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And this.... is to be born... even further... beyond!

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Cloud strife seems like a given to me, although I'm open to being wrong

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Lol. You're 100% right, but i think the defense requires a representative post to make sure the trial is fair

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Basically any console prior to internet connectivity

Sned, ps1, ny64, ps2, and so on

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aesthetically, size-wise and as a mario level i'm not a huge fan of it

if i wanted a precise, small-environment platformer there are other games for that

tick tock clock is like... the best ramen you could get at a hamburger restaurant. there are actual ramen specialty restaurants that would blow it out of the water

if you are eating at a hamburger place, you're probably best off eating the hamburgers

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Wet-dry and tiny-huge are the two i dread most in a playthrough

I kind of liked the first star of tiny huge when i was a kid

Tick-tock is bland as well, but with adult dexterity and an understanding of the clock entrance gimmick it at least ends quickly

I guess I'm glad they put the best stuff in the first 60% of the game

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Ok, this fits really well. Good stuff

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NeatoAnAccount posted...

Does Jeff always write in all lowercase? You think you'd use the shift key in your letter of resignation from a job you did for 19 years.

lowercase is kind of a power move in tech

in fact, the most impressive resume i've ever seen was a plain text, all lowercase file that was only 10 lines long, and listed a few feats like "designed software system for <huge successful subway system">" and "lead tech at <such and such>"

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i've worked for startups my entire career. it's okay. you set your own boundaries. if you show up a little early and leave on time, people will respect that

they might cross their fingers and hope newer workers drink the kool-aid and stay late, but i'm assuming employment is always at-will where you are. worst case scenario, if they start demanding you work late you can just work for a different company. i don't know what role you're being hired for, but startups generally look all right on a resume. startups are typically more vulnerable to having siloed information and needing every single employee.

you can ask what the hours are, and they can lie. i would ask once, and maybe ask about the overall culture as well.

there was a person at a startup i worked for that stayed past 7 every night. then they had this revelation that they wanted to date/have a life, started leaving at 5, and the company has continued to love them forever.

only thing i can think of is if you get roped into dev ops duties- they might want deployments to happen at night, in which case you can negotiate different working hours

the pay is generally less than working for a large company, but theoretically you might believe in the mission more or enjoy the comparative autonomy or higher responsibilities. stuff happens faster at a startup and there's less red tape. if you're young and want a work social life, there will be more young people to hang out.

the exception is if the company and concept is actually mind-blowingly good. the smart move is to repeatedly switch companies and boost your salary until you find one that you know will succeed, and get as much equity as possible

i can't give much advice without knowing your role, my knowledge is fairly specific

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WazzupGenius00 posted...

working second shift and weekends is why I have a total of like two friends now compared to a decently-sized social circle before then

2nd plus weekends sounds brutal. Why and what are you doing that for?

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hey! this doesn't seem quite above board- i can tell from some of the pixels and seeing quite a few vids in my time

and now that i googled it to make sure, i have to share-

we all know that mgs1 was about genes
mgs2 was about memes
mgs3 was about scenes
mgs4 was about senses
and mgs5 was about races

https://twitter.com/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/status/376428396244262912

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that's a nice name :)

in my head i always pronounced it Rhino-uh, but that's clearly wrong. the internet seems to think it's

Ree-no-uh in japanese and Rih-no-uh in english

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if that picture the worst thing the democrats/greens/whoever is doing, i can live with that

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Re4 is on a dozen platforms already, what's the exclusive part?

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I was poor at the time and kind of skipped that generation, at least until very late on

Ps3 was the blu ray player (cheapest, even), had better exclusives, the more powerful hardware, and the free online play

360 had the better social features, larger playerbase, indie marketplace, and (RROD issues aside) smoother OS

It's hard to say one was better, but the ps3 ended up closer to my heart. No desire to dust one off, though.

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I've been pretty frugal in my life.

I bought a $700 suit once. I also bought a $599 USD playstation at some point. Whatever, it was something i barely played aside from co op dark souls

When i was young, i lost (aka left in the hotel room) a bus ticket going from Michigan back to my home state. My horrible girlfriend at the time was going to be such a pain about it that i just bought another so i wouldn't have to admit that i lost anything, even though i could absolutely have talked my way through the station workers

I've never shared that story. In retrospect it was such a pointless waste

I'll come back if i think of others

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MartinFF7 posted...

well in hindsight maybe should've given Iron Man a 2nd look

Iron man was my knee jerk choice, but the final act where he fights the dude was so weak it's hard to label it "best"

But that final pre credits scene, though

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I thought playing as a set of connect 5 pieces would be cool, but now that i see it has no chance i wish i had voted for charjabug

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Very nice list, thanks for storing and sharing

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NFUN posted...

Calculus is the best

That's a very silly generalization to make

9th or 10th

I didn't make any generalization! I subjectively didn't enjoy calculus- i know it was just me being bad, but integration started feeling like a series of guess-and-check style problems (ie, here are the 30 methods of integration, just try each of them until one works). I did perfectly fine on ap tests but was unhappy the whole way

Again, I'm sure actual math people had better techniques

I couldn't remember what happened in middle school. I think there was a year of algebra, a year of geometry, and a year of something else, wasn't sure if it was another algebra


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Maybe this is some form of comic sin, but i haven't seen avengers 1 or 2.

Iron man 2 inspired me to take a 5 year marvel break

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Does the class have a textbook? Sometimes it's just easier to learn by reading

Calculus was when math stopped feeling good to me. Also, computer science barely uses algebra

What grade is algebra 2? I can't remember if it's 7th or 9th or whatever

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Definitely my favorite mass serial fiction as a kid. My parents would plop me in the book section while they went grocery shopping or whatever, and animorphs were way better than goosebumps. I never got into writing fan fiction, but that and harry potter were the two that made me consider it

Iirc tobias had the most compelling storyline but they were all solid caricatures.

i read books 1-15 or so, some of the chronicles, and then the final few books.

I don't remember which characters i liked the best. Even the more normal ones were important and believable. Iirc cassie was the actual animal expert, and i had some empathy for boring leader Jake- not everyone gets to be the fun one

Biggest trip was when the publisher held a contest, and the winner got to be inserted as a new animorph. Then, the author turned that character into a villain and for all intents and purposes killed them off.

I still think about "happy meals with extra happy" every once in a while

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NFTs are pretty much the same thing as "buying" a star/the right to name a star

it's useful as long as you think people care about the registry

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Diazepam in mgs
Painkillers in max payne


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NeatoAnAccount posted...

Counterpoint: people are fine with... ...every Mortal Kombat game

for the record, i remember there being an idiotic quadrant of the internet that got mad when Jax's ending in MK11 involved going back in time and preventing the slave trade

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missile command seems like the easiest one to do something creative with

i could see all the players being on one planet surface instead of just duplicating the single player game for everyone

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pretty much everything can be political if you want it to be. "politics" involves pretty much anything that constitutes of humans, their societies, and how they run them

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/politics

a story about people who withdraw from society inherently poses a societal (and therefore political) question, regardless of what the creator says they intend

but i assume you mean an explicitly 'red team versus blue team' definition of politics- i haven't played it, so don't know if there's any of that in there

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they extended the deadline to may this year, i haven't even looked at it yet, eep

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1 > 2

didn't bother watching the third. i think iron man 2 was what killed off my interest in marvel movies for half a decade

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100% in the galaxy games really isn't bad. it's not like 64 where you have to really work to figure out what the heck you're supposed to be doing

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

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wow, this is wonderful.

i've had a very superficial soft spot for eastern european film from the soviet and soviet-adjacent area for quite a while. I say superficial because it's not like i've bothered to learn the language. there's just something really neat about the direction and getting to see a parallel evolution of western fairy tale roots

for a while i was helping host parties, and putting a playlist of 70s/80s eastern european films or cartoons on a silent screen was always a hit

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Used to use my finger. Gave myself a paper cut once.

now i just use an exacto knife if i can help it, since i need one for packages anyway

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Solioxrz362 posted...

I think I'd preclude these games, although Hotline Miami 2 certainly didn't get anywhere near the recognition that the first one did.

yeah, at a certain point a "sleeper" can get the recognition it deserves and it doesn't qualify as a sleeper anymore! i guess it just transitions into cult classic

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i'm not sure what exactly counts as a sleeper, and top 25 is tough, but games in the past decade or so that i think might qualify...

Furi
APE OUT
Nidhogg
Nidhogg 2
ECHO
Hotline Miami
Hotline Miami 2

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Nanis23 posted...

If we can't fix literally everything, why bother even trying at all?

Ok nanis, that makes tons of sense

Whataboutisms were relevant back in 2016, we've moved on

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if you can find a phone number, that's more reliable than a website. i went through so many busted website flows until i gave up. after that, i called a center in my city until someone picked up and they set up an appointment

just got my first moderna injection (apparently they just toss a coin to decide whether you get moderna or pfizer). my shoulder felt weird for about 10 minutes but i'm fine now

apparently you're not supposed to take any ibuprofen the day of- whoops. i think i'll be fine

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq7kyf1T_lk

but the other ones in this topic are pretty good too

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FT i hope you are paid a living wage

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i feel like an idiot- i don't see where the actual image voting area is

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To participate in r/Second visit new reddit.

"nice"

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ah okay, thanks. i thought there was something else even lower risk. i guess you can always just hold onto it forever, which makes it essentially the same as a normal buy

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i honestly don't understand what that move was. you can just make a bet that a company won't go bankrupt? what's the term i should google to understand


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chiming in to confirm what everyone has already mentioned- the storytelling and direction is waay better in heavensward. i mostly stopped wanting to skip cutscenes right about when hraesvelgr appeared

i'm enjoying the ultra casual 'normal' dungeons/raids/scenarios, too. very glad i took the plunge

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If you don't have any friction with your mom, I'd probably stay. Aromance is a financial blessing.

from a purely financial perspective, I would avoid the condo unless you are confident you'll be able to flip it at an insane rate.

Make sure to factor in condo maintenance fees, property repair costs, and other bullshit when doing the math. i have friends with condos and those things add up to another set of rent.

To fairly compare to stocks (and more strategically, a good index fund) you should take all the money you would have spent on the mortgage, fees, repairs, etc and dump them into the stock as well

$1300 per year is a reasonable property tax rate. The 7% annual increase is bullshit though, so you will have to move eventually.

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I'm sorry to hear about that

PCOS is a rough diagnosis to be handed. It basically says you're going to have a rough time doing anything related to society's definition of womanhood. I'm sure you've already read up on the symptoms.

I can understand her negative feelings and outlook.

Imagine asking someone whose dog just died: "yeah, but what if we could cast a spell and bring it back to life??" They're in the process of grieving and of course aren't going to respond positively

You should help her find therapy if she's not already going. And you're certainly within your rights to break up and find someone more able to give you children. Ultimately, you should consider whether you value your relationship with her more than your desire to have children, and think about whether you'd hold any resentment over it.

You're in for a rocky couple of months. It sounds like you care a lot, and she's not going to enjoy the feeling of having her buttons pushed in ways that just might convince her to try to have kids again.

In the meantime, focus on your health and support hers

A friend of mine went through a somewhat similar situation with their forever fiancee. They're still together! Luckily, he was fortunate enough to have some nephews to help parent.

I'm sorry you're going through this.

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your child's not a waste, let them play with the toy

you signed up for this


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is this literally no food for 168 hours, or is this a normal fast where you're allowed to eat after sundown or whatever

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and the original reason i came to post in the topic- my rendition of a typical 4 minute ffxiv cutscene:

Camera pans down from ceiling
Camera halts while PC walks towards NPC
Camera pans up from NPC's back and/or midriff
NPC: "Greetings, champion. Thank you for helping us with our thing. You are an invaluable asset to every cause."
2 second pause
Camera change
NPC: "It is our solemn duty to keep Eorzea safe, and pray we may be able to continue doing so while you are by our side."
PC nods
2 second pause
NPC: "The grand companies wished to extend their gratitude as well."
Camera pans around
2 second pause
NPC: "We have another matter to discuss. Meet me here in the morning."
Camera pans up
Camera halts while PC walks away
Slow fade to black
Slow fade from black into same room
Camera pans down from ceiling
Camera halts while NPC walks towards PC
NPC: "I hope you slept well. We have received many reports that there are more troubles in another region. Even as we strive for stability, instability is abound."
2 second pause
NPC: "Please talk to Flagtola in <Zone 7> to understand what we must do next to protect Eorzea."

don't forget to add a bunch of unnecessary words and LOTS of leather pant/boot squelching sounds

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