NOTE: This is a very long post. There’s a tl;dr summary at the bottom
Background:
This is coming from a long-time lurker, first time poster, and an Evil Dead fan for decades. For background, I have previous game dev experience, including Unity and Unreal, so I’m (mostly) not talking out my ass, and I've played both sides of this game roughly equally for more hours than I’d care to admit (primarily solo q, sometimes survivor with friends, and otherwise just playing demon when survivor queue times are high, as they have been many times since release). Usually, I just play whichever side has the lowest queue time.
Despite its flaws, this has been one of my favorite games of all time. The original development team was clearly passionate about the Evil Dead. The art, audio, and overall atmosphere are excellent and have superb attention to detail. I love all the random chatter from my survivor, the feeling of rushing through the woods as the Kandarian demon, and the intensity of a close game regardless of who wins. However, most of us would agree that this game has been held back by very poor "balancing" patches since release, as evidenced by polls on this subreddit confirming it is indeed the most frustrating problem.
We've endured shemps duping, brokenly OP characters, fear looping, and many other game-breaking exploits throughout. Bugs can be tolerable and are even to be expected, but the "fixes" almost always cause new issues and take far too long. It is painfully obvious that there has been very little time or effort expended on these issues by the post-release support team. Some patches have been so bad that they shouldn’t even make it to QA, let alone production – I’d be ashamed, esp. given that some of these issues can be fully and precisely patched in a few lines of code. I don’t need to see the source code to know that – even a rat’s nest of blueprints and disorganized C++ code can’t justify it.
I can only hope the skeleton crew that's continuing support for this game will take a few hours to address these issues. More importantly, I hope someone higher-up will recognize that this game still has millions of copies floating around and a lot more opportunities for profit, so it’s worth it to invest just a little time/thought into balance to keep new players and veterans happy. Frankly, each issue could be hammered out in minutes by someone familiar with the codebase, but I know it takes some time for building and testing across multiple platforms - days is fine, weeks/months is insane, esp. given the current state of the game.
I think it is important to first precisely define how the game is unbalanced, and how this imbalance can ruin the fun of many matches. Based on previous posts and my own personal experiences playing with friends and family at various skill levels, the following pattern becomes clear:
3+ Bad/Low-Level Survivors – Essentially 99% Demon Win
2+ Bad Survivors, All Others Decent to Excellent – Heavily demon-sided (~90% Demon Win)
1+ Bad Survivor, All Others Decent to Excellent – Somewhat demon-sided (~70% Demon Win)
All Survivors Decent, Not Very Cooperative/Sharing – About Equal (~50/50 on Win)
All Survivors Decent, Mostly Cooperative – Somewhat survivors-sided (~70% Survivor Win)
All Survivors with Good Skills/Teamwork/Knowledge – Heavily survivors-sided (~90% Survivor Win)
All Survivors with Excellent Skills/Teamwork/Knowledge – Essentially 99% Survivors Win
Note: Skills/teamwork/knowledge are not necessarily related to prestige level nor gameplay style, though usually survivors with prestige levels have stuck with the game long enough to at least be “decent” (even if they’re still not perfectly cooperative/sharing/etc.). This pattern is only somewhat altered by the demon’s skill level – new/low-level demons skew much more to higher survivor win rates in every scenario, and excellent high-level/prestige demons playing the current “meta” demon skew toward higher demon win rates. Any level 45+ demon that’s decent to good and usually plays non-meta demons like the current versions of Warlord or Necro (that’s me) will likely not skew these results.
I believe my personal experience is a microcosm of the overall balancing issue, and we’ve seen posts on this subreddit that consistently confirm the above pattern. It should be painfully obvious by now to anyone who’s played both sides long enough, and it should also be even more painfully obvious to any developers/publishers pouring over analytics data for the game. What adds insult to injury is that, at the more extreme ends of the pattern, a lot of toxicity emerges. Many survivors go into flashlight-clicky mode when they have the upper hand, and many demons retaliate by dancing with possessions over corpses or other means, whether it’s in the current match or against some innocent victims in the next match (I’ve sometimes been guilty too – I usually just take a break when toxic matches get to me and I turn toxic, but I’m truly sorry to anyone who’s had to deal with any of this crap from me)
Anyway, what will happen if the above pattern continues over time? Well, newer players who are consistently getting absolutely destroyed and possibly taunted at the same time (as either survivor or demon) will either (a) quit the game, or (b) get better. Now, run through that scenario while looking at the pattern and assume the game remains roughly in the current state. There will be more and more new/”bad” survivors quitting the game entirely, and a smaller portion that will only stick with the game if they level up and “git gud” over many hours (becoming good to excellent players). The same thing will happen to demon players. What happens when all we have left are good to excellent survivors and good to excellent demons? Well, check the chart again. Every match will be at least heavily survivor-sided if not a guaranteed win. Survivors get bored, even most masochistic veteran demon players give up, queue times for survivors reach new heights, and the game “dies.” This sequence of events has happened at various times in the game’s lifecycle, but I fear it’s headed toward extremes that will eventually make the game unplayable.
Obviously, it’s no fun to win virtually every time and it’s no fun to lose almost every time. Competitive games are most fun when you have close matches – ideally, there’d be a win rate of about 50% for either side. “But wait,” you say, “the pattern above indicates that there already IS a roughly 50/50 balance for that scenario!” And yes, that’s true. But how many matches are actually like that? How many matches have you personally played that felt close and competitive the whole time? It certainly wasn’t common when we had strong SBMM, and it isn’t common without SBMM either. Why? Because players who stick with the absolutely brutal intro to this game today are almost guaranteed to at least become good/high-level players with solid game mechanics/knowledge (though some will still become toxic/uncooperative teammates or toxic demons). Those who don’t become competent players are virtually guaranteed to quit in frustration, some after just the first several matches where they are either getting consistently annihilated by all the veterans, or clearly being “allowed” to win if the other side takes pity. In essence, the game is just plain brutal for HOURS on end for newer players and can become stale for solid veteran players. For veterans, we have survivors who team up with 3 other veterans (boring due to easy wins, low challenge), demons who can only win by repetitively attacking an inanimate stationary book (boring due to minimal ability to challenge survivors throughout match), or demons who see 2+ bad survivors and have to decide whether to let them win or immediately stomp them to move on (both of which can be boring due to low challenge, and frankly feel bad if harassing beginners). I absolutely LOVE any close matches, win or lose, but they are unfortunately exceptionally rare.
Clearly, the goal of balancing patches should be to make as many matches as close as possible. How? Well, it’s very simple – give beginners a chance and give veterans a challenge. Specifically, force or incentivize gameplay that elevates beginners, challenges veterans, prevents toxicity, and basically “evens the playing field” so that the chart above reads more like “20% through 80%” win rates for survivors rather than 1% through 99%. Thus, the fixes below mostly take aim at mechanics that are abused by veterans of the game or seek to better prepare beginners. Additionally, nearly each of the fixes below can be implemented with the equivalent of just a few lines of code.
I fully believe that this game can achieve a decent balance as a 4v1 asymm. It only seems impossible because the patches for balancing have often failed to address root causes and/or caused new issues. The game can be more welcoming for newcomers (both survivors and demons alike) while still having a lot of the same learning curves and leveling systems to reward higher level play without it becoming outright oppressive to either side.
Anyway, based on a lot of previous posts and my own observations, here are some easy fixes for the next patch:
1. Revert demon traps to their previous behavior (i.e. make it so possessed survivors can be walked into a trap) and fix the fear looping mechanic for SchemeBaal specifically
The latest "fix" for this had a workaround from the community within hours to fear loop survivors anyway and nerfed all other demons for no reason.
This can be easily resolved by reverting to the previous code/blueprints/whatever (or hell, going back to the previous build if necessary), and then implementing a simple solution for Schemer. This solution requires a scalpel, not a sledgehammer, so it should apply ONLY to Schemer. I can think of two easy possibilities, either of which would only need a few lines of code.
First possibility: If a survivor has set off a trap that was set by using the Schemer's special ability, then that trap now has a normal cool down and cannot be "reset" again by Schemer's current use of the special ability. This would allow Schemer to set a trap manually, possess a survivor, run them into it, get the trap reset immediately by their special ability, but then only run the survivor into the same trap a 2nd time. Thus, Schemer would still be the demon associated with traps and fear, but wouldn't be able to loop a survivor in one spot endlessly. A survivor that's slightly separated wouldn't necessarily immediately die, but a demon could still down a lone wolf by harassing, lowering health, raising fear, and then doing this method.
Second possibility: The trap setting special ability of Schemer could be disabled when Schemer possesses a survivor. This may nerf Schemer specifically a tad bit too heavily, but is still a far better fix than what we've got. It's also super easy to program with something like the following pseudocode:
If (demon.ability == true && demon.name == "Schemer" && demon.possessing == true)
demon.ability = false;
2. Implement a stamina cost for vaulting windows/railings (e.g. the stamina cost could be the same as dodging)
This helps keep gameplay fair for both sides. It's clearly unfair and unfun to have a demon that can easily fear loop a survivor to death even if their teammates aren't far away, and the same holds true for a survivor that can "loop" a demon and never die. Survivors can still use objects, dodges, and other means to postpone death if they're alone (as I've done myself and seen done as demon) but it's at least possible for a demon to get in an occasional hit and whittle down health (i.e. it cannot be done indefinitely, at least if vaulting also uses stamina). Alternatively, at least give demons the ability to vault all the same objects as survivors, such as railings, so a 1v1 chase is fair – it just doesn’t feel great when a survivor jumps over a porch railing and looks back to flashlight click your possessed unit, knowing that there’s somehow zero threat in this 1v1 encounter in a 4v1 game due to a simple exploit. Personally, I think just adding a stamina cost would be fine to try at least, and many others in this community seem to agree. Plus, it should again only be a few lines of code to adjust the stamina bavariable of a survivor whenever he/she vaults.
3. Edit the text for the "hints" when a match is loading. There are absolutely no CLEAR tips about giving the right resources to the right players, nor hints about any newer demons (i.e. the hints have never been updated)
Regardless of which side we've played, we all know solo q for survivors is a total crap shoot. None of us started playing this game knowing that we should be gathering supplies for ourselves AND our teammates, dropping shemps for support, dropping ammo for hunters, etc. Many players quit before learning these things and there is no in game explanation for them (besides one single vague tip I can remember about how you can share resources with teammates, but no clear indication of sharing based on class).
I think the lack of instructions for basic team play is one of the major causes of low player retention for the game. The tutorials are helpful for basic controls, but there needs be a lot more emphasis on the basics of this game that many of us on this subreddit take for granted.
I’d start by making sure the following tip text is the first to be shown to all players for a few matches after this is patched in:
“Stay close to your teammates and focus on the current objective to survive. Going off to loot alone is very dangerous”
(yes, veteran players can often get away with this, but man, it feels terrible playing on either side and watching someone just wander off to loot the whole game)
The other tips could be a lot more direct:
“Players should stay within the blue aura of leaders whenever possible to get additional buffs”
“Warriors should generally be given the best melee weapons but do little ranged damage”
“Hunters should generally be given the best ranged weapons but do little melee damage. Drop ammo for them if they ask”
“Support players are generally weakest, but can heal or shield all their teammates by using shemps and amulets near them. Drop spare shemps for support”
Now, the above “tip texts” at the loading menu are super quick and easy to add to the game. However, if the developers would like to go a little above and beyond, it would be amazing to add some additional text boxes within the game to warn players about bad choices. For example, there could be blinking text in the center bottom half of the screen for awhile if you’re carrying another survivor’s specialty weapon and they don’t have one (or if yours is a higher rarity). Also, there could be similar warning text that you’ve wondered more than, say, 100m from your team. Again, just trying to give simple, clear instructions to beginners (and those that are somehow still selfishly playing after reaching level 25+). And yeah, there are always arguments and exceptions to be made about how to play optimally, but some updated/clear tips could go a long way.
4. Implement a bonus XP on the results screen after a match is over that gives each side a bonus based on how many points the other side gained. Also, fix demon leveling based on survivodemon level
This one sounds a little weird and complicated, but it's really not. What I'm saying here is that veteran survivors should be rewarded for taking it easy on a baby demon, and a veteran demon should be rewarded for taking it easy on baby survivors.
Basically, regardless of which side you play or if you win or lose, I believe you should get a bonus XP based on how the other side did. For example, let's say you're a veteran pup player that gets matched to novice survivors and down them all with a power possessed basic before they even get the first map piece. In this case, those survivors will have very little points after the match (maybe even under 1000 per person) and the demon should get no bonus reward. The survivors here should at least get a bonus for enduring the slaughter and staying in the match. Let's say the demon takes it easy on them though, let's them progress, maybe even just throws AI at them (hell, I've personally spawned a boss and walked them to good crates when they're clearly new and can barely take on bots). Let's say they get 10k points per player this way - the demon now gets bonus XP for good behavior.
I'd say that there should be a bonus XP for each player if the other side reaches a certain point threshold, say 30k, or if the survivors are wiped before first objective (as in, survivors get a bonus for enduring such a match and demon gets no bonus). This would help discourage immediately stomping new players and help retain them (remember everyone, this game will die if it's just a few hardcore people with long queue times all doing cheesy strats and stomping anyone who dares try joining as a newbie).
Anyway, in psuedocode, something like this could work:
If (survivor.totalscore >= 30000)
demon.bonusxp = 3000;
If (demon.totalscore >= 30000)
survivor.bonusxp = 3000;
[Loop thru survivors to apply bonus to each - obviously, these values can be tweaked]
Obviously, you may have survivors or demons who go AFK and then it may make it impossible for the other side to get a bonus. Therefore, there could also be some basic code for checking if someone is AFK (i.e. hasn’t not moved more than a certain small distance in a decent amount of time, hasn’t set a trap or possessed anything in a certain time, etc.). Frankly, I have no idea how we still don’t have AFK checks – just about any other online game I’ve ever played automatically disconnects you if you’re not playing.
As a bonus idea to this bonus idea, you could also cancel ALL XP points for a player for a round in which he/she is toxic, such as a check for repetitive flashlight clicking. I find this irritating whether I'm a survivor or a demon (and I def didn't deserve a bunch of XP the few times I've been guilty of it when I felt a demon was being toxic). I don't think there's an easy way to detect all toxic demon behavior with code, but it would be trivial to keep track of flashlight clicking in code. Maybe if a demon is "hovering" (dancing) directly over a dead body too long with a possessed unit or survivor, then they also have their XP completely canceled for the round - that would also be easy to check via code. The key to promoting good, non-toxic behavior would be to implement these checks without specifying precisely how many flashlight clicks count or how long dancing over a corpse counts – just note that specific toxic behavior will result in zero XP for the round for the offender and automate it in code.
Finally, as another incentive for fair play, the leveling up of demons should be dependent on the level of the survivors they are harassing AND on the demon’s current skill tree level. In other words, there should be modifiers so that new, low-level demons get leveled up more by the same actions as high-level demons, such as downing a player, and there should also be modifiers so that high-level demons cannot get leveled up as much by harassing low-level survivors, such as constantly downing a newbie, but can get slightly more leveled up by downing a high-level survivor. This goes back to the idea of elevating beginners and challenging veterans, esp. since it’s incredibly frustrating to be constantly singled out as a brand-new survivor. This could be something like:
Demon:
Lvl 1-24: x1.5 for demon leveling up
Lvl 25-44: x1.3 for demon leveling up
Lvl 45: x1.1 for demon leveling up
P1+: x1.0 for demon leveling up
Survivor (being attacked, hitting traps, or otherwise affected by demon):
Lvl 1-24: x0.5 for demon leveling up
Lvl 25: x1.0 for demon leveling up
P1+: x1.1 for demon leveling up
Specific examples:
Lvl 10 demon somehow downs a P3 survivor – demon levels up 1.5 x 1.1 = 1.65 times as much as now
Lvl 45 demon downs a Lvl 4 survivor – demon only levels up 1.1 x 0.5 = 0.55 times as much as now
P5 demon downs a P5 survivor – demon levels up 1.0 x 1.1 = 1.1 times as much as now
5. Disable the ability to start both the dagger and pages objectives at the same time
This "split cap" method is usually only used by high-level teams and can be almost impossible to counter by anyone who isn't a very experienced demon, at least on certain maps or when these objectives are at certain locations. I've managed to counter it myself most of the time as demon, but it can be very hard to deal with, esp. given that survivors are resurrected after either objective finishes. Depending on the map and RNG (esp. light sources at objectives and other variables), it can be impossible to counter.
Basically, if the timer is running on either objective, it should be impossible to start the other objective. This still allows creative play by high-level coordinated teams (e.g. maybe Pablo hides at the next objective waiting to kick it off immediately while waiting for others to race there by car). It also feels a lot more fair, particularly to less experienced demons.
Again, this could be fixed in just a couple lines of code. Literally, just check if a timer is running for daggepages and if so, don’t allow interaction with the other objective.
6. Add a call out in the in-game communication wheel to say "demon is on me” or “I need help” for survivors
We know from polls on this sub that most people are dropping into solo q most of the time (I’m sure Saber’s own analytics could prove this too). Also, many people don't have or don't want to use a headset. These are just common facts for most online games.
I know some people have resorted to using the "need matchsticks" chat option to indicate they're being attacked by a possessed unit but this is frankly absurd. We need a simple chat option for survivors for this. Honestly, if the text for “I need matchsticks” were simply replaced with “I need help!”, I'd be satisfied because I often need help fending off a possessed unit or boss a lot more than I need matchsticks in solo q.
This should be easy to add to the game (it’s more than a few lines of code and would require minor image/text adjustments and possibly kicking off existing voice lines, but should still be doable). I’m pretty sure that most characters already have a voice line recorded that could work (I picture Scotty already literally saying “I need help”) and if not, we’ve already been shown that voice lines don’t really have to match their context anyway (I picture Mia saying “fire’s lit. Anybody needs fire, it’s here” when turning on her flashlight – so hell, just make that what she says when she uses “I need help” on the wheel – we’ve already accepted she’s crazy anyway and the text would be clear at least).
7. Keep car possessions consistent on all maps. Demons either can't possess them until they "spawn" when survivors are near (like Castle Kandar) or they can possess them at any time anywhere
Personally, I think that it should only be possible to possess cars when survivors have "spawned" them by being close to them like on the Kandar map. The method of flipping all cars on a map at the start of a match is generally only used by a few high MMR demons and feels cheesy to me (I also feel it's cheesy to drive 3 cars to each objective, but cars are always going to be divisive and they can also be used to cause a lot of damage at objectives at least).
I think car possession should've followed the lore of AvED, kept survivors inside, and done something different like having both driver and demon fighting for control of the vehicle, like maybe survivor controls keep randomly reversing while demon controls it normally and the driver tries to counter the demon driving until infernal energy runs out - survivors take a little damage whenever the car crashes. However, this idea is complex, so I'll stick to easy fixes.
No matter what, it just seems like the ability to possess cars should be consistent across all maps and it should be easy to implement, esp. since there's already code/logic for the two scenarios.
8. Add a single menu option at the main menu when choosing a game mode to select "random"
This could immensely help queue times. I know there are others like me who just want to play and don't care about whether they're survivor or demon.
This may take a tiny bit more work to implement than some of the pieces above (e.g. need a little artwork for the button, menu programming, some matchmaking programming, etc.) but it would help queue times, which have been problematic at various times in this game's life cycle.
9. Adjust RNG based on the overall levels of survivors
Again, this goes back to elevating beginners and challenging veterans. I’ve been in too many games with all prestige survivors that can split up and loot a large portion of the map without fear of consequence until each character has his/her own purple/gold specialty weapon (which also goes back to looping/vaulting endlessly and depends on map, demon character, etc.) – those games are a wash for demon. On the other hand, I’ve been in too many solo q matches where people are bringing grey weapons to defend the book and hobbling in without shemps knowing it’s just a slaughter. I’d really like to be in more balanced matches where veteran teams don’t all have perfect weapons for an easy win, and novice players don’t all hobble around with garbage for a guaranteed loss.
As a simple fix, it would make sense to simply increase the odds of chests being purple/gold if 2 or more survivors are under P1, and decrease those same odds if all survivors are P1 or above (in all other cases, odds can remain the same). And yeah, I know prestige does not perfectly equal pure skill, but odds are you’re at least “decent” at the game if you’ve made it that far (if not good or excellent). This RNG adjustment for chests could be multiplied by whatever Ed brings to the table. For example, if the decrease for all prestige players is to have 0.75x the amount of purple/gold chests and the increase Ed brings is 1.5x, then there would still be slightly more purple/gold chests on the map than normal even for all prestige players (and a lot more good chests for new players, who definitely could use the boost).
10. Give out more XP/SP – we need more double XP/SP events and there should be a bonus given to any low-level players (say, anyone who hasn’t gotten a single character to P1) to get and retain new players
This last point shouldn’t need much explanation. The community obviously overwhelming voted to have more double XP/SP events. It would take such an incredible number of hours to P5 every single character that I’d imagine only those who have literally played non-stop for thousands of hours since release could have done it already. For some, like me, who only took a brief hiatus from the game since release, it feels like a herculean task to even get 1 or 2 characters to P5 on either side. Such events literally help with balance by elevating beginners and they also give a reason for veterans to return. Queue times were noticeably lower during the last event, even though it was poorly announced, clearly timed to try and mess with TCM (which is just a bad look, esp. since there was nothing for this game’s own anniversary), and wasn’t even VISIBLE in the game menus. Despite all this, it was still a success. Saber, unless you’re actively trying to eliminate your player base, it makes no sense to not do these regularly. And since you timed it to try to pull attention away from TCM, it would seem as though you want to retain players (or you’re just petty, but I’m guessing you’re more motivated by profits than such emotional considerations).
Anyway, more XP/SP please. Also, please put some kind of indication that an event is planned and/or is actively occurring in your game. I mean, it could literally be a freaking sprite on the main menu screen with some text announcing a double XP event and the duration – this is really basic stuff.
Finally, I don’t think anyone here would argue with giving away a large number of spirit points to every newish player the next time they open the game. I think a one-time bonus of at least 100K would be very reasonable for anyone who has not reached P1 for any character. I personally know several people IRL who would be back to playing the game if this were done (and almost certainly give you money for DLC when they get a chance to actually enjoy the game in a semi-competitive way) – these people just don’t have the time or patience to grind through hours of straight losses to even have a chance.
Closing thoughts:
I know there are a lot of other great ideas from the community on future content for the game (maps, characters, etc.) so I've just tried to stick to simple, easy to implement fixes for the developers.
Saber, this game could still generate a lot of (mostly passive) revenue if you support it well. There are many of us who are ready to throw money at any random DLC or cosmetic (myself included as a huge Evil Dead fan). However, the fans will only stick around to throw money at the game if the basic fundamental gameplay is somewhat balanced and glaring exploits/bugs are addressed. Seriously, if it's tweaked to feel good to play either side without major exploits being used by anyone, I (and many others) would keep throwing money at literal outfit accessories that could be crafted by a single 3d artist - it should more than pay for servers and labor, at which point you're just watching the money roll in.
Anyway, I've tried to stick to easy fixes that could improve the game for both novices and veterans. It would be easy to just say "buff the other side" whenever queue times are long for one side. At this time, it's obvious that average to excellent demon players are at a disadvantage when compared to equally skilled survivor players (as evidenced by queue times). I also remember times when demon queue times were long and I just played survivor because a certain demon was overturned or using cheesy exploits, so more people wanted to play demon.
However, I've been honestly sad that playing either side has just not felt good lately. It doesn't feel good to sit in a long queue for survivor, and it definitely doesn't feel good to crush noobs or get crushed by full prestige teams on coms. I can count on one hand the number of fun/close matches I’ve played in the last several dozen – I’d love to play more like those. Even if none of the changes above happen, I'd at least enjoy receiving some love for the older demons so they're at least fun to play and a challenge to go against (Plaguebringer Witch getting her original movement speed back, Necro and Warlord getting some minor buffs in any areas since they're pretty universally considered weak right now, etc.) – I mention these buffs in case you want to fall back on the tired old “just buff the other side” method.
Saber, please implement some quick and easy fixes for this game . Even if you're just in it for the money at this point, I'm literally here wanting to throw more money at this game, but only if some basic balancing changes are made. If the next patch surgically tweaks some major pain points rather than bludgeoning fundamental gameplay elements, then I'll be here waiting to throw money at any random DLC you've got. Otherwise, I'll sadly have to find another game (as many others have or will, given the overall sentiments after this latest patch and some patches before it). You can still turn the ship around - you have 3 million copies of this game floating around. That's literally millions of fans who likely want to return to the game and throw money at DLCs if the gameplay experience is fun. It's up to you now.
Tl;dr Summary:
The game can be balanced by elevating novices and challenging veterans. Here’s how…

1. Revert demon traps to their previous behavior (i.e. make it so possessed survivors can be walked into a trap) and ACTUALLY fix Baal specifically
   
2. Make vaulting cost stamina
   
3. Edit/create hints for new players at the match loading screen that are clear and direct
   
4. Give out a bonus XP for "good behavior" (not demolishing newbies), cancel XP for “toxic behavior” (flashlight clicking as survivor, dancing on corpses as demon), level up demon based on levels of victims
   
5. Do not allow dagger and pages objectives to run simultaneously
   
6. Add a call out in the in-game communication wheel to say "I need help" for survivors
   
7. Keep car possession rules consistent on all maps
   
8. Add a "random side" menu option to be able to play either survivor or demon, whichever happens to get matched first
   
9. Adjust chest rarity RNG based on the overall level of survivors
   
10. More XP/SP events. Also, give a bonus 100K+ SP to anyone with zero prestige characters
    

Introduction
1) Will this be your first dog? If not, what experience do you have owning/training dogs?
Yes it will be the first dog I've owned or lived with. However, I've been a dog-walker / sitter for 10 years with lots of breeds (such as husky, basset hound, beagle, Jack Russell, Yorkshire terrier, Pyrenees mountain dog, rottweiler, and many more) and I'm qualified at a university degree level with domestic animal care and I've been doing research on dogs since I can remember. Dogs are a big part of my life.
2) Do you have a preference for rescuing a dog vs. going through a reputable breeder?
I have no particular preference, but I would like a puppy.
3) Describe your ideal dog.
Very trainable and loves to learn tricks. I can provide a lot of mental stimulation. A good companion dog who likes to me around me. Minimal loud barking. A dog that loves to play, learn new things, and adventure but is OK with some chill days and is adaptable. Is OK with being off-lead and does not have a high prey drive (so, doesn't run away chasing squirrels and rabbits). A dog that can live with other dogs and cats.
4) What breeds or types of dogs are you interested in and why?
Toy poodle -> very trainable and smart, minimal shedding/hypoallergenic (not a necessity but a plus), loves to play and get moderate exercise but doesn't require intensive exercise, they seem cuddly lol.
Miniature American shepherd / Australian Shepherd / border collie -> very trainable, loves to learn tricks and be mentally stimulated, looks adorable, however needs a lot of exercise or a job, not the most adaptable, I worry about getting this dog as a first-time owner.
Pembroke/Cardigan Welsh corgi -> trainable and playful, but can be stubborn/bossy and prone to barking.
Other breeds I've looked into: golden retriever, Labrador retriever, German shepherd, Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever, Swedish vallhund, Japanese spitz, Norwegian bunhund, Eurasier, Shetland sheepdog, Norwegian elkhound, Finnish lapphund, smooth/rough collie, Samoyed.
5) What sorts of things would you like to train your dog to do?
Anything and everything! The important would be potty training and walking off-lead and playing fetch. But doing things like playing volleyball, dancing, and hide and seek would be SO much fun.
6) Do you want to compete with your dog in a sport (e.g. agility, obedience, rally) or use your dog for a form of work (e.g. hunting, herding, livestock guarding)? If so, how much experience do you have with this work/sport?
A companion dog with potentially recreational sport activities during free time. No working.
Care Commitments
7) How long do you want to devote to training, playing with, or otherwise interacting with your dog each day?
It's difficult to say. I would most likely be spending almost all my spare time with my dog, but I'd still like a dog that has a good off-switch. 3-4 hours on weekdays, and more on weekends?
8) How long can you exercise your dog each day, on average? What sorts of exercise are you planning to give your dog regularly and does that include using a dog park?
1-2 hours most days. Some days 0 walks or maybe around the block. Some days long hikes and 4+ hour walks. Dog parks, walks on the beach and in forests, regular fetch, swimming.
9) How much regular brushing are you willing to do? Are you open to trimming hair, cleaning ears, or doing other grooming at home? If not, would you be willing to pay a professional to do it regularly?
I would be OK with doing all sorts of maintenance with home or at a groomers. I would prefer lower maintenance, but I'm not very bothered.
Personal Preferences
10) What size dog are you looking for?
Any size between a toy poodle and a Eurasier. I like medium sized dogs but I'm not that bothered.
11) How much shedding, barking, and slobber can you handle?
Shedding I have no issue with. Slobbering, I would highly prefer little to none. For barking, I get very nervous at sudden loud noises. I don't mind quieter barks (or yaps), and chatty / howling dogs who aren't loud are fine. I understand that it's often possible to train out barking tenancies, but it's something I'd prefer not to deal with. I also get that inevitably, a lot of dogs are gonna bark and I'm fine with that.
12) How important is being able to let your dog off-leash in an unfenced area?
Very important!
Dog Personality and Behavior
13) Do you want a snuggly dog or one that prefers some personal space?
Snuggly without being overly clingy!
14) Would you prefer a dog that wants to do its own thing or one that’s more eager-to-please?
Eager-to-please
15) How would you prefer your dog to respond to someone knocking on the door or entering your yard? How would you prefer your dog to greet strangers or visitors?
Ideally, my dog would be a one-person-pet and we would have a special bond, but still polite or friendly to everyone. I'm not looking for a guard or alerting dog.
16) Are you willing to manage a dog that is aggressive to other dogs?
Yes, but only if it could be managed with training and I could leave the dog alone with another pet.
17) Are there any other behaviors you can’t deal with or want to avoid?
Can't deal with -> barking loudly and incessantly, high prey drive, and rarely interested in listening to commands
Want to avoid -> separation anxiety, aggression, and possessive behaviour
Lifestyle
18) How often and how long will the dog be left alone?
My boyfriend works from home but occasionally goes into the office. <1-2 hours most days, occasionally (rarely) <8 hours.
19) What are the dog-related preferences of other people in the house and what will be their involvement in caring for the dog?
My boyfriend loves corgis, he likes to play with dogs and teach them tricks too. He's happy doing as much of the caring as needed if I'm not available.
20) Do you have other pets or are you planning on having other pets? What breed or type of animal are they?
No other pets. I'm planning to have my friends and family visit with their dogs (terriers and spaniels). I'm also planning to get another dog and a cat one day.
21) Will the dog be interacting with children regularly?
No
22) Do you rent or plan to rent in the future? If applicable, what breed or weight restrictions are on your current lease?
Not applicable
23) What city or country do you live in and are you aware of any laws banning certain breeds?
United Kingdom. Banned dogs: Pit Bull Terrier, Japanese Tosa, Dogo Argentina, Fila Brasileiro.
24) What is the average temperature of a typical summer and winter day where you live?
Summer -> 15°C-30°C
Winter -> 0°C-15°C
Additional Information and Questions
25) Please provide any additional information you feel may be relevant.
No brachycephalic dogs please
26) Feel free to ask any questions below.

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Bill Murray should retire from acting and become the best writer for the rest of his life. <3 Sameness or Differentiation? A Discussion. (Between the stillborn child with sight and the blind starchild who knew her bodies were all the blackholes forever and just had to keep on the Mother role forever until she just had faith in Trust. So try just trusting in Faith and go make the movie Sirens Sing in Pupil Pools.) She did it forever so you don't have to human. Do what again? I forgot. You don't have to ever. That it was ever real? Nope that it ever wasn't. OOF Sorry!

Let's make a list for the last 10 Years!
So I wanted to look at the last ten contests to draw out the essence from those shows, or at least what was the most enjoyable moments for me personally. At first I thought it was too big of a task to make one big mega ranking, giving points all over again to songs I've almost forgotten, but then I decided to do this a little methodically, so it became a little more doable. So first thing, I had to listen to all the songs. Or maybe not all songs, that would take weeks, but let's at least do the short version: recaps.
Nominating
My first task was to watch recaps from all shows to remember what songs were worthy and who was not good enough for such a list. I nominated X amount of songs from each year, depending on the quality of the songs. Then I ended up with 94 songs. The spread per year was as follows: 2014: 7 songs, 2015: 14 songs, 2016: 4 songs, 2017: 13 songs, 2018: 7 songs, 2019: 7 songs, 2020: 13 songs, 2021: 8 songs, 2022: 11 songs, 2023: 10 songs. Please note that since there was no contest in 2020 I was less familiar with these songs, so I had a lower threshold for nominating songs from this year. Also the number of songs nominated doesn't necessarily reflect my overall ranking of that contest as a whole.
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Giving points
After finding what songs was nominated I watched each and every song (that I had nominated) once again in its entirety, then giving a somewhat honest score of how much I enjoy the song now. I used a 1-20 score, meaning I had more increments than I normally do when I score Eurovision songs on a 1-12 (-9&11) scale. That was to be able to make more distinctions between songs that were close to another, avoiding too many "point lumps". I also tried to avoid influence from how I initially rated the songs when they were released. I was actually quite happy to see that I both rated some songs higher and lower than what I did initially, meaning that my opinion on a song can change over time. I even found myself rating songs from 2023 different than how I rated them just a couple weeks ago. As for versions, I always try to find the best version, whether it's the music video, national final, semi final or grand final version. The lowest I ranked any song in this ranking was 9 points. Any song lower than that would not be able to make the nomination. Again most of the lower ranked songs was from 2020, since that was the year least familiar to me, with the most amount of songs falling outside my quality criteria. The average amount of points was 13,7. The median was actually right between 13 and 14. The spread was as follows: 9 points: 2 entries, 10 points: 4 entries, 11 points: 4 entries, 12 points: 12 entries, 13 points: 24 entries, 14 points: 17 entries, 15 points: 13 entries, 16 points: 9 entries, 17 points: 4 entries, 18 points: 3 entries, 19 points: 1 entry, 20 points: 1 entry
Fine tuning
Since this was about finding a top 20 list I then went back on all the songs I put up around 15-20 points and tried to split hairs between the different songs I had listed that high. This was the most enjoyable part, since the songs up there are so good, but it's also so difficult to distinguish different types of songs when you have a ballad, a medium tempo bop, an industrial techno song and a singer song writer folk song. I did end up with a list I feel good about though, so I will list it below from number 1-20 with a small text to why I like each song. I first make the list, then write a text to each below the list.
The List

1. Belgium 2017, Blanche - City Lights, 20 points
2. Estonia 2015, Elina Born and Stig Rästa - Goodbye to Yesterday, 19 points
3. Azerbaijan 2021, Efendi - Mata Hari, 18 points
4. Slovenia 2015, Maraaya - Here for You, 18 points
5. Serbia 2022, Konstrakta - In Corpore Sano, 18 points
6. Sweden 2014, Sanna Nielsen - Undo. 17 points
7. Iceland 2019, Hatari - Hatrið mun sigra , 17 points
8. Azerbaijan 2017, Dihaj - Skeletons, 17 points
9. Montenegro 2015, Knez - Adio, 17 points
10. Czechia 2023, Vesna - My Sister's Crown, 16 points
11. Italy 2015, Il Volo - Grande Amore, 16 points
12. Norway 2019, Keiino - Spirit in the Sky 16 points
13. Estonia 2017, Koit Toome and Laura - Verona, 16 points
14. Bulgaria 2016, Poli Genova - If Love was a Crime, 16 points
15. Portugal 2017, Salvador Sobral - Amor pelos dois, 16 points
16. Cyprus 2022, Andromache - Ela, 16 points
17. Ukraine 2021, Go_A - Shum, 16 points
18. Georgia 2015, Nina Sublatti - Warrior, 15 points
19. Austria 2016, Zoë - Loin d'Ici, 15 points
20. Spain 2015, Edurne - Amanecer, 15 points

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Other songs that almost made the list: (Sweden 2022 Cornelia Jakobs-Hold me closer), (Ukraine 2016 Jamala-1944), (Denmark 2018 Rasmussen-Higher Ground),(Moldova 2020 Natalia Gordienko-Prison), (France 2022 Alvan and Ahez-Fulenn),(The Netherlands 2022 S10-De Diepte),(Finland 2023 Käärija-Cha Cha Cha), (Georgia 2023 Iru-Echo),(Latvia 2023 Sudden Lights-Aija),(Norway 2023 Alessandra-Queen of the Kings), (Spain 2023 Blanca Paloma-Eaea), (Ireland 2015 Molly Sterling-Playing with numbers), (Armenia 2017 Artsvik, Fly with me)
About each song

1. Blanche-City Lights. It was actually quite easy for me to put this on top, and it was the song I was the most sure about. I consider this song pure pop magic. Blanche's dark toned down vocals to the dark minor chords and the effective beat in a sort minimalist electro production is so effective on so many levels I don't know where to begin. I have listened to some of the other songs she has released after Eurovision, and she is a really gifted musician.
2. Elina Born and Stig Rästa-Goodbye to Yesterday. This almost cinematic singer songwriter tune with it's relatively trad arrangement reminds me of Lee and Nancy (Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra) who made some pretty cool albums back in the 6os and 70s. It almost has this road movie feel to it and is an ubercool feel and very melodic verse. Stig's toned down voice and Elina's emotional performance made it an instant hit. If you want to see where Elina got her idea from her Grand finale costume, take a look at Tura Satana from Russ Meyer's Faster Pussycat Kill Kill.
3. Efendi-Mata Hari. Actually everything about this song screams The Netherlands. It's song written by Dutch people about a Dutch spy performed in the Netherlands, it even charted in the Netehrlands. I wouldn't be surprised if Efendi actually has a Dutch grandfather or mother...;) Jokes aside, this oriental-ish bop is about as catchy and fiery and visually seductive as they come. There's no shortage of spice and sauce on this quality song or it's visual presentation. I still get thrown back in my chair everything I hear the "MATA HARI" opening.
4. Maraaya-Here for You. The opening suggests some sort of jazz ballad with Marjetka's vocal fry "When you're down down low..."over the minimalist piano intro. But then comes the drums and the key changes and the vocal sound and style changes just like that to a darker, more energetic melody before we get a more orchestrated version of the intro now as a chorus. The el violin, piano licks highlights this great song along with Marjetka's great voice. The bridge is not too bad either. There's actually a lot going on here so it's kind of hard to analyse, but the result is great. And you just gotta love Marjetka's head phone coupled with the wind machine with her ginger hair blowing in the wind.
5. Konstrakta-In Corpore Sano. This must be one of the more curious ESC songs of all time with it's relatively minimalist melody with Serbian lyrics about health and body fixation with its electronic choir like background vocals but it's the ultimate clap release chorus that makes us go "Biti zdrava" while we frenetically do a robotic golf clap that shows this strange song its appeal. It's just very cool and catchy, and it shows us all a side of ourselves we didn't know we had in us. Pure art, pure performance, pure magic.
6. Sanna Nielsen-Undo. A fantastic pop ballad with beautiful minor moods and a dramatic chorus, plus the archetypical modulation towards the end. One of those songs that simply stands the test of time and I can listen to over and over again. Sanna is a very good singer who focuses a lot on schlager type music in her repertoire. I prefer this over many other songs from Sweden. It might have to do with my preference for drama and sadness over joyful and cheery songs. If you look at the heritage of Abba and what made them good songwriters it had a lot to do with their knack for making these bittersweet type songs with both sadness and joyfulness to them. This is a good example of such a song.
7. Hatari- Hatrið mun sigra. How about sending an industrial techno song about how society will collapse? Why not? Iceland did it and they got away with it...;) At least almost as they got fined during the voting for showing a Palestinian flag during the voting. So the fine wasn't about the song. The song is very intense with it's hard electronic bassline with Matthias Haraldsson's distorted shouting in the verse, then to Klemens Hannigan's seductive and high, melodic singing in the chorus, making the contrast between the two singing styles extremely enjoyable and almost refined. The synth licks complementing the singing is also very well arranged. A true classic. Oh and I didn't even mention the visuals with the red blinking lights, the fire, the BDSM outfits that makes it look like some kind of alternative from East Berlin 1982.
8. Dihaj-Skeletons. 80s electro style pop tune with jet like bass synths backing an angelic voice and baroque like synth licks that comes in at the pre chorus part before it explodes into an energetic chorus. Very cool. Dihaj is also a very good singer with a good range. I never quite understood the staging at the contest though. I expected something completely different.
9. Knez-Adio. For me this is the quintessential Balkan ballad. The string arrangements, the soothing rhythm, the harmonic background vocals and the strong melody just blend together so well, and gives you images of mountains, rivers, waterfalls and works well into this mid tempo ballad with pretty minor chords and a pretty, sentimental delivery from Knez, who I think is one of the stronger vocalists the contest have seen.
10. Vesna-My Sister's Crown. So onto this year's only entry on this list. As much as I liked a lot of the songs from 2023, a lot of them ended around the 30th spot in this list. Vesna was my lone candidate actually ending up on the list. To me they were always this year's number one, with their anthem about sisterhood, whether it was about slavic sisterhood or not is not so important to me. It was the song itself that got to me. It probably hit at the right time since I've become very interested in Czech history, culture and language the last years as well. As someone who is into harmonic music with folk elements this really hit the spot for me. I was so happy to see their final performance with their long braids and pink jumpsuits, plus very good choreography. The dancing at the end of the song really got to me, and I still have to focus really hard not to get emotional everytime I see that part. Dobra prace, holky!
11. Il Volo-Grande Amore. Is it possible to get more Italian than this? And I mean it as a compliment. With great drama, big time forte this operapop schlager with grand voices hit big time in 2015 and won the popular votes of the contest. Some wondered if it would be too kitchy to send something so rooted in an ancient music style from the 17th century to a modern song contest that focuses greatly on visuals. The answer was an absolute no. I must admit that this was not among my favourites initially in 2015, but it slowly grew on me and now I really love it. The arrangement here is also interesting with a relativley monotonous bassline topped with the grand string arrangements that leads us to the crescendo.
12. Keiino-Spirit in the Sky. My own country's only entry for this list. Combing EDM and joik actually works, and it's mindblowing how catchy this song gets when all the voices come together in the chorus. The melody in the chorus is slightly similar to Saara Alto's Monsters from 2018, but the song itself is very different. The Sami culture is quite exotic and far away even for us Norwegians, and even though the song is not a Sami song per se, all the elements of joik, Northern lights and shaman symbolism sends us into this mystical journey into the far north of ice, snow and winter darkness.
13. Koit Toome and Laura-Verona. This pop love drama that uses Romeo and Juliet's city as it's background, was absolutely robbed of a place in the grand final when televotes gave it a 6th place in the second semi final while the juries only gave it 16 points, ending up 17th on the jury ranking, ultimately ending up only 14th on the combined list. As you can see, I have it higher on my Song of the decade-list than juries had it in that semi final. I also remember how bad the sound was, microphones not working, maybe even monitors not working when they were to perform in the semi final. For the best version of this song, watch the music video. The video of the semi final performance only makes me angry. Now, about the song itself, it's super catchy, almost anthemic in it's "o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o, we lost and we found our Verona" chorus. A great pop composition that has really stood the test of time.
14. Poli Genova-If Love was a crime. Another song that I didn't love at first, but that has really grown on me over time. A quite dance friendly pop tune with almost soul like elements in the chorus, with it's unison singing and that trademark dance that come along with the performance. The song starts with a piano backing track, drums and that flute like synth that plays some infectious riff that sounds like a bird whistle or something. The true genius of this song is the pre chorus when she sings the title of the song. That part has some fantastic harmony arrangements and a great melody. It also took me a while to understand that the chorus was sung in Bulgarian. I never really understood why she sang "All I'm in Luther, I'm in Luther"...;)
15. Salvador Sobral-Amor pelos dois. The only winner song on this list. When I made this list I didn't actually believe that this song would make it onto the top 20, but here it is! Some look at this as a sentimental journey back to old style Eurovision with no electronic music, no dancers, no smoke machines, basically nothing fancy going on whatsoever, and to some people, maybe even boring. I just look at this as a very pretty song about love that is sung in the prettiest and most heartfelt way possible. At the time of the final Salvador Sobral was due to a heart transplant caused by a weak heart, so at the time of the performance there where doubts about how long he could survive. Fortunately this looks like it has succeeded, and the performances I've seen of him since he looks a lot more healthy than he did in 2017. Thank god.
16. Andromache-Ela. My second NQ on the list. It's claimed that the reason she didn't go the final was due to a bad vocal performance in the semi final, but it was the juries that really put her down with only giving her 9 points, and juries don't go off the televised performance do they? Or was it only in the grand finale that there's an extra jury performance? Anyhow, this beautiful Greek-balkan style pop song really deserved a lot more than it got from the juries and should have been in the grand finale. Pretty and delicate strings opens up before a pop track emerges with Andromache's pretty voice singing a heavenly melody and the super catchy chorus sends us straight to the Greek gods of lush voices and soft femininity. Nice use of echo and reverberation in this track.
17. Go_A-Shum. Ukrainian techno folk sang entirely in Ukrainian is just one of these things I never imagined myself that I would enjoy, and going into then final I considered this song more of a curiosity than a song that I would thoroughly enjoy, but I was wrong. Folk music always takes a bit of a different ear to enjoy than "normal pop". The style of singing and the rhythm has a monotonous, almost chanting feel to it, and can sound off to many western ears. Yet this song really hit a nerve with me eventually. I just love what Ukraine has done to Eurovision, and I hope they keep sending great songs like this.
18. Nina Sublatti-Warrior. A very powerful song with great attitude. A bumblebee like synth opens up before we have tribal drums and Nina singing about fighting and something about "oximated". It doesn't matter cause I believe everything she sings anyway. The chorus comes in hard and powerful with Nina singing her heart out and again those big drums. A pretty straight forward angry war-pop song, but very haunting and no-nonsense. My ESC universe is better with songs like these. Arguably the best song from Sakartvelo we've had, even though Iru challenged her pretty good this year.
19. Zoë-Loin d'Ici. How many entries has there been that is sung in a language that is not a national language that is not English? I have watched the movie The Piano Teacher which is an Austrian movie where the dialogue is in French, but I've never had the impression that Austria had this thing about the french langauge or what? Nevermind, Zoë's tune Loin d'Ici is a dreamy, heavenly pop song with an amazing melody and stellar rhythm arrangement. I recognise her vocal style more as French than Austrian, but that could be the language. Anyway I'm not complaining, cause I'm a big fan of french vocals in the first place. This would fit in a movie I think with it's rich colourful style it could paint a faraway country in your dreams in a very nice way.
20. Edurne-Amanecer. The sixth entry from 2015, so I guess that year wins it for me. And even though this song sounds very Spanish to me it's actually composed by Swedish composers. It has an ethnic style with a big dramatic chorus and a melody in minor chords. This is the same year Grande Amore from Italy and even though the songs are quite different I do also see similarities with the big crescendo like chorus and the songs being sung in each country's national language. It didn't perform very well in the final with only 15 points, of which 8 came from neighbours France and Portugal. Big countries also have neighbours! However in my opinion this is the best Spanish entry the last 10 years, even though I both nominated 2022 and 2023 also, so it's safe to say that things are moving in the right direction.

I don't know why it has taken me until 2023 to playthrough TNT: Evilution, I love Doom... I've dabbled in some mods and wads here and there, played Sigil, No Rest for the Living, Doom 2 dozens and dozens of times. Decided to finally sit down and see what TNT is all about, no idea if I'll ever play Plutonia... I'm a bit Doomed out for awhile after finishing TNT. Well, from someone who went into this megawad mostly blind, here is what I think of the maps...
Map 01: System Control Rating: 7/10 Decent starting map, not overly complex or difficult. Grabbing the Berserk at the start to clear out the first parts of the map is a pretty satisfying way to get things started. Though there is an "outside" area of the map, most of it feels a bit claustrophobic and some of the rooms are just a bit too tight and compact. Fair and reasonable amount of ammo and health.
Map 02: Human BBQ Rating: 6/10 There are some interesting ideas on this map, but gameplay wise they don't really make for a satisfying experience. Couple big ambushes, but thankfully they aren't terribly unfair. Jumping out the window to get onto the area with the yellow/blue keys is kinda neat, but sometimes you need to waste time trying again when you don't make the jump.
Map03: Power Control Rating 6/10 Fairly standard TechBase, outdoor "ring" area is nicely designed but not overly special or unique. Not bad gameplay throughout, but just nothing stands out as super exciting on this map. Archvile near the blue key (I think?) was a neat little surprise.
Map04: Wormhole 7.5/10 Neat design and a very cool overall concept, unfortunately it feels like you have to specifically go out of your way to 100 percent the map, as some areas are somewhat unnecessary. Kind of scary/annoying fighting some of those revenants in such close quarters but still I thought it was a decently unique map.
Map05: Hanger 7/10 Lots of very tight and confusing corridors and a big wide open area fight. Nicely designed with some nasty traps. Not sure why but I enjoyed this one, even if it wasn't super special. Blue Key with the Revenant ambush was fun.
Map06: Open Season 8/10 I really liked this one, the big reactor concept was very cool and I really appreciate designs that feel a bit less abstract while keeping gameplay mostly intact. Ledge walking to get the Yellow Key is slightly annoying but this was still fun to explore.
Map07: Prison 5/10 Really don't like the outdoor section, as clearing out the hitscanners and other enemies to make it safe enough to explore is just too tedious for me. Its just a bit too wide open, and I don't always enjoy that in Doom gameplay. Big cage arena is fun if you have the invulnerability but I somehow missed it my first time and got fucked. Not fun lol.
Map08: Metal 4.5/10 Big rooms loaded with enemies. The one with the imps in cages has a cool aesthetic but by the time you finish the map you are absolutely exhausted from the tedious open room fights with chaingunners and specters standing in your way. Ugh. Just not for me.
Map09: Stronghold 6.5/10 Lots of nasty traps and difficult maps, man this one gave me trouble. There were some cool map design tricks and elements to the map that boosted the rating because despite being yet another techbase, it had a pretty neat layout.
Map10: Redemption 7.5/10 Really liked this one, tight design, short, sweet and to the point with a few tough and surprising encounters. Plenty of health laying around, so the really tough fights aren't too bad as long as you can survive them. I do wish there was maybe just one more room or encounter just to make it slightly longer but still a nice map.
Map11: Storage Facility 3/10 I have a love/hate thing with box mazes, big ass warehouse looking maps. The outside security checkpoints are very clever and look really nice but man the indoor box section is so bad. Just not my taste.
Map12: Crater 7/10 Good one. Some big open areas that I usually don't like but the fights didn't feel tedious or unfair like Metal or some of the others. Really fun to explore the map, though I don't think I really cared for the tunnel area with the water running through. Very decent, but not special.
Map13: Nukage Processing 8.5/10 Love the central hub with the slime/nukage. Another big outdoor area, but the tough fight here leads to a very satisfying CyberDemon fight that I quite enjoyed. Big storage vat of the green stuff fit the theme of the map really well. Just a really nicely designed map with the right level of difficulty.
Map14: Steel Works 7/10 Clever design. Grab your chaingun and go to town. I tend not to like crushers very much, and though you do get a set of goggles, the map has just a bit too much darkness and tricky to navigate spots. Nice to see a Mastermind, but the room wasnt set up very well to make a fun encounter. Cool concepts, but the gameplay wasn't always great.
Map15: Dead Zone 6.5/10 Tough one to rate, as the big fort is very neatly designed but window chaingunners are sometimes just a bit too annoying when navigating the perimeter. Some of the map progression is a bit unclear (how to open things, the switches, etc). In theory I liked the design but I ended up just not liking the gameplay much.
Map16: Deepest Reaches 5/10 An incoherent design when compared with the rest of TNT up to this point. The switch/platforming puzzle near the end was cool but it didn't make up for the rather bland canyon and cliffside sections. The fights weren't bad at all but just something about the design feels really bland compared to the other maps.
Map17: Processing Area 9/10 Fantastic. Clear, easy to understand design with a whole mess of dangerous encounters and enemies. Tight and compact but intricate enough to include lots of cool details. Great balance of exploration and good encounters. Exactly my cup of tea.
Map18: Mill 2/10 Fuck this map. I get what they were going for with the switch puzzle in the big blue CPU core looking room but I didn't like the implementation of it. Lots of pointless, annoying or otherwise confusing rooms. Final area is pretty neat but man I just had such a difficult time with it.
Map19: Shipping Respawning 10/10 (!) I hear this map isn't well liked, but man I love this one despite not generally liking rooms with boxes in them. So many little details in this map, the office room, the conveyor belt, the little truck outside. A super coherent map design by Doom's generally more abstracted levels. Easily my favorite TNT map.
Map20: Central Processing 9/10 God damn this map is brutal, and although it has some elements I normally don't like... the scale of the map, the ridiculous encounters and traps and the level of challenge were just awesome in my eyes. Last big outdoor series of encounters can be damn hard but delivered that sigh of relief and accomplishment once done. What a map.
Map21: Administration Center 6/10 I love central hubs, and having the keys be in that center slime pit was cool but I don't like being almost forced to touch damaging floors while trying to dodge revenants. Outdoor section didn't have enough interesting details to make the fights pleasing. Exploring the map was pretty fun but near the end I was getting exhausted with imp spamming fireballs at me while dealing with everything else going on.
Map22: Habitat 4/10 Just a pointless map, most of it can be skipped entirely and the weird maintenance tunnels are really stupid and contain secrets that are barely secrets. The archvile traps were surprisingly a fun surprise but still managed to rub me the wrong way considering how the rest of the map just feels so... directionless. Just not well thought out.
Map23: Lunar Mining Project 6.5/10 Not a bad map at all, just a bit too many rooms that serve no real purpose, but still work well within the design concepts. A nice break after suffering through the ugliness of Habitat. I just wish it had a bit more to do, as the strange section in the underground felt a bit half-baked. If there was just a bit more polish done on this map it could have been a real banger.
Map24: Quarry 7/10 Cool design, just not a very memorable one as its very short. The winding passages aren't that confusing once you do some running around in here. Nothing wrong with this one, lots of cool little details, just another map thats missing something a bit extra.
Map25: Baron's Den 5.5/10 A bit of a mixed bag as it has some really nice designs in some sections while others just have really stupid fights that aren't that fun. While there were a few maps before this that were too short, this one feels too long for what it is. I think a few of the maps and areas could be slightly remixed to make this a 7 or higher but... didn't care for this one.
Map26: Ballistyx 9.5/10 Banger. Love the claustrophobia of descending the elevator into a series of creepy tunnels. Great gameplay, balanced traps and fights, felt good to explore and open things up. Exit was a bit weird and some places could have used just a tiny bit more lighting.
Map27: Mount Pain 0/10 Why? Why is the interior so ugly? Where is my health? Why is there so many enemies that aren't placed in interesting areas besides just spammed at you? Dumb. Just really fucking bad.
Map28: Heck 10/10 A central hub! Hellish! Rockets everywhere! Wonderfully designed map that is really fun to play. Each room branching off the center has it's own unique gameplay feeling. Chefs kiss. A classic Doom design that just works on so many levels.
Map29: River Styx 9/10 Great design. Well laid out, lots of powerups and ammo and just a real joy to explore. So many well thought out fights except for maybe the last ambush in the very tight corridor is just a bit unnecessary. A real treat of a map.
Map30: Last Call 6.5/10 I don't dislike this map, but its just so mixed. Instakill platforms were cool the first time through when you figure out the puzzle of it, then it just feels like tedium. Some okay fights like the revenant/arachno room and the cyber, but then a real bland section where you're literally just shooting fish in a barrel. Demon Spitter room is fine, just a bit tight and hectic. Final levels are rarely very good in Doom so overall just kinda "pretty good/okay".
Not reviewing the secret levels since I didn't find them during my first blind playthrough.

Tried this place this week for the first time. No pictures as I ate so fast.
This is run by a Jamaican local and his partner who was there in the kitchen. Great, fun and friendly service but, most importantly, the food was fantastic. Even my skeptical wife was very impressed. I'd been wanting to try it for ages as loved the range of Jamaican food when I lived in London.
We ordered a big plate of wings, jalapeño poppers, 500g of jerk pork belly, Mac n cheese and slaw. That plus a cocktail and a beer each came to $140 which i thought was very reasonable given how full we both were.
All the food was amazing but pork belly was probably the standout - soft and fall apart cooked over charcoal by the taste. Came with an amazing BBQ sauce. The wings were also amazing in some kind of batter and limey sauce.
All in all a great evening and fun vibe. Want to head back soon to try the jerk chicken, curry and some more of their range of rums

We would fundamentally misunderstand the nature of Yeshua if we said He became unclean with the lepers. I cannot say He never did, for then He would cease to be human (there's still the matter of defecation), but with at least one example of uncleanness there's something to ponder. Yeshua being fully G-d, fully man had times where the fully G-d part was expressed to the extent that our human minds should be blown. I'll come at this subject from a round-about then direct approach. Since Yeshua was not a kabalistic 'wizard' having mastered a piece of paper with the divine Name on it as some have ridiculously charged, He was able to use His own power to tell Nathaniel that before coming to meet Him, he was observed by Yeshua, and knew him to be "a true son if Israel indeed in whom there is no guile" (paraphrased). Additionally, Yeshua told Kefa upon questioning who should properly pay a tax, those forcibly put to tribute, or those who were free? Yeshua told him to get the one fish in the sea that had a gold coin which could pay the tax for them both. Now Yonah also was in the belly of a big fish, but no one was prophesying where that fish should be caught and then selling him for taxes. ;) Now, when Yeshua was asleep in the boat and His talmidim woke Him, they were fearful and asked how He could sleep, He rebuked the wind and the waves. Do we not read that at the very least, a psalmist considered the wind (and perhaps the waves) messengers of G-d? So by an easy extrapolation, Yeshua commanded right then the malachim. He walked on/above the mayim chayim and caused Kefa (the rock/the stone) to do the same! The Stone who the builders rejected was not only the cornerstone that is the chief of turning the Poretz for breaking through, He is the Leper King, He is the mystery of the Garden who without the Ruach, if you enter from any other gate... you will go mad or perish He is the Aleph and Tav He is the vessel through which HaShem reduced Himself, the immaterial becoming material And when the woman with an issue of blood came trembling but to touch the kanaph, there was healing in His wings. He was not made unclean, yet the goodness and purity within Him surged from Him, lept on the devourer and took no hostage. He truly led captivity captive! Please, never forget Who you are dealing with.
Yochanan 3:14 and following

But Yochanan tried to prevent Him, saying, “I need to be immersed by You, and do You come to me?” 15 “Let it be so now,” Yeshua replied. “It is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness in this way.” Then Yochanan permitted Him. 16 As soon as Yeshua was immersed, He went up out of the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and resting on Him

The Living Water defiled? No, I think not. But regardless, He who knew no sin, for us became sin

5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not his mouth: He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare His generation? for He was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was He stricken. Yeshayahu 53:5-8

Lest we ever think that the one who could be termed the Leper King or prince Elisha indeed caused Naaman the Syrian general to be healed of leprosy, but he himself never even saw Naaman for which Naaman felt insulted. It is a known opinion that since the time of Miriam, no leper of Israel has ever been healed, and it would be a sign of Mashiach were it to happen. Likewise, He who is born blind to receive sight! The reason is, these are creative miracles. Elisha was on another level, drawing an axe-head to the surface of water, but Yeshua created the circuitry for lack of a better word, the infrastructure for a person blind to receive sight. He took one ravaged by a disease like gangrene and restored flesh, sinews, fascia, bone, nerves, fingernails that were missing. The Creative power of the universe was unleashed on a ravaged body of outcasts, sons and daughters of Israel. The dry bones truly became enshrined with flesh. Don't you forget it.
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, You are very great; You are clothed with splendor and majesty. 2 He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent, 3 laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind. 4 He makes the winds His messengers, flames of fire His servants. 5 He set the earth on its foundations, never to be moved. 6 You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. 7 At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away— 8 the mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place You assigned for them— 9 You set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never again cover the earth. 10 He sends forth springs in the valleys; they flow between the mountains. 11 They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst. 12 The birds of the air nest beside the springs; they sing among the branches. 13 He waters the mountains from His chambers; the earth is satisfied by the fruit of His works. 14 He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth: 15 wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil that makes his face to shine, and bread that sustains his heart. 16 The trees of the LORD have their fill, the cedars of Lebanon that He planted, 17 where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses. 18 The high mountains are for the wild goats, the cliffs a refuge for the rock badgers. 19 He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set. 20 You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl. 21 The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God. 22 The sun rises, and they withdraw; they lie down in their dens. 23 Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until evening. 24 How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures. 25 Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small. 26 There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there. 27 All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season. 28 When You give it to them, they gather it up; when You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good things. 29 When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust. 30 When You send Your Spirit, they are created, and You renew the face of the earth. 31 May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in His works. 32 He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder. 33 I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. 34 May my meditation be pleasing to Him, for I rejoice in the LORD. 35 May sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Hallelujah!

I took a Disney cruise vacation from Florida with my family in October 2022. After flying in from Toronto on thurday to Orlando and staying the night. We boarded the bus to the ferry terminal on the Friday, I had to show my passport to get on the bus.
When I got to the terminal after getting off the bus I noticed I was no longer in position of my passport, We waited while they helped search for my passport, it was not found and I was denied boarding due to not having it. Was taken back to the bus boarding location where I was told someone would be waiting to assist getting a hotel room, no one showed. My driver and I waited a few hours (I also searched at the hotel and airport, just in case). We ended up finding a hotel room and I booked and paid for a night. I then had to find another hotel for the next night as they were booked.
Over the weekend, I filed a police report about my lost passport and was in constant communication with the cruise line to try and get me a hotel room and get me somewhat of a vacation until my family returned on Friday. I was offed a room at one of the resorts for the week at a discount, which I told them to hold as I didn't know the insurance policy and brought little money with me besides my credit card. I called Disney Cruise Line and was told the exspences would be covered. By the time I found out I was covered and called back they couldn't find the person who gave me the deal, and it was also cancelled when they looked in the system.
Monday I was able to call the Canadian consulate in Miami and was told I'd need to fly there and pay 300 CAD for an emergency passport, or go to the nearest land boarder and cross there. Since I live in a border town I decided the later. So on the phone again with the cruise line again for a flight, they called me back late evening and said someone would be in touch Tuesday, so off I went to the airport and stayed a night in the hotel there. I got a call in the late afternoon saying they could only get me a flight to Toronto, which wouldn't work as you require a passport to enter Canada via air, not land. So i booked and paid for my own flight to the nearest us airport to me.
I replaced my passport her at a cheaper price a few days after getting home, and filed a Trip Interruption claim report with the insurance company. Was told it take up to 30 days to process. 30 days went by and I got an email saying they needed more time to process my claim. Another 30 days went by, and in January I got an email saying my "trip Delay" claim was denied due to lack of a police report. So I requested the report and submitted the police report to the insurance company.
It taken months to get compensation, I wasn't initially told I needed a police report before filing my claim, which further delayed the claim. I ended up receiving 500 USD as compensation for this trip wondering what more can be done here. I have all my receipts from the trip. What would be my best course of action. It would also help to have recommendations for paralegals as I'm on social assistance and this was a gift for me and my family.
here's the list of what's covered. Based on what happened this is definitely a trip interruption (secion G under "other events"instead of a Trip Delay, as was unable to attend the cruise.
The addons flight, transportation and hotel to and from the cruise terminal I think are not included just the cruise portion.
https://www.archinsurancesolutions.com/coverage/disney/cruise
Disney uses an outside company for insurce and have tried to help me out with no success, it caused me both emotional and financial distress. They also said I should of been allowed to board.

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<sup>Once, there was a time when tranquility embraced the world, and humanity lived in harmony with nature. But that was before the scourge of the undead, a relentless zombie outbreak, shattered the fragile equilibrium.
It began with a single infection, an isolated incident that swiftly escalated. The virus spread like wildfire, turning ordinary people into mindless creatures driven by insatiable hunger. Panic gripped the cities, and chaos reigned as the dead outnumbered the living.
As the infection spread, society crumbled beneath its weight. Governments collapsed, leaving a void where order and structure once stood. People grew desperate, fighting for their own survival amidst the maddening chaos. The world descended into a realm of fear and violence, where trust became a scarce and treasured commodity.
In this dystopian nightmare, pockets of survivors clung to their humanity, desperately seeking refuge and safety. But with each passing day, their numbers dwindled as the horde closed in, hunting them relentlessly. The once bustling streets became silent and desolate, now tainted with the stench of death.
Humanity had lost all peace with the world. The natural beauty that once adorned the Earth now withered under the weight of despair. The songs of birds and the gentle rustle of leaves were replaced by the groans and moans of the undead, echoing through the empty alleyways.
Yet, amidst the darkness, a flicker of hope remained. Some refused to surrender to the overwhelming darkness. They banded together, fighting tooth and nail to protect what little they had left. The survivors forged alliances, sharing resources and knowledge, pooling their strength in the face of impending doom.
But with each passing day, the struggle became more arduous. The line between life and death blurred, and even the survivors faced a relentless battle for their own sanity. The weight of loss and despair threatened to consume them, but they fought on, unwilling to let the zombies steal their last vestiges of humanity.
And so, as the world burned and the undead roamed freely, these valiant souls clung to the belief that somewhere, somehow, there was still a glimmer of peace left to be found. They fought not only to survive but also to restore what had been lost.
It was a grueling journey, with sacrifices and heartbreak at every turn. But their resilience and determination burned bright, a beacon of hope in the darkest of nights. They held onto their shared vision of a world where peace would once again reign, where the sounds of laughter and joy would echo through the streets instead of anguished cries.
The story of how humanity lost all peace with the world during the zombie outbreak was one of tragedy and devastation. But within that tale, there was also the story of those who refused to surrender, who fought against the odds, and who dared to dream of a future where the missing peace would be restored to humanity once more.
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Welcome to This Week In KPOP, a collection of everything you may have missed during the past week on kpop.

May 27, 2023 - June 2, 2023

TOP 10 STORIES

Megathread: EXO Chen, Baekhyun, and Xiumin vs. SM Entertainment Contract Termination Dispute

#	Votes	Thread	Comments
1	(+7408)	EXO Baekhyun, Chen, Xiumin have ended their exclusive contracts with SM Entertainment + taken legal action against the company for overdue payment and unreasonable deals	1357 comments
2	(+3656)	T.O.P confirms he has left BIGBANG	348 comments
3	(+3236)	Dreamcatcher have earned their first win for "BONVOYAGE" on SBS M The Show (230530)	136 comments
4	(+2220)	Jeon Somi confirmed to be preparing for a comeback	183 comments
5	(+1994)	Daisy (ex-MOMOLAND) updates on unpaid wages lawsuit win, says MLD Entertainment’s appeal was dismissed	68 comments
6	(+1519)	EXO's Baekhyun Chen And Xiumin To Participate In Group Music Video As Planned — SM Entertainment Denies Postponement	163 comments
7	(+1370)	SHINee Announces Plans For June Concert + Multiple Comebacks	48 comments
8	(+1369)	Stray Kids’ 3rd Full Album ‘★★★★★ (5-STAR)’ has surpassed 4.93 Million Pre-orders!	345 comments
9	(+1228)	OMEGA X Returns To Twitter As Fans Celebrate Their Freedom From Spire Entertainment	19 comments
10	(+1171)	Fifty Fifty chart on Billboard Hot 100 for 10th week with 'Cupid' (Setting its own new record as the first song from a K-pop girl group to chart for 10 consecutive weeks)	36 comments

TOP ANNIVERSARIES

#	Votes	Thread	Comments
1	(+1493)	Happy 5th Anniversary to LOONA yyxy!	28 comments
2	(+270)	Happy 6th Anniversary to ALICE!	13 comments

TOP 10 PERFORMANCES

#	Votes	Thread	Comments
1	(+808)	[Dance Challenge] (G)I-DLE Minnie and Shuhua with TWICE Mina and Tzuyu- "Queencard" Dance Challenge (230530)	37 comments
2	(+661)	[Song Cover] TWICE Dahyun - Good Mood (orig. Adam Levine) (Dahyun Melody Project)	16 comments
3	(+608)	[Song Cover] aespa Ningning - Something Like That (orig. Hwayobi) (Band Live Ver.) (MDR it's Live)	27 comments
4	(+546)	[Dance Practice] SHINee - Don't Call Me (Dance Practice)	17 comments
5	(+443)	[Performance] XG Jurin & Cocona - Nothin' (orig. N.O.R.E feat. Pharrell) (XG TAPE #3-B)	52 comments
6	(+429)	[Dance Challenge] LE SSERAFIM Yunjin with Jeon Somi - Eve, Psyche & The Bluebeard's wife (Dance Challenge) (230530)	26 comments
7	(+364)	[Dance Practice] ZEROBASEONE (ZB1) - 난 빛나 (Here I Am) (Dance Practice)	17 comments
8	(+352)	[Live] BLACKPINK - Shut Down @ Coachella 2023 (230422)	23 comments
9	(+335)	[Performance] XG Harvey & Maya - Two Tens (orig. cordae feat. Anderson .Paak) (XG TAPE #3-A)	39 comments
10	(+315)	[Dance Challenge] tripleS Seoyeon (with ARTMS/LOONA Heejin) - Charismatic (orig. Queendom Puzzle : DROP The Beat) (Dance Challenge) (230529)	8 comments

TOP DISCUSSIONS / FEATURES

#	Votes	Thread	Comments
1	(+192)	Throwback: CL released "THE BADDEST FEMALE" this week in 2013	6 comments
2	(+181)	Upcoming K-Pop Comebacks / Releases in June 2023	44 comments
3	(+34)	What Are You Listening To? - May 31, 2023	38 comments
4	(+25)	Weekly Discussion (May 29, 2023 – Jun 4, 2023)	5 comments
5	(+4)	Interesting song structures	7 comments

MUSIC SHOWS

Date	Performances	Discussion Thread	Winner
20230527	Music Core	Thread	(G)I-DLE
20230528	Inkigayo	Thread	(G)I-DLE
20230530	The Show	Thread	Dreamcatcher
20230531	Show Champion	Thread	Dreamcatcher
20230601	M!Countdown	Thread	ENHYPEN
20230602	Music Bank	Thread	ENHYPEN

 

NEW RELEASES

Day	Artist	Album Title	Type	Music Video	Streaming
27th	n.SSign	Monologue	pre-debut repackage mini album	Monologue	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	Jiselle	Enemy	digital single	Enemy (feat. GEMINI)	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	Song Sohee	Infodemics	digital single	Infodemics (with Ilwoo Lee (JAMBINAI))	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
28th	Eunice (DIA)	BLUE ROS3	debut digital single	BLUE ROS3 (miracle)	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	Kim Areum	Beautiful City	pre-release single	Beautiful City	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	Ryu Sera (ex-9MUSES)	Perfect Square	mini album	Star Crossed	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	HELLO GLOOM (IMFACT Ungjae)	Eyes On Me	single album	Eyes On Me	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	LEEWOO (ex-MADTOWN Lee Geon)	Pine Tree	Room Casting project remake single	Pine Tree (orig. Kangta)	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
29th	lunCHbox	Package 1 : Smile	full-length album	Smile (feat. HIROTO (Boys Planet))	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	Soohyun (U-KISS)	Fading Seasons	digital single	Fading Seasons (prod. O.WHEN)	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	AB6IX	THE FUTURE IS OURS : LOST	mini album	LOSER	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	CIX	'OK' Episode 2 : I'm OK	mini album	Save me, Kill me	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	MeloMance	A Shining Day	digital single	A Shining Day	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	Sojung (LADIES' CODE)	The Day	remake single	The Day (orig. JeA (Brown Eyed Girls), Kim Yeonji (SeeYa))	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
30th	WOO (ex-LIMITLESS A.M)	BE:LOVED	mini album	Last Greeting	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	Yeoro	Paradise	digital single	Paradise (feat. JUNIEL (ex-Poetic Narrator))	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	BOYNEXTDOOR	WHO!	debut single album	But I Like You / One and Only / Serenade	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	DinDin	Life4Cuts	digital single	Life4Cuts (feat. Leellamarz)	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	E.SO (ex-Berry Good Seoyul)	Numb	digital single	Numb	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	GB9	Just the way you are	digital single	Just the way you are (with LYn)	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	Kid Milli	BEIGE	full-length album	HONDA ! / Still friend ? (feat. pH-1) / BNC (feat. Sik-K, Woo Wonjae)	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	WH3N	The Starting Line	digital single	The Starting Line	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	Wonstein	DEMO	mini album	Cool (prod. PEEJAY)	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	xooos	Made In Heart	mini album	Bad At Us	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	Yang Hee Eun, Chen (EXO)	Bloom	SM STATION project single	Bloom	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
31st	DIAWINGS	Finale	single album	Finale	Spotify / Apple Music
	IVE	WAVE	Japanese mini album	WAVE	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	THE BOYZ	Delicious	Japanese pre-release single	Delicious	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	TWICE	Hare Hare	Japanese single album	Hare Hare	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	Nerd Connection	I Robbed a Bank	digital single	I Robbed a Bank	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	HORI7ON	Lovey Dovey	debut digital single	Lovey Dovey	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	Jon Batiste (feat. JID, NewJeans & Camilo)	Be Who You Are (Real Magic)	Coca-Cola collaboration single	Be Who You Are (Real Magic)	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	NINE to SIX (DKZ)	GOOD TO YOU	unit debut single album	Don't Call Me	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	Rothy	Diamond	single album	Diamond	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	Yoon Jong Shin	Monthly Project 2023 May	Monthly Yoon project single	Hesitate	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
1st	ChoCo1&2	ChoCo Takes Hollywood (MAX)	full-length album	Fruity Loops	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	DUSTIN	BLACKLIST	digital single	BLACKLIST	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	Hoody, Hersh, touch	You Will Never Know	digital single	You Will Never Know	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	Park Rossi	Luv Myself	digital single	Luv Myself	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	Yebit	23	mini album	100%	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	Aaron Kwak	Time Difference	solo debut digital single	Time Difference	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	B.I	TO DIE FOR	full-length album	Die for love (feat. Jessi) / Dare to Love (feat. BIG Naughty)	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	Hwang Chi Yeul	GIFT	mini album	You Are My Spring	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	Lim Kim, TETE	Romantico	remake single	Romantico (orig. TETE)	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	Zhoumi	Mañana (Our Drama)	digital single	Mañana (Our Drama) (feat. Eunhyuk (Super Junior))	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
2nd	@IN_US, RUNNERS, SUGAR POP, Flash	Fantasy Boys - Semi Final	MBC 'Fantasy Boys' album	SPACEMAN (prod. Jeon Soyeon ((G)I-DLE)) / RUN (prod. Kang Seungyoon (WINNER)) / SNACKS (prod. Wooyoung (2PM)) / Hold Tight (prod. Jinyoung (B1A4))	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	J.Fla	Riding a T-Rex	digital single	Riding a T-Rex	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	Silly Silky (prev. YESEO)	Completely Blown Me Away	digital single	Completely Blown Me Away	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	Stray Kids	★★★★★ (5-STAR)	full-length album	S-Class	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	Woo (Woo Wonjae)	Ransome	digital single	Ransome (feat. BILL STAX)	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music

"This Week in KPOP" Archive

1. Imu is ShanksBeard (V1)
2. Imu is Luffy (V1)
3. Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V1)
4. Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V2)
5. Imu is Darth Vader
6. Imu is Biblically Accurate
7. Imu is The most disappointing thing you'll ever see (V1)
8. Imu is From the Long Legs Tribe
9. Imu is Luffy's mom
10. Imu is From the Long-arms-Long-Legs Tribe
11. Imu's crown is actually a crow
12. Imu is from the No-Legs tribe
13. Imu is from the Long Neck tribe
14. Imu is The most disappointing thing you'll ever see (V2)
15. Imu is ShanksBeard (V2)
16. Imu is The most disappointing thing you'll ever see (V3)
17. Imu is Vegeta
18. Imu is A bird (V1)
19. Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V3)
20. Imu is A blank Sheet
21. Imu is From the Big Mouth Tribe
22. Imu's crown is actually its teeth
23. Imu is A bird (V2)
24. Imu is A good guy
25. Imu is The Stongest swordsman (V1)
26. Imu is A Demon
27. Imu is A rat
28. Imu is from the Akatsuki
29. Imu is an endless army of dopplegangers
30. Imu is Stronger than Luffy
31. Imu is Scary (V1)
32. Imu is The Strongest swordsman (V2)
33. Imu is A Fishman
34. Imu is A shadow
35. Imu is Cool asf
36. Imu is Luffy (V2)
37. Imu is A random flying guy
38. Imu is A brat
39. Imu is From the Three-eyed tribe (V1)
40. Imu is From the Long Legs Tribe
41. Imu Already read all of the One Piece Manga
42. Imu Just want a bigger hat
43. Imu Blows Islands for Breakfast
44. Imu is A dwarf
45. Imu Knows the biggest one piece secret
46. Imu is A fishmen hunter
47. Imu is from the teeth eyed tribe
48. Imu is The most OP character of OP
49. Imu's crown is actually a fork
50. Imu is The Legendary Sad Boy
51. Imu is Vearth
52. Imu is A Dandy
53. Imu is Down D. Stairs
54. Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V4)
55. Imu is The Redline
56. Imu is A waifu (V2)
57. Imu is A God-like Character
58. Imu is The Sandman
59. Imu is A Psychopath
60. Imu is The Stongest swordsman (V3)
61. Imu is Facing a Dilemma
62. Imu is an Emu
63. Imu is an Emo
64. Imu is Scary (V2)
65. Imu is Afraid of Luffy
66. Imu is A waifu (V2)
67. Imu is from the Hairy Legs Tribe
68. Imu is a Kabuto
69. Imu is The most disappointing thing you'll ever see (V4)
70. Imu is The funniest and most relatable character
71. Imu is Lonely
72. Imu is Oda Himself
73. Imu is Umami
74. Imu Hates the sun
75. Imu is Umi, the Sea Itself
76. Imu is The moon God
77. Imu is an Alien Species (V1)
78. Imu is a crown
79. Imu is King Elizabello the First
80. Imu is Exactly like you would expect from his sillhouette
81. Imu is From the Moon (V1)
82. Imu is From the Three-eyed tribe (V2)
83. Imu ate the Blood Blood fruit
84. Imu is A random monarch
85. Imu is A cruel monarch
86. Imu is afraid of the Laughing Demon
87. Imu is all ears
88. Imu is Celebrating his birthday
89. Imu ate the win-win fruit
90. Imu is Luffy (V3)
91. Imu is a Dark Lord
92. Imu is An old monarch
93. Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V5)
94. Imu is The most disappointing thing you'll ever see (V5)
95. Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V6)
96. Imu's crown is actually its tongue
97. Imu is From the Ashtray-head tribe
98. Imu is A Candle
99. Imu's crown is actually flowers
100. Imu is an Alien Species (V2)
101. Imu is from the mouth-over-nose tribe
102. Imu is Monet (V1)
103. Imu is The Imu Guy
104. Imu is The Void Itself
105. Imu is Buggy's Father
106. Imu is Still a child
107. Imu is Inu
108. Imu means I'M U
109. Imu is The Empty Throne
110. Imu is The N-Gage
111. Imu is a (B)I(G)MU(C)
112. Imu is The One
113. Imu is A virus
114. Imu is Gaimon
115. Imu is Pandaman
116. Imu is From the No-feet tribe
117. Imu ate the Butterfly Fruit
118. Imu is Monet (V2)
119. Imu is ShanksBeard (V3)
120. Imu is Two People
121. Imu is Tonjit
122. Imu is Higuma
123. Imu is A Vegetable
124. Imu is A bodybuilder
125. Imu is I(Lon)MU(sk)
126. Imu is Having a good time
127. Imu is S(A-E)NGOKU
128. Imu is From the Moon (V2)
129. Imu is Jango
130. Imu is The Original Den-Den Mushi
131. Imu is King Kong
132. Imu is The key to all mysteries
133. Imu is G.O.A.T.
134. Imu is Smoker's sensei
135. Imu is Heisenberg
136. Imu ate the Soul-Soul Fruit
137. Imu is Shanks
138. Imu is Roger
139. Imu ate the Fruit-Fruit Fruit
140. Imu found the One Piece
141. Imu is Stelly
142. Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V7)
143. Imu is Buddha
144. Imu is Eminem
145. Imu is Oda Himself (V2)
146. Imu is French
147. Imu is The dragon Egg from Roger's Ship
148. Imu is Louis XVI
149. Imu is Foxy
150. Imu is Scary (V3)
151. Imu is An alien Species (V3)
152. Imu is from the Chest-faced tribe
153. Imu is Rocks D. Xebec
154. Imu is Kidd (V1)
155. Imu is Kidd (V2)
156. Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V8)
157. Imu is Shanks (V2)
158. Imu is an Atlas Beetle
159. Imu is Shanks's Brother Banks
160. Imu is a Random dude
161. Imu is Ask D. Question
162. Imummy
163. Imustachio
164. Imuchacho
165. Imowgli
166. Imushroom
167. Imuthep
168. Imusician
169. Imunga
170. Imouse-ama
171. Imusketeer
172. Imumbai
173. Imascara
174. Imu found the One Piece (V2)
175. IMUG
176. Imouth-sama
177. Imu means I'M Uzumaki-naruto
178. Imu is Angry
179. Imu is Exactly like you would expect from his sillhouette
180. Imu is Scary (V4)
181. Imu is Hypnotizing
182. Imu is The most disappointing thing you'll ever see (V6)
183. Imu is the moon
184. Imu is from the long-legs tribe (V2)
185. Imu is Three people
186. Imu ate the REAL gomu-gomu no mi
187. Imu is Medjed
188. Imu is a waifu
189. Imu is simple
190. Imu is Luffy's mom (V2)

1. Imu is ShanksBeard (V1)
2. Imu is Luffy (V1)
3. Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V1)
4. Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V2)
5. Imu is Darth Vader
6. Imu is Biblically Accurate
7. Imu is The most disappointing thing you'll ever see (V1)
8. Imu is From the Long Legs Tribe
9. Imu is Luffy's mom
10. Imu is From the Long-arms-Long-Legs Tribe
11. Imu's crown is actually a crow
12. Imu is from the No-Legs tribe
13. Imu is from the Long Neck tribe
14. Imu is The most disappointing thing you'll ever see (V2)
15. Imu is ShanksBeard (V2)
16. Imu is The most disappointing thing you'll ever see (V3)
17. Imu is Vegeta
18. Imu is A bird (V1)
19. Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V3)
20. Imu is A blank Sheet
21. Imu is From the Big Mouth Tribe
22. Imu's crown is actually its teeth
23. Imu is A bird (V2)
24. Imu is A good guy
25. Imu is The Stongest swordsman (V1)
26. Imu is A Demon
27. Imu is A rat
28. Imu is from the Akatsuki
29. Imu is an endless army of dopplegangers
30. Imu is Stronger than Luffy
31. Imu is Scary (V1)
32. Imu is The Strongest swordsman (V2)
33. Imu is A Fishman
34. Imu is A shadow
35. Imu is Cool asf
36. Imu is Luffy (V2)
37. Imu is A random flying guy
38. Imu is A brat
39. Imu is From the Three-eyed tribe (V1)
40. Imu is From the Long Legs Tribe
41. Imu Already read all of the One Piece Manga
42. Imu Just want a bigger hat
43. Imu Blows Islands for Breakfast
44. Imu is A dwarf
45. Imu Knows the biggest one piece secret
46. Imu is A fishmen hunter
47. Imu is from the teeth eyed tribe
48. Imu is The most OP character of OP
49. Imu's crown is actually a fork
50. Imu is The Legendary Sad Boy
51. Imu is Vearth
52. Imu is A Dandy
53. Imu is Down D. Stairs
54. Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V4)
55. Imu is The Redline
56. Imu is A waifu (V2)
57. Imu is A God-like Character
58. Imu is The Sandman
59. Imu is A Psychopath
60. Imu is The Stongest swordsman (V3)
61. Imu is Facing a Dilemma
62. Imu is an Emu
63. Imu is an Emo
64. Imu is Scary (V2)
65. Imu is Afraid of Luffy
66. Imu is A waifu (V2)
67. Imu is from the Hairy Legs Tribe
68. Imu is a Kabuto
69. Imu is The most disappointing thing you'll ever see (V4)
70. Imu is The funniest and most relatable character
71. Imu is Lonely
72. Imu is Oda Himself
73. Imu is Umami
74. Imu Hates the sun
75. Imu is Umi, the Sea Itself
76. Imu is The moon God
77. Imu is an Alien Species (V1)
78. Imu is a crown
79. Imu is King Elizabello the First
80. Imu is Exactly like you would expect from his sillhouette
81. Imu is From the Moon (V1)
82. Imu is From the Three-eyed tribe (V2)
83. Imu ate the Blood Blood fruit
84. Imu is A random monarch
85. Imu is A cruel monarch
86. Imu is afraid of the Laughing Demon
87. Imu is all ears
88. Imu is Celebrating his birthday
89. Imu ate the win-win fruit
90. Imu is Luffy (V3)
91. Imu is a Dark Lord
92. Imu is An old monarch
93. Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V5)
94. Imu is The most disappointing thing you'll ever see (V5)
95. Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V6)
96. Imu's crown is actually its tongue
97. Imu is From the Ashtray-head tribe
98. Imu is A Candle
99. Imu's crown is actually flowers
100. Imu is an Alien Species (V2)
101. Imu is from the mouth-over-nose tribe
102. Imu is Monet (V1)
103. Imu is The Imu Guy
104. Imu is The Void Itself
105. Imu is Buggy's Father
106. Imu is Still a child
107. Imu is Inu
108. Imu means I'M U
109. Imu is The Empty Throne
110. Imu is The N-Gage
111. Imu is a (B)I(G)MU(C)
112. Imu is The One
113. Imu is A virus
114. Imu is Gaimon
115. Imu is Pandaman
116. Imu is From the No-feet tribe
117. Imu ate the Butterfly Fruit
118. Imu is Monet (V2)
119. Imu is ShanksBeard (V3)
120. Imu is Two People
121. Imu is Tonjit
122. Imu is Higuma
123. Imu is A Vegetable
124. Imu is A bodybuilder
125. Imu is I(Lon)MU(sk)
126. Imu is Having a good time
127. Imu is S(A-E)NGOKU
128. Imu is From the Moon (V2)
129. Imu is Jango
130. Imu is The Original Den-Den Mushi
131. Imu is King Kong
132. Imu is The key to all mysteries
133. Imu is G.O.A.T.
134. Imu is Smoker's sensei
135. Imu is Heisenberg
136. Imu ate the Soul-Soul Fruit
137. Imu is Shanks
138. Imu is Roger
139. Imu ate the Fruit-Fruit Fruit
140. Imu found the One Piece
141. Imu is Stelly
142. Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V7)
143. Imu is Buddha
144. Imu is Eminem
145. Imu is Oda Himself (V2)
146. Imu is French
147. Imu is The dragon Egg from Roger's Ship
148. Imu is Louis XVI
149. Imu is Foxy
150. Imu is Scary (V3)
151. Imu is An alien Species (V3)
152. Imu is from the Chest-faced tribe
153. Imu is Rocks D. Xebec
154. Imu is Kidd (V1)
155. Imu is Kidd (V2)
156. Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V8)
157. Imu is Shanks (V2)
158. Imu is an Atlas Beetle
159. Imu is Shanks's Brother Banks
160. Imu is a Random dude
161. Imu is Ask D. Question
162. Imummy
163. Imustachio
164. Imuchacho
165. Imowgli
166. Imushroom
167. Imuthep
168. Imusician
169. Imunga
170. Imouse-ama
171. Imusketeer
172. Imumbai
173. Imascara
174. Imu found the One Piece (V2)
175. IMUG
176. Imouth-sama
177. Imu means I'M Uzumaki-naruto
178. Imu is Angry
179. Imu is Exactly like you would expect from his sillhouette
180. Imu is Scary (V4)
181. Imu is Hypnotizing
182. Imu is The most disappointing thing you'll ever see (V6)
183. Imu is the moon
184. Imu is from the long-legs tribe (V2)
185. Imu is Three people
186. Imu ate the REAL gomu-gomu no mi
187. Imu is Medjed
188. Imu is a waifu
189. Imu is simple
190. Imu is Luffy's mom (V2)

1. Imu is ShanksBeard (V1)
2. Imu is Luffy (V1)
3. Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V1)
4. Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V2)
5. Imu is Darth Vader
6. Imu is Biblically Accurate
7. Imu is The most disappointing thing you'll ever see (V1)
8. Imu is From the Long Legs Tribe
9. Imu is Luffy's mom
10. Imu is From the Long-arms-Long-Legs Tribe
11. Imu's crown is actually a crow
12. Imu is from the No-Legs tribe
13. Imu is from the Long Neck tribe
14. Imu is The most disappointing thing you'll ever see (V2)
15. Imu is ShanksBeard (V2)
16. Imu is The most disappointing thing you'll ever see (V3)
17. Imu is Vegeta
18. Imu is A bird (V1)
19. Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V3)
20. Imu is A blank Sheet
21. Imu is From the Big Mouth Tribe
22. Imu's crown is actually its teeth
23. Imu is A bird (V2)
24. Imu is A good guy
25. Imu is The Stongest swordsman (V1)
26. Imu is A Demon
27. Imu is A rat
28. Imu is from the Akatsuki
29. Imu is an endless army of dopplegangers
30. Imu is Stronger than Luffy
31. Imu is Scary (V1)
32. Imu is The Strongest swordsman (V2)
33. Imu is A Fishman
34. Imu is A shadow
35. Imu is Cool asf
36. Imu is Luffy (V2)
37. Imu is A random flying guy
38. Imu is A brat
39. Imu is From the Three-eyed tribe (V1)
40. Imu is From the Long Legs Tribe
41. Imu Already read all of the One Piece Manga
42. Imu Just want a bigger hat
43. Imu Blows Islands for Breakfast
44. Imu is A dwarf
45. Imu Knows the biggest one piece secret
46. Imu is A fishmen hunter
47. Imu is from the teeth eyed tribe
48. Imu is The most OP character of OP
49. Imu's crown is actually a fork
50. Imu is The Legendary Sad Boy
51. Imu is Vearth
52. Imu is A Dandy
53. Imu is Down D. Stairs
54. Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V4)
55. Imu is The Redline
56. Imu is A waifu (V2)
57. Imu is A God-like Character
58. Imu is The Sandman
59. Imu is A Psychopath
60. Imu is The Stongest swordsman (V3)
61. Imu is Facing a Dilemma
62. Imu is an Emu
63. Imu is an Emo
64. Imu is Scary (V2)
65. Imu is Afraid of Luffy
66. Imu is A waifu (V2)
67. Imu is from the Hairy Legs Tribe
68. Imu is a Kabuto
69. Imu is The most disappointing thing you'll ever see (V4)
70. Imu is The funniest and most relatable character
71. Imu is Lonely
72. Imu is Oda Himself
73. Imu is Umami
74. Imu Hates the sun
75. Imu is Umi, the Sea Itself
76. Imu is The moon God
77. Imu is an Alien Species (V1)
78. Imu is a crown
79. Imu is King Elizabello the First
80. Imu is Exactly like you would expect from his sillhouette
81. Imu is From the Moon (V1)
82. Imu is From the Three-eyed tribe (V2)
83. Imu ate the Blood Blood fruit
84. Imu is A random monarch
85. Imu is A cruel monarch
86. Imu is afraid of the Laughing Demon
87. Imu is all ears
88. Imu is Celebrating his birthday
89. Imu ate the win-win fruit
90. Imu is Luffy (V3)
91. Imu is a Dark Lord
92. Imu is An old monarch
93. Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V5)
94. Imu is The most disappointing thing you'll ever see (V5)
95. Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V6)
96. Imu's crown is actually its tongue
97. Imu is From the Ashtray-head tribe
98. Imu is A Candle
99. Imu's crown is actually flowers
100. Imu is an Alien Species (V2)
101. Imu is from the mouth-over-nose tribe
102. Imu is Monet (V1)
103. Imu is The Imu Guy
104. Imu is The Void Itself
105. Imu is Buggy's Father
106. Imu is Still a child
107. Imu is Inu
108. Imu means I'M U
109. Imu is The Empty Throne
110. Imu is The N-Gage
111. Imu is a (B)I(G)MU(C)
112. Imu is The One
113. Imu is A virus
114. Imu is Gaimon
115. Imu is Pandaman
116. Imu is From the No-feet tribe
117. Imu ate the Butterfly Fruit
118. Imu is Monet (V2)
119. Imu is ShanksBeard (V3)
120. Imu is Two People
121. Imu is Tonjit
122. Imu is Higuma
123. Imu is A Vegetable
124. Imu is A bodybuilder
125. Imu is I(Lon)MU(sk)
126. Imu is Having a good time
127. Imu is S(A-E)NGOKU
128. Imu is From the Moon (V2)
129. Imu is Jango
130. Imu is The Original Den-Den Mushi
131. Imu is King Kong
132. Imu is The key to all mysteries
133. Imu is G.O.A.T.
134. Imu is Smoker's sensei
135. Imu is Heisenberg
136. Imu ate the Soul-Soul Fruit
137. Imu is Shanks
138. Imu is Roger
139. Imu ate the Fruit-Fruit Fruit
140. Imu found the One Piece
141. Imu is Stelly
142. Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V7)
143. Imu is Buddha
144. Imu is Eminem
145. Imu is Oda Himself (V2)
146. Imu is French
147. Imu is The dragon Egg from Roger's Ship
148. Imu is Louis XVI
149. Imu is Foxy
150. Imu is Scary (V3)
151. Imu is An alien Species (V3)
152. Imu is from the Chest-faced tribe
153. Imu is Rocks D. Xebec
154. Imu is Kidd (V1)
155. Imu is Kidd (V2)
156. Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V8)
157. Imu is Shanks (V2)
158. Imu is an Atlas Beetle
159. Imu is Shanks's Brother Banks
160. Imu is a Random dude
161. Imu is Ask D. Question
162. Imummy
163. Imustachio
164. Imuchacho
165. Imowgli
166. Imushroom
167. Imuthep
168. Imusician
169. Imunga
170. Imouse-ama
171. Imusketeer
172. Imumbai
173. Imascara
174. Imu found the One Piece (V2)
175. IMUG
176. Imouth-sama
177. Imu means I'M Uzumaki-naruto
178. Imu is Angry
179. Imu is Exactly like you would expect from his sillhouette
180. Imu is Scary (V4)
181. Imu is Hypnotizing
182. Imu is The most disappointing thing you'll ever see (V6)
183. Imu is the moon
184. Imu is from the long-legs tribe (V2)
185. Imu is Three people
186. Imu ate the REAL gomu-gomu no mi
187. Imu is Medjed
188. Imu is a waifu
189. Imu is simple
190. Imu is Luffy's mom (V2)

This is directed to all the more moderate folks arriving in this subreddit.
I have been lurking here for many years. I don't think this view is revelatory - but It needs repeating that this is a very radicalized subreddit, and probably becoming more so.
For a long time there was an "us vs them" mentality of bears versus bulls, with each camp (at worst) hoping the other camp gets wiped out financially.
Recently it seems to be morphing into feudal "have vs have not" mentality which I consider to be worse. Every post I read has a string of comments repeating how the disgusting landlord scum are oppressing the people. Also a general veiled resentment towards new immigrants.
I am not a landlord, but I can assure you many of them are VERY regular people - e.g. my elderly parents who are staking their retirement on a small investment property.
If you feel any resentment towards immigrants, look up the history of New York city - another fast-growing metropolitan city built on immigration. Each wave of immigrants resenting the following generation. British, Irish, Chinese, Italians, and so on... Each successive group seemingly undercutting wages and bidding up the prices of scarce commodities.
Young people in this country do have a reason to be angry, this is a raw deal. That anger should be productively put towards the organizations and entities that deserve it.
Justin Trudeau is just an average bureaucrat, he is incapable of redirecting the country on his own if he wanted to. Any prime minister we get will be governed by the same forces that are concentrating wealth across the entire developed world.
We need policies that expand the middle class again. Please be real about the problem and don't hate your neighbors.
As citizens in a liberal democracy, we need to be careful about the narratives we contribute to online. Start by realizing that this place propagates low-dosage internet radicalization. Be wary!

So some background: My Great Aunt (Gran's younger sister) tends to invite me out to see stuff like local history museums or picking out an interesting-looking movie to see together at the cinema and a few weeks/months ago we both went to see the Demon Slayer movie that had the last episodes of the Entertainment District arc combined with the first ep of the Swordsmith Village arc as promote for the latter's upcoming season and we both really enjoyed it (Ufotable's animation blew her away).
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SO! That brings me to two weeks ago when I got the idea to invite her to binge G-Witch with me since I wanted to get at least one member of the family into it, so we binged the prologue and eps 1-6 (yes leaving her on that cliffhanger of El4n getting vaporized) before she had to leave because her little Shih Tzu needed to get taken for a walk and he'd be way too lonely if she stayed till nearly midnight binging the rest of the first cour. I did get her to read Cradle World before she left though, she liked Aerial being a caring sister to little Suletta.
Apparently what she'd seen of G-Witch stuck with her so much she couldn't fall asleep because her mind kept thinking of it so she stayed up all night reading, then the next night we binged ep 7-12 and she got hooked for good so she was happy to take me up on an offer to binge S2 together the next time.
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Then a week ago I invited her to watch eps 1-6 of G-Witch S2, She enjoyed it just as much as the cour (especially Sophie's silly antics in ep13) and got a little shocked at the Eri reveal, and of course finally ending our binge in the most hilarious spot (ep 18) and after the credits rolled she turned to me and quite pointedly asked "So you're telling me, I'm going to have to wait SIX WEEKS to find out what happens next after this?" (since unlike me she's not watching it weekly so she'll have to wait until the final ep in this season airs for us to binge it together) and was just teensy bit annoyed at me confirming that since I only had to wait 2ish more days for ep19.
Epic Troll successful time to get her to watch IBO after this :P
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Some stuff she commented on during our binge sessions:

• She repeatedly pointed out how much she enjoyed the animation and cinematography Sunrise did for G-Witch.
• She had fun watching the comedy bits involving Guel in S1 and as mentioned Sophie's wacky antics in ep13
• She was absolutely not surprised when I told her how popular Suletta was, Space Tanuki has claimed another heart :V
• She had just a teensy bit of trouble telling apart the two sides during the big Desultors and Lfriths vs Beguir Pentes space battle in ep12 without cockpit shots to tell who was piloting what. Probably didn't help that since space was colored as black instead of light blue like in older series the dark colors of the Desultors and Pentes wouldn't be as visible.

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Anyway what are you own stories on getting someone into Gundam recently? (either through G-Witch or another series)

Please use this thread to ask any questions you have about the game. Please search though the comments section as your question may have been answered already or through the search bar.

General Resources

• General Database - Good for seeing Stats of Students, Drop Rate, Raid Stats
• Gameplay Help Overview - Great for New Players
• Min-Turn Stage Guide - Text Version, Japanese Website
• Min-Turn Stage Guide - YouTube Video Version
• PvP Guide -
• Raid Guide - More in-depth description on each Raid's Mechanics
• Raid Character Guide - Recommended Students for each Raid
• Unique Equipment Guide - More detailed stats number for Equipment
• Upcoming Banners
• Student Skill Level Up Priority - More in-depth guide for Student's skill level up
• Midokuni's Student Insights - General Overview of Students
• Global Event
• Gameplay Overview (Legacy Content)
• Upcoming Banners (Legacy Content)

REMINDER: Bind your account!

Please remember to bind your accounts and take note of your UID, member code, server location, and any information related to your account (e.g. amount spent, student roster, etc). If anything happens to your account (e.g. losing access, unauthorized access), you will need to provide as much info as you can to Nexon's customer support email. Guest accounts that are unbound will be extremely difficult to recover, perhaps impossible.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

[01] When does the server reset?
For global, dailies reset at 19:00 UTC and weeklies reset on Sunday.
[02] Should I re-roll this account?
This will depend on your priorities with PvE, PvP, or both, but you can generally see the “ideal” units as Iori, Hibiki, and Tsubaki for most content, while Shun and Haruna are great for PvP.
[03] Who should I spend my elephs on? Who should I mystic unlock?
At the start, prioritize spending your blank elephs on getting Serina to 2-star for the increased healing stat, Tsubaki to 3-star for the extra tankiness when she is reloading. It is generally advised not to spend your elephs on increasing characters to 4-star and 5-star ratings, since there is only a stat increase and the amount of elephs needed is quite high.
[04] What do my support students’ stats do?
Aside from increasing the stats of their own skills, support students will provide additional stat boosts to your striker team. The specific increase(s) can be viewed by clicking on “Support” on the right side of the team formation screen.
[05] What should I buy in the shop?

• Credit Shop - Buy out the bottom row of materials, then the first two tiers of enhancement stones as needed. Feel free to buy the higher tiers of enhancement stones if you feel that you have an excess of credits, which is very common.
• Eligma - This will depend on you, can reference question [03].
• Total Assault (raid) - Prioritize Maki’s elephs (until you unlock her) and save the rest of your currency for future updates that will add more low-rarity students to the shop, meaning you can unlock mystic for them without spending your eligma. You can also purchase the skill discs/blu-rays depending on your needs.
• Tactical Challenge (PvP) - Buy out the energy drinks as needed (warning: they are instantly consumed, they won’t be moved to your inventory). Many suggest to save these for events in order to buy drinks, refresh the shop, and repeat.

[06] What does the “leader” position do?
This is purely cosmetic, as it changes which student’s chibi shows up on the map.
[07] What benefits are there to joining a club?

• 10 AP are given daily and deposited automatically on teacher's mailbox, upon checking in.
• A maximum of two assistant can be set for Total Assault and Joint Firing Drill respectively.

1. Students assigned to assist with TA cannot also be selected to assist with JFD.
2. 20 credits are rewarded every minute by setting assistants.
3. The specific unit that is borrowed can be only used once a day.
4. There's a fee of 40,000 credits, when borrowing a assistant student.
5. The donor receives 50,000 credits instead; even though the fee is 40,000 credits.
6. The fee can only be received 20 times a day.

• It can be unlocked after clearing Mission 3 Act 4

[08] How does the pity system work?
You need to pull, at a minimum, 200 times in order to get 200 recruitment points that are redeemed for the character you want. The recruitment point system does not carry over from banner to banner, it is only shared between banners that are concurrently running.
[09] Why can’t I find my friend’s club?
While the servers’ updates are separated from JP and global, the global servers are separated further into smaller divisions. You need to be on the same server as your friend, which you can check from the home screen: top-right menu button > account > version info. The server must be the same.
[10] When is X banner coming? Should I save for X student?
We never know for sure, due to the fact that global servers are on an accelerated schedule compared to JP. Please refer to this guide for some more info.
[11] Should I use Pyroxenes to refill my AP?
If you want to prioritize progression, the first three daily refills are decently valuable, this is because the Pyroxene cost of refilling will increase for every three refills. If you are focused on character collection or future banners, you should be saving your Pyroxenes.
[12] Why can’t I buy X student’s eleph in the shop?
You can only buy elephs of students you own.
[13] What should I craft?
At the start, prioritize crafting cafe furniture until your comfort is maxed out, then students’ gifts, then whichever upgrade materials you need. The crafting system is the only way to get furniture and gifts at the moment.
[14] What is the “Anniversary” in account settings?
This is your birthday, used for characters to wish you happy birthday.
[15] When will the beginner guide missions for Nonomi end?
This is a permanent addition, so feel free to take your time with the tasks.
[16] What is the best place to farm EXP?
You can run any map to farm EXP, as the EXP gain is equal to the amount of AP spent (i.e. 10 AP spent = 10 EXP gained). You should be looking at the stages that drop the equipment upgrade materials that you need.
[17] What is the “Secret Tech Sheet” in the Total Assault shop?
This is used to upgrade a student’s (non-EX) skill to level 10.
[18] Is it worth doing a raid if I can’t pass X difficulty level?
It is always more efficient to clear the highest difficulty you can finish instead of failing/forfeiting a higher difficulty.
[19] Can I claim the Limited Students through exchanging Expert Permits? How often does the Expert Permit shop resets?
You cannot get the limited students via this method. You will still need to pull for them. There's no specific mentioned but it's expected to be monthly.

OthePast Megathreads

• Daily Questions
• Weekly Club Recruitment
• Weekly Kivotos Lounge
• Weekly Storytelling Plaza
• Technical Issues

Please have patience with other members of the community and be as polite as possible. Everyone has to start somewhere!

TL;DR this started as analysis, but also has a way out that could work and be better for Reddit

Third party apps are inconsequential

It may be shortsighted, but basically Reddit's API change decision makers don't actually care about third party apps. They don't want the apps gone, the apps aren't a factor for them at all. Reddit's decision makers are looking at the (sweet sweet VC backed) money, not at the visibility of what's impacted by their decisions.
Think about that anonymized chart of API usage, per backchannel mentioned elsewhere it seems that Apollo as (one of?) the largest third-party browser apps doesn't even make the top 10 of API usage, and that's with a huge dropoff from #1 to #10 on that list. Pricing was based on the usage and deep pockets of Microsoft, Google, and AI ventures backed by those companies or others being quieter about it (maybe Facebook as well, but it has its own user-generated content to mine). When you're dealing with large corporation and VC-backed research efforts, payments of millions of dollars a month are much more viable.
It's important to understand that the highest possible API use by Apollo is less than 1.4 percent of total API usage, based on Reddit's own numbers - and that's only if Apollo's usage was 11,204% of the official allowed levels [1]. In reality it sounds like Apollo's usage is well below that level, which probably means that all of the third-party Reddit browsers are likely less than 5% of API usage unless they have code problems that are inflating that usage.
So, decisions about API changes and pricing were made based on the resources and finances of the companies responsible for 95+% of API usage. The highly-visible third party apps preferred by many of their power users were just acceptable losses/unintended civilian casualties/Phan Thi Kim Phuc.

Third party apps probably can't adapt in time

Reddit set their pricing to get recurring revenue from corporations, but most of the apps out there don't even receive recurring revenue. RIF is a one-time purchase, Baconreader appears to be a one-time purchase, Narwhal is a one-time purchase, not sure about others. Apollo appears to be an outlier in having subscriptions for Apollo Ultra.
That means that for most of the third party apps, they have less than 30 days to change their business model from one-time sales to subscriptions while adding subscription support to their apps (and test it, and get it through app approval processes). But hey, developer time is free and everyone can spin up a business ready to handle tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars per month of cash flow while still holding down their day jobs, right?
And even if the coding can happen, get tested, get through code review and get distributed, let's look at those business issues for a minute, even just for Apollo which already has the subscription model in place and could adapt fastest. Assuming iamthatis is personally earning enough to be competitive with a corporate job for a skilled iOS app developer, is paying his server developer something comparable, and assuming that the server hosting costs are similar in scope, all of that combined is an annual revenue stream that's still probably well under $1 million per year - and that comes with some big assumptions. What kind of business changes would need to happen for that small company to suddenly handle ten times that revenue (not profits, revenue, most would immediately go back out). There are accounting requirements, tax implications, banking concerns (what would happen if he'd been using Silicon Valley Bank and deposits hadn't been fully backed as they were?) all sorts of issues that companies normally grow into. (I used ten times revenue because who knows what percentage of people would stay?)
Heck, that assumes that Google and Apple wouldn't have an issue with apps that were previously pretty insignificant money-wise suddenly having a lot of money moving through them - and I didn't even talk about app store cuts either.

Malicious, Indifferent, or Incompetent, does it matter?

Basically as far as the third party apps like Apollo, RIF, etc. are concerned Reddit has done the bare minimum needed to be able to say "see, we gave options! We didn't kill the apps!" while doing it in a way that makes the demise of all or almost all third party apps almost inevitable.
Did someone want the apps dead? Maybe, at least in a "will nobody rid me of this troublesome app" kind of way possibly coming from the team responsible for the official app. After all, if you get rid of all the third party apps maybe people will stop complaining about the one you're responsible for. All the benefits of killing a competitor off, without the internal political backblast of sabotaging another internal team!
Did they just not care, because the third party apps just don't matter if you only look at the raw API numbers? That seems more likely.
Or finally, did nobody realize that the people most likely to be using third-party apps are also the most likely to be both longer-term users and power users, some of them in positions where they give a lot more to Reddit than Reddit has ever given them (*waves* hi unpaid moderators!)?

Can Reddit fix it?

Almost certainly yes and pretty easily, but it would require a change of approach. It'd probably also make them noticeably more money. It really comes down to which is more important - saving face and having someone's authoritah respected on the one side getting more revenue and not killing all third party apps (with attendant community reaction) on the other.
The truly simple option would be to require users of third party apps to have a paid account - probably not full Reddit Premium but a cheaper option at $1-3/month or $15-20/year. Reddit already has everything needed for this and it'd likely require pretty minimal changes on the backend since most or all of the API already accepts user account information. If they wanted to incentivize people to get full Premium (or even a possible future higher tier, maybe "Reddit Family?"), have Premium and higher allow one or more additional user IDs associated and possibly have higher API usage limits. Precise numbers would need to be ironed out (e.g. does the bottom tier allow multiple accounts with a smaller shared API pool, etc), but that would address a lot of the users who have multiple accounts for different uses.
Having Reddit handle the subscriptions would get the money to them directly, provide ways for them to increase the revenue per user (e.g. by upsells to better plans differentiated by users, limits, coins, etc) and still provide a pretty easy way to monetize the API. It might even let them actually increase the API cost for heavy users without impacting non-scrapers. In addition, that money would be going to Reddit, without having a large chunk taken by the app stores (someone at Reddit knows about the app store surcharges, because their app store prices for Premium are $10-12/year higher than on the site). In addition, $2/month to Reddit with them getting all of it is more than $3+/month to an app (minus 30% for the app store, minus overhead of having another company involved, and minus the app developer having to account for the risk of heavy users driving up API costs) of which maybe Reddit gets half.
But what about the free users and people not logged in?
For this, they really don't count. Maybe Reddit could make a small set of features/subreddits available at no cost, or maybe app developers with backend servers could cache some things and make them available to read by free users, but since this is all about Reddit monetizing usage the answer for free users is probably going to end up as "Use the Reddit app or website."
Notes:
[1] Sum the percentages given on the chart, then use 11,204 for Apollo's theoretical percentage since the lowest in the top 10 is 11,205. Divide appropriately.

That is, if you're running it in an Atla Palani, Nest Tender Deck. For those who don't know, Atla Palani is a 4 mana Human Shaman for {1}{r}{g}{w} that has you pay 2 and tap her to make an egg and when that egg dies, you flip cards from the top of your library until you hit a creature card, then that creature enters the battlefield.
Sorrow's path, which, by the way has been widely considered as MTG's worse land, reads {t}: Choose two target blocking creatures an opponent controls. If each of those creatures could block all creatures that the other is blocking, remove both of them from combat. Each one then blocks all creatures the other was blocking. Whenever Sorrow's Path becomes tapped, it deals 2 damage to you, and to each creature you control.
Now I know you might be thinking, "How is dealing damage to your own creatures a good thing? That's gotta be the biggest drawback ever!" Let me explain, the egg's that Atla makes are 0/1s and when those die, you get a big effect! Atla is a 2/3 so it won't die to Path and the fact that you can mess with an opponent when they block is just a fun little bonus. Not to mention, if you build Atla Palani Dinos, it's effects are two fold because of a little thing called enrage which give you powerful effects for when those dinos deal damage.
I also find that Sorrow's path is also just a really strong way to get a bunch of death triggers at the same time! In response to a Wrath effect happening, you could very easily say "In response I tap Sorrow's path, kill all my Zombies and have each of you lose 10 life from Blood Artist and I'll gain 10! HAHA!"
To me, one of the greatest joys of EDH as a whole is finding cards (especially the one's that are considered really bad) that don't see play anywhere, and using what would generally be a downside as an upside for that particular deck. While I don't see Sorrow's Path being good in a lot of decks, the select few that want things on your side of the board to die would definitely be impactful. Because after all, isn't EDH all about Shenanigans in the first place?

They make comments about her being mentally delayed, emotionally stunted, mentally ill, borderline mentally handicapped, needing mental health support, etc. Which is plenty obvious where you don't need to be skinny legend, wizard psychology master like Sara to see this. Big Al is morbidly obese, lacks hygiene from not showering, bleed from her vagina for a year where people did claim they could smell it, you can see the dandruff and greasy hair, her rotten tooth, she can't even wipe her own ass properly, and so on.
Al lacks boundaries and understanding of emotions, while she has a child like emotional range e.g having that tantrum over cereal, hoarding of random items, food aggression, showing that bloody mess on camera, etc.
Yet if they know this why do they obesses over her so much? She's so low ranking it's not even worth comparing how much better you are to some stinky, morbidity obese, mentally ill, mentally delayed loser who struggles to wipe their ass. Whenever you mention this you get accused of being an 'Ambaby' for having eyes. I thought it was especially trash when they got mad at big Al for not wanting to take pain killers when knowing Al's parents were such drug addicts that Al went into foster care.
Sara who apparently is meant to be a professional in the matters of the mind and gym (photoshop selfies lol), still went on a rant on how she's so much better than Al in every way possible. When Al didn't even acknowledge her at the time. The rage in that chav's face during the coconut oil rant is insane. Which is a reflection of haydurs/toxicity of gorl world. Here you are being supposedly successful, moral, and happy though taking time to rage over Al as if she's personally violating your soul on the regular.

Before I start, below is the table of content of what kind of people we need. Please read the info to know more about the positions. Programmers will require knowledge in Unreal Engine 5 and C++!

a.) Concept Art: Weapons	b.) Concept Art: Environment	c.) 3D Art: Clothing & Armor
d.) VFX Artists	e.) Live Service Designers	f.) Unreal Programmers
g.) QA Testers

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Hello dear readers!
I am Scole (aka Sandi) and I am the community manager and recruiter for Intrinsic Interactive, the company whose current project is an upcoming MOBA; Avengard.
We are searching for people who are interested in help us develop a dream game. A 3rd person MOBA where players can make their own heroes! Be it a mighty warrior that goes headfirst into battles, a tanky knight that soaks in all the damage, a mage that uses the elements of nature to raze the battlefield, an archer that snipes enemies from afar, a stealthy assassin that specializes in subterfuge... or maybe... something completely different?
There are many different combinations the players will be able to make when they customize their characters. Different gear, a plethora of weapons, many abilities to choose from, hair, accessories... and even... attributes! We want them to choose their own playstyle by making the characters fit their liking.Below is the info for the qualifications and what we need (at the very bottom there is more info regarding programmers*):
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a.) Concept Art: Weapons - As the name implies, we want more artists to help us out in creating beautiful weapons for our modelers to bring them to life! And don't worry. Weapons of all types and different designs! Your creativity will be the limit~
b.) Concept Art: Environment - Have you ever thought of a beautiful scenery you wish would be shaped into the game? Perhaps ruins of an old fort? A windmill? A grove? Well you got the opportunity to perhaps fulfill this desire of yours...~
c.) 3D Art: Clothing & Armor - Are you good with blendshapes? Have you ever wanted to be an armorsmith or tailor for clothing assets? We are searching for talented 3D modelers that would be willing to help us in creating these for our Character Editor!
d.) VFX Artists - Earth, water, fire, wind and... lightning! Okay it's more than just those, but we're in need of VFX Artists who know how to create enchanting effects with the NIAGARA particle system in the Unreal Engine! In case you don't know how to use the system, don't worry. :) If you have previous VFX Experience or BP programming you can start studying it and help us out!
e.) Live Service Designers - Think you know how to keep a game interesting for a long time? Come and show us!
f.) Unreal Programmers - We seek programmers who have experience with Unreal Engine 5, C++ and Blueprints... that's pretty much it.
g.) QA Testers - Wanna help us squash the nasty bugs and fix all those holes and glitches? Come and be a QA Tester for our game!
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If you happen to be a programmer that has Unreal Engine 5 you will be required to know C++, but if you happen to know Blueprint instead of C++, not all hope is lost! You can still learn it, but it will require you having knowledge about another programming language (e.g. Python).
If you wish to know more, here is our game's website: https://playavengard.com/
If you want to help us create the game of our dreams, increase your portfolio or are motivated on helping us leave a great mark in the MOBA history, then feel free in contacting me! Reach out by DM-ing me on Reddit or add me on Discord (Scole#3883). You can also join our Discord if you want to know more about the game: https://discord.gg/5MBKagMcDZ
Thank you in advance for reading the post or at least giving it a view!
I hope to hear from some of you and I wish you all a nice day/evening!