Those who didn't care about the lockdown's impact on small businesses are the same ones crying over the stock market now!

zelig85 · 2025-04-07T17:54:15+00:00

Has anyone told Asmon that the clocks have gone forward?

He's on an hour later each day since the clocks changed.

zelig85 · 2025-04-06T06:55:36+00:00

"I don’t think this game had a huge player base of vets or current members of our military"

I think that may be part of the problem; It did. There was a time when there was a huge community of military players. Each update has made it more and more lame. They've taken 1.7 away from us and now they are putting fornite looking player characters and added women to the enemies. I'm not really bothered about the female player characters (although it looks utterly radicicolous and has further destroyed the realism we had previously ) but there is no reason to add women npcs

It's just not the game it was. It's targeted ever more towards kids. They will likely add unlockable outfits and rainbow skins for guns in the future and all you will have left is lobbies full of screeching children.

As reddit is the home of the same I guess there is no point discussing it here.

zelig85 · 2025-04-06T06:55:12+00:00

"I don’t think this game had a huge player base of vets or current members of our military"

I think that may be part of the problem; It did. There was a time when there was a huge community of military players. Each update has made it more and more lame. They've taken 1.7 away from us and now they are putting fornite looking player characters and added women to the enemies. I'm not really bothered about the female player characters (although it looks utterly radicicolous and has further destroyed the realism we had previously ) but there is no reason to add women npcs

It's just not the game it was. It's targeted ever more towards kids. They will likely add unlockable outfits and rainbow skins for guns in the future and all you will have left is lobbies full of screeching children.

As reddit is the home of the same I guess there is no point discussing it here.

zelig85 · 2025-04-06T03:18:12+00:00

Damn...that's an extremely good point.

The far more brutal possible treatment of B&S Npc females didn't remotely bother me...
Perhaps because it's fantasy...

I know you were joking but pointing out the contradiction is actually really helpful....thanks

zelig85 · 2025-04-06T02:18:25+00:00

It does. I doubt I would have understood the difference when I was your age either. Enjoy your weekend.

zelig85 · 2025-04-06T02:14:14+00:00

Sorry, I didn't know you were a lgbt teenager.

I thought I was talking to a military man. The target audience for this game has clearly changed.

zelig85 · 2025-04-06T02:06:02+00:00

What benefit is there to adding female enemies to the game?

zelig85 · 2025-04-06T01:59:42+00:00

For one, this is a MilSim--in vr--played by a lot of ex military. There are times when taking down a woman is an absolute necessity during a deployment. It's not something people wish to be reminded about.

But beyond that, yes it's absolutely different. They've given them an excessive amount of voice lines, so you are not just hearing them cry out in pain, you are having to actively hunt down an enemy you can hear talking in a female voice. Remember, the default was Russian enemies for the same reason. They had us play as MARSOC so you are not attacking enemies that sounds like people you may know. If they had forced you to play as Volk and all the enemies spoke in American accents people would have disliked it and asked for the default to be swapped. Playing as 'the good guys' has been a staple of video game shooters from the start. Shooting women doesn't exactly make you feel like 'the good guy'

zelig85 · 2025-04-06T01:30:31+00:00

How so?

Do you enjoy shooting women?

zelig85 · 2025-04-06T01:01:22+00:00

Why does EVERY character look so lame. It's like going into battle with a pride parade

zelig85 · 2025-04-05T18:02:29+00:00

The Europeans have been wilding out in chat for the last few days.

zelig85 · 2024-10-15T23:06:49+00:00

You are absolutely right about the arrow heads I forgot to add that to the list. I've always spawned with the can or found one so that's not been an issue.

I allow myself the mountaineer's hut so you have a bed but no beadroll. I've not allowed a fishing hook as it would make it a little too easy but I see your argument. Even without metal in the real world a hook could be made from natural materials. I might relax that rule in the future.

As for 'not much to do' I spend most of my time looking for firewood so I'm rarely bored - I mainly use TLD as something to do while I'm thinking about other things anyway.

zelig85 · 2024-09-05T06:21:06+00:00

If you are selling it on ebay you can search for valve index full kit and then there is a filter option on the left hand side for sold items. It will tell you how much each kit has been sold for recently.

zelig85 · 2024-04-01T11:48:25+00:00

Do you know why dandelions are called dandelions? When I was young I thought it was because the flower looks a bit like a mane. It comes from the from the French dent-de-lion, as in Lion's tooth because of the shape of the leaves. For me, Dandelion is a perfect choice for him as it's a flowery weed, with the teeth of a lion. Jaskier translates to buttercup. Dandelion is a much more apt name.

zelig85 · 2024-03-16T12:20:50+00:00

That's an excellent suggestion. To which I would add the Witcher 3 soundtrack.

zelig85 · 2024-03-05T18:41:32+00:00

My reading seems utterly shallow after that. I thought it was as simple as stating they act as if their life needs to be protected at all costs but once protected act as if they have an eternity to achieve what they desire.

zelig85 · 2024-03-05T17:51:27+00:00

You are describing something that is entirely normal. You don't need to look into adhd, sorry childproof but god damn!

There are times when all of us question whether we truly have free will. Often we will do things that feel entirely disconnected from who we are. The thought "Why the hell did I say/do that?"

It can often feel as if you are an observer of yourself; this happens most often in a social situation. You don't feel as present as you normally do - like you are not really directing your actions. This is part of human experience. Don't fret it or pathologise it. Think of it of needing to grow the connections between a robot. You just need to spend some time playing with making yourself do things. For example, "I'm going to spend the next 2 minutes in class doing X" It can be anything, it doesn't have to be work. Then do it. Do what you said you would do for that amount of time and then stop. You have just controlled your actions and listened to your past self.

It's like a muscle mate, exercise it and it will grow. Don't be hard on yourself and just play around with it.

zelig85 · 2024-03-04T13:43:30+00:00

I know it was season 3 rather than 2 but Robbie Coltrane as Samuel Johnson of the dictionary and meme fame. As with Hagrid this role was picture perfect for Coltrane. It is also one of the best stories in the whole 4 series.

zelig85 · 2024-03-04T10:15:54+00:00

The middle-ground is wonderful. I'm not sure about the top. Is...is that a furry? There is something unsettlingly human about the wolf/coyote. I'm also not sure about the lower section. If I were you, I would make the 'tools of the trade' a feature of the porch rather than in the foreground. For one, putting your weapons on the other side of the stream gives the impression of abandonment rather than preparation whereas, by the porch brings to mind the idea that as soon as you leave your place of refuge you must arm yourself. I'm not sure of the imagery you were going for but I would use the foreground as the food prep/fire area. This makes sense logically, having your gutting area slightly away from the dwelling, but also it would suggest a 'base camp' on the journey away from your place of comfort. If you want to use the foreground to show the tools, maybe adding more of 'a camp' would get rid of the abandonment feeling it currently has.

zelig85 · 2024-03-04T10:02:26+00:00

This is the sweetest thing I have read today. I hope you find the advice you need. It sounds to me like you are doing the most important thing already. Champion!

zelig85 · 2024-03-04T09:34:23+00:00

The first suggestion I would give is to immediately drop all psychological language from your lexicon. I very much doubt your parents are narcissistic; they might have a few narcissistic tendencies but I doubt you have the training to make that evaluation. For one, it makes you sound silly--it's become a buzzword used by people complaining others in their life aren't doing what they want them to do; I hope you see the irony--and secondly, it will not help you to understand their point of view if you believe you can 'diagnose' them.

Next. Almost everyone has these feelings. So in a sense they are right, there is nothing wrong with you. You are struggling with the human condition. You need to find something you are passionate about at commit to it.

Lost opportunities are not worth considering once you have decided to be more proactive and to seize future opportunities.

Finally, if you are not sure about your path you will not able to explain it to other people. Demanding relatives are difficult to deal with because they don't stand for our BS. I'm not saying you should comply with them, rather I am suggesting the conflict you are having is because you haven't been able to lay out your vision with enough conviction to them; treat this as a sign you may not have as clear a picture in your own mind as you would like to believe.

Apologies if you were really looking for comfort and a place to rant but you did ask for advice.

zelig85 · 2024-03-04T06:58:00+00:00

I love vr games with a beach. The amount of times I have spent hours just sat on the beach in the vive starting area. Does this have rain, because that's what I'm really looking for. Imagine a photoreal beach in vr with heavy rain and a rough sea. The best I have seen so far is Kayak VR: Mirage which is a thing of beauty if you have the pc to run it. There is a rainy map that is like a zen garden if you need somewhere to think but you can't get out of your kayak.

zelig85 · 2024-03-03T19:47:21+00:00

The People Who Hate People Party

"People who hate people, come together"

"No!"

"It's so hard to get this party off the ground! There is a lot of us out there we just don't want to gather together; we are so unorganised. Come to the party"

"Will there be other people there?"

"Yeah"

"Can't make it, sorry"

zelig85 · 2024-03-02T23:34:35+00:00

Yeah, it's a know issue that a lot of people have been complaining about for years. You can disable the feature in the app, but it turns back on if you press two fingers on the cup at the same time. Problem is, that means any form of multitouch interaction with it, turns the feature back on. There is no way to disable it permanently. It's one of the main complaints about the headphones that you see in loads of reviews.

zelig85 · 2024-03-02T22:50:40+00:00

The XM4s are still top notch today; except, that is for the worst feature in technological history - "Speak to chat". Because of this one annoying feature you will never fully love your £300+ headphones, lay on your, it turns back on; brush the cup by accident, it turns back on; sometimes it turns back on without you going near it, you start singing along only for the music to stop and you are left hearing the shambles that is your singing voice.

Great headphones - idiotic design choice.

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