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ererokii · 4 years

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Colors || Tamaki Amajiki

Tamaki Amajiki x Fem! Reader

Warnings: fluff, fluff, and a pinch of suggestive

Word Count: 1777

Synopsis: You and Tamaki are excused from your work studies and find a good way to pass time with each other.

Taglist (message to be added): @sparklytamaki @shoutodoki @shoutosteakettle @fryingpanitachi @kingtamakimurder @saltie @sugacookiies

➺ Note: This is for the @bnhabookclub’s bingo event! The prompt is Blowing Bubbles.

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Tamaki Amajiki was a relatively busy man. He was always focused on his work studies and school. If he wasn’t studying or doing any type of academic work, he was out on the streets patrolling with Fat Gum and Kirishima. If he wasn’t protecting those on the street, he was tucked away in his room, sitting on the uncomfortable chair and hunched over his desk, doing whatever UA called for.

He wasn’t one for social gatherings so that was out of the picture. It riled him up in ways that he didn’t like. His nervousness would take a toll on him and cause him to make a fool of himself as he always thought. Just the fact that everyone could stare at him if he made a mistake was enough for him to lose his cool.

Of course, there was always something he could make arrangements for, no matter what time of the day it was.

You.

You were the exact opposite of Tamaki. Your relationship was interesting to say the least. How someone as timid as Tamaki could be with someone as energetic as you proved to be a mystery. If he didn’t know you, he would have thought you were too optimistic for his liking.

Social gatherings were second nature to you. If you heard someone say something about a party, you were the first one to respond right away. You never went alone of course. Somehow Tamaki always found himself going with you after your constant begging.

Like Neijre, you also did your work studies with Ryuko. Yours and Neijre’s bubbly personalities worked perfectly together, causing Ryuko to take a liking to you rather quickly.

Both of your agencies often worked together. There was more than one occasion where you and Tamaki would hold hands while patrolling down the streets, still wary of the potential danger that could be lurking anywhere. Fat Gum and Ryuko trusted both of you but told you that you couldn’t wander off together in an alley or something that would stir up some trouble. You being a bit of a rebel, managed to sneak with him for some alone time, which would cause Tamaki to be more of a stuttering mess than he already was. Most of the time, bystanders would comment on how cute both of you are. You would awe and laugh it off while Tamaki would lower his hood more to shield himself.

A blessing in itself, Fat Gum and Ryuko had given both of you a day off. On top of that, school was also off for the day. It was a much-needed break in your book.

At the moment, you were in Tamaki’s room. You laid on his bed on your back, your head hanging off the end of the bed, a dazed look in your eyes as you stared at the wall. Tamaki was doing school work unfortunately. No matter the amount of times you begged, the same answer left his mouth.

Five more minutes b-bunny, I promise you can have all my a-attention then.

You recalled his words in your head as you groaned lowly, shimming yourself on his bed until your head was now on the bed. Your arms reached above your head, the much-needed stretch thanking your body as you felt a joint or two pop. A flood of relief filled your body as you sighed, peeking an eye his way.

“Tama?”

“Hm?”

“It’s been five minutes already”

“A-ah..three more minutes sweetheart”

“Tamaki!” you whined, rolling over onto your stomach as you propped your head up with your hands, elbows pressing against the soft cushion of his bed. “I’m bored!”

“Sorry bout that” he mumbled, his hand quickly writing whatever he was doing onto his notebook.

“Ugh” you reached for your phone in your back pocket, a pout on your lower lip.

He looked over his shoulder to stare at your form. “T-that bored?”

You nodded quickly, eyes lighting up when he started to close his books. “Y-you’re done!”

He shook his head as he neatly stacked them on his desk, “No. It’s not due till next week...I j-just wanted to get a headstart on it”

“But that means we can hang out now right?!”

“Y-yes”

You let out an excited yes! And sat up quickly, your legs crisscrossed as your hands rested in your lap, fumbling with your phone.

He walked over to his bed and sat in front of you, his hand placed on top of the skin of your thigh. “So..what did you want to do then?”

“Oh. I’m not sure yet.”

He seemed to get lost in thought as he stared at the wall behind you, getting himself stuck in a daze just like you did a few minutes ago.

“Earth to Tamaki? Did you fall asleep on me?”

He let out a squeak and violently shook his head, his hands coming in front of his body to defend himself from your playful grin. “N-no! I was just thinking is all!”

“Well, what were you thinking about?”

The tips of his pointed ears heated up, the blush making its way onto the swell of his cheeks. He averted his eyes from your playful ones, looking out the window. “J-just thinking about you as always bunny” he whispered meekly, somewhat afraid of your answer for no reason.

You got on your knees and scooted closer to him, your hands placing themselves on his shoulders, squeezing the muscles between your hands. “Cause I was just thinking about you” you whispered, a gentle smile displayed on your face.

His arm slithered around your waist, bringing you to sit on his lap. His head found itself in the crook of your neck, his indigo hair tickling the skin there. You let out a small hum, resting your head on top of his as your fingers threaded through his messy locks. If you stayed like this for much longer it was possible that you could have passed out right there in his arms.

“I know what we can do Tama”

“What is it?”

“We can blow some bubbles!”

He lifted his head and stared at you questioningly, his eyes partially covered by his bangs. “Bubbles?”

“Yeah!”

“Why bubbles..?”

You shrugged, pinching his cheeks in between your fingers. “Why not? It’s fun and I haven’t blown any in years. It’ll bring back some memories, ya know?”

He hummed and let you continue to pull at the skin on his cheeks. “Yeah, we can do that then. Where are you gonna get them then?”

“..I may have some in my room already and they might be colored ones”

Colored ones? Did they make those nowadays?

“O-oh okay. Well… let’s get going then”

☽✧ ✦ ✧☾

Both of you made your way to the rooftop of the dorms, the sky turning into a variety of oranges and reds as the sun began to make its way to rest for the day.

In your hand, you held a rather large bottle and in the other, two bubble wands. Tamaki set down a blanket on the floor for you two to sit on.

He looked over the edge and gulped lowly, taking a step back. “A-are we even allowed to be up here right now?”

“Beats me! If we get caught, just say it was my idea and I’ll take it from there! Because it was my idea!”

He coughed into the sleeve of his shirt and side glanced at you, watching as you opened the bottle, dipping one of the wands into it, collecting the soapy substance and latching onto it. A hum left the depths of your throat as you slowly pulled the wand out, making sure to get every last drop. You brought it up to your lips, taking a deep breath in before gently exhaling, soapy blue spheres shooting out and floating around in front of you.

His indigo eyes followed the bubbles as they made their way in different directions. A small giggle left your lips as you went to pop them, the excess exploding off.

“Come on Tama!” you yelled in happiness, holding the wand for him to grab. His eyes trailed over your figure, the sunset highlighting your body from behind. A smile curled at the corner of his lips as he took it from you, dipping the wand into the bottle before pulling it out and brought it to his lips.

You watched him as you bounced on your toes, fists clenched in front of your body. You looked like a small child, the way your eyes stared at him innocently with a fire that only a child could have. A warmth flowed through your veins as the love you had for Tamaki grew more, if that was possible. You treasured the moments you had with Tamaki. Something as simple as this. Seeing him in a calm and collected state brought a smile to your face.

Red bubbles emitted from his wand, his eyes widening at the sudden change of color. “T-they do change!” he squeaked, a look of awe glossing in his eyes. He quickly reached over and dipped it into the bottle again before pulling it out. You joined him right after.

An assortment of colors filled the area, your laughter was like a symphony to Tamaki’s ears. What seemed like hours of fun with him, was only 20 minutes. You brought the bottle up to your face, eyeing it up and down. “That’s it”

“There’s no more”

You swiftly shook your head and dumped the bottle in the bin, a happy sigh leaving your lips. “That was fun right?”

He nodded and sat down on the blanket, stretching his arms above his head as a grunt emitted from his throat. His body was still somewhat sore from the training he endured yesterday during school hours.

You walked over to him and sat down to his side, resting your head on his shoulder. His gaze averted downwards, humming softly. You always loved when he hummed for you. “Tamaki?” you whispered tiredly, your eyes threatening to flutter shut at any given moment.

“Yes?”

“I love you”

His heart fluttered. The pale skin on his cheeks heated up, his eyelids closing slightly as he admired your form. The sunlight was hitting your body, the soft light kissing the supple flesh of your skin. Your eyelashes resting against the tops of your cheeks, the curve of your nose that led to the tip of it, a spot that he loved to kiss. Your chest heaved up and down slowly, the soft snores escaping your lips as you fell deeper and deeper into your slumber.

“I love you too bunny”

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datingintampafails · 3 years

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Chapter 30: Richard*

Let me start by saying, nothing is wrong with Richard*. I match with Richard* right as the nightmare that is “the microwave” has come to a close. Now that I am mere days away from being fully vaccinated, I break the rules a little bit to give myself a headstart before I am able to actually go on the dates. I figure, what is the harm in working on getting back out there? I send a “Like” to him on Hinge, inquiring about a prompt that mentions he had broken both of his arms. The next morning, I get a reply with the story. After discussing that series of events briefly, he goes on to ask more about me and the video games I play. I step on my soapbox for a time. He tells me that he plays a video game called League of Legends, which has a reputation for having some of the most toxic players online. I ask him half-jokingly if that is his way of telling me he is toxic. He swears by his alibi of not having his microphone on when he plays with strangers, so as to not be tempted. We reminisce about Runescape, and he tells me more about some of the games he plays.

We get into the topic of pets, where he says my dog seems nice. I ask him if he has any pets where I am surprised to learn he has two snakes. We talk briefly about what it’s like having snakes, and we segue onto a conversation about television shows due to my dog having a character’s name in a show he watches, which then segued into a conversation about having coronavirus, and travel, and my changes in taste since aforementioned COVID-19.

I narrate to him a conversation I’m having with my best friend about the show of the moment, “Bridgerton,” on Netflix. Pretty randomly, he officially asks me out for drinks. I tell him I have a caveat, that it needs to be next week, as at this time I am still technically not supposed to be dating yet since I am awaiting my second COVID-19 vaccination. I make a joke that I bet he thought I was going to say I had a penis. He jokes back that he was hoping I would. I continue a joke saying I am pretty sure I don’t have one, but if I do have one it’s extremely small. We learn that we have opposing schedules, “we suck” is how I put it. I offer that in the meantime, we can text/call/video chat in order to continue getting to know each other. He sends me his number though offers that we can talk with a “different method.” Being the jester I am, I turn this into a joke of seeing how many alternate methods I can think of. A good sport, he plays along and adds a few of his own, ending in “Mongolian throat singing.” Despite the ingenious ideas we come up with, I opt to stick to contact him via text message.

Upon texting him and seeing my area code, he recognizes it as his cousins lived in that area. He grew up a couple of hours away in rural Maryland. It is late, so our transition to text is brief for now. In the morning I challenge him regarding who woke up the earliest; I win this challenge due to having a call in at work at four in the morning. We then bond over the legendary Mountain Dew Game Fuel, Citrus Cherry, that would come out at game releases; once my favorite drink, being reminded of its existence brought me anger and sadness, which I expressed I was feeling to him. We are getting along so famously, that I decided maybe I can make an exception to seeing him before my vaccine. He says he is fine either way. We start to plan our date and settle on a brewery I like near me.

Much of our texts are light-hearted jabs at each other, nothing super deep. He compliments my quirks often. He often makes jokes about having a smooth brain and sends me many diagrams. He tells me about his major in college. I then realize I don’t know what he does for a living. I ask him what his job is, that’s when he tells me he is in the Army. The stereotype for men in the military is that they usually get engaged quickly, without knowing a person for very long. Being the jokester I am, I take this opportunity to jab at him. My response to his career is, “oh sorry I don’t want to get married next month.” He says that that is why he doesn't have his job in his profile, because of the stereotypes. I joke that I have been misled to believe he had been a chill down to earth guy.

When it is the day of the date, I jokingly keep saying I am going to wear an evening gown; I mention it a couple times. When I arrive, in my skirt and crop top, I see he’s actually dressed pretty nicely and is sitting outside, wearing long khaki pants and a dress shirt. It is a decently warm day, so I hope he's okay. I compliment him, saying he looks nice and he didn't need to dress up for me. He admits that because I kept talking about the evening gown, that he thought I might have been serious, so he wanted to match my formality. I do notice over the course of the date though that he is sweating through his shirt, especially at the underarms; not the most attractive, but a person cannot help these things.

The conversation goes well, we have a nice time and I regale him with the drama in my video game community and just talk about random things. I have a couple drinks and although we weren't planning on eating dinner there, he ends up eating a burger and I opt to just "steal some fries" since I had a late lunch. He is craving dessert so we walk a block to a local ice cream place and get some ice cream as well. When we return back to where the cars were, I realize that he had Ubered there, because another joke of mine was taken seriously regarding getting super drunk. I feel bad and offer to drive him home. We get in my car and I have him put in his address into Google Maps. I drive him there and when approaching his apartment, I see a lot of construction. He instructs me where I can drop him off and suggests that I turn around in a certain lot. He gives me a hug goodbye and I drive off.

I get completely confused and lost in the construction, between closed streets and cones blocking lanes, so I get stuck in the vicinity of his apartment for five minutes before being able to find my way back to the main road. I let him know of my troubles driving, and also when I got home. He thanks me for going out and says he had a great time. Whereas I also had a good time, I found it strange he made no moves whatsoever during the night and I didn't really feel a romantic urge with him.

I get my second COVID-19 Vaccine and take a day off to recover. We still talk at least daily while he is away on his trip; while he is gone I focus a little more on the other guy I am chatting with, John*. I've told my mom of my predicament between the two men, and between her and I, I decided I'll go out with Richard* again, give him another chance. If things still aren't progressing or feelings startup, I will end it and entirely focus on John*.

Richard* asks me when he can see me again and offers to cook for me. I give him my Friday night, which is a day after I am seeing John* again as well. On Thursday, he texts me to verify, saying "I'd like to see you tomorrow, did you still want to do dinner?" I told him I meant to confirm that day. We don't talk besides that, which is good for me because I don't have to worry about getting texts from him when I'm with someone else. The day of my second date with Richard*, I text him to ask for his address again and ask for suggestions on parking, since the construction was such a fiasco for me, I'm still traumatized lightly. He tells me and after a few hours, I get some complicated news regarding my gaming community, so I ask Richard* if I can reschedule to tomorrow, Saturday. He says it is fine and so we just chat for the rest of the day.

On the day our date will actually happen, he again seems to verify the date, asking me if I'm planning on coming over "today." I snarkily replied, "yeah I don't bail, you said 730." He asks me what I want to drink, as he must be grocery shopping. I panic and say seltzers. I take a quick nap and then let him know I am headed to his apartment. When I arrive, I try to follow his parking suggestions but get confused and don't see anything. After driving around for over five minutes, I start to panic as I don't see anything. I find a random gravel lot that is in earshot of where I had dropped him off on the first date, and I call to admit defeat. I send him a photo as well to show where I am. He comes out to find me and almost walks past my car. I flash my high beams at him to indicate it's me and he hops in the car. We drive around a few minutes and luck upon a spot that is close to one of the side entrances to his apartment complex.

I follow him to his apartment, he is again dressed nicely, and I am wearing more comfortable clothes. He is wearing a nice shirt, but with jeans. We get to his apartment and it is slightly better than a typical bachelor pad, but definitely not overly showy. He is still finishing up dinner, chicken pad thai, and he gets me out a white claw to drink. We chat briefly but he starts acting weird, just off. I just sit in his gaming chair and spin around, look at his one snake, and stay quiet. In a way, I am fine with the silence, as it solidifies my unease about this going anywhere. He eventually speaks up, saying he just got a killer headache and isn't feeling well. Due to his travels, I joke about him having coronavirus.

When the food is ready, I let him serve me, I tell him to go light as I don't eat much. He had talked a lot of game regarding his pad thai being good, and unfortunately, it was pretty disappointing. He used chicken thighs, which I am not a huge fan of, and the noodles seemed almost soggy. Richard* was aware of this, however, and commented that this wasn't his best dish and had used a new kind of noodles. I don't like and say that it's just alright, at least palatable. We watch some Brooklyn 99 and eat on his couch, sitting on opposite sides of the couch. After dinner, I get an official introduction to the snakes and get to pet them, it is bizarre, but kind of cool. Definitely not as fun as playing with, say, a dog. Shortly after that, I say it's getting late and I should probably go home. He walks me back to my car, which is a need since his complex is a maze. Again, he makes no moves and gives me a hug goodbye. For me, it's easy to see that something isn't quite right here. We chat briefly, for the next few days, as I'm not ready to immediately break his heart.

When he texts me four days after our date, explicitly saying the following, I see it is a perfect opportunity to come clean:

He took things very well, and I didn't hear from him again. I commend myself for being a real human and telling people how I feel, rather than ghosting and not giving others closure. I wish more conversations could go this way. I feel bad for the guy. It isn’t his fault that I ended up “playing the game” and doing what you’re supposed to do when you’re dating, which is, not to get stuck on one person and date around. It just so happens, he ended up being the one I obviously didn’t like as much and had to sacrifice for his own good. It’s possible that only due to my extreme attraction to the other guy, that he never had a chance as it was shadowed by my feelings for someone else.

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honeybammie · 5 years

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the world › bang chan

↳ in which chan is back after being away for months, and he doesn’t smell like home anymore ↳ little bit angsty, mostly fluffy

Chan is home, returning for the first time in months. He doesn’t smell like himself anymore. No longer do the scents of singed candle wicks like lavender and oak cling to his skin. Instead, the entire world fills my nostrils: spices I have never tasted and flowers I have never heard of. He smells like the rain in Thailand, and I have no idea what that even means. At the very least, he looks like himself—a few months older, maybe, and tired, but the latter has always been true.

The afternoon is warm, mid-seventies, and I’m shaking. Shaking because touching him sends jolts of electricity through my legs. Shaking because I smell the same and look the same and am for the most part well-rested. Shaking because I’m not the world.

But Chan doesn’t seem to realize.

“Hi,” he says, kissing my forehead and cheeks and every inch of my bare face until he settles on my lips. “I’m home.”

I hadn’t stopped fidgeting in days, but hearing him say home stills my nerves for a brief moment of peace. “You are,” I say, cupping his face in my hands to confirm. He’s not a compilation of pixels through a low-quality video chat or a high-quality fan photo. He’s warm and real and here.

“Are you cold?” he asks, leaning into my touch. I wonder if the electricity flows in him, too. It has to. “You’re shaking.”

I shake my head. No, I was afraid you’d come home from the world and realize I’m only a fraction of it— a fraction that starts with a decimal and is followed by a million zeros.

But he tells me, on a nightly basis, that he loves me, that he can’t wait to see me again. I grasp for him over video chat on the nights he has a spare moment to call, hoping my atoms will disperse and reform on the other side of the computer. My attempts have yet to meet success.

“Just excited,” I tell him instead. He lifts his hands to wrap his fingers around mine, squeezing gently to remind me not to venture too deep into my own thoughts.

“Want to tell me how your week has been?” he asks. Usually he takes a few minutes to ask what I’ve been up to, but wrapping up promotions has taken up so much time that he’s barely been able to message me other than to tell me goodnight.

To be honest, I don’t remember any of the past four days now that he’s here. I had lunch with a coworker. French food, I think, or maybe Greek. I got an email about an event downtown and wanted him to join me, but what or when the event was escapes me. “It was just another week. It became the best week a couple minutes ago.” I blush, and in a quieter voice I add. “I’d rather you tell me about the world.”

“Okay, then let’s sit. Mind taking this?” Chan hands the bag on his shoulder over to me and lifts the two suitcases behind him, carrying them into the living room. He told me a couple times that he’s been working out a lot, but I only notice the progress now in the way his muscles shift under the black tee he’s wearing.

Oh, I think, swallowing hard, but the thought that follows is one of thousands of screaming fans ogling over the same body that I do. I’m still getting used to sharing him.

“Come here, silly.” He brings me back by patting the space on the couch next to him, and I join. He takes back the bag that I carried and sets it in the unoccupied cushion, pulling back the zipper to reveal contents I don’t recognize.

“What’s all this?” I ask, craning my neck over him.

“I’m gonna show you! No peeking!” he fusses, and I smile a little at his childlike enthusiasm. He’s brought back pieces of the world, treasures to share with me.

One by one, he pulls materialized memories out of the bag, explaining each gift like they are stars he brought from the sky, and to me, they’re damn close. There’s a bracelet in my favorite color that he found at a bazaar in the Philippines, and a vial of sand from a beach in Thailand with a couple shells trapped inside. Candy from Japan he says I’ll love, a few books on foreign philosophies that he knows I’ll devour as soon as he leaves again. Even a tacky “I Heart New York” shirt thrown in the mix, because he thought it was funny, and I think it’s funny, too.

“Oh, one more thing,” he gushes, reaching into a side zipper as he tells me to close my eyes. I listen, squeezing them shut until cool metal hits my hand. “Okay, you can open them now.”

There’s a silver key resting in my palm, attached to a delicate chain. “Let me guess. Because I have the key to your heart?” I tease, expecting him to pull out another necklace with a locket.

“Not quite,” he says, showing me his hand, in which rests an identical key. He flips it over to show me the spot where my initials are engraved, and I turn over my own. Sure enough: CB. “Because together, we can unlock any door, or do anything, or be whoever we want.”

“That’s just as cheesy,” I say, deadpan.

“It’s romantic!” he pouts. “I had them custom-made in Paris. They didn’t appreciate that I only gave them two days, but it worked out.”

“Paris?” I echo, and I love the gift that much more. He had been to a couple countries in Europe, but not France. How would he ever have found the time?

“You’ve always wanted to go, and one day, we’ll go together, but for now I decided to bring a piece back to you,” he says. I think my heart falls out of my chest because it needs to find a place with more room to love him. “Do you mind if I—?” He takes the necklace, unclasps it, and hooks it around my neck. I return the favor, and for a moment we sit and stare at the other half. At our other half.

“Une clé,” I say. My years of French classes don’t fail me, and he smiles.

“That has a nice sound to it,” he muses, hooking his finger under my chain and gently pulling me forward until my lips brush his. “Une clé.” My accent is better, but his effort is admirable. I spend the afternoon teaching him French words.

Night is normal again, with Chan in his spot in bed next to mine. The way it should be. The way it rarely is. His long day of travel puts him to sleep first, but I remain, unable to help myself as I get a headstart on one of the books he brought home. I glance at him now and again, too, trying to get used to the changes. His presence. His physique. His key, still hanging around his neck. One of his arms is tucked under the pillow, and the other reaches for me, rested on my stomach so he knows I’m there. I’m not the only one who has to remind myself, apparently.

“Baby,” he murmurs long after I assumed him asleep, fingers twitching to life.

“Yes?” I answer, marking my page and closing the book. I set it on the nightstand, sliding down under the covers until my nose is only inches from his. He smells less worldly after a long shower, but still doesn’t smell like home.

“You were worried earlier,” he says. “The shaking. Your eyes. I could tell. What was wrong?”

I was afraid. I was afraid. I was afraid. I think of the world in him and the stagnancy in myself. “There’s the world, and there’s me. There are a thousand cities waiting for you and a million people, and there’s me. There are infinite things, and there’s me. Do you understand?”

His eyes flutter shut in a moment of tired processing, and then he shakes his head. “Not at all.”

I take a deep breath and sigh. “I’m afraid that while you’re out seeing the entire world, you’ll forget about me, because the world is so big and I’m so small and eventually the cities and the sights and the people will swallow me whole.”

He’s wide awake now, eyes darting to every curve and edge of my face. “You’re not the world,” he says. So he does realize. “But you are bigger—bigger than every city, or every sight, or every person put together. I’d sooner forget myself than you.”

“I get jealous. Sometimes,” I admit, quieter, because I hate to say it. “Because the world gets to see you so much, and I get to see you so little, and I have to share you with a million people who fawn over you and your talent and your body and...everything. Is that terrible? Am I terrible?”

“You’re jealous that other people want to sleep with me?” he smirks. I whack his arm and try to roll over, but he laughs and brings me right back. It’s not hard to do. “I appreciate you everyday for letting me live my dream. You know that, right?”

I nod. Because I do. And Chan would never look at another person with an ounce of the adoration he showed me, but every once in a while jealousy grinned my way. “I know, yes.”

“And maybe there are a million others you have to share me with, but none of them I’d share this with.” He touches the key hanging at my chest. “They’re custom, remember? No two others like them anywhere, and no one deserves to wear it except you.”

“Just me and you,” I say, and he nods. As much as the world around us has changed, Chan is the same boy I fell in love with. To most, time and distance are a ticking equation for ruin, but they’re nothing but words to him.

“And one day you’ll be able to see it all with me. I’ll bring you everywhere I’ll go, and we’ll never be apart longer than a week.”

The promise sounds so far away, especially considering he’ll leave again in a few weeks, but I believe him. “And until then I have the key. And everything else you brought.”

“Exactly. And my love, always,” he says, kissing my forehead. “What’s French for ‘you have the key to my heart’?”

“You said that’s not what they were for.”

“They can have a dual meaning, and I’m curious.” He shrugs, but I know he just wants to hear me say something else in French.

“Tu as la clé de ma cœur.”

He repeats after me, his pronunciation much less graceful, and he giggles at the sound of himself halfway through, but the sentiment is the same.

“Et tu as la mienne,” I answer. I don’t need to translate for him to know.

me?? actually writing something?? and posting it?? after three months?? i’m gonna try to be more active i promisE but college is R O U GH

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blog-in-a-corner · 5 years

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TSOTBL - Reawakening

A new morning came about. It wasn’t snowing, but it was still rather cloudy, and definitely still cold.

Luckily, it was one of the warmer days. The winter was a cruel time of year; most plants were dead and many animals were asleep, awaiting spring, the much warmer and livelier season of harvest, to awake once more. That being said, there are still many creatures of all sorts that are awake and alive during the harsh and ruthless winter; such as humans, for example.

It was nine o'clock in the morning, everyone was up and about, sitting around the kitchen counter. In the kitchen Lucinda had prepared a small breakfast for everyone to start their morning. Eggs with bread and….beef jerky?

“.....Lucinda?” Aphmau asked, poking at her beef jerky with a fork. “Yeah?” Lucinda said, setting her plate down on the table, sitting down across from Aphmau. “Why...is there beef jerky next to my eggs.” Aphmau questioned, picking up the piece of beef jerky and raising an eyebrow. “Yeah,” Aaron said, taking a bite out of his toast. “I was actually wondering that too.” “Because the liquor store didn’t have any other kind of meat product is why, and don’t think for a second I was just going to feed everyone just EGGS and BREAD with nothing else! What kind of breakfast is that?” Lucinda answered. “True, it’s still kinda bizarre to me though….” Aphmau stated, grabbing her beef jerky and chewing on it. “This whole place is bizarre….” Lucinda thought to herself. “Too bad the liquor store wasn’t one of those weird ones that sell like, sausages in a can or something.” Garroth added. “Actually you know what that’s a thousand times worse than beef jerky.” Aphmau responded, disgusted at the thought of eating canned sausages from a liquor store. Who knows how long they’ve been sitting there. “So Aaron,” Zane interrupted, getting up from his seat and going to put his plate in the kitchen sink. “What’s the plan for today?” “Well, today we’re going to split up a little bit to get some more down around the lodge.” Aaron answered, pushing his plate away, as he had finished eating. “Garroth and Kim are going to get a headstart on cleaning the library, and the rest of us are going to continue to clean the rooms on floor three.” “Why would a lodge have a library of all things?” Kim wondered aloud. “A form of entertainment I guess? With how bad the winters are here, I don’t think they’d want to add a pool of all things. This place was only a hotspot during spring anyways…” Aaron replied. “Ughhhh….I wouldn’t mind having to clean up any of those rooms if there weren’t so many…” Zane whined. “Trust me Zane, everyone here doesn’t want to clean up all of those rooms either, but we have to do it. We might as well help out everybody else while we’re stuck here.” Aphmau said, picking up everyone’s dirty dishes and took them to the sink. “Hmph…” “Everybody get ready, because once Aphmau is done washing the dishes we’re all going back to work.” Aaron announced, getting up from his seat and walked out of the kitchen. “Well Kim, looks like it’s you and me today! The dynamic duo!” Garroth said in glee. “Sweet! But I’ve got to take off all of your bandages before we head out, your burns and any small cuts have pretty much healed! You’re shoulder still needs some time though, but it’s getting better to say the least.” Kim stated. “Aww darn….well, at least it’s the last time I gotta wear these itchy bandages.” Garroth mumbled, walking out of the kitchen with Kim. “Tch, I wish I wasn’t surprised that idiot got himself injured like that.” Zane rolled his eyes, wondering just how dumb his brother could be. “C’mon Zane, cut him some slack. Accidents happen no matter how dumb or smart you are.” Aphmau said, grabbing a rag and drying her hands. “True, but it’s sorta common sense to not immediately start up a boiler that hasn’t been touched for twenty years.” Lucinda said. “Yeahhh…..” Aphmau reluctantly agreed. “I swear that dumbass is going to get himself killed one of these days.” Zane shook his head at the mere stupidity of his brother. “Hm, well, I just finished the dishes, so we should probably get going now.” Aphmau advised. “Right.” Lucinda and Zane replied in unison.

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Kim went to the waiting room to remove Garroth’s bandages, as it was the most convenient place to be in case either of the two needed anything.

“Alright so let’s start with the ones on your hands since those will be the easiest.” Kim said, beginning to unwrap the bandages one by one. “Aaand there! Let’s take a look at your hand.” she inquired, throwing the bandages on the floor. “Hmm...the burn should heal a bit more over time, though it looks like the burn was bad enough to leave a scar, unfortunately.” Kim stated. “As long as nothing is getting any worse, I guess it’s not so bad…” Garroth said, trying to be positive about the situation, at hand. “Don’t forget to get to cleaning the library as soon as you guys are done.” Aaron reminded them, as he and the others headed upstairs to clean the third floor. “Don’t worry we will!” Kim shouted after them.

As soon as everyone got to the third floor, they began to get to work, unfortunately for them they weren’t anywhere near finished cleaning all of the rooms on the third floor., and probably wouldn’t be for another week or so.

“So Zane, what was it like being stuck inside an elevator? It must’ve been horrifying….” Aphmau asked, trying to make conversation. “It was horrifying! It was the worst thing that’s ever happened to me in my entire life!” Zane raised his voice slightly, expressing the true terror of the situation. “Thank Irene the elevator even started up again…” “If we’re talking about that right now,” Lucinda, dusting the nightstand. “What was inside the attic?” “Just a lot of boxes and old extra blankets for the rooms, it seems they were in such a rush to close this place they ended up forgetting to take a lot of stuff...however there was this, one thing that stood out….” Zane replied, recalling the events in his head. “Really? What was it?” Lucinda questioned. “It was...a kids toy chest.” “A kids toy chest? What would something like that of all things be doing in a lodge attic of all places?” Lucinda wondered aloud. “Maybe the family left it here by accident?” Aphmau proposed, yanking the blankets off the bed. “Possibly, but how could you forget something as big and obvious as a toy chest?” Zane argued. “Good point...what was inside the chest?” Aphmau asked, shaking the blankets up and down. “I don’t know, the thing wouldn’t budge no matter how much I tried to open it. It was pretty heavy though, so there definitely was something still inside it.” Zane answered, grabbing one of the blankets Aphmau shook and began to fold it. “How odd…” Lucinda muttered, wondering why and how a toy chest was even in the lodge. “We’ll be visiting the attic soon so maybe we crack that mystery then!” Aphmau said, grabbing the pillows from the bed. “Speaking of which, how much of this place are going to clean? There’s only so much we can do for this shithole, with it’s broken windows and dingy, torn up furniture.” Zane asked, as he gestured to the whole room. “Just all of the rooms and the library is what we have left, Garte and his company are going to be the ones repairing the windows, furniture, walls, so on and so forth. That’s why he’s even coming to begin with.” Aaron explained, as he entered the room with some cleaning supplies in hand. “Ah, part of the deal between our fathers I assume?” Zane questioned. “Yup.” “Well, the sooner my father comes the sooner me and Aph are out of here…” Zane grumbled, grabbing some of the dirty rags and throwing them into a bin. “I can’t wait to go back home. As much as I love the snow it gets kinda sickening to be honest..” Aphmau mumbled, stacking all of the folded blankets neatly. “Next time you guys should clean a summer resort or something.” “I didn’t really think the trip here would be so horrible but hey, you live you learn.” Lucinda commented, checking under the bed. “Hey, should one of us go check on Garroth and Kim right now? Last thing we need is one of them somehow getting hurt...again” “Yeah we should. Zane, could you go downstairs and check on Garroth and Kim? Make sure they’re both alright?” Aaron asked, grabbing the bin. “Why me?!” Zane whined. “Just go do it Zane…” “No!” “C’mon Zane pleeeaaaseeee?” Aphmau implored. “Ugh fiiiiine...” Zane groaned.

Zane walked to the elevator and went to the second floor, he then walked downstairs to the library. As the library was under the second floor, between both staircases.

“This is an odd place to put a library...but I guess it makes sense...sorta.” Zane muttered to himself, opening the doors and walking into the library.

The inside of the library was filled with aisles of tall bookshelves, with tables for people to study or read. However it was in slight disarray, there was holes and cracks in the wall, books and torn out pages on the floor, and a few bugs on the floor here and there, but bugs weren’t an uncommon sight in the lodge. Zane had a feeling of déjà vu. The place felt familiar somehow but he couldn’t remember why. He walked through the library in search of Garroth and Kim.

“Garroth!” He yelled, hearing his own voice bouncing off the walls, each echo quieter than the first. “Zane?” Garroth responded, poking his head out from one of the aisles. “Oh, there you are. Aaron wanted me to see how you and Kim were doing.” Zane said, as he walked towards Garroth. “Ah! Well, me and Kim are doing just fine. We’re just looking through the books to see if they’re alright.” Garroth explained, carrying a stack of books. “Yup! It’s amazing! There’s so many books I’ve never even see before! I can’t wait to check all of them out as soon as we’re done!” Kim shouted in glee, poking her head out from the same aisle, just a little higher up as she was on a ladder. “Hm. I see. Well, you guys go on with that, I’m going back upstairs.” Zane said, as he began to walk away. “Baby brother wait! I wanted to ask if-woOAHH!” Garroth attempted to walk to Zane but accidently slipped on one of the papers on the floor and fell. “Ah! Garroth!” Kim yelled, as she frantically, but carefully, climbed down the ladder. “Are you alright!?” “I’m fine! I just got a whole lotta books on me now, but I’ve had worse.” Garroth responded. “Ugh can’t you go thirty seconds without doing anything stupid?” Zane commented in annoyance, continuing to walk out of the library. “Uh, well, let’s pick up these books.” Kim said, grabbing two of the books off the floor and putting them on a table. “Don’t worry I’ll do it! It’s my mess anyway, you just focus on getting the books down.” Garroth insisted, grabbing multiple books and putting them under his arm. “Are you sure?” Kim asked. “I’m positive!” Garroth replied. “Alright then...be more careful next time okay?” Kim said, climbing back onto the ladder. “I will. I promise. “ Garroth reassured Kim. “Okay c’mon….four at a time…” Garroth muttered to himself, placing the books on the table. “Huh? What’s this?” Garroth wondered, as he picked up the book from the floor.

“What an interesting book….I’ll keep this one and check it out later.” Garroth said, placing the book aside from the other ones.

//hEY SORRY FOR THE LATE UPLOAD SHGDHBSHDB THE DRAWING NEEDED A FEW FINISHING TOUCHES I HAD FORGOTTEN DHGHS THANKS FOR READING Y’ALL!//

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thefosteringworld · 4 years

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Alright so alot of things have happened in the last month.

Baby H’s hearing didn’t happen due to technical difficulties sadly. It was quite frustrating but we are hopefully that we will get that worked out soon! We have also had other big things happen. She was officially assigned an adoption worker about 2 weeks ago! This is really helping things move along a bit faster because they aren’t waiting for the judge to get started. So this is basically a headstart (which is rare). On the downside, we took baby H for her 2 month appointment last week, and she is already showing signs of following behind developing. :(

Currently, she isn’t able to track with her eyes. They have sent us out for a referral to get her eyes examined to see if she has an issue physically. If not, it will be listed as a developmental delay. Which we definitely knew was possible because of her drug exposure.

Fun spot * We have decided on a name if we are able to adopt. We would rename her to Amanda Dean. Amanda for my best friend and my daughter’s god mother, and Dean for the absolute best Nana the world could ask for. Shhhh. It’s a secret.

On to Baby T, who really isn’t a baby anymore. She is almost 18 months! The last two weeks have frankly been the roller coaster of a lifetime. They started leaning towards adoption and then all the sudden they are ready to send her home. The struggle is that at this time, the parents have completed their “paper” treatment plan. The legal hoops. BUT, have had next to no involvement with their daughter for the almost year that she has been in care. At this point, these folks are strangers which makes reunification a gut wrenching feeling. I won’t lie, Baby T feels like she has been apart of our family for forever. Let’s face it, at a year, you forget what things were like before they came along. It’s been the most difficult thing to grapple with. The real possibility of having to say Good Bye forever.

She had her perm. hearing today. We spent 2 hours writing a statement for the judge to not allow us to speak. With a house filled with kids, i was less than happy to say the least. Her case has been extended another 60 days. This allows the parents to complete additional therapy requirements. The only way that adoption really happens in this case is if something goes absolutely upside down and i’m really just not sure what will happen anymore. This case has honestly broken my faith in the system. The parents have done their homework but they haven’t done anything with the child and for us to just turn a blind eye to that, seems wrong. It is wrong. It is behind the feeling of dissatisfying to know that because they did the paperwork, there isn’t a problem with them missing every other visit. The main reason that this really burns me is because of how many weekly appointments this child has. We are talking 4-5 appointments WEEKLY. They have also now but Autism on the table officially.

talk about a week. The doctors think one child may be blind and the other to be autistic. But we survived.

Sir M! He was finally approved to be upgraded to a therapeutic home and was actually able to move to his sister. (which is even more rare). I have kept in touch with the foster family and they say he is doing very well! We are so happy for his progress.

We also decided to start accepting emergency placements and we got our first ones over this weekend. TEENAGERS AT THAT. They were our first ever teens and boy were they well-behaved! We always expected hell on wheels and we got two sisters who were quieter than a mouse! It has definitely opened our eyes that we may be able to help more kids. This did however push us to FIVE kids for the weekend which was ... interesting to say the least. We are still so happy that we could open our doors and allow children of all walks of life into our home. Overall, that is what it is all about.

I have also started volunteering with Closet of Hope pretty heavily. AKA it all moved to my house. I have been organizing volunteer events and fundraisers while also sorting clothes and meeting tons of foster families. The work this organization does is truly unbelievable. We really see the impact. I was actually on the news today for it. My whole 15 secs (literally). But it is all about working towards a goal that needs to be met.

I also really got to thinking about group homes. I decided that I think this is something I will do whenever Audrey is older. Seeing these teenagers this weekend, who no one wanted to open their door too. It really broke my heart. Everyone was so quick to turn their nose up and frankly, its wrong. I can admit that I have been there myself. But I have learned to accept all people and just hope for the best possible outcome.

More updates to come in the future!

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charlieharry1 · 4 years

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readersforum · 5 years

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To stop copycats, Snapchat shares itself

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To stop copycats, Snapchat shares itself

Evan Spiegel has finally found a way to fight back against Mark Zuckerberg’s army of clones. For 2.5 years, Snapchat foolishly tried to take the high road versus Facebook, with Spiegel claiming “Our values are hard to copy”. That inaction allowed Zuckerberg to accrue over 1 billion daily Stories users across Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook compared to Snapchat’s 186 million total daily users. Meanwhile, the whole tech industry scrambled to build knock-offs of Snap’s vision of an ephemeral, visual future.

But Snapchat’s new strategy is a rallying call for the rest of the social web that’s scared of being squashed beneath Facebook’s boot. It rearranges the adage of “if you can’t beat them, join them” into “to beat them, join us”. As a unified front, Snap’s partners get the infrastructure they need to focus on what differentiates them, while Snapchat gains the reach and entrenchment necessary to weather the war.

Tinder lets you use Snapchat Stories as profile photos

Snapchat’s plan is to let other apps embed the best parts of it rather than building their own half-rate copies.

Why reinvent the wheel of Stories, Bitmoji, and ads when you can reuse the original? A high-ranking Snap executive told me on background that this is indeed the strategy. If it’s going to invent these products, and others want something similar, it’s smarter to enable and partly control the Snapchatification than to try to ignore it. Otherwise, Facebook might be the one to platform-tize what Snap inspired everyone to want.

The “Camera company” corrected course and took back control of its destiny this week at its first ever Snap Partner Summit in its hometown of Los Angeles. Now it’s a camera platform thanks to Snap Kit. Its new Story Kit will implant Snapchat Stories into other apps later this year. They can display a more traditional carousel of your friends’ Stories, or lace them into their app in a custom format. Houseparty’s Stories carousel shares what your buddies are up to outside of the group video chat app. Tinder will let you show off your Snapchat Story alongside your photos to seduce potential matches. But the camera stays inside Snapchat, with new options to share out to these App Stories.

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel presents at the Snap Partner Summit

This is how Snapchat colonizes the native app ecosystem similarly to how Facebook invaded the web with the Like button. Snap’s strong privacy record makes these partners willing to host it where now they might fear that Facebook and its history with Cambridge Analytica could tarnish their brand.

Instead of watching these other apps spin up mini competitors that further fragment the Stories world, Snap saves developers the slow and costly hassle while instantly giving them best-in-class tools to boost their own engagement. Each outpost makes your Snapchat account a little more indispensable, grants its camera new utility, and reminds you to visit again. It’s another reason to stick with Snap rather than straying to other versions of Stories.

If Spiegel knows what’s up, he’ll douse the Story Kit partnerships team with resources so they can sign up as many apps as possible before Facebook can copy this idea too. For now, Snap isn’t injecting ads into App Stories, but it could easily do so and split the cash with its host. This would attract partners, generate revenue, and give Snap’s advertisers more reach.

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Either way, Snap will score those benefits with its new Ad Kit. Later this year the Snapchat Audience Network will launch allowing partners to host Snap’s full-screen vertical video ads and earn an as-yet-undisclosed revenue share. They won’t have to build up an ad sales force or build an auction and delivery system, but just drop in an SDK to start displaying ads to both Snapchat users and non-users. The company’s message again is that it’s becoming easier to cooperate with Snapchat than copy it.

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Giving its advertisers more reach and reusability for Snap’s somewhat proprietary ad unit format helps Snap address its core challenge: scale. Snap’s 186 million total users can look small in comparison to Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube, especially since that count sank in Q2 and Q3 before stabilzing in Q4 of last year. That makes it tougher for advertisers to justify the chore of spending on Snapchat. Ad Kit and potentially Story Kit give Snap more reach even without user growth.

Added size could tip the cards in Snap’s favor given it’s already popular with an extremely important demographic. Snapchat now reaches 75 percent of 13 to 34-year olds in the US, and 90 percent of 13 to 24-year olds there. It claims to now reach more of that younger age group than Facebook in the most lucrative countries: the US, Canada, UK, France, and Australia.

Facebook has massively neglected this segment. Case in point: Facebook Messenger’s Stickers feature that’s popular with kids has hardly improved since its launch in 2013, which I hear was a fight to get approved internally. Meanwhile, Snapchat keeps growing its lead on virtual identity with Bitmoji. Now Snap will let you put your personalized Bitmoji avatar on your FitBit smart watch face, use them to joke about Venmo purchases, and even represent yourself with one in Snap’s new multiplayer games platform.

Again, Snap wants partners to integrate the real thing rather than try to build some half-assed facsimile of Bitmoji. Surprisingly, Facebook’s Avatars have been mired in development for over a year and Apple’s Memoji can’t escape iMessage and FaceTime yet. That’s why Snapchat would be wise to double-down on trying to make Bitmoji the ubiquitous way to represent yourself without a photograph. Facebook’s lack of design cool and Bitmoji’s massive headstart with this differentiated product is a powerful way for Snap to wedge itself into partnerships.

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Snap needs all the help it can get if the underdog is going to carve out a substantial and sustainable piece of social networking. Teaming up was the theme of the rest of the Snap Partner Summit. It’s built ways for Netflix, GoFundMe, VSCO, and Anchor to share stickers and for publishers like the Washington Post to share articles back to Snapchat. It’s got Zynga and ZeptoLab building real-time multiplayer Snap Games that live inside chat and are a clever way of slipping ads into messaging.

Snapchat’s new Scan augmented reality utility platform has signed up Giphy and Photomath as well as former partners Shazam and Amazon to let you squeeze extra interactivity out of your surroundings. And since the physical world is too vast for any one developer to fill with AR experiences, Snap beefed up its Lens Studio platform with new templates and creator profiles so developers add to its warchest of 400,000 special effects. Facebook may be able to clone Snap’s features, but not its developer army.

“If we can show the right Lens in the right moment, we can inspire a whole new world of creativity” says Snap co-founder Bobby Murphy . From partnerships to utilities to toys, all the new announcements drive attention back to Snapchat’s camera. That makes it ripe to become the augmented reality brower of the world.

It all feels like a coming of age moment for Snapchat, punctuated by the glitzy press event where media bigwigs gnoshed on Chinese steak buns and played with AR art installations in West Hollywood.

Spiegel has discovered a method of capitalizing on his penchant for inspiring mobile product design. With this strategy in place and Snap’s reengineered Android app and new languages rolling out now, I believe Snapchat will grow again, at least in terms of deeper engagement if not also total user count. Perhaps it will need a little bit more funding to get it over the hurdle, but I expect it will reach profitability before the end of 2020.

During a pre-event press briefing with a dozen Snap executives including Spiegel and Murphy (that was on ‘background’ so we can’t quote or specify who said what), one Snap higher-up joked that Facebook has been copying it for seven years so it’s started to feel normal. Zuckerberg recently declared he wanted to reorient Facebook around privacy, ephemerality, and messaging — the core tenets of Snapchat. But a Snap leader used some colorful language to describe how they don’t care what Facebook says its philosophy is until it fixes the 2 billion-user product that keeps doing harm.

Subtly throwing shade from the stage, Spiegel concluded that “Our camera lets the natural light from our world penetrate the darkness of the Internet . . . as we use the Internet more and more in our daily lives, we need a way to make it a bit more human.” That apparently means making other apps a bit more Snapchat.

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sheminecrafts · 5 years

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To stop copycats, Snapchat shares itself

Tinder lets you use Snapchat Stories as profile photos

Snapchat’s plan is to let other apps embed the best parts of it rather than building their own half-rate copies.

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel presents at the Snap Partner Summit

Houseparty embeds Snapchat Stories

Snap’s new ad network

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It all feels like a coming of age moment for Snapchat, punctuated by the glitzy press event where media bigwigs gnoshed on Chinese steak buns and played with AR art installations in West Hollywood.

Snapchat launches Mario Party-style multiplayer games platform

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Tinder lets you use Snapchat Stories as profile photos

Snapchat’s plan is to let other apps embed the best parts of it rather than building their own half-rate copies.

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel presents at the Snap Partner Summit

Houseparty embeds Snapchat Stories

Snap’s new ad network

“If we can show the right Lens in the right moment, we can inspire a whole new world of creativity” says Snap co-founder Bobby Murphy. From partnerships to utilities to toys, all the new announcements drive attention back to Snapchat’s camera. That makes it ripe to become the augmented reality brower of the world.

It all feels like a coming of age moment for Snapchat, punctuated by the glitzy press event where media bigwigs gnoshed on Chinese steak buns and played with AR art installations in West Hollywood.

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To stop copycats, Snapchat shares itself

Tinder lets you use Snapchat Stories as profile photos

Snapchat’s plan is to let other apps embed the best parts of it rather than building their own half-rate copies.

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel presents at the Snap Partner Summit

Houseparty embeds Snapchat Stories

Snap’s new ad network

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It all feels like a coming of age moment for Snapchat, punctuated by the glitzy press event where media bigwigs gnoshed on Chinese steak buns and played with AR art installations in West Hollywood.

Snapchat launches Mario Party-style multiplayer games platform

source https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/07/rise-of-the-snapchat-empire/

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Adventures in Deck-building Part 126: Rainbow Dash, Flier Extraordinaire (Blue/White Midrange) [Harmony]

Rainbow Dash, Flier Extraordinaire

Who Says You Get a Headstart?

Once upon a time, I might have (and indeed did when I first looked at her) written off a Mane like Rainbow Dash here as a blatant contradiction who was almost entirely unworkable. Like the Crystal Hero that we featured on here a couple of weeks ago, Rainbow Dash asks us to do two things that seem to be going at cross-purposes: play our own Troublemakers, then get an ability that helps us if we’re confronting Problems and starting faceoffs. Where was I to start?

Well, Dash does have one implicit saving grace, which is that unlike Spike her Boosted text is actually generally useful, and will very likely come in handy in any game where we manage to flip her. Also unlike Spike, her flip condition is also totally reasonable, and doesn’t require us to totally overboard in some weird direction just to get our Mane flipped. Those two chief differences bringing her somewhat closer to normalcy, I was able to put something together.

The chief insight that led to the creation of this deck was itself another deck, one that I first put together almost a year ago, and played throughout the SB meta. In fact, I still have a copy of it built in paper, though not a Ponyhead link, so sorry, no links. The deck was Five Stars, a Purple/Yellow control/aggro hybrid built around the idea of playing like a Troublemaker control deck for the first part of a game, and then eventually transitioning into an all-out aggro plan once a comfortable-enough lead had been built. While not always consistently successful, the deck was always very fun to play, and so I wondered if I could maybe do something similar here with Rainbow Dash.

Having a concept to work with also significantly sped up the building phase, since I had something of a rough template to figure out what the major pieces of the deck were going to be. The most important cards to have were cards that could conceivably work well in both styles, a role that was filled well by Traveler Spike and Clever Calculator in Five Stars, and which offered a good variety of Blue and White cards too. Ember is by far the most natural inclusion, helping to protect the Troublemakers and to win us faceoffs later. Indeed almost all of the Blue contributions to this deck fall into this role, providing both a control use and an aggro use.

Again in Five Stars, I had three chief aggro tools that I would want to assemble in my hand before “pulling the trigger” and transitioning: Citizens, Day Shift, and Clever Calculator. Similarly, I left myself only room three for absolute aggro cards in this deck: Citizens, RTO, and Limb Actuator. Saving those three, I knew that the rest of the deck had to be dedicated to either colour infrastructure or else to control elements (although I wrote that, and then by the time that I finished this paragraph I went back and threw in the two Pony Pirates). It was a hard decision to cut value powerhouses like A.K. Yearling and Indifferent Decorator, but I only had room for three, so decisions had to be made. And especially since the transition does tend to be an all-out race for points, I wanted to keep exclusively the cards geared to scoring as many points as possible.

Blue and White did at least offer a good set of Problems to choose from, so we were to build up an expected Problem Bonus of 1.55 (5/9, since the first Problem is always going to be 1). The more important number for RTO though is how power per point our Problem deck is giving us, and that number here is 4.2. What this means is that for each expected Bonus point we get from our Problem deck, on average we need to have supplied 4.2 Power. This number doesn’t mean much because I haven’t calculated it for other decks but I think I’m going to start doing that, because it feels like a reasonable statistic that might say something useful about the available Problems a deck has to work with.

As to this deck and Rainbow Dash, though, it looks and feels very strange, and my experience with Five Stars says that it will feel strange to play too. I never quite worked out when it was best to “pull the trigger”, meaning that often enough my opponent would come back in time for a thrilling conclusion. But I still count those as victories of a sort.

With the Friends Forever release bearing down on us now, it’s more important than ever to keep thinking creatively, to get ready for the deluge of new archetypes that this new set is bringing. Seriously, I’m counting like six or seven new archetypes that I’ve thought of already, and some of the tribes have a lot of development to go too. In any event, next week I’ll be thinking creatively once again with Maud Pie, Rockin’!

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I live in Ohio this is my first ticket and we have state farm, he has been with state farm since he was like 18. How can I prevent my insurance from going up or rates from increasing. What is state farms policy on all this?""

What is insurance expense and preaid insurance ?

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When do I need to get the car insurance? Before buying the car or after?

""Ran a stop sign, will my insurance increase?""

I am 20 and accidentally ran a stop sign today and got pulled over. I am in FL and the ticket is 166$. I am under my parents insurance and was using my dads car. I was planning on paying it rather than doing traffic school or trying to fight it, i'd rather just get it over with and pay the dang thing. But, my question is will it show up on there insurance that 'someone got a ticket on this day for this price and this reason and raise their insurance even if I pay it off? Reeeally don't want them to find out! Also, how to pay it?""

Does the cost of insuring a car go down when you turn 18?

is it worth waiting a couple of months to my eighteenth birthday to get cheaper car insurance? thanks guys!

Health Insurance for the self-employed?

After 13 years with my husband, he is leaving me. I have always been on his health plan because I am self-employed. Can anyone offer me any advice on where to find providers? I have no idea where to start.""

I wrecked my motorcycle with no insurance in fl help?

So a year ago i wrecked my motorcycle, crashing into another car. I did not have insurance or a motorcycle Endorsement. I live in fl so im kind of familiar with the not at fault law. However the insurance company from the other party has sent a bill for 9k an request i pay it. Some people are telling me to ignore it an others are telling me to pay. Need help would be thankful. Im trying to be a firefighter paramedic an i do not want this to kill my chances. Thank you""

My mother needs a LOT of dental work! Whats the best insurance to inquire about?

She needs teeth pulled (many of them will need to be surgically removed) and dentures...what would be a good insurance that would cover a good portion of the cost? We live in Florida...

Health insurance???

my family doesnt have insurance but we re really need one and there is a insurance called IOB or something. the website is www.ameriplanusa.com i dont really understand it. can u guys help me??? thanx alot!!!

Aviva car insurance named driver no claims?

Hi, I have been a named driver on my dads insurance for one year due to not driving much and being able to afford run a car. Now that I full.time job I can now afford to run a car. So if I took my own policy out with aviva would they honour the no claim?""

Could someone tell me how to get a speeding ticket reduced?

Hi. I got pulled today. It is my first ticket and the first time I have ever been pulled. I was going 47 in a 25. I thought that the speed limit was 35 becasue everywhere else around the place I was pulled is 35. I have no problem paying the fine of $222 I would just like to know if anyone could walk me through the process of getting the violation lessend so that it will not be put on my license. Any help that someone could give me would be greatly appreciated.

Motor insurance policy q2?

hi contemplating on making a second claim. how does this effect my renewal premium? situation is the policy holder had an accident where the third party was at fault and this claim was dealt with few months ago. now a named driver had a piece of metal flung at the car. the excess is only 50 and estimated cost to repair independantly 150-200. but i'm not sure how much premiums usually go up by? if for example making a second claim bears not much difference as a claim has already been made then I might as well do it through insurance. If making a second claim bumps up the renewal considerably higher then maybe I should just pay 150-200 GBP by independant garage and save on my premium?

Should I have my own insurance while using someone else's car?

The other person owns the car and has it insured in his name but is allowing me to use it until I can get another car. Should I or even can I have my own insurance policy on his car? I live in Michigan and my previous car was hit and totaled. Trying to buy/finance another car after only working full time again since Feb. is near impossible.

Are jettas cheap to insure?

I need to buy a car for college and i really like a 2001 vw jetta. I have the money cash for it, and im looking at middle coverage. I know i can get a quote, but i dont like doing ...show more""

Can you get insurance on a vehicle if your license is suspend?

Is it possible to get different car insurance under the same household?

Hi, So I have a question regarding different car insurance. MY family has allstate for the car insurance. However, I do not want to go under allstate for family reasons. I am trying to get geico for my car. However, my father states that if you were to get geico you would still have to add everyone's name under the insurance policy. I am trying to get my own individual policy without adding anyone under the car insurance policy. I wanted to know if it is possible to get different car insurance under the same household? Thanks :) P.S: I am 23 years old. About to turn 24 years old. I wanted to get my own individual policy without adding anyone on the car. The car was a gift from my parents to me.""

What's the cheapest car insurance rates?

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Insurance premiums?

How much is a family coverage for insurance premiums? Just an average, not sure what insurance we will have yet but it should be a ppo. Trying to figure it out because my husband got offered a higher paying job, but the job he has now they pay his insurance so we have no clue what to expect to pay""

Personal Medical Insurance?

Why is medical insurance is a dream of riches or expensive commodity in U.S.A ? For example, Denmark, Canada, and other countries it is affordable and free to the people who contribute to the development of the country? (In Denmark for example if you can speak Danish, and work, you get free Insurance, like such in another countries). Why can't we make it affordable to everyone? What pro-active thoughts, comments, actions, suggestions you have for in this regard? Thank you.""

Car insurance question?

Ive got a younger brother who's 16 years old, newly licensed, had his drivers license for about 4-6 months... he's buying a car soon but he's paranoid of what the insurance will be! Its going to be a used car with a lot of miles (90-130K) and he'll spend no more than $4,000 on the vehicle. I know there are discounts for good grades, he has a GPA of 4.2 Advice? How much will it be per month, AND what provider is best? Thanks!""

Will i be double paying for house insurance?

I have had a 3 year personal loan on my house with a balloon payment on the end, and i am Re-financing the house to include my taxes/insurance with a conventional 30 year note. I have already paid my 2010 property Tax, and my 2011 house insurance is due March 21st. I am going to the bank today, will i actually have to pay my insurance come March 21st or is that something the bank does?""

Good cars with cheap insurance?

Does anyone know any good cars with cheap insurance for a 17 year old ??

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Aight Tumblr, I’ve resurrected.

I’m mainly gonna post here again because... I need motivation. I need to push myself even further. I know I can do better.

WARNING: In this post, I may give off an extremely self-centered, narcissistic vibe. Also, the latter half of the post is pretty depressing and personal. If you hate such people, just unfollow me. Because I’m going to post a lot of stuff like this on my IB blog. If you’re OK with it though, just click to read more.

Also, if you’re an IB Year 2 or alumni who’s gone through similar things, please contact me. I need your advice for my next year. Please.

Junior year did not end the way I would have liked it to. Let’s just say that I’ve been through a lot; crappy Chem grades, SciOly has had its own share of struggles, I’m on the academic dishonesty list because someone decided to manipulate a stupid mistake I did and to top it all off... the most popular (now graduate) IB senior hates me, as well as practically the entire junior (now senior) class. Which, to make it worse, is like, 7 people discluding me.

Y’know what? I’m gonna look back on the goals I posted and see how the chips fell.

I’m aiming to get 50 points for my IB Diploma. But K, it’s absolutely impossible to get 50 points on the IB Diploma! you may point out. And, well, you’re right. I’ve always lived by a motto that was first instilled in me when I learned a basic form in karate. In a form called Stone Stance, one of the stances was a guard stance where we’d yell, “Ayah! GIve 110% percent!” Keeping that for long-term, I decided to translate that literally into my IB score. 110% of 45 is 49.5, which I’ve rounded up to 50. So, yep! I want to get 50 points on my diploma. (If you haven’t figured it out already, I’m aiming for a perfect 45! Ssshhh!)

Well, there goes that. The IB Math (SL) exam went harder than I anticipated, and I’d be happy to get a 6. And I’m in Timezone 1!!! Timezone 2 had an even harder exam! Honestly, it makes me feel even more stupid. Also, our class IAs were AWFUL, according to my teacher. A lot of us did it the day before the due date so the quality was pretty shitty, myself included. I ended up with a 13/20. Which was the highest score in the class. If that’s not concerning... idk what is. Praying for moderation to raise our scores by at least 2 points... please.

In English, my IOP was... ok. I don’t think anyone understood it, but... I hope I passed. My Written Assignment/Assessment (idk and idc what the hell it’s called) went better, although I turned it in 20 minutes late. But hey she only deducted 10 points off my “completion” score, so I still got an A. And I don’t think it sucked. My EE has a LOT of work left to be completed, which I hope to finish in the five or so weeks I have left of summer break. (Fuck, it’s already July. And by the way, sorry I’m cussing.)

I want to break to Speech and Debate States. Last year (sophomore year) was my novice year in competitive speech and debate. I did very well on my first debate tournament and was immediately bumped to the varsity level. However… the same could not be said about speech (which I forced myself to be varsity in), and any tournaments thereafter. Eesh, especially the state qualifiers. Those were the absolute worst for me. I got 5s in nearly all my Oratory speeches and was in the very bottom bracket for LD debate. My goal this year is to actually break to a final round in a league tournament, because I know I can do it, and I was just a terrible speaker the year before. I want to break to States, even if it takes me to senior year. TBH, though, as an introvert with little true friends, a former terrible communicator, and someone almost diagnosed with autism, I feel like I’ve come a long way already in the sense of communication.

TL;DR: It didn’t happen. I had SciOly regionals on debate state quals, and I got bottom tier in speech quals. Pretty disheartening, since it looks as though I didn’t improve though I practiced my ass off those speeches. I’m writing my speeches for this year over the summer to hopefully get a headstart on my fellow competitors. I remember one day a really competitive teammate of mine wanted to break to States so bad. I said that you know what, it isn’t the end of the world if you didn’t. She retaliated at me by saying that she wanted to break and that I had no motivation. Look, she’s a nice sophomore and all, and we were pretty good acquaintances, but at that moment I wanted to punch her in the face and yell, “You wanna go, you wanna go??? No motivation my ass!!! How dare you say that to me!!!” (Aaaaaand that’s probably why I was Sorted into the house of Slytherin.)

I really wanna be captain next year, but it isn’t gonna happen. I had a bunch of ideas to implement for the team to make it better, and I really wanted to connect with everyone a bit more. And be respected by people. But those motives are probably not enough. At least, I don’t think so. There’s just too many (now) seniors that are more qualified than me - more years on the team, better records, more extroverted... let’s try to forget the last part. Either way, I still can manage hopefully more than one event. And I need to lead SciOly, and this year I’m going to make it an impact I leave on my school. >:) I have one more year to break to Speech and Debate states though, and I REALLY, REALLY want to do it. I believe in myself. I can do it; I have the passion.

I want to get admitted into Stanford (or at least a selective college/university). 😲, big dream, I know. To increase my chances, I want to get super involved in things I 😍 this year and do well in them, as well as get top scores on my SAT/ACT tests. I feel like the place I’ll lack is extracurriculars, since I haven’t done anything extraordinary yet (like being president of a big club or going to a state/national tournament). I believe I am capable of high test scores and good grades in IB. I hope I don’t get any more Bs though. So far, I have 3 Bs… which is kinda bad. My goal this year isn’t to do things for college or uni, but to show colleges and uni how passionate I am, and to make them fall for me. 🆗, romantic analogy, I know.

L. M. A. O. Let me just say: With Bs in sciences for both terms? Honey, it ain’t gonna happen. Let’s just say I’m applying with very fewer hopes of getting in. R.I.P to me.

Okay, with THAT out of the way, here comes the incident that shakes me to this day.

The Plagiarism Incident

It actually starts around October. There are eleven people in my IB Biology HL class. Obviously, I won’t mention names, but I will say that practically everyone except for the three(ish) people I knew would stick with me beginning to end hated me afterward. I’m talking, snapping back at me, turning heads away from me, acting superior to me hating me.

We were all doing this ventilation lab. Basically, we use a spirometer to calculate our breath rate and take our heart rate. I don’t remember exactly what I did, but I typed up a lab report to be submitted to the IB as one of our required labs. At that point, we were all still kinda neutral to one another, and no one hated another. I got messages from most of my classmates asking me how I organized my report. And here’s the stupid part: I shared it with them via Google Docs. Thankfully, this incident did not result in plagiarism. But a different one... did.

We were doing another lab in the spring requiring another write-up, the biofuel lab. Each group was doing a different lab, so it’s weird that the plagiarism happened here. There was this guy in my lab group. He was my lab partner in Honors Chem and was with me for most of my high school career, so I knew him well. He always asked me questions - the stupid kind - and would do anything, even cheat, for more points. He was just thirsty. It was at the time I was making my new lab report that I did an even stupider thing.

I made a copy of my ventilation lab GDoc, sharing it with everyone else. Liking to click all the boxes regardless of direction, I decided to fucking click that box, which shared it with everyone.

I was hella surprised (but shouldn’t have been, in hindsight) when I received 100% plagiarism for my lab report.

Hyperventilating, I quickly sent an email to my Bio teacher on what had happened. That set the trap I had set for myself in motion. My Bio teacher asked the IB coordinator, who asked the school admin, and pretty soon it was a schoolwide issue. The guy I mentioned earlier got punished because I accused him of turning in my report (mind you, he had been kicked out of a math class for cheating earlier in the year. Not a pretty sight to see, especially considering my math teacher chewed him out) and he spread the rumor that everyone was getting on the academic dishonesty list by looking at my report. He even talked about it in front of me to the rest of my History class (which was again 7 people, the DP candidates) and when I politely asked if they could stop talking, a girl rudely told me that they “were having a conversation.” (Well, I never got along well with her anyway in terms of personality.) As a result, I was practically isolated from the rest of the DP candidates for the rest of the year - except for one guy, who had been isolated from the group since day 1. He’s pretty chill. That was also around the time my depression set in, and I was in a craze with MBTI, personality disorders, and had a strong inferiority complex. Long story short, I met with the IB coordinator, who said that I would be on academic dishonesty for collusion. Which I acknowledged. But guess why I was 100% plagiarized?

You fucking guessed it. A completely UNRELATED person turned in my report. By ACCIDENT. If I hadn’t emailed my Bio teacher at 1 AM that night, none of this would’ve ever happened - at least, happened the way it did.

NOW (the girls) have formed a clique, intentionally discluding me. And I have to be with them another year. Too late to switch to APs, and colleges will wonder why the hell I dropped a commitment halfway through. I honestly want to drop out of IB right now, though. My experience has made my life so terrible, and it’s not even because of the actual curriculum. To make matters worse, I’m on the list. It’s no big deal, my coordinator said. Um, stop trying to lessen the pain of the wound. It is a big deal. I might as well be ineligible for any leadership positions next year. Captain, president, manager? Forget it.

That’s all for this post. My summer isn’t particularly splendid either. I think I’ve burnt myself out. If you’re from my school and reading this, take whatever I say the way you like. I can’t control you.

Any advice from a Year 2 or an alum would be greatly appreciated!!!

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This week's highs and lows in Computer gaming

Bayonetta was given a marvel release on Pc this week and not only is the port pleasant great (it’s Durante permitted!), it’s one of the excellent games I’ve performed this yr. Phil included all of it in his evaluation, but I’ll recap right here: The fight gadget is expressive and animated fantastically, the story is a dopey melodramatic comedy that relentlessly pokes amusing at video game tropes, and for the whole thing of its playtime, Bayonetta miraculously keeps to escalate. It’s tough to agree with this game released in 2009. And what’s up, it’s simplest $20, which is about one-third of what I’d gladly pay for it these days.

Tom Senior: Headstart

The begin of the 12 months was once a real drought. Some video games may slip from their planned Autumn launch date and fall into the wastelands of February. This year is specific. Take a look at out our video games of 2017 spherical up and you see exceptional Jap hack ‘n minimize RPG Nier: Automata; the first-rate adventure sport we’ve performed in a while, Thimbleweed Park; and some engrossing space 4X in Stellaris. Plus, even though it took its sweet time, Bayonetta is finally out on Pc.

I am hoping this early rush of best is a sign of things to come back. Because of the major meetings—E3, Gamescom—maintain to seem less worthwhile to publishers, we might see the enterprise’s traditional cycles—pre-E3 tease, E3 announce, fingers-on Sept, release Oct—begin to fragment. Outside of Computer land, the Legend of Zelda, Character five, Night and Horizon Zero Sunrise have proven that—gasp—human beings like buying and gambling cool games all 12 months round. here’s hoping for extra splendid video games in early 2018.

I am pretty happy that we show up to live within the size that gets a couple of Rick and Morty video games within the identical month. Properly, one turned into a Grand Theft Car five mod, but the idea of mad scientist Rick invading Los Santos seems extra than suitable, given the amount of destruction and careless mayhem Rick brings to Earth in the course of the display. I mainly just like the component in this video showcasing the mod in which GTA’s strippers are model-swapped for Rick. It is nearly canon.

Virtual Rick-quality, then again, looks like a fair greater ridiculous Process Simulator paired with a few original voice work from Justin Roiland and with any luck A few others, which is greater than sufficient to get me to strap on a VR headset again.

Chris Livingston: area Evaders

Missile Cards is a unmarried-player turn-based card sport, in that you need to guard your space base against falling threats like comets and bombs (as in Missile Command). Playing cards cycle through an airlock, one by one, and you positioned them into play as protection (missiles, weapons, lasers, and diverse strength-ups) while threats inch closer and toward your susceptible base. I have been playing it here and there: a hand most effective takes a couple of minutes, so It is super to squeeze in at some stage in a wreck or a short meal. Its unfashionable look and soundtrack give it a pleasant feel, and its low device requirements make it ideal for a pc as Well. It’s difficult—I experience like I rarely virtually win a spherical—however fun, and It’s just a few bucks on Steam. Take a look at it out.

This week was Eastern Pc Gaming Week right here on Laptop Gamer, and our very personal Wes Fenlon prepares an absolute whirlwind of cool capabilities. Durante did a fantastic port analysis of Bayonetta, I got an excuse to put in writing extra about Valkyria Chronicles, and Chris played a peculiar jigsaw puzzle sport with animated women. but my favorite piece became a look at the Laptop’s recent upward thrust in Japan, which was eye-establishing to mention the least. It is easy to write off the reasons for Japan’s disinterest inside the Laptop, but Wes had a few surprising insights (like having to pay for Steam video games at a 7-11) that I absolutely by no means might have taken into consideration. I fantastically recommend you examine what he has to say.

Tuan Nguyen: Subspace: Continuum

Sometimes returned inside the yr 2002 even as visiting a chum’s house, I used to be shown a game known as Subspace. It turned into this lovable top-down space shooter recreation in which you helmed a tiny little ship and went on a rampage on what appeared like an endless map. Lots of humans had been gambling it, and I found it to be an exceptional mix between Asteroids and AOL Immediately Messenger—you could recall it one of the earliest MMOs.

I’d forgotten approximately the sport after that, but during the years stored thinking back to the laugh I had at the same time as playing it. Regrettably, I forgot what that game became referred to as. I saved asking my Computer gaming buddies in the event that they’ve ever played this ‘extraordinary space shooter game that became top down and had walls in space.’ No person became capable of identify what I used to be regarding, till these days. Seemingly, it’s referred to as Subspace: Continuum now and is available on Steam. What a first-rate throwback to my teens.

Desirable and Bad in Gaming Gaming is one in every of the biggest hobbies or even careers inside the global. people play video games for a laugh or mastering whilst others document movies about the video games. In this newsletter, I’m able to recognition more on gaming itself and no longer so much the facet of how to make gaming motion pictures. Game enthusiasts are available all different a long time, genders, religions, locations and shapes. The backgrounds of individuals who are Game enthusiasts make gaming that much more a laugh.

Backgrounds of Game enthusiasts can play a component in the form of games that humans play. There are all styles of combos for one-of-a-kind categories relating to the sort of games and sort of Gamers. You really want to look at the game’s internet site to get all of the pertinent data previous to shopping for.

There are numerous online platforms wherein you could purchase video games from including Steam or Humble Bundle. Those web sites will give you the description, videos via the employer, photos, consumer and non-consumer tags, critiques, website, enterprise and their social account(s). Be aware the sport’s website might not show you the whole thing you need to realize. As a minimum, a gaming company will display a quick income pitch description, a small amount of photographs (5 at pleasant), one or two videos by means of them and their social accounts. The maximum they may provide is an informative description, their social debts, consumer opinions and motion pictures with the aid of them.

Allow’s dive properly into what is perceived as negative about gaming. The general public of the bad things approximately games come from the actual-lifestyles people on Those games, the kind of video games and the varieties of games for the wrong character. A recreation can be poorly made but It’s no longer always the case in which the game itself is Horrific. It may be wherein it become the wrong kind of recreation for the incorrect character. That is wherein the types are available in. Maybe a sport has a bit of violence. That doesn’t make it Bad; it simply makes it the wrong sort of sport for a seven 12 months antique. Or Maybe you obtain a puzzle game for a person who loves motion kind games. So the movement loving character may not experience it, however, That does not make the puzzle sport Horrific!

The forms of games are endless from nudity, pills, and alcohol, horror, playing with cash and greater. Those different sorts are incorrect for adolescents Game enthusiasts in addition to incorrect for those who don’t like seeing such things.

Gaming has True and Horrific facets much like everything else. The key is how Good and Awful are Those facets. As an example, a few video games have a Horrific side with gamers that like to combat a lot. This is common in video games. Apprehend for a whole lot of Game enthusiasts this isn’t a big deal; but, for youngsters who are new to the sport or even gaming in wellknown, this could be frustrating. There are times when you need to avoid the Awful aspects altogether. There are instances when the best outweighs the Awful. If this takes place and there aren’t any issues with the game itself; then the Horrific side is just that one little fly in your room which isn’t any huge deal. Caution: If the Bad outweighs the coolest, I would strongly suggest keeping off that recreation.

Some other component that human beings will nag a sports developer or creator approximately is representation. Ought to I say, a loss of representation which isn’t always confined to race, body kind and message in the sport. If you are able to personalize your individual, then of the path you may no longer have a problem with representation. There may be a trouble in some video games where they don’t constitute robust and clever ladies, minority women and adult males, big, small, tall, and short women and adult males. Observe how I failed to placed “adult males” after a woman for sturdy? It’s due to the fact males in video games are continually represented as robust and smart.

In games that display a male robust and smart, he will primarily probable be white, tall, skinny, film famous person searching and buff. you will hardly ever see him be a minority, quick, overweight, now not buff, nerdy searching, at the same time as nonetheless being strong and clever. You notice this even much less for females. some women in video games also are white, tall, skinny and sturdy whilst displaying skin like no day after today. You best see Those women in MMO games (Massively Multiplayer online Position gambling recreation) though. RPG video games are supposed for delusion worlds where you broadly speaking fight humans and monsters. Of direction the women’ stats will be sturdy but they won’t appearance robust.

In maximum video games, after they upload a man or woman for you to play they always add a white male first, then a white lady, then a black male, and then a black woman. They don’t even truely upload people who are mixes of races or in among. In terms of the black characters they simplest add one colour of “black” or “African-American” and no longer every black person on this planet is that coloration.

In video games, The general public of the characters is usually thin and tall. You do not absolutely see characters which can be short and thin, tall and overweight, short and chubby, and so forth. There are a variety of folks that aren’t thin and who are not tall.

Then finally, There is the mental message that is going with the gender, race, and frame type. What do I imply by means of the mental message? a few games send an oblique message approximately that man or woman being strong and smart or something else. whilst for different games it could be a intellectual message either on motive or not. As an example, in the sport you play and also you see a minority woman who is brief, overweight, nerdy looking and her traits are to be a goof ball, naive, and dumb. It is able to ship a mental message to you that humans that look like her are similar to her. They are not smart, they are not skinny, and are not tall. They did poorly in college, and so forth. and so on. So that you begin thinking The ones things based on not only seeing this in that recreation over and over again, but whilst it happens in other video games too.

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To stop copycats, Snapchat shares itself

Tinder lets you use Snapchat Stories as profile photos

Snapchat’s plan is to let other apps embed the best parts of it rather than building their own half-rate copies.

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel presents at the Snap Partner Summit

Houseparty embeds Snapchat Stories

Snap’s new ad network

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