Obligatory this happened 9 years ago but I still think about it every day.
It's a long one so buckle up.
(Apologies about the grammar and such, writing is not my forte.)
Me: $D
Friend/Co-Conspirator: $F
​
This story starts with me, a 'quiet but well liked throughout the school' 17 year old in IT class at my High School in a large suburban, two city public school district. We had one of the best high school IT programs in the country at the time for many reasons. Part of our class (of about 35) involved us going around the school to do basic maintenance on school computers. Although with the exception of myself and $F, our class never touched staff computers.
Myself and $F were the two students always finishing our two week classwork cycle in about two days. So we were always tasked by our IT Teacher with helping the school IT guy (district employee stationed at the school in the IT lab) to go around and fix issues throughout the building while everyone else worked on their classwork. Often, we were loaned the IT guy's keys and district keycard to go around the school and take care of business. (This is important later) Over time, myself and $F became well known by staff around the school for being able to fix "anything" so we eventually gained a lot of trust from our IT Teacher and District IT guy. To the point that we knew passwords we ABOSOUTELY should not have known.
We knew everything from the password to the surveillance system to the master (domain admin) password district IT used to access everything from HR files to grades to mechanical systems. This password literally let us access anything on any computer in the entire district. And before you ask, yes all buildings in the district (including admin) were linked together and no they weren't firewalled off from each other. Now we never used our powers maliciously as we loved our school and never would've done anything to harm anyone or damage any systems.
One day I thought to myself "wow, Information Security (InfoSec) in this district is atrocious, I wonder how easy it would be to test it from a student perspective, then present my findings to the district IT guy". This, would be the beginning of the biggest fuck up of my life.
(I'll try to keep the technical stuff to a minimum)
My mission started one day when I was tasked to grab a computer from a classroom and bring it to the lab. Easy enough. I was given IT guy's 35+ keys and sent off. While walking to the room, I dropped the ring, it took me a minute to find the right key on the ring. When I found it, since I was looking bit harder than usual at each key, I noticed something peculiar about the key he used to open doors inside the school. It was stamped DGM and looked different than the usual *M stamp master key for this one high school building. Not seeing this abbreviation before, I thought, "ok this must be an important key since it works like a school master but looks different".
I opened the (empty) classroom, fired up a locksmithing app on my phone and took a digital impression of the key that gave me the bitting code so I could duplicate it later on, grabbed the computer, went back to the lab and gave the keys back. Curious about what this DGM stamp meant, I started googling on my phone, "DGM [Key Manufacturer]". It came up with GM as "Grand Master", the key above the master key. Nothing with DGM came up in the search. I thought "ok this is just the "grand master" key that opens all three buildings on the school property, NBD. (Main School, Theater, and Aux Gym buildings)
"Ok. but what does that D in DGM stand for? Nothing in the school district starts with a D, except... District. Holy shit, it must mean "District Grand Master. But they can't be stupid enough to make one key that opens doors in all 15 schools. Right?"
I get home and order a key duplicate on the website that built that locksmithing app. A week later it shows up and I bring it to school. Before gym class I tried it on one of the doors in the Aux gym and low and behold, it worked. Great! Part one of my test plan is complete. Someone with this key could cause a lot of damage if they wanted to, but how would they get past the alarm systems in each building? Because it would be difficult to discreetly do a lot of damage if the building was full of people. Naturally someone with ill intensions would carry out their act at night while the building alarms are armed.
I already knew that the alarm systems were controlled by keycards that every staff member in the district had. (It was an antiquated system with flaws known to the IT world) Their cards only worked for the buildings they worked in. So the cards, electric doors, and alarms must be controlled at the school level, not at the district admin office. Right?
So how was I going to get a hold of a keycard long enough to scan and duplicate it onto a new card? It required a laptop and a special piece of equipment that I couldn't just bring to school while everyone was there. I thought "I can't access the security system and lookup badge codes with the IT master password I know, that defeats the whole purpose of this test. Where's the next vulnerability in this system?" Then I realized, there's a gate to the staff parking lot that's opened with keycards, but not their district cards, they had separate cards for the gate. I scanned the entire network for this gate controller, but couldn't find it anywhere. "Good Job school district, leaving your gate system closed circuit. It's inconvenient to program, but definitely more secure."
Okay, so where is this gate controller located? I've got a district master key so when I find it, I can access it locally. I look at the gate itself and see a freshly paved line in the concrete leading from the gate motor to the Aux Gym. "Okay, its somewhere in the Aux Gym."
I wait until Saturday during Football practice, the Aux Gym is disarmed and the front door is open. Everyone's out on the field so no one will see me enter the building. "Hey there's a closet by the front door I'll try this one first." There it fucking is. The gate controller is mounted on the wall. I open up the panel and attach my laptop. "Fuck there's a password, what could it be? It's not going to be the master password, this isn't connected to the network." I look at the circuit board, there's a label with "admin - (name of city school is located in)". Unbelievable, that's the login. "District IT People are paid six-figures to make this shit up? Seriously?"
I accessed the swipe log and I noticed an interesting trend. Half the time someone swipes into the parking lot, there's an access denial that immediately precedes a valid gate card swipe. "They must be swiping their district cards first instead of the gate card!" Lucky for me, this system records badge numbers when access is denied. So I had access to several district keycard codes, protected by a password that is the name of our city. Wonderful. I sift through the logs and notice the names of three district janitors, all three with the preceding access denied messages and codes, followed by their valid gate cards. I remembered these people from my previous schools, so their district cards must open multiple buildings. (Remember when I mentioned that district buildings weren't firewalled off from each other on the network?)
I took one of the codes and encoded it onto a blank keycard with that special piece of equipment that cost me $20 on eBay, walked out the front door and scanned the card. I heard a loud click and the reader light turned green. Holy shit, I now have a DGM key and a keycard that disarms EVERY school alarm system in the district. Nothing is off limits to me. Part 2 complete.
I call up my friend $F who somewhat knew what I was doing, and once nighttime rolled around, we decided to visit almost every school in the district. Just to see if it actually worked. And boy it did. We easily swiped into each school, the alarm automatically disarmed, and the DGM key opened every door in every building we visited. I found myself thinking "Good Lord, security here is even more atrocious than I thought". We had the decency to rearm each building before we left and once we were done, we planned on telling the IT guy on monday when we went to class.
Well, my dumbass decided to try one more school the next day (Sunday Morning), I swiped in and within 10 seconds, the (middle school) principal walked through the door and asked "Who are you?" I could've bolted out the front door, but I wanted to be honest because they were gonna find out on monday anyways. So I told him who I was and what I was doing (very short version).
He took me to his office and had me sit down while he made a phone call. It was someone at the district office. All I heard him say was "I can't distinguish this from my own badge, its a perfect copy but it has his name and photo on it". He hangs up. Asks me more questions and it eventually leads to the DGM key. This especially panics him because he knew what it was but didn't know anyone other than the District Ops manager that had one. He makes another phone call, "This is (principal name) at (middle school) I need someone to come down here now." I'm thinking "Okay, someone from the district will be here to ask more questions, cool."
Boy was I wrong, within a few minutes about six police officers show up and start asking me questions. I'm honest, I tell them my plan and what I did. They all looked utterly confused by the end of my short explanation. They took the keycards and DGM key and asked me to call my parents to pick me up. They search my car and find pot in the trunk (oops). So there's a charge right there. They said they'll notify us later once they talk to the district and I was released into my dad's custody.
A few hours later, my mom gets a phone call from $VP saying I'm not to attend school monday and we will have a meeting that evening at the high school. "Okay, understandable. I haven't been able to explain myself. They're playing it safe."
Whoops wrong again!
​
IT Teacher: $ITT
District IT Director: $ITLady
Vice Principal: $VP
Cops: $PD
We arrive at the school for the meeting, my IT teacher is sitting in the school office with a disappointed yet very proud look on his face. As we arrived we were called into the conference room, I expected it to be just $VP, lmao no. It was $VP, two cops, and some random district official. My IT teacher was there just to translate the technical terms. I explain my whole plan, being interrupted many times by everyone to ask their questions. At one point $VP says "Jesus $ITT you're not supposed to be teaching this stuff!"
$ITT: $VP, Do you realize the amount of critical thinking and work that went into this project?"
Well, after he says this, there's a knock on the door. "$VP, $ITLady is here"
"Random district official" leaves and $ITLady enters and sits down in front of me"
$VP: $M this is $ITLady, the District Director of IT. She has some questions for you.
$M: Ok
She proceeds to tear into me, asking "WHAT DID YOU BREAK, WHAT DID YOU HACK?!" I could literally see the veins popping out of her head. She was pissed the fuck off.
She couldn't accept that a bored teenage kid that just wanted to see if this was possible, was able to compromise her systems in one week. At one point the officers asked her to leave the room and take a break because she was getting so worked up.
Fast forward to after the meeting, the police took myself, my mom, $VP, and $ITT to my house and seized all of my electronic equipment. Everything from my cell phone, to my laptop, to my WiFi adapter and everything in between. My favorite part was when they were searching my computer bag. The police officer opened it, rummaged around for a bit, taking everything electronic out, then gently and over dramatically pulling a strand of condom wrappers out in front of everybody.
$Mom: *Glares at me* Previously not knowing I was having sex at 17
$Mom's new BF: *Leaves room immediately*
$Cops: *Looks at $VP not sure what to do*
$ITT: *Gently facepalms*
$M: Thinking "Fuck, this is bad"
$VP: *staring at the cops for about five seconds* "Okay well let's move on"
They all leave after seizing basically everything I own.
​
Fast forward to a few days later, I get a letter from the district saying I have been suspended pending expulsion. Great.
We attend the expulsion hearing, I say exactly what I said in the first meeting with $VP and the cops.
Get another letter two days later, I'm expelled. We appeal to the school board and the district's lawyers. They don't want to hear any of it. Appeal denied. They're pressing full charges. Okay I didn't know what the charges were but they were pressing them. Cool, great.
​
Two months later I meet with county Juvenile, I again explain to them my story, they're just as confused as the district people but my Juvenile rep is taken back by my calm demeanor and willingness to share all the details. By this point the district has done a through investigation and found no evidence that I stole or caused damage to property or their computer networks. They then Inform me I'm being charged with:
-- 9 counts of Felony Burglary 2
-- 3 counts of Class A Misdemeanor Computer Crime
-- 3 Counts of Class A Identity Theft
-- 1 Count of Poss. Controlled Substance on School Grounds
I'm also ordered not to use any electronic devices until I see the judge. This included something as simple as a TV remote.
Fuck Me
​
I have a few more meetings with the County Juvenile rep, she was actually a very nice person and was surprised I was assigned to her in the first place because she usually got the murders and rapists. She got to know me and my true intensions with the entire plan over the next month.
Before my first hearing, she (the county) recommended to the school district not to press charges. They felt this could be remedied in-district, since while crimes were committed, I wasn't aware of the crimes and there was obviously no bad intent.
During the hearing, my Juvenile rep and shitty court appointed lawyer explained my side and the district lawyer explained theirs. The judge was extremely confused by the whole situation, saying "we've never seen a case like this before, at this point I don't know how to proceed" The DA also looked equally as confused.
Judge asked the district's lawyer: "How do you want to proceed?"
Lawyer: We'll take this under further review
Judge: $M expect a call from your Juvenile rep this week. Adjourned.
​
Three days later, we receive a call from Juvenile. The district is pursuing all charges and wants $80,000 in restitution for a new district security system. Wonderful news.
I live in a constant state of panic for the next three months while waiting for the next court date. I end up going to the district's alternate school for a while while attending twice weekly meetings at juvenile.
Went a few more times in front of the judge, my lawyer, Juvenile, and district lawyers doing all the talking, explaining the entire case to the judge. The district still insisting I stole and damaged district property even though I never did and they ever found any evidence.
About seven months into this, the Judge had enough. She didn't want to hear anything more and was going to issue my disposition (ruling) at the next hearing.
She explained that $80,000 in restitution was ludicrous and the district was going to pay for their own security upgrades if they chose to.
She then looked at me and asked me to rise.
Judge: "I have three options here Mr. $M"
"Option 1, I dismiss all of the charges and we'll be done here
Option 2: I drop the marijuana charge, reduce all other Charges to Attempted (Misdemeanors), and sentence you to one year bench probation
Option 3: I send you to jail right now"
I almost lost it right there.
Judge: "Based on what I've heard from our Juvenile rep and read in the police reports, I'd like to go with Option 1 and dismiss the charges. But because of the sheer severity of the crimes on paper, I am unable to do that. So I am going with Option 2. I hereby sentence you to one year of bench probation and order you to pay restitution in the amount of $3,200 for district staff overtime. Good luck Mr. $M."
I don't remember what was said after that because I was so relieved I almost passed out.
​
After three months of thinking I was going to prison for 20 years, it was all over. I was numb for the rest of the day.
All in all, The whole experience only left me with severe depression and anxiety for a few years but hey I'm not in prison. Great, right?
Actually it ended up better than I thought. I ended up graduating from the alternate school's accelerated graduation program shortly after that. (The district wanted me out of their hair ASAP)
I received a full diploma from my regular High School at the end of my junior year. I got to essentially skip most of my junior and all of my senior year of HS. Ended up working my ass off and got a great IT job at a company I still work for today. And now I have IT Director as my title.
And that is how I royally fucked up by shaming the fuck out of my school district
Shove it $ITLady!
​
TL;DR I exploited security flaws in my school district's security system. They got royally pissed and tried to send me to prison. Instead the judge gave me a slap on the wrist and I graduated a year an a half early. Now have a great job in IT.
​
Edit: Some amount of proof that this isn't fake because I forgot people on the internet are asses
Edit2: random internet people, while yes, this story is extremely dumb and sounds extremely false, I swear on my life this story is 100% true. For the techies, I intentionally left out some details because they're boring to most people. If you have a question just ask.

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Match	Winner	Post Match Brawl?
Tag Team Battle Royale	MJF/Jericho	No
Britt Baker Vs. Thunder Rosa	Britt Baker	No
Hangman Adam Page / Matt Hardy Vs. Chaos Project	Page/Hardy	No
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3/3/21

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Revolution

• Cage/Starks Vs Darby/Sting ("Streetfight")
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Outside of Dynamite

• On Dark
  
  • Unrelated specifically to Dark, but Brian Cage tweeted to Taz asking him what he got him for his birthday, and Taz responded by saying "Don't you remember that damn ECW belt I gave you last summer? Fuck off and stop tweeting me, I don't LIKE you anymore, I HAVE WILL HOBBS NOW.
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  • Ricky Starks is on The Waiting Room, which is, thank God, back on Dark . I guess the thing with Sting being on the show has just been forgotten. Ricky compliments Britts' drip, she asks him whats up. He does a promo for the Street Fight at Revolution. Britt says AEW lacked star power before Ricky-- Ricky says the future is much clearer now that he's staring at her. Ricky compliments Britts attire again and she strips off the lab coat. Tony Schiavone interrupts and makes her put her lab coat back on. Tony says the segment is over and tries to separate the burgeoning...uh..."romantic" tension between Britt and Ricky, who in one segment have had more development, chemistry, and dialogue than Kipp and Penelope have had during this entire never-ending wedding angle.
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• On IMPACT this Tuesday:
  
  • Welcome back to the Impact Zone.
  • The Good Brothers are talking about how good it feels to be the Impact champs. They promo Beach Break a little, and can't wait to beat up Moxley. They're talking about screwing Private Party before the Battle Royal tomorrow and beating them tonight. Sabin and Storm come in start a little something. They call Good Brothers the Ball-less Wonders, and decide to have a match next week.
  • Private Party is yelling at Matt because he doesn't seem to have their situation under control. Matt says they don't need to worry about any of this shit, Big Money Matt, the Kingmaker, always has a plan. He says they're going to beat the Bucks and the Good Brothers, and that it's definitely not a bounty on the titles, it's a bonus, it's NOT A BOUNTY, it's JUST A BONUS. Matt just needs them to show up.
  • Tony Khan is continuing to lose his shit in these promos. He calls Impact his personal fantasy league, and says this whole thing is causing him to make self-admittedly stupid emotional decisions like letting Moxley go to Japan. This is truly Man Vs. Himself. Tony Schiavone is wearing a great shark hat.

At Dynamite

• Tony Schiavone is in the ring. He brings out Darby and Sting. Tony wants to talk about the street fight-- but next week Darby is defending the TNT belt against Joey. Taz cuts in on a video. He says they're not allowed in the building because of the merch booth incident. Taz says they'll be there watching very closely. Ricky says if he was allowed in the building he would look Sting in the eye and tell him he's not what he used to be. Sting is gonna get hurt doing this. To Darby, he says good luck. You'll need it. Sting responds. Okay Team Taz, you say you'll be here next week for the title match? I'll be here too making sure it's 1v1. To Ricky, he says, maybe you need to look closer. He drops the mic and he and Darby head out of the ring.
  
• Tony is with Adam and Matt after the show last week. Matt is in Adams dressing room. Matt says he's a good person and Adam is his friend, they've known each other for a long time. Adam says, no dude, I'm in here to dress. I'm not signing a contract, we're not teaming, that's it. Matt says it sucks when Chaos project ruined -1's birthday... what if we teamed up one time just to kick their asses? Maybe it would make things between you and Dark Order better? Adam Page agrees.
  
• Marvez is with MJF/Jericho who are now num. 1 contenders. MJF pushes Marvez back and they enter the Inner Circle room where everyone is pissed. Jericho says I thought we were all in this together, you guys losing is collateral damage. Sammy says everyone else is ALWAYS collateral damage and bails. Jericho leaves and MJF says it's time for us to talk to the remaining members. Wardlow kicks out the cameraman and the segment ends.
  
• Tony is with Kip Miro and.... "Charles". Kip says Tony is so lucky to be here. Miro says everyone here is married except Chuck whose never had a girlfriend. Vickie gets Kip and the wedding is on. The officiate is James Mitchell. JR says everyone should have AT LEAST one great marriage. Penelope is walked in by Jerry Lynn. Mitchell leads the ceremony. Kip says from the moment he first saw her wearing her one piece with knee high boots and his eyes meeting her chest, it was meant to be. He says she's beautiful on the inside and hot on the out. Penelope says she loves Kip so much, and and he has the biggest-- and then Kip interrupts. Very bold move by the groom. Chuck gives them the rings. As Mitchell begins the "If there's anyone with any objections" section, Miro interrupts and says fuck off skip it, this is a wrestling wedding. Miro leads us in a toast. We hear that the alleged bachelor party was a rager TOO BAD WE DIDN'T SEE IT. Miro says he had a couple weddings a few months ago. But it's all about love. He may have fucked up the bachelor party, the present-- but really HE'S Kips present. Speaking of gifts, what's that over there he says pointing to a suspiciously large box. Miro says he's been at many weddings, he knows better. He tackles the box expecting an intruder to be within, but it's empty. The crowd begins chanting "What is love" by Haddaway and Miro joins in. Oh no! Miro finds himself shackled to the bottom rope, Penelope goes into the cake, Kip accidentally hits Miro then Kip and Penelope jump Chuck. OC emerges from the cake table and Miro is stuck being cuffed to the ropes so he's unable to stop the onslaught that comes. They knock out Kip and that's that! The wedding is ruined despite all of Miros' best efforts. Penelope is very sad and Kip is very dead. The feud goes on :(
  
• We're with Shaq on Inside the NBA. Shaq says he's gonna wrestle Cody and beat him like he beat Charles Barkley. Shaq trash talks a little. Shaq says his special move is the Black Tornado. That's what he's gonna do to Cupcake Cody. March 3rd.
  
• We get a video from FTR who was banned tonight due to their bullshit last week. FTR is pissed that Jurassic Express went and whined and got them banned. Tully is sick of it. All he wants is a SINGLE championship match. We're not bad men, the one with hair says, but sometimes we think... what would bad men do? And we see Marko chained up to chair.
  
• Joey is here, he says me and you Darby, we have a long history of mangling our bodies and each other. But next week, the stakes have never been higher!! Guess what, he says, Joey is back! And the TNT Champion is gonna be a bad bad boy.
  
• Lance Archer comes out after the match to end the streak of no post match brawls we had all night. It was so close. Mox comes to Kenny BUT THEN KENTA ARRIVES AND DROPS A GO TO SLEEP ON MOX. Kenny and Kenta share a glance as Kenny strands triumphant over Mox. Don Callis, who is on commentary, says "Isn't it funny how these things always happen when I'm here? He laughs. The show ends.
  

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• 1/20 Results
  
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  • Best Match: Adam Page & Dark Order Vs. TH2 & Chaos Project (38.1%)
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• 1/27 Results
  
  • Overall Rating: 4.07
  • Best Match: Jungle Boy Vs. Dax Harwood (72.3%)
  • Worst Match: Britt Baker Vs. Shanna (33.2%)
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Edit5: "fr theres a reason why PlayStation celebrates pride month in Western countries but PlayStation in the middle East doesn't change their profile pic or anything to pro lgbt" - Kirbshiller
 
Edit6: Tons of upset Magachuds and Cons complaining about nuance that I addressed. Cons literally supporting government regulations of speech and a private entity. Your alternate reality is hilarious and your whataboutism logic reflects on your intellect. TWITTER STOCK PRICE DOWN TEMPORARILY DAT MEENS OP IS WRONG AND I RIGHT OP STUPID FOR NOT LOOKING AT THREE DAYS OF STONK PRICE. LOLOLOLOL
 
Edit7: Hilarious butthurt Cons coming in here saying "libertarian is a bunch of commies". You are such an embarassing excuse for a Conservative just because the truth doesn't fit your alternate reality doesn't mean it's communist. Communism is stupid but not everything that's not: sucking Donald Trump's dick while waving a Confederate flag and shoving an AR-15 up your ass is Communism. I frequent both far right and far left circles online and the people on the far right are the ones pushing extreme dehumanization. Talking about how "commies aren't people" and "the only good commie is a dead commie". Yes of course there are violent idiots on the left too, don't get your Confederate flag man thong your beloved sistecousin bought you in a bunch. Here's your GOD Emperor: https://i.redd.it/c0w5vleejla61.jpg
 
Edit8: It's okay to not like "monoplies" and not like big tech and also think the answer isn't more government intervention. Let's trust the government who is bought and bribed by big tech lobbyists that makes sooooo much sense! Lol come on gals and guys. The libertarian position here isn't more government intervention until someone can actually prove that one of these big tech companies is an actual monoply.

Hi all, I feel like it's time to share my opinions and thoughts after letting this subreddit cooldown for sometime. Around February of last year, I began work on a massive passion project developing https://NETRUNNER2077.net after following this title and being a massive fan of CD Projekt Red from the original Witcher title. When they announced Cyberpunk 2077 would be their next IP I was immensely excited as I'm a huge Cyberpunk genre nerd in all forms from art, movies, anime, philosophies, books, cultural significance and relation, aesthetics and more. So having my all time favorite game company work on a huge open world Cyberpunk "RPG" instantly generated immediate interest.
Now where to even begin?
Please note, I've yet to purposely "finish" Cyberpunk 2077 in hopes of CD Projekt Red making a strong come back later on in the future, and hopes that they'll eventually release a REDKit for modders in order to create some incredible work and help flesh the game world out. I have put around close to 200 hours into Cyberpunk 2077 exploring the different Life Paths and their effects on the world. Lots of walking, No fast travel and tons of time lost in an attempt to "Immerse" myself in the experience. I refused to finish Cyberpunk 2077's Main Story for several reasons. The largest being I'm typically against playing titles that are obviously not complete. On top of that, I've invested so much time and effort into researching, designing, learning web design and working towards building an awesome platform in order to properly cover Cyberpunk 2077 with a safe bet of thinking "This couldn't possibly be bad" only to coming around to reality very shortly after and that this title truly needed ATLEAST another year of development time.
There are aspects of Cyberpunk 2077 that are, in my opinion, worthy of putting it in the all time legendary category of games. Then.. other parts that make games from even 20 years ago look superior. It's a very "unbalanced" experience. So much that it takes the top spot for me personally. My experience of Cyberpunk 2077 is that it feels unfinished and some what rushed in many areas, if that isn't obvious enough already. But the thing is, as many of you probably already know, it just isn't bugs. Features, Content, Weapons, Immersive Elements, AI, RPG Elements and Game Design Systems are flat out missing or just straight up broken entirely.
Here are just a few of the elements that I have a problem with personally..

• Weapon Balance - Many weapons are straight up overpowered and unbalanced and easy to find early in the game.
• Weapon Variety - CD Projekt Red claimed that the game would have a large variety of weapons - this ended up not being the case with a few showcased weapons not implemented in the game itself although they exist in the game files. Also to note most "Iconic" weapons are just a reskin.
• Cyberware Balance & Variety - Same thing as above can also account for Cyberware. Outside of Cyber Arm implants, which has its own bulletin
• Very Hard Difficulty - Feels like a joke when compared to a lot titles out there. This is coming from someone who chose Style over Substance in all three playthroughs, typically never using a Jacket, Helmet or Mask. I'm no means great at games. This doesn't help with the extremely bugged out AI.
• Perk Balance and Design - All around, most perks feel unrewarding and feel vastly unbalanced, once again making it pretty easy to feel overpowered pretty quickly early on, especially if you end up going down the Quickhacking Sub Skill Tree.
• Pedestrian, Water and Car Damage Physics / Collision needs a serious second look - Water as of Patch 1.1 is still a pretty much nothing more than a transparent texture.. fire a bullet, a person, hell.. a fucking car and there is not a single pinch of reaction from that what so ever. The collision from bullets, other cars, people and objects is just bad for a 2020 game.
• UI - I'm usually not one to complain about an unintuitive UI but it's quite clunky that takes some time to get around and use to.
• Artificial Intelligence - It's either extremely bugged or just barely there. It's very bare bones in EVERY NON SCRIPTED aspect of the game. This has already been covered a thousand times so there's no need to go deep into detail with this. Vehicles, Police, Pedestrians, Etc.
• Lack of Immersive Elements - One of CD Projekt Red biggest selling points for many fans was making it sound like there would be many ways to Immerse yourself in Cyberpunk 2077. That is not the case outside of World Design, World Building and Story Telling. It's really hard to actually "Immersive yourself and Roleplay" You can't sit at a bar and grab a drink in real time. You can't grab food anytime you like and eat in real time, the few vendors there are in the game completely rip you out of the game world and into a standard UI vendor menu. Installing Cyberware is just a click of a button in a menu after the initially Eye and hand implant, There's bare minimum interactivity with NPC's or the world itself for that matter, Not a single soul uses an umbrella that I've witnessed when it rains in Night City, There's little to no sense in danger outside of the repetitive Gang hotspots... the list could go on and on with this one.
• 90% of the choices you make during Cyberpunk 2077 feel like they have little to no consequence - While it's true that there are SOME choices you make in this game change certain outcomes (For the most part - the end of the game as reported by many) It feels like a very bare bones system that doesn't seem fleshed out at all. The majority of the time you're only given the "Illusion of Choice" This was very disappointing to witness. Life path decisions feel utterly meaningless later on down the road.
• Side Quests are typically very short when compared to Witcher 3 - On top of that, there are a handful of stunning Side quests but it was very disappointing when a large majority of them lasted around 5-10 minutes at most. If you're looking for another Baron equivalent quest line.. It ain't here chief.
• The Main Quest is far too short for a game that attempts to coin itself as being "RPG" - Regardless of not finishing, its pretty obvious that you do a small handful of Main Story Quests (Outside of the Optional ones) and you've reached the end.
• Life Paths do not largely impact your overall experience and the way the game and story unfolds - Outside of the VERY beginning of the game, which can roughly take around 10 to 20 minutes to do.. and maybe a single quest depending on your lifepath, They ended up being extremely disappointing. You really aren't missing out on doing multiple life paths as you can basically "choose" your ending at the epilogue of the game and just restart from a save and make a different decision to see different outs. AKA making all the decisions you made throughout the game feel meaningless because in the end, its only what you choose during the epilogue that really matters.
• A Second Note on Life Paths and Dialogue Impacting Secondary and Third Playthroughs - Very few side main quests can make a small difference by the end and there is no tension build up for your dialogue options that will lead to consequences that make you afraid of your choices later down the story.
• What the hell happened to Meredith Stout? - If you went down the route of siding with Meredith Stout during the Maelstrom Mission and have followed Cyberpunk 2077 for some time you were probably completely thrown off as to how cut off that whole "follow up" went down. Very disappointing.
• Dynamic Vehicle Chases / Fights are not a thing and were removed from the game - The one Scav chase in the beginning of the game is scripted.. and that's about it, hell.. you can just sit in the vehicle and watch it crash into the wall without doing a single thing. What the hell? Sorry guys, If you choose to mess with gangs.. they're not going to hunt you down, they aren't going to mow you down while you're in your vehicle. It was all bullshit.
• Gangs / Corps will ignore the actions you take against their gang / corp and there are no repercussions for your actions against them at any point in the game - This goes with the one above, but I figured I'd expand on it more. Remember when we thought siding with Maelstrom would cause dire consequences in the long run with Meredith and Militech? Guess what? it definitely isn't a thing. You can go about your business in Night City and not have to worry about that for a split second your entire playthrough, no matter who you decide to fuck over.
• Side Gigs are typically just filler content - Very little variety and the only way to really extend your playtime if you choose to not walk the streets of a dead feeling night city attempting to immerse yourself in the world. Which is totally okay if there were also other things to do, but for the most part its just generic Ubisoft tier filler content. There are a very SMALL amount of unique ones with actual dialogue.
• Netrunner Enemy Types - The worst they do is upload a low quality damage hack and that's it. Half the time they scan your location and nothing happens. No cool shit like having to tap a button repeatedly to stop you from pulling the trigger on yourself after being hacked.
• Pacifica is obviously unfinished - Well, it's not hard to tell that Pacifica wasn't complete after the game came out, I fully know the lore behind what happened to Pacifica, but I don't see how it's acceptable that there are literally unfinished areas from game development.
• MAX-TAC and Trauma Team were epic during the early Scav Hideout mission, but that's it - Not much else to say here other than they had some really cool "scripted" events during and after that mission.. but other than that you'll see Trauma Team with their ships in the same exact spots you find them and MAX-TAC basically just spawn in as higher tier cops when your wanted level is high enough.
• Cyberpsycho Quest line was a missed opportunity - Quite a disappointing quest after tracking down 17 Cyberpsychos regardless if you choose to let them live or kill them. They could of gone deep into some gritty cyberpunk writing and mystery with this but their approach to this was pretty underwhelming and surface level with no depth other than some logs you find, but this can be said about MANY of the quests during the game.
• Collecting Cars is just more checkmark optional filler - Hey? Want another vehicle? Let me flood your quest list and phone letting you know you can GPS right to the location and pick it up. Outside of the few hidden vehicles in the game, Collecting cars was pretty disappointing. You literally walk up to location and buy them, no interactivity with NPC's, just click and buy. Might as well of just given a option to have the vehicle self deliver to the non existent garage where all my other cars reside right?
• The Garage outside your Megabuilding serves no purpose and doesn't store your vehicles - Can't find your vehicles there now can you? Yeah..
• The 6 Month Montage felt like a giant slap in the face, quite possibly cut missions from early game and is the exact SAME no matter what life path you choose - Going down any life path will grant you the exact same Street Kid themed montage. It really feels like these were cut missions that would of fleshed Jackie Welles as a character out so much better.
• Cyberpunk 2077 feels more like a decent "Action Adventure" Game rather than a true "RPG" - Not too hard to see this. While it has RPG elements and Dialogue, it's definitely not on the level of Dues Ex, Vampire Bloodlines, Divinity, Elder Scrolls, Fallout (3 & NV). After you exit the prologue it is all downhill after that.
• There isn't much to find and see outside of map markers - While there are a handful of secrets, schematics and weapons it doesn't feel very rewarding when finding these things because of how the weapon, items, currency and game design elements were implemented where things are either easily replaced or you're already easily overpowered as it is.
• Cyberpunk tries to be too many things and falls short of most of them - With the Ambitious goals, talk and promises.. The one thing I hoped it would be was a truly Ambitious RPG with some really good Immersive elements. I definitely wasn't expecting the world, but it's just sad as to how many elements it falls flat on.
• Black Market Cyberware isn't a thing - You see those four options you have for Cyber arms? Yep, That's it. Nothing else, Everything shown through trailers is what you get.
• Brain Dance was a MASSIVE missed opportunity - It's pretty obvious that there was at one time far more to brain dance outside of story missions. Hell, it could of found a way to replace the Gwent Mini Game, but alas - In the end it was used for only story missions and not a single side experience on its own.
• Night City just feels like a extremely gorgeous backdrop to a Somewhat Linear story - I've already covered several reasons as to why I feel this way.
• It feels more like "Johnny's Story" rather than V's Story - While the writing is indeed excellent most of the time. I personally feel like this story is more about Johnny rather than V.
• The sense of urgency after the prologue really makes it hard to "Role Play" V correctly. This conflicts with previous statements made by CDPR "Really wanting players to Role Play the character"- The way this was approached was quite confusing, as CDPR offers this massive world yet having a huge urgency that you need to figure out a solution before you die in a few weeks.
• The World does not feel "Alive" by any means.. Lack of Dynamic Events - The world itself just feels pretty dead outside of flying vehicles and ads going off every 4-5 seconds. There is VERY little dynamic content like you see in RDR2 where they put a huge emphasis on the world feeling "alive" and never knowing what could happen.
• Customization is severely lacking from a world that begs for more of it - Luckily if you're on PC, a lot of these issues have been solved with customizable Cyber arms, More tattoos, Hair Styles, Face and Neck Cyberware and more. If you're on Console though, you're sadly shit out of luck. The lack of visible Cyberware for V was very surprising. No visible Cyber legs, No visible Netrunning gear outside of "Suits", etc.
• Jackie Welles was a brilliant character that was quickly thrown away - Let alone the massive spoiler they decided to showcase via the 2019 E3 CG Trailer, It was extremely disheartening to know that saving Jackie was never an option seeing as we were barely given any time with him and a wasted opportunity for possible great plot points. This could of been remedied by actually going through the missions played out in the 6 month montage. For players unfamiliar following Cyberpunk 2077 for so long, I would assume losing Jackie wasn't near as impactful for them.
• Cyberware Arm implants are just alternative weapons for the most part - Which pretty much become useless unless you choose to use Gorilla Fists the whole game. No Utility from them, No useful tool elements, Just weapons that become obsolete very fast.
• For a Dystopian World that is hyper sexualized, there sure is a lack of sexual content - Not hard to miss this, You have two Joy Toys and two high end JT's later in the game to choose from in the entirety of Night City outside of the selection of Story related characters you come across. Hell, even a lot of characters that dance on poles in the world are fully clothed. Let alone any real Adult themed clubs.
• Trains were a missed opportunity - Let's face it, there were obviously systems in place at one point in development to have an actual train system where you could ride around Night City and be able to enjoy the huge vistas that it offers. Now you can just watch one from a distance disappear right through a building.
• Verticality? Sort of..? - Take your Home Megabuilding for example and also prime example of cut areas and content. There were suppose to be several areas of verticality to explore in the world and areas and this is just not the case anymore.
• "You'll never run into cool areas where you'll want to get in there but can't" - Yeah, that was definitely not the case now was it? There are several areas you would think would be accessible but just aren't or at any point in the game are.
• Acid Rain? Yeah.. No. - Remember this? Yeah I haven't witnessed it either. But hey, at least there's acid fog right?

Then you have this huge dystopic metropolis of a city which looks absolutely phenomenal. I think it'll truly go down in history for its amazing design and the techniques they used to craft this insanely dense city. There's truly nothing like visiting Night City and it surely is a unique experience from a VISUAL and AUDIO design standpoint. The writing is solid most of the time as well. It really just feels like they had a very direct deadline and were forced to wrap systems up after changing the core game several times over and over again which caused loads of bugs in the code. I really hope when I come back to this game in a year it'll be quite different but after what CDPR pulled I find it extremely hard to trust and have faith in them.
I had so much faith and love in this company that I ended up spending countless months building, designing, and launching NETRUNNER 2077 almost single handedly but after playing Cyberpunk 2077 for weeks, I couldn't even bring myself to write a review over it. Honestly, I would've been way too critical and harsh. Especially after having to monitor and dissect everything that was "said" to be in the game and how systems were suppose to "work" and it ended up being nothing like that what so ever. At this point and time I have no motivation or confidence to continue the platform due to the recent events and actions of CDPR's upper management as well as the highly manipulative marketing that made Cyberpunk 2077 only a glass half full of what it was intended to actually be.
I made sure to set my expectations accordingly from what was told from developers to fans via interviews, deep dives and what was reported to sources that was approved by CDPR. With that and the EXTREMELY misleading marketing, it leaves an extremely sour taste in my mouth. I really want to have faith that they can turn this title around, but something feels off. I understand from a legal perspective that they probably cant at the moment. I just hope one day that this game can truly live up to its potential. There is an incredible foundation set, but it's ultimately up to CD Projekt Red if they choose to deliver their originally intended vision.
For other upper management in game development out there possibly reading this- if your game isn't finished, please market it correctly as an "Early Access Game" and not a finished product. That is straight up lying and deceiving fans and consumers out there. It isn't right, and needs to stop.

My original post: https://www.reddit.com/MarvelStudiosSpoilers/comments/lhj5xy/wandavision_episode_6_possible_script_leak/
Here's the archive link
http://web.archive.org/web/20210211121433/https://pastebin.com/TYzjEXVA There you go!
The OP also shared a screenshot with me as proof he is legit. It has been verified by the mods!
WANDA: {\i1}Previously on {\i}WandaVision...
You made no effort\Nto conceal your abilities.
-Well, I'm tired of hiding, Vis.\N-What aren't you telling me?
You have to stop her.
Just make her stop!
You can't control me the way you do them.
Can't I?
DARCY: {\i1}She has the world's{\i}\N{\i1}only vibranium synthezoid{\i}
{\i1}playing Father-Knows-Best-In-Suburbia.{\i}
What happens when he learns the truth?
You've taken an entire town hostage.
Well, I'm not the one\Nwith the guns, Director.
-(GUNS COCKING)\N-Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
I had a brother.
His name was Pietro.
GERALDINE: {\i1}He was killed by Ultron.{\i}
Long lost bro get to squeeze\Nhis stinkin' sister to death or what?
She recast Pietro?
(OPENING THEME SONG PLAYING)
{\i1}Wanda{\i}\N{\i1}Wanda Vision{\i}
{\i1}Don't try to fight the chaos{\i}\N{\i1}Don't question what you've done{\i}
{\i1}The game can try to play us{\i}
{\i1}Don't let it stop the fun{\i}
{\i1}Some days it's all confusion{\i}
{\i1}Easy come and easy go{\i}\N{\i1}But if it's all illusion{\i}
{\i1}Sit back, enjoy the show{\i}
{\i1}Let's keep it going{\i}
{\i1}Let's keep it going{\i}
{\i1}Through each distorted day{\i}
{\i1}Let's keep it going{\i}
{\i1}Though there may be no way of knowing{\i}
{\i1}Who's coming by to play{\i}
Halloween's a magical holiday.
All about family, friends, and the thrill\Nof getting to be someone else for a day.
Wrong! Halloween's about candy.
And scaring people, but mostly candy.
Where's your costume, Tommy?
This is my costume. I'm the cool twin.
-What does that make me?\N-Hmm...
(GAME MUSIC PLAYING)
-Whoa!\N-(LAUGHS)
A dorksaurus rex.
-Not a real dinosaur.\N-(CHUCKLES)
(SNORING)
Man
He even snores cool.
-I'm gonna go wake him up.\N-(WHISPERS) Don't!
You scared?
He's our uncle. Why would I be scared?
'Cause it's four o'clock in the afternoon.
You're secretly afraid he's a vampire.
-No, I'm not.\N-Yes, you are.
No, I'm not.
-Blood is thicker than water! I show you!\N-(BILLY AND TOMMY SCREAMING)
-(ROARING)\N-(SCREAMING)
Oh! Somebody better be\Nbleeding, broken, or on fire.
-Whoa, Mom. Are you old Red Riding Hood?\N-(PIETRO SNORTS)
I'm a Sokovian fortune teller.
Wow. That is so...
-(CHUCKLING) Rad.\N-...lame.
"Lame."
Worse than the costumes mom\Nmade us the year we got typhus.
(BOTH SPEAKING SOKOVIAN)
(EXCLAIMS)
(SPEAKS SOKOVIAN)
(IN ENGLISH) That's not\Nexactly how I remember it.
You probably\Nsuppressed a lot of the trauma.
Mom has been weird\Nsince Uncle Pietro got here.
I think it's because\Nshe hasn't seen him in a long time.
And he's what you call, "a man child."
-(SIGHS WEARILY)\N-Whoa! Sweet costume bro-ham-in-law.
Let me guess. Uh, traffic light.
-(SIGHS)\N-Half-shucked corn.
A booger!
-Yes.\N-Yes!
Well, thank you for humoring me\Nand wearing this ridiculous get-up, honey.
Well, there were no other\Nclothes in my closet, so...
-You are incorrigible, darling.\N-(CHUCKLES)
I know you have a secret\Nthing for Mexican wrestlers.
{\i1}Mi gusta mucho.{\i}
{\i1}Chili con carne.{\i}
Ooh! (GIGGLES)
What do you say, boys?
Who's ready for that first hit\Nof high fructose corn syrup?
-Yes! Headlock!\N-Get out of here, get out of here.
Never told me much about your brother.
I had no idea he'd be so...
Go!
-Great with kids.\N-(ALL BURPING)
Yeah. He's just full of surprises.
Well, you have fun tonight, darling.
What? What do you mean?\NYou're all dressed and ready to go.
I'm undercover.
Halloween is a bacchanal\Nfor adolescent trouble-makers
and the neighborhood watch\Nis the only thing that stands
between the trees and the toilet paper.
-No, that's not what you're supposed to--\N-What?
Well... (SIGHS)
You didn't tell me you had plans.
Well, I am telling you now.
Mom and Dad have been,\Nnot fighting, just, like, different.
It's their first Halloween.\NYou have to be there.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. What's the big dealio?
Big guy has a conflict,\Ntwins need a father figure for the night.
Don't sweat it, sis.\NI got the old XY chromosome.
-(CHUCKLES)\N-Uncle P to the rescue, huh?
There you go. Problem solved.
You have a spooky time tonight, kids.
-Goodnight, Dad!\N-Bye, Dad.
(VIDEO GAME BEEPING)
Wanda?
Be good.
I smell crime.
(SCREAMS)
Don't do that!
Where do you keep your water balloons?
What? We don't have water balloons.
Where are we gonna\Nput all this shaving cream?
Oh.
-It was Billy's idea.\N-I'm Tommy.
And don't you forget it!
You don't even have a costume.
(SCOFFS)
Okay, but... (SIGHS) Just remember\Nthat this is a respectable family.
If I see any funny business,
I am going to magic\Nyou into a pickled herring.
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
(ELECTRICAL BUZZING)
I wanna see a full work-up\Ninside the hour.
-SOLDIER: Yes, sir.\N-Hayward.
Hayward!
You cut us off at the knees,\Nsending in that missile.
Now we know who we're dealing with.
Hey, there he is.
The guy who almost\Ngot murdered by his own murder squad.
You work for me?
-I actually don't know.\N-She's with me.
I see. And which one\Nof you is the sassy best friend?
There is no time for you\Nto diminish your colleagues
when you're about\Nto start a war you can't win.
Maximoff was never\Ngonna negotiate with us.
We take her out,\Nthis whole nightmare ends.
MONICA: We don't know that.
We actually have no idea
what will happen in there\Nor out here if Wanda dies.
So, what? We just surrender to that?
Not happening.
We can't outgun her.
And clearly antagonizing her\Nis only making things worse.
If Wanda is the problem,\Nshe has to be our solution.
Captain Rambeau, you have become\Nan impediment to this mission.
(SIGHS)
Constantly advocating\Non behalf of super-powered individuals.
Yes, I know\Nyour history with Carol Danvers.
You know, you people who left,
still have the luxury of optimism.
You have no idea what it was like.
What it took to keep the lights on.
Don't use the last five years\Nas an excuse to be a coward.
Maybe it's a good thing\Nyou weren't here when your mother died.
Because clearly\Nyou don't have the stomach for this job.
Get her off my base. Now. All of 'em.
SOLDIER: All right. Come on. Let's go.
Hayward is way overstepping\Nhis provisional authority.
He was looking\Nfor a reason to sideline us.
He's up to something.
SOLDIER: Let's go. Everybody in!
(GRUNTS)
-(MONICA YELLS)\N-(SOLDIER GROANS)
(PANTING)
Why didn't anyone tell me the plan?
-You okay?\N-Yeah. Let's move.
This is it. Game time.
It's not a competition, Tommy.
-It is if you're a winner.\N-Tommy.
(SHOUTS) Unleash hell, demon spawn.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Do you remember when we were\Nat the orphanage after mom and dad died?
What was the name of that kid\Nwho was always trying to steal your boots?
You know, he was the one...\NHe had the... He had the skin thing.
You're testing me.
No, I'm not.
Hey, it's cool. I know I look different.
Why do you... look different?
You tell me.\NI mean, if I found Shangri-La,
I wouldn't wanna be\Nreminded of the past either.
(LAUGHS) Next house, Mom.
Junior entrepreneur, over here.
How about you let Uncle P help you\Nmaximize your candy acquisition, huh?
(CHUCKLING) Yeah. Kick-ass!
"I feel the need..."
-"For speed."\N-(BOTH YELP)
Kick-ass.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)
-Oh, hey, Herb.\N-Oh, hey!
How's patrol going?
Eh, quiet, so far. Hold up, will you?
-(MAN TALKING OVER RADIO)\N-Say again.
-(MAN TALKING OVER RADIO)\N-All the candy has disappeared?
What? Who took my candy?
And now all\Nthe jack-o'-lanterns have been smashed.
(PIETRO, BILLY AND TOMMY CHEERING)
And now everyone's\Ncovered in silly string?
PIETRO: Whoo!
Sorry, Wanda, I gotta bounce.
Well, maybe Vision\Ncan help you out. (CHUCKLES)
Vision? Oh, he's not on duty.
Oh! I... I thought he...
Is there something\NI can do for you, Wanda?
Do you want something changed?
(CHUCKLING) No. It's fine. Never mind.
(CHUCKLES) All right. Peace.
WOMAN: Hey! How's it going?
Happy Halloween.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
I'm so hungry, I'd eat anything.
Hungry? I remember hungry.
I used to be like that all the time.
What did you do?
Snacked on Yo-Magic, bro.
Now I have time to hang fin.
Can I have some?
Here you go, little dude.
(GRUNTS)
(GASPS WEAKLY)
SHARK: {\i1}Yo-Magic! The snack for survivors!{\i}
This is so lame. I can't believe\Nyou're making them return all the candy.
I can't believe\Nwhat a bad influence you are.
Who beefed in your borscht?
I'm just trying to do my part, okay?
Come to town unexpectedly,\Ncreate tension with the brother-in-law,
stir up trouble with the rugrats,\Nand ultimately give you grief.
I mean, that's what you wanted, isn't it?
What happened to your accent?
What happened to yours?
Details are fuzzy, man.
I got shot like a chump\Non the street for no reason at all
and the next thing I know,\NI heard you calling me.
I knew you needed me.
Uncle P, guess what?\N(CHUCKLES)
They've got full-size candy bars\Na few blocks up. Mom, can we go?
Next stop, Cavity Town.
Right on, little dude.
Chip off the old Maximoff block.
You've got super speed!
-I do?\N-Yeah!
WANDA: It's okay, baby.
You can take it slow, and you can--
(CHEERING)
If you're gonna break the sound barrier,\Nplease just take your brother with you.
-Really?\N-Really?
Really. Yeah.\NAnd please just remember to--
BOTH: Don't go past Ellis Avenue.
We know, Mom. We know.
Hey! Be careful.
PIETRO: {\i1}I'm just trying{\i}\N{\i1}to do my part, okay?{\i}
{\i1}Come to town unexpectedly,{\i}\N{\i1}create tension with the brother-in-law...{\i}
MONICA: Who is that?
Wanda's brother came to town.
He brought the wrong face.
AGENT WOO: Over here.
{\i1}-What happened to your accent?{\i}\N{\i1}-What happened to yours?{\i}
(DARCY SIGHS)
MONICA: We shouldn't\Nhang out here too long.
DARCY: Uh, give me two seconds.
I just need to hack into\Nthe secure network on the base.
Donezo.
Now, should be able to access\Nthe data on Hayward's devices.
Oh. That's interesting.
Guys, Hayward figured out\Na way to look through the boundary.
And he didn't share it with the group.
AGENT WOO: Is this Wanda, right here?
No. The program is tracking\Nthe decay signature of vibranium.
Vision. Wait.
Why is Hayward tracking Vision?
I don't know.\NThis is all I can access so far.
These other dots,\Nthose are Westview residents?
The ones in Vision's\Nimmediate vicinity, yeah.
Hayward must have\Nan accurate headcount by now.
MONICA: Hmm.
AGENT WOO: And some sense\Nof their well-being.
Huh... These people,\Nnear the edge of town...
They're barely moving.
Are they alive?
(MONITOR BEEPING)
(DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE)
VISION: Say, excuse me.
Ma'am?
Are those your children?
Are you waiting for something?
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
WOMAN: Happy Halloween!
Trick-or-treat?
Agnes?
What are you doing here?
Town Square Scare. Where is it?
Oh, well, the Town Square.\N(CHUCKLES SOFTLY) I expect.
(CHUCKLES EMOTIONLESSLY)
Took a wrong turn.
Got lost.
In the town you grew up in?
(GASPS)
-It's all right.\N-(GASPS)
(SOFTLY) You...
You're one of the Avengers.
You're Vision.
Are you here to help us?
I am Vision. I do want to help.
But what's an Avenger?
What?
Why don't you know?
(BREATH TREMBLING)
Am I dead?
No, no. Why would you think that?
Because you are.
'Cause I'm what?
Dead.
Dead.
(SHOUTS) Dead!
Dead!
Agnes, it is my intention\Nto reach those outside of Westview
and make sense of our situation.
(SOFTLY) How?
No one leaves.
Wanda won't even let us think about it.
(CHUCKLING)
All is lost.
-Agnes...\N-(LAUGHING MANIACALLY)
Agnes, please calm down.
-Agnes! Please...\N-(CONTINUES LAUGHING MANIACALLY)
(LAUGHING STOPS)
I will fix this, Agnes. I promise.
Okey-dokey, neighbor.
(TIRES SCREECH)
Happy Halloweenie!
{\an8}(CELL PHONE RINGING)
That's it.
My way back into the Hex\Nwill be here in an hour.
Just gotta meet my guy over the ridge.
Let's roll.
You can't do that.
Sure we can.\NI'm a whiz at hot-wiring cars.
You can't go back into the Hex.
Worst case scenario,
Wanda removes my free will\Nand puts me in ultra-low-rise jeans.
Hayward has your blood work.
You've gone through\Nthe boundary twice already, Monica.
The energy inside has re-written\Nyour cells on a molecular level twice.
It's changing you.
Seen enough lab results\Nto last me a lifetime.
Cells metastasizing, cells in remission.
I know what Wanda's feeling\Nand I won't stop until I help her.
Okay.
Okay.
But I'm staying here.
-Wait, you can't stay here. It's not safe.\N-What? Darcy, what are you talkin' about?
I haven't made it through\NHayward's last firewall.
There's something big here.\NSomething that can help us. I know it.
Fine. Fine.
I'll drop you the location,\Nyou meet us out there as soon as you can.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-PIETRO: Holy shmacaroni.\N-(WANDA CHUCKLES)
PIETRO: Wow!\NWANDA: Isn't it great?
PIETRO: Damn it, if Westview, New Jersey\Nisn't charming as hell.
Now, I know that you think\Nthat I've have gone full soccer mom.
-Yeah.\N-But it really is nice, right?
Yeah. (SIGHS HEAVILY)
I think Mom and Dad would've loved it.
Yeah. I think they would have.
(CHILDREN LAUGHING)
Where were you hiding\Nthese kids up till now?
-What?\N-I assume
they were sleeping\Npeacefully in their beds.
No need to traumatize beyond the\Noccasional holiday episode cameo, right?
-No...\N-You were always the empathetic twin.
-I don't... I didn't...\N-Don't get me wrong.
You've handled the ethical considerations\Nof this scenario as best you could.
Families and couples stay together,
most personalities aren't far off from\Nwhat's underneath, people got better jobs,
better haircuts, for sure.
-You don't think it's wrong?\N-What, are you kidding?
I'm impressed! Seriously.
It's a big leap\Nfrom giving people nightmares
and shooting red wiggly-woos\Nout of your hands.
How'd you even do all this?
Hey, I'm not some stranger\Nand I'm not your husband.
You can talk to me.
I don't know how I did it.
I...
I only remember\Nfeeling completely alone.
Empty. I just...
Endless nothingness.
(SNIFFLES)
(GASPS)
Are you okay?
I'm fine.
Uh-huh.
(ELECTRONIC BEEPING)
Hayward, you sneaky bastard.
Move out.
Vision. What's he doing?
(VISION GRUNTING)
He really does want out, doesn't he?
(GRUNTING)
(GRUNTS)
Oh, no.
Why aren't you helping him?
-Stop! He's coming apart!\N-Hey!
(GRUNTING LOUDLY)
HAYWARD: {\i1}He really does want out{\i}\N{\i1}doesn't he?{\i}
-Whoa, Billy!\N-Shh!
Are you okay?
(VISION SCREAMING)
Mom!
Mom! Mom! Mom! Mom!
What? What is it, Billy?
(PANTING) I hear Dad in my head.\NHe's in trouble.
(GRUNTING)
DARCY: Let me go! What are you doing?
Help him! Let me go!
Help!
(SHUDDERS)
The people need help.\N(GRUNTS)
(GASPS)
(WHIMPERS)
(GROANS)
I don't understand.\NWhat's happening to me?
Where is he? Where's your dad?
Hey, don't sweat it, sis. It's not like\Nyour dead husband can die twice.
-(GRUNTS)\N-(YELPS)
Billy, I need you to focus.
(SHUDDERING)
I can't tell. I see these...
-(GRUNTS)\N-...soldiers.
(SCREAMING)
They think he's dying.
(CHATTER STOPS)
Jimmy. Jimmy, do you see that?\NSomething's happening!
It's moving! Go, go!
(RUMBLING)
Go, go, go! Move, move, move!
Are you serious right now?
SOLDIER: Hey! Stop!
(GRUNTS) Oh, fudge.
(SOLDIERS SCREAMING)
(CLOWNS CHUCKLING)
(ALL SCREAMING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Push it! Faster!
(ENGINE ROARING)
(TIRES SCREECHING)
Come in. Anyone read me?
Anyone hear my voice?
Does anyone read me?
Anyone read me? Over.

I went on a handful of dates with this guy like 18 months ago, we lived too far away and it didn’t work out. Ended on friendly terms, we followed each other on IG but other that occasionally reacting to each other’s stories we didn’t really talk. He posts very infrequently and It’s only pics from nature hikes. His last post was 3 almost 4 months ago.
Cut to a few days ago, out of the blue, he messages me late at night and we catch up/chat. He mentions he thinks of me often, wishes he could see me (quote “the only person I want to see is you, I hope we can do that soon” and “you’re the strongest and smartest person I’ve ever talked to. I miss talking to you more” and more like that), I don’t really engage too much with it because it’s late and he’s obviously a lil tipsy. He started implying for wanting nudes, talking about my body in a pic i had posted a few months back, he reminisces about old hook ups we had implying he wants to do more and I “accidentally” fall asleep mid convo. Next morning he messages me about how he was turned on the night before and will be masturbating to me (it’s 10am, way too early for that fuckery) I ignore him, intended fo block but I was on a run and legitimately forgot.
Cut to today.... I open IG and the first post is him and another woman. I commented on it and then immediately messaging him saying she was cute and asked if it was new
Him “it’s not so new”
Me “oh so not newer when you hit me up the other night”
Him “no, I know that’s bad”
Me “question is... does she know?”
Him “no and I’d like to keep it that way”
I tell him how nasty he is, that it’s disgusting he’s not telling her then he proceeded to change his story 3 different times from “no she doesn’t and I want to keep it that way” to “well I told her about other transgressions but not this one” to “well okay I told her about you but not that it’s you or the details; just that I was seeking attention” to “I did tell her”
Then he tried to guilt trip me into staying silent saying “it’s a crucial period of time in us progressing” like if I say something it’s my fault I’m blowing it up.
He kept whining that he was ashamed and that it was so horrible having to relive it when I sent him contradicting screen shots of his own words and how gross he was. I reminded him that he doesn’t matter rn it’s about her.
He kept pushing for me not to say anything, and wants to talk this out with me.
Thing is I already messaged her. He had her tagged in the pic, and I wrote to her expressing I knew him, how, and a run down of what happened. I sent her screen recordings of the full convo (including showing me open the IG app and going to his profile and then to the messages so he can’t claim anything)
Her profile is private which means it’s in her message requests and while I know I did the right thing telling her I’m legit sick to my stomach about this. ): I feel so so so bad he’s doing this and I’m even tangentially involved against my will.
I just needed to vomit this all out. ): ughhhhhhh this sucks so bad.

This is part II ! Read part I first if you haven't done it already.
Next we get to Louis XVI's trial, and OS is already doing as if Robespierre was the ultimate dictator of France, with him playing chess against Austria and Prussia. Yet at this point he's a mere conventionnel. A popular one, sure, but he is in no way more powerful than any of his 748 co-workers at this point. And he was far from being the only one advocating for Louis' death; maybe he didn't even have the most influential speech in this direction, as that title could be attributed to Saint-Just. 29 errors. This emphasis on Robespierre is completely unjustified : again, he is a mere deputy at this point, and he's part of the opposition at that. What's next ? Ah, OS peddles the idea that Louis' fate was decided by one vote - it was not. There was an absolute majority of just one vote not in favor of death, but in favor of death without conditions - 70 other deputies voted for death with a conditional sentance, making a total majority of 431 for death against 290 for all other options. 30 errors.
Surprisingly, OS says nothing egregiously wrong after that - until he says "so as the Revolution turned increasingly violent and anti-christian" : again this is caricatural as it doesn't take the slightest nuance into account and hammers how horrifically violent the Revolution was - the reality is that it was not violence per se that apalled the conservative, but violence against refractory priests. But let's be lenient for once, because was indeed perceived rabidly anti-clerical, albeit things are always more complex. Still his introduction of the Chouannerie and the Vendée rebellion are approximately correct. But then he confuses the royalist insurrections with the federalist insurrections, the latter being actually republican. In Toulon, it was originally a federalist revolt that was later taken over by royalists; for the other cities and regions in revolts - Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux and Normandie, all these regions saw federalist insurrections, but as OS doesn't introduce the federalist revolts (to sum it up briefly, a violent reaction of certain departements to the eviction of tne Girondins) them and just paint France in two colors, we're left misguided. 31 errors.
"The republic sent a relatively unknown young captain by the name of Napoléon Bonaparte (of course his face is comically ugly, why do you even ask, it's the French Revolution, all of its protagonists were ugly !) to help stage the siege of the city."
Not really. The Republic sent general Carteaux, and latter Dugommier; Bonaparte was only their subordinate and not the commander-in-chief. 32 errors.
"General Jean-Baptiste Carrier committed brutal atrocities. [...] [He] was later found guily of war crimes."
He was not a general, but a civilian; specifically, a Représentant en Mission, aka an envoy of the Convention whose task is to apply the Convention's laws in the regions. As for him being found guilty of war crimes, that's stricltly impossible since war crimes became a legal charge more than a century afterwards, as conferences, such as the Hague's and Geneva's set up rules for warfare. So this is an anachronism. 34 errors. Otherwise, yeah, the repression in Vendée was indeed gruesome.
Back to Paris, where OS butchers the complete story of the Girondin's expulsion from the Convention. His chain of events is :
the government is increasingly unpopular -> Marat calls for the elimination of the traitors in the Convention and his put on trial -> Robespierre calls to insurrection.
Both the timeline and the facts are thrown in the trash : Marat was indeed tried, but in april, and he was acquitted on the 24th of that month, more than a month before the eviction of the Girondins. Many other events made them unpopular : they had created a commission to investigate the Paris Commune, that they suspected of treason, which logically didn't please the sans-culottes who hold the Commune. They were also holding to their old motto that property and economic liberalism were both sacred, even though food was still very costly and many sans-culottes demanded price fixing. What really lit the fuses though is that on may 25th, feeling that there might be an insurrection, Isnard, the girondin president of the Convention, threatens to have the entire city razed to the ground - really, I'm not making that up. That's exactly like the Brunswick manifesto. That's why Robespierre indeed called for an insurrection a few days later : he feared that a violent purge coming from the right may happen soon, and while it is easy to dismiss it as sheer paranoia, remember that all these men had lived through the Champ-de-Mars massacre, during which two men who were considered as heroes, Lafayette and Bailly (the guy who prononced the Tennis Court Oath first and the National Assembly's first president, it's him you see standing above everyone else in David's painting of the event) odered the National Guard to fire on the crowd. When even supposedly dedicated revolutionaries betray you, it's easy to think that others might do the same. I also want to add that the Girondin were not instantly executed : they were merely placed under house arrest, allowing many to flee Paris for province, where they would spark the federalist revolts I mentioned earlier.
Anyway, one error for all this. 34 errors.
"Robespierre and his radicals would be in almost total control of the government."
Good thing you said almost, because it's not the case. Even in the most dire moments of the French Revolution, the government, or the Committee of Public Safety that more or less acts as a government needs the approval of the Convention to pass any decree. This is no governmental dictatorship. 35 errors.
"In death, he became an even more powerful inspiration for the extreme levels of violence that were about to rip throughout the new republic".
While this is true, OS' heavy insistance about how horrifically violent the Revolution was falls under the paragraphs I've written above about the violence of the Revolution. But indeed, Marat's assassination confirmed the suspicions many had about traitors within their ranks. I want though to heavily insist myself on one point, and OS is going to introduce it for me.
The Reign of Terror. I want to introduce to you a new theory that has emerged at least in french academic research : the idea that the Republic basically became a totally centralised and dictatorial regime officially promoting Terror at this point is... wrong. More on that later. But first let me dump the inaccuracies that OS put in his account : the Committee of Public Safety was established on april 6th 1793, and the Revolutionary Tribunal was established on march 10th 1793; both were established as the Girondins were still firmly sitting in the Convention and government. Now the factual inaccuracies : the CPS (if you allow the abbreviation) was not a dictatorship, and Robespierre was not at its head. It needed the approval of the Convention to pass anything, and it couldn't force his will on all the other committees. Because it was not alone. There was a committee of finances, a committee of public education, a committee of the navy and the colonies, etc. The CPS simply led and coordinated the whole thing.
Internally speaking, its 12 members were strictly equal. Robespierre was not at its head - there was no "head of the committtee" and decisions needed to be approved by the majority of its members. If Robespierre is in the minority, he is powerless. So he was not, I repeat he was NOT a dictator; he has never been more than one of the 12 members of one of the executive branch, albeit the main branch. And he needed, like all the members of the CPS, to be reelected each month to keep his seat. So OS' heavy insistance on what Robespierre wanted is completely off the mark since Robespierre's personal desire don't matter that much.
Now onto the Revolutionary tribunal. Contrary to what OS depicts, and to a popular conception of it, the Revolutionary Tribunal was a real tribunal, not a sham : there were procedures, attorneys, exhibits, and half, half of the people who passed before it were acquitted. In total, that already makes five more errors : we're already at 40.
But now we get onto the interesting part. OS claims that Terror was proclaimed to be the order of the day. What does that mean exactly ? It means that in early september, after hearing of the betrayal of the admirals who gave Toulon to the Coalition forces, a group of sans-culottes entered the Convention and demanded that Terror be the order of the day. And by that, I mean the order of the day of the Convention, the official topic of today's debate in the assembly. And yet... it never happened. Historians such as Jean-Clément Martin dug into the Convention's (rigorously organised) archives and found no trace of the word Terror in the Convention's order of the day on september 5th 1793, nor in any other day of the French Revolution. That's right : there has never been any official reign of Terror. When Terror was indeed applied, it was largely the result of local iniatives that the Convention couldn't control, such as some Representatives in mission's crimes (Fouché in Lyon, Carrier, in Nantes, Barras and Fréron in Toulon), or the results of political moves to eliminate rivals and please the radical part of the public opinion. The conclusion that Martin and others like Michel Biard draw is that far from being a hyper-centralised and bloodthirsty dictatorship, France during the "Terror" was actually in a state of anarchy, to put it bluntly; the decisions the Republic then took in terms of internal traitors hunt ought not to be compared with, say, the USSR, as it is commonly depicted, but to the decisions France took again during WW1, when deserters where being shot, the press' freedom was being suppressed and the opposition parties were forced into a Sacred Union for the sake of maintaining a unified and efficient war effort. This is, according to Martin, and I'm firmly inclined to believe him, a far better comparison than François Furet's old song about the Revolution being the mother of totalitarianism, a theory that is nowadays out of favor. So OS now has 41 errors. To be specific, when the sans-culottes asked for Terror to be the order of the day, Thuriot, President of the Convention, answered "you're right : justice is the order of the day"². The central government never claimed to rule with Terror during the actual "Reign of Terror"; even Robespierre's famous speech about Virtue and Terror is not enough to prove the contrary, as Robespierre here is simply defining the principles of the Revolutionary Government in times of crisis : remember that he and the rest of the Conventionnels were dedicated republicans who had advocated for more liberty and equality during the days of the Constitutional Monarchy; their hands were forced by a one of the most dire crisis of French history, with civil war and external war in which France was alone and on the verge of collapse, but they were all clearly saying that laws like the suspect laws were exception laws, and that they would be removed once the dust would have settled. Terror was rarely mentioned by those members of the Revolutionary Government, and when it was, it was either to condemn it or to call it a necessary evil. None of these men were "bloodthirsty" : we don't live in a fairy tale with bad guys rubbing their hands and preparing plans to dominate the world. It was after the Terror supposedly ended that the Thermidorians, men such as Fouché and Barras who had defintely ruled with Terror in their proconsulships, absolved themselves of all their crimes by creating this false narrative of an almighty and bloodthirsty Robespierre overseeing mass executions all across France. OS is blindly listening to these sympathetic men when he says :
"Fear had become an official government policy."
This is a myth. Don't get me wrong though : it is neither the actual violence, nor the death toll I'm questioning (though the death toll will always be a complex question), it's the way violence was implemented. 42 errors.
So what does OS have to say about what's coming ?
The usual story of Robespierre being a psychopath who personally oversaw the spying and executions, even though he was neither a dictator, nor even a member of the Committee that actually took charge of the spying : the Committee of General Security, whose president Vadier, hated Robespierre and played a key role in his elimination. 43 errors. Also, the 40 thousands execution OS quote still leaves me skeptical, but as I couldn't find a death toll that was both more precise and more convincing, I'll go with it. I'll be happy to hear a more recent calculation though.
OS then arrives to Marie-Antoinette, and that allows me to jump on another topic : remember that quote from Danton ? "We must be terribe so the people don't have to" ? Well that was the spirit behind the infamous "loi des suspects", the law of suspects, that allowed the government to imprison anyone deemed suspect; if we don't take such decisions, there will be new September massacres : that's the logic behind it. It's a way of institutionalising a practice that would otherwise happen illegally, thus more violently, at the expense of the government's image. It is also to please the sans-culottes that the revolutionary tribunal launched a wave of executions of celebrities now labelled as traitors in october and november 1793 : Marie-Antoinette of course, but also Bailly, the Girondins, former conservative member of the Constituant Assembly such as Barnave, royal princes such as Philippe Egalité, who happened to be the king's cousin and the father of a deserter, and even Louis XV's last mistress, madame du Barry !
The idea behind these trials (those one being indeed show trials, unlike the trials faced by non-celebrities) was to satisfy the radical's demands for harsh punitive measures while also eliminating old enemies, or simply people whose death doesn't cost much to the Convention. They were, to put it bluntly, feeding the popular movement with heads they could afford to chop.
"Robespierre had saved the Revolution through Terror."
Wrong on both accounts. The revolutionary government as a whole managed to save the French republic from collapsing, Robespierre again wasn't alone in the government, nor was he at its head. Just for the anecdote, Furet calculated that the members of the CPS worked between 16 and 18 hours a day. The guys spent gigantic quantities of energy on reorganising the nation's whole war effort for victory. At least, OS somewhat acknowledges that. Still, 45 errors. We arleady adressed the question of Terror.
"Even the french military has got to act together again and pummeled the Allies at the Battle of Fleurus. For Danton and his followers, the time was right to try to normalize the French Republic."
This is probably the most scandalous timeline inaccuracy of te whole videos, since OS presents Danton's demand for clemency as a consequence of the Battle of Fleurus. However, Danton was executed in early April, and Fleurus was won in late June. You see how distorted the chronology is here ? That's seriously an hallucinating inaccuracy, doing ten seconds of actual research would have prevented it. What's even more infuriating is that OS twists the timeline seemingly only because he wants to show Robespierre was a bloodthirsty monster. This passage is one of the worst of the entire videos, OS, tell me, how the hell did you arrived at such a catastrophically inaccurate result ? 46 errors.
So apparently Robespierre alone decided to sent the Dantonists to the guillotine because he wanted the war and the Terror to continue. Robespierre was advocating for a quick end to the war; that's even what led Carnot, fellow member of the CPS partially in charge of the military matters, to actively take part in Thermidor, because Carnot was all for a war of conquest - and plundering I should add. So the war point doesn't stand. I'll repeat it : at this point, peace was not an option, unless France was to surrender to the Coalition. 47 errors. And as we saw, Robespierre was not the almighty dictator OS' seems to think he is : 48 errors.
Now a complex question must be asked. Why were the Dantonists tried (in what was clearly a show trial) and executed ? The popular explanation is that Robespierre was a mad psycho and that he killed them all by sheer sadism or lust for power. An explanation more accurate is the one given by Martin. It is essential to know that before the Indulgents/Dantonists, another group had been elminated : the Exagérés/Hébertistes, who were actually further left than most of the CPS, including Robespierre. These two groups both criticized the government for opposite reasons : the Hébertistes wanted more heads and less churches, and the Dantonists advocated for the abolition of the "exception laws" and the release of all prisoners - while the situation was still dire, because France could not be considered safe from invasion until the victory at Fleurus in late June. Here, it is extremely important to remember that Robespierre was no dictator and that decisions didn't come from him alone. He was indeed in agreement with the rest of the CPS that both groups needed to be eliminated; the most right-wing members of the committee, like Carnot and Barère opposed Hébert's atheism and revolutionary zeal, while the most left-wing, Billaud-Varenne and Collot d'Herbois, opposed Danton's penchant for corruption and leniency. It also didn't helped that Danton refused to disscoiate from fis close friend Fabre d'Eglantine, whose reputation had just been badly marred by the East India Company scandal. Robespierre was not the driving force here, and McPhee even argues that he seems to have been "cajoled" into signing Danton and co's arrest wanrrants. So it was decided that both groups would be eliminated one after the other : first the Hébertistes, and then to reassure the sans-culottes who loved Hébert and might feel betrayed, the Dantonist soon followed. It's as simple as that : the CPS wanted to eliminate two potential rival (or even insurrection callers) from both sides of the political spectrum in order to maintain a central position and please everyone - because again, the government aimed at forming a "Sacred Union" avant la lettre. In this regard, the elimination of the Dantonists can be compared to the Bonnet Rouge trial : in 1918, Clémenceau had a bunch of journalist and politicians advocating for a compromise with Germany arrested, tried and condemned, for the sake of maintaining a "Sacred Union" that would be hell-bent on winning no matter what. The Great War with Indy Neidell had some episodes about that trial.
"Robespierre went "a bit mental"."
Classic old song about Robespierre being a bloodthirsty and almighty psychopath. It's still egregiously wrong, but OS' is still clinging to it, probably because it was more difficult to do actual research than to produce dumb memes. I have already said it, and anybody who has the patience and the willingness to read a good biography of Robespierre, such as Hervé Leuwers' or Peter McPhee's : Robespierre was neither a bloodthirsty psycho nor an almighty tyrant. 49 errors. But what about the Cult of the Suprem Being ? Clearly that was Robespierre creating a crazy cult because he was a megalomaniac madman ! Well, not really. First let's remember one thing : deism, Robespierre's spiritual belief, was vastly widespread in the 18th century. Several american Founding Fathers, such as Jefferson and Thomas Paine (and possibly Washington), as well as several philosophers of the Enlightenment era such as Voltaire and Diderot were deist. To sum it up very briefly, it means believing in a super-human entity from which the universe is originated, but all the dogma and rites of Christianity are swept aside (that's really an oversimplification though). There was no darwinist theory of Evolution, no Plate Tectonics theory, no Big Bang Theory (no, not the series !). So being deist made sense, and it was not Robespierre's personal sect. Now what about the festival ? First, Robespierre presided it... because he was President of the Convention at this moment. That doesn't give him any special powers, and besides the presidency of the Convention changed every three or two weeks. He sure pushed for the thing, but the initiative came from the Committe of public instruction, not from him, and it was NOT, as OS' ridiculously portrays, a cult to Robespierre. This passage is one of the most blatantly and wholly inaccuracte passage of the videos, and yet there is some serious competition, as I think now is pretty clear since we're already at 50 errors !
What exactly was this cult ? It was three things :
- a new civic form of spiritualism that didn't include any rite or clergy, so it was NOT a religion; its goal was to make principles of equality, liberty and fraternity truly sacred.
- an appeal to the still catholic peasantry who can see in this "catholicism with extra steps" and forgive the Republic about the harsh treatment of the refractory clergy.
- a pretext to organize great national festivities to unite the people of France as they had been united by the Fête de la Fédération organized by the Constitutional monarchy on July 14st 1790. What's that ? Ah, yes, OS didn't even mention it back then, even though it was a crucial moment in the history of the French Revolution. 51 Errors.
Then comes Thermidor. This post is getting too long by now, so let's make it quick (or as quick as possible) : as insanely frustrating as it is to admit it, OS' account of Thermidor isn't inaccurate. It's thoroughly lacking, but the channel is called Oversimplified after all. He however really misses what happens after Thermidor. Because Thermidor was not the revenge of the moderates against the extremists : it was mainly a new internal purge inside the Montagne, the left side of the Convention. Not like Danton's and Hébert's elimination, but similar to that of the Girondins : a vague group, the robespierrists, who is partially (only partially, through Robespierre and his allies) in charge of the government, and who is suddenly - and violently (in the 48 following Robespierre's death, more than a hundred people were sent to the guillotine, which is the deadliest moment of the whole period, and it happens AFTER Robespierre's death, so OS' grandiloquent sentence about Robespierre being "the last victim of the moustrous system of Terror he had created" is pure nonsense : 52 errors) by a loose coalition that will soon break away. Indeed, "a more moderate group called the Thermidorian took over the Convention", but it actually took them a few weeks; Billaud-Varenne and Collot d'Herbois, the most radical members of the CPS, will not be forced to resign before early September, a full month after Robespierre died. To sum it up very basically, Thermidor was an internal purge within the Montagne, which left it too weakened to face the increasingly powerful centre-right, especially as the danger of invasion seemed to fade away. Some montagnards will switch sides, such as Fouché and Barras, and other stayed true to their conviction : they were slowly but steadily eliminated between Thermidor and the creation of the Directory. That's why more than a year passes between Thermidor and the Directory. It was not a sudden turning point.
To add insult to injury, this period saw an gigantic black legend appear, as everyone now charged Robespierre (who couldn't defend hismelf anymore) with every crime he could think of to make evryone forget their own crimes. Vadier, president of the Committee of General Security, even had a false seal with a fleur-de-lys fabricated and hidden in Robespierre's room so that Robespierre could be accused of wanting to marry Louis XVI's daughter to become King, as ludicrous as it sounds. Sadly, this black legend is still the popular conception of Robespierre. I'm not saying he was a saint, but damn, posterity has really been unfair with him, more than with anyone else I can think of, and this kind of video is exactly what allows this black legend - this complete myth of a bloodthirsty pyscho dictator that doesn't hold any ground - to still thrive. 52 errors.
"[The Directory had] the purpose of preventing power from falling into the hands of a single individual - again."
For the last time, Robespierre has never been a dictator. I think I made it pretty clear. 55 errors. What actually prompted the thermidorian to adopt such a "careful" constitution was more the fear of seeing monarchy restored through legal means, as royalist were rapidly gaining ground via elections; they won the legislative elections of 1797 and almost restored monarchy. Having five Directors sharing the executive power meant that several sincerely republican directors could nip in the bud any such attempt to restore the monarchy. That's what happened in 1797, during the coup of Fructidor, which led to entire elections being cancelled because people had not voted correctly - which of course spurred a wave of disgust for the Republic in France, understandably so. Ironically, the thermidorian legend succeeded way beyond the thermidorians' expectations, as it ended up tainting the image of the Republic as a whole, which also resulted a decline in republicanism.
[Talking about the crushing of the royalist insurrection of Vendémiaire] "From this moment on, the people of Paris would never again be able to stage a popular uprising and lost their control over the Revolution."
OverSimplified...? Are you even conscious of what is written in your script ? *"*Never again be able to stage a popular uprising" ? Ever heard of the July 1830 and 1848 Revolutions, of the Paris Commune, and all ? Okay, okay, he's only talking of the French Revolution, and it is true that there was no longer any major insurrection in Paris after that, but then, choose the right words, because "never again" means "never again", not "for the next 35 years".
There is then a whole passage about custom relaxing, and it's true that old religiosity lost some of its grip on everyday life. Suicide and divorce for example became more and more common despite being of course completely condemned by the Church. I guess that "It was social anarchy" is some weird and exaggerated way of seeing things, but frankly, after all the avalanche of nonsense that was the previous part, I'm inclined to be lenient towards that.
Surprisingly enough, OS then goes on to describe pretty accurately the last years of the Directory, even though it is of course hugely simplified - at least it's not the sheer inaccuracy we saw earlier.
However, OverSimplified eventually claims to take stock of the French Revoluion as a whole, and boy, this is the grande finale :
"The French Revolution ! Born with great promises of liberty and equality. The commone people dared to challenge an oppressive system that had existed for centuries."
For now, all seems alright.
"Before they knew it, they found liberty sidelined by Terror, equality that possibly didn't hit the mark, and an absolute monarchy replaced with an absolute dictator."
It's tiring by now. We get it, it was violent. But I repeat it : it was NOT exceptionally violent. And what it achieves surpasses what it costed. For all the talks about the revolutionaries being sadistic and bloodthirsty monsters, the guys actually had sane and human programs : the revolutionary government, along with the representatives in mission, even some of the most criminal ones, redistributed the lands of the expelled and executed, sometimes even freely and to the poorest like with Saint-Just's decrees of Ventôse 13th, created taxes directed at the richest ones, rebuilt and reinvigorated the army, not only saving France from invasion but also laying the foundations of Napoléon's Grande Armée, they began implementing free public school as much as they could given the circumstances, before the Directory decided to focus on education for the wealthiest classes, they made the food crisis less severe, they abolished slavery and proclaimed full equality of rights for all citizens, no matter their skin color, on February 4th 1794; the Republic saw France's first elections being held with universal male suffrage, the constitutional monarchy having only accepted census suffrage. While on August 4th 1789 the Constituant assembly had agreed to authorize the peasantry to pay their nobles to get rid of the old feudal dues, in August 1793 the revolutionary government abolished feudalism altogether, without condition. Now of course, not all of this was implemented efficiently : the abolition of slavery for example was impossible to force upon french islands in the Indian ocean who were out of reach, and these measures were often accompanied by a brutal repression. I'm not denying the violence. I'm trying to explain it rather than just patronizingly judge it as the result of dirty savages being bloodthirsty. I'm sick of seeing videos like this that paint the Revolution as little more than a giant bloodbath. It's both egregiously simplistic and reductive, and an inuslt to the generations of historians who worked and are still working to truly understand this incredibly complex event. If you zoom back and include the "respectable" part of the Revolution, going from 1789 to 1792, it is also the final abolition of the three orders and their inequalities, the birth of nationalism, the creation of a modern administration, and in general the creation of a modern France. If the French Revolution is generally considered to be the starting point of a new era, it's not without reasons. 53 errors.
"He (Napoléon) restored the Catholic Church"
For the last time : no, the French Revolution has never abolished the Church. Napoléon didn't "restore" anything, he just gave a new regime for the Church, in the Concordat of 1801. 54 errors.
"and got rid of that crazy calendar."
Laugh all you want a this "crazy calendar"; for many people it had a true sense, and this patronizing attitude does you no credit at all, OS. 55 errors.
And then we have a cliffhanger.
In my final assessment about Oversimplified's videos about the French Revolution, I must conclude that they're neither funny, nor instructive. They manage to be completely wrong on almost every single thing or person they talk about, while indulging in a generally conter-productive, moralizing and patronizing narrative, that doesn't do anything else than strengthening an outdated, ridiculous and completely erroneous vision of the French Revolution. I don't know if it's laziness, ignorance, or even dishonesty, or the three combined that led OverSimplified to produce such bad videos, but what I'm sure of is that with them, he well earned the nickname of OverFalsified. And since, according to seemingly everyone on this sub, his other videos are good, I beg OverSimplified's team to do something, anything to repair the damages, even a simple tweet would be welcome : the first part has 19M views, the second one has 14M. Looking at the comments and like/dislike ratio, one has to admit that what is being told in this videos is blindly believed by a majority. Take a little walk at HistoryMemes and search "French Revolution", "Terror" or "Robespierre": you'll see that this insultingly simplistic take on the French Revolution, that of a mere bloodbath led by a megalomaniac psychopath, is broadly accepted. And this is discouraging to say the least. Thanks, OverSimplified.
And thank you for reading this huge wall of text, I didn't think it would be that long.
Sources :
Nouvelle Histoire de la Révolution Française, Jean-Clément Martin, 2019
La Terreur : Vérités et Légendes, Jean-Clément Martin, 2017
Le Dictionnaire des Révolutionnaires français, Pierre Brasme, 2014
Robespierre, Hervé Leuwers, 2014
Les Sans-Culottes parisiens en l'an II, Albert Soboul, 1958
¹: La Terreur : Vérités et Légendes, p. 23
²: La Terreur : Vérités et Légendes, p. 27

TLDR poem;
🚀's are red
🍅's are red
🚀🍅🚀
🍅's 🌈🐻's soon to be 💀
(Real TLDR's at bottom)
”Why the !@&? would I want that 🍅 growing stock?"
Yo, brother, calm down that anger.
I'm not providing investment advice so stop right here if you like.
We're just having a casual conversation about a bunch of things on a stock I'm personally YOLOing 65k on. (Aka my positions, no ban!)
If you're unaware though, this 30 year produce (🍅) growing company has been utilizing their decades of experience to grow Cannabis with stellar results so far and with 2021 looking to be really good for them.
Specifically, this will be on show these first two quarters of the year.
An important side note is that as of November 2nd, they now privately own the full 100% of Pure Sunfarms, their Cannabis subsidiary.
"Oh I should get in NOW, huh? I see that $🍅 ran recently, why would it keep running?"
Great question brother! Of course, that's up to you! But...
$🍅 actually has multiple aspects as to why this has a very likely chance to run, then stay at a price that is probably higher than you would think "reasonable," and then still have more runs throughout the year.
First way to try and back this up, is pointing out that this low float stock of only 77,820,000 shares has a CEO that owns 12% of the stock himself, and a total of 13.6% owned by the Management and Board.
On top of that, another +12% of the float is held by institutional holders for an immediate 25% of this already low float stock off the table.
More on the float in a moment, but with that quick knowledge we next just need to take a quick peek at how $🍅's main competition's Share Price (SP), Share Count and Market Caps (MC) compare.
AFTER EACH COMPANIES MARKET CAP (MC) IS HOW MUCH EACH COMPANIES SHARE PRICE (SP) CAN GROW PER MARKET CAP GAIN OF $1 BILLION.
As of close on February 5th:
Canopy Growth: SP - $42.93 - 373,730,000 Shares

• $16,044,228,000 Market Cap with SP growth of $2.68 per $1B MC

Cronos Group: SP - $12.01 - 356,190.000 Shares

• $4,277,842,000 Market Cap with SP growth of $2.81 per $1B MC

Aphria: SP - $16.67 - 312,570,000 Shares

• $5,210,542,000 Market Cap with SP growth of $3.20 per $1B MC

Tilray: SP - $25.72 - 148,260,000 Shares

• $4,070,447,000 Market Cap with SP growth of $6.32 per $1B MC

Aurora: SP - $12.88 - "183,660,000 Shares"

• $2,365,541,000 Market Cap with SP growth of $5.44 per $1B MC

$🍅/Village Farms: SP - $15.09 - 77,820,000

• $1,174,304,000 Market Cap with SP growth of $12.85 per $1B MC

So, not only are they way behind in Market Cap, even to Aurora, but the amount that $🍅 can gain in Share Price to get there is unmatched.
I'm not saying the other companies should go down...
I'm just sayin... look at this...
VFF - $2,000,000,000 Market Cap?
$🍅 - $25.70
VFF - $3,000,000,000 Market Cap?
$🍅 - $38.55
VFF - $4,000,000,000 Market Cap?
$🍅 - $51.40
VFF - $16,000,000,000 Market Cap?
$🍅 - $205.60
”So what? They are THAT much behind the competition."
Hey, I get it brother, we've only talked only about superficial stock related info so far.
Just setting the base in understanding it's growth potential based on their industry competitiors.
We're getting there, I promise!
Just one more thing about $🍅's current positioning though, which factors in a bit of a short squeeze.
Now, don't get it twisted, this is not a post about some one-time short squeeze, just a brief mention.
Just, in this moment, it so happens the timing could cause a little extra pop for this incoming next fundamental and technical run that will establish $🍅's new base level.
Check it out, from 1/22 - 2/2 an average of 50% of the daily volume was short. Averaging about 25% of volume going short daily on either side of it as well.
This heavy shorting came at the heals of a recent company action that caused quick downward pressure on the Share Price and in turn gave greedy 🍅🌈🐻's ability to try and push it down unreasonably.
Did you notice the most recent closing price is $15.09 on Feb 5th?
You might not have noticed though, that on January 14th, $🍅 had a mini run and peaked at $15.05.
The next day, on January 15th, $🍅 dropped for a close of $12.65.
Closing above that previous mile stone means every short since the raise is now underwater. Just sayin'.
”What happened that caused that drop?"
Good things happened, brother. Good things. And... they got shorted for it...?
$🍅 announced a direct share offering that injected US$135Million cash to the bank @ $12.60, giving shorters a bit of strength over the last two weeks of January.
This semi large difference between the offering and Share Price at the time is indicative of something very important about this raise.
This was a planned raise that had nothing to do with the run $🍅 was going on IMO.
IMO, don't mistake this raise, that closed on U.S. Inauguration Day, as anything other than preparation for growth and expansion. They are already executing profitably, they in no way needed this for normal functions.
You have to understand, our ol' 🍅 is extremely diligent and resourceful in their approach to Cannabis so far, and will continue to going forward.
Their lack of splash is probably why you likely haven't heard or considered them yet, but the precise and profitable execution is why you should do DD on them.
Oh, by the way...
$🍅 has some of the best positioning and assets for the now inevitable U.S. legalization of Cannabis.
”How is this Canadian LP, $🍅 , any better set for the U.S. market than their competition?"
Again, stellar question's brother.
And, again, multiple factors to this.
Our first factor is a direct shout out to that $135M raise.
Quoting the 🍅 CEO from their most recent earnings report conference call and in reference to potential U.S. strategies, "...we're prepared to look at, if we have to do acquisitions or strategic partnerships and other locations..."
That $135M putting them +$200M in bank is taking a certain type of vision, to me.
”What, I'm suppose to believe your opinion that they have U.S. potential from a quote and your speculation?"
Naw brother, you're suppose to understand that fact because they already have 5.7 Million SqFt of "Hemp" grow space ready to go in Texas.
Speculation and understanding how this company functions is part of my YOLO call strikes though.
A heads up, Cannabis uses the same growing system and could "be rapidly converted to cannabis production" the moment ready. - 🍅 CEO
Even beside the U.S. Blue Wave that will have some type of effect on Cannabis, Texas has put forth multiple pieces of legislation up for up for debate on it's own.
With, or without my personal speculation on their raise, their Texas assets are shaping up to be extremely valuable for them in the likely near-term future.
Icing on the cake of it all is simply that they are in no rush at all for when it happens.
They're currently profitable, and growing from their Canadian and other international positions as well, so U.S. legalization is simply a massive bonus whenever it happens, not a necessity.
Like for some unnamed others...
”Yeah, so what? That still doesn't say WHY $🍅 would keep running outside of hype."
Hey, absolutely that's fact. So far.
Now that we understand their comparative surroundings and asset ready U.S potential, let's bring in some internal 🍅 Cannabis biz facts.
Here are a couple of the most recent earnings, Q3's, Cannabis specific highlights:
75% increase in Net Sales
81% increase in Gross Profits
Impressive as that is, it's important to understand this is not some one-off fluke, but the first point in the provable continuation of their launching point for growth, which was Q3's the prior quarter, Quarter 2 2020.
I say launching point because of the execution of strategy over the last year and they have a lot of factors on why they will continue to see growth in their numbers.
The key to understanding the earnings and $🍅 share price growth potential is in the timeline details of their release approach for new strains, products, product segments, and accessibility.
”What, a few random new products is you're point?"
Well, it's a part of the main reason on timing of the moments before earnings, yes.
Because brother, it's not just any new products, but specific new segments of products that are brand new pies of profitability to eat from for extra growth potential generally...
...and also how they set up their earnings reports for "surprise" growth effects with a specific style of WHEN they release their new products.
This upcoming Quarter 4 Year End 2020 report with be the first quarter to have their 2.0 products available for a FULL quarter. Our feature earnings growth products for Q4 are Vapes and Oils.
Being released mid-September, the very end of Q3, that Q3 report got a nice C$1Million boost in Net Sales from the roll out and because of the timing of release Q4 will see an exponential effect of growth from that segment due to that timeline of release.
Similarly, Quarter 1 2021, aka right now, will have TWO additional new segment effects!
On December 21st, just before the end of Q4, they started offering their products for Medical for the first time through a deal with Shoppers Drug Mart.
An important key to this Medical deal is this is their first entry into Quebec, the last 30% of Canada they need. 🍅's brand was also the first brand to offer anything in the Ounce size for the Shoppers consumers.
Seeing the ~1 week effect medical might be interesting!...
to me....
Our other brand new segment that is now fully rolled out is edibles!
Earlier in January, 🍅 announced a deal with White Rabbit, an edible company with a vegan, gluten-free craft gummy company with a manufacturing process call EAT ME.
With this, 🍅 has started offering White Rabbit products as of about mid January.
By establishing this parternship, 🍅 now has access to that process and as of February 5th now released their own branded edibles as well.
Pretty forward thinking and sustainable to ensure to grab a good tasting vegan and gluten-free craft gummy.
This win-win situation means no messing with growing pains, straight to the bottom line move. Love it.
”Again, so what? Wha.."
Don't mean to be rude, but I wasn't done yet...
Both the upcoming Q4 and Q1 have additional bonus growth factors!
For Quarter 4, first week of October, aka first week of Quarter 4, saw the release of their newest higher THC and higher priced Pink Kush and D.Bubba strains were release in their large 14g and 28g formats.
When these strains released for the 7g and less formats on a similar timeline fashion, the small format sizes saw an increase of 33% on Net Sales over the Volume sold.
Like I said, simply bonus growth factors from the decades old 🍅 company that understands the importance of showing growth Quarter over Quarter in a flooded industry with such tremendous potential.
For Quarter 1, early January also saw the release of their High THC vapes in addition to their current offerings.
**”Bro, are you done yet?"*
Okay okay jeez, I get it.
There's still just like one-ish more things though...
On a very quick view of some Marco-level elements, many provinces had extra legal red tape on providing licenses with Ontario being one of them.
Ontario also just so happens to be 🍅's biggest customer, and had also been known for being a province with the least amount of stores for the amount of population they have.
In August 2020, they upped the number of store licenses they were issuing from 20 to 40 per month, just in time for Q4...
In December 2020, they doubled it again to 80 licenses a month, just in time for Q1...
To put a little perspective on that, by the end of the most recently reported quarter, Q3 2020, about 190 licenses were issued.
By Q3 2021, approximately 1,070 licenses will have been issued.
Generally, about ~90% of the licensees have their stores up and running each time Ontario reports its updates. That's a lot more stores brother.
This matters because we also know the 🍅's brand is increasing in popularity for Ontario as well.
After being +13% of the OCS's volume from October 2019 to October 2020, October 2020 specificallywas 15% of the dried flower volume going 🍅 brand. Aka increasing in popularity.
On top of that, we were also told their brand new segment, vapes, was about top ~3 ish for Quarter 4 in the OCS as of November.
”This still doesn't really explain why they will grow... does it?"
Look brother, it's a Reddit post that's already too long but I believe I've shown a lot of 🍅 positive factors to add on top of what was already going to see growth by itself.
The Cannabis industry is hot right now you guys.
Beyond retail, their Wholesale segment experienced a +140% surge in volume and sales in Q3 as well, with indicators that Q4 will continue steady growth in that cornerstone of additional revenue.
Being the cheapest producer in the game will continue to have it's benefits. If you think it's Aphria, you are incorrect. Aphria is solid, but the 🍅 beats them out pretty easily.
Aphria Market Cap is also $5B to 🍅's $1B...
When it comes down to it, this Quarter 4 earnings report needs to speak for itself. I have my own personal opinion on what it might look like. Do your own research for your own opinion, brother.
Finally, just so you're in-the-know, my last notes are some recent analyst price targets for $🍅
Global Alliance - $20
Roth Capital - $22
Raymond James - $26
Beacon 1-year target - $35
Some supposedly big German Stock magazine - $30
Random people on Twitter - $+20
Well, fun conversation brother!
Don't forget, this was in zero ways financial advice, but if you wanted more not intended to be the basis of any investment decision $🍅 related information, or wanted to try and argue some point you think I jumped to, I wrote a very deep dive VFF analysis with Q4 prediction potentially worth checking out first (+40% Gross Sales and +60% Gross Profit conservatively predicted).
TLDR;
1 ) Comparatively, Village Farms (🍅)'s Market Cap is 1/16 of Canopy, 1/4 of Cronos, 1/5 of Aphria, 1/4 of Tilray, and 1/2 of Auroras.
2 ) Being a low float stock with 25% institutional holders and massive recent shorting that is now underwater will likely cause an extra short squeeze on top of the incoming technical/fundamental run.
3 ) 5.7 Million Sq Ft of grow space in Texas ready for quick and immediate Hemp to Cannabis conversation at the drop of any U.S. Legislation. Also, $🍅 cashed up for acquisition potential.
4 ) Release time line for Vapes, Oils, High THC Large Format Offerings, Medical (with Quebec), High THC Vapes, 3rd Party Gummies and 1st Party Gummies will all have debut showings on these upcoming Quarter 4 2020, Quarter 1 2021 and Quarter 2 2021 earnings reports.
5 ) Massively increasing store number from 🍅's best consumer, continued best-in-industry grow process for continued Wholesale strength, increasing quality and popularity of their products show positive trends of growth from their current segments as well as all the new ones.
6 ) Scroll up a smidge to check some analyst price targets.
Still TLDR; $VFF = $🍅 = a stock that I like = 🚀🍅🚀 = opinion = 🌙
PS: In case you didn't check my positions link near the top, I have 3k shares and 85 call contracts. I'm likely near to never going to sell my 3k shares @ $6.21, but I will be flipping my Feb and March calls at the end of this next run. Doubt I'll touch my June or 2022 calls.