u/sniperteddy007

Hi,

I'm currently exploring careers in federal law enforcement. I'm mainly interested in working financial crime so I have my eye mostly on FBI and IRS-CI. I have considered USSS but this sub and a person I met who previously did that do not make it look worth it. USPIS from what I gather is mostly various types of scams and mail fraud.

HSI seems to be loved on this sub apart from how the current administration employs them. I have a hard time gauging what kind of financial crime they work. From what I've gathered so far it's mainly international money laundering for thing like narcotics and the financing of transnational crime groups.

Could I get more information for HSI's financial crime and whether or not someone who really wants to do that would be happy here?

It seems like not much is known other than he didn't get along well with his family and preferred video games and electronics over athletic activities like Kendo.

Did he also not do well in school before the SAO incident? Did he have no friends and all this combined caused him to be a gaming addict?

One time I heard my mom on the phone with someone and said something along the lines "this person lost their husband to Patriarchy". It was either son or husband or some kind of male figure.

What is that? Losing someone to Patriarchy?

It's been in the news lately that Sony and probably the entire video game industry is moving away from physical media. This makes sense given the way people buy games, but I am sad. In the 7th generation publishers didn't put as much care into the packaging of the game as they did before. But you know for Ico, it came with a cool manual that basically told you what would be the whole game.

Many PS2 games came with awesome booklets. It will be an experience future generations won't get.

My first accounting professor from CC loved his time here back in the 1970's and highly recommended this school.

I have to say when I visited, it seems good but about the same as a place like CSUN. I was an accounting major and the curriculums look almost exactly the same. This school seems polarizing and for every person that says this place is awesome there is another that seems to think this place sucks and is full of immature people, like my current manager who went here for criminal justice.

Some people have also displayed rude and immature behavior. But again, some people say really good things about this place.

For a lot of people this is a very emotional anime. Some people really love it. I've heard it was a gateway anime for many. For me it wasn't, I was 19 when the majority of first season SAO episodes first aired and I binge watched many of them. My gateway's were things like Pokemon, Sailor Moon, DBZ and Gundam Wing. By the way, since people keep pointing out flaws in SAO, yes SAO certainly has flaws but so do that other anime I just mentioned.

What was it like for those of you who watched the episodes as they were released? Maybe I would have like the show more had I watched it like that. I feel like there is a lost joy in watching episodes once per week being excited for what would happen next.

I enjoyed SAO at the time for what it was and have re-watched it a couple of times. I do have a hard time getting behind the love for Asuna and her relationship with Kirito. Their relationship feels contrived and I hate how Asuna is casually violent toward Kirito at times in the Aincrad arc. I will admit that though that Asuna's character shines more in later seasons.

A while back I was talking to a friend about how heartless companies are and it's sad and she was like "well yeah everything is done for a reason lol" and I responded with "why exactly is this funny to you" and the she was like "What? Are you asking for my advice and then questioning me? That is extremely rude." I asked her how and she responded with "I'm surprised you don't know! Well whatever, I don't have to justify myself to you. By the way I only laughed once."

I don't get it, if anything I feel like she was being the rude one because she was acting like I said something so stupid which in my opinion is condescending.

I was 17 when I realized gaming wasn't making me happy the way it used to be. It took me till 32 to finally end it and rarely game anymore, much less enjoy gaming.

Speaking of which, even though I felt like gaming wasn't really making me happy and I kept doing it out of habit and out of desperation to make friends. I think quite a few of us game when it's not really making us happy out of habit.

Our generation was the first to grow up with it. I was a late adopter, not counting Youtube which I've been using since 2006. Facebook I started using in 2011 as a means of staying in touch with people I went to High School with. But now, I generally don't want to know what goes on in other people's lives.

I've read somewhere many of us are getting over social media except reddit. The truth is that people acted like idiots on Facebook back in the late 2000's and early 2010's. Also, Facebook and Instagram has a built in problem where it constantly reminds us of the things we have and the things we aren't doing. Or LinkedIn which often devolves into circle jerks and humble brags.

I mainly booted it up because I never played the Lost Mission. Which was one of the big marketing points back when BFG edition was released. Lost Mission ended up being completely redundant. After playing that, I played the main campaign again, partly because I wanted to see the Hell levels in HD and because I wanted the achievements (such a stupid thing to care about).

Most of the time I was ruminating about past trauma I endured due to virgin shaming in the Marine Corps. My trauma is one reason why I'm moving away from media consumption. I don't want to be reminded of the past and want to focus on self-improvement.

There were times where I enjoyed it, Doom 3 is the only Doom game I actually really enjoyed. But BFG edition is largely agreed to be a bad remaster. It seems like many HD remasters are deemed bad. When I finished it, it was bittersweet. I already knew the final boss sucked.

The only good things I have to say is that with the nature of the gameplay and the awesome music and cutscene at the end, it was a good nostalgic throwback to the early and mid-2000's.

I feel like gaming doesn't really make me happy anymore and I'm constantly chasing that high and used to get and should just accept that gaming will never truly make me happy. If it ever even did.

I see really bright kids in karate who accomplish a lot. They seem to have really supportive parents.

When raising your kids, how much of their success do you attribute to how you raise them and how much of it is inherent? Also, how much of it is your responsibility vs. theirs's?

For me it was because my father introduced me to video games at a very young age (he is also a prolific gamer). I wasn't good at sports and had a hard time connecting with others, also didn't love school. Gaming was the one thing that made me even remotely happy in my youth and I got even more into it when I got into online gaming and thought I would make friends through it.

Once I turned 17 I realized my love for gaming wasn't what it used to be. But i kept doing it because it was pacifying and because as previously stated I didn't really enjoy athletics or academics. I joined the marines and it was awful for me but it did give me the push I needed to become more driven and prioritize those other things, along the way becoming physically and mentally stronger. I still gamed till I was 32. Over time I withdrew from it since I realized it wasn't making me happy anymore and I had other, better things to focus on.

I see a lot of short form content for Halo and Call of Duty like it was the good old days. Guess what, most of us played those video games a lot because our lives outside of them were awful. Teenagers who were avoiding things that were hard but better like studying. Those games were badly balanced, full of toxic personalities and had a lot of bad moments anyway.

Some people really need to stop being blinded by nostalgia.

I sometimes I wish I got one when I needed a new car instead of a Toyota Corolla XSE hatchback. I drove both a manual and automatic (I didn't know that they had automatic versions of this car at the time).

It's a fun car to drive, but I needed a car immediately and after the maintenance nightmare that was my Ford Focus I wanted a car that I believe will not need non-routine maintenance for at least a little while.

But it's sad how how these enthusiast cars are dying off, especially in the United States. Soon roads will be dominated by EV's and crossover SUV's.

There was a moment where Louis was pressing him and his wife about how they aren't married on the books of the state and Justin was like "If the relationship ended today, I would consider it a successful relationship."

He's completely glossing over the fact that she's totally vulnerable because if he broke things off with her, he wouldn't be obligated to pay her child support or grant her assets. Clearly successful for him.

Question, how different is this from getting a prenup? Couldn't that have made them married while limiting his obligations? Does prenup just prevent him having to surrender assets but he would still have to be child support and alimony in a divorce?

I'm thinking his kids will be on the r/raisedbynarcissists sub one day.

I feel like it's one of the most unsafe environments I've ever been in. I had basically no privacy and no free will and it's easy to get hurt in there.