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Rearranging UI blocks atm will be developer-manual, meaning I'd have to set-up alternates for different screen types myself eventually. I'll probably just detect if the browser is mobile or not. though the current setup should work for computers and mobile to a certain percent, mobile users may just have to set the page to display flipped to Landscape instead of Portrait for best results.

I am now at the point where the dictionary for powers needs to start being constructed. the following is the first rough draft:

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//powerDictionary entry
powerDict = {};
powerDict['Archetype'] = {}; //replace Archetype with actual archetype name
powerDict['Archetype']['PrimaryPowerset'] = {"list":{}, "of": {}, "Power": {}, "Names": {}};

['PowerName'] = {'Name': "PowerName", 'Minimum_Level': int, 'Has_Inherent_Slots': True/False, 'Allows_Slots': True/False, "Inherent_Slots": [Slot1_Level_(int or Auto), Slot2_level_int, Slot3_Level_int etc.], 'Type': "ranged" "melee" "Self Buff" etc., "activation_type": "Auto" "toggle" "click" etc., "Target_Types": "self", "team", "self+team", "friendly", "foe" etc. [Ex:{"Self": {"Summary": "Self +Regen"}},{"Foe": {"Summary": "Foe - Acc"}}], "Description": "Description text goes here", "Slider": "None" or [Min, Max, designation(ex: 10%, 100%, HP)], "Basic_Stats": [{"End_Cost": "string-float" or "None"}, {"Accuracy": "String-Float-Percent%"}, {"Recharge": "string-float" or "None"}, {"Duration": "string-float" or "None"}, {"Range": "string-float-ft" or "None"}, {"Radius": "string-float-ft" or "None"}, {"Arc": "string-float-°" or "None"}, {"Cast-Time": "string-float" or "None"}, {"Activation_Interval": "string-float" or "None"}, {"Other": [specifics of the power Taunt, Resistance, HitPoints, Recharge, Regen etc.]}], {"Power_Values": ex: {"Damage": [{"Smashing": "38.41"}, {"Energy": "26.12"}]}}};
this does not display PvP information, and currently would only cover "Info tab" information, where "Effects tab" information will have to be an additional {"Effects":[{}]} entry. I'm debating how to store PvP information. perhaps each attribute with have 2 sub dictionaries {"pve": value} and {"pvp": value} or perhaps I'll do 2 different entire dictionaries Under ['PowerName'] like ['PowerName']['PvE'] and ['PowerName']['PvP']...

Alot to decide. written like above the information is not very pleasant on the eyes lol.. @.@.

but we are getting there. I'll test this with Blaster Archery Snap Shot just because it's literally the first entry of every first list. Once I'm confident my code and dictionary can output the correct info to a power button and display the correct info on MO etc., then I'll start making copies for every power in the blaster archery set. then move on to othter blaster sets then other primaries of other ats in order.

this is the painfully tedious part.

Edit: I wasn't thinking enough, I also need to list "EnhanceAllowed": [list of categories allowed], and "SetsAllowed": [list of set categories allowed]. the slots will need to check this info.

also I'm thinking the button will just contain info necessary for the button and radio and slots rather than the full dictionary about the power. I'll set up the code bends so that different objects can access it and get different data returned.[/list][/list]

This week I messed with some new technology; style="display: none;" to make a hideable custom dropdown menu, then I realized why not use the same thing for the tabbed content in my table? and sure enough it works better than z-index.

Since learning that, I began putting together the totals tab. and in doing so, I remembered I wanted to condense the totals window into sub-tabs of the totals tab, it'll mean alot of work, but meh, that's the best way to go so that it's all in one window for mobile users. the only catch is I now must differentiate from mids and add more data to the totals tab equating it to the Core Stats tab of the mids totals window, but then this tab wont show tohit, nor recharge redux, nor end redux. so I'm thinking of including these anyways even though some will be duplicated on the next tab with bar graphics.

Additionaly, I decided to get going on the selected powers field, making the power buttons and slots and laying out the level designations, texts and radio buttons . I still need to program them, but graphically it's all set-up. to make it simple each button has 6 slots, but they are set to "display: none" until activated, and will not be counted if they are set to display none.
each button needs an onMouseOver(), and an onClick() or onMouseUp() script.
and the script will need to reference Selected-Level and slots remaining, which I'll store on the "slots left"/"slots placed" button as a data attribute.
I'm starting to think about what data will need to be saved on these power buttons. I have to figure out if it will be easier to store raw stats on them, or will it be simpler to store just power and enhancement names and grab the other info from a dictionary?
I think it'll be easier to just store names on the buttons. this is the complicated part of the process.

That or a Shadow.  Heavens know my wife sees those on occasion.  Ends up saging the whole apartment after getting spooked.  Every once in a while she'll ask me 'Dekar, did you walk by here a minute ago?' to which I'll tell her 'No, I was in the computer room.'.  Then she'll shiver, I'll ask her if it was a Shadow again, and so the incense gets whipped out haha.

I have to admit I miss dreaming.  It was fun asserting lucidity in nightmares!  'You're in my realm now, <redacted>!' /cackle

heh, yeah, it could have been a shadow or imagination.

I've been having more experiences, some have helped me isolate some key rules.

I've been able to isolate and test differences in dream types.
legit dreams are typically based upon real life premises, questions I even so much as had as a passing thought, things I've seen, so on and so forth. such dreams likely wont have much order, characters in such dreams will not reply if I cannot think up a response. not all senses if any will work in these dreams beyond basic unclear sight, voices of people are merely imagined thoughts in my head coming to the front for processing like an internal voice during thought processes.. When having these dreams either both my palms are not touching the bed, or there is no 'energy' venting from my palms when I start to relax, or the energy output is disrupted due to waking myself up again or moving my arms or pose. entering such a dream is no more so than the difference of minimizing one window and maximizing another then focusing on it.

then theres the second type.. which is the opposite in all regards, things I see in these are not based on anything I had experienced while awake, nor on my own thoughts, characters can respond in ways I would not expect, and hold actual conversations with me. all senses work in these dreams. before having these dreams typically both my palms default to touching the bed and as I relax my mind it's like a energy begins to be released from my elbows to my palms kinda like a sensation of letting out sparkly clouds or gas of some sort. upon entering such a dream after testiing by suddenly ejecting myself, I found there was mental motion, as in my mind was moved to and from some point over a given 'random' vector, however, I also tested prematurly openning my dream eyes and trying to bring myself to focus, doing so stopped stopped the mental motion leaving me stranded at some intermediary point (I was inside some sort of wall like structure and there was not enough space for me so upon trying to engage touch senses there was pressure on me where the wall intersected my body and immersion was canceled and I was ejected out of the dream and my mind moved back to here).

that's what it's like. my mind actually feels like it's in motion speeding off somewhere. and I have no idea what the energy I release is, only that it's invisible and not anything to do with bloodpressure as there's no beating sensation, it seems to be a legit energy as when I put my fingertips of opposite hands together I can feel it cycle hand to hand.
also while in this state my real body seems to be completely out of contact, I have to reach out to it and zip back.. I rarely have been observant enough to recognise the mental movement, I noted it before but now I'm starting to understand it happens both ways (away and back) every time, away at the start (I usually am unaware of it), and back again at the end.

further more, there was something else I was going to note but can't remember; ah yes memories, or rather separate memories, some dreams like this cannot be remembered because it's like my mind has to trade memory stores in order to wake up, if I have enough time after waking I have to essentially reach out with my mind and download copies of memories from the "dream memory cache" into the "awake memory cache" sometimes this is unsuccessful, and is only possible by attempting to initiate the general feeling of the atmosphere of the dream which triggers me to fly off back to that place in mind, where I kinda have to set a subconscious recording state here in reality, go in grab the info and rush back, but if in my absence my brain stopped recording then the memories fail to return with me, it's like they hit a wall and get stripped off me like plastic wrap off of a plate of food, as my mind continues the rest of the journey back. sometimes consciously verbally asking for info on it outloud results in the memories of a record of the dream materializing in my mind. sometimes discussing that I can't remember some part causes that part to come to me. sometimes only while typing about it can the memory be retrieved.

the fact of the mental motion is starting to make me think theres something a little more to the second dream type. especially combined with my former report of my hand hitting the corner of the file cabinet but in reality did not move.

sometimes while awake now I find in certain situations where I'm lost in thought and really feel drawn to put out my hand towards someone to touch them on the shoulder in example or something, it's the same feeling, my hand goes out and touches them but my real hand doesn't move and the second I realize this fact the sensation of my mental arm touching them can't be felt, no more so than the lingering feeling of the atmosphere of the instance. I do see reactions (they suddenly shift focus and look at everyone around them), but I don't have the guts to ask "hey did you feel a hand on your shoulder a few moments ago?" because then I'd have to expain myself. talking about it here has some anonymity.

there are some other instances I am now remembering.. where while awake I was overtaken by a compulsory daydream which immediately became vivid and lucid.. I wrote about that on another forum and am now just seeing some relevance.

until I get solid confirmation I'll still be largely mentally skeptic. I mean just because I tap someone on the shoulder with a sub-conscious mental arm and they happen to look up and glance around doesn't mean they really felt it does it? it could just be chance.

oh well, just adding in some report of new info. now to see which of the 2 types of dreams I'm off to tonight.

"and here I thought I had had a good night"

my dreams were good. they were still very vivid and lucid. but nothing strange to report, or so I thought.

I slept til 5:30 am when bugbites on my leg started to itch too bad to stay asleep, I tried to go back to sleep until 6, it didn't work so I got up to go to the north side of the house to put something on the bites. then I came back and went to sleep, had a strange dream but not a bad dream. then got up not long ago.

but then I was told by another person in the house they saw me get up at 4:30 in the morning and stand in the door of their room. they don't know about my dreamlogs or any of the strange stuff I report here. however at the time they say I was there I can verify I was in my room sleeping with my door closed.

odlly enough my first dream wasn't a dream. it was my brain doing what it does sometimes.. it was reviewing anime and cartoons I had watched while awake and considering what would have happened if [insert change in plot] and doing that for hundreds of plot changes parallel to eachother. my subconscious does this as a hobby with his time. it takes mental effort to stop said "alternate plot overviews", kinda like theres inertia and force behind it and I need to bring it to a stop. sometimes it goes on in the background while watching things, and it can cause headaches if writers pull things and include bad endings that my brain wants to correct.

So I was aware I was physically in bed because my subconscious bogarded the rem state for anime review and I was essentially allong for the ride yet kinda awake too. I could feel covers on me and the bed under me and the cieling fan was blowing on me.

so, I didn't leave bed until 6am to go put bug bite stuff on in the north of the house. but someone saw me at 4:30 standing in the door of their room in the south of the house the other direction from my room. I did not dream such a thing. and at that time I was essentially lost in thought in bed. I told them it couldn't have been me because I was in bed then. they insisted it was definitely me. they said I was looking for the cat.


Wait, there was a first dream, it just came back to me. it was a dream parallel to my subconscious' anime review, in that dream I was in a park, and everyone was showcasing the use of super abilities applied to landscaping, I did some weeding of a large area, but for somereason grassclippings kept returning after I was done.. after that we left the park to go home in a car. I was in the passenger seat while a recurring dream character drove. we passed by a stray duckling on the roadside so I had them stop and went and picked it up, it had brown and yellow coloring, I thought we'd take it home and raise it. then the bugbites broke me out of that dream and it was just my subconscious doing anime review.

but I never left my room. so, it's strange someone saw me. I'm wondering if they saw dream-me or a spectre of me. but I didn't dream of going to their room. maybe they were dreaming. I don't know, just that they were certain I had been there.

if dream me did end up here, we'd probably have a Lucy Dreamtime episode until I woke up. I mean if I'm visible and corporeal in that state then so too will be anything I imagine in that state.  I just have to hope they dreamed this and dream me wasn't really here.

I work on this periodically, so far I've made a sorta kinda summary of the information types displayed in the effects tab. though not all powers have effects info. and some powers may break the mold. I guess it's good as is and individual powers will set what they put where in that tab. sometimes I overthink things and get stuck trying to one-size-fits-all something that needs to be dynamic. posting about it can help me see my logical errors. right, rather than dwell on it, I'll just adjust the height of the table cells and move on to the next tab.

the goal is to have the tabs ready to go at some default state so I can have all the object  IDs so I can start programming what info to fill in where, and consequently start dictionarying the meat of the program in stats. that will be a major chore lol. I could probably get through one powerset a day, if I work on it every day, which I probably wont, I have alot of commitments I'm juggling atm many are time sensitive, I still plan time for projects, but haven't had much hero-time lately.

I've been having some interesting dream travels, but I can't talk much about the content here, though I remember it. however. there has been a take away;

so, the weather irl did a spring rollercoaster ride the past few weeks. It was cool, then got warm, then hot, then warm, and for the past few nights cold temps but not freezing. because of the hot weather I was forced to remove a duvet/comforter and blanket I had on during winter to stay warm, but when it went cold the past few nights, I have to report something strange: I was oblivious and didn't feel cold at all in my dreams. Only when I began to wake up normally did I start to feel the cold and it's been too cold to get back to sleep (so I'll be puting on another layer tonight).

this is strange because my senses are heightenned while asleep, or at least hearing is. but it's like feeling/touch and light responsivity and smell are not active at all, it's like they shutdown for me until I wake up. this includes feeling temperatures.

Even during the hot weather when I had 3 warm covers, I didn't feel I was too hot nor hot at all until I woke up, then I was too hot to get back to sleep.

hot nor cold register to me while asleep. but in dreams temperatures do register, as does every other sense.

when I wake up my body temp is normal until I come back to reality then I feel it change from normal to hot or cold based on the temp around me. meaning it's not just a mind thing, it's like my body is somehow maintainiing whatever temp I had when I went to sleep even in the face of the temp in reality changing.

come to think of it the reverse is also true, if for example it's a hot day and I have dreams where I'm in some frigid place I'll wake up unnaturally cold and have to warm up.

the body's ability to regulate temperatures can't be that intense can it? if it were like that then being hot or cold would be all in our minds, but we know that's not the case, temp is temp, when it's hot we get hot, when it's cold we get cold it's not something we can dodge or avoid. so why doesn't it seem to work while I'm asleep?

so, last night I couldn't sleep. or at least I thought I couldn't, but must have dozed off long enough to sleep.

I remember there was a dream, it was kinda long, but I only remember it was just me in one place doing a long list of chores/tasks/work of different types. in fact I can't honestly say it was me doing it, it was more just instinct, like I was not really mentally present but on auto-drive. I was kinda aware of doing the work, but also kinda not aware.

my brain shocked me awake with the same thing it had been doing all night, presenting a question I had answered already but my subconcious either didn't like the answer or couldn't understand it or didn't try. kinda a "what are you doing sleeping? I want an answer to this!!".

anyways, as I woke up I was inbetween dream and reality for a few seconds. I was pretty worn out from the load of work I did yesterday and lack of sufficient sleep, so I was going to just glance over the dream+reality state without noticing. but then I was forced to take notice because a dream character started shouting "Hey!!, Hey!!! Thankyou!" and as I took notice I realized it was like I was flying away from whoever it was as if I was being dragged by some force like magnetism back to my body. when I touched my body the dream+reality state ceased abruptly and I was fully awake with my subconscious nagging me.

there have been some other occurrences of dream+reality instances of late, I was going to write a few here but. the content is far too intimately personal, so I wont be writing about those.

so aparently I did alot of work for someone somewhere. I have no idea what I did exactly, but it was nice they went out of their way to thank me as a send-off.

When talking about Energy Control with a focus on lanterns, 2 defensive powers come into play

Energy Aura: a form-wrapping energy that supplies moderate resistance to nearly everything. we'll say 7% res to all but psionic.

Energy Bubble: Summon: Energy Shield, a form of energy in a ball it can be applied to self or self+team and will move with you, this bubble provides Powerful Defense and Res buffs while active(enhanceable for Def, Res, End reduction, accuracy, and Recharge time, Sets allowed: Defense sets, universal controller ATOs). You can attack while using it, however as it is a summoned form made of energy, there is an upper limit of damage it can sustain before it dissolves and will need to be recast, this upper limit(Shield HP) changes based on the proficiency(level) of the user. Your energy shield can be targetted, healed and buffed or replensished by retoggling. Activation time: 0.75s, Recharge: 60 seconds. "Quick-Cast, Protect-my-ass" we'll say 15% def and 15% res to all but psionic, and maybe the bubble has 3000 HP at level 50 (keep in mind it itself has no defense unless buffed with +def, so all attacks hit it, and it has no res unless buffed with +res, so it recieves all attacks at full force, 2 to 3 strong hits could cause it to fail, 1 hit from AVs may cause it to fail). Some attacks do get through, but their intensity is reduced.


after that offensive abilities are mostly Immobilize, hold, KB/KU/KD, and Smashing/Energy.

Immobilize might be "Energy Tentacles": you manifest energy tentacles around the feet of your foes in a target radius preventing them from moving and dealing moderate Energy/Smashing DoT.

Hold might be "Energy Prism": Much like your Energy Bubble ability, this ability casts a barrier around an enemy preventing their movement and attacks from getting out but allowing attacks to get in, it also debuffs the enemy's defense and accuracy while active, it has no expiration timer, however it can be broken by the target if it sustains enough damage. Energy Prism can be healed and buffed or repaired by recasting.

(Perhaps instead of making Energy Prism a separate power make Energy Bubble able to effect Self, Self+Team as a +def +res power, OR effect TAoE Foe as Hold -Def High DoT Energy), that is to say you can't cast it on yoursel+team and a Foe TAoE at the same time, you must detoggle 1 and recast for the other. it'd cast on self+team if no target or if target is friendly, and if target is foe cast on foe TAoE.

I could see a force move field which juggles enemies in the air like an energy-trampoline, Moderate Energy Damage, Disorient and KU on touch.


Smashing/Energy attacks would be KD, KB, KU secondary, and likely TAoE or LAoE(mouse pointer location AoE)

I could see one power akin to Hurl from Super Strength, which spawns a random object Surrounded by energy and smashes it down onto a target and surrounding mobs. Causing Very High Damage Smashing/Energy, Stun+Disorient, and KD. "Here, have a tank, let me grind that down in for you", unlike hurl, this attack could be kinda a multi-hit, where the object is not just smashed down but also picked up and smashed down several times over, dealing like triple Hurl's total damage+ energy.

As for KB I could see a barrage of energy objects cast in a Wide Long Cone, maybe Energy Missiles, Extreme damage Energy/Fire, KB, disorient.

We Should throw in a pet of some sort, like an energy giant or one of my other suggestions.

could have some sort of energy vice, like a car crusher to hold enemies in place for X time and damage.


Edit:

a few more;

a potential single target immobilize could be
Energy Snare, a type of bola made of energy, traditionally thrown at an enemy's legs to immobilize and knock down. in this case the bola will be cast/shot with high force, and contain some minor energy damage over time.

a potential hold
Energy Net: you cast a net made of energy at a target that wraps them in it tightly preventing movement or attack. it deals moderate energy dot.

That would be cool.  Not because I care about lanterns (I don't know much about 'em beyond what I played of DCUO), but because that's the sort of effects I can justify with a Technology origin, and I always really like hypertech stuff in my vidja gaems.

I suggest you watch the movie. you know the actor for deadpool? he plays the main character. As far as I know that make Ryan Reynolds the only actor to bridge the Marvel & DC universe gap and personify a main character in each. this is an interesting concept because usually once you act for one studio or one corporate body, they tend to put restrictions on you acting in parts for their competition. So the fact Marvel/Disney could pick up a DC actor really is quite the anomaly. Someone in DC's legal team must have forgotten to dot the i's or cross the t's.

in other related situations, to properly come up with an energy control set, one must watch the green lantern movie with ryan reynolds. the comics may help as well. but the movie can give some general ideas. so that's what I'll do today, rewatch the movie and log some of the control type attacks used(naturally we'll need to use them as nothing more than a generalized inspiration for creating CoH specific energy control whilst thinking about polygons.

Also theres 3 Cartoon movies. I'll give them a watch first as I've already seen the live action one before.


Edit, theres also a green lantern animated series

UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie

This series had long been suggested to me by a friend in highschool back in 2004. I finally watched all 32 episodes of it a few years back and though I felt it heartwarming and a good story, I was kinda (:/) at they way they ended it (though I wont spoil the contet nor ending, this is just my opinion). I thought "Surely there must be more to finish the story", so I went looking for the manga hoping to see the story continue to it's end.

that... did not go as planned.

What I found is there's only 4 issues of the manga in existence. The manga doesn't even cover the majority of the story in the anime. And the manga doesn't really provide any insight into how the author desired this story to end. (which is probably why the anime never got that far, they didn't want to overstep their authority so as to give the author a chance to decide on an ending on his own).

Most of the story in the anime is well composed, perhaps better than in the super short manga.

But the questions I have are
"Why did the author stop writing the manga after 4 issues?"
"Who's bright idea was it to make 32 episodes of anime content out of a 4 issue manga?"

Other than that it's a highly suggested anime, it does have some adult content(so it's not for kids), but it's no more so than a similarity to nudity in dragonball (casual nudity in anime was actually normal in japan back then. even japanese children's shows would use nudity in casual or comedic ways), this anime was designed for teenagers in japan, given it only has top nudity and minor adult themes; mostly alcohol, that would qualify it for PG-13 or T for teen ratings in the USA.

The English dub was at one point on cable TV in the US.

If you've never seen this story, it's a kinda heart string puller and perhaps a little depressing at times in my opinion, though I think the story is potentially a great story.

a few notes; due to the plot of this series it may not be legally safe to view in the EU, UK, Canada, nor Australia. If you live in these regions, do not watch it online without a really good script blocker that blocks analytics and trackers, and perhaps a vpn.

sadly alot of japanese anime series are illegal materials in the UK, canada, australia and the EU, and could send you to jail for ordering, watching, sharing, or viewing them.

with that said, I'm not linking where to watch it.

If you do want to watch it, I suggest starting with episode 2 and 3 then episode 1,4 and on. they misordered episode 1 as a kinda "Pilot episode" releasing it first to give a general synopsis of the story without explaining events that led upto it clearly, where as Episode 2 shows the real beginning of the story, and episode 3 is a direct continuation. Episode 1 chronologically fits in after that.

I reckon if we do energy control, it might be more in the vein of hardlight powers a la green lantern

I strongly agree!

perhaps I should reenvision the set based off that.

If anyone has any input on powers of that sort they'd like to see, have them posted here. then at some point we can run a few polls to have the playerbase give their 2 cents on what should be included at each power tier, where the devs use this to inform their final decision.

I'm now thinking based on lanterns, the intellect of the lantern determines the complexity of the things they can create. So perhaps that should be the "special" attribute to all energy control powers a kinda "level modifier"
energy shackles,
lv 1: Targeted AoE (1 target) energy rings to bind the enemies' feet together to stop them from moving. (immobilize)
lv 10: Targetted AoE (3 targets) energy rings bind the enemies' feet stopping movement (immobilize)
lv 20: Targetted AoE (9 targets) energy rings bind the enemies' feet and hands, stopping movement and limiting attacks (hold)
lv 30: Targetted AoE (20 targets) energy rings wrap around the targets in bands from head to toe, restricting all movement and attacks (stronger hold).

not sure this is a good idea but it's an example.

https://betanews.com/2025/03/10/firefox-addons-breaking-update-now/

so, I had to learn to hack my browser to reenable addons, all was well but advanced cookie manager was causing firefox 51 to drop all my other addons. I eventually hacked them all back in successfully, but then.. some sort of timer expired and disabled my addons. in the end I toasted aushelper (as it's the primary addon shipped with ff and built in and needs to be hacked to disable it) so now there shouldn't be any update checking functionality. I also removed all the update urls in about:config.

at first doing that broke all my addons, I had to remove them individually add them in temp, then hack them in permanently and changed the extension update interval to as high a number as it will go then disabled all updating in about config as well. even so I expect it to break again, just maybe half a year later instead of daily or every 2 days.

I'm hessitant to try to hack advanced cookie manager in again, I do have ccleaner as a backup, but that only allows cookie deletion while the browser is closed, where advanced cookie manager allowed full cookie manipulation while the browser is active. As it took some major messing about with hacking and backup files to get the main functional addons (a good adblocker with an options page that actually works and is visible, noscript, and downthemall download manager) in place again, I'd rather not attempt to hack in an addon that requires a browser restart right now and risk it bumping all my addons.

at this point I'm almost tempted to go find the sourcecode for ff51 and modify out all it's addon restrictions and just put in a confirmation window and password to install addons as a security measure..

I'm strongly considering palemoon atm as that will be easier as I wont need to do anything other than install a browser. I'm only a hero if I have to be, redoing sourcecode? I'd rather not, I have enough projects this addon disabling issue is already effecting (I'm spending time hacking my browser and fighting mozilla's new attack on legacy addons instead of working on projects). Worst part is the disabling seems to happen every few days in the evening time. I honestly hope adjusting the timer helped.

software built like this is the epitome of poorly designed. everything relies on connections to some server and opinions of the devs rather than user preference.

oh well, if anyone has any info to help this addon protection process let me know.

[After]

well, things have been getting strange again to say the least.

last night as I laid down to go to bed something strange took place. Normally you may be aware from reading here that I've had instances where my mind gets into a state inbetween dream and reality After I wake up for a short time; but yesterday it was Before I actually got to sleep.

this time it happened twice in succession every time I tried to get to sleep.

The first time I actually wasn't trying to go to sleep, I had my eyes closed and I was thinking about stuff and I must have begun to drift off. Immediately as soon as I entered that state I heard the sound of something rubbing on fabric not two feet to my right. this shocked me as I was alone and not moving and still semi-conscious. I had been in the inbetween dream and reality state, and when I got disturbed by the loud sound right next to me, I enetered the fully awake state of mind and the sound stopped immediately as if cutoff abruptly. I do have cloth things in that region something could have rubbed up against, but they are window covering sunshades and there's nothing up at that level to rub against them and the fact the sound stopped abruptly (like before finishing) when I entered an awake state I figure it was not a real-life audible sound.

being a sound situation I am aware that in such a state hearing is heightenned. but still there was nothing to rub against any cloth to cause the sound.


The Second Instance: I calmed myself back down when i called out and no one answered and all was silent. satisfied nothing was trying to make first contact so to speak, I went back into my thoughts and eventually I closed my eyes again over the course of like less than a minute. Then I must have begun to fall asleep again. In a state inbetween dream and reality I was aware I was laying on my bed, and I raised my right hand out to the side to stretch as if yawning. but my hand hit the corner of the object (a metal filing cabinet I use as a computer stand to work from bed) but instead of a sharp feeling of a corner cutting me, it was an electrical shock to the back of my hand where the corner hit. I immediately woke up, and my hand was not out to the side at all, it was safely tucked under thick warm blankets and sheets and had not been moved. there was not physical damage to the back of my hand, and the shock feeling was gone.


there was a third event on the same night. It was a strange one indeed. after I tried to get back to sleep and entered the in-between dream and reality state, I was greeted by a young dark-skinned teenager in a suit, he was sat down on something I couldn't see above my head level everything was black like the darkness of space around us, except where he was, it was slightly illuminated like a dull grey faint glow behind him. he said "just so you know, I brought you here by my power, not yours." and I was in a snarky mood, so I said "oh, are you sure?" and tried to see if this situation in question was at all connected to my mind by increasing my brain activity by willing to try to take control of the instance. in doing so I found I felt weak like though I tried hard my mental activity could not control the whole instance outside a small area around me, like a few inches. he just stared at me his expression had not changed the entire time, he looked like he was talking to a lesser being and didn't really care as if this was a task from someone else, yet there was a tiny bit of respect in his gaze.

needless to say upping by brain activity woke me up after a few moments so I was not capable of completing the conversation or asking any more.

for the past few nights before this I.. had a hard time remembering my dreams at all, it was like my brain was full and the memories wouldn't stick, or like I left the memories behind in the dream state. I prayed for help to remember them, as I could vaguely remember some situations but not the words which were spoken. and in those dreams (with an unknown figure with a skirt and long hair and a strong light behind them) the words were important. and within seconds I was back asleep and had the same convo in the same place as in the previous dream and the repeated the same words, but as soon as I woke up I could not remember them though I tried to keep them front and center in my mind and that remembering of the words took such mental strain that I woke up in the process.

I can remember the basic idea of the convo "if you want to meet with me whether in dream or reality, just [can't remember, but it's an easy and simple task for me that comes naturally], [can't remember, but it's an easy and simple task for me that comes naturally], and [can't remember, but it's an easy and simple task for me that comes naturally]." in the dream both times I recollected "that's easy".

3 things. but I can't remember them at all. I tried for hours to try to retrace my dream to try to see if I could force a recollection of what was spoken, no go.

oh well, I have been praying to God for specifics lately, some about what I aught to be focusing on about the near future.

I had an eerie dream a few weeks ago where there was this girl who said "with your rate of working, I'm worried you don't have enough time to pass-on anything." and previous dreams were about me teaching things, or making things like games.

Also irl my heart isn't doing too well these past few days. it's beating alright and such but I feel like it's filled with some sort of chemical the kind like when you feel anxious or stressed. 2 days ago it was the worst after I did some physical work outside raking up stuff), bagging the stuff, and lifting and carting the bags around. they were heavy. I took a day off after that, because that night.. I could not get to sleep easily. it was rough. my heart did not feel good at all.

According to that other dream from a few months back I'm supposed to have 264 lives... but.. does that include healing when I come back like in city of heroes? or do I come back with the same worn out organs?..

that one time I actually died in reality from a lung infection in 2016.. God passed judgement and let me come back, albeit with damage to a few things; lungs, heart, brain, tendons, muscles, and probably a few other things, I honestly thought I was getting better, haven't had any low blood oxygen incidents for like a year. But I still apparently get winded easily during physical labor, and apparently my heart, (though I thought it was much stronger than before because I can sleep with my left arm at any angle and it doesn't fall asleep, and my heart seems to beat semi-normally) still has issues, mostly chemical issues it would seem. so.. physical labor in certain levels is a no. I'm only 39 and I already have the physical capabilities of a 90 year old. oh well, not much I can do I'm not worried about it. I just gotta get my butt to work on computer stuff, after all, that doesn't require any special blood oxygen or blood pressure.

the look on the doctor's face who took my blood oxygen readings a few years back - priceless.

"can I try it on your thumb? it's saying 0 oxygen on your index finger, I think it's broken"
"nope it's still 0 on your thumb, can you try breathing?"

me "oh, right, sorry my subconscious went on holiday and I forgot to breathe manually" *breathes*
"... well that's mildly better.. you really shouldn't be up and walking around with blood oxygen levels like this, do you ever faint suddenly while doing things?"

"nope, sometimes my vision goes black but that's about it"

*doctor stares at me* "lets try not to have you put yourself in such situations then".

sorry, but that makes me chuckle.. idk what it is about 0 blood oxygen and still being conscious that makes me laugh when people get freaked out by it. sometimes I joke that I'm technically "undead" though not like a zombie or anything as I am quite alive actually, I just died once that's all. ok now my brain is making comedic materials, I just imagined a zombie passing by, stopping, and saying "hey.." as if he recognizes me as a fellow lol.

ok enough morbid jokes and talk. I'm not goth, and I try not to be emo. maybe my health is why I have these strange situations. I don't worry any more because at least from my experience I know God is there and who he is, even if he was quite wroth.. so either way I have someplace to go. now I just have to focus on actually doing something with whatever years I've got left, even if it were 60 years, I still need to accomplish more than watching anime and gardening don't I?

Bids at the rates listed are posted on the L 28 recipies in WW. keep em coming.

Less spyware... what happens is Mozilla uses and is funded by Google Ads. Google in turn does actively go against them, as noted they deliberately fucked up Youtube for firefox (this was found a while back, a specific browser check)... it's possibly to encourage people to move to chrome, almost certainly because of manifest2 and advanced adblockers like ublock origin which bypass ads and aren't detectable by most means.

As for the IP... it's google cloud. That's like saying a company is allied with Jeff Bezos because they use AWS.

a fair argument, but one must remember google had planned to create an internet hosting and ISP service called "googlefiber", they decided against it because it'd add argument to injury for any government to come after them with monopoly charges for owning too many varied aspects of the internet. So google fiber was torched and dropped. Google does not officially offer hosting nor ISP services, and legally they cannot (without an antitrust lawsuit for monopolization and proprietization of the internet, they are toing that line really hard but they wont dare cross it, some argue they've already crossed it by proprietizing the way the internet is written and gatekeeping things like googlejavascript to demand other browser developers include spyware to be able to even program their browser to see things like webp images in example).

but the fact is, you cannot host a website on google's servers as they are not allowed to branch into that business.

so mozilla.com being hosted on google's servers? it makes them a subsidiary at the least. now a subsidiary can bypass corporate directive for specifics that are allowed under their contract, so this is where things like manifest versions are not mandated in the subsidiary contract, so mozilla teams can make that call to not include manifestV3, but google can just "advise" their agents who have infiltrated various website teams to write in a block at website level blocking noncompliant browsers just by not being able to know the difference between "devicewidth" and "________webkitdevicewidth" causing display of objects or location formatting to fail. and every time mozilla programs a workaround to understand it with the underscores and naming convention google will change it adding another _ to the front and changing the wording and advising their spies in various websites to apply such unnecessary changes immediately to the websites they maintain.

it's a vicious cycle, and while mozilla has some autonomy, they are a subsidiary of google, and all it'll take is a new contract which mandates they follow all google advice and bam, firefox will be no different than chrome.

also we have no way of knowing how many google agents secretly actually work at mozilla and at what levels. it really has gotten that bad. but the fact they host themselves on googles servers puts them under google's ToS for subsidiaries.

essentially mozilla made a bad partnership, and now they are being eaten alive by a silent invisible hostile takeover. it's only a matter of time till google eats their hands and they can no longer modify google web browser code to deviate from google demands. seeing that? I just don't play their games, I understand it's just a slow and painful death left for mozilla, and theres no hope of them freeing themselves from google any more. So I just use an outdated browser, and what sites don't work in it, I ignore. if more people did the same, websites would be forcced to accommodate older browsers and all this proprietization by google would have to be undone or they'd lose their market share. but sadly most people don't care. some even defend the spying. "they need to know my bank login details to keep them secure"

security is the next target for google, they are planning and have already begun taking over all the data excryption key and certificate providers. they have already voiced that they plan to eventually not supply these certificates to non-compliant browsers and foricng the new certificates for all https websites and removing non-https variants resulting in a "SSL no Cypher overlap error" for browsers which do not conform.

This is a real error you can encounter, it looks like a page where the certificate has expired or is for a different domain name, normally you can "add an exception" but in this case no option is given because the site merely doesn't share any SSL encryption cyphers with you, and if you don't share at least ONE cypher then you and the website in question cannot exchange any SSL encrypted information, resulting in permanent failure to load the site if it's SSL ONLY. it's true it'd be as simple as asking them to use some older cypher certificates, but likely they'll tell you "those are no longer secure, google said so, so no, we wont." or "we lost those in the last update and are unable to restore them as they cannot be loaded into the newly updated SSL certificate store as they are in an incompatible format, the new certificate store only accepts .cypher15(madeup as an example of how they plan to implement this block) formats."

google is evil.. and any company associated with them is forced to toe the line. a corrupt bloated corporation that has lost all morals and ethics towards people. we are just data to sell.

well they don't get my data. I live under a very secure rock against their advances.

here, want more information from another more intelligent person than me who has looked into this at a sourcecode level and also sees that mozilla is a slave to google if not part of the same company just from sourcecode?: https://digdeeper.neocities.org/articles/browsers