Online real life army games

Spent the weekend doing some grinding for credits. No lag in the game. No lag until the moment I wanna shoot someone. Then their plane just teleports to a different place.
Never witnessed such consistent wizardry in my life

Green Lantern Horror Game:
I've been digging into the different Lantern Corps from the DC comics and thought a few of them could make for a decent cosmic horror game. For those who don't know, Lantern Corps are groups of intergalactic organizations that have power rings, and these rings give the wearer powers such as flight, energy manipulation, telekinesis, super speed, and many others. But most of these rings are powered by emotions, and the wearer must have a strong connection to the emotion that powers the ring to be a bearer. The main Corps are:

1. Violet: Love.
   
2. Red: Rage.
   
3. Yellow: Fear.
   
4. Orange: Averice.
   
5. Blue: Hope.
   
6. Indigo: Compassion.
   
7. Green: Willpower.
   
8. Ultraviolet: Shame.
   
9. Black: Death.
   
10. White: Life.
    

EDIT: I'm just realizing I left out some important information about what's required to join three of these Lantern Corps, which I'm gonna clear up now. For the Black Lanterns, a person must have one of three traits to qualify. One is being being dead, one is having come back from the dead, and one is being obsessed with the idea of death itself. For the White Lanterns, a person must have Devine power or be the someone who "lives life to the fullest." For Indigo, a person must either have a great deal of compassion in their hearts, or have none at all. For the former, the ring will function just as you'd expect. For the latter, the ring will alter their mindset and increase their empathy.
Now, for fairly obvious reasons, I don't think all the Corps I mention above would be fitting for the tone of a horror game, especially as antagonistic forces, but I think a select few like Rage, Fear, Avarice and Death have a decent level of potential. This probably won't ever happen, but if it ever did, how would you like to see the game executed? What type of style and gameplay mechanics would be the most fitting choice for a project like this?

Fellow Supercitizens and compatriots,
We have finally been shown was what hidden under Cybertstan's liberty-forsaken crust. The Automaton re-gained control of the most vile and undemocratic weapon in all history: the Supreme Organization of Narcissistic Yield (S.O.N.Y.). This shadow organization's only goal is to decrease the number of Helldivers available and spread dissent on Super Earth.
The Automatons' massive fleet was just a distraction to sneak their operatives on our Capital. They tricked the Super Earth Government into installing a Public Service Network (P.S.N.) onto all Super Destroyers to "Improve safety". But we all know that the P.S.N.'s true purpose is to provide all of our troops' movement to the Automatons.
This cannot happen. If the P.S.N. is installed, we can say farewell to our Freedom, our Democracy, our Super-Earth. Prototype Super Destroyers have already been equipped with it, and were all intercepted and destroyed by the Automatons before they could arrive at their destination.
We cannot afford to lose more men. The solution is only one: retreat to the home front.
Defend the community we fought so hard to establish.
Keep spreading our way of life to less-liberated friends and family.
Keep our culture alive.
And democratically show the Super Earth Government that they have been tricked into a huge mistake.
Once the S.O.N.Y. has been eradicated, we will be able to take back both fronts, and usher a new era of freedom to the Galaxy.
TLDR: stop playing the game, get a refund if you must, but keep posting memes, discuss possible future Major Orders and events, and keep the community strong until EVERY Helldiver can join the fight again. Only this way we can show Sony how much they're losing by forcing the PSN on us. But if we all go our separate ways, it will show Sony that we weren't worth it.
We Dive Together, or We Don't Dive.
Credit to future Minister of Truth u/Ace_Larrakin for the amazing poster!

Say you have a former internet friend who you enjoyed talking to in the past, but who started to engage in repeated boundary violations. They would send messages that you felt were too strongly-worded for an internet friendship, and they also sent messages too often. The last time the two of you have a back-and-forth, it becomes heated, and he breaks off the conversation in an abrupt and dismissive tone. After four months of them on-and-off attempting to reconcile, despite you making it fairly clear that you didn't want to talk, you ultimately decided to block them on the main platform where the two of you had kept in touch. A couple years go by, and then suddenly you receive this message as if from nowhere, sent on a different online platform:

I thought it might help if I explained a few things. Please hear me out, just this one time. The ball will be in your court from now on—I promise.
So... this is not something I normally like to tell people, but here I think it will add important context: I'm neurodivergent. (I can be more specific if need be.) Part of what I have is that I'm so sensitive to rejection, I'll perceive it even when it isn't there. For example, I sometimes randomly get this notion that a friend is going to abandon me. It comes out of nowhere and is almost never true, yet it feels so real. I become desperate for anything to help lose that feeling. In the past, I've compulsively messaged, commented, love-bombed—all in the hopes of being reassured that I'm not unwanted. But it never worked. Even if the response was positive, I never stayed convinced for long. I've ruined many friendships over the years with these tendencies. I had learned to control them, but from mid-late 2021 until around mid-2022 I was in... kind of a bad way. I fell back into a lot of old habits.
I don't know if it means anything at this point, but I am genuinely sorry for everything I've put you through, especially for the way I treated you during our last exchange. I wasn't upset or anything, I just felt that I needed to disengage before I said something truly erratic. Looking back, I still feel sad to think about how everything transpired. I honestly believed that we were becoming closer friends, and I had wanted to ask if you would be up for a video chat sometime, or maybe even meeting me in person someday. For what it's worth, I’m doing a lot better these days than I was at the time—but I know that doesn't undo all that happened, no matter how much I wish it could.
That's all I wanted to say. I’m not expecting anything to come of this, but I hope you can forgive me.
~ [Their Name]

How would you respond to this?

I was fine. I was sad and depressy for awhile. I didnt feel excited or happy like before. But I was ok with it. Accepted everything. After idk how many weeks or months. DM always reaches subliminally through social media using words like love and songs that say love...in this plausible deniability way that I just soak up. Then I put myself out there and actually reach out. I make the move and he acts like it's only about sex but then sprinkles in, "I don't think I'll ever not feel these feelings for you." Or, "you give me life more than anyone does" or says just the most romantic sweet "I feel love" type of things and then...poof. Ghosts. Saying he's scared. Continuously. Quicker and quicker. For over a year now.
It just happened again and I'm hurting. I thought I was really over wanting it all to happen and that I was fully accepting of his comings and goings. But I'm not. I'm not. I think I just..let myself get excited for literally a full 24 hours and then poof and I was left feeling like I must have said the wrong things. Did I act too cool and cold? Because my gosh there's so much love here. But I'm also realistic I mean come on. Or did I lower myself too much by not wanting commitment before we've even seen each other?! Seriously. I just...I hate this. If this concept is really real and he can feel my pain then I'm sending it all to him with everything I have. I want him to know what he does. I want him to hurt. He can't be the only one who gets to go around using my heart and mind like it's a validation playground over and over and over with no repercussions. Now, there's some freakin shadow work haha Screw all of this. I hate it. I love it and I just hate it. Feel it. All those tears. All those knots. All that heartache. Screw. You. You mindf. And usually I'd read things like this and think to myself "oh well there's where you are going wrong. You're thinking all wrong. You're supposed to love and accept him as is and know that you don't need a happy 3d outcome. It's not about him it's about you. Thinking hatefully will just put you further away from being the healed higher vibration person you want to become." But guys...I think I need a moment of hate. I just do. Is that ok? I hope it's ok. I need a hug someone I'm so sad.

I'm 28F and partner is 27M, we both decided to head to University to get our degrees this year to better ourselves and our furtures. We are financially stable. I mean, were not rich, but we don't have debt and have wiggle room in our budget.
I'll be 32 when I graduate.
This is where I'm really on the fence right now. I'll graduate, and then have only two years to start a career, before needing time off for baby let alone if the pregnancy isn't great and I need time off there too. I'm adamant I don't want a geriatric pregnancy.
But, I WANT a career, I WANT to build that side of my life once I graduate. So if we are going to, now makes more sense.
We are both studying, and working part time. We can spend time as family more now while little one grows too. I could also breast feed (if possible) for longer as I have breaks between classes etc.
We'd try to time it so they are born just after exams so we have three months to settle in as a family before studies continue. Baby is allowed on campus anywhere that food and drink is allowed and my partner is doing engineering, so has no issues taking them to tutorial / lectures and most of my classes I can take them as well if needed.
By the time I graduate, they'll start pre-prep and then school the year after, so I won't need as much flexibility with a new job / building a career as per prep still has 10 hour day care options.
We are also talking about moving international after we graduate and I feel like I'd rather give birth in my home country than overseas as another side note. It would time it well for them starting a new school in a new country at the beginning too.
But, what are the benefits to being child free? I think I'd regret NOT having one, more than the chance of regretting having one.
Just looking for some pros and cons. I think my biggest fear is how my relationship will change. I fear I'll miss what we had and not like the new adaption. I love spending time with my partner. I love playing video games with him. But I also love being outdoors, currently loving indoor bouldering, and so many of my other activities... I don't think it's impossible or difficult to bring a little one with, particularly as a team with my partner e.g. board game nights.
We also have a really good support network but we are the oldest out of our friend group. So by the time they have kids, there could be a 5-6 year age gap. Should we wait and have them all raised together? But if we move international that's a mute point.
If we don't do it now, I feel like once we graduate, we just wouldn't. We'd travel internationally, chase work and jobs, and just do what we want. So either we get off the fence and have a baby (trying January -April next year) or we get off the fence and don't have one at all.
I think I would be okay either way, in the sense that I love small humans, but I don't get my life satisfaction from the desire to be a parental figure. So I really could go either way which makes it difficult.
The other benefit of having a baby now is that our income potential only increases from now, it doesn't get reduced to have a baby which is nice.
Any advice or thoughts?

Because our shape is so rarely recognised or mentioned, I thought I'd start a master list of resources for the figure 8. If you find any in the wild please comment and I'll add to the list. The list is only for resources specific to the figure 8 shape, not for complementary advice which is a lot easier to come by in general.
Inside Out Style
Inside Out Style: Body Shapes Explained -Figure 8 Shape
Inside Out Style: Real Life Body Shapes - 8
Lane Image Consulting: How To Dress A Figure of Eight Body Shape So It Looks Perfectly Balanced
7 Body Shapes: 8 Body Shape (Hip shelf)
(YouTube) Lexi Ladonna: What Are High Hips And How Do You Dress Them???
(TikTok) Figure 8 Body Shape
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Hey, I’m a high school senior graduating this month. I was interested in pursuing mechanical/aerospace engineering and have been accepted into a public ABET-credited university. I also already have 2 CAD certifications and have been focusing my life towards engineering. However, I have a boyfriend who is going to be a pilot and doesn’t think me going to college and him doing flight school will work out. He thinks I’ll be too busy studying and we’ll hardly see each other. He wants to live with me and I want to live with him too, but we don’t have jobs yet although we have been searching and applying to many. I have an interview with Lockheed Martin in 2 days though but have been considering cancelling it since it’s just an assembler position. He doesn’t think I should do that job anyways bc it’ll be a lot of physical work, but I’m also thinking it could help me get my foot in the door. He wants me to pursue digital marketing instead so I can stay home while he does flight training so we will be able to see each other more often and I’ll already be bringing in an income. I wouldn’t mind doing digital marketing, but part of me still wants to do engineering. But if I did engineering, I’m scared I won’t see him much and I also really don’t want to go to school for 4 years. I feel as if I didn’t go to college, I can just take online courses and earn certifications and do internships to help me gain experience in marketing or some other field. I was also thinking of just getting an online degree if anything, but I don’t know. I feel lost and don’t know what to do. Does anyone have advice?

My 16 yo is on this combo. 40mg Focalin XR + Buproprion 300mg. She’s been on this for a year and recently her anxiety has gone way up. She especially struggles with Social anxiety and it’s starting to get in the way of life stuff like college tours, joining clubs, & job interviews (like she doesn’t go). She’s an online student and is just about done but that has definitely made the anxiety worse because she is not around people other than family and a few friends very much. Wondering how to help. Trying to get her on board for therapy. Seeing good things about EMDR so maybe looking into that but I’m also wondering if this medicine combo is not working anymore or if it’s too much,too high or if we should replace one with anxiety meds. Thanks.

 I, 16 male, do not like communicating. It’s not because I’m bad at it, but rather I’m bad at it because I don’t like it. If I could just sit on the couch on my phone with somebody I cared about for a couple hours, that would be the best time of my life. I don’t like talking, I don’t like doing activities, I just like being in someone’s company. I have never met someone else like this besides my brother and he moved out two years ago. He visits like once every other week and those days are the best of my life. We will literally play 1-3 games of ping pong then just chill on the couch for like 3-5 hours. And it’s amazing. No talking, just being in each other’s company. I wish I had someone else like this. I don’t have friends. Nobody wants to be my friend because I never want to do anything. Everyone else would rather go and play basketball, go hang out a park, go eat out somewhere, and I don’t ever want to do any of that. Maybe occasionally but not very often. I’m truly lonely. And nobody believes me. I’ve started lying to my parents when I ask if I’m okay. Every time I try to talk to them about it all they say is go to a Therapist. Now I’m not saying that going to a therapist is bad, it’s just that they can’t change the fact that nobody wants to be my friend. It’s gotten to the point where I go to bed crying every night. Some nights I will just imagine that there is somebody sleeping with me or even just being with me. And it helps but I’m not sure if it’s good to give myself a false sense of not being lonely. I’m almost done with my sophomore year of high school. Looking back at my life I have had one true friend. Ever. And he moved across the country 5 years ago. I’m getting to that age where I’m going to be done with school soon. I’m going to move out soon. And then what? I will have nobody to keep me company. No friends, no parents, no siblings, and sure as hell not a girlfriend. And it’s all because I don’t like to do things. I just like to be in somebody’s company and nothing else. Please tell me that somebody else feels this way too. Because if you do, I might fall in love immediately. Because so far, in 16 years only my brother has ever understood how I feel. 

I used to fly RC planes and many people could make certain planes hover vertically, or hanging on the prop.
Can a very powerful and light aircraft hover like that?
If not, is it FAA safety thing, or real life safety thing?
I know that there isn't a need for a plane to do that thing, but could you?

Something I've been thinking about since reading Alice's first birthday letter, it's clear Orpheus went down to Melbourne and actually helped her escape but thinking about it now, how much influence did he have over her life after Melbourne?
Because Alice only recently came back to London and already she has a job as a journalist and a very nice apartment but being a test subject would render her with little to no job experience and little to no money as well, unless she somehow reclaimed her inheritance. On top of that her Deduction Stars read as someone observing her from a distance, still treating her like a test subject.
Did Orpheus have the connections necessary to pull things off so that Alice would be comfortable? I mean it's good she didn't have to choose a less savory means of income but her life may still not entirely be her own and that's scary to think about. In Orpheus mind, I'm sure he sees what he's doing as a good thing, now she just needs to remember him but if Alice figures it out, she won't see him leading her out of the Underworld like in the story. She'll see him the same as the doctors down in Melbourne, possibly even worse than them due to the Manor games.

Got 300 hours solo slooping under my belt and it'd be real nice to find some guilds to play with. Random crews are getting tiresome.
Any guilds out there? Any tips on finding guilds? Is signing up in game via the emote the only way of joining a guild?

This community has done nothing but be a toxic and anonymous source of constant drama over every aspect of this game.
There has been no level-headed responses only inflammatory posts, videos and now review bombing the game - even the first game which has nothing to do with this current issue.
Please take the time to think before you post. This is a game studio who is working with a publisher to sell a game. A game that is better than all the other games at caring about you, the player.
Challenges should be brought up, feedback given, but have some patience and understanding. This constant outrage is getting old and ruining the best chance we have at getting games like this in the future.
These are real people behind this. If you want to know why companies aren’t more transparent? It’s the low-brow attacks and lack of critical thinking being shown on this sub.
Be better.

So I (31M) have been seeing this girl (33F) for about a month now and I have super mixed feelings about the relationship. I will start by saying that I have really enjoyed all the time I spend with her and we have gotten along really really well. Our kids get along too, 9M and 7F for her and 7M and 2F for me. I think her kids are great too. My issue is that I have C-PTSD from past relationships surrounding abuse and infidelity. I realize that this probably will make me more vigilant and possibly paranoid do I am looking for outside advice. Here are the things that are bothering me:

• She still has dinner with her ex-husband and kids once or twice a week. She claims that she is doing it for the kids, but I don't see that as a healthy dynamic when the kids should be getting used to their parents being split. Also anytime he isn't going to her son's events I am invited to join, but if he is there I am not allowed as she says she doesn't want him to start shit with me. Her ex-husband was also very abusive to her and it makes me super nervous anytime she says she is around him. But the part that makes me unsure is that she is very open about when she is with him and generally is texting me most of the time.
  
• She has introduced me to her best friends and their spouses. She brought me to her best friend's birthday party and I have met her kids. Her kids adore the crap out of me. But she says that her parents are a no because they will judge her. I doubt she meant it this way, but it makes me feel like she sees something wrong about me that her parents wouldn't like. Her ex-husband was abusive emotionally, sexually, and verbally. I consider sexual abuse as a form of physical abuse (She doesn't. She claims he was abusive in every way except physically). If this is the person she married in front of her friends and family, what is so bad about me that I have to be sort of on the down low? She has made the odd comment about her mom probably liking me though, so I am lost.
  
• She talks about how mad her ex-husband makes her every day. Granted he does things like try and escape from his kid's soccer games when he is supposed to take them for the night, he has apparently propositioned her for sex despite him apparently seeing other women, and how he expects her to drive him around bc he lost his license to drinking and driving. I am not upset about her venting to me about the things that make her mad, I actually appreciate that she is comfortable enough to vent to me. My issue is that she seems to put herself back in those situations fairly regularly. I actually care about her and it kills me to see her so stressed out and even crying some days.
  

I am trying to be patient, understanding, non-judgmental, and to hear her out. I respect any boundaries she gives and I never push her on anything she has told me makes her uncomfortable or that she doesn't like/want. She told me right out the gate that her baby daddy is not completely out of her life bc of the kids (I totally get it as the same goes for my baby momma). However, I am starting to feel very self-conscious about where I stand with her and I am feeling like I might get blindsided, but I also have my head telling me that my history with women has left me distrustful of most people and that it is all in my head...... any advice or any takes on this? Am I on the side dude?

Friends to both chat, and game with on the regular!
Preferably 21+ with a mic.
I know in this life we are not everyone’s cup of tea, so if we don’t connect that’s fine, but at least we can we try!
That’s the main thing you know? We can’t give up on that search until we find our people!
I have Games Pass ultimate! I love co-op, and open world games! I’m open to trying anything once!
Right now I’m playing Sonic Frontiers, Saints Row Remake, and a few others!
My Gamertag is BaphometMom.
You’re more than welcome to message me on Xbox or here! I don’t have socials, but I’m open to getting discord again if I need to!
I respond better on Xbox! So if I’m a little slow on here I apologize!
Hope to hear from people soon! Have a lovely day and take care!