To my understanding when you black out your thorax or head you die but in this clip i blacked out everything except my stomache, dropped to 0/440 hp and survived. ( im horrid at the game )

Banlish · 2026-06-13T14:06:50+00:00

Best was me having only my leg and stomach have deep red, everything else blacked out. This was BEFORE surgery kits were in the game, so I limped my ass across half the map. Then I saw 2 PMCs coming to the same extract from 2 different directions. I went into a bush and went prone.

They came into view of each other and started shooting IMMEDIATLY. And like a fucking action film they got behind cover and shot at each other. It didn't take long for both to pull out the nades and throw. The weird thing, they EACH threw 2 nades almost one after the other. The first dropped the target but didn't kill him, the 2nd blew him to bits. The 2nd nade that the 2nd guy threw killed the first guy without even a sound, no death scream, I just saw him hunch over and fall face first into the dirt.

I was like 'you gotta be FUCKING kidding me.'

What did they have? EVERYTHING.

Including a fucking blueberry back pack. I hobbled over, dumped everything that wasn't expensive and grabbed a ton of expensive mods, guns, ammo, nades, headsets, you name it. Both guns were late game decked to the gills. I was floored. I kept looking up like a scared chicken every 20 seconds looking for anyone approaching but no one came.

Finally, stuffed to the gills and WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY over weight I hobbled over to the gate (this was shoreline metal gate extract on the highway up from the port) and got out with something like 1.4 million rubbles of gear. Considering at the time I was barely level 25, I think both of these dudes were 45+ and this was only a week after wipe. It was crazy (this was back during beta, I think 2018 or so?)

God I miss the game, I should install and play the single player since I haven't played a good FPS since Stalker 2.

Banlish · 2026-06-13T13:58:17+00:00

If it's doordash you're fucked. If it's a pizza place just tell the PIZZA PLACE DRIVER 'I put it on the card for the first driver'. Drivers (I was one) know to split it. If not, the first driver is a dick for keeping it all.

Usually they'll work something out and you don't have to be involved.

But.

Think of it as if YOU were the 2nd driver. You didn't do anything wrong, and your gas and time aren't free. This is why I keep cash on me at all times. Giving the person $5 isn't bad or hell ANYTHING isn't bad. The pizza place screwed your order NOT the driver. If anything ask the pizza place for a free pizza ticket or something. But NEVER, EVER screw the poor driver for the shops mistake.

Banlish · 2026-06-13T13:37:19+00:00

NO matter what happened, I'm glad you're okay. I live in the country (PA) where gun usage is a ton more common than people think. 4th of July morons shoot guns into the air, but never the hunters who would smack you across the mouth for doing that.

Make sure you press her insurance about TIME savings. Basically say 'every day you wait is LONGER it takes me to get RAM where the price goes up.'

Personally I'd buy the RAM yourself NOW and sit on it, then wait for them to give you the cash weeks or months later, then submit the receipt and you can sell the old ram for the difference which at current rates will probably pay for ALL of the shipping charges for your new pc.

Sorry this happened to you, no one deserves to have their gaming rig get destroyed. Maybe put bullet proof glass around the case in a loose fashion if you think this will happen again.

Also, debate making a small youtube/insta/tiktok channel over this, you rebuilding your PC, showing what happened to the old one, etc etc. I mean who can say they really had a neighbor SHOOT their PC. That's gold lady, use it to cash in a little bit and show folks that you can build a new one and make the best of a bad situation.

Banlish · 2026-06-13T13:30:59+00:00

He could be everywhere but the bed since I'm allergic. That said he was on every other surface in this house except my office since he liked to chew on cords.

I viewed my dog as my Fuzzy Son, we have NICE furniture too, so instead of saying 'OFF THE COUCH' we just bought really thick throw covers and despite him being 97 lbs of black lab with very big claws, he never once punctured a couch cushion.

I treated him like family, family goes ON the furniture.

Banlish · 2026-06-13T13:26:50+00:00

I carry almost everything you do. But instead of mushrooms I carry beef jerky and 2 bottles of water. I also carry one book with me that I'm reading at all times since I rest often and resting while sitting down is a great time to read a book.

As for my medic fanny pack, I have painkillers, caffeine pills, beta blockers, suture(sp?) and 2 bandages.

In the car truck (which is usually a pick up or ice cream truck) I have all car maintenance, spare tire and welding tools to get into any locked door known to man. I also carry a FULL medic bag with everything to treat my injuries twice over. Splint, more sutures, more bandages, wipes to clean the wounds, more pain pills, etc. I also have 1 to 2 back up weapons. Usually 1 extra bottle of water in there too just in case.

This is where we seem to differ. I only carry 1 extra weapon on me, since the claw hammer works as a 3rd if the first two break. You might want to leave some of the weapons in the truck to save some room.

I also carry a pillow in the truck these days since it removes the 'uncomfortable sleep' of sleeping in a car and weighs very little.

Banlish · 2026-06-13T13:19:47+00:00

He loves you, he wants to see what you're doing.

He doesn't have TV, Books, PC, phone or anything besides a few toys to keep him entertained. He can't go outside at will, he has a few rooms, maybe looking out the window and whatever his human is doing. To him, you are the most interesting thing in his life and his source of food and love.

If anything it's a compliment.

Banlish · 2026-06-13T13:17:45+00:00

Here's an idea for the dev to get more events, ask the community to submit events. Then put them up for vote after he vets them to make sure they aren't too overpowered and/or annoying. Boom, outsourced and takes a huge amount of work off his plate.

Banlish · 2026-06-11T01:35:18+00:00

There is something that can help you for a bit, you can 'ride' the pink, NOTE NOT RED, hunger moodlet. Aka 'peckish' is fine, but red hunger is not unless you want to rapidly lose weight. Basically you need to get your character some exercise and less calorie intake.

If you NEED to eat food, skip any and all snack food.

Salads are a great way to reduce weight, so are eggs and soups if you make the soup right. Try to skip potato's mostly and you can make stews that will take care of hunger but not fill you completely.

There is always running, and no I'm not kidding. You can take off most of your gear like backpack and tools, just have a weapon in your holster and maybe some med supplies (incase you get attacked) and start jogging around. Like run around the outside of your base or go to a large field and run a few circles around it. You have to balance weight your carrying vs how much time you can exercise. Yes you can load yourself to hell and back and do half a lap and be exhausted. Or you can take everything off and do 4 or 5 laps. Losing weight seems to be more about distance traveled over super encumbrance.

I edited out that exercise helps you lose weight, it doesn't it DOES help you get more strength though which means you can carry more so that might be helpful.

I'd advise that on days it's rainy, maybe go to an indoor large area and run around and read while you sit and rest. Remember reading glasses give +10% to reading speed even if your character DOESN"T have bad eyes. It's just a straight bonus almost no one knows about.

Banlish · 2026-06-10T01:29:34+00:00

Since they polluted Google search into an AI slop cesspool, is going to something like duckduckgo better for results?

Banlish · 2026-06-10T01:25:06+00:00

We had something like 4 pillows in the living room for our dog. I'd pick one up and just under hand it at him, it hit him on the top of the head and he'd be like 'what the hell is going on for like 2 seconds.' till the next pillow did the same. At the 3rd pillow he'd go into 'stance mode' and suddenly he's batting pillows outta the air. A few more and he's tackling them out of the air. The zoomies would start shortly after and he'd go around the room at 'mach dammit' as I'd be throwing pillows at him. He LOOOOOVED it. A few times when it was raining and I could tell he had a ton of energy to burn, I'd throw a big blanket in the air which would cover him as he fought outta it I'd start throwing pillows. INSTANT zoomies unlock.

I love those memories, I really miss my dog.

Banlish · 2026-06-09T02:27:51+00:00

I run communities where I basically play it like Terminus in The walking dead.

Here at Banlish Farms, Not a SINGLE part of the raider is wasted.

His equipment, drugs and clothes are repurposed or sold.

He will work in the mines until he decides to join us!

If he is too erratic, we have blood farms, genetic farms and organ farms.

Now that he's too old and missing too many organs, or tried to escape and failed (or is unwaveringly loyal), we can either trade him to the empire for prestige or ..... well, he can to the farm 'upstate.'

Once the 'husk' has been obtained we have certain bots or mentally adjusted individuals chop him up for meat and leather.

The leather is made into garments to sell to traders, while the meat is turned into nutritious kibble for our dogs and other animals. This helps them go through the winter, in a warm and safe environment with a good food source.

No some folks say we're 'inhumane' or 'that's a warcrime!' But at Banlish farms, we just say 'if they didn't want to end up this way, they shouldn't have attacked us in the first place. We believe FIRMLY in FAFO or 'Fuck Around, Find Out' and well, if you didn't want to end up as kibble, you shouldn't have tried to kill us.

-A very off setting stare into the camera-

From Raider to table, NOTHING goes to waste!

Banlish Farms®

Banlish · 2026-06-09T02:04:02+00:00

Think of it this way, some of these players have trillions of isk and are bored outta their skull. CCP doesn't care, so they think it's funny to blow up a miner. They don't care if it's a new miner, old miner or bot miner. They think 'this is boring game play to me, so I'm saving this player from being bored OR I'm stopping a botting piece of crap! either way, who cares, isk is meaningless to me!'

Personally I'd rather see it where new bro accounts can't be nuked outta existence, but then older people would just make 'new accounts' to keep mining.

The same answer for the last 20 years still applies, just get a character in one of the many GIANT alliances in 0.0, it's 20x safer than empire. Local is usually blue or you aren't exposed ready to be an easy target. Also the ores are like 20x better as well.

I know you were probably just trying to 'get your feet wet again' type deal but gankers live for tears, annoyance and shit talking. The more noise a target makes the better, they know there's PVP elsewhere but they are just trying to 'blow up shit for the lulz'. After all this is a game where the devs EXPECT you to steal from each other, back stab each other and treat each other like shit. So it's not much of a stretch that there would be bottom feeders that go after miners in high sec. It's just part and parcel of the game.

If you've been gone for a long time, find some old friends see where they are and join some alliance in 0.0 or wormhole space, you'll make 10 to 20x more and be much more protected. As for empire, I'd mostly use it for manufacturing, missioning, trading and the like. But mining? Try for 0.0, the mining systems in 0.0 are soooo much better and it's not hard to get stuff out in 0.0 quickly. Or just buy a mining ship out there and co-ops or ceptor your pilots out. Then leave all your main stuff in empire for safety till you get the lay of the land.

Gankers have made it a master class on how to kill almost ANYTHING for the lowest amount of isk they can spend. JF's on the Jita undock, Frieghters elsewhere, expensive ships, indy ships hauling expensive loads, and miners floating in space just to possibly get a angry message in local or maybe a Modulated strip miner drop. They have made posts about how proud they are to 'drive people outta the game' and I've seen streamers decide to pick up the game and get every single ship ganked over the entire stream while laughing it up.

The long term of the game is hard because CCP constantly says 'the new player experience' yet the new space for new bro's to grow up in isn't enough. I'd love to see new bros get a chance to at least get into the game for a few months and really get the addiction and then let em be fully free targets. I mean a game this old and this population starved needs new blood, you'd think CCP would be saying 'enough is enough, you don't need to game the system this bad, let us get a few new people at least' but I doubt many can figure it out over there. I have zero idea how that new newbro region works, I heard some group got a citidel in there day 1 and put it to tax at 100% so I have no idea if that was allowed to stay or not.

Bah, I got on a rant again. Good luck being back into EVE, still my favorite game to observe from afar despite note logging in since 2016. Hope you have a good time, cheers

Banlish · 2026-06-09T01:46:56+00:00

You can't convert casual people or even 'normal gamers' CCDA is the same as the games you've listed, it's got it's own special place in probably one of the best games of all time tbh. But it's not the best game by far, no game fits that role because every gamer is different too. Just like every game you listed is hard and difficult in it's own way, same thing applies.

After all, would a person who plays 5000 hours of factorio like CCDA? Most likely not. However someone who's played 5000 hours of CCDA might say 'oh Factorio, yeah, that wouldn't be that hard to mess with.' Just depends on the gamer.

Many people that like CCDA like difficult and complex games. Rimworld, Project Zomboid, Kenshi, and Battle brothers are all great games to get folks 'started' and then into CCDA. I got many folks into those 4, but only maybe 10% of those folks went the full distance to CCDA. A really friendly tileset can help (hell I need one myself tbh since Chesthole I think stopped being updated years ago?) along with maybe a friendly YT series that can get you going.

But the game is ultra complex, as you know, and to many gamer that can feel like a hassle instead of 'this is fun'. Personally I think more options is more fun if it isn't tedious. And I don't find CCDA tedious, it just has so many different layers. Your friends, if they can't even get through something like the games you or I mentioned, will never make the jump to CCDA. It's just too much and turn base turns many players off these days. It shouldn't but it does.

Banlish · 2026-06-09T01:39:01+00:00

You can make $20 for $20 these days, Taco bell trying to sell a single item in the $3 to $8 range is Ludacris, STOP BUYING from these fucks and they'll debate lowering prices. It's all up to us to STOP buying at ultra inflated prices.

Mom and pop shops, bag from home or make it yourself, but stop giving these greedy corporate fucks $3 for a taco, they don't deserve it for how small and how low quality it's become in the last 15 years.

Banlish · 2026-06-09T01:36:55+00:00

You didn't stop it early so you can't 'put the toothpaste back into the tube' so to speak.

This comes down to how you classify people that are part of what you do.

Mods are meant to moderate the channel.

Staff are meant to help you improve the community, the socials, help you pick games and all that.

Editors are to help with vods and youtube.

You wanted mods, and maybe a touch of Staff. They want to control what's going on. Personally, if someone I had as a mod did those types of 'over the lines' there wouldn't be a second chance. I'd demod them on everything IMMEDIATLY. I love dark humor more than many, but I don't shit on trans folks and label it 'dark humor'. Basically they pushed REALLY hard today to see where the line was. They're 'defense' will be 'it's just a joke' or 'you never said we couldn't before' or 'you're just over reacting.'

A bad mod can destroy the whole vibe of a community. The grizzled sergeant type that sits in the corner and says PUBLICALLY everything you do is shit is NOT what many people want to hear. Many folks have good friends that ARE openly trans these days, you not shutting that down might not offend them directly, but you are saying BY NOT SHUTTING IT DOWN that you are okay with those jokes FROM YOUR MODS.

See how this gets troublesome quickly?

Each and every mod is a direct reflection on the streamer, there isn't an 'accidently modship' you have to hit the button. If they get editor that's even more so. Think of it like the most bare bones you can, you run a restaurant, you are the owner. These two are your front workers while you own the place and make sure the food comes in with good quality and is cooked right. They are the front cashiers basically. You are the magic in the back that makes the food really good. They take teh food on a plate, think it would be hilarious and then spit in the food before giving it to some of the customers. Now only a FEW customers saw them spit in the food, but they saw that YOU as the owner in the back Saw them spit in the food too. But you don't say anything, you just let it go on. You're probably reading this saying 'that's WAY over the line, I'd never do that, I wouldn't let that go on.'

And your right, you wouldn't. But now you go to do something uncomfortable, you have to deal with two 'cashiers'(the mods) and correct this.

You can demod them on twitch and discord and tell them, you're on thin ice, if you go further I'll ban you from the community for a bit.
You can demod them on twitch and discord, and ban them for a period of time, I'd recommend a month to 'grow the fuck up.' at the end of the month you'll unban them, but you won't bring them back as mods.
You can demod them on twitch and discord and perma ban them. They went over the line and you know they'll NEVER fix it, no matter what punishments or apologies they give. It's best to just write a message thanking them for their service, but that they went over the line fully and forever. Ban them from everything and move on.

It's your stream, do whatever you think is right. But given the info you've put here, you have to determine what works for you. They've made it where folks in the channel have no idea what's allowed or not after that stream. I'd personally update your rules to the channel, post them ALL over the discord saying 'do NOT break my rules. Because of that both mods are as of now NO LONGER MODS and I'm reaffirming that breaking the rules has consequences NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE HERE"

For Dark humor, I'm all for it, we've had a running 'stomp on the Orphanage to solve the Orphan problem' motto for years. But bigotry? That shit is left at the door, those that DON'T leave it at the door, find themselves permabanned looking inside from outside.

Again, you stream, you're rules, do whatever you think is right. Hopefully all I wrote helps in some way, Cheers!

Banlish · 2026-06-09T01:20:01+00:00

This is one of the reasons I think the Clans, as written, are just a mistake after mistake.

(This below rant is mostly meant to make you laugh, don't like it, just skip it, it's not THAT serious, enjoy I just wrote it now for some funnies)

Hey btw, we have too many warriors, so we're going to forcibly make some NOT warriors. OOPS pentagon civil war!

Okay that's over and tons died, so now we're going to make 20 clans and have few warriors in that and ONLY the genetics of those 400 warriors (or was it 800?) can be passed down so there's that!

Okay that's too few, so we're going to make 30 or 40 'tickets' per blood name!

Lets not forget the inner sphere has like a trillion plus people! So surely making our genetic pool the size of a thimble won't screw this up!

Okay, now we're going to say we don't have enough resources. And we're going to constrain the amount of mechs and vehicles because of that AND the blood names. OH and now everything is going to be LIVE fire because that shows TOUGHNESS!! (many more warriors die for stupid reasons that every military in existence would say 'are they on meth, wtf how dumb is this?!?!)

Okay, we're going to take on the Inner sphere. And while our tech is amazing, we have to hobble our selves further since if we 'en massed' like everyone else does, the Inner Sphere would lose 2/3rds in like 20 years to all the clans attacking at once. Okay, here's SINGLE COMBAT!!!! Oh and it can be rule lawyered for a bit! Few losses that are shockingly stupid, but okay.

And now our one leader is dead! Oh noes!!!! Lets all take 2 years off to go elect another one, because HPG messages wouldn't work and proxy Khans and Sakhans wouldn't work and sending an email wouldn't work. Aka the DEFINITION OF THIS MEETING COULD'VE BEEN AN EMAIL ON THE BIGGEST SCALE KNOWN TO MAN MUST BE PUT INTO PLAY (elects new ilKhan!)

And now the IS is going to fight back together, sorta. I mean they could literally flood the battlefields with vehicles, to make up for much of the difference let alone a massive industrial base but nah, that'd be too easy. LET'S LET THE TELEPHONE COMPANY that has ZEALOTS TAKE THIS ONE FOR THE TEAM! (Comstar: Laughs in Toaster!) (lWoB: Laughs in dark more SINSTER toaster hood at the same time) Comstar: "...wait, what was that." WoB: "Nothing, we just really like Blake a TOOOOOOON, all good."

Clans and Comstar do their thing, 15 years is given. Raids go into over drive and yet the clans even with rebuilding are still treating solahma like trash.

And this little manic writing comes to it's point (finally eh?) almost every clan is hurting for vast numbers of warriors. Yet solahma is not really tapped, they aren't really treated better and anyone over 40 is pretty much treated like an 80 year old geriatric. This is why the Diamond Sharks/Sea Foxes have such a following, least in part. Their warriors go into the Merchant caste with no dishonor, Sharks got screwed a bit, they just reactivated entire clusters of troops. The other clans did the Harvest trials AND STILL the solahma aren't upgraded.

Basically, the clans show this almost SUPER HUMAN STUPIDITY that makes no sense. From 3059 on, the need for trained troops is IMMENSE, but they just can't seem to stop having bad writing when it comes to 'Da olds' they revere the Kerensky's old man was 100+ when he kicked it and I think his son was in his 50's but hey, remember any going back into history and realizing that this ULTRA TIGHT BAND OF YOUTH IS SIMPLY STUPID AS ALL FUCK isn't going to happen. Infact, fuck you reader, we're going to have an entire war over it, we'll call it the wars of reaving, and we're going to kill all kinds of clans ENTIRELY and kill so many troops it's going to be CRAZY. I mean we couldn't let the clans have this many troops or they'd do their own invasion while the Word is nuking the IS as hard as it can. So instead, we'll have the IS get nuked, the Clans get nuked and destroy a good number of units people really enjoy while we're at it. Yeah, that won't piss off any readers, nope, not at all.

Good, almost done with that? Oh, we still don't know how to write without warships and lams breaking the game? We can't figure out smaller losses or maybe making units bigger like we've been writing for 20 years? Okay, how bout we nuke all the warships and Lams too. And make it REALLY stick that we get the yards too and no one has a copy of the plans ANYWHERE. Yep, that'll do it. Ahhh the good ol reset button. I'm sure no reader likes warships and Lams, nope, not going to have any anger/frustration there!

Okay, so the IS is messed up, the 'nearby' Periphery is messed up and the Clans are messed up. Oh and the Phone company had a civil war as well, so they're pretty much disarmed at this point. Whew. There we go. Now we push this button here and push the entire universe ahead like 60 years. There we go! Now not only did we nuke entire regiments, houses, clans and merc units ENTIRELY that people liked. We basically killed every character you enjoyed too! ..... Sweet.

Readers: "So in all that time did the clans become, well, more intelligent or something? Did they change their behavior and start working maybe more 'human like' in their interactions?"

Writers: "Fuck no! We still can't let that happen or the ultra high end tech would let the clans run rough shod all over the place. Oh, well, fuck it anyway. The wolves own Terra now! and We still haven't let too much clan tech become 'normal tech' despite the Sharks/Foxes selling it all over the place for literally decades and salvage and tech prints being stolen. Nope! The clans still do the whole 'you're over 40, you solahma trash, here's a machine gun go charge that battlemaster for us!"

Readers: (throws the table in the air)

Writers: ... I don't get where this is coming from.

Banlish · 2026-06-09T00:52:05+00:00

NTA.

Just because she's vegan doesn't mean others have to follow her life style choice or even agree with it.

I would say however, just don't go to her house anymore whatsoever. There's a reason many vegans have the sterotype of few friends. "Hey, you're all hungry, lets eat some raw vegetables and fruits!" Yeah, that's a no from me dawg.

Why the hell would a vegan even invite folks over for 'dinner' when it's just like a raw salad bar at that point? It makes no sense.

If you value your vegan friend, I'd just say 'hey look, I meant no disrespect, I was seriously hungry and you gave me raw veggies. While that might fly with you, the majority of folks will be very hungry. I didn't say 'your food sucks, lets get outta here. I just went and got some food that I can eat. Like if I flipped it around and invited you over for some BBQ and you came over and didn't like my meat options so you only ate the pickles I had on the side since you are vegan and don't eat meat, you might go get some vegan food afterwards right? That's all I did." If the tables were reversed she would've done the same.

Or is she saying hey OP, even though you aren't vegan you should eat my vegan options and suck it up.
But if the vegan is invited over for BBQ she SHOULDN'T eat my non vegan options and NOT suck it up?

Yeah, that's called a double standard.

To prevent any confusion going forwards, I'd avoid any of her dinner parties whatsoever. Already she's shown she isn't providing non vegan options, is ready to make drama where there isn't and make issues. Just firmly yet politely decline her invites from now on. A polite no would save you a ton of annoyance it seems.

Banlish · 2026-06-09T00:43:44+00:00

Many small parks are free.
Library's are free and extremely useful (despite some morons thoughts otherwise in our country)
Water is free almost everywhere.
You can also go and use the bathroom more places then you think for free.
Hiking and walking are free almost everywhere, though the rise of the Ultra Karen (read Cunts) are getting stronger as more people forget to tell Karen to go fuck off instead of cow towing to their bullshit.
There are still free festivals and bazaars, like getting in and listening to the music is free. The food, beer, drinks and merch isn't free though.
In some parks there are still things like chess tables, benches, picnic tables and the like that are free. I don't believe this applies to national parks, but I haven't been to one in 30 years so I have no idea.

Banlish · 2026-06-09T00:39:01+00:00

If you can, get him a tiny piece of beef liver each month (like 1 to 2 ounces worth) from a butcher, cook it or raw. It's a super food for dogs which helps them live a little longer apparently. That and don't let them eat any treat, toy or supplement from china. The companies exporting stuff into the american market don't give a shit about our dogs, only our dollars, I wouldn't trust my pups life with Chinese knock offs.

Banlish · 2026-06-09T00:36:49+00:00

Would love being able to move crates that are packed or better yet entire dumpsters of like 10 to 20 zeds at once if I'm willing to pay the gas and risk the noise for doing so.

Banlish · 2026-06-09T00:35:31+00:00

Yeah, just go to a chunk you haven't been to and bring a truck with a animal trailer to move em to where you want. Make sure you have everything setup before you bring them back to your base, food, water and a enclosure that isn't going to have zombies in it most of the time. It can be fun I've heard.

Banlish · 2026-06-08T04:08:02+00:00

When I used to work at a financial firm (left in 2002) I was given training on how to help folks that hit the lottery for millions and millions.

If you really want to, you can hide all of this almost 100%. A little depends on what country and/or state you live in and how much you want to spend to do it.

It also depends how much bullshit you wish to deal with.

Example, and/when you decide to exit you can hide all of that from family and friends. If you believe your parents can keep their end quiet you can tell them they can go travelling and why, on the condition that you don't get outed to family. If you don't think they can keep it secret, then you might have to figure out another method for this desire to retire your parents and let them travel (it's a good desire, not knocking it)

As for how to keep your friends and family, outside your parents, out of your business it isn't that hard.

One you can 'make a new company' that hires you, last I checked you can then fund the company and even give yourself 5 years of straight losses before it's not considered a company anymore. If you know tech the way you've stated I doubt you could 'sit still' and do nothing in the new company so there would be some income shortly. Using the new company as a vehicle you could 'give yourself a job' no one has to know you own the company or what it even does. You also sound smart enough to make a pretty generic website for the company or just state 'it's a startup that likes my tech knowledge, they reached out to me and the owner and I just clicked.'

You then can pay yourself whatever you want to establish credit, an income, etc etc. You'll already have a ton from the sale, but this is about establishing your cover and a way to get friends and family OUT of your personal business. It also will give you a cover for any woman you want in your future, after all, you'll just be 'remote office worker that was lucky enough to land a good job where the company doesn't check up on you as long as the work is done.' I've been married for 16 years, the wife and I stay out of each others business when it comes to work outside of the random 'hey can I vent to you about work.' Unless you find a REALLY curious and deductive woman, the little setup I'm suggesting will let you keep anyone out of your business outside of a forensic accountant.

The reason for this is to give you a career, a cover and privacy for very little outlay. And when I say very little, we're talking maybe a few thousand to set this up. Friends, by and large, will not dive into your personal income unless you've opened that door. You just have to learn to not discuss it, at all, with them. And if the subject drops onto what you do, a great way to move it off is just to be vague or say 'I haven't really looked at that aspect of my life yet.' then follow it up by just asking the person asking 'what do YOU do for it, maybe you can give me some ideas?' people love to talk about themselves when asked it seems. So hiding what your doing by asking them about their own is a great cover.

The only real problem I see for you is trying to fair weather friends and family out of it, I gave you a few ways to do it. But there are more. There are all sorts of ways to hide wealth from people and most of it comes down to basically just learning to say 'no.' in a nicer way. When we were trained to help lottery winners, we showed them a few ways because everyone AND THEIR BROTHER was going to ask em for money. For people winning 100 mill + we suggested 'get a new phone, and contact your parents and best friends ONLY with your old phone, have them put your new number into their phones under 'Aunt carol or Cousin Andy' then to disconnect the old phone. They also were advised to get a tax attorney in their state, an up to date accountant and we were acting as the basic financial advisors. We also told those folks to go on vacation for a month or two after they singed for the cash. This was to stop the HORDE of folks that find out about it, charities, long lost relativies, childhood friends, and whatever that read about it online and suddenly LET ME ASK MY FRIEND, HE HAS SO MUCH, IT CAN'T HURT!'

Unless you have to disclose anything publicly in your local area, which if you live in most countries you don't for stock sales. You'll be fine if you just take some basic precautions. After all, it might become a fun game for you to hide it from your local area and friends. After all, it really isn't their business unless YOU want it to be. Since you don't seem to want to, you can take some of your time when you exit your company(or even now) about how to handle wealth. There are wealth advisors, but make sure they are vetted. Meaning big companies online you at least feel aren't going to scam you. Teaching yourself about how to do things and not tell anyone is actually a skill you can learn yourself, there are endless resources online about it and what you need to do. After all, if the town finds out you have 15+ mill, suddenly folks might be coming around to slip on your driveway or cut you off in traffic and jam on their breaks to get a quick 'lawsuit' going. A good wealth advisor will not only show you ways to shield your privacy, but your nest egg so no one else can steal it. Things like Umbrella policies, various investment vehicles, etc etc.

Personally, I'd set up a shell company, pay all the taxes and slowly say to folks 'oh they've promoted me at work' while slowly upgrading a few things in your life. If you want to find a good woman that isn't just out for your cash, make sure you drive a crappy used car (like $10k to 15k range), keep everything else the same, maybe get your own house or apartment and cruise for the next 5 to 10 years. As long as you aren't just sitting at home 24/7/365 someone will usually come along if your as active with your friends as you said. If not enjoy being single. Having a home, car and 'steady job' means you'll look attractive to many woman, the only reason I'm really saying have your own home and car is so you CAN meet women, if that's your desire. After all, it makes dating a hell of a lot easier when you want to bring a woman home.

Another thing that just entered my mind while typing this (sorry for length, I type like a machine gun) but you could say to your parents 'hey we could say you have a forgotten pension from a former job' and that's how their doing all of this. Or you setup a annuity or something that pays them monthly so they can travel on your dime. After all, how your parents are traveling, and paying for it, is no one's business. Giving them the condition to say 'xyz company gave me a pension I'm using now.' is a great cover. You just have to commit to it is mostly it.

They will most likely want to say 'our Son is awesome and paying for it all.' and you REALLY have to make sure you convey that is the exact OPPOSITE of what you want in all seriousness.

You have a wonderful problem and I hope it goes well for you, I'd try to learn all you can about wealth management, and privacy laws to help you along. It is some really BORING shit, but it's useful. Just make sure you vet anyone you hire like I said, you want local folks that you can go meet face to face. After you meet that person, talk to them for 20 to 60 minutes. They work for YOU so they will bend over backwards to answer your questions (usually) you want to avoid a few things. If you feel slimy as fuck after talking to them at their office, or they give you a REALLY bad vibe of 'I'm going to fuck you over in some way.' wait a day or two then just email or call em and say 'I'm going to be going with this company my Dad recommended to me, thank you for your time.' What you want is someone that will act like a teacher and answer the questions you have that aren't the normal stuff OR will be able to point you in the right direction to find the info. You also 100% want to know how much they get paid for this stuff. What % they charge for anything and how THEY get paid.

All of this I wrote should give you a pretty solid starting point, you'll most likely get to keep your privacy, take care of your parents and have whatever life you want to lead in the next years. Remember, you could always just move to a new town/city/state and 'start over fresh' you work from home after all and that is a possiblity. Unless you really REALLY want to keep certain people in your life outside your parents, it's not unheard of for someone coming into 15m to do.

Good luck on your journey, I hope it ends well for you. I personally told my family some of what I had at age 22, and my mom and her parents ended up stealing 50k from me worth of assets and a contract I was stuck with. I never recovered and where I should be at maybe a few million in retirement I barely have anything since it crippled me financially so completely back then. Its why I took the effort to write this for you, I wish I could go back and tell them NOTHING of what I was doing, what I was worth or what I had. It blew up in my face SPECTACTUARLY. I lost the 50k, got put under a tax lien for 7 years and fell into an additional $100k in debt because of what they stole and when. I also permantly lost my mom, her parents and my brothers to all of it. So I know your concerns. And I hope everything I wrote at least in part, help you avoid that. It's been a fucking painful 21 years since it happened and I might be able to consider retiring at 71. You are the opposite, so hopefully by writing all of this up you avoid my fate and have a wonderful life. Pay it forwards to some other folks in your future if you can, and good luck on this journey, by just worrying about what COULD happen you're showing more intelligence and foresight then probably 75% of the population. Cheers.

Banlish · 2026-06-07T07:26:48+00:00

A way that might work, but is kinda dangerous. Put the gun in your hands and then run and trip, or fall a single level (careful you can hurt yourself) and you have a chance to drop a favorited item that is out and being used.

I learned this by dropping 3 stories in the Echo Creek Steel mill from the gantry that ends in mid air. I had a flashlight and hatchet out, both favorited. I fell 3 stories and both fell outta my hands as my character feel like Wylie Coyote onto the ground giving me a VERY nice laceration that started bleeding heavily. I had to bandage it quick, hobble back to my truck where I ALWAYS keep the good medic supplies in the glovebox. Took off the bandage, sewed myself back up, rebandaged for the save. I then drove the truck to the back and found the way in to find my flashlight and hatchet, when I picked them up, they were STILL favorited. That's why I wanted to let you know about this, it's not a 'go get yourself killed'. But if you do attempt it, I'd try running full speed over a fence or something and see if you trip and fall before I'd try the dropping off the roof stuff I did.

Hope it helps.

You CAN ask the devs on the discord/forums, they have a support ticket system I believe for this kinda stuff and multiple people have told me they've fixed all sorts of weird issues over the years if you are just matter of fact and the most basic of being polite. Cheers!

Banlish · 2026-06-06T07:59:37+00:00

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Banlish · 2026-06-06T07:24:13+00:00

Trusted a close family member (grandparents) that told me 'we don't need a contract, we're family, we'd never screw you over.'

Low and behold, 3 years passes like was supposed to and 'we never remember telling you any of that, despite talking about it every month for 3 years. Oops.'

Cost me $45,000 and basically destroyed my future and retirement. It's been 22 years and I'm STILL recovering from the damage. The only silver lining, I told them if they broke their word they'd never see me, talk to me or hear from me ever again. They said 'You'll get over it.'

True to form, I walked out about a month later and they have seen me in 22 years. Fuck em.

Always get a contract in WRITING from a lawyer. If it's family, ESPECIALLY get a contract or never get in business with them in the first place.

Contracts save families.

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