TW: mention of nudity and bondage My boyfriends exact words in title. So I (29F) and my SO (30M) have been together for 12yrs, have 2 kids, own a home together, basically have a life together. He has had this tight knit friend group that he basically grew up with including “Matt” (40M). Throughout the years these guys have gotten married, had kids and grew up like most people do but Matt doesn’t understand why this has to happen. Even though he has kids of his own and a partner of 17+ yrs, he thinks they should party every weekend and he has absolutely no respect for others. During the past year he has been posting the most inappropriate pictures of his girlfriend on social media for everyone to see, when I say inappropriate I mean nudity, see thru lingerie, bondage (you get the idea). I have brought this to my partners attention many times that it is very inappropriate and I’m going to unfriend him so I don’t have to see it. My SO told me that I “couldn’t” unfriend him because then he would look bad and it would raise questions so I should just scroll past it. But in my opinion I shouldn’t have to be subjected to these photos in the first place so why not remove myself from the situation. 2 days ago, he posted another picture with her ass full out and her hands bonded to her feet. There was no way around seeing it and in my opinion when you’re in a committed relationship, those images stay between the both of you, not for the world to see. I immediately went on snap chat and posted a generic post about wishing I didn’t need FB for work so I could delete it. Matt’s GF immediately snapped me back saying “haha why b/c he’s crazy lmao”. Then Matt messaged my SO asking “why would I delete FB”. Basically knowing full well these pictures bother me and trying to raise an issue. My SO (who in my opinion values how he looks to Matt more than me) started screaming at me in front of our two kids that I just love to start drama, why can’t I just keep my mouth shut and now he has to clean up my mess so he doesn’t look bad. Well after that we discussed everything and my SO still doesn’t see my point of view and ended up going to Matt’s house last night to play poker. During that time, Matt posted another inappropriate picture of his GF and his GF posted a picture on snap of poker chips knowing full well it would get under my skin. In my opinion they are doing this on purpose, so I “Unfollowed” Matt per someone’s suggestion and I want to unfriend his girlfriend on snap but by doing so, I am causing more drama for my SO according to him. So AITA for posting that snap and creating this drama and causing more drama by unfriending these people? I feel like I’m going crazy here and I can’t wrap my head around it. Wanted to add: Matt’s GF and I were best friends until 2020 happened, then some true colors came out and I removed myself from the friendship indirectly. Edit: I accept that I was wrong for posting the passive aggressive snap. I thought it was generic enough that no one would take it personally considering the state of the world and constant crap we see on social media daily. But at the end of the day, I know exactly why I posted it. So thank you. Now I have so much more to think about so thank you for your unbiased views on the way my SO treats me. I appreciate all of your concern.
I work at a crooked casino. You don't gamble with money here.
Hi, everybody. My name is Sid, and I’m an addict. It took me a long time to accept that. But when you take a job in a casino just so that you can be there all the time and try to gain an edge, you’re an addict. It’s obvious even to me. More so to my family and friends, who I barely see anymore. It’s not pills or coke, booze or heroin that I’m hooked on. I’m addicted to gambling. The casino that made me so obsessed is not an ordinary one, though. It’s far from ordinary. You don’t play for money at Fantasy Casino. You play for your dreams. I hear you laughing. But have you ever had a really, really great dream? One that got so good you snapped awake the second it started to get really excellent? Well, imagine that times a thousand. Times a million. A dream so real and so perfect that all of your fantasies become reality. Time stretches out. You feel like you are there forever. A lifetime passes before your return. Infinite wealth, the ability to fly like superman, you’re surrounded by sex and beautiful people all day as you relax in a palace built to your mind’s most exacting specifications of perfection. But then you wake up, and in an instant it is gone. The power, the wealth, the endless sex and supernatural powers. Everything is suddenly NORMAL again. And so you go back to the casino. I went back to the casino. But the problem with gambling is that you don’t always win. And when you lose, suddenly the winnings are gone as well, vanished without a trace. All I knew was that I had to have that feeling again. So I went inside the giant building and then followed the secret signs which led to a door that led to a staircase going downwards. I went down the stairs and knocked on the door marked “Private” and waited for an answer. “Password.” The voice on the other side of the black door waited for my response. “Seramth Gin.” I said the unnatural words carefully and deliberately, still not knowing their meaning. A friend had told me the password, a fellow gambler who I would later find dead in his apartment. His corpse white, bloated, and maggot-infested. His eyes were black and filled with blood which streamed from his eye sockets like tears. He had bit his tongue clean off and his fingernails were found lodged in various surfaces throughout his apartment. Like he had been trying to claw his way out of a steel box that only he could see. But I’m getting ahead of myself. That was later. At this point I was still hopeful for another wonderful dream. Still thankful for his advice to seek out the place. The door opened and I walked inside. It was the same as it had been the day before, only less busy at this time – still early afternoon. I approached the table I had been sitting at the night before. Poker – Texas Hold ‘em: Ten dream limit – the sign read. The rules were simple. You got a stack of chips. If you doubled them, you received a dream. If you lost them, you lost a dream. I wasn’t concerned about losing dreams yet, I still didn’t understand exactly what that meant. When I lost my first stack of chips, I quickly bought in again. And again. And again. Pretty soon I realized I had lost eight dreams with no winnings whatsoever. I was in a slump. A losing streak. I decided to go home and count my losses. Literally, since I had no idea what that even meant. As I got up to leave the table, the dealer looked at me. His eyes were remorseless and cold. “See the cashier on your way out,” he said, handing me eight black chips. I gulped and walked over to the glass window where the cashier sat waiting. Handing him the eight chips, he raised his eyebrows and clicked his tongue. “That’s a shame. Hold out your hand please.” Two men in black suits came up behind me suddenly and stood on either side of me, intimidating in their stature and demeanour. I did as he asked and held out my hand with the palm facing up. The cashier pulled out a strange-looking device from beneath the counter. It had a vial of vermillion-coloured liquid at the top that was attached to the rest of it which resembled a gun with a hypodermic needle at the end. I screamed and tried to pull away, but the two men grabbed me and held my arm through the window. Thrashing and elbowing them, I tried to get away but it was useless. The cashier injected the stuff into my veins quickly and it felt cold and slimy going through my system. I could feel it suddenly in my heart, turning it cold and then up into my mind and my lungs and all extremities causing me to shake and violently seize. I writhed on the floor, blood pouring from my ears and my eyes. Finally the feeling settled down into a numbness that prickled the insides of my blood vessels. It wasn’t until later, once I realized what the casino really was, that I found out what they had done. I went home with the certainty that they had injected me with something. If winning had resulted in the greatest dream I had ever had – essentially an almost never-ending fantasy – what would happen after a loss? Nightmares. That was what it would be. I was sure of it. I settled into bed that night and closed my eyes, drifting off to sleep quickly after such an emotionally exhausting afternoon. As soon as my eyes closed, they opened again and it was morning. It felt as if I had not slept at all. My mind was fuzzy and it was difficult to focus. My eyes wanted to close again but my alarm was telling me that it was time to get up for work, so I hit the “dismiss” button and hopped in the shower. I threw on my clothes and went out the door. At work I noticed a few people looking at me strangely, but I didn’t realize until someone pointed it out to me that my shirt was on inside-out. At this point I was still working in an office doing commodities trading and such lapses were frowned upon. If you couldn’t focus enough to put your shirt on properly in the morning, how could you focus enough to get the work done in such a demanding environment? Millions of dollars changing hands with each transaction meant that such trivial things were put under a magnifying glass and coupled with other subsequent mistakes each following day after that, I found myself in the boss’s office by the end of the week being handed my walking papers. Desperate for rest after days of not feeling any benefit from sleep, I went back to the casino. They knew just by looking at me how to dig their claws in further. After a couple hours I had managed to win myself a dream. They handed me the complimentary cocktail as they had the time before. I hadn’t realized the significance of it and still didn’t, despite the unusual vermillion colour of the drink. I swallowed it in one gulp and went out the door practically dancing and clicking my heels, ready to go home and feel rested again. My dream that night was wonderful. Everything I had hoped for in many ways. But not as good as the first time. I wanted that feeling back again. Knowing that it was a dream the whole time and realizing that it was going to end seemed to shorten the fantasy, made it seem hollow and manufactured. If I could win again maybe it would be like that first time, I thought. The casino drew me in again and again. I found myself a zombie most days, exhausted, at my wit’s end. Ready to call it quits for good and say goodbye. But then I would win again and it would all seem to be alright for a while. My debt kept growing and growing with nearly every trip. The hypodermic needle would be plunged into my skin and every time they had to hold me down. Every time I would feel a little more empty. A little more hollow. Waking up every day began to feel the same. Nothing had definition or purpose. “You’re here all the time,” one of the goons whispered to me as they shot the needle into my vein the time after that. “Haven’t you figured it out yet? You should just get a job here and then at least you’ll be in on the secret.” I applied the next day and got an interview with the boss. I would find out later that if you got someone to apply there you got a one dream bonus. In his office, the well-dressed man was sitting behind a massive polished ebony desk. The room was adorned with paintings, sculptures, and other high-priced artwork. He had photos everywhere of himself shaking hands with world leaders, new and old, for hundreds of years. His face never changed. Never aged. “So, you want to work with us? Tired of dreamless nights without end? You want to have some relief, is that it?” “Yes. Please. Anything. I’ve been coming here for so long and it’s an endless cycle. I want back what I’ve lost but I keep finding myself more and more in debt with each visit.” “Ah, so do you understand it now, then? What the ‘injections’ are?” It finally dawned on me, sitting there. Not injections at all. They weren’t putting something in us. They were taking something out. The vermillion-coloured liquid in the vials – our dreams. “If I take a job with you, will the same rules apply? Will they still take my sleep, my rest, every time I lose?” “Yes. We can’t have the employees living by different rules than everyone else. But we will give you an alternative injection, so that you feel well-rested when you come in for your shift.” “I’ll do it. I need to rest. I need to get some meaningful sleep. My life has been miserable ever since coming here.” “Well, I can’t promise that this will help,” he said, getting up from his desk with a hypodermic gun in his hand. The vial of fluid sitting atop this one was jet-black and looked evil and poisonous. He rolled up his sleeves as he primed it and I watched a few beads of it drip oil-like out of the tip of the needle. “What the hell is that!? I don’t want that stuff in me!” “But you need to sleep, my dear worker. I can’t have you passing out at the blackjack table like a narcoleptic! You agreed to this, after all. You wanted to rest, and the only way for that to happen is for you to have SOME sort of dream. Not everyone is as lucky as you, you know. To have that wonderful vermillion fluid in your veins. Some people come to us begging to take it from them. Some of our employees for example, the ones who do the recruitment for us, are full of this black stuff.” “What?” I had gotten up from the chair and was backing away from him towards the door. But I found it was locked as he approached. “First you have to tell me the password, Sid.” “Seramth Gin.” I said the words that I had said every time to gain access to the casino, only this time I pictured the letters and rearranged them in my mind. “Nightmares.” He smiled as he injected me with the vial of black hate, and it went into my veins feeling hot and unpleasant. I began to sweat and the beads of it turned cold on my skin as I shivered. I’ll sleep tonight. I might even wake up feeling rested. But as long as I live and work at that casino, I’ll be afraid to dream again. Because now my unconscious hours are occupied by the most terrifying experiences imaginable. Nightmares beyond imagining in their awfulness. That is my fate. Unless… Just maybe, I can win one more time. JG TCC
Update Omg, this sucks! I got really sick overnight so I went to the clinic after taking the kids to school. They think I have covid and have administered the test. So now I have to stay home Aarrgh! Some of you may remember a couple months ago when I found out my husband was gambling large amounts of money. I was waiting for after the holidays to go to a divorce lawyer. I was lined up to go when the kids headed to school after break, but in a rush to get the kids out the door, I ended up slipping and falling down the stairs. I sprained my ankle and possibly got a mild concussion. I was so pissed! I couldn't walk to the bathroom, let alone drive, so I had to put it off again... I have an appointment tomorrow morning. I'm nervous but it's general "new situation" nervousness. He hasn't taken any of his psychiatric meds in two months at least (he has bipolar type 1), he sleeps more than I ever thought possible for an adult human to sleep, like 16-18 hours. He hasn't worked a single day since my last post, has not seen any mental health people, showers maybe every ten days. He has not been involved with the kids beyond playing a couple of board games in the last month. Does not cook, or clean, or do laundry, or pick up his own trash and dishes. The only thing he does is take the trash down to the curb every week. I managed to get him to half ass clean one of the bathrooms one time. Oh so helpful! But this isn't a drastic change from what he was like before. He was like a teenage son before, now he's like an old couch. I've been spending the last couple of months trying to gather information and documents, though my husband has really been reluctant to let me see anything. He clearly forgot that he's given me the passcode to his phone and told me how he comes up with his passwords. He leaves his laptop in the living room permanently and sometimes forgets to take his phone with him to bed (we sleep separately). I have gotten everything I can get ahold of electronically. There's some things he has different passwords on but ladies, what I have seen only firms my resolve. From what I can tell, he spent thousands gambling since my last post. Where the money comes from, I don't know. It's not really coming from any of his accounts that I could get into. I just see the emails confirming his purchases of poker chips. I've noticed him watching the crypto markets so that might explain some. After checking his texts, I know he's at least tried arranging to buy drugs on two occasions. He leaves the house late at night sometimes when he's sure I'm asleep, for late night fast food at the very least, because God forbid the man makes so much as a sandwich. He was also chatting with an ex gf, complaining about how stale our marriage is. She tried to get him to wake up and not be a shitty husband and he became so verbally abusive towards her she blocked him. That's not where I thought him talking to an ex would go, lol. He knows I'm fucking pissed about the money he's lost. Other than that, when he's awake, I'm civil, even friendly when it comes to chatting about TV shows or politics. I don't want angry manic dude on top of total useless slob. The kids are very cold and rude to him and constantly complain about him not doing anything but snap at them when they try to get him off the couch. I try to temper it down but I won't gaslight them either. I've told him many times the kids are disappointed with and angry at him and he basically acts as if I'm talking about some stranger's kids, like it has nothing to do with him. I'm just so fucking over it. When I met and dated him, he seemed like a unicorn. Hard working, handsome, generous, sweet, kept a clean place, cleaned and shopped for his disabled grandma, adored his niblings, had interesting hobbies, etc. Then we married and that guy went away almost immediately. At first I thought it was everything we had going on, working on a house, job changes, kids, just adjusting to being married. He's several years younger than me so I thought maybe a maturity thing. Then it was maybe his bipolar was the problem, but I don't care anymore. I don't care what happened to the man I fell in love with, it's obvious he's gone and never coming back. He only exists in memories and photos now, the same as the last man I loved, who died years before I met my husband. Anyway, I'll be very happy to get out from under him.
Hi everyone, long time lurker here. Thought I'd ask a question today from all you amazing folks. I am currently working on the sound effects of a card game. I want to create the sounds of a lot of coins/poker chips falling. I'd like to use a small sample of th sounds that I have recorded and loop it perfectly so that I can make the sound longer. Trying to do it with basic crossfades and editing doesn't seem to cut it. I am not really sure how such sounds are created and would love to get an insight into it. I don't really know if I need to use a sampler or a granular synth or something else entirely. As a bit of a tangent, I also wanted to ask if the process for creating the sound of car engine revving is made in a similar manner. Thanks for your time and inputs. Edit: I tried the methods sugested here and they all worked well. For anyone reading this and having similar issues, do give it a try. I'll share my sound files as well if needed. Adding the photo of what one of the methods looks like. Couldn't stop myelf from sharing this https://preview.redd.it/i4h4m7kyz3e61.png?width=1125&format=png&auto=webp&s=c924d4398cea08ce8e4711f1ab37a5429d00bc98
I made a list of every Unus Annus video name. Posting this here because someone wanted to see it and a comment doesn't allow more than 1000 characters. November 15th - Unus Annus (note- The Very Start.) November 15th - Cooking with Sex Toys (note- 365 Days Left) November 16th - Purging Our Sins with a Net Pot November 17th - Hot Dog'd to Death November 18th - Making Our Own Sensory Deprivation Tank November 19th - The Good Kind of Cupping November 20th - The Bad Kind of Cupping November 21st - The Worst Kind of Cupping November 22nd - Ethan Will Be Kicked in the Balls November 23rd - Doing Each Other's Makeup in the Dark November 24th - Baby Hands Operation November 25th - Mark and Ethan Summon a Ghost November 26th - 2 Truths and 1 Lie -- Waxing Edition November 27th - Poopsie Sparkly Critters (a slime surpise...) November 28th - Play-Doh Thanksgiving November 29th - Helium Therapy November 30th - Drawing Memes From Memory December 1st - 1 Man 100 Accents December 2nd - An A.I. Predicts How We're Going to Die December 3rd - Mark Turns Ethan into a Mummy to Prepare Him for the Great Beyond December 4th - The Cubby Gummy Challenge December 5th - We Buy a Professional Hypnosis Video and React To It December 6th - Mark and Ethan Attempt and Escape Room December 7th - Ethan Destroys Mark's Van with a Bat December 8th - There's Still Hope... December 9th - Ethan Gives Mark a Viking Funeral December 10th - The Great Meat Mistake December 11th - Acupuncture Is NOT Painful December 12th - Floating in a Real Sensory Deprivation Tank December 13th - Mark Reviews The Impossible Burger But There's a Looming Sense of Impending Doom (note- Paintball gun) December 14th - We Made Nude Pictures of Eachother December 15th - You made Beautiful Music for The Barrel... But Only One Could Win December 16th - We Had To Drink Each Other's Pee (note- The first of the Pee Trilogy) December 17th - Ethan Explores Mark's Haunted Basement December 18th - Giving Away Our 1,000,000 Subscriber Gold Play Button December 19th - Ethan's Relaxing and Totally Normal Naul Salon December 20th - Taped and Afraid December 21st - What Was The Most Painful Thing We've Ever Endured? December 22nd - Donating Toys to charity w/ JackSepticEye December 23rd - Harnessing Our Dogs' Unlimited Energy December 24th - Santa's Mukbang (Drinking 1 Gallon of Eggnog) December 25th - Forcibly Turning Mark Into Santa Claus Against His Will December 26th - Preserving Ourselves In Wax (note- JackSepticEye was also here!) December 27th - Beating Inanimate Objects to Death December 28th - Emotional Pain vs Physical Pain... Which is worse? December 29th - Duct Tape Crusifixion (Amy, Please Don't Watch This Video) December 30th - You Blink You Lose December 31th - 2 Grown Men Attempt the Presidential Fitness Test January 1st - We Took The Polar Plunge Janurary 2nd - Hiding Out Sins from Amy's Holy Peepers January 3rd - We Eat Bugs January 4th - DIY Bungee Jump (Please don't try this) (note- Disclamer Song Origin) January 5th - We Have The BEST Thumbnails on Youtube and No One Can Tell Us Otherwise January 6th - Who Can Make Themselves Taller? January 7th - The Sensory Overload Tank January 8th - Recreating Ourselves as a Cursed Mannequin January 9th - We Took an IQ Test January 10th - Ethan Fianlly Becomes a MAN January 11th - Mark and Ethan Go Casket Shopping January 12th - We Take a Lie Detector Test to Uncover Our Darkest Sins January 13th - Learning to Breathe Underwater January 14th - Fixing Mark's Hole with Ramen but Every Time We Add Glue We Get 5% Closer to God (note- The hole made in the video where Mark punched a hole in the wall) January 15th - Mark Steals Ethan's Face January 16th - You Breathe You Die January 17th - 2 Absolute Beginners Experience the Dancing Glory that is Salsa January 18th - DIY Geriatric Simulator January 19th - This Is How We'll Die... January 20th - We Cryogenically Freeze Ourselves January 21st - This is What Being Tased Feels Like January 22nd - What Happens When A Youtube Channel Dies? January 23rd - Bad Bad Beans January 24th - We hired a Real Hypnotherapist to Analyze Our Darkest Dreams January 25th - We Turned Our Bodies Into Art (note- painting each other naked) January 26th - Mark and Ethan Lean About The Human Body January 27th - Mark Punishes Ethan January 28th - Strange (and legal) Things You Can Do With Your Body After Death January 29th - DIY Cheese January 30th - Hacking The Very Fabric of the Universe January 31st - Looking at Long Lost Memes February 1st - Discovering the Secret to Eternal Life February 2nd - Turning Mark Into an E-Boy February 3rd - Ethan Redefines Male Beauty February 4th - Professional Fire Cupping (Going Even Further Beyond) February 5th - An Extremely Sour, Not-at-all Sour Meal February 6th - Literally Eating Fire February 7th - Unregulated Axe Throwing February 8th - Literally Laying On Broken Glass February 9th - Making an Indoor Tornado to Flex on Mother Nature February 10th - Nutball: The Most Dangerous Game (note- First of the Nutball Trilogy) February 11th - Becoming a Master of Mime February 12th - Discussing the Idea of Murdering Each Other bit It's Just a Joke and Definitely Not Serious Haha February 13th - Are We Already Dead? February 14th - Our Perfect (and last) Valentine's Day February 15th - Drunk College Party Simulator February 16th - 10 Strange Amazon Paroducts Ethan Bought Mark Because He Doesn't Know How To Spend Money Responsibly February 17th - Chickens Teach Us About Life and Death February 18th - 3 Big Boys Attempt the Kings Royal Fitness Test February 19th - Being Attacked by a Fully Trained Bodyguard Dog February 20th - Learning the Ancient Art of Chinese Archery February 21st - The Ultimate Trolley Problem February 22nd - Goat Yoga February 23rd - Edible Slime was a Mistake February 24th - Granting Acces Into Heaven's Sweet Gates February 25th - Long Hair, Do We Dare? (note- With Marks Quarintine Hair, yes, he did dare) February 26th - We Wrote a Hit Pop Song in 30 Minutes February 27th - Mark and Ethan go on a "Drum Date" February 28th - Blowing Our Souls Into Some Hot Glass February 29th - Top 10 Worst Things Your Friend Could Possibly Spend Their Money On March 1st - Nutball Extreme: Taser Edition (note- Second of the Nutball Trilogy) March 2nd - REAL Ghost Hunting at an Abandoned Zoo March 3rd - We Bought a Camera That Can Look Inside Us March 4th - Becoming the World's Greatest DJs March 5th - Who Can Teach Their Dog a Trick the Fastest? March 6th - Middle School Science Experiment Teaches Us About Life and Death (note- Owl pellets) March 7th - DIY Chiropractor March 8th - Mark and Ethan Get Into a Fight March 9th - The Barrel - Offical Music Video March 10th - We Got Pepper Sprayed March 11th - We Give Each Other Tattoos Blindfolded March 12th - What Does Astrology Say About Our Friendship? March 13th - Mark and Ethan Get a Full Body Scan to See What Secrets Lay Hidden Within (and learn their body fat) March 14th - Mark Needs To Rub Ethan and Only His Mom Can Help Him March 15th - 2 Idiots Get Crushed by 18-Foot Giant Snakes March 16th - Beer Sauna: Turning a Portable Sauna into a Portable Hell (note- The video where Pee Sauna was first mentioned) March 17th - Mark and Ethan Hunt The World's Most Wanted Criminals March 18th - Unus Annus Carves the Roast Beast March 19th - 5 Weird Apps That Predicted Our Death March 20th - We Tried a Labor Pain Simulator March 21st - Recreating the Miracle of Childbirth March 22nd - Mark and Ethan Are Now Fathers March 23rd - We Force James Charles to Run a Military Obstacle Course March 24th - Desperately Trying To Not Touch Our Faces (note- Start of Quarintine videos) March 25th - Reddit 50/50: Two Player Edition March 26th - Going on an Internet Scavenger Hunt March 27th - Having an Adventure In VR Chat Becuase We Can't Go Outside March 28th - Amazon Shopping for the Apocalypse March 29th - Whom Would Eat Whomst First in a Zombie Apocalypse? March 30th - Ultimate Youtuber Boxing Showdown March 31st - The Deep End of Omegle: Risky Boogalo (note- This video was deleted for an unknown reason) April 1st - Where in the World is Unus Annus? (note- Timer was at 401 days) April 2nd - Mark Builds a Pillow Fort for the Very First Time April 3rd - Mark's 1 Weird Talent Leaves Ethan Absolutely Speechless April 4th - Wikifeet: A Tale of 2 Tootsies April 5th - We Made Every YouTuber Battle in the Hunger Games April 6th - We Google Each Other to Find Our Darkest Forgotten Sins April 7th - We Played Mad Libs and Ran It Through Google Translate April 8th - Mark and Ethan Desperately Try and Nae a Single State in the USA April 9th - Speed Reading 1000+ WPM To Gain a Complete Understanding of All Human Knowledge April 10th - What is the Least Viewed Video on YouTube April 11th - We Found Websites That The World Forgot About April 12th - The Scariest True Stories on the Internet April 13th - How to NOT be the Perfect Boyfriend April 14th - Mark and Ethan Find The Lost City of EL Dorado April 15th - Mark and Ethan Bet Everything on a Wikipedia Race April 16th - The Creepiest Videos on Youtube April 17th - Help Us Break a YouTube World Record (note- The birth of Norbert Moses. The video was called "Subscribe to Norbert Moses") April 18th - 2 Men 200 Accents April 19th - The Illuminati... Do They Really Exist? April 20th - Using Google Maps to Find the Lost City of Atlantis April 21st - Reading YOUR Scariest True Stories April 22nd - Mark and Ethan Take a Personality Test April 23rd - Will AI Soon Take Over Humanity As We Know It? April 24th - Running Internet Drama through Google Translate April 25th - The Secret Unus Annus NO-Touchy-Touchy Hand Shake April 26th - Two Male Men Judge Female Women on Their Beauty April 27th - Bored? Press This Button. April 28th - Don't Go in the Ocean... Ever. April 29th - We Explore the Most MYSTERIOUS Mysteries of our Wildy Mysterious Mystery Moon of Mysteries April 30th - We Looked at Unus Annus Memes May 1st - Is Mark a Masochist? (note- yes.) May 2nd - What the Hell is a Pink Trombone? May 3rd - Professional Fetish Scientists Rank the Best/Worst Fetishes of 2020 May 4th - Mark and Ethan Desperately Attempt to Feel Something May 5th - An A.I. Generates Out Worst Nightmare May 6th - Are Reptilian Humanoids Living Among us? May 7th - Like It or Not... This is What The New Human Looks Like May 8th - Eating Only Onions for 24 Hours: How Many Onions Does it Take to Kill a Man? May 9th - Unus Annus ASMR May 10th - We Attempted to Create THICC Water May 11th - Making Our Own Gravestones to Prepare For Our Inevitable Demise May 12th - How Tall Can A Human Get?: An Impartial Review by 2 Average Height Men May 13th - Mark Teaches Ethan Korean May 14th - Bigfoot is Real and It Ate My Friend May 15th - The End of Unus Annus is Almost Here... (note- The Halfway point) May 16th - We Explore the Unus Annus Subreddit for Your Delicious Memes May 17th - How Big Can a Nuke Get? May 18th - How Much Caffeine Does It Take to Kill a Man? May 19th - Drinking Real THICC Water... How Bad Does It Taste? May 20th - We Played Strip Poker (note- Mark lost so badly. Ethan also cheated on the first game) May 21st - Harnessing Our Yodeling Power to End the World aAs We Know It May 22nd - Mark Cooks Blindfolded While Ethan Guides Him Through FaceTime May 23rd - We Played the Newlywed Game While Consuimg That Which Will Kill the Other May 24th - DIY Boob May 25th - We Have the Best Bellies on Youtube May 26th - The Unus Annus Confessional Booth May 27th - DO NOT OPEN UNTIL 2080 (note- Mark will be 90 and Ethan will be 83) May 28th - Only UNUS-es May Watch This Video (note- Unus vs Annus. Most Likes to Win.) May 28th - Only ANNUS-es May Watch This Video (note- Annus vs Unus. Most Likes to Win.) May 29th - Only Watch from 2:15 to 6:11 --- DO NOT WATCH ANY OTHER PART OF THE VIDEO (note- Annus Won) May 30th - DIY Wine May 31st - Tearing a Phone Book in Half with Our Huge Manly Muscles June 1st - 2 Complete Amateurs Enter a Body Building Competition June 2nd - BLACK LIVES MATTER. Resources and How You Can Help in the Description. (note- This video was 8 Minutes and 47 seconds of silence) June 3rd - Crushing Watermelons Betwixt Our Mighty Thighs June 4th - Morphing Our Bodies Into Superhero Poses June 5th - Reacting to Your Hilarious Green Screen Memes June 6th - Mark Teaches Ethan to Read with Hooked on Phonics June 7th - Ethan Roasts Mark of 15 Minutes Straight June 8th - There's Something Horribly Wrong with This Picture... (note- When they made their own creepy photos) June 9th - Attempting to Build IKEA Furniture Without Instructions June 10th - Mark and Ethan Become United State Citizens June 11th - We Made Fanart for Each Other June 12th - Our Fans Try and Scare Us with Their Homemade Creepypasta June 13th - Recreating Childhood Photos June 14th - Will We Break the Boards... Or Will They Break Us? June 15th - Finding the Most Cursed Image on the Internet June 16th - Learning to Cry on Command to Increase Our YouTube Views June 17th - Pee Sauna (note- The end of quarintine videos. Second of the Pee Trilogy) June 18th - Building IKEA's Hardest Piece of Furniture Without Instruction is Impossible June 19th - Becoming One With the Horse June 20th - The Ultimate Paper Airplane Showdown June 21st - Creating Mark FISHbach (note- Origin of Mermer June 22nd - Leaning How to Lock Pick (FBI Please Don't Watch) June 23rd - The Most Dangerous Shave June 24th - Ethan Traps Mark's Soul in the Palm of his Hand June 25th - Bear Trapping 101: An Elegant Knot For An Elegant Beast June 26th - 2 Men In a Trench Coat Teach You How to Save Money at the Movies June 27th - Building the World's First IKEA Boat June 28th - Ethan Teaches Mark How to Swim June 29th - 10 Miracle Products to Give YOU the Thiccest Jaw on Planet Earth June 30th - 2 Dirty Boys Wash Their Filthy Mouths Out with Soap July 1st - Mark is Guilty. Ethan Has the Proof. July 2nd - Recreating Mark's Childhood July 3rd - We Put an Apple Watch in a Rock Tumbler July 4th - Dummy Thicc for Dummies | A Tale of 2 Butts | Pushing Our Butts Even Further Beyond July 5th - Reverse Engineering a Kite to Steal the Idea of Electricity From Benjamin Franklin July 6th - The Candy Bra Challenge July 7th - Mark and Ethan Look at a Puppy for 10 Minutes July 8th - Unus Annus Try Pole Dancing July 9th - This Is Hiding On Your Body RIGHT NOW. July 10th - Tasting Weird Food Combos: Pickles and Chocolate? Ice Cream and Soy Sauce? July 11th - The Unus Annus Space Program July 12th - The Egg Smashing Game July 13th - Can You Bake a Cookie from Cookie Dough Ice Cream? July 14th - Bleachus Annus July 15th - Dunking Oreos In Literally Anything But Milk July 16th - Preparing a 5-Star Meal for Our Youtube Famous Dogs July 17th - DIY Teeth July 18th - How to Escape from a Hostage Situation July 19th - Does This Magnetic Skincare Routine Really Work? July 20th - DIY Bed of Nails : OH GOD, PLEASE DON'T EVER TRY THIS July 21st - The Human Mop July 22nd - Can Sound Therapy Heal All Wounds? July 23rd - This Is The Most Dangerous Children's Toy Ever Made July 24th - Would Chica Save Us From Drowning? July 25th - We Do It Better Than Icarus Ever Could July 26th - The Beginning of The End (note- 110 days left. Start of the Desert videos) July 27th - The Annual Unus Annus Dunk Contest July 28th - Ultimate Horseshoes July 29th - A Serious Conversation Under the Stars (note- Last of the Desert videos) July 30th - Recharging Our Phones Using Only Brute Strength July 31st - 5 Products to Grow Your Patchy Beard August 1st - Mark Teaches Ethan How to Play the Trumpet August 2nd - Playing Cards: The World's Deadliest Weapon August 3rd - We Lubed Our Floor For a Sliding Competition August 4th - Breaking Glass With Our Screams August 5th - This is Goodbye (note- 100 Days Left) August 6th - Mark and Ethan Share a Drink August 7th - The Wubble August 8th - Mark and Ethan Shave Chica August 9th - DO NOT TRY THIS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES August 10th - Judging Your Terrible Unus Annus Ideas August 11th - Hydro Dipping a Baby August 12th - Popping Popcorn with a High-Powered Laser August 13th - Puberty Simulator August 14th - Grip Strength Test: Loser Becomes the Winner's Butler for a Day (note- Ethan "won" but Mark never became his Butler) August 15th - Transforming Mark into the 8th Wonder of the World August 16th - Momiplier Teaches Self-Defense August 17th - Playing Children's Games in Total Darkness August 18th - We're Better Than Dogs August 19th - The Koala Challenge: TikTok's Intimate Couple's Trend August 20th - 1 Gallon of Jello Nearly Broke Us August 21st - Too Many Pickles (note- The Video before the start of Camp Unus Annus) August 22nd - Pitching a Tent in the Woods But There's a Bear 15 Feet Away (note- Start of Camp Unus Annus. Mark was Blind while Ethan was Deaf) August 23rd - How to Rescue a Cat from a Tree August 24th - A Bear Attacked Us in the Middle of the Night August 25th - How to Safely Bury Your Friend August 26th - Team Building for 2: Trust Fall, Tug-of-War, and More! August 27th - How to Start a Fire (except don't...) (note- The infamous video where Unus appears at the window before Mark kills Ethan) August 28th - Mark's Outdoor Escape Room August 29th - Hunting HeeHoo August 30th - Was 2020 a Bad Year for Unus Annus? (note- End of Camp Unus Annus) August 31st - Mark Gives Ethan a HOT (stone) Massage September 1st - We Smell Every Smell September 2nd - How Many Slaps Does It Take to Cook a Chicken? September 3rd - 2 Boys 2 Poops September 4th - Mark Teaches Ethan How to March in a Marching Band September 5th - We Finally Drank Our DIY Wine September 6th - 2 Adults Take a 4th Grade Math Test September 7th - Making Snow Cones With Literally Anything but Normal Flavors September 8th - We Attempts Pottery Without Amy's Help September 9th - Can Plants Feel Pain? September 10th - How Far Can We Chuck a 16lbs Rock? September 11th - We Pierced Each Other's Ears September 12th - We Ate Dog Treats So You Don't Have To September 13th - We Accidentally Made an SCP While Amy Was Away September 14th - BEYBLADE NUTBALL (note- The Finale of the Nutball Trilogy) September 15th - Making the Ultimate Unus Annus Burger September 16th - Making Soda With Literally Anything But Soda September 17th - Pee Soda (note- The Finale of the Pee Trilogy) September 18th - Learning to Use The Force September 19th - Brick Soccer September 20th - We Attempt to Make Holy Water September 21st - Amy Sent Us a Mystery Box September 22nd - Mark Knows What Ethan Did... (note- Ethan cheated on the Grip Test Video) September 23rd - This Video Will Never Make Sense September 24th - We Attempt to Make UNHOLY Water September 25h - We Will Churn Thy Butter September 26th - Ethan Teaches Mark Gymnastics September 27th - The Great Ice Cream Cake Race September 28th - Mark Teaches Ethan to Wrestle September 29th - Ethan Watches as Mark Achieves the Impossible September 30th - Consuming the World's Hottest Chip October 1st - This Video Went Completely Out of Control October 2nd - The 1000 High Five Challenge October 3rd - Bobbing For Apples But the Water Keeps Getting Thiccer October 4th - Mark Breaks His Nose On An Aerial Hoop (note- Was the second time in one week) October 5th - Mark and Ethan Milk a Goat October 6th - Shooting Archery ON A HORSE October 7th - DIY Minesweeper October 8th - Literally Finding a needle in a Haystack October 9th - Drawing on Each Other's Backs in Total Darkness October 10th - This is For FUN and NOT a Fetish (note- They were in black bags with a vacuum to such out the air) October 11th - Mark Conquers His Fear of Night Swimming (note- Birth of the Gongoozler) October 12th - The Painful Wolrd of Aerial Silks October 13th - We Bought Every Grinch Costume on Ebay October 14th - Pumpkin Taste Tier List October 15th - Learn to Jump Higher in 16 Minutes and 16 Seconds October 16th - Bobbing for Literally Anything but Apples October 17th - This Video is Completely Unedited (note- This is the video where they shoved Wax up their nose and Marks got stuck) October 18th - Momiplier Tells Us True Scary Stories from Korea October 19th - Pumpkin Spice "Challenge" (note- Similar to the Cinnamon Challenge excpet with Pumpkin Spice and don't do this please) October 20th - Mark and Ethan Build a Scarecrow October 21st - Preassure Waching Our Sins Away October 22nd - We Force Mark to Swin in the Ocean (HIS GREATEST FEAR) (note- First of the Two Boat videos) October 23rd - Fighting Fish to the Deathin in the Deep Blue Sea (note- Second of the Two Boat Videos October 24th - Cryptid Olympics October 25th - Phasmophobia in Real Life (note- Ghost hunt time) October 26th - Edward Pumpkin Hands (note- First Video in big spooky house) October 27th - Blood Bath October 28th - The Unus Annus Annual Costume Contest (note- Second Video in big spooky house) October 29th - Ethan Turns Mark into a Werewolf October 30th - Ethan Kidnapped Mark (note- Third Video in big spooky house. Ethan made Mark an escape room) October 31st - The Truth of Unus Annus (note- Final Video in the big house. They open the Custom Coffin and change from their clothes into their suits. 13 Days Left) November 1st - Accepting the Truth (note- They Accept they are going to die. They remain in their suits from this point onward) November 2nd - The Unus Annus Last Supper November 3rd - Being Brutally Honest with Each Other (note- Mark cries) November 4th - Recreating Every Single Unus Annus Video (note- 45 minutes and 11 seconds. Longest video) November 5th - All Our Video Ideas That Never Happened November 6th - Who's Cutting Onions In Here??? November 7th - The 1st Annual Unus Annus Roast November 8th - God's Fitness Test November 9th - Saying Goodbye to All Our Guests November 10th - Everything's Legal If You're Dead (note- Cooking with Sex Toys 2) November 11th - 7 Minutes in Heaven | 7 Minutes in Hell (note- Ethan got heaven, Mark got hell) November 12th - The Unus Annus Annual Sleepover (note- The final video.) November 13th - Goodbye. (note- The final livestream.)
[EU-FR][H] Lost Vikings Statue & Diablo Poker Set Blizzard Employee Gifts [W] Paypal F&F
Looking to sell two of my old employee gifts, both are brand new and have not been used / unpacked. Pictures: https://imgur.com/a/wtNJIyh Lost Vikings Statue [Reserved]
Never unpacked, photo has been taken by somebody else. Employee gift 2015, comes as new with all boxes.
150€ / 180 USD negotiable.
Diablo Poker Set
Chips and cards have never been unpacked, black outside box is missing. Employee gift 2009.
120€ / 145 USD negotiable.
Can ship worldwide but shipping and customs are on you, can meet in person in / around Paris, France.
Unus Annus, Cooking with Sex Toys, Purging Our Sins with a Neti Pot, Hot Dog'd to Death, Making Our Own Sensory Deprivation Tank, The Good Kind of Cupping, The Bad Kind of Cupping, The Worst Kind of Cupping, Ethan Will Be Kicked in the Balls, Doing Each Other's Makeup in the Dark, Baby Hands Operation, Mark and Ethan Summon a Ghost, 2 Truths and 1 Lie -- Waxing Edition, Poopsie Sparkly Critters (a slime surprise...), Play-Doh Thanksgiving, Helium Therapy, Drawing Memes from Memory, 1 Man 100 Accents, An A.I. Predicts How We're Going to Die, Mark Turns Ethan into a Mummy to Prepare Him for the Great Beyond, The Chubby Gummy Challenge, We Buy a Professional Hypnosis Video and React To It, Mark and Ethan Attempt an Escape Room, Ethan Destroys Mark's Van with a Bat, There's Still Hope..., Ethan Gives Mark a Viking Funeral, The Great Meat Mistake, Acupuncture Is NOT Painful, Floating in a Real Sensory Deprivation Tank, Mark Reviews The Impossible Burger But There's a Looming Sense of Impending Doom, We Made Nude Paintings of Eachother, You Made Beautiful Music for The Barrel... But Only One Could Win, We Had To Drink Each Other's Pee, Ethan Explores Mark's Haunted Basement, Giving Away Our 1,000,000 Subscriber Gold Play Button, Ethan's Relaxing and Totally Normal Nail Salon, Taped and Afraid, What Was The Most Painful Thing We've Ever Endured?, Donating Toys to Charity w/ JackSepticEye, Harnessing Our Dogs' Unlimited Energy, Santa's Mukbang (Drinking 1 Gallon of Eggnog), Forcibly Turning Mark Into Santa Claus Against His Will, Preserving Ourselves In Wax, Beating Inanimate Objects to Death, Emotional Pain vs Physical Pain... Which is Worse?, Duct Tape Crucifixion (Amy, Please Don't Watch This Video), You Blink You Lose, 2 Grown Men Attempt the Presidential Fitness Test, We Took The Polar Plunge, Hiding Our Sins from Amy's Holy Peepers, We Eat Bugs, DIY Bungee Jump (please don't try this), We Have The BEST Thumbnails on YouTube and No One Can Tell Us Otherwise, Who Can Make Themselves Taller?, The Sensory Overload Tank, Recreating Ourselves as a Cursed Mannequin, We Took an IQ Test, Ethan Finally Becomes a MAN, Mark and Ethan Go Casket Shopping, We Take a Lie Detector Test to Uncover Our Darkest Sins, Learning to Breathe Underwater, Fixing Mark's Hole with Ramen but Every Time We Add Glue We Get 5% Closer to God, Mark Steals Ethan's Face, You Breathe You Die, 2 Absolute Beginners Experience the Dancing Glory that is Salsa, DIY Geriatric Simulator, This Is How We'll Die..., We Cryogenically Freeze Ourselves, This is What Being Tased Feels Like, What Happens When A Youtube Channel Dies?, Bad Bad Beans, We Hired a Real Hypnotherapist to Analyze Our Darkest Dreams, We Turned Our Bodies Into Art, Mark and Ethan Learn About The Human Body, Mark Punishes Ethan, Strange (and legal) Things You Can Do With Your Body After Death, DIY Cheese, Hacking The Very Fabric of the Universe, Looking at Long Lost Memes, Discovering the Secret to Eternal Life, Turning Mark Into an E-Boy, Ethan Redefines Male Beauty, Professional Fire Cupping (Going Even Further Beyond), An Extremely Sour, Not-at-all Sour Meal, Literally Eating Fire, Unregulated Axe Throwing, Literally Laying On Literal Broken Glass, Making an Indoor Tornado to Flex on Mother Nature, Nutball: The Most Dangerous Game, Becoming a Master of Mime, Discussing the Idea of Murdering Each Other but It's Just a Joke and Definitely Not Serious Haha, Are We Already Dead?, Our Perfect (and last) Valentine's Day, Drunk College Party Simulator, 10 Strange Amazon Products Ethan Bought Mark Because He Doesn't Know How to Spend Money Responsibly, Chickens Teach Us About Life and Death, 3 Big Boys Attempt the King's Royal Fitness Test, Being Attacked by a Fully Trained Bodyguard Dog, Learning the Ancient Art of Chinese Archery, The Ultimate Trolley Problem, Goat Yoga, Edible Slime was a Mistake., Granting Access Into Heaven's Sweet Gates, Long Hair, Do We Dare?, We Wrote a Hit Pop Song in 30 Minutes, Mark and Ethan Go on a "Drum Date", Blowing Our Souls Into Some Hot Glass, Top 10 Worst Things Your Friend Could Possibly Spend Their Money On, Nutball Extreme: Taser Edition, REAL Ghost Hunting at an Abandoned Zoo, We Bought a Camera That Can Look Inside Us, Becoming the World's Greatest DJs, Who Can Teach Their Dog a Trick the Fastest?, Middle School Science Experiment Teaches Us About Life and Death, DIY Chiropractor, Mark and Ethan Get Into a Fight, The Barrel, We Got Pepper Sprayed, We Give Each Other Tattoos Blindfolded, What Does Astrology Say About Our Friendship?, Mark and Ethan Get a Full Body Scan to See What Secrets Lay Hidden Within (and learn their body fat), Mark Needs To Rub Ethan and Only His Mom Can Help Him, 2 Idiots Get Crushed by 18-Foot Giant Snakes, Beer Sauna: Turning a Portable Sauna into a Portable Hell, Mark and Ethan Hunt The World's Most Wanted Criminals, Unus Annus Carves the Roast Beast, 5 Weird Apps That Predicted Our Death, We Tried a Labor Pain Simulator, Recreating the Miracle of Childbirth, Mark and Ethan Are Now Fathers, We Force James Charles to Run a Military Obstacle Course, Desperately Trying To Not Touch Our Faces, Reddit 50/50: Two Player Edition, Going on an Internet Scavenger Hunt, Having an Adventure In VR Chat Because We Can't Go Outside, Amazon Shopping for the Apocalypse, Whom Would Eat Whomst First in a Zombie Apocalypse?, Ultimate YouTuber Boxing Showdown, The Deep End of Omegle: Risky Boogaloo, Where in the World is Unus Annus?, Mark Builds a Pillow Fort for the Very First Time, Mark's 1 Weird Talent Leaves Ethan Absolutely Speechless, Wikifeet: A Tale of 2 Tootsies, We Made Every YouTuber Battle in the Hunger Games, We Google Each Other to Find Our Darkest Forgotten Sins, We Played Mad Libs And Ran It Through Google Translate, Mark and Ethan Desperately Try and Name a Single State in the USA, Speed Reading 1000+ WPM to Gain a Complete Understanding of All Human Knowledge, What is the Least Viewed Video on YouTube?, We Found Websites That The World Forgot About, The Scariest True Stories on the Internet, How to NOT be the Perfect Boyfriend, Mark and Ethan Find The Lost City of El Dorado, Mark and Ethan Bet Everything on a Wikipedia Race, The Creepiest Videos on Youtube, Help Us Break a YouTube World Record, 2 Men 200 Accents, The Illuminati... Do They Really Exist?, Finding The Lost City of Atlantis, Reading YOUR Scariest True Stories, Mark and Ethan Take a Personality Test, Will AI Soon Take Over Humanity As We Know It?, Running Internet Drama through Google Translate, The Secret Unus Annus No-Touchy-Touchy Hand Shake, Two Male Men Judge Female Women on Their Beauty, Bored? Press This Button., Don't Go in the Ocean... Ever., We Explore the Most MYSTERIOUS Mysteries of our Wildy Mysterious Mystery Moon of Mysteries, We Looked at Unus Annus Memes, Is Mark a Masochist?, What the Hell is a Pink Trombone?, Professional Fetish Scientists Rank the Best/Worst Fetishes of 2020, Mark and Ethan Desperately Attempt to Feel Something, An A.I. Generates Our Worst Nightmare, Are Reptilian Humanoids Living Among us?, Like It or Not... This is What The New Human Looks Like, Eating Only Onions for 24 Hours: How Many Onions Does it Take to Kill a Man?, Unus Annus ASMR, We Attempted to Create THICC Water, Making Our Own Gravestones to Prepare For Our Inevitable Demise, How Tall Can A Human Get?: An Impartial Review by 2 Average Height Men, Mark Teaches Ethan Korean, Bigfoot is Real and It Ate My Friend, The End of Unus Annus is Almost Here..., We Explore the Unus Annus Subreddit for Your Delicious Memes, How Big Can a Nuke Get?, How Much Caffeine Does It Take to Kill a Man?, Drinking Real THICC Water... How Bad Does It Taste?, We Played Strip Poker, Harnessing Our Yodeling Power to End The World As We Know It, Mark Cooks Blindfolded While Ethan Guides Him Through FaceTime, We Play the Newlywed Game While Consuming That Which Will Kill the Other, DIY Boob, We Have the Best Bellies on Youtube, The Unus Annus Confessional Booth, DO NOT OPEN UNTIL 2080, Only UNUS-es May Watch This Video, Only ANNUS-es May Watch This Video, Only Watch from 2:15 to 6:11 - Do Not Watch Any Other Part of This Video, DIY Wine, Tearing a Phone Book in Half with Our Huge Manly Muscles, 2 Complete Amateurs Enter a Body Building Competition, BLACK LIVES MATTER, Crushing Watermelons Betwixt Our Mighty Thighs, Morphing Our Bodies Into Superhero Poses, Reacting to Your Hilarious Green Screen Memes, Mark Teaches Ethan to Read with Hooked on Phonics, Ethan Roasts Mark for 15 Minutes Straight, There's Something Horribly Wrong with This Picture..., Attempting to Build IKEA Furniture Without Instructions, Mark and Ethan Become United States Citizens, We Made Fanart for Each Other, Our Fans Try to Scare Us with Their Homemade Creepypasta, Recreating Childhood Photos, Will We Break the Boards... Or Will They Break Us?, Finding the Most Cursed Image on the Internet, Learning to Cry on Command to Increase Our YouTube Views, Pee Sauna, Building IKEA's Hardest Piece of Furniture Without Instructions is Impossible, Becoming One With the Horse, The Ultimate Paper Airplane Showdown, Creating Mark FISHbach, Learning How to Lock Pick (FBI Please Don't Watch), The Most Dangerous Shave, Ethan Traps Mark's Soul in the Palm of his Hand, Bear Trapping 101: An Elegant Knot For An Elegant Beast, 2 Men In a Trench Coat Teach You How to Save Money at the Movies, Building the World's First IKEA Boat, Ethan Teaches Mark How to Swim, 10 Miracle Products to Give YOU the Thiccest Jaw on Planet Earth, 2 Dirty Boys Wash Their Filthy Mouths Out With Soap, Mark is Guilty. Ethan Has the Proof., Recreating Mark's Childhood, We Put an Apple Watch in a Rock Tumbler, Dummy THICC for Dummies - A Tale of 2 Butts - Pushing Our Butts Even Further Beyond, Reverse Engineering a Kite to Steal the Idea of Electricity From Benjamin Franklin, The Candy Bra Challenge, Mark and Ethan Look at a Puppy for 10 Minutes, Unus Annus Try Pole Dancing, This Is Hiding On Your Body RIGHT NOW., Tasting Weird Food Combos: Pickles and Chocolate? Ice Cream and Soy Sauce?, The Unus Annus Space Program, The Egg Smashing Game, Can You Bake a Cookie from Cookie Dough Ice Cream?, Bleachus Annus, Dunking Oreos In Literally Anything But Milk, Preparing a 5-Star Meal for Our Youtube Famous Dogs, DIY Teeth, How to Escape from a Hostage Situation, Does This Magnetic Skincare Routine Really Work?, Diy Bed of Nails : Oh God, Please Don't Ever Try This, The Human Mop, Can Sound Therapy Heal All Wounds?, This Is The Most Dangerous Children's Toy Ever Made, Would Chica Save Us From Drowning?, We Do It Better Than Icarus Ever Could, The Beginning of The End, The Annual Unus Annus Dunk Contest, Ultimate Horseshoes, A Serious Conversation Under the Stars, Recharging Our Phones Using Only Brute Strength, 5 Products to Grow Your Patchy Beard, Mark Teaches Ethan How to Play the Trumpet, Playing Cards: The World's Deadliest Weapon, We Lubed Our Floor for a Sliding Competition, Breaking Glass With Our Screams, This Is Goodbye, Mark and Ethan Share a Drink, The Wubble, Mark and Ethan Shave Chica, DO NOT TRY THIS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, Judging Your Terrible Unus Annus Ideas, Hydro Dipping A Baby, Popping Popcorn with a High-Powered Laser, Puberty Simulator, Grip Strength Test: Loser Becomes the Winner's Butler for a Day, Momiplier Teaches Self-Defense, Transforming Mark into the 8th Wonder of the World, Playing Children's Games in Total Darkness, We're Better Than Dogs, The Koala Challenge: TikTok's Intimate Couple's Trend, 1 Gallon of Jello Nearly Broke Us, Too Many Pickles, Pitching a Tent in the Woods But There's a Bear 15 Feet Away, How to Rescue a Cat from a Tree, A Bear Attacked Us in the Middle of the Night, How to Safely Bury Your Friend, Team Building for 2: Trust Fall, Tug-of-War, and More!, How to Start a Fire (except don't...), Mark's Outdoor Escape Room, Hunting HeeHoo, Was 2020 a Bad Year for Unus Annus?, Mark Gives Ethan a HOT (stone) Massage, We Smell Every Smell, How Many Slaps Does It Take to Cook a Chicken?, 2 Boys 2 Poops, Mark Teaches Ethan How to March in a Marching Band, We Finally Drank Our DIY Wine, 2 Adults Take a 4th Grade Math Test, Making Snow Cones With Literally Anything But Normal Flavors, We Attempt Pottery Without Amy's Help, Can Plants Feel Pain?, How Far Can We Chuck a 16lbs Rock?, We Pierced Each Other's Ears, We Ate Dog Treats So You Don't Have To, We Accidentally Made an SCP While Amy Was Away, BEYBLADE NUTBALL, Making the Ultimate Unus Annus Burger, Making Soda With Literally Anything But Soda, Pee Soda, Learning to Use The Force, Brick Soccer, We Attempt to Make Holy Water, Amy Sent Us a Mystery Box, Mark Knows What Ethan Did..., This Video Will Never Make Sense, We Attempt to Make UNHOLY Water, We Will Churn Thy Butter, Ethan Teaches Mark Gymnastics, The Great Ice Cream Cake Race, Mark Teaches Ethan to Wrestle, Ethan Watches as Mark Achieves the Impossible, Consuming the World's Hottest Chip, This Video Went Completely Out of Control, The 1000 High Five Challenge, Bobbing For Apples But the Water Keeps Getting Thiccer, Mark Breaks His Nose On An Aerial Hoop, Mark and Ethan Milk a Goat, Shooting Archery ON A HORSE, DIY Minesweeper, Literally Finding a Needle in a Haystack, Drawing on Each Other's Backs in Total Darkness, This is For FUN and NOT a Fetish, Mark Conquers His Fear of Night Swimming, The Painful World of Aerial Silks, We Bought Every Grinch Costume on Ebay, Pumpkin Taste Tier List, Learn to Jump Higher in 16 Minutes and 16 Seconds, Bobbing For Literally Anything But Apples, This Video is Completely Unedited, Momiplier Tells Us True Scary Stories from Korea, Pumpkin Spice "Challenge", Mark and Ethan Build a Scarecrow, Pressure Washing Our Sins Away, We Force Mark to Swim in the Ocean: His Greatest Fear, Fighting Fish to the Death in the Deep Blue Sea, Cryptid Olympics, Phasmophobia in Real Life, Edward Pumpkin Hands, Blood Bath, The Unus Annus Annual Costume Contest, Ethan Turns Mark into a Werewolf, Ethan Kidnapped Mark, The Truth of Unus Annus, Accepting the Truth, The Unus Annus Last Supper, Being Brutally Honest with Each Other, Recreating Every Single Unus Annus Video, All Our Video Ideas That Never Happened, Who's Cutting Onions In Here???, The 1st Annual Unus Annus Roast, God's Fitness Test, Saying Goodbye to All Our Guests, Everything's Legal If You're Dead, 7 Minutes in Heaven 7 Minutes in Hell, The Unus Annus Annual Sleepover, Goodbye.
On line Poker Bot V2 - Why Do You Have to have It?
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Who is Scott Borgenson? Profile from 2016 in “Institutional Investor”
(Note the connections) CargoMetrics Cracks the Code on Shipping Data Scott Borgerson and his team of quants at hedge fund firm CargoMetrics are using satellite intel on ships to identify mispriced securities. By Fred R. Bleakley February 04, 2016 Link to article One late afternoon last November, as a ping-pong game echoed through the floor at CargoMetrics Technologies’ Boston office, CEO Scott Borgerson was watching over the shoulder of Arturo Ramos, who’s responsible for developing investment strategies with astrophysicist Ronnie Hoogerwerf. At Ramos’s feet sat Helios, his brindle pit-bull-and-greyhound mix. All three men were staring at a computer screen, tracking satellite signals from oil tankers sailing through the Strait of Malacca, the choke point between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea where 40 percent of the world’s cargo trade moves by ship. CargoMetrics, a start-up investment firm, is not your typical money manager or hedge fund. It was originally set up to supply information on cargo shipping to commodities traders, among others. Now it links satellite signals, historical shipping data and proprietary analytics for its own trading in commodities, currencies and equity index futures. There was an air of excitement in the office that day because the signals were continuing to show a slowdown in shipping that had earlier triggered the firm’s automated trading system to short West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil futures. Two days later the U.S. Department of Energy’s official report came out, confirming the firm’s hunch, and the oil futures market reacted accordingly. “We nailed it for our biggest return of the year,” says Borgerson, who had reason to breathe more easily. His backers were watching closely. They include Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (BAAM), the world’s largest hedge fund allocator, and seven wealthy tech and business leaders. Among them: former Lotus Development Corp. CEO Jim Manzi, who also had a long career at IBM Corp. Compelling these investors and Borgerson to pursue the shipping slice of the economy is the simple fact that in this era of globalization 50,000 ships carry 90 percent of the $18.5 trillion in annual world trade. That’s no secret, of course, but Borgerson and CargoMetrics’ backers maintain that the firm is well ahead of any other investment manager in harnessing such information for a potential big advantage. It’s why Borgerson has kept the firm in stealth mode for years. In its earlier iteration, from 2011 to 2014, CargoMetrics was hidden in a back alley, above a restaurant. Now that he’s running an investment firm, Borgerson declines to name his investors unless, like Manzi and BAAM, they are willing to be identified. “My vision is to map historically and in real time what’s really going on in economic supply and demand across the planet,” says the U.S. Coast Guard veteran, who prides himself and the CargoMetrics team on not being prototypical Wall Streeters. “The problem is enormous, but the potential reward is huge.” According to Borgerson, CargoMetrics is building a “learning machine” that will be able to automatically profit from spotting any publicly traded security that is mispriced, using what he refers to as systematic fundamental macro strategies. He calls the firm a new breed of quantitative investment manager. In unguarded moments he sees himself as the Steve Jobs or Elon Musk of portfolio management. Though his ambitions may sound audacious, one thing is certain: Borgerson doesn’t lack in self-confidence. Over the past six years, he has secretly and painstakingly built a firm heavy in Ph.D.s that can manage a database of hundreds of billions of historical shipping records, conduct trillions of calculations on hundreds of computer servers and systematically execute trades in 28 different commodities and currencies. For his part, Borgerson seems an unlikely architect of such a serious, ambitious endeavor. Easygoing and fond of joking with his colleagues, he is a hands-off manager who credits CargoMetrics’ investment prowess to his team. His brand of humor comes through even when he’s detailing the series of challenges he had starting the firm. After using the phrase “It was hard” several times, he pauses and adds, “Did I mention it was hard?” Although Borgerson declines to provide any specifics about CargoMetrics’ portfolio, citing the advice of his lawyers, performance during the three years of live trading apparently has been strong enough to keep his backers confident and his team of physicists, software engineers and mathematicians in place. “Hopefully, it won’t be too long before we can make a more significant investment,” says BAAM CEO J. Tomilson Hill. Former Lotus CEO Manzi is optimistic about the firm’s prospects: “It has an unbelievable edge with its historical data.” CargoMetrics was one of the first maritime data analytics companies to seize the potential of the global Automatic Identification System. Ships transmit AIS signals via very high frequency (VHF) radio to receiver devices on other ships or land. Since 2004, large vessels with gross tonnage of 300 or more are required to flash AIS positioning signals every few seconds to avoid collisions. That allows CargoMetrics to pay satellite companies for access to the signals gleaned from 500 miles above the water. The firm uses historical data to identify cargo and aggregation of cargo flow, and then applies sophisticated analysis of financial market correlations to identify buying and selling opportunities. “We’re big-data junkies who could not have founded CargoMetrics without the radical breakthroughs of this golden age of technology,” Borgerson says. The revolution in cloud computing has been instrumental. CargoMetrics leverages the Amazon Web Services platform to run its analytics and algorithms on hundreds of computer servers at a fraction of the cost of owning and maintaining the hardware itself. At his firm’s headquarters — where the lobby displays a series of colored semaphore signal flags that spell out the mathematical equation for the surface area of the earth —Borgerson leads the way to his server room. It’s the size of a closet; inside, a thick pipe carries all the data traffic and analytic formulas CargoMetrics needs. That computing power alone would have cost $30 million to $40 million, Manzi says. CargoMetrics is pursuing a modern version of an age-old quest. Think of the Rothschild family’s use in the 19th century of carrier pigeons and couriers on horseback to bring news from the Napoleonic Wars to their traders in London, or, in the 1980s, oil trader Marc Rich’s use of satellite phones and binoculars for relaying oil tanker flow. Other quant-focused Wall Street firms are latching onto the satellite ship-tracking data. But, Borgerson says, “I would bet my life on a stack of Bibles that no one in the world has the shipping database and analytics we have.” The reason he’s so convinced is that from late 2008 he was an early client of the satellite companies that had begun collecting data received from space and on land to build a large database of all the world’s vessel movements in one place. That’s what caught Hill’s eye at Blackstone when he learned of CargoMetrics a few years ago. BAAM now has a managed account with the firm. “If anyone else tries to replicate what CargoMetrics has, they will be years behind [Borgerson] on data analytics,” Hill says. “We know that a number of hedge fund data scientists want his data.” But too much reliance on big data can go wrong, say many academicians. “There is a huge amount of hype around big data,” observes Willy Shih, a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School. “Many people are saying, ‘Let the data speak; we don’t need theory or modeling.’ I argue that even with using new, massively parallel computing systems for modeling and simulation, some forces in nature and the economy are still too big and complex for computers to handle.” Shih’s skepticism doesn’t go as far as to say the data challenge on global trade is too big a puzzle to solve. When informed of the CargoMetrics approach, he called it “very valid and creative. They just have to be careful not to throw away efforts to understand causality.” Another big-data scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor of electrical engineering and computer science Samuel Madden, also urges caution. “What worries me is that models become trusted but then fail,” he explains. “You have to validate and revalidate.” Borgerson grew up in Southeast Missouri, in a home on Rural Route 5 between Festus and Hematite. His father was a former Marine infantry officer and police official, and his mother a high school French and Spanish teacher. The family traveled 15 miles to Crystal City to attend Grace Presbyterian Church, which was central to young Borgerson’s upbringing: There he was a youth elder, became an Eagle Scout and received a God and Country Award. The church was across the street from the former home of NBA all-star and U.S. senator Bill Bradley, whose backboard Borgerson used for basketball practice. When it came to choosing what to do after high school, Borgerson was torn between becoming a Presbyterian minister and accepting an appointment to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy or West Point. He went with the Coast Guard because, he says, “the humanitarian mission really appealed to me, and I had never been on a boat before.” At the academy, in New London, Connecticut, Borgerson played NCAA tennis and was also a cutup, racking up demerits for such antics as placing a sailboat on the commandant of cadets’ front lawn and leading bar patrons in a rendition of “Semper Paratus,” the school’s theme song. Still, he graduated with honors and spent the next four years piloting a 367-foot cutter — which seized five tons of cocaine in the Caribbean — then captaining a patrol boat that saved 30 lives on search-and-rescue missions. From 2001 to 2003 the Coast Guard sent Borgerson to the Fletcher School at Tufts University to earn his master’s of arts in law and diplomacy. While at Tufts he volunteered at a Boston homeless shelter for military veterans and founded a Pet Pals therapy program for senior citizens. Following graduation, from 2003 to 2006, Borgerson taught U.S. history, foreign policy, political geography and maritime studies at the Coast Guard Academy, and co-founded its Institute for Leadership. While there he would get up at 4:00 each morning to work on his Ph.D. thesis exploring U.S. port cities’ approaches to foreign policy. He would also travel to Boston to complete his course work at Tufts and meet with his adviser, John Curtis Perry. Borgerson’s military allegiance runs deep. One weekend last fall he played football in a service academy alumni game. On another he attended the Army-Navy game. Still militarily fit at age 40, the 6-foot-5 Borgerson works out regularly at an inner-city gym aimed at helping youths find an alternative to gang violence; a few weeks ago he was there boxing with ex-convicts and lifting weights. Leaving the Coast Guard was a hard decision for Borgerson, resulting in part from his frustration with the military bureaucracy’s stymieing of his bid to get back to sea for security missions. With his degrees in hand, he applied for a fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations. During the application process he met Edward Morse, now global head of commodities research at Citigroup. Morse was on the CFR selection committee in 2007 and recommended Borgerson as a fellow. Morse introduced Borgerson to commodities, and to trading terms like “contango” and “backwardation.” Morse himself had, earlier in career, gotten the jump on official oil supply data by hiring planes to take photos of the lid heights of oil tanks in Oklahoma’s Cushing field. Working for the CFR in New York reconnected Borgerson with his Missouri roots. Bill Bradley’s aunt called the former senator to say: “The son of a family who went to our church in Crystal City is in New York. Would you welcome him?” Bradley did — and would later play a part in Borgerson’s career development. While at the CFR, Borgerson became an expert on the melting of the North Pole ice cap, writing numerous published articles on its implications; this led him to co-found, with the president of Iceland, the Arctic Circle, a nonprofit designed to encourage discussion of the future of that region. Borgerson recently spoke to 50 international generals and admirals about the Arctic and is co-drafting a proposal for a treaty between the U.S. and Canada that would help resolve the differences the two countries have in allowing international ship and aircraft travel through the Northwest Passage. His Arctic research led to an aha moment early in 2008, while he was still with the CFR, on a visit to Singapore and the Strait of Malacca with his Fletcher School classmate Rockford Weitz and their former Ph.D. adviser, Perry. Seeing the mass of ships sailing through the strait, Borgerson and Weitz decided to build a data analytics firm using satellite tracking of ships. Like many successful entrepreneurs, the two struggled to find financing before reaching out to a network of friends and their contacts. One was Randy Beardsworth, who had sat with Borgerson at a 2007 Coast Guard Academy dinner, where Beardsworth, then the Coast Guard’s chief of law enforcement in Miami, was the guest speaker. Borgerson “made references to history and literature, and I thought, ‘Here is a sharp guy,’” recalls Beardsworth. “We have been friends ever since.” But Borgerson didn’t turn to his new friend in his initial fund-raising. “He came to me in 2009, after he had been turned down by 17 VCs, was maxed out on his credit card, was married and had a newborn son,” says Beardsworth, who was reviewing the Department of Homeland Security as part of the Obama administration’s transition team. Beardsworth came to the rescue, not only committing to invest a small amount but introducing his friend to Doug Doan. A West Point graduate and Washington-based angel investor, Doan took to Borgerson right away. “To be honest, it wasn’t his idea, it was Scott I invested in,” says Doan, who provided $100,000 in capital and introduced Borgerson to a few friends, who added $75,000. Manzi came on board as an investor in 2009, having been asked by Bradley to check out Borgerson’s plan for a data metrics firm. (Manzi knew Bradley from the late 1990s, when the latter was considering a run for U.S. president.) With Doan, Doan’s friends and Manzi as investors, CargoMetrics was finally able to garner its first venture capital commitment in early 2010, from Boston-based Ascent Venture Partners. That gave the start-up the capital it needed to hire a bevy of data scientists to build an analytics platform that it could sell to commodity-trading houses and other commercial users. In 2011, CargoMetrics added Summerhill Venture Partners, a Toronto-based firm with a Boston office, to its investor roster, raising roughly $18 million from venture capital and angels for its data business. By then Borgerson had already begun to contemplate converting CargoMetrics from an information provider into a money manager; he saw the potential to extract powerful trade signals from its technology rather than share it with other market participants for a fee. Among those he consulted was serial entrepreneur Peter Platzer, a friend of one of CargoMetrics’ original investors. Platzer, a physicist by training, had spent eight years as a quantitative hedge fund manager at Rohatyn Group and Deutsche Bank before co-founding Spire Global, a San Francisco–based company that uses its own fleet of low-orbit satellites to track shipping, in 2012. “We had lengthy conversations on how to set up quant trading systems and how [commodities giant] Cargill had made a similar decision to set up its own in-house hedge fund to trade on the information it was gathering,” recalls Platzer. So Borgerson reset his course. Doan describes the decision as a “transformative moment” for the CargoMetrics co-founder. “The military trains you to be a strategic thinker,” Doan explains. “Scott had been tactical until then, making small pivots, and like a general who sees the theater of war, he moved into strategic mode.” Borgerson’s ambition to succeed was in no small part fueled by the early turndowns by many venture capital firms and a fierce determination to best the Wall Street bunch at their own game. “There’s a lot that motivates me, including — if I’m honest — I have a big chip on my shoulder to beat the prep school, Ivy League, MBA crowd,” he says. “They’re bred to make money, but they’re not smarter than everyone else; they just have more patina and connections.” (Bred differently, he spent last Thanksgiving visiting his parents in rural Missouri. After breakfast he and his father were in the woods, shooting assault guns at posters of terrorists, with Gunny, his father’s Anatolian shepherd dog.) Borgerson’s plan was not met with enthusiasm from the company’s then co-CEO, Weitz. CargoMetrics had been gaining clients and meeting its goals, and was on its way to becoming a successful data service provider. Weitz, who now is president of the Gloucester, Massachusetts–based Institute for Global Maritime Studies and an entrepreneur coach at Tufts’ Fletcher School, did not return e-mails or phone calls asking for comment. For his part, Borgerson says: “A ship cannot have two captains. The company simply matured and evolved into a streamlined management structure with one CEO instead of two.” Eventually, Doan went along with Borgerson’s plan. “We believe in Scott and that shipping holds the no-shit, honest truth of what the economy is doing,” he says. But buying out the venture capital firms several years ahead of the usual exit time would require a hefty premium over what they had invested. Once again Borgerson’s early supporters played a key role. Manzi, a fellow Fletcher School grad who had mentored Borgerson since the company’s early days, put up more money (making CargoMetrics one of his single largest investments) and introduced him to a powerful group of wealthy investors. Separately, the CFR’s Morse suggested that Borgerson meet with Daniel Freifeld, founder of Washington-based Callaway Capital Management and a former senior adviser on Eurasian energy at the U.S. Department of State. Impressed by Borgerson’s “intellectual honesty, vigor and more than four years of historical data,” Freifeld brought the idea to a billionaire third-party investor, who took his advice and became one of CargoMetrics’ largest backers. “I would not have suggested the investment if CargoMetrics had not done the hard part first,” adds Freifeld, declining to name the investor. A chance encounter in the fall of 2012 gave the CargoMetrics team its first taste of real Wall Street trading. Attending an Arctic Imperative conference in Alaska, Borgerson met the CIO of a large investment firm, whom he declines to name. When Borgerson confided his ambition and that CargoMetrics had developed algorithms to trade on its shipping data once it was legally structured to do so, the CIO suggested CargoMetrics provide the analytical models for a separate portfolio the money manager would trade. Live trading using CargoMetrics’ models began in December 2012. Manzi brought in longtime banker Gerald Rosenfeld in 2013 to craft and negotiate the move to make CargoMetrics a limited liability investment firm. Rosenfeld acted in a personal role rather than in his position as vice chairman of Lazard and full-time professor and trustee of the New York University School of Law. The whole process took a year and a half. During that time Blackstone checked in as an investor. Bradley, now an investment banker, has yet to invest in CargoMetrics, explaining that he is unfamiliar with quantitative investing. But he may eventually invest in Borgerson’s firm, he says, because “we are homeboys. I believe in him and that things are going to work out ” — pausing to add with a smile, “based on my vast quant experience, of course.” Borgerson has been in stealth mode since CargoMetrics’ early days, when he moved the firm from an innovation lab near MIT because the shared space was too open. He is much more forthcoming when boasting of the firm’s “world-class talent.” The team includes astrophysicists, mathematicians, former hedge fund quants, electrical engineers, a trade lawyer and software developers. Hoogerwerf, who has a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the Netherlands’ Leiden University, built distributed technical environments for scientists and engineers at Microsoft Corp. Solomon Todesse, who works on quant investment strategies, was head of asset allocation at State Street Global Advisors. Aquil Abdullah, a team leader in the engineering group, was a software engineer in the high-performance-computing group at Microsoft. And senior investment strategist Charles Freifeld (Daniel’s father) has 40 years’ experience in futures and commodities markets, including nine with Boston-based commodity trading adviser firm AlphaMetrics Capital Management. “All were self-made people; none were born with a silver spoon,” Borgerson notes. One of his blue-collar-background hires was James (Jess) Scully, who joined as chief operating officer in 2011, after his employer Interactive Supercomputing was acquired by Microsoft. “The team we built treasures team success, which is Scott’s motto,” Scully says. “We want shared resources, one P&L, not ‘How much money did my unit make?’” Both Scully and Borgerson say CargoMetrics is like the Golden State Warriors, a leading NBA basketball team known for putting aside personal glory and playing as a band of brothers having fun. Borgerson says he fosters a no-ego policy with “lots of play because investment teams are built on trust, and playing together builds trust.” Team building at CargoMetrics includes pub crawls, picnics at Borgerson’s house, poker nights, volunteer work in a soup kitchen for the homeless, Red Sox games and visits to museums. Trips to the Boston docks or Coast Guard base are intended to remind the CargoMetrics team of the real economy. There are also occasional “touch a tanker” days. On one visit to a tanker, everyone was amazed that the ship was the size of a city building, Borgerson says. “They could smell the salt on the deck,” he recalls. “Wall Street can lose sight of the real fundamentals in the world. I don’t want that to happen here.” Unlike the Rothschilds 200 years ago, only a small percentage of the trades that CargoMetrics makes relate to beating official government data. Most simply are aimed at identifying mispricings in the market, using the firm’s real-time shipping data and proprietary algorithms. At a whiteboard in his conference room, Borgerson sketches out CargoMetrics’ general formula. He draws a “maritime matrix” of three dynamic data sets: geography (Malacca, Brazil, Australia, China, Europe and the U.S.), metrics (ship counts, cargo mass and volume, ship speed and port congestion) and tradable factors (Brent crude versus WTI, as well as mining equities, commodity macro and Asian economic activity). Using satellite data with hundreds of millions of ship positions, CargoMetrics makes trillions of calculations to determine individual cargoes onboard the ships and then to aggregate the cargo flows and compare them with historical shipping data. All that leads to the final comparisons with historical financial market data to find mispricings. If CargoMetrics observes an appreciable decline in export shipping activity in South Africa, for example, its trading models will determine whether that is a significant early-warning sign by considering that information alongside other factors, such as interest rates. If CargoMetrics believes a decline in the rand is forthcoming, it might short it against a basket of other currencies. “This is like a heat map showing opportunity,” Borgerson says, noting that CargoMetrics is not trading physical commodities. “We are agnostic on whether to be long or short, and let the computers spot where there is a mispricing and liquidity in the markets.” He sums up his simple, but still less than revealing, process by writing on the whiteboard “Collect, Compute, Trade.” Borgerson says CargoMetrics is building a systematic approach that will work even when cargo cannot be identified — on containerships, for instance. It already knows a large percentage of the daily imports and exports into and out of China and island economies such as Japan and Australia. And although the firm cannot glean from its calculations on satellite AIS data the type of cargo, such as iPhones from China, it can measure total flow, which shows present economic activity. CargoMetrics’ data scientists are working on linking such activity to the firm’s data set of the past seven years to measure the evolving global economy. That will lead, Borgerson maintains, to more trades on currencies and equity index futures and, eventually, trades on individual equities. “Uncorrelated” is a mantra of Borgerson and his team. Well aware that correlated assets sent the performance of most asset managers, including hedge funds, plunging in the financial crisis, CargoMetrics is determined to come up with an antidote. Careful not to say too much, Borgerson lays out the simple principle that the process starts with placing many bets among uncorrelated strategies in different asset classes, like commodities, currencies and equities. The goal is diversification, staying as market neutral as possible and remaining sensitive to tail risk in different scenarios. CargoMetrics’ analytic models help find asset classes that are outliers. Those may include a publicly traded instrument such as oil, another commodity or an equity for which shipping information was a leading indicator during times when other asset classes marched in lockstep. The historical ship data is then blended with this new information to seek opportunities. Identifying mispriced spreads among different trades within an asset class is another way of avoiding the calamity of correlation. Borgerson says the firm’s models will find instances where one type of oil should be a short trade and another a long one. The same goes for whole asset classes — shorting one that will benefit if virtually all asset prices plunge and buying another that will rise when oil prices gain. “We’re counting cards with the goal of being right maybe 3 percent more than we are wrong, as a way of making profits during good times and staying afloat during times of sudden, unpredictable but far-reaching events,” Borgerson says. The key, he adds, “is to know your edge and spread your risk.” CargoMetrics’ uncorrelated approach worked during the dismal first three weeks of this year, says Borgerson. Dialing down risk as volatility in the markets soared, the firm was on track in January to have its best month since it began trading. To improve the firm’s models, eight of its data scientists hold a weekly strategy meeting, nicknamed “the Shackleton Group” after the band of sailors shipwrecked in the Antarctic from 1914 to 1917. Hoogerwerf and Ramos co-lead the group. At one recent meeting they were deciding how much risk, including how much liquidity, there was in a possible strategy; reviewing whether to keep previous strategies; and assigning who would research new ones. The Shackleton Group’s meetings are free-form, with a lot of “I’ve got an idea” interjections that disregard official roles. “We hit the restart button a lot,” says Ramos, a former director of business intelligence and a quantitative economist at law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf who joined CargoMetrics in late 2010. “That’s why our motto is ‘Never lose hope.’” A bet on oil, related to Russia’s production, was stopped at the last minute in 2014, when Russia invaded Ukraine. Some currency-trading strategies have been abandoned in theory or after failing. Strategies the Shackleton Group likes are passed on to the firm’s investment committee of Borgerson, Scully and Ramos for a final decision. CargoMetrics has a unique set of big-data challenges. Historical shipping patterns may not be as useful in the new global economy now that shipping freight prices are plunging, a sign that trade growth rates may be changing. And analysts point out how hard identifying oil cargo can be in certain locations and instances, even in more-predictable economic times. “While it may be easy to say that ships leaving the Middle East Gulf are typically carrying crude oil, knowing the type of crude is sometimes quite difficult,” says Paulo Nery, senior director of Europe, Middle East and Asia oil for Genscape, a Louisville, Kentucky–based company that analyzes satellite tracking of ships. Borgerson maintains his team is well aware of the dangers of data mining and getting swamped by noise. “If you run computers hard enough, you can convince yourself of anything,” he says. To make sure CargoMetrics’ algorithms for identifying cargo are valid, the firm spot-checks manifest data filed at ports and imposes statistical confidence checks to guard against spurious correlations. Getting the jump on official government statistics is likely to become tougher too thanks to the recently formed High-Level Group for the Modernization of Official Statistics. Although the U.S. is not a member, Canada is a key player helping to lead the mostly European nation group (including South Korea) in coming up with a global blueprint for measuring and reporting economic activity. Reflecting on his journey to Wall Street — raising money, hiring employees with different skill sets, making changes to CargoMetrics’ culture, overcoming legal and regulatory hurdles — almost gives Borgerson second thoughts about whether he would do it again. “I’ve sailed ships through tropical storms, captured cocaine smugglers and testified before Congress [on his Arctic research],” he says, “but this was the hardest.”
Name: Ian Faulkner Age: 18 Birthdate: May 12th, 2017 Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland Ethnicity: Filipino Demigod-related conditions: Dyslexia, ADHD Family:
Name
Relation
Age
Info
Pollux
Father
???
The god of sailing, boxing, and fishing. Ian’s never met him, but he’s heard good things.
Miriam Faulkner, nee Reyes
Mother
41
An immigrant from the Philippines who followed her older brother when he moved to the US. She had a tryst with one of Miguel’s work friends and had Ian as a result.
Allen Faulkner
Step-father
40
A businessman who met Ian’s mother thanks to sheer coincidence. While he doesn’t share any hobbies or interests with Ian, Allen always makes sure to support him in whatever he does. At least, now he does.
Miguel Reyes
Uncle
47
A rather quirky and carefree person who loves the smell of the sea, fishing, and adventure more than anything. For some reason, he seems to attract all sorts of odd things to himself, including a co-worker that he became close with.
Jordan Faulkner
Step-brother
13
Allen’s son from a previous marriage. He and Ian didn’t have a good relationship when they first met. They still don’t talk all that much, but one thing’s for certain: they’ve got each other’s backs.
Destinee Faulkner
Half-sister
4
An adorable little girl who’s doted upon a great deal by her parents. She isn’t in school yet, so she usually accompanies either her mother or her uncle while they go about their day.
[Appearance]
Faceclaim (“See Ian, now this is how you take a photo!” “You still remember that?” “Of course! ...Wait. You didn’t smile!”) Height: 5’11’’ (1.80 m) Weight: 187 lbs Overall appearance: Ian has steel-gray eyes that look slightly lilac in the sun. He also has an athletic build, thanks to his love of boxing and other athletic activities. However, thanks to the many scars scattered across his body, crooked nose, and resting bitch face, Ian comes off as more intimidating than he really is. Hair: Ian has short, black, and spiky hair that he likes to keep slicked back. Clothing: There’s nothing particularly special about Ian’s clothing since he usually likes to dress in either athletic clothing or something simple like a t-shirt and jeans. He does have a tendency to wear things with long sleeves though. And finally, he never leaves behind his pendant necklace.
[Personality]
Much like his stoic appearance, Ian isn’t the type to reveal much about what he’s thinking about a certain situation. But when he does speak, don’t expect him to speak more than a few words at a time. Don’t take his silence the wrong way, however. When he’s in a conversation, he prefers to completely listen to whoever’s speaking at the time, only giving his opinion through nonverbal means like a simple nod of the head. Conversations may seem one-sided with him, but don’t worry, he’s listening. He isn’t very secretive about what he thinks either, as he’ll answer any question with only the bluntest of responses. He’s also very reluctant to lie since he thinks it’s morally wrong to do. And thanks to his clipped manner of speech, if you want his complete opinion on something, be prepared to drag it out of him by asking a lot of questions, both clarifying and inquisitive. He doesn’t mind, though. Conversations like that are pretty much the norm for him. And while he might not express how he’s feeling through his facial expressions, Ian’s a rather empathetic and understanding person, which isn’t really apparent thanks to his general awkwardness.
[Powers]
Passive:Enhanced Athleticism Boxing in particular. But he also has a small overall boost to other athletic feats.
Power 1:Ability to Navigate Anywhere If Ian can clearly focus on a mental image or a physical reference, of any person, object, or location, he can navigate to them if they’re within a certain range. However, he cannot find things that are hidden by the gods or magic. If he uses this ability on a person, they will experience a feeling of being watched, like having shivers going down their spine or some sort of uneasy feeling. Ian can circumvent this power’s range limitation if he knows exactly where they are and also has a map. In this case, his power will simply show him the most efficient path to his target.
Power 2:Minor Storm Generation Depending on the condition of the weather, Ian can summon a small rainstorm, windstorm, or thunderstorm, above his location that appears after a short delay. However, the storm’s area of effect is limited and also takes a lot of energy to use. On top of that, if he’s not feeling completely calm, this power may randomly activate, but also won’t cost any energy.
Power 3:Enhanced Hunting Capability Ian’s general senses are enhanced by this ability. This ranges from the usual five senses to other senses, such as balance or space. As a consequence though, he’s more sensitive to things like flashing lights, loud noises, and strong smells than the average person.
[Equipment and Skills]
Equipment
Description
Compound Bow and quiver
Both were given to Ian by his uncle on his birthday so they could go hunting together. So far, the bow has only been used on non-living targets.
Celestial Bronze Knuckledusters
While they certainly aren’t the best weapon to bring into a fight, they’re certainly better than nothing.
Boxing gloves and hand wraps
Because punching things without any sort of protection is a really good way to mess up your hands.
A guitar
There are certainly many guitars in camp, but this one is his. It’s beaten up pretty badly, but somehow still works.
A sewing kit
Due to the number of times that Ian’s ripped his clothes thanks to his generally bad luck or other circumstances, his mother taught him how to sew his clothes. It’s proven to be useful many times over when he’s had to look after his younger siblings.
Wallet
Contains the usual wallet-related things.
Cellphone
Ian doesn’t use his phone all that often, even before he came to camp. Other than being a glorified timepiece, Ian currently uses his phone to keep track of his training regimen.
[Backstory]
(OOC: Word of warning, just skip to the "now" section if you don't want to read all of this. Co-written with u/CoraxBrachyn) It was a brisk autumn morning, and the gas stations in Baltimore were just as packed as they usually are.
As he stepped out of his truck, Miguel caught a glimpse at the gray clouds overhead that were starting to converge in the otherwise clear sky. He chuckled to himself, then turned his head to look at his poker-faced nephew. “I think you’re making the clouds a little nervous there as well, little nephew,” he said, giving a small point upwards.
Ian had already looked away from his tightly clenched fists when his uncle had chuckled, blushing a little out of embarrassment as he started to roll down the window. He sniffed the air, noticing the all-too-familiar smell of petrichor that was starting to permeate the area.
And then the smell of gasoline hit him.
Ian made a muffled groaning noise as he clawed for the door handle, quickly stumbling out to the edge of the gas station to get some fresh air. His uncle made a noise of concern but ultimately went back to filling the truck with gas. Which was a good thing, since Ian needed some time to calm down a little.
Normally, he wouldn’t have been affected so much by a smell like that, but his nerves were getting to him, both literally and figuratively. Ian’s fingers trembled slightly as he ran them through his hair. It was still slicked back just how he liked it.
...Just how did he work up the courage to try and do this the first time, all those years ago?
Things were different back then, but all the same, Ian mused. Light banter between a mother and her daughter, the smell of incoming rain, and the creak of old machines as they slowed to a gentle stop.
(”What are you doing here?” Ian growled, none too pleased as he stared down at his hunched over friend, coughs wracking his body as he tried to catch his breath. Green eyes flashed up to meet his own, face set in that rare expression Ian’s only seen one other time. “Stopping you, obviously!”)
But now there wasn’t anyone to stop him from leaving, everything smelled arguably worse than that time, and he didn’t feel as lonely as before, in a sense. Ian thought it was pretty ironic, as he looked around his general area, not a single friendly face next to him.
Before, he couldn’t stand the thought of having to constantly listen to someone talk for extended periods of time, but now he found himself missing that distraction, especially since there wasn’t anything else to do at the gas station other than standing around and look at things.
Felix would have talked about any random thing that seemed to interest him at the time. Zayne would chat about the latest Mist-related thing he saw or ways that they could somehow waste more time. Even Anya would be preferable, though instead of talking, she would just make him run laps around the station, shouting something vaguely encouraging all the while.
Figuring he'd stood around for too long, Ian decided to head back to the truck, thinking that his uncle was more than done filling up the gas tank by then.
He paused when he spotted a girl with blonde hair meandering about the isles of the gas station’s store through one of the windows. Ian stared at the familiar tall girl, perhaps for too long, trying to remember where he had seen her before.
Max felt a shiver run down her spine as she skimmed the chips aisle. Almost as if she was being watched. Her eyes shifted to her left and right, discreetly trying to see if there was someone there. There wasn’t.
She grabbed a bag of Takis, and turned to start walking to the register when she saw him in the corner of her eye. There was a muscular guy standing outside staring at her who looked oddly familiar. She glanced at him and it was immediately apparent. Max smiled and gave him a cheerful wave.
Surprised to see a familiar face, even though he had seen her only once before, Ian gave a stiff wave back. After that, he just stood around awkwardly, not sure of what to do next. While he could go into the store as well and maybe exchange some words, he didn’t need to buy anything, either.
Not that he needed to, as Max quickly paid for her things and stepped outside. “Hey!” she greets cheerfully. “Uh, Ian, right? Or was it Felix...?”
“Ian,” he corrected tersely. “What was your name again?”
“Oh, uh, it’s Max!” she replies, her smile faltering briefly. “Whatcha doin’ out here? Other than, uh... getting gas?”
“Travelling up to a camp in Long Island,” he responded, then tacked on a, “What about you?”, after he realized that it would have been rude to continue having just a one-sided conversation.
“Oh, me too, actually!” Max says. “What’s yours about?”
“Demigods,” he answered truthfully. He doesn’t ask a question in return, but he does look like he’s interested in what Max’s camp is about.
“No way,” Max said, excited. “You too!?”
Ian raised an eyebrow. Usually, when he said something like that, Zayne or Felix would scramble to make the conversation less confusing or awkward. “Your godrent?” he asked, wondering what he was going to have to deal with.
“My what?”
“Your… divine parent,” he saids slowly, trying to plan out that explanation in his head. “Mine’s Pollux, one of the gods of sailing, boxing, and fishing,” he continued, then waited to see her reaction.
“Oh...” Max said, thinking. “Uh... some goat-man said Hephaestus? I think? He builds stuff. He’s really cool.”
“One of the twelve Major Olympians. The god of blacksmithing. Yeah, he’s cool,” he nods.
“It makes sense, too! I build stuff all the time,” Max rambled. “Actually, can I show you something?”
Ian only gave a nod in response, then followed along.
Max led him over to her mother’s car, a black van with flowers on the side. It looked like a commercial vehicle. “Who’s this?” A black-haired asian woman in her mid-forties stood next to the van, wearing a military baseball cap.
“Oh! Mom, this is my friend, Ian!” Max replied. “We met at a museum once. I wanna show him my project!” She turned to Ian. “This is my Mom.”
The woman looked at Ian, sizing him up. She gave Max a slow nod. “Just be careful. Let me know if he gives you trouble.”
“I’ll be fiiine,” Max insisted, before turning back to Ian. “Check this out!”
She opened the back of the van and pulled out two black cases, each one roughly the size of a microwave. She opened both of them, revealing a pair of drones with three propellers each.
“It’s a little project I’ve been working on,” Max said proudly. “They’re almost ready to fly, I just gotta figure out the control scheme...”
At first, Ian reached out to help her with the heavy-looking crates, but then placed his hands back in his pockets when she handled them with ease. “How long have you worked on them?” he asked, tilting his head while trying to understand how the drones worked.
Max pulled one of the drones out of the case, this one painted black, white, and military green. “A few months, now,” she replied, fiddling with the drone. “This one is Emma. If you look here -” she flipped the drone, showing the underside “- she can drop a payload the size of an energy drink. I was thinking this could be used to drop supplies to people in inaccessible areas, but I realized that there’s way more I could do with it.”
Ian nodded along to Max’s rambling, his first thoughts about the drone’s other uses going straight to bombs. He chose not to voice this thought, instead gesturing for her to continue.
“And over here -” Max flipped the drone back and rotated it to gesture to the front “- is a wireless camera. It’s got all sorts of vision modes, like night vision, thermal, infrared... I’m probably gonna add a couple more, if I can think of them...” She placed the drone back in its case and picked up the other.
This drone was painted red, white, and black. “This one is Emma’s brother,“ Max said. “His name is Laserbeak. He’s got all the same functions as Emma, though.”
Laserbeak was truly a… unique name for a drone, especially when compared to the other one. “Interesting,” Ian said, his tone not hinting at his internal confusion.
Max put Laserbeak back into his case. “So, whaddya think? What should I add?”
“They’re useful,” he commented after a few moments in thought. Sure, there were a lot of potentially useful functions that the two drones had, but electronics and engineering were out of his realm of expertise. “What about a tracker?” he suggested, wondering if she had any way of retrieving her drones in the event that one of them malfunctioned or was damaged while they were in use.
Max pondered the suggestion. “Yeah, that’s a good idea!” she said after a moment. “Man, I lose stuff all the time. I should put trackers on more stuff.” She paused. “I should’ve put a tracker on my sister,” she mutters.
Ian gave her a somber and very much understanding expression. If either of his younger siblings went missing without a trace, he’d definitely be devastated. “I could help you look for her,” he offered, not questioning the circumstances of her sister’s disappearance. “I can track down anything within a certain range if I can imagine it in my head.”
“Whoa,” Max said, eyebrows raised. “That’s pretty cool!” Her face takes a more somber expression. “Well, that’d be nice, but I’ve kinda given up looking for her. She’s probably dead. She went missing three years ago, but my mom still has me ask. Actually -” Max reached into her jacket and pulled out a photo. It’s a photo of a teenage girl with black hair in a straight bob.
“This is her. Have you seen her?”
Ian stared at the photo, not recognizing the girl at all. He then closed his eyes and concentrated, focusing on the image of the photo inside his head. Ian sensed nothing and shook his head. “I’m sorry.”
“Didn’t think so,” Max said, a bitter smile on her face. “Thanks anyways.”
A knock on the side of the van startled Max. “Time to go,” Max’s mother called out.
“Yeah, hold on!” Max yelled back. She turned back to Ian. “Hey, why don’t we travel together? We’re both going to the same place.”
“We could ask my uncle,” Ian suggested, and he looked over to where his uncle was standing. He activates his navigation power, focusing on the image of his uncle in his head, and Miguel suddenly looked up from his phone, making eye contact.
“What’s up, little nephew?” he asked as he walked over to where the two were currently standing, not even questioning the way that Ian seemed to signal him over.
“What the heck!?” Max whispered in awe, eyes wide.
Noticing her confused and awed expression, Miguel grinned and started to explain. “Surprised? He usually does that whenever he’s looking for me. Even when I’m standing just a few feet away.” He then gently elbowed Ian in the side, which earned him a grunt in response.
Max slowly pointed a finger at Ian. “You’re psychic!?”
“That’s just how I find people,” Ian shrugged, not explaining any further.
Miguel cleared his throat. “What he means to say is that when he tries to find someone using one of his powers, they usually get a shiver down their spine,” he says as he points to his back. “It creeps out a lot of the people he uses it on, but I’m used to it.”
“Uncle, this is Max,” Ian said as he gestured over to Max. “Can she come with us to the camp?”
Max gives Miguel a little wave. “Hi.”
“I’m okay with it, but I think we should talk to your parents first,” he said seriously to Max.
“Mom!” Max called out.
Max’s mother walked around the back of the van. “What’s up?”
“Can we go to the camp with Ian?” Max pleads.
Her mother sighs and turns to Miguel. “Are you his dad, or...?”
“I’m his uncle, Miguel Reyes,” he said as he extended a hand. “The one who usually looks after him when his parents aren’t.”
“Nora Anderson,” Max’s mother replied. “I make sure she doesn’t cause a reactor meltdown in the backyard.”
“A reactor meltdown?” Miguel questioned as he looked over toward Ian. “And I thought that Felix was your strangest friend.”
“So that’s why I remember the name ‘Felix’,” Max muttered to herself.
“Anyways,” Nora said. “So you’re headed up to the camp?”
“Yeah, I’m just dropping him off. I’m actually surprised it took him so long to decide to go again, especially since his friend’s over there now and all.”
“Ah, that’s nice,” Nora replied. “Well, might as well travel together, right?”
“Completely fine with me!” Miguel agrees way too quickly with a smile. “Means I don’t have to waste as much gas on the trip.”
Nora chuckled. “Yeah, they’re basically scamming us with these prices these days. Need some help moving luggage to my car?”
[Now]
Ian exits the back of the van after Max does, more than happy to get some fresh air after being stuck in there for the trip. The jovial banter between all four of them definitely made it better, though.
He takes a deep breath in, noting the faint, but very distinct smell of sulfur in the air as he gathers his bags together.
Miguel then hands Ian one last box, which was labeled ‘for Felix’ in writing too neat to belong to either of him. They both stare at it for a few moments before Miguel claps Ian on the shoulder. “I don’t know what that guy’s thinking sometimes, especially with what happened to Felix, but at least he understands that the two of you are going to look after each other.”
Ian nods stiffly with downturned eyes, gripping his bag tighter. It was still his fault that Felix was sent here, and now was his opportunity to make up for that. Miguel then starts to lightly push him towards the camp’s gates.
“Well, get going! We both know you've got a certain lucky guy to find! And make sure to stay safe and have some fun!"
“Thanks, uncle. And stay safe as well,” Ian says before walking up the hill. And as he reaches the top, he takes a moment to admire the view before activating his navigation powers to find Felix.
Nothing happens, which probably shouldn’t be too surprising since he was pretty far from the collection of buildings he assumed was the cabin area.
The sky began to darken slightly as Ian shrugged and started his trip down the hill. He’d eventually run into someone who could either show him his new cabin or tell him where Felix was.
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