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Seeing as the next dev blog is probably in around 6 days, I was wondering what y'all thought would happen once, or if, the update comes out?

Personally I think there's gonna be a tiny bump in players but if the devs don't lock in they're gonna lose that hype aswell

Hey guys, how hard is the traffic exam? I know all the signs and I know general information but should I memorise the entire book?? idk what to do tbh I js wanna pass because the book is mostly BS ngl

Hiya, I might be getting into Tub 3am,so I wanted to ask, does anyone have any tips, things I should know, and things I should prepare for beforehand?

Thank y'all!

I really like deserts, unfortunately I do not think we have any within Southern Kurdistan, so I'd like to go out into Iraq in a few months just for fun, not really go into a city but stay in a desert for a few hours for nothing more than shits and giggles tbh.

Is there anything I should know? Do I need some sort of pass or can I just go through the border? I am 18 so are the border police gonna suspect or like..? is there any danger?

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Pretty simple; I don't want to get married and I'm curious on whether or not that would cause any genuine issues in life (I don't care what random people think about me, I mean any actual issues)

Hey'all, I'm in the mood for self inflicted depression right now and can't find anything that *does it*.

I mostly listen to Nu-Metal and Brutal Death Metal, BDM being more angry murder than gut wrenching doesn't fit what I need right now, I've tried DSBM but honestly it got a bit old after a while, though I did never listen to Decalius who I've heard is up there when it comes to DSBM.

By gut-wrenching I mean something actually sad, preferably related to some form of trauma, specific (ie, mentions of exactly what happened) or general (ie not exactly stating what happening but leaving it open to the listener), or really any other sad/horrifying topics. One example I could give is Daddy by Korn, I mean when I first listened, damn.

Thanky'all :D

Hope you are all doing great.

See, I've been through 'hell' the past 2 years, I've mentally collapsed several times and rebuilt myself every three months and each time was somehow completely different but also not different in any way from the past iteration. Most of those are not important; however, now I find myself in a state where I genuinely boil in hatred for a gigantic percentage of the human race.

I am genuinely asking; I don't want to feel this, how do I get over this? I feel no empathy for many a people and I feel justified feeling that way; start with my parents for one, they fit under the definition of abusive, and I just can't find myself emphasising or even staying calm because everytime they or someone like them pops into my mind I just fall again. Everytime I try to concentrate I can't for more than a few minutes because images and sounds of my sister screaming crying pop into my mind.

Then there is moral degenerates, rapists, murderers and the likes, I don't even want to begin talking about how much hatred, justified it may be, I have for them. I know I am supposed to feel 'compassion', if that's the right word, for then while also holding them morally accountable, but I don't know where to begin.

I'm sorry if this was just me rambling, but if anyone was in a position similar to mine, I'd love some advice. Thank you.

I'm really sorry about the unclear title, I really can't find the proper word for what I'm trying to say here, either way;

My question is simple, can one believe and read Buddhist teachings but not believe in things such as the gods or reincarnation? Essentially, can one only believe what I can prove? I can prove the universe exists, but nothing beyond it. Something beyond may exist, I just have a hard time genuinely believing 'it' does.

I am essentially a newborn baby when it comes to Buddhist knowledge, so pardon the obvious obliviousness, but I am interested because I have yearned for something like Buddhism for quite some time now. Thank you all :)

You see, one thing I almost constantly see from a good portion natalists is them finding reasons to excuse a parents behaviour; and I understand well enough why more traditional leaning people might argue in favour of what is basically the infantilisation of parents, ie, "It's their first time!" "Respect your parents!"

What I do not understand is why more progressive individuals wouod infantilise a pair of parents. See, I once talked to a friend about my definitely abusive parents, and one of the very first things he told me is that "It might be hard to accept, but they do love you.". And honestly to this day that is one of the funniest things I have ever heard from a person.

I don't think I'm overreacting here when I say his view of 'love' is a bit skewed. I told him about how they'd basically dehumanize me to my bones and that's one of the first things he says? I don't understand why in his mind my parents can't simply be horrible people who clearly don't care about me. Is it too much to expect a natalist to believe a parent might not actually love their kids?

And yes; I have stopped venting to natalists :p

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Hey hey, I'd say I'm alright at studying, but my main issues comes with exams themselves. I recently took an exam where I got 2 questions wrong simply because I didn't think about them enough.

One I literally did not read the question properly (and I understand how this sounds, I'm basically asking "how do I get myself to read the exam paper"), and the other because I didn't even think it was hard enough to think about.

Do y'all have any tips not to do this kinda stuff? It's what always has tripped me up throughout my life; I never got the hard questions wrong :p

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Hey there, not sure if this is the right place to ask but seriously, why do ranges have to be so complicated?

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Is there some trick I don't know or something? Because for now it just seems that I have to memorise the ranges of every function unless I want to spend half an hour in my exam graphing the function.

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I've found that you *can* let y=f(x) and solve for x to find the range of some functions but that rarely works... Is there any way I can nuke the ranges of functions with a stupidly complicated equation :p

Hey all, I've been trying to brainstorm a few names for a Sci-Fi species but I honestly don't know how to start or where to end, all I have is vague ideas of what I want the name to resemble; Thargoids, Guardians, Purgill... names that aren't trying too hard to be something but are just good.

Here's some context to the species and what names I've gone through so far:

The species exists in the voids between star systems, thus, they have evolved extremely dark skin, ship hulls, and everything else because they needed that much light absorption (don't mind the logic :p). They do not exist with the same physical limitations of human beings, instead their ship hulls are able to shift shapes to do a variety of things such as forming a spear to penetrate a human ship with or to avoid a bullet by creating a hole where it is meant to hit.

I started out with "The Blacks"/"Blacks" but obviously that wasn't going to work, went to "Watchers" which was alright but felt like it was trying too hard, now I've arrived at "Spectres", which still doesn't feel quite there.

I'm bored, duh, and I'm basically brand new to exploring, I haven't unlocked any substantial engineering yet but I jumped the gun and got an asp explorer with around 30ish LY of jump range which yeah is fairly little considering I did originally want to get to beagle point, but I wanna leave that till later.

TLDR, I feel like there's some fun in seeing something no one else has seen before (how selfish, I know), so I want to try to find new stuff, hopefully find some cool stuff along the way too. But I have no idea how far I really have to go out, and if it's something too high I'd want to do engineering first so, thoughts?

P.S, kind of alreasy overloaded but, are the exploration ships on PTN any good? or is there better stuff I should look for? Oh also, I don't have Oddysey yet, so no mandy

Here's the situation, there's someone in my life whom I don't exactly want to remain friends with anymore but I cannot simply say that because of the nature of the friendship and the state in which it exists (I can't exactly describe it in detail but, TLDR, he knows a lot of secrets and I don't want to risk it)

I'm thinking of slowly just talking less to him, hopefully that just kind of wards him off and we stop being friends without any grievances between us.

I'm also thinking of slowly becoming a less good friend but I feel that would cause some anger or sadness that could be turned against me so.

I do trust that he, in the current state, wouldn't reveal any of my secrets but I don't trust the human tendency to hate on someone who wronged you in whatever ways you can, so I don't really want to risk it, thanks!