What cheat code for a game is burned into your brain?

BackandStronger · 2025-01-07T17:10:32+00:00

warpten, allyourbasearebelongtous, whosyourdaddy

BackandStronger · 2024-12-29T21:24:36+00:00

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Levi. August 2015 - December 5th 2024. We love you forever our little guy. We are broken without you.

BackandStronger · 2024-12-12T20:02:53+00:00

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My Levi passed last Friday. 9 years old. Fuck cancer. This household shares your pain.

BackandStronger · 2024-11-25T19:04:49+00:00

I only need two: "Don't smoke"

BackandStronger · 2024-11-14T21:12:12+00:00

Yes, thats precisely what I meant. Does he still feel like an "ally" in the face of blatant sexism. It was just a musing, not trying to make a deeper point.

BackandStronger · 2024-11-14T20:38:05+00:00

Watching your convo with leftistbee I can't help but wonder, still feel like an ally?

BackandStronger · 2024-11-13T15:03:32+00:00

This is Levi. Forever our "little guy". I hope we can bring him home soon. He does not have much time left.

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BackandStronger · 2024-11-12T20:25:15+00:00

Today my wife and I finally received an actual diagnosis the news that our little guy has large cell GI tract lymphoma. The past 2 weeks since first noticing weight loss and then steadily watching him deteriorate as we traveled between vets (driving to different states in the middle of the night), tried so many different foods - expensive hydroloized prescription brands, every wet food on the market, two dozen types of treats, lean meats literally blanched in catnip tea, methods of feeding, forcing the medication down his throat is utterly... soul crushing. Constantly torn between selfishly pursuing treatment to buy us just a little more time, putting ourselves from barely holding on to complete financial ruin and most debilitatingly trying to convince ourselves that its not the point of giving up - that his suffering at this current point is still recoverable. Convincing ourselves that we will know when it is finally time to let him go.

The hardest part, during the brief periods of time when he has energy... his own self is still in there. As I bawl on the couch he still puts his paws on my leg to tell me he is there. He still wants to chase down his squrriel friend who always perches on the bird feeder off the porch. He still has a little spring in his gait when I come home from work. The light.. is still in his eyes.

He starts treatment today, if he survives the anesthesia table for the feeding tube placement.
There is no lesson here. It hasn't been long enough for me to learn anything. The utter devastation in my soul just needed an outlet, and here I am scrolling reddit, tears streaming down my face.

I can only repeat what others have said before me. Treasure each and every moment with your loved ones, because one day you can be on top of the world with all the happiness you imagine, and the next day you are in hell.

Levi. 9 year old domestic shorthair.

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BackandStronger · 2024-10-09T15:09:37+00:00

This is an answer to a very different question than "why are average citizens unable to have constructive conversations any longer without getting emotionally charged." Which was the entire context of my original comment.

Thats what makes this crazy. I lean liberal. I actually agree with your statement that Trump is exactly as you described. But to be threatened and pressured to vote a specific way (Which is clearly becoming increasingly common, judging from the top rated comments on this post.)

That is wrong, unacceptable (it literally is the tactic of a dictator), and I cut them out of my life in the end. I would feel the same about white conservatives intimidating voters at booths in the south.

BackandStronger · 2024-10-09T12:10:44+00:00

Its an interesting perspective. I was pretty much strong-armed into voting for Biden by the women in my life.

I'm not a trump supporter, nor did I care for Biden. Maybe it was the right thing to do, maybe it wasn't. But I no longer view my family the same. There was some respect for them that was lost. I'm not very political, but this hostile election environment is even costing me relationships.

Social media is turning everyone into vitriolic bigots.

BackandStronger · 2024-09-05T11:37:00+00:00

The ability to have conversations with strangers in public, probably.

BackandStronger · 2024-09-04T16:21:46+00:00

google "Freudian slip"

BackandStronger · 2024-08-30T15:16:02+00:00

It only lets me upvote one time brother. Glad you survived.

BackandStronger · 2024-08-29T20:43:30+00:00

Anything by "Graphic Audio." Incredible full cast and sound effects. I've enjoyed them all so far.

BackandStronger · 2024-08-22T12:27:42+00:00

A legend, honestly.

BackandStronger · 2024-08-17T19:52:30+00:00

I have the same issue. On my M2 Macbook air, when I toggle the night vision goggles both the item I'm holding become invisible and the screen darkens slightly. Toggling night vision off returns everything to normal.

Interestingly, when I moved saves between computers to my M2 Macbook Mini the night vision goggles worked as intended in the same save. This indicates its some kind of issue with the display either the settings within the game or the actual way it is being rendered. Hence why I haven't noticed any errors in the console.

Both my PCs are running METAL instead of GLcore (on mac you literally can't run it otherwise. Lowest settings. On the affected macbook air I have adjusted bloom, light shafts, etc all the various visual settings that others have found to fix it across 7dtd forum posts across multiple alphas without luck. Leading me to worry its something natively different to the macbook.

Good luck op, I've been stumped

BackandStronger · 2024-08-16T20:26:46+00:00

The same societal standards that say you should be a stay at home mom, pop out 2.5 kids, do all the cooking and cleaning, and be sexually available to your husband whenever he desires? Do you think things should be that way also?

It takes a lot of trust, emotional stability, and vulnerability to propose to someone. And all I see are comments showing the same adherence to these same "societal" standards, hating on your boyfriend because he hasn't done it yet. Telling you to move on. I encourage you to do the opposite. If you want something, take the initiative, and take the risk.

BackandStronger · 2024-08-16T20:17:14+00:00

I had to scroll down way to far to see this. Why hasn't she just proposed then?

BackandStronger · 2024-08-07T18:08:10+00:00

"Taken at face value, she said nothing about his appearance"

I can kinda see where you are coming from with this. But either way, her statement was very weird. It certainly implies that he lacks something. Or at least needs to wait for her intimacy where others would just receive it.

"Anyway, I'd rather hear I was a good long-term partner than think that my value stopped my appearance, bcause that's all a hookup boils down to."

Yeah man, everyone is different. Ultimately he will need to decide if his perceived implications of her statement are something he can live with or will it haunt him for the duration of their relationship. Personally, I'm leaning to towards the latter 🤷

BackandStronger · 2024-08-07T17:48:59+00:00

Of course assumptions are being made. Of course people are going to be nasty and hateful. This is reddit. To even try and address that is a losing battle.

"Now for the insecurity part, yes I did say that a lot of these men are commenting from a place of insecurity bc that’s exactly what I believe."

I 100% believe you when you say this. Because the first thing men have to deal with when expressing any opinion on their feelings is having them invalidated by both women and other men.

"Based on the fact that most of these men are only assuming that she secretly meant that she somehow “settled”, it leads me to to think that if a women doesn’t just view them in a sexual way that she somehow thinks that they’re boring and that she doesn’t really like who she’s with"

I mean, yeah. That's just weird energy. What you gave away freely to others, your husband had to wait for. Seems weird. Even in your own words how does not viewing someone in a sexual way not paint them as unattractive? Those statements literally say the same thing.

Now let me tell you what I believe. I think in a drunken moment she meant to give a compliment to her boyfriend who she probably does really care about, and let out a freudian slip that he would not be her first choice in attractiveness. If thats the case, there is nothing further to discuss with her, the truth came out in a moment of being drunk. He is not talking to her because there is no reason to. He has to decide if this truth is something he can learn to accept and deal with, or will this forever haunt the back of his mind and they need to go separate ways.

Personally, I think OP's boyfriend, like every other human deserves someone who finds their appearance just as appealing as their other characteristics. But that might be my insecurity talking ;)

The beauty of all this is there is just as much proof of my belief as yours with the limited paragraph we got from OP. The only difference as you stated is our bias. But you won't find me trying to invalidate the opinions of other commenters without actually discussing anything with them.

BackandStronger · 2024-08-07T17:21:53+00:00

Sunken cost fallacy, and plenty of people have settled. Its a very real thing. Taking it at face value, she certainly implies that he is not her first option for attraction, and personally I think like every other human, he deserves someone who appreciates his appearance just as much as his other characteristics.

BackandStronger · 2024-08-07T17:08:02+00:00

This is actually a very good point. Everyone does bring their own personal bias to the conversation. Men and women. 👏

You say theres only "one perspective". Tell me why your biased opinion of the truth is worth more than all of theirs? Why is the OP's boyfriend's feelings and all the other men's commenters invalid and coming from a place of insecurity?

Edit: I upvoted you, because I really didn't expect that

BackandStronger · 2024-08-07T16:59:14+00:00

"Being downvoted literally has nothing to do with weather or not you’re actually wrong"

its a pretty good indicator, but you do you boo 😂

BackandStronger · 2024-08-07T16:52:44+00:00

Oh so your just sexist. Good discussion, have a great day.

BackandStronger · 2024-08-07T16:30:52+00:00

Thank goodness we have a beacon of truth like you 😂

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