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What's hilarious is the thing that has drawn the most attention to this game in the past year or two is the hardcore version of Classic WoW.

I have seen more people talk about that then the last two recent expansions combined. What started off as an add-on has gotten so big that Blizzard is now implementing this in some of their own servers.

Genysis was complete trash, Dark Fate at least had some good moments.

darkknight109 posted...

People aren't reading the question.

It's not "keep working" vs. "retire", it's "keep working a barely minimum wage job" versus "do something else".

One million dollars - assuming that's after taxes and any other deductions - is over 30 years of minimum wage salary. There is zero reason to keep working that particular job if you just won a million dollars. If you win a million and aren't near retirement age, a healthy chunk of that money should go into upgrading your skills into a more lucrative career. A million isn't enough to retire off of these days, but it's more than enough to live off of for whatever time you need to go take some courses, or even a full degree, and get yourself in a career that will bring in more money and let you retire faster/more comfortably.

Well you could also invest that million and potentially generate enough to live off, if you can generate even 40k a year with that million it's like you upgraded that job while not having to work 40 hours a week. You could also use it to start a business or open some chain restaurant or something like that, there is a lot of things you can do with $1 million to make more money in the future.

darkknight109 posted...

It's not a matter of liking him or not or even the size of his audience (which was massive [proportionally] back when he was one of the only games in town, but isn't particularly big today) - it's that he was basically one of the first online video content creators in the gaming sphere. Dude was hugely influential and basically helped set the table for video content creation back when that was still a new medium online.

It's like not knowing who Hideo Kojima is - sure, you may or may not be a fan of his work - or you may not have even watched it at all - but unless you first got into the hobby within the last 10 years (which I doubt describes anyone posting on GameFAQs these days), you probably have heard his name at some point.

Well he also has an interesting style of review, which is not really out there. It's one thing to just be a rando reviewer it's another to do it with your own unique style. Obviously not everyone has heard of him but shit you could even look at the biggest Twitch or Youtubers on the planet right now, and some might not know them either.

Trust me at this point he was the main reason the Escapist was holding some relevancy nearly every other person they have is pretty damn mediocre at best.

The Mario movie wasn't amazing but a lot of people liked it though that was animated. Sony has done very well with the most recent Spider-Man animated movies this could be good.

Arcturusisnow posted...

If he loses this time he will be too old to run again so it won't matter. He would be 81 years old. No one is going to vote for an 81 year to be president. He would die before making his first decision. Hell (hah, that's funny cuz that's where he's going), he would die before taking the oath.

He will probably pull out the old have his son run then try to utilize his son to get whatever he wants accomplished done. Again Trump wants the same things guys like Kim Jong Un have indefinite power for his family for the rest of time. If Kim Jong Un dies tomorrow another one would rise to take his place, until that family as a whole loses power.

The only difference here is being President for more than 8 years takes a lot of work due to the laws we have.

fishy071 posted...

It depends on the person.

Studies have been done and the poorer a prisoner is treated the more likely they are to fall back into the crimes that put them there in the past.

Think about it even if they want to go straight they have a much harder road being an ex-con and in many cases have trouble securing a job even if they have some skills. Meanwhile if it's an ex-con that has no skills trying to get a half-way decent job is a nightmare.

But you can bet your ass if they live in shitty conditions those entire 20 years they are far more likely to get out and immediately go back into crime. Also no one is advocating for something like a spa or some high end hotel, we just want reasonable ones like some other countries have.

Yeah people talk about spending $5-7 on one drink at Starbucks I spend nowhere near that. I must be at a special Starbucks that really tries to bring those prices as close $0 as possible.

Right being restricted to being in one building for like 20 years is the punishment not putting them in horrid living conditions.

Trust me, if I made you stay inside your house for even 5 years without leaving once would drive you crazy, even if I provided all the food/drink you want, and you had plenty of entertainment.

Far-Queue posted...

Exactly. If anything, it's a cautionary tale about not reaching across the aisle, and only doing so when it was too late and you'd already dug your own fucking grave

Well it's more that the GOP is now two camps you are either a Trump supporter or you are not. The GOP is actually having more infighting than it ever did in the past thanks to Trump. So until Trump takes steps away from politics or something else drastic happens we will see shit like this.

Trump's goal seems to be turn the GOP into the GOTP for at least the next 20-30 years. Even if he loses the presidency this year or can't run, it seems the GOP will still be divided into these two camps.

No former GOP president has had this level of power over the party as far as I know.

Wired can have some issues depending on how they are treated, though wireless ones can too, it probably depends heavily on use case scenario, and the brand/quality.

KobraSum9 posted...

Sort of a common rule i have now.

Two rules i live by
1: Dont be terminally online
2: Stay in school.

As compared to being a conspiracy nut and lowering the average IQ of people. I even had to go to "myactivity" on google just to turn off the log so i didnt see the dumb stuff from average youtubers. But as a rule i put away all distractions outside perhaps the informal discord chat with friends when it comes to school homework
(but i guess USA politics is revolutionary blue socks vs red socks, not the rational representative multiparty system, so thats another wall entirely.) But thats what it comes down to. Freedom to be an idiot.

Well i have holidays now (1 week in fall)

But when its not then from Monday to Friday 8 or 9 AM to 16:00/4PM then its work time.
And weekend is lazy days.

But i gotta wonder with all these dorks who makes this low IQ podcasts and such. Internet is not real life.

But i think i read a Reddit post summed up pretty well to people who complain how life is hard.
"Life is easier if you arent stupid"

Not everyone that is online all the time is like this and with the invention of smartphones you can be terminally online even from work or school.

Sure some jobs make this more difficult but you can bet your ass I see plenty of low effort jobs and they spend 70% of their work day or more browsing the internet on the phone.

They make money hand over fist with the property anyways probably why they haven't devoted the tons of money and time it would take to make an MMO.

Merchandise, video games, and the trading card game already generate billions in revenue every year.

Ahh yes the classic addition to hot dogs black licorice, I am a pretty big fan of black licorice and even I would look at these weirdly.

Yeah my family started hoarding it because of the lack of supply in the area, we never went insane with hoarding but we had like 10 or so bottles. This was mostly distributed to family members in the area though so not like it all went into one place.

faramir77 posted...

I found out that my Wii U no longer connects to Wifi and no longer recognizes HDMI just yesterday after not using it for over a year. It literally died by sitting unused. Just another reason it was their worst console ever.

Virtual Boy says hi!

Play that thing for a few hours and you can easily get a headache, they even warn people from playing it for long periods in the instruction manual.

It's funny when people compare theme parks to children's playground equipment. They are vastly different I have never seen a 30+ year old man go down a childs slide by himself, or use a childrens jungle gym. A swing set might be the only exception but even then I rarely see that happen unless the childrens playground is empty, keep in mind this shit changes when an adult has a kid with them.

Meanwhile at a theme park the rides are designed for all ages, no one thinks that an adult going to Disneyland is weird. But yeah a 30+ year old man enjoying playing with children's playground that is weird unless that person has the mentality of someone the age of 10 or less.

Shit at at theme park many of the most ridiculous rides can't even be ridden by those 10 or under due to height requirements. If you are getting on a vicious roller coaster they won't let many kids ride that due to the lack of height.

If you are dumb enough to think that if a grown ass man plays with children that are not his own or friends of his own you need a reality check.

Yeah be a 35 year old man by himself, and run around a playground with 5 year olds playing, and see how fast the cops get called. Even if that man had no ill inattentions I bet most mothers would freak the fuck out.

I'm not sure what radical innovation a Spider-Man game could ever make. The PS4 game has a ton of polish and stupid amount of costumes/abilities most from what I know are related to a lot of alternate Spider-Man's, the game has a very fun combat system and traveling through the city is great the city feels very large and expansive.

But you can't go into a Spider-Man game expecting some radical shift, it's like being pissed when you play Gran Turismo that it's heavily focused on driving cars.

Solid_Sonic posted...

I was doing things like going to subreddits I'd never visit for any other reason and posting some random, off-topic, edgy bullshit to get a reaction.

Wow I'm surprised you got banned doing this! This is like some guy going into some random McDonalds and doing a lot of random annoying shit for a reaction then wondering why the cops got called.

darcandkharg31 posted...

Is she even relevant besides tabloid bait? I was gonna say she must be old by now but I forgot she was like 15/16 when she became famous so she's not a whole lot older than me.

She still does pretty damn well with concerts, it helps that she was so huge early on. People think she just sits at home and does random weird shit but nope she still does a good number of concerts each year and most sell very well.

GanonsSpirit posted...

You could just... not get all of them? Plus, unlike cable, you can just wait until the shows you want are available and get one for a month, then cancel. The "this is worse than cable" complaints don't hold weight, because the biggest complaint with cable was that you couldn't just buy the channels you wanted, you had to get all of them. Streaming services are channels you can choose to buy.

Depends on your watch habits if you want access to a wide array of things at all times you need at least a few of these. Sure if all you do is chase the hottest new streaming shows/movies you don't, at that point you could subscribe to two at a time or something.

NightMareBunny posted...

Paying for dish costs far more than that per month and most of the channels are showing low tier garbage or reruns of stuff like the office non-stop

Yeah I admit I cut the cord a long time ago so back then I was paying like $100ish for expanded cable without any premium channels like HBO. That was probably back in like 2017 or something like that it appears the cost has gone up big time.

It's a bit mind blowing how it seems that every streaming service is jacking up rates these days, we are getting to the point where the old days of Cable were actually cheaper then having every single major streaming service at once.

Even if you limit to the big boys like

Hulu
Netflix
Max
Disney+
Apple+
Amazon Prime

That is well over $100 a month, even if you divide the Amazon Prime a bit since it provides a lot of other things.

If you have never been to AZ it's obviously a scam or just a complete error of a similar name, either way it's not your problem best to just ignore it.

I wonder if he is actual trained to not pee on the carpet.

Revelation34 posted...

It would only be done in the far future if we ran out of space on land.

It might also be more necessary if global warming radically changes the planet, to where the water slowly encroaches and takes away more land. It would also dodge a lot of the weather issues that would happen from global warming, since deep in the ocean you typically don't have to deal with that stuff.

But we have no idea when/if this situation happens, until then it would be something to do just to say we did it.

Revelation34 posted...

Building underwater cities I guess. We don't have anywhere close to that kind of technology required though.

Even if we did the cost would be astronomical, it would be like building a city above ground then amplifying that price by about 100 times. It also doesn't serve much practical purpose today, it would just be a cool tourist attraction type of thing.

Space exploration is also about finding more inhabitable worlds, we haven't found another planet like Earth yet but that would be huge. Even if travel there would be an impossible task today, it might not be impossible 50 or 100 years from now.

This is around the time Jar Jar Binks was created and he basically is a black 30's stereotype. So really back then the racial connotations were less of a big deal if they made Jar Jar in the 2020's you can bet there we would be a lot more pissed off people.

The best Steve Harvey impression has been Kenan Thompson hands down, he is hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBov9YUvGss

When Kenan first came to SNL I had no clue how good he would be, he vastly exceeded my expectations.

Jen0125 posted...

Yes, I tried each RAM stick in each slot separately.

It honestly could be my CPU? The CPU light is red now and my computer has been randomly restarting for months now.

It's typically not a good idea to ignore early warning signs like a computer shutting off by itself. If you try to tackle the problem earlier you can run software that can help identify the issue in some cases.

This is like someone driving around with a car that has some issue for months then all of a sudden it's a huge issue.

AltOmega2 posted...

I know it's quite unAmerican of me but I don't even particularly like steak. It has to be really well-prepared for me to even think it's good, I simply lack the ability to enjoy a decent steak.

Anyone that smothers steak with ketchup or has it cooked well-done also doesn't really like it. So trust me there is a large portion of America that doesn't like them but thinks they do.

I also will point out you can skip ahead if you know they talk about 10-15 minutes before each one just skip to 10 minutes after the start.

Like most things it varies by the podcast, also as people do listen to the same group for a while you tend to start to enjoy those segments more. Similar to an update from a friend type of thing, where if a friend tells you a story about something that happened to them you probably don't go "Damn dude shut up!"

But yeah some podcasts are much better at moving straight into the main topic of the show.

What_The_Chris posted...

eh, not too much because i only conquered my fears recently, so:

BEG (belgrade)
INI (ni)
ZAG (zagreb)
VIE (Vienna)
ZRH (zurich)
BER (Berlin)
HAM (hamburg)
PRG (Prague)
MXP (Milan)

Logically flying is the safest form of travel, now that doesn't make it easy as heck to handle phobias. But you have a much higher chance of having a car accident than any issue with a plane. Especially when commercial air planes are typically safer than the smaller private jets that the rich people fly in.

Jen0125 posted...

It might take up to 8 months to get the permit because it's a new type of pool but I'm a patient creature. And my loan is sitting in a high interest rate savings account accruing $250 a month in interest

Permits can be a huge pain in the ass, my Dad worked in construction for over 40 years. He would have plenty of rants about dealing with that stuff.

argonautweakend posted...

Pat and Vanna had one of the sweetest gigs in Hollywood. They worked just a few weeks a year(I guess they filmed a years worth of episodes either in a few weeks or a few few week periods) and also paid tons of money.

I can't stand Wheel of Fortune, but it ain't Pat's fault.

They deserved every dime for a long time Wheel was the most popular game show in America. Whether or not Pat and Vanna were needed to get those ratings plenty of people watched and expected to see them.

This seems like it's about 30 years late to the party, a huge portion of those that actually have fond nostalgia for the 2600 (like they were teens when the system was legit) are either old as shit or dead.

You can tell when the rarest 2600 games are worth pennies on the dollar compared to NES or SNES titles that are also as rare.

I would buy it day 1 but I wont' be able to play it until August so it will be bought then.

EclairReturns posted...

Are teenagers so casual about relations, that they would carelessly toss them in a bargain that would gain them the opportunity to appear at some social event with a partner, and consequently dignity? Or did you include this option in the poll as a joke?

It's a bit of a running joke that most couples have sex after prom. Now obviously this is not true in 100% of cases but I would think it would be a pretty high correlation, especially since many kids experiment with alcohol typically on the night of prom.

I am 42 and he looks like he is easily about 10-15 years older than I am. Shit I have a buddy that is about 10 years older than me and even he looks a bit younger.

If God is real he would be a dick to make it so we can't do anything bad, free will is the point of being human. It's what separates us from slaves, sure would a society where no one could murder or hurt anyone be a better place in theory? Maybe, but humanity and free will are a good thing. It also makes it mean more when someone does something good because they are doing it by choice and not by being forced.

We are the only thing on the planet that can think and reason, almost every living thing on the planet is driven by animal instinct. Meanwhile we can determine what we we want to do then do it, not be driven purely by our instincts.

MightBeOverSoon posted...

Has anyone noticed how 'new atheists' deride religion as primitive superstition, but when you hear their hot takes it quickly becomes clear they have only the shallowest concept of it?

Nah, it's like anything there are morons on both sides. I'm sure if I dug I could find some stupid fucking statement from a die hard Christian. The Bible also has plenty of stupid shit in it, so backing that book is beyond ridiculous.

I have had a bit of a problem with some in the past, once you delete the game and the account 95% chance you never go back.

At that point the desire to start from scratch is usually a huge hurdle to any return. I was able to slowly ween myself off of spending but even back at my worst it was more like $300-400 over a 3 year period all together.

Yeah bro let's do game of the year comparisons with a game that has come out and hasn't come out.

This is about as dumb as people talking about the 2024 game of the year winner between two games that no one has played.

We have had Holocaust deniers ever since it happened, this is nothing new.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

lol no

no it absolutely wasn't

Once you had the most far right people on ignore it sure did seem that it leaned left. Crap it felt like most of the hardcore right wingers on there were troll accounts anyways.

DrPrimemaster posted...

Bob just seems to be in a ton of stuff as a one off actor. Apparently he was even in Seinfeld.

Its crazy, his backlog is just filled with small appearences on TV Shows and in Movies for 20 years and then he does Breaking Bad and becomes a household name.

Well keep in mind those are the jobbers of the business, they make their living doing parts in 1 episode of a random show. Many of them never hit the status that Bob did down the line, my uncle is good example he appeared in quite a few famous shows for like 1 or 2 episodes, but never had that big part that would make him a recognizable actor.

While when people think of actors they think of the big name ones first like a Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise, those are the 1% of the acting world there are 1000's that never hit even 1/10th that level.