u/L0rdM00n

Did I just get propositioned? 😉😆

"*ppssstt* Hey you. Come here. (looks left, looks right) You looking for something fun? Maybe a little something stronger than Nip Nip Bud? Have I got just the thing for you.

It's something new I found in an abandoned system on a dissonant planet, grown by some hippie geks. I guarantee you'll be seeing scrap heap robots appear out of nowhere. First taste is on the house. Just come back with your friends later when your head comes back together." 😉

Ever get so engrossed in completing a quest that you accidentally win the game?

I was working on one of the John Wick Simpsons skin quests. The one where you have to damage players with a shotgun. I had picked up some Seven Sliders earlier and thankfully I did . I had seen this guy fighting with someone else when I rolled up. I got a couple shots off on them before they finished off the other guy. I hit them once more and they took off.

At first I ran after him before remembering I had the Seven Sliders. The chase was on. He had Seven Sliders also, so we were all over the place. A couple times I thought I lost him, but then he'd pop out. Finally I caught up with them. We traded shots, out of the corner of my eye I saw the quest complete, and as I hit him with one more shot he went down.

Then I heard Daft Punk's "One More Time" start playing and the "Victory Royale" popped up. I was like, "Wait, he was the last? This was the final fight? I won?". I swear there were 5 more players the last time I looked. I'll take it, but it felt weird.

Jumped into Fortnite to level up the last three sprites needed to get the final reward for mastering seventy sprites. Typical Monday night for the most part, open everything, carefully watch for other players, and hide while the extraction crate takes its sweet time dropping.

Eventually I get my #70 sprite to max. I get to an extraction site, active it, and hide in a building and pray. Just as it's almost down I see the footprints. Damn, I gonna have to run for it. In a moment of hilarity we both run up drop all of our sprites and then run off it opposite directions.

Still early in the round. I'm going to log off after this and try to get some sleep (insomnia has been hitting me off and on for the last few weeks).

As I start wandering I notice footprints and look in that direction. A person with a "Venom-like" skin running with just their axe out. I'm curious now, so I run up towards them, they run away. Ok, I stop. I think to myself, "well if they kill me, they kill me, I was logging out anyway.". So I started dancing. Then they start dancing. So I get closer and "Emote Together" pops up. Sure. We did the "Bust A Move" dance for a bit. I decide to wander some more.

I find a Bat-Buggy and decide to take it for a spin. It runs out of gas almost immediately. As I am standing there another Bat-Buggy drives up and starts driving circles around me. A Sprite Guardian is driving. So I jump into the passenger seat and we go for a cruise. And a cruise it was. We drove around for a bit, the whole time they are flipping through jam tracks like they are trying to dial in their favorite radio station.

Eventually we come to a stop. At this point there are six people left. They hop out of the buggy and throw a base llama sprite on the ground. Ok, cool. I don't have that one yet. Awesome. I pick it up and we get ambushed. I hide behind a rock and fumble for a portable extractor. I realize I have a water sprite on my back that I picked up earlier. As I start to swap it someone with a Cluster skin takes me out. NOOOOOooo...

Damn you Cluster. Until that point, probably my most wholesome round ever. At least I got to seventy mastered sprites. No more pressure to play like it's an extraction shooter. 🙂😎

So Windows updated overnight and today it does this every time I move the mouse. I get that Windows is trying to be helpful, but I don't want this. I thought it might be Task View, but turning that off did nothing.

I am on Windows 11 Pro, a Ryzen 9 7900X3D , RTX 4090.

OS Build 26200.8973

How do I shut it off?