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In a WRPG, the freedom and choices distract you from the thin plot. In a JRPG, the amazing plot distracts you from the lack of freedom and choices. Music sucks in both.

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Do you consider MINIs to be British or German? They are inspired by an unquestionably British car, festooned in Union Jacks, yet they are owned by BMW (and have many BMW components), but then most are built in UK. It's weird.

There's also more obvious badge engineering, where (for example) the Dodge Sprinter has an American brand (okay, that brand is owned by an American/Italian/French company), but is actually a German design.

A JPRG uses the mechanical framework of a traditional (western? TTRPG?), with characters, abilities, inventory, NPCs, etc., but the plot is on rails. The PC (or party) does not get to make any substantial decisions based on "playing" the "role".

Decades ago, Microsoft flew me out for an interview, and I recall visiting the art museum after. I really like cities, so I thought it would be a nice place to live.

bfslick50 posted...

The conversation between Bandit and Rad implied to me that Bandit would have to look for a new job if they stayed and Bandit was very worried about that uncertainty.

Thanks for catching that; I'll watch it again.

I also think it's worth mentioning that Rad is the oldest Heeler kid, yet "feels" the youngest. He's had the most free lifestyle of the brothers. Maybe he was pressured to start earning early? In a way, it would seem like he's the most short-sighted, but in this episode, we saw that his longer life experience allowed him to compromise when it mattered, in a way that might have been harder for a younger person. That's deep character development, and it really resonated with me (I am the oldest of three brothers, who got married "late").

HudGard posted...

The upside is they probably got a fat earnest money check, assuming Australia real estate processes are similar to here in the US.

They would have gotten earnest money from the sheepdogs, but then owed earnest money for the new house they had to back out of (unless they were planning on renting while looking).

Paradox: Egg sandwich with avocado is great, but avocado egg salad is gross.

The minimum standard for extra bedrooms for kids should be the number of kids plus one, then divided by two, rounded down. 1-2 kids = +1 bedroom, 3-4 kids = +2 bedrooms, etc. Yeah, it sucks to share, but this is a minimum standard.

Beveren_Rabbit posted...

what was the down side of the family moving to a new house so the dad can live closer to his new job?

Also, did Bandit have to back out of an accepted job offer (and had he already quit his old job, or was he backing out of a transfer)? Did they have to back out of the purchase of their new house? Had they already committed to renting storage until the new house was ready? Adulting is hard and decisions have consequences!

WingsOfGood posted...

I like Lucy

But she threw acid in an innocent man's face!

It's also intentionally ambiguous whether family made the right decision in the end. Yes, a comfortable status quo was maintained, but the audience was (intentionally) never shown exactly how much Bandit's new job would have improved opportunities for the family (and especially the girls).

You are not supposed to like anybody. It's Fallout, so the entire point is that everybody is terrible and everything sucks (tvtropes://CrapSackWorld). Even the idyllic past sucks. But that's why we like it.

One Visa with a high limit that I use for everything, and a backup Visa (same bank) for when it gets lost or stolen every few years.

But it's great when you can make out lyrics that you couldn't before.

EmbraceOfDeath posted...

This is exactly the way to do it. The point IS to force people to pay attention and get them mad.

But aren't they also blocking people who agree with them? It seems like an inefficient strategy.

Dakimakura posted...

Orville shamelessly rips of multiple TV show plots and I am okay with that.

And the expected ending is subverted every time!

Oh, you only have one manager? Must be nice.

The US military is so completely OP that a literal WW3 is unlikely to happen. The few countries that are even approaching the US in technological and industrial capability are still decades behind in training and experience. The one weakness of the US was a tendency to get mired in nation-building ("losing the peace"), but Afghanistan has shown that simply abandoning countries can be a viable alternative (for the US; it obviously sucks for the locals).

Amtrak NE Corridor DC/PA/NJ/NY/MA.

I went to both proms (juniors could go to the "senior" prom). Schools in my area also had cotillions, which were like joint-school proms and sophomores could go. I went to two of those.

The earliest computers (general purpose programmable electronic computing machines) were definitely more complicated than the earliest cars (self-propelled wheeled steerable petrol-powered vehicles). But it's hard to say which took a greater leap of intuition to create, since both were really incremental developments.

Iran fought Iraq for eight years without winning, and US beat Iraq in a few days, so I don't think the US would have much to worry about. I mean their prestige weapons are F-14s.

I've seen Weezer twice and The Rentals once and The Rentals made a much bigger impression on me.

This poll is essentially asking, "do you normally wear a belt?".

Coffee

It could not be made since there's no concept of detention anymore.

WingsOfGood posted...

Just takes a war to erase many years of history. If database building is bombed it is gone.

While that's certainly true in some cases, serious places have fail-over sites and distributed backups (or more elaborate high-availability and disaster-recovery plans).

Black coffee*. Anything else has too much sugar or other stuff.
* I add ground cayenne pepper to my coffee grounds, so that helps.

This is a videogame site, and this is why DJ Hero was created.

Wait, this whole time I though David Chang and Peter Chang were the same person. They are both DC-area celebrity chefs. Oh well, I guess that means I'm racist...

Ketchup is fine, but you can "elevate" nearly any application by replacing it with either marinara, pico, or Sriracha.

I live near two Targets, but neither is free-standing with its own lot.

Channel surfing was already degraded once cable went digital, because the increased delay when "flipping through" channels became annoying (for people who were already lazy enough to do that).

Prototypic posted...

Also don't fix or improve it in any way because the chair is already used to support a bunch of other poorly glued together furniture that depend on it being the exact piece of shit it currently is.

Also, you have to use Oracle.

Were_Wyrm posted...

If it was made after '72 it has at least one computer system for emissions.

I think you meant '82? Cars still had leaded gas in 1972 and there were no commercial microprocessors yet. Also, I've owned '77 and '79 Pontiacs, and neither had any kind of computers.

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No, Kosher food does not require a blessing during production. To my knowledge, it doesn't even have to be prepared by Jews; the sole requirement is following the correct procedures (and ingredient restrictions). "Certified" Kosher food simply claims that an authority very knowledgeable about religious law inspected the process

I've got some bad news: Unicode contains an Israeli flag. You aren't going to be able to use the Internet.

My car (2017) appears to update its navigation system using a cellular network (I'm not sure how else it could), but there is no other network connection, that I can tell. I don't even have it set up to make calls while I'm driving (I've configured my phone as an audio source, not a "phone").

With an app, you are essentially selling your privacy. In return for reduced prices, the company gets your demographic info, marketing info, preferences, insights into your habits (How often do you browse their menu? Do you do it just before bed? Do you sit on a cheap option for an above-average number of seconds before adding a more expensive option?). But that's not necessarily a bad thing, if you understand it going in. In fact, maybe you really want your "voice" to be heard so more products are tuned for your interests.

But at the same time, every app you install reduces your security and degrades the overall experience of using your device.

It's very similar to a purity spiral.

Trumble posted...

It's never out of the question, though Israel-Gaza is FAR more likely to spiral into WW3, and even that isn't overly likely to.

I think it's unlikely. Israel/Gaza is much smaller in scale than any of its previous full-blown wars, and it's not even fighting more than one country at a time. And unlike previous conflicts, the Arab countries would be fighting for The Palestinians (who they don't care about), as opposed to territory (which they did care about). We've also seen that previous smaller conflicts (e.g., invasion of Lebanon) didn't really interest the surrounding countries enough to get involved (or maybe they were quietly happy to have Israel do the job).

Both were in Pete and Pete (Larisa only as a cameo, though).

Meatball Parm (sub) from a local pizza/sub place.

No. I would be considered coastal elite, by most people, who don't interact with the real elites (e.g., my parents worked and my grandparents were immigrants).

Do you have to parallel park? Not everybody's test has it. Is it on a special course or on regular roads?

Pickled jalapeos are lame, but fresh jalapeos are great.
But overall, I try to avoid lettuce, since all it does it make the whole thing slide around.

Technically unsurpassed, but yet passionless in style.

My top mustards (all available at supermarkets, at least near me):
* Lwensenf Extra (a very sharp dijon)
* Weber's Horseradish Mustard (a yellow very sharp mustard)
* Ba-Tampte (a mild but flavorful brown/deli mustard)
* Store-brand yellow mustard (check ingredients to ensure just the standard ingredients)