Thank you to the Swilpa family, and thank you Rando for sharing that with us.

https://www.twitch.tv/extvesports

Throwback pugs should be getting underway soon! :)

Lots of old names playing right now! BLOYO vs old Ascent!

https://www.twitch.tv/eXtvesports

https://twitter.com/eXtelevision/status/1286730472362373120

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The most memorable thing about Yomps for me was his smile. We may not have interacted for more than a few minutes but I will always remember watching him around his teammates and friends and all having a great time. He will be dearly missed. Rest in peace.

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A cute hanging planter shaped like a sloth so I can put my succulents in it!
Also some cash money!

My mom got a new bigger KitchenAid mixer to replace the small one we use, but it's basically a gift for me too since I use it more than her.

Dinner can be hit or miss especially if it's the first date and can come off heavy with a lot of expectations, would recommend something that is a bit more casual (though I don't know how old you are and what the food scene is like where you live) like a small cafe to get coffee and a snack, ice cream and a walk, or even just a chill weekend brunch, basically something easy enough that you can talk and get to know the other person. Agree with the others that say having some activity to do or be around may help if the conversation tapers off.

What fucking sucks is that the morning of the cancellation we were going to have a meeting that weekend (had meetings every weekend to go over things), and we assumed that we would be discussing moving around staff positions. Then a few hours the cancellation comes out of nowhere. To this day, I don't know if it was one person's decision or if there were multiple people.

The folks that were trying to save the event in these last few weeks were taken by as much surprise about the cancellation as everyone else. Wasn't even a notice to the volunteers, or even an offer for them to take it over. It makes me wonder if there was so little faith in the event not happening without the three that removed themselves that they couldn't even let us decide if we wanted to just take it over. And now we are stuck with people that had spent god knows how much money, who may not be able to get it back, players and volunteers alike.

What also fucking sucks is that I couldn't even get crowdfunding off the ground before the cancellation, it required a lot of tournament info that I didn't have, and work that needed to be done by the tournament organizers first. From what I could have had access to would have been amazing. But there was no hope to launch to that scale it once we no longer had the ability to leverage with ticket sales and viewership, and BTS's connection.

Unfiltered apple juice / apple cider is wonderful hot or cold.

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Thinking about how this was posted in 2018 and things didn't change.

Wanted to highlight these since it needed to be said. It's not as easy as it sounds to say something and at the same time try to save yourself. Nobody wants their social structure to collapse around them when their abusers are wrapped up so tightly into the foundation of your state of being.

However, every fucking day I sit and wonder what would have happened if I told someone, this man who was entrusted with teaching me one on one, was doing things to me that I realize now fall under sexual assault. Who would have believed a child with no proof? What would my parents think of me and would they never let me go out again? Would my friends ostracize me for having an inappropriate sexual experience? Would I become known as the girl who cried wolf with no physical evidence of something that happened so long ago? Did he go on and do those things to other children because I never said anything? Or did I even process what he did to me was wrong at that age? Did he ever get caught eventually? Or is he still out there, 20 or so years later because I didn't say anything? Is it too late?

Something to think about, and why a lot of victims are afraid.

No

God, I'm so sorry that there would have been potential for you two to be in a room together. If you do need a place to stay if we manage to salvage this mess and decide to do a shared house, you are more than welcome.

Very much this, and he was very good at it. Unfortunately some of us took the chance.

This is also the reason why Dashner was removed prior to Tip of the Hats 2018 and going forward. With all the evidence pointed towards him, it violated everything our staff stands stood for.

To Ryan and Ness, I'm so sorry this happened. Don't know what to say, except this.

To Ness specifically. I'm sorry. You told me and I knew. And when I was asked to be part of Episode III and then this LAN, I knew. And I still chose to be part of the production. And work with someone who hurt my friend. And was okay with them staying in the same house as me. And when he assigned me roles and gave me an avenue to create and be involved I took it, like moths to a flame. And yet what he did to you lingered in my head, and I put my pursuits over hiding a predator. But I was scared, I didn't think you'd want this to be called out so I pretended I didn't know anything. And I kept pretending that I was okay working with him because I was scared to put you in the line of fire. But now he's hurt others. Ryan, you didn't deserve any of that at all. I'm sorry that it's happened again.

Edit: Also just remembered I was asked to organize an Airbnb again for production staff, and he told me him and Ryan could share one of the beds between them. Granted this was before knowing the split, but now thinking of what could have happened makes me ill.

Thank you for posting this.