u/WolfieVonD

My lonesome solo base had daily raids from Dust Raiders and Black Dragon Ninjas (And just started getting Slavers) at groups of 20 with a frequency so insane that I've sometimes had two factions attempt to shake me down at the same time.

Every time I get the notification, I immediately stop everything I'm doing and run to Stack and Bad Teeth to hire everyone I can. They then lollygag walking to my little outpost which is typically fine because the Raiders will stand outside my wall and yell at me for a full day.

My issue is, when the two meet, The mercenaries will literally walk through the gang of raiders who are raiding! I have to attack a raider to make it hostile before the mercenaries attack but even then, it's inconsistent. With the 4000k I'm paying every other day for a bugged and failing guard force, I could just pay the raider's demands.

But now, because I'm by myself, I have to work day and night just to make ends meet to pay the raiders. I feel like I'm living paycheck to paycheck again in my early 20s lmao

I'm new to the game so bare with me.

I got one-hit KO'd by a single dust bandit within "The Hub" putting in me a recovery Coma in the middle of town because my stomach was -20.

I waited at max speed for like, 15 RL minutes to get all the way up to -1 and then it just stopped for a minute and started counting back down to -4 now.

Is this character just cooked? I'm laying here bored out of my mind but everything I've read says that, as a solo character, I just have to wait it out.

My blood is 76 and my hunger is only 270 so I don't understand why my stomach is now getting worse. I have a med kit but as I'm in a coma, obviously can't use it.

I've only had my glasses for about 24 hours and I've already clocked the lackluster capabilities.

#Software

• Notifications: when only 5 lines are displayed, wasting 3 of them with Time & Date, App, and Sender, isn't an efficient use of space. You're looking at a 16 word preview at best. If you want more, too bad, pull out your phone because there's no way to expand the notification and read the whole message.

• Replying: despite being capable on my ear buds, watch, and even car, there's no way to natively respond to messages. The glasses have multiple microphone and an AI which transcribes what you're saying in real time, yet the glasses can't reply to a message.

• News / Text: there's no auto-scroll. If I select a long article that catches my eye, I can't have it automatically scroll while I read at a predetermined pace. The teleprompter can do this, why not any other app?

• Talking: With my headphones or car, whenever I speak it will stop my media so that the software doesn't get confused about what I'm saying vs what the music/podcast/video is saying. I have to commit to complete silence in order to use these glasses. I was having fun asking Even some questions and playing with the AI but it would often pick up the sound in my earphones and inject some words from my media.

These are all things which are frustrating because they should be so easy to implement. all of the hardware already exists on the glasses. Is this purely a permissions issue where Apple/Android won't allow the G2 to interact with Siri/Google?

I wish there was a roadmap or something where I could alleviate these shortcomings with "coming soon" hopes, but who knows if these features will actually be possible or be features for a new "G3" model which renders these obsolete in a year.

#Physical issues

• Lenses: The glasses are too reflective. If I have bright lighting behind me, I can literally see what's going on in the glasses reflections as if I have eyes on the back of my head. It's almost so obnoxiously bad that it could pass as a feature ; built in rear view mirrors on the bottom corners.

• Sunglasses: The clip ons are so cheap for their price and do not look good. These are at most worth $20 and add unnecessary shape. They could have designed them to conform to the glasses shape better or make it magnetic so it's easy to snap on and off. Unsure why they don't just have transitions available.

#Glitches

• AI: sometimes it won't receive my responses and just displays the word "text" in lieu of what I actually am saying. Then the AI has no idea what's going on and falls into a loop. As if my microphone stops working.

• languages and accents: I know I'm white, but I know how to say "El Pollo Loco" and so when it transcribes it, forcing English as "Hell Boy Oh Low CO" I die a little inside. I also tried speaking Deutsch and it insists on phonetically transcribing what I say as English. There's an unfortunate disconnect there.

Edit: I initially had a complaint about the navigation showing wildly inaccurate distances in the thousands of miles, but I now realize that it's measuring in meters, however, my settings are set to Imperial measurements and so this in itself is a bug and should show FT. I'd also prefer it to show "(0.74mi)" instead of "(3920FT)" or the current "(1117m)"

- Tuesday, July 14th: I went into the USPS for passport photo and application. Standard, not expedited.

- Monday, July 20th: I received an Email that they received my application and that the 4 to 6 business-week timeline starts now

- Friday, July 24th: I received my passport in the mail.

I had concerns because, after submitting my application for a first-timer, never having had one before, my mom let me know that I *used to* have one when I was 10 or 12, over 20 years ago. The Internet said that this discrepancy will hold up my application.

I'm very surprised at this turnaround.

My in-laws have a large pool which takes up a majority of their backyard. They also have an enormous doggy door on each of their back doors which stay open 24/7 for their dog. These are large enough for me to easily get through and I'm sure my son could walk on through without crouching if he wanted to go outside.

I've asked them to reinstall a pool gate as they had one when my wife was a baby and so the ground holes are still there for the gate posts. This cheap bastard and poor excuse for a man decided to cut 1/2 EMT conduit into thirds, and place the 3ft stick in every *other* hole. He then zip tied that plastic chicken wire shit they use at construction sites to these pieces of conduit. The zip ties effortlessly slide and and down and so, when lifted from the bottom, there's basically zero barrier.

I mentioned my discomfort with this as my 2yo is getting increasingly interested and brave for water play. He is enrolled in swim lessons. They assured me that, come summer time, they'd fix it. Well, I just checked up on it and they doubled the security from 0% to a whopping 0% by adding the conduit to *every* hole. The same issues with the zip ties still exist. Nothing was done but perhaps wasted $15 for 6 more posts (I should mention that only *half* of the pool is protected, around the far edge they just kind rolled the plastic fence to the wall and have it resting there, so it's making a **U** shape instead of completely surrounding the pool.)

These fuckers give me a hard time for being unsatisfied with their $80 solution. They could get a real secure one for $400 and I'm considering just doing it myself. My wife act like **I'm** crazy and too concerned about it but this little guy already tries going outside the doggy door and only stopped because everyone's telling him "no" and when he's supervised, he'll walk down to the shore or to the pool on his own accord. He loves playing in water.

How do I convince them to stop being cheap fucking pieces of shit? The dad fucking showers with a bucket so he has a gallon to flush the toilet in order to save 10cents a month. He washed and reuses his fucking ziplocks. They are rich and live in a multimillion dollar home, it's fucking embarrassing.

#edit

The reason I haven't bought the gate myself is that I don't go over there. They live over 2 hours away and I work third shift and so it's not just "pop on over and DIY". My wife works from home and is over there probably once a month for a few days, I only go when it's a special occasion. If I went specifically for this to measure the perimeter, order it and wait for a week or two for delivery, then go back and install, it's already been a month. Alternatively, if they took it seriously, they could have done it right themselves months ago like they promised. Hell, if they had told me they were just gonna cheap out again instead of blowing smoke up my ass and telling me they were doing it right, I could have had it done already

Also, State and Local laws have specific demands for this fencing, so it's not just me "forcing" them to comply with "my wishes" as some of you have erroneously suggested.

I'm headed to Japan in 4 months and these have been on my radar for its translation feature. Plus other things like messages, maps/directions; I've just been interested.

I have a slight prescription and before committing, decided to try out the rental for a month first including the ring as I'm unsure if I care about that yet.

First, A lot of people that compare these to META glasses always complain about META's privacy concerns and the morality of the company. However, I felt uneasy submitting my driver's license, taking selfies, and then told that they're "3D scanning and mapping" my face. they don't mention this until after the purchase before shipment, like they're holding your order hostage. That was definitely a privacy concern. I don't like how they blindsided you with this. At least with META, I've used Facebook for over a decade so I know what I'm getting into.

Second, the pricing. I got the full package to see what I like and don't like. It went from:

- "only $75/m"

- to "only $90 after our one-time fee"

- to "$100 after taxes"

- to (after purchasing) "only $82/m after taxes"

be upfront with your pricing.

I ordered 5 minutes ago and you've already showed me that you're deceptive and manipulative. Just be honest and transparent with everything and it would have been fine.

Straight out of highschool, I jumped into a fast paced construction industry where I never had time to just step back and relax. Even before that as a child, my parents restricted any computer or TV time, so what little time I did have was spent "second screening" and splitting my focus two or three ways. Personal time has always been fleeting and I spend the most of it trying to multitask leisure which meant I never actual could enjoy anything.

Now, nearly 15 years after starting my career and breaking my back, it's all paid off and I now manage in a cushy "dispatched" style job where I literally sit in my truck for 6 hours every day, waiting for something to happen (rarely does anything happen) and get paid for it.

I have more free time than ever before and I'm really struggling in my attempts to slow down. There are animes, movies, videogames, books, etc that I out aside because I know they'll require my full attention. Whenever I do continue splitting attention I end up going in autopilot and not absorbing any plot or artistic details. I hate it.

When I do force myself to stick to one thing, I****m fidgiting, legs bouncing, mine racing, and it's miserable

ive been checked for ADD/ADHD and been told I'm not (but I do have anxiety, although I don't think that's relevant) so I really think I can just learn how to stop

Is meditation the answer? Is complete cold turkey withdraw from everything and then slowly reintroducing stimulus the answer? I already go on daily bike rides with my son, monthly 6hr+ hikes, and when at home, don't do any screen time because of my toddler (no tv, phone, computer, anything. So I feel that I'm trying to "make up" for it on my free time at work, and falling into the same cycle.

Please help