u/Collector2012

Hello everyone! I apologize for not responding as much lately. That is due to some IRL things that needed attention. I am trying to be more attentive to you all, as I understand your questions and concerns are very important. I hope everyone's summer has treated them well!

Also, I wanna say that it's okay to not be okay. Its okay to be scared and unsure. Its okay to lean on others when you're having a bad brain day. Its okay to not be okay.

I hope everyone is well, and have a Happy Halloween! 🎃

Hi! So, last Wednesday I went for an interview to be a fulltime custodian. On Friday, they reached out to me to give me a job offer. I'm pretty sure I accepted as I remember being told after that there was going to be a background check performed on me then HR will reach out to me to give me a hiring date.... I'm second guessing myself if I accepted or heard correctly (I have anxiety, so I second guess myself a lot). So, I reached out to HR in an email saying I had questions I wanted to ask in a phone call. I gave my number and asked if they could call me at either 8:30 or 11:30. If I don't hear anything, I'm just gonna call them directly after work to make sure what I heard was correct. I don't want to mess this up. I have never worked with a union before at all.

Edit: I saw I made a mistake

Alright, so since EA is getting bought. Most of us have been hoping with fingers crossed that the rights to the Deadspace series itself will get sold to someone who is willing to take up the mantle!

So, I had an idea for a potential (not likely) idea for Deadspace 4!

So the concept is that Isaac clark was actually mutating into something entirely different (maybe turning into a Brethren Moon?) from the start of two, all the way to the ending of three; where we got they DLC ending.

Now, here is what I'd do! Full blown remake of both two and three (touch up the first remake with a graphics update and maybe some fun Easter eggs), then rework all fifteen title chapters to something that will foreshadow the entire events of the story.

Then, we get to Three! Full blown total make over! No sunlight on that planet! Bring in new and scary necromorphs (keep the weapon designing thing, because that was cool!) then merge the regular ending with the DLC ending.

Now, we get to 4!

It's 30 years later with a new protagonist (possibly be Isaacs kid that he abandoned before the first game.) and history repeats itself with a distress signal coming from another planet cracker. The new protagonist is an engineer (maybe higher in rank, making him be Isaacs boss).

The captain puts in the Ishimura Protocol (not docking the ship and only sending out the best of the crew to investigate with a security team in tow to evaluate the state of the emergency. If there is no response from the investigative team, then the ship is forced to abandon the rescue attempt and leave the vicinity so that authorized personnel can scuttle the planet cracker), when all hell breaks loose ( much like from the first game) it plays out almost the same.

Only the ship is abandoned due to the ishumara protocol, leaving the investigative team to try and quickly find a way off the soon to be scuttled planet cracker. Then, they find something odd written on the wall in one of the rooms. The words "The suit didn't protect Isaac from the dark. It kept the dark from getting out. Look beneath the RIG. The engineer didn't stop the machine... he became the blueprint." (Carver wrote this when he went insane) Then a video is left behind saying this "I saw the flesh shifting under his armor. The RIG went red but he wouldn't stop breathing. I had to... I had to do it. If his kid ever comes looking for him... tell them....." Then the video cuts out from distortion and damage.

The surviving investigative team acts shocked and confused (Isaac gets branded as a terrorist for the Ishimura incident, the titan station destruction, and the new horizons colony invasion) as the location of Isaac clark has been a mystery to everyone for the last 30 plus years and know one knew what happened to him until the crew of the abandoned ship cracker discovered a much more crazed John Carver after almost 30 years of isolation.

That's when it gets revealed that the new protagonist is Isaac's kid. The surviving investigative crew start asking questions if they protagonist went out there (space) to find Isaac and they don't get an answer at all and more chaos happens that results in the new protagonist being the only survivor in a floating escape pod.

So, let me know what you guys think and what should be changed with this idea! I know it isn't much, I'm sorry. Thanks for reading my idea!

Edit: here is an update!

🌌 Act I: The Ishimura Protocol - The Routine Salvage: The protagonist—a high-ranking Chief Engineer hiding under his mother’s maiden name—and his civilian merchant crew discover a silent, drifting Planet Cracker ship. The captain activates the "Ishimura Protocol" and sends his best crew members out to investigate.

  - The Entry: The crew docks and sends an investigative team aboard to evaluate the emergency, unaware that this ship holds the dark aftermath of EarthGov's secrets.

  - The Trap Springs: A sudden, violent Necromorph outbreak triggers on the Planet Cracker. Adhering strictly to the modern "Ishimura Protocol," the main merchant vessel panics. They refuse to stay docked, detaching immediately, and abandoning the investigative team on the dark ship to be scuttled.

🎛️ Act II: A Two-Front War & The Truth Revealed - The Black-Ops Arrival: As the protagonist tries to find a way off the ship, a ruthless EarthGov Black-Ops Scuttle Team drops in.

   - Their mission is a total cover-up: plant engine core charges, fire plasma missiles to vaporize the ship, and eliminate all civilian witnesses.

 - The Confrontation: The Black-Ops team corners the investigators. Having run a deep biometric dossier, the commander exposes the protagonist’s true identity in front of everyone, brutally mocking him as the "spawn of the universe's worst terrorist," blaming Isaac Clarke for billions of deaths.

  - The Spore Threat: The horror escalates when a merchant crew member hyperventilates and violently mutates. The Black-Ops team realizes they are dealing with a new parasitic spore Necromorph that incubates slowly in its hosts, triggered by intense stress and adrenaline.

🔧 Act III: The Desperate Hunt for Answers -The Escape into the Shadows: The sudden, chaotic spore mutation throws the room into a three-way firefight. The protagonist slips into the maintenance shafts, salvaging a high-tech Black-Ops pulse-stasis attachment and fusing it to his heavy industrial plasma cutter.

     -The Crazed Warning: Bypassing military firewalls at workbenches, the protagonist uncovers a distorted video log of a broken, terrified John Carver from his weeks of interrogation. Carver screams: ".... The suit didn't protect Isaac from the dark... he became the blueprint.... I had to... I had to do it. If his kid ever comes looking for him... tell them.....""

    - Shattering the Lie: The protagonist realizes his childhood was a lie. His father didn't just abandon him; Isaac was captured, experimented on in a "special hospital," and eventually ejected into space by a crazed Carver. Resentment turns into a desperate, obsessive urge to reconstruct the corrupted data files before the ship explodes.

🚀 Act IV: The Trap in the Void -The Escape: Outsmarting the soldiers and dodging the spore-infected horrors, the protagonist reaches the flight deck and launches a lone escape pod just as the plasma missiles strike, turning the Planet Cracker into stardust.

      - The Psychological Break: Safe in the quiet void, the protagonist's severe psychological trauma catches up to him. He experiences intense stress-induced hallucinations. In the glass window, the reflection of his father’s iconic Advanced Engineering Suit reaches out to him. He closes his eyes and accepts it—realizing the Marker's madness is in his DNA.

      -The Final Cliffhanger: The pod's warning lights suddenly flash red. The Black-Ops command cruiser looms over him in the vastness of space. 

Alright, I've had it up to my eyeballs with politics. Ever since last year. All I have heard about is rage bating politcs this, or rage baiting politcs that! Like, what in the actual fuck! Yeah, I got involved because I had no idea what politics was even about and I got sucked into it, trying to be the voice of reason!!!! Only thing I was met with is nothing but drooling, rabid MORONS!!!!!!!! Now, after months of policing my own feed and thinking that everyone has come to their senses.... I'M SEEING THE FUCKING SHIT AGAIN!!!!!! I HAVE HAD ENOUGH!!!!! I'M ABOUT OT GO FUCKING POSTAL IF I SEE ONE MORE FUCKING POLITICAL ANYTHING!!!!!

Alright, so since EA is getting bought. Most of us have been hoping with fingers crossed that the rights to the Deadspace series itself will get sold to someone who is willing to take up the mantle!

So, I had an idea for a potential (not likely) idea for Deadspace 4!

So the concept is that Isaac clark was actually mutating into something entirely different (maybe turning into a Brethren Moon?) from the start of two, all the way to the ending of three; where we got they DLC ending.

Now, here is what I'd do! Full blown remake of both two and three (touch up the first remake with a graphics update and maybe some fun Easter eggs), then rework all fifteen title chapters to something that will foreshadow the entire events of the story.

Then, we get to Three! Full blown total make over! No sunlight on that planet! Bring in new and scary necromorphs (keep the weapon designing thing, because that was cool!) then merge the regular ending with the DLC ending.

Now, we get to 4!

It's 30 years later with a new protagonist (possibly be Isaacs kid that he abandoned before the first game.) and history repeats itself with a distress signal coming from another planet cracker. The new protagonist is an engineer (maybe higher in rank, making him be Isaacs boss).

The captain puts in the Ishimura Protocol (not docking the ship and only sending out the best of the crew to investigate with a security team in tow to evaluate the state of the emergency. If there is no response from the investigative team, then the ship is forced to abandon the rescue attempt and leave the vicinity so that authorized personnel can scuttle the planet cracker), when all hell breaks loose ( much like from the first game) it plays out almost the same.

Only the ship is abandoned due to the ishumara protocol, leaving the investigative team to try and quickly find a way off the soon to be scuttled planet cracker. Then, they find something odd written on the wall in one of the rooms. The words "The suit didn't protect Isaac from the dark. It kept the dark from getting out. Look beneath the RIG. The engineer didn't stop the machine... he became the blueprint." (Carver wrote this when he went insane) Then a video is left behind saying this "I saw the flesh shifting under his armor. The RIG went red but he wouldn't stop breathing. I had to... I had to do it. If his kid ever comes looking for him... tell them....." Then the video cuts out from distortion and damage.

The surviving investigative team acts shocked and confused (Isaac gets branded as a terrorist for the Ishimura incident, the titan station destruction, and the new horizons colony invasion) as the location of Isaac clark has been a mystery to everyone for the last 30 plus years and know one knew what happened to him until the crew of the abandoned ship cracker discovered a much more crazed John Carver after almost 30 years of isolation.

That's when it gets revealed that the new protagonist is Isaac's kid. The surviving investigative crew start asking questions if they protagonist went out there (space) to find Isaac and they don't get an answer at all and more chaos happens that results in the new protagonist being the only survivor in a floating escape pod.

So, let me know what you guys think and what should be changed with this idea! I know it isn't much, I'm sorry. Thanks for reading my idea!

Edit: here is an update!

🌌 Act I: The Ishimura Protocol - The Routine Salvage: The protagonist—a high-ranking Chief Engineer hiding under his mother’s maiden name—and his civilian merchant crew discover a silent, drifting Planet Cracker ship. The captain activates the "Ishimura Protocol" and sends his best crew members out to investigate.

  - The Entry: The crew docks and sends an investigative team aboard to evaluate the emergency, unaware that this ship holds the dark aftermath of EarthGov's secrets.

  - The Trap Springs: A sudden, violent Necromorph outbreak triggers on the Planet Cracker. Adhering strictly to the modern "Ishimura Protocol," the main merchant vessel panics. They refuse to stay docked, detaching immediately, and abandoning the investigative team on the dark ship to be scuttled.

🎛️ Act II: A Two-Front War & The Truth Revealed - The Black-Ops Arrival: As the protagonist tries to find a way off the ship, a ruthless EarthGov Black-Ops Scuttle Team drops in.

   - Their mission is a total cover-up: plant engine core charges, fire plasma missiles to vaporize the ship, and eliminate all civilian witnesses.

 - The Confrontation: The Black-Ops team corners the investigators. Having run a deep biometric dossier, the commander exposes the protagonist’s true identity in front of everyone, brutally mocking him as the "spawn of the universe's worst terrorist," blaming Isaac Clarke for billions of deaths.

  - The Spore Threat: The horror escalates when a merchant crew member hyperventilates and violently mutates. The Black-Ops team realizes they are dealing with a new parasitic spore Necromorph that incubates slowly in its hosts, triggered by intense stress and adrenaline.

🔧 Act III: The Desperate Hunt for Answers -The Escape into the Shadows: The sudden, chaotic spore mutation throws the room into a three-way firefight. The protagonist slips into the maintenance shafts, salvaging a high-tech Black-Ops pulse-stasis attachment and fusing it to his heavy industrial plasma cutter.

     -The Crazed Warning: Bypassing military firewalls at workbenches, the protagonist uncovers a distorted video log of a broken, terrified John Carver from his weeks of interrogation. Carver screams: ".... The suit didn't protect Isaac from the dark... he became the blueprint.... I had to... I had to do it. If his kid ever comes looking for him... tell them.....""

    - Shattering the Lie: The protagonist realizes his childhood was a lie. His father didn't just abandon him; Isaac was captured, experimented on in a "special hospital," and eventually ejected into space by a crazed Carver. Resentment turns into a desperate, obsessive urge to reconstruct the corrupted data files before the ship explodes.

🚀 Act IV: The Trap in the Void -The Escape: Outsmarting the soldiers and dodging the spore-infected horrors, the protagonist reaches the flight deck and launches a lone escape pod just as the plasma missiles strike, turning the Planet Cracker into stardust.

      - The Psychological Break: Safe in the quiet void, the protagonist's severe psychological trauma catches up to him. He experiences intense stress-induced hallucinations. In the glass window, the reflection of his father’s iconic Advanced Engineering Suit reaches out to him. He closes his eyes and accepts it—realizing the Marker's madness is in his DNA.

      -The Final Cliffhanger: The pod's warning lights suddenly flash red. The Black-Ops command cruiser looms over him in the vastness of space. 

Hello everyone. I apologize for my lack of appearance as of late, but I have been having IRL issues pertaining to my disorders (My anxiety specifically) and other things such as job transition issues, college issues, housing issues, and physical health issues.

My evolving situation made me go back to the drawing board on a lot of things, making very hard choices in my personal life that I am still struggling to accept. My anxiety has been making everything that much more difficult to operate in every day life. I haven't felt it aggravate this bad in a long while.

I hope everyone here is well, and hope everyone has a splendid day....

Signed,

Your Friendly Neighborhood Moderator

Hi. So, I need help. I've been having severe panic attacks since I started working for my new employer. The people here are nice, I think me being an Empath is what's causing my panic attacks, due to the friction of my new work environment; as there is something that I do not like about it and I cannot figure out what.

I need help... I need help getting through this anxiety. I was talking to mobile outreach and being an Empath came up (the nurse literally asked me right out the gate if I was an Empath), so I think my anxiety may have something to do with that. If anyone out there can help, then it would be appreciated.

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Hi! I'm relatively new to psychology, and I am taking it for the first time as a prerequisite. I suffer from bad anxiety (I've been struggling to adjust to my new job because of it which made me revisit the thought of psychology), I am a moderator for an Anxiety based subreddit where I read/listen and give advice as needed. If I don't know it, then I'll default to referring to a primary care physician; or try to calm them down.

I received a message from someone that I was helping from that subreddit, thanking me and telling me that I saved them (I told them about the five senses count down and the ice on the back of the neck), which made me decide to explore psychology even further; possibly as a counselor that specializes in anxiety and depression.

I have been getting some push back by some family members about this decision (I was having a bad week where my anxiety wasn't going away and I lost access to my meds when it came out what I was thinking about doing). I was given advice from a co-worker who said if I was being serious with it, then aim for your masters degree.

Obviously, I have innocent ideas about it and I have absolutely no idea what I am getting myself into at all, but I would appreciate some advice and pointers as to how to go about this and any other general advice that can be of use (I also write in my spare time and would like to publish a short story/comic eventually. But that's a story for another time). I hope to hear from someone soon.

Hi everyone. I have a question, what's it like being a custodian? I'm asking because I started a new job recently and I am struggling to adjust to it. I used to clean for 11 years until I left my old job to come to my current one. I have three mental health disorders, and I have been debating on applying to be a custodian.

Hi, so I posted recently about my struggles with adjusting to my new job. Well, I had a panic attack while training and the instructors had to calm me down. Somehow, I passed and I go to my area where I'll be working Monday morning. Everyone has been telling me I'll be fine, they've even said I've been doing well and I am easy to deal with. Even the lady from mobile outreach who called me back twice today said it. Everyone is being supportive, but my anxiety just won't quit. It's driving me up the wall, I've even had to pop one additional pill of my anxiety meds than normal (I used to be prescribed a three dose a day meds until my anxiety evened out and I was dropped down to a two day dose until I decided to up it back up again today just to deal with it). I can't adjust to my new job and I don't know what to do.

This game is total horse shit! It's a pay to win game. I've been losing non-stop! I've only had one week where I was winning even remotely normally, and that was when I physically threatened to dump the entire game. You can't win unless you spend money constantly. This is not a simple game. This a digital slot game for a fucking casino. DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME, STAY AWAY FROM THIS GAME AT ALL COSTS! THEY ARE RUNNING BOTS AND RIGGING THE BOARD TO THE OPPONENT/ BOTS FAVOR TO WIN! STAY AWAY!

Alright, so my experience with this game has been nothing but horrible. At first it was okay, but then after a match where the game froze and I lost my boost. I've been on a massive losing streak. All the cards I had (totalling up to 20) are now all gone. I eventually gave up and just started quitting each game because I am pretty sure that the boards are rigged and nearly 95% of the players I face are bots.

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What do I do? Do I spend money that I don't have just to win one match? Or do I uninstall this game permanently? My experience has been horrible with this game.

Hi. So I got injured a few months ago I haven't been able to work out. Since then, my life has been getting turned upside down. Now, I have noticed lately that I have been getting charged more frequently than normal. Specifically, I got charged $10 when I looked, it said it was going to charge me again next month. I have been a member since the pandemic, and I have never been charged this frequently before. Did they change something? Or, has this always been a thing and I just never noticed until today?

Hi... So, I am from the US. We are currently hosting FIFA. I don't normally follow sports at all, so it's never been my thing. I've been seeing some controversy from the first game today, so I decided to read some of the comment section in youtube.... It devolved into a full blown infighting.... People saying things that are not true..... Saying things that are inhumane and offensive.... Calling for threats and violence..... Anyone that tried to stick up for the US in any way.... It turned worse for them. I was surprised by the amount of support, as I was completely convinced that we had no "get well soon" cards coming our way..... I feel bad for everyone that tried to help .... It made my anxiety worse after that.... Right now, I'm scared that there will be mass rioting again....... I don't want to see someone getting killed again.... I've seen three bodies too many..... All had one thing in common.... A simple misunderstanding..... Right now, my anxiety is freaking out saying it will all happen and it will be my fault.... I need help. I need support. I can't deal with this hate anymore. I thought reddit was toxic, holy crap... YouTube is far far worse