I apologize for not being more clear. I don’t think I could live without toilet paper. Looked up how royalty cleaned themselves back then. No thank you.

Toilet paper.

For the same reason United Healthcare didn’t murder sick people

Yeah, that’s probably more likely.

Back in the early 2000s, when malls were still frequented, there was a tea shop down a dark wing that was rarely visited. I was on a tea bender and visited often, it was always empty. The man who ran the shop was very friendly. He was so friendly that he never failed to overstuff the tea I bought, give me a free hot tea, my choice, even the very expensive tea, on the spot, and heavily discount the tea I did pay for. I recommended him to friends and family, who reported the same experience. Empty shop, free and discounted tea, very friendly.

After a while, he opened up a little. He was from Iran. He had to leave very quickly, but he missed his home country. When asked why he left, he would dodge the question. People I sent to visit also reported his question dodging. He hesitated to say much about Iran beyond its ancient (and very cool) history.

I do not think he was laundering money, but he wasn’t there to make money. My guess is that he was whisked away by the US Government/CIA and given a new home in a quiet town where he could finally relax and just sell tea.

A few times, his older son was in the shop and was always visibly frustrated or bored, and he expressed a strong desire to “go home” back to Iran. The tea shop man tried to hide the seriousness in his tone when asking his son to be quiet. On occasion, his wife was there. She was friendly enough when speaking to you but always had a wary look on her face when you walked into the shop, looking right at your face for the first few seconds. I know that look personally. She was looking for danger in a face.

Even after the mall’s soul died and the anchor stores left, the little friendly tea shop in the dark, empty wing stayed.

That family was not there to make money selling tea. Very, very good tea, might I add. Such a friendly man. I hope they found peace.

The advertising has become the engine in every possible corner. It’s like searching billboards now, not websites. My email feeds the ads I get. My Gboard keyboard for my text messages feeds the ads I’m shown. Hell the websites I visit get advertised back to me. Google Lenovo for work reasons and a year later I’m still getting fed ads for Lenovo on other platforms that have no association with Google. It’s like the Adoring fan of Oblivion who really really wants to make me happy by offering me things he heard me mention once Every. Single. Day! Dude stop! Shut up and leave me the fuck alone.

I wish I could shove Google off a cliff.

Appreciate the feedback. I tried left Alt-L. When that didn’t work I tried right. The cockpit button wasn’t working either so maybe the whole thing was bugged. So glad you guys pointed me to proximity assist. I only check in once or twice a year and have to relearn everything. This update has me feeling like I’m starting to get the hang of things. Now that bugs are getting squashed and I can easily make money I’m planning on a rental spree. Woohoo!

Proximity assist! Thank you o7

I put it down back in patch 3.24 I had heard that they were focusing more on fixing bugs and it shows, kind of.

Elevators aren’t scary anymore! The biggest reason I stopped playing before was the disappointment my friends had when trying it out for the first time. The bugs ruined any fun we tried to have and hours of gains would disappear in an instant from a bug or a simple mistake, so finding out that my gear didn’t die with me this time was huge relief. Now I can wear my backer rewards!

I tried doing a cargo run with my 300i but I couldn’t load the crates because they kept getting stuck. It was as if the ramp was 5 millimeters too small. Trying to unstick them got me stuck inside the ship. I was able to glitch out of the ship but ended up stuck inside of a crate. After 20 minutes of banging on the crate I gave up on anyone hearing my cries for help and logged out. An hour and a half wasted.

Next day, new idea. I’ll rent a Hull A and run cargo. Should be easier to load crates, and boy howdy it was. Picked up cargo, dropped it off, and tried to take off for more. That’s when I was visited by the ghost of glitches past.

For some reason boost keeps getting stuck on when I power up. I don’t know if it’s a me problem because last year, after mashing buttons it would ‘sometimes’ turn off but I’m running out of play time and just log off.

Back in the cockpit, try to take off, but boost is still stuck. I try one at a time and think I figured it out with a single tap of L-shift. Boost turns off. Request take off and go to launch but the ship feels like it’s glued to the pad. Thrusters are pulling but ship won’t lift. Does it have something to do with boost? Try turning gravity assist off and on again, power off and on, go back to lobby and retrieve ship, get back in cockpit and gear is still glued to the deck. Log off.

Later that day I have a free hour to play so let’s try again. Back in the cockpit of the rental. Everything is working! Lets move some cargo. Get the cargo on, drop it off, take off again, no bugs, but the cargo fins get stuck half way when I try to close them? No big deal, trucker life is good and I’ve just made more money than I’ve ever had in one run. Log off for a quick meeting and come back an hour later. Retrieve the rental and see that the fins are closed. Fly up for more cargo. I land, accept contracts and go to open the cargo fins. The cockpit cargo button isn’t working. Doesn’t even show up as selectable. I didn’t know if I’m doing it right, this is my first few flights in a Hull A and I’m not familiar with the controls. Try every button, every combination of turning it off and on again, stowing and retrieving, nothing. Log off.

Back in the cockpit, retract and extend button is working! It wasn’t me, just a bug. Load up, drop off. Get paid. Cargo containers are getting chucked around like a FedEx driver making a touchdown. Money is rolling in baby! Try to take off.

Now the boost is stuck again but a few taps around the keyboard and L-Shift seems to be the sticking button. I check to see if gear is glued but I’m able to lift up so let’s request take off. The doors open and I try to turn the ship away from the freight elevator toward the opening but nothing happens. Strafe is working but pitch and yaw are not. I’m able to strafe out sideways and up into the clouds while I fight the controls for any type of movement. Nothing. Power off and on again, check bindings, unbind and rebind. Keyboard isn’t working, flight stick isn’t working, I’m a flying paraplegic forced to only look in one direction. Begin mashing of the keyboard controls but as soon as I mash yaw AND the flight stick at the same time I get yaw back! No pitch though. So I try pitching on the keyboard and with the flight stick at the same time and it worked!..Why!!? Now I can steer with the flight stick or the keyboard and retract and extend the fins. I tell myself it’s because it’s a rental and has probably been mishandled by countless citizens. A brand new Hull A wouldn’t have these problems and I’m almost halfway to being able to afford one of my own.

Fly off to pick up more cargo and transport it for cash. I’m over half a million richer and it only took two days or hours of frustration. My friends would have strangled me in the cockpit and spaced my corpse for wasting their time.

one day…one day ✨

Other bugs along the way: -Medbay would let me check in, screen was frozen “proceed to room 0”

-Inventory sometimes wouldn’t show

-couldn’t retrieve 300i, had to log off and back on again

-walked out to landing pad on microtech, and 300i was glitched into the floor, stowing forced me to make a claim.

-300i cargo ramp wouldn’t open and the texture of the exterior of the ramp when stored is always missing.

I get glued to landing pads pretty often so if anyone knows what I’m doing wrong please let me know.

Also, is there an exterior button on the Hull A to extend and retract cargo fins? I read somewhere that Alt-k works in the cockpit but it wouldn’t work for me.

All in all I’m actually looking forward to flying again next week. Being able to do actually accomplish something was really exciting. I hope they other missions work…workish

That’s called a win win

I go to bed. By day three I’m a little better, as long as nothing else happens in those three days. I have good meds for sleeping though, it’s like a mini suicide

I read that as he hoped hell was empty as in you get sent to emptiness. Alone, nothing everywhere, for eternity.

Hugging a child

Edit: this comment is missing a crucial piece of context, the screenshot of Google AI explaining the meme. Why did you people up vote this before I added the screenshot!?

To the moon! 🚀 🌙 👊 🇺🇲 🔥

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We’ve been past the fume stage for a fucking while

The American way

Yeah but what was the trip like

Precisely.

I felt the same, then someone mentioned Martin Luther King