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| Topic | We got the bastard! They caught him red handed!!! |
| adjl 03/14/23 11:52:42 AM #19 | So... because a news outlet is suggesting that it's a deliberate act by some homophobic dickwads, you genuinely believe that it's merely a coincidence that all of these skid marks just happen to be on top/in the immediate vicinity of a pride flag? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Powerwasher Simulator added Tomb Raider and FF7 DLC |
| adjl 03/14/23 11:22:09 AM #9 | Yeah, Tomb Raider was one of the IP's they sold to fund their forays into the world of NFT's. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | We got the bastard! They caught him red handed!!! |
| adjl 03/14/23 11:10:21 AM #17 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted... Are you deliberately missing the point? My opposite argument was meant to sound ridiculous, as ridiculous as the assumptions made in their reporting.adjl posted... If you genuinely believe that it's merely a coincidence that all of these skid marks just happen to be on top/in the immediate vicinity of a pride flag, rather than a deliberate act by some homophobic dickwads, you're so hopelessly naive that I really don't know how to start helping you. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | World's longest roller coaster (in Tycoon) lasts longer than the universe? |
| adjl 03/14/23 10:52:26 AM #12 | papercup posted... I see what you did there That's gonna blow. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | We got the bastard! They caught him red handed!!! |
| adjl 03/14/23 8:51:18 AM #15 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted... I haven't been on a bicycle in about 20 years. From what I recall they skid when they stop unless you're going barely fast enough to stay upright. Skidding and leaving skid marks are two very different things, plus that's really not true at all unless you're stopping harder than you typically should (and even then, it's mostly the back tire simply because of how the overall weight distribution shifts forward, rather than because there's so much friction that the tire disintegrates onto the road). Based this answer, I can change my comment to "for the sake of your hypothetical tires, I'm glad you don't drive, but if that means you have this little understanding of how driving and cycling work, perhaps you should stay out of such discussions and try to learn from people who actually understand what's going on." SKARDAVNELNATE posted... Yet this quote is treating it like it's an intentional hate crime to leave skid marks in a street. It's an intentional hate crime (or at least act of hate, since "crime" is a legal term that might not apply depending on local laws) to specifically deface pro-LGBT artwork. If you genuinely believe that it's merely a coincidence that all of these skid marks just happen to be on top/in the immediate vicinity of a pride flag, rather than a deliberate act by some homophobic dickwads, you're so hopelessly naive that I really don't know how to start helping you. SKARDAVNELNATE posted... But I'd rather not assume anything. Are you familiar with the saying "keep an open mind, but not so open that your brain falls out"? Because you're not particularly acting like you are. That kind of "I don't want to jump to any conclusions" rhetoric is on the same level as flat-earthers who don't want to outright admit that they're flat-earthers, and so dance around committing to the position by disingenuously repeating things like "I just want to consider all possibilities." At best, it represents a complete failure to think critically about the subject at all, meaning you've done nothing to curate what possibilities are and are not actually plausible. At worst, it's deliberate homophobic dog whistling and you're trying to gaslight us into ignoring homophobic vandalism, meaning you're a festering turd of a human. You can either take your pick where you want to fall on that spectrum, or you can start thinking sensibly about the matter. Krazy_Kirby posted... the fireball power is fairly crappy in double dash, certainly not worth using double fireball. I was always fond of Paratroopa+Baby Luigi. Triple shells were the strongest option in higher places, while Chain Chomp was invaluable for catching up if I fell further back. But then that means you're playing a lightweight, which comes with its own drawbacks. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I think I've finally outgrown Pokemon.... |
| adjl 03/13/23 10:39:03 PM #24 | Yellow posted... It's not that they aren't good anymore, it's just that they don't change things up to keep things fresh for long term players and they just rely on a constant influx of kids/teenagers I might argue that S/V did about as much for the Pokemon formula as BotW did for Zelda. The shift to focusing on exploration in an open world was a pretty substantial change to the core gameplay element of "explore the world and catch fantastic creatures," given how linear and restrictive prior games tended to be in that regard. The battle system didn't change meaningfully (sure, tera types add an extra layer of prediction to competitive play that's mildly interesting, but there haven't been any core improvements), and I won't pretend that the transition to open-world design happened seamlessly (notably, keeping the classic "you need this many gym badges to use pokemon caught at this level or higher" mechanic threw an unnecessary wrench into that freedom), but Gen 9 was a pretty substantial paradigm shift for the series that ties in well with why Pokemon Go was so explosively popular (namely, people like the idea of just running around and collecting Pokemon). Now, BotW did more to change the Zelda formula than just shifting to open-world exploration. ALBW might actually be the better analogy, where the basic formula was preserved, but the player was free to explore the whole map pretty much right away and tackle dungeons in whatever order they liked best. But I don't think anyone would have liked BotW less if it had more robust dungeons, and in fact that would likely have cut down on the fairly common "good game, but a terrible Zelda" response a lot of people had to it. You don't need to change up a series that much to keep people's interest. People don't follow series to find games that are unlike anything they've played before. People follow series to find games that are familiar and predictable. There's still certainly a need to mix things up so you're not just selling the same game with a new coat of paint every time, but if you're looking for a change in how a series fundamentally works, it might be time to just accept that you aren't actually interested in that series and shouldn't expect your nostalgia fix to also satisfy your desire to play something brand new. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | We got the bastard! They caught him red handed!!! |
| adjl 03/13/23 10:07:08 PM #9 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted... Pretty sure it's a jab at the news outlets blowing things out of proportion again. For the sake of your hypothetical tires, I sincerely hope you don't drive if you think leaving skid marks constitutes normal driving. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | So, Should We Stop Saying JRPG? (The Jimquisition) |
| adjl 03/13/23 4:35:48 PM #37 | Pokemon's battle system is pretty dated in a lot of ways beyond just being turn-based, though. There's a ton of superfluous text, which PLA cut down on a lot, but is back in S/V. I can understand why things like criticals, and super-effective damage, and some status effects were communicated via text on the Game Boy, but we've long since passed the point where they can be less tediously shown with animations or variant sound effects, or even where more text could scroll during animations. Turn-based battle systems are fine. Turn-based battle systems that have seen hardly any QoL evolutions since 1996, less so. There's no reason that the player needs to see an animation plus three different text boxes saying their pokemon is confused at the start of every turn. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I think I've finally outgrown Pokemon.... |
| adjl 03/13/23 4:25:44 PM #21 | That still doesn't have to be a formal "I quit" sort of scenario. Just "I'm bored of this, I'm going to do something else," followed a few years later by "I've been hearing that it's improved, maybe I'll give it another chance." Sub-based MMO's are a bit weird in that you do have to make a deliberate decision to un-subscribe when you stop playing them, but that's still less a matter of "I'm quitting" and more "I just don't think I'll resub this month." --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I don't want to participate in capitalism anymore |
| adjl 03/13/23 4:07:10 PM #9 | Jen0125 posted... Why did we invent this dumb s*** Mostly because the fantasy of being able to become powerful through hard work instead of having to rely on birthright, good fortune, or other factors outside of one's own control was appealing enough to get people on board with it. Left out of that fantasy is the part where hard work alone never actually enables anyone to become powerful without adding in other factors outside of one's control, including birth, but it's still a marginal upgrade over "I'm the king and you never will be," so people cling to that vain hope that maybe they'll end up being one of the lucky ones. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I think I've finally outgrown Pokemon.... |
| adjl 03/13/23 12:38:08 PM #19 | Judgmenl posted... Why I enjoyed Pokemon originally has deviated significantly. The last year of the anime is the one exception because it has heavily (and I mean heavily) relied on nostalgia and hype building as a source of its quality. Aim to be a Pokemon Master is in the style of the "old" Pokemon anime (If you don't know, the companions for this series are Again, I'm not saying you're wrong to lose interest. Just that it's weird to formally "quit" instead of just not bothering with whatever new stuff comes out. It makes a bigger deal out of it than it is. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I think I've finally outgrown Pokemon.... |
| adjl 03/13/23 11:34:18 AM #16 | That's all well and good, but that just supports "I'm not really interested in this anymore," not a situation where you need to formally decide to quit. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | World's longest roller coaster (in Tycoon) lasts longer than the universe? |
| adjl 03/13/23 11:31:33 AM #7 | ZeldaMutant posted... At that point the universe would consist mostly of massive black holes That's gonna suck. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why is inflation so bad right now? |
| adjl 03/13/23 10:41:45 AM #65 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted... WTF am I reading? I like how literally every question/point of confusion you had in this post could be answered/resolved if you just read the article as a whole instead of picking out individual points that you think you can use to support the a priori assumption from which you're arguing, while ignoring the context in which those points are being presented. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | So, Should We Stop Saying JRPG? (The Jimquisition) |
| adjl 03/13/23 10:03:43 AM #34 | That too. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | So, Should We Stop Saying JRPG? (The Jimquisition) |
| adjl 03/13/23 8:56:03 AM #32 | The "real RPG's" from which video games have evolved are turn-based, though. If you're going to gatekeep like that (which is generally a terribly silly thing to do), anything action-based is the deviant that needs a specific identifier. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I think I've finally outgrown Pokemon.... |
| adjl 03/13/23 8:53:27 AM #13 | Judgmenl posted... I've decided to finally quit Pokemon in 2 weeks after the last episode of the Ashime ends. Why? Unless it's actively harming your life somehow, actively deciding to "quit" a piece of entertainment doesn't make much sense. Drifting away because it's no longer fun? Sure. But not formally saying "I have decided to quit this" (again, unless you're trying to break an addiction or similarly recognizing the harm of continuing to enjoy it). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | McDonald's shamrock shake |
| adjl 03/13/23 8:28:00 AM #16 | faramir77 posted... Last time I had one as a joke I was s***ting green for two days, so not only was the Shamrock shake disgusting but it also was literal poison. Uhh, green poop doesn't mean you were poisoned. Just that you ate something with green food colouring that you weren't able to digest properly. Consider corn, for a more common example of the same principle (we could get into questions about corn's nutritional value and whether or not it's also "poison," but that'd be a bit of a tangent). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | World's longest roller coaster (in Tycoon) lasts longer than the universe? |
| adjl 03/13/23 8:25:31 AM #5 | Lokarin posted... well, it's the in-game universe so there's a further multiplier The purple track takes a little over 3000 in-game years, but about 2.38 real-time years, which is the figure he used to calculate 3E+78. Even if it were talking about in-game years, though, that's only a multiplier of about a thousand, which would still be 65+ orders of magnitude older than the universe. That's still a significant difference, by virtue of how multipliers work, but it doesn't change that the age of the universe is still much, much smaller than that figure. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | World's longest roller coaster (in Tycoon) lasts longer than the universe? |
| adjl 03/13/23 7:59:18 AM #3 | 3E+78 is a little more than the age of the universe. The universe is about 1.4E+10 years old, which is more than 68 orders of magnitude smaller than this. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Should DeSatan be charged with crimes against humanity? |
| adjl 03/12/23 1:57:01 PM #4 | Zareth posted... Gotta say I'd gladly take a second Trump term over DeSantis, even Trump isn't crazy enough to want to turn the entire country into Florida I'm kinda hoping that DeSantis wins the Republican nomination, then Trump runs as an independent to spite him because he's a butthurt manchild who can't handle losing. Trump would siphon away a significant number of Republican votes, ensuring neither of them gets anywhere. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Games that have god-awful ends? |
| adjl 03/12/23 1:02:25 PM #17 | Yeah, it was chapter 4. Chapters 5, 6, and 7 were each --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Games that have god-awful ends? |
| adjl 03/12/23 12:56:10 PM #15 | agesboy posted... but wow I have never seen an RPG just drop plot entirely for like half the game like that *Bravely Default has entered the chat* Though Bravely Default at least kind of picked up again for the very end, after completely abandoning all pretense of telling a passable story for the half of the game prior to that. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | So, Should We Stop Saying JRPG? (The Jimquisition) |
| adjl 03/12/23 12:47:56 PM #28 | It is very much an antiquated term, now that it's much more difficult to divide the gaming industry into Japan vs. everywhere else, Japan's RPG output has grown to encompass most styles of RPG, and the rest of the world is also producing games that would qualify as JRPG's but for the fact that they aren't Japanese. Originally, Japan was such an overwhelming presence in the gaming industry (especially the console market) that identifying them as their own thing kind of made sense. Similarly, the Final Fantasy approach to interpreting RPG's as video games (a defined story with little player influence on the world/outcome, incorporating the "role-playing" aspect in the form of character/party progression and customization) was mostly only found in Japanese games (at least the higher-profile examples of it), while stuff like Baldur's Gate that aimed to more closely replicate the flexible story of playing D&D was primarily coming out of Western developers. These days, though, the delineation isn't nearly as clear. Saying that, though, plenty of genre names don't make much sense for what they represent. "Adventure" is a far more narrow genre than the name would suggest, with "action-adventure" being used to describe games that more intuitively fit the concept of "adventure" games. Heck, if anything, "JRPG" just means an action-adventure game that isn't action but can't be called "adventure" because that's taken by Myst et al (though even then there are games that are indisputably JRPG's that aren't turn-based, like Tales or Xenoblade 1-3, and any ATB games straddle a weird line between being turn-based and being action). "Action RPG" or "ARPG" has been mostly taken over by Diablo-likes, leaving, action-based RPG's kind of weirdly genre-less or left to be lumped in with "action-adventure." If anything, I'm personally inclined to just stop using "RPG" as a genre name altogether, J or otherwise. These days, RPG elements (character growth/progression, customization for variable playstyles, player influence over the world/story, etc.) show up in a ton of different games regardless of which genre they most closely fit, and even for those games that would traditionally be just called "RPG's," calling them "adventure games with significant RPG elements" is a much more accurate description (albeit a little wordy). The only real purpose of applying a genre name to something is to be able to suggest that somebody who likes other things that fit that genre might like this one, and "RPG" is just too broad for that to really work. Liking Chrono Trigger does nothing to predict liking Dark Souls or Borderlands, despite all three being quite unquestionably RPG's. So... should "JRPG" be retired? I dunno. I'm inclined to agree with the assessment that it's not a useful genre descriptor because it's too broad and inconsistent, and I get what Yoshi P is saying about it making him feel bad because the term was used so derisively for a while (it may not be anymore, but it can be hard to shake that response). At the same time, though, there is still a distinct flavour that characterizes games like Tales, Xenoblade, and Persona that's part of identifying them as "JRPG's," much like there's a distinct flavour that's common to shonen anime (JRPG's mostly being video game shonen). As much as it's excessively reductive to distill things down to "RPG's made in Japan" and "RPG's made anywhere else," Japan still represents a very substantial portion of the game industry and the culture that shapes a lot of their media comes through in what we call JRPG's (often more so than it does in Japanese games of other genres). To that end, identifying the Japanitude of a game as part of its genre is potentially going to be helpful, depending on how much one likes that particular flavour. It's not useless as a genre descriptor, it's just one that needs a bit of thought to use effectively, and the knowledge that many Japanese developers aren't fond of the term means it should be used carefully. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Daylight Saving Time |
| adjl 03/11/23 10:25:36 AM #27 | ParanoidObsessive posted... I also think, like arguing whether or not pineapple is an acceptable pizza topping, people online have made it out to be a way more dramatic thing than it actually is. Yes and no. Most of the online discourse does roughly boil down to "I lost an hour of sleep my life is literally over," which is obviously silly an exaggerated, but there are significant, real consequences associated with the change, like an increase in accidents of all sorts (some of which are fatal). There are bigger problems, but it's still definitely an issue worth solving. Muscles posted... We should end on an extra hour of sleep though, fuck it if we lose an hour and don't even get the hour backRevelation34 posted... No. The earlier time is better. It's literally one hour. 0.01% of one year, let alone the 40-50 that are likely left in your lives. In the grand scheme of things, the amount of time gained or lost is utterly negligible. VampireCoyote posted... Time is not affected by human laws Our interpretation of it, however, consists exclusively of human laws. There's no such thing as absolute time. Every single measurement of time is measured relative to something else, and each and every one of us can and does change that frame of reference multiple times a day. Daylight Savings is just another example of changing that frame of reference. captpackrat posted... It sucks because it was just starting to get light while I do my morning exercise, and now it'll be pitch black again for a month or two. This is the absolute worst. I'm relatively lucky in that my position within the time zone and the time that I usually get up now mean I don't have to deal with it, but for the couple of years where that wasn't the case, it took me literally weeks to recover from how much that threw off my circadian rhythm. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Are you taller than me? |
| adjl 03/10/23 11:54:12 AM #13 | 6'4", so kind of. Nichtcrawler-X posted... Why does that warrant a question? Going by Google, that is basically 1,83m, average length around here. It's pretty common for people (mostly men) within a couple inches of 6 feet to round up because being less than 6' tall is often mocked. As such, people sometimes get skeptical when somebody claims to be 6' even. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Have you ever driven a hybrid vehicle before? |
| adjl 03/10/23 8:25:23 AM #23 | Muscles posted... It's not what others think (at least if I were to buy one), I want a car I think looks good, You say this, yet you mock others who don't share your opinion on how cars look. Pick a lane, dude. Clench281 posted... lawns are almost as dumb as cars so it's funny you chose that example "Hey look at me I'm doing absolutely nothing imaginative or productive with half of the land I'm paying for, but somehow I've chosen the most high-maintenance and environmentally damaging option possible to do nothing imaginative or productive. Now watch as I shame everyone around me into also doing nothing imaginative or productive with half of the land they're paying for while also committing to excessive maintenance and environmental damage!" --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Have you ever driven a hybrid vehicle before? |
| adjl 03/09/23 6:30:58 PM #18 | Clench281 posted... the least possible amount of physical effort to move your body You could technically argue that it's possible to use less if somebody else is driving, but categorizing "push pedal" and "turn wheel" and maybe even "wiggle stick" as meaningful physical effort would be a bit silly. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Do you have a Ring camera inside your home? Might want to rethink that. |
| adjl 03/09/23 6:06:00 PM #9 | Jen0125 posted... I got a Google Nest doorbell cam instead of a Ring because I read a lot of bad things about how the data from the Ring is handled I'd be profoundly surprised if Google is appreciably better. Everyone's evil. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Have you ever driven a hybrid vehicle before? |
| adjl 03/09/23 5:49:53 PM #16 | Muscles posted... Cars are great, especially ICE engines, hybrids are lame, like who looks at a prius and thinks it's a badass car? What kind of loser worries about how badass their car looks? A car is a tool, existing solely to work around decades of poor city design choices spurred on by propaganda from the very companies selling those cars. Buying one to look cool (and especially mocking those who buy them with some modicum of environmental consciousness in mind instead of prioritizing how cool they look) just means you've deep-throated that propaganda so hard that it's become part of your personality, and that's just sad. Plus, that's without considering that most modern hybrids are visually indistinguishable from other cars, and in fact many mainstream models simply have a hybrid version available. Defaulting to the Prius as the archetypal hybrid shows that you're not only being an insufferable car enthusiast, you're being an insufferable car enthusiast who hasn't updated his "insults" in 15 years. For a 30-year-old, that's not exactly a good thing. wpot posted... Yep - that's exactly what I'd try to figure. I suspect I'm suburban enough that the math wouldn't quite work, but it does work for some... Yeah, I can't necessarily speak to your specific situation. Even if you're relatively suburban, though, suburban "highways" often have plenty of lights and start-stop traffic (especially during commuting hours), which is when hybrids excel over ICE's. It can be hard to figure out the exact difference, especially where a lot of newer models won't necessarily have the necessary maintenance cost data to do a proper comparison, but it might work out in hybrids' favour. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Have you ever driven a hybrid vehicle before? |
| adjl 03/08/23 10:11:20 PM #4 | Yeah, the new vehicles in my work fleet are all hybrids. They're a little unnerving if you aren't used to how quiet they are (I've fielded several calls from people who thought the car wasn't starting because they were unfamiliar with hybrids), but I kinda like it for city driving because it gives the extra mini-challenge of trying to maximize charging/minimize engine use, making those boring errands a little less so. wpot posted... I'd happily buy a hybrid if I did the math and found that the cost of owning one over 10 years appeared comparable to a gas guzzler. Maintenance may throw a wrench into it, but a major component of that is going to be how much city driving you do versus highway. Hybrids offer very little advantage over ICE's for highway driving, but the mileage difference for city driving is huge. Regenerative braking is an absolute game-changer. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why is inflation so bad right now? |
| adjl 03/08/23 10:02:27 AM #56 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted... According to the graph ReturnOfFa posted company profits spiked in the 2000s but has smaller fluctuations around the same level in the 2010s. "Chart is based on 1-year moving averages that were adjusted for inflation" (read: the chart does not show inflation) >Chart shows a sharp increase in corporate profits since 2020 >Chart shows no increase (perhaps even a slight decrease) in wages since 2020 I don't know about you, but I certainly have enough data literacy to look at that and not say "inflation must be because wages have had to go up to convince lazy people to go back to work," instead of parroting talking points of right-wing pundits and demagogues that don't stand up to even the slightest bit of empirical scrutiny. The "nobody wants to work!" crowd is a vocal minority representing some of the most miserable, underpaid jobs and/or employers who can't be bothered to put a modicum of effort into recruiting, both of whom choose to whine about people being lazy instead of looking inward to fix the problem. Krazy_Kirby posted... businesses were forced to close for a very long time Full closures lasted less than 3-4 months in most places, if they happened at all. Most businesses were able to reconfigure themselves to operate more remotely (curbside pickup, deliveries, working from home), allowing them to maintain most - if not all - of their usual revenue. There were casualties, certainly, but the vast majority of those were small businesses. Large businesses have not only been fine, but have actually been reporting record profits most quarters since the pandemic began, and it's large businesses that drive the bulk of the inflation we're seeing (in no small part because small businesses often have to buy products from large businesses in order to operate). This inflation and the waves of layoffs we see from those large businesses are just their way of keeping that growth going for as long as possible to line executives' and shareholders' pockets. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | PC Gaming is stupid |
| adjl 03/08/23 9:02:35 AM #21 | Launch performance is largely irrelevant for most PC games, as far as I'm concerned, since the main appeal of buying them on PC is being able to wait a year or two for a 75% off Steam sale. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why is inflation so bad right now? |
| adjl 03/07/23 7:39:21 PM #24 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted... Government halts production of goods. And here we have a demonstration of exactly why companies can get away with price increases: Because people actually believe this tripe. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Well, D&D tonight was a blast... |
| adjl 03/07/23 5:03:46 PM #13 | Nichtcrawler-X posted... It is a choice a DM and a group make together. Whether nat 1s and nat 20s apply to anything besides attack rolls. Only if they expect that to create a more enjoyable experience for everyone involved, which they probably don't. There's no obligation to be consistent in bending rules like that. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why is inflation so bad right now? |
| adjl 03/07/23 2:22:24 PM #15 | J_Dawg983 posted... Didnt it really take off when fuel prices like doubled? That's been a major component of it. Being more expensive to transport stuff has downstream effects on the price of everything. That, in turn, was entirely a matter of oil companies deciding to jack up their prices using the war in Ukraine and sanctions against Russia as an excuse (which had some effect on oil prices, but nothing that remotely justifies the full price increase). Beyond that, though, so many companies are reporting record profits, then turning around and saying that they "need to increase prices because of inflation." People expect price increases, so companies can get away with increasing prices, so companies increase their prices while pretending there's nothing they can do. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Well, D&D tonight was a blast... |
| adjl 03/07/23 10:01:55 AM #9 | LinkPizza posted... Sure They can be Though, most DMs I know wouldnt do that. And would give a success to a Nat 20 And for our games, our DM lets Nat 20 be successes as long as its something he lets us do So, maybe in your games, they arent. But in ours, Nat 20s are successes In my limited experience, my friends that have DM'd have generally treated natural 20's as automatic successes so long as it doesn't outright break the game. If one of us, say, said "I roll to throw a knife randomly into the crowd trying to instantly kill the BBEG and end the campaign," a natural 20 wouldn't succeed because that would be lame, but we all have fun trying to come up with crazy ways for something implausible to happen because the dice willed it, and that's really the only point of playing. For something as fluid as TTRPGs, rules can and should be bent if doing so will make the overall experience more enjoyable for everyone. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Metroid Prime Remaster |
| adjl 03/06/23 10:58:55 PM #41 | CyborgSage00x0 posted... It's a bit misleading, in this case. Technically not incorrect, but it's Day 3 into what will be leading to it's 7th full year, but one wouldn't nomrally describe it that way without an inherently negative slant. Indeed not. McSame_as_Bush posted... Three remakes. Honestly, not impossible, especially where the first one has been received so well. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Metroid Prime Remaster |
| adjl 03/06/23 3:16:54 PM #38 | CyborgSage00x0 posted... It also just hit Year 6, so it's not going into it's 7th year. It came out March 2017. Technically, those are the same thing. It has existed for 6 years, meaning it is now in its 7th year of existence. It's a relatively unusual way of describing something's age (at least in American culture) that's clearly meant to make it seem as old as possible, but it's not actually inaccurate. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | The Funko Pop bubble has burst? over $30 million in Funko Pops sent to landfills |
| adjl 03/06/23 3:13:16 PM #42 | Zareth posted... Dunno what he means, but in my opinion it's their incredibly bland, designed by committee, apeal to the widest audience possible approach to everything. It just feels soulless. Like Ubisoft games. I wouldn't call that an ideology, though. That's just a business strategy. The obvious assumption is that "ideology" is a dog whistle for "not sending gays to concentration camps," but I like to give people the opportunity to answer the question for themselves. Count_Drachma posted... Personally, I don't believe it's so much that Disney itself believes in an ideology -- although maybe many of its content creators subscribe to far-left social issues -- but the fact that it's trying to pander in a socially progressive direction because it assumes that's the market's direction. Do you have examples of "far-left social issues" and the "socially progressive direction" in which they are pandering? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I got a new toilet with a bidet seat and it's amazing. |
| adjl 03/06/23 3:08:33 PM #31 | Lil_Bit83 posted... I imagine that would get hard for older folks with arthritis. Squatty potties are just a little platform that sits in front of the toilet that puts you in more of a squatting position when you put your feet on it. You're still putting your full weight on the toilet, so people with limited mobility don't have to worry about supporting themselves in a squatting position. If their hips are bad enough that it's uncomfortable to have their knees up that high, it could still be a problem, but in general it's not something that demands that much mobility. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Another train derailed in ohio |
| adjl 03/06/23 12:29:47 PM #8 | Count_Drachma posted... Those roads are also neglected, since the road money barely ever makes it to the roads. Road money makes it to the roads, it just isn't enough for the sheer number of roads because sprawling, car-centric infrastructure simply isn't a sustainable model (and never will be). Count_Drachma posted... But it's far more than just the infrastructure. Even if we had pristine, new infrastructure, there'd still be issues. Trains don't derail from rails that are built properly for them. Period. Now, that includes a whole lot of much broader consideration than "is this rail new?", including "how gentle should this curve be, based on how fast trains will go here?", "how heavy will these trains be?", and "are operators trained properly to understand the limitations of the infrastructure?", but all of that is part of improving rail infrastructure. It's not simply a matter of "build more rails." --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Marjorie Taylor Greene |
| adjl 03/06/23 12:14:17 PM #44 | Which probably means his obsessive hatred just stems from the bitter realization that she wouldn't give him the time of day. BlackScythe0 posted... Leave it to Zeus to attack AOC for no reason. AOC has never blamed wildfires on jewish space lasers. "The left and right say equally stupid things! Sure, MTG blamed Jewish space lasers for forest fires, but AOC suggested that maybe we should shift the tax burden to people that can actually afford it! Both sides!" --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Metroid Prime Remaster |
| adjl 03/06/23 11:05:38 AM #35 | McSame_as_Bush posted... Prime 4 is going to be a Switch 2 launch title. I kind of doubt that, actually. I'm guessing Retro developed their own engine to get Remastered looking as good as it does on the Switch, and that kind of optimization work likely can't simply be copied over onto a new system. I highly doubt they'd put in such effort just for a one-off remake, so odds are they made the engine for 4 and will therefore be releasing it on the Switch. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Do you have a Roomba or something like it? |
| adjl 03/05/23 10:54:56 PM #5 | BigOlePappy posted... Do you like it? It sucks. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Do you have a Roomba or something like it? |
| adjl 03/05/23 10:53:41 PM #3 | I have a vacuum cleaner, if that counts. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Metroid Prime Remaster |
| adjl 03/05/23 2:19:26 PM #22 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted... I wonder if Prime 4 is turning out to be another DNF. It's now 2 other titles released while waiting for it. I fully expect that Prime Remastered was a test run for whatever engine Retro has put together to use for Prime 4, both for the sake of getting some public feedback to it (which seems to have been overwhelmingly positive) and to get something out the door while they put 4 together. Recently, Nintendo's generally tended toward not announcing games until relatively close to their release dates (such as Xenoblade 3 being announced last February for a September release, which later got moved up to the end of July), so I could believe that they're just holding off on announcing 4 until it's mostly ready. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | When you realize you're no longer young. |
| adjl 03/05/23 11:44:17 AM #26 | rjsilverthorn posted... The comic doesn't really mark the year that you become old, it marks the year that the majority of the US population would be too young to remember a specific event. Phrased differently, it marks the year in which anyone who remembers those things will be older than the majority of the US population. There's an argument to be made that that qualifies as "old," though I would personally agree with you that it isn't quite the same thing, since "able to remember X" suggests an age quite a bit older than "was alive for X," especially when dealing with relatively complex political issues that children might not be fully aware of (I remember Diana's death, for example, but not Clinton's impeachment, though as a non-American that distorts my perspective a bit). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Another train derailed in ohio |
| adjl 03/05/23 10:44:48 AM #2 | What? Decades of neglecting rail infrastructure in favour of pushing transportation costs on to taxpayers in the form of road maintenance is having actual consequences? Who could possibly have seen this coming? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | The Funko Pop bubble has burst? over $30 million in Funko Pops sent to landfills |
| adjl 03/05/23 10:42:51 AM #38 | ParanoidObsessive posted... But I honestly have no interest in any of the Disney+ shows, and no real intention of watching any of the new MCU movies. For me, the franchise ended with Phase 3 (with Far From Home and No Way Home being the only post Endgame movies I've bothered with). My issue with the post-Endgame stuff isn't necessarily that I don't expect it to be good, it's that there's just too bloody much of it that any time I think I might want to explore it I get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of content I'm interested in and just go do something else instead. It's pretty much impossible to keep up with everything worth watching if I only watch it casually, a problem that gets worse with each passing month as new things are released for me to be behind on. I want to watch No Way Home, but for that, I've got Homecoming and Far From Home to get through. I want to watch Dr. Strange 2, but for that I've got all the Spider-man stuff, and I believe also Wandavision and Loki. I want to watch Quantumania, but I haven't seen any of the pre-Endgame Ant-man movies and I believe Dr. Strange 2 also provides important background. Even the more stand-alone stuff like Moon Knight or Eternals, I end up feeling bad about watching instead of working toward stuff that I'd consider higher-priority, so I put them off until I can catch up on the rest of the backlog. There's just so much coming out all the time and all of it is billed as an investment into a bigger picture, so even though I'd like to check out that bigger picture, it's just more than I can keep up with without treating it like an obligation. It also doesn't help that I've outright stopped going to movies since the pandemic hit, so any hype around a movie's initial release has died down by the time I could stream it. The modern MCU is basically falling into the same trap that comics themselves have, in that I'm interested in exploring it, but doing so "properly" involves such a large investment into previous material to help understand and appreciate what's going on that I just don't. I'm sure I'd enjoy it if I did force myself to dig into it all properly, but that's just more of a hurdle than I'm really motivated to get over when I have plenty of other entertainment options that are equally enjoyable but much more accessible. There's still plenty that can be milked from the MCU, but when I'm sitting here with 27 empty glasses of milk and the table keeps filling up with more, I'm just going to walk away and get some water instead. Rotpar posted... Disney bringing everything down? I'm not surprised, especially since they seem committed to their s***ty ideology, damn the consequences. Which ideology is that? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
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