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Tyranthraxus posted...

That is not an on/off switch. It's an interrupt. That's like calling your circuit breaker a bunch of on/off switches.

Are you sure we're talking about the same thing? I'm not talking about switches with test/rest switches and a circuit breaker like you might find in a bathroom. I'm talking about ones with a fully manual switch similar to a light switch.

Like this: https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/white-australian-wall-power-outlet-17607268.jpg

To me the weirdest thing is how most outlets there seem to not have an on/off switch

Depends on the difficulty/duration they expect as well. If they don't think it will be difficult there's less to be gained from doing the sedation.

I had all four taken out, with local anaesthetic + IV sedation (remifentanil and propofol)
It was pretty straightforward. The procedure itself I only remember little bits of it, and I don't remember having any pain. I'd recommend doing it this way, rather than opting for a full general anaesthetic.

If you're a badass you can get it under local without sedation, but most of the oral surgeons seem to prefer doing it with sedation, especially if it's more than one.

The pain afterwards was quite achey and stiff, but not terrible. I just made sure I was really consistent about taking paracetamol + ibuprofen 4 times a day every day, and some days I needed to take a 50mg tramadol once or twice. Pain started to improve around day 3 or 4 I think.

Star Ocean 2 remaster?
Octopath 2
Sea of Stars

Runescape is too powerful. I think my account just recently got the 20 year veteran cape on RS3

Depends where you are in the world.

Here in NZ we've got in most cities:

• Paper, glass and aluminium - generally it's agreed that these are a good idea. It does all get recycled
• Plastics with grade 1, 2 or 5 (PET, HDPE or PP) - because these are the ones we can actually make sure get recycled

Most other plastic grades are being slowly banned from use in food or consumer goods:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/1/3/AADuEzAAE8T9.jpg

PS3 had quite a few weird issues like this. It felt like they got overconfident after PS2 and just spent the entire generation playing catch up to Xbox 360.

Trophies were tacked on in a later update and never felt smooth even at the end of the lifecycle.
Cloud saves were poorly implemented and behind the PSN paywall.
No way to change your username without losing all your digital purchases
Backwards compatibility that they gave up on after like 1 year
Removal of vibration from the initial release controllers (sixaxis)

Damn, didn't he already have a bariatric surgery? This is a disaster.

Do you mean the little hinge cracks on the DS Lite? Those were very common, but not important. The main durability issue DS had was the shoulder buttons

Monolith1676 posted...

Halo CE Anniversary and Halo 2 Anniversary.

Came here to post this. You can switch back and forth at any time too, which is fun.

The Castlevania SOTN remaster on Xbox 360 also had the option to switch between the original and enhanced graphics.

Try find a 3060 or 3060ti, maybe used

Incredible. Spend so long learning how to beat the meta you forget how to beat normies. Gandhi clearly knows how to play but not at the level of someone you'd expect to be winning locals.

EDIT: I wonder if Gandhi is still playing now

If you don't care AT ALL about star wars you might find it hard to get into it, but it is a very good game. I'd put it above Dragon Age and roughly on par with Mass Effect 1 - aside from ME1's world building.

The second one is even better in some ways, but I think mostly only if you care about Star Wars a little bit.

El_Marsh posted...

Not sure but The Crimson Chin or Jorge would both be welcome additions imo

Crimson Chin vs Doug Dimmadome

Westernwolf4 posted...

It is my experience that people who say that usually are in fact mean, and that honesty is just sugar coating for crappy behavior.

It is easy to be honest and still treat the people around you respectfully.

100% this.

Honesty is good, but it should not be used as an excuse for being an asshole.

On average about 1-2 days a year. Last year I was off for 7 days with the rona on top of that.

A 2001 build that's trying to look like something out of 1870.
The interior honestly looks kind of gross to me. Especially the kitchen.

If you want to be a rich people house pervert, there are some great Youtube channels like Enes Yilmazer: https://www.youtube.com/@EnesYilmazer

Calwings posted...

There is a solution that provides a perfect middle ground to this though, and that's to not have dedicated energy cards and let any card in your deck be used as energy of its color instead of using it as a normal card. You'll never be unable to take action due to drawing too little or too much energy, and although not drawing enough of a certain color in a multi-color deck could still be an issue sometimes, it would be far less common.

Duel Masters worked this way, and it was great

My insurance was never anywhere near as bad as that when I was a male under 25. not even 1/4 of that amount, for comprehensive cover + third party, fire and theft and no excess on glass.

Thanks, these are actually very useful replies.
Yeah I'd noticed "hand traps" like dimension shifter, ash blossom, droll & lock. Feels like a boring way to have to build a deck but I guess it is what it is.

I'll look into some of those archetypes.

So I'm trying to dip my toes back into YGO after more than 10 years away by playing Master Duel, and I'm finding the pace of the game absolutely hectic compared to when I left. The power creep makes it so, so hard to grasp what is going on.

Basically every duel feels like it's over by turn 2 or 3 and it seems there's no way to make a viable deck that doesn't rely heavily on one or more of XYZ, Link, Synchro or Pendulum monsters.

I'm slowly working my way through the solo duels/tutorials. Has anybody got advice on how to get my head around the game, or simple decks that can at least survive a few turns? I haven't really gone and tried to build a deck yet.

The decks I used to enjoy in the late 2000s-era (when I was playing on DS) included:

• Macro cosmos/monarchs
• Equip decks with Ben Kei, Maha Vailo etc
• Trap-heavy control decks with lots of removal or direct damage (e.g. magic cylinder)
• Exodia decks, but mostly for the memes.

Inohira posted...

Thing is GG was basically sorted into 4 parts, 3 being bad and 1 being good (the movement's lone claim to legitimacy).

25% guys trying to smear developers they had a grudge with, misogynists, 4chan psychos, etc.
25% alt-right grifters like Adam Baldwin and Milo Yiannopolous who wanted to take down SJWs.
25% people fooled by the aforementioned groups.

But the last 25% was just people who didn't like how the gaming media dropped like 16 articles in one day in response saying "gamers are dead" and that devs shouldn't pay attention to hardcore gamers anymore because gaming was now mainstream. These media outlets were all thought to be independent beforehand but were exposed as colluding behind the scenes in private chats to protect their own, and willing to throw their audience under the bus to do so.

Nah this ain't if, chief. Every interaction I had with people claiming to be from group 4 had *very significant* overlap with behaviour that would put them in at least one of the other 3 groups. I don't think I accept them as anything close to 25%.

It's definitely become a bit of a meme byeond its value imo. There's definitely a tendency in the last few years to publicly and proudly label onesself as neurodivergent without being asked.

Heck, the word itself barely existed before 2020:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=Neurodivergent&hl=en-GB

Why don't more people like Shudder? Aren't horror films really popular?

I don't feel like horror films are particularly popular, no.

Haemorrhoid probably is the most likely thing, if it's painless.
Still, worth seeing your doctor about it. There are things that can be done.

KaZooo posted...

Just popping in again as posts keep rolling. It's awesome to see some good coming out of every day. There maybe a bit of a "too good to be true" feeling given the situation, but like I said before, it's what you both planned on happening next.

Same.

And it's fine to have good feelings too.

deoxxys posted...

If you want game built on mystery but isn't a detective game

Outer Wilds is stellar.

I'm playing through it right now and it's heavy on lore, exploration and mystery behind an ancient alien race and their technology.

I thought about this when I was writing my list. It's definitely an all-time favourite for me and oner of the best mystery games I've played, although yeah it's not a detective game as such.

Highly recommend this game if you haven't played it.

Well, yeah. Because she would also have made (half) millions.

Unfortunately, Nier (the original and Automata) is a game where the good things about it don't really become apparent until quite a long way in. Like 10+ hours.

Hexenherz posted...

Highly recommend The Black Watchmen. It's a permanent alternate reality game where you use real world resources to complete investigations. The game itself is more of like a graphical interface for tracking your progress.

yooooo, I forgot about this game. I've still got it in my STeam library from way back then

In roughly my order of priority:

Ace Attorney (basically all of them)
Return of the Obra Dinn
Ghost Trick
Her Story
Case of the Golden Idol
Chinatown Detective agency (this one expects you to look things up IRL outside the game to find solutions)
Murder By Numbers
Contradiction: Spot The Liar (an FMV game)
Hotel Dusk
Danganronpa
Heavy Rain
What Remains of Edith Finch
Hypnospace Outlaw (might not feel like it initially, but it gets there)
Paradise Killer
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
The Sinking City
Tangle Tower

I would say Outer Wilds scratches the same mystery itch, although it's not a mystery/detective game as such

The Professor Layton games kind of have some energy of this too, but are very puzzle heavy.

JuanCarlos1 posted...

but have gotten a bit lazy about it since we dont see the other person taking big dents at it.

This exposes a weakness in your overall approach to relationship finances IMO. Neither of you are seeing this as a shared priority goal.

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F

It won't let me post the real unicode x

Yeah that hint made me think JoJo as well.

However, I still stand by that this is the correct ranking for Street Fighter games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYTQ7__NNDI

NoxObscuras posted...

The fact that he right swiped 96% of the time is the problem. You understand that, right? It's well known that Tinder will actually lower the visibility of your profile (aka you won't show up when women are swiping) if you just swipe right one everyone.

That should be the real takeaway from these comparisons. You must be choosy, or the app will punish your account and you'll get less matches anyway. But if you're selective, the apps will start showing you women that fit your tastes.

This has always been my read on it. Going on tinder and swiping right on everything within sight is not a recipe for success. It's basically spambot behaviour. Engage with the app on appropriate terms and then complain about the stats (which are probably still pretty unfavourable, but not like this.)

This whole topic feels like it's about as psychologically healthy as it could possibly be. It's obviously an incredibly difficult experience to go through and being as firm and understanding in your justifications to go through it together doesn't prevent that.

I'm glad to see you still dropping thoughts in here and riding that healthy line to the future: Remembering her and what your relationship meant for each other's lives, and also looking ahead with social activities with your friends, keeping those other connections and some positive experiences in life.
Keep it up!

Street Fighter

brestugo posted...

The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb.
Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell.
The Death of Expertise, by Tom Nichols.

I like these picks

Crazyman93 posted...

All you hear in drug related news is how fucking deadly that shit is and how just a small amount will kill a grown man. There is no way she didn't know. Shut. The fuck. Up.

What about the part where she didn't know/think it was fentanyl?

It's possible to be a careless, uneducated idiot and kill someone without being evil

Home Quest (an idle city builder) is actually pretty good. It took me a while to get into and it's slow moving, but the progression goes a long way.
Realm Grinder is dope, but not really an RPG
I quite enjoyed Cell to Singularity, but again it's not an RPG

Impressive, considering fentanyl doesn't absorb very well when ingested. Must have been just soaking through the mouth.

Fucking crazy that people in here are literally upset she isn't going to be executed for this though. Manslaughter sounds appropriate - she was not wanting to kill this baby.

By living in the southern hemisphere where it's winter.

I'd say overall left, depending on your frame of reference. Assuming we are talking about the US because it's mostly 'mericans here.

There are plenty of users here who definitely tilt right though.

YellowSUV posted...

Unless I'm seeing wrong since the map is blurry, that map only has 8 lines.

This is one of the stupidest controversies in recent history. Movies constantly pander to the CCP, but this isn't one of those times.

this

Songs that basically introduced me to an entire genre when I was younger, I guess. First one that comes to mind...

Dream Theater - The Dance of Eternity
Dream Theater are a "sometimes food" for me, but the weird punchiness of the song with its time signature changes and the keyboard solo were super memorable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYCYGpu0OxM