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Yeah, I only go for Platinum if either I love the game or the 100%ing doesn't look too annoying/time-consuming.

It's pretty alright, I'll go there occasionally. It does taste a lot more fresh than the majority of other fast food. It's all chicken though (hence the name), I don't believe they have other kinds of meat.

Top 5 anime you've seen in the last couple years?

Living with my parents from age 22-32 (moved back after college, even though I don't really count that as "moving out" in the first place honestly) was the only thing that let me save up and buy a house.

Wow congrats

cjsdowg posted...

No it's not the IDF killed people. And thisbwhat they do. They lie about what happened. 3 weeks go by and truth comes put but no one cares. The IDF killed an American reporter the attacked her funeral. What other group can do that and get the benefit of the doubt .

So theres no need for additional details or facts, this just applies in every case and theres zero nuance. We are just going on the initial chaotic reports.

This is a huge problem on this board and why its dumb to discuss anything remotely serious here.

It seems things are very murky right now about what actually happened. When the dust clears well hopefully find out what really happened.

I remember matching with really hot, model looking Asian girls on some apps that were quite frankly out of my league. They would message me and say they recently moved to the US for work or something. Never really got beyond the initial greetings as they were super dull to talk to and I started finding it fishy that I was getting multiple matches like this with the same type of profile. Pretty sure those were all pig butcher scam attempts.

I of course stopped liking those profiles and for a while Facebook Dating in particular was infested with them.

I was legit beastly at Call of Duty 2 online on 360 back in 2006-ish.

Zikten posted...

I had both the Two Towers and RotK. But yea, RotK was a big improvement

This, I had both. Actually played a lot of co-op ROTK with my little sister. We were both huge into LOTR, watching the DVDs a million times and waiting for ROTK to hit theaters. Those were some nice times. I actually moved recently and found both games in my box of old video games.

Daily post until someone wins.

Heres my post.

I thought they were cool too but they always have the same results/winners (Ocarina of Time or FF7 for the best game, Link as best game character, etc) and kind of got dull as a result, so I dont really blame the site for wanting to retire them if they indeed have.

Kaldrenthebold posted...

I finally checked out some gameplay videos of this, it really does look like they just aped Ghost of Tsushima with some weapon variety and weirder enemies lol.

I prefer lethal mode in Tsushima cause it's so enjoyable to be in a real life or death fight, but this looks like it mixes a bit more Sekiro in here.

Judging from the fact that this is Team Ninja (makers of Nioh, Ninja Gaiden) Id expect the combat to be significantly more in-depth than Ghost of Tsushima. This also takes place about 700 years or so later so Id expect a lot more weapon variety.

WingsOfGood posted...

What is their problem?

No fun allowed and they believe that video games for nerds actually have an impact on IRL social issues even though like a negligible percentage of the general population consumes them.

It was really addicting and satisfying to build the roads.

If you just went on one date from Tinder and that was your only real interaction then honestly you were really nothing to her. So yeah youd probably get ghosted in this situation. You were probably like barely a step above stranger.

Compsognathus posted...

I would argue that repeating a nation's oath until it's mindless routine is indoctrination.

Its mindless routine from day one. Nobody cares about it or what theyre saying. Ask anyone in the US if they even know the words to the national anthem. I bet most dont and could probably hum the tune at best

There is definitely indoctrination happening to some in the US. Sending a kid to some hyper conservative church from day one? That is. But I dont think the national anthem or pledge of allegiance are doing any actual harm at the end of the day.

This is one of those enlightened Reddit viewpoints. Nobody thinks anything of or absorbs/takes to heart the pledge of allegiance when they say it or the national anthem when they hear it. Theyre both basically background noise and do not even come close to indoctrinating anyone

Man Im glad I didnt get this on Switch

weeb98 posted...

there were some really hot women at my gym and ive never even seen a man stare at them at all.

This. There are some extremely hot women at the gym I go to, never noticed a guy staring let alone approaching them. People there generally seem respectful and keep to themselves.

However I do try to go at the least busy times possible (Saturday evenings, weekdays late at night). So maybe I miss all the action.

Irony posted...

Spooky ghosts

Lol, this is the main thing I'd want recapped. I remember the events that were the same as the original game, but I don't remember WTF happened with the ghosts and that giant ghost boss you fight at the end. Maybe I couldn't even tell what was happening when I played it.

Is there a good recap of the first one anywhere? I don't remember a lot of the stuff and I'm not replaying it. Also never did the Yuffie DLC thing.

Im slightly bitter about having a feature on a major body part taken away without any input on my part, but I cant say its something I think about very often at all.

I think the grass is always greener on the other side. At least, for a lot of people.

Definitely play the original first. It's fairly short and easy if you focus on the main story.

If you told my 87-year old grandparents that you think you're old at 30 they'd be laughing their asses off.

Are you a kid anymore at age? Absolutely not. You should have established yourself by 30 or be well on your way to doing so if you're anywhere near on track. Ideally you'll have a decent job, not living in your parents' basement (though I guess with the housing situation being what it is, we can be more flexible on that part) and dependent on them still, etc. as you've now had a full decade (20s) to mess up and try things out. But even if you don't have these things, there's still a bit of time and you're not "old" yet.

Even 40 isn't old. "Middle age" doesn't necessarily mean old. I'd say when you hit 60, yeah you're legit starting to get old.

Absolutely.

A no if I had to wear it to work (Id get written up and then probably fired if I ignored the write-up to wear it again the next day).

Yes if I just had to wear it while out in public running errands etc

I didnt like it either.

Speaking of working expanding your circle, I have made some really good friends from work and have dated a coworker. Never would have met those people if it wasnt for work.

Thats not really the sole/main reason I didnt like WFH though. It just felt weird at times and for some reason felt like it dragged so badly time-wise compared to being in an office. WFH work days felt like an eternity and I would be going crazy.

Also Im always kind of suspicious of those who are like pshh, I get just as much work done if not more at home! Im always kind of like, sure ya do.

Manmade. China was 100% messing around with it in a lab and it got out. I dont think it was necessarily meant to be a bioweapon. I think a lot of scientists tinker around with viruses to try to understand them better etc. I think they were doing something like that rather than anything actively malicious.

Smallville posted...

yeah is there any other food that goes bad faster than sushi, salad maybe? You can get sick frequently from sushi right?

Ive never ever gotten sick from eating sushi, and Ive had some questionable supermarket stuff before

haloiscoolisbak posted...

I think that's best. Be grateful you actually get a chance to talk it through with her in person, I've had to do similar stuff over text and it sucks

Yeah I have her pie dish to return but even without that pretext it wouldn't be hard to see her again. We were/are friends (she even called me her best friend at one point).

I do wonder if dating me was more of a whim/impulse thing she decided she wanted to try, and it just wasn't interesting enough to truly pursue. In past conversations she'd tell me about dates she was going on, her type of guy physically (which was the opposite of me), etc which isn't really a conversation you'd have with a guy you're interested in. There were minor signs here and there of a possible interest in me (she'd get annoyed if I talked about women at our previous shared job I was interested in and discouraged me from using dating apps) but I always thought it leaned way more toward platonic with her. But my point is I don't think she had always liked me.

haloiscoolisbak posted...

Fuck it sounds like a bit more communication could have fixed this

Maybe. I mean I'm not going to pester her about it over texts but I imagine I'll see her within a couple weeks. I'll try to bring it up in person and find out how she felt about everything. I have her given explanation which could be legit of course but I feel there's more to it for sure.

Guide posted...

But if you wanna know what happened, she is young, putting herself into a vulnerable position with someone older, and so felt exposed and insecure. She was looking for cuddles and romantic sex at the end, there. Your awkward cold feet felt like rejection to her. Regardless of whether or not she understands that she wasn't rejected, that feeling on someone in her position is going to have a chilling effect. That's the opposite of what you want from a romantic prospect, and so, even if she still thinks you're a decent person, you no longer have the romance flag in her eyes.

That thought crossed my mind when she left my house on Saturday. It could have been a misread on my part but as soon as she walked through the door, I felt a slightly cold vibe from her. Just a "Hey." when she walked in and no hug to greet (or opportunity for me to give her one). We had fun conversations but we had those also when we were just friends hanging out.

When we were on the couch later I just got the vibe that initiating touching wouldn't be welcomed even though we were still conversing. Sat a little distance from me, pretty sure scooted away from me at one point, arms crossed over her chest. Last thing I'd want to do would be to make an unwanted physical advance on someone that's alone with me in my home. I acknowledge I could be wrong though. I mean if she was smiling and looking at my face more, brushing against me a little I would have taken that as a green light (not necessarily to bang but at least for cuddling).

Guide posted...

I literally, physically cringed so hard that I hurt the clavicular head on my left pectoral.

Now imagine living it. And if it really was the reason for it all coming crashing down I'll probably randomly remember it from time to time for the rest of my life.

Smashingpmkns posted...

Sounds like she's in a bad place. Just give her space. Tell her you're there to hang out whenever she's down and let it be for the moment

Yeah that's pretty much what I did. I told her it seems she's stressed with a lot of stuff and to hit me up if she wants to talk. I told her we'd reset and hang out again but "maybe in a few weeks".

I remember the day I bought ODST. I almost got into a car wreck on the way to pick it up from Gamestop.

St0rmFury posted...

Ouch, TC.

tripleh213 posted...

Damn bro...

Lol, so it does seem as irreparable as I think? I'm planning on hanging out in a few weeks (as I said we were good friends before) and considering asking her one more time if it was anything I did, and to please be honest as my friend even if just for the sake of helping me in the future. But maybe not as she probably still won't tell me the truth.

Monkey_Shines posted...

Send her a dick pic

I think I'm now out of the window of about one week where there was the possibility she would have wanted to see it.

I made a topic about it a few weeks ago but I doubt anyone remembers it. Anyway I'm not looking for advice I guess (though wouldn't mind it even though I think there's really nothing more to be done) but rather just want to tell the story and get it off my chest.

It'll probably be way long so turn back now if you're not down to read a story.

Anyway this is a former coworker who I've known for a bit over a year. She left when she got another full-time job somewhere else. There's also a bit of an age gap here, (she's early 20s and I'm early 30s) but we got along really well at work. We started hanging out and became friends after she left my work and it was definitely platonic though there were small signs here and there of her being a little interested, though I thought nothing of it and was content being her friend. This went on for 6-ish months.

A turning point is when we went to Disneyland and I started to definitely feel there was a mutual attraction growing during that trip. I won't get into the details but there was plenty of signs and we spent the whole day together. This was a bit less than a month ago.

Anyway that was more or less confirmed when she asked me out the weekend after that and specified that she was asking me out on a date. She asked if she was too young for me and I said I didn't think so and let's give it a try.

So we went on the date the weekend after, she dressed up super nice for it (nice dress, hair done up, heels) and we had dinner and a saw a movie. We've done that before plenty of times but it was an official "date" now. I really felt like we both had a blast, plenty of talking/laughing/touching.

I dropped her off and before she got out of the car, I asked if I could kiss her. She said "Sure!" all happy and leaned in for a kiss. So we kissed but it was fairly brief. I mean, first kiss with someone new and all. When we pulled away, she said "That's it? OK, bye (my name)...." and started packing up all her stuff. So I called her in for another one and she grinned. However I was thrown off mentally by her "that's it" and was nervous as a result, and it was a pretty bad/out of sync kiss. Wasn't sure what she wanted and I felt we were trying to do two separate things.

Can't remember if I pulled away or she did. Anyway when that ended she was pretty quiet and just gathered her stuff up and said bye, and got out of the car. I definitely felt like that went wrong.

So the next day I texted her and asked if for our next thing, she wanted to come by my place and we could cook something together and just hang out as I wanted to show her the house. Part of it was I wanted to see if she'd flake after that awkward kiss moment. However she said sure and seemed enthusiastic, was still sending heart emojis with exclamation points etc. She said she was going to bake me something to bring and said she was looking forward to coming over. Since it was weighing on my mind I told her I owed her a better kiss next time, and she said don't worry about that, it's not an issue and that we just started dating.

A couple days later I found out she quit her new job. It was a pretty good full-time position with a City government (similar to what I do). She had talked about how stressful it was to me before but I thought this was a pretty bad and impulsive move. It wasn't stressful because the work was hard (according to her) but rather because she just didn't like her coworkers. If she would have talked to me about it, I probably would have tried to talk her out of it until she had a new job lined up. I asked if she was still up to come over given all the stress, she said of course with a smiley face.

So the day came when she came over (last Saturday) and she brought me a homemade pie she made along with ingredients she prepared for the dish we were going to cook. She was friendly, we joked and laughed like we usually do, but she was also kind of cool and distant. Not kind of all over me at times like she was on the date. After we ate we sat on the couch and watched Netflix. I definitely didn't invite her over to try to push it toward sex or anything but I hoped for a bit of cuddling on the couch. However her body language wasn't inviting toward that at all (crossed arms, putting distance between us). I could just tell so I didn't try to initiate any sort of touch.

After a couple hours she said she had to go and just left abruptly. Walked out the door with just a hurried "well, bye" and no hug like she always did even when we hung out platonically.

I texted her and asked what was up, if she was still interested in dating because I didn't get the vibe tonight that it was anything other than a friend hangout. She texted back saying something like:

"I just feel like you have your life together way more than I do. I feel like I need to get my life sorted out first. I don't know what I want yet and I don't want to waste your time. I feel like we're in two very different places."

She then said she wanted to stay friends and that it was "absolutely not anything you did at all".

So my thought is that the explanation sounds like a typical excuse when you don't want to tell someone the real reason. I'm thinking I somehow screwed it up when a woman actually liked me enough to ask ME out. We're definitely in two different places (I own my home/have a job while she lives with her mom and is now unemployed) but she knew that from the jump and knew it didn't bother me and that I didn't judge for it. I have a hunch it was the whole kiss situation but if it was I doubt she would've came over?

Side note, the pie was amazing.

I started lifting (no steroids obviously lol) and while I absolutely dont look swole or jacked I definitely look a bit bigger and stronger. My shoulders, chest and arms have definitely got more volume to them.

so you can still improve your body but yeah I guess to look truly buff or whatever you either have to do steroids or dedicate your life to the gym and making sure your nutrition is on point.

Ive had it twice already lmao.

radical_rhino posted...

Should I play FF7 on Switch before starting the remake trilogy? Im thinking it may make me appreciate the remake more, but on the other hand the remake may be more enjoyable if the plot is completely new to me.

I would just do it. Taking into account what the other poster said, and also the original game still holds up and is actually fairly short for a JRPG. I remember it feeling epically long as a middle schooler but I replayed the remaster semi recently and it was only about 30ish hours for the main story (and really easy unless you do the harder side content)

Yeah, I was kind of surprised to hear it but its nice to switch things up once in a while. There are always the same American/Canadian voice actors in everything.

Theres nothing wrong with this if the assignments/tests are curved and it affects your grade. If theyre not, I still wouldnt accuse you of doing something wrong but I personally wouldnt have bothered.