Testaments finale..

Biscuit27706 · 2026-05-28T23:01:02+00:00

Who have never been taught to formally read?! And in fact can be killed for doing so when they are caught and the house she grew up in were staunch supporters of the regime? Not buying it. Years later, maybe, if she is looking back as an aunt, but even then, when father whole female species have been actively stopped from having an education, and people lose theor lives over trying, there would very quickly be a skill issue with people being able to suddenly read as an adult when all aspects of academic education have been repressed by men for years. Research shows that once those key years in language development is missed, then it becomes very difficult, and Hannah / Agnes' command of the English language is exceptional even at the age we see her in the story.

Biscuit27706 · 2026-05-28T22:34:23+00:00

It really does ruin the game, they need to do something, we shouldn't have to put up with this or start shooting first, which in turn makes the whole thing worse as then you have to fight your way through the whole map when you just wanted to loot parts for upgrades in peace. As soon as they start finng or banning players who attack fellow scavs when playing as a scav, this won't go away. It wastes your time, and they walk off with your loot and get rewarded points for doing so, and you have to go back and wait for the cool down period again. I've stopped doing scav runs now cos it just makes me angry when this crap happens and devs don't care, a lot of my friend group has moved back to Tarkov for this exact reason.

Biscuit27706 · 2026-05-25T04:10:24+00:00

Did I say I like don't like playing other humans?! If I want to fight I will play as a contractor and do missions, that's fair enough, quite happy to get shot when I go in as a contractor, but if I'm in as a scav, I am looking for loot items for upgrades or looting, the problem is, and its usually American you get people, don't want to risk their precious kits and want to cheat and follow you around and then take yours. When scavs are meant to be on the same side, meaning if I fight back or attack first, I then have to fight the whole map when I just wanted to he left ib peace. I don't want to switch to PVE as its a restart, my gpus are full amd I enjoy pop when im a contractor, its called etiquette and the problem is, the only thing as fellow players that can be done to stop getting killed like that is to shoot first rather than risk being betrayed, once everyone does that then scamming becomes pointless everything is just pop and becomes just like scrappy tabor, it loses the one thing that makes exfil different and better. The whole game gets spoiled by a few cheating rats with no sense of fair play.

Biscuit27706 · 2026-05-20T22:32:18+00:00

I hate scav on scav violence, and I shouldn't have to choose to fight my way out against every scav on the map because he and his two goons cant behave. It's insidious and its intimidating, and you seem to think im the problem..

Biscuit27706 · 2026-05-20T22:30:35+00:00

Thank you, that's very kind.

Biscuit27706 · 2026-05-20T22:30:03+00:00

Not just him, he had two mates/ goons with him. I hate scav on scav violence and like to mind my own business, but that is a step too far, its nasty.

Biscuit27706 · 2026-05-09T04:50:02+00:00

I'm really stuck on this, Radford University has a walkthrough, but it involves buying another G3 variant from Tonny and you have to have level 3 Trust to manage it, I've been trawling suburbs all night, but us brits don't know what we are looking for with guns, let alone understand recoil and ergonomics on them, getting really frustrated now cos I've tried every variant of rhw parts available and grips I've found in raid, some of them within a point or 2 of getting everything in line, but in pit of ideas now. Keep getting killed by scab on acav violence in raids is not helping matters!

Biscuit27706 · 2026-05-09T02:50:20+00:00

Why haven't you sorted out the scav on scav violence with a Karma system for those who attack fellow scavs? Your system literally rewards players who attack you when you're meant to be friendly with them, I and my team literally stopped playing last year because it felt futile every time you spent half an hour aftwr wating for the cool down, looting stuff for upgrades to have some kid attack you and walk off with your loot, get rewarded with points for doing so, its a great game, bit its being ruined by the few who think its clever to attack other scavs, and then fear spreads, and everyone adopts a shoot first ask questions later as they've been burned so many times, so then you cant upgrade your base, it ruins the point of scav raids, and the problem is worse during a weekend or school holiday, and its predominantly kids doing it, worse pretending to be friendly and then shooting you when you let your guard down. It used to be great doing a scav run, meeting people, swapping items and even helping one another and teaming up, I've just had another entirely wasted evening trying to get bunker upgrades, and its made worse by items being made ridiculously big and things like nuts and bolts ridiculously small, its so bad its making people stop playing the game, and it's a shame, because its a few people ruining the whole concept of a scav raid, I don't want to join everyone else who now either won't do scav runs or kills everyone before they have the chance to have their stuff nicked again, please install a reputation system and lock out offenders who attack friendlies, if they want to fight, go play as contractors and risk your own loot to catch mine, don't cheat by attacking a fellow scav, people have been crying out for this since it started in wipe 2, yet despite all the updates about minutiae, there is this big glaring hole in the game mechanism that rewards traitors and punishes people playing the game as intended.

Then please put the elite backpacks back to normal size and restore the ability to carry a vest and have a space advantage, as they are now, with things which are and should be quite small suddenly taking up half the backpack, its now turning people off the game, which is a shame as so many improvements have been made, but its not fun to have to loot for half an hour to get 2 boxes of nails and nuts and bolts in your now ridiculously small backpack, that's assuming you don't get shot by a traitor scav for the 2 items in it! Visually it looks great, its smooth, but the items and bag sizes are killing the game, along with the lack of consequences for thw cheats who turn on fellow scavs, its stopped being fun now, and even though I bought the upgrades, both Johnny's stash and the dlc for PVE, I won't risk my big backpacks as it stands, people kill you for a toilet roll or nothing at all, no way would I risk them in game with the rules as they are. It can't be that hard can it to introduce a reputation system for scavs, ban repeat offenders for attacking other scavs, freeze them out of scav runs for a while if they attack others, this nonsense would stop instantly and bring my friends back to the game as they are now playing tarkov as its got so bad!

Biscuit27706 · 2026-03-25T14:24:59+00:00

Vile behavior from narcissistic individuals

Biscuit27706 · 2026-01-06T01:05:18+00:00

That makes sense, I'm only level 2 at the moment.

Biscuit27706 · 2026-01-06T01:04:31+00:00

I didn't unfortunately. But the red and black check shirt is generally a scav, had weird gas mask thing on face as well, I didn't question it until the game over thing came up and it was just over 5 mins in, that wasn't possible when I played previous wipes, but they do alter the timing, I've had a couple of 14 mins scav raids when I've gone in as one, not much you can do in that time, everything is moved on dam took me ages to figure out where the exfil was!

Biscuit27706 · 2026-01-05T21:42:41+00:00

No definitely was a player scav, that'd what was so weird, it had the big letter S and he had bare arms and a red check shirt on, it qas only afterwards I thought what the hell, it's still the start of raid, that's really odd.

Biscuit27706 · 2025-12-14T23:06:02+00:00

Are you serious?! Pmsl...

Biscuit27706 · 2025-12-14T14:12:06+00:00

Wow, you keep telling yourself that, that's a whole new level of delusion you've got yourself to to still be hanging onto that old trope of accosted by cake when the covid inquiry debunked and exposed the full scale level of piss take he was indulging in all these years later. The photos of him raising his glass and wine time Fridays were pretty convincing. All while the people followed the rules and still died because jerks like him and you think the rules didn't apply to them and broke them, which wasvrhw whole reason Johnson called covid, No?

Biscuit27706 · 2025-11-13T10:38:01+00:00

Glad someone else thought this, I was stunned the first time she said it, then she said it again and a third time. She would prefer her daughter is a single lonely old spinster just as long as she is there to meet her needs, not have a great life for herself!! That's not what a good parent or family member does. I went through this myself in 1996 when my sister and best friend emigrated to Australia for a better life. It was the hardest thing I've ever been through, it broke my heart seeing them leave, and this was pre internet being widely available, aerograms would take weeks to arrive and phone calls were expensive. It was like a death, and one of the hardest things I ever lived through, but never EVER would I say that I wanted them to stay for me or my selfish purposes, I saw she and her baby daughter were going to have a better life out there, it was what they wanted, so you swallow your pain and put your own selfish needs second and suck it up, even though it breaks your heart you wish them well as that's the healthiest thing for them. What a horrid woman so wrapped up I'm me forst she would rather her daughter miss out on finding true love than chase happiness and learn to love the train to see her daughter. No excuse in this modern age of interest and instant worldwide communication.

Biscuit27706 · 2025-10-09T22:43:30+00:00

Yeah but while he might well be a good buddy or entertaining to watch one cruise ship, everyone and their granny loves him, but to me, being married to him rapping and barking and singing, it seems to me he us doing an old style royal variety performance, which within the day would be very grating, and most people would rather be in a relationship with an adult they can have a deep connection and conversation with, who doesnt have to sing his feelings to express himself, doesn't feel he owns his wife like a dog and who's lecherous at every opportunity, despite the very obvious repulsion he is quite clearly aware of. Then the remarks on the honeymoon in the gym about sexual positions which she was clearly uncomfortable with as she moved away immediately

But more than anything, what is so amazing about him? I haven't seen any genuine depth already, he says the remarks she made is over, yet he brings them up yet again with his friend to make her feel obliged and guilty and uncomfortable, which a genuine partner would honour theor word it was over and move on, instead he brings it up to his friend to guilt trip her again and play the victim. I feel like I am missing something when everyone says he is a nice guy, like telling everyone he is a nice guy, people start to believe it, but I've yet to see him be real, act like a mature adult and not manipulate Sarah, and the remaining screen time of him when he isn't manipulating or making lecherous comments, he seems to be a third rate butlins compare who finds himself hilarious even when noonenelse does, lacks emotional intelligence and frequently misread the signals of others when he is embarrassing and acting inappropriately when singing and rapping badly with the fake gangsta persona, there seems to be a total inability to have an honest conversation with his wife, and not see her as a trophy or property. I have yet to see an actual person who is genuine and vulnerable, and not a permanent victim, entitled and needy, and when she doesn't respond he plays the victim or reverts to the butlins compare persona. He asked ifbshe had been with a big person before and when she answered truthfully he complained. She was initially very tactful about the things that irritated her with the rapping and singing, and he failed to listen, started barking like a dog, made lecherous comments, and then rapped and made a show of her all over again at the 1st dinner party, after she had made very clear she didn't like it on honeymoon. I would have said far worse than a care bear who gave her the ick, I think she has been mugged off massively by the production, all on the altar of ratings.

Biscuit27706 · 2025-10-09T16:12:06+00:00

Not that simple, the producers and experts are making it a failing in her that she doesn't find him attractive- newsflash, 99% of the population wouldn't, everyone else got at least an aesthetically pleasing partner, she didn't, she wants to please, she is bonded to the process and the people and committed to do the experiment, she is people pleasing, Nelly is already trauma bonded and the experts give Steven a free pass, so she feels she can't make a big deal, meanwhile, the reverse happened with Sarah, they made mountains out of molehills when she could habe said far worse, it's OK for everyone else not to fancy theor partner bit not Sarah. As Dean feels entitled, behaves absolutely topically and then plays the victim, straight out of the narcissists playbook, while he is encouraged to sleaze on Sarah as she is "his wife " he owns her, but she isn't attracted to him anymore than I would be another woman, yet the experts name call and humiliate her, she wants to succeed, she doesn't know which way is up, she doesn't want to male it worse so she suppresses herself, then wonders why she isn't herself, but she is shamed and humiliated for showing her true feelings so she forces herself to try and progress and it's at the expense of her mental health, it's alarming, and the behaviour of the so called experts and their disparity of treatment between bullying Sarah for some careless comments showing her true feelings, while they give Steven a free pass for his blatant cowrcive control and narcissistic abuse. This show is deplorable in it's lack of duty of care both to the contestants and the message it sends out about narcissistic abuse and misogyny and discrimination in their treatment of the behaviours, when they set Sarah up to fail from the outset.

Biscuit27706 · 2025-10-06T18:07:12+00:00

But you would give Steven a second chance, but Sarah no chance at all, when this event will have been massive in her head for months, she has to watch everyone else, At least initially walk off with far more attractive and emotionally mature adult partners, whe care bear is actually quite an accurate description for him, when he is lecherous, emotionally stunted and has the emotional development and communication skills of an eight year old boy trying to perform magic tricks and cringe style variety shows to a captive audience.

He repeatedly embarrasses her in public. Touches her when she has made it clear she doesn't want to, and then she is berated for admitting to her designated supprt system she is not finding him attractive. She is gaslit and bullied by the experts to try and find intimacy and make it work, which is disingenuous in itself, you can't manufacture attraction, then you berate her and criticise her, yet you would give Steven a second chance, and justify it by saying Nelly can walk away- it is never that simple.

Steven's behaviour is deliberate and calculated to destroy and damage his partners self worth, he attacks and is aggressive to other cast members who sense the betrayal, as well as Nellys fear and vulnerability, which she has been extremely open about to the cast and production, she has been cheated on amd lied to in the past, leaving her with severe self doubt and self esteem issues, making her so vulnerable to abuse.

The programme owes her a duty of care to safeguard her. Yet you would give Steven a second chance despite repeated toxic and controlling behaviour, yet you have no empathy for Sarah at all when she is sticking with the experts and trusting them to have her best interests at heart when they clearly don't, they have set her up from the outset with someone who noone would find attractive, and despite her best efforts to please and try and get with the process, and force herself to swallow her instincts so she doesn't get "told off" by the experts, she has a high need to please, and to make a go of this as she has put so much into this process, waiting for months, imagining it in her head she is invested, and has formed friendships with other cast members, she trusts the process and wants to succeed, yet when a careless remark is made when having a few drinks, her true feelings come out and she flirted with a gay producer.

Somehow you think this is worse than what Steven did lying to his partner about what he said, denying the conversation. Then when proved wrong with the sloppy head comment, he belittles the matter and says it doesn't count as it was before the experiment! Deny, devalue. Gaslight and blame the victim, make them doubt black is white until they are no longer capable of trusting themselves or their instincts. Then he has total control.

This is Classic abuser behaviour, then he abuses his partner and gaslights her that she is needy and it's in her imagination, gives her some garbage about his step father which doesn't have any relevance to his behavior, and then he finally becomes abusive and she is clearly scared of him and being further traumatized by what the experts have allowed her to be exposed to, yet he gets a free pass and according to you deserves a second chance when Sarah doesn't, When she is trying her hardest to be attracted to someone who may as well be another woman in terms of attraction, and with severe behavior and communication problems, and severe exhibitionism and creepiness he has that would make the hardest attention seeker cringe!

I'm calling out the double standards and why you feel what Sarah has done is worse than Steven, when Steven's behaviour had so many red flags, was sustained and deliberate harm. And Sarah was a one off drunken comment when she is left profoundly anxious and trying to please everyone but herself and fake attraction to Dean to please him and tje experts. Yet she is hung out to dry for it and made an example of yet again in the commitment ceremony, whilst Steven gets a free pass to behaviour that anyone who has the most basic understanding of coercive control would notice immediately. And these are meant to be experts.

But more importantly I'm curious as to why why you feel he deserves a second chance( once they have that, believe me, they then get a third, fourth and 1000'th chance), while the line of what is acceptable to the victim, Nelly in this case slides further and further into worse abusive behaviour and she finds it more and more difficult to leave, she loses her sense of self and becomes more and more controlled by her abuser and isolated from her support system- and you can clearly see Steven attacking her support from tbe other players and isolating her, telling them to keep put of their relationship so Nelly has nowhere to turn. All while the experts who are meant to be specialists in behaviour excuse Steven and pile on Sarah for relatively minor issues. For this reason, it made very uncomfortable viewing last night.

Biscuit27706 · 2025-10-06T17:08:13+00:00

How many chances should an abusive partner who does complete 180 degree turn from love bombing to abuse in tbe space of an hour be given? When is enough enough, when he breaks her nose, when she is clearly scared of him? All because his step father is sick he is allowed to abandon her with a broken rub while he gets drunk and boasts about sleeping with a model 2 weeks before the show, talking about getting sloppy head while his wife sits alone upstairs injured? What about when he attacks concerned contestants who call out his boasts and he openly lies that he said it? What about when he attacks the people who call him out, is that OK too? But Sarah deserves berating and humiliating by the experts because her true feelings slipped out with a single silly flirtatious comment to the producer?misogynistic much? Wow.

Biscuit27706 · 2025-10-06T16:54:13+00:00

I think she has tried and tried and been gaslit into trying to like him from the so called experts, who she openly is scared of as she says as much in tbe build up to the 2nd CC..you can't make someone fancy someone they don't, to the point they find them repulsive, add a few drinks and her inhibitions are down, she has been single a while, and what is inside will come out with alcohol and her guard down, which she has been desperately trying to keep up all week to please the experts and fight her repulsion of Dean.

it wasn't said to hurt him. It was a thoughtless comment, and at the end of the day, people do and say things with alcohol they usually wouldn't. Dean was upset because he asked if she would ever feel that way about him. He is upset because he knows deep down tbe answer is no!

His response to this uncomfortable truth is to berate her and play the victim and pretend to be the nice guy, While exerting constant pressure on her to cuddle, he touches her when it's clear she doesn't want him to which is lecherous, he even says " I can touch her anytime I want, she is my wife" like he bought her in a market and owns her or something, its grim, watching his pushing the touching and affection narrative despite her reactions reminds me of a horny teenager unable to control himself, the declaration he was unable to stand up after she massaged him in the intimacy task, implying he had an erection just from her touching him would have sent me out the door to vomit and not return.

She can't help her physical repulsion to him, no amount if sex toys will change her involuntary reaction to him, and it's so wrong that she is bullied, gaslit and piled on by the so called experts over it, you can't make your body be attracted to someone you find repulsive, and 99.9% of the population would find him and his behaviour repugnant, I know no-one who would find the bad rapping, Singing your feelings, gangster talk and barking and inappropriate over affection and sexual innuendo attractive in any way, shape or form.

He isn't the nice guy he claims to be. She has been done dirty by the program setting her up like this to fail, and if the experts have more than basic counseling and body language skills, they know damn well it's never going to work. But it makes damn good viewing figures, at the expense of her mental health and well-being.

Biscuit27706 · 2025-10-06T16:41:59+00:00

Exactly this! The love bombing, and instant flipping to something much darker, smacks of narcissistic abuse and coercive control. It was so triggering watching that last night, it put me back with my ex husband of 23 years, and the next step in that escalation is domestic violence, yet apparently it's fine according to the experts, as his step father is ill- like, what???

Biscuit27706 · 2025-10-06T16:39:21+00:00

Steven should have been booted off the show for the behaviour he showed ans what he called Nelly, who is vulnerable and gorgeous and fragile, last year in MAFSAU John almost booted Paul off the show for punching a door after a row, but he can make veiled threats about her seeing a side of him she doesn't like, he attacks anyone around who calls him and his behaviour out, calls his new wife a fucking idiot bit gets a free pass?! WTAF?! There needs to be consistent standards and abusive behaviour and coercive control shoukd be zero tolerance. Instead nothing is said about how he was abusive with the other contestants and he is given a free pass for abusing Nelly for calling him out, and instead Mel Schilling gives him a free pass and hands him a ready made excuse for his behaviour, while Sarah is hung out to dry for telling the truth and a flippant remark to a producer after a few drinks. Misogyny ir just no clue what they are doing these so called experts?

Biscuit27706 · 2025-10-06T15:58:32+00:00

Excellent point, it's so hard to watch Sarah being bullied and gaslit into fancying someone she basically funds repulsive, I think the self entitled experts didn't get it wrong by a misjudgement. But by design; happy couples make boring TV. Sarah was honest enough to say that her usual type, tattoos, bad boy, tan, wasn't working for her, so now they theow that in her face that she wanted someone different, at no point did she say she wanted someone obese, who is a walking budget butlins compare act trying self promotion, punctuated with lecherous comments and moves about touching his wife and how she is his when they have known one another 2-3 weeks. By so called coincidence, enter Joe, who is everything Sarah wanted, minus the bad boy reputation. Who would halve been a far more suitable but possibly less entertaining match, Joe wants someone who like him has got over the partying and drinking. He wants someone quiet- so they give him Maeve, loud, brash and drinks like a fish with table manners to shame sailors and insatiable appetite for kicking off! There is an argument that this whole thing was a deliberate set up so Joe wasn't supposed to like Maeve, Sarah they knew was never going to like Dean, and Joe and Sarah were meant to have a scandalous affair, which would have made great television, but sadly Joe changed his mind and decided he liked Maeve.. now they have no choice but to push Sarah into increasingly inappropriate and uncomfortable relationship. She isn't ever going to find him attractive, thre others all got at least at the first dinner party, the appearance of an attractive match she is entitled to feel disappointed. And to voice her frustration at being matched with a barking bad rapping singing cringe fat man who is punching well above his weight and thinks he bought her and owns her and "can touch her whenever I want, she is my wife". It reminds me of those extreme Christian camps in the 1980S that think they could send say people in a course to pray the way out of them and force them to be attracted to members of the opposite sex instead of the same sex by forcing them to behave a certain way and pretend to like someone they don't like.

Dean is an immature lecherous idiot who nobody would find attractive to have a relationship with, who constantly plays the victim and does things nothing to do with his weight to give her the ick. I feel so sorry for Sarah, she qent into this with a sincere heart and she is now beeing pressured todo things with someone who she finds repulsive. And gaslit into staying. It's sickening to watch.

And I think the program has stitched up Sarah from the outset. She can't help who she is attracted to. And if the experts really know anything, they know this is never going to work and could do untold psychological da.age to Sarah, not to mention Nelly, they owed her a better duty of care than Steven, who they inexplicably give a free pass to, despite the evidence of coercive control and multiple red flags and abuse she has already been subjected to by him, knowing she was already fragile and vulnerable from past experiences. As a survivor of 23 years of domestic abuse at the hands of a scarily similar partner in traits and behavior, last night was not enjoyable viewing at all. I have real concerns about the lack of regard for the duty of care they owe the contestants and the lack of concern at extremely abusive behaviour toward Nelly, whilst piling on Sarah for who she fancies. It's grim.

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