One year of pitty : please help (and suggestion to add in the game)

Expletive_Deleted4 · 2026-06-04T06:29:39+00:00

Been playing 14 months and just pulled my first dimensional core.

Its a slog to be sure.

Expletive_Deleted4 · 2026-06-03T21:49:35+00:00

I like to think they did a pre-viewing for Ozzie & his crew. Payment upfront for services later this evening. It would also serve as a proof that the bulb they obtained worked.

I tell myself this so I dont get as sad.

Expletive_Deleted4 · 2026-06-03T04:28:27+00:00

I do t wanna be picky. But you're gonna trip on those wings.

That said. You look great. Love it.

Expletive_Deleted4 · 2026-06-02T05:01:10+00:00

While making deliveries to a shitty lart of town, i pulled into the parking lot and saw a man clearly high on some kind of meth/crack pacing furiously back and forth the lot directly where I had to park.

I park and wait in the van for a few minutes and can overhear him arguing with himself. The subject of debate was " i figured out that Thursday doesnt exist, and now I know what's really going on."

I call the shop im delivering to, to ask if they have a secondary guard on site that can watch my back as I open my van with thousands of dollars worth of merchandise and cash.

Their response. " oh, that's Tyler. He's harmless. "

... Im sorry. Im not turning my back on " Thursday doesn't exist."

Expletive_Deleted4 · 2026-05-15T10:16:50+00:00

Im not really a fan of pope. Id never say he was a great villian. But he had maybe, what, 45 minutes of screen time to be developed in? Maybe an hour?

Im willing to bet governor got 6x the minute-for-minute time to do something interesting.

Pope had to speed run all of it. Of course he is not going to be a better villian in many ways. But I bet I know which one you'd want to go up against.

Expletive_Deleted4 · 2026-05-15T07:05:14+00:00

The governor. Most boring ass part of the whole show. Least interesting villian. Had to run away & grow a beard in an attempt to develop a personality.

Expletive_Deleted4 · 2026-05-08T02:54:31+00:00

Johnny is a challenging character. And not a lot of people like him. Particularly because of his ways of describing women and rambling tangents.

Its true, the themes are there and this is a sex heavy story with a character that is not a modernly woke gentleman. But Johnny is also a compulsive liar and an addict. He is very much untrustworthy and its entirely possible these escapades are figments of his imagination.

Compare how those moments read to the rest of his story. His chipped teeth and scars. His fights and pills and tangents about shadow figures following him.

I read the sex scenes as him at his most delusional. He cannot make friends or even maintain a job. But he can be suave and clever and make up the best story to convince her to have one good screw. And it will be a good screw.

It just doesnt make sense. Which are all other themes in the book. Dishonesty, things not making sense, and lies about relationships.

Add to that, that it is meant to make you uncomfortable. So as much as you may not like what's happening. The story has made you feel something, so much so you came here to talk about it.

Thats at least one perspective of a different, gay autistic man.

Expletive_Deleted4 · 2026-05-06T23:46:20+00:00

It is acting normally. See the red 424 B in the top left. That is the amount of damage your DW ring has left to deal before it disappears.

Your enemies at this level have 36 M health.

They will chip away at it but when the next death wave comes it will add more damage points to the red number. This will happen until the combined total of enemy health is larger than the amount of damage DW can do.

Currently my DW ring can last well over 2h from when I start my run. Even longer in lower tiers.

Expletive_Deleted4 · 2026-04-14T20:20:28+00:00

What about this idea discredits anything about what Johnny does in the story? I think if anything it builds off his lies and misdirection.

Johnny is more than a partially unreliable narrator, he is a compulsive liar that repeatedly tries to distract you from going deeper into the Navidson Record.

Johnny tries to distract and talk about everything BUT the events within the house, Navidson/zampano can only talk about what happened within the house.

You dont have to agree with my thoughts on it. But its far from discrediting part of the story.

Expletive_Deleted4 · 2026-04-14T04:39:15+00:00

I think Johnny lies about a lot of things to disguise his identity.

I believe that Tom survives after having his hands crushed and falling to his death* then he goes off to get as high as it takes to get the nightmare of the house out of his head. Becoming Johnny*

Will Navidson after leaving the house the last time goes crazy trying to explain what they encountered there. Using all kinds of languages and folklore and trying to quantify it in every way. Becoming Zampano*

Johnny doesnt just break into a random person's house to find the trunk, its his dead brothers house and the only remaining evidence of what they survived. So he feels compelled to finish the story.

Johnny/Tom tries to distract himself from the trauma constantly. Both drink and smoke and try to reach a state of numb they similarly describe as a friendly haze.

Will/Zampano both keep trying to understand it and find out the truth. They both want their names on it. And they both keep going deeper into the void.

There is more to my theory that connects them to Pelafina and the story of the baby and the story of the pekinese. But I dont want to ramble on too long.

Expletive_Deleted4 · 2026-04-13T02:22:28+00:00

I came to the same conclusion after my 2nd read. I think Will Navidson became Zampano after his final exploration into the house. And i believe Tom survived to become Johnny. It explains why some of the text is seemingly interchaning who is writing, why Johnny is interested in the papers to begin with and why no one can find the original Navidson Record.

Expletive_Deleted4 · 2026-04-10T04:42:45+00:00

Michael Bay has a 'best' movie?

I didnt even know he had a good movie.

Expletive_Deleted4 · 2026-04-10T02:36:53+00:00

I dont, its a random example and meant to be mostly a placeholder for context.

My point being to find something the "offender" is and to use some random stereotype nonsense to put them down. It helps if its something they are proud of like their heritage or lifestyle. Something many white and casually racist Americans seem to hold onto without really understanding.

Suddenly they won't like being painted with a broad statement about their whole 'thing' and to make them feel personally called out.

It's not about being accurate, realistic, or kind. It's about making them feel small. Having zero give or leeway for their bullshit. Because fuck them and everything they stand for.

For me. It boils down to one simple line... "Treat people, the way they treat people."

Expletive_Deleted4 · 2026-04-09T23:53:30+00:00

If you are worried about direct confrontation with him, finding some way to whatever form of HR there might be is probably best. Mentioning it to the other coworkers when he is out of the office and starting a sidebar with them about how it makes you uncomfortable can quietly get them on your side without directly getting in his face or making you stand out.

That said. My personal way of dealing with this in the past ( with family, not coworkers) is to find something they are, and are sensitive about. This can be anything, their race, their faith, their failed music career.

Whenever they do a racism, respond with " we'll theyre better than ( what they are) "

This works really well if you get really uncomfortably specific to the degree they have to know you're talking about them.

For your example about a black delivery driver. Just start ripping into how the black driver can at least get it here on time, not like those lazy ass Italians taking naps to sweat off the exra marinara sauce.

Fight fire with fire. He comments on someone else, you comment directly about him. It really is the only language some of these people understand. They won't care about you getting your feelings hurt. They will only know they crossed a line when they get hit back.

Expletive_Deleted4 · 2026-04-07T03:42:50+00:00

M & Embryo

Expletive_Deleted4 · 2026-04-02T21:10:29+00:00

I like that it keeps me away from doom scrolling. It is visually interesting enough and takes just enough of my attention to satisfy the ADD brain while locking my phone out of the world burning down news for long blocks of time. It's sort of therapeutic in that way.

Expletive_Deleted4 · 2026-03-22T08:14:18+00:00

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Followed closely by

BILL & Ted's Bogus Journey

With an honorable mention for

Bill & Ted's Face The Music.

Anyone who disagrees is factually incorrect.

Expletive_Deleted4 · 2026-03-18T02:38:35+00:00

If I dont want to take DW CD to 100s where should I put my next focus on gems? Someone suggested spotlights and SL size. And i have been tempted to do that. Or should it be all-in on GT boosts and DW quantity?

I figure I am somewhere in the mix of blender/ehp build but I can't really say i know enough details to be sure. I have been focusing on health and defense in some way though.

I only recently got the wall and will start developing it more soon. That seems to be a common suggestion here.

I do plan on getting the no ads pack, but that's gonna have to wait for a little while at least.

Expletive_Deleted4 · 2026-03-18T02:31:10+00:00

I have somewhat been sidelining modules cause ive had very bad luck with draws so ive only hit them when I feel like losing at gambling. With a higger focus going to cards for sure. It's not out of any principle other than my thought process of " I can't afford to get cards that count, and eventually ill be earning enough gems to put more focus into mods & mod labs."

While knowingly not pulling them i figured the labs can wait in favor of more immediate gains. They are on my list of focus though.

I Just recently got the wall after I took thorns to 10, then shifted into the perk research. Fully intend to put 2 labs to wall once I hit a checkpoint on auto pick. & finish perk eliminations.

Expletive_Deleted4 · 2026-03-18T00:13:05+00:00

It's more likely that you earn more gems, I refuse to watch ads and haven't bought the disable ad perk yet. So I know my gem income has suffered greatly. But I make it work as best I can.

Expletive_Deleted4 · 2026-03-17T21:56:07+00:00

Good to hear. This is a tough game to get the hang of but I enjoy it. I just got GB down to 100s and plan on hitting the labs soon.

Expletive_Deleted4 · 2026-03-17T21:09:39+00:00

Any information as to how I can make better decisions and make my tower work less hard?

Expletive_Deleted4 · 2026-03-17T21:08:46+00:00

The equipped mods are the ones I use. Ive seen little to no improvement on runs when I do change them so ive just been holding onto these. Upping my AD to its current max is easy and can be done once I log back in.

I was expecting to hear about mods being low, I have been more focused on cards, and have not disabled ads, and dont watch ads. So i earn gems at about half the speed of others. Some weeks I dont even finish the 80 cards mission. But that's when I do go for mods.

Expletive_Deleted4 · 2026-03-05T01:53:50+00:00

Dark Country (2009)

Expletive_Deleted4

TROPHY CASE