#notion tutorial coming soon

[honeytonedhottie]

[lovebvni]

mindset of manifestation & how i manifest

like melanie martínez, i am back from the dead.

i apologize for being gone so long, but i needed a break from tumblr. i saw toxicity swirling in the community, my life got busy, and i decided it was just time for a break. when i was planking to come back, i just saw how things got terrible and i got upset and decided not to come back.

so, im back now and with a little tutorial on how i manifest!!! <3 i hope this can help some of you out.

let’s start with background.

manifesting is kind of like predicting the future. you have something you want to happen, then it happens soon after. i feel like this is the easiest way to get into the manifestation mindset. you cannot change what you’re getting if you want it. could you change your mind later and return it like a package? yes! but before it arrives, you know it’s arrival is coming.

sure, there can be delays, but it all is going to turn out YOUR way in the end.

nile and i have been working on our mindset and this is something they wrote that i think can be really helpful — as it was to me.

from the past two years we have been actively manifesting, we learned that we often saw things as “crazy”. but manifesting isn’t crazy, it’s quite normal.

every time you get dressed in the morning, it’s an act of manifestation. you’re showing up with what you want.

manifestation is a mondane activity!! stop treating it like it was a kiss from an angel!

by reading this, you’re manifesting your eyes working, you’ve used your hands to open an app, and you have believed you can read and get through this blog! without manifesting that, you would not be here.

the first step to manifestation is believing you can do it, believing you have done it, and believing you will continue to do it. period.

there are many MANY different ways to manifest, but i manifest in 3 ways (sometimes i use all three, sometimes i use just 1 or 2.)

!! I ALMOSR FORGOT TO PUT THIS AND IM ADDING IT BEFORE I GET TO NUMBER 2 OMG!!

STOP! BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE I WANT YOU TO GET A NOTEBOOK, A SHEET OF PAPER, OR MAKE A CHECKLIST ON YOUR PHONE IN YOUR NOTES APP!!!

now i want you to write down everything you want right now down and leave the boxes blank if you haven’t gotten them yet.

once you get through that, i want you to randomly click between some of the items you want and write down things you wanted that you did get! they can be some simple and things from years ago, what matters is you have them down. throw in some things that you may have to do for school or work while you’re at it.

here’s an example! (left is before checking off, right is after)

as you can see, i added a note to the side because i got what i wanted and more abundantly! i had been manifesting a dog since i was a young child, and in 2021, i got 2!!!! (one is laying at my feet right now <3)

continue to do this daily, weekly, or whatever you have time for. i personally do this on notion and i try to add something new daily (im adding the heartstopper thing rn!!)

but yeah!! write everything u want down, and continue to add to it, just so u can see progress DOES happen and your work and effort DOES pay off!

affirming and persisting

this id the first way i learned to manifest, and the most self-explanatory.

you simply repeat what you want over and over until you get it! but not in the future tense, in the current or past tense.

ex; “i passed my maths final!”, “im so happy my boyfriend gave me those roses for valentine’s day, he’s so sweet!”, “i finished the essay for english like a week before it was due!” “i got the lead role in my play! im so excited!” etc.

now, the common factor between all of these is having a positive mindset about them. i cannot tell you HOW many times i manifested something would go well, and right before they happened, i got in a shitty mind space and wondered if it would ever happen.

but, nonetheless, i persisted through and i got what i wanted.

the pain have have been feeling cant compare to the joy that is coming. Romans 8:18

persisting is basically pushing through. think about the time you didn’t think you would make it through an injury, a school year, a trial, yet you still walked through it — even if it was slow.

like when work days are long and you want to go home, but you can’t, so you persist.

i try to think of my manifestations as an ultimatum. it’s going to happen, and that’s final. the only thing you have to do to get it is stay conscious.

and staying conscious, walking through those days, is how you get to the end!

i use affirming and persisting with pretty much everything, which is why it was first.

2. listening to subs.

it’s that simple — listen to an audible subliminal that has the results you want over and over!! that’s all i do u guys. here’s my playlist if u want it (IF I DELETE IT CHECK MY PINNED POST!! I UPDATE IT OFTEN)

i often use @stilljuststardust’s subs, slade’s subs, enchanted workshops’ subs and i want it, i got it’s subs!

all of them are trusted and credible. i cannot promise you that all the subs in my playlist will work for you, as they are (sometimes) linked to my personal desires.

3. pinterest manifestation!!

i recommend having either a whole pinterest account or a board set aside for this way of manifestation.

you simply make boards (or sections) for things you want. i would say this is best for physical items, people, looks, makeup, etc. things that re physically tangible, rather than something like reality shifting (although i do have a reality shifting board! it has been working pretty well <3)

i also have one for my mindset, my religion, so on and so forth (link btw)

i think this is pretty self explanatory. just save picture of things you want and quotes/affirmations and DONE!

i also use this sub with it :p it’s worked WONDERSSS!

if you have any other questions i will be happy to answer them!! i love you all!! go manifest!!

[studywithtarun]

Dude, I seriously need some tips on using Notion. Ages ago, I saw your Notion template and loved it, but I can never stick to one freaking template or system. I can't use Notion for long without reverting back to my old planning system, which, let's be real, doesn't work at all. So, please, help me out and give me some tips on making Notion simpler.

Bro thanks for asking the question for months I have been procrastinating on posting a notion tips post since you asked I have decided to address it 😭🤗

Notion sometimes or often is heavy and if you are new it is really has a steep learning curve and lost has to be added and removed and yes even sometimes I revert back then restart planning in notion and it is normal human tendency and it is totally fine !

You might be surprised by my reply but that is truth and in my blog I don’t sugar coat stuff, anyways if you need to really stick to notion you need to create things from scratch the fact that you worked 3 to 4 hours on it will make you stick to it, take inspiration from other template mix and match and gifs and photos and aesthetic snipers from Pinterest.

But a full notion tutorial will soon be coming it is in production and will be in my YouTube channel be sure you subscribe

[deardarlingdesigner]

Kicking Off My (Very Casual) Learning Journey as a Graphic Designer

As a rookie designer it's normal for me continuously learn and improve my design skills. But I've only now taken it seriously. No more sporadic bursts of tutorials and last minute how-to's while designing. This time I'll give it more thought, more intention, that's why I've build a learning hub with Notion.

It took me some time to set up, but the very first thing I had to accomplish is determining what I wanted to achieve by the end of, let's say, 6 weeks (give or take). Setting up a big goal made it easier to line up my small goals.

I convinced myself that watching a 15+ minute Youtube tutorial was enough for a small goal. I wanted to take this slowly but surely. Because I knew that the bigger the goal, the more effort it needs, and the tougher it is for me to accomplish.

Throughout building my learning hub, I constantly reminded myself to "Take small steps my dear, and you'll soon realize how far you've come just by taking them." And that made it all the more exciting.

Just started today, a week in review would be better story I think.

For now I'm testing if having an outlet for the journey would help. As a reserved person, this feels like uncharted waters for me. Please wish me luck.

And of course, I'll setup and share a library of the (free) resources I've gone through here (page in construction).

[rinwritingcorner]

Who Is Ren T.

Hello everyone, this is my personal blog, where I post my short stories, manuscript chapters, and anything else that interests me. My main blog is TheWriteAdviceForWriters

Why did I create TheWriteAdviceForWriters

Writing is my dream, I love the art of writing stories created from your mind and imagination. I've always had a big imagination since I was young. Once I discovered I wanted to be a writer. I went straight ahead to researching. There were many websites that helped with creative writing and it was so helpful to have an already made guide for new writers or any leveled writers. I also always had a passion for teaching and bringing knowledge to others, I love researching and learning about things that really interest me. So, I thought why not make a blog/brand to help writers like myself? and that's where it began...

Where did I come up with the name

I wanted people to be attracted to my brand, and wanted to let others know I'll be giving them the right advice, So I decided to change "right" into "write" to make it sound more wittful.

What does TheWriteAdviceForWriters Offer?

I wanted to make TheWriteAdviceForWriters as flexible as possible, with the goal to have EVERYTHING you need to start your writing journey. TWAFWs offers-

Great advice for writing fiction

How to guides for a variety of topics in creative writing

Modern & aesthetic workbooks for you to print or fill in digitally

A vast range of new, underrated and popular resources for writers

A blogger who answers your questions with informative details (me)

Notion Templates

Templates of any kind, like blurb templates, YouTube descriptions template, synopsis templates and more

New book recommendations, and even book reviews

Guides on your author social media

A YouTube channel with everything you need for writing

Another YouTube Channel for playlists to listen to while working/writing

Secret tips and tricks for writing (In any fiction genre)

Courses for fiction

An upcoming proofreading and editing service (Coming soon)

A Discord community for writers

Tutorials and more

I wanted to make sure to make this the place for every writer. There's still so much upcoming to this brand that I have in stored for writers like you.

What is the upcoming proofreading and editing service?

I'm working on a service to help you with your stories. Perhaps there's something with your story that isn't sitting right with you. Like you fell into a plot hole or need ideas, need to make your prose prettier or just need better scenes. I'm working on a service just for writers to help them with any of those problems. It's still a WIP

But it's going to be pretty big for writers alike, and the best part there's going to be a FREE option. So excited honestly!

Ren T.'s Bio

My name is Ren T. And I love writing historical fiction, fantasy, romance, thriller, and everything between. I own TheWriteAdviceForWriters a brand to help you with your creative writing journey.

small Q&A

Where are you from? The USA California

What's your name? - Ren T. But call me Ren

What's your dream? - To publish many novels. And study at Oxford

How long does it take you to write your blogs? - It usually takes me a day or two, or if it's short perhaps around five hours. I work really hard with researching and writing, my goal for my blog posts is to sound as professional and witty as possible to make it entertaining. I usually write 1-2 blog posts a day and post them when I think is the best time.

Anyways please enjoy TheWriteAdviceForWriters and if you'd like to see my personal writing, like manuscript chapters, updates on my up and coming features for TWAFWs brand follow RenWritingCorner.

(I'm working on multiple social media accounts. So, stay tuned for those.)

Also follow my Wordpress website https://thewriteadviceforwriters.wordpress.com

[clusterduck28]

Hunter Back On His Bullshit AU(?)

Okay, check this out, it's the Human Realm, Connecticut, Gravesfield, the Hexsquad has been hanging out here for a solid month or two, everyone is slowly but surely settling into their new routines, Hunter is deep in the process of working through his identity crisis, it's fine, it's whatever.

Amidst all the uncertainty one thing becomes clear to him: despite all the horrible horrible emotional baggage attached to it, he still really misses being Golden Guard. The sense of unquestionable authority, the confidence, the sass, the outfit, OH THE OUTFIT... He simply can't help himself. Denying that Hunter might very well still be Golden Guard's biggest fan would be an act of Self-deception and We Don't Do That Anymore, Hunter! (internally, to himself). Anyway, he's very conflicted about this, he keeps rotating the general notion of GG in his head with no particular end goal in mind, it's just sort of there fading in and out of the background as he's going about his day working at McDonalds, never bothering him too much, nor ever really going away entirely.

One day though, something clicks into place. Nobody's really sure where exactly he got the idea from, might've been one of the movies Luz has been showing the rest of the squad in order to help them catch up on human culture. Could it have been The Batman? Spiderman? Perhaps an odd episode of Darkwing Duck that was supposed to be fulfilling the role of background noise but managed to inexplicably get a strong grip Hunter's attention? Regardless of where it came from, it soon became clear that the idea of caped and costumed vigilante justice has firmly planted itself in Hunter's mind and he'll be damned if he didn't at least try to do that cool thing where the guy goes and beats up a bunch of nasty bank robbers and cape go whoosh while he's doing it and it looks really cool or something like that.

Aided by insomnia, an old sawing machine, YouTube arts and crafts tutorials and an occasional concerned chirp of encouragement from Flapjack, it takes him about 2 weeks to put together a near perfect replica of the old GG uniform, complete with the mask, the cape and even the GG seal! You know, the one that is coincidentally happens to have a near one to one resemblance to the Gravesfield town seal, which is extremely convenient for Hunter as he doesn't have to reach too far for his new superhero name - "The Gravesfield Guard"!

On his first night out TV cameras managed to catch him miraculously saving a small kitten that was being mugged in a dark alley way by an evil scientist while tied to burning train tracks with a speeding train full of bank robbers and thermonuclear bombs on its way.

Crazy situation, I know, Hunter's luck is just like that that, the important thing is that he rescued the kitten in the end, okay? At least that's the kind of thing he'll be saying to the rest of the family next morning after they are horrified to find out about his antics through the morning local TV news because of course he was trying to keep it all a secret from them too. He end up spending the rest of the day having a big ol' nap and waking up to an ✨INTERVENTION✨ and they collectively come to the conclusion that if you're gonna be back on your bullshit you should at least let ppl know beforehand, sheesh...

[darkstatistica]

first html from scratch

for years i've messed around with other people's html/css code for editing my blog layout (first on livejournal and now on tumblr) and i found i had a need to write something from scratch for the first time. on notion i have a page for the books i have checked out of the library, and for whatever reason i wanted the date to appear above the calendar. indify has a clock but it doesn’t display the whole date, so i thought maybe i could make my own.

mostly i looked at the examples on w3schools, specifically the web dev guide, and that gave me an idea for some script commands that would do what i wanted:

this one showed how to display time

and this one showed how to interact with elements in the page

really i wanted just the date but i got drawn in by the full timestamp, and then i thought it'd be cool to have it update automatically. so i found this tutorial but from the examples i saw at w3 i thought probably it could be done with less code and it ~worked~

at first i tried using their code more closely

function timestamp() { const display = document.getElementById("time"); const update = new Date().toLocaleString(); display.textContent = update; } setInterval(timestamp, 1000);

but then instead i decided just to use the setInterval line and see if it would work with the w3 code

function freshtime() { document.getElementById("time").innerHTML = Date().toLocaleString(); } setInterval(freshtime, 1000);

anyway i was really excited when i saw ~it worked~! in the meantime i was testing out github and decided to try it as a github page and it worked and i was able to embed it into notion wooo~~ but i definitely need to adjust the style so it shows up right but that was enough work for tonight.

remember to take a break! new wallpaper coming soon for spooky month))

[mistresseast]

can you explain in more detail why you think the PT weren't good friends for akiren? i'm not asking out of hate or to start drama, i just never interpreted things that way and i'm genuinely curious. i don't think them being brainwashed by maruki makes them "bad friends", but i don't know if that's what you meant either. i'd love to read a proper explanation on this that isn't just people arguing in the notes of that post.

Hi! Yeah, I know the ~discourse~ climate is pretty touchy and not a good place to exchange ideas, so I’ll do my best to put my thoughts on this matter into words. 

Settle in, bc this one is long.

I’ll start off by saying I don’t dislike the PT, nor do I think they’re bad people, and honestly I think they love Joker a lot! Ryuji calling Akira after his fake death and talking about how his ideas on what makes a hero have changed because of Akira genuinely makes me emotional, along with dozens of other scenes with the thieves! They’re good kids who could be really good friends to Akira but that’s not what’s shown in the game. I don’t think it’s controversial to say Akira’s relationships with all of his friends are transactional. That’s kind of the point, all of his confidants arise out of deals, give and take, and in the metanarrative of the game, that’s how it works. You as the player help these characters solve their problems, and through ranking their confidants up, you get access to more gameplay perks. So it’s pretty even!! But like,,Akira, the character, isn’t the player. There’s no in-story mechanic by which he can cash in friendship points for being-good-at-killing-things prizes. Yes, he uses those abilities to not die in the metaverse, but there is no literal, in-universe way to explain how hanging out with someone translates to [insert gameplay perk here]. So you have to look at what is physically happening in the story. Akira hangs out with the PT, stands there while they have drama with another irrelevant character, and then one way or another their problems get solved and they swear to be Akira’s blood brother or whatever. Akira is a crutch for these characters, and they say multiple times that they wouldn’t have been able to do what they did without him. So all of their shit gets handled and Akira gets?? Like actually gets?? What? Inquiries about his well-being? Offers to help him? Questions about his life, his interests? No,,,not really,, But he gets access to a super powerful persona!! Yay!!! Bc everyone knows he’s just a little shadow-killing machine, right? And even the relationships he does get something tangible (as in separate from the mechanics of the game) out of, like Kawakami’s, are built on the notion that if Akira stops providing for whatever reason, the relationship will end. So essentially, Akira is under the pressure of filling whatever role his friends need him in for however long at any time, and he’s been led to believe that if he stops or fails, he will stop receiving any reciprocal care and acceptance.

(And I know this is all gameplay stuff, I know it has to be like this to codify the complicated process of human relationships, I know all of that, I’m just trying to find a deeper layer bc that’s what I do.)

This whole thing comes into pretty clear focus for me during the third semester when you visit everyone in the false reality. Everyone is happy to see him, of course, but they’re clearly wrapped up in their own happiness. Which is understandable, again, I’m not saying the PT need to be attached to Akira to be good friends, but it all still feels off to me.

If they know Joker, then they’d know it’s weird that he just shows up and starts asking these pointed questions while they’re in the middle of something. All of their other interactions with him have been led by them. Yeah, Joker approaches them bc the player has decided to hang out with them, but the other character always chooses the activity and leads the discussion. Akira showing up out of nowhere and asking them to “remember” and “move on” and whatnot should be raising some major red flags. And it clearly does, since their memories do start to return, but they’re all too scared of losing their happiness that they nope out of the conversation as soon as possible, without stopping to consider why Joker might be trying to reach out to them like that. They’re his friends; they should know he wouldn’t just be trying to hurt them or make them unhappy. After all, their entire relationship with him up til that point has been exclusively about Joker trying to help them. This doesn’t make the PT bad people, running away is a totally natural reaction in that situation. They’re just kids, and their minds have been manipulated to a point, but it’s not like they don’t remember Joker or the way they’ve grown since meeting him. In fact many of them mention how much they’ve matured recently, but they never actually relate that back to Akira, despite him being the primary driving force behind most of their personal arcs, even though they definitely remember him. Translation vagueness or deliberate nod to the idea that the PT don’t actually credit Akira with all the hard work he did after their initial lip service? Hmmm. Anyway, their failure to recognize that Joker is struggling just demonstrates to me what was set up all throughout their confidant links, that their relationships are transactional and that they don’t necessarily consider Joker and his individual needs outside of what he provides for them. And when they no longer need him bc that hole has been filled, he simply doesn’t occupy the same place of importance in their lives. 

Makoto’s flashback in particular stood out to me, bc it was from a moment where she was specifically talking about feeling like she finally found a place to belong with the Phantom Thieves (and by extension, with Joker), but then she desperately tries to brush it off. Obviously that sense of belonging wasn’t meaningful enough to her for her to want it back. And I’m not blaming her, of course, any teenager would choose to have their father back over being in a vigilante group lmao, I just thought it was telling that the devs decided to show us a scene that was originally meant to be heartwarming as an example of the harsh reality Makoto wants to forget. All of the flashbacks are from defining moments for the thieves, but that one specifically got me like *thinking emoji*

So his friends are hesitant, despite the fact that they must know something is wrong. It’s understandable, they all stand to lose a lot if someone messes with the status quo. I genuinely don’t think I would react any differently. But there is someone who reacts differently and against his own self-interest. It’s Goro, the one who has arguably the most to lose, who doesn’t turn away from Akira. He seeks Akira out and teams up with him to uncover what’s really going on, even though he has every reason to believe that prodding too deep will literally mean the end of his life. He forces Akira and himself to face the truth because he knows anything else would just be an insult to what they’ve suffered so far. He’s the only one who never flinches, and that, more than any of his friends’ come-to-jesusing (which Akira still has to initiate) is what Akira needs in that situation. For the first time (outside of the brief instances in the tutorial levels), we see a situation where Akira is actually the dependent one, the one who needs help, who needs support. And the only one who has ever provided that, unconditionally, without demanding anything in return, is Goro. I could go into how Goro’s confidant blows all of the others out of the water in terms of building both himself AND Akira as characters, but it’s been said already and by smarter people than me. But basically, despite competition being a core theme of their relationship, Goro is the only character who is portrayed as Akira’s equal. Their contests are all in the name of improving not just Goro, but Akira too. Goro is the only character who expresses an interest in Akira’s inner life and development, and as such he knows Akira better than anyone else. So when Maruki tries to trap them all in a gilded birdcage, Goro won’t stand for it and he knows Akira won’t stand for it either. That’s why he’s so betrayed if you choose to accept the dreamworld. You’re negating the basis of your entire relationship with him and going against your own principles. Out of every character in the game, the one who knows Akira best and refuses to abandon him even when that could mean his own death is Goro Akechi.

I want to reiterate: I do not hate or even dislike the PT!! And tbh I don’t really think they “abandoned” Akira. That post, imo, is supposed to be kind of hyperbolic. Unless it’s referring to how many of them literally sprint away when he comes to talk to them lol. I look at it more like a commentary on how thoughtlessly the PT act as soon as their wishes are granted. I know it’s set up linearly for story purposes, but isn’t it kind of sad how no one checks up on Akira in the week he’s going around talking to people? Especially after he’s been acting so comparatively weird? It’s not unusual that they might be caught up in other stuff, but while you’re going around and visiting everyone, you don’t get a single text or call from ANY of the thieves, for a whole week!! Goro even comments on it directly with his pointed little “I’m sure you’re just as close as you were before” comment. God, he’s such a bitch. Ultimately, the PT do get their acts together, and it’s partially out of the realization that Akira is struggling alone against something and needs their help, which I love and appreciate. I think they are good friends who want to support Akira, but they can’t understand him past the role they’ve placed him in, and until they do, they’ll never be able to be what he needs. Akira loves his friends and knows he can rely on them in most ways, but those relationships will always be dogged by the pervasive fear that he must constantly earn the right to have the relationship at all. What he needs MOST is someone he doesn’t have to perform for, and from what we see in the game, none of the thieves fit that bill. Except Goro. 

I know this was long and rambly and probably pretty disjointed but I wanted to be as thorough as possible and all of my thoughts just sort of gushed out. Obviously ymmv about all of this depending on how you interpret the game, but this is what I arrived at thanks to my analysis so this is what I have for you! Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

[bronsonthurman]

Don’t Underestimate Salad for a Quick, Amazing Meal

It’s summer time, reaching ninety degrees out, and no wants to cook. But some people will have chips for dinner because they are afraid of salad. Maybe they’re afraid they’ll go hungry. Maybe they’re still suspicious of vegetables. Maybe they’re afraid someone will think they’re, gasp, vegan. The horror!

Seriously, did we mention it’s hot out? We’re hot, we’re hungry, and we don’t want to spend afternoon at the lunch table when the beach is calling. We’re throwing together a salad because it’s good, it’s fast, it’s cold, and it’s now. Here’s a few reason why hungry people are missing out if they’re dismissing this humble but powerful meal.

An Easier Sandwich with Less Carbs

A sandwich is often held up as the epitome of a quick, handy, and complete meal. Honestly though, look at a sandwich: it’s just a salad with too much bread. Plus, you’re going to dirty a cutting board, a spreading knife, and a cutting board all before you even put your meal on the plate, probably more if you’re using proper cross-contamination prevention with meats and cheeses. Instead, just throw your ingredients in a big bowl, toss with a fork, and eat. What you say, you like bread? Us too--tear a piece up and throw it in after tossing, fork a piece before each bite. All the parts of a sandwich, with less dishes and a more reasonable serving of carbohydrates. Never forget to wash your hands properly when handling food--it’s harder to overlook when your ingredients are going straight from hand to plate.

No One Said You Can’t Have Carbs

If you’re used to a higher volume of calories, you might be concerned that a salad will soon leave you hangry again. If your experience with veggies is a side salad of iceberg lettuce, that’s understandable. But this is YOUR salad--go ahead and put something filling on it. One upside is you’re not limited to bread, the whole world of crunchy snacks is available. If you were going to eat them instead of a proper meal, you can instantly improve your meal by using them as a salad component. Many common corn or wheat based snacks are much healthier than you might expect, the main concern being less-friendly oils and a possible excess of salt--but check those ingredients, there is a world of difference between Fritos and Doritos, and some snacks are a garbage heap of fillers, sugar, and preservatives.

No One Said You Can’t Have Meat

Meat goes great on salad. Even better, a healthy portion of meat goes great on a salad--meat proportions in America are usually excessive for health or comfort. Keeping the meat modest helps keep you on your feet and on to your favorite activities, instead of sleeping your meal off on the couch.

Your favorite cold cuts will help you keep it easier-than-a-sandwich, or if you are a grill master, you’re in a great position to prepare and slice your favorite cut of beef or pork to properly refrigerate and add to salads over two to three days. The addition of chicken to a caesar is an obvious option, but don’t limit yourself. If you were planning to eat some wings, throw them on some lettuce. Seasoned wings will have all the flavor a few leaves in each bite need and picking up a wing in a bit of lettuce helps keep the seasoning in the bite and off your fingers.

I recall a sandwich customer offended that I would offer him “rabbit food” to go with his beef sandwich; it’s hard to understand how some imagine themselves to be “carnivores” as a diet, including myself as a young man in that category. You don’t want to know how real carnivores such as wolves or tigers get their balanced diet, but suffice to say, meat on the bone is not what they eat first. Trust me, you want your roughage in the form of fresh greens, not the way carnivores get it.

Salads Can Be Crunchy

We’re not just talking about lettuce here either, though greens do provide a nicely crisp bite. Those salty snacks we mentioned earlier bring crunch too. But that’s not all, there are a lot os suitable ingredient when you’re looking to add new textures to your salad. Some people like various cold beans. Corn kernels serve this role too, even outside of a traditional corn salad, though canned corn is not so appealing as freshly cooked. Just adding a cob is also nice, particularly with a unified butter-based dressing

If You’re Bold Enough for Hot Peppers, You'll Love Spicy Greens

If you’ve expressed a love for hot sauce, you should be eating watercress--it’s about the most nutritious thing you can eat, and it’s nicely spicy. This ingredient has somewhat disappeared into the tradition of the cress tea sandwich--don’t be fooled, this is a powerful staple food if you enjoy piquant foods Some paler varieties are less intense; the spiciest stuff announces this right up front if you give it a smell. Arugula-Rocket and mustard greens are also known

Dressings Are Indulgent Wonderland

It’s true some greens can have a bitter initial bite--luckily for us, we can sooth those flavors with dressing. If you’ve ever looked over a shelf of marinates in wonder, you’ve got a whole new world ahead of you. There’s probably a favorite you’ve discovered already, even if you were just trying to get through a salad that was forced on you. But don’t stop there! Where meat condiments tend to lean very heavily on tomato and soy, salad dressing is ahead of curve when it comes to foodie-innovation. Fruits are not as nutritious so much as they are relatively benign; a dressing can bring a little bit of fruit to the meal without replacing a lot of the nutritious content. Increasing variety has blown up the grip oil-vinegar-cream traditionally has had on selection with tahini, poppy seed, flavorful boutique vinegars, or other obvious ingredients back to the bottle. Just look at the ingredients. Sugar is becoming ever more ubiquitous and it can mute strong flavors, for better or worse. The key to a salad is balance--modest indulgence goes a long way to enhance a healthy meal.

Superfoods are Salad Foods

The Center for Disease Control has done an analysis of actual nutritional content per weight to focus attention on “powerhouse” foods, which it scores and publishes as a ranked list. High nutrition content is a crucial thing to consider, as contemporary agriculture has generally reduced nutrient density, making many traditionally nutritious foods less so.

Watercress sets the upper limit at 100 and every food scoring above 60 is a leafy green vegetable. Grapefruit defines the bottom of the CDC’s list with a score of 10. Kale and broccoli might surprise you by falling below 50, but all of the foods included are extremely healthy. Salad staples like spinach, romaine, scallion, cauliflower, carrot, tomato, lemon, strawberry, radish, orange, lime, turnip, and blackberry are all included. With the modest addition of carbohydrates and proteins it is extremely easy to make an extremely healthy salad.

Have the list handy in case your grandmother tells you these ingredients are all just empty calories and water. There are some very outdated notions of what is nutritious floating around.

Leaf Lettuce is Surprisingly Nutritious

One strike against salads is that healthy greens are associated with bitter flavor. Surprise, you throw basic lettuce in to dose your food with nutrients. Red leaf lettuce will be healthier, being more mature, but won’t last as long as green leaf. Romaine and even iceberg lettuce both also make the CDC’s list. So there is no problem finding nutritious greens even if you are looking to keep the flavor mild.

Some Tips for Greater Salad Success

Lettuces don’t keep particularly well--buy lettuce with the intent to eat it within the next three days, tops. If it’s much of a commute to the store you’ll probably want grocery day to start the salad part of your week, then switch to more durable foods in the days leading up to the next shopping. If you do enjoy bitter greens, these tend to keep a little longer. Red leaf lettuce is just riper leaf lettuce, so if you get a mix, eat the red leaf first.

Micro-greens are extremely easy to grow. If you have a window with at least 6 hours of sun it’s easy to place a window planter (inside or outside) and seed it to produce your favorite fresh greens in less than a month. Look online and you’ll find a wide variety of approaches to this, complete with tutorials.

Herbs are greens. Fresh basil, parsley, dill, oregano, cilantro--whatever your tastebuds prefer. Be prepared for more flavor than you’re use to compared to dried spices, especially if your herbs are garden fresh. Note however of the herbs I mentioned, only parsley makes the CDC’s list, but generally the flavor of herbs is so strong you’ll won’t need to replace much volume to get the effect.

With this in mind, there’s never a reason to miss out on a real meal, even when the heat makings cooking a non-option. Next time you reach for the crackers, swivel to the crisper and turn that snack into a nutritious meal.

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On the Web Music Theory Lessons - You Can Learn in a Much More Fun and Interactive Way

Let us not beat around the bush in regards to taking best tabla player in india, it isn't always easy to find the correct teacher for your requirements, nor can it be easy to get a teacher whose program can accommodate yours, or viceversa. Often, students will miss too many courses, the majority of times for valid reasons. If you reside in a small town, the degree of expertise of private teachers might not satisfy your demands, or suit your learning style. Teacher - student relationships are based on a beneficial learning experience. Many people have wasted time attempting to study on books independently. This"experience" most usually ends up being very bothersome as the learners hardly ever really reach the level they wish to achieve.

Attempting to study musical theory from your self is like trying to invent a new math; you simply require the assistance of a teacher to describe theories. Certainly, the hunt is bothersome and also you can easily give up in your goal to learn music theory. Don't give up! In the event that you recognized yourself at one of the above mentioned scenarios, (which you probably did in the event that you're taking to this time to read this article), there is a remedy. (Yes, now's the time when you can begin feeling relief about not having to give your goal). That remedy is on the web lessons. A hunt on the internet using simple key terms in Google will immediately reveal the vast amount of advice and courses available. Quite impressively, the key words"online music lessons" provide 1 140 000 search results in 0.30 seconds!

Is it really that good? Some popular subjects found in online lessons include how to learn the guitar, guitar moves for beginners and how to play the keyboard. You can also find on the web instructions on a variety of different instruments, like woodwinds and brass. However, on the web lessons are far from offering tutorials on tool playing with only. Theory lessons teach crucial theoretical concepts in depth which every great artist should understand and know.

You can literally find lessons on any part of music theory. Newer learners can study basic concepts like note pruning, easy rhythms, ear training, scales, chords and intervals. If you're at a higher level, you'll find courses on more advanced concepts such as complex and syncopated rhythms, 1-2 tone and modal scales, as an instance, the traditional pentatonic scale often within Claude Debussy's music. Other notions include different caliber of chords, transposition and chemical time signatures to list a couple different advantages.

In addition to this vast availability of concepts made accessible through online theory courses, many different advantages think about: the simple fact that you can study anywhere, anytime and at your own pace isn't a small one. It's not necessary to take a weekly lesson, especially for adults who have an active career, or even for younger people that participate in extracurricular activities or sports teams. Maybe not being forced to travel to and from courses is especially crucial for the adult who needs to commute to work everyday, or to get the parent who's come to be a private cab service for their children's numerous activities.

For a lot of youngsters, the fact of accomplishing interactive theory on the web will likely soon be sufficient to motivate them to help expand their own musical interest. Moreover, it instructs the young learner to be independent and participate in their or her own education, hence understanding how to be considered a self-taught student, an art that is likely to be most useful in every area of life. In addition to that, he or she will be learning and improving on computer and Internet skills.

Most sites provide premium quality lessons at an extremely reasonable price. You may even get video lessons, and take quizzes and tests. You get the outcome at the click of a mouse. The accessibility to a teacher can be available nearly 24 hours each day on a number of the websites. In case you compare price versus quality and availability of the instructor, you can certainly figure out that it may be well worth it. In actuality, having a teacher available for you anywhere and at anytime... is priceless! The importance of the theory itself Exactly why is music theory so essential? It is imperative to your general musicianship and of one's understanding of music irrespective of the instrument you are playing with. Consider your self playing street hockey and being the ideal goalscorer on your team.

So, you try the local team at the arena... simply you can't skate. See where this is going? The same is true for your own musician. You can learn to play an instrument quite well, but provided that you don't understand and appreciate the theory behind it, your music-playing will probably never really get any sense. You could be tempted to think differently, however you'll even realise how wrong you're for thinking so once you"see the light" supporting the theory of this music. Quite a few things can be accomplished by analyzing and understanding music theory. As an example, understanding recurrent chord progressions where you will get familiar will help you in memorizing a song, or in understanding"at which in fact the music is going". You will acquire a better understanding of their interpretation, as well as a thorough understanding of scales and key specifications.

This facet is crucial for every aspect of music and cannot be stressed enough! It's the foundation of western music. Recognizing time signatures in order to help you determine where in fact the powerful overcome ought to be executed is also essential. Mentioned above are a few essential concepts, however the more you study, the more you will detect and be more cautious! Yes, but... Things are just not the same in a traditional setting, with the one hour per week, where you want to follow along with everyone else's pace (frustrating if they are slower OR faster). In either scenario, you are not getting the money's worthit.

The teacher is available for your requirements (also to most of the additional students) just 1 hour each week. Perhaps you'll feel shy to ask the teacher for clarification infront of dozens of youthful minds... However, using an online setting, there would be no need to feel misplaced about requesting a"dumb" question. (even though, we all understand such questions do not exist, right?) 1 obstacle Don't panic! The single requirement to online lessons would be also, well, to gain use of the Internet. But I am presuming that if you are reading through this at the moment, chances are this aspect is already looked after. Therefore, this internet site you're on today maybe the clear answer. Best of luck with your internet studies! Oh, something else, will love learning the pentatonic scale.

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Maplestory private server illegal, Tricks to avoid penalty

Maplestory private server

 Is it safe? Let us understand the background and distinctive contents of private servers.

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Maplestory private host

It helps MapleStory fans better enjoy the hard work involved with constructing successful MapleStory servers. However, what about punishment?

 Personal Servers are somewhat illegal because they breach the TOS or Copyright claims or something. If Nexon has captured a private host, they'll send a notification to you or sue you enjoy they did to and which no longer exist.

 The reason behind most personal servers is either from people who talk about the leaked info. The manufacturer of OdinMS created his personal host, or they're rebels such as The Resistance vs. The Blend in Half-Life 2.

 But, there's absolutely no possible way for Nexon to prevent all private servers. They are continuing to be advanced from moving v55, v63, v72, and so on.

 How Is a Private Server like Maplestory Made?

After all the years of unsuccessful leveling, upgrading, and recruitment of guild members, together with a destroyed Ghost Boat Exorcist badge onto a three-year-old Mechanic, I chose to retire into a MapleStory Private Server.

 Additionally, $600CAD to find nx and buy stuff (for example, meso sacs and store permits) to get items across and find things out in M.S. the challenging way. Yes, I sacrificed $600CAD in substantial school lunch money to get things like hair coupons in M.S. once I might have used that money to receive a supercomputer.

 Nexon is observing everything

The ruined GSE badge within my 3-year-old 210 mechanics. (through celebrity improvement window) and Nexon's shortage of gear reimbursement finally led me to do the one thing nobody would ever encourage me to do: I gave up on GMS. With no GSE badge, I can not continue on GMS.

Furthermore, I wasted a lot of real cash to sell items to acquire more Mesos. Instead, I've more insults than Mesos from players. Such as"Shoo."

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My big problem here is how do you create a MapleStory Private Server (whether it is a v83 or the most recent version)? Like, do they divide into Nexon's H.Q. and extract all of the sprites, maps, sound effects, etc., off their computers and then rebuild it like a jigsaw puzzle?

 If they did, then I will need to pack my bags and fly to California to do this. Like, the M.S. files will need to come from someplace. Also, it's the sole way to acquire the Wizet Invincible Hat. Besides, you'll find guidelines on other Personal Server sites.

 Mesos

That says things like"no hacking, injecting of tools/unauthorized equips/packets, no wz document editing, etc.". I feel like I deserve a holiday from this game, but don't wanna devote another 1-2-3 years recollecting all the Mesos and equipping myself.

 I would like to compensate for the 3 years of the wasted moment on M.S. and get my movie/animation jobs finished at precisely the same moment.

 In addition to the hat, the G.M. class itself is making me envious. Yes, they're a class referred to as"SuperGM." So with a Personal Server (a Private Server intended for my personal use ), I will see exactly what it is like to be a G.M.

And bypass all other personal server site rules. Plus, there's a skill known as"Super Dragon Roar" that really does %1000 damage to all animals on screen.

 While we are on this subject of hacking, why are robots poor? I never uttered before, but as a fantastic player from GMS, I find the only fair use for them would be to let me farm Mesos while doing home chores. I could call in my friend to play M.S. while I create breakfast/lunch/dinner, do laundry, etc. Why are robots taboo to MMORPG moderators like MapleStory private servers? That and having my friend drama M.S. for me personally will make no difference (at least that's what I presume ).

 A side question: why or how are Personal Servers bad? Besides the fact that they permit one to play the sport and get stuff free, I really don't see how Private Servers are poor. Additionally, when you produce a Personal Server, do you, as the admin, get a Wizet Invincible Hat?

 Also, how do I protect my P.S. from Nexon so they don't locate it? ExtaliaMS got closed down when Nexon found their I.P. address. But I want to take additional precautions to avoid going to court to face Nexon.)

 So for this, I will have to place my MMD project on hold for now. I have to wait until the introduction of MS2 so that I can port its models to MMD.

 (this is where Time is Money. Much like E.G., construction of a condo in a boom-town; the employees need to build it quickly to allow more residents to proceed.)

 Additionally, you're only allowed to perform a daily event once a character. That's like more kids than Octomom should feed.

 And that I consumed almost an entire day to do daily quests on all of them because of how many negative aspects in the match slowed me down since the days passed! When it's terrible hackers, DCs (that is an online game term for"disconnections") (no matter whether I have a great or poor internet connection). Unscheduled server maintenances, or other things along those lines!

 Can not you compare with a v83 Personal Server right into a quit game console like the Gamecube or even the PlayStation 1?

How can we play an old game from several decades back without a machine that's capable of doing this? So yeah, how can we try the previous skills and senior classes of the elderly servers if we can't even play with the older servers of Tonight Now? Please refer to this link for additional info about discontinued games and game consoles: A significant Note about Emulators for Game Developers.

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Also, can't you compare with an MMORPG Private Server into a Jailbreak (like IAP Cracker and Installous) for iPod Touches/iPhones/iPads? For games such as Tiny Tower, Subway Surfers, Candy Crush, and so Forth, even with no Jailbreak/with the official server. I am able to go the distance and find those games completed 100 percent without having to spend a single cent.

 The programmer (s) that created these match (s) plans to place them up to download free of cost. But I can't waste any more time on these types of server-sided matches because I have other important things to do.

 Besides internet service, how does a Private Server need funds to operate? Since most P.S. sites say in their community guidelines. "If possible, please contribute as Personal Servers need funds to operate...

 How to Create a MapleStory Private Server [v83]

First, go to C:\

 As soon as you find three folders, call all you want, but I will name them'ZenthosDev,'''Downloads,' and'MapleStoryV83' with this tutorial.

Download these programs/files.

 (64bit)

MySQL Query Browser

 JCE Unlimited Power Records

WampServer

LocalHost v83

ZenthosDev v83

MapleStory v83

W.Z. Files

Make certain you selected the appropriate variant matching your Operating System (O.S.) to avoid any difficulties.

 Installations:

Before we start, make sure to extract everything if it's in a .rar format.

 Installing MapleStory v83:

 Install MapleStory with the download provided. It is a really straight forward installation. Follow the instructions.

 Delete the following files/folders in the C:/MapleStoryV83 folder should they exist.

 MapleStory.exe

Patcher.exe

GameLauncher.exe

shield (folder)

Installing WampServer:

Follow the directions and install it.

 C:\Wamp

 Don't be concerned about putting your email and these at the end. Just press finish.

 Left-click it and click put Online'.

 Then left-click it again and click on begin All Services.'

 The Wamp icon must look totally green (if it is red or reddish, you have a problem).

 Installing the MySQL Query Browser:

It is straightforward, runs the installation record, agrees to the conditions, and follow the instructions.

 According to which system kind your computer as you may install 32bit or 64bit.

So set up the corresponding file.

For another simple installation, follow the directions.

Documents placement:

Paste them into these areas, overwrite when prompted.

(The (jdk1)/(jre7) folder version could differ. It is fine ). C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_01\jre\lib

3. C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_01\jre\lib\safety

Copy each of the folders and files within the ZenthosDev folder that we made before. So it seems in this way.

 Now replicate the W.Z. folder within the ZenthosDev folder.

 So it must look like this.

 SQL setup:

Username: root

 Then click on the document' button in the menu bar, and select open Directory...'.

 Proceed to C:\enthosDev\SQL and open the document called'ZenthosDev.SQL.'

 Following its opening, apply the file.

 Preference installation:

(This component is optional if running the server to Receive your computer only)

 You might also make any alterations to have the server to function how you need it.

 Wait 10 minutes, and then your bat file must look similar to this.

 Code:

 ZenthosDev has started:

 World Launched

 Login Launched

 Channel Launched

 Is Maplestory’s personal server really safe?

I ask this question as somebody who has been part of the Maplestory personal server" community."

(unsure whether the neighborhood is the best term to describe it, but oh well) to get many of years now. I would not call myself a"host hopper" per se, but I have tried out a decent variety of servers to see what they provide. Most servers market towards Maplers, who prefer the old-school/pre-BB encounter.

 The sole thing that differentiates them will be the attributes they supply. Some have higher or lower EXP/Meso/Drop prices to make things more or harder. Some make H.P. Washing"Optional." Some provide custom content...you get the notion.

 Anyway, this question popped into my mind when I tried out a host known as"AvalonMS." I recall having a few conversations using a streamer there. He was currently looking for a server to repay. This man had hoped that Avalon would perform well. Eventually, he left because he could not see the server becoming successful and remaining alive for more than a few months.

 I really don't remember his precise words. However, I believe he said something along the lines of"Private Servers need to be run with at least a small bit of professionalism, like a business nearly."

Along with the proprietors of this host, since he put it, were not too professional. Among the substantial issues was that they weren't transparent enough with the area concerning what sort of content/updates they'd do with their game. I tried looking around for their host just a minute before. And they appeared to have vanished off the face of the internet. No big surprise there.

 A personal server such as Maplestory has been around. So what is the issue?

I got me wondering how many private servers have been around for a while to stay successful. When I say successful, I usually indicate they could maintain a decently-sized busy player base for an extended period. That, if you consider it, is already hard enough as it is. In any kind, Maplestory, whether it be the official game or the personal servers, isn't a super popular MMO.

 The official sport is nowhere near as popular as it was during its prime. And therefore, you would think the subset of all gamers/Maplers that prefer old-school private servers inside the official game is most likely a pretty little demographic.

 We've got SOME powerful servers such as Royals, Legends, Saga, etc., which have existed for a couple of decades. And these"powerful" servers hold a reasonably large percentage of personal server gamers.

 I mean hell, even as soon as you go past the 6th or even 7th rated server on gtop100, you begin getting into the servers that have less than 100 active players. And needless to say, the personal server community is most likely dwindling.

 There are just so many men and women who have played pre-BB Maple.

And they would prefer it on the modern versions. Finally, those folks will likely proceed with their own lives and stop playing with Maplestory entirely because nostalgia can maintain a player round for such a long time. I must wonder how many more years we have before Maplestory Private Servers die off completely. I hope we have a little bit more.  More Information

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How the coronavirus is forever changing the way MLB connects to fans

IT BEGAN WITH the hype video that was supposed to introduce the 2020 Los Angeles Dodgers on Opening Day. Organist Dieter Ruehle followed by playing the national anthem and "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" from his home piano. Third baseman Justin Turner, closer Kenley Jansen and manager Dave Roberts shared updates on their suddenly monotonous lives. Comedian George Lopez cracked jokes at the Houston Astros' expense and country musician Brad Paisley wore a Dodgers sweatshirt that described the team as "2017 World Series Champs."

Along the way, the Dodgers' first live Zoom event provided its fair share of predictable glitches -- ringing cellphones, awkward silences and buffering videos, one of which distorted an uplifting message from Vin Scully. Joe Davis, the Dodgers' play-by-play voice pressed into virtual hosting duty, cringed through some of the technical difficulties. He thought social media would be as unforgiving as usual. He was wrong.

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"The people appreciated whatever we were able to do, even if the video was skipping a little bit, or there were audio issues, or somebody dropped out at some point," Davis said. "The general sense was that it was like, 'So what?' There was an appreciation, it seems like, from the fans that there was something baseball-related to be able to cling onto and distract them for a night."

The Dodgers initially planned to host 1,000 fans at their first "Zoom Party" on April 27. They ultimately opened it up to 11,000 people. Over the next couple of weeks, the guest list increased to 12,000 and then 15,000, proving two key points about this unimaginable period: Teams are trying anything and everything to fill a massive void amid the coronavirus pandemic, and their fans are here for it -- a dynamic that could change the fan-engagement experience forever.

There have been re-airings of old postseason games, broadcaster calls of home movies, training tips from coaches, bedtime stories from players and bracket-style tournaments for items such as jerseys and bobbleheads, all in an effort to create content in a time when baseball's main content pipeline -- live games -- is shut off.

Ryan Zimmerman interviewed Dr. Anthony Fauci, a diehard fan of the Washington Nationals. Miami Marlins catcher Francisco Cervelli taught viewers how to make focaccia. Kansas City Royals director of behavioral science Ryan Maid hosted "Mindfulness Mondays" to provide tips on living in the moment. The Cleveland Indians offered instructions for creating games out of items in one's sock drawer. And former Astros infielder Geoff Blum hosted a series called "Feel Good Stories For The Heart" in hopes of providing some much-needed positivity.

Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association also teamed up to create an MLB The Show Players League, where big leaguers went head-to-head in video game matchups that were livestreamed on Twitch and broadcast on television during the virtual playoffs, culminating in a final showdown between Tampa Bay Rays ace Blake Snell and Chicago White Sox ace Lucas Giolito that aired on ESPN.

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"We want to give everybody sort of a relief from what's going on, and if we can help them and we can entertain them, we've succeeded," Dodgers chief marketing officer Lon Rosen said of his own team's strategy. "We're in a really difficult time right now. We all feel like we're gonna come out the other end and life will come back to some normalcy, but until then, we wanna make sure that we're connected to our fans and our fans are connected to us. And that's our mission."

In pursuit of that, the Dodgers arranged for their director of player performance, Brandon McDaniel, to guide fans through in-home workoutstwice a week. They handed a smartphone to Ellen Kershaw so that she could record her husband, Clayton, flipping pancakes and playing Pop-A-Shot. And they utilized Ross Stripling, their agreeable right-handed pitcher, for an interview series with some of his teammates. Davis himself has hosted his own cooking show and also started a podcast with his broadcast partner, Orel Hershiser. The response floored him.

"We've had multiple people tell us that it brought them to tears to hear us, multiple people tell us that it's the best part of their week when that comes out, and their favorite thing during the quarantine," Davis said of the podcast, called "Off Air." "Man, we're just trying to have a fun conversation. We started it realizing the void that everybody was feeling with no baseball, but I don't think we fully appreciated how big that void was."

MARCO GONZALES LEFT Arizona shortly after MLB effectively closed spring training complexes on March 15. He hopped in the car with his wife and their dog and drove 1,400 miles to his home near T-Mobile Park, returning to Seattle -- the country's first coronavirus epicenter -- for the first time in more than a month.

Gonzales, the left-hander announced as the Seattle Mariners' Opening Day starter less than a week earlier, was struck by how a bustling city could feel so desolate. Parks were empty, traffic was nonexistent, stores had shuttered, and the few people he saw, usually at the local supermarket, dressed as if they were "going into surgery." The anxiety was palpable, omnipresent, and it helped spur Gonzales into action. He donated blood, partnered with a local hunger-relief agency and stepped outside of his comfort zone to help entertain a populace desperate for levity.

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Here are just 10 of our favorite recent social media plays from around MLB.

Just for fun:

A's: Broadcaster calls home movies Cubs: "Parks and Rec" crossover Dodgers: Zoom parties Marlins: Cervelli makes focaccia Phillies: Story time with Bryce & Fanatic

Quarantine-inspired:

Astros: Feel Good Stories For The Heart Indians: Sock-drawer sports at home Nats: Zimmerman interviews Dr. Fauci Orioles: Phone Call Fridays Rockies: Out-of-context quarantine tips

The latter morphed into a weekly interview podcast called "Inside Corner," which Gonzales co-hosts alongside Mariners broadcaster Aaron Goldsmith through the team's YouTube channel. Catcher Tom Murphy and fellow starters Taijuan Walker and Justin Dunn have made up the first three guests. Murphy spoke from his dining room, which features a 400-pound black bear he snagged on a hunting trip. Dunn, now 6-foot-2, revealed he was shorter than his 4-foot-11 grandmother when he entered high school. Walker estimated owning 400 pairs of sneakers.

"I miss baseball, I miss that interaction with my teammates," Gonzales said. "And I think the goal of this, ultimately, is for fans to get to know us a little bit better away from the field, and to feel like they're a little more connected to us."

It's part of an ironic twist in all this -- a time that is keeping fans from baseball is also allowing them, in some respects, to feel more connected to those who play it. During the season, their time is precious. During the offseason, their time is sacred. But now athletes are stuck at home waiting this out, with unkempt hair and a dwindling supply of toilet paper, just like the rest of us. To pass the time, many have offered rare glimpses into their personal lives and have seemingly become more willing to reveal their true personalities. Gonzales has acted as a willing tour guide.

"The guys that I've dealt with, they want people to get to know them as people," Gonzales said. "Because a lot of times when we're on the field, we're in a mindset, we're in a mentality, that is rare to us as a person. We're in a competitive, testosterone-driven mindset, whereas right now, when we're stuck at home, and we have a chance to talk to each other, it's a lot different communication. And I think that people will hopefully see that."

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Kevin Martinez has been overseeing the Mariners' marketing efforts for the past quarter-century. Four days after MLB suspended its season, Martinez led a meeting that served as a brainstorming session for how the team could pivot in its content strategy and fill an unprecedented void in a reeling city. Martinez saw it as "an opportunity to innovate and think differently."

It led to a hype video of home movies, a series of tutorials from Mariners coaches, an MLB The Show tournament pitting fans against players, and Gonzales' podcast.

"Seattle has been one of the most affected by this, and one of the first for sure," Gonzales said. "We're trying to get behind the notion that we'll be one of the first to overcome it and really show the rest of the country what it looks like. Right now, all we can do is try to fill everybody up with some optimism, put some good content out there, and try to just give people that hope that we're gonna get back to normal as soon as we can."

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BY NATURE OF their status in local communities, sports teams can often serve as information hubs for regions. The Boston Red Sox, for example, represent the baseball team for all six states in the New England region, making Twitter -- where the team has more than 6.1 million followers -- an ideal platform to distribute factually verified information regarding the pandemic. Kelsey Doherty, senior manager of digital media for the Red Sox, says the team has kept in touch with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the State House to stay up to date on the best official safety measures.

"It's a little nerve-wracking every time I put out any of that messaging, because especially early on, things were changing so rapidly about what was or wasn't good for you or how you're supposed to go about things," Doherty said. "We were linking a lot to the Mass Department of Public Health, but we're also trying to put the Red Sox spin on it. This weekend we put out, 'How far is 6 feet really?' And it's like, 'It's one Rafael Devers away.'"

The Red Sox are far from the only team to use its social media accounts to pitch in. Zimmerman's interview with Fauci, via the Nats' Facebook page, delved into plans for slowly and safely restarting the economy. The Colorado Rockies are one club that sponsored a mask-making project, reaching out online to distribute free team-branded masks to front-line workers. New York Yankeesfirst baseman Luke Voit connected with medical staff at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. The Baltimore Orioles have been holding Phone Call Fridays, when members of the team check in on fans and first responders.

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There have been other notable effects. With no games on the calendar for the near future, each team's social media account now represents the primary connection clubs have with fans on a daily basis. Typically at this point in the regular season, an internationally iconic team like the Yankees is focused on building hype around the club, selling individual game tickets and targeting tourists who might be coming into New York. Stephi Blank, senior manager of digital and social strategy for the Yankees, says the pandemic has flipped the team's social focus upside down.

"Especially when thinking about targeting individual game ticket buyers, tourism in New York City is something that is a massive industry, and talking with our colleagues at Broadway and others, you see that so much of the individual game, the individual ticket buyers, come from people who are outside of New York who don't live there," Blank said. "That had been a big focus of ours prior to this, but New York has been the epicenter, and we've been focusing a lot more on our local fans."

With no team to root for or games to play, teams are reframing their social media presence to think about fandom as a lifestyle.

"It's new territory," Doherty said. "I always joke that I am so grateful that I work in sports because our content can change day to day based on a win or a loss or who had a big night, and now suddenly I'm in this uncharted territory and everyone in sports is, where it's like suddenly we aren't dependent on that and we're dependent on our history, the lifestyle, the fan base and the culture around the team."

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THE LACK OF day-to-day, game-centric content leaves more room to experiment. The Yankees have dabbled in more player personality-driven content, posting intentionally lo-fi workout videos from the likes of Giancarlo Stanton and Luis Severino, shot in vertical video on an iPhone. Yankees head of communications Jason Zillo says the lack of wins and losses allowed baseball's most traditional brand to let loose and have some fun.

"[Player-personality content] is not only a neat concept, but I think this has legs to live long beyond the pandemic," Zillo said. "The thing that constantly is a push and a pull during a baseball season is that games matter so much. And you have to temper 'fun' things up against the fact that every day, there's a game that you're trying to win at all costs. There has to be a measure of caution. If you've lost six of eight games, my first mindset isn't, 'Let's do something fun.' It's like, 'Let's kind of scale back and then when we've won six of eight, then maybe we can push more of the fun stuff.'"

Social media follows for shutdown

From Twitter to Twitch, these 10 players are providing a window -- often silly, sometimes serious -- in an unprecedented time in baseball history. Joon Lee »

Baseball is unique among sports in its challenge of creating inclusive, compelling social media content. The schedule is arduous -- nearly every single day, often for about 10 hours, from the middle of February until at least the end of September -- and the culture can often feel repressive. Marketers have mostly found players to be less motivated to promote themselves, both because of the volume of their workload and the guaranteed nature of their contracts. Teams, in some respects, have taken a relatively conservative approach on their digital platforms.

But maybe that'll be different now.

"It has been a challenging time," Martinez, the Mariners' senior VP of marketing, said, "but it's been a time for innovation, and a great opportunity to create fans with our players in ways we haven't explored before."

While baseball has been slow to adapt to the new age of social media, the pandemic plopped a mirror in front of many teams. Many took that as an opportunity to try something new -- and have seen it bear fruit.

"You hear a lot of people from a lot of different walks of life saying, 'Use this time to get better at something,'" Zillo said. "I think baseball, as a whole, has, when it comes to looking under different rocks, now is really using social media and all of its tentacles to reach as many fans as possible."

Source - ESPN

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Not Everything Changes

Happy Birthday, Sugawara Koushi!!! 13/6/2019

Featuring an overthinking Suga LOOK I know it’s his birthday and he sounds sad at first, but birthday boys must be happy and so by that decree, this Suga is given a happy birthday. I promise. 

Sugawara Koushi was restless. He paced the length of his apartment, which was closer to a shoebox than an actual apartment so he was really making circles rather than pacing, and sighed more often than an eighteen year old should. Well, nineteen year old. 

You see, today was Koushi’s birthday and it was his first birthday as a university student. Which meant that he was here in the city, away from his parents, who never failed to celebrate his birthday, away from friends, who always bought him a cake and wished him as soon as they met him, away from everyone who knew it was his birthday. 

Most unsettling of all, was that it was Koushi’s birthday and he was away from Daichi.

You sound spoiled, he chastised himself, feeling guilty on top of being restless. But it wasn’t really that he wanted someone to celebrate him, it wasn’t that at all. It was the accumulation of the acute loneliness of living in a city, moving out of home and not completely settling into an intimidating university course that made this particular day extra disquieting. 

To top it off, he hadn’t really spoken to Daichi all summer, with them travelling with their respective families (missing each other by hours at the airport), being too preoccupied with moving into their university dorms (they’d both gotten into Tokyo colleges, but they were on opposite ends of this bustling metropolis and had moved in at different times too) and generally trying to figure out how the next chapter of their lives worked. 

For almost a month now, Koushi had been plagued with the uneasy notion this was the start of the end. Away from all that he’d ever known, he was in a concrete jungle that he feared moved too fast for him to catch up with, surrounded by people he was scared he would never truly feel at home with and perhaps that would turn him into someone he didn’t know. What he was even more afraid of was that Daichi would turn into someone he didn’t know because wasn’t this summer just the beginning of them slowly splitting off to start their own lives? Maybe they’d slowly drift apart until Koushi turned to find his best friend, the one he’d been hopelessly in love with for three years, gone. 

The oven dinged and he whipped around with the mitts at the ready, delivering his cookies from the stifling heat of his oven. Apart from three batches of cookies that he would distribute to his neighbours and classmates, he had done a morning session of yoga and booked all his appointments for the next six months including the dreaded dentist. 

It had been an incredibly productive morning for Sugawara Koushi, all the dishes were done, the laundry was in the dryer and there was nothing else to do. Nothing much else to keep him busy with to ignore the fact that for the first time in a long while, he felt quite alone. 

He was alright with being alone, or else he would have looked for accommodation with a roommate. But it was this sense of… Knowing that it shouldn’t matter and feeling that it did, that set up this prickling feeling in his chest, that didn’t let him sit in his chair for more than five minutes. 

Koushi knew he could go out to the bookstore that he liked, order the cake that he’d had his eye on for a while, treat himself to anything he liked. I would like to be with Daichi, he heard himself think sulkily. 

Well, he pulled himself up with a dignified inhale, deftly moving cookies to a cooling rack, it’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to. I can be stupid and selfish and sulky today and no one can say anything about it.

His phone buzzed and he nearly upended a tray full of double chocolate chip to get to it, his shoulders visibly slumping when it was a message from an old teammate. Most of his friends and family had already wished him, but not a peep from his best friend and honestly, Koushi was running out of plausible reasons at this point. 

I will sulk but I will not feel sorry for myself to the point that I am bitter or mean, and nodding decisively, he set about packing cookies that had cooled. 

When most of the baked goods had been neatly packed into labelled boxes and Koushi had just been about to click on a Youtube video tutorial about making DIY home decor, the door bell rang. 

He lifted a curious hazel eye to the door, most packages went to the mail room and having only moved in a week ago, only his parents had his address. 

For a brief moment, episodes of true crime podcasts flashed through his mind, reminding him of the high crime rates in big cities and just to make himself feel a teensy bit better, he picked up his rolling pin. Not as lethal as knife, but good enough to bludgeon someone’s brains out, he thought with satisfaction. 

Holding the rolling pin next to the door frame and hiding it behind the wall, he opened the door as his grip tightened. 

“Daichi??!”

Warm dark brown eyes crinkled as a familiar smile turned his anxiety into golden syrup, making him loose-limbed and quieting all the possibilities that had been crowding his head. 

An answering smile found its way to his face immediately as he dropped the rolling pin as discreetly as he could, opening the door to admit the man. 

“Happy birthday, Suga,” Daichi grinned up from where he had crouched, hands on his knees. 

“Thank you,” Koushi replied automatically, before, “Are you panting? Daichi, did you run here or something?”

He eyed his best friend and sure enough, he could pick out trickles of sweat running down Daichi’s neck and a faint flush on tanned cheeks. 

“Kind of,” Daichi straightened, his expression sheepish, “Shit, Suga, I’m so sorry I’m late. I meant to come first thing in the morning so I didn’t text you but then when I was about to leave my neighbour lost her cat so I was looking for it. And then I took the wrong turn about two streets down so I ended up in the wrong place and I just-”

“Daichi,” Suga felt a bit faint, “That’s fine, you couldn’t have helped any of those things. I’m just really glad you came, I thought, you know because we didn’t really have time to make plans and then we haven’t been in contact much and so I was um-”

“Wait wait, hang on,” Daichi had an incredulous look on his face, “Are you saying you thought I forgot your birthday?”

Koushi laughed weakly, trying to play it off.

“Not forgot per say, more like, that maybe you had other plans or something, I mean! Because now we’re in university and not living so near each other and I was baking cookies-”

He was saved from his rambling when Daichi pulled him into a tight hug and he took the chance to bury his nose into the crook of Daichi’s shoulder, inhaling that comforting scent that he associated with safety. 

Daichi drew back, hands firmly on Koushi’s shoulders and locked his dark eyes on Koushi’s.

“Suga, I don’t know what you’ve been cooking up in that brain of yours, but if you think that going to different universities is going to change anything, you’re sorely mistaken. Maybe we’re a little further from each other than we’re used to, but it’s not that far; maybe we’ll have a different routine and circle of friends and courses, but that doesn’t mean I’m not going to tell you everything as usual,” he shook Koushi a little, “Everything can change, but not us.”

Koushi had been Daichi’s voice of reason a fair number of times, but Daichi was just as often Koushi’s. Just as it had in high school, his level, certain baritone cut straight through all of Koushi’s fretting and insecurities to ground him, as securely as an anchor holds a ship. 

Taking a deep breath, he absorbed it, processed it and beamed up at Daichi. 

“Well, looks like I’m stuck with you,” he teased, startling a laugh out of his best friend. 

“Come on, birthday boy,” Daichi held out his hand, “Let’s go on an adventure.” 

Grinning, Koushi reached out for that warm, calloused hand, wishing that it could always be his birthday, that he could always have this hand in his. 

“Let’s.”

- You gotta give Daichi time, man, it’ll be like the second year of college before he gets the balls to ask Suga out

- In the meantime, they’re practically dating already so I wouldn’t be too worried

- SEE It’s a happy ending, don’t worry. 

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It’s In The Books

Summary: Even after all this time of dating Jungshin, he’s still leaving you notes in books and stealing them from out under your nose.

Pairing: Lee Jungshin x reader

Genre: college library au / fluff

A/N: dedicated to B at @noona-clock. Happy birthday B! I decided to revisit the request I did for you with Jungshin. I hope this brings a smile to your face and that you’ve had a great birthday!

**This is from the Next In Line world previously created. You can read it HERE

 Word count: 1189

You finally found him within the bustling library environment, a small huff of air departing you as you narrowed your gaze on him.

Jungshin had done it again.

You weren’t normally a petty person, especially when it came to your boyfriend. He didn’t always make it easy on you to love him either. He was as determined as you were when it came to your studies and dating you hadn’t softened this in any way. Sure, he would often copy pages he thought you would need for your assignments and you would email him resources you found during your part-time job helping in the library archives. You both had a mutual understanding that helping each other with notes would assist you both in succeeding. And this had worked throughout your entire university degree so far.

You knew better than to let him know which books you wanted to hire out though. After your incident over the textbook you had both booked out in your second year of being a history student, you hadn’t faced too many crossovers towards the information you needed. Because you had a well-oiled system.

Or so you thought.

Storming over to him, you saw the small smile that played on his lips when he noticed your arrival. It irked you further and you placed your hands on your hips. “Why.”

“Why what?”

“You know I needed those three texts for my thesis. I need to get through the second third of my paper and those books are vital. I know it’s you who rented them out,” you explained, sounding calmer than you felt. Until you saw all three texts you required sitting on the table beside him. You grumbled. “You’re not even writing the same concept as I am on the American Revolution so why do you have my books?!”

Jungshin smirked and kept trailing his pencil over the segment in the book he was reading. You huffed at his avoidance.

“Jungshin!” you whined and his hand moved to pull the chair beside him out and then pointed at it. You sat down heavily and blinked rapidly when he yanked both you and the chair closer to himself.

He finally looked at you and smiled. “You’re always so cute when you’re worked up, you know?”

“I’m not in the mood to be cute to you, I need those books.”

“Mm, I know.”

“So, why do you have them?” you asked, feeling some of your annoyance seep away when he slung his arm over the back of your chair. He always smelt ridiculously good and you couldn’t help but inhale his cologne with a relaxing sigh.

He was affecting you again.

“Well, I figured since my girlfriend is so stressed out about her thesis that I should help her.”

“This isn’t helping. This is the complete opposite of helping. I need to have those books for some time to complete this portion of my thesis.”

Jungshin nodded. “I know.”

“Return them so I can hire them out,” you instructed and Jungshin sighed as he placed down his pencil. “I can’t miss this opportunity in my schedule to get it all done.”

“I hired them out for you,” he explained and you frowned. “I figured if someone so much as stole your texts out from under you again you’d combust. So, I hired them out for you. And, if you request to hire them now, you’ll be next in line and able to peruse them for double the time.”

You blinked again. “You did this all for me?”

“And you think I only consider what I need all the time. I’m offended, Y/N.”

“You really aren’t playing with me?” you asked cautiously, leaning over to the books on the table. “I know you, there’s always a catch.”

“Mm, maybe there is one,” he admitted with a small smile, diverting his gaze from your hesitant focus, whilst reaching down for his bag. He placed his things away in it and then turned to kiss the side of your head. “I’ve got to get to my tutorial I’m running for Professor Jung. I’ll see you soon?”

“Yeah,” you breathed in farewell, looking at the books on the table curiously. Several years ago when you had received a handout like this from Jungshin, he had left you notes and his number. It was how you started your relationship. Slowly, you reached forward for the first text, flipping through the pages for any handwriting that you recognised as your boyfriend’s. You didn’t find anything, and moved onto the second, coming up empty there too. You scoffed at your notion of finding something important inside these textbooks. You almost abandoned looking at the third but you humoured your foolishness once more, reaching for the final book and flipping through.

A sheet of paper fell out and you picked it up hastily, reading a room number from the history department printed in Jungshin’s handwriting. You collected the books and slipped them into your bag before heading out of the library and up to the third floor where the small tutorial rooms were located. Did he mean to leave you the note in the book? Was it just a coincidence that it was in there waiting for you? You tried to squash your doubt. You knew Jungshin enjoyed leaving you little trails to follow to get closer to him. You hoped there would be meaning for your trip to the classroom.

You frowned to find the small window in the door covered and you couldn’t check if a class was in session in there. Listening in for any voices, you felt it would be safe to enter after knocking softly on the door.

And then you stopped dead in the entrance.

Jungshin glanced up at your arrival with a shy grin. “It didn’t take you long.”

“What’s all this?” you breathed, noticing a cake, drinks and balloons decorating the front table. Jungshin pointed to the whiteboard where he had pulled down the screen and projected a powerpoint presentation onto. It soon started to move and the words Happy Birthday Y/N turned up on the slide.

You laughed, of course it would be just like this. A student-teacher using all his classroom tools to present you with a birthday present. Jungshin moved over to you and guided you gently to a chair he had pulled out. You sat down and looked at everything around you.

“First you hire out my books for me and now you’re spoiling me like this? Is there anything you can’t do to make me swoon further?” you asked, blinking back your overwhelmed emotions.

Jungshin sat down beside you and leaned in to kiss you softly. He then smiled. “I’m not sure but I’m glad I have many years ahead of me to keep trying to make you fall even more for me.”

“It will be impossible for you to top this,” you murmured and Jungshin smirked slyly. “What, I’m being honest! This is just so sweet of you.”

“I haven’t proposed to you yet. Are you saying I won’t be able to do better than this when that time comes?”

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A Scavenger Hunt.

@oddly-tiny-scissors Hello, I am your secret giftee for the Valentine event! I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I had fun writing it. Thank you for giving such a fun prompt and I hope your Valentine’s day goes wonderfully! Yoosung yawned as he got out of bed, going over to his computer. It was his free day from school, and he was ready to use it for another day of LOLOL action. As he logged on, he saw he had a message from the number one ranking user of the Shooting Star Server. There was a time when the name Hacker God filled Yoosung with rage, as he seemed to always be cheating to keep the number one spot out of Superman Yoosung’s hands, but now, he could not keep the smile off his face when he read that same name. Quickly Yoosung started reading the pm he had got from the other user carefully, it seemed Hacker God had a scavenger hunt planned out for Yoosung and he was more than happy to play along.

“It is I, Hacker God! I have used my talents to find out that my 606 has a free day today, and this is something that I cannot pass up! There is a new legendary item that has just been added to this wonderful game, but alas it has broken into several parts! The only one who can save this item being lost forever is the one and only Superman Yoosung! Are you up to the task? If you accept this quest, head to the area that we all first see when we are born into this word -Hacker God Meow-ut!”

Yoosung Thought for a second as he read Seven’s first clue. His first thought being the main hub where characters spawn into the game, but after a second he realized that was not really the first place you see in the game. Opening up the options tab, Yoosung clicked a button he never thought he would click...the replay tutorial button.

As Yoosung relearned all the basic skills he already had nailed down, he saw something he could have sworn had not been there before...An NPC with a quest marker above it’s head. Walking up to this out of place NPC, he saw it looked like Zen. When he finally got close enough, Yoosung saw there was an interact button. Quickly he clicked on it, knowing full well this had to be what he was searching for.

“Hello, Superman Yoosung. I came here because one of my fans told me about a new item that got added to this game. Thankfully I was able to use my talent to charm this piece of it from an orc that had found it first. Before I can give it to you though, I must make sure you are the real Superman Yoosung with a question. What is Hacker God’s favorite dish that you cook?”

Yoosung watched as a text box appeared on screen, obviously waiting for him to type an answer in. Quickly he typed the word “omurice” into the blank space, smiling as he recalled all the times he had made it for Seven when he stayed over at his bunker. Soon the text box closed, and the Zen NPC had another maker above it’s head, telling Yoosung to talk to him again.

“It seems you are the true Superman Yoosung. I leave this part in your hands, take care of it Superman Yoosung. As for where you must go next, Hacker God has left me with your next clue… Your sack is heavy with all of your loot. From armor, staves, sheilds, and swords. Though what do you do with what you can’t use? Come to the place that has the answer for the next part of this legendary item! - Hacker God Seven Meow-ou...ACHOO.” Oh, I’m sorry Yoosung. It seems I can’t get away from this stupid cat allergy even if I’m in a game. Have fun with your quest though, I should get back to reading my lines for my next play.”

With that, the NPC became noninteractive, and Yoosung started to focus on his next clue. This one was harder than the last...you could after all throw any items that you didn’t want away after all. After a few moments though, Yoosung had figured it out. He was ready to head to one of the most populated areas in any server…the market.

As Yoosung got to the market, he saw the other payers trading their goods, buying upgraded gear and skins from NPC’s, and the occasional player begging for gold as he as new to the game… or just trying to scam some people. Soon enough he saw another quest icon in the flood of people, leading to an NPC who looked exactly like Jumin. Just like before, As Yoosung accepted the quest, this Jumin NPC started talking.

“Ah hello Superman Yoosung, it seems you have been able to figure out Hacker God’s second riddle. I have to say, he has led us to a very interesting place. There are so many economic systems going on in one place, from a free-market system all the way to a barter one. I should have Assistant. Kang write a report on how such a place could remain economically stable. First, however, there is something we must discuss. I was able to get this part of a legendary item for a reasonable price from a vendor at this market and I need to make sure to sell it again for a reasonable price. The thing I’m interested in though is information. Answer this one question I have and this piece is yours. With that being said, here is your question...What is the best way to spend a weekend?”

Again another text box appeared, and Yoosung was quick to type “playing LOLOL” into the text box before deleting it. Playing LOLOL was fun, sure, but that wasn’t the reason it was fun to him. Every weekend, he would always make sure to go over to Seven’s place and do some form of activity with him. These activities would consist of, playing LOLOL with each other, snuggling on the couch with junk food and a movie, a late night drive to watch the stars or trying to teach Seven how to cook...while Seven tried to find ways of sneaking HBC and PHD. Pepper into everything. After deleting his last message, Yoosung quickly replaced it with “Spending time with Hacker God” as that was the true answer to this question. After he hit enter, the quest icon above Jumin’s head reappeared and Yoosung interacted with him again.

“That seems like a reasonable answer and a good piece of information for our trade. I will keep my end of the deal just as you kept yours, take care of this second piece... Ah yes, before you head out, it seems I was also programmed to give you another clue before you head out ahem… “You are so close my 606, only one more piece to go! Listen to my last riddle, and you will finally claim your prize! When mobs are boring and bosses are beaten, there is only one enemy left while you wait for the next in game update. Go to the place that symbolizes this notion for the last piece will be waiting for you! -Hacker God Meow-ut!” ...Hmm, cute, it seems like hacker god even added a cat pun in his riddle. I must be going Yoosung as I have a very important meeting with an elf prince to start selling his kingdom’s bows in this very market. Good luck on your quest and I hope the outcome is favorable for you.”

Again, like with the Zen NPC, this Jumin NPC became non-interactive when he got this last riddle. He knew what this riddle was talking about right away as the second ranked user in the shooting star server. The only enemy left after completing everything this game had to offer could only be other players, as many had tried to challenge him in PVP to get higher up on the leaderboard. There was one place where PVP was known to happen more than any other place in LOLOL, and that was the arena. With that in mind, Yoosung headed out from the market to where he was sure the next part of this legendary item was waiting for him.

As Yoosung got to the area, he was suddenly spamed by PVP requests from those who wanted to take down the mighty Superman Yoosung, and even though he was tempted to take them down, he kept declining and looking for the one NPC he was sure would be here. Finally, after a few minutes of wading through players, Yoosung found the Jaehee NPC waiting for him with a request marker. Just as he did the last two times, he walked to her and initiated the quest.

“Ah hello Superman Yoosung, I’m glad you have made it. It was getting tiring watching all these people try and fight... their form is very wrong. That being said, we should wrap this up quickly...Mr. Han has just given me a new project to work on, and there's a lot of paperwork to fill out. I was hoping to maybe sit down and watch one of Zen’s plays after this...but it seems that will have to wait another time. sigh for now I guess I should focus on the task at hand and give you your last piece of this legendary item. I’m sure you know how this process works by now so, Superman Yoosung, here is your final question from Hacker God… Will you meet me at the space station?”

Unlike the past questions, there was no box to fill in this time. In its place was a simple multiple-choice question with “Yes” and “No” buttons clearly labeled. The question was an interesting one since Seven joked about a space station all the time in chatrooms, but if it meant he could spend time with Seven...he knew the answer. Clicking on the “Yes” button, Yoosung saw the quest marker he was expecting to see above Jaehee’s head and read what she had to say next.

“It seems you were able to understand Hacker God’s... interesting way of speaking more than I could, here is the last Piece of the legendary item Superman Yoosung. I hope you like whatever Hacker God has planned for you, however I’m sure you will if you have made it this far. I must be going now, as I said before I have a mountain of paperwork I must go through before Mr.Han asks me to watch over his cat again.”

With that the third piece of the legendary item. For a split second Yoosung wondered why he didn’t get another riddle to solve when another popup told him he had another new item in his inventory. It seemed that when all three legendary pieces were put into his inventory, they combined inside to a new key item...a teleporter. Most teleporters where a one time use item to fast travel to any destination or player on the map, but this one was different. When he clicked on it, there was only one destination this item could teleport him too, “The space station.”...a place that he had never heard of in LOLOL before. Remembering the last question the Jaehee NPC told him, Yoosung clicked the use button and the screen became dark as it was loading in the new area.

“My 606! You made it to the space station!” Yoosung heard as the map loaded in. “Seven? Where are we?” Yoosung asked back after turning on his voice chat, looking around this new area. Like he thought, this was not a normal in game area. The inside was metal and sleek, like this map came right out of a si-fi film. The walls were lined with windows that looked out into the vast space that was set up while little stars sparkled about. Planets and moons of varying color and size danced around each other and Yoosung could not help but stare at the sight for a few seconds. As Yoosung moved deeper into the map, he finally saw the avatar he was hoping to find by the end of this, Hacker God. “Seven! What is this place...I didn’t even know something like this was in the game!” Yoosung said, walking closer to Seven. “Well my Superman Yoosung, that would be because it technically doesn’t belong in the game. You and I are the only ones who know of this places existence.” The cheerful voice of Seven responded.”Wait, so you hacked into LOLOL’s code...to create an entirely new map?” Yoosung’s confused voice asked next.“That I did!” Seven exclaimed before letting his voice get softer. “I always told you we would meet at the space station, didn’t I? Even if we can’t do that in person, at least not yet, I can at least do that here. I know you are going to tell me I didn’t have to put the work into making this, and I know I didn’t, but I wanted to. This is our place, away from my work, your school, the RFA, and anything else we need to get away from for a bit. This is our place...our space station.” Seven finished. “I...I..” Yoosung started, tears filling his eyes as he was about to break down. Nobody had ever put this much thought into something for him...“ I... don’t what to say...what I can to repay you.” Yoosung finished, unable to find the right words to express the happiness he felt. “You don’t need to repay me, Yoosung.” Seven’s soft voice spoke up again. “Just promise to stay with me in the space station.” He finished. “I love you Seven.” “I love you too, my 606.”

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How To Convert WMA Recordsdata To MP3 Files

Easy methods to convert wma files to mp3 ? I've been utilizing file compression and music archiving software because the in style music hearth sale that got here along with file-sharing sites like Napster within the mid-'90s. That phenomenon taught me an essential lesson about the value of excessive-high quality music playback versus having enough music on a tool to last via retirement. I found myself buying CDs although I had the same album in a compressed digital format as a result of I knew the CD would sound higher. The technology developments in audio converter software now afford us the ability to extract excessive-high quality audio from CDs or wma to mp3 converter free download android streaming providers, and duplicate these files and convert them to lossy formats, like MP3, to make the files smaller and playable on cell gadgets. Legal Notice: Before continuing this tutorial, it is crucial that you do not infringe on copyrighted materials. The excellent news is you can normally make a backup for yourself so long as you have got bought a reputable CD and don't distribute any recordsdata; learn the Dos and Don'ts of CD ripping for extra data. Distributing copyrighted works in the United States via file sharing, or by any other means, is in opposition to the legislation and you could possibly face being sued by the RIAA; for other international locations please verify your relevant laws. WMA is a Microsoft audio codec. It becomes difficult making an attempt to entry media or documentation in this format on any other devices excluding these with a Windows OS. The necessity, therefore, significantly arises when one desires to use media or documentation in WMA format on other units. Therefore, the best strategy to overcome that is by equipping oneself with a converter. Changing to other smaller in measurement file codecs is an advantage as on saves area and nonetheless gets a terrific high quality output after conversion. Changing WMA to MP3 is one option to overcome the issue while making the file smaller in size. Outlined are 4 effective strategies to convert WMA to MP3. On the day of recording, pianists rehearsed each bit as many times as they wished before the performance. Subsequently, each pianist carried out six items in a random order specified by the experimenter (H.S.) in entrance of eleven-23 contributors (viewers-present context). Every pianist performed the identical pieces in the same order both before (n = 6) or after (n = 7) the dwell efficiency without any audience (viewers-absent context). Performers might re-record the efficiency as many instances as they wished in the viewers-absent context. The performances have been stereo-recorded onto a multi-track recorder (R24, Zoom) utilizing a microphone (NT4, Rode). The performance portion of the recording lasted roughly forty five (audience-current) and 30 min (viewers-absent). The first writer confirmed by listening to all of the recordings that no noise from the audience was audio-recorded. When you may have some WMA files, you possibly can convert WMA to MP3, whether for a larger space for more songs, or compatibility for the MP3 players, you may get a number of options from the above article. As for the two options to transcode WMA to MP3 on your Windows and Mac, you should utilize the conversion in batch with ease. If you do not need to download programs to your laptop, it's also possible to use the web WMA to MP3 solutions. However there's a major restrictions, it takes a period of time for the entire conversion. With a purpose to get one of the best result for the MP3 files, it is still advisable to use AnyMP4 Video Converter Ultimate to show WMA to MP3 file. Extra questions about tips on how to convert WMA to MP3, you'll be able to inform more detailed information within the feedback. Mp3s are a lossy format in that they're compressed from wavs and as soon as they are compressed you may never get again what's misplaced within the compression course of. and flac is a lossless format so you would not want to convert mp3s to flacs. It could be a waste of house. In different phrases Mp3s are already compressed. Should you did convert the mp3s to wav and compress with flac the information can be a lot bigger than mp3. So it will not make sense to convert from mp3 to flac. However if you want to additional compress mp3s you would use winrar or some related compression software program.

One in all essential VOX options is the limitless music cloud storage. It is an unique cloud storage only for VOX customers. Its foremost goal is to retailer and stream your music. What differs it from different music lockers is that VOX Storage has no restrictions on audio codecs and files' size. You may upload there as a lot music as you wish. The best part is that not like different storages VOX Cloud won't convert anything to MP3 or every other lossy format. Hello-Res retains Hello-Res. Yes, you may all the time convert WMA information to MP3 with iTunes. You may have been using iTunes as a media participant or utilizing it to backup files. From as we speak henceforth, you must additionally check out iTunes WMA to MP3 conversion. Although its conversion may not mean you can set an output folder or could tend to be gradual, it will still be useful to do conversion with out putting in a third-celebration program. On this article you'll learn to convert WAV to MP3 using iTunes and using Best iTunes alternative iSkysoft iMedia Converter Deluxe. Fre:ac is another WMA to MP3 converter. It comes with tools for audio conversion and tools for ripping a CD. It helps a number of options together with MP3, MP4, M4A, WMA, OGG, Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, and Bonk. The software will even be of use to non-English customers as it out there in up to 43 languages aside from English. These languages embrace: Croatian, Romanian, French, Korean, French, Ukrainian. It also supports all the popular operating system i.e. Windows, Mac, BSD, Solaris, Linux. OLIVE: Proper. Nicely, there's plenty of elements involved in our perception of sound high quality, and a number of them have nothing to do with the sound itself. So within the research that we do, we've appeared at the - and we call these things nuisance variables or biases. So one of many ones that we deal with is psychological nuisance variables, which one sounds more natural have to do along with your information or expectation of what you're hearing. Thomas Edison knew this 100 years in the past. He stated folks will hear what you tell them to listen to. So when you're conscious of - that you just're listening to a violin, you've been told it sounds nice, if it costs extra money, all of these components play into your notion of the way it sounds.