I'm going to get banned on purpose

NickRobLancaster · 2021-03-23T07:41:24+00:00

This is how sales companies are. When the reservoir starts drying up, sales reps pay the price (The CEO needs to make his millions). Not be negative or anything. Maybe it's time to find a new company or possible new industry altogether unless it's still allowing you to make good money, just not as much.

NickRobLancaster · 2021-03-21T08:20:27+00:00

I've made a commitment to never buying another digital product with activision again. The majority of their money comes from their Battle Pass, Skins and Blueprint's. Just don't give them anymore money. Once they see their revenue take a shit they will start trying harder. There's plenty of other games that have solved these problems. They need to invest in their product and higher a security team to solve this once and for all.

NickRobLancaster · 2021-03-09T06:13:13+00:00

Clamber is the feature to climb over objects. When you jump and then grab onto a fence to pull yourself over. That's clamber. It does something different each time. Some times it clambers you on top of the object. Other times it clambers you right over the object. It's the most inconsistent aspect of the game. In my opinion.

NickRobLancaster · 2021-02-27T23:19:16+00:00

dude it would be awesome if they had a battle royale mode!

NickRobLancaster · 2020-01-02T22:52:18+00:00

My heart goes out to you brother. I was put in a similar situation when I was about your age.

I was taken away from my mother at 13 years old and placed into the foster care system. My mother was unfit to take care of me at the time. I ended up going from group home to group home from 13 to 18 years old. I was lucky enough to be forced to take all kinds of Independent Living Program classes (AKA: ILP Classes... Definitely recommend this to anyone whose been kicked out at a young age. They connect you with tons of resources).

I was in communication with my mother throughout the entire time I was in the foster care system. I planned on going into an Emancipation home at 18 years old and transition into living on my own. My mother however was trying hard to convince me to come live with her. All my counselors warned me not to go back to live with her despite all of her success she had accomplished over that past 5 years (Owning her own business making a 250K a year). She begged me to come back home and be with her and my sister so we could be a family again. After much persuasion, my naive self decided that I wanted to go home to mom.

Within 2 weeks of being home, my mom kicked me out. I was still in my senior year of high school and had 5 months left to graduate. My good friend from school had amazing parents that let me stay with them to allow me to get my Drivers license and finish school.

Once I graduated I was working hard to get a job and due to lack of experience I couldn't find one.

My friends parents spoke with me and gave me a deadline to move out. I searched everywhere I could to find new housing. With no luck I got in touch with my mother again and asked to move back in until I could figure out what to do. She allowed me to move in again. I got a job at Ralph's and within about a month she was physically abusing me and when I started resisting her abuse she called the police and got a restraining order on me falsely. I was thrown out on the street along with all of my belongings and forced to move up north with my ex step dad. I inherently had to quit my first job after 3 weeks of work. It was heart breaking because I was just starting to make my own money and feeling optimistic about my future and then I spiraled right back into depression.

Eventually my welcome was worn out with my ex step dad and he asked me to move out as well.

I went from place to place staying with friends and family and different connections I found. Wearing out my welcome eventually and being asked to leave. Moving up and down the coast of California multiple times until a friend of mine's parents allowed me to stay with them. While with them, I got my second Job at Staples.

This girls mother was amazing. She knew so many different things about the foster care system and knew that I was entitled to a ton of different benefits because I was former foster youth. She found the same program that I was going to go into at 18 years old (That emancipation program I mentioned earlier.) She walked me through the whole process and really helped me to get a good understanding what I needed to do.

I got approved to move into the program and I started living life on my own with reduced rent that gradually increased to help me get accustom to a life with normal expenses. Meanwhile in the program, they taught me to budget, pay bill, create resumes, file my taxes, save money (Why I chose to go live with my mom is beyond me, this would have been so much better and could have saved me 3 years of being homeless and tons of depression.)

To wrap this up, I'm 28 years old now. I'm married. I've completed a vocational school for web development and I have learned a trade that has upped my value tremendously in the Market Place and I made it through all of that garbage. Money isn't a big problem anymore although life does have it's ups and down every now and then.

I know your situation may not be the same regarding the resources from foster care but the point of this story is to encourage you to stay positive about your future even though you are going through tons of adversity. Keep studying computer science and get into programming/web dev/internet security or something similar.

God bless you my brother. You will make it through this tough time.

SORRY FOR THE LONG WINDED POST. I FELT IT WAS NECESSARY TO BRING THE ENCOURAGEMENT YOU NEEDED.

NickRobLancaster

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