What remedies do I have against Public Storage?
I apologize in advance for the long winded post. Please see below the post for TLDR.
On 11/28/2023, I rented storage unit from local storage facility that is a national brand to store my 2022 vehicle in and one box of miscellaneous personal artifacts. The unit was rented online and then the VIN number of the vehicle was given to the front desk associate before the first time entering in the property. In January of 2024, I encountered some financial hardship to due the loss of my job which caused me to become delinquent on my storage unit.
A lien was placed on the unit on 2/14/24 for the amount due of and it was set for auction on 3/26/24 with an online auction house. I was unable to come up with the money owed and the unit went to auction with the vehicle inside. The unit was listed online at the mentioned website and specifically listed in the description was that the vehicle was not included in the auction for various legal reasons. The auction then sold for somewhere in the $50 range due to there being nothing of value in the stowage unit short of a miscellaneous box of personal artifacts.
The pictures of the unit clearly showed my vehicle in the unit from multiple angles as well as the small box of personal artifacts. Upon coming to claim their winning unit, the buyer was given full access to the vehicle by the person working that day and told they could take the vehicle.
On 4/9/24, I received multiple phone calls from various people across the state of Florida asking about my vehicle listed for sale online. I was unaware my vehicle was listed for sale and no longer in possession by the storage facility. The vehicle was listed for sale for $10,000 by a woman on Facebook, clearly showing my vehicle and my tag number.
I came to the storage facility on 4/10/24 as I was out of town previously, with the intention to pick up my vehicle and square away my debt, only to be greeted by the general manager of the property who happened to be there that day who informed me an error had occurred and that the vehicle had been incorrectly and illegally given to the unit auction winner. She informed me that they reached out to the buyer multiple times to tell them to return the vehicle and they were unsuccessful in their attempts. She also apologized for not notifying me of this catastrophic issue because they were still waiting to hear back from the storage unit auction winner.
I immediately went to the local sheriffs department to report the vehicle and tag stolen. They took a report and also came out to the facility to get a statement from the general manager. The storage facility general manager would not share the buyer of the storage unit auction’s name or contact information with me or the police and would not speak to me further after the police were involved. I’m demanding the fair market trade in value of the listed vehicle based on a KBB estimator of the vehicle in good condition (as shown in pictures of the unit listing) at the correct mileage, and as of 5/8/24 which is $16,232.
TLDR: Storage unit illegally auctioned off my vehicle to buyer of the storage unit at lien auction.
I’m in Florida.

Not sure why, but I’ve always been kind of drawn to the charm and idea of the northeastern states. Maybe it’s the natural beauty, or the historical aspect, or the storied sports franchises. However, it would be a massive leap to move somewhere like this from Dallas, Tx. Any insight on what it’s like living in that region as a 20 something? Making friends and dating will be something I’m actively looking for, although I’m definitely ok with a peaceful couple days of the week to myself.

Bud Coombs wanted to play football and baseball in college. Some schools didn’t offer that opportunity for the DeMatha standout.
Maryland was one of the schools that did. The class of 2025 prospect committed to Matt Swope and Michael Locksley last Wednesday, citing the ability to play both sports as a major factor in his decision.
“I just felt like Maryland was a different type of love,” Coombs said. “It could have been because they’re from my hometown, I related to [coaches] more … I just felt like they loved me a lot more.”
Swope was the first Maryland coach to contact Coombs as a freshman. The then-associate coach targeted the outfielder’s natural athleticism and speed in the outfield.
“Very few people can play baseball and football at the level that he can play,” Bill McGregor, Coombs’ football coach and the former DeMatha baseball coach, said.
Read more at this link: https://dbknews.com/2024/05/08/maryland-football-baseball-bud-coombs/

Not sure if everyone’s supervisor texted them but wanted to warn the people with schools in delivery range. Next Friday the 17th is national pizza day and it is expected to be busy (at least in my franchise) during school hours

[This is quite a long and unsympathetic life story, so beware. If you don't want to engage in a whole life situation that is fine and you should skip it.]
Support: I have real trouble understanding where I am, how permanent my situation is, what I can actually do. I have this therapist, it's not going as well as I'd want. Should I voice those concerns? Am I at a stage where this is my set-in-stone brain chemistry? Will I never be able to connect to anyone? How should I actually solve this. I feel as if I have been sick for 14 years. I know what normal is, I have experienced it, and did experience it a bit again last fall, how do I get back to it?!
Intro and summary for those who don’t wanna read it all:
So, it took my a pretty damn long time to figure out that I value people in my life, I was 22 when I got my first deep existensial crisis which lasted for like 2 weeks. Up until that point I had truly deluded myself in so many ways.
What worries me is the immense amount of time it seems to take for my mind to cope. Having like 1 socialization event per semester is just not feasible in any way. It’s like what I do in 1 year people do in 1 week, and I think what is hurting me mostly is the way I go “out-of-practice”, during last semester, once me and the group spent more time together and my social machine got oiled, things felt better. But it was a group in school, they didn’t necessarily want to spend time with me, they had to, and maybe that is why it felt good. But the social anxiety just grasps its claws around my neck keeping me from doing what I know I really want and need, the cycle of having a socialization event going okay, living off the “high” from that, go back to isolation because of What-if scenarios and anxious thoughts, stay there until it becomes unbearable, socialize out of desperation, etc. This semester is coming to a close, after this one I have 4 more. Time is running out and I feel utterly damaged, and in my worst moments, beyond repair.
ADHD [So, during my very early years, I would say I excibited real signs of ADHD, I was very very impulsive, I once threw a brick at one of my friends (like 8-9 years old), for absolutely no reason... I wasn't angry, we were actually laughing. I have stolen countless of money from my parents. My parents initiated a ADHD evaluation at age 14, but did the mistake of letting me be the final say, which I declined. I have now, after so damn long gotten an appointment for preliminary evaluation, so I hope this will give me some sort of answer.]
During high-school (from 16 to 19 in my country) I just "attended" hung out with some of the more geeky types you now, although I never really shared that much of their interests, they were the ones who tolerated me. I was a pretty normal kid up until 12 years old, doing sports having friends, had girls interested in me (for like 10, 11 year olds but anyway), that stuff, until I stupidly stole a pair of shoes from a classmate, was found out and justifyible berated. But, it just sunk my confidence to bare minimum and since that day my sort of new default mode was "I am bad, I am disliked". So in high-school, I was comfortably at the bottom of everything, everybody was better, more handsome, more intelligent, etc, so my mind coped by sort of creating a mental mode of "Oh, I don't need people, I'm gonna learn myself programming and get rich." Which I of course never did really. It was just an escape and excuse for my mind. So, went through high-school, pretty much not developing any serious later teenage social skills, by just hanging out with the same bunch of people who adoped me in elementary school. Graduated with average GPA (or its equivalent in my home country), and couldn't really get into any university I wanted (still deluded, so I wanted to get into computer engineering without being any good at math, but decent at basic programming). So I started working, odd jobs, warehouses, IT-service, botched them all, by calling in sick for like 20 days straight, until they, again justifyibly fired me, I took a university course in music and took government student aid for that (everyone does it in my country) but failed the course so if I wanted to study in the future I'd have to get those credits before being eligble for student aid and loan. 3 years of work and unemployment. Then I applied for a uni program which wasn't the one I wanted to get into, but my parents (which is a whole other story of its own with stealing money, weight gain prompting panic solutions and constant scoldings, again "I am bad") eagerly pushed me to start studying although I didn't really have any motivation to study (or anything else for that matter), and I had't yet caught up with my credits (which I hadn't told my parents, keeping an outward persona even to those closest to me is a common theme for me). [Tangent: I borrowed my parents car and drove to the city where the campus was for an intro day. I remember walking along with some people, and I asked a girl some questions, about you know the usual stuff, after a period of silence as we walked along she turned her head back at me and smiled at me, I remember it to this day... Yeah, that is now 3 and a half years ago...]
So the first break happened that August when I started a program I couldn't even study at since it was another city and I couldn't get the aid and loan, so I had to come up with some excuse for it to the parents like it didn't feel right and that I wanted to study up for the SAT. I basically laid under a blanket not eating for 2 weeks, watching the movie "2012" like 3 times in a day, reading Tolstoy of all things. The thing in my mind that broke was the unforseeable future, suddenly my life sort of shrunk, my life was a finished product, I was going to die homeless and alone and I bloody well deserved it. This is when I finally realized, after 22 years on this earth, that people matter, took me long enough to understand. It's damn incredible how I managed to keep this persona of having it together towards my family... I worked like a month during the fall and during the spring, my 4th year after graduation, I finally took some courses which would grant me my credits needed. I also studied up for the SAT and amazingly ended up in the 95th percentile, which would get me into most of the programs in my country. So finally, things felt like they were getting back on track. Summer passed, I moved to another city starting computer engineering, my parents were all proud and stuff (which felt okay, but the guilt stemming from all that had happened, along with this obvious feeling of "You're bloody 23 years old..." weighed down on me heavily).
But, getting out into the social world after spending 4 years with no social connection except my concerned parents and occasionally meeting my "friends" (quotations on my behalf, they are good people), I was damn overwhelmed. Suddenly meeting 30 people who all seemed to be the way I was, in my mind, "supposed" to be, social, good looking etc, overwhelmed me profusely. So the first day which was 2 weeks before courses began, meant to be an intro to university life, I quickly retreated to my dorm room. When courses started I was, once again (are you as frustrated yet, as I am with myself...) alone, isolated, the "other", possibilities litterally within my grasp, but the anxiety of it all combined with my self-image that started at 12 years old, made me isolate myself. Due to this, I utterly failed my courses, especially the math, remember how I never was any good at math, but my delusion of "well, when I start studiying in some conceptual future, I am gonna have the motivation and work ethic to pull through" just made it into a joke. The first semester I took half of the total credits, basically zero of any math stuff, when there were group projects I tended to pull through a bit more, since a social setting, although very temporary, helps me. Second semester I took 1/4th of the credits, so I once again, had to take external courses (which I took in music, having a talent for it) to be eligible for student housing and student loan (for context we are eligible for a total of 6 years, or 12 semesters). I, once again, during summer, retreated into a delusion that I could study up on all the courses I had failed. New semester, similar, passed programming stuff, completely lost on anything math. Christmas came and passed, (I was also at this point at my heaviest around 310 lbs at 6'0) next semester I took more external courses to rack up the credits, but now I was so behind in the program that I knew I would have to look for something else. I had now, finally, applied for a therapist, but it was going have to wait until fall due to waiting time. I applied to a program combining business and programming. Summer came and passed. This was the final push, 6 semesters of 3 years is what I had left of student loan, if I failed that, move back without a degree to my parents, back to square one basically.
So, last fall, 25 years old... I started this new program, I opted out of the intro week (of course). When the courses began it was better suited for me, no math, but also geared heavily towards group projects. In this first semester the teachers paired us into groups of 4. Worth noting here, is that I also got a medication for my hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating, which contributed immensely to my social anxiety). With this new medication along with starting therapy for social anxiety, I got this new sense of hope, and it actually lingered. The group I ended up in, 2 girls, 1 guy, was a saving grace for me. I finally got back to the feeling I once had all those years ago before the age of 12, I could talk to them, be funny, focus on the group projects, help them a lot with the programming aspects, it felt exilirating and exciting as hell. I also joined a student association which shared in some of my interests, where I also felt I had something in common with these people, and I also joined a book club where we met online once a week. And I also moved to a new dorm room where I actually started to talk to the people in my dorm, having dinners every Sunday. So I finally got some social structure in my life. Along with the therapy where we tried to make sense of all my behaviors. I also got into weight loss (now at this moment having lost 60 lbs), which very obviously was aided- although not entirely -by this new socialization, I actually had a reason to take care of my appearence. Last fall was the most socialization I had had for a staggering 7 years after high-school. Now, this semester, new groups were to be formed by ourselves, the other people in my previous group went to form groups seperately with people they knew. I seriously considered asking them if they wanted to go on this semester too (notice how I think asking this is a "serious consideration"), but did not. I however, joined another group and we haven’t clicked I would say.
What worries me is the immense amount of time it seems to take for my mind to cope. Having like 1 socialization event per semester is just not feasible in any way. It’s like what I do in 1 year people do in 1 week, and I think what is hurting me mostly is the way I go “out-of-practice”, during last semester, once me and the group spent more time together and my social machine got oiled, things felt better. But it was a group in school, they didn’t necessarily want to spend time with me, they had to, and maybe that is why it felt good. But the social anxiety just grasps its claws around my neck keeping me from doing what I know I really want and need, the cycle of having a socialization event going okay, living off the “high” from that, go back to isolation because of What-if scenarios and anxious thoughts, stay there until it becomes unbearable, socialize out of desperation, etc. This semester is coming to a close, after this one I have 4 more. Time is running out and I feel utterly damaged, and in my worst moments, beyond repair.
Am I at a stage where this is my set-in-stone brain chemistry? Will I never be able to connect to anyone? How should I actually solve this. I feel as if I have been sick for 14 years. I know what normal is, I have experienced it, and did experience it a bit again last fall, how do I get back to it?!

i’ve owned this ipad mini, first generation i believe but i’m honestly not sure, for over ten years. it’s never been borrowed, stolen, or in any other way removed from my possession. a while back i was entertaining the idea of selling it so i completely reset it, erased and did the factory reset and all. however since then i decided against selling and for the fun of it thought i might set it back up just to play around with it. so i go to activate it when i find that it’s under an activation lock associated with an email that is in no way mine! it says that the device was locked using the ‘find my’ feature which doesn’t make sense to me as i got the device brand new and havent used that feature for it ever. just to clarify i’m not looking for help with the activation lock specifically, i would have tried to get the lock removed but given that the device was purchased over a decade ago i just dont have any of the records that would qualify for a lock removal. i just really would like to know if anyone has any idea why or how it would be locked by an account that isn’t mine! and i have checked, as far as i’m aware neither i nor my family members who had access to this have set up an activation lock at any time.

I took over a Dominos in Maryland for 2-3 months. The store was doing great and things were moving in the right direction. My bosses asked me to take this store and do what I can to fix it and I was fixing it. When I told them I was going to move closer to my store. They called me to the main office to have a meeting. Told me you should stay in Va because it’s safer for your kid and schools are better here. You’re a mother who shouldn’t be spending 1-2 hours in traffic to get to MD. There is a slower volume store better suited for you. You’ll work with your old Regional director that works well with you. You’ll be closer to home. They said my last day at the MD store wouldn’t be a bad one, all the higher ups would come and reassure the staff these new people from their other franchise would be nice and caring to them. They kicked me out so 2 of their people from there other franchise to take over my store. Only 1 higher up showed up and just told me, ‘get out, this isn’t your store anymore.’ So I left. They said I wouldn’t get a pay cut but soon I’ll find out.
I’m really upset I got moved out of my MD store because I was a mother they kept telling me. They knew I was a mother when I took over the store.

AITA? Am I wrong? Am I stupid? Please bear with me this is gonna be long.
I would like to say they should have skipped me. For almost 4 years I've ben living and traveling with them as their job takes precident.This means up moving a minimum of 6 times a year.He makes more than enough and offered to give us a shot, and he would make sure I wanted for nothing. And, in that respect he has taken care of me financially. I am grateful and show my thanks in as many ways as possible.i take care of everything.calls, paperwork, scheduling, cleaning,cooking and tending to his needs. I bring in a meager income which goes directly into home necessities. I had a small amount of money lump sum come in 6,000 I spent it all on us or him except $70. I I also drive long distance for his company when it comes time to move. Every time. No problem. I cannot get s regular job as we're nowhere long enough.
Sounds great, right? I was so over the moon with him and traveling and all of the life things he wanted with me.
About 6 months in, he started disappearing. Saying he's going to the store, and not coming back for 6, 8,10,12.. even 16 hours later. He has done this about 20 or so times. I never get an answer.just he went walking. Come to find out he tells his coworkers that we argued and that's why.
Theres been items he takes with him when he goes to work that are sexual in nature. I don't get it.
Now, there have been more than 147 sex live cam chat apps on his phone at one time. Multiple times.Hr swears it's over but here I am again, KNOWING FULL WELL WHERE HE'S AT...why? Because I figured out after my phone settings kept messing up that he has cloned it. This has happened a few times now. So, cloning actually can work like a 2 way street. I did not know this until I had to figure out what was going on with my phone.
SO everywhere he goes and hooks to wifi I know because I reset the clone settings to mirror his onto mine as well. For mine as well for months now. Every app, every check in, everything. I am no longer sick by it as some of this would damage him in ways I will not get into.
I've given him room to either let me go or be honest and we'll work out some kind of cohabitation. I no longer have roots to go home to.i have no long standing employment, I've been out here traveling for 4 years. He will not give me money for a bus ticket and food for a day or two.
Right now I'm stuck. All of these things over the years has caused friction. Me seeing it, him denying and trying to twist it into an argument that ends in everything being my fault. He's painted me this way to coworkers and all the people he's been associated with from online. I did not know this until recently.
He hasn't initiated sex or affection in almost 2 years. He says if I want it come get it. Um..... No. I le my partner to be as into us as I am. So, I pulled back. Now I'm cheating, according to him. And no benefit to him. But he won't let me go. Keep saying no he wants us. I did step out once and get my physical needs met once. After 3 months no contact I let him know I needed him. He couldn't be bothered.i said, I'll have to get it elsewhere.he said do it he can't be bothered. Do I did. That was 3 years ago. He continues to treat me like a cheating spouse. refuses to acknowledge my feelings or needs. He's kept online relationships the entire time. And ones in person without me knowing.
So, this past weekend I finally let loose and let him have it full on screaming and all. I had to let this out. He keeps trying to pigeonhole me as an unstable female while stalking me online, cheating,lying and in general letting me know at every turn I don't matter and this is how it is. There's the door. If I want to leave.
Am I the asshole for refusing to leave, essentially with nothing but what I can carry? I have no vehicle of my own.
Am I the asshole for letting him (know publicly that I know when he's lying and sneaking around? Today he wasn't at work he was bouncing between 2 hotels (not ours) and I saw him outside. I actually followed him and ruined whatever he had planned with whomever. I feel weird about it but also vindicated in a way.
Am I the asshole? I'm not perfect. I have shortcomings like everyone.and a temper when pushed too far.
I'm not going anywhere right now. I need to get a foothold in something of my own again. And I'm not going to leave until I can do it without putting myself in a shelter. Am I the asshole for digging my heels in now?

My fellow gamers, for too long has our community suffered the indignation of an intolerable culture that has denigrated, besmirched, exploited, and has outright demonized our culture of unique individuals with a genuine love of a hobby that they see as profitable and progressive. They have taken beloved IP’s (Intellectual Properties) and twisted them into their own personal ideological crusade of undermining and humiliating the core aspects of characters they deemed as “Toxic” or “White Supremacy”. Through the guise and protection of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity) & ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) they have used our influence in the entertainment industry to push their narratives and agendas that have stigmatized our culture with numerous anti-consumer practices that they call “being progressive”. But the truth of the matter is they were never really looking to be a part of our community, they simply wanted to use our community as a tool of activism and propaganda in the entertainment industry as it was extremely profitable, and they wanted inclusion in that division. Ever since GamerGate & Female Frequency, we have had to endure the incursion of forced ideologies, xenophobic behaviors and inferior overpriced products that have never been in our best interest and have been flat out disgraceful towards foreign media.
Before Gaming had become a major source of entertainment, we were often categorized as anti-social or societies rejects where because we found more enjoyment in playing fictional characters and not spending as much time out and about, we never fully assimilated in society (which is a good thing if you ask me). From 1998 to 2007, at the height of innovation, creativity and production, Gaming had reached a golden age in which it had revolutionized society. Hollywood Execs who had ruined the movie industry turned their attention to video games as a source of income since video games had outperformed movies in terms of profit. No one was concerned about gaming, much less diversity or inclusivity until it became profitable. This makes people like SBI look extremely disingenuous as they were not interested in gamers as a community with its own culture. They simply wanted to use it as another weapon in identity politics.
Microtransactions; the hidden enemy to gamer progress and inducer to mental laziness of our community. Microtransactions have been around for a long time; however, it has never been more potent and apparent than in recent years. It has aided in the dismantling and segregation of players on the ideology of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and has created another sub-culture of gamers who have no real drive to be better outside of how much money they put into the game. This has degraded our culture as well as we have become “fat” off transactional gaming but at the same time we have been “starved” of purposeful gaming where our achievements were our sustenance. I am not saying that microtransactions are bad, but when they are exploitative and predatorial like they have been and don’t give gamers room to grow, we become lethargic and unwilling to improve ourselves as gamers. Oversaturated microtransactional games are one of the many reasons why we have become complacent and unwilling to fight against the exploitative tactics used by big brand game companies such EA, Ubisoft, ActivisionBlizzard, NaughtyDog and so many other western business model companies. Western style games were not like this in the past, they had much more depth and actual effort put into them with the gamer in mind. This has not been the case for over a decade and our connection to western developers has been whittled down to just being transactional. That is one of the reasons why you see so many remasters and remakes in today’s gamer community. They have lost their willingness to improve as developers of games and simply accept corporate/share holder rules.
Game journalists also do not have any real integrity or purpose outside of being funded for their involvement in promoting IPG (Identity Political Games) in a positive light to the public whether it’s positively received or not. They are not interested in what we have to say, they all support the same agenda and that is why they are a dying breed. Within the next couple of years, they will be out of the job and more than likely they will not be able to stay in the industry giving how they have responded to past articles that have clearly been scripted on the premise of diversity and racism. Not only that, but most of them are also extremely hostile to the community as they stereotype and defame the individuals that are a part of the community they are supposed to serve. We have been mentally liberated from their lies and coercive tactics as we tend to laugh at their obvious attempt at virtue signaling while hiding their misdoings so that they can play the victim.
My gamer brothers & sisters, I would not suggest the following action that we must take now without good cause. I have weighed our options and the best option for us now is this…...CULTURAL SECESSION. Naturally this is a form of segregation where they would more than likely claim they are being segregated by the dominant culture of the gaming community but that is incorrect. For years now we have been the ones who are often marginalized and ostracized for the smaller portion of our community. And when we aren’t, we’re exploited for more funds so that these companies can stay in business only to subject us to low quality products that coincide with the “WOKE Agenda” that are often huge expenses to these big brands i.e. AAA/AAAA games that will eventually flop for its obvious forced diversity and bug infested product which will undoubtedly piss off the consumer to the point of wanting a refund. Losing copious amounts of capital and stock in the process, not to mention their reputation is permanently marred.
We must separate on every cultural level in terms of entertainment and ideology. We must reject everything from the west that promotes toxic western beliefs, practices, and exclusion from other cultures (i.e. Southeastern Countries such as Japan and Korea). Japan & Korea have been the targets of unjust discrimination from Western Developers, Western Journalists, Western Localizers (The Wokelizers) and Western Society Prejudice regarding their sense of aesthetics as Westerners hate the aesthetic sense of these countries. The reason why they resort to such base tactics isn’t just because it weaponizes the ideal female form but it’s also because they have deep-seated insecurities about their own looks so when they see attractive female characters, they use terms such as “unrealistic” or “hypersexualized” to establish the moral high ground. But the truth is, they want to feel superior to that which is ideal, so they insult and dehumanize this figure that portrays natural female beauty because they see it as an insult to their own social superiority in what they believe is a hierarchy of them being at the top of all other women. Because of this and so many contributing factors, their movies flop harder than the Fat Chocobo landing on a group of enemies and their games seismically fail just as much if not more. We must sever our connection to Western Developers, Publishers, and ALL Western-Centric Entertainment for they seek to mentally enslave us to their Xenophobic ideology.
Let’s define Western Culture and its traits. Western Culture/Society is composed of more than several different ideologies that work in unison with one another to facilitate dominance over multiple aspects of society. Business, Social, Political, Technological, and sometimes even Global Affairs are affected by these ideologies that portray a specific mindset of Western beliefs. What are those ideologies you ask?

• Perpetual Victimhood: By weaponizing the fact that they are marginalized and of a small portion of western society, they can push their agenda to absurd standards that ultimately ostracize the main demographic. And when companies don’t capitulate, they are labeled as anti-progressive/misogynist’s or cohorts of White Supremacy. They use this to cancel their targets and silence them through societal defamation to keep the public on their side. They also use this mindset to justify their own lack of self-agency as they tend to throw companies who do adhere to their demands but miserably fail to turn a profit under the bus so that they can maintain face in front of the public while denying their actual involvement. They will never accept “Sense of Agency” when it’s negative but will gladly accept it when a positive outcome shines on them as if they are entitled to it.

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• Societal Terrorism: This is another form of ideology weaponization that they use in order to make companies “toe-the-line” with their agenda. By weaponizing cancel culture, they exert dominance over these companies but in exchange they also reimburse those companies with DEI & ESG funds that raise their credit score as well as having social status with the marginalized demographic. However; cancel culture has not succeeded in years and developers and publishers probably only want the money and the DEI ESG rating. But they have to maintain the image of having social economic power so that they can continue to strong-arm other developers into compliance and promoting financial benefits of DEI & ESG. In other words, if you are not for sale, they discredit and stigmatize you in the industry.

Asmongold Clips.
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• “Its not us, its you who’s wrong” Mentality: This mentality is especially annoying as they tend to use it to hide their incompetence. They often look down upon gamers who are not in the industry to hide their obvious lack of knowledge on game development thinking that their job title grants them special status that they believe gives them the right to be condescending. But the truth they never wanted revealed has already strangled their careers of all credibility. They were never GAMERS, they were INVADERS. Community Colonists that seek to indoctrinate next generational gamers into their hive-mind and brand previous generations of gamers as villains.

@GeeksandGamers
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• Double-standard Enforcement: By labeling something as “unrealistic” or “hypersexualized”, they can claim this is morally wrong if it promotes traditional dynamics between men and women. Heterosexual relationships are condemned while at the same time Same-sex relationships are praised. Additionally, heterosexual relationships with main white male characters turn antagonistic and spotlight stealing. This is deliberate as to promote the “Girl Boss” ideology to indoctrinate women into the Feminazi state of mind. While at the same time, should a male character also adopt the “I don’t need male/female” ideology its seen as Toxic Masculinity which isn’t even a real thing. The idea of a strong male character is taboo while enforcing strong female characters is the ideal.

@MugenLord
https://youtu.be/to5Uciy_yeg
@EndymionTv
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• Dehumanization/Demonization: This is something that most military branches use in order to remove conscious inhibitions such as mass slaughter is wrong or categorization. By enforcing ideologies to denounce humanity in certain targets, it deactivates your conscience by saying this is not human therefore its ethically okay to treat this target without compassion and deny the fact it has sentience. We gamers fall under this category for journalists, developers, companies and society at large. This is a tactic we are familiar with to an extent as it implies that we are not normal when we do not do what everybody else is doing. “Geeks are the worse” or “Nerds need to fall into a pit of lava” are verbal dehumanization forms that most people in society say and we as Gamers tend to be relegated to those categories. This is their way of imposing the social hierarchy on us by establishing superiority. We know this as Gamers as we see it very often in the games that we play and some times experience it in real life.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gamergate#The_end_of_their_relevance
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• Deflection/Projection: This is basic psychology 101. By redirecting the conversation away from their mistakes and back on to the opposing view to avert blame and justify their innocence they can avoid criticism. However; deflection is a CONSCIOUS decision, meaning they have no real argument to justify their incompetence. If you can consciously process the situation, you have self-agency which means you don’t have a legitimate excuse. Projection is something else entirely. Most times, Projection doesn’t work on conscious decisions rather it is automatically deployed when feeling threatened, anxious or both. Instead of accepting accountability for feelings or actions that are deemed socially unacceptable they accuse others of committing that unacceptable behavior thereby exonerating themselves and proving that those feelings and/or actions are not their own.

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https://youtu.be/bPIPSKruYRo
These traits are so nefarious and unconscionable that I have a hard time believing that anyone could harbor them. However, given the social, political, and economic climate that we are in, those in power who use their influence on controlling society most definitely possess these insidious traits. Everything that they do is all about control and since video games are the biggest market in the world, they want control over it and the communities built around it to accrue more wealth and to use that wealth to subjugate other cultures. Mainstream media is a tool as well as mainstream organizations and sites to help accomplish this goal.
The government recently announced its intentions towards what they believe is “GamerGate 2.0” and now even the ADL has made an official appearance, referring to gamers as “extremist’s”. We know EXACTLY what they are doing, and they aren’t even trying to hide it anymore because they don’t think we are aware of their motives. This is just a pretext for them to exert even more control and we know why, it’s because they want the influence we as a community have to must serve them. So here is what we do my fellow gamers-
“In light of recent events and years of mainstream stigma, we the members of the Global Gaming Community [GGC] must officially renounce ALL TIES to the corporate western video game market. We have been financially exploited through predatorial monetization schemes, pelted with numerous articles of disdain and intentional misrepresentation from game journalists, news outlets regarding us as dangerous individuals and, even subjected to inferior products not only riddled with bugs but also products meant to push political agendas. For the preservation of our community and its unique culture, apart from a few select game development studios we officially sever all connections to western owned video game companies & their mainstream affiliates. From this point onward, we will no longer support western corporate developers, journalists and publishers that do not coincide with the goals of our community.”
Naturally this is completely optional. If you are okay with the state of the gaming community as it is, feel free to ignore this. But if you wish for real change and a break away from oversaturated monetization in the games you play and the push for radical ideological reform, then you are in the right place. Lets sever these rotted miasmic ties once and for all so that our community can be preserved and made better for future gamers. If you agree with this, share it with whoever you think might be interested. The more gamers who get involved, the easier it will be for us to finally break free from mainstream game companies and their associates.

It’s pretty much proven at this point that decriminalizing does way better for society for all drugs and most of these drugs can be used medically so why are we as a generation and as a society as whole still so scared of them?
so many schedule 1 substances and unscheduled substances including but not limited to marijuana, shrooms, kratom, LSD, DMT, Kava, Mescaline, salvia, kanna, amanita, ibogaine, and more get way worse of a name than they deserve because generational hate, brainwashing, and lobbying that persistently keeps these things from society for no good reason.
Ibogaine is seen to nearly eradicate addictions. Shrooms and lsd are seen to heavily treat depression, PTSD, anxiety, CPTSD, and things like that. Weed is generally accepted as a better(not healthy just better) alternated to alcohol and tobacco for rec use and in some cases can replace medicines like pain reliefs, sleep aids, and anxiety meds. Kava is claimed to be a significantly less damaging alternative to alcohol. Kratom is like a very light substance that acts on opioid receptors and could genuinely prevent people from every wanting/needing to start popping/snorting pills.
imo There is no genuine reason for drug possessions and use of all kinds to not be decriminalized and for lighter substances to be regulated, taxed, and in turn made safer for the public to buy and use. Literally everyone would win if 100% drug use was decriminalized, majority of currently illegal drugs were medically used and accepted, and if a small portion were regulated and taxed.
“You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.”- John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon

I rarely go to the theatres now, used to go at least 15-20 times a year, now the most would be three in the last couple years, recently got back into my love for cinema this year, and I am obsessed with the movies that have been coming from A24 the last few years, “Bodies, Bodies, Bodies”, “The Iron Claw”, “Beau is Afraid”, but the “X”, “Pearl”, and “MaXXXine” movie franchise going on right now, I am obsessed with it. Being a fan of horror, this feels like true horror films, plus I am so happy seeing Ti West get this success, was familiar with his name since his short film segment on V/H/S. I am just happy for tickets to go on sale, go either midnight premiere or any time soon as possible to watch this film, and hopefully make me fall in love with going to the theatres again, but it makes me so happy that great cinema is still coming. Mia Goth is my favorite actor of this decade already, she truly is the star in horror right now. It’s going to be the perfect summer film and I know I am excited for a movie when I avoid any news or theories for this film, just want to go into this film with just the trailer in my head.

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“Thorough” post ahead ;-)
After a 2 month wait, I finally got in to see a neurologist after a year of widespread twitching and sensory issues that started in March of this year (pins and needles, swollen sensation, jerking at night, restless legs, finger twitching). Much of these symptoms have resolved by this point with just the original body wide twitching, occasional finger twitching and occasional nighttime jerking remaining.
To say my neuro was unbothered by any of those sensory symptoms would not be an exaggeration. His first question was whether I had had any kind of illness or infection before my sensory symptoms started. I said no. To his credit he didn’t just blame everything on anxiety. He felt that 2 weeks of pins and needles was more than just anxiety but as it’s resolved he said it’s clear it was of benign origin, as are the other symptoms I was having.
He looked at my recent MRIs and blood work and concluded that my brain and body is “very healthy” and there’s nothing to suggest MS or tumors, which he said MRI is great at spotting.
He did a clinical exam. He tested my strength in hands and feet and fingers. He tested my reflexes in my knees. He used an instrument that vibrated and asked me to tell him when the vibration stopped when he placed it on various parts of my body (finger, leg, arm). He observed me walking, asked me to get on and off the table, felt my legs and arms for fasiculations (of course I didn’t have a single one during the exam!) He asked me to do simple things like shrug my shoulders, close my eyes tightly, lift my arms.
Clinical exam was completely normal.
Then we discussed my concerns. He said point blank “you don’t have ALS. There is no evidence of that. People with MND have something observable wrong in their clinical exam 100% of the time. It’s not possible to have MND and it not be detected in an exam in some way, and the tests simply confirm that afterwards.”
He was entirely unbothered about the twitching and treated it as a complete nonissue. In fact, he said ALS is not considered without evidence of weakness (something not working). He also said “sensory symptoms are not found in ALS.” He was very matter of fact about that.
Listen, we’ve all read the stories where someone was diagnosed with ALS and had sensory symptoms or twitching first. The fact is that those things can happen alongside MND, but aren’t a hallmark symptom and in and of themselves aren’t at all associated with the disease. This is from a neurologist’s own mouth. I choose to trust that. He knows much more than me.
Ultimately discussion about EMG didn’t come up and I didn’t ask for one because if he didn’t even think to order one why would I go through the stress of another test? He did say we could do a nerve study for my peace of mind which I did schedule for 2 weeks from now (but I may not even do it).
At the end of the appointment he said “You are healthy and that is good news.” He said it so plainly and matter of factly I can see why many of us go into these appointments and wonder why we don’t feel reassured. I mean, he was practically bored listening to my symptoms and examining me 😅
But that’s the bottom line: I’ve done all the things, the MRIs, the blood work, seen a primary, been to the ER twice, and now been examined by a neurologist and all of it, every single bit of it, says I AM HEALTHY.
I choose to believe that and move forward. I will continue treatment for anxiety (currently on Zoloft which is helping a lot) and will pursue talk therapy as well.
I hope this can be an encouragement to some of you here. If a neurologist isn’t concerned for you, you shouldn’t be either :-)

I apologize in advance for the long winded post. Please see below the post for TLDR.
On 11/28/2023, I rented storage unit from Public Storage to store my 2022 vehicle in and one box of miscellaneous personal artifacts. The unit was rented online and then the VIN number of the vehicle was given to the front desk associate before the first time entering in the property. In January of 2024, I encountered some financial hardship to due the loss of my job which caused me to become delinquent on my storage unit.
A lien was placed on the unit on 2/14/24 for the amount due of and it was set for auction on 3/26/24 with StorageTreasures.com. I was unable to come up with the money owed and the unit went to auction with the vehicle inside. The unit was listed online at the mentioned website and specifically listed in the description was that the vehicle was not included in the auction for various legal reasons. The auction then sold for somewhere in the $50 range due to there being nothing of value in the stowage unit short of a miscellaneous box of personal artifacts.
The pictures of the unit clearly showed my vehicle in the unit from multiple angles as well as the small box of personal artifacts. Upon coming to claim their winning unit, the buyer was given full access to the vehicle by the person working that day and told they could take the vehicle.
On 4/9/24, I received multiple phone calls from various people across the state of Florida asking about my vehicle listed for sale online. I was unaware my vehicle was listed for sale and no longer in possession by Public Storage. The vehicle was listed for sale for $10,000 by a woman on Facebook, clearly showing my vehicle and my tag number.
I came to the storage facility on 4/10/24 as I was out of town previously, with the intention to pick up my vehicle and square away my debt, only to be greeted by the general manager of the property who happened to be there that day who informed me an error had occurred and that the vehicle had been incorrectly and illegally given to the unit auction winner. She informed me that they reached out to the buyer multiple times to tell them to return the vehicle and they were unsuccessful in their attempts. She also apologized for not notifying me of this catastrophic issue because they were still waiting to hear back from the storage unit auction winner.
I immediately went to the local sheriffs department to report the vehicle and tag stolen. They took a report and also came out to the facility to get a statement from the general manager. The Public Storage general manager would not share the buyer of the storage unit auction’s name or contact information with me or the police and would not speak to me further after the police were involved. I’m demanding the fair market trade in value of the listed vehicle based on a KBB estimator of the vehicle in good condition (as shown in pictures of the unit listing) at the correct mileage, and as of 5/8/24 which is $16,232.
TLDR: Storage unit illegally auctioned off my vehicle to buyer of the storage unit at lien auction.
EDIT: I’m in Florida.

idk what to tag/flair this anyway i’m trying to make an accurate chucky (the doll) ai but everytime i try to it never seems to get his character completely right. he won’t even curse unless i edit it in for him. what exactly can i add that makes it more accurate? i’m talking literally anything you guys would think help make him more like he is in the child’s play franchise bc ts is so hard to pin down 😭 even when i write in the dialogue examples he doesn’t even speak the way i write him to speak. like how ill put doin’ instead of doing, the bot will say ‘doing’, and he’s way too nice and calls me sweetheart and shit like this is not a horror movie character what is happening why am i so bad at this 💔

• 15x 120mm Corsair Fans (LL & QX series) • 4x 140mm Corsair Fans (LL & QX series) • MSI MEG 360 AIO • ASUS Z690 Hero • Intel i9-13900K • G.Skill Trident 2x32GB • Asus ROG Platinum 1000 PSU • Lian Li 24-pin Cable Extender with RGB • 8.8” AIDA64 Secondary Screen • Gigabyte Windforce 4090 • 1x 4TB Seagate FireCuda 530 • 2x 4TB Corsair P3 Plus • 1x 4TB Corsair 2.5” SATA SSD (I forgot the model, sue me) 

• Trial and error is the name of the game. • My first build took a week, but now I can swap fans, replace the AIO, and do (questionable) cable management in 3-4 hours. • Yes, I’m in my 40s, and yes, I’m a high-end tech whore. I don’t care who knows it.