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There's a couple DLCs for some games I want, like for Crusader Kings 3, that might be on sale and I plan on checking out.

But there's nothing really that i feel the need to get right now.

I started it 2 years ago maybe. I take extended release 30 mg once a day, 5 days a week. They tell me I can take it 6 but I rarely do.

It's helped a ton with being able to focus on the things I need to focus on, not the things I want to focus on. I'm curious how different my life might have turned out if I was on it as a kid instead of only getting on it as an adult. I had all the signs but my parents just thought I was lazy.

The only con with it so far is I don't eat until like 6:30 PM every day I take it. I'm not hungry.

I've started this game probably 4 times.
First time I got caught up and was raiding Weeping City when it was the weekly. This was Heavensward I think?

Then I stopped and came back a year or two later but wanted to start over since I skipped most of the cutscenes the first time. I got burnt out and didn't make it past HW.

Then I tried again later and got burnt out again, this time right before Bardam's Mettle in ShB. I got too sidetracked with all the bonus shit like trying to collect every TT card and getting burnt out.

then like two months ago I said screw it and tried again. This time it's going well but I'm only halfway through ShB. You would think I would have spent the weekend doing MSQ but nope. I spent it leveling my remaining 6 crafters from 1-60 in Ishgard.

So I am NOT ready. But I'll get it all done.

From an old build. Screenshot is from around 2017 on a MP server. Pretty sure I died trying to run from these guys.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/452b1999.jpg

You guys joke about Hoobastank but the album that had "The Reason" on it was actually pretty good.

TetsuoS2 posted...

emulator 1 2 and 3

Retroarch
PPSSPP
Duckstation
Drastic
Yaba Sanshiro 2
ReDream
Dolphin

This should get you started!

When I was younger I used to listen to it a lot. For my birthday present for several years I asked for a CD to be imported from Japan for some of the more obscure video game music like the Potion album for Final Fantasy. Or one that was just piano music that led me to fall in love with FF5 music before really playing it. I think I still have my Resident Evil 3 soundtrack floating around somewhere.

Nowadays not so much but I do get into spurts of it. If I'm listening to a video game soundtrack today it's probably something from the FF14 soundtrack.

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

ScazarMeltex posted...

This. I've no love for landlords but this lady isn't the enemy. The enemy are people with multiple homes bought solely for the purpose of exploiting people need for shelter.

I knew someone who worked at a different branch of the same company as I did and her and I would talk a lot. She lives in Pittsburgh. The past year or two she's been buying up homes and turning them into Air BnBs. She probably has 5 or 6 now. When the NFL announced that the draft would be in Pittsburgh she posted something on social media about how she's excited that "she will be able to pay off most of her loan from just one weekend." Kinda gross.

Roughly 20 years ago I started playing Everquest and Everquest 2 with a group of maybe 7 other people I knew IRL. We would play at the LAN Cafe one of my buddies owned. He got married and had a few kids and sold the shop but would still occasionally play from home. He would text how his new son was sitting on his lap smacking buttons and if he fucked up tanking that was why.

Last week that same kid graduated high school and started work where I work. I feel old as shit.

Nope sorry, she's a piece of shit for owning a home and not living in it. /sarcasm

I own a very small house that's split into an upper and lower apartment. I live upstairs because that's all the room I really need. I rent out downstairs because someone needs to live in it. It's basically an efficiency of 450 SF. I charge the young couple 425 bucks a month (plus their utilities) for an apartment I could probably get at least 700 for and i'm sure more. They pay me directly for part of their utilities and I haven't even charged them more for when those went up about 25 bucks either. I rent to the daughter of a neighbor and her boyfriend. They are saving to buy a house and told me the other day it would be another year until they are ready. Their 6 month lease expired 2.5 years ago.

Am I an asshole? The answer is no.

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Two that I thought of as well.

Euripides posted...

State's, however, are not homogeneous blocks of citizens, so this idea is complete nonsense.

I kind of question this. It's bad when it's states made up of millions of people, but it's good when it's a whole country made up of hundreds of millions?

I'm not going to pretend that "states rights" isn't used in negative and/or racist ways. But there are some good things from it. And there are several things I wish the Federal government had more control over like Medicaid in the states.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-Wl2072UNQ

does have a male butt in it.

This was impressive for 1981.

??? Who did they beat and at what?

highs for the next 10 days, starting with today:
91, 95, 93, 95, 96, 94, 90, 87, 89

I'm in South Central PA.

I'm confused. You're talking about Lebanon City and York City PD plus the Lebanon County Sheriff. In the picture right above you show Tulsa PD which is not even close to Lebanon or York, it's like halfway around the country. I've seen the occasional MD police in PA, but never OK police.

If that happens I try to jump it. I know I have a battery that, according to the garage, has an undercharge and will go bad, probably during the cold. If that doesn't work I have AAA and call their battery replacement number and wait for them. If that doesn't work then I use them to get it towed to a garage.

I would really like to get to one of those but NY is just a TAD too far for me to want to drive for a concert, although I have done it. I would go to one in Philly.

Something else I just thought of...

I felt something... not totally sure what, but something, when they talked about getting the election made official and how that happens on January 6th. I'm wondering if there will be an episode that takes place around some showdown in DC or if maybe that's a little too on the nose even for them.

I'm into it. I'm not a fan of the Frenchie love triangle though. The new guy just kind of seems shoved in there.

I really hope we see under the mask of the new Black Noir and I hope it follows the comics.

Do I need to watch one of the spinoffs to know what's going on in the main show? I remember hearing/seeing about some big shakeup to the rest of the universe from one of the spin off shows but I wasn't sure if it was canon or what.

I always liked The 2 > 3.

Remember this? This was so awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wncYbIpm6hk

Wasn't there a 92 or 96 box or something? I remember that one.

Hejiru posted...

Its called the Mandela effect.

Wait, when did the Mandela Effect go from "people are misremembering weird things" to "people are misremembering weird things because of parallel worlds?" Or did I misunderstand it from the beginning?

I kinda get the Berenstain bears thing. Even as a kid I heard it pronounced different ways by different teachers/adults so that probably all bled into my thinking of how it should be spelled.

the only one that ever really got me is the Sinbad genie movie. I specifically remember this movie, and know it's not real is weird to me.

Doesn't the parallel universes/worlds thing have it's own name?

I am a FF4 mark. I played a little of 1 on the NES when I was super young and I didn't understand it and wasn't into it. Then a few years later a buddy lent me his SNES copy of FF4 and my world changed. It made me a huge RPG fan. I always say FF4 is my favorite but that's probably nostalgia and FF9 really is, but I do love 4.

TAY was not good, but I still enjoyed it. The phases of the moon combat system they put in is dumb. The new characters are kind of shitty. The final dungeon was kind of a joke, without getting spoilery. Plus various other things.

That said though, if you enjoyed 4 then you should absolutely play TAY because it's more FF4. Just don't expect it to be as good.

The PSP version is probably my definitive version. I like the graphics style and it contains TAY. You said you don't have a PSP though.

Maybe the gameplay is good and kind of Dragon Age-y. But that trailer didn't fill me with confidence.

I love the Dragon Age series. DA:O is one of my top games ever. DA2 was pretty decent with a good story but replaying the same areas over got old.

DA:I I actually really enjoyed even though it seems to get shit on.

Yes actually. I use it a couple times a year.

As long as Sony keeps bringing their exclusives to PC I really don't know that I'll be buying a PS6 when it inevitably comes out.

I am not a fan of this having to link it so your PSN account though and I hope that gets changed.

I was hyped AF when I saw the initial trailer for this game. I loved the movie growing up and have seen it numerous times. I hadn't played any of the asymmetrical horror games to that point so I was kind of intrigued.

I've since then played a few matches of Dead by Daylight, Texas Chainsaw, and Friday the 13th and while I get the enjoyment, it really isn't my style. Until Killer Klowns. I played a few matches last night and I actually enjoyed it. There's some issues, and I experienced a few bugs (falling through the world as a cotton candy pinata, unlockables randomly changing what rank they unlock from one time in the menus to another, etc.) but I am actually kind of excited to play some tonight. I am pumped to unlock some more of the weapons and give them a try.

the little mini-games when you die to spawn items for alive players are kind of cool but they will need to add a few more.

I like the colors in the game that seem in contrast to some of the other games of this type.

The levels seem interesting, and they are kind of big. Like I found the sherriff's office from the movie in one of the levels.

I don't remember hearing the theme song at all. On the menu I heard some soft piano parts that mimicked the guitar from the original but at no point have i heard the main theme. I dunno what's going on here. I'm not saying it needs to play constantly but maybe within the last 30 seconds of each match before the Klownpocalypse or something. This is actually kind of disappointing.

It's weird they don't show you what you unlocked when you rank up.

While it's fun, and I wish it would do well, I don't know how it's going to have staying power after a few months. It's based on an old IP that most people haven't heard of. They will need to keep adding cosmetics and stuff to unlock to keep people interested but how many different types of clown hair or clown shoes can you really do over time?

Anyone else play the early launch?

I'm hyped, but not really because of that trailer. It didn't show all that much or really give any idea of the plot. I'll still watch it, probably binge it all on the Saturday after it comes out or something.

In my experience the economy is great. But I think that's because I've finally reached that plateau where I go from "paycheck to paycheck" to I can put a couple bucks away/buy toys if I want to. I think my case though is just because my yearly raise pushed me to that next zone that I feel comfortable, as opposed to economic policies have made me this way suddenly.

I don't have kids or anything so I don't have a lot of the same circumstances or expenses a lot of others have. So frankly I just don't know if there's a recession or not.

I'm someone who uses one of those handheld emulator machines (Retroid Pocket 4 Pro) so I'm happy old hardware can play Switch. (I only play backups of my games)

Xenogears15 posted...

Rocky Raccoon

Love this song. I feel like it never gets mentioned.

Just going all in, isn't he?

Conservative TV host Tucker Carlson has launched his own show on a Russian state television channel.
The former Fox News anchor is presenting the program Tucker on the rolling news channel Russia 24, with the first episode now available online, Russian state newspaper Rossiskya Gazyeta reported.
The paper said that the show is part of a joint project with Carlson TV, in which he will interview figures and politicians who have "alternative views to the mainstream."
In February, Carlson interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin.

https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlson-launches-show-russian-state-tv-russia-24-1903045

Yeah, they made a fuck ton amount of money. Good for them.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/af5d5947.jpg

Wasn't it like a year ago that they thought they found the biggest lithium deposit ever, and it was in the US? This the same one or something different?

It seems to me Romney tends to have better options more often than his Republican colleagues. I've seen him multiple times put aside the party line bullshit because it wasn't the right thing.

This is not one of those times and he is wrong.

Did he do this on purpose? The "big guy" seems kind of intentional and certainly means something to the red hats.
Well, because it makes me, President Biden, the big guy

Before I started Season 1 I thought there way 0 percent chance she was going to be good. I was 100 percent wrong. She killed it. She was great. My only complaint, and I'm probably an asshole for it, is she is kind of goofy looking. But I think once I got used to seeing her that went away.

It's got a great Final Fantasy type story.

However it's missing some core "final fantasy" and maybe even some basic RPG stuff in my eyes. That said it's still fun and worth a play.

I have a third monitor that I use specifically for netlifx/youtube or something when I don't have to have all my focus on work. They don't care here. It's nice.

NPC posted...

I was told that I could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven, I told bill that if Sandra is going to listen to her headphones while she's filing then I should be able to listen to the radio while I'm collating so I don't see why I should have to turn down the radio because I enjoy listening at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven.

Also LOL

For sure.

Google Fi (3 lines, 1 device has payments) - 110 bucks a month
Nest Aware (subscription for security camera) - Like 6 or 7 bucks a month, I forget
Google Storage - I have 2 TB storage for 9.99 a month

Gwynevere posted...

The drip feed of games is fucking sad

I just moved on to a handheld emulator machine (for backups). I got so excited when Nintendo said they would have these old systems and it has just been completely underwhelming.

Like a lot of the others have said I was too young to really care. Today though I think I am okay with the way it came out.

Very rarely. Maybe 2 beers a year.

When I'm in a cycle of cluster headaches alcohol will trigger one almost 100 percent of the time so I just started avoiding drinking alcohol all the time instead of several months here and there.