u/Kadex1020

I got my scary tape today, decided to have a scary wall! I absolutely love this stuff (also included scary merch and ship of teeseus I also got)

Im trying to play the sims 4 on steam for the first time in years. When i opened the game it downloaded the ea app (annoying but ofc ea would do that) and the game doesnt open, this message pops up. I have no mods, also hasnt the origin app been discontinued for years? I cant do anything with the game on ea app and verifying game files on steam does nothing. ive also tried uninstalling and reinstalling multiple times, on both my main game drive and my c drive. Every interaction i have with damn near everything EA makes me hate it so much more

So, i just got my first recurve bow from the renaissance festival(colorado one if anyones local) the simplest bow youve ever seen, basically just a slightly carved piece of wood and a string. I was shooting it in my backyard at some cardboard i had lying around while i wait for real targets, and a couple (maybe 5 or 6) shots in shots in on both arrows i had (came free with bow) broke, at almost the same point in the shaft. Im thinking either something with the wood being weak there, or im doing something horribly wrong. I didnt take a pic of the setup at all, or where and how the arrows landed, and this is my first bow ive owned, but ive shot a couple with friends and nothing like this happened. Im curious if anyone can tell from these pictures what happened, or what i did wrong. (Bow is unstrung in pic, i use a seperate string to bend the bow to put the main string in place) TL;DR arrows broke first time shooting bow, curious if anyone can tell by the break what i did wrong. (EDIT: also does anyone know some good arrows i can replace these with cause these were the only two i have. EDIT 2: i can take more pictures if anyone wants to see a better picture of the break)