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2012.06.21 02:27 polkanils The World Trade Center: We will always remember!
This is a subreddit for discussion and remembrance of the old WTC Towers as well as the new ones. The original World Trade Center was a large complex of seven buildings in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. It opened on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed in 2001 during the September 11 attacks. The new World Trade Center is a mostly completed complex of buildings in the Lower Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, US, replacing the original seven buildings.
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2023.06.09 10:14 communist-crapshoot The Claires *are* social democrats *not* secret communists and seizing the harbor was not in itself a revolutionary act. It's long past time fans stop lying to themselves and start engaging with the Marxist "ruthless criticism of all that exists" at the core of the game, as was always intended.
Let me preface this lecture by stating that I *am* a communist and have been for over a decade and that before I can get into what I think the Claires are supposed to represent I need to address why Kurvitz & Co. chose a videogame as the preferred medium for their metafiction. The reason Disco Elysium was made the way it was wasn't simply to entertain people with the funny antics of an alcoholic, superstar, hobo cop or to strive towards critical acclaim so the game would sell better. It wasn't even a game made by communists for communists (I mean it was made by communists it's just not preaching to the choir as much as some might think). In fact it's quite the opposite. The story was injected with nihilistic humor and offered up to the general public in the form of a video game to sugar the pill so to speak. That's because Disco Elysium is, at its core, a highly controversial political treatise and social critique "disguised" as a video game. This was so as to get as many people as possible to actually engage with its core messages instead of reflexively rejecting or ignoring them the way they would've if those messages had been presented in the format of non-fiction literature. To put it bluntly the main message of the game is how self delusion reinforces the very things it seeks to escape whether those be personal problems like loneliness or societal ones like the anxiety inducing political limbo of Revachol/the real world. Included in the delusions of a political nature Kurvitz wanted people to confront were many held by the bulk of the contemporary left. Sadly, judging by what I often see in this sub, the results of this novel approach at polemics has been mixed.
I have to admit it's disheartening to see how many fans of the game only engaged with that social and political criticism to the extent that it was leveled at their political enemies, especially when the "authorial intent" was to confront players who might delude themselves about the future implications, present realities and/or history of their own real life politics, whatever they may be. In some cases this ignorance is forgivable; it's easy to miss subtext in a game that's so text based that it has a habit of spelling things out for you and tbf many of the allusions to real life figures, events and ideas are subtle and without a solid grasp of 20th century European history and theoretical Marxism most of the satirical references will go over a typical player's head. What's not forgivable is how many people in this sub are in denial of or otherwise consciously rationalize the criticisms of their own side presented by the writers of DE. I'll get around to how centrists and right-libertarians are guilty of this in future posts but for right now I want to address "my comrades" because, frankly, some of you scare me with your naiveté, hyper-partisanship and blithe hand waving of corruption and needless violence.
Now there are two kinds of leftists I often see who want to view Evrart as a crypto-communist figure and despite being polar opposites in most respects they have two things in common: they're both childishly naive and they're both in denial about the realities of how vicious social democracy can be in practice. The first leftist is a social democrat who thinks that because Evrart is a machiavellian strongman figure that he must be an expy of Stalin and/or Mao (who in their minds are genuine representatives of communism) because "never, ever would a real social democrat do such things, after all we're unassuming trade unionists who want nothing more than to work things out democratically, through the existing system!" The second leftist is a communist who thinks that because Evrart is a machiavellian strongman figure that he must be an expy of Stalin and/or Mao (who in their minds are genuine representatives of communism) because "never, ever would a real social democrat do such things, after all they're unassuming trade unionists who want nothing more than to work things out democratically, through the existing system!"
The truth of course is that prejudices aside Evrart is a social democrat AND a tyrannical strongman. As for his plan to seize the harbor, while it's certainly threatening to Wild Pines' bottom line, the RCM's authority and the union's enemies in Martinaise, it does not in any way pose a genuine revolutionary threat to the capitalist system as a whole and, as weird as it may sound, is still reliant on working within the existing system. After all the union didn't seize the means of production in an armed rebellion against the capitalist state so much as Wild Pines legally handed over some of its corporate property to the union to avoid the bad PR of the merc tribunal which in the end was only tangentially related to the strike. By the end of HBD's investigation all that has changed for the (surviving) workers of Martinaise Harbour Terminal B is their employer. They went from being the unionized employees of the Wild Pines Group under which they had to smuggle drugs in secret to get by to becoming members of a de jure workers' co-operative under the Claires' control where they can now smuggle drugs more openly. That's it. Is that better for them? Maybe, probably, but even so they're still reliant on a global system based on commodity production and exchange and the selling of their labor power (and hardcore drugs) for money, they've just cut out a few middlemen so to speak. Once the strike is officially declared over La Puta Madre's henchmen, not the soldiers of the Coalition, are going to be the union's most immediate threat. Wild Pines itself probably isn't even that hurt by Evrart's plan as the value of what was lost in revenue and real estate can be mitigated by the amount the company will save from no longer having 2,000 + employees on its payroll every quarter.
Oh and to those pragmatists who think Evrart is just a well intentioned man willing to step up and get his hands dirty for the sake of his fellow workers because no one else would or as Call Me Mañana puts it "The old man is corrupt for our benefit" this next part is for you. We know from interviews that Evrart was partially inspired by the character of Frank Sobotka from the second season of the HBO hit TV series The Wire. That said Evrart is in many ways a sort of anti-Sobotka insofar as he's not just reluctantly working with mafiosos; he *is* a mafioso. If you haven't already seen The Wire you need to stop reading this and go watch it to not only understand my next point but because it's literally the best TV show ever made. For those who have seen The Wire I'm 100% certain you'll agree with me that neither of the two hypothetical leftists from earlier could seriously claim that Sobotka was a secret communist or anything other than a reformist labor leader even though he's guilty of most of the same things that supposedly make crypto-commies of the Claires. I also don't think anyone who's seen the show would strongly hate Frank for getting involved in those criminal dealings the way they would the Claires even if some might still think both are wrong for having done so. Most importantly I don't think anyone who's seen all of season two of The Wire and played Disco Elysium to completion would ever claim that the Claires cared more about the Martinaise dockers than the Sobotka family did the stevedores of Locust Point, Baltimore. So what explains the gulf between the two unionistas (besides murder)? Why was it less bad when Frank Sobotka engaged in labor racketeering than when Evrart and Edgar did it? It's simple really, Frank Sobotka demonstrated more authentic labor solidarity, internal conflict, selflessness and above all self awareness than the Claire brothers ever did.
So to summarize: the Claires are written as a counter to those players who have what Lenin called trade union consciousness (meaning social democrats, progressives and center-left, reform minded liberals) who think that the problems of capitalism can be solved simply by increasing the number of trade unions, by legally incorporating more worker co-ops, by expanding strike funds, etc., in a word, reformism. Additionally DE's writers, who're communists, want to knock reformists off their high horses so as to get them to stop lying to themselves and recognize that there is corruption, hypocrisy, violence and even a small presence of incipient fascism in many real life unions, both past and present, and that existing reformist movements, organizations, etc. are just as susceptible to being hijacked by populist demagogues as revolutionary ones are/have been and moreover that they're not always the politically correct, morally unimpeachable, nonviolent alternatives to revolution that they present themselves as. In the end class conflict and its resulting violence goes on whether anyone wants it to or not. It can be and often is a totally subconscious process driven by need at both the individual and group levels. That said the longer class conflict goes on without being consciously directed towards the abolishment of the socioeconomic system whose inherent contradictions bring it into being in the first place, the more chaotic it will become until the point where the mutual ruin of the competing classes is all but guaranteed as a result.
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I have to admit it's disheartening to see how many fans of the game only engaged with that social and political criticism to the extent that it was leveled at their political enemies, especially when the "authorial intent" was to confront players who might delude themselves about the future implications, present realities and/or history of their own real life politics, whatever they may be. In some cases this ignorance is forgivable; it's easy to miss subtext in a game that's so text based that it has a habit of spelling things out for you and tbf many of the allusions to real life figures, events and ideas are subtle and without a solid grasp of 20th century European history and theoretical Marxism most of the satirical references will go over a typical player's head. What's not forgivable is how many people in this sub are in denial of or otherwise consciously rationalize the criticisms of their own side presented by the writers of DE. I'll get around to how centrists and right-libertarians are guilty of this in future posts but for right now I want to address "my comrades" because, frankly, some of you scare me with your naiveté, hyper-partisanship and blithe hand waving of corruption and needless violence.
Now there are two kinds of leftists I often see who want to view Evrart as a crypto-communist figure and despite being polar opposites in most respects they have two things in common: they're both childishly naive and they're both in denial about the realities of how vicious social democracy can be in practice. The first leftist is a social democrat who thinks that because Evrart is a machiavellian strongman figure that he must be an expy of Stalin and/or Mao (who in their minds are genuine representatives of communism) because "never, ever would a real social democrat do such things, after all we're unassuming trade unionists who want nothing more than to work things out democratically, through the existing system!" The second leftist is a communist who thinks that because Evrart is a machiavellian strongman figure that he must be an expy of Stalin and/or Mao (who in their minds are genuine representatives of communism) because "never, ever would a real social democrat do such things, after all they're unassuming trade unionists who want nothing more than to work things out democratically, through the existing system!"
The truth of course is that prejudices aside Evrart is a social democrat AND a tyrannical strongman. As for his plan to seize the harbor, while it's certainly threatening to Wild Pines' bottom line, the RCM's authority and the union's enemies in Martinaise, it does not in any way pose a genuine revolutionary threat to the capitalist system as a whole and, as weird as it may sound, is still reliant on working within the existing system. After all the union didn't seize the means of production in an armed rebellion against the capitalist state so much as Wild Pines legally handed over some of its corporate property to the union to avoid the bad PR of the merc tribunal which in the end was only tangentially related to the strike. By the end of HBD's investigation all that has changed for the (surviving) workers of Martinaise Harbour Terminal B is their employer. They went from being the unionized employees of the Wild Pines Group under which they had to smuggle drugs in secret to get by to becoming members of a de jure workers' co-operative under the Claires' control where they can now smuggle drugs more openly. That's it. Is that better for them? Maybe, probably, but even so they're still reliant on a global system based on commodity production and exchange and the selling of their labor power (and hardcore drugs) for money, they've just cut out a few middlemen so to speak. Once the strike is officially declared over La Puta Madre's henchmen, not the soldiers of the Coalition, are going to be the union's most immediate threat. Wild Pines itself probably isn't even that hurt by Evrart's plan as the value of what was lost in revenue and real estate can be mitigated by the amount the company will save from no longer having 2,000 + employees on its payroll every quarter.
Oh and to those pragmatists who think Evrart is just a well intentioned man willing to step up and get his hands dirty for the sake of his fellow workers because no one else would or as Call Me Mañana puts it "The old man is corrupt for our benefit" this next part is for you. We know from interviews that Evrart was partially inspired by the character of Frank Sobotka from the second season of the HBO hit TV series The Wire. That said Evrart is in many ways a sort of anti-Sobotka insofar as he's not just reluctantly working with mafiosos; he *is* a mafioso. If you haven't already seen The Wire you need to stop reading this and go watch it to not only understand my next point but because it's literally the best TV show ever made. For those who have seen The Wire I'm 100% certain you'll agree with me that neither of the two hypothetical leftists from earlier could seriously claim that Sobotka was a secret communist or anything other than a reformist labor leader even though he's guilty of most of the same things that supposedly make crypto-commies of the Claires. I also don't think anyone who's seen the show would strongly hate Frank for getting involved in those criminal dealings the way they would the Claires even if some might still think both are wrong for having done so. Most importantly I don't think anyone who's seen all of season two of The Wire and played Disco Elysium to completion would ever claim that the Claires cared more about the Martinaise dockers than the Sobotka family did the stevedores of Locust Point, Baltimore. So what explains the gulf between the two unionistas (besides murder)? Why was it less bad when Frank Sobotka engaged in labor racketeering than when Evrart and Edgar did it? It's simple really, Frank Sobotka demonstrated more authentic labor solidarity, internal conflict, selflessness and above all self awareness than the Claire brothers ever did.
So to summarize: the Claires are written as a counter to those players who have what Lenin called trade union consciousness (meaning social democrats, progressives and center-left, reform minded liberals) who think that the problems of capitalism can be solved simply by increasing the number of trade unions, by legally incorporating more worker co-ops, by expanding strike funds, etc., in a word, reformism. Additionally DE's writers, who're communists, want to knock reformists off their high horses so as to get them to stop lying to themselves and recognize that there is corruption, hypocrisy, violence and even a small presence of incipient fascism in many real life unions, both past and present, and that existing reformist movements, organizations, etc. are just as susceptible to being hijacked by populist demagogues as revolutionary ones are/have been and moreover that they're not always the politically correct, morally unimpeachable, nonviolent alternatives to revolution that they present themselves as. In the end class conflict and its resulting violence goes on whether anyone wants it to or not. It can be and often is a totally subconscious process driven by need at both the individual and group levels. That said the longer class conflict goes on without being consciously directed towards the abolishment of the socioeconomic system whose inherent contradictions bring it into being in the first place, the more chaotic it will become until the point where the mutual ruin of the competing classes is all but guaranteed as a result.
2023.06.09 09:24 Kreanxx How is black marsh treated by the rest of Tamriel?
Originally I had an idea that argonia was rouge state given how nationalistic and isolationist the ruling an xileel are. But given that both the dominion and the east empire company trade with argonia. but on the east empire trade routes map, it shows tear being part of morrowind, now did morrowind regain tear by the events of Skyrim or is it sorta a tamrielic version of a China/Taiwan situation where one side claims ownership of a certain territory over the other? Anyway backtracking, is argonia treated similar to how Russia is on the world state, where generally there’s some trade but most just want little to do with argonia.
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2023.06.09 09:14 Rocks_D_Xebec4 Doesn't god valley look like......
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2023.06.09 08:59 luminosisland FT Shinies, Mythicals, Legendaries, Events LF Koraidon
Wow, can't believe it's been 2 years since I've last posted here! The icon changed and everything.
These are the pokemon I have to offer:
Shinies: Vikavolt, Nidoran female (PoGo), Electivire, Kecleon (ger), Audino (jpn), Yanmega (nicknamed), Heracross, Mareep (PoGo), Amoonguss,
Legendaries: Zacian, Cosmog, bird trio, mewtwo, dog trio, lugia/ho-oh, regis, weather trio, uxie/mesprit/azelf, sinnoh trio, heatran, cresselia, cobalion/virizion/terrakion, reshiram/zekrom/kyurem, landorus/tornadus/thunderus, xerneas, zygarde, tapus, necrozma, type:null
Mythicals: Meltan, Zarude
Events: Toler Ludicolo, Abram Cloyster, August Gengar, Ash Hat Pikachu (any)
The above pokemon are legit, here are the more sus ones (meaning i got these from trades and they're lvl 100 and/or 6iv):
Shinies: Ninjask (nicknamed), Kecleon (ger), alakazam (cherish ball, id says pokemon center), Manaphy, Shaymin (x2), Shiny Mew (x2, jpn or eng), shiny tapu lele, tanabata jirachi, darkrai, shiny celebi, shiny shaymin, aura mew, Shiny Scizor (nicknamed)
If you guys want me to toss in some mons with the links as their ID I have a bunch, just ask:
Shiny Jirachi, Cherish Ball Heatran, Shiny Snivy, Shiny Charizard (nicknamed), shiny cherish ball groudon, Sinnoh Cap Pikachu, Shiny cherish ball delibird, shiny tapu koko, marshadow, shiny victini x2, shiny articuno, shiny dialga, venusaur (nicknamed)
All of these pokemon are in Home but I can trade in-game if that's what you prefer.
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These are the pokemon I have to offer:
Shinies: Vikavolt, Nidoran female (PoGo), Electivire, Kecleon (ger), Audino (jpn), Yanmega (nicknamed), Heracross, Mareep (PoGo), Amoonguss,
Legendaries: Zacian, Cosmog, bird trio, mewtwo, dog trio, lugia/ho-oh, regis, weather trio, uxie/mesprit/azelf, sinnoh trio, heatran, cresselia, cobalion/virizion/terrakion, reshiram/zekrom/kyurem, landorus/tornadus/thunderus, xerneas, zygarde, tapus, necrozma, type:null
Mythicals: Meltan, Zarude
Events: Toler Ludicolo, Abram Cloyster, August Gengar, Ash Hat Pikachu (any)
The above pokemon are legit, here are the more sus ones (meaning i got these from trades and they're lvl 100 and/or 6iv):
Shinies: Ninjask (nicknamed), Kecleon (ger), alakazam (cherish ball, id says pokemon center), Manaphy, Shaymin (x2), Shiny Mew (x2, jpn or eng), shiny tapu lele, tanabata jirachi, darkrai, shiny celebi, shiny shaymin, aura mew, Shiny Scizor (nicknamed)
If you guys want me to toss in some mons with the links as their ID I have a bunch, just ask:
Shiny Jirachi, Cherish Ball Heatran, Shiny Snivy, Shiny Charizard (nicknamed), shiny cherish ball groudon, Sinnoh Cap Pikachu, Shiny cherish ball delibird, shiny tapu koko, marshadow, shiny victini x2, shiny articuno, shiny dialga, venusaur (nicknamed)
All of these pokemon are in Home but I can trade in-game if that's what you prefer.
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Hey All - Happy Midnight Release! Here's what I have for sale or for trade this post! Check out my full want list towards the bottom for a mix of personal collection (NM-M) and damaged card wants.
Originally posted 06/08/23 Pacific Time Zone
X-Posted to Facebook & Discord
Updates (as of 06/08 at 11:30pm PDT): All binder photos up to date
Special Illustrations / Art Gallery
ex / VMAX / V
Radiant / Amazing Rare / Celebrations
Unique & Stamped Cards / Promos - for the play promos, if they are sleeved, they are holo
Holos / Rares / Playables - I also have a lot of staple trainers from previous sets; inquire if interested.
Miscuts / Crimps / Errors - Or Best Offer
- If tracking is not part of shipping method, I will only accept Paypal via friends & family.
*please let me know if a link is broken or images are incorrect, TIA
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Originally posted 06/08/23 Pacific Time Zone
X-Posted to Facebook & Discord
Updates (as of 06/08 at 11:30pm PDT): All binder photos up to date
Full Binder - See Breakdown Below:
- all cards unless listed otherwise are pack fresh never played. Inquire about promos as factory packaging is horrible at keeping cards pristine.$$$ Priced 10% off TCGplayer Low (gold star sellers with >1000 sales $$$
Secrets & Full ArtsSpecial Illustrations / Art Gallery
ex / VMAX / V
Radiant / Amazing Rare / Celebrations
Unique & Stamped Cards / Promos - for the play promos, if they are sleeved, they are holo
Holos / Rares / Playables - I also have a lot of staple trainers from previous sets; inquire if interested.
Miscuts / Crimps / Errors - Or Best Offer
- Energy Lot (Off center; all minus water have alignment Dots) - $25 obo
- Snorunt (crimp/cut) - $5 obo
- Onix (baby crimp) - $2 obo
- Champion Lapras VMAX - $30 Shipped
- Arceus Dialga Palkia Regional - $40 Shipped
- I can include Paypal on my side to help even up trades or buy certain cards outright (if the price is right).
Want Lists:
Cards I Need. See Breakdown Below:
- Pink = High Priority Wants, M/NM only please, Grey = NM to DAMAGED or HIGHLY PLAYED ok! Everything else, LP is fine.
Paypal: $$$ Priced 10% off TCGplayer Low (gold star sellers with >1000 sales $$$
- Everything is negotiable, but I've undercut TCGplayer low or eBay for like condition on all cards.- Shipping is $1 for PWE, or $5.00 for bubble mailer with tracking (waived if $50+ in cards). Max cards via PWE is quantity 4-6, at which point would need another PWE ($1) or upgrade to bubble mailer.
- If tracking is not part of shipping method, I will only accept Paypal via friends & family.
*please let me know if a link is broken or images are incorrect, TIA
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2023.06.09 07:58 -PrecYse- [WTS] Benchmade Mini Crooked River , S30V / wood
For sale (no trades please)
Benchmade Mini Crooked River , 3.4inch S30V blade, 4.5inch total length, stabilized wood/aluminum
https://imgur.com/a/Kd3fuD5
Purchased a bit less than a year ago (original owner) , came off center out the box, didnt affect its functionality so never bothered to get it sent in or swapped out. Also never carried ,used, sharpened. Put the clip on the opposite side thinking id end up using it, never did (im a lefty).
See video for action, drops shut, smooth and swift opening, off center but doesnt affect action at all, just annoying to look at but can probably be fixed if youve had any dealings with off centered knives.
Take it off my hands, letting go of a bunch of knives i dont use
SV: 200 Paypal G&S only
Ships via UPS the next business day, CONUS only
Thank you for viewing, take care!
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Benchmade Mini Crooked River , 3.4inch S30V blade, 4.5inch total length, stabilized wood/aluminum
https://imgur.com/a/Kd3fuD5
Purchased a bit less than a year ago (original owner) , came off center out the box, didnt affect its functionality so never bothered to get it sent in or swapped out. Also never carried ,used, sharpened. Put the clip on the opposite side thinking id end up using it, never did (im a lefty).
See video for action, drops shut, smooth and swift opening, off center but doesnt affect action at all, just annoying to look at but can probably be fixed if youve had any dealings with off centered knives.
Take it off my hands, letting go of a bunch of knives i dont use
SV: 200 Paypal G&S only
Ships via UPS the next business day, CONUS only
Thank you for viewing, take care!
2023.06.09 07:57 Temporary_Simple429 Need some help on this one
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Venue : TOPLIGHT TRADE CENTER,
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2023.06.09 07:40 fakin-_it I have feelings for my friend who is 8 years younger. Would this be too challenging?
I'm f/32 and he's 24. We are both Christians and met on a hike with friends about a year and a half ago. I was not interested at all and if you would have told me I ever would be I probably would have died laughing and not even made it this far lol. He is not my type at all, and the age was always a hard no for me. So, because of these factors I always have had good boundaries with him and never thought more of our friendship. But over the past year he has grown to be one of my best friends and I truly love him, I care for his best interests as well which is also why I'm posting this. I wouldn't want dating me/marriage to bring him extra challenges in life.
In the time that I've known him, I met another guy and dated him off and on for about 10 months. I ended it in March, but it dragged on until about a month ago, which is when my friend revealed to me that he has feelings for me. The relationship I was in I had no peace in and the Holy Spirit was constantly leading me to end it. The guy was 33, but spiritually he was not where I'm at and was unable to lead us in a Christ centered relationship. There were a lot of red flags and we technically broke up twice in those months of dating. I never broke up with him for my friend and, like I said I never saw my friend like that.
But, the past month God has really opened my eyes and heart to this friend, it's almost like wow why did I not see this before. When I did realize he had feelings for me, it was because a couple other mutual friends mentioned things like "I think he likes you" or "when are you guys just going to get married?" Those statements just caused an instant realization that I do love this guy, he is my best friend, we laugh together, I can be myself with him, he always leads me to Christ and the Bible when I'm going through something or seeking counsel, he loves and adores me...etc. He's not the type I'd find attractive, but at this point I'm realizing the guys I do find an instant attraction to aren't good for me. An attraction is there for him emotionally, and growing because I do love him for who he is, it's just weird because I've only seen him as a brother in Christ. We are very compatible though, even him being younger he gets all the same references and likes the same music. We can have deep talks, especially recently since I've been single and he's very receptive to my emotions and caring. I've actually never known a guy to be this sweet and attentive (and I've dated a lot of guys before I was a Christian).
Last summer, he moved to another state and so during that time I've dated my ex. My friend was mostly out of the picture besides phone calls here and there, and visits every few months, but next month he is moving back. We've been talking about things and possibly seeing where the Lord leads us. He's let me know he wants to pursue me and that through prayer he feels God is telling him it's okay to pursue me when I'm ready. I told him I'm not ready right now, due to just being in a relationship. Not to mention our church community I think would be really shocked. I would like to explore if God does have something deeper for us together, but I'm hesitant due to the age difference and being in different places career wise. Neither of us are financially stable, I'm in grad school and he will be starting trade school, but also feels called to be a pastor one day. It makes me nervous that we may not be stable for quite some time.
Would this even be realistic? I do graduate soon, but then I will have to be an associate for 2 years not making much money (I study clinical psychology). Would this be wise to pursue this any time soon? I'm thinking maybe 6 months to a year, if we ever do. Also to add, before I dated my recent ex I was single for 3 years...so I'm a bit frustrated and feel set back, but want to spend at least a few months single to heal and repair my relationship with God first.
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In the time that I've known him, I met another guy and dated him off and on for about 10 months. I ended it in March, but it dragged on until about a month ago, which is when my friend revealed to me that he has feelings for me. The relationship I was in I had no peace in and the Holy Spirit was constantly leading me to end it. The guy was 33, but spiritually he was not where I'm at and was unable to lead us in a Christ centered relationship. There were a lot of red flags and we technically broke up twice in those months of dating. I never broke up with him for my friend and, like I said I never saw my friend like that.
But, the past month God has really opened my eyes and heart to this friend, it's almost like wow why did I not see this before. When I did realize he had feelings for me, it was because a couple other mutual friends mentioned things like "I think he likes you" or "when are you guys just going to get married?" Those statements just caused an instant realization that I do love this guy, he is my best friend, we laugh together, I can be myself with him, he always leads me to Christ and the Bible when I'm going through something or seeking counsel, he loves and adores me...etc. He's not the type I'd find attractive, but at this point I'm realizing the guys I do find an instant attraction to aren't good for me. An attraction is there for him emotionally, and growing because I do love him for who he is, it's just weird because I've only seen him as a brother in Christ. We are very compatible though, even him being younger he gets all the same references and likes the same music. We can have deep talks, especially recently since I've been single and he's very receptive to my emotions and caring. I've actually never known a guy to be this sweet and attentive (and I've dated a lot of guys before I was a Christian).
Last summer, he moved to another state and so during that time I've dated my ex. My friend was mostly out of the picture besides phone calls here and there, and visits every few months, but next month he is moving back. We've been talking about things and possibly seeing where the Lord leads us. He's let me know he wants to pursue me and that through prayer he feels God is telling him it's okay to pursue me when I'm ready. I told him I'm not ready right now, due to just being in a relationship. Not to mention our church community I think would be really shocked. I would like to explore if God does have something deeper for us together, but I'm hesitant due to the age difference and being in different places career wise. Neither of us are financially stable, I'm in grad school and he will be starting trade school, but also feels called to be a pastor one day. It makes me nervous that we may not be stable for quite some time.
Would this even be realistic? I do graduate soon, but then I will have to be an associate for 2 years not making much money (I study clinical psychology). Would this be wise to pursue this any time soon? I'm thinking maybe 6 months to a year, if we ever do. Also to add, before I dated my recent ex I was single for 3 years...so I'm a bit frustrated and feel set back, but want to spend at least a few months single to heal and repair my relationship with God first.
2023.06.09 07:35 Zagaroth [No Need For A Core?] - CH 092: The Enclaves
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Each faction was going to need an encampment, and Mordecai decided to start there. He placed each one on opposite sides of the cavern at its widest point, approximately midway between the entrance and exit. He’d sculpted the cavern to have interesting terrain, so the widest point was a touch off of the center.
He was only going to do part of the work for the encampments, leaving the customization to the laganthros who would be playing the parts. For the moment he started by clearing out a circle of terrain for each side, with half of the circle being carved out of the wall behind them and the other half being out front. The sub-caverns created this way were 20 feet tall, giving them plenty of room to build as they liked.
Now he created small gardens for a new set of mushrooms, special breeds for use as items. The first set of cultivated fungi had their use based off of their normal appearance:
Broad-capped mushrooms were reinforced and designed to be readily broken off to be used as shields. A variant of Morels whose craggy nooks could be used as shelving, trumpet-shaped mushrooms that could be used for a limited time to greatly amplify shouted words, bell-shaped mushrooms that would actually chime when a living creature approached, squat trunk mushrooms that could be grown small or large to act as stools or tables, plus some cupped shaped ones that could easily become actual cups or bowls. He would create more as requested, he couldn’t think of everything himself that others might need, but the goal was to make it so that the two factions had almost everything they needed to equip themselves and to build.
Mordecai ventured further afield with his next set of mushrooms for gardening however. The living crystal had given him an idea when he’d considered the problem of making normally metal items. The mushrooms in this field grew in a variety of shapes but were very heavily infused with living crystals and all grew in spreading patterns. The outer heads are where the crystal would concentrate the most, eventually causing them to crack off on the outermost edge. The resulting material could be knapped much like flint or obsidian to a razor-sharp edge, but over the next couple of days would harden to a toughness more like that of nephrite, i.e. true jade. Jadeite was the more common stone called jade because of its similar appearance, but it was not quite as tough or as hard as nephrite.
It wouldn’t cover everything metal could do, but would be more than sufficient for making weapons if napped, or for anything from art to tools if shaped only after it was fully hardened. Empires could be founded without advanced metallurgy if they had access to even normal nephrite, let alone what could be done with this crystal.
He also altered some mushrooms to sit more ‘in between’. With a more lightweight infusion of crystal for structural support, it was not hard to create fungi whose various parts could be used as raw construction material, whether akin to ropes or materials that could act like wood, if a touch spongier.
Now that he had raw materials down, it was time to call in his troops. Most of them were simply going to be the strongest of the laganthros in their respective specialties, though he did have a couple of additions to make.
The right side encampment was the easiest to assign, calling up some ‘light cavalry’ mounted on polecats, and some aerial cavalry in the form of mages mounted on dracobits, with scouting/infantry support from rangers bonded to caracals.
The left side he gave to ‘heavy infantry’, though he had to make their mounts first. The Riverbridge gifts and trades came in handy here as there had been some farm animals included, and before long he had his porcini boars. And he had them live up to the pun too, growing the squat mushrooms from their thick hide and fur, forming a natural saddle shape as well as extra protection for both the boar and the rider. It was admittedly a more outlandish hybridization than, say, an owl bear, but at least he’d be able to adjust and fix any issues that cropped up.
For support, he gave them various rabbats as ‘falconry’, providing both scouts and an aerial force, and sharpshooters of both archery and gun varieties. The guns were one of the few things that absolutely had to be made out of metal, he couldn’t find a way to reinforce any form of crystal to withstand the shock pressure of the firing chamber. Maybe as a deeper dungeon they could create a heavily enchanted crystal if they wanted to, but it didn’t seem worth the effort.
And the final creation for this level he made as support for both sides, though purely defensively. To take the place of guard dogs, he altered and enlarged some badgers, creating two colonies of Giant Badgers. He only had to alter their base personalities a little, most badgers were quite capable of being social and of being aggressively defensive, he just had to tighten up their pack bonding and ability to work in groups. He also made sure that they were completely immune to all fungal spores and toxins to be found in this dungeon, which also gave them a general boost against toxins and diseases. Dungeon creatures may not have to eat, but it feels natural for them to do so and he wanted to fit them in here with the ability to eat any mushrooms.
Once he was certain that everything was settled well enough, he met with the leaders of his two factions in the safe-space camping spot at the level’s entrance.
“So, what do you think of your enclaves?” Was what he started with, and that led to a couple of hours of discussions, questions, and answers. When all that was settled, Mordecai moved on to making sure everyone was on the same page concerning rules.
“I want this to be a bit more free form than what we’ve done before. You don’t absolutely have to fight any dungeon challengers, but you do have to play the part of a warring party on high alert and be highly suspicious of intruders.” He grinned at them. “If you need to, you can take some acting lessons from your cousins on the third floor. Might make for a good part of that training exchange I set up previously. But you don’t have to let them pass by either. You can deny them passage, you can demand tribute, you can form alliances, or otherwise act how you like. This should all be very dynamic. The only rule I make absolute for you and yours is that this zone right here is a safe space for them. Mind, I am only being so nice here, the ‘wildlife’ won’t be burdened by that obligation, but generally won’t have a reason to attack this location anyway.”
“And when there aren’t any challengers?” Asked one of the troop captains.
“Mostly up to you for the details, I just want at least some of you to be training against each other most days. You’ve been very diligent in forming your own schedules before, I don’t see any reason to change that now. But I’ll let you know if I spot anything I think can be improved on. Similarly, I expect you to let me know if there is anything I can improve. I think I’ve balanced your forces, the forest is heavy enough to keep the mages and dracobits from dominating the battlefield, but if your battle practice shows that I need to change that balance, I want you to tell me.”
The rabbit folk talked with each other for a bit, then when they had reached a consensus turned back to him. “We’re satisfied with this new role my lord. There are a few who have decided they aren’t quite comfortable here after all, but we can find some other recruits to fill their spots so you don’t have to worry about it.”
“Excellent. Oh, one final thing, as a default no one is to support the boss fight.” Which was a change from most of the previous floors. “The exception is if your enclave is assaulted. If that happens and you survive, then you should rally at the final chamber for the floor and support the boss or bosses.”
“Oh, what do you have planned for our bosses?” Came the excited query.
Mordecai smiled. “Well, I’ll show you before too long. For now, you should know that they are not going to start out the brightest and could be hazardous if you get too close, so be very careful if you do end up supporting them. And their names will be Sarcomaag and Klastoria.”
“What is up with those names?” Kazue’s voice asked in his head.
“I’m just having some fun messing around with relevant words.” he replied before focusing back on the faction leaders. “I think they’ll be an interesting new challenge for people who get this far.”
.
While the two dungeon cores had fun finally building out their fifth level, the rest of the world continued about its business. Their wife was finishing her preparations to come back home and bring Kazue’s father with her, including a quick side shopping trip that she was very careful to not let them in on, which was much easier to do while they were distracted.
Traveling south from the capital city was a merchant caravan with a champion as part of its escort. They moved slowly of course, but by the time they had to start setting up camp the last spires of the city’s central keep were lost over the horizon behind them.
News of their existence was beginning to spread in earnest now, and some of that news even managed to get their names right. The oddness of a dual-core was going to stir curiosity at the least, but it was Mordecai’s name that would serve as the biggest catalyst for making their life more interesting, in differing measures of good and ill.
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He was only going to do part of the work for the encampments, leaving the customization to the laganthros who would be playing the parts. For the moment he started by clearing out a circle of terrain for each side, with half of the circle being carved out of the wall behind them and the other half being out front. The sub-caverns created this way were 20 feet tall, giving them plenty of room to build as they liked.
Now he created small gardens for a new set of mushrooms, special breeds for use as items. The first set of cultivated fungi had their use based off of their normal appearance:
Broad-capped mushrooms were reinforced and designed to be readily broken off to be used as shields. A variant of Morels whose craggy nooks could be used as shelving, trumpet-shaped mushrooms that could be used for a limited time to greatly amplify shouted words, bell-shaped mushrooms that would actually chime when a living creature approached, squat trunk mushrooms that could be grown small or large to act as stools or tables, plus some cupped shaped ones that could easily become actual cups or bowls. He would create more as requested, he couldn’t think of everything himself that others might need, but the goal was to make it so that the two factions had almost everything they needed to equip themselves and to build.
Mordecai ventured further afield with his next set of mushrooms for gardening however. The living crystal had given him an idea when he’d considered the problem of making normally metal items. The mushrooms in this field grew in a variety of shapes but were very heavily infused with living crystals and all grew in spreading patterns. The outer heads are where the crystal would concentrate the most, eventually causing them to crack off on the outermost edge. The resulting material could be knapped much like flint or obsidian to a razor-sharp edge, but over the next couple of days would harden to a toughness more like that of nephrite, i.e. true jade. Jadeite was the more common stone called jade because of its similar appearance, but it was not quite as tough or as hard as nephrite.
It wouldn’t cover everything metal could do, but would be more than sufficient for making weapons if napped, or for anything from art to tools if shaped only after it was fully hardened. Empires could be founded without advanced metallurgy if they had access to even normal nephrite, let alone what could be done with this crystal.
He also altered some mushrooms to sit more ‘in between’. With a more lightweight infusion of crystal for structural support, it was not hard to create fungi whose various parts could be used as raw construction material, whether akin to ropes or materials that could act like wood, if a touch spongier.
Now that he had raw materials down, it was time to call in his troops. Most of them were simply going to be the strongest of the laganthros in their respective specialties, though he did have a couple of additions to make.
The right side encampment was the easiest to assign, calling up some ‘light cavalry’ mounted on polecats, and some aerial cavalry in the form of mages mounted on dracobits, with scouting/infantry support from rangers bonded to caracals.
The left side he gave to ‘heavy infantry’, though he had to make their mounts first. The Riverbridge gifts and trades came in handy here as there had been some farm animals included, and before long he had his porcini boars. And he had them live up to the pun too, growing the squat mushrooms from their thick hide and fur, forming a natural saddle shape as well as extra protection for both the boar and the rider. It was admittedly a more outlandish hybridization than, say, an owl bear, but at least he’d be able to adjust and fix any issues that cropped up.
For support, he gave them various rabbats as ‘falconry’, providing both scouts and an aerial force, and sharpshooters of both archery and gun varieties. The guns were one of the few things that absolutely had to be made out of metal, he couldn’t find a way to reinforce any form of crystal to withstand the shock pressure of the firing chamber. Maybe as a deeper dungeon they could create a heavily enchanted crystal if they wanted to, but it didn’t seem worth the effort.
And the final creation for this level he made as support for both sides, though purely defensively. To take the place of guard dogs, he altered and enlarged some badgers, creating two colonies of Giant Badgers. He only had to alter their base personalities a little, most badgers were quite capable of being social and of being aggressively defensive, he just had to tighten up their pack bonding and ability to work in groups. He also made sure that they were completely immune to all fungal spores and toxins to be found in this dungeon, which also gave them a general boost against toxins and diseases. Dungeon creatures may not have to eat, but it feels natural for them to do so and he wanted to fit them in here with the ability to eat any mushrooms.
Once he was certain that everything was settled well enough, he met with the leaders of his two factions in the safe-space camping spot at the level’s entrance.
“So, what do you think of your enclaves?” Was what he started with, and that led to a couple of hours of discussions, questions, and answers. When all that was settled, Mordecai moved on to making sure everyone was on the same page concerning rules.
“I want this to be a bit more free form than what we’ve done before. You don’t absolutely have to fight any dungeon challengers, but you do have to play the part of a warring party on high alert and be highly suspicious of intruders.” He grinned at them. “If you need to, you can take some acting lessons from your cousins on the third floor. Might make for a good part of that training exchange I set up previously. But you don’t have to let them pass by either. You can deny them passage, you can demand tribute, you can form alliances, or otherwise act how you like. This should all be very dynamic. The only rule I make absolute for you and yours is that this zone right here is a safe space for them. Mind, I am only being so nice here, the ‘wildlife’ won’t be burdened by that obligation, but generally won’t have a reason to attack this location anyway.”
“And when there aren’t any challengers?” Asked one of the troop captains.
“Mostly up to you for the details, I just want at least some of you to be training against each other most days. You’ve been very diligent in forming your own schedules before, I don’t see any reason to change that now. But I’ll let you know if I spot anything I think can be improved on. Similarly, I expect you to let me know if there is anything I can improve. I think I’ve balanced your forces, the forest is heavy enough to keep the mages and dracobits from dominating the battlefield, but if your battle practice shows that I need to change that balance, I want you to tell me.”
The rabbit folk talked with each other for a bit, then when they had reached a consensus turned back to him. “We’re satisfied with this new role my lord. There are a few who have decided they aren’t quite comfortable here after all, but we can find some other recruits to fill their spots so you don’t have to worry about it.”
“Excellent. Oh, one final thing, as a default no one is to support the boss fight.” Which was a change from most of the previous floors. “The exception is if your enclave is assaulted. If that happens and you survive, then you should rally at the final chamber for the floor and support the boss or bosses.”
“Oh, what do you have planned for our bosses?” Came the excited query.
Mordecai smiled. “Well, I’ll show you before too long. For now, you should know that they are not going to start out the brightest and could be hazardous if you get too close, so be very careful if you do end up supporting them. And their names will be Sarcomaag and Klastoria.”
“What is up with those names?” Kazue’s voice asked in his head.
“I’m just having some fun messing around with relevant words.” he replied before focusing back on the faction leaders. “I think they’ll be an interesting new challenge for people who get this far.”
Traveling south from the capital city was a merchant caravan with a champion as part of its escort. They moved slowly of course, but by the time they had to start setting up camp the last spires of the city’s central keep were lost over the horizon behind them.
News of their existence was beginning to spread in earnest now, and some of that news even managed to get their names right. The oddness of a dual-core was going to stir curiosity at the least, but it was Mordecai’s name that would serve as the biggest catalyst for making their life more interesting, in differing measures of good and ill.
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2023.06.09 07:03 AutoModerator Online Activities Weekly Megathread
Welcome to our Scarlet and Violet Online Activities Megathread!
Please use this thread for sharing link and friend codes instead of creating individual, standalone submissions for them.
THIS THREAD IS NOT FOR TRADE REQUESTS. Please use the separate, dedicated Megathread.Previous Thread
Helpful Information to Share / Posting Format
Co-Op— Required Information- Activity Description (What will you be doing?)
- YouThe Host's In-Game Trainer Name
- Link Code
- Raid Level
- Raid Pokémon's Name
- Link Code
- Activity Description (What type of battles or Pokémon limitations will be implemented?)
- YouThe Host's In-Game Trainer Name
- Link Code
- Profile Name
- Link Code
- Optional: Additional Information if Desired (Games played, active times, etc.)
Accessing Online Activities
You’ll first need to progress through the game until you reach the initial Pokémon Center in Los Platos.- Online Activities are accessible from the Main Menu via "Poke Portal"
- Once in Poke Portal you can select your desired activity
- Select the "Union Circle" option, or visit a Pokémon Center's Union Circle directly
- Choose whether to "Form a Group" or "Join a Group": Forming a group will provide a shareable Link Code, Joining a group will ask you to input one
- Once enough people have joined, the Host will have an option to press "Set out together"
- Select the "Tera Raid Battle" option within the Poke Portal
- Input a valid Raid Link Code
- Select the "Link Battle" option within the Poke Portal
- Input a valid Battle Link Code
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2023.06.09 07:01 AutoModerator Trade Requests Weekly Megathread
Welcome to our Scarlet and Violet Trade Requests Megathread!
Please use this thread for finding or requesting trades instead of creating individual, standalone submissions for them.
THIS THREAD IS NOT FOR OTHER ONLINE ACTIVITIES. Please use the appropriate Megathreads.Previous Thread
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Trade Request— Required Information- Looking For: Pokémon Name(s)
- For Trade: Pokémon Name(s) or Make Offer (if nothing specific in mind)
- In-Game Trainer Name
- Link Code
How to Trade in Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet
You’ll first need to progress through the game until you reach the initial Pokémon Center in Los Platos.- Open the Main Menu and select "Poke Portal"
- Select "Link Trade" or "Surprise Trade"
- If Link Trading, input your partner's Link Code
- Ensure you and the person you're trading with type in the same code
- Select "Begin Searching" to start the trade
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2023.06.09 06:02 tianchengkao WTT/WTS hinder, demko, neon, heretic
sup KS. happy Monday
SV is for Sell (PPFF only no note. i will return fund if noted) TV is for trade. feel free to reach out. Ship to lower 48
trade interest are TRM neutron ultem scale & TRM atom ti deep texture scale（just scale） demko scale Demko smooth TI ad20S , microtech ultem. and all other ridiculous good shit.
if you have questions. you can always shoot chat/pm but please allow me find time to reply from work.
time
Heretic ROC
Brand new in box with heretic oil. no sign of use and visible scratch. very unique OTF. action is smoother than MT. i don't know if its the curve design. the ergo and the push button become extremely easy. stonewash blade in my eye is best looking. i am second owner. never use never carry. just sit in home for OTF itch to replace my hellhound. and it is great. list it out here to see if it can trade something i m looking for. if owner want to try out this unique OTF. this retail goes at 400. shoot me any question you have.
TV380
Demko AD20S
3rd owner. sharpened but did a good job. razor sharp. pivot looks zero scratch from both side. cool jade g10 scale see some used sign but not much. with matched ti deep cary. sharkfoot XHP steel. action is without question demko sharlock action. click-clack. this one is for trade for smooth TI AD20S or ultem ad20s . i can top cash or other knife if you like. only going to sell it after i got the TI one. so you can still ask questions. original box.
TV425
hinder maximus
at least 3rd owner. sharpened but did a relatively good job. it can fit all slicy job and no chip. check video.
g10 and ti scale are like new no visible scratch on it. blade is 20cv. this one is sturdier than i expected. and also cool look design. put in my car. had no use. just list there to see if any interest offer to my way. but my interest is TRM ti / ultem . Demko ti / ultem. or microtech ultem. this one came with box paper triway stuff. all of them.
TV 399
🧨SOLD🧨 shiro neon clone
(A-) Blade centering is very good. Lock-up is about 35% and solid with no lock rock or blade play. The action is excellent, very snappiy open and drop shut. The knife has never been carried or used
SV60 TV75
thanks
submitted by tianchengkao to Knife_Swap [link] [comments]
SV is for Sell (PPFF only no note. i will return fund if noted) TV is for trade. feel free to reach out. Ship to lower 48
trade interest are TRM neutron ultem scale & TRM atom ti deep texture scale（just scale） demko scale Demko smooth TI ad20S , microtech ultem. and all other ridiculous good shit.
if you have questions. you can always shoot chat/pm but please allow me find time to reply from work.
time
Heretic ROC
Brand new in box with heretic oil. no sign of use and visible scratch. very unique OTF. action is smoother than MT. i don't know if its the curve design. the ergo and the push button become extremely easy. stonewash blade in my eye is best looking. i am second owner. never use never carry. just sit in home for OTF itch to replace my hellhound. and it is great. list it out here to see if it can trade something i m looking for. if owner want to try out this unique OTF. this retail goes at 400. shoot me any question you have.
TV380
Demko AD20S
3rd owner. sharpened but did a good job. razor sharp. pivot looks zero scratch from both side. cool jade g10 scale see some used sign but not much. with matched ti deep cary. sharkfoot XHP steel. action is without question demko sharlock action. click-clack. this one is for trade for smooth TI AD20S or ultem ad20s . i can top cash or other knife if you like. only going to sell it after i got the TI one. so you can still ask questions. original box.
TV425
hinder maximus
at least 3rd owner. sharpened but did a relatively good job. it can fit all slicy job and no chip. check video.
g10 and ti scale are like new no visible scratch on it. blade is 20cv. this one is sturdier than i expected. and also cool look design. put in my car. had no use. just list there to see if any interest offer to my way. but my interest is TRM ti / ultem . Demko ti / ultem. or microtech ultem. this one came with box paper triway stuff. all of them.
TV 399
🧨SOLD🧨 shiro neon clone
(A-) Blade centering is very good. Lock-up is about 35% and solid with no lock rock or blade play. The action is excellent, very snappiy open and drop shut. The knife has never been carried or used
SV60 TV75
thanks
2023.06.09 05:47 FridayXIII [WTS] Army Green & White Sitivien ST128 & AliExpress Folder
Hello Knife_Swap , thanks for taking a look at my wares. Selling those that never get carried or used.
Terms
Sitivien ST128 & AliExpress Folder
More images available upon request
For Your Consideration
SV $35 -- Army Green & White Sitivien ST128 & AliExpress Folder
Sitivien ST128 Folding Knife,D2 Blade,G10 Handle Folding Knife with Clip, Liner Lock, White
AliExpress Folding Knife,D2 Blade,G10 Handle Folding Knife with Clip, Liner Lock, Orange
(FridayXIII 06.08.23)
submitted by FridayXIII to Knife_Swap [link] [comments]
Terms
- Shipping - CONUS Shipping via USPS First Class, USPS Priority, or UPS ground at my discretion (unless USPS is required for a PO box).
- Payment - PPGS (No Notes)
- Claiming - Yolo rules apply, but I reserve the right to choose the buyer for any reason. Chat preferred over PM for questions, offers, or haggling. Please comment PRIOR to chat/PM.
- Local Knife Laws - know them, it's your responsibility.
- Trades (No trades at this time)
Sitivien ST128 & AliExpress Folder
More images available upon request
For Your Consideration
SV $35 -- Army Green & White Sitivien ST128 & AliExpress Folder
- Ownership - First owner.
- Centering - In my opinion centering is good for budget knives, with possibly a slight favoring to the show side.
- Lockup - Liner Locks with solid Lockup.
- Condition - Blade and body are in perfect condition as I only displayed these.
- Edge Condition - Factory edge.
- Included - Original box.
- Modifications - None.
- Disassembled - No.
- Action - Sitivien Knifes has excelent lockup and detent. They can be slow rolled and probably flicked open with the proper break in. The Orange handled AliExpress Folder has a good lockup but the detent is very stiff.
- Blade Steel - D2
- Handle Material - G10.
- Notes - All three knives have never been carried or used for cutting. The Green Sitivien has been opened and closed multiple times because I love the feel of the knife in hand. The White Sitivien and Orange AliExpress has lived all of their lives in their respected knife box. I hate to get rid of these two Sitivien knives but I've came to the conclusion I'll never carry them.
Sitivien ST128 Folding Knife,D2 Blade,G10 Handle Folding Knife with Clip, Liner Lock, White
AliExpress Folding Knife,D2 Blade,G10 Handle Folding Knife with Clip, Liner Lock, Orange
(FridayXIII 06.08.23)
2023.06.09 05:46 recentlyquitsmoking2 Hitchens on Pat Robertson
“As the year 2000 approaches, it is a safe bet that we will be treated to more superstition and barbarism of the [Pat] Robertson sort, and that other unscrupulous demagogues will try to canalize the fears and doubts of those who have been let down by the education system.” [“Minority Report,” Nation, 10/04/86]
“Whether you are a creationist like Pat Robertson, or a Catholic like Pat Buchanan, or a materialist believer in ‘Natural Law’ like [Harry] Jaffa and others, you can’t avoid the salient fact that the Creator, or the Divinity, or Nature, or Evolution, has evidently mandated that there be a certain quite large number of homosexuals.” [“Bloom’s Way,” Nation, 5/15/00]
"The disappointment was, and to me remains, acute. Within hours, the “reverends” Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell had announced that the immolation of their fellow creatures was a divine judgment on a secular society that tolerated homosexuality and abortion. At the solemn memorial service for the victims, held in the beautiful National Cathedral in Washington, an address was permitted from Billy Graham, a man whose record of opportunism and anti-Semitism is in itself a minor national disgrace. His absurd sermon made the claim that all the dead were now in paradise and would not return to us even if they could. I say absurd because it is impossible even in the most lenient terms to believe that a good number of sinful citizens had not been murdered by al-Qaeda that day. And there is no reason to believe that Billy Graham knew the current whereabouts of their souls, let alone their posthumous desires. But there was also something sinister in hearing detailed claims to knowledge of paradise, of the sort that bin Laden himself was making on behalf of the assassins." - God Is Not Great
"The suspicion that a calamity might also be a punishment is further useful in that it allows an infinity of speculation. After New Orleans, which suffered from a lethal combination of being built below sea level and neglected by the Bush administration, I learned from a senior rabbi in Israel that it was revenge for the evacuation of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip, and from the mayor of New Orleans (who had not performed his own job with exceptional prowess) that it was god’s verdict on the invasion of Iraq. You can nominate your own favorite sin here, as did the “reverends” Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell after the immolation of the World Trade Center. In that instance, the proximate cause was to be sought and found in America’s surrender to homosexuality and abortion. (Some ancient Egyptians believed that sodomy was the cause of earthquakes: I expect this interpretation to revive with especial force when the San Andreas Fault next gives a shudder under the Gomorrah of San Francisco.) When the debris had eventually settled on Ground Zero, it was found that two pieces of mangled girder still stood in the shape of a cross, and much wondering comment resulted. Since all architecture has always involved crossbeams, it would be surprising only if such a feature did not emerge. I admit that I would have been impressed if the wreckage had formed itself into a Star of David or a star and crescent, but there is no record of this ever having occurred anywhere, even in places where local people might be impressed by it. And remember, miracles are supposed to occur at the behest of a being who is omnipotent as well as omniscient and omnipresent. One might hope for more magnificent performances than ever seem to occur." - God Is Not Great
"The same can be said of the King epoch. The southern churches returned to their old ways after Reconstruction, and blessed the new institutions of segregation and discrimination. It was not until after the Second World War and the spread of decolonization and human rights that the cry for emancipation was raised again. In response, it was again very forcefully asserted (on American soil, in the second half of the twentieth century) that the discrepant descendants of Noah were not intended by god to be mixed. This barbaric stupidity had real-world consequences. The late Senator Eugene McCarthy told me that he had once urged Senator Pat Robertson—father of the present television prophet—to support some mild civil rights legislation. “I’d sure like to help the colored,” came the response, “but the Bible says I can’t.” The entire self-definition of “the South” was that it was white, and Christian. This is exactly what gave Dr. King his moral leverage, because he could outpreach the rednecks. But the heavy burden would never have been laid upon him if religiosity had not been so deeply entrenched to begin with. As Taylor Branch shows, many of King’s inner circle and entourage were secular Communists and socialists who had been manuring the ground for a civil rights movement for several decades and helping train brave volunteers like Mrs. Rosa Parks for a careful strategy of mass civil disobedience, and these “atheistic” associations were to be used against King all the time, especially from the pulpit. Indeed, one result of his campaign was to generate the “backlash” of white right-wing Christianity which is still such a potent force below the Mason-Dixon line." - God Is Not Great
"The Leader of the Free World was frequently photographed in the company of “end-times” Protestant fundamentalists and biblical literalists like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson: tethered gas-balloons of greed and cynicism once written up by Martin Amis as “frauds of Chaucerian proportions.” The president found time to burble with such characters about the fulfillment of ancient “prophecy” and the coming Apocalypse. He also speculated drivellingly that the jury might yet return an open verdict on the theory of evolution. He was married to a woman who employed a White House astrologer. He said that the Abraham Lincoln Battalion had fought on “the wrong side” in the civil war in Spain, which logically meant that there had been a “right” side and that it was the Francoist one. (When the last attempt at a fascist coup was made in Spain, in the early 1980s, the Reagan administration was asked for comment, again in the person of the Strangelovian freak Alexander Haig, who flabbergastingly said that the armed attack on Spain’s elected parliament was a purely internal Spanish affair.) With Haig, Reagan also gave permission to Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon to invade Lebanon in 1982, and to take their incursion as far as Beirut to do the dirty work of the Catholic Phalange. In order to gratify Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany, Reagan agreed to visit an SS cemetery in Bitburg (Ich bin ein Bitburger) and, as if that in itself was not bad enough, to declare that those interred there were not just “victims,” but victims “just as much” as the civilians they had slaughtered. He made stupid, alarming on-air jokes about pre-emptively bombing the USSR. He pardoned the convicted FBI agents Felt and Miller, who had been prosecuted and fired for illegal break-ins and wiretaps directed at the anti-war movement. In a really sweet irony, one of these men (Mark Felt), as I was to learn, had been the “Deep Throat” whose torpedoes had sent the previous elected Republican administration to the floor of the sea.*" - Hitch-22
submitted by recentlyquitsmoking2 to ChristopherHitchens [link] [comments]
“Whether you are a creationist like Pat Robertson, or a Catholic like Pat Buchanan, or a materialist believer in ‘Natural Law’ like [Harry] Jaffa and others, you can’t avoid the salient fact that the Creator, or the Divinity, or Nature, or Evolution, has evidently mandated that there be a certain quite large number of homosexuals.” [“Bloom’s Way,” Nation, 5/15/00]
"The disappointment was, and to me remains, acute. Within hours, the “reverends” Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell had announced that the immolation of their fellow creatures was a divine judgment on a secular society that tolerated homosexuality and abortion. At the solemn memorial service for the victims, held in the beautiful National Cathedral in Washington, an address was permitted from Billy Graham, a man whose record of opportunism and anti-Semitism is in itself a minor national disgrace. His absurd sermon made the claim that all the dead were now in paradise and would not return to us even if they could. I say absurd because it is impossible even in the most lenient terms to believe that a good number of sinful citizens had not been murdered by al-Qaeda that day. And there is no reason to believe that Billy Graham knew the current whereabouts of their souls, let alone their posthumous desires. But there was also something sinister in hearing detailed claims to knowledge of paradise, of the sort that bin Laden himself was making on behalf of the assassins." - God Is Not Great
"The suspicion that a calamity might also be a punishment is further useful in that it allows an infinity of speculation. After New Orleans, which suffered from a lethal combination of being built below sea level and neglected by the Bush administration, I learned from a senior rabbi in Israel that it was revenge for the evacuation of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip, and from the mayor of New Orleans (who had not performed his own job with exceptional prowess) that it was god’s verdict on the invasion of Iraq. You can nominate your own favorite sin here, as did the “reverends” Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell after the immolation of the World Trade Center. In that instance, the proximate cause was to be sought and found in America’s surrender to homosexuality and abortion. (Some ancient Egyptians believed that sodomy was the cause of earthquakes: I expect this interpretation to revive with especial force when the San Andreas Fault next gives a shudder under the Gomorrah of San Francisco.) When the debris had eventually settled on Ground Zero, it was found that two pieces of mangled girder still stood in the shape of a cross, and much wondering comment resulted. Since all architecture has always involved crossbeams, it would be surprising only if such a feature did not emerge. I admit that I would have been impressed if the wreckage had formed itself into a Star of David or a star and crescent, but there is no record of this ever having occurred anywhere, even in places where local people might be impressed by it. And remember, miracles are supposed to occur at the behest of a being who is omnipotent as well as omniscient and omnipresent. One might hope for more magnificent performances than ever seem to occur." - God Is Not Great
"The same can be said of the King epoch. The southern churches returned to their old ways after Reconstruction, and blessed the new institutions of segregation and discrimination. It was not until after the Second World War and the spread of decolonization and human rights that the cry for emancipation was raised again. In response, it was again very forcefully asserted (on American soil, in the second half of the twentieth century) that the discrepant descendants of Noah were not intended by god to be mixed. This barbaric stupidity had real-world consequences. The late Senator Eugene McCarthy told me that he had once urged Senator Pat Robertson—father of the present television prophet—to support some mild civil rights legislation. “I’d sure like to help the colored,” came the response, “but the Bible says I can’t.” The entire self-definition of “the South” was that it was white, and Christian. This is exactly what gave Dr. King his moral leverage, because he could outpreach the rednecks. But the heavy burden would never have been laid upon him if religiosity had not been so deeply entrenched to begin with. As Taylor Branch shows, many of King’s inner circle and entourage were secular Communists and socialists who had been manuring the ground for a civil rights movement for several decades and helping train brave volunteers like Mrs. Rosa Parks for a careful strategy of mass civil disobedience, and these “atheistic” associations were to be used against King all the time, especially from the pulpit. Indeed, one result of his campaign was to generate the “backlash” of white right-wing Christianity which is still such a potent force below the Mason-Dixon line." - God Is Not Great
"The Leader of the Free World was frequently photographed in the company of “end-times” Protestant fundamentalists and biblical literalists like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson: tethered gas-balloons of greed and cynicism once written up by Martin Amis as “frauds of Chaucerian proportions.” The president found time to burble with such characters about the fulfillment of ancient “prophecy” and the coming Apocalypse. He also speculated drivellingly that the jury might yet return an open verdict on the theory of evolution. He was married to a woman who employed a White House astrologer. He said that the Abraham Lincoln Battalion had fought on “the wrong side” in the civil war in Spain, which logically meant that there had been a “right” side and that it was the Francoist one. (When the last attempt at a fascist coup was made in Spain, in the early 1980s, the Reagan administration was asked for comment, again in the person of the Strangelovian freak Alexander Haig, who flabbergastingly said that the armed attack on Spain’s elected parliament was a purely internal Spanish affair.) With Haig, Reagan also gave permission to Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon to invade Lebanon in 1982, and to take their incursion as far as Beirut to do the dirty work of the Catholic Phalange. In order to gratify Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany, Reagan agreed to visit an SS cemetery in Bitburg (Ich bin ein Bitburger) and, as if that in itself was not bad enough, to declare that those interred there were not just “victims,” but victims “just as much” as the civilians they had slaughtered. He made stupid, alarming on-air jokes about pre-emptively bombing the USSR. He pardoned the convicted FBI agents Felt and Miller, who had been prosecuted and fired for illegal break-ins and wiretaps directed at the anti-war movement. In a really sweet irony, one of these men (Mark Felt), as I was to learn, had been the “Deep Throat” whose torpedoes had sent the previous elected Republican administration to the floor of the sea.*" - Hitch-22
2023.06.09 04:33 buckrogers2479 WTS Demko AD20 Clone by JuFule
SOLD
Timestamp: https://imgur.com/a/WYTz7PP
Titanium scales (so it says I DID check with a magnet, and they do not have any magnetic properties, if that matters....neither does LEAD,or aluminun - lol), 3V marked blade (not that it matters, it's a Chinese knock-off, it could say "24k Golden Buttplug", but it doesn't, it's *probably* D2 if I had to guess, but it IS sharp as shyte!), comes with box and deep carry clip. It is centered, and stays that way, smooth action, ready to be beaten up. Seeking $60 $50 Shipped PayPal G&S - no trades.
Video: https://imgur.com/a/wOYvlYk?s=sms
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2023.06.09 04:29 Bubzoluck [30 min read] The Opioid Epidemic before the Opioid Epidemic - Exploring Morphine Derivatives and the First Opium War (Part 1)
![[30 min read] The Opioid Epidemic before the Opioid Epidemic - Exploring Morphine Derivatives and the First Opium War (Part 1)](https://a.thumbs.redditmedia.com/YpI6WiwJhz9_UOaOig9GHJ8-6QQ66tCSGdcX49ZDBv4.jpg "[30 min read] The Opioid Epidemic before the Opioid Epidemic - Exploring Morphine Derivatives and the First Opium War (Part 1)") | Hello and welcome back to SAR! I have written and rewritten this post a few times now and I think I have landed on a format I am happy with. When we talk about the impact of medicine on history its important to get the context right, and I think I have found a way to talk about our topic. So what is it? No chemical is more important to the world of medicine than Opium, okay maybe Penicillin, but today we will say its Opium. Principally an analgesic (anti-pain), the Opium Poppy allowed for humans to take away pain in great degrees and further development on the natural chemicals has opened up surgery and post-op recovery. While we tend to look at the recent Opioid Epidemic as the only issue regarding Opiates, history reveals to us a very similar precursor. Also please head over to u/jtjdp post about morphine derivatives here! She does an amazing job explaining the higher level concepts of medicinal chemistry that I just wouldn’t do justice. Alright, enough quibbling, let’s get to the good stuff. submitted by Bubzoluck to SAR_Med_Chem [link] [comments] Disclaimer: this post is not designed to be medical advice. It is merely a look at the chemistry of medications and their general effect on the body. Each person responds differently to therapy. Please talk to your doctor about starting, stopping, or changing medical treatment. How Much do you Know About Pain?To be alive is to feel pain, and emo sentiments aside, this is one of the biggest biological properties of the central nervous system. When you think about it, how does the body take external stimuli and allow you to recognize it? The answer is the sensory nervous system which is responsible for sensing many different types of stimuli: temperature, pressure, pain, and chemicals. These sensory neurons carry the information from the extremities and transmit it up the spinal cord into the brain for processing. From there the brain alerts you to the issue allowing you to correct whatever problem is causing the pain. Let’s take a look: https://preview.redd.it/36yiuubbjw4b1.png?width=660&format=png&auto=webp&s=a8dc870ed6d879d67dce1eb126b86ba5acb9bc69
https://preview.redd.it/w6751owcjw4b1.png?width=896&format=png&auto=webp&s=122f8b2c615f741d848ed0171a574b1353a34038
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The Stars Align in the Shape of a Poppyhttps://preview.redd.it/nfygsi0hjw4b1.png?width=731&format=png&auto=webp&s=60c0b13cdad3d7b7b64f78d6294465f081839f61 To start our story about Opiates we need to turn to the great precursor—Opium. Opium itself is not a chemical but rather a really thick liquor (called latex) that contains a high concentration of Morphine (and some Codeine). There are 38 species of Poppy plants but only two produce Opium is great enough supply that it is worth farming them and humans have been cultivating these varieties for as long as we have known about the plants. When humans settled into Mesopotamia (near modern day Iraq), Poppies were one of the few plants grown in plots as large grain or vegetable fields (meaning that they were thought of as valuable as food). Throughout the Greek age of medicine (pre-500 BCE) through the Islamic medicinal revolution (500 BC-1500 AD), Opium was a major component of treatment, assisted suicide, and poison. In fact its through the rise of the Muslim Caliphates that we see the export of Opium to other parts of the world, especially through the Mediterranean Sea once the Crusaders return. Opium trading to the East via the silk roads was an almost continuous affair since time immemorial and Pakistan was a major growing area for the Eastern Poppy trade.
https://preview.redd.it/1cspu1ukjw4b1.png?width=578&format=png&auto=webp&s=4e81b6d401a1806f39592e802b0bd5ab6df9a2e8
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https://preview.redd.it/andjwt0qjw4b1.png?width=644&format=png&auto=webp&s=730782fa74a65c111a62f05024445656b81f9811
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Let’s Look at the Drugs a Bithttps://preview.redd.it/y4uwbc1tjw4b1.png?width=548&format=png&auto=webp&s=71f79278925a92ea052d1ae390a495f0496966b2 https://preview.redd.it/pf709wmujw4b1.png?width=918&format=png&auto=webp&s=91cdf3fdd56db4beb95f07f340d24bb7ef7e9cf3 Stepping away from the history a bit, let’s introduce the Family. Okay so we understand how pain is sent to the brain and how it modulates but there is so much more to the mu Opioid Receptor and that’s not the only kind of Opioid receptor that we have. The two most clinically useful receptors are the Mu and Kappa Opioid Receptors (KOR) because they result in analgesia but there is a Delta Opioid Receptor (DOR) that is worth mentioning. The majority of the Opiates that we know and love are Mu agonists but there are some very interesting Kappa agonists that are worth mentioning as well. https://preview.redd.it/eg9toikwjw4b1.png?width=587&format=png&auto=webp&s=027d16b15bd7e195205513a3034eb5610ba88537
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A Change in Trade Policyhttps://preview.redd.it/bb4eb0ltkw4b1.png?width=628&format=png&auto=webp&s=321048bd5d5edf8877aede887c3fcb7aa387a0e4 Oh, you’re still here. Neat! So by the 1820s the Qing dynasty was running into many problems regarding Opium. Firstly they needed the Opium taxes to fund their efforts to put down the White Lotus Rebellion and retain power. But after almost 30 years of trade the effects on Chinese communities could not be ignored along with local officials operating under the imperial trade department, the Hong, profiting from bribes to allow Opium. Regardless of initial efforts things were getting out of hand for the Qing government. In 1800, about 4000 chests of Opium or 560,000 pounds entered the country but by 1830 that number exploded to 20,000 chests or about 3 million pounds. But more than the amount of Opium actually entering the country was the incessant rudeness of the British government to open trade.
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2023.06.09 03:48 InjuredJonny [WTS] Hinderers, Striders, CKF Snafu 2.0, and Microtechs
Got some blades up for sale today, NO TRADES whatsoever unless they’d blow my socks off, lol wanna free up cash for other blades.Payment via paypal ff, zelle, venmo, cashapp, and price includes shipping.
Timestamp: https://imgur.com/a/ImBF1Fl-Jurrasic Hinderer pre triway, black/gray G10 scale, really like this, no box or anything, just the sexy knife lol. Ergos are top of the line on this model, DLC Jurrasic, has black pocket clip screws and body screws on it, edge was touched up. There are marks on the clip and some on the frame, and a few on the blade please check out the vid. Very nice knife,
390 shipped
Pic: https://imgur.com/a/XrxvAvSVId: https://imgur.com/a/3HgP5PS#PlWt4p8
Hinderer Eklipse full ti bowie battle blue, I had over 50 hinderers at one point, and I shit you not this one has/had the best action out of all of them, just not my preferred blade finish so off it goes. Has some rub on the clip, and some very light wear on the blade. The WF hides it well, comes with box and G10 scale and liner and all accessories. Has a matching battle blue textured titanium scale on it atm which it will come with as well, thanks!
-655 shipped
https://imgur.com/a/5P5Xaad
-Hinderer XM18 3.5 Spear point Bronze sw, with copper 35 A filler tab (original filler tab will not be included). So this one was carried a few times and blade was sparingly used on tape, blade looks pristine, only signs of wear are on the edge of the frame's spine, I inculded a pick, some pocket rub/wear from going in and out, and then one light snail on the clip. that's it, comes with exrtra Triway kit, stickers, card and box.
-430 shipped
https://imgur.com/a/Grfa2cB
Ultratech signature series bronzed hellhound, with G10 top, this is a very nice blade but it's for sale. In excellent condition do not have the original box but will include a generic microtech box and paperwork, thanks!
-390 shipped
https://imgur.com/a/ZiKojHW
UTX 70 blue handle DLC blade, no box just the knife. The blade is pristine but the handle has pocket wear from when it was just carried around, please observe the pics, has wear on the corners and clip. Thanks!- 179 shipped
https://imgur.com/a/KKojMxG
CKF Snafu 2.0: in very good shape but does some light surface snails on the ti and clip. Shown in the pics, Blade is pristine and action is oh so very nice. comes with pouch and COA and all extra stuff that was included. lmk thanks!-750 shipped
https://imgur.com/a/phplFEx
Strider SnG GG Aluminum PSF27 steel, okay so this was pocketed and used, there are light hairline marks throughout the blade please observe pics, action and lock up are solid. Nice blade,- SOLD SOLD 465 shipped
https://imgur.com/a/5fvuX3T
Strider GG G10 PD1 steel, put some white shit in the blade steel stamp to make it pop, can take it out with some nail polish removeacetone, light user, some snails here and there through out, slightly off center as well.-SOLD SOLD 545 SOLD shippedhttps://imgur.com/a/qLQo1HP
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Timestamp: https://imgur.com/a/ImBF1Fl-Jurrasic Hinderer pre triway, black/gray G10 scale, really like this, no box or anything, just the sexy knife lol. Ergos are top of the line on this model, DLC Jurrasic, has black pocket clip screws and body screws on it, edge was touched up. There are marks on the clip and some on the frame, and a few on the blade please check out the vid. Very nice knife,
390 shipped
Pic: https://imgur.com/a/XrxvAvSVId: https://imgur.com/a/3HgP5PS#PlWt4p8
Hinderer Eklipse full ti bowie battle blue, I had over 50 hinderers at one point, and I shit you not this one has/had the best action out of all of them, just not my preferred blade finish so off it goes. Has some rub on the clip, and some very light wear on the blade. The WF hides it well, comes with box and G10 scale and liner and all accessories. Has a matching battle blue textured titanium scale on it atm which it will come with as well, thanks!
-655 shipped
https://imgur.com/a/5P5Xaad
-Hinderer XM18 3.5 Spear point Bronze sw, with copper 35 A filler tab (original filler tab will not be included). So this one was carried a few times and blade was sparingly used on tape, blade looks pristine, only signs of wear are on the edge of the frame's spine, I inculded a pick, some pocket rub/wear from going in and out, and then one light snail on the clip. that's it, comes with exrtra Triway kit, stickers, card and box.
-430 shipped
https://imgur.com/a/Grfa2cB
Ultratech signature series bronzed hellhound, with G10 top, this is a very nice blade but it's for sale. In excellent condition do not have the original box but will include a generic microtech box and paperwork, thanks!
-390 shipped
https://imgur.com/a/ZiKojHW
UTX 70 blue handle DLC blade, no box just the knife. The blade is pristine but the handle has pocket wear from when it was just carried around, please observe the pics, has wear on the corners and clip. Thanks!- 179 shipped
https://imgur.com/a/KKojMxG
CKF Snafu 2.0: in very good shape but does some light surface snails on the ti and clip. Shown in the pics, Blade is pristine and action is oh so very nice. comes with pouch and COA and all extra stuff that was included. lmk thanks!-750 shipped
https://imgur.com/a/phplFEx
Strider SnG GG Aluminum PSF27 steel, okay so this was pocketed and used, there are light hairline marks throughout the blade please observe pics, action and lock up are solid. Nice blade,- SOLD SOLD 465 shipped
https://imgur.com/a/5fvuX3T
Strider GG G10 PD1 steel, put some white shit in the blade steel stamp to make it pop, can take it out with some nail polish removeacetone, light user, some snails here and there through out, slightly off center as well.-SOLD SOLD 545 SOLD shippedhttps://imgur.com/a/qLQo1HP