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Wendy's, I prefer the sea salt fries because they aren't as salty. Plus they leave the skin on.

Best ones were probably when I went to the McDonalds overseas in Italy. They put almost no salt on their fries which is awesome.
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How come you don't hear people gushing over chocolate cheese that much? It seems like the kind of thing that should be more popular then it is.
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Serdar posted...

Zelda is an action game.

Action adventure more like.

It has some adventure elements in that you need to find certain items or complete certain tasks to progress and it is non-linear, but it is not a pure adventure game.

It also isn't pure action because it isn't akin to say Contra or Super Mario Brothers.
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

TallTamryu posted...

Krazy_Kirby posted...

adjl posted...

Krazy_Kirby posted...

because something might happen isn't a good reason.

Sure it is. Don't be ridiculous.

you might get into a car accident,
never drive.

you might get skin cancer, remove as much skin as possible.

etc.

Not the same because you don't know the % at which it might happen. Statistically those things are generally very low. Checking if she might get breast cancer it gave her a very very high chance. Enough of a high chance it wasn't worth taking the risk of it not happening.

Stop being so Krazy.

so if someone had a high chance of skin cancer they should get pieces removed?

testicular cancer?

etc?

If it is going to help them and they want to do that, yes.

Plus skin cancer is a bad example, the only reason you would get a high chance of skin cancer is if you weren't taking the proper precautions out in the sun on a regular basis. It is not genetic.
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I don't think we would ever get to that point, and that is a good thing.

The one thing about Netflix shows is they know when to stop, and the thing about Simpsons and Family Guy is they don't. Plus with Netflix you inherently aren't "filling a time slot", you are making a season every year or two and if people like it and want more, you make another (if you have story to tell). If not, then you have tons of other shows to watch (both original or just available). Both Simpsons and Family Guy just feel like they have been going on for as long as they have because Fox needs something on Sunday night and they were popular 10 - 20 years ago.
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Baseball bat, quick and effective.
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LeetCheet posted...

Should people just quit using Twitter or something?
I mean, nothing good or even positive ever seems to come from using that site.
People just seem to be angry at each other on Twitter and say crazy shit that'll eventually bite them in the ass.

It is usually a good policy to just stay off of social media in general, or (like me) just lurk and don't actually post.

Although if Gamefaqs is considered "social media" then I break that rule constantly...
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OneTimeBen posted...

Check the link from post #13 you defenders.

I mean if that is your definition of "worthy of being fired" then half the internet should be drawn and quartered.
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I don't think there really was one. Closest was my SNES but it was already on it's last legs when I sold it (it could no longer hold a cartridge unless you put a piece of cardboard behind it). Surprised if the person I sold it to was able to play it for more then a year or so.

Other then that, my original NES died from overuse, and I got rid of my gameboy twice because I lost interest in it. Everything else I have kept (and most of it still works).
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If it is a big company (and a smart one) they won't fire them for giving 2 weeks notice. In fact it is usually pretty hard to get fired at a bigger company and takes a while. The only way you are getting fired on the spot is usually if you do something illegal like attack a co-worker or get caught stealing some shit. Otherwise you will usually see it coming from a mile away as they would prefer you quit instead (since then they don't have to pay any severance).
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I like how a topic about Resident Evil turned into a topic that is mostly about how someone sucks at Bloodborne. I mean I don't have a dog in this fight because I never played the game (and can't because I don't own a PS4), I just find it funny.

Just another day on PotD.
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Right now the only reason I bother going to the dealership for an oil change is my oil changes are free there. Otherwise I would go to Valvoline and get them done there like I have done for the last 17 years of my driving career.
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If you think RE HD is scary, don't play Silent Hill unless you have a box of adult diapers at the ready.

Man, do I wish they would give that game the HD treatment... Oh right, Konami... never mind...
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Other: Veganism is a ploy by the African nations to take over the Western world and PETA actually stands for People from Ethiopia for Termination of America.
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SSBM because it literally took me from "Fuck Nintendo, I am never supporting that company again" to being a Nintendo fanboy.
REMake because it got me interested in the RE series (although I was already a Silent Hill fan).
Pikman 2 because it is the first time I actually looked at a strategy game on consoles and thought "This is a lot of fun and actually playable". (Ok, technically it was the first game that did that, but 2 improved on it in every way so I am putting that one here).
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Relinquished posted...

Dikitain posted...

All that essentially meant is that the battles were even more mindless because once you had the perfect gambit program you literally did nothing. Just walk from one battle to another and wait for your characters to finish fighting.

People complain that FFXIII was on autopilot, FFXII literally played itself.

Yeah, literally the same, literally...Aside from the fact that you literally changed your gambits literally every 5 seconds, yeah literally.

People complain that XIII was on autopilot, it was optional. Just like turning off gambits. Only, no one did either because they knew they were useful and needed to spew more garbage.

No one complains about 4s auto-battle. Guess its not popular enough.......

Umm, was there a point in all that rambling? Because I am not seeing it...
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RedPixel posted...

Gambit system allowing me to completely program my team's priorities... fuck yes. This was the system that raised the bar for my teammate standards that no other game has come close to touching ever since, IMO.

All that essentially meant is that the battles were even more mindless because once you had the perfect gambit program you literally did nothing. Just walk from one battle to another and wait for your characters to finish fighting.

People complain that FFXIII was on autopilot, FFXII literally played itself.
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I worked construction in high school, and as a hydraulic press operator in college. In both professions pretty much half the work force was high school dropouts.
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green dragon posted...

Yeah, I actually looked it up after I posted. I super hope it's something only out of shape, white people get

Like I said I only had them 3 times and all 3 times were due to the after effects of food poisoning. I mean shitting 20 times a day for a week straight is going to put stress on your back end and it isn't going to be happy about it.
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VixYW posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

VixYW posted...

If the player can somehow mark the map to remember where to come back later, I think it would make things 1000 times better.

It would be even betterer if the game marked that itself.

Yes and no. The former requires the player to recognise that there's something there and he will need to come back later on, and the later gives this away. So it depends on what kind of experience the game is trying to give to the player.

That is probably more a problem with modern games in general. Games can give you tons of cool options like marking a map, saving anywhere, etc. Where it gets to be annoying is when they give you those options but take control away for them. Like marking a map for you or checkpoints. Checkpoints are always a big example of this for me because checkpoints fundamentally changed how gameplay worked as they require the game to not unintentionally screw over the player so that they need to start over from the beginning. Whereas if you can save whenever and wherever you want gameplay options are much more open. At that point it is the player's fault if he needs to replay hours of stuff because they weren't saving often enough.
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The main one I dislike are long, linear sections where it just feels like you are following a single path all the way to a boss, then you get deposited into an area near the beginning. At that point, why even make your game Metroidvania style? I felt Hollow Knight had a ton of this and it just made the game annoying to play for me.

Also, I think backtracking is fine, but the levels need to be designed in such a way that it doesn't take too long to backtrack, and the areas are varied enough that you don't see the same things over and over again. For example, the original Metroid had this problem really bad. Granted, the levels weren't incredibly complicated, but some sections took like 10 minutes to get through, then you had to backtrack through them again just to get back to the beginning.

Really, just follow Super Metroid. I feel it is probably the best Metroidvania style game to this day.
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Preparation H, baby wipes, and a lot of discomfort. Just push though it, they only last about a week.
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Saw two drunk girls get into a fight so brutal one got two of her teeth punched out and the other had most of her dress ripped off.

That was the first and last time I ever went bar hopping on New Year's Eve. In fact I have tons of stories of "drunken and bar hopping madness" from that night, that was just the most "random" one.
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I like working at my own pace, but I don't like when other people expect me to work their pace (which is usually slower and involves a lot of "explain this to me").
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keyblader1985 posted...

ParanoidObsessive posted...

If I'm going to be honest, I thought San Andreas had the weakest stations out of any of the games I've played in the series (mainly just GTA3, Vice City, San Andreas, and GTA5).

That's funny; I was going to say San Andreas had one of the best soundtracks. I played the same ones you did and did enjoy them, but I like San Andreas' music the most.

I think that compared to Vice City it was definitely a huge step down. The Vice City soundtrack really felt like it embodied the 80's and if I am being honest probably shaped the love of 80's music I have to this day. In theory I should love San Andres more since I grew up in the 90's but it honestly felt like they just threw a bunch of late 80's/early 90's songs together and called it a day. Hell, they didn't even really have a grunge station in the time period when grunge was at it's peek.

The talk radio on San Andreas was much better then Vice City though, I will give it that.
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They are just closeted lesbian incels. Basically they hate men because they think we are somehow stealing all the women away from them.
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lihlih posted...

TaKun782 posted...

Dude. I got one of thoes myself. Prepare to be blown away! The first time i used it, I busted a nut in about less then 5 minutes:D

How does it compare to the real thing though?

I haven't tried without a condom before, but compared to with a condom it is MUCH better.
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When I had a beater car I would usually park right next to their driver side door so that they couldn't get in. Hell, one time I parked so close to someone I had to climb out my trunk.

Now that I have a halfway decent car though, I typically just rip their side mirrors off or something, then park somewhere else so they don't know it was me.
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Jen0125 posted...

where they charge you by the mile for auto insurance up to 250 miles a day, or i guess 150 miles a day in nj not sure why.

That actually sounds interesting. Now I am curious how they actually enforce that. Do they put a meter in your car? Have you go into a service center for readings? Do an "honor system"?

I would probably consider that, but I tend to avoid "startup" insurance. Family members of mine have been burned in the past when they are trying to make a claim only to find out the insurance company filed for bankruptcy. Granted, they still got the money they were owed, but it took months.
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I pretty much listened to WCTR until I heard everything, then Radio X.
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TES_Nut posted...

No they didn't. the UK continuously blew off all ambassadors the csa sent and never recognized them as a biligerent state.

That is a gross understatement of what actually happened. While they didn't recognize them as a nation or exchange ambassadors, they did recognize them as an independent entity and, more importantly, allowed trade of munitions and luxuries to the CSA. They even financed the blockade runners to get past the USA Navy to get those goods in the hands of CSA soldiers.

TES_Nut posted...

Read Shelby Foote.

I did, that is how I knew that happened. You can even read this which came out around the same time:

https://www.questia.com/read/62913658/great-britain-and-the-american-civil-war
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Revelation34 posted...

Dikitain posted...

Despite the fact that "there are so many kids that need to be adopted", the adoption process is long, tedious, and most people who want to adopt are not actually qualified to do it. It's not like adopting a pet where pretty much anyone can do it, they actually have standards.

Not only do you have to have steady income (and make over a certain threshold), but you have to go through a background check, have social services inspect your home to make sure it meets their standards, take something like 50 - 100 hours of training courses, then once you are a "certified adoption household", you are put on a waiting list for a child. You can be on that waiting list anywhere from a few months to several years (more if you are looking to adopt a newborn). Then once you have the adopted child, you need to have regular check-ins from social services to make sure the adopted children are being taken care and are happy. Anything looks fishy and the kid is taken away and put back into the adoption system.

Conversely, what does it take to have a child naturally? A woman being pregnant for 9 months and 24 - 48 hours of labor. Not to undermine child birth but that does sound a bit easier don't you think?

Then people like Angelina Jolie get to adopt instantly due to money.

And then there is that.

When you think about it too, it is kind of fucked up. She basically goes to a foreign country, plops down hundreds of thousands of dollars and takes home a kid. Hell, she even got some US laws to bend for her for her first adoption. If anything she is treating them more like pets. I mean I adopted a dog and take care of him just fine, but I am smart enough to know that doesn't qualify me to be a good parent to an actual human.
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The Popo posted...

Fam_Fam posted...

no having the child is not easier. don't be stupid.

you need to have money to have a kid (duh). you need to not have a shitty home. you need to fill out paperwork. it takes money (which kids do too). big whoop.

Plenty of people have (multiple) kids while having no money and a shitty home.

^^^This X1000

While having money and a nice home would be nice, they certainly aren't a requirement for a natural birth.
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I wish I could work night shift again, but Software Engineers don't get that option. :(
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TheCyborgNinja posted...

The slaves would've been freed much earlier had treason against King George III been unsuccessful. Black people seem to get a much fairer shake in the UK than America. They're not wrong.

Except for the fact that the south was being funded and supplied by the UK during the Civil War, making them supporters of slavery.
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Despite the fact that "there are so many kids that need to be adopted", the adoption process is long, tedious, and most people who want to adopt are not actually qualified to do it. It's not like adopting a pet where pretty much anyone can do it, they actually have standards.

Not only do you have to have steady income (and make over a certain threshold), but you have to go through a background check, have social services inspect your home to make sure it meets their standards, take something like 50 - 100 hours of training courses, then once you are a "certified adoption household", you are put on a waiting list for a child. You can be on that waiting list anywhere from a few months to several years (more if you are looking to adopt a newborn). Then once you have the adopted child, you need to have regular check-ins from social services to make sure the adopted children are being taken care and are happy. Anything looks fishy and the kid is taken away and put back into the adoption system.

Conversely, what does it take to have a child naturally? A woman being pregnant for 9 months and 24 - 48 hours of labor. Not to undermine child birth but that does sound a bit easier don't you think?
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That is one of the main reasons Ultima 4 is probably the best RPG. You have 1 quest, there is no "big bad", it is just a spiritual journey that you complete at your leisure.

Closest thing I can think of in the present is Breath of the Wild. The quest is "Defeat Ganon", your given it almost immediately (after the tutorial that is), you can complete it anytime, and the rest of the game quests are only to make Ganon weaker or yourself stronger.
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I turn on the sink, soap up my hands, and by the time I rinse them off it is usually warm enough.
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NightMareBunny posted...

would people stop saying this is an indie game?!....-____-

need i keep pointing to that final fantasy game that only had great graphics and nothing else?

go play detroit become human if all you care about is the graphics

You are the one assuming it has anything to do with graphics. For me it doesn't, it is about gameplay. The gameplay is very much that of a game that would have been released 25 years ago. Now in the past this could pass as a $40 game (Bravely Default, for example) but now that the switch is a console the developers think that entitles them to a $60 game. Spend that if you want, but I don't support such arrogance.
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Oh, that looks like a cool little indy release. Maybe I will pick it up if I see it on the eShop during a sale...

Mead posted...

No considering its a $60 release

Oh, never mind...
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Join the PC master race, buy all your games digitally, and laugh at the lowly console peasants who still thinks they qualify as "gamers".
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It took me like a year of lessons before I actually got my license. And I failed my first driving test (because of parallel parking no less). It is not something you pick up instantly, it takes time.
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My company does 12 weeks (for both mother and father), I think that is fair. If someone is gone for 12 weeks it is an annoyance but not a "place is going to burn down and take everyone else with it" thing. Any longer then that though...

Ogurisama posted...

How it usually works is for that one year a temp is hired to replace her for the year. The person gets hired on knowing they are a temp for the year and once the year is over, the temp is usually let go (unless another position opens up, or the mother decides to quit in that year)

Yea, that doesn't work for skilled labor. In our company we have a policy that it takes 3 months to effectively train someone to do the job they are hired for. Plus that "temp" would legally be entitled to time and a half due to contract positions needing to be payed more then full time due to their temporary nature. So effectively we would be paying two and a half people and getting maybe half a person worth of work out of them. Not worth it in the least.
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I walked into Target this morning thinking "I need to get some stuff, why not stop by the electronics section and see if they have any NES classics?" They had 2 in the display case, I picked one up. I fully expected I would need to check Best Buy to get a chance at one.
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I had a girlfriend who gave me porn for my birthday once. She even liked "fooling around" while watching it with me.

Shame she was a psycho or we probably would be married today.
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DPsx7 posted...

likehelly posted...

except no, they don't.

there is not one person in the entire world who is paying several hundred dollars for a phone plan.

prove me wrong.

do something definitive for once instead of being a chicken shit

You could offer something too ya know. I don't own one so how am I going to provide a bill? By several I mean $100-$200 give or take so perhaps you prefer 'couple hundred' instead. Whatever.

My bill is $84 WITH all of the fees and other crap. And if anything I pay way more then most people. Even my father pays something like $45 a month.

It almost sounds like you are getting your information from like 10 years ago when smartphone plans cost an arm and a leg.
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Yea, I wore my parents down and got a hamster from a pet store when I was like 8. Surprisingly it actually lived a full life for a hamster despite being raised by a kid who had no idea how to take care of a pet.
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Droid Turbo

Almost 4 years old at this point but gets the job done. When I do upgrade I will probably get the latest Z series or whatever Motorola has at the time.
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Chewster posted...

I get that rural areas are cheaper, but how the fuck is there anywhere in America where houses are $12,000? Are you sure you're not missing a digit somewhere? RVs are way more expensive than that and that's like a shitty version of a house. Even a lot of just normal cars are more expensive.

Here (Rochester NY) you can get a foreclosure/auction for about that much in the inner city (Typically in the $5K - $15K range). I think houses go for around $40K - $60K if you are just buying them outright in the same area.
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