Lurker > wpot

ParanoidObsessive posted...

The word "Brontosaurus" literally means "thunder lizard".

And "Brontosaurus" never existed so that particular name is ghost to begin with.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

It's not so much the pickup truck, it's the anger issues and poor communication skills.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

Hello, this is Moleman in the morning. Good Moleman to you. Today, part four of our series of the agonizing pain in which I live every daaaay.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

Lokarin posted...

tea is just boiled leaf juice

This. It doesn't do much for me.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

adjl posted...

It's generally not going to hurt. The further away you get from a source of radiation, the less irradiated you'll be and the better your prognosis. In the vast majority of cases, it's not going to make a significant difference, since there's a pretty narrow window of radiation intensity where you'll suffer significant negative effects if you don't run but will escape them if you do, but it's worth trying, at least.

That is a very sober, reasoned response and you're right. I just had a mental picture of Ralph Wiggum running from the winter of our discontent. :)

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

Is running a good way to avoid radiation? Just wondering.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

JixHedgehog posted...

Those selfish ****heads that drive alongside a backed up lane then pull into it at the last second

This one is actually kind of funny. I work for a Dept of Transportation. We try to get people to do the 'zipper merge' so that both lanes heading into a merge back up equally. It's safer if people take turns just before the merge.

Buuut...here in MN people are too "MN nice" to stay in the lane that will be ending so 95% get into the lane that continues. Which results in the few people that don't causing road rage and accidents...as you mentioned. It's not an issue on the east coast, because there's no "nice" about it.

Anyhoo...people that say they need to "re-look at" things annoy me. If that's you: stop it.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

EclairReturns posted...

I'm not sure if I'd even answer those questions. I'm scared just thinking about it.

That might be the point: until you can address the things that are truly on your mind you're probably not going to be able to move beyond them.

If embarrassment is part of it try to let it go: therapists hear EVERYthing and are the most difficult to shock people in the world. My wife is a school psychologist, which is basically an informal adolescent version.

I would say therapy works well for people who don't self-reflect well.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

My father has it and my grandmother before him. Looong story short, yeah, it can really suck. I've heard all of the stories I want about drainage ports, stitches, needles, and faded vision. Fortunately I'm not showing any signs (yet).

And fortunately (for you) I'm told my father has a unusually difficult to treat case: here's hoping (and expecting) yours won't be like that!

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

Waiting a few minutes after exercising outside on a coldish day?

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

^ I'm not sure I understand your point. We DO need some sort of system to figure out who is best suited for which jobs (and even train some people appropriately if we can manage that). If the system is expensive, or racist, or not merit based etc (all of which it currently is) then it has problems, but the existence of such a system only makes sense.

Nobody should look down on janitors/etc as implied in the Jefferson statement (although of course many do) but we DO need both janitors and engineers, and some people are better engineers than others. ...or do we not believe that anymore?

Not everyone should go to college or be encouraged to do so if their record doesn't indicate that would be a good fit for them. If someone would want to go to college for the experience if they wouldn't qualify on pure merit, fine, but in my mind that's the kind of person that should be paying to go.

Trade-based training (Germany style) makes a lot of sense to me, but it's still part of a system designed to sort people into jobs.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

ReturnOfFa posted...

but at least I don't have to drool at a desk while some idiot prof rambles.

Well...that leads into my point: the classes are irrelevant more often than not. If you're not getting anything out of them there are only two possible reasons to be there:
1) The degree gets you access to something so you have to sit there
2) Broader campus life with its independence and new experiences is valuable

Those are both fine reasons and #1 could be enough for you, but remote does away with #2. Convenient, yes. A good method for personal growth? Not really IMO.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

The idea of college is good. Buuuut...
1) The economics of attending are broken. It should be a test of knowledge (and, yes, dedication) but NOT resources or connections. Research focus, college sports, building mania, etc etc...there are many things broken regarding cost.
2) The demand for true expertise (the specialty of college) is low. How many jobs TRULY expect college grads to know anything anymore? In my opinion not many.
3) ...because instruction has become less practical. The American education system from top to bottom needs to do a better job of focusing and getting people on paths for types of jobs earlier so we stop wasting so much time. Broad education is fine, but not at the cost we're paying for it in time and money. 80% of the things being taught are rather irrelevant in the long run.
4) Remote-style college (post-COVID) is particularly pointless: you lose all of the independence/connections that are inherent to going somewhere.

Etc etc etc.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

So how was it?

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

Better than FF15, and the gameplay is about equal. :)

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

Revelation34 posted...

I want to try the kobe hot dogs.

I'd try those!

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

A high-quality beef hot dog is...OK. A cheap hot dog (i.e. most hot dogs) are terrible.

P.S. That raccoon picture reminds me of a "Forever Wild" quasi-zoo that used to exist near me. It was more or less wolves on a farm. When you visited they let you slide hot dogs down a PVC tube for the wolves to eat..."wild" indeed. They unsurprisingly got shut down over some sort of Tiger King-style issue.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Ehh, you're both right and wrong there.

Right on the broad point, wrong on the specifics. I can live with that. :)

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

Eh: everyone is related to everyone else if you go back far enough. I'm European American so (like every other European American) I'm descended from Charlemagne. And half of the world appears to be related to Genghis Khan. What's that mean? (Other than that we should all get along)

And besides, if I get my genealogy done I'm going to screw over any of my family members who commit violent crimes (or myself, if that's somewhere I end up). :)

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

I'll say homemade cheese broccoli. Or maybe zuppa toscana.

Chili is good, but usually a bit much.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

Star Ocean 5? I'm pretty sure that game didn't have a storyline and the point was just to trigger a bunch of inane chatter between your characters.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

SilentSeph posted...

I underestimated him too. I only read a few general tips about him and people mainly talked about his massive HP but said he was easy otherwise. I could see how certain setups would make him easy but I was surprised by his damage output, constant status effects, and other nasty tricks he had. Personally I really didn't find him any easier than the other superbosses.

I never really felt in danger of dying, as I recall, but I did not trust my gambits to heal so I micromanaged...and it sucked.

SilentSeph posted...

If you're on the same screen as him but too far away from him to detect you for a certain amount of time, he will start regenerating all of his health at a rapid rate. I believe you have to leave the entire screen to prevent that but I've always fought him in one go. When his health gets low, he puts Reflect on your party, so you have to be really careful with healing gambits (especially with Renew which will fully heal him)

Ah. I never had that particular problem: it was the completely non-optimized setup and micromanagement for me.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

LinkPizza posted...

Do you guys take breaks during the battle. I dont know if I could do a battle that lasted that long

I SHOULD have taken a break (or just given up) but as I recall I just grabbed a quick lunch during a short pause.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

SilentSeph posted...

Unless you know what you're doing or are super optimized, a lot of time will be spent healing, reviving, buffing, debuffing, curing status effects, changing gambits when he changes behavior, etc.

This, yes. I don't read guides the first time I play a game. I thought: I feel pretty strong, I'll try that Yiazmat guy. An hour later I regretted that decision. Six more hours later I won.

I don't believe he regenerated any HP so far as I recall: he just had an insane amount of it. I played only the original version.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

Yeah, Yiazmat in the original release. Took me 7 hours or thereabouts. Furthermore, the game doesn't really tell you that you can stop and try again later without restarting so I wasted an entire continuous afternoon+ on that.

Not a good design.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

Goes to Camp is one of his favorite movies. But Scared Stupid scares him. *eyeroll*

We didn't even make it to 'authentic Bulgarian miak'...

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

0 for 0...but married. She more or less asked me on our first date and that was it.

I skipped over most of this, for better or worse.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

hypnox posted...

I don't hunt to meaninglessly kill something. I either hunt to eat it, or in the case of thinks like hogs and stuff like that for protecting my pets and stuff like that.

Right: if you eat what you hunt it seems rather more honest than eating farmed meat while looking down on hunters.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

Disagree. CT is charming and classic, but a great storyline pushes things to the next level. FF7 has one, CT...not so much outside a couple short segments. CT's music is good. FF7's is weird...but occasionally great. CT's gameplay is vanilla, FF7's is...well, pretty vanilla, but there's more variety.

I'm an old school RPG player who started with DQ1 and FF1 and doesn't much like anything made after 2005 so I know I'm supposed to favor CT, but...I just don't. Maybe things would be different if I'd played it back when it was originally released.

Oh, and I have no idea what's going on with the remake so I'm ignoring that entirely.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

Zeus posted...

I like the concept, but the experience is probably as boring as fishing most of the time.

Nah, fishing is better. Many types of hunting involve a lot of staying still and quiet in uncomfortable positions. At least when fishing you get to move around and do whatever you like in the boat.

Plus you don't have to shoot deer. Fish are...not very sympathetic.

I imagine grouse hunting might be fun: you get to walk around and it's just a bird. Never tried, though.


---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

This:
https://kitchenswagger.com/pan-seared-filet-mignon-herb-butter-recipe/

I didn't realize until trying this that you can make filet that's more or less as good as restaurant steak on your own. It's not even that hard!

Cover steak in crunchy salt. Sear in butter 2 minutes per edge. Transfer straight to preheated oven and roast for 5ish minutes until medium rare. Done!

You can thank me later... :)

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

JixHedgehog posted...

Yep. My family would often hit up the all you can eat Pizza Hut buffet, their 3 cheese was my favorite

I cant see myself gorging on today's Pizza Hut pizzas :(

I dunno: in the case of Pizza Hut in particular I don't know that it's so much that they got worse: it's more that they got passed up by better options. Little Caesar's got quite a bit worse (and passed up)...although they've rebounded (a little) of late. At least here.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

I'm not naturally talkative, although I enjoy a conversation in a small group if we're talking about something I'm interested in. In 42 years I've learned:
1) I don't bother to trying to join a conversation if I'm in a 4+ person group with an extrovert or two. I'm not going to get in more than a sentence every 5 minutes or so at the best of times. Just try to become that guy that says something funny/interesting when he does speak up.
2) Work conversations are generally easier, should you still see people in person at your job: you can talk about work or coworkers or the weather or whatever. People are generally happy to talk so they don't have to, you know, work.
3) One of the less-appreciated-than-it-should-be losses in American society is the lack of local organizations/VFWs/churches/whatever where people used to get together with a regular group. These held us together, exposed us to different viewpoints, and gave us social circles. They don't really exist in the same way anymore. Anyways, if you have any "in" with such a group it helps greatly (I still occasionally attend a church mostly - to be honest - because there's a small group of people I can talk with).
4) In my case, now that I've been isolated in my house for 18 months (and the news is generally depressing) I really struggle to find anything interesting to say. "I sat in my office all day again and society is still collapsing" It's never been harder than now.
5) Try initiating conversations. If you start a conversation you can control the topic and you'll be involved from the start. But yeah, #4 is a problem (combined, in my case, with my general lack of interest in the things most people like to talk about).

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

Not much. Here in cold mid-America the homeless population is fairly low. There are a couple trashy areas, but the litter doesn't look at all like it does on the coasts.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

I haven't eaten most of these in years: I vote with the "there are better places even if you want cheap pizza" people. Papa Murphys and Heggie's frozen come to mind, not to mention local pizza places.

Still, I'm surprised Papa Johns isn't doing better. I haven't ordered them in years, but I remember thinking they had somewhat "normal" pizza while the others here are rather dry and tasteless. Have they changed or am I remembering wrong?

So far as I know Papa Johns > Pizza Hut > LC > Dominoes.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

Ogurisama posted...

Youre not wrong

Fair enough! :)

42 isn't any better...

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

Why is 32 in particular getting to you?

Do you track your life on base 2 milestones?

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

SilentSeph posted...

I really wish SMB2's underground theme became the series standard instead of the SMB1 one (although I love the All-Stars version of both themes)

Yeah, that one was also very catchy: it's like a moody snake charming song...set to a bongo beat. It's odd enough I can see where it didn't really continue (it's basically just the one riff, right?) but it's interesting at the least.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

It's been playing in my head the entire time I've been reading this topic. Including your post!

The music from the first level has been stuck in my head since reading this yesterday. That game has catchy tracks.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

Revelation34 posted...

Also that last sentence is a MIB reference?

No, but yes if you liked it. :)

wolfy42 posted...

My idea is basically that your conciousness is the same in all of them where your actions/reality etc have been the same, up until they diverge.

The multiverses that they discuss in media (i.e. that are relevant to an individual) are fun but complete fiction. As Connor said the only ones that are being discussed as real possibilities are ones where the laws of physics are different in infinite small ways. There's no reason to think that existence would carry over to a different one.

wolfy42 posted...

In theory it's possible within the next 20 years easily for something to be developed that prolongs life

I'm writing a book about this. :) The premise is that a guy discovers a method to stop aging. However, he realizes that if he releases it and everyone lives very long lives than we would destroy the earth more or less instantly via overpopulation/environmental ruin/wars/etc...so what to do? It's a book of tortured moralizing. :)

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

JixHedgehog posted...

Like picking things up faster?

Yes...and I believe he also waddled along the quickest as well.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

No, there's no real evidence for them outside of some hypothetical math. It's a philosophical (and video game) concept moreso than a true scientific concept. Of course, that means I can't prove they don't exist.

SaltyAndSweet posted...

Time? Gravity? Quantum Physics? None of it.

We know a lot, but it's one of those "the more you know the more you realize you don't know" things. We know a lot about how things work (including the crazy spacetime stuff) but not a lot about the bounds of the universe.

Maybe the whole universe is a snow globe on an alien's bookshelf. Even if true, if none of us never know that's the case...does it matter??

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

Here in the 'burbs life is normalesce: the main difference from before is that there are no organized gatherings and kids are masked at school. (Well, apart from the outer burbs i.e. Republican areas) And also I'm on month 18 of my work-at-home isolation unit. I described myself to others at my office as a rogue one-man-band in my position BEFORE COVID...now I feel like Milton in the basement. I'm increasingly unsure if they remember they're paying me.

As for masking, yeah, once my 9-yr-old is vaccinated and everyone has had a chance to get a shot I'm not wearing one anymore. If I continue wearing one after that point...why? It's not as if the anti-vaccers are going to change their minds and (more or less as a result) it's not as if the virus will ever go away. Unless I plan on wearing a mask for the rest of my life then would be the time.

Not that I ever, you know, leave the house and have to wear one in the first place. Stores barely even stock things anymore.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

Revelation34 posted...

Since this is probably a reference to the second game so if I'm remembering right Peach moves the fastest or had a high jump.

No, she floated during her jumps. Toad was fastest. Luigi jumped the highest. Mario was an all-rounder.

I tended to use Toad.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

Nichtcrawler X posted...

*laughs in late 80's.*

Heck: in the late 80s I remember thinking it was dumb that the "our princess is in another castle"...things became a character. :)

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

Lionel Hutz. Unless the reason I'm choosing him is to represent me.

This verdict is written on a cocktail napkin! ...and it STILL says guilty! ...and "guilty" is spelled wrong!

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

The Switch standard controllers have terrible drift to the extent I think its a rather unforgivable issue with the system. You shouldnt need to buy an expensive Pro controller to make the system workand even then good luck enjoying multi-player games (Mario Kart) without buying new joycons every six months. I have two sets of joycons that don't work.

Ive never seen a DualShock drift.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

A Mario movie sounds like the most boring movie possible. Maybe they'll surprise me like the Lego Movie did (Pratt again) buut...the source material isn't great for a movie.

Or maybe they want 7-yr-olds to watch it and they don't care what I think. :)

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

What's shocking is that they appeared to reach a conclusion that sounds realistic (and not doctored). Maybe everyone should hire Cyber Ninjas. :)

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.

Yeahno. I cant really explain WHY the bubbles make it good in words, but they do.

---

Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.