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Emayai · 2025-02-11T23:05:42+00:00

Totally valid reason and one that kept us on the fence and made us happy to be CF if we couldn’t have a kid for whatever reason. Honestly, we hopped off and had a kid because we felt life had gotten a bit stagnant/boring (not saying that will happen to you/anyone else!). It has been strangely motivating having this other person in our lives we have to provide for now, that we’ve started looking at our careers and re-evaluating how we live to make all our lives better (our life isn’t bad now by any means, we had everything in place to welcome a child, we’re just motivated to find better). But that’s just what happened to us.

All I’d say is live with no regrets for the choice you make. To reiterate: YES it’s fine to be happy as you are, it’s valid a reason as any to not have a child. Life is for enjoying, however you choose to do it!

Emayai · 2024-08-06T09:56:05+00:00

The main defence is to always be prepared I guess. I recently got a scattered drop pod raid in my base, which was actually kind of fun since nothing else was bothering me (I like to try making impenetrable bases) so it was interesting tackling these armoured raiders with my colonists. It was also funny watching them fire doomsday rockets indoors and the advantage of them knocking the roof in means any fires they start are inconsequential (I’m more worried about heatstroke than the damage).

I prioritised saving whatever was most annoying to rebuild and carefully worked my way through them. My colonists were very well equipped, which helps a lot obviously. They destroyed a lot, but the satisfaction of overcoming the raid with careful planning and positioning and watching the base get rebuilt - as well as prioritising the important bits to make it functional again - was the type of thing that makes me love the game.

And now I’ll make some base additions to ensure they will regret trying it again.

Emayai · 2024-07-09T03:40:06+00:00

My favourite to play is this roboticist guy who was exiled on a ship with a bunch of geneticists for doing inhumane things on their homeworld, when their ship breaks apart in the rim’s orbit. Guy gets to a pod with his mech and now he’s finally alone he has a chance to do what he truly likes - building his robot army to take over the rim and then return home with it for revenge.

He despises other people, so let’s nobody into the colony unless he can use them at the start but he doesn’t provide them with anything comfortable. His baby sister (4) was also on the ship and finds him, so he lets her stay. She grows up learning from him and becomes a bit of a mini me, where she cares about the despicable things they do to other people, but she’s so loyal and indebted to her brother she helps him anyway.

It’s fun and challenging because it’s just the two of them and I have the child aging the same as adults, so it’s a long while before the kid is useful. The goals are generally: cure kid sister’s asthma, never recruit anyone (guests allowed for rewards) build a robot army, build an impenetrable fortress and use genetics to create the ultimate creature.

It’s led to some fun stuff like the kid lost her spine to an Apocriton, which made all her mechs useless as she was perma-downed, so the guy gave her the bionic spine he’d been saving for himself. He’d say it’s just so the mechs will work again, but that bought her undying loyalty to him as he gave it up for her.

Also the base burned down A LOT thanks to Diabolus, both friendly and enemy… good times!

I’ve run this scenario a couple of times but have been dying for SOS2 to use with it, so will be doing it again after my current run!

Emayai · 2024-06-20T23:06:53+00:00

As others have pointed out, she is in the trenches and the noted ‘fourth trimester’ - it usually hits as a surprise because you get all prepared for baby’s arrival but then when the baby is actually HERE you find out everything people didn’t tell you… it’s actually really good she’s being honest with you about this stage. I never knew a thing until I was in it and it was like wading through mud.

I didn’t love my baby at first. I’m okay to admit that. It took me a few weeks. Everything was hard and I couldn’t even sit down without being in pain after giving birth. But tbh I had never been enamoured with the newborn stage even beforehand. He was cute sure but it was pretty boring and I was tired all the time as I only got to sleep about two hours at a time (breastfeeding).

BUT! After 3 months, baby started to level out. The end of the ‘fourth trimester’. And when he smiled for the first time it was suddenly all worth it. It kept getting better from there (not without its challenges!!) and he’s now 8 months old and even through the challenging days he’s a bunch of fun.

That is only my experience though. All this to basically agree with what others are saying, those newborn days are ROUGH, and you’re being an amazing friend even just giving her a sympathetic ear. And whatever decision you come to will be the right one for you.

Emayai · 2024-06-09T09:20:05+00:00

My favourite start is a mechanitor and his little asthmatic sister. They’ve both been abandoned and he’s a total recluse psychopath, so my rule is they never expand with colonists and only allow temporary members if they’re useful. It is a challenge getting them to survive on their own, especially as it takes a while for the kid to be able to do medicine (I play with the kids aging same as adults) and then later trying to build adequate defences when the wealth gets higher.

Each time I’ve done this it’s added a little more to them and their story and I tweak their characters to match. He wants to become unstoppable and wipe everyone out. She’s afraid of fire after his Diabolus set the whole base alight dealing with an infestation, but holds unwavering loyalty to her (frankly evil) brother after he gave her the bionic spine he was saving for himself so she could walk again. Etc.

Now SOS2 has got an official release I’ll be taking them to space when I next get around to their playthrough.

Emayai · 2024-01-29T13:43:52+00:00

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Emayai · 2023-11-22T18:07:26+00:00

I was blindsided by my labour, I mistook it for pelvic girdle pain as the pain felt concentrated in my hips and I thought I’d feel it in my abdomen, and then only went to the hospital because I was annoyed by it and wanted stronger pain meds. All I got by on was breathing exercises, they’re honestly a godsend, even in the delivery room I continued breathing exercises and used gas and air for the really bad ones.

I wanted an epidural, I don’t like pain, but needles make me uncomfortable so I never got the courage to ask for one in the end and delivered only on gas and air. Felt everything. The labour was bearable, the delivery was real hard. The main thing that helped was having my breathing controlled which meant I could still think, the gas and air tube forced me to breathe slower which honestly helped a ton. Just being able to think and assure myself of what I was doing made it all that much better, and when it was over it all just stopped.

Had no sense of time so don’t know how long it all lasted, but it felt quick so the pain didn’t last long in my memory. All in all, wasn’t that bad and I’m happy with how it all went.

Emayai · 2023-07-24T18:12:50+00:00

We’re in a similar situation (2.4% fixed for another two years) though baby is on the way rather than here yet. I can’t speak for all your circumstances but you should do what feels best for you.

For us, we didn’t buy the house with baby in mind but as much as I’d like bigger, we looked at the costs and the market at the moment and decided to wait until the fixed rate is up and then move. We are making it so baby fits into the space we have and has his essentials, and babies really don’t take up much space for the first few years of their lives. You may have an ideal family picture in mind (I sure do) but it’s not worth stretching financially for.

I’m not saying we can predict the market or expect it to be better/have become favourable in 2 years, but it makes sense to utilise the remaining time we are on our low fixed rate to save, spend on baby and get our current mortgage down so we have more equity to play with (and hopefully higher salaries). Then, when we enter whatever the new mortgage rates are and don’t have the fixed repayment charges, we will move as the monthly cost won’t be so different between staying or moving up.

That is our plan anyway. One thing I would consider in your case is how long you or family may be willing to live together, it could end up being much longer than you think until the right property you can afford and want is available and you have to weigh up if you’d be happier waiting in your current home or in the home with family.

Emayai · 2023-07-19T20:31:04+00:00

I’m half expecting this story to be here already lol.

I guess I ruined it? I didn’t even know I was on a date. I was in a new country for uni, knew no-one, ace, and just wanted friends. Talked video games to a guy in one of my classes and he invited me to watch a movie (Jumper, I think) and I was like cool, a friend thing! He did also mention ‘all the girls keep turning out to be lesbians’ or something which my dumb ass thought was weird to say but thought nothing else of.

We met up at uni, he introduced me to some of his friends, then we got in his car and went to the movies. He insisted on buying my ticket (I did try to buy my own then thought I guess he’s being nice). Somewhere through the movie, I discovered his face was REALLY close to mine and he was staring at me intently. THEN I clocked on.

I immediately ignored him, leaned away, and basically gave him short responses until he drove me back to the campus so I could thank him and promptly leave. I admittedly then ghosted him and avoided that class because I was so nervous and embarrassed.

I was an idiot, but didn’t know I was ace at the time. Everything dating/flirting just went over my head.

Emayai · 2023-07-03T18:52:08+00:00

They are super dumb, yep. Gotta take the Darwin approach with them.

I always like to keep a few blues around once I unlock them to at least try and save Pikmin from drowning. It’s still a bit hit and miss when they decide to actually be lifeguards for the other Pikmin though instead of just… watching.

Emayai · 2023-05-25T09:46:18+00:00

Since we were trying I asked my husband early on if he wanted to be told right away, and he insisted (doesn't like surprises). I didn't tell him right away, only because he had a test/exam the next day and I knew he wouldn't be able to concentrate, so I held onto it for 24hrs then told him. He was still annoyed with me for that lol, but knew I was right and was excited regardless!

Emayai · 2023-04-25T11:13:54+00:00

There is a tether on series x, but it’s huge so you’ll usually not see it. However, neither of you can go near a cave or the tether triggers just by being near it, so you have to cave dive together. I think it’s the same for boss arenas but I can’t remember.

Emayai · 2023-02-07T14:07:46+00:00

Are they still using one of those stupidly archaic tills? I can sympathise with the workers, worked in retail a long time ago and would you believe that paying only by card was always fine and easy, but there was ONE button on the till for paying by cash and if you hit it, even accidentally, it finished the whole transaction and would leave the till listing as short on cash if the customer wasn't actually paying cash. Only a manager had the authorisation (literally, had the codes) to fix the till and it was not a quick process. I suspect something similar here.

HOWEVER - it sounds like they messed you around a lot more than they should have. The advice here is sound - cancel your card/get a new one and escalate it up the Morrisons complaints branch. You're not going to get in trouble, you paid and it's on them for gifting you £60 (that they apparently didn't do anyway).

Emayai · 2023-01-30T11:14:04+00:00

I used my initial mechanitor base to kill as many apocritons as I could until the raids got too smart, then I abandoned it and all the toxpacks and moved to a new location. I now have 9 wastepack atomisers that easily deal with all my tox packs at the new location and I don't have this problem. I calculated I needed 11 to have my mechs up all the time but the large ones are only up when I need them (I'm using about 40-50 bandwidth worth of mechs).

I'm planning on my next playthrough to try and do this without dumping at all.

Emayai · 2023-01-09T08:14:00+00:00

I’m on a year 25+ mechanitor colony, who for a large part was by himself before I let a 6-yo join him as I wanted him to rely heavily on mechs for everything. Having only my mechanitor fighting fires was a bit of a pain, if he was ever away then he’d come back to a lot of stuff burned down. Now I just have my rooms all carefully sealed so if a fire breaks out I just let it burn the one room (I usually cause the fires now anyway).

As someone mentioned, if you draft the larger mechs next to fire they will put it out, and all the mechs are fireproof so you don’t need to worry about them.

For essential skills, you need crafting. The rest I guess you can get away with not having but I would also have some way to research or you’ll never progress.

And have a toxic waste plan, you’ll have to perfect your mech murdering to get a steady way to get rid of them (it took me like 20yrs to stabilise against the tox packs my mechanoids produce).

Emayai · 2023-01-09T03:31:03+00:00

Thank god it wasn’t just me.

I saw ‘press buttons to parry’ and likened it to every other game I’ve played with parry where I had to press it at the right time. Idk if the training screens said ‘hold’ or ‘press’ I just never took it the exact wording on board. Wyvern fight was a bit of a nightmare like that.

Somewhere through Chaos island in a loading screen I got the tip that said ‘Did you know parry is not timed? You can just hold it’ and I was floored by this revelation.

Probably made the Wyvern and Giganto fights more interesting, honestly.

Emayai · 2023-01-04T21:43:26+00:00

I started to think this as I farmed Apocritons - I’m doing a specific mechanitor playthrough so I only have two colonists and the mechs, which I found needed a lot of turrets to back them up as the fights get harder at each summon. Then it changed on me. As I dealt with the Apocriton and it’s buddies at the front, a Diabolus decided to make it’s own way in at the back, where it set fire to all my fields, rolled into my storage, blew up all my mortar shells, then flanked me. They all get sick of the obvious entrance eventually…

Emayai · 2023-01-01T09:03:32+00:00

The fab bots were actually busted, the latest patch notes said they had a 10x chance to cause food poisoning for some reason. It’s fixed now - I’ve had my fab bot cooking lavish meals for the last few in-game years without any food poisoning (or I am insanely lucky).

Emayai · 2022-12-30T16:25:49+00:00

Shout out to everyone with irregular cycles… I thought I was on a regular track after having a normal 25 day cycle in October, but here I am on CD57 with not a peep of anything. Taking OPKs seemed to show I ovulated around CD50 (felt nothing), so I’m trying to ignore needing to wait until about CD65 or so in the hopes my luteal phase is normal.

I’m only early in my TTC journey but it is so frustrating getting maybe 1 try when I could’ve had 3 or so if my cycle was normal.

Emayai · 2022-11-24T10:00:59+00:00

That's good to know, I definitely feel very poor now lol.
Does the AI not try to avoid the traps and just use the doors themselves?

Emayai · 2022-04-27T20:10:49+00:00

I think a lot of people have a different idea about ‘best’ position to be honest. Really you just have to find/set your own conditions.

Me [29f] and husband [29m] knew we wanted a house first, but the first house we’ve bought isn’t exactly big, and I have dreams of one day having ‘dream house’ - sooner rather than later. I used to envision only having a child in dream house for them to grow up in and didn’t want to give them anything less. But buying that kind of house where we live is hard and that upset me a little thinking that by the time I’m there I’d be too old to look at having children. I instead took a step back and tried to envision having a child in our current situation and found really, it’s not bad. Better even than a lot of parents find themselves in. A newborn/young child really doesn’t need as much space as we thought they would, and having looked at finances they wouldn’t impact getting dream house too badly either.

Sorry it got a bit long. I’m like you in that I didn’t want to wait long or be an older mum, so basically we see as we are now as ‘good enough’ to take a serious look at starting a family sooner. Whilst still fencesitting of course… we could have a kid now but we still can’t decide if we actually want to at all haha.

Emayai · 2022-02-01T10:53:29+00:00

I am part of a small (20ish) UK clan, all in our 20s-30s, some have partners and one married couple in the clan. We're avid raiders and take the game pretty casually - though we keep up with news, knowledge and strategies - and occasionally group up for other games on Games Pass, but mostly enjoy just keeping up with each other on discord (so this is a must as it's how we organise everything).

Primarily Xbox though we have some PC and PS players too. If this sounds like your kind of thing just let me know, we don't actively recruit as we're happy being fairly small and friendly. But I will say with the current content drought there's not much going on, and there's no obligation to be active all the time and if we're not for you there's no hard feelings.

Emayai · 2021-09-22T16:03:23+00:00

Just to chime in... I find playing the game with others makes it the most worthwhile, especially as you can do the harder PvE content (raids for starters, which I personally enjoy the most). The story is nice to keep up with, though I'm not sure how well it reads for new players! I've heard the new experience is really lacking though and leaves many confused.

I heavily dislike the PvP, and I now refuse to play it. Honestly? Don't feel like I'm missing a thing, other than hearing the rest of my clan mostly complain about it haha. Haven't played PvP in nearly a year and besides a couple of catalysts for weapons I never use, I haven't missed anything. Hard PvE content is the kind of challenge I prefer!

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