Lurker > Dikitain

KodyKeir posted...

Growing up, it was a big bowl of oatmeal almost every day.

In my twenties it was a rotation of grilled cheese, sausages, omelettes, and sometimes oatmeal (especially if it's cold) though on weekends I would skip breakfast until after my morning ride which could be several hours or more.

These days, its likely to be a can of ensure to tide me through until my meal for the day. Oatmeal would be nice but milk's too expensive, and making oatmeal with water is just disgusting.

It is? I always have my oatmeal like that. I never use milk because it is hard to control the boiling and I don't feel like cleaning my stove first thing in the morning.

adjl posted...

That was the biggest complaint I saw. The general verdict seemed to be that it was an alright game, but way too short for a $60 title. There's a lot of room to challenge the "length=value" philosophy so many people apply to games, particularly where it tends to result in games that should be shorter being overly padded and overstaying their welcome for the sake of seeming more like they're worth their cost, but I can also understand feeling like one has wasted their money by getting so little playtime after spending so much.

I think a shorter $60 game is justified if there is incentive to replay it (no, not just achievements, actual fun reasons). For example, I don't mind $60 for Metroid Dread because it was fun to go back and play it over and over again trying to find all of the sequence breaks and getting the best time. And I will go back and play it again pretty soon now that Dread Mode got released.

My understanding is the main complaint with The Order 1886 was that it was very linear, short, and had almost no reason to replay it.

Pretty much every morning, although once in a while I skip it because I don't feel like having breakfast.

Is that the game that everyone complained was way too short?

From what I saw, it didn't look particularly bad or good, just kind of in-line with everything else coming out at that time. Hell, it still looks like a generic Sony first party title minus the open world.

I mean yea, posting a dark web link is going to get you into trouble, especially on a place like youtube that uses bots instead of actual people to check for those kinds of things.

I haven't worn a suit since my last formal interview 3 years ago. Before that it was like 15 years. I also haven't been to a wedding in over 20 years, my friends know not to invite me due to my thoughts on weddings and marriage in general.

That said, if your future wife is putting in the effort, you have to also my dude. Although I get the feeling this is a "forced to get married by the parents due to getting her pregnant" situation...

LinkPizza posted...

Maybe steptwins Even sexier

While I think hes good with kids, Im not sure about it marriage

And if thats what makes it comparable, that opens it up a lot more to the point where being comparable almost doesnt matter. But I guess it depends on how you look at it. Like I said, I think relationships are fine as long as its legal, not toxic, and they love each other. Regardless of age gap, height difference, etc

"Age gap, hight difference, etc..." falls under superficial compatibility. Like if someone cares about those things, they are red flags that they probably aren't looking for any serious type of relationship, or they aren't mature enough to be in a serious relationship. I mean sure, if you ask me "what is your fantasy?" for someone I am going to have a specific list of qualities. But I also know that if I want someone that isn't just eye candy that I am going to have to sacrifice several of those quantities in favor of meaningful stuff that would make me want to actually spend time with them.

LinkPizza posted...

I guess. I still dont really think people need to be in a comparable point, depending on what comparable is. Like Im not sure my BF and I arent at comparable points. Like life-wise, hes been married and divorced twice with two kids. And I havent been married, nor want to get married. And dont have, nor need, any kids But I just think as long as you love each other, are both consenting adults, and have a good relationship, its fine. I wouldnt let an age gap or whatever separate them

Is he also at a point where he doesn't want to get married or have any more kids?

Then I would say that is "comparable". It is less about history and more about what you are looking to get out of being in a relationship together. Yes, history plays a part in that too since it can impact the current relationship (like maybe helping take care of his kids?), but less so.

LinkPizza posted...

Im not even sure that matters, though. Especially since people have reasons for whatever theyre doing. For example, someone could have a good job, but stay with their parents because its cheaper and helps them both out. Why move out like early if theres no reason, for example

That is a different situation than I was describing though. My example was someone who needs to live with their parents because they are working on their education and can't get a job to afford their own place without sacrificing their studies. Your example is someone who chooses to because they are helping their parents out while saving money for something else (like possibly a house they can raise a family in with their significant other).

48F (8.888C) currently. Kind of nice, snow is melting so you can almost see the tops of the mailboxes now.

Not really, it is more important that whoever your dating is at a comparable point in your life. It would be weird if you were dating someone who was still in school and lived with their parents while you have a decent job and own a house, even if you were of the same age. Conversely, if both of you are divorced with similar aged kids, it doesn't really matter if you are 10-20 years apart age wise.

Straughan posted...

Japan boils some meats in water for prep for certain dishes. It must kill half the flavor, but they infuse the product by adding stuff to it as a part of another dish usually.

Lots of Asian countries have boiled meat, but of course it's boiled in broth or seasoned water where the extracted meat juices are incorporated into the soup. That's kinda nice. Kinda like beef stew.

Speaking of stew, that's probably our most compatible nomenclature. To stew a meat. We just don't have many varieties of stewing that I've seen served here commonly. Usually all foreign stuff. Vietnamese are great at it.

I consider that more braising.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braising

Yea, you "boil" a pot roast or stew beef, but you brown it first and use cooking liquids to enhance the flavor. That is essentially the opposite of what you are doing with corned beef and salt pork where you are boiling it to remove flavor (specifically the salt) and use it to flavor other things.

Unless you are cooking a corned beef or salt pork, meat should never be boiled.

SpeedDemon20 posted...

Where new Fire Emblem remakes?

Where Pikmin 4?

Where Breath of the Wild 2?

Where new Pokemon Legends?

Where Smash Bros fighter pass 3?

You missed Prime 4.

adjl posted...

This mentality has always seemed pretty silly to me. People play games to have fun. That fun - story included - isn't something that has to be "earned" or treated as a "reward." It's the fundamental point of the activity. For some, overcoming those challenges is part of that fun, but that's no more or less legitimate than people who have more fun mindlessly button mashing their way through the story. The only person you can "cheat" in a single-player game is yourself.

Sure, I understand that. But for me gameplay is fun, and rewards are the reason I play a game. If all I cared about was the story, I would rather read a summary or watch a Let's Play. Basically what I did with Resident Evil 6 because there was no way in hell I was subjecting myself to that game's frustrations after 5.

I could see people not liking trying the same section of a game 10-20 times, training yourself to be good enough to get through it. However, I think the feeling of actually getting through a tough section in a game far outweighs the frustrations you felt getting there. It is the reason retro games are so popular still, just aren't as many modern games that let you have that feeling anymore.

All 3:

Windows 10 on my gaming machine and work computer
Mac on my laptop
Linux (Raspbian) on my media center "PC"

Honestly when the laptop dies, I'll probably not replace it. And who knows, when my gaming machine is obsolete I might just get a Steam Deck (assuming it doesn't die off in a year or two like other Valve hardware projects).

I always felt like plot and/or story was the reward for getting through difficult challenges, so easy mode feels like cheating. Like instead of going through college and working hard to get a good job you just have your parents pay for any and everything you want. Like, yea, same result, but no one should respect you for the latter.

Probably Square-Enix. I don't think Capcom or Konami would want to be bought by Sony given their current standings, and if Sega were to be bought, Nintendo makes the most sense given their prior relationship (which is highly unlikely, Nintendo would rather use them as a second party developer or make certain games Nintendo exclusive).

Also makes the most sense, since making Square-Enix Sony exclusive is probably the best way for Sony to take away market share from Nintendo in Japan.

Lokarin posted...

idk, I'm Canadian so I've snow shoveled entire parking lots in about that time

How big are we talking?

Because I have a hard time imaging someone shoveling out a 200 car parking lot in 10 minutes unless they are Superman.

It is probably You Can Beat Videogames, but not because I particularly like them. I just happen to fall asleep easily to monotone voices, so I put his videos on anytime I want to fall asleep. So I probably have hundreds of hours of "watch" time according to Youtube, even though I rarely am interested in the content.

As far as videos I actually sit down and watch, I would probably say Lazy Game Reviews or GmanLives. My watching habits are pretty eclectic and change day to day, but I always watch these two the second they come out, and they are released on a pretty steady schedule.

Lokarin posted...

You took 10 minutes WITH a snowblower?

Are you, like, 70?

I get the feeling you don't have a concept of how big driveways are in my area, or how small most snowblowers are.

A 20 inch blower like mine (average) has to make at least 12 passes to cover a 3 car wide driveway (more in my case because I had a foot of snow and didn't want it to get stuck) and each pass is about 100 feet. So assuming I made 20 passes, that means I covered 2000 feet in 10 minutes. Yes, slower then the average walking speed of 20 minutes per mile, but you also have to consider turning, redirecting the blower, chewing through ice patches, etc.

So in that case, I think I made pretty good time.

Gee, another AAA company is producing a mobile game to try and cash-in on a market they aren't involved in while simultaneously not understanding what makes a good mobile game. Color me shocked!

*Goes back to playing random puzzle games on my phone*

*Goes out during lunch break, fires up snowblower, and clears my driveway in 10 minutes*

Should I feel bad?

...nah!

Technically one grandfather (95) although he remarried when I was 3 so I also have a step-grandma (86?).

BlackScythe0 posted...

No I mean I wasn't even expecting a warning.

He essentially is getting a "time out" so he will stop spamming. Don't need him filling up the queue due to a tantrum.

When I was a kid and bowled in leagues, the coaches always told you to wait for the person next to you to finish. It can be distracting seeing someone moving out of the corner of you eye when trying to line up your shot (and you never know how much that person "cares").

In reality, it is a mechanism left over from when the automatic pin setters where crap and would lock up if both lanes cleared at the same time. It probably doesn't matter anymore, but it is still polite.

Bahahaha!

No.

Cable

Been on the waiting list for fibre for 8 years now, hopefully they will start installing it in my neighborhood soon. Although since one of my neighbors' wi-fi is literally called "Mom click here for Internet" I am not getting my hopes up.

I think learning to bike is like learning to ski. If you don't learn it early, you probably will never have the ambition to learn it later in life. Then if you do learn it, you don't mind picking it up again even if you ignore it for years and years.

I used to have a tax preparing license in college as a way of making some extra money, so I just do it myself. I use software for it, but I mostly just ignore the suggestions it gives and just use it for the free e-filing.

Computer Science (obviously), mostly because the teacher was cool, the class was relatively small (only about 10-15 people on average) and a lot of the classmates in the later classes remain some of my friends today. All of us in the AP class pretty much still work in the Software Engineering field today.

mooreandrew58 posted...

Only game that was ps3 exclusive I wanted was metal gear solid 3 and I can't justify buying a console for 1 game. Fortunately ps4 had it on ps now.

I think you mean 4, 3 was on PS2.

And speaking as a Metal Gear fan, it is probably the most skipable. Just read the story summary.

It also happens to be the easiest to get a Big Boss rank in since you can do unlimited saves and the game is really easy to ghost.

I could see my dad buying something like this if he couldn't fly real planes anymore.

Although to be fair, he would probably only buy two or three planes, not all of them.

Veedrock- posted...

You say this while 360 servers are alive and well while Sony has closed many of its games' servers and tried to close the PS3 store before reversing the decision due to backlash.

Which has absolutely nothing to do with what I said.

Sony is supporting a platform , the games are just an afterthought. Meanwhile, Microsoft is the opposite. They are trying to sell you games, the Xbox is an afterthought for people unwilling to play those games on PC. So of course Microsoft is going to support older games on newer platforms while Sony is going to be releasing newer games on older platforms for longer. Two different strategies for the same goal: making money.

I liked it quite a bit, and I played it for the first time long after it was released (probably around the time the Wii came out). It is actually the only N64 game I still own physically. I would love a port where they improved the 3rd person shooter controls and possibly split the levels up a bit more. I like the levels but I think they could have been half the size.

THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...

Do people really think that thousands of PS3s were being sold for years after the PS4, but nobody was buying Xbox 360s?

Yes. In fact that is probably exactly what happened. Sony has a record of supporting systems years after their replacements launch while Microsoft pretty much forgets about them the second the new one hits shelves.

That said, the 360 numbers are still more impressive considering that they did that with pretty much no support from Japan, while PS3 sold almost 10 million units there.

If I make it to June, it will have officially been 4 years since I have had any kind of cold/flu/whatever. At this point, I imagine my immune system will be shot to shit because it hasn't had to fight anything.

I just have to laugh at people who thought Gamestop was a long-term investment. Like, sure, you got the stock to go up 300+% in a few days. But there was no way you could expect it to sustain that kind of growth. That is not how stocks like that work.

It should have been sold off a few weeks after you bought it and got your money.

Honestly, your 50's is probably the best time to have a kid. By that time, you have probably payed off your house and saved enough that you don't have to work while raising them. Now instead of needing a "work-life balance" you can devote all your time to your children in the years they need you to the most. If I ever have kids, it won't be until I am at least in my 50's.

Yea, one of my friends lived there before moving to northern Maine. Main thing I remember about going there is a bear mauling the tree next to my camp site overnight, and the fact that there is basically one north-south road in the entire state.

I think this is a good example of "everyone is racist whether they want to admit it or not". The difference being that you have to distinguish between bad racism and just inherit racism that you can't really change.

For example, I work with a lot of people from India (given I am in tech). Obviously due to the fact that language is not their first language we both have to struggle a bit to understand each other. I can't talk in my usual fast, mumbling tone that I would normally talk in. I also have to listen closely to what they are saying and fully understand it compared to if I am talking to someone who speaks English as a first language. Does that make me like talking to them less then someone who I don't have to do those things with? Sure. Is that racist? Absolutely.

The difference is that I understand that it is fully something that I just have to work through and I can't change my behavior because of it. I can't give them less opportunities, I can't avoid talking to them, and I certainly can't get mad at them for it. I can't change my feelings on the situation, I can only not let it be a problem for either of us. Hell, I will even admit that the culture and food is way better then my native one.

LinkPizza posted...

You do have to wait at some places considered fast food because they could be out. I don't think that alone really makes a place fast food or not...

That is the exception rather then the rule though, the intent of the place is not to make customers wait for them to cook their food, they just happen to need to make them wait at that time.

LinkPizza posted...

I'd 100% call In-N-Out fast food... I don't know many people who wouldn't, tbh...

Revelation34 posted...

Lol.

I honestly don't know why people would consider In-N-Out fast food given that 5 Guys does the exact same thing. They both cook burgers to order. If you consider them fast food then really any restaurant is fast food at that point.

Bugmeat posted... Every other fast food place will allow you to add or remove stuff from your food too.

They still pre-cook everything though, so they are fast food.

For example, Chippolte, even though you choose everything that goes into your meal, is fast food because you don't need to wait for the ingredients to be cooked/prepared.

Revelation34 posted...

Then by your own definition In-N-Out isn't fast food.

It isn't, thought that was kind of a given.

Revelation34 posted...

Lol.

They make everything to order, by definition that is just a restaurant, not fast food.

LinkPizza posted...

Not only that. But it weird how everyone says their crap, but they still sell to a ton of people. Obviously, people are eating it

I am pretty sure for most people it is the only option. Ever town in the world probably has at least one McDonalds (some probably 2-5).

That said, it is not horrible, but I really only eat there when I have no other options. Even then, I never eat their beef or fish.

That is a bit of a complex question. The short answer is that hardly ever happens unless it is a business that you shouldn't apply for because any good business is going to go through recruiters (either hired by the company or a 3rd party firm) that know how to navigate the legalities of that. If the owner themselves is doing the recruiting then it is a shitty and most likely shady business.

Most times when you apply to a job, they want you to tell them how much you deserve, not the other way around. They really don't want to be in a position where they offer what they think is a good deal, only for you to laugh in their face because it is half of what you make currently. And yea, part of that is being reasonable on your end and knowing how much you are worth (and what you can reasonably get).

Finally, I know in most places I have worked there is a rule that recruiters can't contact you about internal postings (jobs within the same company you currently work for), but you are encouraged to search for and apply to them if you are interested.

Bah, this was my first:

https://imgur.com/Dx5Tlpf

I think I just spent 200 hours leveling everyone up to max level before leaving Midgar and just beat the shit out of everything with my sword.

Matera? Fuck that. Big sword make you die now.

Sahuagin posted...

why is Anachronox in that list? it definitely needs a followup, it left off on a cliffhanger and probably will never be continued.

I remember back in 2010 that Tom Hall (the creator) said that if he never got the chance to make a sequel by 2020, he would just write up the script on his website for people to read. Obviously he hasn't done that yet...

Although he could make a sequal since Square Enix basically said that anyone who wants to make an Anachronox game can do so with their blessing.

My first job was doing odd jobs at my grandfather's business. Worked that for 10 years until I was legal to work a real job (16).