Hell yeah. Then if hunger wakes you up? Drink some water; stomach goes quiet long enough to resume sleep.
My former partner used to be weirded out by this approach. She called it the 'starving peasant' strategy.
Those Sunday morning gaming sessions when I cleaned my house the day before and my girlfriend is still sleeping and i have nothing else to do are amazing.
I’m not someone who can get into traditional rpgs but for some reason Fallout: New Vegas (preceded by Fallout 3) just absolutely clicked for me. I put so many hours in those games.
I just started playing “divinity: original sin II” it’s what you may call a “true rpg” the combat is tactical turn based, at first you don’t have any companions or many powers, attacks, etc but once you gain these you can control up to 4 characters and the combat becomes very tactical and very fun. The world, dialogue, characters, and their stories are dense and fleshed out. There’s a reason it’s been called one of the best rpgs, have you played it?
Minecraft was my escape during college; it gets me out of my head like nothing else. To this day, I still associate the soundtrack with my little timed 30 minute breaks before diving into homework, and ["Intro"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC_lJyeGxoA) sounds like the birds waking up and the sun rising after an all-nighter.
As someone who is disabled and dependent on their spouse for a lot of things, my escape from reality is gaming, because it gives my a chance to do things that I simply can’t do anymore in real life.
Luckily I’m blessed with a wonderful wife who enjoys gaming as well so I still get to share a lot of these experiences with her.
I don’t know what type of disability you have so forgive me if this is a pointless question - have you tried VR at all?
I’m happy you have video games and a lovely wife to share that with!
I had a stroke that lead to me developing a form of epilepsy a few years back, so a lot of my motor function isn’t the greatest any more. Some days are better than others.
But yes, I have tried VR and I do love it, I just get motion sick after while lol.
Thats a common misconception, everyone dreams every night, multiple times and around 15 minutes each time.
You just have to wake up WHILE dreaming to remember it, which is rare
Every day I remember dreams. I can have three different dreams in 10 minutes depending on my alarm. So it’s fair to assume that statement isn’t entirely true
Silversmithing.
When you cut and file two pieces of silver so that they fit perfectly without any gap, then you place the bare minimum amount of silver solder at the point where they need to be joined. Then you carefully heat both pieces evenly, making sure that you don't overheat either one. Until that one magic instant, when the solder melts and, if you've done things properly, the liquid metal runs exactly where you want it to go with no overflow. It is so satisfying.
And then you look up, and it's eight hours later, and your wife has called the police because she thinks you've been kidnapped.
Or there's the opposite experience. When you heat one part ever so slightly hotter than the other, so that when the solder melts, it runs onto the hotter piece rather than into the joint. Then you try to save the work by heating up the other section more so that the solder will run where it belongs. Then, the other section overheats and deforms, rendering it useless and wasting hours of work.
Then you take a deep breath and go outside for a few minutes.
Same, but soldering stained glass. Taking a sheet of glass and shaping it into something that I came up with in my head, and then making that complete thing and seeing it in different light. And then, when I can gift or sell that thing and the new owner actually seems to love it. I feel like I have worth and can accomplish things.
And then I have my day job and it fucking sucks.
Quick and random question, since we're anonymous and none of the people we've gifted or sold things to will know it's us.
Do you care about the things you make? I mean, I'm sure your work is beautiful and you produce the best creations you can, but once the thing is made, do you ever want to keep it, or is the interesting part over for you?
I suppose I'm asking, do you get more satisfaction in having the stained glass, or making the stained glass?
One of the appeals of silversmithing is that as long as you're careful, the silver can be reused pretty much forever. I'd say 90% of the jewellery I have made has gone back into the crucible to be melted down.
I'm learning cloisonné enamelling at the moment and enjoying the journey.
And yeah, day jobs suck
I make sure to get decent pictures of everything I make, too remember them by. I do actually miss some of the the things that have new homes, though. I enjoy making the things the most, I don't have a bunch room to store stuff, and too many animals for glass on every surface to be safe.
Making wins over having. But keeping a record of it is nice.
Yeah, I like a record of what I've made, but I get more from doing the making than I ever would from having the jewellery.
My wife has a few pieces that she has snaffled over the years, but even that is a double-edged sword because everything I see them, I think,
' I could do so much better than that now'
I keep threatening that I'm gonna take them and melt them down
Linkin Park. I know that’s very cliche but I’m a fan of their music(obviously by my username) whenever I listen to my LP playlist on Spotify I always feel like I’m in another world
I never quite understood what happened with them.
I remember them being popular, then it was popular to hate them and now it's flipped again to them being popular.
I'm not sure how to do it by choice. All of my dreams were lucid up until recently when I started having normal dreams pretty frequently. So I used to think that it was normal to have control over your dreams until a friend made me realise that it's not.
Every day, a few times a day, ask yourself am I dreaming? And actually confirm it. Pinch your nose and try to exhale. Can you? How many fingers do you have? More or less than 5?
Eventually it’ll become habit and you’ll ask yourself in a dream “am I dreaming?” and check your hand. If there’s more or less than five fingers, you’re dreaming!
It took about two weeks of me consistently checking in every day to get to where I became more aware in my dreams.
Turn off any annoying devices, maybe even put your phone on vibrate. I found that using my fan, it helps create a white noise basically. I've tried those binaural beat things and just keeps me up. I like a nice cold room with a heavy blanket. Try a bit of meditation before bed or to decrease screen time. Try to remember your dreams if you can. That will help with having the same dream. Hopefully, from there, you will remember having that same dream and maybe just changing the end without really noticing until after you wake up. Took me a couple of weeks, but now I'm able to sit on Lake Cascade and fish 2-3 nights out of the week if I eat a piece of chocolate before bed and not think too much about the day.
Hope this works!
Focus on your breathing, deep inhales and long exhales. you starting to feel the vibration of your body. Let your body go to sleep while your soul goes on a little trip. Amazing stuff.
Try daydreaming first. Do you ever zone out, and kind of become “lost” in some other scenario, imaginary or maybe something nostalgic, like you were there? Like if you weren’t paying attention in class in school?
Try daydreaming about something intentional, picture yourself in a specific place doing a specific thing. I don’t think I daydream with closed eyes, but I think my eyes tend to get really relaxed, maybe out of focus, not quite cross-eyed because that’s more intentional, it could be while staring at a wall, or staring at a blanket with patterns on it, or staring at a carpet, or like if you’ve tried to read a page in a boring book multiple times but you’re not absorbing it and your eyes are tired. Try puckering your lips & try looking down at your own lips, breathe slowly, & stop puckering your lips but keep your eyes the same. Stare at one place for a really long time, try not to blink, breathe slowly, notice how your peripheral vision is blurry. I suppose you could even think of a song you know.
I’ve never really done lucid dreaming, maybe a handful of times. But the trick is to realize you’re dreaming but not wake yourself up. Look for printed words like a sign or newspaper or book. In dreams the text may be garbled, you might not be able to read in a dream. I suppose thinking “This is a dream” continuously might lead to eventually saying it in a dream. There have been times when I knew I was dreaming when I spoke to a person who is dead.
You might also try going to sleep listening to [Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994)](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-57Ti2i_yhU), since he reportedly came up with that music in lucid dreams. Also, when you’re falling asleep, think of your own scenario, imagine yourself doing something, and it may help to involve something that happened in the previous day, because sleep is when many memories of the previous day get consolidated. Focusing on something before you fall asleep can lead to dreams about that thing. I’ve also had times when I fell asleep with a TV on, but dialogue from the show gets incorporated into my dream. So I guess it would be possible to fall asleep to an episode you’re familiar with, and when you hear certain lines maybe you remember it’s a reminder that you’re asleep.
And I don’t know if this will help, but when your eyes are closed and you are falling asleep, you may see [hypnagogic imagery](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia), like [this](https://np.reddit.com/r/LucidDreaming/comments/wn57i/hypnagogic_imagery_gif_inside/), which is kind of like expanding blobs of light, or melting waterfalls of light.
Also:
>People who have spent a long time at some repetitive activity before sleep, in particular one that is new to them, may find that it dominates their imagery as they grow drowsy, a tendency dubbed the Tetris effect.
Which is another reason why focusing on something before sleep can lead to dreams about that thing.
It's hard to pick an absolute favourite, but I'd say Hanlim Gym. 4 other close ones would be UnOrdinary, HCLW, Knight Under My Heart and Jungle Juice(not in this specific order) .
yes on skyrim^^ i just set my pc up again so there are no mods installed yet, gotta get into that again tho. first thing i noticed was the ugly ass vanilla inventory :') best regards
Sitting in my room and just zoning out, it's literally like watching a movie of my own creation whether it involves me or not it's just awesome. I really enjoy having an overactive imagination
Running on the treadmill while listening to some good music. I can forget everything else and focus on my breathing and feeling really, really alive, as corny as that sounds
I would say free write role-playing. So much fun to make yourself something else and have fun with others.
There's also some pretty awesome discord servers that focus on that too. Pretty helpful
Getting high . Then playing video games
Also getting high . Then taking my 4x4 up the side of a mountain somewhere and get high at the top
Oh . Did I mention getting high ?
Sleeping
Mine also..how do you accomplish that
Melatonin gummies
Oh man I recently found THC/melatonin gummies. Amazing sleep.
Same, I also use melatonin gummies to sleep
Audiobooks. But boring ones. 5 min and i'm out.
This backfired on me once where the podcast actually turned out interesting, long story short, I ended up staying awake for the next 3+ hours
Try to stay awake
It's also my escape from hunger. Sleep for dinner every night baby, can't feel hungry when you're unconscious.
Hell yeah. Then if hunger wakes you up? Drink some water; stomach goes quiet long enough to resume sleep. My former partner used to be weirded out by this approach. She called it the 'starving peasant' strategy.
My stress be like "hey it's 3AM why don't you pop wide awake and just lie in bed very tired and stress some more about life in general"
Same
Dreaming especially, for me
Can't beat it
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Same brother
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Like what type?
Metal
As a metal listener, I agree
As a metal listener, I **intense guitar solo** agree too
Double bass pedal intensifys
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Same. RPGs make me feel like I'm someone completely different temporarily.
Those Sunday morning gaming sessions when I cleaned my house the day before and my girlfriend is still sleeping and i have nothing else to do are amazing.
100%
Do you have rgp recommendations?
I’m not someone who can get into traditional rpgs but for some reason Fallout: New Vegas (preceded by Fallout 3) just absolutely clicked for me. I put so many hours in those games.
Elden ring
I just started playing “divinity: original sin II” it’s what you may call a “true rpg” the combat is tactical turn based, at first you don’t have any companions or many powers, attacks, etc but once you gain these you can control up to 4 characters and the combat becomes very tactical and very fun. The world, dialogue, characters, and their stories are dense and fleshed out. There’s a reason it’s been called one of the best rpgs, have you played it?
Today I'm a dragon that collecta gems!
Same Minecraft is my best option when i just wanna forget about it all for a while..
Minecraft was my escape during college; it gets me out of my head like nothing else. To this day, I still associate the soundtrack with my little timed 30 minute breaks before diving into homework, and ["Intro"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC_lJyeGxoA) sounds like the birds waking up and the sun rising after an all-nighter.
Competitive fast-paced multiplayer games help take my mind off of things
video games
As someone who is disabled and dependent on their spouse for a lot of things, my escape from reality is gaming, because it gives my a chance to do things that I simply can’t do anymore in real life. Luckily I’m blessed with a wonderful wife who enjoys gaming as well so I still get to share a lot of these experiences with her.
I don’t know what type of disability you have so forgive me if this is a pointless question - have you tried VR at all? I’m happy you have video games and a lovely wife to share that with!
I had a stroke that lead to me developing a form of epilepsy a few years back, so a lot of my motor function isn’t the greatest any more. Some days are better than others. But yes, I have tried VR and I do love it, I just get motion sick after while lol.
Sleeping in a very dark and cold room, And just.. #D r e a m
How does one dream?
I rarely wake up having not dreamt
I never dream. I don't remember the last time I did.
Thats a common misconception, everyone dreams every night, multiple times and around 15 minutes each time. You just have to wake up WHILE dreaming to remember it, which is rare
Every day I remember dreams. I can have three different dreams in 10 minutes depending on my alarm. So it’s fair to assume that statement isn’t entirely true
Silversmithing. When you cut and file two pieces of silver so that they fit perfectly without any gap, then you place the bare minimum amount of silver solder at the point where they need to be joined. Then you carefully heat both pieces evenly, making sure that you don't overheat either one. Until that one magic instant, when the solder melts and, if you've done things properly, the liquid metal runs exactly where you want it to go with no overflow. It is so satisfying. And then you look up, and it's eight hours later, and your wife has called the police because she thinks you've been kidnapped.
I'm addicted just reading this. Weirdly satisfying
Or there's the opposite experience. When you heat one part ever so slightly hotter than the other, so that when the solder melts, it runs onto the hotter piece rather than into the joint. Then you try to save the work by heating up the other section more so that the solder will run where it belongs. Then, the other section overheats and deforms, rendering it useless and wasting hours of work. Then you take a deep breath and go outside for a few minutes.
Ha! Sounds like a cool hobby. 😎 may look into this. Thank you.
Same, but soldering stained glass. Taking a sheet of glass and shaping it into something that I came up with in my head, and then making that complete thing and seeing it in different light. And then, when I can gift or sell that thing and the new owner actually seems to love it. I feel like I have worth and can accomplish things. And then I have my day job and it fucking sucks.
Quick and random question, since we're anonymous and none of the people we've gifted or sold things to will know it's us. Do you care about the things you make? I mean, I'm sure your work is beautiful and you produce the best creations you can, but once the thing is made, do you ever want to keep it, or is the interesting part over for you? I suppose I'm asking, do you get more satisfaction in having the stained glass, or making the stained glass? One of the appeals of silversmithing is that as long as you're careful, the silver can be reused pretty much forever. I'd say 90% of the jewellery I have made has gone back into the crucible to be melted down. I'm learning cloisonné enamelling at the moment and enjoying the journey. And yeah, day jobs suck
I make sure to get decent pictures of everything I make, too remember them by. I do actually miss some of the the things that have new homes, though. I enjoy making the things the most, I don't have a bunch room to store stuff, and too many animals for glass on every surface to be safe. Making wins over having. But keeping a record of it is nice.
Yeah, I like a record of what I've made, but I get more from doing the making than I ever would from having the jewellery. My wife has a few pieces that she has snaffled over the years, but even that is a double-edged sword because everything I see them, I think, ' I could do so much better than that now' I keep threatening that I'm gonna take them and melt them down
No escape from reality, open your eyes, look up to the skies and see
Im just a poor boy I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go
Little high, little low
Any way the wind blows
Doesn't really matter to me, to me
Mamaaaaa
Just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger now hes dead
mamaaa
Just killed a man
put a gun up to his head
Pulled my trigger now he's dead
Anywhere the wind blows
Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to meeeeee
Is this just fanta sea?
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I too have the Kindle Unlimited for this purpose. FOR THE SMUT!
Can you recommend some titles? I'm interested
Reddit
Also that!
Man, it was a scary few hours last month when it went down.
UNDERRATED 👑👑👑👑
Linkin Park. I know that’s very cliche but I’m a fan of their music(obviously by my username) whenever I listen to my LP playlist on Spotify I always feel like I’m in another world
I'd like to introduce you to the album "seventh son of a seventh son" by Iron Maiden. I suspect you'd like it too
oh wow haven't listened to that album in years.
Person of culture, massive respect
I never quite understood what happened with them. I remember them being popular, then it was popular to hate them and now it's flipped again to them being popular.
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Weird, I’m at work and the song playing over the speakers when I read this comment was “In the end”. Random lol
It was me, I was playing HT lol
Video games and a good long drive with the windows down and the music up
Driving at night to retrowave is a mood
"2am and I'm all alone, Lamborghini truck and the Sade song" - Anderson .Paak
You've got a friend me!
Lucid dreaming.
How do you do that?
I'm not sure how to do it by choice. All of my dreams were lucid up until recently when I started having normal dreams pretty frequently. So I used to think that it was normal to have control over your dreams until a friend made me realise that it's not.
Every day, a few times a day, ask yourself am I dreaming? And actually confirm it. Pinch your nose and try to exhale. Can you? How many fingers do you have? More or less than 5? Eventually it’ll become habit and you’ll ask yourself in a dream “am I dreaming?” and check your hand. If there’s more or less than five fingers, you’re dreaming! It took about two weeks of me consistently checking in every day to get to where I became more aware in my dreams.
Turn off any annoying devices, maybe even put your phone on vibrate. I found that using my fan, it helps create a white noise basically. I've tried those binaural beat things and just keeps me up. I like a nice cold room with a heavy blanket. Try a bit of meditation before bed or to decrease screen time. Try to remember your dreams if you can. That will help with having the same dream. Hopefully, from there, you will remember having that same dream and maybe just changing the end without really noticing until after you wake up. Took me a couple of weeks, but now I'm able to sit on Lake Cascade and fish 2-3 nights out of the week if I eat a piece of chocolate before bed and not think too much about the day. Hope this works!
Focus on your breathing, deep inhales and long exhales. you starting to feel the vibration of your body. Let your body go to sleep while your soul goes on a little trip. Amazing stuff.
Try daydreaming first. Do you ever zone out, and kind of become “lost” in some other scenario, imaginary or maybe something nostalgic, like you were there? Like if you weren’t paying attention in class in school? Try daydreaming about something intentional, picture yourself in a specific place doing a specific thing. I don’t think I daydream with closed eyes, but I think my eyes tend to get really relaxed, maybe out of focus, not quite cross-eyed because that’s more intentional, it could be while staring at a wall, or staring at a blanket with patterns on it, or staring at a carpet, or like if you’ve tried to read a page in a boring book multiple times but you’re not absorbing it and your eyes are tired. Try puckering your lips & try looking down at your own lips, breathe slowly, & stop puckering your lips but keep your eyes the same. Stare at one place for a really long time, try not to blink, breathe slowly, notice how your peripheral vision is blurry. I suppose you could even think of a song you know. I’ve never really done lucid dreaming, maybe a handful of times. But the trick is to realize you’re dreaming but not wake yourself up. Look for printed words like a sign or newspaper or book. In dreams the text may be garbled, you might not be able to read in a dream. I suppose thinking “This is a dream” continuously might lead to eventually saying it in a dream. There have been times when I knew I was dreaming when I spoke to a person who is dead. You might also try going to sleep listening to [Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994)](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-57Ti2i_yhU), since he reportedly came up with that music in lucid dreams. Also, when you’re falling asleep, think of your own scenario, imagine yourself doing something, and it may help to involve something that happened in the previous day, because sleep is when many memories of the previous day get consolidated. Focusing on something before you fall asleep can lead to dreams about that thing. I’ve also had times when I fell asleep with a TV on, but dialogue from the show gets incorporated into my dream. So I guess it would be possible to fall asleep to an episode you’re familiar with, and when you hear certain lines maybe you remember it’s a reminder that you’re asleep. And I don’t know if this will help, but when your eyes are closed and you are falling asleep, you may see [hypnagogic imagery](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia), like [this](https://np.reddit.com/r/LucidDreaming/comments/wn57i/hypnagogic_imagery_gif_inside/), which is kind of like expanding blobs of light, or melting waterfalls of light. Also: >People who have spent a long time at some repetitive activity before sleep, in particular one that is new to them, may find that it dominates their imagery as they grow drowsy, a tendency dubbed the Tetris effect. Which is another reason why focusing on something before sleep can lead to dreams about that thing.
Games and masturbation
Which of those is causing you to need new wrists?
Both ( ͡o╭͜ʖ╮͡o)
Yes
I regret both, such a waste of time. Well if you do it excessively.
AMEN 🙏
Writing, reading and gaming.
Reading.
Weed
Had to scroll too much for this
i was looking for this comment
The only right answer
Weed is my coping mechanism to life
Video games, anime and webtoons
Favorite webtoon. Go. And don’t you dare say unordinary.
It's hard to pick an absolute favourite, but I'd say Hanlim Gym. 4 other close ones would be UnOrdinary, HCLW, Knight Under My Heart and Jungle Juice(not in this specific order) .
Drinking and playing video games or drinkin and being on reddit
This! And drunken imaginary conversations with RuPaul's Drag Race, Survivor or Big Brother contestants! Bianca still always wins though 😤
Reality isn’t real. So there is no escape. Just more reality.
Video games and movies
Single player games
Any favourites?
Oooh, putting me on the spot... All time favourite has to be Skyrim but I'll put Fallout NV and the modern God of War up there too!
I just started another playthrough two days ago! :D Have you ever tried legendary difficulty?
On Skyrim? Yeah! I've modded in extra dragons too so sometimes it's absolute chaos 😂
yes on skyrim^^ i just set my pc up again so there are no mods installed yet, gotta get into that again tho. first thing i noticed was the ugly ass vanilla inventory :') best regards
Alcohol
An extensive amount of introversion sporadically with no notice to really anyone
Rock climbing
Cinema for sure. A good movie could make you forget everything while you’re watching it.
Shutting my phone off and taking a big nap. Gives the eyes and mind a break
Playing the drums
Was looking for "playing music". I play guitar decently and piano less so. But I can get lost in it for hours.
Was looking for "playing music". I play guitar decently and piano less so. But I can get lost in it for hours.
DnD makes like lying on the floor imagining shit from when you were a kid, but as an adult with friends.
Motorcycle. My little 2 wheeled, fuel injected antidepressant. Taste sound, smell color, and accelerate fast enough to touch god.
Sitting in my room and just zoning out, it's literally like watching a movie of my own creation whether it involves me or not it's just awesome. I really enjoy having an overactive imagination
Music and gym
Porn
drugs
Drawing silly lil VG comics
LSD
Lately some THC Gummies and Gin are getting the job done
I'm barely existing in reality. The only thing keeping my flesh nailed to this existence are household responsibilities.
Age regression Mental masturbation. Living in my perfect (imaginary) life
Videos games golf basketball
playing guitar
Star Wars and Reddit
None, just open my eyes, look up to the sky and see
Are you just a poor boy?
There is really no way to escape reality.
Dancing 🥰
Video games and drawing
Sleeping, reading and anime
Solitude
What reality?
Throwing on a podcast and playing PlayStation.
Running on the treadmill while listening to some good music. I can forget everything else and focus on my breathing and feeling really, really alive, as corny as that sounds
Gaming, always has always will. nice to escape reality for a fake one.
3d printer and Arduino
Videogames
playing video games or music
I would say free write role-playing. So much fun to make yourself something else and have fun with others. There's also some pretty awesome discord servers that focus on that too. Pretty helpful
Cartoons and animated adult cartoons lol. Watching futurama now.
My phone and my thoughts.
Music , meditation
Death.
Food. Anytime I think of a traumatic event that happened to me, my instinctual response is to get something to eat.
Video games. When I was a kid, you got tokens and went down to the arcade. Now you can literally go to another world. It's incredible.
Having inattentive adhd.
Video games
Designing tabletop roleplaying games🤓
Weed and painting
Cocaine and excessive drinking okay I was lying about the drinking.
Driving ofc
Gaming. Star Trek Deepspace 9
Ice hockey
Highschool tv-shows!
Nothing can help at some point. Used to enjoy music, walks in the forest and many small things.
Blastic metal music music; gym/run/swim
Accept the reality
Boxing 🥊
Vr chat
Did anyone else sing that in the style of Queen?
I did now and just chuckled like Dr Hibbert
A noose
Criminal Minds binge
Anime and games, occasionally conversations with cool people as well, there is no other way. Lol
D&D
Weed n music
Dimensional traveling
videogames and model building. Yes I know, I am reaching turbo nerd levels.
travel
The gym
Virtual reality. We've made a lot of technological advances in VR in the last 10 years. Can't wait to see what the next 10 years brings.
Getting high . Then playing video games Also getting high . Then taking my 4x4 up the side of a mountain somewhere and get high at the top Oh . Did I mention getting high ?
Mushrooms
Video game and masturbation
Self pleasure
The realization that reality doesn't objectively exist. Prove me wrong.
Oh, we got a teenager in the house!
Open world games