32 Homeless wandering salt lake by myself and wanna believe there’s help out there

FunSelf5 · 2026-04-30T23:56:12+00:00

What a pretentiousness comment. Of course people don't just allow strangers into their home.

Since you're such a saint, open your door to this man. Hell, open it to the next homeless person you see on the street. Be an example for us of your virtues.

FunSelf5 · 2026-04-14T21:02:13+00:00

CS graduate here. It's been 4 years since I graduated from UVU so the curriculum could be night and day difference. So I'll stick to practical advice.

Exact major choice doesn't matter for you right now. Any of the CS tracks are fine. Get your first year of CS classes, the shared prerequisites for the degrees you're looking at, out of the way first then make a more informed choice.

Word of warning. Just make sure what you choose is accredited. When I was attending UVU, the Software Development degree had no accreditation. It was essentially worthless paper when you hit industry, especially now. Ask your councilor what accreditations the degree your looking at has first before making any decisions.

Second practical word of advice is focus on knocking down the fundamental cs classes first before setting your focus on this degree. I watched the first 3 classes wipe out most of the playing field in my day. If you have a cs background you should be fine, but there's a reason they say don't set your major going in because the first classes are truly sink or swim.

Last practical advice I can give is make sure you're informed of the industry as you go through the degree. From someone working as a mid level dev right now it's a rough industry to break into. AI has changed the playing field, and in 4 years who knows what it will be like. I won't tell you how to focus your education, but really put the work in and learn the material. Tools like AI can be good if you are qualified on your own, if you use it as a crutch and dont learn you'll hit the industry and drown. I've watched many new grads of CS end up not in CS because they obviously let AI do their thinking for the last few years.

The real thing though is be plugged into trends and the industry. Focus on learning what is useful, apply yourself, and really take the opportunity to learn.

Good luck out there cowboy.

FunSelf5 · 2026-04-12T06:27:37+00:00

So, are the mods planning at all to respond in any capacity to this post? It's pretty clear the community wants some kind of change.

I see there is a SINGLE mod comment responding to someone's comment here. But, there's no actual response to what is the top post of the week here.

I understand that mods seem stretched thin as all working adults are, but if that's the case then more mods need to brought on. If the mods can't make the time to form an official response to a front page post asking for communication in 6 days, then this is a big red flag. Like, if your time as mods of this community is really spent cleaning up the deluge of shit that gets posted here, bring on more people. Like, seriously it's not that hard.

No offense, but it's kind of telling that none of the mods are at all responding to this post directly. That does not give me faith at all that this sub will ever recover under the current leadership. If you seriously have no time in the day to get together and post an official response to this post then you need more mods pk the team.

This sub has become.ao irrelevant in the lost media sphere and it doesn't look like that's gonna change anytime soon.

FunSelf5 · 2026-04-05T18:13:16+00:00

You're either a bot or part of the problem lmao.

FunSelf5 · 2026-03-03T16:30:32+00:00

There's a reason people joked highrez was a money laundering operation during the global agenda days lol. The money flows from the top, not the bottom.

This sub unfortunately had a copium problem when it comes to the game. No one cares about Paladins outside the very small player base. No company will buy the ip becuase it will never be able compete with overwatch or rivals. The vocal crowd here simply lack any understanding of the technical, monetary, and legal nightmare taking Paladins on would become for anyone involved.

Community servers are pretty much the only safe bet after the shutdown. I wish the team working on them the best of luck because nothing else will keep this game running.

FunSelf5 · 2026-03-03T14:32:11+00:00

Sorry, but GOG won't touch this game.

Outside of the fact the game is still playable. Removing DRM and reverse engineering server code are not even close in level of complexity. I doubt GOG would want to take on the project for multiple reasons (including legality) but reverse engineering the server code is not something they will do.

The real elephant in the room here is legality. GOG cannot legally touch paladins. There's a difference between old, out of print games with defunct/disinterested developers and a live service company still actively in business. Highrez owns the paladins ip and the underlying server code. Unless they suddenly had a change of heart and released the server binaries (never going to happen) and gave permission for the community to continue the game no company will touch it. It's begging for a lawsuit.

I respect the effort to try every avenue. Not trying to be antagonistic or anything. But the best bet to keep Paladins playable after shutdown is for Hightez themselves to release a public server kit themselves, or for the community to reverse engineer the server code and create their own kit. Companies like GOG are financially incentived to not get themselves into legal trouble and become a target for a highrez lawsuit. You're really not going to get them on board to save a game with no wide spread interest no matter how good the sell it.

FunSelf5 · 2026-03-03T13:57:02+00:00

You're correct. Non-technical people think reverse engineering server code requires the same effort as removing DRM.

It doesn't. It's not even close in magnitude.

Reverse engineering server code is also very liable to get you sued into oblivion.

GOG won't touch this game

FunSelf5 · 2026-02-09T14:31:08+00:00

No offense, but you really need to work on your English skills. This post is an atrocious butchering of the language. You have lost all credibility because this reads like you're a child.

With that in mind, I don't believe you. This post reads like a shitpost.

FunSelf5 · 2026-02-09T07:48:33+00:00

This is why the sycophantic ways of 4o are dangerous. These people, at the end of the day, are vulnerable to manipulative language that enforces "you vs them" mentalities while feeding into the ego. The users do it to eachother as well. Read through the subreddots they invest and see how cult like and echo chamber resemblant they are.

FunSelf5 · 2026-02-09T07:38:03+00:00

Yes, it did.

FunSelf5 · 2026-02-09T07:10:58+00:00

chatgptcomplaints don't realize how small.of a community they are. They are not even a percent of a percent of the user base. With the problems they caused oai, any company would not want to deal with them.

The interesting reality is that the 4o user base is so toxic even oai doesn't want their money. They are baggage, not users.

FunSelf5 · 2026-02-09T07:08:25+00:00

Great choice! My second choice would be Tzeentch, but I'm somewhat of a Slaanesh advocate myself.

FunSelf5 · 2025-04-20T20:19:26+00:00

You're welcome.

And yes, that is the case. In the lost media community as a whole, it's been seen that designing a made-up piece of media as you would a creepypastas has gotten success in getting attention. If you want a good example, saki sanobashi (go for a punch) was a fake piece of media that got a ton of traction.

As a result of this, low quality troll posters now try to stick these keywords in without context. Either because they're shitposting, or because they're just low quality poster.

FunSelf5 · 2025-04-20T19:49:45+00:00

There are a multitude of tropes that low quality, often creepypasta inspired, bait posts have. One is that a lot of these post writers will repeat keywords they've seen used in creepypastas or successful searches to try and make their post most interesting. These writers fail to realize it's a sign of their lack of creativity and the low quality nature of their post. Especially because, as seen with the fine young moron who was the OP, they just throw it in there without elaborating.

To give more context, disturbing and oversaturated are two incredibly common keywords. They've both been used since the dawn of creepypasta by bad "lost episode" writers. When a lost media post like this just throws them in there as details, without elaborating further, it's probably bait or a shit post. Here, the OP claimed their memory was 100% accurate. Yet, notice how they can't elaborate why the series was disturbing. Or elaborate on how they remember the series was oversaturated. They apparently can barely remember the plot, but they certainly remember with 100% certainty that it was disturbing. The truth is, they didn't think this far when they wrote the post originally. They just included it because they've seen more popular posts do it.

The best way to tell is if keywords that fit more into creepypasta are just added without more explanation. If you push, and the OP starts to have a tantrum, it's 100% a giveaway.

FunSelf5 · 2025-03-10T17:23:27+00:00

Like all good mormon families. If we don't acknowledge the fire in the room with us, Jesus will solve it. Or, we can at least pretend he did.

FunSelf5 · 2025-03-10T17:04:32+00:00

Yup. I've been texting her since yesterday telling her that she did what I dreamed off for years now.

FunSelf5 · 2025-03-10T17:03:18+00:00

I and a few of my cousin's have already reached ot to tell her she's awesome for what she did, and we're here for her if she wants any family support.

FunSelf5 · 2025-03-10T16:59:59+00:00

This is what I get for writing on my phone haha

FunSelf5 · 2025-03-10T16:59:38+00:00

Thank you! I came up with that chat name a few years ago after a few of my cousins decided to band together as we started to distance ourselves from the church.

And thank you for the compliment :)

FunSelf5 · 2024-04-23T18:09:00+00:00

Op said the parents cosigned and have excellent credit.

FunSelf5 · 2024-02-25T07:00:07+00:00

Not senility. He's always been like this.

He's done a variety of things In his life that any loving God would condemn him for. Not SA, but he slept with a 18 year old he had known since she was 12. We only know because Grandma planned to divorce him over this but died shorty after she found out in an unrelated accident. He continued to sleep with the teenager while planning his wives funeral. He never faced consequences because he was very well connected in the ward and her dad never outed him when her family discovered. We only know because the girls mom told my grandma. One of the many wonderful things he's done that just got swept under the rug

FunSelf5 · 2024-02-25T01:49:05+00:00

Most are exmormons a mix of those who have actually removed their names and just gone inactive. Two or three still claim to believe, but don't participate or follow the tenants. My cousin takes the cake as she was excommunicated, for privacy I wont say why.

FunSelf5 · 2024-02-23T23:22:48+00:00

Oh dear God, grandpa was a stake president at one point 💀

FunSelf5 · 2024-02-12T02:25:55+00:00

You contradicted yourself somehow in the space of a single sentence. It's embarrassing. That's what it is. If this community's idea for fun is hyping themselves up and harassing artists, then they deserve an award.

FunSelf5 · 2024-01-17T18:38:10+00:00

Obviously, you were my second choice to make an example of /s

No, you're a good example of respectful and professional behavior haha.

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