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I dont know how I would deliberately avoid one. At what point during the ticket buying process do you find out the plane type?

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JebronLames posted...

then what watch brands do you like?

Not really much of a watch guy but baume & mercier make beautiful watches


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GigaSPX posted...

They're mainstream luxury. It's the ultimate entry to show elite status that "you've made it".

Watches like Richard Mille watches are the ultra elitest symbol that would take 30 Rolexes to equal the value of one.

With that said, Rolexes are well made and built to last. If you want to save money, Tudor watches are basically Rolexes just without the $5k crown stamp logo.

Good comment but I would just argue, durablitity is almost never an important factor in luxury craft or fashion. You can buy a $50 quartz watch about as durable (and as good at keeping the time) as any Rolex.

Similarly, a uniqlo sweater is as durable or more than any high fashion piece.


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Rolex is plebs tier for watch people.

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Lairen has no chill

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cmiller4642 posted...

Pretty bad when Calista Flockhart thinks you have an eating disorder

I dated someone with anorexia for years and I'll be honest, whenever I see a woman that skinny I automatically assume eating disorder.

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Holy_Cloud105 posted...

Are you arguing "good" wireless over a shitty pair of wired? Obviously those are better but I'm not talking about $20 headphones or those garbage wired headphones that came with the phone. I stopped using those kinds of headphones years ago once I started getting into audio.

I'm arguing that a jack isn't automatically better than bluetooth just because it's wired, because a phone with a bad sound card or shitty jack may not produce better sound even if you have a quality pair of wired headphones. Bluetooth technology has advanced sufficiently and doesn't rely on the limitations of hardware.

When using good wireless headphones with advanced bluetooth, I think the quality of sound is better than most people are used to and really only becomes a matter of contention for proper audiophiles. In which case, listening to music while travelling (and from a phone, probably off a streaming service) is probably not really when you need the best quality of sound.

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I'm on the Skypeia arc.

You can see how much effort went into the gags and music and everything. They were trying to bring the manga to life, not just copy it panel for panel.

Even just minor stuff. For example, there's a bit where Sanji is trying to find Nami and he activates his internal "mellorine" scanner to peel the horizon. it's stupid but funny. i feel they don't go out the way for these bits as much anymore.

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Antifar posted...

My biggest headphone frustration is that the jack in my laptop is shitty and the slightest movement will mean my wired headphones no longer connect properly.

Ok here's a very good point. When you have a shitty laptop with a shitty integrated soundcard, your sound quality on a jack will be much worse than bluetooth (which can be improved with software updates). I mean on my crappy laptop I can literally hear artifacts and background noise from the in-built microphone when trying to listen to things.

That's not even to mention problems with the jack itself.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHowJ7ULNfo

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Doe posted...

City is as good or better than Asylum

I thoroughly enjoyed it but I felt Asylum was the more complete game, narrative wise. Much of the content in City felt tacked on for the fans.

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All of the anger has come from nerds on the internet.

There may be a pattern here but I'm struggling to see it...

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I went through two 7 hour flights listening to my bluetooth headphones and had 60% battery left. I get a week or two out of normal use. It takes about 30 minutes to fully charge with USB-C. Total non issue.

Kind of like myself, I suspect much of the resistance to wireless headphones is stubbornness over actual reasons. I mean a lot of the people who argue about sound quality are listening to spotify music on $20 earplugs, lol

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ASithLord7 posted...

not even nearly as good as Asylum

Arkham City is a good example of when a game can have more of everything but not be as good as its predecessor.

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Holy_Cloud105 posted...

Why wouldn't you? Wireless headphones have shitty audio quality compared to wired ones.

That's not always true. We live in a world with codecs like Aptx, Aptx-HD, AAC, LDAC. Good bluetooth will beat a shitty jack in sound.

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I'm going to be completely honest about the headphone jack situation.

For years I defended its corner. It felt like paying more for less when apple removed it.

Then I got my sony wh1000xm3 headphones and I can't even remember why I felt so strongly about it. These things have the best sound and the bluetooth virtually never drops out. With a decent phone the bluetooth does not significantly drain battery.

The reasons for keeping a headphone jack seem to be disappearing, because I can't remember needing one.

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He seemed doable. There was a message to try parrying but I havent figured out the timing of that yet.

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Veggeta_MAX posted...

How is the game? Is it more like Dragon Age or like Skyrim style?

Witcher 3? It's like neither.

If I had to make some clumsy comparisons, think of the character driven story telling of Red Dead Revolver or GTA mixed with the world of Game of Thrones, with the decision options of a Bioware game like Mass Effect or Kotor but much more fleshed out.

You're not playing your own RPG character. You play geralt. It's his story. However what happens, the alliances you make, the ending you choose, and really with every sidequest there are a dozen different ways to choose each.


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I hated the overworked interface though. It was cool and all but it shouldn't take 3 seconds to scroll through one or two options because the game insists on a slick animation playing each time.

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Oookay. So there was a giant knight dude. I snuck up behind hiim and hit him with a big attack but then he hit me twice and I ded.

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Alright bitches lets try again. Time to kick that flaming barrel's asshole.

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I missed the boat on the first 2 unfortunately, all seems too dated to go back now.

Witcher 3 was maybe the most complete game I've ever experienced, though.

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It's got nothing to do with her weight. She looks exactly like how someone who is strung out on class-A drugs and alcohol would look.

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God she looks awful. :(

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What better place to vent my toxic, depressing and life ruining thoughts?

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If my parents started talking in the manner that he talks, I would seriously contact the hospital or my GP and request an evaluation on their mental state. I'd be fearful of dementia.


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MrMallard posted...

My friend's dad has his leg in a cast, and we ran into him down at his local pub. He was hobbling to the bathroom, and one of the regulars went "bloody hell mate, hobble faster or get out of the way".

Old blue-collar workers banter is savage and fantastic

Aye in small doses it's good craic. For example, farmer jerry likes to tell me to "get a fucking haircut you muppet" just about every day. It's just the mundane prattle for literally hours I can't abide

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Oookay we've moved on from train tickets to the driving conditions on the A68. Wonderful. This is going to be a very long day.

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I4NRulez posted...

If youre not hollow then you can get invaded. Thats the Dark Souls PVP for ya

Ah, got it. That'll be why dickwad chose to show up at that precise moment then.

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KillerSlaw posted...

You should bring up Star Wars.

I bet they'd get a hoot out of that

Funny you mention that, Greg is absolutely obsessed with star wars. He's the guy with star wars t shirts and a star wars mug that he uses in circulation with his "I'm not grumpy, I'm just old" mug.

MedeaLysistrata posted...

Three guys... is this a call back to that CLASSIC von Neuman topic you made?

I actually don't remember the context of that, what do you mean

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Skeleton crew at the office today so it's just me, the local farmer Steve and Greg, who spent 30 years prior to here working as a bus driver.

There's nothing wrong with any of this but I tell you fucking what, there's only so much chat about the cost of train tickets I can endure and this has gone on for 33 minutes

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Oookay what the fuck just happened.

So I worked out I could get more esters by kindling. That seems mega useful. I went up the staircase. Lots of zombies here. Killed them all.

I walked up some stairs and some fucker let a flaming barrel loose down the staircase. Dick move.

And then, some other dick invaded my game and was all glowy and red and killed me dead. What a prick.

I also saw a giant dragon thing. Not looking forward to fighting that.

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PrideOfLion posted...

fuck that treating the audience like idiots crap

Fine but if you provide no contextual cues or exposition then there's really no way of knowing when is happening what. I was 3 episodes in before I realised we were in different timezones.

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gmims44 posted...

Until not that long ago, the best argument for a manual transmission was that they got better fuel economy: the direct mechanical connection was more efficient than a torque converter ("slushbox"). The difference was never huge, but with the high fuel prices in Europe, it would add up to a lot of money over time, so it's not hard to understand why manuals have been so much more popular there. The other argument, and I guess the best in the case of performance cars, was that manual cars were quicker than automatics, again due to the direct mechanical connection rather than a slushbox between power and load.

With modern automatic transmissions, though, neither reason is really true anymore. Manufacturers use enough tricks with them that you don't take a fuel economy hit, and it's actually getting harder and harder to find performance cars with a stick, because modern dual-clutch automatics can shift way faster than even the most talented driver. That really just leaves two arguments for the stick: 1. The upfront cost is still cheaper, because manual transmissions are simpler, and 2. For people who enjoy driving, manuals are fun.

#2 is what some people get all hipster-ish about, because it's the more traditional and "pure" way to drive a car, but you don't have to listen to them. I mean, I bought a GTI with a stick because I don't have a long commute and I live in East Tennessee where I can just about pick any direction and hit an amazing road, but that doesn't mean I would recommend a manual for most people in most other situations, because I wouldn't.

Good post

codey posted...

You do realize that you, and most people in this topic, are shitting on manuals just as much as you claim people that like manuals shit on automatics?

No actually, I am not

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divot1338 posted...

Would you want to find out before or after you spend money on Christmas.

Obviously before, but taking advantage of hospitality employment conditions to give your employees the least amount of notice possible is pretty shitty

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yemmy posted...

If they fired the whole staff they probably had a good reason

Restaurants lose a fuckload of money shutting down for a couple of weeks at a time. They didnt just fire everyone to be an asshole I'm sure

A franchise of this size with a failing restaurant doesn't suddenly discover it's run out of money and has no choice to let everyone go immediately. They would have known for months. They projected the failure but needed the staff until the due date, so they kept it confidential to reduce the noise. The carefully curated PR campaign proves it. They fired everyone but they're telling the public it's just a temporary renovations. That's not what's happening. The business shut down, they're going to put a different business in there.

No one tries to be an asshole, they just do it anyway when it suits them.

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A friend's cafe (part of a large chain) decided to make everyone redundant effective immediately a day ago. They fired the whole staff overnight. They then posted on instagram that they were wishing all their customers seasons greetings and that they would be shut "for a couple of weeks for renovations", hashtag blessed hashtag grateful.

I posted on the page calling them out on their bullshit and they deleted the comment and blocked me. Yeah, employers are assholes.

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teepan95 posted...

From what I understand, the series is closer to the books than to the games

I just mean that its popularity is largely owed to the games which have eclipsed the book, and video game adaptions have rarely been good historically.

That said Geralt is basically a carbon copy of the games' Geralt, it's like Henry Cavill studied the Witcher 3 for this role.

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People calling it the new Game of Thrones are kidding themselves, but it is a pretty awesome adaption for what is ostensibly a video game franchise.

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Taharqa_ posted...

Because manuals are more fun to drive.

I mean maybe if it's a sunny afternoon and I'm heading up the applecross path but certainly not on my dreary tuesday morning traffic jam

MrMallard posted...

Similar thing in Australia, car nuts will treat you like the world's biggest moron and/or pussy if you drive an automatic.

I always laughed at that kind of comment when I lived in australia and told them that every woman in the UK from 16 year old Kelcy to 64 year old Francis can drive a stick

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The real stuff, not that nonsense you hear on TV

Dinner = lunch
Tea = dinner
Dae = do, but also don't. So, you might say "I cannae dae that", to mean "I can't do that". But you might also say "I dae want it", to say I don't want it.
Garn = going, or go. As in, "where'd you garn last year for Christmas?"
Where do you stay? = What is your home address
Baltic = Cold.
Pure baltic = freezing
Polis = police
Boaby = penis
Boaby = police (also)
Patter = banter
Scran = food
Tory = C***


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Idiocracy at its finest.

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ALIEN_WORK2HOP posted...

Modern automatics are built well enough for that to be a bunch of bullshit.

I know, trust me. It's just the weird usual machismo nonsense, which is quite funny because every woman in the UK drives a manual too

evilpresident posted...

If it's any consolidation, I have no idea on how to drive automatic. I tried it but it just doesn't click for me.

I mean, it's just point and go. Press the pedal to move, press the other one to stop.

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I don't know if I would honestly recommend Witcher on switch, but if that's your only option then fine.

Mario Rabbids is a game I thought looked crappy until I played it. Utterly brilliant game and definitely worth a purchase.

The FF games are out on switch so if you like JRPGs there's plenty of choice.

Mario Odyssey is a must.

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Kitt posted...

I looked at a tutorial video on how to drive stick because the car I wanted at the time was only made manual.

A few minutes into the video and I threw my arms up and said, "Fuck it, I give up," and looked for automatic cars instead.

It's true that eventually it's as easy and instinctive as walking, but it's still more physical movement and hassle, and on my particular commute a royal pain in the ass.


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Influencer culture

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I have an automatic and it's the fucking spanish inquisition from my male colleagues any time someone discovers this fact.

"Why would you get an automatic?"
"You know those accelerate slower?"
"It's not as fuel efficient you know?"
"When your gearbox goes that's going to be expensive"
"Do you even have a man card? If so can you return it please?"

And I'm looking to get a new car and automatics are so hard to find.

There are a lot of weird things that CE likes to fixate on about UK culture - CCTV surveillance, needing a loicense for everything, the fun police, no pornography, etc and so on - But above all of that, really why are we stuck in the stone ages with automobiles?

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I was prepared to defend facebook pregnancy announcements coming into this topic but I take it back

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I'll be honest with you guys, for a first time playthrough I don't want to get the best possible build or do everything perfectly. I'd rather go in blind and discover things for myself, for the most part.

The exception is when there's some straight up annoying shit or build-nerfing I should be aware of. Nothing worse than dropping 20 hours into an RPG only to discover you made some irredeemable build mistakes.

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