I had a revolving door of endocrinologists in 2018-2019, one of them referred me out to get some bloodwork done. He verbally assured me I would not pay a penny for the labs.
I moved states and recently opened my first credit account, looked at my score for the first time. Had no clue that there is over $500 sitting at collections from the labs in Arizona I was said to be off the hook for.
It’ll be on my score for another three years, and I’m sitting on the lower side of fair due to this (and being new to credit). I remember the office and only his last name, but even if I used the “he told me it was free!” argument, I don’t know that I would be taken seriously. What would you do in this position?

Hi folks, throwaway account but I'm stuck in a situation and need some advice. Long story but my "friend" currently owes me +£800 and has not paid me a single penny back. The money was loaned in different sums over the past 6 months. It all started with him messaging me saying his bank account had been frozen and he couldn't access his funds to pay for his groceries for his family and asked if I could send him money and he would pay me back. I sent him the money out of kindness but over the months, he was phoning me in desperate circumstances asking if I could lend him money such as he was stranded and couldn't afford a taxi home, his bank account had been frozen again, etc. At the time, i believed him but looking back I was stupid to continue sending him money even when he hadn't paid me back for the previous loans. I make okay money so wasn't too bothered about him paying me back immediately but I still took his word that he would eventually pay me back. However, this changed when he began telling me he has been gambling on online casinos betting hundreds at a time on blackjack and began bragging about his brother's brand new Audi which just pissed me off as I realized at this point that I was just being taken advantage of to fund his drug and gambling addiction so i stopped loaning him money despite him spam calling me in the early hours of the morning. I also have a newborn due in November and he knows this but still proceeds to beg me for money which I tell him no. I'm angry and embarrassed that I even believed him and letting myself be taken advantage of and regret sending him a single penny. I feel so stupid I've accepted that it's my own fault. I had messaged him a few days ago asking when will he repay but he has ignored my messages and I don't think i will get a response. I have exported our WhatsApp chat, taken screenshots of my payments to him and saved his voice notes where he talked about gambling addiction. He is a college student, has no source of income and owes money to a few people including my other friend. He lives with his parents and siblings who all have jobs themselves and they live in a big house which just angers me as he knows I have a kid on the way and proceeds to beg me for money but is too ashamed to even ask his parents or siblings for any.
At this point, I'm frustrated and just want justice even if it means paying legal fees. I'm based in Scotland and read that I could take legal action and he could be issued with a debt decree / CCJ if he doesn't pay up. I'm new to all of this so is there any advice on pursuing this or if I should even bother? I've learned my lesson so just hoping that I can do something about it. Thanks.

Hey, so I've recently been getting into surf rock and I'm looking at getting a guitar with a whammy bar.
I recently bought an Epiphone 335 instead of a Jaguar, which is what I originally planned to buy before I got into surf rock, because I thought a semi-hollow body would offer more fresh sounds to my home studio. I'm also 6'3 with large hands so I tried to pick something that felt nice in my hand. Although the laquer is a bit annoying on the neck.
Currently I have a Yamaha acoustic guitar, a Squier affinity tele which needs some work, the 335, and a Washburn bass.
So far I love the 335, it's immediately a forever guitar and the second nice guitar I've ever owned (I bought an MIA Fender Strat once but sold it regretably), although I still really want a Casino too.
I have been looking at the Squier JM and Jag which seem like nice enough guitars for me, but I'm trying to figure out if they are on the same level quality wise as my new 335? Or should I get the Fender MIM or MIA even instead? Or is there another surf rock offset I should look at?
Of course I'd love to have the most expensive guitars, but it's just not feesible at the moment so I'm trying to find the best fit in my price range which is around the Epiphone 335 price range.
Penny for your thoughts.

The Best Deals to Save on Summer Travel

Posted on May 30, 2024 by Andrew Larder

The Best Deals to Save on Summer Travel

Here are some of the top travel deals and free perks available this summer. (From travel pulse newsletter)

Puerto Rico Travel Deals

Travelers with their sights set on Puerto Rico can take advantage of a handful of Memorial Day offers this summer, including savings of up to 15 percent at the Fairmont El San Juan Hotel and a $500 resort credit at The St. Regis Bahia Beach Resort & Golf Club.
Additional offers include a $150 on-property resort credit with the MAKE MY STAY offer when staying four or more nights at the Doubletree by Hilton, San Juan and a free night when you book at least three at the Parguera Plaza Hotel.
Casa Costera, Isla Verde Beach is also offering up to 20 percent off on their best available rates and a 20 percent discount in Arena Medalla restaurant in Distrito T-Mobile.

US Virgin Islands Travel Deals

Another Caribbean escape that doesn’t require a passport for Americans, the U.S. Virgin Islands is dishing out the discounts this summer.
The Westin Beach Resort & Spa at Frenchman’s Reef in St. Thomas is offering 20 percent off upgraded and view rooms now through September 30, 2024. Elsewhere in St. Thomas, The Pink Palm Hotel is offering 15 percent off of any reservation with a minimum two-night stay in all room types except Petite Queen Room through Labor Day (September 2, 2024).
Travelers booking Bolongo Bay Beach Resort in St. Thomas can enjoy 15 percent off all-inclusive and room-only rates now through December 22, 2024, and Magens Hideaway is offering 10 percent off any five-night stays and 15 percent off any seven-night stays when guests book direct now through August 30, 2024.
On the island of St. Croix, The Buccaneer Beach & Golf Resort is running a fifth-night free offer now through December 20, 2024. Book directly and use code NT2024 to take advantage.

Bahamas Travel Deals

Available to book through June 19, Atlantis Paradise Island’s Summer Sale includes 25 percent savings and up to $400 resort credit on stays of four nights or more at The Coral, The Royal, The Reef and The Cove for travel through November 22, 2024. Credits increase with the length of stay:
4 nights – $100 5 nights – $150 6 nights – $200 7 nights – $250 8 nights – $300 9 nights – $350 10+ nights – $400 Meanwhile, the Aqua Dining Plan allows children aged six and under to eat for free with the purchase of an adult dining plan. What’s more, for every $100 spent on experience credits, guests will receive $115.
Experience the newly-renovated British Colonial Nassau hotel while receiving 35 percent off your stay and a one-time $50 food and beverage credit when you book by September 8, 2024, for stays from May 28, 2024, through September 9, 2024. Use promo code BCSUMMER.
Resorts World Bimini is offering a new Summer Nights Sail & Stay package with Balearia Caribbean starting at just $399.
It includes roundtrip transportation and a one- or two-night stay at the resort’s Hilton hotel. Guests can look forward to spectacular amenities including a 600-foot lagoon pool that stretches the entire length of the resort, an adults-only rooftop infinity pool with panoramic ocean views, a world-class spa, casino, multiple dining venues and a 4.5-acre private beach and lounge.
Caerula Mar Club in South Andros, Bahamas is rolling out a Sizzling Summer Special. For new bookings made through June 14, guests with three paid nights at the resort will receive an additional night free. The offer is valid for stays through August 10.

Caribbean Travel Deals

Sandals Resorts’ newest property, Sandals Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is celebrating its opening by offering air and resort credits.
Currently, travelers can receive a $750 Air Credit as well as a $250 Resort Credit on all bookings when booking flights to Sandals Saint Vincent and The Grenadines. Book by June 24, 2024, for travel now through January 31, 2025, to take advantage.
Beaches Resorts is offering travelers a free catamaran cruise plus $250 resort credit in Jamaica. The “Jamaica Jamming” sale is bookable through June 9 and valid for travel through January 31, 2025, with rates starting at $249 per person, per night.
Guests must book at least five nights to secure the free cruise. Stays of at least seven nights will earn the $250 resort credit. Beaches Negril and Beaches Ocho Rios are offering the deal using the code JJAM2024.
All-inclusive pioneer Club Med is offering 40 percent off in addition to special perks on properties from the Caribbean to Canada this summer. Book by June 25 and travel by December 20, 2024, to take advantage of the discounted stays on top of up to $300 in instant savings, free stays for kids under age four, up to $300 air credit and waived single supplement for solot travelers.

Mexico Travel Deals

Book a stay of three or more nights at JW Marriott Cancun Resort & Spa and receive two 50-minute massages at the Sens Yah spa, with Mayan-inspired treatments.
Meanwhile, Sandos Hotels & Resorts is offering a unique Summer Getaway Package at properties in Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Los Cabos. Sandos Caracol Eco Resort is offering 55 percent off accommodations while Sandos Playacar has a 50 percent off deal.
Sandos Cancun is offering guests 40 percent savings and Sandos Finisterra has rolled out a 35 percent off discount this summer. Each Summer Getaway package also includes a $125 resort credit when you use promo code RESORT24 and book by May 31 for travel through December 19, 2024.

Hawaii Travel Deals

Aqua-Aston Hospitality is inviting travelers to live the “suite life” in Hawaii this summer with 20 percent off the best available rate for a stay of three nights or more in suite accommodations for travel now through December 22, 2024.
Participating properties include Ilikai Hotel & Luxury Suites (Oahu), Aston Waikiki Beach Tower (Oahu), Aston Kaanapali Shores (Maui), Aston at The Whaler on Kaanapali Beach (Maui), Aston Kona by the Sea (Hawaii Island) and Aston Poipu Kai (Kauai). Book by June 25 to take advantage.

Florida Travel Deals

In Key West, the Southernmost Beach Resort is offering 30 percent off your room, plus a one-time $35 food and beverage credit when you book a stay by June 30. The special offer is valid for stays through September 30.
Further up the Keys, Playa Largo Resort & Spa, Autograph Collection in Key Largo is offering the Days of Playa package boasting exclusive perks such as a free room upgrade, signature Eventide drinks and souvenir shirts featuring art by a local artist.
Guests can also visit the Ocean Spa with a $50 treatment credit and enjoy 10 percent off spa retail items. The package is valid for stays from July 5, 2024, through September 30, 2024, using promo code ES7.

Scottsdale, Arizona Travel Deals

In sunny Scottsdale, travelers can score awesome deals and perks at properties like The Boulders Resort & Spa Scottsdale. For every night stayed, guests receive a complimentary round of golf with the Summer Stay & Play Golf Package in addition to a $25 food and beverage credit and unlimited access to fitness classes and spa facilities.
The offer is available through September 8, 2024.
CIVANA Wellness Resort & Spa is offering a three-night summer camp for adults. The all-inclusive retreat will feature daily activities including journaling, sunrise soul flow yoga and ecstatic dance as well as a spa treatment and complimentary meals and non-alcoholic drinks.
The package starts from $757 per night and the camp will be open on June 20-23, July 18-21 and August 15-18, 2024.
W Scottsdale will host lively pool parties all summer and guests can make the most of their stay with the Sips and Sunshine Package, which includes a cocktail kit, complimentary breakfast and 30 percent off at AWAY Spa now through September 2, 2024.
Finally, The Hermosa Inn’s Summer in Paradise Package features two welcome cocktails, refreshing poolside treats such as smoothies and frozen fruit and a $25 nightly food and beverage credit. Rates start from $230 through September 2, 2024.

Other US Travel Deals

The new Margaritaville Resort Lake Tahoe is offering up to 30 percent off when guests extend their stay. Stay three nights to save 20 percent, four nights to save 25 percent and five or more nights to earn 30 percent off.
The special Summerzcool offer is available through September 8, 2024, for travel between May 28 and September 9, 2024.
The Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. is offering a Drive & Stay package this summer featuring complimentary overnight valet parking at a $58 per night value.
The Davenport Hotel Collection in Spokane, Washington is offering 40 percent off stays at five properties when guests book by May 31 for travel now through the end of 2024.
Participating hotels include The Historic Davenport Hotel, the family-friendly safari-themed Davenport Tower, the centrally-located Davenport Lusso, the modern Davenport Grand in Downtown Spokane and The Centennial.
Historic Banning Mills adventure resort outside of Atlanta is offering a Spring into Summer Family Escape Package for the month of May. Starting from $349, the package includes a one-night stay and Level 1 zipline canopy tours for families up to six.

Cruise Travel Deals

Celestyal Cruises has launched the “Upgrade Your Summer” sale featuring a free upgrade on new seven-night Idyllic Aegean cruises. The sale is available now through June 3 for cruises departing June 1 through August 24, 2024.
Ecoventura, which offers luxury cruises in the Galápagos, is running a flash sale in honor of World Turtle Day. Travelers who book by May 28 can save up to 20 percent on double and triple cabins on select sailings, with potential savings of up to $6,500.

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"After the Meltdown" (Part 3/Conclusion of a series of short stories)
by P. Orin Zack
 
“The Phoenix Narrative” (Story 6 of 7)
[11/11/2011]
 
As Beth coasted down a curving stretch of Arizona 95, she gently squeezed the handgrips on her bicycle, engaging the home-built regenerating brakes. She hesitated briefly, smiled, and leaned into a right turn onto Parker Dam Road.
A few years earlier, before the economy cratered and governments around the world fell apart, she might have driven the ninety-miles back from Lingman without a second thought. Even now, with gasoline so hard to come by, she’d made the trip out in an afternoon, thanks to the damaged baby steam engine rattling around in her saddle basket. But the ride back had taken considerably longer because Norwyn Rosset, the cretin she’d gone to thank for his part in bringing the world to its knees, had kicked the overtaxed machine from it’s mountings after it succumbed to the stress of pushing them both up a hill.
Parker Dam had been a touchstone to her even before she’d moved to Parker to escape the rat race her engineering degree had sucked her into. Towards the end of the corporatists’ reign, new hires out of school were like a drug to penny-pinching managers eager to consign their senior, and more expensive, employees to the growing ranks of the unemployed. But like many of her cohort, she’d taken strength from the global Occupation movement and chose to strike out on her own rather than help her moneyed masters further drive down the value of human labor.
After parking her bike on the untraveled roadway high atop the curving concrete dam, Beth turned her back to Lake Havasu and drifted towards the southern railing. She took a deep breath, and cast the anger she’d worked up against Rosset to the gentle breeze, imagining it drifting down over the Colorado River, where it was absorbed and cleansed by the flowing water. Then her gaze lifted, across the rocky horizon, and up into the early evening sky. She smiled as she envisioned herself soaring low over the river, down past Lake Moovalva and Headgate Rock Dam in the steam-powered ultralight of her imagination.
“Someday,” she told the river, “I’m going to skim your length not much higher than this. Someday.” But first, she reminded herself, she needed to get back to Parker. Dusk was falling, and she knew that pedal-powered headlights were neither as dependable nor as bright as steam-powered ones.
Rather than returning to Arizona 95, she continued across the dam and rode the last leg home on the California side of the river. But before re-crossing to Parker, she stopped at a bakery she favored to pick up a treat for Peter.
“Elspeth!” chirped the craggy proprietress as she opened the door. “I didn’t hear the unmistakable sound of your handiwork. Something wrong with your steamer?”
She nodded and glanced back towards her bike. “Yeah, Roz. That jerk I tracked down in Lingman kicked it free after it gave out on the way back here.”
“I trust you didn’t cart him the rest of the way home, then.”
“No. Last I saw him, he’d taken my bike and was trying to pedal it back to civilization. Didn’t make it, though. Well, at least I don’t think he did. In any case, he took my pistol before ditching the bike and setting out cross-country on foot.”
“You think he might’ve shot himself?”
“Not likely. I still have the bullet.”
Roz grabbed a small sack and started to fill it with scones. “That’s too bad. Weren’t you planning to barter it for something?”
“Yeah. But I’ll be okay. The repair shop’s doing better, now that Peter’s helping out. Which reminds me, that’s what I stopped in for, to get a treat for him. I hadn’t expected to go missing for this long.”
She made a face when Beth held out some money. “Put those Angels back, dear. The treats are on me this time.”
It was nearly closing time when Beth rolled up in front of her repair shop, but the lights were still on, and she could hear her protégé arguing with someone inside.
“You heard me, kid,” the customer thundered, “I don’t want any of those stinking Phoenix notes. Give me my change in L.A. Angels or I swear to God I’ll torch this place!”
Beth grabbed the scones and opened the door.
“Elspeth!” Peter said, surprised.
The customer wheeled to face her. “Where the hell have you been? I came to pick up my cultivator and this idiot here tried to make change with defective money.” He waved the notes at her and slammed them on the counter. “These!”
Beth put her bag down and glanced at the contested money. They were the colorful Phoenix notes that she’d gotten from some customers passing through on their way to the coast. “Look, Frank,” she said, “if you’re happier with money starring dead actors and designed by a convicted counterfeiter, fine. I think I’ve got enough here to cover your change. But please, don’t take your anger out on Peter. He is the one who repaired your John Deere knock-off, after all.”
Frank snatched the bills out of her hand and glared angrily at the teenager. “Fine. But don’t expect me to come back any time soon. Next time I need something fixed, I’ll take it to an American patriot, not some goddam Indian scam artist!”
Peter winced at the remark, but held his peace as Frank stormed out into the night. When he turned to look at Beth, she was grinning happily and offering him a scone. “Thanks,” he said, taking it. “You were gone a long time. Did you run into some kind of trouble in Lingman?”
She nodded, and picked up one of the Phoenix notes that Frank had refused. “It was worth it, though. Before that jerk made off with my bike, he told me about a scheme he’d heard about for keeping money in circulation. Of course, from his perspective, that was a horrible thing to do, because his kind would rather hoard it. But I do know why the background pattern on these things faded.”
“Oh?”
“Mmm-hmm. The cagey folks in Phoenix printed their money with a number of different ink blends, each one crafted to fade after a different period of time. According to Rosset, as each component of the design fades, the exchange value drops.”
Peter touched the faded screening beside the heavily saturated phoenix design. “By how much?”
“That was the last bit he heard about before the big telecoms went bust and their networks shut down. These bills have already lost ten percent of their value. When the phoenix loses its tail, they’ll fall to three-quarters of the face value, and so on.”
Peter touched the printed phoenix’s tail and checked for ink marks. “Clever. But what’s the point?”
“When you’re paid with this kind of money, what you’re supposed to do is take it to the bank. They exchange it for fresh, unfaded bills. The ones that are turned in are then stripped and reprinted for the next go-round. So the only people who need to worry are the ones who sit on their cash instead of spending it, and you can tell who they are because the money gives them away.”
He took another bite of scone. “So how did they end up in Parker?”
“Travelers,” Beth said as she counted the till. “Some people from Phoenix came through town a few months ago. They needed supplies and repairs, and this was what they had for money. Of course, they didn’t bother to tell me about the little trick they do.”
“Dollars must be pretty much worthless everywhere by now, I guess.”
“Well, sure. There’s nothing to back them up any more. Not like the L.A. Angels, which are based on the value of an hour’s labor, or the Phoenix notes, which are based on the value of a standard basket of locally grown food. But it does present us with a problem.”
He looked up. “Oh?”
“Mmm-hmm. Do we honor the narrative that adjusts the value of a Phoenix, or do we continue to accept it at face value?”
Peter raised his eyebrows. “Frank didn’t want to do either one.”
“I know. And that’s why we need to call a town meeting.”
 
+---+---+
 
“Okay, okay!” the facilitator shrilled, her hands spread for order. “The only way we’re going to make any sense out of this is if we give one another a chance to speak.” It had taken a few days to get the town meeting scheduled, but only a few moments for it to succumb to chaos. “Elspeth,” she said calmly, “you requested this meeting, and it appears that you’re the only one with an explanation for what’s happening to the money from Phoenix.”
She nodded. “That’s right.”
“Hearsay,” someone shouted from across the room. “Where’s your proof?”
Peter hopped onto a chair and was about to yell back when Beth tapped him on the leg and he relented.
The facilitator shot the man a dirty look before continuing. “That’s as good a place to start as any, I guess,” she said amiably. “Beth?”
“It’s like this,” she said, “I spoke to a man named Norwyn Rosset last week in Lingman. He’s one of the people responsible for the fall of the Dollar, and with it, the US government. I’d gotten a lead on his whereabouts from the folks that came through from Phoenix a few months back. It seems that Rosset had been hiding out in Lingman, but then he got stranded when the few people still living there ditched town on him.”
“Then let him speak!” someone called out.
“Yeah,” another voice chimed in, “where’s Rosset?”
Beth shook her head in frustration. “He’s not here. I tried to bring him back with me, but he stole my bike and disappeared. I found it later, but he’d taken my gun and set off on foot.”
“So what you’re saying,” the facilitator said, “is that you’re our sole source for this explanation, barring other visitors from Phoenix. Is that correct?”
“I’m afraid so, yes.”
“In that case,” the founder of the local credit union said, “all we can do is judge Beth’s explanation on its merits, since we don’t have anything official to back it up. The way I see it, we’ve got three choices. One, we decide to not recognize Phoenix money at all here, two, we accept Elspeth’s explanation and let these notes devalue themselves to nothing, or three, we ignore the explanation and use them at their face vale.”
“Rubbish,” a voice rumbled. “All we need to do is send someone to Phoenix. Then we’ll know whether this cockamamie scheme holds any water.” It was the grossly overweight bully who had been the branch manager of a now-defunct bank.
“Great idea, Tom,” Beth shot back. “You hobble right over there, and we’ll just not spend any Phoenix money until you return.”
The raucous laughter that followed was cut short by a resounding crash as the double doors burst open and the young tech who’d set up the town’s open-source cell towers rushed in clutching a phone. “It’s fire and rescue,” he said breathlessly, eyes wide. “Roz’s bakery’s in flames and she’s trapped inside.”
“Oh my god!” Beth breathed, color draining from her face. “Frank.”
“What?”
“Francis Stoneway. He threatened to burn down my shop when Peter offered him Phoenix money as change. Those travelers stopped at Roz’s, too, and Frank likes donuts!”
The young man held up a finger while listening intently to the phone. “They’re going in after her,” he said, glancing around the crowd. Then he winced, and asked the caller, “what was that?”
The crowd drew closer. A few people clasped hands.
He swallowed, and lowered the phone. “They were… they were just inside when the roof fell on her.”
Beth collapsed into a chair and cried.
Several people conferred with the tech for a few minutes. He made calls to some of the other working groups, passing instructions from those present. Even though Parker no longer had a formal police force, Frank would nevertheless be found and brought in for questioning.
“Okay people,” the facilitator said a few minutes later, “we still have to decide what to do about the Phoenix money that‘s circulating here in Parker.” She paused for a moment and glanced nervously around the room. “Even if Frank wasn’t responsible for that fire, he, or someone else who refuses to accept the Phoenix money, might do something stupid.”
“Damn right,” Tom shouted. “I say we just refuse to honor the crap!”
“Do you,” Beth asked sarcastically, rising to her feet. “So tell me, exactly how much Phoenix money have you accepted?”
“Not one bit. I know real money when I see it.”
“That’s a laugh,” she said, pulling an Angel out of her wallet and holding it up. “And what exactly makes these things real for you? Is it the pictures of dead actors, or the fact that they were designed by a convicted counterfeiter?”
“What’s important,” he said angrily, “is that it’s backed by gold.”
“Gold? Can’t you even read? It says right on the back that Angels embody the hard work and good faith of the people who labor for the betterment of Los Angeles.“
“I think we’re getting sidetracked here,” the facilitator said. “It’s ludicrous to argue about which city’s money is real and which one isn’t. What makes any money real is people’s willingness to use it. Our problem is what to do about the fact that at least one person here in Parker is in violent opposition to using it.”
“Excuse me,” Peter said tentatively, “can I say something?”
“Sure.”
“Well, it seems to me that if the people in Parker refuse to accept the Phoenix money, we’d be alienating an awful lot of people who ought to be our allies.”
“Allies?” Tom shot back. “What the hell do we need them for?”
“Well, for one thing,” someone replied, “they buy a lot of what we make here.”
“Besides,” Peter went on, “if we accept the money but reject the explanation for the fading ink, there’s no reason for us to accept the labor conversion for Angels either. The only way we can survive as a community is if we agree on some common principles. I say we accept the Phoenix narrative, and talk with the people there about setting up a printing operation in Parker so we can refresh any of their money that’s spent here, and extend the territory where it’s accepted.”
Beth looked at him agape. “I thought you came to work for me because you wanted to build things. And now you want to be a banker?”
“Of course not,” he laughed. “What I want to do is build the printing press.”
 
THE END
 
"Steam Cycle" (Story 7 of 7)
[12/2/2011]
 
Peter Epas gazed blankly at the desert horizon while the sunbaked highway rolled back unnoticed beneath him. The mental schematics he’d busied himself with for the first few hours of the trip had given way to the hypnotic interplay of rubber against deteriorating pavement and the steady whine of the bike’s low-slung steam engine. His sightline had just drifted down to the leading tip of his shadow when the screech of a raptor overhead startled him back to wobble-wheeled alertness.
It had been first light when he headed south out of Parker that morning. Elspeth, the mechanical engineer he apprenticed under, had topped off her bike’s biopropane canister at the repair shop last night after locking up.
“You’re sure you want to do this?” she’d asked while tightening the engine mounts for the umpteenth time.
A wordless glance was all the reply he gave. “If there’s one thing I’ve learned from you,” he added a few beats later, “it’s to never second-guess myself.”
Rising, she opened the cash drawer and counted out two piles of bills. The first, which sported heavily saturated pictures of dead actors, were Angels, the money issued in Los Angeles after the Dollar cratered. The oddly faded notes in the second pile were from Phoenix, and they were the reason he was headed there.
Peter thought about that second pile as he rolled on through the dusty afternoon, and wondered how the people behind them would react to his proposal. “When we first encountered your money,” he told a hypothetical banker, “it hadn’t yet started to fade. As far as we knew, it was no different from the Angels that filtered in after the Dollar crapped out.”
He frowned. “All right. How about this…” But his thoughts were abruptly shattered when the bike lurched from the impact of a wall of air at his back.
Struggling to regain his balance, he glanced over his shoulder at the noisy truck overtaking him, and, heart racing, he swerved onto the shoulder to give it a wide berth. When it swept past, he winced at the acrid smell of its exhaust.
“Yuck!” he yelled between coughs. “What kind of crap are you burning, anyway?”
As the truck dwindled ahead and he drifted back towards the center of the roadway, he ticked off a hypothetical repair order. With quality diesel being increasingly hard to come by, he figured the trucker had his rig converted to run on whatever was available, but whoever had done it was a hack. Of far more interest to Peter, however, was the fact that none of the cars and trucks he’d seen all day had the signature whine of the breed of engine powering his bike, and that brought him back to the morning’s schematics.
As engaging as that was, however, a more visceral matter soon began gnawing at his stomach, so he pulled off at the next exit to prowl for food. Back home in Parker, the majority of the restaurants he’d known as a child had closed for one of two reasons. Either their corporate supply chains had snapped, or the people who ran them left town in search of a less fragile lifestyle. Reading the epithet left on the signboard of one reminded him of Elspeth’s recent musing that the crash had forced the economy into an odd rebalancing that favored mid-size cities with food processing industries over both Metropolis and Mayberry. He rode dispiritedly past several more shuttered fast food shops before spotting the lit interior of an independent restaurant called Nate’s. He banked into the parking lot, and rolled into a spot just outside the front window. After shutting the valve on the fuel canister, he set the kickstand, unstrapped his pack from the rear fender mount, and strode towards the door.
While Peter was reaching for the handle, two men at a front table turned to look at the bike. One of them, a swarthy man in a blue work shirt, rose and started towards the door. “Hey kid!”
Unaware that he was being addressed, Peter smilingly approached the young woman behind the counter. He had just opened his mouth when she nodded towards the man crossing the floor towards them. “Is that your party?”
“My…?”
“I’m going to go out on a limb here,” the man said, extending a hand in greeting, “and guess that you’re new in town. Welcome to Phoenix. The name’s Enrique Perez. Can I buy you a drink?”
Peter glanced back at the woman. “Is he okay?”
“Yeah,” she said, nodding, “Enrique’s a regular. I think it’s your ride he’s after, though.”
“My…?”
Enrique nodded pleasantly. “She’s right. What kind of engine is that, anyway? I’ve never heard anything like it.”
“I’m not surprised,” Peter said as they reached the table, and he set his pack down. “It’s a variation on the Schoell cycle. They were only just breaking into the market when everything fell apart.”
“A what?” Enrique’s tablemate asked, the glow of intense curiosity animating the lean man’s deeply lined face.
“Oh, sorry. This is Armand. He’s a business associate.”
“Glad to meet you, sir. I’m Peter Epas. My bike is powered by a propane-powered closed-cycle steam engine. Just the thing for cruising the desert.”
“Speaking of deserts, how about that drink I offered you? What would you like? Nate’s carbonates their homegrown Arizona goji juice. Pretty good stuff.”
Peter glanced back at the cashier, who raised a glass of the red soda and grinned. “Okay,” he said, reaching for his wallet, “but I really would prefer to buy my own—.”
“And you will, just not with money,” Enrique said, signaling the cashier for a glass. “Like I said, I’m interested in that bike engine of yours.”
“All right, all right. What do you want to know?”
“Well, for one thing, where’d you get it?”
“Get it? “ Peter said defensively. “That steam-spinner’s a custom job… my boss’s design. It’s, uh, hers, actually. We built it in her shop, back in Parker.”
“I see,” Armand said slowly, crossing his arms. “And how much do you know about its construction?”
“Well, technically, I’m still her apprentice, but—.”
“I appreciate your modesty, Peter, but what I really want to know is whether you can build one yourself, here in Phoenix, given the right supplies and equipment.”
Enrique gave his associate a quizzical look.
“I could,” Peter said, lost in thought. “I mean, yes, sir. I believe I could build another engine like that. Well, assuming you could provide the tools and all. I don’t have enough money to buy—.”
“Hey!” A balding man at the table behind Armand suddenly shouted, slamming his glass on the table.
Peter followed the man’s sightline through the window, to his bike, where a guy in a dark hoodie was fingering the bright red engine.
“Christ, Silver,” baldy said, rising, “don’t you ever give up?” His chair tipped backward, but was caught by a passing waitress.
Baldy was halfway to the door by the time Peter got to his feet. By then, Silver had flipped the kickstand up and set his foot on the near pedal. Enrique trailed Peter through the door, while Armand and some other patrons turned to watch.
Silver pedaled hard while struggling against the bike’s unfamiliar heft. He glanced over his shoulder just as baldy cleared the walkway, with Peter a second behind.
“Stop!” Peter screamed.
The two men exchanged glances as they raced towards the accelerating bike. But just as they were about to catch it, Silver found his balance, switched gears, swerved onto the road, and sped away.
“Damn!” Peter said, catching his breath, “Elspeth’s going to kill me.”
“And I’m going to kill Larry Silver,” baldy said as he came up beside him, “if I ever catch him again.”
“You know who he is, then?”
“Hard not to. That cretin’s been stealing any new tech that comes into town for a while now. Works for a local cartel that’s itching to push out the leadership of the Citizen’s Board. I’m Fred Larson, by the way. I think you’ll want to join the SO, the Social Order working group, and help us get your bike back.”
“Thanks, Fred. Oh, I’m Peter Epas. Is that working group the Phoenix area police force?”
“It’s not that formal,” Enrique said, joining them. “The SO is a collaborative effort. You’ve just been robbed, so you’re welcome to join the team that does something about it. It’s expected, really, a citizen’s duty.”
As the three men approached the entrance, Peter noticed that Fred’s table had been slid up against Enrique’s, and the woman who’d greeted him earlier was distributing pens and paper. “What’s all that about?”
“Standard procedure,” Larson said, holding the door open for the others. “The first thing the SO does is collect what everyone knows about the incident. Like your friend here said, it’s a collaborative effort.”
Peter grinned as he took his seat. “And it’s a lot faster than old-style police methods, from what I hear. You folks are even faster than the group who do this sort of thing back in Parker. How do we proceed?”
“Well, for starters,” Larson said, taking his seat, “I think we ought to find out more about that bike of yours.”
“It’s… not mine, really. Elspeth loaned it to me for this trip.”
“Must have been important to her,” Armand said. “What did you come all this way for, anyway?”
“To speak with a banker,” Peter said. He pulled out the Phoenix notes and laid them on the table. “We got these a while back, and they’ve started to fade.”
“So they have. In fact, it looks like they’re about to lose some tail-feathers. That’ll drop them to seventy-five percent of face value. It’s high time these notes were refreshed. I can see the urgency of your visit.”
“You don’t understand. It’s kind of a long way to go just to keep the money from devaluing. I came here to ask about opening a branch in Parker so we could refresh them locally. But that’s not important right now. I’ve really got to get my boss’s bike back.”
“Yes, the bike,” Larson said. “Or more to the point, that engine. I doubt Larry Silver has a clue what he’s stolen. But if he figures out how to start it up, how far could he get?”
“And how fast?” Enrique added. “Someone might have to chase him.”
“It can’t outrun a car the way it’s geared right now, if that’s what you’re worried about. And the fuel canister’s nearly empty. Well, the one that’s mounted, anyway. I have a spare in my pack for the return trip.”
“Good,” Larson said. “And that brings us to the reason I think Larry was interested in your bike, the technology in that engine.”
“You said it was a Schoell cycle?” Armand asked.
“A variation, but yeah. My boss used it as her starting point because it’s closed cycle, so you don’t have to top the water off all the time. But she made some improvements to the cooling system. That engine can run quite a bit hotter than the original design, assuming the rest of the engine can take the stress.”
“Mmm-hmm. Then I suspect it could be scaled up for heavier duty use. There’s clearly a lot of money to be made with that. If it can be replicated.”
Larson shook his head. “I wouldn’t want to see the cartel that Silver reports to get their hands on a hopped-up version of that thing. We’d never catch them. Good. I think we have enough to go on, now. So, Peter, will you be joining the SO team to find that creep and get it back?”
“Of course. But I also need to speak with the people who print up your Phoenix notes, and see if they’ll let me open a refresh shop in Parker.”
“Oh, I don’t think you’ll have to worry about that,” Armond said, chuckling.
“Why not?”
“I’m an investor. I staked them for their startup costs. Trust me, you’re a shoo-in.”
 
THE END
Copyright 20011 by P. Orin Zack

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-VICE - Visuals Improved Content Expanded
+Lux Aeterna - The True Revival of Luxury - An Ultra-Luxe Overhaul
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+Tales Of the Wanted Lods
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-Strip Cinematic Lighting Overhaul
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-A LightBright Secret
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+B42 Descriptions aka Pip-Info
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-A World Of Pain (AWOP) Weapon Patches
-A World Of Pain (AWOP) Patches
-A World Of Pain (AWOP)
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+zlib Updated - NVSE
+ZL Armaments Remastered And FNV 3DNPC Bundle Updated Patch
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+SUP NVSE
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-Run The Lucky 38
+ROOGNVSE Plugin
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-Roberts Male Body FNV
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-Roberts Courier's Stash DLC Patch 3_3
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+Point that somewhere else - NPCs react to weapons
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+One Man - One Quest
+NV Feral Ghoul Children
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+Nuka Cola World - Nuka overhaul by zzjay
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+Not so Fatal
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+NillaPlus Maximum Moon 4K 2K 1K
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-New Vegas Killer LE
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-New Vegas Bounties II
+New Vegas - Enhanced Camera
-MoreMojave
+More Perks Reimagined
+Mojave Wildlife
+Mojave Squads + SMIM patch
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+Mojave NPCs
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+MAPMO - Main and Pause Menus Overhaul
+Manual Reload and Ammo Memory
+Lonesome Road True Faction Allegiance
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+Limitless Stats Edited - Percentual Damage Bonuses
+Less Obnoxious Brotherhood of Steel Air Filtration Quest
+Legion and Powder Ganger Truce
+Legate Lanius Doesn't Run Away - Legion Mod
+Knights of the Mojave (Brotherhood Knights expanded)
+King of the Ring
+Killable Children (NVSE)
+KCNVSE
+Karma Perks
+Jump While Aiming
+JSRS Sound Mod 2.0
+JSawyer Ultimate Edition Patches
+JSawyer Ultimate Edition
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-Iron Sight Inertia - espless
+Invisible Wall Remover
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-Increased Weapon Jam espless
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+Immuno-Boosters Recipe for Simple Diseases
+Immersive Recoil NPC
+Immersive Hit Reactions - Makes Combat Responsive
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+House and Fiends Truce
+Holotape Stories
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+Hit - Drugs - Icons and Food Scraps
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+Global Imposter Region
+Fuckable Companions
+Frozen Hit Rockomotion
+Friendly Strip Factions
+Friendly Misc Factions
+FOV Slider
+For the Enclave
+Food Scraps
+Follower Home Marker
-Fog-based Object Culling
+FNV 3DNPC Bundle Updated
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+Fallout 3 Weapons Restoration
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-Even Better Power Armor
+Even Better Loading Screen and Main Menu Replacer
-Enhanced Bullet Impacts
-Enhanced Blood Impact
+Encounters of The Mojave - Highway 95 South
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-Dramatic Staggering
-Dramatic Inertia - 3rd Person Movement Overhaul
-Drag's High-Res Eyes
+Double Jump and Coyote Time
+Dismemberment Tweaks
+Dead Money - No Collar Explosion and No Poison Cloud Damage
+Crafting Consistency Fix
+Convenient Fast Travel Markers
+Consistent Spread - Firearms Accuracy and Wobble Fix
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-Collision Meshes
+Coito Ergo Sum
+Classic Fallout Weapons Remastered
+Cheat Boy
-Challenges Tracker and Rewards Hints - ESPless
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+Bullet Snap Redux
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+Better Weapon Restrictions and Fixes
+Better Stealth Suit Mk II
+Better Damage Multipliers
+Better Character Creation - Restored and Enhanced
+Base Object Swapper
+Bad Mothafucka LE
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+B42 Inject
+Autumn Leaves
+ATMOS Ambience Overhaul
+Armored Wasteland - Mutants
+Arizona - A Legion Expansion NOVA Compatible Version
+AnhNVSE
+All Explosion Sounds Overhaul
+Aid Addon - Medkits - Blood Draw - Bandages - Afterburner Gum - More
+A Very Uncreative Collection of YUP Patches
+A Very Uncreative Collection of FPGE Patches
+3D Grenade Indicator
+1. I'm Not Done Crafting
+Cyberware 2281
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+Interior Rain
+Cloud Upgrade NVSE
+High Resolution Bloom NVSE
+Desert Natural Weathers - NV - TTW
+Atmospheric Lighting Tweaks - EVEM Patch
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+A Little More Lamplight
+More Consistent Vanilla Rock Textures
+Wasted Rocks Normals
+Landscape Texture Improvements
+Contrasted LOD Noise Texture
+High Resolution Water Fog
+NV Compatibility Skeleton
+B42 Optics
+B42 Weapon Inertia
+Smooth True Iron Sights Camera
+Muzzle Flash Light Fix - NVSE
+FaceGen Tint Fixes for NV
+Better Brotherhood
+The Living Desert Main File
+Essential DLC Enhancements Merged
+Misc Content Restoration - UW (VNV) Patch
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+Misc Content Restoration
+Essential DLC Enhancements Merged - JSUE Patch
+Uncut Wasteland (VNV) - EVEM Patch
+FPGE - EVEM Patch
-Uncut Wasteland extra
+Functional Post Game Ending
+Uncut Wasteland
+Enhanced Movement - VNV Configuration
+Harder Barter Faster Stronger
+Traps Tweaks - Traps Use Other Skills
+Vish's Patch Hub
+Essential Vanilla Enhancements Merged
+Bad Touch NVSE
+Auto-Save Manager
+Faster Sleep-Wait
+Cookable Grenades
+Follower Tweaks
+Immersive Recoil 2.0
+Enhanced Movement
+Clean Just Assorted Mods (JAM)
+JLM Grab Tweak
+Just Sprint Plus - Expansion for JAM and JVS
+JAM - Just Assorted Mods
+Consistent Weapon Mod Descriptions
+Sleep Wait Hardcore Needs
+JIP Improved Recipe Menu
+Menu Search
+Faster Main Menu
+High Resolution Screens
+High Res Local Maps
+Clean Companion Wheel
+Clean Vanilla Hud
+Vanilla UI Plus Dialog Background Addon
+Vanilla UI Plus (New Vegas)
+The Mod Configuration Menu
+Stewie Tweaks - VNV Extended INI
+Swiming Creatures Fix
+Strip Lights Region Fix
+ExRB - Extended Roombounds
+Depth of Field Fix - NVSE
+External Emittance Fix - NVSE
+Fallout Alpha Rendering Tweaks - NVSE
+Aqua Performa - Strip Performance Fix
+MoonlightNVSE
+ActorCause Save Bloat Fix
+Elijah Missing Distortion Fix
+Misc Audio Tweaks and Fixes
+Climate Control NVSE
+Pip-Boy Shading Fix NVSE
+Improved Lighting Shaders
+Doc Mitchell's Window Sunlight Fix
+Items Transformed - Enhanced Meshes (ITEM)
+Meshes and Collision - Totally Enhanced Nifs (MAC-TEN)
+PipBoyOn Node Fixes
+skinned mesh improvement mod
+3rd Person Animation Fixpack 360 patch
+3rd Person Animation Fixpack
+Iron Sights Aligned
+New Vegas Animation Overhaul Guns
+FNV Clean Animations
+Anniversary Anim Pack
+Weapon Mesh Improvement Mod
+ISControl Enabler and Ironsights adjuster
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+Combat Lag Fix (NVSE)
+lStewieAl's Engine Optimizations
+lStewieAl's Tweaks and Engine Fixes
+Improved AI (Navmesh Overhaul Mod)
+Unofficial Patch NVSE Plus
+Yukichigai Unofficial Patch - YUP
+KEYWORDS
+Basic Console Autocomplete
+Console Paste Support
+Improved Console (NVSE)
+Yvile's Crash Logger
+FNV Mod Limit Fix
+UIO - User Interface Organizer
+kNVSE Animation Plugin
+NVTF - New Vegas Tick Fix
+ShowOff xNVSE Plugin
+JIP LN NVSE Plugin
+JohnnyGuitar NVSE
*DLC: CaravanPack
*DLC: ClassicPack
*DLC: DeadMoney
*DLC: GunRunnersArsenal
*DLC: HonestHearts
*DLC: LonesomeRoad
*DLC: MercenaryPack
*DLC: OldWorldBlues
*DLC: TribalPack
*Unmanaged: VM_Recoil

(All Airtimes E.S.T.)
SAT JUN 01
(1:00AM) Scott Joplin (1977/1h 36m/Biography/Jeremy Kagan)
(3:00AM) The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943/2h 43m/WaMichael Powell)
(6:00AM) The Sun Comes Up (1949/1h 33m/Drama/Richard Thorpe)
(8:00AM) MGM CARTOONS: Barnyard Babies (1935/0h 9m/Animation/Rudolf Ising)
(8:10AM) The Day of Rest (1939/0h 9m/Comedy/Basil Wrangell)
(8:20AM) Glimpses of Florida (1941/0h 9m/Documentary/James A. Fitzpatrick)
(8:30AM) The Last Ride (1944/0h 57m/Crime/D. Ross Lederman)
(9:30AM) Lincoln's Doctor's Dog (1955/0h 30m/Comedy/H.C. Potter)
(10:00AM) POPEYE: The Spinach Roadster (1936/0h 6m/Animation/Dave Fleischer)
(10:07AM) The Falcon and the Co-eds (1944/1h 8m/Mystery/William Clemens)
(11:30AM) Alaska Lifeboat (1956/0h 20m/Documentary/Herbert Morgan)
(12:00PM) The Producers (1967/1h 28m/Comedy/Mel Brooks)
(1:45PM) The Bad Seed (1956/2h 9m/HorroMervyn Le Roy)
(4:15PM) The Boy with Green Hair (1948/1h 22m/Drama/Joseph Losey)
(5:45PM) The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars And Motor Kings (1976/1h 50m/Comedy/John Badham)
(8:00PM) The Gunfighter (1950/1h 24m/Western/Henry King)
(9:45PM) Gun Crazy (1950/1h 27m/Crime/Joseph H. Lewis)
SUN JUN 02
(12:00AM) Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951/1h 30m/Film-NoiFelix Feist)
(2:00AM) The Remains Of The Day (1993/2h 14m/Drama/James Ivory)
(4:30AM) Cries and Whispers (1972/1h 35m/Drama/Ingmar Bergman)
(6:15AM) The Honeymoon Killers (1969/1h 46m/Crime/Leonard Kastle)
(8:30AM) Cast a Dark Shadow (1955/1h 25m/Suspense/Lewis Gilbert)
(10:00AM) Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951/1h 30m/Film-NoiFelix Feist)
(11:45AM) A Star Is Born (1937/1h 51m/Romance/William A. Wellman)
(1:45PM) Big City (1948/1h 43m/Crime/Norman Taurog)
(3:45PM) Auntie Mame (1958/2h 23m/Comedy/Morton DaCosta)
(6:15PM) Critic's Choice (1963/1h 40m/Comedy/Don Weis)
(8:00PM) American Graffiti (1973/1h 49m/Comedy/George Lucas)
(10:00PM) Peggy Sue Got Married (1986/1h 45m/Comedy/Francis Ford Coppola)
MON JUN 03
(12:00AM) The Cossacks (1928/1h 40m/Drama/George Hill)
(2:00AM) El casado casa quiere (1950/1h 22m/Drama/Gilberto Martínez Solares)
(3:30AM) Los que volvieron (1947/1h 18m/Drama/Alejandro Galindo)
(5:00AM) Everybody's Hobby (1939/0h 54m/Comedy/William McCann)
(6:00AM) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938/1h 42m/Adventure/Michael Curtiz)
(7:30AM) Quality Street (1937/1h 24m/Comedy/George Stevens)
(8:00AM) A Star Is Born (1954/2h 56m/Musical/George Cukor)
(9:00AM) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938/1h 42m/Adventure/Michael Curtiz)
(10:45AM) A Star Is Born (1954/2h 56m/Musical/George Cukor)
(1:45PM) Mutiny on the Bounty (1935/2h 12m/Adventure/Frank Lloyd)
(4:00PM) Ben-Hur (1959/3h 32m/Drama/William Wyler)
(8:00PM) Out Of Africa (1985/2h 42m/Romance/Sydney Pollack)
(10:50PM) The Mission (1986/2h 5m/Drama/Roland Joffé)
TUE JUN 04
(1:00AM) Johnny Belinda (1948/1h 42m/Drama/Jean Negulesco)
(2:45AM) Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music (2021/2h 0m/Documentary/Diana Friedberg)
(4:45AM) Koyaanisqatsi (1982/1h 27m/Documentary/Godfrey Reggio)
(6:15AM) The Casino Murder Case (1935/1h 23m/Mystery/Edwin L. Marin)
(7:45AM) Fast and Loose (1939/1h 20m/Mystery/Edwin L. Marin)
(9:15AM) No Time for Comedy (1940/1h 33m/Comedy/William Keighley)
(11:00AM) Mourning Becomes Electra (1947/2h 50m/Drama/Dudley Nichols)
(1:45PM) The Feminine Touch (1941/1h 37m/Comedy/Major W. S. Van Dyke II)
(3:30PM) The Women (1939/2h 12m/Comedy/George Cukor)
(6:00PM) The Velvet Touch (1948/1h 37m/Suspense/John Gage)
(8:00PM) Bright Eyes (1934/1h 23m/Comedy/David Butler)
(9:45PM) Moon Over Miami (1941/1h 31m/Musical/Walter Lang)
(11:30PM) The Gang’s All Here (1943/1h 43m/Musical/Busby Berkeley)
WED JUN 05
(1:30AM) Sun Valley Serenade (1941/1h 26m/Musical/H. Bruce Humberstone)
(3:15AM) Duchess of Idaho (1950/1h 38m/Musical/Robert Z. Leonard)
(5:00AM) Thrill of a Romance (1945/1h 45m/Musical/Richard Thorpe)
(7:00AM) Cat People (1942/1h 11m/HorroJacques Tourneur)
(8:15AM) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945/1h 50m/Drama/Albert Lewin)
(10:15AM) The Scapegoat (1959/1h 32m/Suspense/Robert Hamer)
(12:00PM) Victim (1961/1h 40m/Drama/Basil Dearden)
(1:45PM) Diabolique (1955/1h 47m/Suspense/Henri-georges Clouzot)
(3:45PM) The Last Of Sheila (1973/2h 0h/Mystery/Herbert Ross)
(6:00PM) Strangers on a Train (1951/1h 36m/Suspense/Alfred Hitchcock)
(8:00PM) Stagecoach (1939/1h 36m/Western/John Ford)
(10:00PM) The Searchers (1956/1h 59m/Western/John Ford)
THU JUN 06
(2:30AM) Sergeant Rutledge (1960/1h 51m/Western/John Ford)
(4:30AM) Journey to Italy (1954/1h 24m/Drama/Roberto Rossellini)
(6:00AM) Code Name: Emerald (1985/1h 33m/WaJonathan Sanger)
(8:00AM) The Americanization of Emily (1964/1h 57m/WaArthur Hiller)
(10:00AM) George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984/1h 50m/Documentary/George Stevens, Jr.)
(12:00PM) 36 Hours (1964/1h 55m/WaGeorge Seaton)
(5:30PM) George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin (1994/0h 50m/Documentary/George Stevens, Jr.)
(6:30PM) Overlord (1975/1h 25m/WaStuart Cooper)
(11:00PM) The Longest Day (1962/3h 0m/WaKen Annakin)
FRI JUN 07
(2:15AM) Eye of the Needle (1981/1h 51/Suspense/Richard Marquand)
(4:15AM) I See A Dark Stranger (1946/1h 52m/Suspense/Frank Launder)
(6:15AM) Hamlet (1948/2h 35m/Drama/Laurence Olivier)
(9:00AM) Sherlock Jr. (1924/0h 51m/Silent/Buster Keaton)
(10:00AM) City Lights (1931/1h 27m/Silent/Charles Chaplin)
(11:45AM) Confidential Report (1955/1h 39m/Suspense/Orson Welles)
(1:45PM) Bananas (1971/1h 21m/Comedy/Woody Allen)
(3:30PM) Invitation to the Dance (1956/1h 33m/Musical/Gene Kelly)
(5:30PM) Yentl (1983/2h 14m/Musical/Barbra Streisand)
(8:00PM) Lincoln (2012/2h 29m/Drama/Steven Spielberg)
(10:45PM) In the Name of the Father (1993/2h 7m/Biography/Terry George)
SAT JUN 08
TBD
(3:15AM) My Beautiful Laundrette (1985/1h 37m/Comedy/Stephen Frears)
(5:00AM) Central Park (1932/0h 58m/Comedy/John G. Adolfi)
(6:00AM) Sunday in New York (1963/1h 45m/Comedy/Peter Tewksbury)
(8:00AM) MGM CARTOONS: The Chump Champ (1950/0h 7m/Animation/Fred “Tex” Avery)
(8:08AM) Dirt Track Racing (1957/0h 8m/Short/Heinz Scheiderbauer)
(8:17AM) In the Valley of the Rhine (1953/8m/Short/?)
(8:26AM) Alcatraz Island (1937/1h 1m/Crime/William McGann)
(9:30AM) The Silent Partner (1955/0h 26m/Comedy/George Marshall)
(10:00AM) POPEYE: I'm in the Army Now (1933/0h 6m/Animation/Dave Fleischer)
(10:08AM) The Falcon Out West (1944/1h 4m/Mystery/William Clemens)
(11:30AM) The Flag of Humanity (1940/0h 19m/Short/Jean Negulesco)
(12:00PM) In Caliente (1935/1h 24m/Musical/Lloyd Bacon)
(1:45PM) Tension at Table Rock (1956/1h 33m/Western/Charles Marquis Warren)
(3:30PM) Angel Face (1953/1h 31m/Crime/Otto Preminger)
(5:15PM) Battle Cry (1955/2h 29m/WaRaoul Walsh)
(8:00PM) A Matter of Life and Death (1947/1h 44m/Romance/Michael Powell)
(10:00PM) Wings of Desire (1987/2h 8m/Drama/Wim Wenders)
SUN JUN 09
(12:15AM) No Abras Nunca Esa Puerta (Never Open That Door) (1952/1h 25m/Film-NoiCarlos Hugo Christensen)
(2:00AM) Si muero antes de Despertar (If I Should Die Before I Wake) (1952/1h 13m/Film-NoiCarlos Hugo Christensen)
(3:45AM) Platoon (1986/2h 0h/WaOliver Stone)
(6:00AM) Nancy Goes to Rio (1950/1h 39m/Musical/Robert Z. Leonard)
(7:45AM) Holiday in Mexico (1946/2h 7m/Musical/George Sidney)
(10:00AM) No Abras Nunca Esa Puerta (Never Open That Door) (1952/1h 25m/Film-NoiCarlos Hugo Christensen)
(11:45AM) Si muero antes de Despertar (If I Should Die Before I Wake) (1952/1h 13m/Film-NoiCarlos Hugo Christensen)
(1:30PM) Fanny (1961/2h 13m/Romance/Joshua Logan)
(3:45PM) Rome Adventure (1962/1h 59m/Romance/Delmer Daves)
(6:00PM) Designing Woman (1957/1h 58m/Comedy/Vincente Minnelli)
(8:00PM) The Lost Weekend (1945/1h 41m/Drama/Billy Wilder)
(10:00PM) Alias Nick Beal (1949/1h 33m/Suspense/John Farrow)
MON JUN 10
(12:00AM) Our Modern Maidens (1929/1h 15m/Comedy/Jack Conway)
(2:00AM) Coup De Grace (1976/1h 35m/Drama/Volker Schlöndorff)
(4:00AM) The Night Porter (1974/1h 55m/Drama/Liliana Cavani)
(6:00AM) The Jolson Story (1946/2h 8m/Musical/Alfred E. Green)
(8:15AM) Above and Beyond (1952/2h 2m/Drama/Melvin Frank)
(10:30AM) Buck Privates (1941/1h 24m/Comedy/Arthur Lubin)
(12:00PM) Irma La Douce (1963/2h 22m/Comedy/Billy Wilder)
(2:30PM) Days of Wine and Roses (1962/1h 57m/Drama/Blake Edwards)
(4:30PM) La Strada (1954/1h 55m/Drama/Federico Fellini)
(6:30PM) Laura (1944/1h 28m/Film-NoiOtto Preminger)
(8:00PM) Psycho (1960/1h 49m/HorroAlfred Hitchcock)
TBD
TUE JUN 11
TBD
(4:45AM) The Luzhin Defence (2000/1h 46m/Adaptation/Marleen Gorris)
(6:45AM) The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938/1h 27m/Crime/Anatole Litvak)
(8:30AM) Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939/1h 50m/Suspense/Anatole Litvak)
(10:30AM) All This, and Heaven Too (1940/2h 23m/Romance/Anatole Litvak)
(1:00PM) Out Of The Fog (1941/1h 33m/Crime/Anatole Litvak)
(2:30PM) Blues in the Night (1941/1h 28m/Drama/Anatole Litvak)
(4:00PM) The Long Night (1947/1h 37m/Crime/Anatole Litvak)
(5:45PM) The Journey (1959/2h 3m/Drama/Anatole Litvak)
(8:00PM) Blood and Sand (1941/2h 3m/Drama/Rouben Mamoulian)
(10:15PM) Forever Amber (1947/2h 20m/Drama/Otto Preminger)
WED JUN 12
(12:45AM) Broken Lance (1954/1h 36m/Western/Edward Dmytryk)
(2:30AM) Spartacus (1960/3h 2m/Drama/Stanley Kubrick)
(6:00AM) MGM Parade Show #13 (1955/0h 25m/Documentary/?)
(6:30AM) Way Back Home (1932/1h 21m/Drama/William Seiter)
(8:00AM) Street Scene (1931/1h 20m/Drama/King Vidor)
(9:30AM) Stranger on the Third Floor (1940/1h 4m/Crime/Boris Ingster)
(11:00AM) Lightning Strikes Twice (1951/1h 31m/Crime/King Vidor)
(12:45PM) The Night of the Hunter (1955/1h 33m/Suspense/Charles Laughton)
(2:30PM) Look in Any Window (1961/1h 27m/Drama/William Alland)
(4:00PM) Rear Window (1954/1h 52m/Suspense/Alfred Hitchcock)
(6:00PM) Night Watch (1973/1h 45m/Suspense/Brian G. Hutton)
(8:00PM) Topper (1937/1h 37m/Comedy/Norman Z. Mcleod)
(9:45PM) Topper Takes a Trip (1939/1h 25m/Comedy/Norman Z. Mcleod)
(11:15PM) Topper Returns (1941/1h 25m/Comedy/Roy Del Ruth)
THU JUN 13
(1:00AM) Arsene Lupin (1932/1h 24m/Comedy/Jack Conway)
(2:30AM) Arsene Lupin Returns (1938/1h 22m/Mystery/Geo. Fitzmaurice)
(3:15AM) The Bride Wore Red (1937/1h 43m/Romance/Dorothy Arzner)
(5:00AM) The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1950/0h 56m/Documentary/Herman Hoffman)
(6:00AM) The Great American Pastime (1956/1h 29m/Comedy/Herman Hoffman)
(7:30AM) Ladies' Day (1943/1h 2m/Comedy/Leslie Goodwins)
(8:45AM) Death on the Diamond (1934/1h 12m/Suspense/Edward Sedgwick)
(10:00AM) Fireman Save My Child (1932/1h 7m/Comedy/Lloyd Bacon)
(11:30AM) Alibi Ike (1935/1h 13m/Comedy/Ray Enright)
(1:00PM) Speedy (1928/1h 25m/Silent/Ted Wilde)
(2:30PM) The Babe Ruth Story (1948/1h 46m/Drama/Roy Del Ruth)
(4:30PM) The Jackie Robinson Story (1950/1h 16m/Drama/Alfred E. Green)
(6:00PM) The Stratton Story (1949/1h 46m/Drama/Sam Wood)
TBD
(10:00PM) Billy Elliot (2000/1h 51m/Comedy/Stephen Daldry)
FRI JUN 14
(12:00AM) The Band's Visit (2007/1h 26m/Comedy/Eran Kolirin)
(2:00AM) Some Like It Hot (1959/2h/Comedy/Billy Wilder)
(4:15AM) An American in Paris (1951/1h 53m/Musical/Vincente Minnelli)
(6:15AM) Callaway Went Thataway (1951/1h 21m/Western/Norman Panama)
(7:45AM) Invitation (1952/1h 24m/Romance/Gottfried Reinhardt)
(9:15AM) Till the End of Time (1946/1h 45m/Drama/Edward Dmytryk)
(11:15AM) Trial (1955/1h 45m/Drama/Mark Robson)
(1:15PM) Susan Slade (1961/1h 56m/Romance/Delmer Daves)
(3:15PM) A Summer Place (1959/2h 10m/Drama/Delmer Daves)
(5:30PM) Friendly Persuasion (1956/2h 17m/Drama/William Wyler)
(8:00PM) The Chalk Garden (1964/1h 46m/Drama/Ronald Neame)
(10:15PM) Gambit (1967/1h 49m/Crime/Ronald Neame)
SAT JUN 15
(12:15AM) The Odessa File (1974/2h 8m/WaRonald Neame)
(2:30AM) Tunes of Glory (1960/1h 45m/WaRonald Neame)
(4:30AM) The Seventh Sin (1957/1h 34m/Romance/Ronald Neame)
(6:15AM) Saturday's Children (1940/1h 42m/Drama/Vincent Sherman)
(8:00AM) The Discontented Canary (1934/0h 8m/Animation/Rudolf Ising)
(8:09AM) Fine Feathers (1933/8m/Short/Jules White)
(8:18AM) Cherry Blossom Time in Japan (1936/0h 8m/Short/?)
(8:27AM) Bodyguard (1948/1h 2m/Suspense/Richard O. Fleischer)
(9:30AM) The Titanic Incident (1955/0h 30m/Drama/Ted Tetzlaff)
(10:00AM) POPEYE: The Paneless Window Washer (1933/0h 6m/Animation/Dave Fleischer)
(10:07AM) The Falcon in Mexico (1944/1h 10m/Mystery/William Berke)
(11:30AM) Heart to Heart (1949/0h 21m/Documentary/Gunther Von Fritsch)
(12:00PM) On An Island With You (1948/1h 47m/Musical/Richard Thorpe)
(2:00PM) Lilies of the Field (1963/1h 34m/Comedy/Ralph Nelson)
(3:45PM) The Winning Team (1952/1h 38m/Drama/Lewis Seiler)
(5:30PM) Rio Bravo (1959/2h 21m/Western/Howard Hawks)
(8:00PM) Central Station (1998/1h 55m/Drama/Walter Salles)
(10:00PM) Fruitvale Station (2013/1h 30m/Drama/Ryan Coogler)
SUN JUN 16
(12:00AM) Call Northside 777 (1948/1h 51m/Film-NoiHenry Hathaway)
(2:15AM) Vertigo (1958/2h 8m/Suspense/Alfred Hitchcock)
(4:30AM) I Confess (1953/1h 35m/Drama/Alfred Hitchcock)
(6:15AM) The Entertainer (1960/1h 44m/Drama/Tony Richardson)
(8:00AM) Edward, My Son (1949/1h 52m/Drama/George Cukor)
(10:00AM) Call Northside 777 (1948/1h 51m/Film-NoiHenry Hathaway)
(12:15PM) East of Eden (1955/1h 55m/Drama/Elia Kazan)
(2:30PM) Daughters Courageous (1939/1h 43m/Romance/Michael Curtiz)
(4:30PM) A Family Affair (1936/1h 9m/Comedy/George B. Seitz)
(5:45PM) The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963/1h 57m/Comedy/Vincente Minnelli)
(8:00PM) Life with Father (1947/1h 58m/Comedy/Michael Curtiz)
(10:15PM) Father of the Bride (1950/1h 33m/Comedy/Vincente Minnelli)
MON JUN 17
(12:00AM) Wolf Lowry (1917/0h 50m/Western/William S. Hart)
(12:00AM) The Bad Buck of Santa Ynez (1915/0h 20m/Western/William S. Hart)
(1:45AM) The Makioka Sisters (1983/2h 20m/Drama/Kon Ichikawa)
(4:15AM) Judex (1963/1h 44m/Crime/Georges Franju)
(6:00AM) Raintree County (1957/3h 7m/Drama/Edward Dmytryk)
(9:15AM) The Mask of Dimitrios (1944/1h 35m/Mystery/Jean Negulesco)
(11:00AM) The Champ (1979/2h 2m/Drama/Franco Zeffirelli)
(1:30PM) Doctor Zhivago (1965/3h 17m/Drama/David Lean)
(5:00PM) The Great Escape (1963/2h 48m/WaJohn Sturges)
(8:00PM) In the Heat of the Night (1967/1h 49m/Mystery/Norman Jewison)
(10:00PM) Superman (1978/2h 23m/Science-Fiction//Richard Donner)
TUE JUN 18
TBD
(3:30AM) Papillon (1973/2h 30m/Adventure/Franklin J. Schaffner)
(6:15AM) Sweet Adeline (1935/1h 27m/Musical/Mervyn Le Roy)
(7:45AM) Sweet Music (1935/1h 35m/Romance/Alfred E. Green)
(9:30AM) Murder, My Sweet (1944/1h 35m/Mystery/Edward Dmytryk)
(11:30AM) Seven Sweethearts (1942/1h 38m/Musical/Frank Borzage)
(1:15PM) Sweet November (1968/1h 54m/Romance/Robert Ellis Miller)
(3:15PM) Sweet Bird of Youth (1962/2h/Drama/Richard Brooks)
(5:30PM) Sweet Charity (1969/2h 29m/Musical/Bob Fosse)
(8:00PM) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953/1h 31m/Comedy/Howard Hawks)
(10:00PM) All About Eve (1950/2h 18m/Drama/Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
WED JUN 19
(12:30AM) Laura (1944/1h 28m/Film-NoiOtto Preminger)
(2:15AM) The Graduate (1967/1h 45m/Comedy/Mike Nichols)
(4:15AM) The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1974/1h 45m/Comedy/Melvin Frank)
(6:15AM) They Live by Night (1948/1h 35m/Crime/Nicholas Ray)
(8:00AM) A Woman's Secret (1949/1h 25m/Drama/Nicholas Ray)
(9:30AM) Born to Be Bad (1950/1h 34m/Drama/Nicholas Ray)
(11:00AM) Flying Leathernecks (1951/1h 42m/WaNicholas Ray)
(12:45PM) On Dangerous Ground (1952/1h 22m/Film-NoiNicholas Ray)
(2:15PM) The Lusty Men (1952/1h 53m/Drama/Nicholas Ray)
(4:15PM) Rebel Without a Cause (1955/1h 51m/Drama/Nicholas Ray)
(6:15PM) Lightning Over Water (1980/1h 31m/Documentary/Nicholas Ray)
(8:00PM) Car Wash (1976/1h 37m/Comedy/Michael Schultz)
TBD
THU JUN 20
(12:00AM) Super Fly (1972/1h 36m/Crime/Gordon Parks, Jr.)
(1:45AM) Shaft (1971/1h 38m/Crime/Gordon Parks)
(3:30AM) Sparkle (1976/1h 38m/Drama/Sam O'steen)
(5:15AM) MGM Parade Show #13 (1955/0h 25m/Documentary/?)
(6:00AM) I'm From the City (1938/1h 5m/Western/Ben Holmes)
(7:15AM) Henry Goes Arizona (1939/1h 6m/Western/Edwin L. Marin)
(8:30AM) Way Out West (1930/1h 11m/Western/Fred Niblo)
(10:00AM) The Dude Goes West (1948/1h 26m/Comedy/Kurt Neumann)
(11:30AM) Bad Bascomb (1946.1h 52m/Western/S. Sylvan Simon)
(1:30PM) Big Jack (1949)/h 25m/Western/Richard Thorpe)
(3:00PM) Jackass Mail (1942/1h 20m/Western/Norman Z. Mcleod)
(4:30PM) Many Rivers To Cross (1955/1h 32m/Western/Roy Rowland)
(6:15PM) Dirty Dingus Magee (1970/1h 31m/Western/Burt Kennedy)
(8:00PM) Rear Window (1954/1h 52m/Suspense/Alfred Hitchcock)
(10:00PM) The Far Country (1955/1h 37m/Western/Anthony Mann)
FRI JUN 21
(12:00AM) Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962/1h 56m/Comedy/Henry Koster)
(2:15AM) The Spirit of St. Louis (1957/2h 18m/Drama/Billy Wilder)
(4:45AM) Malaya (1950/1h 38m/WaRichard Thorpe)
(6:30AM) It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947/1h 55m/Comedy/Roy Del Ruth)
(8:30AM) Black Gold (1947/1h 32m/Drama/Phil Karlson)
(10:15AM) The Phenix City Story (1955/1h 40m/Crime/Phil Karlson)
(12:00PM) Cyclops (1957/1h 15m/HorroBert I. Gordon)
(1:15PM) Bitter Creek (1954/1h 14m/Western/Thomas Carr)
(2:30PM) I Was an American Spy (1951/1h 25m/WaLesley Selander)
(4:00PM) Love in the Afternoon (1957/2h 10m/Romance/Billy Wilder)
(6:15PM) The Strangler (1964/1h 29m/HorroBurt Topper)
(8:00PM) Sylvia Scarlett (1935/1h 37m/Romance/George Cukor)
(9:45PM) Gay USA (1977/1h 18m/Documentary/Arthur J. Bressan)
(11:15PM) Torch Song Trilogy (1988/2h 0m/Comedy/Paul Bogart)
SAT JUN 22
(1:30AM) The Queen (1968/1h 08m/Documentary/Frank Simon)
(2:45AM) The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972/1h 59m/Drama/Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
(5:00AM) The Blue Angel (1930/1h 44m/Drama/Josef Von Sternberg)
(7:00AM) Queen Christina (1933/1h 37m/Romance/Rouben Mamoulian)
(9:00AM) Artistic Temper (1932/0h 17m/Short/Roy Mack)
(9:30AM) Hot Cargo (1956/0h 30m/Drama/Tay Garnett)
(10:00AM) POPEYE: Organ Grinder's Swing (1937/0h 6m/Animation/Dave Fleischer)
(10:07AM) The Falcon in Hollywood (1944/1h 7m/Mystery/Gordon Douglas)
(11:30AM) King for a Day (1934/0h 21m/Comedy/Roy Mack)
(12:00PM) A Chorus Line (1985/1h 53m/Musical/Richard Attenborough)
(2:15PM) The Song of Fame (1934/0h 21m/Short/Joseph Henabery)
(2:15PM) Tip Tap Toe (1932/0h 18m/Short/Alfred J. Goulding)
(3:00PM) Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979/1h 45m/Drama/Robert Benton)
(5:00PM) Out Of Africa (1985/2h 42m/Romance/Sydney Pollack)
(8:00PM) The Go-Between (1971/1h 56m/Drama/Joseph Losey)
(10:15PM) Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971/1h 50m/Drama/John Schlesinger)
SUN JUN 23
(12:15AM) The Locket (19461h 26m/Film-NoiJohn Brahm)
(2:00AM) The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947/1h 39m/Suspense/Peter Godfrey)
(4:00AM) Conflict (1945/1h 26m/Suspense/Curtis Bernhardt)
(6:00AM) Sinbad the Sailor (1947/1h 57m/Adventure/Richard Wallace)
(8:15AM) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932/1h 30m/HorroRouben Mamoulian)
(10:00AM) The Locket (1946/1h 26m/Film-NoiJohn Brahm)
(11:45AM) Kind Lady (1951/1h 18m/Suspense/John Sturge)
(1:15PM) The Cobweb (1955/2h 4m/Drama/Vincente Minnelli)
(3:30PM) Butterfield 8 (1960/1h 49m/Drama/Daniel Mann)
(5:30PM) Sense and Sensibility (1995/2h 15m/Romance/Ang Lee)
(8:00PM) The Sand Pebbles (1966/3h 13m/WaRobert Wise)
TBD
MON JUN 24
(1:30AM) The Red Lily (1924/1h 21m/Silent/Fred Niblo)
(3:00AM) The Face of Another (1966/2h 1m/Drama/Hiroshi Teshigahara)
(5:15AM) Wedding in Monaco (1956/0h 31m/Documentary/Jean Masson)
(6:00AM) Tom Jones (1963/2h 11m/Comedy/Tony Richardson)
(8:15AM) Watership Down (1978/1h 32m/Adventure/Martin Rosen)
(10:00AM) The Thing from Another World (1951/1h 27m/HorroChristian Nyby)
(11:30AM) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951/2h 2m/Drama/Elia Kazan)
(1:45PM) Cool Hand Luke (1967/2h 9m/Drama/Stuart Rosenberg)
(4:00PM) Avalon (1990/2h 7m/Drama/Barry Levinson)
(6:15PM) Throw Momma From The Train (1987/1h 28m/Comedy/Danny De Vito)
(8:00PM) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939/1h 57m/HorroWilliam Dieterle)
(10:15PM) Little Women (1994/1h 55m/Drama/Gillian Armstrong)
TUE JUN 25
(12:30AM) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964/1h 35m/Musical/Jacques Demy)
(2:15AM) A World Apart (1988/1h 53m/Drama/Chris Menges)
(4:15AM) Glengarry Glen Ross (1992/1h 40m/Drama/James Foley)
(6:00AM) Washington Story (1952/1h 21m/Romance/Robert Pirosh)
(7:30AM) Scene of the Crime (1949/1h 34m/Mystery/Roy Rowland)
:30AM) The Bride Goes Wild (1948/1h 38m/Comedy/Norman Taurog)
(11:30AM) Easy to Love (1953/1h 36m/Musical/Charles Walters)
(1:30PM) Brigadoon (1954/1h 48m/Musical/Vincente Minnelli)
(3:30PM) The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954/1h 56m/Drama/Richard Brooks)
(5:45PM) The Caine Mutiny (1954/2h 5m/Drama/Edward Dmytryk)
(8:00PM) State Fair (1933/1h 20m/Comedy/Henry King)
(10:00PM) The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951/1h 43m/Comedy/George Cukor)
WED JUN 26
(12:00AM) The Kiss of Death (1947/1h 38m/Crime/Henry Hathaway)
(2:00AM) The Great Santini (1979/1h 55m/Drama/Lewis John Carlino)
(4:00AM) The Outfit (1973/1h 42m/Crime/John Flynn)
(6:00AM) The Story of Mankind (1957/1h 40m/Fantasy/Irwin Allen)
(8:00AM) Three Strangers (1946/1h 32m/Drama/Jean Negulesco)
(9:45AM) Hotel Berlin (1945/1h 38m/Drama/Peter Godfrey)
(11:30AM) They Met In Bombay (1941/1h 26m/Drama/Clarence Brown)
(1:15PM) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934/1h 24m/Suspense/Alfred Hitchcock)
(2:45PM) The Beast with Five Fingers (1946/1h 28m/Suspense/Robert Florey)
(4:15PM) You'll Find Out (1940/1h 37m/Musical/David Butler)
(6:00PM) M (1931/1h 39m/Suspense/Fritz Lang)
(8:00PM) Moulin Rouge (2001/2h 6m/Drama/Baz Luhrmann)
(10:30PM) The Others (2001/1h 41m/HorroAlendro Amenábar)
THU JUN 27
(12:30AM) To Die For (1995/1h 40m/Drama/Gus Van Sant)
(2:30AM) The Hotel New Hampshire (1984/1h 50m/Drama/Tony Richardson)
(4:30AM) Our Town (1940/1h 30m/Drama/Sam Wood)
(6:00AM) Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972/1h 40m/HorroAlan Gibson)
(7:45AM) The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973/1h 28m/HorroAlan Gibson)
(9:30AM) It's Alive (1974/1h 30m/HorroLarry Cohen)
(11:15AM) From Beyond the Grave (1973/1h 37m/HorroKevin Connor)
(1:00PM) Equinox (197/1h 21m/HorroMark Thomas McGee)
(2:30PM) The Shout (1978/1h 26m/HorroJerzy Skolimowski)
(4:15PM) Wicked, Wicked (1973/1h 35m/HorroRichard Bare)
(6:00PM) AFI Life Achievement Award: 50th Anniversary Special (2023/?/Documentary/?)
(8:00PM) The 49th AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Nicole Kidman (2023/?/Documentary/?)
(11:30PM) The 49th AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Nicole Kidman (2023/?/Documentary/?)
FRI JUN 28
(1:00AM) AFI Life Achievement Award: 50th Anniversary Special (2023/?/Documentary/?)
(3:00AM) VictoVictoria (1982/2h 14m/Musical/Blake Edwards)
(6:00AM) MGM Parade Show #13 (1955/0h 25m/Documentary/?)
(6:30AM) Purple Noon (1961/1h 58m/Crime/René Clément)
(8:45AM) Journey Into Fear (1942/1h 9m/Drama/Norman Foster)
(10:00AM) Looking at Lisbon (1953/0h 8m/Documentary/?)
(10:15AM) The Conspirators (1944/1h 41m/Adventure/Jean Negulesco)
(12:00 PM) To Have and Have Not (1944/1h 40m/Romance/Howard Hawks)
(1:45PM) Glimpses of Austria (1938/0h 9m/Documentary/?)
(2:00PM) The Third Man (1949/1h 33m/Suspense/Mystery/Carol Reed)
(4:00PM) Glimpses of Western Germany (1954/0h 8m/Documentary/James A. Fitzpatrick)
(4:15PM) Berlin Express (1948/1h 26m/Suspense/Jacques Tourneur)
(6:00PM) Glimpses of Morocco and Algiers (1951/0h 8m/Documentary/?)
(6:15PM) Casablanca (1942/1h 42m/Romance/Michael Curtiz)
(8:00PM) Caged (1950/1h 36m/Drama/John Cromwell)
(10:00PM) Happy Together (1997/1h 37m/Drama/Wong Kar Wai)
SAT JUN 29
(12:00AM) Brokeback Mountain (2005)2h 14m/Drama/Ang Lee)
(2:30AM) Some of My Best Friends Are... (1971/1h 40m/Drama/Mervyn Nelson)
(4:30AM) Desert Hearts (1985/1h 31m/Drama/Donna Deitch)
(6:15AM) A Taste of Honey (1961/1h 40m/Drama/Tony Richardson)
(9:00AM) The Golden Equator (1956/0h 17m/Documentary/Hamilton Wright)
(9:30AM) It's Always Sunday (1956/0h 30m/Comedy/Allan Dwan)
(10:00AM) POPEYE: My Artistical Temperature (1933/0h 5m/Animation/Dave Fleischer)
(10:07AM) The Falcon In San Francisco (1945/1h 6m/Mystery/Joseph H. Lewis)
(11:30AM) Movie-Mania (1937/0h 21m/Short/Joseph Henabery)
(12:00PM) Funny Girl (1968/2h 35m/Musical/William Wyler)
(2:45PM) The Long Voyage Home (1940/1h 45m/Drama/John Ford)
(4:45PM) The Narrow Margin (1952/1h 11m/Film-NoiRichard Fleischer)
(6:15PM) The Fastest Gun Alive (1956/1h 32m/Western/Russell Rouse)
(8:00PM) Coming Home (1978/2h 8m/Drama/Hal Ashby)
(10:15PM) The Last Detail (1973/1h 45m/Drama/Hal Ashby)
SUN JUN 30
(12:15AM) No Questions Asked (1951/1h 21m/Film-NoiHarold F. Kress)
(2:00AM) June Bride (1948/1h 37m/Romance/Bretaigne Windust)
(4:00AM) June Night (1940/1h 29m/Drama/Per Lindberg)
(6:00AM) Untamed Youth (1957/1h 20m/Drama/Howard W. Koch)
(7:30AM) Age 13 (1955/0h 26m/Short/Arthur Swerdloff)
(8:15AM) Jailhouse Rock (1957/1h 36m/Musical/Richard Thorpe)
(10:00AM) No Questions Asked (1951/1h 21m/Film-NoiHarold F. Kress)
(11:45AM) Come Fly with Me (1962/1h 49m/Comedy/Henry Levin)
(1:45PM) The Opposite Sex (1956/1h 57m/Musical/David Miller)
(4:00PM) Tootsie (1982/1h 56m/Comedy/Sydney Pollack)
(6:15PM) Girlfriends (1978/1h 26m/Comedy/Claudia Weill)
TBD
(10:15PM) Enemy Mine (1985/1h 52m/Science-Fiction/Wolfgang Petersen)

Hey, Reddit! I just wanted to give you guys some more stories about my Kevin, who is, unfortunately, the supplier of my genetic material (ie, he’s my father.) For those who missed the first stories, you can find the link here: https://www.reddit.com/StoriesAboutKevin/comments/16byk04/my_dad_the_kevin/
There were some excellent responses to the first post, including several requests for a part two. Myself and my brother (who goes by the username u/undercookedbrotato for the purposes of this thread) sat down together and cobbled together some more memories of Kevin, along with our Mom. And you know what? It truthfully was kinda painful. Kevin was cruel and selfish. He sacrificed the financial stability of his family for his own short-term happiness and actively tried to sabotage his spouse’s and his children’s academics and careers for no other reason than he was jealous. We’re just thankful that Kevin is also unbelievably moronic, and so most of these ploys ended quickly. We laugh now, because what else is there to do?
Anyway, just a quick note about me and u/undercookedbrotato. There’s a big age gap between us. I was born in the early ‘80s, and I wasn’t born until the mid-90s. The end result is that both of us have stories of Kevin that span 40 years. Kevin, himself, is a Baby Boomer, and has been inflicted upon this world for nearly seven decades.
A few things to remind our readers of: Kevin failed to achieve much of anything due to his ineptitude, laziness, and sense of entitlement. He is horrible with money and was frequently unfaithful during his marriage. He successfully summited the peak of Dunning-Kruger’s “Mount Stupid” and took pride in never descending. Summiting ANYTHING was amazing for Kevin; he only stood at 5’1”, and his vertical challenges would send him into a sputtering rage if anybody made a comment about it. He loved weather, porn, and amateur radio, and drove everybody nuts with his obsessions.
And here’s one more thing about Kevin: the man was made of teflon. We’re not quite sure why providence likes him so much, but he seemingly is always escaping from the consequences of his bad behavior–or he is at least able to foist them off on somebody else.
Kevin is still alive, but this entire thing is written like he’s not. You see, Kevin has developed Alzheimer’s, and now he spends his days in a memory care unit. A rather inglorious end to a life defined by snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. And maybe that’s for the best.
As before, we’ve selected only the juiciest bits. If this update seems a little more bitter than the last, I think you’ll see why. Apologies in advance. So anyway, without further ado . . . the continuing adventures of our Dad, the Kevin.
*Kevin had done a stint of active duty in the Air Force. The fact that he had managed to complete a term of enlistment without getting himself or somebody else killed still mystifies us. We’re even further gobsmacked when we realize that he somehow got promoted a few times, which is proof of the statement that God looks out for drunks, children, and the incompetent. Our father probably was smack dab in the middle of that particular Venn diagram.
*I once got a betta fish for Christmas. Since the family lived in Arizona at the time, it could get pretty cold. Mom once showed Kevin how to put the betta’s glass bowl on a small heating pad and turn it on low to keep the fish warm. Mom was very clear to put it on “low,” and never, ever “high.” She then went out of town on a conference and OH COME ON YOU KNOW WHERE THIS IS GOING.
*At least the new betta fish was pretty.
*While in the active duty Air Force, Kevin decided to prank his unit First Sergeant. Said First Sergeant had a specialty baseball cap that read “1SGT”, or at least had similar lettering. Kevin snuck into his NCO’s office, carefully peeled the letters off the “S” and “T” from the hat, and inserted, “E” and “G” in their place. The hat now read “1EGG.” This had the potential for being a funny prank had Kevin not raided the key when he was pulling staff duty and then destroyed his superior’s personal belongings. Kevin got in trouble and was always mystified as to why people were mad at him.
*Kevin loves weather. When Kevin got sent on temporary duty (TDY) to Montana, he was ecstatic when a tornado formed above the dormitories. So he ran outside and took pictures. The pictures were cool, but the fact remains that Kevin is fucking stupid.
*When the Cold War ended, Kevin took a separation bonus from the Air Force. The intent was that he would use the money as a cushion until he found a new job and his wife finished grad school. Instead, Kevin moved the family out to New Mexico because he had a job interview (no, not an offer . . . an interview.) Yes, it’s as idiotic as it sounds.
*When Kevin separated from the Air Force, the guys in his unit decided to celebrate his departure. They did this by grabbing Kevin, handcuffing his hands behind his back, drenching him with a garden hose, dumping flour over him and then smacking him with water-filled condoms from the roof of the building. Then they left him out in the sun for a little while for good measure.
*This hazing ritual was Kevin’s own idea. He had wanted to do it to the last guy who left the unit, but nobody would go along with it. Kevin was, as Shakespeare would say, hoisted by his own petard.
*Kevin’s chain of command not only knew about his upcoming hazing, but they actively participated. To his credit, Kevin thought it was hysterical . . . until his wife pointed out that friends don’t really do that to each other, and the last guy who left had gotten a cake instead of a face full of condoms. Kevin was then salty about it for decades.
*A year after leaving the Air Force, Kevin had to move into his mother-in-law’s house because he was legally bankrupt. We don’t know where his separation bonus went, and we’re afraid to find out.
*In our previous post, we erroneously stated that it took Kevin nine years to get a Bachelor’s degree. This was incorrect, and for that, we apologize. You see, we just found his transcripts while cleaning out the storage unit, and have found new information. It actually took him twelve . . . if we mark from the completion of his Associate’s. His transcripts show him starting college in 1983 and graduating in 2004. It’s a pity they don’t offer pensions for being a student. And this doesn’t even cover all the degree mill places he likely signed up for . . .
*At the end of his Bachelor’s degree, Kevin had withdrawn from seventeen(!) classes throughout his collegiate career.
*As stated in the previous post, Kevin spent much of our childhoods unemployed. In a bid to get money, Kevin went back and joined the Air Force Reserves. The only income he made for years was his “one weekend a month, two weeks a year” dough. Despite this, he somehow managed to not get kicked out, even though he was frequently passed over for promotion, laughed out of his commander’s office when he asked about being promoted, and once had an entire skit at an Air Force Reserve unit black tie event devoted to mocking him.
*Kevin was sensitive about his short stature. When the eHarmony website launched, Kevin went on a long diatribe about the website’s “heightist” policies and how shorter men were excluded from the dating pool. He disintegrated into quiet grumbling when Mom pressed him as to how he knew this. He blamed it on a friend complaining to him about it. Too bad that guy was 6’1”.
*Mom made all the money in the house due to working three jobs. Kevin figured that his money was his money, and so what little money he did make–as well as a good chunk of Mom’s–disappeared on ham radio equipment, guns, penny stocks, MLMs, hookers, porn, and, bizarrely, musical instruments. WE HAVE SO MANY FUCKING VIOLINS.
*Kevin had played in his high school orchestra. Kevin took this to mean that he was good at the violin. Kevin once showed up to a college jam session. We don’t know what happened, but Kevin came home, went to his bedroom, and cried. He never played the violin again.
*Kevin decided to save money for Christmas one year by getting into wine making. He Googled it and then set jugs of fermenting grapes behind the toilet. Then, on Christmas Eve, he slapped floppy disk labels on the front, wrote “Kevin’s Valley” in big block print on the sticker, and slipped them into gift bags. That shit made my aunt barf. Kevin hated to be reminded of the time he made bad pruno for Christmas and got people sick.
*Kevin was obsessive about floppy disks. He downloaded grainy .jpeg porn images onto them and then labeled them with names like “Big Blondes in Double Trouble” or “Mother Does Her Duty.” I mean, literally, he wrote these on the sticker labels, alphabetized them, and kept them in a disk caddy next to the family computer. Our father was . . . weird, and not in a good way. This has made cleaning out his storage unit tremendously unfun.
*Do you know those scuzzy payday loan places? They’re usually run out of old Pizza Huts and have pawn shops attached to them. They may even have bullet proof glass when you talk to the cashier. Most people avoid them. Our father, on the other hand, looked at those places and would think, “yeah, that’s a GREAT idea.” He seriously borrowed money from those lenders for fun and then wondered why his shit would get repossessed.
*Kevin had a credit score in the 300s. He didn’t know why.
*Back in the early 2000s, there were commercials that would run late at night. They were by a guy called Matthew Lesko, and he would obnoxiously scream at you to buy his book to “get free money!” while wearing a garish suit adorned with question marks like he was some sort of Great Value Riddler. You can see it for yourself here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NECn-uohptg . Anyway, I saw this commercial and said, “what type of idiot would buy that book?” and then walked into the living room to find Kevin reading his.
*Kevin once came home with a “family film” on video tape and put it on in the middle of the day. That “family film” was “Death Wish” with Charles Bronson. He got mad when mom made him take it back to the video store.
*Kevin and his wife were fighting one night and Kevin specified that he was going to go get a divorce attorney. Mom told him to go right ahead, because he didn’t have money to hire one anyway, and that she was willing to pay for his. This shut him up.
*Later on, Kevin became obsessed with the book “Rich Dad, Poor Dad,” despite the fact he never read it beyond the introduction. I received at least three copies as Christmas gifts, and undercookedbrotato is sure to have at least one floating around somewhere. Spoiler: the book is now regarded as inaccurate feel-good self-help schlock.
*When Kevin finally got a full-time job again, he was quickly removed from day shift due to his incompetence and put on night shift. He complained about being “punished” and would not tolerate any discussion that it at least allowed him to keep his job. Kevin went to work on night shift and was immediately written up for watching movies and sleeping. His argument was that if they didn’t want him watching movies or sleeping, then they shouldn’t have put him on the night shift.
*Kevin left work one day to find a coworker putting a computer in his truck. Kevin asked his coworker where he got his computer, and he said that he got it from the company. Kevin went running back inside and grabbed HR and told them that his coworker was stealing computers. As it turns out, his company had a program where employees could buy outdated hardware and equipment, and that’s what was going on. Kevin didn’t understand why his coworker was mad.
*Kevin’s Air Force Reserve detachment deployed to Jordan in the spring of 2005 and they stayed at the Ryatt Hotel in Amman. He came back in early summer. On November 9th, the hotel he had stayed in was attacked by a suicide bomber. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Amman_bombings . Kevin claimed that the fact that the hotel he stayed in was destroyed six months after he left gave him “war PTSD.”
*Do you know that Kanye West episode of South Park where Cartman steals Jimmy’s joke about fish sticks and every time Cartman tells the story, he makes himself look better and more heroic? That was how the hotel bombing was for Kevin. Every time he told the story, the bombing happened closer and closer to his departure from Jordan, until the last time we heard it, he was “running around trying to get people to listen to him about an imminent attack” but that “nobody would believe him.” Amazingly, the attack happened “just a few hours after they left”and not the six months that actually occurred.
*Kevin bought tickets for an Ollie North book signing. He didn’t understand why nobody in the family was impressed.
*Kevin is a bit of a hypochondriac. He once came home from the doctor screaming that his kidneys were failing and that he was going to die soon. He had the entire family riled up and had Mom crying. It turns out that, while he does indeed have kidney disease, it’s nowhere near fatal and can be controlled with medication.
*Kevin once woke up, went to the bathroom, and exited the bathroom shaking. He then called out of work and reported to the emergency room due to finding a “reddish, bloody discharge” around the head of his penis. He was terrified that he had some sort of cancer. What was this mystery secretion, you ask? Lipstick.
*We’re horrified by this story on a number of levels. First, there’s the idea of dad getting a blowjob, which is terrible. Secondly, now that his infidelity has come to light, we must acknowledge that said lipstick could have belonged to any number of women. And then, finally, we must face the realization that Dad didn’t wash his dick. This world is garbage and I hate it.
*Years later, a kid in our hometown got arrested for breaking and entering somebody else’s house, and he happened to have the same last name as us. Dad cut the clipping out of the newspaper, scanned it into his computer, and emailed it to his friends and associates claiming that he had cheated on Mom and that this kid was his illegitimate offspring. He said this was a “joke.” Mom did not find this funny. In retrospect, we don’t think he was joking. We wonder how many half-siblings we have.
*Kevin decided he wanted new ham radio gear. Kevin had no money. Kevin decided he was willing to trade for it. What did he trade? The dog. We’re still pissed.
*Kevin got mad at me for “marrying outside my race” (I’m white, my wife is Filipina.) He then told me that I was being cut out of the will. I told him to go ahead, because there was nothing to inherit anyway. The idea that his son was willing to go no contact hurt him less than the realization that he had no wealth.
*Mom once went up to Alaska to visit me out, as my wife had just had a baby. This left u/undercookedbrotato at home with Kevin. Kevin decided that he was grown and needed to be out on his own, so he gave him a week to leave the house. He was only fifteen. When Mom and I called him and gave him an earful, his claim was that he forgot how old he was and then rescinded his edict.
*In our last post, I wrote about how Kevin had decided to start a real estate company despite not having any money. Or real estate to sell. Or clients. Or a real estate license. But there were some things I forgot to mention–Kevin had gone out and bought a car to advertise his latent business, and even tried to get a car wrap put on it. On top of that, he registered as an LLC and used my social security number to register me as a co-owner with the IRS. I did not give him permission to do this and only found out when I was fucking audited. Fortunately, the business never made any money and I got out of the audit without having to pay any money, so yay?
*Kevin then decided to start a self-defense business, but he didn’t want to put any time or effort into marketing or sales or researching laws. Instead, he just bought a bunch of tasers and pepper spray online and then shipped them to my house. When I called and wondered why there were a bunch self-defense weapons of nebulous legality sitting on my porch, I was told to go sell them and pass along the money. I refused, and the next time Kevin visited, he was given his box back. I don’t know how Kevin got rid of them, and I’m not sure I care.
*Kevin was well-known for mangling popular idioms. His most famous was “hindsight is 100%”, although he also encouraged people to be “fair and objectionable.” When pressed about his philosophy about the human condition, Kevin was not shy about sharing how he felt the world was out to get him–despite the fact that people around him spent most of their time protecting him from himself.
*Kevin likes space stuff and Kevin likes women. So Kevin really likes women astronauts. He could barely contain himself when he met one. He friended her on Facebook and was then, unsurprisingly, creepy. He got blocked and he was crushed.
*Kevin once had a wet dream involving his female supervisor. He told her about it.
*When Kevin was finally fired from his job for having porn on his computer, a group of women met him at the door and told him they were thankful he was gone.
*Kevin registered for Truth Social and was buying Donald Trump gold coins from randos on the Internet. He never received any of them.
*After Kevin got caught cheating on our Mom, he claimed that his “war PTSD” made him do it and that we “couldn’t begin to understand the horrors of war” when confronted. Unfortunately for Kevin, I served in the Sunni Triangle with the 2nd Cavalry during OIF 1 and have actual PTSD (seriously, there’s a slip of paper signed by a doctor and pills and appointments and everything. It’s awesome.) Kevin didn’t have a good explanation for why I hadn’t cheated on MY wife.
*Kevin then (badly) tried to defend his infidelity by texting me advertisements for local Craigslist hookers. His logic was that he would prove how “irresistible” they were, and then people would sympathize with him! At best, this was him grasping at straws–at worst, it was him actively trying to sabotage my marriage. Anyway, and on a completely unrelated note, Kevin hasn’t seen his grandkids in a long time.
*After Mom left, Kevin told me that he’d just move in with me. He got a courtesy ride to the retirement home instead.
*After Kevin was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, I started getting collections calls from one of those tribal payday loan places. It turns out that Dad had borrowed money from them at some point in the past. When I called them up and explained that my father was mentally incapacitated, they then shared that his account age was ten years old and he was a “gold tier customer.” I don’t know what that means, but I’m horrified, especially since they’re not regulated by the FDIC and charge 300% interest.
“But hey!” you might be thinking, “this just sounds like the venting of a pair of maladjusted adult children with daddy issues taking their umbridge to the internet.” And you would be right, of course. But you don’t have to just take our word for what a menace Kevin was.
While cleaning out the family storage unit, I found Dad’s old high school yearbooks. Let’s see what Kevin’s peers had to write, shall we?
Farewells and Salutations Left in Kevin’s Yearbooks
“You are the only person I know who’s temper is shorter than he is. You’re nuts.”--Allen
“Kevin, to a very nice guy. Even though you cut me down, I don’t mind. Nice knowing you.”--Ricky
“Kevin, you’re a real nice guy that works at a store and is obscene.”--Barbara
“You’re a strange Lithuanian dwarf.”--Eugene
AUTHOR’S NOTE: The joke here, of course, is entirely on Eugene. Kevin’s not Lithuanian.
“To Kevin, alias Shorty; I am sorry that I have to disagree with you on the little matter of who is taller. I am, Shorty, and you had better start facing life the way you should.”--Cathy
“Good luck. You’re going to need it!”--Carol
“Kevin, you have certainly added ‘life’ to the classroom! At times, however, wouldn’t it have been better to divert your energy to studying?”--Mrs. Frey
“To a nice guy I wish would go somewhere.”--John
“Good luck with your girlfriend who’s coming back from the Azores.”--Sue
Author’s Note: Kevin apparently decided to one-up the kid with a girlfriend that you wouldn’t know, because she lives in Canada. I gotta give Kevin this–the Azores were a creative touch.
“To the dumbest guy in electronics class that I still hate.”--Daniel
“A real weird kid in my driver’s ed class. Good luck when trying not to hit people (so far you’ve been lucky).”--Byron
“Kevin, I guess you’re alright so I give you the privilege of having my autograph. To a very small punk who can’t keep his feet off anybody’s desk.”--Michael
“Kevin, you’re a real slob, but outside of that you’re alright. You’re lousy in math, but I guess you can’t help it.”--Bill
“Kevin, even though you call me fat, I still consider you a friend of mine.”--Laurie
“A screwy guy that has just about as much sense as a pervert in an elementary school.”--Tim
Author’s note: Ouch, Tim.
“Kevin, we expect you to come in and sand down the desk.”--Mr. Bell, Woodshop
“To a little squirt tattle tale.”--Samantha
“Kevin, how have I stood it?!? You could go so far if you’d only use your capabilities. Remember the parable of the man and the talents? Good luck.”--Mrs. Siwa
Author’s note: Mrs. Siwa seems to be referencing a Biblical story (Matthew 25:14) wherein a master gives three of his servants bags of gold to see what they will do with them. Two of the servants invest the gold and then give their master the earnings, which makes him happy, and he allows them to keep some of the gold. The third servant buries his gold in the ground like a fucking idiot and so gives his master back a bag of dirty, muddy coins. The master, unsurprisingly, is unamused, and so orders his servant to be bound hand and foot and thrown out “into the dark where there will be a weeping and a gnashing of teeth.” Mrs. Siwa got no chill.
“Kevin, you’re really weird. That’s the only way to describe you.”--Deb
“To a kid I wish would go and play in traffic sometimes.”--Lance
“I hope you go far in this world. And soon.”--Larry
“To a very nice friend, even if you are short. And if the world is lucky, you will fall over dead.”--Lee
Author’s note: Goddamn, Lee. Saying the quiet part out loud, are we?
Kevin, Kevin, Kevin. Percy Shelly once penned a poem that reminds us of him so very well. One stanza in “Ozymandias” states, “look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!” Of course, the reader is then treated to imagery of Ozymandias’s fallen kingdom.
And that’s Kevin for you. A monarch is his own imagination. A maladaptive malcontent in the public’s. A life defined by failure, incompetence, rage, and laziness, with only the detritus of his own failed enterprises to keep him company in his declining years. No thing beside remains, indeed.
Rest well and rest quietly, Kevin. We’ve earned it.

I don’t know what price is a good one. I like mine and it sound like sassy pants idc I’ve been on here since maybe Friday.
It’s could be a flier in the next couple days to get the room going with some fomo. so please please please think of this differently. Put small money in you can afford to forget about and stop watching every tick and after hours and pre markets. Can you afford to skip a luxury drink or a trip to one of the million casinos this week?
This is a story I will be talking about to my grandkids one day. I’m 59
I know what I know and I’ve done nothing wrong but try and get some little acts in for a magnificent play. I swear I feel it! This industry group - there’s many will have a name!
I can afford to go to zero with my 6500 shares and if we see sub .04 I’m ready with cash.
Think different than a penny stock. Try?
I don’t know if anyone is even here and idc

It never fails me, not for the past 20 years. If I’m spending time in a casino enjoying losing (sometimes making) money on craps, or standing in line to go party at a club, or drinking a beer and playing penny slots - and I overhear someone euphoric about an investment I’m in, it’s time to get up and go home and sell EVERYTHING.
And it happened yesterday.
I was enjoying a solid run on the dice, turning $200 into $1000 when I heard two casino staff talking: “yeah man… and you know they’re about to 10:1 split!” The other guy was elated. “And you just KNOW that thing is gonna shoot right back up to a thousand bucks.”
Fuccccccccccccck.
It’s over bros. This is one signal that does not fail. In 2017 I heard door hosts at Vegas clubs swapping shitcoin tips right before the crash, and the same shit in 2021 as well. The stock market is toast.
You have been warned.

$GWAV Due Diligence
Since this stock has a lot of eyes on it, I recommend checking out my old due diligence post if you haven’t on why I think $GWAV is an undervalued stock. It contains helpful links to articles regarding $GWAV
https://www.reddit.com/GWAV/s/QSlWX4yHim
Many people don’t understand that with this stock if you’re looking to 100x within pre-market or the first 30minutes of open market then you’re better off going to the casino. This stock is not a pump and dump, or a squeeze. This is a long term undervalued stock with high volume, and increasing naked short positions that unfortunately many dumb apes are the exit liquidity for…
If you follow the money trail on the short positions, many people have brought up the discussion of Anson Funds being involved. If anyone has their own DD on this please comment below as it has been discussed before. This is still all speculation on the intentions of their involvement.
$GWAV has many upcoming Catalysts.

1. The coming online of their 2nd shredder. Majority of $GWAV profits have been generated from 1 shredder so a 2nd one is great news for earnings report.
   
2. Increase demand of steel within US soil (info on my old DD post)
   
3. Their upcoming earnings report
   

These are major ones that play a role.
There’s a lot of speculation around $GWAV being stuck under $.10 even with such high volume. My own tinfoil theory is 1. A lot of naked shorts 2. Many inexperienced retail investors selling at a %1 market decrease hoping to 1000x in the first few minutes of market open… seriously go to the casino…
Price only goes up if theirs more buys than sells, and a buy back of shares is still in the realm of possibility if the company wishes to help share holders increase shares value. Any discussions of a reverse split being exercised within the next few days is idiotic because they need to do all the filings for it which is public once done. This company isn’t know to do a lot of reverse splits, and the recent dilution helped the company remove all of its debt and have 21m cash in hand
$GWAV doesn’t risk delisting until September 30th so there’s a long time before it happens. The main thing that I cannot stretch enough about how in favor that is for this stock is. It gives time for the 2nd shredder to come back up, and we get to see their next earnings, as well as any news regarding price increase of steel.
There’s a lot of eyes on $GWAV mainly people looking for market signals that $GWAV is about to launch, and are looking to see what the true bottom is for $GWAV so far we have consistently held .$08 and it’s important we stay here and eventually break into $.10! But people deciding to not stay on the stock long term isn’t helping with more buys than sells… however once everything looks good and we get the buys we need this thing is going to launch fast!
Please look at any other penny stock and look how long it stayed at the bottom before it launches… people think $FFIE 1000x over night when it took over 3 days to reach the all time high after breaking its all time low…
The only difference with this stock than any other stock is it genuinely has long term potential primarily, and short term potential too with upcoming catalysts of earnings and 2nd shredder.
If you’re looking to invest into this stock do your own due diligence and decide if this is something you want in your portfolio.
Also don’t take this as financial advice. Do your own DD, and if you see anyone saying this is going to squeeze over night, give them a down vote cause they make us all look like idiots… the short interest is high based on ortex information but nothing insane where this is a definite squeeze stock. Regardless many shorts on this stock need to eventually close their position, and if we hold its good for us.
If people keep asking despite all the positives then why is the stock still not moving besides high volume? Ask yourself that, and do your own due diligence and decide for yourself if this stock has more value long term than the volatile market it is in right now.
Meme stocks don’t move up or down based on fundamentals. If we diamond hand it will go up 🚀
Not financial advice. Keep fighting

25M, been losing heavily these past few weeks and currently have £1.32 that I can draw upon until next payday next month. Maxed out cards at -2k and -£750.
Last night after I lost 1k at the casino I went to the cash desk and redeemed the last £5 I had in player points, and combined it with the last £50 note in my pocket, then tossed it on a £15 minimum blackjack table...ran it up to £150, but as we all know i wouldn't leave until every last penny had gone. I walked home, spent the last £5 of my overdraft on McDonald's breakfast, then cashed in my £1 lotto scratcher which won £2 on two more £1 scratchers which both lost. Sleeping was difficult and spend the last few hours looking up payday loans and how to get food bank vouchers. I have this habit of fluctuating between pretending to be a high roller and pure and utter deprivation and squalor. The only thing that's keeping me going is the Bible and it's lessons on how money is deceptive. I am in the incarnation of the parable of the prodigal son. If you look at my upbringing and education and family, there's no discernable reason why I became a problem gambler but internally it makes perfect sense because I stopped caring about my life about a year ago and just passively lost my life savings of 20k. I've been to a couple GA meetings in the past month but I had a sick and self destructive desire to ruin my life some more. It's like a form of self harm. Currently waiting for the phonelines to open up so I can ask for a food bank voucher so I can eat this week. All I have to my name at the moment is £1.10 in change, some bread cheese and protein powder in the cupboard. I'm gonna have to walk an hour home so I can scrounge up any change in the piggy bank I normally keep for charitable endeavours. It's fair to say I need the charity rn, and I'm okay with that because I just feel numb anyway.

Hey all,
So I’m playing through Persona 5 again for the 18 quintillionth time and I kinda wanted to do a sort of “arc review” type thing. Just give my thoughts on each arc of the game. Since there are 9, I’ll be ranking each one out of 9. So the “worst” one will be 9/9, but I’ll also be doing them in order. I hope that makes sense.
Also I wanted to start by saying that I don’t think any of these arcs are BAD. Even the worst ones, if put into 99% of other games, would be the best part of that game. It’s just that in comparison to the rest of P5 they have some issues that I feel are hard to overlook. But I mean, hell, this is my favorite game of all time. I’ve put like… multiple thousands of hours into it at this point between Vanilla and Royal. So even with the issues I have, none of them are big enough to break my absolute love for this game. So keep that in mind as I make some critiques, because even the biggest problem in this game isn’t exactly a problem. It’s like… the equivalent of losing a single penny.
Now, onto the criteria. I’ll be judging the arcs on a few different things. The story, the primary characters that are focused on, the palace ruler, and the palace itself, which includes the boss (or sometimes bosses). Though these do get a bit rambly, and sometimes these things sort of flow into each other, but those are the general concepts I’m looking at. So with that in mind, let’s begin…
Kamoshida - Palace Ranking: 3/9
So taking into account that Kamoshida is our “tutorial” Palace, I am going to give him some liberties. Firstly, I usually prefer villains with a little “more” to them. We’ll get into this a bit more later, but in my opinion a good villain - even one who is unrepentantly evil - needs to have a reason behind their evil that makes sense in context for them. Kamoshida’s “reason” is basically that he’s already peaked and… somehow that’s tied to sexual assault? I don’t want to say him beating the kids “makes sense” but given the context of it being the volleyball team, and his whole thing about having a drive to succeed and meet his previous peak kinda makes some level of sense. But the thing is, that isn’t focused on enough in my eyes. But because he’s our tutorial antagonist, I’m more willing for him to have less depth. It’s the same reason I don’t expect Henchy McUnderling to have a backstory, but I expect the main boss to have one.
That said, the story here is great despite that. This arc does a phenomenal job of really pulling the player into the story, because it’s one of the few arcs where the protagonist is under direct threat from the villain. I mean sure, later palaces do have the deadline and whatnot but let’s be real, Madarame doesn’t know Joker from a hole in the ground. He’s under threat by proxy of Yusuke, not so much himself. But it also, somehow, does a good job of presenting TWO party members with equal stake in the plot here as well. We’ll see later a time when this does NOT work, but here we have both Ryuji and Ann dealing with Kamoshida, and sort of representing him as both a past and present threat. Ryuji is against him for his previous actions against him and his friends, whereas Ann is against him for his actions against her and her friends presently. And that brings me into the characters of this arc… so I personally think Ann and Ryuji are two of the best members of the Phantom Thieves. They’re such core parts of the team, they’re always doing something for the team in each arc, and they’re probably the two who are the best “presented” members. I’ll get more into what I mean on that later, but the gist is that they feel like very front and center parts of their recruitment arc, unlike some others.
I also like the Palace. I don’t have any particular insights into this one, though. The puzzles are fine. The boss fight is fine. The encounters are fine. The music is fine…. The aesthetic is immaculate, but otherwise it’s sort of just solid. I think it’s a good entry point that always feels nostalgic once you’re further into the game.
So yeah, Kamoshida’s arc is really good. There just happen to be better arcs overall. But for the tutorial, it’s a REAL masterclass.
Madarame - Palace Ranking: 7/9
So Madarame falls a bit from Kamoshida in my eyes. Let’s start with the good - Yusuke. Remember how with Kamoshida I said that Joker isn’t really threatened so much in later arcs? That’s the case here, because the threat is almost solely on Yusuke. But what’s interesting with Yusuke is that, at first, WE are presented as the “villains” here, at least from his perspective. With the Kamoshida arc, nobody really sees Joker, Ryuji, and Ann as the aggressors. The whole school is under Kamoshida’s thumb and everyone knows what he’s doing, but they feel powerless to stop him. With Madarame, Yusuke is almost in a sort of Stockholm Syndrome mindset where he feels Madarame’s actions are just, and believes he’s simply helping the man who raised him. It’s interesting to see the flip when we enter the Metaverse and Yusuke sees the “true” Madarame as the monster he is. I didn’t mention it before, but I think the best part of (most) of the awakenings is that the characters are struck with some kind of realization before it happens. For Ryuji, he learns that Kamoshida’s provocation was premeditated with the intention of getting rid of the competition for his volleyball team. For Ann, she learns that Kamoshida raped her best friend. But for Yusuke, his realization is more about himself. He learns that HE was wrong, as well as the fact that Madarame never cared for him and was just using him, and it’s cool. That said the rest of this arc is… whatever. Madarame is slightly better than Kamoshida in his motivations, but worse in that he’s nowhere near as present or threatening, we don’t really get to SEE a lot of the issues Yusuke faces with Madarame like we do with Kamoshida, and overall I find his palace a bit less memorable. I will say I like the Saiyuri “puzzle”, and I think the boss fight is really good, but that’s pretty much all I have to say regarding it.
It doesn’t quite draw you in as well as Kamoshida, Madarame isn’t presented as well as Kamoshida, and the palace isn’t quite as potent. But like I said, I don’t find any of these arcs to be “bad”. I just think Madarame is sort of lower on the “good” spectrum.
Kaneshiro - Palace Ranking: 9/9
Now, I’ve always had a lot of issues with Kaneshiro’s arc. Mostly because it feels to me like a “filler” arc in anime. The general things with filler arcs are… characters acting out of character, established lore and trends being ignored for the sake of “cool factor”, and story that doesn’t necessarily directly tie into the overall narrative. All three of those apply to this arc, and stem from one thing: Makoto.
I’ll be real, when I first played P5 I hated Makoto. Every time I replay the game she grows a little more on me, but she’s still my 2nd to least favorite Phantom Thief, and there are a few reasons. First - and the thing that made me initially hate her - is her role in this palace. She’s initially presented as an antagonist. And that would be fine if she actually was an antagonist. But the thing is we’re supposed to like this character, and the first like… 10 interactions we have with her are her being super condescending, petty, and antagonistic. But every interaction AFTER that with her, especially in this palace but also in later palaces, relies on either “tell don’t show”, previously established rules being broken, or mischaracterizing the other characters. So let me explain a bit more about these. First, “tell don’t show” refers primarily to the idea that the audience is told information, but not being presented information. It’s a lot more impactful to SEE Yusuke’s art than to just be told “Yusuke is a talented artist”. With Makoto, a lot of the time, the game TELLS us that she’s smart, but doesn’t show it. She either does something dumb (this happens a lot in this arc) or manages to do something because the rest of the team suddenly becomes less intelligent. For example, early on in her recruitment she asks how the Thieves typically go about strategizing to steal treasures, and the cast goes “Um… Strat-of-gees? What are that?” at which point Makoto goes “Wait.. you fucking idiots don’t make plans? Fuck it. I’ll do it then.” and then… nothing changes. Even if you ignore the fact that the previous palace had one of the most Sly Cooper-ish heists ever with a lot of planning and many moving parts, Makoto becoming the “team strategist” doesn’t make any overall difference. We handle every single palace following this one the same way. And this continues through the whole palace. “We’re faced with two enemies who are too strong to take on at the same time. What do we do?” “Hmm…. hummm…. Uhhhh… duhhhhhh….” “Why don’t we lure one away?” “OMG KWEEN UR DA MOST SMORT”. And this extends to her awakening as well. In all previous and future awakenings, the characters have some kind of realization. I mentioned this before. But Makoto… doesn’t. Kaneshiro just goes “Yeah. I’m gonna expect you to pay me a bunch of money and if you don’t, I’ll blackmail you into slavery” which we had already known he would do. That’s the entire reason we were investigating him. That’s what he outright says to us in his club. So why does him REPEATING himself here cause Makoto to awaken? I don’t know. She doesn’t even have any link to this guy, which is another issue with the arc. Kaneshiro himself has nothing close to the same level of threat, characterization, screen time, or even backstory. All we know about him is that he “crawled his way out of the dregs” and that is quite literally it.
The palace itself is also… pretty middling. I find the bank itself to be pretty bland, the lettenumber puzzle is boring and simplistic, and the boss fight is probably the… second worst one.
Now the thing is that if you stuffed this arc into like… Dragon Quest or something (obviously with requisite changes to fit that world), it would probably be the best part of that game. And don’t get me wrong, I played DQ11 and generally enjoyed it. But it’s really carried by a lot of its characters, so having an actually decent arc would make this the best part of that game. But compared to the rest of P5 it really stands out as being the worst part of the game.
That said, Price rocks.
Futaba - Palace Ranking: 2/9
Now for a complete flip, we have one of the best arcs. For starters, I do think this is my actual favorite Palace in general. The layout, theming, puzzles, dynamic storytelling, and most prominently the MUSIC make the actual palace immaculate. My sole issue with it is that the boss fight is less a fight, and more of an interactive set piece. I think overall it is, technically, the “worst” boss because it’s barely a boss. But at the same time, what it does for the story of the palace is really good. So I end up sort of split on it. But that is literally the only part of this palace that is even moderately middling.
The rest of this Palace is absolutely, completely fucking amazing.
First, this palace has the unique case of being the single one where the palace ruler becomes a party member. The entire palace is us learning about Futaba. There isn’t even really an “antagonist” in this arc entirely. Now, that isn’t necessarily good or bad on its own, but given how important Futaba is to the overall plot, and how this palace itself sort of kicks off the overarching plot points with Shido, his cronies, and the Metaverse as a whole, it’s great that this section isn’t bogged down with an additional major player. Normally we have something like Yusuke, Madarame, and the plot as it pertains specifically to those two characters. Here, we just have Futaba, and the plot as it pertains to her… BUT that plot also pertains to the game’s story at large, where someone like Madarame’s doesn’t necessarily do that.
It also helps that I fucking adore Futaba. She is one of the best written characters in this game, and Erica Goddamn Linbeck never fails to deliver in this role. Futaba is one of the few characters in media who can just make me cry. Even the most innocuous scene is up for some waterworks as long as Futaba does that fucking whimpery voice crack. And the thing is, you don’t actually MEET Futaba until basically the end of her Palace, and somehow the game does an amazing job of making you love this girl who you have basically never spoken to before.
The palace itself is also amazing. And again, it does something that the others don’t really do. It mixes distortion with personality. Here’s what I mean; Kamoshida’s palace is cool as hell because it’s so distorted. It’s a big-ass, super cool castle. But the thing is… Kamoshida’s whole thing is volleyball, and there’s nothing in the castle that really screams “volleyball” to me outside of… well, the volleyball team having cognitive versions in there. But it’s not the same. With Futaba, we have a big pyramid complete with traps, mummies, quick sand, murals, etc. But it also has a techy element to it because Futaba is a hacker. There’s code all over the place. One of the puzzles is a binary code puzzle. And that’s what I mean. We get to see a little of Futaba’s personality and interests in the palace, as opposed to just “This is a castle”, “ this is a bank”. Or Madarame where his distortion is almost explicitly about his interests and not quite as crazy.
Futaba’s palace strikes a perfect balance in so many ways, making it into one of the best parts of this game.
Oh. And also, The Days When My Mother Was There is one of the best tracks in all of Persona.
Okumura - Palace Ranking: 8/9
Let’s be real, a lot of people feel like this is the worst part of the game, and I kinda see why. It’s just that, for me, the only thing elevating it above Kaneshiro is that it’s actually plot critical and doesn’t feel like lame filler fluff. Buuut it kind of has the opposite effect of Futaba’s palace, where there you had a very focused narrative about a few specific, interwoven things, here you have three plots trying to all fight for the spotlight, and they sort of fit together like a chain. 1 and 2 link, 2 and 3 link, but 1 and 3 do not. We have the Morgana and Ryuji fight which… I feel is kind of pointless? The thing is that Morgana didn’t really need an arc here. Morgana gets TWO arcs and in my opinion, neither one feels quite complete. I think it would have been better to just cut this arc and focus more on him learning that he isn’t human. Heck, he could still meet Haru this way. He accidentally takes her into the Metaverse while sneaking off and investigating on his own or something. We get worried, go looking for him, run into him after Sugiura kicks Morgana into a wall, bada bing bada boom everything is better. Because then we can focus the entire arc on Haru, and just have Morgana be the quick and easy catalyst for finding her.
Kinda on that same framework, Okumura falls into the same unfortunate pitfall as Kaneshiro where we barely get to even see the guy. He’s got a collective 10 minutes of screen time, if that, and all it really boils down to is “He wants to be a wealthy politician”. Heck, we don’t even learn what his real corrupting moment was until the Palace is over and Haru kinda exposits it.
Next we have the palace itself. While the theme of it is cool as hell, the palace itself is very bland. People hate the airlock puzzle but honestly, that was the most fun and engaging part of it for me. It's the only part of the palace that feels wacky, conceptual, cool, and requires at least one functioning brain cell.
And finally… the boss fight. I hate this boss. Here’s the thing, people will argue in circles about whether or not it’s hard, but the difficulty isn’t really the issue. The issue is that it feels like a tutorial fight, where the devs had expectations for what the player had been focusing on. If you hadn’t, you’d be fucked. Did you hang out with Hifumi enough to get her party swap ability? I hope so, or you can go fuck yourself. If you didn’t, did you happen to put Morgana and Haru in your party for the final two waves of enemies? I hope so, or you can go fuck yourself. Did you get Personas that deal high wind and psy damage to all enemies? I hope so, or you can go fuck yourself. Did you rank Haru and Morgana up to 3 in darts? I hope so, or you can go fuck yourself. This boss relies so much on so many moving pieces that you are effectively required to use unless you’re a madman who built a full 99 stat almighty Izanami to Myriad Truths your way through the game. It feels like a tutorial on Baton passing, but without explaining that that’s what’s necessary, without giving you the necessary tools for it, and without catering to the way that “you” chose to play. And to me, that’s bad game design. All fights should, in theory, be possible with any build, any play style, any tools. Yeah, sometimes they may be harder, but here the fight is quite literally not possible if you don’t play the way they want you to play, or don't come in with an NG+ 99 stat Satanael like I did for this particular playthrough.
That said, the arc really moves up from last place due to the finale. Futaba’s palace brought the overarching plot into the background, looming there behind you, but here it’s thrown right into the spotlight. This is the new focus.
Sae - Palace Ranking: 4/9
Now, a lot of people would list this as their favorite Palace, and honestly I can kinda see why. If the Okumura arc is the main plot being put front and center, this is them shooting you in the face with it like a serial killer in an interrogation room.
The thing is that this arc has “the twist” and I’ll be real, even to this day “the twist” is one of the most insane things I’ve seen in a game, without feeling unnecessary. AKA it’s crazy, but it doesn't read like it was written by Hideo Kojima or Suda51. It’s also great for characterization of two people we already know. See, unlike past palaces which introduce and build new characters, here we’re building Akechi and Sae - two people we already know, but haven’t spent a lot of direct time with. That said… I also think this should have involved Makoto more. Yeah, maybe it would have bogged things down, but I mentioned earlier that Makoto doesn’t really get her own arc during the Kaneshiro debacle, and now when we have the perfect opportunity to give her one, she just kinda sits in the background. She doesn’t get to confront her sister. She doesn’t get to have “a moment”. She just sits back while Joker and Akechi headline the tour, with everyone else on backups. Heck, even “the plan” is like 90% Futaba, 5% Morgana, and 5% Joker. She does not get to do a singular fucking thing in her own sister’s arc. And I wouldn’t be as upset if she actually got to be a major player with Kaneshiro, and if that arc were just better, but she doesn’t, and it isn’t. So she feels wasted TWICE.
I also kind of have an issue with the palace itself. Yes yes, Whims of Fate is really good. But holy fuck for a Casino you sure don’t spend much time doing actual casino shit. 90% of this palace is just walking around drab, gray hallways and it’s kinda… bland? I’m in a Casino, man. I wanna be interacting with the casino floor. I wanna feel like I’m on the Golden Saucer, not like I’m walking through the back of a post office.
The story overall really carries this palace for me. It’s got an insane twist, great characterization for Akechi and Sae, and is the moment where everything reaches a fever pitch. I consider the end of this Palace to be the beginning of the climax, which carries all the way through to the end of the next palace. Though… that’s an issue of its own, but we’ll get there later.
Look, I do like this arc. I just think it has so much wasted potential, and is heavily carried by the overarching plot and characters, and kind of let down by the palace itself.
Also Sae not being a romance option is a sin. Atlus, you have not fulfilled your penance. Salvation shall not be yours.
Shido - Palace Ranking: 5/9
Shido’s palace is another one where people really really love it and I… I mean I think it's fine. But for a “finale” I’m not super thrilled with it.
Let's talk about my main problem first; Shido himself. In my opinion, a main antagonist should be someone who is incredibly present. Even in something like a mystery where we aren't supposed to know the villain, we should still know who the character is very well until the reveal. But Shido doesn't really feel that way. He’s in maybe 5 to 10 scenes across the whole game prior to his arc, we don't know anything about him other than “wants to rule Japan”, we know nothing of his background or motivations. All we know is that he's a shit heel. And like I said earlier, that's fine for someone like Kamoshida - our tutorial boss. It's far less fine in my opinion for our main antagonist.
I’m also not the biggest fan of the Palace itself. Yeah, the boat is cool or whatever, but I find the actual plot of the palace to be a bit of a slog. There aren't really any crazy reveals, the puzzles are more annoying than fun, and it ends up feeling more like a standard fare dungeon crawl since we don't really learn anything during it.
That said, the palace does cap off with one of the coolest boss fights. Shido’s fight is really cool, and I love how epic his calling card is. But there’s one thing I really need to talk about that really elevates this palace.
Akechi. Akechi is what I think a villain SHOULD be. We meet him early on, he slowly becomes more and more present in the narrative, he eventually joins our team, only to betray us. He has so much build up, such a well realized arc, and the reasons for what he does are stated to us at the end after being hinted at before, but not being outright presented, so when we learn about it, it feels much more impactful. I also love what Royal did for him. I still think he’s pretty great in the original, but making his anger progress from just wanting to take down Shido, to now having a petty grudge against a “friend” who outsmarted and defeated him feels like a perfect capstone for everything that’s been set up. I also strangely like his “death”. I know a lot of people don’t like it, but I dunno. I think it works well.
So yeah. When this is the Akechi palace it’s great. When it’s the Shido palace it’s… it’s fine. The boss fight slaps though.
Yaldabaoth - Palace Ranking: 6/9
Now, this one is kinda personal, and deals with the last issue I mentioned. Yaldy here is technically our final boss. I mean, he was for the vanilla game at least, and I’ve always had an issue with how Persona game, and most JRPGs in general, handle the whole “kill god” thing. If you are going to do that, we need to KNOW God, just like any other character. Here, he’s not someone we know, and he comes out of nowhere. And I know people are gonna go “Um exkweeze me wat do u meen? We no Igor from start of game dumazz?” Yeah. Let’s talk about this. 1. There is no reason to suspect Igor is god, for both new and returning players. 2. Because we don’t know him, there’s no narrative impact for beating him. 3. There’s no reason to actually think he is in any way competent or reasonable, because his whole argument is “mankind deserves to die because I set up a rigged test to prove a point in the least scientific way possible by forcing it so that no other outcome happens.” and it’s the stupidest shit. 4. There is no distinct reason for him to be God. Once he reveals he is the grail, he is a 100% different guy. You could make Yaldy be Shido, or Kawakami, or the old guy who listens to the radio in Yongen for all it matters. He is not a character. He’s a big, stupid fucking robot and yeah, that’s cool and all, but it’s not narratively impactful for our “final” challenge to just be some random fuck who showed up out of nowhere, and is only in the 120 hour game for about 3 of those hours. This whole arc would be like if a major, 100+ episode anime set up a massive, world ending threat who we get to know over a length of time, and is considered one of the greatest anime antagonists, only to sweep him to the side and bring a rabbit alien god in out of nowhere.
Oh… wait…
Anyway, stupid-ass worthless-ass final boss aside, I actually do like the rest of this arc. The characterization and twist for Lavenza, the arc for Morgana, and most importantly, the Palace itself. It’s shorter than the rest, but I absolutely adore the Mementos depths. The design, the puzzles, and above all the MUSIC are all absolutely amazing.
And for as much as I complained about Yaldy… there really isn’t anything quite like summoning a giant, six-winged archdemon to shoot God in the face with a gun-sword.
So yeah. This Palace is fun, has some great story beats, and does feel pretty cinematic and climactic. I just don’t like that the “climax” revolves around some random dude showing up and going “It was me all along, Barry!” and you’re like “I’m sorry, who are you?”
Maruki - Palace Ranking: 1/9
And boy am I glad Royal makes a more climactic ending. Now this is going to sound weird considering I ranked this as number 1, but I DO have issues with this arc. And that issue is uh… Kasumi..? Sumire..? Whatever. The thing is I find it hard to blame the arc itself for my issues with her because they kind of span the entire game, but it all comes to a head here. I well and truly believe this game could go from a Tetratrillion / 10 to a Tetratrillion-and-1 / 10 if she just… weren’t in the game. Because I think basically every scene she’s in that is not directly dealing with her takes away from that scene. And I think her inclusion in this arc takes away from it. HOWEVER, her stuff is dealt with quickly, while also building up other plot points, the Palace ruler, and a certain other character who we will get to shortly.
But despite my minor gripes with her, this arc is absolutely fantastic for a few reasons.
Let’s start with the Palace itself. It rocks. The puzzles are fun and make a lot of sense for the ruler, the music fucking slaps, it's got a great narrative structure where it basically makes us take a look into the past of the character it focuses on, and the overall style suits it perfectly. It's this excellent blend of mad science and ideology.
Next we have the overall story of the arc and it is done so well. Basically, the Palace ruler wants to create a “perfect world” where everyone is always happy, suffering doesn't exist, etc. And it's great because he is the only antagonist who isn't really presented as being “wrong.” Even Futaba and Sae, whose palace end with them effectively “healing” and becoming good people again, are still presented as being incorrect. However they don't really do that here. It truly is just a battle of ideology between the ruler and the Thieves, where the Thieves believe that they can, and should, intervene where necessary, but overall people need to strive and thrive on their own once the Thieves break down whatever is holding them back. But their opponent here believes that people shouldn't strive for greatness, or grab opportunity by the horns. “You don't need to strive for greatness. Believe in me.” Are the lines to his theme song, and they encapsulated his entire concept perfectly. He isn't painted as someone you hate. He isn't necessarily painted as wrong. He's painted as someone we disagree with, and that's not something we’ve seen before.
Next, we have Akechi (again). This game has a fantastic cast, with Akechi being one of the standouts for me. This arc plays as a sort of epilogue for him. His story “ended” with him concluding that he was wrong, that he should live how he wants, and that maybe he DOES have friends who care about him. Even Ryuji, the guy who rags on Akechi the most, begins choking up at the end after Akechi disappears, because he doesn't really hate him. They all - Futaba and Haru included - realize he's just a victim in all this. But the best part for me is how he concludes this arc. At the end he’s given a choice - accept the fake reality and live, or deny it and risk a world where he may be dead. After all, we don't know if he truly died (I'm of the opinion he didn't based on the post credit scene) but he doesn't know that. And without even a second's hesitation he says “Don’t think dangling my life before us will have any impact on our decision.”. He spent his whole life living under Shido’s foot, striving only for a childish revenge that he was denied, and learning eventually that he has friends who accept him not as the righteous detective prince, but as… Goro Akechi. And he wants to die on those terms if he can, as opposed to being forced to live in a fake world under someone else’s rule.
And that brings us to the ruler. Takuto Maruki. Now I’ve already touched on why he's so effective from the standpoint of his ideals, but there's more to him. First, unlike our other main baddies, we actually know him. We first meet him after Kamoshida’s palace, and he is a constant presence throughout. But the most important part is that you are required to get to know him. If you don't max out his confidant, you don't get this ending. The game ends with Yaldy. So not only is he constantly around within the narrative, but his side content actually becomes main content. It is required. And that is very important for us. Because if he was just some random guy we had never met who shows up and goes “yeah I wanna stop all suffering” then like… Great? But I don't have a reason to trust you. I do have a reason for Maruki. He DOES want the best, even if he's a bit misguided, and we’ve learned just what kind of person he is over the last 100 hours. It makes it all the harder to fight him because yeah, you disagree with him, and it's already hard enough to break everyone else’s dreams, but now you’re directly spitting in the face of his dreams, too. It is masterfully done.
And so is the finale. Maruki’s boss fight is so well done. It's the perfect mix of actual gameplay and spectacle WITH an emotional payoff, which Yaldy lacked. The first section is a crazy blend of the Madarame and Yaldy’s fight, and it works perfectly. But after that first phase we enter big cool spectacle zone of fighting a 100 foot tall monolith of a Persona, all culminating in a one on one fist fight between Joker and Maruki as he vents his frustrations at losing.
It is done perfectly. This arc is absolutely phenomenal. It's so emotional, so well structured, so well built, and such a perfect way to end this amazing experience. After my first experience with the original P5 I did not think they could make my favorite game ever even better. And somehow they did.
So anyway. That's my whole stream of thoughts. What’s everyone else think? How would you rank the arcs?

I recently met a guy a few weeks ago through my coworker. He’s family member of my coworker. When we first met, we couldn’t stop looking at each other. We instantly had a connection. I’m usually very shy and introverted with EVERYONE but I felt comfortable around him right away. It’s like we’ve known each other for along time.
Well he didn’t ask for my number because he has a girlfriend. We continued seeing each other at my coworker’s house (my coworker likes to party and always has hang outs at his house) and we’d also all meet up at the casino. He and I were always excited to see each other and we both admitted we kept showing up to these hang outs because we knew the other would be there .
He got my social media and we have been talking on there. We hung out alone a few times too. We just grabbed a bite to eat and talked for hours. We haven’t done anything sexual so this isn’t about sex.
He’s been distant with me I’m assuming because of his girlfriend. He rarely messages me or replies. I respect it and have accepted that he has a girlfriend so I don’t message him either. He’s even deleted me off social media.
He randomly messages me and tells me he broke up with his girlfriend. He said the break up was coming for awhile now. They’ve been together for about 6 years and their relationship has never progressed. They’ve always been long distance. He lives in Arizona and she lives in California. She has a very strict/religious family so she stays in Cali with them. She has other priorities.
I feel like he broke up with her because of me. He’s been messaging me a lot more. Telling me I’m the prettiest girl he’s ever seen.. he said he’s never felt so attracted to someone before. And that he’s traveled the world and has never seen anyone as attractive as me. I thought he was just trying to be cute but i looked on his social media and he does actually travel the world 😆.. I can tell he genuinely likes me. I’ve liked him since the first time I met him too..
I just think it’s a bit crazy that he’s left a long term relationship to pursue me when he barely knows anything about me. But I also think when you know you found the one, you just know. So maybe that’s what’s going through his mind?

TL/DR: stayed Caesar's Windsor for 3 nights (Friday-Sunday) while competing in a Master's swim meet. One big win on Saturday made up for losing sessions on Friday and Sunday.
Friday: arrived in the afternoon and hit the tables around 5pm. 2 regular and 1 crapless open and surprised to find $15 minimums. Full 5x odds at Caesar's Windsor and a fire bet.
Played pass line and continuous come bets at table minimum. Start at double-odds (ish) ($50 6/8, $40 5/9, $30 4/10 and press my odds / flat bets if things get going). 6/8 for $60 action (and then down with odds). Plus a $15 hardway each point (on the point or the 8 for points of 9 and the 6 for points of 5).
No luck and took a break for dinner. Met my host and she gave me a $100 voucher for dinner. Used it at Nero's - the steakhouse on site. Great meal and service at the bar (was lucky to find a spot as Paul Anka was playing at the casino theatre that night).
Took another spin after dinner. More of the same - in bed by 10pm (rest for swimming) and down $3000 for the day.
Saturday: After my swimming day hit the tables at around 620 PM. $25 minimums now.
Had a top 5? Top 10? all-time session ... in for $1400.
Highlights: hit a $75 Yo for $1125 (if there are back-to-back eleven's, I bet a $75 Yo).
Another shooter made 5 points (my $5 fire paid $1250 or 250-1)
During this run I got my line bet pressed up from $25 - $30 - $50 - $75. At $75 you can take $625 odds at full 5x odds for points of 6/8 and I collected on 2 of those for an $825 total pay. I also got my come bets pressed to $30 (another sweet spot for full 5x odds) and was able to be "off and on" for $330 a couple of times.
The shooter had a "front line winner 7" during his run so I reset my bets to $30 on the line and $25 come bets. At this point I do place bets for "3" $25 units and come down with odds. He made another point or two.
After the inevitable 7-out, I got the dice. Put the crew $96 across including the point and made 2 points and a couple of other numbers.
Then after a couple of quick point-seven outs I took the money and ran. Cashed out $9600 (+$8200) at around 745 PM. Headed out to a downtown Windsor bar for dinner to watch NHL/NBA playoffs.
Sunday:
After swimming (I just swam the morning session) hit the craps table around 4pm. $25 minimums. Limited myself to a $2000 buy-in and that lasted 2 hours. Didn't rebuy and "chase my gains".
Left Windsor on Monday with a decent trip profit of $3200. Very happy!
Windsor summary comments: I haven't been to Windsor since the Fall of 2023. A couple of downtown bars I remember from previous (recent) visits have closed (Manchester and Dugout) - and the down town core was already struggling. Other bars (Finn's) had early closing hours.
Hit Thyme Kitchen (on Oullette) for breakfast each morning - I highly recommend. A short walk from the casino.
Next to Thyme Kitchen is the Loose Goose pub where I caught the Saturday sports games.
Caesar's Windsor was not as busy I expected given the Memorial Day weekend in the US and the Toronto Blue Jays playing at Detroit. There is no coffee craps (early morning) on the weekend that I saw (as I headed to swimming). Looks like craps tables open at around 10AM based on what I saw Monday morning
No Diamond Lounge or buffet at Caesar's Windsor anymore (which I remember from pre-COVID times). I understand the casino sports pub doesn't open until 4pm, which is also strange / consistent with Caesar's penny pinching under post-takeover ownership.
Thanks for reading and may all your parlays come in!

DAY: May 25 2024
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STUDY SUGGESTS TO BUY EXPERIENCES, NOT THINGS, TO COMBAT LONELINESS

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HOW MUSIC IN YOUTH DETENTION CAN CREATE NEW FUTURES

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WHY AMERICA WON’T PULL THE TRIGGER ON GUN CONTROL

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HOW TEA MAY HAVE SAVED LIVES IN 18TH CENTURY ENGLAND

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IT OFTEN HAPPENS WHEN OTHERS HELP, NOT SELF-ACHIEVED

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STUDY FINDS INDIVIDUALS LESS LIKELY TO EVALUATE PEERS NEGATIVELY IF FACING EVALUATION THEMSELVES

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‘FACEBOOK PROBABLY KNOWS I SELL DRUGS’—HOW YOUNG PEOPLE’S DIGITAL FOOTPRINTS CAN THREATEN THEIR FUTURE PROSPECTS

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LANGUAGE CHANGE HARMS OUR ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE AND UNDERSTAND, RESEARCHER ARGUES

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STUDY SUGGESTS YOUTUBERS CHEER PEOPLE UP MORE THAN CASUAL FRIENDS

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HOW NONSERIOUS PRODUCT REVIEWS AFFECT ONLINE SALES

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CALIFORNIA IS ABOUT TO TAX GUNS MORE LIKE ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO—AND THAT COULD PUT A DENT IN GUN VIOLENCE

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US SCHOOLS ARE NOT RACIALLY INTEGRATED, DESPITE DECADES OF EFFORT, SAYS EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGIST

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GENDER GAPS REMAIN FOR MANY WOMEN SCIENTISTS, STUDY FINDS

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CALLS FOR GREATER SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN BEREAVED BY DOMESTIC HOMICIDE

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A DIASPORA-BASED MODEL OF HUMAN MIGRATION

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DEAF AND HARD-OF-HEARING STUDENTS NEED MORE SUPPORT FROM THEIR UNIVERSITIES: SOUTH AFRICA STUDY

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EFFORTS TO BOOST SOCIAL MOBILITY MUST MOVE AWAY FROM ESCAPIST ‘HELICOPTER’ POLICIES, EXPERTS WARN

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HOW MARKETING ASSET ACCOUNTABILITY CAN UNLOCK THE FULL VALUE OF MARKETING BY MEASURING AND REPORTING ITS ASSETS

Researchers investigated the consequences of the financial valuation and external reporting of marketing assets. The study is titled “Consequences of Marketing Asset Accountability—A Natural Experiment” and is authored by Peter Guenther, Miriam Guenther, Bryan A. Lukas, and Christian Homburg. Do you know the financial value of Gatorade’s or of Netflix’s customer base? If your answer is no, you are not alone. Firms provide little external information about the financial value
5-25-2024

TIKTOK LAW THREATENING A BAN IF THE APP ISN’T SOLD RAISES FIRST AMENDMENT CONCERNS

TikTok, the short-video company with Chinese roots, did the most American thing possible on May 7, 2024: It sued the U.S. government, in the person of Attorney General Merrick Garland, in federal court. The suit claims the federal law that took effect on April 24, 2024, banning TikTok unless it sells itself violates the U.S. Constitution. The law names TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance Ltd., specifically. It also applies to other applications and websites reaching more than a million monthly users that allow people to share information and that
5-25-2024

DENTAL ENAMEL STUDY SUGGESTS DIFFERENCES IN NEANDERTHAL AND PALEOLITHIC HUMAN CHILDHOOD STRESS

Neanderthal children (who lived between 400,000 and 40,000 years ago) and modern human children living during the Upper Paleolithic era (between 50,000 and 12,000 years ago) may have faced similar levels of childhood stress but at different developmental stages, according to a study published in Scientific Reports. The authors suggest that these findings could reflect differences in childcare and other behavioral strategies between the two species. Laura
5-25-2024

SHOTSPOTTER IMPROVES DETECTION AND RESPONSE TO GUNFIRE, BUT DOESN’T REDUCE CRIME, RESEARCH FINDS

ShotSpotter gunfire detection technology has delivered as promised in terms of enabling police to quickly detect and respond to gunshots in two American cities, research from Northeastern University finds. But the controversial technology has not translated into public safety gains, according to the research titled, “The Impact of Gunshot Detection Technology on Gun Violence in Kansas City and Chicago:
5-25-2024

LIFE’S BIG MOMENTS CAN IMPACT AN ENTREPRENEUR’S SUCCESS—BUT NOT ALWAYS IN THE WAY YOU’D EXPECT

Entrepreneurs are the lifeblood of any innovative economy. New business creation has been shown to have a significant and positive impact on economic growth, innovation and job creation. But it isn’t easy, and most new businesses fail. When someone starts a business, they usually aren’t doing it alone—their whole family forms part of the journey. All of them can experience the emotional rollercoaster of entrepreneurship. This obviously flows in the other direction as well—founders’ personal lives have their own big ups and downs. Big positive
5-25-2024

NEW STUDY CHALLENGES CONVENTIONAL WISDOM THAT AMERICANS ARE ‘POCKETBOOK VOTERS’

A new study that examined voting in the 2022 United States congressional elections shows that views on abortion were central to shifting votes in the midterm elections. Despite severe inflation and grave concerns about deteriorating economic conditions, economic perceptions did not change votes. The study was conducted by Diana Mutz, Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, and Edward Mansfield, Hum Rosen Professor of Political Science in the School of Arts & Sciences. It is published in the Proceedings of the National
5-25-2024

PRETEENS USE DATING APPS, AND 1 IN 4 ARE SEXUAL MINORITIES: STUDY

Though most online dating apps have a minimum age requirement of 18 years, a new study finds that a small number of 11–12 year-olds use them. Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) preteens are 13 times more likely to report engaging in online dating compared to their heterosexual peers. The research is published in the journal BMC Research Notes. “Lesbian, gay, or bisexual adolescents, including preteens, may have limited romantic partner options in their schools, where they may also face discrimination, bullying, and stigma because of their sexual orientation,” says lead

Went 10 months without gambling, life started happening..marital problems, lost job, low self esteem..went to the good old casino..lost 4 k in roulette. Was down 3 k then hit my big number to get unstuck but proceeded to lose it all again.
Thought I was done n that was a lesson, but no went to the bank me decided to withdraw my 10 k cd, n chase roulette..lost fairly quick...
I don't been working as o much overtime since basically October and all the money I saved I pretty much lost in 2 days..actually currently laid off n wont be working out for a while now...
It's crazy, I haven't bought anything for myself, shoes, activities.nothing.meat the cheapest food possible just think of saving money, I multi email account to get free food on fast food apps, eat like shit ..just incredibly penny smart dollar stupid..
So even when I wasn't gambling I was still being to cheap n finding activities/ passions to compensate for not gambling...like I'm so cheap I don't want to spend money on gas to get back n forth to a gamblers anonymous meeting..I hate spending money , but I can blow all saving like it's nothing..
I'm 38, never made advances I'm career, just basic construction, never close to six figures but somehow lost 200k plus..loner
This disease is fucked..u know put 1000 on 1 number in hight limit roulette n split 4 times the numbers next to n u hit u would win 10 k..yeah 35+17+17+17+17=103k..yeah that's a 5 k spin..anyway..u see how fd up my mind is..I still have some money away..I just don't who to trust other then myself to lock it up..I can go in bank anytime n take it out..btw I was seeing a ga counseler on my phone frequently, but I used up all my free sessions, n hate 20 dollar copays, my value of a dollar, time n everything is fd up

Hi Everyone, I've been playing slots for about 30 years and I am looking for advice on how to bet most efficiently in order to get more points and comps from players clubs.
When I first started playing I played quarters machines, but that was back when they had the 3x Wheel of Fortune machines. Those days are long gone. Now I mostly play penny slots and bet 75 cents to a dollar per spin. When I am in Vegas my play usually gets me offers for free weekday rooms or discounted weekends, but i rarely get more than offers of $5 free play offers from my local tribal casinos. I never plan on winning and I have never once went over my self imposed limit.
I know people who are certainly not rich that constantly get free rooms, buffets etc. I would appreciate any advice on how to gain points faster. I usually bring $100 to $200 per visit but usually leave before I run out of money. Do you find that betting higher amounts per spin make your money go faster or does it basically even out because the payouts are bigger? Should I increase my budget per trip and go fewer times?
I'd appreciate any advice from seasoned slots players on how to maximize my rewards points.
TIA!

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50 2023 Wyoming Goldback- $225
6x 1 Gram 2020 Maple (In Assay)- $90 EA
2.5 Acre (In Assay)- $220
ROUNDS/BARS AND COINS:
2 oz Silver No Prey No Pay High Relief- $75
1953 Cinco Pesos- $20
2022 NIUE Vader 1 oz- $35
50 Gram Geiger In Assay- $70
10 Oz “The Wedge” DHF Silver Bar- $380
Silver 1975 Philippines Proof Set (complete)- $90
1 oz APMEX Bar- $31
2000 The Dawn of A New Millennium 1oz Silver- $35
1 Gram Geiger In Assay- $10
16x 1 oz Silver Towne Mighty Eagles- $500
7x 1 oz Misc Nicer Rounds- $221
11x Casino Tokens- $22 EA or all for $21 EA
5 oz Sealed Bar- $155
Cale Yarborough 1 oz Round- $45
1978 Cien Pesos- $20
1974 1 oz Liberty Medallion- $35
20x 1 oz Tokelau 2024 Proof Mustang- $36 EA or all for $34 EA
$3 Face 90% Lot ($1 Wash, $1.20 Rosevelt’s, $.80 Mercs all with dates and some are higher grades)- $65
2x 1962 Proof Sets (Some missing random pieces like cardboard or paper)- $26 EA
10 oz Bar- $310
1 oz Peace Dollar Round- $40
3x 2023 Kookaburra (W/Capsule)- $35 EA
4x 2024 Kookaburra (W/Capsule)- $35 EA
1 oz Germania Mint Allegories (W/COA)- $45
500 Gram The Holy Mint Bar- $520
1964 Accented Hair Proof Set (Complete)- $70
22x 2024 1/10 Silver Brittanias- $10 EA or all for $9 EA
2001 S Proof JFK Half- $12
Foreign lot In Flips (31 Coins)- $25
Foreign lot Loose (21 Coins and most are Canadian)- $15
1 New Penny (26 coins dates all in the 1970s), 1/2 New Penny (16 coins dates all in the 1970s), and 2 New Pence Lot (26 coins dates all in the 1970s)- $40
1970 1 Piso Pope Paul VI (Non PM)- $5
1966 Jamaican Commonwealth Games Coin- $4
1983 Netherland Coin Set (Cracked Open Case)- $7
RANDOMS:
5x 1 Gram Argor Palladium- $65 EA or $63 EA for all
SLABS:
2022 1oz Serbia Nikola Tesla Natural Healing NGC MS70- $115
1964 Washington Quarter NGC PF67 (Crack on slab)- $15
1946 Walking Liberty Half PCI MS65- $95
2017 S ASE NGC PF70 Ultra Cameo San Fransico Slab- $120
1922 D Peace NGC MS63- $85
2023 Morgan CAC First Delivery MS69 Slab- $100
Bradford Exchange 2023 T2 BU ASE- $40
1855 Germany 1 S Hamburg MS63 NGC (Toner)- $80
2007-S PCGS PR70DCAM John Adams- $11
COLLECTABLES: Will trade for low premium Silver and Gold. [WTT] [WTS]
1x 2021 Cameroon Crucifix Coin- $120 EA
6x Fiji 2022 Snowflake Coin W/Crystals (Sealed)- $85 EA
3x Fiji 2023 Wonders Of Nature Great Barrier Reef Coin- $145 EA
2021 Star Wars IG-11 NIUE Coin- $105
2021 Samoa Splash Of Colour (Color 🇺🇸) New York City Coin- $175
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