There’s a pretty big market right now for these, not just print-your-own versions but also nicer “deluxe” etsy stores doing things like metal or vinyls with decent (car-quality) paints, lighting, soundboards, etc.

I used to go to conventions a lot and they started to become a huge thing to sell there in 2019 (some…

And just think, just after you hit 37 and reach 10mil XP lifetime total you’ll be 50% of the way to 40...which needs 20mil total!

Hooray!

I remember when I picked the game back up when Johto finally dropped as I’d mostly stopped playing. I remember griping on FB that some of the features were locked behind level caps.

I recall a friend saying, “Lol 40 isn’t that high of a level, you just need to play more!!” and I was grumpy but hey, it was fair. I…

Yep. Many months ago they basically did a bunch of covid balance changes, such as:

Pokemon are much more likely to spawn around you
Stops/gyms can be accessed from a much larger radius
Rockets will show up in balloons to battle for quests/rewards
Research quests appear daily rather than having to spin for them
Shop now…

Idk what to tell you then, coronavirus has mostly put an end to easy flights or tastings. You’re from CA so you know $6 isn’t crazy, but at this point it’s sort of the price-of-admission at this point in the absence of cheaper tasting options.

I think you were still being a little hyperbolic about calling the pricing…

I think you may either be blessed by living in a cheaper area, or cursed to live in an area without beers worth spending $6+ on.

What I liked most about it was that it was a “premium” version of a very standard thing.

Idk what the value is in defining a roadmap to “fix” a game that will be forgotten in a matter of weeks? I’ll bet the money for development ends before they can even patch everything they want so they’ll just stop and by then nobody will care.

The most interesting thing about XIII was the visual style, if it had looked…

You’re right but idk how you’re going to convince most people of this when restaurants are open.

My area just started to allow indoor dining again a few weeks ago; it’s really hard to convince people to take precautions for one very important meal that they aren’t even being asked to do for normal stuff.

We’re how many…

Yeah same thing, at 31 I was over 1x, then I got a job that made almost 2.5x that salary. So I was at less than half the goal (I was moving from a very low cost-of-living area to a very high one).

So I’m behind but only if I intend to retire in Silicon Valley which I’d never even consider (not just financially, I also…

I assumed I misread or misunderstood so I went and checked. Yep, only two ports...that’s crazy to me. So every user will have a power cable plus a dock/dongle/adapter pretty much guaranteed just to do basic shit.

I get this. We had to “hide” consoles so much from my dad we literally weren’t allowed to own them. “You’ll break my TV!”

So all the times I used a console (N64) at home were rentals from Blockbuster Video when dad was out of town. It had to be back at Blockbuster by the time dad got home, didn’t matter if we still had…

> Now, you can purchase a case that also still allows you to wirelessly charge your device...

The curse I saw, back when I used to work in games, was that the vast majority of people believed that previous industry failures were the result of “those developers being idiots” rather than it just being a really hard problem to solve.

How many companies threw millions at MMOs despite constant failure of others?…

I completely agree, I was trying (I guess unsuccessfully) to make the point of your first paragraph. Jaden may have no career and say, for the sake of argument, winds up being a totally messed up weirdo (instead of just a bizarre kid). He’ll be fine. He may never become a star but he’ll have more money, resources, and…

I mean I feel like anyone going after her or the kids over a skirt thing is forgetting multitude of other bizarre clothing choices that had nothing to do with femininity or gender roles (I think???).

But at the end of the day she could just say, “I’m rich enough I could raise the most fucked up weirdos on the planet…

I’ve got a 2700x but I’ve had it just long enough that I got it with a B450 motherboard. Meaning the mobo is just old enough I don’t get forwards compatibility but my cpu is just new enough that the current 8/16 core equivalent (5800x) wouldn’t be a huge leap.

I could go up a tier or two of course to the 5950x and as I…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflicts_involving_Critical_Mass

Different protest group but there ya go, 10+ years of evidence of what happens when bike protests happen without traffic closures. Shit was a bad mix before the country started fighting nazis.

My rule for game announcements has always been, “Ignore any announcement if it’s more than 12 months away. They don’t know; they’re guessing. Assume a delay and maybe you’ll be pleasantly surprised.”

But with covid that’s how I feel about anyone saying “Uhhh...2021??” They don’t fucking know, they’re just hoping.

The…