However, it’s a little thin, and a little dry, and I get some throat irritation from it. Gets a bit too sharp and floral if taken up too high, and can overtake a mix while still not being especially bold.
Although it can be a little tricky to work with, this is one of the greatest peach flavors by comparison.
I need it for one of my all-time favorites, Blue Eyes White Dragon TASK 8
I’ve already picked out about eight recipes that make use of it, including two I hope to find time to mix up today. I’ll also try Yet Another Peaches and Cream - just four flavors that look great together. TASK 9
 
Wine Champagne
Careful with this one. I tried 3-4% shake and vape because my 2% steeped sample was fairly weak and was weird, like rotten grapes. Possibly this just needs to stay a soft, background-type flavor. 2% is not rotten, just fermented. Isn’t fizzy. It’s more like white wine than champagne. Sweet-tart, almost but not quite vinegary tartness. It tastes even more like white wine than FA White Wine, which is more of a brighter white grape flavor, and a good one at that. This tastes too fermented to just be a white grape juice flavor, it’s definitely wine. Kinda gross as a single flavor, but seems like it could make a nice base for any kind of fruit wine and I’ve tried a recipe with watermelon where it did exactly that very well.
Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine was the aforementioned recipe. I liked it very much when I tried it years ago, will give it another shot. TASK 10 It’s also in a Mango Champagne recipe I’ve already planned to try.
 
Wine White
Somewhere around halfway between a semi-sweet white table wine and white grape juice. Not floral at all. A little fermentedish, but not really boozy. Smooth. Lightly sweet. Not especially thin, more thick-ish. Not dry, actually slightly juicy. Really nothing to complain about here. Fairly light flavor at 1.5%, tastes like it could easily go higher % especially if it is to be the main flavor in a mix. Could easily pass for a bit of white grape flavor in a mix. Better than FA White Grape (that one’s too floral as well as a bit dry).
It’s not a bad flavor, but I can’t find a recipe I want to mix that uses it, and don’t feel inspired to create one. TRASH 2
 
Wow
Sort of tastes like a donut but more of a generic pastry, wrapped around a little bit of fruit that tastes distinctly red but not on point for any particular red fruit such as raspberry or strawberry. Sweet and complex, but also dry and thin, not a thick and rich pastry or especially gooey filling. Also, very slightly harsh. Maybe you could use it to build a fruit-filled donut, but both the donut part and the filling part will need a lot of help, and at that point it’s sort of a why bother type of situation unless maybe it’s a bridge-type of flavor, but arguably that’s not even something you’d want or need if you’re trying to get any separation between pastry and fruit layers.
I’ve planned to try Bite Me already because it looks fantastic, but had trouble finding anything else I really want to use WoW for. I guess I’ll try this Freak Show recipe, TASK 11, but I’m not super excited about it like I am for most of the recipes I link.
 
Ylang Ylang
I don’t think I’ve ever tried this. I’ll mix a sample at 0.75%. TASK 12
 
Yogurt
TRASH 3 Trash, with prejudice. One of the top 10 worst flavors I have ever tried. It tastes like a company of athlete’s foot-suffering soldiers marching through a swamp of Miracle Whip, except that that would be very wet and squishy and this is dry and chalky. Aftertaste like I barfed an hour ago and it came out my nose and I still have a case of the stinky burnies. Worst of all, this abomination is a reformulation of a delicious FA Yogurt flavor that is no longer sold.
 
Zen Garden
Dry sweet basil with some dry sage in the background. Very Dry. Has a slight woody quality.
Keeping it to try Coconut Thai Remixed. I couldn’t find another recipe that I want to mix, but this one for Gin Blossom by CheebaSteeba has interesting elements and I want to see what just this one small piece of a the recipe tastes like.
Zen Suckle V1 TASK 13

Co.	Flavor	%
TFA	Honeysuckle	2.5
FA	Aurora	1
FA	Zen Garden	0.75

 
Zeppola
It’s like you sprinkled a little spice blend on one of those powered sugar donuts to try to make it taste fancy. A cake donut with powdered sugar and an indistinct spice note like light nutmeg/cinnamon/maybe clove note. Indistinct warm spice note is not as prominent as it is in WF Deep Fried Pastry Dough but is quite present. Very sweet, dense, possibly fried (slightly oily mouthfeel but not a lot of greasy taste), not yeasty, cake donut because cake donuts get their rise from baking powder rather than yeast and there is no yeast here. A little dry. Lots of powdered sugar on top and in the finish, almost a sugar lips effect. People say the main or only problem with Zeppola is that it sticks out in a mix and they know when it’s in there… I think that’s more due to the spice note than any other defining characteristic. It’s a shame that’s in there because it would be so much better without it, but I know from recipes Zeppola can be a useful tool, even if it’s unfortunately not the Holy Donut Grail.
Most recipes that appear to pretend that weird spice note isn’t there or can be covered with just fruit donut really interest me at all, but if there is another spice added that probably covers it up/pulls it in a given direction, that’s another story. Cinnayum is one that I already plan to try, because it looks amazing.
Also:
On the subject of cinnamon rolls, Banana Cinnamon Rolls. TASK 14
Gooey Apple Pie - as long as 1% FLV Apple Filling is enough to make it just take like cinnamon and not that odd Zeppola spice, everything else here looks great. TASK 15
Double Glazed Apple Fritter, 1% WF Deep Fried Pastry Dough is sure to make it fritter-ish, but it looks like doubling down on odd spice blend. Hoping 1.2% Apple Filling saves this one. TASK 16
 
Note
Didn’t get rid of many flavors or give any updates this week, but I said I was going to get through the rest of FA and I’ve done that. Next week, I’ll dive into German Flavours. Definitely a bunch of trash there.
 
Note about the subreddit shutting down on Monday
When (if?) it comes back up, I’ll resume posting these here. In the meantime, I’ll continue posting them to my own profile, where I’ve already copy-pasted the first 46 installments. If someone has a better idea for where GRoMoMF can best trudge forward with or without Reddit, I’d be very happy to hear it.
 
New Flavor Count: 2,426

Company Name	Title	City
Hartford HealthCare	Registered Nurse (RN) - GI Endoscopy	Botsford
Middlesex Health	Medical Assistant	Cromwell
Middlesex Health	Hospital Assistant	Durham
Middlesex Health	Medical Assistant	Durham
Middlesex Health	Hospital Assistant	Essex
Middlesex Health	Medical Assistant	Essex
Middlesex Health	Medical Assistant	Hartford
Five Guys	Crew Member - starting at 14.50	Middletown
Middlesex Health	Family Physician	Middletown
Middlesex Health	MD Family Physician	Middletown
IntelyCare	Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)	New Haven
Middlesex Health	Medical Assistant	New Haven
IntelyCare	LPN	New Haven
VillageMD	Medical Assistant - Westerly	North Stonington
Middlesex Health	Medical Assistant	Old Saybrook
UniFirst	Route Service Manager - UniFirst	Stratford
Hartford HealthCare	Physical Therapist - Career Advancement Opportunities	Waterbury
PureRED	Copywriter - Haddad and Partners (Part of the PureRED family)	Bridgeport
US Navy	Bomb Technicial (EOD)	Bridgeport
US Navy	Cryptologic Technician	Bridgeport
US Navy	Electronics Engineer	Bridgeport
Masonicare	Nursing Assistant	Danbury
PureRED	Copywriter	Fairfield
PureRED	Copy Writer	Fairfield
PureRED	Copywriter - Haddad and Partners (Part of the PureRED family)	Fairfield

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Bravado 🇿🇦 1-2 🇺🇸 Party Astronauts

Vertigo: 16-8 Ancient: 10-16 Inferno: 4-16
 
 

Map picks:

Bravado	MAP	Party Astronauts
X	Mirage
	Anubis	X
✔	Vertigo
	Ancient	✔
X	Overpass
	Nuke	X
	Inferno

 

Full Match Stats:

Team	K-D	ADR	KAST	Rating
🇿🇦 Bravado
🇿🇦 wilj	50-50	80.6	64.3%	1.04
🇿🇦 SloWye	49-50	68.7	68.6%	1.03
🇿🇦 Triton	45-51	78.0	72.9%	1.01
🇿🇦 march	49-53	67.8	67.1%	0.94
🇿🇦 Doru	37-50	59.7	67.1%	0.86
🇺🇸 Party Astronauts
🇺🇸 cxzi	61-50	100.2	70.0%	1.35
🇺🇸 PwnAlone	55-45	77.5	72.9%	1.18
🇺🇸 viz	52-44	75.9	75.7%	1.14
🇺🇸 chop	48-48	70.9	71.4%	1.06
🇺🇸 ben1337	37-45	67.0	70.0%	0.87

 

Individual Map Stats:

Map 1: Vertigo

Team	T	CT	Total
🇿🇦 Bravado	9	7	16
	CT	T
🇺🇸 Party Astronauts	6	2	8

 

Team	K-D	ADR	KAST	Rating
🇿🇦 Bravado
🇿🇦 SloWye	23-15	89.2	83.3%	1.51
🇿🇦 wilj	22-14	100.3	79.2%	1.49
🇿🇦 march	20-17	78.4	79.2%	1.22
🇿🇦 Triton	15-14	81.5	83.3%	1.22
🇿🇦 Doru	17-15	75.9	79.2%	1.18
🇺🇸 Party Astronauts
🇺🇸 cxzi	21-18	97.2	54.2%	1.22
🇺🇸 viz	17-19	79.7	66.7%	0.99
🇺🇸 PwnAlone	12-19	71.4	62.5%	0.79
🇺🇸 chop	14-19	59.2	62.5%	0.75
🇺🇸 ben1337	10-22	55.7	50.0%	0.49

Vertigo detailed stats and VOD

 

Map 2: Ancient

Team	CT	T	Total
🇿🇦 Bravado	8	2	10
	T	CT
🇺🇸 Party Astronauts	7	9	16

 

Team	K-D	ADR	KAST	Rating
🇿🇦 Bravado
🇿🇦 SloWye	24-17	83.1	73.1%	1.25
🇿🇦 Triton	19-18	79.3	76.9%	1.11
🇿🇦 march	15-17	57.3	69.2%	0.93
🇿🇦 wilj	15-19	73.1	65.4%	0.88
🇿🇦 Doru	11-18	57.0	65.4%	0.75
🇺🇸 Party Astronauts
🇺🇸 viz	23-16	80.8	76.9%	1.30
🇺🇸 cxzi	20-21	87.3	65.4%	1.20
🇺🇸 ben1337	17-14	82.0	76.9%	1.16
🇺🇸 PwnAlone	18-15	64.8	69.2%	1.08
🇺🇸 chop	11-20	53.8	69.2%	0.81

Ancient detailed stats and VOD

 

Map 3: Inferno

Team	T	CT	Total
🇿🇦 Bravado	2	2	4
	CT	T
🇺🇸 Party Astronauts	13	3	16

 

Team	K-D	ADR	KAST	Rating
🇿🇦 Bravado
🇿🇦 wilj	13-17	66.7	45.0%	0.73
🇿🇦 march	14-19	68.8	50.0%	0.67
🇿🇦 Triton	11-19	72.2	55.0%	0.67
🇿🇦 Doru	9-17	43.8	55.0%	0.64
🇿🇦 SloWye	2-18	25.6	45.0%	0.27
🇺🇸 Party Astronauts
🇺🇸 PwnAlone	25-11	101.5	90.0%	1.84
🇺🇸 chop	23-9	107.2	85.0%	1.80
🇺🇸 cxzi	20-11	120.7	95.0%	1.75
🇺🇸 viz	12-9	65.1	85.0%	1.14
🇺🇸 ben1337	10-9	61.2	85.0%	0.99

Inferno detailed stats and VOD

 
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EYEBALLERS 🇸🇪 1-2 🇩🇰 ex-Copenhagen Flames

Inferno: 14-16 Anubis: 16-7 Overpass: 12-16
 
 

Map picks:

EYEBALLERS	MAP	ex-Copenhagen Flames
X	Nuke
	Mirage	X
✔	Inferno
	Anubis	✔
X	Ancient
	Vertigo	X
	Overpass

 

Full Match Stats:

Team	K-D	ADR	KAST	Rating
🇸🇪 EYEBALLERS
🇸🇪 Sapec	67-55	83.6	69.1%	1.15
🇸🇪 flusha	50-55	83.6	70.4%	1.04
🇸🇪 Peppzor	54-56	72.5	67.9%	0.99
🇸🇪 SHiNE	49-59	64.2	64.2%	0.89
🇸🇪 JW	35-55	48.5	67.9%	0.73
🇩🇰 ex-Copenhagen Flames
🇩🇰 TMB	63-51	83.2	75.3%	1.20
🇩🇰 Farlig	63-54	84.3	69.1%	1.17
🇩🇰 b0RUP	51-48	72.7	74.1%	1.10
🇩🇰 birdfromsky	50-55	71.9	71.6%	1.09
🇩🇰 raalz	51-49	65.7	72.8%	1.00

 

Individual Map Stats:

Map 1: Inferno

Team	T	CT	Total
🇸🇪 EYEBALLERS	6	8	14
	CT	T
🇩🇰 ex-Copenhagen Flames	9	7	16

 

Team	K-D	ADR	KAST	Rating
🇸🇪 EYEBALLERS
🇸🇪 flusha	21-21	87.6	73.3%	1.17
🇸🇪 Sapec	27-22	86.0	70.0%	1.16
🇸🇪 Peppzor	19-26	76.7	70.0%	0.85
🇸🇪 JW	15-23	59.0	73.3%	0.79
🇸🇪 SHiNE	15-23	39.3	46.7%	0.59
🇩🇰 ex-Copenhagen Flames
🇩🇰 Farlig	30-18	100.3	83.3%	1.57
🇩🇰 birdfromsky	21-21	81.8	86.7%	1.27
🇩🇰 TMB	26-20	83.2	80.0%	1.24
🇩🇰 raalz	20-18	69.0	73.3%	1.03
🇩🇰 b0RUP	17-20	73.1	70.0%	0.99

Inferno detailed stats and VOD

 

Map 2: Anubis

Team	T	CT	Total
🇸🇪 EYEBALLERS	12	4	16
	CT	T
🇩🇰 ex-Copenhagen Flames	3	4	7

 

Team	K-D	ADR	KAST	Rating
🇸🇪 EYEBALLERS
🇸🇪 Peppzor	19-11	78.9	87.0%	1.42
🇸🇪 Sapec	18-12	80.6	69.6%	1.28
🇸🇪 SHiNE	17-14	91.7	78.3%	1.27
🇸🇪 flusha	13-14	67.9	60.9%	0.98
🇸🇪 JW	8-9	44.3	78.3%	0.97
🇩🇰 ex-Copenhagen Flames
🇩🇰 b0RUP	14-12	65.5	69.6%	1.05
🇩🇰 birdfromsky	16-16	76.4	47.8%	1.01
🇩🇰 TMB	12-15	65.1	65.2%	0.87
🇩🇰 raalz	9-14	47.9	69.6%	0.79
🇩🇰 Farlig	9-18	57.0	52.2%	0.62

Anubis detailed stats and VOD

 

Map 3: Overpass

Team	CT	T	Total
🇸🇪 EYEBALLERS	8	4	12
	T	CT
🇩🇰 ex-Copenhagen Flames	7	9	16

 

Team	K-D	ADR	KAST	Rating
🇸🇪 EYEBALLERS
🇸🇪 Sapec	22-21	83.5	67.9%	1.06
🇸🇪 flusha	16-20	92.1	75.0%	0.97
🇸🇪 SHiNE	17-22	68.1	71.4%	0.95
🇸🇪 Peppzor	16-19	62.7	50.0%	0.80
🇸🇪 JW	12-23	40.8	53.6%	0.50
🇩🇰 ex-Copenhagen Flames
🇩🇰 TMB	25-16	98.0	78.6%	1.45
🇩🇰 b0RUP	20-16	78.2	82.1%	1.28
🇩🇰 Farlig	24-18	89.5	67.9%	1.23
🇩🇰 raalz	22-17	76.9	75.0%	1.16
🇩🇰 birdfromsky	13-18	57.5	75.0%	1.03

Overpass detailed stats and VOD

 
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i've recently decided to make the transition and i need advice on looking for brands. really i've been focusing lately on cutting out all the worst companies from my life as much as i can, selling/deleting all my apple/google/microsoft products and services etc. and going vegan is just another part of doing what i feel i need to in order to contribute as little as possible to all the awful shit in this world (it's especially cool knowing that a literal third of the internet including reddit runs on amazon infrastructure but we do what we can i guess). my problem therein when looking for vegan products is not wanting to simply settle for "despicable corporation run by unfathomably evil people but this paticular product of theirs doesn't use animal products so it's ok". when i see "Milk, by Milkcorp" on a shelf and then "Vegan! Milk, by Milkcorp" next to it it's hard to feel like there's a point when my money's going to the same place. but when i look for stores and brands that are as ethical un-unethical as possible i start to lose hope that it's at all financially viable
i want to buy soya milk, ok i pick up alpro, get home look it up online and whoops that's danone, which it does not mention anywhere on the packaging because they obviously want as few vegans knowing it as possible. so i start digging and i can't find any soya milk online from decent brands for less than £2 a litre, when the giant tesco next door to me has its own brand for 55p. toiletries and cleaning products the same, most things cost 3x as much for a torture-free/slavery-free/executives-who-would-commit-a-genocide-to-save-a-few-dollars-free-branded alternative. i signed up for ethicalconsumer to try to make things easier and it really does feel like a hopeless endeavor
do i have to triple my grocery budget or do i just settle for saying "well at least it's telling Tortureslaverygenociderape Brothers & Co. that there is also demand for vegan products as well as their meat and dairy products"? i know no ethical consumption under capitalism etc etc but i still want to do everything i feasibly can

I picked up a bundle order for three hours from now. The first seems fine but the second is for an Apple Watch from a first time customer. Do I keep it and pretend I can’t find the Apple Watch or do I call support and ask them to drop the scammy looking order?

Hello, all. I received the Corsair XENEON 27" OLED panel last week after pre-ordering and wanted to provide a PSA related to the KVM function as well as share some general thoughts about the monitor:

• KVM: The monitor is advertised as having a KVM function, however this is non-existent. I tested this using a Windows PC hooked up via DP and USB-B as well as my Macbook Pro connected via USB-C DP-alt. USB inputs plugged into the monitor are recognized by the PC, but they will not "switch" to the Mac when the input is changed to USB-C. The OSD doesn't have options to manage a KVM function. Rather unfortunate as this was the primary reason I chose this monitor over the competitors. UPDATE The KVM is sensitive to the cable being used to connect the device to the monitor. I initially tried using my Apple TB3 cable, which is backwards compat with USB-C, and it didn't work. Swapping to a pure USB-C cable seems to have resolved the issue.
  
• STAND: Compared to the LG 27" OLED the stand is surprisingly low-profile, both with respect to depth and width. Build quality is excellent. Height, rotation, and pivot all sufficient. The style isn't aggressive or "gamery" either, unlike the LG and ASUS.
  
• TEXT CLARITY: While the text is still notably soft compared to a 27" IPS panel at 1440p, the WRGB sub-pixel layout on these new LG panels shared across Corsair, LG, and ASUS 27" OLED monitors offers better text clarity than the QD-OLED's from Samsung, IMO. I still think its a bit too soft to use as a daily driver for text heavy work, but its perfectly adequate for navigating an OS prior to gaming. In game I don't really notice anything, just like with the QD-OLED.
  
• BRIGHTNESS: The brightness is adequate for me. Concerns about low brightness feel overblown. I work in a room with lots of direct sunlight and I find 85% brightness is sufficiently bright even when the morning sun is shining directly in through the window slightly to the left and behind the monitor.
  
• FREESYNC: Like VA panels without GSYNC units, this monitor (and the LG) exhibits some adaptive sync brightness flickering with Freesync enabled when the refresh rate is rapidly changing. This normally only occurs when transitioning from in-game to game-menu when the refresh rate of the menu is substantially lower than that of in-game, ie: 60hz menu and 240 game. Its tolerable.
  
• GAMING: Just some general thoughts on the gaming experience. I personally notice the improvement in responsiveness and clarity gaming at 240hz vs 120. Even in desktop use, the fluidity of mouse movement is exceptional. Motion clarity is also unlike anything I've played on before, sharper even than the ASUS 27" PG279QM 240hz IPS I tried last year. This holds true in shooters and even in more exploration focused games like System Shock (which looks incredible on this monitor) and Lies of P.
  

Overall, I would recommend as a gaming monitor if you find IPS glow problematic and distracting. For me, IPS glow significantly distracts from the immersion and overall gaming experience. If you play dark games like I do, the lack of glow and exceptional color vibrancy on this monitor makes the game world come alive in a way that IPS panels are incapable of replicating. I would not advise picking this up for mixed use if you are sensitive to text fringing and/or work with text all day. The price is substantial, but options in this space (the high performance, no-IPS-glow space, that is) are limited.

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Good afternoon all.
31 year old male here from the UK. This is a long story so I'll try to condense it as best I can.
Back in April, right at the start I experienced a good few days of steadily worsening confusion. To the point where I had to stop driving and I would say the wrong words but be aware I did so.
This escalated to headaches, mild trembling in my right hand which would go away pretty quick and then to quite constant pins and needles in my right arm (a little in my left but not as bad). This went on to the point where I had to go to A&E. After a few visits they gave me a CT, head and neck. All clear apart from a small bone spur on my neck. The doc called it a conclusion at that and sent me on my way.
Fast forward to now and since then I have had an MRI (head and cervical spine). This revealed very small T2 foci which were deemed to be clinically non specific.
Nothing was found on my cervical spine. Since this my symptoms in terms of pins and needles in my arms have pretty much gone apart from the odd episode which fades quite easy.
The headaches are pretty much gone hopefully. My main symptom now is heavy feeling arms and legs along with pain in my spine. I also have these strange red dots which appear on the palms of my hands. Not irritating or painful and they fade in a matter of hours.
I realise this may be pretty vague but I just wondered if someone would maybe pick it up and discuss it with me? Healthcare in my town is very poor and it could be a month before I hear from a neurologist.
If you made it this far, thank you.

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