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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Ironically, I'd steer clear of single moms like they have the motherfucking plague, but I'd probably be fine with a single dad (if I was actually into dudes).

Single moms be batshit crazy.

Yea, anytime I see a single mom, they usually come with so much emotional baggage that it is a huge turn-off. And that is the stuff they are willing to share before you actually get to know them.

I would probably stay away from single dads too (if I was actually into dudes) because kids are annoying disease vectors that I want nothing to do with.

Zareth posted...

Watch Continue, it's a crime that their videos have been averaging 6k views
https://www.youtube.com/@ContinueShow

I used to subscribe to them years ago, honestly got bored with them. Same type of content for years and years.

Didn't help that the guy in the middle grew a pedo-stache during covid.

FinalFantasy2389 posted...

I don't think 2 hours is enough at times. Especially since in a lot of games these days 2 hours could very well still be training type stuff.

I usually try to do 10-15 hours but I understand 10-15 hours is a lot of time to "waste" if you're not enjoying it.

Sure, I understand that you could still be in the tutorial part after 2 hours. But the game has to be worth-while even during that for me to want to play more then 2 hours. It really isn't hard to make the tutorials fun, but I think a lot of games don't know how to do that nowadays.

My rule has always been that if you don't like a game after 1-2 hours and are still playing it you are either:

a) Lying to yourself or
b) a masochist

Ogurisama posted...

The studio was purchased by Square-Enix I think. Steam profile shows them as the producer or something.

Square-Enix still owns Tomb Raider? I thought that got sold to Embracer.

Back almost 40 years ago it kind of had a meaning. It was literally an RPG that was simplified for larger appeal (and made in Japan since there really weren't Western companies making console games at the time). Nowadays with the line between WRPGs and JRPGs being blurred to the point that the only difference is their country or origin, it doesn't really make sense to use those terms anymore. Most modern AAA "JRPGs" are basically open-world action RPGs, and most modern indie "WRPGs" are turn-based console-style RPGs.

I have three outside (Front door, back door, and garage). I would never set one up inside my home. I even make sure to close the shutter on all my webcams when I am not using them.

According to AARP, I need to stop shoveling my driveway in 5 years and hire someone to do it:

https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2022/snow-shovel-heart-attack.html

Franklin advises anyone age 45 or older not to tackle shoveling. He says the recommendation stems from a landmark study that indicates about 85 percent of U.S. adults age 50-plus already have underlying coronary artery disease.

Ignoring the fact that my grandfather didn't stop until he was in his 90's, and my 69 year old father who had quadruple bypass last year still does it.

I would probably start with something like Python or Ruby. If I could ONLY pick from those two, Java is the better choice, but neither of those are good "Introduction" languages.

Dikitain is no longer a mod

Indeed

I won't get into details, but I will say that:

1) It wasn't my choice
2) It wasn't "bad" terms, and I can re-apply after a certain amount of time.

That said, I probably won't bother going back. Not because I hated it or because everyone magically hated me because I was a mod. Mostly because (believe it or not), I didn't really do much as a mod. I basically did the bare minimum to remain "active" and considering I would rather lurk 95% of the time it doesn't really make sense to be a mod anymore. Either way, interesting 4 years and maybe I will do a AMA on reddit when this site finally dies and my non-disclosure agreement runs out.

Probably not though.

adjl posted...

Of course, I see absolutely nothing wrong with pirating games that nobody sells, so there's always that as a plan B.

Yea, usually when a game becomes available digitally and I go "Yes, thank god!", It is usually followed up with "Now I can delete the pirated version off my hard drive and get it legally"

Krazy_Kirby posted...

just download any digital game, and then you can always have them

This, if anything, digital has made games more available then they ever where.

Not saying I don't lust for the days that physical wasn't a dying medium, but I also am glad I don't have to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars for a game anymore because it wasn't popular.

71%, I took it off the charger about 10 1/2 hours ago.

I never buy a console unless it comes with a pack-in game.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

I thought it was still the Wii, but holy crap, you're right - it blew past the Wii. Doubtful it catches the DS/PS2, unless it really has 2+ years on it. Not true about the GB, however, unless you were excluding the GBA.

Most people do exclude the GBA because they are different consoles/hardware. They include the Gameboy color because, for all intents and purposes, the Gameboy color is just a regular Gameboy with the Super Gameboy enhancements built in. Sure, there are exclusive games for it, but the only difference is the games make use of the color pallet.

Monopoman posted...

I have a feeling a good portion of the internet has never used one, the thing came out in the mid 90's, and it was taken off the market pretty damn fast. So even those that were alive when it hit might have never used one.

If you had a subscription to Nintendo Power back then, you could have rented one with three games for three days for a reasonable price (I think $29.99). That is where most of the ones on the market came from, because I doubt many people wanted to go out and buy one after renting it and having to deal with all the crap.

That is how I tried it out.

Probably going to be like the Gameboy where it had a 9 year lifecycle. Although it was still being supported for another 5 years after that.

The Switch is the best selling Nintendo console ever and that is with the Gameboy and all its variants (including the color) combined. And it doesn't show any signs of slowing down.

I am fine with the no plastic bags thing. I had been collecting and trying to use them all since 2007, they were banned here back in 2015 and I just used up the last of them I had stored up last year.

Not having paper bags though is bullshit. Sometimes I forget to get my reusable bags out of my car and don't feel like abandoning half a cart full of groceries in the middle of the store so I can go back out and grab them.

Virtual Boy is really the only bad console on that list. Since it is the only one that is actually bad for your health. I got headaches from playing it when I rented one from Blockbuster as a kid. The rest just have a lack of good games (although they all have at least one or two).

The Jaguar really only has a bad controller, and lack of 3rd party support because it is an Atari console that wasn't from the 70's.

CD-I really isn't a game console, it is just notable as one because of the Zelda and Mario games. I remember my 4th grade class having one and never knowing it could play games until it became a popular joke 15-20 years later.

Ouya I can't really comment on since I never played one, but from everything I heard it is basically just a Android device.

BUMPED2002 posted...
Every GOP president we have had going back to Nixon, Ford, Reagan, both Bush's and Trump all issued huge tax cuts to the corporations and wealthy individuals and this is all documented and can be vetted.

And every Democrat from Carter, Clinton, Obama, and Biden all had the chance to repeal those tax cuts and never did. All of which had more then enough opportunity to do so. That mortgage interest deduction I was talking about? That was a Trump thing, I fully understand it. But the fact that Biden has had two years to repeal it and hasn't makes him just as bad in my eyes.

Like, yes, the GOP like fucking over the common citizen, but lets not pretend the Democrats aren't doing the same.

They get on average $21 an hour

https://www.glassdoor.com/Hourly-Pay/Walt-Disney-Company-Character-Performer-Hourly-Pay-E717_D_KO20,39.htm

Almost twice Florida's minimum wage, which is $11

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/state#fl

Not great, but not what I would consider horrible if they only do have to go out for 30 minutes at a time.

Why would Rockstar care? They make half a billion a year off of GTA Online.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I've said for years I couldn't even imagine attempting to play GTAO on PC. Everything I've ever seen has made it look like a hellish cesspool.

Really that is any multi-player game.

Ever since they did away with the mortgage interest deduction, I have gone from getting $800 back on my taxes to owing $700. I am probably going to have to pay even more this year since I got a huge raise and my bonus doubled.

Without reading any of the books and only the summaries, Twilight always seemed like some weird, elaborate, Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan fiction.

KFC, only because there aren't any Popeyes nearby and every time I have had it I wasn't that impressed.

A stroke can hasten the effects of dementia/Alzheimer's, so I guess the answer is yes to both. I have a family history of it on my mom's side, and while my grandmother didn't start showing signs until she was in her mid 80's, my mom had a stroke at 68 and started showing signs shortly after.

papercup posted...

Yes actually some did games go for $70 or $80. Sometimes more. Games usually ranged from about $40-$100 back then.
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I know it doesn't fit the narrative that game prices have always been $60, and the recent price increase are due to corporate greed. But games prices have ALWAYS been whack. Adjusting for inflation, some of these games are over $100 in 2023. Game prices have DECREASED over the past 2 decades. That's simply a fact.

It is worth noting that most of the games that were over $40 were because of the price of cartridges and the special chips needed to play the games (such as extra memory for some NES games, FX chips for some SNES games, RAM chips for save games, etc.) The cost of games for the most part have increased with inflation, it is just that the cost of the medium they were available on got cheaper. That stopped happening now that everything is digital.

It is kind of like how comic books from the 30's till the early 60's were always 10 cents. Just that they kept reducing the amount of pages from 96, to 64, then eventually to 32 before they started increasing the price instead.

There is a couple of AM stations around here, but yea they are dwindling. Main one I know of is used for 24 hour traffic reports, and I think there might be a sports one. The traffic one is convenient if I am driving and see a notification on a billboard I can just switch to the station rather than pull out my phone. But really, nothing preventing them from being on FM.

FM is never going away, at least not in our lifetimes. It is just too cheap and convenient not to include it compared to the alternatives.

Looks dry, probably overcooked it. Which to be fair I don't mind that much with a chicken sandwich because it is usually slathered in sauce, either by them or by me.

I have red drapes in my family (pool table) room. My office also has automatic binds so I can just close them for meetings/calls without needing to get up. That is the extent of "fancy" window coverings, everything else is the stuff that came with the house when I bought it.

Grinding is one of those things I tend to like because it is just letting your mind drift while you do something that requires next to no brain power. It is like the main reason I like gaming, to just let my mind wander and stew on things that have frustrated me throughout the day.

Honestly, in most JRPGs, I prefer grinding over story. It is one of the reasons Dragon Quest 1 remains one of my favorites. It is also how the developers of it envisioned the JRPG in the first place.

https://youtu.be/TiOTPwg1fsI?t=584

I always associated ginger ale as something you drank when you had an upset stomach, therefore it was more medicinal. At least that is the only time I drank it.

Lemon Lime soda is just kind of like the basic bitch of sodas.

Not factor, but I did freshly for a while (which apparently went out of business). It was like $60 for 6 meals. I basically stopped it once I started working from home because not only was it too expensive (really, if you cook yourself you can make meals like that for 1/3 of the price) but it was also a hassle dealing with all of the packaging. Plus I had a few times where the meals got stuck in delivery and I ended up having to throw out the package because it arrived a few weeks late.

Muscles posted...

How do you deal with people like this?

Ignore them as much as possible for 10 years, throw them in a nursing home once they can't take care of themselves anymore, continue to ignore them for another 2 1/2 years until hours before their death. Then ignore all the bill collectors until they stop bothering you.

Or at least that is how I handled my mom, your mileage may vary.

Tekken Tag Tournament was actually really good, and had better graphics then the arcade game (but it also was basically Tekken 3 with all the characters and a tag mechanic). The rest of the games were mediocre to bad.

I never saw the point of a joint account, it is just another reason to argue about money. Like, if my SO wants to buy an expensive thing, they can, as long as they are still able to pay their share of the bills. Same with me.

The town I grew up in (Hilton NY) has an Apple Festival every fall. Imagine lots of apple pies, fritters, crisps, cobblers, etc. along with a bunch of other festival food. Awesome!

A town I used to live in called "Chili" (pronounced chi-lie) had a chili festival. It was pretty good.

I got the S22 a few months back, so no.

Anyone who wants to pay as little taxes as possible.

But pretty much anywhere south of North Carolina is unbearable to me around spring time until early fall. So if I did live there it would only be 6 months out of the year.

My last car was literally the first car I got rid of while it was still drivable. Usually I drive them until they break down on the side of the road and have to be towed to a junk yard.

I don't think there are any nearby, and if there were I am usually with people who don't feel like spending a car payment on one meal. Plus, if I am traveling to a place where there might be one of those restaurants I am usually trying to save money on food, not waste it. So my food options are usually "one step above fast food" or "hotel restaurant".

Better in some ways, worse in others. My reaction time is still good enough to play action games and the like, and my puzzle solving is at or better than it was when I was a kid so I can get through adventure games as well. For a lot of story heavy games though, I don't have the patience anymore and usually try to avoid them while I loved playing them when I was younger.

Wonder if this is going to mess with people who use a VPN to get region-locked content?

30's fine, fun even.

40 sucks.

There is only one reason a single man goes to Thailand and it isn't for the food.

DrewAllar posted...

I would like to know why it chose GTA III over San Andreas.

I think they confused "best" with "revolutionary".

GTA III was revolutionary, but I doubt many people would consider that the "best" GTA game. Later games were better in just about every aspect.

Same with Super Mario Bros. and Legend of Zelda.

shadowsword87 posted...

I think the ttrpg is a whale-only market. The videogame and books are for the more casual people. Why pay $100 for almost a squad when you can get a quality videogame and a some books? Especially for a handful of minis you need to painstakingly paint and adjust, dumping more and more time into something that's kinda fun (compared to other wargames).

A lot of systems (I.E. ones not owned by GW or WotC) tend to just require a book. Some of them don't require anything at all and you can get the rules through a PDF. Battletech lets you play games with just little scraps of paper representing your army if you like. The miniatures are just for the people who want them and in no way are required to play the game. Shadowrun has one book for DMs and players, and even that is only "required" if you are playing past level 5.

Judgmenl posted...

I don't have any comments on Nuclear. I love the concept. It's safe. Some of these smaller reactors you wouldn't even know that they are there. The university I went to had one on campus and I'd guess that if you weren't in the couple of classes where it was relevant then you didn't know.

My city had a "secret" nuclear rector housing weapons-grade uranium for over 30 years, and most of the residents didn't know anything.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna47417980

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-9M69-rdE8

LinkPizza posted...

You have stores with 20? Most stores Ive seen have 4. Some of the bigger stores more. But I think 8 was the limit. Maybe 10. But never more than that

The newer wallmarts have 20, ten at the grocery side, ten at the department side. Then maybe like 10 regular lanes in-between, but I have only seen 2-3 of them actually manned.