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The Best of Queen The Break Free Tour

Get ready to Break Free with the UK’s biggest Queen Tribute band – Majesty, in a brand-new show – The Break Free Tour!

Join Freddie, Brian, Roger and John as they take you on a magical journey performing The Best of Queen, whilst celebrating the music and showmanship of the UK’s favourite rock band.

From Queen’s early beginnings with Bohemian Rhapsody, to their sell out concerts at Wembley Stadium, you’ll experience highlights from Queen’s extraordinary musical performances, whilst you relive the spellbinding atmosphere that Queen delivered over their illustrious career.

For nearly 50 years, Queen have wowed audiences with their legendary live concerts, heart thumping anthems, and jaw dropping, epic scale productions. With 18 number one albums, 18 number one singles and nearly 300 million records sold, it’s no wonder Queen are recognised as the world’s greatest rock band.

The Best of Queen show will transport you to a Queen concert at the height of their power. With iconic sound and lights and featuring a selection of Queen’s Greatest Hits, this magical, live stage show is “Guaranteed to Blow your Mind!”

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The Best of Queen – The Break Free Tour

Get ready to Break Free with the UK’s biggest Queen Tribute band – Majesty, in a brand-new show – The Break Free Tour!

Join Freddie, Brian, Roger and John as they take you on a magical journey performing The Best of Queen, whilst celebrating the music and showmanship of the UK’s favourite rock band.

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Get ready to Break Free with the UK’s biggest Queen Tribute band – Majesty, in a brand-new show – The Break Free Tour!

Join Freddie, Brian, Roger and John as they take you on a magical journey performing The Best of Queen , whilst celebrating the music and showmanship of the UK’s favourite rock band.

From Queen’s early beginnings with Bohemian Rhapsody , to their sell out concerts at Wembley Stadium, you’ll experience highlights from Queen’s extraordinary musical performances, whilst you relive the spellbinding atmosphere that Queen delivered over their illustrious career.

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Watch Queen Perform ‘I Want to Break Free’ on Their Last Tour

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Weeks after Rami Malek won Best Actor at the Academy Awards for his portrayal of Freddie Mercury in the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody , there are reports that he might be asked to strap on the fake teeth one more time for a sequel. The New York Post quotes their longtime video director Rudi Dolezal as saying that a follow-up move is “being heavily discussed in the Queen family.”

The exact scope of the proposed sequel is unknown and although we have some ideas of our own, odds are very high that the group’s final tour in 1986 will play a role. Not only is it the only tour outside of the timeline of the first movie, but it’s a chance to show the band playing a bunch of hits they didn’t get to the first time around. The Live Aid sequence was most everyone’s favorite part of the first movie, and this is a chance to do it even bigger. Here’s video of the real Queen playing “I Want to Break Free” in Budapest on the 1986 tour. Don’t be surprised if you see a note-for-note recreation of it on the big screen sometime in 2021.

Meanwhile, the Brian May and Roger Taylor are just four months away from launching an extensive North American arena tour with Adam Lambert. They sold a ton of tickets before Bohemian Rhapsody became one of the biggest surprise box office hits in years. This time around, they’re almost certain to pack every arena they play. It even feels possible they might try to play a few stadiums. And once the fourth movie comes out that chronicles the Adam Lambert years, there’s no limits to how big they can get.

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Get ready to Break Free with the UK’s biggest Queen Tribute band – Majesty, in a brand-new show – The Break Free Tour!

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The Best of Queen – The Break Free Tour

Grand Theatre Main Auditorium, Fri 7 Jun

Get ready to Break Free with the UK’s biggest Queen Tribute band – Majesty , in a brand-new show – The Best of Queen The Break Free Tour!

Join Freddie, Brian, Roger and John as they take you on a magical journey performing The Best of Queen, whilst celebrating the music and showmanship of the UK’s favourite rock band.

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For nearly 50 years, Queen have wowed audiences with their legendary live concerts, heart thumping anthems, and jaw dropping, epic scale productions. With 18 number one albums, 18 number one singles and nearly 300 million records sold, it’s no wonder they are recognised as the world’s greatest rock band.

The show will transport you to a concert at the height of their power. With iconic sound and lights and featuring a selection of Queen’s Greatest Hits, this magical, live stage show is “Guaranteed to Blow your Mind!”

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Because stories matter., blog tour: princesses break free by timothy knapman illustrated by jenny løvlie.

Watch out – there are princesses about! Today is my stop on the blog tour for Princesses Break Free , a new picture book by Timothy Knapman and Jenny Løvlie, with a guest post from author Timothy. Move over damsal in distress, and hello feisty and fantastic Princess Tilly!

Princesses Break Free is a fun, wild adventure challenging the stereotypical image of the poised, preened damsel; Tilly is a princess who takes life into her own hands without waiting around for anybody else, as she shows princesses – and then princes, witches, and dragons – that they can do anything they want to!

I’m sharing a guest post from author Timothy all about the inspiration behind this delightful story. Welcome to the blog Timothy!

What Was the Inspiration For Princess Tilly in Princesses Break Free ?

by Timothy Knapman

“Before my princess story, there was a pirate story.

The princess story is called Princesses Break Free . It’s my new book, dazzlingly illustrated by the ridiculously talented Jenny Løvlie. Princesses Break Free tells the story of Princess Tilly, who is carried off one day by a dragon – so far, so traditional. Tilly’s fairy godmother has told her she must wait until a handsome prince comes to her rescue, but Tilly thinks that’s boring. So instead she just rescues herself (with a parachute made from knickers, naturally) and in so doing encourages every other princess in fairy tale land to take their destinies into their own hands and go out and do what they want, not what’s expected of them. Of course, this puts the princesses’ support network of dragons, handsome princes and evil queens out of a job. Suddenly and unexpectedly having time on their hands, the dragons try being carried off for a change, the princes have a go at getting rescued and the evil queens find a new use for their poisoned apples. Soon enough, they realise that they all like this new freedom too.

I’ve wanted to write a princess book for ages. One of the great pleasures and privileges of being a children’s author is that sometimes you get to go into schools to meet your readers. If your visit’s anything to do with World Book Day, you’ll probably be welcomed by row upon row of Harry Potters, superheroes, dinosaurs, pirates and princesses.

I can see why kids love dressing up as these big, bold, clearly defined characters. It’s partly because it’s fun, of course: a brilliant way to enter your favourite fantasy world. But it also helps them explore and develop their personalities, as they try on different ways of being until they find one that fits. Weedy little boys (as I was) take comfort in the padded muscles of a superhero outfit, or take advantage of the licence to misbehave as a naughty dinosaur. Little girls are attracted to the magic and glamour that a princess costume will lend them. But I’m very conscious that these outfits can also be traps – unthinkingly imposing on the kids wearing them the values and expectations of the original stories, some of which (about class, gender and ethnicity) we have long outgrown.

I’m a children’s author, not a cultural critic, so rather than write an essay about this, my solution was to take some of these traditional characters and have a bit of fun with them. As I said at the beginning, the first one I picked was the pirate – in a book called Captain Sparklebeard . It tells the story of a girl called Peg who lives, miserably, by the sea with her wicked step great grand auntie. Every night, Peg reads pirate stories and dreams of escape and adventure. She thinks her luck has changed when a crew of real pirates comes to town, but – traditional to the core – the pirates don’t allow polite little girls who can read and don’t have beards to join their crew. Peg won’t stand for that, and she adopts the persona of the mysterious Captain Sparklebeard aboard a boat made of books. In the ensuing race for buried treasure, she shows those scurvy sea dogs once and for all who’s the greatest pirate who ever lived.

With princesses there’s a similar range of clearly defined expectations that are, if anything, even more restricting – and therefore even more fun to play with. Princesses frequently find themselves at the heart of the exciting moments in a story but they don’t often get the chance to do anything about it. The energy released by turning those expectations inside out is what drives Princesses Break Free , as all that liberated excitement courses through the fresh twists and new possibilities of the story.

I’m not the first person to have tried to reimagine the role of the princess in a story, and I won’t be the last. Nor am I saying there’s anything wrong with little girls dressing up as princesses. I’m just suggesting that these familiar characters are so vivid, and so entrenched in our collective consciousness that they can withstand, and even benefit from, a little narrative mischief.

More importantly, I want my young readers to know that if they ever find themselves limited by the imaginative worlds handed down to them, they can always bend and twist and reconstruct those worlds to suit them better.

And if they ever need to escape, they can always make a parachute out of knickers.”

With thanks to Walker Books for inviting me to participate in this blog tour. Follow the rest of the tour here:

Heroes of Arkesia,

The march “break through to thaemine” update arrives in arkesia tomorrow..

Downtime will begin on March 20 at 2AM PT (9 AM UTC) and is expected to last 4 hours. The March Update includes the Breaker Advanced Class, new progression events, and a new series of Story Quests! Find the full list of content, events, skins, and other updates below. Henry is back with an episode of “Patch Notes with Henry” for any players looking for an express video explanation and visual showcase.

Introducing the Breaker

The breaker advanced class arrives. breaker is a male version of the scrapper and is a force to be reckoned with, using his heavy gauntlets, mobility, and combos to deal massive damage..

To help interested adventurers prepare to master this new martial artist's arsenal and relentlessly bash the biggest and baddest enemies in Arkesia, we partnered with none other than Breaker expert and Lost Ark Creator Program member Saintone. Find the full breakdown in the recent Lost Ark Academy.

Learn more about how to quickly break into the endgame in the Event section of the Release Notes below, with a ton events built to support players excited to add a Breaker (or other class) to their roster.

Along with the new class and class engravings, the following Breaker specific systems have been added:

1 new Title, 10 new Achievements added

Related quests, and skill unlock items added

Training Room Guide added

1 Trophy added

The Breaker will release with the recent balance changes made in Korea.

Arkesia Tour

Arkesia tour is a horizontal catch up mechanic that has 4 tiers of missions, built to help players catch up on islands, adventure tome, skill points, and more.

This event will make it easier for new and returning players play with their friends and enjoy the end game, or help current players fill any gaps in their collection of horizontal content rewards. Each tier requires you to complete a task and once you've completed all 3 sub missions, you will be able to claim rewards that horizontally progress your character. Completing all the missions gives hundreds of rewards, including:

Skill Runes (up to Legendary)

Skill Potions

Stat Potions

Emote / Song unlocks

Cards / Pheons / Silver / Providence Stones

Masterpieces / Omnium Stars / Giant's Hearts / Island Souls

Rapport Items

The Arkesia tour can be viewed through the Arkesia Tour icon located at the left of the minimap. If certain continents are related to Arkesia Tour, that continent will have an icon in the Adventurer's Tome (upper left corner). If mouse-hovered, a pop-up will appear with the system guide.

All rewards per Mission can be claimed by clicking the Completion Reward buttons.

Some of the rewards that require players to go through the content will not be included here. Player discretion is needed to decide whether to play the content or use the Arkesia Tour.

If the rewards have already been obtained by the players, they will not be granted again.

Completion Rewards will only be claimed inside the main cities or in Stronghold.

Rewards will be sent directly to the player’s Inventory. If there are not enough slots, they will be sent via mail.

(Collectibles that require visiting NPC for reward claiming will be auto-claimed)

The Arkesia Tour will help with horizontal content all the way to Punika and its related content.

Light of Destiny

The lost ark’s location is getting closer to being revealed. sacria is beginning to investigate the events that have occurred in pleccia..

As the situation grows more unpredictable, it will be up to you to face the chaos as you follow your path. The Light of Destiny update will reveal the location of the Lost Ark, which will actually bring us closer to the end of Story Chapter 1. It will be a story that answers some of the most important questions of the journey to find the Lost Ark after Voldis, and brings you to a new location— Praeteria.

7 New Achievements, 2 New Titles added

1 Rapport NPC added

New Island "Praeteria" added

Praeteria Island Soul added

1 Una's Task added (This task is available only after finishing the Light of Destiny quest line)

Light of Destiny requires Item Level 1520. New relevant quests will be added. Starting Quest: The Lost Key. This quest can be accepted in the following cities:

Voldis: Kalinar (NPC Hogun)

North Vern: Vern Castle (NPC Hogun)

Elgacia: Ereonnor (Transparent Mirror)

Prerequisite Quests:

Adento's Legacy – Voldis World Quest

[Awakening] The Sunset – Promise Isle Adventure Quest

If the following quests are still in progress, partial Light of Destiny quests cannot progress.

Thirain Rapport Quest

Voldis Neria Rapport Quest

Pleccia Adventure Quest 'Masterwork Collection: The Fading Light'

As players strive to reach the Item Levels required for existing and upcoming endgame content on either their main character or an alternate character, we’ve planned a suite of events to support players.

While the number of events listed below may feel overwhelming all at once, we wanted to separate the rewards into various events so that players were able to mix and match or focus all the events onto a single character, providing options and the best support for their journey into Lost Ark’s endgame.

Elgacia Event Powerpass

An Event Powerpass that will drop players off in Elgacia at Item Level 1460 will be granted to all players. Powerpasses can be claimed and used until July 17, at which point it will expire if the powerpass has not been used.

There are no restrictions for players to use the Powerpass (apart from not being able to use it on a character above the target Item Level), but trading on the Auction House will be blocked for 3 days if the player does not have at least one character at Item Level 1490 to prevent bot abuse.

Super Mokoko Express

Pairing well with the Elgacia Powerpass, players will be able to designate one character between Item Level 1460 and 1580 on their account to participate in the Super Mokoko Express Event, where they’ll have discounted honing rates, discounted gold requirements, and earn honing materials to quickly level up to Item Level 1580, with reward chests that include Silver, honing materials, high level Gems, Engravings, and more!

Super Mokoko Honing Benefits:

Honing Percentage Increase:

1460 to 1475 - 20%

1475 to 1490 - 15%

1510 to 1520 - 20%

1520 to 1580 - 10%

Honing Materials Discount

1460 to 1490 - 70%

1490 to 1580 - 60%

Leapstone Discount

1460 to 1490 - 40%

1510 to 1580 - 60%

Gold Discount

1460 to 1490 - No Gold Required

1490 to 1580 - 65%

Double Artisan Energy

1460 to 1580

There are also Combat Style Setting Support options for players to easily set skills and Engravings through presets, and get item support for accessories with relevant stats and Ability Stones. The Super Mokoko Express Event also includes an Engraving Support system that lets players choose 5 engravings to be in effect at level 3 during the event. Here’s how to get started:

After selecting a Super Mokoko Express character, the Engraving Support button will light up.

Click the Engraving Support button to open the Engraving Support page and select your 5 desired Engravings.

Press the Activate Engraving Support button to start using their effects.

The effects of Engraving Support will also be shown in your Character Profile.

The Super Mokoko Express Event will last until July 17, the character cannot change once the event target character has received the Honing Buff.

Descend into Darkness

Brace yourself for the upcoming onslaught of the Darkness Legion and its leader—the most powerful Demon Commander—Thaemine.

Road to Thaemine has been renamed to Descend into Darkness as players prepare for the Darkness Legion Commander’s arrival in April. The rewards differ slightly from previous iterations of the event, and is built to help progress a single character quickly from 1580 to 1600, with additional support as players approach Thaemine at Item Level 1610. This special event includes:

A Gear Honing Support Effect applied when honing Akkan Ancient Gear from 1580 to 1600 that decreases the amount of Gold and materials needed to hone along with granting double Artisan’s Energy.

2x Artisan’s Energy when honing Akkan Ancient Gear from 1580 to 1600.

Caches of rewards every 5 Item Levels from 1580 to 1610, with a particularly valuable reward at 1600. Rewards include silver, gold, honing materials, honing books, card packs, and many more valuable items, all the way up to Legendary Elixirs at the highest level!

25% Honing Materials Discount.

25% Gold Discount.

Special Missions to earn additional Raid & Abyssal Dungeon materials, including bonuses of:

Empyrean of Contemplation from the Kayangel Abyssal Dungeon

Eye of Decay from the Akkan Legion Raid

Additional Honing Material chests from completing Chaos Dungeons

The event it can be used on a single character, which cannot be changed or transferred, between Item Level 1580 to 1600, and will last until July 17.

Please note there are several known issues with the Descend into Darkness Event.

In some places, the Descend into Darkness Event is incorrectly named "Road of the Breaker".

The event incorrectly states that the benefits apply to 1560 from 1580. The actual levels are 1580 to 1600.

When designating a character for the Descend into Darkness event players will see messaging in-game that states that you can change your event character one time. This is incorrect, and you will be locked into the first character you choose for that event. You cannot change this character. Please also note that Customer Support will not be able to assist with any changes to a new character for the event.

Rather than delay the release, the incorrect name and text lines will be fixed in a future update. Thank you for your understanding.

Extra Endgame Content Clear Rewards

Extra Endgame Content Clear Rewards is a new event built around rewarding players for clearing current endgame content and helping players get ready for the upcoming raids arriving in April and beyond. The extra rewards will include Protection and Obliteration stones, Leapstones, and Honor Shards, corresponding to the Item Level of the activity. Extra rewards will be granted when clearing either the Normal or Hard modes of the following activities:

Brelshaza Legion Raid Gate 3

Kayangel Abyssal Dungeon Gate 3

Akkan Legion Raid Gate 3

Ivory Tower Abyssal Dungeon Gate 4

The extra rewards will be available to all characters on a player’s roster, no need to designate a character in this event. The Extra Endgame Content Clear Rewards event is currently planned to last until July 17.

Honing Event Mission

This event is designed to help players as they hone their Akkan Ancient Gear and work to progress toward higher Item Levels. Effective Target: Character Item level between 1580 - 1619. Please note that you cannot change the target character once an event target character is selected. When players hone upper ancient gear (Akkan Gear) on their designated character, they will be given honing support materials (metallurgy/mending books) and Gold for easier honing.

After the first weapon hone attempt, players will receive 2 Metallurgy Selection Chests. Players will then receive 2 Metallurgy Selection Chests and 2,500 Gold after their 4th, 8th, 12th, and 16th attempts.

After the first armor hone attempt, players will receive 10 Mending Selection Chests. Players will then receive 10 Mending Selection Chests and 2,500 Gold after their 20th, 40th, 60th, and 80th attempts.

Arkesia Grand Prix

The fan-favorite Naruni Racing event returns! In this mode, two teams of seven players (7v7) will compete against each other, racing around a course while transformed while preventing the other team from progressing. Earn event coins that can be exchanged for a variety of impactful rewards. Make sure to checkout the ‘Special’ tab in the store as well. An NPC named “Arkesia Grand Prix Manager” will arrive in every major city to help you enter the event, granting an “[Event][Daily] Go to the Arena!” quest for players to gain entry. Players must be level 50 to enter the event. The Grand Prix event will last until May 22.

Golden Frog Event Shop

The Golden Frog Event Shop will stay for an additional month, lasting until April 17. Golden Frog Event is a shop where players can exchange Gold for valuable rewards, such as honing materials, legendary engravings, card packs, and more! Some rewards will include a ‘Toad Token’ which can be redeemed for additional items. The Twinkle Twinkle Shop will be included in the Event Shop category.

General Event Updates

Daily Playtime Rewards will continue, but will refreshed the new event tokens. Otherwise, the rewards remain the same.

Added a new Daily Log-in Reward Track.

New Fever Time Events have been added.

Store Updates

Breaker cosmetics.

Three cosmetic sets accompany the Breaker’s launch:

The Breaker Launch Skin

Breaker Unity & Providence Skins

Breaker Yoz Skin: Leap

As Breaker was released after Yoz’s Leap season was created, Breaker will have the same Legendary skin appearance as the Striker.

General Store Updates

A Voldis Powerpass will now be purchasable on the character selection screen.

The color of the 'BUY +' button changed.

Ark Pass - Immortal Phantasmic Beasts

The newest Ark Pass arrives and adds new ways for players to earn impactful rewards just by playing Lost Ark .

Players can complete missions to progress through 30 Ark Pass levels, and with each level reached, new rewards will be unlocked and earned. The regular Ark Pass is completely free and grants a variety of helpful rewards, such as Pheons, honing material selection chests, pirate coins, and even a Legendary Card Pack! Ark Pass progress is earned across your entire roster, and the rewards are roster bound.

While all players will have access to the free Ark Pass, those interested in more rewards and cosmetics can exchange Royal Crystals for two premium reward tracks (Premium & Super Premium) which each layer in additional rewards to the leveling track. The Premium Ark Pass adds rewards at all 30 levels earned alongside the free rewards. Examples include more honing material selection chests, battle items, rapport chests, and more! On top of the Regular & Premium rewards, the Super Premium Ark Pass weaves the Neon Techwear cosmetic collection, Phoenix Mount, Wallpaper: Memories of a Summer Day, and a Legendary Card Pack through the Ark Pass.

Find the cosmetics layered throughout the Ark Pass showcased below:

General & QOL

Added 2 new male and 2 new female hairstyles.

Adventurer’s Tome:

Players are now able to see the previous stories after completing the 'Hidden Stories' of the Adventurer's Tome.

Players are now able to use the context menu on the Adventurer's Tome UI regarding each collectible.

A message now appears notifying a player why they can't enter a secret dungeon when trying to use a Secret Map in certain conditions.

Skill effect visibility option added.

Wandering Merchants:

Boosted the chance of legendary cards appearing in each continent.

Legendary card 'Kharmine' added to the inventory of Rethramis Wandering Merchant NPC 'Ben'.

Legendary Card 'Azena & Inanna' added to the inventory of Rohendel Wandering Merchant 'Aricer'.

A 'Collected' label is displayed for cards that have been already collected when placing cursor over the world map's Wandering Merchant icon.

Added an Auto-Save option when obtaining or purchasing a card.

Direction guide now appears faster when the Head attack/Back attack guide option is activated.

When disabling 'Show Tool Specific Info' in settings, certain categories for set effects are shortened or removed.

When mousing over settings to display tooltips, the slider shows where the tooltip is shown.

Updated to not show the Amount Stacked in the Market listed items.

Design improved to better show each NPC's rapport achievement level

Added info for each NPC, improved specifics

Added info for each reward

Rapport NPC for 'Sailing' category separated into Gienah's Sea / Procyon's Sea

Roster XP added as rewards for reaching certain NPC's rapport level

Chat icon glows when a new chat is shown after joining a party in Party Finder and have minimized the party UI.

Players can now press RMB+Q/E in Selfie mode to rotate the camera clockwise/counterclockwise.

Reward added for 1400 Mokoko Seeds collected.

20/30/34/38/52 Masterpiece collection reward changed from Gold to Silver.

Added a guide for moving from Elgacia to the surface.

Added an instruction to move to the surface to the holy beast 'Albion' icon on the Ereonnor minimap.

When a character arrives on Ereonnor for the first time after using an Elgacia Pass, a guide pop-up to help move to the surface is provided once.

When playing with a game pad, basic attack key can now use the class's Point Control type skills.

Pet features can be used in LaiLai Island.

Adjusted the sound when a Fate Ember drops to release at the right time.

If the quest needed for Story Express designation 'On the Border' is already complete (making it impossible to select the character for Story Express) Story Express Mission UI will not be shown after moving to 'Loghill' in Rethramis.

Event mission UI will no longer appear when logging in if a character has not started the event mission.

When activating the 'Applied the same during the next honing' feature and exhausting all the extra materials, the same feature will be in effect during the honing session.

When checking on the character info screen in Rowen, changed the location of the 'Preview Transformation' button so it does not overlap with the 'Raging Earth' title.

Improved the UI icon shown when there's no data for monster collection on the Adventurer's Tome.

Improved visibility for some UI info areas.

Attraction Improvements

Able to start attractions poll with keyboard.

Improved to fold quest info screen automatically when attractions activity starts.

Changed the default structure in Racing attractions area.

When activity is in progress in the Racing Attractions area, if all participating players reach the goal before the 10-second count (after first place has been decided) expires, count immediately ends.

2 Options added in the Survival Attractions settings: 'Allow View Far', 'Allow Look Around'.

Announcement added regarding deaths during survival activities.

Able to check other player's HP after death during survival activity.

Able to use Stronghold Attractions Operations feature in Free Area.

Kill info now appears when a player kills another player in a free area that allows PvP.

Other Stronghold Improvements

Can remove game notes in the following instances by clicking on them directly:

When player's Action Energy is depleted or is not enough to perform an activity.

When a Trade Merchant has left the stronghold.

When creating a 'Great Success' feast in the Chef's Kitchen, feast's name and buff info is announced based on 'Great Success' values.

When placing structure 'Elegant Velvet Curtain Dividers', can place other structures on each side of the Curtain.

Able to preview Monster Structures when looking them up in the Codex.

If a player acquires and uses an NPC outfit item outside of Stronghold, system message announcing the item acquirement no longer appears when entering Stronghold.

Changed the form of Arcanist weapon skin on the weapon rack.

Changed the bamboo shadows to look a bit lighter in color when applying the Stronghold Mood 'Spring Night Market'.

Exit button added to the top side of Stronghold UI and Stronghold menu.

Adjusted Attraction's 'Exit' button to be located at the same place as the Stronghold 'Exit' button.

Can warp to 'Memory Chamber' from Stronghold.

Breaker skins can be displayed on mannequins.

Can display Breaker weapon skins on Weapon display rack.

Siege Updates

Three New Raid Matches have been added:

Thunderwings added (S Rank: 1610)

Ancheladus (S Rank: 1500)

Moake (S Rank: 1580)

Improved Siege PvP progression methods

A special mineral appears 5 minutes before the match ends, in two random places

Special Minerals have higher point value than the original A/B/C minerals.

The original minerals are upgraded 5 minutes before the match ends, and Special Minerals are upgraded 2 minutes before the match ends to provide higher points.

Attack Increase buffs removed.

Improved 'Elysium' buff:

Buff now appears in two random places.

Buff time is longer, and when the buff is acquired the whole team gets a new buff.

Adjusted the location for healing buffs.

Slime Island

Boss A/B/C will now appear at random locations.

Split Slime Queen no longer appears after killing Queen Slime.

When Queen Slime is killed, Blue/Red Queen Slime is summoned according to the team that killed the Slime.

Blue team defeating the Queen Slime: Blue Queen summoned

Only Red team can kill the Blue Queen.

When the Blue Queen is killed, Red Queen is summoned once.

Red team defeating the Queen Slime: Red Queen summoned

Only Blue team can kill the Red Queen

When the Red Queen is killed, Blue Queen is summoned once.

Death's Hold Island

A Covetous Curse Sword' summoned 5 min. before the match ends

1st appearance: 5 min. before the end of the match

When first interaction is successful, 2nd sword gets summoned 100 sec. after

When second interaction is successful, 3rd sword is summoned 100 sec. after

Lush Reed Island

Changed points for 2nd, 3rd treasure contribution

2nd: 200 > 350

3rd: 200 > 500 (victory)

Guild Flag UI improved when interacting with conquered area's guild flag.

Combat, Raid, and Enemy Updates

Changed the motions of Glaivier, Deadeye, and Gunslinger so stance-swapping in combat looks more natural.

If a party or Raid member uses a battle item in key contents, the usage message is announced regardless of the distance between players.

Improved to show Hotkey guide on Specialty & Engraving tooltip when changing Specialty Hotkey.

Improved to allow point control settings for battle items and quest items with basic attack key when playing with a controller.

Added movement length on tooltip for Slayer's Burst-mode dash skill (Wild Dash).

Changed the Skill tree tooltip icon for Deathblade's 'Earth Cleaver' - 'Leap Attack' to match the skill tab icon.

Players are now able to observe characters in a topological space with observer mode.

Players are now able to use the 'Exit' feature after clearing the final gates in Abyssal / Challenge Abyssal Dungeons, Abyssal Raids, and Legion Raids.

Players are now able to check the status of content resetting every two weeks in the 'Task Tracker' UI and Party Finder before entering certain activities.

Damage number is now shown when hitting Lauriel's alter egos in the pattern where players must get 'Light's Protection' buff using the statues in Kayangel's 'Eternal Cradle of Light'.

Giant Worm appearing in Chaos Dungeons no longer applies Darkness debuff.

Guardian Hanumatan's fist uppercut pattern has a smaller hit area now.

The hit-zone warning color of Giant Worm's slime-spitting pattern has changed.

The hit-zone warning color of the monster 'Slaughterer''s knife-wielding pattern that applies 'Stun' debuff has been changed.

Kakul-Saydon Normal & Rehearsal Gate 3 nerfed

Normal/Rehearsal Mode

Players touching the cogwheel no longer die, instead inflicted with massive damage.

Lowered the Stagger points required to clear the 'Offer the Sacrifice' pattern.

Lowered the damage for 'Circus Balls' and 'Missiles' appearing in the sidescrolling minigame pattern.

If a player fails to remove the 'Doll's Curse' placed upon another player in the sidescrolling minigame pattern, the player with the curse gets a debuff instead of dying instantly.

Brand debuff obtained upon entering the sidescrolling minigame pattern removed when using Sidereal skill 'Inanna'.

Normal Mode

Puzzling Curse pattern removed.

Stagger amplification effect buffed when pulling on the lever in the fourth 'Offer the Sacrifice' pattern.

Can check the Field Boss appearance time in lower level areas.

Changed the appearance time for the following Field Bosses to Every Hour / Every 30 minutes

Rethramis 'Rudric'

Yudia 'Salt Giant'

West Luterra ' Rovlen'

East Luterra 'Wili-Wili'

Tortoyk 'Caspiel'

Anikka 'Chuo'

Arthetine 'Velkan'

North Vern 'Casrick'

Shushire 'Maneth'

Quests & Music Box of Memories

The phrase '(in progress)' will be displayed if a current ongoing quest is a roster quest in the quest journal, among the 'Start Requirements' items guided when searching for quests.

Improved the instant quest journal search results when the players click on the Music Box of Memories in the Collectibles UI.

Changed some of the objectives of the Music Box of Memories quest 'Toward the Crest'.

Certain background NPCs appearing after Music Box #11 now disappear after completing certain quests.

Added an announcement regarding an NPC that cannot be met in 'Neria's Tavern' in 'Wavestrand Port' while progressing through Music Box quest 'Untie the anchoring rope'.

Changed Feiton quest 'Different Appearance, Same Faith' to roster quest.

Follow-up changes regarding quest type change for 'Different Appearance, Same Faith'.

If multiple characters in a roster have completed the quest:

Among the characters who completed the quest, the character with the last access record was applied with the quest completed.

If multiple characters are in progress of the quest:

Preserved the quest progress of the character that performed the most steps and removed the performance history of the other characters.

If multiple characters has recorded the most steps, the quest progress of the character with the last access record is preserved, and the performance history of the other characters is removed.

If a character has already completed the quest, other characters' progress is deleted.

Added the source of acquisition for certain item tooltips acquired through rapport quests.

Changed the interaction icon image on 'Collecting Crimson Flowers' step in the Awakening quest 'One with Nature', to look more related to the objective.

Changed the phrase regarding 'Chaos Shards' in the Trixion 'Special Training' UI, as the item is not used anymore.

Changed the following 5 item types to Junk from Normal items, appearing in NPC Azakiel's Rapport quest 'Visitor from the Sky'

Old Glasses

Soundpod (Right)

Bundle of Letters

Improved drag easiness within the Battle Item Inventory.

Shortened the cooldown for registering Mount items from 5s to 1s.

When exchanging Leapstone items, can designate the number up to 9,999.

Changed the tier of the following chests to match the contents of the chests (Rare)

Initial Sentiment Head/Chest/Pants Chest

Changed the type of the following skin chest from character bound to Roster bound:

Lofty Sentiment Head/Chest/Pants Chest

Certain items are now available for use during sailing.

Improved Rapport UI when clicking on item's collection point that shows 'Rapport' in Codex.

Changed the standard for currencies' changing form so that silver and gold would change form more frequently according to the amount of the currency dropped.

Added the points needed in the Structure items' tooltip.

When crafting an item, if the number of items crafting is changed, the amount of ingredients needed changes accordingly.

If a player already has emotes from a certain emote pack, the player is no longer able to purchase an additional set.

Added the option for auto-dismantle 'Upon drops and clearing content'.

Removed the expiration date for Adventurer's Tome item 'Wriggling Tentacle'.

Cannot designate an amount of 999 or above when buying a product in the Exchange Shop UI.

Island Updates

Entering method improved for Adventure & Dynamic Islands

Previous Entrance Method: Instantly entered with players in the same server.

New Entrance Method: Enters through matching with players in all servers within the region.

As the entrance method has been changed for Adventure & Dynamic Islands, the minimum number needed to start Matching/Co-op quest has been adjusted.

Tranquil Island - Minimum 7 Participants - 1m waiting time

Snowpang Island - Minimum 4 Participants - 1m waiting time

Medeia - Minimum 4 Participants - 1m waiting time

Harmony Island - Minimum 3 Participants - 1m waiting time

Phantomwing Island - Minimum 4 Participants - 1m waiting time

Volare Island - Minimum 4 Participants - 1m waiting time

Opportunity Isle - Minimum 3 Participants - 1m waiting time

Drumbeat Island - Minimum 4 Participants - 1m waiting time

Monte Island - Minimum 4 Participants - 1m waiting time

Forpe - Minimum 4 Participants - 1m waiting time

Oblivion Isle - Minimum 4 Participants - 1m waiting time

Lush Reed Island - Minimum 4 Participants - 1m waiting time

Lagoon Island - Minimum 4 Participants - 1m waiting time

Asura Island - Minimum 4 Participants - 1m waiting time

Cruel Toy Castle - Minimum 4 Participants - 2m waiting time

Lailai Island - Minimum 4 Participants - 1m waiting time

Illusion Isle - Minimum 4 Participants - 3m waiting time

Tooki Island - Minimum 4 Participants - 3m waiting time

Spida Island - Minimum 4 Participants - 3m waiting time

Shangra - Minimum 4 Participants - 3m waiting time

Alakkir - Minimum 4 Participants - 3m waiting time

Death’s Hold Island - Minimum 4 Participants - 3m waiting time

Unknown Island - Minimum 4 Participants - 3m waiting time

Quest Monster's HP and quest objective will be adjusted to match the number of participants in Adventure & Dynamic islands.

Characters on Adventure & Dynamic Islands can start quests even if they are not located on the co-op quest starting point.

Players cannot participate mid-quest in Adventure & Dynamic islands' co-op quest.

As quest waiting time is shortened for co-op quests in Adventure & Dynamic islands, following changes applied to certain islands:

Entrance point changed for the following islands

Phantomwing Island

Tranquil Isle

Oblivion Isle

When co-op quest starts in the following islands, players are now automatically transported to the starting points:

Lagoon Island - Raid: Lagoon's Shadow

Oblivion Isle - The Deathly Island

Upon starting Forpe co-op quest 'Much Ado About Chickens', players are automatically turned into chickens (first-time only).

The following islands' co-op quest progress is now easier:

Tranquil Isle 'A Blooming Heart'

Lowered the number of monsters appearing in co-op quests

Times for monsters not appearing during the waves changed from 15s to 30s.

The following named monsters' HP will be adjusted according to the number of participants in Tranquil Isle's co-op quest 'A Blooming Heart'

Spirit Knight

Cursed Elite Knight

Cursed Captain

Drumbeat Island 'The Thing from the Sky!'

Lowered the amount of hits needed for the rice cake dough

Spida Island 'Crack It Wide Open'

Lowered the amount of hits needed to mine the Egg.

As the number of minimum participants for matching/co-op quest is lowered, 'mining bomb's damage is lowered.

Shangra Island 'Save the Stone Monkey'

Lowered the number of hits needed to break the stone.

Changed the location of normal quest's objective to a place closer to co-op quest area in Tranquil Isle.

Added an additional objective to the Lailai Island's normal quest 'Senzigo Festival' so that destroying the Pinata in the training area will complete the quest.

Lowered the amount of baskets needed for Gesbroy's Una's Task 'The Beer Snack to End All Beer Snacks' from 15 to 10.

Shortened the waiting time for the following three co-op quests at Gesbroy to 1m, and adjusted the progress time to:

[Co-op] The Secret of the Sweet Beer 3m > 2m

[Co-op] The Secret of the Clean Beer 3m > 2m

[Co-op]The Secret of the Savory Beer 15m > 10m

Lowered the amount of hits the Wheat dough needed to complete the Gesbroy co-op quest '[Co-op] The Secret of the Savory Beer'.

Separated the objectives of the co-op quest at Tooki island, and added a new quest to improve progress.

Previous: Tooki Tooki Treasures > Invincible Tooki King

After: Tooki Tooki Treasures > (New) Tooki Tooki Chest > (New) 101 Tookies > Invincible Tooki King

The objective number and order for the co-op quests are the same as before.

The rewards for the co-op quests have been adjusted as the improvements to 'Tooki Island' were made.

Lowered the number of hits needed for all Tooki monsters on the island.

Changed the notification time for Shangra's co-op quest 'The Song of Prancing Deer and Clouds' to 3 min. before the quest starts.

Chest item appears more quickly while progressing co-op quest for Lush Reed Island 'The Reed Field'.

Honing, Gear, and Skill Improvements

Improved to fill the max. exp with the current materials without designating a separate amount of shards in the 'Gear Upgrade' UI.

Honing effect animation ends immediately by clicking on the screen.

Moved the 'Confirm' button slightly toward the bottom when the honing animation is starting.

Added a new feature to reuse the same honing support materials automatically on the next try.

Added a button to directly use Market and Express Mail in the honing screen.

To make it easier to distinguish which skill cannot be upgraded, added the phrase 'Cannot Upgrade' to Skill Tree's upgrade UI.

Added a feature to not show the 'Binding Guide' screen appearing when granting or changing bonus on bracelets.

If a skill tree effect able for transfer is the only one, the effect is automatically selected.

If a gear level able for upgrade is the only one available, the level is selected automatically.

Progression Boost

Expanded the Arcturus' Touch boundaries

Plague Legion Commander Akkan Raid NM/HM Gates 1~3

Abyssal Dungeon Kayangel 'Eternal Cradle of Light' NM Gates 2, 3

Abyssal Dungeon Kayangel 'Eternal Cradle of Light' HM Gates 1~3

New/Returning Adventurer Benefits

Benefits will now be applied to the highest item level character in Roster up to Item Level 1540.

Only 'Starting Novice Adventurer' buff will be applied in the said level period.

Expanded the boundaries of Procyon's Protection

Legion Raid

Phantom Legion Commander Brelshaza)' HM Gates 3, 4 (Expanded).

Plague Legion Commander Akkan' NM Gates 1~3 (Added).

Abyssal Dungeon

Kayangel 'Eternal Cradle of Light' HM Gates 1~3 (Added).

Progression Material Improvement

Ability Stone upgrade material 'Light Spear' no longer obtainable from Abyssal Dungeon Kayangel 'Eternal Cradle of Light' HM.

Quests, Una’s, and Achievements

New Trade quest 'For Once in My Life' added

When performing weekly Una's or Guild quests, changed the 'View Location' button to 'Shortcut' button for some contents

When using the search feature in Quest journal or Una's UI, clicking the auto-correct category will lead to immediate searching

Reduced the prerequisite quests for Elgacia prelude quest 'The Gate of Paradise Opens' to just 'An Invasion of Chaos'.

"Changed the objective for Giant's Heart collection quest '15th Giant's Heart'

Previous: Clear Abyssal Dungeon Gate of Paradise 'Alaric's Sanctuary'

After: Progress through certain steps after visiting Elgacia's Ereonnor

If jump-starting by using North Vern or higher Pass without completing Stronghold related quests, Stronghold guide quest is now automatically accepted.

When jump-starting by using Elgacia or higher Pass, Legion Raid and Abyssal Raid guide quests are automatically cleared.

When jump-starting by using Elgacia or higher Pass, added a guide quest to show how to go to and from Elgacia to the ground.

[Guide] A Way to the Surface

When progressing through quest '[Guide] The Road to Faceting', a notification was added in the quest journal.

Changed the 'Training Area' honing guide quest to progress naturally as the 'repeated honing QOL improvement' has been applied.

Changed deprecated items to 'Eternity Essence' for Feiton World Quest 'Ashen Fate' completion rewards.

Changed the two following specifics for Pleccia achievement 'Artist Named Mother' to be able to be completed even after completing Pleccia World Quest.

Examine Claudia's icon, Love

Examine Claudia's self portrait, Purity

Changed the five Adventure Quests for Abyssal Dungeon 'Gate of Paradise' to Roster Quests:

In Search of the Gate of Paradise

Deep Sea Investigation Preparations

Song of the Deep Sea

Forgotten Kingdom of Abyss

Guardian of Paradise

Feiton World Quest 'Will' added to the following three quests' prerequisites:

Letters in the Jar

Den of Buried Sins

Improved the guide tooltip for the quest step 'Drink Shoddy Booze' in the Music Box quest 'As you Follow the Tracks'

Added announcements to show which quests can't be progressed at the same time with Elgacia Prelude 'The Gate of Paradise Opens', which cannot be progressed simultaneously with the following quests:

One Night, Two Stories

Of Knights and Books

The World's Library

The Discovery

Tabula Rasa

Added additional guide tooltips to help players understand the following quest start conditions:

Butterfly's Regards

Anxious Feelings

Fading Expectation

Able to receive quest start item if the player has not completed the quest 'Complete and Broken World'.

To prevent players from not being able to progress through the quest '15th Giant's Heart' due to item level limitations, changed the item level limit on the quest start item 'Reinvigorated Giant's Heart' to 1460 and above.

Moved the blueprint and the quest locations for the Voldis World Quest 'Create a Homunculus: Design' , specifically for the 'Continue Working on the Homunculus Blueprint' step.

Changed certain impossible-to-clear achievements related to the gate deletion update to clearable achievements in Memory Tome > Arkesia of Memory > Legion Raids category.

‘Being good-looking is the best!’ Changed to ‘Succubus Charmer’

‘You're There and I'm Here?' Changed to 'Wings Dyed in a Dream'

‘Against the Encroaching Nightmare’ Changed to ‘At the Edge of Dream and Reality’

Balance Updates

PvE damage of Deathblade Surge reduced by 2.3%

Effects of Surge have been updated.

Activates the top level of Deathblade Surge, which unleashes the same powerful Attack regardless of the number of Death Orbs available. When skills other than basic attacks hit while in Death Trance state, Surge Enhancement effects will stack in proportion to the number of hits. This effect increases damage dealt through Deathblade Surge by up to 45/60/85%. Damage doubles at the max stack of 60 stacks. When Death Trance ends, gain up to 100% Death Orb Meter according to the number of Surge Enhancement stacks.

Activates the top level of Deathblade Surge, which unleashes the same powerful Attack regardless of the number of Death Orbs available. When skills other than basic attacks hit while in Death Trance state, Surge Enhancement effects will stack in proportion to the number of hits. This effect increases damage dealt through Deathblade Surge by up to 40/55/80%. Damage doubles at the max stack of 60 stacks. When Death Trance ends, gain up to 100% Death Orb Meter according to the number of Surge Enhancement stacks.

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‘It’s a joke’: How this tour pro stumbled upon a rare driver build

Ping's Alta CB 55S driver shaft first made an appearance when Phillips was on the Texas A&M golf team.

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Chandler Phillips made a driver shaft change last week at the Valspar Championship . It would’ve flown completely under the radar had it not been for the man himself, who dropped a bit of gear intel at the end of a question about the extent of his rookie season through the first three months.

The answer started with a recent putter swap and flowed right into some recent driver issues that led to the shaft change. Only this wasn’t any shaft change. After missing out on making the Players Championship field, Phillips went home and “started trying different stuff” to get the driver back on the rails. It didn’t take him long to throw the “old trusty shaft” in his 10-degree Ping G430 LST .

“It’s honestly a joke what it is,” he explained after the second round of the Valspar.

PING G430 Max 10K Custom Driver

A joke, huh? This wasn’t Phillips’ way of dunking on his own gear, but rather pointing out that he uses a rare driver setup. In fact, Ping Tour rep Kenton Oates confirmed to GOLF.com that Phillips is the only one playing this particular driver shaft on the PGA Tour.

“It’s just a stock Ping [Alta CB] shaft,” Phillips continued. “It’s 55 grams stiff. It’s not tipped. It’s a joke. I don’t know how it works.”

Take a peek at the driver shafts flexes on Tour and you’ll find plenty of extra-stiff (X) and tour extra-stiff (TX) offerings. Most are usually tipped at least half an inch to bolster the profile. Rarely do you see a tour pro using something untipped in the stiff category.

Even more interesting is the Alta CB 55S shaft is geared for swing speeds between 90-100 mph and just happens to be a retail offering found in Ping’s off-the-rack build.

Phillips, who currently averages 111.85 mph club head speed (about 4 mph below the Tour average), came across the shaft during his time on the golf team at Texas A&M. Ping player development manager Jeff Brown confirmed Phillips was under-spinning the ball at the time but hadn’t considered the Alta CB — a counterbalanced profile — until he “stumbled upon it” on the A&M range.

“I was actually just jacking around on the range one day, and it’s so embarrassing, but one of the girls on the golf team — and I still practice at A&M — her bag was out there, we were just hanging out, and I grabbed her driver [with an Alta CB shaft] and I hit it and I was like, No, that’s a fluke,” he said.

Except it wasn’t a fluke. Phillips teed up five more to verify the results were legitimate — and they were. Phillips’ spin rate quickly moved into a more reasonable range of 2,000-2,200 RPMs, with ball speed and carry distance seeing a noticeable uptick as well.

“I hit ’em the exact same,” he said. “And I ordered it, and I think I played the shaft for two and a half years. Then I think I did a little premature getting it out of the bag, because I was kind of hitting everything bad, and I think it was more me, not the shaft.”

Thanks to a member of the women’s team at A&M, Phillips is back on track off the tee following a T3 finish at the Valspar, his best to date since he earned his Tour card. Not bad for a stiff-flex “joke” shaft that comes stock in a Ping driver.

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Sprinkler head relief helps Peter Malnati to Valspar Championship title

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Peter Malnati knew it was a fortunate break. He made the most of it.

Not long before winning the Valspar Championship at 12-under, two strokes clear of Cameron Young, Malnati looked to face a gnarly pitch on the par-4 16th at Innisbrook Resort’s Copperhead Course after tugging his approach left of the green. Malnati and Young were tied at the time; with Young facing a mid-range birdie look at 17, Young looked to have the advantage.

Malnati, though, drew good fortune in that a sprinkler head impeded his natural stance to play the shot. The nearest point of relief (within one club length, no closer to the hole) was in the fringe; Malnati called over Steve Rintoul, PGA TOUR Vice President, Rules and Officiating, who confirmed the free drop. (A sprinkler head is considered an immovable obstruction under Rule 16.1.)

The golf gods were in Malnati’s favor here, a reality that he didn’t dance around.

“I feel this is a great break, and I want you to be here … this is the right way to do it, isn’t it?” Malnati asked Rintoul in real time.

“That’s your nearest point,” Rintoul confirmed.

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Judith Butler is out promoting a new book, the first the notoriously enigmatic theorist has ever written with actual readers in mind. Who’s Afraid of Gender? explores what Butler characterises as a global movement animated by the “phantasm of gender”, which “collects and displaces anxieties and fears of destruction, resulting in a movement that demonizes struggles for equality, fuels aggressive nationalism, and leaves millions of people vulnerable to subjugation”. Or, to put it more succinctly, how everyone who disagrees with Butler — from Viktor Orbán to Julie Bindel — is probably just a fascist.

But there’s always risk involved in descending from the ivory tower and mixing with the (suspiciously anti-gender) plebs. In an interview this week with KQED Forum — a public-radio programme based in the San Francisco Bay Area — Butler ran headfirst into some of the hard facts she managed to evade on the page.

For the greater part of the interview, Butler goes on at length about how losing one’s sense of “superiority” or “inevitability” or “natural[ness]” in the face of bold new formulations of gender is a source of “grief” for some people — mostly fascists, who must learn how to live in a “broader and more capacious world” and “accept equality and the expansive nature of kinship and of gender”. She gives little consideration to the possible existence of legitimate grievances, such as female athletes who are being asked to accept inequality in their own sporting leagues and who must contend with the “expansive nature” of certain men’s entitlement.

The terrain shifts when the show opens up to questions from the audience. When “Kevin” calls in, for example, Butler loses her glib sure-footedness. Kevin raises concerns about girls with “underlying conditions, it could be maybe anxiety or autism,” who find themselves drawn to transgender identities but later detransition. He asks if there are “any dangers for people getting wrapped up in this and having it severely affect their life and mental health.”

“Ums” and “uhs” clutter Butler’s response. She wants to be “careful, uh, about making generalisations” — not previously a concern of Butler’s — “and I’m not sure, for instance, what an ‘underlying condition’ is, who’s determining that. My guess is we probably all have underlying conditions! I certainly would be surprised if I didn’t have one [Butler laughs nervously here] and who doesn’t live without anxiety?”

If Butler expected to find an adoring listenership in the ultra-liberal Bay Area, she misjudged how much public understanding and opinion has shifted over the past few years. It’s one thing to endorse vague nonsense about authenticity and self-exploration, quite another to sign on to the trans movement’s actual agenda. Public support for youth gender transition, and policies that put males in female spaces and sports, is cratering . Even in California, over half the residents surveyed said they were against trans participation in women’s sport, while a sizeable proportion (41%) were opposed to gender transitions under the age of 18.

If there are phantasms in this debate, Kathleen Stock is right to suggest that these projections are Butler’s , not her critics’. When confronted with the real-world concerns she so skilfully evades on the page, Butler has nothing to offer. Her language clots with “amalgamations” and “paradigm shifts”, and never has her stubborn opacity looked more like what it is: a refusal to engage with the world as it is.

Eliza Mondegreen is a graduate student in psychiatry and the author of Writing Behavior on Substack.

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I would say that these modern pseudo-scholars have learned to write in abstractions to disguise from us– and more importantly from themselves– that they are saying little or nothing, and often what little they say is pernicious. Alexis de Tocqueville warned in 1840 that “An abstract word is like a box with a false bottom: you can put in any ideas you please and take them out again without anyone being the wiser.”

Couldn’t agree more. It’s language used not to communicate but to exclude. No-one is welcome to their word salad world but those who have learnt this form of impressive looking but almost meaningless verbiage.

Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account

Exactly! Orwell warned us!

Ha ha ha! I offer you my most enthusiastic contrafibularities!

Teach me to talk like that. I want people to think I’m smart. Without doing the work, of course.

“exhibits no tendency”? None? Only true if there’s no such thing as innateness, which seems innately true.

Thanks for that excellent quote.

You’re very welcome! Lennon O Naraigh above is directing us to George Orwell’s wonderful essay “Politics and the English Language,” which I can’t recommend too highly.

Not sure that opaque writing and thinking is confined to modern “pseudo-scholars” – I have read quite a lot of opaque crap in my several years of academic study. In many cases it is just that academics can’t write. In Judith Butler’s case I suspect it is smoke and mirrors to get people to believe she is brilliant and to allow people to interpret it any way that suits their prejudice. Personally I find her way too impressed with herself. Kathleen Stock is an exceptional example of an academic who thinks and writes clearly, if not beautifully. I read everything by her for the sheer delight in the writing. I also tend to agree with everything she says.

“In Judith Butler’s case I suspect it is smoke and mirrors to get people to believe she is brilliant and to allow people to interpret it any way that suits their prejudice.” James Lindsay notes that Judith Butler functions as a guru-type figure in the modern cult of Trans/Queer gender nonsense. Cults typically have a leader–or at least an inner circle of those who lead—who is the ultimate and only authoritative voice qualified to determine what The Truth is. The abstract and vague nature of their teachings is an essential feature, because it means that no one person can ever master or understand The Truth on their own. They must always return to the indispensable Master for further guidance and clarification. Butler can gas on endlessly and no one can ever pin her down; no one can refute her because her words are fog; no one will ever know the final truth because only she can certify it.

A few yars ago, I made a short analysis of the infamous passage that had been singled out as an outstanding instance of bad style in English, and I argued that it had a lot to say if you read it properly – and all of it bad. Here is my analysis: …Let me show you how the famous passage that everyone quotes against her is actually quite meaningful and significant. “ …The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power…” It’s actually worse than just bad and pretentious, as most people seem to think, What it amounts to is trying to promote actual and very wicked ideas in such a way that their wickedness is not easily recognized. The key words are “hegemony” and “change”, although change is a word she never uses – it would make her meaning too clear. What she is saying is: Marxists (Althusser was an extreme Marxist) understood cultural “hegemony”, the power of culture over thought, as a “relatively homologous” set of facts; that is, they had clear terms to determine the power relationships within culture. In fact, if you read the first part of the first sentence carefully – the part from “The move” to “hegemony,” what she is describing is a “move” (of interpretation, understanding, theory) from “capital” to “hegemony”. And this “hegemony” is “subject to repetition, convergence and re-articulation.” “Capital,” in the end, is clear enough; it is easy to locate it in society, to see who has and who doesn’t, to a considerable extent, to determine what it does and how it affects people. “Hegemony” in the abstract, on the other hand, can only be located, at best, by its effects; that is, whatever has an effect on society can be said to be a hegemony. More to the point, I think, whatever can be said to have an effect on society – that is, whatever I the writer can point to as having an effect on society – is a hegemony. We also have to notice an even more deeply hidden layer of meaning in this bizarre sentence. It contains what is in effect a one-on-one correspondence between “capital” and “hegemony.” What she is saying is that the position of “capital” within the Marxist scheme of things has been taken, in hers, by “hegemony.” But, quite apart from the fact that in Marxism capital is itself a product of social processes, that is to some extent a contingent rather than eternal category, the role of “capital” in practically all Marxism, vulgar and otherwise, is negative and to be opposed. Marxist morality begins with a rejection of the moral effects of capital. To place “hegemony” in place of “capital” in this uncritical, one-on-one way, is to imply that “hegemony” is bad. And this is not just unacceptable (is the “hegemony” of the opposition to paedophilia a bad thing?), but contains a hideous intellectual temptation; because, as I just pointed out, a hegemony, being so subjected to “repetition, convergence and re-articulation,” can be located practically anywhere in society. In other words, I the writer am going to determine “hegemony” any way I damn well please, because I can find it in all sorts of different places and ways. (For instance – this is my comment on Ms.Butler’s position – I, a powerful and privileged academic, can cast myself as a victim of a “hegemony” if I can locate it smartly enough on a map of the “rearticulation of power.”) This is the practical sense and utility of this admittedly terrible style. It does indeed have a content: one that sane people would reject, if it was stated in a sane style. Marxism is not defensible, but the clarity of its categories is a defence against worse things, and Judith Butler has removed that defence. She keeps the bad Marxist idea of “hegemony”, whereby the features ofa culture are purely determined by economic and power relationships – that is, the culture is essentially a justification of existing power structures – but removes the objective (and useful) view of economic power within society. Anything can be an oppressive hegemony. I hope you now appreciate the “practical use” of such overcomplicated run-on sentences, even though I wholly agree that there is no literary value to them. For literary value goes with understanding – not necessarily clarity; Shakespeare deliberately complicated his sentences, but made his mood and sense very clear. But the practical value of Ms.Butler’s s style is that of the stage magician’s hand-waving, trying not to make you see what the other hand is doing. And there is a hilarious corollary to this. Ask yourself: who, in recent years, has shown, in spite of a privileged background and even more privileged social position, a practically infinite ability to consider himelf oppressed by all sorts of wicked hegemonies? That’s right. Ms.Butler is the spiritual mother of Donald Trump.

I’m surprised JB took questions from anyone anywhere. They almost always stick to the same playbook – the science is settled and anyone who disagrees is a hateful fasc!st who wants to kill granny or the grandkids.

No, they might mean that but nobody could possibly understand that from their super long, impenetrable sentences

As “gender-affirming care” comes under pressure in the United States, public relations specialists at the recent US Professional Association for Transgender Health conference in Denver instructed clinicians to avoid specifics in favour of unobjectionable generalities: don’t say mastectomies. Do say “medically-necessary care”. This is why trans activists are advised to avoid public scrutiny — the better to pass unpopular policies. — This is the point at which it is time for the doctors involved in this matter to be hung from ship’s yardarms, and for figures like Judith Butler to knock their brains out. Good job, Eliza! We have to save these girls

…and never has her stubborn opacity looked more like what it is: a refusal to engage with the world as it is.

Ah, but the world as I think it should be is much more attractive and easier to promote, and anything that detracts from the purity of my vision must therefore be evil. /sarcasm

The same could be said for numerous academics and ideologues who live in their world of groupthink. Ideas that deviate from prevailing orthodoxy are not debated; they are considered illegitimate and, as such, unworthy of consideration. Whenever challenged on its dogma, the faculty lounge responds in the same sputtering manner ascribed to Butler’s radio appearance.

Much more interesting than anything Ms Butler has to opine, is why anyone listened, and took her seriously, in the first place.

I actually think Judith Butler is analogous to a pure mathematician who came up with some very esoteric math of no interest to anybody outside her highly rarified academic area, and then somebody comes up with a technology where all of a sudden the math is applied. I think for Butler it was smart phones and social media. It meant that for a significant minority of the population, particularly the “laptop class” in media and academia, an online life lived through representations on a screen became a part of their personal experience. So, Butler’s ideas about gender being a performance and being able to make up your own labels suddenly made sense and resonated with a lot of extremely online people. What is driving the activism and advocacy underlying gender ideology is people who want to be able to select their own avatar, name, and desktop in 3D-meatspace in the same way they do on their phones. And they get very upset whenever other people, not so screen-oriented, insist that actually that isn’t how real life works.

There are two differences. Firstly, mathematicians are usually very keen to try to include others. Secondly, abstract pure mathematics often turns out to be shockingly useful.

… and true

Yes, the gender orthodoxy that came after JB’s key work over the last 15 years is a creation of an Internet imaginary.

No, it’s the work of creation itself, and dates back a lot farther than the internet.

If only we had a modern Diogenes willing to publicly mock these pseudo-scholars in person.

Or indeed Aristophanes could write a play where an ordinary Joe gets into their faculty common room and sits amazed at their ‘intelligence’ to the delight of the audience.

If only. I’m nominating Trump. He could do it, and it would keep him out of trouble.

Hmm – a rather odd casting choice for Diogenes.

Her behaviour’s very like yours, Mr Wright !! A lil’ bit of bigotry and a lot of gutless running away when called out. 🙂

Good God, why do people give a moment’s thought to this hideous woman and her ilk? The proper response to her, if one is necessary, is oh, f*ck off.

Very well said Allison!..

The Sokal Hoax in 1996 and the more recent “Grievance Studies Affair”, as outlined by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose, illustrate the pseudo-intellectual basis of post-modernism.

Ask yourself why there are few, if any, post-modernists in Chemistry departments but an overwhelming majority in Gender and Grievance Studies? Also ask why their ‘discourse’ is often aggressive when asked to explain their case (e.g., Stonewall’s “No Debate” mantra, cancel culture, sack the TERF etc.).

The Gender Ideology and Queer Theory of Judith Butler is unscientific, non-rigorous and flawed. It has resulted in huge public policy mistakes, such as, the ‘gender affirmation’ policy at the Tavistock and the push for Gender Self-Recognition in Scotland (and soon to be in England once Starmer gets in)

Yes – but what we should not forget is that Sokal long predates the whole trans thing, as do the Grievance studies hoaxes. If the whole trans thing had not ignited in the way it has, Judith Butler would still be lauded as a major feminist thinker – and doubtless in some circles still is.

Its not enough to criticise her – we need to learn our lesson. If the furore over trans dies down, the kinds of drivel Sokal et al mocked and made ridiculous will be back. And some of those now criticising Judith Butler for backing the wrong horse will be spouting similarly egregious nonsense.

All ‘elites’ are toppled.Their ideas always seem bizarre and weird as f**k once they are gone. How close is the West to revolution?

‘The things that pass for knowledge I can’t understand’ – Donald Fagen

‘Stubborn opacity’ is a good phrase for it. Puts me in mind of a lyric from the great Donald Fagen: ‘The things that pass for knowledge I can’t understand.’

I like the idea that the abstract of an academic paper should be accessible to a non-specialist, perhaps an interested amateur. This is a bit optimistic. Clearly, impossible in advanced mathematics, or science or very specific areas of study.

It would seem, however, that while fully understanding papers about society, people, sex etc, writers should be able to communicate, to some extent with a general audience. We should be able to follow what the writer is trying to prove without being able to follow the proof.

At least, there should be an attempt. Who understands the slightest concept that Butler discusses that is not a specialist? Moreover does Butler care?

One thing about mathematicians is that they are generally desperate to make people interested in their work.

Reminiscent of the Sokal hoax, which showed quite clearly that in modern social ‘science’ debates, once the jargon becomes sufficiently clotted and curdled, it’s who you are, not what you say, that gets your voice heard – as long as your language is sufficiently incomprehensible and imparsable.

“There is increasing awareness among parents, caregivers, clinicians and therapists that there is a clear link between gender identity issues and Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Currently, 76% of referees to The Tavistock & Portman Gender Identity Service (GIDS) are adolescent girls, and from The Tavistock’s statistics that 48% either have a diagnosis of, or show traits of Autism. 1 Altogether, this is an astonishing number of young people sharing characteristics that are usually only present in 1% of the population. While there is clear evidence that there is a link between the number of children and young people with gender dysphoria or identifying under the transgender umbrella, there is no research that looks at why. Part of the reason for this is that the exponential rise in children and young people experiencing gender dysphoria or identifying as trans has taken place very quickly – too fast in fact, for research to keep up.” Transgendertrend.com has much more to say about the issue

This is why Gender Ideology is so dangerous. It fails to understand biology, causation, probabilities, best medical practice, and evidence-based reasoning. Here are a few issues with the Ideology of Judith Butler: 1. If up to 90% of children with Gender Dysphoria grow out of it by going through puberty, surely the ‘gender affirmation’ approach that administers puberty blockers ‘to buy time’ is a bad strategy for the majority? 2. If 98% of children on puberty blockers graduate to cross sex hormones, puberty blockers do not ‘buy time’, they are the first part of the pathway? 3. If children who are gender confused also exhibit significantly higher tendencies towards ADHD, autism, and same sex attraction, surely ‘gender affirmation’ is not best practice? Dr Cass advised ‘gender exploratory’ therapy for this reason (but an incoming Labour government could rule this as ‘conversion therapy’). 4. Cass also pointed to the ‘gaps in the evidence’, including the nasty known and unknown side effects of off label drugs, such as, puberty blockers and cross sex hormones. The Cass Review and the WPATH Files blow a huge hole in this demented ideology.

Outside of the circles of deconstruction that should be deconstructed to stage any critique that isn’t directly political or religious, JB’s problem is indeed one of the passing of time. Her philosophy took on some of the reactionary forces of the 1980s and 1990s. Indeed, her best book on hate speech looks at the perverse use of ambiguous precedents on free expression by the Supreme Court. But what caught up with her is the fact that a defence of queer liberation through gender could not account for the progressive embrace of deconstructionary notions of self and subjecthood by plastic surgeons, pharma envoys, misguided educational and clinical psychologists, and a hyper-narcissistic new fellowship of Internt militants. In effect, her books from the 90s and early 00s have little to nothing to do with these groups of radicals. Yet hers was the status of high priestess of an academic culture which has indirectly fostered a defence of these malign forces. It’s through her own academic ego and unquestioning devotion to the Left that a veritable cultural war machine has been constructed and which she still helps navigate today.

Something like the relationship between Martin Luther and the Muenster Anabaptists, eh?

Good face for radio? Like most of the charlatans peddling the latest academic sociological “theory” she is prone to vomiting an incoherent stew of word salad which when exposed to the cleansing light of open public debate doesn’t stand up to scrutiny and she has to arrogate moral righteousness.Frankly if her and her ilk simply disappeared nobody would notice.

Accurate description of KQED show. Back in the early ’80s one of my close friends was a UCB grad student in philosophy. He attended Butler’s first conference on Queer Theory. I asked what it was, the only answer he gave, it is the newest thing in philosophy. Fifteen years later, I asked my massage client, Butler’s colleague deconstructionist Avital Ronell, to explain Queer Theory, same response.

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Break Free (band)
Break Free is a European Queen tribute band formed in Italy in 2015. The band consists of conservatory-trained musicians recreating Queen's costumes and choreography on stage. ... Italy with interviews and footage of the band on tour. The film was released on May 2, 2021, ...
The Best of Queen
Get ready to Break Free with the UK's biggest Queen Tribute band - Majesty, in a brand-new show - The Break Free Tour! Join Freddie, Brian, Roger and John as they take you on a magical journey performing The Best of Queen, whilst celebrating the music and showmanship of the UK's favourite rock band.
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Get ready to Break Free with the UK's biggest Queen Tribute band - Majesty, in a brand-new show - The Break Free Tour! Join Freddie, Brian, Roger and John as they take you on a magical journey performing The Best of Queen, whilst celebrating the music and showmanship of the UK's favourite rock band. From Queen's early beginnings with ...
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2023 / 2024 UK TOUR! Get ready to Break Free with the UK's biggest Queen Tribute band - Majesty, in a brand-new show - The Break Free Tour! Join Freddie, Brian, Roger and John as they take you on a magical journey performing The Best of Queen, whilst celebrating the music and showmanship of the UK's favourite rock band.
The Best of Queen
Get ready to Break Free with the UK's biggest Queen Tribute band - Majesty, in a brand-new show - The Best of Queen The Break Free Tour! Join Freddie, Brian, Roger and John as they take you on a magical journey performing The Best of Queen, whilst celebrating the music and showmanship of the UK's favourite rock band.
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Break Free - Queen Tribute Show, the Italian Tribute Queen show, is enthusiastically welcomed in Italy and throughout Europe. ... even without Freddie Mercury, The Queen - Adam Lambert Tour grosses over 68 million dollars every year In December 2005, it was announced that Queen surpassed The Beatles and become the third best-selling show of ...
The Best of Queen
Get ready to Break Free with the UK's biggest Queen Tribute band - Majesty, in a brand-new show - The Break Free Tour! Join Freddie, Brian, Roger and John as they take you on a magical journey performing The Best of Queen, whilst celebrating the music and showmanship of the UK's favourite rock band. From Queen's early beginnings with Bohemian Rhapsody, to their sell out concerts at ...
Break Free Tickets, 2024 Concert Tour Dates
23. Saturday 08:00 PMSat 8:00 PM. Open additional information for Osterholz-Scharmbeck, DE Stadthalle OHZ The Best of Queen - Performed by Break Free. 3/23/24, 8:00 PM. Osterholz-Scharmbeck, DE Stadthalle OHZ The Best of Queen - Performed by Break Free. Find tickets.
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Oct. 26. Thursday 20:00Thu 20:00. Open additional information for Cloppenburg Stadthalle Cloppenburg The Best of Queen - Performed by Break Free. 26/10/2023, 20:00. Cloppenburg Stadthalle Cloppenburg The Best of Queen - Performed by Break Free. Find tickets. Cloppenburg Stadthalle Cloppenburg The Best of Queen - Performed by Break Free.
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Break Free
Break Free is the Queen Tribute Band welcomed throughout Europe, playing on the same stages as world-renowned artists such as Bob Sinclar, Ben Harper, Dream Theater, Lenny Kravitz, Kiss and many others. They fill squares and amaze thousands of spectators; with the show "Long Live the Queen" theaters sold out in record time.
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REMASTERED IN! HDThe official 'I Want To Break Free' music video. Taken from Queen - 'Greatest Video Hits 2'.
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Break Free
Break Free è la Queen Tribute Band accolta con entusiasmo in tutta Europa suonando sugli stessi palchi di artisti di fama mondiale come Bob Sinclar, Ben Harper, i PFM, Dream Theater, Lenny Kravitz, Kiss e molti altri. Il Queen Tribute Show riempie le piazze e stupisce migliaia di spettatori; con lo spettacolo "Long Live the Queen" i teatri raggiungono il sold out a tempo di record.
Ariana Grande
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Break Free
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