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| Topic | Smashmouth is currently in hospice |
| adjl 09/05/23 8:16:46 AM #15 | BADoglick posted...
shrek, an awful movie This is perhaps the worst opinion in the history of the Internet. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why can't indie RPGs ever get the story right? |
| adjl 09/04/23 5:35:42 PM #24 | ParanoidObsessive posted...
RPG mechanics really don't add to narrative - it's usually just something that exists parallel to the story rather than integrating with it. Or when they do, it's in the form of the choices you make to build your characters influencing how the story unfolds, but that exponentially increases the amount of writing needed, often beyond what smaller studios can realistically accomplish. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why can't indie RPGs ever get the story right? |
| adjl 09/04/23 3:26:03 PM #17 | Judgmenl posted...
It's basically not worth interacting with modern games because expectations will never be met. That sounds like more of a problem with your expectations than with the games. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | the emperors new groove is the best disney animated movie |
| adjl 09/04/23 3:24:03 PM #26 | Atlantis feels like it should have been like an hour longer. They had so much potential for interesting worldbuilding and more meaningfully developing Atlantis, but instead everything about the story after they actually arrive in Atlantis just gets railroaded through a really straightforward plot with an obvious twist that doesn't end up meaning much of anything. Given how much research and lorebuilding went into it, I can't help but suspect that the team wanted to do more but Disney didn't want to make a longer movie and force them to trim it down.
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| Topic | the emperors new groove is the best disney animated movie |
| adjl 09/03/23 11:03:38 PM #2 | It's definitely up there.
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| Topic | Personal debt |
| adjl 09/03/23 11:12:35 AM #4 | That's a bit of an odd way to phrase the question. My most pressing debt is my credit card bill, in that the interest rate is much higher than anything else and I pay it off as soon as I can, but that's not a debt I carry long-term. I pay it off every month, such that in the entire time I've had my cards I've paid a grand total of like 70 cents in interest because I forgot to pay it on time once. My largest debt is my student loan, but that's not very "pressing" in that it's zero-interest and I just keep making slightly more than the minimum payments on it (when they took the interest off of the federal part, I just adjusted my payment to match what I was already paying with interest for the sake of bringing the principal down a bit faster). Otherwise, I bought my car outright, have no medical debt because Canadia, and the only mortgage I pay is someone else's.
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| Topic | Games that struggle with difficulty |
| adjl 09/02/23 11:30:57 PM #9 | agesboy posted...
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn shuffled the difficulty names around when it got localized (Normal/Hard/Maniac -> Easy/Normal/Hard). I feel like Path of Radiance in NA was harder but I can't remember why PoR's NA release just left out Lunatic mode altogether, having only Normal and Hard. I don't remember off-hand if there were any differences in names between the versions, but I do know that a lot of people found normal pretty easy. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why do I feel like my SO and I are poor-adjacent? |
| adjl 09/02/23 10:37:22 PM #6 | "Poor-adjacent" is a bit of an exaggeration, but you're also not into comfortable financial territory yet with the current state of the economy. It may help to start tabulating your finances in more detail, trying to break down exactly how much you're spending on different things, what your monthly cash flow looks like, and some projections for what your savings/investments might look like in a year or two's time or what kind of catastrophes you could handle (like if your car died tomorrow). If you only have a vague idea of how much wiggle room you have, it's pretty hard to be confident that you have it, so by more precisely quantifying your financial situation you can reassure yourself that you're in a safe position.
Of course, this can easily spiral into obsessive bookkeeping and coming up with more and more outlandish ideas of financial catastrophes you might end up needing to prepare for, so if you find yourself doing that, maybe take a step in the other direction and quantify your finances less thoroughly. If you know that you are in fact in a reasonably comfortable financial position, trying to quantify exactly how comfortable may create more stress than it alleviates, such that ignoring it (while not being an idiot about your spending, obviously) may help you feel better. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Can you afford to buy a house on CostCo wages? |
| adjl 09/02/23 8:44:25 PM #18 | Judgmenl posted...
Wow that is absurdly low by today's standards. You are lucky to find something for $2000/mo. $ 1500/mo will give you something sketchy at best. I am actually seeing rentals in my town near $3k/mo. Yep. Now, MA's minimum wage has increased since 2013, but you're still going to be lucky to find anything that you can rent for 30% of minimum wage, let alone anything that hasn't substituted cockroaches for drywall. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Im creeped out by Ring cameras |
| adjl 09/02/23 1:00:56 PM #32 | captpackrat posted...
If it has night vision with an infrared emitter, a retroreflective vest will dazzle the hell out of it. It won't do anything for daylight or passive IR. Nifty. I guess it does make sense that they can't be totally defeated by a shiny vest, since that'd make them pretty useless. Lasers dazzling them is expected, but not altogether practical unless I'm planning to attack a specific camera (which I'm not), but the IR LED idea is an interesting one. Any idea what that would do to collision detection features in cars? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Can you afford to buy a house on CostCo wages? |
| adjl 09/02/23 12:19:36 PM #16 | Judgmenl posted...
I work on average 60. But you're also a sucker whose inexplicable obsession with company loyalty is being exploited by people who are all too happy to have you work uncompensated overtime, as are the coworkers whose work you're doing for them so they're free to slack off. You're not really in a position to criticize anyone else for not having a backbone. Anyone working 40 hours should expect basic livability for that. Period. Working more than that should be a choice one makes to accumulate spare income faster, not a necessity to have a roof over one's head. Also, reverse image search is telling me that that infographic is from 2013. The original source is 404'd, but there are a few contemporary articles discussing it that mention specific figures, such as the Fair Market Rent for a 2-bedroom apartment in Massachusetts being $1251/month. So the modern situation is actually considerably worse than that image suggests. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Do you believe that the u.s. economy is doing better now than |
| adjl 09/02/23 11:06:28 AM #27 | Judgmenl posted...
OP is talking about retail businesses and local retail businesses are practically non existent in my life time. Maybe in Canada. By all means, please continue to tell me what stores do and do not exist in the outside world that you haven't actually seen in a decade. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Im creeped out by Ring cameras |
| adjl 09/01/23 9:49:16 PM #3 | I sometimes wonder how well super-reflective material could mess with them. I know a lot of reflective stuff tends not to photograph well because cameras automatically adjust to the amount of light they throw out and that darkens everything else, but I don't know how much it would take to actually consistently blind them.
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| Topic | Have you been compensated for inflation? |
| adjl 09/01/23 9:44:00 PM #30 | OhhhJa posted...
Yeah, i agree completely, but there is pretty much no company that is going to give you a raise to match the inflation we've seen the last few years. They're just gonna keep their 3-4% bs and act like that's all they can do It also doesn't help that most employers aren't the ones making record profits and actually benefiting from the inflation, so they aren't actually in a position to be able to compensate for the cost of living increase. It's the greed of a relatively small number of people driving much of this, at the expense of everyone else. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | So, some states are trying to pass new internet laws (KOSA) or something |
| adjl 08/31/23 10:45:57 PM #17 | Muscles posted...
How about parents actually parent instead of making the government do it for them? Because corporations are constantly pushing the envelope as far as manipulative advertising goes, with children being a particular target for that because of how malleable they are. Keeping up with that to such an extent as to prevent mental health issues and other problems requires significantly more than just paying attention to your kids. It requires genuine effort to stay on top of emergent research (the same research corporations are using to advance their agendas) and a considerable amount of scientific literacy across multiple fields, all of which is far beyond what can be expected of the average person. Yes, a lot of those problems can be mitigated by taking a more active role in your children's life instead of letting whatever technological babysitter is most relevant to the era we're talking about have unfettered access to their minds, but the problem runs a lot deeper than that. It's not going to be solved without some kind of organized effort to push back against and regulate it, because laypeople simply cannot be sufficiently equipped to keep up with the arms race. An organized regulatory effort is government. Now, that's not to say that efforts from the government to regulate contemporary media tend to work. Most governments (especially ones as old as the US') are largely out of touch with current media trends and tend to operate more in terms of emotional rhetoric that appeals to voters instead of listening to subject matter experts to guide effective intervention strategies. That's a problem. But foisting the whole solution onto individual parents also isn't going to work no matter how many libertarian textbooks you spooge all over before making the suggestion. ParanoidObsessive posted... My usual stance is that any argument or proposition that involves "think of the children" as part of its justification is probably objectively wrong. Because it almost always is. Conversely, however, letting that cynicism get in the way of recognizing and solving problems that genuinely are harming children is no less wrong. Yes, "think of the children" is almost invariably a shallow emotional appeal from people who have nothing more meaningful to say, but also the children should be thought of in instances where there is objective harm happening and something can be done to prevent that. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Have you been compensated for inflation? |
| adjl 08/31/23 10:12:51 PM #23 | OhhhJa posted...
Are there really jobs out there willing to compensate you for rent going up 40% in like 2 years? Most would laugh in your face if you asked for like a 20% raise to keep up with cost of living I think lol And yet when people are asked to keep doing the same work for progressively less and less purchasing power, that's considered normal. It's almost like the economy is fundamentally broken. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Starfield Reviews are in... |
| adjl 08/31/23 9:08:41 PM #21 | MeatiestMeatus posted...
I understand some people have a surplus of spare time but I don't. No way I'm sitting through a dozen+ hours of a game to get to the "good part" Even without time being especially limited, there are just so many other games that get good so much faster than that that slogging through 12+ hours of not-good to get there is a hard sell. It kind of depends on what they mean by "gets good," though. If it takes that long for any particularly redeeming features to show up? I don't see much point in bothering with that. If you can see the bones of something that will get interesting as it gets fleshed out further, and it just takes a while to lay the necessary groundwork to build into that? That's more justifiable. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Mario direct in 4 hours |
| adjl 08/31/23 12:06:23 PM #17 | I don't know why anyone would ever want to co-op a platformer with anyone they couldn't punch.
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| Topic | Have you been compensated for inflation? |
| adjl 08/31/23 12:03:22 PM #14 | More or less. We went on strike over it back in April. We got notably less than was actually needed to keep up with inflation, but we did get a solid raise. The new pay rate kicked in about a month ago and I'll be getting adjusted backpay as far back as the new collective agreement goes, which I believe is back to 2021.
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| Topic | So, some states are trying to pass new internet laws (KOSA) or something |
| adjl 08/31/23 10:24:11 AM #3 | Some of that sounds somewhat reasonable, other parts are the sort of vague "something should be done about this!" sort of suggestions that always come from people who recognize that Interwebs can be a problem but don't know enough about it to recognize the actual issues or make more constructive suggestions.
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| Topic | Memes 29 sexy Deathclaws!? |
| adjl 08/30/23 10:01:06 PM #326 | Metalsonic66 posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/4/0/AAFUswAAEzBE.jpg The jacket I got in 2015 has an iPod pocket, a phone pocket with a picture of a brick phone on it, and a few other things that are very clearly for devices that are no longer in use. My backpack outright has a Discman pocket, but it's from 2007. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | PlayStation + going up to $80 for the basic tier next month |
| adjl 08/30/23 9:59:13 PM #7 | Meanwhile, online play remains free on PC.
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| Topic | babe are you a hot jupiter |
| adjl 08/30/23 7:10:34 PM #8 | Jupiter? I 'ardly know 'er!
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| Topic | My dad got run over by a forklift at work |
| adjl 08/30/23 4:49:50 PM #50 | Sounds like work is trying to minimize the number of days of time lost to the injury, presumably to minimize the amount by which their workers comp premiums go up. If the doctor has only cleared him to return to work with conditions, then unless the company can meet those conditions (and the shoe thing alone means they can't), he should be off work. If they say they can meet those conditions, and he shows up and they can't, he can turn around and go home.
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| Topic | I have achieved volsomnia |
| adjl 08/30/23 8:11:04 AM #3 | Metalsonic66 posted...
Jelly AF --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | today i learned why women smell sulfur when they have migraines |
| adjl 08/29/23 10:27:07 PM #12 | aHappySacka posted...
So what you're saying is that we should give chickens migraines so they can lay precooked eggs? Somebody get this man a farm. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Memes 29 sexy Deathclaws!? |
| adjl 08/29/23 3:15:17 PM #298 | Because that's obviously the most hilarious option possible.
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| Topic | Memes 29 sexy Deathclaws!? |
| adjl 08/29/23 1:53:51 PM #296 | [LFAQs-redacted-quote]
August 29th. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | My cat groomer raised prices almost 40% because cats are dangerous |
| adjl 08/29/23 10:58:20 AM #42 | Revelation34 posted...
Because it's what I would want. You think wanting that makes sense because you want that? I'm not sure that even qualifies as a tautology. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Super Mario Bros. Wonder Direct on Thursday |
| adjl 08/29/23 10:57:16 AM #7 | Dikitain posted...
IDK, after Mario Maker and Super Mario Bros. 35, people have kind of got accustomed to super hard 2D Mario levels. People that specifically go looking for them, sure, but I don't see them releasing a core game that isn't designed to be enjoyable by as many people as possible. I fully expect some super-hard content in there, but the main game isn't likely to be all that difficult. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Super Mario Bros. Wonder Direct on Thursday |
| adjl 08/29/23 10:16:05 AM #2 | papercup posted...
Also if the rumors are to be believed, this game is going to be more difficult than classic 8-bit Super Mario Bros. games. It's very unlikely that they'd do that for the whole game, just for the sake of making the game more accessible, but I could believe that it'll have some side content that's harder. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | New PSP (Portal) Coming at the End of the Year... |
| adjl 08/28/23 10:43:19 PM #17 | Dikitain posted...
the worst part of the Wii U Eh, it occasionally came in handy if you had to share the TV. That was a pretty niche use, though, and for a lot of people it had zero application whatsoever. This also lacks any of the interesting asymmetrical gameplay options the gamepad opened up (which were sorely underused, but so was the whole system) and is only that niche off-TV play gimmick. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | ShentisWife is no longer an active member. |
| adjl 08/28/23 10:16:57 PM #9 | argonautweakend posted...
he was over the top crazy but he never seemed to actually target users or cause much drama outside of people being obsessed with Ducky in some ways. He had a few instances of doing more than just making clickbait news topics. He had a weird obsession with collecting data on people (which is what every news topic's poll served to do), and on a couple different occasions he got slapped for for borderline doxxing people with the information he'd gathered. I think he was probably harmless, but dude was weird. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Do you believe that the u.s. economy is doing better now than |
| adjl 08/28/23 10:14:03 PM #4 | GDP has very little bearing on whether or not local small businesses can stay open. The Amazons and Walmarts of the world drive most of that GDP, to the considerable detriment of smaller businesses.
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| Topic | Backlog voting time |
| adjl 08/28/23 6:20:48 PM #31 | Lokarin posted...
-Grim Dawn 1.2 I don't think that's out yet. At least, I didn't notice it downloading. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | What's your excuse for not exercising an hour or more every day? |
| adjl 08/28/23 4:49:56 PM #25 | Metalsonic66 posted...
How so? Don't you know physical activity only counts if it meets some arbitrary standard of manliness? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | My cat groomer raised prices almost 40% because cats are dangerous |
| adjl 08/28/23 12:32:32 PM #35 | McSame_as_Bush posted...
It still takes them less than five minutes. Five minutes, a 10-15-minute appointment slot just in case she doesn't cooperate, up to two groomers, rent for the space they're using, insurance to cover injuries... The costs to do it commercially add up, and I strongly suspect that it's that last one that's resulted in this price hike (namely, a cat bit a groomer, it got infected, and the medical bills/workers' comp payments ended up being more than the old price was able to cover). If you don't feel it's worth $18, don't pay $18 for it. You can get a pair of clippers for like $10-15 and do it yourself. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | do you say mom or mother |
| adjl 08/28/23 12:26:45 PM #15 | Usually "mom," but I'll go with "mother" from time to time because linguistic variety is fun. Speaking in the third person, it depends on how formal the context is and I'm guessing I line up with the boundaries most people would draw in that respect (though I can't say I think about it too much).
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| Topic | Is Trump going to be held in Fulton County jail? |
| adjl 08/28/23 12:21:42 PM #53 | jorgamund posted...
Why should he even be involved in this Circus? Because he committed the crime in question. Pressuring government officials into fabricating votes to change the outcome of an election is bad. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | My cat groomer raised prices almost 40% because cats are dangerous |
| adjl 08/28/23 12:13:38 PM #31 | Metalsonic66 posted...
Cat scratches can also become infected easily due to scratching in litter boxes. They can, but they're generally shallower wounds that don't close as quickly, so it's a lot easier to clean them. Bites tend to be deeper and smaller, so they don't stay open for very long and are much harder to clean out. There's also a broader range of dangerous bacteria living in cats' mouths (including the same bacteria they get on their claws thanks to cleaning themselves, only in a warm, moist environment where they can last much longer). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | My cat groomer raised prices almost 40% because cats are dangerous |
| adjl 08/28/23 12:04:02 PM #28 | Nichtcrawler-X posted...
That is risk assessment. Guaranteed short term pain vs a chance of long term repercussions. A cat scratch is fairly minor pain, though. It's only marginally worse than being bitten, unless you get a really bad one somehow. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | My cat groomer raised prices almost 40% because cats are dangerous |
| adjl 08/28/23 11:52:57 AM #26 | Revelation34 posted...
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| Topic | My cat groomer raised prices almost 40% because cats are dangerous |
| adjl 08/28/23 11:19:21 AM #21 | You'd rather risk a serious infection than suffer a bit more short-term pain?
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| Topic | news flash: a 30 minute walk is not actually that far |
| adjl 08/28/23 11:06:28 AM #55 | Revelation34 posted...
The only cat litter that comes in those bags that size are the shitty non clumping kind. https://www.amazon.ca/Precious-Cat-Premium-Clumping-Litter/dp/B0009X29WK?th=1 Literally the first google result. Many others follow. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | My cat groomer raised prices almost 40% because cats are dangerous |
| adjl 08/28/23 11:03:12 AM #19 | Revelation34 posted...
I'd rather get bit by a cat than clawed. Cat bites present a significant risk of a very, very serious infection. Being scratched may hurt more, but bites are much more dangerous. A workplace that has to deal with them as an occupational hazard is therefore going to try to avoid them and/or charge more to offset the potential costs of having one happen. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | My cat groomer raised prices almost 40% because cats are dangerous |
| adjl 08/28/23 10:43:22 AM #15 | mario2000 posted...
wtf is this sentence structure Because without that addendum, people would respond to the statement by arguing that dog bites are still bad and therefore cat grooming shouldn't be more expensive. They're just heading off the most likely rebuttal so they don't have to deal with as many responses. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Confirm or Deny: The most racist people in America |
| adjl 08/28/23 8:59:59 AM #2 | There's considerable irony in trying to figure out which ancestral background has produced the most racist people.
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| Topic | news flash: a 30 minute walk is not actually that far |
| adjl 08/28/23 8:38:36 AM #52 | Revelation34 posted...
That type of cat litter sucks. The... type that comes in 40-pound bags? That's not exactly a "type." --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | My cat groomer raised prices almost 40% because cats are dangerous |
| adjl 08/28/23 8:32:52 AM #8 | McSame_as_Bush posted...
Yeah that's what I'm going to try. I think Lina might be more difficult than your average cat, because it always took them two people. You might want to look into getting gabapentin from your vet. Works wonders for uncooperative cats. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Am I weird for thinking Gabi Belle is attractive? |
| adjl 08/28/23 8:29:34 AM #23 | hockey7318 posted...
I don't think that's necessarily true because a 10 year gap doesn't really involve a generational gap where as 20-30+ year gaps get to real big differences as to the era two people grew up in which makes things quite a bit more likely to be tough/weird/icky. Yeah, there's a pretty big difference there. 10 years can yield some weirdness in generational gaps, but by and large the biggest consideration is whether or not the younger one is a fully-established adult, and by your mid-30's, that concern has mostly been resolved. Get into significantly larger gaps than that, though, where you're dating somebody who could literally be your child even without involving teen pregnancy shenanigans, and there's considerable ick to be had there. That's not to say it can't be fine, because consenting adults and whatnot, but it's still going to raise some eyebrows and cause some issues to be dating somebody in such a radically different stage of life. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
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