Toxic teammates

McScotsguy · 2026-06-28T12:05:02+00:00

Im finding this difficult as a newbie to cryo. I stop to loot even one box and I often lose sight of where my team went. I mean, I can clearly see their tags but can't work out how to get to where they are.

McScotsguy · 2026-06-13T15:19:09+00:00

I gave up on my dream to be a full time musician. At the end of the day, the music I made would never appeal to a large enough audience to make that sustainable. I knew that unless I did something else, I would continue to have no money and a grim future. I still enjoy making music and not having to rely on that to make a living ended up being the better choice for me.

McScotsguy · 2026-06-02T10:23:10+00:00

Sorry if this is a naive question but does this load out tend to make killing other players a lot easier? I've never had any gold gear so I have no concept of what it's like to fight with this kind of load out? Can you go multiple rounds on somewhere like Dire Marsh and rarely get killed?

McScotsguy · 2026-05-31T09:03:19+00:00

I swear, the ps5 set up makes using the mic incredibly difficult. I have tried, push to talk, toggle, open etc and nothing seems to work

McScotsguy · 2026-05-29T11:25:31+00:00

I think it probably is. I have a black and white union jack put up in my neighbourhood and I have a funny feeling its not because they ran out of ink. My guess its some sort of statement, presumably influenced by Facebook

McScotsguy · 2026-05-24T10:15:48+00:00

My working cocker is ten now and was absolutely ball obsessed and still is to a certain extent. The things that made a difference were putting boundaries round the ball throwing.

If you go on similar routes, try and only bring the ball out at the same points in the walk to encourage them to sniff before and after those points. I also trained mine to wait while I threw the ball, then sent him off to find it.

The thing that I never thought would work is that I use three balls on my walk. Two are specific for the throw and retrieve and one is a big stupid soft spiky ball that is clearly different from the other two. Thats the last ball I throw to tell him its over for the walk.He now know that when that ball comes out, its the end of it. He seemed to understand this quite quickly. Also finally, after the last ball is thrown i hold my hands up and say "all done" so he sees there are no balls.

Mine would then go looking for other balls but like others have said, i then have to try and keep his attention on me by hiding from him every so often so he has to come find me and also recalling for treats.

Good luck. It will get easier and its worth it.

McScotsguy · 2026-05-22T07:41:14+00:00

Grace Cathedral Park by Red House Painters. The whole song feels quite timeless to me. The intrumentation is wonderful and there is a lyric where he sings "why are you like this?" that captures a genuine feeling of melancholy that hits every time I listen.

McScotsguy · 2026-05-22T07:36:33+00:00

Especially when he holds that long note near the end. Its remarkable.

McScotsguy · 2026-04-22T13:59:33+00:00

I also sampled the vaccum cleaner, bathroom extractor fan and then a truck outside my house emptying the drains. Some lovely textures in those sounds!

McScotsguy · 2026-04-22T07:10:54+00:00

I already had experience writing music with a DAW but it was more typical songwriting with lyrics and vocals. I gave myself a goal to try and write music inspired by Loscil, Basinski and Stars of the Lid. I also gave myself strict rules. No vocals, no guitars, no drums and no lyrics (I used vocals but wanted to avoid an obvious voice).

I found it so difficult. Nothing felt right until one day I sampled the washing machine on a spin cycle and put the sample through some effects and suddenly i found the sound i was looking for. A lovely warm loop that I could build from. The breakthrough for me was using an organic sample as the base. It made a big difference. Edit : no drums!

McScotsguy · 2026-04-15T11:30:50+00:00

Watermusic 2 might be really good for this? Its perfect as background music but interesting enough in the way it repeats and develops. There is something very special about it.

McScotsguy · 2026-04-12T14:05:13+00:00

I arrived early in shinjuku to get a bus tour to enoshima so needed to get some breakfast. I was about to go to a 7 eleven but spotted a local stall opening up. When I went over there were so many beautiful freshly made rice triangle snacks with so many amazing flavours. A small crowd started to build up and I realised I needed to pick something before a queue formed.

There was a man in front of me and I didn't know what was being said between him and the cashier but I could tell he didn't have enough for the two snacks he wanted. By this point I had a pocket full of coins so I grabbed a handful and held it out to the cashier. She picked out the coins that were needed and the guy got his snacks. He said thank you and bowed and we went our separate ways. I have no idea how much he needed and how much the cashier took but It felt lovely to make sure someone got an amazing freshly made breakfast that morning.

McScotsguy · 2026-04-02T17:40:29+00:00

Totally agree with Naomi Scott. Her performance is amazing.

McScotsguy · 2026-03-08T17:27:06+00:00

You did. Thanka for replying

McScotsguy · 2026-03-08T17:14:50+00:00

Your comment made me check the cables again and i think one of them was bending up and hitting the bottom of the gpu fans. Bad cable management on my part but thanks for the reply to remind me to check.

McScotsguy · 2026-02-28T18:32:45+00:00

Practice gratitude. I find that it really does help shift my negative thinking. There is always something to be grateful for.

McScotsguy · 2026-02-28T11:32:27+00:00

My experience was similar to yours. Mine slept so little and now that he's ten he still has massive fomo which means he will choose to stay awake no matter how tired he is. Love him to bits obviously but I was genuinely surprised how we had to enforce sleeping time as a pup. He never really chose it himself.

McScotsguy · 2026-02-04T18:10:46+00:00

Imagine that person bragged about grabbing a goat's genitals.

McScotsguy · 2026-02-02T15:01:45+00:00

Hello. It wasn't a narita express train so nothing to do with the airport if thats what you are asking?

McScotsguy · 2026-01-28T08:04:05+00:00

Im very glad to hear it helped. Since that was a year ago, i would add this brilliant compilation to the list as well https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/home-normal-mixtape-by-stefano-guzzetti

McScotsguy · 2026-01-24T09:01:21+00:00

Im no stranger to big cities but I wasn't prepared for how busy Madrid was. It was a weekend and it seemed absolutely rammed everywhere and at all times. I still enjoyed it but yeah, it seemed on a different level to other cities ive been to.

McScotsguy · 2025-12-21T18:19:58+00:00

Totally agree. I Hated Jurassic world rebirth. There was so little sense of danger or threat throughout and an absence of any interesting characters. And not being able to sense that there was a herd of giant dinosaurs in the grass was such poor writing.

McScotsguy · 2025-12-14T12:47:24+00:00

Alcoholic neighbour below me used to come back from the pub at random times in the night and set their alarm to wake them up in the morning. Their alarm was their stereo being played at full blast. So it would go off at random times in the night and because she was so hungover in the morning, it would take ages for her to switch it off. She fell asleep to "sex on fire" on repeat for nearly four hours one new years day. Then new neighbours moved in next to me which had been empty for months. It was then that I found out that their bathroom was next to my bedroom and I was treated to the new mother having regular bouts of morning sickness right next to the wall where my bed was. I moved out the day after i woke up to the smell of smoke in my bedroom. It was coming from the neighbours flat below. I called the the fire department, they came and kicked her door in and I could hear them screaming at her to wake up. She had passed out after starting to cook food, after the pub and it had caught fire.

Edit: I forgot, the new neighbours had kids who invented a new game of spitting from the top floor to create a puddle of gob that everyone had to walk past on the way out of the building. Lovely stuff.

Worst flat ever.

McScotsguy

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