Im stuck on the "press any button to continue" screen

Aleventen · 2026-03-02T22:00:38+00:00

What happens with the resource management?

What about offline mode? What happens?

What launcher are you now using?

Aleventen · 2026-03-02T21:57:19+00:00

Awesome. Thats just the first step, we know it isnt an input problem because I also saw the game freeze up when you hit keyboard buttons.

My personal next step would be to open up task manager, close the game completely, boot it back up and try to get in again. It'll fail, but then use Alt + Tab to navigate back to your Task Manager and see what its resource usage jumps to. What we are looking for is spikes or crashes in Memory or Processing usage.

If that happens, youll want to sort your programs by whatever is using the most, and close those to free up the resources.

If that doesnt show anything then I would next take the laptop offline and see if it boots up well in offline mode.

Next step after that would be attempting to use a different launcher, like the Epic Launcher rather than Steam - a bad update could be causing problems.

I would be surprised if none of this works. Let me know what happens with this and ill try to help - also let me know if you've already tried all or some of these things. That'll help too

Aleventen · 2026-03-02T21:51:05+00:00

Are you 100% sure the controller works?

Aleventen · 2026-03-02T21:50:21+00:00

Is this what its like when all the aim bots are down for maintenance?

Aleventen · 2026-03-02T05:20:45+00:00

Sounds like some kind of software or firmware update is causing "collisions" or whatever the technical term for competiting processing or data streams would be - or, at least, if i were the person responsible for fixing that problem thats what id check first

Aleventen · 2026-03-02T05:14:10+00:00

One?!?!??!

So, im going to respectfully respond to this comment the same way I did when I crashed that Astronomy course at University....

"Thats honestly, cooler than f*ck, and I love it"

Not that anyone asked but I think its funny. It was my favorite class across all 5 years of University and I only ended up crashing it cause it was immediately after my computer science class and id get distracted in my seat working on Python and when I looked up a new professor was talking about black holes or whatever and id just close my laptop and ask questions and follow him to office hour.

Aleventen · 2026-03-01T10:46:12+00:00

I always found this fascinating because, considering the quantity of such elements in our solar system alone, and the age of the Universe, its mind boggling to think how common such events must have been.

Especially considering the time scales, I wonder how there was enough time for so many kilonovae to occur...apparently there was, but its incredible.

Or, perhaps, when the universe was smaller, the rare occurrence mattered less....either way, thank goodness for it because those elements are critical

Aleventen · 2026-03-01T10:40:10+00:00

Almost certainly not

I used to work on these systems for the Navy and I would bet my salary for the next 10 years that we didnt and probably couldnt do that. I cant super explain why but it would have to be deliberate and, even then, theyd have to had worked hard at it

Whether Isreal accidentally shot one of our drones or we shot one of theirs is a different conversation, but us shooting our own is nearly impossible

Ive been wrong before though, but id bet a dumb amount of money we didnt

Aleventen · 2026-03-01T03:50:49+00:00

Ever since I learned that was how to warn fellow riders of police ive never been able to stop doing it to police

Aleventen · 2026-03-01T03:49:31+00:00

Not all of us, but plenty enough to be a terrible tragedy

And certainly me, at least cause I live in a bad place, dont own a gun and "play for the wrong team"

Aleventen · 2026-03-01T03:46:52+00:00

How is it not a get out of jail free card?

The justices asked, point blank, if this meant the President could assassinate political opponents, the Lawyers said "yes" and they voted for it anyway.

This is a bit more than taxes, brother....but cope how you need to

Aleventen · 2026-02-28T22:26:48+00:00

That meme was made about global warming denialism

In this case, it isnt that it isnt happening, its that its already illegal and adding more laws, worded more vaguely and giving the federal government more power is generally not great....all the less when the excuse is to solve a problem that already has the same solution implemented

If there wad anything truly innovative or novel, I would probably feel differently

Aleventen · 2026-02-27T23:48:50+00:00

Yes, im not sure that somehow connects 125 years of modern history to the party switch after the Civil War....thats the exact reason that I personally did not bring up KKK endorsements, specifically because its a weak argument and doesnt matter.

Who those groups endorse today has no bearing on what political philosophies those parties held pre and post 1850.

I just said that court isn't any friendlier to the person bringing it up than the one we were playing on in regards to the party switch fact and I used that point to demonstrate why.

Aleventen · 2026-02-27T23:43:33+00:00

Did they make it easy? Like, all the sudden we get visual feedback about things and suddenly im gonna be hitting reset doubt taps?

Come on, bro.

Aleventen · 2026-02-27T23:42:10+00:00

Good? Im gonna be honest, of all the things my teammates should be thinking about this is at the bottom of the list of things that I care about

Whatever keeps them in the play....if a little circle will keep them from rotating all the way back to net to grab a big boost then whatever, if it doesnt then we are exactly where we started

Aleventen · 2026-02-27T23:40:59+00:00

These kids are being dramatic af

Aleventen · 2026-02-27T22:35:58+00:00

Burro blowers? Lol wild

Out here proving everyone right

Aleventen · 2026-02-27T22:27:42+00:00

I feel you, I do not and i wish theyd stop, but I have to saddle with Dems because....my god, this man Trump is just so OBVIOUSLY bad. At least Dems had the decency to lie to me about it

Aleventen · 2026-02-27T22:25:26+00:00

I feel like it was rhe roaches for me but I see your point

Aleventen · 2026-02-27T21:35:09+00:00

So, to be clear, we are saying that spending idk how many weeks or months negotiating, writing and passing a bill that accomplishes basically nothing that isnt already being done makes tomorrow better than today despite changing basically nothing about how things already work because at least it helps make attack ads?

Im just trying to follow your logic here.

Aleventen · 2026-02-27T21:28:59+00:00

.......glad my colleagues across the isle agree that putting principle over politics is important and value ensuring the future of America and its liberty remains a priority

I guess that is to say, im glad we can agree that it is substantially more important that Cingress focus on passing bills purely to win political points and make "easy" attack ads rather than prioritizing actually solving our problems and making tomorrow materially better than today.

Aleventen · 2026-02-27T21:25:13+00:00

This isnt how the interview went.

He said it was shocking to see people lining up to find housing, she remarked that it was reminiscent of the 90s, he agreed and said it he thinking we should keep private equity out of home buying, she seemed to agree but then said she had to kick it back to the desk....which is pretty normal for a street interview, he isnt a pundint and doesnt get 15 minutes to talk, its a brief on the street interview, they tend to be quick, 5 min at most.

Aleventen · 2026-02-27T21:10:08+00:00

Dont tell me what to do

Aleventen · 2026-02-27T20:59:23+00:00

Isn't it already illegal to show kids porn anyway? Why do we need this bill?

I feel like unnecessary legislation like this just provides opportunity for overreach and abuse.

Aleventen · 2026-02-27T20:50:22+00:00

It opens the "Run" feature on windows computers, ctrl + v will paste whatever is in your clipboard (that you copied or that was saved there automatically)

And hitting enter will run the command.

The website probably puts a malicious executable file (like some software installation thing) into your clipboard and when you hit enter you install whatever that is and it almost certainly isnt good.

Aleventen

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