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More Than Meets the Eye #14- Everything’s Coming Up Overlord

Our issue opens up with a prologue.

Two miles below the surface of the moon, two miners are going at it, as they discuss the merits of their respective tools. As the guy with the pickaxe hits the floor below him, he exposes a bright green light hiding in the ground.

The miners, amazed, make a call to their boss, Momus; the very same Momus who would one day become a Senator and eventually be killed by the Senate for his Decepticon sympathies.

Momus, once made aware of the situation, makes his own call to the Functionist Council, siting that a Code 113- because of COURSE it is- is taking place. The Council responds by shutting down the mine and sending a representative to check things out. The representative claims his name is Three of Twelve, but I know The One Electronic when I friggin’ see him.

The green light, once authenticated, is scheduled for retrieval and “nurturing”. Because Momus is in charge of the mine, and this green light is a super big deal, Three of Twelve grants him the status of Alt-Mode Exempt; he can basically do whatever the hell he wants, free of Functionist meddling. Dang, Whirl should have tried digging one of these things up! Would’ve saved him a lot of heartache.

Guys, c’mon, it’s Momus! You ought to know by now that he’ll fuck you, but he doesn’t fucking need you. You ain’t getting a thing, and you also won’t have any time to unionize, because you’re going to be dead by the end of the day.

That green light turned out to be a spark, the sort of “soul” that a Transformer has at the core of their being. That murderous little ball of light is a robot zygote.

…They really let the guy with the well-documented thing with pregnancy handle the reproductive aspect of the world building, huh?

Anyway, it’s time to see what Milne’s take on Last Stand of the Wreckers looks like.

Wow, that is just the uncoolest line. I mean, wow.

Make note of Overlord’s lips here. We’ll be seeing a lot more of them once the lady robots make an appearance.

Overlord makes quick work of Springer, punching him into the dirt, and we see someone who most certainly was NOT present for the events of Last Stand.

We do that, jumping to the part where Ironfist explodes Overlord with his mind.

He didn’t say that! My immersion in this story about giant space robots is broken!

This obviously leads to Overlord being reduced to a flaming skeleton, and he screams at Chromedome to scoot his boot so he can get at Verity. Chromedome refuses, antagonizes the guy who’s at least three times his size, then initiates a scene change with a literal snap of his fingers.

Lot of good reference material for Chromedome in this issue. Artists take note.

Here is our first taste of mnemosurgery on someone who isn’t dead or dying, as well as our first taste of Chromedome having something resembling self confidence.

Outside of Overlord’s brain foyer, Chromedome stands on a forklift, with both of his horrid, needly hands punched into his patient’s head. Overlord is still very much in the position we saw him in issue #6, hooked up in a full body harness in something called a slow cell.

Overlord, still very sad that he got stood up by Megatron, tells Chromedome to kill him. Chromedome refuses, saying that he wouldn’t even if he could.

Hey, Chromedome. Maybe don’t tell this guy you can’t kill him. Just seems like maybe not the best idea.

Chromedome gets back to work, getting perhaps a bit too comfortable as he pulls himself up a chair from- I dunno, Overlord’s brain aether.

This really is your element, isn’t it, Chromedome? You’re just straight-up power tripping right now. No wonder Rewind has to literally beg you to not do this.

We jump into another one of Overlord’s memories, where’s he’s getting his shit absolutely destroyed by Megatron in a gladiator fight. We get our first taste of information creep as a concept, which is referred to as eidetic decay here.

I wanna know what the purple guy with the blue visor’s face situation is. Don’t think we’ve run into anyone like that before. It’s a little concerning, if I’m being honest.

We move on to the next memory, but it looks like “same shit, different day” is a huge part of who Overlord is as an individual, because it’s just more of him getting whaled on by Megatron.

After this uncomfortably intimate moment, Megatron puts his bucket helmet back on and states that Overlord is finally “ready.”

Ready for what, you might ask?

You remember that obscene sort of fascination of Roberts’ that we keep running into? We’re about to delve into some of that right now. But first- the set up.

We’re in a new memory, in a place called the Foundry, and Overlord’s been stripped down to his robotic skivvies and placed in a large glass tank. Megatron walks up, berating Rossom (of Rossom’s Trinity fame) and saying “to hell with safety protocols, I’m Megatron and I say we make Overlord into a Phase Sixer, meh meh meh.” Shockwave is there.

Rossom’s concerned about this project, because A) they’re going to be using the last of their ununtrium to do this, and B) if it works, Overlord’s going to be the strongest motherfucker ever, and he’ll probably try to kill Megatron.

Ununtrium is something that actually exists in the real world, though it in no way works like it does in MTMTE. Ununtrium is actually an outdated name for the element Nihonium, a synthetic chemical element, whose most stable form has a half-life of 10 seconds. It has no known properties or qualities, because it simply doesn’t last long enough to be studied that in-depth. So why use this element in the story? The answer lies in the placeholder name itself. Ununtrium was named so because it’s the 113th element in the periodic table.

In other words, Ununtrium was used because Roberts is a massive nerd.

Because Overlord’s a Point One Percenter, and in fact that murderous little spark we saw at the beginning of the issue, he ought to be perfectly fine. Shockwave has planted a killswitch in the guy’s brain in case he tries something funny on Megatron.

The narrative is interrupted for a moment as Chromedome chastises Overlord for being kind of sleepy in his memories. Then Chromedome lets something slip that he probably really shouldn’t have.

With the contingencies in place, it’s time to get the Phase Sixer show on the road.

Well, there it is.

Oh, and a bit more.

Overlord thanks Rossom for all his hard work by crushing his skull, and thus the story of how he became a Phase Sixer draws to a close.

Megatron, you had literally zero reason to say that. This is how you can tell Roberts wrote this scene to fuck with people.

Back in the white void, Chromedome’s patting himself on the back over a job well done. In the background, Overlord’s smiling.

It’s never a good thing when Overlord smiles.

If Chromedome had just kept things professional and didn’t keep bringing up their shared history, Overlord wouldn’t be able to have another flashback- this one’s got Starscream and Thundercracker in it! No word on where Skywarp’s gotten to. Skywarp doesn’t get a ton of attention in IDW Transformers.

The three of them are bombing what appears to be a wasteland, on word from Decepticon intel that there’s something worth looking for in the area. Turns out, intel was right.

Chromedome, suddenly antsy, pulls them out of the memory, demanding to know why this is happening. Overlord just smiles.

Oh, hey Brainstorm. What brings you to the New Institute?

Chromedome, your war crimes are showing! Turns out Mnemosurgery and Shadowplay are the same fucking thing.

As Chromedome assists in what appears to be an empurata in progress, he’s shot in the gut, as present-Chromedome screams and reaches for himself.

Overlord and company release Soundwave, who is in no way grateful for the assist. They leave quickly, Overlord taking Trepan as a souvenir, because that’s just the kind of guy he is. He kidnaps people.

As Chromedome in the past lays bleeding out on the floor, Chromedome in the present decides it’s time to share his feelings.

Prowl did Chromedome a solid after Zeta came into Primehood, and got him an internship at the New Institute. The one time Prowl was nice to his partner, and it’s to hook him up with a job that can and will kill him the more frequently he does it.

Chromedome was so good at poking people in the brain, he got a nickname out of it. That nickname? Chromedome.

Yeah, his real name is Tumbler.

Chromedome remembers himself, and the fact that they shouldn’t be seeing any of this, because Overlord is the patient and he wasn’t there for this info dump.

Overlord’s still smiling.

Overlord may be a lot of things, but he’s no dummy. He took Trepan with him to learn mnemosurgery, in an attempt to learn the secrets of the Achilles Virus Shockwave planted in his brain. He didn’t complete his training, because Megatron caught wind, but major smart boy points to you, Overlord.

Now he’s going to use his own mnemosurgery skills to bust on out of here.

Chromedome, Overlord has been killing fools since literally before he was born, and you basically handed him a rope to hang you with.

SMASH CUT TO:

There he is, Cybertron’s #1 Bastard Bachelor! Of course he’s involved with this!

All that stuff Rung told Fort Max in issue #6, about Overlord’s spark being in a whiteout vacuum? A giant ruddy lie fed to the public, to give High Command a chance to figure out what they were going to do with him.

Prowl, they are MARRIED, you giant space ass.

Prowl has a theory that Phase Sixers aren’t born, but made. We as the readers, of course, already know this, but we’ve got to know where we’ve been before we can figure out where we’re going. He’s invited Chromedome to his office to ask him to mnemosurgery Overlord up and get the secret Krabby Patty formula Phase Sixer recipe.

Chromedome, doesn’t want to do that, though. He wants to live in a peaceful world, where Rewind doesn’t have to worry about his impending, work-related death.

How exactly mnemosurgery kills practitioners is never exactly explained. I, however, have a theory.

We’ve already established that if you inject enough times, you start getting crossover with your patients’ memories in your own brain. We’ve seen it happen with Chromedome in the Annual, and it was vivid enough that he wasn’t sure if the memory of committing suicide by way of Gideon’s Glue was his own or not.

Because Transformers are very similar in bodily functions to humans- because this isn’t hard sci-fi- it stands to reason that more than just memories reside in the brain module. The brain controls movement, organ regulation, chemical balances, all that jazz.

Where does the line for memory get drawn? Who’s to say that bodily functions wouldn’t start bleeding through the connection? If you can have memories bleed through and have to double-check with someone on whether or not they’re yours, who’s to say that it can’t happen with other parts of the brain? Like programming for your robotic organs? If a patient clearly remembers how hard their fuel pump was going during a stressful situation, does that stress response translate for the surgeon’s body type, or does it stay at what it had been for the original brain?

If Chromedome’s fuel pump starts going at a rate designed for a guy the size of Fort Max, it’s probably going to explode.

Getting back to the story at hand, Chromedome says “thanks, but no thanks” and is walking out of the room, when Prowl does something kind of stupid:

He starts threatening to blackmail the guy who has pointy mind-wiper fingers and doesn’t really like him all that much.

This is one of the larger seeds involved with a dropped story plot, in which it would have been revealed that Chromedome had been part of the mission that led to Dominus Ambus’ disappearance. It was seeded very early on in MTMTE, but never came to fruition, mainly due to the fact that Roberts didn’t want to give Chromedome and Rewind’s relationship that much of a trench to jump over. I mean, how would you even handle that, finding out that your current husband was complacent in the disappearance of your first husband? It’d be messy. Way too messy to be wrapped up cleanly. There’s other aspects of that plot thread that I’ll cover later on, but trust me when I say it would have needed its own spin-off series to be properly handled and resolved. A spin-off series that it wouldn’t have gotten.

As it currently stands, the interpretation of what exactly Chromedome did that would warrant him getting cagey here is wide open. Was he involved with the Ostaros situation in Sins of the Wreckers? Did he have a past with a Decepticon that Rewind wouldn’t have approved of? Was he a Decepticon at some point? Does he not like dogs? It’s up to YOU, dear reader!

Prowl’s threat goes about as well as you’d expect.

I mean, really, what did you THINK was going to happen?

Chromedome wipes the memory of making the threat, as well as the information that made the threat possible, then leaves, and Prowl is none the wiser.

Overlord’s not done yet, though. He moves on to the next memory, which involves a giant, naked human. Chromedome enters Brainstorm’s lab, while he’s hard at work on the holomatter avatars. Brainstorm has stolen Perceptor’s sniper sight and is wearing it on his head. Why does he have it? What purpose does it serve him? Who knows!

Drift is accompanying Chromedome on this little visit, and thus the identity of the mystery door-whisperer from issue #12 is revealed.

Watch out for his hands, Drift.

The mystery of the oddly threatening medical drone is also revealed- Brainstorm had them all loaded up with a speech recognition program that would alert Drift whenever Overlord was mentioned.

With introductions to Project: Total Insanity out of the way, it’s time to get technical.

Five seconds for Overlord is thirty minutes for the rest of the Lost Light. In theory, if he somehow broke loose from his bindings and escaped his cell, they’d have plenty of time to scramble the troops and get ready for him.

Let’s see how that theory works when applied to real world testing, shall we?

Overlord gets the code to the cell, thanks to this merry little jaunt inside Chromedome’s brain he’s decided to take, rips free of his bonds, and makes his exit. Chromedome, temporarily paralyzed and mute from the strain of doing such a long deep reading on Overlord, can only watch as he walks out the door, making a promise to find Rewind first when he starts killing everyone on the ship.

Oh man, this next one’s gonna be a doozy.

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Title: Everything You Do Convinces Me More - Chapter 2 Collaborator Name: ceealaina Card Number: 3088 Link: AO3 Square Filled: A4 - Pining Ship: Stony Rating: Explicit Major Tags: Pranks and Practical Jokes, Explicit Sexual Content Summary: Steve likes to prank people. And then he and Tony hook up. There's some kind of connection to the two events in there somewhere. Word Count: 9383

Steve sighed heavily for the fifth time in an hour as Tony flicked the ‘page’ on the document he was reading on his tablet. Truthfully he hadn’t actually read a word in more than twenty minutes, but he continued to focus on the screen, pretending to be fascinated by whatever he found there. He could feel Steve’s eyes on him, staring at him over his empty breakfast plate, but Tony didn’t dare look up at him for even a second, certain that if he met Steve’s gaze he’d start laughing and ruin everything. He grabbed for his coffee mug, taking a long sip to hide the quiver of a smile in his lips.

Eventually Steve couldn’t linger over his long-finished breakfast any more, and he pushed his chair back from the table, sighing again.

“Jesus Christ,” Tony heard Clint mutter from the toaster.

“I’m going for a run,” Steve announced to the room at large. “And then I’ll be around the tower. If anyone needs me.” He got mumbled affirmations from Sam and Clint, and waited a long beat. “Bye Tony.”

“Bye Cap,” Tony said, trying to sound as absent as possible, and oh god, he couldn’t look up, he couldn’t, he couldn’t, he was going to start to laugh. He choked it back down, swallowing and biting at his lip until he heard Steve leave the room. Then he composed himself enough to look up and stare at the door longingly for a long minute before swallowing back half the coffee in one go and hopping to his feet. “Shit, I’m so late,” he said for Sam and Clint’s benefit. “Pep’s gonna kill me.”

He was just outside the door when he heard Sam and Clint both groan, Clint grumbling something about drowning in sexual tension. Tony bolted, and managed to make it to the stairwell before he burst out laughing, having to sit on the step to catch his breath.

***

Twenty minutes later found Tony not at SI or in the lab, but straddling thick thighs, fingers running through soft hair as he made out with Steve, the two of them sprawled in his favourite recliner.

“Is this what we’re calling “a run” now?” he teased, pulling away enough to appreciate Steve’s heavy eyes and swollen, red lips.

“I mean…” Steve’s eyes sparkled mischievously as he dragged his tongue slowly along his upper lip, knowing exactly what that did to Tony. “It’s technically still exercise, just… a different form of exercise.”

Tony giggled a little, shifting on Steve’s lap to press in closer, kissing him again. “I don’t know, Steve,” he hummed between kisses, shivering a little as Steve’s big hands wrapped around his thighs, pulling him in tight until they were pressed entirely together, Steve’s hips arching into the contact. “So far there hasn’t been that much exercise involved. Kissing only burns like 90 calories an hour.” He moaned softly as Steve nipped at his lower lip. “And running is like — oh — like 100 calories a mile. And you can run what, 26 miles in an hour, when you’re not even trying that hard? So, so…” He trailed off for a second, nails digging into the back of Steve’s neck when long fingers slipped under his waistband at the back of his pants. “So we’d have to — fuck, Steve — have to kiss for like 28 hours to burn the same amount of calorieees.” His voice trailed off into a high-pitched whine as Steve’s finger slid down the cleft of his ass, making Tony’s toes curl.

“Mmm-hmm,” Steve said, sounding faintly amused as he kissed over Tony’s neck. “Fuck, I love it when you talk science in bed.”

Tony huffed out a laugh, squirming against Steve. “Technically… technically it’s math.”

Steve made a face at him, biting down on his earlobe in retaliation and making Tony groan happily at the feeling. “God, the attitude.” He shook his head, laughing even as he spoke. “You wanna burn more calories, Shellhead?”

He didn’t give Tony the chance to respond before he was abruptly standing up. He nearly upset Tony on the floor, catching him at the last second and smirking at the shriek Tony let out.

“Ingrate,” Tony grumbled, no heat in his voice as his thighs tightened around Steve’s waist. Steve just laughed and bit at Tony’s lower lip as he moved them towards the bedroom. He kicked the door open, which absolutely did not make Tony squirm against him, and all but tossed him on to the bed. Tony was still giggling when Steve climbed up over him, framing him with his body and grinning down at him before kissing Tony again. “God, you feel good,” Tony moaned, head tilting back as Steve ground down against his dick. Then he snorted with laughter. “Did you see Clint’s face when you made that sad little sighing sound?”

Steve groaned, the sound decidedly unsexy. “You are not thinking about Clint right now.”

“What?” Tony blinked up at him with wide eyes, the hint of a smirk playing around the corner of his lips. “I can multitask!”

Steve arched an eyebrow at him and then was yanking Tony’s pants down over his hips in one quick movement, shoving his legs up and settling quite comfortably between his legs with his mouth hovering over Tony’s silk boxer briefs, pulled tight around his hard cock.

“Tony,” he said. “You’re not thinking about Clint right now.”

Tony shuddered beneath him. “Sure thing, Cap,” he said, grinning and arching his hips up. “Whatever you say.”

***

A couple of days later, Natasha walked into the gym and stopped dead. “Uh.”

In a rare moment of speechlessness, she glanced behind her and then up at the ceiling, half expecting Clint to be hanging from the vents, recording her. When there was no one else to be seen, she looked forward again, frowning at the sight of Tony, splayed across one of the crash mats and staring aimlessly up at the ceiling. One hand was resting over his chest and he gave a long, drawn-out sigh.

“Uh,” she said again, and then shook her head. “Tony? You alright?”

“Hmm?” Tony startled, like he hadn’t even noticed her coming in, and then shook his head. “Sorry, I was just… Thinking.”

Nat wrinkled her nose, blinking up at the speakers. “Is this Air Supply?”

Tony hummed along to a few bars of All Out of Love before looking over at her. “Yeah, I guess so,” he admitted before falling back into silence. Nat shook her head.

“Didn’t you have a meeting this morning?”

“Yeah,” Tony admitted with a heavy sigh. “I wasn’t feeling it, so I cancelled.” He blinked at her. “Sorry, did you want to work out?”

“That is generally what people do in the gym,” she agreed, giving a pointed look to his current position.

“Right, of course. I’ll go.” He hauled himself to his feet with a forlorn sort of look over to the doors. “Sorry, I was waiting… Thought somebody…” He trailed off and cleared his throat. “Anyway. Have a good workout, Nat.”

Nat waited until he was gone before pinching the bridge of her nose and swiping a hand over his face. “Jesus fucking Christ,” she muttered before setting out to take on the heavy bags extra hard. “If those two aren’t already fucking, I’m gonna throw them both off the roof.”

***

Steve was going over some case files when Rhodey walked in. “There you are!” he yelled, making Steve stare up at him with wide eyes. Before he could respond, Rhodey was tossing a notebook down on the table beside him. “What the fuck is this?”

“Oh.” Steve zeroed in on the book and felt his cheeks heat up. It was a joke, but it was still a little embarrassing. His ‘diary’ was filled with terrible poetry and ridiculously detailed descriptions of how much he loved various aspects of Tony that most people wouldn’t even notice. In his defense, Rhodes was the last person he’d expected to find it. “Uh, where…” He cleared his throat. “Where did you get that?”

Rhodey arched an eyebrow, looking totally unimpressed. “It was by the pool. Laying it on a little thick there, aren’t you Rogers?”

“Uh. What do you mean?” Steve asked, not quite able to meet his eyes.

Rhodey made a noise like he was embarrassed on Steve’s behalf and then picked it up, rifling through until he found a particular page. “Tony’s eyes are so beautiful, I could drown in them. They’re like chocolate syrup, melting in the coffee he drinks so much. They’re so warm and inviting, and I love the way they sparkle when he laughs, the way his skin crinkles up around them. There’s so --,”

“Okay, okay!” Steve burst out, not sure if he wanted to laugh, or melt into a puddle of humiliation. He groaned, burying his face in his hands. “Please stop.”

Rhodey tossed the book back down into his lap. “Not even Barton is gonna buy that shit.”

“It’s not shit,” Steve protested automatically, before picking up on what he was saying. “Wait. You know?”

Rhodey rolled his eyes, but there was the hint of a smile on his lips. “I’m sorry, was I not supposed to know that you two have been fucking for months? If anyone knows what Tony looks like when he’s smitten and getting some, it’s me.”

Steve rubbed at the back of his neck to hide his smile. “He’s smitten?” he asked, feeling his cheeks flush all over again.

“Good lord, you two are disgusting, and absolutely meant for each other.” Rhodey grinned at him. “But Rogers, you hurt him, and I will end you.”

Steve couldn’t help grinning back. “Square deal.”

***

Steve was back in the big communal kitchen with Clint and Sam when Tony walked in, typing on his phone with one hand, the other occupied with a tray of coffee. Fucking with the team or not, Steve couldn’t keep his eyes from trailing down Tony’s body in appreciation. His suit jacket had already been abandoned, and Steve let his eyes linger on the curve of Tony’s ass before he ducked his head to hide the stupid smile spreading across his face.

“Hey Shellhead,” he said to the table before finally composing himself enough to lift his head. Fortunately, Sam and Clint took the flush of his face as embarrassment -- he didn’t miss their shared eyeroll. “How was your meeting?”

Tony positively beamed at him, and god, Steve was so going to drag him to bed later. “Rocked it,” he told him, pleased, before scoffing just a little. “Come on, Cap, was there really any doubt?”

“Nah,” Steve admitted, eyes still locked with Tony’s. “You’re amazing at everything you do.”

Their eyes stayed on each other for a few moments longer, and then Steve realized that they were probably being a little obvious, especially when he noticed that Sam and Clint had progressed to full-on nudging each other, waggling their eyebrows and looking back and forth between the two of them. Tony seemed to realize the same thing at the same time, and in almost perfect unison they looked away from each other again. Steve cleared his throat to keep from laughing.

“Hey!” Tony said brightly. “I brought coffee for everyone.” He set the take-out tray in the middle of the table, but then yelped when Sam reached for one. “Oh no, wait, sorry. That one’s for Steve.” He gave him an extra smile. “Put in that caramel syrup you like.”

Steve resisted the urge to glare at him. He hated caramel syrup, the taste too sweet for his hyperactive taste buds, and Tony knew it. Sam knew it too, but as he opened his mouth to comment, Steve kicked him discreetly in the ankle and ignored his wince as he beamed back at Tony. “Thanks, Tony! That’s fantastic.”

He took a long sip, bracing himself, but warmth that had nothing to do with the coffee spread through him as the taste of hazelnut -- his actual favourite -- flooded his mouth. Good lord, he loved this man.

They made small talk for a few minutes, long enough for Steve to finish his extra-large coffee, and then he excused himself, leaving the empty container on the table. He lingered in the hall because he couldn’t help himself, wanting to listen.

Clint went to throw his own empty cup in the garbage, grabbing Steve’s as he went, but Tony grabbed his arm before he could. “Ow!” Clint whined, more on the principle of the thing since Tony hadn’t actually grabbed him that hard. “What the fuck, Stark?”

“I’ll, uh. I’ll take that. Steve’s cup.”

Clint arched an eyebrow at him as Tony yanked it out of his hand. “It’s empty.”

“Yep.” Tony agreed. There was a long, awkward moment of silence, Clint and Sam both staring at him, and then Tony cleared his throat. “Anyway, is that Pepper I hear arriving? Better run, you know how I hate paperwork. Bye!”

He practically ran through the door and Steve grabbed him in the hall, pushing him up against the wall and kissing him before Tony’s laughter could escape and give them both away. “Really, Tony?” he asked. “An empty coffee cup?”

Tony grinned up at him, eyes sparkling, and squirmed a little as Steve loomed over him. “Well.” He shrugged, unrepentant. “Your lips touched it.”

Steve snorted. “That’s not the only thing my lips are gonna touch,” he growled. Then he clapped his hand over Tony’s mouth as he cackled in delight. “You’re a menace,” he told him, laughing himself. “You’re going to get us caught. Come on, we’re going to bed.”

“Oooh,” Tony teased as Steve practically dragged him down the hall. “An afternoon delight. My favourite.”

Steve ignored that, not letting go of Tony’s hand until he had dragged him to his own suite of rooms, marginally closer than the penthouse. Tony was laughing the whole way, loving it when Steve got all demanding like this.

They managed to make it to Steve’s bedroom without getting caught, more and more of a miracle every day, and Steve immediately shoved Tony onto the bed, crawling on top of him and smothering his laughter with more kisses.

“You know,” he said conversationally when he pulled back. “A fella could take the fact that you’re still laughing the wrong way.”

Tony laughed harder, but his fingers were drawing tantalizing equations over Steve’s back. “Sorry,” he told him, not sounding it at all. “I’m just… Happy.”

Steve felt a stupid smile creeping across his own face. “Well. I’m glad I make you happy.”

Tony snorted. “It’s not you,” he told him, obviously lying. “I just like… Pranking the team.” He couldn’t seem to stop smiling though. “Jeez, Rogers. Vain much?”

“Oh right, of course. It’s the team. My mistake.” He ducked his head, sucking a bruise into Tony’s collarbone that finally stopped him from laughing, tossing his head back with a low groan. His legs tightened around Steve’s hips, hands sliding lower to pull up the hem of his t-shirt and scratch his fingers over his back. Steve grinned against his skin, flicking his tongue out to soothe the sting and delighting in the way Tony shivered beneath him at the touch.

“That better not be above my collar,” he grumbled, but he was grinning, his voice already rough with want. “I have important meetings, Rogers. Gotta be presentable, business appropriate. I have a reputation, you know?”

Steve huffed out a laugh against Tony’s neck, making him shiver again at the sensation. “When in your life have you ever cared about being business appropriate?”

“I resent that,” Tony told him, face open and bright. “I think you better make it up to me.”

“Oh yeah?” Steve kissed his way down Tony’s neck, unbuttoning the top button of his shirt to give him more access to skin. “How would you like me to do that?” he asked, smiling smugly when he felt Tony’s hips rock up against his.

“Jesus, Steve,” Tony grumbled, still laughing. “Just get inside me, already.”

Steve grinned, but he didn’t do it right away. Slowly, he unbuttoned Tony’s shirt and kissed his way down his chest as he went. He took his time, teasing Tony’s skin with fingers and teeth and tongue until he was a panting, squirming mess beneath him, hands scrabbling over Steve’s cotton-clad back.

“Steve,” he whined, dragging his name out and bucking his hips up to grind their cocks together and make them both groan. “God, you’re such an asshole.”

Steve lifted his head long enough to smirk at him before arching up to close his lips around a nipple, tugging at it with his teeth until Tony was hissing out a breath.

“Okay, okay,” Steve laughed. “I’m sorry.” He leaned back, tugging his shirt off over his head and preening a little at the way, no matter how many times they had done this, Tony’s eyes caught on his chest, a soft, involuntary, pleased noise slipping past his lips. Ducking his head to hide his smile, Steve busied himself with hauling off Tony’s pants, then squirmed his way out of his own, laughing when Tony’s attempts at ‘helping’ ended up with him groping Steve’s ass, and the whole thing taking twice as long as it should have.

“God, you’re a nuisance,” Tony muttered, like it was somehow Steve’s fault. Steve bit his upper thigh in retaliation, then patted the side of his ass.

“Come on, pass me the lube.”

“Fucking finally,” Tony crowed, arching up — and conveniently bringing his dick closer to Steve’s mouth in the process — to rummage around in the nightstand. Steve licked a bead of precome from the tip of his cock, unable to resist, and distracted them both enough that the bottle of the lube bounced off his forehead when Tony tossed it at him. Laughing, he squirted some onto his fingers, wiggling them at Tony.

“Ready?” he asked, grunting when Tony just planted a foot on his chest and shoved him. He didn’t move, of course, just snickered to himself before sliding a finger inside without hesitating. Tony groaned, going boneless beneath him, and Steve rubbed over his prostate just to hear the noise he made.

“Steve, Jesus. Another one, come on.”

And really, Steve was tempted to tease him, make him beg, but he was hard as hell, and he could never resist when Tony got all demanding like this. Giving in, he added a second finger, scissoring them quickly until he could add a third and Tony was panting and twitching beneath him.

“Okay,” Tony gasped out, his voice hoarse and needy and just how Steve liked it. “Okay Steve. I’m good, I promise. Get in me.”

Steve pulled his fingers free and Tony fumbled for the lube that Steve had lost in the sheets somewhere. Before he could say another word, Tony was squirting some into the palm of his hand, sitting up to reach between them and close his fist around Steve’s cock, slicking him up.

“Oh, fuck,” Steve ground out, fingers clenching in the sheets as his head dropped and his eyes clenched shut. “Jesus, you feel so good.”

“Yeah?” Tony’s grin was obvious, even with Steve’s eyes closed. “‘Bout to feel a whole lot better,” he promised. “Come on, Steve. Come on, come on, come on.”

He was still stroking over Steve’s thick length as he goaded him, twisting his wrist and dragging his thumb over the spot that made him shudder, and it took Steve a minute to catch his bearings as little tremors of pleasure slithered through him. But then he got a hold of himself enough to pry Tony’s hand free, closing his hands around both of Tony’s wrists and pinning them to the bed by his head. He smirked at Tony, arching an eyebrow and all but daring him to protest, and when all he got back was a delighted grin, he couldn’t help kissing him again, all hot and open with probably too much tongue, but perfect all the same.

Steve took advantage of Tony’s distraction to push into him without any further warning, loving the way he could feel the breath rush out of his lungs. Steve didn’t hesitate to slide all the way inside him, not stopping until his balls were pressed against his ass and Tony had broken off the kiss to tip his head back, nails digging into Steve’s back hard enough to leave bruises.

“Fuck,” he groaned, arching his back to try and pull Steve even deeper. “You feel… Feel so good, honey.” He made a choked noise as Steve pulled back and thrust into him again, dragging it out so that Tony could feel every single inch. “Yeah, just like that. Faster, Steve,” he mumbled, not seeming to care that he was contradicting himself from one sentence to the next. “Come on, baby. Fuck me like you mean it.”

He lifted his head to give Steve a wink, and who was he to deny an order like that? Shifting them slightly, Steve folded Tony in half and pulled his legs over his shoulders -- not missing the squeaking noise that Tony made at how easily he manhandled him -- and began to fuck him hard and fast, bed rocking with each thrust like some kind of cliche.

Steve couldn’t have said how long he kept it up, his body hot and overwhelmed with the sound of Tony moaning beneath him, the feel of him all tight and hot around his cock. He drove into him harder and harder, could feel his balls pulling up tight and his toes beginning to curl, and he was just beginning to think that he couldn’t hold out any longer when Tony let out a desperate, whining noise between his teeth.

“Steve, I’m gonna…” He scratched at Steve’s back again, like he couldn’t figure out what else to do with himself, and despite how close he was to his own orgasm, Steve couldn’t help snorting into his shoulder. That earned him a smack, and Tony’s teeth closing around his earlobe just a little too hard. “Come on, you bastard.”

Somehow Steve found it in himself to hold on just a little longer, to lift his head and give Tony a shit-eating grin. “Sorry, what is it you wanted?” he asked and then, before Tony could work himself into a tizzy, he was closing his hand around his cock. “This?”

Tony couldn’t answer, vision going sightless as Steve tightened his fist, every one of his thrusts fucking Tony’s cock up into the tunnel of his palm and fingers. An instant later Tony was crying out, spilling over Steve’s fingers and his own chest and stomach. His entire body tightened around him, and Steve groaned, letting go of him to plant his hands on the mattress and fuck into him a handful more times before he was following suit, burying his head with a groan as he came deep inside him. He was still panting into Tony’s neck when he felt him patting over his back in a way that was probably supposed to be soothing, but missed the mark entirely.

“I can’t tell if I love you, or hate you,” Tony told him dryly, Steve’s resulting laughter shaking them both.

***

Afterward, Steve lay stretched out on his back with Tony sprawled across his chest, fingers trailing absently over his skin.

“Hey,” Steve told him, rubbing a hand up his spine. “I found a notepad, and I wrote your name a bunch of times with hearts all around them. Left it right beside the controllers for the next time Clint and Thor play video games.”

Tony started laughing, hiding his face against Steve’s chest and making him twitch as the vibrations of his beard tickled his skin. “Come on, Steve. If you really wanted to sell it, you’re supposed to write our last names hyphenated together.”

Steve hummed consideringly. “Steve Rogers-Stark, huh?”

“Uh, excuse me?” Tony snorted. “Clearly we would be the Stark-Rogers...es.”

“Oh, of course.”

“Trust me, Steve. I know these things. The flow works much better. It’ll look fantastic on the business cards.”

Steve burst out laughing at that, nearly knocking Tony onto the floor in the process. “Right,” he managed, practically choking on his laughter. “The business cards, of course. Clearly the most important thing to consider.”

Tony huffed, pretending to be put out even as he snuggled further into Steve. “Clearly,” he muttered.

They settled into comfortable silence for a few minutes, and Tony was nearly dozing when Steve spoke again.

“Steve Stark-Rogers. I think I like the way that sounds.”

Tony went still beneath him, holding his breath. “Do you?” he asked. “We could… I mean. That could be a thing.”

“Might give the game away,” Steve pointed out.

“Maybe,” Tony admitted, but then he was lifting his head to beam at Steve. “But think how badly we could troll the team.”

@tonystarkbingo

#tonystarkbingo2020 #tsb2020 #stony #pranks and practical jokes #troll steve rogers #troll tony stark #tony stark #steve rogers #bottom tony #fic #my fic

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Tips to learn Python for Data Science

Significant Things to Learn in Python for Data Science.

Tip 1: Learn Core Python Concepts

The initial step is to learn Python programming rudiments. Likewise, gain proficiency with a prologue to information science.

One of the significant instruments you should begin utilizing from the get-go in your excursion is Jupyter Notebook, which comes pre-bundled with Python libraries to assist you with learning these two things.

Viable writing computer programs isn't tied in with remembering sentence structure, but instead dominating another perspective.

In this manner, take as much time as necessary in building a strong establishment of center programming ideas. These will assist you with interpreting arrangements in your mind into guidelines for a PC.

In the event that you are new to programming

On the off chance that you are completely new to programming, go through the books and online documentation to have a profound comprehension of the ideas.

Launch your learning by Joining a local area

By joining a local area, you will put yourself around similar individuals and increment your chances for business. As indicated by the Society for Human Resource Management, representative references represent 30%, everything being equal.

Make a Kaggle account, join a neighborhood Meetup gathering, and partake in the student local area for more collaboration with Python software engineers.

Tip 2: Practice Mini Python Projects

Genuinely have confidence in involved learning. You might be amazed by how soon you will be prepared to assemble little Python projects.

A manual for Python projects for novices, which incorporates thoughts like:

Following and Analyzing, Spending Habits

• A fun undertaking that will help you practice Python and pandas rudiments while likewise giving you some genuine understanding into your individual accounting.

Dissect Data from a Survey

• Building smaller than normal activities will assist you with learning Python. programming projects are standard for all dialects, and an extraordinary method to cement your comprehension of the fundamentals.

• You should begin to construct your involvement in APIs and start web scratching. Past assisting you with learning Python programming, web scratching will be valuable for you in social affair information later.

Fastrack your learning by Reading

• Enhance your coding ability and discover answers to the Python programming difficulties you experience. Understand manuals, blog entries, and surprisingly others' open-source code to learn Python and information science best practices and get groundbreaking thoughts.

Tip 3: Learn Python Data Science Libraries

In contrast to some other programming dialects, in Python, there is for the most part the most ideal method of accomplishing something with bundles. The three best and most significant Python libraries for information science are NumPy, Pandas, and Matplotlib.

NumPy — A library that makes an assortment of numerical and factual activities simpler; it is likewise the reason for some highlights of the panda's library.

pandas — A Python library made explicitly to encourage working with information, this is the bread and butter of a great deal of Python information science work.

Matplotlib — A representation library that makes it speedy and simple to produce graphs from your information.

scikit-learn — The most famous library for AI work in Python.

Fastrack your learning by Asking questions

You don't have the foggiest idea! what you don't have the foggiest idea?

Python has a rich local area of specialists who are anxious to assist you with learning Python. Assets like Quora, Stack Overflow, and Dataquest's student local area are brimming with individuals eager to share their insight and assist you with learning Python programming. You can discover numerous ventures in Github.

Tip 4: Build a Data Science Portfolio as you Learn Python

For hopeful information researchers, a portfolio is an absolute necessity.

These activities ought to incorporate work with a few distinctive datasets and should leave perusers with fascinating experiences that you have cleaned. A few kinds of tasks to consider:

Information Cleaning Project — Any task that includes messy or "unstructured" information that you tidy up and investigate will intrigue likely managers since most true information will require cleaning.

Information Visualization Project — Making alluring, simple to-peruse representations is both a programming and a plan challenge, yet in the event that you can do it right, your investigation will be impressively more effective. Having extraordinary glancing diagrams in an undertaking will make your portfolio stick out.

AI Project — If you try to fill in as an information researcher, you certainly will require a task that shows off your ML chops (and you may need a couple of various AI projects, with each centered around your utilization of an alternate well known calculation).

Your examination ought to be introduced obviously and outwardly; preferably in an arrangement like a Jupyter Notebook so specialized people can peruse your code, however non-specialized individuals can likewise track with your diagrams and composed clarifications.

Your portfolio doesn't really require a specific subject. Find datasets that interest you, at that point concoct an approach to assemble them. Nonetheless, in the event that you try to work at a specific organization or industry, displaying projects pertinent to that industry in your portfolio is a smart thought.

Showing projects like these offers individual information researchers a chance to possibly team up with you and shows future businesses that you have genuinely set aside the effort to learn Python and other significant programming abilities.

A pleasant aspect regarding information science is that your portfolio serves as a resume while featuring the abilities you have mastered, similar to Python programming.

Related abilities: Learn fledgling and moderate measurements

While learning Python for information science, you will likewise need to get a strong foundation in insights. Understanding measurements will give you the attitude you need to zero in on the correct things, so you will discover important bits of knowledge (and genuine arrangements) as opposed to simply executing code.

Tip 5: Apply Advanced Data Science Techniques

At long last, intend to hone your abilities. Your information science excursion will be brimming with steady learning, however there are progressed courses you can finish to guarantee you have considered every contingency.

You will need to be OK with relapse, arrangement, and k-implies grouping models. You can likewise venture into AI – bootstrapping models and making neural organizations utilizing scikit-learn.

Now, programming undertakings can incorporate making models utilizing live information takes care of. AI models of this sort change their forecasts over the long run.

Read more on Python, Machine Learning and many more

Information science is a consistently developing field that traverses various ventures.

At the rate that request is expanding, there are remarkable freedoms to learn. Keep perusing, teaming up, and chatting with others, and you make certain to keep up interest and a serious edge over the long run.

#data science training

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The Disappointments of 2017: Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony

Ha ha, wow this was a massive disappointment let me tell you. It is so very rare that I encounter the latest installment in a series that completely, and utterly retroactively kills a series for me. The last thing that did that was Burial At Sea part 2, but wow I did not expect it was going to be this game that made me re-experience that sheer gut-wrenching awfulness. Please be warned, there are spoilers after the break.

Before I get into my complaints I will now list for you the things I like about Danganronpa V3. The music is great, I adore just about every song that is in this game, Let's Killing is one of my favorite tracks with the Scrum Debate being a close second. I liked the twist when Kaede Akamatsu was revealed to be the killer in Case 1, it was effective. That's it.

Let me get this out of the way first, it is not entirely because of the plot twists of Trial 6 that caused this. It is but a major, major, MAJOR factor that led to this being such a vile and loathsome letdown. I started having some doubts about how this game was going to stick the landing as early as Case 3. Shinguji killing Yonaga, and Chabashira just so his dead sister he was in love with could have friends started to strain credibility.

Case 4 when Iruma gets killed with toilet paper in a virtual world and then it transpires that the "school" was in fact a rocket ship meant to take these sixteen kids AND ONLY these sixteen kids to a new world, added to the strain. Although I kind of took the notion of there being a virus from meteors to be a nice little nod to the Zero Escape series, even if it wasn't actually a reference.

Case 5 when Oma is somehow able to write a script for how to act like him for Momota, even down to how THE REST OF THE CAST WOULD RESPOND TO HIS STATEMENTS was what tipped this over the edge. It was fucking ridiculous and I hated damn near every aspect of this fucking case and EVERYTHING THAT FOLLOWS IT. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

Let's rewind my complaints to when it transpires that Oma is in fact a secret traitor whose betraying everyone because of the notion that Earth is uninhabitable. Fine, whatever, people can be pointless dickheads at the best of times. Maybe he got his personality re-written with the flashback light, fine, that's fine. Why would the people of Earth go out of their way to hunt down the Ultimates when it's suggested that they're what would fundamentally save mankind? Why would they try to hunt them down to kill them? Why is this plot-point just a rehash of Hellstar Remina (a fascinating manga, it's worth checking out)? Did Oma somehow find out about the fact they're on the fifty-third Danganronpa season?

I hate it when stories try to pull the "everyone loves this character so you do as well" card. Despite everything the game tries to do I just cannot bring myself to care about Kirumi Tojo. She was a flat, uninteresting character, her being the secret prime minister really doesn't add much to her character because it's brought up roughly ten seconds before she dies anyway, and never gets into the ramifications of this plot development. I also felt that the game tried a bit too hard to get me to care about the fact that Yumeno and Chabishira were going through a rough patch and Yumeno was spending time with Yonaga. With the exception of the pivotal characters every other character felt flat and really underdeveloped. Amami could've been a decent character had he not died in the opening hours of the game, he could have been a decent posthumous character. Gokuhara was uninteresting and ridiculously one-note, and Hoshi was just an utter black hole of a character.

Even a fair amount of the characters who make to chapter five are uninteresting. K1-B0, despite being the hero of this story has pretty much no character until he becomes a danger to the rest of the cast in chapter 6. His plot reveal that he's basically the cameraman for the events adds nothing to his character. Harukawa is perhaps the single worst character in the entire game however, they basically play her as a Kirigiri type of character with absolutely none of the redeeming characteristics of such a character. It would've been more interesting if she actually did deal the fatal blow to Oma, but I guess she had to live for reasons.

Then of course we arrive at Chapter 6, the denouement to everything this game has been building up to. The interesting characters are dead, and we're left with what we have left. Saihara, Yumeno, Harukawa, K1-B0 and Shirogane. And of course Monokuma and the Monokubs. The chapter starts, and K1-B0 has started using his upgraded weapons that Iruma gave him (or had in her lab) and is now set to tear down the Ultimate's Academy. Fair enough, a final thing to drive forth the fact that the cast is in a bad-way and they'll all die unless they can solve the mystery. This is also unfortunately where the game decides to dive into batshit lunacy. As you're investigating to find out the truth about the Academy you find several clues about the whole "the class was shot off into space to save humanity" thing. You find the room where "the cryo-stasis pods for their journey are," and you find a document that puts forth the notion that Akamatsu has a near-identical twin sister who might be roaming the halls. This is all a smokescreen of course, because when it comes time for the trial it comes to light that his has all been an elaborate con.

The class was never shot into space, there was no viral outbreak, the Ultimates Academy was simply the latest group of teenagers for Danganronpa season number 53. Everything that has transpired has simply been a televised event and none of what happened was real. There's some revelations that the personalities of every single person taking part in the show has had their actual personalities over-written by the flashback lights that the cast has been routinely subjected to over the course of the game to "give them back their memories." Which is a lie, the personalites are apparently just something that Team Danganronpa have cooked up prior to the events of the game.

On the face of it I don't have a problem with the notion that the game was all a big ruse. It's the way the game conveys the twist and everything that happens in this trial that I find to be a huge slap in the face. There's a point around the end of chapter five where the game cuts away to some random person named Makoto. Makoto, you see is a bit of a lonely boy, he has seemingly no friends, his school life is in pieces, and it all seems gray and grim for him. But he has one thing that makes himself feel better: Danganronpa, the one thing that gives his life meaning. And this is you, the audience who buy and play these games, and it illustrates just how little they care about their actual audience who buy these games and play them.

The whole entire ending, the last two hours or so of this trash fire is more or less a prolonged "you need to get a life, Danganronpa is shit and bad and you're just as bad for liking it. Fuck you." The ending is a complete slap in the face and just utterly ruins and destroys everything this whole franchise had built up until now. It is a complete and utter insult, and frankly it killed this series for me. It rates up there in the pantheon of abysmal and shitty endings. For all the shit people like to throw at Bioware for Mass Effect 3's ending at least it never outright insulted you for liking the games up until that point.

The fact the game goes out of its way to invalidate the previous entries in the series is just disgusting. See Danganronpa 1, 2, Ultra Despair Girls, never actually happened in the universe of Danganronpa; they were merely seasons in the “Danganronpa show.” Any stakes the series could have been building up to is null and void after this revelation, and as such any investment on your part is simply a waste of time. Then there’s the fact that the game deliberately goes out of its way to point out several plot points that it will never bring up again is just a cherry on top for wasting everyone’s time.

It mentions the notion that the personalities everyone has is in fact fake. Including Shirogane’s personality, the person the game assures you is the mastermind behind this particular game. It’s never elaborated on that she is in fact just a pawn in the greater scheme of things. Ha, whoops she’s dead now, smashed by a rock, oh well! It’s implied at the very start of the game that the kids used in the game were in fact actually kidnapped to be in Danganronpa V3. Whoops, the plot point’s been lost and will never be revisited.

This is all while the game is just throwing out its arm patting itself on the back for how brilliant and great the writing is. It’s annoying, and loathsome and a complete and utter insult to everyone who gave a shit about this series.

"It wasn't their intention, Kodaka said so." I don't care, I'm quits with this series after this game. What a shame.

#Danganronpa V3

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8 Factors For Students Locate A Infection to Complete Homework

Any particular 1 phrase is sufficient to rouse a blend of adverse feelings for you personally. From pure loathing into indifference, after which stress and anxiety because of the tension you're feeling due to the apparently crucial academic undertaking. At the same time that you might avoid doing all of your assignments thoroughly, you understand somewhere which you cannot just escape. It truly is definitely going to irritate you enjoy the creature underneath your mattress regardless of what you're doing.

However, what is fascinating may be your reason why (s) why you despise doing your own assignments much better. We are definitely going to place our own FBI goggles and research the 8 universals explanations you never get to the homework help completing the lineup. We'll likewise go over potential remedies for every one of these grounds in order for the home-work travel may be sleek one particular.

1 You Were Not Create A Note Of It In the event you failed to scribble your activities to get daily on your laptop, in every likelihood, then you are not likely to be unwilling to get it later on. The truth is that this really is the way that the's forgot to complete my assignments ' rationale had been firstborn. Properly, this could well not solely be its own fault. Some times, your instructors move at turbo rate and usually do not make it possible for time for you to rewrite down all of the important points you require. Many educators do compose the duty about the plank that may lead for you personally copying the incorrect matter only around the grounds of person to person watering.

Remedy :

Lecturers must compose the duty around the blackboard/notice board that students can duplicate down it right, and also possess a glimpse of these assignments. Today it's going become your duty to be certain you be aware down it at the right place therefore you may make reference to it for those who sit with your own books.

2. One Groundwork Assignment borrows Too Much Much Of Your Period Lately, a group of investigators in the University of Oviedo (Spain) completed a report using 7725 college students engaging on it. The typical age of these students has been 1 3 decades, and also every one of these had been supplied a group of survey to show the method by which they really feel concerning prep. The research demonstrated when pupils were delegated significantly more than sixty minutes of homework daily they also resisted. Normally, no body enjoys to devote 1 / 2 of these daily day doing assignments, and also enough period used this endeavor grows because possible accomplish top school. Many pupils feel hesitant to finish their assignment just because of this.

Remedy :

School government should think of an agenda where prep hours do not trickle in to free moment. As to whatever it is possible to certainly do as students, consider dividing your homework up right into smaller sized chunks and also do a little bit daily so it will not occupy most your time.

3. You Care for Your Home-work For an Unimportant Endeavor This normally occurs whenever you usually do not observe any plausible explanation to get your assignments . But, it truly is perhaps not a fact that prep is moot. Home-work has a lot of gains with bettering mark being among of one of the absolute most essential kinds. Besides this, home-work also enables you to enhance your abilities and grants you the occasion to learn your topics easier so it's possible to retain exactly what you have figured out.

Remedy :

To stop college students from handling their assignments , lecturers have to possess a interactive session by making use of their college students in order they are able to understand the significance of assignments. Moreover, as pupils, you need to comprehend the significance of prep your self and don't just take it .

4. The Directions Furnished Are Unclear Home-work is composed of intricate missions including documents, book stories and so on. Throughout high school, your instructors might perhaps not always supply you with crystal-clear directions about what best to start doing this undertaking. Deficiency of proper and guidance directions really are among the most important good reasons why you might feel daunted by your own assignments than you'd in any other case. That is, subsequently, cause imperfect assignments.

Remedy :

As students, you must not be afraid to approach your instructor in case you don't comprehend such a thing regarding your own assignments. In the event you are uncomfortable in asking your questions in front of everyone else, meet with your teacher right after course hours and then receive all of the clarification that you require.

5. That you Can Not Enjoy the Kind Of Home-work You Are Given As students, you can want 1 kind of groundwork across the different. Even the'one size fits all' method embraced from the instructor; whereby everyone receives precisely the exact same kind of assignments, may possibly perhaps not be appropriate for you personally. This may be described as an obstacle. And you also might locate yourself trying to receive your assignments completed. The truth is that research will establish that. An analysis published from the Journal Of Chemical training demonstrated some college students experience comfortable in carrying one form of mission across the opposite hand. The statistics set forwards demonstrated that 62% college students favored on the web missions , whereas 41 percent voiced their taste to get self-catering missions. Thus another time that your instructor asks you why you did not do your assignments, you also could express the form of research paper assigned is not operating outside to you personally.

Remedy :

Teachers need to make an effort and present a part of number in to the assignment they delegate college students. It ought to be described as a nutritious combination of prepared homework, team assignments, artwork projects as well as so on. In terms of pupils, you're able to urge hints which kinds of activities that you would like todo, which your instructors may comprise. You may likewise do your assignments from a class with friends and family, therefore it turns out to a enjoyable exercise.

6. You Imagine That Your Groundwork Is Also Simple (Or overly Challenging ) There are times that you acquire assignments, and it is really so uncomplicated that you just feel as though skipping it entirely as it isn't doing you some good. On different situations, that may possibly perhaps not possibly be true. The prep delegated for your requirements will flip to outside to become exceptionally hard. And consider as possible to complete this, you will not have any alternative left to provide up in annoyance as a result of its issue.

Remedy :

Consult your instructor to supply you with an even harder undertaking if effortless prep can be that your problem. However, in the event that you should be about the opposing hand of this fence, then do exactly the other hand. Teachers need to make an effort and be sure the groundwork supplied is a variety of simple and demanding activities.

7. You Would Not Receive Any Comments For Your Prior Homework help online Criticism, while it is negative or encouraging is how it can take to encourage one to complete all of your academic activities. The truth is that innumerable polls and scientific studies have now shown that pupils hunt acknowledgment and recognition to only finishing their assignments, overlook whether it had been done or never. The exact same is true for students far too who need their professors to let them know which they have achieved effectively.

Remedy :

Lecturers and professors needs to ensure it is a spot to relish their pupils in time to time therefore they are feeling motivated to perform their assignments. To reveal they maintenance, lecturers must take additional points inside their test approach for composing assignments. Small responses may go a ways in boosting healthier prep customs between pupils. About the flip side, like students, you're able to possess a tiny reward strategy for your self that you keep determined to accomplish your assignments. Heal your self to food that is good, a picture or even workout together with your pals every single time you finish your groundwork.

8. You've Got Other Pursuits Or Assignments To Do To You maybe in theater or sports, and that can be inhabiting a significant chunk of your own energy in order to never possess some abandoned for the own homework. Or else you may be at a difficult spot where by you need to finish a urgent mission supplied by an individual educator and also have zero choice except to discount the remainder of one's assignments. Both can be primary things that result in the entry of halfbaked or not any prep. As the anxiety out of extra curricular pursuits and also other educators may be the culprit, bad time management expertise additionally are in play with here.

#assignment help

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The Monsters That Made Halloween Horror Nights the Best Bad Horror Movie Never Produced

Why I can't stop thinking about the made-up monsters at Universal Studios.

One of my favorite Halloween traditions is the complete transformation certain theme parks (maybe my favorite capitalist institution) undergo from, roughly, mid-September up until Halloween weekend. You know, the kind where they close the park early to turn it into a string of haunted houses and "scare zones" where local actors get to enact their revenge on tourists for a few hours? Of every theme park that does this, Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights might be my favorite, and I say this as a man that has been to absolutely zero Halloween theme park events. Why is that? Because it has a whole damn story that a bunch of weirdos wrote, and you can enjoy it all from the safety of your own home.

A little history: Like most theme park attractions, Halloween Horror Nights started out as a showcase of mostly licensed attractions. Shows and haunted houses were built around horror movies that you'd know, characters like Leatherface and Frankenstein's Monster would be featured in shows. It was all very loosely organized around spooky stuff. Five years in, though, the people behind Horror Nights decided to build the event around a host: The Crypt Keeper, who, in the mid-90s, was still really damn popular. After two years of the Crypt Keeper in 1995 and 1996, Halloween Horror Nights would return to a looser format mostly inspired by horror films popular at the time. But for HHN's tenth anniversary in 2000, the event was revamped to be built around an original character, Jack the Clown—and this is why I love the idea of Halloween Horror Nights so much.

The Halloween Horror Nights team of misanthropes could've just designed a scary clown to dress up actors in and terrify people and left it at that. Clowns are creepy. Movies have told us that forever!

But Jack the Clown had a backstory, and you can follow it through wikis and fan sites because, like most things on the Internet, theme parks are obsessively documented by the people who love them. Read his page and you'll find he's a killer clown (boring), but he was murdered and hid in a jack-in-the-box (better) found by a film crew that died (okay) and finally, many years later, Universal Studios brought the jack-in-the-box his corpse was hidden in because they thought it was a cool prop and now an undead clown is haunting the park (NOW WE'RE COOKING WITH GAS.)

It goes on like this, for years. Jack was a huge success, so the designers of Halloween Horror Nights would create new characters—called, simply, Icons—to build the annual event around. There's the Caretaker, a depraved surgeon obsessed with finding where humans keep their souls. The Director is a snuff filmmaker. The Usher brings movies to life. On their own, they're not terribly remarkable, but eventually, in the stories that were told across various haunted houses each year, Halloween Horror Nights slowly built up an ongoing universe, building to a crossover for its twentieth anniversary where they were all revealed to be harbingers of the personification of Fear, a demon that was influencing the Universal Studios designers to keep making haunted houses. It's extremely WWE.

This is all corny schlock, but the Icons represent what's maybe the coolest thing about theme parks outside of, you know, rides—when done well, every part of a theme park attraction tells a story. And what's funny about that is that it isn't done out of generosity, but to hide the fact that you spend most of your time in theme parks either waiting in a line, or walking to another line. This is probably why I find the Icons so fascinating—there's no reason they need to be there. There's no reason to come up with a series of wholly original stories to fill your theme park's seasonal Halloween event with for just a few nights per year. Using the far more familiar trappings of popular horror movies works just fine. People can gawk at haunted house sets lifted from Halloween, and be scared by actors dressed like Jason Vorhees. You don't have to have Jack the Clown.

Sadly, the designers of Halloween Horror Nights have seemed to take this to heart. The 2010s have largely eschewed original icons in favor of a loose collection of haunted houses and scare zones inspired by horror films—this year's Halloween Horror Nights 28 is mostly themed after '80s horror, with Stranger Things, Halloween 4, and Poltergeist being big touchpoints. It makes sense—it's easier to get people excited about a really good Stranger Things or Halloween themed haunted house than one that tells the story of how Jack the undead clown became the avatar of Chaos, and decided to rebel against Fear Itself to start an evil carnival called The Dark Fantastic. (That was the real plot of Halloween Horror Nights 25, the penultimate event with an Icon at the center.)

Do I, personally, have a horse in this race? No, not really. Again—I have never attended a single Halloween Horror Night, and were I to try one, any damn haunted house would probably be effective as hell on me. But I don't know. I love the idea of horror as pro wrestling, and fiction that indulges in the idea that theme parks—a truly bizarre concept—are horrific disasters waiting to happen, and then sell crazy amounts of tickets based on the notion that things go wrong in them. What a scam. What ingenuity. Halloween Horror Nights is the kind of scare that America was made for.

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Upcoming Macbook Worth $6450 ?

Loaded with every one of the extravagant accessories anticipated from Apple's leader workstation, the MacBook Pro has arrived, and it might appear to be somewhat unique than you recollect. Almost two years prior, Apple propelled an update of its lead workstation that would change Apple's picture until the end of time.

Coming in at simply finished a large portion of an inch thick, the MacBook Pro employs the intensity of Thunderbolt 3, a solitary port that will bolster everything under the sun. All things considered, the MacBook Pro courts some contention – a portion of these progressions bring trade off. You won't have the capacity to utilize old HDMI, USB and SD frill out of the crate, which implies you'll need to spend for connectors.

Contingent upon which variant of the MacBook Pro you go for, you may be in for a limited OLED show where the capacity keys used to be. This 'Contact Bar,' the principle fascination of the MacBook Pro since 2016, is both an offering point and one of conflict.

Sumptuous, however in no way, shape or form garish, the 2017 MacBook Pro comes at a premium. Much the same as whatever is left of Apple's list, it's worked to awe with regards to style. It won't not do anything particularly historic, the present MacBook Pro is a workstation that is to a great extent designed for experts – more than can be said for alternate individuals from Apple's MacBook family.

Cost and accessibility

At $1,299 (£1,249, AU$1,899), you can bring yourself a MacBook Pro short the Touch Bar you would some way or another find in the arrangement we were sent for audit. Remember that, as tempting as the least expensive MacBook Pro may appear, it has just 128GB of strong state stockpiling inside, making it extreme to prescribe for clients who anticipate utilizing it as their fundamental PC.

Obviously, that base MacBook Pro does not have another key component – the OLED Touch Bar that replaces the capacity keys. In the event that the Touch Bar, alongside Touch ID check, is an absolute necessity have highlight for you, you can hope to spend no under $1,799 (£1,749, AU$2,699). That is significantly more than the probably expected section level MacBook will be.

Presently, while you could basically get more stockpiling than the base setup for another couple hundred bills, the unit we investigated is a supercharged mammoth. That is expected to a limited extent to the way that it sports four Thunderbolt 3 ports, twofold that of the non-Touch Bar models, which can all be utilized to charge the gadget. Besides, the processor speed has been knock from 2.3GHz to 3.1Ghz too.

For $100 less in the US, nonetheless, you can get a Dell XPS 13 with twofold the RAM and capacity of the $1,799 MacBook Pro we've inspected here and with a more skilled Intel Core i7 CPU at that – also a more keen 3,100 x 1,800 touchscreen and in addition both Thunderbolt 3 and a SD card peruser.

Essentially, you can get the Surface Laptop, which can be arranged with a more grounded Core i7 CPU and similarly vast capacity and RAM for an entire 200 mollusks less, but with a marginally bring down determination 2,256 x 1,504 touchscreen and just two heritage ports.

Remembering this, it doesn't take a virtuoso to see that you're paying for the logo carved inverse your show, matched with an awesome trackpad and a natural working framework to boot. By and by, you can spare a wad of trade by exchanging out your old MacBook Pro to Apple itself for up to $2,500, in case you're dwelling in the states.

In case you're hoping to relax the blow of purchasing the 2017 MacBook Pro, you can discover on B&H Photo and Video in the US for $1,199 (about £903, AU$1,605). This will net you the base 13-inch display without the Touch Bar.

Plan

Fortunately, Apple's family does ponders for keeping up the MacBook Pro's sparkling notoriety as a totally wonderful and sensible processing gadget. All things considered, very little – on the off chance that anything – has changed about the MacBook Pro plan year over year, and that is An OK.

Still accessible in Apple's standard space dim or silver hues (no rose gold yet), the MacBook Pro's unibody aluminum shell is as perfect as consistently, radiating a curbed radiate through the anodization.

As far as shape factor, Apple keeps up its accomplishment of packing a 13-inch screen into a 11-inch outline a la the Dell XPS 13, however this current workstation's bezels are still somewhat bigger. Talking about screens, Apple's Retina show is as sharp and shading rich as ever, much more so with its new, proficient review P3 shading extent.

In any case, it's a long way from the most keen out there, even among its most grounded rivals, making its "Retina" claims harder than any time in recent memory to swallow. For example, the XPS 13 can be designed with a 3,200 x 1,800 QHD touchscreen, effectively bulldozing the MacBook Pro as far as unadulterated sharpness.

This is a tremendously vital point for imaginative experts working with media records that are high-determination or require such a determination to determine minute subtle elements after zooming in on a media document.

At any rate, the MacBook Pro is consistently more slender than the XPS 13 by a hair, which begins from 0.6 inches and decreases at 0.33 inches. The Surface Laptop, in the interim, is insignificantly more slender than both at only 0.57 inches.

This is the most slender and lightest MacBook Pro yet, and for that it feels comfortable in our rucksack – that is, expecting we remember it's even there. (Trust us, it has occurred amid this survey, and it was appalling.)

That Apple figured out how to make a workstation this thin and still keep up top-terminating stereo speakers, with profound and rich sound no less, ought to be praised when most other PC creators simply go for down-terminating speakers. Rather, where speakers would typically go on a Ultrabook, Apple has put admission fans that attract cool air and spit it out the back just underneath the pivot.

Without a doubt, the workstation warms up still appropriate around that region, yet said warm is far from the more touchy parts of your lap and far less sensational than with past models.

Concerning how Apple figured out how to make the MacBook Pro this thin, a key guilty party is the workstation's new console with Apple's second era butterfly component, presented in a year ago's model. The enhanced incitation gadget doesn't make the keys sit any more flush with the console deck than they as of now were a year ago, yet rather limitlessly enhances the material feel of composing.

Criticism is significantly more compelling this time around, however the key travel doesn't feel as though it's changed much, which is the point at last. The keys are sufficiently expansive so as not to miss given the absence of movement, however we're not devotees of the Escape key being consigned to the Touch Bar – something we've incidentally squeezed more than once – and the tight situating of the here and there bolt keys.

Likewise, we observe writing on this console to be louder than on Apple's more seasoned MacBook consoles, yet maybe that is because of acclimating to the expectation to absorb information.

A blended takeaway from the console aside, the new-and-extended Force Touch trackpad was an appreciated change a year ago and we're similarly as cheerful to have it this time around. Its expansive size and solid palm dismissal help tremendously with multi-contact signals and, all the more critically, exploring the working framework the simpler way, i.e. with your pointer moving the cursor and your thumb tapping the catches.

Talking about which, Force Touch comes back to the trackpad, normally, and it's honestly noteworthy. The vibration engines underneath the glass following surface vibrate to reproduce the sentiment of a mouse click, and, if Apple didn't start such a ruckus about, it we'd be unaware. This is Apple's "it just works" logic acknowledged by and by.

Contact Bar and Touch ID

While numerous have rushed to reject the Touch Bar since its presentation in a year ago's MacBook Pro model, we've descended on it with more understanding. While we as a matter of fact didn't normally come to utilize the Touch Bar much at all over the span of this survey, its essence and potential are by and by noted.

While still consigned to supporting center macOS capacities and a couple, significant outsider applications (like Adobe Suite), the Touch Bar is fantastically quick at adjusting to the job that needs to be done. The most grounded case of this is essentially the Touch Bar's worked in spell checker, which is continually recommending words regardless of how quick of a typist you are.

It's relatively similar to having the iPhone's autocorrect work on your MacBook.

We've seen tech like this endeavored previously, however not the slightest bit this strong and fast. The OLED contact show is extraordinarily responsive, and its matte covering does well to disregard glare from solid light sources – simply don't expect much in coordinate daylight. All stated, we're awed by the mechanical accomplishment that the Touch Bar is, yet trust it requires more extensive outsider help to wind up an unquestionable requirement have highlight.

However, having Siri as a catch for simple, steady access is a noteworthy also, given the wide control it has over macOS in contrast with other advanced aides.

The second bit of the Touch Bar offering is, obviously, Touch ID. While this is the second go around for the innovation, we're all things considered glad that biometric login is at last accessible on an Apple workstation. The instrument works simply as it does on iPhone, and it's similarly as speedy.

So, we've discovered Windows 10's iris-checking Windows Hello tech to be speedier and require almost zero exertion. (To accomplish this level of promptness with a Mac, you'd require an Apple Watch with the Auto Unlock include enacted.) Regardless, having the capacity to safely sign into the PC, and pay for things through Safari by means of Apple Pay, are the two highlights we'd noise for on the off chance that they weren't there.

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How To Invest In The Heated Market Of Mechanical Workshops

Contrary on the financial disaster, the automotive repair field lived an outstanding 12 months in 2016 and continued to increase in 2017. With no source of income to speculate in zero-kilometer motor vehicles, people have opted for your service of utilized vehicles, heating the workshop . Using this modify inside markets, Sebrae-SP added into the 2017 Entrepreneur Fair, for the to begin with time inside heritage of your event, a product workshop, space exclusively for your sector.

The inclusion within the novelty was a response not only towards progress belonging to the sector, but in addition for the requests done by enterprise associates, who didn't acquire possibilities relating to the difficulty within the 2016 edition. This place is an excellent achievement to the automotive repairers working with Sebrae-SP. The adhesion displays the toughness which the sector is actually gaining within the Brazilian markets. In 2014, there have been just one hundred company partners in São Paulo. By the starting of 2017 there were much more than a thousand. In accordance with facts from Sindirepa (Union within the Sector of Maintenance of Cars and Extras), there have been about 16 thousand mechanical workshops in the condition of São Paulo. Wondering about how these business owners can take gain in the development within the car or truck repair service research together with the guests fascinated in starting a business inside space, it follows a list of your foremost issues and options inside trade. For additional information visit curso de mecanica

Worries

1. Financial regulate

Many of the workshops in Brazil are run by family members. The skilled economic handle is still modest adopted since the mechanic truly likes it is the technical part. For your organisation to expand, it really is imperative that finances are structured. The workshop operator should provide the once-a-year price range, the quarterly income stream, additionally, the per month financial statement on the business for control. With these a few experiences, arranging begins to realize effectiveness. From there, the entrepreneur can determine, for instance, that are the periods through which the organization even more bill and align the arranging of your group. The most effective personnel should really not go on vacation at a time in the event the business enterprise is promoting alot more solutions.

2. Recruitment and retention of staff members

1 with the largest problems for shop house owners is the insecurity they have got in relation for their staff. Frequently, they are doing not invest in workers teaching for fear of getting rid of employees to competition or maybe opening their very own workshop. This is a mistake. The higher your staff, the more effective your workshop shall be. Also, the business isn't any extended dependent on its abilities. The entrepreneur will have to make available schooling while not worry of what can happen. When the business enterprise offers fantastic working problems, it is vitally doubtless that the staff will continue to be inside the service.

3. Checking of technologies

The garage operator really should recognize that there is absolutely no for a longer time any tactic to diagnose an auto issue with sound. It doesn't exist any more. It will be not enough to guess. We have to give good worth on the search for updating aided by the new technologies. Inside the same way it really is required to recognise the value of discovering that hardly a workshop can be productive if it relies upon relating to the invoicing over the areas. The industry has transformed and now has new gamers supplying less costly services. An individual need to fully grasp that the gains must be along with products and services. One more approach to retain a good bill is always to keep clear of squander, a little something common in mechanic outlets. Disorganization creates loss of time, ensuing in lack of revenue.

4. Custo per service and loyalty

In mechanical workshops, weak services is one of these answerable for driving clientele away. Communication currently remains flawed and insufficient. Generally, the homeowners for the automobiles depart together with the perception they did not acquire the owing notice because the mechanic was particularly chaotic. A second issue that needs to be comprehended through the entrepreneur inside business is that the feminine audience is much more and more present and justifies the same regard and attention as another public. It is also imperative the mechanic be distinct and aim, honestly reporting what the vehicle's complications are and what it may do to change the situation. The mechanic is still particularly passive and flawed in loyalty. It awaits the arrival from the difficulty, doesn't operate once the prospects. Thus, it is suggested the service collect info and document the repairs performed within the automobiles. When it truly is time and energy to do an assessment, he will need to consider the consumer, warning with regards to the perils of not going to the workshop, for instance.

5. The shopper seeks solution

Returning on the dilemma of honesty, it will be important to learn: the shopper is absolutely not worried about in search of the bottom price, but fairly with fixing his trouble. For this reason, it really is significant to be obvious about what has to be executed, warning the perils of postponing that restore, devoid of panic of dropping the client because of into the full value in the operate. Troubleshooting need to be the primary drive for just a machine shop. For additional specifics go to curso de mecanica

Possibilities

1. Expanding industry

This year should certainly be vital for device shops. Given that the financial system hasn't nevertheless demonstrated the energy to return out of the crisis, motorists will continue to haven't any money to get a zero-kilometer. It happens to be as many as automotive repair suppliers to bring in the more mature vehicle entrepreneurs. If a brake pad stops functioning, the proprietor of your automobile has to tidy up. It is a security concern. Folks who are thinking about undertaking require for being attentive to this sector.

2. Proximity together with the client

It will be popular, whenever a man or woman leaves the vehicle to tidy inside a workshop, that she wants community transportation to check out function. So, the tip may be to put in the corporation inside of a location very easily obtainable to bus and subway stops. It is actually less difficult to the buyer to leave the car, operate, and then get the motor vehicle which has been tidied up on the finish for the working day. It is also necessary to create the company known with the vicinity. Applying social networks and perhaps term of mouth in the neighborhood might make each of the difference for making area inside advertise.

3. Recognition as benefit

As they are extremely reactive, the machine retailers eliminate prospects. A particular method to keep clear of this is often to work on preventive maintenance and also to make people informed for the care they have to acquire with their motor vehicles. The advice of a really good mechanic, exhibiting the risk that a car with aged sections can carry into the customer's household, tends to make the sale dependable and valiant. He needs to alert the shopper, and not let him learn the challenge by yourself.

4. Specializations and partnerships

The deliver of specialised solutions continues to be working nicely while in the automotive restore marketplace. Some providers by now jump out on the markets for working with problems of air-con and airbags, one example is. It's the specialization of specializations. Combining this considering the support you offer you could be a fantastic way outside of the workshop. If you should recognize which the need for a specific program is rising, it could be worthy of buying working out an employee to satisfy that operate.

5. Lookup for brand new users

Proactivity. That's a person phrase that could make each of the distinction to your garage proprietor. The tactic of frequent search for brand new clientele cannot put a stop to. Two hours not having fixing a vehicle is cash shed. It is strongly recommended that the businessman deliver the results with some items, these types of as calendars, tokens and labels, leaving your organization marked while in the memory of shoppers. These are less expensive reports that deliver loyalty.

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