Description:

The user conjures a human-sized chamber that is connected to the user, the chamber will perform virtually any life-saving Surgery; however, the user must stay in a state of zetsu, as the chamber siphons their aura to function. - Anyone placed within the chamber will have themselves examined and eventually healed; however the machine cannot create body parts or organs so a donor with compatible blood type will be necessary. - Combat wise, the user can conjure various medical tools to fight with or launch at the target(scalpels, constricting gauze, syringes, etc.)

Vows & Limitations:

The user cannot use their aura and must funnel it into the machine
To replace organs or lost limbs a donor with compatible blood type is required.
If a curse is sensed the machine will remove the affected organ or body part, viewing it as removing a cancerous growth; however the curse still affects that body part.(i.e. it would remove Chrollo's heart since that's where curse is, but he'd need a new one)
The machine can only be summoned via request with a "client", where should they refuse to compensate the user they will lose organs equivalent to the cost(black market values applied)

Previous post https://www.reddit.com/Paranormal/comments/1cqkj2m/the_worst_week_of_my_life/
Well, I didn't think I'd be here again but I was wrong.
My son recovered from his ICU stay and had his birthday. I got him a desk and chair for his bedroom because he wants to make an xbox gaming set up.
He had a follow up appointment to check on the previous surgery site. Unfortunately they had to place more bands and coils in his esophagus. Many more than he's had before. When he got home he was in a lot of pain. More than over-the-counter medications could control. I did my best to comfort him while he laid in bed. Suddenly we hear a loud click and the light up planet light on his new desk (also a birthday present) turned on by itself. My son thought maybe the electricity was weird but I laughed and said it's probably his great grandma messing with him.
Truthfully, all of us will be needing continued help from the other side. The proposed solution to my son's medical issues is an organ transplant. Through the entire doctor visit my son held it together. He was also placed on flight restriction so he can't go on our long awaited trip to Europe this summer.
We are devastated. He was looking forward to seeing our homeland and paying respects to their great grandmother's grave, and now he can only drive places (we live in the USA). I'm going to do my best finding some amazing trip in driving distance.
This is difficult for me to ask, but if anyone has connections to any of the following please let me know: Minnesota United (soccer), Minnesota Vikings, XBOX, Activision (call of duty) or other similar teen boy stuff. I am trying to bring as much sunshine to my son's life. Since he can't play contact sports, he's gotten into call of duty and dragged me into it too! Him and I (40s female) bond and share the same account.
Thank you all for giving me an anonymous platform to share my experience. I'm just a normal middle class working mom with a Christian upbringing. I have shared this story with only a handful of people in person because I don't want people thinking I'm weird or crazy. I don't expect anything out of posting this on reddit but I do hope it gives you all some comfort knowing that we are being looked after from the other side. I have tears in my eyes as I write this because of the profound effect it's had on my beliefs and my life.
Lastly, when we hung up from the virtual doctor visit, the first thing my son did was text me. He said don't cancel the trip, his brother should still go. He just heard he needed a transplant and the first thing he thought about was his brother. He's a sweet and strong kid and we will get through this.

Will orthopedic surgery interviews continue to be in person for this coming season? I know several specialities are advocating for virtual due to accessibility.

Hi everyone,
Here's the summary for the first half of Day 3 of Safe House. If anyone is watching along, I hope you're enjoying, because I've been enjoying watching so far!
Video Link 1: https://www.youtube.com/live/_YdNvxcfwdc?feature=shared

Luke is exercising. Neo joins around 7:30
12:00 PD asks Luke and Neo to wake up everyone else in the house
19:00 Mix and Phuwin do a product plug for Deo Klear
24:30 PD invites everyone downstairs for the King of the Day Competition
- 28:00 Phuwin reads the rules. Each person has to pick a toy from the board and mark it with a flag with their name. They must not try their toys first before the game starts. For each round of the game, everyone will wind up their toys, set them at the border of the board, and release them at the same time. Once all the toys have stopped, the person whose toy is farthest from the centre of the board is eliminated. This continues until there's one winner. They realise that the toys walk in unpredictable directions and speeds, so the game is down to luck.
40:30 PD invites everyone to collect their breakfast from the kitchen.
43:00 King of the Day photo op
Breakfast highlights
- They mostly talk about what time they each went to sleep. Some of them were on their phones until late. Some of them hung out talking downstairs until they fell asleep on the couch.
- They're happy that they have spreads for the bread today
- 58:00 Neo and Khaotung do the dishes (Neo complaining throughout)
- 1:00:00 Mix, Earth, Neo, and Phuwin make coffee (very light product plug). Phuwin does a bit of virtual studying

Video 2 Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/zF2r5pTTHUs?feature=shared

At 4:00 we join them while they're having fun and dancing a bit.
5:45 Mix asks everyone to play a game with him. Everyone has to place a cookie/biscuit on their forehead and wiggle it into their mouth without dropping it or touching it with their hands. Loser (the one who drops theirs first) will have to wash dishes for the rest of the day (Phuwin is exempt because he's studying, and Gun is exempt because he's sleeping).
- 11:15 Earth loses immediately and asks to try again. Everyone starts dropping them, and they decide that they'll just determine a winner by whoever eats their biscuit first.
- 13:15 The guys say that they want to see Earth win something for once. Earth ends up winning because he's the one who ate his first, although Luke never dropped his at all, so they decide to have a rematch with the two of them to see who can eat theirs first
- 17:00 Mix asks Earth to make more chicken noises. He then presents Luke with the "prize" for winning the rematch: a box of Lactasoy (product plug)

Video 3 Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/Veym_wLTmd0?feature=shared

Everyone is relaxing when we join them. Neo and Luke are having a jam session in the play room
10:30 Gun joins Neo and Luke in the play room and has a game for them (product plug for Sang Sang drink). Gun will will sing a series of songs but replace all the lyrics with "sang," and Luke and Neo have to guess the song titles. They're successful, so Gun gives them some drinks.
15:30 PD announces the next medal competition
- 16:45 King of the Day pairs everyone up. People make fun of Neo and Earth for being lowest on the ranking.
- 18:15 Mix reads the rules. Each person in the pair has to wear elastic bands that hold their ankles together. The pair will work together, holding long poles to carry a series of items from the table, through two obstacles, and into the basket on the other side of the course. If any object drops, they have to start from the table again with that object. They must carry the items by holding them from the bottom with the two poles, rather than pinching the items with the poles. The two pairs that can accomplish the task in the shortest time win one medal each.
- 21:30 There's some disagreement about the way they have to carry the items, so Earth and Phuwin's first try is considered a practice.
37:00 PD announces that the two pairs who lost the game have to serve lunch to the winning two pairs. Mix asks PD if he can be exempt because he's King of the Day. PD says, "You may be King, but you still lost this game, so you have to serve."
- Menu is rice vermicelli (khanom jeen namya) with green curry and crab, yellow curry with bamboo shoots, and roti with floral scented sweet egg yolk threads (roti foi thong)
- Lunch highlights: They talk about how it's Gun's last day, so they might push him into the pool at one point. Neo asks everyone for cucumbers again (cucumbers are a common accompaniment to a lot of Thai dishes; that's why they have them so often)
- 44:30 They talk about spice tolerances. Some of them don't like to eat food that's too spicy. Earth says the green curry is spicy, but Neo says it doesn't look too spicy, going from the colour (Thai green curry typically gets its colour from fresh green Thai chilis, so usually, the greener it is, the more spicy it is).
- 47:15 PD wants them to talk more during the meal because it's a bit boring. They start talking about Mix because he's King of the Day. Mix tries to make a joke about Neo eating a lot of cucumbers, but the joke fails.
- 49:49 They talk about who they think might be the final winner. Mix thought it would be either Phuwin or Gun, but since Gun is leaving, it depends on who comes to replace him. Now they think Khaotung might win. They make fun of Neo and say that if there's any game that involves witty talking, Neo would win, but they don't think they'll be any such games this week.
- 53:00 Mix asks Neo if he's ever taught a foreigner how to speak Eastern Thai language (Isan). They first ask him to teach Luke, but then they realise that no one has heard Neo speak Isan before, so they ask for Neo to participate in their normal conversation, but reply only in Isan for the next 5 minutes. Neo says that he'll probably have to mix some Central Thai in because he's not completely fluent in Isan.
  - 54:45 Mix asks how come Neo speaks Isan like a Central person. Pond says because Neo lives in Bangkok now. Neo verifies Pond's statement and said that he was born in Issan (Udon Thani province) but grew up in Bangkok.
- 55:10 Mix says they should try conversing where Neo speaks Isan, Mix speaks Northern Thai, and Luke speaks English.
  - 55:45 Mix says he wants to make a dramatic entrance as his Northern persona, especially because he's King today. The entrance is disappointing, so he tries again
  - 58:15 Neo offers to be the announcer for the second dramatic entrance and asks which province Mix represents. Mix replies that he's from Lampang. Mix can't think of what to say once he makes his entrance, but Neo and Phuwin push him out to get it over with
  - 59:00 Mix's dramatic entrance. Neo forgot which province Mix said, so he says the name of another random Northern province (Chiang Rai). Mix panics and can't think of anything to say in Northern, so he starts speaking English instead. They push him to commit to the English, so Luke speaks English with him and they try to get Mix to answer in a 2-minute answer, like how you might do in a language exam. He declines, and he thinks he's going to try 2 minutes of Northern instead, but then he decides he probably can't speak for 2 full minutes in Northern either. Mix says (in Central) that he was originally happy to be King today, but now he's not enjoying it anymore.
- 1:04:15 Pond, Mix, and Luke play a bit with the camera in the kitchen. Pond hits his head on the camera. Pond and Luke wash dishes while the rest rest and relax
1:18:00 They discuss what to do next, and Gun says that he'll go into the pool if all 8 of them go and swim at the same time. The decide to play with a beach ball indoors for the time being while the sun is still quite hot.
1:26:00 They decide to get changed to play in the pool. Phuwin has a bit of studying to do first, but then he'll join afterward
1:56:30 They play live fish/dead fish in the pool. Earth is "it" first. At 1:58:15, Neo is sneakily continuing to move, until Earth says, "How come it seems like there's a fish that hasn't died?" Neo then joins Earth as another "it" person.

Video 4 Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/0bIyZJvVFzM?feature=shared

They're still playing in the pool. They're playing a form of water basketball at the beginning, and then at 7:00 they decide to play another game of live fish/dead fish, this time with Gun as a referee and Earth "it."

My 7 lb, 9 year old Maltipoo was attacked by a Rottweiler. She went the vet for emergency surgery here in VA Beach. They gave her gabapentin, an NSAID, and an antibiotic. She is refusing to take her medication. She got home yesterday, May 18th, at 12pm. I've been crushing up her pills and putting them in water into a syringe, but she's been through so much trauma already, I feel like I'm waterboarding her. (Because she won't open her mouth and I have to force it down and then she cries).
Is there an easier way to get her to take her meds?? She won't eat anything (i.e. cheese or tuna fish or wet food), but she will drink regular, clean, non-laced water.
She just sits there and shakes and whimpers. It's all extremely sad.

Angry birds VR
Bonelab
Baby hands
Battleglide
Beatsaber
Black hole pool
Blade and sorcery: nomad
Contractors
Cosmonious high
Deisim
Fruit ninja
Golf+
Job simulator
Neko atsume Kitty collector
No more rainbows
Out of scale
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Hi, guys! I'm back. I've just finished reading Starset's new novel, A Brief History of the Future, and i really needed to share it.
Some of you may know me from my previous posts on the Starset lore:

In "The Starset lore Part I: Transmissions", I covered the events told in The Prox Transmissions (Starset's first novel) and linked them to the album Transmissions.
In "The Starset lore Part II: DivisionsThe Starset lore Part II: Divisions", I tried to gather the information we had on the new storyline, mainly based on Divisions content (Horizons hadn't released yet by then) and I shared my speculations about its meaning.

Now that I've read this book, I want to sum up what we have now. Keep in mind that, for obvious reasons, this post is all spoiler content. If you plan to read the book(s) I encourage you to do so, because I'm unveiling some of the main "plot-twists" in the second book. I won't be writing a literal summary of the book's plot (I will focus on the content more than in the "drama"), but key elements of it will appear. Also, I'm taking for granted you are already familiar with the contents in The Prox Transmissions -if not, I recommend you reading my post or just dropping this post altogether and go read the book!
If you have already read the books, don't plan to read them or don't care about the spoilers, stay with me along this long post because you will discover much about Divisions, Horizons... and what's coming next!!
Let's go then!
In a unknown year the novel starts in a world dominated by a state called the New East. it's not explicit in the book, but we have reasons to identify the New East with China: it is a current superpower and the powerful people in control have Chinese names. This state is governed by a Governing Committee, composed by Ministers that stay in charge for 5 years, with an exception: the Minister of Security, also known as MinSec. He is the head of the New East's secret police and he is to remain in charge for life.
Prior to 2024, Aston Wise (remember he was one of the protagonists of the previous novel!) is locked up by the US Government. They force him to create the BMI and its Architecture. In 2024, as I have said, the New East manages to obtain it and the big war starts. This part of the story is also explained deeper in a video (called "Initial Debriefing", available in Starset's YouTube channel since September 9th, 2021), with some minor incongruencies:

In the year 2010, the US Defense Advance Research Projects Agency -or DARPA- began work on a neural link system known as the "Brain Machine Interface" developed under the highest levels of secrecy. This technology was to be used in covert espionage campaigns with the goal of giving the US a major advantage in the ever-growing cyber warfare battlefield. The intention was to use the "BMI" on unsuspecting foreign agents, giving US Intelligence a remote line into their minds. Launched in 2020 to great success, the BMI provided a window into the intentions and secrets of numerous potential adversaries. Then, in 2021, a botched operation allowed this technology to fall into the hands of an undisclosed state who would then use it agains the US itself for over a decade. This state -which came to be known as the New East- used this technology to syphon intellectual property and assert control over the US, allowing it to rise swiftly as a global superpower. In the early 2030s, the crippled US launched an attack to the New East. This was quickly thwarted. However, as the New East was fully aware and prepared, in the end, the US and its allies capitulated and became known simply as the New West. Citizens of the New West, now mostly impoverished laborers, were offered BMI implantation -sold on the wonders of its amazing benefits. Eventually though, all were made to comply. Only then did the true goals of the New East become apparent.

The New West is a de facto and de iure protectorate. The New West has its own local police -that dealt with murder and robbery-, but the military and, most important, the Civil Authorities (CA), are controlled by MinSec -focused on thought crime.
Soon after the end of the war, some people were drafted for the reclamation in Virginia by the New East army. This was a forced-labor suicide mission because it was a fallout zone. The goal was the recovery of documents from the US, such as blueprints for advanced weapons and intel. Those who survived, developed NeuroTIDS (neural tissue interface degeneration syndrome) because of the radiation.
Once in control of the US (now New West), the New East implanted into all citizens the BMI. Now, people deal with three layers of reality: unaltered reality (UR), augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). Considering the BMI, there are three states:

BMI glowing white (normal state: people are in UR with elements of AR).
BMI glowing blue (also called frosting: people are in VR having some pleasant experience, while looking absent and apathetic in the outside). See an example of person frosting in the Diving Bell music video.
BMI glowing red (also called supplication).

(There also exists the Everything Machine in this storyline. Indeed, people ate only printed food, as real food as reserved for the New East).
On top of this, there’s an intelligent algorythm or artificial intelligence in the Architecture, called the Overseer. It is capable of detecting thought crimes by accessing a person's sensory input and also altering their perceptions (for example, blurring texts from banned books). When a thought crime is detected, CAs intervene and turn the perpetrator into a supplicant. Supplicants are stuck in VR prisons while their bodies wander in the streets or are collected and put into "corrals". See an example of a supplication facility in Where the Skies Ends music video.
The protectorate of the New East upon the New West is mantained thanks to the Quantum Comunicator, which keeps both connected and also connected to the Architecture
On the other hand, there's a rebel network still in function. They manage to meet and develop their plans by modding their BMIs, so that they become undetectable under the eyes of the Overseer. Their plan is to trap the MinSec and use their credentials to get access to the Architecture and destroy it from the inside.
(In Manifest music video you can see examples of people frosting, people supplicated, the modding minor surgery, the rebels, the CAs using their "freezing" weapons and supplicating civilians and a bigwig from the New East, maybe the MinSec himself).
Also, it is said that the New East didn't manage to conquer all the Old West (US) territories. There's rumours about the socalled Western Territories, free land where some former rebels already live, though its real existence it's in never confirmed in book. In The Breach music video we can see how a family leaving in the New West takes the opportunity of escaping into the Western Territories during some sort of shutdown.
The New West capital is established in Philadelphia, where the events in A Brief History of the Future are set. Here's the Quantum Communication Center and the New West Center for Advanced Innovation (CAI), where the most brilliant programming students are sent to develop their skills and work for the New West/East. One of this students is one of the protagonists of this book, Thomas Bell (again, someone whose name we are already familiar...), who quickly proves to be the best one and gets to be chosen as the Director's assistant. Eventually we get to discover the Director is Aston Wise and later on we find out he is the Architect himself.
A feature or app of the BMI that will reveal crucial to the plot is the Shadowcast: one can frost but, instead of being conscious in a VR, "enters" inside a celebrity's mind for an hour and experiences all they are experiencing live (the user is passive and can only perceive, but not intervene or influence the shadowcast celebrity into doing anything). You can see an example of this in Symbiotic music video, where the user is finally able to successfully Occupy the body of the celebrity. In the book, when this happens, the person occupied has their BMI turned purple.
In the book, Occupation will be a tool used by Bell and Wise, but also by the government, in an attempt of using the supplicated bodies to their own purposes. The original project launched by the New East and commissioned to the Director of the CAI (Aston Wise), was called by Wise himself 'Project X'. New East wanted to present it to the citizens as a way of emancipating from work: while working, you can let yourself be occupied by the Overseer, who wil perform your job while you can be having fun in VR. In Icarus music video you can see an ad made by the New East to promote the "benefits" of this technology (called Werk here); the other ads are based on previous BMI technology (AR, VR and Shadowcast). (Fun fact: have you noticed that the actor in 3:12 is the same from the Ricochet music video?).
As I said in the beginning, it is not my goal to sum up the book's plot and even though I have already spoiled you much info and some plot-twists, I'm not telling you here how the story of the protagonists develops and how it ends. However, I can't refrain from telling you this: the last page of the book has a QR that redirects to a video that has me really excited.
In the video, we see a man. He tells us it is 2048. In spring 2026, the New East took over the US. But... guess who's back! Oh, yes, the Order! Or rather they were there all along. In fact, the man who's talking to us is Stephen Browning! On July 4th of 2026, after the New East invasion, the Order tried to launch a spacerocket to get to "a lonely planet" (Prox!), but it was intercepted by the New East and then the army destroyed their base, so they lost all hope in a future on another planet. However, they managed to hide a "time mechanism" (I guess the same they had in The Prox Transmissions) and, finally, sent a message to 2024, warning us about this future that awaits us. Then he sais:

Dear Order friends, the time has finally arrived. We're headed to space. We're going go Prox.

This announcement matches Starset's video from six months ago ("It begins. And it ends. Now."), where we see images of astronauts and spacerockets, evoking space travel. Wow! Did you miss that "space-y" aesthetic, plots and sound from Transmissions and Vessels? Because it sounds like we're getting them back! Note that at the end of this video, the three dots of the BMI are occupied by three symbols:

The bottom one is the symbol of the Order, appears at the beginning of each chapter in The Prox Transmissions.
The middle one is the symbol of Divisions album, I'd say it's a symbol of the rebels.
The top one is... unknown? It is quite similar to me to the symbol in Faultline, but I guess it represents the "following chapter"? Who knows.

It also matches the music video for Starset's last single, Brave New Word! And there's more news: the end of the video linked in A Brief History Of the Future ends with a "to be continued in Spring 2025".
So... Again, there are some questions left unanswered (and I love that!): How are both books linked? Are they the same Aston Wise and Thomas Bell, but in an alternative timeline? From where will the story continue? (The Order in 2048 colonising Prox?). I'm soooo excited to learn what's coming next and to listen Starset's next album (I love Brave New World).
Let me know about your impressions, opinions, theories... feel free to add any info I could have missed, to correct any piece I could be mistaken about, etc. Thank you so much for your attention (I literally created this account only to write these Starset lore posts I feel very invested to and English isn't even my first or second language), I hope you enjoyed it and found it useful!!

I tried calling my lawyers office, he’s out until Monday. I called non emergency police and they said legally he’s in his rights to enter due to the 24h entry notice clause in the lease (but a complete jerk per the dispatcher).
I’m just so distraught, hysterical and a mess. LL is coming with multiple strangers for showings in an hour and a half and I could really use some help and guidance.
The unit is not even available to be rented until July 1 (today is May 19th). So it’s not like it’s urgent to show the unit TODAY. Has 4 total applications on Zillow (one of the 4 has already toured and declined) again none of this seems unreasonable to ask him to reschedule for another day….
Text from my LL to give an idea of who I’m working with here after repeatedly begging him to reschedule as I’m hysterical and not appropriate for visitors.
“Right on, so if that’s how you want to play it: I WILL BE THERE AT 9:30 TOMORROW I have given you notice and will enter the property. I will be there until 10:30. How you choose to conduct yourself at that time is up to you. See you tomorrow morning!!”
Any help or guidance is appreciated, currently I am not in a stable state to drive a vehicle and leave, also I have no family or friends locally to stay with.
I notified him about my dog going into ER surgery yesterday afternoon and needing to reschedule the showing due to the crisis and my dogs prognosis being poor. This LL is horrible and I’ve had multiple issues with him in the past and very happy my lease is finally ending soon.
UPDATE: he’s here, LL met with a guy out front and walked him through the unit. Then LL started doing a Virtual/FaceTime showing and the first guy wished me condolences told me he was LL’s maintenance worker just walking through to see what work is to be done when I move out and get it ready for the next tenant…… so he was not a potential tenant at all, LL failed to communicate or inform me of having any maintenance or inspections on top of the showings today.
So to clarify the type of person I’m dealing with here thinks it’s cool to blatantly lie to me about who is entering the space and has no problem refusing to reschedule giving FaceTime VIRTUAL HOUSE TOURS THE MORNING AFTER MY DOG DIED all while I’m sobbing uncontrollably on the couch hiding my face in my hands.
is this the anger stage of grief?? I have so much rage I think I might spontaneously combust, catch on fire and burn this whole f*ing world down.

Hi, 45 (f) here. My question might feel a bit tangent-y, so bear with me. Long story short, four years ago, after a myriad of unsuccessful fertility treatments, had some big fibroids and endometriosis removed via robotic surgery. Felt pretty good for awhile, cycles okay. In about 2022, severe anxiety over nothing set in along with bad insomnia, attributed it to perimenopause. I called my Obgyn who promptly put me on medroxyprogesterone (Provera) day 14-23 of my cycle. Said it would level out my estrogen and moods. Worked well for awhile, cycles even lightened up. Moods improved by t the problem was I was getting my period on day 22/23 every month. Basically two weeks of freedom and then a 6-7 day bleed. It was getting annoying. Earlier this year, an MRI for my back found a large cyst on my ovary. Had my old surgeon (different from my regular obgyn) look at it via ultrasound and he said no rush but eventually he’d like to take it out, along with the ovary and half my uterus (basically a hysterectomy). He also told me, due to my age and breast cancer risk factors, he wants me OFF the medroxyprogesterone (don’t you love it when your two trusted docs completely contradict each other)
So about 4 cycles ago, I stopped using the medroxyprogesterone. My first cycle after stopping was 31 days, second was 23, third was 24 and fourth 34 days!!!! I have always been right on the money (prior to the medroxyprogesterone) 28 day cycle with very little variance.
Plus now my periods are unbearably heavy; lots of clots and heavy bleeding for 4-5 days, rendering me exhausted. My moods and anxiety are still okay. I put myself on a ton of supplements (ashwaghanda, fish oil, magnesium, echinacea, elderberry, turmeric and some mushrooms) and seem to be doing fine mentally. My pms/pmdd symptoms are not awful.
I guess my question is; does anyone have any experiences with the medroxyprogesterone (Provera) 10 day dose? Are the erratic and heavy periods simply a side effect of withdrawal or is this just perimenopause/menopause rearing its head. I am considering the hysterectomy but as someone who once wanted and never had kids, it is a final nail in the coffin that I really need to wrap my head around, though I know at 45, the likelihood of having a child is pretty slim but still a big decision nevertheless.

Virtual fish surgery

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