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Maroon 5's "What Lovers Do" is a shameless ripoff of "Sexual" by NEIKED. Has the same underlying beat, similar vocals going into the chorus, just some additional effects that make it sound bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wiio4KoGe8

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

College homework. Pretty much always. It was exciting for a few years but at this point it just feels like it never ends.

NeonTentacles posted...

Damn. Yeah you definitely dodged a bullet there >_> Sorry to hear that

It was a fun period of life, I never had any romantic relationships and drifted between friendships in high school. So the first few years were like a whirlwind of meeting people and exploring relationships since people actually apparently had an interest in me, of course a lot of them didn't pan out and some were really abusive and exploitative in nature or just weird, but that's life I guess.

That used to be my go-to dish at Outback, back when my dad would take me there like 20+ years ago. Haven't gone in many years though, don't even know if they serve them. Mom would make them at home sometimes but it was breaded and soggy and dry inside.

Really... can't remember the last time I had them tbh.

Antifar posted...

Earlier this month, a pedestrian was seriously injured after a driver hit them with a car and a Cruise car then trapped them underneath it,

sounds like something from GTA NPCs

way too often.

already bought diablo 4 and starfield, both of which were huge mistakes (I wasn't even remotely excited about starfield lmao)

probably going to make the same mistake with alan wake 2 though

It is a puzzle and hidden object game that is light on both puzzles and hidden objects. Also the company that makes it uses a dumb engine that tracks things like if you skip a cutscene or use a hint between save profiles which is why I missed an achievement. Game is short but I'm too lazy to go back, which sucks because I wanted that easy 100%.

Anyway game is pretty bland, it had some funny and shocking moments considering it's a kid's game. Like at one point a skeleton gets possessed, raises a pistol and shoots itself in the head and your character says, "I can't believe that skeleton just shot itself in the head!".

Here's my list of games completed in 2023:

Two Point Campus: Space Academy
Max Payne 2
Two Point Campus: Ghosts
Starship Troopers: Terran Command
Two Point Campus: Medical School
Vampire Survivors
World Keepers: Last Resort

NeonTentacles posted...

^Why did long distance go bad?

She was talking about getting married after we had connected for like ... maybe two months. And she was saying all the worst things. Like talking about cooking meals every day (turns out we had completely different food tastes, and she really only cared about like... one dish), or keeping me up late and waking me up early to play YT videos over the phone when I had to get up early as hell for a class, or telling me her little brother kept calling me "poop" like that was the cutest thing in the world even though I found it kind of gross.

I was tired and told her we should take it slow. She found some guy to sleep with on Craigslist and basically bragged to me about it, not necessarily in a spiteful way, moreso like a, "Well we're just friends now so I'm going to sleep with some guy and talk to you about it like a friend would", except it was like two days after I told her I wanted to slow down on the marriage talk...

My true high school crush I could never find anywhere after graduation, I still try to look on social media every once in a while but it's like she stopped existing.

I ended up dating my other high school crush a couple years after graduation, spent a few weeks together then were long distance and it went terribly so I had to call it quits. Think she ended up getting married and having kids or something idk.

Kudos for being specific and not just saying, "I played this game when I was a kid" and then clarifying later you meant two years ago. Because I only see that on every single post on those types of subreddits.

For some reason I thought of Bubba 'n' Stix but I really doubt that's it.

If you have reddit there's r/tipofmyjoystick , they found this obscure ass wire-frame PC game I played in like 1991.

Zithers posted...

are you sure your theater(s) just hasnt updated their weekend showings? a lot of theaters don't determine their weekend showings fully until like wednesday or something i think.

Oh maybe that's it. I haven't been to the cinema in probably six or seven years now.

i thought this movie just came out but i checked the show times and it's not even playing any more in a couple days locally wtf.

PM me if you want it. Code is 100% legitimate from Twitch giveaway.

pedro45 posted...

I think that's the first positive opinion I've read of the third Halloween. Usually that's where it all starts going down hill.

I need to check out scream and more evil dead because of this topic

Halloween 3 was awesome because it was different. Also the creepy stalker people freaked me out and it takes forever to reveal who they actually are. Just added a different dimension to the whole thing.

Also imo the original three Evil Dead movies and the series Ash vs. Evil Dead were 100% worth it, but I watched the first revival movie (from like... ten years ago now?) and it was pretty not great. Just felt like a thin allegory for drug addiction and missed a lot of the shock factor and weird creations of the originals.

Loved the Phantasm movies, discovered those a long time ago, was impressed they kept making one like every decade with the same cast. RIP Angus Scrimm though.

I love minigolf. But I tried real golf for the first time recently and it was terrifying. Really glad I didn't accidentally hit anyone.

Halloween is so overrated imo. The first one was good, second one meh, third was great, but everything after that is just so repetitive and obvious that it's not really scary.

BlingBling22947 posted...

What's the last thing you ate?

well now it is a burrito from trader joe's but when you asked it was cold pasta and a chicken leg

Zeph posted...

Are the DLC's worth?

If you like the game and are a completionist or just want to unlock some really OP shit then yeah I think so.

I didn't really care about the characters from Mt. Moonspell but some of the weapons are pretty awesome, like the Four Seasons (causes explosions in a rectangular pattern around your character, with the candalabrador it is extremely powerful) and Summon Night (which causes daggers or... fangs? to drop down from the top of the map and leave temporarily burning lines that cause damage; this starts off weak as hell but with upgrades and the evolution you get full map coverage). There were some weapons that felt kinda samesy as the base game weapons just with slightly better gimmicks, like the 108 Bocce (gives you a short range aura sort of like the Garlic, except the balls around you pop out periodically to give some ranged damage).

Tides of the Foscari is more interesting, though. There is a second map to unlock, it requires you to play all its characters to advance, it gives a weapon set that became a staple for my 100k+ runthroughs, *and* you can unlock probably the most powerful character in the game in it.

I think for the price it's not a bad deal if you are ultimately OK with more of the same, it's not like it introduces revolutionary gameplay mechanics but you do get a little more build variety.

I was actually bouncing around between them all. Pugnala was probably my go-to for the basic characters but I abused the heck out of Queen Sigma for some of them. By the time I got Sigma I had already cracked the code though so it wasn't too difficult to get the rest of the cheevos.

Also the games I've completed this year include...

Two Point Campus: Space Academy
Max Payne 2
Two Point Campus: Ghosts
Starship Troopers: Terran Command
Two Point Campus: Medical School

Pretty sad list -_-

Bought it a couple weeks ago, game was addicting as hell and definitely got Tetris Effect at times. Didn't get all the secret unlockables but I'm too lazy to hunt for them.

I read about someone doing this in Baltimore several years ago but I think his shtick was using the ambulance as a free taxi to somewhere close to his house somehow.

Northlane posted...

Jagex is an awful company and idk why people still support them

Sunk cost fallacy?

Not so much about supporting Jagex as it is about playing something that is still enjoyable and novel after all these years.

The Mandela Effect is real. It describes misconceptions of culturally significant events and media on an inexplicably large scale.

Explanations about alternative timelines are just hypotheses, though.

That sounds like a pretty big addition to the game. I need to look at the maps again and see how Gielinor differs in each game.

comicfire posted...

The OSRS halloweeen event just dropped. Also a sad case; just a straight up rerun of last year's event, which was the worst one yet.

that sucks

I was looking at the OSRS history and it looks like it's always just a short quest?

I don't get why MMOs do that. I remember The Secret World, they always incorporated the previous Samhain events and introduced new content, too.

Not gonna lie though I had to go to this "City of Um" in the Underworld and it made me start the Necromancy! quest (I am trying to avoid any "World Guardian" quests until I complete the 5th age stuff) and Necromancy is actually kind of intriguing. Coming from the perspective of someone who hates combat in RS and hasn't maxed out the skills for it >_>

Ratchetrockon posted...

tc i think ive typed in your clan chat once. your name seems familiar to me lol

Maybe? I remember being in a tiny clan for a while and it was pretty cool until this one guy came in and started trying to micromanage everyone's time when the rest of us were just trying to chill and socialize more than anything else. And he wanted to organize events so he could stream playing with us, just felt really odd.

Glad to hear you're playing again, wish it were RS3, I miss having people to talk to in game :(

2008 for me was...

The peak of my physical fitness, I was running farther and faster than I ever had before and scored the highest I ever did on my PT test (too bad it was only a practice test).

Was when I had my first girlfriend. Although she didn't want to officially be my girlfriend, didn't want to share or keep or show photographs of us together to anyone, and turned out she was actually dating a married guy who had kids.

Graduated my school and went to my first duty station across the country, where it was muddy and cold and wet and I learned the harsh reality of life without a driver's license (worked fast to rectify that though). And completed additional training.

Found my second girlfriend, but we didn't last long either.

Also started smoking.

Spent a lot of time with friends just hanging out at the mall, being young dorks, it was a fun time.

FL81 posted...

I started playing OSRS the very day it launched, and I never looked back

occasionally I'll log into RS3 for Miscellania (keep some GP stored away for bonds), and I am baffled by everything that pops up whenever I log in

The problem for me is that I started in Runescape back before the game could even track player account age (i.e., before the anniversary capes become available). Buuuuut... I took a pretty long break not too long after RS2 launched and then I didn't get back into it until after RS3 came out. And of course all my progress is on RS3, and I just love all the QOL updates and additional content that OSRS can't compare to.

And I just don't have the OSRS nostalgia.

Idk. To be fair I'm not even max skill or max quests or anything, and at this point I doubt I can ever catch up.

Granted the past many years it's been pretty bland... generally the events were concentrated in grounds of the Draynor Mansion and they would have various skilling stations for you to AFK XP in. But they also at least had a few mini-quests and quest-like activities to complete, too.

This year it's just about participating in "Pumpkin Parties" - every 30 minutes a pumpkin party spawns and you just smash pumpkins until the limit is hit, and each drops holiday items with a chance for cosmetics... That's it.

In a way it's kind of similar to early events in the game when you just had random items dropping around the world. But for a modern day MMO and compared to what they've done in the past it's a big step back.

edit: Worst part is they don't even have stuff from previous years, which they built up over the span of several events. I just don't get the logic.

I think it had some good skits over the years but whenever I watched syndicated episodes growing up I could never stomach watching them in their entirety.

sk8r4s810 posted...

Apparently they screwed up the launch of the season anyway and since it's an online game only, you can't play while they figure it out even if you didn't want to start a new season lol.

wtf this sounds terrible.

The reporting makes it pretty clear that additional forces are being sent to deter further aggression and escalation of hostilities beyond Palestine and Israel, and to help with humanitarian efforts and civilian evacuation.

Waxitron_Gazer posted...

jesus christ y'all watch horror movies and expect them to make technical and logical sense??

Well yeah. Get Out was very overt in its social messaging and explanations of things, and I guess I just expected more of the same for Us and Nope. The social messages were still there, but they became progressively worse with regards to the actual plot machinations.

I liked Get Out, Us and Nope (is Candyman a Peele movie??), but Get Out is the only one that really seemed to make sense from a technical and logical perspective.

Us was definitely creepy but I just couldn't wrap my head around how it was supposed to work logistically, and that killed my suspension of disbelief and it's lame because it had such a good set up.

k1zzl3_82 posted...

I have a girl in one of my classes where we have to do the same thing. She literally copies whatever Chegg has. Our teacher usually requires references and she never provides them.

My coworker is working on a Master's, kept complaining that this other student would just say, "Hello <Name>. You make a really interesting point" and then just copy and paste pretty much half her post and that was his response... lmao.

I took a Music Appreciation class two terms ago and saw the exact same thing. It was interesting how the posts were 100% identical in structure and content, but used synonyms and marginally different phrases to achieve a "unique" response.

It was my first class after ChatGPT / AI really took off... and it was so friggin' obvious.

I quit after doing maybe one of the three initial questlines you unlock for Act 1. The game just didn't suck me in, I tried a few different characters and they all felt very samesy and the design of the world felt the same as previous Diablo games and there was too much obvious cut and paste content in it.

I was spoiled by Lost Ark, which I also never got too far in but I did spend more time in that game and I enjoyed the way the different characters felt.

one of the coolest side quests I did was on Mars, to put up posters about a space frog for some little girl

it unlocks space frog decorations for outposts.

I was really hoping that in my 40+ hours of play I would have encountered another mission like that but haven't found one. Unless I have been unlocking pointless outpost stuff without realizing it since I am too lazy to plan outposts properly and never have enough resources.

No like they're bad. This one can't clean up cat litter at all, the self-cleaning dock is extremely loud, it doesn't sweep along walls very well and it keeps recognizing non-obstacles (such as something hanging low) as an obstacle that it will avoid. And it still gets caught on the bar stools with rounded feet even though it's got the cameras and crap.

idk maybe your Shark will be better.

They typically suck

Also we named ours George Costanza.

That video was a few parts cringe and a few parts entertaining, I don't know how he pulled that off.

Also that movie looks like ass. I saw parts of that anti-mask/anti-vax one he mentioned, too, got so sick I had to stop watching.

Pretty sure the whole timeline is off, too. She must really not know American history at all.

I thought they made it 100% solo-able now.

I could never get games to work properly on Linux, even something like Runescape was a pain in the ass to set up. This was a few years ago when it was supposedly super easy to set up for gaming...

Sneaking in the Ryujin missions is stupidly easy.

The spoiler block that follows does not contain any actual story content, but does have technical details about the missions.

None of the safes or doors you might need to lockpick for a mission are above Novice level, and there are very few that you actually ever have to pick. 95% of the missions send you to areas that are not restricted, so the only "sneaking" you need to achieve is crouching down next to the object you need to interact with and waiting for the other person in the room to turn around/walk away... and of course you can cheese with a quicksave. And, there are a couple missions that require persuasive dialogue - one of these just gives you the correct dialogue choices anyway so you can't fail, and the other one ... I don't even think the outcome makes a significant difference one way or another.