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Ok, slight fib. I played like the first 30 minutes of the original.

That's why I feel somewhat qualified to say, holy shit are they milking this. I've put in like 7 hours so far and nothing of importance has happened. There's not even really a villain yet. We've not left the factory. I'm pretty sure this was the original 30 minutes of gameplay I played on the original game.

Looks fucking sick though, and that soundtrack and that combat *chefs kiss*

I think the people who say this have never been near a foxhole and likely have romantic power fantasies about guns and war.

AceMos posted...

thats the intent

UnsteadyOwl posted...

When you do this to someone who's already going to have a difficult time getting a job because of their criminal record you're just locking people into cycles of poverty and debt that are extremely hard to get out of even if they're trying to do everything right. Which I suspect is the point.

I honestly think you guys are giving republicans too much credit. Cynically locking people into poverty and debt is far too elaborate a plan.

No, I think the simple motivation is "criminals are scum, let's punish them and make them PAY". It's literally just that, with no further thought about the consequences or harm that causes.

If you gave me a 6 figure bill just for existing the first thing I'm doing is turning to crime.

Euripides posted...

I am following. There are several shows like this (Arrested Development, for example, which is amazing).

I'm not "offended" by the show. If I was, I would've stopped watching after the first episode.

One can enjoy a show and still recognize a few "ehhhhh" moments in it.

What's REALLY funny is the number of people in this thread tripping over each other to hand wave those moments

Ah, fair. I think people are just protective of TV like this, because its amazing.

Euripides posted...

Multiple jokes about how she's a...

I'm not sure you're following so let me help you: every character in that show is an absolutely awful person, that is the entire bit. The joke isn't the stuff they say, they are the joke. It's a joke that they think and do that stuff.

This is the the same way that Tropic Thunder's blackface worked. The joke was that that character was an unbelievable racist.

*idly checks a website to calculate what my finance/loan options might be in a couple years time*
HELLO SIR, HELLO, WE HEAR YOU WANT MONEY NOW WE'LL GIVE YOU MONEY NOW

fucking phone ringing off the hook every day for the last fortnight. Last time I put a real mobile on one of these sites

Tangentially related but honestly, you could not have convinced me that the alt-right would be coming out to bat for jewish people in 2024.

Or more specifically, they still hate jewish people but they LOVE israel and all its actions, somehow

My Google thinks I want to read an article on every non statement the man has made

Pow_Pow_Punishment posted...

The good thing is it's just 1 set of hell. I know of some routines like Deep Water that are a sustained effort of torment (10 sets of 10 reps), but once you've done the single squat set for that session, your other exercises almost come as a relief.

After the 20 reps, you're supposed to take a light weight (15-20 lbs) and lie down on the bench to do 20 pull-overs. It's an old school idea to further stretch out the ribcage after doing so from the deep breaths during the squat set (bodybuilders back in the day were big about working the "rib box"). Being able to lie down after those squats feels like a reprieve from death.

I get a weird enjoyment in learning about the "wisdom" of old school lifters. Like so much of it worked because those dudes were just hard as fuck, regardless of what their justifications were.

Yesterday I saw this clip of Kirk Karwoski putting an entire can of beer in his protein shake and the guy behind the camera confidently saying that it's better for you than milk. Motherfucker could squat 1000lbs for a double and really thought it was the beer. Incredible.

TheOtherMike posted...

I played FFX back in 02/03, and for various reasons didn't like it. I don't remember how far I got, but it was at least to the Blitzball tournament. I won the first game or the tournament or whatever and my friend was shocked. He didn't think you could win it.

This is unironically one of the hardest things to do in the entire game, significantly hindered by RNG mechanics. It's pretty impressive that you won it.

It's a really stupid way for them to introduce blitzball because it makes you want to never play it again, which is a bit of a shame because it's way easier later on and more fun.

The Sphere Grid still annoys me. I can see ability spheres are going to be a bottleneck. Anywhere I'll be able to farm these?

Yeah those become really easy to farm. You have 3 methods:
1) an attack skill that lets you hit an enemy and steal an ability sphere after winning the fight.
2) a weapon attribute you can customise onto a weapon - you get an ability sphere everytime you attack
3) a late game hack against a particular enemy that lets you pick up 99 in a single fight.

It's really only a concern very early on. You'll end up picking up plenty later on.

Other than that, I'm concerned about missables. I looked up a list and thankfully there don't seem to be many. I did get the staff from the Cloister of Trials before Yuna joined.

The main missables you want to be concerned about are the secret chests in each cloiser of trials. You can get them way later on but they are gatekeeped by some of the hardest post-game bosses in the game.

Pow_Pow_Punishment posted...

That's a huge part of it. It just teaches you a lot about effort, digging deep, etc. But aside from that, 20-rep squats are just a fantastic way to build leg mass and raise your squat up. I broke through a plateau using it.

I'm not one of those people who say you HAVE to do a certain something to see results, especially when it comes to the 3 powerlifts if you're not a powerlifter, but I highly recommend it as a program.

I like the sound of it. Gonna milk GZCLP for a while and once that starts drying up I'll run super squats at some point. I guess I actually enjoy how hard squats are...

Japanties posted...

My calves, hamstrings, and glutes have atrophied since the covid lockdown and working from home became my paradigm. Is it time for me to finally nut up and attempt Super Squats?

Are you saying you haven't been training at all for 4 years? If that's the case, maybe start with something a bit more low volume. I doubt you'd have the pre-requisite conditioning for it.

Or did you just mean you're still training but not getting in as much general activity

Btw Pow Pow, why do you say this?

Also, everyone should run the program Super Squats at least once in their life.

I'm assuming mostly as a kind of crucible/experience/rite of passage? I know I start to see stars at 12 reps for squats...

Pow_Pow_Punishment posted...

Great post, but then I saw your username and suddenly wasn't surprised.

That fuckarounditis article popped into my head...

Did they add the "fun" feature as an update yet?

Fitness AI...

I can potentially see some utlity for people who genuinely need to min-max their training variables. This is not 99% of people. There is a specific market out there of smart people who think that training is complex and that "optimal" routine or diet is a thing you can read. These people are forever changing from app to gadget to whatever new science-based marketing trend forever looking for something that will help them avoid genuine effort and consistent work.

I.e. fitness AI is a meme and will inevitably be picked up by the forever-weaks who think that the body is some code you can hack, rather than a long term project you need to build.

Imagine what NASA could achieve if its budget was more than 3% of the US military's budget.

s0nicfan posted...

That works great until you realize that most banks are going to give you something like a 0.1% interest rate on a savings account with only 10K in it. You could maybe get two or three percent if you locked it into a cd for a few years, but for the sake of your estimate it might be better to say that you put that 10K into an indexed fund on the stock market.

Things seem to work differently in America. Interest free savings accounts here are currently offering between 4.5% and 5.2% with a minimum of 500.

(topic 3 about how much I hate cars and how stupid they are to buy)

Andy is 20 years old and the the car he wants is 15k. He has 10k in the bank. He reasons that he can put down 10k as a deposit, get a 5k loan and still save around $800 per month while paying it back. He's 20 and lives at home, what does it matter if he spends all his savings on a car m i rite

- 10k down on car (cash)
- 5k loan at 10.0% interest, 5 year term
- 105 per month in car repayments
- $800~ a month in a 2% savings account.

After 5 years:
+ car worth about 5k trade in value (- $1300 in loan interest paid over that time)
+ $50k in his bank

Alternatively, Andy doesn't buy the car. He puts that $10k in savings instead.

- 10k into a 5.19% interest-free savings account
- saves 900 a month into same savings account

After 5 years
+ 74k in his bank

$25k difference. Now if he still wanted that car, he could buy for cash and still have $14k leftover.

Or he just does the same again for another 5 years. Now he has $160k to play with.

Topic is based on the dubious premise of steady high interest rates and never needing a car, to keep things simple

There's me looking up game reviews for games from a couple of years ago to see if they're worth picking up, and the comments on the video are like "man I'm so nostalgic about this game, played it all through middle school"

wtf

I haven't played it but I did play Divinity Original Sin 2. That game had a pretty ironic problem of being insanely customisable and giving you so many ways to play it, and yet so brutally difficult that you were somewhat pidgeonholed into certain party builds and strategies.

I've done all three in my life:

1. Miner in australia, earning a 6 figure salary with all travel, expenses and accommodation paid for. Working 12 hour days, 7 days a week, shifting bags of cement in the australian desert
2. Campaign manager for a marketing start up, managing 50+ campaigns across 30 client accounts, basically stealing customer money and dealing with their phone calls every day. 60+ hours of mental hell
3. Current job - software consultant for a software dev company. Cruisiest job I've ever had. 38 hours a week, always leave on time, 1 hour for lunch, virtually no KPIs, management is very easy going. About half the paycheck of the first two.

If I could go back to my early 20s I would work the first job again and this time be really sensible with my money. If I was financially literate back then I could be set for life now. I don't think I could do that job now, too physically taxing and not stimulating enough.

I would never take the second job again. Worst job I've ever had. Paid decently and I got to live in the city, but the anxiety was overwhelming every day.

My current job is pretty good. pay could obviously be better, but I never feel stressed about going to work and that is invaluable.

It's kind of wild noticing how people have changed over time.

Do you mean as the interviewer or interviewee?

Full_Pokedex posted...

Is it really quality of life when 90% of the wildlife wants you dead?

I only had like half a dozen life threatening wildlife encounters in the 8 years I lived there, not bad going really

Daniel Day Lewis doesn't count because he does like one movie a decade.

I'm talking high volume actors who rarely miss.

Tom Hanks was the first one that came to mind. Even most of his "bad" movies were good.

Japanties posted...

Thanks for giving me the biggest reason to never work in Australia.

I mean if you live in Australia, you get to enjoy some of the best paid work in the world with some of the highest quality of life in the world. Just...don't leave

Heineken14 posted...

I did this last election. Went to a couple different sites that compiled each candidates list of bullshit, and every single republican running in Illinois at the time had at least SOME "questions" regarding the 2020 election. Every. Single. One. That isn't even touching on the rest of their dog shit. Why should I waste hours going and doing research on a republican when I know for 100% fact at this given moment, they will be unquestionably worse than any democrat politician.

Sounds like you are voting for parties over individuals, then?

I feel you btw. I'm not cynically suggesting that you need a laundry list of every individual's policies in order to figure out whether trump and the republicans are no bueno.

Or "superannuation", as they call it over there. Your employer contributes an amount equal to 20% of your salary towards this.

If you're not a citizen and you leave the country, that's their cut.

Stings but I guess that's life.

LonelyStoner posted...

Agreed. I just dislike it when any legitimate criticism of Biden is handwaved with that same attitude and youre accused of being a Trumper for saying something.

Modern day political discourse has become insanely binary. Seems like you need to preface a criticism of Biden with "I will still vote for him BUT" otherwise you're a "both sides" kind of guy.

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Oh I agree tbh

LonelyStoner posted...

Pretty much this. The whole At least its not Trump argument is such a defeatist attitude.

It is, but I also think ensuring Trump doesn't win really should be an imperative for left wing voters. Like it seems impossible to imagine how bad the world will be in 4 years time if he wins.

I think America would have a much healthier political landscape if people voted for party and policy over individuals, and I think being a single-issue voter is unwise and short-sighted

But equally, "no matter who" is the sort of absolutist nonsense that drives the republican party, so I don't like that

Southernfatman posted...

I imagine over in the UK, there are people who defend this sort of thing and say things like "well just work harder", "get a second job", and "stop spending money on avocado toast (or the Brit equivalent)" like we do in the US.

Brits in general have a slightly more socialist and slightly less work-capitalist mindset comparative to america (for example, working more than 40 hours a week isn't exactly celebrated here, people just look at you like there's something wrong with you), so instead all that angst is directed at the government for doing too little/not enough or on immigrants for taking all the jobs/not working and costing benefits

We certainly have wealthy old money conservatives in charge who believe that the fix for people being poor is to not be poor, though

• The average person in the UK has 11,185 in savings in 2024.
• 68% of Brits have some money in savings in 2024. However, almost half of Brits (46%) have 1,000 or less in savings, and a quarter of Brits (25%) have 200 or less.
• 1 in 6 UK adults (16%) have no savings at all, equating to around 8.7 million people.

https://www.finder.com/uk/savings-accounts/saving-statistics

The wealth divide is really something

DrizztLink posted...

Bloody hell, this isn't the cheeky Nandos I wanted.

Blimey mate, easy with the spicy food. You trying to off someone with the peri peri sauce?

WingsOfGood posted...

Does Europe waive the fee for those with intestinal disorders?

Depends what the chap in the toilet says.

You have to have a barmy with him and if he thinks your chat is top banter then he might let you off, otherwise it's a bop on the 'ead.

Sufferedphoenix posted...

They'd be fucked cause I'm old school as fuck. I don't have banking apps on my phone. Worst they could do is force me to draw 500 from a atm.

And even that I'd likely get shot cause my dumb ass will argue.

nah this is the uk mate. it's stabby time or acid face splash, no shooty

Irony posted...

Works for me, but it's kinda wonky. I clicked it and it highlighted it first

Nevermind, I was being an idiot

https://www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonalFinance/comments/1ceha6s/monzo_and_their_procedures_for_robbery/

This is my worst nightmare, short of a terminal disease. Makes me want to delete my banking apps.

ai123 posted...

I was thinking more of these serial bankrupt businessmen who lose millions, but still manage to maintain a life style and move on to the next thing. They have a better time than those barely getting by.

Oh yeah, this is better though.

Sheiky-Baby posted...

That was in 1991. His career went on for 13 years since that interview.

Don't know if you remember the 90s, but men didn't lose their jobs back then because they were accused of rape, let alone because they said something weird in a magazine article and then retracted it.

Hell when even was metoo, 2017? His career lasted so long because hollywood has always protected rapists.

ai123 posted...

What happened to your brother? Does he regret doing it?

Is he suffering more than someone who is under the stress of grinding out a living?

He had that dangerous double-edged salesman quality of being able to make a lot of money and spend a lot of money. So he made a lot of really poor lifestyle decisions, riding the wave of his fast increasing paycheck and ever increasing lifestyle inflation. He started to just fall down the rabbit hole of putting everything on finance/credit cards because "it's fine, I can afford the repayments, and I'll be earning double this amount next year so I'll just pay it off then".

It got to the point where he was paying something like $1k per month just to cover the minimum credit card payments, and debtors were calling him every day threatening to take him to court.

I believe he's since got more of a handle on it and consolidated it and has been whittling it away, but he's still an idiot when it comes to money. His idea of a retirement portfolio is to buy a bunch of cars, restore them and sell them.

ai123 posted...

I'll take the debt, please.

You get to a point with debt where it stops mattering. People who are thousands in debt often suffer more than people who owe hundreds of thousands. Rich people understand this.

We might need to draw a distinction between "good" debt and "bad debt".

You can be a rich person who has millions in debt but tens of millions in assets and capital and is just living off the interest.

Or you can be someone like my brother who just maxed out a dozen credit cards in his early 20s and ended up with 6 figure debt with literally nothing to show for it.

I can't speak to anyone else, but I've been paycheck to paycheck, and I've spent my life dodging debt.

Paycheck to paycheck sucks but (at least in my case) it was a temporary problem that was solvable in the relatively short term with some frugal living. Crippling debt is just a whole lot of grief.

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All in all with current interest rates holding relatively steady I should earn maybe 2.5k in interest by the time it's paid off.

So that's pretty neat, since a loan like that would probably cost 2k in interest normally.

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According to the terms I could pay it off pretty much straight away if I wanted to. So it's a pretty good offer all round.

Ranting__Nord posted...

What's the benefit for them except seeming like cool bros?

Golden handcuffs. It's a small enough amount of money that it barely touches the sides for them, but it locks me in to staying for 4 years.

Do you have a "style", or even just a vibe you feel comfortable with?

If not, here's three different vibes you could go with:

Casual/slightly dressy boots:

• Red Wing Iron Rangers
• Thursday Captains
• Red wing moc toes
• Doc Marten boots
• Clark desert boots

Low profile sneakers

• common projects (expensive, but check em out and if you like them can recommend some cheaper alternatives
• Converse all-star
• Hi-tec shadows