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I don't really listen to either of them. I do agree that Nickelback is basically Karen Rock though.

Double Decker, any kind of fast food you have to eat with a fork just seems silly to me.

Could never get into it, but I also don't like a lot of metroidvanias. Well, I should clarify and say I like them when they are heavy on the "Metroid" and light on the "vania". Not a lot of them do this (Axiom Verge, at least the first one, is probably the best example that isn't actually from the Metroid series).

Nichtcrawler-X posted...

Is this a language/cultural difference? I would never consider the meat and the veggies I add "part of the sauce".

Depends how you are using them.

If you are adding the meat and vegetables while making the sauce (I.E. Bolognese, Puttanesca, etc.) then it is "part of the sauce".

If you are covering the meat and vegetables with the sauce after it is cooked, then no.

No because most of my investments are long term and I won't be touching them for at least another 25 years. By then, whatever peeks and valleys are going on now will seem like nothing.

I get the feeling NVidia is trying to justify buying a new video card when graphics haven't really progressed much in the last 10 years by adding new crap to old games. See also Quake 2 RTX.

RagOnAStick posted...

Oh I didn't realize you leased, that makes a little more sense.

I've always thought of leasing as being a waste of money, but I don't know. People make some good points about how cars depreciate in value anyway, plus I think you possibly get maintenance benefits from leasing?

"Depreciate in value" only really means anything if you intend on selling it. I usually drive my cars until they can't be driven anymore, or the upkeep cost isn't worth it. I sold my last car for $600, and that was the most money I ever made selling a car. My current car is almost 10 years old and I fully intend to keep it for at least another 10 years.

Guy drives in the desert looking for places he can walk in the desert.

Most of them closed, there are a few around, but nothing close enough I would go to on the regular. Plus I can't shove food down like I used to 10+ years ago so buffets are not really my thing.

There are, however, a million Chinese take-out places where you can get a pretty decent lunch/dinner for under $10.

hypnox posted...

Entirely depends on the sauce. Alfredo is always home made, tomato based sauces are always rao's store bought. Others usually homemade

Pretty much that. I don't have 12 hours to make a proper marinara sauce. Hell, I don't have 30 minutes to make a "marinara" sauce. If I am having pasta, I want it done in 10-15 minutes.

I called up a heating/cooling place about rattling ducts in my house. The guy was on the phone with me for about half an hour helping me diagnose the issue, then just told me to throw some duct tape over the loose connection. Didn't come out to my house or charge me anything.

What do you think they will sell off and to who to recover from Ukraine pushing their shit in?

Yea, there are a couple F2P games I have sunk thousands of hours into and never payed a cent. I have a raspberry pie running macros on a cron job to farm all the daily tasks for them. I have unlocked everything in them, but I have still been running these macros for the last 2 years for...reasons...

Honestly just boredom.

Not even a year, damn that game must have sucked.

I'll probably play it eventually, but it is nowhere near a day one purchase.

More like a year or two later purchase.

EchoBaz posted...

Wow, are all of you intentionally going out of the way to completely miss my main point?

We didn't miss it, it is just a moot point. There are plenty of games that had complete turn-over (Doom -> Doom Eternal for example) where the later games were as good if not better then the ones that came before it. Just judge a game based on what it is, not who makes it.

Anyways..

rjsilverthorn posted...

I mean it is practically a defining characteristic of the Elder Scrolls games.

At least they aren't shipping games with quests that you can't complete anymore.

I think most of the problems of that house could be solved if they just built a second story and put the bedrooms up there. Having a one story house with more than 3 bedrooms is just clunky. Then again, looking at the Zillow listing, it is California and it was built in the 50's. Pretty sure they are allergic to two story houses there.

Or wait, it says in the listing it is a 3 bedroom house but the floor plan has 4 bedrooms? And technically one of the two bathrooms is a half bath, and it is attached to a bedroom, not the living room? Now I am confused...

Fun fact: Hacking is basically just quality assurance done for "devious" means. There is nothing really fancy or "cool" about it.

Yellow posted...

ASP.NET, probably the single most popular database framework

https://www.statista.com/statistics/809750/worldwide-popularity-ranking-database-management-systems/

wut?

Giblet_Enjoyer posted...

This is a dumb "point". Your infant (if you have one) would smash you into the ground if it were big enough. Guess you better get rid of that savage little mfer.

I can agree with that, no one should have kids ever. Waste of money.

Judgmenl posted...

Why would you put even more spyware in your spyware?

https://imgflip.com/i/6t4wfp

Boomer ass reference, but fuck it, first thing I thought of when I saw this.

VampireCoyote posted...

Im thinking about getting a buckwheat pillow

I'd be too tempted to turn it into pancakes.

SoreChasm posted...

nah

Edit: I guess I'll concede that big & medium-sized dogs > cats >>> small dogs

More like big & medium-sized dogs > cats > small dogs >>>>>>>>>>>>> chihuahuas

Seriously, fuck chihuahuas.

I haven't worn a watch since June 5th 1997.

No, with how I sleep she knew that would be all over my sheets and that was a mess she didn't want to deal with. Plus I imagine she kind of figured it as some outdated snake-oil BS. Plus I rarely got sick as a kid anyways. I probably only had a cold/flu a total of 4 times until I turned 18, and each of those times I just "toughed it out".

I'll hate on apple as much as anyone, but is a centemeter of space on a 7 inch display really something to get annoyed over?

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I never eat at places like Little Caesar's, Papa Johns, Pizza Hut, or Dominos.

I live in the Northeast US, where there are actual pizzerias, with actual worthwhile pizza. It's one of the few advantages to living near large clusters of Italian-Americans.

Same reason why I'd never go to Olive Garden.

^ Pretty much this. I have to drive past 5 pizza places to get to a Dominos, and that is the closet chain pizza place to me.

That said, if I want Mexican food my options are Taco Bell, Chipotle, and Moe's. So it goes both ways.

Use a pillow cover, wash the pillow cover.

I have unlimited PTO, but it is worded as "discresionary". Basically, your team/manager has to approve it. My team is pretty lax about it though (I am the boss, LOL) and my manager just wants to make sure that we are covered support wise (I.E. the whole team can't be out on the same day).

ZangsBeard posted...

I literally have one of these on my desk right now. LOL

I have one sitting in a kitchen cabinet.

I remember we used to need them because my parents bought Ecto Cooler in the large cans. About the only thing I ever used the sharp side for.

Lokarin posted...

how's the framerate for the NES games... I've been burned with bad ports on Steam (Gradius and Bubble Bobble and Legacy of the Wizard)

2 and 3 feel fine, TMNT feels off by a bit. Lots of flickering and slowdown. Like, yea, the framerate on that game isn't good on the original hardware either, but it somehow feels worse.

Can't really speak for Tournament Fighters since this was my first time playing it, but it did feel a little choppy.

TMNT Cowabunga Collection, 8.4 hours.

EvilMegas posted...

What the actual fuck?

People liked that game?

Hell yea, Omikron is awesome!

Isn't there like hundreds of serial killers at large at any given time?

Omikron was pretty good
Indigo Prophecy was OK (the second half was weird)
Heavy Rain was...fine...
After that they went completely off the rails and studios that have copied them (Supermassive Games for example) have done it way better.

Inception, and that was only because my girlfriend at the time wanted to go to the movies. Before that it was The Matrix Revolutions opening day.

When I worked in a machine shop, any time the vending machine stiffed someone we would just crack the thing open and take the money out or grab the item that got stuck in the machine.

Basically, don't put a vending machine in a place that has every kind of tool imaginable.

I'm enjoying it too, Radical Rescue is probably the sleeper stand-out of the collection. It is like a TMNT metroidvania on the GameBoy of all things.

At the time, Seinfeld. Long term, Simpsons. I honestly never understood the humor of Seinfeld until years after it was canceled. Simpsons I liked the first two seasons then lost interest after.

I was more of a Married with Children guy myself. :)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XHGM9TD/

It might be slightly uncomfortable for long periods because you are going to have to lean forward to use it, but as someone who has his gaming PC hooked up to his TV, this looks awesome!

Blightzkrieg posted...

bruh have you seen the absolute garbage they spent money on

IDK, my parents knew toilet paper was a luxury and not a necessity. I didn't even know what it was for until I was 14.

And I feel weird working at 3 different companies (technically 4 since I was working as a contractor through a 3rd party before going full time at my current job) in the last 18 years.

Although I have only worked 3.5 years at my current one, and 3 years at my first one. The other twelve was at one company.

Went to Providence/Newport RI and Montreal in June. That was my first trip since 2018, I enjoyed it.

This weekend I am going to Shamokin PA to spread my mom's ashes near where she was born. Not going to be a fun trip by any means, it is literally a dying coal town. I am only staying overnight and leaving after spreading the ashes in the morning.

TheGuiltySpark posted...

Can only afford my house because I don't have (or want) a wife or kids.

It is kind of funny because around the time my friend's kids are starting college and they are going to be spending a shit ton of money for that, I will likely be retired and driving a camper around North America. Then after I am done with that, I could have kids if I wanted, and have enough money saved up so I don't have to worry about working just to support them.

The main complaint with Vista and UAC wasn't that it was there, it was that EVERYTHING required it. 7 reduced it to only installs on software that you download, which is what it is today. That is fine, having to do it every time your web browser updates or you open Steam is not.

I haven't been to the mall since 2018. And when I did go it was only because the DMV, Barnes & Noble, and Bed Bath & Beyond is there. There used to be a cool retro game store, but that went away a long time ago.

The mall near me is kind of sad to drive by now. There used to be 5 anchor stores, now only two of them are still open.

faramir77 posted...

$3000 per year tax on that is insanely high. My house was well over twice that price and my annual taxes are close to $3000.

LOL, I pay over twice that in taxes and I am on the low end for my area. People here would kill to only pay that much. And my house is in the same ballpark price-wise as that one.

Of course it is also almost twice as large with two less bedrooms.

Nichtcrawler-X posted...

Is it just a repeal, or is there currently a movement to properly integrate the US in ICC proceedings?

Just a repeal. The point to integrate the US in the ICC was back in 98 when it was laying out the blueprints of how it wanted the ICC to function. When none of those came to fruition, any chance of the US being part of the ICC was dead and not joining is essentially the only thing Democrats and Republicans can agree upon (other then raising their own salaries).

Nichtcrawler-X posted...

You have to remember, in this use of the analogy, I am below the sword and you/US posters are effectively holding on to its string.

That is obviously going to affect how each of us views the risk and dangers involved.

Considering there is a bill to repeal it, and it hasn't been invoked in the last 20 years, there isn't much to worry about:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7523/text

Goku is probably more apt to share then the others, and would have no problem eating what I don't.