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captpackrat posted...

There's this peculiar liquor store in Omaha...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b8e0cc30.jpg

That is pretty large for a liquor store, at least it would be in my area. Most of them are only 3 isles, 2 for wine and one for hard liquor. We have a couple that are bigger, but they advertise as "liquor warehouses".

adjl posted...

I think you're thinking of 2K, not Take Two. I made the same mistake on the first pass.

Take Two is 2K's parent company, so essentially the same. Just like Take Two is Rockstar's parent company.

Huh, for some reason I thought Gearbox was already under Take Two. They publish so many of their games I am surprised they weren't.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

You could fit so many dudes in that hole.

Body dumping party at Jen's house!

I only got a handful of those, I tell them there is a perfectly fine abandoned house a few doors down they can have and hang up on them. They haven't called me again in at least the last 2 years.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

https://youtu.be/vcl69RfGw54?t=20

First thing that came to mind.

keyblader1985 posted...

The dodgy parts of town don't have supermarkets (don't even get me started on that 100% intentional bullshit); the closest thing would be Family Dollar.

Pretty much that.

The closest thing they have is Dollar General or 7-Eleven.

Weren't there always the rumors that he helped Biggie kill Tupac, and that Biggie was killed in retaliation? At least, that is what I remember from the 90's.

So yea, are we really that shocked?

As a game, it actually isn't all that great. It was a pretty "behind the times" RPG when it came out and the interface leaves a lot to be desired.

Storywise, it is pretty good. But once you experience it I never see a reason to go back.

People who brag about how much money they have are usually the people who have less money than you think they do.

Seems to be missing a lot of that Tim Burton style, which is probably going to translate into a pretty "meh" movie.

No, I payed off my student loans within like 2-3 years of graduating. I would just make triple and quadruple payments on them until I payed them off. They probably only got a couple hundred in interest off of me on $30K in loans, Sallie Mae HATED me, LOL!

Also payed off my credit card just before seeing this topic, but I do that every month. I only put around $500 - $600 on it. Basically whatever I spend on groceries and gas that month.

Also no mortgage or car payments, so I am completely debt free.

When looking for a video of a stupid joke I heard about eating hotdogs, I came across this:

https://www.georgesgyrosspot.com/2020/04/14/are-you-eating-your-hot-dog-the-wrong-way-what-to-know/

Like seriously, who the fuck cares this much about how people eat their hot dogs?

Too much maintenance for only being able to use them 3-4 months out of the year (at least in my area). And indoor pools basically smell like a chlorine factory.

The RIGHT way to use AI is to have it give you the basic outline of whatever it is you want and you go in and touch it up by hand to turn it into exactly what you want. It just does the busy work and leaves you with the stuff that actually matters.

This is true no matter what you use AI for (writing, recipes, drawing, programming, etc.). People who think AI is going to replace humans have no idea of what abilities AI has. It is always a helping tool, not a replacing one.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

this is the reason

It is really just the business model of computers back in the 70's that Apple never grew out of. It is one of the reasons I don't like using them, if you use one product, you have to use ALL their products. Nothing is going to work smoothly together unless everything you buy is an Apple product.

But I still don't think it is worth trying to sue them over, I just don't spend my money on their stuff. "Monopoly" implies I have no choice but to spend my money on their stuff.

I don't think there is a "smartphone" monopoly given that Android exists and is #1 in mobile market share by a huge margin.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide

Sure, Apple is #1 in hardware for mobile phones, but it isn't like they are killing competition.

https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights/global-smartphone-share/

Still under 25%.

Redfeather posted...

Metroid inspired a whole genre of games.

Ultima essentially created the video game RPG as we know it today.

JRPGs, WRPGs, CRPGs, etc. None of them would have existed without Ultima.

Still my favorite game, on my favorite console. Probably have beaten it almost 20 times at this point, about half of them with 100% completion.

Beef is top, but I avoid eating it too often. Like maybe once or twice a week.

Chicken is second, and I eat that all the time.

I preferred Action Forms (Chasm, Carnivores, and Cryostasis) over them because the "Alternate Soviet Timeline" is a tired trope. Action Forms at least tries something different.

pionear posted...

Well don't come to NYC, esp places outside of the ritzier parts of Manhattan...you literally have to look down while walking the sidewalks...

I have been to NYC exactly twice in my life, and that is two times too many in my opinion.

slacker03150 posted...

If memory serves, it is also how a lot of European football teams are handled. I think it would be doable. The question would be would the NFL allow a new team like that to enter the league.

I think it is more a matter of "would the NFL allow a new team period". Only one team has been added in the 21st century, and only 11 teams have been added since the NFL and AFL merged (2 of those being AFL teams that got in a few years after).

The only way I could see it happening is if one of the existing teams were sold to a city, which would never happen.

pionear posted...

Who said someone was cleaning it up? Maybe she just leaves it there like alot of these Dog people here in NYC so someone can step in it and smell like dog **** all day

Try that in my neighborhood and you are likely to have dog shit left on your door step or car.

Smallville posted...

You do believe that that in your city that most of those tens of billions are wasted? You believe that most of that money is like corruption though, most of it is pocketed by individuals?

Again, I am in a smaller city so not "tens of billions" as far as my city is concerned is probably more like hundreds of millions. But on the whole, yes. Homelessness still exists, infrastructure is falling apart, traffic patterns suck, etc. If our money wasn't being wasted we wouldn't have to worry about any of those things.

Smallville posted...

oh so you do think that even that stadium money makes no difference at all, a drop in the bucket?

In the grand scheme of things? Yes. If money was distributed more fairly then I would care, but when city budgets range in the tens of billions per year for seemingly no benefit to the citizens, what is another billion every 20 or so years?

First, there would first need to actually be a major sports team in my city. We only have minor league teams.

Second, I probably wouldn't care. So much tax money is wasted on useless crap that an extra few billion isn't going to make a difference.

My basic method for deciding a TV is looking at what I have, going "could I use a bigger TV?", then ultimately getting something bigger.

So far I have a 65". Thinking when I need to replace that I will probably go up to a 75" or 80".

I primarily work with people where English is not their first language so it doesn't bother me that much.

Yea, I can understand liking it if you have literally no other options for wings. But really they kind of suck.

I remember when strategy/sim games used to come with 300+ page manuals just to over-explain the game and every possible bit of back-lore associated with it. And of course, when Myst came with a literal notebook (not just a few blank pages at the end of the manual marked "notes") because of all the notes you needed to take to understand everything. I still have a copy of the Red Baron manual that was basically a complete history of World War I, the aircraft, and the biography of every Ace featured in the game.

4TB SSD for "Active" games
4TB External HDD for Completed games

And probably about a thousand or so games that aren't installed yet from my library.

Ogurisama posted...

As long as its written in a way that someone who works over 32 hours a week already, keeps the same yearly pay.

So someone on a wage not a salary, ans is working 40 hours every week doesnt lose 8 hours a pay a week, it will be good.

I think a better solution would be to just do away with wages entirely and move everyone to salary, in addition to requiring anyone working over a certain amount of hours a week (32 in this case) to be given compensation for additional hours worked.

"Oh, I'm sorry, you want to cut my hours because you don't have enough work for me? Too bad, you still need to pay me the same regardless!"

I am more worried about the weirdo who is picking up and bagging her crap after she shits outside. Like, you know in some sick way they are getting off on it.

Texas should rename itself from "The Lone Star State" to "The Blue Ball State"

You can only do the "where is guy/girl going to get caught masturbating this time?" joke so many times before it gets tired.

I always say that AI/Automation/whatever is not going to replace jobs, it is just going to make them more efficient so that less people can produce the same output. Even in programming that is true. Ever use Spring Initializer to build a Spring Boot application? That is AI. It does 90% of the "bitch" work, and you fill in the business logic and fix any bugs in what it produced. So instead of having a team take 6 months to build a program, you can have one person do it in a month.

Personally, I am happy not having to spend hundreds of hours manually typing in hundreds of lines of code like we did 10-15 years ago.

If you want proof about how incompetent the government is...

Back in 2004, a judge was shot and killed in her home by someone she sent to prison. Chuck Schumer did a search on an application I used to work on (this was before I worked on it though, I was hired during the "fallout"), found that he can find the personal information of every government employee and freaked out. The government forced us to opt-out all VIPs from our system.

Fast forward 10 years, the CIA buys use of our application. In using it, they notice that a bunch of government employees are missing, and demand that we get them added in. We remind them of said law from 10 years ago that prevents us from adding them back in. They basically go "oh..." and I am pretty sure they still use that application to this day.

Fucking morons, the lot of them.

Sahuagin posted...

of the tiny list of NES RPGs I've ever played it left the weakest impression. (basically loses only to FF1.) if I played these games again today I'd have a different opinion.

I actually remember liking the game a lot as a kid. Even to the point where I had rented both FF1 and DQ1, and was actually disappointed when my parents got me FF1 for Christmas.

NES: I know a lot of people have a soft spot for it, but Legacy of the Wizard is a confusing, unfairly hard, mess. I get it is probably one of the first open world "metroidvania" RPGs, but it just does not work. They are trying to do way to much with the limited NES abilities. Runner up goes to Faxanadu, which is apparently from the same series.

SNES: Probably Drakkhen. I see a lot of people say 7th Saga as well, but I didn't think it was that bad. At the very least it is pretty innovative.

Genesis: Either Super Hydlide or Sword of Vermilion. I'll give it to Sword of Vermilion just because it is rather boring instead of "So bad it is good" like Super Hydlide.

Reading this guys feed, he seems like the perfect definition of an incel.

As for her, she looks like just about every girl I lived near in grade school. But I grew up in a rural farm community. However, everyone had the typical "mid western" American accent. Not the type of person I date, but whatever.

As for Tomboys, who gives a fuck? People have interests that don't fit their gender, bid deal.

LinkPizza posted...

I think Im talking about the ones who play it everyday for like a year, or until the next one comes out. Paying $20 a month for just that seems like a lot

Most people aren't going to care though.

How many people have subscriptions to stuff they don't regularly use? That is why subscription services are being pushed so hard.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

That would just be their justification to push for full cloud storage and streaming play. Don't have to worry about storage space when you're not storing anything locally.

I doubt that would happen in the near future given that even gigabit internet has a hard time playing streaming games without a very noticeable hit to latency. It is why Stadia failed so hard and no one gives a crap about Playstation Plus.

But subscription services like XBox Game Pass? You bet your ass they will push that hard. Difficult to make people justify paying $60-$70 for every game that comes out. But $20 a month for access to all the games? People will pay that easily even if they are just buying it to play CoD. It is why they are so popular. Minimal effort for maximum profit.

GRTooCool posted...

How long has this been a thing? o_o I feel dumb for just realizing it now.

Pretty sure it just started this year. Someone in the marketing department probably just looked at a calendar and went "March 10th... Mar 10... MARIO!!! Do it!!!"

Like I can't remember it being "celebrated" before this year and I have literally played and beaten every Mario game (outside of some of the "sports" games).

Revelation34 posted...

Rao's is absurdly expensive.

Carbone's is even more expensive.

I never had Carbone's, but Rao's was way to greasy for my taste. My go to is usually Newman's or the Wegmans Italian Classics.

SilentSeph posted...

RIP awesome repeatable Dry Bones near the merchant :(

Despite that, I was still able to hit the level cap post-game with less then an hour of grinding.

With the Exp Booster of course.

adjl posted...

They're still growing, but there are substantial diminishing returns in terms of player experience. Paying hundreds of dollars for a very marginal increase in visual fidelity isn't overly appealing. Meaningful growth now is going to be more along the lines of rendering more entities at once or otherwise having games that are more computationally complex (which is generally more of a CPU thing, as I understand it), or improvements in form factor like what the Switch did (which the Steam Deck has followed up and the PS Portal has quasi-mimicked).

We are basically getting to the point where graphics aren't really going to improve at a significant margin anymore. The only real improvements from 10 years ago are higher resolutions and frame rates. Compare that to the jump from 1974 - 1984, 1984 - 1994, 1994 - 2004, and 2004 - 2014. All of those are way more significant, and arguably an equally huge leap in fidelity. We are also at the point where we can't make processors any smaller while maintaining the same speeds. So a lot of what we are getting are software improvements like "Ray Tracing".

So while I don't think consoles will become "obsolete", they will likely be very different 10 years from now and arguably unrecognizable. We also aren't going to see the price drops like we used to, since I don't think they can be made any cheaper then they are now and companies no longer want to produce them at a loss to push sales of software since most titles are getting multi-platform releases.

And of course, Nintendo will do their own thing because they hold the spot as the largest gaming company worldwide:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1197213/market-value-of-the-largest-gaming-companies-worldwide

So yea, Nintendo won the console war people...

I would disagree on the 2D front, even as a fan of 2D Sonic. 2D Mario is just in a class of its own, nothing compares to it. 2D Sonic is easily in top 5 2D platformers though.

3D Mario easily beats out 3D Sonic, but pretty much everything beats out 3D Sonic except maybe Bubsy 3D. That doesn't make 3D Mario good though, just better by default.

To be honest, the only reason I ever notice DST is usually when I go grocery shopping on Sundays and I wonder why the clock in my car is off by an hour. Then after a few minutes my brain kicks in and goes "oh yea..." and changes it to what it should be. If it weren't for that, I would never know that it was happening.

boomer thing I have ever heard of.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/123aea3e.jpg

I literally just clicked "view my statement", WTF???