large_goblin [he/him, comrade/them]

I really want to help but I cannot use any of the apps internationally. It would have to be a bank transfer with wise or equivalent so you’d have to provide a lot of personal details. If this works for you, you can DM me.

I would buy it for pets if they required meat but I would never consume it myself.

The ingame currency only tractor beams also got nerfed, this is now a required item for moving cargo above a certain size.

Seems like they realised cargo players buy a starter ship and nothing else and that’s simply not an acceptable contribution.

They should be more like the boomers who buy every new fomo pvp fighter but seemingly only sit in stations and complain about pronouns and millenials instead of every actually flying their $800 collection.

I just remembered Shadows of Doubt, I think that’s the most recent game with this system that I’ve played. It has proc gen cities where every citizen has a job and a sometimes spontaneous daily routine. Every few days a citizen will murder another one and leave behind a trail of evidence. It’s supposed to hit 1.0 this month as well.

Very raw and buggy in places but in ways that leads to more hilarious outcomes. You hide in a freezing vent waiting for someone to head out to the club for them to apparently decide nah not tonight 2 seconds after leaving the building and catch you in the middle of reading their emails.

I think about Oblivion and it’s NPC scheduling far too often. It feels like the missing piece in otherwise amazing games like Deus Ex MD or Pathologic 2.

I remember MGS V had elements of this. Guards would patrol, be relieved at certain times, there was scheduled transports of prisoners and resources. If you knocked out an entire base of guards at night eventually the morning shift would turn up and start waking them up, putting the base on alert.

Geopolitics is just a map painting game to these people. When your borders are bigger thats good. Why would you not want your borders to be bigger? Graduated from Total War university with a PhD in Medieval 2 crusade strategies.

I cannot agree with the idea of them being the “same thing”. Potentially related? High cormorbidity? Sure.

I have AuDHD and the two have been in conflict my entire life. Since I began medication for ADHD I’ve finally begun to understand how my autism actually presents and that I can comfortable live with it.

Before this I constantly encountered executive dysfunction because the two have been completely opposed.

A special interest? A desire to understand something on an extremely detailed level? An important work project that I’m both motivated to complete and will help advance my career?

Nope here’s an overwhelming urge to do literally anything else, we got the happy brain feeling from starting that, it’s been 5 minutes and it’s time to chase a new one.

Even sensory overload or uncomfortable feelings. Hey you want to be reminded of the time you touched something gross when youre trying to fall asleep? Or the time you ate something and it made you feel sick. Or the most anxiety inducing sound on loop in your brain. Since I started medication these intrusive thoughts have stopped almost entirely. ADHD was turning the most uncomfortable aspects of my autism against me for absolutley no personal gain.

I have autism, I need a set schedule to function. The kind of wishy-washy with time system you describe would be hell for me.

Having autism AND add/adhd is indeed hell. Needing to live on a set schedule while using a wishy-washy time system.

I make a meltdown post on hexbear, delete it shortly after, scream into the void and then play hexcraft for 8 hours straight.

I did the opposite and made a well spaced out organised city where noone could get to work on time, so it’s time for me to learn the ins and outs of transit and travel time or embrace the shitbox I guess.

I was in a very similar place for most of the past year, and I’m not entirely out of it. Some of those feelings have gone away, but others have not. I didn’t get things back together by myself, it was the support of others that allowed me to start healing.

I hope things will get better for you, and this community (including me) is here for anything you need to keep going and start moving towards a better place. If you just want to talk, for someone to listen, people to play games with or whatever helps take your mind off things or helps you work through everything please reach out. That includes material assistance too.

I can’t give advice without specifics of where you are but please feel free to post in !mutual_aid@hexbear.net if you are struggling to pay for essentials.

9 months. It has been hell. At points I felt like the job market just wouldn’t get better, even if the economy recovered the new hiring processes were here to stay and I wasn’t compatible with them.

Time to return to work. Hoping this won’t end in redundancy or bankruptcy like all my other jobs. This time I’m going to become an immensely boring person for a year, get my finances in order and have actual retirement and emergency funds in place.

I didn’t post on r/CTH but my political journey / “radicalisation” was based on joining the workforce in the aftermath of the 2008 crash and then losing my safety net just before covid and the employment hellscape that came after.

I’ve been through enough to know a decent amount of luck and privilege was the only thing keeping me off the streets, and I get a similar vibe from a LOT of the posters here. The idea this place is full of teenagers is absurd.

Squadron 42 is the singleplayer main development focus which we are told contains all the features and functionality that will make star citizen great and which are then slowly drip-fed into the actually playable game. I have seen nothing besides the “wow cool features” that would put it on a level above 2016’s Call of Duty Infinite Warfare.

I don’t do combat so I have zero interest in it, I play SC because I like doing salvage and cargo trading. It’s also the only game I’ve found where you play as a person on a ship and not the ship itself, free to leave your seat and walk around mid-flight even going on to form part of the gameplay loops.

I feel some dissonance with the rest of the community when a lot of the game’s FOMO sales drives revolve around cockpit only PvP orientated ships where this one will be the NEW META on sale for LIMITED TIME ONLY tied directly into the SQUADRON 42 LORE. Like I just want to salvage wrecks, drag boxes around my cargo hold and do contraband runs on the dark side of moons but there’s like 8 ships in the game that allow for this.

Det. Greggs beats down a physically restrained “suspect” not once but twice

Hey ACAB applies to them all. I was referring to Kima’s personal story being about commitment and compromise in relationships and eventual parenthood instead of what all the other cops were up to. Still a bastard but we see some personal growth and a welcome break from the self-destructive behavior of the other characters.

Bodie was so conflicting because he showed zero remorse and the little bits of humanity we saw died when he killed his friend who was also still a CHILD at the time and just went on business as usual.

But he still didn’t deserve what happened to him,

And then McNulty tries to do the exact same shit the day after.

This is the face of the show and the cops in general for most of the seasons too, the reference point for cop behaviour, he’s even portrayed as one of the “better cops” when Omar gets arrested.

Kima was the most human of them all and Bunk was just sad. It felt like as long as he kept being one of the more / only competent detectives noone would ever try get him to avoid liver failure in the next few years.

If we start Prez discourse we could get a 200+ comment hexbear thread going.

McNulty was a terrible person the entire series who committed a series of crimes being saved by his badge every time and whose only decent quality was being a passable detective willing to tackle big cases.

He even put himself on the level of the completely irredeemable fuck ups like

The wire was ACAB throughout. Every cop in that show was either a criminal themselves, corrupt, incompetent and almost always extremely racist. The one (arguably) good cop in the entire show gets forced out.

It did a great job of showing how the police and the gangs are two different criminal organisations with their own heirarchies filled with actual human beings.

Season 3 was the highlight of the entire show, watching the police become the “muscle” for the drug dealers.

I’d go as far as to say it was a crime show, not a cop show.