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It is mostly a psychological thing for me at least. When I was 4 my parents took me to the pool for the first time, and without even thinking I just jumped in the deepest part. Nearly drown, my mom had to drag me out. After that, never had a desire to learn how to swim. Hell, with the exception of maybe once or twice in my life never even let my head be submerged in water after that. Even as young as 5 I refused baths and would only take showers.

As for school, my middle school had a pool, but we never had mandatory swimming lessons. You could even opt out of pool class if you couldn't swim.

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My entire experience in New Jersey was basically trying to get into a gas station on the left hand side of the road (where you couldn't turn left), and being told I couldn't pump my own gas once I got there.

Those 10 minutes in that state was enough to last me a lifetime. I never intend to go back.

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If macOS Big Sur is anything to go by, it will just be an automatic update to Windows 10. So essentially one day you will be on Windows 10, then the next you are on Windows 11 without anything being done on your end.

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Lokarin posted...

I just had to replace mine, it lasted a nice 5 years.

Wait, 12k BTUs? That can't be right... mine is 13k BTU and only cost $600... then again, mine only lasted 5 years.

Yea, mine lasted almost 30...

Plus that was with installation.

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I had to replace mine last year for $3500. Thankfully summer isn't too bad here so I could get away with the cheapest central air unit they had (~12,000 BTU). Although I wish I could have held up for another year because my electric company just started offering cold climate heat pumps, which would have been great since my furnace is 20+ years old and will probably need to be replaced in a year or two.

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OhhhJa posted...

It may not have been clearly explained but my nostalgia goggles comment was aimed at the tendency of older gamers to be extremely biased against 3D adaptations of the beloved 2D franchises of their childhood. Everyone has the right to their opinion, but I think unconscious biases involving childhood nostalgia play a huge role for a lot of people

For me it is a simple question of "Does this game work in 3D".

Sonic I think for the most part does (bad 3D games after Adventure 1+2 aside) because the game is still about speed and timing. Ninja Gaiden is another great example. On the other end, platformers didn't work in 3D for a LONG time. They slowed the gameplay down too much, revolved too much on collecting then actual challenge, and levels were focused on large areas you would go over multiple times vs. short and fun levels you can complete in 5-10 minutes.

Where does Metroid fit in for me? Somewhere in the middle. I fully admit the only way Metroid was going to work in 3D was in first person mode (with a 3rd person camera for Morph Ball), but they had to sacrifice so much to get it to work it doesn't feel like a Metroid game anymore. The biggest difference for me is that the stuff they took away (Screw Attack, Speed Booster, Space Jump) are upgrades that are meant to make the backtrack much faster. However, because they are gone, even becoming much stronger doesn't make those areas any easier or make you go through them any faster. It also means they had to get rid of the timer and speedrun type rewards because you just can't improve the speed of the game without sequence breaking. As a result, it just doesn't feel like a Metroidvania style game.

Also, I hate hate HATE the scan visor. It is just another tool to pad the game length to hide the fact that once you get 100% of the items there is no more replayability.

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AIM back in 97-98. Honestly I never liked using IM even back then, so I probably had a handful of people on my buddy list, then got rid of it when I switched computers.

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Metroid 5

https://media.giphy.com/media/sDcfxFDozb3bO/giphy.gif

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Mead posted...

because Japanese game companies are very averse to giving gamers things that they want

Well, that and console sales are non existent in Japan and everything there is mobile/handheld. They put them on PC just because at this point there is almost no reason not to since every platform is basically PC now and they don't have to pay console licensing fees to do so.

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Hot weather sex is best sex.

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I have one on my front door just to monitor who is ringing the doorbell or when packages arrive.

I would never put one in my house though.

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Looks like it is going to be the Origins/Dawn of Souls versions of 1 & 2. Kind of disappointed in that, wish it was the NES/Famicom versions. Also, what are they going to do with 3 since that didn't get a non-3D remake?

Also knowing Square Enix, these will probably be $10 - $20 each...

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Metalsonic66 posted...

Do they have a new one? Days Go By and Rise & Fall, Rage & Grace were great

Let the Bad Times Roll is their new album, just released a couple months ago:

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

Excellent album, highly recommend giving it a listen.

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Krazy_Kirby posted...

the one I got from nectar was rolled up in a box, vacuum sealed to be smaller.

queen+ sized mattress in a box only as long as the mattress itself, and just a couple feet wide

Works with those types of mattresses, not with the type I like (Extra Firm).

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Eh, at this point I kind of know what I want in a mattress so going to a store to test them out isn't as important anymore.

That said, I would rather have professionals try to manuver the thing up my stairs and into my bedroom rather then try to do it myself.

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Green Day, I didn't mind when they "Sold Out" in 94 (to me they were the same band, just with better production quality), but I haven't liked them since they "Sold Out" in 05.

Avenged Sevenfold, haven't been a huge fan of their work since The Rev died (Nightmare doesn't really count since he was mostly involved with the making of it).

Danzig had an Electronica period in the mid 90's till early 00's, but I have only heard bits of it. What I heard though I didn't like.

You could also lump in pretty much any classic rock band from the 60's and 70's who were still making music in the 80's (Pink Floyd, The Who, Rolling Stones, etc.), or most metal bands from the 80's who were still making music in the mid-late 90's. That will save me the trouble of listing them all here. Only real exception was Motorhead, they were awesome in the 90's.

Edit: Oh yea, and pretty much all "Punk Rock" bands just suck now. Except The Offspring, their latest album is awesome.

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Had to look her up, seen her in a few pictures/videos, but isn't really my type.

Shame though, seems most porn actresses either die broke, get involved with really shady companies in later years, or just end up completely crapped on by society at large.

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Nah, BBQ is a much better flavor. Ketchup just kind of sucks.

The best flavor chip by far is salt and cracked pepper.

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I had to do the Presidential Fitness Test just about every year. I had to look up shuttle run, I remember doing it once or twice in elementary school, but that was it. We also had to do rope climbing, which I actually liked since it was super easy for my thin frame.

I certainly hated square dancing, but the worst was gymnastics. We always had to practice for what seemed like weeks and they would invite the parents to watch our "routines" at the end of it. I always just picked pommel horse since it was the easiest, and conveniently forget to tell my parents what day the gymnastics routines where so they didn't have to see me.

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Wearing the same pair of underwear more than 24 hours is what leads to chaffing, and I don't want my nether regions chaffing. If you don't like doing laundry, just buy a bunch of packs of fruit of the loom and wear those when you aren't going anywhere instead of wearing the good stuff when you are just sitting around the house. That way you have 40+ pairs of underwear and only have to do laundry once a month (like me).

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I'll point at the screen, but never touch it. In the last 15 years I can probably count on one hand the number of times I have had skin to screen contact. Even when moving monitors I use a towel or microfiber cloth to avoid touching the screen.

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hypnox posted...

Thats how it is in most places. And its funny how a lot of people get (insert culture here)'s food and they get beef. Good example is Korean. Theres a VERY good chance that most native Koreans never had beef a day in their life but when people get "Korean" food they get Korean BBQ beef or the like. Which was typically for the very very well off and not the common food of the people until VERY recently.

A lot of that has to do with cultures mixing. I mean, there is the fact that beef is way more prevalent in some countries then what they normally would put in the food so they just substitute it.

For example, while Eggplant Parmigiana is an Italian dish, Chicken Parmigiana is American, strictly because chicken was easier to get and cheaper then eggplant back in the 19th century when Italians were immigrating.

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Mead posted...

who said that it was

MICHALECOLE posted...

so then Im at Safeway and buying alcohol and I show him my ID and hes like thats expired. First of all who the fuck looks at that. I am like I have the paper one in the car I didnt think Id need it, and he was like And I was like okay Ill brb

OP did, right in the bolded part.


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A few thoughts after reading through some of this topic:

1) This is the most Karen thing I have ever read.
2) Plenty of stores have policies that they can't sell you alcohol if you don't have a valid ID. Expired IDs are not valid
3) If you somehow encountered someone who was "cool" enough to risk getting fired because they sold you alcohol without a valid ID, then good for you. Not everyone you meet will do that.
4) It is not Safeway's fault that the DMV fucked up your license renewal, so I don't know why you are trying to argue with the teenager making minimum wage behind the counter about it.
5) Not only is license renewal by mail been a thing since before I started driving some 23 years ago, but they send you the renewal notice months before your license renews. So literally no reason for your license to expire.
6) No way in hell am I reading 150+ messages of something that should have been resolved in 5.

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It's not like anonymity is a new concept. Lots of people used to write opinion articles under pseudonyms so that people didn't know who they were. The Internet has just made it easier for your average person to do the same.

That said, I try to avoid social media since it is basically millions of versions of your drunk uncle telling you why the government is stealing your thoughts with weather balloons and satellites.

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I never had Monopoly as a kid, but we had this game:

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3343/go-broke

I always liked it more just because it is more humorous and less about trying to control the board.

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

Lowering the drinking age would make more sense.

Part of the problem with that is age laws are less about fairness and more about responsibility and statistics. Specifically, the drinking age one is because when the drinking age is 18 the number of drunk driving accidents increase by a large margin.

https://one.nhtsa.gov/people/injury/research/feweryoungdrivers/iv__what_caused.htm

So really the only way the drinking age is going to lower to 18 again is if driving becomes a non-issue (likely a multi-decade and multi-trillion dollar thing, so not in our lifetimes), or if some state lowers the age to 18, forgoing all federal funding that keeping the age at 21 gives them, and in 10-20 years it is determined there was no change in drunk driving incidents.

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I remember Doom 3 being a disappointment because it was such a different game compared to Doom 1+2 (not bad IMO, just different). Half Life 2 was really just Half Life 1 but with more of everything. ID Tech 4 was a more impressive Source, but I felt neither was as good as Unreal Engine 2.5 (which at the time, most pre-builds couldn't even run)

That said, I remember neither game really being able to be played on my PC at the time, so I didn't play them until I seriously got back into PC gaming around 2008/9.

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In the way you describe, I never was that interested. I never really felt the need to keep up on all the video game news and in a given year I can count on one hand the amount of games I pay full price for. Hell, until Google News was a thing these message boards were my primary source of video game news. Which seems odd to say since I have about 1000 PC games both digitally and physically and several hundred more console games.

In the sense of "playing games way less then I used to"? Probably around 2015-2016. Although it comes in fits and spurts. If I am playing a game I enjoy, then I'll devote a good amount of time to it. If I am in a lull period, I'll be lucky to spend a few hours a week.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

That's pretty much any ongoing service.

I remember having to take like 10 minutes to cancel NetZero when I used it years ago, because they keep trying to talk you into not leaving.

I have had some services (Garbage Disposal) where they literally wouldn't let me cancel. I called them 3 times, spent 10 minutes going back and fourth, only to have them hang up on me. Ended up having to remove automatic billing, ignore all their "late payment" notices, have them cancel my service and send my bill to collections, then pay off the debt collector the moment they called me. When I payed it off, I think I put something like "Fuck <name of company>". on the memo of the check just to give the debt collector a good laugh when they processed my payment.

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Makeup.

Well, a little bit is fine, but if I know you are wearing it from 10 feet away, then you have too much. ESPECIALLY lipstick. Good god I hate lipstick!

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Yes, and in actuality I find it hard to be friends with people who have the same political views as me, mostly because they want to do nothing but talk about them and create an echo chamber between us. I would rather have my viewpoint challenged constantly then have someone just parrot it over and over again.

Good thing my viewpoints are so radically different then most people that it almost never happens.

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Speaking from experience, most delays on projects come from one of two cases:

1) Poor or lack of Project Management
2) Unreasonable expectations from higher ups.

Granted, #1 can be broken down to a multitude of reasons, for video games mostly being underestimating the complexity of the project or changing the scope too much during development. But the point is it is almost never the case that they will advertise one date and know they are aiming for another date farther in the future. If anything, the opposite is true.

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Homemade Sprite made with real lemons and limes honestly tastes exactly like the store bought version. Like, I don't mean in a how Stouffer's frozen lasagna tastes kind of like homemade lasagna, I mean it tastes exactly like the store bought brand, minus the extra pulp you usually end up with. Compared to homemade Mountain Dew/Mellow Yellow, which tastes nothing like the store brand, and it is kind of surprising.

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My company has said that starting in September the office will be open full time again, but we are allowed to choose if we continue to work from home full time, go into the office full time, or do a hybrid. The only restriction is that you have to come into the office for important team meetings to foster collaboration. Our team has already decided to designate Wednesday "Meeting day" and let everyone decide for themselves if they want to come into the office or work from home the other days. Half the team doesn't even live in the same state so I doubt there will be much reason to go to the office the rest of the time except cabin fever.

As for masks and social distancing, lets say I have Thursday marked on my callendar as "throw out my mask" day. (well, my spare masks at least, I'll still keep one in my pocket when I go out if I need it)

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I can see this going to way of the NVidia Shield (which, unless I am remembering incorrectly, Valve tried to copy as well). Very niche, and probably not successful enough to warrant any significant change in the market.

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deoxxys posted...

Okay so heres the menu:
https://www.steak48.com/steakhouses/philadelphia/
And I honestly cant see myself eating $100 worth of food just by myself.

Even if we are taking into consideration that this is a fine dining experience.

If I am getting one of their steaks for $59-68 dollars (highest is $74). That still leaves roughly 30$-40 dollars left. After that I cant just get a salad because thats a low dollar item at only $12-15 dollars (for a salad lol). So immediately we look to appetizers which range from $10-24 dollars, with two outliers, one being $29 dollars but that wouldnt bridge your gap. It would take the $48 dollar Chicken Fried Lobster Tails to close that gap. They have other $30 dollar choices like the fresh seafood towers but like the appetizers these are things more meant to be shared rather then be consumed by a solo person.

And you don't get anything to drink? Their drink menu is $20 - $40 per drink (some are as high as $300 for top shelf). You could easily hit $100 for just steak and a couple drinks. So yea, $100 minimum is not hard.

In no way am I saying any reasonable person should be spending $100 on a meal you can make at home for 1/5 that. But if a business can make money off a people who will, I am not going to get angry about it. I'll just eat my meal somewhere more reasonably priced.

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Muscles posted...

I still wonder how that show got so popular, it's just your average run of the mill sitcoms

It's the 90's, sitcoms were huge back then.

That is like asking why Big Brother was so popular despite being your average run of the mill reality game show.

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It's a high end restaurant, people should expect to spend a ton of money on food there. Especially a high end Steak restaurant. And yea, any business would be pissed if you sit at a table for an hour and only order a drink or two, especially if they have customers willing to have a full meal waiting for a table outside.

I would be more pissed if the place looked like a greasy spoon on the outside, then when you got inside it was actually a 5 star restaurant with a minimum 5 course meal.

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High School was more fun, but College was more "important" since I was the first in my family to actually graduate from a 4 year college. Also, College was a pain because the way my school was laid out, not only did each "College" have a ceremony, but the University did as well, so it was also a busy day. At least Bill Clinton gave the speech at my graduation and I got to shake his hand afterwords.

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I thought Season 8 was great up until the ending. It just felt forced to make the show end on a happier note (and then the show had another forced season after that which still had a crappy ending).

Season 5 is probably my favorite though, followed closely by Season 3.

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Probably not that great, although I haven't been in an accident that I was at fault for in about 16 years (and my last accident that wasn't my fault was about 7 years ago). I consider that more luck than anything since I have gotten pulled over for speeding a few times and do run the occasional red light.

That said, I am a way safer driver than I was 15 - 20 years ago.

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I'm pretty sure the cost of all my physical games wouldn't even cover the deductible on my insurance plan.

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Mead posted...

What the hell is actually happening over at Blizzard

Activision

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Solid Sonic posted...

I had to lower the difficulty on both Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal.

Shame has befallen my household.

I mean, Doom Nightmare difficulty was built off of "We made the game so hard no sane person is going to beat it", even to the point that most Doom purists still say Ultra Violence is the difficulty to beat the game at. They had to bring that back for 2016 and Eternal.

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I'll be honest: Literally the only reason I bothered getting vaccinated. I never cared about getting the virus, I never cared about other people getting the virus, I just hated having to wear a mask every time I went into public and I wasn't going to be one of those people who is going to argue with someone making $8 an hour about it. So when it looked like the CDC was going to lift restrictions for people who were vaccinated, I signed up.

I haven't had a needle in my arm in over 25 years, but if that is all it takes to mean I can go to the grocery store and not wear a goddamn mask, then sign me the fuck up.

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Before covid, probably 1-2 times a week. I haven't eaten any take-out since covid though. At this point I am afraid to go back, it will probably make me sick since I haven't had it in over a year.

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