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Nothing better then the feeling of having a large colon full of fart, and just expelling it all in one large, loud, RIIIIIIIIPPPPPPPPPP!

My back yard is like 80% clover, LOL! If I tried to kill the weeds back there, I would just be left with a pile of dirt.

I've seen a lot of concerts alone. I actually prefer it TBH.

Then again, I also prefer to do pretty much everything alone. Except maybe eating at restaurants or doing Karaoke.

I had an evap problem on my last car and after taking it to 3 shops, they couldn't fix it. Ended up getting a $20 sensor to clear all the codes, drive around for about 20 miles before getting it inspected (so it would reset 2 of them), then after it passed inspection driving it away and having the check engine light come back on. I did that for like 5 years before I got rid of the car. Then the next owner did that for another 3 before junking it.

Fun fact: When I was a mod, one of my suggestions was to get rid of usermaps entirely because they are really easy to get around. In fact you would be surprised how many alts aren't tied together simply because people don't log into it on the same computer/phone as their main, even if they share the same wifi network with it.

I have gotten like one in the last 16 or so years I have had my gmail account. But I am also pretty careful about what I use that e-mail for. My Yahoo e-mail a spam haven, but I also post that on just about every site on the internet. The only thing I do with it at this point is open the inbox to delete everything once every week or two.

Why does GameFAQs load so slow for you? It literally loads in 10ms for me. The stuff moving around isn't even noticeable.

I owned Icewind Dale as a teen. Never played beyond a few battles though. Seemed very much like "old" D&D where for the first few levels, it was basically a crapshoot if you won or your entire party got wiped. Save scumming my way through it didn't seem like a fun idea.

Now that I actually like and understand CRPGs a lot more I would probably like it better. I even have most if not all of the games in the bundle, just never got around to picking them up again.

captpackrat posted...

The only reason Tesla and SpaceX have been successful is because they have whole teams of people whose only job is to insulate Musky from the rest of the company (and vice versa).

To be fair, that is every CEO of every company ever.

A management job is basically taking the flood of sewage coming from on high and forcing it into a more manageable flood down below.

Shadowrun Returns is honestly one of the best ways to play Shadowrun. It takes the SNES game and gives it an interface that is actually easy to use.

I have the rule book for the TTRPG, but the DM in my friends group isn't interested in running a Shadowrun game. He already said our next game after we complete our current one is going to be a Pathfinder game.

With the exception of a handful of days for team lunches or team building activities, I have been working from home steadily since March 2020. Used to hate the idea but once I setup a proper home office it is great. Now I outright refuse to work any job that makes me go into the office with any regularity. No way are you interrupting my between meetings power naps!

No chance of that happening since my entire team is spread out across the country. Even my boss is a good 600 miles from the office and only travels here 3 times a year.

rexcrk posted...

I cant believe there are people who actually complain about working from home. Like, yeah, poor you. You dont have to waste an hour of your day commuting, you save money on gas and car maintenance, you get to work in comfy clothes, you dont have to deal with loud people in the office.

Eh, I can understand it for people who have young kids. Cant tell you how many times you see a naked kids running around in the background of zoom meetings, LOL.

Or for people who hate their families.

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Yea, I always found the financial advice of "don't pay off your mortgage" to be shaky at best and downright wrong at worst.

Mortgages only really exist because only the stupidly rich people can afford to plop down $250K in cash for a house.

DO. NOT. WANT.

Very happy that I have always been able to work a job with a simple schedule. Makes things way easier to plan around.

adjl posted...

It's not like the roads are exactly safe.

Only because it is used more, which is kind of my point.

As crappy as it is to travel by air, it is also extremely safe due to all the safety regulations in place. Rail needs to have those same regulations before it is going to be a viable option, but it is also going to raise the cost astronomically. Which isn't going to be good for an industry where they are already struggling to get people to use it.

I would rather our current rail system not kill tons of people first before wanting that.

But truth be told, the point of no return was when the Interstate Highway System was created some 70 years ago. At that point, we committed to individual/family transportation over public transportation.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

The WGA, SAG, or both? I'm curious as to why?

Both I guess, my reasons have less to do with the complaints of the unions and more to do with wanting to see the downfall of the major Hollywood studios. I just feel like major motion pictures, kind of like AAA video games, are less about the content and more about the money. A longer strike forces the consumer to look at independent productions which are more passion projects since they usually can't afford to use WGA and SAG workers and are therefore unaffected.

No, but I did have some stuff stolen while I was out. Was on a school trip and someone got the wrong room key, found our bags, and went through them and stole any valuables they could find. The police were called and after the hotel found who they issued the mistake to, they were found pretty quickly and we got our stuff back in a few hours.

After that, I always used the hotel safe if they have one, or just take anything of value with me when I go out if they don't.

Is it wrong that I kind of want this strike to last for another year?

I always get a chuckle when people ask "What were the police like in your home town?" and I can respond "My home town doesn't have a police force". If you have to "call the police", you have to wait for the cops the next town over to get there which could take upwards of an hour to get there. And because of that we actually have one of the lowest crime rates in the country, LOL!

Looks like he is putting in a lot of peddling work for very little forward momentum. There is a reason that the wheel has been used as the most efficient means of ground-based movement and this perfectly shows that.

Empty, my ego is not fragile enough that I need to ignore people with differing viewpoints or posting habits to feel good.

I also have to laugh that the ignore list is under "My Friends". LOL!

That point when you realize Meta is going to own all of social media because "My billionaire is better than your billionaire!"

The people's strudel.

What is likely going to happen is 90% of the people will enjoy it and it is going to sell extremely well, maybe to the point that they finally decide to do a sequel. The other 10% will be people loudly voicing their displeasure over nit-picky things and getting butthurt that the 90% can overlook these "flaws" and still enjoy the game. That is usually how it goes here with every major game release, Nintendo or otherwise.

Blightzkrieg posted...

lol I just had the opposite experience, I threw out a number and the interviewer was like "uh, our minimum pay is 10k more than that"

There really is no "industry standard" for the most part, there are some pretty wild variances from place to place

There are a lot of sites that you can look up the position your are applying to and get an average for your position and area (area is important since cost of living varies greatly from one place to another). I tend to use Glass Door, since they also allow you to get it by company as well. Plus great place to look up reviews for the company you are planning to work for.

I was going through the interview process for a job, and they got to the question of salary. I threw out a number I felt was fair (basically just slightly higher then I was making at my current job), and the interviewer blankly stared at me and said "We all make about $30K a year less then that..." I just got up, said "You should probably do something about that" and left. All my friends were amazed when I told them how little they were willing to pay.

Zareth posted...

Some people rely on Twitter to get out word for their businesses, all you "lol let it burn" people are thoughtless.

If your business model relies entirely on the popularity of one platform, then you deserve to burn to the ground with that platform.

It is like the people who complain about Youtube not being profitable while not exploring the hundreds of other ways to share your content.

Dawg posted...

I watched it back in the day but I'm not sure that would really be my sense of humor now. It was also disappointing to me to later find out that they straight up just lifted a Japanese show and put new dubs and graphics over it. Though I'm not really sure what I thought it was before since the dubs were always obviously fake

That was why it was so funny. It was clearly a bunch of people who didn't care about the original translation just BSing their way through the dub.

She is 36? She looks 50.

Entity13 posted...

The site existing doesn't mean the site was a thing back then. Just like it exists now but is basically NOT a thing, and hasn't been since shortly after the Gamespot merger Ceejus said would never happen.

Arguing semantics doesn't make that statement any less wrong.

It is a children's movie, they aren't going to show how they are bad outside of "Dark side bad, Jedi good"

Nade_Duck posted...

i played it before gamefaqs was a thing

Considering the game came out 6 months after GameFAQs started, I highly doubt that.

If anything, The Guardian Legend is severely underrated. And Excitebike? Who talks about Excitebike?

Out of that list, probably Final Fantasy, but for simplistic (I.E., NES) JRPGs, I always liked the Dragon Quest games more. River City Ransom would be a close second.

Ferarri619 posted...

The stepson of the billionaire is getting hate, including from Cardi B, for attending Blink 182 concert on day that his dad could be dead.

Would you be choked up if your idiot fake father died doing idiot things? He is probably just happy to get that trust fund.

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Muscles posted...

You get New Years day off? Not NYE? That seems weird, NYE is the day everyone celebrates the new year

Most of us are done with work by 5PM, plenty of time to get ready and go out before midnight.

I mentioned Tomb Raider earlier today, but I would also add any MMORPG. I just have no desire to do anything outside of try a quest or two than never touch it again.

Deponia as well, played the first one, got bored after 10 minutes, never touched it again after that. By all measures, should be a series I love, but nope!

I never had much interest in the series despite owning every game (even Temple of Osiris and Go). The only one I have played from start to finish was TR 2013, and even after that I never had the ambition to play the others more than a few minutes each.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

considering i didn't even know it had any sort of exclusive things, i'm not so sure many people on my platform of choice really gave a shit

but conversely, playstation boys threw a gigantic hissy fit when they realized that they might not have timed exclusive things in call of duty anymore, and how it wasn't fair to them

"But...but...but...I have a PLAYSTATION! I am on the winning team!!"

They perform better on PlayStation, run better, and sell better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r94vuvwUSkY

No, I only get 6 holidays:

New Years Day
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day

But I have unlimited PTO so I could take it off if I wanted to.

Maybe when it releases on PC, and is on sale for a price I would consider worth getting it at.

About the only thing out of what is listed is a case to protect it. Otherwise I haven't done anything to this particular phone.

I am more about widgets and shortcuts to make using the phone easier and faster.

Yellow posted...

Unfortunately NVidia has a total hold on the compute graphics market, machine learning, physics, (this may or may not be amd's fault), so I won't ever be buying an amd card despite how much cheaper or more ethical they get.

Plus boycotts just straight up don't work. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if they were pushed by companies to take away from real regulatory solutions.

To be fair, most of the graphics market today exists to keep graphics card companies alive. With how little graphics have improved over the last 10 years or so, there is no reason integrated graphics cards shouldn't be sufficient for all but the enthusiast PC gamers who are chasing triple digit FPS numbers in 8K. NVidia and AMD both know it, which is why they try to push stuff like Ray Tracing and PhysX despite the fact they arguably don't do much graphically and tank your performance.

I have a metal bat I have pretty much always kept near my bed since I was a kid. One good swing would probably knock out any intruders. I might consider a gun in 30 or so years when I get too old to effectively use the bat anymore.

That said, I have never had to use the bat. Yay living in the middle of nowhere!

In the sense that I might favor one brand over another for certain things, sure. That doesn't mean I will blindly follow them.

For example, I have pretty much been exclusively NVidia graphics cards for the last 15 years, but given their current business practices, my next card will likely be an AMD (if I don't get a Steam Deck first).

Muscles posted...

If I saw someone in flannel, jeans and converse I think 90s, not lesbian

I was more airwalks, jeans, and black shirts in the 90's.

I always associated flannel, jeans, and converse as "North-western hipster".

Death Stranding was all the proof I needed that most of MGSV's problems stemmed from Kojima. Granted, Konami were being assholes, but Kojima should have easily been able to produce a complete game in 6 years with 80 million dollars. The tacked-on multiplayer was likely Konami's fault, everything else was clearly Kojima.

Vampire_Chicken posted...

Working from home feels so much more ... civilized in that regard. On the two days a week I have to go into the office, I have to get up at 5:30am for a two-hour commute. When I'm working from home, I can work while I'm still eating breakfast after getting up late.

I mean, any company that actually sits and thinks about it for enough time will realize that employees are more productive working from home. Sure, you get the people who are going to move the mouse on their work computer every 5 minutes while watching Netflix to be "active", but you can weed them out pretty quickly. Most of the time though, your employees get less distractions and can work whenever they want.

Anybody who says that in-person work environments are a must clearly hasn't pulled their head out of their ass in the last 20 years.

Time to quit your job.

If my office required me back in the office that is instant quit for me.