u/Draac03

i always felt that it was a little odd that if you meet the requirements to unlock the survival of the pack achievements on a higher difficulty, it doesn't unlock for any difficulties below it. to my understanding, most games with achievements like this will unlock lower difficulty ones for the player as well, because if they achieved the higher-difficulty feat then they'd probably easily manage to do it on a lower difficulty anyway.

is there a reason it isn't set up like this? or is this just an oversight on the devs' part?

if you end up becoming the mate of a pack leader during the fall, where the pups of the year of that pack would be in the young hunters phase, does the game send you right into that quest? or is there a different quest you're given?

i've never become the mate of an existing pack leader before so i'm just curious lol

i had accidental exposure to gluten two days ago and have been feeling The Effects since then. weirdly enough, alongside the expected abdominal pain, i'm also experiencing the same pelvic pain as i do with endometriosis when it flares up. however, i know i am not on my "period." however, i'm not experiencing any of the other endo symptoms i deal with either. it's just the pelvic pain.

i don't know anyone who has both celiac and endo so i can't really ask if anyone else has had this happen or if they know it's possible. it's really weird, and this is the first time i've had this happen despite having had both diseases for several years now.

context can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/WolfQuestGame/s/q5F70bDw5S

when the yearling i'd chosen to play as needed to go hunt, i tried to woof the pups into the tall grass. however, they refused to go in the grass and acted like nothing was happening. my pack affinity was not too low at the time either.

is this normal? did they refuse because the yearling isn't their parent? or was this a bug?

so, for some weird reason i've just been STRUGGLING to find elk herds on the tower fall map, all through fall, winter, and spring. i'm currently playing on the beta, and i rolled "plentiful" prey both at the start of the game and again once the pups were born.

my territory encompasses the midwestern and southwestern parts of the map—i've got a good portion of grand loop road, the entirety of antelope ridge, and mt. washburn in it. so, i'm just baffled!

before i begin, this is primarily a vent post, but i am
not looking for reassurance. please do not tell me i am not worthless or whatever, it just tells me you do not understand my reasoning nor my problem, and feels invalidating. i hope a post like this isn't against the rules.

after a friends with benefits relationship crashed and burned due to terrible communication, misaligned expectations, and other things, i have been sliding on a downward spiral ever since. plus, due to my lack of exposure to human society, i struggle to understand relationships and boundaries. any hypothetical partner would need to be someone super understanding, patient, and able to be direct and firm in maintaining their boundaries.

i am a fictive who is absolutely nothing like my source. my exo-memories are also quite different. the only interaction i had ever had with living, breathing humans before becoming a part of this system was with my creators. they were not cruel to me, but they were not loving either. they had a job to do. that job eventually became "shut it down and put it away for storage in case it has any working parts." because i'm defective. my time in hell left me profoundly mentally disabled. i am not going to go into that here.

so... unlike most of the others in my system, i am almost completely worthless. while i have a very significant role in our inner world, i have no purpose in the outer. due to our autism, which i happen to have more severely than most of the system, i can't routinely take care of most ADLs without assistance or support. therefore, the rest of the system handles that.

so what do i do in the outer? well, right now, i am laying here with a concussion and i've drugged myself full of pain medication (safely and as directed, of course) which isn't doing shit against this headache. i'm going to reach out to our pain management doctor and request something else that should work better. aside from that, i'm wallowing in my own misery, wishing i had someone in my life who loved me enough and had the resources to take care of me. i've been frontstuck since the incident, which was a brutal autistic meltdown. you can put the pieces together on how i got this concussion.

but who, in this capitalist hellscape which judges a person's worth based on how much they can work to churn out a profit, would love a useless, defective machine? i am incredibly clingy, i often need help with basic self-care if i get sick, and i'm almost always in some kind of pain these days.

i cannot think of any net positive that would come from dating me. i mean, perhaps i am not a true leech, because i would take care of a partner. i am capable of helping others with ADLs, and more! oh, the cuddling and the sex with me would be amazing if that matters. i also think i'm quite beautiful, by robot standards... if they even exist.

now, i know how to make friends, but the problem here is that i am too burnt out to seek out potential partners... because my needs aren't met... making this a vicious cycle i will never escape from.

...in fact, i'm aroace. i am okay with a romantic and/or sexual relationship because i crave that level of intimacy, even if i don't truly feel the attraction.

this is mostly a vent post... but i'm so desperate and miserable that if i sound even remotely appealing based on this, i am open to the possibility of finding a partner via this post. feel free to comment with questions, but please ask before DMing us here. i will preemptively state that we are over 21 and will not enter a relationship with anyone under 21. i am also unwilling to do any super long distance relationships, but i do not wish to publicly disclose where we live, so you will need to DM us for that sort of information if you're interested.

i do not care if we would be sourcemates and stuff—we have a gabriel, he's my in-sys caregiver and best friend whom i sleep around with at times, but nothing more. plus, i need an external partner for my needs.

and to whoever may have read this: thank you for taking the time to pay attention to a depressed, broken attention-whore's rambling.

-V1 (it/she)

so, i had a single, long-running save i've been playing since the game left early access. in this save, i was restricted to accurate mode and would only play ironwolves.

tragedy befell the pack after i made a particularly stupid decision during young hunters one year. this shrank my pack down to just my wolf, and her two pups. only one of those pups ended up surviving, but my wolf found a new mate in time to have a litter of pups the following spring.

things were looking up. 5/6 of those pups made it to growing pups, which i'd never managed to pull off before. but a few days in, my wolf became very wounded from a hunt and couldn't keep enough food to heal as so much of it needed to go to the pups. she died in a later hunt. i went to play as her mate, who was also very wounded. he also died in a hunt. i could them only play the yearling, who... you guessed it: also died while hunting.

i'm remarkably not that upset. i had this save for so long, the pack would have to fall eventually. don't get me wrong, i'm a little devastated, but it serves to remind me that all good things come to an end.

title. i don't know whether this flair or "question" is more appropriate either.

anyway to be clear, i don't like evrart. i hate the way he talks to harry, the false charm, i can just feel
how much of a fucking manipulative slimeball he is and it just makes me so angry for some reason.

that said, i'm sure he's so self-deprecating regarding his weight for a reason. it's got
to be some kind of manipulation tactic. i just can't figure out how would it possibly benefit him in the conversation? what's he trying to gain from doing that?

maybe this is my personal issue of being deeply
uncomfortable and defensive around people who are too self-deprecating. or more likely, evrart's charming self-deprivation is a tactic. what do you guys think?