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Ouch. I got lazy once and didn't look for an actual parking spot when I went out with friends for food. I just parked behind a market thinking at 1am no one is going to be using it. Stupid me didn't realize I actually parked in someone's spot at an apartment.

Came back hour later and car was gone. Thought it was stolen but eventually noticed the warning sign of it being private parking. Took a while but eventually found out where my car was towed to and because it was after hours I had to pay extra. Total came out to about $400ish I think.

What made this all worse was the fact that the restaurant's parking lot was actually across the street with plenty of open spots, and free but I was simply too lazy and stupid to go back to my car and move it.
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I watched Ocean 11 but not 12 or 13. I plan to watch Ocean 8 but based on the trailer hope it isn't too comedy orientated.
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Whether intended or not, I see it as another chapter in their lives and worthy of recognition. I would congratulate folks on getting a new job, buying a home, hitting a new mile marker in their lives, etc.
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How does this compare to the previous XCOM: Enemy Unknown?

Mead posted...

I just hate the way every mission puts so much pressure on you to finish things in just a few turns

I definitely did not like the terror missions. Felt I had to be reckless and probably abused save/reload multiple times for those missions.
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I wouldn't. I'm fine with said business being against certain groups of people (i.e. Chick Fil A) but if they outright refuse to serve them, that's where I draw the line. That being said, I still wouldn't force it on the business.
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Zareth posted...

Remember when Riker made a sex clone of that girl he liked in the holodeck and she found out?

Well that's awkward. Think my favorite TNG episode might be Rascals when Picard and a few others were reverted back to their 12-years old version.

SunWuKung420 posted...

One of my favorite quote of that movie along with Spock saying he will make a guess.
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I got into Star Trek: The Next Generation late so apart from a few episodes, wasn't that into it. My favorite though is DS9 with Voyager as a close second. I kinda do wish the Voyager was roughed up a bit more. Out of all the series, I feel they had the most/worst plot armour.

Tried to get into Enterprise but loss interest after the first season. Haven't watched any of Discovery though. Never watched the original series either but I loved the movies. Either The Voyage Home or The Undiscovered Country is my favorite.
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VeeVees posted...

Friends ARE food.

If push comes to shove, for survival, I do wonder if any of my friends are willing to eat the first one that dies and if they're okay with their corpse being eaten. I wouldn't mind what is done with my corpse if I die first but I'm not 100% sure I'll be able to eat a friend.
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Didn't bother me when I saw my first grey hair, it's only hair. I already made the decision to shave my head bald the moment I start balding. My dad had a combover, I ain't gonna go that route.
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helIy posted...

then it died, and they had a barbecue, and that pig was delicious

Waste not, want not. Of course if the same is done for dogs, cats, horses, etc. some folks will raise Hell over it despite there being a cultural/resource difference. I'd imagine some places are more than happy to accept donations to obtain food that people want them to replace.

Blaqthourne posted...

Something that eats the eggs of endangered sea turtles is no friend of mine.

My brother-in-law and I briefly talked about folks who help protect sea turtle babies as they crawl to the sea. We came to agree that if they're endangered due to human influence, then yes it is okay to protect them. But if they're endangered for reasons not related to humans, then perhaps we should let Nature runs its course.
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VeeVees posted...

return the laptop

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Revelation34 posted...

Kigalas posted...

Because as a parent its your job to attempt to craft a proper adult, and self-restraint is one of the hardest things to learn in life. Learning to think before you speak, and to not have emotional outbursts are important social skills, despite what adults do all day on the internet.

Yet those same parents swear.

Kigalas does have some good points. I personally feel it isn't about swearing or not swearing but knowing when not to do it. That's not to suggest all adults have that impulse control but rather we try and get kids to develop that control as well. Of course nobody's perfect and we may slip here or there.
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I see it less so of being "allowed" to it than and more so of knowing when not to do it.
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Mead posted...

Maybe once a week, sometimes less

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At $2.78 per volume, that is a good price considering the average volume print is about $9-10. Do you have to purchase all 72 at once?
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dragon504 posted...

That's the only bit of regret I have from not watching the last one. The devastated Brazilians.

I remembered getting updates on my phone and thinking the system was glitching or lagging when it kept reporting goals one after another.
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JOExHIGASHI posted...

first one

low risk of injury

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Yup. Kinda curious if Germany will rock it again.
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LinkPizza posted...

Maybe because they are you friends... I cant say for sure. But sometimes, it happens...

Fair enough. I know at times friends or family need to intervene even if said person says he/she is fine. My friends very well coulda thought I was too distraught to seek help when in reality I really was fine. My father was already sick for months so mentally and emotionally I was ready by the time of his passing.
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Been years since I've played L4D2 but still neat to see these speed runs/tricks.
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My condolences on your loss. I lost my father eight years ago due to pneumonia and other infection related to his kidney dialysis. We got along well but maybe it wasn't the perfect fatherly-son loving relationship some folks have that allowed me to be more mentally ready for his passing. Or maybe after losing my grandparents a decade earlier scarred me enough to be ready for this.

It was just me and a doctor in his hospital room when he passed as the rest of my family was still driving over. I still remember not feeling anything at all and simply grabbed some paper towel to clean his face of snot and mucus from the breathing mask. My family broke down in tears soon as they walked into the room and saw his lifeless body while I just stood there with a straight face.

With my mother now in her 70's, I do occasionally think about what we can expect in the next decade or two. Even some of my mentors are now in their 60's-70's and the same thoughts crosses my mind. Part of me do wonder if its because I do not truly care for these people that I might be mentally and emotionally ready or for better or worse am too emotionally dead to feel sorrow.

I recall my friends were actually upset that I didn't share the knowledge of my father's death with them until months later. They knew my father but never were close or even saw him regularly. I know some folks want to share such information in case they need some time to themselves or for emotional comfort. None of that applied to me and if anything I wanted to keep everything as normal as possible. For the life of me can't recall why they felt I was obligated to share such thing with them.
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RedPixel posted...

I've watched it like 5 times now and it looks like he pulled the trigger, all right.

Besides violating this basic gun safety rule, is it also possible the safety was loose? My only experience with guns are with .22 bolt-action rifles that we use in Boy Scouts and I've seen some where the safety is loose and some where they're tight.
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Usually. There's always the possibility said person left something in your car, their car might have issues, I want to know said person is still safe, etc.

Few months ago after a fundraising event, several others and I stayed till the end to lockup. Fortunately I did cause one of the volunteer's car needed a jump start and seem only I had jump cables. This was around 11-12pm so coulda been some time between roadside assistance came by while the rest of us waited. There were some kids ages 14 and younger so it wouldna been a restless period of waiting.
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I've bought a few clothing from Amazon and thus far the comments and "Fit: As expect" percentage does help with determining if I should go up or down a size. I ordered a sweater last year and majority of the comments stated it being smaller than the size listed so I order a XL instead of my usual L and sure enough, XL fit me about perfectly.
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One of my co-workers has been involved with some weight loss program. I think in the past several months he went from the high 200's to maybe mid 200's now. From what he told me, it has become easier mentally to watch what he eats and maintain his self-discipline.

I myself haven't really loss weight and is still hovering around 200 lbs but for the past few years I have been getting better about limiting what/how much I eat. My desire to also spend less money on eating out also helps keep me from treating myself too much/often.
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Zikten posted...

I've actually never had liver. what does it taste like?

Unless I am getting mixed up with kidney, it has a gamey and gritty taste to it. Personally I enjoy eating liver but haven't tried it with fava beans and a nice chianti.
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LinkPizza posted...

I guess that would work for certain months. But its gonna be really hot. In one neighborhood I lived it, they did it around 7 or so during the summer. But all the guys usually did it on the same day at the same time in the morning... usually... It worked out ok. And nobody wanted to be in the heat later than afternoon...

Personally I prefer mowing the lawn in the late morning or afternoon when I know the grass is dry. Makes it easier to sweep up and clean the lawn mower. There are a few times I got lazy though and ended up mowing the lawn in the twilight hours of 6-7pm.
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According to my city's municipal code, within the residential area we are limited to a dBA of 55 from 7am to 10pm and 50 dBA from 10pm to 7am. 50 seems reasonable for that time period but 55 is really low. I think a lawn mower is already about 100 dBA.

I personally tend to wait until 9-10am before mowing the lawn anyway. I figure by then most people would be awake.
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Was kinda torn between grizzly bear and pig.
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My first and previous account was made in 2002. I was either 18 or 19 years old at the time as I can't recall which month it was created in.
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Mead posted...

Im mostly indifferent towards it

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Black tea lemonade with raspberry for me. Kinda curious how that would even taste though as I normally drink Earl Grey tea. Is it just black tea mixed with raspberry lemonade?
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My professors from college and some ol Boy Scouts leaders of mine asked me to call them by first name after I graduated and being an adult now instead of a kid. I just can't bring myself to do it part out of respect for them still and partly because I'm too accustomed calling them by Professor or Mr/Mrs.
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I do not hate spider and just ignore them but they still give me the heebie jeebies. Went to grab the mail recently as soon as I opened up the box, there was a fat spider under the lid.
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Pity something as simple as a statement would make some folks snap like that, especially after a 10 some years positive relationship. Do you regret making that statement to your mother-in-law or feel at some point she needs to be made aware of it?

Not exactly on the same level but some of my friends have certain bad habits that I am not sure if they're aware of. One friend in particular I do question myself if/when I'll eventually point it out to him.
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Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition. Was funny to see the console buttons in the tooltip but I loved that game nonetheless. Friend and I would sometime spend up 30-50 minutes just trying to summon each other but the experience was amazing.
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Assuming it wasn't intentional, perhaps TC meant if our connection to our router is wired or wireless? My computer is still hardwired to my router. I do not think my MOBO came with a WIFI antennae and my router is only three feet from my computer.
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ferko420 posted...

I would never deposit anything in an atm. You are effectively putting a teller out of a job with such nonsense.

Depends on the type of bank account though. When Bank of America had their eChecking account, they don't charge you a monthly maintenance fee nor require a minimum balance but you'll get charged $8 for each transaction with a bank teller.
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Ogurisama posted...

Krazy_Kirby posted...

i don't want a convoluted story where you have to play multiple times, or research just to find out the plot.

This
You can have a meaningful plot without it being complex

To some degree the Nier games being structured like this is kinda discouraging me from giving them a try.
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WastelandCowboy posted...

I love complex stories, but only when theyre done right and you go in to the game knowing itll be a great story if the writers are good.

More or less my stance. In terms of well written and maybe complex story, Planescape Torment is the first to mind for me.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Only in America are people too lazy to walk to get their money.

Personally for me it's more about safety than laziness. If someone really wants to, they will get between the ATM and my car but I'd rather be in my car and ready to drive off in case of some confrontation than be standing at the walk-up ATM and expose.

OhhhJa posted...

I don't believe I've ever had an atm transaction last more than 30 to 45 seconds but somehow half of everyone seem to take 3-5 minutes.

Depends on what one is using ATM for though. If I'm just withdrawing cash, it's just a simple insert card, enter PIN, choose how much money I want to withdraw, send receipt to email, and touch the "Complete" option. Unless the ATM is slow, I should be out within a minute.

If one was depositing cash or check, asking for a printout receipt, machine didn't read the check right or bills were too crumble up, it will take longer. And this is of course assuming said person knows what they're doing. There are bound to be some folks who are checking everything two or three times to ensure the numbers matches up.
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TheCyborgNinja posted...

Fallout 1 and 2 are turn-based and old school RPGs. They're great but not for everybody.

As someone who really enjoyed Fallout 1 and 2, I can agree they're great but the game does feel archaic by today standards. Planescape: Torment, Baldur's Gate II, and Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura are probably the oldest CRPG whose controls, features, gameplay, etc. I can still tolerate.
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It's normal to compare yourself to your family and friends and feel inferior or envy. I myself am in a similar boat as you. Took me about eight years to finish college whereas my college friends finished in five some years. Most got their Professional Engineering license within two years of finishing school whereas I'm eight years out and still don't have it. Some of my friends are making $50k-80k within a few years of working and already bought their first home in the mid 20's whereas me in my mid 30's am making only $47k a year after working for eight years.

The only problem I have with all this isn't that my friends are better off than me. The problem I have is that it doesn't bother me enough. I don't mean in that I want to be better than my friends but rather at my point in my career and age, I should be pushing myself more to make myself more valuable. Every year more graduates are finishing college and that's more competition that I need to deal with. Yet I lack the drive to make myself standout despite knowing I'll never get a better paying position until I do.

When I see how successful my fellow engineers are and the life they're living now, I try and use it more for inspiration than to look down at myself. I've seen my friends posting about the times they were studying for their license exam, going to work 8-5, studying from 7-10, sleep, and then repeat the process.

I see all this as a reminder that my friends got to where they are now because they continue to push themselves whereas I got too comfortable getting my simple engineering position and stopping there. The thing is, even when we're aware of our own flaws, sometime we continue to repeat them. I still kick myself for bombing a city engineer associate interview that was paying $75k a year at zero experience. On the day of the interview I continue to review for the interview but allowed myself to relax too much and wasted a hour playing games. Could that hour spent preparing instead of gaming had made a difference? Maybe or maybe not. The fact that I wasted that time instead of prepping still bugs me to this day.

EDIT: About two weeks ago my supervisor asked if/when I'll get my P.E. license. I told him in the next year or two and what have I done in the past some weeks? Wasting my time playing games instead of looking into what steps I need to take to register and prepare for the exam. I continue to feel inferior because I allow myself to be.
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I was using Kaspersky but stopped about two or three years ago. Now I just rely on Windows Defender and Malwarebyes on the PC, SafeScript when browsing on Chrome, and a little bit of common sense on where I browse and what I download.
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Yup. Used the good ol Konami code plenty of times on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II and III.
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helIy posted...

bethesda and obsidian had a pretty big falling out.

Was this related to Fallout: New Vegas or something else?
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

They're so radically different, I can't actually compare them in my head.

Same for me. I was leaning toward Dishonor as I like stealth games but feel replay wise, it makes me look at it differently from Diablo III. I enjoyed both games but feel Dishonor is at most 2-3 playthroughs for me whereas Diablo III was about several because of the different classes.
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solid_kush posted...

Theres something called exercise too.

Aye but self-control on how much/what we eat goes a long way too, doesn't it? It's a simple equation of calories in, calories out but the older one gets, I think the better it is to just be mindful of how much/what ones eat.

I still exercise, occasionally, but its more to stay fit than to lose weight. To lose weight I need to be more mindful of how much/what I eat. Jogging 6-8 miles are my longer jog sessions but that's only good for maybe 600-700 calories at most and only if I pushed myself.
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My Boy Scouts troops attends the same Memorial Day service at this one particular cemetery every year where the Scouts escort the veterans up to a memorial for the various soldiers buried there.
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Tough to choose between Aliens and Terminator 2. Might be something like Aliens 55% and Terminator 45% for me.
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