Lurker > Aristoph

Frankly, the ratings are down not because people don't enjoy watching the events. The ratings are shit because the coverage is shit. NBC's monopoly is cancer and their coverage gets worse and worse every single year.

My last 2 PCs have been gaming laptops. I used to work nights so having a gaming laptop I could bring to work to pass the slow hours was a godsend. And I don't really have a proper desk space at home.

I would go desktop if I could. But that being said, I don't regret buying either gaming laptop and would do so again if I needed to.

Euripides posted...

Ohio's gerrymandering is also crazy.

In 2020, Trump won Ohio with 53% of the vote. Assuming that those voters also voted for Republican nominees down ticket, you would think that Republicans also won ~53% of the House seats.

Nope, Republicans won 75% of House seats.

With 53% of the total vote.

Just another of the many reasons I fucking hate living here. :-/

Never, and I don't.

I have never had a tube of toothpaste last long enough to expire.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yS2s-G510aI

Not if I can help it.

The Sith wouldn't give 2 shits about you going to the store. Unless you are directly involved in or preventing their plots for power, they literally don't care about you and will just ignore you entirely. The Sith basically amount to "Get in my way and you're dead. But leave me the fuck alone and I'll leave you the fuck alone. I've got better shit to do with my time."

Karens actively go out of their way to make your life miserable. Gimme the Sith.

I feel like TC literally just doesn't understand the concept of a walkable city.

The grocery thing is a non-issue. When you can walk to the store in 2 minutes, you don't need buy 400 pounds of groceries to stock up for weeks in advance. Feel like a salad for dinner? Go to the store and buy salad stuff. It takes 2 minutes. That's the point. You can buy things fresh as and when you need them because it's no longer a major inconvenience to go to the store. You end up with better/fresher meals and you waste less food because you don't buy enough at once for it to go bad before it's used.

Going to work is also not an issue because, hey, it's a fucking walkable city. You can walk to work. That's the point. And the few buses the city might have for public transportation are more efficient and more reliable because there's far less traffic on the roads to cause problems. But again, the point is for it to be walkable. Ideally you don't need any transportation.

And of course your current 17 minute commute would turn into an hour of hassle. You don't live in a walkable city.

Origins was alright. I liked the mechanics and put a decent amount of time into it. But the story never grabbed me, so I didn't bother with the sequels.

Yes, but only for school textbooks. Way easier to just dog-ear the important pages of the current chapters than have like 15 different bookmarks at any given time.

domranguay posted...

I prefer Powerthirst.

Powerthirst has MORE LIGHTS THAN YOUR BODY HAS ROOM FOR.

FOUR HUNDRED BABIES!

I haven't thought about that video in years. XD

ThisIsAKnoife posted...

Probably like how sometimes you get an achievement for starting the game and then check and only 85% of people who own the game have it

Wish I could remember what game it was, but I noticed something pretty strange in the achievement percentages once. The game had achievements for completing each level of the story. I was kind of surprised as I kept progressing and seeing level achievements with percentages still hovering around 90%. Normally it drops a whole lot faster the deeper you get into a game's story. But I was having a great time, so I just figured "it's a good game, of course people want to play it."

Then I hit somewhere around level 10 and saw it drop, in a single level, from ~85% to less than 20%. And I'm just sitting there thinking "what the fuck happened here??" Never did figure out what was up, as that level didn't feel particularly challenging or frustrating. And the rest of the game stayed right about 20% the rest of the way. So there was something specifically about that one stage that apparently just infuriated people into rage quitting the game.

Dr Pepper is the best, and nothing is even remotely close.

Yeah, sure. I'm not a prude. I got no problem with people enjoying themselves however they want. Would certainly be an interesting job.

NPC posted...

you need all the players to function.

You literally don't. If the pitcher strikes out the side, the 7 players in the field didn't need to be out there that inning. The pitcher and the catcher are the only 2 positions that are required at all times (and batter from the other team, obviously). Everyone else spends the vast majority of their time standing and scratching themselves.

NPC posted...

Someone could fall asleep while playing soccer and not affect anything either.

Being a man down in soccer is a devastating blow and you're nearly always going to lose unless it's a red card with like 5 minutes to go. You will struggle to gain possession of the ball because there is guaranteed to always be at least 1 person wide open for an outlet pass. You will struggle to maintain possession because they can simply double-team whoever has the ball at all times without sacrificing coverage of the rest of the field. It's not even remotely comparable.

NPC posted...

So say if there were only 4 players on the field instead of 9, you'd not find it boring? Do you like any sports?

If someone can lay down and go to sleep on the field and not affect play, the sport inherently sucks. Not sure why this is so complicated.

Football is great. Basketball isn't really my thing, but the sport itself is fine. And big games can be very exciting. Soccer is also pretty great, even if it's more difficult to follow here in the U.S. without as much broadcast coverage. And plenty of other more niche or non-spectator sports like bowling. So yes, I like sports. Good sports. Not shit ones like baseball (or cricket, for similar reasons).

NPC posted...

I mean, something happens every 15 seconds or so lol. I can understand when the pitch clock didn't exist, it could be a minute between when something did actually happen. Do you just not like when people don't score? Would you still find a 13-12 game boring?

There are 9 players on the field. SEVEN of them could literally fall asleep and the game could continue unaffected if the pitcher is having a good day. The game is boring. Period.

NPC posted...

Have you watched since they implemented the pitch clock?

Yes. It's still a bunch of dudes standing around while nothing happens for 90% of the game. I guess it's marginally better now that people only sit there and stare at grass growing for 3 hours instead of 5. Woo.

Baseball. Most boring sport on the goddamn planet. Chess is a more exciting spectator sport.

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

Does moving on mean forgetting?

Absolutely not. You can never forget what you did because that potential is still inside of you. You've been down that path once, you can always go back down that path again. It's essential that you never forget that fact. But you also have to remind yourself that just because you can do those things again, that doesn't mean you will. If you keep working on yourself, if you pay attention to your triggers, if you notice the signs of that downward spiral beginning, it really is possible to go the rest of your life without "relapsing."

EDIT: I'm using "you" in the general sense, not specifically TC. Just to be clear on that.

A friend of mine with a rather questionable past once described it like a cup of salt.

So if you do something really terrible, it's like you've got a big cup full of salt. You try to swallow it and you just can't do it. If you continue making bad decisions and doing bad things, you keep adding more salt. But for every good choice and every good action, it's like you're adding a single drop of water. And if, over the rest of your life, you keep doing more and more good things...then eventually you've filled yourself a swimming pool. The bad stuff hasn't gone away. The salt is still in there. And if you're not careful and let the water evaporate away, you'll be left with just the salt again. But now it's been diluted by so many drops of water that you can drink it just fine. It's still salt water and still probably doesn't taste that great. But it's drinkable. The bigger you make your swimming pool, and the more diluted the salt becomes, the better it will taste at the end.

Xatrion posted...

it is always amusing seeing exactly where their 'pro life' stance ends.

Birth.

So 20 minutes from now? Cool, I guess. Hope it's good.

SHRlKE posted...

I get this every day I leave for work.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/6d094277.jpg

I would fear for my life if I returned to that house.

Yeah, I wouldn't care. Why should I? If they don't even touch me then there literally isn't anything to complain about. Nothing has happened.

I mean sure, it'd probably be more polite to say "excuse me" and let me step aside instead of reaching over/around me awkwardly. But being polite to complete strangers isn't a requirement.

As an Ohioan, fuck this entire state.

Plain. Meat, cheese, and bun is all that should be on a cheeseburger. If I want lettuce, I'll eat a salad.

I had a top-100 score on a couple songs in Guitar Hero 3 during its heyday. At least, I think it was GH3? The songs were Carry On Wayward Son and Sweet Child o' Mine, so whichever incarnation had those two. I had 53rd in Carry On Wayward Son and 64th in Sweet Child o' Mine. I think there were like 100k names on the leaderboards at the time.

I'd be lucky to even finish practically any song on Expert difficulty these days.

Solar_Crimson posted...

I fell off after Capaldi's first season. Meant to get back into it, but never did. (Especially since they kept switching the streaming platform it was on at the time.)

Pretty much this for me too. I liked Capaldi as the Doctor a lot, actually. I just didn't like the stories they were giving him.

Sort of. I mean, one kid tried for a long time. But he was kind of an idiot and his insults weren't funny. So everyone always called him out for it and it backfired every single time. He still did it for years, though. I never understood that guy. Like...why keep doing it when literally nobody is backing you up? By senior year of HS he had basically zero friends left and always just sat in the corner alone during lunches.

Giacomo_Hawkins posted...

Nintendo Dom

Ooooooo...that's perfect!

The new console is called the Nintendo M, and the dock is the Power Bottom.

Guide posted...

I don't think so. With the internet, parity is well-preserved. The majority of communication in English speaking countries is now done through internet devices, and a majority of those devices have built-in spellcheck. There's far less room for mutation.

That's literally the exact opposite of reality. The English language is evolving faster today than it ever has at any point in the past. Due mostly to the internet and social media. Spell check is basically irrelevant. Language doesn't evolve through typos. It evolves through the introduction of new concepts, words, and slang terms. Which is happening faster and faster as people become more connected and share new ideas faster and with larger audiences than has ever been possible. A new English word used to take years from the time it first cropped up in one region until someone on the other side of the globe even heard it for the very first time. Now it takes milliseconds.

1.5

I feel like most people will learn at least 1 secondary language as the world continues getting more and more connected. I don't expect places to give up on their native languages and switch to one "Earth Common" like most sci-fi seems to imply. I think that trope comes more from simple practicality of telling stories.

But I also don't know if most people would be truly fluent in both languages they speak. Like I technically speak English and French, but I haven't had occasion to use French in a very, very long time. So I could still muddle through simple conversations or like asking for directions, but I don't think I'd qualify as fluent anymore. But as the globe gets more and more interconnected, maybe people would have more chances to flex those language muscles and stay fluent?

Power Bottom

Hejiru posted...

The downside is moral. Youre stealing 20 years from a random person.

Not really. You might take 20 years from a saint. You might take 20 years from an axe murderer. The person might get hit by a drunk driver the next day and that cycle would be essentially "free." It's completely random. I might hesitate if I had to personally choose the person every time.

All I know is that I'll have another 20 years of life, and I'll spend them trying to be the best person I can be. If anything, it would make me even more motivated to do something meaningful with my life. I'd be actively trying to make their sacrifice "worth it" in some way each time.

bigblu89 posted...

I don't want to sit around and watch my wife, kids, eventual grandkids, and eventually everyone I've ever known pass away.

Is there a single person on Earth who goes their entire life without ever losing someone they love? I know I've lost many. I got through it every time before, and their memories and lessons I still carry with me today. Why would anybody suddenly become incapable of handling grief? It's a poor argument that I've never understood on any level. Especially since you will NEVER be able to say that everyone you've ever known is dead, because you won't stop meeting new people and forming new bonds. And they'll help you through it exactly the same as your current loved ones help you through losses as you get older normally.

Too many people focus solely on the heartache of loss, and act like the joyous occasions just wouldn't count anymore or something.

Absolutely yes. Eternal life without the hangup of being actually "immortal" and doomed to an eventual eternity of suffering.

I see no downsides here. These are supposed to have a catch, aren't they?

--Zero- posted...

Ive owned 3 of the version 3 versions before upgrading to 3 of the latest version 4 litter robots.

It took me like 5 tries to parse this sentence. XD

Lazuriel

Side note: my username is the name of my first ever DnD character from back in high school.

Skies of Arcadia: Legends

I've done at least a dozen 100% playthroughs. Only reason it's been a couple years since I last played it is because I gave my GameCube to my niece and nephew. Maybe I should get it back just for a bit to have another go.

A remake or a sequel are the only games I would buy a new console for. If Nintendo released a brand new console and the only game that would ever be available for it would be Skies of Arcadia 2, I would fucking preorder it. Love that game so much.

Hayame_Zero posted...

George isn't at home.

It is impossible for me to hear that song without thinking of the answering machine.

nekrodev posted...

I mean, most of us were probably teens when the game came out, it's hardly surprising that we would've been very into, or at least okay, with this

This. I was 16 when it came out. Rikku was my dream girl. The scene of her taking off the al-bhed bodysuit was...well let's just say I kept a separate save file right before that cutscene... XD

To be fair, I'm sure they are spending lots of time thinking about it...

Hexenherz posted...

what browser is that

Opera

But more importantly, what kind of fucking savage doesn't maximize their browser window? O_o

My laptop has a little built-in plastic piece you can slide over the camera. It's got a pretty satisfying click, too.

Saw the topic title and immediately said gear durability before clicking. It's such a universally stupid mechanic that has never once improved my experience with any game. It is just a straight-up negative with no pros and a thousand cons.

I will happily cheat or use any exploit that circumvents durability systems in any games I play, even on the first playthrough. I'm not interested in having the devs' "intended experience." I'm interested in having a fun experience. And there's nothing fun about repairing or replacing gear constantly.

Orange

My favorite is still the infinite pitch black stairwell.