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TL;DR - I use the craft beer industry as a way to understand Capitalist Propaganda, how Capitalism and Socialism are inextricably linked to each other, and how through the use of propaganda, companies use the "illusion of choice" to coerce you into believing that you prefer the products that are most favorable to them. In order to change this into the consumer's favor, you need to be an informed consumer in the free market, and raise class consciousness to overthrow the tyranny of Capitalist Propaganda, that is called "Marketing".
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You can't understand Capitalist Propaganda unless you have a solid understanding of what Capitalism is beyond the literal definition of the word, which is just an abstract ideal. Propaganda plays off of the discrepancies between the ideals of Capitalism, like the free market, which is another abstract ideal, and the reality of Capitalism in practice in America, which can be characterized as Trickle Down Economics. Capitalism sought to be a pragmatic alternative to its economic predecessors, a fact which drives Capitalist Propaganda. However, through layers of abstraction throughout the years, it has become more of a religion, as critics refer to the increasingly ideological concept as "Supply Side Jesus", meaning you give all the money to the rich, it'll trickle down to the poor, and they can "vote" on the actions of the capitalists through monetary interactions in the free market.
Capitalist Propaganda is engrained in America, because at the time of our founding, Adam Smith wrote "Wealth of Nations", which is considered the Bible of the Free Market. This groundbreaking work utilized Newton's Laws of Physics, which were en vogue at the time, to describe how interactions in the marketplace would balance each other out, just as the laws of Newtonian Physics do.
The very noble purpose of Wealth of Nations was not create the oligarchy we have today, but to do the opposite. He wanted to describe a system that would protect individual freedoms and be truly democratic. Just as Lenin and Stalin bastardized the works of Marx, so too have capitalists in America bastardized the intentions of Adam Smith.
Capitalism and Socialism are best learned side by side, in my opinion, to avoid falling into the trappings of either ideology that our brains like to do. Which one is better? It depends on the market, but the answer is almost always somewhere in between.
Through learning how Socialist concepts can be applied to problems in Capitalism, you can cut through the propaganda and will see for yourself that these problems can be solved if we just drop the labels and do what's best for society and the individual. The problem is always finding the proper balance.
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WHAT? CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM ARE JOINED AT THE HIP?
Yep. You can never live in a pure economic system. Purity is always an illusion. If you want something to be pure, you have to put a lot of energy into making it that way. Nature likes to mix stuff up. This is why ideologies around racial purity and fascism always fail. There are people who want a "pure" economic system, but they are usually the people at the top and would only get richer from more purity while the rest of society loses freedom and slowly starves.
In a nutshell, Capitalism promotes laws that benefit those with money, while Socialism promotes a safety net that benefits everyone. Every single human is born into Socialism. As a baby, you need food, someone else works for it and gives it to you, but then at some point, you are expected to exchange labor for capital, and buy your own food. See? The two are forever bound as the yin and yang. You can also grow your own food, but for that you need land, which is capital.
These interactions are very tricky. I only want to tell you enough so that you can start to see Capitalist Propaganda, because right now, you're like a fish in water that can't see water. I often use this line to describe a person who can't see their own homegrown propaganda. The best way I found to study Capitalism is by relating it Socialism, the "air" above the "water" of Capitalism, if that makes sense.
I always find it best to look at a microcosm to understand these concepts. And today, that microcosm is beer.
Mmmm....Beeeeeeeeeerrrrrrr.....
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CONFLICT OF INTEREST AND THE ILLUSION OF CHOICE
Before I poison your mind with my own propaganda, picture you're on vacation and you walk into a bar and want to order a beer. If you really want to understand the power of propaganda in your own life, really think of this before we break this all down. Really think, what makes you decide which beer to order? Do you like to look at the labels on the tap or bottle? That's obvious propaganda. It has absolutely nothing to do with the taste or quality of the beer itself, but sways your opinion toward logos you've seen before, which is why you see so many beer advertisements, which means that money that could've gone into quality is instead going into propaganda, and you're already biased towards an inferior product. Interesting. You really can't help being swayed by marketing, but at least you can be conscious of that fact, and that's important in order to be an informed consumer.
Do you ask the bartender for a recommendation? Why would you do that? You don't know the bartender any better than the beers in front of you. How do you know they aren't paid more to offer you a beer that sucks and is 12 years old and the owner wants to get rid of it? Do you ask for a certain style of beer? Do you ask for a local beer? And once you finally narrow it down to a few choices, do you ask for samples so you can make up your own mind? You should always do this. Then we get into "flavor propaganda", which we'll discuss later. Jeez. Did you every realize there was so much complexity behind being an informed consumer and just ordering a simple beer? Maybe you'll give in and just tell the bartender to pour whatever. Choice is difficult sometimes.
If you really visualize this and take a minute to let this sink in, you'll start to understand how external forces hijack the processor in your mind to manufacture desire through the illusion of choice. However, your health and enjoyment of the beer is not the goal for these external forces, they only want you to purchase. The perfect example is fast food. They know their product sucks, but they know you'll keep buying it, but that doesn't keep them from lying about how delicious it is in their ads. There is far more at play behind the curtain. There is a science behind addicting you to things, this is reinforced by a corporate tax and subsidy system that contorts the free market pushing centralization of production through homogenization and use of chemicals to hide the homogenization, and simply because there is more than one option, they make you feel like you have choice. This, in a nutshell, is how the illusion of choice works in the free market. It's not about what YOU want. The producer manipulates you to think you want what they have. Through this, they deceive Americans into buying products with a list of ingredients that a person would never freely choose to consume. So if you want to order a beer with no shit in it, then you're shit out of luck in America. You could in Germany, but we'll discuss that later.
While you're standing at that bar, you aren't conscious of the fact that your interests are in direct opposition to those of the bar owner's. Capitalists hide this fact with their perfect smiles, but Marx described this in detail. You want the best beer for the cheapest price, and the bar owner wants to sell you the cheapest beer at the highest price you'll pay. It doesn't stop there. The bar owner flips roles in the same situation with the beer distributor, who does the same with maybe another level of distribution, and continues to the brewer, then goes to the brewer versus supplier, supplier to farmer, and even though you'd think it stops there, the farmer has to deal with suppliers of equipment and seeds, and on and on.
Add to this list their auxiliary staff of HR, drivers, managers, brewers, bottle/keg makers, and of course owners, none of them care whether you actually like the beer you're drinking as long as you keep buying more. That's the big driver here.
Did you ever realize that every time you buy a beer, your own capital is partially responsible for creating and sustaining all of these jobs involved? You, my dear beer drinker, are the true job creator. Budweiser can brew all they want, it means nothing without buyers, who are the true engines of capitalism. Instead, you're treated as a rube by suits in a boardroom somewhere.
Capitalist Propaganda tells us the billionaires are job creators, but this is a lie. Jeff Bezos can't drink enough beer to sustain all these jobs. So why do we let him hoard all the money? Wouldn't the economy do better if we spread out Jeff's money so more people could buy more beers and more jobs would be created? According to Socialist Economics, yes. That's actually, quite simply, a Socialist Free Market. Did you even know that existed? The power hungry greedy people who are too lazy for manual labor go to such great lengths to make sure you don't learn it. They want you to think that only Capitalism allows you choice in the market. I'm sure you can guess why they say that.
Capitalism maintains itself by exulting the wealthy who use their economic power to punch down. The only way this system won't fall into fascism and fail is if the consumers start to punch back. Where Marx envisioned the Dictatorship of the Proletariat as they usurped power from the Bourgeoisie, a modern alternative is just teaching people to understand the system we live in, so that we can just start making changes in the way we live and to whom we give our money.
See that? Capitalism and Socialism can get along nicely, so long as the consumers are informed.
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CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE ALIENATION OF LABOR CAUSING LONELINESS IN SOCIETY
What I described within the previous section is what Marx called "Alienation of Labor". Each step in the process of making your beer is isolated from the others, so no one feels ownership over the end product or a true connection to the consumer, or job creator. Even the bartender selling it is alienated from the profit of their labor in serving the beer, so they only focus on the service aspect of giving you the beer, because that is where they earn their tip. They can't really fix anything about a shitty beer other than to offer you a different brand. The capitalist owner is usually not there. Their only interaction is setting the rules for everyone in the bar to follow, and pay themselves more than everyone who has to follow those rules. This is part of the conflict between the classes. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, I'm just pointing it out. The bar owner themself has to spend money on propaganda to attract customers that could be spent in other places, so has to find ways to cut costs. Unfortunately, they buy cheaper beer...and this is why you end up with IPAs. No one is connected to the products, so they only look at prices and find the cheapest, passable product. This is the race to the bottom of Capitalism.
Compare this to when brewpubs were a new thing. The brewer would come out and talk to you about the beer, you would give feedback that could effect future batches and it connected everyone to each other through commerce. It makes business "social" and I think nearly everyone enjoys that, but it is losing out in competition with chain breweries that enforce isolation and make cookie cutter propaganda and cookie cutter business models so they can turn owners into managers and suck all the profit back their corporate headquarters and offshore accounts. They kill the experience and make everything transactional. And all the kitsch they hang around their cookie cutter chain bar is just to hide the fact that no one in that place cares about anything other than not getting fired. Everyone is effectually alienated from everyone else. It's worth a read to check out this page on Marx's Theory of Alienation.
This alienation is the root of a lot of misery in society. Humans are communal animals forced to live in a society of individuality and alienation. As they mope around, they seek an escape. And that is why advertising is so nefarious. It seeks to manipulate you in that state. Imagine driving home from your alienating job to you empty home, but looking up and see a billboard with bunch of actors laughing and drinking beer. They take pictures that make these actors look like friends. It's just for show. They aren't selling beer to those laughing people in the picture. They're tempting lonely people to drown their sorrows. Capitalist Propaganda is used so your brain doesn't understand what it wants. It wants friends, then sees the words Bud Light. So when the bartenders asks...Make it a Bud Light. Look at how much money they spend to manipulate and capitalize on people's suffering.
Propaganda in Communist countries is controlled by the government, so it's clear who the enemy of your freedom is. Capitalist Propaganda hides behind the layers of complexity of the same economy you rely on to survive, so you never know what's propaganda or where it's coming from. Marketers find every way imaginable to get their disinformation in front of your eyes, even enlisting your friends on Facebook in annoying MLM schemes. Propaganda invaded everything that can be legally monetized. It's in the media, and not just commercials anymore. There's product placement, stories injected into the news, and even movies and social media created an entire industry of "lifestyle propaganda", telling you how to live your life and indulge in overconsumption. It's REALLY hard to get away from Capitalist Propaganda. There is so much money and research behind it and so much depth, even this long post is only barely scratching the surface. I just want to open your eyes to it.
I can't make you see all this. No one can. I can only describe it as best as I can. What you will experience when you understand this is what I call "Economic Enlightenment", similar to what Marx called "Class Consciousness". Once it happened to me, the world looked amazing, and the shitty propagandists selling us false hope all look like clowns in a very odd circus of vanity, despair and mediocrity.
Once I understood this, I saw clearly how we are increasingly trapped in a form of Corporate Slavery, led by seriously ridiculous oligarchs like Mark Zuckerberg, who thinks he's the reincarnation of Augustus Caesar or something. That's why he has that haircut! This is a guy who stole a company and hired "screen psychologists" from Las Vegas to get you hooked on Facebook the same as casinos do with slot machines. He wants to be the funnel for propaganda throughout the world. He wants to be the kingmaker, decide what people buy, who they like, what views they hold. He can only do this because so many companies spend so much money to put their propaganda on that platform. They can only have this much money because the free market is not actually free. It's bought and paid for on platforms like Facebook and Amazon. The money that was supposed to "trickle down" is instead being spent on Capitalist Propaganda on these platforms, to get the proletariate to trickle their money up through endless, nonsensical online purchasing and local businesses who send the town's money to people who can't do anything with it but buy up properties that increase your rent and cost of living.
When people get drunk on the power of propaganda, they forget the lessons of the past. Propagandists always fall prey to their own delusions over time. In reality, your life is better without Facebook. There isn't anything on there that is healthy. Even if you just want to talk to a few friends, you are going to fall for the propaganda there. You can't help it. And if your bar advertises on Facebook, just think, that money could've gone into purchasing higher quality beer then sold at the same price, instead of going to Mark Zuckerberg so he can drop $30 million to buy the houses around him so no one can spy on him while he spies on you. You really gotta watch out for a guy who combines spying and propaganda all into a single app and thinks he's going to bring 200 years of peace to America. History is littered with knuckleheads like that. It's best to get off Facebook and encourage everyone else to do the same. Zuck only wants to lead himself to the Promised Land, and he's using your ignorance to fuel his own delusions by deluding you into thinking you want what he has to offer.
Let's get back to beer.
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IPAs AND THE FREE MARKET VS THE RACE TO THE BOTTOM
I like beer. When I worked in Germany, it was easy to walk into a bar and, like Farva, just order a liter o' beer. Often, there would only be two choices, light color or dark. As a matter of fact, even at the most famous beer festival in the world, Oktoberfest, people mostly drink the same standard type of beer, and no one complains about the lack of choice. It's quite easy. You can order with one finger. No need to see a menu or ask what's in it. It's simply beer. This worked for centuries. Consumers are fine with it. Prost! Have you ever shared a story like this and people say, "Oh, that would never work in America. Americans want choice." Yeah. Because we are flooded with Capitalist Propaganda.
So if consumer choice isn't pushing for a selection, why would a free market call for it? Imagine there are two bars and one of those bars says "30 beers on tap" and the other doesn't. You're more likely to choose it, and the other bar will have to compete in some way, often by copying. This forms trends, and people mistake this for something customers wanted. Trends are always marketing. Don't believe me? What happened to fidget spinners? So now you have a bunch of beers that no one asked for, yet will now demand. Competition creates more Capitalist Propaganda to create demand for something you never even wanted, but makes you think you do. And that's the best propaganda. You think you are thinking for yourself. This is the fallacy of consumer choice.
If you want to understand just how important that last paragraph is, consider this, "consumer choice" is the same propaganda they used to get you to carry around a device that spies on you 24/7 and sends that data to people you don't know, and you can't stop it, can you? You chose that. You wanted it. Not only that, but you paid $1,000 for the device to opt into their spying program, for the privilege of being mind controlled by the propaganda their AI selects for you. Did you read the Terms of Service? As bad as you may have thought Communist Propaganda was, Capitalist Propaganda is far better, and far stealthier. You believe you have freedom of choice. But your only choice is usually take it, or leave it. Oh, you need it for work? Maybe find a different job. Or just succumb to mass surveillance, and next year, you can drop another grand on a device with a marginally better camera.
There is a way to free yourself. You just have to understand the nature of propaganda. It took me a while, but I eventually broke free. Under Socialism, there would be laws against the exploitation of consumers. Capitalist Propaganda tells you that this takes away your freedom. This is a lie. Regulations give you the freedom to not have to worry whether the beer you're drinking has poison in it.
Germany has a lot of regulations on beer. It has the Reinheitsgebot (purity order), a law passed in 1516 that states that beer can only consist of water, hops and barley. Note, this is a different use of the word "purity" from earlier, as beer is itself a mixture of things. Historically there have also been regulations where beer could only be sold regionally, so no matter what part of Germany you were in, you only got a certain brand of beer at the bar, but it didn't matter because they all had the same ingredients. They could make wheat beers or unfiltered, but they were generally variations of pilsners and lagers. One meaning of the word "Lager" in German is "storage", meaning the beer was brewed in a way that it could be stored, allowing them to brew in bigger batches and store it.
Lagers use a more complex brewing process, so only larger breweries would make them, but this worked because of protected territories. America has a similar system, because each state has its own regulations on alcohol, but this is changing as corporate lawyers fight to homogenize the rules favorable to them, but the consumer loses control. Big brands tend to be lagers as they have general appeal to a wide audience. Did you notice this is the second time I pointed out that corporations create homogeneity? Without regulations, corporations create Fascism. That is why I tell people that we already live in the NWO but corporations rule the world instead of governments. Why do you think so few conspiracy theorists make this connection? Propagandists are paid a lot of money to keep even our small community confused about the reality of what's happening. Now, check out conspiracy and you'll see what I mean. They are spreading propaganda for the NWO over there and don't even know it. I tried to point that out and they finally banned me. Oh well. They'll figure it out in their own time.
In America, in 1978 it became legal to brew beer at home. This is what led to the explosion of new beers in the US decades later. Americans don't have purity laws, so could test new recipes. But people didn't generally like IPAs before, so how did they become so popular that they control 30% of the market? Marketing, of course. Create the market and tell people what they want.
IPA stands for India Pale Ale. It was invented by the British as an easy way to make a beer that they could drink in India. People only drank it out of necessity, as the other beers couldn't make the trip. IPAs are very easy to make and very forgiving, because if you mess it up, it already tasted bad anyway. As people started trying to get into microbrews, they often didn't have the capital to make lagers at small scale, and also wanted a simpler process so they didn't have to hire or train expert brewers, IPAs are cheap and easy to make at smaller scale.
In order to make it drinkable, brewers experimented with many different flavorings. This created a cult following of craft IPAs, where people would drive hours to stand in line for hours to try the newest concoction. The trendy nature of the craft beer world kept people training their palate to adapt to the taste of an IPA, making people start to actually like them. The flavorings made people think they were different, so even if they didn't like it, marketing tactics kept people coming back to try the latest blend. Your palate can adapt A LOT. Swedish people love Surströmming, but watch this video of Americans trying it for the first time. They tried to get me to eat it several times, but I would rather sit in a sauna until Tuesday to avoid smelling it while watching them eat it. It really smells that bad.
IPAs enticed people with popular, aromatic ingredients like bananas and pineapple. This is what I call "flavor propaganda". It's not bad in and of itself, but it can be easily misused to cover issues with quality or hide the taste of preservatives. Since we don'e have laws like Germany, you're left to rely on the knowledge and honesty of the bartender to find out. They don't make this info readily available, which is another form of Disinformation.
So if you think you actually like IPAs, just remember, you are just like a Swede eating rotten fish. A lot of propaganda went in to making IPAs popular, but it's the cheapest, easiest product to make that can be sold at the highest price, so they become popular. This is what business students call a business plan. To overcome the bad taste, IPAs were marketed as "classy" to shame you if you choose the more expensive to produce and more appealing pilsners and lagers, which were given a bad name due to being associated with major brands like Bud Light. This makes it harder to market microbrew lagers, which can only fetch a certain price due to association. And this is what is referred to as the "race to the bottom" in Capitalism.
Instead of trying to innovate ways to produce the beers you want, they just figure out how to get you to pay more for an inferior product, just like they do with BBQ. They make you think you want it. From this you can understand why "food" is full of junk that you wouldn't feed your dog. Whatever legal poison helps cheapen the product is considered "smart business", another propaganda term designed to hide the reality of doing immoral and harmful things to other humans for profit. If you make money on it, it's good. As if there aren't better choices we could come up with if there truly were a free market with an informed consumer.
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STRENGTHEN THE FREE MARKET BY BEING AN INFORMED CONSUMER
We don't need a Communist Revolution to make positive changes, so take off your ski masks and put your Antifa flags down. I like microbrew culture and still enjoy IPAs, but understanding the marketplace is how I do my part as an informed consumer and job creator to help create the world that I want to live in. I encourage you to do the same. Vote with your dollars. Don't let the Zuck-type sociopathic, corporate people in a distant land decide what you consume by looking at ads on his platform. Visit local breweries and talk to the brewmaster. Don't reinforce alienation from labor. Connect with the people who make the things you buy. Support independent entrepreneurship. These are the paths to a brighter future where we share in the abundance of wealth.
Discover Economic Enlightenment for yourself and realize that We The People are ultimately in control. Wealth inequality is greater than it was in France before the French Revolution. Don't let this train take us into the depths where another Lenin will arise and spend the night shooting people.
How you choose to spend your money today is what decides what will become the society of tomorrow. And remember, you always have the choice to buy nothing at all. I never saw a billboard that said that.
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LET THEM DRINK BEER!
I hope this gave you a glimpse behind the curtain of Capitalist Propaganda. Propaganda isn't just political, it has invaded everything and it's at full blast right now. I hope you can piece together how Capitalist Propaganda is actually designed to make you subservient by controlling what you want so they can maximize their own profit and teach you to accept whatever they offer, the homogenization of choice. However, your life is your own and you should remain in control of all aspects of it, including your desires.
Richard Wolff is an economist who studied at three elite universities in America and discusses how he was not able to even learn about Socialist Economics in the ivory tower, even though Capitalist Propaganda calls universities leftist. He found no department in America that is even willing to teach it or study it. Capitalist Propaganda censors these ideas, especially at the university. People in power don't want the serfs to learn about themselves. Check him out on YouTube. You'll realize that unchecked Capitalism leads to Fascism and Slavery, which is why they want to get rid of the minimum wage, so that we can return to sharecropping which is already increasingly happening in America under different names, like "student debt", "mortgages" and "insurance". Don't you think it's odd that a person has to go into debt so they can generate profits for corporations who really ought to be paying for this education themselves? If you have to go into debt before they'll hire you, it's much easier to negotiate against you.
If you want to see other examples of propaganda, check out this random tweet from one of America's Top Capitalist Propagandists. These are very odd pictures, and the only thing I can see in them is that they must be promoting those outfits, likely the blue dress, maybe those men's outfits as well. One thing you know is that she didn't become a billionaire by letting any single opportunity to enrich herself at the expense of others pass her by. I didn't look it up, but I am certain they sell that blue dress, or whoever does paid her to post this.
That's the main reason celebrities use social media. It's marketing. Their whole schtick is to sell garments made in a sweatshop in a foreign country by people who can't even afford a beer to Americans who are facing bankruptcy and homelessness themselves.
Read the replies of the tweet. These people have influence that vastly outsizes their understanding of their impact on the world. There are guillotines in the comments. There usually are. I'm seeing them a lot lately.
This type of propaganda is everywhere. And it's destroying America. Just like propaganda led to the demise of Nazi Germany, we could be looking at the same thing, but worse. It could start off as famine.
If you're having trouble deciding between the beers you are being offered, it's probably because you don't want anything at all, in which case the proper choice is: nothing. Or, try tap water. Maybe you're just thirsty. Now ask yourself, when you envisioned yourself at a bar, did you ever think to order water instead? Did you entertain the idea that you didn't even want a beer. That's the power of suggestion.
What if the rest of the world just cut America off from the means of production outsourced to areas with cheap labor? We would have our own famine and likely war. And if we have a revolution here, with the masses in the country being so disinformed about everything and not having any sort of class consciousness at the moment and instead stuck in alienation, the leader that rises here will likely lead to something horrifying. And we censor ourselves from pointing out the simple fact, that the only way America will survive is to tax the deluded royalty like Kim and Mark back to reality, so they can't indulge their reckless, childish delusions by selling off the very fabric of our nation to the highest bidder.
That doesn't make me a Socialist, that just makes me honest.
Enjoy your beer!
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Thanks for reading and I hope I helped you understand how you can empower yourself. I'm excited about the one I wrote for Election Day tomorrow to keep our NOPOL spirits up while all the politics clouds the airwaves. Cheers!

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PRISON BREAK-Something we have been working on for a bit is now ready to be released. This is 100% Original Vandal content. Unless you and your team are the type to plan and prepare, don't expect it to be easy. Getting help from other inmates may increase your chances of escape, but what awaits you on the outside is a whole other ball game since responding cops will be on high alert.

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• Dying or leaving the area will cancel the takeover
• A successfully capped Traphouse cannot be re-taken for a period of 20 minutes
Vandal City now has their own radio station, when your in the city listen for all the top hits,news,local business ads, giveaways and more!
SERIOUS ROLEPLAY
PROPERTIES with purchasable FURNITURE
Crafting
Player run businesses
casino
More clothing options
Legal Jobs that reward unique crafting items
Balanced Economy
Black Market
Pink Cage Motel!
Unique crafting items
Custom Locations/Cars
Debit Card
Bank & Store Robberies
Chop Shop
House burglaries
Multiple Drugs (Weed/Coke/Meth)
Events (PlayeStaff)
300+ car list
Easy to use Race Mod
Drifting Mod
Skills
• Stamina - As you run or swim, you will gain stamina which allows for longer running and swiming
• Strength - You gain strength by working out at the gym. This will unlock perks along the way (being able to lift someone up at 50%)
• Lung Capacity - As you swim under water, you gain more lung capacity over time
• Shooting - The more you shoot the more you gain this skill. Same perks as the GTA game (check their wiki)
• Driving - Gain this by driving faster than ~35mph. Same perks as the GTA game (check their wiki)
• Cooking - As you cook, you will gain this skill which will unlock better food recipes to give higher nutrition points
• Nutrition - Gain nutrition from eating good foods. The higher your nutrition, the faster you gain physical skills like Stamina and Strength.
• Hunting - Gain this everytime you slaughter an animal. Higher skills will increase yields. At 25% you gain the ability to get leather from the animal. At 75% you unlock the Muskett at the weapon shop
• Fishing - Gain this skill by fishing. The higher your skill, the better chance you have at doubling your reward (catch 2 instead of 1)
• Citizen - This one you gain just by being on. For every 10%, you gain 1% on every legal job goods you sell. Committing crimes or going to jail lowers this.
• Criminal - Comitting criminal acts increases this. Higher Criminal score means not being able to use the legal gunshop but you also get perks like being able to wash money at a better rate, depending. Going to jail will lower this drastically.
• Drugs - This skill is gained every time you successfully sell drugs to a local. For every 10% skill, you gain 1% on every drug you sell
• Planting - This skill is gained every time you successfully grow something. The higher the skill level, the higher your max yield can be
*Dying causes a loss of 25% for Stamina, Strength, Nutrition and Lung Capacity
Player Owned Shops
• Shops are purchased by going to the “Buy Shops” icon
• Shops can be stocked with any item.
• Shops can be robbed of 10% of the money in the shop
• Robbing a shop requires actually breaking the safe (with any weapon)
• Robbery cooldown is many many hours for player owned shops. Persists through restarts/crashses.
• Shops can order some items at a reduced cost but must wait several hours for the shipments
• All shops pay a daily rent (currently $500)
LSPD/BCSO (Whitelisted)
EMS/LFSD (Whitelisted)
Mechanic (Whitelisted)
Gangs (Cartel, Mafia, MC, etc)
Boxer
Fishing
Fueler
Lumberjack
Miner
Reporter
Security
Hunter
Butcher
Tailor
Taxi
Trucker
BOUNTY HUNTER!
SHOPS/GAS STATIONS
There are shops and gas stations around the map where you will need to refuel your vehicle or buy things like repair kits.
ILLEGAL JOBS
You can do any number of things from robbing stores, chopping cars, selling drugs and burglarizing houses. There are also criminal gangs and businesses that are player run that make doing some of these activities easier.
GANG PERKS
The Lost MC guys have as 25% increase on store robbery payouts, called the “Intimidation Factor”. The Mafia have a “No Witnesses” perk which means their gunshots are hidden from police because no locals call the cops on these guys. This is just a couple examples of the custom additions we’ve made.
DRUGS
The big thing with some cities is that all of their drugs are usually locked to whitelisted orgs. Here you can create 3 types of drugs with uniquely different ways of manufacturing each type.

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Period: 364.05 days

	Submissions	Comments
Total	1000	3465
Rate (per day)	2.75	9.48
Unique Redditors	235	1337
Combined Score	44480	12132

Top Submitters' Top Submissions

4310 points, 85 submissions: Superbuddhapunk
1. Margaret Hamilton, NASA's lead software engineer for the Apollo Program, stands next to the code she wrote by hand that took Humanity to the moon in 1969. (252 points, 15 comments)
2. Close Encounters of the Third Kind Geocache in Northern Italy (241 points, 10 comments)
3. Cleaning tips from CleaningTips (194 points, 3 comments)
4. Cheesy Origins - The etymologies behind the names of some of the world's most popular cheeses. (169 points, 45 comments)
5. Around the World in 50 traditional breakfast dishes (155 points, 30 comments)
6. Roosevelt dime 10c coin Mint error, off center strikes (142 points, 7 comments)
7. President Obama Roasts Donald Trump At White House Correspondents’ Dinner (2011) (138 points, 30 comments)
8. Beautiful elderly Common Snapping Turtle just coming to say Hello. Spring Lake, San Marcos, TX (137 points, 6 comments)
9. Christmas tree in the main hall of the Galleries Lafayette department store in Paris, France. (124 points, 5 comments)
10. Not open during a CAT 5 hurricane? 1 star for you! (119 points, 7 comments)
3607 points, 135 submissions: 0and18
1. The final Calvin and Hobbes strip ran on Sunday, December 31, 1995 (170 points, 6 comments)
2. ‘The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,’ by Hunter S. Thompson (85 points, 3 comments)
3. Between 1995 and 2000 music companies were found to have used illegal marketing agreements such as minimum advertised pricing to artificially inflate prices of compact discs in order to end price wars by discounters such as Best Buy and Target in the early 1990s. (81 points, 1 comment)
4. Yuki-toKori discovers his new jeans have a hidden inside pocket for a condom (80 points, 12 comments)
5. Geof Darrow’s Hard Boiled (77 points, 2 comments)
6. His Face All Red by Emily Carroll (73 points, 4 comments)
7. American Public School teachers do not get paid over summer break. (68 points, 45 comments)
8. The Pervert Who Changed America: How Larry Flynt Fought the Law and Won (66 points, 0 comments)
9. This chart shows the most common display resolutions, makes zero sense to me. (64 points, 17 comments)
10. Two Michiganders arrive in hell (64 points, 3 comments)
2511 points, 38 submissions: InvisibleLemons
2256 points, 58 submissions: sbroue
1. A successful slave rebellion against the French made Haiti the second independent nation in the Americas. (118 points, 2 comments)
2. Rare 300-Year-Old 'Beard Tax' Coin Discovered in Russia (112 points, 4 comments)
3. The song Funiculi Funicula was composed to celebrate the opening of a Funicular railway up Mt Vesuvius (87 points, 5 comments)
4. Wave Rock West Australia (87 points, 4 comments)
5. Internet trolls are not who I thought — they're even scarier (77 points, 2 comments)
6. Ethiopian 18th Century crown returns home (75 points, 1 comment)
7. The Shocking True Tale Of The Mad Genius Who Invented Sea-Monkeys (75 points, 6 comments)
8. When America Despised the Irish: The 19th Century’s Refugee Crisis (71 points, 0 comments)
9. Blue Weevils "wrestling" (70 points, 8 comments)
10. Step Inside the World's Most Dangerous Garden (If You Dare) (70 points, 4 comments)
1879 points, 49 submissions: tillandsia
1857 points, 26 submissions: Mr_Caterpillar
1. Diane's NPR ringtones [Bojack Horseman] (227 points, 15 comments)
2. The Hulk throws a bear into space (173 points, 15 comments)
3. Bryan Cranston tells the story of an ad-libbed joke as dentist Tim Whatley on Seinfeld (133 points, 3 comments)
4. There's something about holding a good, solid mace in your hand (124 points, 8 comments)
5. Side-by-Side scenes from Ghost in the Shell and the original animated film (107 points, 7 comments)
6. Twilight in Prague (97 points, 2 comments)
7. Roller Derby Fact [SLAM #1] (91 points, 3 comments)
8. Tracer Bullet - Calvin and Hobbes' hardboiled detective parody (89 points, 4 comments)
9. Mapping out the evolution of Rock Music from the film School of Rock (88 points, 24 comments)
10. Ronald Jenkees started his career by making music in his bedroom and posting to youtube. This is his song "Try The Bass" (77 points, 10 comments)
1120 points, 27 submissions: coiso
1097 points, 23 submissions: gorditasimpatica
1062 points, 18 submissions: eladarling
1024 points, 22 submissions: ShimataDominquez
1. The head of a tapeworm under an electron microscope (256 points, 19 comments)
2. What happens when you have heated tile flooring (150 points, 4 comments)
3. Jon Stewart Deep Dish Rant (84 points, 14 comments)
4. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida The Simpsons take on a Psychedelic Rock classic (82 points, 4 comments)
5. Ewoks should have met a terrible fate, scientists say (46 points, 0 comments)
6. Robocop Commercials (38 points, 2 comments)
7. Green Onions (32 points, 1 comment)
8. The Jetsons! (32 points, 0 comments)
9. Frank Lloyd Wright, a narcissist and control freak. (31 points, 8 comments)
10. Why is smiling being frowned upon in the Russian culture? (31 points, 11 comments)

Top Commenters

0and18 (659 points, 466 comments)
jostler57 (145 points, 40 comments)
Otterfan (139 points, 19 comments)
Superbuddhapunk (124 points, 43 comments)
astronoob (110 points, 7 comments)
anotherkeebler (101 points, 23 comments)
Goyteamsix (94 points, 21 comments)
goofballl (85 points, 14 comments)
thespaceghetto (84 points, 20 comments)
swizzler (81 points, 21 comments)

Top Submissions

The head of a tapeworm under an electron microscope by ShimataDominquez (256 points, 19 comments)
Margaret Hamilton, NASA's lead software engineer for the Apollo Program, stands next to the code she wrote by hand that took Humanity to the moon in 1969. by Superbuddhapunk (252 points, 15 comments)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Geocache in Northern Italy by Superbuddhapunk (241 points, 10 comments)
It's Dangerous to go Alone... by yankee4357 (228 points, 11 comments)
Diane's NPR ringtones [Bojack Horseman] by Mr_Caterpillar (227 points, 15 comments)
Ways the Great Lakes try to Murder Ships - illustrated by eladarling (219 points, 17 comments)
How a deep sea blobfish looks with and without the extreme water pressure by Imaginary-Cow (216 points, 10 comments)
How to Talk Minnesotan: The Power of the Negative by SteelWool (203 points, 5 comments)
Cleaning tips from CleaningTips by Superbuddhapunk (194 points, 3 comments)
All movies on IMDB are rated on a ten-point scale. All except one. by anotherkeebler (188 points, 9 comments)

Top Comments

48 points: jesseaknight's comment in In the show St. Elsewhere, a character in the finale is shown to have thought of the whole series, which means he also made up all the shows that had crossovers with St. Elsewhere. This expands into the shows that were mentioned in the shows. There is at this point 419 shows in this universe
44 points: Derosa6037's comment in the longest single set at the laugh factory lasted 7h and 34m (by Dane Cook in 2008).
43 points: astronoob's comment in Margaret Hamilton, NASA's lead software engineer for the Apollo Program, stands next to the code she wrote by hand that took Humanity to the moon in 1969.
42 points: rus_reddit's comment in Rand Paul was the national debt for halloween in 2015. He said it was a very scary costume.
40 points: thejesiah's comment in Close Encounters of the Third Kind Geocache in Northern Italy
38 points: electro_hippie's comment in Why is smiling being frowned upon in the Russian culture?
37 points: SlideNERD's comment in The head of a tapeworm under an electron microscope
37 points: wtfisthisnoise's comment in Is U.S. income tax invalid because Ohio wasn’t legally a state when the 16th amendment was ratified?
35 points: Otterfan's comment in President Obama Roasts Donald Trump At White House Correspondents’ Dinner (2011)
35 points: _Foy's comment in Ways the Great Lakes try to Murder Ships - illustrated

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Period: 364.24 days

	Submissions	Comments
Total	1000	3498
Rate (per day)	2.75	9.53
Unique Redditors	239	1369
Combined Score	44704	12314

Top Submitters' Top Submissions

4330 points, 90 submissions: Superbuddhapunk
1. Margaret Hamilton, NASA's lead software engineer for the Apollo Program, stands next to the code she wrote by hand that took Humanity to the moon in 1969. (250 points, 15 comments)
2. Close Encounters of the Third Kind Geocache in Northern Italy (242 points, 10 comments)
3. Cleaning tips from CleaningTips (195 points, 3 comments)
4. Cheesy Origins - The etymologies behind the names of some of the world's most popular cheeses. (166 points, 45 comments)
5. Around the World in 50 traditional breakfast dishes (155 points, 30 comments)
6. Roosevelt dime 10c coin Mint error, off center strikes (143 points, 7 comments)
7. President Obama Roasts Donald Trump At White House Correspondents’ Dinner (2011) (139 points, 30 comments)
8. Beautiful elderly Common Snapping Turtle just coming to say Hello. Spring Lake, San Marcos, TX (131 points, 6 comments)
9. Christmas tree in the main hall of the Galleries Lafayette department store in Paris, France. (129 points, 5 comments)
10. Not open during a CAT 5 hurricane? 1 star for you! (121 points, 7 comments)
3830 points, 138 submissions: 0and18
2454 points, 36 submissions: InvisibleLemons
2136 points, 56 submissions: sbroue
1. A successful slave rebellion against the French made Haiti the second independent nation in the Americas. (118 points, 2 comments)
2. Rare 300-Year-Old 'Beard Tax' Coin Discovered in Russia (110 points, 4 comments)
3. The song Funiculi Funicula was composed to celebrate the opening of a Funicular railway up Mt Vesuvius (86 points, 5 comments)
4. Internet trolls are not who I thought — they're even scarier (79 points, 2 comments)
5. The Shocking True Tale Of The Mad Genius Who Invented Sea-Monkeys (73 points, 6 comments)
6. Ethiopian 18th Century crown returns home (72 points, 1 comment)
7. When America Despised the Irish: The 19th Century’s Refugee Crisis (72 points, 0 comments)
8. Step Inside the World's Most Dangerous Garden (If You Dare) (70 points, 4 comments)
9. Blue Weevils "wrestling" (68 points, 8 comments)
10. Alcohol belts of Europe (59 points, 5 comments)
1850 points, 27 submissions: Mr_Caterpillar
1. Diane's NPR ringtones [Bojack Horseman] (228 points, 15 comments)
2. The Hulk throws a bear into space (173 points, 15 comments)
3. Bryan Cranston tells the story of an ad-libbed joke as dentist Tim Whatley on Seinfeld (133 points, 3 comments)
4. There's something about holding a good, solid mace in your hand (124 points, 8 comments)
5. Side-by-Side scenes from Ghost in the Shell and the original animated film (105 points, 7 comments)
6. Twilight in Prague (98 points, 2 comments)
7. Roller Derby Fact [SLAM #1] (87 points, 3 comments)
8. Mapping out the evolution of Rock Music from the film School of Rock (86 points, 24 comments)
9. Tracer Bullet - Calvin and Hobbes' hardboiled detective parody (85 points, 4 comments)
10. Ronald Jenkees started his career by making music in his bedroom and posting to youtube. This is his song "Try The Bass" (80 points, 10 comments)
1756 points, 46 submissions: tillandsia
1076 points, 22 submissions: gorditasimpatica
1039 points, 18 submissions: eladarling
989 points, 24 submissions: coiso
965 points, 19 submissions: ShimataDominquez
1. The head of a tapeworm under an electron microscope (256 points, 19 comments)
2. What happens when you have heated tile flooring (149 points, 4 comments)
3. Jon Stewart Deep Dish Rant (83 points, 14 comments)
4. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida The Simpsons take on a Psychedelic Rock classic (82 points, 4 comments)
5. Ewoks should have met a terrible fate, scientists say (48 points, 0 comments)
6. Robocop Commercials (37 points, 2 comments)
7. Why is smiling being frowned upon in the Russian culture? (33 points, 11 comments)
8. The Jetsons! (31 points, 0 comments)
9. Green Onions (30 points, 1 comment)
10. How Milwaukee Got The Nickname 'Cream City' (28 points, 3 comments)

Top Commenters

0and18 (666 points, 467 comments)
jostler57 (141 points, 39 comments)
Otterfan (139 points, 20 comments)
Superbuddhapunk (132 points, 44 comments)
astronoob (109 points, 7 comments)
anotherkeebler (101 points, 23 comments)
Goyteamsix (91 points, 20 comments)
thespaceghetto (87 points, 20 comments)
goofballl (84 points, 13 comments)
swizzler (83 points, 21 comments)

Top Submissions

The head of a tapeworm under an electron microscope by ShimataDominquez (256 points, 19 comments)
Margaret Hamilton, NASA's lead software engineer for the Apollo Program, stands next to the code she wrote by hand that took Humanity to the moon in 1969. by Superbuddhapunk (250 points, 15 comments)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Geocache in Northern Italy by Superbuddhapunk (242 points, 10 comments)
Diane's NPR ringtones [Bojack Horseman] by Mr_Caterpillar (228 points, 15 comments)
It's Dangerous to go Alone... by yankee4357 (228 points, 11 comments)
My immigrant Chinese parents make tamales every year. by bigtcm (222 points, 25 comments)
How a deep sea blobfish looks with and without the extreme water pressure by Imaginary-Cow (214 points, 10 comments)
Ways the Great Lakes try to Murder Ships - illustrated by eladarling (212 points, 17 comments)
How to Talk Minnesotan: The Power of the Negative by SteelWool (205 points, 5 comments)
Cleaning tips from CleaningTips by Superbuddhapunk (195 points, 3 comments)

Top Comments

49 points: jesseaknight's comment in In the show St. Elsewhere, a character in the finale is shown to have thought of the whole series, which means he also made up all the shows that had crossovers with St. Elsewhere. This expands into the shows that were mentioned in the shows. There is at this point 419 shows in this universe
45 points: Derosa6037's comment in the longest single set at the laugh factory lasted 7h and 34m (by Dane Cook in 2008).
42 points: astronoob's comment in Margaret Hamilton, NASA's lead software engineer for the Apollo Program, stands next to the code she wrote by hand that took Humanity to the moon in 1969.
42 points: thejesiah's comment in Close Encounters of the Third Kind Geocache in Northern Italy
41 points: rus_reddit's comment in Rand Paul was the national debt for halloween in 2015. He said it was a very scary costume.
38 points: srone's comment in The New BMW X6 Has Light-Absorbing 'Vantablack' Paint
37 points: SlideNERD's comment in The head of a tapeworm under an electron microscope
37 points: wtfisthisnoise's comment in Is U.S. income tax invalid because Ohio wasn’t legally a state when the 16th amendment was ratified?
36 points: _Foy's comment in Ways the Great Lakes try to Murder Ships - illustrated
36 points: bigtcm's comment in My immigrant Chinese parents make tamales every year.

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The Contrarian Opportunity in Sports Stocks (CHDN, DKNG, BTDG, DKS)
https://biopharmajournal.com/2020/10/01/the-contrarian-opportunity-in-sports-stocks-chdn-dkng-btdg-dks/
Experts continue to see a coming vaccine for the virus behind the pandemic, and hospitalizations and deaths continue to diverge from case numbers, which is another very positive potential signal, despite mainstream clamoring about a looming “twindemic” disaster, as a purported second wave coincides with cold and flu season.
All of this may add up to risk for bear bets in the market, especially those targeting the sports industry, which has been reeling from a lack of public participation in live events. That may represent a potential opportunity for access to long-term growth potential at a discount at present prices.
With that in mind, we take a look at some of the most interesting stocks in the space, including: Churchill Downs Inc (NASDAQ:CHDN), Draftkings Inc (Nasdaq:DKNG), B2Digital Inc (OTCMKTS:BTDG), and Dicks Sporting Goods Inc (NYSE:DKS).
Churchill Downs Inc (NASDAQ:CHDN) is a prime specimen for bears looking to bet against live events due to a lack of public perception of safety. The company has the double whammy of also being part of the gaming industry, which has taken a big hit as well.
The company bills itself as an industry-leading racing, online wagering, and gaming entertainment company anchored by our iconic flagship event – The Kentucky Derby. The company owns and operates Derby City Gaming, a historical racing machine facility in Louisville, Kentucky. It also owns and operates the largest online horse racing wagering platform in the U.S., TwinSpires.com, and sports betting and iGaming through its BetAmerica platform in multiple states. CHDN is also a leader in brick-and-mortar casino gaming with approximately 11,000 slot machines and video lottery terminals and 200 table games in eight states.
Churchill Downs Inc (NASDAQ:CHDN) most recently announced its plans to open simulcast and historical racing machine operations at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel in Oak Grove, Kentucky, to the public on Friday, September 18. According to the release, Oak Grove will debut 1,325 state-of-the-art HRMs with some of the best themes from Ainsworth, Scientific Games and International Gaming Technology. Dining and beverage options include Garrison Oak Steakhouse, two quick serve eateries, a coffee house, sports bar and luxurious lobby bar. The second phase of the Oak Grove project will open in October 2020 and will include a 128-room hotel, equestrian center, amphitheater, and RV Park.
“We have an exceptional team poised to deliver a premier entertainment experience and regional destination for Western Kentucky and nearby Nashville, Tennessee,” said Bill Carstanjen, CEO of CDI. “We are committed to investments like Oak Grove that will help support live racing at Kentucky racetracks by generating larger purses and attracting better horses.”
And the stock has been acting well over recent days, up something like 12% in that time.
Churchill Downs, Inc. (NASDAQ:CHDN) managed to rope in revenues totaling $185.1M in overall sales during the company’s most recently reported quarterly financial data — a figure that represents a rate of top line growth of -61.2%, as compared to year-ago data in comparable terms. In addition, the company has a strong balance sheet, with cash levels far exceeding current liabilities ($699M against $488.2M).
Draftkings Inc (Nasdaq:DKNG) is well aligned with the fate of the NFL at this point. And, given recent news of virus outbreaks for the Titans and Vikings, and possibly others, the stock has held up quite well, but may still have further to squeeze if we see contrarian positives on the virus front in the near term.
In a nutshell, the company provides users with daily sports, sports betting, and iGaming opportunities. It is also involved in the design and development of sports betting and casino gaming platform software for online and retail sportsbook, and casino gaming products. The company distributes its product offerings through various channels, including traditional websites, direct app downloads, and direct-to-consumer digital platforms.
Draftkings Inc (Nasdaq:DKNG) most recently announced that Erik Bradbury has been named the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer and principal accounting officer effective September 10, 2020, reporting to Jason Park, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Bradbury, who brings more than 16 years of experience in corporate accounting to DraftKings, was most recently a Partner with Ernst & Young and served as a Professional Accounting Fellow at Financial Executives International.
“We are thrilled to have Erik join DraftKings at this exciting time,” said Jason Park, DraftKings Chief Financial Officer. “Erik brings a breadth of expertise working with public companies applying U.S. GAAP, IFRS, and SEC reporting requirements, which will enhance our already strong corporate accounting team and help scale this function as the Company continues to grow.”
And the stock has been acting well over recent days, up something like 19% in that time. Shares of the stock have powered higher over the past month, rallying roughly 51% in that time on strong overall action.
Draftkings Inc (Nasdaq:DKNG) brought in over $71 million in its last quarterly financial data.
B2Digital Inc (OTCMKTS:BTDG) is “the premier development league in MMA”. That’s a pretty good spot. Especially considering that the company is verticalizing on the media side, creating strong marketing and distribution agreements to showcase its top talent across the country and around the world.
The company operates live events, pay-per-view media, gyms, and other resources to maximize the development of future stars in the MMA sport. B2Digital operates a number of fighting events brands, including Pinnacle, HRMMA, Strikehard, and others, and has developed and deployed the systems and technologies for the operation of the B2 Fighting Series. This includes social media marketing, event management, digital ticketing sales, digital video distribution, digital marketing, PPV, FTV, merchandise sales, brand management, and financial control systems. B2Digital owns all rights for TV, internet, social media, media, merchandising and trademarks, and branding for the B2Digital companies.
B2Digital Inc (OTCMKTS:BTDG) most recently announced that its Pinnacle Combat 32 MMA event in Farley, Iowa, on Saturday, September 26, featuring a combination of top amateur and pro fights, was another successful venture with a solid pay-per-view presence and sold out in-person attendance.
According to the release, the event drove larger in-person revenue levels on a per-ticket basis due to an increased in-person attendance allowance. The event also generated higher overall margins on each attendee ticket sold than in the Company’s prior event in Alabama.
“Iowa was a huge success that dramatically exceeded our expectations despite the headwinds presented by the difficult context,” commented Greg P. Bell, Chairman & CEO of B2Digital. “That success was driven by strong organic growth as our brand continues to rapidly expand. But it was also likely aided by a sense of pent-up demand for live MMA action. The other big success we saw on Saturday was a very strong performance from our new B2InstaStore marketing program. We gave our fighters, fans, and followers a resource for driving ticket sales and they have responded.”
B2Digital Inc (OTCMKTS:BTDG) has shown strong sales growth, and more importantly, has put in place a number of strategies pointing to accelerating breakout growth ahead, including innovations on the marketing front and an aggressive schedule of live PPV events this fall.
Dicks Sporting Goods Inc (NYSE:DKS) operates as a sporting goods retailer primarily in the eastern United States. It provides hardlines, including sporting goods equipment, fitness equipment, golf equipment, and hunting and fishing gear products; apparel; and footwear and accessories.
The company also owns and operates Golf Galaxy, Field & Stream, and other specialty concept stores; and e-commerce websites, as well as GameChanger, a youth sports mobile app for scheduling, communications, and live scorekeeping. As of May 02, 2020, it operated 726 DICK’S Sporting Goods stores.
Dicks Sporting Goods Inc (NYSE:DKS) just announced that it will expand its nationwide footprint with the opening of one DICK’S Sporting Goods store, one combination DICK’S and Golf Galaxy location, and one Golf Galaxy store in September. These new stores will bring approximately 150 collective jobs to communities through the hiring of full-time, part-time and temporary associates for the stores.
According to the company’s release, DICK’S Sporting Goods and Golf Galaxy locations will offer top-of-the-line in-store services and exclusive offerings in apparel, footwear and equipment from the Company’s own private brands, such as DSG, Tommy Armour, CALIA by Carrie Underwood, Field & Stream and Fitness Gear, as well as popular national vendors like Nike, adidas, YETI, The North Face, Callaway and TaylorMade.
The context for this announcement is a bit of a bid, with shares acting well over the past five days, up about 9% in that timeframe.
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Since apparently last week’s 7 days to die thread was appreciated I thought it would be alright if I made another one this week. Only this time I had a week to write down my thoughts (often while playing 7days myself) so it became quite a monster post, but I’ve marked things in these categories (in order) to make it easier to browse: Temperature management, Food & Drinks, Brass, Mining, Weapons, Locations and Base Building.
Again if it comes off as backseat gaming or trying to guide the stream I apologize, but I’ll start at least with a big reveal this time. To the point that I had to research and verify it myself because I couldn’t quite believe it myself since the wiki is sometimes outdated and it’s quite different from the previous versions.
Temperature management

Apparently you can’t die directly from hypothermia and heat strokes in this current patch! Those stages are literally not in the game anymore. Although this will probably change next patch so be careful in the far future. But for now the harshest debuffs you’ll get are “Sweltering” and “Freezing”. Both seem really bad when you get them with sweltering having that blinking sun icon and sometimes a “scary” orange border around the screen. While freezing makes your screen all icy. When in actuality hot and sweltering just make you more thirsty when recovering stamina and cold and freezing makes you more hungry when using stamina (aka burning more calories). These can ultimately be life threatening, but realistically at worst the effect is annoying. And even if you’re dehydrated or starving you’ll have plenty of time before you die since you lose only 1 health every 5 (irl) seconds. Hell you can even heal while dying of dehydration like you’re in a battle royale game with food and meds.

It might seem like some sort of bad prank, but I’ve tested it multiple times and asked around on the forums that verified it. And if someone can find something that contradicts this in config/buffs (under elemental debuffs) I would love to see it. But honestly imo to die from weather effects you have to actively try especially since the debuffs have no effect if you’re not using stamina like walking or sitting in a car.

Of course because there are literally no downsides to wearing clothes there’s no harm in looking into laundry baskets and nightstands for wardrobe upgrades. The duster and cowboy hat are especially effective. And to combat the cold you can also always drink coffee, it warms you up and makes sure that stamina regen isn’t a problem. Yucca Juice smoothies are also a possibility, but require more ingredients. And if you ask me why this icy drink gives you cold resistance as if cold is a virus and the yuuca juice smoothie a vaccine I don’t have an answer for you. Unfortunately there are no food or drinks that currently provide heat protection in this version with the exception of fortbites but they only last 2 real life minutes.

Food & Drinks

An easy way to upgrade your normal (clean) bottled water is to add yucca to it. It removes any chance at dysentery, fills up the water meter 50% better and all you need is 2 yucca fruit which are quite abundant and visible in the desert. Plus yucca juice stacks up to 15 instead of 10 and it’s so easy that anyone can do it no recipe or skill required.
Notable canned foods to save for Chef Matt: Chili, Salmon and Sham. Used to make Chili dogs, fish tacos and sham chowder respectively. Unfortunately tuna fish tacos aren’t allowed.
With the right skill book (Art of Mining 4) someone is able to make Blackstrap Coffee. Which will last twice as long at a marginal extra cost of 5 gunpowder.

Brass tacks and tax

Last week I was talking about radiators as a great source of brass. And this remains true, every single (not scrapped) radiator is the equivalent of 40 bullet casings and you don’t even need a wrench just a pickaxe will do. But if you’re brass desperate you can always convert your duke casino tokens into brass at the forge. A full stack of 20000 can give you 3333 bullet casings. And because duke tokens can be converted to brass it’s also highly inadvisable to buy brass at the traders.
That said, to buy solar cells and banks you need quite a bit of money. And just as importantl to buy these things is that you need levels in bartering. With bartering 4 you can find solar cells at the traders, but to buy a solar bank you actually need it maxed out at 5 and of course a bit of luck. And because of that it might not be a bad idea for someone with those levels of bartering to spend a day visiting all the known traders and discovering new ones.
If you have tools or weapons that you want to sell to make some quick money and a large abundance of repair tools consider fixing them up to make a larger amount of money. Since the state of the object partly determines its selling point.

Mining

So last week I should have explained better that underneath every single one of those resource rocks on the surface you are guaranteed to find a vein of that respective ore. And not a small one either, you can go for quite a long while before that particular vein runs out and you can even find other ores while mining down. The ores aren’t found exclusively under those rocks but it’s by far the easiest way to find them. Mining has never been easier, but aside from the rainbowy oil shale here are some pictures of what the other resource rocks look like:

Iron looks indeed a bit copper-ish: https://imgur.com/dBTtYNV.jpg
Coal looks like a black rock: https://imgur.com/dq8eHuO.png
Lead is somewhat grey and borg cube like: https://imgur.com/HvrtA7x.png
Nitrate is white and spiky: https://imgur.com/jUUahKu.jpg

If you do however think that you’ve mined out the vein try looking for this material: https://imgur.com/llpAppJ.jpg . It’s gravel and when underground more often than not means that there are ores nearby.
Coal is an awful source of fuel or at least it is in comparison to wood that more than doubles it burn time (50 seconds vs 20). Granted coal is less versatile than wood, but it’s not like wood is a rare resource. Coal on the other hand is vital for gunpowder.
Also if you use the auger and press the button to refuel (default R) while actively drilling something the annoying sound will stop. If you aren’t hitting anything with the drill and you press that button it will just refuel the auger. Unfortunately it doesn’t mute the auger permanently and you need to press it again when you start the auger.
If you work the forge and/or workbench often consider getting points in Advanced Engineering. Since at further levels you’ll decrease the cost of resources made from the forge with an additional bonus reducing the cost of making forged steel. Which can really add up since steel is quite draining.

Weapons

The amount of irradiated zombies during the last blood moon showed that having the “Rad Remover” mod has become somewhat mandatory during that particular time. Green/Irradiated zombies regenerate their hitpoints quite rapidly and Rad Remover removes their regen factor for 90 seconds. Which is nice during chaotic times like the blood moon. They aren’t terribly hard to make, but you can only learn to make them through reader the proper schematic and not skill points.
Pump shotguns are a thing and a major upgrade from the double barreled shotgun. Being able to shoot way more shells successively and not even an annoyingly long reload. Can be quite expensive to make though and you need the proper schematic. Pump shotguns are also quite rare in the wild, but not absolutely impossible to find in loot or at a trader. As a luxury item breaching slugs are quite cool and if you don’t have lockpicking skills really fun to use against safes. But really everybody should treat yo selves to at least an iron pickaxe.
Just right above your item hotbar you can see a tiny ass line with probably a bit of blue. This blue is basically your xp meter and shows you how far along you are from leveling up.

Locations

Finding the right schematic is a great excuse to finally visit the skyscraper city in the south eastern part past the Buff Boys Oil Baron Fields. There is a lot of loot to be found in that city including a huge bookstore and knowledge is power. Plus lots of file cabinets which also contain skill books but also paper which is very useful for making shotgun shells.
Alternatively other fun places to visit are the football stadium and police station north east of the house in the snow biome. In the same biome there’s also the house on the ominous hill with a shotgun messiah store close by. At the same time there’s actually a hill cave just north west of the nearby trader (and the man made tunnel). It’s best to approach this cave from the south and is marked by a single tree that can be seen if you’re south of the road that runs below it. Of course it’s also always possible to go climb the mountains to the west of the base. Here is a map with arrows to these 3 locations: https://imgur.com/xQGI8uW
Unfortunately this isn’t the kind of cave where you can find mushrooms which is quite a rare ingredient for Chef Matt. Luckily there are 2 mushroom locations in relative close proximity of the house and each other. One is a (more elaborate) cave/bunker pretty much south of the house. The entrance is on top of a big hill. It’s essentially a hollowed out hill and it’s marked by a dead tree and a set of stairs going down into the hole. Here you can find mushrooms growing on the walls and ceiling and stuff: https://imgur.com/LYrc4FF.png

The other location is a house with mushrooms being grown in the basement just south east of that hill. This house is in somewhat of a valley so you could take the long way around and follow the road or just simply park your vehicle just north of the hills and make a tiny walk to the house. Or just power through the hills with your vehicle. Here is a map that hopefully makes it all clear on both locations: https://imgur.com/8fN9J7s.png

Potatoes also aren’t a very easy find, but there is a location nearby where you can find a small garden (for some reason in the snow) where there are a couple of potatoes planted. It’s not a huge amount, but with levels in Living off the Land it’s a good start to start the potato farm. Here is the garden and you can just punch the potato plants to harvest them: https://imgur.com/gn96sZz

Base building
About basebuilding to survive the blood moon I don’t want to say anything really about design. Because I feel like the fun in building that stuff comes having your own base designs. So here are some general things and maybe one fun idea.

You can’t go wrong with multiple layers, in some ways it’s more of a test of endurance. Possibly with room in between to protect against explosions like the Demolisher zombies (shoot them in the c4).
Which is why I think Trevor had the right idea with a general repair man who has the resources to fix all kind of things. I recently stalemated a zombie horde smashing my vault door while repairing it with my nailgun.
Reinforcing concrete with steel can be quite draining on your supplies. So the most value blocks to steel up would be those next to the door since those will take the most collateral damage. That is after all only if you decide to make a bunker with a door which is partly personal preference as in: Knowing where the zombies will aim for vs. spreading out the damage. And if you do want a door at this point a vault door is essential. Which can be upgraded once placed two more times with steel and a repair tool.
Nothing wrong with making zombies go boom. Explosives aren’t terribly hard or expensive to make especially pipe bombs (hi fbi), but you do need to skill demolitions expert or the proper schematic. Pipe bombs, dynamite, grenades, contact grenades and of course rocket launchers. I would also say mines, but it’s real easy to forget where they are especially when hidden by grass. Speaking from quite a few unfortunate personal experiences here.
I personally like to place a lot of torches around the area I want to defend during the bloodmoon so that it’s easier to see stuff when it’s dark and not use power on spotlights or put the vehicles in dangerous positions. Sometimes low tech is best tech.
Arrow slits are still a thing and I think that the best one to make are the iron variety at a forge. Though they can be upgraded with more iron and then once more with concrete .Wooden ones can be made at a table saw (a new crafting station). They do still hinder shooting somewhat, but they also protect you and the base from cop spit which can be useful. Alternatively there are also iron poles (also from the forge) which limit your vision way less, but also provide a bit less protection. Useful block forms however aren’t my expertise because I mainly build stuff for their aesthetics.
Iron Spikes and barbed fence wire. I would never say no against wooden spikes, but at this point iron spikes should be what you’re aiming for. With each iron spike costing 4 forged iron and created through the workbench or upgraded from wooden spikes. And while barbed fence wire doesn’t do much damage it significantly slows down zombies to the point that it becomes quite easy to shoot them. Not incredibly durable though. Auto turrets can also be good, and I vastly prefer the shotgun turret since it doesn’t eat as much ammo as the submachine gun variant.
Electric fence posts are also quite fun to use and visually appealing, but quite fragile with zombies bumping into them so if possible try and protect them a bit. But they also lose durability when they shock zombies and especially humans. So when (not if) someone steps into the electric fence be prepared to repair them with electric parts.
Here’s a fun idea that I’ve never been able to do, but you might because of the large crew: Bum bait towers. Essentially small towers outside the main bunker of 3x3 and enough height plus possible extensions to make a jump possible. With the idea that one person will stand atop this tower to distract the zombie, give good firing lines s and when the tower is about the give in that person makes the jump to the main bunker (maybe with points in the skill parkour).Somewhat similar to the Bridge of Love of yonder past. Like I said it’s a test of endurance and every hit from a zombie, acid spit from a cop and c4 explosion that these towers take is one that the main bunker doesn’t.

I’ll finally end this monster post here, but it was a labor of love.And if anyone has any additional remarks please feel free to share. As shown in this very own post you can always learn new things.
Previous week’s thread: https://www.reddit.com/roosterteeth/comments/gspqnl/some_hopefully_helpful_remarkshints_on_the_lovely/

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