I made .iso files and mounted them in virtual drives to do the same thing. I could have used cracks but I didn’t want a virus and I still had the delusion that doing things “fairly” actually meant anything.

And you can’t just dismiss all their worries, either. Seeing a military vessel in a civilian sector can be genuinely worrying for some crews that aren’t used to having converted ships around, especially if they’ve had encounters with pirates in the past. I get that, I really do, but I’m not trying to scare anyone here. I just want to drop off my cargo and leave, and this is already way more stressful for me than it needs to be.

I was raised Evangelical, and this guy sounds a lot like a true believer struggling to reconcile the actual words of their messiah with the culture and beliefs of the fascist death cult that has co-opted said messiah as tribal identifier. My guess is, he has since become either the chillest agnostic you could ever meet or a literal domestic terrorist.

Yeah, and sometimes your meat ship comes with the wrong parts installed but if you ask to swap your torpedo launcher with a scanner module they say you can’t possibly have a science vessel because only battleships come with torpedo launchers. Then you try to explain that your ship really isn’t designed for combat and you don’t even have any torpedoes on board but they just send you into battle anyway and then get mad at you when your shields fail.

I fucking hate Meatfleet.

I think you replied to the wrong person? I drink a cup of coffee every morning. Sometimes it wakes me up and sometimes I end up napping on the couch right after. I also drink a ton of water every day.

Something I have noticed is that, whenever I want to get rid of a stim or a habit, I can’t just stop doing it. The impulse can never be destroyed, only shifted to something else.

Hey, that’s farther than I’ve gotten! I’ve only recently discovered that I’m AuDHD, after a lifetime of failure and then the pandemic completely wrecking all of my (terrible) coping mechanisms. I also fidget with my dice and my character is canonically narcoleptic now because I can’t show up to sessions on time to save my life.

I was mentally halfway into composing a rant about how unfair you are being to Pablo when I got to that last paragraph. “He has ADHD! He’s obviously stimming and self-medicating and you are terrible for criticizing him for that! This is just what untreated ADHD looks like!”

I’m glad you were able to turn things around and I hope you can be a little easier on your past self now.