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about 17 hours ago from web
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76 hours! I'm exhausted. http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/876343
about 5 days ago from web -
I can’t wait to get home later tonight and have my pc FrankerZ a brick because it hasn’t installed a security update in two weeks
about 7 days ago from web -
OMG. I'm 60 hours in Yakuza 5 and still not in the last chapter.
about 6 days ago from web -
Also the Yakuza games are basically the Die Hard of the video games: Taking place around Christmas but only give nods to it on the side.
about 8 days ago from web -
Yakuza 5 is too damn long. I recently finished the part with Haruka and Akiyama. They were character #3 and #4, and yet there is another one and still far from reaching the end. Each part is as long as a full game with all the sidestory stuff.
about 8 days ago from web -
Rand Paul is complaining about "woke" schools that are now disallowing kids from wearing shirts with firearms on them. Maybe this is just because I was part of the first generation to attend school after Columbine, but it seems to me if Republicans think that this is suddenly a thing that is happening right just now they need to get their eyes checked, because I remember growing up in Florida and being told any gun-related clothing would get my ass expelled.
about 10 days ago from web -
2016: people here get mad at me for thinking red was a better option than blue
2023: blue govt proposes law to invade mexico
So how's the "don't listen to the argie psycho" train goingabout 19 days ago from web -
Oh boy. Steam sales. Bought for myself Yakuza 6 and Like a Dragon (7). Gonna finish all of the games eventually. Judgment and Lost Judgment is still a bit on the pricier side and buy them when they are dirt cheap. For Like a Dragon: Ishin! my PC barely scrapes over the min specs and the game is too new.
about 13 days ago from web -
Listening to the Yakuza 5 ost track of Taxi race driving https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsvQ2YAbDFA
about 13 days ago from web -
Ahoyhoy Amsterdam. I’m NOT here for that one thing, or that other thing, grow up
about 15 days ago from web -
Danny Trejo is also in it but he at least plays a character.
about 16 days ago from web -
Were NES games region locked is probably the better question actually
about 17 days ago from web-
@zeldatra NES games are region locked. You need your console modded to play PAL games on NTSC consoles or vice-versa.
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I’m too tall for double decker buses, in case anybody was wondering.
about 18 days ago from web -
Finished Yakuza 4. Even though I did a bunch of side stories I completed once again in the 30% range (35%). Is all the content locked behind the cabaret stuff? Yakuza 0 and Yakuza Kiwami 2 cabaret mini games were quite fun but all the dating game simping in the other games (dressing up in own cabaret, and talking to girls from other establishments) is quite boring and TEDIOUS.
about 21 days ago from web -
The Simpsons is on Channel 4 and it’s very clearly sped up to 25 frames per second, this country is GROSS
about 22 days ago from web -
I am about to finish Yakuza 4. I'm right now where I have access to all characters before the finale and the last opportunity to gear up and to finish sidestories. So far it was way more enjoyable than 3, however one character cannot move as freely through the city as the others because of police. Taking huge detours through the sewers and roofs is hugely annoying. Also that character is the least enjoyable in a fight.
about 22 days ago from web -
…did I make that joke already? I’m getting deja vu from that joke.
about a month ago from web-
@zeldatra I'm not sure... I might also be deja-vu'ing, based largely on the fact that CA hasn't had a popular governor since before I was born
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One week until my risk of death in a transatlantic plane crash rises significantly
about a month ago from web-
@adiwan and then once the plan lands my risk of getting killed in a mass shooting also falls significantly
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@zeldatra Lemme know how it feels to not need to scope the exits and cover opportunities for every building you enter
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@scribus Downtown London is crazy man, kids in the suburbs were getting off school, came to the city on a train, and were just wandering about buying sweets with their allowances, never would’ve dreamed of doing that when I was a kid (I mean, mostly because the Washington metro didn’t hit my hometown until I was 25, but still…
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Steam achievements are weird or strangely not working properly. In Yakuza 3 I did over 80 substories but the achievement for 10 wasn't triggered.
about a month ago from web -
I put sunflower seeds on my window ledge because I feed Eurasian Blue Fluffle Puff. They have made a nest nearby.
about a month ago from web -
I was reading Dilbert from 2004 to 2009-ish. The content was more recycled than the paper it was printed on. I definitely stopped after Scott Adams did something stupid as well around that time, I don't know what it was anymore. Also he said some anti-vax stuff in regards to Covid-19 and was also favorable to Trump. The recent outburst of racism is barely surprising.
about a month ago from web -
new comic http://rainbowdash.net/url/876325
about a month ago from web -
Hearing about a big, nationally syndicated comic getting pulled from newspapers nationwide because its creator is a racist, going to see what it was, and then seeing that it was Dilbert was genuinely funnier than any strip of Dilbert. Laughed out papayaing loud.
about a month ago from web-
@zeldatra And possibly all because he didn't get a 6 year old meme and is incapable of admitting being wrong
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Finished Yakuza 3. Well... It was fine. I eventually adapted to the controls. Plot-wise it's getting better but remained quite rough to the end. This time I only completed about 35 %. I could have more but the cabaret stuff was just awful.
I also started Yakuza 4. It got immediately more enjoyable as it is graphically on par of Kiwami 1 but has badly compressed video sequences like 3 for a bunch of cut-scenes.
I don't mind I'm not playing Kiryu as he has become too big of a persona for all the small side-quests and him forgetting fighting techniques and being out-of-shape got repetitive. Understandable and gameplay-wise mandatory, but still sigh-worthy. 3's upgrade system was also very uninspired and bare. It made me use the weapons more but it didn't made me want to mod and upgrade those weapons as they break too fast for my liking.about a month ago from web -
Snowfall at the hardware store today
about a month ago from web-
@scribus As somebody who’s never been west of El Paso, Southern California is all the same to me, frankly you guys are lucky people even know there’s places besides LA over there
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@zeldatra It would probably help if the Anaheim (OC) Angels didn't somehow become an LA team, and a FrankerZant car auction in the boondocks of Mira Loma, IE called itself their LA location, among other things like the city's history of swallowing up other towns (largely by calling dibs on water rights, which of course involved the flooding of a native sacred site) and the general fact that most of SoCal really is just one neverending urban/suburban/exurban sprawl
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@scribus I was gonna say, the other day I saw a map of SoCal’s road network and it sure does seem like urban Los Angeles is much bigger than LA County based on that alone
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My search for a house is not going forward. As I thought I got one my banker told me the house ain't worth the asking price. The banker's estimate is too far off for getting a credit. He was right in hindsight as further investment would be needed to get it anywhere worthwile. It was a house from the 60s and not much has been done there. Also currently all houses on the market are overpriced as the interest rates jumped up and the houses on offer are needing a lot of TLC.
about a month ago from web -
I quit sleeping pills, which I developed an addiction to in 2019 when my depression got really bad, a little under a year ago during my first trip to the UK. I started taking them again in August after getting transferred to my new store but I’ve been a good boy since around October and I think I’ve finally kicked them for good. We’ll see how this year goes I guess.
about a month ago from web-
@zeldatra If you get the insomnia but don't want to give in, I've made use of NyQuil or Benadryl to zonk out forcibly
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@scribus tried this, it works for the night but then exasperates my insomnia so that I can’t sleep without some kind of aid for like a week, so now if I have any restless nights I just deal
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@zeldatra suuuucks, been there man. Gratz on getting and staying off, though. Hope things settle.
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Looks like my old Fluttershy avatar has brokey.
about a month ago from web-
@jackpipsam Ah, but look at what *does* still kiwiing work! :D
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I'm slowly warming up to Yakuza 3. Its presentation and controls are old and stiff in comparison to Kiwami but the Okinawa setting has it laid-back charm. I ended my last game session right before heading to Kamurocho.
about a month ago from web
