5-4/5-5 and G2-4/G2-5, even if they're arbitrarily separated into two chapters (I think because people complain if the main campaign doesn't reach 5 chapters), are just 1 case. Same victims, same culprits, same evidence.
"But in 5-4 you clear Starbuck's name and another character gets arrested so it's technically a different trial" So? 1-2 also changes the defendant halfway-through, 3-2 also has you winning the trial halfway-through before you're thrust into another, but everyone can see it's the same case. Same victim, same culprit, same evidence.
"But in 5-5 they do change the victim" But it's not a separate case, it's the same old "the killer also committed another murder X years ago and they're both connected" that Ace Attorney always does. The evidence doesn't change from chapter to chapter for a reason.
(I don't even know how people would justify the G2-4/G2-5 split honestly, but I'd argue the same way that they're the same case)
But then I think... What about 6-5? This case really does feel like two cases in one, like they wrote 6-4 in the last minute because they forgot to give Athena a case, but they also didn't want to break the 5-chapter tradition with 6 cases so they put them together with duct tape.
(From here on to avoid confusion, I'll refer to the first half of 6-5 as "The Civil Turnabout", an unofficial name I've heard for it which isn't the coolest or most original but it will do for now, and the second half as "Turnabout Revolution")
When people say they like or dislike 6-5, this alone tells me nothing. I've seen people like both Civil and Revolution, dislike both, or like one but dislike the other, for different reasons. Because they're two different cases that it makes no sense to group together. It's like if I'm ranking cases and I say "the best case of Trials and Tribulations is the second half" and you know I'm talking about Beginnings and Bridge but you don't know if I prefer one over the other or if I don't really like one of them but my love for the other is so big that it cancels it out. And I could rank them separately but they both have Dahlia and Godot and they take place in the same bridge so it must be one single case!!!!
That's my problem with Civil and Revolution. Civil is one incident, Revolution is another unrelated incident, with its own whole "incident that happened X years ago" which, you guessed it, also has no relation to Civil. The victims are different, the culprits are different, the prosecutor is different the COUNTRY is different, Civil even gets its own Revisualization minigame which are always the climax of the case! These are so very clearly different cases, that when Civil ends Apollo says "oops let me clean my court record haha" and gets rid of all the evidence because they're that irrelevant to Revolution. I think the only relation they have are... Dhurke, the orb, and Inga pulling the strings behind the curtain? You could make a more convincing argument for I2-4 and I2-5 being more connected and therefore being the same case! (please don't)
Well, I'm not good at conclusions. If you agree then please next time you rank cases or whatever try to count both halves of 6-5 as different cases, my autism will thank you. If you don't then idk argue in the comments, I can't promise that I'll have the energy to argue back

I was recently inspired to create some documents for personal and team use for Overwatch 2 and wanted to share these with everyone. I would love to hear and receive feedback on them as it took some considerable hours to process understand the original document I cut apart to recreate these and work into a usable state for the current season and meta.
The first is meant for personal use and allows users to input match data and log their performance outputting important stats and overview of their metrics in the current season. The team document is self explanatory but is intended for more serious and competitive teams shooting for T3+/Collegiate Overwatch 2.
These were inspired by u/LeCorbuisoverrated on Reddit with some considerable changes. With the removal of a number of things and the addition of new things sheets, characters, images, icons, maps, and modes, the original document formulas and references all bricked on me early on. The team document is almost entirely original excluding the log and the map stats page.
Personal Tracker
Team Tracker
If anyone wants to try to use them, make sure to make a copy and if you have any questions about them, feel free to let me know and I will do my best to answer your questions. I’m quite happy with the end result and again can’t say it enough that a large portion of the original formatting and style was already established by the work done by u/LeCorbuisoverrated. Make sure to thank him and anyone that helped in creating his original document as well.

I am a relatively new player to Honkai: Star Rail and recently completed the main story, all side missions, and all side events. I wasn’t around to pull certain characters that I want, and Hoyo wanted to torture me by releasing them consecutively. This includes Fu Xuan, Firefly, and Ruan Mei (allegedly).
I do not plan on going for their signature LC’s (F2P pain), so I was wondering if my current 40k jades is going to be enough to guarantee them all, or if I have to get lucky (or in its worst case, I have to skip one of them). I also understand that I can probably get some more jades when new content for 2.3 gets released.
For reference, I am currently at 47 pity and guaranteed for Fu Xuan. Thanks in advance!

The profusion of identical green tents at this spring’s anti-Israel protests struck many as odd. “Why is everybody’s tent the same?,” asked New York mayor Eric Adams. Like others, the mayor suspected “a well-concerted organizing effort” driving the protests. More recent reporting shows a concerted push behind the Gaza protest movement. But it is not as simple as a single organization secretly rallying protesters or buying tents. Instead, the movement’s most determined activists represent a network of loosely linked far-left groups. Some are openly affiliated with well-known progressive nonprofits; others work in the shadows.
The movement also draws on diverse but generous sources of financial backing. Those funding streams may soon be augmented by the federal government. As I chronicled last year in a Manhattan Institute report, “The Big Squeeze: How Biden’s Environmental Justice Agenda Hurts the Economy and the Environment,” the administration’s massive program of environmental justice grants seems designed to prioritize the funding of highly ideological local groups. The Inflation Reduction Act, for example, earmarks $3 billion for “environmental and climate justice block grants” intended for local nonprofits. Today, hundreds of far-left political groups include language about environmental issues and “climate justice” in their mission statements. If just a fraction of planned grants flows to such groups, the effect will be a gusher of new funding for radical causes.
As the Gaza protests spread across U.S. college campuses, many observers noted an eerie uniformity among them. From one campus to the next, protesters operated in disciplined cadres, keeping their faces covered and using identical rote phrases as they refused to talk with reporters. The Atlantic noted the strangeness of seeing elite college students “chanting like automatons.” Students held up keffiyeh scarves or umbrellas to block the view of prying cameras and linked arms to halt the movements of outsiders. At Columbia University and elsewhere, protesters formed “liberated zones,” from which “Zionists” were excluded. Around the edges of the encampments, the more militaristic activists donned helmets and goggles and carried crude weapons, apparently eager to mix it up with police or counter-protesters. We’ve seen these tactics before—notably during the “mostly peaceful” Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, when full-time agitators helped ignite riots, set up a police-free (and violence-plagued) zone in Seattle, and laid nightly siege to Portland, Oregon’s federal courthouse.
In a remarkable work of reporting, Park MacDougald recently traced the tangled roots of organizations backing pro-jihad protests, both on and off campuses. These include Antifa and other networks of anonymous anarchists, along with “various communist and Marxist-Leninist groups, including the Maoist Revolutionary Communist Party, the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), and the International ANSWER coalition,” MacDougald writes. Higher up the food chain, we find groups openly supported by America’s growing class of super-rich tech execs or the anti-capitalist heirs of great fortunes. For example, retired tech mogul Neville Roy Singham, who is married to Code Pink founder Jodie Evans, funds The People’s Forum, a lavish Manhattan resource center for far-left groups. As the Columbia protests intensified, the center urged members to head uptown to “support our students.” Following the money trail of other protest groups, MacDougald finds connections to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ford Foundation, and—surprising no one—the George Soros-backed Tides Foundation.
Of course, the current wave of anti-Israel protests also involves alliances with pro-Hamas organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine. Last November, Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies testified to the House Ways and Means Committee that SJP and similar groups have deep ties to global terrorist organizations, including Hamas.
For many keffiyeh-wearing protestors, however, a recently professed concern for Palestinians is just the latest in a long list of causes they believe justify taking over streets and college quads. In Unherd, Mary Harrington dubs this medley of political beliefs the “omnicause,” writing that “all contemporary radical causes seem somehow to have been absorbed into one.” Today’s leftist activists share an interlocking worldview that sees racism, income inequality, trans intolerance, climate change, alleged police violence, and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts all as products of capitalism and “colonialism.” Therefore, the stated rationale for any individual protest is a stand-in for the real battle: attacking Western society and its institutions.
In the U.S., this type of general-purpose uprising goes back at least to the riots at the 1999 meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. In those protests, mainstream liberal factions—including labor unions and environmentalists—were joined by “black bloc” anarchists and other radicals eager to engage in “direct action” against police. That pattern—relatively moderate demonstrators providing a friendly envelope for hard-core disruptors—formed the template for many later protests: the Occupy Wall Street encampments in 2011, demonstrations following the police shooting of Michael Brown in 2014, 2016’s Standing Rock anti-pipeline movement, and of course, the calamitous summer of 2020.
These uprisings were not entirely spontaneous. In some cases, activists spend months planning mass actions—for example, against economic summits or political conventions—and can recruit street fighters from across the country. In others, an event, such as George Floyd’s death, sparks popular protests involving neophyte demonstrators. Those attract far-left activists, who swoop in to organize and expand the struggle, often tilting it toward more radical action.
That has certainly been the case at the college Gaza-paloozas. At Columbia, the New York Times spotted a woman old enough to be a student’s grandmother in the thick of the action as protesters barricaded that school’s Hamilton Hall. The woman was 63-year-old Lisa Fithian, a lifetime activist, who Portland’s alternative weekly Street Roots approvingly calls “a trainer of mass rebellion.” A counter-protester trying to block the pro-Hamas demonstrators told NBC News, “She was right in the middle of it, instructing them how to better set up the barriers.” Fithian told the Times she’d been invited to train students in protest safety and “general logistics.” She claims to have taken part in almost every major U.S. protest movement going back to the 1999 “Battle in Seattle.”
America’s radical network has plenty of Lisa Fithians, with the time and resources to travel the country educating newcomers about the “logistics” of disruptive protests. And these activists appear to have played key roles in the college occupations. The New York City Police Department says nearly half the demonstrators arrested on the Columbia and City University of New York (CUNY) campuses on April 30 were not affiliated with the schools. One hooded Hamilton Hall occupier—photographed scuffling with a Columbia custodian before getting arrested—turned out to be 40-year-old James Carlson, heir to a large advertising fortune. According to the New York Post, Carlson lives in a $2.3 million Park Slope townhouse and has a long rap sheet. For example, in 2005, he was arrested in San Francisco during the violent “West Coast Anti-Capitalist Mobilization and March Against the G8.” (Those charges were dropped.)
For a quarter-century now, Antifa and other anarchist networks have worked to refine tactics and share lessons following each major action. At Columbia, UCLA, and other schools, authorities found printouts of a “Do-It Yourself Occupation Guide” and similar documents. The young campus radicals are eager to learn from their more experienced elders. And, like the high-achieving students they are, they follow directions carefully. MacDougald asked Kyle Shideler, the director for homeland security and counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy, about the mystery of the identical tents. There was no need for a central group to distribute hundreds of tents, Shideler said. Instead, “the organizers told [students] to buy a tent, and sent around a Google Doc with a link to that specific tent on Amazon. So they all went out and bought the same tent.”
In other words, America’s radical class has gotten very skilled at recruiting and instructing new activists—even from among the ranks of elite college students with a good deal to lose. How much more could this movement accomplish with hundreds of millions in federal dollars flooding activist groups around the country?
From its first week in office, the Biden administration has trumpeted its goal to funnel more environmental spending toward “disadvantaged communities that have been historically marginalized,” partly by issuing grants to grassroots organizations. Previous environmental justice (EJ) grant programs were small in scope. But, with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August 2022, a huge pool of grant money became available. EPA administrator Michael Regan told reporters, “We’re going from tens of thousands of dollars to developing and designing a program that will distribute billions.”
More than a year and a half later, it remains hard to nail down just where the Biden administration’s billions in EJ grants will wind up. Money is being distributed through a confusing variety of programs, and the process of identifying recipients is ongoing. To help outsource the job of sifting through proposals, the EPA last year designated 11 institutions as “Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmakers.” These groups are empowered to make subgrants directly to community organizations, under streamlined EPA oversight. In all, the Biden administration has entrusted these outfits with distributing a staggering $600 million in funding. The money is expected to start flowing this summer.
The EPA’s grantmakers include a number of educational institutions and left-leaning nonprofits. For example, the EPA chose Fordham University as its lead grantmaker in the New York region. Fordham, in turn, lists as partners two nonprofits that oppose immigration enforcement. (One, the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice, states on its website: “NJAIJ believes in the human right to migrate, regardless of citizenship or political status.”) Neither group claims expertise in environmental issues. Given that the IRA’s eligibility requirements for EJ grants are extremely vague, however, perhaps that’s not a problem. Almost any activity that could help “spur economic opportunity for disadvantaged communities” (in the words of Biden’s EJ executive order) might qualify.
Perhaps the most prominent—and problematic—EPA grantmaker is the Berkeley, California-based Climate Justice Alliance. The CJA is a consortium of mostly far-left activist groups. It describes its mission as working for “regenerative economic solutions and ecological justice—under a framework that challenges capitalism and both white supremacy and hetero-patriarchy.” The group is a vigorous proponent of the omnicause, embracing almost every left-wing concern as a manifestation of climate change. For example, the CJA website proclaims: “The path to climate justice travels through a free Palestine.” MacDougald notes that the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, one of CJA’s affiliated groups, “organized an illegal anti-Israel protest in the Capitol Rotunda in December at which more than 50 activists were arrested.”
The CJA website also includes a section dedicated to the cause known as Stop Cop City. It refers to an effort to halt the construction of an 85-acre police and firefighter training center outside Atlanta. Rag-tag activists from around the country have gathered around the facility since 2021. They have repeatedly battled with police—sometimes with fireworks and Molotov cocktails—and used bolt cutters to enter the site and torch construction equipment. (CJA’s Stop Cop City page features a cartoon illustration of three childlike activists; one brandishes bolt cutters.) The group also backs a legal defense fund for activists arrested in attacks on the training center or in other protests. For those looking for more inspiration, CJA links to an interview with former Black Panther and self-described revolutionary Angela Davis.
The Alliance is not an ideological outlier in Biden’s EJ coalition. On the contrary, when the White House assembled its White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC), a panel of outside experts meant to provide “horizon-expanding EJ advice and recommendations,” it chose CJA co-chair Elizabeth Yeampierre to help lead the committee. Like other members of the panel, she sees environmental issues through an ideological, not a scientific, lens. “Climate change is the result of a legacy of extraction, of colonialism, of slavery,” Yeampierre told Yale Environment 360. As a group, radical EJ activists tend not to focus on pragmatic ways to reduce pollution and carbon emissions; for them, the real goal is overturning what they see as an exploitative economic and political system. Since these are the voices the White House chose to help shape its EJ policies, we can assume this worldview will dominate grantmaking decisions.
In February 2023, House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer, along with fellow committee member Pat Fallon, wrote to EPA administrator Regan asking for more information on the EPA’s grant programs. They noted that the EPA’s own studies of EJ grants issued in previous years showed sloppy supervision. According to an EPA report, an earlier version of the program funded projects that did “not logically lead to the desired environmental and/or public health [result].” Without better oversight and more clearly defined goals, the congressmen wrote, the EPA’s EJ grant machine risks becoming simply a “slush fund for far-left organizations.”
Since then, the administration has done little to reassure skeptics. To the contrary, the EPA has put at least one far-left organization—CJA—in charge of distributing $50 million in grant money. No doubt, many of the EPA grants will go to worthwhile projects. But money is fungible. A group that gets a large grant to, say, clean up dirty parks or teach children about recycling will also be able to hire more staff and divert more resources to political action.
With graduation behind them, most of the anti-Israel college protesters have stowed away their keffiyehs and moved on to summer vacations or internships. But the peripatetic activists who helped guide and intensify those uprisings are doubtless already planning their next actions. After all, two political conventions are looming. This fall, the college protests will likely flare up again, though by then perhaps focused on a different facet of the omnicause. And, with hundreds of millions in fresh funding flowing through the activist ecosystem, the groups that quietly nurture extremists—like those who firebombed “Cop City,” or who chant “Intifada Revolution!,” or who block bridges in the name of “climate”—will be more emboldened than ever.
A Slush Fund for Radical Protesters? City Journal (city-journal.org)
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This will be difficult to present but it's honestly the best I've got. I never finished the game because at some point in the very first level I just got stuck with no idea what to do and it's nagging away at me not knowing what the game even was. I'm pretty sure I even returned it to exchange it with another game at some point because the level was just unbeatable. The NES cartridges I had access to in my country were most of the time hacks with the image on it having nothing to do with the game itself (like Doki Doki Amusement Park having an image of Snow White on the cartridge). This game had an image of Barbie on it so I always referred to the game as "Barbie", and I played it probably when I was around 8-9 or so, so maybe 2001-2002 (yes I was playing NES at that time, PS1 didn't become accessible for me until later). Game would've been out long before that.
Platform(s): NES
Genre: Platformer
Estimated year of release: No later than the 90s, probably early 90s, but didn't look old enough to be from the 80s
Graphics/art style: Bright and colorful, had a sort of Disney-like feel to it and all I really remember is a static image of a castle being visible in the background and there were 2 "segments" of the screen to walk on - an upper and lower that you couldn't jump between, you had to find a door or something to switch between them. At some point in the level there was an "indoor" change to the appearance with the castle background replaced with a basic color pattern, I think it was a more yellowish look, still with 2 walkways above and below. You could exit the indoor area and come back to the castle background.
Notable characters: From what I can recall, the playable character was a little girl, and the design wasn't very pixely or difficult to differentiate as is typical with old NES titles, it looked more detailed and I actually believe this was the sole character in the game with no enemies encountered at any point. I think the character was wearing pink clothes and resembled a sort of princess (not quite like Peach though) but I'm not sure.
Notable gameplay mechanics: I actually believe there were no enemies to fight or avoid in the entire game, just walking across the screen and possibly opening chests and picking up items that unlocked access to more of the level? But I don't recall an inventory of any kind. I don't recall being able to do anything with the character either, like shooting or anything like that, just running/walking. If you COULD do anything, maybe you were able to press switches with a button? I also believe you could run faster, but not sure if with a powerup or you held down a button for it. If there were any puzzles which I don't even believe there were, it was likely limited to being walled off on your progress and having to find alternate routes. As far as the platforming, I'm torn between believing it was a side-scroller or just walking off the screen to a new one, but I'm leaning more towards the latter.
Other details: I don't know if the game has anything to do with Barbie because the character is a girl or if it's a ROM hack at all, but it's possible. All I remember is the one single level because I could never get past it and got stuck at the exact same spot so the game could've even just been a prototype of sort and not even a finished one. My family also tried to play it with the same result, and again we all just called it "Barbie" because of the cartridge image.
If this isn't even remotely enough info to go on let me know, maybe I can even ask my family if they remember anything about the game (but that's unlikely). I also looked up Barbie NES games and castle-related games and I haven't found anything worthwhile so far. Another thing I know is some titles, like Altered Beast, were released for the SNES but downgraded to be able to play on the NES, and this game could've been something like that? But I looked for some SNES titles as well and still found nothing. Thanks in advance.

"These are the messy, broken pieces that inevitably exist in Star Trek, not just on the ships, not just on the worlds the USS Cerritos checks up on, but within the characters themselves. Star Trek: Lower Decks makes Star Trek better because it shows us characters that are real and relatable , with problems we can identify with, and additions that keep enriching Star Trek canon."
Star Trek Is Better Because Lower Decks introduced:
"Replicator Malfunctions; Hysperia, The RenFaire Planet; Ferengi Television; Badgey; AGIMUS; The Dog, Created By Tendi; Moopsy; The Smiling Koala; Orion Culture; Starfleet's California Class Starships; The USS Cerritos Crew)."
Jen Watson (ScreenRant)
Link:
https://screenrant.com/star-trek-lower-decks-canon-best-additions/
Quotes:
"Naturally, Star Trek: Lower Decks thrives on callbacks to some of the weirdest and most beloved parts of earlier Star Trek shows, but there's no need to have an encyclopedic knowledge of all things Star Trek in order to enjoy Star Trek: Lower Decks. Instead of relying on all the Star Trek shows that preceded it, Lower Decks references itself as the seasons go on. Best of all, Star Trek: Lower Decks enriches Star Trek canon by introducing new elements that just didn't exist before, from minutiae that "upper decks" shows might not concern themselves with, to brand-new characters and creatures we all want plush versions of.
Replicator Malfunctions
What is life like for a junior officer on a starship? How do they sleep, shower, and eat? Well, it turns out that the lower deckers sometimes have to deal with what happens when the USS Cerritos' food replicators get a little ... touchy. Unlike tragic transporter malfunctions, which are the basis of many an introspective morality play on Star Trek, the not-so-tragic replicator malfunctions on Star Trek: Lower Decks are a little more comedic in scope.
If there's one true thing about advanced technology, it's that it's going to break at some point. Brad Boimler seems to get stuck with the worst of Star Trek: Lower Decks' replicator malfunctions, like a Bonsai tree for breakfast, everything tasting like black licorice, and an endless supply of steaming hot bananas. And when replicator credits are a thing, you can't just keep asking for new stuff. You get "banana: hot," and you deal with it.
[...]
Orion Culture
Star Trek: Lower Decks seeks to balance out the sexist tropes from Star Trek: The Original Series and the attempts to flip the narrative about Orion women in Star Trek: Enterprise by featuring Star Trek's first Orion main character: Science Officer in training Lt. D'Vana Tendi. Tendi showcases Orion culture from her own perspective, calling out Beckett Mariner for subscribing to harmful stereotypes, while also illustrating the true things that perpetuate the ideas of Orions being pirates and assassins.
In Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, episode 4, "Something Borrowed, Something Green", Star Trek's first visit to the Orion homeworld offers glimpses into the aspects of Orion culture that explain persistent stereotypes and why Tendi is sensitive to them. Danger and deception are a matter of course for Orions, with aspects of piracy playing a part in everything from Orion wedding traditions to competitive games. The Orion culture seen in Star Trek: Lower Decks is surprisingly nuanced, and actually manages to reconcile seemingly conflicting ideas from earlier Star Trek shows.
[...]
The USS Cerritos Crew
By far, the best additions that Star Trek: Lower Decks makes to Star Trek canon are its characters. Star Trek: Lower Decks would be nothing without the depth and realism of the character-driven stories that lay at the heart of every single episode. Each of Star Trek: Lower Decks' main characters has their own fatal flaw, ther own way of getting in their own way, so to speak, that proves relatable to those of us who are ambitious perfectionists, subject to self-sabotage, hiding who we are, unsure how to use our talents, or trying to find our place -- no matter how old we are. At the end of the day, Star Trek: Lower Decks is about the Warp Core Five's friendships making them stronger, better people.
By offering in-depth looks at the lives of junior officers, Star Trek:Lower Decks shows the depth of life aboard a Starfleet ship from the ground up. These are the parts of Starfleet that the upper-decker heroes of other Star Trek shows aren't privy to, or left behind long ago. These are the messy, broken pieces that inevitably exist in Star Trek, not just on the ships, not just on the worlds the USS Cerritos checks up on, but within the characters themselves. Star Trek: Lower Decks makes Star Trek better because it shows us characters that are real and relatable , with problems we can identify with, and additions that keep enriching Star Trek canon. "
Jen Watson (ScreenRant)
Link:
https://screenrant.com/star-trek-lower-decks-canon-best-additions/

I am absolutely floored, this is a current, ongoing happening!
So, storytime. Back in college, I used to have a little cringe, but harmless, pastime: I liked to LARP in such a way that I would, when I felt like it, cosplay as some of my OCs, go to school, and ask my close friends to refer to me by the names of my OCs while I played those characters for the day (or days). I never asked my professors to do so, and if a friend didn't want to do so that day, that was fine--I never demanded or pushed boundaries, nor did I ever act outrageously. It was just acting and playing around, and I had a good time, as did my friends! Cringe? Yeah, kinda. Harmful to anyone? Nope! I never referred to it as DID--if anything, I always stressed to my friends and others who asked that it was NOT DID. I never consumed any mental health resources for people with the disorder, and I was never not in control of myself. Just a younger person having fun.
And then, I met Jenny (fake name). Jenny was someone I met in a class, who I clicked instantly with. She shared my sense of humor, we enjoyed the same shows and games, and she completely accepted my hobby of RPing my OCs. To me, I felt like I'd made another true friend, someone who really got me.
Jenny and I hung out together for over a year, almost every day after our classes, and she never once showed any signs or symptoms of DID. And, of course, she could have masked it--but she and I were so close that we'd confided in each other for other very personal things, and I felt that she would have confided in me about something so important by then.
That's why, when Jenny started prodding me more and more about my LARPing habit, something felt off. She asked, again and again, if I was SURE that it wasn't a dissociative disorder. Was I absolutely certain that I wasn't experiencing ANY amnesia? When I roleplayed, did I ever feel like I wasn't in control of the characters I was playing? When I got really quiet and didn't talk for a bit while we hung out, was I SURE I wasn't dissociating? (No, Jenny, I was just enjoying your company and the moments of peace I got to share with you!)
The other shoe finally dropped a few weeks later, after she pushed me about it one time too many. I asked her to just tell me what was going on--did she notice something about me and was trying to express concern? Was something wrong and she didn't know how to tell me? I begged Jenny to be honest, as my friend, as someone I'd grown so close to in all that time.
And that's when Jenny told me that SHE had DID. And, on top of that...she had DID, and she had formed alters of the original characters, MY original characters, that I larped as. And, on top of THAT? She wanted me to stop larping, and respect that her alters--I cannot stress this enough, my OCs, that I CREATED--felt uncomfortable with my playing their characters. My OCs. Went to her headspace. Because they felt more comfortable there.
I wish I remembered the conversation in more detail, but at that point, I think I genuinely had a moment of dissociation--my mind just checked out entirely. I was floored, I felt betrayed by Jenny, and I had no idea how to respond to her confession and request. I asked her in very plain terms why she'd never expressed symptoms before, how she could "split alters" of characters that only I had the full details of, if she had seen a doctor or gotten a diagnosis, and if there was any help I could give her in working through this, since something felt wrong with the behavior, but it didn't feel like DID. No. Jenny just insisted that it had always been this way. She had fictives, like Sans the Skeleton from Undertale and the Joker from Batman (this is its own individual can of worms), and they had apparently interacted with me multiple times without me knowing and had deemed me "safe". In that moment, I felt like I'd lost the friend I'd grown so close to. I felt, and still feel, extremely close to my OCs, especially having played their characters in real life, and to have Jenny just...take them from me, even in a fake way, broke my heart. So I left, and gradually, I stopped talking to Jenny altogether.
And yet...I did still follow Jenny on her social media accounts. I still cared about her, and I wanted to keep an eye on her in some way, just to make sure that if something happened to her I could still help. And Jenny's accounts were devolving rapidly.
All at once, her blogs talked about nothing but systems, she engaged in immense amounts of discourse on the subject, proclaimed a deep hatred of those faking the disorder, and referred to herself as a long-time system who had been diagnosed in early childhood. I would normally make a joke of "Who are you, and what have you done with Jenny?!" but, well... A little on the nose, that.
Jenny created a carrd with pages and pages about her alters--STILL MY OCs, who I had tons of public posts about!!!--with not just the details I wrote about them, but new, Jenny-original material with added backstories, trauma, and their roles in the system. My head was spinning. I watched, again and again, as she and her "alters" (my OCs, I can't stop stressing this) made reply after reply of arguing with "system fakers" online, and even posting vague, indirect shade about a friend who abandoned her in her time of need after she finally confessed to them about her DID. Hmmm... I wonder who that could have been?
I cut Jenny out of my life after that, and unfollowed all of her social media. It just wasn't worth the stress and sadness. I also pretty much stopped my hobby of cosplaying--the joy was gone from it at that point--and moved primarily to writing and posting my works on my writing accounts. But over the years, I'd still think about Jenny from time to time and wonder how she was, if she was okay, if she'd given up the faking at a point...
Color me surprised when today, unprompted, a post appeared on my social media that was shared by someone I follow, that was written by Jenny. A detailed, in-depth argument written by her and my OCs-turned-alters about some DID discourse (keeping vague to avoid others searching it up) that had countless lies about her own disorder! Years later, Jenny was still using my original material to fuel her online discourse! And what's even worse? When I checked her account, she'd gone as far as to take even more of my characters from writings I'd posted in the years since we stopped speaking, and had them "form as alters" as well. Years later, and Jenny is still so out of touch that she's continuing to steal my work all while never speaking to me.
I'm not going to bother revealing her faking or calling her out. It wouldn't be worth the toll it'd take on me. But damn if I can't laugh about every posts she's made and watch from a distance as she continues to dig her hole. Go on, Jenny! Let's see which character you'll take from me next!
Now that I've found this sub, I would love to hear if anyone else has experienced something similar to this. I finally feel a little less baffled having seen the people here call out these behaviors, and it's nice to finally have that comfort after all this time. And nice to have somewhere to cringe about the mind-bending reality that is someone telling me to stop using my original creations! Thanks for reading all this if you did, and I hope it's cringe enough to feel fitting here, hahaha.

The subreddit AceAttorneyCirclejerk has been looked at by many other people as simply a dumb anime meme subreddit where people post seemingly nonsensical posts relating to characters and themes from the popular visual novel series Ace Attorney. But, after my intense research and study of this subreddit and its strange user behavior, I can say there is far more than what meets the eye. This subreddit and its culture is one of the most genius, abstract, and deep critique on the troubles of modern society.
Let's start first with a phrase that I once heard someone say on here:
"I jork my peanits to edging worth"
This is a very interesting statement for multiple reasons. Firstly, we should note that "edging worth" is in reference to a popular Ace Attorney character, Miles Edgeworth. However, "edging" is also an internet term used by Generation Alpha, which perhaps shows the slow corruption that their influence has on society through that part of the statement. However, the rest of the sentence is even more intriguing. Peanits sounds like "penis" which is part of the male genital anatomy and is commonly used in "masterbating" where you use it to get sexual pleasure. This is obviously the surface theme that the sentence wants to allude to, but as already shown, there is always a deeper meaning with this subreddit. Peanits also sounds like "peanuts" which is a common food that is best known for being used in peanut butter. Keep this in mind for later. Meanwhile, "jork" is meant to sound like "jerk" which again on the surface seems like a masterbating joke, but is something far more deep. If we use the idea that "peanits" means "peanuts" then that changes the entire meaning of the sentence. This person is now "jerking their peanuts to Edgeworth" which can be interpreted in many interesting ways, one of them being that they are aggressively trying to get a peanut to understanding Miles Edgeworth's character. That is quite an odd thing. Do you what else is odd? The previously mentioned "edging" internet trend.
It's all coming together.
With this, there is only one conclusion we can draw. This sentence is a commentary on how odd society has gotten due to the influence of modern internet trends and how much our lives have changed because of them. When I first discovered this, I was shocked. This was an extremely creative and subversive work of art in a sentence. What so many perceive as a simple minded joke is actually a theme so deep I doubt even the greatest writers of today could live up to it.
However, that is not my only point of discussion. I would also like to bring your attention to the most popular joke on this community.
The molars.
On this subreddit, there exists a very popular image in which Miles Edgeworth is holding Phoenix Wright's head while inspecting his mouth, or his "molars" as many say. However, when taking the context of "molars" into the question, this becomes a very creative and intriguing image. First of all, it's important to know that Miles Edgeworth is a prosecutor, which is a profession. He also is inspecting Phoenix's molars, which shows that he has quite a lot of knowledge on dental work and dentistry, which is also a profession. Two very different professions, yet are still linked in this image. Two very different colors, blue and red, yet they are linked in this image.
It's all coming together.
I believe that the fact that there is clearly duality between professions here (prosecutor, dentist, and lawyer) is a GENIUS critique on how inflation has ruined society. Not convinced? Inflation of prices requires more money. And how do you get more money? Through more jobs. Many people today must work two jobs to keep up with the constantly inflating taxes and prices. And the fact that ALL OF THIS was conveyed in just one image, while disguising itself as nothing more than lazy ship art, is one of the deepest, most abstract, and most creative depictions of the troubles of society.
Now that I know the truth behind AceAttorneyCirclejerk, I feel as if it was information I wasn't supposed to know. I've already gotten hate from quite a few different people now and I believe the FBI is onto me. It's currently 4:30 in the morning and I've been packing up my stuff to move into Brazil tomorrow. If I don't make it and they get me, I'm posting this which encapsulates all my findings. This is one of the most genius things I have ever seen, it transcends the very nature of the human mind. I hope I don't die. Please wish me good luck. Thanks.

666 AND BAR-CODES, MARK OF THE BEAST
(Hatonn here describes in 1991 how it will be. I suggest ghat it dexcribes today how it is. Everything is marked including us.)
I have been asked time and again about the connections and if, in fact, there are connections regarding the 666 symbol and bas-codes.
I can assure you of one thing, the number 666 does not randomly appear any more often than does 222, 444, or say, 333. Nevertheless, it is quite obvious that WHERE the numbers appear is very definitely of great importance. The numbers 666 are rapidly becoming man's favorite number and keep popping up in strange places--even though a recognized symbol of pure Satanic code--it is appearing more frequently than any other "number" in the so-called Christian and other religious placements. It is worthy of the time to speak of this matter for I think you must become aware that this code is being placed on all of you. I think it worth the time to give a listing of some instances of use of this number which none of you should miss in noting.
* World Bank code number is "666".
* New credit cards in the U. S. are now being assigned the prefix 666.
* Australia's NATIONAL bank cards have the code 666.
* Central computers for Sears, Belks, Pennys, and Montgomery Wards around the world have all their transactions prefixed with 666.
* Shoes made in European Common Market Countries have stamped on inside label 666.
* Computers made by Lear Siegler have a seal on the side on which is stamped the number 666.
* Internal Revenue Service instructions for NON-PROFIT Corporation Emoloyee 1979, W-2 Form requires the prefix 666.
* Internal Revenue Service began to require the prefix of 666 on some forms; for example, W-2P, disability is 666.3; death is 666.4, etc. as early as 1977.
* Tanks built by Chrysler Corporation...have on their sides 666.
* South Central Bell's new Telco Credit Union Cards require the prefix 666, then the person's Social Security number.
*. ID tags on 1979 GM cars produced in Flint, Michigan, contain the number 666.
*. United States Selective Service Cards have on them 666.
* Overseas telephone operator number from Israel is 666.
* Arab-owned vehicles IN JERUSALEM have license plates prefixed Wirth 666.
*. Record album released by the rock group, Black Sabbath is named 666.
*. The films, Omen I and II concern themselves with a world dictator and the number 666.
* Some IBM Supermarket equipment is prefixed with the number 3.666.
* JC Penney began prefixing account numbers in August, 1980, with 666.
* Master Card began using on their August, 1980, statements--66.
* Formula for NCR Model 304 Supermarket Computer System is 6 60 6,666.
* The United Nations resolution #666 came during the Iraq War.
Precious ones, there are contests even, called "666". What is happening by total intent is to condition the world to accept the coding of 666 without question or note. There is coming a day when a world governmental system will demand that everyone in the world take a mark and the number 666 in order to work, buy or sell. This fact is clearly set forth and being followed diligently. If you think you can avoid the mark of the beast--think again--YOU ALREADY BEAR THE MARK; DON'T BE STUPID AND SET YURSELF UP TO DENY SAME. YOU ARE ALREADY MARKED AND THE INSTRUCTIONS TO REFUSE THE MARK IS NOT OF GOD'S GIVING. YOU STEP FORTH AND REFUSE WHEN Y0U ARE ALREADY WITHIN THE SYSTEM AND YOU ARE DEAD OR INCARCERATED AND USELESS UNTO GOD'S WORK. IT IS A SEPARATION ENTRAPMENT SET FORTH BY THE BEAST TO CATCH THE LIGHTED PEOPLE. YOU CAN STAY OUT OF THE SYSTEM TO THE FULL LIMIT ALLOWED BY THE LAW BUT YOU DO NO ONE A FAVOR BY GETTING YOURSELF KILLED--IT NEANS ONE LESS WORKER FOR GOD.
THE NUMBER OF MAN
Let us look at that which is projected unto you and might be well worthy of note. Then number with which all the world will be commanded to work, buy and sell during the Great Tribulation is the number of man--and you find it on all bar-codes and Elite products. Number 6 as has been distorted for identification and easy reference has even taken as the number of imperfection; the human-given human number; the number of MAN as destitute of God--without God/Christ. At any rate, it is certain that man was created on the sixth day goes the accepted WORD, and thus he would be established under the number six--which would identify him and then, it goes on with several other non-coincidental accidents in numbering. For example, six days were appointed to man for his labor so it went, while one day is associated in sovereignty with the Lord God--as his day of rest. Then the infinite symbol of 8 represents infinity or immortality which is also of God. The serpent also, was created somehow on the sixth day, or so the Goods Book says--obviously God was most busy and yet totally restricted on the sixth day of His masterful creation. The sixth clause of the Lord's Prayer treats of sin. Six is the number stamped on all that is connected with human labor. You will see it stamped upon his measures which he uses in his labour and on the time during which he labors. And you see this from the very beginning.
Six, thew number of man, is one less than seven, the number which represents God and two less than the Creation. This indicates that man was created somehow in the likeness of God, but is not God, because God is perfect and sinless and one within and with Creation. The Sixth Commandment came as a result of Cain's sin of killing his brother, and the man who will ultimately claim the number 666 will be the greatest murderer the world has ever known. God put a mark upon Cain after the murder of Abel. Although Cain's mark was for the purpose of protecting him from those who would kill him, it also signified that before God, he was condemned. God forbade the children of Judea to mark their bodies--or did he? For the translation always read "Israel". The quoting then always continues with this looking forward to the time when the "Jews", as well as the rest of the world, would be called upon to take the mark of the Anti-Christ. Well, will the "Jews" take the mark? I guess so--they crested it!
But let us look a bit further into the book of Revelation. The Apocalypse: The 'mark' itself is at once a number and a name. The Apostle tells you what it is. As he gives it, it is made up of two Greek characters which stand for the name of Christ, with a third, the figure of a crooked serpent, put between them...Thjis horrid sign must everyone receive on one of the most conspicuous parts of the body, cut, stamped or branded in, there to abide indelibly. No one may either buy or sell without this mark, and all who do receive it take upon their bodies the token and seal of heir damnation!
Do you really.believe you have not already been branded? Let us consider that, for years--well over two decades--the laser beam has been branding steers and horses--and even salmon while they remain in the stream, swimming. It is instant and painless. The laser simply destroys skin pigment. In some thirty-BILLIONTHS of a second a technician can stitch a brand--or initials, or symbol. This type of branding of animals for ownership or research purposes has become common practice. Do you think it probable that everyone of you have been branded while standing, say, in a line to vote or register your car or, or, or--certainly if you have any kind of medical examination, dental care or hospitalization--especially immunizations.
TRANSACTION CARD/FINAL CARD
This is the final laugh at the world citizenry. This is one of the world's greatest conspiracies and it is being quietly conducted in.the most sacred halls of secular secrecy, brothers. While its thrust is Economic, its reach is without limit. No System will escape its mastery, be it in Politics or religions, Social or otherwise. I told you long ago, dear ones, that the SDI program was not f defense but rather to place into space satellites which unite the entire world banking system--the beast to all other parts in instant connection--with all citizens registered, identified and located. You are all simply within the system. The point is to protect yourself from the system as much as possible and the only way to do so is to utilize the laws and rules utilized by your adversary for as long as you can do so.
The Prime Mover here is the most powerful Consortium of financial institutions, capitalists, and scientists ever leagued together. Their common purpose is to bring every person, place and thing under their total control and it is all but in place and already operational.
The applied strategy is by way of instant IDENTIFICATION. This means of ixentoification is by way of assignment of MARKS (or bars) for NUJMBERS read by machines. (Numbers people can read, Marks they can't--the name of this game is SECRECY.)
Phase I began in 1970 with a ncnscientious effort to "IDENTIFY EVERY ITEM" at the manufacturers level with a NUMBER "MARKED" on it. A group of Numbers designated by Marks, lines or bars, is called a Bar Code, (Code 39, etc.), and giant computer manufacturers are central to the phase.
Phase II began in 1973 with an effort to IDENTIFY each PERSON with a Number. The Social Security Numbers when blended with the Universal Numbering System will be converted to "Bars". Initially, the NUMBER will be "marked" on a Card; (a World_Wide Money-ID-Card). Subsequently, according to the old Bible Prophecy written ands directed by the very ones who would put it into place, it will be stamped upon the person it identifies. As the MARK OF IDENTITY on an ITEM is a Bar Code, so the MARK OF IDENTIY on a Card and later on a person, will be a Bar Code facsimile. The Government, Banks, and Card Companies are central to this phase.
Phase III is an effort to identify everything in the world, whether mobile or stationary; if mobile, then how to instantaneously locate it, as a piece of luggage, an expensive race horse, a family car, or a pet or person. Central to this is the Federal Government which has spent ten years In research on "Electronic Identification" at Los Alamos, the Airlines, and private inventors.
The symbol of 666 is absolutely instrumental to the Bar Code system. You are already in it, so let us be most careful how you handle it. Your best defense against it is to know truth about it--stop deluding yourself that you can somehow avoid the mark lest you get s special mark which sets you apart as a troublemaker and you will be among the first incarcerated or removed by other means.

One of the recurring characteristics of Loona's discography up to [X X] was lyrical self-referencing: phrases and motifs that would occur in one song and then reappear down the line. It could be a little too much sometimes, but it was a reliable way to keep up the fan engagement and build something like a lyrical identity for Loona alongside a sonic one.
I wrote a post about this five years ago, and I think Dall is the first album since then to really obviously lean into it. So that warrants a follow-up. This is not a theory post - it only examines the text of the lyrics and what connections I draw there.
Translations below are from our Team Subbit versions. Along the way, I also wanted to highlight a few translation notes for discussion.

Virtual Angel

The last time we saw reference to an angel was "Egoist"'s MV, which cast Jinsoul as a "fallen angel" in big neon letters. It's interesting to me that this song, with its broken wings and vision of Eden, leans most heavily on the yyxy era, with none of those members belonging to ARTMS. Looking past that, lyrically I think it does enough to give a sense of closure to the yyxy stories.
1.

In my frozen heart Flowers have newly bloomed And what I’d hidden inside the freezing point Is my heart for you, encased in ice Your angel

This is a reprise of yyxy's "Frozen", which is entirely about the narrator being trapped in a metaphorical ice castle and being thawed out of it by love. We see the same imagery of flowers blooming to signify the thaw. Here's the chorus of that song:

Frozen, frozen Thaw me before it's too late Shine your light And bloom a flower upon frozen lands Hold me, hold me, oh now, right now Thaw me, thaw me, even warmer for me Hold me, hold me, deeper and deeper Would you become my sun

2.

The sin of having swallowed the sun Forgiven in this moment

The most overt reference in the album is, of course, from "Singing in the Rain"'s iconic prechorus 1:

For the sin of having swallowed the daytime sun Burning up, here I am

And you may remember Jinsoul already called this back in "Egoist"'s rap break:

Hey, for the sin of having swallowed you You, beautiful, grow larger You are me, now I am you

Also a translation note: I think the Modhaus sub on this line is mistaken. It currently reads "The sin of absorbing the sun // The moment it causes harm", which is just not what the original says. My best guess is that someone misread "사해진" ["forgiven", archaic] as "상해진" ["spoiled"].
3.

The Moon’s risen and my heart is complete Your angel

Moonrise is such a common image with Loona that you could name a whole bunch of songs here - "Loonatic", "Satellite", "PTT", "Wow", "Need U", and "Pale Blue Dot" just to name a few. But the way this is written specifically reminded me of two things. One is the chorus of "Let Me In", in the sense that both lines begin with the words "달이 뜨고" ("Moon rises and") followed by some kind of transformation:

The moon rises and I become you

The other is the final chorus of "Heat", where moonrise also functions as a signal:

Today I prepared for you A beautiful star is shining bright (I want to float up higher, above) This isn't the end, look up and look for me (Turn around) There, the moon is risen tonight (tonight, oh)

4.

When I open my eyes as a butterfly Save me, savior

References to Loona's most representative song, "Butterfly", have been the most common shared thread among post-lawsuit work: see Loossemble's "A Butterfly's Signal" or Heejin's "Sad Girls Club". This one is kind of random and I think it actually takes away from the song's focus a little, but it's there.
Another translation note that the "저장" ("save") in "save me" is not the word for "rescue", but instead the one for "preserve" or "keep" - like saving a digital file. So the line is not as redundant as it looks, and also helps prime for the next line where Haseul says happiness is "through the line" (which I'm reading as in electronic cords and cables).

Sparkle

1.

Before the Sun goes down Come fetch quickly For the Moon will rise soon

It's moonrise again, but with a subtle difference. The verb used in "Virtual Angel", "Let Me In", and "Heat" is "뜨다", literally just "to rise". This one is "차오르다", which is actually more commonly used to mean the waxing of the Moon. The translation chosen here is "rise" because it's not unheard of for it to be used as "rise" and it contrasts with the sundown line above, but worth highlighting.
Trivia: has any Loona song used the "wax" verb before? Yes! One I recall is "365", where Loona liken themselves to the Moon:

I'd grow ever so small but then A tad closer towards you Again I wax and wane

2.

A different emotion We follow the light

I don't actually think this is a throwback because it's a common phrase, but I just wanted to highlight just how many times "follow the light" is used in the discography because it's a lot. All of these use the exact same phrasing ("빛을 따라") even when translated slightly differently for context.
Sonatine, bridge:

Following the faraway light

Chaotic, bridge:

Following that light, reach out to me

Rosy, bridge:

Following that light, shining on me quietly

Day & Night, prechorus:

Like a habit, I walk towards your light

Flip That, prechorus:

Following the new light that pulls me still

Day by Day, verse 1:

Following the light engraved in old memories

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

This is one of the most celestially-themed tracks any of them have ever done, which is saying something given the entire discography. As a result it has passing shades of a lot of different tracks that I won't bother to name, like the blooming image of "Chaotic" and the orbiting of "Satellite". The 12 constellations and 12 months bits are super on the nose and I'm all for it.
1.

Following the twinkling Morse code I am called dimly Click click, right here [...] The signal comes through clearly Click click, here

The most obvious parallel is another yyxy song, "Rendezvous 18.6y". Both tracks use radio signals and scanning/tuning them as a metaphor for yearning and connection, and Hitchhiker massively expands the scale of that metaphor. Here's the opening verse of Rendezvous:

Where is it from? A sound coming from somewhere Seems to have found me again, this familiar radio tone (8 point 5, what is your signal?) Among the many faint noises, coming clear Is your feelings, making me fly (fly fly fly)

While we're at it, even this jazz-standard line is kind of a throwback.
Hitchhiker:

Fly me to the moon

R18.6y:

Let's stay on the moon On the way back there [...] Let me fly to the moon

2.

Tonight perhaps two Moons may rise

The obvious comparison is Loonatic, which goes:

Three moons rise up (I'm not insane)

and also has Milky Way references just like this song. The other line that's kind of written like this is "PTT"'s "Keep open the 12 different doors", though I think I'm content to let those lyrics lie.

Flower Rhythm

1.

Adorning the sky, mystical sway Causes your heart to open too

So this reminded me of OEC's "Starlight", but only because I thought that song also combined the word "수놓다" ("to embroider", but more often used metaphorically for stars or other shiny things in the sky) with a sense of something opening. What "Starlight" actually says is this:

Like lighting in the sky The starlight slowly turns on The password solved, this night unlocks

So it was kind of similar (the "unlock" there is the same word as "open"), just without the word "adorn".
More trivia: that embroideadorn word is used in four songs -
D-1, verse 1:

Rainbow of shining stars, the studded bridge

U R, chorus:

It’s like the dotted starlight Is surrounding me

Newtopia, verse 1:

Following the tip of the star-adorned orbit

Day by Day, verse 2:

Adorning my heart full

Candy Crush

Given the subject matter, there are some natural similarities to Choerry's "Puzzle" and the aforementioned "Starlight". I love the spilling/showering light imagery at the start, which "Need U" also pulled off well:

The deepest night Light showering above my head (Candy Crush)
And stars of such faith rain down They rain to make the whole universe shine (Need U)

But I didn't notice any specific wording that hearkens back to older songs. (Obviously "Plastic Candy" can't count since it's the whole song's reference.)

Air

1.

Been been there and I’ve been been there Feel it, what what, a totally different deja vu

As we know, this is just "Butterfly". The first line is obvious and the second line is the opener of that song:

Will you whisper, you're the deja vu that wakes me up

I'm not sure there's anything else in this one, other than "Air Force One" which again shouldn't count. Daft Punk I guess?

Unf/air

This one stands out lyrically from the rest of the album, because of how down-to-earth and comparatively mundane it is. Reminds me of "Valentine Girl" and "Ding Ding Dong" in vibes, if not in expression.

Distress

It's a little curious to me that they translated this title to "Distress". It's not totally wrong, but the word "조난" specifically refers to a shipwreck or stranding. That's the reason why the song refers to signs, lights and sirens, and the context for its overall sense of being lost and drifting. I guess a distress call is maybe what they were going for.
1.

Between the time I’ve waited Always that same light

The concept of being or going "between time" is not uncommon in lyricism, probably because it's evocative yet ambiguous. I also don't think this one is an intentional callback, just a reused phrase. We see it in a few spots in the discography (interestingly, they're all songs mentioned already).
Puzzle, prechorus 1:

Between the cracks of time that passed by, you graze through

Loonatic, last chorus:

Three moons rise up (I'm not insane) Between time that has stopped

D-1, verse 1:

Between a changed passage of time

Rendezvous 18.6y, verse 2:

Beyond the gaps between renewed time and space

Butterfly Effect

As they have said, this is basically a Butterfly sequel. Perfect title as well.
1.

Do you remember The way it began as a little fluttering of wings I’m still believing Ever since that day, it grew, the hurricane in my heart (Butterfly Effect)
It starts with a little fluttering of wings Now inside my heart a hurricane (Butterfly)

2.

The torn paper moon It’s drifted too far away now, can’t reach it (Butterfly Effect)
A folded paper moon, as if to circle between it (Butterfly)

3.

Full of newness, at the end of the long journey I think I’ve reached it, dream of mine Look at the world, distant, at the end of the long journey I think it’s a new beginning, dreams of mine (Butterfly Effect)
The world becomes smaller Take me way too far, become new In this moment dreams, dreams may come true (Butterfly)

Birth

I've posted a comment before about how the Modhaus translation departs from the original. Other than that, this is a wholly original text that doesn't really have a comparison among Loona's past lyrics. Maybe it could be a new archetype for ARTMS.
I will make one shoutout to the "My birth through a false smile" line. It's like a yandere version of the "My day filled with fake smiles" bit from "See Saw".

context:
so, i’m currently a language school student, and i have another year of study left, but i had been planning to make the move to graduate school for the fall intake.
however, my father has cancer and his condition is worsening. i am thinking that i would like to go back home for a little while when this term ends at the end of June to spend time with him, and then come back Spring 2025, or Fall 2025 at the latest, on a new student visa sponsored by my graduate school.
questions:
•since i am planning to come back within the year, should i put my things in a storage facility, so i don’t have to 1) figure out how to throw away all my things, and 2) re-buy everything when i come back ?
•will it look weird to Immigration if i quit language school on this current student visa, just to apply for another student visa in 6-12 months ? is there a time limit on when i can get another visa ? when applying for the new visa, should i include a letter explaining everything ?

Basically title. After messing a bit with the game's resolution (and subsequently taking a bit of a break between tests), my game's camera is stuck like this, and I can't for the life of me figure out why.
I don't think it has anything to do with my mods per se (everything's compatible and seems to work fine from a technical standpoint) I think I may have done something wrong on either BethINI, Skyrim.ini, the launcher, or some other .ini settings, because it happened not long after I went back and forth testing resolutions.
For reference, my actual menus (the quest log, inventory and spell list) makes the camera behave normally, but as soon as I go back to neutral gameplay, it freezes whatever I'm looking at in this way. I can still control my character in this state, but the display is frozen. This is the weirdest bug I've encountered so far, and I haven't found answers to it online so, if anyone has any idea as to why this is even happening I'd be super super grateful!!!

Welcome to the Monthly Unjerk. This is a monthly thread for discussing just about anything (as long as it doesn't violate subreddit rules). New threads are posted on the 1. of each month or 2. if I forget.
June has arrived, which means queer power levels are off the charts and more LGBTQ+ characters found their way into our new banner. Thanks for making it, u/normalgrinn.
By the way, the thread title totally isn't in reference to recent events in certain seasonals I like or anything, baka.
Trans rights are human rights!

Minecraft's first-ever campaign features five unique endings (SOF Ending, CORS Ending, COE Ending, Lone Wolf Ending, and the Brotherhood Ending). Most of these endings are the same, with the biggest differences located in the Brotherhood's ending. I will explain the choices and consequences that factor into the differences in each ending. I am doing this because replaying the story is NOT WORTH IT! It takes a long time to get back to Act 3, and you are not missing much in the ending variety. Unless you want to experience unique boss fights. Yet most of the boss fights are the same.
SOCIETY OF FREEDOM ENDING:
This ending is only worth doing if you have completed each side's quest in favor of the society of freedom. This includes Killing the Ice King, taking the nether star, telling Roberto the truth about Virgil, saving Foo Foo, creating the antidote, helping Melinda with her golden carrot, and giving Monty's love letter to Melinda. The society will be very weak if you do not assemble all the members. In some cases where the side quests are not completed or not completed in favor of the society, only Roberto Flemen and Dr. Kynes will be in Act 3 (this does not change everything; it just changes the characters who give certain story-specific items. The society will be much weaker without the full army and thus Act 3 will be much harder). The epilogue will also feature a smaller version of Freedom Town.
Synopsis: Fight Janice Dei (the society ending with only unique boss fight) to get the flint and steel. Use the portal gateway to kill Ramon and Gregory. Use Kyne's lab to travel to Bedrock Castle. Fight Mother of Nature, Vargas, Mad Librarian, Twin Witches, and The Admin. Choose Norman or Billy. Fight Ender Dragon. You wake up at Freedom Town and choose to be mayor or adventure into the world. Find the mirror and either Billy or Norman (who vow to make you suffer and find Issac). Get message from Angel. The End.
CULT OF RED SHROOM ENDING:
Only do this ending if you do the side quests in favor of this cult. This means not stealing water of life, not killing the general, and not giving the Virgil intel to Roberto. If you weaken the cult and then side with them, Act 3 will again be MUCH harder.
Synopsis: Travel under the base to the Warden's ruins and fight the ghost of the Warden. Establish a home in the Mushroom Temple with Ramon. Travel with the general through Mushroom portals to defeat Gregory the Grim and Roberto Cullen in his mech. Use Ramon's secret portal to travel to the Bedrock Castle. Fight Mother of Nature, Vargas, Mad Librarian, Twin Witches, and The Admin (using the ghost warden's abilities that you get after killing him at the beginning of Act 3). Choose Norman or Billy. Fight Ender Dragon. Wake up at Mushroom Island, a secret cult sanctuary built by Ramon as they are wanted by the village trade network (same as the society of freedom). He gives you the choice to lead the cult or adventure in the world on your own (same as the society of freedom). He gives you coordinates for Angel's Shack in the swamp. Find the mirror and either Billy or Norman (who vow to make you suffer and find Issac). Get message from Angel. The End.
(the society of freedom and the cult of the red shroom are essentially the same in terms of endings except for different characters and locations for the home base and epilogue. The only difference being the Ramon Fight and the Roberto Flemen fight (and the Janice Dei fight).
CULT OF ENDER ENDING:
Only do this ending if you do the side quests in favor of this cult. This means giving the nether star back to Alice Grim and doing the extra unlockable Alice Grim side quest in Act 2 (this is only unlockable if you give her the nether star). If you weaken this cult and side with them, Act 3 will be MUCH harder.
Synopsis: Establish a home in the Ender Spyre. Travel with Alice Grim through Ice portals to defeat Ramon and Roberto Flemen in his mech. Use Gregory's secret portal to travel to the Bedrock Castle. Fight Mother of Nature, Vargas, Mad Librarian, Twin Witches, and The Admin. Choose Norman or Billy. Use the Warden, in the End, to tame and ride the Ender Dragon with Gregory to the countryside and destroy the winter season (this makes it so it cannot snow in your world, and there are no more ice or snow biomes) (you will not have to fight the Warden as the dragon kills it once it is tamed). The dragon then dies of weakness from its fire breath. Gregory establishes a democracy with the village trade network, and the two factions join under the label "The Countryside People." In the epilogue, you live at the Ender Spyre. Franklin and Gregory ask you to lead the Countryside People. You have the choice to accept or adventure in the world. Gregory gives you the coordinates to Angel's Shack. Find the mirror and either Billy or Norman (who vow to make you suffer and find Issac). Get message from Angel. The End.
LONE WOLF ENDING:
Only do this ending if you have not done any side quests or have not fully shown loyalty to one specific faction. This Act 3 is hard as you are all alone, apart from the help of Franklin.
Synopsis: Establish a home in Franklin's Village/Radio Tower. Use the village trade network portals to kill Ramon, Gregory, and Roberto Flemen in his mech. Use Franklin's secret portal to travel to the Bedrock Castle. Fight Mother of Nature, Vargas, Mad Librarian, Twin Witches, and The Admin. Choose Norman or Billy. Use the Warden to kill the Ender Dragon, but then have to fight the Warden in another boss fight after the dragon as it goes crazy. In the epilogue, you live in Franklin's village. The village trade network appoints Franklin as its new leader, and Franklin gives you the choice to become mayor of his village or adventure in the world. He then gives you the coordinates of Angel's shack. Find the mirror and either Billy or Norman (who vow to make you suffer and find Issac). Get message from Angel. The End.
BROTHERHOOD ENDING:
Only do this ending if you have not done any side quests or have not fully shown loyalty to one specific faction. This ending makes Act 3 very easy.
Synopsis: In Act 2, Intermission, you travel to the Eye Casino again, and the Admin makes you kill either Norman or Billy in cold blood to prove your loyalty to him (this is the replacement for choosing them in Act 3 in the bedrock castle). (if you choose not to kill any of them, the Admin will teleport you back to the real world, and you will be given the four other ending choices with Franklin's radio tower again). You then establish a new base with the Admin in the end in his bedrock castle. You ride the Ender dragon with Vargas to kill Gregory the Grim, you ride the Ender dragon with the Mad Librarian to kill Roberto Flemen in his mech, you ride the Ender dragon with Mother of Nature to kill Ramon, and you travel with Connie and Bonnie to kill Mayor Franklin and his army of village trade network soldiers (this is the only somewhat unique boss fight in this ending). You then return to the bedrock castle and are invited to the bedrock sanctuary. The Admin tells you the truth about his wife and that he has been looking for someone worthy and strong enough to kill him finally, as his powers make it so he cannot commit suicide. He gives you admin powers, and you have a final fight with him; in the process of the epic admin power fight, the dragon is also killed (this fight is much grander and epic in scale compared to the regular Admin fight aa this time you have admin powers instead of warden powers or no powers at all). In the epilogue, the four henchmen of the admin ask you to become the new admin and rule the End and the Bedrock castle. You can choose to lead them as the new admin or adventure in the world. They show you the vault and you find the coordinates to Angel's shack. Find the mirror and either Billy or Norman (who vow to make you suffer and find Issac). Get message from Angel. This time, Angel will thank you for freeing William but will be very angry at you for helping him take his anger out on innocent people and killing all your friends. She will seem like she does not want to watch over you but does anyway because you freed William, and there is a "chance" that you may be good. The End
This is everything. Thank you for reading! Mojang seems to tease a sequel at the end of the campaign!

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Digital Marketing: An Overview

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Comparative Analysis

Cost

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Reach

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Conclusion

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We do almost everything together. Like what every good couple did it was hard for other people to see us apart especially at home where we'd be found in one of a few cuddling spots. We even played games together in our shared office.
You'd think practically being always with one another that we were a brand new couple, but no we've been together for a couple of years by this point.
We're both pretty active in the gym too but with slight different weekly workout routines. So of course the two of us are in great shape and we were before our relationship began. My character had always been pretty petite but her body still looked great maybe her small size made it look even better. Working out for a few years and making her diet better for herself
She works as a model (bikinis and workout wear) and works at a cafe to fill in some of her time as her modeling pays very well but doesn't take too much. Also taking care of a streaming career. She's taken advantage of the small lucky breaks that she's been given.
Your character is a photographer for the same agency that she works for and my exclusive photographer. But you do get to photograph a few other of the model. This pays pretty decently too.
Our days began with cuddling or one of us would be getting an early morning run. Then we'd eat breakfast together. Afterwards our day would really begin. What would we do? Where would we go? Who would we meet/see? None of it ever matters as long as we were together. Maybe we truly meant to be. It seemed our love knew no bounds.
I have reference pictures for my character, the house and outfits that I'd think she'd be wearing. You don't need your own reference but if you do please share it!. If you have any questions about the plot or want to know anything about either characters don't be afraid to ask and I hope to hear from you soon!