1. Josh - Grabbed, slammed against the wall, stabbed in the chest repedeatly
2. Olivia - Grabbed by the throat, neck snapped the other way
3. Ethan - Grabbed by the shoulder, stabbed in the back twice
4. Chloe - Stabbed in the chest
5. Riley - Grabbed by the throat, strangled to death
6. David - Tied up, gagged, hit over the head with a pipe, stabbed repedealty in the chest
7. Mark - Accidently shot in the throat by Detective Miller
8. Detective Miller - Shot himself in the side of the head
9. Randy Meeks Jr. - Stabbed in the chest
10. Tara - Shot
11. Sam - Shot
12. Max - Hit with a basketball in the face
13. Kate - Head bashed against the wall, throat slashed
14. Sarah - Shot in the face

Hello everyone,
Today, I’ve got some nice looking Marvel Premiere Classics in hardcover. They are standard size and have an awesome shelf aesthetic. I’d like to sell them in couples to keep shipping costs to a minimum. If you buy two, free shipping! If you buy one, add $5.
Photos - $60 shipped for all of these. Wolverine by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller - $25 (new/sealed) Weapon X by Barry Windosor Smith - $20 Wolverine: Origin - $15 Wolverine: Not Dead Yet - $10
Photos - $60 shipped for all of these. Daredevil: Born Again - $20 Daredevil: The Man without Fear - $20 Elektra: Assassin - $25 (new/sealed)
Photos X-Men: Mutant Genesis - $30 X-Men: Kitty Pride & Wolverine - $20 (slight fading) X-Men: Wolverine/Gambit - $20 X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills - $20 ($80 for all of the X-Men books)
Marvels - $20 Spider-Man: Death of the Stacy’s - $20 Spider-Man: Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut - $30 (remainder mark) Punisher: Circle of Blood - $25 Alpha Flight - $20 - (remainder mark)
X-Men: Days of Future Past OHC - $40 Young Avengers by Kieron Gillen Omnibus - $30
The Last God HC - $25 Superman: Kryptonite Deluxe Edition - $15 Batman: Gothic - $25 Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader Deluxe Edition - $10 Batman by Azzarello and Risso - $25 Batman: The Dark Prince Charming - $15 DC Universe by Mike Mignola - $20 Superman vs. Muhammad Ali Deluxe - $30
American Vampire Vol. 1 and 2 - $135 shipped - Corner dents on the books, but new/sealed Kirby Fourth World Omnibus + Fourth World by John Byrne Omnibus - $105 shipped - Kirby corrected printing, Bryne new/sealed. Not splitting this set. Flashpoint Omnibus - $80 shipped - new/sealed Irredeemable Trilogy Deluxe Set - $150 shipped - Heavy damage to Incorruptible but the book reads just fine.
Photos Absolute Wonder Woman: Gods & Mortals - $65 shipped - new/sealed Absolute Dark Knight III & Golden Child Deluxe - $65 shipped
All dust jackets have various degrees of shelf wear but the books themselves are in very good shape. Books are cross-posted. Happy to look at your trade lists.

Happy Monday, Barkada --

The PSE lost 10 points to 6619 ▼0.1%

Today is MB's 5th birthday!
I'm not really a big celebrations guy, so I'm not sure how to mark the occasion, except to say that I'm thankful for your continued readership and for the community of great people that has grown up around the newsletter as the days turned into weeks, turned into months, and turned into years.
Want to see something crazy? Here's MB's very first episode.
For those who have been there from the beginning, thank you for guiding MB's development through all of my weird experiments over the years. Your comments, support, and willingness to help always leave me speechless.
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Today is something of a long episode, but I hope you'll indulge me on MB's birthday because I really hope that you'll like the segment about the team of traders that I've sponsored to enter the Trading Cup 2024 competition, and the review of Alternergy's STAR Investor Day presentation.
Hope you like it!

▌In today's MB:

• PSE suspends PNX, C, and INFRA
• Zobels sell remaining MWC holdings
• TC24: Introducing MB's Trading Cup 2024 team!
  • The Trading Cup competition
  • Meet Matthew, Jenny, and Sef
  • Good luck team!
• Alternergy's first public Q&A
  • Its growth strategy
  • Outlook of renewables market
  • Why it loves wind
  • When dividends?

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• [UPDATE] PNX, C, and INFRA suspended for failure to submit Annual Reports... The PSE issued suspensions to three companies [link] prior to the open of trade on Friday morning for failure to submit FY23 Annual Reports. The three companies suspended are Phoenix Petroleum [PNX 4.17 ▼0.2%; 0% avgVol], Chelsea Logistics [C 1.30 ▲4.0%; 0% avgVol], and Philippine Infradev [INFRA 0.53 ▲1.9%; 0% avgVol]. AgriNurture [ANI 0.62 ▲8.8%; 305% avgVol] narrowly avoided suspension by submitting its Annual Report 38 minutes before the PSE’s suspension deadline. The ANI FY23 Annual Report disclosure erroneously reports a net income improvement of 1560% to ₱146 million, instead of a ₱146 million net loss, perhaps this oversight comes from a behind-the-scenes race to submit before the deadline.
  
  • MB: I’m married to an accountant who did the auditing grind for years, so I know that it’s not easy to put these reports together; they’re complex and knock-ons from problems in any of the subsidiaries can cause problems that ripple up the chain and back down. That being said, producing these annual reports is something of a bare-minimum condition of public corporate life. Every management group rides its accounting department and its auditing team into the dirt to get its quarterly and annual reports out on time. I don’t have any inside knowledge into why PNX, C, and INFRA are in this position, but I listen to the silence from these management groups. Good teams communicate with their minority shareholders in times of uncertainty, and a trading suspension is a time of great uncertainty for retail investors.
• [NEWS] **Ayala Corp sells remains of its MWC holdings to Enrique Razon for ₱14.5-B... Ayala Corp [AC 620.00 ▲1.3%; 131% avgVol] [link] disclosed that its subsidiaries, Michigan Holdings and Philwater Holdings, would sell their combined holdings in Manila Water Company [MWC 26.60 ▼1.5%; 123% avgVol] to Trident Water Company Holdings (TWC), which is owned by MWC’s current owner, Enrique Razon. The combined value of the two sales to TWC is ₱14.5 billion. The block of shares coming to TWC through Michigan Holdings was already processed and paid-for (~₱12.9 billion), and the remaining ₱1.6 billion worth of shares from Philwater Holdings will be purchased in installments over the next five years. AC confirmed that it will have no post-transaction common share interest in MWC, and that its voting stake will be “nil”.
  
  • MB: In a weird way, the transfer of ownership and control of MWC from the Zobel Family to the Razon Family is one of the only lasting “achievements” of the Duterte administration. I put “achievements” in quotation marks because it’s not clear how the President’s overreach into the public markets benefitted anyone other than the obvious (MWC’s current owner). As longtime readers of MB will know I have a deep respect for Mr. Razon’s business acumen and operational quality, but I don’t know that MWC customers have necessarily felt any change as a result of this transfer, and I don’t know that minority shareholders have felt any change either. So maybe it was just Mr. Razon in the right place at the right time while Duterte rode the media waves of threatening the Zobels with death and dismemberment? Yeah, it was a weird time.
• [TC24] Introducing MB’s Trading Cup 2024 team!...Merkado Barkada** is sponsoring a team of three traders to compete in Trading Cup 2024 hosted by Investa, where hundreds of traders will be competing for up to ₱640k in total prizes based on their trading performance with ₱300k in virtual currency across the PSE, US markets, and crypto markets. This is a long competition (it runs from April 22 through July 26), so we will follow the members of Team MB throughout the contest to check in on what’s working, what’s not working, and what it’s like on the front-lines of the country’s largest trading tournament. Let’s meet the team!
  
  • “Hi I’m Matthew. I’m a project manager in network engineering in the telecommjnications industry and an agency leader in one of the top global brands in insurance. I have been trading since 2016. Though I like momentum trading, I found more success in position trading because it is less volatile since I can only check my open positions during my free time.” Matthew is 37 and lives in Paranaque. Trading experience: PSE (8 years), US (1 year), CRYPTO (1 year).*
  • “Hi I'm Jennelyn. I'm a Civil Engineer by profession in a government organization. I started trading back in 2020 for a year. I was reckless back then, but I've learned a lot, I'd say. I stopped trading in 2021 to focus on my career and I shifted my trading journey to learning first. Now with the Trading Cup I've found another motivation to push through. I tried day trading, and it was really frustrating and draining, so this time I'm doing swing trading through price action and volume.
  • “My name is Sef. I'm currently in college studying Management. I've been mostly self-taught but over the years I took a lot of learnings from other people. I've tried a lot of strategies but most of the time I'm a swing trader. So, I try to look for strong catalysts and take positions within times of consolidations. My implementation of it during the competition hasn't been perfect, partly due to finals week. But I trust in the process. I've been trading in the PSE for 5 years now. I only started trading the US markets and Crypto, recently. I think my current performance in the competition is reflective of my experience within the three markets. [PSE: +17.4%, CRYPTO: +4.2%, US: -11.5%]. We still have a few months to go and it's still anyone's game. A lot of the top leaderboard right now is primarily driven by 1 or 2 positions that no one saw coming, I think you can guess which stocks I'm referring to.
    • MB: Welcome to the team, Matthew, Jenny, and Sef! My goal in founding Team MB is to give readers a little insight into the thought processes behind the winning and losing trades of each team member. We have a diverse group across age, background, experience, and trading style, so I think we’ll get some interesting perspectives on the markets as the weeks go by before the July 26 finale. The team members will get to keep 100% of any prizes that they win, along with a monthly stipend from Merkado Barkada for all the coffee/snacks needed to keep focus on all three markets simultaneously. Good luck, team!
• [NEWS] Alternergy conducts first public Q&A since IPO... Alternergy [ALTER 0.70 ▲1.4%; 159% avgVol] presented its Q1 results on Wednesday as part of the PSE’s STAR Investor Day event, and MB was there to document its first public Q&A with institutional and retail investors since its IPO over a year ago. For me, the most interesting component of any STAR presentation is the Q&A, because it’s where we get the chance to hear the management team talk outside of the the cold forensics of the financial statements to address the hope, fear, optimism, and pessisim of the average investor.
  
  • On enhancing shareholder value: The ALTER team said that it’s focus is on controlling what it can control, and that as a developer, it does everything that it can to complete projects “within the timeline and committed budget”, increase its pipeline, and build good relationships with stakeholders.
  • On its growth strategy: ALTER said that its “DNA is a developer”, and therefore its “preference is brownfield development” as opposed to acquisitions. (MB note: “Brownfield” means development on land that has been previously used for some other purpose. “Greenfield” would be development on untouched land.) The management team said that it is open to being “opportunistic” with acquisitions, but that its overall focus is on “looking for projects from the ground and building them toward completion.”
  • On outlook of renewables market: “The power industry is really at the point where there is a sustained pressure towards a price increase.” The ALTER team said that there’s a shortage of power supply, and what existing supply there is will come under pressure as power plants age or weather phenomena disrupt operations. ALTER said that it’s strategy is to simply grow its portfolio into this market gap, especially over the next two years.
  • On wind vs solar: The ALTER team was asked whether it was intentional to be “more exposed to wind rather than solar”, and ALTER responded by saying that while both wind and solar are scalable, they “like wind” because it generates more electricity per installed capacity. As the ALTER team put it: “For instance, if we build a 50 MW solar, you’ll only need a 25 MW wind project to match the amount of energy that we will be generating.” ALTER said that wind is also less intensive in terms of land use to generate the same amount of energy, and that its analysis shows that wind projects generate more cash flow than solar projects.
  • On starting to distribute dividends: *One question asked when ALTER would start paying dividends, and the ALTER team responded (after a laugh) that it’s “all about resource allocation”. ALTER said that at this stage, it’s a growth company, and that it would like to use its resources to build a “sizeable portfolio over the medium term” with the goal of “increasing shareholder value.” ALTER said that once it has achieved that goal, “dividend payments would not be far behind.
    • MB:Kudos to any management team that takes questions from the public. It’s not easy to be this communicative and transparent, but as a long-term investor, this kind of insight into the management team’s thinking and analysis of their own data and the market as a whole is important. If your trading style is technical, ALTER’s analysis of wind versus solar isn’t going to matter to you at all, but if your thesis is based on bets in the power generation sector, that response might trigger some research that could be helpful. Overall I’d say that the ALTER team did very well. It was clear that they were nervous, but over time I’m sure the team will become more comfortable with answering the questions and interacting with the investing community in such a person-to-person way. Well done, ALTER!

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The king is dead! In the Varisian port city of Korvosa, the death of a monarch leads to chaos, and only the PCs can hope to save the city from its own darkest tendencies. As the rule of the young queen grows more and more draconian, it's up to a band of bold adventurers to stop the spread of tyranny before all of Korvosa is crushed beneath her iron fist.
In the Curse of the Crimson Throne Adventure Path, the heroes delve into the depth of urban adventure in order to stop riots, combat a plague, root out organized crime, and rescue political prisoners before escaping to the harsh badlands of the Storval Plateau, where only the friendship of the barbaric Shoanti and a weapon drawn from the heart of a gothic castle can give them the strength to return and depose the evil queen once and for all.
Freshly starting one of the most well known PF1e campaigns, that has a very good combat/RP balance (the results are varied by the group). Themes of the campaign include but not limited to politics and tyranny, city life, death cults and epidemics.
New players are as welcome as more experienced ones.
Please note, this is a paid game (12$/Session via paypal), session zero is free. Roll20 is not responsible for any payment transactions and cannot enforce any private arrangements.
From me you can expect official paizo materials for the campaign with additional maps (dynamically lit) and handouts gathered from the web and fully adapted, some voice acting, API scripts and macro, help with your characters and bookkeeping.
I've been playing and GMing PF1e from the very start (can't guarantee that I know all the rules and classes but familiar with a lot) and try to keeps things mostly RAW, with no 3rd party, variant rules may be used after discussion with players. Also, as most official APs, this one doesn't work well with evil characters, so yours is expected to be neutral or good.
Applications are below, there's a form in the listings or you may contact me via PM or Discord mxlsnk (you may also ask questions, of course). We are ready to start when we have at least 3 players.
Official listings page: https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/397561/pf1e-sunday-curse-of-the-crimson-throne-fresh-start

The king is dead! In the Varisian port city of Korvosa, the death of a monarch leads to chaos, and only the PCs can hope to save the city from its own darkest tendencies. As the rule of the young queen grows more and more draconian, it's up to a band of bold adventurers to stop the spread of tyranny before all of Korvosa is crushed beneath her iron fist.
In the Curse of the Crimson Throne Adventure Path, the heroes delve into the depth of urban adventure in order to stop riots, combat a plague, root out organized crime, and rescue political prisoners before escaping to the harsh badlands of the Storval Plateau, where only the friendship of the barbaric Shoanti and a weapon drawn from the heart of a gothic castle can give them the strength to return and depose the evil queen once and for all.
Freshly starting one of the most well known PF1e campaigns, that has a very good combat/RP balance (the results are varied by the group). Themes of the campaign include but not limited to politics and tyranny, city life, death cults and epidemics.
New players are as welcome as more experienced ones.
Please note, this is a paid game (12$/Session via paypal), session zero is free.
From me you can expect official paizo materials for the campaign with additional maps (dynamically lit) and handouts gathered from the web and fully adapted, some voice acting, API scripts and macro, help with your characters and bookkeeping.
I've been playing and GMing PF1e from the very start (can't guarantee that I know all the rules and classes but familiar with a lot) and try to keeps things mostly RAW, with no 3rd party, variant rules may be used after discussion with players. Also, as most official APs, this one doesn't work well with evil characters, so yours is expected to be neutral or good.
Applications are below, there's a form in the listings or you may contact me via PM or Discord: mxlsnk (you may also ask questions, of course). We are ready to start with at least 3 players.
Official Roll20 listings page: https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/397561/pf1e-sunday-curse-of-the-crimson-throne-fresh-start
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TLDR: After finishing the Penacony story arc I feel like nothing meaningful happened in the story since the prologue and I lost my excitement for this game. Do you guys feel this way too?
Hey folks, I just finished the Penacony story arc this week and I hate to say it but... I am very disappointed by the lack of development in any meaningful aspect of the story.
Now, I know some things happened, we got the reveal of Acheron as an emanator of Nihility, we discovered that all of the popular characters in the Clockie animation are based on the Nameless of the past that helped shape the Penacony that we see, etc.. My point is that for all the cool reveals and new characters, absolutely nothing of any substance ever happens in the story. For example:

• Robin and Firefly were seemingly murdered, but then we got the reveal that they were just transported elsewhere and were fine
• Aventurine gets killed by Acheron at the end of his battle, "proving" that death exists in the dream but then just walks it off
• We defeated an emanator of Harmony, hijacked by the Order, and essentially preserved the status quo
• Even the new event is about restoring the Theather and undoing Acheron's damage

And it is not only Penacony, from the top of my head

• On the Xianzhou, we defeated a fake boy of Phantilia, she even mentions that that loss doesn't affect her in the end
• On Belobog, we hide the truth from everyone and despite Cocolia's defeat the world will remain frozen for centuries
• On Herta's space station... nothing meaningful happened outside the prologue

And on the topic of the prologue, we have a cool set up about how the Nanook the Destruction is a mission to destroy the whole universe and Elio is seemingly trying to prevent it, a script in which we seem to have a pivotal role to play... and that plot line is barely mentioned afterwards, nothing meaningful happened yet.
Overall my excitement for the game has hit rock bottom, what is the point of meeting new characters and exploring new worlds if everything will stay the same as before we arrived ther?
How do you guys feel about the story? Does any of this bother you too or do you think I am being a bit too harsh on HSR?

I think its common knowledge in these circles that the first draft of TPM from 1994 (originally called The Beginning) is much better. Still very flawed, but a good baseline for a better movie.
For some reason, Lucas added many things in the final draft that made the movie a lot worse. It's fascinated me for a while now about how things could have been if the original script was built upon.
I have been watching videos summing up the original draft for a while now and I discovered something. Apparently Lucas gave his final TPM draft to Lawrence Kasdan a week before shooting started and asked for him to take a look at it. However, Kasdan refused because he though he wouldn't have enough time to make revisions.
I want to imagine how TPM would look if Kasdan or some other hypothetical collaborator got to see the first draft in 1994 and fixed it up. This isn't my preferred PT rewrite. This is just what I would have done if Lucas had dropped his first draft in my lap and told me to revise it.
Here are the videos I got the information from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPHUWM3QNk0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqsD8s2W9Ho
The movie starts with an opening crawl talking about how it is a time of weakness in the Republic. The Outer Rim controlled by megacorporation's has seceded backed by droid armies. War has not broken out yet, but the galaxy is on the brink. They are now blockading the peaceful planet of Utapau to gain its rich plasma mines as well as its newly discovered Cloning formula. The Supreme Chancellor Valorum has dispatched two Jedi to investigate and/or negotiate if they can.
We then cut to a republic starship coming to land just like in the finished film. Only the Jedi are wearing samurai esqe uniforms (like the concept art), one black and one white. The black uniformed Jedi is Obi Wan Kenobi who is about 30, trained by Yoda and is already a full Jedi Knight. Very strict and by the book. The white uniformed Jedi is his brother Ben Kenobi who just became a full jedi. This is Ben's first mission without his master Oui Gon.
Ben Kenobi is very reckless and wonders why the Republic doesn't just declare war on the Confederacy already. Obi Wan argues with him while they wait in the conference room. Meanwhile Nute Gunray and the rest of the Nemoidians look more like how they do in early concept art. Much less humanoid and they speak in an alien language with subtitles.
They call Palpatine on the hologram and he is enraged that they let the Jedi land. He chokes Nute Gunray through the hologram, cowing him. They agree to kill the Jedi and things go similarly as in the finished movie. The ship is blown up, and poison gas is pumped into the conference room. Ben and Obi Wan cut their way through the battle droids and get to the hanger. They decide to stow away on the landing craft.
On the surface of Utapau they run into Jar Jar. In this version though, Jar Jar while emotional and still comic relief speaks in a normal voice and is a bit more mature. He's more of the everyman character. Ben persuades Jar Jar to take them to the Gungan city with a mind trick, this is something Obi Wan disapproves of. Ben is more unorthodox.
They get there and are captured just like the real film. The only difference is that all the Gungans have regular voices. They are taken to Governor Nass and we learn that Jar Jar was banished because he was a trouble maker who argued for more cooperation between the Gungans and Humans. As he rants, fish continuously fall through the bubble and a young gungan gathers them up and puts them outside again.
The two Jedi still convince him to call the humans and the whole bubble is engulfed in static. It is clear that communications have been cut off. The two Jedi are then given a submarine and told to try to navigate the planet core. Nobody has been able to do it in generations and it is clear Nass thinks its a suicide mission, a convenient way to get rid of three nuisances. They then travel through the planet core being attacked by various creatures while Jar Jar is kept calm through mind tricks.
We then cut to the city of Oxon (what later became Theed) where Queen Amidala who is 40 and her daughter Princess Padme around 14 are being briefed by captain Panaka and Sio Bibble. The Queen is complacent while Padme thinks they should take the fight to the Confederacy. Suddenly the droid army attacks the city and we see building being blown up and city guards killed.
The Queen, Padme, Panaka and all the other dignitaries are captured. Nute and the rest of the Nemodians show up as well to gloat like in the final movie and give some more exposition about how they want Utapaus cloning formula. We then see the Gungan submarine surfacing and the Jedi and Jar Jar sneak into the city.
They find the prisoners being walked down an alley and save them like in the real movie. Ben uses some flashy moves to finish the droids off and is almost killed by another droid while his back is turned. Obi Wan cuts the droid down and admonishes Ben for his recklessness. The Queen and co are pleased to see two Jedi knights but they are very hostile towards Jar Jar. Which the Jedi are displeased over.
They run to the hanger like the finished film and free the Pilots, however a stray blaster shot kills the Queen with Padme screaming in horror as they board the ship. The humans also try to prevent Jar Jar getting on board but the two Jedi insist upon it.
The ship gets attacked by the blockade and Naboo guards man gun positions while astromech droids finish the repair. After they get into hyperspace there is only one droid left. R2D2 who is thanked by a still in grieving Padme. She goes off down into the droid bay to be alone and runs into Jar Jar who consoles her. This starts Padmes turn towards liking the Gungans instead of being bigoted towards them.
Meanwhile Ben and Obi Wan look through the planets accessible through their damaged hyperdrive and only find one inhabited world. Tatooine, which most of the royal guards/pilots are horrified about. Still they have no choice so they land. Padme goes with the Jedi despite protests. She wants to see another planet and get some fresh air after what just happened. Panaka lets her go reluctantly because she has two Jedi to guard her. Jar Jar also goes with them because the Utapau humans say he's "stinking the ship up".
We then cut to Utapau again where Nute Gunray and the Nemoidians are talking to captured scientists about their cloning program. They look at something in a cloning tank and look impressed. Then a hologram droid walks in projecting Darth Sidious. He castigates them for their failure in letting the princess get away and they grovel before him again. Darth Sidious says its no matter, as he will send his apprentice, Darth Maul. The Sith warrior himself looks even scarier than in the film we got with him looking like the concept art, he also has blood red robes.
We cut to a balcony on Coruscant where master and apprentice talk. Maul speaks more than in TPM and says how eager he is to get revenge on the jedi, they are no match for me yada yada.
Back on Tatooine in Mos Espa we see our heroes trying to get the part they need. It is a rowdy place and a leering slimy alien (Sebulba but we don't know that yet) tries to touch Padme arm but she elbows him and after that the crowd gives them a wide berth. Obi Wan and Ben sense something, an overpowering aura of the force. They follow it and find themselves in front of Wattos junk shop.
They meet Anakin who is 14 the same age as Padme. He is mature for his age and has a bit of a chip on his shoulder from being a slave. We also meet Watto but he resists the mind tricks because of his strong will, not because of his species. Things go similarly, though the dialogue would be much better, no "are you an angel" in this version. Jar Jar still clumsily breaks a few things but it is more toned down. Watto also hits Anakin and tells him to get back to work. Ben grabs Wattos arms as he is about to hit him again while Obi Wan helps him to his feet.
The heroes get nowhere with Watto especially after stopping Wattos abuse and a sandstorm starts to blow in so Anakin offers to take them to his place. We meet Anakin's adopted mother Shmi Lars and her son Owen Lars who is older (19) and very protective of his little brother. At the dinner scene we learn about Anakin's Podracing (how he's nicknamed Skywalker) and how many people gamble on it for huge sums of money. Ben gets an Idea while we also see just how rare Jedi actually are in most of the galaxy with Owen calling them wizards.
We then see Anakin working on his Pod while talking to Padme. They both share their own struggle going up. Padme says she's never met anyone like Anakin while Anakin says he's never met anyone like her either. He then kisses her on the cheek while Jar Jar (who was watching out of boredom) jumps in surprise. Meanwhile we see the Jedi helping Shmi and Owen with the dishes.
The topic of Anakin's father comes up. We learn that Shmi's sister left Tatooine when she was young in search of adventure. Years later she came back and gave Shmi baby Anakin begging her to take care of him before leaving. She had a lightsaber on her belt same as the two Jedi now. She also tell them how Anakin is special and can see things before they happen, just like her sister.
Ben says Anakin needs to be trained as a Jedi while Obi Wan resists the idea saying he's too old. He's all about giving the family their freedom but not taking along Anakin. Owen is Obi Wans side, saying Anakin's head is already off in the clouds as it is. Being a Jedi won't help him, he needs to be grounded and down to earth. His idealism is going to get him killed. Shmi isn't sure which side to take in the argument and defers judgement until after Anakin hopefully wins the podrace tomorrow.
Ben goes out and talks to Anakin and tells him about the Jedi and the Sith. We get a whole spiel about how strong Anakin is and how he would be a great asset to the order. Meanwhile, Darth Mauls ship lands on Tatooine at dusk and he sets out different probes to find the Jedi and the Princess. He smiles evilly to himself, showing rotting teeth.
The pod racing stuff is basically the same, only Padme is outraged when Sebulba threatens Anakin and Ben/Obi Wan manage to get the freedom of Owen and Shmi as well by trickery (not sure how). There is no two headed announcer and no Jabba cameo either. At the end, in desperation, Anakin uses his force powers to crash Sebulbas pod killing him. Nobody notices that Anakin used the force except the two jedi who look on in concern
While everyone else gathers around Anakin's pod to celebrate Ben and Obi Wan have a heated argument in the shadows of the bleachers. Obi Wan takes this as a reason why Anakin shouldn't be trained while Ben thinks that it would be better to teach Anakin before he falls down the path of evil. Eventually they agree to let Anakin decide, Obi Wan saying he'll probably want to stay with his family.
However Anakin decides to go. His mother respects his decision and is proud of him while Owen is furious, but accepts the decision as well but telling Anakin that one day he'll regret his choice and when he does he's always welcome to come live with them again. The family hugs while everyone else just kind stands around.
They walk back through the desert when they encounter a probe droid. Obi Wan slashes it with his lightsaber and tells everyone to run. Everyone runs inside while Maul approaches in his speeder bike. The fight goes differently as it is a two one one fight. They all exhibit powers never seen in the original trilogy like levitating objects swirling around them, going super fact, and slow motion. Basically a Matrix fight with lightsabers before they both jump onto the ship.
The scenes as they travel to Coruscant are similar. Anakin and Padme miss their parents etc. They then arrive at Coruscant and it is basically like the finished movie in design. They land and meet Chancellor Valorem, Senator Palpatine, and Qui Gon Jinn. Qui Gon hugs Ben like a son while Palpatine talks to Padme. Padme then talks to Jar Jar about how she doesn't understand the rift between the Gungans and the Humans. We then learn that the Gungans have a large army. Padme has an idea and decides to go back to Utapau.
The senate scenes are cut down dramatically. Its more of a montage showing Padme's increasing frustration before she finally calls for a vote of no confidence while Palpatine smiles sinisterly. The Jedi Council meanwhile consists of three members. Qui Gon who is a very unorthodox Jedi mindful of the living force (wanting the jedi to go and help the common people more), Mace Windu a bastion of militaristic conservatism (wanting the Jedi to take their rightful place as generals/leaders, and Yoda who wants to stay the course on isolationism and study of the force.
We don't see the Jedi trials, Anakin just talks about them to Ben, Obi Wan and Qui Gon. He says he didn't understand them, and Qui Gon who has taken a liking to this upstart kid says he wasn't supposed to. They are all called in and Mace says Anakin shall not be trained. He is too old and there is much anger in him. Anakin is heartbroken while Obi Wan nods grimly in acceptance. Ben Kenobi however is not having it. He says he shall train Anakin with or without the councils permission. Mace denounces this as Heresy while Qui Gon smiles. Yoda sighs and says the matter will be decided after this current crisis has ended.
Ben, Obi Wan, and Qui Gon all decide to go with Padme, but Anakin is told to stay behind. There is also the discussion about how Anakin is dangerous which Anakin overhears. Being told by Ben and Qui Gon that he's not a problem and how he will be a Jedi. Anakin gets an idea and sneaks aboard the ship with the help of R2. He is quickly discovered to Obi Wans rage and Bens laughter.
They get back to Utapau and have to go through the blockade. Anakin is able to hyperspace jump between the ships and the planet with motivation from Ben. Our heroes then try to find the Gungans at their city but it has been completely blown up. We actually see this though, as well as Jar Jars sorrow before he remembers the Gungans sacred place.
They go there and like the movie Padme makes a big speech about overcoming difference, with Jar Jar intelligently backing her up. We then get ready for the battle. Anakin tinkers with a disabled battle droid and finds out there is a second droid control hidden somewhere in the palace. So the plan is set. The Gungans will distract the droids, while the humans will infiltrate the palace, one team disabling the backup control systems and the others capturing Nute or stealing starfighters that will be used to take out the droid control ship.
The plan goes into action and things are kind of similar to the finished film, though Jar Jar shows intentional heroism instead of the goofy antics in TPM. When the starfighters are launched though, Padme goes into the fighter with Anakin. Him being the pilot and Padme being the gunner. The rest of the human teams make short work of the battle droids. However when they reach Nute a surprise is awaiting them, clones.
These clones look kind of like Dark Troopers and a Super Battle droid had a kid. They decimate the Utapau soldiers while Nute flees. Meanwhile with the Jedis they disable the secondary control system but are then met with Darth Maul. It is a brutal and awe inspiring fight. 3v1 and yet Maul still comes out on top. He knocks out Qui Gon who falls of the bridge (the duel setting is the same) while taunting the other two. "This is the end of the jedi" you get the drill.
The remaining soldiers manage to kill the clones but there are not enough left to fend of the droids. They are captured same as the Gungans. Ben gets riled up, makes a mistake and is killed. Obi Wan screams and charges getting knocked into the pit, hanging on by a thread. Meanwhile Anakin and Padme manage to destroy the flagship at the same time that Obi Wan takes Ben's lightsaber and cuts Maul in half. He then says "learn not live not as my master says" and then rushes to Bens side.
Ben begs him to train Anakin and he agrees. Meanwhile the humans and Gungans are celebrating. We cut to Qui Gon and Queen Amidala's funeral. Qui Gon throws away his lightsaber and walks off. He is done with the jedi after the death of what was effectively his son. Palpatine looks at him go intrigued. Meanwhile Yoda and Obi Wan argue over Anakin's training. Obi Wan says he will train him even without the will of the council like Ben said. Yoda gives in but warns Obi Wan of his arrogance.
We then get the celebration the end.

"Y'know why I love the internet? Because it's just like me." "Vulgar, combative, and contradictory?" "Overflowing with perversion and stupidity?" "Yes, and yes."
In 2013, Deadpool wanted a game, and gave a director at High Moon Studios his proposal written in the finest crayon he could muster. They accepted it (after being blown up following the initial rejection). As such, Deadpool finds himself trying to bring in the bounty on generic hateable villain Chance White, only for him to be rescued by the Marauders and killed by Mister Sinister. Driven by a desire for revenge (all while ignoring the X-Men and Cable's various attempts to get him to help save the world), Deadpool travels across Genosha in order to kill the supervillain.

Strength

• Kicks a large sewer grate free when said grate had just been unaffected by him sliding into it
• Sends a group of private soldiers flying back into walls with a spin kick
• Hits an explosive barrel away a distance
• Stabs through a throne and a Mister Sinister clone's neck
• Cuts off a person's head and arms
• Pushes a large block
• Pries open a large set of elevator doors by a penthouse
• Controls a mounted machine gun with one hand which most people require two to fire

Durability

Healing Factor

• After a short period of not taking damage, Deadpool's health rapidly refills to full
• His healing factor causes a person to believe that all his guards are constantly missing Deadpool with their gunfire
• Doesn't notice he's been impaled by rebar after coming conscious, and then pulls himself free
• Was once stabbed in the heart by Wolverine
• Shoots himself in the head, and comes back to consciousness later with a knife stabbed into his chest
• Falls from a Sentinel foot onto concrete, twisting his head around cutting an arm off, and he needs to stagger around to collect his arm, put it in place so it can instantly attach, before twisting his head back the right way around
• Bisected at the waist, being held in midair by his intestine and continuing to fight after falling on top of a man's head
  • Deadpool ultimately bleeds out, meeting Death, but soon recovers and gets back up
• Is torn apart and beheaded by Mister Sinister, falling unconscious, and when he wakes up his body is reattached (though the X-Men may have placed his body back together)
• Cannot get drunk

Gameplay

• Doesn't take fall damage
• Takes hits from a clone of Blockbuster, who tears up large chunks of stone or concrete ground before throwing it
• Takes hits from Arclight (who may or may not be a clone), who jump punches a large platform in a sewer to break it into the ground before doing so again to send it into freefall
• Has grenades explode by him
• Shot by a launched rocket
• Tanks electric attacks

Other

• Punched back a distance by Cable
• Fine after crashing his bike into a wall which had just launched him across Genosha
• Blasted back from an explosive shot destroying a door
• Sent flying from the explosion of a large piece of debris slamming into the tower he's on
• Walks out of a Blackbird crash which knocked out Wolverine, Rogue, and Psylocke
• Knocked back by an attack's shockwave
• Filled with electricity as he connects two large severed wires to open a door

Speed

• Aims and shoots at regular speed in a slow-mo sequence

Weapons

Deadpool is shown as owning a large range of weapons. Highlighted below are the ones he uses in-game.
Melee

• Beauroyre blades
• *Bang Lee* sais
• K-SOH 20lb. hammers
  • Can be imbued with flame as part of an attack

Firearms

• DT 1981S pistols
• Nuthals 220S submachine guns
  • Sustains a person in midair with both submachine guns firing
• Kingmaker shotguns
• Harrison PLS pulse rifles, which are strong enough to turn foes into blood smears

Explosives

• Frag grenades capable of blowing a home in the ground beneath Deadpool while bisecting him
• Carries C4, with one package blowing up the sewer ceiling, the wall to the bathroom above, and blasts a person walking away a notable distance
  • Has a lot of C4
• Rigs explosives at a game studio that he sets off from his apartment in order to convince them to make a game about him

Other

• Flashbangs
• Bear traps

Teleportation

• Can teleport short distances
  • This later gets upgraded to cover longer distances
• Teleports into a helicopter to commandeer its gun
• Brings Deadpool back to the platform he jumped off of when he falls
• Teleports around Genosha to set up a plan

Fourth Wall Awareness

Medium Awareness

• Starts the game by bombing the studio that made the game in order to have them make the game
  • Due to the game being actively developed as it's played, sections running over budget can cause Deadpool to have to go through cheaper areas for a period, such as a retro Zelda-like section
  • When a section isn't finished, he sends the developers more money so they can fix it
• Sees two achievements he earns right at the start of the game
• Receives the script for his game before editing it in crayon and showing it to the player
• Notes his controls have been reversed after his head had been twisted backwards

Object Conjuration

• Commands goons to spawn in the tutorial
• Spawns in a crate containing a bouncy castle
• Brings in a coin operated rocket for him to sadly ride while Cable monologues
• Gives himself a woman on either leg, lightning to strike his sword, and fireworks in the sky before having the credits roll
• One section is filled in front of a live studio audience, somehow

Other

• Stretches a censor bar
• Creates a bridge of thought bubbles to traverse an area
• Begs the player to get him out of Cable's boring monologue
• Uses a C4 trigger to replay the level he just went through, greatly draining the game's budget

Intelligence

• Controls Sentinel arms through loose wires
• Uses control panels at the top of a tower to shock a Mister Sinister clone, possibly play music (though this may be an aspect of the game), and ultimately destroy his plans
• At the end of the tutorial, spawns in a bouncy castle which he later falls onto alongside the person he's capturing so that he survives dropping out of the top of a skyscraper
• Has Cable assist him in modifying a Sentinel foot to launch him across Genosha
• Spray paints an X on the ground before the final battle which ends up being the location Mister Sinister stands on where he's squashed by a flying Sentinel foot
• Modifies a bike so it's rocket powered and can launch him across Genosha, then drops some C4 at a pre-set location so to knock down a Sentinel hand, propelling a crate with a greeting message and two more C4 packets onto the other side of a ravine, before that C4 explodes to knock down a statue and make a bridge for several X-Men

Other

• Cannot die
  • He can near death experiences in some circumstances, such as while bleeding out due to being bisected, but soon gets brought back to reality
• Can double jump and wall jump
• Eats through his mask
• Is capable of becoming briefly invincible with an upgrade
• The two voices in his head may not share the same knowledge as Deadpool, though they may also just be different aspects of his personality that focus on different things
• When Rogue absorbs Deadpool's healing factor, she also gains his personality, fighting ability, and the two voices from his head

Lots of people who don’t live here seem to have this perception that Canada is a progressive European-style country. But that’s just how our government markets us, and is completely disconnected from the reality of how our country operates. We are more like a state of the US than any place in Europe, and actually have a worse standard of living than the vast majority the US.
Our disabled people starve to death on the streets, and are offered assisted suicide instead of proper support. Most of our provinces have around a $400 shelter allowance for those who are on welfare. Do you know how much the average one bedroom apartment is in our country? Over $2000. A bedroom with no kitchen or bathroom is often $1000 or more. These allowances haven't increased since the 90s, and the provincial governments fight tooth and nail to keep disabled citizens in poverty.
Our native citizens live in dilapidated shacks while being denied clean water by the government. Historically, they were systematically raped, murdered and then mass buried. The government to this day loves to avoid talking about this, but it was some holocaust level shit. They'll acknowledge "how much learning we all have to do together" but will still not give them clean water or adequate housing.
When somebody is homeless, they are usually just arrested and thrown in jail. Our shelters are underfunded and packed beyond capacity. Once again, any effort to help impoverished people and build more shelters is struck down. For anyone who has never been here, look up East Hastings in Vancouver. People are quite literally walking around as rotting zombies. All of our cities have post apocalyptic looking areas like this.
Police brutality is just as common as in the US. Police will come along and beat and taze a man who is having a seizure on the ground, and then charge him with a made up offense simply because they are bored. Officers often openly steal from and abuse the public with no opposition. There is no oversight, and they can do whatever they want. It is almost impossible for a police officer to be arrested, and they are usually placed on paid leave for years instead at the burden of the tax payers.
Crime is quite serious. It’s not uncommon for multiple dismembered bodies to be found around our cities on the weekends. People burn eachother alive on public transit. Machete attacks, stabbings, the works. However, our judges are "neoliberal" and love to release repeat violent offenders over and over. People are much more heavily punished for petty victimless offences than they are for shootings/stabbings/rape/assault. If you have the right connections, you will not face consequences.
We bring in 2 million people a year (+5% of our population annually) for the sole reason that corporations can pay them less as they are from impoverished backgrounds. This is why our GDP per capita is dropping so heavily.
All of our industries consist of government backed monopolies that conspire to eradicate competition and inflate the cost of very single commodity of our daily lives. Why do we pay $500 a month for phone bills? That’s why.
Our life expectancy, GDP per capita and almost all measures of life quality have been dropping for decades now. The government does everything it can to gloss over this, but it’s public information. When asked about any of these metrics, they just won't answer the question. Look at our prime minister being asked ANY question. He won't do it. They are experts at talking about anything except for the things that matter.
The average citizen can no longer afford rent or a home. If everybody had to buy back the home they live in now, our entire country would be homeless. The only reason they aren’t homeless now is because they owned before. Once the baby boomers die, the younger generations without inheritances will face some of the most unobtainable housing in the world.
Healthcare is so underfunded and overburdened that is quite common for people to die before receiving any treatment, or instead be offered assisted suicide. Those who do receive treatment are often sent to the US as we are over capacity.
Our government is openly corrupt on all levels, but for some reason everybody overlooks this, especially outside of the country. Insider trading, conflicts of interest, fraud, you name it. Pretty much all of our politicians are involved in scandals of some kind. Our prime minister updates his investment portfolio just at the right time before certain stocks explode due to federal legislature. No wonder they're all rich.
I'm sure that this post is going to trigger some Canadians, but I'm sick of this shitty country and pretending that I'm happy to live here. Nobody seems to want to acknowledge how terrible it has become. I don't understand how these things are not talked about more.
And what annoys me the most?
At the same time all of this is happening, our leaders try SO god damn hard to make us look good. Our prime minister goes around touting the most liberal shit you can imagine, but then they will do everything in their power to avoid doing the things they talk about at any cost. They say ALL the right things, but god forbid they actually walk the walk. It's like an abusive husband who does TED talks on feminism. Everything that comes out of their mouths is carefully scripted and completely detached from reality. I hate this fake ass country.

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Tired of going Lethality and do a coin flip?
Tired of going Bruiser and deal 0 dmg to tower and champion alike
Look no further Brothers, The herald of ruined build is here to show you the light inside darkness
Here the non fully undeciphered text from an ancient script, located inside an old temple near the Shore of Black Mist
"
Forget Conqueror, forget Meteor, take the fleet of footwork*, and grab a* Front of Life, then you shall never die
First you will need a simple tank object, but it has to be malevolent (damage) related, vs physical abuser you would want The Gauntlet of Frost*, as it's will give you the spell blade proc and a nice slow be fit the name Tilted Lord*
But if they have magic user, oh boi all the star is lining up alright, you will feel Hollow*, yet* Radiant*. Why you ask? Because with every life we take, their violated remain explose with death, make the other soon join them, even when we weren't there*
Now here come the good part, next you will take F̶̻͑̓̈́͜ä̷̢́̓́̌̚t̵͍͊e̷̦̓͝d̵̠̔ ̸̲̩̖͍͋Ą̴̢͈̜̰̌̐s̷̻͛̿h̶͙͈͕̦̆̃͝e̸̖͋̑s̷̳̘̣̉̓*, and upgrade it into both* Ĺ̸͖͈̎̿̕ĩ̷͇͑͊͛͘ä̸͈̝͕̪̣́n̵͍̻̤̈̽̋d̶̹̬͙͚̆̍r̸̛̩̲̦̗̔͂̌y̴̠͉̲͖̌͐̑'̴̰̘͙̈s̵̼̠̝̊̃͗̕ ̵̟͔̓̃̾̃͘T̸̮̏̆̚ọ̷̢͔̭͂̍r̷̺͋͗͜ͅṃ̶̝͕̑̾e̵̖͐̎͑͝͝n̶̙̝͊̇̎ţ̵̣̮̼̲̆̐̕ and the Ḇ̸̛̒͐̈̃l̸̖̗͓̿͊̅͝a̴̮̫͒̅č̸̨̛͍̝̈́̉͝k̴͚̩̯̯̍̀̐̀͠f̴̢̝̭̠̑ͅį̴͈̃̒̒͝ṙ̵͚̬͐ȩ̴͖̼̩̇͂͑͗̒ ̷͕̈́͝͝͝T̵̰̳͉̿̓ǒ̴͔̏r̴̩͍̘̜̙̉̐̈́̔̕c̶̨̥̤̠̖̕h̸̝̬̭̀̒͆͝ͅ. . Now watch the world burn. You can then feel Hollow*, yet* Radiant*, or even have a sight of an* Eclipse*, hold a* L̷̻̳̦̔̋̽i̶͔̭͌g̶̹̔́h̴̫̖̘̾t̴̻̙̥̄i̵̯͖̞̍̎n̶̙͑͊̐g̷͔̓ ̴͚̂̕S̷͙̖̅͘h̴̦̉i̵͇̍͆̒v̵̻̹͙̿̃̈́ or bare the Snake Fang to become the Gray Life Destroyer, your call
As thou foe burning in ruined, you shall live, with the Health, the Bonk of Life, and the Resist thou has cumulative, even to the point of making the Great Iron Revenant question his Death Realm himself
But what about the burst? The damage? The ad??? Non believer won't understand, that is in the Siege war*,* Magic is easier to get a mass, yet melt the plate of stone like butter. The Void Walker and the Mad Yordle known, and his knowledge won't be wasted
So how would one faired with these gift? How can one climb the ladder of god with it?
According to the Bausen Law, take what you will, leave nothing back. Thou are not here to dominate, thou here to win. Push the wave of mortal flesh, then siting back while it crash the Ivory Tower. Burn the enemy, Burn the foot soldier, Burn them all. The faster they burn, the sooner our army reach the gate*. While doing so, feel free to unleash thou pocket sand,* curse the unbeliever with eternal BURNation*, alone with an* unstoppable crash*. We will be* healthy*, we will be pristine, while the* enemy weaken*, day by day, until they* forced to leave the battle and lose out*. If they whose hunger for battle strike first,* disengage*, and* mend to full with the Fleet of Foot*,* Front of Life, and Bonk of Health*, doesn't matter, because with their* army burning down*. there was* no option to Freeze the state, none at all. If nothing ever happen, don't worry, thou game is like a chess, and not a brawl, time will tell
At later stage of the Siege war. Raise your brethren, and aim them toward the nearest Castle. The Hollow kill, the Radiant burst, and the Burn secure. Mortal army couldn't not hold against these, even better if thou has The L̷̻̳̦̔̋̽i̶͔̭͌g̶̹̔́h̴̫̖̘̾t̴̻̙̥̄i̵̯͖̞̍̎n̶̙͑͊̐g̷͔̓ ̴͚̂̕S̷͙̖̅͘h̴̦̉i̵͇̍͆̒v̵̻̹͙̿̃̈́*. Meanwhile thou are* else where, raking knowledge (exp) lead from other battle. Thou goal is to deny the most of recourses from the other side, by fast crashing their army on as many lane at once as thou can. And with the Gift i has bestow thou, thou will, thou shall.
At one point, thou foe will miss so much that they became unexperienced fighter whose haven't reach 18*, or* given up a strength of number else where just to lose the war. Meanwhile thou will still burn*, and while it* not enough to kill*, it is* enough to foul the mind. Thou army will rival the Sting Ray's Swarm, with 0 effort
Go, Grave Digger, and Burn the Rift to a crisp

Kinda giving up on apex when it comes to ranked. You either need a team passed diamond or you get to bore yourself to death just kill grinding pubs. I came and stayed at this game since s16 (played apex for fun here and there a few seasons wayyyy prior) but got competitive in season 16 and hit diamond solo q and then hit masters up till season 20. Now in szn 21. Im diamond and have a few people to play with here and there. But the grind is up against teamers and scripts and I’m tired of putting effort in ranked like if it’s a job. Might as well find a team I can participate in legit tournaments for console instead of going up against cheating scumbags that ruin a game system for a badge. It’s a nice feeling when you get compliments from top players when you 1v3 a pred squad and then they find out you don’t use paddles, grips, play claw etc. and can compete with most up there. Ofc I can be typing with a bit of ego but It’s one thing playing against just grips and paddles. And it’s another thing when every match is just xim and scripts. If anyone out there has a team and is willing to trial or something. Please hmu. (Yes I have clips here and there. One 1v3 clip is on my tiktok)

Anna Megill, Lead Writer:
QA Tester: Cyberlore Studios, 2004 - 2004:

• Quality Assurance: Playboy: The Mansion.

Various roles: Smith College, 2004-2008.

• Technology Wrangler.
• Provided tutoring and training in technology.
• Advised students on academic paper writing, and taught workshops on grammar and style.
• Editing.

Writers/QA Lead: Pileated Pictures May, 2007 - Sep 2009.

• Writers/QA Lead: Littlest Pet Shop: Marketing and game text, also editing.
• Writers/QA Lead: Planet Cazmo.
• Quality Assurance Insecticide: Primary in-house tester.

Lotcheck QA: Nintendo, 2009 - 2010.

• Editing game text and manuals.
• Compliance testing for all titles.

Writers/QA Editors ArenaNet LLC, Mar 2010 - Sep 2012.

• Writers/QA Editors: Guild Wars.
• Writers/QA Editors: Guild Wars 2.

Writers/Narrative Designers: Murdered: Soul Suspect.
Writers: Ubisoft, May 2014 - Aug 2014:

• Writing for Assassin's Creed Victory/Syndicate (Uncredited on final game).

Creative Director: Project Untold, Nov 2014 - Jan 2015:

• Writing, editing and marketing text for unreleased projects.

Writers/Narrative Designers: Cynixy LLC, Jan 2015 - Jan 2017:

• Writing, editing for interactive media projects, websites, games and installations.
• Work for Arkane Studios, Exploding Rogue Studios (TTRPGs), the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and George Washington University.
• Writing and editing for promotional materials and news releases.
• Ghostwriting.
• Editing.

External Writers: Dishonored: Death of the Outsider.
Pre-Production Narrative Lead: Control:

• Writers on Control: AWE.

Lead Narrative Designers: Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.

• Left in January 2021.

Former Lead WriteNarrative Lead: Fable:

• Left in Ausust 2023.

August 2023 - prior to joining CDPR: Unknown.
Non-Fiction:
Writer: The Game Writing Guide.
Writer: The Pocket Mentor for Video Game Writers.
Alexander Freed, Writer:
Started off writing short fiction.
Freelance Game Designer, 2002-2006:

• Writing for TTRPGs, developing IP, and editing for various companies, including Alderac Entertainment Group, Bastion Press, CCP/White Wolf Publishing, Dream Pod 9, The Inner Circle, Morrigan Press, and Steve Jackson Games.
• Worked on Tribe 8, Mage Intruders Encounters With the Abyss, The Complete Book of Denizens, Secrets of the Ruined Temple, Omni Eco and Astral Realms.

Senior Writer and Managing Editor: Star Wars: The Old Republic:

• Original Lead Writer on Rise of the Hutt Cartel left prior to the release of the DLC.
• Freelance Writer on Galactic Starfighter, Shadow of Revan and Knights of the Fallen Empire.
• (Base game) Alongside Hall Hood, he assisted Lead Writer Daniel Erickson in managing the rest of the writing team.
• Lead WriteManager Imperial Agent class storyline and its content during Rise of the Hutt Cartel.
• Wrote three articles for the game's website including one about how to write something within the Star Wars universe and an introduction to the Imperial Agent class.
• Involved with the creation of a large amount of non-class specific content
• Wrote much of the Imperial storyline on Makeb.
• Wrote Wrote KOTFE Chapter 10 Anarchy in Paradise.

Shadow Realms (Canceled game):

• Initial IP and design conception alongside the Lead Designer and Creative Director.

Co-Writer: Star Wars: Uprising.
Editor: The Banner Saga 2.
Editor: Tyranny.
Additional Design: Mass Effect: Andromeda.
Worked on Shuyan Saga.
Writers: Star Wars: Battlefront 2.
Freelance Writer and later Studio Writing Director: Fogbank Entertainment, 2017 - 2020:

• Wrote the entirety of the Eternal City.
• Reviewed final scripts for all their games/shows.
• Wrote additional content for their Storyscape app.

Additonal Design: Anthem.
Additional Writing: Wasteland 3.
Senior Writer: Battlefield 2042.
Freelance Writing/Narrative Design/Consultation for various studios:

• Ranging from AAA to Indie.
• WB Games Montreal, Archetype Entertainment, ZeniMax and others.

Comics/Graphic Novels:
Writer: Star Wars: The Old Republic, Blood of the Empire.
Writer: Star Wars: The Old Republic, Lost Suns.
Scriptwriter: Dragon Age: The Silent Grove.
Scriptwriter: Dragon Age: Those Who Speak.
Scriptwriter: Dragon Age: Until We Sleep.
Writer: Star Wars Purge: The Tyrant's Fist (Story arc).
Writers: Anthem: Strong Alone, Stronger Together.
Writer: Assasin's Creed Valhalla: Forgotten Myths.
Writer: Violet Dawn.
Books:
Writer: Battlefront: Twilight Company.
Writer: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Novelization).
Writer: Alphabet Squadron.
Writer: Shadow Fall.
Writer: Victory's Price.
Short Stories:
Writer: The Last Battle of Colonel Jace Malcom.
Writer: One Thousand Levels Down.
Writer: The End of History.
Writer: Contingency Plan.
Writer: The Man Who Built Cloud City.
Wrote original short fiction for magazines and anthologies:

• including the magazine Interzone and the anthologies The Book of More Flesh (Eden Studios), Path of the Just (Guardians of Order), and Robots and Time (Altair Australia).

Non-Fiction:
Published articles on Gamasutra.
Wrote blog entries on his personal website.
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They also have several of the Cyberpunk 2077 writers still at the company, though most of them seem to be working on The Witcher 4, and Mike Pondsmith will likely be involved with the game's development.

Well here we are, FG, our first decades tournament, the 2010’s. Thank you to everyone who nominated movies, and let’s get right into it!
Results of Round 1

• Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse (2018) (9) beat 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) (8) and Sorry to Bother You (2018) (6)
• Snowpiercer (2013) (11) beat 12 Years a Slave (2013) (7), and Spotlight (2015) (6)
• Skyfall (2012) (9) beat 127 Hours (2010) (8) and Spring Breakers (2012) (7)
• First Reformed (2017) (10) beat Skate Kitchen (2018) (3), and Steve Jobs (2015) (3)
• 1917 (2019) (9) beat Sing Street (2016) (6), and Stoker (2013) (6)
• Silence (2016) (14) beat 20th Century Women (2016) (4) and Stray Dogs (2013) (3)
• Sicario (2015) (17) beat Sunset (2017) (3) and 50/50 (2011) (3)
• Shutter Island (2010) (11) beat A Field in England (2013) (5), and Tabu (2012) (2)
• A Ghost Story (2017) (13) beat Short Term 12 (2013) (6), and Tehran Taboo (2017) (1)
• A Separation (2011) (7) tied with Shoplifters (2018) (7), and beat The Act of Killing (2012) (3)
• The American (2010) (8) beat A Silent Voice (2016) (2), and Shin Godzilla (2016) (2)
• The Assassin (2015) (11) beat Shame (2011) (7), and A Star is Born (2018) (5)
• Scott Pilgrim vs the World (2010) (11) beat Ad Astra (2019) (6), and The Avengers (2012) (4)
• The Babadook (2014) (10) beat All is Lost (2013) (7) and Rubber (2010) (4)
• Annihilation (2018) (15) beat Room (2015) (5), and The Babysitter (2017) (2)
• Roma (2018) (12) beat April and the Extraordinary World (2015) (4), and The Conjuring (2013) (3)
• The Big Short (2015) (7) beat Aquarius (2016) (5), and Right Now, Wrong Then (2015) (0)
• Arrival (2016) (16) beat Raw (2016) (3), and The Big Sick (2017) (1)
• Atomic Blonde (2017) (6) beat Rango (2011) (5) and The Captain (2017) (3)
  
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) (8) beat Post Tenebras Lux (2012) (3), and Bait (2019) (1)
  
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) (10) beat Barbara (2012) (1), and The Counselor (2013) (1)
  
• The Death of Stalin (2017) (8) beat Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016) (6), and Beasts of No Nation (2015) (3)
  
• Birdman (2014) (7) tied Phoenix (2014) (7) and beat The Double (2013) (2)
  
• Black Swan (2010) (11) beat Phantom Thread (2017) (8), and The Drop (2014) (3)
  
• Blade Runner 2049 (2017) (11) beat The Florida Project (2017) (9), and The House That Jack Built (2018) (2)
  
• The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) (15) beat Blindspotting (2018) (2), and Paddington 2 (2017) (1)
  
• Blue is the Warmest Color (2013) (7) beat Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) (6), and The Great Beauty (2013) (2)
  
• The Handmaiden (2016) (11) beat Bone Tomahawk (2015) (7), and Only God Forgives (2013) (4)
  
• Once Upon a Time....In Hollywood (2019) (15) beat The Hateful Eight (2015) (8), and Bridge of Spies (2015) (4)
  
• Boyhood (2014) (7) beat Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) (5), and The Hollars (2016) (2)
  
• O.J. Made in America (2016) (10) beat Parasite (2019) (9), and Brooklyn (2015) (5)
  
• Nightcrawler (2014) (12) beat Burning (2018) (7), and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) (1)
  
• Nebraska (2013) (7) beat The Hunt (2012) (4), and Byzantium (2012) (4)
  
• Mysteries of Lisbon (2010) (4) beat Carlos (2010) (3), and The Imposter (2012) (2)
  
• Carol (2015) (12) beat The Irishman (2019) (6), and mother! (2017) (3)
  
• The Lighthouse (2019) (9) beat Moonrise Kingdom (2012) (8), and Cemetery of Splendour (2015) (4)
  
• Moonlight (2016) (9) beat The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) (5), and Chappie (2015) (3)
  
• Molly’s Game (2017) (8) beat Coherence (2013) (7), and Cloud Atlas (2012) (4)
  
• The Master (2012) (11) beat Mission Impossible: Fallout (2018) (6), and The Martian (2015) (5)
  
• Cold War (2018) (5) ties Meek's Cutoff (2010) (5), and beats The Missing Picture (2013) (2)
  
• The Nice Guys (2016) (14) beat Contagion (2011) (5), and Mary Poppins Returns (2018) (2)
  
• Margaret (2011) (9) beat The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) (6), and Creed (2015) (2)
  
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) (8) tied with The Raid 2 (2014) (8), and beat Maps to the Stars (2014) (3)
  
• Drive (2011) (17) beat The Revenant (2015) (6), and Mandy (2018) (4)
  
• Django Unchained (2012) (11) beat The Salesman (2016) (3) and Made in Dagenham (2010) (2)
  
• Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) (9) beat Train to Busan (2016) (5), and Diamantino (2018) (1)
  
• Eighth Grade (2018) (5) beat Elle (2016) (4), and Long Way North (2015) (2)
  
• The Turin Horse (2011) (10) beat Logan (2017) (9), and El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019) (0)
  
• The Way Back (2010) (8) beat Locke (2013) (5), and The Tree of Life (2011) (4)
  
• Embrace of the Serpent (2015) (10) beat Little Women (2019) (6), and The Whispering Star (2015) (2)
  
• Enemy (2013) (6) tied with The Wind Rises (2013) (6) and beat Like Someone in Love (2012) (3)
  
• Life of Pi (2012) (9) beat The Witch (2015) (8), and Evangelion 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (2012) (1)
  
• The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) (7) beat Leave No Trace (2018) (6) and Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) (3)
  
• Ex Machina (2014) (9) beat Thoroughbreds (2017) (4), and Le Havre (2011) (3)
  
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) (13) beat Ladybird (2017) (9), and Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
  
• La La Land (2016) (13) beat 13 Assassins (2010) (4), and White Boy Rick (2018) (1)
  
• The Social Network (2010) (11) Four Lions (2010) (5), and Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) (2)
  
• Get Out (2017) (7) beat Two Days, One Night (2014) (5), and Konosuba Legend of Crimson (2019) (1)
  
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) (7) beat Girlhood (2014) (4), and Klaus (2019) (1)
  
• Under the Skin (2013) (13) beat Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) (3), and God Bless America (2011) (2)
  

View Poll

We just found an elderly chihuahua on Morgan Ford in the Bevo Mill area of south city. He’s clearly someone’s baby. If you know whose he might be, describe him and his collar and you can come get him or we’ll bring him to you.
Post script: I’ve already posted him on the lost and found pets in the Facebook group for St. Louis. We just adopted a cat, and cannot possibly keep this dog. Right now he’s hanging out in the basement with our nervous dog, but that’s about the best we can do. If we don’t find an owner soon, we’re going to have to take him over to the Humane Society and surrender him there, unless someone has a better idea. We’ve already contacted several shelters, and everyone appears to be full.
Update: Talked to the Humane Society. They won’t euthanize unless he’s deathly ill, and have plenty of space if he’s not chipped. Will be taking him there about 1pm. If you know him, respond before then, or that’s where you can find him. They’ll keep him for 10 days before putting him up for adoption.
Update again: he’s chipped! Hopefully he’ll be home soon. Thanks all.