did i have a family photoshoot with little pixel people to put little pixel photos of their pixel family in their pixel house? why yes, yes i did.

The Bachelorette Rules

After finding my old Tumblr account, not to mention a renewed interest in my Sims games, I have decided to try this out again. I’m going to attempt to bring back a series I started in 2016 that never went anywhere. The Bachelor/Bachelorette. The different between this time and last time are that I was playing Sims 3 in 2016 and am now playing Sims 4, so traits are changed, looks are changed (I prefer CC). Some rules will probably have to change not only to fit the game but to fit how I prefer to play. I hope you’ll enjoy it just as much as I do though.

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For those of you who haven’t heard of it before, the basis of the challenge is to make a Bachelor/Bachelorette sim (can be a male or female - your choice) and then to make 7 eligible singles in one household. Then, through process of elimination, your Bachelor/Bachelorette will find the love of their life. The challenge will last a total of 7 days (one day per single eliminated, and the last day for the marriage) and ends with the sim and the lucky winner getting married. After that, what their life will be like together is up to you! 

 Steps to Begin the Challenge: 

1. Create your Bachelor/Bachelorette. You can make them male or female, beautiful or ugly, nice or mean, it is your choice! That is one of the nice things about this challenge – the creative elements are endless! I would make him/her a young adult, but, like everything else, it is up to you! 

2. Create your eligible singles. Try to make them as diverse as possible; you want your sim to have many options to choose from! *Note*: There are to be NO existing relationships between ANY of the sims involved in the challenge! When you move them into the house, use the “testingcheatsenabled true” cheat to set all of the sims relationships with the residents to 0. Other than that and when you “motherlode” for the house, no cheats are allowed. 

3. Move them into a house. You can download a house, or create one yourself. Motherlode as much as you want! After all, this challenge is being run by a very wealthy television studio; money is no object! Some things you will need in your house: one bedroom for your bachelor/bachelorette, one bedroom for the 7 singles, a date room, 5 chess tables, and a room with a stereo. A buffet table is helpful. Now you are ready to start the challenge! The concept is fairly simple; the object of the challenge is to find the Bachelor/Bachelorette’s true love in the 7 sims presented. Every day, the Bachelor/Bachelorette will go on a “date” within the house with each of the single sims. The “date” activities will change per day. The Bachelor/Bachelorette is to have no user-controlled social interactions with any of the single sims except on dates. There is NO WOOHOO ALLOWED until the challenge is over! The sims are also not allowed to leave the house OR have social interactions with anyone who lives outside the house. 

Eliminations are to be done at exactly 12pm on every challenge day. The eliminated single will be the sim that has the lowest relationship with the Bachelor/Bachelorette on the given day. The eliminated single is to move out of the house immediately and there is to be no other contact made with the single for the duration of the challenge. In the case of a tie, pick one of the other single sims and check their relationship with the tied sims. Whoever is liked the best by the sim stays. You cannot use the same sim to check friendships more than once. 

Day by Day: 

Day 1: After moving them into the house, just allow the sims to mingle and chat among themselves. If they seem to be a little slow, initiate a few interactions between the Bachelor/Bachelorette and the singles. Try to keep it fair for all. 

Day 2: At 12pm, the single sim with the lowest relationship with the Bachelor/Bachelorette moves out immediately. After, it’s time for the group dates! Put your Bachelor/Bachelorette sim in the room with the stereo and turn it on. Pause the game. Select all of the single sims and select “Dance Together” with him/her. Play the game. From there on, it’s a race! The first one there gets to dance with him/her; the others can dance among themselves. Do that for two or three hours, and after that, it’s the one on one dates. Have your Bachelor/Bachelorette do the “Chat” interaction with each single sim once. 

Day 3: Before the elimination, have the Bachelor/Bachelorette do one “Flirt” interaction with all of the single sims. 12pm: Move out time! The single sim with the lowest relationship moves out immediately. After the move-out, it’s time for another group date! It’s pretty much the same as the dance date the day before, except there is only 5 sims today! Then it’s time for chess dates! Make all of your single sims play chess, and have your Bachelor/Bachelorette join them for about an hour each. 

Day 4: Before the elimination, have the Bachelor/Bachelorette do two “Flirt” interactions with all of the single sims. 12pm: Kick out the unlucky single with the lowest score. Group date time. Yes, it’s another dance date! You know the drill by now! After a couple of hours dancing, have your Bachelor/Bachelorette do three “Friendly” interactions of your choice with all the single sims. Keep it fair, though! 

Day 5: Before noon, have your Bachelor/Bachelorette do 3 romantic interactions with all of your single sims. 12pm: Move out the sim with the lowest relationship. Group Dance Date! After the group date, have your Bachelor/Bachelorette try to do enough romantic interactions to get the “Confess Attraction” and “First Kiss” and try to do both, with all single sims. 

Day 6: Before noon, have your Bachelor/Bachelorette do 4 romantic interactions with each single sim. 12pm: Elimination and the Last Group Dance Date! Have your Bachelor/Bachelorette do enough romantic interactions with the two remaining singles to get the “Make-out” interaction. 

Day 7 (Last Day!!!): Before the last elimination, have your Bachelor/Bachelorette do 3 last romantic interactions with the singles. And the winner is.......

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What I have decided to change:

Instead of 1 week.. there will only be an elimination every week. Every Sunday at 12:00pm someone will be eliminated from the household.

In an effort to include everyone... once a day for the first three days I will make the MC “chat” with everyone once. After that they are on their own.

I also didn’t want them leaving the lot during the duration so I deleted the doors leading outside. What does this mean for our sims? We will be dealing with a “stir crazy” moodlet for a long while. Oh well.

Next post..... Meet our Bachelorette / Contestants.

I agree with speeding things up. As much as I love the little details and seeing things building, it kind of feels like we're seeing Caroline suffer just to suffer and it kind of feels like the same points are just being drilled in repeatedly? I know and understand that she's drifting apart from Danny, struggling to find the work she wants, and misses Beth and it feels very deep and real and I love that about it, but it feels like there isn't any substantial follow up with it, save for Owen.

yeah i completely agree with you... and i know this is really good advice because it kinda stings sjdksjs thank you for being honest and letting me know 💖 i think i’m gonna delete the posts i had for tomorrow because they set up a whole new plot point that i don’t think i even need? i just wish i hadn’t spent like 3 hours doing it all 😐 anyway i really appreciate this message because it helped me brainstorm ways to simplify things, and now i think i have a solid plan!! and thank you so much, because this is the criticism that i’ve been CRAVING sjdskj everyone wants to say my sims look the same but no one wants to tell me how to make my story better lmaoo

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I was tagged by @plumbastic, @mellowsimss thank you both!!

nickname(s): depends on who you’re asking lol some of them are fef, bean, and the ever popular heather feather coined by my grandmother gender: Female sign: Taurus height: on the shorter side of 5′6 if that makes sense lol time: 11:29 am birthday: May 11 favourite bands: you know...I don’t really have one!! my all time favorite band broke up forEVER ago and I could never get excited about another one (it was The Click Five for the record!) favourite solo artists: I don’t rly have a favorite solo artist either don’t @ me song stuck in my head: oh my gosh it’s the music from pokemon red & blue when you’re walking on a route this tune is ALWAYS stuck in my head last movie i watched: an amanda knox documentary last show i watched: how i met your mother when did i create this blog: oh uumm a couple of years ago I think?? BUT I had another blog that was around for a lot longer! what do i post: sims :D what did i last google: a phone number because in this house we let all calls go to voicemail and then google the number to find out who it was lmao other blogs: @togepies! it’s super new and it’s a multi fandom blog ^^ also @razzle-berries which is kind of abandoned and @dangheeslng for big brother but that’s also kind of definitely abandoned do i get asks: sometimes! why did i choose this url: ahhh so I always always wanted this url because it means llama in simlish and my brother & I have an ongoing inside joke about llamas and alpacas don’t ask me why or how it even started but that’s why!! following: 269 followers: 3314 average hours of sleep: 8ish lucky number: 117 instrument: I play the ukulele! what am i wearing: long sleeve tshirt & jeans dream job: training sea lions to do tricks (seriously) favourite food: anything chocolate last book i read: rocks fall everyone dies is the last one I finished but I guess very technically the chronicles of narnia- my mom got us each a copy of the entire series & we’re reading it together ^^ 3 favourite fandoms: sims, da:i, and fo4 I guess!

y’all know the drill- if you want to do this consider yourself tagged by me!!

I just finished NDRV3 last night (a bit late I know) so bear with me because I have a theory that’s probably already been done to death but -

So everything Tsumugi said was a lie. Well, nearly everything. She (and Team DGR) did implant new memories into the 15 characters, and they possibly weren’t ultimates. They also weren’t heading into space, there was potentially no meteors, that entire backstory is a lie. In fact, everything from the Flashback Lights we can rule as a lie, unless cross referenced with something else (that’s not Tsumugi’s own testimony, I’ll get to her in a bit). That’s pretty much the entire game chucked out.

Except...

a. Prologue:

 Kaede refers to herself as Kaede Akamatsu. Shuichi, likewise, refers to himself as Shuichi Saihara.

Obviously, given what we’re told by the game about Rantaro, he’s the only one who seems to know what’s going on, that it’s a Killing Game. An interesting point is that he asks ‘who is behind all this’, either suggesting that the 52nd game was drastically different, or that his Killing Game was under much different circumstances than we’ve been led to believe. 

The personalities aren’t all that drastically different. Miu is still foul mouthed, for example. 

Kaede trues several times to ask the Monokubs something, ‘If you guys are the Monokubs, then-‘, presumably asking where Monokuma is. Her sprite while she says this is her shocked one, with sweat on her face and mouth slightly open. It’s not really the face of someone who voluntarily joined up. Neither is how her and Shuichi claim to have gotten there, before the first Flashback Light - being thrown into a car by weird men. 

This is followed up by the Monokubs changing the topic to Ultimate Talents, which Kaede responds that she has a skill she has a skill she devotes herself to, but that she wouldn’t call it an Ultimate Talent. This is said while her sprite is in the ‘crossing arms and looking down’ pose, looking rather crestfallen or concerned. It’s a bit of a stretch, but I’m going to say that this interaction implies that Ultimate Talents exist in this world. 

 Monotaro gives the game away by saying ‘See, according to the backstory, there’s this Ultimate Hunt goin’ on.’ I’m half tempted to ignore everything the Monokubs and Monokuma say, considering I’m not sure how much of it is regular Danganronpa 4th wall breaking and how much is meant to be hints at Tsumugi’s claims at the end. He does say something interesting, claiming that ‘The first thing we need you guys to do is remember your true selves’. Monophanie backs this up by saying ‘need to reclaim your sealed talents’. Both of these could be for the fictional audience’s benefit, if we take what Tsumugi says at face value. 

Kaede’s reaction to Monokid saying there’s going to be a killing game is a shocked sprite, and, in her thoughts ‘K-Killing Game...?’. Again, not really the actions of someone who signed up for a Killing Game willing. 

This is everything usable in the prologue, as far as I’m aware.

b. Chapter Six Trial

There’s no reason for there to be so many discrepancies between the characters’ memories and the canon events of the first two games. Tsumugi is portrayed as some uber fan, why would she settle for less than perfect? The justification that Tsumugi gives is flimsy at best.

Tsumugi, as Makoto Naegi, says ‘If what I said is the truth, then Hope’s Peak Acaemy was...’ when Shuichi brings up the Cospox. Notice the ‘If’.

The places seen when Tsumugi as Chiaki claims that everyone is a huge DanganRonpa fan are - Japan, Australia, England, America and one other place I can’t identify.

When it’s revealed that it’s the 53rd season, the white V changes to a pink 5. Pink is used in DanganRonpa to symbolise lies (and blood, but it’s the wrong shade of pink for that)

What’s the in game justification for the NDRV3 cast not having any memories of the other games? Or Tsumugi not cosplaying as characters from the other games? (Other than the obvious real world justification that those games don’t exist)

I find it odd that Tsumugi as various characters keeps saying ‘DanganRonpa inspired’.

Gonna point out that they made a kid into a robot. Just gonna throw that out there. This has nothing to do with it I just think it’s fucked up that within a matter of second they took a normal teenager and made him into a walking talking surveillance robot.

Shuichi’s supposed audition video. The Shuichi in this claims that he’s a huge fan of DanganRonpa and has always wanted to be in one. Shuichi in chapter one does not recognise Rantaro, a previous contestant, or the Monokubs. He always reacts with fear and shock in the prologue, contrary to how he acts in the audition video.

Right after the wardrobe change. The change here is that there’s an extra bit after Kaede says ‘K-Killing Game?’, where Shuichi says ‘You mean... we were selected!?’ With the happiest expression on his face. This is not shown in the prologue, obviously. I’m doubting that this actually happened, and that it’s not just another trick by Tsumugi to bring them further into despair.

‘Well, if you’re going to call fiction a lie... Then yes’ this line stands out to me for reasons I can’t explain right now.

Kaede’s audition tape. She says she has no faith in humanity, and yet in the prologue worries over Shuichi and acts in ways one who has no faith in humanity wouldn’t really act.

Kaito’s audition tape. Yeah, no, guy didn’t come off like that at all. I think you get the drill.

c. Tsumugi

 Cospox. This is what she uses to justify how she can cosplay as Junko Enoshima while the everyone still thinks she’s real, by claiming that Junko (and the cast of DR and SDR2) are fictional in the world of NDRV3. Problem: She can’t cosplay as Kaede, someone she herself claims to see as fictional. This could mean either that the cospox itself is a lie, or that Kaede isn’t ‘fictional’.

She never claims her own talent was imparted onto her with the Flashback Lights

Interestingly enough, when giving her certain gifts (the prop carrying case is one) her eyes with swirl, like she’s under the effects of Despair. This also happens during the trial, and a few other times during her FTEs. AS far as I’m aware, she’s the only character in NDRV3 who does this.

In her third FTE, she says ‘This is the ‘Cosplay is Fun’ episode’.

The ‘cosplaycat criminal’ line that gets Shuichi thinking that Junko Enoshima and Hope’s Peak is actually real.

Tsumugi says that she’s been working for 53 seasons on the show. Assuming you have a murder once a week like we see in all three DanganRonpa games, and have 16 victims, that’s 14 weeks of murder as it goes until there are two students left. So 14 weeks x 53 = 742 weeks or 14 years, 2 months and 3 weeks of murder. This also means Tsumugi is at minimum in her 30s. This is assuming that she’s telling the truth, of course.

d. Misc

Maybe a bit of a stretch, but the D.I.C.E logo and the Future Foundation logo look similar.

Why is the History of Hope’s Peak Academy book even here, let alone in Kokichi’s lab? All it does is reveal all of the inconsistencies in Tsumugi’s fake memories.

Actually, the labs in general are a bit odd. All of them are really stereotypical, it reminds me of when I’m designing a house in the Sims for a character who’s athletic so there’s just sports equipment everywhere. 

So my theory is as thus:

NDRV3 doesn’t take place in a world where everyone is obsessed with DanganRonpa and watches Killing Games all day. It takes place in the regular old DanganRonpa universe (possibly where people watch Killing Games), some time after the events of DR3.

Tsumugi is a part of the Remnants of Despair. I’m guessing that either a) They are actually putting on a Killing Game reality show so they can watch people slip into despair then climb into hope then slip into despair again (this could be part of why previous survivors carry over) or b) something else, like studying Ultimate Talents in a slightly more gory way than Hope’s Peak was.

Tsumugi being part of the Remnants of Despair would also explain why the memories are imperfect. She worships Junko, she’s obviously going to play up her actions and downplay the actions of everyone else, it’s a classic propaganda move, and everyone who could have told them about the inner workings of Hope’s Peak Academy is no longer part of the Remnants of Despair.

I’m also going to toss out there that Team DGR might be another name for the Remnants of Despair. This isn’t based on anything, other than their running of Killing Games and it’s the organisation Tsumugi is a part of.

All of this is speculation and quite a bit of reaching, but I had fun doing it and not the pressing assessment that’s due today so that’s all that matters, right? I might update this post from time to time.

steampunk robot ghost is the coolest thing I have ever heard could you tell me about your OCs

yesyesyes of course !! ok so a bit of backstory in this universe (about a hundred or two years into the future compared 2 right now) magic Exists and has several different sources: the Earth (/whatever your home planet is), your own reserves of magic (everyone has Some, but through work it can get larger and fill up quicker etc), and (optional and mostly forgotten) you can also make a deal with a different planet/star (deity) and they will provide you magic assuming u do things for them sometimes, worship them, etc you know the drill. juno (i'll get 2 triptych soon i swear) is. basically just some guy except 4 the fact that he made a deal w Thuban (a star in the constellation Draco it used 2 be the North Star a few thousand years ago but it isn't anymore) and is now. incredibly powerful. then there's some plot sneaking in here w eldritch beings and whatnot but that's irrelevant rn. this is Juno he is basically just 24/7 worried and confused he makes bad decisions all the time he's just so dumb <3 think Jonathan Sims tma if his job was "astrology but actually talking to the stars and asking them about your future" (id in alt)

He tries 2 find a disappeared friend travels a lot finds a cat made of pure darkness makes some awesome friends who I'll talk about in another post/maybe a rb bc this is getting long and finally meets Triptych !! My beloved android girl.. she comes from a long family of Clockwork People as they call themselves, always making three identical twins per generation. exactly one of them gets immortalised as a ghost, and Triptych is the one to do so. she is the first to die, and so doesn't have any claim to the children her siblings create after her death :( she has been trying 2 get the government 2 recognise her as legally alive 4 almost a hundred years at this point and she's given up BUT then she makes a deal w a deity (saturn) and it gets it done for her :) picrew didn't have "is made of clockwork" option but she brass-coloured if not actually made of anything now except for pure magic as ghosts tend to be. she didn't die in these clothes but she's corporeal enough to wear things sometimes. she is indeed old enough to remember old web stuff despite it being The Future now funny how immortality works huh !

in conclusion i love her to the moon + back and id be rlly glad to talk abt the rest of the gang (vampy/balázs, a vampire-slash-shapeshifting-squid from space and cass, starship-born host to an eldritch creature by accident + nick who Dies But Gets Better) if ur interested !

(also i have an entire blog (that i never use but still) 4 this universe @starlightguides)

Roleplay partners wanted!

My name is Rhys. I am 21 years old, she/her, from the CT, love the color magenta, and own two orange tabbies. I’m looking for partners in my conquest to write! While I can't get responses in every day, I am almost always open to chatter and geeking out about all sorts of things.

  I write third person, past/present tense, and paragraph form. I'm a novella-ish writer, and do try to crank out at least four-six paragraphs each time I get a response in. Like previously mentioned, I want to stress that while I can't respond every day, everything I do write is full of TLC! I always want to mention this to partners beforehand, because I know some people would rather do rapid fire responses than one or two a week. My limits are pretty general; toilet stuff is a no-no. I don't like to write out top/bottom stereotypes or "seme/uke" tropes. Beastiality, pedophilia, and the like are icky things I would rather avoid.

  I write for all genders, ethnicity, and orientations! I am open to any pairings, and beyond that, varying genres.

  https://docs.google.com/document/d/18n3iuj4m9X1hBo9P2IezrKdTfkTrSKt0H34ZP6v3hHs

  LIMITS

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  No unrealistic stereotypes of queer relationships, please. Yaoi, yuri, seme/uke, etc. Can't do that. Characters need to both have versatile roles; switching, so it's fair for everyone. Though, my characters do tend to be a lot more dominating!

  {{Very welcoming of BDSM, dom/sub, but this does not mean someone needs to be penetrated every single time in order for the dom to dominate. Get it? This can also apply to heterosexual relationships. I would literally love to see female characters who top, if you know what I mean. If given the chance, I will definitely have dom!females in bdsm-related situations}}

  Furries; blegh, no thanks. Beastiality, nekos, anything of sexual animal-related nature is a no-go, fam.

  Vore, scat, bathroom stuff, pedophilia. You know the drill! ((I am not opposed to consensual, legal age and non-reproducing incestuous relationships in FICTION! Sex is fine, just no children resulting from it. Reminder; this is fictional.))

  Okay, so despite those few limits, I am actually pretty welcoming of anything else. Smut, of course. Some kink a little out there that you want to suggest? Let's do it, dude. I am open to polyamorous relationships, any queer shit you're willing to throw at me lmao I am super OOC friendly and I am pretty much a garbled mess when I get to know you! I am open to crooked relationships, ones that don't function right, fluff and all cuteness, unconditional love-- my interests fluctuate! I am down, 24/7, guys! Here's a list of fandoms and pairings below.

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  **=Craving

  Borderlands

Handsome Jack/Rhys

Handsome Jack/Rhys/Nisha

Rhys/Axton

Handsome Jack/Nisha

Fiona/Athena

Fiona/Vaughn

Rhys/Vaughn

  Until Dawn

Josh Washington/Chris

Chris/Mike

Jess/Mike

Sam/Beth

Matt/Jess

Emily/Matt/Jess

  Life is Strange

Max Caulfield/Chloe Price

Max Caulfield/Kate Marsh/Victoria Chase

Nathan Prescott/Warren Graham

Rachel Amber/Chloe Price**

Rachel Amber/Frank Bowers

Frank Bowers/Damon Merrick**

  DC

Dick Grayson/Jason Todd**

Dick Grayson/Koriand'r

Dick Grayson/Slade Wilson

Dick Grayson/Wally West

Oliver Queen/Dinah Lance

Harley Quinn/Pamela Isley

Bruce Wayne/Clark Kent

  Batman: Telltale Series

Bruce Wayne/John Doe**

Bruce Wayne/Selina Kyle

Bruce Wayne/Jim Gordon

Bruce Wayne/Harvey Dent

Bruce Wayne/Harvey Dent/Selina Kyle

  Marvel

Steve Rogers/Tony Stark

Tony Stark/Bruce Banner

Bucky Barnes/Sam Wilson

Thor/Bruce Banner**

Clint Barton/Pietro Maximoff

Peter Parker/Harry Osborn

Peter Parker/Wade Wilson**

Gwen Stacy/Peter Parker/Harry Osborn

Peter Parker/Wade Wilson/Vanessa Carlysle

  Uncharted

Nathan Drake/Samuel Drake**

Nathan Drake/Harry Flynn**

Chloe Frazer/Nadine Ross

Samuel Drake/Rafe Adler

  Game of Thrones

Arya Stark/Gendry Waters

Sansa Stark/Margaery Tyrell

Daenerys Targaryen/Jon Snow

  TTGOT

Asher Forrester/Gwyn Whitehill

Rodrik Forrester/Arthur Glenmore

Mira Forrester/Margaery Tyrell

Gryff Whitehill/Elaena Glenmore

Gared Tuttle/Finn

Gared Tuttle/Josera Snow

  The Walking Dead

Rick Grimes/Shane Walsh

Rick Grimes/Negan**

Daryl Dixon/Paul “Jesus” Rovia

  TWDG

Luke/Nick

Javier Garcia/David Garcia**

Clementine/Gabriel Garcia

Javier Garcia/Paul “Jesus” Rovia

  The Mortal Instruments

Simon Lewis/Raphael Santiago

Simon Lewis/Jace Lightwood

Isabelle Lightwood/Lydia Branwell

Alec Lightwood/Magnus Bane

  Infamous: Second Son

Delsin Rowe/Reggie Rowe

Delsin Rowe/Eugene Sims

Delsin Rowe/Hank Daughtry

  Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator

Anyone/your dadsona (for the love of god someone give me a good, not cliche john doe dadsona and you will win my heart!! I just want to play a dad lol bring me some great ass ocs)

  Far Cry 3

Jason Brody/Vaas Montenegro

  The Last of Us

Ellie/Riley

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  Some basic ideas that I do have pretty big doc ideas for;

  A few marine biologists go to an island off the coast to study the marine life there, which in turn, turns out to be something much bigger. (Mermaid/siren prompt!)

  Soul mates; it can be like some of those AU’s where you don’t see color until you meet them, your tattooed timer counts down until then, or maybe even soulmates continuously reincarnating and one of the two has killed them for centuries in order to be “immortal”. For the first time, the victimized partner gets close enough that the other begins to fall and they start aging, together.

  Character A has an awful time living in the city; alone, and without mom's guidance, completely lost. One day they receive a call about a deceased relative, one they'd never heard of and apparently left their estate and everything in their will to A. With nothing but the clothes on their back, A took a shot and drove out to this presumed "estate", only to find that it's a mansion in a tiny little town with an eerie vibe and populated by the typical small town churchgoers and farm folk. Living in this town was a hell of a challenge; everyone was nice, too nice, and people were missing. Character B is an exceptionally charismatic, charming person and the only mechanic/handyman in town. A and B become friends, partially, when A needs to fix up the piping in their estate. A stumbles upon the attic one day, and for once, they start to get why this whole town reeked to the roots in weird shit-- their deceased relative was tracking something here in this town, having to do with all of the MIA townsfolk. DR has a board of possible suspects, and at the center? B. OSJFODSFHSDJSODFJD!!! Bonus content: B is, in fact, not the murderer, instead a vampire on a mission to track down the monster, same as DR. small towns give me honey moon vibes and I??? am so down for some kinky, albeit eventually fluffy romance between people who are trying to make it work. I actually have a doc for both TBD characters and a location. None of this is set in stone, so please share your thoughts.

  A doesn’t have any memories of their life, only being conscious and staring down at a mutilated body in a ditch. When they meet B, they learn why; welcome to limbo, they say. You just died. A has unfinished business; finding out who murdered them, why, and what else is holding them here. B is a reaper intent on helping lost souls pass over-- they were never born, and A shows them the delights of life before it’s taken. B learns to love A, and A doesn’t want to leave limbo. While A’s soul is clinging between realities, B must make a pivotal decision; squeezing tight on the concept of love, and letting A go. (BONUS!! REINCARNATION; A & B ARE GIVEN THE GIFT OF LIVING AGAIN, TOGETHER.)

  Coming of age story between two childhood friends who are separated by circumstance, and after ten years, reunite and learn that your first love doesn’t have to be the one that got away.

  Two friends drop their whole lives to go on a road trip once they turn thirty-- they elope together, leaving their unhappy lives behind them and in this grand scheme of mental breakdowns and tearful smiles, they find that love may be the only cure to a broken existence.

  In a post-apocalyptic world where a pandemic has killed off most living species, Character A is a lone wolf with little to do with other people that don't benefit him, except for a select few. A is especially rough around the edges, as he's lived through some sick shit and lived to tell the tale. A had once been part of a group dedicated to finding a cure, but things went south, and a lot of people died. A had a close bond with the leader of said group, and coincidentally they were the only survivors.  Their past together, having been deeply demented and twisted, caused them to fall out. Said leader has rebuilt a new group in the ten years since the last time they'd seen A. Character B is the only known immune person alive, and has dedicated their life to being a resource to finding a cure. A and his (current) contact/partner in crime have something taken from them, and are determined to get it back. They do some searching, and are confronted with this group-- they have what they need, but are only willing to give it to them for a favor in return. No one can outrun their past forever. (Last of Us-inspired!)

  An architect/treasure hunter is being funded an expedition to find a lost treasure and they are forced to bring along a reporter in order to receive the funds. the reporter and architect certainly don't get along in the beginning— they bicker, and clash on most fronts. the expedition wasn't meant to be dangerous. what was initially thought to be a simple job turned into something treacherous; bandits, a team of hired hitmen and their leader looking to take the treasure for themselves, and some rather supernatural elements that they both couldn't quite put a finger on. the treasure hunter and the reporter have to work together to get out of this alive, and get to the artifact before someone else does.

..and many more!! Thanks so much! If you've read through, please contact me at [email protected] and mention kiwi somewhere in your email. n_n

Rhys xoxo

Violent Trump “Parody” Video Is Best Ignored. But Can We?

A colonoscopy. Prepping for a colonoscopy. The smell of burning trash. The smell of really stagnant water. Ordering anything directly from China via eBay or Amazon, and trying to track that package using China EMS’s rubbish tracking system.

Changing the water pump on a GM 4.2 liter inline-six cylinder engine. Going to change the oil in your car only to discover the last place you let change it rounded the drain plug off.

Removing stripped and/or rust-welded bolts and screws. Drilling out a bolt or screw after the head of said bolt or screw broke off because the wonderful human being who put said fastener back into whatever you’re working on didn’t understand how to line the threads up and, thusly, cross-threaded it when they installed it.  

These are a few things I believe I would find vastly more enjoyable than writing an entire blog post about anything related to Donald Trump. But this is a blog, and I guess every blog — even one as horrible and lame as this one — has to have at least one, right? 

Follow through the jump and I reckon we’ll talk a sec about a Trump-related video that’s been parading around social media here lately.

Sometime during 2018, the creator of TheGeekzTeam — a pro-Donald Trump video meme channel on YouTube that describes itself as “dedicated to pissing off liberals” — is booting up his video editing software. The creator loads in a scene from 2014′s spy comedy film The Kingsman: The Secret Service.

The specific scene the creator has chosen takes place in a Kentucky church, where a hate group has gathered. The film’s wealthy antagonist — a character named Richmond Valentine, played by Samuel L. Jackson with a lisp — intends on conducting an experiment with the hate group by using ground-breaking SIM card technology he developed. One of the film’s protagonists — a spy named Harry Hart, played by English actor Colin Firth — has traveled to this church in order to figure out what Valentine is trying to accomplish.

In the midst of the gathering, Valentine turns the members of the hate group extremely violent by remotely activating and interacting with the SIM cards he designed, implanted in their necks. Bloody chaos ensues when a member of the hate group pursues Hart as he tries to leave, spewing hateful rhetoric, and Hart shoots the group member. 

To create this latest video, the creator pastes the face of Donald Trump over Firth’s. The faces of Trump’s critics and challengers — among them, Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and Republican Utah senator Mitt Romney — and the logos of various media groups and social movements are pasted over the faces of members of the hate group that met their bloody fate in the original scene. The hate group’s church is rechristened “The Church of Fake News” via Photoshop magic.

The original scene, you could say, was attempting to make a statement about the foolishness of hate groups and their rhetoric. And as gory and violent as it was, the scene wasn’t necessarily intending to be gory and violent for gore and violence’s sake. 

A humorous line delivered by Firth’s character before the bloodbath boils up, and the fact Lynyrd Skynyrd’s immortal Southern rock anthem “Freebird” is blaring nearly every second, definitely underscores the fact the creators of the film wanted the scene to have some degree of comedy about it. I mean, The Kingsman is a comedy spy film, after all.

TheGeekzTeam turned the scene inside out and around on itself, in a way, when it pasted Trump’s face over Firth’s, and pasted faces of those individuals and agencies Trump and his supporters identify as “adversaries” over those of the hate group’s. 

It’s hard to say what the creator might have thought about the original scene, though. Maybe they got the original message of the scene, felt it was “lamestream liberal crap,” and felt they were changing it to be more accurate with their edits. Or maybe that’s reading too deep; they could have simply liked the scene for what it was on the surface and wanted to make Trump the hero. Or maybe it was something else...

Whatever the reason, TheGeekzTeam’s video would first be posted to different pro-Trump groups on Reddit, where it would receive enough upvotes to find its way to the front page. It would go on to rack up 3 million views from there. Eventually, the video would be shown in October 2019 as part of a “meme exhibit” at a pro-Trump gathering in Miami at Trump’s resort there. The showing in Miami would give the video a new surge in popularity on social media and subsequent coverage in news media.

Trump, at the time of the video’s second coming, “[had] not yet seen the video” but “strongly [condemned] it” based on “what he had heard,” according to Stephane Grisham, who currently serves as White House Press Secretary, a job that currently ties with McDonald’s frycook for “position with highest turnover rate in America.”

So we’re all up to speed on the video, yeah? Let’s change gears now and think about who created the video for a moment. Remember what I mentioned early about TheGeekzTeam’s “about” section on YouTube? It proudly proclaims it is “dedicated to pissing off liberals and encouraging Trump supporters.”

That makes what TheGeekzTeam is really all about pretty transparent, I think: TheGeekzTeam is a troll, wanting to flare up nostrils on the faces of those “hypocrites on the left” while — regardless if they actually support Trump or not — also getting a rise out of Trump supporters. Now, I’m not saying what they’re doing is “smart” or that they’re smart, but you’d have to wonder about yourself if you totally bought into it.

There’s an old adage that’s been going around internet since, like, the days of Ancient Rome and Egypt: “Don’t feed the troll.” With millions of views on YouTube and other social media outlets, mainstream news coverage, outrage coming from various places, and hundreds upon hundreds of YouTube comments from Trump supporters encouraging the channel owner to give “the left hell,” darn near everyone has fed this one. And, mother of God, is he fatttttt. And there ain’t no Weight Watchers program out there capable of trimming that wad of mass down to something remotely healthy again. 

When all of the internet — left, right, liberal, conservative, etc., etc. — feeds a troll, what does it encourage a troll to do? Troll some more, and ‘til they can’t no more. No doubt, the exposure that has been afforded to TheGeekzTeam thanks in part to mainstream coverage will only encourage them to create more mind-numbingly stupid content in the future.

The best course of action, as tough as it might be, is to ignore the content trolls create in the hopes that it will discourage them from creating anything else like it further. Of course, advising for that course of action feeds into the concern that ignoring this content will allow for it proliferate unchecked. Well, alright then; if you have to say something to a troll, you better learn how to shut them down by sharpening up your own trolling skills. 

Yelling about your outrage and anger sure as shoot isn’t going to work. That’s what a troll wants, remember; to see you loose your head and get upset or act loud and foolish. Be smarter. Learn how to fight fire with fire.

Well... I guess I’m done with my obligatory Trump-related blog post. If you’ll excuse me, I’m going to head on over to China EMS’s website and, for the millionth time, not track some crap I bought from eBay the other day.

Sources (that are likely to piss off supporters of Pro-Trump YouTube channels): India Times, NBC News, NPR, USA Today, The Washington Post

Main image is a screen grab taken from the original scene in The Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014).

The Bear’s Den, March 30, 2019

BEAR DOWN, CHICAGO BEARS, BEAR DOWN!!!!

BEARRRSSSS / FREE AGENCY / DRAFT

Hoge: Even At A Lower Price, Trading Jordan Howard Made Sense | WGN Radio - 720 AM - A trade that has been expected for months finally materialized Thursday night, as the Bears sent Howard to the Philadelphia Eagles in exchange for a 2020 sixth round pick that could eventually turn into a fifth round pick, depending on the conditions.

Mayer: Bears re-sign DB DeAndre Houston-Carson - ChicagoBears.com - The Bears on Friday re-signed safety DeAndre Houston-Carson to a one-year contract. The 2016 sixth-round draft pick has appeared in 32 games in three seasons, contributing primarily on special teams.

Mayer: Bears believe in their revamped backfield - ChicagoBears.com - It will sport a new look after at least one addition and one subtraction, but the Bears are confident that their retooled backfield will boast depth and diversity in 2019.

Medina: With Jordan Howard Gone, How Will the Bears Address Their Running Game? - Bleacher Nation - For the first time since 2015, the Bears’ running backs room won’t feature Jordan Howard. So what’s next?

Medina: The Bears Are Bringing Back Safety DeAndre Houston-Carson on a One-Year Deal - Bleacher Nation - Valued reserve safety and special teams contributor DeAndre Houston-Carson is back for another year.

Bernstein: I Won’t Miss Jordan Howard - 670 The Score - Howard simply wasn’t quick or elusive enough to fit in Matt Nagy’s offense.

Bears Re-Sign DeAndre Houston-Carson On 1-Year Deal - 670 The Score - The Bears have re-signed DeAndre Houston-Carson, who’s a backup defensive back and a key special teams contributor.

Emma: Why The Bears Traded Jordan Howard - 670 The Score - In trading running back Jordan Howard to the Eagles, the Bears moved on from a player they didn’t desire anymore and gathered what they could in return.

Biggs: A lack of success forced Ryan Pace to chase pricey free agents. Now the Bears can bide their time with ample cap room - Chicago Tribune - After years of being very active in the first wave of free agency when teams are forced to overpay by nature, the Bears were able to be more reserved this time around. They have ample cap room for now, making it a better situation for GM Ryan Pace.

Biggs: DeAndre Houston-Carson, special-teams standout, returns to Bears on 1-year contract - Chicago Tribune - The Bears re-signed safety DeAndre Houston-Carson to a one-year contract Friday, bringing back one of their core special teams players. He tied for the team lead in tackles on special teams last season and contributed to the dime defense late in the year.

Jordan Howard Traded to the Eagles (Plus: NFC North Defensive Bracket Breakdown) - Chicago Audible Podcast - Jordan Howard is no longer a Chicago Bear. Check out our raw instant reaction Plus, we go through and rank each NFC North team at every defensive position.

Ingalls: Trading Jordan Howard Hurts, But It Doesn’t Matter - Chicago Audible Blog - It may sting letting go of a productive back such as Jordan Howard, recent history proves that Super Bowl teams don't typically rely on a featured back.

Stankeviz: Why trading running back Jordan Howard to the Eagles made sense for the Bears - NBC Sports Chicago - For as good a player as Howard is, his fit within Nagy's system never quite worked.

Mullin: Bears make winning deal sending Jordan Howard to Eagles through Chicago-Philly 'pipeline' - NBC Sports Chicago - From the beginning of Matt Nagy’s tenure as Bears head coach, the question became not if Jordan Howard would be on his way out of Chicago, but rather when.

5 Players the Bears Could Target to Replace Jordan Howard - NBC Chicago - The Chicago Bears don't have a first or second round draft pick this season, but they could still make a move to snag a running back as they look to replace Jordan Howard.

Sikes: Jordan Howard Thanks Bears Organization - Club Dub Bears Blog - It was just a matter of time before what happened yesterday became official. Jordan Howard is no longer a Chicago Bear.

Sikes: Trey Burton On His First Year In Chicago “Bears Fans Are Awesome” - Club Dub Bears Blog - Looking back at the end of the 2017 season, the Bears tight end situation was pretty bleak. Zach Miller’s career ended in New Orleans on a horrific knee injury, Dion Sims continued to show that he was not reliable, and they had an unproven rookie in Adam Shaheen.

Orr: Ranking NFL teams QB situations, best to worst - SI.com - Taking stock of NFL each team’s quarterback room—not just starting talent, but cost, health, backup quality and more. Ken's Note: Bears are 10 spots below Derek Carr, Mike Glennon and Nate Peterman? I'll have some of what Sports Illustrated is drinking, please...

Smith: Jordan Howard trade again shows Eagles prioritize compensatory picks – ProFootballTalk - The Eagles’ decision to trade a 2020 third-day pick for Bears running back Jordan Howard is another example of the value Philadelphia places on compensatory picks. That’s because Howard is heading into the final year of his rookie contract.

Jahns: Bears search for right back intensifies in draft - Sun Times - The Bears traded running back Jordan Howard to the Eagles for a sixth-round pick.

Finley: RB Jordan Howard says his goodbye to the Bears - Sun Times - ”Although it was brief, the past three years were truly an amazing experience,” Jordan Howard wrote on Twitter.

POLISH SAUSAGE

Which 2018 NFL playoff team is in the most trouble for the 2019 season? - NFL.com - The 2018 playoff field was absolutely stacked. Two months later, following loads of offseason movement, which 2018 playoff team is in the most trouble heading toward the 2019 campaign? Let’s debate!

KNOW THY ENEMY

NFL poll: Everyone agrees the Detroit Lions got better in free agency - Pride Of Detroit - Lions fans are seriously chugging the Kool-Aid.

NFL free agency: Former Lions TE Luke Willson signs with Raiders - Pride Of Detroit - For yet another offseason, the Lions will move on from their previous year’s tight end talent.

Grading the Vikings’ free agency moves so far - Daily Norseman - Has Minnesota gotten better in the last three weeks?

The draft offers depth, but expect the Packers’ biggest improvements at WR to come from within - Acme Packing Company - The NFL Draft is rich in second-day receiving prospects, but Green Bay’s three choices a year ago figure to set the tone for the position in 2019.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT ON WINDY CITY GRIDIRON

Wiltfong: Bears re-sign DeAndre Houston-Carson - Windy City Gridiron - The Bears have brought back special teams stand out DeAndre Houston-Carson.

Wiltfong & Gowton: Jordan Howard - 5 things to know about the Eagles’ new running back - Bleeding Green Nation - Bears perspective on Philadelphia’s new backfield member.

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2 Minute Drill - Website - iTunes - Andrew Link; Steven’s Streaming – Twitch – Steven Schweickert; T-Formation Conversation - Website - iTunes - Lester Wiltfong, Jr.; WCG Radio - Website - iTunes - Robert Zeglinski - The Blitz Network

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11 Questions

RULES 1. Always post the rules.

2. Answer the questions given by the person who tagged you.

3. Write 11 questions of your own.

4. Tag 11 people (or however many you want)

I was tagged by the lovely @mysticalcatamount

 I tag...@narwhaffle @oncelersrighthand @lonely-flowerboy @katys-art-blog @js-mod-blog @nekodorei

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what zodiac are you?

Aquarius!

What color do you like the least?

Um...brown or orange.

what got you on Tumblr?

I was like “well everyone else that’s gay fandom trash has a tumblr why shouldn’t I” and so here I am.

chicken nuggets or Mac and cheese

MAC AND CHEESE

nutella and peanut butter or Nutella and nothing else?

Nutella by itself.

what’s the last anime you watched?

I rewatched Yuri On Ice for the millionth time.

are you supposed to be doing something right now?

sleeping

have you played the sims?

no, i want to though!!

do you watch d+p? or have you heard of them?

I LOVE DAN AND PHIL THEY’VE HELPED ME THROUGH SO MUCH

kitty toe beans or doggo foots?

don’t make me choose

gay art hoe or gay punk rocker?

gay punk rock art hoe.

MY QUESTIONS:

Is silver a color?

Opinion on pineapple on pizza?

Which iconic twins are your favorite?

Gravity Falls or Rick and Morty?

Favorite gay anthem?

Classic Oncest (including 1272) or askblog Oncest?

Hammer or drill?

Would you dye your hair, and if so, what color?

Writing, art, singing/playing an instrument, dancing, or acting?

Coffee Shop AU or Flower Shop AU?

Current OTP?

There is no longer any such thing as Computer Security

Remember "cybersecurity"?

Mysterious hooded computer guys doing mysterious hooded computer guy .. things! Who knows what kind of naughty digital mischief they might be up to?

Unfortunately, we now live in a world where this kind of digital mischief is literally rewriting the world's history. For proof of that, you need look no further than this single email that was sent March 19th, 2016.

If you don't recognize what this is, it is a phishing email.

This is by now a very, very famous phishing email, arguably the most famous of all time. But let's consider how this email even got sent to its target in the first place:

An attacker slurped up lists of any public emails of 2008 political campaign staffers.

One 2008 staffer was also hired for the 2016 political campaign

That particular staffer had non-public campaign emails in their address book, and one of them was a powerful key campaign member with an extensive email history.

On successful phish leads to an even wider address book attack net down the line. Once they gain access to a person's inbox, they use it to prepare to their next attack. They'll harvest existing email addresses, subject lines, content, and attachments to construct plausible looking boobytrapped emails and mail them to all of their contacts. How sophisticated and targeted to a particular person this effort is determines whether it's so-called "spear" phishing or not.

In this case is it was not at all targeted. This is a remarkably unsophisticated, absolutely generic routine phishing attack. There is zero focused attack effort on display here. But note the target did not immediately click the link in the email!

Instead, he did exactly what you'd want a person to do in this scenario: he emailed IT support and asked if this email was valid. But IT made a fatal mistake in their response.

Do you see it? Here's the kicker:

Mr. Delavan, in an interview, said that his bad advice was a result of a typo: He knew this was a phishing attack, as the campaign was getting dozens of them. He said he had meant to type that it was an “illegitimate” email, an error that he said has plagued him ever since.

One word. He got one word wrong. But what a word to get wrong, and in the first sentence! The email did provide the proper Google address to reset your password. But the lede was already buried since the first sentence said "legitimate"; the phishing link in that email was then clicked. And the rest is literally history.

What's even funnier (well, in the way of gallows humor, I guess) is that public stats were left enabled for that bit.ly tracking link, so you can see exactly what crazy domain that "Google login page" resolved to, and that it was clicked exactly twice, on the same day it was mailed.

As I said, these were not exactly sophisticated attackers. So yeah, in theory an attentive user could pay attention to the browser's address bar and notice that after clicking the link, they arrived at

http://myaccount.google.com-securitysettingpage.tk/security/signinoptions/password

instead of

https://myaccount.google.com/security

Note that the phishing URL is carefully constructed so the most "correct" part is at the front, and weirdness is sandwiched in the middle. Unless you're paying very close attention and your address bar is long enough to expose the full URL, it's … tricky. See this 10 second video for a dramatic example.

Quick phishing demo. Would you fall for something like this? pic.twitter.com/phONMKHBle

— Mustafa Al-Bassam (@musalbas) September 9, 2018

(And if you think that one's good, check out this one. Don't forget all the unicode look-alike trickery you can pull, too.)

I originally wrote this post as a presentation for the Berkeley Computer Science Club back in March, and at that time I gathered a list of public phishing pages I found on the web.

nightlifesofl.com ehizaza-limited.com tcgoogle.com appsgoogie.com security-facabook.com

Of those five examples from 6 months ago, one is completely gone, one loads just fine, and three present an appropriately scary red interstitial warning page that strongly advises you not to visit the page you're trying to visit, courtesy of Google's safe browsing API. But of course this kind of shared blacklist domain name protection will be completely useless on any fresh phishing site. (Don't even get me started on how blacklists have never really worked anyway.)

It doesn't exactly require a PhD degree in computer science to phish someone:

Buy a crazy long, realistic looking domain name.

Point it to a cloud server somewhere.

Get a free HTTPS certificate courtesy of our friends at Let's Encrypt.

Build a realistic copy of a login page that silently transmits everything you type in those login fields to you – perhaps even in real time, as the target types.

Harvest email addresses and mass mail a plausible looking phishing email with your URL.

I want to emphasize that although clearly mistakes were made in this specific situation, none of the people involved here were amateurs. They had training and experience. They were working with IT and security professionals. Furthermore, they knew digital attacks were incoming.

The … campaign was no easy target; several former employees said the organization put particular stress on digital safety.

Work emails were protected by two-factor authentication, a technique that uses a second passcode to keep accounts secure. Most messages were deleted after 30 days and staff went through phishing drills. Security awareness even followed the campaigners into the bathroom, where someone put a picture of a toothbrush under the words: “You shouldn’t share your passwords either.”

The campaign itself used two factor auth extensively, which is why personal gmail accounts were targeted, because they were less protected.

The key takeaway here is that it's basically impossible, statistically speaking, to prevent your organization from being phished.

Or is it?

Nobody is doing better work in this space right now than Maciej Ceglowski and Tech Solidarity. Their list of basic security precautions for non-profits and journalists is pure gold and has been vetted by many industry professionals with security credentials that are actually impressive, unlike mine. Everyone should read this list very closely, point by point.

Everyone?

Computers, courtesy of smartphones, are now such a pervasive part of average life for average people that there is no longer any such thing as "computer security". There is only security. In other words, these are normal security practices everyone should be familiar with. Not just computer geeks. Not just political activists and politicians. Not just journalists and nonprofits.

Everyone.

It is a fair bit of reading, so because I know you are just as lazy as I am, and I am epically lazy, let me summarize what I view as the three important takeaways from the hard work Tech Solidarity put into these resources. These three short sentences are the 60 second summary of what you want to do, and what you want to share with others so they do, too.

1) Enable Two Factor authentication through an app, and not SMS, everywhere you can.

Logging in with only a password, now matter how long and unique you attempt to make that password, will never be enough. A password is what you know; you need to add the second factor of something you have (or something you are) to achieve significant additional security. SMS can famously be intercepted, social engineered, or sim-jacked all too easily. If it's SMS, it's not secure, period. So install an authenticator app, and use it, at least for your most important credentials such as your email account and your bank.

Have I mentioned that Discourse added two factor authentication support in version 2.0, and our just released 2.1 adds printed backup codes, too? There are two paths forward: you can talk about the solution, or you can build the solution. I'm trying to do both to the best of my ability. Look for the 2FA auth option in your user preferences on your favorite Discourse instance. It's there for you.

(This is also a company policy at Discourse; if you work here, you 2FA everything all the time. No other login option exists.)

2) Make all your passwords 11 characters or more.

It's a long story, but anything under 11 characters is basically the same as having no password at all these days. I personally recommend at least 14 characters, maybe even 16. But this won't be a problem for you, because...

3) Use a password manager.

If you use a password manager, you can simultaneously avoid the pernicious danger of password re-use and the difficulty of coming up with unique and random passwords all the time. It is my hope in the long run that cloud based password management gets deeply built into Android, iOS, OSX, and Windows so that people don't need to run a weird melange of third party apps to achieve this essential task. Password management is foundational and should not be the province of third parties on principle, because you never outsource a core competency.

Bonus rule! For the particularly at-risk, get and use a U2F key.

In the long term, two factor through an app isn't quite secure enough due to the very real (and growing) specter of real-time phishing. Authentication apps offer timed keys that expire after a minute or two, but if the attacker can get you to type an authentication key and relay it to the target site fast enough, they can still log in as you. If you need ultimate protection, look into U2F keys.

I believe U2F support is still too immature at the moment, particularly on mobile, for this to be practical for the average person right now. But if you do happen to fall into those groups that will be under attack, you absolutely want to set up U2F keys where you can today. They're cheap, and the good news is that they literally make phishing impossible at last. Given that Google had 100% company wide success against phishing with U2F, we know this works.

In today's world, computers are now so omnipresent that there is no longer any such thing as cybersecurity, online security, or computer security – there's only security. You either have it, or you don't. If you follow and share these three rules, hopefully you too can have a modicum of security today.

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Genre: Sports, Football Developer: Unknown Publisher: EA Sports ESRB Rating: Everyone Release Date: August 18, 2003

Hints

Easy Punt Return Touchdowns

Chose “Block Punt” then when they come out, audible to a middle punt return. This will work about 85% of the time.

Easy First Down Or More

When you create a playbook, make a formation with the quarterback one step back from the center, and the halfback in the same location as the quarterback, only behind the left tackle. Make a custom route for him. Have him run straight towards the QB, then streak as soon as he reaches the outside of the offensive line. Have the fullback out as a receiver going for a 25 yard post. Have the left side receiver go for a 25 yard streak, and make a custom for the right receiver (next to the fullback). Have him go straight for 5 yards, have a two second delay, then post left. About the time he starts his post, the fullback should be starting his, and the defense re-adjusts to cover both men, leaving just enough time to get the ball to your open halfback. This works about 90 percent of the time. You must be quick to avoid getting sacked.

Easy Sacks

If you have Bill Callahan’s defensive playbook, go to Nickle defense and scroll down until you find Middle Blitz. Select that play then shift both your line and your LBs inside. You should get a sack about 85% of the time.When on defense, enter the 4-3. Find the Man Buzz play. Flip the play until the blitzing outside linebaker is blitzing on a side where there are no TEs, and preferably no RBs. Shift your D-Line and LBs to the outside. Your outside LB should be able to get to the QB cleanly, and get the sack.

Easy Tokens

Go to “Rosters” and select the Green Bay Packers’ Wide Receivers. Make Donald Driver 6’8” or taller in his information. Next, get out and go play the two minute drill with the Packers as your team and the Amsterdam Admirals as the defense (European Team). Then, go to Shotgun formation, then to Shotgun 4WR and find Hail Mary. Keep throwing touchdowns to Donald Driver. Just throw bombs; because of his height he should easily catch it. After your done with the two minute drill, go to your Madden Cards and save your profile. Next, buy a pack of cards. Usually when you have about 250 cards out of 285 cards, you will get a lot of repeats. You may have 400 points and get nothing. This is why you should save the game before you buy the cards, so that you get a second chance at getting a card that you do not already have and do not waste your points on cards you already have.

Quick Blitz

If you want to blitz fast, go to the setting menu, then choose “Penalty”, and turn off “Offsides”. You can now run before the play.

Getting Good Players

Enter owner mode and create a player. Intentionally keep his stats very low and sign him to your team for the maximum number of years at a minimum salary. Then, return to the player creation screen (not through the rosters), and change his attributes to full. You will be able to keep the player through the length of his contract for the original low salary. While in franchise or owner mode, when asked to input players at the end of a season, begin this by doing the regular offseason procedures. When the next screen appears, go to your features to create-a-player. Create your player, but make his attributes between 12 to 20. Save the player, then go to offseason features until you get to re-sign free agents. Begin the bargaining process on your created player (if the above steps are done correctly, his salary should be between $200,000 to $400,000) and sign him. When main screen appears, go back into the features and highlight your created player you just signed. Go to attributes and raise all the attributes to 99. Notice that although the overall rating goes up, the salary remains the same.

Low Salaries For Star Players

Before you start a season or franchise, go to “View Rosters” and edit all of the player’s attributes. When you do this, his salary does not go up but his overall skill does. Do this with younger players so you have them longer and they do not retire in franchise mode.

Players Become Coaches

Great players that retire in franchise mode can return to be coaches. Wait a couple of years after your favorite star retires, and he will show up in the coaching free agent list to be signed as an assistant or head coach.In owner mode, go through a couple seasons, then in the off-season select “Staff”. Select “Hire Coach”. You can select old players as head, offensive, defensive, and special teams coaches.

Free Advertising

Just before a home game, put all advertising up and play your game. After the game, do not sim week. Go out and set the advertising to zero. Sim week and you will get 100% attendance, but pay nothing.

Thanksgiving Commentary

Set the system date to the third Thursday in November.

Christmas Commentary

Set the system date to December 25.

New Year’s Commentary

Set the system date to January 1.

Extremely Bored Crowd

Get the highest amount of points you can in the game. After this, if you get an interception, touchdown, etc., the fans will not have any reaction and seen extremely bored.

Easy Interceptions

While in defense, choose the play Nickel-Normal, go to cover 2. Now that you chose the play move your line in, your LB to the left, and your coverage in. Note: This only work about 85% of the time in rookie mode, sometimes in pro, if you are lucky on all-pro, and almost never in all-Madden settings.

Easy Points And Tokens On Two Minute Drill

To get easy points on two minute drill, go for running plays. Make sure you score a touchdown or you will not get enough points. By the end of the drill, you will be given bonus points and get at least 355 tokens for one drill. Note: Go for four drills to get a lot of tokens, but make sure you play against a weak defense like the Claymores.

Skip Into The Endzone

Get to about the 1 yard line, then do a passing play. Go left or right and the quarterback should be skip into the endzone.

All-Madden Coffin Punt And Clutch Kicking In Mini Camp

Use the following trick to get gold on All-Madden coffin punt and clutch kicking. When you start, look at the kicking meter to see how fast the wind is blowing. At 10 to 15 mph, it is difficult to get a kick just right. Keep restarting until the winds are at 3 mph or lower. This makes it a lot easier to kick the ball to the red or yellow target.

Easy Onside Recovery

Choose “Onside Kick”, move the arrow as low as possible, then kick a full kick. The returning team will drop the ball and give you a chance to recover.

Tiburon Complex Stadium

Reach level 29 in your EA Sports Bio.

Ricky Williams

Reach level 27 in your EA sports Bio.

1988 San Francisco 49ers

Reach level 35 in your EA Sports Bio.

Cheerleader And Pump Up Crowd Cards

Successfully complete the “Game Situation” challenges in mini-camp mode. The Cheerleader or Pump Up Crowd Cards for the team used will be unlocked.

Madden Cards And Game Cheats

Get a gold rank in any event on the All Pro, Pro and Rookie levels in mini-camp mode.

Add Stats To Bio

Every time you simulate a season, if your team makes the playoffs it raises the stats on your EA Bio. You only have to save the Bio, and not the season.

Determine If Defense Is Playing Man To Man Coverage

Send a player in motion. If a defensive player follows him, then the corners are playing man to man coverage. Remember that the safeties may have zone and a LB could cover a WR (should be an easy completion).

Bingo Cheat

Reach level 2 in your EA Sports Bio.

Ray Lewis

Reach level 3 in your EA Sports Bio.

1990 Eagles Team

Reach level 4 in your EA Sports Bio.

Steve Spurrier Coach

Reach level 6 in your EA Sports Bio.

Preist Holmes

Reach level 9 in your EA Sports Bio.

Super Bowl 38 Card

Reach level 12 in your EA Sports Bio.

Super Bowl 38 Stadium

Reach level 19 in your EA Sports Bio.

Running The Quarterback

When you run the QB, run the opposite way of where you are supposed to go. This will fool defenders.

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