Lurker > codey

Interstella5555 posted...

You're like 5 years late doing an "edgy" take on this, try going outside.

This is just...stupid shit, seriously, delete this whole thing.

It's stupid for him to banter with his wife? Honestly, it sounds like you're the one that could do with going outside a bit.

High school was great. I'm still friends with lots of people I went with 15 years later, and we're pretty spread out geographically at this point. I had fun playing sports, wasn't bullied, and could fit into lots of social groups despite being a "nerd" because I played football and ran track and actually got to know the jocks, plus it was a small town so most people hung out despite being different anyway.

You're watching Fresh & Fit and are confused as to why YouTube is recommending other hateful crap to you?

wackyteen posted...

I mean, that basically opens nearly every entry-level job in at least the Army for you.

I had 20 job options and I volunteered myself for the most needs of the Army MOS. My Mos is the Mos they threaten smart MOS AIT (specific job training/school) students with if they fail their school.

Same for the air force, when I took the pretest and scored in the 90s my recruiter was stoked because he could try and get me to be a recruiter. Don't know how it's run now, but back then they would get better eprs if they got people into high-need jobs like that. I ended up taking another high-need job in ATC over linguist like my recruiter was trying to pitch me because I didn't want to learn farsi lol.

No, but that's because I already get disability payments from the military

Imagine getting upset at a Pitchfork list in 2022. For 20 years Pitchfork's model has been all about creating buzz for itself through very controversial and snobbish reviews and lists.

teep_ posted...

Practically speaking, are there any JRPGs that weren't made in Japan?

Half of the rpgs on steam are jrpgs made by western fans.

Fuck yeah, I've been dying to play these again but hate playing retro games on emulators. This will be perfect for laying around on the couch and playing on my switch.

coolguyjimmy posted...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AO-rated_video_games

Man Hatred sounds both awful and hilarious. Apparently the creator made it as a reaction to "PC games" and "games as art," then went on to drop this nugget:

"We want to use dark ambient music, because there's nothing [pleasantly] exciting in this game," Zieliski said. "It's supposed to feel kind of sad, and hateful. It's supposed to give the player an evil grin."

"I want to give the main character in Hatred a kind of humanless, killing machine vibe. I don't want to justify anything. I want the player to ask: why."

Lol it sure sounds like he tried making something artistic. Just like politics, art's only in games if I personally disagree with it!

Kenshi
Topo Chico with lime

I've never heard anyone talk shit about emulators tbh

They don't want to condone homosexual behavior by providing PrEP, huh? Well, since straight people also get HIV, I feel comfortable labeling such actions as owning a company, going to a grocery store, and simply existing as homosexual actions since gay people do those things too. Also, judges shouldnt be listened to since gay people can become them and that violates my freedom of religion.

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

That guy clearly isn't arguing in good faith and is probably going to dismiss any legit good post-2006 game for very arbitrary and stupid reasons

Not only that, but he's on a video game forum when he hasn't liked a new game in 16 years. Even if he's being serious, he's not a rational person and what he says doesn't matter.

Julia Jacklin's new album, Pre Pleasure, last night.

YoungMutual posted...

Shills gonna shill man, but I think some of them are kinda starting to concede some points and realize that no, what Cd project did is not okay, so it's a start

shills?

buddy, I returned the game immediately and haven't bought it back. Why would I shill for a company after making a game I didn't have fun with?

I'm not shilling for anything, you just can't accept that people disagree that this set a "precedent." A company releasing a game in a state that brought on universal condemnation is not going to set a "precedent," especially after the game was hated so much the company had to give people their money back en masse.

Not to mention the game came out almost two years ago. What AAA games have come out in a similar state? How many developers are following in CDProjekt Red's and releasing buggy messes? There's no precedent set because no one's following suit.

TaylorHeinicke posted...

And offered full refunds.

I'm wondering, what "advertised features" are you talking about here? I know the game was glitchy and incomplete but I'd be curious to know what specifics you're hammering.

Seriously. "They made money off an unfinished product" and then gave a shitload of it back during probably the biggest game return scandal of all time.

Anyone that thinks Cyberpunk set a precedent that it was ok to release is unfinished buggy games is bugging themselves. If anything, it set the precedent that the public wouldn't accept it and it would cause you huge losses in reputation and force to give unprecedented amounts of refunds.

I don't mind the mechanic though I only ever personally did it once. I think what would make it better is giving Arthur some sort of buff afterward, like bonuses to the health and stamina cores.

Nothing sexual happening makes sense. This is t GTA,, and the character you're playing as isn't the type to go around fucking hookers. Even if you play him as an outlaw asshole he's still somewhat respectable, deeply in love with a woman he knows he can't and won't ever have, and is still damaged by the death of his first wife and child. When Arthur cuts loose, he's always surrounded by friends and family and just drinking having a good time, not hitting on women because that's the state of mind he's in.

This feels like a good place to ask this:

My girlfriend and I just moved into a new place, and there's a "second" living room that were turning into a listening space. I love the idea, it's a nice little nook in the house that's hard to hear from elsewhere I the house because of how it's set up. Problem is, the record player we have is a Christmas present she got me, and it's a victrola piece of crap. It skips constantly on earlier tracks, and my research has told me it's because the needle isn't heavy enough to have any sort of force behind it.

I can't tell her that, because I've had the damn thing for almost a year now, but once she finally uses it (it'll be a while...) I'll be able to pretend it broke in the move and get a new one, which finally brings me to my question:

What brands and price points should I be looking for when it comes to entry level record players that don't fucking suck? I can do some preshopping and go ahead and pick something out and then I can finally get back to blasting jimmy Buffett to annoy her.

The thing about these old comedians is that they're never at risk of losing their career in the first place. These guys make their bread and butter touring through Midwestern towns where people are just going to see the guy they remember from a movie 20 years ago. They're not aware he sucks, and lots of them probably don't care, they're just going out for a fun night.

You probably haven hear of Carlos Mencia since got disgraced and disowned by the comedy world fifteen years ago, but he's still touring and hitting these towns full of people that don't care and making bank.

0-0=0

I remember specifically making a lime green to white gradient one that thinking back definitely didn't fit the game lol

Mibahlzitch posted...

It's amazing how many blue collar dumbasses who think they're Republicans because they're looking out for number one are actually conditioned to ignore kickbacks for the rich and complain any time regular people get anything.

Just keep the people on the bottom of the ladder pulling each other off it with calculated smear campaigns while they sit at the top.

Honestly, one of the things I noticed while working as a reporter in a small, very red town was how many people were diehard republicans but we're very into local policies that, if enacted at a state or national level, would be considered left wing. There's a massive disconnect in the Republican part with regard to actual policy to the point that for most of them, it really is just a red team vs blue team rivalry with no knowledge about what those teams actually do.

Theres a huge list of things taxes go toward that will never affect a huge swathe of people in America, and now that they're suddenly being used to help people out there's a huge outcry.

VeggetaX posted...

No, TC is right. I'm sorry you dunno the world that well.

This post brought to you by telling it like it is!

I played one of the PS1 Tenchu games. I remember the gameplay being really advanced, but I was also like 10 lol. Had no idea From Software developed it.

United_World posted...

I can hear Simple Plan coming from that image.

I'D DO ANYTHiNG

I'm open to it, my diet is mostly based as it is.

I'm not the biggest fan of imitation meats, though. In my experience, plant based meals are much better when you embrace what the plant actually is instead of trying to form it into something it isn't. If I get an imitation burger, it's most likely going to be a black bean burger.

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


I still prefer HG/SS, but it's definitely the best of the recent crop. Once they moved to the French region(the one with fairy types), I feel like the games have gone downhill.

The core gameplay is still fine because it's so simple you just have to add small tweaks every couple of generations, but everything outside of battles has gotten awful. They try to make these deeper stories but they're still at their heart written so that 7 year olds can understand, so what you end up with is a game that's constantly interrupting itself as soon as the gameplay starts to feed you an awful story.

They're also overly handholdy now. You get funneled along a set, predictable path with the same amount of trainers that each have 1-2 Pokemon. It's just boring.

Now, Arceus might still have a poor story but it actually lets you just go out and play the game, and playing the game is done how a Pokemon game should be. You just go out in the wilderness and catch every pokemon in sight and every now and then you battle another trainer. It's simple and it works because that's all Pokemon needs to be.

Xenoblade 3

I can't hold it very well in handheld mode, but I got an aftermarket case my switch fits into with comfortable side handles. The shoulder buttons are still too close on the joycon but I'm not playing a lot of games on switch that require really fast accurate button presses.

Topic is on its third page and TC is nowhere to be found.

Yall just fell for the bait

Ah that's a lil spindly bitey boi

littlebro07 posted...

Roger Clark (Arthur Morgan from RDR2)

Met him at a comic con and talked for a few minutes while getting an autograph. Super nice guy.

Forgot about this one since she's a voice actor, but I know Bulma's voice actor through one of her family members. Certain scummy parts of the internet might hate her, but she's a really nice person.

It used to be the P90X guy. He came to visit the base I was stationed at a long time ago and actually came up to the tower and shot the shit with us regular guys. I saw plenty of more famous people (even fucking kid rock lmao) while there, but never actually met them. Only person I actually wanted to meet was T-Pain when he came out to a base I was deployed to.

After I separated I actually met someone more famous though. After he retired from the NFL to get his PhD in mathematics from MIT, John Urschel came to the community I was attending. I was taking business algebra at the time just to knock out some basic credits before transferring, and my professor was the head of the department and gave the class extra credit if we attended a private talk later. Only a few of us attended because it was later in the evening, but Urschel was a really cool, smart, and kind dude. He even managed to get me all jazzed up for math even though I'm terrible at it lol.

I think it needs to be pointed out that the ones pushing these book bans are republicans in power and some very fringe, small groups.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/article/Texas-book-bans-driven-by-GOP-pressure-not-parents-17362170.php

At my last paper, we also covered the book bans around November/December because there was this weird fringe group pushing to remove books from our public library. How do I know they were a fringe group? Because there were about a dozen of them in favor of the ban, and hundreds came to the courthouse to protest any potential bans. This was in a town in deep southern Texas where we were regularly (incorrectly) labeled a democrat rag and Beto gets laughed at when he comes to visit (even though he's the ONLY gubernatorial candidate that bothers to visit). The people there are red as red can be and even they were like "WTF are you doing trying to ban these books for?"

10InchNails posted...

Idk it seems to me that the brain dead morons who are obsessed with a fucking farm animal are the ones who are more likely to be zoophiles.

Every time I think I'm out, a nonsense post like this drags me right back to CE.

deanshow posted...

A shitty ex kick boxer who basically shills incel advice to incels. He has some really whacky beliefs on women and surprisingly a lot of idiots fall for it.

He's a piece of shit, but let's not invent and spread false narratives like he was a shitty kickboxer. He was a good kickboxer that is also a shitty person, both can be true.

I miss the cool icons each game had on the memory cards. It would be cool if they brought that back, but I'm not here for actual memory cards lol.

It's funny, I remember seeing his videos like 2 years ago and his content was so ridiculous that everyone was just ripping it to shreds as a complete joke. Fast forward to the past couple of months and he's reemerged somehow as this pick up artist/incep/misogynist ringleader and I'm just wondering how? Obviously he built an audience, but since I apparently missed all that it's like the beginning of the last star wars movie where palpatine just shows up out of nowhere and he's got a fleet somehow.

Cobra1010 posted...

When i hear the word, i think of like an outer region of a system in space (star wars) or the rims of a car wheel.

I dont know who invented this slang. Seriously theres so many sexual slang in english, it taints the language itself.

You realize you're complaining about a slang word that first came into use around half a century ago, right? This isn't some new slang tainting your language, it's been in use (probably) longer than you've been alive.

Ratchetrockon posted...

Oh wow option 1 is very common way of thinking in the two units i worked at in airforce aircraft maintenance. 3-level newbies aren't really expected to do much the first year or so other than push a toolbox and some ground equipment around the flightline all day and shadow more experienced people (mainly 5-levels & sometimes 7-levels) in various aircraft related tasks. If there was absolutely no work or study for the 5-level test they'd just make them (the 3-levels) clean a part of the unit's building which wasn't much tbh cuz it was fairly small.

Then there were were the 7-levels who did less of the physical work that the the 5-levels did (like removing/replacing components). Sat around in the office or truck (especially if expediter) more often and mainly came out to the flightline to check the work of the 5-levels or help troubleshoot a problem. Of course if there weren't enough experienced bodies due to poor manning they go out and do the work of the 5-levels as well. 9-levels never went out on the flightline and just did office work.

Just going off memory so idk how accurate this is and prob varies per base or whatever. I don't see the problem with this type of lifestyle tbh. I can see people being jaded after a few years of terrible work hours and sometimes backbreaking work. I met many ppl in their mid 20s that had some knee or back issues. Let the new bloods do the shit the old heads don't wanna do.

Good to hear the three level experience was the same in other career fields lol.

In air traffic, we also had a year or so of training you had to complete before getting your five level. Like you said, it was mostly shadowing 5 and 7 levels in position before going up for your certification (and tests and other knowledge-based stuff) but there was also a fair bit of "bitch work" that came down to making sure the facility nice. Cleaning the tower, trimming the hedges, sweeping the entranceway, that sort of thing. It wasn't a punishment or anything, we just didn't have janitorial staff and the three levels were the only ones free to clean because everyone else needed to be in position working planes in the sky.

There was hazing though, which I wasn't in support of after seeing another 3 level get it particularly bad and wash out. I mostly put a stop to it on my crew once I got my 7 level, but the crew I was running skewed really young and most of the 5 and 3 levels were all friends anyway so there was never any mean-hearted stuff going on.

One odd thing I noticed about the hazing was that all the "pranks" people would do to fuck with the three levels seemed like the same jokes they were playing 20 years ago, and it was always old guys. Like, they would send 3 levels on pointless errands to get things like an approach gate key which doesn't exist since the approach is an imaginary point that doesn't actually exist. These old tower controllers really thought they were being slick since the approach is a concept that radar controllers learn, but were too dumb to realize that in the decades since they went to tech school they've been teaching 3 levels both tower and radar to make them more well-rounded and easier to slot into different bases that need new controllers.

TLDR: Paying your dues is great when it's just learning the basics and completing tasks that others have been promoted out of, but it can easily become hazing if you're not mindful, which is obviously bad. It's just not a black and white concept.

Paying your dues can mean a lot of things. It can be "You're new so scrub the toilet since someone has to do it and I have seniority," it can be outright bullying, or it can be very valuable experience that teaches the groundwork of a profession.

Out of those, six that I at-least semi regularly listen to and have sought out.

Bad Bunny, The Weeknd, Taylor Swift, Post Malone, Kanye and Billie Eilish.

Smashingpmkns posted...

This movie was filmed in Serbia for some reason lol

It's cheap to film over there. It's why you see so many direct-to-dvd and netflix movies being filmed in eastern block countries

MrAndersonWb posted...

arent Levis and lee name brands, sort of?

Pretty sure he's referring to their store brand, Goodfellow. It's quality stuff, especially if you want business casual stuff that doesn't look baggy or outdated like most department store clothes.

Another thing I like about target, and this is very likely unique to me and the local store, but it's the only big box store that has ever been easy for me to work with as a reporter. Any other store and I'm lucky to even talk to a manager for a story. Plenty make me go through a comms department that never gets back to me or just let's the phone ring, and ring...and ring. Meanwhile, at Target the manager gave me his phone number and said to call him anytime I needed a source for a retail story or needed to drop in to take some in-store photos for a story. Great dude and a total lifesaver when Walmart wouldn't even let me pull my camera out in-store.

Alteres posted...

Omg, you people actually buy clothes there that explains this shit, was wondering how tf quality would be different for name brand items

"Actually" buy clothes there? Dude, Target is probably the only big box store that offers store brand clothing that's actually fashioned nable and of good quality. I'd buy socks at Walmart, but that's pretty much it. At target I'm able to actually get quality essentials like chinos, button downs, t-shirts that are affordable and look nice without looking like trash (Walmart) or being completely dated in fit and appearance (most department stores). I don't go as often now that I live in a major city with lots of great clothing shops, but when I was living in a rural town this time last year Targets menswear saved me from gambling on clothes from online retailers every time I needed something.