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Cambridge room available for 6 months
2024.05.20 04:20 Alternative_Law6149 Cambridge room available for 6 months
Sublet My Huge Room in Cambridge, showing by appt this week!
18' x 18' square space, With bay windows white walls w wood floor!
This is an almost 6 1/2 Month Sublet 6/1 - 1/15/25
NO COUPLES!!
June 1 start date until Jan 15th, 2025
Please confirm these dates are good for you in your email if you wish to receive a response.
We are really looking for these dates which are not very flexible. (this is NOT a summer sublet)
Very Large room with 3 Bay windows!
No Smoking No pets.
Brand new stainless steel fridge Brand new wood floor in living room. Well maintained apt with great landlord!!
White walls and wood floors throughout apartment.
Apartment has kitchen, living room, full bath.
Laundromat, convenience store, buses one block away. Many restaurants.
Walk 10 minutes to red and green lines T, about 20 minutes from downtown!
Blocks from Central/Inman/Kendall and Union squares!
Shared utilities, internet, electric and gas. **Very inexpensive.
3 working roommates, male/female.
Please tell me what you do and why you are looking for a place and generally about yourself.
Permit parking on street, NO off street parking, Non-smokers only please.
First and security before move in.
Landlord says NO pets of any kind, NON-NEGOTIABLE
Please include an e-mail address and phone so I can contact you!
If the ad is up it is still avail.
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18' x 18' square space, With bay windows white walls w wood floor!
This is an almost 6 1/2 Month Sublet 6/1 - 1/15/25
NO COUPLES!!
June 1 start date until Jan 15th, 2025
Please confirm these dates are good for you in your email if you wish to receive a response.
We are really looking for these dates which are not very flexible. (this is NOT a summer sublet)
Very Large room with 3 Bay windows!
No Smoking No pets.
Brand new stainless steel fridge Brand new wood floor in living room. Well maintained apt with great landlord!!
White walls and wood floors throughout apartment.
Apartment has kitchen, living room, full bath.
Laundromat, convenience store, buses one block away. Many restaurants.
Walk 10 minutes to red and green lines T, about 20 minutes from downtown!
Blocks from Central/Inman/Kendall and Union squares!
Shared utilities, internet, electric and gas. **Very inexpensive.
3 working roommates, male/female.
Please tell me what you do and why you are looking for a place and generally about yourself.
Permit parking on street, NO off street parking, Non-smokers only please.
First and security before move in.
Landlord says NO pets of any kind, NON-NEGOTIABLE
Please include an e-mail address and phone so I can contact you!
If the ad is up it is still avail.
2024.05.20 03:04 trouserpanther [USA-KY] [H] Apple watch series 7 45mm stainless cellular with accessories [W] PayPal, local cash
Reduced price
For sale is a used apple watch series 7, stainless steel graphite color, cellular version.
This comes with the original sealed abyss blue sport band, all boxes, 9x 3rd party watch bands, a 3d printed watch band holder, the original usb-c charge cable, a 3 in 1 charger that charges air pods, watch, and phone wirelessly, with the associated cable and power block.
The watch itself has no scratches on the screen, and a small minor scuff on the body on the lower right corner. It has a battery health of 80%, still lasting through the day with normal use. Selling due to switching to Android.
Repairs: none
I am asking $195 shipped, $175 local, Lexington area.
Timestamps: https://imgur.com/a/ICI4lok
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For sale is a used apple watch series 7, stainless steel graphite color, cellular version.
This comes with the original sealed abyss blue sport band, all boxes, 9x 3rd party watch bands, a 3d printed watch band holder, the original usb-c charge cable, a 3 in 1 charger that charges air pods, watch, and phone wirelessly, with the associated cable and power block.
The watch itself has no scratches on the screen, and a small minor scuff on the body on the lower right corner. It has a battery health of 80%, still lasting through the day with normal use. Selling due to switching to Android.
Repairs: none
I am asking $195 shipped, $175 local, Lexington area.
Timestamps: https://imgur.com/a/ICI4lok
2024.05.20 02:58 trouserpanther [USA-KY] [H] Apple watch series 7 45mm stainless cellular with accessories [W] PayPal, local cash
Reduced price
For sale is a used apple watch series 7, stainless steel graphite color, cellular version.
This comes with the original sealed abyss blue sport band, all boxes, 9x 3rd party watch bands, a 3d printed watch band holder, the original usb-c charge cable, a 3 in 1 charger that charges air pods, watch, and phone wirelessly, with the associated cable and power block.
The watch itself has no scratches on the screen, and a small minor scuff on the body on the lower right corner. It has a battery health of 80%, still lasting through the day with normal use. Selling due to switching to Android.
I am asking $195 shipped, $175 local, Lexington area.
Timestamps: https://imgur.com/a/ICI4lok
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For sale is a used apple watch series 7, stainless steel graphite color, cellular version.
This comes with the original sealed abyss blue sport band, all boxes, 9x 3rd party watch bands, a 3d printed watch band holder, the original usb-c charge cable, a 3 in 1 charger that charges air pods, watch, and phone wirelessly, with the associated cable and power block.
The watch itself has no scratches on the screen, and a small minor scuff on the body on the lower right corner. It has a battery health of 80%, still lasting through the day with normal use. Selling due to switching to Android.
I am asking $195 shipped, $175 local, Lexington area.
Timestamps: https://imgur.com/a/ICI4lok
2024.05.20 01:24 acqualingua A.R.T. Gatsby sneak peek!
This afternoon I got to witness a small portion of final tech rehearsals for the upcoming Rachel Chavkin/Florence Welch/Martyna Majok version of Gatsby with a group of other A.R.T. members here in Cambridge, MA! The visit included a Q&A session with Taylor Brennan, who is working on Gatsby as A.R.T.'s in-house associate production manager, and Lisa Field-Coleman, associate director of development with A.R.T. Here are some of the most interesting items we learned....
Several questions were asked about the "phone-free" policy for the show. Taylor confirmed that 1) the policy applies specifically to this Gatsby production and is not currently planned for any other A.R.T. productions; 2) the intention is to prevent bootlegged recordings, rather than to eliminate smartphone disruptions (although several folks expressed gladness for this added benefit); and 3) Taylor believed, as was suggested elsewhere on this sub, that the policy was requested by Florence Welch's representation, in order to safeguard her music rights.
On that note, Taylor said the music will be distinctively recognizable as the product of Florence Welch, for those familiar with her work.
Finally, because guests will NOT be able to use their phones to view a digital program, Lisa confirmed that A.R.T. will be providing full-size printed programs for this production.
(My own personal note - I think anyone coming to see this should 100 percent plan to bring physical, printed copies of your tickets if at all possible, and arrive earlier than you think you should. The magnetic phone pouches are going add extra time to the entry process, and if you forget your seat location, there's no way to view your mobile tickets from inside the seating area.)
Speaking in general terms, Taylor estimated that the show was about "75 percent" complete as of today, compared to the version that will be locked in for opening night on June 5. Book, music, choreography, and staging are all still actively being revised, and she suggested, for example, there could even be a new song written between now and the first performance, which is just 4 days away. Talyor also indicated that the May 23 invited dress rehearsal (formerly scheduled as the first preview) will potentially be the first time the complete show is run from start to finish with all elements in place (sets, costumes, lighting, sound, etc.)!
The pit orchestra will be mostly visible on-stage for this show, and is currently at about 10 pieces, including piano, strings, and horns. While the instrumentation is more jazz-era than modern rock band, Taylor indicated that because it's Florence Welch, there will still definitely be a pop-rock energy to the sound. Taylor did also mention that this production includes a lift platform under the stage, hence the need to locate the orchestra elsewhere.
On the topic of staging, Taylor believes this is the largest set ever placed on the A.R.T. stage, and once we moved into the theater to observe rehearsal, the set indeed spanned the entire width of the proscenium arch. Two massive abstract-looking metal staircases frame the space - one all sharp edges and mirrors, the other like a pile of twisted silvery automobile carcasses. It definitely seems to have Rachel Chavkin's imprint - the staircase elements look slightly reminiscent of Lempicka, while the back of the stage is a huge wall of headlights that reminded me a tiny bit of Hadestown.
Finally, we got to see choreographer Sonya Tayeh spend 30 minutes walking the principal cast (Gatsby, Daisy, Nick, Jordan, and Tom) plus ensemble, all in full costume, through final choreo adjustments, and a partial run-through with orchestra, for a song currently titled "It's Too Hot" (in the fateful scene where the group decides to take a drive to the Plaza Hotel).
I didn't hear enough of the music to form an impression of it yet, but the big surprise takeaway I can offer is this: it appears this show is going to feature modern interpretative dance in a serious, serious way - in this one song fragment, we saw ensemble dancers on the floor, on their backs, and crawling. The cast and creative teams also appear to be stacked with serious dancing resumes, and a number of recent alumni from Moulin Rouge! on Broadway, including Sonya Tayeh, who won the choreography Tony for that show. When Taylor Brennan was asked to compare this show to what she cordially referred to as "the other Gatsby," she said the current Broadway production is exactly what you would picture The Great Gatsby to look like in your head, whereas the A.R.T. production doesn't look at all like what you would imagine, which she was very excited about....
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Several questions were asked about the "phone-free" policy for the show. Taylor confirmed that 1) the policy applies specifically to this Gatsby production and is not currently planned for any other A.R.T. productions; 2) the intention is to prevent bootlegged recordings, rather than to eliminate smartphone disruptions (although several folks expressed gladness for this added benefit); and 3) Taylor believed, as was suggested elsewhere on this sub, that the policy was requested by Florence Welch's representation, in order to safeguard her music rights.
On that note, Taylor said the music will be distinctively recognizable as the product of Florence Welch, for those familiar with her work.
Finally, because guests will NOT be able to use their phones to view a digital program, Lisa confirmed that A.R.T. will be providing full-size printed programs for this production.
(My own personal note - I think anyone coming to see this should 100 percent plan to bring physical, printed copies of your tickets if at all possible, and arrive earlier than you think you should. The magnetic phone pouches are going add extra time to the entry process, and if you forget your seat location, there's no way to view your mobile tickets from inside the seating area.)
Speaking in general terms, Taylor estimated that the show was about "75 percent" complete as of today, compared to the version that will be locked in for opening night on June 5. Book, music, choreography, and staging are all still actively being revised, and she suggested, for example, there could even be a new song written between now and the first performance, which is just 4 days away. Talyor also indicated that the May 23 invited dress rehearsal (formerly scheduled as the first preview) will potentially be the first time the complete show is run from start to finish with all elements in place (sets, costumes, lighting, sound, etc.)!
The pit orchestra will be mostly visible on-stage for this show, and is currently at about 10 pieces, including piano, strings, and horns. While the instrumentation is more jazz-era than modern rock band, Taylor indicated that because it's Florence Welch, there will still definitely be a pop-rock energy to the sound. Taylor did also mention that this production includes a lift platform under the stage, hence the need to locate the orchestra elsewhere.
On the topic of staging, Taylor believes this is the largest set ever placed on the A.R.T. stage, and once we moved into the theater to observe rehearsal, the set indeed spanned the entire width of the proscenium arch. Two massive abstract-looking metal staircases frame the space - one all sharp edges and mirrors, the other like a pile of twisted silvery automobile carcasses. It definitely seems to have Rachel Chavkin's imprint - the staircase elements look slightly reminiscent of Lempicka, while the back of the stage is a huge wall of headlights that reminded me a tiny bit of Hadestown.
Finally, we got to see choreographer Sonya Tayeh spend 30 minutes walking the principal cast (Gatsby, Daisy, Nick, Jordan, and Tom) plus ensemble, all in full costume, through final choreo adjustments, and a partial run-through with orchestra, for a song currently titled "It's Too Hot" (in the fateful scene where the group decides to take a drive to the Plaza Hotel).
I didn't hear enough of the music to form an impression of it yet, but the big surprise takeaway I can offer is this: it appears this show is going to feature modern interpretative dance in a serious, serious way - in this one song fragment, we saw ensemble dancers on the floor, on their backs, and crawling. The cast and creative teams also appear to be stacked with serious dancing resumes, and a number of recent alumni from Moulin Rouge! on Broadway, including Sonya Tayeh, who won the choreography Tony for that show. When Taylor Brennan was asked to compare this show to what she cordially referred to as "the other Gatsby," she said the current Broadway production is exactly what you would picture The Great Gatsby to look like in your head, whereas the A.R.T. production doesn't look at all like what you would imagine, which she was very excited about....
2024.05.20 01:03 Turkey_Leg_Jeff Final Thoughts from the Final Lempicka
I've seen some charged final shows of flop musicals, but Lempicka took the cake. Such adoration from the audience! So much palpable resentment from the producers and creative team at the curtain speeches along with their gratitude to the cast and fans.
A few things:
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A few things:
- The merchandise was sold out completely. There was nothing to sell. A lot of disappointed folks with that.
- The show started quite late. 2:20? for a 2 PM curtain. I was on the sidewalk at 5:22.
- When book writer Carson Kreitzer took her seat the audience gave her a large, loud extended ovation.
- Another pre-show applause burst out when a Lemperson waved a Pride flag with "Long Live Lempicka" written on it.
- The audience was raucous and unsettled. People were bursting with enthusiasm. The cell phone announcement got a major cheer.
- Some of the biggest pops were Eden and Amber's respective entrances, when The Monocle opens (and NJJ relished that moment!), and after Beth Leavel's wonderful 11 o'clock song.
- I counted at least 8 phones filming throughout. There will be many clips online I'm sure.
- Many standing ovations, too numerous to count. Maybe 10 in total throughout the show?
- A fun moment was when Tamara is going to paint the madeleine's and a fly was buzzing around. Eden shooed it away which brought a big laugh, which then cracked Eden up and she was laughing as she was licking up the powdered sugar. It was a great bit of comedy from Eden and we gobbled it up just like she gobbled up the cakes.
- Amber Iman sounded unbelievable. Just a powerhouse final vocal performance from her. When she moved to downstage for The Most Beautiful Bracelet, the cast behind the scrim behind her were going wild cheering for her. Lovely. I hope Lempicka launches Ms. Iman's career to great things.
- Eden Espinosa was in fantastic voice. No strained notes. She was a star, through and through. Woman Is was magnificent. The best new showtune of the year, IMHO.
- The one moment of the show when the audience was truly silent was Woman Is. I think everyone wanted to hear THE SONG one final time without any mid-song cheering.
- Somehow Beth Leavel's role didn't seem as tiny this time around. A particularly wonderful moment was in the Finale, when each of the people from Tamara's life pass in front of her as she reprises the "Your flesh, your color, your bone..." portion of Woman Is. Beth was in tears and touched Eden's cheek as she passed and Eden definitely got emotional, but held character. It was very moving.
- I don't know if Natalie Joy Johnson actually is a campy cabaret queer icon comedy diva, or if she's a method actor who took that persona on for the role, but she was in ALL HER GLORY. Hysterically funny, chewing the scenery. Fabulous. During the curtain speeches, she was sobbing and I couldn't help but think of seeing her as the sad angsty chubby girl singing A Quiet Night at Home in Bare all those years ago. I cannot wait to see more from NJJ.
- Lempeople are a special breed of fan. Some people were literally screaming through the show and there was a less-than-impressed woman in the mezzanine who turned and told two of them to shut up and not scream for every single line of the show. Doing God's work, that woman was. I love an enthusiastic crowd and knew what I was in for with the final show. Still, some people need to learn there are other human beings around them and we go to theater to see the people on the stage, not to listen to them try to make the show about them. That said, this was an electric room to be in, and the vast majority of the audience was enthusiastic in the best way.
- By now everyone knows that during "In the Blasted California Sun" a person about 10 rows back in the orchestra was unabashedly filming. Eden gave the person death stares and mid-song snapped her fingers aggressively and jerked her finger down, signaling "put that f'ing thing down!" Apparently, they didn't get the message and at the end of the song, she said with deathly steadiness "Put the phone down!" She got a standing ovation, I suspect more for the boss move than the song, which is one of the more slight ones in the show comparatively speaking.
- You expect a final show to have a curtain speech or two from the director and maybe the composer. We had six. Two producers, Rachel Chavkin, Carson Kreitzer, Matt Gould, and another man who led us in a moment of silence--I don't know who that was. Can somebody please fill me in? Choreographer? Stage Manager?
- The curtain speeches went on and on and on, and based on her expression I think Eden was ready for them to end. The Longacre turned off the AC and it got very hot. All the speeches had the same theme: Chip on the shoulder, Fuck you to critics (with a whiff of a fuck you to the other new musicals this season, did anyone else feel that?), shocked that their show seemed to be singled out for closure amidst all the shows of the season, but a sincere love of the company and the audience who did come. Matt Gould, a man, closed it out with a somewhat rambling speech about women and fame and finding truth amidst fantasy. The main takeaway: Support theater that speaks to you and your lived experience. He's a talented composer. I look forward to what he does next.
2024.05.20 00:59 Aginagala WWF Summerslam 1997 Review
Welcome back to my running series of WWF PPV Reviews from a ‘blind’ perspective (I have no idea what’s going to happen; the results, the feuds or how good any of the matches will be). I have always heard stories of the attitude era and golden age but never watched it myself so I set myself to watching every single PPV event chronologically. I am also watching Wrestling Bios ‘reliving the war’ series to keep me updated inbetween the events with the feuds, and to get excited about upcoming matches.
Before I review the matches, based on the past few episodes of raw and last PPVs I’ll let you know, going into the event, which match I’m most excited for and which feud I’m most excited to see.
The match I’m most excited to see has gotta be Bret hart vs Undertaker. Two absolute all timers in the ring for the championship at summerslam? I mean come on what else can I pick it’s a sure fire banger.
The feud im most excited to see is actually Mankind vs HHH, I think they’ve got a really good dynamic and opening the show after last Ppv is genuinely exciting.
WWF Summerslam 1997 Match Ratings
HHH vs Mankind Steel Cage Match 2.75/5
Goldust vs Brian Pillman 1/5
The Godwinns vs Legion of Doom 1.25/5
Bulldog vs Shamrock 2.25/5
Los Boricuas vs Disciples of Apocalypse 0.5/5
Owen Hart vs Stone Cold Steve Austin 3.5/5
Bret Hart vs Undertaker 4.25/5
The steel cage match is actually the first I’ve seen since starting this journey so well over a year with no kind of cage match, definitely adds a level of anticipation and excitement.
In terms of the actual match tho it wasn’t anything too special and honestly their match at Canadian stampede was way more entertaining. There were however a couple of completely nuts spots, mankind being suplexed from the top of the cage, and mankind delivering a flying elbow from the top of the cage, he is just an insane man; how he did all these crazy bumps never ending his career super early or anything is just divine intervention. It’s good entertainment but it wasn’t the best match. It is however very telling of what’s to come in the WWF with upcoming PPVs, with hell in a cell and more insane high flying spots.
What I am loving is Mick Foleys character development, he comes to the ring as mankind, does his bang bang as a call back to cactus jack and at the end when he’s hurt, dude loves music plays, his foot starts moving and he starts dancing (ish). Everyone absolutely loved it and so did I.
The Pillman match against Goldust was very boring, I didn’t expect too much as I’m not that big of a Goldust fan if I’m completely honest; I just think he isn’t that exciting to watch. Pillman ends up losing which means… he has to wear a dress on raw? 😂 this whole gimmick match and feud is just an L for me. The crowd was surprisingly into it, but I don’t really know what to say about it, it was just a snooze fest.
Looking this match up I realised Pillman was injured during this event and he sadly passed away two months after this. Rest in peace he was a fantastic unhinged character and that’s a real shame. He just couldn’t perform as his body wouldn’t let him anymore.
Well that’s a rather sour note but let’s move onto the most established entertaining tag team at this point in the WWF legion of doom. But it’s a real shame that they had to get in with the godwinns as when the godwinns were in control which was over half the match they seriously slowed to to a snails pace, holding for way way too long. That spike piledriver at the end was cool by the legion of doom but to be honest most of the match was just another snoozefest. Just skip the last two matches.
Inbetween the next match there’s a SEVEN MINUTE section where they had this million dollar chance between a couple of live contestants and a couple of phone calls, no one ends up winning and it’s just pointless. Man the start to this event has been a mixed bag…
Shamrock actually has a very valid reason to be mad at the bulldog, with him having the bulldog throw dog food on him, so let’s hope this is a physical match to really get this PPV going.
And it was decently physical to be fair to them, I’m not sure I’m shamrock was out on his feet for a portion of it as he was no selling a few punches and had a busted lip so there’d been some sort of connection somewhere. Like I say though the angle they were going for was cooler than the actual match and it was satisfying seeing that after the match shamrock got himself DQd and just lost it, beating the bulldog after he threw dog food on him again, holding a chin lock on him so long he passes out, using finishers in referees, this was cool. The match was about restoring his honour in a way and he certainly did that. The crowd goes nuts and he’s in the ring just screaming, bloody brilliant. The actual match was a little lacking though and this should set up for a good match coming up.
And oh boy was I wrong genuinely I don’t know why but this match was so awful. For pretty much 90% of the time the wrestlers just didn’t know what to do. There were no impressive spots, no playing to the crowd, no psychology just nada. Like the last event I watched the ppv can benefit from less matches that are better booked. I don’t know why this match exists, I don’t know what it achieved. One thing that was insane was the amount of body hair Perez has… like it’s an insane amount, it’s not normal 😂 I couldn’t help but just look at it in complete awe like what the hell am I seeing? But when a man’s body hair is more entertaining than the match that’s a problem. When the pinfall came the crowd literally, I’m not joking, had 0 reaction. Avoid like the plague.
The next match I’m honestly having really mixed feelings about. Owen hart and Austin on paper should be a good match, and that it is… but this is when Austin’s neck was broken and he was temporarily paralysed after a botched piledriver. So this means… Austin is probably gunna go more part time after this. I don’t know this but I’m just assuming but we’ll see. IM NOT READY!!
Before I mention the injury again, the match was going extremely well and it was a tremendously entertaining bout. I find it crazy that they were making a big deal of Owen working the neck only for him to actually break it. The different styles of the wrestlers, Owen being technical and stone cold being a brawler really made for a pure class match. I’d imagine they were going to go a bit longer but had to come up with a new finish on the spot so credit to them for that. And ouch it was a horrible spot to see, knowing what was coming up I winced and cringed so hard when it happened. Owen does a good job of playing up to the crowd after the botch and covering over for the pinfall but seeing Austin just completely dead in the ring like that is heartbreaking after seeing his rise. They played it off so well in fact that the crowd doesn’t really seem to notice. Austin seems to insist on getting himself standing up and raising the belt, and he refuses help until he gets out of the arena, truly amazing dedication to the wwf and why he was and is a superstar. It’s a real shame it had to end like that because again they were performing really well and putting on a good show. Reading about it Austin was out for 3 months after this and apparently Owen hart was meant to drop to his knees not sit down which had a big part to do with the botch. GOD DAMN IT!! But we all know he returns an even bigger superstar, so I’ve got that to look forward to.
Okay enough about the injury, let’s get onto the main event.
Shawn being the referee and knowing the fighting that was happening backstage for real between Bret and Shawn made this really exciting. I bet this is gunna be full of drama!
The match starts off at break-neck pace (pun intended) with Bret hart smashing undertaker across the back with a belt and there’s no DQ because the bell hasn’t been rung yet. They exchange blows together as it goes back and forth in and out of the ring and I’m loving every second. Paul bearer eventually makes his way to the ring only the be smacked multiple times right on the jaw and god there’s something so satisfying about Paul bearer getting clocked. Multiple times Shawn is actually acting as a good referee which adds to the drama as Bret is keeping a close eye on him. Some of the hart foundation also come to the outside of the ring and undertaker does his iconic lean on the ropes to almost backflip outside the ring which looks so good and beats the hell out of them. I thought this would be dramatic!
This match was actually an absolute banger I really enjoyed it. Hart plays his heel perfectly as usual during the whole bout and when he’s eventually victorious the ring is filled with trash and people showering him with abuse. I thought even though this was a pretty long match at 30 minutes they were able to fill most of it with good action. The last 5 minutes were especially dramatic with a steel chair getting involved, Shawn is hurt on the outside and hart smacks undertaker clean across the head with it, Shawn notices the chair when he comes back into the ring and calls Bret out, Bret then spits on Shawn and he ducks as Shawn swings for him with the chair, he hits undertaker and that’s all she wrote. I think the match could’ve benefitted from being a bit shorter in all honesty; focus the action down to a shorter time but a longer match with Shawn as the special referee, undertaker vs Bret, WWF title, you can’t complain about it being too long. I would’ve liked to have seen a bit more offense from undertaker as his striking ability and in ring moves are so exciting to watch. But great match and it felt like a big main event as it should do at summerslam.
Overall the PPV had a great ending, a good start, and a terrible mid card. I really hope they don’t go back to booking boring mid cards with wrestlers they know can’t put on a show, instead they can stick with less matches with more quality. I did enjoy watching this though. I think the PPV will always be known for the piledriver botch but I think the main event is worth a watch as well. I also think this event was worth noting that a lot of people feel this is the beginning of the attitude era, people saying survivor series as well or December 1997 but we’ll see.
Overall rating 2.75/5
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Before I review the matches, based on the past few episodes of raw and last PPVs I’ll let you know, going into the event, which match I’m most excited for and which feud I’m most excited to see.
The match I’m most excited to see has gotta be Bret hart vs Undertaker. Two absolute all timers in the ring for the championship at summerslam? I mean come on what else can I pick it’s a sure fire banger.
The feud im most excited to see is actually Mankind vs HHH, I think they’ve got a really good dynamic and opening the show after last Ppv is genuinely exciting.
WWF Summerslam 1997 Match Ratings
HHH vs Mankind Steel Cage Match 2.75/5
Goldust vs Brian Pillman 1/5
The Godwinns vs Legion of Doom 1.25/5
Bulldog vs Shamrock 2.25/5
Los Boricuas vs Disciples of Apocalypse 0.5/5
Owen Hart vs Stone Cold Steve Austin 3.5/5
Bret Hart vs Undertaker 4.25/5
The steel cage match is actually the first I’ve seen since starting this journey so well over a year with no kind of cage match, definitely adds a level of anticipation and excitement.
In terms of the actual match tho it wasn’t anything too special and honestly their match at Canadian stampede was way more entertaining. There were however a couple of completely nuts spots, mankind being suplexed from the top of the cage, and mankind delivering a flying elbow from the top of the cage, he is just an insane man; how he did all these crazy bumps never ending his career super early or anything is just divine intervention. It’s good entertainment but it wasn’t the best match. It is however very telling of what’s to come in the WWF with upcoming PPVs, with hell in a cell and more insane high flying spots.
What I am loving is Mick Foleys character development, he comes to the ring as mankind, does his bang bang as a call back to cactus jack and at the end when he’s hurt, dude loves music plays, his foot starts moving and he starts dancing (ish). Everyone absolutely loved it and so did I.
The Pillman match against Goldust was very boring, I didn’t expect too much as I’m not that big of a Goldust fan if I’m completely honest; I just think he isn’t that exciting to watch. Pillman ends up losing which means… he has to wear a dress on raw? 😂 this whole gimmick match and feud is just an L for me. The crowd was surprisingly into it, but I don’t really know what to say about it, it was just a snooze fest.
Looking this match up I realised Pillman was injured during this event and he sadly passed away two months after this. Rest in peace he was a fantastic unhinged character and that’s a real shame. He just couldn’t perform as his body wouldn’t let him anymore.
Well that’s a rather sour note but let’s move onto the most established entertaining tag team at this point in the WWF legion of doom. But it’s a real shame that they had to get in with the godwinns as when the godwinns were in control which was over half the match they seriously slowed to to a snails pace, holding for way way too long. That spike piledriver at the end was cool by the legion of doom but to be honest most of the match was just another snoozefest. Just skip the last two matches.
Inbetween the next match there’s a SEVEN MINUTE section where they had this million dollar chance between a couple of live contestants and a couple of phone calls, no one ends up winning and it’s just pointless. Man the start to this event has been a mixed bag…
Shamrock actually has a very valid reason to be mad at the bulldog, with him having the bulldog throw dog food on him, so let’s hope this is a physical match to really get this PPV going.
And it was decently physical to be fair to them, I’m not sure I’m shamrock was out on his feet for a portion of it as he was no selling a few punches and had a busted lip so there’d been some sort of connection somewhere. Like I say though the angle they were going for was cooler than the actual match and it was satisfying seeing that after the match shamrock got himself DQd and just lost it, beating the bulldog after he threw dog food on him again, holding a chin lock on him so long he passes out, using finishers in referees, this was cool. The match was about restoring his honour in a way and he certainly did that. The crowd goes nuts and he’s in the ring just screaming, bloody brilliant. The actual match was a little lacking though and this should set up for a good match coming up.
And oh boy was I wrong genuinely I don’t know why but this match was so awful. For pretty much 90% of the time the wrestlers just didn’t know what to do. There were no impressive spots, no playing to the crowd, no psychology just nada. Like the last event I watched the ppv can benefit from less matches that are better booked. I don’t know why this match exists, I don’t know what it achieved. One thing that was insane was the amount of body hair Perez has… like it’s an insane amount, it’s not normal 😂 I couldn’t help but just look at it in complete awe like what the hell am I seeing? But when a man’s body hair is more entertaining than the match that’s a problem. When the pinfall came the crowd literally, I’m not joking, had 0 reaction. Avoid like the plague.
The next match I’m honestly having really mixed feelings about. Owen hart and Austin on paper should be a good match, and that it is… but this is when Austin’s neck was broken and he was temporarily paralysed after a botched piledriver. So this means… Austin is probably gunna go more part time after this. I don’t know this but I’m just assuming but we’ll see. IM NOT READY!!
Before I mention the injury again, the match was going extremely well and it was a tremendously entertaining bout. I find it crazy that they were making a big deal of Owen working the neck only for him to actually break it. The different styles of the wrestlers, Owen being technical and stone cold being a brawler really made for a pure class match. I’d imagine they were going to go a bit longer but had to come up with a new finish on the spot so credit to them for that. And ouch it was a horrible spot to see, knowing what was coming up I winced and cringed so hard when it happened. Owen does a good job of playing up to the crowd after the botch and covering over for the pinfall but seeing Austin just completely dead in the ring like that is heartbreaking after seeing his rise. They played it off so well in fact that the crowd doesn’t really seem to notice. Austin seems to insist on getting himself standing up and raising the belt, and he refuses help until he gets out of the arena, truly amazing dedication to the wwf and why he was and is a superstar. It’s a real shame it had to end like that because again they were performing really well and putting on a good show. Reading about it Austin was out for 3 months after this and apparently Owen hart was meant to drop to his knees not sit down which had a big part to do with the botch. GOD DAMN IT!! But we all know he returns an even bigger superstar, so I’ve got that to look forward to.
Okay enough about the injury, let’s get onto the main event.
Shawn being the referee and knowing the fighting that was happening backstage for real between Bret and Shawn made this really exciting. I bet this is gunna be full of drama!
The match starts off at break-neck pace (pun intended) with Bret hart smashing undertaker across the back with a belt and there’s no DQ because the bell hasn’t been rung yet. They exchange blows together as it goes back and forth in and out of the ring and I’m loving every second. Paul bearer eventually makes his way to the ring only the be smacked multiple times right on the jaw and god there’s something so satisfying about Paul bearer getting clocked. Multiple times Shawn is actually acting as a good referee which adds to the drama as Bret is keeping a close eye on him. Some of the hart foundation also come to the outside of the ring and undertaker does his iconic lean on the ropes to almost backflip outside the ring which looks so good and beats the hell out of them. I thought this would be dramatic!
This match was actually an absolute banger I really enjoyed it. Hart plays his heel perfectly as usual during the whole bout and when he’s eventually victorious the ring is filled with trash and people showering him with abuse. I thought even though this was a pretty long match at 30 minutes they were able to fill most of it with good action. The last 5 minutes were especially dramatic with a steel chair getting involved, Shawn is hurt on the outside and hart smacks undertaker clean across the head with it, Shawn notices the chair when he comes back into the ring and calls Bret out, Bret then spits on Shawn and he ducks as Shawn swings for him with the chair, he hits undertaker and that’s all she wrote. I think the match could’ve benefitted from being a bit shorter in all honesty; focus the action down to a shorter time but a longer match with Shawn as the special referee, undertaker vs Bret, WWF title, you can’t complain about it being too long. I would’ve liked to have seen a bit more offense from undertaker as his striking ability and in ring moves are so exciting to watch. But great match and it felt like a big main event as it should do at summerslam.
Overall the PPV had a great ending, a good start, and a terrible mid card. I really hope they don’t go back to booking boring mid cards with wrestlers they know can’t put on a show, instead they can stick with less matches with more quality. I did enjoy watching this though. I think the PPV will always be known for the piledriver botch but I think the main event is worth a watch as well. I also think this event was worth noting that a lot of people feel this is the beginning of the attitude era, people saying survivor series as well or December 1997 but we’ll see.
Overall rating 2.75/5
2024.05.19 23:02 PermabannedForWhat Steel Vengeance locker question
Approximately how long are you without your phone when you ride Steel Vengeance? I need to be able to monitor something on my phone closely but I could be without for maybe 15-30 minutes.
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2024.05.19 22:12 White_Ace_of_Spades The King Has No Clothes - Part 1 (Short Story)
Author's Note: Welp, I'm back. I'm going to be doing these super-short stories from now on instead of the multi-paged short stories that took several days to write. I tend to lose motivation in writing when I have long, drawn out stories. I just want to write these stories about my characters and focus on their character beats and emotions, rather than one long drawn out plot. I do intend on making an overarcing plot with these stories, but told over many, smaller instances.
This story introduces a new character that will not be recieving a character concept page. The reason why is because I simply am not interested in making game concepts and I'm not interested in Overwatch (The Game) anymore. I just want to focus on the stories of my characters.
Harvey King, the handsome, smooth-talking, knuckle-bruiser of Overwatch, now reduced to another ruffian locked behind steel bars. The once highly-esteemed son of New York Cities biggest tech conglomerate entrepenuer, Leonhard King, now another criminal locked away for life for the high crime of terrorism. Not only that, but he was thrown under the bus, used as a scapegoat to get pressure off of King Enterprises, the company that dad always loved more than his own son. His own son, dammit!
"I'm tellin you Harv," Sean muttered on from the top bunk. "you've gotta cool off or you'll get yourself killed!"
"Shut up!" Kingbursted out at his insolent cell mate. The New Worker was a fairly handsome man with a sharp jawline and beautiful nose, but his charcoal black hair had become ragged due to a profound lack of hair gel in prison. Harvey was looking into a glass shiv that he had stolen from the one-eyed punk down the isle, desperately trying to get the angle just right so that he could see his reflection in it. He ran is his fingers down his jaw line, feeling the creases and folds that had been left by Winston's Tesla Cannon. His perfect face, the face who's nose had never once been broken in all of Harvey's days of brawling, was now left with an electrical scar that he would have to live with for the foreseeable future, at least until he can break out of this hole and get it fixed with a healthy dosage of surgury. "That damn monkey, he ruined my face!" He turned to Sean. "Look at this, he ruined my face!"
"Yeah, I've been looking at it for the past month or so." Sean snickered.
"You realize I already have a life sentence?" King snarled, his tone had grew contempted.
"Yeah, so? Most people here d-"
"'That means it won't matter if I use your teeth for golf balls!"
"Oh please kid, you ain't the first young punk to threaten me li-"
"I'll be the first one to go through with it," King yelled at Sean. grabbing him by the collar and dragging him down from the top bunk. "If you don't shut your fu-"
"Shut up in there!" A guard banged his baton against the bars, interrupting King. "And get your hands off your cellmate!"
"Sorry officer," King put on a happy, personable tone of voice for the gaurd. He obediently dropped Sean. "Won't happen again, I promise."
"Yeah, yeah." The guard walked off, uninterested in King's crocodile smile.
The moment the guard turned his back, King's face switched like a lightbulb, going from bright and charismatic to dark and irritated in a mere moment. He turned back to his stupid cellmate and lashed out at him, grabbing his collar and pulling him in close. "I think we need to come to an understanding, you and I," Harvey spoke menacingly. "Look pal, I've already had to put up with a lotta bull lately. I do not need a dishevelled, ugly piece of crap, such as you, giving me more bull. So if you continue to irritate me, I'm gonna make you choke on your teeth. You get me?"
Sean, at a lost for words, simply nodded out of fear. Sean was ugly and dishevelled, Harvey was truthful when he said that, but he was also much smaller than Harvey and wouldn't be able to defend himself.
"Good." Harvey gave Sean a toothy grin. Even in the dimly lit, murkey prison cell, Harvey's teeth still glistened. He dropped Sean, who immediately crawled back onto the top bunk, hugging the wall this time as to avoid being pulled down again, and sat down on his cold, hard matress. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes, trying to think of how to get out of this situation. Only he couldn't think of an escape plan, he had too much on his mind. He was trying to make sense of everything that's happened, the mistakes he made that lead to this point. He had everyone at Overwatch wrapped around his fingers like marionettes, his facade was perfectly crafted. He couldn't help but reminisce about when he first started, the conversation he had with his father to get the whole thing set up, the developing of squeaky-clean persona that would be irresistable to Winston and Sojourn, the persona that landed him a spot on Overwatch's small roster of agents and made everyone fall in love with him. Well, not literally fall in love with him, but he was a natural smooth talker and very easy to like upon first meeting.
He remembered the conversation with his father that got him introduced to the likes of Winston in the first place, the conversation between his father and the leaders of Overwatch. King Enterprises had promised to provide Overwatch with funding, but only so Harvey could get a chance within their ranks. Leonhard King, father of Harvey King, was the CEO of King Enterprises. The old man was an idealist, and so was his only son. They wanted to leave a good impact on the world, with King Enterprises having been nicknamed "The Company of the People"; at least, that's what the public saw. No, the real Leonhard King was a tyranical capitalist who valued money over human rights, a greedy old man who was born into a mafia family, but being the the second-born meant he never got a chance to take over the family when his father died. Instead, it was his elder brother, Everett King II, named after his and Leonhard's father, who got to take over the family. Unsatisfied with being second fiddle, Leonhard left the family completely to become an entrepanuer, and now, 50 years later, he was on top of New York's social hierarchy with the biggest tech conglomerate in New England. King Enterprises was built into many facets of life in America, they built all sorts of cars, home appliances, home security systems, but that's only what the media saw.
Of course, Leonhard never shook off his knack for crime. He was a King, and criminality flowed through the King Bloodline; taking money out of decent folks pockets was in their blood. The horrible truth of the matter was that King Enterprises, "The Company of the People", got into all sorts of shady business, such as illegally shipping arms overseas, racketeering, maintaining ties in the black market, and lobbying shady politicians. On top of that, King Enterprises was a major player in the Military Industrial Complex, producing all sorts of weapons for the government, and shipping all the surplus over seas to other countries; a good chunk of all equipment used by the U.S. military was manufactored by King Enterprises. And it is because of this influence on the Military Industrial Complex that Leonhard King also provides funding to terrorist organizations such as Talon, organizations who are keen on creating conflict and pushing the world to the edge of war. Corporate corruption ran through every level of King Enterprises, and everyone outside of the corporation was none the wiser.
It was yard time, and King was hanging out alone. He hadn't made any attempts to socialize with any of the other ruffians the populate the prison, for he isn't planning on staying very long, but he did intend on working out as much as he could while he was there. A long time ago, when King was a kid hanging out in the slums of New York, he had a buddy called Twig. He was called Twig because he was very skinny, but mostly because King wasn't a very imaginitive nicknamer. He got sent to prison at the age of 16 for accidentally killing a guy while trying to jack his car, and came out a few years later completely jacked. King ended up shooting and killing him a while after he got outta prison, mostly because Twig blamed King for getting locked up and wanted revenge, but King still remembered in high regards.
King was readying himself for the bench press, stretching and giving himself a mental preptalk, thinking along the lines of "just cuz you're in prison doesn't mean ain't King no more," and the like. While he was getting ready, a loud, gruff voice cut off his train of thought. "Hey, punk!" King swung his head around to see who was yelling at him, and beheld a man who was around his same height, but very, very prison-jacked. Not as prison-jacked as Twig was, but still very prison-jacked. "Your daddy wanted to give you a message." This man didn't seem particularly friendly.
"My daddy?" King was not happy about this. A message from his father? Really? That old bastard wanted nothing to do with his son, and if he wanted to send him a message, he could visit him on every other thursday! "The hell's the meaning of this?"
"He said you couldn't be naming any name, kid. Said you'd understand." The big man pulled out a shiv, swinging his arm forward while rushing at King.
"The hell!?" King exclaimed, caught off guard by the sudden attack. He managed to catch the man's wrist, stopping the shiv from plunging right into his guts. He had to act quickly, he wouldn't be able to hold this man's arm for very long before he got overpowered, so he had to resort to some dirty tactics. Spitting in the man's eyes then kicking him in the shin did the trick, causing the jacked man to faulter and drop his shiv. Harvey had been in many a street fight during his life, and with the shiv out of the equation he would be also to out-box this man. King was an experienced brawler, he learned how to tussle on the streets of New York City, and was once mentored by a prize-fighter how to box. If not for his father's interference, King would've spent his entire life living in slums, hanging around his Uncle's turf, instead of in the King's Estate with his father.
With his attacker instinctually wiping spit out from his eyes, King had the perfect opportunity to land his signature KO'ing right hook right into the man's dome. King wasn't the biggest, most intimidating fella on the block, but he knew how to throw a punch with a surprising amount of power. King threw several more punches, beating the man senseless with merciless intensity, just to let off some steam that he's been holding in since his incarceration. He would've beaten that man to death if he hadn't been hit in the shoulder by a gaurd's heavy baton from behind. King fell down and got tackled by a gaurd, ending the fight.
Thursday rolled around, and it was the other thursday. King, of course, didn't have any visitors, but he did have a phone call. King impatiently tapped on the tabletop, eagerly waiting for someone to pick up the phone. A wide, sparkling smile stretched across his face as the wheezy voice of an elderly smoker come out the phone. "Who is this?" The voice calmly asked.
"Hey, Uncle."
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This story introduces a new character that will not be recieving a character concept page. The reason why is because I simply am not interested in making game concepts and I'm not interested in Overwatch (The Game) anymore. I just want to focus on the stories of my characters.
Harvey King, the handsome, smooth-talking, knuckle-bruiser of Overwatch, now reduced to another ruffian locked behind steel bars. The once highly-esteemed son of New York Cities biggest tech conglomerate entrepenuer, Leonhard King, now another criminal locked away for life for the high crime of terrorism. Not only that, but he was thrown under the bus, used as a scapegoat to get pressure off of King Enterprises, the company that dad always loved more than his own son. His own son, dammit!
"I'm tellin you Harv," Sean muttered on from the top bunk. "you've gotta cool off or you'll get yourself killed!"
"Shut up!" Kingbursted out at his insolent cell mate. The New Worker was a fairly handsome man with a sharp jawline and beautiful nose, but his charcoal black hair had become ragged due to a profound lack of hair gel in prison. Harvey was looking into a glass shiv that he had stolen from the one-eyed punk down the isle, desperately trying to get the angle just right so that he could see his reflection in it. He ran is his fingers down his jaw line, feeling the creases and folds that had been left by Winston's Tesla Cannon. His perfect face, the face who's nose had never once been broken in all of Harvey's days of brawling, was now left with an electrical scar that he would have to live with for the foreseeable future, at least until he can break out of this hole and get it fixed with a healthy dosage of surgury. "That damn monkey, he ruined my face!" He turned to Sean. "Look at this, he ruined my face!"
"Yeah, I've been looking at it for the past month or so." Sean snickered.
"You realize I already have a life sentence?" King snarled, his tone had grew contempted.
"Yeah, so? Most people here d-"
"'That means it won't matter if I use your teeth for golf balls!"
"Oh please kid, you ain't the first young punk to threaten me li-"
"I'll be the first one to go through with it," King yelled at Sean. grabbing him by the collar and dragging him down from the top bunk. "If you don't shut your fu-"
"Shut up in there!" A guard banged his baton against the bars, interrupting King. "And get your hands off your cellmate!"
"Sorry officer," King put on a happy, personable tone of voice for the gaurd. He obediently dropped Sean. "Won't happen again, I promise."
"Yeah, yeah." The guard walked off, uninterested in King's crocodile smile.
The moment the guard turned his back, King's face switched like a lightbulb, going from bright and charismatic to dark and irritated in a mere moment. He turned back to his stupid cellmate and lashed out at him, grabbing his collar and pulling him in close. "I think we need to come to an understanding, you and I," Harvey spoke menacingly. "Look pal, I've already had to put up with a lotta bull lately. I do not need a dishevelled, ugly piece of crap, such as you, giving me more bull. So if you continue to irritate me, I'm gonna make you choke on your teeth. You get me?"
Sean, at a lost for words, simply nodded out of fear. Sean was ugly and dishevelled, Harvey was truthful when he said that, but he was also much smaller than Harvey and wouldn't be able to defend himself.
"Good." Harvey gave Sean a toothy grin. Even in the dimly lit, murkey prison cell, Harvey's teeth still glistened. He dropped Sean, who immediately crawled back onto the top bunk, hugging the wall this time as to avoid being pulled down again, and sat down on his cold, hard matress. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes, trying to think of how to get out of this situation. Only he couldn't think of an escape plan, he had too much on his mind. He was trying to make sense of everything that's happened, the mistakes he made that lead to this point. He had everyone at Overwatch wrapped around his fingers like marionettes, his facade was perfectly crafted. He couldn't help but reminisce about when he first started, the conversation he had with his father to get the whole thing set up, the developing of squeaky-clean persona that would be irresistable to Winston and Sojourn, the persona that landed him a spot on Overwatch's small roster of agents and made everyone fall in love with him. Well, not literally fall in love with him, but he was a natural smooth talker and very easy to like upon first meeting.
He remembered the conversation with his father that got him introduced to the likes of Winston in the first place, the conversation between his father and the leaders of Overwatch. King Enterprises had promised to provide Overwatch with funding, but only so Harvey could get a chance within their ranks. Leonhard King, father of Harvey King, was the CEO of King Enterprises. The old man was an idealist, and so was his only son. They wanted to leave a good impact on the world, with King Enterprises having been nicknamed "The Company of the People"; at least, that's what the public saw. No, the real Leonhard King was a tyranical capitalist who valued money over human rights, a greedy old man who was born into a mafia family, but being the the second-born meant he never got a chance to take over the family when his father died. Instead, it was his elder brother, Everett King II, named after his and Leonhard's father, who got to take over the family. Unsatisfied with being second fiddle, Leonhard left the family completely to become an entrepanuer, and now, 50 years later, he was on top of New York's social hierarchy with the biggest tech conglomerate in New England. King Enterprises was built into many facets of life in America, they built all sorts of cars, home appliances, home security systems, but that's only what the media saw.
Of course, Leonhard never shook off his knack for crime. He was a King, and criminality flowed through the King Bloodline; taking money out of decent folks pockets was in their blood. The horrible truth of the matter was that King Enterprises, "The Company of the People", got into all sorts of shady business, such as illegally shipping arms overseas, racketeering, maintaining ties in the black market, and lobbying shady politicians. On top of that, King Enterprises was a major player in the Military Industrial Complex, producing all sorts of weapons for the government, and shipping all the surplus over seas to other countries; a good chunk of all equipment used by the U.S. military was manufactored by King Enterprises. And it is because of this influence on the Military Industrial Complex that Leonhard King also provides funding to terrorist organizations such as Talon, organizations who are keen on creating conflict and pushing the world to the edge of war. Corporate corruption ran through every level of King Enterprises, and everyone outside of the corporation was none the wiser.
It was yard time, and King was hanging out alone. He hadn't made any attempts to socialize with any of the other ruffians the populate the prison, for he isn't planning on staying very long, but he did intend on working out as much as he could while he was there. A long time ago, when King was a kid hanging out in the slums of New York, he had a buddy called Twig. He was called Twig because he was very skinny, but mostly because King wasn't a very imaginitive nicknamer. He got sent to prison at the age of 16 for accidentally killing a guy while trying to jack his car, and came out a few years later completely jacked. King ended up shooting and killing him a while after he got outta prison, mostly because Twig blamed King for getting locked up and wanted revenge, but King still remembered in high regards.
King was readying himself for the bench press, stretching and giving himself a mental preptalk, thinking along the lines of "just cuz you're in prison doesn't mean ain't King no more," and the like. While he was getting ready, a loud, gruff voice cut off his train of thought. "Hey, punk!" King swung his head around to see who was yelling at him, and beheld a man who was around his same height, but very, very prison-jacked. Not as prison-jacked as Twig was, but still very prison-jacked. "Your daddy wanted to give you a message." This man didn't seem particularly friendly.
"My daddy?" King was not happy about this. A message from his father? Really? That old bastard wanted nothing to do with his son, and if he wanted to send him a message, he could visit him on every other thursday! "The hell's the meaning of this?"
"He said you couldn't be naming any name, kid. Said you'd understand." The big man pulled out a shiv, swinging his arm forward while rushing at King.
"The hell!?" King exclaimed, caught off guard by the sudden attack. He managed to catch the man's wrist, stopping the shiv from plunging right into his guts. He had to act quickly, he wouldn't be able to hold this man's arm for very long before he got overpowered, so he had to resort to some dirty tactics. Spitting in the man's eyes then kicking him in the shin did the trick, causing the jacked man to faulter and drop his shiv. Harvey had been in many a street fight during his life, and with the shiv out of the equation he would be also to out-box this man. King was an experienced brawler, he learned how to tussle on the streets of New York City, and was once mentored by a prize-fighter how to box. If not for his father's interference, King would've spent his entire life living in slums, hanging around his Uncle's turf, instead of in the King's Estate with his father.
With his attacker instinctually wiping spit out from his eyes, King had the perfect opportunity to land his signature KO'ing right hook right into the man's dome. King wasn't the biggest, most intimidating fella on the block, but he knew how to throw a punch with a surprising amount of power. King threw several more punches, beating the man senseless with merciless intensity, just to let off some steam that he's been holding in since his incarceration. He would've beaten that man to death if he hadn't been hit in the shoulder by a gaurd's heavy baton from behind. King fell down and got tackled by a gaurd, ending the fight.
Thursday rolled around, and it was the other thursday. King, of course, didn't have any visitors, but he did have a phone call. King impatiently tapped on the tabletop, eagerly waiting for someone to pick up the phone. A wide, sparkling smile stretched across his face as the wheezy voice of an elderly smoker come out the phone. "Who is this?" The voice calmly asked.
"Hey, Uncle."
2024.05.19 20:33 confusedgirl207 My sisters boyfriend raped me and I’m not sure what to do
When I (28F) was 19 and a freshman in college I went to the beach with some friends for spring break. We were staying in a hotel and one day we chose to spend the day drinking at the pool there and grilling, another group of people that some of the guys I was there with knew was also at the pool. I didn’t know the guys in the other group before that day but we were all hanging out by the pool.
That night I had more drinks than I should have and don’t recall how the situation happened but I woke up in the other guys room that 4 of them were staying in. I felt uneasy and like something bad had happened.
Later that next day I was at the beach with my friends and a girl I knew came up to me asking if I was okay. I was confused, I didn’t know what she was referring to, so I asked what she meant. She proceeded to take out her phone and show me a video where one of the guys I met the day before, Kyle (now 27M) on top of me having sex. I was not participating. I was lying there not moving while he was thrusting on top of me.
Kyles friends were all in the room watching it happen and one of them recorded it and sent it to a ton of people that I knew. I don’t remember any of this happening. I felt embarrassed and ashamed and tried to brush it off initially. I didn’t want to play victim because we had both been drinking, he had less than I did, and I had put myself into that situation.
I don’t believe there is any way I would have consented to this. The last thing I remember from the night was talking to one of the guys I had gone to the beach with who I had a crush on (not Kyle). He had tried to kiss me and I remember telling him no because I knew we were both drunk and I didn’t want to do anything I might regret the next day.
A few months later I began hanging out with Kyle and we had sex a few more times, it made me feel less guilty about the situation and I felt like I was in control because if I chose to do it now maybe I had chosen to do it during spring break when I was so drunk I wasn’t conscious.
I tried to push what happened to the back of my mind because forgetting about it was easier than dealing with it. I went back to the same beach with my sister Rachel about 2 years later and Kyle was there again. I was hanging out with my own friends and I happened to be walking by when I heard him scream in front of a group of people that he loved my sister. I began sobbing and just started walking down the beach alone crying unsure of why I was even crying at the time. My sister and I were supposed to stay at the beach for two more days after this one but that night I told her that I needed to go home and couldn’t be there anymore so we packed up and left. My sister was furious and I spent the entire car ride home crying. This was the only big fight we had ever had and we didn’t talk for a week.
Fast forward a few years and I had moved on from this situation, I saw Kyle around town occasionally because we lived in a small town but I was in a new relationship and happy. Then my sister came to me and told me that she and Kyle had started to go on a few dates. At first I didn’t know what to say, she seemed to like him. I had repressed the memory of what happened to me and didn’t want to have to relive the embarrassment and guilt that came along with it. I figured she would get the ick soon like she usually did and stop seeing him before it turned into anything serious. I know this was a mistake but at the time I didn’t want to tell anyone about what had happened to me.
That didn’t happen, after two months I realized I had messed up by not initially telling her that I was uncomfortable with her dating him. When I finally told her that he had raped me when I was 19 and the entire situation about the beach and the trauma it put me through she said she didn’t believe it was rape because we were both drinking. She said she was going to continue to date him and that I should have said something before she started to like him.
Now they’ve been together for a year. I’ve told my entire family what happened and that if he is allowed to be welcomed into the family I won’t be apart of it because I don’t want to spend the rest of my life at family functions with my rapist. For a while my family was understanding and didn’t ever meet him. I moved to a new state and haven’t talked to my sister in a year because she is dating him, when we used to talk daily.
This week I found out my parents have been playing pickle ball with my my sister and Kyle and I spent hours crying. I feel like I’m losing my family to my rapist.
My question is am I over reacting by saying I don’t want my family in my life if they allow him into theirs? I feel guilty, like I’m making my sister lose out on happiness or making my parents choose between their two daughters. I don’t know what to do to make them believe me, because I feel like if they did they wouldn’t be hanging out with him. I’m not sure where to go from here.
Am I crazy for not wanting this guy to be apart of my family? What would you all do in this situation? How do I make my family believe what happened to me and not whatever story my sister is telling them?
Does giving my family an ultimatum that if he’s in their life I won’t be make me an asshole? I’m considering filing a police report so my family understands how serious what happened is and to protect my sister, and other women from a bad person. What do you all think?
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That night I had more drinks than I should have and don’t recall how the situation happened but I woke up in the other guys room that 4 of them were staying in. I felt uneasy and like something bad had happened.
Later that next day I was at the beach with my friends and a girl I knew came up to me asking if I was okay. I was confused, I didn’t know what she was referring to, so I asked what she meant. She proceeded to take out her phone and show me a video where one of the guys I met the day before, Kyle (now 27M) on top of me having sex. I was not participating. I was lying there not moving while he was thrusting on top of me.
Kyles friends were all in the room watching it happen and one of them recorded it and sent it to a ton of people that I knew. I don’t remember any of this happening. I felt embarrassed and ashamed and tried to brush it off initially. I didn’t want to play victim because we had both been drinking, he had less than I did, and I had put myself into that situation.
I don’t believe there is any way I would have consented to this. The last thing I remember from the night was talking to one of the guys I had gone to the beach with who I had a crush on (not Kyle). He had tried to kiss me and I remember telling him no because I knew we were both drunk and I didn’t want to do anything I might regret the next day.
A few months later I began hanging out with Kyle and we had sex a few more times, it made me feel less guilty about the situation and I felt like I was in control because if I chose to do it now maybe I had chosen to do it during spring break when I was so drunk I wasn’t conscious.
I tried to push what happened to the back of my mind because forgetting about it was easier than dealing with it. I went back to the same beach with my sister Rachel about 2 years later and Kyle was there again. I was hanging out with my own friends and I happened to be walking by when I heard him scream in front of a group of people that he loved my sister. I began sobbing and just started walking down the beach alone crying unsure of why I was even crying at the time. My sister and I were supposed to stay at the beach for two more days after this one but that night I told her that I needed to go home and couldn’t be there anymore so we packed up and left. My sister was furious and I spent the entire car ride home crying. This was the only big fight we had ever had and we didn’t talk for a week.
Fast forward a few years and I had moved on from this situation, I saw Kyle around town occasionally because we lived in a small town but I was in a new relationship and happy. Then my sister came to me and told me that she and Kyle had started to go on a few dates. At first I didn’t know what to say, she seemed to like him. I had repressed the memory of what happened to me and didn’t want to have to relive the embarrassment and guilt that came along with it. I figured she would get the ick soon like she usually did and stop seeing him before it turned into anything serious. I know this was a mistake but at the time I didn’t want to tell anyone about what had happened to me.
That didn’t happen, after two months I realized I had messed up by not initially telling her that I was uncomfortable with her dating him. When I finally told her that he had raped me when I was 19 and the entire situation about the beach and the trauma it put me through she said she didn’t believe it was rape because we were both drinking. She said she was going to continue to date him and that I should have said something before she started to like him.
Now they’ve been together for a year. I’ve told my entire family what happened and that if he is allowed to be welcomed into the family I won’t be apart of it because I don’t want to spend the rest of my life at family functions with my rapist. For a while my family was understanding and didn’t ever meet him. I moved to a new state and haven’t talked to my sister in a year because she is dating him, when we used to talk daily.
This week I found out my parents have been playing pickle ball with my my sister and Kyle and I spent hours crying. I feel like I’m losing my family to my rapist.
My question is am I over reacting by saying I don’t want my family in my life if they allow him into theirs? I feel guilty, like I’m making my sister lose out on happiness or making my parents choose between their two daughters. I don’t know what to do to make them believe me, because I feel like if they did they wouldn’t be hanging out with him. I’m not sure where to go from here.
Am I crazy for not wanting this guy to be apart of my family? What would you all do in this situation? How do I make my family believe what happened to me and not whatever story my sister is telling them?
Does giving my family an ultimatum that if he’s in their life I won’t be make me an asshole? I’m considering filing a police report so my family understands how serious what happened is and to protect my sister, and other women from a bad person. What do you all think?
2024.05.19 20:28 confusedgirl207 AITAH for filing a police report on my sisters boyfriend
When I (28F) was 19 and a freshman in college I went to the beach with some friends for spring break. We were staying in a hotel and one day we chose to spend the day drinking at the pool there and grilling, another group of people that some of the guys I was there with knew was also at the pool. I didn’t know the guys in the other group before that day but we were all hanging out by the pool.
That night I had more drinks than I should have and don’t recall how the situation happened but I woke up in the other guys room that 4 of them were staying in. I felt uneasy and like something bad had happened.
Later that next day I was at the beach with my friends and a girl I knew came up to me asking if I was okay. I was confused, I didn’t know what she was referring to, so I asked what she meant. She proceeded to take out her phone and show me a video where one of the guys I met the day before, Kyle (now 27M) on top of me having sex. I was not participating. I was lying there not moving while he was thrusting on top of me.
Kyles friends were all in the room watching it happen and one of them recorded it and sent it to a ton of people that I knew. I don’t remember any of this happening. I felt embarrassed and ashamed and tried to brush it off initially. I didn’t want to play victim because we had both been drinking, he had less than I did, and I had put myself into that situation.
I don’t believe there is any way I would have consented to this. The last thing I remember from the night was talking to one of the guys I had gone to the beach with who I had a crush on (not Kyle). He had tried to kiss me and I remember telling him no because I knew we were both drunk and I didn’t want to do anything I might regret the next day.
A few months later I began hanging out with Kyle and we had sex a few more times, it made me feel less guilty about the situation and I felt like I was in control because if I chose to do it now maybe I had chosen to do it during spring break when I was so drunk I wasn’t conscious.
I tried to push what happened to the back of my mind because forgetting about it was easier than dealing with it. I went back to the same beach with my sister Rachel about 2 years later and Kyle was there again. I was hanging out with my own friends and I happened to be walking by when I heard him scream in front of a group of people that he loved my sister. I began sobbing and just started walking down the beach alone crying unsure of why I was even crying at the time. My sister and I were supposed to stay at the beach for two more days after this one but that night I told her that I needed to go home and couldn’t be there anymore so we packed up and left. My sister was furious and I spent the entire car ride home crying. This was the only big fight we had ever had and we didn’t talk for a week.
Fast forward a few years and I had moved on from this situation, I saw Kyle around town occasionally because we lived in a small town but I was in a new relationship and happy. Then my sister came to me and told me that she and Kyle had started to go on a few dates. At first I didn’t know what to say, she seemed to like him. I had repressed the memory of what happened to me and didn’t want to have to relive the embarrassment and guilt that came along with it. I figured she would get the ick soon like she usually did and stop seeing him before it turned into anything serious. I know this was a mistake but at the time I didn’t want to tell anyone about what had happened to me.
That didn’t happen, after two months I realized I had messed up by not initially telling her that I was uncomfortable with her dating him. When I finally told her that he had raped me when I was 19 and the entire situation about the beach and the trauma it put me through she said she didn’t believe it was rape because we were both drinking. She said she was going to continue to date him and that I should have said something before she started to like him.
Now they’ve been together for a year. I’ve told my entire family what happened and that if he is allowed to be welcomed into the family I won’t be apart of it because I don’t want to spend the rest of my life at family functions with my rapist. For a while my family was understanding and didn’t ever meet him. I moved to a new state and haven’t talked to my sister in a year because she is dating him, when we used to talk daily.
This week I found out my parents have been playing pickle ball with my my sister and Kyle and I spent hours crying. I feel like I’m losing my family to my rapist.
My question is am I over reacting by saying I don’t want my family in my life if they allow him into theirs? I feel guilty, like I’m making my sister lose out on happiness or making my parents choose between their two daughters. I don’t know what to do to make them believe me, because I feel like if they did they wouldn’t be hanging out with him. I’m not sure where to go from here.
Does giving my family an ultimatum that if he’s in their life I won’t be make me an asshole? I’m considering filing a police report so my family understands how serious what happened is and to protect my sister, and other women from a bad person. What do you all think?
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That night I had more drinks than I should have and don’t recall how the situation happened but I woke up in the other guys room that 4 of them were staying in. I felt uneasy and like something bad had happened.
Later that next day I was at the beach with my friends and a girl I knew came up to me asking if I was okay. I was confused, I didn’t know what she was referring to, so I asked what she meant. She proceeded to take out her phone and show me a video where one of the guys I met the day before, Kyle (now 27M) on top of me having sex. I was not participating. I was lying there not moving while he was thrusting on top of me.
Kyles friends were all in the room watching it happen and one of them recorded it and sent it to a ton of people that I knew. I don’t remember any of this happening. I felt embarrassed and ashamed and tried to brush it off initially. I didn’t want to play victim because we had both been drinking, he had less than I did, and I had put myself into that situation.
I don’t believe there is any way I would have consented to this. The last thing I remember from the night was talking to one of the guys I had gone to the beach with who I had a crush on (not Kyle). He had tried to kiss me and I remember telling him no because I knew we were both drunk and I didn’t want to do anything I might regret the next day.
A few months later I began hanging out with Kyle and we had sex a few more times, it made me feel less guilty about the situation and I felt like I was in control because if I chose to do it now maybe I had chosen to do it during spring break when I was so drunk I wasn’t conscious.
I tried to push what happened to the back of my mind because forgetting about it was easier than dealing with it. I went back to the same beach with my sister Rachel about 2 years later and Kyle was there again. I was hanging out with my own friends and I happened to be walking by when I heard him scream in front of a group of people that he loved my sister. I began sobbing and just started walking down the beach alone crying unsure of why I was even crying at the time. My sister and I were supposed to stay at the beach for two more days after this one but that night I told her that I needed to go home and couldn’t be there anymore so we packed up and left. My sister was furious and I spent the entire car ride home crying. This was the only big fight we had ever had and we didn’t talk for a week.
Fast forward a few years and I had moved on from this situation, I saw Kyle around town occasionally because we lived in a small town but I was in a new relationship and happy. Then my sister came to me and told me that she and Kyle had started to go on a few dates. At first I didn’t know what to say, she seemed to like him. I had repressed the memory of what happened to me and didn’t want to have to relive the embarrassment and guilt that came along with it. I figured she would get the ick soon like she usually did and stop seeing him before it turned into anything serious. I know this was a mistake but at the time I didn’t want to tell anyone about what had happened to me.
That didn’t happen, after two months I realized I had messed up by not initially telling her that I was uncomfortable with her dating him. When I finally told her that he had raped me when I was 19 and the entire situation about the beach and the trauma it put me through she said she didn’t believe it was rape because we were both drinking. She said she was going to continue to date him and that I should have said something before she started to like him.
Now they’ve been together for a year. I’ve told my entire family what happened and that if he is allowed to be welcomed into the family I won’t be apart of it because I don’t want to spend the rest of my life at family functions with my rapist. For a while my family was understanding and didn’t ever meet him. I moved to a new state and haven’t talked to my sister in a year because she is dating him, when we used to talk daily.
This week I found out my parents have been playing pickle ball with my my sister and Kyle and I spent hours crying. I feel like I’m losing my family to my rapist.
My question is am I over reacting by saying I don’t want my family in my life if they allow him into theirs? I feel guilty, like I’m making my sister lose out on happiness or making my parents choose between their two daughters. I don’t know what to do to make them believe me, because I feel like if they did they wouldn’t be hanging out with him. I’m not sure where to go from here.
Does giving my family an ultimatum that if he’s in their life I won’t be make me an asshole? I’m considering filing a police report so my family understands how serious what happened is and to protect my sister, and other women from a bad person. What do you all think?
2024.05.19 19:30 beingsadique Australia Itinerary 14 Days: Explore Down Under
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2024.05.19 18:19 cicadaforu Help i maybe autistic idk what to do
I 22(F) maybe autistic. I am from india and its very rare to speak about topic such as mental health here.They will straight up think you're suci- dal and hate you for thinking about it.
Anyways, the thing is i am, has and always have been hyper fixated with things.Like mosquitoes biting me at night which makes me very very very upset for god knows what , broken hair strands touching my hand or leg when i try to sleep makes me very very angry enough that I can't sleep for several hours, thinking about why a friend did me dirty or an ex , my question has always been ' maybe its because I can't understand emotions properly they are like this to me and i sort of get it because they probably are struggling too ' but all the time thats not the case.They act out on me , i get upset they get distant and now i get very guilty cause they would not explain why even if i reach out to ask politely.
I have been hyper fixated on my flaws for past 2 yrs because of a breakup. It wasn't a long term relationship just few months but it was the first time i was in a relationship, they randomly broke it off and this left me vulnerable and extremely confused.
I am still sort of fixated on this topic and i journal so not to speak of it because my friends have told me to shut up and move on from it, but its hard idk why.
I am fine moving on , staying single, being with someone else , but it could be a subconscious thing , i saw them in my dreams , which makes me remember again and spiral me out.
I rarely change my daily routine... One time something creepy happened to me in my place and my friend offered me to come to their place so i can stay for the night and my thought was ' How can i sleep on that mattress its not my mattress'. I said thank you but declined it.
I can't use public toilets unless there are very clean and barely any people , in recent years i have gotten better at using public toilet , before i used to hold it in all day which i know is not good.
I have trouble making eye contact. This has given me a big phobia, 'fear of being seen'. It has affected me a lot socially, i have been better these days but sometimes i would go back to square one.
I feel everybody looks at me when i walk on the road , and when i am like nah they do be looking, but like makes me wonder why am i even scared its just eye contact, then they do prolonged threatening eye contact which is very scary.
I cover my room with black out curtains so nobody can peep me from outside. This stresses me a lot like what if i am sleeping or using my phone in the chare then i see faces in my window oof.Nothing has happened like that but i had privacy issues as a child because i lived in a very cramped room with my parents.
I don't understand emotions and how tp comfort people like at all. I rather cry alone than in front of people and this makes me think why they cry with people and they comfort them with hugs and and words and sometimes i want that too but like how ... I get upset when someone sees me cry lol.
I do think i have sensory issues too.Some noises are not it for me like loud noises like crackers and the type of noises which are immediate and i have not expected it to happen like a steel pipe clanking on the floor or chalk screech.
I imitate people around me to make them comfortable and wonder why they never do that to make me comfortable. I also find it very hard concerntrating at class because the teacher keeps on making eye contact.
I get depressed once in a while and that depression makes me upset and gets me more depressed and i cant reach out because they never understand me , they just think i should understand their struggle not mine.
I was lowkey joking when i thought i had autism few hrs ago tbh i didn't even know what were the signs of autism. As a child when i used to get upset i used to stop talking, close the door and not talk for hours. Even now i need to "charge" my battery and not talk to anyone or meet anyone once i am back from college.
I did an AQ test from several different legit sources online and they said i am highhh on autistic spectrum and i should go to a therapist or something....
I do agree but I don't have the money for it yet and i don't know where to go .... So for now i am satisfied with the " maybe"
Any advice or suggestions? Do yall think i am autistic?
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Anyways, the thing is i am, has and always have been hyper fixated with things.Like mosquitoes biting me at night which makes me very very very upset for god knows what , broken hair strands touching my hand or leg when i try to sleep makes me very very angry enough that I can't sleep for several hours, thinking about why a friend did me dirty or an ex , my question has always been ' maybe its because I can't understand emotions properly they are like this to me and i sort of get it because they probably are struggling too ' but all the time thats not the case.They act out on me , i get upset they get distant and now i get very guilty cause they would not explain why even if i reach out to ask politely.
I have been hyper fixated on my flaws for past 2 yrs because of a breakup. It wasn't a long term relationship just few months but it was the first time i was in a relationship, they randomly broke it off and this left me vulnerable and extremely confused.
I am still sort of fixated on this topic and i journal so not to speak of it because my friends have told me to shut up and move on from it, but its hard idk why.
I am fine moving on , staying single, being with someone else , but it could be a subconscious thing , i saw them in my dreams , which makes me remember again and spiral me out.
I rarely change my daily routine... One time something creepy happened to me in my place and my friend offered me to come to their place so i can stay for the night and my thought was ' How can i sleep on that mattress its not my mattress'. I said thank you but declined it.
I can't use public toilets unless there are very clean and barely any people , in recent years i have gotten better at using public toilet , before i used to hold it in all day which i know is not good.
I have trouble making eye contact. This has given me a big phobia, 'fear of being seen'. It has affected me a lot socially, i have been better these days but sometimes i would go back to square one.
I feel everybody looks at me when i walk on the road , and when i am like nah they do be looking, but like makes me wonder why am i even scared its just eye contact, then they do prolonged threatening eye contact which is very scary.
I cover my room with black out curtains so nobody can peep me from outside. This stresses me a lot like what if i am sleeping or using my phone in the chare then i see faces in my window oof.Nothing has happened like that but i had privacy issues as a child because i lived in a very cramped room with my parents.
I don't understand emotions and how tp comfort people like at all. I rather cry alone than in front of people and this makes me think why they cry with people and they comfort them with hugs and and words and sometimes i want that too but like how ... I get upset when someone sees me cry lol.
I do think i have sensory issues too.Some noises are not it for me like loud noises like crackers and the type of noises which are immediate and i have not expected it to happen like a steel pipe clanking on the floor or chalk screech.
I imitate people around me to make them comfortable and wonder why they never do that to make me comfortable. I also find it very hard concerntrating at class because the teacher keeps on making eye contact.
I get depressed once in a while and that depression makes me upset and gets me more depressed and i cant reach out because they never understand me , they just think i should understand their struggle not mine.
I was lowkey joking when i thought i had autism few hrs ago tbh i didn't even know what were the signs of autism. As a child when i used to get upset i used to stop talking, close the door and not talk for hours. Even now i need to "charge" my battery and not talk to anyone or meet anyone once i am back from college.
I did an AQ test from several different legit sources online and they said i am highhh on autistic spectrum and i should go to a therapist or something....
I do agree but I don't have the money for it yet and i don't know where to go .... So for now i am satisfied with the " maybe"
Any advice or suggestions? Do yall think i am autistic?
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2024.05.19 15:30 xiaolii [H] Lots of Games [W] Trade for Games or Paypal (EU)
Last Updated List: 19/05/2024
I'm primarily looking to trade for games from my wishlist, otherwise I am also open to selling them. I am not interested in games I already have and all games I'm getting are for me and activated on my own account. Other than that feel free to offer your list of Steam games and something I may not have and fulfills my criteria I could/would be willing to trade for it/them.
Info:
I kindly ask of you is to be reasonable when making offers to make it a fair trade for both of us.
Let's have a good exchange/trade!
List of games:
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I'm primarily looking to trade for games from my wishlist, otherwise I am also open to selling them. I am not interested in games I already have and all games I'm getting are for me and activated on my own account. Other than that feel free to offer your list of Steam games and something I may not have and fulfills my criteria I could/would be willing to trade for it/them.
- To trade you must respond to this thread first, I will not respond or accept anyone outside of this thread, only exception are unless we've traded more than once before.
- Only interested in trading for games on Steam.
- I don't do Humble gifts whether receiving or giving, all my keys are in unrevealed form right after purchase.
- No interest in any keys from an unofficial retailesource (aka grey market), curatoreviewer keys (aka beta/reviewebeta-testing/etc.), abandonware, keys for games that are already free on Steam itself, Steam profile-limited keys, and only slight interest in VR-titles and/or de-listed games (no banned games).
- Anything marked as wishlist/paypal, it's self-explanatory and I won't look through lists.
- All my keys are EU keys, if you are outside of EU, make sure you double check for any region locks for your country. For quite a few which I was aware of I already listed the region lock, however this is not my responsibility as I did specify the key's region.
- When buying, I only accept payments in Euro's. Minimum purchase of €1,00. Fees are on buyer.
Info:
- Region (and keys region): Europe
- IGS Rep Page
- SteamTrades
- SteamRep
I kindly ask of you is to be reasonable when making offers to make it a fair trade for both of us.
Let's have a good exchange/trade!
List of games:
- 100% Orange Juice
- 16bit Trader
- 20XX
- 4089: Ghost Within
- 9 Years of Shadows
- 911 Operator
- A Demon's Game - Episode 1
- A Game of Changes
- A Juggler's Tale
- A Normal Lost Phone
- A Plague Tale: Innocence (wishlist or Paypal only)
- A Tale of Paper: Refolded
- ABZU
- Aces and Adventures
- Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion
- Afterimage (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Afterparty
- Airborne Kingdom
- Alien Breed 2: Assault
- Alone in the Dark (2008)
- Amanda the Adventurer
- AMID EVIL
- Amnesia: Rebirth
- An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire
- Animal Shelter (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Anomaly II
- Anomaly: Warzone Earth
- Arcade Paradise
- Arcade Spirits
- Archipelago
- Arizona Sunshine: Deluxe Edition
- Arto (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Ary and the Secret of Seasons
- As Far As The Eye
- Ashina: The Red Witch
- Athena Trivia
- Attack of the Earthlings
- Autonauts
- Autonauts vs PirateBots
- Axiom Verge
- Axiom Verge 2 (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Back 4 Blood (Region Lock: Sub ID) (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Backstage Pass
- Baobabs Mausoleum Ep. 1 Ovnifagos Don't Eat Flamingos
- Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition
- Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition
- Batman: Arkham Knight Premium Edition
- Batman: Arkham Origins
- Battlestar Galactica Deadlock Season One
- BattleTrucks
- Beacon Pines (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Beat Or Die The MiniGames
- Beholder
- Ben 10: Power Trip
- Beyond the Long Night
- Big Crown®: Showdown
- Bighead Runner
- Bionic Commando
- Biosys Inc
- bit Dungeon II
- Black Book
- Black Paradox
- Black Skylands
- Blackguards
- Blackguards 2
- Blasphemous (Region Lock: EU/US only)
- Bleep Bloop
- Blind Fate: Edo no Yami
- BLOCKADE War Stories
- Blood And Zombies
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (wishlist or Paypal only)
- BomberZone
- BPM: BULLETS PER MINUTE
- Brick Breaker
- Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Bud Spencer & Terence Hill - Slaps And Beans- Buggos
- Calico
- Caliper
- Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
- Cardboard Town
- Carton
- Castle Defender
- CastleStorm
- Cat on a Diet
- Caveblazers
- Cavity Busters
- CHESS CROWN
- Chicago 1930 : The Prohibition
- Children of Silentown
- Chorus (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Chronicon
- Citizen Sleeper
- City Siege: Faction Island
- Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues
- Colortone
- Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
- Company of Heroes 2
- Company of Heroes 2 - Ardennes Assault
- Company of Heroes 2 - The Western Front Armies: Oberkommando West
- Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor
- Cook, Serve, Delicious!
- Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!
- Cookie Cutter (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Copy Kitty
- Coromon
- Corrupted
- Cosmic Star Heroine
- Crash Drive 2
- Crazy Machines 3
- Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance
- CRYPTARK
- Crystals of Time
- Cthulhu Saves Christmas
- Curse: The Eye of Isis
- Cybercube
- Dad Quest
- Dark Deity
- Daymare: 1998
- Dead Estate
- Deadlink (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
- Death's Gambit: Afterlife
- Deathtrap
- Decarnation (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Decay: The Mare
- Deceive Inc.
- Decks Of Power
- Deep Despair 2
- Deflector
- Deponia
- Desert Parkour
- DESOLATE
- Destroy All Humans!
- Dicey Dungeons
- Dinosaur Fossil Hunter
- Disciples II: Rise of the Elves
- Dishonored
- Dogfight 1942
- DOOM II
- Drawful 2
- Dread Templar
- Dread X Collection
- Dread X Collection 2
- Dread X Collection 3
- Dread X Collection 5
- Dread X Collection: The Hunt
- Dreamscaper
- DreamWorks Dragons: Dawn of New Riders
- Driftland: The Magic Revival
- Drunken Robot Pornography
- Dungeons
- Dungeons 2
- Dungeons 3
- DUSK
- EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair + 18 DLCs (Complete)
- EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 WINGDIVER THE SHOOTER
- Eldest Souls
- ELEX II (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Eternal Threads
- Everhood
- Evil Genius 2: World Domination
- Evoland Legendary Edition
- Expect The Unexpected
- Extinction: Deluxe Edition
- Factory Town
- Fairy Escape
- Fall of Porcupine (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Fantasy Kingdom Simulator
- FAR: Lone Sails
- Fast & Furious: Spy Racers Rise of SH1FT3R
- Feel-A-Maze
- Fight'N Rage
- Figment
- Finding Paradise
- Firelight Fantasy: Resistance
- First Class Trouble
- Fishermurs
- Flashback
- Fly O'Clock
- For The King
- Forgive me Father
- Fred3ric
- Frederic: Evil Strikes Back
- Frederic: Resurrection of Music
- From Space
- Frostpunk
- Fury Unleashed
- Garden In!
- Garfield Kart
- Garfield Kart - Furious Racing
- Generation Zero
- Get In The Car, Loser!
- Gloria Victis
- Going Under
- Golden Light
- Golf It!
- Gone: Survival
- Good Night, Knight
- Gotham Knights (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Graveyard Keeper
- Gray Dawn
- GRIP: Combat Racing
- Guilty Gear X2 #Reload
- Guts and Glory
- GYLT (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Haegemonia: Legions of Iron
- Hamilton's Great Adventure
- Hands of Necromancy
- Hard West
- Heads Will Roll
- Hell Pie
- Hellbound
- HELLCARD
- Hellslave
- Hi-Fi RUSH (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Hollow Knight (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Holy Potatoes! A Spy Story?!
- Homestead Arcana
- Home Sweet Home
- Homeworld Remastered Collection
- Honey, I Joined a Cult
- Hue
- Human Fall Flat
- I Am Fish
- Ice Age: Scrat's Nutty Adventure
- ICEY
- Inertial Drift
- Inexistence Rebirth
- Injustice 2 Legendary Edition
- Internet Cafe Simulator 2
- Interstellar Space: Genesis
- Is Simon There?
- ITORAH
- Jagged Alliance: Rage!
- JANITOR BLEEDS
- Jotun: Valhalla Edition
- JUMANJI: The Video Game
- Junkyard Fury 2
- Just Die Already
- Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
- Killing Floor 2 Digital Deluxe Edition
- King Arthur Collection (Sub ID 25825)
- King of Dragon Pass
- King Of The Castle
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance + Band of Bastards DLC (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition
- Kingdom Wars 4
- King's Bounty: Armored Princess
- Kitaria Fables
- Kitchen Simulator 2015
- Kraken Academy!!
- Kyle is Famous: Complete Edition
- Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager
- Leisure Suit Larry 7 - Love for Sail
- Life is Strange: True Colors (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Lila’s Sky Ark
- Little Orpheus
- Loddlenaut
- Loop Hero
- Lord of the Dark Castle
- Lords and Villeins
- Lords of Football
- Lost Castle
- Lost Planet 3 Complete Pack
- Lucius III
- Lumberhill
- LunarLux
- Mad Max
- Mafia III: Definitive Edition (Region Lock: Sub ID) (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Mago
- Maid of Sker
- Mail Time
- Main Assembly
- Maneater
- MARSUPILAMI - HOOBADVENTURE (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Marvel's Midnight Suns + DLC (Region Lock: Sub ID) (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Mechs & Mercs: Black Talons
- Medieval Kingdom Wars
- Mega Man Legacy Collection
- MegaRace 1
- MegaRace 2
- MegaRace 3
- Men of War
- Metal: Hellsinger (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Metamorphosis
- Metro Simulator
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor GOTY
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War Definitive Edition
- Midnight Fight Express
- Minute of Islands
- MirrorMoon EP
- Monaco
- Moon Hunters
- Morbid: The Seven Acolytes
- Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Mortal Kombat XL
- Moto Racer Collection
- Moving Out + Movers in Paradise DLC
- Music Racer
- My Little Universe Soundtrack (DLC)
- My Little Worms
- Mystery of Unicorn Castle: The Beastmaster
- Mythforce (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Mythic Ocean
- Nadir: A Grimdark Deckbuilder
- NARUTO TO BORUTO: SHINOBI STRIKER
- Nash Racing: Pursuit
- Nearly Dead
- Necronator: Dead Wrong
- NecroWorm
- Neon Abyss Deluxe Edition
- Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
- Nimble Fish
- Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition (wishlist or Paypal only)
- No Place Like Home
- Nobody Saves the World
- Nomad Survival
- Oaken
- Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
- Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty
- OlliOlli World
- Onde
- One Finger Death Punch 2
- One Hand Clapping
- Onee Chanbara Origin (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Operation Tango
- Orange Cast: Sci-Fi Space Action Game
- Orbital Racer
- Orcs Must Die! 3 Complete Bundle
- OTXO
- Out of Space
- Overcooked
- Owlboy (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Paint the Town Red
- Papo & Yo
- Patch Quest
- PAYDAY 2
- PC Building Simulator
- Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition (Region Lock: Sub ID)
- Plunger Simulator
- Police Stories
- POSTAL 2
- Primal Carnage: Extinction
- Prodeus
- Push The Box 3D
- Qbik
- QUAKE II
- qubo
- RAD
- Rad Rodgers Radical Edition
- Radio Commander
- Railway Empire
- Recipe For Disaster
- Red Faction: Armageddon
- Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered
- Red Solstice 2: Survivors
- Redout: Enhanced Edition + 5 DLCs
- Regency Solitaire
- Regions Of Ruin
- Remnant: From the Ashes - Complete Edition (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Remnants of Naezith
- Repetendium
- Resident Evil 0 HD REMASTER
- Resident Evil 4 (2005)
- Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition
- Resident Evil 6
- Resident Evil Revelations
- Resident Evil Revelations 2 Deluxe Edition
- Retrowave
- Reventure
- RHEM I SE: The Mysterious Land
- Rhythm Sprout: Sick Beats & Bad Sweets
- River City Girls
- River City Ransom: Underground
- Road 96 (Region Lock: Sub ID)
- Röki
- Royal Battleships
- Rustler
- Saints Row (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Salt and Sanctuary
- Sanctum 2
- Sands of Aura
- SATAZIUS
- Satellite Repairman
- Say No! More
- Scarlet Tower
- Scars Above
- Scorn
- School Years
- SEGA Bass Fishing
- Sense - 不祥的预感: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story
- Severed Steel
- Shadows: Awakening
- She Sees Red - Interactive Movie
- Shift Happens
- Shing!
- Shut Up And Dig
- Sid Meier's Ace Patrol
- Sine Mora EX
- Sigma Theory: Global Cold War
- Silent Service
- Sinking Island
- Sir Whoopass™: Immortal Death
- Skeletal Avenger
- Slaycation Paradise
- Small World + 1 DLC
- Snafu
- Sneak Thief
- Sniper Elite 4 Deluxe Edition (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts
- Snowtopia: Ski Resort Builder
- SONG OF HORROR COMPLETE EDITION
- Sorry, James
- Soul Grabber
- Soulblight
- Soulstice
- Space Crew: Legendary Edition
- Sparkle 2 Evo
- Sparkle 3 Genesis
- Sparkle ZERO
- Spirit of the Island
- SPOOKWARE
- STAR WARS Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy
- STAR WARS Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast
- Stacking
- Starblast
- Starpoint Gemini 2 Gold Pack
- Starpoint Gemini Warlords
- Startide
- STASIS
- Stick Fight: The Game
- Steel Rats
- Steelrising (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Strange Brigade
- Streets of Fury EX
- Strider
- Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
- SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator
- Sucker for Love: First Date
- Suite 776
- Sunblaze
- Sunlight
- Sunset Overdrive
- Super Catboy
- Super Indie Karts
- Super Magbot
- Super Meat Boy
- Superbugs: Awaken
- Superliminal (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Survive the Nights
- Swag and Sorcery
- Switchball HD
- Sword of the Necromancer
- Syberia
- Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Synergia
- SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising
- System Crash
- S.W.I.N.E. HD Remaster
- Tacoma
- Tallowmere
- Tenta Shooter
- TERRACOTTA (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Terraformers
- Terror of Hemasaurus
- Tesla Force
- The Amazing American Circus
- The Banner Saga Trilogy Deluxe Pack (Sub ID) (wishlist or Paypal only)
- The Bluecoats: North & South
- The Callisto Protocol (wishlist or Paypal only)
- The Chronicles of Nyanya
- The Citadel
- The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes (wishlist or Paypal only)
- The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan (wishlist or Paypal only)
- The Dark Eye: Memoria
- The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2
- The Dungeon Beneath
- The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet of Chaos
- The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard
- The Esoterica: Hollow Earth
- The Evil Within 2
- The eXceed Collection: Aural Brutality Edition
- The Executioner
- The Falconeer
- THE GAME OF LIFE
- THE GAME OF LIFE 2 (wishlist or Paypal only)
- The Gunk
- The Haunting of Billy Classic
- The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut
- The Initiate
- The Initiate 2: The First Interviews
- The Inner World
- The Knight Witch (wishlist or Paypal only)
- The Legend of Tianding
- The Long Reach
- The Moment of Silence
- The Quarry - Deluxe Edition (wishlist or Paypal only)
- The Quarry – Horror History Visual Filter Pack (DLC)
- The Red Lantern
- The Sapper
- The Talos Principle
- The Talos Principle: Gold Edition (wishlist or Paypal only)
- The Tarnishing of Juxtia
- The Tenants (wishlist or Paypal only)
- The Town of Light
- The Undying Plague
- The Witness (wishlist or Paypal only)
- There Is No Light: Enhanced Edition
- This War of Mine
- Those Who Remain
- Through Abandoned: The Refuge
- Ticket to Ride
- Timberman
- Time Lock VR
- Time on Frog Island
- Tiny Tina's Wonderlands: Chaotic Great Edition (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Tinykin (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Titan Quest Anniversary Edition
- Toki
- Toodee and Topdee
- Totally Reliable Delivery Service
- Tower of Time
- Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
- Train Simulator Classic + 2 DLCs
- Trifox
- Tropico 3 Gold Edition
- Tropico 4 Collector's Bundle
- Troublemaker
- Trover Saves the Universe
- Turbo Overkill (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Turmoil
- Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
- Turok
- Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
- Twin Mirror
- Two Point Campus (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Ultimate Zombie Defense
- Undying (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Unity of Command Trilogy
- Up and Down
- Vampire Survivors
- Vanguard Princess
- Verdun
- Violett Remastered
- VirtuaVerse
- Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire
- Wanted: Dead (wishlist or Paypal only)
- War for the Overworld
- Wargroove
- Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon + Soundtrack DLC
- Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon - Da Orks
- Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector
- Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach
- Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide
- Warhammer: Vermintide 2
- Wayward
- West of Dead
- What the Fog
- Where The Water Tastes Like Wine
- Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus?
- Within Skerry
- Within the blade
- Wobbledogs (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Wolfenstein 3D
- Worms Rumble
- WWE 2K23 (Region Lock: Sub ID) (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Yoku's Island Express
- Yooka-Laylee
- XEL
- XIII - Classic
- X-Morph: Defense Complete Pack
- Yakuza 4 Remastered
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon (wishlist or Paypal only)
- You Deserve
- Zombie Army Trilogy
- Zombie Driver HD
- Zool Redimensioned
2024.05.19 15:30 xiaolii [H] Lots of Games [W] Trade for Games or Paypal (EU)
Last Updated List: 19/05/2024
I'm primarily looking to trade for games from my wishlist, otherwise I am also open to selling them. I am not interested in games I already have and all games I'm getting are for me and activated on my own account. Other than that feel free to offer your list of Steam games and something I may not have and fulfills my criteria I could/would be willing to trade for it/them.
Info:
I kindly ask of you is to be reasonable when making offers to make it a fair trade for both of us.
Let's have a good exchange/trade!
List of games:
submitted by xiaolii to indiegameswap [link] [comments]
I'm primarily looking to trade for games from my wishlist, otherwise I am also open to selling them. I am not interested in games I already have and all games I'm getting are for me and activated on my own account. Other than that feel free to offer your list of Steam games and something I may not have and fulfills my criteria I could/would be willing to trade for it/them.
- To trade you must respond to this thread first, I will not respond or accept anyone outside of this thread, only exception are unless we've traded more than once before.
- Only interested in trading for games on Steam.
- I don't do Humble gifts whether receiving or giving, all my keys are in unrevealed form right after purchase.
- No interest in any keys from an unofficial retailesource (aka grey market), curatoreviewer keys (aka beta/reviewebeta-testing/etc.), abandonware, keys for games that are already free on Steam itself, Steam profile-limited keys, and only slight interest in VR-titles and/or de-listed games (no banned games).
- Anything marked as wishlist/paypal, it's self-explanatory and I won't look through lists.
- All my keys are EU keys, if you are outside of EU, make sure you double check for any region locks for your country. For quite a few which I was aware of I already listed the region lock, however this is not my responsibility as I did specify the key's region.
- When buying, I only accept payments in Euro's. Minimum purchase of €1,00. Fees are on buyer.
Info:
- Region (and keys region): Europe
- IGS Rep Page
- SteamTrades
- SteamRep
I kindly ask of you is to be reasonable when making offers to make it a fair trade for both of us.
Let's have a good exchange/trade!
List of games:
- 100% Orange Juice
- 16bit Trader
- 20XX
- 4089: Ghost Within
- 9 Years of Shadows
- 911 Operator
- A Demon's Game - Episode 1
- A Game of Changes
- A Juggler's Tale
- A Normal Lost Phone
- A Plague Tale: Innocence (wishlist or Paypal only)
- A Tale of Paper: Refolded
- ABZU
- Aces and Adventures
- Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion
- Afterimage (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Afterparty
- Airborne Kingdom
- Alien Breed 2: Assault
- Alone in the Dark (2008)
- Amanda the Adventurer
- AMID EVIL
- Amnesia: Rebirth
- An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire
- Animal Shelter (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Anomaly II
- Anomaly: Warzone Earth
- Arcade Paradise
- Arcade Spirits
- Archipelago
- Arizona Sunshine: Deluxe Edition
- Arto (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Ary and the Secret of Seasons
- As Far As The Eye
- Ashina: The Red Witch
- Athena Trivia
- Attack of the Earthlings
- Autonauts
- Autonauts vs PirateBots
- Axiom Verge
- Axiom Verge 2 (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Back 4 Blood (Region Lock: Sub ID) (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Backstage Pass
- Baobabs Mausoleum Ep. 1 Ovnifagos Don't Eat Flamingos
- Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition
- Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition
- Batman: Arkham Knight Premium Edition
- Batman: Arkham Origins
- Battlestar Galactica Deadlock Season One
- BattleTrucks
- Beacon Pines (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Beat Or Die The MiniGames
- Beholder
- Ben 10: Power Trip
- Beyond the Long Night
- Big Crown®: Showdown
- Bighead Runner
- Bionic Commando
- Biosys Inc
- bit Dungeon II
- Black Book
- Black Paradox
- Black Skylands
- Blackguards
- Blackguards 2
- Blasphemous (Region Lock: EU/US only)
- Bleep Bloop
- Blind Fate: Edo no Yami
- BLOCKADE War Stories
- Blood And Zombies
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (wishlist or Paypal only)
- BomberZone
- BPM: BULLETS PER MINUTE
- Brick Breaker
- Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Bud Spencer & Terence Hill - Slaps And Beans- Buggos
- Calico
- Caliper
- Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
- Cardboard Town
- Carton
- Castle Defender
- CastleStorm
- Cat on a Diet
- Caveblazers
- Cavity Busters
- CHESS CROWN
- Chicago 1930 : The Prohibition
- Children of Silentown
- Chorus (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Chronicon
- Citizen Sleeper
- City Siege: Faction Island
- Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues
- Colortone
- Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
- Company of Heroes 2
- Company of Heroes 2 - Ardennes Assault
- Company of Heroes 2 - The Western Front Armies: Oberkommando West
- Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor
- Cook, Serve, Delicious!
- Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!
- Cookie Cutter (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Copy Kitty
- Coromon
- Corrupted
- Cosmic Star Heroine
- Crash Drive 2
- Crazy Machines 3
- Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance
- CRYPTARK
- Crystals of Time
- Cthulhu Saves Christmas
- Curse: The Eye of Isis
- Cybercube
- Dad Quest
- Dark Deity
- Daymare: 1998
- Dead Estate
- Deadlink (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
- Death's Gambit: Afterlife
- Deathtrap
- Decarnation (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Decay: The Mare
- Deceive Inc.
- Decks Of Power
- Deep Despair 2
- Deflector
- Deponia
- Desert Parkour
- DESOLATE
- Destroy All Humans!
- Dicey Dungeons
- Dinosaur Fossil Hunter
- Disciples II: Rise of the Elves
- Dishonored
- Dogfight 1942
- DOOM II
- Drawful 2
- Dread Templar
- Dread X Collection
- Dread X Collection 2
- Dread X Collection 3
- Dread X Collection 5
- Dread X Collection: The Hunt
- Dreamscaper
- DreamWorks Dragons: Dawn of New Riders
- Driftland: The Magic Revival
- Drunken Robot Pornography
- Dungeons
- Dungeons 2
- Dungeons 3
- DUSK
- EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair + 18 DLCs (Complete)
- EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 WINGDIVER THE SHOOTER
- Eldest Souls
- ELEX II (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Eternal Threads
- Everhood
- Evil Genius 2: World Domination
- Evoland Legendary Edition
- Expect The Unexpected
- Extinction: Deluxe Edition
- Factory Town
- Fairy Escape
- Fall of Porcupine (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Fantasy Kingdom Simulator
- FAR: Lone Sails
- Fast & Furious: Spy Racers Rise of SH1FT3R
- Feel-A-Maze
- Fight'N Rage
- Figment
- Finding Paradise
- Firelight Fantasy: Resistance
- First Class Trouble
- Fishermurs
- Flashback
- Fly O'Clock
- For The King
- Forgive me Father
- Fred3ric
- Frederic: Evil Strikes Back
- Frederic: Resurrection of Music
- From Space
- Frostpunk
- Fury Unleashed
- Garden In!
- Garfield Kart
- Garfield Kart - Furious Racing
- Generation Zero
- Get In The Car, Loser!
- Gloria Victis
- Going Under
- Golden Light
- Golf It!
- Gone: Survival
- Good Night, Knight
- Gotham Knights (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Graveyard Keeper
- Gray Dawn
- GRIP: Combat Racing
- Guilty Gear X2 #Reload
- Guts and Glory
- GYLT (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Haegemonia: Legions of Iron
- Hamilton's Great Adventure
- Hands of Necromancy
- Hard West
- Heads Will Roll
- Hell Pie
- Hellbound
- HELLCARD
- Hellslave
- Hi-Fi RUSH (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Hollow Knight (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Holy Potatoes! A Spy Story?!
- Homestead Arcana
- Home Sweet Home
- Homeworld Remastered Collection
- Honey, I Joined a Cult
- Hue
- Human Fall Flat
- I Am Fish
- Ice Age: Scrat's Nutty Adventure
- ICEY
- Inertial Drift
- Inexistence Rebirth
- Injustice 2 Legendary Edition
- Internet Cafe Simulator 2
- Interstellar Space: Genesis
- Is Simon There?
- ITORAH
- Jagged Alliance: Rage!
- JANITOR BLEEDS
- Jotun: Valhalla Edition
- JUMANJI: The Video Game
- Junkyard Fury 2
- Just Die Already
- Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
- Killing Floor 2 Digital Deluxe Edition
- King Arthur Collection (Sub ID 25825)
- King of Dragon Pass
- King Of The Castle
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance + Band of Bastards DLC (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition
- Kingdom Wars 4
- King's Bounty: Armored Princess
- Kitaria Fables
- Kitchen Simulator 2015
- Kraken Academy!!
- Kyle is Famous: Complete Edition
- Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager
- Leisure Suit Larry 7 - Love for Sail
- Life is Strange: True Colors (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Lila’s Sky Ark
- Little Orpheus
- Loddlenaut
- Loop Hero
- Lord of the Dark Castle
- Lords and Villeins
- Lords of Football
- Lost Castle
- Lost Planet 3 Complete Pack
- Lucius III
- Lumberhill
- LunarLux
- Mad Max
- Mafia III: Definitive Edition (Region Lock: Sub ID) (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Mago
- Maid of Sker
- Mail Time
- Main Assembly
- Maneater
- MARSUPILAMI - HOOBADVENTURE (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Marvel's Midnight Suns + DLC (Region Lock: Sub ID) (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Mechs & Mercs: Black Talons
- Medieval Kingdom Wars
- Mega Man Legacy Collection
- MegaRace 1
- MegaRace 2
- MegaRace 3
- Men of War
- Metal: Hellsinger (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Metamorphosis
- Metro Simulator
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor GOTY
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War Definitive Edition
- Midnight Fight Express
- Minute of Islands
- MirrorMoon EP
- Monaco
- Moon Hunters
- Morbid: The Seven Acolytes
- Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Mortal Kombat XL
- Moto Racer Collection
- Moving Out + Movers in Paradise DLC
- Music Racer
- My Little Universe Soundtrack (DLC)
- My Little Worms
- Mystery of Unicorn Castle: The Beastmaster
- Mythforce (wishlist or Paypal only)
- Mythic Ocean
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2024.05.19 12:55 Stage-Piercing727 Best Carry Handle Scope
 | submitted by Stage-Piercing727 to u/Stage-Piercing727 [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/fw3vaoj16d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f746be7a3b8a7925727f9811d39222dd26be9909 Get ready to enhance your shooting experience with our top picks for carry handle scopes. These versatile devices not only provide excellent clarity and accuracy but also come with a convenient carry handle for easy transportation and handling. Explore our roundup of the best carry handle scopes on the market, sure to impress any outdoor enthusiast or professional marksman. The Top 19 Best Carry Handle Scope
Reviews🔗Killer Instinct Lumix 4x32 Black Ir-E Crossbow Scope with LED Illuminationhttps://preview.redd.it/3qq4og626d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc7676684001ccf5ae92a483625cebd5991def58 I recently had the opportunity to try out the Killer Instinct Lumix 4x32 Ir-E Crossbow Scope. This black 1021 model was a great addition to my hunting gear, providing exceptional clarity thanks to its multicoated optics and 1-inch mono tube construction. The fast focus eyepiece is a game-changer, allowing me to quickly adjust my sight even when on the move. One feature that stood out was the illuminated cross-hair reticle, which came in both blue and red. It was perfect for low-light situations, making it easier for me to spot my target. I appreciated the adjustment click value of 0.5 inches at 100 yards, as it gave me accurate and consistent shot adjustments. However, there were a few downsides to this otherwise great scope. The exit pupil was smaller than I would have liked, making it a bit more challenging to see the cross-hair reticle at times. Additionally, the scope's weight was lighter than expected, which might not have been ideal for everyone. Overall, I'm happy with my experience using the Killer Instinct Lumix 4x32 Ir-E Crossbow Scope. It's a quality product with some small drawbacks, but its pros certainly outweigh the cons. If you're in the market for a reliable crossbow scope, this one is definitely worth considering. 🔗Mil-Spec Detachable AR-15 Carry Handlehttps://preview.redd.it/6d7ydxc26d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ee10f8948f8cbfd7095ce367789dcf067a5aeed I recently had the chance to try out this detachable carry handle for an AR-15 rifle. The black finish perfectly matched the rest of my gun, and the Mil-Spec construction added a level of durability I hadn't experienced before. Attaching and detaching it was a breeze, and it blended well with my existing red dot sight. However, I did find that it added a bit of weight to the overall gun, which I noticed especially after carrying it for extended periods of time. Overall, it's a solid choice for anyone looking to add a reliable carrying handle to their AR-15 setup. 🔗National Geographic Handheld Telescope - CF600, 50mm Aperture, Explore the Starshttps://preview.redd.it/ciylb7o26d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3836466afdba226d7889d9609c4cde2d57c1748 The National Geographic CF600 Carbon Fiber telescope has been my trusty companion for some stargazing sessions. Its sleek black carbon fiber design not only looks cool but is sturdy enough to handle the wear and tear of my eager fingers. The scope's 50mm lens and focal length of 600mm provide a great starting point for anyone interested in amateur astronomy, allowing me to get a decent view of the moon and some of the brighter stars in the night sky. One of the telescope's standout features is the alt-azimuth mount and tripod combo. It's smooth and easy to use, making it simple for me to move the scope up, down, and side to side while scanning the sky. I appreciate the two included eyepieces, which offer a range of magnification options, making the scenery even more intricate and detailed. However, my experience hasn't been entirely rosy. The tripod and pan handle could have been more robust. I found that they tended to wobble and shake, not necessarily due to the weight of the telescope but the vibration of my hands as I adjusted the scope. It's not a deal-breaker, but it's a noticeable drawback. Overall, the National Geographic CF600 Carbon Fiber telescope is a great first telescope for the aspiring astronomy enthusiast in need of a simple and stylish tool to explore the night sky. With a few improvements, it could offer an even more enchanting starry-eyed experience. 🔗Versatile 50mm APO Astrograph Guide Scope with Finder Stalk and T-Threadshttps://preview.redd.it/fc0kvfo36d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e126357ee449efb5feca98ad2c48188c5fb2fb1c I've been using the Sky-Watcher EvoGuide 50DX as my guide scope for a few weeks now, and let me tell you, it's been quite the journey. The first thing that struck me was the stunning contrast of the images it delivered. The ED glass really does its job in providing those deep, rich views of the stars. The finder stalk and V-style mounting rail made it a breeze to attach this little gem to my bracket. It was a smooth process and really made me feel like a pro astronomer. Although it's not a huge scope, its focal length of 242mm and f/4.8 aperture have proven to be a great match for my astrophotography. The built-in T-threads are also a bonus. With an optional adapter, I can easily transform it into a low-focal length astrograph. It's perfect for those times when I want to change up my observing style. However, there have been a few hiccups. Sometimes, the centering screws seem to play too loose, making it a bit of a challenge to get the telescope perfectly aligned with the mount. But overall, it's been a great addition to my stargazing setup. 🔗Portable 40x60 Monocular Telescope with Smartphone Holder and Tripodhttps://preview.redd.it/z4ev1ao36d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e4d93c8f234736d395a5c3c08421c4568d3b7570 As someone who's spent countless hours enjoying the great outdoors, I can confidently say that the Pankoo Monocular Telescope has become one of my go-to accessories. While hiking, I used it to observe the mesmerizing birdlife, and during a camping trip, I utilized its tripod to observe the night sky. The sharp, clear imagery that I saw through this telescope made every experience more unforgettable. However, there's one drawback – the product could have been easier to handle if it came with a carry handle. This 40x60 monocular is no stranger to diverse environments, making it suitable for every age as well as numerous outdoor activities. Climbing, hiking, driving, racing, traveling, sightseeing – this telescope is the perfect companion for them all! The added features, such as the smartphone holder and tripod, make it even more convenient to use on the go. The accompanying velvet bag, dust cover, and cleaning cloth ensure that your telescope stays pristine and ready for your next adventure. The user manual provided makes it easy to understand how to operate the telescope, completing the package. Overall, the Pankoo Monocular Telescope is a must-have for anyone eager to explore the world around them, but just remember to add a carry handle for optimal ease of use! 🔗Simmons Venture Black FMCWPTRIPODHARD/Soft Case Spotting Scopehttps://preview.redd.it/hf5ofsu36d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c8e2eb9aae7a9fff6ebe9ddd3afb38bbba7e1e31 As a hunting enthusiast, I've used the Simmons 15-45x60 Venture Black FMCWPTripodHard/Soft Case spotting scope for several months, and it has proven to be a reliable option. The fully-multi coated optics deliver a bright image, even in low-light conditions, which is crucial when hunting at dawn and dusk. The scope's sturdy tabletop tripod with a built-in window mount ensures a stable viewing experience. One feature that stood out is the hard plastic case that safely stores the scope and tripod. The soft carrying case is a plus for easy transportation in the field. The lens has excellent clarity, making it great for identifying and tracking game at varying distances. However, I noticed that the eye relief can be uncomfortable when using higher magnification levels. Overall, the Simmons 15-45x60 Venture Black FMCWPTripodHard/Soft Case is a solid spotting scope option for hunters looking for affordability without sacrificing performance. The accessories make it a convenient and complete package for outdoor adventures. 🔗Klein Tools ET16 Borescope for Android Devices with Removable Carry Handle and 10-Foot Gooseneck Cablehttps://preview.redd.it/7rhlctg46d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=34d49bf9bcafdafdd9b2aedd2e6b9010688f4d2d I recently tried the Klein Tools ET16 Borescope for Android devices, and my experience was quite interesting. The product features a 10-foot (3m) armored gooseneck cable, which is a great addition for extended reach. However, I noticed that the camera seemed a bit tricky to operate with one hand while holding the phone in the other. One of the highlights of the product is its waterproof IP67 9 mm camera, which captures high-quality 640 x 480 pixel images and videos. I had no issues sharing these images and videos via text or email using the Klein Tools App available on Google Play store. While the borescope app is available on Google Play store, I found that some users experienced difficulties in connecting the device. I personally didn't face such an issue, but I noticed that the app didn't require any additional charging as it runs off the phone battery. Overall, my experience with the Klein Tools ET16 Borescope was mixed. On one hand, the product's features worked well and helped me capture images and videos effortlessly. However, the issue with the app not working for some users is a concern that the company needs to address. Despite the minor drawbacks, I still found the product to be useful for DIY enthusiasts and professionals alike. 🔗Ergonomic Black Mamba Top Handle for Enhanced Shooting Controlhttps://preview.redd.it/om51zkm46d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e02f2eae3e59e163a1e5a577bb1760b5e28cbeac As a photography enthusiast, the SmallRig Black Mamba Top Handle quickly became my go-to accessory for capturing those perfect moments. The ergonomic design not only makes it a comfortable addition to my camera, but also enhances my shooting experience at any angle. The compact, lightweight construction of this top handle, made of aluminum alloy and silica gel, is a game changer for those of us who don't want to be weighed down during our shoots. One of the standout features of this handle is its sleek, Black Mamba-inspired shape, which not only exudes style, but also provides a smooth feel in my hands. However, I did notice that the top handle could use a few locking mechanisms to secure it more firmly on the device. Other than that, this top handle has become an essential part of my camera setup, truly elevating my photography experience. 🔗Lightweight Carbon Fiber Shovel Handle for Ultimate Digging Experiencehttps://preview.redd.it/zip0eqy46d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e53c57b6502ba1f72bce73192b64ef2abd16b8f2 I recently tried out this Carbon Fiber Travel Sand Scoop Shovel Handle Universal Lightweight Pole for Beach Metal Detecting Treasure Hunting Long Tube Rod and I must say, it was quite the handy tool. The carbon fiber material made it both robust and lightweight, which was a great combination for a tool that would be used for long periods of time. One of the standout features was the multi-functionality of the tool. It could be used for sand scooping, metal detecting and other activities, making it a great universal choice. The lightweight long pole provided a comfortable grip that was not easily slipped from my hand, ensuring a secure hold on the scoop. The scoop itself was quite handy, sifting out sand and dirt with ease, leaving just the metal object behind. Suitable for use on the beach, in water, or with a metal detector, this pole ensured optimal performance even when used for extended periods of time. Overall, I was quite impressed with the product and would definitely recommend it for anyone who enjoys gardening and outdoor activities. 🔗Movcam Lens Carry Handle for Arri Alura Lenseshttps://preview.redd.it/qlo50ah56d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f7e5e93feb2a8520b793ccf0f3d23552b9a43cd2 The Movcam Lens Carry Handle became an essential addition to my filmmaking kit. This ergonomic and robust handle perfectly complemented my Arri Alura 45-250mm lens, providing the perfect balance of comfort and stability. The handle easily attached to the lens, allowing for smooth and seamless transitions during shooting without the need for any additional tools or attachments. However, the Movcam Lens Carry Handle also had some minor drawbacks that needed to be addressed. First, the grip felt quite slick, making it difficult to achieve a secure hold when shooting in wet or slippery conditions. Second, the handle was not adjustable, making it challenging to accommodate different users or scenarios. These drawbacks did not significantly impact my overall satisfaction with the product, as I found the Movcam Lens Carry Handle to be a reliable and valuable companion during my film endeavors. 🔗Explore the Universe with Titan 70mm Telescope - Rotatable 360° and Smartphone Adapterhttps://preview.redd.it/db1b7no56d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4f56d4c5b1ca1b13fa7d5c006cd14cc3434896d1 Exploring the cosmos just got easier with the Titan 70mm telescope. Its sleek design, portability, and ease of use make it a favorite for both beginners and experienced stargazers. With a 360mm focal length, this refractor offers two eyepieces for magnifications of 18x and 60x, enabling users to truly appreciate the beauty of the lunar terrain or deep sky wonders. One of the standout features of this telescope is the fully rotatable diagonal, which allows for the perfect viewing angle regardless of your position. And with the convenience of a full-length AZ panhandle mount, navigating the night sky is a breeze. Another highlight is the included smartphone adapter, which captures the wonders you see in the eyepiece and saves them for future exploration. And, for those who want to take their stargazing on the go, a travel case is provided, making this telescope a must-have for any space enthusiast. 🔗DJI RS Series Handheld Gimbal Briefcase Handle Reviewhttps://preview.redd.it/j65car166d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eb090c96bbff9718a78de90e0aabcec5dcd88af3 Imagine a cinematographer armed with a sleek new tool — the DJI Briefcase Handle for RS Series. As someone who's tested it in real life, let me share my experience. Picture this: on a challenging set, this unassuming handle becomes your guardian angel, providing the extra stability and comfort you need for those low-angle shots. The first thing that stood out to me was the handle's design. It was lighter and smaller than I expected, making storage a breeze. The compatibility with the DJI RS series handheld gimbals is a breath of fresh air, and the lack of additional tools required for mounting is a huge plus. However, I did notice a small issue with the locking mechanism. If not tightened properly, it could potentially lead to an expensive drop. But this is a minor issue, and it's clear that the handle provides more stability and ease of use than I've experienced with other gimbals. It's become an essential part of my kit. Overall, the DJI Briefcase Handle for RS Series gets a solid 4.5 stars from me. It's an investment worth making for those seeking professional-quality, low-angle shots. 🔗UZI 5x20 Periscope: Adjustable Height, Durable and Weatherproof, with Detachable Handle and Carrying Casehttps://preview.redd.it/vbtzisi66d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f68460a5111d628f84e1ce5e10faaa699095dcf In my experience, the UZI 5x20 Periscope has been a handy tool for surveillance and exploration. Made of durable anodized aluminum housing, this periscope offers a sleek and weatherproof design. The glass lenses and prisms provided a sharp and clear view, allowing me to see in detail from a distance. One feature that stood out is the focusing eyepiece, which made it easy to adjust the focus based on the distance to the object I was observing. However, the lack of a detachable handle made it more difficult to hold and maneuver the periscope confidently when using it for extended periods. The height adjustment was a great addition, allowing me to see above and around obstacles for an improved view. The carrying case with a shoulder strap also made it convenient to transport and store the periscope when not in use. Overall, the UZI 5x20 Periscope has been a reliable tool for my daily needs, but its lack of a detachable handle and potential for some difficulty in assembling the scope properly were noticeable drawbacks. 🔗Compact NATO Top Handle for Select Sony Camerashttps://preview.redd.it/kugs2wv66d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=71d78bb5ab171d5c52f7a26dfee5730d8935f3ab This Compact Nato Top Handle from Tilta has been a game-changer in my daily video shooting routine. It's a comfortable and ergonomic addition to my Sony a7 IV full camera cage, providing a secure attachment. The aluminum and stainless steel construction adds a sleek touch to my setup, and the black finish blends in perfectly. One of the highlights of this handle is its compatibility with select Tilta cages, making it a versatile accessory. The multiple 1/4"-20 and 3/8"-16 mounting points come in handy when attaching external accessories. Even the front cold shoe mounting point is a great feature. However, I couldn't help but notice an issue with the rear Arri mount holes. They appear to have the smaller, non-standard screw, making it incompatible with some accessories I wanted to use. Despite this minor setback, the overall experience with this handle has been positive. Its compact design suits small cameras well, and the Nato rails on the other side add an extra layer of stability. The aluminum and stainless steel construction not only adds ruggedness but also gives it a premium look. So, if you're looking for a comfortable handle with a minimalist design, this Tilta handle is worth considering. 🔗Portable Telescope Carry Handle for VC, VMC, and Refractor Modelshttps://preview.redd.it/zbwctfm76d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=066302ff63901428728eac97293d54c700f7228e As an enthusiastic amateur astronomer, I've been keeping a close eye out for accessories and tools that make handling my telescope smoother and more enjoyable. That's why when I stumbled upon the Vixen Optics Metal Carry Handle, I couldn't resist giving it a try. From the get-go, this little handle seemed like a practical and sturdy solution to make transporting my telescope much more manageable. The metal construction provided me with the reassurance of durability, not to mention it offered a perfect balance of weight distribution. However, it wasn't until closer inspection that I noticed a few essential details. For starters, the handle was designed solely for specific telescope models (VC, VMC, and refractor types), and it appeared that not every telescope would be compatible. Additionally, it came with only one screw, and the lack of a multi-tool was somewhat disappointing. Despite these minor quibbles, I found the Vixen Optics Metal Carry Handle to be a worthwhile investment. It has greatly streamlined my stargazing experience, giving me peace of mind as I transport my telescope to different locations with ease. Buyer's Guidehttps://preview.redd.it/omrinrg96d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6dbb0727523820de16b9d31a3c3aaea2991d8ce4 When it comes to scope selection, a carry handle scope is a versatile and practical choice for many shooters. Whether you're an avid hunter, target shooter, or competitive marksman, a carry handle scope can provide you with a reliable and accurate sighting system. In this buyer's guide, we'll discuss the features and considerations that are important when selecting a carry handle scope. We'll also provide some general advice to help you make an informed decision when choosing the right scope for your needs. Featureshttps://preview.redd.it/va64q2l96d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=60454f9b896fde2586b173e8e1723a59ac1a9bc5 Carry Handle DesignA carry handle scope should have a strong and durable carry handle that allows for easy and comfortable carrying of your firearm. Look for a handle that is ergonomically designed and made from a material that provides a good grip, such as rubber or polymer. The scope should also have a solid mount that securely attaches the scope to your firearm, ensuring a stable and aligned sight picture.Lens Qualityhttps://preview.redd.it/raeaumy96d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7f352a4b5b4b3f5e62030ff53a2a3a2f14781994 The quality of the lenses in a carry handle scope is essential for accurate and clear sighting. Look for a scope with high-quality lenses made from low-dispersion glass, which reduces chromatic aberration and provides a crisp and clear image. The lenses should also be fully multi-coated to minimize glare and improve light transmission. This will result in a brighter, clearer, and sharper image, even in low-light conditions. Magnification and Objective Lens SizeThe magnification and objective lens size of a carry handle scope are important factors to consider. The magnification determines how much the image is magnified, while the objective lens size affects the amount of light that enters the scope. A scope with a larger objective lens will typically provide a brighter image, while higher magnification allows you to see targets at greater distances. Choose a scope with the appropriate magnification and objective lens size based on your shooting needs and environment. https://preview.redd.it/u4haf5ma6d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7bed87eef69027bbe9aee804c903f7fe195cd408 ConsiderationsBudgetAs with any purchase, budget is an important consideration when shopping for a carry handle scope. Higher-end scopes will typically offer better optics, more advanced features, and a more robust construction. However, there are also many quality scopes available within a lower price range. Consider your budget and the priorities for your shooting needs when selecting a carry handle scope.Purpose and EnvironmentThe purpose and environment in which you will be using your carry handle scope are also important factors to consider. Hunters may require a scope with a greater magnification range and more advanced features for precise shot placement, while target shooters and competitive marksmen may prioritize clarity and accuracy at a fixed range. The environmental conditions you will be shooting in, such as light levels and weather, should also be taken into account when selecting a carry handle scope.AdviceWhen looking for a carry handle scope, it's essential to read reviews and do your research. Talk to other shooters, consult with a professional at your local shooting or outdoor store, and read online forums and reviews to get an idea of what to expect from different scopes. Be sure to properly test the scope in your environment before making a final decision, and always follow proper scope mounting and care procedures to ensure the best performance and longevity.As with any purchase, be sure to choose a carry handle scope from a reputable manufacturer or retailer. This will help ensure that you are getting a quality product with reliable performance. Lastly, don't forget to factor in the cost of additional accessories, such as scope covers, sunshades, and mounts, which may be necessary for optimal performance and protection of your scope. FAQ**### What is a Carry Handle Scope?**A Carry Handle Scope is a type of rifle scope that is designed for hunting and long-range shooting. It combines a rugged construction with multiple reticle options to enhance accuracy and versatility. The carry handle scope is easily mounted above the rifle's action and is typically used in situations that require quick target acquisition.**### What are some popular brands for Carry Handle Scopes?**Popular brands for Carry Handle Scopes include Leupold, Vortex Optics, Bushnell, and Primary Arms. These brands offer a range of styles, magnification options, and reticles to cater to various shooting needs. **### What types of reticles are available on Carry Handle Scopes?**There are several types of reticles available on Carry Handle Scopes, including the BDC (Bullet Drop Compensator), Mil-Dot, and Illuminated reticles. BDC reticles display graduations that can be used to calculate bullet drop at different distances, while Mil-Dot reticles offer adjustments for both elevation and windage in terms of milliradians. Illuminated reticles allow for improved visibility in low-light conditions. ### What are the advantages of using a Carry Handle Scope verses other types of scopes?* Carry Handle Scopes are lightweight and compact, making them an ideal choice for those who prioritize mobility.
### How do I choose the right Carry Handle Scope for my needs?* Consider the type of shooting you'll be doing and select a scope with a suitable reticle and magnification range.
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2024.05.19 11:56 Stage-Piercing727 Best Carhartt Hunting Jackets
 | submitted by Stage-Piercing727 to u/Stage-Piercing727 [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/g0ervckfvc1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=332a465217c6840edca4608ea5a3c76258383f8e Welcome to our Carhartt Hunting Jacket roundup. Whether you're an avid hunter or just starting out, finding the perfect jacket to keep you warm and comfortable during your hunting trips is crucial. Today, we bring to you a selection of top-quality Carhartt Hunting Jackets that are not only stylish but also designed for durability and peak performance. Read on to find the perfect jacket that suits your hunting preferences and style. In this article, we'll explore the key features, performance benefits, and customer reviews of the best Carhartt Hunting Jackets available in the market today. As you delve deeper into our review, you'll discover the perfect jacket that not only complements your hunting outfits but also enhances your overall hunting experience. Stay tuned to uncover the best Carhartt Hunting Jackets and make the most of your hunting adventures! The Top 19 Best Carhartt Hunting Jackets
Reviews🔗Camo Insulated Rugged Flex Men's Jacket: Comfort, Durability & Mossy Oak Patternhttps://preview.redd.it/lqwwde0gvc1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3bf382b76ec9dd3560e9e10a00dcf6289ff1a360 My Carhartt Men's Rugged Flex Duck Camo Active Jacket has been a game-changer in my hunting adventures. I've been using it for the past three hunting seasons, and it's been nothing short of amazing. The first thing that caught my attention was its durability; it's held up against some harsh weather conditions. The Rugged Flex stretch technology and elbow pleats allow for easy movement, which is crucial when I'm tracking down my prey. One of the most impressive features is the DWR finish that provides excellent water resistance. It's kept me dry even during unexpected downpours. The Mossy Oak Bottomland camo pattern truly helps me blend in with my surroundings, making it easier to stay hidden from my quarry. However, there are few things that could use some improvement. The loose fit means I sometimes experience a bit of wind coming up, but it's not too much of an issue. Additionally, while the zipper quality is solid, it could be slightly longer, as suggested by other reviewers. Overall, the Carhartt Men's Rugged Flex Duck Camo Active Jacket has been a reliable companion on my hunts, protecting me from the elements and enabling me to focus on the task at hand. If you're in the market for a well-constructed and comfortable hunting jacket, this one should definitely be on your radar. 🔗Carhartt Classic Brown Duck Coat with Corduroy Collarhttps://preview.redd.it/gjelnnkgvc1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=73b08da0c3ef44f85c77311800d674aab16f961a A couple of years ago, I purchased the Carhartt Men's Firm Duck Chore Coat for myself when I was gearing up for a cold and windy construction project. The first thing that stood out to me about this coat was its heritage-inspired design, reminiscent of the pocket watch era. As time went on, I had the opportunity to test its claims of being water-repellent and wind-resistant, and I can confirm that it lived up to my expectations, even in harsh conditions. One significant highlight of the Carhartt Chore Coat is its corduroy collar, which has been in use since the late 1930s and has that classic, timeless look. Additionally, the rugged firm-hand duck fabric not only gives it a sturdy feel but also becomes more comfortable with time, making it a reliable piece of outerwear. As much as I love this coat, it does have a couple of drawbacks. Firstly, the length of the sleeves can be a bit too long for some users, with some having to size down to ensure a comfortable fit. Secondly, the coat's collar could be slightly wider to provide better protection against the wind. In conclusion, the Carhartt Firm Duck Chore Coat is the perfect choice for those who prioritize comfort, warmth, and durability in their outerwear. Its timeless design and high-quality materials make it a worthwhile investment for anyone looking for a reliable coat that will stand the test of time. 🔗Carhartt Rain Defender Fleece Shirt Jackethttps://preview.redd.it/y8kkylqgvc1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0f0b4bb1c92157046e5a7e0cab246597aaed6a50 I recently got my hands on the Carhartt Rain Defender Relaxed Fit Hooded Shirt Jacket in Black Heather and let me tell you, it's been a game-changer in my daily life. As an avid outdoorsman, I appreciate the flexibility of this jacket - it's suitable for various weather conditions. One thing that really stood out for me was the adjustable hood, which ensures good visibility even during a downpour. The high collar also provides additional protection against the elements. Another highlight is its durability. The Windfighter fleece, combined with the Rain Defender finish, makes it wind and water-resistant, while its triple-stitched main seams add extra strength. Notably, there are ample pockets for all my essentials. However, there's one issue I encountered with the hood design. It can feel awkward if worn with a cap, though a beanie or hard hat doesn't pose the same problem. In terms of sizing, I found that the medium size fits perfectly, providing enough room for layering without compromising on comfort. The length of this jacket is another praiseworthy feature - it's just right, even without the 'tall' version. Lastly, while it's not technically a winter jacket, I believe that with some insulation, it could be the perfect companion in winter. Overall, the Carhartt Rain Defender is a reliable go-to for various weather conditions, offering comfort, durability, and functionality. 🔗Carhartt Men's Lightweight Hooded Jackethttps://preview.redd.it/kbt1283hvc1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df1a27058b1649184cd8236dbe7fe5f04200a9ed I recently got my hands on the Carhartt Super Dux Relaxed Fit Lightweight Mock-Neck Jacket and I must say, I'm quite impressed. The jacket provides excellent protection against wind and light rain, making it perfect for those chilly days when you're outdoors. It's a great piece to layer up with during mild winters. One of the standout features of this jacket is its flexibility. Thanks to the Rugged Flex stretch technology, I can move freely without any hindrance - whether I'm running errands or engaging in some physical activity. The wind-resistant fabric ensures that my body stays warm even when there's a chill in the air. However, there's one drawback that I've noticed - the collar. It feels a bit too large and tends to get in the way while turning my head. It would be great if Carhartt could address this issue in future models. In terms of pocket storage, this jacket delivers as well. There are several secure zipper pockets both inside and outside, allowing me to safely stow away my essentials like tools or supplies. Overall, the Carhartt Super Dux Relaxed Fit Lightweight Mock-Neck Jacket has become a staple in my daily outdoor wear. Its lightweight design, coupled with its wind and water resistance, make it a practical choice for anyone who spends time outdoors. Despite the minor issue with the collar, I'm highly satisfied with this jacket. 🔗Carhartt Realtreed Xtra Camo Sherpa Lined Active Jackethttps://preview.redd.it/qo0me0ohvc1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=119c6715543338880779bc3fcf9bb6e35bebc6c9 Carhartt's Men's Super Dux Relaxed Fit Sherpa-Lined Camo Active Jacket is a warm and durable piece of outerwear that's perfect for hunters and outdoor enthusiasts alike. I recently purchased one in Mossy Oak Bottomland Camo, and I must say, it has quickly become my go-to jacket for all my outdoor adventures. The first thing that struck me was the quality of this jacket. The 18.1-ounce, 97% nylon/3% elastane fabric feels sturdy and well-made, offering excellent wind resistance and a sprinkle of light rain protection. The Sherpa lining inside is incredibly soft and cozy, keeping me warm even on the chilliest days. One aspect I particularly love about this jacket is its spacious interior pocket. It comfortably holds my essentials without weighing me down or restricting my movement. The secure zipper left chest pocket is another useful feature, providing an easy-to-access spot for my phone and keys while I'm out and about. However, there are a few minor drawbacks to the Carhartt Men's Super Dux Jacket that I think are worth mentioning. Firstly, the adjustable hood with a hidden drawcord and cord lock is a nice touch for safety, but I've found that it can be a bit difficult to adjust while wearing gloves. Secondly, the lack of elbow or armpit gussets means that the jacket doesn't always move with me as smoothly as I'd like, especially when reaching or lifting objects. Despite these small issues, I'm overall very satisfied with my Carhartt Men's Super Dux Relaxed Fit Sherpa-Lined Camo Active Jacket. Its comfort, durability, and practical features make it a standout choice for anyone who spends a lot of time outdoors. 🔗Carhartt Washed Duck Insulated Active Jackethttps://preview.redd.it/4bdckzxhvc1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=36a6bbe7e0c8d9b493a04c4249b5b155cca4c5fb As someone who spends a lot of time outdoors, I have to say that the Carhartt Men's Washed Duck Insulated Active Jacket has been a game-changer for me. I've had this jacket for several months now and it has held up incredibly well. What stands out the most to me about this jacket is the heavyweight cotton duck fabric. It's not only warm and durable, but it also has a nice, broken-in feel to it that makes it super comfortable to wear. The 3M Thinsulate insulation adds an extra layer of warmth without making the jacket too bulky or heavy. One feature I really appreciate is the attached hood with low profile adjustment. On windy days, this hood helps keep me protected and warm. Plus, the cord locks make it easy to adjust the fit without having to deal with annoying drawstrings. Another positive aspect of this jacket is the updated lower front pockets. They're now lined with brushed tricot, which makes them feel much softer and more comfortable against my skin. And when I'm out working in the cold, I love how the pen stall in the right, lower front pocket lets me keep all my essentials close at hand. However, there is one aspect of this jacket that could use some improvement - the side pockets. They could definitely be deeper, as they don't provide enough room for storing larger items like smartphones or wallets when you're on the move. Overall, the Carhartt Men's Washed Duck Insulated Active Jacket is a fantastic choice for anyone looking for a reliable, comfortable, and stylish cold weather jacket. The durability and thoughtful design features make it well worth the investment, and I can't recommend it highly enough. 🔗Carhartt Super Dux Insulated Jacket for Menhttps://preview.redd.it/a8870zgivc1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e730e82932cb7e639a5ab1bf179935b5175c57ce The Carhartt Men's Super Dux Relaxed Fit Insulated Jacket was my go-to for those chilly days. On my latest project in the backyard, the wind was relentless and the rain was coming down hard, but this jacket held its own. The 100-gram Thinsulate insulation kept me toasty and the Rain Defender technology ensured I stayed dry. One of my favorite features was the Rugged Flex technology that allowed for unrestricted movement. The bi-swing shoulders and flexible elbows made reaching up high or bending over a much easier task. I never felt trapped in the jacket, even when I was getting really active. The hood was also a game-changer, able to protect my head not only from the rain but also from the wind. Plus, the detachable feature was super convenient - I could remove it on warmer days or when I needed to interact with someone face-to-face. However, I noticed that the interior storm cuffs were loose and didn't keep out the draft as well as I'd like. And while the length was perfect for my needs, it might not suit everyone. Despite these issues, the jacket's high-quality construction, impressive warmth, and rugged design made it a reliable addition to my wardrobe for those harsh conditions. 🔗Carhartt Men's Yukon Extremes Insulated Active Jacket - Blackhttps://preview.redd.it/dgjxdyqivc1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=38aea4fb9e9855187f660b64af25d37d392586f3 Recently, I purchased the Carhartt Men's Yukon Extremes Insulated Active Jacket, and I'm quite satisfied with its performance. As someone who spends a lot of time outdoors, it's important for me to have a jacket that's not only durable but also well-insulated and wind-resistant. This active jacket did not disappoint. The first thing that caught my attention when I received the jacket was the 3M Thinsulate insulation, which provides excellent warmth without feeling too bulky. I'm particularly fond of the hood design, featuring a drawcord and reflective Carhartt patch. The hood not only keeps me protected from rain and snow but also ensures visibility during nighttime activities. However, one area where the jacket could be improved is its zipper quality. While the plastic zipper works fine, I'm more accustomed to metal zippers, which are generally more reliable and durable. In addition, the jacket can be somewhat noisy when walking due to the swishy fabric sound - not ideal for hunting purposes. Despite these minor drawbacks, I believe the Carhartt Men's Yukon Extremes Insulated Active Jacket is a fantastic choice for anyone looking for a reliable and well-insulated winter coat. Its attractive design, variety of pockets, and comfortable fit make it a versatile option for both recreational activities and daily life. Overall, I'm pleased with my purchase and believe many others will be too. 🔗Carhartt Youth Canvas Insulated Hooded Jacket - Mossy Oak Country DNAhttps://preview.redd.it/h1pq5j6jvc1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a97cea9c48e41af642305cb09c6436c6033c7afd I don't know about you, but I'm a big fan of Carhartt - especially their Camo line. That's why I decided to get this Canvas Insulated Hooded Jacket for my son. Let me tell you, it has been a game changer this hunting season! First off, the quality is top-notch. This jacket is made with heavy-duty canvas and features triple-stitched seams. Even after several washes, it still looks brand new. The quilted flannel lining on the inside also ensures that my boy stays warm and comfortable no matter how cold it is outside. One of my favorite features of this jacket is the hidden rib-knit cuffs. They keep his wrists toasty and make sure no wind or sleet sneaks in. Plus, the insulated front pockets are perfect for storing his hands or keeping small gear close at hand while he's out in the field. Now, let's talk about the hood. It's full zip, so it provides ample protection against rain, snow, or even those pesky mosquitoes during summer months. And speaking of zipping, the main zipper is high quality and doesn't get stuck or catch on the fabric. While the jacket isn't water-resistant, it does dry relatively quickly when hung up, making it easy to clean and maintain. The only downside I've noticed is that the sleeve length could be a bit longer, especially if your child is taller than average. Overall, I'm extremely satisfied with this Camo Canvas Insulated Hooded Jacket from Carhartt. It has everything a young hunter could want - durability, comfort, and style. If you're looking for a reliable and well-made jacket for your little outdoorsman (or outdoorswoman), look no further than this one. 🔗Carhartt Gilliam Insulated Jackethttps://preview.redd.it/nkwzggnjvc1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8ac560b72162b731e103f7cc19c56e940946dfda I recently got my hands on the Carhartt Men's Black Gilliam Jacket and oh boy, it's been a game-changer for my daily life! This insulated jacket is not just about keeping you warm during winter, but also about providing you with some real protection from unwanted dampness. The DWR finish ensures that you stay dry and comfortable even when the weather takes a turn. One thing I truly appreciate is the zipper closure feature. It's a small detail, yet it does an excellent job of keeping out the cold winds. Speaking of features, it comes with heaps of pockets - some even have protective closures. This means you can carry all your small work essentials without worrying about losing them. Now, let's talk about the cons. Though I'm not usually bothered by minor issues, I must say the length of the sleeves could be a bit longer. It may not be a problem for everyone, but it did catch my eye. All in all, the Gilliam Jacket has definitely earned a place in my wardrobe. Its water-repellent capabilities, the myriad of pockets, and the overall comfort it provides make it the perfect companion for these colder days. So if you're looking for a reliable work jacket that doesn't compromise on style or functionality, this one's a solid choice! 🔗Carhartt Men's Full Swing Steel Jacket in Blackhttps://preview.redd.it/ed4oog2kvc1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c64e5eca091121737bcf3d52378aee0819058f35 I've been using this Carhartt Men's Full Swing Steel Jacket for a while now, and I must say, it's been a reliable companion through the colder months. Its 3M Thinsulate insulation keeps me warm and cozy even during the harshest winters, and the DWR finish makes sure I stay dry even when caught in a rainstorm. One of my favorite features is the detachable hood. It gives me personalized styling options depending on my mood or weather conditions. The jacket's rugged construction is also worth highlighting, as it's made of stretch ripstop for extra flexibility and freedom of movement. However, I've experienced some issues with the zipper quality. It can sometimes get stuck or hang at every little wrinkle, which can be quite frustrating. Another minor issue is the sizing, as the jacket tends to run on the smaller side, but that's easily fixed by choosing a size larger than usual. All in all, I'm quite satisfied with the Carhartt Men's Full Swing Steel Jacket. Its combination of style, comfort, and functionality makes it an excellent choice for anyone looking for a versatile and reliable winter jacket. 🔗Carhartt Men's Super Dux Traditional Insulated Coat (Black) - Relaxed Fit, Machine Washhttps://preview.redd.it/or65m7dkvc1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=223f52063a4f689bc57b66eea80b81090db51c79 I recently purchased the Carhartt Super Dux Relaxed Fit Insulated Traditional Coat to stay warm during those chilly winter days. The coat's 7.75-ounce nylon fabric is treated with Rain Defender durable water-repellent finish, ensuring that I stay dry even in heavy rain. Additionally, the Wind Fighter technology effectively blocks the wind, keeping me cozy and comfortable. One of my favorite features of this coat is the quilt-lined insulation with 100g of 3M Thinsulate, providing excellent warmth. The secure hook-and-loop right chest pocket and zipper left chest pocket are perfect for storing my essentials, while the two snap front lower pockets with side entry hand warmers keep my hands toasty. The interior hook-and-look pocket on the wearer's left side offers additional storage space. I also appreciate the drop-tail hem, which provides extra coverage, and the adjustable hood with chin guard and hidden drawstrings, which protect me from harsh weather conditions. The rib-knit storm cuffs effectively seal out the cold, and the center-front zipper with kissing welt makes it easy for me to put on and take off the coat. However, there are a few downsides to this coat. The side seam zippers, while providing added movement, can be a bit challenging to use at times. Additionally, the double-stitched main seam, although durable, can feel a bit stiff and may require some breaking in. In conclusion, the Carhartt Super Dux Relaxed Fit Insulated Traditional Coat is an excellent choice for those looking for a reliable and warm coat for winter. Its unique combination of features, such as the 7.75-ounce nylon fabric with Rain Defender technology, Wind Fighter technology, and 100g of 3M Thinsulate insulation, ensures that you stay dry and warm in even the harshest weather conditions. Although there are a few minor drawbacks, such as the stiffness of the double-stitched main seam and the occasional difficulty in using the side seam zippers, these issues do not significantly detract from the overall quality and performance of the coat. Overall, I am highly satisfied with my purchase and would recommend this coat to anyone looking for a high-quality winter garment. 🔗Black Men's Rough Cut Jacket by Carhartthttps://preview.redd.it/czaf3k2lvc1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bcc3b43f556beb9649b5c230cd8000bbf290a97c Carhartt's men's Rough Cut Jacket, in black, is perfect for those chilly autumn days. This heavyweight flannel piece, with a sherpa fleece lining in its body and a quilted lining on the sleeves, offers both warmth and style. The original-fit shirt-jac features handwarmer pockets and zippered ones ideal for storing your wallet or keys. If you're an outdoor enthusiast, this jacket can withstand the elements, and after years of use, you'd be hard pressed to find any significant wear and tear on it. Although it's designed primarily for breathability and not as a standalone layer for keeping warm, it pairs beautifully with fleece or down mid-layers. However, despite its high rating, the jacket does have a few minor drawbacks. The first is that the zipper tends to get stuck, particularly near the neck area, often requiring fiddling for a few minutes. Some users also mentioned they found the arms to be slightly short, as well as the jacket being slightly stiff when new. But these issues seem to be more common with the first batch, with newer models appearing to have resolved these concerns. In conclusion, the Carhartt men's Rough Cut Jacket is a high-quality, stylish option that provides warmth and comfort while maintaining a sleek appearance. Its wind resistance and pairing ability with other layers make it an ideal choice for fall and winter outings. And although the stiffness and the issue with the zipper might be present initially, they seem to resolve with time and use. Therefore, I would recommend this jacket to anyone seeking a reliable, durable option for their outdoor activities. Buyer's GuideCarhartt Hunting Jackets are designed to provide durability, comfort, and functionality during hunting trips. In this guide, we'll cover important features, considerations, and advice for choosing the right Carhartt Hunting Jacket to suit your specific needs.Important Featureshttps://preview.redd.it/5o6ft62ovc1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6dc9ed3b6ae9d42a3da3ad1ea62358b68c8ddccf
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https://preview.redd.it/7asmrrjovc1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f8b7ca5d673766bbd0235a9ad0ff65f44df71cae FAQWhich Carhartt hunting jacket is the most popular?The Carhartt Quilted Flannel Lined Jacket is one of the most popular and highly-rated hunting jackets due to its comfort, durability, and warmth.How do I choose the right size for a Carhartt hunting jacket?https://preview.redd.it/75vbmv0pvc1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0296c971fcb78c44618c1a3ad12bf645e3163691 To find the perfect fit, consult Carhartt's sizing chart on their website. Measure your chest, waist, and hips, and choose a jacket that matches your measurements. It's also advisable to read customer reviews for specific size recommendations. What features make Carhartt hunting jackets stand out?
Can I wash my Carhartt hunting jacket in a washing machine?Yes, most Carhartt hunting jackets are designed for machine washing. Use cold water and mild detergent, then hang to dry or tumble dry low. Be sure to check the care instructions included with your specific jacket for more detailed guidance. https://preview.redd.it/yt55kqdpvc1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8cc4223c087bd9454cb24145a683241b8ad131be How waterproof are Carhartt hunting jackets?Many Carhartt hunting jackets are water-resistant, which means they can withstand light rain or snow. If you need a more waterproof option, look for jackets with waterproof membranes or coatings, such as the Carhartt Rain Defender Jacket.Do Carhartt hunting jackets come with a warranty?Carhartt offers a one-year limited warranty against defects in materials and workmanship for most of their products, including hunting jackets. To make a claim, contact their customer service team with the details of your issue and the product's model/Serial Number.How can I tell if a Carhartt hunting jacket is genuine?Look for the Carhartt label and logo on the jacket, as well as the product tag with the style number indicating the specific model and color. Be cautious when purchasing second-hand, as counterfeit jackets may be sold online. If in doubt, contact Carhartt's customer service for assistance.How do I care for my Carhartt hunting jacket to extend its longevity?
Are there specific models of Carhartt hunting jackets suitable for women?Yes, Carhartt offers hunting jackets designed specifically for women, like the Carhartt Women's Big & Tall Quilted Flannel Lined Jacket. These jackets feature a tailored fit and adjustability options to ensure a comfortable and flattering fit for women wearing these jackets while hunting.How can I find discounted Carhartt hunting jackets?Keep an eye on Carhartt's official website and authorized retailers for seasonal sales and promotions. Additionally, you may find discounted hunting jackets on sites like eBay or Amazon, but make sure to verify the authenticity of the product before purchasing.As an Amazon™ Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. |
2024.05.19 11:18 PowerMinute1922 The Man who screams at Daybreak
My last flat was unbearable.
I mean, you try having a family of 11 live above you, when half of them are under the age of 8. Also try having a pair of raging alcoholic neighbours on either side of you. A pair who were once married to each other. My eyes rivalled that of pigeons’ due to no sleep.
I lasted a total of 21 days. I know, new record huh? I just about shoved the keys back in the grubby hands of my landlord when I finally saw the lunacy inscribed on his face. No wonder the rent was dirt cheap.
So I was back on the road, not on the streets though. Luckily enough I started questioning the flat by day 8, looked around for another place by day 15, and made a decision to get the hell out on day 18. 3 days of packing and it was bye-bye.
My new place seemed all the better too: yes, the rent was more expensive, and yes, it only has 2 bedrooms. But at least it was a house, one where pesky neighbours were at least 5 metres away. On my right, at least. On my left? Their house - thankfully - couldn’t even be seen where I stood.
Parking my car, I skipped up towards my new house with my fresh set of keys. And on entering? Silence. Perfect still silence. Thank the Lord. I basked in it for a while before returning to my car, unloading some of my baggage. It took 3-4 hauls, but I managed to fit it into one of the bedrooms. Thankfully, the rest of my things were to be brought by moving vans in about an hour.
I envisioned what the house could look like with a few finishing touches.
“But first…”
I eyed the 2 rooms. “Mine!”
The room I had chosen to be mine gave a bright view of my own smaller garden, as well as a portion of my right neighbour’s house, but that didn’t matter much. The view in the other room would suck: just my car and some reeds.
I was just about done heaving some of my baggage into my newly-chosen room when the doorbell gave an obnoxious ring. I stood, fighting the urge to just run away into one of my rooms when it beeped again.
Reaching the door, I eyed out of the peephole to see nothing but an opaque whiteness. I guess the downside in this house is that the last tenant was a slob. I eyed some of the yellowing walls. Sighing, I opened the door.
“Hello! We’re your neighbours, Jack and Sally, and we live just there,” She motioned towards my right, “We came to introduce ourselves, and to let you know that if you ever need anything, we’re right here.”
She then shoved a basket full of biscuits at my chest, a motherly-smile stretched around her lips. She turned to leave, husband - clearly forced to follow her - in tow, when she turned around.
“Your name, dear?”
“Leen!” I shouted after her.
“Perfect.”
And perfect it was, I thought. Neighbours that respect their distance from you, and give you food? I eyed the delicious snacks in front of me. Definitely an upgrade.
Though it was at dawn the very next day that I woke up, shook.
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See, I was just sleeping in my newly delivered bed when I heard it. Something that sounded like a bird, a huge caw, before it alternated into different pitches. Disoriented, I tried to wipe the sleep from my eyes in order to focus better. But it just made me more confused.
It sounded like a chicken.
As far as I know, this new place was not the countryside, nor farmland. So what? And why?
I stepped up to my window to take a good look outside. I wouldn’t keep a rooster in my home that’s for sure. Whatever it was, it was coming from…
My jaw dropped.
I closed my eyes and scrubbed at them harshly.
Please tell me why I opened my eyes and saw the exact same thing.
A man, on his haunches, face pointed towards the sky, was making rooster noises.
And he was on my neighbours’ garden. The ones I met earlier.
He looked absolutely demented. I wasn’t even scared then, just flabbergasted. I wasted no time calling the police at this disturbing nuisance.
When they arrived though, I saw my neighbours’ shoot straight from their house, speaking or…was it pleading? With the officers. What on Earth..?
Anyway, it was their problem now, so I went back to bed. I had a whole bunch of chores the next day, and had to get it all sorted before I returned to work.
Shutting my eyes, I wished for peace. And quiet, thank you very much.
~
At last, I woke up at 10 AM. By 1 PM, I had sorted my clothing into its respective drawers, and had decorated my bedroom walls, including a new golden addition. And now? I had food cooking on the stove. It felt satisfying, having cleaned up and now awaiting the prize of food.
I scrolled on my phone as I waited for the pasta to cook, before another ding turned my attention towards the door.
“Huh, what now?”
Unfortunately I hadn’t cleaned the peephole yet, so I had to open the door. There stood Jack and Sally. Or Sally and Jack. Jack looked lost. Sally stared deep into my eyes.
“Was it you?”
“Me? What do you mean?”
“That called the police last night?”
I recalled the past night, and gave her a thumbs up, hoping my smile was reassuring. “Yep, don’t worry, that lunatic will not be coming back ever again. He can go to the zoo if he wants to squawk.”
I should’ve taken the cue from Jack’s paling face, but Sally grabbed hold of me. “Listen here, okay? That man, the one you called the police on...” She trembled, “He’s my son! You can’t do that! He was not even on your property!”
My eyes widened. “He’s…your son?”
“Of course! How can you not see that?”
Nodding at her, I relinquished myself from the hold she had on my arms. “Okay then, sorry for the call. But I do have to mention something,” Jack started to shake his head behind his wife, but I ignored the little-to-say man, “Is there any way you can keep the noise down to a minimum? Honestly, your son has vocal cords of steel! It would wake the entire neighbourhood at this rate.”
Sally stared pointedly at me, then took a look around my house. “Very well.”
She grabbed her husband’s arm as she turned to leave, and I caught the slightest look of fear in his eyes before he was abruptly pulled away.
I dismissed it - and the sinking feeling - on discovering my very soft, overcooked pasta when I came back into my home though.
I managed to also do one thing before wrapping up: I cleaned out my door's peephole. Now I wouldn't have to open the door to know it's them. I'd just speak at them from the inside if they were to come back.
~
I woke, jolting out of my bed the very next morning, or night. I checked my bedside clock to see it was 3:50 AM. The cock-a-doodle-doo was breaking into my head. I grasped my hair in frustration, knowing that I didn’t have the madman’s parents phone numbers’ to call, or maybe scream at them. It was the exact same thing as the day before! Except…maybe…
I strained my ear.
It sounded a lot closer.
My hands, for some reason, became clammy instantly, and the urgent thumping of my own heart - the fragility of my own life - became all the more prominent.
I tiptoed to my window and peeked outside. Nothing.
I then slowly treaded to my spare bedroom, and pulled the curtains apart. Zilch. Nada. Though…
Almost as if under a spell, my head turned towards my main door. I…I could somehow feel it. Just to confirm though, I peeked out of the door-hole.
And with a slam, I collapsed in my new, dream home.
~
When I came to, I was lying on white sheets, and a bright white light hung over me.
A hospital.
I was in my own room, which I found odd. It was not like I needed it. But then a doctor walked in, followed by 3 other people, and it all made sense. Everything - blurs and sureness - melted into a perfect picture.
Sally, Jack, and their son.
He couldn’t be more than 17 really. Though he looked 37 a few hours ago. Face pressed against the glass of my peephole, mouth wide open towards it, eyes pointing in different directions as his face reddened and contorted.
I was deaf in one moment. Then came the COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO.
Of course I fainted. Who could blame me?
“Good afternoon, I’m Dr Lam. You’re in A&E right now. Are you able to tell me your full name and date of birth?
My voice answered the Doctor’s questions, but my eyes stared dazed at the youngster’s abdomen, not daring to reachhis its eyes.
“Well, nothing seems to be wrong with you. You may have just been dehydrated. Did you have any headache or pain before you fainted?”
I replied in the negative.
“Luckily, your friends’ son had found you passed out, and ensured your speedy arrival to hospital, so I wouldn’t be worried about any damage.”
My eyes finally strayed, looking towards the ground. I held the nauseousness of bile down my throat. Following a brief check-up, I was allowed to leave.
And 2 people and a demon followed me out.
“Well, Leen, that should give you a lesson,”
Sally.
I turned towards the family, who stood in a 3 person arc. Only 1 managed to look away, equal parts shame and guilt. I don’t need to mention who that was.
“Don’t worry. You can look at me, I don’t bite: not now and not at dawn,” a strained voice whispered at me. “I promise, it’s only at dawn when I…when I…”
“Hush Dean, don’t work your voice that much. You’ll need to save it for later.”
I was still dizzy. That didn’t stop me from running half-hobbled to the taxi stand, where I begged and claimed to many that I would provide double payment if they were to take me to my house.
It took a while, but I managed to pack some of my clothes. There was no way in hell I was sleeping at that damned house again, not now, not ever. I called and booked at a nearby hotel in the meantime.
I was done packing necessities by the evening. Walking out of my house, I saw no sign of those three. I would have been relieved, had I not come face to face with than one thing: standing in my garden, leaning against my car. My breathing picked up instantly.
Dean
It stood with its back resting against my car. And It noticed me immediately. Seems like it was just waiting for me to notice it.
“Are you leaving?” It sounded almost sad, but I needed it to move away, or my only way out of there would be in jeopardy.
“For the night.” My answer? Almost smooth, but even I could hear the first shake in my voice.
It nodded though. “Okay.” And he moved from my car. I counted the distance. 1 metre. 2. 2.5-
It made a sudden dash at me as I - in flight response - ran frantically to the driver’s seat, locking the door. I came in half-squashed, my backpack still on my back. But I didn’t care.
Its face was pressed against the window.
“Mum is waiting for a person that will like me for me, not run away. You’re supposed to like me.” It said, matter-of-factly. It then wailed, and sunk beneath the car window.
I did not dare to sit up and see what it was doing.
I didn’t even need to though. The sound came a split-second later.
COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO
Tears spilled from my eyes. My limbs felt weak. I couldn’t even breathe. It suddenly sprang up to the window. Eyes enlarged: looking at me and everywhere at once.
“I can actually tur-COCK- in the day too, but M-DOODLE- said it would be too much for you,” wheezing, it exclaimed again before adding, “but this is ME. Do you-do you, do you like me?”
With dead limbs I weighed my foot on the pedal, and jump-started the car to speed off. My head shook left-and-right in response, stomach heaving with nausea.
Human preservation kicked me into taking proper control of the car when I saw, out of the rear view mirror, Sally. This time with a rope, which locked around the creature’s neck before she tugged, drawing it into her house. At one point we locked eyes. And what do I mean by we?
Answer: the 2 of them and me.
It was honestly a miracle that I did not get into a road traffic accident.
I spent 3 days living in the hotel after that, my job long-forgotten in the aftermath.
By day 4 I broke down and called my older sister, asking to stay at her place for a while. Her house and area seemed fine the times I’d stopped over. I guess I clearly did not seem right though, as she many-a-time asked me what was wrong. My answer? Stress. She persisted, years of living together as kids helping her figure out my lies, though she ultimately gave up after a week. She knew it was something I didn’t want to share, and that I was safe now. That was enough for her.
For me? I guess at the time I so badly wanted to tell someone. Though it couldn’t be my sister. I didn’t want to cause any trouble. Nor see if she’d even believe me, or instead rank me at the same IQ level as her two 5-year-olds.
For a few weeks, I stayed with my sister and her family, reassuring both her and myself that I was fine. Thankfully, we worked together to find a small apartment. Next to a kids school too - bonus points. I now craved safety above all else. After moving out though, I realised I needed my belongings back.
So, who picked up my stuff from that cursed residence, you ask? The moving people. I called the police from a random phone booth first to head over to that area, emphasising on seeing some suspicious looking men, whilst I got them to collect everything. I did not dare to call the police on that family though. I would prefer if the link between me and them got cut, drawn and quartered.
So now I’m here, in an apartment which thankfully hasn’t shown any sign of insanity. Inspecting my belongings, I noticed that there was one thing missing.
My gold frame, used to encase my make-shift certificate - made by yours truly after her 21-day record from the previous apartment - was gone.
I felt somewhat miffed, but then I realised something.
Something which can maybe bring the light out in this whole situation.
I counted carefully. I broke my record.
With a grand stay of 2 days. Now that - that I don’t think I’d ever be able to beat.
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I mean, you try having a family of 11 live above you, when half of them are under the age of 8. Also try having a pair of raging alcoholic neighbours on either side of you. A pair who were once married to each other. My eyes rivalled that of pigeons’ due to no sleep.
I lasted a total of 21 days. I know, new record huh? I just about shoved the keys back in the grubby hands of my landlord when I finally saw the lunacy inscribed on his face. No wonder the rent was dirt cheap.
So I was back on the road, not on the streets though. Luckily enough I started questioning the flat by day 8, looked around for another place by day 15, and made a decision to get the hell out on day 18. 3 days of packing and it was bye-bye.
My new place seemed all the better too: yes, the rent was more expensive, and yes, it only has 2 bedrooms. But at least it was a house, one where pesky neighbours were at least 5 metres away. On my right, at least. On my left? Their house - thankfully - couldn’t even be seen where I stood.
Parking my car, I skipped up towards my new house with my fresh set of keys. And on entering? Silence. Perfect still silence. Thank the Lord. I basked in it for a while before returning to my car, unloading some of my baggage. It took 3-4 hauls, but I managed to fit it into one of the bedrooms. Thankfully, the rest of my things were to be brought by moving vans in about an hour.
I envisioned what the house could look like with a few finishing touches.
“But first…”
I eyed the 2 rooms. “Mine!”
The room I had chosen to be mine gave a bright view of my own smaller garden, as well as a portion of my right neighbour’s house, but that didn’t matter much. The view in the other room would suck: just my car and some reeds.
I was just about done heaving some of my baggage into my newly-chosen room when the doorbell gave an obnoxious ring. I stood, fighting the urge to just run away into one of my rooms when it beeped again.
Reaching the door, I eyed out of the peephole to see nothing but an opaque whiteness. I guess the downside in this house is that the last tenant was a slob. I eyed some of the yellowing walls. Sighing, I opened the door.
“Hello! We’re your neighbours, Jack and Sally, and we live just there,” She motioned towards my right, “We came to introduce ourselves, and to let you know that if you ever need anything, we’re right here.”
She then shoved a basket full of biscuits at my chest, a motherly-smile stretched around her lips. She turned to leave, husband - clearly forced to follow her - in tow, when she turned around.
“Your name, dear?”
“Leen!” I shouted after her.
“Perfect.”
And perfect it was, I thought. Neighbours that respect their distance from you, and give you food? I eyed the delicious snacks in front of me. Definitely an upgrade.
Though it was at dawn the very next day that I woke up, shook.
~
See, I was just sleeping in my newly delivered bed when I heard it. Something that sounded like a bird, a huge caw, before it alternated into different pitches. Disoriented, I tried to wipe the sleep from my eyes in order to focus better. But it just made me more confused.
It sounded like a chicken.
As far as I know, this new place was not the countryside, nor farmland. So what? And why?
I stepped up to my window to take a good look outside. I wouldn’t keep a rooster in my home that’s for sure. Whatever it was, it was coming from…
My jaw dropped.
I closed my eyes and scrubbed at them harshly.
Please tell me why I opened my eyes and saw the exact same thing.
A man, on his haunches, face pointed towards the sky, was making rooster noises.
And he was on my neighbours’ garden. The ones I met earlier.
He looked absolutely demented. I wasn’t even scared then, just flabbergasted. I wasted no time calling the police at this disturbing nuisance.
When they arrived though, I saw my neighbours’ shoot straight from their house, speaking or…was it pleading? With the officers. What on Earth..?
Anyway, it was their problem now, so I went back to bed. I had a whole bunch of chores the next day, and had to get it all sorted before I returned to work.
Shutting my eyes, I wished for peace. And quiet, thank you very much.
~
At last, I woke up at 10 AM. By 1 PM, I had sorted my clothing into its respective drawers, and had decorated my bedroom walls, including a new golden addition. And now? I had food cooking on the stove. It felt satisfying, having cleaned up and now awaiting the prize of food.
I scrolled on my phone as I waited for the pasta to cook, before another ding turned my attention towards the door.
“Huh, what now?”
Unfortunately I hadn’t cleaned the peephole yet, so I had to open the door. There stood Jack and Sally. Or Sally and Jack. Jack looked lost. Sally stared deep into my eyes.
“Was it you?”
“Me? What do you mean?”
“That called the police last night?”
I recalled the past night, and gave her a thumbs up, hoping my smile was reassuring. “Yep, don’t worry, that lunatic will not be coming back ever again. He can go to the zoo if he wants to squawk.”
I should’ve taken the cue from Jack’s paling face, but Sally grabbed hold of me. “Listen here, okay? That man, the one you called the police on...” She trembled, “He’s my son! You can’t do that! He was not even on your property!”
My eyes widened. “He’s…your son?”
“Of course! How can you not see that?”
Nodding at her, I relinquished myself from the hold she had on my arms. “Okay then, sorry for the call. But I do have to mention something,” Jack started to shake his head behind his wife, but I ignored the little-to-say man, “Is there any way you can keep the noise down to a minimum? Honestly, your son has vocal cords of steel! It would wake the entire neighbourhood at this rate.”
Sally stared pointedly at me, then took a look around my house. “Very well.”
She grabbed her husband’s arm as she turned to leave, and I caught the slightest look of fear in his eyes before he was abruptly pulled away.
I dismissed it - and the sinking feeling - on discovering my very soft, overcooked pasta when I came back into my home though.
I managed to also do one thing before wrapping up: I cleaned out my door's peephole. Now I wouldn't have to open the door to know it's them. I'd just speak at them from the inside if they were to come back.
~
I woke, jolting out of my bed the very next morning, or night. I checked my bedside clock to see it was 3:50 AM. The cock-a-doodle-doo was breaking into my head. I grasped my hair in frustration, knowing that I didn’t have the madman’s parents phone numbers’ to call, or maybe scream at them. It was the exact same thing as the day before! Except…maybe…
I strained my ear.
It sounded a lot closer.
My hands, for some reason, became clammy instantly, and the urgent thumping of my own heart - the fragility of my own life - became all the more prominent.
I tiptoed to my window and peeked outside. Nothing.
I then slowly treaded to my spare bedroom, and pulled the curtains apart. Zilch. Nada. Though…
Almost as if under a spell, my head turned towards my main door. I…I could somehow feel it. Just to confirm though, I peeked out of the door-hole.
And with a slam, I collapsed in my new, dream home.
~
When I came to, I was lying on white sheets, and a bright white light hung over me.
A hospital.
I was in my own room, which I found odd. It was not like I needed it. But then a doctor walked in, followed by 3 other people, and it all made sense. Everything - blurs and sureness - melted into a perfect picture.
Sally, Jack, and their son.
He couldn’t be more than 17 really. Though he looked 37 a few hours ago. Face pressed against the glass of my peephole, mouth wide open towards it, eyes pointing in different directions as his face reddened and contorted.
I was deaf in one moment. Then came the COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO.
Of course I fainted. Who could blame me?
“Good afternoon, I’m Dr Lam. You’re in A&E right now. Are you able to tell me your full name and date of birth?
My voice answered the Doctor’s questions, but my eyes stared dazed at the youngster’s abdomen, not daring to reach
“Well, nothing seems to be wrong with you. You may have just been dehydrated. Did you have any headache or pain before you fainted?”
I replied in the negative.
“Luckily, your friends’ son had found you passed out, and ensured your speedy arrival to hospital, so I wouldn’t be worried about any damage.”
My eyes finally strayed, looking towards the ground. I held the nauseousness of bile down my throat. Following a brief check-up, I was allowed to leave.
And 2 people and a demon followed me out.
“Well, Leen, that should give you a lesson,”
Sally.
I turned towards the family, who stood in a 3 person arc. Only 1 managed to look away, equal parts shame and guilt. I don’t need to mention who that was.
“Don’t worry. You can look at me, I don’t bite: not now and not at dawn,” a strained voice whispered at me. “I promise, it’s only at dawn when I…when I…”
“Hush Dean, don’t work your voice that much. You’ll need to save it for later.”
I was still dizzy. That didn’t stop me from running half-hobbled to the taxi stand, where I begged and claimed to many that I would provide double payment if they were to take me to my house.
It took a while, but I managed to pack some of my clothes. There was no way in hell I was sleeping at that damned house again, not now, not ever. I called and booked at a nearby hotel in the meantime.
I was done packing necessities by the evening. Walking out of my house, I saw no sign of those three. I would have been relieved, had I not come face to face with than one thing: standing in my garden, leaning against my car. My breathing picked up instantly.
Dean
It stood with its back resting against my car. And It noticed me immediately. Seems like it was just waiting for me to notice it.
“Are you leaving?” It sounded almost sad, but I needed it to move away, or my only way out of there would be in jeopardy.
“For the night.” My answer? Almost smooth, but even I could hear the first shake in my voice.
It nodded though. “Okay.” And he moved from my car. I counted the distance. 1 metre. 2. 2.5-
It made a sudden dash at me as I - in flight response - ran frantically to the driver’s seat, locking the door. I came in half-squashed, my backpack still on my back. But I didn’t care.
Its face was pressed against the window.
“Mum is waiting for a person that will like me for me, not run away. You’re supposed to like me.” It said, matter-of-factly. It then wailed, and sunk beneath the car window.
I did not dare to sit up and see what it was doing.
I didn’t even need to though. The sound came a split-second later.
COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO
Tears spilled from my eyes. My limbs felt weak. I couldn’t even breathe. It suddenly sprang up to the window. Eyes enlarged: looking at me and everywhere at once.
“I can actually tur-COCK- in the day too, but M-DOODLE- said it would be too much for you,” wheezing, it exclaimed again before adding, “but this is ME. Do you-do you, do you like me?”
With dead limbs I weighed my foot on the pedal, and jump-started the car to speed off. My head shook left-and-right in response, stomach heaving with nausea.
Human preservation kicked me into taking proper control of the car when I saw, out of the rear view mirror, Sally. This time with a rope, which locked around the creature’s neck before she tugged, drawing it into her house. At one point we locked eyes. And what do I mean by we?
Answer: the 2 of them and me.
It was honestly a miracle that I did not get into a road traffic accident.
By day 4 I broke down and called my older sister, asking to stay at her place for a while. Her house and area seemed fine the times I’d stopped over. I guess I clearly did not seem right though, as she many-a-time asked me what was wrong. My answer? Stress. She persisted, years of living together as kids helping her figure out my lies, though she ultimately gave up after a week. She knew it was something I didn’t want to share, and that I was safe now. That was enough for her.
For me? I guess at the time I so badly wanted to tell someone. Though it couldn’t be my sister. I didn’t want to cause any trouble. Nor see if she’d even believe me, or instead rank me at the same IQ level as her two 5-year-olds.
For a few weeks, I stayed with my sister and her family, reassuring both her and myself that I was fine. Thankfully, we worked together to find a small apartment. Next to a kids school too - bonus points. I now craved safety above all else. After moving out though, I realised I needed my belongings back.
So, who picked up my stuff from that cursed residence, you ask? The moving people. I called the police from a random phone booth first to head over to that area, emphasising on seeing some suspicious looking men, whilst I got them to collect everything. I did not dare to call the police on that family though. I would prefer if the link between me and them got cut, drawn and quartered.
So now I’m here, in an apartment which thankfully hasn’t shown any sign of insanity. Inspecting my belongings, I noticed that there was one thing missing.
My gold frame, used to encase my make-shift certificate - made by yours truly after her 21-day record from the previous apartment - was gone.
I felt somewhat miffed, but then I realised something.
Something which can maybe bring the light out in this whole situation.
I counted carefully. I broke my record.
With a grand stay of 2 days. Now that - that I don’t think I’d ever be able to beat.
2024.05.19 08:48 linuxgfx Anyone rocking their phone case less?
Hi all, as per title i am curious if anyone "dares" to use the pro/promax without a case. If yes, how is the titanium frame holding up? I remember i got a lot of micro scratches on my 14 pro max steel frame in the first week of use. I love the look of this phone and it is really a shame having to hide it inside a case. Thank you all
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2024.05.19 08:17 GhoulGriin Best Car Holsters
 | submitted by GhoulGriin to u/GhoulGriin [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/36va4pijsb1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c8d71ac5f18d8fa29205f57088d4d5c238d07309 In today's fast-paced world, the need for easy and quick access to weapons has become essential. One such solution is the car holster - a fantastic accessory that keeps your gun within reach without compromising on safety. Whether you're a law enforcement officer or a gun enthusiast, our exclusive roundup of car holsters is designed to meet your unique needs and preferences, ensuring your weapon is secure and easily accessible when you need it most. The Top 7 Best Car Holsters
Reviews🔗Versatile Alien Gear Photon Holster for Hellcat Pistolhttps://preview.redd.it/ovxi45wjsb1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5ff728f84ee6c97ad3b0e7f1408f8c825947ae5a The Alien Gear Photon Springfield Hellcat Holster in Black is a versatile, ambidextrous holster that caters to various use cases. Designed to fit almost any situation, this holster is a perfect fit for both outside and inside the waistband carry. Its optics cut makes it compatible with a wide range of optics, excluding the SRO. Being made in the USA and having a lifetime warranty, it gives shooters peace of mind knowing they're investing in a high-quality product. However, certain users have pointed out the bulky clip and claw configuration, which might require some practice and adjusting to prevent inconvenience. 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Its versatility makes it ideal for a variety of outdoor activities, and its durable construction ensures that it will stand up to even the toughest of conditions. 🔗Adjustable Retention IWB Holster for Springfield Hellcat Red Dot Optic Cut, Blue Carbon Fiberhttps://preview.redd.it/tvb3xsnksb1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d5bbd2a75a382b496e3136d461a891121b4edc3b As a Springfield Hellcat owner, I've been searching for the perfect IWB holster that can provide comfort and convenience while carrying my beloved firearm. When I stumbled upon the We The People Springfield Hellcat IWB Holster, it seemed to be the perfect solution to my problem. The first thing I noticed about this holster is its durable construction. Made from Kydex, it feels sturdy and well-built, ensuring that my firearm is securely held in place. The flexibility of the material is also a plus, as it allows for a comfortable and secure fit. One of the most impressive features of this holster is the adjustable retention. This feature allows me to set the tension to my personal comfort, providing an additional level of customization to my carry experience. The holster's adjustable ride and cant also offer maximum flexibility in terms of carry options, ensuring that I can find the perfect position for my gun. Despite its many pros, the holster does have a few cons that are worth mentioning. The adjustable clip, while convenient, can be a bit challenging to maneuver at times, especially when trying to change positions on the go. Additionally, the protective sweat guard has a tendency to catch on my clothing, which can be a minor annoyance. Overall, I am quite pleased with the We The People Springfield Hellcat IWB Holster. Its durability, adjustability, and customizable features make it a worthwhile investment for any Springfield Hellcat owner looking for a comfortable and secure carry solution. While there may be a few areas for improvement, the positives far outweigh the negatives, and I would recommend this holster to anyone in the market for a reliable IWB option. 🔗Versatile Car Holster for Springfield XD 9/40 MOD2https://preview.redd.it/hiimlmilsb1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d1c35c4dd288fe40872b89e5b7bab8efd91f1af2 The ShapeShift Core Car Pack has been a game-changer in my daily life. This versatile holster easily transforms into different carry styles - IWB, appendix carry, OWB belt slide, and OWB paddle holster. The durable polymer and Kydex construction provide a secure fit for my Springfield XD 9/40 MOD2. One of the coolest features is the bonus holster mount, which allows me to attach my ShapeShift to various surfaces, giving me plenty of options for carrying my firearm. However, I did notice that the finish could use some improvement; a more resistant material might prevent the occasional scratch. Overall, this car holster pack has made my life a lot easier and more convenient. 🔗Car Holder Mount for Ultimate Stability and Conveniencehttps://preview.redd.it/5ggvzekmsb1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=03773b387d2900cf020eb03c91fe86cc989dcac9 I recently had the pleasure of trying out the HHJ Phone Mount for Car, a handy little gadget that has been a game-changer on my road trips. With its super stable design, I no longer have to worry about my phone sliding or falling when I hit a bump or take a sharp turn. Not only is it easy to install, taking only five seconds to set up, but it also offers a convenient release button that makes it simple to switch between portrait and landscape mode using the 360 rotation ball joint. This phone mount really does make hands-free calling and navigation during my commutes a breeze, and I highly recommend it to fellow drivers looking for a dependable solution. 🔗Adjustable Air Vent Smartphone Stand for Hands-Free Drivinghttps://preview.redd.it/vmwb22umsb1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3db5c57b32eaa3844296164a9634ed3bdf92201b I recently gave the Kenu Airframe+ Car Mount a try during a long road trip. This simple yet effective device was a game-changer for me. It's designed to attach to your car's air vent, providing a sturdy and secure way to keep your phone within viewing range while driving. The first thing that stood out to me was the extendable grip. It allowed me to easily adjust the angle of my phone, ensuring that I had a clear view of my GPS navigation, hands-free calls, and music playlist. What surprised me the most was that this mount doubled as a travel stand, making it a perfect addition to my laptop bag for airport layovers or when working from a hotel room. However, there were a couple of minor cons during my experience. The mount has a universal fit, but I found that it was slightly tricky to get it to stay secure in my air vent. Also, the adjustable jaws were not as snug as I would have liked, causing my phone to jiggle a bit more than I preferred. Overall, I believe the Kenu Airframe+ Car Mount is a worthwhile investment for anyone looking for a versatile and functional car phone mount. 🔗Safariland Level III Retention Car Holster: Durable and High-Performance Carrying Solutionhttps://preview.redd.it/b8xtm1ensb1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c8b25c32b76494866eb92fd133622b6aad5e5b9 The Safariland SL 7360RDS holster has been an essential part of my daily carry routine for quite some time now. I've tried several holsters in the past, but none have come close to matching the quality and performance of this one. One of the key features that stood out to me is the ALS (Automatic Locking System) retention system. It's an intuitive and easy-to-use system that provides quick and secure access to my firearm. The holster's design perfectly complements my use of red-dot optics on my firearm, and I appreciate how it specifically accommodates my choice of optics. It fits my rig perfectly, and I can easily draw my pistol without any issues. Another significant advantage of the Safariland SL 7360RDS holster is its construction. The SafariSeven material is incredibly durable and lightweight, making it a perfect choice for rugged use. It's a testament to the holster's engineering and manufacturing. However, there are a couple of minor drawbacks. The first is that the release button on the inside of the holster doesn't have any texture, which can make it tricky to press at times. The other issue is that the holster comes with a mid-ride belt loop, which sometimes puts it away from my body. Despite these minor drawbacks, the Safariland SL 7360RDS holster is a top-tier product that any shooter looking for quality and performance should consider. Its superior construction, durability, and ease of use set it apart from the competition. It's perfect for personal defense, law enforcement, and military applications. Buyer's GuideCar holsters are essential for keeping your firearms secure and easily accessible while driving. They offer a convenient storage solution that can be quickly accessed in case of an emergency. This buyer's guide will help you understand the important features, considerations, and general advice when choosing a car holster.CompatibilityEnsure the holster you choose is compatible with the make and model of your firearm. Most holsters can accommodate multiple types of firearms, but it's essential to confirm compatibility before making a purchase. Check the specifications and dimensions of the holster on the manufacturer's website or product description to determine if it will fit your firearm. https://preview.redd.it/5ozmolnnsb1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=355e4ae7e3c3d133346409485ba8040de1690662 MaterialsCar holsters are typically made from materials such as leather, polymer, or nylon. Leather holsters are durable and provide a snug fit for your firearm, but they can be more expensive and require occasional maintenance. Polymer and nylon holsters are lightweight and cost-effective but may not offer the same level of durability as leather.Retention SystemThe retention system is crucial for keeping your firearm secure in the holster. Some holsters use friction to hold the firearm in place, while others use clips, straps, or adjustable retention screws. Consider your personal preference and the level of security you require when choosing a holster with the appropriate retention system.ConcealmentIf you're looking for a car holster that helps conceal your firearm from others, there are options available. Some holsters have a lower profile, allowing the firearm to be tucked away more discreetly. Others have a more overt design to provide easy access in case of an emergency. https://preview.redd.it/0774ie2osb1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ea40ce041d18e86c5236746fa93d9f9803b07c7 InstallationCar holsters can be installed in various locations within your vehicle, depending on the type and model. Some holsters can be mounted on the dashboard, while others can be attached to the center console or seat. Make sure the holster you choose offers a secure and convenient installation option that suits your needs.MaintenanceProper maintenance of your car holster is essential to ensure its longevity and effectiveness. Follow the manufacturer's instructions for cleaning and maintaining the holster, and check for any signs of wear or damage regularly. Replace the holster if necessary to maintain its performance and safety.General Advice
https://preview.redd.it/46gthrgosb1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=744c31fc9380916255f0ee17055c7b942c90b708 FAQWhat are car holsters?Car holsters are specially designed cases to securely store and hold firearms, knives, or other self-defense tools inside a vehicle. They provide easy access to the weapon while ensuring safety and protection.Are car holsters legal?The legality of car holsters varies by location and jurisdiction. Some states and countries have specific laws governing the open carry and concealed carry of firearms in vehicles. It is essential to research and comply with local laws before using a car holster. https://preview.redd.it/tpna1lyosb1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e8f6b98b260e42038582b79e1ef4768b5f65d962 What materials are car holsters made of?Car holsters are typically made from durable materials such as leather, nylon, or plastic. They may have additional features like straps, clips, or adjustable mounting systems to ensure a secure fit in the vehicle.How do I install a car holster?Installing a car holster requires attaching it to a secure surface within the vehicle. Most holsters come with mounting hardware and instructions. Some common installation points are the dashboard, center console, or door panel.Are there different types of car holsters?Yes, there are various types of car holsters, including ones for concealed carry, open carry, and storage of other self-defense tools like pepper spray or a stun gun. Additionally, some holsters are designed for specific firearms models or brands.How much do car holsters cost?The price of car holsters can vary widely depending on the brand, material, and specific features. Generally, they range from around $20 to $100 or more. Shopping around and comparing different options can help you find the best value for your budget.Do car holsters affect the appearance or value of my vehicle?Car holsters are designed to be discreet and not detract from the appearance of your vehicle. However, some holsters may leave minor scratches or marks upon removal. It is essential to choose a holster with a non-damaging mounting system and to follow the manufacturer's instructions for installation and removal.What makes a good car holster?
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2024.05.19 07:07 Stage-Piercing727 Best Canvas Gym Bags
 | submitted by Stage-Piercing727 to u/Stage-Piercing727 [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/2pninai3gb1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=265f4aea2315e62196c9c90b972c1c04b780af35 Looking for a stylish and durable gym bag? Look no further! In this article, we bring you a comprehensive roundup of the best canvas gym bags available today. Whether you're a fitness enthusiast or a casual gym-goer, these bags are designed to provide ample storage, comfort, and convenience during your workout sessions. So if you're in the market for a reliable workout companion, read on to find the perfect canvas gym bag for your needs. From stylish and functional designs to lightweight and spacious options, our selection of canvas gym bags caters to every preferences and requirements. Discover the top-rated options and make an informed decision on the perfect bag to accompany you throughout your fitness journey. The Top 13 Best Canvas Gym Bags
Reviews🔗Premium Waxed Canvas Duffel Bag for Outdoor Adventureshttps://preview.redd.it/vx6u6dy3gb1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=21ff96d9424931d91ff36ecb6deb90ccdeef3196 I recently had the chance to test out the Readywares Waxed Canvas Duffel Bag on a camping trip, and it truly exceeded my expectations. The first thing that caught my eye was its timeless design and high-quality waxed canvas construction. It's no wonder this bag has a rating of 4.7 out of 5, as users consistently rave about its craftsmanship. Before my trip, I was a little concerned about the stiffness of the waxed canvas, but it quickly softened up as I loaded it with my camping gear. I particularly appreciated the padded handle and base support, which made carrying the duffel bag comfortable and easy, regardless of how heavy it got. The storage options in this Readywares duffel bag are quite impressive as well. With multiple compartments, I had no trouble keeping my items organized throughout my trip. The only downside was the lack of an interior pouch, which would have been beneficial for smaller items. In conclusion, the Readywares Waxed Canvas Duffel Bag is a reliable and stylish choice for anyone in need of a high-quality carryall. Its craftsmanship, storage options, and overall size make it a perfect companion for various activities, ranging from weekend getaways to camping trips. However, it could benefit from the addition of an interior pouch to keep smaller items secure. 🔗Heavy Duty Military Canvas Duffel Baghttps://preview.redd.it/n5hpsm84gb1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6c29f049e961ac7d16f8e75b3c700d555d923f8e The WHITEDUCK Hoplite Heavy Duty Military Canvas Duffel Bag in Blue is an indispensable travel companion that you can take along no matter where life leads you. This sturdy bag boasts a whopping 204L capacity, perfect for packing all your essentials for a weekend getaway or longer excursions. One of its key features is the high-quality, double-fill cotton canvas with a tight weave, ensuring durability and wear and tear resistance. The weatherproof fabric is reinforced at all stress points too, making it incredibly sturdy. Plus, the fully zipped compartment offers ample space to store larger items without any hassle. A standout feature is the heavy-duty, full-length zippers that can handle oversized and bulky items with ease. The soft and ultra-reliable cotton carry handles equipped with a Velcro tag for quick lifting and carrying add convenience. And let's not forget about the adjustable, removable padded shoulder strap for maximum comfort. The bag's versatility is another significant highlight. Whether you're going camping, using it for gym storage, or during your daily commute, the Hoplite Duffel Bag adapts seamlessly to all your needs. On the downside, some users have mentioned that the bag's dimensions can be a bit confusing initially, but after figuring it out, its performance has exceeded all expectations. In a nutshell, the WHITEDUCK Hoplite Heavy Duty Military Canvas Duffel Bag combines durability, capacity, and versatility to provide a top-notch travel experience. Its excellent workmanship gives it the robustness and longevity you desire in a duffel bag. This product is undoubtedly a worthwhile investment for those seeking a reliable travel companion. 🔗Extra Large Capacity Canvas Duffel Baghttps://preview.redd.it/fudl88o4gb1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=52537af64f56bfdaa4d1f21e870515ce2e9cdc7e I recently found myself in need of a reliable and spacious bag for a camping trip, and that's when I came across the YoKelly 36 inch Canvas Duffel Bag. I have to say, this high-quality canvas duffel has been a game-changer for all my outdoor adventures since then. I was initially skeptical about the capacity given its light weight of just 1.2 lbs, but boy, was I in for a pleasant surprise. This Deluxe Canvas Duffel Bag truly delivers on its promise of a spacious 100L storage capacity, making it perfect for travel, camping, fishing, and sports as well. The high-quality canvas ensures durability and the solid stitching provides extra strength and resistance against wear and tear. Its dimensions of 36x13x13 inches are just the right size for packing all my essentials without feeling bulky or cumbersome. However, one minor drawback I noticed is that it only has one compartment for organization. While this didn't cause any major issues during my camping trip, I do wish there were additional pockets for smaller items to keep everything more organized. Overall, the YoKelly 36 inch Canvas Duffel Bag has made my life so much easier and more convenient, offering ample storage space in a lightweight, durable, and versatile package. If you're on the hunt for the perfect travel, camping, or sports bag, I highly recommend giving this duffel a try. 🔗Durable Military Canvas Duffle Bag for Long Tripshttps://preview.redd.it/j9z5erz4gb1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4fbebbd6271366160de8ec3c20d4ae86a9ba5495 When I first laid my eyes on the Rothco Gi Style Canvas Double Strap Duffle Bag, I knew that it was a perfect match for my travel needs. This military-inspired bag checks all the boxes for durability, ample storage space, and versatile carrying options. Made of 22 oz heavyweight cotton canvas material, it's been built with utmost durability, making it the go-to option for all your long and short trips. The generous dimensions of 22 inches x 38 inches allow me to pack plenty of clothes and gear effortlessly. I especially love the adjustable shoulder straps and the sturdy handle for conveniently carrying it like a suitcase or a backpack. This flexibility gives me the freedom to pack even more stuff while ensuring comfort on long commutes. The additional side pocket with a snap closure is a bonus for keeping small items or travel documents organized and easily accessible. I've been using this duffle bag for everything from overnight trips to the gym and it has exceeded my expectations in every way. However, some users have reported a strong odor upon receiving the item. This can be a bit off-putting, but a couple of washes usually do the trick. The Rothco Gi Style Canvas Double Strap Duffle Bag is a smart buy for anyone looking for a reliable, large-capacity bag made from high-quality materials. Its versatile design, durability, and practical features make it an ideal choice for all your travel adventures. 🔗Steeletex Antimicrobial Gym Bag in Navyhttps://preview.redd.it/nulppjb5gb1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=712cd2feb44222cbb511154d7b66cfff1e3e3e88 I recently got introduced to the Steeletex Gym Bag by Steele Canvas, and I must say, I've been thoroughly impressed with its performance and quality. The first thing that caught my eye was the unique construction material - it's not your regular canvas or nylon bag. This one has an antimicrobial vinyl coating that not only provides water resistance but also ensures easy cleaning. One of the standout features of this bag is its size. It's perfect for holding all my gym clothes, sneakers, and even my favorite water bottle. I've been using it regularly since I got it, and it has shown no signs of wear and tear yet. Speaking of which, the durability of this bag is another highlight. The 18.5 oz. antimicrobial vinyl coated nylon liner is not just water and tear-resistant, but it's also treated with BACshield, which ensures that mold, mildew, fungi, or bacteria don't get a chance to grow. The Steeletex Gym Bag also comes with a couple of convenient pockets - one inside and one outside. These have been incredibly useful for keeping my belongings organized. As for the design, the black leather hand grips add a touch of class to the overall aesthetic. Besides, the adjustable shoulder strap ensures comfort even during long gym sessions. However, there's one thing that I would've appreciated more - if they had included a mesh or ventilated pocket for storing wet clothes or shoes separately. This would have made the bag even more versatile and useful. But all in all, I've been thoroughly happy with my Steeletex Gym Bag. Its durability, size, and convenience make it an excellent companion for my daily gym visits. Plus, knowing that it's made in America by hardworking American craftsmen adds an extra layer of satisfaction to my purchase. I would highly recommend this bag to anyone looking for a reliable and high-quality gym bag. 🔗Classic Canvas Duffle Bag for Travelhttps://preview.redd.it/9p0zegu5gb1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=51a81f51f1965da95f5a011d4550b16b3373c90c First off, picture yourself embarking on a weekend getaway with nothing more than this trusty Trailmaker duffel bag at your side. The 30-liter capacity ensures you'll have ample space for all your essentials - be it clothes, shoes, or even your favorite dance attire for weekend classes! And don't worry about wearing it out yet. This durable canvas bag is built to last, so you can make countless travel adventures with it. One thing I noticed about this bag is how versatile it really is. Not only does it serve as an excellent carry-on for flights, but it proved to be quite handy for daily trips to the gym as well. Its lightweight design ensures easy portability, especially when combined with its adjustable shoulder strap. Plus, the simple yet elegant design pairs well with any outfit, whether you're dressing up or down. However, there are some cons to consider. Some users reported issues with the quality of the bag, particularly the zipper which tends to jam often. The lack of compartments inside can also lead to a messy bag when overstuffed. However, considering its affordable price point and high ratings among users, these minor drawbacks seem overshadowed by the overall positive experience most reviewers have had with this bag. Overall, the Trailmaker duffel bag is a reliable choice for individuals seeking a spacious, durable, and affordable bag for travel, gym use, or everyday needs. Despite some reported issues with the zipper and lack of compartments, the majority of reviewers seem satisfied with their purchase, highlighting the immense utility and convenience offered by this bag. 🔗Classic Vintage Duffle Baghttps://preview.redd.it/vnmvuu46gb1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=59daea38662ad9f1fd7434ad575680f64f8592e7 I recently had the chance to try out the Sweetbriar Classic Weekender Duffel and I must say, it's been a game-changer for my travel needs. The moment I laid my eyes on its vintage-inspired canvas design with retro rucksack vibe, I knew this bag meant serious style. One of the features that really stood out was its spacious interior. It comfortably fit all my essentials for a weekend getaway, including clothes, toiletries, and even some extras like a small travel pillow. Speaking of extras, the bag has several pockets both outside and inside, which are perfect for storing smaller items like wallets or keys. Another thing I appreciated was how easy it was to clean. I'm known for being a bit clumsy, so accidents are inevitable. But with this duffel, a damp cloth was enough to wipe away any spills or stains. However, there was one issue I encountered. The zipper closure, while sturdy and secure, was a bit tricky to navigate at times. It took me a few attempts to get it right, which felt a little frustrating. All in all, I'm quite satisfied with the Sweetbriar Classic Weekender Duffel. It's stylish, practical, and well-built, making it an ideal choice for short trips or gym sessions. It's definitely worth considering if you're in the market for a new bag. 🔗MOLLYGAN Large Capacity Canvas Gym Baghttps://preview.redd.it/dyutqkh6gb1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=be53c4b16e4f4756fc1e97e0a390a28a28ed4a06 I've never been the type to travel lightly - I've always packed everything but the kitchen sink. But recently, I stumbled upon this MOLLYGAN Travel Duffel Bag, and I must say, my travel game just leveled up! The black exterior made it perfect for both genders, but what really caught my eye was the superior-quality, soft and smooth canvas material. The structure of this bag is quite impressive too. The side zipper pocket provided a separate space for my shoes (goodbye, smelly gym bag! ) whereas the spacious main compartment and small zipper pocket proved that even though the bag was large in capacity, it was well-organized. Its 35 liters capacity was more than enough to accommodate all my laptops, A4 books, clothes, and daily essentials. Whether going for a leisurely trip or a hectic gym session, this bag had my back. Measuring 18.8 x 10.2 x 11 inches, the bag was just the right size for convenience yet offered so much space. However, the product did have one hiccup, the shoulder strap. It was long and adjustable, but at times, it felt a bit too long, and the handles could have been a tad longer, making it a little harder to carry around. In conclusion, the MOLLYGAN Travel Duffel Bag has undoubtedly improved my daily travel experiences. With its large capacity, durable construction, and ample organization options, it has become a necessity for my daily activities. While it could do with a few adjustments (pun intended), it has nonetheless proven to be a reliable companion. 🔗Military-Grade Canvas Duffel Backpackhttps://preview.redd.it/mw7zj5w6gb1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8834e11142011dbcdc59b5b3aca467f7739586cd I recently embarked on a weekend getaway with just the Military Duffel Backpack in tow. The modern green color added a trendy touch to my outfit, and upon closer inspection, I could see that the canvas duffel was indeed made of high-quality, water-repellent material. I felt confident that my belongings were well-protected, even in a sudden downpour. The adjustable shoulder straps came in handy as I traversed through the crowded city streets, allowing me to find the perfect fit and distributing the weight of my stuff evenly. One feature I particularly appreciated was the heavy-duty cross-stitched carrying handle. I found it incredibly useful when I wanted to switch up my carrying style and convert the backpack into a traditional duffel bag. The stainless eyelets and rugged buckles made the whole process incredibly smooth and secure. However, I did encounter a minor issue with the top clasp that held everything closed. It was slightly smaller than the holes on the flaps, so the bag wasn't completely sealed. While this didn't affect its overall performance during my trip, I did have to exercise a bit more caution to prevent anything from slipping out. To sum it up, the Military Duffel Backpack is a reliable and fashionable bag that offers ample space and thoughtful storage options. The canvas material ensures durability and water resistance, while the adjustable straps offer comfort and convenience. Although the top clasp could be slightly improved, I would definitely recommend this backpack for travelers and everyday adventurers alike! 🔗Extra Large Yoga Mat Duffel Bag with Hammockhttps://preview.redd.it/ru42be77gb1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c1ca7e587c46f27f4cf6bf689a94a6466b4daee5 I've been using the Kindfolk Yoga Mat XL Duffel Bag Mesa for a few weeks now and I must say, it's been a game-changer for my daily yoga practice. The highlight of this bag is undoubtedly the ample amount of space it provides. After spending days googling 'XL yoga duffel bags', I finally decided to give this one a shot when I saw that it could fit multiple yoga mats, blocks and towels - and boy, was it true! I've never been able to bring everything I need to the studio or gym with such ease. Another thing that I absolutely love about this bag is that it's vegan and environmentally friendly. As someone who's conscious about their impact on the environment, knowing that I'm using a product that aligns with my values gives me peace of mind. Plus, for every unit sold, Kindfolk donates $1 to FITS STANDARD, a charity that helps end slavery worldwide. However, one of the cons I noticed is that the straps could be slightly longer. While it's not a deal-breaker for me, it can be a bit cumbersome when carrying it on top of everything else. All in all, I am thrilled with my purchase and would definitely recommend it to others. Not only is it spacious and stylish, but it also feels well-made and of high quality. For those looking for a reliable and environmentally-friendly bag for their yoga practice, the Kindfolk Yoga Mat XL Duffel Bag is definitely worth considering. 🔗Casual Canvas Travel Gym Bag for daily jog or triphttps://preview.redd.it/028p45j7gb1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a4272acaf25dc3fd3b5fbc710c447805a213524 Imagine this: I'm strolling down the bustling city streets, and my trusty Vagabond Traveler Casual Canvas Bag is by my side. This bag isn't just a carry-all for my gym gear; it's a statement about my sense of style and practicality. The first time I used this bag, I was blown away by its spacious interior. It holds everything I need for a workout and more, from my sneakers to my sweat towel, and even a spare change of clothes. The multiple pockets (and there are plenty) kept me organized and efficient, making my mornings just a little bit easier. The Vagabond Traveler bag's construction is a testament to its craftsmanship. This bag isn't just made to last; it's made to look good while doing it. The canvas is a beautiful shade of khaki, and the vintage brass hardware adds a touch of class. The cotton fabric is incredibly comfortable to carry, and it's clear that it's been washed and worn to achieve its classic, old-school appearance. Now, every time I strap this canvas bag onto my shoulder, I'm reminded of its many merits. It's the perfect blend of practicality, durability, and visual appeal. However, some users may find the strap too long or the lack of waterproofing a concern. But for me, these minor quibbles don't detract from the overall quality and utility of this amazing gym bag. In conclusion, the Vagabond Traveler Casual Canvas Bag has become an indispensable part of my daily life. Its combination of space, organization, and style makes it the ideal choice for anyone looking for a reliable gym bag that's both functional and fashionable. 🔗Durable Waxed Canvas Duffle Baghttps://preview.redd.it/8d14r128gb1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=00e1e6a80d0c05de04d77a435dd45950627c8ac8 I recently purchased the Steele Canvas Waxed Canvas Duffle Bag for an upcoming travel adventure, and I must say, it has surpassed all of my expectations. As soon as I laid my eyes on it, I was impressed by its sleek and sturdy appearance, which instantly made me feel confident about its durability. The adjustable shoulder strap and brown leather grip handles felt comfortable against my shoulder and hands, making it a pleasure to carry around. The moment I unzipped the bag, I noticed the generous space inside, perfect for holding all of my essentials without any clutter. The two interior pockets are an added bonus, allowing me to keep my smaller items organized and easily accessible. The exterior side and end pockets have also proven to be quite useful for storing my frequently needed items. One of the key features I truly appreciated is the nickel plated zipper and pull, making it easy for me to secure my belongings without any worry about potential malfunctions. Steele Canvas has truly created a high-quality, durable bag that is sure to withstand the test of time. Despite the minor inconvenience of needing two hands to secure the zipper on the outside pocket, I believe this duffle bag is a perfect addition to my travel collection. The Steele Canvas Waxed Canvas Duffle Bag has definitely made a lasting impression on me, and I am already looking forward to using it on countless more adventures. 🔗Durable and Versatile Military-Grade Canvas Gym Baghttps://preview.redd.it/ndwsbla8gb1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=23a77d45be6c0b639381d50961e59b04f7aff422 As a product reviewer, I recently got the chance to try out the Medium Duffle Bag in black, and my experience has been nothing short of exceptional. I've been using it for everything from weekend trips to gym sessions, and it's truly become a staple in my daily routine. The bag's most striking feature, hands down, is its heavy-duty construction. The double and triple-needle-stitched reinforced design not only gives it a sleek look that fits any environment but also ensures that it can handle even the heaviest loads without a hitch. I've noticed its durability in various situations - from transporting bulky sports gear to storing off-season clothing, this duffel bag has never let me down. One of the things I love about this duffel bag is how versatile it is. Made from lightweight yet durable cotton canvas, it's perfect for travel, sports, and leisure activities. Its convenient collapsible feature when not in use makes storage a breeze, and it's been especially useful during my many camping trips. Despite its size, the bag is surprisingly easy to carry around. Reinforced handles and adjustable shoulder straps make sure that I can handle even the heaviest loads comfortably. Plus, the two-way zipper and key-locking mechanism offer extra security for my belongings. However, one small area of improvement could be the weight of the bag itself. While it's definitely not a deal-breaker, considering the durability and high-quality materials used, some users might find it slightly heavier than desired. All in all, I'm extremely satisfied with my Medium Duffle Bag. Its combination of sturdy construction, versatility, and ease of use make it a worthwhile investment for anyone in need of a reliable bag for travel, sports, or everyday use. Buyer's GuideCanvas gym bags are a versatile and stylish choice for active people who prioritize functionality and quality. With the right features and construction, these bags can become an essential part of your fitness routine, ensuring that your gear stays organized and protected during workouts and commutes.Important Featureshttps://preview.redd.it/2z69m8r8gb1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0448721c5b560ead176ce13e8bed48e6c0f4d72e
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2024.05.19 04:22 Own_Tailor9802 I can't wait to be an adult and vote
Recently, my school organized a special lecture on the history of the Orient.This lecture was called "The Miracle of the Han River," and it was given by a professor from outside Korea.I was very curious about Korea, so I was looking forward to this lecture. In fact, the reason why this lecture was held was at the request of the students. Since Korean culture has been penetrating into American society for a long time, and many things that we enjoy without thinking are related to Korea, students were curious about what Korea is like.
Then Patrick, the student leader and president of our school, asked the teachers if they could organize a special lecture on Korean history, and they accepted, and eventually the whole class gathered in the auditorium and participated in the lecture. Often, our school invites outside professors to give lectures like this, and most of the time, the interest in such lectures is very high, and the lecture on Korean history was also extremely popular. However, the lectures that invite professors from prestigious universities and the opportunity to gain new knowledge about Korea are popular enough to fill the gymnasium.On this day, there were many students in the gymnasium converted into a lecture hall.As the professor entered, gave a brief introduction, and announced the topic of the day's lecture, everyone looked at him with interest. The professor said that he was asked to give a lecture on the history of the East, and when he was thinking about what topic to tell the students, he thought it would be better to talk about the modern history and economic development of Korea, and for two hours without a break, he explained in depth, in detail, easily understandable, and really interesting.
The professor's first words were impactful: "You all know Haiti, the country that receives U.S. aid, suffered a major earthquake about 15 years ago and has never recovered from it, and is in a state of chaos as one of the poorest countries in the world." "But how would you feel if, 30 years later, you were told to congratulate Haiti on becoming an economic powerhouse?" "I'm the generation that actually witnessed it. "I'm the generation that actually saw that happen, where we were the poorest country in the world, and all of a sudden, we were told that we were an economic powerhouse and that we should be congratulated."The students were surprised to learn that South Korea was once the poorest country in the world, even though it was still a decade after the end of World War II.
"Ladies and gentlemen, Korea was a very poor country until the middle of the 20th century, but since the 1960s, it has experienced rapid economic growth and made remarkable progress, which has been called the 'Miracle on the Han River', and today I am going to tell you the story."
From the beginning of the lecture, the students listened attentively as the professor engaged their interest, and I was particularly curious about how South Korea was able to develop so quickly.
"Korea was devastated after the Korean War in the 1950s, but in the 1960s, a government-led economic development plan began.At that time, Korea made a five-year plan for economic development under the leadership of the government, and fostered industries centered on heavy chemical industries such as steel, chemicals, and electronics.In addition, the country invested heavily in education, and many talented people were produced based on high educational enthusiasm."
The professor's explanation was very detailed and interesting, and I was in awe as he talked about Korea's economic development.
"In particular, in the 1970s, the Saemaul movement was launched to promote the development of rural areas and improve the living standards of the people."At that time, residents in rural areas voluntarily maintained their villages and strived for the development of their communities."These efforts helped Korea to rapidly transform from an agriculture-oriented society to an industry-oriented society.""And this Saemaul movement has become an example for many developing countries to this day, and countless policies have been implemented to copy Korea's Saemaul movement. "It is now accepted wisdom that Korea's Saemaul movement was a seemingly simple campaign that contributed tremendously to building the country's economic foundation, with reports of rapid development in some cases and failure in others." "Korea has written a textbook curriculum on how to grow an economy, and its achievements have become a model."
I realized how much effort Korea, which was poor in the past, made to grow its economy.It was a huge lecture of 2 hours, so I can only write down the core flow, so please understand.The process of Korea laying the economic foundation and starting the high-speed growth was really interesting, and there were many points where I learned how much effort Korean policy researchers made at that time.And the efforts of Korean people who believed in the government and followed the policy, even sacrificing themselves, were also great.
"Today, Korea is an IT powerhouse, with world-class companies such as Samsung, LG, and Hyundai Motor, which have great influence in the global market and are an important pillar of Korea's economy." "The characteristic of Korean companies is that they have always strived to develop technology. "There are five technological powers in the world," he said, "the United States, Germany, Japan, Korea, and France." "The United States and Germany have been doing research and development since the Industrial Revolution, while France has been doing research and development since the Industrial Revolution, and Japan received a huge amount of aid from the United States in 1950, taking advantage of the Korean War. It was thought that Japan, which started 20 years earlier than Korea, would be recognized as the last technological power of the 20th century, but how Korea, which started research and development from the 1970s onwards, became the world's fifth technological power, was a very interesting topic among professors in the 1990s.
And unlike Japan, Korea became a semiconductor powerhouse in the 21st century, and even succeeded in fostering an industry that Japan did not, and created a great foundation for Korea to become a developed country.Look at the iPhone you're using right now, and look at it.Do you see a Samsung product in there?
Most Americans think that the iPhone is made by Apple and developed by Apple, but many of the components in it come from Korea, and without Korea, the product you're using would be half as powerful as it is today.
The professor kept the students' attention for the entire two-hour lecture, explaining the difficult content in terms of the smartphones they use.
At the end of the lecture, the professor said that there are only two role models of economic development in the 20th century, Germany's development and Korea's development are very meaningful, and if you want to major in economics or international affairs, you should familiarize yourself with these contents because they are all liberal arts contents.
And originally, this kind of lecture should be 200 hours instead of 2 hours, but since it was shortened to a hundred and one, the fun is only a hundred and one, and if you want to hear more details, you should study hard and go to the prestigious university where you are, and the excellent lecture ended with the story.
After the lecture, I wanted to ask the professor more questions, but there were already a lot of students gathered around him.Then, my friend Xiao approached me.Xiao was a student who was educated in China until elementary school and then moved to the United States."Avery, how did you like the lecture?" Xiao asked me. I really liked the lecture and I have a lot of questions, so I wanted to ask the professor, but I could already hear the other students lamenting that they wouldn't be able to because the professor was surrounded by other students.I had to leave the lecture hall with Xiao, who was listening to the lecture with interest next to me.As we walked down the hall, I continued to talk to Xiao.Minhwa and Jia told me that they didn't know why they hated Korea so much, and they had to tell me a frustrating story.
In fact, Minhwa and Jia are two students who are very anti-Korean, especially since the student council voted for and against this lecture, and there were two votes against it, so everyone could tell that it was Minhwa and Jia from China, and their anti-Korean feelings, or even hatred, were very strong.
Xiao told me that today's lecture was very different from what they teach in China, and what the professor told us today. Of course, in China, they teach distorted facts, and they don't believe in it, but if you're like Min Hua or Jia, who went to school in China until middle school, it's natural to have a negative opinion of Korea.
Xiao's words were sincere because he had lived in China until elementary school and had been educated in China, so he knew the reality of China very well.In China, Korea is often taught negatively, and Xiao also said that when he went to elementary school in China, he was taught that way, but when he came to the United States and was exposed to different perspectives, he realized that it was wrong.
At that moment, Minhwa and Jia walked up to us, or maybe I should say they walked up to Xiao.Minhwa had a disgruntled look on her face."Korea is so great? I never think so, Korea is worse than our China," Minhwa said unhappily.Jia, who had an equally unhappy look on her face, also spoke up."Right. What's so great about Korea, our China is better."
I was offended by their words, because the facts I learned about Korea all seemed interesting and amazing, so why didn't they think so? And when they said that China was better, they didn't have any basis, they just said that China was better, what's so great about Korea, and there was no power in their argument.Xiao was also not happy when his two Chinese friends asked him to sympathize with them.
Xiao usually doesn't like to argue with them, but this time he was in the mood for a fight.I intervened first."Korea has made great progress, and you'll see that when you do a little more research," I said calmly to Minhwa and Jia.But Minhwa and Jia didn't listen to me.They wouldn't even look at me when I was talking to them.That's when Xiao stepped in and said.
"I'm sorry Avery, Minhua and Jia have been mis-educated, so I'll apologize for them.I know why they think that way, but I know the truth is different, so I want to apologize to you."
After hearing Xiao's words, Minhua and Jia still showed their disapproval. They even loudly argued with Xiao in the hallway. All the students passing by couldn't help but notice that two Chinese friends with wrong ideas were bullying Xiao, a normal thinking Chinese friend, again.
In fact, this scene was not uncommon, but this day was different. Despite the fact that everyone had attended an impactful and fact-based lecture by a professor from a prestigious university, Min Hua and Jia seemed to have no room for improvement, and they were still shouting distorted facts and misinformation without any basis.
From that day on, they were increasingly bullied by their schoolmates. Even when Minhua and Jia tried to talk to their American friends, all their American friends would scold them, saying, "Are you going to distort American history like that?" and no one would listen to them.
At first, Minhua and Jia's attitude was nonetheless brazen and confident, but two Chinese students armed with wrong ideas can't live in isolation in this school. Our school has group work as the basic form of class participation, so there are many tasks that require the help of other students.
Eventually, Minhua and Jia came to me, Xiao, and our Korean friend Minji and apologized to us.To be honest, to this day, I don't know if their apology was sincere.They said that they had learned that much of the education they had received was false, and they promised that they would never say anything wrong again in the future.Part of me wanted to tell them that I knew they were lying to survive, but I couldn't turn my back on them, so I accepted their apology.After Minhua and Jia's disturbance and apology
Although I'm still a high school student, I know that when I grow up, I want to exercise my right to vote and join the anti-China movement. We also realized that China's policy of teaching the wrong history and the wrong international affairs is having a negative impact even here in the United States, a country so far away, and that it is causing the Chinese people to suffer.China's ambitious plan to turn the tables by playing shallow games is just ridiculous and will not work.
I can't help but think that the impact of these lectures on our school is great: first of all, we learned how important it is to filter out misleading and distorted information, and how important it is to listen to such information; secondly, many students have a deep understanding of what exactly the "Miracle of the Han River" is.
As a reminder, South Korea was very poor until the mid-20th century, but through government-led economic development plans and people's efforts, it has achieved remarkable growth, especially spontaneous rural development movements such as the Saemaul movement, which played a huge role in accelerating South Korea's industrialization.
Korea's development has been not just economic, but social as well, with Koreans overcoming difficulties and achieving remarkable results through their high levels of education, hard work, and sense of community.
Now, do you feel that there is any reason for Chinese people here to say that China is greater than Korea? Isn't it just that Korea has created a remarkable growth in the history of East Asia, and it is because of Korea's development that China's factories are able to operate? Just because China is lagging behind, to say that Korea is a lesser country is an expression of inferiority, and it is seen as a desperate attempt to deny their own lack.
This is a good liberal arts course where you can learn the facts about what Korea has done and speak about it with confidence in public, but I think the disturbance by the two Chinese students clouded the essence of the course, because the impact of the miracle of the Han River was diluted by the emotion of outrage at the Chinese students' behavior.
In my final presentation at the end of the semester, I plan to find more information about the Han River Miracle, add new information, and present it to my class, because I feel that it is unfair that the attention to Korea has been diverted for a while, and I think that it would be meaningful to talk about Korea in front of Minhwa, Jia, and my Korean friend Minji.
I hope that the country will soon develop into a mature society that can accept the truth as the truth.
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Then Patrick, the student leader and president of our school, asked the teachers if they could organize a special lecture on Korean history, and they accepted, and eventually the whole class gathered in the auditorium and participated in the lecture. Often, our school invites outside professors to give lectures like this, and most of the time, the interest in such lectures is very high, and the lecture on Korean history was also extremely popular. However, the lectures that invite professors from prestigious universities and the opportunity to gain new knowledge about Korea are popular enough to fill the gymnasium.On this day, there were many students in the gymnasium converted into a lecture hall.As the professor entered, gave a brief introduction, and announced the topic of the day's lecture, everyone looked at him with interest. The professor said that he was asked to give a lecture on the history of the East, and when he was thinking about what topic to tell the students, he thought it would be better to talk about the modern history and economic development of Korea, and for two hours without a break, he explained in depth, in detail, easily understandable, and really interesting.
The professor's first words were impactful: "You all know Haiti, the country that receives U.S. aid, suffered a major earthquake about 15 years ago and has never recovered from it, and is in a state of chaos as one of the poorest countries in the world." "But how would you feel if, 30 years later, you were told to congratulate Haiti on becoming an economic powerhouse?" "I'm the generation that actually witnessed it. "I'm the generation that actually saw that happen, where we were the poorest country in the world, and all of a sudden, we were told that we were an economic powerhouse and that we should be congratulated."The students were surprised to learn that South Korea was once the poorest country in the world, even though it was still a decade after the end of World War II.
"Ladies and gentlemen, Korea was a very poor country until the middle of the 20th century, but since the 1960s, it has experienced rapid economic growth and made remarkable progress, which has been called the 'Miracle on the Han River', and today I am going to tell you the story."
From the beginning of the lecture, the students listened attentively as the professor engaged their interest, and I was particularly curious about how South Korea was able to develop so quickly.
"Korea was devastated after the Korean War in the 1950s, but in the 1960s, a government-led economic development plan began.At that time, Korea made a five-year plan for economic development under the leadership of the government, and fostered industries centered on heavy chemical industries such as steel, chemicals, and electronics.In addition, the country invested heavily in education, and many talented people were produced based on high educational enthusiasm."
The professor's explanation was very detailed and interesting, and I was in awe as he talked about Korea's economic development.
"In particular, in the 1970s, the Saemaul movement was launched to promote the development of rural areas and improve the living standards of the people."At that time, residents in rural areas voluntarily maintained their villages and strived for the development of their communities."These efforts helped Korea to rapidly transform from an agriculture-oriented society to an industry-oriented society.""And this Saemaul movement has become an example for many developing countries to this day, and countless policies have been implemented to copy Korea's Saemaul movement. "It is now accepted wisdom that Korea's Saemaul movement was a seemingly simple campaign that contributed tremendously to building the country's economic foundation, with reports of rapid development in some cases and failure in others." "Korea has written a textbook curriculum on how to grow an economy, and its achievements have become a model."
I realized how much effort Korea, which was poor in the past, made to grow its economy.It was a huge lecture of 2 hours, so I can only write down the core flow, so please understand.The process of Korea laying the economic foundation and starting the high-speed growth was really interesting, and there were many points where I learned how much effort Korean policy researchers made at that time.And the efforts of Korean people who believed in the government and followed the policy, even sacrificing themselves, were also great.
"Today, Korea is an IT powerhouse, with world-class companies such as Samsung, LG, and Hyundai Motor, which have great influence in the global market and are an important pillar of Korea's economy." "The characteristic of Korean companies is that they have always strived to develop technology. "There are five technological powers in the world," he said, "the United States, Germany, Japan, Korea, and France." "The United States and Germany have been doing research and development since the Industrial Revolution, while France has been doing research and development since the Industrial Revolution, and Japan received a huge amount of aid from the United States in 1950, taking advantage of the Korean War. It was thought that Japan, which started 20 years earlier than Korea, would be recognized as the last technological power of the 20th century, but how Korea, which started research and development from the 1970s onwards, became the world's fifth technological power, was a very interesting topic among professors in the 1990s.
And unlike Japan, Korea became a semiconductor powerhouse in the 21st century, and even succeeded in fostering an industry that Japan did not, and created a great foundation for Korea to become a developed country.Look at the iPhone you're using right now, and look at it.Do you see a Samsung product in there?
Most Americans think that the iPhone is made by Apple and developed by Apple, but many of the components in it come from Korea, and without Korea, the product you're using would be half as powerful as it is today.
The professor kept the students' attention for the entire two-hour lecture, explaining the difficult content in terms of the smartphones they use.
At the end of the lecture, the professor said that there are only two role models of economic development in the 20th century, Germany's development and Korea's development are very meaningful, and if you want to major in economics or international affairs, you should familiarize yourself with these contents because they are all liberal arts contents.
And originally, this kind of lecture should be 200 hours instead of 2 hours, but since it was shortened to a hundred and one, the fun is only a hundred and one, and if you want to hear more details, you should study hard and go to the prestigious university where you are, and the excellent lecture ended with the story.
After the lecture, I wanted to ask the professor more questions, but there were already a lot of students gathered around him.Then, my friend Xiao approached me.Xiao was a student who was educated in China until elementary school and then moved to the United States."Avery, how did you like the lecture?" Xiao asked me. I really liked the lecture and I have a lot of questions, so I wanted to ask the professor, but I could already hear the other students lamenting that they wouldn't be able to because the professor was surrounded by other students.I had to leave the lecture hall with Xiao, who was listening to the lecture with interest next to me.As we walked down the hall, I continued to talk to Xiao.Minhwa and Jia told me that they didn't know why they hated Korea so much, and they had to tell me a frustrating story.
In fact, Minhwa and Jia are two students who are very anti-Korean, especially since the student council voted for and against this lecture, and there were two votes against it, so everyone could tell that it was Minhwa and Jia from China, and their anti-Korean feelings, or even hatred, were very strong.
Xiao told me that today's lecture was very different from what they teach in China, and what the professor told us today. Of course, in China, they teach distorted facts, and they don't believe in it, but if you're like Min Hua or Jia, who went to school in China until middle school, it's natural to have a negative opinion of Korea.
Xiao's words were sincere because he had lived in China until elementary school and had been educated in China, so he knew the reality of China very well.In China, Korea is often taught negatively, and Xiao also said that when he went to elementary school in China, he was taught that way, but when he came to the United States and was exposed to different perspectives, he realized that it was wrong.
At that moment, Minhwa and Jia walked up to us, or maybe I should say they walked up to Xiao.Minhwa had a disgruntled look on her face."Korea is so great? I never think so, Korea is worse than our China," Minhwa said unhappily.Jia, who had an equally unhappy look on her face, also spoke up."Right. What's so great about Korea, our China is better."
I was offended by their words, because the facts I learned about Korea all seemed interesting and amazing, so why didn't they think so? And when they said that China was better, they didn't have any basis, they just said that China was better, what's so great about Korea, and there was no power in their argument.Xiao was also not happy when his two Chinese friends asked him to sympathize with them.
Xiao usually doesn't like to argue with them, but this time he was in the mood for a fight.I intervened first."Korea has made great progress, and you'll see that when you do a little more research," I said calmly to Minhwa and Jia.But Minhwa and Jia didn't listen to me.They wouldn't even look at me when I was talking to them.That's when Xiao stepped in and said.
"I'm sorry Avery, Minhua and Jia have been mis-educated, so I'll apologize for them.I know why they think that way, but I know the truth is different, so I want to apologize to you."
After hearing Xiao's words, Minhua and Jia still showed their disapproval. They even loudly argued with Xiao in the hallway. All the students passing by couldn't help but notice that two Chinese friends with wrong ideas were bullying Xiao, a normal thinking Chinese friend, again.
In fact, this scene was not uncommon, but this day was different. Despite the fact that everyone had attended an impactful and fact-based lecture by a professor from a prestigious university, Min Hua and Jia seemed to have no room for improvement, and they were still shouting distorted facts and misinformation without any basis.
From that day on, they were increasingly bullied by their schoolmates. Even when Minhua and Jia tried to talk to their American friends, all their American friends would scold them, saying, "Are you going to distort American history like that?" and no one would listen to them.
At first, Minhua and Jia's attitude was nonetheless brazen and confident, but two Chinese students armed with wrong ideas can't live in isolation in this school. Our school has group work as the basic form of class participation, so there are many tasks that require the help of other students.
Eventually, Minhua and Jia came to me, Xiao, and our Korean friend Minji and apologized to us.To be honest, to this day, I don't know if their apology was sincere.They said that they had learned that much of the education they had received was false, and they promised that they would never say anything wrong again in the future.Part of me wanted to tell them that I knew they were lying to survive, but I couldn't turn my back on them, so I accepted their apology.After Minhua and Jia's disturbance and apology
Although I'm still a high school student, I know that when I grow up, I want to exercise my right to vote and join the anti-China movement. We also realized that China's policy of teaching the wrong history and the wrong international affairs is having a negative impact even here in the United States, a country so far away, and that it is causing the Chinese people to suffer.China's ambitious plan to turn the tables by playing shallow games is just ridiculous and will not work.
I can't help but think that the impact of these lectures on our school is great: first of all, we learned how important it is to filter out misleading and distorted information, and how important it is to listen to such information; secondly, many students have a deep understanding of what exactly the "Miracle of the Han River" is.
As a reminder, South Korea was very poor until the mid-20th century, but through government-led economic development plans and people's efforts, it has achieved remarkable growth, especially spontaneous rural development movements such as the Saemaul movement, which played a huge role in accelerating South Korea's industrialization.
Korea's development has been not just economic, but social as well, with Koreans overcoming difficulties and achieving remarkable results through their high levels of education, hard work, and sense of community.
Now, do you feel that there is any reason for Chinese people here to say that China is greater than Korea? Isn't it just that Korea has created a remarkable growth in the history of East Asia, and it is because of Korea's development that China's factories are able to operate? Just because China is lagging behind, to say that Korea is a lesser country is an expression of inferiority, and it is seen as a desperate attempt to deny their own lack.
This is a good liberal arts course where you can learn the facts about what Korea has done and speak about it with confidence in public, but I think the disturbance by the two Chinese students clouded the essence of the course, because the impact of the miracle of the Han River was diluted by the emotion of outrage at the Chinese students' behavior.
In my final presentation at the end of the semester, I plan to find more information about the Han River Miracle, add new information, and present it to my class, because I feel that it is unfair that the attention to Korea has been diverted for a while, and I think that it would be meaningful to talk about Korea in front of Minhwa, Jia, and my Korean friend Minji.
I hope that the country will soon develop into a mature society that can accept the truth as the truth.