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I think the answer will depend on how much we prioritize fame vs. popularity vs. sales

Bloodborne is a really good call. It has a card game, board game, and comic book series, but I'm not sure whether that disqualifies it under the category of "supplemental media".

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is the best-selling game of all time not part of a series or planning to become a series, but I doubt it's particularly beloved

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U are

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i think aiming for this is even more reasonable than aiming for the traditional roads to fame

it's much more difficult to become amazing at an instrument/acting/singing than it is to just throw some content online for a while and see if it sticks

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ShatteredElysium posted...

Only surefire way in that instance is to get a PO box probably

I'm a noob- are PO boxes usually a proxy for a larger storage area, or do they have a size limit? i'll just call and ask.

I personally never had an issue in either apartment complex I lived in and one was downtown Orlando. They just left it on my doorstep, never had anything stolen or not delivered

Yeah, this is the first place i've had issues with. In NYC they'd just plop it somewhere and cross their fingers, which was totally fine for me

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i appreciate the responses

i realize it wasn't clear- by "disappear" i meant "the delivery person aborts and returns the package to sender and i get flustered"

BlueCrystalTear posted...

I live in a hotel-style apartment building. UPS and USPS always bring packages right to my door. FedEx is hit or miss. Amazon is lazy AF and just dumps it all in the entryway.

I've had pretty good experiences as long as the delivery people can physically get inside. The singular front door of my building is locked at all times so i suppose that's what makes things difficult

For your situation, I'd like to ask a few questions first:
1. Have you met your new neighbor downstairs? Do you know what their schedule is like?

i've met them briefly, they seem to have a normal 9-5 situation, similar to me

2. Where is your landlord's office? Anywhere near your place? (It's quite unlikely, but worth asking)

unfortunately, no longer. they were literally next door until they decided to rent out their office as an apartment

3. What kind of person is your landlord? Someone willing to work with you... or a hardass?

he's actually really cool so far. not so great at coming up with his own solutions but willing to do whatever is requested. my impression is that landlords outside of the biggest cities are more flexible

4. Based on the setup you have, is there any way (if your landlord is flexible enough), to create a "drop-off chute" of some sort through your door? That way, packages can just be slid inside and end up at the bottom of your stairs.

that's a super interesting idea- i'm glad i'm asking here. i'm having trouble envisioning how it would work. the building is literally an old 3-story brick house converted to 3 apartments, but it's worth considering

5. Does your job make it so you can't sign for packages?

not at all- i'm 100% remote now. these are things that don't even require signatures! they just show up, don't deliver it, and leave without calling/texting. come to think of it, getting a working doorbell might solve this

IDK, I'm just trying to come up with something. Right now, I'd just track packages and put a note on the door about where the hiding place is, but it's only so long before porch pirates learn to check there, too. Good luck finding a solution.

appreciate it


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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

my new apartment is the 2nd floor of a house in a city area

there's a large front porch and a separate mailbox for each apartment, but it seems like half the packaged stuff i order online just doesn't get delivered, presumably because the delivery person is worried about stuff getting stolen

any tips on how to deal with that? amazon is follows written instructions about 70% of the time (there's a decent hiding place), but anything i order anywhere else feels almost guaranteed to disappear

for whatever reason i haven't had the same issues in other apartments. maybe it's a "my current city/neighborhood" thing

those of you without little entrance rooms packages can hide in, what do you do?

i don't want to have to get everything delivered to a relative's place

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Eddv posted...

Oh so basically they don't want official rule 34 stuff to exist with Batman.

Eh fair.

Yep

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I'm lieu of the hobbit movies, just show that special features cut of martin freeman flicking off the camera on set 30 times

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That's pretty neat. Has this been around for like a decade without me knowing?

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His abuse of the program caused 15,000 families with assets of more than 5000 to lose food stamps in the state

Stingy ass mofos

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I think apple's main sin is how its uses sweat shops to build their hardware. But everyone else's stuff also runs on hardware so they're not uniquely culpable

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Walmart's not *that* much smaller. They've also been evil for a longer period of time

They're also more visibly a community destroyer

Walmart will roll into a medium/small town, undercut all of the local stores at a loss until they're choked out and have to close, then rise prices again

this is without going into the specifics of their practices towards employees and sourcing of inventory

When it comes to tech companies, i think amazon treats their workers the worst and facebook is the least responsible with data, but they're all pretty bad

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I think i have to give it a 3

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This is tough, because dark souls generally doesn't have much of a story- it has lore

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I really wish something about this looked more different- I've played at least 5 souls games so far, i would like to experience something amazing/different for a 6th

Tbh if there's a co op feature i will end up buying around release time, and if not I'll be a patient gamer

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Sunroof posted...

Soon all money will be free. And by that, I mean the government will give out money to people who claim to need it, to the point where everyone will be receiving money without doing anything to earn it. My point being that if people cant afford houses, there someday will exist financial benefits that will go toward giving them money rather than actually addressing the root of the issue.

can you give a timeline on this? i'd like to take a break from work

although, i guess what you're describing is probably something like home ownership subsidies, similar to the farm or oil subsidies we have today

also, i have to imagine that some percentage of these investment bubbles are going to pop as the extra covid unemployment benefits go away

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tbh not getting vaxxed/not wearing a mask has become a trumpet virtue signal. about six months ago (pandemic was in full swing) i stopped at a restaurant/bar to pick up some food i had ordered, and everyone there yelled at me to take my mask off or get out. it was really weird!

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TomNook posted...

On one of the first days of the mask mandates being removed, I went out with some friends (all of us vaccinated). Place we went to had a sign that masks were not required for vaccinated people. Probably about 30% of the people were wearing masks. Our group, since vaccinated, were not wearing masks. Someone in our group said, after being inside for about a minute, "wow, it feels nice to not wear a mask anymore", and I, in a very sarcastic and obviously joking voice said, "yeah, but careful, if you don't wear one, people will think you voted for Trump", and she said "Good point" and put her mask on. I thought she did it just to punctuate my joke...but she left it on for the full 1.5 hour we were there...

felt too awkward to correct her? that's kind of a mean prank!

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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

Some businesses still require them to enter, and there's no way to prove someone's actually vaccinated

At this point, if I had to choose between no one wearing masks and everyone wearing masks... if we didn't have a large contingent of morons without a legitimate medical reason to skip the vaccine slipping it, yeah I'd say nobody wear it

So it's basically a form of peer pressure

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Yeah, i don't know shit and it has to be either 2 or 4 because in pop culture judo involves flipping people with their own energy

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All of my friends in tipping industries know tipping is bad, even if they're huge beneficiaries of it

Pay employees real wages so we don't need tips!

Although, i will say that average American wait service is leagues ahead of anything but the most high end European restaurants

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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

nobody sees your underwear unless they're people who are probably going to end up smelling it

Tbh if you're truly making considerations for being poor, you should have all of your ancient pairs with holes in them etc. You should have like a month's worth no problem

There's no reason to wear the same pair twice in a row

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Rip capcom it was nice knowing ya

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I thought Jack was a nickname for John!

John should probably be a contender but it's hard to imagine it passing Richard or the women's names

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Yeah.

Tbh the only difference I've heard is that moderna's side effects are more intense, which I'll just go ahead and use to say it probably works better

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It's been retired in all of my circles because it's a boring game

NBIceman posted...

Damn casuals just need to play some Twilight Imperium.

Whenever i start that game, i know there's only between a 10-70% chance of it actually finishing, depending on the players. I love it, but not many people are as focused as i am

Diplomacy is probably the most unpleasant game in my humble opinion

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Yes

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I have a few, but I'll pick the most ridiculous one

in the vein of the opening post, I've always been (entirely irrationally) annoyed when someone behind the counter tells me "enjoy" as their parting statement. It's especially silly because they're trying to be nice and normal

Makes me feel like I'm a fat kid that just bought five ice cream bars. I'll enjoy or not enjoy it as i choose! I won't do what you saaaayyyy

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Reminds me of "who's line is it anyway" at the crest of its popularity, specifically when they realized "Wayne Brady singing" was their most popular segment

I'm glad he's making good money!

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the lip synching is so weird. reminds me of TMNT

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skipping work isn't a crime exactly, but i get your point

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I know it started out rough but did the new expansions improve it?

pretty sure this happens with every civ game

from what i've heard, 6 is definitely another civ game

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i've evaded fighting game frustration by having a couple of friends that are equally bad at fighting games, and we'll periodically learn a new one and play casually together

i do think with advanced matchmaking and streaming becoming more popular, it's easier to realize what actual good play looks like. there have been a few multiplayer games where i've reached the peak level i can get to without going full tryhard and sucking all the fun out of it

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markets are up, stimulus checks went out, people are bored, etc etc

i think dreamcasts also have a tendency to break down, so they're only going to become more limited over time

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i think my current frustration is games that don't teach how to play very well or quickly. They expect you to invest a dozen hours before you really know what the game is like

i don't want to waste a couple days of my life learning that i'm not a fan of your roguelike!


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no

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Xtlm posted...

This reminded me of the video where the one youtuber couldn't figure out crouch jumping and threw a little fit What a throwback.

I remember my friend and i trying to burn through HL1, and we thought we had already tried opening the roof of a stalled elevator from above

We wandered around forever! It turned out only 1 quarter of the elevator roof responded to the open button. "Oops"!

We figured it out a couple of weeks later after scouring gamefaqs guides

A lot of games back then were incredibly aimless

I've never met anyone who completed the ps1 casper game

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Remember, to get the good ending you just have to agree with everything your twin says, even if it's a lie

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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

I know people always talked about how revolutionary half life 1 and 2 were at the time and how well they directed the player in a magical dreamlike trance

But i personally got lost/stuck enough times back in the days before YouTube could just show me which cinder block i was supposed to climb or which square on the elevator's ceiling to click to process. i eventually just lost interest and never finished either game

The main reaction to this is usually "git gud" or "i didn't have any issues", but i know it was an issue for a certain percentage of normal players. I know this because gaming was infested by big honking arrows, quest markers, and fast travel in the years following

That fad didn't appear for no reason! It was in reaction to something


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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

Sports organizations aren't something holy- they're just normal commercial organizations

If an employee skips work, it seems logical that they would be fired

I was on the open's side when they were adhering to their pre existing rules and slapping her with fines, given how much they were paying her

But they went and escalated it too far imho


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Ft, how much do they pay you?

Do you automate the process, or is it manual?

How do i get in on the action?

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i've been all right- an unusual year for sure. how are you doing? what led you away from the board?

i have you tagged as 'sep kapp oc' so i suppose i should ask about that as well

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andylt posted...

Minor quibble: Why is Phoenix Pinion so far down the item list? It should be higher than Phoenix Down!

don't use your phoenix pinions, just leave them in your inventory

if Eiko is in your party and you get a game over, there's a stacking percent chance per pinion that phoenix will automatically revive the entire party

it saved my ass in the final dungeon and it felt great

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it's descriptive, not prescriptive

they ask you a bazillion variants of "do you feel more relaxed by yourself or with other people?" then tell you whether you said you were extroverted or introverted

they ask you a bazillion variants of "do you like to plan ahead or play it by ear?" then tell you whether you said you plan ahead or play it by ear

and so on and so forth

it's not as if there are 16 buckets of people. but it's a fun conduit through which to talk about yourself and your interests. better than star signs because you at least get to choose your meyers-briggs one

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Flo Rida - Right Round

(lol)

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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

I don't think I could be with anyone who ever had the urge to smoke at home. Smoke is incredibly unpleasant. The itchy eyes and throat caused by second hand smoke- plus potential damage to your home- are what do it more than the smell itself.

Even social smoking is a significant mark against them. There's a lot of subconscious calculus that goes on in my brain when it comes to this stuff, and I'm not 100% sure how it all works.

I'm not sitting there like a robot with a checklist. I'm just less likely to find smokers attractive in the first place. And a smoker's breath is a visceral reminder that I probably don't want to be around this person all the time. Sometimes is okay. Just not all the time.

If someone shared literally all of my lifestyle preferences, except they smoked literally one cigarette every other weekend at a social gathering, I wouldn't care at all.

I think to give you better feedback on your specific situation I'd need more details.

barreldragon88 posted...

How confident do people feel they can find someone else who fits all their criteria, including being a non-smoker?

My answer? I guarantee it. There's well more than one person for us out there. If you truly "only smoke occasionally at parties" and you want to date a non-smoker, it's probably easier to just stop doing that

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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

humble is a little insidious, in that if you pause it it automatically unpauses after a month

it's getting tedious, and i'm considering shutting it off entirely

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I don't know if I've ever thought about winning a ride, but it's also been a loong time since I've been to a theme park

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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.