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CRON posted...

The two most recent patches fixed a lot and even added some content to the game, plus it now has modding support.

Just in time for Bethesda to sell a single quest for $7

Gabe is probably the only one known without also being known for bullshit promises like Todd Howard, Chris Roberts, and Peter Molyneux. I'm guessing names like Sid Meier and John Carmack aren't as recognizable and they would have been decades ago either.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Yes. I've an aunt who was married to a US citizen for 30 years and been in the country for almost 50 at the time she got her citizenship. She was living here with a green card the whole time.

My mother was also similar though she got her citizenship much earlier. She was a green card / Italian citizen when I was born though.

Serious question: what motivated your aunt to go 50 years without applying for citizenship?

Can I dress like the Phantom of the Opera and periodically use those tunnels to appear in the backgrounds of sets and shows, creating a long living "urban legend" about a man who lives underneath disney?

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Do you have a large car that won't go down most parking ramps? Or are you specifically talking about trying to find street parking so you don't have to pay parking garage rates?

Volume one has better artistry but Volume 2 is where all the actual movie is.

No. Annoying, yes, but I truly don't understand people who are afraid of driving in cities.

Gamepass has a whole "day 1 release" category in the browser that should contain many if not all of the gamepass xbox exclusives.

bfslick50 posted...

Its unlikely there was a significant youth turnout in 92

My thought was that the oldest Gen Xers in '92 would have been 27, which is why I suggested they boosted Clinton and not George Sr.

IIRC the reason for the subtitle is that the plan if the movie did well was to make a series of movies where each one is a different party on a different adventure. So with more movies the subtitle approach would make more sense. I'm guessing that plan fell through since there's some new TV series coming with the cast from the first movie.

nocturnal_traveler posted...

Are boomers and Gen X the people who voted for Reagan, both Bush's, and Trump? Because that's the worst generation.

Gen X would have been too young to vote for Reagan. They're '65 to '80 and Reagan was elected in 80, so the oldest X-ers would have been 15. They're more likely to have been the reason Clinton won against Bush Sr.

Sendo's fights are always good. One of the things I appreciate about the series is how so many boxers introduced early on stick around and we get to see their careers progress along with everybody else's.

I don't think it's a generational thing, but I also think not enough people appreciate how 2 years of remote education over covid, especially for the kids who were just entering middle school, has seriously screwed up their development in a way that we can't even properly quantify yet.

Arm and Hammer complete care.

LonelyStoner posted...

All combat games should be grounded tbh. Advanced Warfares jetpacks were ridiculous.

Whoa whoa whoa. As a fan of the Tribes franchise I encourage you to reconsider.

I don't mind the resource management aspect of eternal, but I'm really hoping the gunplay goes back to 2016. In the first game it felt like you really had to make sure you were using the right weapon against the right enemy and it made every weapon in your arsenal useful. In eternal it was about using whatever you had that was the strongest while managing chainsaw cooldowns to make sure you always had ammo for it.

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Gamespoht posted...

DB FighterZ isn't too complicated to pick up imo

A 3v3 tag fighter with touch of death combos is a little rough for a newcomer.

Oh, I'll also recommend Grand blue fantasy rising versus for having a ton of things to do and an extensive tutorial and easy mode.

I mean, Street Fighter 6 has a pretty extensive single player mode, a modern control scheme that makes doing difficult moves easy, and a ton of tutorials.

Just get that, pick modern mode zangief, and then scrub throw loop people online while you're learning the mechanics.

Yea, "We'll leave if you let us keep all the stuff we took and you promise not to join an alliance to defend yourself in the future" is only like... half a step above Putin saying "we'll end the war if you surrender"

FF16. Your best weapon for most of the game (outside of sidequest stuff) is the same sword you start with but upgraded using materials from the last big boss.

I only played Descent 3 and the expansion (which had the sleek black CLEARLY pay-to-win ship that ended up ruining multiplayer).

My only real complaint was the bard being basically a normal dude in a D&D party. Outside of like... one illusion spell that was really there to just be a gag we should have seen more party buffs, hold/dominate person (and other charisma check spells), and bard tricks. Did we even get a vicious mockery at any point?

King of Thieves is underappreciated in general, but all the sequels fall into the same trap of making the core plot point "Aladdin lies to Jasmine" and then some event happens and he learns his lesson and then in the next movie he just... does it all over again.

Until the dragon radar was invented, even collecting the Dragon balls is like a once in a millennium kind of thing. After the wish the balls turn to Stone and are scattered across the planet and remain inactive for at least a year. It's only really modern DBZ where the party has the ability to recover them basically whenever they want. I think the in universe explanation is they go out of their way to collect them and blow it on a trivial wish each year so that they're perpetually turned off to prevent more bad guys from coming and wishing themselves immortal or all powerful.

I mean, at the end of the day the whole Prince thing was really just a metaphor about being yourself and not sticking to tradition just because it's tradition. We could just as easily say that genie's wish went off the way it did because Aladdin didn't really have the confidence to believe he could be a prince and even after the wish he clearly didn't believe that his wish had been fulfilled.

At the very least, it's still better than the Little Mermaid whose core message is "even if you're already rich and famous, make a deal with the devil to get what you want and daddy will fix it in the end."

LonelyStoner posted...

Were gonna need a scale reference

TC needs a banana ASAP.

gamepimp12 posted...

There was also issues with the new rookie class having those problems for the season started

Can't find any articles about that. Have one you can link to?

gamepimp12 posted...

they kind of had no choice.

players have been assaulted and harassed in the airport

Maybe I missed that news, but I did a quick Google search and all I can find is one player was harassed once at one airport and then the entire league demanded charter flights. Is this some large, reoccurring issue for the WNBA that I'm just not seeing reports on?

Sephiroth_C_Ryu posted...

I clearly missed whatever meme associated toads with wednesday.

Unless it is literally because wedNESday, and people are just being Mario goobers.

IIRC it's a 9gag thing. I'm not even sure if it's a meme outside of that one image site.

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dummy420 posted...

So they lose more the more popular they get?

No, it's more that even though the league has never made money the players wanted to be treated like it was the NBA, so now all the teams get charter flights which cost $25 million a year even though the league is already losing 10 million dollars a year. It's entitlement, pure and simple.

Meditation isn't actually about clearing your mind of all thoughts. It's about being mindful to your thoughts. If your thoughts are wandering, follow them and see where they go.

It always bothered me that Aladdin's wish wasn't really granted. He wished to be a Prince, but the best Genie can do is manifest a parade and a nice outfit. Aladdin wasn't actually made a prince, which ends up driving the entire plot.

Like, when Jafar wished to be sultan he was made sultan. He wasn't just given a new outfit and told to fake it until he made it.

I can appreciate why hardcore fans of online PVP disliked a lot of the armor abilities, but it felt like a natural progression of the base mechanics and has the best story in the franchise.

The entire franchise is predicated on never being able to complete any generation from a single purchase. This shouldn't be new news.

I give my dog purina pro. The person I got my dog from has been giving purina pro to her dogs for like 30 years and has never once had diet-related health problems. There are also studies showing that the highest end dog food actually increases aggression in dogs because of excess protein.

tl;dr - top shelf dog food is a scam and you were overpaying even before the price hikes.

wanderingshade posted...

I could see the weebs hating Rebuild when all they had was 1, 2 and 3. And they had years and years to talk about 3 and why they hated it. But then 4 came out.

I appreciate four's ending and I thought it did a great job of recovering from three, but the plot was a dumpster fire and the entire final fight is a great example of evangelion's habit of using excessive symbolism to imply meaning where there is none.

The fact that this was allowed to sit on the Chinese internet long enough to actually make the news speaks volumes about how frustrated China must be getting with Russia.

There's also the fact that today zelinsky said China gave their word that they wouldn't provide weapons to Russia. Which again, even if they're lying, speaks volumes about the fact that he was able to say that out loud and China didn't offer a correction.

Watch rebuild 1 and 2 and then lament the fact that they never made any more movies after that.

ZevLoveDOOM posted...

well he keeps making videos as if nothing happened apparently.

That's pretty much the only thing you can do when you caught in the scandal. It may not be the right thing to do, but in general the people who bounce off a scandal on YouTube by just sticking to their schedule and releasing content as if nothing happened seem to recover the best.

Removing nudity from an image generation model training set is like trying to teach an artist how to draw people without ever putting them through a figure drawing course. I don't know what they thought would happen, but the results are more or less what I would have expected.

Wouldn't be the first company to do that. I remember when Best closed and then a month later Best Buy opened up in the same locations with mostly the same stock.

Zikten posted...

It depends i guess. Big difference between defending the money you need to survive the next month, or some rich jerk killing someone just to defend some object they could easily buy again for what to them is a pittance

You need to take a step back and realize that you just declared that your right to self defense against somebody breaking into your home with a weapon is dependent on how much money you have in the bank. Is that really where you want your moral compass pointing?

Reminds me of this supercut from 6 years ago:
https://youtu.be/_fHfgU8oMSo

emblem-man posted...

It's not really a fictional idea is it? Outside of the US, you do have highly dense cities with good public transportation.

It won't work everywhere in the US, at all. But in the areas where it can be done, denser cities is more cost effective, efficient, and safer. But you are specifically talking about how some market the idea, and I agree that not everyone uses the best pros/cons and narratives about it.

When people talk about 15 minute walkable cities, what they're pitching isn't your average European city. There's also the fact that cars are double or triple parked all over the place because these cities were built well before cars were common place. If I walk out of an apartment on the edge of the beltway in Rome, or if I'm in downtown Athens, I'm not suddenly magically 15 minutes away from my job, and also 15 minutes away from the grocery store, and also 15 minutes away from entertainment. A city being so old that it can't realistically support traffic is not the same as a city designed to eliminate it.

emblem-man posted...

Yes, ultimately you have to prioritize something. Right now, cars are prioritized and all other forms are illegal. I simply think we should make both ideas legal, and let the market and people choose what they want.

And that's fine, but there needs to be honesty in marketing. There are a lot of drawbacks to 15 minutes cities that people either pretend don't exist or just say vague things like "you can still have your car" while either consciously or otherwise omitting the part where these sorts of designs make it functionally impossible to do what they're claiming you can still do.

Sell it for what it is, the good and the bad. But I'm not going to buy into a fictional idea of this futuristic city that ignores the logistics of the real world and then jump behind that as if it's achievable.

emblem-man posted...

Why do you need a parking space for every adult?
In a 15 minute city, you'd incentive people to use public transportation and ideally not need a car because it's hopefully just a better form of transportation for the person. For those who need a car, that option is there. Parking is one of those things that we subsidize heavily. Literally making it insane cheap to park a car in one of the most highly prized real estate. It's an insanely inefficient method of land use policy

"You don't need a car" isn't the same as "we've made it impossible for you to have a car" which is why I brought up parking. Paying lip service to drivers while building infrastructure that makes it difficult to actually have a car isn't a practical solution unless the goal is to force people to give up cars because it's a 30 minute commute to where you can park it.