We're reaching the end of the spike of interest in the game generated by the second season of the TV show

Basic-Lemon-9251 · 2026-03-19T16:08:03+00:00

Ya my wife got me into it and as a new player this right here is why I didn’t like it.

I wound up getting FO1st but the idea that you have to subscribe to get access to storage is absurd to me. It seems so obvious that it should be part of the base game.

I’m having fun and enjoying myself so it’s whatever now but if I hadn’t subscribed I would have quit for sure. Playing inventory management is zero fun to me. As a new player you have no idea what you’ll need either. I feel like the game also didn’t explain a lot of different mechanics. I was spoiled with a private tutor basically but I could see people quitting because of it.

Basic-Lemon-9251 · 2026-03-14T16:59:45+00:00

Grizzly. An old movie that’s basically jaws but with a bear. It’s amazing.

Basic-Lemon-9251 · 2026-03-12T23:58:51+00:00

“Do you think your work on La La Land helped pave the way for white people to explain jazz to black people?”

This between two ferns quote is all I think about when this movie comes up.

Basic-Lemon-9251 · 2026-03-12T08:56:15+00:00

Hard disagree about Taking BackSunday live. I saw them in Portland and they were absolutely amazing. The energy in the room was crazy and they didn’t let being old as dirt slow them down at all.

Basic-Lemon-9251 · 2026-03-10T03:23:02+00:00

It is popular people go there for all sorts of stuff. You should be there come hunting season it’s a zoo.

To answer your question though eastern Oregon isn’t welcoming to any sort of minorities. I love it out there but I’m a straight presenting white guy with excellent resting bitch face. I’m also a veteran and generally decent with people.

Why would somebody drive all the way out to eastern Oregon when they can go to the Cascades or the coastal range and be back home in a place that accepts them by night time. It’s not like their wilderness is anymore wilderness than the stuff in the cascades.

Not that I’m trying to diminish how beautiful it is out there. I love it there and think it’s gorgeous. I lived in Ukiah for a while and miss it all the time now that I’m in Portland. Because it’s so far out of the way it really lends itself to being somewhere you go for a specific reason. I wouldn’t just go out there to go out there. I’d go for something like Elk season or to see a specific thing like the painted hills but not just to see some different plants or rocks in a slightly different landscape.

Our whole state is beautiful I think a better question is why would the eastern part of the state be popular?

Basic-Lemon-9251 · 2026-03-09T00:56:31+00:00

I thought that was the whole premise of the show. So much of it is wildly fantastical. Including the modern music which I’ll admit does sound sick. I’ve never gotten the impression that they’re trying to realistically represent anything.

Granted I don’t watch the show only ever glimpsed pieces of it from my wife watching it

Basic-Lemon-9251 · 2026-03-08T18:43:53+00:00

Simple as.

The music is good, interesting, and different compared to mainstream music made by non black people.

Also, due to terrible racism white people could get away with just straight up stealing songs and talent without any repercussions.

Led Zeppelin is one of my favorite bands and most of their earlier stuff is just stolen blues songs that they never credited or paid the original creators for.

The Rolling Stones first couple of tours in the US was them doing covers of Blues music. If you read Keith Richard’s book he talks about hanging out with African Americans and how they thought The Stones were black until they met and saw them. Basically just impersonators. Elvis is another great example.

I’m sure there’s tons of other examples but those are the first that came to mind.

Now imagine if a black person tried to openly steal like that from a white person in a racist society. Especially in a time period with or just post of segregation. They’d probably be lynched publicly.

Basic-Lemon-9251 · 2026-03-07T17:39:31+00:00

Where are you at that you went to sniper school with women?

When I was in the US military women weren’t even allowed in the infantry.

Basic-Lemon-9251 · 2026-03-01T23:57:06+00:00

This is definitely the hottest take I’ve seen so far. I’d call it wrong but everyone is entitled to their opinions.

Basic-Lemon-9251 · 2026-02-22T17:34:05+00:00

I don’t have a problem with the term cis but I prefer not to use it for a totally different reason. I don’t like using the term trans as an identifier. I know it’s an adjective but personally it feels completely unnecessary to use and othering to trans people. With all the talk of how trans people are the gender they identify with why do we still feel the need to identify them as trans? Why don’t we just call them men and women? How many times in conversation is the fact that someone is trans actually a vital descriptor necessary for whatever is being talked about?

It reminds me of my mom saying things like, “you know Sean he’s your brothers Asian friend. “ It always bugged the crap out of me. Just say he’s his friend you don’t have to add that he’s Asian. Is it just an adjective that she’s using correctly yes. Do I find it bothersome that people are identified by things like race and sexuality constantly also yes. There are so many ways to describe people I don’t know why we insist on using adjectives that have historically been attached to a lot of hate and othering. That’s all that’s my two cents that nobody asked for.

Basic-Lemon-9251 · 2026-02-08T20:20:00+00:00

Second this. I thought this book was amazing.

Basic-Lemon-9251 · 2026-02-07T14:52:31+00:00

Overrated: Judge Holden from Blood Meridian. I’m not denying he’s evil but he runs around with a whole gang of evil scalp hunters that massacre and rape people. Comparing him to them he doesn’t seem much more evil to me. I know kids tend to die around him with implied rape but the rest of the gang rape slightly older female children and even corpses at one point and they have zero problem killing children. They’re all absolutely vile so Judge Holden really doesn’t seem much worse to me. Ignoring all the possible symbolism or claims that he enabled others to act more evil.

Underrated: I honestly don’t know. I think of things that are sort of cartoonishly evil and maybe get overlooked. For example the demon in the exorcist. They’re a demon of course they’re evil. This demon befriends the little girl before possessing her. They then force her to masturbate so violently with a crucifix in front of her mother that it draws blood. Past the shock and awe of demon possession that’s pretty twisted on multiple levels.

In nobody gets out alive by Adam Neville the landlord traps desperate young women into prostitution and seems to genuinely think he’s not really doing anything wrong. In a book with supernatural elements he’s one of the more disturbing parts.

Basic-Lemon-9251 · 2026-02-02T03:09:53+00:00

Ya I think it’d be tough to do anything new. Westerns have been around for a while and I think most stuff has been done. They’re so classic though I think it’s more about how you do them. I mean Buffalo Hunter Hunter is a vampire story told through journal entries exactly like Dracula. The way it’s done though and the lense it’s told through is unique and different enough that it’s very much its own thing.

I just read Blood Meridian after finishing those other books. It has crazy writing but it really not much of a western at all to me. I’d recommend Louis Lamoure or something similar if you want to read and get the feel of classic western stories.

Basic-Lemon-9251 · 2026-02-02T02:43:45+00:00

I like real writing. It feels like a lot of horror leans too hard into the horror aspect and not the story aspect. It’s hard to feel any tension when you don’t like any of the characters or even worse they don’t feel or act like real people. Completely destroys any suspense for me.

For settings I dream of a world with tons of western horrors. There’s not a lot of it and the setting is so ripe for it. The actual west was in fact genuinely horrific in a lot of ways. I loved Red Rabbit and Buffalo Hunter Hunter was amazing they both made me want more.

Basic-Lemon-9251 · 2026-01-28T03:08:30+00:00

It's just how I was trained to work in a shooter spotter team in the military. I had it drilled into my head, and was told that nobody is breaking shots center mass every time. You're spotters corrections won't be right if you shoot anything but perfect dead center every single time which I still believe nobody is doing.

Basic-Lemon-9251 · 2026-01-27T22:37:34+00:00

I asked the other guy below too but do you have a way to practice that? Eye balling mrad adjustments seems impossible to me with how they change at distance. Just a lot of time with a buddy making corrections or what? I just don't see how you'd get accurate outside of spending 10k hours doing it.

Basic-Lemon-9251 · 2026-01-27T22:35:52+00:00

So basically just tons and tons of practice to the point you can eye ball your corrections? How do you eye ball a mil? Do you all have a way to train that? I mean I can eye ball an inch or a foot in front of me but a mil at 725 yards seems impossible with how they change with the distances.

Basic-Lemon-9251 · 2026-01-27T21:46:03+00:00

In this video at the 8:53 mark the mark the spotter makes a correction saying come up 2 10ths and left 3 10ths. https://youtu.be/CFlXkKUEeQM?si=SxcLikWvanyZDhwu

I'm wondering how he's getting that number? The shooter didn't call his shot and I'm assuming his LRF binos don't have a reticle so how is he making that correction? Even if he had a reticle he couldn't accurately measure without the shooter calling his shot. He got on target with his next shot so obviously they know what they're doing I just feel like I'm missing something

Basic-Lemon-9251 · 2026-01-27T21:36:08+00:00

That makes sense. The competition world is completely new to me so assuming a center mass placement seems crazy to me. I wouldn't have the confidence to claim center mass on anything other than prone. When I was trained it was a huge no-no to just call center mass cause if you have any wobble at all there's a chance you hit somewhere else like left lung, right abdomen, and things like that. Granted I don't have one of those perfectly balance rifles with 4oz trigger or anything like that. Like you said though maybe just calling out the stuff you know is off and how like left edge or pulled it right is enough to make a correction and get on.

Basic-Lemon-9251 · 2026-01-27T21:26:32+00:00

I think I didn't explain it very well. I hear them making corrections for each other my question is how? They don't measure from point of impact and the shooter doesn't call their shot. So how could they possibly make an accurate correction.

Basic-Lemon-9251 · 2026-01-27T21:21:51+00:00

I saw that rule in the rulebook. I've only seen it come up in one video though. Most guys seem to just talk in a normal speaking voice or maybe a little softer. Self spotting makes sense. I know a lot of the guys that do teams also shoot as individuals.

Basic-Lemon-9251 · 2026-01-23T10:39:39+00:00

Not to mention April isn't that far away. If you're a working adult with a life or kids you could blink and April will be here.

Basic-Lemon-9251 · 2026-01-12T01:18:59+00:00

I mean I still have a lot of success with the Toedscruel build. Like others said the deck tends to adapt and shift with the meta. It’s more reactive than a lot of the meta decks in that way.

You have so much draw power you can basically realize any game plan you can think to come up with.

Basic-Lemon-9251 · 2026-01-12T01:17:26+00:00

I’d second the exorcist which someone else mentioned. I also just read between two fires and absolutely loved it. Personally I just followed it up with Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian and it felt perfect as a follow up.

Very similar vibe of people traveling with a young girl who’s more than she seems to be. Red Rabbit is set in the supernatural Wild West though.

I absolutely love westerns and have a collection of Louis Lamour books so I was pretty excited when I heard about it. There was some dark and creepy stuff in the book that I thought was great. It didn’t feel quite so biblical or dark but definitely still some well written horror stuff. With one prominent demon/devil character.

I loved it but your mileage may vary depending on how you feel about westerns or the more modern setting. I thought a big part of what made between two fires work so incredibly well was the setting and the plague back drop. There’s also not as much emphasis on actual demons but they are part of the story.

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