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Dude, @Zeus is dead???

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Looks interesting, but I tend to like my Metroidvania's more Metroid and less 'vaina if that makes sense. This looks like it goes in the opposite direction. So I will probably pass.

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I would say I like what I like, I don't put a lot of stock in "keeping up with" whatever is popular.

Gaming I have been enjoying the latest Yakuza game, I know some of the other new stuff coming out, but no plans to go out and play it. Most of my gaming outside of a few select things usually happen well after the hype has died down.

I used to pay attention to TV, but I lost interest after a while. In fact, most of my TV watching is on YouTube at this point.

Music, I have some bands I'll listen to when their new stuff comes out. If I like it, it will go into my rotation. If not, I'll just move on to something else.

Movies, I just don't watch that often. I watch maybe one or two a year at the most. I don't think I have seen a single movie in 2020 to be honest (new or old).

Comics I probably keep up with the most, but not as many as most fans. The only ones I really keep up on currently is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Daredevil, and Black Widow (Punisher and Elektra would be on that list as well if Marvel was doing anything with them). A lot of my comic reading otherwise is trade paperbacks and omnibus collections.

So I guess if I put them in order, it would be:

1) Comics/Books
2) Video Games
3) Music
4) TV
5) Movies

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To an audiophile probably. To someone like me who can't tell the difference between the speakers on my phone and the sound bar on my TV? No.

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I usually add about half a cup of hot sauce when cooking Mac 'n Cheese. I know some people add a little bit of mustard, but I just like the burn of hot sauce instead. That is really the only weird combination I do.

The only other thing is when cooking a pot roast I replace all of the water with wine (doesn't have to be good wine, you can use the cheapest stuff you can fine). That isn't weird though, that is literally the best pot roast you can ever make.

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I think streaming services for gaming are more likely, and even that is several years from being mainstream. All digital gaming was a thing all the way back in the mid-90's, and it is only just starting to become the main way to play games. Streaming services are only a few years old at this point, so I don't expect them to take over digital for another 10-20 years at least.

And yea, once everything is streaming then hardware won't be as important since you would get the same gaming experience on a phone hooked up to your TV that you would on your high-end gaming PC.

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Krazy_Kirby posted...

rarely did homework in middle/highschool. got a's in college

Same, "homework" in college made sense and actually helped understand the subject material. Plus they gave you more then just one night to get it done (typically a week or two).

Homework in middle/highschool was basically "here is a bunch of random crap we didn't have time to fit into your classwork". If I couldn't get it done during lunch or study hall, I certainly wasn't going to do it at home.

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I'm satisfied, but the company I am contracting for is in the process of writing up an offer for me to work for them full time. I might take it, but there are several things I want to see in that offer, main one being that pager rotations are voluntary and merit based. I spent 11 years carrying a pager one week a month, and my main reason for being a contractor was so I don't have to do it again. If I do decide to go on a pager rotation, I want to be compensated properly for it.

I had one department I interviewed for say that was the case, but I want to make sure I get that in writing (since I don't plan on volunteering for that anytime soon, unless I want some extra money).

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$50 is pretty good, I used to give my dad $20 to let my dog out and give him food when I was working late (before I started working from home).

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I Am the Cheese

I remember that the true nature of the story isn't revealed until the last couple of chapters, and since I finished the book like 2 weeks before the class was supposed to my teacher said I couldn't be involved in any discussions on it until the last one.

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I don't know, I haven't eaten at a restaurant since January. As far as I know they still are, I saw the bar near me had people in it during my nightly walk.

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I like it, but not as much as I liked 0 or the Kiwami's. Most of it comes down to the battle system (I liked the brawler style combat over turn based), and part of it is that the mini-games are kind of lacking, specifically the business management one. I just don't like it as much as property management or Hostess club management from the other games.

Still, I have over 75 hours into it already when I am only halfway through the story so I can't complain THAT much...

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MartianManchild posted...

Alright guys and gals lets be adults and stay on topic here. This is about the rate and overall number of deaths. We all agree that coronavirus is a deadly disease, but isnt it surprising that the overall number of deaths across the board isnt statistically different than from other years? Wouldnt you think that there would be more overall deaths in total this year due to the pandemic?

I think it would require more studies (which any scientific person should understand). The next logical step for me would be to analyze the cause of deaths by the numbers and see if those have changed at all. Like are their less car accidents and murders because people aren't going out as much, yet more deaths by natural causes?

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grimhilde00 posted...

Uh not just apple anymore. Pixel 5 doesn't have headphone jacks either and it's likely a trend

I mean, as much hate as I can throw at Apple, I will fully admit they are innovators (for better or worse). They have somehow convinced phone makers that including a 3.5mm audio port on a phone is to wasteful.

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I have had women call me "daddy" in bed before, does that make me a part-time dad?

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blu posted...

There's no other alternative on that level of convenience.

Pretty sure most wireless buds cost half as much and give you twice the listening time.

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I have had the same bottle of cologne since I was 13 (so 25 years). I can't even tell you what brand it is because the bottle doesn't have any branding on it, probably some generic SEARS brand cologne.

And that should tell you how often I wear cologne.

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Rust in Peace is probably their best, I also really liked Peace Sells ... But Who's Buying?, The System Has Failed, Endgame, and their latest Dystopia.

I'll warn you though, the albums I listed are quite a bit different then Symphony of Destruction.

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"How about you let me upload some data into your cloud?"

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I honestly don't remember, maybe $20-$30? I treat clothes as something I need to wear so I don't get arrested for being naked in public, so the cheaper the better.

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You should never buy a console at launch anyways, always wait about a year for any kinks to be worked out in the second production run. By then, the supply will be so high that you never have to worry about scalpers. Plus by then the console usually comes bundled with a game so it is a much better deal.

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I leveled up so much in Final Fantasy X that every character could one-hit pretty much any enemy in the game except the hardest boss, which required 3 or 4 hits. I even re-built the sphere grid so that I could max stats on every character.

This was the NTSC PC2 version BTW, so no dark Aeons.

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Family has a history of cancer but apparently I am low risk? OK.

Although some of those questions were un-answerable.

"What type of milk do you drink?" ugh..none, I'm lactose intolerant.


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All my exes are married and have kids (which I was against, hence "exes") so they don't have time to keep up with me.

I keep up with them in the sense I know they are married with kids, but that is it.

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I have 3 reusable ones, but only one is actually comfortable to wear for an extended period of time. The other two, while technically "adult" masks, are so small that they basically start folding up inside of my mouth every time I talk so I don't wear them.

I have a few boxes of surgical masks in case I don't have my reusable or it isn't appropriate for the place I am at (it can be considered offensive in certain situations).

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They do, they just started disguising themselves as lawyers around the late 90's. And everyone knows that every evil corporation has an army of lawyers.

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DoubleOSnake posted...

you listen with headphones when driving?

No, my car has bluetooth so I just have to pair my phone with it and the music on my phone will play through the car speakers.

It is not 100% reliable though, so when it doesn't want to work I just say screw it and use the radio.

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Most of the time my cooking just involves cook meat/vegitables with salt and pepper. I don't like complicated food. Sometimes though, I will make soups or stews, so those tend to be a bit more complicated. For example, making chicken noodle soup the proper way (simmer a whole chicken in water and vegetables for a few hours to make your own stock).

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Sometimes, usually when I don't want to deal with trying to get the bluetooth working in my car. Most of the time I would rather listen to my mp3's since the radio rarely has stations with even a handfull of songs I want to listen to.

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You know, there is copying a style of game because it is popular while adding some new mechanics to try and make it more interesting, and then there is straight up trying to create the exact game in the hopes of people mistaking your game for the real thing so you can leach off of its popularity.

This is definitely the latter.

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Mead posted...

did anyone else in school just get random field trips sometimes to like pioneer village kinda things where youd see ladies show you how people did things in olden times

and also youd see like cows and animals and learn how a farm works

what even was that? I needed to know stuff like finances and shit

My 5th grade teacher took us on a field trip to the (at the time) only traffic light in our town. I think that was also the field trip where my class clogged a toilet at an ice cream place we stopped at on the way there, and some kid got pushed through a store window during a fight.

The teacher retired after our class, I sometimes wonder why...

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I am more surprised that these shows are still running. Like, they have to be pulling in next to no ratings right? No one cares about reality TV anymore.

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I've seen a cow, but not up close. My parents had friends that owned a farm but they never had cows, surprisingly difficult farm animals to take care of compared to pigs, chickens, lambs, and turkeys (all of which they had). They used to buy a pig every year from the friend, one pig once butchered could fill a full size freezer and give us enough pork for pretty much the entire year.

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BUMPED2002 posted...

I think it's BS personally because games going back to the NES, SNES, N64 (some N64 games) did retail at $70-$80 if I recall correctly but for the 8 and 16 bit era, games generally ran $60. Disc based games PS1, Dreamcast, Saturn etc usually went for around $40-$50 if I recall.

Something to keep in mind too is that the physical medium the games were on covered most of that cost. A cartridge on average cost $40 to make, and in the SNES era some of those cartridges cost upwards of $60 due to special chips and expended memory in the cartridge. CD was cheaper, but still had a pretty good sized overhead early on. Nowadays you don't need to worry about that due to digital. So in essence, game prices have been keeping up with inflation, just consumers haven't seen any difference until recently.

Conversely, look at comic books. If they followed inflation, then the 10 cent comic books would be about $1 now, but instead they are $4. Why? They use more expensive materials. Instead of being on cheap newspaper they are printed on higher quality magazine print. That is why you see a huge jump in comic prices around the mid-late 90's. And between the 30's and 60's when comics stayed 10 cents? They just kept reducing the number or pages until you had the 24-32 page comic standard of today (10 cent comics of the 30's were typically 64-96 pages)

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Crazy, hope everything works out and all the employees make it out safely.

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Worse in the sense that more cases are being reported, but the death toll is really low compared to March. We only get about one to two reported deaths a week compared to one to two a day during our peak.

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Yep, Trebek hosted ever episode since 1984 (with the exception of the April Fool's episode in 1997).

You know what I just realized, since we have lost Sean Connery and Alex Trebek recently, I have to post this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3V94ZtmdbQ

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adjl posted...

I think I'd actually say heavy rain. Heavy snow's honestly not that bad. All you really need to do is slow down and avoid making sudden movements, and pretty much everyone recognizes that and does it, so it's pretty easy to adjust for. Rain, on the other hand, limits visibility, which is a lot less intuitive to account for, and its impacts on handling are a lot less predictable (especially with rougher roads where you lose the ability to tell which puddles are deeper), and it's generally less common for people to slow down significantly (unless it's really bad) so adjusting for it means being hyper-vigilant.

Clearly you have never driven in a white-out snowstorm before. At least with heavy rain you have a vague idea of what is in front of you. White-outs give you no indication other then the brake lights of the car in front of you.


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Nah, in my family a "big dinner" is 5 people (including me). We had one for my grandfather's birthday back in June, I imagine we might have one for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

I remember it being unclear what the ending conditioned were. I wonder if anyone has gone through the code to figure out exactly what each one requires.

They are a bit ambiguous, but the endings are based on your actions. In other words, the endings mirror your actions throughout the game. For example:

The "Maria" ending requires you to care about Maria, by staying close to her during escort parts, or returning to her location every time she dies. Conversely, the "Leave" ending requires you to do the opposite and not show compassion for Maria. The suicide ending requires you to do things that would make your character seem suicidal, such as examining the bloody knife often or not healing yourself when low on health.

Then of course the "extra" or "joke" endings are pretty obvious, they just require you to pick up certain items or enter certain areas not normally accessible.

I don't think anyone has found the exact conditions for the main endings, but as long as you do what the ending is expecting you to you usually get it pretty regularly.

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It is legal in most of Nevada (except the major cities, Las Vegas and Reno). But yea, I have said for a while they should just make it legal. I guess it just hasn't come up because there are so many on-line alternatives.

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deoxxys posted...

No no they didn't remove the fog, in fact they updated it because apparently the PC version's fog was lower resolution than the PS2 release.

Ah OK. Didn't know it was a fan project to enhance the PC version. I thought you were talking about the HD Collection.

Looks pretty cool, kind of wish I had a copy of the PC version to try it out with (I only have the PS2 version, and not even the director's cut, just the original release). Since GoG got the Metal Gear PC ports recently, maybe they will get the Silent Hill ones as well soon.

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Is that the version where they removed all of the fog? That would make the game a lot easier.

But yea, it is not a difficult game, but the story nuances are amazing.

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I like Zero Mission way more, but I agree that the added part 2 kind of sucks. Half of it you are way too underpowered and the other half you are way too overpowered. Not to mention, did the gravity suit really need an origin story? Is it too much to say that Samus just missed it on her first run through Zebes?

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Ideally office once or twice a week and home the rest of the time. Otherwise, I would just do office.

Working from home sounds great until you realize that it makes you super lazy and reclusive. Like I literally can't wait until my company starts letting us work in the office again so I can at least get out of the house on a weekday.

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pvegeta posted...

you must be an old fogie like me. Trachtenberg and Portman were both big ones of mine back in the day

Yea, Trachtenberg was because I was a fan of Pete and Pete then later Buffy. Natalie Portman was Star Wars Episode 1 obviously, although I think I might have seen Mars Attacks or Beautiful Girls before that.

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Michelle Trachtenberg
Natalie Portman
Keira Knightley
Anne Hathaway

I used to have a thing for Amber Tamblyn for a while, but I grew out of it.

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Lordkill posted...

Popeye's biscuits are superior

Popeye's biscuits are generic, literally just taste like the ones you get in a can and warm in the oven.

KFC biscuits are buttery and soft, and have an amazing flavor to them.

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Not recently, I have only seen them attached to KFC's. I also refuse to eat at them, as I got violent food poisoning from one as a kid.

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