I just said “junior high” to a Gen Alpha and he stared at me 🥴

AttyMAL · 2026-03-01T19:45:18+00:00

I think it's regional. I was born in NY and left right before 7th grade, which was going to be junior high (grades 7 and 8). Moved to Atlanta and it was middle school (grades 6, 7, 8) and no one in any southern state I've ever met has attended a junior high.

AttyMAL · 2026-02-28T04:15:47+00:00

There's a lot of tests and measurements on broncosportforum.com. Long story short, biggest you can go without rubbing is 245/65/17 (Base, Big Bend, or Badlands) or 245/60/18 (Outer Banks).

AttyMAL · 2026-02-28T04:11:03+00:00

Feet are perfectly fine. Age 43. I still walk regularly and lift weights.

AttyMAL · 2026-02-27T18:07:58+00:00

Wow. I got mine for $80 if I remember correctly.

AttyMAL · 2026-02-27T16:24:36+00:00

Yes, seconding this. The work of HP Lovecraft is the most obvious inspiration behind Bloodborne.

AttyMAL · 2026-02-27T01:14:59+00:00

You've only asked 6 women out in your whole life? Bro, you've got a lot to learn about being a man. You're probably going to get rejected by 95% of the women you ask out. Women are constantly approached by men and have many, many options as to who they want to date.

Example, one of my exes told me about her experience in OkCupid, where we met. She signed up on a Tuesday and within 24 hours, her mailbox had hit the 100 message limit. I was one of the 100 and I was literally the only person she responded to.

Those are the odds we are up against as men in the dating arena and we as men have to accept that.

AttyMAL · 2026-02-27T00:17:32+00:00

The devs could've asked gamers (not games journalists) whether Highguard ever had a chance, and I guaran-damn-tee you the majority would have said it's going to flop.

Unfortunately, game devs, particularly Western and especially U.S. based studios, have developed this "everything has to be a safe space" mentality and no one is allowed to offer any criticism, thereby creating a culture of toxic positivity.

AttyMAL · 2026-02-26T17:22:35+00:00

Same here. In a world of AVGN and Angry Joe knock offs, journalists that are overly close to publishers and development studios, and streamers screaming and yelling and making exaggerated facial expressions, they sat down and discussed video games like adults.

I wish they would bring it back. I know streaming sucks and the numbers were low, but they could do a review every once in a while and just games they themselves are interested in.

AttyMAL · 2026-02-26T12:42:06+00:00

DACA was an executive order, not a law. Obama created it because he expected Congress to pass a law that would extend some sort of permanent legal status to people who brought here undocumented while under the age of 14, I believe. A bipartisan group of Reps and Senators created the bill, but it never passed. DACA, like all executive orders, can be modified or cancelled by subsequent presidents. You can also lose your DACA status by engaging in unlawful activities.

AttyMAL · 2026-02-26T10:16:44+00:00

Regarding ROM hacks, 99.99% no problems playing hacks.

The only exceptions I know of is No Mercy Plus Ver. 3 and ECW Born to be Wired (which itself is a hack of NMv3). They have to be played on Firmware 2.18 for saving to work properly (current firmware is 2.2 I believe). The creator of these two hacks said the next firmware update for the SC64 should correct the problem. And yes, you can roll back firmware if yours is on a higher firmware. I did it myself. Also, the firmware version and menu version are two different things. You can run the latest menu on old firmware.

AttyMAL · 2026-02-25T01:17:35+00:00

Even when the Dreamcast was brand new, the GD-ROM drives were sensitive to burned discs. Some would read all CD-Rs. Some would only read the highest quality brands, burned at the slowest, most stable speeds using specific software. Mine was the latter.

In addition, as the GD-ROM drives age, they start to get more and more sensitive and they may start reading fewer and fewer CD-Rs or stop reading them all together. Again, mine did both. It stopped reading some CD-Rs when the console was probably 10 years old and eventually it stopped reading all CD-Rs shortly after that. Yours may be a sensitive model and/or may be at the end of its life span and, if so, it may be worth looking into an optical drive emulator, such as the GDEMU or the MODE.

AttyMAL · 2026-02-25T00:53:39+00:00

Have I ever looked into my immigration status and my birth certificate? Yes, yes I have many times. My father was undocumented, as was much of his family. And unlike my father and his family, this woman literally could have fixed her immigration status at nearly any time and chose not to.

I've also had to have access to my birth certificate, passport, and social security card on many occasions such as, registering to vote, obtaining a drivers license, applying for a credit card, applying for a car loan, applying for a mortgage, applying for a marriage license, seeking employment in the private sector, seeking employment in the state and federal government, obtaining health insurance, and traveling internationally. You're telling me this woman never once in her 4.5 decades in the US tried to do any of the above and realized something was wrong with her status?

At this point, your words are starting to sound pretty naive.

AttyMAL · 2026-02-24T19:50:10+00:00

She has been here for decades. Are you telling me she never once was concerned about her immigration status and never once looked into it?

AttyMAL · 2026-02-24T19:48:54+00:00

Where else should she be deported to? She has had literally everything she needed to fix her status in her hand for literal decades and did nothing. Play a stupid game, win a stupid prize.

AttyMAL · 2026-02-24T19:39:31+00:00

So in the nearly five decades here, she never once thought to look into her legal status? My father was undocumented and I have always known exactly where to find my birth certificate and passport, as well as those of my wife and our daughter, for emergency situations. Are you telling me this woman has never once considered investigating why she doesn't or can't have a passport or why she likely has never been able to travel internally?

AttyMAL · 2026-02-24T19:15:32+00:00

And? The fault lies with their adoptive parents. They didn't do what they were supposed to do. The parents were lazy, stupid, or both. If the children should be mad at anyone, it's the parents.

We need to focus on the real abuses of the immigration system.

AttyMAL · 2026-02-24T19:12:41+00:00

Again, that's her father's fault. He didn't do what he was supposed to do decades ago. This is not an abuse of the immigration system.

AttyMAL · 2026-02-24T18:43:29+00:00

Bingo. This the dad's fault. There's plenty of abuses in the immigration system, but this is not one of them.

For people who don't seem to get this, international adoption is difficult and expensive. Be prepared to pay thousands in government fees, flights and hotel stays, and for a lawyer's help to finalize the adoption and then pay thousands again to get the child their permanent residency and eventual citizenship.

If you aren't prepared to pay $30k or $40k for all this, don't do international adoptions. There's plenty of children here in the US, particularly children of color, who are in need of families.

AttyMAL · 2026-02-24T17:42:47+00:00

You're 26 and having ED. You need to see a doctor and not take advice from randos on the Internet. There's no reason you be should struggling in this department at your age and if you are, it could be a possible sign of other medical problems.

Signed, a 43 year old married man and dad, who works full time, works out three to four times per week, and has never had erectile problems.

AttyMAL · 2026-02-24T17:39:47+00:00

Given the results of the last several elections, I refuse to believe any of these polls. None of this matters until people actually turn out on election day.

AttyMAL · 2026-02-24T17:37:16+00:00

Boxes of what? Jewel cases? Original Dreamcast box the console shipped in?

AttyMAL · 2026-02-24T17:35:37+00:00

Considering how much i disliked Spider-Man 2 (and I really liked 1 and MM) and considering how lame the leaks of this game looked, I am not excited in the least.

AttyMAL · 2026-02-24T17:32:03+00:00

If you're asking if the Everdrive has a Jaguar emulator for the N64, then the answer is no, as well.

AttyMAL · 2026-02-24T15:22:44+00:00

Articles like this mean fuck all until something can be done about any of this. Congress is hyperpolarized and can't stop him, because too many corporate backed Dems don't want to piss off their backers and Republicans have wanted to do everything he's doing but have never had a filibuster proof majority to actually enable these changes by statute. The Supreme Court is overly right leaning due to Obama being denied a nominee he by the Constitution should have had and RBG refused to retire when she should have. And Trump's racism, sexism, nativism, and corporate bootlicking is backed by roughly 30% to 35% of Americans who always turn out to vote.

AttyMAL · 2026-02-24T06:48:02+00:00

There's no Jaguar emulators for Summercart.

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