This is a summary of my redacted wallstreetbets comments and previous, scattered comments from this sub on the issue of why I see there's perhaps more to see with GME. Maybe this extended summary is helpful for somebody to get a grip of what's maybe going on.
TL;DR - Some noob shitposts about GME and says he likes the stonk, thinking the end game is still coming.
I will warn about this in the end as well, but for the sake of clarity: I may be a Russian agent, I may be an ape with a keyboard and I plugged it into my rectum and I may be just an idiot that happens to have a fairly new account. So just saying: first read what I've written and then make up your own opinion - am I a shill or not. Be prudent now, since there's some big infiltration and PSYOPs going on over at WSB (maybe soon other subs as well). So FWIW:
Why do I think GME is still possibly heading for an end game and the momentum is still on-going?
WSB was just one of several catalysts generating loads of gamma in week 4, until Thu came and we had the giant cockup (Robinhood etc.). That gamma was also causing short squeeze from Monday to Thursday. So there was already back then bigger sharks in the tank and I assume they're still present.
Citadel Securities order data for GME was only net positive in retail buy orders on Mon 25. From Tue onwards the retail sell orders were leading the retail order flow at Citadel Securities for GME, which includes Robinhood. This was referenced in a Bloomberg Opinion piece as a screenshot. So it means Robinhood and other little folks with orders routed through Citadel Securities, were on the sell side from Tue 26 onwards in week 4.
https://preview.redd.it/rbjpbouibyf61.jpg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f36769efbd7912b5db9a89e8d2c395063448130a
Now we don't know for sure yet what happen with the shorts in week 4, but we will be better informed, come this Tuesday and we see the report on what was shorted up to Jan 29.
Speaking of hedge funds and reporting their short positions: Melvin Capital never usually comments what they short or when they exit a target. So my question is: why did they do so now?
As for Citron Capital: Andrew Left admitted on his own video they were still "small" into GME. No, Left never said they're 100 % out of GME. "Small" as in 100 000 shares sold short? Or is "small" 1 000 000?
What about the data regarding current shorting of GME?
I personally think S3 Partners, Ortex and IHS Markit have credible coverage for shorting data (SI), but it's not really giving a complete picture. In fact there's no complete data about this, because I at least assume options have been used to cover up shorts. Sure, I do believe the true level of SI has gone down at least somewhat, but I don't assume it's really a gameover yet.
If anything, the short attacks (no, don't talk about ladders now) and the activity this Friday 5th to block the price from rising, were at least to me a sign that something is still going on. Obviously GME is still not a pure retail, little folks play. There's serious equity at work here.
It's also worth paying attention to the fact we don't know how much illegal co-ordination (read: market fixing) is going on between hedge funds, when it comes to GME. Carson Block of Muddy Waters Capital said on Monday on Bloomberg:
“I’ve wondered, is there coordination with these hedge funds?” Block said in an interview on Bloomberg Television. “What constitutes coordination? Did they cross the line? That could be interesting.”
And quoting the written article:
"Carson Block, the activist short-seller famous for targeting Chinese frauds, recognizes familiar behavior in the rally of shares such as GameStop Corp. To him, the parabolic moves look less like the product of Reddit-driven retail orders than a short squeeze by hedge funds targeting other hedge funds."
There's IMO obviously still going on an operation (or several) to cause mayhem and in-fighting on WSB. I see it as coercion to both make WSB look like market fixing to the SEC and to disrupt the community from mending and being able to carry on. Why wouldn't you spend $XXXX-$XXX XXXX on taking down some Reddittors? If you look at the price of just e.g. the second hand Reddit accounts, it's all peanuts to pay, when you have billions of dollars on the line.
This also highlights that there's obviously some reason why it's still continuing, despite it's claimed the short seller play is over.
Last, but not least:
As you all by now recognize, there's a huge influx of paid human agents (i.e. shills from social media agencies and independent contractors - like the ones getting paid $20-30 per hour) and script running geeks trying to skew the narrative of A) what WSB is really all about (you know, the usual shitposting at Wendy's), B) what's the outlook for GME (we've had many obvious PSYOPs grade threads now - spread fear and so forth) and C) divert retail equity into other plays that are dead ends (e.g. NOK and silver are obvious ones).
Don't take everything at facevalue. I know who I am and I'm a genuine, noob shitposter, but you can't verify that. I didn't do like some of those paid agents and bought out some old account to use as undercover. It's just happenstance that I have a new account for Reddit. Should've apparently bought some fucking shelf account, I guess...
It's sad to see how big money is really tearing apart a sub with speculating/gambling harmless apes, but it's just so easy to do, when you have billions of dollars at risk and Reddit is a quite vulnerable platform for paid coercion and infiltration. Just look at the WSB founder or mods heeding to money.
Never the less, I see so many red flags now that I find it hard not to assume we're still going to see something happen next week. To Alpha Centauri? 🚀 🚀 🚀 Maybe not, but sure thing I have a hunch we will still see further events unfold.
Oh, and for the sake of sticking to SOP: 555 longs in GME, average somewhere around $60. I don't usually add it, but doing it now.
Edit 1: Added Left's video.

(Spoilers Extended) Brienne in a parallel world: GRRM's draft of her last two chapters recovered from Russian translation

In the first edition of Russian AFFC (published in Feb. 2007), the translation of the last two Brienne chapters is based on an earlier draft, thus allowing us to see GRRM's initial take of Brienne's storyline. And there are HUGE differences!
Basically, in the Russian version Brienne VII and VIII are one chapter, and many plots like Brienne fighting Rorge & Biter, Thoros's talk with Brienne are not present. There are also some interesting details about BWB's plan, including monologue of a Red Wedding survivor. Last but not the least, Brienne's cliffhanger moment is also entirely different.
So let's take a look at this not-so-well-known draft chapter from Russia. The following quotes are all translated from Russian, using sentences from GRRM's dictionary whenever possible, in order to "reconstruct" his original writing. My translation is mostly based on Flighty's translation back in 2013 and only has a few small improvements. You can also view the original Russian version here, and please tell me if you find any translation errors!
The chapter begins with "They came upon the first corpse a mile from the crossroads" and the first half is almost the same as what we read in AFFC Brienne VII except in a few tiny places. The only not-so-tiny difference in this part is the exchange with Willow:

“She’s dead,” the boy said. “The lions hanged her.”
“And who hanged all the others?” asked Ser Hyle Hunt. “You have here gallows grow like mushrooms.”
“The other outlaws,” explained the girl Willow. “By which road did you come?”
“Along the river, from Saltpans,” said Brienne.
“Then you saw it. These hanged men have killed and burned there. Only there were more of them.” Willow was staring at her, in a way that she knew well. “If you’re a lady, why are you wearing chainmail?”

Compare with the version in English book:

“She’s dead,” the boy said. “The lions hanged her.”
“Hanging seems your favorite sport in these parts,” said Ser Hyle Hunt. “Would that I had some land hereabouts. I’d plant hemp, sell rope, and make my fortune.”
“All these children,” Brienne said to the girl Willow. “Are they your … sisters? Brothers? Kin and cousins?”
“No.” Willow was staring at her, in a way that she knew well. “They’re just … I don’t know … the sparrows bring them here, sometimes. Others find their own way. If you’re a woman, why are you dressed up like a man?”

The real interesting thing happens when Brienne heard someone is coming at the inn. And the outlaws coming were not Rorge & Biter...

They are not his sons. Stannis told it true, that day he met with Renly. Joffrey and Tommen were never Robert’s sons. This boy, though …
“There's nothing to stare at me,” said Gendry.
“You do not understand. Maybe you…” But then she heard Dog barking, loud and frantic. “Put out the fire,” she told Gendry. “We have guests.” Without looking whether he obeyed her or not, she took up her sword and came to the door of the smithy. The first riders came splashing through the puddles into the yard, two in a row. Beneath the patter of the rain and Dog’s barking, she could hear the faint clink of swords and mail from beneath their ragged cloaks. Bending down behind a broken cart, she began to count them. Lightning sparkled when she counted to twenty, illuminating a shiny dog’s head with pressed ears and steel teeth shining.
It can't be the Hound, but the one who wears his helmet is probably no less dangerous than the real one. Remembering what she saw at Saltpans, she unsheathed Oathkeeper. The children, she thought. The thunder boomed, and in the following silence she heard the splashes behind her back. “To arms,” she said quietly. “It’s the outlaws.”
“So are we.” Turning around, Brienne had only time to see the club a heartbeat before it fell.
The lightning struck again, this time in her head. Rain, the inn, the riders, Gendry…the darkness absorbed everything and then sucked it into its funnel.
The rest was a nightmare.
She was in Renly’s tent again, seeing how the candles are guttering out, feeling the wind from nowhere, shivering at the sudden cold.
“Cold,” Renly said, and a shadow moved without a man to cast it, and the king’s blood came washing through the green steel of his gorget.
She was twelve again, sweating in a silk gown, waiting to meet the boy arranged for her to marry. They’d never met before, but everyone was saying he’s a brave boy and sure to be a famous champion when he becomes a knight. He was older than Brienne, but father had told her it was even better. He was approaching, holding a rose in his hand, red as his hair. When he saw Brienne, his face went red too. She tried to greet him as she had been instructed, to thank him for his visit and invite him to the castle, but the words stuck in her throat. Finally she managed to ask whether the rose is meant for her. “I’ve brought it to my bride,” he answered, “but I see a cow. Do cows eat flowers? Take it then.” He tossed the rose at her feet and galloped away. The griffins on his cloak rippled behind his shoulders, and her lord father was sending curses to his back.
Again she saw the ruined castle at the Whispers, that she’d been dreaming so much lately, and once again she was fighting the Bloody Mummers, but now there weren’t three of them but the whole thirty. As soon as she killed one, two more crawled out of the well. After Shagwell, Timeon and Pyg came Richard Farrow, Big Ben Bushy, Will the Stork and the others, even Mark Mullendore with his monkey. When she killed them, the bloody-red roses grew from their wounds and reached out to her with thorns.
She was riding through a gloomy wood, laying facedown across a horse with her wrists and ankles lashed together. The air was damp, the ground cloaked in mist. Her head pounded with every step. She could hear voices, but all she could see was the earth beneath the horse’s hooves. When the shafts of pale dawn light started to slant through the trees some people dragged her down from the horse, put her on her feet, slipped a noose about her neck, and tossed the other end of the rope over a thick limb.
“She’s waking up,” said someone, a girl, judging by the voice.
I am looking for a girl, Brienne remembered. A highborn maid of three-and-ten, with blue eyes and auburn hair. But the girl before her was nothing like that. Very tall, thin as a skeleton, and much older. Brown hair, brown eyes, plain. Willow, six years older. “You’re the sister, ” Brienne said. It was painful to talk, thunder rolled over her head. “The innkeep.”
“Yes, I’m Long Jeyne Heddle. So what?”
“My companions,” said Brienne, barely moving her tongue. Someone stuffed her mouth with wet wool. Maybe she’s still dreaming? “Septon Meribald is an honest, holy man. Podrick is just a boy, and Ser Hyle has never harmed you. And Dog. What did you do with Dog?” Only then did she realize she had not heard the barking for a long time.
“The dog is fine and goes upon its way, so do the others,” said the girl. “We need only you.”
“Do you think we would harm a septon’s dog?” asked the one-eyed man in a rusted helm. “Who do you take us for?”
“Robbers and murderers.” Brienne tried to slip free from the ropes, but the effort only made her headache worse. “I saw the helm when the lightning flashed…the snarling dog’s head.”
“You can have another look, if you wish,” said the brawny men with a hard face of a soldier. His thick brown beard was spangled with raindrops. He was clad in rusted rings. Longsword and dirk hung on a studded leather belt. Top of all that he wore a torn, dirty yellow cloak. Holding a helm in the crook of his arm, he put in onto his head and stared at Brienne through the eyeholes. “That’s the last thing you see in this world, traitor. If you believe in gods, pray to them.”
I will not beg, Brienne told herself, but the desperate will to live has driven her to address the girl, Long Jeyne. She is too young to be so hard.…
“I was a guest under your roof. We broke bread with your sister.”
Jeyne was untouched. “After the Red Wedding guest right don’t mean much in the riverlands.”
“Yes… I know about the Red Wedding.”
“Do you?” A aged northerner in a sheepskin cloak moved closer to Brienne. “I doubt it. Only those who were there know. It was raining then… just as now. The Freys put up tents for us, three huge feast tents. And they rolled out casks of mead, ale, and wine. We had ridden a long way, soaked and frozen, so we crowded in those tents, to get warm and have a drink… and the Freys were drinking with us, and laughing and singing and gambling. Outside the rain was lashing down, and it was warm and cozy in the tent, and the Freys were rolling up more and more casks…”
Tears were streaming down the northerner’s face. “Gods forgive me. Ale on an empty belly went straight to my head, and the Freys wouldn’t stop proposing toasts - to Lord Edmure, to the Young Wolf, to Queen Jeyne… Lord Bolton placed his men around the edges of the camp, so that no foe would take us unawares. It was hot and stuffy, I remember, everyone was jostling around those casks. I felt an urge to take a piss so I went into the rain, plodded down to the river, and relived myself in the reeds. Then I slipped in the mud and fell – that saved my life. So I lay there, listening to the music from the castles, drums, horns, pipes, over the water the sound was so clear. I must have dozed off then, for it was the screams that woke me up. I clambered up the bank, and what did I see – the tents were all brought down and burning. All three, and there were hundreds of people inside. I saw, and it was the Freys who’d set fire to them and now were shooting at every bulge on the canvas. A few escaped and took the fight, and it was Bolton’s men who came slashing at them, along with the Freys. That's when I realized we were doomed. I hid in the reeds, may the gods forgive me. And the whole time the music was playing, and so loud, louder than the screams of men burning alive. So don’t tell me about the Red Wedding. Nobody can know except those who have heard this music.”
His bitter voice made Brienne shiver. “I’m sorry for all who died there, but what does it have to do with me? I wasn’t anywhere near.”
“It’s your masters the Lannisters who made that mess,” said the one-eyed man. “With the Boltons and the Freys.”
“They are not my masters.”
“Of course not. They just gave you this sword for no reason. And the parchment with the seal of the boy king, too.”
“The name of this sword is Oathkeeper. I’m looking for…” She almost said my sister, but something told her she shouldn’t lie to these people. “A highborn maid of three-and-ten. She has blue eyes and auburn hair.”
“We are looking for her too,” said another man, younger than the others. His voice was frosted with the accents of the north. “We know who you are, Lady Brienne. We know who you are looking for and whom you serve. You’d never believe how many friends we have – at Duskendale, Maidenpool, King’s Landing, even at the Twins. When the news about your quest reached us…it's no coincidence that you're standing here with a noose about your neck, milady. You shall answer for your crimes.”
“Crimes? What have I done?”
“You are a traitor and an oathbreaker.”
“That’s not true!” All her life she’s strived only for one thing – to be a perfect knight, valiant and true. “To whom have I been false?”
“To her.”
Everyone parted, and the grey-cloaked woman came forward, with only her eyes visible under the hood.
“Are you the Silent Sister?” Brienne spoke. “Then I beg you – send my bones to Evenfall, to my lord father…” The last courage has left her. Silent Sisters are the handmaidens of the Stranger, the servants of the death itself.
“Bugger you lord father,” said the man in the yellow cloak. “You’ll rot with the others. As for m’lady, sometimes she’s called the Silent Sister, but she has the other names as well – Stoneheart, Mother Merciless, The Hangwoman…”
The grey woman grasped her neck with a milk-white hand, as if she meant to throttle herself. Instead she spoke . . . if these sounds could be called a speech. The halting voice seemed to come not from her mouth, but from her throat.
“She’s hard to understand without a habit,” said the man in the yellow cloak. “She’s asking do you remember her.”
“Remember? But I…”
The woman lowered her hood and unwound the grey wool scarf from her face. Her hair was dry and brittle. Her skin was the color of sour milk with corpse spots. One cheek was rotten through, revealing the teeth inside the hole, but that was not the worst part. Her whole face, from eyes to jaw, was torn sharply by the claws of some beast. Black oil oozed from the unhealed wounds. She took up her throat again, with her fingers pinched a monstrous scar on it, and squeezed out some more sounds.“She’s asking do you recognize her now.”
Brienne nodded, shocked by the terrible, monstrous, unbelievable sight. She was so beautiful… Mother have mercy, what did they do to her? Brienne couldn’t look at her but didn’t dare to take her eyes away.
“Lady Catelyn,” she said, with tears in her eyes. “What… what did they do to you?”
“They killed her,” said the northerner. Brienne has never heard so much sorrow in a man’s voice. “Slashed her throat from ear to ear, so the head hardly held in place.”
“Death and striving for a noble cause,” muttered Long Jeyne, “they don’t mean so much as they used to.”
“When we found her by the river Lady Catelyn was three days dead. Thoros said it had been too long and refused to give her the kiss of life, so Lord Beric put his lips to hers instead, and the flame of life passed from him to her, and our brotherhood fell apart… but the war goes on.”
“Enough, Harwin. Do we mean to hang the ugly bitch or talk her to death?” The one-eyed man snatched the end of the rope from the other outlaw and gave a yank. The rope dug into skin, lifting Brienne upward. If this is another dream, it is time for me to awaken. If this is real, it is time for me to die. From somewhere afar she heard the clapping of wings. The carrion crows are coming to feast at her corpse. About a dozen already are circling over her head, but for carrion crows these birds are too large. Ravens, smiled Brienne. How odd. No, it is a dream, and now she will awake.

So that's the end, which completely blows my mind! A simple summary of the differences:

Brienne didn't meet Rorge & Biter. It's unclear who raided Saltpans. Probably still Rorge, but could also be Lemoncloak. If it's still Rorge raided Saltpans, then Lemoncloak probably killed him off stage and claimed Hound's helm.
Gendry knocked Brienne out.
Brienne's face and body didn't get hurt.
Pod and Ser Hyle were released together with Septon Meribald. Them, Thoros and Gendry didn't appear in the second half, as we've seen in AFFC Brienne VIII.
Brienne didn't dream of Jaime in her fevre dream.
Long Jeyne Heddle was unkind to her since there was no Brienne saving the children action.
There's no Thoros's talking about the fall of BWB, only a single description "our brotherhood broke...but the war goes on".
A survivor talked about the details of Red Wedding. Bolton men were arranged around the camp as guards.
According to Harwin, BWB have friends at Duskendale, Maidenpool, King’s Landing, and even the Twins. They heard Brienne was searching for Sansa and captured her intentionally.
Lady Stoneheart's face was more terrible in the draft.
Lady Stoneheart didn't have Robb's crown.
Brienne didn't have the choice of sword or noose. It seems she was to be saved by the Old Gods.

All in all, this chapter reads like a parallel world of "what if Lemoncloak return to the Inn before Rorge?"
Thanks to Flighty at jaimebrienne.org for translation, and Narwen at 7kingdoms.ru for information. Minor updates thanks to weedw1zard420

Rock, Paper, Scissors: War Games

This is a rather long one and the last in this particular Universe for a while, enjoy!

Admiral Alexis was... Bored... When the usual suspects called for an emergency meeting he expected another war, some sort of political snafu or maybe a major discovery that would require his input.
Once he learned how little was at stake he stopped really listening, as far as he's was concerned it was just about someone cheating at video games...
****************************** The War Games had first been introduced as a way to create camaraderie between the races and to have hard data on the strategies and capabilities of the different races.
The Noradons had been the only ones who participated along side the Humans.
Targeting locks would count as hits for space combat, smoke would be artillery explosions, low level electric batons would be used to simulate blades and good old paint balls for live ammunition.
The result was an overwhelming win for the Humans, the Noradons' new Overseer, Talon, was far too direct in his approach, the only victories he achieve were when he had superior numbers and never in defense scenarios.
He didn't care for traps, small deployment of troops, scouts, listening to his officers on the ground or any type of subterfuge.
The second was a more balanced affair, the Noradons had now far more specialist units and Talon had learned from his mistakes.
It was also a lot more popular, it wasn't viewed as a barbaric display of power like the first one but as a more violent sporting event.
Thou the second game was better remembered for the arrival of the A/O during the closing of the games.
****************************** The ceremony was finished, everyone was picking up their things and preparing to leave.
Kin son of Krono, host of the ceremony at the Commonwealth's HQ had the classic bartender's look that screamed: you don't have to go home but you can't stay here...
That is until Lawless contacted him.
A massive ship, dreadnought class from the tonnage, had just entered the system, it would be here in mere minutes.
Seeing how The Pale Horse and the Queen's Fury, the only known dreadnoughts, were already there this was worrisome to say the least.
He urged everyone to remain, not that anyone was going to leave now, this was exactly what the War Games were ultimately about: being ready when the time came to fight.
By the time the unknown ship emerged, the Combined fleet, the Noradons swarm along side the dozen or so ships of the Imphlasms were ready for anything, the Va'sh had stayed home.
Historians still wonder to this day what would have happened had they been present.
The ship was an odd mix of science and gardening gone wrong, an icosahedron with a power signature better measured in stars covered in moss and vines.
Admiral Alexis: “Identify yourself and your intentions”
Unknown Ship: “We are us, we wish to learn all there is to know”
Admiral Alexis: Huh, doesn't sound too bad
Unknown Ship: “We wish to be the only sentient races alive!”
Alexis: Ah, this would be the other shoe dropping, “We can help you with that first part but do not think we will just allow ourselves to be killed without a fight”
The Unknown Ship powered what looked like weapons
The fleets above Commonwealth HQ were ready for combat and spread out in loose formations, combat was about to be joined.
Than came from Commonwealth's Law a message sent on all frequencies
3.14: “Very well and than what?”
Unknown Ship: “... We would be safe and no other sentient beings would add needless variables to the grand equation”
3.14: Grand equation? Have we finally run into civilized alien lifeforms!?, “I assume the grand equation is a single mathematical formula that explains and predicts all things in the Universe?”
Unknown Ship sounding happy and not monotone for the first time: “Yes!”
3.14: “So your plan is to remove all sentient beings to make it safe and easier to calculate”
Unknown Ship: “Yes, that would be optimal”
3.14: “And you would just exist like that until the heat death of the Universe?”
Unknown Ship: “The what?”
Admiral Alexis was growing impatient, the Krush ambassador and the Ship had been talking astrophysics for two hours now, the Unknown Ship powered down their weapons into the first few minutes of this discussion and it was looking like there would be no fighting after all.
Unknown Ship: “I see, so no matter what, eventually all things would end”
3.14: “It is inevitable”
Unknown Ship: “Perhaps, perhaps not, we will think on how to prevent this, it is a far more grievous threat than any alien species consuming us”
3.14: “Yes that would be a worthy endeavor to occupy a mind like... Wait, eat you!?”
The threat of conflict over, proper introductions took place, the Ship was composed of two species: the moss and vines was a single plant entity and the ship itself a massive AI, the first true and somehow naturally occurring AI the galaxy had ever known.
They had met by accident, the plant life form floated into the hull of the AI on a small meteor and grew there, the AI could easily predict how it behaved, it liked the little plant and they formed a bond.
In their travels they intercepted Commonwealth transmissions.
The Plant accessed the holo-net and saw that every sentient species ate plants in some capacity, the AI saw the chaos some species were capable off.
They decided to strike first but upon learning how all would one day end shifted focus to finding a may to prevent it.
They were giving a name: Alpha for being first of their kind and Omega for their shared goal to see that the end never happens, A/O for short.
They chose to stay in orbit around Commonwealth HQ, doing nothing of note.
Sometimes the AI would discuss theories with the scientifically inclined races on how to prevent heat death and the Plant would have philosophical debates on what constitutes life with the more spiritual races.
****************************** Alexis sighed
That was then, this is now
Alexis looked at Ambassador Paul trying and failing to convince the others of the gravity of the situation.
“This could prove a huge security risk, we must find out who is doing this!”
Alexis had had enough
“No offense but finding out who is messing with the War Game's holo settings isn't much of a threat”
Paul: “The most likely scenario is that someone is interfering with the Games in order to make a large profits from the bets taking place, we must find who is doing this”
3.14: “I'm pretty sure only Humans would do such a thing”
He looks at the Admiral
“No offence”
Admiral Alexis: “None taken, I mean, who else thinks it's Humans?”
Lady EliIi: “No doubt”
Warlord M'rm'n: “Of course!”
Ambassador Uv: “Makes sense”
Lawless, the AI of the Commonwealth Law sat at this meeting, she was the referee of the Games
“It's Humans, there's no question about that”
Paul: Et tu Lawless? “Anyway, I have put top men in charge of finding out the truth”
3.14: “Who?”
Paul: “Top. Men”
****************************** Lord Doros was having a bad day, the Combined ambassador had contacted Transit concerning supposed hacking of the War Games.
Normally this would be well beneath the 12 Blades but their “failure” with the Diszin incident had allowed the ambassador to call in a favor, so to speak.
Lord Doros: Pretty sure we got the job as punishment.
He thought back to the morning's meeting
Boss: “... And so we have to find who is messing with the Games and why”
Everyone looked confused, Lord Doros was fuming...
Scout K'r's lifted his paw
“Not that I mind but killing someone over rigging games feels like going overboard”
G00.106 nods
Boss sighed
“We are not to kill anyone,we simply report our finding to the officials and arrest the individuals if we can”
The specialists in the room said nothing, the shock was total, this mission was not only something they should never have to do but they would have to operate like common... Cops.
Lord Doros had had enough
“So what's next? Trade disputes? Traffic control!?”
Boss: “I understand how you feel but Transit gave us the mission and we must obey”
Lord Doros: That was 5 hours ago, now we are on the Commonwealth Law, looking for “leads”
Smith was a professional, he was given a task and would complete it, no matter how absurd.
He was meeting with Lord Doros, K'r's and G00.106 in the Commonwealth's Law cafeteria, there were dozen of groups of different races all over the place, while most individuals who participated in the Games did not travel to Commonwealth HQ, many coaches, reporters and VIPs did.
Which is why Commonwealth Law was used as a safe meeting for these individuals.
The media to try to snag any exclusives they could, the VIPs to follow the games along side fellow VIPs and the coaches for the timed honored tradition of getting in the referees face when they had a complaint.
Lord Doros was already sitting at the meeting table
“So anything?”
Smith sat at the opposite side of the table and G00.106 stayed standing her back to the two.
Smith: “No luck so far, I talked with a few coaches and the odd VIP but they let nothing slip”
Lord Doros nodded, he himself had not found anything and given the levels of security involved he doubted anyone would.
“G00.106?”
G00.106 shrugged
“Not a damn thing, I even tried asking a few males while wearing nothing but lingerie like some of the girls onboard suggested but all I got were screams and a fine for..”
She reads her datapad to get it right
“... Creepy indecent exposure”
Smith had a horrifying mental image and shuddered.
Lord Doros shuddered a second later
“Thanks for sharing specialist Smith”
Smith: “Sorry, the image just, wait a second wouldn't you have gotten the same from G00.106 anyway?”
Lord Doros shakes his head
“Noradons are now all psychically linked to the Overseer at some level, you can't read one without listening in on all of them so it comes out as static”
Smith: “Very well... So i guess we have no leads to follow”
G00.106 was slightly insulted by the conversation that had just taken place but decided to move on
“So anyway, I doubt it was Noradons, we don't really do the whole crime thing”
Lord Doros nodded
Smith: “Has anyone seen K'r's? It's not his style to be late”
Lord Doros opened his eyes wide and looked up
Smith and G00.106 followed his gaze.
K'r's was sitting above them on a lamp, his green coat and pants were torn in places, his beret was missing, chunks of fur looked to have been ripped off and he had a thousand yard stare that spoke of unimaginable horrors.
Smith: “What the Hell happened to you!”
K'r's grabbed a flask from inside his coat, unscrewed the lid and took a sip
“Ran into Captain Grace”
He than took a much, much larger drink, never making eye contact.
Smith bit his fist and looked away.
G00.106 separated her arms, jumped into the pole holding the lamp and grabbed the Va'sh, cradling him like a new born larva and looked at Lord Doros
“Permission to take specialist K'r's to the ship for medical care!”
Lord Doros nodded solemnly
“Granted”
Smith and Lord Doros watched her run to their shuttle
Smith looked concerned
“Poor bastard...”
Smith than shifted to looking as chipper as ever
“So anyway, I doubt the Noradons had anything to do with the hacking, I mean there's no such thing as Noradons' organized crime after all”
****************************** Late at night, in the middle of the workers district of the Commonwealth Capital, a G00 unit wearing a brown trench coat and a black hat was slowly making her way to a bar.
She approached carefully, looking into every shadow and jumping at every noise, she had what looked like an Xmas gift in her hand.
The box was small and by the looks of it had been wrapped by a child... Or a really drunk adult.
She eventually gathered her courage and knocked on the bar's door, two fast knocks followed by two slower ones.
The door opened a tiny fraction, the “gift” was quickly exchanged for a grey bag of unknown content.
The G00 unit left, practically running.
Inside the bar the bouncer, a soldier Noradon, wearing a tuxedo and sunglasses made his way to the back.
He walked calmly, the sentients drinking and smoking paid him no attention besides the occasional nod, which he politely returned.
He entered the VIP room, Big Vinny, the proprietor of the establishment: the Carlito's Way, was sitting on his leather couch.
He was wearing a white suit with a matching ascot, a gold chain and a massive silver ring on his dorsal right hand.
Big Vinny was an engineering drone, smaller than the average Noradon to more easily get to tight places and with three digits per arm instead of claws to use precision tools.
Not that Big Vinny was small, he was overweight which to a Noradon with a perfectly genetically built gastric system was no small feat.
The bouncer, Tony, handed him the gift, bowed and left the room.
Vinny waited for Tony to leave before opening the package, inside was a box of chocolates, sixteen total.
He smiled
Best way to get a message without risk of it getting intercepted? Code it using foodstuffs.
He put the chocolates in order, the shapes symbolized the events taking place in the following days, the filling who would win and the individual wrapping's color the optimal spread.
He committed the information to memory and ate the evidence.
Taste like... Profits!
******************************** The Games had being a huge success so far, the Humans were leading by a razor thin margin.
The sabotage event was a surprise steal by the Imphlasms following the sudden rain that made Va'sh guards miss their approach until it was too late.
They than lost the retrieve and salvage mission to the Human team who won on a technicality
The Human field engineer was quoted saying:
“The rules said we had to get the ship back faster than the other team, never said nothing about it not exploding or having it's crew making it out alive”
Which was true, thou the rules would certainly see changes for the next Games.
This year marked the first time the War Games would shift from live exercises to holo-space recreations.
As such many more species joined this time around, most were out of the running by this time however.
The Humans lead by a single event, the Noradons were in second place, the Va'sh in third and the Impshlasms in fourth.
Today was the last four scheduled events: base defense, VIP assassination, survival on a Deathworld and the three-legged race, no one was certain how that last one ended up there...
The Noradons had pulled an upset on the base defense by outsmarting the human attackers, they used the molted exoskeleton of their soldier caste to have their engineers hold the front gate while the soldiers burrowed beneath the entrance and slaughtered the attackers in the resulting pitfall trap.
The VIP assassination had been won by the Va'sh, the human guards had a hard time pulling the trigger when they attacked and the Noradons and Imphlasm simply weren't fast enough.
Thou the moment a Human sniper managed to get his laser sight on the Va'sh VIP, which resulted in his guards accidentally mauling him to death, was considered a Pyrrhic victory.
Smith had been watching the whole thing from his now usual cafeteria table, not much to do when he had already spoken to anyone who allow him to get close to them.
I hope the others had better luck...
Lord Doros approached him and sat down
“I have managed to find no leads”
Smith didn't look at him, to anyone else watching, the Aaen had just whispered to himself.
Is the kitten doing okay?
Lord Doros: “He'll be out of med-bay in a day or so”
Smith gave a barely perceptible nod
G00.106 arrived at the table, she looked in a hurry
“I have a lead! What do you know of the Carlito's Way?”
Lord Doros and Smith looked at each-other nonplus
Smith adventured an answer
“... I don't like the ending I guess?”
G00.106 looked at him like he was an idiot
“What? No I'm talking about a bar in the Commonwealth Capital, Solenia”
She explained how one of her sisters from her hive back home contacted her, to let her know if she wanted in on a gambling scheme she was part of.
“I've made 4 times my initial bet so far!”
Was what she had told her.
G00.106: “My guess is that they're somehow behind the hacking, like the rain that costed the Va'sh the sabotage mission or the Humans weapon misfire when the Va'sh attacked their VIP”
Smith: “I don't think the weapons mis... Anyway, should we contact Lawless and check this bar out?”
Lord Doros: “Yes, this seems like a solid lead”
****************************** Smith, Lord Doros, G00.106 and Lawless made their way to the Carlito's Way.
Lawless insisted on joining the team, citing how as the referee of the Games it was her duty to see those who would defile it brought to justice, thou Smith thought the AI was probably just looking to get away from the incessant complaining from the coaches...
They found the bar with no issues, it had all the proper permits and all taxes were payed.
Lord Doros: “G00.106, you take point”
G00.106 hesitated
“Shouldn't Smith do it?”
Smith: “Normally yes, but you have an actual “in” with the crowd we are trying to infiltrate, I will enter with you as a friend looking to make some money, than”
He points at Lord Doros and Lawless
“They come in later as a couple looking for an out of the way place to have a quiet drink”
Lord Doros: “Anything goes wrong, we back you up”
Smith trying to be reassuring
“See, nothing to be worried about”
G00.106: “Right. Got it!”
She than kicks the door open and while holding her shortened carbine yells
“Nobody move! We know you're conducting illegal operations, you're all under arrest!!!”
Smith and Lord Doros thought at the same time
If we survive I'm killing her myself
Lawless grins, produces a kukri from under he coat and stands in front of G00.106.
The people at the bar barely seem to notice and quickly return to their drinks and talks.
Smith and Lord Doros reluctantly drew their pulse pistols, enter the bar and stood by their colleague.
Smith: “When we get back, if we get back, we need to talk about your infiltration skills”
G00.106: “Why?”
Before smith or Lord Doros could answer, or shoot her, the door in the back opens.
Big Vinny, with Tony in tow, appear.
Smith: What the Hell, a Noradon... Don!?
He seems very calm and he speaks softly as if to an old friend's kid he's trying to explain a complicated notion to.
“What, if may ask, is the reason for this loud and quite frankly disrespectful scene in this, my humble establishment?”
G00.106: “We know what you're doing and you're going to prison, if we don't kill you right now that is!”
Vinny undisturbed
“I find such a thing rather difficult without any evidence and for any threat against my person”
Vinny snaps his fingers
Half the bar draws weapons and Tony gets in front of his boss, the infiltration team is now outnumbered five to one
Vinny: “You will find it a... Difficult task”
Smith was curious, if he was going to die today he just had to ask
“Okay, what's with the outfit?”
Vinny, positively beaming
“You like it? I modelled it after Tony Montanas's suit in Scarface”
Smith, now less curious and more confused
“The movie?”
Vinny: “Yes, we like your “mafia”, quite a novel idea”
Lawless: “Yeah well, organize crime is nothing new and even if you get rid of us more will come”
Vinny: “Crime? What crime?”
G00.106: “You rigged the War Games and make bets on them, my sisters called me and told me all about it!”
Vinny got in front of Tony, he was frowning
“Did she tell you we were actually fixing the events?”
G00.106 seemed a lot less confident all of a sudden
“Well not in so many words, no”
The rest of the team looked at her and than at each-other
Vinny: “We have a group of ex-military professionals analyze the strategies of the teams and a Krush run the odds, than we place bets on events where the margin of error matches the betting spread”
Smith: “So you aren't the ones hacking the Games?”
Vinny genuinely surprised
“The Games are getting hacked!? Well, we have nothing to do with that, we're just honest mafiosy”
Smith still concerned and very aware of the multitude of guns pointed in their direction.
“You do know they're the bad guys right?”
Vinny: “Of course but that's because they break the law”
G00.106: “Ha! Like you don't”
Smith came to a horrible realization
“Lawless could you run a quick background check on the people here for outstanding warrants”
Lawless closed her eyes for a second, smiled awkwardly and sheathed her kukri.
“No criminal records, not even a ticket and they have permits for those guns”
Lord Doros: “It seems we made a mistake”
Vinny: “Quite so but don't worry, this was exhilarating! Rocco Two Hands had been itching for a reason to draw his guns”
Vinny waved at Rocco, who was standing behind Smith
Smith looked back expecting a Noradon with only two arms but what he saw was a Noradon drone with all of his arms and a backpack with another set of four mechanical ones allowing him to hold eight guns total, all aimed at his head.
Smith: “Rocco TWO hands?”
Vinny: “It's short for Two Sets of Hands, alright fellows put the hardware away, you're scaring the tourists”
At this the entire bar sat down and no one even looked at the four who now awkwardly sheathed and holstered weapons before leaving.
Vinny as he waves them good bye
“Arividerchi!”
The four walked in silence for a while until Lawless spoke
“This never happened, agreed?”
No one said anything, there was no need.
On the way back to Commonwealth Law Lord Doros got a message on his datapad
“We have a new mission”
****************************** Lawless was spectating the survival event of the games in the cafeteria.
We didn't find the culprits, we didn't even find how they did it... Thou given how they could have done much worse than add random shit I guess we should consider ourselves lucky.
A/O had joined the other VIPs, they were curious about how things would turn out.
He approached in his holographic avatar, a small crystal cube with a single leaf inside it.
“Greetings Lawless, are you enjoying the Games?”
Lawless: “Yes, kinda”
A/O: “Is there something not to your liking? I could modify the templates further”
Lawless stopped looking at the screen and turned to the floating cube
“I'm sorry, modify the templates further?”
The cube floated up and down, trying to imitate a nod
“Yes, we found the games too easy to predict, so we added semi-random events to make sure the Games remained interesting”
Lawless, was at a loss for words an entity that wanted to boil down all the universe to a single equation had somehow hacked into the Games to “spice things up”
She mulled over a few words, a couple of ideas and just... Gave up, they hadn't hurt anyone and at least they showed an interest. She resumed watching the screen.
“Just out of curiosity, are there any modifications to the current event?”
A/O: “Yes, in the next 12 seconds the tectonic plates where the teams are situated will begin to move”
Lawless: “An earthquake?”
A/O: “Correct”
Lawless: “... During the cooking portion of the event?”
A/O: “Is that a problem?”
Screaming and some really ingenious curses can be heard from the screen as holo projections of the teams catch fire, fall face first into their food or right into their makeshift cauldrons.
Lawless shrugs
“I guess not”
****************************** Captain Grace was on a mission, she was stalking a beautiful Va'sh, a white angora kitten wearing a butlers' outfit!
She applied some more scent blockers, checked her ceramic second skin under armor, activated noise cancellers on her boots and a camo-suit to become virtually undetectable.
The kitten took a turn into a cargo hold, she followed slowly and when she felt the Va'sh couldn't possibly dodge her, she jumped!
The hologram disappeared and the door locked behind her.
Before she could look behind, someone had put a bracelet on her right hand and in the time it took her to look at it an identical one was put on her left hand.
Grace: “What is the meaning of this!”
Smith and Lord Doros simply pointed up, to a viewing window
Grace looked up and paled, Admiral Alexis, Warlord M'r'm, Alisia Black, Lady EliIi, 3.14, Ambassador Paul and the Uv Ambassador were looking down at her.
Alexis: “Grace you have gone too far, consider this an intervention”
He pushed a button and the holographic butler kitten re-appeared.
Alexis: “This is a hard light construct of a real Va'sh, you have only one thing to do, pet the kitty”
Grace was scared but she acquiesced, not that she had a lot of choice...
All those watching winced
Lord Doros and Smith made it in time to catch the “petting”
Lord Doros: I heard the Human expression “there is more than one way to skin a cat”, I guess one of them is to let Captain Grace pet it...
After a couple of minutes Captain Grace stopped
“It's not the saMEEEEEE!”
An electric shock shot out from one bracelet to the other
Grace: “What the Hell was that!”
Admiral Alexis: “That was a mild shock, you will get hit by one every time you pet the Va'sh too hard”
Grace: “Mild shock!? Are you kidding me?”
Alexis, now looking quite angry
“No, this is no joke, now Pet. The. Kitty!”
A few hours and several thousand volts later
Captain Grace looked rough, her ponytail had come undone, actually quite a bit of her hair had curled and some of it was smoking.
She had a weird twitch on her left eye and as far as Admiral Alexis could tell she stopped blinking a while ago...
Alexis: “See, that wasn't so bad?”
Captain Grace in a monotone voice
“Yes, not so bad”
Warlord M'rm'n felt generous and removed his tricorne hat and offered his head to the Captain.
“Here”
Captain Grace hesitated but ultimately pet the Va'sh head, very gently
M'rm'n: “That was nice”
Captain Grace than began twitching uncontrollably and fell to the ground, hugging her knees
“pet the kitty, pet the kitty, pet the kitty...”
Everyone stared
Eventually Lady EliIi felt the need to say out loud what everyone was thinking
“We might have gone too far”
Warlord M'rm'n shrugged
“She got her hands on the Emperor nephew last week, the video of today's intervention should be enough for him to call the hit off”
Admiral Alexis looked at the Va'sh with a mixture of shock and anger
“You're kidding right?”
The Va'sh grinned and Admiral Alexis chose to assume it was a joke, Alisia Black knew better however...
Captain Grace spent a few days in the infirmary of her own ship and is now famous, rather than infamous, with Va'shs throughout known space!
The way she gives the softest pets and how she goes completely catatonic after has made her quite popular...

Some thoughts on SILVER, GME and game changing events with dragons and stuff

Disclaimer:
I am not a financial advisor and this is not financial advice. I barely understand how the stock market works. Professionally I'm a computational researcher -- my job is to simulate complex systems that my smooth brain barely understands.
Okay fellow retards,
loooong time lurker and europoor autist. So excuse my spelling. Let’s brake some things down:
SILVER:
It’s a real well played scheme on this. You have to remember there is a dragon in the east, where people have a historically deep bonding to silver. And the dragon looooves to take a gamble. So, number one priority for Melvin and hedge fund friends is to distract the dragon from GME with shiny silver. Imagine HFs did not throatfuck GME on Thursday and the dragon banged into the marked, heavy. This uprising of the dragon is exactly what this autist observed by comments on wsb late Wednesday, early Thursday. If HFs didn’t screw the market exactly this moment and pulled some silver shiny stuff out of their pockets, they would have already been toast.
Besides that, try to find silver shorts/put options for a reasonable spread/price which are also available to buy. I tried the whole day yesterday but at least at my europoor broker I couldn’t find a single one. What tells you that? Looks like smart money is not buying the silver rush.
BOTS:
These guys are getting their bots more and more angry and aggressive over the last 24h. But why would they still take the effort, if they already hit their targets? All this shows to my retarded autist smooth brain is that they are in deep fear! Hey, bot guys I just want to quote one of your clients: “What's your beef with me. I'm just trying to make a living just like you” ...I hope you guys got payed in advance, because your clients will likely go out of busyness!
Anyways... just to repeat the obvious: They try to create fear among you retards and make your diamond hands become weak ass toilet paper!
To close this part I just want to quote some famous investor from Omaha: (Be) “fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.” I’m an autist, I don’t feel fearful at all. I simply can’t… But for some reason the bot guys are. They seem fearful as fuck to me.
SHORT INTEREST RATIOS:
So I hope most of you guys realized, they simply changed the formula to calculate SI rates. It’s basically still ~120%.
https://www.reddit.com/wallstreetbets/comments/laoaru/read_this_they_are_screwed_numbers_dont_lie/
In science you would say they normalized the standardization:
You take your observed value also into account and add it to your base value. Eventually your maximum number can only be <=1 or in other terms <=100%, In this specific case you take your number of shorted stocks and add them to the float as a base value. Then you divide your number of shorted stocks by the base value (including shorted stocks) which can only be smaller then 1 or 100% in respective. ...inflate the base to make things look completely different… Anyways my smooth brain is able to convert the equation to the old standard (shorts/float) which is based on S3s latest 55% short interest rate (Just to make it easy for your autist brains):
shorts/(shorts + float) = 0.55 → 0.45/0.55 shorts = float -> 0.81 shorts = float → shorts = 1/0.81 float = 1.23 float or 123% of float.
https://twitter.com/ihors3/status/1356004816414269448
...in addition you have to keep in mind, big players always have taken fines and trials into consideration as costs. I don’t know what the fines for misinformation regarding number of shorted stocks are, but if you are scared to death you should:
First of all, not show it to your retarded smooth brained enemies by recruiting bot armies, obviously lying, silver bullshit, other FUD, ...you name it.
AND you are willing to take any risk to survive. ...or fines ...in this kind of situation probably any kind of fines no matter what.
But why would they do this? Whats their business with the Hfs? You ask yourself? You guys are threatening soooo many business models in finance. And this is the real game changer!
Keep in mind: On stock markets you mainly trade the future. You have to make scenarios for the upcoming future. And there is a horrifying scenario for boomer financial services arising at the horizon. But first let’s bring it to the crucial point first:
Look for information asymmetries, google it or whatever… That’s what it’s all about in the end. That’s the main reason why big players make shit tons of money from small players. It’s all about information sovereignty. Or the information monopoly… however you call it. The one who is (quicker) capable to gather more accurate information and hide it from others, wins. Like buying your investment decisions and order limits from RobinHood. Sometimes it’s even enough to convince your enemy that you are in possession of better information. (By the way, this fight about information sovereignty is exactly what you can observe right now. HFs try to convince you retards that they have better and more accurate information about the whole situation.)
So, lets come back to the bullet point:
Imagine a huge crowd of people on social platforms gathering more and more accurate information and take investment decisions on that. Because of declining information asymmetries constantly draining money out of it. This will drastically change the current state of the market in means of clients to financial service provider relations. Making it a more liberated, fairer market in some kind. ...the whole industry would lose trillions in the future. So yeah, you guys did it. You scared a big chunk of the whole financial sector. And I simply love you retards for doing this!!! Not with GME in particular but with this way of investing. Therefore from the financial industries point of view this transition process MUST be stopped and delayed at any cost. This is literally the clusterfuck for boomer financial services! And the worldwide media and wsb are the battlegrounds right now.
But hey I’m just a short minded, stock loving retard, having a lot of fun on this! GME to the moon! Planing to buy some dips today because I’m way to autistic to feel anxious about ridiculous 100 stocks short ladder ping pong.
TL;DR: GME, trillions, to the moon!

Some thoughts on SILVER, GME and game changing events with dragons and stuff

Disclaimer:

I am not a financial advisor and this is not financial advice. I barely understand how the stock market works. Professionally I'm a computational researcher -- my job is to simulate complex systems that my smooth brain barely understands.
Okay fellow retards,
loooong time lurker and europoor autist. So excuse my spelling. Let’s brake some things down:
SILVER:
It’s a real well played scheme on this. You have to remember there is a dragon in the east, where people have a historically deep bonding to silver. And the dragon looooves to take a gamble. So, number one priority for Melvin and hedge fund friends is to distract the dragon from GME with shiny silver. Imagine HFs did not throatfuck GME on Thursday and the dragon banged into the marked, heavy. This uprising of the dragon is exactly what this autist observed by comments on wsb late Wednesday, early Thursday. If HFs didn’t screw the market exactly this moment and pulled some silver shiny stuff out of their pockets, they would have already been toast.
Besides that, try to find silver shorts/put options for a reasonable spread/price which are also available to buy. I tried the whole day yesterday but at least at my europoor broker I couldn’t find a single one. What tells you that? Looks like smart money is not buying the silver rush.

ANTI GME BOTS:
These guys are getting their bots more and more angry and aggressive over the last 24h. But why would they still take the effort, if they already hit their targets? All this shows to my retarded autist smooth brain is that they are in deep fear! Hey, bot guys I just want to quote one of your clients: “What's your beef with me. I'm just trying to make a living just like you” ...I hope you guys got payed in advance, because your clients will likely go out of business!
Anyways... just to repeat the obvious: They try to create fear among you retards and make your diamond hands become weak ass toilet paper!
To close this part I just want to quote some famous investor from Omaha: (Be) “fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.” I’m an autist, I don’t feel fearful at all. I simply can’t… But for some reason the bot guys are. They seem fearful as fuck to me.

SHORT INTEREST RATIOS:
So I hope most of you guys realized, they simply changed the formula to calculate SI rates. It’s basically still ~120%.
https://www.reddit.com/wallstreetbets/comments/laoaru/read_this_they_are_screwed_numbers_dont_lie/
In science you would say they normalized the standardization:
You take your observed value also into account and add it to your base value. Eventually your maximum number can only be <=1 or in other terms <=100%, In this specific case you take your number of shorted stocks and add them to the float as a base value. Then you divide your number of shorted stocks by the base value (including shorted stocks) which can only be smaller then 1 or 100% in respective. ...inflate the base to make things look completely different… Anyways my smooth brain is able to convert the equation to the old standard (shorts/float) which is based on S3s latest 55% short interest rate (Just to make it easy for your autist brains):
shorts/(shorts + float) = 0.55 → 0.45/0.55 shorts = float -> 0.81 shorts = float → shorts = 1/0.81 float = 1.23 float or 123% of float.
https://twitter.com/ihors3/status/1356004816414269448
...in addition you have to keep in mind, big players always have taken fines and trials into consideration as costs. I don’t know what the fines for misinformation regarding number of shorted stocks are, but if you are scared to death you should:
First of all, not show it to your retarded smooth brained enemies by recruiting bot armies, obviously lying, silver bullshit, other FUD, ...you name it.
AND you are willing to take any risk to survive. ...or fines ...in this kind of situation probably any kind of fines no matter what.

But why would they do this? Whats their business with the Hfs? You ask yourself? You guys are threatening soooo many business models in finance. And this is the real game changer!
Keep in mind: On stock markets you mainly trade the future. You have to make scenarios for the upcoming future. And there is a horrifying scenario for boomer financial services arising at the horizon. But first let’s bring it to the crucial point first:
Look for information asymmetries, google it or whatever… That’s what it’s all about in the end. That’s the main reason why big players make shit tons of money from small players. It’s all about information sovereignty. Or the information monopoly… however you call it. The one who is (quicker) capable to gather more accurate information and hide it from others, wins. Like buying your investment decisions and order limits from RobinHood. Sometimes it’s even enough to convince your enemy that you are in possession of better information. (By the way, this fight about information sovereignty is exactly what you can observe right now. HFs try to convince you retards that they have better and more accurate information about the whole situation.)
So, lets come back to the bullet point:
Imagine a huge crowd of people on social platforms gathering more and more accurate information and take investment decisions on that. Because of declining information asymmetries constantly draining money out of it. This will drastically change the current state of the market in means of clients to financial service provider relations. Making it a more liberated, fairer market in some kind. ...the whole industry would lose trillions in the future. So yeah, you guys did it. You scared a big chunk of the whole financial sector. Not with GME in particular but with this way of investing. Therefore from the financial industries point of view this transition process MUST be stopped and delayed at any cost. This is literally the clusterfuck for boomer financial services! And the worldwide media and wsb are the battlegrounds right now.

But hey, I’m just a short minded, stock loving retard, having a lot of fun on this! GME to the moon! Planing to buy some dips today because I’m way to autistic to feel anxious about ridiculous 100 stocks short ladder ping pong.

TL;DR: GME, trillions, to the moon!

Cloudtemplar on Damwon vs Sunning + Reflection

translated from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_KnXHycF2s&t=689s

Damwon 3:1 Victory!

As of now because of Damwon's victory in World LCK are now the number 1 region this year. Of course next year we still have to see MSI and Worlds but for now LCK have reclaimed their number 1 region spot.

This was a very emotional moment for me. This took longer than I thought. When LCK first fell I thought they would do better next year but they kept faltering on the international stage. I even thought this day would never come. When I watched LPL to be really honest they were really good. Even at the finals they gave us a hard time. Damwon really won our confidence back.

General Ideas

To start I think Suning did better than I expected. Both side have something they regret/fell short and there are many points going for them both but in the end I thought Suning did better than I expected. I predicted a 3:1 but I predicted a much easier 3:1. The won games were all loseable and to be honest I am not sure what would happen if they went to game 5.

Looking at Suning it reminds me of the old(young?) Damwon. Overall Damwon are a better team but Suning was really able to play out their style. Just like the name 'Style of Me" Suning was able to play according to their strength and displayed a monstrous performance. To be honest it was really fun seeing them play. Of course it was fun because we won it probably won't be that funny if we lost(IG flashback).

This is going to be a short overview of the series. Let's not go too deep on the games itself since we have something else to talk about.

Game 1

SofM Shen Jungle

Last time I talked about Shen and how not everyone can play the champion. There are just some player unable to play the champioin. I don't think SofM was good with Shen but instead, he is just really good with jungling. When you see the game you don't really get the feeling that SofM or even Suning is good with Shen. I don't think Shen is a champion that mesh well with Suning. But SofM is really good with Jungling so in terms of farming and macro he is really good but I don't he played to Shen's strength.

Pick/Ban

Damwon picked a pretty traditional comp: Orianna, Ornn, and Graves reminiscent of the group stage and then Ashe/Pantheon. The analyst desk talked about this already but this comp is great even in blind pick(OGN B05 prepared us for this). This comp doesn't really have much weakness and it's a great game 1 comp.

Suning on the other hand chooses a very stylish(flavourful) comp which they will continue to do so the entire series. The comp is all about combos with Azir, Wukong, Leona going in while Ezreal deal damage in the back. Azir is good on paper(original: 'concept pick') but it was really hard to use him effectively in-game.

Suning's comp was really scary but to put it simply BeryL played out of his mind this game. He was good overall but specifically his positioning before teamfight/objective was really amazing. Because they have Ornn against Shen/Wukong they really can't break sidelines so they have to group around mid. What Suning want to do is catch them offguard with Leona/Azir but BeryL was able to stop them and even catch them before they catch Damwon.

You hear this and might think Damwon is unstoppable this game but in reality, it was a really close one. Biin played out of his mind this game. Specifically when Biin who was able to outplay Nuguri and Canyon who came to pick him off. But Biin was able to dodge their skill and survive till Angel and SofM came and clean them up. Wukong wasn't even that ahead. Overall however Damwon did have the advantage but Damwon made some mistakes and we realized that this isn't going to come easy.

Sunny Side Up

What is interesting about Suning is that they play around top which is rare and no other team do this. But because Biin is so good they were able to put out a great performance. SofM too was good on enabling Biin while making sure bot doesn't collapse.

So Nuguri was really important here. If there was ten ganks then he evaded nine of them. Since top side was Suning's win condition Nuguri did a really good job absorbing the pressure. Sometimes he doesn't even get help and was just expected to survive on his own.

Suning Roster on Paper vs Reality

I don't think Azir is a good pick overall and he is only okay in niche comp like this. But Angel isn't their star player and aside from that Syndra game he didn't really surprise anyone.

What is kind of funny is that if you look at Suning on paper they aren't really a scary team. Because one: they play around top side and who the heck play around topside today? Their mid and bot isn't that strong and they are not even that great at Macro. Don't they sound like a weak team? The problem is that you lose even if you know all that. Suning has a particular style and they perfected that style to a tee. (It's like that quote that the best swordman isn't afraid of man with hundred move but man who perfected one single move).

Shen pt. 2

So a lot of people was asking why Shen didn't fall behind like many other Shens. Shen is a level 6 champion and like many other level 6 champions he couldn't keep up the tempo in early game. Suning however played around it and let him grew in the jungle. It was a team effort to keep Shen in the game. Canyon however didn't just slack off. He was able to get many objectives and was really busy. On the other hand Shen was focusing on leveling. This is why Shen didn't fall behind.

Game 2

This is a world record game where we have the first pentakill in Worlds Final. This was a really good game from Suning who played almost perfectly. They gave Lucian and picked Syndra who is good against Lucian in exchange. Because Damwon picked Lucian Damwon picked an AP Jungler(Eve) which then they picked Rengar to counter. From a pick/ban point of view it was a work of beauty.

Looking at this comp you might have thought Damwon inted in pick/ban. They gave Angel Syndra who is almost a Syndra one trick, they gave Rengar who counters Eve, and they gave Suning Jhin/Leona two of the most contested pick in bot. But in reality, Damwon had the advantage. It was a winnable game for Damwon and there were many reasons why they lost but I think the biggest reason is their failure to adapt.

It seems Damwon struggled against Suning surprised picks. You have to play a little differently against Rengar and Showmaker especially seems to panic a bit. And Biin Fiora played flawlessly this game. Canyon and Showmaker to be hoenst made a lot of mistakes this game. There were times where Canyon died with summs and Showmaker didn't do well with Lucian. I wonder what would happen if they played with a bit more caution.

To be honest this game might have been a frustrating game for Nuguri. Because to be honest as long as Nuguri was able to hold Biin Damwon should've won. Ornn is really hard to break and they wasn't able to break Ornn but other lane collapsed. Nuguri said in interview that he was angry for playing weakside this game and other games. And to be honest this is a game he deserves to be angry because he was able to hold on his own against Fiora. He did his job but as a tank he can't really do anything when his team collapse. He is really good on Ornn but you can't win against Fiora as Ornn.

Lucian

This and Damwon giving G2 Lucian makes me think they are not ready with the pick. It is hard to get practice time with Lucian since he is so contested and if you picked Lucian you need an AP jungler which is also contested and hard to match with other champions. Lucian is a good pick I think everyone agrees with that. But sometime there is picks like that where because it is so contested not everyone are able play them(Like Kalista at her prime).

Why Eve Why Not Lillia?

Eve is really good at pressuring enemy team and are great in shutting down Fiora. I don't think the picks are the problem but the in game plays. But you can say that the comp they picked might not been bad but what they gave to enemy team is wrong. Syndra who is Angel best champion, Jhin and Leona the teir 1 bot lane champions. If you look at the game from this perspective then yeah the pick/ban isn't good from Damwon.

Millionaire Binn and Vietnam Rengar

But for people who watched the game Biin was insane this game and SofM showed us the peak of Rengar. The analyst desk talked about this but there is some freedom to Rengar. You can go lethality Rengar or Tank Rengar. Usually, for solo alne Lethality Rengar is perferred but SofM was insane with the ping pongs and stack management. Out of the three mustakteer champions: Camille, Fiora, Jax Fiora has the weakest team fighting but with that items, nothing really matter. No matter who you are if Fiora has that many items she has no equal.

Even I with that many items could've won.

"??????????????????" -Chat

Cloudtemplar is currently Plat 3 with a 42%(33 games) winrate on Fiora.

Game 3

If I have to describe this one game with one word it would be: Nuguri. If I have to do it in two then it would Nuguri and BeryL. I am oversimplifing a bit and of course other players did their part too and BeryL was really good but Nuguri was a whole another level. He was able to evade ganks, win lane, and win team fights. Usually it is almost impossible to evade ganks and win lane he really did everything he can do. BeryL also did really good job with Braum.

However this was also a close game. Biin picked Jax(one of the three sword champion), Angel on his Akali, and SofM on Nidalee. It was a close game and it could've been a frustrating game for Nuguri because he really everything he can. Especially that time when four of his team mates made bad judgment and died. It almost became the like second game where Nuguri lost because of his team mates when he was doing really well.

All Right, Then. Keep Your Secret

So... people have been asking about the Omnistone runes Biin and SofM used. The thing about Omnistone is that it could be unexpected to the enemy and surprise them of course sometime it also surprise you. It is a gamble and it is really fun to play around that randomness but at the end it is really just for fun. I am really unsure about this. If Wunder told us why then we could have known but Wunder said he is keeping as a secret for next year so... Use it with caution to your LP.

Damwon's Biggest Strength

One of the biggest strength Damwon have and also the most important thing in this meta is lane prioirity/dominace. Damwon's bot doesn't falter against HuanFeng/SwordArt and Nuguri is Nuguri so Mid is very important here. But Showmaker is on Syndra so he is able to get lane priority which creates a scenario where all three lane are winning which gives Canyon a lot of space. Because of this it wasn't huge to give Sunnin Nidalee.

RED vs BLUE

When you are Red Side you have to give them one pick so what Red usually does is they give the enemy one good pick and take two afterward. Usually Blue take Lucian and there are still many good picks leftover like Jhin, Leona, Syndra.

Let's make this simpler. If you are red side you are able to take 2 OP pick against their 1 OP pick. AND you have last pick so you can counter one of their pick. This is why everyone picks Red side. So why does people prefer blue side the early stage of Worlds? This is because not everything was solved. At that time Nidalee, Lillia, Graves was super contested and getting just one of them at the start gave you such big advantage in Jungle. But over time people started to figure out how to play around them so the OPness got smaller. BTW this is normal. Players always find counterpick/style against OP picks and find a way to counter the current meta.

Game 4

There isn't much to talk about this game. Suning seems a bit fatigued and mental seems... a bit down. Suning Pick/ban wasn't that good, their secret picks was already shown, and went into this game a bit worried and exited the game the same way. One important thing is that Showmaker is once again on Syndra and through many adc bans they picked Cait gaining lane priority, Pantheon and Leona has the same role but Pantheon was able to move faster than Leona, and once again they seek to play around top but Nuguri was able hold once again.

I think SofM regretted picking Graves this game. I think SofM didn't expect them to lose so much lane priority. Graves is a good pick when you have lane priority and when you don't have lane prioirity you want to pick a ganking jungler. Whether it is Lee sin, Jarvan, or any ganking jungler they would have worked better. As for Kindered wolf was basically in heaven with 3 lane priority giving them free reign. Graves can't gank can't make plays. Other picks would've been better.

As for Gankplank he doesn't have as much as outplay potential than Jax, Fiora, Camille so I think Damwon had an easier time dealing with him then the last three games. Of course Damwon did well in pick/ban but you don't win just off of pick/ban they also did well in-game. This is game that I expected to happen. But aside from game 4 all three games was really close and clutch.

Series MVP

So Canyon received the series MVP which continues the feeling that Junglers are dominating the mvp spot after Ning, Tian. Some fan asked me if I can choose who would I choose for MVP. I think I would've chosen Nuguri because to put it simply Nuguri didn't have a single bad game this series. Canyon was a bit... bad in that Evelynn game but Nuguri did well all four games. Even the game they lost he still did well. I think Nuguri was the most consistent player and Canyon did really good but he didn't do good that Evelynn game.

BeryL did well too, Ghost did good too and Showmaker. Guys to be honest MVP is really just for show, for celebration. This is a team game everyone did their part to win the trophy. Who held the trophy highter doesn't really matter.

Best Players in Each Role in Worlds

I have always believed that whoever win Worlds are the best in their role ^{If you know my history you would know that to be true} and this is especially true this year. Think of any player that is better than Damwon's roster. There is none. Damwon roster is the best this Worlds.

However, who is the second/third is a bit more complicated. I think it is much more interesting to pick 2nd/3rd than to pick first since it is just Damwon.

2nd Best Players

Biin
SofM
Caps
Guys Guys Guys. This isn't World top 20 this is my own list. This is my subjective opinion and you can pick whoever you want. This isn't a poll rank. I will explain why I pick Caps later.

Marksman is a bit tricky but my pick contenders are: HuanFeng, Ruler, Rekkles

Huanfeng

Guys come on aside from that final series what other games did Huangfeng did bad on? Yes, there was some adc gap between him and Ghost but- people who play marksman will know this. They played top side games what can you do when you are playing weakside marksman? Suning always play around top side so how can you expect a weak side marksman to super carry? I am getting frustrating saying this so I am going to pick Huanfeng(lol).
Huanfeng
SwordArt

Why Caps?

Caps isn't as lane dominant as let's say Knight who is the second contender but he is a great playmaker. He made a lot of plays and are crucial to G2 and even in games they struggled Caps still made the best possible choice to win. I picked him because of his game changing playmaking potential.

I was going to put Sword as a joke but as you guys are rioting down there I am going to stop here.

Q&A

1. Was there a party?

a. No

b. Yes, but I just stayed for a while

c. Yes, but I didn't know

d. Yes, but I was banned

It's one of those

2. Cake?

I don't knw what taste it is since I didn't get get to eat it. I was going to throw the cake to fellow caster's face but then it had Damwon on it so I didn't want to ruin it.

3. Seed Change?

A lot of people have been asking that since we won Worlds would that give us 4 seed? I am not the one in charge but I don't think winning one Worlds automatically gives us 4 seeds. I think it is more about past achievements so this is only the start.

4. Next year?

So people have been asking what LCK will look like next year with the Franchising change and such. I don't know much but I think the region will be more competitive with the influx of money and slot security.

Come on guys its only been a couple hours since Damwon won please don't ask where I think the players are going...

5. Cloudtemplar's Schedule

I am not sure how they are going to do All-Star if at all but if they do it I will probably be there.

Starting soon I am going on a college tour and will meet many college students interested in League. I have already done this a few times but I am going to do more starting on Monday. If you wanted to meet tell your student council because they are the one giving out invites.

To be hoenst student council are such Chads. Like even when I was in High school I would see my seniors playing basketball or soccer and I think they are so cool. I usually just sit in a corner and talked about video game with my friends. I remember we would talked about last night game and break the game down. We would do our own draft and compare it. I think this is something our fellow gamers could relate like we would gather around during Lunch and talked about draft, pick/ban, and where/what we should play tonight.

I enjoyed it. It was my childhood and to be honest it was fun. I remember before video game we would make our story and people role play(it's kind of like DnD). Like we would have one DM and one artist and we will play out our story. One would be mage one would be barabainians and then DM would be like "Ah a monster appeared what would you do?" and we will be "attack", "run", "poke his butt hole". The story would go on for weeks and every time we had break we would gather around and play. It was really fun. Some people are laughing but I know some here could relates to it.

6. Stage, Opening

So to give my honest opinion I was quite dissapointed at first but then I was like "it's okay" at the end. The Galio wasn't too bad and I think at the end it got better. I don't think it's not that bad. It picked up at the end.

7. Oberservor

To be really honest the Obseror was really meh. It was kind of frustrating because I am seeing so many things but they are not showing them. I am good at casting from watching minimap and it is something I am proud of but... At one point we just stopped talking about things because we know that the oberservor won't show them. It is not like they can hear us so we can't really do anything about it...

But it's okay cause Damwon won. These things happens time to time let's just move on. When we host it we will do better.

8. Crowd

A lot of people was complaining about the crowd and how it was a library. Let's be the better man here and let it slide. And to be honest LPL crowd didn't have obligation to cheer for us. Just like how LCK fan doesn't have to cheer for them they don't also have to cheer for us. These things sometime happens in Sport like people would go completely silent after a homerun from other team.

And someone pointed this out but at least they didn't boo'ed us. When I was playing against TPA the whole crowd was cheering for TPA. Like when they killed a ward they would chant "TPA, TPA, TPA"(because of screen sneak peak/cheating incident everyone hated Azu Frost at that time). As long as they don't cheer against or boo us I am okay with it. You guys are asking too much.

10. Hope for LCS?

I think they either have to grow their player domestically or they have to be more open to spending money. I said this before but I think having more S tier player in a region elvate the region as a whole. So they might want to get more S tier player to NA. They don't want to come? Slap them with so much money they are having a second thought, second house, and second wife.

To be honest though they are already spending way too much money. What they have to do is spend money on the right player and cut those who does not deserve it. They have to paint the region as a region that pay you a lot if you perform and not just give money for free. Right now they are just spending money they have to spend money more realistically and smartly.

I am not saying they should get more Korean but just imports in general.

11. Championship Skin

I wanted to see Nuguri pick Ornn but tank champion in general doesn't get much love. And Nuguri Kennen have always came out when they needed him the most so I think it is okay for him to pick Kennen.

Canyon said it is either Graves or Nidalee and I think those two are fine. Probably going to sell a lot once it come out. Oh he said he picked graves? That's pretty cool.

As for mid he said he is picking TF which is fine. Akali would have been good too since he got famous for the pick but I don't think he picked her this World. I am not sure about Syndra since she already have a skin. Picking TF is actually kind of huge since he was one of the oldest champion and was in and out of the meta quite often. He is quite popular too.

Hmm I wonder who Ghost is going to pick. Oh he is picking Jhin? Hmm I don't think Jhin fit quite well... Draven? I don't think that sell well so I am not sure... Ashe? Ashe is good too Ashe is also a beta champion like TF. She is also many people's first champion because of tutorial... Wait they changed it? It's no longer Ashe? I guess time changes but wow I can't beleive they changed it... I feel old now.

BeryL should just pick Pantheon. It is going to sell well too. What? He is picking Leona? Oh man Pantheon skin would have been nice because you flex him in any role so he is more versatille. I guess I have to respect his personal opinion. Hopefully the skin would look good.

Conclusion

I know it is easy to just say LCK won and celebrate but this didn't come in one day. This came with many hardworks and please don't think only Damwon contributed. A lot teams worked hard for this moment and they made each other strong doing so. So many of them were like "I don't want to fight cause we might lose" then the coaches will be like "fight cause that's the only way we can get better." The teams decided to change and this is the result of it.

The Future of Cloudtemplar channel

So I have been doing this kind of stuff for a while and this one marks the final episode of the year. I've done this with Pony, with guest speaker, and even just myself and I am thankful for the fans and the attention I have gotten. From a youtuber perspective it is really hard for a hours long video to get any view. In Youtube short video are the one that get attention and viewership. Even I don't want to watch hour long video so I really appreciate you guys watching.

I have said this before but I have many things to learn and improve on. I don't have talent, I don't have skill, and all I can really do is try my best. There is a lot of time where I just want to stop everything and I wonder do I really need to do this much? Do I really need to live a life where I get cussed everyday? I have confidence that I can do this but it is hard somtimes. Most people don't know how hard I work and to be honest that's just life. You work hard nobody notices and you make one mistakes everyone notices. I guess that's just something we have to overcome. Anyway thank you guys for the support see you guys next time.

Let's build 100 easter eggs in campaigns

Easter eggs that can do anything except breaking the game. They can give items of any kind and have any sort of interaction with the players, but nothing that breaks the game (such as handing over an infinite ammo golden gun nor entirely derail the campaign).
The point for this is to make a nod to pop culture or just references for laughs and comments.
EDIT: Wow! We're halfway there, guys! I figured I could also include a few more now that the show is rolling!

An NPC that's aware that it's part of a TTRPG.
Captain San Holo, who always moves last in combat.
An otherworldy being that suggests something to the players before disappearing.
The Richer: an ashen haired man that pays with silver to non-humans and steel to humans.
A time traveler who runs out of time before saying or doing something useful.
Only slightly changed versions of the players/ their family as NPC's.(By u/seriousd6)
An exact copy of one of the player's pets but they belong to someone else (bonus points if they get to rescue them from a bad owner). (By u/seriousd6)
The address of the party's house in game is the same as where you are playing D&D irl (By u/seriousd6).
A few of the players' favorite bands and turned into traveling bardic groups (youtube search medieval covers!) (By u/seriousd6)
A newly recruited follower rushes headlong into the first combat opportunity he can. Yelling his name in a drawn-out fashion. (By u/sithun)
An unpopular in game politician meant to mock an unpopular real life politician. (By u/lumo19)
Characters from a previous campaign (seen passing by / give a word of advice / retired) (By u/World_Of_Ideas)
An eccentric wizard, wearing an extremely long scarf, steps out of a blue box. He offers you some sort of candy called a jelly baby, before going about his business.(by u/World_Of_Ideas)
A bard named Ricky Ashley who sings to his lover that he won't let them down (by u/dm_intraining)
An adoring fan of one of the party no matter what he keeps coming back (by u/JPreadsyourstuff)
A fully armoured Knight that really hates GAWLBLINS (by u/JPreadsyourstuff)
4 tortle monk brothers that are lead by a talking giant rat(by u/JPreadsyourstuff)
A fat Italian plumber that looks lost he asks if you've seen a big green pipe anywhere? , if theres a dragonborn in the party he will try to jump on his head(by u/JPreadsyourstuff)
A human named Steve. He keeps asking you about the end. And hes carrying a pickaxe made of diamonds!? (by u/JPreadsyourstuff)
A talking tree that can only say that it's a tree (by u/JPreadsyourstuff)
A military commander named Currahee who gives a rousing speech about "Hold the line" (By u/Ddreigiau)
Several shops at a local castle seem to have the same trinket that plays a voice whenever someone walks by - "I'm Captain Shepherd, and this is my favorite store in the citadel" (or some other local notable) (By u/Ddreigiau)
While traveling through the jungle, the party happens to notice a boar, some kind of long, striped rodent creature, and a lion cub rooting through a rotten log for grubs (By u/Ddreigiau)
At a bookstore (for spellbooks/scrolls/etc) or library, they come across a children's book with a picture of a fox and a hunting hound on the cover titled "The Best of Friends" (By u/Ddreigiau)
At the same bookstore/library, there's a "herbology" book titled "Where the Red Root Grows"(By u/Ddreigiau)
A ship captain who wears a brown peacoat and whose name means "bad" in one of the local languages of the world (By u/Ddreigiau)
In a bog/swamp, the bones of a horse with several pure white hairs around (By u/Ddreigiau)
A German Shepherd Dog with a notched ear wearing a blue handkerchief clasped by a pocketwatch (By u/Ddreigiau)
A giant metal head of an automaton/golem lies where it fell outside a local city. Asking about it in town reveals that it was built by an unknown artificer and when it arrived, the King's army immediately came and destroyed it, not realizing it was protecting the city. If that isn't quite enough for the reference to be gotten, have a child nod and whisper "Superman" on hearing the story. (By u/Ddreigiau)
A young red dragon born with only a bit of forearm and a brand on their palm, has the seriousness of a veteran (by u/smajtastic)
Not sure if wnyone has done this but.. A pastel colored mimic that has eyes and looks oddly cute who can only make noises like, boyo and has a black hole stomach (dont take that litterally) (by u/MarioBrosFTW)
If anyone in the party has cats, a group of tabaxi that look like the cats. (By u/Jsilv7245)
A young chap with a wide brimmed hat and a glaive, who can't lose at gambling (by u/smajtastic)
A local church wants the party to investigate a local cult for evil/illegal activity. The party finds the cult has very similar tenets to the church and was founded by former members of the church, but includes prostitutes and a card game that involves gambling. They started their own church with blackjack and hookers. (By u/Ddreigiau)
A flying ship lands, a tall humanoid steps out, addresses one of the party members, insults them, then climbs into their ship and takes off. (By u/hipcatcoolcap)
Knights who are obsessed with knees, and will not acknowledge defeat or even taking damage, even until death! (By u/seriousd6)
A female mage passes the players by on the road who fairs a blue dress with a crystal hanging in the middle of her forehead, riding side saddle on a white horse accompanied by a armoured man with a leather headband and sword (by u/smajtastic)
A distant war over a mysterious “Sunblade” which is totally not a lightsaber (by u/AdaKau)
A fae portal that links to a plane of Halloween (by u/suri5671)
A red tiefling, a blue haired elf, and a sandy colored tabaxi bandit group that blasts off when defeated (by u/suri5671)
A warforged chicken. (by u/JPreadsyourstuff)
A zombie man , a vampire woman and elderly man a human female child and a werewolf child that claims hes half vampire. They claim to not want any trouble theyre just a family looking to settle down like regular people. (by u/JPreadsyourstuff)
A pair of hafling sweethearts named Mickey and Minnie, who own and tend to a beautiful park (by u/suri5671)
An orange talking cat that is looking for someone named "lasagna" and he apparently hates someone named "mondays" (by u/killllllllllmeeeeee)
A goose that is currently dragging aroumd a gold-plated bell, no you cannot catch the goose. It does annoying things, but never anything really harmful to the party. Also has a suspiciously high chance to dodge attacks. (By u/killllllllllmeeeeee & u/ray10k)
A high elf with super big Curley ears and a scruffy dwarf go by in their cooking wagon (by u/killllllllllmeeeeee)
One door located in a nearly impossible location with a difficult lock that opens to a blank stone wall that says "You should not be here." (By u/mcsestretch)
A gnome real estate agent that wears a yellow coat and works for "Century 47" (or whatever century it is in your world). (By u/mcsestretch)
The party either has to rescue or is supported by 4 teenagers and a dog in a wagon with "Mystery" painted on the side of it. The 4 teenagers are a stoner, a short girl with glasses, a debutante, and a "dick in a neckerchief.". The villain has to say he would have gotten away with it I'd it weren't for the meddling kids. (By u/mcsestretch)
A famous person who is simply famous for being famous but has no real talent. (By u/mcsestretch)
In an abandoned cave the players might be trapped in, they find a golden lamp. Upon further inspection (either by rolling or actually trying to rub it) they notice broken golden bracelets by its side. They can ever hear a faint "You will never have a friend like me!" (Aladdin reference)
A smith called Will, working in the forge. He doesn't have a last name and people just call him "Will the smith". He often quotes Will Smith.
A game involving a ball in which matches have a specific duration yet, when they watch this certain, passionate player running with the ball, the game and the field usually seems to be endles. On future sessions, they find him without his legs, sleeping, and nobody remembers he ever played. Not even his family. (Maybe this one is too dark) (Captain Tsubasa reference)
A blonde, mute elf that happens to casually destroy clay jars at random (kinda like a cat, actually). Nobody knows why nor they ever try to stop him. (The Legend of Zelda reference)
An NPC called Barney will mistakenly call a player Gordon upon either seeing him with a Crowbar or giving them one. (Half-life reference)
Players may notice a corpse white man in a suit and a tie with a briefcase watching them from afar. No further interaction is possible, for he doesn't react to waves of any type and walks out of view soon after players notice him. (G-Man reference)
Triny is taking care of her boyfriend, Nero, who recently took a red pill from his grandfather, Morfis. He mistakenly calls himself "Neo" and "The One", while refering to his girlfriend as Trinity and his grandfather as Morpheus. (Matrix reference)
A group of twelve people, wearing blue clothes, are looking for Chip, their thirteenth member who was in charge of the water and took off with all the watter supplies. Upon wandering further, players may find his skeleton buried in sand, and a few rats. (Fallout 1 reference)
If players consume any sort of hallucinogen, they might see the DM looking at them in disappointment.
Players may find clues leading to a runic, ancient, cursed sword, powerful enough to cut through the fabric of reality and killing gods as if it was butter. After hunting down for this myth, they reach an empty pedestal (covered in snow or water) and a dead dwarf. No further clues on this sword's whereabouts (bonus points if you, the DM, have a Frostmourne replica!) (Warcraft 3 Reference).
An ancient vampire, in love with a 16 year old, claims he can shine in the sunlight! He can't. The teenager says he was too weird and doesn't care about his ashes. (Twilight reference)
A huge, unkillable, all mighty, super powerful deity appears in front of the party. Nobody knows nor heard about him at all, not even in ballads. It claims it's there to destroy that world. Then, also out of nowhere, a guy in a futuristic outfit appears and disintegrates this unstoppable force. Before leaving, the time-traveller orders the players to not do a specifically odd action. If they actively avoid it, the time traveller appears briefly just to give them a thumbs up. If they do it, a disappointed nod. (OC, hopefully)
The party are passing by a tall building when a figure in white jumps from the highest level and lands... right next to the hay cart they were aiming for. (By u/Moon_Dew)
A knight in black armor that stands guard at a small footbridge over a river. He insists that "None shall pass." and believes himself to be invincible. (by u/GI_Joeregard)
A duck walks up and asks the PCs if they have any grapes, then he waddles away. (by u/GI_Joeregard)
In any sort of chase scene, the party suddenly find a cart loaded with cabbages passing by, inbetween them and their target (or inbetween them and their escape route). If the cart or cabbages are somehow destrpyed, the salesman will shout 'MY CABBAGES'. (By u/no_pfp)
A clergyman named Abbot Costello (by u/plunkystarship)

Kodak Stock Surge Attracts 43,000 Robinhood Traders in 24 Hours

I Bind Thee to Me chapter 7

7
“Ethia?”
“Kitchen!” Ethia replied.
Edgar placed his hand on the door, wiped his feet on the doormat (“Something Wicked This Way Comes”, printed in old English font), and turned the corner into the witch’s kitchen. “Good evening, Ms. Ethia I-JAYZUS CHRIST!”
“FUCKING HELL!” Edwin exclaimed and jumped onto the opposite wall from where Edgar had jumped back from. “What’s the matter with you?! Coming in here screaming like that!”
“That spider is Huge!” Edgar said, bypassing the fact it could talk, but processing to take That on next.
“Oh come on, I have gained two pounds and I am WORKING ON IT,” Edwin shouted back. He crawled along the ceiling, Edgar shrinking away from the movement. “Honestly Ethia, this guy?”
“Yeah,” she appeared from the dining area. “He’s pretty great, huh?” She was adorned in a quite exquisite style. A long black dress of sequins that reached to the floor exposed her neck and clavicle. She had on her typical witch had, but it had been lined with additional filigree.
“Ugh, you’re both annoying,” Edwin said rolling all eight of his eyes. “Good luck on the trip, Ethia. I’ll be here with the ingredients to bring him back AGAIN,” Edwin scuttled overhead to the living room once more, but not before making a psyched-out lunge towards Edgar. Edgar recoiled and slammed into the wall, and Edwin chuckled maniacally as he went.
“Edwin you’re a peach,” Ethia said as she affixed a couple of silver bat earrings on. She turned toward Edgar with a half-smile. “How do I look?”
Edgar looked her up and down and realized just how bad his problem had become. She had been pretty before, even in the dungeon when they first met, even in her bathrobe, but now he had gotten to know her. The beauty he saw was magnified by his experience with her. She had been vulnerable with him, strong at other times and respectful given the circumstances. He had come to admit he cared for her, even if the truth he allowed was a fraction of the truth that was. She had become the figure of loveliness, and his heart twisted for he knew it was wrong to feel such a way.
“I’d say you’re dressed for a ball,” Edgar answered safely. “Do Witches have balls?”
Ethia snorted, “Yes, there are celebrations, gatherings in which the coven will convene and discuss matters or trade stories.”
“Are you going to one tonight?” Edgar asked.
“No, we are going to one tonight,” Ethia said. Grabbing a small bag from the dining table. “We’re convening for an annual gathering. Should be quite the affair.”
Edgar nodded, “I’m guessing we’re not just there to party.”
“We’re not, I have your second task.”
“Lay it on me.”
“Tonight I need you to pretend to be my date and steal an item from another witch,” she said.
“Steal?”
“More like repossess. It’s actually mine. It’s a silver birdcage necklace with an emerald inclusion.”
“Ethia I’m not sure if you know this about me, but the last time I tried to ‘repossess’ something, I straight up died. My thieving career has netted me only losses.”
Ethia made her way slowly around the table, the sound of her boots on hardwood echoed in the kitchen. “I have every confidence in your success. Plus, this knocks off another task! That’s what you wanted right?”
Edgar laughed on the inside to keep from crying. “How would I do it? You told me not to steal from witches because there are consequences.”
“Well, only if you get caught darling,” she smiled and moved passed him, making his way towards the living room. “Witches are notoriously hard to trick, especially Megaera.”
Edgar made his way down the call and was nearly run into by Ethia who was holding a silver coin with an emerald in the center. They stood very close to each other, both hesitating before backing up.
Ethia cleared her throat. “This is how you’re gonna do it.” Holding up the coin. “All you need to do is find the clasp of the necklace and turn the coin like you would a key. It should replace the coin with the bird cage pendant without her feeling a thing.”
“Ok. Just gotta get close enough.”
“Exactly.”
Edgar breathed and realized he’d been holding his breath. “Ok. So how are we getting there?” He looked at her and realized she was smiling mischievously. “What?” He asked.
—
Thousands of feet above ground, if you had been there, you would have seen a dark haired woman on a broom and a young man losing his absolute mind.
“This is fucking crazy!” yelled Edgar over the sound of rushing wind.
“What?” Ethia called back
“I said ‘this is fucking-’”
“I know, I heard you! What’s so crazy about it? Humans fly all the time!”
“In planes! Not on broomsticks!”
“Semantics! I don’t know anything about flying a plane, but I can’t imagine it’s less fun then flying a broomstick! Feel that wind!”
“It’s hard not to!” Edgar yelled, his cheeks flapping in the wind.
“It’s not much further,” Ethia said “We just need to be out of sight before we jump!”
“Before we fucking WHAT?!”
“Hold on!” Ethia said. A large geometric pattern emerged just then, and they quickly approached. The night sky shifted and warped around them. It was colder but Edgar could feel the wind dying down, indicating they were slowing. Not far, a large castle loomed over a forest blanketed in moonlight. They zoomed through the night sky, approaching the castle and Ethia brought the broom safely onto the ground about a mile away.
“We have arrived, Mr, Edgar,” Ethia said looking over her shoulder. Edgar clung to the witch with a firm grip. Ethia smiled, and allowed herself to close her eyes for just a moment with his arms around her. This is nice, she thought. She tapped his hands and whispered, “It’s ok, you can let go now.”
Edgar unclamped his hands. “We’re gonna have to do that again huh?” Ethia nodded.
“One time, on a rollercoaster, my safety harness broke and I had to hold it there to make sure I didn’t fall out.” Edgar pointed to the broom “This was so much worse.”
“Oh dear,” Ethia chuckled. “Mr. Edgar, I do apologize. I didn’t know.”
“No it’s cool. You couldn’t have.” He said.
“There’s another way back home; we don’t have to fly back.”
“Wait, then why did we fly here?” asked Edgar.
Ethia shrugged. “I dunno. Mortals typically draw us as broomstick riding Hags. I didn’t want to disappoint.”
“Do you not typically ride broomsticks?” Edgar asked.
“Not often. I like it. Most of the time we use teleporting circles like the one we flew through.” Ethia and Edgar dismounted the broom and she took her purse and fit the whole thing impossibly inside it.
“Huh. Another other tropes that aren’t true?” Edgar asked. “If I’m your date here, I’d rather try to blend in. I don’t want to piss off anyone.”
“That’s a good question.” They began to stroll. Ethia took her arm in his as they walked, warming herself from the chill of the evening night air. “Most of the famous stories paint us as old, wart speckled women who eat children. All of that is false.”
“Ok, no Hansel, no Gretel,” Edgar said.
“Exactly,” Ethia giggled with glee. “Think more...Macbeth! A coven of women who play with the fates of man. Or in Gaelic tradition, the druids of the forest who spoke to the fae and drew power from nature.”
Edgar nodded at the castle. “That looks less like nature, more evil Queen to me.”
Ethia sighed, “Yeah. We’ve forgotten our roots. Time was we’d care about the source, traditions that allowed us to be a part of the world of Barely There. And you still see it in the Saud née Tetherenda. But no one really cares about that anymore,” She shrugged. “We became more materialistic. Put our scope on what Magic could get us and paid no mind to the cost.”
“You sound disappointed,” Edgar said.
“I’m more just upset that I’m the only one who cares that we lost touch,” she said, looking at him. She was typically shorter than he was, but her boots brought her to eye level. “I mean Ipsy is maybe the only other witch who gives a shit, but even then it feels like she gave up. She’d tell me, ‘Why weep for parts of life when the whole of it demands tears?’”
“She fucking stole that line. Seneca said that,” Edgar said.
“Did she? Fuck. I thought it was profound,” Ethia said.
“I mean, the quote still is, maybe not her as much,” Edgar offered.
“She’s still ok,” Ethia maintained. “The others are wretched cunts who will claim sisterhood when they want something and bail when you need help.”
“That sucks, I’m sorry.”
“Thank you Edgar. They’re not great, but they’re family.”
“I get that,” Edgar said. “I have an uncle, Rick. He might be the funniest guy living, but he’s not a great guy. One time he borrowed my mom’s truck and we didn’t see him for like a month. We found out later he ran up a huge gambling debt and sold the truck to pay it off. Then, when my mom asked her for help with moving after my dad died, he’s just made of excuses. I still see him at Christmas every year though.”
“That is a total scumbag move. I’m sorry, Edgar,” Ethia said.
“Yeah. Kim calls him flatworm: he just latches on and takes but never gives.”
Ethia paused. “She sounds like a good judge of character.”
“Who, Kim? I don’t know about that. Her taste in men is kind of iffy.” Edgar said with a smirk.
She shoved him. “No really. What’s she like?”
Edgar gave her a puzzled look. “Why do you wanna know?”
“I don’t know, I guess I’m curious,” she said. “I wanna know about the things you like. You know a lot about me and she’s a big part of you.”
Edgar walked and thought for best. “She’s real. A hundred percent herself. She’s very people focused. She could have a ton of things going on at work but will drop everything to talk to a person about whatever is going on.”
Edgar furrowed his brow. “She’s a good listener. And talker. Likes Chardonnay. She doesn’t believe in excuses, only explain actions. She’s very forgiving too. I’ve done some Dumb shit, Ethia. She’s never held it against me.”
Ethia thought about how she had magically bound Edgar for his mistakes and realized she was comparing herself to Kim. She felt a small knot in her gut form and said, “She sounds like a great gal.”
“She is.”
“Edgar can I ask you something?”
“You just did but if you want to ask another you can,” he said with a sly look.
Ethia made a face “Hrr hrr hrr,.”
“What’s your question?” he asked her.
Ethia used her hats brim to cover her eyes from Edgar’s gaze. “Did you end up buying the engagement ring?”
The question had caught him off guard. “Oh. Uh. No.”
“Really?” Ethia said with too much excitement. She calmed herself before asking. “How come?”
“No funds,” he said. “I’m what you’d call ghetto fabulous. A baller on a budget.”
“Oh.”
“And other reasons,” he said.
“Like what?”
“‘Like what,’ she asks.” He looked over at her. “You, dummy.”
Oh you could not bottle the emotion Ethia felt. Her face went flush, she felt cold and hot at the same time. She could shoot off to the moon with the level of giddiness inside her, wrapped in the thought He likes me. She hid more of her face, currently turning pink, and found she could not wipe the smile off her face.
They approached the castle and prepared for the Witch’s Soirée.

I Quit My 6 Figure Tech Sales Job to Start A Software Company

Two years ago, I quit my comfortable job in tech sales to start a software company.
Many people (coworkers, family, friends) thought this was a huge risky thing to do—throwing away a great paying job to chase a risky new business.
While technically true, deep down I believe that not chasing your dreams and not shooting for an amazing, adventurous life is 100 times more risky than doing so, even if you crash and burn.
Despite this fact, it was still scary.
Two years later, the gamble has paid off. The SaaS business I wound up starting now does more than a million dollars in annual revenue, and I have accrued much more value than I would have by staying at my comfortable tech job.
Here are some lessons I’ve learned along the way:

1. Focus On Small Wins Early On

I think the biggest mistake that entrepreneurs make early on is they expect HUGE results to happen fast. It simply doesn’t work this way, and if you go in with this mindset, you will get discouraged extremely quickly and wind up throwing in the towel too early.
9 times out of 10, success will be a slow grind. You simply have to keep showing up day-after-day.
For this reason, it’s extremely important to set small, measurable goals that will advance you towards your larger goal overtime.
Your hardwork WILL compound over time. I promise. All the small wins you rack up day after day will start to stack up.
The famous Confucious quote is so, so true: “The man who moves a mountain starts by carrying away small stones.”
Early on in my company, I focused on blogging and creating helpful, educational content for people who could likely get value out of my SaaS product. I then relentlessly focused on ranking this content highly in Google Search (SEO - Search engine optimization).
Every single guest blog or content piece I wrote was a small win. After about 9 months, those wins really started stacking up, and Google started sending us A TON of highly qualified traffic into these blog posts.
This traffic turned into customers for the business.
If you want to learn more about the specifics of the SEO strategy I used to generate tens of thousands of qualified leads flowing into our website every month, comment below or reach out on Twitter, and I’ll create a post if there is enough demand.

2. Expect to Get Punched In The Mouth

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” - Mike Tyson
Again, it’s all about expectation setting.
If you come into starting a business with unrealistic expectations (i.e. that everything will be sunny and cheerful and your business will just take off from day one), you will get discouraged extremely quickly, and you will quit.
This happens to most hopeful entrepreneurs.
Discouragement is your biggest enemy when starting something from the ground up.
However, if you simply expect to get punched in the mouth, beat up by the market, laughed at, made fun of, etc., you will be able to just roll with it.
When adversity inevitably shows up, you should greet it like an old friend. Welcome him in. He’s here to teach you a lesson.
Take the punch. Figure out how to keep moving forward, and move forward.
Don’t quit.

3. Only One Thing Matters: Distribution

I don’t care if you have the greatest product or service in the world. No one will ever use it, learn about it, or hear about you unless you have a scalable distribution channel to bring people in the door.
For us, it was SEO, Google Adwords, and Facebook Ads.
Nailing these three distribution channels allows us to bring customers in the door day-after-day in a scalable fashion.
As people in our target market search on Google every day, they find us. As people scroll through their Facebook and Instagram feeds every day, our content gets thrown in their face, and they find us.
All three of these channels are profitable for us, and they are the lifeblood of the business.
You HAVE to focus on distribution.
In the early days, focus on nailing down a single channel that can profitably and scalably bring you traffic and customers.
Distribution is MORE important than product. I can’t stress this enough. I wrote an entire blog post on how to apply this here. Don’t ignore this.
The “Build it and they will come” mentality is one of the biggest reasons entrepreneurs fail.
Figure out how you’re going to acquire customers before you ever write a single line of code.

4. Work With People Who Are Smarter Than You

If you’re like me, you probably can’t write a single line of code yourself. That’s a bit of a problem when you’re starting a software business.
Obviously, you are going to have to partner with people to get your idea off the ground.
In my opinion, this is one of the hardest things to do, but of course it is one of the most important.
I think the best way to attract extremely talented people into your life is to become an expert at something yourself that a future partnesoftware engineer would find valuable.
You will typically do this by becoming extremely good at sales / digital marketing / and customer acquisition.
You have to become valuable to a future business partner. Otherwise it’s going to be way harder for you to attract talent.
My single biggest piece of advice for anyone looking to replicate what I’ve done is to launch a simple business on your own (a blog, an eCommerce company, a YouTube channel, a podcast, etc) and develop your marketing chops on this initial business.
Once you have success and are a great marketer, you will easily be able to attract talented developers who want to work with you as you will be able to get their products in front of real people (something that most developers struggle to do). AKA you will become valuable to them.
And yes, this will require a lot of work. But that’s the name of the game.

5. Have Fun and Enjoy The Ride

Every single day will bring new challenges and problems. Enjoy the chaos. It’s so much more fulfilling than your monotonous 9-5 job that you were working before.
Once things really start clicking, the sense of fulfillment you get from your hardwork will be the best feeling in the world—I promise.

Conclusion

That’s all for now! I have a lot more specifics to write about in future posts like how to build a profitable Facebook ad strategy to bring thousands of people to your products, and how to find the best keywords to bid on with Google adwords for your product or service.
These things have been instrumental in my success, and I’m going to keep blogging about how to replicate this yourself soon.
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That’s it. Let’s get it.
-David

Nazi's, Utah's $200B Mormonism, the USA's Bush family of US Presidents and Governors Links 32 US States Secretly Allowing Shill Corporations To Provide the Illusion of State Supervision For Thousands of "Certain" Attorneys.

***TL;DR***"A lie told long enough becomes the truth." -Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda. Links connecting Nazis, Utah's Mormonism and all Bush family US President's and Governors. (1) (2) (3) This all leads to one of the greatest ongoing deceptions in US History. Decades of financial genocide among tens of thousands of vulnerable Americans has been the result. It should be obvious "who" is controlling this money, now one of the worlds largest secret fortunes.
Although this deception is centered in Utah, where it was discovered, the list of 32 other US States this is happening in can be found in this wikipedia listing. Scroll down about halfway to "Mandatory, integrated or unified bar associations" and you'll see the list of other states in that paragraph.
***Summary***"
In Utah, there are about 6,500 State licensed attorneys. They are secretly allowed to target Utahans in more than a dozen ways and collect a fortune from every one. This is true because complaints about Utah attorneys are secretly handled by a deceptive private corporation that is also secretly funded by the attorneys. It is an incredulous, closed-loop-cycle of insidious deception that has been secretly perpetuated by Utah attorneys, attorneys who become judges, Utah law schools, professors and Utah politicians for decades.
In Utah this deceptive, shill organization's name is still allowed to be "The Utah State Bar" giving people the idea that The Utah State Bar's day-to-day operations are funded by the State of Utah when it is not.
This also means that there is also no "State Funded" office for victims of these attorneys to call to for help.
As the years go by, thousands upon thousands of victims of these attorneys have no idea that they are being patronized, groomed and manipulated by a murderous, self-serving, narcissistic, sociopath, imposter person posing as a Utah attorney. Because of the devastation this brings to thousands of victims each year, it is a modern day financial genocide where even a victim's suicide means another fortune for the Utah "attorney". (It's horrifying to consider that this allowed deception may be the unconscionable reason Utah is also home to the worst rates of suicide in the Nation).
Even though there are thousands of victims every year, Utah's politicians, Utah's courts, Utah's locally represented Federal offices of the FBI, the FTC, the US Attorney and Utah's greater law community also continue to look the other way. It is a cultural epidemic.
Get in the game. Spread the word any way you can. Don't let Utah's Frankenstein legal illusions and monsters target you or a loved one any more.
For a more detailed look into all this and the list of secret ways these deranged people are targeting their victims, read on.
***Decades of Law Fraud In 32 US States Finally Exposed"***
About five years ago, I learned that Utah, as a whole, is secretly home to the worst rates in the Nation for suicide, child abuse, financial fraud and bankruptcy (1) (2). About four years ago I learned that the State's politicians refuse to allow audit's of billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars spent (or hidden away) in incredulous ways. About three years ago I learned that Utah's politicians, judges, attorneys and law schools are desperately hiding decades of insidious law fraud (and the fortunes it generates for them). As a whole, Utah's citizens are strong, brave, trusting, giving, talented and creative people. However, the collective imagination of millions Utahans also makes them vulnerable to exploitation, corruption and fraud by morally bankrupt people (and those they control). Perhaps parts of this sometimes selective, culturally rewarding but sometimes self-destructive collective imagination is why so much has been hidden here for so long?
After three and a half unpredictable years of watching and listening, in no uncertain way and with proof of everything, I can publicly share with you now that this insidious Utah law fraud began decades ago when lawmakers, who were also attorneys, for their own purposes, secretly allowed a private corporation to have a very deceptive name in providing the illusion of "State Supervision" by the "State of Utah" for Utah attorneys. Simultaneously, a second-hand consequence of this shameful deception is that there is NO official "State of Utah" department for victims of Utah's self-serving attorneys to call to for help. Today, Utah's 6,500 attorneys secretly know all of this and they are able to target innocent Utahans from all walks of life and collect one fortune after another in the process.
This is all secretly, shamefully accomplished under that decades old deception, publicly perpetuated into your home, your life and your profession, by greedy cowards under the unconscionably false banner allowed to be known as "The Utah State Bar."
It is critical to note that not only is "The Utah State Bar" a private corporation secretly allowed to pose as a "State Office," it is also funded by the same 6,500 Utah attorneys it provides the illusion of supervision for. This includes it's pay roll. In case you don't see the conflict of interest here this is the epitome of the phrase "the inmates are running the asylum". This is also why victim's complaints about Utah's 6,500 attorneys to "The Utah State Bar" are purposely dead-ended in an unpredictable nightmare for the victim.
First, the victim who dares file a complaint against a "Utah attorney" will be ignored for several months. Eventually they will be notified that complaint was "unofficial". That means the Utah attorney was simply notified of the existence of a complaint. To make the complaint "official", the victim is told they need to get the complaint notarized then refile the complaint with a different person at "The Utah State Bar". If a victim dares do that, several more months will pass before the victim is told that the attorney was notified of the "content" of the complaint (making the complaint "official" as they term it) but that if the victim wants to pursue the complaint beyond that the victim needs to find another Utah attorney to sue the original Utah attorney in another deceptive Utah courtroom. A victim who dares to do that would also be risking another unpredictable pending "legal" matter at the hands of yet another "self-supervised" attorney and that would also take several years and cost tens of thousands of dollars (all while their original legal matter was allowed to worsen in unconscionable ways). However, if that victim dares to risk all this and years later is able to fund the case going all the way to "The Utah Supreme Court" the victim should know that the Justices of "The Utah Supreme Court" have demonstrated that they too will secretly look the other way and allow the attorney to keep pursuing victims and pocketing one fortune after another in the process. It gets worse.
The following is a list of ways Utah's attorneys, judges and the rest of Utah's deceptive legal system are targeting thousands of Utah victims from all walks of life every year:

Because of an attorney's unique position and relationship to a "client" in Utah, the attorney can secretly groom the client in many ways to make simple cases go on for years and years at unconscionable costs. These are cases that should have been settled in a simple mediation session on Day 1. The attorneys do this with several insidious goals in mind.
When the person is a homeowner or a landowner, it's not uncommon to see attorney fees reach hundreds of thousands of dollars with no end in sight for years and no progress in the case. This is because the attorneys secretly know they can put a lien on the person's home or land, force the sale of it and collect on the falsely inflated amount.
If a "client" dies (or commits suicide) the attorneys can collect on an additional false fortune. They can do this by adding tens of thousands of dollars (or more) to the dead persons bill. The the person's surviving children and family can't do anything about it.
If you are aware of a case that involves a homeowner or a landowner and it's gone on for years, it's highly likely the attorneys are colluding with each other to drag the case on until the person dies (or commits suicide). In Utah, you don't have to look far to find a simple case that has been dragged on for 5-10 years or longer by the attorneys for this insidious purpose. In fact, you don't have to look far to find a Utah attorney who seems to groom "clients" to commit suicide.
In addition to the deception perpetuated under the lies of "The Utah State Bar", the justices of "The Utah Supreme Court" have demonstrated that they too are aware of these secret tactics and that they will continue to support Utah attorneys in engaging in them. (Yes I, Mike D. Jarman, a Utahan, am openly accusing "The Utah Supreme Court" of these critical deceptions.)
In artificially extending cases to collect unconscionable fortunes, Utah attorneys regularly collude with crooked judges, mediators, custody evaluators, the "Division of Child and Family Services", the "Office of Recovery Services", the "Utah Department of Human Services" and other services that appear to be "neutral". This is because it's simply a pay-to-play scheme. Whoever is willing to pay (or use a credit card, month-after-month, year-after-year) gets the result no matter how irrational or dangerous it seems.
Because Utah judges were once attorneys too and they had the same thing done for them they play along. This includes purposely giving irrational rulings in cases (and waiting months or years to do so) so that the case can be dragged on for years more with the appearance of appeals. Grooming by the attorney's plays a critical role in this too. Remember, the entire deceptive system exists to see to it that above all the attorneys can get paid for as long as possible or until the person dies or commits suicide. When you understand this, you will find answers to all the questions you may have about why a case has gone on for so long, so irrationally, so dangerously, so blatantly, so unconsionably.
Utah attorneys can pose as collection agents. They can solicit businesses or people in doing this. This means anyone the attorney can get the business or person to claim owes them money the attorney can then employ the deceptive system to harass the innocent person while adding thousands in fees to the original false amount (no matter how small the original false amount may have been or even if the persons credit card company already made a decision against the business and in favor of the innocent person and refunded the person). Because these deceptive "collection attorneys" generate so many false cases for Utah's deceptive courts and those cases generate revenue in expensive courthouse fees the court often awards collection attorneys whatever they demand, without a hearing or trial for the innocent person. Tragically, this deception allows attorneys to further molest a persons life because the false collection filing by the attorney hi-jacks the person's credit report for years and prevents the person from getting a job, buying a work vehicle or buying a home. The attorney's know this and because of these long term effects, many victims simply end up just paying the thousands of dollars in extortion fees to the attorney. Utah attorneys engage in thousands of these "collection" cases each year.
Utah attorneys can demand thousands of dollars in upfront payments disguised as "retainer fees" then never even call the person back. In fact, many attorneys will wait weeks or months then call the client back demanding thousands more for a "different course of action". Thousands of victims every year fall for it. Because this tactic is so rampant and easy for Utah attorneys to get away with, there are victims who have had more than one Utah attorney to this to them in the same year.
If a rape victim calls a Utah attorney to file a "protective order" against the rapist the attorney can demand $5,000, $10,000 or whatever the fearful woman will pay to fill out the form even though she could have done it for free online in less than an hour if someone had told her. It's unbearable to wonder how many rapes, murders and other violent crimes in Utah communities could have been prevented at the hands of a Utah attorney but weren't because exploiting a victim of rape out of thousands of dollars was more important to the "attorney".
Utah attorneys are allowed to be alcoholics, drug addicts, porn addicts, gambling addicts and worse without any supervision or accountability whatsoever. If an attorney needs an extra $10,000 a month to fund their addiction (or latest escapade) all they have to do is add it to random client(s) bills and the clients won't even know.
Utah attorneys are allowed to use other loopholes created and hidden by a deceptive courthouse department known as "The Utah Administrative Office of the Court". One loophole allows attorneys to further groom their "clients" and collude with judges and other parties as it doesn't require "proof of delivery" for certain, critical documents. Another loophole allows the attorneys to bill their client's extra hours of "wait" time without the client knowing what is really happening. It does this by mass-booking multiple cases all at the same time even though other courtrooms sit empty. This deception allows judges to secretly control what attorneys and law firms collect on millions of dollars a year in artificially extended "wait" times as they allow the attorneys they favor to "wait" the longest while billing hundreds of dollars an hour. It's not uncommon for an attorney or law firm to bill multiple clients each hundreds of dollars an hour for the same "wait" time. Remember, judges were once attorneys too and had the same thing done for them so they play along to take care of their own for reasons we can only imagine.
It's common for Utah attorneys to register a different business name to operate under every few years or to self-righteously cite "the Bar", "an oath", a "Code of Ethics" or the "direction of the Utah Supreme Court" as a way to skirt questioning them about any of this. In reality, these are just more tactics to keep up the false image that Utah attorneys are "Ambassadors of the law". In fact, Utah attorneys are Utah's worst deceivers of "the law" because they are the only ones who hide behind it while targeting innocent Utahans from all walks of life.
To avoid being exposed and feigning ignorance to any and all evidence presented, many Utah attorneys will try to claim that the "Utah Supreme Court" supervises The "Utah State Bar". Regardless of what deceptive language "Utah State Bar" tries to hide behind to imply that it is "directed" by the Utah Supreme Court, in reality, no Justices of the (incompetent or corrupt) "Utah Supreme Court" supervise "The Utah State Bar's" actions from day-to-day. In fact, undeniable proof exists that the "Utah Supreme Court" is well aware of all these loopholes, knows attorneys who abuse them to unheard of levels and that it continues to look the other way. On top of this, Utah's elected politicians including Governor Gary Herbert, Lieutenant Governor and Governor Elect Spencer Cox, Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes, other elected officials, appointed officials (judges), the Utah offices of the FBI, the FTC, the US Attorney's Office, the Utah Association of Realtors, Senator Mitt Romney, Senator Mike Lee, the Utah Judicial Conduct Commission, the Utah Judiciary and even other past and present prominent leaders including one who was a Justice on "The Utah Supreme Court" for four years and others have also demonstrated in no uncertain way that these deceptions will continue to be allowed. Perhaps this is because once this is exposed the State of Utah is likely to be on the hook for untold fortunes in damages and losses to hundreds of thousands of Utah victims (and their surviving children and families over the past several decades? (It has to do with the State of Utah simultaneously creating and breaking a critical fiduciary duty to the State's citizens.)
As these loopholes continue to be exposed, in addition to the integrity of all of the State of Utah's political, legal, municipal, educational and media offices being compromised by perpetuating the lie of "The Utah State Bar" the integrity of the University of Utah's SJ Quinney College of Law as well as BYU's J Rueben Clark Law School has also been compromised. For their critical actions in perpetuating this deception for so many years, it seems these "law schools" should be shuttered for a period of time until solutions (and there are many) are implemented. Perhaps five years ought to be long enough? Even worse, the integrity of "Utah Law" has been further compromised by Utah being the first state to waive the (now token) "Bar Exam" for attorneys.
Because all of Utah's political, legal, municipal, educational and media offices are controlled by certain culturally-influential but clearly ecclesiastically-bankrupt members of the "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints" perhaps the President of the United States (whoever that is) should implement the Federal Insurrection Act of 1807 and immediately occupy Utah until solutions to this insidious corruption can be implemented free of individually shameful members of one collectively proud organization?
In 1933 a peculiar component of Mormonism openly endorsed early Nazism. Perhaps what we have seen with "Utah Law Fraud" over the past several decades has more to do with that endorsement of that shameful component than we dare imagine? (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)

If you're wondering how all this is possible remember "A lie told long enough becomes the truth" and in Utah, millions of people have collectively been told these lies for decades.
If you are a victim of any of these deceptive hounds-of-hell, know that just by staying alive you are beating the devil at his own game. Remember, no matter how prominent they are or what their religious affiliation may seem to be, crooked politicians, leaders, attorneys and judges will do anything to provoke a reaction out of you so that they can use that to condemn you (or throw you in jail and permanently silence you). So be smart as you individually and collectively look for your own ways to raise awareness about this.
If you have an experience to share about a crooked Utah attorney, judge, mediator, custody evaluator, peculiar case or cases you can do so by creating a post at this reddit link. Use the search box at the top to search for the crooked person's name to see if a thread has already been started under their name.
If you are suffering, here are some additional resources to help the moment pass. Like other links already shared, these have also been suggested by other victims over the past 3.5 years.
*The list of 32 other jurisdictions this is happening in affecting more than 200 million innocent Americans can be found in this wikipedia listing (scroll down about halfway to "Mandatory, integrated or unified bar associations" and you'll see the list of other states in that paragraph).
***"They tried to bury us but they didn't know we were seeds."***

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