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Sarcasthma posted...

https://youtu.be/LT8yOq-RHeo

That hurts so much.

Entity13 posted...

I'm so sorry, they did it left.

God damn it, I knew I shouldn't have hired British assassins.

Unbridled9 posted...

I will be immortal.

https://youtu.be/kzIUiCTGcdU?t=4561

HornedLion posted...

Arent you in your 30s, bro?

I haven't been in my 30s since 2017.

Sarcasthma posted...

You're a bit late, teddy.

Well, that's the sort of thing that happens when you're drunk, and can't remember what was said (or what you threw at me).

I'll almost certainly be dead, so it won't be anything that matters.

Entity13 posted...

I may or may not be immortal, so up until the world ends, perhaps.

Not if those people I hired do their jobs right.

Blightzkrieg posted...

He's probably looking after his kids

He's probably looking after other people's kids.

From the bushes outside their house.

I was going to vote Pikachu, but then I noticed the underboob option and realized you'd committed an outrageous atrocititty.

icecutter17 posted...

Not all of the songs I mentioned were gigantic hits but I mentioned them because they simply were perfect example of lush 80s melody pop.

Yeah, but they all charted fairly high and got plenty of airplay in the 80s.

So as an aficionado of the 80s (and someone who was listing to Top 40 radio and watching MTV at the time), I immediately knew what every song was (though it took me a couple seconds to process Rush Hour... though being right next to Heaven is a Place on Earth in your list helped because of the Go-Gos connection) - but I couldn't place Somewhere in my Heart at all. So I was like "Well, that can't have been a big song at all."

And then looking it up on Wikipedia I noticed it was a song that charted in the UK and Europe but seems like it never got airplay in the US at all. And watching the video on YouTube I was like, "Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've never heard this before in my entire life."

So it feels like it doesn't fit at all in a list of other songs I totally know (and could probably sing/hum along to). But it makes more sense if people in other countries are way more familiar with it.

Like I said, it's the sort of thing that happens a lot when listening to compilation videos on YouTube, where it's just a string of recognizable Top 40 hits, and then suddenly a song I've never heard before (which almost only ever happens with non-US video creators). The same thing happens when watching/listening to videos of "the top Saturday morning cartoon intros of the 80s" or the like, where I recognize all of them and then suddenly get blindsided by a show I never heard of because it never showed on TV in the US, but British kids remember it fondly (fuckin' Dogtanian).

angeleyes94 posted...

You will eat the dongs and like it.

https://youtu.be/t2mU6USTBRE?t=28

Sarcasthma posted...

That'd be a credible threat if I didn't already know it's impossible for you to respect PotDers.

That's not true at all. I always respected Nudo (before he abandoned us). And Algernon, before he abandoned us. And ABe, before he abandoned us.

Hmm... I'm detecting a pattern.

icecutter17 posted...

Also up there is Heaven is a place on Earth, Rush Hour, Died in your arms, Somewhere in my heart and I Ran just to name a few.

My immediate reaction was to suggest that "one of these things is not like the other", but then it occurred to me that if you weren't an American, you've probably got your own idea of what was "big" in the 80s.

Which is something that always crops up on YouTube when you watch "best of the 80s" compilations and there's a bunch of songs you've never heard of, and it's like, "Wait, what?" Which is usually a pretty strong indicator that the person making the video is from the UK.



dioxxys posted...

I think we're alone there might be an invisible man or a ghost though I'm not crazy I swear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY

My problem with Legos is when people buy pre-built kits and build them according to a specific plan rather than just buying a whole bucket of them and building their own unique designs using their imagi-nation.

Even as a kid, it always seemed kind of pointless to me to buy a set and build it like a model rather than taking advantage of their modularity to just do whatever.

shadowsword87 posted...

That wiki seems to have not... super worked.

It worked as well as the PotD one did.

And to be fair, even at the time, 90% of the friction was the Scottish witch, and after Shake managed to hunt her down and stake her under a full moon, nearly all the animosity between the two boards pretty much died.

BUMPED2002 posted...

Hmmm well Disney has turned into a cesspool for exploiting kids sadly.

"turned into"?

Sarcasthma posted...

Yeah, wanting your mom.

I'm so sorry PO, I don't actually mean that

I certainly hope not. I mean, she looks like the witches from Clash of the Titans. Except fatter. And with thinner hair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d2O7F26Uw8

I'd respect you way less if you were into that sort of thing.

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











https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vFGKHzY_38

I judge you all, regardless of karma.







And you have all been found wanting.

PyroBlade1985 posted...

Perhaps we should expand the Dong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_%C4%91%E1%BB%93ng

Sarcasthma posted...

Every now and then I kick the living shit out of me.

Same reason I came into the topic.











https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc5iTNVEOAg

Notschmendrake posted...

Ok boomer

Keep dreaming Millennial.

Judgmenl posted...

Buddy, do you have any idea what the seinen demographic is?

Do you mean the one they actually aim for in Japan, or the one sad Western otaku weebs fall into?

Nightwind posted...

and 8 hours of sleep in 2 days is enough.

When you're in your 20s, yes.

When you're in your 40s, less so.

Remember, this site is full of bitter outcasts slowly growing ever more old. The slow creeping spectre of death limits what we'll all capable of.

Notschmendrake posted...

But as a species humans arent THAT fucking bad, and on average, over time, they are getting better.

Hard disagree on both counts.

Tails 64 posted...

it seems like a childish, ineffective way to try to make your voice heard. I doubt the user average review on Metacritic transforms the way companies operate...

This is literally false, since there are stories of publishers that refuse to pay bonuses based on Metacritic scores. Devs and publishers definitely pay attention, and review-bombed scores (whether there, on IMDB, or elsewhere) can lead potential audience to avoid titles, thus causing loss of sales.

I've never review-bombed anything myself, but when games get review-bombed I do start paying attention to why people are complaining, and often it'll lead me to decide that the flaws they're pissed about also annoy me, and thus I avoid buying the game. So in that sense, it works.

Adam_Savage posted...

so which ones do you watch po

None.

I wanted to like Legends of Tomorrow because I like Arthur Darvill as an actor, and I like Rip Hunter as a character (or at least I did before the New 52 reboot ruined literally everything), and time travel in general is usually fun... but the acting and writing in the show was so bad it felt like watching local amateur community theater. I couldn't make it past the first season.

I've seen bits of all of shows at different times, though. And I watched clips from when they did their Crisis crossover. And they're all pretty equally bad.

...unless you meant CW shows in general, in which case about the only one I've ever liked is Supernatural. But even that has been kind of bad in later seasons (like half of them).

sodium-chloride posted...

Wooooow!!!

I can't imagine what your reaction will be when you finally realize that the town names in Pokemon are all color-related.

Blightzkrieg posted...

Batman is the thinking man's superhero, it's not a surprise the masses don't appreciate him

If anything, it's literally the exact opposite.

That won't last.

Unbridled9 posted...

We got older.

This. Welcome to the existential ennui of old age.

Also, most of the happy people left a long time ago, for better pastures.

Metalsonic66 posted...

Cuz it's CW

This.

They basically make shows for teenagers whose intelligence they don't respect, written by the cheapest writers they can find, acted out by the cheapest actors they can find.

"Cheesy" is about the best you're going to get. It only goes down from there.

Are pissed Potter fans still complaining about how they're going to boycott it because they're mad that JK Rowling is apparently anti-trans?

I remember that being a thing at one point.

Did 14th give you permission for that?

MICHALECOLE posted...

NL Texas hold em

https://youtu.be/bESGLojNYSo?t=23

Archgoat posted...

It doesn't seem like anyone has recommended Joe Abercrombie's first law series. This is my favorite current author, his books just get better and better with each one. This one is grimdark, but there is a lot of humor.

I mainly didn't recommend it because I kind of lump it in with the Alex Marshall fantasy trilogy (A Crown for Cold Silver/A Blade of Black Steel/A War in Crimson Embers) as books that are trying so hard to be "dark fantasy" like A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones that they sort of miss the reasons why people liked George RR Martin's work in the first place and focus excessively on the "dark" part of dark fantasy. You used the term "grimdark" (which is usually used more as an insult), and it's pretty appropriate.

I'm sure there are people who like that sort of thing (probably a lot of people), but it feels too excessive for me. Like the writer is trying too hard to be shocking or outrageous rather than telling a strong story you'd actually want to read. It's sort of how I see Garth Ennis, Warren Ellis, and Mark Millar as comic writers (and obviously, they have a tons of fans themselves) - who all feel to me like they started out as fans of Alan Moore and Frank Miller's darker work, then decided to pay homage to it by doubly down on the dark part and completely missing the other parts that made it good.

For someone saying they loved Tolkien and liked Shannara, that's very much a lighter, more traditional fantasy take. Fans of pure high fantasy or lighthearted good versus evil fantasy may be less interested in stories that deep dive into misery and darkness and mostly winds up being "everyone is evil or just sucks, and the main conflict is basically just evil versus evil".

Everything's subjective, though. One person's favorite series is going to be something someone else hates.



Archgoat posted...

I am going to disagree with the person that said the Wheel of Time is only good for the 1st 4-5 books. In my opinion all books outside of 8-10 are great.

I'm going to semi-disagree with your disagreement.

Wheel of Time starts out as blatant Tolkien rip-off for the first couple books (1-2), then slowly morphs into an interesting story in its own right (3-6). But then Jordan realizes how much money he can make milking the shit out of the franchise, and the books become more and more filler, introduce more and more pointless characters and story threads, and bog down in a mess that never goes anywhere that becomes a dull, boring slog (7-11).

Books 7 through 11 were painful to read in real time, and even some of the most devoted fans of the series started losing interest because it felt like nothing important was ever happening and nothing was ever going anywhere. And then when it finally did (cleansing the Source), it felt so abrupt and anticlimactic that it was almost worse. A lot of people only kept reading the series in spite of those books, not because of them - because they wanted to know how the actual interesting plot points and stories set up in the first 6 books would eventually pay off. If the first six books hadn't been so good (and honestly, it's more than 3-6 were good), no one would have bothered suffering through 7-11.

When Sanderson took over the series at book 12 it was a massive blast of fresh air, because he finally cut out all the bullshit dicking around and padding things out with filler and started finishing the story. Which is what Wheel of Time fans had mostly wanted for like 5 books and 15 years at that point.

What really hurt Wheel of Time was that it was originally supposed to be a trilogy. Then the trilogy stretched out to supposedly be six books, because Jordan was having trouble being concise. Then he started deliberately padding things out so the six book series was suddenly going to be twelve books long (without any real increased major story arc justifying it). And then even the twelfth book wound up turning into three books because it was going to be so long (so the whole mess wound up being 14 books long).

It's the exact same problem that A Song of Ice and Fire suffered/is suffering from (Martin originally planned for it to be a trilogy, lost control over the story and started padding things out once it became a success and expanded it to six books, then seven, then theoretically more). And part of the reason why people started comparing George RR Martin to Robert Jordan, and asking him if he was planning on leaving behind notes so a ghostwriting partner would be able to finish the story if he died - which annoyed the shit out of him, and may be part of why he hates the series now and is probably deliberately avoiding finishing it as a fuck you to the fans (and why it's been implied his wife has instructions to burn all his notes when he dies, because he doesn't want anyone else ever finishing the story either).

Massive fantasy series becoming big business is a large part of why so many of them never seem to end anymore (and why the stories get more and more padded, turn into more and more filler, and get boring and lame after the first few strong books). People forget, but Lord of the Rings (the series that arguably started the whole "fantasy trilogy" concept in the first place) was originally written as a single book/story, and just got broken into three parts because of the war-related paper shortage.

Now every aspiring fantasy writer goes to the publisher with grandiose ideas for a 17 book epic fantasy cycle they'll never be good enough to finish in a satisfying way, and the few good writers who don't get told that the publisher only wants franchises so they shouldn't even bother writing anything unless they can turn it into a trilogy at the very least.

Gaawa_chan posted...

As for the Great Book of Amber, I actually have this but did not finish it. It's uh... it's fucking huge, lol, and it did not grip me, but it did seem good. I should pick it up again sometime.

Keep in mind, it's large because it's literally 10 books in one.

And those 10 books are divided up into two smaller overarching stories (the first 5 books are from Corwin's perspective, the second 5 books are set years later and follow someone else's story in the same universe... and are generally considered to be not as good).

It's also written in an older, new wave style that was more popular in the 60s/70s, so if that style doesn't appeal to you you'll get less out of the series. But Amber is actually one of my two favorite fantasy series of all time (the other being the Thomas Covenant books).



KodyKeir posted...

I really like the Incarnations of Immortality series; each book focuses on a different incarnation of concepts important to humanity, Death, Time, War, Fate, etc seven book in all. I find Anthony has some undertones that were apparently seen as progressive at the time, but now seem a little misogynistic.

Most people worry less about how he seems to be strongly sex positive and maybe a bit sexist and instead worry more about the occasional pedophile undertones in some of his writing.

It rarely becomes obvious, especially if you're not really paying attention, though the last book of the Incarnations series kind of makes it blatant.

Still, Incarnations was probably by favorite series by him, but I'm not sure I'd consider it full-on fantasy. Which is the main reason why I didn't recommend it, or any of his other stuff.



KodyKeir posted...

That's an understatement actually, the first couple of books are incredibly creepy...

...I don't think would have ever gotten past Wizards First Rule.

With Terry Goodkind, the thing that bothers people a lot is the fact that he is (or was) an Objectivist, so he seeded a lot of Ayn Rand's ideas into his work.

People whose politics and worldview are diametrically opposed to that sort of philosophy tend to pick up on it more, and are bothered by it more. And thus don't necessarily like books that are stealth influencing you with it.

Muscles posted...

So Maine, Illinois and New Hampshire are the only ones that would be pronounced the same it seems

Jerse(y) could technically be pronounced the same way. Delawar would be really close, with just a slight shift in accent.

Mississipp is how some people pronounce the name of that state now. And both Californi and Texa would theoretically sound similar to how some people have pronounced those states (if you pronounce Texa closer to Tehas, which some people do to make it sound more Mexican).

ItsKaljinyuTime posted...

I wonder if it's because everyone was wearing masks. You guys wear masks, I don't catch your germs

The fact that people literally shut down their lives for a year or two and went out of their way to deliberately limit human contact probably also helped. Fewer people in the wild means fewer potential carriers for you to encounter.



ItsKaljinyuTime posted...

So I mean, fuck a vaccine, right? The masks will do.

Except the vaccine helps the people who do catch it, by moderating the symptoms. Vaccination can be the difference between needing to be hospitalized for days and just riding out the symptoms at home.

And then there's other factors to consider. Certain people's physiology seems to be weaker against it, so they'll suffer worse symptoms if they do contract it, so they're much better off vaccinated. Same for immunocompromised people who would pretty much be fucked if they caught it completely unprotected. And even perfectly healthy people still have a lower chance of catching it if they're vaccinated than they do if they're not. In addition, people in more rural areas where they interact with people less or shut-in people who already do most of their shopping by delivery and avoid going out are going to be safer than people who live in crowded areas and are constantly interacting with people.

It's like going into combat and choosing whether or not to wear a bulletproof vest. Sure, you might avoid getting shot entirely. You might even avoid it for a long time. And even if you do get shot it might just be a graze. But if you take one directly in the chest, you're going to be very, very glad that you wore your vest... and you might just be dead if you didn't.

The problem with vaccination is that if it works the way it's supposed to, it doesn't really have a visible, tangible effect from the anecdotal perspective, so it's easier to dismiss it as being unnecessary. It's vaccination that is playing a large part in making the virus less virulent.

KodyKeir posted...

In this episode Jon looks at the problem of the necessity of the media for a free and open democracy and the reality of how the media operates and falls short of the ideals they set out for themselves.

So he's still being a hypocritical piece of shit then?

wpot posted...

I would agree with your assessment. I don't think FF9 is bad, but I don't think it quite reaches the heights of the other two.

My opinion at the time was that it was mostly hugely popular and led to all the "best FF evar!" praise it got mainly because it was a huge nostalgia bait game referencing all the prior FF games, coming on the heels of FFVIII which a lot of people hated at the time. It was also actual fantasy, after the growing steampunk and sci-fi that slowly crept over everything in the prior three games.

My opinion hasn't really changed. Though I think people today are less into it mostly because younger gamers don't really have the early FF nostalgia that it panders to, or have forgotten what it felt like at the time.



Cashier posted...

8 is best ff though

That's an odd way to spell "worst"!



Garlands_Soul posted...

8 I couldn't get very far because I didn't like how any of it worked

I beat the whole game, but spent most of that time hating it, hating everyone who made it, and hating myself for feeling compelled to finish it out of a sick sense of obligation to the franchise (and it's a very large part of why I no longer feel any sense of obligation to or fondness for the franchise at all).

The terrible mechanics didn't help, but I was far more turned off by the terrible characters, the terrible story, and the bland summons. Even the music was bland. (And I hated the card game as well!) About the only positive thing I can say about it was that the graphics looked nice (which has basically become the main selling point of the franchise ever since).

I still debate whether FFVIII is worse than FFXII, because I'm not sure which is the worse response to a game - apathy or hate. But those are still easily my two worst FF games ever made, without question.

wolfy42 posted...

Way back in the stone ages Jack Chalker wrote a few fantasy books including river of the dancing gods (which was one of the first semi-lit-rpgs...where people form our world get put into a fantasy world).

I think the first actual RPG-flavored novel was Quag Keep by Andre Norton. It was a direct D&D tie-in in the 70s. Right down to the characters literally having bracelets that contained rolling dice.

As for Chalker, my favorite of his is the Warden Diamond books, though they're sort of a hybrid between fantasy and sci-fi (magic in space), and they're pretty strongly influenced by Chalker's weird fetish for body transformation (which, once you know about it, you start seeing everywhere in his stuff). They're also extremely difficult to find these days (I've looked).



wolfy42 posted...

Also the original Dragonlance books by Weis and Hickman are great, and many of the forgotten realm books (especially the Drizzt books and Elminster books) are great as well.

I'd say both of those unfortunately suffer from "genre trash" rot. The first six books or so in both series are pretty good, but after that they just keep going and going and going and going to the point where you're reading more out of inertia than because they're actually good.

For Dragonlance, I feel like the best books are the original three (Autumn Twilight, Winter Night, Spring Dawning) and the Twins books (Time, War, Test). Basically, the "Chronicles" and "Legends" trilogies. After that it kind of feels like the franchise loses its heart (possibly because it lost its original writers). And it progresses in time until you're dealing with entirely new characters you don't necessarily care about.

For Drizzt I'd say the worthwhile books are the first three (Crystal Shard, Streams of Silver, Halfling's Gem) and the three Drizzt origin books (Homeland, Exile, Sojourn). After that I feel like the series gets progressively worse and worse. They're more than 30 years and almost 40 books deep at this point, but so much of it just feels so meh.

I never really liked any of the other Forgotten Realms novels (Elminster or otherwise), though the Azure Bonds/Finder's Stone Trilogy is the classic one.

Sulugnaz posted...

He then finds a young girl who gives him a magical mud that cures him of his leprosy.

Aww, you stopped at the point where he rapes a 12-year old girl.

That's the point where most people stop reading that series. Granted, it makes sense in context and the story certainly explores the ramifications of it (and it's never treated as an acceptable thing), but some people just can't process the idea of reading a book about a main character who could/would do that sort of thing.

Although that's honestly the point - the entire premise of the series is that the main character isn't a traditional hero. He's about as far away from one as you can possibly be. Which is why you're never entirely sure which side of the "he will save or damn the earth" prophecy he's actually going to come down on.



Sulugnaz posted...

Greeted by The Destroyer who gives him a prophecy to give to the Lords of The Land about how the Land will be destroyed.

Pedantic correction - Lord Foul is The Despiser, not The Destroyer.

In fact, Foul never really destroys anything. His whole gimmick is he's a corrupter, a seducer. He gets other people (like Kevin) to do the destroying for him. He is hatred personified, but he almost always needs to work through others.

He's behind nearly all of the greatest atrocities in The Land throughout its entire history - but he's never the one who actually does those things. At the end of all things, the people of The Land have only themselves to blame.

Muscles posted...

I already love Tolkien's world, and I'm a fan of the Shannara series from what I've read and looking for more great fantasy

If that's the flavor of fantasy you like, look into David Eddings.

He's got two main series (each broken into two parts) - the Belgariad and the Mallorean (5 books each, 10 books total), and the Elenium and the Tamuli (3 books each, 6 books total). The Belgariad/Mallorean books are a bit more traditional fantasy in the Tolkien flavor (and the Belgariad leans a bit young adult, with a kid protagonist, which makes it easy entry-level fantasy for a lot of people), while the Elenium/Tamuli books are a bit more complex and maybe shading closer to more modern fantasy.

I'd also recommend Roger Zelazny's Amber novels, though they're not just fantasy, but also have elements of modern setting, noir, and even a bit of philosophy. There's 10 of them, again divided in half (5 and 5, with two different protagonists), though you can probably buy them all in a single book (The Great Book of Amber combines them all).

The Fred Saberhagen Book of Swords/Book of Lost Swords series is pretty good (11 books overall) if you can find them, but it admittedly has a fairly weak ending, as it feels like he was tired of the series and just wanted to end it quick in the last book.

Stephen Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series is pretty good (it's one of my favorites), but really dark and kind of complicated, so it's not for everyone. It's basically divided into three series (the first two having 3 books each, the last one having 4), though the last series isn't really as good as the first two. For Donaldson I'd also recommend Mordant's Need (a series with 2 books - The Mirror of Her Dreams and A Man Rides Through), though those might be hard to track down these days.

For funsies, you could also look into the Lone Wolf books, which are set in their own fantasy world... with the added perk of being Choose Your Own Adventure style books where you play as the main character and can choose your skills, collect items, etc. And you can actually read those for free online:

https://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Home



Beyond that, there's the Night Watch series (if you're interested in modern fantasy, and don't mind reading "foreign" writers that have been translated into English). It's a Russian fantasy about how wizards and vampires and other supernatural creatures all exist in the modern world and secret police each other to stay hidden (the "Night Watch" of the title is the collection of Light Others who track down and deal with Dark Other criminals, and later books deal with the Day Watch that is basically the reverse). There are actually two movies based on the books, though the movies kind of diverge from the books' stories a fair amount.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwjw6wk-1fk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S6-VlssdUI



If you're looking for a bit lighter fare (ie, young adult fiction, a la something like Harry Potter), you might like The Dark is Rising series.

Piers Anthony is another writer with a lot of "light" fiction. His Xanth books are almost entirely built on puns and fantasy aimed at younger readers (and there's like a million of them), but he also has a few series that are a bit more mature. His Apprentice Adept series (7 books) is sort of a cross between fantasy and sci-fi.

The Death Gate Cycle is another interesting fantasy (7 books) written by Weis/Hickman, the authors who created Dragonlance and Ravenloft for D&D.

And there's always the Dragons of Pern series - Anne McCaffrey started writing it decades ago, and her kids have continued it after she died - it's technically sci-fi (it's set in outer space, in the future, on an alien planet, with genetically engineered dragons), but for most of its stories it's very much presented as pure fantasy, because the people in the books have completely forgotten about most of the technology and knowledge they used to have, and live at a roughly medieval level of technology. And a lot of the plot revolves around people who fly around on dragons.

Most of these series are all famous enough and old enough that you could probably find more in-depth summaries of them if you wanted to, or find Wikipedia or Goodreads summaries of the plots. I've mostly avoided talking about the actual plots because for some of them, it's best to avoid too many spoilers.

Judgmenl posted...

TIL: All of China has the same time zone.

It's because the majority of the population lives in the east of China, so they don't really care whether or not the western side is inconvenienced by being the "wrong" time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heihe%E2%80%93Tengchong_Line

Though it's also worth noting that in more rural or pre-industrial areas the precise time of day is rarely all that important anyway - a farmer is going to be more focused on things like "dawn", "noon", and "sunset" than they are 3:42pm. So less developed areas are mostly ignoring the official time anyway in favor of environmental prompts.

Precise times are more important for people involved in business (especially global business), or where you constantly have to meet with specific people at specific times in specific places, where coordinating is key. A peasant farmer in the middle of nowhere is never going to need to know the time down to the hour, let alone to the minute or the second.

rexcrk posted...

This is how it should normally be. Theres pretty much no (genuinely) good argument for why daylight savings time (the one that just began this past Sunday) shouldnt be the norm.

There's a lot of good arguments, honestly. They've literally done studies comparing places that use it versus places that don't. Most of them involve overall power usage and physical health. There ARE tangible benefits to DST, even if you don't notice them personally.

The real problem is that there are also studies that suggest there are good arguments against DST, so neither is clearly or inherently superior in every way. So the outcome is being forced to choose which one has more advantages or fewer disadvantages compared to the other. But both have positives and negatives.



Also, here:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/79944028

__starsnostars posted...

This has been a trend for a while and its infuriating having to comb through youtube videos for what could be found in seconds in print media.

On the flip side, there are a lot of things where FAQs or other written descriptions are mostly confusing, awkward, somewhat misleading, or generally unhelpful, but where you can easily find exactly what you need in about 30 seconds on YouTube. Almost any item collection quest or "find all the things" mission in an open world game is infinitely easier using a video than a written guide.

It's honestly why I stopped using the FAQs on this site years ago - they're almost completely worthless now. Depending on what you need to know, it's almost always better tracking down a Wiki, a YouTube video, or an IGN article (with pictures).

And if you need to ask a question because there's something you simply cannot figure out for yourself, you're usually better off asking on a site like Reddit than you are GameFAQs game boards, where most people are singularly unhelpful.

It's part of why GameFAQs has such trouble attracting new users these days - it's kind of terrible at everything now. There's always better options out there, no matter what you're looking for.

That's what wikis are for.

Pretty much every game has one these days.