u/Remarkable-Cow3421

I haven't been able to progress in the game since 2025. Every time I pick it up I'm back at the psych evaluation scene, and I go pick up my new chip that lets me put upgrades on my gun, and I do all the upgrades and I get new missions and things and then I go ok cool

and I put the game down.

next day, I'm back at the psych evlauation and nothing was saved? do I need to actually finish a mission to get to the next check point?

I loved this period where he was subtlely experimenting with synthesizers. You hear it in this score as flourishes in various places.

But knowing John, it was probably all recorded live.

They don't make scores like this anymore.

All the over saturated colors making it feel like a hello kitty island, but the actual gameplay graphics are top notch.

Wish we could have graphics like that in solar crown.

Anyone played the preview yet?

I'm considering trying to get every business in my hood to sign a petition that they would love for the city to ban cars and parking from the street their business is on, due to revenue loss to amazon and the need to increase revenue by making foot traffic numbers go up.

Would I have to first get the community board of that district to sign off on it, and then they submit a formel request to the NYC DOT?

Or how would it work?

I'm sick and tired of waiting for a systemic overhaul so I thought, why not just do it 1 block at a time. Little oasises where there are a breathing room from car noise and traffic accidents.

More space for people and more revenue for the stores.

Can we do it?

My father was Swedish and my mother Moroccan. Does that make me black or white?

Or pasty brown?
I've struggled with this all my life, but now I know there's an answer. It's called Mixed.

But if a race war broke out tomorrow... what side would draft me?

River Wild, by Jerry Goldsmith

underappreciated score?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CQRxHB-8Sc

Maybe a better version without the film audio

If we want to be welcoming, maybe we should foster a place where it's ok to be new and not know anything and be able to ask without being judged for not being a top tier player when you just started?

Maybe this could be it? Mods? Guys? What do you say?

Or was I dreaming?

There's a lot to be said about simply scoping out an area first so you know what routes the bots are walking and taking the time to just clear them one by one.

I can't really aim on the fly very quickly, but I'm getting quite good at aiming down sights and just preparing for when the bots walk into my aim.

How to apply this to PvP I have no idea, but I feel like the bots are the training wheels for later PvP stuff.

I think I've killed 5 players at this point after 200 hrs and that was mostly just luck.

Any tips on how to improve?

Whenever I get up close my aim is ALL over the place and in terms of bots it's just easier to run up to them and punch them in the face, than it is to get a lock on while everything is moving and being up close.

I'm having way more longer encounters than before. The floor has been raised! :)

I’ve spent most of my life trying to catch up to what I thought my peers were supposed to become: getting married, having kids, building a social life — all the usual “normal life” milestones.

But I kept failing at them, over and over.

I’m 50 now. I’ve never had a girlfriend, and I still don’t really have friends. For most of my life, I fought against accepting that I was autistic because my parents wanted me to be “normal,” and all I wanted was to make them happy. So I learned to suppress my behaviors, mask constantly, and reshape myself into someone more acceptable.

Eventually it got so extreme that I kind of erased myself in the process.

Now I feel like I’m carrying decades of emotions I was never really allowed to express. And I’m starting to realize I may never get to “go back” and have the normal childhood, teenage years, or adulthood I spent so long trying to imitate.

Maybe my role in life was never to perform normalcy. Maybe I was always meant to experience life differently — more as an observer than as someone constantly acting a part for other people.

Sometimes it takes half a lifetime to become who you actually are.

I think what I struggle with most now is grieving the amount of time I lost trying to be somebody else.

For those of you who relate to this: how do you reconcile decades of pretending? How do you make peace with feeling like you lost so much time?

Disclosure: I was diagnosed 8 years ago.

I'm using VoiceMod and OBS but somehow I messed it up and now there's no audio coming through to Xbox (my little icon in Marathon has no indicator that I'm speaking when I am)....

Can anyone ehelpl?

I for one now can keep pace with the rest of you. At least in terms of progression.

... and dream about Tau Ceti. Anyone else ?)

What do you expect? That’s not ratting. I’m minding my own business, and you come crashing in—breaking windows, looting, stomping around like no one’s there. Of course I’m going to gear up and take you out.

I think I’ve found my lane with the Assassin shell after maining Recon for over a month. Assassin feels perfect for solo play—quiet, patient, and punishing careless players.

In duos, though, it would be lethal: Recon marks targets, Assassin closes in for the kill, with Recon covering from range. That combo just makes sense.

Honestly, this game is incredible. I just really want duos back. And while we’re at it, put all queues on one map—trios, duos, solos, Rooks—everything together. I don’t really get why they’re separated.

Rant over.

When a child is killed in traffic, we don't have a universal symbol to make that invisible tragedy VISIBLE.

Can we come up with something? I saw someone on streetsblog suggest a white tricycle?

Maybe a stencil of a ghost child. But I don't know if that will make people consider children in traffic.

There was an experiment done in one of those European countries, I forget which, where when placing a tricycle in intersections at modest to busy roads, drivers slowed down at the sight of it.

Maybe because their instincts of 'look out, there's a child here somewhere' kicks in?

Maybe a RED tricycle would be better to remind us of the blood spilled? A white tricycle with red splotches on it, would probably be the most eye catching reminder of the tragedy that happened and happens every day.

There is a noticeable lag, and you can't watch Apple TV movies on it or anything with DRM...

why insist on it being wireless when/if you are working on a Mac you are most likely sitting down anyway, and there's a wire connected to it anyway ... so what gives?

Wouldn't a USB C lag-less version of Virtual Display be SO much better?