Everything regarding private servers feels weird.

• TurtleWoW got fcked by Blizzard, but honestly, their 1.12 client had been bothering me for a long time anyway.
• Then Epoch came along, promising to be the next best thing, only to collapse under its own weight. Even the comeback with Turtle immigrants feels weird. The devs are radio silent.
• Bronzebeard tried its spin on Classic+, but it feels more like Retail-. I'm surprised it has such a huge player base.
• Warmane’s future is uncertain, and it’s also basically the same as it’s always been.
• Kronos is just more of the same old thing.
• A couple of new realms popped up, like Nostrum, Capy, etc.

It just feels like the player base is spreading thin, with everyone looking for a new home and no one really knowing what the future holds. Most people are asking the same questions: Will this small realm still be around long-term? Will this big realm get shut down by Blizzard?

I honestly don’t know where to play right now. It feels like there are too many choices, and all of them are wrong.

Homelander

Loses his powers in a de-powering blast, and Butcher beats him to death.

Butcher

Gets exposed to the de-powering blast too, so he loses his powers as well, but the super-cancer inside him progresses rapidly and he only has days left to live at most. He dies on a beach (possibly off-screen) while looking at a sunset with Hughie next to him.

Sage

Comes up with some “master plan” to lure Homelander into a random abandoned warehouse. After his death, she goes to her bunker to read books.

Stan Edgar

Takes over Vought and starts implementing new improvements to V and its military utilization. May return in future spin-offs.

Annie

May lose her powers too (not that they matter anyway). She either becomes the new anti-Vought voice or moves to somewhere like Alaska with Hughie.

Hughie

Maybe uses Temp V during the final battle, then just goes wherever Annie goes.

Kimiko

Blasts Homelander, then leaves for Mexico to help poor kids. May return in future spin-offs.

Ryan

Shows up in the finale to punch Homelander once or twice for cameo purposes. He’ll return in future spin-offs. He’ll also be the reason Butcher doesn’t release the virus.

Marie

Shows up in the finale to use her powers once or twice to kill random enemies. She’ll return in future spin-offs.

The Deep

Becomes the new “rebranded” leader of the new Seven.

MM

Helps with the final mission, then reunites with his family.

Oh Father

I’d bet he gets throat-punched and loses his voice.

Soldier Boy

Remains in the box until they need him again to somehow move the plot forward.

I have been friends with this one girl since we were 10 years old. I don't know why, but I always felt a weird connection to her, like I’d known her forever. We are both in our early 30s now.

When we were kids, I had a very long crush on her, but we remained best friends. Eventually I moved on, and we both ended up having a few long-lasting relationships.

Fast forward a few years, and we are both single for the first time since we were kids. I started falling for her again, which I was in denial about because I didn’t want to hurt our friendship. I kept telling myself it was just nostalgia and that I should move on.

One day, on my birthday, we were walking her dog in the park when it started snowing heavily. It looked like something out of a romantic movie: knee-deep snow, nobody else around, her dog running through the park. We had been to this park many times before, and there was this old willow tree that had supposedly been there for around 100 years. Hanging from the branches was mistletoe, and we were walking right toward it.

I remember thinking that I would just stop under the tree and kiss her, since I had noticed she’d been looking at me differently for the past few weeks too. You know that spark in someone’s eyes when they like you as more than a friend.

As we walked under the tree, she said, “Look up, there’s mistletoe.” But out of nowhere, I got this strange feeling pulling me not to stop and kiss her, so I just dismissively said, “Yeah, it looks nice,” and kept walking.

We took maybe 10 more steps, and the tree (the one that had been there for 100 years) suddenly split in half under the weight of the snow. A giant section crashed down exactly where we would have been standing if I had stopped to kiss her. We both would’ve died.

As we were walking home, she asked if I wanted to stay the night since the weather was horrible and it wasn’t safe to drive. She suggested we could watch Christmas movies and drink some wine. Since I had a crush on this girl for years, this was everything I had ever wanted.

But somehow I said, “No, I think I’ll just go home,” got in my car, and drove away.

A few days later, we were at a party together. We were joking about her sleeping at my place afterward when, completely out of nowhere (and this had literally never happened to me before) this cute girl came up asking for a lighter and started hitting on me. My friend saw me talking to her and left the party.

Everything felt weird between us after that. The spark in her eyes disappeared, and somehow I lost interest too. I still have no idea why. We slowly stopped seeing each other, just like that. I still love her as a friend.

Fast forward two years, and she is now in a relationship with a guy who genuinely seems like a good person, and she seems really happy. I’m honestly happy for her. I had one failed semi-relationship since then, and that’s about it.

A month ago, I had the weirdest dreamof my life. It felt like I lived an entire parallel life with her. Years passed in this reality. We were married and had three kids, the youngest being seven. We were not happy at all.

We constantly argued about the kids, about her mother, about my mother, about work. I remember the sex being awful, and we were constantly at each other’s throats, while still remembering how amazing things had been at the beginning. We were going through a divorce in this reality.

I remember taking the kids to school, teaching them math, watching movies together, even remembering vacations we never actually took as a family that never existed. It was the strangest thing I’ve ever experienced.

A week later, I had another one. In this one, we were sitting in a pub with her boyfriend and some friends. She stood up and announced her engagement. We all congratulated her, ate food, drank wine, and had a good time.

Literally three days later, she asked if I wanted to go out with her and some friends. We still occasionally meet like that. I told her about the vision I had three days earlier, and she laughed it off.

We met up, and it was the exact same pub, with the exact same people, and she announced her engagement exactly like I told her. She was genuinely baffled because they hadn’t told anyone about the engagement yet.

We haven’t really been in touch since then. I genuinely wish her the best. She seems happy.

In some strange way, I think she was my soulmate, but we were never actually supposed to end up together. It almost feels like some divine force stepped in every time things could have led to us becoming something more. Like something knew we would eventually make each other miserable and somehow showed me what that life would look like.

I’ve never been religious or spiritual, but this changed the way I think about life, fate, spirituality, predetermination, and the universe.

We have some amazing books from great authors of the past, like The Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace, Pride and Prejudice, The Lord of the Rings, The Count of Monte Cristo, etc.

What books will be considered “must-reads” or “great works of literature” of the 21st century? Who is going to rank among the greatest authors of all time?