Lurker > Monopoman

Cereal prices were always ridiculous for the time, and varied heavily on where you bought it and what sales/coupons you had.

Sure they weren't $7.50 for a box of mini-wheats but I remember it being very high at one store and vastly cheaper at another or during a certain time of year.

Yeah not much demand for these consoles in general compared to the massive supply, they also can develop some problems so that also makes them feel more throwaway.

When that movie came out Bob Odenkirk was way more unknown, so I doubt many recognized him at that point. The only big thing he had done as a main character was his first season of Mr. Show but that show never got super huge, always seemed like that show is a cult classic that over time built an audience.

rexcrk posted...

Finances. Id say about 99% of my anxieties would go away if I didnt have to worry about money.

I doubt politicians will ever solve or care about the financial problems of one man. It can be your biggest worry but it's never a priority for anyone beyond yourself and maybe some friends/family.

Unless an ice cream truck was showing up every 1-2 hours I wouldn't find it a huge issue. Maybe it's a different experience for those that grew up post 2000 but when I was a kid every kid in the neighborhood I knew was stoked anytime one showed up.

Larger bill amounts than $100 don't serve any practical purpose outside of illegal activities so that is why they were not made really. Way back in the very old days these super high amount bills were useful because back then some bank transfers or deposits were made with $500 or $1000 bills.

Looks like on Ebay you can still get a $500 USD bill but it will cost at least double that for a really beat up one.

We have seen higher priced video games consoles in certain areas before, just ask Australians about the prices they pay on that stuff.

wpot posted...

IIRC Homer aged from 36 to 38 a while ago. Not really sure why as thats a drop in the bucket for a 67 yr old.

Yeah if the show survives past Groeing's lifespan we will all have died and Homer will have aged from 38 to 48.

Wow Homer is almost 70 years old, he sure looks really good for nearly being 70. It's funny how old the Simpsons characters would be now if they aged like normal, Bart and Lisa would both be in their 40's.

Pools are nice to have but they sure do require a good amount of money to upkeep them and keep them heated. My Grandma owned an indoor pool and jacuzzi and she was constantly having to buy chemicals to keep them clean.

I also find out in many cases the longer someone owns one the less they use it. It's a big deal in the first few months to a year after that it just kinda becomes something that might get some use when friends come over.

Crowder is a complete douche even if I agreed with things he said I still wouldn't watch him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2z_Z3p8yGY

Here is a little thing Crowder did a short while back.

Looks like the USA is the only country where kids and young adults from 1-19 die from guns more than any other way.

https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/issue-brief/child-and-teen-firearm-mortality-in-the-u-s-and-peer-countries/

It really depends how they are cooked like most things the more optimal the recipe the better they come out. I thought I hated them based on childhood experiences then I had some at a nicer restaurant and they were very good.

Revelation34 posted...

Nah that's Nermal.

https://garfield.fandom.com/wiki/Monday

Huh?

Garfield has been born again! Does he also hate Mondays?

ConfusedTorchic posted...

why did you quote that

Yeah I meant to quote the one above you my bad, the landlubber thing.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

i'm like 98% sure this dude stole my ai gimmick

What's funny is many didn't like Frasier because of how Frasier and Niles acted in their fancy attire and life. It was a massive shift from Cheers which felt like an everyman show, that any American could get behind.

One reason I also heard for the shift of where Frasier went is due to the actor that portrayed his brother was not interested in reprising the role, so if we are lucky we might get him in one episode as a cameo but he turned down any major role. The actor that also played Frasier's dad is dead so that eliminates him from any consideration of a continuation.

A reboot would be if they had some other actor portray Frasier and the other Frasier cast. This show will pay full homage to any of the old characters and they either won't appear or will be played by the original actor.

Keep in mind since Frasier is going back to Boston many of the characters from the original Frasier will not show up as regulars, we might see them pop up in an episode rarely though. We will see if we get any of the old Cheers characters though since they would be local to Frasier again and not across the USA. Anyways, I love both Cheers and Frasier they are two incredibly good sitcoms so I am going in with an open mind, I have a feeling Kelsey would have rejected the show if he felt it would be a horrible continuation of a character he has been since 1984.

The only technically right answer is both, I could see some thinking it's one or the other based on how warm it gets.

adjl posted...

Ah, but then we get to the heart of the question: If it needs modding to be good, is it actually a good game? That ends up in a weird place when it only applies to one version of the game and there are other ways to experience it without those crippling problems, since saying "the game is good" about one version and "the game is not good" about another version of the same game isn't a great way to express that, but the question remains of whether or not having the potential to be a good game with help from modders actually qualifies as being a good game.

Mostly, though, I'd just like to see more publishers held accountable for releasing inexcusably bad PC ports. We can philosophize about what mods mean in the context of appraising games all we want, but when an amateur can fix a near-broken port with an amount of work that would cost the publisher maybe $500 tops, that's a very real issue that gets a free pass all too often. Unfortunately, I don't think there really is an avenue to do that, since enough people want to play these games that having to install a mod to get them running isn't enough of a barrier to really hurt sales, and if ever it did come to a point where a publisher couldn't sell a PC port because no modders were willing to make it playable, I suspect their first reaction would be to drop the port altogether and not to spend a little bit of extra time and money solving the problem.

I just want to say that for some that don't know mods are not just about optimizing a game, most of the mods out there add stuff to games or fix issues some might have with them. For instance in Cyberpunk you can get a mod to have a flying car, this was not implemented in the game but fits right in with what would likely be around by the year 2077 if they wanted it. GTA V for instance has a ton of mods that add shit to the game, though from what I understand Rockstar removed the ability to use quite a few these days.

We seem to be focusing heavily on the discussion of "fixing performance issues" which is hot button issue right now when many games have come out in a shit state on day1. We just had the recent example of Jedi Survivor which came out in such a bad state the Steam reviews blew up with negative reviews. Before that we had the Last of Us on PC which also came out in a pretty damn bad state on day 1.

adjl posted...

Eh, that's debatable. Usually people don't put the effort in for games that just aren't good, certainly, but there are countless examples of modders taking it upon themselves to fix games that have critical issues that make them borderline unenjoyable without mods. Dark Souls' PC port is one of the more notorious examples of this, where everyone knew the game was good and worth playing, but the PC port was such hot garbage that you pretty much had to install DSFix to make it work. Bonus points where DSFix took less than 24 hours to generate, so it's not like the problems were anything other than laziness on From's part.

That kinda proves my point though the port was shit but people knew the game was good so they worked on it. Meanwhile I can list some bad PC games that never really took off had issues that made them not even average and 99% of them have 0 mods. Most of the time the developer of bad games typically are not great at setting up mod tools anyway so in that case it's a moot issue.

I think most big budget games typically have a pretty good base of a game in most instances though might have some issues on PC, I am mostly commenting on the rando games made by indies that can have wider varying levels of quality. Some indie games like Hades or Slay the Spire are massive achievements but there are 100's of bad indie games when you consider every rando making a game is technically a indie developer for every 1 game like that.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

it's only nonsense because you need to use external modifications for your enjoyment of the game

if you need mods to play the game, you're playing a bad game

this extends to random steam asset flip #999278493 to minecraft.

Spoken like someone that has never played with mods, and there are plenty of examples outside of Minecraft and Elder Scrolls. Also most shit games don't get mods in the first place, because people are spending their free time making these mods. Not many are willing to drop 50-100 hours developing a mod for a game no one cares about that sucked. Also certain games are easier to mod due to tools made by the developer, some games require a lot more work to mod so they in turn get less mods in general.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

pc gaming has never been enjoyable for me, which has been a very expensive lesson

console > pc

just flop onto the couch, put up your feet, grab that controller, and just play

never have to worry about tweaking settings or driver updates to make sure things work, because it all just works

Yeah man those consoles have mastered it bud, it's not like you can actually hook a PC up to a TV and then use a wireless controller for the same experience!

Oh wait you can it's the year 2023!