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Kenri posted...

This isn't true. Some hobbies are being ruined by enshittification, AI, or the death of brick and mortar stores instead.

social media caused enshittification overload. And all AI is was our data that we willingly gave up to these companies...mostly via social media.

social media turning everything into a pump and dump ruined hobbies. In the late 90s Pokemon cards were sometimes hard to get because they were buying them for kids, now its fucking 40 somethings lol. Society is so fucking sick.

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Sacrifice for PC. Made in 1999 iirc, and its mostly a 3rd person RTS with some pure action elements. Graphics aged fairly well, and it has solid replay value as you can do all missions with one of the 5 gods, or mix and match to get different unit/spell combos

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dont remember what i did to fuck up the yellows, but this one was pretty easy.

9.5/10

Very fun and challenging. Play it once a year or so to make sure i can still beat it

Tron Legacy was generally considered to be pretty profitable wasn't it? I think Disney was expecting it to be one of those near billion hits and made like 450 mill, but it still easily cleared its budget if i recall. Can't expect the movie to make much more than that given that it was never some massive franchise and was a sequel 25 years later for a movie that was a cult hit at most.

This movie needed to

1) come out like 2 years after Legacy, when milking franchises from the 80s was still a big thing.
2) Continue the story of Sam and Quorra, not something that feels like a reboot to the reboot
3) Not have Jared Leto.

Peak 80s was 40 years ago, the people who lived through them as an 18 to early 30s year old are now approaching fucking 70. If we should be doing any milking of old shit it should be the mid 90s to real early 00s for some Freddie Prince Jr and Rachael Lee Cook She's All That 2. Make em high school teachers or some stupid shit.

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purps


tougher one for me

8/10

Was underrated, then the retro youtube scene was established and for a moment was everyone's favorite zelda for indie cred

EA has been dogshit since 2007, so who cares. I hope the company goes under asap now though, before I was just whatever.

Been able to do deadlifts 2 times a week and squats again. Trying for one last run to a big pr in deads. 1rm was 615 before nerve pinch 2 years ago, back up to 595.

Has there ever been a more boring young QB who has his position pretty much safe than cj stroud

steelers never win by more than 1 score.

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Baha Men - Who Let the Dogs Out
Los del Rio - Macarena
a-ha - Take On Me
Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)

How is jimmy eat world or mc hammer one hit wonder artists?

The average age of game board posters i doubt is 15. Nobody born in the late 00s/early 10s are coming here regularly. It might be a tad younger, maybe late 20s. But the average gfaqs user overall is probably born around 1987 through 1990. Its an aging site

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9.5/10

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very easy one today imo

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wanted to guess the 4 rules of dodgeball

A cruel angel's thesis - Neon Genesis Evangelion
We are - One Piece
Tank! - Cowboy Bebop
Pokemon Theme - Pokemon

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Not to bad today

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Stroud has been kinda boring and meh since his rookie year

9.5

Loved it when I was much younger, one of the longest video game journeys I've ever had. Need to try the 3ds remake and the 2026 remake

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7/10

MGS5 is the only weaker one, and this had an ok send off for the main character (no, big boss is not the main character of the franchise), but its doesnt hold up to the greatness of 1 or 2, and the near greatness of 3.

8.2

Good, but MvC2 was better

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pretty easy one imo

Even before that it's been less of a death sentence, but I'm sure that's added to it

Division opponent (especially nfc east which has some of the most history between the entire division) aside, week 2 historically has had some pretty crazy swings in betting markets due to some current season data now being available, and also the dreaded "0-2 start is the end of your season in September" talking points.

The 0-2 start historically has been pretty bad for your playoff chances, but less so in recent years iirc

GranzonEx posted...

Shit you're right I owe Metal_DK an apology

So i said i was gonna not post for a few weeks because apparently the things I bring up (which ill admit i bring up often) piss everyone off, even if i think you guys know its true. But ive been lurking a bit because i have other topics i post in and still read this one

But no, that was not me.

Anyway, still going afk for a bit.

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almost a perfect reverse

never heard of tut tut before

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got kinda lucky with the green, tougher one imo

Leonhart4 posted...

I dunno, the Chiefs went 50 years between conference championship appearances (Cowboys are only 60% of the way there for reference...!), but they were rarely bad for long stretches of time. Kinda like the Vikings, I guess, although they got painfully close more often than KC.

maybe, but from the mid 90s ish to the present theyve been a fairly consistent playoff team.

Chiefs never really entered lovable loser territory ever imo. Thats like, Lions, Browns, Bills stuff. Chiefs never were that bad for 5+ straight seasons.

Meow1000 posted...

Going against one of the top defenses in the league in your first game would make most people look bad.

exactly

ward's statline looks terrible, but he looked ok at times. Dont expect the titans to be any good, but tough as hell week 1 matchup for em

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blues

tougher one for sure

theawesomestevr posted...

TJ Watt gets paid and has sucked for most of the game. Maybe it's a Rodgers curse that makes every team he joins have a trash defense.

tj watt has always had games where he is kinda nowhere to be seen. Linebacker pass rushers have games like that, and the Steelers defense iirc played some of the least preseason action out of any starting unit.

He did have a few tackles in the backfield for some decent plays as well.

Gundy should be fired tomorrow. But im pretty sure he gets a pretty fat payout so they wont.

Finally got a 495 squat

Ok fair, I'm outtie for at least a few weeks again

fortybelowsummer posted...

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
Time Enough at Last
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
Eye of the Beholder

This is probably it and my vote, but Nick of time, the obsolete man, walking distance and after hours are personal favs

He wants the info to get you hooked on his shit, I want it because it sounds like a good place to be.

im still wishing youd tell me the city you live in because you said its a very un social media city.

So if i just blame everything on Reagan instead in all my posts im b8er of the year?

edit: and boomers, of course

I dont think I post to any specific person in an aggressive way with my posts. Maybe after people tell me to shut up or something ill respond to individuals in a more aggressive way, but most of my initial posts are pretty high level and not attacking any individual.

People just take it that way because they feel attacked with my high level posts, because I'm describing them. Or they think I bring it up too much, but its how people spend hours and hours of their day, so its extremely important.

Then they bring up Reagan or something for the millionth time instead, like its some new mind blowing idea (and not even realizing that Nixon started that particular venue).

Xeybozn posted...

Yes. Metal DK obviously suffers from a severe internet addiction problem. That's also why he's so obsessed with the idea that the modern internet is the biggest problem with society; he's just projecting his own issues on the rest of the world.

I probably have my issues with internet consumption, but I dont have a Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok. I do have a youtube account because gmail, and I watch youtube maybe a video or two every day/other day.

But i observe my family who now is on their phones the whole time we eat dinner together. And I go to the gym and I see more people taking 10 minutes between sets as they are on their phones. I see people (well mostly the white people i work with) on their phones all lunch at work.

If you think its just me projecting you are ignoring any introspection and observation. Most phones have apps that can track how much time you spend on these apps. I've asked friends to show their phone usage to me, and their wives will interject and say things like 'trust me, ive already seen it, its too much time wasted'

I also go weeks without posting in this topic, its just when I do i get more guttural reactions from people than almost everyone else.