I pronounce them the same. Grew up on the west coast.

Days gone gets a lot of hate but I thought it was a blast and the motorcycle travel was such a great game mechanic.

I couldn’t finish Alan Wake. I really enjoyed the story but the game play was just too kludgy.

No fucking clue myself but isn’t airdrop an iPhone thing?

Personally whenever I go to Instagram all I get are cat videos and ads about “targeted mushrooms” and kava drinks…

It all checks out ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Just to put the in context, you would need to play every single day for roughly 6.8 hours in order to rack up 2500 hours in a year.

To further contextualize, in the U.S. a full time job, that is a job wherein one works a combination of days each week (typically 5 8-hour days but sometimes 4 10-hour days) is around 40 hours each week, or 2080 hours a year.

The typical worker also takes vacation, sick days, etc equaling between 1-3 weeks each year. Meaning they may not even work an actual 2000 hours each year due to time off.

So you are putting in more time to WoW each year than the typical full time worker is to their job.

And you still have time for other games.

Yeah my wife is convinced he wasn’t on the plane and this is subterfuge. I think Putin had him shot down to make a point, as he’s done with pretty much every other real threat he’s encountered.

We may never know…

I think you’re right and she was confused but that sort of illustrates the point. If someone is arguing a fallacy that is easily proven a fallacy then it indicates to me that they are generally going to be an unreliable source of information.

This.

I had someone the other day tell me the Tiananmen “tank man” incident never happened. We were discussing cognitive biases and she used this as an example of confirmation bias. But naturally she was arguing that anyone who didn’t share her world view suffered from confirmation bias.

When I said “the incident did happen and there’s photographic evidence” she told me "Google it there’s no photo "

Well, we googled it and there is, in fact, a photo. There’s more than one, actually.

I decided that presenting facts no longer was the point of the conversation when she shifted to the argument “that photo is known to be staged.”

🙄

Did you know that most voters in Florida don’t agree with this shit and that taking glee in the potential eradication of an entire people and their home is exactly the same kind of shit that racists do when they blame all Muslims for terrorism or Hitler and the Nazis did when they targeted a population for their religion (or for simply being related to someone who was a Jew)?

The examples of this “they’re the bad guys” generalism is part of the problem. If you’re really so enlightened, don’t be part of the problem, too, it only alienates more who might be part of solving the problem if they weren’t ostracized over something as stupid as their birthplace or where they choose to live.

I don’t know why, I have absolutely zero against Mayor Castor. I don’t even really know much about her or her politics.

But… Her being a former police chief and now 2 time mayor of Tampa for some reason part of my brain is telling me “prearranged publicity stunt.”

Why else disclose that she’s the one who found the dope? And, while it’s not unheard of to find cocaine floating around the ocean down here, that’s a LOT of cocaine. Enough for a big fat nationwide headline, especially if you’re mayor of Tampa.

So maybe it is a coincidence that she found it and she did not, in fact, trade a favor to get some white girl lost from a drug bust, but I have never been a fan of coincidence.

It’s this plus uptime. Both come down to usability. Nobody wants to use a product that is confusing or unreliable.

Yeah I’m failing to see how this replaces either of those benefits…

I think it’s just a place to post things that pop into your head while taking a shower.

That’s how I’ve always experienced it.

Today it would be a Nissan Altima. Had any neons survived I’m sure they would also still be in play.

Memes are like wine. With age they either become wonderfully balanced and nuanced. Or they become undrinkable acidic gutrot.

This meme is like a well kept bottle of average wine. Not particularly notable when it was bottled. Not particularly notable today. But a passable enough interruption that even if everyone can’t agree it’s enjoyable, nobody would go so far as to suggest it’s not palatable.

My brother in law’s properties and philosophy is a great example of how this often happens.

He owns a number of rentals as well as a large property adjoining his home. He is always improving amd acquiring properties. I think of him as a “slum Lord with good intentions”

Anytime, and I do mean anytime, something of value comes up for free, at a discount, or in a bartering situation, his eyes become as large as saucers.

He is a “random pile of gravel” hoarder. This behavior also applies to random piles of dirt, random piles of lumber, and other random piles of shit.

He has a very neat home with a somewhat well kept yard, but his adjoining property looks like a junkyard.