Sorry if this is dumb, but I thought I'd ask to be sure. While downloading, Last Seen Complete is pretty self-explanatory. However, I was looking around and noticed that the things I'm actively seeding have it listed as today, whereas the things that are stalled seeding have older dates. Is this something I can rely on or is there some other factor at play?
I just want to make sure because my system has limited space and every so often I need to delete some of my torrents, but I don't like deleting ones with low seeders because I like keeping them alive. However, because of this I've built up a lot of torrents that have single-digit seeders. I've built up pretty high ratios on some of them, but I also don't see many of them active anymore. A lot of them are single episodes of TV shows and most people probably just get them by torrenting the whole season these days. If I can consistently see the last time one of these was actually active, it'd give me another metric for deciding what I can get rid of when I need to free up space.

As table setting, I haven’t listened to MBMBaM in three years, give-or-take, so I have no clue what the modren era (😎) of the show is like. However, I have been hate-listening to a different podcast enough that I’ve actually turned a corner into liking it, so I feel spiritually ready for this. Plus I’m a little drunk, which has never been a bad decision for anybody ever.
0:00 - I’ve always kind of disliked the intro, especially the “cool baby” part, and sadly that has not changed with time.
0:20 - First time hearing the new theme song, which is fine if a little twee for my taste. I weirdly hate how they deliver the “1, 2, 3, 4” up top, but that’s just nitpicky. We can’t all be DeeDee Ramone, you know?
1:10 - Introductions. Travis introduces himself as “noted intellectual and middlest brother”, and Griffin just says “…And I’m Griffin… McElroy”. I didn’t laugh, but I did actually find that slightly funny, so I’m optimistic for how this goes.
1:35 - Justin has invented a new game that he wants to play called “Simply the Guests” where he tells them who guested on a celebrity’s podcast and they have to guess the celebrity. Travis points out that the title is a touching tribute (to Tina Turner, he clarifies a few seconds later) and there’s a bit where Justin and Griffin pretend not to know she died that Justin interrupts with a parody song. Is this too soon? I can’t tell, but I also only get my celebrity death news from Simpsons memes.
2:31 - I’ve had to pause and restart enough times that I’ve realized how shitty the web player is, since I have to click like three times before it registers as being on the page and actually trying to play instead of just highlighting the button, and if I try to click the 15 second rewind button it usually skips to the ~11 minute mark right above the button. However, I refuse to actually download the episode because if I do that, Jesse Thorne wins.
2:38 - My voice teacher would not approve of Justin’s technique.
2:58 - Justin only has one round prepared, but expects it will take longer than they expect. Griffin rightly questions if it’s actually possible to play this game based on the information that will be provided. Travis says that sometimes when he comes up with a game, it’s like when you start off at level 1 fighting Sephiroth and die, but it just takes you to a cutscene and is all part of the game. I’m struggling to think of games he’s come up, which is maybe a metaphor for how I never finished FFVII. Justin says it should be easy if their heads are on a swivel, and 50-50 if they’re half paying attention.
4:30 - Justin is giving the guests in order as they’ve appeared: Billy Ray Cryrus, John Carter Cash, Billy Bush, Albert Pujols. Griffin laughs and makes a joke about how his head is on a swivel but it hurts, and I’m shocked and a little disappointed that it wasn’t a joke about how one of the greatest Cardinals of all time has a name that’s pronounced “Poo Holes”.
5:00 - The next guests listed Adam Carrolla, Clint Black, and Gary Busey. Travis incorrectly guesses Blake Shelton. Justin says Katie Couric was the next guess, and Griffin’s postulation of Kevin Sorbo is apparently pretty close.
6:10 - Dr. Drew is the next guest. Travis asks if they would be willing to guest, and Justin says he likes to think they’d have a nice long talk about it. Griffin guesses Randy Quaid. Justin neither confirms nor denies, but instead finishes listing the guests - Sharon Stone, Martin Short, Mike Lindell (the MyPillow CEO), Jim Brown, and Anthony Fauci. I actually kind of like this game, because what the fuck? 8:40 - Justin says he’ll give them an episode title for any celeb mentioned. Travis picks Sharon Stone, who covered “Pandemics, Social Justice Movements, and Animal Actors”. Griffin picks Pujols, who covers “Baseball, Downs Syndrome, and Living the American Dream”, and asked if there were other baseball players on the list.
10:05 - Justin admits he skipped Jimmy Morris because he didn’t know who that is. I didn’t either, but I have the power of Google and in the time it took him to explain why he was skipped, learned that he starting playing for Tampa Bay Devil Rays when he was 35 and The Rookie was based on him.
10:30 - Travis and Griffin discuss “Sorbo adjacent” celebrities and Justin scolds them for not talking to each other, saying that’s what a podcast is and that he’s trying to do a podcast. To paraphrase a joke from Jon Gabrus, it’s three straight white men talking, we already know it’s a podcast.
11:30 - Travis suggests Dennis Quaid, since he has a strong connection to baseball and Christ. Griffin agrees and Travis is in fact correct. Ironically, that means that Jimmy Morris was probably the most helpful clue, since Dennis Quaid starred in The Rookie. Justin offers a bonus for naming the show, and says it’s something with “Dennis”. Griffin accurately guesses “The Dennissance”.
13:45 - Justin mentions Morris was the titular rookie, and claims that people forget Dennis Quaid. They discuss the Quaid siblings a bit and advise Dennis to get back in the podcasting game.
15:15 - First question of the episode: “My boyfriend and I were looking for a bar before your Columbus TAZ show and walked by one that looked empty and not our vibe, but it had tinted windows so it was hard to tell. We walked to another bar and inside the door person flagged us down and said someone was looking for us. We were already inside this other bar when the woman who was working at the first bar said she saw us looking in and said “Please come into my bar - we have cheaper drinks. We were confused and startled and decided to stay at the bar we were already at, but we weren’t sure if we regretted it because this person went to the effort to chase us down half a block, cross a busy street, went through a revolving door to get to us. Also, the drinks at the bar were expensive. Should we have gone back to the other bar instead?” - Confused in Columbus. Not to brag, but I’ve been to a lot of bars in my lifetime and can say with some confidence this didn’t happen.
16:05 - They immediately answer that, no, they should not have gone back to the other bar. Travis accurately points out that weird pursuit aside, if they have that little business then 100% of the focus would be on them. Griffin thinks they would have had a tremendous amount of power and would get their drinks immediately, and the bartender might have cool stories. They discuss how bad the design of this bar is that it’s impossible to see inside, both because they crave attention and so that someone will notice in case they go missing.
18:45 - Travis says if he ran a restaurant across from another restaurant, he would go up to patrons at the competitor and try to lure them away. Apparently Tom Green did this with pizza delivery as a TV show, and Justin thinks he would have Shark Tank’d it if it was a viable option.
19:36 - Travis says Tom Green would’ve probably called it “Shart Tank”. I laughed out loud.
20:00 - Griffin says in Austin they basically have to have barkers for the various bars given the amount of competition for foot traffic and Justin thinks they should just go for hyper-local advertising.
21:00 - Travis offers Griffin an investment opportunity, claiming he needs angel investors. Justin is incensed that he isn’t offered the chance, and Griffin says it’s because he has no money but maybe his “crypto shit’s gonna pay off some day”. Justin says he doesn’t have “crypto shits unless I’ve been eating cryp-tacos” (Griffin pitches crypto-salsa) and that Superman hates cleaning up Krypto shits.
21:44 - Travis points out that Superman named his dog after a thing he hates. I swear this had to be a Seinfeld joke at some point, since the two things I know about Jerry Seinfeld are (a) he loves Superman and (b) he’s not funny. Actually, I know a third thing, which is that he dated a 17-year-old when he was 38. Anyway, fuck that guy.
21:50 - Travis pitches having a long stretch of connected bars by buying all the existing bars and knocking down the connecting walls. Griffin and Justin point out that’s essentially the Disneyland model, and Justin mentions the Goofy sour balls.
21:51 - I Googled “Goofy sour balls” and thankfully it was a real candy. Griffin indignantly says that they stopped making them and that “Goofy took his sour balls away”. Travis says “He washed them” and they ignore him. I laughed out loud again, man’s really winning me back. They continue on this riff, making more and worse versions of the same joke.
24:07 - Question 2: “I’m enrolled in summer college courses. In one of my classes, a guy in front of me likes to stretch backwards over his chair with his eyes closed. His head basically ends up right on my desk and he will breathe in my face. I’ve had to move my laptop to stop him from laying on it. Am I the weird one for staring at the guy as he disrupts all my belongings and my personal space? He does it more than five times a class. It’s very awkward and makes it hard to focus on the lecture. Should I say something? Help me brothers, how do I stop this stretching bandit from stealing my peace of mind?” - Cramped College Co-Ed in Canada.
24:57 - Justin has an immediate suggestion. I assume it’s the actual solution, which is to say something like an adult or just switch seats, but nope, it’s the old chestnut of put some jelly on it. Griffin suggests surprise massage. Travis clarifies that they’re definitely ignoring the “excuse me, could you not do that” option, which Griffin confirms because it’s not very funny. This takes me back to when I used to regularly listen, since part of the driving force for me stopping was the sheer number of questions that could be solved by two seconds of slightly awkward conversation. I totally get it, social anxiety is a bitch and I’ve absolutely been there, but the lack of funny kinda stems from the question. They all agree, and Travis suggests adding broken glass to the jelly.
26:57 - Griffins goes back to the massage suggestion, with “dual percussive massagers”. Justin suggests hovering over them and saying “There’s my sweet boy” and Travis suggests a “little kiss on the forehead” which, thankfully, they immediately shoot down. Still, I’m uncomfortable.
28:00 - Justin points out that, if someone actually followed the advice they give, the problem would be solved, it’s just a question of consequences. There’s some more discussion of the Quaids but my spirit is a little broken and I can’t bring myself to rewind to accurately transcribe any of it.
29:43 - Money Zone: Travis says, “Well Justin,” and Justin misidentifies him as Griffin. So far, hardest laugh of the episode. The ad is for Zocdoc, which Justin mispronounces a lot. I assume any service that advertises on a podcast is actually just a money laundering scheme, medical stuff doubly so, but it does remind me that MaxFun podcasts are the only ones where I can tell the ad copy was done in a single take with no edits. I admire it, in a way. 32:45 - A MaxFun ad for “Just the Zoo of Us”, which is apparently a podcast where they rate animals on their “effectiveness, ingenuity, and aesthetics”. It kind of worked on me, which is to say I’m debating the merits of getting a Zoobooks subscription as a childless woman approaching her thirties.
33:30 - A MaxFun ad for “Feeling Seen”, where the editor likes to play the game of taking a sip of coffee anytime the guest says how good a question is, how smart the host is, or cries unexpectedly. I cannot stress enough how much this makes me not want to listen. I don’t even have anything snide to say, I’m just genuinely put off by it.
34:19 - Griffin introduces the Wizard of the Cloud: How to “Talk Nerdy” to someone, which is meant to help you talk to the “cute nerd in your science class” by becoming more adorkable to them. Justin and Travis are disgusted by the word “adorkable”, which feels like a real split with their brand of appealing to mid-2010s Tumblr users.
36:00 - Travis points out that this article presupposes that nerdy people only want to be seduced with nerdy things, and will shun all other romance. The original pickup line is “Are you a carbon sample? Because I definitely want to date you. If you’ve seen The Big Bang Theory, you already know science and physics nerds are the best” Travis punches it up with “I’ve got a theory that we should Big Bang.” Currently he’s batting a thousand for me.
36:55 - Wikihow asks “Can math be sexy?” They talk about how sexy 8 is and Travis makes a 69 joke, so I retract my previous statement. There’s a gross astronomy-based pickup line saying “Do you mind if my comet enters your solar system” and “Hey, nice asteroids”. Mercifully, no “Can I touch Uranus?”
38:30 - More bad pickup lines, now about computers. Apparently “You’re hotter than the bottom of my laptop” is a good come-on. The video game lines are equally impressive, and Wikihow recommends that distracting gamers away from their games is easier said than done. These are more sexually charged than before, but no more clever.
43:30 - We’ve arrived at Star Wars. Wikihow says “Jedis are tough nuts to crack, so you may need to use the Force to woo them effectively.” It’s been a while, but I’m fairly certain Jedis aren’t allowed to fall in love and that’s kind of a whole thing with the prequel trilogy. Also, are we not doing phrasing anymore? Cuz Jesus, they should take a second pass at that.
43:46 - Wikihow suggests several “Yoda-approved pickup lines”, and they do some bad Yoda impressions like “pull down some trim, you will” and “wet, you will get”. This is apparently a thing they’ve done before called “Clipping Yoda”. Justin makes a “something something something, I thought they smelled bad on the outside” joke.]
46:08 - They discuss the very limited situations when the suggested “I find your lack of nudity disturbing” is acceptable, then move on to the Lord of the Rings lines which are equally questionable. Travis brings up the theory that Frodo doesn’t know Legolas’ name, and now I wanna rewatch LotR.
50:09 - Justin suggests coming up with their own lines, which results in “You make me feel like John Rhys-Davies in Sliders, cuz I wanna climb in those holes” and Griffin looking up “nerd movies”.
51:40 - Question 3: “My bank has been advertising a home ownership service to help folks buy and sell homes. I usually ignore them, but this time they’ve been offering a chance to win a flattop grill package with a $100 gift card to a very expensive butcher. I’ve been really wanting to get my dad a new grill. Brothers, I have no way of buying a house, let alone sell one. They’re contacting me, trying to help me buy a house. How do I explain to them I’m only entered to maybe win the grill and have no interest in the service?” From the Poor Hopeful in B (?).
53:00 - First of all. Second, they suggest the asker (a) admits they were only in it for the grill or (b) saying they have a budget of $750 for a furnished home. It devolves into a riff about Bobby Flay and pitches for “Flay Bobby Flay” and “Bob Bobby Flay” to see if he floats.
56:15 - Plugs for stuff and the end of the episode.
Closing Thoughts: I actually enjoyed that, although with a lot of stopping and starting to write this. Also anyone who likes Clipping Yoda may also like Action Boyz, because pedophile Yoda is a surprisingly rich vein to mine. I don’t think I’ll ever actually pick up listening again, since I have about 280 episodes of Off Book to get to first and this whole recap has made me really contemplate my mortality, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it

So I'm just chilling waiting for episode 7 and I saw a lot of people talking about the caves and they can use the talisman at the entrances, so this would not work, I believe this wouldn't work because the Talismans needs to be elevated high up, like Donna mentioned if they touch the ground its a rock and you're F**KED, so it also looks like they kinda lose power, I know you might be wondering to hang it up back but I don't think that will work either, so far we know the talismans can be used if they is an entrance/exit area, like if you put the talisman between 2 doors it will work, we saw this is season 1. Like the attack on colony house when Ellis and Fatima got insane RNG with the 20 v 2 wall, aimbot, soft aim, hackers clutch(XD). But what I'm wondering did anyone see any powers that the monsters might have? They seem to have super strength(they tore open the box like cardboard, and It looks like they jumped from the ground to the windows in colony house, cant remember, but apart from strength and jump, and they seem like they have basic human senses or even worse, like you can literally hide in a box and be quiet and they won't even look for you, only if you make noise. I really believe the monsters are easy to beat, but the town is just so scared and they aren't thinking of ways to actually beat them.

Totally new to this, would love critique on my first chapter. Give it to me real. I want to improve: this may just be a hobby but I love it!
What you see on Page One.

Read Seekers, until daytime fades to candlelight, For magic is found when ink breathes life to parchment, When bookbindings break and cradled words take flight. It’s the safety of cozying up near the warming hearth, And the rising steam from a wellworn mug It’s that smile when you turn the page in delight. 

That cool little quote thing before a chapter starts that gives you background.

West of the Citadel Clouds, Bordering Mountain Pines and fickle Seashine Lies the renowned Port Cardica Where sailors sing and blight-born orphans dream. 

Chapter 1
A Slip Away from Death
Like most boys, Jake chose snoring in the pews over memorizing the Church’s proverbs. A clear mistake, he realized, as the Pastor's warning that “prayer follows danger” proved true. Hanging precipitously from the cliff’s edge, Jake recited every Creed he could remember in a futile attempt to appease any watching Gods.
“Prosper in his light, heathentry outside his sight,” he prayed, feet kicking in a desperate search for better footing.
It was a stowaways’ stanza, a tenet meant to share wisdom in ways the thickest of Port Cardica’s orphan dockboys could understand but, like most doctrine, its religious meaning was lost in translation.
Instead, the impoverished boys interpreted it as a practical warning to keep their heads down. Everyone knew the city’s Nobles revered the Book and claimed their prosperity was proof of Gods’ favor. Of course, beggars knew better: one downward glance at them revealed the decay fueling Cardica’s burgeoning wealth. Still, the poor learned to philosophize quietly. Someone was to blame for the hoveltowns, bird droppings, and penetrating seafood stink, and it better not be you.
For his part, Jake blamed himself. If he’d scaled the cliff wall with just a bit more care and a bit less haste he’d never have slipped. Instead he’d been forced to violently slow his descent, bruising bones and trading skin for friction on the vertical slope. It wasn’t a graceful maneuver by any means, but it beat falling hundreds of feet into the freezing current below. Thankfully, years as a guttersnipe had honed his reflexes – his gangly arms lacked the strength of a Swordsquire or the coordination of a Majpupil, but his daily dance with starvation demanded nimble fingers and quick wit.
That experience wasn’t paying off. As Jake shuffled his feet around to find better purchase, his hands slipped on the accruing condensation from the ongoing manastorm. His grip flagged, then failed, and he had neither the magic nor the strength to escape the weight of gravity.
“It isn't written, it isn’t written” Jake recited frantically as he began to plummet. The other dockboys would laugh at his superstition, but he didn’t care. Many claimed the Creeds were lucky, and Jake desperately needed some luck. Instinctively he spread his arms out as wide as possible, hoping to extend his reach and grip onto something.
By some miracle, It worked. The resounding sound of cloth ripping accompanied Jake as he slammed into the stone cliff, teetering to a stop. He hung like a rag doll, held up only by the hem of his matted, brown tunic; the cheap weavings had snagged and torn on an outcropping of stone.
“Aughhh” he mumbled.
He had survived, but everything hurt. Looking down to inspect the damage, Jake saw that his calloused hands were raw and pebbled, but a quick flex confirmed he hadn’t broken any fingerbones. Breathing a sigh of relief, he gasped at the telltale sting every kicked streetrat knew so well.
“Po-Poet’s hand,” Jake swore.
He grabbed the cliff wall to stabilize himself and, seeing as it had worked so far, continued reciting the few Creeds he could remember. A minute passed before he was able to think clearly, but slowly Jake got his breathing under control and continued his self-assessment.
Overall, he felt like things couldn’t have gone much worse. His cracked ribs hurt and continuing the heist would only exacerbate the damage, leading to scarring or permanent hobbling. Jake had seen many dockbeggars with similar injuries from fights or beatings, unable to walk straight without being plagued by the stitchers cough.
For this reason alone, Jake briefly considered giving up. He quickly dismissed the idea – it might be madness to continue climbing in his condition, but he’d come too far to back out now. He’d planned this heist for months, obsessively pathing his break-in while waiting for a night when security would be light. In retrospect, he’d been a fool; his overly cautious preparations left no possibility for a second attempt before his 15th birthday.
No, despite his injury tonight was still his best hope to successfully steal a Scriptors’ Grimoire before Binding Day. Failure would mean enslavement as a Ruddite or worse, full Automation. He’d just have to trust the windy weather to mute his movements and the harvest moons to light his way.
So, teeth chattering with cold and fear, Jake resumed the ascent. His ribs sang in agony as he put one hand in front of the other, slowly turning small divots into handholds, footholds and leverage. Each bouldering movement made him wince, but over the years he’d honed the art of turning sweat and grit into capillary action. He’d had no other choice; richmen shared a passion for building impenetrable estates, forcing thieves to develop an unshaking hand at scaling them.
Five painstaking minutes of climbing later and Jake regained his original position. Salty sweat matted his brow and stinged his eyes but he persevered. He blinked slowly to clear his vision and shuffled his feet left over right, shivering his way across an inch-wide protrusion. Just a few meters above him stood the lip of the granite outcropping and access to the marble fortress built upon it. Jake tasted copper as he bit the inside of his cheek in anticipation – If the heist went well he’d finally change his destiny and be able to swear upon the Sermon’s Book on his own terms.
But first he had to finish the climb. He knew the manor’s sentries rotated hourly, eyes glued to the sky as they watched for flyingmen and attacks from above. He also knew that all these guards would be literate, but none especially gifted. After all, no one powerful enough to be a Writer would stand watch over another man's fortune. The chartered Maji Wordlings, on the other hand, could easily detect Jake if he hadn’t planned for them in advance. He chose tonight because it was the season’s Lenting, meaning the majority of Maji would be in communion until the sun rose.
“What is written” a gruff voice proclaimed, startling Jake.
It was muffled by the wind, so it took him a moment to realize it was coming from directly above him. Jake craned his neck and peered up; to his horror he could see the silhouette of a guard's shadow on the cliff wall.
Petrified, Jake hugged his body to the cold granite, hoping the darkness of the windy night would hide his form. His entire plan hung on the simple thesis that in a world of magidetectors and magflight, no one would expect an unbound to scale the walls. Great in theory, but what if a guard just happened to look down?
“Is Foretold and Forbidden,” another voice chanted, completing the customary greeting. “All safe on the watch?”
“All is safe and silent, as usual,” the first man grunted.
“Don’t sound so upset,” the second laughed. ”We chose this job because it’s easy, remember? No more treading through the mud, no more war with those blasted barren beasts and their infernal warlocks.”
“That’s true, althou..”
The men’s voices were swept up in the wind as they paced further down the stone perimeter. They hadn’t seen him, but, just to be safe, Jake stayed low until he could no longer hear the stamping of metal-toed boots on stone. Then, fingers white and aching in trepidation, he waited another 30 seconds.
Finishing his count, Jake peaked over the edge. It took all the courage he had earned as a thief and every bit of boldness he had learned as a beggar, but he managed it.
The coast was clear.
Jake carefully pulled himself over the ledge before falling into a crouch. He looked around and exhaled painfully, releasing a breath he had not realized he was holding.
In front of him lay an outdoor walkway culminating in a rippling fountain circumscribed by five basalt pillars of progressively increasing height. Everflowing torches adorned each of the columns and burned despite the rain, casting rings of golden light throughout the open atrium. At the foot of the fountain rose a gold-leafed speaker's lectern, a pure white sculpture of the Sermon Book chiseled open upon it.
Jake stared openmouthed at the power radiating from the fountain before abruptly coming to his senses. Without a doubt this artifact was a Magisma, an extremely expensive construct meant to amplify its controller’s magic. Leaving it outside was a casual display of wealth and power meant to shock and impress, but Jake didn’t have time for that.
Instead Jake blended into the shadows cast by the monument as he sneaked his way across the grounds. After passing the walkway the torchlight dimmed considerably, forcing him to hobble his way in the dark. A bright flash startled him, but the acid smell of tobacco that accompanied it indicated the guards he’d seen earlier were smoking to pass the time. Realizing they were distracted, Jake sped up and almost tripped on the jutting crystals of an emerald rock garden. Embarrassed, he paused to listen for anyone approaching.
Everything was quiet except for the constant pitter, patter and hiss of rain from the manastorm. It seemed his home-invasion had so far gone unnoticed, but the hair on Jake’s neck rose. An unsettling feeling of being watched set in and every few seconds he reflexively looked over his shoulder.
Finally, after what seemed like forever, he made it to the Manor wall. Keeping to the shadows, Jake hid behind the tallest thing he could find; a towering yellow flower with leaves the size of platters that he had never seen before. Staying low, he muddied his knees and toes on the damp ground, but thankfully the foliage protected him from the rain. As his eyes adjusted to less light, Jake noticed all sorts of exotic fruits surrounding him; blood red berries in the shape of teardrops levitated inches off the ground, while turquoise bubbles floated up from vibrant greenery, collapsing quickly into little orange stones that looked remarkably like candy. Jake’s belly growled at the idea of tasting these treats, but he dismissed his urges. Stanzas warned that “those who leave riches unread become starving men” but Jake knew hunger well. He would jeopardize his mission by eating something that might make him sick tonight.
Instead, he focused on gaining entry to the manor. Searching his surroundings, Jake located the iron front doors about 6 meters to his right. They were guarded by life-like statues on either side, one a Korai of the Poet, hand outstretched in greeting, the other a two headed wolf, with both snarling maws crying out to the moons. The door itself was blacked with age and inscribed by a massive oval spellwork that glinted in the light cast by a hanging lantern.
Listening closely, Jake groaned at the buzz of silverscripting coming from the insignia. Every thief knew that spellworks grew more powerful over time, and anything audible would be too powerful for any Unbound to lockpick.

Strap in. Toxic mom tries to ruin my wedding. This tale is long and full of awfulness. I recommend watching some cat videos after this read.
So let me preface this by saying I am estranged from my mother and have been for most of my life. She is a paranoid narcissist, a racist, a homophobe, a xenophobe, and just all around terrible person. She abused me growing up so I cut loose in high school, got emancipated and got on with my life. For years I had a happy queer relationship with another woman and we had a son together (I carried with a sperm donor). When my kid was 5 his other mom died and I was alone for 5 years before I met someone. A year later, that someone and I got married. Previous to said wedding my husband’s parents felt it would be important to meet my parents. My father died when I was 19 so that left my mother and her husband. I struggled over the decision to try and reconnect with my mom, knowing how bad this can get for me in these situations (I suffer severe ptsd from the abuse trauma).. but it was a wedding and everyone kept telling me it “was important to have family together.” So fine, let’s do this. The problems started fast and furious. My mom came to our coast (we live on opposite coasts) to meet my fiancé and my son. Right away she was pulling my husband to the corner to tell him all the “dirt” she could on me, or conversely, telling him he better get me nice cars and plastic surgery. Then she stated calling all of her friends and putting my fiancé on the phone to “prove to them that her daughter was marrying a doctor” (even if he is a goyem (a Yiddish term for non-Jew. Has slightly derogatory tones). Cut to lunch and my mother is asking how many tables she “gets” at the wedding. I ask “huh?” She explains she needs a least 5 tables at 10 per table for HER guests. I was really confused. I explained that our whole wedding venue seated 50 people total and those seats were spoken for. I had invited several people my mother asked me to have already. She went absolutely bananas demanding we change venue (we’re now 6 weeks from the wedding) to accommodate HER GUESTS. I painfully explained we can’t do that.. it’s not possible.. just no. She then switches gears like she always does and asks about our honeymoon. We’re we’re heading to Mexico for 2 weeks and my son would be staying with his donomyBFF. My mom screamed “what??? He needs to be with HIS FAMILY.” I reminded her that he was staying with family. She demanded time with my son so I half heartedly said she could have him half the time. (This will come back to haunt me later.) Cut to the wedding. Did I mention my mom is a low key alkie? So it’s about 2pm and she’s in the bridal suite in the bathroom. I’m in the dress and the photographer is waiting for my mother to come and use an antique button-holer to button up my gown. This is one of the photos we had pre-planned to take. Instead, my mother is in the bathroom half dressed with her fireball and ice screaming into the phone at her husband “you are so stupid, how can you not find it!? I put it on the damn dresser! I can’t f*ing believe I married you…” you get the picture. It’s so loud the guests in the living room can hear it. I finally give up and have my son do the buttonholing for me (the pics were so special). Thank goodness it wasn’t video because you would have her my mother screaming “Can anyone get me another drink?? Does this room even have room service??” Cut to walking down the aisle. We do the ceremony, it’s perfect, and my delightful friend announces “Introducing Mr. & Mrs Jon— when my mom stands up and screams “It’s DOCTOR not MISTER, get it right!” Now I knew we had a problem on our hands ahead of the big day so I put in some contingency plans in place to buffer her. My wedding planner was under strict instructions to not allow my mother to make a speech (she loves to humiliate me by saying personal things about me to anyone who will listen and then she loves to announce what a terrible daughter I am and how much of a disappointment to her.) Second plan was my SIL faking a heart attack if she got her hands on the mic. About half thru dinner my delightful planner comes to me crying saying she’s so sorry but my mom is demanding to make a speech. That’s right, this tiny demon of a woman made my wedding planner CRY. Right then she stood up (have no idea how she got the mic) and said, “So my daughter didn’t want me to say anything. I guess she gets embarrassed, but I’m her MOTHER, and I get to say whatever I want. I’m here to say that I always knew she was going to marry a doctor, it didn’t surprise me at all. What did surprise me is when I gave birth to her and the nurses told me she was a girl, but I didn’t believe them so I had to take her diaper off and spread her legs and look at her vagina to make sure she was a girl.” She illustrated this by spreading her two fingers open. You could here jaws dropping around the room. She then went on to say “how disappointed she was in me that I don’t see her more often and that she hopes now that I have a doctor husband I’ll be able to see her more frequently”. Sadly my SIL was in the loo and plan 2 failed. Cut to the dancing. I am dancing with my husband and my friends. We’re all having a good time when somebody comes up to me and taps me on the shoulder and says “hey, I don’t wanna cause a scene or anything but you might want to look at your mom”. I look over at my mother and she has taken off the jacket to her dress and now she’s peeling off the shoulder straps one by one and waving her head around to the music saying “oh my goodness it’s getting so hot in here!” This btch was trying to take her clothes off on the dance floor. Oh, I forgot to mention earlier that she had a three drink maximum, but she was getting around this by asking other people to get drinks for her. Cut to the next morning and I got to hear alllllll the embarrassing stories from the night before. She asked why my friend married “an Arab,” called another guest “not Jewish enough to attend the wedding” and complained to anyone who would listen that I didn’t even allow her 50 guests, and the party would have been so much more fun if she had done it. And the pièce de ré·sis·tance? As we were leaving for our honeymoon I got a call from her saying “I know you need me to watch your kid, but not unless you do something for me. You’ll need to call your brother and make nice with him again.” My brother and I are estranged for reasons I can’t get into now. I said no, he’ll go to his real family, the one that cares for him without strings attached. There you have it! One cluster fuck of a Mother of the Bride story! For anyone interested, we don’t talk anymore and I couldn’t be happier. Good riddance to bad rubbish!

They went from 20+ great episodes a season to 10 then years off, to a comeback of 6 fuckin shitty episodes a year and their "movies". They should have quit when they were on top. I mean they got a huge contract and just said fuck you to the fan's. I never thought I would say it but starting next season I'm not watching. 🖕FUCK YOU TREY PARKER AND MATT STONE🖕 and your new found lack of creativity. These last few years here truly made me despise those guys.

See I’m pretty sure that Rory was born in 1984 (I think Lorelai said it at some point) but then now in season 6 it’s 2009 and she’s only 20?? And plus I know that she graduated from high school as the class of 2003 so if she was born in 1989 she would be 14!! So am I dumb or is there really a problem with the timeline here?

Overwatch League 2023 - Spring Stage Knockouts

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Streams https://www.youtube.com/overwatchleague Reddit-stream

Schedule

Time	Team 1				Team 2		Match Page
08:00	Hangzhou Spark				Dreamers
10:00	Seoul Infernal				Dallas Fuel

This thread pulls match data from this liquipedia page. If the thread is out of data, you can help by updating that page. If something is wrong or missing please ping u/Watchful1 in the comments.

I am disgusted and bored with the “did Hannah kill herself in the bath tub the first time she’s shown in the bath, or should her blood filled bath be shown?”At best this is a voyeur subject at best. It negates her trauma; it negates those of us who live with biological mental illness (trauma informed or not.) One phrase, one observation stood out for me. Season 3 episode 2. “Everyone is a liar. If you’re breathing, you are a liar.” We lie about what had happened to us, and we lie about what others have done to us, and they lie about what they’ve done.” Is that not the important question?Some like me have barely survived a suicide attempt (sorry but mine was like Alex’s) because of my schizoaffective disorder. Others try from trauma based depression or other psychological problems mostly involving trauma. Who gives a SHIT about seeing or not seeing her dead in the bath or “meditating” in the early bath scene. PERIOD. END OF SENTENCE.

A lot of people remember the show for aliens/sci-fi, conspiracy theory plots, and of course the occasional scary episode like “Home”. I just started rewatching S1 from the beginning and man, I forgot how much good horror material is in this show. Two recent standout episodes I watched: “Eve 6” which has psychopathic, murderous children and “Beyond the Sea”, which has a truly gripping horror scene at the beginning where Scully wakes up, sees her Dad sitting across from her in a chair speaking urgently to her but no sound is coming out of his mouth, then her Dad disappears, the phone rings and it’s her Mom telling her her Dad just died. Fucking excellent show and I forgot just the lengths they put Mulder and Scully through the ringer all the time. Scully’s dad died and Mulder got shot by a serial killer and hospitalized in that one episode. Oh and Brad Dourif is in it and he’s terrific. Just phenomenal TV that was WAY ahead of everything else when it came out. There was nothing like this on TV then.

Hey guys, looking to sell my very rare copies of Theresia and Luminous Arc, as well as other Nintendo DS games and some other PS4 games I have as well.
Nintendo DS:
Theresia (Brand new, sealed) - $130
Luminous Arc (Mint, CIB) - $70
Trace Memory (Mint, CIB) - $35
Trauma Center: Under the Knife (Mint, CIB) - $20, obo
Monster Hunter Generations (Brand new, sealed) - $30 or best offer
PSP:
Parasite Eve: The 3rd Birthday (Mint, CIB) - $60
PS4:
The Bioshock Collection (Brand new, sealed) - $20
Mafia 3 (Brand new, sealed) - $10
Tales from the Borderlands (Brand new, sealed) - $30
Battleborn (Brand new, sealed) - $5
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End Libertalia Collectors Edition (Mint, CIB) - $80 or best offer
The Order: 1886 (Brand new, sealed) - $15
Also for trades, looking for Street Fighter 6 PC/Steam (Ultimate edition) as of now.
Prices are before shipping costs and prefer Paypal F&F. PM me to get an estimate on shipping cost with your zip code. Hope to sell these to a new home!

Dear community,
I am looking for some advice for my next scope purchase.
But first I give you some insights on my currently setup.
Setup 1
for some smaller nebulea, galaxies and starclusters:
HEQ5-Pro hypertuned with Rowan Belt mod
SkyWatcher 150PDS
Omegon VeTec533 - same as ZWO ASI 533MC Pro
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Setup 2
HEQ5-Pro without modifications
RedCat51
Omegon VeTec571 - same as ZWO ASI 2600MC Pro
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Both are nice setups, but I like close ups more than wider shots. Switching cameras does nothing, cause of the same pixel size. I could crop the VeTec571 image from my RedCat as well to get the same result.
So I have decided to sell my RedCat and get a bigger scope.
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Option 1:
Another SkyWatcher 150PDS but with a Starizona Nexus reducer.
This give me ~ 560mm focal length at f3.75
Later I can add another coma corrector without focal length reduction to shot small targets with both scopes and crop to the IMX533 sensor. Respective doubling the imaging time. Could be very good in short spring nights at targeting galaxies.
I don´t know, if the reducer will give me struggle with collimation and/or focusshift over night.
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Option 2:
200mm F4 Newton with normal coma corrector
800mm focal length but F4 instead of F5. Could also add a Starizona Nexus reducer after a while. So probable something like option 1 but first with the nature focal length of the telescope. Respective doubling the imaging time. Could be very good in short spring nights at targeting galaxies.
Disadvantage: I have to buy a larger flat field box. Actually I only have one with 150mm diameter.
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Option 3:
Celestron C8 with 0.63x reducer
Getting 1.260mm focal length at f 6.3 for deepsky and 2.000mm at f 10 for planetary imaging. Something like jack of all trades. I don´t know, if I like the stars on this scope, but this should be okay.
Disadvantage: I have to buy a larger flat field box. Actually I only have one with 150mm diameter. I need a large dew heater for the Schmidt-Plate and an OAG is probably necessary.
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Option 4:
200m F8 Ritchey Chretien telescope with 0.63x reducer.
This will give me a focal length of ~ 1.000mm at ~f5. This would be a more zoom in, BUT with higher aperature which is good for the resolution, than my actual Setup 1 but I have the option to shoot at 1.600mm focal length in galaxy season and small planetary nebulae.
Disadvantage: You already know ;) I have to buy a larger flat field box. Actually I only have one with 150mm diameter. OAG should be only necessary, if I shoot on native focal length. Collimation could be a pain in the a**, but the vids on YouTube looking okay for me and I also can collimate my Newton pretty well.
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This are my four option sets I am thinking about for the last few weeks. It´s a riddle for me, which new setup I should use.
I would like to hear your experience with this optics, if you have some and help me with my decision. Please feel free to ask me out. It seems I have lost the focus of what I really want.
I would also be very happy, if someone could share his/her experience with the Starizona Nexus reducer. Will it make the area of perfect focus on a f5 Newton smaller? How about the collimation?
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Thank you very much and greetings from Germany!

Reluctant Statistics (S1-S6)

Winners (Italics if dead, bold if alive):

S1: Captinn (6), ArcticSeagull (1)
S2a: brinkwhy (3), Geroot (1), kirbey (1), Rebelghost (0)
S2b: ItzIgglesPiggles (6), Pelycosaur (2), Vetmire (5), Shqkster (0)
S3: brinkwhy (3)
S4: Captinn (1), David63 (0), RohanSmashBro (3), Flcnt (1)
S5: _1mmortal_ (3), MichaelPlayMC (0)
S6: David63 (2), ItsColinn (3), TheSlimeBrother (0)

Runner Ups (Italics if dead before last fight, bold if alive for last fight):

S1: ItzIgglesPiggles (1), Bofishkix (1)
S2a: lay1aa (2), Chainge (4), Kaismartypants (2), SiahStone (0)
S2b: TheSlimeBrother (0), _Fost_ (0), Cubic44 (0), MichaelPlayMC (1)
S3: TehBaconBrawlerZ (3)
S4: brinkwhy (1), Kaismartypants (2), Evzenitable (0), Shqkster (3)
S5: 4EyedSlime (5), Kaismartypants (0) / Cubic44 (3), NickPlaysGames15 (1)
S6: brinkwhy (0), alcxz (1), Kiinako_ (0)

Third Places (Italics if dead before last fight, bold if alive for last fight):

S1: Vetmire (1), Caffeindiazepine (0)
S2a: PwincessVanessa (0), _1mmortal_ (1), Evzenitable (0), Shqkster (2)
S2b: GeniRCT (2), TehBaconBrawlerZ (0), Plushy33 (0), TayUHC (2)
S3: lexicuhl (2)
S4: Cubic44 (3), xDiversity (2), broccoliar (0), Cqson (1)
S5: Rebelghost (1), BlueSparkss (1)
S6: ArcticSeagull (3), azoof (0), ColdBacon (0)

Top Frags:

S1: Captinn (6)
S2a: Chainge (4)
S2b: ItzIgglesPiggles (6)
S3: brinkwhy (3) / TehBaconBrawlerZ (3)
S4: Cubic44 (3) / RohanSmashBro (3) / Shqkster (3)
S5: 4EyedSlime (5)
S6: broccoliar (4)

Most Kills (Team):

S1: ArcticSeagull (1), Captinn (6)
S2a: Chainge (4), Kaismartypants (2), lay1aa (2), SiahStone (0)
S2b: ItzIgglesPiggles (6), Pelycosaur (2), Shqkster (0), Vetmire (5)
S3: N/A
S4: brinkwhy (1), Evzenitable (0), Kaismartypants (2), Shqkster (3) / broccoliar (0), Cqson (1), Cubic44 (3), xDiversity (2)
S5: 4EyedSlime (5), Kaismartypants (0)
S6: David63 (2), ItsColinn (3), TheSlimeBrother (0)

First Damage:

S1: broccoliar
S2a: Kaismartypants
S2b: Kaismartypants
S3: TehBaconBrawlerZ
S4: Flcnt
S5: Kaismartypants
S6: Kaismartypants

Iron Man (Longest at Full Health):

S1: Bofishkix
S2a: NickPlaysGames15
S2b: Bofishkix
S3: brinkwhy
S4: David63
S5: broccoliar
S6: Kiinako_

First Blood:

S1: Rebelghost (Kaismartypants)
S2a: Geroot (broccoliar)
S2b: TayUHC (BlueSparkss)
S3: Kiinako_ (Flcnt)
S4: NickPlaysGames15 (zac083)
S5: Shqkster (Captinn)
S6: alcxz (ColdBacon)

First Death:

S1: Kaismartypants (Rebelghost)
S2a: broccoliar (Geroot)
S2b: BlueSparkss (TayUHC)
S3: Evzenitable (Skeleton)
S4: zac083 (NickPlaysGames15)
S5: Cqson (Lava)
S6: ColdBacon (alcxz)

Kills:

1st - _1mmortal_ (9): TacoDab (S2a), ArcticSeagull (S3), NickPlaysGames15 (S3), kirbey (S4), TheSlimeBrother (S4), 527Max (S5), _Dieter (S5), NickPlaysGames15 (S5), broccoliar (S6)
1st - ItzIgglesPiggles (9): TacoDab (S1), CodeJoshua (S2a), Kaismartypants (S2a), Bofishkix (S2b), idklyn (S2b), ArcticSeagull (S2b), hashtagmat (S2b), PwincessVanessa (S2b), TehBaconBrawlerZ (S2b)
2nd - Captinn (8): CodeJoshua (S1), _Fost_ (S1), Evzenitable (S1), MichaelPlayMC (S1), Vetmire (S1), ItzIgglesPiggles (S1), NickPlaysGames15 (S2a), brinkwhy (S4)
3rd - brinkwhy (7): Chainge (S2a), PwincessVanessa (S2a), lay1aa (S2a), Kiinako_ (S3), Pelycosaur (S3), TehBaconBrawlerZ (S3), Rohcket (S4)
3rd - Cubic44 (7): St0rmplayz (S1), BlueSparkss (S4), Rebelghost (S4), Flcnt (S4), zac083 (S5), broccoliar (S5), 4EyedSlime (S5)
3rd - Kaismartypants (7): Lsnce (S2a), kirbey (S2a), TayUHC (S2b), xDiversity (S4), Cubic44 (S4), _Dieter (S6), Rebelghost (S6)
4th - ArcticSeagull (6): PwincessVanessa (S1), Bofishkix (S2a), Evzenitable (S2b), BlueSparkss (S6), _1mmortal_ (S6), Kaismartypants (S6)
4th - Shqkster (6): 4EyedSlime (S2a), Zcin (S2a), ZebraPantz (S4), broccoliar (S4), TehBaconBrawlerZ (S4), Captinn (S5)
4th - Vetmire (6): Bofishkix (S1), MichaelPlayMC (S2b), Cubic44 (S2b), Kaismartypants (S2b), Chainge (S2b), GeniRCT (S2b)
5th - 4EyedSlime (5): Shqkster (S5), BlueSparkss (S5), Rebelghost (S5), MichaelPlayMC (S5), Cubic44 (S5)
5th - Chainge (5): Cubic44 (S2a), _1mmortal_ (S2a), Captinn (S2a), Shqkster (S2a), Lsnce (S2b)
5th - Rebelghost (5): Kaismartypants (S1), broccoliar (S1), 4EyedSlime (S4), Cqson (S4), brinkwhy (S5)
5th - Zcin (5): Cubic44^withered (S1), MichaelPlayMC (S2a), BlueSparkss (S2a), alcxz (S3), zac083 (S3)
6th - broccoliar (4): azoof (S6), Kiinako_ (S6), alcxz (S6), 527Max (S6)
6th - Pelycosaur (4): Captinn (S2b), TheSlimeBrother (S2b), Bofishkix (S3), _1mmortal_ (S3)
6th - zac083 (4): BlueSparkss (S3), MichaelPlayMC (S3), kirbey (S5), Chainge (S5)
7th - ItsColinn (3): CodeJoshua (S6), Flcnt (S6), ArcticSeagull (S6)
7th - MichaelPlayMC (3): Zcin (S1), ArcticSeagull (S2a), Delighted2MeetU (S2b)
7th - RohanSmashBro (3): ceije (S4), idklyn (S4), Kaismartypants (S4)
7th - TehBaconBrawlerZ (3): Shqkster (S3), Zcin (S3), lexicuhl (S3)
8th - alcxz (2): Captinn (S3), ColdBacon (S6)
8th - BlueSparkss (2): Jahrod (S1), lexicuhl (S5)
8th - Bohe (2): Shqkster (S2b), Plushy33 (S2b)
8th - ceije (2): 78ford (S4), lexicuhl (S4)
8th - CodeJoshua (2): Espik (S3), lexicuhl (S6)
8th - David63 (2): zac083 (S6), brinkwhy (S6)
8th - Flcnt (2): Greeples (S4), ZebraPantz (S6)
8th - GeniRCT (2): Bohe (S2b), Zcin (S2b)
8th - lexicuhl (2): CodeJoshua (S3), TheSlimeBrother (S3)
8th - lay1aa (2): Rebelghost (S2a), ItzIgglesPiggles (S2a)
8th - NickPlaysGames15 (2): zac083 (S4), Rohcket (S5)
8th - TacoDab (2): TehBaconBrawlerZ (S1), BlueSparkss (S1)
8th - TayUHC (2): BlueSparkss (S2b), broccoliar (S2b)
8th - TheSlimeBrother (2): Greeples (S3), NickPlaysGames15 (S4)
8th - xDiversity (2): Shqkster (S4), _1mmortal_ (S4)
9th - 527Max (1): Geroot (S2a)
9th - Bofishkix (1): Caffeindiazepine (S1)
9th - Cqson (1): Evzenitable (S4)
9th - Delighted2MeetU (1): _Fost_ (S2b)
9th - Geroot (1): broccoliar (S2a)
9th - Kiinako_ (1): Flcnt (S3)
9th - kirbey (1): SiahStone (S2a)
9th - Lsnce (1): VioletSin (S2b)
9th - PwincessVanessa (1): ArcticSeagull (S1)
9th - St0rmplayz (1): brinkwhy (S1)

PvE Deaths:

Lava (3): 527Max (S2a), whitetimewolf (S3), Cqson (S5)
Creeper (2): TheSlimeBrother (S2a), Evzenitable (S2a)
Burning (1): Kaismartypants (S5)
Fall (1): broccoliar (S3)
Skeleton (1): Evzenitable (S3)
Withered (1): Rebelghost (S1)

Participations:

7 (2): BlueSparkss (S1-S6), broccoliar (S1-S6)
6 (3): brinkwhy (S1-S2a, S3-S6), Captinn (S1-S5), Kaismartypants (S1-S2b, S4-S6)
5 (8): _1mmortal_ (S2a, S3-S6), ArcticSeagull (S1-S3, S6), Cubic44 (S1-S2b, S4-S5), Evzenitable (S1-S4), MichaelPlayMC (S1-S3, S5), Rebelghost (S1-S2a, S4-S6), Shqkster (S2a-S5), TheSlimeBrother (S2a-S4, S6)
4 (7): Bofishkix (S1-S3), CodeJoshua (S1-S2a, S3, S6), lexicuhl (S3-S6), NickPlaysGames15 (S2a, S3-S5), TehBaconBrawlerZ (S1, S2b-S4), zac083 (S3-S6), Zcin (S1-S3)
3 (7): 4EyedSlime (S2a, S4-S5), 527Max (S2a, S5-S6), Chainge (S2a-S2b, S5), Flcnt (S3-S4, S6), ItzIgglesPiggles (S1-S2b), kirbey (S2a, S4-S5), PwincessVanessa (S1-S2b)
2 (14): _Dieter (S5-S6), _Fost_ (S1, S2b), alcxz (S3, S6), Cqson (S4-S5), David63 (S4, S6), Greeples (S3-S4), idklyn (S2b, S4), Kiinako_ (S3, S6), Lsnce (S2a-S2b), Pelycosaur (S2b-S3), Rohcket (S4-S5), TacoDab (S1-S2a), Vetmire (S1, S2b), ZebraPantz (S4, S6)
1 (22): 78ford (S4), azoof (S6), Bohe (S2b), Caffeindiazepine (S1), ceije (S4), ColdBacon (S6), Delighted2MeetU (S2b), Espik (S3), GeniRCT (S2b), Geroot (S2a), hashtagmat (S2b), ItsColinn (S6), Jahrod (S1), lay1aa (S2a), Plushy33 (S2b), RohanSmashBro (S4), SiahStone (S2a), St0rmplayz (S1), TayUHC (S2b), VioletSin (S2b), whitetimewolf (S3), xDiversity (S4)

Notes:

Reluctant’s first four seasons were advertised as non-reddit.

This gpu requires 1x 16 pin connector. I have seasonic focus gold 650 w. Would I be able to connect it? It has pcie 6+2 x4. Does it mean I can use 2x 6+2pin to get 1x16?

So,this journey started interestingly,but it burned out by the middle of this season. I don't completely hate GoGo,but here is what I like and didn't like about this season,it was a bit of a drag by the middle of the season
What I liked
Cures can use powers separately
Action sequences
Nozomi actually got smarter instead of continuously slacking off
Anacondy and Mucardia
Queen Bavarois,especially how she'll never shut up💀💀💀
Unlike in Sailor Moon(this isn't a jab at Sailor Moon, it just gets infuriating at times)where the other senshis cannot beat the villain of the week without Sailor Moon,they spend their time dodging and throwing ineffective attacks at the villain,then they proceed to get their asses kicked until someone throws an attack that temporarily disables the villain and then Sailor Moon finished the villain. But here in Yes5, the girls all get to kill Hoshinas without Dream or they finish off the Hoshinas without Dream.
Princess Crepe deliberately getting under Milk's skin and calling her annoying
The title card of the sky before the camera pans to Nozomi and the others looking at the sky before it becomes a static image
What I don't like
Milky Rose. Sorry Milky Rose lovers,but Milky Rose just felt unnecessary to me and only shoehorned into Yes5GoGo to sell toys,well it should've been obvious by the fact she just shows up out of the blue and is already better than the other cures,and in some episodes, mostly the later episodes she steals the spotlight/overshadows the other cures.And she still refuses to take responsibility for her actions and continues to blame it on Nozomi,episode 30 is a prime example. Also in episode 32 she is eager to bash Nozomi for opening the fake Rose Pact,but if it was the other way around, Milk would play the victim and act like Nozomi told her to open it while the other cures would probably take Milk's side. And she kinda reminds me of Batman in the first season of Justice League(2001),anytime a threat took out Superman, Batman just swoops in and beats the threat with one punch or gadget. Similarly,whenever the other cures are getting beat up,Milky Rose(though short lived)knocks out the Eternal or Hoshinas with one kick or a few punches
Most of the villains feel bland and generic,kinda wished they had standout personalities like the ones from Splash Star,villains was one thing Splash Star did best.
Coco's voice in his fairy form is annoying,I always found it annoying, but I never addressed it.
The inconsistent and glaringly obvious animation errors. I noticed in one frame,characters are drawn correctly, then in another frame,their eyes get larger or more spaced apart. The off-model characters are more obvious than in Yes!PC5.
I never liked the squid guy,he's so ugly he makes me want to throw up(not literally but he's unusually fugly)💀
Other thoughts
I keep hearing theories that Komachi and her older sister Madoka are Retasu/Mew Lettuce's daughters
Did Karen Minazuki/Cure Aqua forget about her sword,she uses it in that famous horseback duel and then completely forgets about it for the rest of the series
I noticed in episode 32,you hear the "Dark Mansion" OST from Futari wa
One of my favorite episodes is episode 36/37,the game show episode where the girls are trapped in a game show
Once again I love that this show doesn't have any fanservice,the closest was Anacondy's final form(plausible as it falls under the "Evil is sexy" trope)
Bunbee reforming and building his own business, and a subordinate that resembles Kawarina.
Finally,In my opinion what killed GoGo was taking Max Heart and amplifying the flaws,I mean another uninteresting Cure,mostly generic villains and sometimes the episodes were just plain boring. Also,Milky Rose stealing the spotlight was one thing I didn't really like,and she didn't spark any interest. Overall I give this series a 6/10,that's a generous offer,because I'd say it's far more boring than Max Heart. Next stop is Fresh,so see you then