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Always a pleasure

One of our staff is looking for someone to split a hotel room with, reach out to me (siyo_. on Discord) and I'll put you in touch!

North America's Superteam - Rough Draft #2

Credits:

siyo (Scriptwriter)
lacy avenue (Fact Checker)
Nightfaul (Advisor)
SB379 (Video Editor)
Blu2th1000 (Video Editor)
Bethnicz (Video Editor)
Tcmano (Narrator)
And people we interviewed to be revealed in a later draft...

maybe not surprising to some but the rockets as 2nd seed is incredibly shocking to me

also we're getting another clippers vs. nuggets matchup again in playoffs? wtf

Mostly a poLANd.tf 2025 recap but we're focused on EU as promised!

https://youtu.be/AKjAH-2OpI4

With Bethnicz also leaving Fireside after the conclusion of Fireside LAN, antlers and I both contributed to this farewell post to the man himself.

Thank You, Bethnicz

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15 days left to book the hotels at the discounted rates. Free breakfast buffet included.

15 days left to book the hotels at the discounted rates. Free breakfast buffet included.

exactly. I'm working at a college right now so there's a lot of rumors around the vine.

penn state is shutting down its satellite campuses due to waning enrollment, and because of that workers at those satellites are being laid off. everyone in my department including me is at risk of layoffs atm. my friend, who had been with the college for 8 years, just got told he's being laid off two weeks ago. and he's an accountant! the finance department was already a skeleton crew and it's gonna be worse.

i believe we're losing one of our program of studies in the near future because the college can no longer justify the program due to federal cuts on department of higher ed. we're completely getting fucked in the ass right now in higher education. i've been looking at our enrollment reports (i handle data analysis and report building at our college) and it is not looking good. we were just finally hitting an upward trend but all of that work we did to recover just got completely gutted

Japan market indexes NIKKEI and TOPIX just hit circuit breakers (basically halting trading to prevent further losses in a short timeframe), opened down 9%. I have never witnessed circuit breakers used during future trading, only during market sessions. truly unprecedented times and a lot of people are at risk of not only a replay to black monday, but think of the future outlook

it’s not just the stock market being affected. we’re looking at companies provide bad quarterly guidance on earning reports which would not only lead to layoffs, but reduced spending in multiple industries. actually insane to watch everything unfold in real time. and the only reason they’re providing bad guidance is because we haven’t even seen the tariffs be implemented yet and affect the prices of consumer goods. thats just further evidence that companies are guiding on uncertainty because they dont even know how they’ll handle the soon to be implemented tariffs (for the common person: see nintendo’s announcement about nintendo switch 2 release in usa).

the job market is about to get a lot harder and it worries me. a lot of people are going to see layoffs in the short term

Market futures already opened 5% down again

https://www.investing.com/indices/indices-futures

can potentially be the first time in history the market has closed -5% in back to back to back days (the only time it has closed 5% back to back was april 3 and 4, 2025 lol)

ex better not be class switching #tryhard