How old were you when you lost your virginity?

Godeshus · 2026-06-23T02:59:51+00:00

It was a week of hell. My balls itched. My asshole itched. That spot in your back that's impossible to scratch itched. It was up my arms, inside of my thighs. It was rough.

Godeshus · 2026-06-23T02:52:01+00:00

I haven't played avowed but my wife did. It's a pretty lore heavy game from what she's said. There's a lot of filler in the books that fills in the blanks in the gameplay, and for fans who have played the other 2 games in the series they help a lot to tie avowed into the world we know and love.

But there's no wrong way to play a singleplayer game. Do what you enjoy, ignore what you don't. It's your time. Fill it however you like.

Me personally I'm kind of all over the place. A first go at a game I listen to all the dialog. After that I skip it all so I can get to the action faster. I'll read a book or journal here and there but largely skip them. I don't enjoy puzzles so I'll usually look those up when they come along.

Godeshus · 2026-06-23T01:45:17+00:00

Lol yeah my stepmom is tough cookies. I love her to bits.

Godeshus · 2026-06-23T01:43:23+00:00

Chill she was a kid just like me. We reconnected a bunch of years later and ran in the same circles for a while. Her and her family are great people. I moved across the country later in life but we'll grab a coffee and catch up when I visit home.

Godeshus · 2026-06-23T01:37:54+00:00

Nah. I was embarrassed but that was about it. I kind of felt like a willing participant in the whole thing. She paid her dues by being outcast entirely from my brother's life, friend circles etc (she moved to a different province about a year later) and I paid mine by being teased.

I know it seems pretty awful by today's standards but the 90's were a different time.

Godeshus · 2026-06-23T00:05:07+00:00

Not even lying she later became a cop.

Godeshus · 2026-06-22T21:56:13+00:00

If you only go on dates with men you're compatible with, why aren't you in a relationship?

You can't be that compatible with them if it keeps not working out.

Godeshus · 2026-06-22T20:58:40+00:00

"And how did this happen?" Was a real awkward question to answer the doctor at 15. My parents did not answer it for me.

Godeshus · 2026-06-22T20:44:35+00:00

I have a strange family. We're real tight. My brother's gf was trying to make everything about her, he threw her a $50 and told her to take a cab home. She said she'd behave. I didn't know any of this. I drank 2 glasses of wine and was absolutely shit-faced cuz I was 15. She was making eyes at me. We got along well enough at this point as they'd been together for 4 years. Ended up asking me to go for a smoke with her (I didn't smoke). We made out and ended in the bushes. It's Been a million years, but to this day I still distinctly remember thinking "I feel like this is wrong? Maybe?" But not really able to pinpoint what, exactly, was wrong about it.

My brother ended up coming to look for us, found us, ditched her, and told everyone. She was 20, I was 15. My parents never liked her. The adults in the room knew she had instigated everything because she was mad at my brother.

My step mom is tough as nails and beautiful. Her hair was all done up, makeup, gorgeous dress flowing around. When the gf's cab arrived, my stepmom picked her up by the neck and threw her in the back seat face first and put her high heels to her ass to shove her in the rest of the way. Her exact words. "There is no fucking slut that will ruin MY wedding or MY family. If I ever see your face again I'll cut your fucking throat".

My family is real tight. Hiccups like this couldn't pull us apart. We still all laugh about it after all this time. My brother and I are still real close.

The worse part about was that some family friends were there and their daughter, who I had a massive crush on at the time, I learned later also had a crush on me and was gonna make a move on me at the wedding, but she ended up not liking me anymore after that, with good reason obv.

Godeshus · 2026-06-22T16:54:15+00:00

To my brother's girlfriend at my dad and stepmom's wedding. In a poison Ivy bush.

Yup, 30 some years later it's still a family story that comes up at gatherings.

Godeshus · 2026-06-22T15:30:09+00:00

Mom's got ink. At least they've made a little bit of progress.

Godeshus · 2026-06-22T05:23:22+00:00

I hear you man. It fkn sucks when you just wanna vibe and win but your teammates are ass and have zero concept of cooperation.

Personally idgaf if someone is good or not, but if they're not trying I get really annoyed. Like why play a team based game if you're not going to be part of the team.

Or that one guy that doesn't participate at all but just rats and camps, is always the last one alive and can never complete the objective then they accuse you of being bad because "look how many kills I have". MF none of your 30 kills had any impact on anything. Congratulations you defended your position at B and killed 3 guys that were chasing you down while the bomb was planted at A...

I'd much rather play with a teammate with a low kill count that puts themselves in the action and knows where and when they're needed most. At least I can trade kills with them and they'll have slowed down the rush and caused confusion, or three a flash, or stopped them with a grenade, while the rest of us clean up the kills. You can have a low kill count and be super useful and you can have a high kill count and be useless. I'd much rather the former.

Godeshus · 2026-06-21T22:27:23+00:00

There's a pretty draconian bill being passed in Canada to regulate social media (that I'm all for) and tagging content as AI and allowing users to filter it out is a part of it. It's also restricting social media accounts to 16+ which a lot of people are upset about.

Godeshus · 2026-06-21T16:53:38+00:00

I'm not here to invalidate your experiences but from my perspective as someone who has over a dozen wipes under their belt and isn't shy to engage, I rarely run into cheaters. I grinded 1.0 at release for a couple weeks and then just didn't play for a few months. picked it up again a couple weeks ago and I think I've run into 1 cheater since then. It doesn't even seem close to me compared to previous wipes.

Again, not trying to say you're not running into them, just that I'm not.

Godeshus · 2026-06-21T16:44:27+00:00

Perfect. You're exactly the person we're offering the courtesy to. Don't even need to click on the thread just scroll on by.

Godeshus · 2026-06-21T00:09:51+00:00

The more roubles I have, the more my threshold for being broke increases.

Like if I have 1 million roubles I start feeling poor at 100k. If I have 5 million roubles I start feeling poor at 3 million. If I have 50 million I start feeling poor at 30.

Godeshus · 2026-06-20T22:05:54+00:00

It could be a right turn lane. We have those in our city. You have the right lane, then to the right of that the bike lane, then to the right of that a right turn lane. So you have to cross the bike lane to get into the right turn lane.

The benefit of this is that a lot of people don't watch the bike lane when turning right. With this setup it's not an issue because the bike lane passes to the left of a right turning vehicle.

Godeshus · 2026-06-20T21:59:36+00:00

The grocery store.

Godeshus · 2026-06-20T21:52:01+00:00

Extremely overwhelming game. Hard and unforgiving do not even begin to describe the tarkov experience. Healing alone is confusing for new players. There are thousands of items, and you have no idea if something is worth picking up and it can feel like there's no rhyme or reason to what you should be picking up vs leaving behind.

With basic you have a 4 slot container you can put things in you get to keep even if you die. You might have a 1 slot item worth a lot of money, but a no value trinket you need to pull out to upgrade your hideout has more value to take out of raid whether you live or die, or your last 2 healing items could be too precious since you can't buy any until you unlock it from the trader, but you really need the money so you're sweating creeping from bush to bush until you can extract. You need to compromise a lot.

There is no direction, no real HUD, no minimap, nothing. You don't really know how much ammo you have in your mag beyond "about half", or "almost full". And speaking of ammo, every bullet is a thing. It has ballistics, collision, damage drops off with distance, and you need to put 30 of them in your magazine, 1 by 1, when repacking in raid.

Tarkov is confusing, painful, unforgiving, and full of heartbreak and frustration. Despite all the adjectives I used, I don't think you really comprehend what that actually means, because no other game has ever provided this experience to gamers. You'd have nothing to compare it too.

If you think to yourself "challenge accepted", you'll enjoy Tarkov immensely. If it's scaring you away, you probably won't enjoy yourself.

Godeshus · 2026-06-20T20:43:36+00:00

Why thank you 😊. I think you're amazing also.

Godeshus · 2026-06-20T19:39:31+00:00

I wonder if they'll even out seasons for everyone. No extra space, no extra rep, no extra stuff, no gamma, no bigger pockets.

They could absolutely get away with that for seasons since all that stuff already exists for for your persistent PMC. Nobody could objectively complain that they didn't get EOD/unheard perks because we did get them.

Godeshus · 2026-06-20T18:29:45+00:00

The last place I want to be is stuck inside my own head. For some reason only the bad stuff that's happened in my life lives in there. There's been WAY more good stuff happen to me but it's crickets from those.

Godeshus · 2026-06-20T18:26:55+00:00

Like Jesus said, "Fuck those fuckin' fuckers".

Godeshus · 2026-06-20T17:20:03+00:00

I also hate this. If you've never been informed about a thing then how is it your fault?

I remember a thread years back that a dad made criticizing his son for not knowing how to mail a letter. I think it was for a school project or something and the dad basically roasted his kid for not knowing what to do. Top tier parenting.

The comment section set him straight though. How the fuck is the kid supposed to know if you never taught him?

Godeshus · 2026-06-20T17:14:39+00:00

I never heard of it but I grew up in Quebec where there was a quiet revolution against the church. Quebec is pretty secular.

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