I can provide pics on request. I have a short list of wants at the bottom of the post, but I'm open to all offers for the relevant systems.

PS4

Game	Condition	Notes
Blue Fire	CiB
Code Vein	NiB
Concrete Genie	CiB
Control	CiB
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy	CiB
Cris Tales	NiB
Dark Souls 3	CiB
Darksiders 3	CiB
Darksiders Genesis	NiB
Divinity Original Sin 2 Definitive Edition	CiB
Dodgeball Academia	CiB
Edge of Eternity	CiB
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch	CiB	Japan import
Ghost of Tsushima	NiB	Launch Edition
Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition	NiB	Vblank exclusive
Immortals Fenyx Rising	CiB	Gold Edition (codes used)
Lili: Child of Geos	NiB	Limited Run Games
Lili: Child of Geos Limited Edition	NiB	Limited Run Games
MediEvil	CiB
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy	CiB
My Hero One's Justice	NiB
New Super Lucky's Tale	CiB
Mortal Shell	NiB
Moss (VR)	CiB
Nioh 2	NiB
Okami HD	CiB
Persona 5 Royal	CiB	Steelbook edition
Persona 5 Royal	CiB	EU import
PSVR Demo Disc 2.0 (VR)	NiB
Red Matter (VR)	CiB	Limited Run Games
Sackboy: A Big Adventure	NiB
Shadow of the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition	CiB
Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated	NiB
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order	CiB
The Surge 2	CiB
To the Top (VR)	CiB	Limited Run Games
Tokyo Chronos (VR)	CiB	Limited Run Games
Trover Saves the Universe (VR)	NiB
Yx IX: Monstrum Nox	NiB	Pact Edition

PS5

Game	Condition	Notes
A Plague Tale: Requiem	CiB
Deathloop	NiB
Demon's Souls	CiB
The Forgotten City	CiB
Hogwarts Legacy	CiB
Life is Strange: True Colors	CiB
Returnal	CiB
Spider-Man: Miles Morales	CiB

Switch

Game	Condition	Notes
88 Heroes - 98 Heroes Edition	NiB
99Vidas	NiB	Strictly Limited Games
99Vidas	NiB	Strictly Limited Games
A Hole New World	NiB	First Press Games
The Adventure Pals	NiB	Super Rare Games
Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion	NiB
Aegis Defenders	NiB	Limited Run Games
Aeternoblade II	NiB
Aggelos	NiB	UK import
AI: The Somnium Files	CiB	Day One Edition
Air Conflicts Collection	CiB
All-Star Fruit Racing	NiB
The Alliance Alive HD Remastered	NiB
America's Greatest Game Shows: Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!	NiB
Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition	NiB
Anima Gate of Memories: Arcane Edition	NiB	UK import
Another World	CiB	Limited Run Games
Aqua Moto Racing Utopia	CiB
Aragami: Shadow Edition	CiB
Arc of Alchemist	NiB
Ark: Survival Evolved	CiB
Arms	CiB
Ash of Gods: Redemption	NiB	EU import
Assassin's Creed III Remastered	CiB
Assassin's Creed: The Rebel Collection	CiB
Atari Flashback Classics	CiB
Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings	CiB
Away: Journey to the Unexpected	NiB	Limited Run Games
Azure Striker Gunvolt: Striker Pack	CiB
Bad North	NiB	Limited Run Games
Baldur's Gate & Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Editions	CiB
The Banner Saga Trilogy	NiB
Batman - The Telltale Series	CiB
Battle Chasers: Nightwar	NiB
Battle Chef Brigade Deluxe	NiB	Limited Run Games
Battle Princess Madelyn	NiB	Japan import
Battle Princess Madelyn: Royal Edition	NiB	Limited Run Games
Battle Worlds: Kronos	CiB
Bayonetta 2	CiB	No Bayonetta 1 code
Bayonetta Nonstop Climax Edition	NiB	Japan import
Bee Simulator	CiB
Ben 10	NiB
Bendy and the Ink Machine	NiB
The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+	NiB	First print w/ extras
Black Bird	NiB	Limited Run Games
Blacksad: Under the Skin Limited Edition	NiB
Blade Strangers	NiB
Blaster Master Zero	NiB	Limited Run Games
Blaster Master Zero 2	NiB	Limited Run Games
BlazBlue Centralfiction Special Edition	NiB	EU import
BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle	CiB
Blazing Chrome	NiB	Limited Run Games
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon	NiB	Limited Run Games
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night	NiB
Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King	NiB	Limited Run Games
Bomber Crew: Complete Edition	NiB
The Book of Unwritten Tales 2	NiB
Bookbound Brigade	NiB	Japan import
Brawlout	NiB
Bridge Constructor Portal	NiB	Game Fairy
Brigandine: The Legend of Runersia	NiB	Limited Run Games
Broken Age	NiB	Limited Run Games
Broken Sword 5 - The Serpent's Curse	CiB
Bubble Bobble 4 Friends	NiB	Strictly Limited Games
Bud Spencer & Terrence Hill: Slaps and Beans	NiB	Strictly Limited Games
Bundle Demetrios / Xenon Valkyrie	NiB	Red Art Games
Burgertime Party!	NiB
Burgertime Party!	NiB
Cabela's: The Hunt - Championship Edition	NiB
Caladrius Blaze	NiB	Asia import
Call of Cthulhu	CiB
Candle: The Power of the Flame	NiB
Candleman	NiB	Red Art Games
Capcom Belt Action Collection	NiB	Japan import
Carnival Games	NiB
Cartoon Network Battle Crashers	CiB
Cat Quest	NiB
Cave Story+	CiB	First print w/ extras
Celeste Collector's Edition	NiB	Limited Run Games
Chicken Range	NiB	UK import
Child of Light Ultimate Edition + Valiant Hearts: The Great War	CiB
Children of Morta	NiB
Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon: Every Buddy!	NiB	Japan import
Cities: Skylines	CiB
Close to the Sun	NiB
Code of Princess EX	NiB	First print w/ extras
Collection of Mana	NiB
Cooking Mama Cookstar	NiB
Cosmic Star Heroine	NiB	Limited Run Games
The Count Lucanor	NiB	UK import
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy	NiB
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled	NiB
Crayola Scoot	CiB
CrossCode	CiB
Crystal Crisis	NiB	First print w/ extras
Cube Creator X	NiB	Asia import
Cytus Alpha	NiB	Launch edition w/ CD
Daedalus: The Awakening of Golden Jazz	NiB	Asia import (English on cart)
Daemon X Machina	NiB
Danmaku Unlimited 3	NiB	Limited Run Games
Darius Cozmic Collection (Famitsu DX Pack)	NiB	Japan import
Darkest Dungeon: Collector's Edition	CiB
The Darkside Detective	NiB	Super Rare Games
Dead by Daylight	NiB
Deadly Premonition Origins	NiB
Death Mark	CiB
Death Mark	Cart only
Death Road to Canada	NiB	Play-Asia exclusive
Death Squared	NiB	1Print Games
Deemo	NiB
Deponia	NiB	EU import
Destiny Connect: Tick-Tock Travelers	NiB
Diablo III: Eternal Collection	CiB
Dimension Drive	NiB	Limited Edition (Play-Asia exclusive)
Disgaea 4 Complete+	NiB
Disgaea 5 Complete	CiB
Disney Classic Games: Aladdin and The Lion King	NiB
Doom	CiB
Door Kickers: Action Squad	NiB	Special Reserve Games
Doraemon Story of Seasons	NiB	Asia import (English cover, no rating)
Double Switch: 25th Anniversary Edition	NiB	Limited Run Games
Downwell	NiB	Special Reserve Games
Dragon Ball FighterZ	CiB
Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2	CiB
Dragon Marked for Death	NiB
Dragon Quest 1/2/3 Collection	NiB	Asia import (English cover)
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen	CiB
Dragon's Lair Trilogy	NiB	Limited Run Games
Dreamworks Dragons Dawn of New Riders	NiB
Dust: An Elysian Tail	NiB	Limited Run Games
Earthlock Collector's Edition	Box/Extras only	Super Rare Games, damaged box
Earthlock Collector's Edition	NiB	Super Rare Games, damaged box
The End is Nigh	CiB	First print w/ extras
Enter the Gungeon	NiB	Special Reserve Games
The Escape Trick (Misshitsukara no Dasshutsu: Unmei o Tsunagu 35 no Nazo)	NiB	Japan import
The Escapists: Complete Edition	NiB	Limited Run Games
The Escapists 2	NiB
Everspace - Stellar Edition	NiB
Everspace - Stellar Edition	NiB	UK import
Evoland Legendary Edition	NiB	Super Rare Games
Fairune Collection	NiB	Super Rare Games
Fairy Fencer F: Advent Dark Force	NiB	Limited Run Games
Fallen Legion: Rise to Glory	NiB
Farm Expert 2019 for Nintendo Switch	CiB
Farming Simulator	CiB
Fate/EXTELLA: The Umbral Star	Cart only
Finding Teddy II: Definitive Edition	NiB	PixelHeart
Fire Emblem: Three Houses	CiB
Fitness Boxing	NiB
The Flame in the Flood	NiB	Super Rare Games
Flashback	NiB
Flinthook	NiB	Limited Run Games (misprint)
Flipping Death	NiB
For the King	CiB
Forager	NiB
Forgotton Anne	NiB	Limited Run Games
Fox n Forests	NiB	Strictly Limited Games
Friday the 13th: The Game Ultimate Slasher Edition	NiB
The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa	NiB
The Fruit, Labyrinth, and Eden of Grisaia Full Package	NiB	Japan import
Fun! Fun! Animal Park	NiB
Furi	NiB	Limited Run Games
Furwind	NiB	EU import
Gal Metal - World Tour Edition	NiB
Galak-Z: The Void + Skulls of the Shogun Bone-A-Fide Edition Platinum Pack	NiB
Gekido Kintaro's Revenge	NiB	Red Art Games, smushed box
Gelly Break	NiB	EU import
Ghost 1.0 + Unepic Collection	NiB	Play-Asia exclusive
Ghost Blade HD	NiB	Play-Asia exclusive
Ghost Parade	NiB
Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered	NiB
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams - Owltimate Edition	CiB
Giga Wrecker Alt.	NiB	Limited Run Games
Gigantic Army	NiB	VGNY Cover
Ginger: Beyond the Crystal	NiB	UK import
Girls und Panzer: Dream Tank Match DX	NiB	Asia import
God Eater 3	NiB
God Eater 3	Cart only
God Wars: The Complete Legend	CiB
Golf Story	NiB	Limited Run Games
Goosebumps: The Game	CiB
Grandia HD Collection	NiB	Limited Run Games
GRIP: Combat Racing	NiB	Collector's Edition
Gris	NiB	Special Reserve Games
Gris	NiB	Special Reserve Games
Gunlord X	NiB	EU import
Guns, Gore, & Cannoli 1 & 2	NiB	Strictly Limited Games
Guns of Mercy: Rangers Edition	NiB	PixelHeart
Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger IX	NiB	Limited Run Games
Happy Birthdays	NiB
Harvest Life	NiB	UK import
Harvest Moon: Light of Hope	NiB
Harvest Moon: Mad Dash	NiB
Has-Been Heroes	CiB	Third print (Purple cover art)
Has-Been Heroes	CiB	Third print (Purple cover art)
Hasbro Game Night	NiB
Headliner: Novi News	NiB	Japan import
Hell Warders	NiB	Asia import
Hellmut: The Badass from Hell	CiB
Hello Neighbor	NiB
Hello Neighbor: Hide & Seek	NiB
Heroland Knowble Edition	NiB
Horizon Chase Turbo	NiB	Special Edition
Hotel Transylvania 3: Monsters Overboard	NiB
Hotline Miami Collection	NiB	Special Reserve Games
Hover	NiB
Hover	NiB	Red Art Games
Human Fall Flat	NiB	Super Rare Games
Human Resource Machine Deluxe	NiB	Japan import
I am Setsuna.	NiB	Japan import
Ice Age: Scrat's Nutty Adventure	NiB
Jay and Silent Bob: Mall Brawl	NiB	Limited Run Games
Joe Dever's Lone Wolf	NiB	Super Rare Games
Just Dance 2017	NiB
Just Dance 2018	CiB
Just Dance 2019	NiB
Kamen Rider Climax Scramble Zi-O	NiB	Japan import
KEMCO RPG Omnibus	CiB	Asia import
Kero Blaster	NiB	1Print Games
Killer Queen Black	NiB
Kingdom: New Lands	NiB	Limited Run Games
Kotodama: The 7 Mysteries of Fujisawa	CiB
Kunai	NiB	Limited Run Games
La Mulana 1&2 Hidden Treasures Edition	NiB
L.A. Noire	CiB
Lapis x Labyrinth Limited Edition XL	NiB
Lastfight	NiB	EU import
Layers of Fear: Legacy	NiB	Limited Run Games
Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy - Deluxe Edition	NiB
Legend of Kay - Anniversary	NiB
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Explorer's Edition	CiB
Legendary Fishing	NiB
Lego City Undercover	CiB
Lego DC Super Villains	NiB
Lego Harry Potter Collection	NiB
Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2	NiB
The Lego Movie 2 Video Game	NiB
Lego Ninjago Movie Video Game	NiB
Lego The Incredibles	NiB
Lego Worlds	NiB
Let's Sing 2018	NiB	UK import (1 microphone bundle)
Let's Sing 2019	NiB	UK import (1 microphone bundle)
Let's Sing Country	NiB
Little Dragon's Cafe	CiB
Little Town Hero Big Idea Edition	NiB
Lode Runner Legacy	NiB	Strictly Limited Games
The Longest Five Minutes	CiB
The Lost Child	CiB
Lost Sphear	NiB
Lumines Remastered	NiB	Limited Run Games
Lumo	NiB
Machinarium	NiB	Super Rare Games
Mahjong Deluxe 3	NiB	UK import
Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle	CiB
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020	NiB
Mario Tennis Aces	CiB
Mary Skelter 2	NiB	Limited Run Games
Max: The Curse of Brotherhood	NiB	Damaged spine
Mega Man 11	NiB
Mega Man Legacy Collection	CiB	No Collection 2 code
Mega Man X Legacy Collection	CiB	No Collection 2 code
Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection	NiB
Megaquarium	NiB	Japan import
Mercenaries Saga Chronicles	NiB
Mercenaries Wings: The False Phoenix	NiB	Limited Run Games
Mercenary Kings Reloaded	NiB	Limited Run Games (misprint)
The Messenger	NiB	Special Reserve Games
Minecraft: Story Mode - The Complete Adventure	NiB
Minecraft: Story Mode - Season 2	NiB
Minit	NiB	Special Reserve Games
Minit	NiB	Special Reserve Games
Moero Chronicle Hyper	NiB	Limited Run Games
Moero Crystal H	NiB	Play-Asia exclusive
Monopoly for Nintendo Switch	NiB
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom	NiB	Launch Edition
Monster Energy Supercross - The Official Videogame	CiB
Monster Energy Supercross - The Official Videogame 2	NiB
Monster Jam Crush It!	CiB
Moonlighter	NiB
Mortal Kombat 11	CiB
Mother Russia Bleeds	NiB	Special Reserve Games
Ms. Splosion Man	NiB	Limited Run Games
Musynx	NiB	Chibi cover
Mutant Football League: Dynasty Edition	NiB
Mutant Mudds Collection	NiB	Super Rare Games
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden	CiB	Deluxe Edition
MXGP3 - The Official Motocross Video Game	CiB
My Friend Pedro	NiB	Special Reserve Games
My Girlfriend is a Mermaid!?	NiB	Japan import
My Hero One's Justice	CiB
My Little Riding Champion	NiB
My Memory of Us	NiB	Red Art Games
My Riding Stables - Life with Horses	CiB
My Time at Portia	CiB
Namco Museum Arcade Pac	NiB
NBA 2K Playgrounds 2	NiB
NBA 2K19	NiB
Nelke and the Legendary Alchemists ~Ateliers of the New World~	CiB
Neo Atlas 1469	NiB
Neo ATLAS 1469	NiB	Japan import
Neurovoider	NiB	Red Art Games
New Super Lucky's Tale	NiB
NG	NiB
Night Trap	NiB	Limited Run Games
Nights of Azure 2: Bride of the New Moon	CiB
The Ninja Saviors - Return of the Warriors	NiB	Strictly Limited Games
Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 01: Variety Kit	NiB
Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 02: Robot Kit	NiB
Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 03: Vehicle Kit	NiB
Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 04: VR Kit	NiB
Nippon Marathon	NiB	UK import
Northgard	NiB
Nurse Love Obsession	NiB
Oceanhorn - Monster of Uncharted Seas	NiB
Okami: Zekkeiban Limited Edition	NiB	Japan import
Old Man's Journey	NiB	Red Art Games
Omega Labyrinth Life	NiB	Asia import
Oniken + Odallus Collection	NiB	Play-Asia Exclusive
Onimusha: Warlords	NiB	Japan import
Oninaki	NiB	SEA import
Opus Collection	NiB
Our World is Ended.	NiB
Outlast: Bundle of Terror / Outlast 2	NiB	Limited Run Games
Overcooked!	CiB
Overcooked! 2	CiB
Overwatch	NiB	Japan import
Owlboy	CiB
Panty Party	NiB	Play-Asia Exclusive
Panzer Dragoon	NiB	Limited Run Games
Party Arcade	CiB
Party Planet	CiB
Pato Box	NiB	Play-Asia Exclusive
Paw Patrol: On A Roll!	NiB
Payday 2	CiB
Penguin Wars	CiB
Penny Punching Princess	CiB
PixARK	NiB
PixelJunk Monsters 2	NiB	Limited Run Games
Poi: Explorer Edition	CiB
Pokemon Shield	CiB
Pokken Tournament DX	CiB
Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid Mega Edition	NiB	Limited Run Games
The Princess Guide	CiB
Professional Farmer: Nintendo Switch Edition	NiB
Psikyo Shooting Stars Alpha	NiB
Psikyo Shooting Stars Bravo	NiB
Psyvariar Delta	CiB
Puyo Puyo Tetris	NiB
Q.U.B.E. 2	NiB	Super Rare Games
R-Type Dimensions EX	NiB	Strictly Limited Games
R-Type Dimensions EX	NiB	Strictly Limited Games
Rad Rogers: Radical Edition	NiB
Raging Justice	NiB	Strictly Limited Games
Raging Justice	NIB	Strictly Limited Games
Raging Loop	CiB	Day One Edition
Raiden V: Director's Cut Limited Edition	NiB
The Raven Remastered	CiB
Rayman Legends Definitive Edition	CiB
RBI Baseball 2017	Cart only
RBI Baseball 18	CiB
RBI Baseball 19	CiB
RealMyst: Masterpiece Edition	NiB	Limited Run Games
Red Faction Guerilla Re-Mars-Tered	NiB
Reel Fishing: Road Trip Adventure	NiB
RemiLore: Lost Girl in the Lands of Lore	NiB	First print w/ extras
Resident Evil Origins Collection	NiB
Resident Evil Triple Pack	NiB
Retro City Rampage DX	NiB	Limited Collector's Edition from VBlank Entertainment
Reverie: Sweet As Edition	NiB	Play-Asia exclusive
RICO	CiB
Riddled Corpses EX	NiB	Red Art Games
RiME	CiB	Includes manual
Riot: Civil Unrest	NiB
Risk of Rain 2	NiB
River City Melee Mach!!	NiB	Asia import
Rocket League Ultimate Edition	NiB
Rockman 5-in-1 Collection (Anniversary 2 / X Anniversary 2)	NiB	Japan import
Rockman X Anniversary Collection 2	NiB	Japan import
Rogue Legacy	NiB	Limited Run Games
RollerCoaster Tycoon Adventures	NiB
Roman Rumble in Las Vegum - Asterix & Obelix XXL2	NiB
Root Letter: Last Answer	CiB	Day One box beat up, game itself NiB
Runner3	NiB	First print w/ extras
RXN -Raijin-	NiB	Play-Asia exclusive
Saints Row: The Third - The Full Package	NiB
Samurai Shodown - Shockbox Gold Edition	NiB	Pix'n Love
Saturday Morning RPG	NiB	Limited Run Games
Scribblenauts Mega Pack	NiB
SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays	NiB	Asia import
Sega Genesis Classics	CiB
Senran Kagura Peach Ball	CiB
Senran Kagura Reflexions	NiB	Limited Run Games
Shadowgate	NiB	Limited Run Games
Shakedown: Hawaii	NiB	VBlank exclusive
Shanghai Refresh	NiB	Japan import
Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn	CiB
Shikhondo - Soul Eater	NiB	Play-Asia exclusive
Shining Resonance Refrain	CiB	Day One Edition
Shmup Collection	NiB	PixelHeart
Sid Meier's Civilization VI	NiB
Sisters Royale	NiB	Strictly Limited Games
Skullgirls: 2nd Encore	NiB
Skylanders Imaginators Starter Pack	NiB
Slay the Spire	NiB
Slime-San: Superslime Edition	NiB	Limited Run Games
Snake Pass	NiB	Super Rare Games
Sniper Elite V2 Remastered	CiB
Sniper Elite III Ultimate Edition	NiB
Snipperclips Plus	CiB
SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy	NiB
Snow Moto Racing Freedom	NiB
Soldam: Drop, Connect, Erase	CiB
Songbird Symphony	NiB	UK import
Sonic Forces	CiB
Sonic Mania Plus	NiB
South Park: The Fractured But Whole	NiB
Space Invaders Invincible Collection - Special Edition	NiB	Japan import
Sparklite	NiB
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy	Cart only
Spintires: Mudrunner - American Wilds	NiB
Splasher	NiB	Red Art Games
Splatoon 2	CiB
Sports Party	CiB
Star Wars Episode I: Racer	NiB	Limited Run Games
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast / Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy	NiB	Limited Run Games
Star Wars Pinball	NiB
Starlink: Battle for Atlas - Starter Edition	CiB
Stay	CiB	Red Art Games
SteamWorld Dig 2	NiB
SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech	NiB	Super Rare Games
Steins;Gate Elite	CiB
Stern Pinball Arcade	CiB
Stranded Sails: Explorers of the Cursed Islands	NiB
Stranger Things 3: The Game	NiB	Limited Run Games
Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection	CiB
Streets of Rage 4	NiB	Limited Run Games
Streets of Red: Devil's Dare Deluxe	NiB
Super Bomberman R	NiB	Second print (standardized spine text)
Super Mario Party	CiB
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD	NiB
Super Neptunia RPG	NiB
Super Robot Wars T	NiB	Asia import
Super Robot Wars V	NiB	Asia import
Super Street: Racer	NiB
Super Trench Attack!	NiB	PixelHeart
Superbeat: Xonic	NiB
SuperEpic: The Entertainment War	NiB
Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido	NiB
Syberia Trilogy	NiB	EU import
Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition	NiB
Tennis World Tour: Roland-Garros Edition	CiB
Teslagrad	NiB
Tetris 99	NiB
Thea: The Awakening	NiB	Limited Run Games
Thimbleweed Park	NiB	Limited Run Games
This is the Police	Cart only
This War of Mine: Complete Edition	CiB
Thumper	NiB	Limited Run Games
Tiny Barbarian DX	CiB	First print w/ extras
Tiny Metal Ultimate	NiB	Limited Run Games
Tiny Troopers: Joint Ops XL	NiB
Titan Quest	CiB
ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove!	NiB	Limited Run Games
Toki Retrollector Edition	CiB
Tokyo 2020 Olympics: The Official Video Game	NiB	Japan import
Tokyo School Life	NiB
Touch Detective: Funghi's Big Breed (The Nameko no Puzzle: Nameko Dai Hanshoku)	NiB	Japan import
Touhou Genso Wanderer Reloaded	Cart only
Touhou Kobuto V: Burst Battle	NiB
Trailblazers	CiB
Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes	CiB	DLC code unused
Trials Rising Gold Edition	NiB
Trine Series 1-3	NiB
Trine Ultimate Collection	CiB	cart is Trine 4 standalone
Troll & I	CiB
Trüberbrook	CiB
Truck Racing Championship	NiB
TT Isle of Man - Ride on the Edge	CiB
Turok / Turok 2: Seeds of Evil	NiB	Limited Run Games
Two Point Hospital	NiB
Two Tribes Collection (Toki-Tori Collection / RIVE Ultimate Edition)	NiB	Super Rare Games
Uglydolls: An Imperfect Adventure	CiB
Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers	NiB
Ultracore	NiB	Strictly Limited Games
Umihara Kawase Fresh!	NiB	SFC Box Edition
Undertale	CiB
The Unicorn Princess	NiB
Valfaris	CiB
Valkyria Chronicles 4	CiB
Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story	NiB	UK import
Vampyr	CiB
THE Variety Game Daishugo: Kingyo Sukui, Card, Suji Puzzle, Nikakudori	NiB	Japan import
Vasara Collection	NiB	Strictly Limited Games
Vectronom	NiB	Red Art Games
Velocity 2X	NiB	Strictly Limited Games
Victor Vran: Overkill Edition	CiB
Vitamin Connection	NiB	Limited Run Games
VOEZ	NiB
Void Terrarium Limited Edition	NiB
Vostok Inc.	NiB	Wired Productions
Waku Waku Sweets	NiB
The Walking Dead: The Final Season	CiB
War Tech Fighters	NiB	Red Art Games
Wargroove	NiB
Wasteland 2 Director's Cut	CiB
Wild Guns Reloaded	CiB
Windjammers	NiB	Limited Run Games
Windstorm	NiB	EU (Nordic) import
The Witcher III: Wild Hunt Complete Edition	NiB
Wizard of Legend	NiB	Limited Run Games
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus	CiB
Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap	CiB	First print w/ extras
World of Final Fantasy Maxima	NiB	Asia multi-language import
World of Simulators	NiB	Firefighters/Professional Construction/Firefighters Airport
Worms W.M.D.	NiB	Super Rare Games
Wulverblade	NiB	Super Rare Games
Xeno Crisis	NiB	Strictly Limited Games
Xeodrifter	NiB	Red Art Games
Yoku's Island Express	CiB
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles	CiB
Yooka-Laylee Classic Edition	NiB	Limited Run Games
Yooka-Laylee	NiB	Limited Run Games
Yooka-Laylee & the Impossible Lair	CiB
Yoshi's Crafted World	CiB
Ys Origin	NiB	Limited Run Games
Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana	CiB
Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution	NiB
Zumba Burn it Up!	NiB

WANTS

Game	System
Atelier Ryza 3	PS4
Tales of Symphonia Remastered	PS4
Kirby and the Forgotten Land	Switch
Xenoblade Chronicles 3	Switch
Offers	PS4, PS5, Switch

I prefer CiB or NiB, but I'm also happy to look at digital offers. Nothing disc or cart-only, please!

I hope you're not too annoyed with me posting one and the same thing.. This is the lastest LASTEST version of this ability, and I hope you'll like these changes I added!
King Of Thieves (Nen-dentity Theft) Type: 100% Specialization, 80% Conjuration
The user is able to conjure a cloth bag with a counter on it's side. The bag is able to store anyone's nen potential. To do so the user needs to approach his target from behind, grab them by their clothes (or aura, if they're not in a state of Zetsu), and pull. By doing so he'll be able to pull out the person's aura, which then needs to be placed in the bag. After being filled with any amount of aura the bag starts to grow it's amount by 10% every 15 seconds, it's counter is going to show what amount of aura is in the bag afer growth. The user is able to retrieve any amount of aura (with a limitation) out of the bag anytime he wants and add it to his own Aura Points.
Limitations: - The amount of aura that gets stolen depends on how hard the user grabs the target: A pinch - 5%;
All fingers - 12.5%;
Full-power clutch - 25%;
- You cannot steal more aura than full-force clutch allows.
- The max amount of aura you can retrieve at once can range from 1 AP to 100.000 AP.
- The bag has a cap of 1.000.000 Aura Points at which it stops generating Nen. To resume adding-up Nen you need to take any amount of aura the restriction allows out of the bag.
Friend From The Bag (Mr. Lend-A-Hand) Type: 100% Specialization, 80% Conjuration, 80% Manipulation
The user is able to pull out the exact amount of nen his target originally had and conjure their clone with said nen. The clone will be able to physically fight but just to be safe, they're created with set parameters and cannot use their nen abilities (ex: Uvogin would be able to use his Big-Bang Impact as if it was his natural strength, and not Enhancement. Of course a limitation is applied). After finishing whatever task they were given, the clones disappear and return to the bag as Nen.
Lmitations: - If the user lacks at least half aura points needed for creating the clone, their power will be greatly reduced and their stats will be a lot lower. - The user is able to ask the clones for intellectual help, like planning something for example. The result heavily relies on the clone's original Nen affinity and personality. (ex. Enhancers would offer straightforward and simple strategies, Transmuters would often offer non-serious and joke approaches, etc.) - At max nen capacity the clone's power is equal to 50% of the original person.
Lootery Lottery (Fun Fierce Frenzy!)
Type: 80% Conjuration
The user can summon a doll in a jester's hat and makeup that looks like a nutcracker named Frenzy. He sticks his upper body out of the bag and announces that the user (or anyone he needs weapons for. Can be multiple people at once) has "won a lottery", spits out a lottery ticket (or more) and disappears. When the person picks up their respective ticket it throws out a bit of confetti out of itself and turns into a random weapon with a small cloud of smoke and a poof sound. The weapon is fairly normal except that every type of weapon has a logo with Frenzy's face and "Frenzy&Co!" written under it.
Limitations: - After using the ability it becomes unaccessible for 24 hours.
- After you or the someone else are done using the weapon it poofs away and the user's nen reserve is drained by (Nen per type of the weapon x Nen per bullet shot x Nen per time of usage). Melee weapons' cost is determined by (Nen per type of the weapon x Nen per time of usage).
- You can't get more weapons if Frenzy has already disappeared.
- With each new ticket the cost of the weapons increases proportionally.

Greetings Reddit Landlords! I have a property in Tacoma, WA with two houses separated by fencing. Parking for the second house is behind the garage and is not enclosed by a fence. The pathway from the second house to the parking area is a big mud pit. I bought the house late last year and have been watching for a four to five day window of good weather to add a concrete driveway and walkway to the home. The current tenants (2 adults, 3 small kids) moved in late January and will vacate and the end of April (previous tenant broke lease; these tenants are paying $250/month extra for short term lease). They’ve politely inquired about the walkway but have been patient. I’d like to start the project next week. All together it will cost me about $7k. I am NOT looking to pass this cost along to the tenant so I’d love to hear ideas/suggestions to be sure that their kids don’t ruin it before it can fully set. I will charge them if they damage it but would really, really prefer to minimize the chance of that happening. I don’t have any security cameras on site and would prefer not to have them there long-term but perhaps it makes sense to have a camera short term in case someone damages the drying concrete? Should I have them sign something that gives their permission to proceed? Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. I will let the three adult tenants in the other home know about the project but they’re unlikely to accidentally damage since their house is separated by a fence.

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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to embrace their thoughts and feelings rather than fighting or feeling guilty for them. It is a type of therapy that aims to help people accept what is out of their control and commit to actions that enrichen their lives. ACT incorporates mindfulness skills to help individuals live and behave in ways consistent with personal values while developing psychological flexibility.

Art Based Therapeutic Work

Art based therapeutic work invites the participant to use the process of creating tangible art pieces with clear clinical intent, a less verbal or cognitive method of expression. Sometimes things that are difficult to grasp or explain in words can emerge or be uncovered through non-verbal means. Through this approach one can bridge levels of consciousness in a way that greatly informs the therapeutic process.

Brainspotting (BSP)

Brainspotting (BSP) is a powerful, focused treatment method that begins by identifying, processing and releasing core neurophysiological sources of distress. Emotional and body pain, the effects of trauma, dissociation and a variety of other challenging symptoms are held deeply in the non-verbal, non-cognitive areas of one’s neurophysiology. BSP uses bilateral sound and fixed eye positions to enhance deep, direct and powerful healing. The therapist helps the client locate internal resources to contain emotional reactions. BSP is especially applicable for treating trauma. People typically respond to traumatic experiences through primitive flight, fight or freeze instincts. BSP allows clients to significantly reduce and eliminate the tension and hyper-arousal associated with these survival instincts. Clients can look forward to integrating healing on emotional, somatic, psychological, and spiritual levels.
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Breath Work

Breath Work helps a person feels calm and focused by attuning to their body sensations and awareness. It is often combined with other approaches and techniques to buffer the distress and intense emotional experience that may accompany healing.

Buddhist Informed Therapy

This mode of therapy has aspects of conventional psychotherapy, coaching with traditional Buddhist philosophy. Buddhist psychology helps us to refrain from ways of thinking and behaving that create unnecessary suffering.

Child Centered Play Therapy

Child Centered Play Therapy is rooted in the research and studies of Gary Landreth, Ed.D., LPC, RPT-S among other notable Play Therapy theorists. The approach is focused on building a relationship at a child’s comfort level and pace of trust. This approach uses the basis of “A child’s play is their core and basic level of communication and toys are their words to use.”

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a type of talking treatment, which focuses on how your thoughts, beliefs and attitudes affect your feelings and behavior, and teaches you coping skills for dealing with different problems. It combines cognitive therapy (examining the things you think) and behavior therapy (examining the things you do). CBT is based on the idea that the way we think about situations can affect the way we feel and behave.

Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS)

Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) is an evidence based practice that calms behavior challenges, opens up new pathways of thinking, and builds the skills to meet expectations. Helping your family member improve areas like frustration tolerance, flexibility and problem solving can improve the relationships regardless of age.

Contemplative Dialogue

Contemplative Dialogue involves deeply engaged and reflective discussion. While most therapy could potentially be described in this manner, contemplation pays particular attention to a client’s inner process and intuition. Most therapies are focused on the exchange between the mind and behavior. Contemplation seeks to open a holistic, spiritual and transcendent dimension of experience using dyadic exchange. This deepens and expands beyond traditional narrative therapy.

Dream Analysis

Dream Analysis allows the participant to document and examine messages which may be coming to them during expanded sleep states. Together, we reflect upon these messages to see what helpful information might inform the therapeutic healing process.

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is based on the discovery that imbalances in the body’s energy system have profound negative effects on one’s emotional well-being. Correcting these imbalances, which is done by tapping on meridian points on various parts of the body, often leads to rapid relief.

Energy Healing (Reiki and other modalities)

Energy healing is a holistic practice that activates the body’s subtle energy systems to remove blocks. By breaking through these energetic blocks, the body’s inherent ability to heal itself is stimulated.
The term “reiki” comes from the Japanese words “rei,” meaning universal, and “ki,” which means vital life force energy that flows through all living things. Some practitioners describe reiki as acupuncture without the needles. Reiki is a complementary health approach in which practitioners place their hands on or just above different areas of the body. It’s based on an Eastern medicine belief that living beings have energy fields that support their health and vitality.
Energy blocks, on the other hand, impede innate flow of energy, causing not only health problems, but also negative life circumstances like financial troubles or relationship problems. Reiki practitioners focus on sensing energy blocks and moving the energy for the greatest good of the client.

Experiential Therapy

Experiential Therapy involves a wide range of activity based work. Often there is movement involved and can be done indoors and out. Engaging through experience rather than only talking can reduce resistance and provide participants a “ground up” sense of safety and awareness of internal physical responses to stress.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal. EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma. When you cut your hand, your body works to close the wound. If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain. Once the block is removed, healing resumes.
EMDR therapy demonstrates that a similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes. The brain’s information processing system naturally moves toward mental health. If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense suffering. Once the block is removed, healing resumes. Using the detailed protocols and procedures learned in EMDR therapy training sessions, clinicians help clients activate their natural healing processes.
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Filial Therapy

This focused and manualized approach uses a Child-Parent Relationship Therapy model. This modality builds on Child Centered Play Therapy and presents it in a parent-friendly model and adapts core Play Therapy elements and delivers them in a way for parents to use. A common experience for participants is to experience not only increased parental confidence, but ultimately a stronger Child-Parent relationship.

Hakomi Method

The Hakomi Method of Experiential Psychotherapy, a body-centered approach that combines somatic awareness with experiential techniques to promote psychological growth and transformation. Hakomi theory holds the body to be a window to the unconscious and works to help those in therapy identify somatic indicators of unconscious beliefs and then bring these indicators into awareness, thus aiding the process of change.

HeartMath™ emWaveII

HeartMath™ emWaveII devices monitor heart wave variability to assist clients in awareness of internal states of emotional dysregulation. Using this device can help in learning awareness of internal feelings of safety and assess interaction in practicing relationship.

Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy involves using imagery, breathing, guided visualization and focused attention. This induces suggestibility and openness, and facilitates desired change. Hypnotherapy can have a profound and lasting positive impact on behavior and perspectives. Hypnotherapy has been an effective tool for many issues including pain management, anxiety, sleep difficulties, smoking cessation, weight management and addiction. It offers a powerful alternative to medication alone.

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an approach that identifies, addresses and validates multiple sub-personalities or families within each person’s mental system. These sub-personalities consist of wounded parts and painful emotions such as anger and shame, and parts that try to control and protect the person from the pain of the wounded parts.

Mindfulness Based Meditation

Mindfulness Based Meditation is the practice of increasing awareness by bringing one’s complete attention without judgment to the present experience on a moment-to-moment basis. Formal and informal meditation are often associated with the practice of mindfulness. This promotes a relaxed, focused and clear state of mind. Mindfulness practice is an effective intervention for trauma, attention difficulties, depression, low self-esteem, anxiety, impulse control, and numerous other issues.

Non-Monogamy/Kink Informed Therapy

This mode of therapy presents a unique look at traditional and non-traditional relationship systems and uses supportive techniques to give space to create a relationship system that fits those involved. This style of therapy focuses on autonomy and choosing a style of relationship system that benefits all partners involved. It may also include increased education and assistance for those transitioning from more traditional relationships to more creative and collaborative relationship styles.

Polyvagal Theory

We come into the world wired to connect. With our first breath, we embark on a lifelong quest to feel safe in our bodies, in our environments and in our relationships with others. The autonomic nervous system is our personal surveillance system, always on guard, asking the question “Is this safe?” Its goal is to protect us by sensing safety and risk, listening moment by moment to what is happening in and around our bodies and in the connections we have with others.
This listening happens far below awareness and far away from our conscious control. Dr. Stephen Porges, who first researched PVT coined the term neuroception to describe the way our autonomic nervous system scans for cues of safety, danger, and life-threat without involving the thinking parts of our brain. Because we humans are meaning-making beings, what begins as the wordlesss experiencing of neuroception drives the creation of a story that shapes our daily living.
– Deb Dana from “The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy”

Problem Solving Therapy

Problem solving therapy is a form of therapy that provides clients with tools to identify and solve problem that arise from life stressors. Problem solving therapy is very practical in its approach and is concerned with the present. This orientation embraces self-efficacy and accepts the idea that problems are a normal part of life.

Psychedelic Integration/Harm Reduction

Psychedelics assist in giving us a glimpse into the unconscious mind. With the assistance of talk therapy these medicines help us work through and examine emotions in a safe and freeing environment. Psychedelic Integration (& Preparation) Therapy involves preparing for an upcoming journey/ceremony/healing experience with a plant medicine or psychedelic medicine, and/or processing a psychedelic experience in a therapeutic context afterwards. Harm reduction comes as a part of the education of plant medicine or psychedelic so that the participant is coming into the experience with full consent and understanding of what to look for in case help is needed. It is through a healer or clinician that we can gain tools and understandings to have the experience the medicine is offering to humanity.

Sandtray

Sandtray is a powerful, non-verbal, therapeutic technique that facilitates one’s natural capacity for healing. Sandtray uses objects and figures placed in a sandtray to create scenes of miniature worlds that reflects a person’s inner thoughts, struggles and concerns. By moving the miniatures in response to a given prompt, new insights and clarity help the client overcome their struggles.

Solution Focused Therapy

Solution Focused Therapy is a goal-focused, respectful collaborative, therapeutic approach, which helps clients change by constructing solutions rather than focusing on problems. In the most basic sense, it is a hope friendly, positive emotion eliciting, and future-oriented vehicle for formulating, motivating, achieving, and sustaining desired change. Therapist and client carefully search through the client’s life experience and behavioral repertoire to discover the necessary resources needed to co-construct a practical and sustainable solution that the client can readily implement.

Somatic Experience (SE)

Somatic Experience (SE), “pioneered by biological physicist and psychologist Peter Levine, Ph.D., is an approach that uses internal body awareness and kinesthetic sense” (Naparstek B., Invisible Heroes) to gradually move past the parts of traumatic experience that feel stuck in the body. Trauma is often experienced as a frozen event in one’s body that will be repeated through time. Through an imagined oasis of calm and safety, the person is able to gradually dispel the traumatic reaction through responses the body wishes to make that were unavailable during the original traumatic event.

Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT)

Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT) uses a gentle acupressure pose near the bridge of the nose, gentle pressure on the occipital area at the back of the head, and stimulation of the sixth chakra point to effect a positive change. The client focuses on a particular problem, emotion, image or sensation during this pose.

Trauma Informed Therapy

Trauma Informed Therapy is a framework for understanding the impact of trauma on the mind, body and overall well-being. Specific attention and respect is given to the detrimental effects of trauma on health, relationships, thinking and behavior. Treatment serves to clear traumatic residue which often persists long after the traumatic situation or event.
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IF you agree with any of my opinions like i said feel free to dm me to talk about it further. IF you disagree that is totally fine , I probably wont respond to arguments though
Bramblestar's storm I know Jessie is considered a Mary Sue i dont neccesarily agree but even if she is the author's have that creative choice. anyways I know a lot of fans use the her being better at hunting in tree tops as evidence of this and this it doesnt make sense. For me however I always saw it as yes her learning from her mother and walking along twoleg fences helped her to be excellent at this extreme subset hunting skill and that is it. anyway my comment on Jessie isnt a character analysis or debating her. that scene people are annoyed at. for me I just find so incredibly funny even if I agree they are right and it doesnt make sense. the "shook" reactions of the clan cats is just so memey and funny to me in my head
Leopardstar's super edition and some others seeing Firestaheart etc from a position that isnt his own and isnt within thunderclan puts into perspective his dopeness and legitness and like basically his good qualities as a cat and leader
the Erins like to do what im calling the peak effect they like to pick one moment or sequence in a relationship at any point to define how close the cats are and give the impression that all their litttle hints and moments were doing that all along. and some pairings fall more strictly onto this pattern and others less so
I think they changed silverstream's characterization to be more prissy like even in the retelling like with Leoapardstar's super edition etc. in the original series she has a sharp sense of humor, she loves deeply, and moves her self with grace . this turns into prissy, idealistic, and haughty later.
tallstar super edition i love tallkit. i think they took the cheap route when dealing with his conflict with his father. furthermore i wish they delved more emotionally with his bond with jake.
i dont get why greystripe when as temporary leader would have lionblaze as deputy like he knows lionblaze acted violently and recklessly in atime of crisis and isnt a good leader and greystripe is old yet... like omg. how can greystripe be so wise as a leader yet make a stupid decision like that that completely undoes that characterization make it make sense
i wish they used Millie's ability to speak with dogs. i also liked those two kittens who could speak dog i wished they used that moment more
It doesnt make sense to me that Shadowclan would disrespect Littlecloud at the end of life like that even given the state of the clan at the time. they one valued the clan for things they couldnt get themselves immediately which littlecloud provided time and time again. But also culturally imo shadowclan is a clan who values assimilation, they value people getting them and eachother. like my point is I dont think its in character for Shadowclan even of that time to do that to Littlecloud. also it is SO disrespectful to that character (Littlecloud ) i really hated that choice
Puddleshine in AVOS had to already be extremely compassionate, be good at risk assessing, be very intuitive./ instinctive to be able to do what he did and on top of that he not only grew into those skills but became adept at them largely as well in dealing with and sussing out different cats, moments, and communicating with them. all while being his upbeat cheerful self or demeanor. i love his character he's my favorite. however in TBC they toss all of that aside for the sake of drama and conflict. instead of going okay you have these skills qualities now we are putting it to the test. it would deepen things imo. like based on how his character has developed been established his relationship with shadowsight makes no sense. though i do like their scene at the end together i really love that one.
I know people don't like tigerheartstar but imo he isn't unfair. like for example he said as long as shadowclan is at its current size skyclan can have more territority it is conditional purposal he laid out the conditions when those conditions are no longer met its not their land. to push the narrative he is worse then he is rather then how he executes his decisions or follows through on them being bad horrible. Up until he takes over riverclan every decision of his has made sense and fit his character. except for when he bans shadowsight from medicine cat duties. i think whenever they need to add a major plot conflict or emotional conflict for a main character they have him do something out of character
i loved that runningnose was mentoring puddleshine from starclan i hate that yellowfang took over; they overuse her character.
sunningrocks belongs to river clan. just based upon the fact the distance of land which marks the end of their territory did not change the river simply shrunk
it would have been interesting to see oakheart become oakstar while bluefur was bluestar
especially in these newer books a lot of these mentors need training in mentoring lol. and what is it with the whole im now a shitty mentor character arch they all go through
it would have been interesting if darktail and violetkit developed a genuine healthy adoptive father adoptive daughter bond/kinship whilst he was still that awful cat imo
needletail figured out the thing with the thunderpaths and monsters i dont get why that strategy for crossing hasnt been past down
they had some interesting philisophical conflicts in avos at the start which they introduced and then never dived into lol
ivypool's mate offers to be in nursery instead of her and yet they never have that actually happen which was so dissapointing
i really loved hawkfrost and mothwing's relationship as kits. i really would have prefered if the story was hawkfrost was aware how prejudiced the clans were an just wanted moth to be able to happily live her dreams and protect her but it did it in these shady ways. instead of what he turned out to be. also wasting a cool name imo
i like the name twigbranch
i hate how finleap pressures twigbranch not just cuz its shitty but also cuz it makes no sense for his character. like he left because he loved her in it of itself more then he loved his intrinsic need for family and belonging etc. and then he goes well i thought id get that and thats why i left makes no sense
if mothwing was so worried about cats having dangerous blind faith why put shadowsight next to the cat who is supplying him the dangerous blind faith and isolate him. like?????
crowfeather and leafpool in starclan together were so cute i really felt their romance their

Secret Dragon 5B: Perfection
[Chapter 5A: Perfection abridged. Less Explicit but still very steamy.]
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The distant storm he had banished returned from that deep place in him, now a tempest. He put his mouth against my neck. We will go slow he whispered. I shivered in response.
Vibrations wound their way through my body. Sound waves reverberated off bones. The pounding of his heart beat in time with mine. It was a song made of storms. I needed to be swept up in it.
He kissed me softly with rolling flames all over. Every inch of my scales was being annealed, preparing to be forged into something lost to time.
Where the fire touched, my scales glowed red hot, like embers. Savor this, he whispered. He brought his mouth to mine, kissing me amidst his flames.
His everything moved in perfect harmony with mine. I surrendered myself fully to him, waxing and waning, a boat on the waves.
Sasha knew the way I wanted to be touched. The way I wanted to be loved on. The way I wanted to be handled.
We had reached the peak of this volcano. Sasha’s wings stretched to their full span. This man had conquered me.
Something broke free inside me, then, something dormant in my core.
Flames erupted from his mouth and nose, engulfing our bodies entirely. I clutched at Sasha’s back, digging my claws into it.
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I was being baptized, dipped backward into a deep river of fire by his strong hands. But I did not emerge from the surface; instead, I plunged deeper, into a vision of darkness, revealing the cosmos itself.
The Sun, my everything in this universe, my namesake, loomed ahead. It beckoned me, and I rushed toward that bright star without hesitation. When I entered, a searing pain began in my back, their two points of origin so telling. So unmistakable. It was like I was being ripped apart. Yet I felt nothing but joy in that pain. I came out the other side a streak of gold rushing down from the depths of the sun’s core back to earth. Back to reality. What was this?
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Light filled the room as my eyes burst open. I heard the billowing of air as our bodies rose from the bed. His claws held my waist, my back arched.
White hot wings of light drifted in and out of my peripheral vision from behind me. They were the brightest, most beautiful things I had ever seen. As if possessed, I held both sides of his face stared deeply into his soul until his eyes glowed like an inferno. White hot fire manifested itself across his wings. Radiant and full of light. Like mine. I released him.
We were suspended in the air, frozen in time, silent. No longer were we mere mortals in that moment. We were glorious, and terrible. Divine beings, forged in lava and cosmic energy.
Slowly, gently, all the flames began die. My wings softly dispersed until they were no more. His hands held me as we drifted downward. His eyes and wings both dimmed back into their normalcy.
The fireplace was, once again, the only source of light in the room.
Our chests heaves from the intensity of what had just transpired. We stared at each other, wild eyed. His wings lowered, somewhat. Our senses returned to us.
My hands shook as I touched his cheek, rubbing his scales.
We held each other’s gaze. Eventually, he closed his eyes, wrapping his arms around me tenderly, and his wings enveloped me.
For a long time, we just lay there together, still smoldering in the aftermath of that eruption. That awakening. The only sounds now were our shallow breaths, and the fire which crackled behind us.
We had gone elsewhere. Some distant place lost to time where our history lie in ruins. Where a rend in the crust had torn our people asunder in ages past. And that pull of his call to me? It felt so strongly, as if our souls were old things in that distant place, once known to each other but cleaved violently and unjustly.
We had awoken in mundanity that morning. Mostly normal people living a mostly normal life. Now who were we meant to be?
The end and the beginning of all things. The answer to questions not yet asked.
We were perfection.

Hello, I would like to get opinions from others in regards to what I am going through. I have been married for 8 years to this korean guy. I am spanish so our cultures are a bit differently. I sponsor him and brought him to live with me in Canada. He comes from a very poor living environment and I promise him that i would support his dreams and goals. This past years he only focus on studying in University while I worked full-time to support both myself, him and my son. This past years have been super difficult in our marriage, he has always been unfaithful with other women from online and has once even met a women in person behind my back. Anyways, because i felt so sorry for him, I gave up on my dreams to help him achieve his. I was able to only graduate to college since I couldn't afford to continue my studies since i had to work to support my family. I am currently working and studying again full time to get another college diploma. However, my husband always complains that I am low quality because i dont have an university degree, i cant cook food like he wants, and also because my body is still the same as before. He wants me to read books and build muscle and be super fit but the problem is i dont have time. I work from 7:30 till 5:30 and get home almost 7pm and have to study as well. I do go to the gym at least 3 times a week but it is super hard to build muscle. I dont consider myself ugly but average petite and weight only 110 pounds but for him, is not enough. I feel like he wants me to do be like his online girlfriends who are much prettier than me. They also have higher education than me. He constantly complains, that i am downgrading his life because my job doesn't pay enough since i am only a daycare teacher. He saids he cant love me, if i dont work hard enough to improve myself and be more successful. He wants me to do be like him, study for hours and go gym, but i told him, i dont have the time he does. He saids i am just saying excuses to build myself to be better. He calls me lazy, and saids that me cleaning the home is not a hardworking behaviour. He wants a successful women, and i am not for him. I told him, I married him even though he had no money or education before and that he should see how hard i have work in order to help pay his education for him to successful. He saids if i dont work hard, he cant love me. His favourite thing to do is to take me otuside work a walk just to yell at me in front of other people. He said i shouldnt care about what other people think, and the embarrasement i feel cant be compare to the pain i make him feel. I dont think, i am being lazy, i work full-time and provide for my family and on top of that i study full time and i do the best i can.

Grand Theft Auto V is one of the most profitable entertainment franchises in the history of games. It came along as a return to form after what many fans would argue was a misstep with the more gritty and realistic GTA 4. Originally released back in 2013 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3—yes, it spans three console generations—developer Rockstar has supported the game's online mode with continual updates adding new content, new areas, and even all-new mechanics.
GTA V was such a runaway success—and GTA The Trilogy: Definitive Edition was such a dumpster fire—that Rockstar gave up working on a Red Dead Redemption 2 DLC, and has now reportedly abandoned plans to remaster more of its beloved older titles to instead focus on both further GTA Online content as well as the development of GTA 6.
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Naturally, expectations for GTA 6 are incredibly high, and given the advanced age of GTA V, fans are chomping at the bit for any bit of news. That's why there's so much buzz around a report at Bloomberg that focuses on Rockstar's new corporate culture. Company co-founder Dan Houser left Rockstar in 2020, and ever since then the development house has been trying to reshape a corporate culture that the report refers to as being "like a frat house".
Given the nature and tone of the humor in the Grand Theft Auto series, it's really not surprising to hear that the atmosphere inside Rockstar was juvenile and chauvinistic. The report remarks that the workplace culture at Rockstar was "full of drinking, brawling, and excursions to strip clubs." That may sound like a good time to some, but it's admittedly not very professional.
gta1 katie Katie from the OG Grand Theft Auto (1997) on PC (left) and Game Boy Color (right).
As part of the report, author Jason Schreier casually reveals that GTA 6 will have at least two playable protagonists, and that one of them will be a Latina woman. This technically isn't the first playable woman nor even the first playable Hispanic woman in the GTA series; the very first GTA game featured a Latina named "Katie" as one of its eight playable characters.
Still, very few of the series' modern fans even remember the old DOS-based Grand Theft Auto, so we can forgive everyone for forgetting about poor Katie. Regardless, the new girl will apparently be part of a Bonnie-and-Clyde-like crime duo, calling to mind the partnership between Claude and Catalina in the beginning of Grand Theft Auto III. Hopefully the partnership between the new player characters in GTA 6 doesn't end the same way that one did.
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KOwen 29 July, 2022
Release the PC version at the same time as the consoles please!
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Secret Dragon - 5A: Perfection [Explicit]
[NSFW: Grown Folks Business Ahead. Explicit. Seriously. If you want to read a less explicit but still very steamy version of this chapter, I got you! Please proceed to chapter 5B for the abridged version]
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Suggested Listening: Floetry Say Yes
Eryn Allen Kane Have Mercy
— The distant storm he had banished returned from that deep place in him, now a tempest. He put his mouth against my neck. We will go slow he whispered. I shivered in response.
Vibrations wound their way through my body. Sound waves reverberated off bones. The pounding of his heart beat in time with mine. It was a song made of storms. I needed to be swept up in it.
He kissed me softly with rolling flames. From my lips to my neck, then over the plates between my breasts. Over my belly. My hands slid to his shoulders as he worked his down my thighs. Every inch of my scales was being annealed, preparing to be forged into something lost to time.
Sasha’s tongue trailed back up my leg. His claws caressed my legs between my thighs. So I invited him into my house, for there was a feast prepared for him.
My scales prickled where his tongue trailed up my inner thighs. The deep growl of his throat sent vibrations inside me. I could see steam roll off my body into clouds. The heat of his fire was awakening my flesh, my core. His tongue searched me until he found my pleasure, as if he had a roadmap to it. He ate me, not like like a starving man, but one of refined tastes. “Right there,” I moaned. “Yes.” And slowly, he explored that place. My secret place. A whimper escaped my mouth. My claws dug into the mattress.
My imagination at its most creative, at its most hungry, could not have conjured this ecstasy. Gods, have mercy.
When Sasha got his fill of me, I had only a moment’s reprieve.
I felt the heat traveling up slowly. Where the fire touched, my scales glowed red hot, like embers. I shuddered as his strong hands trailed up my body. Savor this, he whispered.
He brought his mouth back to mine, kissing me, letting me taste of myself amidst his flames.
Then he entered me.
I moaned as his body pressed against me, his manhood filling me. I pulled him closer until the rhythms of his breath, his heart, his storm were mine. His everything moved in perfect harmony with mine. I surrendered myself fully to him, as he stroked me, waxing and waning, a boat on the waves.
Sasha knew the way I wanted to be touched. The way I wanted to be loved on. The way I wanted to be handled. He gave me the most intense pleasures I had felt in my life.
We had reached the peak of this volcano. Sasha’s wings stretched to their full span. This man had conquered me. But the way my voice rang out in that room at that last push? It broke free something dormant in my core.
Flames erupted from his mouth and nose, engulfing our bodies entirely. I clutched at Sasha’s back, digging my claws into it.
…
I was being baptized, dipped backward into a deep river of fire by his strong hands. But I did not emerge from the surface; instead, I plunged deeper, into a vision of darkness, revealing the cosmos itself.
The Sun, my everything in this universe, my namesake, loomed ahead. It beckoned me, and I rushed toward that bright star without hesitation. When I entered, a searing pain began in my back, their two points of origin so telling. So unmistakable. It was like I was being ripped apart. Yet I felt nothing but joy in that pain. I came out the other side a streak of gold rushing down from the depths of the sun’s core back to earth. Back to reality. What was this?
…
Light filled the room as my eyes burst open. I heard the billowing of air as our bodies rose from the bed. His claws held my waist, my back arched.
White hot wings of light drifted in and out of my peripheral vision from behind me. They were the brightest, most beautiful things I had ever seen. As if possessed, I held both sides of his face stared deeply into his soul until his eyes glowed like an inferno. White hot fire manifested itself across his wings. Radiant and full of light. Like mine. I released him.
We were suspended in the air, frozen in time, silent. No longer were we mere mortals in that moment. We were glorious, and terrible. Divine beings, forged in lava and cosmic energy.
Slowly, gently, all the flames began die. My wings softly dispersed until they were no more. His hands held me as we drifted downward. His eyes and wings both dimmed back into their normalcy.
The fireplace was, once again, the only source of light in the room.
Our bodies steamed in the darkness, chests heaving from the intensity of what had just transpired. We stared at each other, wild eyed. He withdrew from me, wings lowering somewhat. Our senses returned to us.
My hands shook as I touched his cheek, rubbing his scales. There was blood on my claw from where I had dug into his back past his scales.
We held each other’s gaze. Eventually, he closed his eyes, wrapping his arms around me tenderly, and his wings enveloped my steaming body.
For a long time, we just lay there together, still smoldering in the aftermath of that eruption. That awakening. The only sounds now were our shallow breaths, and the fire which crackled behind us.
We had gone elsewhere. Some distant place lost to time where our history lie in ruins. Where a rend in the crust had torn our people asunder in ages past. And that pull of his call to me? It felt so strongly, as if our souls were old things in that distant place, once known to each other but cleaved violently and unjustly.
We had awoken in mundanity that morning. Mostly normal people living a mostly normal life. Now who were we meant to be?
The end and the beginning of all things. The answer to questions not yet asked.
We were perfection.

Through old sketches and new sketches, Rattus Rattus hosts a chronological look at some of the more strange, sad, and outright Horrible aspects of the entire history of England.

1. Savage Stone Age

• HHTV News: Bob Hale's Stone Age Report (S1E5)
• Song: “The Ages Of Stone” (S3E11)
• Trepanadol, the surefire headache cure.(S2E6)
• Shouty Man: New! Multi-Purpose String.(S3E6)
• A man tries to convince his skeptical hunter friend that settling down on a farm is the wave of the future.(S3E6)
• Cliff Whiteley discusses the many theories about Stonehenge with one of its builders. (S3E12)

1. Broken Bronze Age

• HHTV Early News: Eager customers queue up for the opening of the Bronze Age (S4E1)
• New Sketch: Advertisement: Bronze Age Funeral Homes (Funeral Ad parody)
• New Sketch: Historical Chopped - A bronze age chef prepares traditional dishes like roasted venison and nettle soup.
• New Sketch: Bronze Age warriors on a quest to find the mythical island of Avalon. (mockumentary parody)
• New Sketch: Historical Shopping Channel - The Bell Beaker Hour
• New Song: “Bling Bling Bronze” (Rap parody)

1. Cut Throat Celts

• New Sketch: Bronze Age people decide to take the Celts culture and use it themselves.
• Home decorating with severed heads.(S1E10)
• New Sketch: Strangest Celtic Beliefs (Animated)
• "Horrible Points of View": Taking questions and comments--also severed heads--from the era's viewer mailbag. (S3E6)
• "Historical Wife Swap": An upscale Roman couple moves into newly conquered Britain and swaps with a traditional Celtic family. (S2E7)
• Song: “Boudicca” (S2E10)

1. Smashing Saxons

• HHTV News: Bob Hale Saxon Report (S3E10)
• The host of "Invasion, Invasion, Invasion" inadvertently helps Hengist and Horsa steal Kent from Vortigern. (S3E3)
• King Aethelred is suspicious of witchcraft on first meeting Brother Augustine (S5E5)
• New Sketch: King Oswiu of Northumbria holds a debate over whether England should be influenced by Roman Christianity or Celtic one.
• Suggestions for coping with famine (S2E6).
• HH Movie Pitch: Alfred the Great tries to avoid being typecast as "Cake Guy" (S4E12)
• Historical Desktops: Ethelred the Unready suffers cyberbullying at the hands of Viking raiders.(S3E8)
• HHTV News: Mike Peabody live from the Battle of Maldon (S3E2)
• Stupid Death: Harold Godwinson’s Brothers (S4E4)

1. Measly Middle Ages

• The News at 1066 provides updates from the Norman Conquest via Bayeux Tapestry (S2E10)
• The tumultuous love story of William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders is retold in "Mud and Matilda" (S3E10)
• HHTV News: taking a census for the Domesday Book. (S1E5)
• William the Conqueror's increasingly unusual funeral (S1E5)
• William II meets his death in a mysterious hunting accident (S3E8)
• New Sketch: Henry I can’t help it with his lamprey obsession.
• Song: "Matilda(s) and Stephen ... and Henry"(S5E10)
• Historical Desktops: King John's concern for his social media status leads him to accidentally sign the Magna Carta. (S4E11)
• New Sketch: Henry III & his estranged relationship with Simon De Montfort explained through a graphic novel.
• The plague forecast (S2E11)
• A peasant tries to leverage his rare and desirable plague-free status into a pay rise. (S3E12)
• The Peasants Revolt is led by the confusingly named Wat Tyler. (S1E8)
• New Sketch: A mishap occurs from Wat Tyler during the court of Richard II
• New Sketch: “The War Of The Roses” (Game Of Thrones Parody)
• Song: "The Truth About Richard III" (S3E6)
• Lord Stanley literally waits until the last minute to decide whom to fight for at the Battle of Bosworth Field. (S5E9)

1. Terrible Tudors

• "Who on Earth Are You?":Lambert Simnel (S5E7)
• Song: "Henry VII: The Original Tu-Tu-Tudor" (S5E9)
• "This Is Your Reign": King Henry VIII reunites with his dead friends, advisors and wives (S1E2)
• New Sketch: Imagine Spot: Henry VIII leaves a negative review to Six
• Song: “Divorce, Beheaded, Died” Song (S1E2)
• King Henry VIII plays tennis while his Queen Anne Boleyn is executed. (S2E11)
• "Horrible Histories World Wrestling": Francis I of France defeats Henry VIII (S2E12)
• Time to get ready for the Religious Switchover (S5E2)
• Edward VI's whipping boy, Barnaby Fitzpatrick, faces the wrath of the royal tutors. (S4E10)
• New Song: “Edward VI: Growing Up” (Parody of "When I Grow Up" from Matilda The Musical)
• The story of Lady Jane Grey, queen for nine days. (S3E3)
• Song: “Mary the First” (S4E10)
• Elizabeth I takes her search for the perfect consort online. (S4E3)
• Oh Yea! Magazine: Elizabeth I's formidable temper (S4E5)
• Trailer: Spanish Armada I & II(S4E1)

1. Slimy Stuarts

• New Song: “James: King Of Scotland & Ireland”
• New Sketch: George Villiers comes up with new schemes to win wars in Europe and all fail.
• Bonfire safety tips with Guy Fawkes. (S1E11)
• The story of the Gunpowder Plot as action movie "Fawkes' 13" (movie trailer) (S2E1)
• New Sketch: Charles I goes online to scam people with “ship money”
• Two men with their ears chopped off try to talk to each other (S2E1)
• The introduction of a novel new drink called 'tea'.(S2E9)
• HHTV News: Civil War. Bob Hale gives the Civil War Report(S2E7), The English Civil War breaks out (S1E11), while Mike Peabody reports live from the Battle of Marston Moor.(S2E7)
• Song: “The English Civil War Song” (S3E10)
• HHTV News: Charles I's execution.(S1E4)
• Oliver Cromwell bans Christmas celebrations--among many other things. (S2E2)
• New Sketch: What you can and can’t do under Puritan England
• Song: "Charles II: King of Bling"(S2E2)
• Thomas Blood is brought to the court of Charles II (S3E12)
• Charles II literally dines in public.(S4E2)
• New Sketch: How to burn down London
• New Sketch: Gross Designs - Christopher Wren has some grand plans to rebuild London
• "My Stuart Family" tries to keep up with the neighbors with the help of some exotic new foods. (S1E2)
• "Historical Wife Swap": The Miserables & The Merrys (S1E3)
• HHTV News: Mike Peabody reports on efforts to cope with the Great Plague of London. (S1E9)
• Ye Sun newspaper: Plague Special.(Parody of The Sun newspaper.)(S1E9)
• Plague victim finder recruitment comes with some built-in occupational hazards. (S5E9)
• New Sketch: Charles II & Catherine Brackanza go to couples’s therapy
• New Song: “James II: Protestants Watching Me” (Parody of “Somebody’s Watching Me” by Rockwell)
• New Sketch: The host of "Invasion, Invasion, Invasion" meets William and Mary who are storming to take over the Crown
• New Song: "William & Mary" (Parody Of "I Got You Babe" by Sonny & Cher)
• William returns to England from Amsterdam to see how effective his wife is at running the country.
• New Sketch: Shouty Man: New! Bank Of England!
• New Sketch: "Historical Countryfile": Our host explores some of the bizarre and exotic plants grown in Mary II's garden. (Parody of Countryfile)
• New Sketch: William III acts more clueless about running England after Mary's death
• New Sketch: Historical Desktop - Queen Anne & Sophia Of Hanover both wait for each other to die.
• New Song: “The Acts Of Union” (Parody of “Heart Of Glass” by Blondie)

1. Gorgeous Georgians

• Song: “Four Georges” (S1E1)
• Robert Walpole take advantage of George I’s inability to speak English (S3E7)
• New Sketch: George II asks Tomochichi about the ladies in his court.
• Song: “Dick Turpin” (S3E1)
• How to Vote In Georgian Elections (S1E1)
• "Historical Wife Swap": Lord and Lady Posh from the Manor swap with the Peasant family of Poorville. (S1E6)
• "Georgian Come Dine With Me" (S5E6)
• King George III's royal physicians torture him in the name of treatment.(S2E6)
• Song: “George IV: Couldn’t Stand My Wife” (S2E5)
• "George IV: Who on Earth Are You?" (S3E4)
• New Sketch: People at a pub argue over whether the Georgian Era is over or not after George IV’s death.
• New Sketch: Britain abolishes slavery and gives reparation… to the owners

1. Vile Victorians

• Queen Victoria's solemn coronation hits some less-than-dignified snags.(S5E6)
• Queen Victoria pitches her workout regime. (S1E12)
• The Shouty Man presents Victorian Child Chimney Cleaner and Victorian Maid (S1E9 and S2E10)
• Parliamentarians try to find a solution to--or at least, a way to ignore--the Great Stink of 1858. (S1E7)
• An inspector gets a rundown from strict teachers on school punishments. (S1E9)
• New: HHTV News: Bob Hales Reports The Crimean War
• Florence Nightingale arrives at a Crimean hospital clearly in need of her help. (S1E13)
• Song: “Mary Seacole” (S4E5)
• Victoria and Albert's love story (S4E2)
• Song: "Work, Terrible Work!"(S3E4)

1. Evil Edwardians

• New Sketch: Edward VII aspires to reign as long as his mother
• New Song: “Edward VII’s Party Song” (Parody of “Party Rock” by LMFAO)
• Suffragettes try to smuggle themselves in a bag (S5E10)
• Song: "The Suffragettes' Song" (S3E8)
• HHTV News: Live from a schoolboy strike in Llanelli. (S5E10)
• Song: “Edwardian Not Victorian”(music hall pastiche)
• New Sketch: Historical Desktops: David Lloyd George posts his budget plan and uses this as an opportunity to decrease power from the House Of Lords.
• The officers of the RMS Titanic run through a highly dubious safety measures check. (S5E2)
• New Sketch: Imagine Spot - “Beatrix Potter’s Funhouse” (Preschool Show Parody)

1. Frightful First World War

• Song: “Cousins” (From the Frightful First World War Special)
• Outlining the causes of the war as simply as possible - that is, not very (S1E8).
• A naive young recruit to the trenches tries to learn the ropes (S3E3).
• The dos and don'ts of keeping the war effort going strong at home, including a ban on feeding ducks (From the Frightful First World War Special)
• Shouty Man: New! WWI Wee-Wee, the multi-purpose liquid revolution (S3E3)
• Summing up the less-than-encouraging results of the Somme campaign (S3E1)
• Scenes from the poignantly pointless chaos in the trenches, in the few minutes between learning of the 11 November truce and its actual implementation. (From the Frightful First World War special)

1. Awful Interwar Period

• New Sketch: HHTV News: The General Strike of 1926 where the protesters play football with the officers.
• New Sketch: A father tries to controls his son’s radio time
• New Sketch: “Historical Fashion Fix”: Changing an Edwardian woman into a Flapper
• New Sketch: The Suffragettes find new things to protest about after women got the right to vote.
• New Sketch: A group of wealthy, hedonistic socialites discuss their extravagant lifestyles and controversial scandals while sipping on cocktails and dancing to jazz music.
• New Sketch: The introduction of “fish and chips”
• New Sketch: The opening of Penguins Publishing
• HHTV Sport: Profiling Lily Parr (S5E8)
• New Song: “Flappers” (Parody of “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” by Cyndi Lauper)
• New Sketch: The launching of an obscure network you’ve never heard - The BBC
• New Sketch: HHTV News: Bob Hale Reports On The Great Depression, Mad Molly reports on the actual finance of the economy during the Depression (parody of a financial market channel), and Mike Peabody reports live on the streets of Northern England.
• New Sketch:King Edward VII & Wallis Simpson told through a graphic novel.
• New Sketch: George VI goes to speech therapy
• Historical Desktops: Neville Chamberlain gauges the reaction to his new European peace settlement. (S5E11)

1. Woeful Second World War

• HHTV News: Bob Hale's World War II Report. (S5E7)
• The commandant of a German POW camp tries to keep a determined British officer from escaping. (S1E2)
• A prim couple must choose from a difficult set of inner-city evacuee children. (S5E12)
• PM Winston Churchill discusses arming the British Home Guard. Video game: Operation Defend Britain. The Durham Home Guard branch does more damage to themselves than to the enemy.(S2E1)
• Winston Churchill plans D-Day late into the night, much to the dismay of his secretary and a general. (S2E4)
• Wrapping children in brown paper for warmth leads to a postal mix-up. (S2E2)
• An evacuee child from the city thinks he's landed in a den of monsters in "The Farm" (S2E9)
• Song: "The Few (RAF Pilots)" (S4E1)
• Wartime mechanic and future monarch Elizabeth II also stars in a sprightly "Queen-Fit-Fitters" jingle (S5E5)
• An attempt to foil German railway spies creates unexpected problems for the British passengers. (S4E2)
• New Sketch: Winston Churchill is elected out of office after the war’s over.

1. Freaky Fifties

• New Sketch: The war’s over – but many of the aspects of it haven’t
• New Sketch: George Orwell complains to Cliff Whitley about how people misinterpret his novels
• New Song: “Windrush Migrations” (Parody of “Good Vibrations” by the Beach Boys)
• New Sketch: Imagine Spot: A literal Iron Curtain falls between Europe
• New Sketch: Deadly Toys Store
• New Sketch: A family watches Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation, which is the only thing they can watch.

1. Swinging Sixties

• New Sketch: Groovy Man Magazine: Christine Keeler
• New Sketch: "Historical Hospital" - A hippie provides “alternative medicine” to a patient
• New Sketch: The Commonwealth - It’s not an empire but it's close enough (advertisement parody)
• HHTV News: Bob Hales Reports The 1960s
• New Song: “England’s Changed”
• New Sketch: Mods vs Rockers
• New Sketch: The Beatles members argue about who is more popular and talented than the other.
• New Sketch: “Historical Fashion Fix” - Mary Quant joins our host to give a person a hippie design.
• New Sketch: An old man from the Edwardian Era tries to fit in with the hippies and fails

1. Sadistic Seventies

• New Sketch: "Glam Rock Beauty Pageant" - A spoof beauty pageant featuring some of the most outrageous glam rock stars of the era, complete with over-the-top costumes and antics.
• New Sketch: A woman notices her friend still dresses like its the 1950s
• New Sketch: Because of the Energy Crisis, government employees are trying to cram all of their work into three days, causing chaos in the workplace.
• New Sketch: HHTV News: Mike Peabody reports the winter of 1978-79, where a series of strikes by public sector workers caused widespread disruption across the country, including rubbish piling up in the streets and uncollected bodies at the morgue.
• New Sketch: The 1973 wedding of Princess Anne and Mark Phillips, featuring ridiculous hats, awkward dancing, and the Queen trying to keep her corgis under control.
• New Sketch: People at a disco party start to spontaneously combust due to the extremely flammable disco clothing and decorations of the time.

1. Ugly Eighties

• New Song: “Margaret Thatcher” (Parody of “I'm in Love With Margaret Thatcher” by Not Sensibilities)
• New Sketch: Historical Desktop: Margaret Thatcher prevents Argentina from claiming the Falklands.
• New Sketch: "Thatcher's Britain": A clueless host takes a tour of 1980s England under the rule of Margaret Thatcher, seeing protests everywhere. (travel show parody)
• New Sketch: "Rubik's Cube Mania": Contestants compete to solve the Rubik's Cube puzzle
• New Sketch: Customers get frustrated in a video rental store, where VHS tapes were rented out for a few days at a time.
• New Sketch: Heck Yeah Magazine: Punk Rock musicians
• New Sketch: Historical Fashion Fix: Our host gives a man the 1980s fashion, featuring over-the-top outfits with bright colors, big hair, and lots of accessories.

1. Nasty Nineties

• New Sketch: A group of 90s teens try to come up with the coolest thing to happen in England, only to be constantly upstaged by real-life events like the Spice Girls and Tony Blair's election.
• New Sketch: The rivalry between Oasis and Blur
• New Sketch: An ““anonymous”” whistleblower reveals details about the Royal Family, and it's definitely not Princess Diana
• New Sketch: A frustrated former teacher named Terry Deary hates how history is told in school and decides to write some books to make it interesting.
• New Sketch: People are scared of the spread of “mad cow disease”
• New Sketch: HHTV News: Mike Peabody reporting live of the Y2K scare.
• New Sketch: Song: “Horrible England” (Parody of “Rule Britannia” ft. some aspecting of “We’re History”)

Inspired by u/sapphicmage and her Girls Only Genealogy run I've decided to try a similar challenge by playing Thracia 776 with a similar challenge. While the basic idea of "Girls Only" is simple enough, I want to outline the ruleset I'm using because Thracia is a significantly different beast than Genealogy & it'll require a unique set of rules. Without further ado lets lay out the rules, if you see something that seems odd let me know & I'll discuss it & take it into consideration.
Men may:

• Recruit units they normally would, even if they're another man for the sake of their inventory.
• Trade their items or deposit them in the convoy.
• For any instance where a man is required to be on the map & there is no alternative he will be unarmed & avoid as much combat as is feasible within the game's context. This may be impossible in some cases like Chapter 19 or 20.
• May be deployed to hit deployment minimums.
• May trigger unique events for items that can be given to other units (ie Halvan may acquire his Brave Axe for the sake of Machuya).
• Act as convoys for Manster Arc, including whatever Leif & Lifis can drag with them.

Men cannot:

• Fight in combat with a weapon equipped.
• Participate in side objectives on any chapter (visiting villages, carrying green units, using staves)
• Occupy important spaces even when force deployed (ie standing on villages to prevent bandits from burning them).

Again if anything seems odd or omitted let me know and I can go back and fix it. Without further ado though lets get into how this run went so far!
Starting off this session we get 3 units total. Eyvel & Tanya arrive in Chapter 1 and Safy arrives in Chapter 3. Overall this is pretty brutal, it's not great but with Eyvel's immortality we have enough killing power to live long enough. We should have enough vulns to live with enough lucky dodges, but either way lets go over some analysis of each chapter.
Chapter 1
Something I always take for granted was the build stat most men have. Fun fact, Eyvel has 7 build and most enemies roll between 8-10 build on average. The first time I capture an enemy is in Chapter 3 so we are running dry on resources for a while here. Training Tanya is fun, but I break her Iron Bow here so I essentially just make her as good of a dodge tank is possible while Eyvel sweeps the rest. Pretty uneventful all around, but this whole "No Capture" issue will really rear its ugly head soon.
Chapter 2
Not too much different, Eyvel walked to all 3 villages while Tanya held the bridge where all the boys cowered behind her. She's gotten past 10 speed at this point so she's moderately dodgy & Eyvel is cleaning up the pirates she can. Eventually I hold at the bridge to the right of the start & with Ronan's Iron Bow Tanya starts killing again. I slow down her rampage since 2x and 3 are coming up, but I still can train weapon rank with a broken bow which only weighs her down by 8 speed! Either way the villages were the only tense part of this map, otherwise it was Eyvel tanking with a broken sword & Tanya training with a broken bow. Flame Sword goes brrr and kills boss.
Chapter 2x
Well this one was a bit of a doozy because I actually had to drag the men with me this time since they bait some of the reinforcements that spawn by Lifis. My convoy of slugabeds rolls up behind Eyvel & Tanya tearing through enemies. I'm conserving some Iron Bow uses, but we get though the chapter with moderate speed & besides Finn taking 2 hits on the last turn it's a smooth chapter all around. No torches to sell because I didn't have time for them honestly, but Lifis and his scroll was acquired and we move on to the actual problem chapter.
Chapter 3
Going into this I realized the villages were going to be a wash so I really had to work to try and get the Warp staff. With Safy available I knew that was going to be my only solution for Chapter 12 and by god am I not about to try and massacre my way through Dackia Woods with whoever is even available by then. Once I cleared out the gate guards Eyvel rampaged into the prison, got Corpul, and got back while Tanya sat on Corpul's house and kept killing foes. I hammerned one of Tanya's bows for more XP & so I can inch closer to A staves because I really don't want to have to Master Seal Safy if I don't have to. Otherwise this was a smooth chapter, but I did perform a mild trick to save myself some time in the future. Since you have to hit deployment minimums even through fatigue, I decided to execute Orsin, Halvan, and Ronan to make sure I could play through Chapter 8 even with fatigued units. This means Brighton, Hicks, and Fergus might have to bite it come Manster, but I'll leave that one for later me to manage. Overall this chapter was tough, but I got most of what I needed & brought what equipment I could for Mach, Lara, and Karin to carry me through Manster.
Btw the statboosters are getting saved, HP ring for Lara & Speed ring for Nanna or Mach because it's going to be tough otherwise. Unit pics below.
Woo I love Tanya's stat spread woo!, btw she has 84 fatigue.
Eyvel just looks like Eyvel nothing to see here
You can't see it but she has B staves and that's all that matters
Excited to update you all on whatever hell Manster brings, but it should be juicy!

I like when Mama and Papa help me.
I like when Papa takes me fishing.
I like when Mama cooks with me.
I like when Mama and Papa get along.
I like when I’m asleep.
I like when Papa says sorry after he does bad things.
I like when I cook my own food.
I like when Mama and Papa are asleep.——————-
I like when Mama and Papa don’t bother each other.
I like when Mama and Papa go places without me.
I like when I don’t eat meals with Mama and Papa.
I like when Mama doesn’t throw away my art.
I like when Papa isn’t I’m the house.
I like when Mama tells the truth about Papa.
I like when I go to bed with a full stomach.
I like when Papa keeps his hands away from Mama.
I like when Papa goes on business trips.—————
I like when Mama lets me eat after 6 PM.
I like when Mama and Papa are quiet.
I like when I have all the ingredients I need.
I like when Mama isn’t in the house.
I like when Papa doesn’t bother with saying sorry anymore.———————
I like when I go to bed with an empty stomach.
I like when Papa doesn’t tell me I’m killing him.
I like when I’m quiet.————-
I like when my pets are safe from Papa.
I like when I’m at a friend’s house instead of mine.
I like when Papa uses knives and rolling pins on food instead of.———————
I like when Mama says nothing about Papa.
I like when Papa doesn’t tell me to die.
I like when Papa doesn’t ask me to kill him.
I like when Mama and Papa say nothing.
I like when Mama and Papa ignore me.
I like when Mama and Papa give up on me.
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I like when Mama and Papa give up on me.

With two beta weekends almost behind us, I'd love to discuss and hear your opinions. I'm not a game developer and don't claim to know what's best for the game or other players, so let me know in the comments what you think!
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First impressions:
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• They nailed the atmosphere + look and feel. Visuals and sound is near perfect. Game is dark!
• Combat feels great. Aside small performance issues like stuttering and area transitions, combat and movement felt butter smooth, responsive and tight. Attacks had weight to them and everything was telegraphed well.
• Open world works surprisingly well, I think they made a good balance between traditional solo experience and living world. I'm still unsure about timed events (Helltide and World Bosses), but as long as they don't gate you out of progression it could be fine.
• Story is well written and the world felt very Diablo. I'm honestly invested in the story already.

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Dungeons:
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• My favorite dungeon was Immortal Emanation. Objective was to destroy 5 "shrines", layout was circular with no backtracking.
• Dungeons are a bit repetitive with the requirements for opening the boss room and almost identical layouts. Running Den of Evil 20 times in a row isn’t my idea of a fun Saturday afternoon.
• Dungeon objectives that require a lot of backtracking, such as ”kill all monsters” or ”find two keys”, can feel like work instead of play.
• My solution would be to change the current requirements to optional, similar to how the world events work. You get a bonus for doing something extra. Maybe the boss is easier or it drops more loot? It would be up to the player if they prefer faster clear times or better loot at slower pace.
• I would also like to see them increase the number of dungeon layouts, maybe more circular and open areas instead of cross or tunnel like layouts.

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Area Scaling:
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• Area scaling in it's current form doesn't really allow the player to feel progression. If enemies are as difficult at lvl 1 as they are at lvl 25, has the player actually become any stronger?
• I think the biggest benefits of area scaling are multiplayer events and keeping all content viable for end game. What if they used area scaling only in some, not all scenarios?

1. Area scaling is ON in world events, world bosses and other instances where different level players are working together.
2. Area scaling is OFF in lower World Tiers when playing through the campaign to make the player feel more powerful when revisiting previous areas. This has the benefit of allowing overleveling if a player wishes to do so or a faster progression of side quests.
3. Area scaling is ON in higher World Tiers to make all content viable in end game.

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Gameplay:
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• World Tier 2 could use some low level uniques. Why leave the fun build enabling stuff for end game? I believe this would keep players in seasons longer, not shorter, as they try different classes and builds.
• Elixirs. I love the idea of elixirs to compliment your build or fill out some missing resistances, but I don't think it's a good idea to have XP boosts in them. It's just "another thing you have to micro manage" to keep playing optimally. I know most players probably don't mind, but XP consumables are a trick from a bag I'd like to keep closed.
• Skill level cap and skill synergies. I love what they did with class mechanics and skill trees! But with only 7 points on the main skill, you end up having multiple skills with similar power levels (which decreases build variety). Increasing the skill level cap from 5 to X or adding D2 style skill synergies would fix this. You could spread out the points or focus on your main skill, more options for players. I'm glad they have +skill items again!
• Necromancer minions are so bright and colorful. I understand why, but please give us an option to choose between cartoon and diablo looking skeletons. I want my minions to look just like enemy skeletons, with dark and muted colors.

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Early game resource management:
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• Druid especially felt difficult to manage spirit. I could use two core skills from full spirit, then I'm out of juice. Passive regeneration was non-existent. It's really hard to get a feel of the different skills when you can only use them two times. But maybe I'm just used to D2 mana potions?
• With 1 skill point you could get 3 extra spirit to raise the mana pool from 100 to 103. Tornado costs 39 spirit. Feels like a poor investment compared to what else you can get with a skill point? To be fair, you could also get 30% reduction to spirit cost with four skill points, which felt totally acceptable and helped massively.
• After investing few passive points and finding legendaries with resource generation, I respecced to Storm Strike and Pulverize (Shockwave + Mangled aspects) and the druid felt fine.

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User Interface:
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• UI changes. I would love to see a more classic version of UI, perhaps with a font better suited for Diablo, but still preserving readability. I would be happy with the title font used for item names (on tooltips) being used for all text you see on the open world: Items on the ground, enemy names, damage numbers**.** I don't mind a narrower font in tooltips, chat box and other UI elements that aren't visible all the time. Maybe give us some options in the settings to choose from?
• More skill slots. 4 + 2 is a bit restrictive for some builds, adding couple more would help a lot and promote build variety and player choice.
• Option to zoom out camera further away. A simple slider in settings should do the trick.
• Overlay map. This is just how I'm used to playing these games, it's a lot safer than having to open the full map and not seeing what's happening on screen.

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I played Barbarian to lvl 25, but have played all the classes in D4.
With some tweaking and updates I’m excited to see the future of Diablo when D4 launches.

In P10, Anthony Sinclair convinced Mitchum Brothers that Douglas Jones had been plotting against them and denied the 30 million insurance payment that should have been theirs. Back home, the brothers were sizzling with rage.
As usual, we got a little dilemma to make sense of. Rodney was already sitting on the sofa when Bradley walked to him.

Rodney: "Now I know... how Brando felt."

As Rodney said that, he lifted his finger, pointing somewhere up. Framed on the centerline of the screen, in the two-dimensional direction of his finger, there was a black sculpture or vase that was vaguely humanoid, like a man cut from the middle.
There is no specific idiom linked to Marlon Brando's feelings. The actor had a long and illustrious career, and there are countless quotes from him that could this or that way be applied to the situation. Apparently some twisty path would again explain what Rodney's quip was all about.
As usual, let's work with what we got. Earlier in P4, Andy and Lucy's son Wally Brando showed up for a brief visit. He and Marlon Brando shared the same birthday, like his parents explained to Hawk in the opening episode, thus the name. True to his namesake, Wally arrived dressed up as Brando's character Johnny Strabler from The Wild One (1953).
Here's Johnny!
This was probably meant to limit our options for Rodney's riddle. What Brando felt was somehow linked to The Wild One. The movie is pretty quotable, so we would still need something to narrow down the search.
Adding to the riddle, Rodney appeared to urge us make sense of the black sculpture on the shelf. Furthermore, before Bradley sat down, he stopped briefly so that his whiskey on the rocks was right next to the sculpture. Then, just before Rodney pointed at it, Bradley loudly shook the ice cubes in his glass.
We really want you to notice that.
If we didn't get these hints, the ice was also pointed out to us by typically inconsistent editing. Already when the scene started, Sandie the cocktail girl brought a bowl of ice to the kitchen counter. But when there was a quick cut to the girls at 39:41, she was shown bringing it to the counter again.
You can never have too much ice.
Going back to Wally a bit, he didn't only give us Johnny Strabler, but he also explained how shadows work.

Wally: "My shadow is always with me. Sometimes ahead. Sometimes behind. Sometimes to the left. Sometimes to the right. Except on cloudy days ... or at night."

Taking the cue from the rocks and a shadow at night, this leads us to P16. It was night, and Richard was climbing a hill, with his shadow cast on the rock. The likely association we needed to notice was that Mitchums' sculpture resembled Richard's shadow. Like the sculpture, it appeared as if cut in the middle due to the rock having an uneven surface.
Nobody there.
Richard's shadow seems to have been part of another riddle about "nobody's home" which implied the season's dialog used the pronoun "nobody" as a covert reference to Richard's character who magically burnt to oblivion on the rock - once he was gone, there was no body left. It was further implied that in this story of all kind of doubles, the "nobody" left was actually his shadow that now magically existed on its own without the body, like Wally hinted it might. It was night after all, and you might lose your shadow.
Putting these observations together, we would get the likely Brando quote. It was the famous one from The Wild One.

Johnny Strabler: "Nobody tells me what to do."

This was immediately demonstrated. After saying he knew how Brando felt and pointing towards the black sculpture, Rodney straightened up so that the work of art got behind his head. Then he started telling what they would do.

Rodney: "Calling him tomorrow, this Douglas Jones ... to set up a meeting."

The apparent implication was that it was actually the "nobody", present in the room as the sculpture, whispering to Rodney what the plan was. As nobody told him what to do, he knew how Brando felt.

(That title makes it seem like I had a tank battalion over the next ridge helping me out by offering fire support. What an image.)
I've beaten white and even silver lynels in single combat before, but so far I have only been able to do so with training wheels: level 4 amber earrings, champion's tunic, and soldier's greaves (a whopping 88 armor), which allows me to shrug off pretty much any melee weapon they hit me with for just a quarter heart of health (except the crushers, those take four hearts). The near-invulnerability provides a great base upon which to practice combat with these creatures in a safe(er) environment.
Also, if you kick a white lynel in the face, you get a really nice bow. I eventually got to the point where I'd use savage lynel bows to farm royal weapons from hinoxes, then go use the royal gear to farm lynels for savage bows. When you throw the Master Sword (here twice-upgraded to 50 damage) into the mix, you violate the laws of thermodynamics; you get more goodies out of the process than you need to sustain it.
But I wanted to complete the Trial of the Sword. To unlock the full potential of the Master Sword. I admit, I'm not doing it because it's right or because it's what heroes do. I'm doing it because I wanted a (sorta) free top-tier weapon that (sorta) never breaks.
Also the sword glows.
So I take the Trials. One might ask if it's worth the stress and strain at this point in the game; all of the shrines have been completed, all the inventory expansions have been acquired, all the memories re-lived. There's precious little remaining on which to use an awakened Master Sword. But questions of worth fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. Ain't nobody got time for dat, I wanna hit things with a shiny stick!
I tried the trials during my first play through the game, four years ago. I didn't do well; I couldn't even complete the first set—heck, I couldn't even get half-way through the first set. This second time through I do better. It still takes a couple tries, but the first trials go down.
I put it down to playing the game on a larger screen; 32 inches, not the Switch's 6.2. It makes a huge difference; I can actually see enough detail to let me parry and dodge. With my current play through clocking in at 110 hours, 105 of those on a large screen, it astonishes me that I completed my first 70-hour playthrough entirely on the Switch's tiny screen.
I've never seen the second set of trials before this playthrough, but they're actually easier than the first, there being no water-only levels. Bomb-arrow armed bokoblins on the third floor catch me off guard the first time, but I complete the middle trials on my second attempt.
The final trials scare me. I have read the ancient texts. I know what awaits me in the deep. I know what the monks awoke in the darkness of the magic boxes. Manes... and flame... Without gads of armor to cover my ass I fear I will simply be smashed flat by these beasts. But I dive in anyway—the trials won't complete themselves. The shiny stick won't be given to me. I need to earn it.
When I get to the first rest stop, I find something that makes my heart stop. Three ancient arrows? The ancient texts made no mention of these! The only equipment notices I had were for the flamebreaker boots; a not-so-subtle 'you will spend the next five floors on fire' advertisement. I know what these arrows can do to the mere meatbags who oppose me! Five minutes ago I wasn't even worried about guardians, because lynels. But these... these. For the first time ever, I feel a little thrill of hope. If I have these, even without armor, I can beat lynels. My own little cheat code. All I have to do is tough out the guardians.
My first pass through the final trials doesn't go well. I'm nervous, twitchy. I take too many hits. I inadvertently shove my one and only hearty radish into my greedy mouth instead of the cooking pot, wasting a whole full recovery opportunity. By the time I arrive at the second rest stop, there aren't enough food items on the floor to get me back up to full health. And after that comes snow levels; I can't cook everything on this floor to bring my health up as much as possible because I need them to provide me with cold resistance for the next few floors. I get through a couple levels before I tunnel vision on the wrong target; a blizzrobe freezes me and a silver bokoblin turns me inside out.
The second attempt I make sure to take a little bit slower. I plan my attacks, I withdraw if I'm in a position I don't like, I make very careful use of the few elemental weapons I have to one-hit kill and stunlock tougher enemies. When I get back to floor 14, I don't take my chances. I oneshot the blizzrobe with a fire arrow then pull out the first of my three ancient toys and stick it right up the silver bokoblin's backside, banishing his ass to the shadow realm. I will not have another run ruined by those two.
Things proceed more or less smoothly from there. I get to floor 17 and face my first lynel, a blue. It manages to glare at me for all of 2.6 seconds before the second of my ancient arrows wipes its stupid face (and the rest of it) from existence.
The guardians on the following floors give me pause, but the lone ones are easy to abuse and the three on floor 22 don't cover each other if you approach from the right angle. They are all slowly dismantled, one by one.
And then, finally, I arrive on the final floor, 23. Here there are eight little basic red bokoblins on horseback, a guardian turret, and my sum of all fears, Mr. White. Tall, proud, buff, and ugly as all get out, it spots me immediately, screams in barely-contained ketamine-fueled rage that someone as pink as me would deign to cross its field of view, and hauls its massive bow off its back. Before it fires is all the time I have.
It's all the time I need.
I draw the royal bow. I draw the last ancient arrow. I nock this final bolt, the swansong of power on the operatic ballad of shiny sticks. I raise the bow, pointing the arrow at a space a couple feet above the lynel's face; it's a long way, after all. I draw the string.
As afraid as I am, I'm also giddy. I'm there. This will be easy. I just need to let this thing fly and the hard work will all be over. The only thing remaining will be some little pissbabies on horses and a machine that is too stupid to avoid getting stunlocked by repeatedly having arrows shoved in its eye.
I loose my ultimate weapon.
The arrow travels gallantly through the air, its tip sparking into incandescent magnificence as it crosses the open space, dripping sparkles as it flies, little harbingers of its mission of doom. The giddiness reaches a fever pitch. I'm trembling with excitement.
The arrow buries itself...
...in the dirt six inches from the Mr. White's feet.
I've fluffed it. I had one shot, literally, to get this done, and I failed.
I want to cry. These trials have been hard on me. I've had to take extended breaks in the middle of them several times already to untense myself. The prospect of doing it all over again on account of one whinnet-ridden lynel quiet frankly gives me the screaming heebie-jeebies, you know what I mean? Ten year old me would have chucked the controller and screamed in guttural German. Thankfully those days are behind me; I simply pause and walk away for a while. Did I go have a little weep? Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe screw yourself.
I like to imagine the lynel and his hangers-on spend several seconds staring at the ruined arrow on the floor in front of them, then looking back up at me with contemptuous amusement as I literally try to swallow my fear, panic, and horror all at once. Of course, the game doesn't render emotions like that, but it's a funny image.
I have an argument with myself here. I don't want to try this full-frontal combat without my training wheels armor—I'm a coward. But even more so than that, I really don't want to run through the last 22 floors of the final trials again—I'm lazy. I even consider quitting the trials and giving up on the fully-awaked Master Sword. I consider using exploits to skip the final set of trials; it's not like I haven't already made it through all these floors, right? I'd just be... you know... skipping one single floor. Sorta. That's not too unfair, right?
When I come back I heave a large 'woe-is-me' sigh and unpause.
I can't face this creature and its groupies all at once on an open field.
I run for all my sorry little Hylian twink ass is worth.
Unfortunately, that's where the story stops being so dramatic. I climb the tower in the corner after I've broken the lynel's line of sight, severely abuse the guardian turret, and hunker down on my new perch. I know I can't bow the lynel to death; I don't have enough arrows and it'll call orbital strikes down on my head. I can't engage it in direct melee combat; I have only four weapons remaining and they'll break on its face before its face does.
But I realize I can abuse the bokoblins as well. They're really no more capable than the guardian turrets are. They won't attack me en mass. I pull them over where the lynel can't see them, one at a time, and pick them off their horses and steal their weapons. After a few minutes there's nobody left in the room except myself and Mr. White. Now I have a dozen weapons; sure they aren't all great, but they're fresh.
I now have no choice other than give up here, at the last step, or just dive in and see where it goes. It's not really a choice.
What I can say is that, thankfully, the training wheels experience gave me the actual skills necessary to get the job done. Mr. White and I engage in combat I manage to take him down with a dozen broken weapons, one broken shield, and all of my hearts.
That rush when the lynel finally collapses was incredible. It was like someone had jabbed an entire thing of adrenaline directly into my heart. I mean it was probably a week's worth of dopamine in my brain, dumped all at once, but still. At this point I want to cry, again, though this time not in pain or frustration but rather pure elation such as I haven't felt in a while. I did it. I completed the Trial of the Sword. And the final trials only took me two attempts.
I'm much better at this game now than I was four years ago.
I promptly take my glowing stick and use it to club Thunderblight Ganon to death.

Hello All! I have been working for some time on a small collection of short stories/vignettes to turn into a graphic novel about my cat and I at the edge of the end of the world! My goal is to tell a story about accepting changes and growth. I would really love some feedback on some of the little stories. This is my first one I am sharing! I haven't written in years, so please be kind!
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We creaked open the old, heavy door to reveal what appeared to be a home frozen in time. But instead of frost, it was dust that held each piece of furniture in place since what appears to be the 1990s. Underneath each layer of dust, there was a shiny cherry wood grain. Cozied on top, doilies and cold candle holders. The air, already heavy from the sprinkles of kicked up dust, was weighed down even more by the scent of amethyst, rose, mezcal and mothballs. The heaviness of the air was fitting for the scene. Here lays a life that once was light and vibrant, now long gone. Something her and I now have come to face too many times in this life. I carefully raised my eyes to see her face. I was terrified for our eyes to meet. Her round, green eyes had a darkness to them. She appeared to be away, somewhere else—perhaps in this very room at a different time.
“Just how I remembered,” she whispered in awe. Her little white paws pinched closer together just before she lied down, with all her feet tucked in. Her eyes still appearing to be somewhere else.
“Happy memories?” I felt the words well up in my throat.
“Oh yes. But, in some ways—very sad. It makes me remember when…” she paused. I knew this was coming. This was a grave mistake. Not good ever comes from digging up the past, happy or sad. The happy memories only remind you of what comes at the end. “When it all changed.”
“I understand.” I sat next to her, kicking dust in the air. I pet her head. “I’m sorry, Rose. I hope this brings you peace.” I say, assuming she is stronger than me.
“It does. It brings me closer to her.”
Silence. Rose reminisces and I meditate on her point. We have no connection to our past lives now—but more than ever I find myself wanting to live in that fantasy world. A world before everything changed. Before I left the only home I ever knew, and before the war. I wonder if Rose feels the same way with her first home. Before she lost the only person she knew to love and trust and had to grow up and find a new home to make her own. And although she is the only one I have, I wish I could give her this world back. Or at least be able to hide her from what her world has become. Maybe bringing her back here does.
This old ranch house, once warmed and decorated by eager newly-weds, worn down by 3 children, slowly became softer and quieter when the children moved out and the husband passed away, leaving Beth and later Rose as its only habitants. As a kitten, Rose found peace with Beth. There were few visitors and plenty of space to race from one room to the next. As Jazz music played, Beth would water her plants and talk to Rose about the importance of allowing something to grow. Rose learned to love Jazz and the rest of her life, let the plants around her grow without her interference.
After Beth passed and I adopted Rose, these lessons came in handy when I would accidentally purchase a Peace Lily or Alocasia—both poisonous to cats—or when I needed to relax her on a tough car ride by playing some light jazz. Throughout the years I had Rose, she would let me into this past life little by little. I always avoided the subject with her as to not pry. But here, it felt unavoidable.
I take a deep breath.
“Thank you, Beth,” I exhale.
Rose let out a soft, slow stream of tears from her eyes as she began to smile.
“Yes, thank you. I love you dearly, Beth.” Rose stands, tilts her head up as if to acknowledge Beth above in the heavens. “And thank you for allowing me to feel her here once more. It feels like a piece of me has been renewed.”
I nodded. I could not say anymore. This is her moment, and I wanted to leave it on her own terms. No questions, no pushing her towards light-hearted conversations, no heavy hitting words of wisdom…this is for her.
“I want to stay just a little longer if that’s okay.” I nodded again. She nuzzled me as she walked towards the bedroom.
“Just as it was left. Nothing changed, just some dust!” I hear her shout from the other room. “Isn’t that something?”
It is.
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Rose presses her right paw into the carpet as she stretches are front legs. Despite being hardened by the years of neglect, dust, and water damage, still feels like it once did. She allows her mind to trick her. She runs under the bed and armoire, hiding from imaginary mice. Beth comes in from the kitchen and lays a throw on the bed. This is where Rose is allowed to lay, so not to ruin the comforter. She finds her spot and snuggles in between her two feet.
“Such a sweet girl, Rosalia. Paying your dues by keeping my feet warm,” Beth’s voice echoes into the room so faintly. The opaque memories becoming more chopped and faded over time feel so clear now.
Suddenly a bright jazz piano plays in the kitchen. Beth is awake and putting a kettle over the stove.
Spring is here, and Beth sits on the front porch while Rose rests her head in the afternoon sun spilling through the window.
Dusk appears and Beth has given in and retired back to the living room for more tea and light reading. The birds retire as well and the night becomes ever so quiet.
The day repeats, over and over, until one day it doesn’t.
One day Beth does not wake up and play Jazz. Many people come and then, everyone is gone. Someone visits once every few days to check on Rose before she is taken away from the home. Rose has returned, but Beth has not.
All these memories play at the same time. Her mind assigns no order or priority over these memories. Once they have played a few times, she pulls herself back to the old, dusty bedroom. Her new caretaker is waiting for her.
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I peel back the curtains. Outside the sunset stains everything it touches an orangey-red, meaning good weather ahead. A sense of peace calms my nerves and I feel a nuzzle against my ankle.
“I think I am ready now,” Rose says.
“You sure? We can always come back you know.”
“No, I don’t think so. But I feel so lucky to have been her once more.”
I follow Rose out. My shoulders rolled down with a sprinkle of shame.
“Thank you, Kara. I love you dearly.”
I pick her up onto my shoulder. Rose watches the house shrink behind us, and I watch the sun set on the last day I saw her as my little kitten.

P,
It's been what.. 12 years since we last spoke? 13 aince the last time i saw you in person? It took me years to stop thinking of you all the time. I still to this day think of you sometimes. When I would drive down the road to my moms house, I would drive slower past your old house, and often wondered where you are now. Wondered if you're happy or if you ever thought of me too. Fleeting thoughts that would go as quick as they came.
A few weeks ago I thought about you, really thought about you, for the first time in years. I looked you up on Facebook, and saw you were doing good. I was happy that you seemed to have created a family and looked happy. I thought about sending you a message. God, I wish that I had. I wish so fucking bad that I hadn't let my ego stand in the way, and I had just sent you that friend request because now I will never have the opportunity.
A couple of days ago I saw in the news that you were missing. I knew from the article that you were probably gone. I hoped maybe you weren't. They found your body today. My heart breaks for your family. I can't imagine what they must be going through.
Maybe, it's silly because we are grown now with separate lives, and you probably never thought about that girl you had a crazy year with when we were 16, but a part of me always hoped I would run into you one day. We would laugh about how badly it ended. We would say sorry to each other, and blame it on being young kids who didn't know what the hell we were doing. I forgave you years ago, but I always thought I'd get the opportunity to tell you that. I thought I'd get the opportunity to say sorry for my part in it all.
But life is a fragile thing.. I will never get to have that now. I know you probably didnt think of me as often as I did you, but you changed my fucking life in that year and a half. For better and worse. You will always be my first love. You will always be my first heartbreak. No one else will ever be able to take those places. They are yours. I will always have a space in my heart where our memories of that crazy time lives.
We fucking hated each other when we met. Do you remember that? I always made fun of your stupid cowboy boots and backwards hats with that dumb fishing hook attached to it, and you always made fun of my mismatched shoes and all my band t-shirts and how I used to write on my jeans. We couldn't have been more different, but somewhere along the way we became friends. Because no amount of differences matters when you find someone who gets you, and for a while there, we just got each other.
I still remember how it happened. Our memories are still so vivid in my mind even after all these years. I guess you really never forget your first love.
I remember I told you how I liked to sit out in H's ditch while I watched your dad cut grass across the street. You told me I was weird(I have a friend who tells me the same thing, so maybe you were right lol), but I was really just trying to annoy you. I wanted to piss you off because you had said something to piss me off first. I joked that you were just jealous cuz your dad was hotter than you. You told me if I thought he was so hot, then I should give you my number so you could send me a picture. I said okay because I thought you were joking. You really did send me that damn picture of your dad on the couch eating ice cream 🤣 We talked for hours that night, and so many more after that.
I didn't realize that you had a crush on me, and you just wanted an excuse to get my number. I was so insecure back then. That was the start of a friendship that I will always hold close to my heart. A friendship that turned into love. At least for me. I think you loved me too.. in your own way, but I know you never felt it the way I did.
Do you remember that night I was staying with H, and you asked me to come over? I was so mad at you for that phone call earlier that day, but I still waited until everyone fell asleep, and I snuck over to see you. I always came when you called. You were drunk that night. You drunk a lot when your dad was gone on the weekends. I think you were going through a lot like I was. I wish I had understood that better at the time.
How about that time we road Go-Karts with your little sister while your dad grilled? I shoukd have got the recipe for how your dad made that squash because ive never eaten anyone else that tasted that good. We snuck off that day too. You took me out to the trails to see your deer stand that I told you I couldn't care less about, lol It was really just an excuse to get me alone. Remember that giant rock we hid behind? I wonder if it's still there? We were always sneaking around and keeping secrets.
Do you remember when we were on the school bus, and we talked about my dad and your step dad? How we connected on something so traumatic in the middle of all that noise and chaos around us, and for the first time it felt like someone understood what I was going through. When you are 16 and afraid and don't understand why things are happening, it really helps to have someone else who understands. You don't know this, but you were the first person I ever told the truth to. I think I might have been the only one who knew your secret, too. We held a lot of each other's secrets.
I am sorry that I got mad, and told D about that one thing.. you know what I'm talking about. I was just so angry at you. You really hurt me, and I was too young to understand the part I played in all of it. It was wrong of me to tell her, and I am so deeply sorry for that. I know it caused a lot of problems for you.
There are so many memories that live in my mind both good and bad, and they are all bubbling to the surface now. I feel stupid and selfish for crying because I don't know you anymore. But at one point in my life, you meant the world to me.
I will never love another person the way I loved you. Free and careless without a single fear or doubt or hesitation. I didn't care about whether I'd get heartbroken. I just knew that I wanted to be with you. Young love is so unique in that way and nothing can ever really duplicate it.
I still have that poem I wrote you. It's in my closet hidden within all the letters and cards that I kept from family and friends over the years. There are other poems. Ones I never showed you. Nicer ones. I wish I had showed you those instead.
29 is far too young to die, and nobody deserves to go out like that. You were probably so fucking scared. I am so sorry that you had to go through that, but you are at peace now.
I am just glad they found you and were able to bring you home to be buried. I am so sorry for any resentment I ever held towards you. I pray for healing for your family. Nothing will stop it from hurting, but I just pray that they are all okay and are able to heal with time.
I will probably delete this, but I just didn't really know where to talk to you. I didn't know what to do with everything I was thinking and feeling. I don't think anyone in my life will quite understand why this breaks my heart so much because they weren't there with us for all of those moments. I just wanted somewhere I could talk to you one last time. You will be so very, deeply missed by so many people.
I love you, P Rest easy, old friend 🙏❤️
Love, B

This is going to be a Lucien and Eris post!!
Okay, so this is a scene I made up in my head, and I think about it daily. None of my friends have read the series, so I need to talk about it.
Here it goes...
So, the High Lords are together, and their councils. Beron, in a fit of rage, puts his hands on Lucien's mother for the first time in front of everyone. Lucien tries to step in, and Eris tries to hold him back. Helion turns to Lucien, his mother, and then Feyre, remembering their conversation about how he never stepped in to save the lady of the autumn court and decides it's time to act.
Helion places the lady of the autumn court and Lucien behind his back and sends a blow to Beron, and at that moment, Beron's suspicions of Helion being Lucien's true father are confirmed, and he goes feral. A huge fight ensues; Beron, out of anger and shame, tells Eris to kill Lucien for stepping out of line, saying if he does not belong to the autumn court, then he belongs nowhere, while Beron makes a fatal strike to Helion and his own wife. Eris picks up his sword but instead of killing Lucien he kills Beron.
Simultaneously Eris and Beron have their final moments while Lucien and Helion have theirs. The former father realizes the bond that has been cleaved with his son, realizing this whole time Eris is not loyal to him. The latter father admits the bond he and Lucien share, apologizing the lack of presence in his life, wishing they had more time, with his final words being something similar to "do our court proud, son."
Lucien and Eris stand up and look at each other for a long moment feeling the power of becoming High Lords seep into their blood, their souls. Eris looks at Helion's body and sorrowly says to Lucien, "I told you, you were never a threat to my throne, brother."
A heartbreaking moment, tying back to the one Rhys and Tamlin once shared after both their fathers were killed. Also, I don't believe Elain is meant for the night court, that she would fair better in the day court (and if all goes according to my wishes, it would be the two of them together.) I don't know much about the lady of the autumn court; maybe either after Lucien has his high lord power, he can use it to heal her? Or would a Romeo and Juliette ending be fitting for her and Helion? I'm not sure; Sarah can handle that, lol.
I love Helion so much, and it would be such a heartbreaking scene, but I would love to watch Eris and Lucien rule.
I've never made a post here, so if I accidentally violate a rule, please let me know so I can make an edit!