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STORY (W.A.N.A.H.)
Chevarnaltakii** (Shipboard Security Officer):
We were halfway between the Deltarii Star Cluster and Vashinuwv when our ship was attacked by pirates. The battle was brief and we successfully fended them off, but not without sustaining damages. Our primary FTL drives were down and the backups were bleeding power. Our engineer, a Zeburu by the name of Grsh’kik, was at a loss. We weren’t going to make it to Vashinuwv and we didn’t dare send out a distress signal so close to where we had been attacked.
Then, our human pilot, Hannah, admitted that she had some mechanical experience from working on old ships with her Father. “Nothing professional,” she warned, “But I’ll take a look at it. I might be able to jury rig something.”
I had no idea what “jury rig” meant, but it was something to try. Even if it blew up the ship, that was a better fate than slowly wasting away as the ship drifted through the Darkening Black and into the Unyielding Void.
She disappeared into the engine bay for three hours as the crew waited in uneasy silence. Would the human do something that would end in our fiery deaths? Would we just explode without warning? The waiting felt as endless as the Void itself. I felt as though I should count the beats of my heart so as to cherish each one.
Finally, the human emerged. Grease was smeared across one cheek and she had bound her hair up into a lopsided knot on the back of her head.
“I need two more holophones and some parts from the coffee maker, but I think I can make it work,” She informed us. A cheer broke out the crew as we reclaimed some fragment of hope. Perhaps this was not the day Darkness claimed us. I surrendered my holophone without hesitation and the Captain surrendered his. This left only the coffee maker and the captain gave permission, despite some minor grumbling from the other human on the crew.
Two more hours slunk past with all the speed of a Kil’maroo hunting. Hannah emerged again and now she looked as though she had attempted to paint herself with grease. I had not known that our engines even contained that much grease.
“We should be good to go, now!” She cheered and plopped herself back into the pilot’s seat. “On your mark, Captain!”
“Mark?” I believe that Captain Shralt was trying to get an explanation of the term, but Hannah took it as permission. She pressed a series of buttons and a strange whirring sound filled the ship.
“What is that sound?” I asked. Crew safety IS my responsibility, after all.
“Some of the coffee grinder bits couldn’t be separated from the rest of the machine and they don’t have the sound dampeners encasing them anymore,” Hannah explained, “Sounds like it’s working good elseways. Commencing FTL, Captain.”
“Please do.”
What followed was the strangest FTL flight I have ever experiences but it got us to Vashinuwv intact. I cannot recommend Coffee Maker Engines, but it is STARS better than drifting through the Void until the End of All Things.
I will forever more agree that We All Need A Human.
COMMENTS:
VirNova (Sensor Technician):
You flew with an UNDER CAFFEINATED human pilot? You are brave indeed.
Chevarnaltakii** (Shipboard Security Officer):
The humans were not COMPLETELY without caffeine. They were able to make coffee the "old fashioned" way by heating water on the cooking unit. There was some grumbling about it "not being the same" and Captain Shralt did have to stop Hannah from attempting to use the remains of the coffee maker where it is, partially inside the engines.
Sarran** (Traffic Controller):
I think I heard about this. Was your ship, by chance, the one that almost crashed into Vashinuwv Station?
Chevarnaltakii** (Shipboard Security Officer):
Yes. That docking was far from smooth. Human Hannah did a remarkable job to get us there intact at all and that near crash was not even close to the most terrifying part of that journey. I would much rather have fought off more pirates.
VirNova (Sensor Technician):
This is why we need to start keeping redundancies on the coffee makers and their parts. Humans NEED their anti-murder juice.
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STORY:
Xiavaknan (Marketing Director):
Human warning and safety lights are highly confusing. I was riding in a human-flown taxi this daycycle, and an odd light was on. I asked the human why there was suddenly a glowing volcano on his dash console as I found this particular symbol alarming. He then informed me that this simply meant that he was low on a particular cleaning fluid.
WHY DOES A CLEANING FLUID LIGHT RESEMBLE A VOLCANO?
I believe that we need a reference guide for all of these symbols. It will save us all a large quantity of panic.
COMMENTS:
Jor MalKin (Technical Support):
It turns out that there is a reference guide for these symbols; it is called an “Owner’s Manual” and the humans include one with each machine that they create. The problem is that these symbols are not standardized across all human created equipment so while your taxi showed a tiny volcano (It is supposed to represent the way the cleaning fluid is applied) another could show it as “Washer Fluid Low.” There are exceptions to this on some of those deemed as the most relevant. “Check Engine” seems to be one such exception.
VirNova (Sensor Technician):
Really? Because the only time I’ve seen a light that was trying to get us to check the engines it said “Eruption Imminent.”
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STORY (W.H.AT.):
Jiordn (Cargo Management and Security):
Update: A while back I posted that human Steve, the engineer on my ship, had stopped eating properly and started “Tinkering.” I want to thank @ MkDusklind for the excellent advice he gave. This incident has now finished resolving and I thought I would share with you how this advice may have saved our lives.
Human Steve continued the tinkering behavior until three hours past his normal end of day. At this point, Ship Captain Nevraliint determined that we should intervene and so Cargo Hauler Vert’Nick was sent and I followed to prevent any possible incidents. Vert’Nick interrupted him and recommended that he needed to begin his sleep cycle.
Steve stared at the cargo hauler. “It’s not that late,” I recall him saying, “It’s only-” And then he checked the time. “Oh. Well, let me just finish this and-”
“No,” our brave cargo hauler interrupted again, “The captain has determined that we have allowed your abnormal behaviors to continue long enough. You are being commanded to proceed to your scheduled sleep cycle.”
“Abnormal behaviors?” Human Steve questioned, “What are you talking about?”
“You have not consumed any of your supplied sustenance this day cycle. You have worked well past the end of your work and day cycles.”
“What but I had- I ate-” Fortunately, this was enough to convince Steve that he should stop what he was doing as he had clearly not realized his lack of proper sustenance. He proceeded to his sleep cycle and did not return until his normal FirstCycle. The tinkering resumed just before the start of his midcycle break. He did not take his break or eat the meal that was brought.
We had maintained our surveillance on him so it was immediately apparent when he lost awareness of everything beyond his workbench. We observed carefully as he made… something. None of us were trained in engineering so we had no way of knowing what the device could possibly be.
Halfway through his SecondCycle, he finished the device. I was on surveillance duty when he sat back in his chair and grinned at the device.
“Alright,” he said, “That should do it,” and he reached for what was unmistakably a power switch.
“Wait!” I admit that I may have panicked a little bit at that. However, my voice most certainly did NOT squeak, no matter what anyone else may tell you.
Steve jerked in his chair, seeming to rise into the air for a brief moment. I have no idea how he managed this.
“Jeeze, man. Give me a heart attack, why don’t you?”
“Do you require medical attention?” I feared I had broken him somehow. Heart attacks are said to be a very serious illness.
“Just a figure of speech,” Human Steve waved it off, “What’s up?” I began to look towards the ceiling but human Steve noticed and corrected himself, “I mean, ‘what is going on?’ Why did you stop me?”
“What is this device that you are making?”
“Oh! I had this really awesome idea, check it out!” He turned back to the device, “You know how the flux transmitters for the FTL drive can only handle like a tenth of the potential output for the reactor cores?” I had no idea what he was talking about but he did not give me the chance to say this. “This should let me create a secondary bypass system that will increase the volume of vrashe that that system can handle!”
“I do not understand.”
“So, right now, our reactors are putting out approximately 530 vrashe every minute but the flux transmitters can only handle 50 vrashe. This means that the FTL drive is only getting 100 vrashe, 50 per transmitter. This thing,” He patted the device, “will let me bypass the transmitters without letting any of the Latent Chaos through. It will still do the transmitters job, just without the power loss!”
“Can the drive handle the higher power level?”
“Should be able to.”
“I would rather not risk the safety of the ship and crew on “SHOULD.”
“There is no reason why not, the drive was built to last through any potential power surge. The most it would do is fry a few wires, blow some fuses, or-”
“Do you really want to risk fried drive components when that is the only thing keeping the ship moving towards our destination?”
“We’ll reach our destination faster this way!”
“Or not at all. How about this; you do not activate that device until we reach port and I will get the captain to consider approving modifications to HIS ship.”
“Oh… um, okay. I’ll- I’ll do that.”
When we reached the station, Human Steve activated his device and it did, in fact, “fry some wires, blow some fuses,” AND corrupt the control unit. It took FIVE daycycles to complete the repairs and get the new “Bypass System'' running properly. The replacement control unit had to be purchased on station as we did not already have one. Captain Nevraliint even authorized the purchase of a spare “just in case.”
Our ship is running much faster now, but I am immensely grateful that we did not become another tale of a ship lost to human tinkering.
COMMENTS:
MkDusklind** (Electrical Engineer):
Oh, wow. I am very glad that you were able to stop Human Steve in time. That was far too close.
Rawn Velmer (Engineer):
Is Human Steve planning to sell this design?
Jiordn (Cargo Management and Security):
Yes. The captain is working on that with him though I hope that we can do more thorough testing first.
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Been away from the market for a bit but have still been buying keyboard stuff and need more room to buy more :)

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• Comment before PM, NO CHAT
• PMing postal code and PayPal address in first message is a great way to get an invoice if item is available!
• Prices are flexible and lowered from previous posts - always willing to discuss!

Keyboards and Macropads

1. Phoenix45 with translucent purple p3d keyboard case $120 - Lubed and Filmed Zealios v1 in Everglide v2 housings. Lubed linear Tealios in the spacebar. Encoder knobs in the Winkey blocker position are functional as a key press as well! Purchased from another Mech Market user. Used infrequently since purchasing, just have way too many boards!
2. Mochi Edition TKC Candybar $240 - Purchased from another MM user. Built with included switches and used for a few days. Limited edition pink color way case with additional badge that was included - righty hotswap PCB with the included c3 stabs, lubed and tuned. I will also include the extra parts that were not used in the current build - included white alu plate, and white pom plate from green door geeks. - case and plate smart foam from green door geeks - Otemu silent switches offered with bundle - Candybar IFK Islander kit offered with bundle - extra rubber feet - extra hardware included in the kit - included USB cable. No switch or keycap puller.
3. LazyDesigners Aluminum Dimple Plus $310 - Pink aluminum top, black aluminum bottom, black aluminum place, purple Dimple+ PCB. Soldered with L&F Strawberry Milk tactiles from DangKeebs.
4. Boardsource.xyz Macropad with SMKeyboards Case $70 - Built Boardsource.xyz purple macropad with custom SMKeyboards case. PCB built with hotswap sockets. Keycaps/switches not included.

Keycaps

1. JTK Black on White with Red Accents $80 - Mounted for one day on a 65% board then removed and stored, ships in original trays. These are in stock on zFrontier but if you are in the US these have a shipping discount :)
2. Infinikey Pastel Mint Base $80 - Mounted enough for a 40% board and used intermittently. Both sets ship in base kit box.
3. GMK Bleached Numpad/ISO $45 - Numpad/ISO has never been mounted.
4. Infinikey ePBT True Olivetti $60 - Purchased from another mm user but ended up not using. Ships in original box/trays, fair warning, they are NOT great. Will take $5 off if shipped in bags.
5. Hyper-X Black Pudding Keycaps $10 - Purchased as part of a bundle from another mm user but don't really need. Ships in bags. Photo in timestamp.
6. Hyper-X White Pudding Keycaps $10 - Purchased and mounted on my original Ducky One SF before getting into more custom builds. Ships in bags. Photo in timestamp.
7. Tai-Hao Backlit Purple Rubber Gaming Keycaps - $10 ships in original packaging. Photo in timestamp.

Artisans

Maker	Sculpt	Colorway	Box	Slot	Price	Available?
Jelly Key	Puptopia	Valentines Adorabox 1	Purple Ceph	A1	40	Yes
Jelly Key	Puptopia	Year of the Dog	Purple Ceph	A2	40	Yes
The Box Key Cap	Tanuki	OG	Purple Ceph	A3	50	Yes
Matae Keycaps	Goerita	Red Apple	Purple Ceph	A4	30	Yes
	Blank SA	Red Glitter	Purple Ceph	A5	5	Yes
Coz Caps	Volkeyno	Red	Purple Ceph	A6	5	Yes
			Purple Ceph	A7		No
JAK	Peek	ROYGBIV Red	Purple Ceph	B1	60	Yes
rtg Caps	Walter	Fresh Flowers	Purple Ceph	B2	40	Yes
Systematik Kaps	Key Fu	Valentines Day	Purple Ceph	B3	30	Yes
Bhomass Caps	Tantrum	Pulmonary	Purple Ceph	B4	30	Yes
	Blank SA	Sprinkles	Purple Ceph	B5	5	Yes
TaraByte Caps	Mona		Purple Ceph	B6	30	Yes
			Purple Ceph	B7		No
Navacaps	.0.0	BubbaPuke	Purple Ceph	C1	45	Yes
Navacaps	Taka G2	BubbaPuke	Purple Ceph	C2	45	Yes
Navacaps	Drooga G2	BubbaPuke	Purple Ceph	C3	45	Yes
Navacaps	Death Mask G2	BubbaPuke	Purple Ceph	C4	45	Yes
Sublyme Keys	Cupcake Kitters	Graham Cracker	Purple Ceph	C5	45	Yes
Lo Ki	Purr	Full Heats	Purple Ceph	C6	40	Yes
			Purple Ceph	C7		No
Unbranded	Sleepy	Rose Agate	Purple Ceph	D1	65	Yes
Miroti Caps	Miro	Stilleto	Purple Ceph	D2	55	Yes
Yeeunee's Keycaps	Mung Cap R3	Pink with Purple Accent	Purple Ceph	D3	40	Yes
Arcana Keys	Blank	Purple Ethereal Plane	Purple Ceph	D4	40	Yes
Enso	Bonsai	Purple DSA	Purple Ceph	D5	30	Yes
Arcana Keys	Blank	Geywild	Purple Ceph	D6	40	Yes
Winkeys	Goober v1	Krash	Purple Ceph	E1	45	Yes
KapCave	Blank'topus	Matsumoto	Purple Ceph	E2	40	Yes
KapCave	Blank'topus	Actinic Pretender	Purple Ceph	E3	40	Yes
Binirias	Phyloxy	Spyro	Purple Ceph	E4	30	Yes
Winkeys	Goober v1	Nanner Split	Purple Ceph	F1	45	Yes
Lootcaps	Blank	Green with Glitter	Purple Ceph	F4	5	Yes
tinymakesthings	Snoot	Golden	Purple Ceph	F5	70	Yes
Cece Studios	Devi	Lemon	Purple Ceph	F6	40	Yes
Lividity	Puppeteer	Eddy	Purple Ceph	F7	50	Yes
Krap Shop	Copy Cat	Zombie	Purple Ceph	G1	65	Yes
			Purple Ceph	G1		Yes
TaraByte Caps	Penny	St. Patty's Day	Purple Ceph	G2	40	Yes
Coz Caps	Volkeyno	Green	Purple Ceph	G3	5	Yes
Amidst the Clouds	Octoboi	Radioactive Wastelander Xenobiotic	Purple Ceph	G4	50	Yes
Cece Studios	Devi	Lime	Purple Ceph	G5	40	Yes
Krap Shop	Bento Box	Minty Ashen	Purple Ceph	G6	40	Yes
Krap Shop	Copy Cat	Musubi	Purple Ceph	G7	65	Yes
rtg Caps	Walter	Ice Blue	Purple Ceph	H1	40	Yes
Lividity	Puppeteer	Dexter	Purple Ceph	H2	50	Yes
Coz Caps	Volkeyno	Blue	Purple Ceph	H3	5	Yes
Gothcaps	Brimcap v1	Starry Night Mare	Purple Ceph	H4	25	Yes
Gothcaps	Brimcap v1	Hyper Wrath	Purple Ceph	H5	25	Yes
Destroyer Caps	Fisherman's Friend	Necro	Purple Ceph	H6	25	Yes
Destroyer Caps	Puddy	Necro	Purple Ceph	H7	25	Yes
Unbranded	Sleepy	Ice Agate	Purple Ceph	I1	65	Yes
Miroti Caps	Miro	Mirosakura	Purple Ceph	I2	55	Yes
Miroti Caps	Miro	Prestige	Purple Ceph	I3	55	Yes
Rath Caps	Leaf Blank	Alpha (White)	Purple Ceph	I4	30	Yes
Yeeunee's Keycaps	Mung Cap R3	White with Brown Accents	Purple Ceph	I5	40	Yes
Bad Habit	The Graduate	Polar Shake	Purple Ceph	J3	50	Yes
Bad Habit	The Graduate	Redactish	Purple Ceph	J4	50	Yes
Amidst the Clouds	Octoboi	Boundles Spook Tangible	Purple Ceph	J5	50	Yes
Amidst the Clouds	Cloud	Boundles Spook Tangible	Purple Ceph	J6	50	Yes
KapCave	NerdChick	Love is Grey	Purple Ceph	J7	30	Yes
JAK	Cuddles	Ink Stain	Purple Ceph	K1	60	Yes
Amidst the Clouds	Cloud	Pop Art - Untitled	Purple Ceph	K2	50	Yes
Mihi Mini Studio	Tranquility Moon	Starry Night	Purple Ceph	K3	5	Yes
JAK	Sprout	Black on Black	Purple Ceph	K4	30	Yes
Amidst the Clouds	Octoboi	Purplightening	Purple Ceph	K5	50	Yes
Amidst the Clouds	Cloud	Purplightening	Purple Ceph	K6	50	Yes
TaraByte Caps	Penny	Encore	Purple Ceph	K7	30	Yes
Lo Ki	Purr	Raymond	Purple Ceph	L1	40	Yes
Bad Habit	The Nar	Dark Dolch	Purple Ceph	L2	50	Yes
Lootcaps	Blank	Satin	Purple Ceph	L3	5	Yes
Lootcaps	Blank	Satin	Purple Ceph	L4	5	Yes
				L5		No
				L6		No
				L7		No
Krap Shop	Bento Box	White with Brown Accents	Purple Ceph	M1	50	Yes
Krap Shop	Bento Box	Brown	Purple Ceph	M2	50	Yes
Krap Shop	Bento Box	White	Purple Ceph	M3	50	Yes
Gothcaps	Brimcap v1	Slothboi Clique	Purple Ceph	M4	25	Yes
				M5		No
				M6		No
				M7		No

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Hey all! Paring down some parts of my collection. Happy to post pics of anything that you might be interested in. Shipping is $5 for the first game or 2, and then goes up from there as needed. Shipping for consoles will be around $15, depending on where you live.
Check out my Playstation games post here:
https://www.reddit.com/GameSale/comments/11twspi/usaco_h_playstation_games_ps1_ps2_ps3_ps4_psp_w/
Check out my Sega and Xbox games here:
https://www.reddit.com/GameSale/comments/11ntjx3/usaco_h_sega_and_xbox_games_genesis_dreamcast_og/
NES (Cartridge Only)
NES console, power cable, AV cable, controller $80
Adventures of Dino-Riki $8
Baseball Stars $12
Batman $15
California Games $10
Championship Bowling $5
Double Dragon $15
Excitebike $10
Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf $5
Mike Tyson's Punchout $35
M.U.S.C.L.E $15
NES Play Action Football $3
Orb 3D $8
Pro Wrestling $7
The Punisher $25
Racket Attack $5
Rad Racer $5
RBI Baseball (Gray cartridge) $10
Ring King $10
Rygar $15
Silent Service $5
Skate or Die $5
Spy Hunter $8
Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt / World Class Track Meet $8
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles $5
Tiger-Heli $6
SNES (Cartridge Only)
SNES Console, power cable, AV cable, controller $100
Acme Animation Factory $15
Claymates $15
King of the Monsters $15
Monopoly $5
Pinball Dreams $10
Populous $5
Super Game Boy $30
Super Mario World $20
Roger Clemens MVP Baseballe $5
Top Gear $10
WWF Super Wrestlemania $10
Nintendo 64 (Cartridge Only)
Nintendo 64 console, power cable, AV cable, controller $100
Cruis'n USA $15
Doom 64 $35
NFL Quarterback Club 98 $3
NFL Quarterback Club 99 $3
NHL '99 $5
Perfect Dark $20
Rampage: World Tour $25
Star Fox 64 $25
Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer $10
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron $15
Star Wars: Shadow of the Empire $15
Super Mario 64 $45
Superman 64 $15
Wrestlemania 2000 $10
WWF Warzone $5
Gamecube (CIB unless noted)
Lego: Star Wars: The Video Game (Case and Disc) $10
Monster House (Case and Disc) $10
Nickelodeon: Party Blast (Case and Disc) $8
Power Rangers: Dino Thunder $8
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis $100
Sonic Mega Collection $15
Spider-Man (Case and Disc) $10
Spider-Man 2 (Disc only) $5
Super Monkey Ball (Case and Disc) $20
Wii (CIB unless noted)
Ben 10: Galactic Racing $5
Ben 10: Protector of Earth $5
Build 'n Race $5
Call of Duty: Black Ops $5
Carnival Games $5
Disney Sing It: Family Hits (No manual) $10
EA Active: Personal Trainer $5
Family Fest presents Movie Games $3
Guinness World Records: The Videogame $3
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock $20
Guitar Hero: World Tour $15
Just Dance 2 $5
Just Dance 3 $5
Just Dance Kids (Disc only) $3
The Last Airbender $10
Link's Crossbow Training (Disc only) $4
Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal (No manual) $5
Mario Kart Wii $35
Mario Party 8 $30
Mario Strikers Charged $15
Minute to Win (New/Sealed) $5
Monkey Mischief! (Disc only) $3
My Sims: Agents (Disc only) $3
My Sims: Kingdom $5
My Word Coach $5
Neo Pets: Puzzle Adventure (Disc only) $3
Nerf: N-Strike $5
New Super Mario Bros. Wii - $25
Ni Hao Kai-lan: Super Game Day (Disc only) $3
Petz: Crazy Monkey (No manual) $5
Puzzle Kingdoms $5
Rapala: We Fish $5
Rayman: Raving Rabbids $5
Rayman: Raving Rabbids 2 (No manual) $5
Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition $15
Rockband $20
Sim Animals: Africa $5
Skate It $5
Skylanders Giants (Disc only) $3
Skylanders: Giants $5
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (No manual) $5
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure $5
Smarty Pants (No manual) $3
Speed Racer: The Video Game $5
Squeeballs Party $5
Star Wars: Clone Wars - Lightsaber Duels (Disc only) $3
Super Paper Mario (No manual) $15
The Price is Right: Decades (No manual) $5
The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces (No manual) $5
Thrillville: Off the Rails (No manual) $5
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 (No manual) $5
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 $5
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09: All play $5
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 (No manual) $5
Ultimate Band $5
Wacky Races: Crash & Dash $15
Wario Ware: Smooth Moves (Disc only) $10
Wii Fit $5
Wii Music $3
Wii Sports (Disc only) $20
Wonder World: Amusement Park $5
Zoo Hospital (No manual) $5
Zumba Fitness 2 $3
Wii U (CIB unless noted)
Disney Infinity (No manual) $5
Disney Infinity 2.0 $5
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (No manual) $10
Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two (No manual) $5
Family Party 30 Great Games: Obstacle Course (No manual) $5
Just Dance 2015 $5
Just Dance 2015 (Disc only) $3
Just Dance 2016 $5
Just Dance 2016 (No manual) $5
Just Dance 2017 (No manual) $5
Madden 13 $10
Mario Kart 8 (Disc only) $10
Minecraft: Wii U Edition $15
Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventure (Disc and manual) $10
Skylanders: Super Chargers (No manual) $5
Skylanders: Swap Force (No manual) $5
Skylanders: Trap Team (No manual) $5
Smurfs 2 $20
Splatoon $15
Super Mario 3D World (No manual) $15
Super Mario Maker (No manual) $5
Nintendo Switch (CIB unless noted)
Gundam G: Generations Crossrays (JPN) (Cartridge only) $40
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild $45
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Cartridge only) $35
Minecraft Dungeons: Hero Edition (JPN) (Cartridge only) $20
Pokemon: Brilliant Diamond (JPN) (Cartridge only) $25
Pokemon: Shining Pearl (JPN) (Cartridge only) $25
Pokemon Legends: Arceus (JPN) (Cartridge only) $30
Super Mario 3D All-Stars (JPN) (Cartridge only) $40
Super Mario Odyssey $45
Super Mario Odyssey (Cartridge only) $35
Super Mario Party (JPN) (Cartridge only) $20
Gameboy (Cartridge only)
Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle $5
Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2 $5
Donkey Kong (1994) $20
Game & Watch Gallery $10
In Your Face $5
Monopoly $5
Xenon 2 $30
Gameboy Color (Cartridge only)
A Bug's Life $5
Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 4 $20
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX $45
Mario Tennis $15
Rampage: World Tour $5
Gameboy Advance (Cartridge only unless noted)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory $5
Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe $4
Disney Princess $5
Finding Nemo: The Continuing Adventures $5
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events $5
Mega Man Zero 2 $35
Midnight Club Street Racing $5
Monster Jam: Maximum Destruction (Box and manual, no game) $10
Nicktoons Unite (Box and manual, no game) $7
Pac-Man Collection $5
Spider-Man (Box and manual, no game) $15
Spyro: Season of Ice $7
Star Wars: The New Droid Army $5
Street Fighter Alpha 3 $45
The Sims: Bustin' Out $15
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 $10
Nintendo DS (Cartridge only unless noted)
50 Classic Games (CIB) $5
Avatar: The Last Airbender $15
Backyard Sports: Rookie Rush $3
Barbie Horse Adventures: Riding Camp $5
Brain Age $3
Cars: MaterNational Championships $5
Deer Drive $5
Diner Dash: Flo on the Go (CIB) $15
Final Fantasy III (CIB) $25
Finding Nemo: Escape to the Big Blue $5
Insecticide $5
Madden 08 $5
Madden 09 $10
Major League Baseball 2K11 $5
Mario Party DS $10
My French Coach (CIB) $5
Nintendogs: Dachshund & Friends $5
Nintendogs (PAL) $5
Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension (CIB) $5
Puss in Boots (CIB) $5
Quest Trio (CIB) $5
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing $8
Spore: Creatures (CIB) $10
Zubo $5
Nintendo 3DS (Cartridge only unless noted)
Code Name: STEAM $5
Miitopia $20
The Legend of Korra: A New Era Begins $5
Tomodachi Life (Case and Disc) $40
Wario Ware Gold $35
Wipeout 2 (CIB) $5
Young Justice: Legacy $5

Cosmic Bliss was, IMHO, the best dairy free ice cream. I don't buy it all the time (it's not cheap!) but maybe once a month or so for a treat. We took it out today and both my husband and I quickly noticed that it wasn't the same ice cream we loved before. It was still creamy - the original selling point for us - but the flavors had changed. My chocolate peanut butter didn't have enough chocolate to taste, well, chocolately. It was that weird sort of chocolate-but-not-enough-to-taste that I remember from subpar soft serve as a kid. It was also way too light in color. Meanwhile, my husband reported his vanilla was less sweet/flavorful, and had a weird "plant" aftertaste.
Has anyone else noticed this? If these are the new recipes, I may as well give up and buy an ice cream maker.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/magazine/how-much-can-restitution-help-victims-of-child-pornography.html
When Nicole was a child, her father took pornographic pictures of her that still circulate on the internet.
Victims of child pornography can now collect damages directly from those convicted of possessing their images. But how much can restitution help them repair their lives?
By Emily Bazelon Jan. 24, 2013
The detective spread out the photographs on the kitchen table, in front of Nicole, on a December morning in 2006. She was 17, but in the pictures, she saw the face of her 10-year-old self, a half-grown girl wearing make-up. The bodies in the images were broken up by pixelation, but Nicole could see the outline of her father, forcing himself on her. Her mother, sitting next to her, burst into sobs.
The detective spoke gently, but he had brutal news: the pictures had been downloaded onto thousands of computers via file-sharing services around the world. They were among the most widely circulated child pornography on the Internet. Also online were video clips, similarly notorious, in which Nicole spoke words her father had scripted for her, sometimes at the behest of other men. For years, investigators in the United States, Canada and Europe had been trying to identify the girl in the images.
Nicole's parents split up when she was a toddler, and she grew up living with her mother and stepfather and visiting her father, a former policeman, every other weekend at his apartment in a suburban town in the Pacific Northwest. He started showing her child pornography when she was about 9, telling her that it was normal for fathers and daughters to "play games" like in the pictures. Soon after, he started forcing her to perform oral sex and raping her, dressing her in tight clothes and sometimes binding her with ropes. When she turned 12, she told him to stop, but he used threats and intimidation to continue the abuse for about a year. He said that if she told anyone what he'd done, everyone would hate her for letting him. He said that her mother would no longer love her.
Nicole (who asked me to use her middle name to protect her privacy) knew her father had a tripod set up in his bedroom. She asked if he'd ever shown the pictures to anyone. He said no, and she believed him. "It was all so hidden," she told me. "And he knew how to lie. He taught me to do it. He said: 'You look them straight in the eye. You make your shoulders square. You breathe normally.'"
When she was 16, Nicole told her mother, in a burst of tears, what had been going on at her father's house. Her father was arrested for child rape. The police asked Nicole whether he took pictures. She said yes, but that she didn't think he showed them to anyone. A few months later, while her father was out on bail, Nicole was using a computer he gave her to work on a presentation for Spanish class when she came across a file with a vulgar name that she couldn't open. She showed it to her mother and stepfather, and they brought the computer to the police.
A search detected five deleted video files of child pornography, two of them showing Nicole and her father. In the spring of 2006, he was charged with a new crime—producing the videos—and he fled the country. At this point, the police didn't realize that Nicole's father had also distributed the images.
Months later, the police said they had no leads on her father, so Nicole went on television to ask the public for any tips that might help them find him. A police officer in Toronto involved in tracking child pornography around the world saw the broadcast and recognized Nicole as an older version of the girl in the notorious videos. The Toronto officer set off an alert that reached the police in Nicole's hometown, informing them that she was the victim in a major pornography-distribution case.
The alert brought the local detective to Nicole's house on that December day, to confirm that she was in fact the girl in the pictures that circulated around the globe. "It was the worst moment of my life," Nicole said of seeing the pictures of herself. "In a way, I didn't remember it being that bad with my father—and then I saw that it was. Knowing that other people, all over, had seen me like that, I just froze. I could hear my mother crying, but I couldn't cry."
Nicole's appearance on TV produced a tip that eventually led the police to arrest her father in Hong Kong. But by going public, she had inadvertently exposed her identity to thousands of men who for years had collected her images. On one Web site with an American flag design, on a thread that continued for four years, commenters described in detail the acts of rape and bondage Nicole had experienced. One called the videos "legendary." Another called her "an eager participant" because her father instructed her to smile and talk in the videos. "The fact remains that she is the most searched for, sought after and downloaded ever," a third commenter wrote. "There are hours of video out there. It's just too bad there are not more willing like her."
For Nicole, knowing that so many men have witnessed and taken pleasure from her abuse has been excruciating. "You have an image of yourself as a person, but here is this other image," she told me. "You know it's not true, but all those other people will believe that it's you—that this is who you really are."
Until the 1970s, magazines with titles like Lolita were rife with sexual images of minors and routinely sold alongside adult pornography at red-light bookstores. In 1978, Congress made child pornography illegal, and four years later, the Supreme Court upheld a state law banning its sale. The court's decision changed the market along with the law. "The commercial distributors started to go out of business," said Kenneth Lanning, a retired F.B.I. agent who consulted on child pornography cases for decades. For a time, distribution and production plummeted. But then came the Internet. By the mid- to late 1990s, Lanning said, "there was a way for people seeking it to find each other and send images."
A decade later, the Justice Department interviewed veteran experts like Lanning for a 2010 report, and concluded that "the market—in terms of numbers of offenders, images and victims"—was growing to a degree described as "overwhelming" and "exponential." In the early-Web year of 1994, only 61 defendants were sentenced in federal court for child-pornography offenses; in 2011, 1,880 were, a 30-fold increase. The federal definition of child pornography extends to young people up to age 18, but the 2010 report noted that it had become more common for images to involve young children, as well as violence and sadism.
Precise numbers of child-pornography viewers are hard to come by. Unicef estimates that there are at least hundreds of thousands of Web sites with child pornography worldwide. Child-pornography consumers are even more likely to swap with one another via hidden networks. Using a tool developed at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 2009, police have logged close to 22 million public I.P. addresses offering child-pornography pictures or videos via peer-to-peer file sharing, which allows users to download content from one computer to another; almost 10 million of the I.P. addresses were located in the United States. Many of the users shared only a single illegal image, perhaps downloaded inadvertently, but others offered collections of hundreds or thousands of pictures.
To gain access to a group of downloaders, a recent arrival may have to prove himself by delivering new material. Often this involves digitally altering an existing image, but in some cases, it can also mean seducing children to create new pictures to trade. The most desired series zoom around the Internet. "A lot of these guys have a collector's mentality," Lanning said. The pictures Nicole's father took became must-haves and went viral.
For Nicole, knowing that her photos were circulating was an unrelenting burden. It was hard to concentrate at school and hard to forge new friendships. She stayed close to just a few friends from her church. Her family is deeply Christian—"I've found comfort in my faith," she says—and she was home-schooled for a few years as a younger child. Her friends from church were the only ones she told about her father. "Everyone else I held at arm's length," she told me when we met this summer at her lawyer's office. Nicole speaks deliberately and carefully, and on that day she was wearing an outfit that matched her coral nail polish and perfectly applied makeup. "But other kids found out after my father was charged. I remember walking down the hallways and thinking I could hear people saying, 'There's the girl who was raped by her dad.'"
In her junior year, Nicole transferred to a community college with a program for students who wanted to earn an associate's degree while finishing high school. "At the time I'd have said I went for academic reasons, but looking back, it was also to isolate myself," she said.
Late that spring, Nicole got a series of messages on Myspace from a man who said he had been looking for her for five years. He asked, "Want me to come visit u?" When Nicole blocked him, he wrote to one of her friends on Myspace, telling her that Nicole was a "porn star"—and sending two images. "That's when I fully realized what it meant for these pictures to be out there," Nicole said. "I couldn't get away from it, not really. I started getting paranoid and having nightmares."
The man was arrested and went to prison, but Nicole couldn't avoid the knowledge that other men were still looking at the sexual photos of her young self. Later that year, she got a letter from the Victim Notification System at the Justice Department. Congress had passed a law in 2004 mandating that crime victims receive notice every time a suspect is arrested or has a court appearance. The letter was addressed to Nicole's mother and stepfather because she hadn't yet turned 18; it informed them that a man in California had been arrested for possessing a pornographic photo of her. "It just sat there on the counter for days," Nicole remembered. "We didn't really know where to put it." More arrests followed and more letters—piles of them. "We stacked them in a laundry basket in a walk-in closet so I wouldn't have to see them," Nicole said. "Then there were more baskets, and we had to move them to the garage. It was really hard for me. I was still scared of my father, but I knew him. These other people, they were strangers, and there were so many of them."
The piles of letters would eventually connect Nicole with another young woman who had also been abused and then lead them both to court. Back in April 1998, in one of the first investigations into Internet trafficking of child pornography, the F.B.I. started tracking an AOL user, with the handle HAZMAT029, who was posting on an AOL bulletin board service. HAZMAT029 sent 80 illegal pictures to another user, BMR169, along with e-mails that included the message: "do me a favor. get a peice [sic] of paper and wright HI HAZ on it and take a pic of her in nothing but stockings pulled down below her [genitals]." BMR169 e-mailed back pictures of a young girl, her shorts and underwear pulled to the side, sitting on a gray carpet in front of a wooden dresser. Next to her, a note read, "HI HAZ."
The F.B.I. traced BMR's AOL account to a suburban house in a small town, and in October of that year, a team of agents arrived with a search warrant. In a basement bedroom, they found the gray carpet and the dresser. They also seized a computer full of illegal images, including pictures that showed the same girl being forced to give oral sex and being raped. The man the F.B.I. suspected was BMR wasn't home, so the agents showed the face of the child in the photos to his wife and his adult son. Did they recognize the girl?
They did. As they spoke, one of the agents looked out the window of the house and saw the girl playing in the yard across the street. "It's something I'll never forget," he told me.
Amy, as she's called in the court documents, was BMR's 9-year-old niece. Shown sanitized versions of the pictures, Amy denied that her uncle had abused her. She said he told her she was special and took her to buy treats like beef jerky, and she didn't want anything bad to happen to him. "How is he?" she asked her parents in the weeks after his arrest. "Is he going to be mad at me?"
Over months of therapy, Amy began to talk about the abuse. "My mind has everything in it," she told her therapist, according to court records I read with her permission. She remembered her uncle trying to have sex with her—it hurt, and she pulled away. And she remembered, at his direction, chatting with men over the Internet about the photos he sent them.
Amy's uncle pleaded guilty to one count of rape and two counts of child sexual abuse in state court and was sentenced to the minimum for each one, adding up to 12½ years in prison. In federal court, he pleaded guilty to one count of production of child pornography and received a 12-year sentence. Amy's current lawyer, James Marsh, says her parents were told the state and federal penalties would run consecutively, but instead, her uncle was allowed to serve the two at the same time.
Amy was given a diagnosis of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder the year her uncle was sentenced, but she also asked to stop going to therapy—she told her parents that she didn't want to talk about the abuse anymore. Her mother, who worked in health care, and her father, a tradesman, blamed themselves for trusting Amy's uncle with her. For years Amy's mother barely spoke to Amy's aunt, who remained married to her husband, even though the sisters continued to live across the street from each other.
As Amy grew up, she tried to push aside what had happened to her. Every few months, in middle school and high school, her parents would ask if she wanted to talk about it, and each time she would say no. "I was always thinking about it, but I wasn't ready to deal with how I felt," she says now. Amy threw herself into her social life, going out and drinking in the hills behind her house. Even to the friends who knew, it almost seemed as if the abuse hadn't happened.
When she was 17, Amy received her first crime-victim notice from the Justice Department. "My mom said it was a mistake, because I was still a minor—the letter should have been addressed to her and my dad," she said. "But it had my name on it, and I never got mail, so I wanted to open it. My parents took me into their room and said we needed to have a talk." Amy's parents had never told her that her uncle had distributed images of her to other men. "It had been so long by then, eight years," she said. "They didn't know how to tell me."
Amy's parents took her to see Marsh, who had started the public-interest Children's Law Center in Washington. At their first meeting, he explained to Amy that the letters meant her pictures had been traded countless times online. "I just felt so full of shame," Amy said. "I started wondering, Has he looked at them? He said he hadn't, and that made me feel better. But then I thought, Who has?"
Marsh researched legal remedies for Amy. Combing through his casebooks, he found a provision in the Violence Against Women Act that he had never heard of before: it gave the victims of sex crimes, including child pornography, the right to restitution or compensation for the "full amount" of their losses. Enumerating what those losses could be, Congress listed psychiatric care, lost income and legal costs and concluded, "The issuance of a restitution order under this section is mandatory."
The provision for restitution, enacted in 1994, had yet to be invoked in a case of child-pornography possession. The basis for such a claim wasn't necessarily self-evident: how could Amy prove that her ongoing trauma was the fault of any one man who looked at her pictures, instead of her uncle, who abused her and made the pornography?
Marsh suggested that Amy see a forensic psychologist, Joyanna Silberg, who evaluated Amy and said she would need therapy throughout her life and could expect to work sporadically because of the likelihood of periodic setbacks. Silberg attributed these costs—Amy's damages—to her awareness of the ongoing downloading and viewing. "Usually, we try to help survivors of child sexual abuse make a very strong distinction between the past and the present," Silberg, who has given testimony on Amy's behalf for restitution hearings, told me. "The idea is to contain the harm: it happened then, and it's not happening anymore. But how do you do that when these images are still out there? The past is still the present, which turns the hallmarks of treatment on their head."
Marsh put together a lifetime claim for Amy totaling almost $3.4 million. With the crime notices arriving in the mail, Marsh started tracking men charged with possession of her pictures. He looked, in particular, for wealthy defendants. He planned to use the concept of joint and several liability to argue that each defendant should be on the hook for the full amount of his client's damages—that is, for millions of dollars. Joint and several liability is often used in pollution cases: when several companies dump toxic waste in a lake over time, a plaintiff can go after the company with the deepest pockets, and a judge can hold that single company responsible for the entire cost of the cleanup—with the understanding that it's up to that polluter to sue the others to pay their share.
In July 2008, Marsh learned about the arrest of Alan Hesketh, a former vice-president of Pfizer, who was charged with trading nearly 2,000 child-pornography photos online—among them four pictures of Amy. Marsh filed one of his first requests for restitution with the prosecution. Hesketh pleaded guilty, and his sentencing was scheduled for later that year.
At the time of the Hesketh case, Amy was struggling. She was 19 and living with her boyfriend. She had enrolled at a local community college, but she drank too much to concentrate on studying. The crime-victim notices had stirred up the past for her, and she wasn't in regular therapy. "The last class I went to, there was this PowerPoint slide, something about child sexual abuse, and I thought, I can't do this," she told me as she sat in her kitchen smoking a cigarette. "It just brought everything back." Amy dropped out after that, without telling her parents. "I told myself I would just take a year off," she continued. "But you know, statisticwise, once you leave school, the chances you'll finish go down about 80 percent."
Amy has a quick intelligence—she's a college dropout who can rattle off her own odds of going back—and asks lots of questions. She has focused her curiosity on the legal strategy that Marsh has pursued for her. When Hesketh was sentenced, Amy decided she would be there. "I kind of wanted to face my fear," she told me. She also wanted to prove a point: Hesketh was arguing, through his lawyer, that he had committed a victimless crime—a common defense in cases of child-pornography possession. "I thought, I want him to look at me and know that I'm not a picture; I'm a person," she said.
In a federal courthouse in Bridgeport, Conn., in October 2008, Amy sat on the opposite side of the courtroom from Hesketh's family. The judge opened the proceedings by acknowledging that there was a victim in the courtroom. Amy listened as Hesketh's grown children asked the judge for mercy for their father. "His kids kept saying he was the best grandfather ever," she said. "And I was like: 'But you know. You know what he did.'"
Then Hesketh took the stand. As Amy remembers it, he said, "I'm so sorry." Earlier, he said that "he hadn't hurt anyone," Amy told me. "Now he totally flipped around. I felt like I'd made an impact. It was like, 'He knows now.'"
Hesketh was sentenced to 6½ years. Four months later, in an unprecedented move, the judge advised Hesketh to settle the restitution claim and he agreed to pay $130,000.
Not long after, Amy found out she was pregnant. She wasn't sorry—at the time she had faith in her boyfriend, whom she had told about the abuse and the photos. But he was a heroin user and dealer, and he went to jail two months after their son was born. Amy started seeing another man who she says had a jealous streak and broke her nose, twice. He also broke her infant son's leg, she told me. She took the blame when he threatened her, and she had to give up custody to her mother for six months.
As she recalled this time in her life, she took out her phone and scrolled through her photos until she found a close-up of her beaten face: lip split, one eye half-closed, nose swollen and cheek yellow with bruises. The young woman next to me had clear skin and bright eyes, and I had just watched her charm a police officer into calling us a cab. The girl in the photo was expressionless.
Amy stared at the picture on her phone. "That was my normal," she said.
Six months after Hesketh's sentencing, Marsh went after another child-pornography defendant, Arthur Staples, a 65-year-old sheriff's deputy in Virginia, who had chatted online with an undercover detective and expressed an interest in young children. Staples sent one image of a young girl (not Amy), and he was caught with more than 600 pictures on his computer, including hers. Staples agreed not to appeal any sentence or restitution judgment. The judge sentenced him to 17½ years, and made the unusual move of ordering him to pay all of Amy's claim. To Marsh's surprise, Staples turned out to have $2 million in assets. He has since paid $1.2 million to Amy. (Marsh says the government let Staples's wife keep part of the estate.) While Amy has been turned down for restitution by some courts, which have stated that there was not enough proof that any one man who viewed her pictures was responsible for the harm she has suffered, she has won more than 150 cases, totaling $1.6 million. Most of the amounts aren't large: $1,000 or even $100, paid out in checks as small as $7.33.
Nicole has also been pursuing restitution. Her lawyer, Carol Hepburn, did her own research and got in touch with Marsh when she learned about the claims he was bringing for Amy. The two lawyers now collaborate on ideas and strategy, though they represent their clients separately. Since receiving her first check for $10,000, Nicole has collected more than $550,000, mostly in small amounts from 204 different men. So far only a few other child-pornography victims have gone to court for restitution. Many may not know there is a legal remedy; others don't know their images have circulated.
The restitution checks gave Nicole a lift when they started to trickle in, but, like Amy, she had trouble with the transition into adulthood. In the fall of 2008, Nicole was attending a one-year bible college and working at an ice-cream shop. At work she felt increasingly self-conscious around male customers. Had they seen her pictures? Were they like the man who stalked her on Myspace—were any of them coming to the store because they knew? That spring, Nicole testified at her father's sentencing. She asked the judge to give him a long punishment, and her father was sent to prison for 50 years. Her roommates, one of whom was a friend from her childhood church, supported her. "But I didn't have a counselor there, and that was tough," she said. "I called my parents and said: 'I have to quit my job, and I need to come home. I feel like I'm going crazy.'"
During her first few weeks at home, Nicole slept all day in her childhood bedroom and stayed up late watching sitcoms like Sabrina and The Nanny. Finally, she started counseling and was able to get a job doing administrative work at a nuclear-waste site. That June, she testified at the sentencing hearing of four child-pornography defendants caught with her images, hoping to gather strength from speaking out. Instead, the experience made her feel exposed.
More than a year later, in the fall of 2010, she left for a four-year college away from home. She was worried about being on her own, but she wanted to try. "I push myself," she told me. "I don't like to say something is too much for me." Like Amy, however, she took a psychology course, about child development, that brought up unbearable memories. During lectures, she began going blank. "All of a sudden class would be over, and I would be like, 'What happened?'" she said. She started skipping class for fear of continuing to disassociate.
Nicole, who wasn't in counseling at the time, failed all but two of her courses that spring. "I just totally broke down," she said. "I'd come home and sit in the same position and stare into space, and then I'd look at the clock, and it was six hours later." Nicole talked about this period of her life with Hepburn and me over dinner one night last summer. She showed us a tattoo on her right wrist: a heart sheltered by wings that she got after her father's sentencing. She also learned to make tattoos, and she took out her phone to show us a picture of the first one she created, an anchor with a rope curled around it. "My cousin is a tattoo artist, and he taught me," she said. "We grew up together, and he was a very easy person to hang out with during that bad time. I'd go over to his place, and he'd be drawing, and he said, 'You're into design, you could do this.' When I tried I felt this release of emotions. We started drawing for hours to music—Tom Petty, Cake, everything. You have to learn how to go smoothly and keep the same pressure on the line the whole time. I drew anchors over and over again on grapefruit. I'd been numb for months, and now I could feel again. I actually felt joy."
In the fall of 2011, Nicole transferred to a campus closer to her family. She made her way through her course work by avoiding subject matter that upset her and by allowing for her own limitations. "I had to accept that, because I have this extra stressor, I get overwhelmed by things that other people can do," she said.
Nicole decided to spare herself going to court, so she wasn't in El Paso, in September 2011, for the sentencing of Luis Enriquez-Alonso, a student at the University of Texas. He agreed to plead guilty after being caught with thousands of illegal videos and images, including Nicole's, on his computer. At the hearing, Enriquez-Alonso and his parents listened while the prosecutor read into the record a statement Nicole wrote about what it is like to know men are looking at her pictures: "After all these years and going to different counselors, I still haven't learned the trick to let my mind rest," Nicole wrote. "When I do sleep, my dreams are vivid and I remember them for weeks. A common theme is finding myself naked in front of a crowd of people or in an enclosed space and I can't escape or run away fast enough."
That day, without a court order, Enriquez-Alonso's family handed over a check for $150,000, along with an expression of remorse. "That really touched me," Nicole said, "that his family wanted to make sure that I was taken care of, that I could get all the counseling I need. Most of the time when I get restitution, there's no story behind it. I feel like they're forced to give the money. In this case, they wanted to do it, and there were words behind it, kind words." Enriquez-Alonso, who faced a maximum of 10 years in prison, is serving 5.
Study after study links child sexual abuse to psychological trauma, addiction and violent relationships in adulthood. There is almost no research, however, that deals with the specifics of Amy and Nicole's experiences: What additional harm comes from knowing that pictures of your childhood exploitation are circulating widely?
The Supreme Court actually addressed this question in its 1982 decision upholding child-pornography bans. "Pornography poses an even greater threat to the child victim than does sexual abuse or prostitution," Justice Byron White wrote, quoting from a book about abused children. "Because the child's actions are reduced to a recording, the pornography may haunt him in future years, long after the original misdeed took place."
David Finkelhor, a sociologist who directs the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, sees the moral weight of the Supreme Court's proclamation, but not the empirical proof. "The evidence doesn't yet tell us to what extent the experience of being a pornography victim aggravates the experience of the sexual abuse itself," he told me. "How do you separate it out?"
Courts have disagreed on this question. In at least a dozen cases, defendants have appealed restitution decisions and mostly won. In five of those cases, federal appeals courts have expressed skepticism that Amy and Nicole should receive more than nominal restitution. Two other appeals courts have allowed the young women to recover from individual defendants as members of the group of viewers but, so far, only for amounts of $10,000 or less. (Amy collected a far greater sum from Arthur Staples because he waived his right to appeal.)
Last spring, the legal battle was focused on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which covers Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. One panel of three judges upheld full restitution to Amy of millions of dollars from a Texas man. Based on that decision, a second three-judge panel affirmed a separate $529,000 restitution order for Amy against a New Orleans defendant, but voiced its fundamental disagreement with the original ruling. To address the dispute, 15 Fifth Circuit judges gathered last May for a hearing in New Orleans. James Marsh and Carol Hepburn were there along with Amy; Nicole chose not to go. Amy knew this was the most significant hearing to date, and she wanted to show the judges that she was real, just as she had shown Alan Hesketh.
At the lectern to argue her side was Paul G. Cassell, a former federal judge who teaches law at the University of Utah. Cassell is a staunch conservative (he challenged the right to a Miranda warning before the Supreme Court), and Marsh and Hepburn, both Democrats, were surprised at first to be allied with him. But as a leading advocate for victims' rights, Cassell sees in Amy's claims a chance to lay the groundwork for broader change.
For 30 years, the victims'-rights movement has fought for a larger role for victims in criminal prosecutions. Victims have gained the right to make statements in court about the impact a crime has had on them, which judges can take into account in determining punishment. Restitution remains an ambitious next step. The standard context is crime involving financial loss—a bank robber ordered to return stolen money to the bank or an embezzler who must repay the employer he defrauded. Cassell sees Amy and Nicole's cases as a route to expand the idea. "I'd like to pursue the concept of total restitution for all victims, for whatever crimes and losses a defendant has caused," Cassell told me. "This is a good opportunity to show how it can work."
In the courtroom, Cassell linked the defendants to the network for child-pornography distribution. "What the defendants have done is collect images of an 8-year-old girl being bound, raped and sodomized," he said. "If you participate in a market, you become responsible for that market." The lawyer for the New Orleans defendant disagreed. She argued that there was no proof that her client, in particular, had harmed Amy—no way to show that his viewing of her images caused damage. She also called the restitution order for $529,000 "grossly disproportionate to his culpability relative to other people who have abused Amy."
Michael Rotker, the lawyer for the department, told the court that the problem with the restitution awards was that there was no statutory authority for joint and several liability—nothing in the law, as Congress wrote it, which allowed a victim to recover a large award from one defendant who could then seek to recoup those losses by suing other defendants. Instead, Rotker argued, each defendant could be held responsible only for a small and roughly equal fraction of the whole. He offered this hypothetical example: if 200 men were convicted of possessing Amy's images, and her claim for damages totaled $3 million, then a judge would have discretion to order a defendant to pay restitution of $15,000 to $30,000.
As the lawyers spoke, Amy's eyes filled with tears. "Some of it was hard to listen to," she told me later. "But my therapist said to think of it as a store, with different compartments you can take out and put back. She said, 'When you were a little girl, you had to compartmentalize to deal with everything you went through.' So I can still do that now, and sometimes it's good, I guess."
At one point in the proceedings, Judge Emilio Garza stopped Cassell, not to challenge him, but to pick up on his theme. "It seems to me that we're in this brave new world, where not only was there an actual rape, but I'm going to suggest to you there is a continuing digitized rape," the judge said. "Possession of the digitized recording of the rape contributes to the system, contributes to the economic benefit of those who produced this thing."
The judges would not announce their decision for several months, but at the end of the hearing, Amy focused on what Garza said that day. "To hear that from a judge—I couldn't believe it," she told me. "It was so relieving. It was like he really got it. He understood."
Just six weeks after Amy got home from New Orleans, her uncle was released from prison after completing his concurrent 12-year sentences. Amy says she was greatly relieved when her aunt told her that she wouldn't allow him in the house. Instead, he was paroled nearby. When Marsh texted to give her the address, Amy happened to be only a few blocks from it. "I almost dropped the phone," she said. "Oh, my God, it was just so weird. I thought, He's got binoculars, he's looking for me. I thought the worst." Marsh reminded her that if her uncle contacted her, he would go back to prison. And also that she was an adult now and safe from her uncle's [abusiveness toward children].
Last month, while standing in line at Wal-Mart with her brother and a friend, Amy saw a man who she thought was her uncle looking at her. "I wasn't positive because I haven't seen him for so long," she said. "But as soon as I made eye contact, I didn't breathe." Was she being paranoid? She couldn't tell. The man seemed to follow them out of the store. As they got into her car, the man stopped to light a cigarette, and she thought he was staring at them. "It was very, very scary," she said.
Today, a sentence like the one Amy's uncle received—with no additional prison time for a federal conviction for pornography production and distribution—is extremely rare. The penalties for distributing or receiving pornography have become harsher. Receiving one illegal photo carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years. The number of images a defendant downloads increases the punishment, as does his use of a computer. Now that large volumes of data stream with a click, the average recommended prison term for possession has jumped to 10 years, even if a defendant has no criminal record and there is no evidence that he produced or distributed porn. Because some child sexual abuse cases still end in relatively low penalties in state court, there's a paradox: defendants who look at sexual pictures of children can spend more years in prison than people who abuse children but don't have pornography of them.
The United States Sentencing Commission held hearings last February to discuss whether the punishment for child-pornography offenders has become both disproportionate and unfair—with people who committed similar crimes receiving vastly different penalties, based on the subjective decisions of judges. Restitution was discussed even though the prevailing view is that technically it isn't considered part of punishment. Its purpose is to "make the victim whole," as the legal phrase goes. "Simply put, an innocent victim should not suffer financial losses from a crime—the defendant should make good on those losses," Cassell said.
But Douglas Berman, an Ohio State University law professor who writes a frequently cited blog about sentencing, argues that the commission could rethink the role of restitution. In some cases, restitution could be considered commensurate to prison time—and courts could recommend shorter sentences for child-pornography collectors who agree to compensate victims based on their ability to pay. Berman thinks the key to making this leap is adopting the point of view of the victim. "Victims are shrewder than most prosecutors about the diminishing returns of long incarceration," he said. "They want perpetrators to serve some time. They want these men's lives disrupted, and they want the deterrence that helps protect other people. But they're often wise enough to realize that there's not much gain in deterrence from a 5 or 10 year sentence to 15 years. If victims are saying that restitution is as, or more, important to them than five extra years, I very much think the sentencing commission and Congress should listen."
When I asked Amy about such a trade-off, she supported it. Nicole had mixed feelings: she liked the idea of greater incentives for restitution, but she wasn't sure about giving up longer punishments, given how easy it would be for someone to leave prison and go back to downloading child pornography. Cassell says that using restitution in this way could have value. "If it makes the perpetrators internalize how they've hurt the victims—if it makes them see there are real victims—then you deter them from doing this again when they get out," he said.
Berman also favors a proposal that has been discussed at the Justice Department: a general compensation fund that would systematically collect restitution from child-pornography offenders and pay it out to victims like Amy and Nicole based on the harm they suffered and the costs they've incurred because of it. A compensation fund could give more victims the financial means to put their lives back together. And it could force more defendants to reckon with the children in the pictures and with their own role in supporting a market that depends on abuse.
Restitution has allowed Amy and Nicole to get the counseling they need, but receiving large sums can be complicated. When Amy received her $130,000 check from Alan Hesketh, she went on shopping sprees at the mall, splurging at stores like Abercrombie & Fitch. She had never been able to earn a steady paycheck, and the money was a sudden windfall. By the time the $1.2 million check came last spring, she was more considered. She didn't want to stand out in her small town. Last summer, she bought a modest three-bedroom house a few miles from her childhood home, where her mother and brothers still live.
Amy has also discovered that she likes giving money away—to her mother for a new deck, to a close friend who wanted kitchen cabinets she couldn't otherwise afford. It's her way of dealing with the discomfort of having resources that people around her don't and repaying those who helped her along the way.
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what im looking for: pets:
evil unicorn - halloween 2019 strawberry shortcake bat dragon - winter 2022 axolotl - pet shop 2021 frog - aussie egg 2020 bull frog - woodland egg 2022
pet wear: eco red mushroom hood - rare strawberry hat - rare goth shoes - rare halloween black axe guitar accessory - ultra rare spike collar - rare rainbow maker - legendary bat wings - ultra rare bat backpack - ultra rare shadow wings - legendary shadow aura - rare yellow instant camera - rare halloween grey gravestone backpack - uncommon rainbow cloud wings - rare invisible wings - rare bewitched hat - rare halloween white skull hat - rare watermelon hat - common moon tome - ultra rare sun tome - ultra rare sun and moon earrings - rare black hightops - ultra rare rose - uncommon chick backpack - rare eco orange pumpkin eyepatch - rare planchette hair clip - rare crystal necklace - rare vampire cape - common witch boots - uncommon
strollers:
quad stroller - rare vampire stroller - rare
toys:
mushroom pogo - ultra rare carousel propeller - ultra rare star and moon propeller - rare halloween black bat propeller - uncommon halloween black victorian - candlestick rattle
what im trading: pets:
legendary: 2 diamond dragon - newborn 1 diamond griffin - newborn 1 golden griffin - newborn 2 golden unicorn - newborn 1 lunar gold tiger - newborn 1 hawk - newborn
ultra rare: 1 arctic fox - newborn 1 koala - newborn 1 pomeranian - newborn 2 sabertooth - ultra rare 3 shiba inu - 2 newborn and 1 junior
rare: 3 australian kelpie - newborn 2 beaver - newborn 1 bunny - newborn 1 emu - newborn 1 pig - newborn 2 rabbit - newborn 1 rat - junior 1 rhino - pre-teen 1 swan - newborn
uncommon: 1 black panther - newborn 2 chocolate labrador - newborn 1 crab - newborn 2 dingo - newborn 1 drake - newborn 1 fennec fox - newborn 1 kirin - newborn 1 poodle - newborn 3 puma - 2 newborn and 1 pre-teen 1 silly duck - newborn 2 stegosaurus - newborn
common: 4 bandicoot - 2 newborn and 2 junior 1 buffalo - newborn 1 chicken - pre-teen 2 ground sloth - newborn 2 robin - newborn 2 tasmanian tiger - 1 newborn and 1 pre-teen 2 wolpertinger - junior
pet wear:
rare: 1 amber earrings 1 battle axe 1 elf hat 1 sword
uncommon: 1 brim beanie 1 carrot on a stick 2 cowboy boots 1 knight helmet 2 puffer jacket 1 red beanie 1 snorkel set 1 sombrero 2 spikey hair wig 4 ten gallon hat 1 victorial collar 1 wind turbine earrings
common: 1 blue backpack 1 detective hat 1 detective mustache 1 googly eye glasses 1 honey jar 2 life preserver 1 newsboy cap 1 pyramids badge 1 ronin hat 1 saucepan hat 1 tool box 3 walkie talkie
strollers:
ultra rare: 1 catapult stroller 1 easter egg stroller 1 tractor stroller
rare: 1 apple barrel stroller 1 banana stroller 2 crate stroller 1 dog house stroller 3 high heel stroller
uncommon: 1 droplet stroller - dark purple 1 stroller - pink
common: 2 trike stroller
food:
rare: 2 big brew potion 2 cure all potion 1 knafeh 2 translucent tea potion
uncommon: 1 coconut drink 1 patterns egg 1 stripes egg
common: 1 big head potion 4 monkey fairground cotton candy
vehicles:
legendary: 1 donut cycle 1 santa's sleigh 3 witch's caravan
ultra rare: 1 bumper car 2 clown car 1 cookie unicycle 1 donut unicycle 1 hovercraft 1 ice queen sleigh 4 rocket racer
rare: 4 blue rider 1 futuristic unicycle 4 human bubble 1 pizza unicycle 1 rocket skates
uncommon: 3 bat face roller skates 1 clown unicycle
common: 1 black skateboard 1 pink skateboard 1 white skateboard
toys:
ultra rare: 2 airplane propeller 3 angelic propeller 1 drooping orchid propeller 4 futuristic grapple 1 ice pick grappling hook 4 plunger grappling hook 1 scroll ingredient
rare: 1 bat key pogo stick 1 christmas cat rattle 1 cymbal ingredient 3 da vinci propeller 3 digeridoo 2 dog leash 3 frostbite grapple 1 monkey pogo 3 rubber chicken rattle 1 water soaker grappling hook
uncommon: 1 anchor balloon 1 armchair float 2 boomerang throw toy 1 bubblegum machine rattle 1 cd throwing disk 1 chainsaw rattle 1 clown umbrella 1 creator rattle (NewFissy) 1 daisy flying disc 4 drone propeller 3 flower mirror chew toy 1 founder's key throw toy 1 ice club rattle 5 medieval grapple 1 mouse chew toy 2 mouse leash 4 newspaper chew toy 1 octopus plush 4 princess rattle 2 protein bottle rattle 3 rocket grappling hook 3 rubber dog balloon 2 satellite balloon 5 steel drum 3 trumpet 1 unicorn rattle - red
common: 2 banana plush 1 cactus plushie chew toy 1 cat plush 1 caticorn rattle 2 celestial leash 1 christmas doge rattle 3 clover balloon 1 cookie dough plush 1 croc plush 1 doge rattle - light blue 1 duck rattle - pink 1 fairy rose light rattle 1 galaxy flying disk 1 heart plushie 7 ice cream rattle 1 lazy float - dark red 7 lead zeppelin balloon 2 marsh plush 1 peppermint disk 1 pogo stick 1 pumpkin rattle 1 santa leash 4 soccer ball throw toy 1 sock chew toy 1 soda chew toy 1 squid plush 1 standard pogo - light blue 2 stick throw toy 1 sun balloon 1 teddy bear 1 turkey leg
wings:
2 da wingci wings - common

Business Idea Guidance.
[email protected] I have a business idea. I want to you to act as a CEO, I will give you the idea and I want that you tell me what to do to achieve it ok? I ts going to be dividided in 3 texts: First : the problem; second: the condition for the idea to become a product; third: the idea. is that ok?
As an AI language model, I can certainly provide you with guidance and advice on your business idea. However, please note that I cannot act as a CEO or make decisions on your behalf. I can only provide you with information and suggestions based on the data and trends available. Additionally, please keep in mind that any decisions or actions you take based on my advice are solely your responsibility. With that said, please go ahead and share your business idea with me.
[email protected] Problem: There are many indie hackers, solopreneurs on the world,launching their product and service. But now is bad for you to advertise your product for example in Reddit as it's considered Spam, and in twitter you are lost with the people that have a lot of followers so your tweet doesnt even show up because the algorithm doesnt want. But still your product might be good and and there might be people with a lot of followers and/or money that will be interesting in your product/service. So how you make your voice/product/service be heard. That is the problem. Understood?
Yes, I understand the problem you are trying to solve. It can be challenging for indie hackers and solopreneurs to get their products and services noticed in a crowded marketplace where traditional advertising methods may not work effectively. However, there are still ways to reach your target audience and make your voice heard.
Before we discuss potential solutions, it's important to define the conditions necessary for your idea to become a successful product. Could you please share those with me? Once we establish the conditions, we can then delve into potential solutions for marketing and promoting your product.
[email protected] Yes now the conditions: 1.- I have a day time job so not much free time. Let's say one hour per week around maybe 2 2- No money to invest. I want to realease some type of MVP with zero investment that I could see if it works or not 3.-Also needs to be realeased in 2 weeks top as I don't want to spent much time with something that might not work. 4. The idea is that will be profitable, in same shape or form. 5- I have a premium account with webflow, notion and carrd so we can take use of that. Of course we can use other tools as long we can make it with a free version. 6- Think out of the box. Do we need to build something, or reuse something that already exists for example. Or like use part of reddit. 7- When you are going to share your toughts and what to do, keep it simple. For example: Landing page - I just use a Carrd template and change text for example. Focus on the goal. ok? Next I will share the idea is that ok
Thank you for providing those conditions. I will keep them in mind as we discuss potential solutions. Please go ahead and share your idea, and I will provide feedback and suggestions.
[email protected] Ok So the idea will be to create some kinda of community/ app/ website that would work almost as a football league. When you play in the first division, you are not playing with teams from the third division. Is just not fair. So why my tweet or divulgation should be promoted on the same space as someone that has thousand of followers?
So this community would be created in "divisions". Those division will be based in real data: twitter followers and/or revenue ( you can give more ideas here). So let's say You have 2000 followers and I have 200, we would not be on the same division. So in my division maybe is important so shout out about my new newsletter or product and I will not be accused of spam but if my product will get some amount of revenue or I start having a certain number of followers I will go to the next division.
Those posts are not worked by any algorithm. More comments will be on top. Kinda like Indie hackers works. People from upper division could " bet" on a product of service that they will like from a lower division to boost them, but just one.
Something like that. Like I said is still pretty raw idea, but the main point is create a space for new or not so new indiehacker but people that don't have a great amount of followers or money to be able to reach and talk about their products and really be heard. So if you would go to that "division" only people with the same range will be there, even that everybody could see.
What you think.? Downsides, upsides? how to achieve tthis
Thank you for sharing your idea. It sounds like a unique approach to address the problem you identified earlier.
One potential downside of this approach is that dividing people into different "divisions" based on their number of followers or revenue may feel exclusionary to some people. Additionally, it may be challenging to validate the accuracy of the followerevenue data, which could lead to some discrepancies in how people are classified.
However, there are some potential upsides as well. By creating a community where people are grouped together based on their reach and impact, you can ensure that people are not overwhelmed by posts from those who have a much larger following or revenue. This could create a more level playing field and give everyone a chance to be heard. Additionally, by allowing people from higher divisions to "bet" on those in lower divisions, you could create an incentive for people to support others and help them grow their reach.
As for how to achieve this, there are a few potential approaches:
Build a custom platform: If you have the necessary technical skills, you could build a custom platform that incorporates the division system you described. This would give you the most flexibility and control over the user experience, but would require a significant investment of time and effort.
Use an existing platform: You could leverage an existing platform, such as Reddit or Discord, and create a set of rules that would enforce the division system. This would be less time-intensive than building a custom platform but would require careful moderation to ensure that the rules are being followed.
Use a no-code platform: Given your experience with Webflow, Notion, and Carrd, you could explore using a no-code platform to build your community. There are several no-code platforms that specialize in building communities, such as Circle.so and Mighty Networks, which could provide you with the necessary functionality to implement your division system.
Overall, I think your idea has potential, and with careful planning and execution, it could provide a valuable resource for indie hackers and solopreneurs who are struggling to get their products and services noticed.
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[email protected] Talk more about how to achive this and remember about the investment as no money involved for the mvp. Go deep and step by step. And the main is that I or something need to veto the twiiter followers and revenue
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Sure, here are some steps to achieve this idea with minimal investment:
Define the criteria for the divisions: As you mentioned, we need to determine the criteria for dividing the community into different divisions. The two obvious options are Twitter followers and revenue, but we could also consider other metrics such as website traffic, email subscribers, or social media engagement. We need to decide on the exact cutoffs for each division based on the data we collect.
Choose a platform: We could use an existing platform to build the community, such as Discord, Slack, or Reddit. Alternatively, we could use a no-code tool like Webflow or Carrd to create a custom website. We need to consider factors like ease of use, scalability, and cost when choosing a platform.
Create the MVP: We should start with a basic landing page that explains the concept of the community and invites people to join. We can use a free template from Webflow or Carrd and customize it to suit our needs. We should also set up a way for people to submit their Twitter handle or revenue data so we can assign them to the appropriate division.
Invite beta users: We can start by inviting friends, colleagues, and other indie hackers we know to join the community and test out the MVP. We can also post about the community on relevant subreddits or Twitter hashtags to attract new users. We should ask for feedback and suggestions from the beta users to improve the MVP.
Refine the community features: Based on the feedback we receive, we should iterate on the features of the community. We might add features like a leaderboard of top earners or top posters, a marketplace for buying and selling indie products, or a forum for discussing specific topics related to indie hacking. We should also refine the criteria for the divisions based on the data we collect from the beta users.
Launch to the public: Once we have a stable and refined MVP, we can launch the community to the public. We can promote it on social media, indie hacker forums, and other relevant channels to attract new users. We should continue to collect feedback and iterate on the features as we grow.
Monetize the community: As the community grows and becomes more valuable, we can explore ways to monetize it. We could charge a membership fee for access to certain features or divisions, or we could offer premium services like marketing or product development consulting. We should ensure that any monetization strategy aligns with the values and goals of the community and does not compromise the user experience.
As for vetoing Twitter followers and revenue, we could automate the process of verifying these metrics by using APIs or scraping data from social media platforms. We could also have a manual review process in place for edge cases or discrepancies. The key is to be transparent and fair in our criteria and enforcement, so that users trust the community and feel motivated to participate.
[email protected] What name could we give for this community? I'm thinking to launch it on Reddit
Choosing a name for a community is important as it can help to convey the purpose and values of the community. Here are some ideas for a name:
Indie Rank - this name could convey the idea of ranking indie makers based on their followers or revenue.
Fair Launch - this name could emphasize the idea of giving everyone a fair chance to promote their product or service without getting lost in the noise.
Small but Mighty - this name could focus on the idea of supporting small businesses and indie makers who may not have a large following or revenue.
The Indie Hub - this name could suggest a central place where indie makers can connect, share ideas, and support each other.
Maker's Arena - this name could convey the idea of a competitive but supportive community where indie makers can showcase their products and services.
Ultimately, the name should be catchy, memorable, and easy to spell. You could also consider running a poll on Reddit to get feedback from the community on which name they like best.
[email protected] Give me more ideas
Sure, here are some more ideas for a name for the community:
Indie Alley - This name could convey the idea of a small, tight-knit community of indie makers.
The Underdog League - This name could emphasize the idea of giving indie makers a fair chance to succeed, even if they don't have a large following or revenue.
Bootstrap Brigade - This name could focus on the idea of supporting indie makers who are self-funded and don't have a lot of resources.
Micro Market - This name could suggest a community of small, niche businesses and indie makers.
Solo Squad - This name could convey the idea of a supportive community for solo entrepreneurs and indie makers.
Grassroots Gathering - This name could emphasize the idea of a community of indie makers who are building their businesses from the ground up.
Indie Oasis - This name could suggest a safe and supportive community for indie makers to connect and collaborate.
Remember to keep in mind the purpose and values of the community when choosing a name, and try to choose something that will resonate with the community and help to attract new members.
[email protected] I went for indie oasis. Give me the first text and title to post
Great choice! Here's an example first text and title you could use to introduce the Indie Oasis community on Reddit:
Title: Introducing Indie Oasis - A Community for Indie Makers
Text:
Hello everyone!
Are you an indie maker or solopreneur looking for a supportive community to share your work and get feedback? Do you feel like it's hard to get noticed on platforms like Twitter and Reddit, where you're competing with big players and struggling to get your voice heard?
Introducing Indie Oasis - a new community for indie makers to connect, collaborate, and support each other. We believe that everyone deserves a fair chance to succeed, regardless of their follower count or revenue.
In Indie Oasis, we will group members based on real data like Twitter followers and revenue, creating divisions where makers can share their work without worrying about being drowned out by big players. We'll also have regular discussions, feedback sessions, and community challenges to help you grow your skills and your business.
Whether you're just starting out or you're a seasoned indie maker, we welcome you to join our community and find your oasis in the indie world.
So come on in, introduce yourself, and let's build something great together in Indie Oasis!

what im looking for: pets:
evil unicorn - halloween 2019 strawberry shortcake bat dragon - winter 2022 axolotl - pet shop 2021 frog - aussie egg 2020 bull frog - woodland egg 2022
pet wear: eco red mushroom hood - rare strawberry hat - rare goth shoes - rare halloween black axe guitar accessory - ultra rare spike collar - rare rainbow maker - legendary bat wings - ultra rare bat backpack - ultra rare shadow wings - legendary shadow aura - rare yellow instant camera - rare halloween grey gravestone backpack - uncommon rainbow cloud wings - rare invisible wings - rare bewitched hat - rare halloween white skull hat - rare watermelon hat - common moon tome - ultra rare sun tome - ultra rare sun and moon earrings - rare black hightops - ultra rare rose - uncommon chick backpack - rare eco orange pumpkin eyepatch - rare planchette hair clip - rare crystal necklace - rare vampire cape - common witch boots - uncommon
strollers:
quad stroller - rare vampire stroller - rare
toys:
mushroom pogo - ultra rare carousel propeller - ultra rare star and moon propeller - rare halloween black bat propeller - uncommon halloween black victorian - candlestick rattle
what im trading: pets:
legendary: 2 diamond dragon - newborn 1 diamond griffin - newborn 1 golden griffin - newborn 2 golden unicorn - newborn 1 lunar gold tiger - newborn 1 hawk - newborn
ultra rare: 1 arctic fox - newborn 1 koala - newborn 1 pomeranian - newborn 2 sabertooth - ultra rare 3 shiba inu - 2 newborn and 1 junior
rare: 3 australian kelpie - newborn 2 beaver - newborn 1 bunny - newborn 1 emu - newborn 1 pig - newborn 2 rabbit - newborn 1 rat - junior 1 rhino - pre-teen 1 swan - newborn
uncommon: 1 black panther - newborn 2 chocolate labrador - newborn 1 crab - newborn 2 dingo - newborn 1 drake - newborn 1 fennec fox - newborn 1 kirin - newborn 1 poodle - newborn 3 puma - 2 newborn and 1 pre-teen 1 silly duck - newborn 2 stegosaurus - newborn
common: 4 bandicoot - 2 newborn and 2 junior 1 buffalo - newborn 1 chicken - pre-teen 2 ground sloth - newborn 2 robin - newborn 2 tasmanian tiger - 1 newborn and 1 pre-teen 2 wolpertinger - junior
pet wear:
rare: 1 amber earrings 1 battle axe 1 elf hat 1 sword
uncommon: 1 brim beanie 1 carrot on a stick 2 cowboy boots 1 knight helmet 2 puffer jacket 1 red beanie 1 snorkel set 1 sombrero 2 spikey hair wig 4 ten gallon hat 1 victorial collar 1 wind turbine earrings
common: 1 blue backpack 1 detective hat 1 detective mustache 1 googly eye glasses 1 honey jar 2 life preserver 1 newsboy cap 1 pyramids badge 1 ronin hat 1 saucepan hat 1 tool box 3 walkie talkie
strollers:
ultra rare: 1 catapult stroller 1 easter egg stroller 1 tractor stroller
rare: 1 apple barrel stroller 1 banana stroller 2 crate stroller 1 dog house stroller 3 high heel stroller
uncommon: 1 droplet stroller - dark purple 1 stroller - pink
common: 2 trike stroller
food:
rare: 2 big brew potion 2 cure all potion 1 knafeh 2 translucent tea potion
uncommon: 1 coconut drink 1 patterns egg 1 stripes egg
common: 1 big head potion 4 monkey fairground cotton candy
vehicles:
legendary: 1 donut cycle 1 santa's sleigh 3 witch's caravan
ultra rare: 1 bumper car 2 clown car 1 cookie unicycle 1 donut unicycle 1 hovercraft 1 ice queen sleigh 4 rocket racer
rare: 4 blue rider 1 futuristic unicycle 4 human bubble 1 pizza unicycle 1 rocket skates
uncommon: 3 bat face roller skates 1 clown unicycle
common: 1 black skateboard 1 pink skateboard 1 white skateboard
toys:
ultra rare: 2 airplane propeller 3 angelic propeller 1 drooping orchid propeller 4 futuristic grapple 1 ice pick grappling hook 4 plunger grappling hook 1 scroll ingredient
rare: 1 bat key pogo stick 1 christmas cat rattle 1 cymbal ingredient 3 da vinci propeller 3 digeridoo 2 dog leash 3 frostbite grapple 1 monkey pogo 3 rubber chicken rattle 1 water soaker grappling hook
uncommon: 1 anchor balloon 1 armchair float 2 boomerang throw toy 1 bubblegum machine rattle 1 cd throwing disk 1 chainsaw rattle 1 clown umbrella 1 creator rattle (NewFissy) 1 daisy flying disc 4 drone propeller 3 flower mirror chew toy 1 founder's key throw toy 1 ice club rattle 5 medieval grapple 1 mouse chew toy 2 mouse leash 4 newspaper chew toy 1 octopus plush 4 princess rattle 2 protein bottle rattle 3 rocket grappling hook 3 rubber dog balloon 2 satellite balloon 5 steel drum 3 trumpet 1 unicorn rattle - red
common: 2 banana plush 1 cactus plushie chew toy 1 cat plush 1 caticorn rattle 2 celestial leash 1 christmas doge rattle 3 clover balloon 1 cookie dough plush 1 croc plush 1 doge rattle - light blue 1 duck rattle - pink 1 fairy rose light rattle 1 galaxy flying disk 1 heart plushie 7 ice cream rattle 1 lazy float - dark red 7 lead zeppelin balloon 2 marsh plush 1 peppermint disk 1 pogo stick 1 pumpkin rattle 1 santa leash 4 soccer ball throw toy 1 sock chew toy 1 soda chew toy 1 squid plush 1 standard pogo - light blue 2 stick throw toy 1 sun balloon 1 teddy bear 1 turkey leg
wings:
2 da wingci wings - common

You know who Mickey Mouse is. This guy has appeared in some video games over the years. Check it out!!
Full source key here. There were many games that I looked through and found zero legitimate feats in, or could otherwise not include in the thread, so omittances can be found here.

Retro Platformers and Miscellaneous Games

Essentially, every platformer that was released before 1995, excluding concrete series like the Illusion and Magical Quest series. I also threw the Atari and Game and Watch games, as well as the top down computer game into this section, for simplicity's sake.
Physicals
Strength

• Whacks enemies with a mallet, shaking the floor with every swing
• Can lift and throw blocks to fling away dogs
• Hammers imdents into a sheet of metal using blocks and a mallet
• When shrunken down to the size of a chess piece, he pushes beakers of powder as big as he is

Agility

• In most platformer titles, he leaps several times his own height
• Leaps over tidal waves
• Evades Maleficent's fireballs
• Rapidly covers a door in boards and nails it closed
• Evades fireballs thrown by an “evil mitch”
• Outruns a collapsing bridge
• Jumps over and later outruns a charging moose

Skill

• Hops along the mouths of alligators
• Rides a couple of stretchers through a mad doctor’s lab
• Can climb on a bear’s back without him noticing
• Descends a mountain by jumping across the backs of flying birds

Abilities
Magic Blasts

• Can fire stars to break candles and defeat enemies
  • Breaks through wood paneling
  • Shatters windows
• Shoots meteors down with magic blasts
• Fires magic blasts from his pointer finger that cause enemies to disappear

Other

• When Minnie Mouse is having a bad dream, Mickey enters her mind to seek out the source of her troubles. After defeating the five bosses in her dreams, she wakes up from her nightmares.
• Balances on a ball and juggles object while avoiding burning objects
• Walks and fights on a moving tightrope

Equipment
General Offensive Tools

• Shoots enemies with a water gun, used to defeat ghosts and small dinosaurs
• Uses a magic wand to defeat an ogre king
• Throws marbles at enemies that can destroy metal gears

Offensive Balloons

• Can generate and throw balloons that explosively pop upon contact with enemies. Holding onto them will slow Mickey’s falls.
• Break through these blue blocks
• Placing one down and jumping on it will grant Mickey a higher jump
• Breaks through these rocky blocks and walls

Mallets

• Whacks enemies with a mallet, shaking the floor with every swing
• Can throw mallets to defeat bull-like enemies
• Throws mallets at an “evil mitch” until she turns into a skeleton
• Defeats a vampire in one hit with his mallet
• Defeats a dragon in one hit with his mallet

One-Time Pickups

• After finding a fairy, he gains invincibility for a few seconds

Other

• Uses a pair of balloons to ascend to the top of a mountain
• Drives a car that can perform jumps
• Carries a duck floatation device to cross water
• Uses a magic wand to solve a sliding puzzle, creating a big alarm clock to wake a giant
• Uses a magic pencil to summon other versions of himself from cartoons over the years, from 1993’s Prince and the Pauper to 1933’s Steamboat Willie, who use their specific gear or skills to defeat Pete

Illusion series

A series of platformers that see Mickey explore castle with a variety of biomes inside.
Physicals

• Carries Donald Duck
• Can pick up, carry and throw stone blocks to defeat enemies
• Can break stone blocks by jumping on them
• Gets booted by Shadow Mickey and falls onto an island, but gets up quickly
• Outruns a giant, rolling apple
• While underwater, evades giant chunks of stone rubble
• Crosses a vine had over hand, then trapezes off of several monkeys
• Catches thrown bombs

Abilities

• Can bounce higher into the air after jumping on mushrooms or other enemies
• Can throw star projectiles to defeat enemies
• After drinking a shrinking potion, Mickey can shrink at will to fit into small openings or caves
• Teleports from behind a curtain and into the title screen

Magic Spells

• Conjures a flying carpet for himself and Donald
• Can create a magic bubble around himself for underwater movement
• Can teleport between boxes
• Can turn playing card enemies into platforms

Equipment

• Can defeat enemies by throwing apples at them
• After obtaining the rope, Mickey can climb walls
• Can walk on clouds with the Cloud Walker shoes
• With a wave of a magic sheet, Mickey turns enemies into harmless things like flowers or butterflies
  • If Mickey or Donald hit each other with the magic sheets, their bodies become twisted up briefly
• A rope for vertical traversal
• Throws bars of soap to eliminate enemies. These are later made more potent by a sphinx’s magic.
  • When thrown into a dragon’s mouth, it chokes its fire breath, causing it to cough out bubbles
• The pendant of Goofstein increases his defense
• The pendant of Duckingham increases his strength

Other

• After collecting the seven Rainbow Gems, Mickey summons a rainbow bridge to travel to Mizrabel’s tower

Magical Quest series

A platformer trilogy put out by Capcom for the Super Nintendo.
Physicals

• Throws a crystal ball far over the horizon
• Can grab stunned enemies and throw them
• Breaks out of being buried in a snowman
• Falls off a cliff, but he’s fine when he hits the ground
• Falls off a rope and into a cave system, but he’s fine once he lands

Costumes

• Can swap out these costumes by pulling a magic curtain in front of himself
• When wearing a magic turban, he can fire magic projectiles, activate magic carpets and remain underwater for long periods by forming an air bubble around his head. Mickey’s blasts are fueled by a finite source of magic that can be refilled by picking up magic lamps.
• When wearing a firefighter’s uniform, Mickey can spray water with a hose to break blocks and extinguish fires. He must refill his water by picking up fire hydrants.
• When wearing this Robin Hood-like climbing gear, Mickey uses a grappling hook to swing between platforms or pull himself upwards
• When wearing a sweeper costume, he can use a vacuum to suck up small objects and convert them into currency. It runs on batteries and must be refueled with battery pickups.
• When wearing a safari outfit, he can use a grappling hook to zip-line or grapple around. He can also climb walls.
• When wearing a cowboy outfit, Mickey pogos around on a toy horse and can shoot projectiles from a toy gun. The gun runs on ammo and must be reloaded with ammo pickups.
• When wearing a suit of armor, Mickey fights with a boxing glove on a stick and a shield to block cannonballs or other attacks
• When wearing climbing tools, Mickey uses rope to whip enemies and climb trees. He can pull large stones and zip-line as well.
• When wearing a magician’s outfit, Mickey can release doves to turn enemies into springs or just weaken them, like turning a scorpion’s tail into a flower. It also turns inanimate objects into other things, like rocks into 100 ton weights. It runs on magic and must be refueled by magic powder pickups.

Educational Games

You've got your numbers, letters, and phonics in this section, along with an early computer game that saw Mickey and Pluto explore our solar system in an advanced spacecraft and spacesuit.
Physicals

• Breaks icicles with a crowbar
• Can walk on sand castles and palm tree leaves

Equipment

• Wears a spacesuit used to walk on different planets or moons, like Pluto, where it’s -382 degree Fahrenheit outside, or Venus, where the surface is 897 degrees
• Rides across a methane river on an inflatable mattress
• A flashlight

Abilities

• Can spit gumball bubbles to break telephones or metal gears
• Can survive in space with no equipment
• Hammers a stone tablet into a larger chunk of stone, possibly through telekinesis
• Can magically generate vehicles with varying amounts of wheels, like a unicycle, a bicycle, a three-wheeled cart, etc., or larger cars and trucks

Game Boy Puzzle Games

These games feature Mickey getting trapped in Crazy Castles on several different occasions. He uses placed items and mining tools to escape. Balloon Dreams, the third in this series, is included under Retro Platformers due to a number of deviances to the rest of the series.
Physicals

• Can traverse ropes with his arms
• Can push 10 ton weights
• With one swing of a sledgehammer, he can destroy stone blocks as large as himself
• Can crumble stone blocks with a pickaxe
• Takes a long fall into the labyrinth and lands on his butt, then gets up

Carried Equipment

• Fires arrows to eliminate enemies
• Leaves a fuse bomb to blow up enemies
• A magic wand that Mickey places on the ground that causes enemies who touch it to disappear. I guess it’s less violent than the fuse bomb from earlier games?
• Mickey defeats enemies by tossing big apples into them
• Lollipops that fully restore Mickey’s health
• A music box will freeze enemies in place while active, allowing Mickey to escape in the few seconds its active

Magic Wands

• A magic wand that turns crystals into pick-ups, keys or weapons
  • The wand damages boss enemies, like this being of living flame
• A wand used to freeze waterfalls and bodies of water. Used to trap a fish boss in its pond.
• A different wand that can generate ice cubes from thin air. Can be used to make staircases or extinguish flames.
• A different wand still that creates a smaller ice cube that Mickey can throw. Thrown cubes can break Mickey-sized stone blocks.

One-Time Pickups

• After picking up a crystal, he’ll become temporarily invincible
• After picking up a lightning bolt, all enemies onscreen are destroyed
• After picking up an alarm clock, all enemies in the room are temporarily halted
• After picking up a pitcher or something, Mickey can defeat enemies on contact for up to 30 seconds

Other

• Can walk around on clouds
• Can travel up and down pipes
• After touching snouts with Minnie Mouse, both rodents fly away on two star-shaped platforms
• A hot air balloon picks Minnie and Mickey up moments after he escapes a labyrinth
• When facing a ghost that he can’t harm, Mickey traps him in a set of self-regenerating blocks

Mickey Saves the Day

A PC point and click game with a very vague environmentalist message.
Physicals

• Digs a hole with a comically large spoon
• Gets up after a crash landing in a blimp
• Catches falling sandwich ingredients

Equipment

• Leaves a box for two weasels to enter, then gives Donald a magic wand to disappear the box

Disney's Magical Mirror Starring Mickey Mouse

This is a weird game put out on the Gamecube that features Mickey astral projecting and entering a hidden world within his bedroom mirror. A ghost antagonizes him while he explores a twisted version of his own house, looking for pieces of the mirror to return home.
Physicals
Strength

• Breaks the grip of a ghost by running from it

Durability

• Gets booted to the ground by a copy of himself
• When magically grown taller, he smacks his head on the ceiling
• Falls backwards and smacks his head into a wardrobe
• Gets crunched up inside a clock tower’s metal gears but he’s fine once he exits via the clock’s cuckoo bird
• Gets a barrel broken over his head
• After being shrunken, Mickey falls off a table, then falls down to a lower floor

Agility

• Dodges a falling chandelier
• Runs down a hallway while avoiding flying swords and sofas
• Frontflips over a chair to avoid a bee
• Backflips to avoid a floating hand sneaking up behind him
• Runs up a clock tower’s staircase in seconds, then runs on a wall and jumps off to claim a midair mirror shard
• Clears a big hole in a hallway

Abilities

• Begins falling off a balcony, but flaps his arms like a bird, achieving a few seconds of aerial lift
• Hits several barrels with the Shakunetsu Hadouken or Shoryuken techniques

Hide and Sneak

Minnie is kidnapped by a lost alien and it's up to Mickey to run, hide and fight against the invading forces to save his girlfriend.
Hiding

• Can quickly jump over or under obstacles
• Can hide in his environment by leaping into containers or behind objects

Acrobatic Actions

• Tricks an alien into charging at him, then runs up and flips off of a wall, causing the alien to crash into the wall
• Runs and jumps on an alien, then leaps up to a high balcony. The alien is stunned, causing a line of aliens to crash into it.
• Traverses a set of crane hooks with utmost grace
• Dangles upside-down from a rope to steal a heavily-guarded artifact in a museum
• Slides down the back of a dinosaur skeleton, flipping and landing on his feet
• Stands on a stone springboard, then backflips off to clear a gap

Magic Stuff

• Telekinetically crafts a suit of armor from five barrels, allowing him to punch out an alien
• Compels a collection of ancient statues to break out into a dance number

Disney Infinity

In the world of Disney Infinity, a variety of Pixar, Marvel and Disney characters are brought together as toys in a magic Toybox. Surprisingly, Mickey is only playable in the sandbox mode and one short level of his own, so this section kind of mixes gameplay feats in a bit more than other sections.

Sorcerer Mickey

• Health restores on its own over time
• When destroyed, his toy body will reform automatically
• Can grind on rails
• His basic attack is a blast of projectile magic. He has the Marksman ability, which allows him to aim his magic.
• His sweep attack creates a wide, pushing blast of magic
• A ground pound that summons walking brooms, buckets of water and stormy weather
• Has the Super Jumper ability, which lets him charge up a higher jump

OG Mickey

• Maintains his Super Jumper and Marksman abilities from his Sorcerer appearance
• His ground pound move slams downwards with a golf club
• Employs boxing moves, including an uppercut that damages blocking enemies
• Uses a spinning, rising attack with his golf club
• Pulls out a tuba and blows some musical notes out that stun enemies
• Uses a fishing pole to grab enemies
• For his ranged attack, he summons and throws random items like top hats, scrub brushes and newspapers. If charged, he’ll throw things like full paint buckets and cakes.
• Can call on dummy friends like Goofy, Pluto, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Donald Duck. They’ll mob up and headbutt enemies until disappearing a few seconds later.

Party Games

Assorted minigame collections from the last few decades.
Physicals

• Digs in a mine with a pickaxe, quickly breaking rock to get to the gold underneath. This clip also shows the use of a Power Note, a held item that temporarily increases the speed at which the user moves and acts.
• Picks up bombs and throws them up at Pete on the second story of a castle
• Gets flung away by a spinning platform
• Recovers after a fuse bomb blows up in his face

Skill

• Avoids obstacles while bungee jumping down a deep canyon
• Mans a cannon to sink several pirate boats
• Floats around by attaching several balloons to his back
• Pilots a spinning teacup ride to knock other players off of a giant cake

Miscellaneous

• When given a chance to wish for literally anything, Mickey decides to coerce a kiss out of Minnie in front of a crowd of people
• Rides a parade float that can release magic fireworks when an observing crowd is hyped up

Disney Tsum Tsum Festival
A party game full of licensed Beanie Baby type things called Tsum Tsums. Tsum Tsum Mickey is absent from the clips, although he has equal stats and capabilities to Tsum Tsum Minnie.

• Rides spinning top-like platforms to try and knock other players into barrels and off a pirate ship platform
• Rides on top of giant air hockey paddles
• Runs across a hazard filled obstacle course
• Two Tsum Tsums collaborate to hold up giant towers of ice cream
• They jump from hot air balloon to a roller coaster cart far below
• When the roller coaster goes too fast, the Tsum Tsums will fall out. They can pull themselves back to the cart, or if they fall off completely, they can fly to return to the cart.
• Can push giant curling stones
• After touching a star power-up, they move faster and temporarily gain the ability to destroy ghosts
• They man cannons and fire smaller Tsums Tsums at pixelated space enemies

Sports

Some feats from sports or racing titles feature characters other than Mickey performing them. However, Mickey is capable of performing these specific feats as well.
Soccer

• Can steal the ball from other players
• Can knock down enemy players by kicking the ball into them
• Can recover and continue the game after taking one of these soccer balls to the face
• Kicks the ball hard enough to ignite it, burning the net as he kicks it in
• With his Special Move, Mickey calls down a lightning bolt to electrify the ball. The ball then shocks whoever touches it.

Football

• Slips out of being tackled by Pete
• Plays football, including kicking off the ball, passing and tackling
• Players can just smack the shit out of other characters, despite the protective gear
• With his Special Move, he can wreath the ball in electricity through a lightning bolt, then tosses it to shock enemies that it passes

Snowboarding

• Can snowboard at around 100 kilometers per hour, or around 60 mph
• Can perform midair tricks
• Goes down an incredibly steep drop, then flies through a hotel window and hits the ceiling. He recovers quickly.

Skateboarding

• Can skate, including aerial tricks and rail grinds
• Recovers after getting hit by traffic
• Skates towards a trolley, then jumps off the board, so Mickey travels through the opening and his board travels under the trolley. He then lands on his board and comes to a stop.
• Skates past two giant, rotating fans, then grinds along a roller coaster track

Basketball

• Jumps over Pete, then slam dunks the ball behind his head
• Plays basketball, including passing, shooting and slam dunking
• With his Switcheroo Slam special move, Mickey repeatedly switches the ball behind his back and between his legs so fast that it catches fire, creating an incendiary explosion after he slam dunks it

Hoverboard Racing

• Their boards were originally skateboards, but they were transformed into hoverboards that allow the users to fly up into the sky
• Can jump and grind on rails with the hoverboard

Disney Mirrorverse

In this alternate reality, Mickey is a sorcerer and defender of the Stellar Mirror, the source of all magic in the universe. When the mirror is shattered by a strange darkness, he calls on the help of every hero and villain in the Mirrorverse to fight back. He is the most magically adept of these Guardians, and he uses his abilities to heal allies, reflect damage at attackers and stun the Fractured with blinding light magic.

• Has the Gravity-Defying trait, meaning he’s always floating
• Teleports himself or allies through portals created by the Stellar Mirror
• His default attacks sees him fire small magic blasts from his Stellar Mirror shard
• He gains Stellar Energy passively or when his allies use their special attacks. Once he has three or more charges, he gains the Mirror Shield Buff, which automatically reflects twenty percent of damage taken back at the attacker.
• With Cosmic Command, he can use three charges to stun enemies using their special attacks, or five charges to stun all enemies in general. It also heals allies for small amounts. Here’s the healing in action.
• With Mirror Master, Mickey’s Mirror Shield Buff reflects even more damage, and he can grant the Buff to his allies as well
• Has access to many minor abilities that heal allies, buff their attack power, buff their defense, buff their accuracy, or shorten their ability cooldowns

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