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I’m about to be the only member of my family left in Virginia so I’d been looking into finally making the move to LA. Then I saw that an interstate over there had to close indefinitely because the ground caught on fire and all ten lanes were unusable. California is really trying its best to seem unlivable.
Monday, 13-Nov-23 05:23:26 UTC from web -
still only on chapter 2. I got distracted.
Sunday, 12-Nov-23 00:04:47 UTC from web -
I couldn't resist and bought LAD Gaiden yesterday. I'm almost like a fanboy at this point towards any game RGG Studio releases. I'm 12 hours in at the moment and it feels like a Kiryu Best Of.
Friday, 10-Nov-23 15:14:03 UTC from web -
I'll probably buy Lost Judgment (+ DLC) as soon as there is a major discount. I ain't gonna pay almost 100€ for a game no matter how amazing it is.
Friday, 03-Nov-23 22:25:46 UTC from web-
@adiwan @adiwan That neither Judgement game is on Xbox GamePass is why I haven’t played them yet. I’ll buy Judgement, but $60 for Lost Judgement is a bit insane considering as of next week there will have been two further games in the series out since LJ’s release (and one of them isn’t even full price!)
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@zeldatra Yeah. It's somewhat unfortunate. Last time I saw Lost Judgment on sale on Steam was about 60€ with the Kaito Files DLC. That price also stings. I don't know if I buy LAD Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name on release. I would like to but 50€ make me think twice, especially when I don't get it on a physical disc.
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Knew I was in for a fun time with this new transfer when I asked which store she came from and she replied “that’s personal information I’m not answering that”
Monday, 23-Oct-23 20:16:02 UTC from web-
@scribus update on this: apparently she had somewhat successfully lied her way into the position she was in. She’d been hired as a deli clerk and was transferred to my store after basically becoming to much for the previous store to handle (thanks for that, guys!). Then when she got here she concocted this plan to basically act like she’d been promoted with the hopes that we’d give her the pay of an assistant manager for at least a while before we found out. Her refusal to answer most of my questions was because she didn’t want me finding holes in the story, like her refusal to tell me what store she came from was to stop me from contacting her previous manager and finding out that she was just a deli clerk - before the whole thing went down I had already figured out what store she was from because… it was listed under her file, which I genuinely can’t believe she didn’t think I would check. Before I was able to ask the manager there about her though, she’d already been fired.
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Got the new Cities Skylines, fun times fun times! Got a weird fixation on a six-sided grid as opposed to the regular right angles and all. It's obsessive, I can't stop. It's like some kind of curse. Or maybe even a hex!
Wednesday, 01-Nov-23 18:47:03 UTC from web-
@scribus I have hundreds of hours in the first one and the second one is driving me absolutely insane because of how much more in-depth it is, I can’t approach things the way I did in the first game because the first game didn’t have apple like air pollution, so now I gotta not put my factories upwind of a suburb. This is a good thing, I get sort of complacent in how I game, it just surprised me how much the game tries to kick old players’ asses in some regards.
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@zeldatra I spent half an hour relocating a water pump and even the road leading up to it, trying to get better than 10% efficiency. Then I found out that it actually needs to be fully staffed to be fully functional :o
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voting on Halloween because adulthood is tedium
Tuesday, 31-Oct-23 18:34:35 UTC from web-
@scribus Virginia. Kentucky. Louisiana. Only three states in the entire country where this is an annual thing. Can you imagine the junk mail volume? It’s a lot.
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Dodged some trick-or-treat-ers by having all my blinds down. Also it is slightly raining, so they weren't eager to try. Maybe next year I'll craft an auto-candy-dispenser. I have enough micro controllers.
Tuesday, 31-Oct-23 16:00:30 UTC from web -
the kosher section of the store is expanding into the halal section and it’s causing some problems
Sunday, 29-Oct-23 21:34:30 UTC from web-
@scribus true story: the fact that my store only has a kosher SECTION, rather than a kosher AISLE, resulted in me being called an antisemite by some elderly Jewish lady, like a) I was the one who decided this, and b) the section wasn’t as large or larger than the halal, latino, Italian, Japanese, German, etc sections on the same aisle
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cherryin hate being my own audio engineer, can we crowdfund a studio for me just so i can pay a different guy to set this up for me
Tuesday, 24-Oct-23 01:07:14 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I made a booth out of PVC pipe and some sound blankets that is fairly semi-permanent
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Which is to say, the pilot tries its best to be a black comedy, but every dark joke has to be a) only about as dark as what you’d see on Cartoon Network at 6pm on a weekday, and b) they have to counter balance it with wacky game jokez 4 kidz and meta commentary. It gets in its own way a LOT so by the time we got to the obligatory 2001: A Space Odyssey spoof about twenty minutes in I was fully checked out.
Saturday, 21-Oct-23 20:40:54 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Yeah, just watched it and first impression is that if I were the studio exec, I'd only greenlight it if we were having a really good year or looking at a very desperate one. Close, there's potential, but it's no Helluva Boss.
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Friday, 20-Oct-23 23:37:51 UTC from web
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It's almost like I'm good at this and not at all that I watched YouTube videos of people winning and ever-so-slightly might've cheesed the strategy just a bit <_<;
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@scribus Is watching a YT video so different from reading up on a strategy guide back in the day? I try to avoid guides but there are times when the game isn't fun and I want to get to the fun again without the road block.
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@adiwan Not quite so different, except maybe the video has a more obnoxious host than the written word, lol
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Maybe my sense of humor is just broken but I dont really think the new circus show is really all that funny
Saturday, 21-Oct-23 17:56:21 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I think it would be funny if I actually got a job at this GameStop and then showed up two hours late on my first day because the godrotten morons couldn't accurately advertise the hours of their job faire
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In Yakuza Dead Souls, one of Majima’s substories involves dressing Tojo Clan Sixth Chairman Daigo Dojima in drag and pretending he’s your girlfriend so that you can lure out three zombies hiding in Kamurocho Hills. He hates this, but is honor bound as the Tojo Clan’s Sixth Chairman because he already said he would help you in any way he can. The entire mission is escorting Daigo around in heels. Why didn’t people like this game?
Friday, 20-Oct-23 10:30:57 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Maybe because first/3rd-person shooter on consoles suck. I'd like to play it for the wackiness but it's a hard sell for me demanding to use the controller for that kind of gameplay. Also it's not very cheap to purchase as ebay prices are way up and higher than original retail price.
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Cool. Cool. Another bomb from WW2 has been found in my city and the planned defusing of that bomb is in a few weeks. Need to prepare for an evacuation, mostly for my mother as she lives in the evacuation zone. At the edge of it but everyone has to leave that zone for the whole time (about 6 hours).
Wednesday, 18-Oct-23 09:18:23 UTC from web -
Oh boy I hope the Thai place doesn’t racially profile me again
Monday, 16-Oct-23 22:05:13 UTC from web -
Man I haven’t seen Beetlejuice since I was like 12 and back then the whole “Beetlejuice is a pedophile” aspect of the movie kind of flew over my head
Monday, 16-Oct-23 00:47:01 UTC from web -
In Yakuza 7, there’s a particular endgame boss with a one-hit KO move that you need to prep for in advance by using one of Ichiban’s defense moves to tank the hit. I did not know this until after the fight was over, because he attempted it once on my healer, missed, and then apparently got embarrassed because he never tried to use it again after that.
Sunday, 15-Oct-23 00:42:07 UTC from web-
@zeldatra You were so lucky. I had to fight that boss probably a dozen times. I had to switch up my whole party because of him. Without I couldn't get over that difficulty spike.
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@adiwan with that longass dungeon just before the fight, if I had to go back and change ANYTHING about my party I’d have probably just rage quit and not come back to the game for a couple of days.
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A longtime cashier at my new store just gifted me a hand-crafted Dominican cigar to welcome me to the store. Is this normal? Is that a thing old people do?
Thursday, 12-Oct-23 16:24:46 UTC from web-
@zeldatra People were always handing out cigars on TV back in the 80s, but it was usually for a new baby or some kind of class warfare power play thing.
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“Don’t look away” nah man, that batcave’s horrifying, I’m gonna look away just a bit
Wednesday, 11-Oct-23 23:54:35 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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Everything hurts. I'm exhausted by all the carrying of boxes and the disassembly and assembly of furniture. Moving sucks a lot.
Wednesday, 11-Oct-23 12:34:03 UTC from web -
Read a story on CNN about how they’ve nearly doubled the price of Japanese rail tickets for foreigners, up to ¥50,000 from ¥29,000. Is it bananaed up that my first thought was “well, the yen is falling in value so quickly that by next week it’ll be like nothing even changed?”
Sunday, 08-Oct-23 15:38:52 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Not any more bananaed up than that King of the Hill where Peggy mentioned going down to Mexico "every time they de-valued the Peso," and Hank says "It got old quick," I suppose
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aww damn Dick Butkus died
Friday, 06-Oct-23 00:58:58 UTC from web-
@scribus I know it's disrespectful to laugh about other people's names and dead ones but I've read that as "Dick Buttkiss".
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@adiwan Yeah; I'm sure it had nothing to do with his reputation as a "mean" player on the field....
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@scribus not that I really followed his career, but “probably deserved it” is one of my all time favorite replies to any angry tweet ever
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this site needs to get about 20% cooler
Sunday, 01-Oct-23 03:51:09 UTC from web-
@liquidusmira ah, that should be fine then, i guess
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@scribus scriiiiiibusssss
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Put 15 hours into Yakuza 7 without realizing it and I only just got my fourth party member
Thursday, 28-Sep-23 04:16:45 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I think I've spent about 80 hours with that game finishing all side quests that are reasonable to finish. The any% speed run is at 3h 11min. You have a lot of game in front of you. Have fun.
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just got accused of racism at the store because “you look like a Hispanic”, which I’m pretty sure is the most racist way you can accuse somebody of being racist
Tuesday, 26-Sep-23 15:05:50 UTC from web -
Whoa, activity!!
Sunday, 24-Sep-23 01:22:40 UTC from web-
@scribus We are simple mare enjoyers! http://rainbowdash.net/url/876445
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@maresandsnowpity It has been some time since I've partook in poni proper, but I did recently start putting Friendship is Witchcraft songs on ye olde playliste
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@scribus Pony Music is so good. http://rainbowdash.net/url/876446
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Silksong Never
Monday, 25-Sep-23 01:07:20 UTC from web-
@scribus boo
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@liquidusmira the real silk song is the friends we made along the way
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@mushi that's the FAKE silksong
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Yakuza 6 is disappointingly lacking in content (if you’re not a fan of RTS gameplay or baseball management simulation)
Sunday, 24-Sep-23 19:48:42 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I tried the baseball management and the clan builder and I share the same opinion, they are the weakest mini games. The clan builder is too simple, and the baseball management is too obtuse and lacks more involvement during a match. The chat room mini game is also quite lacking. There is some novelty but there is no reason to play it more than once. I enjoyed the undersea fishing a lot, but only when playing with the PC mouse. The gamepad analog stick moves the reticle tooo slowly.
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Kiryu has what
Wednesday, 20-Sep-23 14:55:39 UTC from web
