Proof you’ll never meet another player in No Man’s Sky

Install Microsoft’s Network Monitor 3.4 and reboot : https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4865

Run Network Monitor, select new capture and start.

Launch No Man’s Sky

Notice that while you’re moving around, murdering minerals, trading with aliens or anything beyond using a save radio or landing in a trading post there is no network traffic to the Hello Games server. 

Ya know?

This is getting out of hand. I had NPR on this morning and the host was discussing Chicago having over 500 murders this year with a Chicago Tribune reporter. That’s not what bothered me though. It was his excessive usage of “ya know”. When questioned the reporter would spout this sort of garbage: “Chicago’s police chief said ya know. Yeah… It’s not a police issue. It’s like a society problem ya know?” I’m listening to NPR because I don’t know things but I’d like to.

Couch surfing isn’t safe

When I lived in Texas I was a couch surfing host.  I left close to 50 people crash on my sofa that were passing through on I-10.  That means I had almost 50 reviews, all of them positive.  Then later when I was roaming the country and needed a place to crash here and there just for a night my account full of positive reviews kept getting declines.  As a guy I leaned toward asking guys for a place to crash. Out of the dozens of requests all across the country I got declined almost every time. Not a good time, out of town or no response at all.  The only times I was approved were at group homes full of people already.  So I had a plan.  I would send a request for a place to crash as me.  Declined.  Sent a request to the same guy from a profile with a cute girl.  Exact same message, got accepted.  Show up and try to play it like they sent me the message and physically got pushed away from people’s homes because it wasn’t a young girl looking for a place to sleep for a night.  So fuck you Couch Surfing.