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HELLO! FYI... We have SEVEN (7) signed up at the moment. Which means that we will be making a second team. The other group that we dabble in D2 with is also looking for people to do this with. I have 2 from them looking for some people to play with/make a team. This pair (brothers) are based in the Netherlands. Would everyone be good with possibly playing with a handful outside our group? Aside from our currently running/always public raid team, I don't think it would be any different than other FGers who haven't played with anyone.

Beacons of hope. They are my beacons of hope... and at least half the time, there's like a treasure chest with them or shelter or both. Everyone can break down the bed and rebuild it, so they can sleep/set spawn point!

@TurboR56Mini as he tries to steer us away from the edge (after sailing us as close to the edge as possible) as we fall off the edge --> Apparently, there's current...

I think @TurboR56Mini is contemplating pushing me off the building... after finding where I put the last chest...

Thanks! I haven't decided if I'm going to make myself a cake... or buy a fancy cake... One of my friends said to do both lol. @TurboR56Mini will probably remind me that I will typically be disappointed in bakery cakes.. since most of them are trash. Yum.... cake. Aw. Thanks!

I wrapped up the Humankind OpevDev run on Saturday. There are still things in the game that I do not fully understand... and things I wonder where they are for quality of like (e.g., where's the mini-map?). I'm sure that they are probably in the game and just not in the OpenDev. In this last run, I figured out trading. In Civ, you create trade routes via traders. In Humankind, you do it in your Relations panel. There aren't trade routes, per se.. but you can still pillage a route if you stumble upon it.. I think that's what it said. You can also "buy" the commodity and sell it for a higher price. Oh, and the other major difference I want to highlight is the "Wonder" building.. you know how when you play Civ, and you race to build the Wonder before another Civilization finishes? Yeah.. that's not here in Humankind. But, if there's a perk from a Wonder that you do want, you better hope you generated enough culture/influence to "call dibs" on the wonder. You can only "call dibs"/build 1 wonder at a time... and you can devote as many cities as you want towards building it faster. I'll probably load up Civ 6 soon... sort of a nice mental comparison/drop down to an easier game just for ha-has... but Humankind has got some fantastic elements in it. I can't wait. Some screenshots:

I had to dig a little to try to make sense of it... because usually Marvel and Feige are on top of their continuations and whatnot... for the most part. https://screenrant.com/captain-marvel-eternals-gemma-chan-roles-kevin-feige/

Considering that the "party chat" function seems to have gone to trash for PS5, I'm all here for it!

From the distance.. where I was trying to get at least a 1 star wolf to follow me home.

5/2/2021 Workout MMA Thoughts: I had asked Jonesly to order me the gear he thinks I should have... instead of me walking in with stuff that he would frown upon. That was a bit more pricey than I anticipated. Oh well. It will last me basically forever. Worked out with the protective gear... while it was nice to not feel anything... I kind of miss feeling something. I miss the pain. But, I guess I'm just so used to feeling something. We focused a lot on kicking today. Apparently, it just doesn't click in my brain if I do the kicks against a heavy bag. But, when we moved to mitt work, it made so much more sense. I still want a heavy bag for home, but doing the combos when you need to react against another person, it just makes more sense. I'll go longer. I'll hit harder. He's happy with my progress in 4 sessions. I'm glad someone is lol. But, he also talked about getting past my mental block. He said, "It will always suck. You will always get tired. It's just about getting used to that feeling." I said, "So, you want me to work through the suck." He laughed and said, "YES! I'm writing that down. Gonna put it on shirts." I said, "I'm sure there's something more... elegant than that." Next session is in 2 weeks. He asked me about why I was stretching and rolling out my shoulder. I told him it was because of the weird knot that I've had for a year that sometimes is more painful at times. Since he is also a physical therapist, he said that he will do an assessment on me next time... that way we can fix what's wrong and not ignore it. Good times. I am debating on whether tomorrow is a rest day or a row day. If I don't take tomorrow as a rest day, then my next rest day is Wednesday. That's 5 days in a row. And, I'm not sure how I feel about that at the moment lol.

5/1/2021 Workout Squat Clean Workshop Sets: 1 hang clean, 3 front squats Heavy - 1 power clean, 1 or 2 front squats Thoughts: I knew I was walking into this already hurting/sore from the deadlifts. My right shoulder is additionally sore from whatever is causing it to be weird, on top of the deadlifts. My lower back is super sore to the point that bending isn't easy. I told myself, "No ego lifting. Just stay at the moderate weight." That thought lasted until we got to the heavy sets. Because by the time we were done with the original sets, I was already up to 110lbs with no failures. My Squat Clean PR is 125lbs. Apparently, I'm doing better on my clean. Moving faster. Opening my hands quicker. But, not enough to get to my PR of 125lbs. I completed 115lbs with 2 front squats. I failed at 125lbs on holding the clean long enough to move to squat. All things considered, being sore, doing around 18 total sets before failure, it was a good session. I need to be mindful of my workouts when we do the final day on June 5th. After the session, I asked Coach Tim if there was another workshop after this one. He confirmed that there was, and he was building up to a snatch. The next Workshop series will be on Press. Then, Jerks. Then, Snatches. So, that's the whole year of weightlifting programming. I'm excited. I thought they were going to do a Running workshop like they had last year right before I started working out with them. Nope. Weightlifting.. and I'm here for it.

What about trying the "I'm unable to access my Activision account"? Last ditch effort before driving there... try this phone number.. the first objective is to get in touch with a live person, then support --> 310-255-2050 I think you'll have to try it during the weekdays though. Keep us updated!

I will say that for at least me and @TurboR56Mini , we will be planning at least a 5 - 7 day trip over there... each time probably. It would essentially be @TurboR56Mini 's real, first legit time in Europe... and in the handful of times I have been there, I never really wandered outside of Paris, Nice, London, and Hitchin. Would be nice to do a proper trip in Europe outside the confines of being a reckless teenager and 20-something lol... being that I'm old now. Hahah.

4/30/2021 Workout Deadlifts 7 Sets of 5 Reps (3 sets at 185lbs, 3 sets at 195lbs, 1 set at 205lbs) Thoughts: Hah. I made my 5AM class today. Nothing complicated today. Just a nice weightlifting set. Honestly, I wasn't even going to try to break 200lbs today. But, Coach James kept asking me when I was going to stop warming up, so I kept adding weights until I was like "185lbs? When did that happen?" Coach James responded with, "And, you were going to stop at 145lbs. Those days are over for you." Good sets. My hands hurt. Tomorrow's Squat Clean workshop is going to hurt again.. which means MMA on Sunday is going to hurt again lol. But, I'm glad my deadlift numbers are getting back to what I used to do. Calculator says that based on my 205lbs, my 1 rep should be 230lbs... I probably should work on it a bit to get back to my old PR of 260lbs.