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The obvious solution is to make your own food and make it as spicy as you want.

That or just pepper spray your meals (disclaimer: do not actually do this).

Sashanan posted...

The problem comes when you know when to fold them. The 3DS, at least, lets you do that.

They all let you fold them. It's unfolding them afterwards that's the problem.

It has red cars and also blue cars and also yellow cars. How much more diverse do you want it to be?

The NYC one, once, back in 2008-9ish. I bought TWEWY there.

Whargarble posted...

Being literally always successful at guessing names is not minor. That's marketable. I'd love to use that to spook the shit out of people or take bets from strangers as a street performer that I can guess their name.

More than that, it would let you take one look at security camera footage or photos and identify people committing crimes, or immediately identify anyone using a fake name for whatever reason. The security and counter-espionage potential is pretty massive.

hockey7318 posted...

I thought denim wasn't supposed to get washed that often. Am I gross for not washing my jeans unless I get something on them?

I generally wear them for three days (alternating with another pair) before washing them, which I wouldn't call "that often." I can't say I've looked into the optimal wash frequency or anything. This is more of a vibe thing.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

Not sure if this counts as a pairing, but Dead or Alive, a fighting game series, randomly releasing a horny beach volleyball jiggle-physics game never got enough eyebrow raises back in thr day.

It was already a pretty horny fighting game series. A horny beach volleyball spinoff wasn't that far-fetched.

Granted, I guess most fighting game series are some degree of horny.

Vision would save a fair amount of money on glasses, so that's probably the most useful, unless the book-reading one lets me transfer all of the information instantly. Depending on the actual increase in odds, that one may also be enough to tip the odds in my favour for certain casino games, so that might end up being the best option.

Ironic overuse of tropes walks a very fine line and takes quite a bit of nuance to avoid falling into actual overuse.

Blightzkrieg posted...

They are if they're blood related.

Touche'

Revelation34 posted...

Citation needed.

It's basic math. Assuming a 5% return (which is pretty reliably possible), $1.5 million will yield you $75k/year. Knock a couple hundred thousand off to buy a house, and you can expect more in the range of $60-65k. That's enough to support a single person, particularly if there's no mortgage and you're paying lower property taxes because you're in a rural area, but throw an extra person in there and you're probably going to run into some issues, especially if you're using most of your return and your capital therefore isn't growing to keep up with inflation.

Sure, you can be stingy enough to get by on that little, but generally speaking you want more in the realm of $2-3 million to be able to live comfortably without working.

Salrite posted...

I just have a real hard time with shonen anime tropes and that one was filled with them. Otherwise would have probably loved it.

I feel like it almost managed to transcend the shounen tropes to enough of an extent as to make them more ironic than played straight, but it didn't quite achieve that. Broadly, you can look at it and say that the fact that it goes from a robot in a hole in the ground to robots kicking galaxies at each other is so absurd as to be poking fun at shounen power creep, but plenty of other tropes are played pretty straight and that makes it hard to call it a deconstruction or anything like that.

In general, though, the theme of "if you don't have enough confidence in yourself, trust in the confidence I have in you" and supporting Simon's character growth with that was enjoyable.

I've got a plastic basket on a shelf near the bed that I put jeans in after wearing them 1-2 times. That's about the only time I encounter this. Pretty much anything else, I wear it enough that it's dirty enough for the laundry hamper.

Marriage is just a legal contract, no different from adoption.

If we're going that far, then spouses aren't family either.

TimeForAction posted...

1.5 mil is also enough to start investing and earning passive income that grows exponentially. Most people wouldnt know what to do with a lump sum that big and go the new athlete route and spend it all immediately but thats plenty of seed money

It is, but it's not enough to be able to live comfortably off of that any time soon. That would be enough supplementary income that you could certainly work less, but it's not going to allow you to retire immediately, especially not if you want to buy a house and/or incur other large expenses before investing the rest. That, in turn, limits how radically you can change your lifestyle to offset the drawback.

As it stands right now, if I won a million dollars, I probably would just invest it all as supplementary income, not make any major lifestyle changes in response to it. That would, of course, give me significantly more financial freedom than I currently have, since even a 5% return would nearly double my income, so it would change my life, but I'd still be working. If I did buy a house, it wouldn't be anything extravagant and there's a fair chance I'd still mortgage it instead of paying cash (though that'd be with a substantial down payment). That's the point of PO saying that it's not a "ridiculously life-changing" amount.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

There's also another issue no one else seems to be considering - which is that the offer was never specified to be tax-free. If it isn't, it would almost certainly bump everyone here into a higher tax bracket, so they'd be bleeding out even faster (and losing a significant chunk of the $1.5m). This has always been the killer for people who win cars or houses on game shows, or people who "flip their house" on reality shows - it can potentially increase your taxes (and insurance) to the point where you can't actually afford it anymore, which forces you to sell off the house or car because you can't afford to keep it.

Eh, I wouldn't really call that a major issue. If half of the $1.5m disappears, obviously that makes it less appealing, but $775k is still a very helpful amount of money. Unlike winning an expensive car or house and then having to sell it to pay for the taxes, you can pay for the taxes on a cash prize with a portion of the cash prize itself, so there's no downside to it other than the prize being less than it looks like on paper (unless you're an idiot and you take out a $1.5m mortgage before you get the money and suddenly find yourself unable to pay it back because your payout got taxed).

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Rappers and lottery winners have made far more than $1.5 million and still wound up bankrupt only a few years later.

At the same time, though, the whole "most lottery winners go bankrupt within a few years" thing isn't actually true, as much as it gets paraded around as gospel. Yes, it's much easier to spend a million dollars than many people realize, but most lottery winners do understand that to some extent or another and ultimately end up enriched for their win.

HValle posted...

It absolutely is

It's life-changing in the sense that it's a large amount of money that can totally overturn whatever financial issues most people have, but it's not life-changing to such an extent that you could accept any life-altering consequence in exchange for it. The consequence is pretty minor in this case and therefore it's probably worthwhile, but if red lights were somehow unacceptable and therefore you had to do something to work around this consequence, you'd have to move somewhere much more rural to do that. $1.5 million is more than enough to buy a house in the middle of nowhere and move there, but it's not enough to do that and also never have to work again (and moving to the middle of nowhere complicates working, though with remote work being so common now that's less pressing an issue), nor would there be enough left over to be adequate compensation for having to isolate yourself from friends and family like that.

wwinterj25 posted...

Blood or marriage.

Neither of those apply to "just a friend," which describes both of the extremes I offered.

ultra_magnus13 posted...

I was accounting for unmarried aunts and uncles. Varies things could account for over or under 50%.

Yes, that too.

Revelation34 posted...

Yes.

You've replied to two questions whose yes/no answers are mutually exclusive of one another. You're going to have to be a little more specific than that.

What happens if my approach causes the light to turn red, then I turn around and go back the other way? Does it just remain red for as long as it normally would have? If I back up just past the threshold, then cross it again as soon as the light turns green, does it immediately turn red again?

Katamari comes immediately to mind, but I've probably got some stranger ones lurking in my PC backlog that I've forgotten I have.

captpackrat posted...

I really liked the Wii Remote with Nunchuk. It was just so much more flexible than other controllers.

Objectively, wiichucks were a really limiting controller because it was difficult to translate multiplat games' controls onto them (particularly lacking a second analog), but they really were quite comfortable, both to hold and because your hands could go almost anywhere. Joycons capture the "hands anywhere" thing even better and don't give up any functionality compared to a traditional controller, but aren't nearly as comfortable.

Glob posted...

But those arent the same pet owners that would use the term parent.

Indeed not.

wwinterj25 posted...

It's a friend. That's all it is.

And what differentiates a friend that fills the role of an uncle from a friend who shows up periodically and plays little role in raising the kids?

Salrite posted...

We've had way more boxes in previous games with no issues

The DP remakes had 1200, the Let's Go games had 1000. I don't know if I'd call either "way more" than 960, not when you seem to be expecting 3000+.

Salrite posted...

They aren't physically storing all those Pokemon and rendering every single one of them at all times.

They aren't, but the boxes still take a non-trivial amount of time to load and search through even with the current limitations. Doubling or tripling the size would almost certainly make that quite a bit worse.

Salrite posted...

They just s*** the bed with the development of Scarlet/Violet.

They did, but not providing infinite Pokemon storage isn't really a part of that. That's a pretty minor issue that only affects a tiny handful of players who, again, want something functionally identical to a checklist and not actually storage.

Call them again and mention that you've had no service for several weeks and in multiple very different locations. If they still insist it's because of "tower upgrades," ask to cancel your service because they're lying to you and not doing anything to help you get the service you're paying for.

"Catch 'em all" doesn't have to mean "hoard 'em all." Catch and release is a thing, after all.

Salrite posted...

There is zero reason for them to skimp on storage space other than to force people to spend real money on Home.

Reducing the size of save files, avoiding the need to design an interface that can handle that many Pokemon (the existing design is already barely adequate for the current limits), encouraging people to limit their collection as they go so they don't get overwhelmed trying to manage it and end up burning out (though the boxes are already large enough for that to be a problem)... People that collect more Pokemon than the basic boxes can hold are too uncommon for their Home subscriptions to be a real motivator. The value of Home for the majority of users is more in the ability to hang on to and transfer multiple games' worth of Pokemon.

Salrite posted...

Also, there actually are plenty of color and form variations of hundreds of Pokemon already. Like, Vivillon has 20 of them s***s!

Vivillon is very much the exception, but yes, they have taken to providing more variants than just shinies. It'd still be nice for that to be more common (though not actually 20 different versions, because that's excessive).

ultra_magnus13 posted...

Half of your aunts and uncles can be non biological.

I might argue that it raises some eyebrows if half of them aren't, even, but I guess it's possible that like your mom's siblings marry your dad's siblings and you could end up with a full set of biologically related aunts and uncles without any questionable shenanigans happening.

wwinterj25 posted...

I do find it odd when folk call the friends aunt or uncle to the kids they have. It just confuses the kid I would think.

Arguably, the opposite is true: By just calling them aunt/uncle, you encapsulate the whole concept of found family much more simply than having to say "this is my friend who is particularly close and has/will be playing as significant a role in your life growing up as a blood-related aunt/uncle would." If they're filling the role of an uncle, why not simply call them an uncle?

Sashanan posted...

I prefer to think of myself as a guardian. I've taken charge of the cat's well-being, all the way to having him put to sleep if that's how it ends, as has been the case twice. Calling myself his dad is nothing but a term of endearment, it is quite understood that I am not biologically related to him.

This sounds about right.

Glob posted...

Owner implies theyre just a commodity that you could trade away or something.

To be fair, that isn't far off the mark for many pet owners, and the whole breeding industry absolutely does treat pets as commodities, plus of course there's a long history of pets primarily being owned primarily for utilitarian or vanity purposes. While it's incorrect to lump all pet owners in with that, it's also not entirely baseless.

Salrite posted...

It would definitely be a nightmare for people who feel obligated to fill out a Living Dex.

I'm inclined to prioritize creating a better, more varied experience for typical players over making life easier for obsessive completionists. There are considerably more of the former than the latter, after all.

Salrite posted...

And Game Freak refuses to give enough box space in the games themselves to store them all.

To be fair, if you're just looking to have them for the sake of being able to say you got them, there's functionally no difference between having them in a box you'll never take them out of and just ticking a box on a checklist before releasing them. An in-game version of that checklist would be handy, but actually keeping one of every version of everything? That just isn't necessary.

Salrite posted...

and not have even access to them while you play the game.

Realistically, if you've got 960 Pokemon in your box, you're only going to need ready access to maybe 100 of them (and even then, probably less than half of that on a regular basis), given that you can only use 6 at a time and most Pokemon have no gameplay value. The rest are there solely for the sake of having a full catalogue to look through, and you can do that just as easily with Home as in-game.

Revelation34 posted...

A person wanting somebody to die is the same thing as a different person wanting a person to die. It doesn't matter if the other person they want to die did worse things.

Do you consider wanting Hitler to die (were he hypothetically still alive) the same as wanting your friend's newborn child to die? Or is "wanting a person to die" perhaps much more nuanced than you are making it out to be, taking into account your reasons for wanting them dead and the benefits/consequences their death would have?

OhhhJa posted...

For some reason I keep reading this as prostrate cancer

Maybe you need to lay down.

Glob posted...

Id never refer to my friends children as my nieces or nephews.

However, uncle and aunt/auntie are often used in a non-literal way as a mark of respect. People do the same with brother and sister.

This sounds about right. Calling them niece/nephew is definitely unusual, but the reverse is common and there's nothing wrong with it. Outside of a mark of respect (which is a less common use in English/Western cultures), it denotes that somebody is part of one's found family even if they aren't related by blood. In that regard, it makes sense that aunt/uncle are used more often than niece/nephew, because framing a found family member as being equivalent to a blood family member is easier for kids to understand, while if adults are referring to the children of their found family, it's generally in a context where everyone understands the nuance well enough to not need such a simplification.

Revelation34 posted...

Wat.

What don't you understand, bro?

Also I know for a fact that you've spent enough time in the anime/manga world to have seen a girl calling her unrelated friend "onee-san" or "onee-sama," so I'm not sure what's surprising you.

I'd give a slight edge to BK, but I'm more likely to replay SM64 (and not just because it's shorter). For all their similarities, they scratch different itches: BK is a better collact-a-thon, SM64 is a better platformer. Both excel in their respective niches.

I wouldn't mind seeing more variant colour schemes for Pokemon across the board, not just a single, rare alternative. Having rarer variants would be fine, I guess with the rarest one filling the niche currently occupied by shinies, but more variety would definitely be an improvement.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

All of which meant she was in an awkward position where they couldn't really fix one thing without stabilizing the other things, but also couldn't stabilize anything without fixing the things that needed fixing.

That was basically what we went through with the cat that we put down a few weeks ago, who would have been 22 in August. She had hyperthyroidism, chronic kidney disease, hypertension, and arthritis, and for years we were maintaining and adjusting a delicate balance of several different drugs to keep any one of those from becoming too much of a problem. Knock her thyroid down too far, and her kidneys got worse. Treat the electrolyte imbalance from the kidneys wrong, and her hypertension got worse. Give her too much of the kidney meds, and her appetite fell off. It was quite the juggling act.

We'd just started treating her for a presumptive UTI when she died, so said UTI was probably actually long-overdue kidney failure, but up until her last week or so she seemed to be pretty happy and comfortable, so as far as I can tell we did a good job. Sometimes, though, medicine just gets complicated like that.

May His pericarp ever ferment sweetly.

Salrite posted...

I don't know what game we're talking, Scarlet/Violet is the most recent Pokemon game and that had standard rates.

Between outbreaks, sandwich boosts, and a few other things, you can get the shiny rate as high as 1/100 in S/V. The base rate is still the same, but if you're serious about shiny hunting it's much easier to get them in gen 9 than in previous gens.

The only real deficiency of the GC layout is that B+X and B+Y are hard to hit simultaneously, as are any 3-button combos that use B. In practice, though, opposing pairs are also awkward to hit with a diamond layout (though not as awkward as B+X/Y on the GC) and most games will try to avoid that anyway (which can translate easily to the GC controller), so that really just leaves trios as the problem (and that's really niche).

agesboy posted...

been playing a little pokemmo recently and the rates are 1/30000. and for some freakish reason they added an extra shiny variant that happens 1/16th of the time. it's absolutely fucked up

Presumably that's people who don't like that shinies don't "feel special anymore" with how relatively easy they are to get in Gen 9, and swung the pendulum a little too far back in the other direction.

Revelation34 posted...

So what you're saying is that two different sides wanting somebody to die means that they are completely different?

A box that contains 20 apples is the same as a box that contains 20 apples.

A box that contains 20 apples is completely different from a barrel that contains 20 oranges.

A box that contains 20 apples is not the same as a box that contains 15 apples and 5 oranges, but it is also not completely different.

There is middle ground between being the same and being completely different. "Not the same" encompasses that entire spectrum of difference.

rjsilverthorn posted...

See I would not have thought that congenital defects like that would be under the umbrella of heart disease so that is why I was surprised to see it on the >5.

And that would probably fall more under "congenital abnormality" than "heart disease," so I might be off base in rationalizing it like that. I'd still guess that there's some middle ground where you can have a congenital defect that makes you much more prone to fatal heart disease (which would be more likely to kill a fragile infant/toddler than a more resilient child/teen/young adult) but doesn't qualify as that congenital defect killing you.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

A friend of mine had a congenital heart defect that they luckily caught before it became an issue. But he was basically told in his mid-20s that if he didn't get it fixed he wouldn't see 30.

He had open heart surgery, they fixed it, and now he's approaching 50, so he was definitely one of the lucky ones. But his situation was also one where it could have been incredibly easy for them to miss the problem (it wasn't causing any obvious symptoms), and he'd have just dropped dead one day and no one would have known why.

For all the advances modern medicine has made, it's still a little terrifying to realize just how many different things can kill you with virtually no warning. The stroke(s) that killed my dad came out of nowhere, with the only warning being a particularly bad migraine a month prior that we only really recognized as being unusual with the benefit of hindsight (he had plenty of history of migraines that gave no indication that they were a symptom of anything worse), and that turned out to be a vascular degeneration problem that had pretty much always been there and just hadn't turned symptomatic (and if it hadn't killed him, he would have been in for some heckin dementia in the 5-10 years after, so in some ways it was probably best that he didn't survive).

rjsilverthorn posted...

In the top 5 for all but one age demographic, oddly the 5 to 24 is the only one missing it.

Generally speaking, if heart disease is killing somebody that young, it's because they've got a serious congenital heart problem. If serious congenital heart problems are bad enough to cause death, they usually do so pretty quickly. If they don't, that generally means they aren't serious enough to cause death, at least not until the person gets older.

I'd hesitate to put too much stock in isolated 2021 data because Covid played such a major role in pretty much everything. Aside from the direct deaths, Covid impacted injury rates (mostly due to less driving, though in some areas traffic fatalities actually went up when Covid cleared the roads because the congestion on those roads was the only thing keeping people from driving fast enough to kill each other), access to things like cancer screening/treatment, chronic disease screening/management, and pre/peri/postnatal care, and mental health (most relevant to suicide rates, though I don't remember any official observations that Covid increased suicide rates).

Quantifying those increases is largely impossible because of how complex the situation was, but the bottom line is that 2021 was a weird year for mortality stats.

Golden Flavour Nugget is my stripper name.

Farming dragon materials sucked, though. Cool concept, terrible execution.

You don't have to knead, but you do still have to measure out ingredients, which may require more strength/dexterity than their hands can manage. Otherwise, yes, a bread machine can help get around that disability.

Mystic_Myotis posted...

You usually don't need the shield for anything. Biggoron. Baffling that they made the MS so obsolete in a game where it mattered so much lol

I wouldn't say it's obsolete. Having a shield for defence is definitely more comfortable, if not strictly necessary if you know what you're doing. The game does a pretty good job of balancing the Biggoron Sword as being the riskier option for people that want to play more aggressively.

Salrite posted...

It's the same thing with Fierce Deity Mask. It makes the final boss a joke.

The FD mask is pretty explicitly just the god mode option. You found all the masks and completed a bunch of optional challenge mini-dungeons, and as a reward you get a magic win button (revisiting Twinmold aside) that's also really cool-looking. It's a good example of the philosophy that letting players break the game is fine if you make them work for it, which is a philosophy I generally like.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

They've had multiple chances to win me back

I dunno about that. You've got a tendency to be very stubborn about being unhappy with stuff. I have little to no reason to believe that you actually tried to enjoy any of the Nintendo games you've played over the years when you frequently break out comments amounting to "the mere existence of touch screens makes the world a worse place and I am offended that one is attached to the DS/3DS/WiiU/Switch," especially when anyone that's paid any attention knows that the Switch makes almost no use of its touch screen. To call that a genuine "chance to win you back" perhaps overestimates your open-mindedness and underestimates the degree to which you believe that disliking a given piece of entertainment media is a badge of honour.

Revelation34 posted...

Just defrost it and return. They would have never known.

The package's best before date was like two weeks prior. I also only really confirmed that it was bad after I started cooking it and the slightly off smell became more than slightly off, and they definitely wouldn't have taken back half-cooked meat that I couldn't prove had been purchased recently.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

i bet it's a lot, we all do it.

I'm actually pretty good about food waste, but it's also a bit of a personal neurosis for me (growing up, my mother both worked long, unpredictable hours and insisted on doing all of the cooking instead of sharing the plans she had for groceries so the rest of us could cook them for her, and that meant a lot of the meals she planned ended up postponed in favour of take-out/preparing quicker stuff and ingredients went unused and got thrown out). I plan out our meals pretty meticulously such that all leftovers get eaten, and when stuff does go bad, it's stuff that I had to buy in larger quantities than were needed in the immediate future (like potatoes or carrots) and it's usually nothing of any particular value. I think since moving out I've only thrown out two packages of meat, and in both cases it was because they were bad when I bought them (one, I got a refund for, the other I only realized it was bad after it had been frozen for a couple weeks and therefore no refund).

ReturnOfFa posted...

there's a f***load of food waste in ANY restaurant lmao this guy is so far up his own ass

This is also very true. The occasional expensive steak being served to somebody who won't "properly appreciate it" because they ask for it to be cooked well done is nothing in the grand scheme of edible food that gets thrown out or is allowed to go bad as a simple consequence of the prep process and logistics of running a restaurant. Minimizing waste is a worthwhile effort, of course, but the simple reality that you can't prepare every dish from scratch when it gets ordered means you're always going to be gambling on how much will be ordered in a given service, and overestimating that means you're throwing out the surplus.