Just got my first HomeKit equipment yesterday, a HomePod mini and some Nanoleaf essentials bulbs. When using the color picker in the home app, the thumbnail color is incorrect, and the selected color is not tracking in UI.
For instance, I will set one of the 6 presets to a soft white, but it shows green in the home app. Selecting that green always gives me soft white. Additionally, selecting that green will not track in the home app, and will show a different preset being current.
Automations will work sometimes for color, but sometimes lights will not change color unless the previous automation is selected, then the one I’m changing to is run a 2nd or 3rd time.
I’m going a bit crazy. Ive factory reset and repaired each bulb, as well as deleted my home and started again. Is there anyway to fix this? Is this an issue with these bulbs, thread, or the home app? Do competing products like hue have all of the same issues, some, or just none?

Hello everyone! BigHedDjango here, tunes for this week to help you out.
Weekly photo: https://i.imgur.com/Jx593a3.png
Photo by Benny Driving. Check out more of their photos in-game!
All feedback on tunes is appreciated - good or bad. Specially when tunes are bad. At the end of the day I am just the mechanic and you guys are the racers. Do not hesitate irrespective of your tuning knowledge or racing skills!
Tuning method: 1. Stock look - stock wheel rims, default wheel rim sizes, no aero (unless absolutely necessary for handling and stability) 2. Max performance with max handling possible 3. All cars tuned vs. Unbeatable AI on championship tracks in seasonal weather. However! Unbeatable AI is broken and bugged. Not every car can win 7/10 random races vs Unbeatable AI without abusing rewind/restart. Very few cars can beat it consistently. Hope it gets fixed soon one day... 4. Bodykit only used if it does not ruin performance

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FORZATHON WEEKLY CHALLENGE - Designed For Driving

2011 BMW X5 M * Tune - 995 890 327 (S1 road tune) * Full aero; Roof lights; Custom rims; Widebody kit; Anti-lag * Good launch; Good acceleration; Decent grip even on wet roads * Event Lab BP - Easy Win Street Scene Sprint - 134 229 457

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TRIAL - Bucking Broncos

Road Racing - Super Saloons - A 800

NOTE: Try to block and slow down AI and help teammates in order to win. One player on the team needs to take at least P3 and slow down the AI for a guaranteed win

2014 BMW M4 Coupe * Tune - 993 434 123
2012 Mercedes-Benz C 63 AMG Coupe Black Series * Tune - 160 911 714 (v3 - full rebuild)
2018 Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe * Tune - 537 526 594 * 6-gears; Heavy but fun to drive; v2 - full rebuild

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EVENT LAB - How The West Was Raced

Offroad Capable - A 800

2016 Jeep Trailcat * Tune - 108 275 805 * Front bumper; Roof lightbar; Rear tire rack; Stock engine; Purist

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SEASONAL PR STUNTS

Anything Goes - S2 998

Speed Zone - El Gancho

1998 Mercedes-Benz AMG CLK GTR * Tune - 788 818 587 (Tune by KapienPL; Full aero; Anti-lag) * Start ~700 yards from the east. Don't try and be fast, easy zone

Trailblazer - Festival Descend

2010 Mosler MT900S * Tune - 178 075 164 * Start ~170 yards from north, drive straight and turn right. You need to form an arc as you make the jump and be as close to the right side flag as possible. Land in decline and follow it to bottom, then to finish

(Rally Adventure) Danger Sign - Palm Forest

2019 Rimac Concept Two * Tune - 540 241 336 (Full aero tune; Custom rims) * Start in north hairpin

(Hot Wheels) Danger Sign - Forest Escape

2019 Rimac Concept Two * Tune - 540 241 336 (Full aero tune; Custom rims) * Start at T-junction north-east from danger sign, ~480 yards

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NOTE: All Championships are locked to Highly Skilled difficulty

CHAMPIONSHIP 1 - Tropic Like It's Hot

Cross Country - Pickups & 4x4s - C 600

1970 International Scount 800A * Tune - 290 055 452 * Meta car so pretty good vs Unbeatable AI
2021 Ford Bronco * Tune - 456 879 906 * Good handling but lacks top speed and accel; Stock engine; True Purist
2019 Ford Ranger Raptor * Tune - 654 789 344 * Very similar to 2017 Raptor but just a tiny bit faster, both different to drive
2017 Ford F-150 Raptor * Tune - 870 386 833
2011 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor * Tune - 111 907 592
2016 Nissan Titan Warrior Concept * Tune - 103 379 176
1972 Land Rover Series III * Tune - 555 073 331 * Rear aero; High profile tires

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CHAMPIONSHIP 2 - Ramble Scramble

Dirt Racing - AWD - A 800

2018 Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5 * Tune - 589 436 345 * Good mid-speed accel; Comfortable to drive
2004 Subaru Impreza WRX STI * Tune - 306 845 045 * Meta-ish car; Smokes Unbeatable AI
2015 Volvo V60 Polestar * Tune - 984 714 246
1969 Ford Mustang Boss 302 * Tune - 246 848 148 * Superb
2017 Ford Focus RS * Tune - 177 632 175 * Tiny lip rear wing; Car needs feathered throttle for fast corners else looses traction

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CHAMPIONSHIP 3 - Letting Off Steam (Rally Adventure)

Dirt Rally - Buggies - D 500

1969 Volkswagen Class 5/1600 Baja Bug * Tune - 468 672 875 * Stock engine; Can almost-never win vs Unbeatable AI; v3 - major retune, smoother, better suspension
1970 Volkswagen #1107 Desert Dingo Racing Stock Bug * Tune - 182 732 413 * Slower; Rollover fixed, no sim steering required (but report any issues); Can never win vs Unbeatable AI; 7-gears; Stock engine; v2 - full rebuild, smoother

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CHAMPIONSHIP 4 - The Chosen One (Hot Wheels)

Hazard - Rally Monsters - A 800

2007 Peugeot 207 Super 2000 * Tune - 841 509 187 * Biggest rear rims; Stock engine
1991 Hoonigan GYMKHANA 10 Ford Escort Cosworth Group A * Tune - 544 505 270 * What Unbeatable AI? 7 gears, 6 usable
1994 Hoonigan Ford Escort RS Cosworth "Cossie V2" * Tune - 796 319 780 * Good handling but low top speed; Purist; Stock engine only
1984 Opel Manta 400 * Tune - 396 029 853 * Innate suspension problems, cannot be tuned out completely

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EVENT LAB BLUEPRINTS!

Easy Win Road Sprint - 696 659 852
Easy Win Road Circuit - 177 632 200
Easy Win Dirt Trail - 991 376 926
Easy Win Dirt Scramble - 135 436 707
Easy Win Cross Country Sprint - 114 199 871
Easy Win Cross Country Circuit - 181 401 852
Easy Win Street Scene Sprint - 134 229 457
Easy Win Drag Strip - 812 084 897

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HORIZON 4 AND 5 TUNES ARCHIVE THREAD!

https://www.reddit.com/useBigHeadDjango/comments/r4ptt6/forza_horizon_4_and_horizon_5_tunes_archive/

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Thank you to everyone for your downloads, uses, likes, follows, shares and feedback! Check my in-game profile for more tunes. You can check my reddit profile for more content
📸 Also don't stop yourself from checking out my photos on the creative hub. Wow! What beautiful photos! 📸
Don't hesitate to ask if you need any help!
🛠️ I am open to requests for cars you might want me to tune! It would also help me understand FH5 tuning better. So let me know the car and class and I'd get back to you! 🛠️

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Have a great week! 🥳

Hello everyone! BigHedDjango here, tunes for this week to help you out.
Weekly photo: https://i.imgur.com/Jx593a3.png
Photo by Benny Driving. Check out more of their photos in-game!
All feedback on tunes is appreciated - good or bad. Specially when tunes are bad. At the end of the day I am just the mechanic and you guys are the racers. Do not hesitate irrespective of your tuning knowledge or racing skills!
Tuning method: 1. Stock look - stock wheel rims, default wheel rim sizes, no aero (unless absolutely necessary for handling and stability) 2. Max performance with max handling possible 3. All cars tuned vs. Unbeatable AI on championship tracks in seasonal weather. However! Unbeatable AI is broken and bugged. Not every car can win 7/10 random races vs Unbeatable AI without abusing rewind/restart. Very few cars can beat it consistently. Hope it gets fixed soon one day... 4. Bodykit only used if it does not ruin performance

___ 

FORZATHON WEEKLY CHALLENGE - Designed For Driving

2011 BMW X5 M * Tune - 995 890 327 (S1 road tune) * Full aero; Roof lights; Custom rims; Widebody kit; Anti-lag * Good launch; Good acceleration; Decent grip even on wet roads * Event Lab BP - Easy Win Street Scene Sprint - 134 229 457

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TRIAL - Bucking Broncos

Road Racing - Super Saloons - A 800

NOTE: Try to block and slow down AI and help teammates in order to win. One player on the team needs to take at least P3 and slow down the AI for a guaranteed win

2014 BMW M4 Coupe * Tune - 993 434 123
2012 Mercedes-Benz C 63 AMG Coupe Black Series * Tune - 160 911 714 (v3 - full rebuild)
2018 Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe * Tune - 537 526 594 * 6-gears; Heavy but fun to drive; v2 - full rebuild

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EVENT LAB - How The West Was Raced

Offroad Capable - A 800

2016 Jeep Trailcat * Tune - 108 275 805 * Front bumper; Roof lightbar; Rear tire rack; Stock engine; Purist

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SEASONAL PR STUNTS

Anything Goes - S2 998

Speed Zone - El Gancho

1998 Mercedes-Benz AMG CLK GTR * Tune - 788 818 587 (Tune by KapienPL; Full aero; Anti-lag) * Start ~700 yards from the east. Don't try and be fast, easy zone

Trailblazer - Festival Descend

2010 Mosler MT900S * Tune - 178 075 164 * Start ~170 yards from north, drive straight and turn right. You need to form an arc as you make the jump and be as close to the right side flag as possible. Land in decline and follow it to bottom, then to finish

(Rally Adventure) Danger Sign - Palm Forest

2019 Rimac Concept Two * Tune - 540 241 336 (Full aero tune; Custom rims) * Start in north hairpin

(Hot Wheels) Danger Sign - Forest Escape

2019 Rimac Concept Two * Tune - 540 241 336 (Full aero tune; Custom rims) * Start at T-junction north-east from danger sign, ~480 yards

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NOTE: All Championships are locked to Highly Skilled difficulty

CHAMPIONSHIP 1 - Tropic Like It's Hot

Cross Country - Pickups & 4x4s - C 600

1970 International Scount 800A * Tune - 290 055 452 * Meta car so pretty good vs Unbeatable AI
2021 Ford Bronco * Tune - 456 879 906 * Good handling but lacks top speed and accel; Stock engine; True Purist
2019 Ford Ranger Raptor * Tune - 654 789 344 * Very similar to 2017 Raptor but just a tiny bit faster, both different to drive
2017 Ford F-150 Raptor * Tune - 870 386 833
2011 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor * Tune - 111 907 592
2016 Nissan Titan Warrior Concept * Tune - 103 379 176
1972 Land Rover Series III * Tune - 555 073 331 * Rear aero; High profile tires

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CHAMPIONSHIP 2 - Ramble Scramble

Dirt Racing - AWD - A 800

2018 Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5 * Tune - 589 436 345 * Good mid-speed accel; Comfortable to drive
2004 Subaru Impreza WRX STI * Tune - 306 845 045 * Meta-ish car; Smokes Unbeatable AI
2015 Volvo V60 Polestar * Tune - 984 714 246
1969 Ford Mustang Boss 302 * Tune - 246 848 148 * Superb
2017 Ford Focus RS * Tune - 177 632 175 * Tiny lip rear wing; Car needs feathered throttle for fast corners else looses traction

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CHAMPIONSHIP 3 - Letting Off Steam (Rally Adventure)

Dirt Rally - Buggies - D 500

1969 Volkswagen Class 5/1600 Baja Bug * Tune - 468 672 875 * Stock engine; Can almost-never win vs Unbeatable AI; v3 - major retune, smoother, better suspension
1970 Volkswagen #1107 Desert Dingo Racing Stock Bug * Tune - 182 732 413 * Slower; Rollover fixed, no sim steering required (but report any issues); Can never win vs Unbeatable AI; 7-gears; Stock engine; v2 - full rebuild, smoother

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CHAMPIONSHIP 4 - The Chosen One (Hot Wheels)

Hazard - Rally Monsters - A 800

2007 Peugeot 207 Super 2000 * Tune - 841 509 187 * Biggest rear rims; Stock engine
1991 Hoonigan GYMKHANA 10 Ford Escort Cosworth Group A * Tune - 544 505 270 * What Unbeatable AI? 7 gears, 6 usable
1994 Hoonigan Ford Escort RS Cosworth "Cossie V2" * Tune - 796 319 780 * Good handling but low top speed; Purist; Stock engine only
1984 Opel Manta 400 * Tune - 396 029 853 * Innate suspension problems, cannot be tuned out completely

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EVENT LAB BLUEPRINTS!

Easy Win Road Sprint - 696 659 852
Easy Win Road Circuit - 177 632 200
Easy Win Dirt Trail - 991 376 926
Easy Win Dirt Scramble - 135 436 707
Easy Win Cross Country Sprint - 114 199 871
Easy Win Cross Country Circuit - 181 401 852
Easy Win Street Scene Sprint - 134 229 457
Easy Win Drag Strip - 812 084 897

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HORIZON 4 AND 5 TUNES ARCHIVE THREAD!

https://www.reddit.com/useBigHeadDjango/comments/r4ptt6/forza_horizon_4_and_horizon_5_tunes_archive/

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Thank you to everyone for your downloads, uses, likes, follows, shares and feedback! Check my in-game profile for more tunes. You can check my reddit profile for more content
📸 Also don't stop yourself from checking out my photos on the creative hub. Wow! What beautiful photos! 📸
Don't hesitate to ask if you need any help!
🛠️ I am open to requests for cars you might want me to tune! It would also help me understand FH5 tuning better. So let me know the car and class and I'd get back to you! 🛠️

___ 

Have a great week! 🥳

First in series: https://www.reddit.com/yandere/comments/142b5vq/irl_yandere_couple_experiences/
Previous: https://www.reddit.com/yandere/comments/143av67/our_second_date/
Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXNLdBxR_1g
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After the second date it was agreed that we would meet again Monday for lunch. I was pushy and hinted that I knew his schedule but he didn't know that I was being generous because I would have gone home with him right there and then. All we did on Sunday was talk on the phone. Finnian remembers that I actually called him twice after he called me. Sunday was a communication day for my family. I was an international student at ColoSU from Spain. My family was comfortable with this because I was an excellent student and mature for my age. I rarely caused any trouble and if anything I was known for being straight laced. I was raised Spanish Catholic but my family was relaxed about it. All this comes into play later on. Also Finnian and I are Christians and this will be the only warning that I will mention spirituality in these accounts, I know how easily triggered Reddit is. My family was functional. There was no abuse or neglect or trauma just typical bullying which was minor. If you are expecting a girl with PTSD going Yandere you will not find that in my story. Finnian was raised atheist and converted to Christianity before I met him. That is why we attended IVCF. (see below) I'd rather him tell you his story about that. His family was dysfunctional. He does not like to use terms like abuse, neglect and alcoholism but I know what I saw. I believe that he was so independent because of his upbringing. When I met him he was already working a budget, bought stock and an automobile (loan). He was ready to be on his own at 19 (he and I were married when he was 19 and I was 20). Final thing about religion, we are both ecumenical and that plays into our story.
I went to mass in the morning and I know I spoke to Father Bob (see below) but I don't remember what I said. I do know that I left him with the impression that we were much more than a couple because he had the impression that by the time he married us we had been engaged for 6 months. This is a lie. A lie is a lie and it does not matter if it's a fib, small or large lie, omission or leaving someone with a false impression and it does not matter who it is you lie to either. I am not excusing my behavior I'm just being honest. I've changed. I have a very bad habit of relationship elevating hence the title. I was not his girlfriend, I was just his date. We fell into that status but in my mind I was thinking so much more. As I said I spoke with my family and I don't remember much but if you've been around Castellanas then you know that we can talk and talk and talk... I remember that my parents were pleased with my progress (they didn't know about him yet) and I also remember that I spoke with my sister semi-privately and she knew something was up. She and I are close and she has been a sort of "confessor". She asked how our date was and I just gushed over him.
The rest of the day I actually studied a lot. My grades had been slipping and I was in danger of losing my scholarships if I didn't get my act together. Finnian is my muse. He and I saved my scholarships and college career that I almost destroyed through my stalking. At one point in our relationship he was walking me to class to make sure I'd attend instead of snooping on him. I was that bad. I had already irritated my roommates gushing over him the previous day so I studied and according to Finnian called him a couple of times. I was ramped up motivated and even wrote in my journal, "nuevo día nuevo yo" (new day new me). I also wrote down in my journal revised plans to get us closer. These were not formal but rather ideas and based on things I learned from him the past two days. Things like "¿le gusta el pelo oscuro liso u ondulado?" (he likes dark hair straight or wavy?" and "Telescope cost?" and "Find Marcus Aurelius Meditations" and "Tool/Chemical Brothers - ask Miguel similar bands" "Meet Brad") (Miguel is my brother and I was asking for Spanish bands, Brad was Finnian's apt mate) If there is any "yandere/yeredere" style I have that is predominant it would be that I am a weaver. I take various parts of him and his life and weave them together with me and my life until all parts are inseparable. No knives or handcuffs just a million tiny golden threads attached to golden needles inserted in and out of our beings and lives until all parts they are interwoven together like beautiful lace. I'm serious about this. I've gotten so good at mixing that even our mutual work places have communicated with each other on our behalf. I signed a HIPPA agreement at his work. That's kinda toxic. This is what I am like, what we are like. And in the future he would learn just how resourceful I can be, I would learn just how tolerant he can be, and everyone will learn that we do in fact go together.
IVCF: https://www.ivcentralrockies.org/home.html
Father Bob: https://saintjohn.church/st-john-xxiii-history/ scroll down to the left

Hi Folks,
I have started Against the Day at long last. Coming from a Pynchon hiatus since reading Inherent Vice a few years ago, along with many aborted attempts at Mason and Dixon and Vineland here and there. I just realised, to some existential dread, that it has been 8 years since I read Gravity’s Rainbow. Being 18 and trying to seem smart I pushed myself through it having no clue how to parse it and looking on equations that, at most, looked cool. I can’t remember much of the bizarre experience except for Rocketman, kink dungeons and Byron the Bulb, but it spurred on that Pynchon obsession. Now, instead of reading for a dissertation, I seemed to be absorbed now into Against the Day in a way I haven’t with Pynchon’s works before. Having just finished Part 1 and written copious notes, I feel compelled to write an essay, out of term-time, drawing together some of the themes as I see them so far. If it sparks off any thoughts, I would love the discussion.
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Light
One obvious key theme is that of light; how it works, its properties, its power for illumination and occlusion. From the epigraph, it seems to point to the night, darkness, the absence of light as the base state. In this, light illuminates the day, almost creating it. This immediately gives a view to the most intuitive aspect that the light symbolises in its guidance, guiding Merle and Dally down the roads and towards the Horizon, lighting the way of the Chums to the centre of the White City.
But what comes to the fore for me is how light is portrayed in its more complex aspects. Light, as a fundamental part of reality, and how we perceive it, is as much subject to control and shaping, lighting the way to a spectacle and the ‘truth’. Just as light guides the way of some down a certain road to their destiny, so too does it guides the ways down the rationalised grids of Chicago to the killing floors. In the explorations of the World’s Fair, an exhibition of the virtues of American progress and technology, the light illuminates the ‘White City’ at its centre, obscuring those who dwell in its margins and those left in its wake after its dismantled. The light at its centre illuminates a central constructed truth and narrative that excludes some as much as it guides others. This truth, like light, is similarly subject to shaping with Vibe wanting to undermine the progress promised at the fair, of the free electrical network, in its impact on the ‘world’ or the economy, that gives him his prestige and power. This exhortation of progress and technology, and the narrative of the power of America, the West and Capitalism it represents is the façade of a unified whole; a cohesive truth otherwise fractured within modernity.
This underlying fracturing of modernity points to the anxieties of the Aetherists. The want for light, as a fundamental aspect of reality, to be situated in a continuous whole is a want for that precarious comfort. For it to be discrete, fractured quanta, like all modern identities, selves and truths evokes a malaise seen once the Michelson-Morley experiment is done. This belief, in light and the unified stable truth is reflected in the religious devotion and fanaticism about the powers of light. Like the believers in the currents of the time, in the truth of progress and capitalism, the belief in the light gives them an uncritical view, unable to see past the façade. The experiment looks at another reality, past the spectacle they crave, risking to plunge light itself into fragments.
The power of light in constructing the truth is mirrored in how this truth is controlled and enforced. With references to the light of surveillance and the shining of light on things. As the Chums shine a light on Merle and Chevrolette’s ‘deviance’ they are forced back into the woods and shadows before coming back into the day done up and respectable. The Chums moving through the Fair move towards its central illuminated ‘safety’, its policed boundaries and shaped centre, away from the darker edges inhabited by those excluded and marginalised by its truth. To be able to construct the truth and enforce it through light gives further impetus to control light itself. The Aetherists posit that light is a finite resource that must be captured by nations as if like water rights. Vibe similarly looks to undermine technologies that may provide light and electricity to the masses for free, enforcing scarcity.
There are moments with Merle and Webb where other aspects of the light come to the fore. Its other control strategies, and its potential to assert other truths. In Merle’s case, in his interest in alchemy and photography, he mentions the power to redeem light from metals and photographs. In metals, specifically silver, Merle points to the imperatives that he receives, evoking the light of currency, as fictions in embodying a measure of exchange value that provides imperatives for Merle and Dally’s constant moving from job to job. In photography, the capture of light and life into captured moments evokes some notion of the capturing of the day; the day, otherwise, capturing the moments of many millions into its control. But at the same time, there are other potentials and possibilities. In Merle’s risqué photography undertaken with Chevrolette, there are moments to capture life outside of the ‘light’, deviating from the respectable truth of the day. With metals, there is recognition of how to transform their light as money into light as explosive. This then ties to Webb Traverse. In recognising the power of light brought by explosions and its power to break through the occlusion of the domination of the Capitalist ruling-class. This however is similarly accompanied with a certain obsession and belief, an obsession with the smell of dynamite and the belief in the religious justifications given by Rev Moss Gatlin. As well, the intentional use of explosions by owners are used to justify reprisals on the workers and unions as the ‘Beasts that Did This’. The light of explosions can similarly be used and shaped by the powers that be to further their truth, narratives and power. Does this already point to the issues of the political terrorism pursued by Webb and Gatlin? Will their want to use the light be a dead end? It will not guide them to a promised future but will instead be coopted and used against them. Is the real potential for countermovement to be found in the shadows? On the new frontier?
Frontiers
In many ways frontiers represent the possibilities of new worlds, new ways of doing things. This is mythologised in the Old West and expansion of America that, however, ignores its accompaniment of extreme violence and exploitation as new possibilities were consolidated into the way of things. By the time of the late 19th century this frontier no longer remains. Vanderjuice points to a frontier you could find, stand on looking both east and west. But with the consolidation of American Capitalism, where once wild bison roamed the plains, now cattle and humans are heralded down lit rationalised grids to be killed and used, their deaths fodder to tourists of progress and the light. With the frontier lost, the light bends back on what is consolidated – in killing the animals and humans once free. Franz Ferdinand in not having buffalo to hunt settles for genocidal intentions towards Hungarians. Colonialism and imperialism come home to roost later in the 20th century.
But then, there feels like nods to the new frontier, the shadows. In the shadows of the worlds fair, there are those are marginalised and ignored. In this, new frontiers remain. Places outside of the control, the system and the light-truth. Some want to shine light on this space, to extend the control over the anarchists amassing in darkened halls. At the same time, Vibe seeks to control the technologies that will extend that, and so potentially allowing those frontiers to remain, potentials of new worlds to be worked out. ‘It is always night, otherwise we wouldn’t need light’ – not an anxiety, but a fundamental base state. Realities are occluded by the light shaping a narrative and the day, the spirit of the times. In the darkness are possibilities, potentials for a new world that are repressed and ignored. Other truths and alternate realities can be asserted; the truths of the exploitation of workers and ethnic minorities, the ruthlessness of capitalism and the bourgeois lies of liberty and equality.
It is also seen that those is pursue the light actively seem less able to see these shadows. They pursue the truth constructed and enforced and are unable to see through them in hope for cohesive truths, largely given by those with power to define the message and narrative. This narrative is to be illuminated at the Worlds Fair, a spectacle of light that heralds progress and a future already written for us. This façade gives hope to some, like Dally – glittering lights guiding the way to her mother. But reality is seen in the drift of exiles over the plains, like them. And those left behind to dismantle its edifice. Some characters on the borders of these states. Webb poking holes in the lies of freedom as he toils in dark mines but drawn to the light of explosions masking perhaps what could be gained from the shadows. Kit, is taught by his father, but is drawn to the light of electricity, the light of a life as one of Doc Tesla’s boys, so much that he accepts the funding of Scarsdale Vibe and his promise of the future. But in the shadows, a new frontier is found, holding possibilities of new worlds being lived by marginalised working people, toiling in dark mines, and cleaning up after the temporary exhortation of modern progress and technology is dismantled and burned. If the White City is an edifice of white capitalist American hegemony, it shows how fractured modernity always requires suturing into some truth that can be controlled. The light of its centre attempts to do so, but it cannot cover everywhere and can never be given out for free, it will always create those frontiers and margins where its light cannot shine on and unroot. Where other truths may be understood and asserted.
The Chums of Chance
But as the Chums stand on the volcanic island they are sent to, the light of the day is so bright that it blinds them, as if in the heart of diamond. The light is concentrated to the point it occludes their vision. In looking at the Chums, it makes sense that they represent this focal point. As ideal representations illuminated in books, they are concentrated fictions of this light and truth. Even with the political and personal insubordination of Darby and Chick, they cannot see outside of it truly.
From the first moment with the Chums, in their place as characters in an adventure book series, they provide a fiction representing the ideal of the American boy at the turn of the century, and perhaps a wider ideal required to uphold this status quo. Within their group, Lindsay reinforces norm of good dress, language, patriotism, and education, looking down on the ‘undesirables’; gamblers, the badly raised. Gesturing to the valorisation of an upper-middle class boys ideal, they position themselves in opposition to the ‘evil’ anarchistic working classes. In their bemusement at those in the margins of the worlds fair, and of those from other countries, they exhibit this superiority and wider American exceptionalism and nationalism. In this however, they are not just embodiments of these ideals and values but actively reinforce them internally through their strict hierarchy and enforce them outwardly. As the big eye that descends from the sky to catch Merle and Chevrolette in their deviance from the respectable norms of society, in their surveillance of the Worlds Fair with the White City Investigations and their work with the interior ministry of Mexico against its subversives, they help construct and uphold the truth as epitomised in the White City; the dazzling light they are at the centre of. In helping states and private detectives enlisted by oligarchs, under orders from a shadowy organisation above them, or the author of their stories. These orders are then carried out through the logistical services manned by countless voiceless labourers quietly seen filing in and out with the instruments used to measure Tesla’s experiments.
As the Wiki points to, one point that is fascinating is the Chums malaise and depression in between their adventures, or ‘in between their books’. In between their orders and adventures, they fall into alcoholism in dingy rooms, almost rapidly ageing and decaying, at least spiritually. This lack of meaning or purpose in not having orders show how the ideal is rudderless without something further to conform to and enforce. With no adventure to go on, the Chums have no life or identity to fall back on. The ideal they represent is ultimately hollow and vacuous. They are fully conformed to the whims of the power that creates them, fully blinded by the light, and hindered from escape to the shadows for then they would truly not exist.
Against the Day and its other threads
These themes in some ways all come together in allusions to the title; against the day, giving back to the day, sufficient unto the day. In this the day means what? The spirit of the times and the current moment? The night illuminated by the light to create the daytime itself? The Worlds Fair almost shows this day’s reinauguration, a truth constructed, guiding one to the future and the centre in the spectacle. The day is coopted. Some accept it, give back to it and pay their tithings as Tesla puts it. Others give it all their hopes, believe in its promises in part, in its guiding light. Others are against it, against the day that is proclaimed, against the spirit and its light – shaped to mystify what is really going on. The day as the illusion.
Those who ride against it, the workers, and the anarchists. While Webb pokes holes in the lies of the bourgeoisie he perhaps falls into the days spirit all the same with the belief in the light and his ability to shape it himself. The battle for the light, is it a losing game?
The Chums take the day by storm, ride its waves of Aether and solidify it in the ideal. The good American boys enforcing the day, watching for those deviating from it and righting themselves when they do too. But this ideal is forever unstable, when they do not have a day to fight for, an area to conquer or a consolidated population to enforce the ideal onto, they become adrift, having no life or meaning outside it, becoming invisible and fictions, in an inverted sense to their usual being. Are they a manifestation of capitalism itself? The ideal it pretends to? The entrepreneurial crew supported by countless voiceless labourers with pretentions to their modernity, freedom within their strict hierarchy, given the newest technology to bore through even the earth itself. Spurred onto constant movement by orders of its own internal logic; the Chums must be given their orders, and so they move again – repeat ad nauseam.
With this, these major threads are then crosscut with others I have trouble cohering together just yet. Curious of the character of Scarsdale Vibe, the robber baron archetype. With the globe at the end of his cain, situated in the first wave of globalisation, he holds the world wherever he goes, hiding a bullet underneath it. Seemingly undermining Tesla at the start to funding him the next, capture and co-option? Or the brothers traverse, kits substitution and connection to the Twin Vibes.
“Sure, and isn’t that just the class system for ya? Eternal youth bought with the sickness and death of others.”
I am also taking in the nods to the extradimensional experiences of those such as Kit, Miles Blundell, Lew Basnight and Foley Walker. Seeing or hearing the invisible, versus the visible, dark versus the light. The other frontiers of the invisible and unilluminated? – of electromagnetism, the Chums existence as fictions, the daily unseen minutia or the markets respectively. New possibilities, alternate realities as diffuse as those in the shadows. With a minor adjustment here and there what would happen?
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Perhaps I tend towards the political and sociological as per my academic interests. My understanding of the scientific aspects of Pynchon’s writing plays pretty hard off of pop-science videos watched on YouTube at 1 in the morning. But it is exhilarating at least to be at a point of taking in a work such as this, not just as a bizarre experience, but as imparting some encyclopaedic knowledge I can perhaps make sense of, at least at this early stage.

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GPU: GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4090 Gaming OC
CPU: Ryzen 7800X3D 8 CORE 16 THREADS
Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI
BIOS Version: 1416 (also had this with older Versions)
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Chipset Drivers: AMD Chipset drivers 5.05.16.529
Background Applications: Onedrive. Logitech G Hub, Steelseries GG, G DATA Antivirus (my company's requirement, but windows defender had the same problem), MSI Afterburner, Yur.fit, 1Password
Description of Original Problem: I'm clueless what this could be causing. But whenever I leave my computer idle, it will restart after maybe 30+ minutes. The Windows activity log shows a few errors and warnings (see screenshot https://imgur.com/a/j2SSILK). I only applied ram oc settings from actually hardware overclocking (but stayed with 6000mhz instead of 6200mhz). No other overclocking or anything (also, after loading factory defaults still causes those restarts). I had this pc with the old high voltage BIOSes, but never used xmp/expo profiles and back then also had those restarts, just didn't have any time to look into it. Currently, running newest bios version 1416.
Troubleshooting: I tried various help suggestions found with reddits search in this sub and also some other suggestions, hardly remember all of them as it's going one for weeks. Nothing seemed to fix it. For example, I raised voltages, disabled cstates, did try windows repaid methods (my windows image had an error but fixing it, didn't change anything. Any other ideas? Maybe i missed something.

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I've just posted the latest chapter of my fanfic where an insert into Corlys Velaryon changes the world! Latest chapter is a POV from Viserra for any of those who have stopped reading or paused due to the five interludes since her last POV. She's back!
Link: SpaceBattles AlternateHistory Ao3 FFN
Author: Tertius711 (myself)
Rating: T
Length: 160k words
Status: Ongoing
Language: English
Summary: Corlys Velaryon is a man of legend. He has begun a new Age of Enlightenment and Exploration, of revolutionary new ideas, and incredible innovations that have made travel at sea faster and more profitable than ever before. But progress is not without consequences. In this changing world, can Corlys continue to guide House Velaryon to its promised high tide?