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2024.05.15 04:37 changing_tides_246 Collectathon games like Dave the Diver [Switch]
I love Dave the Diver and the Lego games for the Switch as I really enjoy having a list of things to collect/complete. For example, I'm almost done getting lvl 10 on all the menu items in Dave the Diver. I also like these because they're pretty laid back. I like collecting the moons in Mario Odessey, but some nights when I want to play, I just don't want to be spending 30+ minutes trying to time a series of jumps right.
I did try Animal crossing, but I was pretty bored with it, I think because I couldn't see a list with all the tasks to do or items to collect.
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I did try Animal crossing, but I was pretty bored with it, I think because I couldn't see a list with all the tasks to do or items to collect.
2024.05.15 04:37 PenguinGreat Reviewing and ranking how attractive every Nikke I have is
 | I'm very much expecting to be roasted for my great taste. Do your worst. submitted by PenguinGreat to NikkeMobile [link] [comments] I've been playing for nearly six months. Many of the characters I've really come to really enjoy. So, I wanted to go through each Nikke I have pulled and discuss how attractive they are. Attraction has two big components for me, how physical attractive they are and how attractive their personality is. I will refer to these as "beauty" and "personality" I will rank both on a 1-10 scale and combine for a total score. Note that I will only be reviewing Nikkes that I have pulled. Hard for me to review characters I don't know very well. Tier list for summary: https://preview.redd.it/j7ntqf4r4i0d1.jpg?width=727&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3cf2afa4c80d8fb9e5c23420133ff6072d22c44a Let's start with the top tier "Spend the rest of my life with". These are the best of the best and most attractive girls with scores 18.5 and up. Rapi Beauty - 10/10 Personality - 10/10 Total score - 20/20 Starting with best girl Rapi. The only girl I give a perfect score to in both categories. She's the poster girl for the game for a reason. Just so beautiful and adorable. Just a great design and outfit. Love her cute cap especially. In terms of personality, she also knocks it out of the park. I have a big weakness for characters that appear cold on the outside but are actually just softies. Rapi pulls this off perfectly. I also really enjoy characters that are really disciplined and loyal to what they believe in. I also really enjoy the "straight man" role she plays with Anis and Neon's antics. Marciana Beauty - 10/10 Personality - 9.5/10 Total score - 19.5/20 Maybe it's the tight white pants, maybe it's the midriff, maybe it's the fact that she looks like a hot teacher I had when I was 14 but I think Marciana has one of the most attractive appearances of any Nikke. She has a great demenor and I will always have a love for dark haired girls. Her personality is also fantastic. I love her stern and cold appearance on first viewing. Much like Rapi, I just love a girl who is tough on the outside but a big softy on the inside. She was extremely adorable in her bond story and I loved seeing that other side of her you may not expect. D Beauty - 10/10 Personality - 9/10 Total score - 19/20 There is no more attractive combo than black hair + red eyes. This combo will kill me every time I see it. Now I liked D before, but once she got her new SSR she rocketed up my beauty rankings. She is the most attractive looking girl in all of Nikke without a doubt. Her black dress is to die for. Plus she reminds me a bit of Yor Forger which is always a good thing. As you can probably tell from above, I really love girls who seem really cold and rigid. I feel D may not show her soft side as much as Marciana or Rapi but the odd time it does come it is absolutely adorable. I also really appreciate her strong discipline and wanting to get her job done and do it correctly. Maxwell Beauty - 10/10 Personality - 8.5/10 Total score - 18.5/20 Maxwell marks the last Nikke in my ranking to receive a 10 for beauty, and she absolutely deserves it. Every part of Maxwell is just amazing to look at. Her toned abs are the highlight for me as I really love an athletic girl, as well as having my ideal chest size. She's free to examine me as much as she wants. Not to mention her design is also extremely adorable and I love the little cap she has on. Her personality also does quite well for me. I really enjoy the straight man role she has with her quirky teammates. A valuable role to have as it is needed to keep them in check and to not go overboard. Blanc Beauty - 9.5/10 Personality - 9/10 Total score - 18.5/20 Ah the bunny girls, of course Blanc's beauty will be high! Blanc is absolutely adorable! The white skin, hair, and suit mixing with those beautiful yellow eyes is truly breathtaking. The adorable collar and tie she has is amazing as well. My favourite part of her whole design has to be the little fang she has. It just destroys me. I really love how outgoing, extraverted, and friendly she is. This side of her does really well playing off Noir and giving them a fun dynamic in how opposite they are in many way. Someone just very enjoyable that I would love to see on my screen at any time. That concludes our top tier and my top 5. Next we will go to the still great but "Near perfection". This includes scores of 17-18. Privaty Beauty - 9/10 Personality - 9/10 Total score - 18/20 Privaty is super adorable. She has my favourite blush out of any girl in the game. Also love her adorable twintails, sexy yellow eyes, and her larger than sometimes expected chest. Her maid SSR is fantastic and really helps show off her adorableness and her assets. I adore tsunderes and Privaty does it perfectly. She would be so fun to tease as you would always get a great reaction. Like stated previously, I really love a girl who seems rigid at first but actually really cares. Diesel Beauty - 8.5/10 Personality - 9/10 Total score - 17.5/20 Diesel is really pretty and quite beautiful. Her conductor outfit is very cute and fits her very well. Her smile is always a joy to see and should always be protected. I adore how sweet she is. Someone who you just want to see keep smiling and never frown. I really enjoy her because she is just a joy to be around. Even in her sader moments, it is still great to see her be able to move on and keep a smile. Crown Beauty - 8.5/10 Personality - 8.5/10 Total score - 17/20 Crown is very elegant and beautiful. I love the dignified aura her design holds. Her outfit is great too, as it really does well in both showing her curves but still giving her a regal and professional feel. I think Crown is hilarious with how she can often mess up basic words and concepts. Otherwise, I really love how disciplined she is and how dedicated she is to being a leader. Rosanna Beauty - 9.5/10 Personality - 7.5/10 Total score - 17/20 Rosanna has a fantastic design. Split white/black hair is great and man those eyes are killer. Her outfit is also fantastic. The mafia boss style is cool and sexy, and she has great midriff and cleavage that are very alluring. Don't even get me started on those thigh high boots. Her personality is also good, even if not as great as who I have mentioned before. I love how forward she is with what she wants. Just straight up telling the commander she wants to hook up in her bond story was awesome. I also love how protective she can really get. Exia Beauty - 8/10 Personality - 9/10 Total score - 17/20 Exia is such a cutie. The oversized shirt is adorable and oddly quite sexy. The messy hair, dazed look in her eyes, and exposed thighs are also really good. I'd love to waste the rest of my life playing video games with Exia. Just waste away from responsibilities and society by just playing games. This is the ideal scenario in my mind. Isabel Beauty - 8/10 Personality - 9/10 Total score - 17/20 Isabel has a killer body and a very kissable face. I really love her beautiful long purple hair and how it blends with her beautiful eyes and outfit so well. Yanderes are always fantastic. Isabel can lock me in her house and throw away the key for all I care. She just needs some love and to have a stable happy family in her life (I mean I don't know how stable of a life you could have with Isabel but at least we have similar life goals). Those are the 6 in my second tier. Next we have the "Beautiful" tier for those scoring between 15-16.5. Rapunzel Beauty - 8.5/10 Personality - 8/10 Total score - 16.5/20 I'm not normally into the whole nun thing and I'm also not typically into blondes but Rapunzel is so gorgeous that I overlook that. She has a very lovely smile and a very alluring outfit that shows her great proportions very nicely. Her normally holy design and behaviour being taken over by her dirty thoughts is always funny too see. She reminds me a bit of Darkness from Konosuba in that way. With the impure thoughts just constantly invading her mind. Mihara Beauty - 8/10 Personality - 8/10 Total score - 16/20 Mihara really activated something in me that I didn't know I had. Her outfit is quite lewd but also very attractive. The black goes really well with her lovely black hair. You can really tell she mean business. Masochism is great, right? I definitely like giving pain rather than receiving so this works for me. Not to mention that I really like her voice. Goes right through my ears and into my brain. Noir Beauty - 7.5/10 Personality - 7.5/10 Total score - 15/20 The 2nd best of the bunnies, she is good but not nearly as good as Blanc. She has quite the attractive appearance but I feel her chest is a bit too large for what I normally like in a girl. Otherwise the black bunny suit is really great. Personality also isn't as good as blank. I don't tend to enjoy someone who is overly shy and reserved. I do appreciate how kind and caring she is and how she is trying to improve. Yuhla Beauty - 7.5/10 Personality - 7.5/10 Total score - 15/20 Yuhla's design overall is very good but it is her sharp teeth that appeal to me most. Something about them is just very attractive and suits her quite well. Not to mention her outfit gives her great midriff and even shows off some cool scarring. I really appreciate hard workers and while she doesn't have the most friendly personality, she still wins me over with how spicy she got in her bond story. That ends this tier of characters. Next we start to fall off a bit with the "Almost good" tier. This tier has scores from 13.5-14.5. Helm Beauty - 7/10 Personality - 7.5/10 Total score - 14.5/20 On paper Helm's design should by a 10/10 for me. The outfit, the hair, the thick thighs all really appeals to me. Just something about her feels a bit... off? Maybe it is her posture and how she is a bit hunched over that makes it look odd to me. Still overall I like her design but I just feel it is not as good as it should be. I really appreciate how disciplined she is. Anytime a girl has strong discipline and loyalty she will really appeal to me. Other than that she is a little bit boring. I remember her bond story being a bit meh. Naga Beauty - 8/10 Personality - 6.5/10 Total score - 14.5/20 Naga has a great design. Schoolgirl outfit is very cute and the unbuttoned top and short teasing skirt are very alluring. I really like her hairstyle with one of her eyes being covered by her hair. Naga's personality doesn't quite hit for me. I like how she tends to act more on the mature side but in reality I just found her to be really really boring most of the time. A few times she was good but it wasn't often enough for me to give a higher score. Noise Beauty - 7.5/10 Personality - 6.5/10 Total score - 14/20 Noise is another girl with a very attractive design. It is really good all around and I can see how people would really like her, but for me it is good rather than great. I'm not a big fan of the blonde she has in her hair. If her hair was all dark I think it would look better. Her personality is very bland. On paper I like the idea of a one hit wonder trying to get another hit but Noise just doesn't have the personality to get me invested. No an awful one but not great either. Mast Beauty - 8.5/10 Personality - 5/10 Total score - 13.5/20 Mast has a great design. Very sexy and very cute. Reminds me a bit of Marine from Hololive. The twintails are super cute and the fang is fantastic. For personality, I haven't done her bond story yet so I don't know it too well. Her ranking may change when I play it. For now I think a 5 is fair as from what I have seen, she seems average. This ends the first half of tiers. Now we start getting into those I don't like. Next is the "Average at best. Bad at worst". Scores will be 11-13. Quiry Beauty - 7/10 Personality - 6/10 Total score - 13/20 Quiry is very cute and I really like her outfit. One major drawback of her is that I am not a huge fan of pink hair. Otherwise the design is pretty solid all around. I don't know too much about her as I haven't done her bond story but I do like her quirk of having poor eyesight. Cute and endearing but I just don't know her well enough. Soda Beauty - 7/10 Personality - 6/10 Total score - 13/20 Soda has two very big reasons to like her design. The thing holding her design back for me is that her head just looks empty. Like just a blank face with no other thoughts behind it. Normally I like a smile but she looks less dumb without one. Her personality is a bit annoying. I like a bit of clumsiness but hers just is way too much. Really brings down her score for me. Otherwise she seems cute and kind. Julia Beauty - 7.5/10 Personality - 4.5/10 Total score - 12/20 If there was an award for most forgettable SSR, I would give it to Julia. I completely keep forgetting she exists even tho I do really like her design. It is very beautiful and elegant. I really like the violin as well. Maybe because I haven't done her bond story but what I have seen just seems really boring to me. As I learn more about her, she may go up but for now I can only give a 4.5. Yuni Beauty - 5.5/10 Personality - 6/10 Total score - 11.5/20 Yuni's design doesn't hit super hard for me. A bit too small in stature for my personal preference but she is quite cute. Plus again not huge on pink hair in general. I don't like receiving pain (at least not physical) so that relly does turn me away from her a bit. Otherwise she is cute enough but not my cup of tea. Anis Beauty - 6/10 Personality - 5.5/10 Total score - 11.5/20 Now I know some won't be happy with this one. Anis is very ok but is 100% overrated. She is quite cute but she really doesn't live up to the hype that some people give her. I do like her hat a lot tho. For personality she can be annoying at times. She can be funny but for the most part I think a lot of her jokes fall flat. This ends the average tier. Now we can get into girl I don't like in the "Why do people like them?" tier. This has scores between 5-10. Brid Beauty - 5/10 Personality - 5/10 Total score - 10/20 I know Brid has 2 big reasons that people like her, but for me they are a bit too big and I don't really like anything else she has going for her. Not huge on the hair even tho I am normally a big fan of white hair. Personality is a bit boring. I like how she is a hard worker but she really puts me to sleep. Delta Beauty - 5/10 Personality - 5/10 Total score - 10/20 Very meh design. Not a fan of the hair, or the army gear. If she wore the sunglasses rather than having them on her forehead, it would improve my opinion. Personality is just plain boring. I appreciate discipline but I would rather watch paint dry. I have heard she give something at the end of her bond story tho... but not enough to redeem her. Alice Beauty - 4/10 Personality - 4.5/10 Total score - 8.5/20 Way too much pink on her. The pink jumpsuit I could live with but the pink hair just makes it a bit too much for me. With a different hair colour or different outfit colour she may appeal more to me. I thought she was cute at first but got really annoying quickly. Her voice also just begged the heck out of me and made me want to put the game down. Tia Beauty - 4/10 Personality - 4/10 Total score - 8/20 I don't really like her design. Schoolgirl is normally really good but hers just isn't appealing. Not a fan of the haircut and the look on her face has always bugged me a bit. She is very annoying. Like really she just gets on all my nerves. Not even sure why but she just really grates on me. Neon Beauty - 4/10 Personality - 3.5/10 Total score - 7.5/20 Neon is easily the worst Counters member. I wish it had been someone else. Exia I think would have been a good choice. Her design really doesn't do much for me. I usually like hats but hers I always thought looked really bad on her. Needs a change of outfit and to actually face the camera. Her personality is very annoying as well. Feels like she is so one note for someone who is a main character. Just talking about firepower and not a ton else. Just in the game way too much. Rupee Beauty - 3.5/10 Personality - 4/10 Total score - 7.5/20 Honestly I think she is kind of ugly. The big smile makes her looks super dumb and a bit like a bimbo. That's just what I get from her design. Don't find her attractive at all. Her personality also seems really annoying and was making me roll my eyes when she's on screen. That is the end of this tier. I know I have made some enemies for these placements. The next tier is the "Pass" tier. I'm not going to go through each girl here as they are all ones I just don't have an interest in. Most because the design just looks too young for me and I don't want to talk about their attraction level. There are some however who I really like the characters of. For example, Liter is great and I'd love to complain about the youth with her. Soline is also special to me as she was the first Nikke I pulled. The final tier is the "Extremely attractive but I hate them as characters so I wouldn't go close to them". These are the worst offenders of all. Characters who have the design but just awful personality. Sin Beauty - 9/10 Personality - -5/10 Total score - 4/20 Sin is insanely hot. A top 10 design in the game IMO. The yogo pants are wild and I really think the mask looks good on her. Here is the problem. I HATE manipulative women. Nothing is more aggravating and a bigger turn away than someone manipulative. Taking advantage of someone's kindness like that is just cruel and evil (and not evil in the sexy way). I just can't like someone like that. Viper Beauty - 9.5/10 Personality - -7/10 Total score - 2.5/20 Viper is even a worse case. She was the reason I started playing the game in the first place. My disappointment when she turned out to be manipulative and cruel just upset me greatly. A great design wasted on garbage. Crow Beauty - 8.5/10 Personality - -8/10 Total score - 0.5/20 I hate Crow. She has a great design that is attractive but I really hate her. I don't want to explain further because of spoiler reasons but she is everything I hate in a character and personality. This concludes all the Nikke girls I have and how attractive I find them. So, how's my taste? |
2024.05.15 04:35 Barkle11 Help downloading digital 360 game again
I bought call of duty black ops 1 back in like 2013 or something and later played a little bit on xbox one in 2018ish. Im on my old 360 playing old games and for some reason every other digital game I ever bought (gears 3, lego star wars 3, mw2, etc) are all here but black ops 1 is missing. I went to download it again, start it, and it never leaves 0% before it just stops and I get "download stopped." What am I supposed to do? I still have my old xbox one, do I have to delete it from that piece of shit so I can have it rightfully restored on my 360? I dont understand this.
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2024.05.15 04:34 Ok_Disaster_9425 Motivation for me annnd you :)
Everything different then when you vape ( in a bad way) think about it like a challenge and use the positives as a power up
Depressed? Did you feel it like this when you vaped? Not to that extent? You fucked up and your brain will come up with anything to tell you that… well the part that nicotine re programmed at least.. “It’s been 5 days and I I’m so miserable right now 😔”- well that’s true! But it’s only been 5 days? You said at least 18 days, so don’t get sucked in you are becoming the right version of you! It’s hard :( until it’s not…
Lashing out? “WHO TF MADE THIS MICROWAVE ITS STILL FROZEN AFTER 3 GOD DAMN MINUTES!!! I HOPE WHOEVER MADE THIS MICROWAVE TAKES THEMSELVES Out THIS PEICE OF SHIT BELONGS IN THE GARBAGE!” - you are 2 days in.. you are a mess and you are acting like someone who has not eaten for 4 days! This is level 2/18. You are mad because you can’t suck on a snazberyy nic Dick? That’s kinda sad:( but now you get to prove me wrong! All those things nicotine has done to “soften the blow” are GONE you are left with pure emotion and it’s time to let it out! (In a healthy way) run until you cry!
The true fear of losing something important It’s day 3 and you feel actually nuts! You are feeling the gruesome fear of dying! Or oh no you’re life is over orrrr something is about to end me and idk what!!!! Nicotine messes with the part of you that actually NEEDS something, not want or crave, something you actually will die without and you do this to the point of trumping food ( something that u actually need) what happens when you loose something important? Your heart drops and you are in the brick of shock! Just like your vape “helped you” by keeping your anxiety in control.. the issue is that it’s still there but it’s underlying. THEN BAM! The floodgates open everything that nicotine numbed you and everything is too real too fast! But this is good! Now you HAVE to face reality and that’s when you make real change! Because well you have no choice;)
Think of withdrawal like a game that only gets easier and every day is a new level! Personally when I quit I tell myself to do it for at least 18 days then I can go back. Because once the 18 mark hits I’m at the point where all the benefits and the stronghold breaks. Honestly I usually just forget lol
I’m 17 and about to attempt to quit again and I’m using my own brain to help myself and hopefully others later
Feel free to hit me up :) a accountability buddy would be cool
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Depressed? Did you feel it like this when you vaped? Not to that extent? You fucked up and your brain will come up with anything to tell you that… well the part that nicotine re programmed at least.. “It’s been 5 days and I I’m so miserable right now 😔”- well that’s true! But it’s only been 5 days? You said at least 18 days, so don’t get sucked in you are becoming the right version of you! It’s hard :( until it’s not…
Lashing out? “WHO TF MADE THIS MICROWAVE ITS STILL FROZEN AFTER 3 GOD DAMN MINUTES!!! I HOPE WHOEVER MADE THIS MICROWAVE TAKES THEMSELVES Out THIS PEICE OF SHIT BELONGS IN THE GARBAGE!” - you are 2 days in.. you are a mess and you are acting like someone who has not eaten for 4 days! This is level 2/18. You are mad because you can’t suck on a snazberyy nic Dick? That’s kinda sad:( but now you get to prove me wrong! All those things nicotine has done to “soften the blow” are GONE you are left with pure emotion and it’s time to let it out! (In a healthy way) run until you cry!
The true fear of losing something important It’s day 3 and you feel actually nuts! You are feeling the gruesome fear of dying! Or oh no you’re life is over orrrr something is about to end me and idk what!!!! Nicotine messes with the part of you that actually NEEDS something, not want or crave, something you actually will die without and you do this to the point of trumping food ( something that u actually need) what happens when you loose something important? Your heart drops and you are in the brick of shock! Just like your vape “helped you” by keeping your anxiety in control.. the issue is that it’s still there but it’s underlying. THEN BAM! The floodgates open everything that nicotine numbed you and everything is too real too fast! But this is good! Now you HAVE to face reality and that’s when you make real change! Because well you have no choice;)
Think of withdrawal like a game that only gets easier and every day is a new level! Personally when I quit I tell myself to do it for at least 18 days then I can go back. Because once the 18 mark hits I’m at the point where all the benefits and the stronghold breaks. Honestly I usually just forget lol
I’m 17 and about to attempt to quit again and I’m using my own brain to help myself and hopefully others later
Feel free to hit me up :) a accountability buddy would be cool
2024.05.15 04:32 BallyHooyah 65 Mustang
Is $10k for a 65 a good price? I’ve been out of the Mustang game for a bit. I had a 2000 that I loved, my best friend had an 01, and another friend had my dream 65. We worked on them all the time almost 20 years ago, but I haven’t worked on one in a long time. Drove a couple other cars after my 00 died and have been driving a truck I haven’t done anything to the last 6 years. I just came across a 65 for sale for $10k. He said it runs, just rebuilt the engine, and everything looked clean. He said it would be ready to test drive on Thursday. If everything is good to go on Thursday, would you pay $10k for a 65?
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2024.05.15 04:32 AsanteSamuel33 Macbook air has been one of my worst purchases. What should I do?
Macbook air M2 15 inch 8 GB RAM has been an absolute disaster for me.
I bought it because my school was giving us a free ipad, so i thought I could use a mac instead of windows to have a dual monitor set up. Safe to say that itself has been a disaster with the screen mirroring capability constantly bugging out making it unusable. No problem I said, I will just use my laptop alone and maybe purchase a real second monitor in the future.
Then, I began dealing with the slowest loading times when using my browser, after some research, learned that it is due to chrome. Ok, weird a brand new device cant handle chrome, but no problem, I will now only use safari despite disliking it.
After a while, I began to have a glitch where I could not click any buttons when attempting to save or upload documents like a microsoft word document, unable to add files to emails, open old documents, etc. Takes like 30 minutes of relaunching finder, reloading the laptop, etc, until it decides to let me go through finder only for minutes before the problem sometimes comes back. Now I am getting frustrated, this is something I could do in 2005 without issues.
Then, when things could not be going worse, I begin to have messages pop up every couple of minutes saying “Your system has run out of application memory”.
I literally only use this device for microsoft word, safari, and Anki (a flashcard app). I think an old PC from 2010 could run this better. And everyone will say I got the garbage option from apple with the 8 GB RAM, the cheapest of the line they had to offer, and I get that. I did that knowing I would use very few apps and that any piece of garbage should be able to handle it. But not this thing, still at a price tag of 1.2k.
So now, I dont know what to do. I can trade it in for $720… should I try and upgrade, or do the better versions still have all these issues?
Or should I just call it a day, and purchase a microsoft surface laptop (my old device was the microsoft surface book, which seemed to work better than my current device. On that old device I got in 2016, I could run many things at once, use anki, play pretty heavy games like EU4 on steam, etc., and that was less expensive (1k) and purchased 8 years before this one)
In fairness - some pros of the device are how lightweight it is, how nice it looks, and how long it can hold a charge, its very impressive, but these faults mentioned above hurt way more than these pros help.
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I bought it because my school was giving us a free ipad, so i thought I could use a mac instead of windows to have a dual monitor set up. Safe to say that itself has been a disaster with the screen mirroring capability constantly bugging out making it unusable. No problem I said, I will just use my laptop alone and maybe purchase a real second monitor in the future.
Then, I began dealing with the slowest loading times when using my browser, after some research, learned that it is due to chrome. Ok, weird a brand new device cant handle chrome, but no problem, I will now only use safari despite disliking it.
After a while, I began to have a glitch where I could not click any buttons when attempting to save or upload documents like a microsoft word document, unable to add files to emails, open old documents, etc. Takes like 30 minutes of relaunching finder, reloading the laptop, etc, until it decides to let me go through finder only for minutes before the problem sometimes comes back. Now I am getting frustrated, this is something I could do in 2005 without issues.
Then, when things could not be going worse, I begin to have messages pop up every couple of minutes saying “Your system has run out of application memory”.
I literally only use this device for microsoft word, safari, and Anki (a flashcard app). I think an old PC from 2010 could run this better. And everyone will say I got the garbage option from apple with the 8 GB RAM, the cheapest of the line they had to offer, and I get that. I did that knowing I would use very few apps and that any piece of garbage should be able to handle it. But not this thing, still at a price tag of 1.2k.
So now, I dont know what to do. I can trade it in for $720… should I try and upgrade, or do the better versions still have all these issues?
Or should I just call it a day, and purchase a microsoft surface laptop (my old device was the microsoft surface book, which seemed to work better than my current device. On that old device I got in 2016, I could run many things at once, use anki, play pretty heavy games like EU4 on steam, etc., and that was less expensive (1k) and purchased 8 years before this one)
In fairness - some pros of the device are how lightweight it is, how nice it looks, and how long it can hold a charge, its very impressive, but these faults mentioned above hurt way more than these pros help.
2024.05.15 04:29 EccentricSage81 usb4 type C worse than cheap usb ethernet lan landline1900s phones? (rj11/45/cat8e whatevs)
Ethernet has landline 1900s phones two pairs wires reserved in the spec sheet its 8 or so wires when crimping the ends uses like two with one for ground and one seemingly empty and then has two for phone and some unused, with old 10/100 baseT coax with terminating ends exactly like optical or coax 90s cable TV with optical fiber 99% of the way just your block has coax to the rest which uses the 'same'DOCSIS data over cable standards as fibre optic.. just slightly worse latency and bandwidth is calculated by latency things like wifi lan has like 11 channels or 15 channels of frequency which optical calls wavelengths of light. A 2015 or around there linus tech tips video of him going to a swedish lan party called dreamhack had a bunch of multiple redundant 8Terabit or was it bytes of fibre optic internet they explained with light having 7 colors but having 8terabytes of bandwidth with different wavelengths of light called frequencys or a better term for optics is known as LASER ARRAYS of light at fixed frequencys that often plugs into the PC via ethernet cables or whatever for a gamer lan party or home/residential or small businesses at realistically within budget of anything with enough users to require that bandwidth or 'web hosting or web servers' you dont need to be an undersea cable or international link with 200terabits plus for an internet exchange to your main CBD or the fastest like the netherlands IX...
So the problem im trying to solve is, here in australia we got our undersea cables done wrong they kept breaking and we didnt have a navy or defense force securing our countrys communications to prevent war crimes and keep us connected to the global banking systems or whatever.. and then when our biggest telcos cable or fibre all had dialup speeds for around 2 weeks in the early years 2000s to force us to pay other countrys to connect to their links and be ' end of the line' maybe paywalled or proxied off the internet randsomewared to connect to and borrow bandwidth from other countries satellites and other countries undersea link cables which truly were indestructible to any cruise liner ships anchors whatever being flexible giant steel braided cables big as a CAR when australia finally paid to lay small sections of that stuff to link up to others and not pay randsome to internet butt bandits or have private businesses and multi nationals run their own links and ignore the public our lack of a defense force actually let somalian pirates literally somehow pick up and walk off with our expensive undersea car sized cables filled with a few arms thick of hair thin fibre optics which is cheapest clear resin enamels plastics about $3 not sure if USD per kilometer and resembles modern glass/glazing. How does anybody steal that stuff without people noticing like you cant just load it onto a truck and drive away? or a boat? if only satellites and some sort of defense organization existed to prevent us from being impersonated or whatever.. So now in australia ANYTHING with words like gigabit costs a fortune for a mainboard or switch or ethernet hub.. but the ancient 1900s 10/100 telephone land line wires of ethernet 10/100 clock in at a whopping 13 or so mhz sometimes 27.. and 60 or more mhz for like gigabits and whatever it increases shockingly fast with each mhz clock cycle as its units of work over time in nano seconds or zeptoseconds you see billionths of a second nano second RAM and PC with windows realtime kernel actually uses like ryzen hardware negative latency faster than reality freely syncing with any device in the universe and fixed mhz frequency bus can drive like 50 to 100 or thousands of GPU's and HDDs and monitors or whatever from the one modern multicore PC or whatever.. 90s AMD business server still holds world records for most connected devices though it had stackable CPUs opteron and would have used infinity cache type stuff probably software 3dnow and evolving game worlds tech of 80s and 90s AMD gaming evolved advertising.
So in australia anything gigabits costs hundreds of dollars for a switch router some thousands for lots of ports.. but its the shittiest weakest bandwidth ever with mhz and performance miles short of a raspberry pie or whatever. I had to pay a fortune for a mainboard with 10gigabit LAN port and everytime i got a high speed LAN port its been broken or missing so some pricks can sell ebay routers or switches for thousands here.. not knowing why its so expensive is youre paying fortunes for any real bandwidth because australia has to pay literal somalian pirates for their internet connections or privately owned businesses like telstra for access to their private links and glares at countries like new zealand and hawaii for being super technologically superior.. a cheap USB ethernet adaptor costs under 10 bucks on ebay or whatever and is maybe gigabit and your switches and routers 90% of the time you want the cheapest UNMANAGED switch possible. Yet the mainboard i recently purchased ASUS pro art creator x670E i recall had an issue with some asshats trying to steal pathetic measly 40gigabit USB4 chips from all the boards at the computer store to sell on EBay as other junk, when anything in the universe with an M.2 ULTRA slot does 40gigabits since PCI express 3.0/4.0 as PCI express 3.0 SSD drives famously use a specific I/O controller chip which gives them 38gigabits of the ultra M.2 slots 40gigabits of bandwidth. But for a couple years when AMD had pci express 4.0 and better than M.2 ultra intel was playing catch up on PCI express 3.0 and still had regular m.2 in all their boards until AMD was ready for pci express 5.0 my friend on intel bought the same NVME drives and complained they had corruption errors or issues i later learned his board wasnt fast enough and he was maybe trying to use the samsung magician RAM disk and enable NVME features and functions intel maybe did not yet support.
So.. why is USB 4 so many years late and why is it so dang expensive when terabits of ethernet or anything optical is like the cheapest stuff ever and comes with every internet connection since the 90s at the lowest cheapest mhz and 1900s land line wire telephones ever, remember digital isnt a physical thing and everythings literally analog with a sensor or multimeter whatever mathematically translating it to a graph or algebra equation mapping it into different values digitally +10 -10 whatever using microphones or camera sensor whatever. the gigabits tax and uhh LAN port taxes for dumb gay australians being literally see it via satellite outerspace levels dumb and gay astrogaylian should not apply to the cheapest of raspberry pie free 3d print or laser CNC yourself something computery like risc V for the cheapest of USB flash drives or memory cards etc.
I get intel pretends to have invented court ordered USB to probe their hardware after it was proven to have used other peoples code and chips by the chip makers and them selling computers with keyboard and mouse hardwired in so you bought a whole new computer when a key broke on the keyboard couldnt replace them.. and every other device had USB but theirs didnt free open standard and it kinda being the only way to connect any device in the universe and freely sync with it (mics/phones whatever).
why is 1900s phone tech ethernet so dang expensive to go from 20mhz ranges to 80 or whatever mhz ranges or use something very similar to 90s optical audio SPDIF output or anything remotely like a laser in australia? and who would be dumb and gay enough to be so financially retarded as to think that USB 4 was expensive or special as to steal it? am i... missing something?
also before you complain, but ethernets not the same as USB you cant power over ethernet or use your houses electrical wires as ethernet. You also cant use ethernet for monitors or displays, and its not like you can extend HDMI range limit of a about 10 to 15 meters by swapping its ethernet wires with optical ones for it to maintain its HDMI 0 latency spec or type C USB 0 latency spec. USB lets you connect heaps of devices you cant do that with an internet or ethernet for things like keyboard and mice or monitors or whatever. I understand what you mean power over ethernet or PPOE standards suck theres no way those are a thing. using devices over the internet and not the intranet who does that? thats so dumb. remote administration, theres no such thing youre mistaking malware or rootkits im sure. you cant connect a heap of devices up or entire computers to a ethernet port thats the dumbest gayest thing i've ever heard in my entire life! My gaydar is going off and it looks like the wifi symbol.
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So the problem im trying to solve is, here in australia we got our undersea cables done wrong they kept breaking and we didnt have a navy or defense force securing our countrys communications to prevent war crimes and keep us connected to the global banking systems or whatever.. and then when our biggest telcos cable or fibre all had dialup speeds for around 2 weeks in the early years 2000s to force us to pay other countrys to connect to their links and be ' end of the line' maybe paywalled or proxied off the internet randsomewared to connect to and borrow bandwidth from other countries satellites and other countries undersea link cables which truly were indestructible to any cruise liner ships anchors whatever being flexible giant steel braided cables big as a CAR when australia finally paid to lay small sections of that stuff to link up to others and not pay randsome to internet butt bandits or have private businesses and multi nationals run their own links and ignore the public our lack of a defense force actually let somalian pirates literally somehow pick up and walk off with our expensive undersea car sized cables filled with a few arms thick of hair thin fibre optics which is cheapest clear resin enamels plastics about $3 not sure if USD per kilometer and resembles modern glass/glazing. How does anybody steal that stuff without people noticing like you cant just load it onto a truck and drive away? or a boat? if only satellites and some sort of defense organization existed to prevent us from being impersonated or whatever.. So now in australia ANYTHING with words like gigabit costs a fortune for a mainboard or switch or ethernet hub.. but the ancient 1900s 10/100 telephone land line wires of ethernet 10/100 clock in at a whopping 13 or so mhz sometimes 27.. and 60 or more mhz for like gigabits and whatever it increases shockingly fast with each mhz clock cycle as its units of work over time in nano seconds or zeptoseconds you see billionths of a second nano second RAM and PC with windows realtime kernel actually uses like ryzen hardware negative latency faster than reality freely syncing with any device in the universe and fixed mhz frequency bus can drive like 50 to 100 or thousands of GPU's and HDDs and monitors or whatever from the one modern multicore PC or whatever.. 90s AMD business server still holds world records for most connected devices though it had stackable CPUs opteron and would have used infinity cache type stuff probably software 3dnow and evolving game worlds tech of 80s and 90s AMD gaming evolved advertising.
So in australia anything gigabits costs hundreds of dollars for a switch router some thousands for lots of ports.. but its the shittiest weakest bandwidth ever with mhz and performance miles short of a raspberry pie or whatever. I had to pay a fortune for a mainboard with 10gigabit LAN port and everytime i got a high speed LAN port its been broken or missing so some pricks can sell ebay routers or switches for thousands here.. not knowing why its so expensive is youre paying fortunes for any real bandwidth because australia has to pay literal somalian pirates for their internet connections or privately owned businesses like telstra for access to their private links and glares at countries like new zealand and hawaii for being super technologically superior.. a cheap USB ethernet adaptor costs under 10 bucks on ebay or whatever and is maybe gigabit and your switches and routers 90% of the time you want the cheapest UNMANAGED switch possible. Yet the mainboard i recently purchased ASUS pro art creator x670E i recall had an issue with some asshats trying to steal pathetic measly 40gigabit USB4 chips from all the boards at the computer store to sell on EBay as other junk, when anything in the universe with an M.2 ULTRA slot does 40gigabits since PCI express 3.0/4.0 as PCI express 3.0 SSD drives famously use a specific I/O controller chip which gives them 38gigabits of the ultra M.2 slots 40gigabits of bandwidth. But for a couple years when AMD had pci express 4.0 and better than M.2 ultra intel was playing catch up on PCI express 3.0 and still had regular m.2 in all their boards until AMD was ready for pci express 5.0 my friend on intel bought the same NVME drives and complained they had corruption errors or issues i later learned his board wasnt fast enough and he was maybe trying to use the samsung magician RAM disk and enable NVME features and functions intel maybe did not yet support.
So.. why is USB 4 so many years late and why is it so dang expensive when terabits of ethernet or anything optical is like the cheapest stuff ever and comes with every internet connection since the 90s at the lowest cheapest mhz and 1900s land line wire telephones ever, remember digital isnt a physical thing and everythings literally analog with a sensor or multimeter whatever mathematically translating it to a graph or algebra equation mapping it into different values digitally +10 -10 whatever using microphones or camera sensor whatever. the gigabits tax and uhh LAN port taxes for dumb gay australians being literally see it via satellite outerspace levels dumb and gay astrogaylian should not apply to the cheapest of raspberry pie free 3d print or laser CNC yourself something computery like risc V for the cheapest of USB flash drives or memory cards etc.
I get intel pretends to have invented court ordered USB to probe their hardware after it was proven to have used other peoples code and chips by the chip makers and them selling computers with keyboard and mouse hardwired in so you bought a whole new computer when a key broke on the keyboard couldnt replace them.. and every other device had USB but theirs didnt free open standard and it kinda being the only way to connect any device in the universe and freely sync with it (mics/phones whatever).
why is 1900s phone tech ethernet so dang expensive to go from 20mhz ranges to 80 or whatever mhz ranges or use something very similar to 90s optical audio SPDIF output or anything remotely like a laser in australia? and who would be dumb and gay enough to be so financially retarded as to think that USB 4 was expensive or special as to steal it? am i... missing something?
also before you complain, but ethernets not the same as USB you cant power over ethernet or use your houses electrical wires as ethernet. You also cant use ethernet for monitors or displays, and its not like you can extend HDMI range limit of a about 10 to 15 meters by swapping its ethernet wires with optical ones for it to maintain its HDMI 0 latency spec or type C USB 0 latency spec. USB lets you connect heaps of devices you cant do that with an internet or ethernet for things like keyboard and mice or monitors or whatever. I understand what you mean power over ethernet or PPOE standards suck theres no way those are a thing. using devices over the internet and not the intranet who does that? thats so dumb. remote administration, theres no such thing youre mistaking malware or rootkits im sure. you cant connect a heap of devices up or entire computers to a ethernet port thats the dumbest gayest thing i've ever heard in my entire life! My gaydar is going off and it looks like the wifi symbol.
2024.05.15 04:28 shadow_fox09 My guess for the setting and plot lines of the next Fallout title.
Been playing through Fallout 4 again with my brother. Made me start thinking of where the next game will be set. We’ve had DC, West Virginia, Massachusetts already, so here’s my best guess:
With the enclave making a return in the Fallout TV series as a behind the scenes bad, and the fact that the enclave had plans to escape nuclear war by going to the moon/other planets (with there having been multiple successful manned moon missions in universe), I think it’s a safe bet that the enclave/visitors returning from the moon will be the main threat/faction in the new game.
With that being the case, the setting would need to be somewhere that had something to do with space travel in the US. That leaves us with Florida or Texas. Florida would be a great choice…until it was announced that the new GTA title would take place in Florida. I don’t think Bethesda will want their next title to be that similalaunching around the same time-give or take a year or two.
So, that leaves Texas as the natural setting for the next game. Houston is a massive sprawling city with bayous and ditches and tall buildings galore. Would be the perfect chance for them to try and implement vehicular gameplay or mounted combat (I.e., horses) into the mix. There’s tons of forested areas over in the piney woods, and lots of open pastures and coast line. The terrain could be really varied and the map size could easily be the biggest map size yet seen in a fallout title. It would be an awesome setting that could also lean into a 50’s western theme like the tv show did.
TL;DR: Game set in Texas, the enclave returning from the moon as the main antagonist.
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With the enclave making a return in the Fallout TV series as a behind the scenes bad, and the fact that the enclave had plans to escape nuclear war by going to the moon/other planets (with there having been multiple successful manned moon missions in universe), I think it’s a safe bet that the enclave/visitors returning from the moon will be the main threat/faction in the new game.
With that being the case, the setting would need to be somewhere that had something to do with space travel in the US. That leaves us with Florida or Texas. Florida would be a great choice…until it was announced that the new GTA title would take place in Florida. I don’t think Bethesda will want their next title to be that similalaunching around the same time-give or take a year or two.
So, that leaves Texas as the natural setting for the next game. Houston is a massive sprawling city with bayous and ditches and tall buildings galore. Would be the perfect chance for them to try and implement vehicular gameplay or mounted combat (I.e., horses) into the mix. There’s tons of forested areas over in the piney woods, and lots of open pastures and coast line. The terrain could be really varied and the map size could easily be the biggest map size yet seen in a fallout title. It would be an awesome setting that could also lean into a 50’s western theme like the tv show did.
TL;DR: Game set in Texas, the enclave returning from the moon as the main antagonist.
2024.05.15 04:25 RenegadeWanderer_ Parents DoomsDayers, They Isolated Me, I Have Poor Education, No Friends, Can't Pass Tests, Can't Drive, No Socialization Experiences... Depressed & Don't Want To Go On
I am 36 years old and I've been isolated by my parents who are doomsdayers. I was homeschooled and got a poor education and was not socialized. I went to church off and on, but I never made friends. My parents are conspiracy theories and started sharing with me at the age of 12. The end of the world was always around the corner. I was never taught how to function in the world, never taught how to get a job, I have no friends, I live in the mountains of California, but my parents believe most of the population are sinners and evil.
I have no access to money. I'm on government healthcare because I have several health problems and even if I got work I would have to come up with over $1,000+ per month to pay for things that literally keep me alive, like Insulin. I have learning difficulties. I'm dyslexic. I get easily confused and don't understand things that most adult people do concerning jobs, work, banks, legal stuff, paperwork, computers. I can use the basics of a computer. I have no public transportation where I live and I have no money for ubers. I had anxiety as a teen and by my mid 20's it turned into agoraphobia. I've haven't been out of my parents house for 15 years, with the exception of doctors and the hospital. When I try to go out of the house and in public I start feeling ill and end up having an anxiety and panic attack. I have poor healthcare facilities and poor healthcare workers around me and in neighboring towns/cities. My mom said I couldn't function in the world and that I was never to leave the house. She emotionally manipulated me, which is why my anxiety got bad. I have no one I can trust or get help. I'm an atheist and part trans/non-binary and my family are bigots and hate me, some saying I deserve to be in the bad living situation I'm at.
I am depressed, think about dying as well as I've made attempts. I can't enjoy things anymore. I don't play video games as much anymore, I've wanted to do art, but I just gave up. I can't motivate myself. I have no self esteem. I was told I was weak and couldn't survive in public school or the world. My parents believe the end of the world is about to happen and that there's no much of a point for me to have any quality of life. My parents never shut up about negative things which is stressing me out. My health has also been getting worse, but I have no idea what to do. I've posted off and on over the decade, people have made suggestions, but nothing is helping. I have been neglected by my parents/family to the point I feel and am like a helpless child.
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I have no access to money. I'm on government healthcare because I have several health problems and even if I got work I would have to come up with over $1,000+ per month to pay for things that literally keep me alive, like Insulin. I have learning difficulties. I'm dyslexic. I get easily confused and don't understand things that most adult people do concerning jobs, work, banks, legal stuff, paperwork, computers. I can use the basics of a computer. I have no public transportation where I live and I have no money for ubers. I had anxiety as a teen and by my mid 20's it turned into agoraphobia. I've haven't been out of my parents house for 15 years, with the exception of doctors and the hospital. When I try to go out of the house and in public I start feeling ill and end up having an anxiety and panic attack. I have poor healthcare facilities and poor healthcare workers around me and in neighboring towns/cities. My mom said I couldn't function in the world and that I was never to leave the house. She emotionally manipulated me, which is why my anxiety got bad. I have no one I can trust or get help. I'm an atheist and part trans/non-binary and my family are bigots and hate me, some saying I deserve to be in the bad living situation I'm at.
I am depressed, think about dying as well as I've made attempts. I can't enjoy things anymore. I don't play video games as much anymore, I've wanted to do art, but I just gave up. I can't motivate myself. I have no self esteem. I was told I was weak and couldn't survive in public school or the world. My parents believe the end of the world is about to happen and that there's no much of a point for me to have any quality of life. My parents never shut up about negative things which is stressing me out. My health has also been getting worse, but I have no idea what to do. I've posted off and on over the decade, people have made suggestions, but nothing is helping. I have been neglected by my parents/family to the point I feel and am like a helpless child.
2024.05.15 04:21 RenegadeWanderer_ Parents DoomsDayers, They Isolated Me, I Have Poor Education, No Friends, Can't Pass Tests, Can't Drive, No Socialization Experiences... Depressed & Don't Want To Go On
I am 36 years old and I've been isolated by my parents who are doomsdayers. I was homeschooled and got a poor education and was not socialized. I went to church off and on, but I never made friends. My parents are conspiracy theories and started sharing with me at the age of 12. The end of the world was always around the corner. I was never taught how to function in the world, never taught how to get a job, I have no friends, I live in the mountains of California, but my parents believe most of the population are sinners and evil.
I have no access to money. I'm on government healthcare because I have several health problems and even if I got work I would have to come up with over $1,000+ per month to pay for things that literally keep me alive, like Insulin. I have learning difficulties. I'm dyslexic. I get easily confused and don't understand things that most adult people do concerning jobs, work, banks, legal stuff, paperwork, computers. I can use the basics of a computer. I have no public transportation where I live and I have no money for ubers. I had anxiety as a teen and by my mid 20's it turned into agoraphobia. I've haven't been out of my parents house for 15 years, with the exception of doctors and the hospital. When I try to go out of the house and in public I start feeling ill and end up having an anxiety and panic attack. I have poor healthcare facilities and poor healthcare workers around me and in neighboring towns/cities. My mom said I couldn't function in the world and that I was never to leave the house. She emotionally manipulated me, which is why my anxiety got bad. I have no one I can trust or get help. I'm an atheist and part trans/non-binary and my family are bigots and hate me, some saying I deserve to be in the bad living situation I'm at.
I am depressed, think about dying as well as I've made attempts. I can't enjoy things anymore. I don't play video games as much anymore, I've wanted to do art, but I just gave up. I can't motivate myself. I have no self esteem. I was told I was weak and couldn't survive in public school or the world. My parents believe the end of the world is about to happen and that there's no much of a point for me to have any quality of life. My parents never shut up about negative things which is stressing me out. My health has also been getting worse, but I have no idea what to do. I've posted off and on over the decade, people have made suggestions, but nothing is helping. I have been neglected by my parents/family to the point I feel and am like a helpless child.
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I have no access to money. I'm on government healthcare because I have several health problems and even if I got work I would have to come up with over $1,000+ per month to pay for things that literally keep me alive, like Insulin. I have learning difficulties. I'm dyslexic. I get easily confused and don't understand things that most adult people do concerning jobs, work, banks, legal stuff, paperwork, computers. I can use the basics of a computer. I have no public transportation where I live and I have no money for ubers. I had anxiety as a teen and by my mid 20's it turned into agoraphobia. I've haven't been out of my parents house for 15 years, with the exception of doctors and the hospital. When I try to go out of the house and in public I start feeling ill and end up having an anxiety and panic attack. I have poor healthcare facilities and poor healthcare workers around me and in neighboring towns/cities. My mom said I couldn't function in the world and that I was never to leave the house. She emotionally manipulated me, which is why my anxiety got bad. I have no one I can trust or get help. I'm an atheist and part trans/non-binary and my family are bigots and hate me, some saying I deserve to be in the bad living situation I'm at.
I am depressed, think about dying as well as I've made attempts. I can't enjoy things anymore. I don't play video games as much anymore, I've wanted to do art, but I just gave up. I can't motivate myself. I have no self esteem. I was told I was weak and couldn't survive in public school or the world. My parents believe the end of the world is about to happen and that there's no much of a point for me to have any quality of life. My parents never shut up about negative things which is stressing me out. My health has also been getting worse, but I have no idea what to do. I've posted off and on over the decade, people have made suggestions, but nothing is helping. I have been neglected by my parents/family to the point I feel and am like a helpless child.
2024.05.15 04:20 TrackingSystemDirect GPS Tracking Shipping Containers
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2024.05.15 04:19 r_cube12 [USA] [H] Dreamcast, Ps1-Ps4, Xbox , DS, Wii, Snes [W] Ps1 games, dreamcast games, snes games, offers
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2024.05.15 04:15 liamajoris Just finished the game!!! I have lots of questions and theories
So as stated in the title, I just finished the game (with the good ending!) and I feel like I'm about to explode with the amount of questions i have about the game's lore and setting. I feel like there's a lot of worldbuilding/lore details that aren't addressed in-game and details that don't make sense without additional context. Don't get me wrong, I loved this game! I just want to dive more into the story's world. So here I'm just going to ramble a bit about what I noticed as well as some theories and questions I had while playing the game.
Ancestry
There are a few hints sprinkled throughout the game that imply that the inhabitants of the tower arrived there in a certain order. In the Fortress, there's a mural by the treasure room that depicts the Guardians approaching the already-built tower, following the Call from the Chosen (AKA Bards). This proves that the Bards inhabited the tower before the Warriors built their Fortress there, and thus have different ancestries.
In the Laboratories, one can find an open book in the library with the glyphs for Alchemist and Bard. A note next to it will have those two glyphs along with the glyphs for "Brother Plural". This implies that the Bards and Alchemists have the same ancestors. One of the terminal conversations in the Gardens confirms this. At the terminal in question, an Alchemist tells a Bard that he has found a book about Bards, and that they are Brothers. This confirms that the two were once the same race but were eventually separated (presumably by the monster in the Mines). It is likely that they arrived at the same time.
Diplomatic Relations
To me, it seems like the monster in the Mines is closely linked to the separation between several civilizations within the tower. The most obvious of these is the separation between Bards and Alchemists. Neither race is willing to travel through the mines because of it. But there's more than just that.
I think that the Guardians heard rumors about the monster from the Bards and falsely believed the story to be about the Devotees. Even if it's minimal, the Bards clearly have some interaction with the Guardians given how much they talk about them. And the Guardians are collectively aware of the Bards, featuring them in the aforementioned mural as well as a couple sculptures throughout the Fortress. What's interesting is that, despite interacting with the Devotees just as much if not more than with the Bards, the Guardians don't have any statues depicting Devotees or even a glyph that represents the concept of a devotee or priest. Instead, one will find that the Guardians refer to Devotees with the glyph for Monster. Before opening the door at the Abbey, the word bubble above each Guardian there says "Plural Monster Not Go/Pass". Clearly, they are addressing the Devotees here.
Questions
I still have a lot of unanswered questions regarding the lore. For starters, why did the Anchorites have to leave their old homeland in the first place? Why build a tower? Were they even the ones who built the tower?
Second: the monster. How did it come to be? Is it the result of an Alchemist's experiment gone wrong? An invasive species from outside the tower that sneaked into the Mines? An early prototype of Exile's minions?
Speaking of the Mines, why is there an abundance of natural resources inside the tower? Is the tower just a mountain with buildings carved into the sides like an ancient Pueblo city?
And Exile. Why does it exist? Was it created by the Anchorites, or by another people who built the tower? What was its purpose?
I have a lot more to say about this game, but this post is getting pretty long so I'll stop here. Maybe I could make this a little series of posts if I feel like it.
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Ancestry
There are a few hints sprinkled throughout the game that imply that the inhabitants of the tower arrived there in a certain order. In the Fortress, there's a mural by the treasure room that depicts the Guardians approaching the already-built tower, following the Call from the Chosen (AKA Bards). This proves that the Bards inhabited the tower before the Warriors built their Fortress there, and thus have different ancestries.
In the Laboratories, one can find an open book in the library with the glyphs for Alchemist and Bard. A note next to it will have those two glyphs along with the glyphs for "Brother Plural". This implies that the Bards and Alchemists have the same ancestors. One of the terminal conversations in the Gardens confirms this. At the terminal in question, an Alchemist tells a Bard that he has found a book about Bards, and that they are Brothers. This confirms that the two were once the same race but were eventually separated (presumably by the monster in the Mines). It is likely that they arrived at the same time.
Diplomatic Relations
To me, it seems like the monster in the Mines is closely linked to the separation between several civilizations within the tower. The most obvious of these is the separation between Bards and Alchemists. Neither race is willing to travel through the mines because of it. But there's more than just that.
I think that the Guardians heard rumors about the monster from the Bards and falsely believed the story to be about the Devotees. Even if it's minimal, the Bards clearly have some interaction with the Guardians given how much they talk about them. And the Guardians are collectively aware of the Bards, featuring them in the aforementioned mural as well as a couple sculptures throughout the Fortress. What's interesting is that, despite interacting with the Devotees just as much if not more than with the Bards, the Guardians don't have any statues depicting Devotees or even a glyph that represents the concept of a devotee or priest. Instead, one will find that the Guardians refer to Devotees with the glyph for Monster. Before opening the door at the Abbey, the word bubble above each Guardian there says "Plural Monster Not Go/Pass". Clearly, they are addressing the Devotees here.
Questions
I still have a lot of unanswered questions regarding the lore. For starters, why did the Anchorites have to leave their old homeland in the first place? Why build a tower? Were they even the ones who built the tower?
Second: the monster. How did it come to be? Is it the result of an Alchemist's experiment gone wrong? An invasive species from outside the tower that sneaked into the Mines? An early prototype of Exile's minions?
Speaking of the Mines, why is there an abundance of natural resources inside the tower? Is the tower just a mountain with buildings carved into the sides like an ancient Pueblo city?
And Exile. Why does it exist? Was it created by the Anchorites, or by another people who built the tower? What was its purpose?
I have a lot more to say about this game, but this post is getting pretty long so I'll stop here. Maybe I could make this a little series of posts if I feel like it.
2024.05.15 04:15 anasse_ This is my first time playing a Lego video game, at the age of 26, and I started with this one. I fell in love and have already purchased several others, including: HP 1-4, LOTR, DCSV, Marvel SH1, City Undercover. I also want to get Star Wars TCS but I don't know if it has aged as well as these. (?)
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2024.05.15 04:14 Ok-Salamander6253 [LFP][LFM][PF2e][10$/Session via paypal][Roll20][Online] Enmity Cycle - [Tue 7 pm EST, bi-weekly] - 1 open spot
The Enmity Cycle is a deluxe Pathfinder adventure for 4th-level characters. On the cusp of completing a grand project that would wow audiences and build solidarity between the five squabbling cities of Thuvia, a trio of renowned artists suddenly go missing. Who could be behind such treachery—and why? Explore the Thuvian city of Lamasara as your characters investigate the disappearance and prevent a poisoned performance from shaking the desert nation.
From my personal perspective the story is about art, its influence, has a strong investigation and detective components to the story and is a good opportunity to get to now the eastern part of the setting with its intrigues and misteries.
Please note, this is a paid game. Payment is $10 per session per player via paypal. Roll20 is not responsible for any payment transactions and cannot enforce any private arrangements.
Games are planned for tuesday evenings, bi-weekly.
Sessions length is about 3-4 hours (about 6 sessions total to finish the story, maybe a bit more or a bit less). The modules will be a bit rebalanced for the group, starting level for Enmity Cicle is 4.
Applications are below or you may contact me via PM or Discord Shevrikuka#7612, also you may leave a post in the listings (below).
The group is an established one and has just finished their previous adventure 'The Fall of Plaguestone'. A spot opened after the finale due to a planned leave of one of the players because of the schedule, so there's one more spot, we've just started The Enmity Cycle and only had couple of social encounters, so would be a good place to join.
From me you can expect official paizo materials for the campaign with additional maps (dynamically lit) and handouts, some voice acting, API scripts and macro, help with your characters and bookkeeping
Official listing: https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/378082/pf2e-enmity-cycle
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From my personal perspective the story is about art, its influence, has a strong investigation and detective components to the story and is a good opportunity to get to now the eastern part of the setting with its intrigues and misteries.
Please note, this is a paid game. Payment is $10 per session per player via paypal. Roll20 is not responsible for any payment transactions and cannot enforce any private arrangements.
Games are planned for tuesday evenings, bi-weekly.
Sessions length is about 3-4 hours (about 6 sessions total to finish the story, maybe a bit more or a bit less). The modules will be a bit rebalanced for the group, starting level for Enmity Cicle is 4.
Applications are below or you may contact me via PM or Discord Shevrikuka#7612, also you may leave a post in the listings (below).
The group is an established one and has just finished their previous adventure 'The Fall of Plaguestone'. A spot opened after the finale due to a planned leave of one of the players because of the schedule, so there's one more spot, we've just started The Enmity Cycle and only had couple of social encounters, so would be a good place to join.
From me you can expect official paizo materials for the campaign with additional maps (dynamically lit) and handouts, some voice acting, API scripts and macro, help with your characters and bookkeeping
Official listing: https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/378082/pf2e-enmity-cycle
2024.05.15 04:13 Ok-Salamander6253 [LFP][LFM][PF2e][10$/Session via paypal] Enmity Cycle - [Tue 7 pm EST, bi-weekly] - 1 open spot
The Enmity Cycle is a deluxe Pathfinder adventure for 4th-level characters. On the cusp of completing a grand project that would wow audiences and build solidarity between the five squabbling cities of Thuvia, a trio of renowned artists suddenly go missing. Who could be behind such treachery—and why? Explore the Thuvian city of Lamasara as your characters investigate the disappearance and prevent a poisoned performance from shaking the desert nation.
From my personal perspective the story is about art, its influence, has a strong investigation and detective components to the story and is a good opportunity to get to now the eastern part of the setting with its intrigues and misteries.
Please note, this is a paid game. Payment is $10 per session per player via paypal. Roll20 is not responsible for any payment transactions and cannot enforce any private arrangements.
Games are planned for tuesday evenings, bi-weekly.
Sessions length is about 3-4 hours (about 6 sessions total to finish the story, maybe a bit more or a bit less). The modules will be a bit rebalanced for the group, starting level for Enmity Cicle is 4.
Applications are below or you may contact me via PM or Discord Shevrikuka#7612, also you may leave a post in the listings (below).
The group is an established one and has just finished their previous adventure 'The Fall of Plaguestone'. A spot opened after the finale due to a planned leave of one of the players because of the schedule, so there's one more spot, we've just started The Enmity Cycle and only had couple of social encounters, so would be a good place to join.
From me you can expect official paizo materials for the campaign with additional maps (dynamically lit) and handouts, some voice acting, API scripts and macro, help with your characters and bookkeeping
Official listing: https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/378082/pf2e-enmity-cycle
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From my personal perspective the story is about art, its influence, has a strong investigation and detective components to the story and is a good opportunity to get to now the eastern part of the setting with its intrigues and misteries.
Please note, this is a paid game. Payment is $10 per session per player via paypal. Roll20 is not responsible for any payment transactions and cannot enforce any private arrangements.
Games are planned for tuesday evenings, bi-weekly.
Sessions length is about 3-4 hours (about 6 sessions total to finish the story, maybe a bit more or a bit less). The modules will be a bit rebalanced for the group, starting level for Enmity Cicle is 4.
Applications are below or you may contact me via PM or Discord Shevrikuka#7612, also you may leave a post in the listings (below).
The group is an established one and has just finished their previous adventure 'The Fall of Plaguestone'. A spot opened after the finale due to a planned leave of one of the players because of the schedule, so there's one more spot, we've just started The Enmity Cycle and only had couple of social encounters, so would be a good place to join.
From me you can expect official paizo materials for the campaign with additional maps (dynamically lit) and handouts, some voice acting, API scripts and macro, help with your characters and bookkeeping
Official listing: https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/378082/pf2e-enmity-cycle
2024.05.15 04:11 Endure23 There’s been a HUGE uptick in the number of brand new, giant trucks I’ve been seeing since the weather changed. I guess debt bondage on a rapidly depreciating “asset” that costs gas money to use sells better when the sun is out.
For a fun game: count how many trucks you see hauling stuff—anything at all, even the groceries. I’d be surprised if it exceeds 10%. Carbrains may be wrong about more lanes fixing traffic, but it seems we’ve finally added enough pickup trucks to solve the hauling problem! There’s nothing left to haul! Good job guys!
Of course, the gigantic dump trucks driving to and from construction sites are always full of shit. If we could get some pickup drivers to volunteer to help out, I think we could get some of these infrastructure projects done quicker. I guess the all these suburbanite alpha males like their air conditioning too much to get their hands dirty and help out! As things are now, they just drive around at midday and keep work vehicles held up in traffic, especially when they crash into each other like real alphas! Stop discounting the societal value of such manly activities!
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Of course, the gigantic dump trucks driving to and from construction sites are always full of shit. If we could get some pickup drivers to volunteer to help out, I think we could get some of these infrastructure projects done quicker. I guess the all these suburbanite alpha males like their air conditioning too much to get their hands dirty and help out! As things are now, they just drive around at midday and keep work vehicles held up in traffic, especially when they crash into each other like real alphas! Stop discounting the societal value of such manly activities!
2024.05.15 04:08 GCrites Help me get a handle on Mini Yonku (Mini 4WD) Shining Scorpion Let's & Go for Super Famicom
So I found out about this game through the Wiki. I had no idea there was a Famicom game, 2 Super Famicom games, 4-5 PS1 games, Game Boy games, Dreamcast, DS games about Mini 4WD. All -JPN only. This one seems to be the most like actually playing Mini 4WD in real life. So I download the Shining Scorpion ROM and start playing it on an emulator. I'm pretty lost since I can't read Japanese but I recognize the parts you can buy. They are dead-on like the real parts. Right color gears, endbells, wheels, rollers, all of it. So I'm motivated to learn it.
3 days after downloading it I see what looks like the cartridge in a local game store. No way. Only way I knew was recognizing the Japanese logo from the emulator. I ask the guy working who could read a little Japanese and he was like "Yeah it says 'Shinning' Scorpion Racing". My city isn't known for having a lot of import games at all unlike a coastal city so it was crazy! I get it home an put it next to my home track box and see the Japanese "Yonku" on both. Break the Super Famicom lockouts off of my SNES and fire it up. It's it.
This was way better than using the emulator since it already had a save on it. Whoever had it before grinded their brains out on the track in the first hobby shop in order to be able to buy all this stuff from the hobby shop in the second town. Unfortunately there is very little English documentation of this game and talking to NPCs to learn more is impossible for me. Problem now is course outs on the track where you race against the guy who looks like a 1940s cartoon depiction of a monkey with a bow tie. I have added all the weight possible to my car. Front, side and rear 19mm rollers. Wide rubber tires (the game seems to like these for stability even though few people race with wides today -- some things the game likes aren't how things are done 25+ years later) Tried dual rear rollers both high and middle plus low and it wasn't as stable. Hyper Dash 1 motor, Rev Tuned and Torque Tuned are too slow and still course out sometimes. Even with Hyper Dash I am still 2nd place at the most before eventually coursing out. Both types of 4:1 gears and the 5:1 gears all course out. Switching to 1.2v batteries from 1.5v doesn't stop it either. Car is very heavy. Anybody else played this one and did well?
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3 days after downloading it I see what looks like the cartridge in a local game store. No way. Only way I knew was recognizing the Japanese logo from the emulator. I ask the guy working who could read a little Japanese and he was like "Yeah it says 'Shinning' Scorpion Racing". My city isn't known for having a lot of import games at all unlike a coastal city so it was crazy! I get it home an put it next to my home track box and see the Japanese "Yonku" on both. Break the Super Famicom lockouts off of my SNES and fire it up. It's it.
This was way better than using the emulator since it already had a save on it. Whoever had it before grinded their brains out on the track in the first hobby shop in order to be able to buy all this stuff from the hobby shop in the second town. Unfortunately there is very little English documentation of this game and talking to NPCs to learn more is impossible for me. Problem now is course outs on the track where you race against the guy who looks like a 1940s cartoon depiction of a monkey with a bow tie. I have added all the weight possible to my car. Front, side and rear 19mm rollers. Wide rubber tires (the game seems to like these for stability even though few people race with wides today -- some things the game likes aren't how things are done 25+ years later) Tried dual rear rollers both high and middle plus low and it wasn't as stable. Hyper Dash 1 motor, Rev Tuned and Torque Tuned are too slow and still course out sometimes. Even with Hyper Dash I am still 2nd place at the most before eventually coursing out. Both types of 4:1 gears and the 5:1 gears all course out. Switching to 1.2v batteries from 1.5v doesn't stop it either. Car is very heavy. Anybody else played this one and did well?
2024.05.15 04:08 Ben_Rush_EXCLL Summer expansion incoming : New ships and structures
In the Canuck Capsuleers Chronicles this week :
https://youtube.com/live/Fi2X_4CUET4
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- Stasi Contest winner!
- Black Flag getting Slowed down
- WH War for the C6s
- Capsuleer day
- Board Game : Action to take !
- Steel city cancelled
- New Ships !
- Squall (T1 Hauler)
- Deluge (T2 Hauler - Blockade runner)
- Torrent (T2 Hauler - Deep Space transport)
- Avalanche (T1 Freither)
- Orbital Skyhook and 3 new resources
- How to attack and raid a Skyhook
- Metenox Moon Drill (passive income)
- Moon Drills can be anchored in WH ... Thanks CCP?
- How to attack and raid a Metenox Moon Drill
- Sovereignty hub
- New Nullsec upgrades
- New Sovereignty Management menu
- Wormholer wishes
- Eve Moncton : Where is Moncton?
- This week in the Chronicles of New Eden Podcast
https://youtube.com/live/Fi2X_4CUET4
2024.05.15 04:07 drconniehenley What’s your favourite sporting city?
Whenever I travel, I try to hit up a local game to get a feel for the city and fans.
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2024.05.15 04:07 Due-Violinist5278 Why do ppl shit on odyssey but love origins?
I came into this without a dog in the fight. Completely new to gaming. And I probably looked at 50 top 10 ac lists reading and on YouTube. And the consensus was ac fans hated odyssey. They thought it was too big. It was rpg garbage. The cut scenes drove them crazy etc. So after odyssey I went to origins. Which in my opinion after playing for a few weeks is a shittier version of odyssey. Even more repetitive. Crappy customizing especially clothing. The story is a lot more boring. The graphics aren't as good (I know it's older than odyssey) but I'm having a hard time realizing how origins got its stamp of approval over it. It is inferior in every way. Also my intro to this genre was the rpg style. I tried hard to get into the old school ac games. I tried ac unity every night for a few weeks and was losing my mind. I absolutely hated it. Could not stand it. Str8 trash. Maybe I'm just into this style more but u want to reiterate the odyssey is the only other game besides rdr2 that kept me playing and entertained me for so long. I hate that it's hated on by ppl.
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2024.05.15 04:06 AeroArisen Our Tree & The Watchful Eye [PART 1]
WARNING: This story contains strong language, mild violence & fictional political radicalism.
(Note, this story portrays the human side in a morally negative light. If you do not like that, then turn back now.)
Surrounding the tree were the marvellous palaces of the Imperial Government, the Imperial Advisory Council directly appointed by the emperor among them. The palaces were meant to be opulent and expensive, as if you were a lowly governor coming in from the Outer Provinces, the rows and rows of perfectly symmetric crystalline walls combined with the mirrors to allow the Andzak aristocracy to witness the superb influence of the Imperial Authorities.
Looking into those spotlessly clean mirrors was me, Deputy Governor Uljjak Kaserkor. According to Imperial audits of my activities, I am a "sub-par administrator, foreign to both the Andzak Empire and it's traditions, and the Andzak aristocracy" as Councillor Dlirij once said. In short, they've been looking for an excuse to exile me to a low-ranking advisory position on a third-band world out in the middle of nowhere.
And, as such, I am keeping this diary to myself, so in the event that Councillor Dlirij or one of his cronies tries to bring up charges against me, I am capable of fighting them effectively.
So, what am I doing, thousands of lightyears from my homeworld looking up at the Tree? I am here to report to the Advisory Council of an intense gamma-ray disturbance next to the uninhabited system of [UAG-2113]. Gamma ray disturbances of this scale usually mean the development and testing of superluminal weapons, which are severely restricted under the [Interstellar Accords].
Superluminal weapons are capable of obliterating entire solar systems if given enough energy. The most powerful superluminal weapon ever tested by the Andzak Empire vaporised 3 light-years of space, and fried every unprotected electronic within 117 light-years.
So this means it is understandable that the Empire might be concerned by yet another civilisation in hold of these excessively powerful weapons, especially if they don't know who has them, and they're being tested in the Centauran Reserves, an area that has barely been explored by the Empire due to the Centauran Pandemic a hundred years ago.
By my side, is the Military Advisor Vraxh Huljukrj. To be honest, we don't get along, and while I technically outrank him, stripping him of his rank would be an essential guarantee that the Regional Military Consul would be pissed. Vraxh has gotten into the Armed Forces through nepotism with the Consul.
"So you're bothering the Advisory Council with third-world bullshit just because one sensor buoy near a system nobody's ever heard of in the middle of fucking nowhere read some extra spicy particles?"
Vraxh, for whatever reason, still won't understand the severity of the situation, despite me having explained it to him at least a hundred times over the past 2 weeks we've been travelling here.
"I have explained this to you half a dozen times Vraxh, if you pester me about this decision one more time I will eject the rest of your belongings into space!"
To be honest, I haven't been particularly kind to him either. He kept bugging me with intentionally annoying overexaggerated questions over the 2 weeks we've been travelling here, so while he was in the bathroom, I ejected the bed in his room into the vacuum of space. While he wasn't amused, I found it incredibly funny.
"Okayy, fuck! Fine.."
Maybe I'll have even garnered his false support when the aristocrats in the Advisory Council wonder what I'm doing there.
Me and Vraxh right behind me walked up to the meetings desk. Behind the desk, is a short and relatively aged Andzakian in the uniform worn by imperial servants. He is looking at his holopad, appearing to have not noticed the two borderworlders at the desk. I attempted to grab his attention.
"Hello, sir?"
The imperial servant didn't appear to be surprised, and just looked up at the two with a condescending glare, confirming that he did infact know they were there, and just didn't pay any attention.
"Imperial Advisory Council case #1,714?"
He said the words sharply, as if he had already thought of them hours in advance.
"Yes, sir. A gamma ray disturbance in syste-"
"I don't care. Wait in the lobby, when you are called, arrive on time."
The servant interrupted me rudely, before pointing at a sitting area in the lobby.
I walked over to the lobby and sat down, with Vraxh reluctantly following me. After half an hour of awkwardly silent waiting, the loudspeaker in the lobby called,
"Uljjak Kaserkor and Vraxh Huljukrj, attend conference chamber C-1 immediately."
I immediately got up pulling Vraxh with me, before hastily making my way over to the conference chamber.
The guards at the door opened the heavy chamber doors with a loud thunk.
Sitting in the furthest conference seat was- god damn it, I shouldn't have come!
Sitting in the fanciest conference seat of them all, was Councillor Dlirij, with the biggest shit-eating grin I've ever seen.
"Deputy Governor Uljjak Kaserkor. What matters do you disturb the Advisory Council with this time?" Dlirij said, in generic aristocratic government drone.
I steeled myself with my own government training, before responding through nearly clenched teeth,
"Councillor Dlirij, thank you for coming to address my meeting."
Saying it was my meeting whilst also not using the formal address style was something I knew would piss Dlirij off, but thankfully he couldn't do anything about it according to the formal rules of the palace.
Indeed, Dlirij's grin reduced and he just looked me in the eyes, before saying,
"Deputy Governor, get straight to the point. What do you have to show me?"
I laid out a briefcase on the table, opening it and beginning to explain.
"3 weeks ago, an intense gamma event occured in the uninhabited system [UAG-2113], 3,679 light-years from the Homeworld."
I took a deep breath.
"As you would know as a Councillor, Councillor Dlirij, gamma-intense events in this fashion nearly always signal the activation of a superluminal weapon, legally considered an ultraintense weapon by the Interstellar Accords and thus prohibited for any Interstellar State to possess them aside from the Andzak Empire, the Union of Galactic Republics, and the Ksirlok Dependency."
I paused.
"I am requesting an Advisory Council initiated investigation into what caused the disturbance. If this is not achieved, it could be greatly threatening to the order in the Galaxy."
I then handed Dlirij the papers, which he started to look through.
In the silence while Dlirij looked through the papers, Vraxh had said nothing. I gave him a subtle glare for him to contribute, which he did. He reluctantly said, without thought,
"Councillor Dlirij, the Military Consulate will be the next to be contacted, if we do not succeed here."
I was not pleased with what Vraxh had said. He tried to challenge the Councillor's authority with a threat to go to the military establishment if we got nowhere here. I opted to remain silent though.
Dlirij looked at Vraxh with a glare of anger, before looking back down at the papers.
A few more awkward minutes passed, before Dlirij passed the papers back to me.
"So, you spend 2 weeks travelling to the Imperial Homeworld and the most honourable palaces of the Empire, with your little sidekick, just to bother me, Hasjaxhar Dlirij, with gamma radiation readings from one isolated buoy, nevertheless in the Centauran Reserves, where it has been proven by the Imperial Surveying Authority that there is no intelligent life?"
Dlirij's hand moved underneath the table.
"Councillor Dlirij, I believe you are mistaken by what I have given an explained to you, please-"
At this moment the guards burst through the door, before knocking us both out with the butt of their plasma rifles.
...
"A weapon that breaks the laws of the universe, a weapon that propels an object at thousands of times the speed of light, before dropping it back into realspace just before it hits its target. A weapon that, prior to today, the distant enemies of humanity cannot have dreamed of. A weapon that has just obliterated the Wolf 359 star system. Due to the ingenuity of our technology, not only do we get to witness the flash of our excellence, but we can also observe from this distance with our electronics intact!"
"Today, from this date, humanity is not only indivisible, but invincible! We, led forwards by the State, shall never be destroyed by those distant in the void, and our Black Banner shall soon fly on every planet in the Milky Way!"
The crowd cheered.
From my position, it looked fairly typical for a propaganda gathering. Soldiers surrounding the speaking Party official on a tall podium, with the Black Banner of the Almighty Celestial State flying calmly but sternly in the wind. Mounted to structures surrounding the gathering area are various slogans of the Celestial State, among them "HUMANITY INDIVISIBLE" and "THE STARS ARE OURS".
Truth be told, I am not an avid supporter of the ideology or the State. I come from a rural background in the middle of nowhere in North America, and have only joined the Armed Forces because the Party Militia showed up for their quota of soldiers.
In the State, all jobs are connected to, and thus in support, of the Armed Forces. While I was perfectly happy to continue living a solitary life with my family in rural America, I honestly didn't have much choice, and so here I am.
After the gathering, we are told to go back to our barracks and thus be assigned roles by the commanding officer.
I come through the door, and am immediately escorted to the commanding officer with two elite Party Militia members to my side.
"Soldier #7,487,782,311. Due to demand, you are being changed from Military Communications to Reconnaissance starting immediately. You will be transported to the Orbital Station, before boarding a Javelin class reconnaissance ship. The ship will not set sail into the void immediately, so the new crew can get accommodated."
"Got it, commissar. I will be ready in 5 minutes."
The commissar seemed to offer a pleasant nod, before stamping my identity card with the official Government stamp. It read,
"ALMIGHTY CELESTIAL STATE
#7,487,782,311
APPROVAL TO LEAVE THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT
ISSUED BY C.O. #2,349,522 - IF DISCREPANT CONTACT NUMBER ON SLIP"
I packed all of my belongings into a state-issued carrying pack.
Looking at how many belongings I have, pretty much just my uniform and Communication Device made me reminiscent for a time I never lived. How was the world before the Revolution? According to my family, the world was far better before the Revolution. They even had food that they could buy from private individuals, and not just State rations, which I find hard to believe.
The Communications Device had a light next to it's camera that blinked red every few seconds. This was to indicate that the camera was actively recording and watching me. I decided to stop thinking treasonous thoughts, and finished folding and packing my uniform, before taking my carrying pack with me.
After leaving the barracks, I walk past a building with the Emblem of the Celestial State painted on one of the walls, with artistic sunrays surrounding it. There are soldiers saluting the emblem, surrounded by armed party militia, while reciting the pledge of loyalty. I continue walking between two barracks towards the rocket area.
This base is lucky specifically to have it's own dedicated orbital rocket area. If I was stationed out west, I'd likely have to spend hours in the back of a troop transport vehicle being driven to the nearest site.
After a few minutes of walking down the bleak path, I reach the rocket area. There are people queuing to get in the rockets, and I join the queue. All of the soldiers infront of me look at the very least uncomfortable, and some look terrified. While looking ahead of me, a place ahead of me I see a vaguely familiar face.
"Eight one four, do I recognise you?"
His eyes go wide, and he recognises me almost immediately.
You see, this is a childhood friend of mine. Was my neighbour, in the rural countryside and the absence of the state, fuck, even when some parts were controlled by the Resistance, we could play forbidden games from the pre-revolution world.
I moved away from him probably 4 or 5 years ago with my family, which ended up being a mistake. It was in a larger community where the Guards showed up and conscripted me alongside a number of my family members.
"Yes, yes! I recognise you! An-"
Without even thinking, I cover his mouth with my hand.
"Don't!"
His face goes white and he realises the mistake he was about to make, and thus addresses me the proper informal way.
"Seven four eight, how have you been?"
"I've been decent. Can't say too much to be honest. Just bumbled around trying to look for something to do. Then I ended up here. You know how that's like."
Eight four one chuckles.
"Yeah, I know how it is."
We both tried to avoid treasonous language, which prevented us from having a meaningful discussion. It was nice to catch up though.
The line slowly moves forwards. I am close enough to the entrance of the orbital craft to hear a commotion ahead involving my friend.
"Soldier #8,142,327,494! Present your identity documents!"
The Soldier ruffles through his carry pack looking for his identity documents, and after a while, finds them.
"Eight one four! These documents do not have the commissar stamp!"
Two militia members point their service rifles at my unfortunate friend. I am enraged and know what is about to happen, but there is nothing I can do. I look around and see the guardsmen in the guards building, as well as a few guards snipers in watchtowers above us.
I helplessly watch as a third guardsman knocks him to the ground with the butt of his rifle, before he is hand and leg cuffed and escorted away. New militiamen come out of the guards building to take up their positions. I just silently hang my head, performing a neutral expression.
I arrive at the front of the line.
"#7,487,782,311! Your permission slip!"
I feel for it in the pocket in my pants, as that's where I left it.
Except, my pocket is flat, with no identity documents, I frantically feel inside the pocket, and do not feel them.
My face goes white and it feels like my knees are about to give way.
I look inside my carry pack with the guard giving me an intense stare. I find my documents, and hand them to the guard. He checks and verifies them, and I am let past. While walking past the guard, I hear over my shoulder from the other guard,
"Seven four eight. Do not forget the location of your identity documents next time. You know the consequences."
I walk aboard the ship without holding up the line, and sit down in a cramped troop transport seat. It wouldn't matter, entering orbit only takes a few minutes.
I look out of the orbit craft door towards my friend being escorted away into the distance, he gives me one final, depressed look, before him and his escort round the corner.
After a few minutes, the last soldier in the line is boarded onto the ship, and a loudspeaker voice calls to the gathering area that the ships will be leaving.
The landing door closes and the ship shudders. Due to the lack of windows, I have no idea what is going on outside. I am pressed back and down into my seat, as the ship accelerates into the sky.
The acceleration gradually slows until I can only feel the shudder of the ship fighting the atmosphere as it leaves. Gradually, gravity weakens and I begin to feel no weight in my seat.
The guardsmen around me had tied my leg cuffs too tightly but were also forcing me to hurry up and walk at their speed.
As I am forced underneath the temporary holding shelter, my leg cuffs are cuffed to a support beam of the structure. The guards then walk into the commissar's office, while a guard in a watchtower keeps an eye on me.
I see the landing ship my friend is on slowly start hover into the sky. Blue plasma shoots out of its 4 engine ports. It stops increasing in altitude, turns around and rapidly accelerates. I see it shoot off into the distance with a vapor cone around it's tail. The extremely loud rumble of it's engines slowly gets quieter and quieter, until it disappears from view.
The guards return from the commissar's office.
Both with neutral steeled expressions return to the shelter. I am held down and injected with a needle, and my vision slowly fades to black.
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(Note, this story portrays the human side in a morally negative light. If you do not like that, then turn back now.)
ULJJAK KASERKOR, ANDZAKTAR, THE HOMEWORLD, ANDZAK EMPIRE, 11,772 A.C.Standing in the centre of the Andzak Governing District, in the heart of the Andzak Empire, is the Tree of Civilisation. While there is no direct translation into Human Standard, the meaning of the tree, including its name, stood for the long continuity of Andzak civilisation and the Andzak Empire.
Surrounding the tree were the marvellous palaces of the Imperial Government, the Imperial Advisory Council directly appointed by the emperor among them. The palaces were meant to be opulent and expensive, as if you were a lowly governor coming in from the Outer Provinces, the rows and rows of perfectly symmetric crystalline walls combined with the mirrors to allow the Andzak aristocracy to witness the superb influence of the Imperial Authorities.
Looking into those spotlessly clean mirrors was me, Deputy Governor Uljjak Kaserkor. According to Imperial audits of my activities, I am a "sub-par administrator, foreign to both the Andzak Empire and it's traditions, and the Andzak aristocracy" as Councillor Dlirij once said. In short, they've been looking for an excuse to exile me to a low-ranking advisory position on a third-band world out in the middle of nowhere.
And, as such, I am keeping this diary to myself, so in the event that Councillor Dlirij or one of his cronies tries to bring up charges against me, I am capable of fighting them effectively.
So, what am I doing, thousands of lightyears from my homeworld looking up at the Tree? I am here to report to the Advisory Council of an intense gamma-ray disturbance next to the uninhabited system of [UAG-2113]. Gamma ray disturbances of this scale usually mean the development and testing of superluminal weapons, which are severely restricted under the [Interstellar Accords].
Superluminal weapons are capable of obliterating entire solar systems if given enough energy. The most powerful superluminal weapon ever tested by the Andzak Empire vaporised 3 light-years of space, and fried every unprotected electronic within 117 light-years.
So this means it is understandable that the Empire might be concerned by yet another civilisation in hold of these excessively powerful weapons, especially if they don't know who has them, and they're being tested in the Centauran Reserves, an area that has barely been explored by the Empire due to the Centauran Pandemic a hundred years ago.
By my side, is the Military Advisor Vraxh Huljukrj. To be honest, we don't get along, and while I technically outrank him, stripping him of his rank would be an essential guarantee that the Regional Military Consul would be pissed. Vraxh has gotten into the Armed Forces through nepotism with the Consul.
"So you're bothering the Advisory Council with third-world bullshit just because one sensor buoy near a system nobody's ever heard of in the middle of fucking nowhere read some extra spicy particles?"
Vraxh, for whatever reason, still won't understand the severity of the situation, despite me having explained it to him at least a hundred times over the past 2 weeks we've been travelling here.
"I have explained this to you half a dozen times Vraxh, if you pester me about this decision one more time I will eject the rest of your belongings into space!"
To be honest, I haven't been particularly kind to him either. He kept bugging me with intentionally annoying overexaggerated questions over the 2 weeks we've been travelling here, so while he was in the bathroom, I ejected the bed in his room into the vacuum of space. While he wasn't amused, I found it incredibly funny.
"Okayy, fuck! Fine.."
Maybe I'll have even garnered his false support when the aristocrats in the Advisory Council wonder what I'm doing there.
Me and Vraxh right behind me walked up to the meetings desk. Behind the desk, is a short and relatively aged Andzakian in the uniform worn by imperial servants. He is looking at his holopad, appearing to have not noticed the two borderworlders at the desk. I attempted to grab his attention.
"Hello, sir?"
The imperial servant didn't appear to be surprised, and just looked up at the two with a condescending glare, confirming that he did infact know they were there, and just didn't pay any attention.
"Imperial Advisory Council case #1,714?"
He said the words sharply, as if he had already thought of them hours in advance.
"Yes, sir. A gamma ray disturbance in syste-"
"I don't care. Wait in the lobby, when you are called, arrive on time."
The servant interrupted me rudely, before pointing at a sitting area in the lobby.
I walked over to the lobby and sat down, with Vraxh reluctantly following me. After half an hour of awkwardly silent waiting, the loudspeaker in the lobby called,
"Uljjak Kaserkor and Vraxh Huljukrj, attend conference chamber C-1 immediately."
I immediately got up pulling Vraxh with me, before hastily making my way over to the conference chamber.
The guards at the door opened the heavy chamber doors with a loud thunk.
Sitting in the furthest conference seat was- god damn it, I shouldn't have come!
Sitting in the fanciest conference seat of them all, was Councillor Dlirij, with the biggest shit-eating grin I've ever seen.
"Deputy Governor Uljjak Kaserkor. What matters do you disturb the Advisory Council with this time?" Dlirij said, in generic aristocratic government drone.
I steeled myself with my own government training, before responding through nearly clenched teeth,
"Councillor Dlirij, thank you for coming to address my meeting."
Saying it was my meeting whilst also not using the formal address style was something I knew would piss Dlirij off, but thankfully he couldn't do anything about it according to the formal rules of the palace.
Indeed, Dlirij's grin reduced and he just looked me in the eyes, before saying,
"Deputy Governor, get straight to the point. What do you have to show me?"
I laid out a briefcase on the table, opening it and beginning to explain.
"3 weeks ago, an intense gamma event occured in the uninhabited system [UAG-2113], 3,679 light-years from the Homeworld."
I took a deep breath.
"As you would know as a Councillor, Councillor Dlirij, gamma-intense events in this fashion nearly always signal the activation of a superluminal weapon, legally considered an ultraintense weapon by the Interstellar Accords and thus prohibited for any Interstellar State to possess them aside from the Andzak Empire, the Union of Galactic Republics, and the Ksirlok Dependency."
I paused.
"I am requesting an Advisory Council initiated investigation into what caused the disturbance. If this is not achieved, it could be greatly threatening to the order in the Galaxy."
I then handed Dlirij the papers, which he started to look through.
In the silence while Dlirij looked through the papers, Vraxh had said nothing. I gave him a subtle glare for him to contribute, which he did. He reluctantly said, without thought,
"Councillor Dlirij, the Military Consulate will be the next to be contacted, if we do not succeed here."
I was not pleased with what Vraxh had said. He tried to challenge the Councillor's authority with a threat to go to the military establishment if we got nowhere here. I opted to remain silent though.
Dlirij looked at Vraxh with a glare of anger, before looking back down at the papers.
A few more awkward minutes passed, before Dlirij passed the papers back to me.
"So, you spend 2 weeks travelling to the Imperial Homeworld and the most honourable palaces of the Empire, with your little sidekick, just to bother me, Hasjaxhar Dlirij, with gamma radiation readings from one isolated buoy, nevertheless in the Centauran Reserves, where it has been proven by the Imperial Surveying Authority that there is no intelligent life?"
Dlirij's hand moved underneath the table.
"Councillor Dlirij, I believe you are mistaken by what I have given an explained to you, please-"
At this moment the guards burst through the door, before knocking us both out with the butt of their plasma rifles.
...
SEVEN FOUR EIGHT, NEW YORK CITY, TERRA, ALMIGHTY CELESTIAL STATE, 147 A.R."...Comrades! On this date, July 16th, 147 years since the Revolution, humanity has taken yet another great leap under the leadership of the State. On this day, we have successfully detonated a superluminal weapon."
"A weapon that breaks the laws of the universe, a weapon that propels an object at thousands of times the speed of light, before dropping it back into realspace just before it hits its target. A weapon that, prior to today, the distant enemies of humanity cannot have dreamed of. A weapon that has just obliterated the Wolf 359 star system. Due to the ingenuity of our technology, not only do we get to witness the flash of our excellence, but we can also observe from this distance with our electronics intact!"
"Today, from this date, humanity is not only indivisible, but invincible! We, led forwards by the State, shall never be destroyed by those distant in the void, and our Black Banner shall soon fly on every planet in the Milky Way!"
The crowd cheered.
From my position, it looked fairly typical for a propaganda gathering. Soldiers surrounding the speaking Party official on a tall podium, with the Black Banner of the Almighty Celestial State flying calmly but sternly in the wind. Mounted to structures surrounding the gathering area are various slogans of the Celestial State, among them "HUMANITY INDIVISIBLE" and "THE STARS ARE OURS".
Truth be told, I am not an avid supporter of the ideology or the State. I come from a rural background in the middle of nowhere in North America, and have only joined the Armed Forces because the Party Militia showed up for their quota of soldiers.
In the State, all jobs are connected to, and thus in support, of the Armed Forces. While I was perfectly happy to continue living a solitary life with my family in rural America, I honestly didn't have much choice, and so here I am.
After the gathering, we are told to go back to our barracks and thus be assigned roles by the commanding officer.
I come through the door, and am immediately escorted to the commanding officer with two elite Party Militia members to my side.
"Soldier #7,487,782,311. Due to demand, you are being changed from Military Communications to Reconnaissance starting immediately. You will be transported to the Orbital Station, before boarding a Javelin class reconnaissance ship. The ship will not set sail into the void immediately, so the new crew can get accommodated."
"Got it, commissar. I will be ready in 5 minutes."
The commissar seemed to offer a pleasant nod, before stamping my identity card with the official Government stamp. It read,
"ALMIGHTY CELESTIAL STATE
#7,487,782,311
APPROVAL TO LEAVE THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT
ISSUED BY C.O. #2,349,522 - IF DISCREPANT CONTACT NUMBER ON SLIP"
I packed all of my belongings into a state-issued carrying pack.
Looking at how many belongings I have, pretty much just my uniform and Communication Device made me reminiscent for a time I never lived. How was the world before the Revolution? According to my family, the world was far better before the Revolution. They even had food that they could buy from private individuals, and not just State rations, which I find hard to believe.
The Communications Device had a light next to it's camera that blinked red every few seconds. This was to indicate that the camera was actively recording and watching me. I decided to stop thinking treasonous thoughts, and finished folding and packing my uniform, before taking my carrying pack with me.
After leaving the barracks, I walk past a building with the Emblem of the Celestial State painted on one of the walls, with artistic sunrays surrounding it. There are soldiers saluting the emblem, surrounded by armed party militia, while reciting the pledge of loyalty. I continue walking between two barracks towards the rocket area.
This base is lucky specifically to have it's own dedicated orbital rocket area. If I was stationed out west, I'd likely have to spend hours in the back of a troop transport vehicle being driven to the nearest site.
After a few minutes of walking down the bleak path, I reach the rocket area. There are people queuing to get in the rockets, and I join the queue. All of the soldiers infront of me look at the very least uncomfortable, and some look terrified. While looking ahead of me, a place ahead of me I see a vaguely familiar face.
"Eight one four, do I recognise you?"
His eyes go wide, and he recognises me almost immediately.
You see, this is a childhood friend of mine. Was my neighbour, in the rural countryside and the absence of the state, fuck, even when some parts were controlled by the Resistance, we could play forbidden games from the pre-revolution world.
I moved away from him probably 4 or 5 years ago with my family, which ended up being a mistake. It was in a larger community where the Guards showed up and conscripted me alongside a number of my family members.
"Yes, yes! I recognise you! An-"
Without even thinking, I cover his mouth with my hand.
"Don't!"
His face goes white and he realises the mistake he was about to make, and thus addresses me the proper informal way.
"Seven four eight, how have you been?"
"I've been decent. Can't say too much to be honest. Just bumbled around trying to look for something to do. Then I ended up here. You know how that's like."
Eight four one chuckles.
"Yeah, I know how it is."
We both tried to avoid treasonous language, which prevented us from having a meaningful discussion. It was nice to catch up though.
The line slowly moves forwards. I am close enough to the entrance of the orbital craft to hear a commotion ahead involving my friend.
"Soldier #8,142,327,494! Present your identity documents!"
The Soldier ruffles through his carry pack looking for his identity documents, and after a while, finds them.
"Eight one four! These documents do not have the commissar stamp!"
Two militia members point their service rifles at my unfortunate friend. I am enraged and know what is about to happen, but there is nothing I can do. I look around and see the guardsmen in the guards building, as well as a few guards snipers in watchtowers above us.
I helplessly watch as a third guardsman knocks him to the ground with the butt of his rifle, before he is hand and leg cuffed and escorted away. New militiamen come out of the guards building to take up their positions. I just silently hang my head, performing a neutral expression.
I arrive at the front of the line.
"#7,487,782,311! Your permission slip!"
I feel for it in the pocket in my pants, as that's where I left it.
Except, my pocket is flat, with no identity documents, I frantically feel inside the pocket, and do not feel them.
My face goes white and it feels like my knees are about to give way.
I look inside my carry pack with the guard giving me an intense stare. I find my documents, and hand them to the guard. He checks and verifies them, and I am let past. While walking past the guard, I hear over my shoulder from the other guard,
"Seven four eight. Do not forget the location of your identity documents next time. You know the consequences."
I walk aboard the ship without holding up the line, and sit down in a cramped troop transport seat. It wouldn't matter, entering orbit only takes a few minutes.
I look out of the orbit craft door towards my friend being escorted away into the distance, he gives me one final, depressed look, before him and his escort round the corner.
After a few minutes, the last soldier in the line is boarded onto the ship, and a loudspeaker voice calls to the gathering area that the ships will be leaving.
The landing door closes and the ship shudders. Due to the lack of windows, I have no idea what is going on outside. I am pressed back and down into my seat, as the ship accelerates into the sky.
The acceleration gradually slows until I can only feel the shudder of the ship fighting the atmosphere as it leaves. Gradually, gravity weakens and I begin to feel no weight in my seat.
EIGHT ONE FOUR, NEW YORK CITY, TERRA, ALMIGHTY CELESTIAL STATE, 147 A.R.As I round the corner, I see my friend's look on his face. Steeled sadness. I appreciated it in a world of no emotion.
The guardsmen around me had tied my leg cuffs too tightly but were also forcing me to hurry up and walk at their speed.
As I am forced underneath the temporary holding shelter, my leg cuffs are cuffed to a support beam of the structure. The guards then walk into the commissar's office, while a guard in a watchtower keeps an eye on me.
I see the landing ship my friend is on slowly start hover into the sky. Blue plasma shoots out of its 4 engine ports. It stops increasing in altitude, turns around and rapidly accelerates. I see it shoot off into the distance with a vapor cone around it's tail. The extremely loud rumble of it's engines slowly gets quieter and quieter, until it disappears from view.
The guards return from the commissar's office.
Both with neutral steeled expressions return to the shelter. I am held down and injected with a needle, and my vision slowly fades to black.