Animal hospital smyrna ga

My son is currently being diagnosed with Schizophrenia. To give you an insight to how this came about

• He lived with mum & dad till 4yrs
• He lived with mum 4yr - 10yr
• Moved with Dad 10yr - 14yrs His father was physically abusive. He ran away to child protection at 14 and a judge ruled that he was allowed independent living because his friends, girlfriend, job and sports dedications.

He is now 17.
His girlfriend cheated on him and so he accused her of raping him. He still talks to her as a mate. He accused her father, a female carer and his grandmother - all of rape.
I flew to visit him. He was on meds for 6 months by this time. He told me

• the devil speaks to him
• he has to sacrifice animals
• he sacrificed a rabbit. Kept its tail for good luck
• he needs to sacrifice a goat next 06 December 2022
• he will need to sacrifice a total of eight animals with the same knife

After 6 days with him. He really started to open up to me. I had just gained his trust. I told his case worker what I was worried about that I had heard.
They told him everything at the hospital and now he hates me again.
Will he get better? Now he can't trust anyone again, will he trust the voice in his head more? I can only imagine what he's going through.

I’ve been watching a famous anime from the 2000’s where the main is a hikkikomori, know or not about it, most of this is a little depressing, so I wanted some fun anime where I can just turn off my brain.
Something wholesome or fun.
For references:
Girlfriend Girlfriend Tomo-Chan Buddy Daddies Spy x Family K-on, Bocchi Kaguya Senpai ga uzai

IE changes to velars (K) often seem irregular, and since these include k > x & *h > k, it is likely that PIE h1 = x^, h2 = x, h3 = xW.
​
G. kúmbos ‘vessel/goblet’, Skt. kumbhá-s ‘japitchewater japot’, Av. xumba-
*xamanto-s > R. xomút ‘horse’s harness’, Li. kãmanos ‘leather bridle’
*k^alh- > L. calēre ‘be warm’, Lt. silt ‘grow warm’, salts, Li. šáltas ‘cold’, R. xolod ‘cold’
? > *xalpikiko-s > Slavic *xolpĭčĭkŭ ‘boy / young servant’, TB kālpśke ‘youth / boy’
*kaudh-? > OP xauda- ‘cap’, Av. xaōda- ‘helmet’
Skt. kardama- ‘mud’, NP xard ‘muddy place’
Skt. kharjura- ‘silver’, Greek árguros ‘silver’
*h3ost- > G. ostéon ‘bone’, OCS kostĭ, L. costa ‘rib’
*xWokW- >> L. oculus ‘eye’; *xWokW-ixto- >> Li. akytas ‘having eyes’, L. *xokwel-it- ‘having (one) eye’ > cocules ‘one-eyed’
*prdumxo- > Kh. purdùm ‘leopard’, Skt. prdakū-, prdākhu- ‘leopard/tigesnake’
*kxapros > OIc. hafr ‘male goat’, L. caper, *gGapro-s > OIr. gabor, *xałfros > Arm. k’ał ‘male goat’
*kenh- / *kanh- > Arm. kanxem ‘rise up/hurry/go first/arrive before’, OIr. cinim ‘spring / descend from’
​
*kap-ye- > L. capiō ‘seize/take’, G. káptō ‘gulp down’, Go. hafjan, OIc hefja ‘lift’
*gab- > Arm. kapem ‘bind’
*ghabh- > L. habeō
(compare kapem ‘bind’ to Latvian kampt ‘seize/grasp’)
​
Slavic *golumb- > R. goluboj ‘blue’, Baltic *golimb- > OPr. golimban ‘blue’, *gelumbiyā- > Li. gelumbė ‘blue kerchief/cloth’
Slavic *golumbi- ‘dove’
Sanskrit kalamba- / kaḍamba- / kadamba-, Greek kolumbís / kólumbos ‘diver (bird)’, Latin columba ‘dove, pigeon’
*š\salam(b)a\u > MArm. salam -u-, salamb -a- ‘(francolin?) partridge’
​
*kwap- ‘smoke / steam’ > Lithuanian kvãpas ‘breath / odor’, *xwap- > Latin vapor
*k^witro- > Lithuanian švitràs ‘glasspaper / sandpaper’, *xwitro- > Latin vitrum ‘glass’
​
? > *mxëlto > TA mkälto ‘young’, malto ‘in the first place’
? > *pesuxā- > TA puskāñ, TB passoñ ‘muscles’
? > *lewax^- > TA lu, pl. lwāk, TB luwo, pl. lwāsa ‘animal’
Skt. srákva- \ sṛkvaṇ- ‘corner of mouth’, TB *sǝrkwan- > *sǝrxwan- > särwāna (pl. tan.) ‘face’
​
Most of these are already recognized as cognates, some are distputed. For Skt. kharjura- ‘silver’, Greek árguros ‘silver’ from PIE *h2arg^uro-, see https://www.reddit.com/IndoEuropean/comments/13umn3s/greek_kh%C3%A1lub_hardened_iron_steel_khalk%C3%B3s/ . Armenian and Celtic sometimes changing *ka- > *ga- (and g > k in Arm.) would explain some data, but this is not regular. Many of these might come from clusters like *k^x-. The similar *zg is also optional around IE:
*mezg- > L. mergō, Skt. májjati ‘submerge/sink’, *mezgu- > L. mergus ‘gull’, Skt. madgú-
*zgWes- ‘quench/extinguish / put out a fire’ > *djas- > Skt. dásyati be exhausted / despair, jása- \ dása-, etc.
*azgWolxo-? > G. ásbolos / asbólē ‘soot’, *ask^ülxo- > Arm. acuł / acux ‘soot/coal’
*presgWu-? G. présbus ‘old man’, Cr. preigus, Arm. erēc` ‘elder’
Some say *pres-gWh2u-? ‘coming before / ancestor’ is needed to explain Armenian erēc`, but I think acuł shows the same (caused by g > g^ before u (indicating u > ü as in Greek)). This would mean h2 was unneeded, and even K > K^ by u in Arm. is not regular.
​
Just within Arm., the changes to K include k > k \ kh \ x \ *h > 0:
​
Arm. kayt ‘mark on marble’, xayt \ xayc ‘mark/spot’, Skt. keta-, ketú- ‘mark/sign’, TB kāy ‘mark’
​
OE sceolh ‘crooked’, G. skélos ‘leg’, skellós ‘crooked-legged’, Arm. šeł ‘slanting / crooked’, xeł ‘mutilated / lame’
​
Arm. sałim ‘be mistaken’, sxalim ‘be mistaken / stumble’, sxalak ‘drunken’, Skt. skhálati ‘stumble’,
​
G. skórodon / skórdon, Alb. hurdhë, Arm. xstor ‘garlic’
​
Arm. mxrčem ‘immerse/dip’, mkrtem ‘immerse/dip / bathe/baptize’
​
Skt. khād- ‘chew/bite/eat’, Arm. xacanem, kcanem ‘bite/sting’
​
Arm. ozni, MArm. xozni / kozni, G. ekhînos, Skt. jáhakā-, Brahui ǰaǰak, YAv. dužuka-, NP žūža ‘hedgehog’
(compare kh vs. *h > 0 in G. khḗr ‘hedgehog’, L. ēr )
​
Li. kárštas ‘hot’, Arm. xaršem ‘cook/burn’, Skt. kuṣāku- ‘burning’, *kurzd- > kūḍayāti, kuṇḍate ‘burn’
​
*skandlo- > L. pl. scālae ‘ladder / flight of steps’, *sxandułxo- > Arm. pl. sanduł-k` / sandux-k` ‘laddestairs’
​
G. khaláō ‘loosen/slacken’, Skt. khallate, Arm. xał ‘game/pastime’ (from ‘free / loose’ (compare L. laxus ))
​
Arm. ktł- ‘burning desire’, xtił ‘tickling/lust’
​
Skt. kartati ‘cut/slice’, Arm. ktrem ‘cut’, kotor \ ktor \ ktur-k’ ‘cut/share’, ktir-k’ ‘dowry’, hatu-ktir\kčir
​
*tetk^-? > t’ek’em ‘shape, bend, twist, weave’, t’akart’ ‘trap, snare, net’
​
*h2aukWtro-? > *akurt > MArm. akut’ ‘cookstove’, Van dia. angurt’ ‘portable clay oven’, *aukslo- > L. aulla ‘pot’
​
G. knḗthō ‘scratch/itch’, Arm. xaz ‘line (in hand) / scratch’
​
If x, kh, and k were regular and separate, why would so many words show both? This is not limited to PIE *k(h), even PIE h > h \ 0 \ x has no set order:
​
*h3od- ‘smell, stink, hate’ > L. oleō, odor, odī ‘I hate’, Arm. hot
​
*h3owi- > L. ovis ‘sheep’, Arm. hovi-, *+pah2- > hoviw ‘shepherd’
​
*h2awi- > L. avis, Arm. haw ‘bird / roostehen’, Moks xav
​
*h2awo- > L. avus ‘grandfather’, Arm. haw
​
*h2ak^o-sth2o- > G. akostḗ ‘barley’, Skt. apāṣṭhá- ‘barb of an arrow’, Arm. hawasti-k` ‘tassels of a belt’
​
*h2ak^-st(h2t)i- > Li. akstìs \ akštìs ‘kind of skewer’, Arm. hask -i- ‘ear of grain’, Van xašk
​
*h2ag^- > G. ágō ‘lead’, Arm. acem ‘bring/lead’
​
*h2arh2mon- > Li. armuõ ‘arable land’, Arm. haravun-k’ ‘arable land / plow-land’, K’łi harmunk' ‘plowable soil softened by spring rains’
​
*h1nek^-n- > Arm. hasanem ‘arrive at / reach / catch/take/get/gain’, Skt. naś-, L. nanciscor ‘get/reach/obtain’
​
? > Arm. xełd- \ hełj- ‘drown/suffocate/strangle’, hełjamłjuk ‘drowned/suffocated’, młjuk- ‘strangle’
​
*h3oid- > G. oîdos ‘swelling’, Oidí-pous, Arm. ayt -i- ‘cheek’, aytumn ‘swelling’, *xoyt’ > Łarabał xüt' ‘*swelling/*mound’ > ‘hillock’
​
This works best if h2 = x and most x > h, some retained. Dialects with x- for older h- are more conservative, not innovative. The intermediate s > š > x fit Pamir data for Iranian (sk > šk, other s > x) and sw- > *xw- > kh- in both. Slavic also shows some s > x with no apparent cause. This also matches s > *x > x \ h \ 0, p > *xW > x \ h \ 0, completely bereft of regularity:
​
*pewyo- > ogi \ hogi ‘soul/spirit’; *pew-ah2- > hewam ‘breathe heavily’
​
Skt. pṛthuka- ‘child / young of animal’, G. pórtax \ pórtis (f) ‘calf’, Arm. ort’ -u- ‘calf/fawn’, xort’ -o- ‘stepson/adulterine’, Muš. xort’ ‘young (man)’
​
Arm. ort’ ‘grapevine’, G. pórthos ‘shoot’
​
*samhǝdho- > E. sand, G. ámathos, Arm. awaz, L. sabulum
​
*kWyeh1-sk^e\o- > L. quiēscō ‘rest’, *sm- > Arm. hangč’im ‘rest’, Muš hang‘ ‘rest/breath’, Moks xangY
​
? > Arm. boyl -i- ‘group (of people/deeetc)’, hoyl -i- ‘group of animals/people’, xoyl -i- ‘swelling/tumogland’, bołǰ ‘swelling/tumowound’
​
Since *h at the start can remain as x, x within words shoud have the same explanation. This includes kanxem above (both k and x odd), and many in https://www.reddit.com/etymology/comments/w04cuz/importance_of_armenian_retention_of_h123/
​
​
For PIE *w, a stage with w > GW (G = voiced velar fricative) makes sense (see Hrach Martirosyan). This also shows w > g / kh / x / v / 0 with no cause; it is likely that there was optional *G / *x then optional *x > kh. This is seen by supposed original *gWh = *GW > *x > kh in the other direction. This *x is retained in many examples, often with alternation:
​
*widk^mt- > *GWic^amt- > *xis^anD- > k’san ’20’
​
*gWhen- > G. eu-thenḗs ‘in abundance / wealth’, Arm. yo-gn / yo-k’’n ‘numerous/abundant’
​
*wergY- > TA wärk-, TB wark- ‘shear’, Arm. gercem ‘shave / make bald’, k’ercem ‘shave / peel / strip off’
​
*Gony- > xonǰim ‘be tired/exhausted’, *yoGn- > yognim / yok’nim ‘be(come) tired/exhausted/discouraged’
​
*proh3-gWhen- ‘very abundant/large/great’ > G. parthénos ‘virgin’, Arm. aṙa-k’ini ‘valiant/courageous/virtuous/honest’
​
*GorGuD / *xoruxD > xoroxt / xroxt ‘haughty/proud’, goṙoz ‘proud/arrogant’, goṙ ‘shout/fierce/bold/haughty/warlike’
​
*wel > G. hélix ‘object with spiral shape’, Arm. xec’ ‘pot / shell (of mollusks)’, xec’ \ hec’ ‘felloe’
​
*widhw- ‘(arms) apart / tree’ > *GüDG- > *gu(r)g- / *gi(r)k(h)- > Arm. girk-k’ ‘tree’, girk ‘arms/lap/bosom’, gog ‘lap/bosom’, *gurg ‘embrace’, girg ‘tendedelicate/soft’, ołǰ-a-gurem ‘greet / embrace’, gurgurel ‘cuddle/caress’
​
and even Iran. loans seem to show a stage with GW and optional GW > v or GW > gh:
​
*g^hew- > jagar ‘funnel’, *javar >> Gr. jabri
​
*g^wah2lo-, *dz^walanō > Skt. jválana-s ‘fire’, Balochi jal ‘hot ashes / charcoal’, ? >> *azgal > Arm. gazał \ gazax ‘ashes/embers’
​
Arm. is also known for having odd changes to *r like Arm. kēt ‘biting fly’, kret ‘wasp’; *akurt > MArm. akut’, Van dia. angurt’ (above) among many others https://www.reddit.com/etymology/comments/zkgi2m/latin_pr%C4%93x_request_armenian_a%C5%82ersank_a%C5%82a%C4%8Dank/ . The simplest reason for some r > 0 is a uvular pronunciation R, common in many languages. If R became a fricative, as in French, it might merge with PIE h1, h2, h3 and disappear. The Dardic languages might show traces of this R, with r > x \ h in Kh. (or indirectly, with Rt > xt > th): Skt. vṛtra- ‘stone’, *vart(r)a- > Rom. barr, Kh. boxt \ boht \ bohrt ‘rock/stone’, Ks. bath, Ti. baṭ(h) ‘large rock’, Dm. bāṭ , Dv. wāt'
​
If this *R is already needed for *r, including *k > *q to help make sense of IE optional treatments of K could work. PIE h1, h2, h3 and R sometimes disappeared; any uvular fricative to 0 would thus cover both. Pamir languages also show irregular K > Q, and their location relatively near Dardic, showing traces of the same, could explain that those on the fringes of IE territory shared this retention. This is not regular, yet orderly, fitting, and in step with common features seen around the world. It also allows many irregular changes to velar C’s to merge into one kind of optionality: K vs. Q. Even if this is not the exact cause, trying to understand broad changes by broad rules is better than coming up with an odd explanation for each oddity.
​
Alb Albanian
Arm Armenian
Aro Aromanian
Asm Assamese
Av Avestan
Bal Baluchi
Be Bengali
Bg Bulgarian
Bu Burushaski
E English
EArm Eastern Armenian
G Greek
Go Gothic
H Hittite
Hi Hindi
Is Ishkashimi
It Italian
K Kassite
Kd Kurdish
Kho Khotanese
Khw Khwarezmian
Ku Kusunda
L Latin
Li Lithuanian
Lt Latvian
M Mitanni
Mh Marathi
MArm Middle Armenian
MW Middle Welsh
NHG New High German
MHG Middle High German
OHG Old High German
OBg Old Bulgarian
OBr Old Breton
OIc Old Icelandic
OIr Old Irish
OE Old English
ON Old Norse
OPr Old Prussian
OP Old Persian
MP Middle Persian
NP (New) Persian (Farsi)
Nw Norwegian
Os Ossetian
Phr Phrygian
Ps Pashto
R Russian
Ru Romanian\Rumanian
Sar Sarikoli
Shu Shughni
Skt Sanskrit
Sog Sogdian
TA Tocharian A
TB Tocharian B
W Welsh
Wx Wakhi
​
Gy Gypsy
Dv Domari \ Do:mva:ri:
Lv Lomavren
Rom Romani
​
Dardic Group
A Atshareetaá \ (older Palola < *Paaloolaá)
B Bangani
Ba bHaṭé-sa zíb \ Bhaṭeri
D Degaanó \ Degano
Dk Domaaki \ Domaá \ D.umaki
Dm Dameli
Gi Gultari
Id Indus Kohistani
Ka Kalam Kohistani \ Kalami \ Gawri \ Bashkarik
Kati
Kh Khowàr
Km Kashmiri
Ks Kalasha
KS Kundal Shahi
Kt ktívi kâtá vari
Kv Kâmvíri
Pl Paaluulaá
Pr Prasun
Ni Nišei-alâ
Np Nepali
Sa Saňu-vīri
Sh Shina
Ti Torwali
Wg Waigali \ Kalas.a-alâ

Since we are all basically being fucked in the ass with how shit our pay is. Let’s get into the nitty gritty, shall we?
My paycheck just dropped. I’m an MOL at my store. We have no assistant manager. Just a GM, a CAL and a GA LOD. Then 4 cashiers. I do the job of most of the positions in the store, minus the GM. I have worked for Petco for 5 years and have had previous manager experience too. Been a manager at my store for 3 years. Got exceeding expectations for all my reviews. Works my way from cashier to MOL. I am trained in SFS too. The store hours were cut so I work 37 hours, if I’m lucky. I have to do the job of my aquatic specialist half the time since we don’t have the hours to give them either. I do truck in one day. All pallets out in 6 hours. Only with 3 peoples help. Had to fight for years to get raises and was given small stupid ones after fighting tooth and nail for that shit. So this last 6 months, promises of these raises, I’ve been ready for it. To finally feel my worth. To get paid enough to survive and to be paid money that is worth my effort I put into my job. I work too hard to only get paid shit. So I was excited.. Then boom, no raise, a shitty 33 cents “yearly review raise” was all I get. My total pay now? $16.50. $16.50 for all my hard work. For all the effort I put into my job. I get 50 cents more than my dog trainer. Who also earns commission. The GA LOD. She gets the same AS MY CASHIERS. They are being paid the same as someone who runs the store, goes to the bank, does scheduling, does the same work as an assistant manager too. So today I get my paycheck. The one that would have been the last one before this so called raises we were meant to get. You want to know how much my check was???
$979.. yep. $979 for two weeks of overworking, burning myself out and working my ass off for visits and everything. Planograms and ad reset and and you name it.. for two weeks, I got $979. After my bills, I’ll be left with $150. To get groceries, gas to get to this job, take care of my animals and to just survive on. $150 for two weeks. It’s fucking pathetic.
And before someone gives me the whole get a new job, get a second job. I would if I could. But I can’t do that. So I’m stuck in this job. It’s not like people can snap their fingers and magically get a job that is worth it so here I am. Barely living.
Welcome to petco, where the broke managers go.

Hey there, I’m searching for someone who matches with me on a fair amount of items from my list of fandoms. I have anime/games I’m looking for people to strike RPs with. I’m attempting to find someone willing to play CANON characters. OC’s are allowed, but heavy discussion about them must take place beforehand. I don’t mind OC’s, but my main goal is to attempt to find someone willing to play canon character. If you can play male, that’s fine - But I'm mostly seeking people that can play Female characters regardless of IRL gender. The more canon characters you can play, the better. If we match on more than 3, please shoot me a DM. I primarily RP over discord, and write at least a paragraph per reply, but can stretch to 2-3 paragraphs or more. Seeking someone who can do the same. While these are aimed to be romances, I also am very plot-heavy and enjoy a variety of AU's and genres. I hope to find someone fairly active and seeking to write mostly romantic themes among other genres. At the moment, very much interested In finding fellow writers that have read Tokyo Ghoul and Tokyo Ghoul:re Thanks for reading!
*Anime:*
​
* Watamote. (AU/Canon.)
* My Hero Academia. (AU/Canon.)
* Kill La Kill. (AU/Canon.)
* Konosuba. (AU/Canon.)
* Darling in the Franxx. (AU/Canon.)
* Dragon Maid. (AU/Canon.)
* Goblin Slayer.
* Re:Zero. (AU/Canon.)
* Tanya The Evil. (AU/Canon.)
* Overlord. (AU/Canon.)
* Tokyo Ghoul/Tokyo Ghoul:re
* Code Geass
* Akame Ga Kill
* Chainsaw Man
​
*Games:*
​
* Borderlands 2.
* Mass Effect. (AU/Canon.)
* Dark Souls III. (AU.)
* Fallout 4.
* Destiny 2.
* Undertale. (AU.)
* Deltarune. (AU/Canon.)
* Bully. (AU.)
* Persona 4
* Overwatch
* Street Fighter V
* League of Legends
* FFXIV
​
*Movies/Shows.*
​
* Spider Verse.
* MCU.
* Steven Universe.
* Adventure Time.
* ATLA
* Game of Thrones
* Star Wars
* Star Vs Forces of Evil

Coming face to face with people in suits always makes me hyper-aware of how badly I dress. Since I knew I was going to meet up with Mary Markov today, I intentionally put some more effort into my appearance. I picked out a pressed shirt to wear over my leggings. Since it was far too big for me, I threw my wide yellow belt into the mix. Thus satisfied, I called up Elijah Carter and asked whether he wanted to come along. He agreed readily enough so I had him pick me up and drive us over to Mary's office. It was nowhere near the hospital and not in the vicinity of her news channel headquarters either. It was located in a slate gray concrete building that was quite confusing to look at.
No outside observer could have mistaken it for a residential house, for there was hardly a less homely or comfortable place imaginable. It was utterly repellent in its rough, dreary nature. It couldn't have belonged to some kind of business either, though. There were no marked parking spaces for employees, no signs or advertisements. Altogether, it reminded me of something out of a cheap or unfinished video game.
"Sketchy," Eli remarked, eyeing the slab of concrete with a similar lack of enthusiasm. "Looks almost abandoned. How weirdly fitting for a semi-secret government operation."
I nodded. The warm air had taken me by surprise and I found the weight of my jacket suffocating, so I took it off to leave in the car. "What is it?" I asked, noticing the way Elijah squinted at my outfit.
"What are you wearing?"
"Clothes."
"You don't say." He snorted. "Looking kinda funny there, Shirley."
"I look professional," I corrected him.
"I suppose." He grinned to himself. "Depends on the profession, though."
We rang the bell and a highly official-looking security guard let us in through the heavy double doors after confirming that Mary Markov was expecting us. He gave the necessary directions, sending us down several flights of stairs. The better part of the building was in fact underground, like with an iceberg. Eli made a remark about how it'd be safer if outsiders weren’t allowed to roam the place by themselves. It seems to be a habit of his to vaguely analyze and point out flaws in the structures of government institutions. Then again, maybe it's just flaws in general he's fascinated with.
Upon arriving outside Mary's office, we were called inside to find her sitting behind her desk. She lifted her head, giving us a polite, if cold, smile. "Good morning. You're on time. Wonderful."
"Would you please give me an honest appraisal of my outfit?" I asked.
The newsreader frowned in confusion, her eyes briefly roaming my form. "You put effort into your appearance today," she concluded. "It's appreciated."
"Wait, what do you mean today?" I inquired.
"Note also how she did not actually answer your question," Elijah added.
I huffed, flinging myself into one of the chairs in front of Mary's desk. Eli sat down beside me, folding his hands in his lap and leaning back. "Thanks for letting me come with Shirley," he told her.
"Naturally. I assume you're her emotional support human." Mary Markov's lips curled slightly. "At any rate, you had contact with the Collective yourself, so this does concern you. As far as I'm concerned, it can't hurt having an ex-cop in the mix, anyways. Despite the regrettable reasons you had for leaving the force."
Elijah's brows lowered, the muscle in his pronounced jaw twitching. "How do you know about that?"
Mary looked innocent. "It's very important that I'm fully informed, of course. Don't worry. We don't need to go into it, and I don't judge you, either. The effect the incident at that highschool had on you is completely understandable."
"I didn't ask for your assessment." My friend's voice had sharpened. "Can we move on from this?"
"Of course." If the sudden shift in tone had rattled the agent, she wasn't letting it on. Sifting through the neat stack of papers on her desk, she pulled out a thin brown file which she slid over to me. "Miss Shirley, you remember the female member of the Collective we took into custody? She has already been questioned by the local police. Unfortunately, I don't have the authority to lead such an interrogation, but I was present for it and I want you to have this transcript."
I perked up and began leafing through the folder.
"You may take that with you to read in peace," Mary told me. "But don't expect too much, lest you'll be sorely disappointed. The girl hardly said anything at all. The most helpful information she gave us was a name she kept referencing. Jewel. At first, we thought it was a sort of code word, but it seems to be what the other person she was with calls themself."
“Jewel,” I echoed.
“Sadly enough, that’s all we have. We’ve never provided our services to anyone of their physical description. There are a couple clues, but they don’t amount to anything helpful. There’s the fact that you met them at a convenience store with relatively high prices. Maybe I’m just grasping at straws, but that could indicate a cushy financial situation. On top of that, the store is rather far away from here, so they might be an out-of-towner. They also might be able to influence the way others perceive them, considering the way they seemed to hypnotize you in the woods merely by holding eye contact.”
“How come they couldn’t do anything to Frank Preston?”
Mary Markov twinkled at me. “They couldn’t? Huh. That rather intrigues the philosopher in me. Jewel works through eye contact and it is said that the eyes are the window to the soul.” She cocked her head at me.
“Are you saying Blondie doesn’t have a soul?” Eli asked, raising a skeptical brow. “Is this one of those Plato-Schopenhauer-whatevers?”
The newsreader shrugged artfully, watching my reaction. “We could discuss this for hours on end. I only meant to draw attention to the implied distinction between an organically born entity and a being who was originally an inanimate object.”
“I beg your pardon?” I said slowly.
“Oh, nevermind; that’s neither here nor there.” Her tone told me that she did, in fact, consider it to be both here and there. Not wanting to go further into this with her, I made a mental note to ask Frankie later.
“There’s more,” I added, trying to gently prepare her for what I was about to say. “I want to get Kit Sutton back.”
Mary’s lips thinned. “Excuse me?”
“I don’t mean for the town to get flooded in the process. I think we can find a solution to help her, if we work together. I’m convinced we can figure something out, but I don’t believe in abandoning her anymore. Which is essentially what we’re doing if we leave her to her fate.”
“You do realize what you’re asking of me? Your former roommate isn’t some kind of minor water spirit. Her father appears to hold tremendous power over the seas, or at the very least our part of it. He has countless similarly dangerous individuals at his service so he might be considered a ruler of sorts, if not a deity.”
“So Kit’s the little mermaid, basically?” Elijah asked, equal parts joking and genuinely intrigued.
Mary grinned an actual, amused grin. “I must ask you to take this seriously, Mr Carter.”
“I am!” he chuckled, raising his hands. “I swear.”
“Anyways, Miss Shirley, the point you make is an individualistic one, but I see why you’re invested in the girl’s fate. I want to help, I do… But we need to proceed with caution. If you can suggest to me some kind of sensible approach, then I’ll do what I can. That’s all the promises I can make at the moment.”
I thanked her and got up, Eli following me as I headed for the door. “Miss Shirley,” Mary called out and I stopped, turning back around to face her. “If you like my style, we could perhaps meet up to go shopping sometime? I could show you some quality stores. It wouldn’t be anytime soon since I’m currently swamped, but I figure—well, just in case you might like to.”
I nodded. “That sounds pleasant enough.”
She smiled brightly and waved us out the door. “Excellent. I’ll be in touch.”
Back inside the car, I tossed the file onto the backseat to read later. “Would you like to go to the beach?” I suggested.
“Why not. Wait, is this for a stroll and ice cream or do you want to kickstart the mermaid-rescue-operation?”
“I can’t see why it shouldn’t be both,” I replied comfortably. “We’ll need to take your flashlight, though.”
"You know I don't like getting myself into trouble unless it's paid."
"Yes, but you also find me endearing and want to protect me from danger, which you can only do by accompanying me."
"You're a terrifying tentacle beast from another dimension. I don't know that I'm all that scared for your safety," he grunted.
I gave him an affronted look. "You have now hurt my feelings."
"Have I?"
"Plenty, but I'll forgive you if you come with me."
Elijah Carter sighed deeply but started driving anyway. I let my arm dangle out of the open window, allowing the warming spring air to wash over my skin. The closer we got to the shore, the stronger the scent of salt mixed into the breeze. The cries of seagulls became audible over the sounds of the road and the streaming wind and was finally joined by the crashing of waves when we pulled into a parking spot and got out of the car. Taking along the heavy duty flashlight he always kept in the passenger seat footwell, I led Eli to the mouth of the cave, explaining what Nettie and I had seen along the way. He looked commendably calm, simply turning on the torch and entering alongside me.
The tunnels were just as damp, dim and quiet as the last time. Before long, we had reached the spacious canyon room with the lake at the bottom. "I want to go across and see if there's anything important in the rest of the grotto back there," I reminded him. "Please hold on to your bearings."
"I'm not repeating your mistakes," he replied gamely. "What do you think? This oughta be connected to the ocean somehow." He let the beam of the torch roam the mirror-like surface of the lake. It seemed almost deceptively quiet. My eyes followed the lengthy stone ledge. Eli stepped close, and after receiving a nod of approval, he grabbed me around the waist and hoisted me onto the rocky protrusion. I straightened up, instantly pressing my back against the wall. A wave of nausea hit me as I glanced at the water below. "Chill," Elijah muttered, climbing after me with ease. "Nothing will happen. You're not gonna fall."
I merely shook my head. "You didn't see what's down there."
"And I won't, because we'll be careful," he answered steadfastly.
I started walking, the warm light of the torch upon my back, illuminating the path ahead. The shelf narrowed as we reached the end. I swiftly clambered down, relieved to place my feet on wider, solid ground once more. Now looking over the lake from the other side, it had an entirely different feel to it. It seemed darker somehow, but also less big—I attributed it to the change in perspective. We were standing in a cramped little nook with two passageways leading off into separate directions behind us. Elijah Carter eyed them pensively. “Which do you reckon?”
I pursed my lips. “The right one. Because it’s right.”
“Makes sense.”
We proceeded into the passage, the tight space pushing us closer together. He had to duck his head, uncomfortably hunching his shoulders, and for once, I was grateful for my own short stature. The corridor seemed to go on forever. The darkness and silence created a feel of unnatural solitude, and for more than once, I got the distinct impression that I must have jumped dimensions again. It was as though Elijah and I were enclosed in some kind of bubble, cut off from everything outside; a place where time was a foreign concept and the only sun was our flashlight. Needless to say, I was distinctly uneasy. I allowed myself to lean back, brushing against Eli’s chest whenever I could. Eventually, I cleared my throat.
“Could you touch me?”
“What?”
“Just so I still know you’re there.”
His palm came to rest on my shoulder, his thumb digging into one of the tense, painfully rigid muscles of my upper back, forcing it to soften. “Good?”
“Yes, thank you.”
He hummed. “You’re scared.”
“Yes.”
“Me, too.”
This caused my resolve to falter. “Maybe we should turn around after all,” I said quietly. “Who knows how much longer—”
“Look.”
I perked up. Before us, the tunnel grew wider, opening into a large, spacious room. We picked up our pace, tackling the remaining distance in a light jog, and finally found ourselves standing in another hall. The beam of light traveled the floor and high walls, revealing a sight that took our breath away. We were standing in front of another lake, only slightly smaller than the last. The water glittered in violet hues and strange, pale plants climbed up the walls, some of them looking rather like starfish. Multiple rocky protrusions formed an almost complete bridge across its middle. With a bit of light climbing, we'd undoubtedly be able to get to the other side. Wordlessly, Elijah Carter swung himself up onto the platform closest to the edge of the water, pulling me up after him. The flashlight switched hands a couple times as we maneuvered ourselves along.
Soon, we reached the middle of the lake. I risked a glance at the water below. All was still and perfectly quiet. Eli was about to take on the next rock when suddenly, I felt something heavy and gooey drip onto my head from above. I flinched, then slowly pointed the torch up to the ceiling. My stomach dropped. My throat had turned paper-dry, and I frantically tugged on Eli’s arm. He tipped his head back, following my pointing finger. His eyes blew wide and his face fell.
There was a creature clinging to the high walls, its pale, enormous body describing a streamline curve as it pressed itself against the hollowed stone. The closest thing I can compare it to would be a sort of olm, except probably a hundred times larger. Its snout looked large enough to swallow either of us whole. It hung open, secreting a thick fluid that slowly dripped down to hit the rocks or create ripples upon the water. Its blind eyes seemed to be trained on us, and I could spot tiny, sharp teeth lining its maw. It wasn’t moving, not even an inch, but somehow, I knew it was aware of us.
I looked up at Elijah, the panic in his eyes mirroring mine. Both of us had freezed up mid-motion, not daring to take another step. My mind was running wild; I was thinking feverishly. We’d have to turn around for sure, but how? The olm was already highly alert, if we were to start scrambling back to solid ground, it would undoubtedly hear us straight away. Eli looked equal parts terrified and furious, and I could tell he was scolding himself for not thinking to check the entirety of the room before proceeding across the lake. I could understand the sentiment, we’d definitely made a grave mistake. I figured it had been the misleading beauty of the cave hall that had taken our edge off. Glancing over into the direction we’d come from, I found myself wishing to be back in the endless dark corridor. The entrance to the passage seemed miles away.
The olm lifted a three-toed foot, shifting its massive form to a lower spot on the wall. It was taking a tentative step towards us, extending its snout as its body bent into our direction. Elijah had grabbed onto my arm, his fingers clamping around it like a vice. He stayed silent and unmoving, but he held my gaze with clear, sharp eyes.
“Don’t move,” I mouthed, and he gave me a curt nod.
Slowly, I reached around to push my shirt out of the way of my unfurling tentacles. Elijah took a quiet step back to make room for my changing form, something of a resolute expression settling on his face. I opened my mouth, relieved when my teeth acted according to my will and elongated. I didn’t know to what extent I would be able to defend against this absolute giant of an amphibian, but at least it would give us a chance. I took a deep breath, trading glances with Eli once more before darting off to the side, bounding onto the platform next to our current one. Elijah followed suit, grabbing onto one of the limbs I extended to him for support. Despite the swiftness of our movements, we were anything but quiet, and the olm reacted in an instant. It slithered down from the wall, sinking into the lake below to make its way to the rocks we were standing on. As we headed for the next stone, it darted out of the water, splashing wildly as its snout breached the surface. Its jaws snapped at us, missing me by a mere foot as I jumped across the gap between the protrusions. Droplets flew as the creature dropped once more, but instead of retreating, it swam around the platform. Its massive, snake-like body was bobbing up and down as it circled us.
“Oh fuck,” Elijah breathed, his chest heaving. “Keep going! Move, move!”
I took a short running start, then flung myself onto the next rock, using my extra limbs to land safely. I then helped him cross again. The olm rose from the depths of the lake once again, and I lashed at it with one of my tentacles, hitting it on the snout and forcing it to dive underwater again. We kept working our way back towards the other side of the lake, slipping and sliding as we went. The water surrounding us seemed to hum with unrestrained energy, the white salamander’s tail whipping up waves and splashing around. We were finally getting close to solid ground again, or at least it looked like we were for a moment. That’s when the creature took a massive leap, draping itself over the final stepping stone, effectively blocking our path.
“Shit,” Eli hissed beside me as we came to a skittering halt.
I’d have to try and fight this thing. There was no way around it now. I clenched my sweat-laced palms into fist, trying to slow my rapid, shallow breaths. I can do this, I said to myself. All I’d have to do is send it back into the lake for long enough so we could run back into the tunnel. There was no way the olm would fit through the passage—once we were in there, we’d be relatively safe. I stared at the dripping, writhing animal; stared at its bared needle teeth, and the less hopeful, more realistic part of my brain told me that I would, indeed, probably not be able to do this. Just as I was contemplating the degree of our screwed-ness, an unseen someone called out from behind us. I didn’t understand a word they were saying, but I recognized the language, and more importantly, the voice.
It was bright as a bell, girlish but with a rough, warm edge. Even before I could turn to face her, I knew who it was.
The gigantic amphibian perked up at the sound, lowering its head and withdrawing into the murky depths with a splash. Elijah Carter let go of a long-held breath, dropping his shoulders before tensing up again, realization setting in. He shot me a look of utter disbelief.
“Wow,” the newcomer spoke up again, this time not in the tongue of the deep ones. “You two have to be actually crazy or something to show up here.”
X
1
2: deadbeat roommate
3: creepy crush
4: relocation
5: beach concert
6: First date
7: Temp work
8: roommate talk
9: a dismal worldview
10: warehouse
11: staircase
12: explanation
13: hurt
14: hospital
15: ocean
16: diner
17: government work
18: something in the caves
19: shopping cart

O FII Hospital Unimed Sul Capixaba tem como objetivo a construção e exploração comercial de um hospital na modalidade BTS, locado para a Unimed Sul Capixaba. O empreendimento possui cerca de 130 leitos e está localizado em Cachoeiro de Itapemirim (ES). Em abril, o resultado do Fundo foi de R$ 0,94/cota, com distribuição de R$ 0,86/cota. A receita de locação foi de R$ 872.318,77, ou R$ 1,10/cota. No entanto, o Fundo está enfrentando um problema de fissuras e trincas na construção da área técnica do empreendimento, destinada ao armazenamento de materiais fundamentais para o funcionamento do hospital. Foi contratada uma Consultoria Geotécnica para identificar as causas e entender as ações necessárias a serem tomadas.
💡 #HUSC11 Investir em saúde pode ser uma ótima opção para diversificação de portfólio, mas é importante ficar atento aos problemas estruturais que podem surgir em empreendimentos imobiliários. No entanto, com a devida atenção e cuidado, o FII Hospital Unimed Sul Capixaba pode ser uma boa oportunidade de investimento no setor. https://www.fiis.ga/noticia/472327

I want to apply for an animal related job. I have worked as a receptionist at a vet hospital before, but I only worked there for a month before quitting. I figure I need to put this job on this application to even be considered. The application for this job asks why previous positions were left. The honest answer is I left because the vet who owned the hospital was a mean SOB who blamed me for things he didn't even witness and were not my fault. He also made me tell a person whose cat was dying and they just wanted to hold before they passed to put the cat in a carrier until the appointment because it was "policy." This cat couldn't even lift its head anymore. I put my 2 weeks in 2 weeks after I started and never looked back. The thing is, I love animals and I loved the actual work, I just didn't like being yelled at. What should I put down in a sentence or two in order to explain this without sounding like I'm difficult to work with or am a flight risk?

Last year, my dog became unwell and had a few episodes of collapse, along with diarrhoea and bloodshot eyes. The first time she collapsed, I phoned an out of hours appointment and saw a brilliant vet from my practice who suggested if it happens again we do bloods and further investigations.
My dog did collapse again, but this time I saw a different vet (the practice owner) and she was really dismissive, acting like I was worrying about nothing and wasting her time. I asked if it was possible my dog had eaten something, and she said 'If there was something seriously wrong with her I'd be expecting more significant symptoms than she's just off'. She did a rough assessment and reluctantly agreed to do bloods for my peace of mind. She said she couldn't do a pulse oximetry on my dog because she was too hairy. I'm not sure why, but instead of getting blood results the next day (they have blood analysis at the practice), I waited until the end of the week and got a voicemail from her saying they were fine. I wasn't impressed with my experience with her, and thought about getting a second opinion so requested a copy of the blood results. I had to phone and ask 3 times, and it got to closing time, I still didn't have the results. I decided to go into the practice 5 minutes before closing, where the same vet apologised for the delay, saying she wanted to explain the abnormalities to me before sending them over. I asked why she said they were normal, and she said that my dogs levels were off because she was probably stressed from fainting and recommended a cardiology visit to look at her heart.
I saw cardiology, paid £1500 for tests and every single thing came back normal. The cardiologist reviewed her bloods and said that her best guess is an unknown toxin or virus that caused symptoms.
Fast forward to this week. I made an out of hours appointment with an external company (the practice don't do out of hours anymore) because my dog was very lethargic, not pooping or eating. The vet said she suspected pyometra or bowel obstruction, and if she wasn't showing improvement by Monday to book in with my vet. I phoned them first thing on Monday and said she's getting worse and I'm really worried about her. They said the vet was in surgery at the moment but would call when they finished at lunchtime. It got to 4pm, still no phonecall so I rang them. The receptionist told me I had been removed from the vets call list and she wasn't sure why I didn't receive a call. They got my dog in at 5pm and she had closed pyometra and sepsis and needed emergency surgery. She suggested I put her in the animal hospital overnight for antibiotics and fluids, and schedule for surgery in the morning. We went to the animal hospital and they had no idea we were coming because the vet hadn't phoned them. The next morning, I dropped my dog in for surgery and got a call 2 hours later asking how my dog is, if she's still unwell or if i need an appointment today. While she was being operated on. By them.

hi everyone! i just got my MCAT score back today and need help with my school list. i'm also debating whether or not I should apply this cycle or retake the MCAT. here are my stats:
GA resident. Asian F. GPA: 4.0. MCAT: 512 (scored lower than 519 FL avg) :/
- Research: 1500+ hours (worked in 2 separate labs, 1 publication, 3 poster presentations, ongoing project with upcoming senior thesis)
- Clinical: 300+ hours (MA over the summer at primary care office in my hometown, volunteering in hospitals and specialist offices in college town)
- Shadowing: 200+ hours with family med, OB-GYN, dermatologist NP, neurologist, and vascular surgeon
- Community service and leadership: 700+ hours (most of my hours are for a leadership position in a service org, the rest is with volunteering with the homeless population and mentoring/tutoring elementary and middle school students in my college town)
- TA: completed 200 hours as a peer mentor for Honor college students & anticipated 200 hours TA for intro to Biochem class
- Award/Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, President's Gold Volunteer Service award, undergrad research scholarship from university
Family ties to CA, TX, NY, VA, MA, and FL. Prefer to stay in-state or in the Southern US close to family or to any of the states listed previously :) I'm interested in OB-GYN, surgery, or primary care so I want to keep my options open. This is a very rough school list, and I'd like to narrow it down to feasible 20-30 schools!
MD: Emory, MCG/Augusta, Mercer, Morehouse, South Alabama, UAB, MUSC, USC (South Carolina - Columbia or Greenville), UNC, Wake Forest, FIU, FAU, UMiami, Nova Southeastern MD, UCF, UF, USF, Eastern Virginia, VCU, Virginia Tech, Albany, Albert Einstein, New York Medical College, Rochester, Kaiser, Loma Lima, UCSD, UCLA, UCSF, Tufts, Rosalind Franklin, Loyola Stritch, Rush, George Washington, Georgetown, Howard, Dartmouth, Tulane
Reaches: Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Mt. Sinai, Harvard
DO: PCOM (GA campus), VCOM, LECOM, Nova Southeastern DO
Thank you so much, everyone!

CA-ORM, community college -> UC school transfer. Overall 4.0 GPA
SES disadvantaged, strong writing tied it in with underserved emphasis, religious refugee background.
Got my MCAT back today and am a little under average for my MD only first-cycle, debating whether I should just apply or retake(figure our CARS)/apply next year applying MD and DO.
MCAT 510 (128/124/128/130), I averaged 512 but consistently got 123 CARS so no real surprise.
No other red flags.
Total paid clinical: ~10000 hours, being a ICU CNA and caregiver
Clinical Volunteering: 350 hours in hospital setting
Nonclincal volunteering: ~1500 spread out over food bank, animal shelter, crisis text line
2 leadership positionsResearch: ~900 hours over two positions, 2 publications, 1 award
Shadowing: 70 hours multiple specialities
Do I have a chance at any MD schools? I will go anywhere, I just need a school to give me a shot. Thank you so much for your help.

Hello everyone. I recently patinummed every Spider-Man game on the PSVITA and would like to review the experience.
Lets start with the first game of this post: The Amazing Spider-Man 2012.
Overall, this game was pretty straightforward and fun to platinum. The main story is on the shorter side at around 8 hours and you can 100% it in around 15-20 hours. There's not much padding and the game relies more on spectacle. There are also no missable trophies so you can do everything in one playthrough which is nice.
The game has around 4 groups of Trophies.
The first group are related to the main story. This includes the usual unmissable ones for completing certain missions or defeating the bosses or completing the game. There are also 3 trophies for beating the main story on the harder difficulties and I believe they stack. The game however, is pretty easy regardless of the difficulty so hard isn't that much harder and you have the ability to instantly "web retreat" when your health is low so it's rare to die.
The second group of trophies are for the side missions in the open world. These are all marked on your map and generally straightforward and fun to complete. I especially liked the races and events that ask you to go fast in the open world. But was rather meh on the combat and stealth ones. They do sometimes involve bosses which was cool.
The third group are for the game's collectibles. I'd divide these into groups: the open world collectibles in the form of Comic Books scattered all over Manhattan, and the interior collectibles you can only collect during missions. Fortunately the game does have a mission replay feature so no collectible is missable. The game even tells you which collectibles you have and haven't collected in missions and gives you a % completion for them. I recently platinummed TLOU2 and one of my biggest criticisms there was that the game would “forget” your progression when you replayed past levels. So props to TASM1 for doing this aspect well.
In addition, another nice consideration is that even though you can't highlight or mark collectibles, the different collectibles emit a different coloured bright light and emit a distinct sound when you are near them. Magazines for example, emit a bright yellow glow that can light up a bit of the surrounding area. So even if the magazine is behind some boxes, you can still see some of the glow. Audio Logs have a white glow. Tech Pieces have a blue-ish glow. Photo Ops have a giant Yellow "Oscorp" Sign planted next to them. So if the game tells you you have found all the magazines and tech pieces in a mission but still need to find some audio logs, you just have to keep an eye out for bright white light sources. Most collectibles are generally placed in plain sight. Only a couple are hidden in a random vent or corner that is a bit out of the way. I don't recall any collectibles that required some long puzzle or massive amount of backtracking to find. So not the most unfair set of collectibles to find.
However, this is only true in the PS3 version. In the VITA version, the graphics and lighting have been heavily downgraded in order to fit the game. So the collectibles are barely illuminated or emit much light. Add in the smaller screen, muddier resolution and textures and worse speakers on the VITA and there were times on my first playthrough of the game where I was moving through linear hallways with nothing else in them but a collectible and I still missed it. I could have walked slightly more to the left and would have picked it up without even realizing there was one there. It was really embarrassing 😭.
When I was looking up where the collectibles were on my iPhone, I could see them more clearly. For example, in one of the later Oscorp levels, there's a brief cutscene where the camera flys over an area. On my iPhone, I could see the blue glow of a Tech Piece. But on the VITA, even when I was looking exactly at the Tech Piece, it didn't even look distinct.
This even extends to the Photo Ops. On the PS3, these are usually pretty easy to find since you're looking for a bright yellow Oscorp sign next to the thing you need to photograph. But on VITA, these signs blend into their respective walls and even the words can be hard to read.
One really surreal experience that happened to me was in one of the final Oscorp Bio-Generator levels. In this area, there is a central generator that requires you destroy 4 consoles in the surrounding rooms to activate it. The rooms are labelled with a sign that says stuff like "Room 204: Biotechnology" or "Room 206: Recycling" so you know where you are and where you haven't been. One of the guides I was looking up told me there was 1 collectible in room 204, 2 in room 205 and 1 in room 206's vent. Simple enough. But when I was playing through it, I found 2 collectibles in room 204 and couldn't find room 205 or 206. I was really confused. It was only after watching some other guides that I realized that the VITA version reuses or simplifies textures more than I thought. Every room in the level had the same sign that said "Room 204: Biotechnology" even if their layout was different. I had already collected the collectible from the actual room 204 in my first playthrough, just found the 2 from Room 5 and just needed to get the one from the vent in 206.
Just for the fun of it, I decided to then replay some of the missions where I already knew where the collectibles were and compared what the rooms looked like between the 2 versions. And it showed that some of the collectibles on the PS3 version sometimes had additional detail or clutter near them to try drawing your eye to them. For example in the Beltoit Psychiatric Hospital mission, many of the collectibles had graffiti or posters near or above them. These were either absent or so low res as to be indistinguishable on the VITA version.
Now, it's debatable how much I can really criticize the VITA version for this. It's very likely these collectibles were designed to be more easily findable because of how lit up they normally were on the main PS3 version that Beenox probably didn't realize they'd be much harder to find on the VITA version. And I doubt Beenox would have had enough time or resources to somehow redo or significantly change the VITA version to fix something most players probably wouldn't even care about.
But then again, part of the issue, I feel, is due to the artstyle and locations of the game. TASM1 uses a much more "grounded" and muted colour palette. A lot of the interior areas are sewers, warehouses, generator rooms, underground tunnels and Oscorp facilities and they do start somewhat blending together even on the PS3. Compare this with say Insomniac's Spider-Man 2018 game and that game almost never used standard sewer areas for its interiors. Or even as a VITA example, Borderlands 2 was also ported to VITA and it too was heavily downgraded in order to fit. With many areas looking muddy and hard to make out. But the game's cell shaded look and more distinct locations were able to still preserve some variety and clarity. TASM1's visuals may have been able to get by on PS3 thanks to the console's power but as a result, hurts the VITA version way more than if it had more interesting visuals or colourful artstyle.
I’ll leave it to the readers to decide if this is an aspect worth criticizing.
Still, I do think it would have been better if, at the very least, there was some optional upgrade or tool you could get as an endgame unlock to highlight you of nearby collectibles. I find that generally benefits many games regardless of their artstyle or setup (certainly helpful in the Arkham games and their collectibles were bright green glowing question marks).
Anyway, there are also collectibles in the open world Manhattan in the form of comic books. You can't read these but I personally find them pretty fun and relaxing to collect with Spidey's web swinging. They remind me of the Animus Fragments in Assassin's Creed Revelations where they were all over the map and pretty fun to collect with your parkouring skills. There's only a few issues. The first is that there are 700 comics scattered all over Manhattan. Some are static and don't move. Others fly around the map. You need to Web Rush/Zip into them to collect them. They aren't marked on your map. So yeah, it would be quite rough to find them all. The game does offer some help. The comics emit a faint yellow glow and a certain sound as you get close to them. So it's advised to try finding them at night with the voice and music turned lower. Obviously it isn't as helpful on the VITA for the aforementioned reasons but the faint yellow glow at night is at least more noticeable than many of the interior collectibles.
Once you find 500/700 comics, it marks the remaining 200 on your minimap as you get near them. On paper, I'd actually really enjoy this. You have to find 500 sure, but it's fun swinging around as Spidey and looking out for them. There is some leeway and you can start seeing the patterns of where some are likely to be (many are often placed around skyscrapers, behind fire escapes and billboards etc). So it is reasonable to find 500/700 without the aid of a map. But the final 50 or so are more annoying. For one, they are only marked on your minimap and not your world map. And on top of that, they only show up on your minimap if you aren't too far from them, both on the x and y axis. Meaning it is possible for some comics not be highlighted on your minimap if you are too far above or below them. The final 10 were quite annoying as I had to thoroughly criss-cross sections of Manhattan at different altitudes. The last one I only found when I climbed to the top of Oscorp Tower and saw a really small faint glow in the night sky. This comic was quite far and really high up which is why it wasn't showing up on the minimap.
Again, I did enjoy finding these comic books. I just feel it would have been better if they were either always on your minimap once you find 500 regardless of your height and/or show up on the regular map as well.
The fourth group of trophies are for miscellaneous challenges. These include things like: "Sky Captain - Chain 10 Web-Rushes in the city", "Clean Victory - Defeat a Hunter without using your Web-Shooters".
I will highlight 3 notable ones:
"Heavyweight Champion - Defeat 1000 enemies". There aren't 1000 enemies in the main campaign or in the side missions. So you would have to replay some of the missions to get them. I got this naturally when I was replaying missions when looking for collectibles.
"Keep It Together - Immobilize 6 enemies simultaneously with web". I missed this one during my first playthrough because there's no real reason to do it. It's not like Insomniac's Spider-Man 2018 where you have a web ability to cover an entire area in web so you have to manually run around and web enemies up with your infinite webbing. But the combat is so easy that it's much faster to just KO enemies directly rather than incapacitate or stun them.
"The Sky Is the Limit - Defeat the S-01 without touching the ground". TASM1 really wants to be a spectacle. The second mission of the game showcases this with a bossfight against this giant Kaiju sized robot called the S-01. It's certainly a visual spectacle but not much of a gameplay one since you can easily move to dodge its attacks, perch to web its weak points and the game does much of the damage against the boss as you often just need to swing around to its weak points and press L and let the game go into autopilot for a few moments.
This trophy, funnily, actually helps the game on both the gameplay and visual front. And is one of the better examples of how a good challenge trophy can elevate a section of a game. It requires you defeat this boss without touching the ground. This also includes perching on lamp posts or the sides of building. Which means you have to keep swinging and are always on the move. The end result is this much more hectic and higher stakes encounter as you're swinging around dodging lasers, knowing any mistake could set you back. Sections that were more trivial before like webbing up fans near its feet/knees are more tense since you need to then web them while free falling and either swing or Web Rush away before you hit the ground. It's not the most challenging and I was able to get it in one try but it certainly made the fight feel more climactic and fun. Like I was actually playing this section of Spidey fighting this giant kaiju robot more than before (granted, the automated sections do hurt that feeling). Hell, even on the VITA version where the framerate was tanking, it even added to the feel. Like this boss was so epic that the poor hardware can't keep up lol. The section is also short enough to be impactful without losing or diluting the experience.
This is something Insomniac's Game does more of. It has bosses like Vulture and Electro you have to take on while web swinging. But there's something much cooler and enjoyable about the way TASM1 does it. Maybe it's the fact you're fighting this giant kaiju robot in a small-ish park and you have to move around way more vertically.
I will point out the trophy completion stats of this game a bit. Only around 78% of players managed to beat the first boss (i.e complete the second mission) of the game. Around 31% of players managed to beat the game on easy. That drops down to nearly 19% for medium and 9.9% beat it on hard. More people got all 700 comics in the open world (8.5%) than got the around 190-ish interior collectibles (7.5%) and only around 7% of players got the platinum.
So yeah, this was mostly a fun game to platinum. If the collectibles were marked a bit more (especially helpful on VITA), I'd have no complaints.
As for the game itself, by VITA standards, it's pretty good as there aren't many games like it on the platform. Gravity Rush is probably the only one that's comparable. I am very nostalgic for this game so I'm probably praising it more than others would. I can see some people dismissing it or disliking it more. Especially for the game's performance on the VITA.
But ignoring the fact its on the VITA and comparing it with everything else, I feel it's.....decent at best. TASM1, I feel, is an awkward spot where very little it does is truly amazing or worth playing over other games for even if the experience itself is quite enjoyable and worth seeing at least.
For those who haven't played the game, the best way I can describe the game is that it's "the child of Batman Arkham City and Insomniac's Spider-Man 2018 (even though that game wouldn't come out for another 6 years)". From Insomniac's Spider-Man, you might recognize that TASM1 has more of a focus on Spidey zipping around in both combat and traversal, using multiple web blasts to immobilize enemies, a stealth system that involves getting above or close to enemies and pressing a single button instantly eliminate them with a web takedown. On top of that, the game has a faux twitter-like social media that you can see as the game's loading screen that updates and comments on the events of the game. The plot also involves a deadly pandemic that spreads across New York requiring Spidey to act (so I guess Insomniac plagiarized this game). It's actually really fascinating seeing how this game has ideas and concepts that would show up in Insomniac's game.
And from the Batman Arkham side, the game copies the exact same freeflow combat from Arkham. Right down to the same commands and moves. There's even a shielded enemy you cannot attack directly and need to jump over and attack from behind. The main issue here is that while TASM1 copied the surface level ideas of Arkham's combat, it didn't copy all the things that make it great. Batman Arkham's combat is fun because of 2 main factors. The first is that Batman has a wide array of moves that can be combo-ed and you must do so in order to get a high score from both the number of hits, the kind of move and the variation bonus. And the second is that the game introduces new kinds of enemies that can't be hit with your basic strike but either have a "designated weakness" and/or are vulnerable to any other kind of move. For example, stun baton enemies cannot be punched directly. Their "designated weakness" is that you can jump over them and then hit from behind. But that's not the only way to damage them. You can use a special combo takedown move on them, or temporarily down them with a baterang or other gadget, you can throw another enemy onto them etc. There are other kinds of different enemy types and later fights will start mixing groups so in order to get that high combo score, you need to juggle all your different moves and how best to use them to both manage all these different enemies and have enough variation. Arkham's combat is a lot closer to something like Devil May Cry (Arkham Origins even used an "S, A, B, C grading system that I wish was in all the Arkham games).
TASM1 doesn't really do any of this. Spidey only has basic strikes, a basic counter, jump attacks, automatic takedowns on weakened enemies, Rush attacks and the ability to stun enemies by webbing them and throwing them. There's no need to get good at countering or mix up your attacks. There's not even a scoring system. But on top of that, the game doesn't really have varied groups of enemies. The majority of human enemies you fight can be dealt with using basic strikes and counters. Some robot enemies need to be webbed up first to disable their shields but that's rather trivial and not something you need to plan doing or execute under much pressure. Mutated enemies can only be finished off with combo takedowns but you already get those automatically from just attacking enemies so they don't play much differently. Some late game mutated bosses have the ability to charge at Spidey and perform multiple claw swipes which you have press triangle multiple times to dodge (kinda like knife enemies from Arkham City) but that's really it.
If we compare this to Batman Arkham Asylum, released in 2009, 3 years before TASM1, Batman had basic strikes, basic counter, the cape stun, special combo takedowns, special combo throw, combo baterings, combo batclaw, jumping over enemies and the ground takedown. The game doesn't take long to introduce knife, baton, gun and titan enemies that mix up the experience and make you start working for those high scores. TASM1's combat, at its best, kinda feels like very early Arkham Asylum and doesn't evolve much from there. As a result, it starts getting repetitive quickly. At least the animations and moves from Spidey are pretty cool.
By the way, I am not criticizing the game for copying aspects from Arkham. But I'm of the opinion if you are going to copy from Arkham, copy more so you have a more fun combat system. Don't just take some aspects and leave it at that. Look at the Shadow of Mordor games. Those games copied way more from Arkham than TASM1 and the end result is a pretty fun combat system. TASM1's combat is in the awkward position where it doesn't copy enough to be good just by having all the good pieces, but doesn't add enough in its place to be different and good.
I already mentioned the stealth gameplay. But the one aspect I do feel the game actually has a really cool and original idea for and does quite well is the web swinging. Web Swinging in TASM1 operates in a somewhat similar way to Insomniac's Spider-Man where holding R allows Spidey to automatically shoot out lines and swing and pressing X allows you to jump while swinging. Though, webs don't have to stick to buildings which does somewhat limit the need to consider your environment. The animations are still really cool and the game does this thing where the camera zooms close to Spidey giving the swinging a more "cinematic flair". But the biggest new feature is the "Web Rush". By holding L, you enter a first person view of Spidey (complete with seeing through the lenses of his mask) in slow motion. You can point the camera and the game will highlight if you can get there. Releasing L will then have Spidey automatically go to that highlighted point. This can also be used in combat to give you some more breathing room and doing a web rush punch, and in stealth to move to points and perform stealth takedowns.
On the surface, this doesn't sound that impressive. I've even heard some people dismiss it by saying "it's just the web zip from every other Spider-Man game only more automated". But I would argue there is more to it. One issue I had with Web Zipping in Insomniac's game was that it was a bit more situational. You generally used it more to zip to specific points, or onto perches and lights to jump and carry your current momentum. It wasn't as useful in quickly changing direction while still conserving some momentum. Especially when trying to gain altitude
But in TASM1, there's a lot more utility and flair here. You can typically Web Rush anywhere around you and the game is pretty good at picking up on where you want to go and getting you there. On top of that, depending on where you Web Rush from, Spidey will do a lot of cool animations. If you're standing on street level and Web Rush straight up, Spidey will usually automatically bounce up nearby buildings quickly gaining height. If you Web Rush while swinging close to street level, Spidey will sometimes run along buses and cars and bounce of buildings. If you Web Rush when higher up and near buildings, Spidey will sometimes Web Zip and Bounce along buildings. This sounds like its completely automated and wouldn't be fun. And if you use it like that, that can be the case. But I feel there are 2 things that elevate Web Rushing. The first is that you don't need to use the Slow Mo feature. You can Tap L when looking in certain directions to have Spidey Web Rush there. Using this while swinging means there's a lot more of a need to time and improvise which both looks cool and allows you to go really fast. The second is "cancelling" Web Rush. You can press X during a Web Rush for Spidey to cancel the rest of the Web Rush. Or Look at a different direction and press L to chain addition Web Rushes. This can lead to some interesting cases when swinging. For example, suppose you want to get over a building and you're approaching it while swinging. Instead of wall crawling/running over it, you can Web Rush up to have Spidey seamlessly bounce off the building and jump up and then quickly look to another direction and Web Rush again to zip of the building. If you need to swing around a building, you can Web Rush to the side to change direction while keeping momentum before transitioning back into a swing. Combine these features and you have a Web Swinging system that both looks really cool with all kinds of fancy animations, requires you to make a lot of quick decisions and gives you a lot of control and speed. Even on the poor VITA whose hardware struggles to keep up, I often felt like I was moving around faster and had more agency than Insomniac's Spider-Man game.
Though, the game doesn't really make you really take advantage of the depth here. Most of the races and side missions are pretty easy and generous. So you can often get by with basic swinging and Web Rushing. I can't remember if TASM2 made the races harder. I do remember the web swinging being more engaging because webs would stick to buildings and you could control which hand Spidey would swing from using the triggers.
As for the story and missions, I kinda like what TASM1 is going for here. It feels like it's more of a "The Amazing Spider-Man 1.5" as the story takes place after the events of the movie and features its own plot of how a breakout of a Cross Species infection from Oscorp infects all of New York. Resulting in rising case/infected numbers as you play the game, people needing to be quarantined and the race to develop a vaccine to try saving people. Alistair Smythe of Oscorp tries to fix the infection issue by releasing robots designed to hunt down and kill cross species. Which include Spider-Man himself since he was bitten by a cross species spider as opposed to a radioactive one, as well as any innocent civilians that are infected. Spidey also has to tank his reputation here by breaking Connors out of Beltoit's Psychiatric institute and working with him to develop a cure.
The story isn't the deepest or has much of an arc. It's also not even the most original as Web of Shadows already had a similar premise but with Symbiotes instead of Cross Species. But I still feel TASM1 makes it entertaining. The spectacle in seeing New York get progressively more wrecked, or Spidey needing to fight giant sized Kaiju Oscorp robots, or fighting many typical Spider-Man villains in the form of these mutated monstrosities like Scorpion and Rhino. That's really cool.
I also liked some of the twists, comedy and drama the story does. Stuff like the first cure failing so Gwen further distrusts Connors. Or Spidey's powers being suppressed by nanobots so the robots don't notice Peter as a Cross Species anymore. Which forces Connors to become the Lizard since Spider-Man can't be Spider-Man anymore. The sequence of powerless Spidey running through New York's streets while all the robot fighting is going around him and his apartment gets blown up in the process was really memorable. Especially because in the lore, that apartment was Stan Lee's who is renting it to Peter. He even calls Peter during this segment to ask him if the apartment is clean.
I also like how there's even a bit of foreshadowing and connection to the TASM2 game. Connors tells Peter about how this will affect his reputation and will come back to haunt him (i.e the main gimmick of TASM2). And the TASM2 game even has sections that relate to the cross species incident of the first game as well as the plot of the movie (TASM2 game really is its own alternate universe).
In closing, The Amazing Spider-Man 1 VITA was a fun time. I enjoyed platinumming it. And, as someone used to the VITA's rather poor performance, I wasn't bothered too much by the poor graphics and framerate. The game wants to be a spectacle and I enjoyed its more wacky elements. The combat and stealth got repetitive but the web swinging was really fun. Though sadly, there is very little reason to revisit this game specifically. Other Spider-Man games like Web of Shadows and Insomniac's Spider-Man do the combat and open world gameplay better. The game copies from Batman Arkham but not enough to even match it. Supposedly, the game was only made in 1 year and coincided with the movie's release. TASM1 was able to be decent despite the deadlines. TASM2 sadly, wasn't so lucky.
Still, I do have a fondness for this game and universe. Part of me wishes we got more TASM movies and the games got more time. Perhaps TASM3 game would have been really cool.
Next up for me is platinumming every Batman Arkham game on VITA. See you then.

Hi,
as the title states i’m steadily loosing the will to fight for life and see a purpose in life.
A bit of background to set the scene.
I’m in my mid 40s and had been diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathy years ago. I’m highly functional in both disorders, meaning i’m succesful in my job and have managed to stay out of jail despite trials and have also multiple academic degrees etc. My disorders focus predominatly in my private life. I have hurt people emotionally, physically and psychologically for decades and always got away with it. I almost killed people but always managed to get away with it, because i excel in manipulation and getting my way. For the last 8 years i’m now under psychatric supervision and in continious theraphy and use medication to manage my impulse control issues and deficits in other areas additionally i avoid relationships and making friends to not hurt people again. With that i’m fine and get along with my life in being excellent in my job and spending the rest of my time with cars, travel and other hobbies.
Around 6 years ago, after some continious neurological issues and a gen test i received the diagnosis of Chorea Huntington. I’m still in stage 1 with a prediction of my physicians to have about 3-5 years left before ending up with stage 2 in the hospital and requiring almost permanent assisstance in life and also with a rapidly increased loss of memory etc.
I have decided years ago that i will never let that happen and have an agreement for an assisted suicide in place before i would have to require this level of support or end up in the hospital.
Up until the beginning of this year i was fine with that, accepted the remaining lifespan i have and made the best out of it. Yet that started to change over time into a constant questioning on why should i wait for another 4-5 years until the inevitable assisted suicide happens. So i lost to see a purpose for my life and i lost the motivation to fight or even consider to keep on going and instead end up every day asking myself why should i keep going and wait for whats anyhow comming.
I never really had a bucket list but there is nothing left for me, that i would see worth fighting for or keep going.
I’ve seen a fair share of the world, traveled to 4 continents, visited around 110 countries, had relationships, had fights, won fights, lost fights, worked in 8 different countries around the world. Owned sportscars, motorbikes, motorboats. Have been living from nothing for a time and have made around >500k a year for several years. Have been drunk, partied around the world, had sex in 50 countries with a lot of people. Used and almost OD on Pain Medications, Used drugs for years (Cocaine, Speed, Ketamin, LSD, Weed, Propofol) Supported Animal Shelters and Animal Rescue Organisations by working for them, with them and funding them.
Saw a number people getting killed, burried people, attended a lot of weddings, even more funerals. Almost got killed a couple times, got shot. Tried to kill myself 4 times.
So why and for what should i keep waiting, fighting and how could i find a purpose that would keep me busy for the few years i have left?

Hey to all of you wonderful people on Reddit, how are you? I’m good, just enjoying life to the fullest as every person should. I’ve used dating apps as well as this subreddit in the past without much success, but I decided to give this another go. I don’t think I ever revealed my real name on Reddit before but my name is Adam and I’m 24 years old from Toronto, Canada. Before I get into the nitty gritty here, I just want to say that I’m looking for a Long-term relationship; I just want to get that out of the way so it doesn’t cause any confusion. I also want you to be very close or in Toronto as I don’t find long distance relationships too ideal for me right now. If you're an hour or 2 away that's fine. Perhaps if we do click, we can move onto a different app where we can voice chat, if you're up for it. :)
A little bit about myself:
I live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and work as a Porter in the healthcare field. I mainly transport patients around and ensure they get to their appointments safely. I actually ended up going to college for something entirely different but ended up in the healthcare field which seems to be a common thing that happens to most people. Apart from wheeling patients around at a hospital, I’m pretty talkative, have a great sense of humor, and caring. Friends of mine have also said I’m pretty funny. Wanna hear a construction joke? Sorry I’m still working on it lol. My love language is physical touch and words of affirmation. I would love me a cuddle session from time to time. I also have a few hobbies that I do in my spare time.
Physicality: I don’t know if this matters too much to people but I’m 5’9 and 190 pounds. I used to weigh like 210 but with my job combined with going to the gym, I was able to make slight improvements in my weight. If you want to get a better idea of what I look like, there's a picture on my profile.
Hobbies
I like to watch all kinds of TV shows and movies on Netflix. I watch shows like Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Better Call Saul, Kobra Kai, The Office, Young Sheldon etc. There’s even a couple of anime shows that I watch too. I also watch all sorts of movies from different genres like action, comedy, horror, Sci-fi films. I like watching new releases too in theaters. I’m also a gamer, I’m mainly playing fps and tps shooters at the moment, but I also like playing some open world games too. I play games like Cod, Battlefield, Vigor, GTA, Fortnite, The Last of Us, and a bunch of others that I’m struggling to remember at this time lol. I mainly play on the PS5 but I have a Nintendo Switch too. I enjoy working out and exercising. I obviously get a lot of physical activity at work but I also get a lot from going to the gym. I enjoy the rewards and benefits that comes with it. I love going on hikes and exploring different places that I otherwise haven’t been to yet. I also love hanging out with friends and engaging in many social activities as well which is what I would like to do with you, my partner in crime, the person reading this.
What I want in a partner
You’re probably wondering what it is I want in a Partner right? No problem, I got you covered. I want someone who respects boundaries, and is communicative. I want someone who has a sense of humor and doesn’t takes herself seriously all the time. I want someone who is honest and loyal. I would also like someone to have some of the interests as me. This is more of a plus, not a requirement though. Maybe you can teach me a thing or 2 about your hobbies and I can do the same haha. I’m not exactly picky about appearance as I don’t exactly enjoy being superficial. I also don’t think it should really matter much either since it’s kind of the chemistry that’s a lot more important. Please be between the ages of 19-28. Please have a Reddit account that has a karma of at least 60. I'm only asking this to avoid bots, catfishes and scammers. I won't respond otherwise.
I have a question for you:
To prove that you’ve read all the way to the end. What’s your favorite food to eat? I appreciate everyone for reading this post, if you’re interested shoot me a DM, and if not than I still wish you a great day and good luck on finding what you’re looking for. :)

Hey to all of you wonderful people on Reddit, how are you? I’m good, just enjoying life to the fullest as every person should. I’ve used dating apps as well as this subreddit in the past without much success, but I decided to give this another go. I don’t think I ever revealed my real name on Reddit before but my name is Adam and I’m 24 years old from Toronto, Canada. Before I get into the nitty gritty here, I just want to say that I’m looking for a Long-term relationship; I just want to get that out of the way so it doesn’t cause any confusion. I also want you to be very close or in Toronto as I don’t find long distance relationships too ideal for me right now. If you're an hour or 2 away that's fine. Perhaps if we do click, we can move onto a different app where we can voice chat, if you're up for it. :)
A little bit about myself:
I live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and work as a Porter in the healthcare field. I mainly transport patients around and ensure they get to their appointments safely. I actually ended up going to college for something entirely different but ended up in the healthcare field which seems to be a common thing that happens to most people. Apart from wheeling patients around at a hospital, I’m pretty talkative, have a great sense of humor, and caring. Friends of mine have also said I’m pretty funny. Wanna hear a construction joke? Sorry I’m still working on it lol. My love language is physical touch and words of affirmation. I would love me a cuddle session from time to time. I also have a few hobbies that I do in my spare time.
Physicality: I don’t know if this matters too much to people but I’m 5’9 and 190 pounds. I used to weigh like 210 but with my job combined with going to the gym, I was able to make slight improvements in my weight. If you want to get a better idea of what I look like, there's a picture on my profile.
Hobbies
I like to watch all kinds of TV shows and movies on Netflix. I watch shows like Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Better Call Saul, Kobra Kai, The Office, Young Sheldon etc. There’s even a couple of anime shows that I watch too. I also watch all sorts of movies from different genres like action, comedy, horror, Sci-fi films. I like watching new releases too in theaters. I’m also a gamer, I’m mainly playing fps and tps shooters at the moment, but I also like playing some open world games too. I play games like Cod, Battlefield, Vigor, GTA, Fortnite, The Last of Us, and a bunch of others that I’m struggling to remember at this time lol. I mainly play on the PS5 but I have a Nintendo Switch too. I enjoy working out and exercising. I obviously get a lot of physical activity at work but I also get a lot from going to the gym. I enjoy the rewards and benefits that comes with it. I love going on hikes and exploring different places that I otherwise haven’t been to yet. I also love hanging out with friends and engaging in many social activities as well which is what I would like to do with you, my partner in crime, the person reading this.
What I want in a partner
You’re probably wondering what it is I want in a Partner right? No problem, I got you covered. I want someone who respects boundaries, and is communicative. I want someone who has a sense of humor and doesn’t takes herself seriously all the time. I want someone who is honest and loyal. I would also like someone to have some of the interests as me. This is more of a plus, not a requirement though. Maybe you can teach me a thing or 2 about your hobbies and I can do the same haha. I’m not exactly picky about appearance as I don’t exactly enjoy being superficial. I also don’t think it should really matter much either since it’s kind of the chemistry that’s a lot more important. Please be between the ages of 19-28. Please have a Reddit account that has a karma of at least 60. I'm only asking this to avoid bots, catfishes and scammers. I won't respond otherwise.
I have a question for you:
To prove that you’ve read all the way to the end. What’s your favorite food to eat? I appreciate everyone for reading this post, if you’re interested shoot me a DM, and if not than I still wish you a great day and good luck on finding what you’re looking for. :)

Hillary Clinton's stage name. § < PiggyFartdust > 2023-05-30 21:22
: . . Grow up. § < EightiesHair > 2023-05-30 21:31+5
: . . : . . ^says the man that obsesses over Mickey 24/7 § < Morgan-LeFay > 2023-05-30 21:35
: . . : . . : . . LOL, is that a joke? < RageIssues > 2023-05-30 21:37
What is there to even obsess over? Both of you are mentally ill rejects with no lives.
For every one post of me kicking you in the ass, there's a half dozen of you losers crying about the King.
: . . : . . : . . : . . LoL. You're the joke, Wabbie. No one takes you < Morgan-LeFay > 2023-05-30 21:39
seriously. Claiming to be king of a forum that was dwindling years before I even knew about it. What a laugh riot.
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . I'll take that as a yes. < RageIssues > 2023-05-30 21:42+10
I really hate replying to you because I find you so repulsive and depressing, but it was really nice of sullivan to try and talk some sense to your ugly ass, of course he failed miserably.
Soon LD will tired of you as well, and kissing Mickey's scrub ass will be all you got. How sad.
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . While I was out of town having the time of my < Morgan-LeFay > 2023-05-30 21:44
life you were here whining about Mickey and me, now that's pathetic scrub behavior there. At least Mickey can play guitar, draw, and fix cars. You bring absolutely nothing to the table except douchebagery.
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . hes gonna +5 himself... make way.. § < - > 2023-05-30 21:46
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . Haha, he's stupid point wars. Pathetic. § < Morgan-LeFay > 2023-05-30 21:46
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . Now you're drooling about points. < RageIssues > 2023-05-30 21:54
As if bitch ass Mickey doesn't use the dozen or so handles he has saved up to plus himself and the stupid shit you post here.
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . That thing drools from her tranquilizers § < River__Dong > 2023-05-30 21:57
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . And you, the gray chickenshit. < RageIssues > 2023-05-30 21:51
What are you going to do when it's only you, special needs VC, and jobless scrub Mickey in here?
Will the three of you cry about me more or less then?
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . 142 IQ, with a job you could never comprehend < Morgan-LeFay > 2023-05-30 21:53
is definitely not special needs, ya pathetic waste of space. If anyone is jobless, it is you, maggot.
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . I've never heard someone try to belittle < AgentMick > 2023-05-30 21:54
home ownership.
This dude is so backwards.
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . Don't worry scrub, I'll never be able to insult < RageIssues > 2023-05-30 22:00
you for being a home owner.
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . You're in the basement of a hospital < River__Dong > 2023-05-30 21:55
Changing batteries on computer mice and sanitizing keyboards when needed
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . I'm not Kortalus. My job is application trouble < Morgan-LeFay > 2023-05-30 21:57
shooting you, dunce. It's above that pay grade.
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . She got some job sitting in front a pc all day. < RageIssues > 2023-05-30 22:01
Just pressing buttons, pretty easy to come back in shitty communities like hers, if you can keep your eyes open and your mouth shut.
That's why she's so excited to talk to people in here, it's her only social outlet.
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . I just went to a friend's BBQ and got to hangout < Morgan-LeFay > 2023-05-30 22:07
in their hot tub over the weekend, you fool.
I am not on here 24/7 whining about other posters in both green and grey like you are
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . Nobody cares. § < RageIssues > 2023-05-30 22:09+5
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . Haha, nice self-plussing, weirdo. § < Morgan-LeFay > 2023-05-30 22:11
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . Haha, drooling about points again. < RageIssues > 2023-05-30 22:13
Your boring posts are as repetitive as your shitty job.
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . quit harassing the women, scrub < sober-up > 2023-05-30 22:15
you can email mickey tomorrow
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . LoL. My job is amazing and at least I have one < Morgan-LeFay > 2023-05-30 22:15
unlike you, maggot.
If anyone drools over points it's you, fruit loop.
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . Your boring job sucks & yr life is lonely & sad < RageIssues > 2023-05-30 22:19
I wouldn't trade places with you for a million dollars.
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . LMAO. You wish you were smart enough to even < Morgan-LeFay > 2023-05-30 22:22
do my job.
I have friends, family, and a biker club. It's far from lonely and sad. You come here so you can act like you are still in high school with the 'popular' crowd.
Grow up, maggot.
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . Haha, I just a saw this. < RageIssues > 2023-05-30 22:42
A biker club? LMAO.
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . That just makes u look like an even bigger fool < RageIssues > 2023-05-30 21:56
Gifted IQ and great job, and all you can contribute are retarded vocaroos and wedding invites to another loser who wanted nothing to do with your ugly ass, LOL.
Seriously, the more you share about yourself, the more depressing you sound. Fix your broken life, girl.
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . Haha, you didn't kill your pug. < AgentMick > 2023-05-30 21:59
It wanted to die.
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . You're right stupid, I didn't. § < RageIssues > 2023-05-30 22:02
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . Haha, D-E-A-D § < AgentMick > 2023-05-30 22:04
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . You'll be there too someday. < RageIssues > 2023-05-30 22:06
Most likely by your own hand.
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . I don't kill inherited animals like you. < AgentMick > 2023-05-30 22:08
You failed as an owner.
Seek therapy.
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . Good, U shouldnt kill anything but yourself. § < RageIssues > 2023-05-30 22:09
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . 🍼 baby triggered ^ § < - > 2023-05-30 22:11
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . I axed you a question, gray chickenshit. < RageIssues > 2023-05-30 22:16
Why don't you answer that instead of kissing Mickey's ass like another angry scrub loser.
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . What part of "mental playground" do you < Morgan-LeFay > 2023-05-30 22:00
not comprehend you shallow, narcissistic fool.
Fix your assholery before you alienate everyone around you, maggot.
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . It's too late for that. < AgentMick > 2023-05-30 22:02
No job,no gf,no friends, no family, etc.
Well, he might have a mom in vegas.
And he tried to fuck his niece one time.
: . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . U mean what part does anyone give a shit about?? < RageIssues > 2023-05-30 22:06
And that would be none, because you are a boring, depressing, disaster.
: . . Get some Pigmeat Markham § < - > 2023-05-30 21:32

DON'T MISS OUT: FIND OUT WHERE TO WATCH CLANNAD: AFTER STORY THIS JUNE!
[OSHI NO KO] is emotionally destroying anime fans right now, but there was one series in particular that was doing it before it was cool: CLANNAD. If you’re wondering where to watch CLANNAD: After Story after you’re done with the first season, we’re here to tell you to tune in Sunday, June 4 2023 at 1:30 PM EDT (17:30 UTC) when we stream the sub AND dub of the second season! So sign up for HIDIVE today and prepare yourself for all the feels.
CLANNAD: AFTER STORY FOR THE UNINITIATED
Synopsis - Life continues for Tomoya. Months have passed since he confessed his love to Nagisa. Now entering the second semester, he continues to meet a variety of people, expanding his own world in the process. Tomoya and Nagisa's relationship enters a new level of intimacy. Through his relationship with Nagisa, Tomoya begins to understand the meaning and importance of family. But as Tomoya and Nagisa begin their own family, they are faced with many hardships along the way.
Trailer - https://youtu.be/IecYMqp1N4k
Originating Work - Visual Novel
Studio - Kyoto Animation (CLANNAD)
Director - Tatsuya Ishihara (Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions)
Japanese Cast
Tomoya Okazaki - Yuichi Nakamura (Gray Fullbuster in Fairy Tail)
Nagisa Furukawa - Mai Nakahara (Juvia Lockser in Fairy Tail)
Ushio Okazaki - Satomi Koorogi (Zeno the Omni-King in Dragon Ball Super)
Tomoyo Sakagami - Houko Kuwashima (Sango in Inuyasha)
Kyou Fujibayashi - Ryo Hirohashi (Kohina Ichimatsu in Gugure! Kokkuri-san)
Ryou Fujibayashi - Akemi Kanda (Asuna Kagurazaka in UQ Holder!)
Kotomi Ichinose - Noto Mamiko (Sheele in Akame ga Kill!)
Youhei Sunohara - Daisuke Sakaguchi (Ace in One Piece)
English Directors - Janice Williams, David Williams
English Cast
Tomoya Okazaki - David Matranga (Takumi Usui in Maid Sama!)
Nagisa Furukawa, Ushio Okazaki - Luci Christian (Nami in One Piece)
Tomoyo Sakagami - Kaytha Coker (Yuri Natsume in Canaan)
Kyou Fujibayashi - Shelly Calene-Black (Ais Wallenstein in DanMachi)
Ryou Fujibayashi - Brittney Karbowski (Nanachi in MADE IN ABYSS)
Kotomi Ichinose - Emily Neves (Kanade Tachibana in Angel Beats!)
Youhei Sunohara - Greg Ayres (Yuu Nishinoya in Haikyu!!)
--------------------
Rating - TV-PG
Genres - Comedy, Drama, Romance
WHY YOU SHOULD WATCH CLANNAD: AFTER STORY
- A deep emotional story from the legendary studio KyoAni that will stick with you long after the credits roll.
- “Heartbreak, hope, and stunning visuals come together in this tale of young adulthood where even ordinary life proves to be something extraordinary.” - Anime News Network
- Recommended for viewers who loved: [OSHI NO KO], Little Busters!, KAGINADO, Angel Beats!, Kanon
WONDERING WHERE TO WATCH CLANNAD: AFTER STORY? IT’S ON HIDIVE:
Date: Sunday, June 4 2023
Time: 1:30 PM EDT (17:30 UTC)

Long story short, I had to put to sleep my dog last month due to suffering severe refractive pharma resistant epilepsy; we had been feeding him Purina Neurocare kibble and I have about 20 lb left.
I've tried donating it to the animal hospital, shelters and a couple of people that also have epileptic dogs but all refused because the bag is open. I am reluctant to throw it out since it was pretty expensive and is still usable.
I adopted a rescue last week (100% healthy) and was wondering if I can mix the remaining Neurocare kibble with his normal kibble. Are there any risks to his health?