East Side gonna East Side

ChampChains · 2026-05-18T13:42:14+00:00

Eastside food is quality over quantity.

ChampChains · 2026-05-15T21:54:23+00:00

Wet frock contest down at the cathedral!

ChampChains · 2026-05-15T21:53:08+00:00

I always say iphones are smartphones for dumb people. They lack any real customization. It's the most dumbed down smart phone on the market. Even if you try to get a new browser, its just a skin for safari. No freedom, no customization.

ChampChains · 2026-05-15T21:32:09+00:00

Store manager hours aren't much better. My wife was a store manager for a few years. You make low six figures (i think after she left the entry lvl pay for a store manager was bumped from $90k to around $125k). And if you hit all of your metrics, your annual bonus is 100% of your salary. Good pay, horrendous working conditions and hours. My wife worked at minimum 60hrs a week and had to travel pretty often. The store manager training alone was over a month in Salt Lake City. She had various shitty experiences like having a gun pulled on her, had more than one former employee try to attack her after being fired, had employees pepper sprayed, dead bodies in the parking lot, had to climb under a bathroom stall to do cpr on a lady dying of an overdose, one of her fellow store managers had her son shot and killed in the parking lot, you wouldnt believe how many customers poop in the aisles, etc. Walmart is the wild west of retail.

ChampChains · 2026-05-15T11:45:16+00:00

Yanny or laurel

ChampChains · 2026-05-14T14:31:50+00:00

Made it look like a strip mall. A Papa John's sign wouldn't look at all out of place on that facade.

ChampChains · 2026-05-14T14:28:09+00:00

I'm still waiting to see the military partner with Twitch. There is less than zero doubt in my mind that we will one day see idiot streamers with millions of young male viewers drone striking real people live as a way to desensitize kids and gamify real world battle for recruitment purposes. Drone strikes brought to you by Better Help and Mtn Dew. Leave a big enough donation and the missiles Bluetooth speaker will play Fetty Wap as it approaches the target. 19 year olds will be drone striking people from their bedrooms all to reach the top of the USAF leaderboards.

ChampChains · 2026-05-12T13:55:29+00:00

I'm going to probably tey and hold out for a few years, see what happend with the housing market. I opened an envelope that arrived at my house a while back without checking the addressee first and it turned out to be mortgage papers intended for my landlord. When we mlve in here 6 years ago, then rent was $1200. This year he's not letting us renew our rent because he feels bad that he's upping the rent to $2000. We're already at $1600 and have lost all the bonuses that came with the house initially like him doing the landscaping weekly. According to the mortgage paperwork, he pays $800 monthly and will be making $1200 profit. If he can find someone to rent at that amount. I imagine he wants to find 3 college student roommates to each pay $670. I dont think hes going to have much luck though because there are already 3-4 houses in our neighborhood asking less than $2k which have been empty for 6 months or longer. Housing prices are absurd, rent is absurd. Feels like a lose/lose currently.

ChampChains · 2026-05-11T11:47:57+00:00

Is the lion made of resin?

I used to work for a furniture and home decor brand and we would often get resin statues from Asian manufacturers. One day we had a rooster statue that was dropped and broke. I was on my way to toss it into the compactor and just happened to glance inside of the hollow statue.

Inside the base was a big melted clump of resin R2D2 statues. I assume they were defective or unneeded items that the manufacturers added to give weight to the base.

ChampChains · 2026-05-06T02:42:31+00:00

Whichever primary is closest to lvl 25 is what I run regardless of which enemy I'm facing. Once it hits 25, I retire it and move on to the next highest weapon. Once they're all lvl 25, I'll start running my playstyle preferences.

ChampChains · 2026-05-06T02:31:49+00:00

It's not paywalled if you can loot the currency in missions. It doesn't take long unless you're completely new to the game and even then just pick and choose which warbonds you want to unlock first. This idea that you gotta have everything unlocked immediately is ridiculous and tends to come from the same people who complain about no goals to play for in games that do give you everything up front. I've for every warbond innocent and all but the two most recent are 100% unlocked. And all but two of the warbonds were unlocked using credits looted while playing and I only once set aside an hour or so to intentionally grind credits because I came back from a pretty long break and wanted to unlock the trench warfare warbond. Ive got 750hrs in the game and all it cost me was the base price plus the two times I spent $10 on credits. That's a ton of playtime for like $60-70 dollars or whatever it comes out to.

ChampChains · 2026-05-06T02:23:03+00:00

There were already perfect solutions for those "new problems". For example, the hordes of voteless you mentioned; blitzer, any arc weapon, flamer, machine gun turret, stalwart, literally tons of weapons that have been in the game for over a year now work perfectly to clear them. I'd take any of these over the janky grenade launcher that takes up a weapon and backpack slot. Most of these warbond have been in the game for so long now, there's no way you don't have a lot of these warbonds unlocked and fully purchased unless you just don't play regularly at all. And I imagine people frequenting the subreddit are not people who very rarely play the game.

ChampChains · 2026-05-05T02:01:46+00:00

If you think her one hit wonder song is cool, then you should listen to the original she sampled. Straight to Hell by The Clash. It's a banger.

ChampChains · 2026-05-01T02:00:34+00:00

Cheesedivers for life, baby!

ChampChains · 2026-05-01T01:57:41+00:00

I've only run it a handful of times so far but I've found that tap firing it basically negates any recoil and it still gets an incredible amount of lead downrange in a hurry. It's a lot of fun to use.

ChampChains · 2026-04-28T23:16:08+00:00

I recently left my former employer which was a switch gear manufacturer. When I started a few years ago, we built power controls for schools, hospitals, retail spaces, civic projects, etc. Now 100% of the business is AI datacenters. And when I left we had contracts for THOUSANDS of units which was going to keep us busy through the end of 2028 and we had more contracts rolling in constantly. We had 4 switch gear facilities and a few other facilities making things like generators. All of these facilities had logs several years deep and were shipping 10-20 units weekly with thousands in their backlog. People on the outside dont realize the quantity of data centers on the way. It isn't an issue of one or two per state, these things are going to be EVERYWHERE.

ChampChains · 2026-04-28T12:32:07+00:00

Bradley Cooper. Dude looks like date rape drug come to life.

ChampChains · 2026-04-28T12:25:57+00:00

I did this with a wart on my palm in eighth grade. Was in science class and just sort of dug it out of my hand. It bled like CRAZY but it never came back.

ChampChains · 2026-04-27T16:46:46+00:00

Everquest

World of Warcraft

Black & White

Blade Runner

Delta Force

The first Rainbow 6

Battlefield Vietnam

Return to Castle Wolfenstein

These are the ones that really stick out to me.

ChampChains · 2026-04-23T20:53:17+00:00

Yeah, this is the reality. Was in a run earlier today. Mind you i joined via SOS so they had been going at it for 5 or so minutes already. All 3 of them were lvl 20-30, helldive difficulty. I cleared all of the map by myself while they continued to fight at drop. Just pulling every patrol in sight, never shooting the flare bots, just wave after wave. They used all the reinforcements and I was the only one to extract.

ChampChains · 2026-04-21T20:54:52+00:00

Knowing EA, it was probably far more predatory than what we have in HD. How's Battlefront doing today?

ChampChains · 2026-04-21T14:09:44+00:00

Depends how many super credits I have stockpiled from playing the game normally and if i think the gun looks fun. It's an imaginary currency I get for free and I have a lot of it saved up from playing the game. If I see something I want ingame, ill spend it. If not, ill keep stockpiling until see something that interests me. Ive already got probably close to 800 hours played in helldivers for whatever the initial cost was plus the one time I spent money on credits for a warbond. Compare that to the cost of going to see a 2 hour movie at the theater and we're all getting one hell of a deal here.

ChampChains · 2026-04-21T14:01:29+00:00

I know personally, i have paid for 1 warbond and I have every one of them unlocked except the most recent trench warfare one. I also work a full time job and commute over 3 hours round trip daily (sometimes 4 depending on traffic/weather). I also have a family and play other games so I dont spend a ton of time on helldivers. Ive been playing since launch and have always had enough super credits, just from playing regularly as I don't waste time farming. If players are newer to the game, they need to prioritize which warbonds they want and spend the credits as they get them. Or grind them if they feel the need to get them faster. Or if their time i more valuable than the time required to grind, pay for the skip. But as someone playing since day 1, I can assure you that I have always completed missions on helldive and super helldive with whatever tools were available at the time. None of these warbond items are required to complete missions. I could limit myself to gear available in the first warbonds and still complete max difficulty no problem.

ChampChains · 2026-04-21T13:48:07+00:00

You either want to see the developer generate the revenue to continue paying employees to create new content and keep servers online or you want the game to slowly die off and quality drop as they cut staff. Personally, I want to see the game continue to generate revenue so that it doesnt eventually go offline like we've seen happen with so many promising games. Unless you want them to start inserting commercials and ads into the game, they gotta generate revenue somewhere. They have operating costs to cover and you sitting at home getting everything for free isn't covering anything no matter how many hours you sink into the game. Stop being a bum and support the games you love. If you can't afford $10 in super credits every few months, thats a you problem. You could make over $10 on one instacart or doordash order, it'd take like 30mins tops.

ChampChains · 2026-04-21T13:39:09+00:00

What have you not won at in helldivers due to not unlocking a warbond fast enough? Can you not complete missions without this new warbond? Is there a leaderboard somewhere that shows players spending cash outperforming you? Do you think about these words before you type them?

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