u/Mental-Square3688

To preface im 38 and have two young kids so my game time is limited to say the least lol so ive been playing Hell is us. Its an awesome soulslike game with absolutely no hand holding so at times when I take too long of a break I completely forget what I was doing lol so I find myself saying fuck it and just looking up codes and passwords for locked doors because I just dont have the patience or time to really pay attention to all the I formation your handed in this game. The puzzles are really fun when I have time to actually figure them out on my own. Now I've been a gamer since I was 2 and I even beat super ghosts and goblins twice when I was 9 to get the final ending. Played tons of difficult games until I had kids than it all went to I just dont have the ability to really get deep into a game anymore. Who has felt their brains go into easy mode of the years? And which games to you play that are difficult but dont involve alot of attention as far as lore goes? I just beat chronos a new dawn and that was an awesome game laid out almost for adult life lol

Edit: yes im well aware that having kids was my choice and I wouldnt trade that for any amount of game time. I was just saying having kids makes it hard to rememeber games with longer formats is all lol

Thanks for the comments everyone I think i may try to get my ass up earlier to game more but I also just play alot of coop games with friends later in the night around 9 lately.

Look.... idk how to put this exactly.... but things have been beyond connecting to me. Resonance whatever it may be. Something has been lining up more and more and I just dont know what to think of it. The amount of connections my brain is noticing are down right fucking too much. I cant name them all because they are innumerable. Basically it feels like either the algorithm has succeeded in putting me in its box. Or reality is an illusion and we are all condensed to a small vibration and reality is subjective and we are an illusion of ourselves... no drugs except some alcohol and lots of critical thinking... but something just is lining up so much that I feel scared when I feel that connecting the dots might lead to an epiphany. And this may shatter my reality entirely. Now this all may be just ramblings of a goofy goober... but i just cant help but notice all the patterns that are lining up and feel it's all just a preordained joke. Dont get me wrong i love my life but something feels slightly inexplicable and it makes me think a bit more than I should... does anyone else feel this strange recognition. Like we almost arent in control of our reality? Or maybe we are and just dont know how to perceive it? Sorry things are just... the patterns are so crazy to notice is all and I wish I didnt sometimes lol

Edit: hey everyone thanks for the responses! I personally do not understand our world and how we can even exist in the first place out of all the factors to have gone just right for us to be here its just fascinating. I've been watching just noticing a lot of resonating topics for me. Nothing dangerous or anything. More like a connection to everything on a much deeper level. I'm not scared in the sense that I don't want to be around. But more of a type of intense coexistence that when I see all the layers connecting so nicely and neatly it feels like its all preordained if that makes sense. And I'm not religious by any means. But I do wonder a lot about how we are all able to notice so many strange things. After I woke up I felt more like its just my brain noticing patterns of interest. Not that its all perception but more that my brain is stimulated in a way that subconsciously or even consciously I am seeking things that are like minded or that are connecting together. This has happened a few times in my life. Ill try and just explain the best I can with the recent connections. I started writing a song maybe a half a year ago (its nothing amazing at all lol) that I havent shared with anyone but I enjoy it alot myself and I named it "resonating heart" corny I know lol but it came to me when I was noticing so many people feeling a lot of the same pains I was having and I wanted to let it out and show that we are all in this world together and are capable of amazing things when we work together. Alright well I used to play a metric shit ton of video games lol now im older and free time isnt what it used to be but thats all good. Final fantasy 7 was the first game that really hit me hard when I was a kid. Well a new final fantasy is coming out called resonance that looks like an old school one again so I pre-ordered it. And also a game called CONTROL resonant is coming out as well and the first control I absolutely loved and felt it was right up my alley as well. Now thats just simply coincidence I know I'm also a huge h.p. lovecraft fan and into anything mind bending. So I finally sat down and watched true detectives all the way through after struggling to get through the first few episodes due to exhaustion and timing. But than after the 4th episode I watched them all the next subsequent days and absolutely loved it. Well my wife wanted me to pick the next thing we watched so I just kinda scrolled for a second and picked the first movie I thought looked interesting. And it was a movie called Syncronic. And man it felt like a perfect follow up to True Detectives and the whole yellow king lore. I think it was just a day where all these patterns were linking up as to how the consumer world we live in with the product attention algorithms just lining up quite nicely and us being humans we really enjoy noticing patterns. Or at least i know I do. But sorry for the long diatribe I think I was just more curious as too how many of you out there notice or feel these things sometimes too. Our world is fascinating to say the least and I just really enjoy it and its just a strange thing to have the capacity to notice these things is all. Because it really doesnt matter but my brain notices it and I find it enthralling when it does is all lol take care everyone sorry again for the crazy long post with very little proper punctuation or grammar haha

So this was a fairly short dream... I was driving a car down a road in what appeared to be a type of main street in rural America. I came to part in the road that was broken upwards like a clean stair case just cut flat and it was higher than my car could go up. So I turned around in the road and for some reason or another decided to turn back around and look for another spot to get up. There was essentially a part on the side that was old dirt path around some trees that lead back up onto the road so I took that and started heading down the street. There were a few other cars coming towards me and riding ahead of me too. When all of a sudden a massive fiery explosion went off ahead of me. It was so fast that it popped and than the vehicle and people ahead of me almost evaporated instantly. I remember the feeling of turning around knowing I couldn't escape it. As I turned around to look the other way it hit me and the world turned white. I was slowly lifting into the white space thinking to myself "I'm dead...I guess I have no other choice than to accept it." All the noise was gone it was a deafening silence as I rose into the white void. Than it all faded to black. And I woke up from the dream in bed to a shuttering breath inwards. I couldn't shake the dream all day. It was roughly 5 in the morning. I had a slight ptsd when I drove and even had an eerie feeling seeing an explosion on TV during a cartoon I was watching. Wtf could this have meant? Has anyone else actually died in their dream? Idk I just can't shake the feeling of this. I'm 37 and never had a dream that I actually died in. I didn't know where else to ask this question but I feel I needed to get it out.

Tell you're friends their characters look cool! Lol I was just thinking how much I really enjoy making characters and outfits look good to me in video games. From Elden Ring to warfare tons of games know we like to look good. But how often do you actually compliment you're friends on how awesome they look. Same goes for real life honestly. But I just wanted to share how good it makes others feel when you say they look awesome. Especially when people have to earn the outfits or really go ham on the customization. That is all keep looking flashy and snazzy gamers! I look forward to seeing some fit!

I dont know if this is an issue or not with others but ive noticed when I start a game with my son whos in the other room on the same internet it seems to glitch and triple certain things. Like it was just two of us and there were so many damn zombies jt was crazy! We turned a corner and it was like a hole path of 8 zombies just waiting and I was so confused because hes only level two and running the server so I dont know how he could have picked a harder difficulty or something but my god it was crazy! We also got 6 food rations and 8 bandages at the beginning of the match. So I feel like something got mixed up on the internet end of things? Idk first time experiencing something like this in a game. But I gotta say I love the hints now saying stuff like "not all fights are worth doing sometimes you just gotta survive." Which is exactly what I've been telling people that its not an action game its a stealth game more. And the little improvements such as running with armor makes sound now. Im still having enemy glitches where they either stay after dying. Or seems like possible syncing issues. But still absolutely love this game and I hope all the best for it. I dont know what their development process was like but it seems like It may have been a bit tumultuous at times with the way it got released. Like maybe the investors were pushing them to release it faster than they should so now they are playing catch up. Either way im all here for the game and I wish it all the success it deserves.

I dont know if this is an issue or not with others but ive noticed when I start a game with my son whos in the other room on the same internet it seems to glitch and triple certain things. Like it was just two of us and there were so many damn zombies jt was crazy! We turned a corner and it was like a hole path of 8 zombies just waiting and I was so confused because hes only level two and running the server so I dont know how he could have picked a harder difficulty or something but my god it was crazy! We also got 6 food rations and 8 bandages at the beginning of the match. So I feel like something got mixed up on the internet end of things? Idk first time experiencing something like this in a game. But I gotta say I love the hints now saying stuff like "not all fights are worth doing sometimes you just gotta survive." Which is exactly what I've been telling people that its not an action game its a stealth game more. And the little improvements such as running with armor makes sound now. Im still having enemy glitches where they either stay after dying. Or seems like possible syncing issues. But still absolutely love this game and I hope all the best for it. I dont know what their development process was like but it seems like It may have been a bit tumultuous at times with the way it got released. Like maybe the investors were pushing them to release it faster than they should so now they are playing catch up. Either way im all here for the game and I wish it all the success it deserves.

If you have played or watched or read any lovecraftian story you would realize that no one is a hero. You are insignificant. This game has nailed that feeling of fear and inability to face the monsters of this island. You are not meant to be able to stab shoot and punch your way through it. I hope they dont just placate to all the whiners out here that cant take the hint that you are supposed to not be a hero. Your a weak human trying to survive in a cursed land where everything wants to kill you. Much like how humans have survived for centuries. Like phasmaphobia or many other titles in this vain you are meant to struggle and learn and adapt not conquer but scrape through by the skin of your teeth.

Ok so has anyone figured out what triggers these events? I swear I've tested not eating environment foods I've tried seeing if its when you get hit by specific enemies. I just can't seem to figure out what triggers us throwing up giant centipedes lmao now don't get me wrong I'm all for it but I am really confused as to how its happening and if its possible to prevent it lol

I honestly think this game is amazing. Its got all the mystery and once you start figuring that out the game becomes alot easier but still challenging in different aspects. Just remember the forest is alive and you do not want to wake it. Move quick and get your bearings but avoid making any noise if possible. Back stab all enemies you can. You are meant to fail in maps until you understand the layout of the area you're in. If your frustrated and struggling take a step back and change the way you approach the game. You'll find it is way more enjoyable if you dont expect it to just hand you everything you want to make it through.

So I'm taking back Pauline from the black bears on a standard ps5...it was both extremely choppy but also oddly sped up at the same time. It was very strange to watch implying on 55 inch TV. I swear after I completely it. Mind you like 45 minutes of just running around killing enemies trying to figure out what the little outposts were to target. Which I didn't find any lmao. Anyways after finishing the weird temporal lag fest I stopped and looked down at my phone to text someone and I swear it felt like my whole brain was rewired and was super accurate and things felt crisper and that was the wildest thing I've experienced in a long time. It actually unlocked an old memory of playing twisted metal 3 with a buddy of mine and we played for like 2 hours with slo motion on and it felt about the same once I got off of it. Everything felt unreal super fast and just strange for a good few minutes. Thats all just thought I'd share this odd experience to see if anyone else has had this ever happen before cuz it was very strange lol

The amount of fireworks going off in our neighborhood for the last week has been insane! Like yes I get it 250 woohoo but my god in a neighborhood there needs to be a limit its been all week long from 7 to 11 at night just bang bang bang. I have a 2 year old and a dog that freaks out by loud noises. I'm just so tired of it. I want to have quiet at night not constant explosions. This is a vent. I didn't think it'd be so damn constant. I don't want to tell them to stop because I get it but my lord I just wish people were more considerate of others. Its just too much. Thank you for your time in reading this ill shut up now.

I say this just because a standardized system would work great for people to be able to explore all avenues of human life. My cousin is 47 and absolutely exhausted working hard labor 40 hours a week. He says he has to take off most Wednesdays just to have more recovery time to be able to still work well at his job. Now I know this is anecdotal but I feel like it should be a realized thing as a small reward for the constant hard work the majority of people have to do on a daily bases.

I've made many little recordings of things id like to share but im not sure where would be a good place to do so? So I was curious where you all would share them. They are very rough recordings but just things ive enjoyed making and originals id like others to experience.