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PlayStation Plus
2012.06.05 08:24 Feueradler9 PlayStation Plus
/PlayStationPlus has everything you need to know about the PlayStation Plus (PS+) service.
2020.01.23 08:08 ooglar VALORANT
VALORANT™ is a free to play 5v5, character-based tactical shooter by Riot Games.
2009.11.18 22:36 rednightmare Looking For Group
LFG is a place for tabletop gamers to organize groups for the games they love to play.
2024.05.19 19:51 Exile1965 Patience and perspective, please.
I apologize for the long rant but all the negativity is such a buzz kill and I had get a few things off my chest.
Some of you need to stop with the negativity. The nasty, denigrating comments about Boston, Wheeler, Sides, etc. has to stop.
It's game 3, not including preseason. Give the team time to get into a rhythm with Clark. The WNBA has never seen a player who plays like Clark, and that fact cannot be underestimated.
Her skill sets are unique and its a matter of finding a system where she can work within a team and still be herself. No other team in this league has ever had a player like this, or this kind of challenge. They've built winning cultures by playing a more traditional, conventional style of play.
Her teammates' challenge is to adjust to her style of playing, which is faster, more free-style than what we generally see in the WNBA, and that's why you can't take your eyes off of her, even when she misses shots.
You're expecting her teammates to suddenly become Clark clones. Her Iowa teammates were not superhuman, and it took 3, 4 years to learn how to acclimate to her style, that didn't happen overnight and they were often struggled to keep up with her, yes, even Martin.
Boston was Rookie of the Year last year. Sides is in her second year as HC. Mitchell is coming off an injury. Temi has been in practice for 2 weeks.
And Wheeler is a gem: deep-diving into old interviews, you get a sense of her character and integrity as a player and of her knowledge about the game and how to navigate on and off.
I found this quote from her after she was brought back to Indiana and being on a struggling team.
"There's always better out there but do you want to get out and see what's better or take a route that may be tough, but will make you a better person? A lot of people want it easy, a lot of people don't want to go through the bumps and bruises to get to where they want to be."
Do some of you ever consider that mentorship doesn't always show up in stats or on the court? Clark is already a phenomenal player, that comes easy to her, and its always come easy for her. Learning from someone with personal integrity, who has experienced adversity can be valuable to Clark as a human. That's what they mean by building a culture.
Stop diminishing her value to this team because she missed a few shots.
Give this coach and team a grace period to figure out how to build a team around her where she can elevate the sport. Once they find that recipe, you will be rewarded for your patience.
And doesn't want to root for an underdog team? Its so much more rewarding when it finally comes together.
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Some of you need to stop with the negativity. The nasty, denigrating comments about Boston, Wheeler, Sides, etc. has to stop.
It's game 3, not including preseason. Give the team time to get into a rhythm with Clark. The WNBA has never seen a player who plays like Clark, and that fact cannot be underestimated.
Her skill sets are unique and its a matter of finding a system where she can work within a team and still be herself. No other team in this league has ever had a player like this, or this kind of challenge. They've built winning cultures by playing a more traditional, conventional style of play.
Her teammates' challenge is to adjust to her style of playing, which is faster, more free-style than what we generally see in the WNBA, and that's why you can't take your eyes off of her, even when she misses shots.
You're expecting her teammates to suddenly become Clark clones. Her Iowa teammates were not superhuman, and it took 3, 4 years to learn how to acclimate to her style, that didn't happen overnight and they were often struggled to keep up with her, yes, even Martin.
Boston was Rookie of the Year last year. Sides is in her second year as HC. Mitchell is coming off an injury. Temi has been in practice for 2 weeks.
And Wheeler is a gem: deep-diving into old interviews, you get a sense of her character and integrity as a player and of her knowledge about the game and how to navigate on and off.
I found this quote from her after she was brought back to Indiana and being on a struggling team.
"There's always better out there but do you want to get out and see what's better or take a route that may be tough, but will make you a better person? A lot of people want it easy, a lot of people don't want to go through the bumps and bruises to get to where they want to be."
Do some of you ever consider that mentorship doesn't always show up in stats or on the court? Clark is already a phenomenal player, that comes easy to her, and its always come easy for her. Learning from someone with personal integrity, who has experienced adversity can be valuable to Clark as a human. That's what they mean by building a culture.
Stop diminishing her value to this team because she missed a few shots.
Give this coach and team a grace period to figure out how to build a team around her where she can elevate the sport. Once they find that recipe, you will be rewarded for your patience.
And doesn't want to root for an underdog team? Its so much more rewarding when it finally comes together.
2024.05.19 19:51 Beerfoodbeer Post series injury reports
I'm sure I'm not the only one who looks forward with horroamazement and to hearing the absolutely nutty shit players played through at this time of the year.
Player A was shot in the head and chest during game 7 but still managed a 80 point season Player B had both his arms amputated but still fi wished 9th in Norris voting
Hockey players are just built different
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Player A was shot in the head and chest during game 7 but still managed a 80 point season Player B had both his arms amputated but still fi wished 9th in Norris voting
Hockey players are just built different
2024.05.19 19:50 QuilletyTales My 11 year-old recently told me they are non-binary - advice?
TL;DR: 11 year old recently announced they are non-binary. Do you have advice/tips for my kid and me (the parent)? Also looking for fun stuff that makes them feel proud and part of a community.
Hi,
My apologies if this isn't a proper forum for my post.
I'm a parent not very involved in the LGBTQ2s+ community but not completely clueless. My kid told me casually the other day that they are not a boy or a girl. They told their friends already but not the adults (school, friends' parents etc.) I am using neutral pronouns and I correct myself when I slip (I still make mistakes, it's been a week). The issue is that I have to switch back and forth because the other adults don't know and if I say "they" well, I am telling everyone, so with the other adults and strangers I use he/him. My kid said that's fine and asked that I continue that way. Is that something I should be concerned about? I offered to talk with the school teacher at least, but they declined so I figured I would just follow their lead.
I have no idea what kind of challenges and opportunities await a young kid who is aware and proud of their non-binary identity.
I looked up lots of websites and blogs online but a lot of resources relate to name changes and legal and physical transition. My kid, who hasn't hit puberty yet, isn't worried or sad about their body (other than wanting more upper-body strength). They don't want to change their name either. They do care about their looks and their true identity.
Do you have advice for the parents, like Dos and Don'ts? Also advice for my kid to navigate this time in their life?
They asked about the meaning of LGBTQ+ and during the discussion we looked at the LGBTQ2s+ flags and the non-binary flag and we discussed pride: their eyes started shining with excitement. They are only 11 years old and the social opportunities offered by advocacy groups in our area aren't available for them. They would have loved to join an LGBTQ2s+ group of tweens and young teens to play video games, shoot hoops, and skateboard. Do you have any advice on websites to check out, video games, youtube channels, streamers, books, comic-books, movies, TV-Show that may help them feel part of a community? ideally fun stuff at this point.
They are into Hilda, Nemona, Owl House, Gravity Falls, My Hero Academia, Amazing Digital Circus, Fortnite, Fall Guys, Minecraft and a bunch of obscure and often cute or silly stuff that I couldn't name :D
Thanks a lot.
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Hi,
My apologies if this isn't a proper forum for my post.
I'm a parent not very involved in the LGBTQ2s+ community but not completely clueless. My kid told me casually the other day that they are not a boy or a girl. They told their friends already but not the adults (school, friends' parents etc.) I am using neutral pronouns and I correct myself when I slip (I still make mistakes, it's been a week). The issue is that I have to switch back and forth because the other adults don't know and if I say "they" well, I am telling everyone, so with the other adults and strangers I use he/him. My kid said that's fine and asked that I continue that way. Is that something I should be concerned about? I offered to talk with the school teacher at least, but they declined so I figured I would just follow their lead.
I have no idea what kind of challenges and opportunities await a young kid who is aware and proud of their non-binary identity.
I looked up lots of websites and blogs online but a lot of resources relate to name changes and legal and physical transition. My kid, who hasn't hit puberty yet, isn't worried or sad about their body (other than wanting more upper-body strength). They don't want to change their name either. They do care about their looks and their true identity.
Do you have advice for the parents, like Dos and Don'ts? Also advice for my kid to navigate this time in their life?
They asked about the meaning of LGBTQ+ and during the discussion we looked at the LGBTQ2s+ flags and the non-binary flag and we discussed pride: their eyes started shining with excitement. They are only 11 years old and the social opportunities offered by advocacy groups in our area aren't available for them. They would have loved to join an LGBTQ2s+ group of tweens and young teens to play video games, shoot hoops, and skateboard. Do you have any advice on websites to check out, video games, youtube channels, streamers, books, comic-books, movies, TV-Show that may help them feel part of a community? ideally fun stuff at this point.
They are into Hilda, Nemona, Owl House, Gravity Falls, My Hero Academia, Amazing Digital Circus, Fortnite, Fall Guys, Minecraft and a bunch of obscure and often cute or silly stuff that I couldn't name :D
Thanks a lot.
2024.05.19 19:48 beyondbirthday261 I just finished Castle Dimitrescu and I'm blown away
This is the first RE game I've ever played, and I was kinda hesitant to get into it since I'm not really a fan of shooters, nor played a proper horror game before.
I wanted to give this a try after watching the story and gameplay of RE7 BioHazard, I fell in love with the story and really wanted to try out RE Village myself (excluding the fact that I've got hots for Lady Dimitrescu but that's besides the point).
I traversed through the castle, exploring dungeons, hidden rooms, courtyards, reading through journals etc., and my, oh, my, I really fell in love with the place. I've always been a fan of victorian and gothic era themes, and this was just icing on the cake for me. I've had to stop several times just to admire the beauty of the place, the beautiful, luscious portraits of Lady Dimitrescu, the bloody ablution room, the wine cellar, the rooftop, the courtyard... Not to mention the random encounters with the three daughters, it was so lovely.
I really have no complains for this area. Because of my busy schedule, I didn't realize that I only spent like 3 hours in the castle, it certainly felt way longer to me, it never felt repetitive, and I kinda did not want this to end lol.
But yeah, I had to nail the daughters to the point of obliteration, and my beloved mistress too 😭.
And ah, now we can't go back to the castle ever again. How tragic.
This castle certainly got me hooked to the story, about what really happened to Rose, what is the true origin of Lady Dimitrescu and the other siblings, Mother Miranda... Not to mention, there has to be a reason why Chris Redfield was in such a hurry to take down our family and Ethan and Rose into custody... And the fact that during one of the encounters with Lady Dimitrescu, she literally slices his hand off, and to which he later simply pours medicine and it miraculously reattaches itself??? Yeah, not buying it, and not to mention the fact that Ethan is really, really tough, even for a pretty strong human being. So there is something sus definitely going on with him lol.
Oh yeah, also when I got back to the village, there were several military corpses, and there was also a computer set-up near one of the checkpoints inside a shelter, where it shows that they are trying to get into contact with Ethan again. Truly interesting.
And I wanted to know, are the other levels just as good as Caste Dimitrescu, or a step down, or even better
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I wanted to give this a try after watching the story and gameplay of RE7 BioHazard, I fell in love with the story and really wanted to try out RE Village myself (excluding the fact that I've got hots for Lady Dimitrescu but that's besides the point).
I traversed through the castle, exploring dungeons, hidden rooms, courtyards, reading through journals etc., and my, oh, my, I really fell in love with the place. I've always been a fan of victorian and gothic era themes, and this was just icing on the cake for me. I've had to stop several times just to admire the beauty of the place, the beautiful, luscious portraits of Lady Dimitrescu, the bloody ablution room, the wine cellar, the rooftop, the courtyard... Not to mention the random encounters with the three daughters, it was so lovely.
I really have no complains for this area. Because of my busy schedule, I didn't realize that I only spent like 3 hours in the castle, it certainly felt way longer to me, it never felt repetitive, and I kinda did not want this to end lol.
But yeah, I had to nail the daughters to the point of obliteration, and my beloved mistress too 😭.
And ah, now we can't go back to the castle ever again. How tragic.
This castle certainly got me hooked to the story, about what really happened to Rose, what is the true origin of Lady Dimitrescu and the other siblings, Mother Miranda... Not to mention, there has to be a reason why Chris Redfield was in such a hurry to take down our family and Ethan and Rose into custody... And the fact that during one of the encounters with Lady Dimitrescu, she literally slices his hand off, and to which he later simply pours medicine and it miraculously reattaches itself??? Yeah, not buying it, and not to mention the fact that Ethan is really, really tough, even for a pretty strong human being. So there is something sus definitely going on with him lol.
Oh yeah, also when I got back to the village, there were several military corpses, and there was also a computer set-up near one of the checkpoints inside a shelter, where it shows that they are trying to get into contact with Ethan again. Truly interesting.
And I wanted to know, are the other levels just as good as Caste Dimitrescu, or a step down, or even better
2024.05.19 19:48 YasinAhmetAkson What do you folk think about Ghost of Tsushima? I'm specifically asking to Shogun 2 players
I'm gonna drop my thoughts here, you don't really have to read them if you don't care my opinion. But I would be happy if you vote on the poll.
Hi there! I am a big fan of Akira Kurosawa and Sengoku Jidai period Japan. I've watched Yojimbo, Ran, Seven Samurais and so on. I have been playing Shogun 2 for years and I always had a great love for old Japan culture because of these contents. My favorite strategy game is Shogun 2 far now, just because how every piece of it fits well to the game. The lands, the scenario, the mechanics..
And I tried Ghost of Tsushima today. It's really a different kind of game, but it was a great reminder of what made me like Shogun 2. The game's gameplay is literally out of Yojimbo. Everyone is mortal in this game, as it is in Shogun 2(I'm excluding hero units, lol). I'm not the type of a try-hard person on video games, but I like realism. These two games provided a perfect point of gameplay between realism and casual to me.
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Hi there! I am a big fan of Akira Kurosawa and Sengoku Jidai period Japan. I've watched Yojimbo, Ran, Seven Samurais and so on. I have been playing Shogun 2 for years and I always had a great love for old Japan culture because of these contents. My favorite strategy game is Shogun 2 far now, just because how every piece of it fits well to the game. The lands, the scenario, the mechanics..
And I tried Ghost of Tsushima today. It's really a different kind of game, but it was a great reminder of what made me like Shogun 2. The game's gameplay is literally out of Yojimbo. Everyone is mortal in this game, as it is in Shogun 2(I'm excluding hero units, lol). I'm not the type of a try-hard person on video games, but I like realism. These two games provided a perfect point of gameplay between realism and casual to me.
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2024.05.19 19:45 Ultra_CqMage2 Idea New knowledge of Culture: Cultural Dances
 | I realized something: in WorldBox we don't have Traditions and Cultural Manifestations, so this idea will talk about Dances, this Knowledge is when Civilizations have Houses level 5, and in certain months it can be 2 to 3 months or even a big party From 4 to 6 months, in each culture everyone will have new clothes to dance, in these festivals, in addition to influencing the economy, it influences the emotions of Citizens and the entire kingdom or village gains a cultural bonus during the period of the cultural dance festival: +7 points of intelligence, and also depending on the festival more children will be born , in the images there are some examples of inspiration to create Cultural Dance styles, also a good culture is not good without its Tourist Building where if you look at it you can already see which country it is from, ~Tourist Buildings~ ([ They they need a building that shows their cultural identity]) ~Cultural Parties~ (a good culture needs good fun). And I really wish the 6th Image was Referenced in the Game XDDDDD. submitted by Ultra_CqMage2 to Worldbox [link] [comments] [Cultures can Merge Dances to make new dances.] |
2024.05.19 19:44 moose1207 Bluetooth affected by thunderstorms
Hey everyone. I am having a weird problem and I have no idea how to start troubleshooting this.
During storms blueman crashes and restarts. This does not happen during clear weather or on a regular basis. If playing a game my controller disconnects and I immediately hear thunder afterwards. While typing this message my keyboard and mouse will stop working and I can see the Bluetooth in the tray reset, then I hear thunder.
I have been dealing with this problem for a few months now - just so I can make sure I am not crazy, this really ONLY happens during thunderstorms.
My Computer is in the garage, Bluetooth is connected to a powered hub, plugged into a USB 2.0 Active cable (80 FT through attic) Bluetooth adapter is approximately 6 feet away from me. Is there a way to shield this? Where should I even begin on this?
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During storms blueman crashes and restarts. This does not happen during clear weather or on a regular basis. If playing a game my controller disconnects and I immediately hear thunder afterwards. While typing this message my keyboard and mouse will stop working and I can see the Bluetooth in the tray reset, then I hear thunder.
I have been dealing with this problem for a few months now - just so I can make sure I am not crazy, this really ONLY happens during thunderstorms.
My Computer is in the garage, Bluetooth is connected to a powered hub, plugged into a USB 2.0 Active cable (80 FT through attic) Bluetooth adapter is approximately 6 feet away from me. Is there a way to shield this? Where should I even begin on this?
2024.05.19 19:43 Drewsko199 "Memory Interrupted" Won't Start: Possible glitch causes?
In my current (first PC) run, I was keen to follow through the Railroad quests up to a point before ultimately siding with the Brotherhood; doing the Memory Interrupted sidequest was part of that as I did at least want closure with runaway synth H2-22 and potentially exploit the outcome of Glory dying during the sidequest for a bit of roleplaying spice (IE my Sole Survivor intentionally having her die to sabotage the Railroad for later). However several in/out-of game hours later and despite doing the documented prerequisites (both Butcher's Bill quests alongside Boston After Dark), the quest has yet to start, and I'm getting a little annoyed I won't be able to do this. I've twice done a documented trick of clearing out Malden Center prematurely to force the "Speak to Desdemona" goal to jumpstart the quest, but so far no luck.
For the record I was given Operation Ticonderoga before I ended up finishing the Butcher's Bill questline. I don't know if it's documented or not if that quest is supposed to interfere with Memory Interrupted due to the snag it would logically put on H2-22's questline, or otherwise glitchiness with the setpieces meant to play out in Railroad HQ are snagging things up (Only in trying to double-check older saves did I get the cutscene of Desdemona informing the group of my infiltration of the Institute; have not encountered this organically). Beyond that I do note that during Boston After Dark I got through the full conversation tree with H2 regarding his past while in the church and as High-Rise showed up, as opposed to at the safehouse proper. I dunno if skipping talking to him there could've been another factor.
Anyone else encounter difficulties or just plain not getting the quest, even on a Railroad ending run? Wondering how much I'm alone here; I've spotted a couple of forum/reddit posts about not getting the quest and there seems to be a handful. I'm doubtful I want to go back in my saves/hours just to fix the quest as I've made a couple of jumps/settlement build accomplishments that I dread having to do all over again. If I can't nudge the trigger I'm willing to play with console commands, but I understand they're a bit dicey to try.
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For the record I was given Operation Ticonderoga before I ended up finishing the Butcher's Bill questline. I don't know if it's documented or not if that quest is supposed to interfere with Memory Interrupted due to the snag it would logically put on H2-22's questline, or otherwise glitchiness with the setpieces meant to play out in Railroad HQ are snagging things up (Only in trying to double-check older saves did I get the cutscene of Desdemona informing the group of my infiltration of the Institute; have not encountered this organically). Beyond that I do note that during Boston After Dark I got through the full conversation tree with H2 regarding his past while in the church and as High-Rise showed up, as opposed to at the safehouse proper. I dunno if skipping talking to him there could've been another factor.
Anyone else encounter difficulties or just plain not getting the quest, even on a Railroad ending run? Wondering how much I'm alone here; I've spotted a couple of forum/reddit posts about not getting the quest and there seems to be a handful. I'm doubtful I want to go back in my saves/hours just to fix the quest as I've made a couple of jumps/settlement build accomplishments that I dread having to do all over again. If I can't nudge the trigger I'm willing to play with console commands, but I understand they're a bit dicey to try.
2024.05.19 19:40 Aggravating-Bug-8244 List of "actions" on Steam
I played a certain game - a demo, during Steam Fest in February this year. At that time the game was not available (pre-release demo). Is there a way to check the "actions" taken on the account? I uninstalled it at the time, and it also does not find it in the list of games in the library. Or is it possible that somewhere on the computer there is a list of local files with the names of games I have ever installed from steam? I am not looking here for that game, only the "list of actions" on Steam or something similar (Facebook does have that).
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2024.05.19 19:38 dnelson2408 Summary of this channel, data, and news for the last 3 weeks.
 | Afternoon all, submitted by dnelson2408 to RILYStock [link] [comments] I thought it might be fun to try and take the last three weeks and have a recap of the data and news surrounding RILY. I just searched this sub and news outlets and such for the last 3 weeks and took notes then fed them into an AI software asking it to summarize everything. In no way is this Financial Advice just a fun task. "The financial landscape for B. Riley Financial, Inc. showcases a dynamic narrative of operational resilience and strategic positioning. The company's recent activities reflect a strategic focus on managing debt obligations effectively while optimizing business segments for sustainable growth. The strategic review process for Great American Group retail liquidation and appraisal businesses is progressing, indicating a commitment to enhancing operational efficiency and value creation. In the earnings summary, a net loss of $51 million was reported, primarily driven by investment-related losses and professional services expenses. Despite these challenges, the company's strategic initiatives and operational performance remain robust, as highlighted in the earnings call. Executives Bryant Riley and Tom Kelleher emphasized the company's operational excellence and strategic direction, underscoring a commitment to shareholder value and sustainable growth. The company's strategic reviews and commitment to shareholder value remain steadfast amidst market volatility caused by short manipulation. Furthermore, the full redemption of $25,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 6.75% Senior Notes due 2024 signifies a proactive approach to managing debt and strengthening the company's financial position. This strategic move aligns with the company's focus on optimizing its capital structure and enhancing financial flexibility. Overall, B. Riley Financial's narrative is one of resilience, strategic foresight, and operational excellence in navigating market dynamics and challenges. The company's commitment to financial prudence, strategic reviews, and operational performance positions it well for sustained growth and value creation in the evolving financial landscape." Below is the data the AI used to create the summary. Just copy and pasted from a very quick and crude gathering of information into a word doc. I also enjoyed the earnings summary the AI did. The last line made me feel happy thoughts. - In summary, B. Riley Financial's first-quarter 2024 results underscore its strong operational foundation and strategic foresight, positioning it well for future growth and shareholder value creation. 1. Cohodes being loud and classless examples https://preview.redd.it/xymj94vp5f1d1.png?width=637&format=png&auto=webp&s=3d9f18f4f877f7fb518039bc78198e77e3fcd190 https://preview.redd.it/bxacg0bp5f1d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=9a4eba6a4a39457cc47661be5836008976b37fc6 https://preview.redd.it/q5kdr5qo5f1d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=14dcb5473ed7dcac4646eaba2b983806f32bd875 https://preview.redd.it/ky1hlc1o5f1d1.png?width=789&format=png&auto=webp&s=4c603719820d06ea91d9181ad3c41734a603b795 https://preview.redd.it/soco7bjn5f1d1.png?width=969&format=png&auto=webp&s=dfbcf20f984e391c51afcc89e46597d1d9dff6ad https://preview.redd.it/pwbnnwwr5f1d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=fe06146b727540c291825eda8db5f33b11e9e992 2. Discussion about FUD and shorts deception I see the shorts (Marc Cohoded and Co.) are still at it, trying to l use a fake psychological twist to cause doubt. Let's stick to the facts and let the price go where it will in the long term. Short thesis was and is there was fraud, both proven wrong by independent investigation and a clean independent audit if the 10-K and now 10-Q. You can slap that one around anyway you want, but both came up clean. First, they have stated their intentions of a sale of a carried undervalued asset (Great American) by a third party for a massive realized gain. Good for the investors and bond holders as they said they would use funds to deleveverage the balance sheet and buy back stock which already has very little float. Second, I have never seen a company that is paying dividends go under whith out, completely eliminating the dividends first (RILY still pays a dividend and baby bonds are all current--none are in any default). Third, business has been good with lots of new hires, new capital makets raises and fees and their business seems to be thriving. Shorts will try to mislead all of us with their lies and deciept but if we hold strong I believe that the stock will go to at least 50 ish in the short term where they did their secondary. I believe at that point, RILY may run into a bit of resistance. However, a squeeze could easily send us through that to new highs. Patience is the key as they have stated all this in their press releases in the recent past. If we al on this sitel just buy 100 to 1000 shares on Monday and hld through the 29th to get the dividends. this will rocket to new heights. This is not a recommendation, simply my thoughts. Do your own due diligence. 3.Stop lending shares=pain for shorts = short squeeze If all longs can stop lending shares at least I believe we can cause shorts to cover. There is no valid short narrative, both longs and shorts know this. Now it’s purely who can hold out longer. Shorts have been very active as of late trying to push share price lower and with many of us loaning shares out we are actually helping the shorts hurt us. I believe if we stopped lending out shares borrow rate skyrockets and that added cost combined with dividend and gradual upward movement will force shorts to cover. Granted news release can help but we don’t need news we just need to stop lending and wait and see. 4. Smoking Gun: Thursday dropped because shorts borrowed and sold 724K shares (with 2MM total volume) and 447K on Wednesday (with 1.3MM total volume). They're trying to drive price down, induce panic, get folks to sell, and buy back shares at a super low price. https://preview.redd.it/hopdxkbt5f1d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=3945adf69a00addb0c2da4ea0c26b2a4de2749b3 5. Article showing RILY coming back https://www.investmentnews.com/broker-dealers/news/b-riley-bouncing-back-after-tough-winter-253448 6. Rily - Day 3 of short attactks - There's a positive Our favorite shorts cohodes&co is on overdrive releasing as much fake accusations as possible, they now have been adding a lot to their position at a higher price point with shares in the 30s, now the shorts cost basis has gotten worse for them. With more shares at a worst cost with dividends coming due as well as borrow fees , shorts have less wiggle room especially if stock goes to 40 again. Now at 40 I believe they will be losing money. With insiders hopefully buying soon and the company continuing their share buy back program , that can lead to upward movement in share price leading to the “squeeze “. 7. $RILY Earnings Summary Not financial advice. It was an interesting investor call, an almost boring call which was refreshing. The company had a net loss of $51m driven by non-cash items including $29m unrealized loss on investments and a $30m fair value adjustment on their loans. Cash flows were pretty good, with operating cash flows of $135m and adjusted operating EBITDA of $66m. Targus and American Freight contributed nothing this quarter, both companies are historically strong businesses but have been working through a business cycle post-COVID after many Americans bought the things they needed. Those companies should improve in the next year. The company previously announced a potential sale of Great American Group. Q-1 earnings for that segment increased to $35m of EBITDA, so at 10-12x a potential sale is looking like $350-$420m. On the call they said that is expected by early Q3. They also mentioned possibly looking at a sale in their Brands division later this year with the goal of retiring their discounted debt, citing it as an opportunity. The short thesis crumbled last month with a clean 10-K and two internal investigations which added an additional $7m in expense but presumably were quite thorough and completely debunked claims by bears. There are no shares available to borrow per Fintel: https://preview.redd.it/ukhk0tou5f1d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=0622973216e0293d7f2699c1b6eee3216824305e And short interest remains at approximately 65% with 9 million shares short, though the retail float is thought to be much smaller, maybe 2m shares. The company has $34m available at quarter end for buybacks from a previously approved program. I see value here, and I liked what I heard on the call. 8. Misconceptions - Rily Share Structure [THIS POST IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY] mumen_rida There seems to be a lot of confusion about the company’s share structure and I would like to use this post to help not only my own understanding but also help others. It’s a bit confusing but let’s tackle it together. I got this information from marketwatch: Total Float = 30 million shares Public float = 16 million shares Shares sold short = 9 million shares % of public float sold short = 56.38% According to fintel: Institutional ownership = 14.18 million shares So let me get this straight, there is 16 million shares in the public float and institutions own 89% of that (14.18 million shares). So that would mean retail investors collectively only have about 1.82 million shares to trade around amongst ourselves. Let’s call that retail float. So, retail float = 1.82 million shares. Let’s wrap up all the most important information (imo) regarding the current share structure and please correct me if any of the information I presented here today is false: Total float = 30m Public float = 16m Shares short = 9m Retail float = 1.82m Where I think it gets the most interesting is when you divide shares short by retail float. 9/1.82= 4.95 or 495% of retail float. Hope this helps clear up any confusion regarding the share structure. REPSONSE TO THIS BELOW EnvironmentalBreak48 •3d ago THIS RESPONSE IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. NFA. Do your own DD, make your own decisions. Based on OP calculation. 1. Total Float: About 30 million shares. 2. Public Float: 16 million shares. 3. Shares Sold Short: 9 million shares. 4. % of Public Float Sold Short: 56.38%. 5. Institutional Ownership: 14.18 million shares. 6. Retail Float: 1.82 million shares (calculated as Public Float - Institutional Ownership). Given this information: Understanding Short Interest· Shares Sold Short: About 9 million shares.· Retail Float: 1.82 million shares. · Short Interest as a Percentage of Retail Float: 9 million shares/1.82 million shares≈495% This high percentage indicates that the short interest is nearly five times the available retail float, which could lead to a short squeeze if investors hold onto their shares and/or demand increases. Days to Cover (Short Interest Ratio)The Days to Cover metric gives an estimate of how many days it would take for short sellers to cover their positions based on the average daily trading volume. Here’s how to calculate it:1. Determine the average daily trading volume (ADTV): This information is usually available on financial websites like MarketWatch or Yahoo Finance. Let’s assume the ADTV is 1,000,000 shares (this is an example, you should use the actual ADTV for a more precise calculation). 2. Days to Cover: Shares Sold Short/ADTV Using our example ADTV: Days to Cover=9,000,000 (short shares)/1,000,000(Avg. Daily Volume)=9 days Days to Cover Potential Implications· High Short Interest Ratio: A high Days to Cover ratio suggests it would take a significant amount of time for shorts to cover their positions, which can lead to increased volatility.· Potential for a Short Squeeze: With a high percentage of the retail float sold short, if retail investors decided to hold their shares and the stock price rises, short sellers may be forced to buy back shares at higher prices, leading to a potential short squeeze. · Limited Retail Float: With only 1.82 million shares available for retail trading, any significant buying pressure from institutional investors and/or retail investors it could quickly drive up the stock price. 9. Why Even the Joker Thinks You’d Be a _____ For Not Taking A Look at RILY Stock Batman here. You might know me as the Dark Knight, the Caped Crusader, or the guy who really, really, really wants to own a spaceship. Today, straight from the Batcave, lets talk about something as exciting as racing the Batmobile or the return of Roaring Kitty—RILY stock. First off, let’s talk numbers, because even a superhero knows the importance of a strong financial foundation. RILY has been buying back shares like Alfred buys Bat-gadgets—strategically and frequently. This move isn’t just a nifty trick; IMO it’s a signal that RILY is confident in its value. When a company buys back its own shares, it’s like Batman investing in more Batarangs—it’s a smart play that shows belief in future performance. But that’s not all, folks. The recent buzz around RILY isn’t just cat signals in the sky—it’s grounded in solid developments. RILY had to work hard to file their 10K after all the mudslinging from the shorts, but got it done. The first big catalyst domino to fall. Now, let’s get to the juicy part—earnings and dividends. RILY’s about to drop their Q1 earnings tomorrow, and you know what that means? Dividends! That’s right, folks. RILY is likely to declare a dividend, that our short friends will be paying. Dividends are like the Batmobile’s turbo boost—an extra kick that gets you excited and propels you forward. Plus, once they file their Q, a few days later insiders should be able to start buying again. Form 4s anyone? Here’s where it gets really interesting: meme stocks are back with a vengeance, wow talk about a left jab, and shorts are on their heels. The RILY squeeze might start very soon or it might not, but with shorts potentially facing margin calls due to price movements in various holdings, and especially if they’ve been shorting RILY all the way down it has not been a good week for the shorts so far. Just look how RILY stock popped this morning on about 200k in volume. To add insult to injury, to date, NONE of the short thesis has come to fruition or has been confirmed by independent information. They’re in quicksand, and it’s time to gas up the rocket. There are still several catalysts that may come into play here: Q1 Earnings Release: Scheduled to be filed tomorrow, providing insights into the company's recent performance. The deal flow on their website was up YoY. Dividend Announcements: Anticipated dividends right around the corner. Insider Buying: Once the Q1 earnings are filed, insiders should be able to buy stock again, expect to see some Form 4s in very short order. Sale of Great America Division: If RILY sales Great American, they have said the proceeds from this sale are expected to be used to reduce debt and fund further stock buybacks, potentially enhancing shareholder value. Low Float: With a limited number of shares available for trading, increased demand can lead to significant price movements. Buybacks: Ongoing buybacks can continue to support the stock price. Meme Stock Momentum: With meme stocks making a comeback, there's increased interest and activity in stocks that are short and that could drive up RILY’s stock price. Short Squeeze Potential: Low public float, company buybacks, insider buying…mix that up and you have the recipe for a potential squeeze. Roaring Kitty's Return: The return of Roaring Kitty, a key figure in the meme stock movement, brings renewed attention and excitement to the stock market in general. And, guess who just chimed in on RILY earlier today? That's right—JeffAmazon from the GameStop meme trade and Netflix documentary! He made a little tweet tweet on $RILY Additional Catalysts: What do you all think….. Stay vigilant, stay smart, and just my thoughts—do your own due diligence and make your own decisions. NFA. 10. FAKE ARTICLE BULLSHIT FUD………… Well, IMO even Stevie Wonder can see that the latest article on FRG is just another hatchet job. IMO the problem with creating a narrative is that the facts can’t keep up, and boy, did they fall behind here. RILY conducted not one, but two independent investigations and found zilch issues with its FRG investment or loans made to Kahn. And guess what? No connection with Prophecy either. FRG did their own investigation and also found no connection with Prophecy. So, to call the relationship between RILY and FRG controversial is like calling a puppy dangerous—laughable. In RILY's 10k, they marked up their FRG investment FMV $281 million to $286 million… FRG's FY23 financials are public, and the attached table shows the maturities of their debt. In 2024, about $10.5 million in debt is maturing. Big deal. Looming debt? Hardly. The real kicker is in 2026 when about $1.5 billion of debt matures—not this year, not next. LOL. The FRG financials clearly state they were in full compliance with their debt covenants in FY23 and fully expect to be in compliance in FY24. Yet, "the people" say FRG is down double digits in Q1. Funny timing with RILY's Q1 financials coming out on Wednesday, huh? And by the way, FRG's adjusted EBITDA for Q1 FY23 was $66 million, not the $62 million the article claims. Why not use the actual FRG public company number? Maybe because when you're rushing to write a hit piece, you just pick random numbers. https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2023/05/10/2665414/0/en/Franchise-Group-Inc-Announces-First-Quarter-Fiscal-Year-2023-Financial-Results.html So, according to the article, FRG is down 63% in revenue ($66 million vs. the alleged $25 million). Sure, FRG sold Badcock and Sylvan Learning, so they might be down YoY, but down 63%? FRG sold in FY24 Q1 Sylvan for $185 Million cash….and they’re worried about paying $10.5 million in long term debt due this year. Got it. https://www.franchisetimes.com/franchise_mergers_and_acquisitions/unleashed-brands-buys-sylvan-learning/article_a568813e-d4c7-11ee-bb32-1f85230cfdda.html https://preview.redd.it/lry689p16f1d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=0714b3b378abb528f0abb470ade0deb3d34c2d39 •5 days ago BleepBlimpBop NT-10Q mirrors the press release about the 5-day delay on the 10Q. It's the formal document for the SEC. It also includes estimated earnings. 13F-HR lists their investment holdings as of 3/31. "Estimated results of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2024 are summarized as follows:Cash and cash equivalents is expected to be approximately $191 million at March 31, 2024, a decrease of $41 million from $232 million at December 31, 2023. Total debt is expected to be approximately $2.19 billion, a decrease of approximately $170 million from $2.36 billion at December 31, 2023. This reflects the early redemption of approximately $115 million of senior notes during the three months ended March 31, 2024. Net loss available to common shareholders is expected to be approximately $51 million during the three months ended March 31, 2024 compared to net income available to common shareholders of $15 million in the prior year. The net loss is due to non-cash items which includes unrealized losses on investments and fair value adjustments on loans of approximately $59 million; in addition to incremental expenses of approximately $7 million incurred for professional fees relating to the filing of our 10-K and outside counsel review and subsequent independent investigation conducted as part of the previously disclosed investigation of the Audit Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors." 12. Friendly PSA: Manage your emotions •5 days ago BleepBlimpBop I'm optimistic that the shorts' game will begin to fully unravel this week. This is a PSA to please manage your emotions, set your strategy intelligently, and don't get carried away by emotion. For many longs, the past months have had a lot of negative emotion. Especially for long-time holders, who watched the full show: · Initial short attacks · Months of tailspin · Months of trading sideways like an EKG · A run up to $40 · A swift retrace -25% · Endless vicious attacks on the company, its clients, its employees, its auditors, and on any individual who publicly states they see value in the company (including personal attacks on people on this sub) Whether you got in years ago, and stayed for the growing business, fat dividends, and diversification...or got in last week because the short ratio is astronomical... The recovery to fair value, whatever path it takes (squeeze, or gradual) will provoke a varied and wide range of emotions. The emotional component of investing is the hardest part. Personally, I think it's a deep value play, and I'm not anxious to jump off the train. It's a company where insiders are huge owners, and their interests are truly aligned with shareholders. Because they're the biggest individual holders. The huge extra profit sharing dividends of 2021+ were impressive; this company rewards shareholders. Please manage your emotions. Please invest intelligently. Please be nice to other nice people. This isn't financial advice, but it is life advice. Manage your emotions, and make intelligent decisions. 13. RILY RS Article 76 to 83 https://www.investors.com/ibd-data-stories/b-riley-financial-shows-rising-price-performance-with-jump-to-83-rs-rating/ B. Riley Financial (RILY) saw a welcome improvement to its Relative Strength (RS) Rating on Thursday, with an increase from 76 to 83. IBD's proprietary rating tracks share price performance with a 1 (worst) to 99 (best) score. The score shows how a stock's price performance over the trailing 52 weeks stacks up against all the other stocks in our database. Over 100 years of market history reveals that the stocks that go on to make the biggest gains typically have an 80 or higher RS Rating as they begin their biggest climbs. Now is not an ideal time to jump in since it isn't near a proper buy zone, but see if the stock manages to form a base and break out. The company showed 0% EPS growth last quarter. Revenue rose -9%. The company is expected to report its latest earnings and sales numbers on or around May 15. The company earns the No. 24 rank among its peers in the Finance-Investment Banking/Brokers industry group. Interactive Brokers (IBKR), Piper Sandler (PIPR) and Ameriprise Financial (AMP) are among the top 5 highly rated stocks within the group. 14. Announcement of 2024 Annual Meeting June 21st https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgadata/0001464790/000121390024041725/ea0205510-01.htm 15. Repost: $RILY DD: The real price potential...when the stock is a solid/growing company (not just a squeeze). 9 days ago BleepBlimpBop In response to multiple requests, reposting my DD on price potential from 2 months ago. Will hopefully facilitate intelligent thought about price potential. -------- Many have been speculating about the squeeze price potential (75.72% of free float shorted per Fintel). Lots of posts discussing "how high" and "how soon." As others have observed, correctly, no one knows. However, I think we can look at financials, and past price, to get a good indication of a reasonable range, after any "squeeze dust settles." Let's recognize a few things: A) It's a growing, and historically very profitable business. It's not GME (dying company with obsolete business model). B) It rewards its shareholders with regular dividends, and large special dividends when profits are high. C) It spent a year (early 2021 to early 2022) around $70/share. Plus or minus $20. High of $90. D) July 2023 $100MM share offering was at $55, with lots of institutional interest, and lots of employee interest (7% of the new shares). It was only a small discount to the $60 stock price at the time (often, the offerings are at a much greater discount to induce institutions to invest). · Institutions do their due diligence - they don't buy unless they think it's a good deal. · Same with employees! E) It didn't tank because their business model is obsolete (i.e., GME issue). It tanked because of: · Short seller reports spewing fear, uncertainty, and doubt. · Rampant flimsy speculation · Poor earnings during a crappy time for investment banking (their main business), and some unfavorable mark-to-market of some of their investments. · Note that RILY makes a business of supporting and investing in companies in distress. When they provide financial options, they also actively help the company right the business. That process takes time, so there's often interim volatility in the value of their assets. But their historical investment returns and recovery rates seem to be very good. Profitable, but can create volatility in the books as it plays out. · Character assassinations. F) From the looks of it, now that Reg Sho is in place, a concerted group using naked short selling, spoofing bid/ask, keeping a cash account to sell shares and manipulate low volume (all speculations, but notice the radical difference in how it trades now that there's regulator scrutiny and forced settlement - as well as observant people here and on Twitter calling out the egregious observable issues in the trading action) G) It's continued to grow since 2021/2022 (look at the investor presentation in December). They've continued to disclose deal flow and make acquisitions since. What does that all mean? A) $70-90 would be a reasonable steady-state price if the shorts moved on, profitability returns to normal levels, and the company was the same size as 2021-2022. B) Significantly higher than $70-90 would be a reasonable steady-state, given growth in the company, and a return to historical scale of profitability. · You can also bet-your-bottom-dollar they're going to make sure their balance sheet is IRONCLAD go forward, and they do a better job of explaining their business. · Management owns a huge chunk of the business, and they'll **never** want to be susceptible to this crap again. C) A squeeze could have one of two impacts: · Return the business to a reasonable steady-state price (e.g., $70-100+) · Accelerate the company well above a steady-state price, where it could remain for an extended period, or return to a normal steady-state price. D) A squeeze isn't necessary to return this to a steady-state price. Just time... Company executes, shorts pay high borrow fees, shorts hedged positions decay. How do I think about it? · I'd love to see the slightly-slower-road to steady-state. · I'd love love to see the fast road back to steady-state. · I'd love love love to see this thing shoot well beyond any reasonable steady-state, and bankrupt the most vocal short sellers. By all appearances, they rank among the more degenerate of their species. · For those that sell early, they'll be sad watching from the sidelines. The road may not be linear, but I think it's paved with gold. These are my thoughts. Not financial advice. To the moon, baby. 16. $RILY- “They can win by doing nothing 12 days ago Outrageous_Appeal_89 “ Whitebrook capital assessment addressing cohodes&co BS at the peak of their false accusations and in a polite way stating short funds were making things up (misinformation & manipulation ). It seems $RILY is executing on some of the recommendations Whitebrook capital had - share buy back and bond buy back has been executed and continues to be executed on. Whether you invest in $RILY for the long term prospects or the short squeeze that can be triggered any day as lie after lie is exposed. Bottom line is the fair value of $RILY is a lot higher then where it currently trades. We will get a better idea whether share prices deserves to be in the 50s or 60s as we get an update on GAG valuation. Seems many here forget that $RILY creates value by turning companies around and then monetize, this process takes time , they have been able to do this successfully, repeatedly over the years. https://preview.redd.it/uiisruq36f1d1.png?width=792&format=png&auto=webp&s=e6c32c04877ae21b51cb8a99cee0aef17cdb32c4 17. 3 Videos from Value Don’t Lie on Youtube talking about Financials of RILY and overall company valuation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRenvff8duE&t=1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoaCZw7AmpA&t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Ayoox3fvM 18. Getting around the NBBO and Longing the Box So let this sink in… the market opens and in 5 minutes we rally to $34.42, then over the next 15 minutes we drop to $28.80 at which point SSR was triggered and sell volume slows WAY the hell down. That drop was ALL short sellers and NO longs selling shares (otherwise the sell-off wouldnt have stopped literally minutes after SSR triggered). NOW, what the scumbag shorts are doing is going Long Against The Box. 19. Steve Cohen and Point 72 buy 24,917 shares long on May 15th https://preview.redd.it/fhdhyco46f1d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=6600f6a9a3f0bc5bc8823cddb5f52defdf282063 20. Summarize this earnings call and keep pertinent quotes and data in the summary. https://filecache.investorroom.com/mr5ir_briley2/925/RILY_1Q24_Earnings_Release_vFINAL.pdf Chat GPT Summary of the full report below B. Riley Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: RILY) reported its first-quarter 2024 financial results, showcasing resilience and operational strength despite facing challenging market conditions and unique internal events. Here's a summary with a positive outlook: First Quarter2024 Highlights:1. Quarterly Dividend Declaration:
Leadership Insights:
Looking Ahead:B. Riley's strategic initiatives, such as debt reduction and selective investments, position the company for continued success. The ongoing strategic review of its Great American Group retail liquidation and appraisal businesses indicates a proactive approach to optimizing its portfolio. The firm remains committed to delivering value to its shareholders through dividends and operational excellence.In summary, B. Riley Financial's first-quarter 2024 results underscore its strong operational foundation and strategic foresight, positioning it well for future growth and shareholder value creation. 20. State of the Stock 15 days ago UF_Secret_Account Not financial advice, do your own research. Don't take advice from the internet, consult a professional financial advisor. On April 19th, the stock closed at $19.99. Today, it is over 50% higher after a positive 10-K clearing the company of fraud allegations. The stock touched $40 on April 26 and 29, a 100% gain from a week prior. The short interest has remained relatively consistent during the move, with 10-11 million shares still short. However, given the time lapsed, I think it's safe to assume that most of those shares were covered and re-shorted in the last two weeks. For future research, we should assume they have an average $35 entry on their short positions. 1st quarter earnings are coming soon. Like many of you, I am a little curious that it hasn't been announced yet, but I have no concerns with everything the company has on its plate. 10-Q's are unaudited and it's very unlikely there is anything to be concerned about, in my opinion. The company could be coming to the end of their strategic review for GAG. That will eventually result in some additional financial statement adjustments for presentation. I would expect 1st quarter earnings to be good based on their deal flow and reported transactions. In November 2023, the board approved $50m for stock buybacks. The company repurchased 728,330 shares at an average price of $21.85, but mainly bought shares in November. That's $16 million spent, and means the company had $34 million approved to buy back stock at year end. The program continues through October 2024. At our current price, that would be 1.1 million shares (3.3% of the outstanding stock). That is significant for a stock with this many outstanding shares, but more significant for the number of freely traded shares which is far less. How many times have we seen huge price moves on small blocks of shares? If the company adds $10-15 million to that program, that's another 300,000-500,000 shares. Again, it doesn't sound like a huge number but it would add pressure to what will become a dire situation for the shorts. The shorts may decide not to cover, or to continue the strategy of taking their losses and re-shorting, but their ability to influence the stock back to a level where they truly profit is nonexistent in my opinion, particularly when volume dies between market-moving events. I am eyeing the $50-$55 range as my price target in the next move up. 21. NOTE on FRG Independent Auditor’s Report One of the positive things I see IMO was for the billion dollar loan that matures in 2026. “On July 2, 2021, the Company repaid $182.1 million of principal of the First Lien Term Loan using cash proceeds from the sale of the Liberty Tax business. The prepayment also satisfied the requirements for the quarterly principal payments so no additional principal payments with respect to the First Lien Term Loans (excluding the Incremental First Lien Term Loan) are due until the First Lien Term Loan maturity date.” To me this gives them some flexibility for their cash as there isn’t much long term debt due in 2024 or 2025. https://preview.redd.it/ib92t7e66f1d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=df286021b0653db92122e33df0ed37f1068a0c6c 22. on May 3rd Cohodes or someone else got media to report 4th quarter from last year as q1 earnings this year. Which was a lie and FUD https://preview.redd.it/nlau48276f1d1.png?width=623&format=png&auto=webp&s=832695b6c331c3df6dbcb861dc90551ee42a036a 23. B. Riley Financial Announces Full Redemption of 6.75% SR Notes Due 2024 17 days ago Wolfiger LOS ANGELES, May 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- B. Riley Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: RILY) ("B. Riley" or the "Company") today announced that it has called for the full redemption equal to $25,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 6.75% Senior Notes due 2024 (the "Notes") on May 31, 2024 (the "Redemption Date"). The redemption price is equal to 100% of the aggregate principal amount, plus any accrued and unpaid interest up to, but excluding, the Redemption Date, as set forth in each notice of redemption delivered to noteholders on May 1, 2024. https://ir.brileyfin.com/2024-05-01-B-Riley-Financial-Announces-Full-Redemption-of-6-75-Senior-Notes-due-2024 24. 8k filed May 1st for Nasdaq Compliance 25. Found management bonus if above 136 by October. Did anybody else know that a part of managements comp was in the form of Performance-based Restricted Stocks Units with a vesting date of 10/27/24 AND A HURDLE PRICE OF $135?!? https://preview.redd.it/wo2uh54k5f1d1.png?width=547&format=png&auto=webp&s=8b6dedf28ec845b2170647674f5b39b6eaac96a1 |
2024.05.19 19:37 RepulsiveShmeat anyone with quite a bit of free time down to grind SDV? or something similar??
I'm in CST timezone and 25. ideally you'd be in a similasame timezone and 21+. I'm primarily free during the hours 8pm-12am. I use disc for VC and DMing. if you've already completed SDV or don't have it but looking to 100% another similar game with someone, I've got staxel, astroneer, and hydroneer on my list too.
all of that out of the way, I study/work in cybersecurity (digital forensics), enjoy hiking, reading non-fiction, and collect a lot of Lego. my favorite games are Skyrim and Minecraft (modded is elite). I watch a lot of movies. recently just saw The Challengers in theathers and it was interesting to say the least didn't see that ending coming, but the entire thing was a roller coaster. right now, my favorite film is probably everything everywhere all at once. feel free to shoot me a message with a bit about yourself, your disc, and steam and we can play! looking forward to playing
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all of that out of the way, I study/work in cybersecurity (digital forensics), enjoy hiking, reading non-fiction, and collect a lot of Lego. my favorite games are Skyrim and Minecraft (modded is elite). I watch a lot of movies. recently just saw The Challengers in theathers and it was interesting to say the least didn't see that ending coming, but the entire thing was a roller coaster. right now, my favorite film is probably everything everywhere all at once. feel free to shoot me a message with a bit about yourself, your disc, and steam and we can play! looking forward to playing
2024.05.19 19:33 TheHarlequinInBlack [Online][PF2E][Wednesday 7PM BST] The Eastland Expedition - Looking for 1-2 Players to Join a Newly-Started Campaign
I sought oblivion and calm respite, my path forged through sensation and blinding excess. I explored depravity, ventured into the darkness never mapped, until I swept past Experience witnessed only by the gods.
Thus became I a voyager upon delights unknown, my ship named only, 'Sweet Departure.'
Erasma, the One we Forgot
It begins with hope...
An escape from the Kinstrife and the Fall of Cyr'Cairn. Refuge from the Wyrm Hunt and the retribution it brings on wings of fire. Safety from the Gallow Night - safety from the hell created piece by piece from our own hands. Something different, a chance for change amidst a world trapped in its clockwork permenance; forever onwards, forever forwards, no rest nor peace for the engine.
And it begins with hope, but by its very nature it cannot end the same way - hope either comes true...
Or it does not.
The ships have brought to sail - the great winds brings us ever further from the madness of our home caught in self-inflicted self-annihilation, and we march towards the great unknown knowing whatever secrets it hold must be better than the certainty of our past lives. Even in death we will bring discovery and new fortune, excitement, and most importantly...
We will bring hope - that the sins of our fathers are not the sins of the son. That the madness we flee is not carried within our every waking breath. Hope... Hope eternal that we are different than from what we were forged. Always hope...
Because only time will tell if it is true.
Welcome to The Eastland Expedition, a Pathfinder 2nd Edition Campaign for 4-5 Players set in the Homebrew setting of Clockworld that has recently started and is in need of new players due to scheduling conflicts discovered early on. We are welcoming group who enjoy the social interaction, humour, and general companionship of the game - as much as we enjoy a serious story with well-defined characters taking part in an epic struggle of exploration and survival against the bleak unknown.
This campaign features our party, freshly set sail from the distant west of Amilyn - voyaging to a new world across the Ashuran Ocean in search of... Wealth? Power? Glory? A chance to be part of something great? The character's motives are as varied as the novelities we shall discover, from blackguards of bitter repute to knights in shining armour and gallant repose to mercenaries and thrill-seekers without a care for anything but the chance to make it somewhere else.
The story will take us across the breadth of the New World in discovery of where it is you have landed - feature the political difficulties of bridging your patron's desires with the necessity of surviving in a realm that does not welcome you, and more important - the freedom to not just build your nation and settlement as you see fit, but to impact the very story of Clockworld itself.
This game is welcoming to players new to the system, as we as a group ourselves have only recently started to learn the game - and we are happy to learn alongside you. I am a relaxed and patient Storyteller who enjoys the social fabric of OOC conversation as much as the in-game narrative - provided it does not serve to derail the campaign too much. I am happy to answer questions as often as needed, and provided any explanations regarding the rules or lore as required; no matter how simple the request might be.
My door is always open - and I am happy to field any feedback, criticisms or complaints that you may have. I do my utmost to ensure this is a safe game where everyone can have fun and relax. As part of this, we are entirely LGBTQ+ Friendly, and the setting itself is free for characters of all persuasions, creeds, and ethnicities. This is a Flat-World Fantasy set upon a Giant Clock - as long as the characters fit within the general fabric of the setting, there will be no complaints.
Since I do put a lot of effort into my campaings - from the World Anvil I maintain to the battlemaps and the effort required to create a story as wide-reaching and free as this; I do expect a certain modicum of respect in return. Primarily, while real life must always come first - repeated lateness and missed sessions without a good reason can cause me great difficulty in keeping the rhythm and momentum of the story, and will not be appreciated over any extended period. The same can be said to rudeness aimed at other players, and while I understand humour can take a while to get used to, and come in many different styles - targeted harrassment will not be tolerated in the slightest, and you will be removed from the game.
Lastly - the game will detail violence and graphic content. Concepts such as homophobia, transphobia, and sexisim do not exist within the setting as I do not feel I could give them due deference with the story I am telling, and while mental illness and addiction may feature - I will only do so when I feel I can treat them with the respect and seriousness the conditions deserve. Any limits provided to me by players however, will be respected immediately; without any explanation required - and a red card system is utilised should a scene stray too close to a previous-stated limit, or steps upon something that was not discussed prior but is causing distress. At any point this is happening, you may message either me or the server and we will immediately end the scene and discuss where we went wrong - so that we can avoid such a thing occuring again.
If this rambling wall of text did not put you off - then please feel free to leave a comment or send me a DM with your interest in the campaign. The application is mostly up for you to determine - though at least a vague concept of a character and a reason this campaign drew you to apply would be appreciated. You may send a Reddit Chat - but I cannot guarantee I will see the message quickly.
Should I like what I see, I will send an invitation for a brief interview to see how we get along as player and storyteller. There is nothing to prepare, just a simple chat with a few questions to get a baseline for each other and whether we'll be a good fit.
The game will be taking place on Discord and Foundry - Characters will be starting at Level Two in line with the rest of the party, and all classes are available to be played. Where possible we will be sticking with Player Core Content, but where Legacy Options exist that have not yet been updated, we will be open to including them as well.
Thank you all very much for your time, and I look forward to hearing from you.
World Map
Player Guide
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Thus became I a voyager upon delights unknown, my ship named only, 'Sweet Departure.'
Erasma, the One we Forgot
It begins with hope...
An escape from the Kinstrife and the Fall of Cyr'Cairn. Refuge from the Wyrm Hunt and the retribution it brings on wings of fire. Safety from the Gallow Night - safety from the hell created piece by piece from our own hands. Something different, a chance for change amidst a world trapped in its clockwork permenance; forever onwards, forever forwards, no rest nor peace for the engine.
And it begins with hope, but by its very nature it cannot end the same way - hope either comes true...
Or it does not.
The ships have brought to sail - the great winds brings us ever further from the madness of our home caught in self-inflicted self-annihilation, and we march towards the great unknown knowing whatever secrets it hold must be better than the certainty of our past lives. Even in death we will bring discovery and new fortune, excitement, and most importantly...
We will bring hope - that the sins of our fathers are not the sins of the son. That the madness we flee is not carried within our every waking breath. Hope... Hope eternal that we are different than from what we were forged. Always hope...
Because only time will tell if it is true.
Welcome to The Eastland Expedition, a Pathfinder 2nd Edition Campaign for 4-5 Players set in the Homebrew setting of Clockworld that has recently started and is in need of new players due to scheduling conflicts discovered early on. We are welcoming group who enjoy the social interaction, humour, and general companionship of the game - as much as we enjoy a serious story with well-defined characters taking part in an epic struggle of exploration and survival against the bleak unknown.
This campaign features our party, freshly set sail from the distant west of Amilyn - voyaging to a new world across the Ashuran Ocean in search of... Wealth? Power? Glory? A chance to be part of something great? The character's motives are as varied as the novelities we shall discover, from blackguards of bitter repute to knights in shining armour and gallant repose to mercenaries and thrill-seekers without a care for anything but the chance to make it somewhere else.
The story will take us across the breadth of the New World in discovery of where it is you have landed - feature the political difficulties of bridging your patron's desires with the necessity of surviving in a realm that does not welcome you, and more important - the freedom to not just build your nation and settlement as you see fit, but to impact the very story of Clockworld itself.
This game is welcoming to players new to the system, as we as a group ourselves have only recently started to learn the game - and we are happy to learn alongside you. I am a relaxed and patient Storyteller who enjoys the social fabric of OOC conversation as much as the in-game narrative - provided it does not serve to derail the campaign too much. I am happy to answer questions as often as needed, and provided any explanations regarding the rules or lore as required; no matter how simple the request might be.
My door is always open - and I am happy to field any feedback, criticisms or complaints that you may have. I do my utmost to ensure this is a safe game where everyone can have fun and relax. As part of this, we are entirely LGBTQ+ Friendly, and the setting itself is free for characters of all persuasions, creeds, and ethnicities. This is a Flat-World Fantasy set upon a Giant Clock - as long as the characters fit within the general fabric of the setting, there will be no complaints.
Since I do put a lot of effort into my campaings - from the World Anvil I maintain to the battlemaps and the effort required to create a story as wide-reaching and free as this; I do expect a certain modicum of respect in return. Primarily, while real life must always come first - repeated lateness and missed sessions without a good reason can cause me great difficulty in keeping the rhythm and momentum of the story, and will not be appreciated over any extended period. The same can be said to rudeness aimed at other players, and while I understand humour can take a while to get used to, and come in many different styles - targeted harrassment will not be tolerated in the slightest, and you will be removed from the game.
Lastly - the game will detail violence and graphic content. Concepts such as homophobia, transphobia, and sexisim do not exist within the setting as I do not feel I could give them due deference with the story I am telling, and while mental illness and addiction may feature - I will only do so when I feel I can treat them with the respect and seriousness the conditions deserve. Any limits provided to me by players however, will be respected immediately; without any explanation required - and a red card system is utilised should a scene stray too close to a previous-stated limit, or steps upon something that was not discussed prior but is causing distress. At any point this is happening, you may message either me or the server and we will immediately end the scene and discuss where we went wrong - so that we can avoid such a thing occuring again.
If this rambling wall of text did not put you off - then please feel free to leave a comment or send me a DM with your interest in the campaign. The application is mostly up for you to determine - though at least a vague concept of a character and a reason this campaign drew you to apply would be appreciated. You may send a Reddit Chat - but I cannot guarantee I will see the message quickly.
Should I like what I see, I will send an invitation for a brief interview to see how we get along as player and storyteller. There is nothing to prepare, just a simple chat with a few questions to get a baseline for each other and whether we'll be a good fit.
The game will be taking place on Discord and Foundry - Characters will be starting at Level Two in line with the rest of the party, and all classes are available to be played. Where possible we will be sticking with Player Core Content, but where Legacy Options exist that have not yet been updated, we will be open to including them as well.
Thank you all very much for your time, and I look forward to hearing from you.
World Map
Player Guide
2024.05.19 19:33 NightBuNz 30 [M4F] #Pennsylvania - I have run, I have crawled, I have scaled these city walls only to be with you. But I still haven’t found what im looking for.
Hiya there friends! I’m your friendly neighborhood divorced 30 year something or some other, trudging through life and trying to find someone I can actually enjoy spending time with. That’s surprisingly harder than I thought it’d be lol. In a world where dating has come down to endlessly swiping through apps, actually finding someone then immediately getting ghosted after either talking for a week or meeting up for a few dates and then getting ghosted, or being friends who diddle each other because everyone has been in bad relationships and want to be free to do who they feel like and not be held down (I personally understand this one being a divorcee myself lol) its kind of hard to get anything going or meet anyone worthwhile. Well I’m gonna try again cause I’m stupid and optimistic that this will work out at some point, either way I’m enjoying the ride for the most part.
Some things about me that might make me a somewhat interesting member of the opposite sex!
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Some things about me that might make me a somewhat interesting member of the opposite sex!
- If you couldn’t tell from my title I love listening to music! It’s pretty much my core reason for existing lol. I love to sing and listen to it pretty much whenever I can! I am polyjamorous and listen frickin everything and that’s legitimately not a joke! I can go from Cab Calloway, to Dying Fetus, to Linkin Park, to Elton John in no time flat! Be prepared for a man that thrives on a random set of music from all the different time periods lol. The only thing I don’t listen to is country as that’s an abomination. Yall are free to listen that, and it’s okay to be wrong honestly. I can accept that about most of the world.
- I’m an avid gamer! My main genres are horror, rpgs, and online shooters! The games I am currently playing are Destiny 2 and Dead by Daylight with a bit of Fallout mixed when I need a break from those two games! Ask me for my username on steam and discord if you’d like to play with me!
- I enjoy cooking! Oh that’s right ladies, if you want a man that can cook you up a tasty meal upon request I can most certainly do it. Just have to kiss the cook first (Just kidding lol). Seriously though I actually do enjoy cooking so if you ever wanted to come spend some time with me food will always be available so come get you some grub!
- I’m very much a metal head and am avidly going to concerts now! Just recently went to go see Dying Fetus, Fester Decay, Rivers of Nihil, and Cattle Decapitation live so if you’re also a metal head and looking for someone to go see some metal with live I’m definitely your guy!
- I’m a very kind and caring individual! I love to talk and enjoy spending time with the people I care about so if you like that kind of energy then look no further for I shall provide it! Come get you some cuddles and attention!
- While I am a divorcee, I have a child in California. If you ain’t cool with the fact that I have a kid then that’s hella tough! He comes first and is the most important thing in my world forever and always. No ifs, ands, or buts. If you can’t deal I’m cool with that. He’s cuter than you anyhow lol.
- Look I know everyone’s looking for their forever person, I am also, but don’t come to me looking for something with a ring attached to it. I’ve been there done that and it’d take a lot to make me consider doing it again. That’s not to say I don’t want a long lasting relationship and won’t treat said relationship as an important thing, but I now believe there doesn’t have to be an iron clad document officiating it. If you ain’t cool with that then there’s the door.
- I am a highly jokey, sassy, and sarcastic person and that’s never gonna change. I like having fun and poking fun at people in a jokey and friendly way so please don’t be sensitive. I don’t like walking on egg shells.
- I’m terms of getting my groove on, I ain’t vanilla. If you know you know so I hope you aren’t either!
- Age isn’t majorly a factor just please don’t be younger than 23 or older than 40. Just a personal preference as I’d like to be able to connect to someone without being too generationally far from each other! I will also want to exchange pictures off the rip as attraction is important.
- Please be in within an hour of Lancaster PA! I’m not one for long distance relationships so I do require you to be within range of me in order for any talks to begin! Sorry to those that are long distance!
2024.05.19 19:31 Concord_rvs the songs chosen in fallout 76 are probably quite intentional, and if so, are absolutely genius
ok so a bit of an incoherent rant because i just came up with this but you guys know how basically every single fallout game has used particularly specific music relating to the core theme of the game.
Fallout 3 and 4 use stereotypical 30s-50s music with an emphasis on themes of heartbreak, lost love, community and atomic energy/end of the world, this runs parallel to the games themes of searching for a loved one in a world that has lost all its sense of humanity and civility
meanwhile fallout New Vegas, which is noticibly more light-hearted than than 3 and 4 fully exploits the history and personality of the Las Vegas/Nevada area through the creation of a bizarre "Wild West" identity, this is also shown in the music chosen, which tells themes of life and death in the Wild West, the frontier and the energetic fun of Las Vegas
While several songs are routinely chosen for their "legacy" association to the franchise (i dont want to set the world on fire, dear hearts and gentle people, civiliation, etc) these too -STRICTLY- adhere to the themes mentioned previously (end of the world and human relations respectively)
We have now established that the music in these games is carefully chosen according to said games central themes, even if this means employing lesser known less iconic songs from the same time period instead of more iconic "retro" pieces like Sh-Boom, La Bamba and Elvis
Even the wackier songs have been specifically chosen due to their relation, even if ironic, to some aspect of the franchise, for example "Keep Knocking" as a reference to the Vaults and "Butcher Pete" as a general commentary on the nature of the wasteland
So now we can ask ourselves, ¿what about Fallout 76?
At first glance most of these songs might seem quite disconnected from the central themes of the game, which is something which -certain people- can just chalk up to "Bethesda/76 bad >:("
however, one thing anyone who has played this game can tell you is that the actual artistic designers did an amazing job on the stories and environment which we find in Appalachia, i see no reason why this shouldnt be the same for the Music
"Two left hands", "Pig foot pete" and "mister five by five" all surprisingly relate to a description of the human body, which is expected for a game which employs the body horror of the Scorched plague as a major driving point for its story
"Jumping at the woodside", "i cant dance", "in a shanty an old shanty", "happy days are here again", "wouldnt it be nicee" convey the energy and optimism of celebrating in community and rebuilding Appalachia (canonically, we all probably live in shanty towns instead of crazy sky bases) even under difficult circumstances, whether this be dealing with the proverbial "woodside" (the forest, mire etc) or fighting the "ants in my pants" (local fauna, ghouls, scorched, raiders, actual ants etc)
Bridging the gap between the pre-war labor struggle and day-today life in Appalachia are songs like "Sixteen tons", "Company store" and "dark as a dungeon", which also invoke the unique identity of the state of West Virginia, especially when coupled with "Country roads", "Salt pork WV" and "Shenandoah"
however, as we advance through the game and leave the forest for the more hostile regions of Appalachia we encounter more violent groups and more dangerous threats to Appalachia, namely the Nuke silos, but also the mire GECK, the scorched plague and whatever the hell the Interloper is supposed to be
"Nobodies fault but mine", "a good man is hard to find", "aint misbehavin", etc all DIRECTLY reference the moral character and DECISIONS of individuals, a KEY point in a game that DIRECTLY DEPENDS ON THE CHOICES OF THE PLAYERBASE (regarding both other players and the nuke silos), of special importance is "driving nails in your coffin" which might be hinting the impending doom of Appalachia -due to our own actions- with the nukes, which will end up destroying the region in the pyroclastic storm (the "ring of fire") seen in Nuclear Winter
Even those songs unrelated to the Appalachian identity reflect core elements of the Fallout franchise!
in conclusion, though the songs heard throughout West Virginia may at first seem like a random assortment of 50s musical slop, a careful analysis reveals, what i personally believe to be the most thoughtful delection of music in any Fallout game
The future of Appalachia is now more uncertain than ever, the nukes, the pyroclastic storm, the scorched plague, the enclave, the BoS, the GECK, the mysterious guidestones, the interloper and the storm hinted at in the upcoming Shenandoah expansion will all surely come to influence the region we know and love, and i hope to see the music in this game evolve with it too
at the end of the day this is just my own opinion, if you guys disagree feel free to leave a comment, and at the very least i hope this was -somewhat- entertaining to read
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Fallout 3 and 4 use stereotypical 30s-50s music with an emphasis on themes of heartbreak, lost love, community and atomic energy/end of the world, this runs parallel to the games themes of searching for a loved one in a world that has lost all its sense of humanity and civility
meanwhile fallout New Vegas, which is noticibly more light-hearted than than 3 and 4 fully exploits the history and personality of the Las Vegas/Nevada area through the creation of a bizarre "Wild West" identity, this is also shown in the music chosen, which tells themes of life and death in the Wild West, the frontier and the energetic fun of Las Vegas
While several songs are routinely chosen for their "legacy" association to the franchise (i dont want to set the world on fire, dear hearts and gentle people, civiliation, etc) these too -STRICTLY- adhere to the themes mentioned previously (end of the world and human relations respectively)
We have now established that the music in these games is carefully chosen according to said games central themes, even if this means employing lesser known less iconic songs from the same time period instead of more iconic "retro" pieces like Sh-Boom, La Bamba and Elvis
Even the wackier songs have been specifically chosen due to their relation, even if ironic, to some aspect of the franchise, for example "Keep Knocking" as a reference to the Vaults and "Butcher Pete" as a general commentary on the nature of the wasteland
So now we can ask ourselves, ¿what about Fallout 76?
At first glance most of these songs might seem quite disconnected from the central themes of the game, which is something which -certain people- can just chalk up to "Bethesda/76 bad >:("
however, one thing anyone who has played this game can tell you is that the actual artistic designers did an amazing job on the stories and environment which we find in Appalachia, i see no reason why this shouldnt be the same for the Music
"Two left hands", "Pig foot pete" and "mister five by five" all surprisingly relate to a description of the human body, which is expected for a game which employs the body horror of the Scorched plague as a major driving point for its story
"Jumping at the woodside", "i cant dance", "in a shanty an old shanty", "happy days are here again", "wouldnt it be nicee" convey the energy and optimism of celebrating in community and rebuilding Appalachia (canonically, we all probably live in shanty towns instead of crazy sky bases) even under difficult circumstances, whether this be dealing with the proverbial "woodside" (the forest, mire etc) or fighting the "ants in my pants" (local fauna, ghouls, scorched, raiders, actual ants etc)
Bridging the gap between the pre-war labor struggle and day-today life in Appalachia are songs like "Sixteen tons", "Company store" and "dark as a dungeon", which also invoke the unique identity of the state of West Virginia, especially when coupled with "Country roads", "Salt pork WV" and "Shenandoah"
however, as we advance through the game and leave the forest for the more hostile regions of Appalachia we encounter more violent groups and more dangerous threats to Appalachia, namely the Nuke silos, but also the mire GECK, the scorched plague and whatever the hell the Interloper is supposed to be
"Nobodies fault but mine", "a good man is hard to find", "aint misbehavin", etc all DIRECTLY reference the moral character and DECISIONS of individuals, a KEY point in a game that DIRECTLY DEPENDS ON THE CHOICES OF THE PLAYERBASE (regarding both other players and the nuke silos), of special importance is "driving nails in your coffin" which might be hinting the impending doom of Appalachia -due to our own actions- with the nukes, which will end up destroying the region in the pyroclastic storm (the "ring of fire") seen in Nuclear Winter
Even those songs unrelated to the Appalachian identity reflect core elements of the Fallout franchise!
in conclusion, though the songs heard throughout West Virginia may at first seem like a random assortment of 50s musical slop, a careful analysis reveals, what i personally believe to be the most thoughtful delection of music in any Fallout game
The future of Appalachia is now more uncertain than ever, the nukes, the pyroclastic storm, the scorched plague, the enclave, the BoS, the GECK, the mysterious guidestones, the interloper and the storm hinted at in the upcoming Shenandoah expansion will all surely come to influence the region we know and love, and i hope to see the music in this game evolve with it too
at the end of the day this is just my own opinion, if you guys disagree feel free to leave a comment, and at the very least i hope this was -somewhat- entertaining to read
2024.05.19 19:30 NightBuNz 30 [M4F] #Pennsylvania - I have run, I have crawled, I have scaled these city walls only to be with you. But I still haven’t found what im looking for.
Hiya there friends! I’m your friendly neighborhood divorced 30 year something or some other, trudging through life and trying to find someone I can actually enjoy spending time with. That’s surprisingly harder than I thought it’d be lol. In a world where dating has come down to endlessly swiping through apps, actually finding someone then immediately getting ghosted after either talking for a week or meeting up for a few dates and then getting ghosted, or being friends who diddle each other because everyone has been in bad relationships and want to be free to do who they feel like and not be held down (I personally understand this one being a divorcee myself lol) its kind of hard to get anything going or meet anyone worthwhile. Well I’m gonna try again cause I’m stupid and optimistic that this will work out at some point, either way I’m enjoying the ride for the most part.
Some things about me that might make me a somewhat interesting member of the opposite sex!
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Some things about me that might make me a somewhat interesting member of the opposite sex!
- If you couldn’t tell from my title I love listening to music! It’s pretty much my core reason for existing lol. I love to sing and listen to it pretty much whenever I can! I am polyjamorous and listen frickin everything and that’s legitimately not a joke! I can go from Cab Calloway, to Dying Fetus, to Linkin Park, to Elton John in no time flat! Be prepared for a man that thrives on a random set of music from all the different time periods lol. The only thing I don’t listen to is country as that’s an abomination. Yall are free to listen that, and it’s okay to be wrong honestly. I can accept that about most of the world.
- I’m an avid gamer! My main genres are horror, rpgs, and online shooters! The games I am currently playing are Destiny 2 and Dead by Daylight with a bit of Fallout mixed when I need a break from those two games! Ask me for my username on steam and discord if you’d like to play with me!
- I enjoy cooking! Oh that’s right ladies, if you want a man that can cook you up a tasty meal upon request I can most certainly do it. Just have to kiss the cook first (Just kidding lol). Seriously though I actually do enjoy cooking so if you ever wanted to come spend some time with me food will always be available so come get you some grub!
- I’m very much a metal head and am avidly going to concerts now! Just recently went to go see Dying Fetus, Fester Decay, Rivers of Nihil, and Cattle Decapitation live so if you’re also a metal head and looking for someone to go see some metal with live I’m definitely your guy!
- I’m a very kind and caring individual! I love to talk and enjoy spending time with the people I care about so if you like that kind of energy then look no further for I shall provide it! Come get you some cuddles and attention!
- While I am a divorcee, I have a child in California. If you ain’t cool with the fact that I have a kid then that’s hella tough! He comes first and is the most important thing in my world forever and always. No ifs, ands, or buts. If you can’t deal I’m cool with that. He’s cuter than you anyhow lol.
- Look I know everyone’s looking for their forever person, I am also, but don’t come to me looking for something with a ring attached to it. I’ve been there done that and it’d take a lot to make me consider doing it again. That’s not to say I don’t want a long lasting relationship and won’t treat said relationship as an important thing, but I now believe there doesn’t have to be an iron clad document officiating it. If you ain’t cool with that then there’s the door.
- I am a highly jokey, sassy, and sarcastic person and that’s never gonna change. I like having fun and poking fun at people in a jokey and friendly way so please don’t be sensitive. I don’t like walking on egg shells.
- I’m terms of getting my groove on, I ain’t vanilla. If you know you know so I hope you aren’t either!
- Age isn’t majorly a factor just please don’t be younger than 23 or older than 40. Just a personal preference as I’d like to be able to connect to someone without being too generationally far from each other! I will also want to exchange pictures off the rip as attraction is important.
- Please be in within an hour of Lancaster PA! I’m not one for long distance relationships so I do require you to be within range of me in order for any talks to begin! Sorry to those that are long distance!
2024.05.19 19:29 Craig-Paxton The Landing Sight for Lehi’s Party Discovered
In a fascinating study, evidenced for a possible landing sight for Lehi in America has been discovered within easy travel distance to Palmyra, NY. If substantiated, it could add weight to an Atlantic migration, the controversial Solutrean Hypothesis, in addition to the traditional Siberian route. https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/05/19/first-americans-chesapeake-parsons-island/
The link is behind a pay wall. Here’s the article
PARSONS ISLAND, Md. — With the Chesapeake Bay sloshing at his knee-high boots, Darrin Lowery stood back and squinted at a 10-foot-tall bluff rising above a narrow strip of beach. To the untrained eye, this wall of sandy sediment is the unremarkable edge of a modest island southeast of the Bay Bridge. To Lowery, a coastal geologist, its crumbling layers put the island at the center of one of the most contentious battles in archaeology: when and how humans first made their way into the Americas. The story of the first Americans has long been a matter of public and scientific fascination, undergirded at times by vicious disagreements. The timeline of when people arrived has shifted earlier in grudging steps over the past century, and scientists today mostly agree people were in the Americas at least 15,000 years ago. Story continues below advertisement
Lowery’s site and others like it could revise the story again, pushing back the timeline earlier than most experts thought possible. In total, Lowery and a motley crew of collaborators have discovered 286 artifacts from the site on the island’s southwestern edge. The oldest, they reported, was embedded with charcoal dated to more than 22,000 years ago, a time when much of the continent would have been covered in ice sheets. If Lowery is right, Parsons Island could rewrite American prehistory, opening up a host of new puzzles: How did those people get here? How many waves of early migration were there? And are these mysterious people the ancestors of Native Americans?
Casts of tools found at Parsons Island are seen on display. Lowery and his team have unearthed 286 artifacts from the site so far. (Michael Robinson Chávez/The Washington Post) New claims of sites dated this far back face a wall of skepticism, rooted in legitimate scientific scrutiny and in the threat they pose to long-entrenched views. To complicate matters, Lowery — who has been affiliated with the Smithsonian but does much of his work independently — presented the results of his study of Parsons Island in a 260-page manuscript posted online rather than in a traditional peer-reviewed journal. The peer-review process is designed to help validate scientific claims, but Lowery argues that in archaeology it often leads to a circle-the-wagon mentality, allowing scientists to wave away evidence that doesn’t support the dominant paradigm. He says he isn’t seeking formal publishing routes because “life’s too short,” comparing this aspect of academic science to “the dumbest game I’ve ever played.”
The island is also a challenging site to study for a variety of reasons — most poignantly because it is rapidly eroding as the land subsides and sea level rises. The spot where the artifacts were found is now covered by the choppy waters of the bay. “The visit reinforced my will to invest my time into this time period, because it’s a very fragile record,” said Sebastien Lacombe, an archaeologist at Binghamton University, who visited the island in 2017. “It’s at risk of disappearing, and we’re at risk of [allowing] these sites and artifacts to lose their meaning forever.” ‘A weirdo kid’
Darrin Lowery walks a beach on Parsons Island. Most of the artifacts were excavated by erosion, discovered on the beach after they had already fallen out of the bluff. (Michael Robinson Chávez/The Washington Post) Lowery began exploring the Chesapeake shoreline as a child, wandering his backyard on Tilghman Island, about 15 miles southwest from Parsons Island. In 1977, 9-year-old Lowery picked up a distinctive fluted stone projectile point. A few years later, he saw something similar on a documentary on public television, in which a Smithsonian archaeologist explained it was a Clovis point, a relic of what most people then believed were the first Americans. For the last half of the 20th century, the peopling of the Americas followed a tidy narrative. Humans traveled from Siberia across a land bridge that connected Asia and North America during the last Ice Age, when sea levels dropped. They then migrated southward around 13,000 years ago, when the ice sheets covering the continent retreated and exposed a previously impassable inland route. These people — named after a site in Clovis, N.M. — left behind distinctive, fluted stone points that have since been found scattered across North America. Story continues below advertisement
Lowery turned to his dad and said, “I found one of those.” He found more by walking the shoreline every day. Lowery made discoveries as he meandered, and he began to understand how seasonal patterns, sediment movement, wind and waves could unearth ancient treasures. “I was a weirdo kid,” he recalled. He trained as a geologist, and it was geology that initially attracted Lowery to study Parsons Island. In 2010, he published an article in Quaternary Science Reviews describing layers of windblown silt deposited between 13,000 and 41,000 years ago at Miles Point in eastern Maryland. But the geological record is like reading the CliffsNotes version of a book, and he was frustrated by an “unconformity” in the sediment layers where thousands of years were missing, like someone had ripped out those chapters.
Parsons Island is rapidly eroding. The archaeological site is now covered by the Chesapeake Bay. (Michael Robinson Chávez/The Washington Post) Lowery and a colleague were prowling around in a whaler, looking for a spot that might fill in the blanks, when they spotted a black streak of sediment rising up out of the bay. They pulled up to Parsons Island and thought they had found “the Rosetta stone” to decode the geology. Parsons is a 78-acre island less than a mile offshore that is privately owned by the Corckran family, which uses it as a family retreat. With the Corckrans’ permission, Lowery and colleagues began to visit regularly. The bluff layers preserved a remarkably intact geologic timeline going back more than 40,000 years. Then, one morning in August 2013, the team discovered a leaf-shaped prehistoric stone tool jutting out of this crumbling wall. They knew from the work they’d already done that it was probably quite old. Story continues below advertisement
On a recent visit to the island, geoarchaeologist Daniel Wagner demonstrated why. He stepped back to scan the cliff, then tapped a narrow spade into a light tan sediment layer just above his head. That, he said, is the geologic “chapter” where they’d expect to find Clovis artifacts. Lower layers were set down before Clovis. The palm-size tool Lowery and his colleague found came out of the dark sediment layer near their knees. The scientists used two methods to date the sediment around the artifact, both showing it was more than 20,000 years old. They scoured the beach on 93 visits and conducted a formal, top-down excavation, collecting the 286 artifacts. They sent out sediment to labs that specialize in studying ancient pollen and microfossils called phytoliths to help reconstruct the ecosystem at the time. Back then, this region wouldn’t have been a coastline. The sediment the tools are embedded in dates to the “last glacial maximum” — the scientific term for the most recent coldest period of the Ice Age. In the final analysis, Lowery thinks the artifacts may have been transported downslope before they were buried, making them between 15,000 and 20,500 years old. “This was a swale, where water was collecting,” Lowery said, envisioning the ancient landscape. “You’ve got a dune. It’s got sedges and small trees on it that are windblown and all contorted, and then behind it you’ve got a little pond.” That pond may have attracted prehistoric bison, musk ox and llamas, whose fossilized molars he’s found scattered on the island shore. And it may have been what attracted the mysterious people who left behind a cache of stone tools. A story in flux
Parsons Island is seen from nearby Kent Island in the Chesapeake Bay. (Michael Robinson Chávez/The Washington Post) Parsons Island is the latest addition to a growing list of what are called pre-Clovis sites. But while the long-held “Clovis First” theory has crumbled over the past three decades, that has only deepened the debate about how much earlier the first Americans arrived. Claims of early sites present a challenge on two fronts. The first is technical: Dating a site convincingly can be difficult, depending on the context. Sediments can shift or be disturbed. What at first look like artifacts can turn out to be “geofacts,” created not by humans but by natural processes or animals. As a result, many pre-Clovis sites “enjoy a Warhol-esque 15 minutes of fame, and then they disappear” because of real problems with the geology or the methods, said archaeologist James Adovasio. In 1973, he began excavating Meadowcroft Rockshelter in Pennsylvania, which dated back 16,000 years. It was instantly mired in controversy, and the site still has its critics today. The second challenge reflects the culture of science. For a long time, people who claimed to find pre-Clovis sites were swimming upstream against deeply entrenched thinking. Tom Dillehay, an archaeologist at Vanderbilt University, began working on a site in southern Chile called Monte Verde in 1977, which was dated to 14,500 years ago. He recalled a group of researchers he calls the “Clovis police,” scientific gatekeepers who summarily rejected any pre-Clovis sites, sometimes for valid reasons and sometimes as a knee-jerk reaction. Monte Verde began to change that. In 1997, a group of respected archaeologists visited the site and declared it authentic. “It took about 25 to 30 years for Monte Verde to be accepted,” Dillehay said. “We went through hell.”
Holly, a German shorthaired pointer, runs across a bluff top on Parsons Island. (Michael Robinson Chávez/The Washington Post) Lowery says he isn’t interested in running that gantlet. He noted that he drew on multiple labs and methods for dating the Parsons Island artifacts in an effort to ensure that any one extremely old date isn’t a fluke. He’s also invited other researchers in to visit and study the site. That approach irritates some scientists. David Meltzer, an archaeologist at Southern Methodist University, said in an email that he would not discuss Lowery’s claims “until they go through the wringer of peer review and get published.” Others like Stuart Fiedel, an independent archaeologist based in western Massachusetts who has been skeptical of other sites, say the site should not fly under the radar just because of Lowery’s unconventional process. Story continues below advertisement
“There are people I know in the field who will not pay any attention to it, because it has not been peer-reviewed, which I think is kind of sticking your head in the sand,” Fiedel said. “It’s there. We can’t act as [if] nothing’s been found there.” Share this article Share
A bigger issue may be the site’s rapid erosion. Most of the artifacts were found after they’d fallen out of the bluff, which means their place in the geologic timeline is obscured. Nine artifacts were found in place, and only three were able to be dated using charcoal flecks found next to them. Steven Forman, a geoscientist at Baylor University, helped date the sediment layers at Parsons Island, corroborating findings from another lab. He said that it’s hard to find the artifacts in the kind of bulletproof geological context needed to support extraordinary claims. “The case is not as tight as we like to see it with other sites,” Forman said. Michael Waters, an archaeologist at Texas A&M University who has worked on pre-Clovis sites and excavated at Parsons Island, thinks he probably got there too late, when most of the artifacts had already been eroded out. Still, he pays someone to monitor the bank profile on a regular basis, because he’s ready to jump on a plane if they see something in place. “Too bad we didn’t get there four to five years sooner,” Waters said. Enter ancient DNA
An ancient bovine tooth is among the fossils found so far on Parsons Island. (Michael Robinson Chávez/The Washington Post) Parsons Island isn’t the only site that could dramatically push back human arrival in the Americas. Last fall, a study published in the journal Science described fossilized human footprints discovered at White Sands National Park in New Mexico that have been dated to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago. That stunning finding suggests people were here during the Ice Age — much earlier than most experts thought possible if the first humans arrived via the Bering land bridge and inland corridor. The dates at White Sands are still being disputed because of questions about the methods. But the timeline collides head-on with another exciting line of evidence: studies of ancient DNA. By examining genetic material preserved in bones and teeth and comparing those samples to modern populations, scientists have been able to track when populations mingled and became isolated from one another, offering a new window into patterns of human migration. Story continues below advertisement
In broad strokes, they’ve found that the ancestors of Native Americans split from ancient Siberian populations no earlier than 23,000 years ago. The studies can’t say where such splits took place, but many scientists interpret genetic evidence to mean that the ancestors of modern people weren’t in the Americas until much later. Genetic studies suggest that Native American ancestors traveled into what is now the United States between 17,500 and 14,600 years ago. Joe Watkins, a senior consultant for Archaeological and Cultural Education Consultants in Tucson and a Choctaw tribal member, said that he sees a few problems with using the still-evolving DNA evidence to decide how ancient sites are related to modern-day people. “The reality is genetics does not equal culture,” Watkins said. He also argued that there are still too few samples of ancient DNA in the Americas to be sure they capture the whole story. “Trying to create population histories based on 10 people, if you will, is a little bit of a scientific conundrum,” Watkins said. It could be that additional ancient genomes will one day help fill in the blanks. Another possibility is that earlier sites could represent small, isolated groups of people who didn’t contribute to the ancestry of living Native Americans.
A tree-lined path leads to a beach on Parsons Island. (Michael Robinson Chávez/The Washington Post) “Let’s suppose you have a successful population colonizing an area, and then one day, 15 males go out and get eaten by a short-faced bear,” Lowery said. “You reduce the genetic diversity, and bada boom, bada bing, game over.” All this explodes the neat picture of one population migrating into the Americas as ice sheets retreated, hunting big animals like mammoths and giant sloths, driving them into extinction as they went. If there were small groups making their way into the New World, with different stone tool technologies, and far earlier than previously believed, how did they get here? People could have migrated along the coast by boat, following a “kelp highway.” It’s also possible the ice sheet was not as impenetrable as experts have long thought. Lowery’s longtime collaborator, Dennis Stanford, proposed that people crossed the Atlantic Ocean in what is known as the Solutrean Hypothesis, though that idea has been rejected by many archaeologists. To resolve the question, scientists need to keep looking for more evidence. Archaeology is a historical science, and unlike chemistry or biomedicine, where researchers can perform the same experiment over and over again to see if they get the same results, consensus is built by argument, counterargument and new evidence. To a certain extent, older ideas and prejudices also fall away as new people enter the field, said James Feathers, who performed dating on samples from Parsons Island before he retired from the University of Washington. “Sometimes you have to wait for people to die off,” Feathers said.
Alex Corckran, whose family owns Parsons Island, stands on a beach on the southern side of the island. (Michael Robinson Chávez/The Washington Post) Lowery is determined to keep motoring around the Chesapeake, researching the ephemeral landscape that he loves and that may contain clues about human prehistory. He acknowledges that the sites, perhaps a little bit like him, are “persnickety” but that shouldn’t deter interest in them. Instead, it should spur more. He noted that if a pod of silverfish was found gnawing on documents in the National Archives, people would be galvanized to act. “I view it as my swan song,” Lowery said, “to say you can learn a lot from [an] eroding site if you do a little bit of effort and look at it systematically.”
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PARSONS ISLAND, Md. — With the Chesapeake Bay sloshing at his knee-high boots, Darrin Lowery stood back and squinted at a 10-foot-tall bluff rising above a narrow strip of beach. To the untrained eye, this wall of sandy sediment is the unremarkable edge of a modest island southeast of the Bay Bridge. To Lowery, a coastal geologist, its crumbling layers put the island at the center of one of the most contentious battles in archaeology: when and how humans first made their way into the Americas. The story of the first Americans has long been a matter of public and scientific fascination, undergirded at times by vicious disagreements. The timeline of when people arrived has shifted earlier in grudging steps over the past century, and scientists today mostly agree people were in the Americas at least 15,000 years ago. Story continues below advertisement
Lowery’s site and others like it could revise the story again, pushing back the timeline earlier than most experts thought possible. In total, Lowery and a motley crew of collaborators have discovered 286 artifacts from the site on the island’s southwestern edge. The oldest, they reported, was embedded with charcoal dated to more than 22,000 years ago, a time when much of the continent would have been covered in ice sheets. If Lowery is right, Parsons Island could rewrite American prehistory, opening up a host of new puzzles: How did those people get here? How many waves of early migration were there? And are these mysterious people the ancestors of Native Americans?
Casts of tools found at Parsons Island are seen on display. Lowery and his team have unearthed 286 artifacts from the site so far. (Michael Robinson Chávez/The Washington Post) New claims of sites dated this far back face a wall of skepticism, rooted in legitimate scientific scrutiny and in the threat they pose to long-entrenched views. To complicate matters, Lowery — who has been affiliated with the Smithsonian but does much of his work independently — presented the results of his study of Parsons Island in a 260-page manuscript posted online rather than in a traditional peer-reviewed journal. The peer-review process is designed to help validate scientific claims, but Lowery argues that in archaeology it often leads to a circle-the-wagon mentality, allowing scientists to wave away evidence that doesn’t support the dominant paradigm. He says he isn’t seeking formal publishing routes because “life’s too short,” comparing this aspect of academic science to “the dumbest game I’ve ever played.”
The island is also a challenging site to study for a variety of reasons — most poignantly because it is rapidly eroding as the land subsides and sea level rises. The spot where the artifacts were found is now covered by the choppy waters of the bay. “The visit reinforced my will to invest my time into this time period, because it’s a very fragile record,” said Sebastien Lacombe, an archaeologist at Binghamton University, who visited the island in 2017. “It’s at risk of disappearing, and we’re at risk of [allowing] these sites and artifacts to lose their meaning forever.” ‘A weirdo kid’
Darrin Lowery walks a beach on Parsons Island. Most of the artifacts were excavated by erosion, discovered on the beach after they had already fallen out of the bluff. (Michael Robinson Chávez/The Washington Post) Lowery began exploring the Chesapeake shoreline as a child, wandering his backyard on Tilghman Island, about 15 miles southwest from Parsons Island. In 1977, 9-year-old Lowery picked up a distinctive fluted stone projectile point. A few years later, he saw something similar on a documentary on public television, in which a Smithsonian archaeologist explained it was a Clovis point, a relic of what most people then believed were the first Americans. For the last half of the 20th century, the peopling of the Americas followed a tidy narrative. Humans traveled from Siberia across a land bridge that connected Asia and North America during the last Ice Age, when sea levels dropped. They then migrated southward around 13,000 years ago, when the ice sheets covering the continent retreated and exposed a previously impassable inland route. These people — named after a site in Clovis, N.M. — left behind distinctive, fluted stone points that have since been found scattered across North America. Story continues below advertisement
Lowery turned to his dad and said, “I found one of those.” He found more by walking the shoreline every day. Lowery made discoveries as he meandered, and he began to understand how seasonal patterns, sediment movement, wind and waves could unearth ancient treasures. “I was a weirdo kid,” he recalled. He trained as a geologist, and it was geology that initially attracted Lowery to study Parsons Island. In 2010, he published an article in Quaternary Science Reviews describing layers of windblown silt deposited between 13,000 and 41,000 years ago at Miles Point in eastern Maryland. But the geological record is like reading the CliffsNotes version of a book, and he was frustrated by an “unconformity” in the sediment layers where thousands of years were missing, like someone had ripped out those chapters.
Parsons Island is rapidly eroding. The archaeological site is now covered by the Chesapeake Bay. (Michael Robinson Chávez/The Washington Post) Lowery and a colleague were prowling around in a whaler, looking for a spot that might fill in the blanks, when they spotted a black streak of sediment rising up out of the bay. They pulled up to Parsons Island and thought they had found “the Rosetta stone” to decode the geology. Parsons is a 78-acre island less than a mile offshore that is privately owned by the Corckran family, which uses it as a family retreat. With the Corckrans’ permission, Lowery and colleagues began to visit regularly. The bluff layers preserved a remarkably intact geologic timeline going back more than 40,000 years. Then, one morning in August 2013, the team discovered a leaf-shaped prehistoric stone tool jutting out of this crumbling wall. They knew from the work they’d already done that it was probably quite old. Story continues below advertisement
On a recent visit to the island, geoarchaeologist Daniel Wagner demonstrated why. He stepped back to scan the cliff, then tapped a narrow spade into a light tan sediment layer just above his head. That, he said, is the geologic “chapter” where they’d expect to find Clovis artifacts. Lower layers were set down before Clovis. The palm-size tool Lowery and his colleague found came out of the dark sediment layer near their knees. The scientists used two methods to date the sediment around the artifact, both showing it was more than 20,000 years old. They scoured the beach on 93 visits and conducted a formal, top-down excavation, collecting the 286 artifacts. They sent out sediment to labs that specialize in studying ancient pollen and microfossils called phytoliths to help reconstruct the ecosystem at the time. Back then, this region wouldn’t have been a coastline. The sediment the tools are embedded in dates to the “last glacial maximum” — the scientific term for the most recent coldest period of the Ice Age. In the final analysis, Lowery thinks the artifacts may have been transported downslope before they were buried, making them between 15,000 and 20,500 years old. “This was a swale, where water was collecting,” Lowery said, envisioning the ancient landscape. “You’ve got a dune. It’s got sedges and small trees on it that are windblown and all contorted, and then behind it you’ve got a little pond.” That pond may have attracted prehistoric bison, musk ox and llamas, whose fossilized molars he’s found scattered on the island shore. And it may have been what attracted the mysterious people who left behind a cache of stone tools. A story in flux
Parsons Island is seen from nearby Kent Island in the Chesapeake Bay. (Michael Robinson Chávez/The Washington Post) Parsons Island is the latest addition to a growing list of what are called pre-Clovis sites. But while the long-held “Clovis First” theory has crumbled over the past three decades, that has only deepened the debate about how much earlier the first Americans arrived. Claims of early sites present a challenge on two fronts. The first is technical: Dating a site convincingly can be difficult, depending on the context. Sediments can shift or be disturbed. What at first look like artifacts can turn out to be “geofacts,” created not by humans but by natural processes or animals. As a result, many pre-Clovis sites “enjoy a Warhol-esque 15 minutes of fame, and then they disappear” because of real problems with the geology or the methods, said archaeologist James Adovasio. In 1973, he began excavating Meadowcroft Rockshelter in Pennsylvania, which dated back 16,000 years. It was instantly mired in controversy, and the site still has its critics today. The second challenge reflects the culture of science. For a long time, people who claimed to find pre-Clovis sites were swimming upstream against deeply entrenched thinking. Tom Dillehay, an archaeologist at Vanderbilt University, began working on a site in southern Chile called Monte Verde in 1977, which was dated to 14,500 years ago. He recalled a group of researchers he calls the “Clovis police,” scientific gatekeepers who summarily rejected any pre-Clovis sites, sometimes for valid reasons and sometimes as a knee-jerk reaction. Monte Verde began to change that. In 1997, a group of respected archaeologists visited the site and declared it authentic. “It took about 25 to 30 years for Monte Verde to be accepted,” Dillehay said. “We went through hell.”
Holly, a German shorthaired pointer, runs across a bluff top on Parsons Island. (Michael Robinson Chávez/The Washington Post) Lowery says he isn’t interested in running that gantlet. He noted that he drew on multiple labs and methods for dating the Parsons Island artifacts in an effort to ensure that any one extremely old date isn’t a fluke. He’s also invited other researchers in to visit and study the site. That approach irritates some scientists. David Meltzer, an archaeologist at Southern Methodist University, said in an email that he would not discuss Lowery’s claims “until they go through the wringer of peer review and get published.” Others like Stuart Fiedel, an independent archaeologist based in western Massachusetts who has been skeptical of other sites, say the site should not fly under the radar just because of Lowery’s unconventional process. Story continues below advertisement
“There are people I know in the field who will not pay any attention to it, because it has not been peer-reviewed, which I think is kind of sticking your head in the sand,” Fiedel said. “It’s there. We can’t act as [if] nothing’s been found there.” Share this article Share
A bigger issue may be the site’s rapid erosion. Most of the artifacts were found after they’d fallen out of the bluff, which means their place in the geologic timeline is obscured. Nine artifacts were found in place, and only three were able to be dated using charcoal flecks found next to them. Steven Forman, a geoscientist at Baylor University, helped date the sediment layers at Parsons Island, corroborating findings from another lab. He said that it’s hard to find the artifacts in the kind of bulletproof geological context needed to support extraordinary claims. “The case is not as tight as we like to see it with other sites,” Forman said. Michael Waters, an archaeologist at Texas A&M University who has worked on pre-Clovis sites and excavated at Parsons Island, thinks he probably got there too late, when most of the artifacts had already been eroded out. Still, he pays someone to monitor the bank profile on a regular basis, because he’s ready to jump on a plane if they see something in place. “Too bad we didn’t get there four to five years sooner,” Waters said. Enter ancient DNA
An ancient bovine tooth is among the fossils found so far on Parsons Island. (Michael Robinson Chávez/The Washington Post) Parsons Island isn’t the only site that could dramatically push back human arrival in the Americas. Last fall, a study published in the journal Science described fossilized human footprints discovered at White Sands National Park in New Mexico that have been dated to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago. That stunning finding suggests people were here during the Ice Age — much earlier than most experts thought possible if the first humans arrived via the Bering land bridge and inland corridor. The dates at White Sands are still being disputed because of questions about the methods. But the timeline collides head-on with another exciting line of evidence: studies of ancient DNA. By examining genetic material preserved in bones and teeth and comparing those samples to modern populations, scientists have been able to track when populations mingled and became isolated from one another, offering a new window into patterns of human migration. Story continues below advertisement
In broad strokes, they’ve found that the ancestors of Native Americans split from ancient Siberian populations no earlier than 23,000 years ago. The studies can’t say where such splits took place, but many scientists interpret genetic evidence to mean that the ancestors of modern people weren’t in the Americas until much later. Genetic studies suggest that Native American ancestors traveled into what is now the United States between 17,500 and 14,600 years ago. Joe Watkins, a senior consultant for Archaeological and Cultural Education Consultants in Tucson and a Choctaw tribal member, said that he sees a few problems with using the still-evolving DNA evidence to decide how ancient sites are related to modern-day people. “The reality is genetics does not equal culture,” Watkins said. He also argued that there are still too few samples of ancient DNA in the Americas to be sure they capture the whole story. “Trying to create population histories based on 10 people, if you will, is a little bit of a scientific conundrum,” Watkins said. It could be that additional ancient genomes will one day help fill in the blanks. Another possibility is that earlier sites could represent small, isolated groups of people who didn’t contribute to the ancestry of living Native Americans.
A tree-lined path leads to a beach on Parsons Island. (Michael Robinson Chávez/The Washington Post) “Let’s suppose you have a successful population colonizing an area, and then one day, 15 males go out and get eaten by a short-faced bear,” Lowery said. “You reduce the genetic diversity, and bada boom, bada bing, game over.” All this explodes the neat picture of one population migrating into the Americas as ice sheets retreated, hunting big animals like mammoths and giant sloths, driving them into extinction as they went. If there were small groups making their way into the New World, with different stone tool technologies, and far earlier than previously believed, how did they get here? People could have migrated along the coast by boat, following a “kelp highway.” It’s also possible the ice sheet was not as impenetrable as experts have long thought. Lowery’s longtime collaborator, Dennis Stanford, proposed that people crossed the Atlantic Ocean in what is known as the Solutrean Hypothesis, though that idea has been rejected by many archaeologists. To resolve the question, scientists need to keep looking for more evidence. Archaeology is a historical science, and unlike chemistry or biomedicine, where researchers can perform the same experiment over and over again to see if they get the same results, consensus is built by argument, counterargument and new evidence. To a certain extent, older ideas and prejudices also fall away as new people enter the field, said James Feathers, who performed dating on samples from Parsons Island before he retired from the University of Washington. “Sometimes you have to wait for people to die off,” Feathers said.
Alex Corckran, whose family owns Parsons Island, stands on a beach on the southern side of the island. (Michael Robinson Chávez/The Washington Post) Lowery is determined to keep motoring around the Chesapeake, researching the ephemeral landscape that he loves and that may contain clues about human prehistory. He acknowledges that the sites, perhaps a little bit like him, are “persnickety” but that shouldn’t deter interest in them. Instead, it should spur more. He noted that if a pod of silverfish was found gnawing on documents in the National Archives, people would be galvanized to act. “I view it as my swan song,” Lowery said, “to say you can learn a lot from [an] eroding site if you do a little bit of effort and look at it systematically.”
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2024.05.19 19:27 Tortoise516 Minecraft novel series idea
So I learned a few days ago that there were Minecraft novel books. The books were not connected to each other, like not having an overall narrative through the books, so that inspired me to make one myself.
This is a summarized version of the idea of a Minecraft series. I would love to hear your thoughts!
Sorry for the wrong flair; nothing else matched this post.
Chapter 1: Reincarnated
Thank you for reading!
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This is a summarized version of the idea of a Minecraft series. I would love to hear your thoughts!
Sorry for the wrong flair; nothing else matched this post.
Minecraft: The series
Volume 1: The GiantChapter 1: Reincarnated
- Our main character gets reincarnated into the Minecraft game because he died due to an earthquake as he was getting ready to play Minecraft. When he gets reincarnated, we see him explore the world, and process what had happened to him, and where he was.
- Chapter 2: Night
- Night starts to arrive, and the main character is starving. He tries to get food, but then starts to get attacked by different monsters. He finds a secret hideout and goes there, where a village was. The MC explains what happened, and the villager was a bit confused when the monsters attacked them. The village Tom helped them defeat them, and Tom invited the MC to the village.
- Chapter 3: Village
- We go to the village named Grummor and see the iron golem battle a zombie army. The villagers come, and together they defeat it. Tom explains that the zombies have started to get more active due to the rebirth of the giant, which was a huge zombie. He explains briefly some of the giant lore and how it had a huge zombie army and loved to destroy things. Also, that the giant always rebirths every 500 years., and then we explore the village life a bit.
- Chapter 4: Life in the village
- We see the average life in the village and what Tom does as a weaponsmith. The MC ends up working as a farmer, and his boss was very strict. Later, the MC gets invited to talk with the leader of the village, Steve. He was a normal human and not a villager, and he explains a bit about why he is the leader of the village and some other things. The main point was that he wanted to know his purpose. The MC explains his lore, and they get a bit closer, and he gets to stay.
- Chapter 5: Into the cave
- Once again, we see the average life of the MC with the mean farmer, Archibald. This time, the MC tries to have a better relationship with his boss, but he fails. Tom explains that Archibald was a stubborn one but cared about everyone; the MC didn't believe that in the slightest. The leader asks Tom, two villagers, and the MC to go mining; they pack and head off with two new members, Dave and Bill. They were twin brothers, but the MC saw all the villagers the same way. Dave was sarcastic and joked quite a bit. Bill was a bit shy since the MC was not a villager, and in this world, everyone who is not a villager is seen as mighty and powerful. They explore the caves and get attacked by a few monsters, but all goes well. Until the creeper explodes, the land blows them away, and they fall into a mineshaft.
- Chapter 6: Mineshaft
- In the mineshaft, the villagers get excited and try to find all the loot they can, and Tom explains that their ancestors used to live underground because the monsters were so powerful, but when their ancestors got more powerful, they started to live in the ground, and these mine shafts were stations between the villages and cities underground. The MC was fascinated. Meanwhile, Dave and Bill find an amethyst geode, explore it, and then get surrendered by cave spiders. They come running to Tom and the MC, and they try to defeat them. Realizing there was a spawner, they tried to quickly escape from the cave and succeeded .( They managed to get some of the loot before all the chaos. )
- Chapter 7: The search
- They go to the village leader, where they get their report. Steve, the leader, promises he will go there and get the rest of the loot and destroy the spawner to see if they can get more knowledge from ancient times. The leader prepares to go to find the wandering trader. The MC asked why, and the leader said they can sometimes predict the future without realizing it. The MC told him that he initially thought he was going to buy something from him, and the leader made sure he understood that they didn't have anything valuable and that it was a waste of money. They pack, say bye to the village, and go on the journey. It took some time, and all three of them noticed that each night the zombie activity increased massively. One day when they were sleeping inside a small cave and their bags were gone with all the food, and they felt hopeless because of it. The MC started to doubt if they could find the wandering trader. All of a sudden, Tom noticed that behind them was the wandering trader, commonly called the “wanderer” or the "predictor.” In specific situations, "an idiot"
- The wanderer behind them made the sound of the mob, and they were all relieved. Steve tried to explain the problem and asked the wanderer if the giant had fully awakened and where their chambers were this time, since they change every time. The wanderer took some time to realize some things he said, and Steve had to repeat the phrases many times, but he still could not understand. They concluded that he was extremely dumb and decided to go back to the village with the wanderer. It was nighttime, and they got attacked by zombies. Tom, the McSteve, fought the zombies and protected the wanderer, who continued to make the sounds. After they defeated them, they left and were cautious since they were low on health. When they started to get attacked by the phantoms, the wanderer all of a sudden started to give the prediction, Hmph, hmph... big... big... very big... the mountain.“ and then started to list the coordinates of the chambers, which isn't normal; they couldn't write it down since they were still being attacked by the phantoms, but they managed to make it to the village, and the villagers realized what was happening and were ready to handle the phantoms.
- Chapter 9: Zombie attack
- Things got rough. The villagers managed to defeat the phantoms, but one villager reported that a zombie army was approaching. The leader quickly assigned everyone their positions for the battle, and defense walls were being built, but it was already too late; the zombies were inside the village. Steve explained that the zombies were coming in four groups: one from the north, another from the east, one from the west, and so on. Steve added that after they were done here, they needed to go to defeat the giant, so he instructed the MC to be careful as he batted, so he batted against the giant. The villagers battled, and it was rough; some villagers had died and others were seriously injured.
- Things weren't looking so good. Steve decided to evacuate the village. Everyone got ready, and in the middle of the evacuation, as some people began to run away, they started to realize that the evacuation couldn't happen anymore; they got surrounded in the village. Things only got worse. One of the zombies lit a wooden house on fire, and it slowly spread with the rest of the buildings. The villagers only option was to fight fire with fire. Literally. Some lit their sticks on fire and started to burn the zombies, and others tried to extinguish the fire that was destroying the village. Soon enough, they started to win the battle and kill off the zombie army, but they still haven't defeated the giant.
- Chapter 10: The plan
- It was 1 a.m. in the morning, and some of the villagers started to put up the defense wall while Steve, Tom, the MC, and a few others, including the wanderer, held a meeting on how to progress. The leader gave the damage and the total deaths. Almost everyone was injured in some way, and eight villagers had died in the battle. Steve made it clear when going to the battle that the giants needed to be careful and avoid more deaths. It would be tough since there were propably over 200 zombies in the chambers and in the mountains.The zombie population was continuously increasing because there were spawners in the chambers. With that in mind, one of the villagers, Elica, who was a strong warrior and loved to fight and wanted to become the strongest warrior in the land, told them that they should just storm in and beat up the giant and its underlings. Despite Elica being a great warrior, she was overconfident. The other suggested getting help from another village, but the village they knew was too far away, and they didn't have time to search for another one nearby.
- After thinking about what to do, the MC got an idea when he remembered what he did when he was being attacked by monsters during the night when he played Minecraft. They agree on the plan and leave the village, and as they leave, the wanderer starts to say things again: “Angry, awake, coming down” and tells the coordinates. Tom wrote them down and thanked the wanderer who suddenly passed out; someone took care of him, and they marched off with the remaining who could fight in the chambers.
- Chapter 11: Battle in the mountains,
- As they traveled to the mountains, the MC was scared, but Tom explained that Steve was powerful and they could win. Dave and Bill, who were also them, were reassured that the leader would keep them safe, but the MC wasn't sure and wondered where he would go if he got killed here. As they marched in, there were a huge number of zombies in the hills, all coming down. The next wave. The MC and the others took their spots and started to burn the forest in a square shape, trapping the zombies. While the others tried to push them into the square, soon the others came with skeletons, spiders, creepers, and a few phantoms behind them.
- They ran into the square, and the zombies started to fight with the other mobs, and the fire started to slowly close in while still burning areas surrounding it. They also noticed that there was a larger army from the other village, Rioria. With teamwork, they managed to kill off the zombies. They felt pretty good until they heard a very creepy and ugly voice from the sky. All of them looked up at where the giant was standing and were observing the battle.
- Chapter 12: The giant
- We get a little backstory to the meeting where Steve explained after the meeting about the chambers, where the giant rebirthed every 500 years, from a special totem that kept rebirthing the giant every 500 years and made it fight against its will and destroy everything. Apparently the ancestors had beef with an ancient tribe who were connected to zombies, so when the tribe was wiped out, they kept reawakening the giant every 500 years in hopes of destroying the world and getting their revenge. The MC was confused about why it had to be every 500 years, and Steve explained that the giant was reborn with the power of a totem (that was a crystal in the shape of a totem). It took a long time for the totem to get enough power to be able to raise the giant back from the dead. Steve also explained that this time, they have a better chance to destroy the totem since they have gotten better materials and new villages have been built in the area, so if they came to the battle field, they could win. Another advantage they have is that they know where the chambers are, so they don't need to waste time finding them and let the zombies have time to cause more damage.
- Back to the battle: the giant was massive, but it could only fight by stomping and waiting for more zombies to spawn from the spawners. Steve assigned Tom, the MC, Bill, Dave, and Elica to go to the chambers and find the totem-shaped crystal and break it. They agreed and went to the chambers. They had a regeneration potion, so they were fully ready to beat them up. They immediately made their way to the chambers and were ready for the battle.
- Chapter 13: The chambers
- Going into the chambers, there were zombies, and Elica wiped them all out. Late, they got into a trap. Getting surrounded by zombies, the MC noticed it was a thing that they liked to do and found a way to escape the trap. If they charged through one way, they should get out easier, and they put the plan into action, which worked on some level, but they were still being chased by zombies. The problem was that there were a huge number of tunnels in the caves, and they had to find the specific passageway to the huge opening where the totem was. Meanwhile, on the battlefield, the giant started to go on a rampage. Steve used a few potions of harming, but understood they were no match and the fate of the village and others depended on the MC and the group he was in.
- As they ran in the tunnels, they somehow got separated once when they accidentally left Bill behind, but they were all together, supposedly close to the area where the crystal is. They assumed that because the zombie activity was very high. Assuming they might be protecting something, like the totem. At one point, the monsters came both ways, and they had no exit; they were stuck. Things weren't looking good, but Elica did not show a slight fear, took out her bow and arrow, and started to one-shot them. She commanded the others to go forward and kill them. They weren't sure about her decision since she was the strongest and she was the one shooting arrows. If she were to kill the zombies with a sword, it would have been much faster, but they didn't want to make her mad. So after surviving the attack and being super weak because of it, they make it to the area where the crystal was, and the number of zombies is huge. Alica started to make a staircase from the stone blocks, which hadn't come to mind for others before. They bridged to the crystal on the roof. It was easier than any of them imagined.
- Meanwhile, on the battlefield outside, it started to rain, and the giant had totally destroyed them all and walked across the remaining fire like it was nothing. As he was walking towards the village, Steve couldn't imagine him destroying the village; he wouldn't let that happen. He stood up and tried his best to kill it, but he just stomped over him and continued walking. So far, they have reduced half of the giant's health, costing many lives. Many wanted to kill it, but they were all so exhausted and hurt. All of them started to lose hope and prayed that they could destroy the crystal.
- As they bridged to the crystal, the zombies started to bridge and come towards them. They needed to destroy the crystal fast before they got killed by the zombies.
- Chapter 14: The crystal
- Tom, whose face turned pale, explained that they couldn’t get out if they all swarmed inside this cave. The MC thought that all the zombies would die if they destroyed the crystal. Tom explained that the zombies came from the spawners, not from the totem's powers. The totem did form the spawners, but according to world logic, it wasn't the totem who was making the zombies; it was the spawner. So they quickly went to the crystal on the roof and ran out of the blocks. The situation didn't look good, but Elica tried to shoot the cystalls, but only a few of the arrows managed to barely hit them.
- During the battle, the weather got worse. Some stood up and went again to fight, causing some damage. The giant had 42% of its health left but was still standing strong and got close to the village. Steve had enough and wanted to protect the village, so he started to climb him, went close to its head, made his way close to his nose, and stabbed its eye. The giant was in pain and used his hand to get him away, but Steve managed to dodge the first time. The second time, the giant took him and was about to hit him hard on the ground, which would have killed him. Steve tried to stab its hand so he could fall and possibly survive, but to everyone's shock, the zombie just despawned. Steve fell to the ground and somehow managed to break his fall a bit with the help of the villagers, but he was seriously injured and needed immediate care.
- In the cave, they finally managed to destroy the totem, and it exploded. David started to bridge in panic and made it safely to the other side of the cave. The zombies got closer, and Dave and Bill started to mine their way out. The MC, Elica, and Tom handled the zombies. When the tunnel was deep enough, they ran inside, blocking the exit. Elica had a torch, and they made it out. They were all tired and got filled up with what happened. Steve was in the hospital in Alavania, a city formed from 8 villages, and everyone slowly got back. The fire had died out due to the rain.
- Chapter 15: Rebuilding and continuing the journey
- When they returned to the village, everyone cheered them on and called them heroes. They explained to the village what had happened, and the villagers were concerned about when their leader would return. The military from Alavania heard the giant’s awakening and destroyed the spawners immediately.
- A month went by, and everyone was at peace. One day, Tom asked a few times how the MC was going to move forward. The MC wasn't sure since he was still adapting to the new life, but today he made his decision. They were on the beach having a picnic, and the MC announced to Tom that he wanted to stay and live with them. If it would be fine with Steve, the MC had no place for him to go or get back to since he just spawned here. Tom was happy to hear it, and when Dave and Bill learned that too, they were also very supportive. When Steve returned the following day, the village was very happy about his arrival. The MC asked if he could stay, and the leader didn't hesitate to say yes, and he was sure he would be a great help. Everyone celebrated, and the village took the MC with open hands. Everything was back to normal, and the MC got to explore the new world he had reincarnated into.
- In the final pages, we see Alavania's leader come back to his throne, looking mad. His personal butler, Alvin, the leader of Alavania, asked how the meeting went. Alvania was furious and said how they just kept talking about the giant matter and some other boring stuff, when he brought up his plan, they didn't give him permission. He was mad, but he had a backup plan. He was going to go to the Woodland mansion and make a deal with the pillagers that would fulfill his life's goal. Destroying Grummor.
Thank you for reading!
2024.05.19 19:25 MrMiniMuffin Groots on both teams is a nightmare.
So I've been maining mostly Mantis during the Alpha. She's by far the most fun character I've found as I'm a big fan of the swapping between offensive and support playstyles you have to do with her. However there is one game set up that makes playing her a nightmare. Having Groot be the tank on both your team and the enemy team is such a headache as Mantis. There are walls everywhere, and as Mantis I need line of sight on targets to heal. I dont have high quality movement abilities or climbs or flight, just some additional movement speed. And my primary attack is not good enough at destroying the walls quickly. I seriously feel like in these games I run to the team, WALL, run around it, WALL, decide to break it, ANOTHER WALL. Ally Groot starts spam pinging for heals but I cant heal him because he walled himself off. It's getting to the point that if I see a Groot lock in before the game starts I'll begin switching to a flyer like Storm, because what good is a second support if I cant do anything with all these damn walls in my way? I'll just fly over all that shit and give people some damage amp I guess.
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2024.05.19 19:25 fleb_mcfleb Unexpected Gwent win
I'd been psyching myself up to play the High Stakes quest for a while, and finally started it despite not feeling like I had a super strong deck. Won against the first opponent after a couple of attempts, then played against Sasha.
It was an intense game; I couldn't match her spy strategy fully, but I did the best I could. Lost fair and square during the third round, but after I passed, she kept playing the rest of the cards in her hand. Sure, whatever; I do that sometimes when I want a satisfying win.
Unfortunately for her, she decided to clear the weather on the board, which bumped up my points to pass her!! By that point she was out of cards to play. I won through a totally stupid, hilarious flub by the computer, and am continuing on my way to 100% Gwent collection.
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It was an intense game; I couldn't match her spy strategy fully, but I did the best I could. Lost fair and square during the third round, but after I passed, she kept playing the rest of the cards in her hand. Sure, whatever; I do that sometimes when I want a satisfying win.
Unfortunately for her, she decided to clear the weather on the board, which bumped up my points to pass her!! By that point she was out of cards to play. I won through a totally stupid, hilarious flub by the computer, and am continuing on my way to 100% Gwent collection.
2024.05.19 19:22 LeeOhio RG405v for Android Games
I finally bought the Anbernic RG 405v device, and I got it from AliExpress for $25. That's an amazing deal, right?
Anyways, the device is nice to hold during a gaming session. Oddly enough, I've been using the device to run some Android games.
To be honest, I've been playing more Android games than the pre-installed ones. It's hard to explain, but playing some Android games at max settings is exciting.
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Anyways, the device is nice to hold during a gaming session. Oddly enough, I've been using the device to run some Android games.
To be honest, I've been playing more Android games than the pre-installed ones. It's hard to explain, but playing some Android games at max settings is exciting.
2024.05.19 19:21 DungeonsAndMagicShow House Rule to fix land.
On turn 3 at the start of their draw step a player may choose to journey instead.
A player who wishes to journey must reveal their hand, if that hand has no lands in it they may journey.
A player who journeys draws their card for drawstep but does not look at it, reveals it to their opponent, and places that card in exile, they then declare the length of their journey.
A journey can be no longer than three minus the number of lands they have on the battlefield.
They must then draw and reveal cards from the top of their deck until they have revealed as many lands as the length of their journey and must place those lands onto the battlefield untapped.
Their turn then immediately ends.
Before the start of the next turn the next opponent may then choose as many of the revealed non-land cards as lands that were placed on the battlefield during the previous turn to turn exile. All remaining revealed cards that were drawn this turn are then shuffled back into their owner's deck and play continues as normal.
Argument: This is a quasi mercy rule that allows players who have had catestrophically bad luck at the start of the game to still have a fighting chance.
However it comes at a tremendous cost in terms of information and allows your opponent to act on that information as well.
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A player who wishes to journey must reveal their hand, if that hand has no lands in it they may journey.
A player who journeys draws their card for drawstep but does not look at it, reveals it to their opponent, and places that card in exile, they then declare the length of their journey.
A journey can be no longer than three minus the number of lands they have on the battlefield.
They must then draw and reveal cards from the top of their deck until they have revealed as many lands as the length of their journey and must place those lands onto the battlefield untapped.
Their turn then immediately ends.
Before the start of the next turn the next opponent may then choose as many of the revealed non-land cards as lands that were placed on the battlefield during the previous turn to turn exile. All remaining revealed cards that were drawn this turn are then shuffled back into their owner's deck and play continues as normal.
Argument: This is a quasi mercy rule that allows players who have had catestrophically bad luck at the start of the game to still have a fighting chance.
However it comes at a tremendous cost in terms of information and allows your opponent to act on that information as well.