The part that gets me too, I mean I suspect real gaming performance isn't that far off my current gaming PC. Which was a 2022 HTPC build for if I had to guess $1049 is right around what I spent but with easily an extra $200 in the 4TB SSD over a 512GB and buying a super overpriced HTPC case. I mean this Steam machine might outperform me a bit, but not by much and I suspect the supports 4k/60 with FSR is a total pipe dream at best. I get eaten up on VRAM before that happens currently.
Isn't this an APU too? So yeah, hardware prices have gone up but it still seems overpriced to me.
Yeah I was a bit disappointed in Ireland because I do love fish and chips, and I'd waited until I was in a place where I was literally looking off the deck to the water from which the fish was just recently in. Then they bring me this giant thing. You're right it's not as good.
He should listen to better music?
Yes.
I'm just trying to figure out what the food is. It looks like some of it has fruit loops on it? What is that bright red round thing.
I love to cook, I cook all sorts of things including a lot of Asian and Euro food and a lot of it would not look very American. I have no idea what half of that is.
Some of my favorite fish and chips I've had was in Canada actually. Coastal (Nova Scotia). You're right it was proper sized pieces of fish. Not small bites, but I'd say the whole fish type I got in Ireland the Canadian pieces was that split into four. I'm sure in Canada that's disallowed now because the Red Indians and the Brown Indians both don't like it or something and it would be racist to serve food they don't like.
Honestly, I'm too far inland I guess because I wouldn't even begin to know where to go around me in the US to get good fish and chips. I mean I could pick up some crap at a bar, but that's just something frozen they bought from Sysco and deep fried.
I would for the reason you mention. I'm sure I could find other religious words I'd argue that aren't inherently muzzie. I mean God versus god. Christians in particular would use those words with an emphasis on the proper name God for the named deity and a god for a random blasphemous god. So I'd allow god too.
This is exactly what I’m told about how Muslims think, the fear mongering about how they want everyone dead and are vicious, etc. Granted, I agree with it. The same people that want to fear monger Iran to me like that will tell me Israel are saints and would never think such things…
Probably a weird cross between a JRPG, a FPS game, and something like KOTOR. So, Mass Effect with a little more youthful exuberance, adventurism, and style and less trying to be real edgy politics.
Very large, but in a way very linear too. None of these worlds where you chase dots on a map. All sorts of aliens and things and some of them would be savages some would be sophisticated. You play as a human man that looks like a human man should, you can't be a faggot, honestly I don't really care if there's romance shit at all. You are playing my designed story not a choose your own adventure. No women forced places they don't belong, race bullshit, no trying to respect the savages any more than a man of good moral character would.
I really don't care to add any sort of world simulation stuff where I get to blow up vile earth things. I'd rather be an optimistic and happy explorer of worlds.
Good lord his voice is like a stereotype personified.
They should give that game away just because let's not act like they make the real money off game sales.
I'm not convinced I want it at all anyway if it was $10.
Do "Canadians" still like hockey anyway, or just those awful freedom convoy racists. Real Canadians national sport is cricket, right?
Sounds good to me. For someone who occasionally likes a musou game, I'm not sure I have enough of a conscience to even be concerned with mowing down hordes of virtual humans.
From what you say here, sure. I don't care if it's racist. Most of what you mention isn't even that abnormal in the past.
I'd say the only point of caution I'd express is if the racism becomes such a central point that the quality of the story and is ruined, because well that's just an alternative version of the slop they make. Their IP is more about the frizzy haired strong black woman don't need no man than being a good game. Good story has to come first, the racism can just happen as a by product. Which is what you've done mostly. I mean I'd argue a lot of yours aren't even races but animals.
Men do this I don't doubt, and the list could be summarized into, "What act is this woman putting on and what is she really like?" In a way most of this is logical to the purpose of "Is this a woman I want to spend my life with and create my family with?" Men looking for a relationship this is still what they want.
Where I find the problem is women's internal questions for a huge number of feminist-empowered (ruined) women is their questions aren't, "Will this man be a good provider for my family and who I want to have my children with?" It's been totally co-opted into "Does he make me get the feels or the ick?"
Oh, and do you need a new keyboard now after typing that list?
It's a fair counterargument. I'm not even necessarily in favor of exotic cathedrals although they are nice. I definitely wouldn't be in favor of destroying existing ones hundreds of years old to send some sort of message, but more use them appropriately. Still would definitely say an old European cathedral and a modern megachurch are very dissimilar though.
I've been really trying to push my cousin (still a teen) into that. That age group is so caught up in living out everything virtually I almost have to push him to the mindset that a man is to be out building up themselves or things in one way or another, pretty much for their entire life.
Yeah I ramble here too much (mostly during office type work time) and I can address that if I need be. Games, TV, whatever sort of entertainment is fine for the most part when bounded into an appropriate amount of leisure time. The ones who build their entire identity around fictional worlds really just make me sick.
That was it yes. It's super out there but I decided to go from Cheyenne to Rapid City that way just to see it.
That trip specifically would be hard to replicate although the places are all still remote so not busy. That was early enough in the whole lockdown mess that there weren’t a ton of people out in campers crowding things like they did in 2021 yet. So the only people that were out were the ones with the mindset of screw it all I’m going anyway.
Crazy thing is I guess everyone knew that’s all that was out so there was an odd friendliness. I keep to myself usually but I don’t think I ever had so many conversations with just random people/families just before and it was never around politics even during the time. It was just “where are you from”, “where are you going”, “oh yeah we came from that way check out this cool place you should go”
Yeah, I love classical art so if it's that type I absolutely go see it. The art that is based around beauty. That's probably one of my favorite things if I'm in a city. Old art and old exotic libraries.
If it's one of those modern art exhibits where someone smeared some turds on a canvas or it's just like a statue of a cylinder or something those can stay wherever they are.
2020 I ended up on a road trip and in the middle of nowhere in Nebraska. No cell service. With it being the lockdown or whatever I drove for almost an hour without seeing another passing car. Ended up at this cool geologic formation park 30 mins down a gravel road. There was an old guy there that I guess liked it so much he hung out there with his open carried pistol and gave out water and little postcards and told people about the park with absolutely zero attempt to sell our ask for tips or anything. There was one other family out there hiking around like I was and that's it.
Reminds me of an comment I saw on such churches. The idea was that why would you give God a lesser building? Would you build a grand structure of beauty for yourself like often a lot of these European cities were and then relegate God to a basic structure? It was an honor to God to put the finest craftsmanship and the most attention to detail and beauty in the house of God.
I'm sure there were nefarious dealings involved in some of those churches and sinful acts and what not, because well that has happened in the entire bible from the beginning and likely applies to all such dealings.
I haven't been there yet either, at least not England. Northern Ireland if you want to claim I've been to the UK. It will happen eventually if you guys hold it together in the cities long enough.
I'm finding in all my travels, I almost totally avoid cities now. I might spend a day in a place like London at most. The only thing in them is Instagram stuff anymore (oooh look at this pic of Buckingham Palace) amidst a sea of boring and sketchy. I far more enjoy popping into some random place to eat in a random little village where they don't get tourists pretty much ever, walking around a bit, then looking for some pretty scenery that's more local or at odd times when all the normal tourists are asleep still. Or finding odd museums of random things that would never make a top list on TripAdvisor.
Funny too because the places they hate like that are the ones that do what they really ask for, but they are still required to hate it because white people! Christian! capitalism!
The things mentioned in the first post here, Bucees and In N Out in particular (I could easily lump in a Chick Fil A too) are known for good employee pay and benefits especially relative to the skill level required, prioritizing customer experience, and are not publicly traded or run by a terrible private equity that would drain it all for max profit.
I see their disdain for such businesses as nothing more than proof they really want the ugly awful world they create not the utopia they claim it will be.
Funny enough I drive by Buc-ees all the time and honestly I think it's odd too. I've been in them. I went in the first real giant one some 15ish years ago in New Braunfels. It was pretty novel then.
My opinion of them is if you are on a road trip or mini convoy with a bunch of people, there's really nowhere better to stop than a Buc-ees. If you stop at some Indian convenience store you're going to spend all of your time trying to corral kids and different people into the one disgusting bathroom that the guy before just totally shit all over the place, etc. Buc-ees restrooms alone are worth it in that scenario. The last couple times I went in a Buc-ees it's because nature was calling in an unpleasant way and I knew I could get a nice private almost little room of a stall that would be super clean quickly. The bathrooms really are a sight to behold from a public restroom sense.
Then you have options for everyone in the group. The guy who wants to walk around a bit there's space. The two people who want two totally opposite things and are crabby about it from being cramped in a car, well they can get them.
For me, I'm very often out alone, and Buc-ee's is never where I want it when I'd be the most likely to take a break. It's like right on the edge of towns often, where as I'd be more inclined to take my time if it was in the middle of nowhere. So I really never use them, because I'm a guy traveling alone who can piss in the sea of disgust anywhere and I don't eat a lot of convenience snacks anyway.
I saw something six months-ish ago of some who were traveling the states and they kept going on about how much they expected terrible things and absolutely loved Texas.
I work with a handful of Irish people every now and then, I was over there a couple years ago meeting them in person and such too. One thing I really have taken from all of the pub discussions or whatever is they really are only presented one side and a tiny piece of the story and it’s all from the anti-America and anti-Trump side. If they were to really get to the truth, they’d have to get on the internet and become like an America-phile and the reality is it’s not their country and they never dig into it further.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say Chicago probably has a lot of nigicide too. I'll leave it up to them if they want to decide it's a state of emergency or not.