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I played one or two back in the day. Don't ask me to recite their names, I forgot. They never really stuck because I am not that into playing RPGs with complete strangers. Like, I will gladly play a tabletop RPG with friends, or a dungeon crawler/MMO with people I know, but playing with strangers never appealed to me.

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I'm 5'10", I am plenty tall. Anybody who thinks I am too short, that is their insecurities speaking, not mine.

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captpackrat posted...

Generally the only pre-ground pepper I use is white, because finding white peppercorns is actually pretty difficult. And white pepper is usually only good for certain recipes where black pepper would look bad (white cream sauces, etc)

I honestly don't think I have ever seen pre-ground white pepper. Only way I have been able to buy them are in tiny grinder bottles like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Alessi-White-Peppercorn-1-51-Ounce-Grinders/dp/B0019S70WS

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Yep, been doing it for a while.

Had a store one I had been using for a few years (those ones made of plastic that are "one time use"), but it recently broke. I bought a better one that is adjustable so I can use coarse ground for cooking and fine ground for table purposes.

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No, shopping malls in my area are pretty much clothes stores, zoomer entertainment (VR places, indoor mini golf, etc.), and Barnes & Noble.

I'll go into Barnes & Noble from time to time, but I never enter the actual mall.

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shadowsword87 posted...

Really? Mine just has name and DoB.

DoB is considered personal information, and can be used to dox people. It is actually a federal mandate that any system that stores someone's DoB has to encrypt it so that there is a separate layer of protection in case they are hacked. So yea, don't tell random people your DoB.

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captpackrat posted...

They had a sign in front of Sam's Club today saying that vaccinated people didn't need to wear a mask, but everyone was anyway.

I've seen someone who made a "multipass" plastic holder for the vaccine card and I want to get one of those to wear around.

I would never do that because your vaccine card contains personally identifiable information that people can use to dox you. However, if there was an app on your phone that could be scanned to let someone know you have been vaccinated (similar to how it is done with concert tickets nowadays), then that would be fine.

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D&D Online isn't too bad to solo if you pick a good character class (Barbarian is the one I use), decent amount of free content as well before you have to pay, and the prices are pretty fair. I haven't played it since Valheim released (February) but it is an older game so other then a few seasonal events there isn't really much happening with it. Still plenty of people online though.

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Congratulations man, great news!

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Probably playing Quake 1 and 2 online with friends from school. We even had a clan webpage and fought a bunch of other clans for rankings. It only lasted about 2 years before my other clan members started college and lost interest, but it was a ton of fun. I think I also mention that is where my username comes from, as it was a username I had to come up with on the spot when they were setting up the website. Yet I am still using it almost 24 years later.

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

From what I remember, from way back when, 1 was an RPG with shooter elements, while 2 was a shooter with RPG elements?

Very accurate description TBH.

Smarkil posted...

I think people forget how much of a chore the Mako was. In concept, it's fun, but in practice it's really a pain in the ass. It handled like garbage and every planet you explore with it (with the exception of story based/end game stuff) was completely barren outside of the couple of points of interest.

The probe shit was terrible at launch but made more tolerable later. It's still stupid, but I don't really see it as much more of a negative over the Mako.

I played through the trilogy one after the other long after they came out and I can honestly say I liked the Mako sections WAY more then probing or whatever 3 was. Like I said, it wasn't perfect for all the reasons listed, but it was at least interactive. Probing the planet was very passive and took away gameplay vs improving flawed elements. Then again, I have heard Mass Effect 2 described as "removing" gameplay from 1 vs. improving it so I guess that fits.


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captpackrat posted...

I preferred the weapon overheating system they had in the first game. With the right mods you could shoot all day and never overheat and you never had to worry about ammo. Though with the sniper rifle I usually stuck with the most heaviest-hitting mods, heat be damned. It's not like it's intended for close range use anyway, so waiting to cool down was no problem if I can one-shot a Geth Destroyer.

I think if they kept the weapon overheat and instead worked more on making it so every weapon was valuable and in some instances necessary it would make me like Mass Effect 2 way more then I did.

Instead they just switched to an ammo system and sent waves of similar enemies after you (and made it even worse in 3).

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captpackrat posted...

Driving around in the Mako was way better than that stupid probe-launching minigame.

Or Marco Polo minigame.

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I have to say, one of the primary reasons I bought a house after paying off my student loans was so that I could keep paying way less taxes. Well, that and living in an apartment sucks.

Once my house is payed off in a few years I might have to look into other ways of keeping the government out of my money.

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I found the first few runs can be a bit difficult because it can be stingy with ammo early on (Something other Resident Evil games don't do), and about halfway through the difficulty spikes quite a bit when you return to the mansion the second time. Unless you are following a guide, no shame in restarting if you are feeling stuck and using your lessons learned to try again. I feel like the game expects you to retry it multiple times and the remake didn't change that one bit.

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I don't think the solution is to make Community College free/cheaper. It is already very cheap and most people who qualify for FSA can go for free anyways. The problem is we need to get rid of the thought that Community College isn't a viable education. That isn't something that a president can magically sign a bill to make happen, it requires a lot of promotion and advertising of the benefits of Community College over 4 year Universities.

No one should be going to a $50k+ a year college without a plan for what they want to do with the rest of their lives, regardless of if they are paying for it or tax payers are.

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Yes, but I haven't touched it since October (I think). Primary thing I used it for is as a PS1, but I think the last thing I played on it was actually Silent Hill Downpour. I got about 1/3 of the way through the game and lost interest.

I would disconnect it and box it up, but I have a ton of blu rays I might want to watch in the future and it is currently the only thing I have that can play them.

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No, contingencies were put in place after WW2 that another WW is pretty much impossible. After Vietnam contingencies were put in place that another draft in the US is nearly impossible, more so given that wars are largely fought from the air nowadays. Worst that could happen is that some countries send troops over to support any "war" that happens, but even then it wouldn't be nearly on the scale of what WW1 or 2 was.

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No, as long as you are contributing to the household income or are going to school. Those were pretty much my dad's rules when I lived with him.

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Was getting stuff for super, saw a bottle of ranch dressing in my fridge, and just grabbed it and poured some into my mouth. Have no intention of using it for my meal, just felt like having a taste. Anyone else do this from time to time or am I just weird?

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pedro45 posted...

Whenever I hear middle class, I ask, "what is that even?". I've heard 250k from wealthy people, and among the less wealthy, it muddles.
America has a lot of poor people who at least don't feel it as much and wouldn't say they're poor.

Most of it depends on location. In my area, I am technically upper class, but if I had the same income in say LA, I would be considered lower class.

By your metric of wealthy people, I am in poverty though...

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teddy241 posted...

I always think of how we call people in america by their country first ie Irish American. But usually in those cases the person is legitimately Irish by blood and happens to live in America. Nobody really is American other than the natives

Technically they aren't American then since they immigrated too, just 15,000 years before we did. And if you want to get even more technical, everyone is African since we all started there and migrated across Pangea.

But as a serious answer, adding someone's home country first is just a way to honor their home culture, since American culture is largely just a mix of the hundreds of other cultures from around the world.

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12 isn't the worst one (13 is), but it is also one I never had a desire to go back to once I completed the main story. If anything, I think the lazy storytelling for Final Fantasy 13 started with 12.

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Yes and no. Depends on my mood and what I am doing.

Most of the time though, I would rather you give me a call so I can put some pants on before you show up.

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Probably about 6 hours total in 3 2 hour shifts.

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Nah, I just use a combination backing up on external USB drives and cloud storage. So basically if something dies I have 2 back-ups of my data to pull from. I also try to replace my USB drives every 5 years since they are so cheap nowadays.

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I imagine half that list is just speculation. Hell, people said 5 Guys would be going out of business for the last few years and it is still around. Still, I wouldn't be sad to see any of those go considering I can count on one hand the amount of times I "ate out" in 2020, and I have yet to go to a restaurant in 2021. Hell, half of them are long gone from my area anyways.

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Pre-ordered the Daredevil Charles Soule Omnibus and Batman Golden Age Volume 9 last night.

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Ehh, I never liked Legends from a gameplay standpoint and the game's story was nothing all that interesting anyways. Still, given that most of the other Mega Man series got a Legacy Collection, it wouldn't kill Capcom to just release a Legacy collection of the 3 games in the series for like $20. Especially since Legends 2 and Tron Bonne go for such ridiculous prices on the secondhand market.

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"Without Remorse" was always my favorite Tom Clancy book, it is a shame it took so long to make a movie out of it. Guess they never thought a John Clark origin story would be that popular in theaters.

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I still use my Yahoo email, but in a "I don't want to give you my real email address, so have this instead" way.

Honestly though, I am amazed Yahoo is still around given that all of the other sites they used to compete with in the 90's (Hotmail, Lycos, Mail.com, AOL Mail) have all long since disappeared.

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Yea, got quite a few games on it too.

Probably why my switch library is "lacking" because half the must own games I already have on the Wii U. Last thing I played on it was Breath of the Wild though, haven't gone back to it since beating that. Although I might just so I can complete Maiden of Black Water and maybe give Bayonetta another try.

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Rainy, gloomy, around 46F

It was snowing about 2 weeks ago, and a couple of days ago it was around 80F.

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I think as long as they are old enough to understand there is a time and a place for certain language (I.E. NOT in front of people of authority), then I don't see the problem with swearing in front of them or allowing them to use those words either.

Then again I am probably the worst person to raise a kid so take that for what you will.

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I never liked Mario 64, I just felt that as a whole, video game developers never "got" how 3D platforming should work until the mid 00's. Everything before that just felt like a downgrade from their 2D counterparts.

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Like what other people have mentioned, one of the things that is unique to technology careers is that learning doesn't stop when you leave school. Sure, that applies to all jobs, but it applies twice as much to technology jobs.

I have only been out of college for 15 years and already the stuff I learned in college is completely outdated (well, except for core concepts). I wen't from a PHP developer, to Java, to Scala, and to Python in that time. I originally learned to program on Sun workstations, now most people use Macs or Windows. Applications went from large "big iron" systems to smaller distributed systems. Databases from SQL to NoSQL. Even the tools I used to do my job are completely different. But the big thing is you have to adapt to the changes.

Once you learn that, you really won't have as much trouble as you think.

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DrPrimemaster posted...

Is that really a thing? I hate the constantly change culture. Is that a primarily US thing? I haven't changed jobs because I really like where I am, but everything seems to say you should constantly be jumping.

I worked at a place for almost 12 years, and still had no real issue getting a job after they laid me off (most of the issues were just remembering how to "prepare" for interviews, and finding jobs that fit my expected salary/experience range). So I really don't think it is that much of an issue. Maybe if you are applying to start-up who expect turnaround of about 2-3 years, but not for medium-large companies.

If you are happy where you are, no reason to jump. The only reason you should be maybe looking at other places is to see if you can get better pay/benefits elsewhere.

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Smarkil posted...

I'm not opposed to it but im just not sure what purpose it serves. It might be useful between large cities within states, but I'm not sure it would make sense for interstate travel. A lot of that already exists in more populated areas on the east coast - though admittedly the infrastructure is absolute garbage.

Conceivably the only way to do it on a national scale is by replacing the interstate highway system (which oddly enough is uniquely American only because we had an economic boom in the 40's and 50's when the popularity of consumer cars was at it's peak vs. later when it switched back to rail). The issue being that SOOO many people use the interstate highway system now that it is almost impossible. I mean, anytime they have to do maintenance it not only cost money to do it, but it costs businesses money due to the increased traffic times from closing just one lane. The amount of money it would cost not only the government but the private sector as well is impossible to fully calculate.

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hockey7318 posted...

Mostly use my little steamer thing.

This, except I have a full size one. Pretty easy, plus less chance of burning yourself and you don't need a board to iron on. Can just do it right on the hanger.

I only do it for my work shirts and khakis, which since I have been working from home since March of last year I haven't done in a long time.

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I have watched some stuff on BitChute. It is actually pretty good for gaming content since stuff doesn't get copyright strikes as often as on YouTube.

I have heard of Gab, but don't use it. I avoid pretty much all forms of traditional social media.

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10, too lazy to change the default.

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Blightzkrieg posted...

It's not ignored, it gets talked about all the time by nerds who want to ignore the political realities of the idea.

Everybody wants a nuclear power plant, nobody wants a nuclear power plant near them. That's not even getting into the storage of nuclear waste which is a whole separate unresolved issue.

Until there's a shift in public opinion nothing will happen. Given how selfishly people acted in 2020, I'm not holding my breath. If you can't convince people to vaccinate against a deadly infection you're not going to convince them to live near a nuclear waste storage facility.

There was actually an interesting case in my city where Kodak kept a secret nuclear reactor right in the middle of the city underground. People freaked out about that despite the fact it wasn't even large enough to cause issues if it did fail, and that it was there for 30 freaking years without issue:

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/local/2016/08/18/did-you-know-kodak-park-had-nuclear-reactor/88944080/

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Back then I had Chuck-E-Cheese parties where you would basically invite your whole class (and any other friends/family you had not in your class), so 20-30 sounds about right. Most of the birthday parties I went to I never even talked to the person who's birthday it was, I would just play games with one or two people I knew.

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7 years old (almost 8). I bought it new and only have about 60K miles on it so it essentially runs just like the day I drove it off the lot. Only thing I have had done to it are manufacturer recalls, oil and filter changes, and replaced the tires a couple years ago. Given how little I drive, I anticipate using it for at least another 5-10 years, maybe more if I don't get bored of it by then.

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Been doing it for 12 years, would never go back to using a monitor and desk setup.

You are limited to 60 FPS, but I don't really consider that a downside when you can play games on a 65" television.

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Least surprising MeToo alert I have heard.

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Far-Queue posted...

Oh nevermind I misread that lol

Hehe, no problem. I should have specified when the weather is really really cold.

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