u/DGReddAuthor

I just watched through them all these last 4 days.

In my opinion, the first film is clearly the best. But I know lots of people rate #4 higher, and one insane person rated #5 better.

In my estimation: 1, Balboa, II, IV, III, V. If we're counting the original IV with the sexy robot, then it falls behind Mr T.

Me (m45) and girlfriend (f25) have been together for about 7 years. I say "about" because I was her computer science teacher and we never really had a conversation about being official.

We live in separate apartments, though in the same building. We used to live in separate buildings, but when she left her mum and dad's to her own place, I moved into the same building so we could be close. Her apartment is actually the one below mine.

It's been a tumultuous time, but if I'm honest the excitement of our relationship is one of the things which keeps me coming back to her. One of the things she likes to do is tease me.

She teases me by having guys over. This is fine and part of the relationship dynamic. I watch (from a camera I tied to a rope and lower over the balcony) and imagine myself being the guy. She has crossed the line a few times by inviting the same guy more than once, but a simple man-to-man talk with them after they leave has so far sorted them out.

While she hasn't directly spoken to me, I know she's been writing erotica (I installed some monitoring software on her computer). She didn't make any sales at first, but I solved that.

It costs about $700 a month, but I have a few bots that buy and leave reviews of her erotica. This seems to have really inspired her because she works really hard writing the erotica.

Her erotica is okay. Not great.

The problem is the masturbation. I'm not a prude, but the thing is, it's hard to watch. Every time she's writing and her pen hand gets lower, she gets up from the desk, to the bed, and goes under her bed covers. I know from the sounds and writhing that she's masturbating, but she's breaking the understanding of letting me watch.

I thought maybe it was a part of a new game. I snuck down to listen against her front door, but I couldn't see. Of course, I have a spare key. However, it's really hard to see anything in the dark from the hallway (the angles aren't quite right). I did think maybe she wanted me to stand just inside the room, but when I did that she screamed (I got out so fast and shut the door so quiet I was gone before she even turned on the light).

Right now I can see her bed covers moving (rope camera). Should I say something to her about this? I'm worried I'm overreacting and it will negatively affect our relationship. I could write her a letter and leave it in her pillow?

It just doesn't seem fair anymore. We've been together years, and I'm still a virgin. I like the games. I really do. But why is she choosing masturbation over me? I'm not a jealous person, but this is starting to make me angry.

This is 100% a real story.

I recently read about a sensory deprivation experiment. You cut a ping pong ball in half and tape the halves over your eyes. Then you turn on a red light and wear headphones playing noise.

You apparently get hallucinations.

I thought it would be a good way to get some ideas for writing. Don't get me wrong, I've got tonnes of ideas, I'm an ideas person. The problem is the ideas are boring.

How many times have we all read the same stuff? Girl meets guy, they date, turns out he's a multi-cocktacled space monster sent to breed with human women to save his race blah blah blah squirt squirt ejaculating tentacles.

Maybe you give him a jacket, or a pussy-based tentacle... but the core is still the same.

I thought this sensory deprivation might help.

So I stripped down, oiled up, taped balls against my eyes and cranked the pink noise to 11. The problem was... I was alone.

I remained naked, possibly erect, well beyond the hours I'd had set aside. You see, as a soon to be celebrated author, I don't "work" in the traditional sense. My girlfriend does, but I stay home and create.

My plan was to sensory depraved masturbation for a few hours after girlfriend left for work. In my hallucinated state, I lost track of time. Not only had I not washed the oil and lube from the sheets, I was still laying on them.

Anyway, she left. I'm not sure if she'll return my calls. I'm actually not sure what day it is, it's very easy to lose track with this setup (yes I tried it a couple more times).

You might be wondering where I fucked up? Well, I keep forgetting to write down my ideas. I know they're *good*, the cumstains on the ceiling are testament, I just cannot remember them.

Hi, I'm a righter. I need someone to check over the below exert. The scene is told through the eyes of one the soon-to-be harem members.

>A jolt a sizzling passion rippled through my vagina as he came down the stairs. It was a mess, but he didn't care. His mighty pelvic bellows busted out in waves, adding a new beige colour scheme to the parlour.
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>"Oh my god," my clitoris said me. "Is that who I think it is?"
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>I really needed to do a better job of keeping my skirt down, and my undies on. "Mind your own business."
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>"Mmph, ummf," my magic-cum-button mumbled. "Hmph."
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>"Shh, he'll hear you." I held my hand over the stupid thing harder.
> >But it was too late. Emptied for the time being, Brando Sando, the author, released his enormous (but not too big) penis and approached. Unfortunately, the blood flow to my pussy and anus caused me to faint.

Look, I get it. I do.

You've got a pin dick, or your husband/boyfriend does. You see me swinging wildly as I dismount my ute truck, meaty thwack of ball on thigh, and you're jealous.

I'm sorry that my alpha masculinity frightens you, but I'm not going to change. A Man needs to protect his family, and in this crazy world of African gangs and Lebanese crime families, that takes a big truck.

I know you can't drive a big truck. a big truck like mine needs a big man behind the wheel. Two wild beasts, barely contained by society.

That's why it's so dangerous to talk shit about me. The barely contained animal within me might break out. I might lose control, and you don't want to see that.

I'm dangerous when I'm angry.

When did we become a country that makes fun of a man for the size of his truck? When did it become acceptable?

In times past, men gave each other a solid nod when passing by. A simple acknowledgement that you both decided not to come to blows.

All you pissant little men need to learn something. I'm a dangerous caged animal. If you test me on the wrong day, I will ravage you. I will grab your arse and make you feel my rage.

Don't think I won't. Every time I see you laugh and point I'm almost overwhelmed by the desire to pull you into my big truck, to thrust my muscles against yours, to test who's strongest, who gets to be on top.

You have been warned. Stop it.

I know years ago, before Uber eats, you could get AirTasker jobs to deliver KFC.

so... how can I get a Mr Charlie's burger delivered to me, 50km away?

I got tired of NeoFly, got a bit boring. Air Hauler is too much of a management game. I tried a few others and it's all the same at the core:

1. Take a job

2. Get paid

3. Management of some level

I've started work on my own variation. I have all of the above, jobs, money, maintenance, tracking, rating etc.

What I'm adding, which I hope is new, is narrative. I only have some tests at the moment, but they are like quests, akin to quests from Skyrim or Star Citizen.

These are delivered via TTS over comms. So you have to tune your comms to engage.

I've done it this way so you can still use your ATC of choice. This is supposed to be a "reason to fly" add-on after all.

Unfortunately it means I have to have a separate toolbar window instead of integrating with whatever existing ATC you have.

It occurs to me that since I'm doing this, I don't get the benefit (because I wrote the story). So I wanted to see if anyone had other things they'd like to see in such an add-on, I can add if it's good.

I can make them free by publishing on Google and then requesting them to be free on Amazon. But then I no longer get to have the books in KU.

Maybe reviews and readers over making measley dollars?

Are either of these suitable for GA? I like to fly with IFR and sometimes VFR.

I've tried BATC but it has way too many annoying bugs. I don't really care about voice recognition or the quality of the voices. What I want is something that doesn't forget me, works for small airports with no towers. Something which doesn't try to get me to land ILS in C152 lol.

At the moment I'm leaning toward FSHud because it injects traffic and controls it, so I can hear everything. But... It looks like it's focused on airliners?

I am staying under 1500 calories a day to get down to 59.9kg.

I do no exercise.

Cheat day is tomorrow. I was told I can cheat one day a week.

I have big plans for tomorrow. I'm going to eat a lot.

Is it possible to overdo it to the point the rest of the week is a bust?

I'm wondering how you all handle the amount of data and information you need to have a successful simulator flight. I'm struggling. Maybe it's a learning curve, probably my setup, or maybe I'm missing a simple trick somewhere?

My setup:

1. MSFS2020
2. Playing on a laptop in bed with a controller (important for maximum comfort)
3. BeyondATC
4. Neofly
5. LittleNavMap

My process:

1. Get a job from Neofly (double-checking the airport exists in SimBrief, not all do)
2. Create a Flight Plan in SimBrief
   • Often the published arrival procedures don't exist as STARs in SimBrief (thanks Australian Air Services) so I have to manually add the arrival procedures way points
3. Load the Flight Plan from SimBrief into LittleNavMap
   • This is because I fly things like a Cessna 152 and need to navigate using VOR/DME
   • I mark a bunch of radials on the map to help the different stages of my Flight Plan
4. I write all the navigation stuff down in a text editor; e.g. fly on this radial for 6 mins, left heading 120 for 10 minutes etc
5. Load the Flight Plan into BeyondATC
6. Setup the plane's weight etc and start in a parking spot

There's a lot to do there, but it's manageable. Here's when I struggle:

1. Alt-tabbing into the start-up procedures for the plane to remember and checkoff everything
2. While juggling communications with ATC
3. While alt-tabbing into LittleNavMap or my notes to set nav frequencies
4. Alt-tabbing while flying to check my notes and/or aircraft procedures
5. Alt-tabbing while flying to check departure and arrival procedures

There has to be a better way? How do real pilots handle all this? I don't have the luxury of multiple screens, but maybe I need to have some things handy on my phone?

I'm totally overwhelmed.

I have tried MSFS2020 and found the ATC to be a bit useless. I read the same about 2024 as well.

I've tried X-Plane 12, and read that the ATC isn't spectacular.

But then the ATC products I see don't really fill my needs.

Pilot2ATC doesn't support A.i. traffic, so that breaks immersion.

BeyondATC doesn't really support VFR, but I like flying VFR.

Career mode in MSFS24 apparently is buggy and junk. So I think I need Air Hauler 2.

I just want to spend some money and fly. I don't want to pay subscriptions, I don't mind if voices are a bit robotic. What do I buy?

I've been at this place for 10+ years. I work very little.

But every now and then there's a project or work and people pester me. I'm trying to find ways to avoid even these ad-hoc requests and avoid getting pulled into a project. Or, at least, ensuring I have nothing to do on the projects, but still seem important.

How do you all avoid work while also avoid being let go? I have the benefit of so much tenure some newer people aren't exactly sure what I do. To be honest, I haven't put in a solid work day in so long, I'm not sure what I do exactly.

What I have done:

1. Aligned myself with several managers who don't like each other.

2. I always speak up a meetings and raise issues in front of clients. Issues that I could have raised at the start before the client was involved. It makes clients trust me and specifically request me.

3. I talk over Project Managers to ensure I can get the work parceled out to more junior people (my time is more valuable and I'm busy on other projects, but I'll review)

4. I WFH 100% so no one sees me doing nothing. My calendar is full of meetings that don't exist, or blocked out "focus" areas.

Would love more ideas.