comment your:
all time favorite song(s):
song(s) you’re obsessed with:
new favorite song(s):
favorite artists:
favorite label(s):
here is mine for example:
all time favorite song(s): deja vu by dave rodgers and ahy ahy ahy ay by jeff driller
song(s) you’re obsessed with: ahy ahy ahy ay by jeff driller and super euroflash by franz tornado and bazooka girl
new favorite song(s): 1 for me, 1 for you by valery scott and hey hey by vanessa
most nostalgic: stop your self control by marko polo, number one by fastway, mr heartbreak by robbie boy
favorite artists: federico rimonti, maurizio de jorio, ennio zanini, christian codenotti, mauro farina
favorite label(s): hi nrg attack and asia records

The first rays of sunlight splashed on my face waking me up for the day. But I didn’t want to get out of bed. The alarm finally sounded and I quickly turned it off. “Just five more minutes,” I muttered.
“Mark, wake up, it's time for breakfast. Mark? Mark get your butt down here before I come up myself.”
I got up so fast I almost fell flat on my face. “Mom, I’ll be there in 20 minutes,” I yelled, panicking. “I need to brush my teeth and take a shower.”
“Hurry up then,” she responded.
Thank god. She can be really scary when she’s angry.
I turned to face the dashboard in front of me.
“Assistant, turn on the lights and tell me the weather,” I ordered. Unfortunately, I had no response. Oh right, that broke yesterday. Now I have to pay to fix it. I should hurry up and shower. So I headed for my own bathroom. After brushing my teeth I stripped and threw my clothes in the laundry bin. I have to buy more detergent for the washing machine. Why do I have to pay for so many things today?
Cold water caught me off guard in the shower. Unfortunately, I forgot we haven’t paid for this month’s hot water. So I was in a rush to wash up because I hate bathing in cold water. I toweled off and opened my drawer. I grabbed a fresh pair of boxers, a t-shirt and I wore my school uniform on top. It was a black blazer with blue highlights and black plants with black shoes. It had the initials FT for Future Tech, the school I’m enrolled at. However, there was a gold pin that only I had the right to wear with a V imprinted on it for Victor. It was proof that I was number one in my school. It was also like a homing signal for bullies.
After turning on the lights I could see my room clearly now. My hoverboard was strapped to the corner of the wall. My bed was in a mess with sheets and pillows spread all over. My virtual reality set along with my computer was arranged together at my left. With my hoverboard and backpack I walked out the door.
Delicious aromas from my mother’s cooking attacked me when I walked into the kitchen. I smelled eggs, bacon, and pancakes. A big pitcher of orange juice was also on the table along with several clean plates for eating.
“Hello, Mom,” I said. “What’s the occasion? This is a nice spread.”
My mother turned around and sort of smiled. She wore a green shirt with blue sweatpants that had food stains all over. My mom was beautiful. She was caucasian with brighter skin than mine with blue eyes and blond hair. My dad was African American so my skin was a bit darker. However, I inherited her eyes that were brighter than any diamond and her beautiful blond hair. She was 45 but looked 30 and I was lucky to have her.
“So, now you want to get out of bed. I just got paid so I wanted to whip up something special. Eat up because I predict it’ll be a while before you can eat like this again. I’m almost done here, go and eat with your father.”
I gave her a hug and walked to our dining table and sat right next to my father. He’s six feet tall, with strong arms and had a big beard he was super proud of. He was almost 47 but still looked 30 just like my mother. He had a suit and tie on for work and had a plate of pancakes, eggs, and bacon. I did the same and my plate was filled with a heap of delectable delicacies.
“Hey, son, how are you doing?” my dad asked in his deep voice.
“ I’m doing fine,” I said in a garbled voice because I was stuffing my mouth with pancakes.
“So, how’s work,” I asked.
“It’s been fine. I'm receiving a pay raise this week,” he said.
“Really?” I almost jumped out of my seat. “That’s great. Recently, some things haven’t been working. I ran out of detergent, my Assistant isn’t working and the hot water stopped running. But don’t worry I’ll pay for all of that stuff by myself. And if there’s anything you need help with-”
“Mark!” my mom cried out.
Oh crap.
“You’re only 16 and you’ve been taking those illegal jobs. What if the government finds you and arrests you. They could imprison you and us or worse. And what about your friend Thomas. Does his mom know about it? Should I contact her?”
“Mom! We need the money and so does Thomas. It's risky but we’re smart enough to not get caught. “
“Mark,” my father said.
“We know that it's difficult for folks like us to make sufficient money to live in District 3. But we moved here despite the difficulties to offer you a better education and better environment.”
“I know!” I yelled.
“But I bet 250 years ago it wasn’t this hard to just live as a normal citizen!”
“They say that the descendants of the Enhanced still live,” my father countered. “They still live in our society planning the destruction of the rest of the world. The people are scared. The government is paranoid. If they discover someone with powers they’ll be hunted down. If they discover if you are associated with one without reporting you could be executed. And if you’re caught in unauthorized territory they’ll execute you.”
“Is that what you want?” my mom demanded.”For both our family and Thomas’ to die! I can’t lose anybody else.”
It kills me to see my mother cry. It also killed me to have to lie to my family. They do so much so I can go to one of the best schools in the country so I can get a good education and a high class job. And live a cushy and luxurious life but I know just how much debt they have even if they don’t know I do. And Thomas’ family is doing even worse than us.
“I’ll stop then and I’ll go to school. Today is our mandatory physical check-up. I’ll meet up with Thomas but don’t worry we won’t do anything illegal.”
My parents both looked at me with total distrust in my eyes.
My mom finally caved in. “Fine, make sure you’re prepared and take the train to school. Make sure you’re careful and follow all instructions!”
“Don’t worry mom,” I grumbled. “It's not like any of us have superpowers anyway.”
I finished my food, grabbed everything I needed and rushed out the door.
Living here is expensive but it sure is amazing if you can succeed.
Even if the world was almost destroyed 250 years ago we sure were able to come a long way in that time. It was great enough that me and Thomas’ parents would try so hard to be able to live here.
At first glance it was beautiful like a dream. Sector 3 was one of the best Districts except 1 and 2.
It buzzed with life with people on their way to work and wherever they needed to go. Cars hovered over the ground at speeds of 20 to 30 miles per hour.They made a sort of buzzing noise that was music to my ears. The smells of food cooking in fancy restaurants attacked my nostrils hoping to draw my attention and buy their food. Good thing I had a hearty breakfast because I don’t think I could afford any of them right now. Teenagers like me hung out with their hoverboards doing all types of tricks that could easily backfire in a nearby park. They had neon colored hair, mohawks along with other choices in fashion that my school and I just don’t agree with. Other businesses such as hospitals, hair salons, movie theaters also seemed to attract crowds like a magnet. I even passed by the hospital my mom worked at. It was a huge dark skyscraper with a spacious parking lot with its name Healing Haven Hospital in bright colored letters at the top.
Sector 3 was a great place to live if you could afford it. Although If you looked hard enough you noticed the people that failed to make ends meet. In the slums people slept in man made houses of trash and boxes. Others smoked and did drugs which was kind of illegal. Either they weren’t caught or the soldiers didn’t care enough to check. Children wearing dirty rags who were so skinny you could count their ribs rummaged through trash and fought over any spoils. It wasn’t fair that this greedy government would place laws and taxes that would force them to suffer this horrible fate. I need money whether or not it's legal as long as it can keep my family fed and happy.
15 minutes after I left the house I finally reached the train station. I got off my hoverboard and got in line and thankfully it wasn’t that long. When I reached the doors, I almost had a heart attack. Guarding the door where two sentinels armed to the teeth carrying large guns and dressed in their signature white bulletproof armor.
“Pay up please,” the one on the right said as he stretched out his hand. He held a device that would collect the money you need to take to ride the train.
“Okay,” I agreed with a nervous voice.
I took out my own phone and paid. I was able to get a seat on the train I was keeping all to myself with no troubles.
After we started moving I finally was able to let myself relax. I thought I was this close to being arrested before I could do anything illegal today.
Sentinels are usually stationed in places such as banks and homes of important people like governors. But this is the first time I’ve seen them deployed at a train station. I remember when I wanted to be one when I was a kid and go to District 2 to make lots of money but my parents made me give up that dream. District 2 specializes in military and security. That was where soldiers trained and lived. Higher Ups also had access to a luxurious life in a fancy mansion and more money than what they actually needed. This is where the hovercrafts that soared the sky providing surveillance were built and maintained. Where Epizon’s forces that would protect our country from its threats could prepare for any possibility. Prepare for what I always ask. Most of the world has been destroyed. Africa has never shown any hostility to us. No, they’re just here to enforce this tyrannical government and eliminate any that may possess abilities.
I grabbed my headphones from my backpack and played my favorite songs. At least I can enjoy the view.
It was like I was flying as the train soared through the sky on a railway that snaked throughout the city. Never actually touching since the train was connected through powerful electromagnets saving both energy and money. The city looked even more impressive when you had a bird’s eye view.
Couples and families enjoyed picnics on tables at the Liberty State Park. People walked in and out of the Interpretive Center where history from about 300 years was taught. It still had memorials dedicated to remembering events like what happened centuries ago at 9/11. Now there’s a huge memorial dedicated to those who fought to save us from the Enhanced. It's still so hard to believe that people with super powers exist. I’ve learned about them in history class but they seem so unreal. I’ve never seen somebody shoot fire or fly so either the military is really good at their job or this is all made up.
District 3 of the great utopia Epizon. Named after the Greek word for survivor. When the continents Australia, Europe, South America, and Asia were destroyed in World War Three. By the Enhanced who gained powers that almost destroyed the world. Thankfully, the remnants of North America were able to stand up and defeat all the Enhanced people and create the amazing paradise we live in.
It sounds so unreal it has to be propaganda to control the Sectors.
We flew over the Hudson River Walkway. It was my favorite view on the train ride because I loved the way sunlight would reflect off the pristine turquoise waters. It's a shame we don’t really get to swim or fish though. That’s probably for the best.
The rest of the train ride went fast and before I knew it I was at my stop. I grabbed my hoverboard and raced to school because the Victor can’t be late.
While this District has its downsides it could really get a lot worse from here. However, District 1 was the real paradise. It was where the most important people with the most standing lived. The President, his wife, and other high ranking government officials lived there. In enormous mansions separated by acres where all the other people who enforced laws and taxes that made it difficult for my parents to live and provide for us.
But District 3 was the best place where people who are more fortunate like me could live. As long as you were skilled enough and worked hard enough. My mom was a somewhat prominent doctor at one of the biggest hospitals in this District. District 3 specializes in a lot of fields but the one it specializes in is medical science. Medicine, prosthetics, you can get the best of them from here. And my dad was vice president at a company that released some of the best virtual reality games. Entertainment is just as important as health in Epizon. Which meant I sometimes received popular games before everyone else. I remember so many times my parents and I would play together exploring outer space, fighting monsters. My parents are so cool, right?
You’d think that our life would be a little more luxurious and it was. Unfortunately, the selfish government increased taxes and fees from school started to pile up. As the victor in sophomore year I was exempt from those rules as long as I remained Victor. But my parents have yet to completely finish paying all those debts.
It's dangerous to get lost in your thoughts when you’re traveling 3 feet off the ground at 15 miles per hour on a hoverboard because you might end up running into a moving car. Thankfully, I managed to stop just in time.
“So, the Victor almost crashes to a fatal stop. It would be sad, you know. I’d hate for my best friend to die like that.”
I knew that voice.
I turned around and noticed that mischievous grin with sharp teeth I was so familiar with. With his strong red eyes and messy black hair he could’ve been a criminal. Well he technically should be but we’re too smart to get caught.
“Thomas, how’re you?” I asked as I got off my hoverboard.
“Oh, nothing, just waiting for you,” he replied. “I knew you’d show up here to catch the levitrain.”
He gave me a hug and somehow managed to pick me up and spin me around like something a kid would ask their parents to do.
“How’re you doing my best friend? Did you actually get a huge extravagant meal because I just did. My mom just got paid and she didn’t save a single epi.”
“Yeah, I actually did and so I can actually keep my breakfast and not throw up let me down.”
“Sure!”
“How’re you so strong anyway? I know you work out but are you seriously that strong. Don’t tell me you actually have super strength.”
“I hope I don’t. Life sucks as is but it would get even worse if I suddenly awakened superpowers.”
I feel the same. It’s rough but we can make it better.
“Fistbump!”
We always managed to read each other’s minds.
“Are you ready for these physicals?” I asked.
“I’m so sick of those things,” he replied. “Oh, it’s time for us to cross.”
We both got on our hoverboards and raced towards school.
“Don’t worry about it, you're strong and you’re pretty muscular,” I assured him. “But, I hope you’re not strong enough to throw a car or something.”
“Don’t worry about it, I've already tried. Nah, I’m kidding.”
“So, are we doing that job today,” Thomas asked with a mischievous grin.
“You know it,” I said.
CHAPTER 2
Now you have to admit our school was pretty impressive.
First of all, it was gigantic. It sort of resembled a castle but really high tech in blue, red, and white colors. In the middle FutureTech was printed in red and blue and was highlighted in white. The dorms were on the left side. And the rest of the other facilities and equipment was in the other half. This was FutureTech, a place which was probably the best school a student could ask for. Less than 20% of those who apply here make the cut. And the majority of them were rich kids who could afford to pay the tuition. Me and Thomas barely made it and it was really tough. But we both worked hard and eventually I became the Victor. One of the perks of being a Victor that must’ve been in place for people like us was that the Victor could choose anyone who didn’t have as much money as the others to be their second in command. They would be exempt from the tuition and other crazy rules. Did you know you have to pay a security fee after a year?
Crazy.
But those only applied if the other guy had good grades and a clean track record. But only as long as I’m the Victor and if either of us do anything that breaks the rules we’ll both be kicked out. Talk about pressure.
But this was the best place to learn anything really. Law, business, art, engineering and other sciences. And it could all be done here.
The school had defenses in place to protect the lives of students and staff. An electromagnetic barrier surrounded the entire establishment. Stretching out a few acres across outside the building. If you wanted to get in you had to get through the one gate in the front. At the gate there were security cameras, x-rays, and 10 armed Sentinels just for extra security. The security was just as intense inside making it nearly impossible to do anything that violated the rules. They didn’t waste a single epi.
“Man, the security of this place is unnerving as always,” Thomas complained.
“It never fails to show me just how out of place we are.”
“Of course the security is advanced. The children of really important people receive education here. This helps them make sure they aren’t kidnapped. I do agree it's unnerving but at least it’s secure. Besides you and I both deserve to be here”
We walked through the sliding doors and saw just how beautiful the school was inside.
The place was illuminated by golden lights. Robots made clunky noises while drones wizzed over my head. I could barely hear myself think over the voices of other students. Girls argued over petty things like their hairstyles and whose boyfriend was better. While boys competed to see who’s stronger or more handsome. Rainbow colors flashed from the lab to the right. Future doctors practiced their skills on mannequins in the lab at the left.
“Hey, look, it's the Victor!”
Soon, the whole school had their eyes on me.
Girls and boys waved and applauded. Even the ones on the second floor whooped and jumped around. Not everyone felt the same though. Some students snickered and sneered while others glared with hatred and jealousy. Even when you work hard to be at the top not everyone will appreciate it.
“You’re popular,” Thomas remarked.
“Too bad not everyone is a fan. You still got the ladies cheering for you. You think you could give them a good word about me?” Thomas joked.
“You know that’s not how it is. We’re on different levels in society. I lose my title as Victor and I fade into the background.”
“Besides, you're smart and strong. Try hard enough and you could get a girlfriend. Just don’t let anyone catch on to our extracurricular activities.”
“Look at that smug smile on his face,” a voice rang out.
“It must be nice to be the Victor's lap dog. I could use that so explain why it is getting wasted on that idiot.”
“ He thinks he’s so strong and mighty just because of that stupid pin. Wait till I get my hands on it, fool.”
“He should watch out. It’d be unfortunate if an accident were to happen. No one would miss some commoners who couldn’t support themselves without that Victor title.”
“Who is that?” Thomas demanded.
“If I find out who they are they won’t have to worry about creating any accident.”
“Chill out Thomas. None of them have the guts or smarts to try anything. Besides, together there’s nothing they can do to either of us.”
“You’re right. We have brains and muscles,” he said as he flexed his arms.
I don’t blame some of them though. Kids who weren’t super wealthy but still made it could use the privileges I got from this title. There were also the selfish rich kids who had more money than they really needed. But I couldn't bear to see someone work hard to achieve something they couldn’t. It makes me so sick sometimes. Our parents do our best just to put a roof over our heads and pay taxes. But I became Victor and that’s a problem. I apologize but I’m not giving it up anytime soon.
“ So what’s first on Victor's schedule?”
“First, we have History class. Then, I have to give a report on quantum physics. Then we have lunch right before the physicals.”
“Well, while you’re doing your fancy report on quantum psychics I’m doing one on the state of this Sector. There’s so many children and families without homes. If I simply beg them nothing will happen. I’ll convince them why they should lend money and support to those who really deserve it. They can train adults to help reinforce the Walls. Add them to the military. Children can also be useful for things. Think about all the new medications they could try by using sick children. They could also put extremely smart children to work in engineering. Even the government can’t ignore the potential of children if given the right environment.”
Good old Thomas is always thinking of ways to help those in need. He takes every advantage and tool he can if it means he can improve the lives of his mother’s and others. More reason for me to fight to stay the Victor.
“Thomas, I have a question.”
“What is it?” he asked.
“Let’s say if you can do what you plan. What if some of those who you’re helping have powers?”
Thomas' face darkened as he stopped his stride.
I hate to do this to him but what if some of those he’s trying to help are Enhanced. People who have done nothing wrong superpowers or not don’t deserve to be hurt out of fear and hatred. Especially if it was because my best friend was only trying to genuinely help.
“I’m not sure. I can already imagine what the government would do if they got their hands on Enhanced people. But if I can only help people with no powers who actually need it. Am I wrong to try even if it could hurt others?”

I played D1 as a kid, immediately got D2 when it dropped, same with the expansion, was in the D3 beta years later, have played D3 since launch (lol real money auction house), was in the D4 closed beta, and am currently playing the open beta. I have a lot of experience with this series, plus every other game that ex-Blizzard North devs created; i.e. Torchlight and Hellgate: London. And that's not including every other dungeon crawler like PoE and Grimdawn I've dumped time into. I love this genre and everything the series has contributed to the gaming world.
I say all that to set a precedent for D4 and Blizzard as a AAA developer. This series got a lot of us into RPGs and dungeon crawlers by redefining them and creating an extremely addictive, engaging system surrounded by a incredibly gritty, creepy atmosphere that hadn't been done before. It set a stage for decades of min/maxing character stats, builds, paths for grinding gear, bots, duping, power leveling, etc, in countless games.
On this front, Blizzard has invested heavily in dropping the homogenous, "cartoony" style they crafted for WoW, SC2, HoTS, HS, and D3, and returning to the nitty gritty of D2, and it's incredible. I've been absolutely obsessed with the art direction, especially since it pulls so heavily from one of my favorite artists, Zdzisław Beksiński. However, this has seemingly come at the of underdevelopment of game mechanics and balancing. It feels like the game is currently riding on the hype of its atmosphere and visuals, instead of addressing the glaring gameplay issues that have been constantly reiterated since the closed beta. The same gameplay aspects/mechanics that the series set a precedent for from the beginning.
Underwhelming class trees, weak melee classes, frustrating power curves (i.e. barbs being strong at higher levels, but super weak early, complete drop off of bone necro damage without explicit gear, etc.), uninspired dungeons, and the plethora of QoL changes (i.e. all the posts currently on the front page about skeletons de-spawning in town). Don't get me wrong, the world bosses, PvP areas, open world, and random events are really sick, but a lot of these are what was expected from D3 over a decade ago. Hell, the Belial fight in D3 is a prime example that a lot of the interesting camera work and big boss fights we're seeing now could have been done then.
Given the only changes I've seen from closed to open beta are visual, I don't have high hopes of these issues being addressed before launch. I think Krip (anyone else stay up late to watch him and Krippi world first D3 back in the day?) was right in saying this will be a good game a few+ seasons in. Unfortunately, I think it's going to take Blizzard/the dev team seeing a huge decline in player retention after launch and increased negative feedback over gameplay, before they realize they can't keep kicking this can down the road.
With that being said, I understand how high the expectations are for this game, especially from die-hard fans like me; a lot of which aren't attainable. However, small things like making sure a druid can kill a basic mob without relying on pots, while a sorcerer 2 shots it, shouldn't be one of the expectations that a company like Blizzard is falling short of and, from my perspective, it's borderline embarrassing. I know they can do better, we see examples in literally every other game, but we've also seen just as many examples of them not listening to the community and letting a game die (OW1 GOATS/CC meta, HoTS in its entirety, the D3 real money auction house). I really REALLY hope that's not the case again, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
All in all, I'm genuinely happy to see people enjoying the game, art, and story. And I think there's an extremely solid foundation for a truly incredible addition to the Diablo franchise. I just hope the longevity of a game, that relies on constantly having available players in order interact with its coolest features (world bosses, large events, etc.), isn't hindered by low player populations, because a company decided pretty was more important than fair, until they start losing money. I overwhelmingly hope I'm wrong and just being pessimistic, but only time will tell. In the meantime, keep posting those memes; I need them more than The Butcher needs a nerf.

One of the most ancient libraries was one that fell from the first city of Theocra. The gods from before the beginning of time had written many books in Theocraese but the library held every book in existence. They also created many mantras in Theocraese / Theocran that have to be channeled into the land of the living that need to work. The Theocran library during the fall had caused many Theocran books to be spread across the underworld, and they were all carefully restored and put into a single ancient library.
Unfortunately, one day the goddess Nui was kidnapped and her husband showed his anger as the god of war. The kidnapper god held her hostage inside of the ancient library because he thought the khan would not be willing to use violence and risk damaging the ancient Theocran books, but he was wrong. He dropped chemical weapons down onto the Khan’s men, and poisoned rivers with nerve gas. The Khan was so determined to kill the other god that in his rage he ignored the nerve gas poured onto his face as he climbed, and with red eyes and anger that could be felt from a mile away, he grabbed the head of the new god and crushed it in a single hand. However, the chemicals caused a fire and the Theocran books began burning.
The celestial maiden who was in charge of keeping the library safe attempted to put out the fire, but she was not able to stop the huge and raging fire that burned the library. The books burned and fell on top of her and the huge ancient library tower came falling down to ashes with the celestial maiden inside.
However, once she rose from the ashes of the burned ancient library she began reciting sacred books word for word, including page numbers. Like a walking audiobook, she began walking around the Steppes of Elysium reading back books like a recording. In the end, she preserved the library orally and was known as The Library Woman. The Library Woman can be called upon for those who want to discuss philosophy, research, hear the latest issue of a magazine, or get a refresher on Quotes From Chairman Mao. She instructs men in all languages, even those that are spoken in the astral planes and the lost language of Theocra. The spirits of the hell who need to document certain books are able to recreate any desired text by having the library maiden blow on a blank book of empty pages.

TLDR: Druid has bad damage and survivability when compared with the other classes. As well as some bugs with how melee and druid plays making it worse than it already is.
First off, I did find some bugs for certain with druid that just made it annoying to play.
For example, Shred +1 skill doesn't work at all on gloves. I tried two different gloves with Shred +1 and it never added to the skill as you can see below.
https://youtu.be/waszXW5ERDg
Additionally, melee attacks simply missing due to an enemy stepping one pixel away or simply the spell not even hitting for whatever reason. See the video below for my rabies skill missing in melee range and going on cooldown. This happens roughly 25% of the time I am using rabies.
https://youtu.be/j3mGjSPkY90
Next up is basic attacks, why do basic attacks need to feel super weak? They should in theory be able to kill basic mobs in 1-3 hits.
Here's druids basic attacks on enemies(keep in mind this is the best basic attack druid has)
https://youtu.be/iA7GYRRBzEw
Necro's basic attack. Feels great to walk up and one shot a minion with the shotgun effect as well as having the ability to be ranged.
https://youtu.be/wQJKpcpjZ7E
Now compare the druid basic attacks with necro minions. I feel like I am barely a skeleton mage in the necro army. As you can see the necro mages hitting for over 300.
https://youtu.be/DSaQnNqryVY
Now for Elite damage. While some builds are decent at killing elites with druid they require an immense amount of specific legendaries to accomplish this which you won't get in the real game while leveling. For example here is my druid killing 3 elites using the legendary making the bear ultimate turn me into a wolf with 72% spirit cost reduction. Also with a full inventory of legendaries buffing crit chance and damage and defences. I also got 2 overpower procs on 2 elites within 2 attacks, now imagine without those two procs.
https://youtu.be/UMwokJQ_QmI
Compared with a necro with 3 legendaries, with only one legendary actually buffing anything making blood surge cast twice but deal 70% less damage. As you can see I was barely doing anything and the minions took care of both tanking everything and killing one elite by themselves and helping with the other 2 and making quick work of them.
https://youtu.be/Easx2nO4TqE
I tried out all druid builds, earth, storm, bear, werewolf, minions. All with 2-3 legendaries benefitting those builds. Each of them while they might have felt decent in certain areas such as bear pulverize one shotting mobs in an aoe or landslide hitting hard on cc'd enemies. In general everything just felt so bad in certain areas of the game that I found Shred to be the most consistent for all content.
Earth
Pros

• strong damage against cc'd enemies.
  
• ranged.
  
• strong legendaries such as granting +2 to all earth skills and buffing landslide.
  

Cons

• Landslide while strong against cc'd enemies has a very small aoe which often times doesn't hit enemies near it you think it should.
  
• can't cc bosses(yes I know you can eventually with enough cc but that's like once a fight) so your bonus damage now becomes pointless and you hit like a wet noodle.
  

Storm
Pros

• Ranged
  
• Ok damage with passive procs and Legendaries.
  
• Can see potential to be strong late game( but I am going off current state in beta).
  

Cons

• You feel like Zeus's forgotten step child with how your damage tickles enemies.
  
• Hurricane's damage on paper looks good but then you realize it is over 8 seconds and cringe when you see the damage numbers.
  

Bear
Pros

• Best aoe clear ability with pulverize.

Cons

• Everything Feels slow.
  
• Pulverize is meh for 9 seconds out of 10 as you wait for overpower proc.
  

Minions
Pros

• Vine Creepers cc, aoe and crit chance upgrade are pretty nice.

Cons

• All minions just deal terrible passive damage. Even with multiple legendaries buffing up minion damage they are still tickling enemies and the attack rate is so slow on top of that.
  
• The Birds and Wolf active abilities are terrible damage wise when one ranged attack from a necro mage does more damage than these two actives combined.
  

Werewolf
Pros

• Consistent damage with poison.
  
• Ability to teleport to enemies with Shred making being melee less annoying.
  

Cons

• Slow aoe damage due to poisons and limited aoe.

I did record boss fights between necro and druid but I feel you can get the idea from all of my videos so far. 1:20 for druid. 20 seconds for Necro. This is the same boss in the same dungeon. This is without the necro OP current build, just basic attacks and blood surge with minions.
I see a lot of people in this reddit saying "druid feels great to me" or "I got this legendary and I feel strong as hell!" You obviously havn't played the other classes if you feel like this. Feel free to post a video of you killing a boss faster than a sorc/rogue/necro and I might believe you.
Blizz, please buff this sad class. Maybe the class boons will make them better(hopium)?

This story starts out fairly simple but becomes ridiculous later on.
The crew assembled when Captain Ashford, a concealed pirate lord, made his way over a desert planet on the homebrewed solar system called "Feller's Bastard Star". It named after a long gone "Feller" dynasty which aimed to build a solar collector base around the entire star, speak Dyson sphere in our language. In the downtrodden, rude language of imperialists this fringe-world and project that was never finished is just called "Bastard Star" because it's half station, half star.
This system has mostly desert worlds, specifically Feller 2, which is in turn the megalomanic project of a Waaghboss Ork who steals spacecraft from any faction and crashes them into the sand world. His goal: Create the ultimate "Rokk" in the size of a planet.
Something about this solar system breeds megalomaniacs.
This ork warband has captured three of the four party members. Captain Ashford however is so far unaware of the orks and the rest of his soon to be crew. His goal is another: Having fetched a star ship key from the black market, he sees his great chance of fame and glory. The hasty xeno merchant gave him the coordinates and rushed away on it's merry way. Captain Ashford followed this course, and happened upon a sandy world through which he wandered and at times crawled.
Slying away from ork patrols, he finally arrives at a small ork camp. A slave camp in which all other crewmen and some alien slaves are "storaged" along with a pile of their former possessions.
The Voidmaster Log Malakai in particular is not happy about his situation and breaks a cage beam with the strength of his machine arm, drawing the full two brain cells of possible attention from an ork guard. Thinking quickly, Adeptus Mechanicus Explorator Carthus Lambda-2 assembles a primitve thrown weapon from his prison bed by throwing the entire prison bed at the ork.
This is when Captain Ashford strikes and eliminates the ork with a plasma blast from behind. The goop sprouting carcass topples over, dropping a comically large radio.Navigator Seth Almagam, called "Grim" due to his strange antics, who was also previously captive uses the radio to confuse ork command which is as simple as shouting something and dropping the device.
They proceed to team up and free a small group of eldar warriors from their cages, who in turn temporarily ally with them to break free from the slave camp. Using the radio of the ork guard, they make ork command believe that the eldar have broken free, which is true after all.
As Game Master and Reader, we can not be sure which plan Ashford had with blaming it on the eldar, but we can only assume that a profound rivalry to the ancient alien empire exists.The great bail-out happens as planned.
Grotzs are being shot and scared to death by the Navigator. Using Micro Grenades, a more well-armored ork guard explodes inside his own metal casing. Finally, the angry Explorator Carthus finds his trusty servo-skull "H.U.B." integrated into a shoddy ork turret and wired with it's hover exhausts to orkish sensor machinery.The Ork mechanic who wired the skull up to the turret had added a small sign for the skull to read: It depicted a human and an ork, and the words "shoot" "not shoot", which the servo skull obviously ignored.
Freed from the orkish slavery, HUB returned into service of Carthus and helped him take aim on another ork turret. In a swift scoped attack, the ork gunner is missed- but enough time is bought for the Navigator to teleport behind him and drop a final load of micro krak-grenades into the turret.
The eldar have by then been forgotten and are only mentioned briefly by another player in the second session- entering not only game mechanical but also contextual stealth successfully. We might see them again later.
For now, the crew has stolen an Ork Truck, which is when the hastily imported Rulework of another table top game "Gaslands" came into play. The truck itself is a puzzle and trap filled one-page-dungeon of it's kind. Playing bluegrass on the table top audio, the GM explained the "features" of the truck:
Fully build in hot-air cooler, red button, speed holes, comfort-tinted frontal windshield to withstand both the radiation of the sun and oncomming rock walls.
A drawn control panel is shown to the voidmaster who was decided to be the driver for the time being due to his over average agility score. Due to the orkish nature of vehicle design, only the co-pilot has an actual view to the front, making this a dungeon puzzle for one player and a ralley simulator for the other.
This control panel contains levers, pedals and a red button. Of course he started slow, after all the GM had just explained the Gear and Hazard system of Gaslands. (You can only make narrow turns or swerving manouvers in lower gear without entering dangerous maneuvering)
On the back of the truck, Grim the navigator and carthus the tech priest hold position and act as gunners with their starter equipment.
Then curiosity won and the big red button is pressed. Tune up table audio to a more apt rock and roll theme. The ork truck is accelerated with the condensed chemical brutality of whatever it is that orks consider fuel. Blue flames burst out of perforated mufflers, bending them in uneven angles.Sand is catapulted to the back, and the device cranks up into fifth gear. Parts of the quickly hand sketched control board explode, giving the player only estimations of the current gear that the vehicle is in. The crew on top, who need to hold their guns and balance, obtain a negative modifier on ballistic checks.
And of course hordes of orks on buggies and carts chase after them, jumping over cliffs and ramps, the entire madmax fetish of the GM comes into play.
The chase through scrapfields and cactus oasis reduces the loot with each failed handling skill, finally Grim, of all players, is overtaken by greed and decides to stop shooting orks and holds on to the looted bags of xeno tech that is shaken with each turn and driven maneuver.
As the designated driver Lok makes turns left and right, and experiments with the levers, he finds out that the levers are for turn signals. The right one being a flashing red light, the left one an indirect command for a gretchin to hold a red signal torch out of a hatch on the side of the vehicle.
Because in the fast pace of combined puzzle and Gaslands-chase, the turn signals are frequently ignored. This angers the gretchin who visits the cockpit through a small hatch and realizes that he is being stolen by humans along with the truck.
Stressed, the voidmaster tries to intimdate what greenish goblin: "Shut up!" But fails his intimidation throw and the gretching returns into the inner workings of the machine."Now where was this safety fuse?" He asks loudly. All players realize that this little gremlin is about to sabotage their escape- the captain yells "We have a blind passager!""I am not blind!" The gretchin complains.Dropping a photonic grenade into the same hatch that the little xeno went into the captain asks "How about now?"A flash emerges through the bolted cracks and rims along the engine casing.This is when I decided to write down the story because I was laughing.
Captain Ashfords recognizes an ork truck with two heavily armed "boys" emerge from a nearby dune and orders the tech priest, whose name he at that point does not even know yet, to take them out.A bonus on the ballistic check, but also an astonishing righteous fury hit vaporize the front wheels of the attacking vehicle, sending orks flying. Another proof that a lasgun is more than a flashlight if aimed correctly.One ork manages to fire a shot at the heroes' car mid-air but is then run over by another chasing buggy as soon as he contacts sandy desert ground. The other ork lands headfirst on the chasing buggy and gets back up, thrilled by the "WAAAGH!" of his orky brethern.
Finally, the chase climaxes as they reach Captain Ashford's bounty: A dictator class cruiser, buried for thousands of years in the sand, from a time when the system was inhabited by humans. They manage to rush their stolen truck into the frontal torpedo tube of the ship's prow. Looted since millennia, there is no weapon installed and instead they crash right into the hallways of the ship. Orkish pursuers at times do not make the hawk-jump and crash into the prow, atomized by their speed and imperial ceramic armor.
With only two scrap-made carts on their tails, the crew escapes into the depths of the cruiser and shakes them off, advancing on foot. The previously stunned engine gretchin is now enthralled to their group.
Finally they reach the ingition altar, and the key is inserted.It follows a puzzle that is difficult in ways that average players would never comprehend. An active listening challenge, in which nothing else but the uberduck text to speech voice of the voice labled as the "burgerking rapper" is giving them a comprehension summary task. It explains the perils of the previous crew in what is, and I man up to this because I am responsible, a slight joke on cost of the Jamaican accent, which is fairly hard to understand on it's own. But if you throw in a mix of shadowrun "chummer" lingo, German and obscure 90's hip hop references you end up in a wall of spoken text that rushes over you and leaves only a state of absolute confusion.
Excusingly the GM proclaims that thousand year old low gothic is hard to understand.
After successful tech use the techpriest manages to obtain all the voice files. Of course the GM saw this happening and adds voice files into the selection of player-replayable files, that are mild taunts against the tech priest, even more obscure references and a rap that decries the imperial navy as loosers and proclaims servitor pirates to be the winner.
Finally Grim the navigator, of all people, manages to use what little buzzwords he can understand and ties together a story of what must have happened: The previous crew was killed or went missing, servitor crew was frozen in stasis and the ship went into hibernating. The entire ship belonged to pirates, making captain Ashford drop his facade and openly proclaim that he is a freebooter.
This is the start of the "Arcadia's" adventure along the fringes of sector Koronus and a great feud between a Warghboss and a reaver pirate captain.
Long story short: If you make a devils bargain with the GM about getting a very good starter ship, you will still have to fight for it.

Obi-Wan’s story is that he’ll want to help people, but can’t. He has a responsibility. His arc’s about learning to accept everything for how it is. He can’t change what happened, he can’t get Anakin back, and he has to accept what happened to Anakin, he can’t stop Jabba’s henchmen from hurting people, and Kenobi’s big theme is that there’s some stuff you can’t fix or get back.
The Inquisitors should come to Tatooine because Ben uses The Force to help someone who’s being attacked by one of Jabba’s henchmen. Their strategies are brutal. They search and raze people’s houses, they take people and test them for Force-sensitivity; if a child refuses to join The Empire, they are killed. Eventually, The Inquisitors will believe that a Force-sensitive person, who was either killed or captured, was their target, and not a fully-trained Jedi.
Obi-Wan, to bring The Inquisitors off of Tatooine, goes to a planet, and he’ll attack an Imperial Probe Droid on-purpose. The Inquisitors then leave Tatooine, and we get episodes of Obi-Wan running from Darth Vader and The Inquisitors.
Obi-Wan will never have a reunion with Vader in this series, but a part of him will want to, and we should want him to go up against Vader because we want him to get a chance to atone for his mistakes. We can have them sense each other’s presence or have Obi-Wan see Vader from a distance, but they can’t meet or fight.
Have Qui-Gon Jinn appear in more than one scene (and only as a voice so that you can keep continuity with The Clone Wars), and have him as a mentor-figure to Obi-Wan; trying to teach him to accept everything for how it is. Develop Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon’s relationship.
Develop Darth Vader, and show him trying to hunt down Obi-Wan. Vader and Obi-Wan should be very similar to each other. Vader wishes that he wasn’t alone, and on a certain level, he misses Obi-Wan. He’ll constantly dwell on what he lost and how alone he is. The series will end with Palpatine and The Inquisitors believing that Kenobi is dead, and Vader’s hunt being ended, even though he’ll think that Obi-Wan’s alive, and Vader’s left alone again.

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1- If my questions do not fit in this forum please do not delete them, but tell me where I can post them. I have been looking in several sub-forums and this particular one has seemed to me the best to ask my questions.
2- I make the caveat that I am only referring to dishonest agents or maybe a few honest agents who easily give in to the influence of their dishonest partners.
3- In my writer's mind I do not speak of conspiracies, but of potential possibilities that could occur based on real experiences and human behavior.}
Hi, I need some guidance on when any branch of law enforcement raids a suspect.
1- What happens if the "alleged" suspect is not at home at the time? They go in, take what they are looking for or think they are looking for? What happens when they take money (nothing illegal to have)? They take DVDs (movies, cartoons, collections, tv series, etc.) with the excuse to deliver them later or never do it? Moreover, open the refrigerator and eat or steal food? Breaking property and throwing clothes or furniture on the floor just for the sake of it?
2- if the "alleged" suspect is or is not present. Would they leave some kind of note or card, honestly saying which specific agency was on the raid? Seriously they are always honest and leave the correct and accurate info? Including the name of the agents, the name of the specific law enforcement and even a phone number and address? And what if they leave a note with false info? I.e., it was the FBI, but instead they said it was ICE, etc.? What if they leave nothing?
3- What happens when the raid was fabricated? In other words, the whole argument of the reasons for the raid was based on conspiracy information, revenge (some of those agents for years hated the target person for reason X or Y), it was mostly out of curiosity to know what that person had in the house or what the house was like inside, etc.?
4- when the person is in the house and suddenly these law enforcement agents arrive, and:
- even though the person asks them if he/she can see the warrant, they demand to enter without the person seeing it at any time or simply because there is no reason to see it?
- If these agents arrive masked or partially undetectable to avoid being identified? If some of them (even if the person remains peaceful) take the opportunity (in front of their peers or apart) to hit (because they wanted to harm him for a long time) the target person and their peers keep it a secret?
5- those agents can take away the security cameras (and never return them, or even destroy them) that are recording them in real time just to hide their traces and actions? Is that legal, honest and ethical?
6- I read that a person should not react aggressively even if the raid is unlawful, that is, there was never a judge signing the papers for such action. However, even if the raid is illegal (there was never a compelling reason for such a raid in the first place) I have read that if the person resists, then the person can legally be arrested, etc. But if it was not legal and the agents were dishonest and favored the case, why then are they still protected and the innocent victim is punished with self defense? I don't understand that. Why this imbalance in the law?
7- When pets are killed or badly hurt (dogs properly chained) and the action of that raid was simply to harm the person without finding true motives... what happens? Are those dishonest actors impugned? Is there no law to protect these animals? And if they steal (legal) pets like land turtles or other animals that are acquired or allowed by law according to the state?
I would like to know your opinions, thank you.

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Ludwig II was born on august 25, 1845, the eldest son of the then-crown prince of Bavaria, Maximillian II. When Ludwig was three, his father became king following the abdication of Ludwig I during the german revolution of 1848. As heir to the throne, Ludwig spent his youth in a strict regiment of study & exercise (some suspect this may have contributed to his eccentricity). Ludwig had a strained relationship with his parents, referring to his mother as "My predecessor's consort" & had a far closer relationship with his grandfather, the deposed Ludwig I, than his father. Ludwig II ascended to the throne aged 19 following his father's death.
Despite his inexperience in governing a kingdom, Ludwig was initially very popular with the public, owing to his youth & looks. A Wagner fanboy, the young king spent his first year on the throne serving as the composer's patron (many of Wagner's later operas wouldn't have been composed without the patronage of King Ludwig). What he had in taste in german opera, he lacked in being head of state. Bavaria, a member of the german confederation, was soon caught up in Prussia's wars to unify Germany. Unfortunately for Bavaria, Ludwig II sided with the Austrians during the Austro-Prussian War. Following their defeat, Bavaria signed a mutual defense pact with Prussia. As such, when the Franco-Prussian war began in 1870, the Bavarians joined the side of the Prussians. While it kept much of its autonomy under the new imperial constitution, Bavaria lost its status as an independent kingdom, much to the regret of Ludwig.
Following the Unification of Germany, Ludwig withdrew from politics. For the rest of his reign, he devoted himself to the arts. He had private viewings of the first two works of "The Ring of the Nibelung". Ludwig even gave Wagner 100000 Thalers after he ran out of funds to complete his personal opera house. Ludwig introduced the works of Shakespeare, Gluck, Ibsen, & many other artists to Bavaria. He constructed massive castles & palaces throughout Bavaria, including Neuschwanstein Castle, Linderhof Palace, & Herrenchiemsee.
Ludwig was briefly engaged to his cousin, Duchess Sophie Charlotte Augustine, in 1867. Ludwig, however, postponed the marriage several times before finally canceling the engagement. Ludwig never married nor had any mistresses, & several passages from his diary and personal letters indicate that he may have been gay. Several of his surviving letters reveal that one of his quartermasters, Karl Hesselschwerdt, acted as Ludwig's male procurer.
Despite his architectural projects being paid out of pocket, the financial consequences still befell Bavaria. By 1885 Ludwig was 14 million marks in debt, & continuing to plan architectural designs, all while failing to address political matters. Several ministers sought to have Ludwig declared mentally ill, deposed, & replaced by his uncle, prince Luitpold. Luitpold agreed, on the condition that said ministers could provide decisive proof that Ludwig was indeed insane. A medical report compiled by Count Maximilian von Holnstein revealed an array of bizarre behavior exhibited by the king. Among the behaviors exhibited included: pathological shyness, avoidance of state business, dining outdoors in freezing conditions, wearing heavy overcoats in summer, childish manners, & abusive/ violent threats towards his servants. by June of 1886, a group of four psychiatrists found that Ludwig suffered from paranoia, & he was unfit & incapable of ruling. Ludwig was deposed on June 10, & was transported to berg castle two days later.
Controversy continues to surround the deposition. None of the four Psychiatrists ever examined Ludwig himself, instead basing their decision on the report compiled by Count Maximilian von Holnstein, who was actively seeking the king's downfall. Only one of the psychiatrists, Dr. Bernhard von Gudden, had met the king. Modern scholars now find the diagnosis of paranoia a misdiagnosis; it's generally believed today that Ludwig suffered from Schizotypal personality disorder & possibly Pick's disease.
On June 13, 1886, Ludwig took a stroll with Dr. Gudden on the grounds of Bern castle, accompanied by two escorts. Gudden expressed optimism to other doctors about the treatment of the deposed king. Following dinner, at around 6 PM, either Ludwig or Gudden suggested they go on a 2nd walk on the shore of lake Starnberg. Gudden told his aides not to accompany them. The last sighting of Ludwig & Dr. Gudden was at 6:30 PM; they did not return to Bern castle at the expected time of 8:00. Despite a gale of heavy rain, a search was conducted by the entire castle staff. At 10:30 that night, the bodies of Ludwig II, king of Bavaria, & Dr. Bernhard von Gudden were found lying in waist-deep water near the shore of lake Starnberg (the cross in the image is the spot where the bodies were found). The King's watch was stopped at 6:54. Local Gendarmes reported nothing unusual occurring that night.
Ludwig's cause of death was ruled suicide by drowning. However, a suicide by drowning would conflict with many details of the pair's death. For one, there was no water in Ludwig's lungs, as there would have been if he had drowned. Additionally, he had never previously expressed suicidal intentions. Even more damning for the suicide theory, is that it doesn't explain how dr. Gudden died. Gudden's body showed blows to the head & neck & evidence of strangulation.
Some have speculated that Ludwig was murdered by his enemies. His Fisherman, Jakob Lidl, wrote in a letter recovered posthumously that he had been hiding behind bushes, waiting to meet the king to row him across the lake, where Ludwig loyalists would be willing to help him escape. According to Lidl "As the king stepped up to his boat and put one foot in it, a shot rang out from the bank, apparently killing him on the spot, for the king fell across the bow of the boat.". This theory is contradicted by the autopsy report, which didn't find any physical wounds on the King's body. It also doesn't explain what happened to Dr. Gudden. Others have speculated that the king had a heart attack or stroke brought on by the 12 °C waters during an escape attempt, yet this also doesn't explain what happened to Dr. Gudden
Upon his death, Ludwig was succeeded by his younger brother Otto. However, Otto was deemed incapable of ruling due to mental illness following an 1883 diagnosis by none other than Dr. Gudden, & so Prince Luitpold ruled as a regent until he died in 1912.
It has been 136 years since the bodies of Ludwig II, king of Bavaria, & Dr. Bernhard von Gudden were found in the waters of lake Starnberg, & their deaths will likely forever remain unsolved.
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Is a trip to Vice City in your near future? There have been many Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA 6) leaks over the last few years, but the most recent suggests that players will return to a classic GTA location. Rumor has it that Grand Theft Auto VI may take place in Vice City.
This particular rumor started through the usual sources -- Twitter and Reddit. Twitter user Vector Hold, also known as Peter Brian Rice, claimed that Rockstar Games’ music rights representatives have been contacting Synthwave artists. Rice is a synthwave artist himself and has reportedly heard this information from fellow musicians. Rockstar Games hopes that the artists will contribute music for a radio station in the upcoming game. The tweet was posted earlier this week, but Rice has since deleted it.
There was also a reddit post that was created several months ago by user “markothemexicam.” The user claimed that their information was from their roommate. The roommate supposedly formerly worked for Rockstar North. They contended that GTA 6 will be set during an “unspecified” time in Vice City. This post has also been deleted, but has been saved elsewhere on the internet.
It would be tempting to discredit this reddit post as these kinds of claims are a dime a dozen on the Internet. However, another GTA leaker also recently suggested that GTA 6 would be set in a location familiar to players. Both markothemexicam and the GTA leaker have a fairly decent track record with regards to GTA predictions.
Other information on the internet suggests that the storyline of GTA 6 will be focused on drug smuggling. Players will reportedly travel between Vice City and Central or South America. This theory was originally suggested by YouTube channel “The Know” and has since gained quite a bit of popularity.
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It is important to keep in mind that all of this information is simply speculation. There have been plenty of fake GTA 6 rumors in the past. For example, a Twitch channel called "GTAVI" appeared this past spring. The channel promised it would provide information about the game during a livestream on April 1st. However, this channel turned out to be an elaborate April Fools’ prank.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City was released in 2002 for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PC. It was the best-selling game of 2002 and received a number of awards. 17.5 million copies of the game have been sold and it has now been ported to several other platforms. It is easy to see why so many players would be thrilled to return to Vice City. Unfortunately, we will know nothing for certain until Rockstar Games decides to make a formal announcement.

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Let me be the first to admit I had never heard of Timothy Carey. I watched The World’s Greatest Sinner because the title was titillating, not because some guy named Timothy Carey wrote, directed, produced, and starred in it. Little did I know he had acted in Billy Wilder's 1951 Ace in the Hole, Elia Kazan’s 1955 East of Eden, László Benedek’s 1953 The Wild One, John Cassavetes’ 1976 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, and he’s even on the cover of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, although George’s head obscures him and Bettie Davis. They are only visible in an alternate shot.
The World’s Greatest Sinner follows a corrupt demagogue who uses folksy wisdom and a guitar to enthrall the masses. It’s not the first film to follow the rise and fall of such a character. Before The World’s Greatest Sinner came out in 1962 (actually it never had an official release), there was Richard Brooks’ Elmer Gantry from 1960, starring a bombastic Burt Lancaster, and Elia Kazan’s A Face In The Crowd starring Andy Griffith, which came out in 1957. They all cover similar ground, however, The World’s Greatest Sinner is a bit more wild and wooly.
The sound is a particularly strange and slapdash affair. Some of the dialogue is recorded on what I assume is a boom-mic, but other parts are dubbed in. It wouldn’t be so strange, but the sound sometimes switches back and forth in the same scene while characters are exchanging dialogue. At one point, something completely inexplicable happens. One of the actresses turns to the camera and lip-syncs a line that is meant for the man in the scene to deliver, so we hear a male voice coming out of a female character’s mouth. There is no build-up, no context or explanation, it just happens like a bizarre blooper.
The plot of The World’s Greatest Sinner is simple. Clarence Hilliard is an insurance salesman who is bored with his job, so he decides to go into politics to spice things up. Meanwhile, a very large boa-constrictor, who no one seems to notice, slithers through Hilliard’s pristine suburban backyard. An echoey voice pipes up, and as you search for the speaker, you realize it's the snake’s internal dialogue. It turns out the snake is the Devil, and his voice is dubbed by someone doing an impression of Orson Welles a la Mork and Mindy or Pinky And The Brain.
With what appears to be some supernatural influence on the snake's behalf, Clarence takes to the street corner and starts screaming about how he is God and that he will bring an end to death. Instead of being carted away by men in white suits, an interested crowd starts to gather and listen. This is the first instance where Trump’s rise to power is prophesized. You listen to the arrogant insanity coming out of Clarence’s deranged, narcissistic mouth and you think that no one would ever listen to such crap, but then you remember 2016.
Timothy Carey’s approach to acting is based on a simple principle: the louder you yell, the better the acting. This, as you might imagine, results in a very loud movie. You could never impugn his stage presence, he’s like an angry Tim Curry.
With his meager, new-found band of followers, Clarence founds the Eternal Man Party. He funds it by sleeping with rich ladies who then donate to his campaign. Some are pretty old, but one is just 14. I’m not sure why he sleeps with her, I guess she could fork over her allowance. The first woman he sleeps with is very old, and just before he kisses her, he holds her face in his hand and lovingly whispers, “You’re just like my mother. If I had more like you, then my plan would triumph.” Then he kisses her with a really deep and uncomfortably thorough kiss.
Then we get a series of montages featuring larger and larger crowds listening to Clarence’s speeches. In another foreshadowing of Trump, his followers storm a building and riot in the streets. We even have shots of people pressed up against glass doors.
The campaign poster for Clarence’s party looks like a cross between Che Guevara and Robert Downey Jr. I guess people like images of men yelling with big open mouths. Later, Clarence is interviewed and says something that could have easily come out of Trump’s childishly hyperbolic mouth, “I expect to get more votes than any other candidate in history.”
What really drives the plot and keeps the film interesting is the addition of rock 'n’ roll to the mix. To gather a crowd, Clarence learns to play the guitar and sing. His concerts consist of him trying to imitate Elvis, but he comes off more like Lux Interior. If you are not familiar with Lux, you are really missing out. He was the fabulously demented lead singer of a punk group called The Cramps, a personal favorite of mine.
The World’s Greatest Sinner has yet another moment of prescience, but this time it involves John Lennon*.* In 1966, four years after the film came out, the infamous interview with John Lennon was published in which he said that the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus.” This of course triggered the ever-predictable followers of the crucified one to commence burning Beatles albums. Had those same Christians seen The World’s Greatest Sinner four years earlier, they would have witnessed Carey screaming, “The biggest lie of mankind is Christ!” Their poor little Christian heads would have popped. Maybe that’s why Carey is on the cover of Sgt. Peppers.
Clarence's relationship to God and religion is hard to parse out. His Eternal Man Party is founded on the idea that there is no god other than yourself. One of his assistants writes the supporting tenets on a board: “We are superhuman beings. We must be positive. The only heaven is on Earth." Then he adds, “And to sum it up, there will be no death!” Carey is either trying to present some muddled version of atheism, or he is just trying to construct a philosophy that is as sacrilegious as possible for the sake of drama. It is a little reminiscent of Coffin Joe and his Nietzschean trilogy of films: At Midnight, I'll Take Your Soul (1963), This Night, I'll Possess Your Corpse (1967), and Awakening of the Beast (1970). In the end, The World’s Greatest Sinner is a standard descent into madness plot with a self-destructive protagonist hurtling toward disaster. I’ll leave out the ending, but descent into madness narratives almost always result in one of two endings, the protagonist is redeemed or annihilated. A movie from 1962 could not end with Clarence's success.
The strange and eclectic soundtrack was written by… you’ll never guess… Frank Zappa! This was Zappa before The Mothers of Invention. In 1962, his band was called Baby Ray & The Ferns. Zappa later referred to The World’s Greatest Sinner as “the world’s worst movie.” People are way too cavalier with throwing around this very special status. Zappa obviously had never seen Alien Beasts or Bat Pussy.
The World’s Greatest Sinner is essentially about demagoguery, cult-like devotion, and avarice. It is also about the vulnerability of the masses, delusion, and democracy. There is some stock footage of a few political conventions thrown in near the end of the film.
Chomsky once explained that a dictator need not be concerned with what the population thinks. He can crush dissent with brute force. In a democracy, a would-be leader is obliged to control what the populace thinks to get himself elected. The problem with living in a democracy becomes an ever-present anxiety about the vulnerability of the masses. We worry that the average citizen will not be able to see through the smoke and mirrors. It was Trump who once said, “Ah the uneducated, I love the poorly uneducated.”

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Let me be the first to admit I had never heard of Timothy Carey. I watched The World’s Greatest Sinner because the title was titillating, not because some guy named Timothy Carey wrote, directed, produced, and starred in it. Little did I know he had acted in Billy Wilder's 1951 Ace in the Hole, Elia Kazan’s 1955 East of Eden, László Benedek’s 1953 The Wild One, John Cassavetes’ 1976 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, and he’s even on the cover of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, although George’s head obscures him and Bettie Davis. They are only visible in an alternate shot.
The World’s Greatest Sinner follows a corrupt demagogue who uses folksy wisdom and a guitar to enthrall the masses. It’s not the first film to follow the rise and fall of such a character. Before The World’s Greatest Sinner came out in 1962 (actually it never had an official release), there was Richard Brooks’ Elmer Gantry from 1960, starring a bombastic Burt Lancaster, and Elia Kazan’s A Face In The Crowd starring Andy Griffith, which came out in 1957. They all cover similar ground, however, The World’s Greatest Sinner is a bit more wild and wooly.
The sound is a particularly strange and slapdash affair. Some of the dialogue is recorded on what I assume is a boom-mic, but other parts are dubbed in. It wouldn’t be so strange, but the sound sometimes switches back and forth in the same scene while characters are exchanging dialogue. At one point, something completely inexplicable happens. One of the actresses turns to the camera and lip-syncs a line that is meant for the man in the scene to deliver, so we hear a male voice coming out of a female character’s mouth. There is no build-up, no context or explanation, it just happens like a bizarre blooper.
The plot of The World’s Greatest Sinner is simple. Clarence Hilliard is an insurance salesman who is bored with his job, so he decides to go into politics to spice things up. Meanwhile, a very large boa-constrictor, who no one seems to notice, slithers through Hilliard’s pristine suburban backyard. An echoey voice pipes up, and as you search for the speaker, you realize it's the snake’s internal dialogue. It turns out the snake is the Devil, and his voice is dubbed by someone doing an impression of Orson Welles a la Mork and Mindy or Pinky And The Brain.
With what appears to be some supernatural influence on the snake's behalf, Clarence takes to the street corner and starts screaming about how he is God and that he will bring an end to death. Instead of being carted away by men in white suits, an interested crowd starts to gather and listen. This is the first instance where Trump’s rise to power is prophesized. You listen to the arrogant insanity coming out of Clarence’s deranged, narcissistic mouth and you think that no one would ever listen to such crap, but then you remember 2016.
Timothy Carey’s approach to acting is based on a simple principle: the louder you yell, the better the acting. This, as you might imagine, results in a very loud movie. You could never impugn his stage presence, he’s like an angry Tim Curry.
With his meager, new-found band of followers, Clarence founds the Eternal Man Party. He funds it by sleeping with rich ladies who then donate to his campaign. Some are pretty old, but one is just 14. I’m not sure why he sleeps with her, I guess she could fork over her allowance. The first woman he sleeps with is very old, and just before he kisses her, he holds her face in his hand and lovingly whispers, “You’re just like my mother. If I had more like you, then my plan would triumph.” Then he kisses her with a really deep and uncomfortably thorough kiss.
Then we get a series of montages featuring larger and larger crowds listening to Clarence’s speeches. In another foreshadowing of Trump, his followers storm a building and riot in the streets. We even have shots of people pressed up against glass doors.
The campaign poster for Clarence’s party looks like a cross between Che Guevara and Robert Downey Jr. I guess people like images of men yelling with big open mouths. Later, Clarence is interviewed and says something that could have easily come out of Trump’s childishly hyperbolic mouth, “I expect to get more votes than any other candidate in history.”
What really drives the plot and keeps the film interesting is the addition of rock 'n’ roll to the mix. To gather a crowd, Clarence learns to play the guitar and sing. His concerts consist of him trying to imitate Elvis, but he comes off more like Lux Interior. If you are not familiar with Lux, you are really missing out. He was the fabulously demented lead singer of a punk group called The Cramps, a personal favorite of mine.
The World’s Greatest Sinner has yet another moment of prescience, but this time it involves John Lennon. In 1966, four years after the film came out, the infamous interview with John Lennon was published in which he said that the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus.” This of course triggered the ever-predictable followers of the crucified one to commence burning Beatles albums. Had those same Christians seen The World’s Greatest Sinner four years earlier, they would have witnessed Carey screaming, “The biggest lie of mankind is Christ!” Their poor little Christian heads would have popped. Maybe that’s why Carey is on the cover of Sgt. Peppers.
Clarence's relationship to God and religion is hard to parse out. His Eternal Man Party is founded on the idea that there is no god other than yourself. One of his assistants writes the supporting tenets on a board: “We are superhuman beings. We must be positive. The only heaven is on Earth." Then he adds, “And to sum it up, there will be no death!” Carey is either trying to present some muddled version of atheism, or he is just trying to construct a philosophy that is as sacrilegious as possible for the sake of drama. It is a little reminiscent of Coffin Joe and his Nietzschean trilogy of films: At Midnight, I'll Take Your Soul (1963), This Night, I'll Possess Your Corpse (1967), and Awakening of the Beast (1970). In the end, The World’s Greatest Sinner is a standard descent into madness plot with a self-destructive protagonist hurtling toward disaster. I’ll leave out the ending, but descent into madness narratives almost always result in one of two endings, the protagonist is redeemed or annihilated. A movie from 1962 could not end with Clarence's success.
The strange and eclectic soundtrack was written by… you’ll never guess… Frank Zappa! This was Zappa before The Mothers of Invention. In 1962, his band was called Baby Ray & The Ferns. Zappa later referred to The World’s Greatest Sinner as “the world’s worst movie.” People are way too cavalier with throwing around this very special status. Zappa obviously had never seen Alien Beasts or Bat Pussy.
The World’s Greatest Sinner is essentially about demagoguery, cult-like devotion, and avarice. It is also about the vulnerability of the masses, delusion, and democracy. There is some stock footage of a few political conventions thrown in near the end of the film.
Chomsky once explained that a dictator need not be concerned with what the population thinks. He can crush dissent with brute force. In a democracy, a would-be leader is obliged to control what the populace thinks to get himself elected. The problem with living in a democracy becomes an ever-present anxiety about the vulnerability of the masses. We worry that the average citizen will not be able to see through the smoke and mirrors. It was Trump who once said, “Ah the uneducated, I love the poorly uneducated.”

Obi-Wan’s story is that he’ll want to help people, but can’t. He has a responsibility. His arc’s about learning to accept everything for how it is. He can’t change what happened, he can’t get Anakin back, and he has to accept what happened to Anakin, he can’t stop Jabba’s henchmen from hurting people, and Kenobi’s big theme is that there’s some stuff you can’t fix or get back.
The Inquisitors should come to Tatooine because Ben uses The Force to help someone who’s being attacked by one of Jabba’s henchmen. Their strategies are brutal. They search and raze people’s houses, they take people and test them for Force-sensitivity; if a child refuses to join The Empire, they are killed. Eventually, The Inquisitors will believe that a Force-sensitive person, who was either killed or captured, was their target, and not a fully-trained Jedi.
Obi-Wan, to bring The Inquisitors off of Tatooine, goes to a planet, and he’ll attack an Imperial Probe Droid on-purpose. The Inquisitors then leave Tatooine, and we get episodes of Obi-Wan running from Darth Vader and The Inquisitors.
Obi-Wan will never have a reunion with Vader in this series, but a part of him will want to, and we should want him to go up against Vader because we want him to get a chance to atone for his mistakes. We can have them sense each other’s presence or have Obi-Wan see Vader from a distance, but they can’t meet or fight.
Have Qui-Gon Jinn appear in more than one scene (and only as a voice so that you can keep continuity with The Clone Wars), and have him as a mentor-figure to Obi-Wan; trying to teach him to accept everything for how it is. Develop Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon’s relationship.
Develop Darth Vader, and show him trying to hunt down Obi-Wan. Vader and Obi-Wan should be very similar to each other. Vader wishes that he wasn’t alone, and on a certain level, he misses Obi-Wan. He’ll constantly dwell on what he lost and how alone he is. The series will end with Palpatine and The Inquisitors believing that Kenobi is dead, and Vader’s hunt being ended, even though he’ll think that Obi-Wan’s alive, and Vader’s left alone again.
There's more ideas for what I'd do, but right now this is my first draft and seeing how they would be received, and I'll take it from there.

I got bored and took the liberty to transcribe Ree Bines into English as best as I could. Obviously it's not going to be perfect because I had to basically transcribe some misheard simlish words and make it into a cohesive story, so I hope you all won't mind that there's some artistic liberties taken here and there.
This is the song, if you want to give it a listen.
And here are the lyrics I came up with:
wall of shame
skylights, record on isolation
too wise
you were my first station
we're not sure what crashed the course
no limit on how high
free minds
block the line of blue shirts
green-eyed
we don't wanna have vengeance
ride,ride
rush in blind, prince hopeful
die, die
die at the wall of shame
these are
children and their mothers
who chose lies
to endure Maoisation
reckon, my desired son,
truth means angustation
free minds
block the line of blue shirts
green-eyed
we wanted to have vengeance
ride,ride
rush in blind, miss doubtful
die, die
die at the wall of shame
ride,ride
rush in blind, prince doubtful
die, die
die at the wall of shame
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I imagined the song to be about a father telling his son about how the great minds that changed the course of history in some way or another had to stand up to authority and were more often than not ostracized by their contemporaries, and on the other hand there were those who just accepted the status-quo in order to survive. I intentionally left some room for everyone to come up with their own interpretation, so feel free to leave suggestions/comments/questions etc and enjoy!
(I do not own any rights to the original song.)

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0. FAQ Wiki Page
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• There is both a FAQ and general guide page on this subreddit, please read through those resources before asking a question as it may already be addressed there.
  • FAQ
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​
1. Monthly Challenges
​

• This is a system separate from the regular song challenges that require you to score 10k higher than your max score (6.2m being the cap)
• They are MONTHLY score targets you need to reach to obtain various tiers of rewards. The more you complete the more rewards you get.
  • Progress and reward tiers can be found via: Song Select > Bottom Left where WMR is > Check Challenge Success Reward
• MONTHLY challenge scores and progress will be reset MONTHLY. If you obtain 201 challenge success in the last day of February, it will be reset to 0 in the following first day of March. Your original high scores for each song will not reset.
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*Big trigger warning for anyone with a bad parental experience in coming out.*
Honestly, I'm not quite sure what else to say. I didn't want it to happen this way and everything went wrong.
I noticed my mum had retweeted a thread of those sort of subtle, written-to-sound-reasonable terf arguments. That was bad, I had a brief spike of anxiety, but decided to give her the benefit of the doubt. She doesn't necessarily know about these things, she doesn't have the framework to know that most of what was written was manipulated truth and outright lies. So I thought I'd try and explain it to her, calmly, constructively. It did not go very well. No matter how much I tried to explain that the numbers, the science, the experts don't back up any of the claims, she didn't seem convinced. When things got to the ol' sport debate, I was gearing up to a decent argument, pointing out Lia Thomas' record was broken recently by a cis woman, when she said, outright; that trans women aren't women. Honestly, I can't justify what I did next, I'm absolutely horrified that I was capable of it, but I just snapped, I screamed in her face, stormed off, basically ran out of the house to call a safe friend. It wasn't okay, I didn't think I was capable of acting like that, and no matter how right I was about the content of it, it was utterly inexcusable. But it just broke me. The thing is, I'd been 50/50, I just couldn't quite get a read on what she thought, and while that wasn't great in so many ways it also meant there was some hope. Maybe things would go better than I thought. So then, hearing her say it so openly, I lost that, and I panicked, and I lashed out, I clearly scared everyone, and not unreasonably.
I cooled myself down round the corner, talked to my friend about what to do next, and settled on explaining the early parts over a text, on the suggestion of a (trans) friend of theirs; keep things calm, be able to compose it carefully, not risk getting interrupted or stumbling over my words. They tried to assure me that it would go better than I thought, that she was probably just caught defensive over the tweet, all that. I knew I had to believe that. So I sent it, called a more local friend to make sure I had somewhere to hide if things went too far south, and I went home. It did not go especially well.
No one shouted again, which I guess is something, but it was clear instantly that my mum especially was not okay with this. Some of it was the shouting, obviously, fair enough, I'd need some time to really get over being shouted at like hat. We got that out of the way quickly, no excuses, it was wrong of me. But when things got to the actual issue at hand...
What followed was basically every way of dismissing my identity possible. She questioned why there had never been any signs before (and dismissed it when I assured her that there were), that I'd always had more masculine-leaning interests before (yet treating me like I was the ridiculous one for making that connection). She brought up my neurodiversity, both my ADHD (seemingly arguing that I'd just get bored and move on, worrying about 'changes I can't go back on', that kind of thing) and speculating that I'm autistic, arguing that allegedly these things mean my brain is ~5 years underdeveloped, and therefore I'm not mature enough to know; plenty of old-school biological essentialism. Some God stuff in there too, but that wasn't quite so hard to hear; my confidence in my faith is stronger than anything else.
She placed everyone else's discomfort with it on me, effectively accused me of making the whole family less safe (despite the fact that the people who'd hurt us would say everything she is). She effectively suggested that if I come out to our wider family I might kill my grandad with a dodgy heart; she also made it pretty clear that she wouldn't back me up if my family refused to accept it. She questioned whether my incredibly supportive friends were 'just humouring me'. She basically suggested that it would have been right to not come out at all. She said that if she knew I was questioning my gender earlier they would have looked into 'exploratory therapy' which probably wouldn't have been conversation therapy or anything but definitely comes with an implication that she thinks I would have come out not thinking I was trans. She thinks that I just latched onto it because I 'don't fit in', which isn't actually that true nowadays anyway. Literally, basically any argument you can think of, she made.
Sure, they both made it clear that they loved me, and I do believe that, but at the same time... I have never felt so rejected in my life. Dad wasn't quite as bad, I think he just wanted to avoid the conflict, but it still hurts that I got, effectively, 'we don't like this but we can't stop you'.
Before this, even up until the point where I was walking home, I was hanging onto the slightest bit of hope that, when faced with the reality, that it wasn't a hypothetical argument but me, they might see the reality. That they might see me. Instead, I got this. Instead, I get to sit in my room, the most anxious I've been in years, because I know that my parents do not believe that I am who I say I am.
I've spoken about this in practice sessions on my counselling course in the past, and I always said that my worst case scenario wasn't being kicked out, I didn't think that would happen (and still don't), but that it was simply being tolerated. Being told 'you're an adult, we can't stop you'. Somehow, this was worse than the worst case scenario. And I just don't know what to do next. How do I start moving forward, knowing that I'll have no meaningful support or acceptance from my parents? And sure, maybe they'll come around eventually, but what do I do in the meantime? I live with them, I can't just feel like this until I can afford to move out. I clearly can't change their minds. I feel like, all of a sudden, I have nothing. I'm heartbroken and anxious and I don't know what I'm suppose to do next.
Any advice or support obviously welcome...

Mainly connected to British Music, but is not listed in the existing Score & Music tropes.
The past was more insular, thanks to a lack of internet. If you wanted to see video of using the Paris Metro or see the sights in Sydney, your only chance was if a travel show happened to have it on TV. Now you're spoiled for choice but back in the late 20th century, all your media choices were given by your local selection of radio and TV stations. Your chances of being an average person outside a huge city and talking to someone on a different continent were close to zero.
As the internet has become essential to people's lives and talking to people across the world is now common and mundane, the retelling of history becomes altered. Tunes that may have been released in the 80s that weren't a part of your life at all are now in memes, and films set in the 80s will include them in the soundtrack - even if the film happens in a location where that song or artist received little to no publicity at all.
EXAMPLES. All three here are firmly part of The '80s trope.
In The Wedding Singer, set in 1985 New Jersey with the interactions of American twenty-somethings that would have little interest in a band from Manchester, England with two albums that failed to crack the Top 100 (so: not songs popular enough for a wedding singer or his backing band to have in his repertoire), it's unlikely that "How Soon Is Now?" by The Smiths would warrant being on Robbie Hart's radar. The song did get as high as #36 on the US Billboard Dance charts, but the characters in the film were more rock-centered. "Can't Fight This Feeling" by REO Speedwagon, "Glory Days" by Bruce Springsteen, or "Small Town" by John Mellencamp would have been likely but "How Soon Is Now?"...? British acts were playing, there was an influx of UK acts as part of the second British Invasion but they were mainstream musical acts or artists with great music videos that MTV snapped up because music videos were in short supply from American acts but British acts had been making them for years (primarily to show on the chart show Top Of The Pops on BBC1 if the band was not available for a live performance).
In Wonder Woman 1984, Diane Prince and Barbara walk into a gala held at the Smithsonian Museum to the sounds of "Welcome To The Pleasuredome" by Liverpool band Frankie Goes To Hollywood. It can't be stressed how much this song would not be playing in a fundraising gala in Washington, D.C. in 1984. The album it came on was released in Britain on 29 October 1984 but this song didn't come out as a single until the spring of 1985. The LP sold well enough in the US, but the band themselves were extremely gay scene and would not have been appreciated at such a swanky event in Reagan-era America (a previous song, "Two Tribes", featured a no-holds-barred fight between Ronald Reagan and Konstantin Chernenko of the Soviet Union in the video - every Republican would have pulled their funding for the Smithsonian on hearing this suggestive gay music playing and learning of who the band were).
BumbleBee takes place in a small California beach town in 1987. Directed by British screenwriter Christina Hodson, it contains a lot of British music. Some would be believably known as part pf that Second British Invasion but others are less believable. "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley is on one tape that Charlie Watson has in her collection in 1987. Rick Astley was part of a (mostly) British stable of artists signed to Stock Aitken & Waterman. They churned out pop hits consisting of more than 100 UK top 40 hits, selling 40 million records, and earning an estimated £60 million (about $104 million) in the process. The sound took Chicago's sound of House Music (already big in European clubs) and sanitized it. It didn't make it to the top of the US charts until the spring of 1988 after gaining slow traction after being played a lot by resident DJ Larry Levan at the Paradise Garage in NYC (also known as "the Garage" or the "Gay-rage"). Having it make its way to a small-town 18 year-old California straight girl's tape collection in 1987 is unlikely but in the hands of a British director that was 27 years-old when it was everywhere in her life, sliding it into a film where the audience would know the song from Rick-rolling, works. Charlie in the film is also a huge fan of The Smiths and introduces BumbleBee to the album "Strangeways Here We Come" (which she says is brand new) - it only got to #55 on the US Billboard 200 but was a #2 LP in Britain.
I think there could be grounds to make it a separate TVTropes entry because of the revisionist history element of it. I could imagine films of the 1980s and 1990s set in the US featuring house music tracks that wouldn't have had any mainstream play in America like Stakker Humanoid if there was transatlantic input. Or maybe it’s just that The Smiths have become more popular, like with Kate Bush.