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I have talked to several people who said that their drug habits basically started from working in a restaurant.

Revelation34 posted...

I only played the first game. I remember it being pretty much impossible to be good in that game.

That is the case with a lot of Peter Molyneux "god" games.

I had the same feeling with Populous and Dungeon Keeper.

Metalsonic66 posted...

An hour if I was hungry enough

I last boss at my previous job would buy one every time he went grocery shopping with his wife and eat the entire thing before they even got home. LOL!

Sin, it is actually one of the only "classic" FPS games I have never played. There are plenty of games I have tried but never got more then a few minutes into that I want to retry, but that is the first one that pops into my head that I just never touched.

When I worked in an office, I would buy one on a Sunday and split it up into 4 meals for lunch. So I guess a week? Although realistically, probably two days.

Answered. Good luck getting a publisher. Hopefully if need be you can self publish or go through Humble or something like that.

darkknight109 posted...

It 100% can be ball-bustingly hard; it depends entirely on your major and what classes you're taking.

I'm an engineer, and to this day I have never had to work as hard before or since as I did when I was getting my degree. The sheer volume of work thrown at you in some of the courses was nightmarish and it was difficult material to boot. And it's not like the students aren't bright; the mean high school average of students the year I went into university was 89%; we had several dozen valedictorians in the freshman batch of ~700 first year students; yet roughly a third of those students didn't make it to second year. My average in my Grade 12 year was 97% and yet I absolutely struggled at points during undergrad. I still made it through and my grades were solid, but I was definitely not a straight-A student anymore.

Will you have this experience if you take an easier degree? No, probably not. But to simply give a blanket statement that "school isn't hard, it's pointless/boring" is wrong (on both counts - I found a lot of the material extremely interesting, moreso than 95% of what we covered in high school, and it was absolutely relevant for my work).

That more goes to my point that High School is a crappy environment for learning. The 2 biggest things that you need to learn for college (and life, really) that grade school doesn't teach you is independence, and time management. I am willing to bet all of those kids with "A"s and "B"s probably had parents and teachers breathing down their neck telling them how and when to study so they can get good grades. Now take that away suddenly and add a whole bunch of other distractions. Most people aren't going to know what to do and likely drop out the 1st or 2nd year, as evidenced by the fact that 40% of people who start an undergraduate degree don't finish it.

Oddly enough, that number actually drops significantly for homeschooling. Probably because a good homeschooling environment actually teaches you those things.

I enjoyed it as a kid, not as much as Calvin and Hobbes or even Dilbert (more as an adult, hated Dilbert as a kid). I do have a Garfield collection book that I acquired somehow. I actually went out of my way to acquire the complete Calvin and Hobbes collection, but Garfield just...appeared one day and I don't know how.

That was me for pretty much all of March 2020 - May 2022. Then I just decided to stop and now I have only had maybe 6 or so drinks in the 15 months since then.

I haven't ever done more then one drink a night for like the last 15 years. I more just drink it because I enjoy the taste.

I was a straight C student in highschool, and I still got into college (community college for 2 years first) and graduated with a 3.5 GPA. American highschool is just a shit environment for learning really.

When I was younger, I was much more outspoken about it. Nowadays though, it is more of a "If you ask me for advice, I will give it. If you don't, then I am keeping my mouth shut." With an additional addendum of "Don't ask me for money if you have no intention of paying it back. I will not hesitate to make your life a living hell over a few bucks."

Nichtcrawler-X posted...

A uniform has identifiers.

Yea, and the uniform was purple shirt, grey baseball cap, and blue jeans. Just as I described.

13 years. I remember signing up specifically so could buy/play Doom 3 because of some sale. I was also one of the early "Linux gaming" adopters, and I remember having to jump through some interesting hoops to get Steam running in Wine, and have Doom launch the Linux version since it was still another 2 years before Steam officially made a Linux client.

Now I have like 1300 games in my collection.

It was very rare to find anything open 24 hours in my area pre-pandemic, let alone post-pandemic. They would usually try for a few months, then go back to at 10PM because they weren't making enough money during the time to make it worth while.

I walked into a pizza place a few weeks ago literally wearing the uniform of the pizza place without realizing it (Purple shirt, grey baseball cap, blue jeans). The guy behind the counter asked if I was the new guy they hired. I just nervously laughed, asked for my pizza order, paid, and got out of there as soon as I could.

Depends on the situation, I am not going to get annoyed if we are talking one-on-one. But usually I don't like it in written conversation because it doesn't take very long to spell out a god damn word. And if you still think it is too long, then get some text to speech software and avoid typing altogether.

I know plenty of people who speak English as their second or third language, that while hard to understand them talk can write perfectly understandable English. If English is your first language then you have no fucking excuse.

I got a text from the UK a couple weeks ago, saying they were the USPS and they needed me to verify a package address before they could deliver it to me. Never mind that they literally never do that.

David Brin, specifically the Uplift Trilogy.

BADoglick posted...

Football and hockey are basically why I pay for cable. Streaming options aren't really much better

I haven't looked into hockey, but isn't streaming the NFL Network like $450 a year? That's ridiculous.

My dad has it because he shares a house with my grandfather, and you try teaching a 97 year old man how to use Amazon Prime.

Something something Occam's Razor blah blah blah...

Time to cut off your finger, can never look at it the same after that.

Taaron posted...

Sounds annoying. To a certain level (possibly even all levels) the whole grading system is a scam. Remember reports some people testing the systems, resending the same game multiple times to different scores each time.

The big problem is the video game grading system is so arbitrary compared to pretty much anything else (comics, trading cards, etc.). For those, they have an extensive list of things that account for the grade while in video games it is just at the discretion of whoever is grading it.

But yea, huge scam.

Grading anything video game related is a huge waste unless it is something super rare like an NWC cart.

I do, but in my experience it is usually mid-late 30 somethings who think that Deus Ex was the epitome of gaming and that nothing has ever surpassed it in the 23 years since it's release.

...or that could just be the Youtube algorithm thinking that is what I want to see.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Where I live there's an 8pm to 8am noise curfew for motors and machines. Mowing after 8pm can technically get the cops called on you.

I don't know when the noise curfew starts (and I wouldn't call the cops on my neighbors for it anyways unless they were doing it while I was trying to sleep), but I know mine ends at 8AM because a lot of them will be sitting out side, staring at their watches waiting for it to turn to 8 so they can fire up their mowers.

I thought it was pretty good. Not Takedown or Revenge good, but better then the rest of the series. Worst part was that every time the game started up, "Paradise City" always played even if you had the song turned off. Not a horrible song, but it is after you hear it at the start of EVERY. SINGLE. PLAY. SESSION.

Biggest problem was EA had no real faith in the series. Paradise 2 was essentially shipped early and turned into a Need For Speed game before they could really fix all of the underlying problems with Paradise. I kind of wish they had gotten the chance to fully complete it, probably would have ended up being the best game in the series.

I am not mad, I just find it funny. It is not even supposed to rain until tomorrow afternoon/evening. First time in the 11 years I have been here that a neighbor has done that, usually they are mowing at like 8AM.

Classic JRPGs are one of the few types of games that actually work great on a touch screen. Makes the menus so much faster.

Other then that, it is pretty much only puzzle/hidden object games. Maybe turn based strategy games if they are implemented correctly.

Last night, FWB was in the mood and I agreed.

Shrek posted...

only pepper branded drink is Dr pepper

https://brandinformers.com/dr-pepper-off-brands/

There are like a hundred of them.

BADoglick posted...

I hate that all star is associated with shrek, an awful movie, and not the mystery men, an awesome movie.

I hate that they are more known for "All Star", an awful song, and not "Walking on the Sun", an awesome song.

I was never a fan of CM Punk, but if anything this proves how inept of an owner Tony Kahn is. No way would any of this been allowed to happen in WWE. It would have been quickly nipped in the bud long before Brawl Out (let alone a year later at Brawl In) if recent rumors are to be believed.

Just my mortgage, but I actually am at the point now where I could pay it off with what I have in my checking account right now and get it over with. However, I am just making slightly above the normal payments as I have been doing for a while and will just let it get payed off over time.

Otherwise, nothing. Payed off all student loans, no car payment, pay off credit card every month, no personal loans.

Lokarin posted...

Is maintaining a lot of debt uniquely American? I don't really hear about people in other countries in a lot of debt... although most people don't count mortgage as a debt even though it clearly is one

The American economy is basically built off of debt. If Americans weren't in debt, the economy would collapse.

Sit, but I also don't do it for hours at a time. I basically type for several minutes, get up, walk around, maybe scroll the mouse a bit to get to other pages, then sit down again and repeat. I actually keep the pedometer app on my phone on while I work, and I get on average 8000 steps a day without even leaving my office for the 8 hours I work.

I am actually thinking about getting an elliptical machine in my office and using it during meetings.

My mom was collecting child support for me for like a year and a half even though I wasn't living with her during the time and only visited her once a week. All that money was basically just lining her pockets, I never saw a dime of it. Child support for the most part is arbitrary.

Lil_Bit83 posted...

Because people like to have fun. Not every person has cruel creepy intentions just because you're paranoid and judgy.

Fair enough, but also have enough self awareness to understand that most people are going to be paranoid and judgy. We are dispositioned as sentient beings to be defensive around situations which are unfamiliar to us. And I say "sentient beings" because all animals in nature exhibit this behavior. It isn't somehow "enlightened" not to.

A single man in a place where mostly kids are present without watching a kid of their own is going to trigger that kind of response.

Lil_Bit83 posted...

How about you take your own advice you hypocrite? You were just making the same exact assumptions about hypothetical strangers on every post you've made.

What assumptions? Again, if you find no problem with it, fine. But you have to understand what it looks like to other people and how their perception is going to influence policies like was mentioned in this topic.

If you include the mandatory grinding you have to do to get past the final dungeon, it is probably Final Fantasy 3. But that is also a Famicom game, not NES.

Dragon Quest games were always pretty short for JRPGs, even 3 isn't as long as you think when you go back to it. Probably not even as long as the original Final Fantasy.

Ferron posted...

You think the only reason a man can be in the same area as kids, even for something like a ZOO where you're there to see animals, is to be a child predator. Just take your L and move on instead of really digging in to this child predator bit.

It is an interesting jump in logic to go from "have some self reflection" to "you are a child predator". You might want to consider the self reflection that I am talking about if you immediately think that is what I was saying.

Ferron posted...

It makes it sound like you have something to hide if you think adults can't be in the same space as children without causing issues.

Did I specifically say that? I just said that if you find enjoyment being around a bunch of random kids you have no connection to that you probably need to think about why that is.

Most people also prefer to go out and do things during the day with the free time, not wait until night time because they can't be trusted around children like some kind of predator.

Most adults don't have free time during the day. They are either working or doing some kind of chore (like taking care of their own kids). Night time just works better for them.

Ferron posted...

Kinda cringe to think that adults should only go to the zoo at night.

Why? That is usually when adults go out and do non work or chore related things.

I got a huge raise last year, so I am over inflation. I have also been getting 4% pretty consistently year over year. Tech jobs for the most part pretty much always keep up with inflation, so it isn't a big issue.

Just to confirm, I put in what I started at in 2004 and adjusted for inflation it is basically the starting salary for a Software Engineer fresh out of college today.

Solid_Sonic posted...

Because I like going to zoos when I go to a new town to see what exhibits they have? Particularly if I brought my zoom lens camera.

Granted no one ever stopped me from going into one but it's definitely not targeting someone like me.

I do too, but my zoo has a "happy hour" where adults can go to the zoo. It is actually a really great time to go because it is at night when most of the animals are actually the most active. They also serve alcohol during that time if you are into that kind of thing.

As a single man, I would feel kind of odd going to a place where it is nothing but kids if I wasn't accompanying any kids there. Anyone who is comfortable with it should probably think about WHY they are.

Sing Sing Sing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_E0UVNtJ9Y

Used to be a song we played all the time in marching band as well. You would be amazed how well it works in that environment.

adjl posted...

It's very unlikely that they'd do that for the whole game, just for the sake of making the game more accessible, but I could believe that it'll have some side content that's harder.

IDK, after Mario Maker and Super Mario Bros. 35, people have kind of got accustomed to super hard 2D Mario levels.

Sarcasthma posted...

I wonder what the crime rates are like in Flavortown.

Somewhat high, but it is mostly food crimes.

I think it is less that stores are closing and more that consumer interest have changed. Sure, you don't see a lot of smaller shops, but it is not like those stores are just remaining empty. Salons, tanning places, barbers, restaurants, etc. are all still thriving. Hell, the old frozen yogurt shop near me got replaced by a Code Ninjas of all things.