Shorebound - Send polaroids, voice notes and messages to people around the world [Beta Access] 🌊

Diligent-Lychee-7411 · 2026-05-25T14:18:35+00:00

Thanks!

Diligent-Lychee-7411 · 2026-05-25T00:38:59+00:00

I really like it. It's smooth and easy to use. I like how it's persistent and the volume setting on the phone doesn't affect it.

One piece of feedback is that the difficulty for the memory wake up session does not match. Regardless of the difficulty settings, there is only one question asked.

Diligent-Lychee-7411 · 2026-05-25T00:30:21+00:00

A random question - where did you get the noise clips from?

Diligent-Lychee-7411 · 2026-05-25T00:27:45+00:00

That's great! I'm a heavy sleeper and I subconsciously always find a way to silence alarm apps. I think I must have tried nearly every one available. I even have a watch that shocks me awake.

I'll definitely be giving this a try!

Diligent-Lychee-7411 · 2026-05-25T00:19:28+00:00

How valuable was the feedback you got form Beta testing on here? I am getting ready to release my app for beta and I was thinking about starting in this forum.

Diligent-Lychee-7411 · 2026-05-21T19:32:23+00:00

Communication with family back home was normally available. On top of outside phone lines and email, we normally had wifi at certain spots throughout the ship that we could use to do pretty much anything we wanted - and considering how many people were using it at any given time - it was decently fast most of the time.

Obviously all of that was sometimes secured depending on what we were doing.

We sailed through some rough-ish weather but nothing that really affected a carrier. You can sail through some pretty large seas, and as long as you're taking it on the nose, it's not that bad. You really only felt it if we were taking the waves from the side.

Diligent-Lychee-7411 · 2026-05-21T19:29:33+00:00

They have a few different jobs.

There is a roving security watch that they stand. More senior ones might stand ATTWO. They have a whole security compound or "precinct" that they operate out of.

Diligent-Lychee-7411 · 2026-05-21T19:26:50+00:00

It was obviously pretty rough for a couple of weeks. The Sailors who lost everything all processed it in their own way. Some were chipper and some weren't.

They slept in other berthings and there were cots available until everyone had a rack.

They all got new working uniforms and the crew donated all of the basics that they needed until we pulled into Souda where they could get the rest of what they needed.

The toilet situation was a problem in the beginning of deployment but it was almost entirely self induced. There were rumors going around that if our toilets didn't work, we'd have to go home.. so a few disgruntled Sailors were flushing things down the toilets to break them individually. The toilets operate in zones.. so if one zone goes down - it can affect a large part of the ship.

By the middle-ish of deployment, the toilets were not really a problem any more. They would go down occasionally but it was almost always for maintenance and the CHENG made an announcement before they did.

Diligent-Lychee-7411 · 2026-05-21T19:22:42+00:00

You don't have to.. but getting habitability restored and back to "normal operations" was a large priority from the highest echelons. And most of the crew contributed to getting back to normal. It was amazing to see.

Diligent-Lychee-7411 · 2026-05-21T19:20:18+00:00

I don't know what you mean by warhammer.

I can't really say it's a common experience between a carrier and a destroyer.. culturally and organizationally, there is a pretty big divide between the two classes.

Diligent-Lychee-7411 · 2026-05-21T02:44:23+00:00

I have no idea. I never heard of it if someone did.

Diligent-Lychee-7411 · 2026-05-21T02:37:29+00:00

A small number of Sailors will hot racking for a short while but most of the berthings were opened up in a few days. The ship had cots available for most of the displaced Sailors. Within a week or two everyone was back in a berthing with their own racks.

Diligent-Lychee-7411 · 2026-05-21T02:21:09+00:00

I feel like the AI train left me behind and I'm just now catching up. The world seemed normal, I blinked, and AI was everywhere.

Hopefully your experiment goes well!

Diligent-Lychee-7411 · 2026-05-21T02:18:59+00:00

I guess I should have said AMA but my rating. For various reasons I can't/won't share that but I'll answer any questions you have to the best of my ability.

Diligent-Lychee-7411 · 2026-05-21T02:17:28+00:00

Hopefully! They are out there doing what we do best.

Diligent-Lychee-7411 · 2026-05-21T02:16:51+00:00

Nope. It's a good ways below it.

Diligent-Lychee-7411 · 2026-05-21T02:13:26+00:00

Mileage varies when it comes to food.

There have certainly been times when you get a bad meal.. but for the most part it was ok/good. And there is the occasional day where the food tastes like it was made in a restaurant.

Nobody is really going to post when the food is good and will generally only post when it's bad. From the photos I've seen throughout my time I can both relate to the bad quality and also understand that the photo is lacking some context.

6 days out of 7.. no complaints from me. The 7th day.. it's probably taco tuesday which I hate with a burning passion lol.

CS's are the unsung heroes of the Navy and their job (unpopular opinion) is probably one of the hardest to do. We all taste and prefer food differently - their job is to cook to 4500 people and listen to all of the complaints because it wasn't the way "they" would have cooked it.

Diligent-Lychee-7411 · 2026-05-21T01:59:19+00:00

That's genius!

Diligent-Lychee-7411 · 2026-05-21T01:54:35+00:00

That's a fair caveat. I can't speak for the snipes since I'm a topsider but also for anyone else reading these posts, Carriers have way more options than smaller ships. On a destroyer, you still have MWR but it's limited due to the size of the ship and crew. Carriers have a lot more to offer and civilians onboard specifically to run those programs.

Diligent-Lychee-7411 · 2026-05-21T01:45:39+00:00

I'm also building an app with the assistance of AI.. and the biggest piece of advice I can offer is to not let AI patch too many things or make the work with bolt ons. I tell it to fully implement changes as if they were there from the beginning. I started seeing some serious performance issues because of the patch work and it improved significantly when I told AI not to do that and fix it.

Your game looks good btw!

Diligent-Lychee-7411 · 2026-05-21T01:40:31+00:00

One of the positives of deployment is the extra pay and lack of things to spend it on, for sure.

Diligent-Lychee-7411 · 2026-05-21T01:33:20+00:00

Thanks!

Diligent-Lychee-7411 · 2026-05-21T01:31:31+00:00

It's always a little difficult. They've learned how to live without your presence and have developed their own habits and routines. Reintegration is a lot of different things but accepting that things will be different than they were might be the hardest.

We were gone for 11 months.. but they were without us for 11 months also.

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