u/EfficientBeat7550

I’ve tried getting into Star Citizen around 8 different times now, and every single session ends the same way.

When I first log in, my FPS is already terrible. Sometimes I can barely move. If I eventually manage to get into my ship and leave the city, I’m sitting around 20 FPS.
Then I’ll quantum travel to a bounty location, but as soon as I arrive, my ship completely stops responding. I can’t steer, throttle, or do anything. The only option is to backspace.
After that, I get stuck on an infinite loading screen. I have to Alt+F4, relaunch the game, and when I finally get back in, I’m in the Lorville medical bay with around 5 FPS. At that point I just quit because it’s completely unplayable.
I really love the idea of this game and I want to get into it, but I’ve genuinely spent more time fighting bugs and performance than actually playing.

My PC:
RTX 3070 Ti
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X
32 GB RAM
Game installed on an SSD

Can someone please tell me the best settings and optimizations I should use? I’m looking for:
Graphics settings (quality, clouds, DLSS, etc.)
NVIDIA Control Panel settings
Windows settings
Any Star Citizen config tweaks

Anything else that could help with FPS or stability
I’m honestly willing to try anything at this point because I really want to enjoy this game.

I just turned 18 and recently started taking investing more seriously. Over the past year, I built a small dropshipping business that generated a few thousand dollars, so I have some capital available to invest rather than starting from zero.

Right now, I'm using Revolut and have mostly invested in areas that genuinely interest me, such as AI, technology, and quantum computing. I'm very interested in innovation and companies that could shape the future over the next 10 to 20 years.

I know my risk tolerance is quite high. I'm willing to accept significant volatility in exchange for the possibility of higher long-term returns. However, I also realize that being interested in high-growth sectors and actually building a solid investment strategy are two very different things.

For those of you who started young:

• What would you focus on learning first?
• What mistakes should I avoid?
• How would you allocate a portfolio if you were 18 again and comfortable with high risk?
• Are there any books, resources, or investors I should study?
• How do you separate genuine long-term opportunities from hype?

I'm not looking for financial advice or stock picks as much as I'm looking to understand how experienced investors think and approach the market.

Any guidance would be appreciated.

17M. I had fissure surgery (including a sphincter procedure) about a year ago. The fissure healed, but I’ve had a painful skin tag and recently developed pain and bleeding from one specific spot.

My MRI showed a very small 8 mm perianal collection. The report didn’t clearly show a fistula tract, but my colorectal surgeon believes it is a small fistula. He wants to remove the skin tag and “cut out” the fistula at the same time.

The surgeon says it’s a very small operation, doesn’t involve the sphincter muscle, and that I should basically be fine the next day.

The thing is, he also told me my previous fissure surgery would be a small procedure, and that recovery ended up being much more painful than I expected.

Has anyone had a small superficial fistula removed? Was the recovery really that easy? How painful were the first few days and how long did it take before you could sit, walk normally, and go to the bathroom without significant pain?