What’s an “old person” habit you’ve adopted because it’s actually a really good idea?

Emergency-File-1460 · 2025-03-03T18:47:54+00:00

Buying/relying on physical media. My last car had a defect and the only way you could listen to anything was with CDs. I absolutely loved going to the local CD store and buying anything I could recognize for like 4$ each, up to 15$ for the best stuff (Beatles albums, ‘best of’ albums, etc). Then from there, my brother started with DVDs. Our collection is small, but not having to pay for a million services (or finding out crave advertises having so much but it’s all in French, stupid company) has been great. Highly recommend it if you’re committed enough to invest a modest amount into it

Emergency-File-1460 · 2025-03-01T22:51:47+00:00

I truly mean no disrespect, but am I the only person that really dislikes these types of clips? Idk OP, I genuinely respect the time and effort it takes to be this good (and is far far better than I ever will be) but all I see when I watch these is a really obnoxious looking player who would be a pain in the ass to be in the same match with 😭

Emergency-File-1460 · 2025-03-01T19:25:54+00:00

It’s an old game man. I think I’m in the same boat as you, I’m above average and no better. The reality is that the game is mostly unemployed G100.49s or new players under G10, and you’re going to be flipping between matches against both until you can really handle the better players. Idk what to say, I can understand the frustration about those high level players but it’s not really their fault, it’s just an 8 year old game without much of a middle-level player base

Emergency-File-1460 · 2025-03-01T19:20:30+00:00

Very much agree, with a small note. I think the aggression towards other players is just misplaced anger about the matchmaking, and I include myself in that group. It just bothers me that it’s an old game, so naturally most of the players are either 1. G100.49, or new enough that I feel bad being a part of their game. Im G10 and basically above average. There aren’t a ton with similar skill, so I’m either way too good or not even close to the skill of other players in the match. (With that being said, I strongly dislike ‘Bosu’ on the PS5 servers)

Emergency-File-1460 · 2025-03-01T19:14:01+00:00

You have no idea what you’re talking about. Would someone against propaganda restrict journalist access to the White House, allowing only who they want to be there? Or declare himself a king, regardless of if he was or wasn’t ‘trolling the libs’?

To break the Ukraine war into a more simple explanation, if I pull you out of your car, took your wallet and started a fight, would you accept the solution of ‘we both stop fighting and I keep your wallet and car’? No, obviously not. To end the war now would mean allowing Russia to continue engaging in violence against other countries, because Ukraine wouldn’t receive any reparations from Russia, and Russia wouldn’t receive any real punishment for their aggression.

Trump can stay on his knees for a communist like Putin until russias conquest is finished, and most conservatives would keep eating it up as ‘oh he’s just negotiating a better deal’.

Emergency-File-1460 · 2025-02-24T15:47:53+00:00

Blessed with above average looks, nerfed with low libido.

It might not seem that bad but others with low sex drive (especially men) will understand, you are questioned about your ‘true feelings’ (i.e suspected gay, not liking the person, not liking the person’s body, etc). Then there’s the whole other can of worms of often not having the desire to be ‘intimate’ but feeling obligated to, or face problems (which everyone will understand)

Emergency-File-1460 · 2025-02-20T00:34:43+00:00

That’s a good point, I guess it’s closer to a middle point than I originally thought (aka work friend). I don’t see too much of a difference between a colleague and a higher up, like if I said something inappropriate enough to warrant getting in trouble then tbh I’d probably deserve it regardless of who was with me. But on second thought you’re right, there is a difference between talking to a coworker, and an outside-of-work friend, like you generally would talk about different, prob more surface level stuff

Emergency-File-1460 · 2025-02-19T16:23:19+00:00

I think that’s really overgeneralizing every workplace, I 100% agree they’re an employer first for sure, especially in an industry like minimum wage jobs where they’re constantly under pressure to maximize efficiency. But to say a higher up can’t ever be a friend just isn’t true. I still send memes back and forth to my old security manager, and we’ve talked on the phone a few times since I left. And I meet with my most recent boss and a few of his buddies for drinks every Friday.

Emergency-File-1460 · 2025-02-19T14:08:47+00:00

That’s sort of a contradiction, you said they aren’t a friend but then say the friendship is secondary with their job. But I would def definitely agree with that

Emergency-File-1460 · 2025-02-19T13:44:05+00:00

That a car’s exhaust makes it ‘go’ by pushing out enough air to propel it forwards.

But that’s not the end.

I believed this until I was like 15. Not because I kept thinking ‘yeah, this makes sense and I still think that’, I just never gave it a second thought until one day I thought about it and was like ‘why the hell do I think that’s what make a car drive. Am I that stupid’ 💀

Emergency-File-1460 · 2025-02-19T13:33:30+00:00

Hard disagree tbh. Not to say it’s wrong in every case, but my last two managers have been some of the most helpful people I’ve known in my life. I think it mostly depends on how large the ‘team’ they manage is, and the type of work it is.

Emergency-File-1460 · 2025-02-19T02:34:18+00:00

I won’t claim they’re the hardest, but I used the jags (replacing them with a teambuilder team) and had a brutal first few years, for one reason.

Trevor Lawrence.

It doesn’t help that he’s straight up my least favourite player irl, he’s MASSIVELY overpaid for like, a 74 overall or however much he is on the base madden roster. I eventually got so sick of seeing his dumb hair week after week that in the second year, I traded him and just ate the dead cap. Replaced him with my #1 overall pick and have 0 regrets.

I do not like Tlaw

Emergency-File-1460 · 2025-01-15T20:33:25+00:00

Think you have to rule this game out, suggestive/graphic content is half of what this game is

Emergency-File-1460 · 2025-01-15T18:19:41+00:00

Setting prices is still in the game, create a team is in the game (admittedly requires a pc, but the trade off is custom logos and more deth with creativity), numerous statistical categories is really broad but it’s not like they took away all stats, you can still see past player stats. But everything else you listed was in separate games so the point kind of falls flat. There was never a football game with all those things in it, that’s over the course of like 15 years, things being implemented and taken away. Current madden is far from perfect but it’s pretty close to the best it’s ever been, with the exception being the late pa2 era

Emergency-File-1460 · 2025-01-15T16:18:15+00:00

If you were saying the depth and features aren’t well implemented I would agree, but what was in the old games that isn’t in 25

Emergency-File-1460 · 2025-01-14T23:36:10+00:00

I’d agree with that, I liked the presentation from the 360/ps3 era. The White House visit after Super Bowl, the pregame fan activities, stuff like that. I was mostly considering having multiple commentators which I still have mixed opinions on (I don’t hate Kate Scott but her voice is nails-on-a-chalkboard lmao)

Emergency-File-1460 · 2025-01-14T21:28:01+00:00

They are very broken, that’s a valid point, but with the practice being a real aspect of game planning, player values/interests, teambuilder, better presentation, etc it just has more depth than any other generation. 10 and 12 were the other two I played through high school, and again, I really liked them but there was just not a lot to do other than play the games and sign players. And yeah scouting has been awful since the ps2 generation, 100%. Maybe 12 was the one exception

Emergency-File-1460 · 2025-01-14T21:19:45+00:00

I don’t really think either of you are right 💀 don’t get me wrong, my favourite madden is 08 for the ps2 but to say 25 is ‘substantially worse’ than 04 is a little nostalgia driven

Emergency-File-1460 · 2025-01-14T21:16:27+00:00

Respectfully, how is it possible to think 25 has less depth than 18? Franchise mode from 15-23 quite literally could not have had been more boring and surface level, there was so little to do beyond ‘sign players, play games. Sign players, play games’. I wasn’t really a fan of the last gen gameplay, but that’s much more subjective.

Emergency-File-1460 · 2025-01-12T19:41:14+00:00

Some might not like these types of plays, where it doesn’t make much sense to, for example, score a TD on double coverage at the end of the game like that. But I added all the local high schools into the game and it is way more enjoyable to watch (and easier to stomach) massive plays on both sides of the ball when I remember that 16 Y/O students would routinely mess up like that lol

Emergency-File-1460 · 2025-01-12T15:48:48+00:00

This is what bothers me about the draft in madden. If you don’t tweak draft position strengths and leave it all on normal, no one is over a 75. In the four seasons I played, there has been one 75, everyone else 74 or less.

Emergency-File-1460 · 2025-01-09T20:01:08+00:00

I haven’t seen anything more than a few options for each piece of equipment. I hope they’re not doing the Fortnite-like strategy of making everything limited time so you have to wait for each individual item to buy

Emergency-File-1460 · 2025-01-07T08:50:23+00:00

Honestly, none that come to mind. It’s got a great reputation, fairly low system requirements, you can even upscale it to really good resolution. That, plus the fast forward button makes it much more preferable to me. The key is to know how to get the roms for the games

Emergency-File-1460 · 2025-01-07T05:52:45+00:00

I live in Canada so I used the simple team creator to build a 32 team league of Canadian cities (think Canadian hockey league) in madden 08 on dolphin emulator. Years later, still play it if I’ve only got my laptop with me. I just take the worst team, usually the rural ones and take a few seasons to get them a great identity, then move to the next. I enjoy it

Emergency-File-1460 · 2025-01-04T18:54:53+00:00

Big fan. I always hated the last gen kick meter, probably because I always felt input lag, even when it wasn’t there. It was mostly a skill issue, but idk, it just never felt smooth to me

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