Notices by Matt (zeldatra), page 17

  1. (And yes, also just a guy that lost control and smashed into a transformer)

    Thursday, 23-Nov-23 23:03:41 UTC from web in context
  2. Car explodes next to my store. Now I’m here dealing with a power outage instead of at home eating turkey.

    Thursday, 23-Nov-23 23:03:07 UTC from web
  3. Car explodes at US-Canada border. All major media reports that it was a Palestinian terrorist. FBI investigates. No explosives, no terrorists, not even a Palestinian guy, just some dude that lost control of his car and burst into flames on impact. Only text retractions on the original articles, no on-air retractions. Love the media in this country.

    Thursday, 23-Nov-23 05:48:27 UTC from web in context
  4. @adiwan don’t think the British pound is going away any time soon so I can’t even say it’s a cool keepsake

    Monday, 20-Nov-23 22:03:18 UTC from web in context
  5. @scribus I will simply wait to get mugged in DC on Friday and it will be off my hands then

    Monday, 20-Nov-23 22:01:06 UTC from web in context
  6. I’ve been carrying foreign currency in my wallet for a bit too long but you have to actually go to the airport to exchange it so it stays with me

    Sunday, 19-Nov-23 23:23:40 UTC from web in context
  7. Grimey’s talking about cancel culture now

    Friday, 17-Nov-23 01:09:24 UTC from web
  8. this guy in Burger King who looks like Frank Grimes keeps talking about how dangerous Mexico is “now”

    Friday, 17-Nov-23 00:55:02 UTC from web
  9. That means stop bugging me, TOM

    Friday, 17-Nov-23 00:37:05 UTC from web
  10. Listen, I don’t *like* that Republicans control the state government, but as long as they do, Virginia is still a right to work state which means I’m gonna keep refusing to give the union money for being in cahoots with the company anyway.

    Friday, 17-Nov-23 00:36:52 UTC from web
  11. Like a Dragon Gaiden beat at ~40 hrs. Somebody just let Kiryu go see his grapeing kids already.

    Thursday, 16-Nov-23 14:47:32 UTC from web
  12. 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 in context
  13. still only on chapter 2. I got distracted.

    Sunday, 12-Nov-23 00:04:47 UTC from web in context
  14. I know it’s because it takes place during YLAD, but it sure is convenient that they just don’t have to talk about COVID because it’s still 2019 in universe

    Friday, 10-Nov-23 15:36:37 UTC from web
  15. @adiwan gotta play the hits before they pretend to retire him at the end of the next game

    Friday, 10-Nov-23 15:32:08 UTC from web in context
  16. Like A Dragon Gaiden is such a blast, this is Yakuza action combat at its best

    Thursday, 09-Nov-23 06:44:25 UTC from web
  17. Oh boy I sure do love voting

    Tuesday, 07-Nov-23 16:55:23 UTC from web
  18. there’s this one photo of Kiryu’s kids from Yakuza 3 that kept getting reused in 4, 5, and 6 and that same photo shows up again in the new game, 2009 PS3 graphics and all. “I was a different person back then” indeed.

    Monday, 06-Nov-23 19:24:58 UTC from web
  19. Just as a frame of reference, one or more branches of the state government has changed hands in 2021, 2019, 2015, 2013, and 2011, and that’s just in the last decade. 2017 was the only election where the status quo was upheld.

    Sunday, 05-Nov-23 03:29:13 UTC from web
  20. It’s honestly a miracle anything gets done in this state when the government changes hands every two years and neither party wants to work with the other one on anything

    Sunday, 05-Nov-23 03:27:51 UTC from web
  21. if democrats flip the va house next week will Glenn Youngkin finally stop doing media interviews where he tiptoes around running for president or am I just stuck with his annoying voice

    Sunday, 05-Nov-23 00:35:33 UTC from web
  22. Side note: I’ve been playing Like A Dragon Ishin! since it DID get added to GamePass. It’s ok. Picture Yakuza 0 but you have a sword and a gun. Now picture none of the characters are nearly as likable as they were in the mainline series. It’s fun. But I definitely wouldn’t have paid $60 for it.

    Saturday, 04-Nov-23 00:56:18 UTC from web
  23. @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!)

    Saturday, 04-Nov-23 00:54:00 UTC from web in context
  24. …maybe she was just trying to rob us actually, somebody had already given her an alarm code before we figured it out.

    Friday, 03-Nov-23 12:54:24 UTC from web
  25. …I also don’t have access to the payroll so her pay wouldn’t have changed regardless.

    Friday, 03-Nov-23 12:44:11 UTC from web
  26. @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.

    Friday, 03-Nov-23 12:43:12 UTC from web in context
  27. which way next week’s election goes rests on the shoulders of Virginia’s alcoholic aunts

    Thursday, 02-Nov-23 23:28:47 UTC from web
  28. The fact that low/high density residential zones have different demand levels also kind of threw me. Took me forever to figure out why people weren’t moving into my newly zoned high rise district.

    Wednesday, 01-Nov-23 19:32:53 UTC from web
  29. @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.

    Wednesday, 01-Nov-23 19:30:15 UTC from web in context
  30. now me? I’m afraid of Madea

    Wednesday, 01-Nov-23 14:39:47 UTC from web