u/Cicada-Tang

I feel like this can be a better version of the current Pink Paw Heist system.

Just copy & paste the entire map and put on an evil filter, call it an alternate dimension or something, a place where you are morally justified to create as much destruction as possible (to appease the CN censorship lol).

This will also better tie together other elements of the game: Your car quality matters a lot because you will get into a lot of car chases. Your home can serve as evacuation point in this dimension.

It will also give you the "map slowly opening up as you explore" feeling in most other gacha open-world games.

This is something I realized more and more as I grew older, and it's a shame that this is not taught more in our develpmental years.

For most of my life, I never considered myself a particularly smart/gifted person. However, as I went further into my adulthood, I started to pull farther and farther ahead from my peers who I used to think were more competent than me.

Looking back, I couldn't help but notice how much I was carried simply by the fact that people think I'm smarter than I actually am, not by my intrinsic competence. This can come down to a lot of factors, such as my personality and my communication style.

Naturally, the teachers, then the professors, then the higher-ups in my company, started to offer me tasks and opportunities that would push me closer to my limit, giving me more expereince than my peers at the same age, creating a positive reinforcement cycle of Higher perceived intelligence → More opportunities → More cognitive practice → Actual increase in ability → Repeat.

(This is not just anecdote btw. Vygotsky's Social Development Theory is basically this)

Looking back, this is probably the most important advice I want to give to younger people: For the love of God, learn to appear smarter. If you look like a bum, you'll become a bum.

This doesn't mean you need to pretend to be a smartass, or a know-it-all, or be super extroverted. What signals “intelligence” socially are often subtle things such as:

• How well you make eye contact when you talk/listen.
• The "rhythm" of your speech (moderate speaking rate, clear articulation)
• The audio quality of your voice (enough pitch variation, lower vocal strain, high resonance, low nasality, etc)
• And a lot of extremely detailed things that I can't fully articulate

You can "appear smart" while being an introvert and talking very little. You can "appear smart" just by being a good listener. And the skills you need can be practiced, trained and conditioned, especially when you are still young (I acquired most of these skills just by being in the choir for most of my student years).

So... yeah, I guess my recommendation is to go take a public speaking class if you have the chance, or learn to sing, or try reading out loud more, or try to mimick your favorite speaker or something (I think I took a lot from Doctor Who lol).