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There is a ice cream shop in downtown Portland called Salt and Straw they mostly serve weird combinations but they are all damn good.

I think the weirdest I have had was pear with bleu cheese, I haven't tried many of their flavors though.

StealThisSheen posted...

I'm not super far into it, but I'm really enjoying the story aspects. The characterization feels great, honestly. That said, I do get where people may be upset, since this is supposed to be "officially" part of the Arkham universe, but I guess my mind kinda separates it, anyway. When it comes to just this game itself, the story/characterization/etc. is very fun.

I feel like they legitimately had something great, here, and WB went "Okay, but live service this shit." And that's very sad.

Well that doesn't surprise me really even their weakest game Arkham Knight was still a pretty damn solid game that suffered from bugs on release. The other Arkham games were incredibly good and combined damn good gameplay with a solid story.

WB had a literal golden goose with Rocksteady and instead of letting them make their own games or maybe moving onto other DC heroes or villains they were like fuck it make a live service game. Shit if they would have made Superman or Flash game with the same level of care as the Arkham games it would have likely blown up the same way the recent Spider-Man games did.

superbot400 posted...

Saying this game is a failure because of "wokeness" is textbook scapegoating.

Especially when wokeness is not what made people mad at the game. It was killing off Superheroes.

I don't think it was that the first trailer came out and people were stoked because it was made by the same company that made the Arkham games, then we saw the live service thing and many were wary.

Then we had people play the game a few months before it was coming out and they claimed it wasn't great, it was basically the same thing that happened to Marvel's Avengers a mediocre live service game that tried to be big because it lets you play as Captain America and Iron Man. In the comics super heroes die all the fucking time they just come back to life and no one cares, nearly every major super hero that has been around for decades has died at least 4-5 times at this point.

Shit even in the MCU movies we saw a huge array of them killed off and most came back but not all.

Delirious_Beard posted...

where does WB rank among the most incompetently managed companies at this point, gotta be in the top 1%

They aren't the only company trying make the next Fortnite, it seems like live service is the thing every major game company wants because the profits are insane when it works.

It's classic big company shit they don't just want a lot of money they want all the money. Smaller developers set out to make a great game they could give a flying fuck on quality, as long as the game gets people playing everyday.

StealThisSheen posted...

I do think it's a bit dishonest to say nobody wanted a Suicide Squad game. The concept sounds incredibly fun, and people WERE initially hyped for it... Until it was revealed to be GaaS. THAT is what killed it.

And it's a pity, too. Gameplay-wise, the game is actually kind of a blast. The traversal options between the four characters are all very fun, and the combat feels good. If they hadn't shoved all of this GaaS crap in it, it would have been a good game.

I also heard the storyline was solid, but just much shorter than the Arkham games so that wasn't enough.

People bitch but this was likely WB's decision Rocksteady only makes WB games because WB is their parent company so they make good games but they are at the mercy of what WB wants. If WB says they are spending the next 5-10 years making this live service game they can't protest.

Other game companies are not in a similar boat Larian just made a D&D game, Baldur's Gate III but they aren't now tied to D&D for the rest of their game companies life.

Bandit_Keith posted...

I hate wording like this because it kind of tells you nothing. It's less money than they made last year during the same stretch, and less than they wanted to make. But how much did it cost to produce the game, and what kind of profits, if any, did they make off of the trash?

Companies are best to keep this shit vague, from what I understand there are some smash hit films in Hollywoods past that they claimed were a loss for a number of reasons and conveniently that meant people involved didn't receive some bonus or something.

Game companies might pull the same shit claim some random game that looks like it was a hit in some case didn't hit expectations for whatever reason. Oh we sold 3 million copies of game X, but we needed to sell 5 million to turn a profit which may or may not be true. If a company can make more money lying about how rough their situation is you can bet your ass they will.

Now this game was likely a real failure but my point is not every game that they claim didn't meet expectations means it was a financial loss.

Prestoff posted...

Sweet Baby Inc (even knowing the context why they named their company that way, I still think it's very stupid) is a consulting film to help with narratives, but ultimately they're not the ones who make the ultimate decision on what's included in games or not. They also contributed to God of War Ragnarok and Spiderman 2 narrative and those games were critically well received. It just feels like people are picking and choosing the wrong thing to take from Suicide Squad's failure.

That's how the woke go broke thing works, a great example is the Mario movie before it came out they were already to be like "Princess Peach is better than Mario and has to teach Mario everything another case of wokeness." or "This movie will be a huge bomb because of how woke it is."

The movie comes out is a HUGE smash hit financially and then they just stop talking about it and just pretend it never happened, or claim that it wasn't really woke as they thought.

Plenty of good woke shit does well plenty of bad non-woke shit does poorly the notion that how woke a game is impacts this is absurd. 95% of the people on the planet don't give a flying fuck about how woke something is in nearly every instance. Sure making a character black who has been primarily white might annoy some but even when they do similar things to that like Miles Morales as Spider-Man he doesn't actually take over Peter Parker as Spider-Man he is his own thing.

StealThisSheen posted...

To be clear, I'm not talking about Republicans. I'm speaking purely about the left.

I've long since accepted "Republican" is a disease that has no cure in sight.

I do have (misplaced?) hope that, as the left starts to age out and get replaced by younger people, we actually will be able to start to, viably, move further left, so that Joe Biden doesn't have to be the best we can achieve.

Trust me when I say some have moved away from that party even before we had Trump being a big issue. I have a friend who said he couldn't consider himself a Republican about 4-5 years before Trump ran for President, and this was a guy that before that point was a lifelong Republican.

There are tons of people out there that the Republican party has left behind for one reason or another and the more radical they get the more this will happen.

Mecha_Sonic posted...

it seems to me like the democratic party, right now, is in danger of following in the footsteps of the republican party.

the republican party went through a purity crusade too, between 1994 (election of newt gingrich) and 2016 (election of donald trump). during this purity crusade, they forced out all the RINOs (republicans in name only). when all of those voices were shut out, it created a platform for truly malevolent opportunists to take over, like trump.

i'm going to be the "both sides" guy here. it isn't great to attack joe biden for putting out an innocuous statement like "violent protest is bad," which 95% of voters probably agree with. it's really destructive to the palestinian cause and the economic causes of the left if these things get associated with political violence in the minds of voters, fairly or not.

I have called Trump a fascist and will be very distraught if that jackass wins the election, trust me there is no single president in the history of the USA that is as crazy and power hungry as Trump. This is a guy that will claim any election he doesn't win is a fraud, this is a guy that would utilize military force to take power if he could.

The only thing keeping Trump from being a true threat to the USA is that he is not backed by some large military force, and he might be going senile which is helping. Me claiming that most presidents have had similar military and foreign ideas is not really that big of a deal when Trump has a ton of other issues that Biden doesn't and Biden has done many good things for this country.

Mecha_Sonic posted...

the point is that a lot of Millennials and Zoomers have got this idea in their heads that they're supposed to resent biden because he's not a "true leftist"

and i would like to deconstruct that, because i think it's a bullshit argument that's based on nothing more than memes, vibes, and truism

this topic literally accuses biden of being a republican, even though he's enacted the most progressive economic policy since LBJ. i don't think i'm the one who's being dishonest.

At worst the democrats have similar military policies as republicans but outside that most of them are different especially when you have people like Bernie identifying as a democrat. Yep both parties spend plenty on the military, but outside of that they don't really line up similarly often this is even more true when Trump changed the Republican party into what it is today, where it feels like they are becoming more right wing and more conspiracy theory based.

Even if Bernie never became president his presence in politics has helped the democratic party align more with his views, you saw Hillary talk about some of the issues Bernie raised up and I'm sure Biden has also been influenced a bit by him. The notion that you have to be the President to make any change in politics is ludicrous.

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Well that and there is left on different issues, I would argue Obama is farther left on social policies but if we are talking international issues like wars or economic issues that's where he is more middle or slightly right.

The problem is everyone gets all upset because of the social issues and they don't focus on the other shit so to these jackasses they are super far left. If all you care about is LGBTQ+ and that shit being put into video games and movies then yep they appear super far left.

Dancedreamer posted...

Who were the better options?

Not counting Bernie Sanders, who never stood a chance (sadly).

Bernie's best chance to have a serious run was 2016 when that failed he really never tried hard again. Again the country is not ready for Bernie if this was maybe 20 years in the future we might see Gen Z and Millennials be the primary voting block and a Bernie has more of a chance.

Obviously I don't mean Bernie himself he likely won't be alive and if he is he won't be running I just mean a person that shares his views. You gotta keep in mind boomers are the primary voting group and they haven't been fucked over financially as much as Millenials or Gen Z so they are happy with guys like Biden and Hillary which are status quo people.

Even in 2020 we had other options besides Biden, they just were too radical or not noteworthy enough to get votes like Yang it wasn't like on day 1 of the Democratic primaries Biden was already on a big lead.

foreverzero212 posted...

They want them to protest by shutting up, deleting TikTok, and voting extra hard for Joe Biden. Because if Joe Biden wins harder, Russia and China will stop forcing him to support genocide.

Theyve explained this a million times now.

Theyre as looney as it gets and I say this as someone that does indeed still vote Biden.

Well Biden is running against a literal fascist that would turn this country into his own personal dictatorship in a second if he could. I don't like how Biden is handling this issue but Trump is about 1000 times worse.

ai123 posted...

In a way that people who find it uncomfortable can easily ignore.

Apparently.

Yep, I heard the same shit about Colin Kaepernick stuff like... "He should protest at his house or something,"

God people have forgotten what protesting can do just because the last big successful protests were back in the 60's and early 70's.

Zikten posted...

The democrat party, it's main power force anyway, has always still been pretty conservative. American politics is unfortunately conservative. Only Progressives are different, but they don't have much power. They are just a minority in the Democrat party. They kinda should be their own different party. In an ideal future, Republicans would no longer exist as a party and Democrats would be the new conservative party, with a Progressive Party taking the liberal side

If this country was as left as people claim Bernie Sanders would have given Hillary a real run for her money back in 2016. We also had Yang run in 2020 and he was also more left than Biden but didn't get any momentum in his campaign.

It's the far extreme right that claims that everything is super far left when most that they claim are far left are at best a slight lean left from the middle.

ninjaman44 posted...

Everyone has different opinions. The show was watchable, but I sure as hell wouldn't consider it great. There were several moments throughout where it was downright bad.

The average is pretty damn high though and if you only compare it to other video game adaptations it's considered pretty damn great. Just because every moment is not a fucking masterpiece of cinema or some shit doesn't mean it's bad, this is like playing a 40 hour video game and 1 hour of that 40 hours isn't the best and your like "Meh game!"

Yazarogi posted...

The Yao Guai got 1shot because it took a .50 round to the dome.

That just happens from time to time.

Shit with a head shot and crit from any good weapon in New Vegas most enemies have their head explode off their body.

DnDer posted...

Is it, though? Been a while since I've played, but I don't remember House's vision being that beneficial for all of the wasteland. It certainly improved the quality of life for a specific class and group of people. And it wasn't Caesar's boot heel.

But I don't think that's the same kind of QOL improvement as, say, trying to restore what seemed like just a Vanilla America playthrough one more time.

That and House has made it very clear his disdain for most people in Vegas this notion that he is some benevolent guy is ridiculous. I could imagine him being happy if certain elements were cleared out or if he had full power later using the NCR to clear out unsavory elements he would rather have removed.

Sure if you are of good breeding and well off in Vegas you likely will appreciate having House in charge, but you can already see many people upset with House in nearby areas and this is before he gets his grubby hands on that coveted platinum chip.

The old notion power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely has credence here, with the platinum chip and his huge array of bots he would easily become the most powerful man in all of Vegas and arguably the most powerful in the USA. 4-5 years of that I could imagine him being about 10-20 times worse as he is now.

W_S_C_M posted...

Water doesn't "balance" out something unhealthy

Drinking a lot of water does help it doesn't remove all the bad sides of soda though. A night of binge drinking will be less impactful on the morning if you make sure to drink a good amount of water while doing it. Again this doesn't remove all the downsides of having say the equivalent of 12-20 beers in a night but it sure as fuck helps.

The biggest problem is soda is calories and sugar that doesn't feel like you are doing that, if you give someone a giant slice of cake people are like damn I feel a bit full now or they will typically not go for a lot more, meanwhile some random guy drinks 3 cans of coke they typically don't have any sort of full feeling from it, or they don't process it as the sugar/calories being satiated. Diet also has it's own list of issues, but in some cases might be slightly better. I gave up soda years ago and don't even really miss it I will on rare occasion have one at a restaurant but I probably do that 1-2 times a year. This coming from a guy that in his early 20's and younger typically had at least 1-2 cans of soda a day.

firedoom666 posted...

Yeah every single option in New Vegas sucks

I believe that is the point.

rexcrk posted...

I appreciate them as entertainers for sure, and Id definitely be star struck if I met one I was a fan of in person (wouldnt harass them or anything. If nothing else, Id want to let them know how much I enjoy and appreciate their work) but it always struck me as odd how people get so invested in their personal lives.

I have seen a few myself and have not come up to them when I felt it would be an inconvenience. What's funny is I spent a bit of time in Malibu and you actually pass them in cars quite often, a guy I knew from that area had Denzel Washington work out at a gym he went to often.

You see them so often in areas around there that they become far less of a big deal to those that have lived in LA for a long time.

Why are you lumping them together? I have never seen a president ranking where it's the two presidents over that period of time. This is similar to a teacher on a test grading you and your neighbors paper the same grade no matter what based on where you sit in the classroom.

Part of it is respecting the talent and ability, I only really admire celebs who are typically behind the scenes making content. I don't think a ton of people though really would go insane if they ran into some big celeb, barring the true obsessives.

There also is vast differences of levels of how someone would treat a celeb even one they like, I am a huge Martin Scorcese fan because of his incredible movies but if I ran into most actors I would just be like sure fine.

Another factor is how much you care about the thing they make, if you for instance never care much about TV shows then sure you won't give a shit about meeting most tv actors or director/creators. Similar thing here some that love JRPG's might flip out about meeting some huge iconic JRPG figure but might not care about running into someone far more famous to the general public.

faramir77 posted...

I'm just starting the 6th dungeon now. Wizzrobes are invincible to sword damage, wtf. It almost seemed like a glitch because they fly back when hit with the sword, so I looked it up, and I found out you can stun them with the Hookshot and then pick them up and throw them at each other.

I don't like that you can't harm them with your sword unlike in Zelda 1 and ALttP, but this trick definitely makes it better, haha.

I'm noticing that dungeons are incredibly long in this one compared to previous Zelda games. That's definitely a good thing, but I'm not a huge fan of the forced backtracking.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/d71580d6.jpg

If memory serves I believe you can also hurt them with arrows I typically just avoided them though unless a room required their defeat. Shit this game does the trap you in a room until every enemy is dead thing a lot less than the original NES game.

Revelation34 posted...

I don't remember having an issue.

Same here I don't remember getting stuck on this door at all, especially when pots do damage to enemies if my memory serves. The game shows you can use them to damage things so damaging a door is not out of the question.

Melody_JR posted...

Its weird how triggered people get by just hearing the name of the app. People will literally melt down just knowing it exists because it exists.

Maybe they hate it because of the following song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP6XpLQM2Cs

ChronoXGP posted...

You are required to have a 15min break
no one in my state enforces this, you will actually get fired by the corporation for sitting down on the job

My point was that no one works the full 40 hours and it's not about breaks bud. Trust me at an office plenty take their time going to the bathroom or might check their personal email on their computer.

I realize it's against the law to force someone to work an 8 hour shift and give them 0 breaks and no lunch break.

ChronoXGP posted...

the sad part is most people already work 32 hour weeks
they want less people to have health insurance which is why they want you 40 hours
they know most people are too tired to work more than 32 hours in these jobs that have you put out 2x the effort for 1/2 the pay

Well that and no way is any worker outside of one with a very strict deadline requirement pushing every minute they are at work. People find countless ways to either slow their work speed or spend extra time in the bathroom or sitting at their desk doing non-work things.

Sure if you work at McDonalds it's hard to slack off unless the place is dead, but at an office job there are a dozen ways to do so unless you have a very strict deadline or boss. I find it funny that in Japan the bosses like it more when employees stay at work longer no matter what, a guy could literally be sleeping at his desk and it's past normal work hours the boss is impressed.

IAmNowGone posted...

i give up hope on Bernie saving us

He tries his best but he has trouble getting people on board with his ideas. No matter Democrat or Republican one thing they all worship at is big business, and Bernie definitely doesn't fall into that.

While Republicans typically are worse at trying to help the middle class, both parties care heavily about what's best for giant ass corporations.

I will love the follow up story when this jackass is fired and can't find a job because he refuses to deliver to the most populated city by a huge margin in America. Also some in NYC do support Trump so this notion that everyone in NYC thinks Trump is the worst is a fucking joke.

The only way this guy keeps his job is if his trucking company would never send him to NYC anyways, like if his typical locations are all on the SE or something and he does 100% of his deliveries down there.

You could just get a seat cover I have a hard time imagining that stain coming out no matter what. Once something is that set in you can't really remove it barring some insane procedures, that might do more damage than help.

funkyfritter posted...

I have a hard time imaging what a Peanuts show made in 2024 will look like, so meh.

They made a movie somewhat recently and it was quite good.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2452042

Not sure why people can't fathom that this could be good when many Peanuts things are great.

Jen0125 posted...

Plus someone is casing my house for theft this week and just got caught so I filed a police report for a paper trail

This woman came to my house yesterday, trespassed onto my yard and touched my property

https://imgur.com/a/9Eg7cPw

So we go buy no trespassing signs to put up and my boyfriend was out putting them up at the same time this morning that lady showed up and this happened

https://imgur.com/a/Nwkp7n7

We literally work from home and just because our garage is closed with the car inside doesn't mean no one is home you fucking losers

You could put a car in the driveway to make it more obvious, or just make it more obvious someone is home some other way.

Unless you prefer this as a way to "trap" thieves, but even in that case video evidence that someone might have trespassed is not as clear cut as some think that it proves she had ill intentions or did something. Even in the case you have something more than that you better be able to know exactly who it is and not just some rando that lives nearby.