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shadowsword87 posted...

I think you should read more books.

I have heard the phase before, but outside of the edgiest of edge-lords, no one is using it in common speech.

A better (and more common) phase would be calling it a "powder keg" or something similar.

Interstella5555 posted...

It's always super bizarre to me how people love bragging about how much they've wasted oin games they never intend to play.

It is not that I never intend to play them, just that I don't intend to play them at the time I am buying them. Most of them are bundles that contain one game that I want to play, and come with another 8-10 games with it. 90% of my library are games I didn't know I was getting when I bought something else, or just showed up in my library due to Steam combining bundles of games together over the years.

Plus it is nice to be like "I am in the mood to play X, let me check my library and...cool, I already own it!"

I am over 1200 now. I want to say I have been buying games on Steam since 2009 or 2010. Can't remember exactly when. I know the first game I bought was Doom 3 + Resurrection of Evil.

That was before I even had a Windows gaming PC, I was using Steam through Wine then downloading a Linux source port to play it.

No, XI and XIV are the only main-line games I haven't played (Although I never beat III, because fuck the crystal tower).

ParanoidObsessive posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9vJbdIUsdc

I always liked the original more than the sequels. Something about the simplicity of it still appeals to me even today.

I only have pizza once a week anyways. Not that I don't like it, just that I don't really like eating the same thing more then once a week. So pizza for dinner on Saturday and spending 2-3 hours shitting my brains out on the toilet Saturday night? Sounds fair.

eating4fun posted...

Pretty spot on. After our consensus, one guy shortly explained a doubt that was cleared up from further evidence. It was a very somber mood, no one wanted to replay the details about what transpired. I'm far from being easily disturbed, but it's all so fucked up. I carried some weight from it for some months. I'm glad the graphic details are fading from memory

Ugh, I can only imagine. I haven't been on a jury yet but my dad was on a murder trial and the victim was shot at point blank range with a shotgun. He said the images of that were burned in his brain for a long time, along with the fear that the guy they convicted was going to escape and do the same thing to him.

eating4fun posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/5/7/AADPqPAADlwB.jpg

i was on the jury. Actually, it took only 2 minutes to come to a decision, but the bailiff outside the deliberation room wasnt there for a while to take our decision.

I can imagine it went like this:

"OK, let's take a preliminary vote, all in favor of guilty?"

*Everyone raises hand*

"Well...guess we are done here."

hera posted...

hello

in 1970 you could get a home cassette deck for $99.

Keyword: home

If you were at home, you were listening to records. And record players were way cheaper than that. What was the price of a portable cassette deck in 1970, or a car radio with a cassette deck in 1970? Then compare that to the price of an 8 track.

They didn't become affordable until around the time of the walkman in 1979.

And that is not even getting into the fact that $99 in 1970 was essentially $800 in today's money.

recordable 8 track tapes were around $15 for a single one (the cheapest 8 track recorder in 1970 I can find is $200, I'm sure there were cheaper options), conversely a 3 pack of cassettes were $3 (cassette players that could record were about $150, but im sure there were also cheaper options)

And 8 track was never advertised as recordable media. Which was also my point.

hera posted...

cassettes were cheaper than 8tracks lmao

and they were also around since before 8tracks

if you're going to try and insult me, at least know what you're talking about

because i certainly do~

Then you would know that cassette players were primarily used for recording and playback of sound until the 80's, and that it was due to the cost of mass-producing cassette tapes and players. Simply put, in the 60's it was cheaper to mass-produce 8 track players. By the 80's cassette had become cheaper and 8 tracks were the same price as they were in the 60's. So saying one is cheaper then the other is only a half truth. They became cheaper which is why they were popular when they were.

It was the same thing with VHS/Betamax. It was used as a recording medium because it was cost-restrictive to use it for home releases of movies/TV. People had to spend a whole paycheck on a player and a single tape, so no one was going to expect consumers to buy multiple movies on tape. By the 80's and 90's, that was no longer the case.

hera posted...

they had the technology for regular cassette tapes when they made 8tracks, there was no reason for 8tracks to ever exist

Because like most technology when it is first released, it wasn't financially viable for the commercial market until like 20 years after it was released. Conversely, 8 tracks were commercially viable in the 70's and therefore took off then.

I mean, what sane person would go "Gee, I know I can buy this 8 track for $10, but for $150 I can get the same album on cassette!"

Compared to carpeting, hardwood floors are easy to maintain. Have a pet for any amount of time and carpets can get nasty no matter how well house trained they are. Tempted to tear out the carpet in my living room and replace it with hardwood floors this winter. Maybe I will put an area rug in the center of the room.

hypnox posted...

A good example of this is borderlands. They have cool sniper rifles in the games, however I hate how there really isn't a stealth aspect to it. The second you fire at an enemy all the others some how know exactly where you are.

Makes you won't what's the point of even having those sniper rifles in the first place.

It's a co-op game, you have one class that is good at sniping and 3 others that prefer to fight up close and personal. The idea is that the other 3 distract the enemies while you snipe them. Same concept as in games like Diablo: Melee classes distract the enemies while ranged classes shoot at them from afar. Which is appropriate given that Borderlands is copying that style of game.

You are complaining because you are playing a co-op game single player.

I don't think it is a sustainable program long term (the fact that you get more out of it the more you put into it, which runs antithetical to every other welfare program is the main problem), but it has been hammered in my head for the last 20 years that you shouldn't count on it so I am not going to.

It is also funny to me that they dropped the max earning requirement once you start collecting. Like they realized that forcing people to retire at 70 was a bad idea.

And their logo is an owl winking.

Like they know, "Oh yea, it is dirty!"

I prefer believing you are all part of an A.I. meant to entertain me while I work.

So no.

lihlih posted...

Wow, I've never heard of logic as flawed as this. "Why are you telling the guy that's always wrong that he's wrong! You're so insecure!"

Like seriously? Telling someone that's obviously 100% wrong that they're wrong means I'm insecure? What kind of shit is that? Lmao.

So then answer this: Why do you care to tell him he is wrong? What huge offense is he committing by being wrong about it? Why do you feel the need to tell him he is wrong rather than let him believe what he believes and move on?

Dig deep enough and the answer is going to have something to do with insecurity. If someone tells me "you make $7.50 an hour and live in your parents basement" I am not going to go "Actually, I make $500K a year and own 3 houses!", I am just going to ignore them because nothing changes in my life if they believe me or not.

GameLord113 posted...

Im surprised the mods let him continue this trolling schtick.

There is "minor annoyance" trolling and then there is "flagrant abuse/offensive" trolling. We only care about the latter.

lihlih posted...

So me telling him how wrong he is, because he's always 100% wrong means I'm insecure.

Yes, because you feel the need to tell him how wrong he is as some kind of validation to yourself. If you weren't insecure, you wouldn't care and would just ignore him.

adjl posted...

I mean, programming is heavily rooted in algebra, as a fundamental concept (take input variables, manipulate them, produce output variables), but pretty much all the algebra that's needed for it is covered by about grade 6/7, which is a whole lot less than anything that might qualify as "advanced."

Not to mention discrete mathematics is the basis of every modern programming language.

Hell, theoretical computer science was nicknamed "Discrete Math 2.5" in my college because it was basically applying everything you learned in discrete math 2 to computer science.

For $5 I can get a "slice" from my local pizza place that is 1/4 of a large pizza. Add $1.50 do that and I can get chips and a drink as well.

So no.

Yellow posted...

Which one is the real one? Yours, right? Do you talk to him in your head? Is he in the room with us right now? Please tell me the rules of getting in and out of the perpetual orgasm and avoiding the forever bad drug trip.

All are real, and none are real at the same time.

You can believe in something while not believing that it exists in any form of reality that we are capable of understanding. It is possible that every organized religion is right, and everyone is wrong. God can both exist and not. Everyone goes to heaven regardless of how good or bad they were, or there is no heaven and they only go to hell, or neither exist and god just shatters your soul like glass ball.

What I am saying is, we should all just enjoy some pizza and take a nap after. And not worry about who is right or wrong.

I think your tastes "mature" and you tend to like more muted colors.

My favorite color is/was blue, but I would never paint my bedroom it like I did when I was a kid. If I were to repaint it now, it would probably be a light gray to match the dark walnut bedroom set I have.

wwinterj25 posted...

I find it hard to trust a fart too.....

It is hard to describe, but I usually can tell around the time it enters my large intestine. Like a fart I can feel moving around in there before it escapes. When it isn't a fart, you don't feel it moving around, it just says "I'm here, better get to that toilet!"

At least that is how I understand my body now. I used to be so paranoid that about half the time I would go to the bathroom only to let out a huge fart and nothing else.

No, earliest memory was around my 4th birthday and I had long since been potty trained by then.

I do remember having really bad diarrhea when I was 8 and crapping my pants in a museum because the teacher wouldn't let me go to the bathroom. Literally the last time I ever did anything like that, the experience was so traumatic it never happened again for the next 31 years.

Building computers is way easier then it was 10-20 years ago. Nowadays you don't even need a screwdriver. My dad built his current computer and all I helped him with was picking parts that worked well together and "checking his work" after. And that was someone who knows next to nothing about electronics. If he can do it, anyone can.

Downside is you are responsible for diagnosing any problems with it, but pretty much everything can be googled easily. It is very rare you are going to have a problem that is so out there you can't figure it out. Plus for some people, that is part of the fun. As much as the "My computer has a memory leak and I don't know why" problem I had a few years back was annoying, I also loved trying out different things to fix it (FYI, it was corrupted network drivers I had to manually reinstall from a bad Windows update).

I have gotten a few, as long as you don't click any of the links your fine. Just ignore them and block the numbers.

FrozenBananas posted...

if they fixed Sonics CGI They will definitely make this look better before the show premiere, since so many people are complaining

It's a B tier superhero, I have my doubts. It's why I am glad they didn't do a lot of CG for the Marvel Netflix shows and stuck to mostly realistic choreographed fight scenes.

Looks like really bad CG.

Muscles posted...

Even if you throw the butt away in the garbage/ashtray you still need to ash...

Yea, no one wants to dodge the crap flying out your window. Pull the fuck over or wait for fuck sake.

Muscles posted...

See, when you smoke ash builds up, and (I'm not sure if this is the term used everywhere) you "ash" a cigarette, blunt, piece, etc. To get rid of said ash

God dammit, you are one of THOSE people?

I hate when people do that while driving, can't you pull over for 5 minutes or wait until you get home? I don't want to dodge your cigarette butts while driving.

If it makes sense with the plot, then I am fine with it.

If it is something like "we need to cast a female James Bond because reasons", then it probably won't work.

Also:

Ferarri619 posted...

In the 80s nobody said Ripley from Aliens was woke or that the movie was pandering.

Probably because Ripley was well established in the 70's movie Alien and made sense to show up in the sequel.

https://theskeeterbeater.com/product/sequoia/

I just make it from scratch because honestly, the pre-package box doesn't really save you any time and/or money. The most difficult thing is probably chopping an onion, but even then you could just use onion powder if you don't feel like it.

Most of Guns and Roses is unlistenable garbage. It sounds like a group trying to cover up for Axl Rose's lack of talent.

Jen0125 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/9/8/AAAgaZAADiam.jpg

A nice enlightened vacation

Probably a really long one since Sunny has a tendency to stay away until his mod history clears and well...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/help?id=53

Although I doubt he could stay away for a year, but one can hope. :)

Yes, but if you want to do it in a way that doesn't make you feel like absolute shit or literally kill you, then it is a bit more complex.

Zareth posted...

No, everybody has a different metabolism.

Which just boils down to how many calories you burn in a day.

I wonder if the creator of that picture knew that the Al Bundy character also had hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt and that was part of the joke of the show?

GameReviews posted...

Honestly, you should ask as many questions as possible. Don't be afraid to ask questions. No employer is going to expect you to know everything on your second day. What they will like though, is someone who takes initiative and seems interested in actually learning what they're supposed to do for their job

This.

Honestly the thing that irks me the most is when one of my reports doesn't ask questions when they don't know something and just spins their wheels or, worse, assumes the answer and is way off base.

"I should go check the mail, it might be overflowing by now!"
*Finds two advertisement postcards*
"Well, that was pointless..."
*Goes back inside for the next 3 days*

They have a section for just "Cheese", wut?

I have seen a couple of videos of people recreating some of these dishes, some were good, a lot were really nasty. Honestly the Veal & Ham Pie sounds pretty good. We need to bring back meat pies, not enough people make them anymore.

At least 10 feet away, ideally more like 15-20.

Probably why I am almost 40 and still have decent vision despite being a computer person (not 20-20, but don't need any correction).

edit: Oh, TV size. It is 65 inches. My old one was 47 and I still used the same setup.

I think if there is a political opinion that everyone can get behind, it is that most politicians are scum. Left, right, center, up, down, or from the planet Pictolatarian, they all suck.

EclairReturns posted...

I was working too slowly at a task that I'd done only a couple of times. I already stopped caring about my job at that point, so my pace was partially because I was already in half a mind to quit, partially because I just don't move fast in general, and partially because I get so little sleep these days. I'd seen that my hours had gotten slashed in half for the following week, and it was then that I questioned further the point in continuing. On a previous occasion, human resources called me in because of my tendency to be far less sociable than what is required of someone working in a customer service role. From that point onward, I'd accepted the inevitability that I would one day get fired anyway, because I just abhor having to speak with people in general, customers, superiors, co-workers, and all.

You basically listed all of the reasons I never worked retail/customer service.

I would look into something like construction, machining, warehousing, etc.

Still don't know why they can't go the Saint's Row route and just have a character creator for single player. Hell, every game should have one nowadays. It doesn't need to have millions of options, just something that allows you to select gender, skin and hair color, some face options, etc.

Not really a "one-off" because it had a sequel (that no one played because it was released in 94 on the NES), but StarTropics.

BlackScythe0 posted...

One of them, I think paypal, had registered and they still blocked the website from what I heard.

Sounds like from the article they have only processed a few hundred permits, and have something like 8,000 in their backlog. Yet they decided to block the sites anyways even if they have a permit submitted, but not processed.

I doubt the companies care that much considering Indonesia probably isn't a huge slice of their user base, but I imagine the consumers are PISSED. At least VPN usage is going to go up significantly there.

DrPrimemaster posted...

What is a hostle in the states like?

Not much different then they are other places, just less common because most people prefer motels/hotels.

I sprung for the one with a private bathroom/shower and it cost me like $40 for the night. But that was like 6 years ago, so account for inflation and all that.

Yep, they closed the office I was working at to "reduce costs", and they ended up having to pay millions in severance checks, millions in repairs on the building before it they could sell it, and millions on having us train new employees. All because they didn't want to make us all remote employees. Then almost exactly one year after we all left, Covid happened and everyone was a remote employee. XD

But seriously, it was the best thing that happened to my career. I was only sticking around for that fat severance check they had to pay me to leave.

Would I? I have. It was great!

I also did the hotel thing because I didn't feel like driving across the Canadian border at 3 AM. It is just one night, so I would find the cheapest hostel you can to get a few hours of sleep at.

As a kid I was pretty much able to brute force the games I beat because I would just play them over and over again until I memorized them. Nowadays I play a lot smarter and can recognize patterns quicker. Plus, most of my "boomer shooter" accomplishments came later in life. Never would have thought I could say "I beat all of the commercially released Doom games on Ultra Violence" when I was playing them 25+ years ago.

So yea, better, easily.