Lurker > PesticideDream

This is kind of a dumb fight you're trying to have. I'm all against scummy business practices but they tell you right before you sign up that it will auto-renew on a specific date for a specific price, and you can cancel the minute after you sign up. This one is all on you.

I've always kind of wondered, if Hitler never existed or rose to any sort of prominence, who would we compare every politician to?

I love first person shooting games, but first person role playing games are just lame to me. It's not even a weeb thing, what's the point in battling for that Ultra Mythic Ancient Draedric Armor of Godly Fire and BS with all the cool aesthetics if you never even see yourself in it?

I love playing Fallout 4. Only thing that's a big miss for me is Preston and his stupid settlement BS. I don't want to constantly babysit a bunch of wasteland hobos when I'm busy doing far better shit.

They're kind of a waste of time, I agree with someone else, just make it a cutscene. I can tolerate it if it's obvious I'm supposed to lose, like I still have scrub powers and the enemy is like level 100 blowing up the world around me, but ones that tease you that you can win but you really can't are the worst.

Survivors of natural disasters aren't going to be spreading and mutating the disaster in the aftermath. If they refuse to get vaccinated, it's better off they die and we won't need to stay ahead and keep creating boosters for each new variant they keep manifesting. These people are basically the diseased limb of the body that needs to be cut off before it affects the rest. I'll keep being a smug asshole about it.

That is pretty fucking creepy and shady.

Good lord, some women are so obsessed with the patriarchy that even other women putting them down is The Patriarchy. Hard to feel bad for her if she's that dumb.

YouTube/TikTok/Twitch, etc. Videos that are funny or informative are cool, but I will never understand the obsession with watching average, normal people I don't know do a whole lot of nothing.

Agreed, especially when it's something as lame as a cat jumping out of nowhere or someone coming up from behind the main character and just putting their hand on them, like who does that shit when they want someone's attention?

It kind of does because now they're doing mask mandates again for their dumb asses, but overall, no. I'm vaccinated, if they want to die, that's their problem.

I haven't played the third one yet, but the first two were a lot of fun. The stories were super lousy and I still prefer OG Lara, but I enjoyed the experience and even played the first one twice, which I haven't done with a game in a long time.

The sad thing about corporate people, is that they genuinely think cutting hours and staff and giving you more work with no extra pay is a reward

I love the internet, but it has its pros and cons. GPS, how-to's for everything, streaming, playing games online, meeting people from all over the world, ordering online, etc. have been a huge convenience for everyday life for me. But it does come at the price of fake news spreading, social media toxicity, and data/privacy breaching, and a tendency to overly-rely on the internet.

I don't mind stamina in combat, like when you roll and shit, that's fine. But if it's a huge open world game and you put a cap on how much I can sprint, fuck that. It should be unlimited outside of combat.

Dogs, but cats are super cool, too.

Why would you be embarrassed at both getting laid and doing it the responsible way?

Anti-vaxxers are dumb, but this is still a new thing and there have been some complications (although a super, super tiny minority compared to deaths by Covid). The Earth has been proven to be round with indisputable scientific evidence (and common sense) for centuries; you're just choosing to be stupid if you think it's flat.

From my experience, women in their late 30s and early 40s are super horny, too. Most of them have husbands who don't pay attention to them anymore and are super thirsty.

KiwiTerraRizing posted...

Wheres all this automation Ive been hearing about for decades?

It's here, but now we're realizing automated things break and fuck up all the time and old people don't know how to use them and now instead of cashiers, they hire robot babysitters.

For me, it's more like:

Me: $70 is too much for that 100+ hour game, I'll wait for big sales.

Also me: $70 for a (show, concert, fancy dinner, event, etc. that lasts a couple of hours), not a bad deal.

I've been driving 5 - 10 MPH over for 20 years now and in front of cops. They don't give a fuck.

rexcrk posted...

I still cant believe that these companies still cant get it through their thick heads:

If you want people to work for you, you have to give them a reason to want to work there.

Why the hell is that so hard to understand?

Most of these employers have this entitled attitude like they're gods, and honestly think we should be groveling just for the privilege to work and have a job.

What did your father say about it though? Was he too stupid to give wise advice?

Because it's a job that requires zero skills and is easily replaceable with anyone that can breathe. I think they should get paid more and be treated better but thinking they should make as much as people in educated fields is just crazy. I've worked at fast food before, it was a super easy job and I felt like my wage was pretty fair for it. Yeah, there's stressful moments, every single job on the planet has stressful moments.

It's a pretty good time to quit a shitty minimum wage job. Good on all of them.

The protagonist was Micheal Cera...that's the best pussy that dude is ever gonna be able to obtain.

What a pussy

I'm gonna agree and disagree and I think it depends on how much effort the developers put into the bosses. Usually I love an awesome boss fight but I can see where you're coming from, there's many games that just make them overly cheap bullet-sponges, or if they have an easy pattern to recognize they can be kind of a joke. But if a game is just fighting easy mobs all game without that additional big baddie that really challenges you, then a game can get pretty dull.

I enjoyed it a lot more than I expected to. My friends were saying it was "meh" but my girlfriend wanted to see it so I was expecting to be bored, but I was entertained the whole way through. I won't spoil it but I thought the ending was kind of lame but that's about my only criticism. I think my friends were mostly disappointed with Taskmaster, apparently that's a popular villain that was done dirty but I don't read comics and had no expectations for this character.

I was mad but wasn't mad about it. On one hand, people suddenly lost their jobs for reasons beyond their control and you couldn't exactly just "get a new job" as everything was getting shut down and they needed that income; but it does really suck that they made more than me still being forced to go to work as an "essential" employee, but I feel like that's more on my employer being dicks and not the government's problem.

Eramir posted...

Messed up. Overtime shouldn't stack on vacation time.

I'm pretty sure at my job it does, and it's a union job. I haven't done it because I like my time off, but I think you can take vacation and work those days for time and a half all day.

Probably depends on where you live. If it's a big city like San Francisco or New York, it's probably not. Where I live, that's easy retirement money.

Not at my current job but my previous one, I did once or twice. One was a manager fuck up that I got in trouble for but I had no proof of anything, so I just went with it.

The Internet is full of bitter, hateful people; most of the world doesn't give a shit what they think.

I think their chicken sandwiches are just ok, but the waffle fries with the Chik-fil-A sauce is amazing, and they always seem very well organized with keeping lines moving. I've always heard they treat their employees well, too. There's one really popular one around me that puts up canopies for shade and gives them cooling vests to wear when it gets hot and I think they make more hourly than most other fast food joints.

I don't give a shit about their politics. Rather have them than some woke corporation that says nice things on Twitter but treats their employees like human trash.

Being progressive ain't bad but sometimes "woke" people get a little too extreme and ridiculous.

You can't change anything about the past so why even bother thinking about it?

Fuck that. I hate competitive Smash players too, and by competitive Smash players I mean my local friends who have no hopes of being professionals in the game insisting we play it only the professional way and fun is bad.

I prefer a mix, the main and important parts voice acted, the rest text based. I hate when everything is voiced, everyone talks so slow about boring shit. Usually I turn on subtitles and speed read what they have to say.

Of course I do, one of the highlights of my day is getting her to go "ew!" when she smells it.

Makeveli_lives posted...

To be fair RPG's were the only games giving us more then 12 hours of solo play. Else you needed fighters, sports, shooters and other multiplayer focused games to get any real length out of them. Platformers were still more fun but they didn't last long enough to justify despite AAA status.

But these days? Nah. God I would kill for developers to stop making games over 40 hours long and open world that don't need to be. Most obvious offender being Assassins Creed. Give me a city to go wild in, fuck an open world, tighten that shit up.

I think this is a good answer. When you're 8 years old and your parents only get you one game every now and then, the long game with a story gives you pretty good value.

Of course it's a massive waste of time, but I enjoy it. I get his point, unless you're getting famous and making money streaming it or creating with them, it's not a tangible skill that gives you any kind of advantage in life. And it seems like he's directing the criticism more at kids who do almost nothing but play video games all day.

It's basically the opinion of "if what you're doing isn't productive in some way, don't do it" hustler philosophy, which I don't agree with. Like someone else said, it's about balance: I work, I do chores around the home, I read to learn new things, and sometimes I want to zone out and enjoy a fun video game.

Humans adapt to their environments pretty damn well. It would take awhile but you could probably function pretty easily but be very out of the loop when it comes to any kind of history.

The only thing that bothers me about fireworks is that people around here will still be popping them off two weeks after the holiday is over, it's ridiculous. They don't excite me, but for the 4th and for New Years, I have no problem with it and people should be allowed to have their fun two days of the year.

18 is legal and fair game.

In my experience, most liberal dudes are scrawny little bitches that are dependent on others and bitch and whine quite a bit, while most conservative dudes are more masculine but the "alpha" shit gives them massive self-image issues and they're usually paranoid and angry about everything, and bitch and whine quite a bit as well.

Don't simp for anyone