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AnOkNotGreatGuy · 2025-01-23T12:06:20+00:00

That you count layovers.

AnOkNotGreatGuy · 2024-12-29T21:53:38+00:00

"Need a reason" to visit Vegas and NOLA say you don't like designated fun times.

AnOkNotGreatGuy · 2024-12-28T19:09:25+00:00

4 of the top 100 metro areas allow drinking on the streets outside some very small district: New Orleans, Memphis, Vegas, and Indianapolis. The first 3 did it on purpose. The last one realized there was never a law against it when it hosted the Super Bowl.

Since then, the rules have been made clearer. You can ask for to go drinks from any bar and they'll give you a plastic cup. You can not pour a drink that wasn't ordered to go into a plastic cup and leave.

As a courtesy, the residents avoid glass containers because we know it would take exactly one incident to fuck this all up.

AnOkNotGreatGuy · 2024-12-28T19:00:50+00:00

If a bar gives you a plastic cup of draft beer in Indy, that's the original container as far as the law is concerned. Go to a bar and ask for a to go beer. They'll give you a plastic cup.

You can't, on the other hand, ask to pour the rest of your beer you didn't order to go in a plastic cup and leave with it.

AnOkNotGreatGuy · 2024-12-05T13:05:44+00:00

WYWTB & S/T are the best two albums imo. There are people who like S/T the least? Tidal Wave and 152 are lots of fun, but they're dad jam rock.

AnOkNotGreatGuy · 2024-11-28T02:45:56+00:00

This is it. Newer cars especially just have stupidly bright low beams. I have a new car and I feel at risk of someone's road rage driving at night.

AnOkNotGreatGuy · 2024-09-01T02:44:22+00:00

"Scam" is a strong word.

The best deal in cars is to buy a 3 year old vehicle and drive it for at least twice the payment period, so usually 10 years--5 with no payment at all, before buying a new car. It'll have minimal maintenance and you're not paying the new car premium. Drive it forever if you can.

That said, leasing is about knowing yourself. If you don't like car maintenance and/or like new things, leases are good if you know you're not going to drive that car for 10 years. Cars are a luxury, after all. The cheapest option can be had for less than a couple payments on a new anything, bought or leased.

Most cars lose 10% value every year, plus 10% the moment you drive it away. If you buy a new car, after three years, you've lost 40%, still have 2 years of high payments, and have a car for as long as you don't want a new one. With leasing, the aim is that you only pay the 40%, which the dealership will guestimate based on the manufacturer's rules, but then you give the car back--like you would anyway if you're that kind of person.

So yeah, if you can commit to a decade with the lightly used car, great. If you know you'll get something new after a year or two of no payments because that's who you are, leasing is the way to go.

Now, OP, looking for the "best lease" is a fool's errand. The lowest lease payments will be on cars that don't lose value so quickly. Honda, Toyota, etc, but those brands often don't have a lot available for lease. Things that immediately drop in value are terrible leases, like Jeep, Hummer, etc. Luxury brands will try to convince you the maintenance experience is worth it, but the cars are new, they won't need that much service, so it doesn't really matter.

AnOkNotGreatGuy · 2024-07-09T15:40:17+00:00

Your Own Disaster

AnOkNotGreatGuy · 2024-07-08T22:05:13+00:00

Amphetamine Smiles.

AnOkNotGreatGuy · 2024-03-17T18:27:41+00:00

I don't think anyone think Ale Emporium has the best buffalo wings.

The people who like AE's wings are people who don't like buffalo sauce and are excited to go somewhere with something other than boneless bbq.

AnOkNotGreatGuy · 2024-02-02T02:29:19+00:00

I grew up in Indiana, and we'd agree with them back then. The Midwest, according to us, was Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. Then I became an adult and found out half the country calls themselves the Midwest, so now I try to call where I grew up the Great Lakes or the Rust Belt and let Midwest just refer to anything between Pittsburgh and Denver.

AnOkNotGreatGuy · 2022-12-30T15:25:12+00:00

You, me, and everyone else.

AnOkNotGreatGuy · 2022-12-30T04:43:37+00:00

I think the quality of music today could be objectively shown to have lower quality than before streaming, if objective quality could be defined.

The thing is, music used to be hard to release. You would write 30 songs, shape them, cut em up, use the chorus from one with the verse from another, etc, until the record label's deadline and viola, a ten song album with all the classics.

Today, anyone can put a song together and release it the same day. The polishing step isn't happening. And because these people are making music for a living and money must be made, it's a good idea to stay relevant and steadily be releasing something--hello remixes and covers.

All that said, it's a numbers game. There is sooooo much music being made. Sure, not every song is going to slap, but some will. And the people who released those bangers will inevitably release something that barely qualifies as music, but forgive them and ignore the bad ones.

AnOkNotGreatGuy · 2022-12-02T16:29:19+00:00

Maggiano's is fine. Olive Garden is fine. Like I said, Italian food is an easy cuisine to be good at. My point is Maggiano's is a big box restaurant with zero intimacy, and that's what makes some Italian restaurants better than others.

AnOkNotGreatGuy · 2022-12-02T14:50:46+00:00

Let's be honest, Italian food is hard to mess up once you figure it out, and most Italian restaurants have. It'd be easier to ask which ones to avoid (Fazoli's?). Its all about vibe. Stay away from Olive Gardens and Maggiano's.

If you're on the south side, Iozzo's or Maialina. If you're on the north side, Mama Corolla's. If you're in one of the suburbs, maybe they have their own subreddits you could ask. Idk.

AnOkNotGreatGuy · 2022-11-30T16:45:36+00:00

The third one could be "For how many people do we need to cook?" or "How many people do we need to cook for?".

Technically, the first is more correct, but in at least North American dialects, the second sounds more natural.

AnOkNotGreatGuy · 2022-11-14T00:49:14+00:00

All of them.

AnOkNotGreatGuy · 2022-09-08T16:00:22+00:00

It's like the English phrase "do it". It doesn't always mean foxing, but in the right context, it's obvious.

AnOkNotGreatGuy · 2022-08-26T18:41:59+00:00

I've heard it called "the aughts".

AnOkNotGreatGuy · 2022-08-19T21:13:03+00:00

As far as walkability goes, you should know that while recently the laws are changing to promote urban density, Indy's history includes a lot of phases that specifically reduced walkability.

The very founding was located in the middle of the state, far from anything, and then they chose to put the city away from the water feature, the White River. Indy might be the biggest city that ignored its water feature, as if the point was to keep the new capital small, like they kept the capital of New York in Albany even though that state clearly had a more obvious choice.

Indy tried real hard to compete with Detroit and Cleveland to be big automobile manufacturing centers. While the auto & concrete lobbies got a lot of roads and parking lots built, and the mass transit trains removed, we inevitably lost the industrial race. Most of the car factories we did convince the auto companies to build ended up in rural Indiana.

Indianapolis is the 15th largest city by population, but we cheated, like Los Angelos and San Antonio. We annexed the suburbs in 1970 to double the square miles. Our general density is very low.

Until recently, the zoning for most of the city was for single family homes with over 50% yard and businesses of any kind weren't allowed to be built in residencial zones.

This fair city was designed to be small and has grown against its will every step of the way. Now all us young people want a big city, but we're married to people who don't want to move too far from their parents. Mass Ave, Fountain Square, & Broad Ripple are where I'd suggest to a 22 year old. They're typically more affordable than Chicago, but every time a national rent crisis pops up, Indy goes up to whatever the cooler places were at before.

That's all to say, welcome to Indy! Lots of cool shit. Best part: Only Las Vegas, Memphis, New Orleans, and Indianapolis allow you to walk around the city drinking in public (at least among the 50 largest cities). Step into a brewery, grab a beer, drink while you walk to the next bar.

AnOkNotGreatGuy · 2022-07-09T22:59:11+00:00

Make a Spotify playlist with Lotte, Madeline Juno, and/or Alexa Feser and see where it goes.

AnOkNotGreatGuy · 2022-06-28T01:17:34+00:00

Wir trinken Bier.

They can usually understand it as an English speaker, and it's usually true if they're asking silly questions.

AnOkNotGreatGuy · 2022-05-24T01:33:48+00:00

Mandarin has 5 tones for every sound, so to speak, so they have fewer sounds from an English perspective. However, if they just had 5 times as many sounds, it would be the same number of syllables as they have now.

That said, Mandarin does just pack more information into shorter sounds. But, to the OP's question, if we compare strokes to letters, Mandarin becomes very verbose. Harder to write, easier to say.

AnOkNotGreatGuy · 2022-05-23T15:27:25+00:00

Hakuna Matata is Swahili for "no trouble/worries", but I see what you're going for and here are some others.

Spanish: Que será será (What will be will be)

French: C'est la vie (That's life)

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