#V: Live Trigger Event (Paradox)

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V, V, V — Day 15 : Future

So there is something that has always fascinated me from a fictional point of view, and from a……….. well from a you could potentially end the world point of view.

Hold on. I just need to check something first.

Okay, I am back. The topic for the 30th is “Past” and that will be about something else, unrelated to this (assuming I remember I wrote this, which given it is fifteen days away is not entirely certain, but I’ll do my best).

Anyway — fiction, and the end of the world.

Many, many people have posed the question “What if you could travel back to when Hitler was a baby? Would you kill him?” or “What if you could travel back to the day Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated? Would you stop it?”

The idea of traveling backwards in time to prevent a disaster, or to stop someone you know to be evil from being born, or growing up, is nothing new. It has been the staple of (what I’ll refer to as) speculative fiction for decades, even centuries.

But something I got interested in when I was writing a story a while back was what if you try to travel forward to prevent something from happening?

Can you actually travel to the future? Because — as I suggested in a previous  post — the future of this world is entirely determined by the decisions made by every living person, every second, of every minute, of every hour, of…… well — you get my point. (I was willing to go to eons if you are curious).

So if you jump forward to five minutes into the future, think of how many different futures you could actually be jumping to.

And given that you won’t be there for those five minutes — although you might be there (see the paragraph after this) — then the decisions you might have been making that lead up to the event you were trying to prevent won’t take place, which means the event itself might not take place.

But (and here is where it gets complicated, as if it wasn’t complicated enough), if  — after you have jumped forward five minutes, prevented the event you want to prevent, then jumped back, you are not going to live those five minutes in the same way. Which means you will make a different series of choices, triggering a different series of choices in everyone around you, and a different series of choices in everyone around them.

So simply by returning to the present after you change the future you will change the future you went to, and so the event you jumped forward to change might never have taken place — which means you would have no reason to jump forward, and you’d create a paradox.

So what if you don’t return to the present after you prevent the event you jump forward to change?

Well then there are a few problems with that as well, because it might be something you did that caused the event you prevented, and if you don’t cause it you can’t prevent it, and as a result you would create another paradox.

You can see why I am so interested in this. And why — for me — it is far more interesting than changing the past. Because the past is pretty much set — arguments about history and the various interpretations aside, history is a fixed story. We know what happened, and it is not going to change.

And so people traveling back and trying to change it (Back To The Future, DC Legends, even Endgame) is just the same story being told over and over again.

But someone traveling forward to prevent a future catastrophe, then returning to the present and potentially seeing if their world unravels?

Kind of interesting.

I think the reason I am coming back to this is because it’s the 15th of May and so far the some total of my fanfiction writing this year is…… 250 words? Which, I have to admit, is really not that impressive. And the some total of my words published is slightly less than that.

Which means I’m going to have to find some new source of inspiration. And honestly — breaking the universe does seem kind of fun.

Because what better way to change the future than to………. change the future.

#v v v #may myself and i #day 15 #future #back to the future #endgame #dc legends

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Okay, this took way longer than it should have.

#V: Us Vs The World (XIII) #V: Building Academia (XIII2) #V: Out of time (LR) #V: Settling in (NW) #V: Reunited (HEA) #V: Live Trigger Event (Paradox) #V: Aethernet Attuned (XIV) #V: This is a story (XO) #Where does the boomerang go? (Crack) #Airwing (Aesthetics) #Hawkeye (Musings) #Nue (Screens) #Alexanders Keeper (Meme) #Time Capsule (Saved) #Synergist (Answered) #Voice of the Almighty (Writings)

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⟨ david  gandy.  cis  male.  he  /  him. ⟩  ↪  have  you  met  ivan  wolff  yet  ?  this  forty  year  old  aries  has  been  living  in  the  beverly  hills  area  for  twenty  five  years.  he  makes  a  living  as  a  private  investigator  /  former  fbi  profiler,  which  works  for  their  flamboyant,   charismatic,  fickle,  and boastful  nature.  everybody  wants  to  rule  the  world  by  tears  for  fears  is  one  of  ivan’s  favorite  songs.  

no  trigger  warnings,  just  a  Very  Obnoxious  Man 

FULL NAME: ivan james wolff NICKNAME(S): ive DOB: april 12th, 1980 AGE: forty GENDER: cis male SEXUALITY: bisexual  ( biromantic  ) NATIONALITY: american    ETHNICITY: caucasian  /  white  HOMETOWN: sammamish, washington RELIGION: none SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): english ( fluent ), spanish ( fluent ), french ( good ), italian ( good ) OCCUPATION: private investigator  /  former fbi special agent  &  fbi profiler   

ivan was born in a town in washington where the median household income was $183,000 ... so he was doing p alright from the start. born to a wannabe actress and her casting director husband who was already well established in the scene. a sister came along a few years later to complete the happy family picture. naturally, the kids grew up in the public eye, their father being the world class casting director and their mother, now a star actress. his sister followed in their father’s footsteps as a casting director, something she was intent on from a young age. ivan’s career path wasn’t as clear cut. he enjoyed the art of acting, but not when it was him doing the acting. he found that he had an incredible talent at finding actors in real people; people that didn’t claim to be actors. 

was somewhat of a prodigy throughout school. the type to learn four different languages at once just because he Could to come across that extra lil bit spicy to his teachers and peers alike.  thrived on All the attention.

while his sister went to work with his father, he stayed on track with his education. he got into princeton university and fought hard to graduate with a degree in psychology while he continued to balance his own wants and needs, as well as the wants and needs of his family who had always remained supportive. thrived on All the attention. 

there was no doubt in his mind that he was going to return to cali after graduation. he knew beverley hills like the back of his hand and if he moved away from his family, he moved away from the limelight which he secretly relished. 

he got a job working for the fbi as a special agent and while he got on well with the work, he struggled with the idea that he couldn’t be the extraordinary emancipator he so desperately craved. there was a heavy focus on teamwork and he wasn’t used to not being the centre of attention; hated it, in fact. 

while most detectives are never off the job, if ivan is attending an event, he’s entirely off duty. he doesn’t even bother bringing his badge. in that way, his lines between work and play are never blurred. he’s come to loggerheads with a Lot of officers about this over the years, being accused of not taking his job seriously. but he always gets results.

ivan moved into criminal profiling, making use of his background in psychology. he liked it more than being an agent - and he was good at it. but after doing it for ten years, he realised that he wanted an “”easier life””, like that was ever going to happen for the son of a movie star / director duo.

which brings us to now ! he’s a private investigator for the stars ( of sorts ), working out the beverly hills  /  hollywood areas and prioritising work for the rich and famous. 

he likes the fact that being a pi is less involved than other forms of police  /  criminal work. in most cases, he’s dealing with the people he’s being paid by and not those he’s out to investigate. and for a lot of the clients he’s helped over the years, he remains friendly with.

he can be extremely selfish and often turn an investigation into something it was never meant to be Just to prove a point - and that point is always that he’s always right.

he’s an overall chill guy but ... do we trust him ? we just don’t know. 

a walking paradox : both loves and hates the company of others. how he feels mostly relies on whether he’s chosen to be around those people ? he likes having control over

has a HUGE head. but if you can get past his adoration for himself, he is relatively easy to get along with and can be fun to be around. some people feel safe around him bc he doesn’t pry ( outside of his working needs ) ... truthfully, bc he’s too busy focussing on Himself.

wanted connections !

honestly .. . an ex boyfriend would b really spicy ? would be 30+ and i’m flexible as to when this was !

ex-fiance ! any gender. i doubt it was ivan’s idea to get married so this would’ve been Fun for your muse.

people that he’s worked for, whether that be while he worked in the fbi or recently !

his family are quite well known in the biz so family friends that he’s seen on and off over the years at events and such ?

not to b Too hasty but friends .. . that put Up with him ?

maybe someone he had public beef with ?

someone he always attends events with 

frenemies ! ! v Spicy 

a criminal he’s investigated but now they’re weirdly ... friendly ?

#ang.intro #back by unpopular demand with This absolute headache

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          THE CANONICAL TIMELINE OF THE PARADOXICAL MAIDEN.

i. events of persona 3: portable : as a charismatic young woman who had been stained by tragedy year after year, arisato minako arrives on tatsumi port island with the intention of being a residential student at gekkoukan high school on april 7. there, she meets the members of the specialized extracurricular execution squad : namely, fellow second years takeba yukari and  iori junpei.  during the first attack on the dormitory, minako awakens to her persona, orpheus, and takes her place among the others as a member of SEES, learning of its true nature. she is hereby dubbed leader of SEES for the time being due to her position as a fool persona specialist, using multiple personas.

in the endgame, minako accepts her role as the seal, refuses to kill ryoji, and remains alive for one month after the defeat of nyx. she, unlike the others, retains her memories of the dark hour and the destruction of the shadows. after saying ‘see you later’ to the rest of her friends, she climbs to the top of the roof of gekkoukan high, falling asleep in aigis’s arms and seemingly losing her life.

ii.  events of persona 3 : the answer :  it is revealed to the members of SEES that minako has died the day after her slumber with aigis, leaving the party confused about the circumstances of her death : doctors rule her cause of death as exhaustion, and a funeral is held in the SEES dorm in her memory. during this time, aigis learns the truth about minako’s death : she has become the great seal to protect humanity from death. it is later revealed that nyx was only awakened because erebus, a grand being manifested from humanity's grief and negative emotions, was reaching out to nyx to bring the fall. the protagonist wasn't trying to seal nyx; she was acting as a barrier between nyx and erebus. after defeating erebus and realizing the protagonist's purpose, the remaining members of SEES swore to help her bear the burden by making the most out of their own lives.

iii.  the awakening : arisato minato becomes the seal  :  three years after arisato minako’s acceptance as the seal, a young woman wakes up alone by the train tracks wearing a high school uniform that is too small for her to wear. disoriented and confused, she is equipped with only a handgun, stylized to have the word “SEES” inscribed into it and a silver pocketwatch. stumbling around for a moment, the amnesiac woman looks down at her wrist to see a series of kanji written on her hand with ink : ARISATO MINAKO.  assuming that this is her name, she rises to her feet and is struck with an image -- a young man, a high school boy, placing that same gun she had to the forehead of a crucified image of herself, and then pulling the trigger. the word persona leaves her mouth, and she begins to get herself cleaned up.

during this time, minako regains very basic memories about herself : her name, her age (19, at this time), and the potential of the personas in her head. often, she sits up waiting for the dark hour, but it never comes. she begins to take menial jobs to pay for expenses, hoping there will be answers. soon, there would be.

iv. events of persona 4 golden :  now 20 years old and having been researching these ‘personas’ for multiple months, minako gets her first lead : the concept of the midnight channel, located on a message board whose original poster lives in inaba, japan. minako applies for an internship with the inaba police department under the false identity that she is a law student : over the phone, she speaks with dojima ryotaro, who is impressed by her go-getter attitude, and invites her to come accept the internship. he even goes so far as to allow her to stay in his own home ( implying that perhaps a partial reason she was accepted was to be a good feminine role model for his young daughter, nanako ). 

arriving in inaba, minako moves into the dojima house and sets up a small room in the attic, across the hall from one seta souji. she begins to get a mild idea that souji himself may be a persona user, but never pushes the train of thought.

there, she is directly involved alongside dojima and adachi tohru to uncover the work of the heinous murders that have begun to take place in inaba. investigating all of these further, minako quietly makes the connection that these individuals may have had some correlation with the midnight channel, prompting her to investigate it herself. there, she learns of the midnight channel and the world of shadows that live within it. independently from the investigation team, minako battles her way through the midnight channel with her naginata and her evoker, hoping that it can give her answers to finding her “brother” ( the name she has given the blue-haired boy from her vision ) and her friends.

during this time, the memories she regains are of SEES: she remembers their names, who they are in relation to her, and the original owner of the pocketwatch she holds onto: aragaki shinjiro.

she picks up on the negative vibes that adachi tohru has been dispersing slowly but surely throughout the entirety of the game, but does not-- cannot-- act. instead, she leaves a note on souji’s bedside table moments before she leaves inaba for good, only with the cryptic phase ‘adachi isn’t who he says he is.’

v.  the events of persona 5 :  a breakthrough reached at twenty two years of age, minako has joined back up with kirijo mitsuru, sanada akihiko, and aragaki shinjiro and has a special role within the kirijo group : a persona specialist. minako’s role within the company is to locate other persona users and learn about the varying circumstances in which personas can be summoned. she does not ever become a phantom thief, but instead is placed within shujin academy as one of two counselors for students on call. she works alongside maruki takuto as his feminine counterpart. while she does serve her duties to the academy as a high school counselor, she predominantly serves as an advisor to the phantom thieves after the events of kamoshida’s palace. in addition, she collects research similar to that of takemi tae, with the secret goal of using this information to free her brother. her confidant in relation to kurusu akira / amamiya ren is represented by the WORLD ARCANA.

by maxing out arisato minako’s confidant link, akira can talk minako out of returning to tatsumi port island and taking up the mantle as the seal again. in doing so, the two timelines of persona 3 and persona 3 portable line up. akira leaves minako to mourn her ‘brother’ at the church in kanda at her request and goes home for the evening. akira is told by his inner self, ‘ you feel as thought your relationship with minako has changed . . . you’re not sure how or why, but you feel as though she’s been . . . completed. ’

the next day and any day after that, akira notes that ‘minako is in a significantly better mood’, and there is a ‘blue-haired man’ present in the counselor’s office whenever he or any phantom thief visit the office for counseling. minato has been freed from the seal now that erebus does not reach out for nyx to bring about the fall. the twins appear to be rejuvenated, if not a bit exhausted -- they know that the next time erebus reaches out for nyx, one / both of them will have to sacrifice themselves, but they appear to be living in the present instead of in the past. 

p5-verse trivia: on occasion, a tall man with a beanie will appear, offering to walk minako home. akira will never know who this is, but writers/players will acknowledge this to be aragaki shinjiro, whom akira can assume to be a close confidant of minako’s. on occasion, minako will disappear for days/weeks at a time, leaving only maruki in the office. maruki explains that minako has ‘gone to report back to HQ’, implying that she’s gone back to tatsumi port to work with the kirijo group on something.

#✕ » ❛ you’re no saint ; you’re no savior. — ( arisato minako. ) #meta tag tbt. #long post -

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10 Mythical Pokémon With The Best Lore | ScreenRant

Without a doubt, Mythicals are the rarest Pokémon in the franchise. There’s usually only one of each, unlike Legendaries, who can even have regional forms. Mythicals are so elusive that most people question their very existence. They are near-myths, mirages within the Pokémon world that only a few are lucky enough to see.

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Mythicals are the most mysterious of Pokémon, and they have the lore to support that intriguing-yet-unknown vibe. Indeed, some of these puzzling beings have backstories so fascinating that they immediately stand out among the sea of Pokémon, cementing their place as the ultimate riddles in the franchise.

10 Meloetta

Meloetta is perhaps the most forgettable of all the Mythicals. Introduced in Generation V, this dual Normal/Psychic has a cute but unmemorable design, which might explain its lack of popularity. Like all other Mythicals, Meloetta didn’t play a prominent role in the Gen V games and instead debuted in the anime.

It’s a shame, because its lore is not only compelling, but also somewhat tragic. Meloetta represents music, making it a literal muse within the Pokémon world. Its song and dance brought joy to the hearts of others, but it lost them when sorrow took over the world. Meloetta’s tragedy only increases its appeal, turning it into yet another victim of human intervention. It seems to have a crush on Ash in the anime, something that’s both sweet and slightly strange.

9 Diancie

Like Meloetta, Diancie also has a reputation for being a forgettable addition to the Mythicals. Diancie debuted in Generation VI, and its origin remains surrounded by mystery. According to legend, Diancie was originally a Carbink that somehow mutated. The games don’t provide a lot of explanation, but in theory, any Carbink can mutate into Diancie (although researchers still don’t know what triggers this transformation).

If this intriguing angle wasn’t enough, Diancie also serves as the ruler of the Diamond Domain, an underground location in Kalos where many Carbink live. The Domain draws its energy and tranquility from the Heart Diamond, a large pink structure created by Diancie. It’s clear that this Pokémon’s backstory is vast and complex, and many fans would love to keep exploring it.

8 Hoopa

Hoopa has everything to be one of the best Mythicals in the franchise. Drawing inspiration from imps and djinns, Hoopa has two forms, Confined and Unbound. In the former, it is a mischievous but harmless dual Psychic/Ghost-type who enjoys playing pranks. In the latter, it becomes a rampaging Psychic/Dark being capable of bending reality. In any form, Hoopa can travel across dimensions using the rings on its body.

Hoopa combines thought-provoking concepts with classic mythological elements, resulting in a whimsical addition to the canon. Unfortunately, it gets brought down by how annoying it is. Indeed, many fans found Hoopa to be obnoxious, preventing Hoopa and the Clash of Ages from becoming one of the best Pokémon movies.

7 Genesect

The Pokémon world also had a prehistoric era, ruled by massive and terrifying beasts. Genesect’s original form was one of the most powerful dual-type Bug Pokémon, ruling over the earth 300 million years before the events of the main series games. Considered the apex predator of its time, Genesect and all other prehistoric Pokémon became extinct after an unspecified catastrophe.

RELATED: 10 Pokémon Even Non-Fans Of The Franchise Know

In modern times, Team Plasma revived it from a fossil and experimented on it, enhancing it via powerful technology. The result is a cyborg Pokémon that stands as one of the strongest creatures in the fictional universe. Genesect’s allure relies on its past as the alpha in a time of titans. The series should reveal more about this archaic period in Pokémon history.

6 Magearna

Canonically speaking, Magearna is the first human-made Pokémon ever. Created 500 years before the events of X & Y, Magearna’s metallic form hides tricky machinery that even modern researchers can’t quite understand. However, the real mystery is the so-called “Soul-Heart,” a magical core within Magearna that is its actual body.

What exactly this “Soul-Heart” is continues to be one of the biggest unanswered questions in the franchise. Fans know that the scientist who created Magearna meant it as a gift for the Princess of an ancient Kingdom. To create the Soul-Heart, he gathered “life-energy” from other Pokémon, making Magearna a Frankenstein-like creature. Despite its somewhat disturbing origin, Magearna is the ultimate healer and can sense others’ pain.

5 Deoxys

Deoxys is one of the few Pokémon that is confirmed to come from outer space. According to Hoenn legends, Deoxys was an astronomical virus that mutated when exposed to a laser beam. Deoxys is brilliant, capable of altering its form and creating multiple clones of itself.

Like the best Pokémon lore, Deoxys’ backstory is overflowing with possibilities. Fans know only the basics of its story but are dying to discover more about its birth and place of origin. For example, is it the only virus of its kind? If not, are there other infections that could also come to Earth? It became a Pokémon when it arrived, but what was its original purpose? Could it perhaps be a bioweapon? The possibilities are endless, and it’s high time that this underappreciated Pokémon gets its time in the spotlight.

4 Darkrai

At first sight, Darkrai might seem like the Pokémon version of the boogeyman. Indeed, this Dark-type being feeds on bad dreams and is also known to provoke them. Darkrai is fiercely protective of its territory and will chase away any invader by putting them on a never-ending nightmare.

Darkrai seems to take inspiration from the new moon, the darkest of lunar phases. It is also capable of human speech and possesses a considerable degree of intelligence. Unlike other Mythicals, Darkrai’s origin and purpose remain vague. Is it maybe a nightmare that somehow became sentient? Was it born out of dark energy on a moonless night? Fans don’t know, and that’s what keeps them coming back to Darkrai.

3 Celebi

Celebi is the Guardian of the Forest. It travels through time, protecting the forest from threats, human and Pokémon alike. It also works as a keeper of time and can sense temporal anomalies. Celebi also has a degree of omnipresence, and Johto legends state that it exists simultaneously throughout time.

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Unlike other Mythical Pokémon, there is evidence that multiple Celebi exists. However, it can be the one Celebi existing everywhere at the same time. This paradox arguably makes it the most intriguing of all Mythical Pokémon, a puzzle that players may never be able to solve unless the franchise finally announces a Pokémon Legends: Celebi game.

2 Mew

The first Mythical introduced, Mew, is also the first Pokémon to exist on Earth. Well, allegedly. Mew’s origin is uncertain, but legends say that it contains the genetic codes of all Pokémon in its DNA. That would mean Mew predates the Super-Ancient Pokémon, making it a contemporary of the Creation Trio.

Mew is the embodiment of adaptability. Because of its absurdly long life span, it has seen empires rise and fall, witnessing countless conflicts. It has traveled around every region in the Pokémon world, meeting multiple Pokémon but only a handful of humans. Unlike some of its fellow Mythicals who went on a long slumber or retired to their own domains, Mew stayed around, experiencing new things. Its life is the stuff of endless dreams, but also nightmares, considering its solitary existence. And still, it managed to retain its innate innocence and selflessness. Mew is the ultimate Pokémon role model.

1 Arceus

Arceus is the God of Pokémon, literally. It was the original being, born before the universe even existed. According to Sinnoh legend, Arceus hatched from an egg that came out of chaos itself. It then shaped the universe with its 1000 arms, creating Palkia, Dialga, and Giratina to balance time, space, and antimatter.

It’s impossible to downplay Arceus’ importance for the Pokémon world. Without a doubt, it is the single most vital Mythical in existence, and its folklore only enhances its already fascinating nature. Even so, there’s still much about Arceus that remains unexplained; its current lore is just the surface of its complex mythology. However, that might change soon because Pokémon Legends: Arceus promises to solve some of the mysteries about this fascinating being.

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Sleep Disorders 101: Insomnia - Sleep Dallas Blog

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Sleep Disorders 101: Insomnia - Sleep Dallas Blog

Insomnia develops in one of every four Americans each year, but despite its prevalence among the general population, insomnia continues to be vastly underdiagnosed. As explained in a 2016 study, patients should be screened for insomnia consistently as they age, as aging and diabetes are most commonly associated with insomnia symptoms.

And while aging is a very broad risk factor, screening is important to tackling insomnia head-on as 27% of insomniacs don’t realize they have the condition. 

Considering insomnia is such a widely documented sleep disorder, it’s fair to wonder how this is possible—but insomnia is a bit more complex than simply having it or not. See, 30-35% of people suffer from mild insomnia, meaning that their symptoms aren’t as obvious as someone who suffers from moderate or severe insomnia. On top of that, individuals can suffer from acute (short-term affliction) or chronic insomnia (long-term affliction).

Regardless of where one may fall on the insomnia spectrum, getting diagnosed is essential to getting on a path to effective treatment. Even with mild insomnia, a sufferer may continue to experience symptoms two years after the initial point of diagnosis. 

Has this gotten you thinking about those sleepless nights and exhausting mornings? Read on to see if you’re one of the 70 million Americans affected by insomnia. 

Do I Have Insomnia?

Insomnia can be experienced in three degrees of severity: mild, moderate, or severe. Insomniacs on the milder side of the spectrum may not experience a significant impact on their social functioning or work productivity, but as the severity increases, insomniacs can become crippled by conditions.

The challenge for those who have suffered from mild insomnia consistently throughout their lives is pinpointing the normal from what’s actually not normal and maybe having adverse health consequences.

Mild insomniacs report receiving inconsistent sleep—they may great sleep for a few days and then fall into a bout of restless sleep, which brings on the following symptoms:

Restlessness 

Irritability 

Mild anxiety 

Daytime fatigue 

Consistent tiredness 

For insomniacs who suffer from moderate or severe insomnia, it’s obvious that there is an issue because they experience a significant impact on their personal and professional lives. They experience all of the above symptoms but to a more severe degree.

Moderate insomniacs report almost never experiencing a good night’s rest and can feel the impacts of their sleep deprivation in all aspects of their lives.

 Severe insomniacs may feel completely suffocated by this disorder. On top of having trouble sleeping each and every night, there will also be noticeable differences in their ability to maintain relationships and stay on top of their work duties. 

Other important specifics about insomnia: 

You may be diagnosed with insomnia if your sleep problems persist for at least a month. 

Insomnia may lead you to become anxious about sleep, exacerbating insomnia-induced anxiety.

There isn’t a specific test that can be done to diagnose insomnia—it’s fully diagnosed based on patient-experience. The exception is if insomnia is an underlying condition of another serious sleep disorder, such as obstructive sleep apnea or narcolepsy.

You can also suffer from chronic or acute insomnia:

Chronic: A person with chronic insomnia consistently suffers from their insomnia for at least three nights a week, for three months, on a cyclical basis. 

Acute: Typically lasts a maximum of three months and stems from a stressful life event. As you recover from the event that triggered insomnia, symptoms should also begin to subside. 

Treatment For Mild Insomnia

If you suspect that you have mild insomnia, it is important to talk to your doctor and not ignore your symptoms. Insomnia, in any form, can be an indicator of a much larger, and potentially more serious, health issue. Luckily, for those who do have mild insomnia, there are some basic steps you can take to try and improve your sleep. 

Don’t nap during the day. Naps can offset your already precarious sleep schedule. Instead, plan to start getting ready for bed earlier than you already do and set an alarm at the same time every morning—even on the weekends. While getting up “early” on the weekends can be difficult, it’s important to maintain a consistent sleep and wake regiment until you start getting quality sleep.

Exercise earlier in the day versus in the evening. Being active can affect when we’re able to fall asleep. How? By working out in the evening, our biological clock starts to think we want to be more alert in the evenings. By exercising in the morning or early afternoon, we’re keeping a schedule that promotes our brain slowing down in the evenings and our body releasing the sleep-hormone melatonin before bed.

Your diet is intrinsically linked to your sleep health. Consume a balanced diet of sleep-promoting foods. Avoid caffeine starting at least six hours before bedtime, avoid drinking alcohol too late in the evening, and limit dense, heavy foods directly before bed. 

Your bedroom should be exclusively for intimacy and sleep. Working in bed/in your bedroom has been shown to be detrimental to our sleep health. Separate those spaces. 

Avoid screen usage right before bed. The blue light emitted by electronic devices keeps our brains active. Instead, take a bath, read, or journal directly before bed. 

According to the Mayo Clinic, certain forms of alternative medicine have also been shown to improve sleep:

Melatonin, which can be found at most groceries, pharmacies, and markets is a natural sleep hormone our body needs to have a regulated sleep cycle. While taking over-the-counter melatonin may improve our sleep that evening, it’s not considered a long-term solution for insomnia. 

Acupuncture is a traditional Chinese medicine used to treat pain and help with stress management. For insomniacs, this can help alleviate the stress that can leave our brains “running” from thought to thought when we lay down to sleep. Again, while acupuncture can temporarily relieve insomnia symptoms, it’s not a long-term solution. 

Yoga and Tai Chi are two stress-relieving practices that have been shown to improve sleep. Both practices relax the body, lower blood pressure and reduce anxiety. 

Meditation is full of benefits –not only is it shown to improve sleep, but it can also help control chronic pain, reduce anxiety, improve memory and attention span, and lower blood pressure. 

Treatment for Moderate and Severe Insomnia 

While all the above suggestions are great for anyone suffering from insomnia, for those that suffer moderately and severely from insomnia, non-pharmacologic therapies and pharmacologic therapies may be necessary. 

Stimulus Control Therapy: According to a 2010 NCBI study, “Stimulus control therapy is based on the premise that insomnia is a conditioned response to temporal (bedtime) and environmental cues that are usually associated with sleep.” In this form of therapy, the patient retrains their brain to associate their bed and their bedroom with sleep. 

Sleep Restriction Therapy: The same 2010 study defines sleep restriction therapy as a therapy that “…consists of restricting the amount of time spent in bed to nearly match the subjective amount of time spent sleeping.” Only sleeping five hours each night? That’s the amount of time you’re allowed in bed. By restricting sleep, sleep deprivation is slowly induced, causing the person to sleep more heavily when they do get into bed.

Relaxation Therapy: For some insomniacs, not only are their brains going nonstop during the day but at night as well—their arousal systems are constantly going. Relaxation therapy targets this. 

Cognitive Therapy: As mentioned above, some insomniacs begin to develop anxiety around their bed, bedroom, and sleep. Cognitive therapy’s aim is to break down the negative thinking around sleep and the sleep environment. 

Paradoxical Intention: This form of therapy works best on individuals who experience performance anxiety around sleep. The patient, instead of fixating on falling asleep, is encouraged to stay awake. Over time, this will change the way they think about sleep and the anxiety around sleeping.

All of the above therapies are best practiced under the supervision of a therapist, sleep physician, and/or general practitioner. Attempting to partake in any of these therapies alone or without the guidance of a professional may result in the insomniac’s symptoms worsening. 

Insomnia doesn’t have to be your normal. Sleep physicians, like our very own Dr. Dibra, can help. Dr. Dibra is board-certified in sleep medicine and specializes in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of sleep disorders. If you’re ready to take that next step to regain control of your sleep, click here to make your appointment.

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           hiiiiii, my name’s adri ! from the gmt+8 which i like to call narnia . i’m trying to type this up quickly bc i was supposed to hop into the shower, then i remembered that we’re doing intros, so i’m leaving this post and am open for plotting 25/8 ! i’m really looking forward to writing with each and every one of you tbh. so please feel free to shoot me a message for plotting or to just chat and get to know each other. i do not bite ! . . . unless you’re into that ;) *coughs* anyWAY

          i can’t rlly say it was easy for me to even consider joining this group ?? mainly bc i haven’t been in group rps lately, and alSO i’m quite aware of how underused my fc is but tbfh i’ve had mason for 2 years or maybe even more ?? i see him differently in my head from his fc ( like baby-faced bradley cutie ) but i also couldn’t think of anyone else to play him, so i rlly hope i could do justice to broaden your imagination ! and he’s originally an indie muse that i love, mainly inspired by adam wilde from if i stay. but i thought i could attempt to give him a home here. so pls excuse me while i geek abt my son . . .

{ the virtuoso }

POSITIVE TRAITS: charismatic, experimental, eloquent, self-indulgent, peaceable, gregarious, venturesome

NEGATIVE TRAITS: brazen, fickle, flirtatious, skeptic, reticent, subjective, pessimistic

HISTORY:

triggers: prostitution, violence

his mother laura hart was a literal nobody who sold her soul for a living ( prostitution ). and it wasn’t until a drunk hookup that she dealt with an unexpected pregnancy alone *gives me a fantine vibe from les miserables*

she never would’ve thought that she’d give birth to a child prodigy-- which was all that she ever had. a charming baby boy that managed to climb up the piano seat and play the keys as if that was his purpose of living ( during a family gathering )

and while she came from a very unfortunate background, she could only assume that he got his genes from his father’s side ( while she didn’t have a single clue about who he even was )

laura gave little mason all the love he deserved. she went through several jobs just to provide for her child, making sure that he would always play the piano

as he grew older, mason never failed to amaze her mother even more. his passion for music was intense at such a young age, that he also situated himself with other musical instruments: such as the guitar/bass/ukulele, drums, violin, and the flute

when he was eleven, she met robert downey, a mysterious man in the working class, and they fell in love. but it took a while for mason to adjust since his mother was the most important person in the world for him. and it didn’t help that they eventually had household arguments, just like every other couple. but there was no denying that their relationship was toxic, and mason clearly acknowledged that

mason would defend her with every chance he gets. it came to a point where robert stabbed him with a kitchen knife, that had him sent to the er and almost took his life. luckily he survived the critical injury, though the scar had remained below his right collarbone

love can really work in the strangest ways, because even after almost murdering her son, laura still gave robert a second chance. but the scar haunted him forever, and it was no surprise that mason, too, had been holding a grudge. though robert was no longer violent, proving that even the worst people can change for love

but mason never had a consistent relationship with his “father figure”. if they weren’t at each other’s throats, they were being civil for the sake of his mother, or perhaps pretending to like each other. he was always skeptic of robert that he never knew what it would be like to actually be taken care of by him

due to the rollercoaster of events between his mother and his so-called father, mason refused to believe that love ever existed ( with the only exception of the unconditional love for his mother ). he has extremely pessimistic views about anything else about love, and as he grew into his teenage years, he was gaining trust issues and refused to commit or open his heart to anyone

but !!! robert and laura got married when he was around 13 ?? and their household has been blessed with his five younger siblings: mikayla ( 2 ), katie ( 3 ), toby ( 4 ), ashley ( 5 ), and stanley ( 6 )

he’s tried to be the best big brother ever that he almost has no love left for anyone outside his family. tho the tension with robert was still there ( it never leaves )

his entire life revolves around his family ( most importantly his mother and his siblings ), music, manipulation, and avoiding his feelings as much as possible. he loves to compose music as much as he loves to write songs. music is a very powerful thing to him

flash forward to the days he was absolutely driven with classical music and piano recitals, until society had eaten him up and influenced him with rock concerts and also, might have acquired a talent of singing along the way

PERSONALITY:

he’s honestly a smooth talker, maNIPULATIVE af and absolutely laid-back. he causes conflict due to his arrogance and close-mindedness but also knows how to swerve away from it ??

he can do anything and still be charming. it’s like he always has a stick up his ass ?? but in a way that he always knows how to present himself without seeming too embarrassing nor afraid

kind of a paradox bc he’s very competitive and determined but he also reacts like it’s no big deal to him and like everything seems so effortless ?? ( but rlly it’s not )

if he doesn’t like you enough, he can be very blunt and straightforward. but his primary virtue is patience, and believe me he has a ton of it

he can literally flirt with anyone or anything that moves and knows the right words and actions to make someone feel like they’re the only person in the world to him

99% of the time he’s geeking about music and gets along best with those who are as musically-inclined or as enthusiastic with music as he does

he’s the life of the party. hates sports. hates theories. very practical. only graduated high school bc he doesn’t rlly believe college would do him any good. ESTP af. organized mess.

along the way of partying too hard and bottling all his feelings, he greatly relies on alcohol and sleeping around with people ( he’s pansexual btw )

he’s a crowd favorite and rlly knows how to put on a great show

he knows his priorities and is absolutely independent. as much as possible, he tends to have no strings attached

he has a long way to go regarding character development . . .

pls help

WANTED CONNECTIONS: details will vary bc my brain is always cooking up a storm

childhood sweetheart/skinny love *someone messaged me abt this but like it hasn’t been finalized*

current best friend

flirtationship ;)

cute friends ( fluffy platonic fun ! )

ultimate rivals

fake dating for publicity

friends w benefits

enemies w benefits ??

others ! tbh i’ll still set up his connections page

but if u have something in mind PLS let me know thank u xo

*breathes heavily* plslslslslslsls plot with me i’ll love u down so hard ok

THANK U SM FOR READING. I AM V EXCITED OKAY 

#ghqintro #here we gooooo #im literally trash.jpg pls bear with me #[ * ★ ~ ✦ * … and there goes the rambling adri. * ;; OOC. * ♫ ~ ✦ * ] #alcoholism tw #prostitution tw #violence tw

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The best PC games around – essential pick-ups from every genre

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The best PC games around – essential pick-ups from every genre

The best PC games

With unparalleled accessibility and endless upgradability, it’s no wonder that millions of gamers around the world think PC is the best place to play. Because of the platform’s history, curating a list of every great PC game throughout the ages would be a tough task, so we’ve put together a listing of modern titles that’re the best PC games to spend your time with right now.

So, in alphabetical order, here’re 50 of the best PC games around.

Cities Skylines- Honorable mentions: Prison Architect, Tropico 5

In an alternate universe where EA and Maxis didn’t drop the ball, this slot is occupied by the latest and greatest SimCity release. In fact, Cities: Skylines developer Colossal Order was miserably certain its project wouldn’t be greenlit thanks to SimCity’s announcement- but its subsequent pratfall only stimulated Paradox more eager to bring PC gamers what they wanted most.

The best way to describe Cities: Skyline is” SimCity but make use of people who liked the same things about the series as you did “. The indie squad has demonstrated tremendous commitment to ongoing support, too.

Civilization 6- Honorable mentions: Total War Rome 2, Endless Legend

Dissatisfied with the style of the world right now? Fire up Civ 6 and it’ll be 2019 before you know it.

This latest entry into Sid Meier’s Civilization series is an astonishing day sink, with the possibility to spend more than 1,000 hours across multiple games scrapping your style to global domination using strategy, diplomacy, and, when everything else fails, all out war.

The AI can be shonky at times- confounding itself and get stuck in the same flurry of actions- but there’s a lot to love here. Each of the present 24 civilization leaders are colourfully animated and bursting with personality, and there’s enough variety in their strengths, weakness and unique divisions to make playing different nations fun.

CS GO- Honorable mentions: Arma 3

To be honest we didn’t think anything could ever out Counter-Strike: Source as the go-to competitive shooter on PC( and for some people, both CS: S and the original CS remain their primary shooter ), but good ongoing support on top of the experience and panache of Valve’s development team has proved us wrong. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is now one of the top eSports titles in current circulation, and a damn good time even for the less competitively-minded.

Global Offensive was also available on consoles but like every Valve game support outside of Steam was restriction. Steam is where you’ll find the best of the best, if you fancy being humbled.

Cuphead- Honorable mentions: Nuclear Throne, Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth

Because of its unique art style, Cuphead has been on just about everyone’s radar for years. Thankfully, when it ultimately reached, the game was just as good at it seemed.

Cuphead is tough but accessible, and while the amount of projectiles on-screen can reach near bullet-hell different levels of madness, it entirely nails that artery-bursting, desk-smashing difficulty that has you fistpumping with every hard won victory.

DOOM- Honorable mentions: Wolfenstein 2, Bioshock Infinite

If your rig can run it, DOOM on max sets is a beautiful sight to behold. Well, as beautiful as monstrous demons from hell getting ripped to pieces with a chainsaw can be.

Fast-paced and ultra-violent, DOOM isn’t for the weak of belly- not just because the enemies leak strawberry jam like a poorly packed barbecue, but the ardor with which Doomguy doles out infernal punishment from a first-person view can leave some feeling nauseous.

This is no-holds-barred action at its eye-widening, engrossing best.

DoTA 2- Honorable mentions: Heroes of the Storm

DoTA- and MOBAs in general- might have started life as a Warcraft 3 mod, but with DoTA 2, it’s blossomed into a fully-fledged cornerstone of the eSports MOBA scene- with nearly $140 million won as prize money to date.

There’s a vast amount to get to grips with in DoTA 2, where developers Valve attained the trade-off of a steep learning curve for unparalleled depth. Once you’re up to velocity with the meta heroes and builds though, DoTA 2 offers a tense and engrossing competitive experience.

Dark Souls 3- Honorable mentions: Nioh, All of Dark Souls

Souls is a special series, and picking simply one game to represent it on a list is tough. It’s fitting then that Dark Souls 3 plays like a greatest hits, with all the strengths and weaknesses that come with that tag. It might not be as zeitgeist-shaping as the original, or have the same context or subtlety, but everything that you fell in love with is there in spades.

Dark Souls 3 also manages to be the most accessible Souls game, but doesn’t lose any of the challenge. The motion velocity might be quicker and some of the systems streamlined to be less confusing, but that doesn’t detract from the same core loop-the-loop that sits as the foundation for the whole series- die, and get ready to die again until you achieve glorious victory.

Dishonored 2- Honorable mentions: Deus Ex Mankind Divided, Prey

Immersive sims are synonymous with PC, and Dishonored 2 utterly nails the genre. Each map is a rich sandbox where you’re given a simple objective and how you reach it is your choice- leaving you to use every weapon in your arsenal as you see fit.

This means that every level plays almost like a puzzle to be solved, and you’ll be constantly be thinking, “what happens if I do this”, and “what happens if I go over there? ”

Dishonored 2’s dual playable results, Emily Kaldwin- the usurped queen- and Corvo Attano- the grizzled royal defender- have distinct power defines. Emily’s youthful indignation lends itself to a more destructive, violent playstyle, whereas Corvo is more adept at remaining undetected. This only adds even more replayability to a game that are currently has a whole host of different solutions.

Divinity: Original Sin 2- Honorable mentions: Tyranny, Shadowrun Dragonfall

For more than 15 years, Belgian maestro Larian Studios has been churning out quality RPGs in the old-school mould of genre classics. The recently published entry, Divinity: Original Sin 2, is a sequel to 2014 ’s Divinity: Original Sin- which itself is a prequel to the 2002 OG Divine Divinity- and a high water-mark for the already acclaimed series.

Original Sin 2 expertly mixes its nuanced tactical combat and memorable narratives and side quests with an incredible sum of option. The variety of potential interactions that can arise in every situation mean that the game’s formula bides fresh for the entirety of the its considerable length.

What’s more, you can party up with three friends and explore in four-player drop-in co-op, and this is an experience well worth sharing.

Dream Daddy- Honorable mentions: Huniepop, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havok

The world of dating sims can be a strange one, but the best in the genre approach their characters with a heartwarming earnestness that makes them a pleasure to befriend.

In Dream Daddy you play as a single Dad who’s upped sticks to a new township with your daughter, Amanda, in tow. In a fortuitous turn of events, your new home Maple Bay is stuffed full of eligible daddies just waiting to be wooed. With Amanda’s blessing, you can choose to date any of seven hunky parents, revealing more and more about their personality as your relationship grows.

There are normal and secret ends to unlock for each perfect pop too; enough to keep any would-be matchmaker busy.

Elite Dangerous- Honorable mentions: Star Citizen

A few years ago it felt like you couldn’t move for all the upcoming space sims, but very few of them have materialised in any form a sane person would pay a retail price for. Elite: Dangerous practically wins over its genre buddies by default just by being a playable, full-featured game you can buy as opposed to something you’re allowed to look at in trailers while gibbering for a release date.

It’s also great, though, which is why it’s here. We don’t have much hope for the console constructs, to be honest; what you want is a powerful old beast of a PC, all the situates turned up as high as they can go, and a gorgeous universe to go and explore. At least one of those things is yours for the taking, courtesy of Frontier Developments, and nearly justify an investment in the first one so the second becomes a potential.

Europa Universalis 4- Honorable mentions: Hearts of Iron 4

Ah, grand strategy. How better to live out your imperial fantasies than at the helm of an endlessly growing empire that responds totally to your beck and bellow.

While Civilization V also occupies this list, Europa Universalis 4 stands out because of its straighter representation of history and the world as we know it, rather than a haphazardly made map each time. You’re still guiding your nation through centuries of diplomacy, trade, and warfare, but now there are random events to contend with as well. These can reflect the real world challenges that a nation in your opt part of the world might face, or come entirely out of leftfield- meaning there’s always room for a spanner in the works of your best laid plans.

To deplete Europa Universalis would take hundreds of hours on its own, but add the ceaseless release of new DLC packs and- even if they’re a bit pricey – you’ve got a strategy game for the ages.

EVE Online- Honorable mentions: Warframe, Black Desert Online

EVE Online is like nothing else out there. Where most games are lorded for their deep worldbuilding and painstakingly crafted lore, EVE’s greatest legends played out in real period between real players.

Hardcore members of this profession-based space sim have formed sophisticated corporations which fuel the game’s functioning economy. In times of peace the organic-feeling world is a marvel of role-playing. But when shit makes the fan, EVE Online plays host to more political intrigue and calculated backstabbing than a glossy series of HBO drama.

If you’re in the market for a “living, breathing world” that’s more than a marketing buzzword, EVE might be your purse.

Fallout 4- Honorable mentions: Skyrim

One of, if not the, best thing about Bethesda RPGs is the exceptional community of modders that painstakingly add hundreds of hours of fun to the vanilla experience with their hard work. So when the “Enhanced Edition” of Softworks’ previous highwatermark, The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, was released and broke years of mod support, it was a weep shame.

It induces sense then to recommend one of Bethesda’s more recent endeavors, Fallout 4, which not only offers another romp into the transcendently awesome Fallout universe, but updates the underlying game mechanics enough to finally make it a competent shooter as well.

While the newly-voiced main character hampers some of the game’s ability to provide flexible role playing, the main narrative is interesting, the side quests are superb, and there are plenty of secrets and pop-culture references to unearth in all regions of the Commonwealth.

FF14 – Honorable mentions: Elder Scrolls Online

Final Fantasy 14 is one of the greatest redemption narratives in gaming. After a bumpy launch which find the game scrapped just after release in favour of a wholly revamped version, Final Fantasy 14 re-emerged with a reworked interface and gameplay, better optimisation and a snazzy new tagline: A Realm Reborn.

Now with virtually 12 million characters generated worldwide, FF14 is a thriving MMO community that’s merely been bolstered by the release of the critically-well-received Stormblood expansion.

The main depict for new players is the story missions, which tell the suitably grand tale of war between the adventurers of Eorzea and the invading Garlean Empire. But there are plenty of side quests- called Leves- to combat through as well; each oozing with that trademark Final Fantasy panache.

Fortnite- Honorable mentions: Team Fortress 2, Totally Accurate Battlegrounds

Fortnite is the biggest game running, and it’s not even on Steam. It’s been a slow-burn, but right now, Fortnite seems unassailable in its global domination, violating well and truly into the mainstream thanks to its popularity on mobile and with kids and streamers alike.

While the paid Save the World PvE game mode is fun enough and a good way to earn free V-bucks, it’s the F2P battle royale mode that’s taking the world by storm. The combining of a low barrier of entry, a simple to learn but hard to master gameplay loop-the-loop, and tense player-versus-player opposes constructs Fortnite a compelling proposition.

GTA 5- Honorable mentions: Saints Row 4, Sleeping Dogs

Yes, GTA 5 is on our PS4 and Xbox One best of listings. Yes, it’ll likely go on every listing we ever stimulate. It is just that good. It is a titan of our times.

But also it’s especially good on PC. Even though Rockstar has not been staggeringly supportive of modding( arguably fair enough, given how hard it must be to police GTA Online ), the GTA 5 mod scene is a gift that maintains on giving. The video editor has enabled some cracking bits of art and craft. And, of course, on Ultra decideds the PC version of GTA 5 outshines all the others. Sorry.

Gunpoint- Honorable mentions: The Swapper, Sperlunky

First there was nothing. Then there was Gunpoint. Now there are imitators- but nothing does it quite as well as Tom Francis did that first time, even if you can knock it over pretty quickly with your whizz-kid brain.

Gunpoint is a sort of stealth puzzle game in which players must infiltrate various houses without being identified by guards. Making use of existing securities systems and eventually even rewiring grids altogether is far more satisfying than merely ninja rolling across a doorway.

Hearthstone Witchwood expansion- Honorable mentions: The Elder Scrolls Legends, Chronicle: Runescape Legends, Gwent

Hearthstone, with each passing expansion, cements its place at the head of the card battling table further and further. While its original appeal might’ve had more to do with WoW nostalgia than anything else, it’s grown into its own distinct entity, and is now just as popular with gamers that’ve never set foot in Azeroth.

Regularly updated with new cards- like the most recent Witchwood expansion- Hearthstone manages to stay fresh by constantly introducing new mechanics. The RNG can be frustrating and the implementation of the new standard competitive format, which rotates cards out of circulation after a certain amount of time, can make it difficult to maintain a competitive deck if you’re not playing all the time. But the additions of the Dungeon Run solo adventure Monster Hunt mode have stimulated it immeasurably easier to enjoy the game for cheap.

Hollow Knight- Honorable mentions: Ori and the Blind Forest, Owlboy

Hollow Knight is a beautiful indie Metroidvania filled with lush animation, tight platforming and tense action. You play as The Knight, a mysterious character exploring the ruinings of the insectoid kingdom of Hollownest.

Despite its nebulous narrative, Hollow Knight is gripping thanks to its absorbing environments and original character design.

It’s not an easy game either, owing to some twitchy platforming and combat. A lot of foes won’t go down without a fight, and you’re almost certainly going to die a couple of times on some of Hollow Knight’s more difficult boss.

Homeworld Remastered Collection- Honorable mentions: Stellaris

If VG247 expanded its editorial remit to cover classic games, this would be a very different listing- but in both parallel cosmoes, Homeworld builds the grade. One of a number of properties put up for auction when THQ folded, support for Homeworld had well and truly ended and you couldn’t even buy the classic games any more, so the fanbase was hungry both for a re-release and for something new.

Gearbox’s Brian Martel was one of those fans, in the enviable position of being able to do something about it. The developer is not merely gave its boon and financial support for spiritual successor and now official sequel Homeworld: Shipbreakers, it put together a wonderfully tasty package in Homeworld: Remastered Collection. Both games in classic and updated kind, with a combined multiplayer suite? Yes, please. The classic gameplay is as strong as ever, by the way.

Into the Breach- Honorable mentions: Invisible Inc

From the sadistic minds behind FTL: Faster than Light, Into the Breach is an addictive turn-based strategy where you squish bug-like foreigners with giant fighting robots. What more needs to be said?

You fell your mechs onto a square grid populated not just with foes, but obstacles and objectives based on the type of mission you’ve undertaken and terrain you’re battling on. Your task is then to clear the field of hostiles in a certain amount of moves, involving considerable forethought and planning to get the job done effectively. While the premise is simple, completing the hardest challenges Into the Breach has to throw at you isn’t- and once you factor in the scalable difficulty modes, there’s some serious replayability here too.

Kerbal Space Program- Honorable mentions: RimWorld

In Kerbal Space Program you design, build and launch rockets from first principle. If this sounds like a doddle to you, you’ve been playing too many crafting survival sandboxes; constructing things takes more attempt than slapping the appropriate number of resources down on a blueprint.

Getting Kerbals into space is hard, but every time you blow one up or leave them endlessly orbiting the moon as a corpse, you’ve gained something: you’ve learned what not to do. It’s almost like a rogue-like with persistent character progression, only what’s being carried over is your knowledge. Get your little Kerbals to new reaches of the solar system, and then get them back again, is an absolute triumph.

League of Legends- Honorable mentions: SMITE

Another of the heaviest eSports hitters around, League of Legends is easier to get into than Dota, but is still retains a high level of strategic depth.

LoL has the largest roster of heroes of all the major MOBAs, with original and interesting champion designs that mean you’re pretty much always going to find someone new you want to try out. That choice is limited somewhat if you really want to play the metagame, but there’s still decent variety in the top pickings.

In terms of gameplay, we’re talking bread-and-butter stuff- two teams try to destroy each other’s Nexus while working to raise their individual power level- but here it’s executed brilliantly. The delicate balance that League of Legends manages to create between fast-paced action and strategic positioning attains it one of the best in the genre.

Life is Strange- Honorable mentions: Dreamfall Chapters, TellTale’s The Walking Dead

Originally episodic but now totally bingable, Life is Strange is an engrossing narrative of high-school drama, rekindled friendship, and day travelling. What’s better is that the first episode is now free, entailing you can get a savor of the waterside township of Arcadia Bay with no strings attached.

As Max, an 18 year-old wouldbe photographer, you explore the parallel mysteries of your new-found powers and the disappearance of fellow student Rachel Amber, all the while trying to fit into a new school and make friends.

From its drizzly Oregon setting to its jangly hipster boulder soundtrack, Life is Strange perfectly captures the feeling of teenage angst and adds a supernatural twisting that’s interesting until the credits roll.

Minecraft- Honorable mentions: Terraria

You can argue that it wasn’t until its Xbox 360 release that Minecraft entered the public consciousness, but it was and remains a culture phenomenon on PC. More than 20 million purchases on a single platform is a huge amount by any measure, but the PC version of Minecraft is also where updates drop-off first, where mods and custom servers happen, where most of the amazing video content is attained, and where educational programs are carried out.

Minecraft is also credited with kicking off or at least popularising a bunch of industry tendencies- paid early access schemes, crafting sandboxes and of course indie as multi-million dollar success tale.

Overwatch- Honorable mentions: Team Fortress 2

Overwatch’s charming cast of playable heroes inspire undying fealty in their legions of fervent fans- and it’s easily to find why. The visual design of this lavish and slickly presented competitive shooter is as stylish as its gameplay is tactical and engaging.

It might’ve been a bit light on content when it first made shelves, but Acti-Blizz’s ongoing supporting has consistently refreshed the competitive meta with tweaks and new heroes. There’s something for everyone the roster, with strong heroes in every architype- from twitch-heavy offensive characters like cyborg-ninja Genji, to slower-paced, defensively minded characters like the mounted gun Omnic Bastion.

Recently Blizzard has doubled down on Overwatch’s esports potential with the multimillion dollar Overwatch League, where teams representing cities from around the world compete for a huge award pond.

Papers, Please- Honorable mentions: Her Story

Papers, Please starts off simple- check the documents, stamp them or reject them- and get very hard very, very quickly. It’s not just the increasingly finicky regulations handed down by your government overlords and the constantly ticking clock; the misery of applicants and the escalating political tension stimulates your role as a border guard feel like a penance. Of course, it pays the bills- if and only if you do a good enough job.

Channeling a kind of generic Cold War East European flavour, Papers, Please isn’t really about any specific place or time so much as it is about depressingly universal themes of hope, hopelessnes, bureaucracy and everyday people whose lives are just grist in its mill.

PayDay 2- Honorable mentions: Hotline Miami

Oh sure it came out on consoles, including current-gen, but the PC version is simply the best PayDay 2 experience. Not to get all Master Race on you, but PC multiplayer aficionados are generally better equipped to deal with the kind of gameplay PayDay 2 fosters and often demands- leadership, teamwork, communication and patience, as opposed to racing to get the most kills.

Overkill Software has kept up support with new content and patches for PayDay 2 over the years, and you are able to even play the game wholly in VR. There’s always something new to find and collect, and the nature of the game means even running the same missions repeatedly can have wildly different results. Get a crew together, example the joint, and go for the loot.

Pillar of Eternity- Honorable mentions: Planetscape Torment, Wasteland 2

Once again, imagine if this were a list of the best PC games of all time. Clearly it would not be complete without a bunch of Infinity Engine games like Baldur’s Gate and Planescape Torment , not to mention other classic CRPGs like Fallout. In the absence of these vintage treasures we offer Pillars of Eternity, a love letter to a golden age of PC RPGs, crowdfunded to be the successor fans wanted even if they did have to wait ten years for it.

Pillars of Eternity is remarkably faithful to the formula, with a huge casting of diverse, complex characters, robust customisation and oodles of compelling content. If you’ve never tried a classic CRPG it may not be the very best basic starting point, but if you’re even partly interested you’ll find plenty to love.

It’s sequel, Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire, is a brilliant game too- and well worth the investment if you enjoyed the first.

Portal 2- Honorable mentions: The Witness, SUPERHOT

Portal 2 is a victory of clever design and exceptional world-building, managing to make the player feel like they’re ingeniously breaking the game at every turn, when that was the correct solution all along.

It’s not just top-quality puzzles that constructs Portal 2 stand out from the crowd though- there are plenty of laughs from Ellen McLain’s star turn as GlaDOS, writer of The Office and Extras Stephen Merchant as Wheatley, and the lovably stupid turrets.

Project Cars 2- Honorable mentions: DIRT Rally, Assetto Corsa

When you think of the lackluster recent efforts from once great racing series, it’s brilliant to ensure new names lining up at the grid. Project Cars 2 is a strong racing sim that offers a solid driving experience, great visuals, and tons of licensed supercars to push to the limit.

Racing fans are notoriously hard to please, but there are some growls that have to be aired. The aggressive AI is sometimes difficult to deal with and penalties can feel unjust, while some players report issues with graphical stuttering. If you can get things tuned how you like them though, Project Cars genuinely hits the place.

PUBG- Honorable mentions: H1Z1 Battle Royale

Though the fervour around PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds may have cooled somewhat in recent months, it was better provides one of the tensest competitive shooting experiences around.

With a stronger focus on realistic weapons and environments than it’s cousin, Fortnite, PUBG laid the groundwork for the battle royale genre to take the world by storm. Not merely does it require intense concentration to hold your nerve as you stalk the large surroundings in search of unsuspecting prey, but the bursts of explosive activity require deadly precision and lightning-fast twitch skills.

It’s still buggy and rough, but there’s tons of fun left to be had.

Rainbow Six Siege- Honorable mentions: Insurgency

When it first released to decent reviews, we don’t believe anyone expected Rainbow Six Siege to have the sheer staying power it’s demonstrated since it dropped in 2015.

Now in its third year of consistent content updates, Six Siege offers something different in the competitive shooter space. There’s less emphasis on all-out fragging, in favour of coordinated team maneuvers in tight, destructible environments. Get used to constantly evaluating the bullet-repellant abilities of every surface around you- and try not to let the habit bleed into your everyday life.

You choose from nearly 40 Operators- each with their own kit and special abilities- and fighting in various categories of small squad game modes. Year Three kicked off with Operation Chimera, which added a new PvE horde mode where you fight infected zombie-ish animals.

SOMA- Honorable mentions: Outlast

Back when YouTubers only attained hundreds of thousands instead of millions of dollars, squealing at jump-scares was in vogue and Frictional Games’ Amnesia: The Dark Descent was many content creator’s go-to. But while it won popularity for its noisier moments, what Amnesia did better than pretty much anything else was create a creeping gothic ambience that dripped tension and menace- so that when something did inevitably emerge from the dark “youre ever” good and ready to shit your gasps.

Five years later, with a few lessons learnt and a new sci-fi setting, Frictional re-emerged with SOMA, an exceptionally immersive and unsetting experience that stays with you far past the game’s near ten-hour runtime.

SOMA improves on everything that stimulated Frictional’s back catalogue great, as well as being mechanically tighter too. As you explore the underwater PATHOS-II research facility, solve light puzzles, and investigate the mystery of your surroundings, things start to get weirder and weirder before the tension reaches its crescendo at the game’s disturbing conclusion.

Starcraft 2- Honorable mentions: Warhammer 40 K Dawn of War 3

The StarCraft franchise was essential to the growth of the eSports scene. Shooters have always been important, and MOBAs have risen to prominence these days, but the tens of millions of dollars handed out at prizes at tournaments today would never have passed without Starcraft. What says eSports more than a packed arena of cheering Korean fans threatening to Zerg Rush their heroes on the stage?

Starcraft 2 is the template that most modern competitive RTSs follow, and has earnt the reverence that it’s afforded in the gaming community.

Stardew Valley- Honorable mentions: Slime Rancher, Farming Simulator 17

Stardew Valley is simply the best farming sim around. While it might not be the most realistic, or the most visually impressive, Stardew Valley more than induces up for those working deficits with exceptional charm and oodles of magical moments.

The game centres around the player’s revival of their grandfather’s dilapidated old farm, raising livestock, sowing crops and making food to sell at marketplace. There’s also a number of light RPG parts where you can fight through dungeons filled with ogres, craft items and forge relationships- some of them romantic- with the townsfolk in surrounding villages.

Developed almost single-handedly by designer and programmer Eric ” ConcernedApe ” Barone, Stardew Valley shows how a clear vision exacted by a lean team can produce something that’s severely special.

Sunless Sea- Honorable mentions: Don’t Starve

“Eat your crew” is a hell of a tagline, and you will eat them, at the least once. This unusual rogue-like is set in the same fascinating universe as browser-based escapade Fallen London, but in addition to the darkly beautiful fiction this time there’s a stressfully difficult survival and exploration game to conquer as well.

Roaming the Sunless Sea in silence as your food and fuel ticking ever downwards, eyes and ears straining for any sign of ogres or pirates, hoping to find a port in need of whatever bizarre cargo you’re carrying – it’s a unique and challenging experience. Survive long enough to pass a trait to your successor and begin constructing a heritage of captains; Sunless Sea is not a game to be conquered in a single lifetime.

The sequel, Sunless Skies, is currently out in Early Access, but due a full release soon.

The Forest- Honorable mentions: Ark, Dying Light

Early Access survival-crafting games were all the rage in 2014, but while some remain in a perpetual state of beta, others are actually coming out as full releases and starting to look properly good.

The Forest situateds itself apart from its contemporaries by being both a fulfill resource-gatherer and spoopy as flippin’ heck. You find, the wooded peninsula that your player-character determines themselves on isn’t as idyllic as it first seems. Infesting the woodland and network of subterranean caves is an intelligent society of cannibalistic mutants that grow more twisted and freaky the deeper you delve.

During the working day- while the mutants are less aggressive – you have to stockpile your resources and craft a fortified base, because come nightfall you’re going to need everything you are able to lay hands on to fend off the ravenous beasties.

The Stanley Parable- Honorable mentions: The Beginner’s Guide, Firewatch

Nominally a game with a very straight forward if surreal story line and a clever narration gimmick, The Stanley Parable only opens up for those who wilfully play with it. While many games expend a great deal of effort ensuring the player knows they have to go from A to B and trying to prevent them doing anything else, The Stanley Parable openly engages with the tropes of modern story-driven gameplay by rewarding you for doing the things a few gamers will always do: disobey. Wander off. Fiddle. Wall hack.

In this sense, The Stanley Parable is one of the very few gaming experiences with a narrative to tell and respect for its players as more than a passive vehicle for the creator’s artistic vision. Also, it is hilarious.

The Witcher 3- Honorable mentions: FF 15

Few games are lauded with as much ardor as The Witcher 3, and it truly deserves every plaudit. This is the high-watermark for character-lead RPGs, constantly telling richly layered and engrossing tales across its main quest, side missions and narrative DLC.

The Witcher 3 follows Geralt of Rivia throughout the Northern Kingdoms on parallel quests to find Emperor Emhyr var Emreis’ daughter, Ciri, and solve the mystery of The Wild Hunt.

Geralt’s world is densely populated with Monster Hunts, hidden rich, and secrets to uncover, entailing you are able to spend well over 100 hours finding it all- as well as mastering the deep potions and crafting mechanics and combat ability tree.

The DLC packs are some of the best around too, meaningfully upgrading the core experience with even more quests to devour and areas to explore.

Titanfall 2- Honorable mentions: Battlefield 1

In 2010, some of the top brass behind the world-conquering Call of Duty franchise left Infinity Ward to find their own studio: Respawn Entertainment. After a spluttering start with the multiplayer-only Titanfall, they found their feet- critically at the least- with the brilliant Titanfall 2.

By blending the same frantic action and eye-bulging set pieces that stimulated Modern Warfare’s campaign live so long in the memory with an affecting buddy-movie storyline, Respawn crafted one of the best shooter campaigns in years.

It might not be the longest, but is often on sale for cheap.

Total War Warhammer 2- Honorable mentions: Warhammer: Vermintide 2

For years, Creative Assembly has been king of the historical strategy war game. With Total War Warhammer 2 they’ve brought the same ingenuity and depth to the table, just this time you’ve get Lizardmen instead of Carolingians. And when is anything not improved by the addition of Lizardmen?

Owning the first Total War Warhammer as well as the second is pretty much a necessity, since it unlocks a ton of content in this more recent game, but it’s worth it for the life-consumingly awesome campaign mode where you take part in an epic battle to control the Great Vortex.

Undertale- Honorable mentions: Kentucky Route Zero

The breakout indie hitting of the last few years, Undertale won hearts the world over by perfecting the delicate balance of in-joky, referential witticism without overdoing it.

Developed virtually single-handedly by inventor Toby Fox, it’s not just the story that induces Undertale special, but also the variety of its combat mechanics and puzzles. It might look like a typical retro JRPG throwback, but there’s a lot more going on than first satisfies the eye.

There’s also an entertaining meta-narrative that gives you a properly compelling reason to run two or three different play-throughs, and memorable soundtrack that blends classic game sounds with haunting piano and guitar.

West of Loathing- Honorable mentions: Jazzpunk

Back in the working day, flash adventure games were awesome. They might not have been the most graphically impressive, but they more than made up for it with sharp humour and chuckles-a-plenty.

West of Loathing is like the best flash comedy-RPG you’ve ever played- full of silly jokes, clever puzzles, and a simple combat system that’s fun without doing anything too fancy. Every area across the stick-figure Wild West has the potential for chuckles, and- like the best cowboy gunslingers- the jokes reached more than they miss.

What Remains of Edith Finch- Honorable mentions: The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Gone Home

Modern narrative adventure games- sometimes pejoratively referred to as” walking simulators”- can often prioritise style over substance and start to crumble under their own pretence. What Remains of Edith Finch however, is a exceptional journey through the lives of the Finch family, as told through a series of varied and delightful vignettes.

One minute you’re exploring the eerie rooms of the Finch household, then you’re flying through the air as an owl, or swimming as a shark in the ocean. The narrative is still at the center of its own experience, but the new levels of interactivity and inventive storytelling that developer Giant Sparrow has managed to craft into What Remains of Edith Finch make it a real standout.

World of Tanks- Honorable mentions: World of Warships

A former VG24/ 7 editor once called World of Tanks ” niche” on Twitter and was wailed at for days. The competitive online shooter has a huge and devoted playerbase from all over the world, because, it is about to change, the desire to get in a tank and blow up someone else’s tank is quite universal.

If you get really into it, World of Tanks can be incredibly expensive. There’s a massive variety of premium tanks available for buy, and its premium model in general is particularly aggressive. However, the glacial firing rates of your hulking war machines make for something truly unique in the online shooter space, forcing players to stance themselves strategically and overcome foes tactically rather than with brute force.

On PC, the piece de resistance is World of Tanks’ recent 1.0 update. By some miracle Wargaming kept the same minimum requirements while entirely overhauling the game’s graphics engine to bring it in line with current gen gaming. You can run World of Tanks on a potato too, so it’s good for those of us that aren’t blessed with infinite coffers.

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth- Honorable mentions: Guild Wars 2

There’s life in the old girl yet. While it might not be at its pre-Cataclysm peak, World of Warcraft continues to be played by millions of subscribers around the globe.

Endlessly imitated, WoW streamlined and standardised the blueprint for a modern MMO with its rich lore, differed action-RPG gameplay and deep roster of high-level and endgame activities. As a new player, the sheer quantity of content to slog through is a daunting proposition- especially when you’re forking out $15 a month for the privilege- but there’s a reason this game is venerated above all others.

The upcoming expansion, World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, introduces four new races to the mix, raises the level cap to 120, as well as adding a host of new dungeons and raids including the golden city of Atal’Dazar.

XCOM 2- Honorable mentions: Templar Battleforce

PC has always been the home of turn-based tactics, and there are few games out there that do the genre better than XCOM 2. Set 20 years after the first XCOM reboot, Enemy Unknown, XCOM 2 freshens up the formula with a higher tempo to the gameplay and new mechanics like the concealing phase, which lets you carry out covert missions while you remain undetected.

XCOM 2 is a tough game, and it can feel a little capricious when your highly-trained super soldiers miss their target from point blank range, but it’s that moreish difficulty that keeps you coming back for time and again.

Your soldiers are vastly customisable, so it’s great fun to give your squad their own panache and personality- or recreate your favourite characters from other games. The only drawback is that it’s all the more heartbreaking when their head is inevitably squished by a hostile foreigner.

Battlefield 5- honest mention

The latest title from DICE assures us return to WW2 for some truly innovative and exciting FPS action. While items like the Union Jack gas mask might be a bit tone deaf, Battlefield 5 captures the camaraderie described by those who survived through the war, whilst giving you a taste of the horrors that would have ensued on the battlefield. War is hell, after all.

You can play the single-player War Stories that take you across different theatres of war or leap straight-out into its multiplayer, with an emphasis on tactics and positioning over twitch skills and a keen focus on team-playing and support classes.

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Planned Parenthood Celebrates 100 Years Of Promoting Death

Usually especially anniversaries, anniversaries, really are a trigger for party. Several establishments close significantly before this tag, therefore persevering to alter using the occasions however endure is significant.

Nevertheless, this week is birthday in the event that you may, or this kind of wedding, for Planned Parenthood. Though some individuals are honoring this birthday and concentrating on reproductive health accomplishments, the toll is mourned by others from the social change and also abortion to eugenics.

Several businesses are divisive as Planned Parenthood. Followers of of lawful abortion watch and the business PP being an essential supplier of women’s wellness providers and fear that any defunding boost illness prices will restrict women’s independence, and trigger households to guardian kids they don’t need or can’t manage to take care of.

About the different aspect are people who contemplate abortion incorrect, who believe every kid must have an opportunity at existence, who observe different ways to avoid sexually transmitted illnesses and supply kids with caring houses, and indicate PP’s fairly dubious methods that may hide child neglect.

Informing the Reality that Affects

The pro life motion hasn’t been peaceful about that birthday. Statements were produced by the Middle for Medical Improvement by posting undercover movies about profit in the systems of aborted infants and Prepared Parenthood’s removal of nationwide.

“Millions of Americans have become increasingly conscious that Planned Parenthood, whilst the greatest abortion supplier in the united states, gets over half-a-billion taxpayer dollars yearly, after which funnels hundreds of huge amount of money back to the strategies of its political cronies to safeguard itself from analysis,” stated Brian Daleiden, CMP’s creator and undercover guide. Motherhood that is “Planned states it had been started to reduce -of- abortion and births, but over its 100- history, these results have increased. Today, by its reviews, Prepared Parenthood’s low-abortion providers are shedding also it works more abortions each year than it prevents.”

Daleiden was legitimately incurred to make these undercover movies, and recently these costs were fallen. Lila Rose, the leader of Live-Action, has additionally created undercover movies displaying PP being prepared to hide violations of assumed child-sex trafficking sufferers. In the place of linking them with help avoid that misuse activism has recorded that PP authorities are prepared to conceal abuse of ladies to greatly help them entry abortions.

“I join with people who mourn the almost eight-million pre-created lifestyles strongly cut brief in Planned Parenthood amenities since Roe v. Wade,” she said. “This isn’t each day to commemorate; alternatively, this can be a day-to refuse Prepared Parenthood’s inhumane and elitist philosophy: that abortion on-demand in to the ninth month is appropriate; that some kids, due to their difficulties or since they’re sufferers created in rape, don’t deserve existence along with a host to love and regard within our culture; which the intense marketing of abortion is just a means to fix the problems some group and low income ladies may face.”

Individuals Sights Do Alter

Outcry has additionally originate from people who were once inside of PP, including Abby Brown, a former representative of Planned Parenthood and also the founding father of After Which There Have Been None. To assisting employees from abortion centers That’s a business dedicated depart the abortion business.

“For a century Parenthood has informed ladies they aren’t powerful enough accomplish their objectives or to become moms,” she explained. Parenthood celebrates their 100- anniversary and promises it’s period for America, #100YearsStrong say that they’re #100YearsWrong and to create the report directly. America deserves much better than Planned Parenthood and it’s period for all of US to create a finish for this nefarious organization.”

Brown labored for eight decades for PP, and it has had two abortions of her very own. Her change from prochoice to prolife showcases her function that is present to greatly help their sights alter on other along with abortion lifestyle problems.

Seventy eight percentage of Americans help some limitations to abortions, and 53 percent assistance limiting just about all abortions. People who need limitations to abortion services’ majority help decreasing abortion. These of removing just about all abortion in favor need entry limited to instances of rape and risk towards the existence of mom.

We’re experiencing the truth our governmental program shields lawful abortion on-demand and Planned Parenthood despite over fifty percent of Americans seeking modifications to the present abortion tradition. There’s a disconnect between your people’s ethical values and our pretense to signify us all. Guidelines are perpetuated by this remove that maintain PP citizen-financed, operating, and in the front of the abortion business that is National.

There’s in honoring a wedding like a birthday when that wedding is for a business that’s avoided the birthdays of an incredible number of Americans paradox.

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