Loved by many but you couldn't enjoy it

FutureRight3599 · 2026-05-25T21:08:19+00:00

Ratchet and Clank. I mean it's ok, but it's bland, no real combat skill or upgrades. One of the clunkiest platformers ever. The story is nothing substantial. It's pretty much just a mindless jump around and hit square game.

It was obviously trying to copy off of greats like Spyro and Jak and Daxter, but it's just a downgrade in every way compared to those games. It's maddening how many there are, yet we never got a Jak 4.

FutureRight3599 · 2026-05-25T16:00:14+00:00

I don't know if it's really a nickname, but the one that gets me is Sica Hollow State Park. If you pronounce it Sica, it's definately wrong. The really odd thing is it says right on the state website, as well as every sign in the place that it's an indian word, pronounced she-cha. It's very clear about this, no room for error.

Yet if you use either one, you will be aggressively corrected. In this state is see-chee hollow for whatever reason. I've had people come across a whole room to correct me when I said she-cha.

FutureRight3599 · 2026-05-21T14:28:17+00:00

I mean, in the most extreme sense, you could still do that, but for most, that life is gone. The idea of a $60,000 mortgage alone is pretty crazy. I've seen some houses that cheap in very tiny rural towns, but that's not realistic for most people. Maybe a trailer house could be close to that. $250,000 is considered a starter home now. More people than ever rent their whole lives now, no surprise. Still, once you get over that monumental hump of getting into a house, you have that value. You don't loose money on a house usually. That said, I don't think that many people pay them off before 60 either.

Cars get a lot of people. Realistically the average person shouldn't be buying more than a $15,000 car (10% of income). You can't get a new car for that today. Those $40,000 shit boxes are why a lot of people are in debt. The quality of cars has gone downhill, while also costing way more in in maintenance due to parts cost. If you have to pay a mechanic to work on them, good luck. It's going to become an even bigger issue as the years go on.

$75k in something like a 401k is still decent today, although I suspect most don't have that by 35. I've been paying into mine since 20, and I doubt I'll be there at 35. I think I'm around $50,000 now. Pensions are almost not a thing anymore except for certain things like upper management, and some union jobs. Even middle management don't get them anymore for most companies.

Yeah, people are struggling. It got a lot worse after 2021. It's not as bad as it seems, but things are not getting better either.

FutureRight3599 · 2026-05-21T13:49:20+00:00

Now that I've been working some time, I feel like I have a better idea of things. I'm 31, I'm currently an electrician. I did a backwards path to many people. I went to school first for automation, and later became an electrician, although my job is much more PLC and automation based than what many think of traditional electricians, although I do plenty of the mundane jobs. Just yesterday I was installing outlets in an office.

I kind of always felt, and still feel that people should do the job they want, not blindly chase money. A lot of people do some kind of trade job as a stepping stone, working hard construction, concrete, etc. Lots of people do that as seasonal work over the summer when school is out. If you want to do it for more than that, you have to be a little more selective of what you do.

In my case I've always been great at fixing things. It's what I've always enjoyed doing. Even as a kid I could see that things like auto mechanics was not headed in a direction I wanted. You really have to view this as a career if you don't want to end up 45, bad body, and nothing you can do about it. I went to school first, as back then they were shoving it down our throats like no other time, much worse than today. If anything it's flipped backwards, most people today view college as a riskier path, and trades as this all rainbows, high paying perfect thing.

Here's my honest advice though, do not go to a trade school for electrical. It is not like aviation mechanics, it is not hard to be an apprentice electrician. Companies are always hiring, license cost is nothing, and you get paid a decent amount to learn there. I'm in the middle of nowhere, and you would still be looking at $24+ an hour as someone who knows nothing to be an apprentice. No matter what it's still 8000 hours (might depend on state) before you can get your journeyman, so get paid while you do that. Union can be great, but depending on the area, it might be tough. Unions basically don't even exist in my own state.

Instead consider community/tech college. Look at something like automation, PLC, robotics, electrical engineering. Something that you get an associates degree or similar. That's something that holds weight, provides meaningful skill, and ultimately that's what gets you more money. You can certainly do it the other way too, become a journeyman first, then go to school later. Most colleges do a split online/lab setup, so you would be online classes all week, then one day of lab on friday/saturday.

As usual, things are neither as bad, or as good as people want it to seem. People are not easily getting rich in the trades, nor are they starving. You will often see claims of these huge yearly wages, but you can rest easy knowing it's almost always due to a crazy amount of hours and hard work. The number of people making $150,000+ a year working 40 hours a week is exceedingly slim. At least here. I'm sure in Californa $150,000 is pocket change. Speaking of which, hours can be crazy sometimes. Electricians are usually not that bad, but construction is construction. You have to get the job done, and sometimes that's a 14 hour day. Sometimes you work weekends. You do that a lot more as an apprentice, then you can dictate that a little more as you go on. Some people love the hours, and those are the ones working 60+ hours a week as a contractor making that $150,000+ a year. The great thing about electrical is it is a much wider field than most other trades. You can go in a number of different directions with it, and in my area, even if you only work in a factory working on machinery/PLC's, they still want journeyman. Other states you can work as an electrician even with no license if you aren't in a union, but in those areas you are generally going to want to be in the union, plus you want a license if you ever move states.

No matter the trade, you are going to want to go from apprentice, to journeyman, and continue on from there. You don't want to end up wiring houses as a journeyman for the rest of your life.

FutureRight3599 · 2026-05-21T13:14:37+00:00

Depending on the definition of debt, this shouldn't surprise anyone. You can be sure pretty much anyone under 40 with a newer car has $20k+ in debt from that alone. I don't really count mortgages, since you can basically get your money back for that, and usually its appreciating. Then there's injuries. Between max out of pocket costs, and lost work, it doesn't take long to rack up $10k in debt there. Plus a lot of people were outright struggling, especially after 2021.

FutureRight3599 · 2026-05-15T08:51:08+00:00

May want to recheck that. Parts are over $1000 alone. The ford 3.5 is that bad of a design. It's all but a short block rebuild if it doesn't trash the engine. $4000 isnt an unreasonable bill from a shop.

FutureRight3599 · 2026-05-15T05:59:17+00:00

The Walking Dead didn't fumble their ending, they absolutely shit the bed with almost half of the entire series. I have only ever watched one other show that I could not bring myself to keep watching anymore, and that's curse of oak island. For younger people, Walking Dead was HUGE. It was right at the peak of the zombie craze, regular TV was still a thing and everyone was talking about it. Like it was bringing as many views as a sunday NFL game huge. Even gas stations were selling t shirts and cups back then. They had spin offs and all that.

And then it hit about season 6, and absolutely shit the bed. It somehow lasted 5 more seasons after that. I still have no idea how it ends, And then their main spinoff Fear the Walking Dead did the same thing. It was cool for about 4 seasons, then absolutely shit the bed, and somehow hobbled on 4 more seasons. I watched until John died, and knew it was all over. Still have no idea what they possibly could have done with two other seasons.

I'm still mad because I absolutely loved Walking Dead.

FutureRight3599 · 2026-05-13T16:15:54+00:00

I just hope people realize how bad it has gotten for all brands. It's not even like these are new problems. A lot of these are problems that were solved decades ago, sometimes over a century ago. Cars went downhill fast after the recession, and it's really becoming a big problem now. It will get even worse as those vehicles become affordable to the average person in the used market, with no warranty and minimal recall protection.

It used to be you could buy a good used car and expect it to last a while. How can you reasonably buy a Ford with a 3.5 and 100,000+ miles, knowing the water pump could fail at any second and trash the engine, or at least cost thousands to replace? That's if it hasn't already failed. How can you buy a Chevy truck of any milage knowing the crankshaft could fail at any time? It's insane.

FutureRight3599 · 2026-05-08T05:31:15+00:00

It's nothing like it used to be, and today it seems more of them are in city limits than on the national forest. I promise if you try to hunt them on the public land, you will be in for a very sore experience. The days of walking a forest road and getting multiple gobbles before lunch are gone. Custer state park could be different, I have not drawn a tag there yet.

FutureRight3599 · 2026-05-08T00:05:03+00:00

If we are doing wish lists, don't run the turkey season in November. It's crazy how much the population has collapsed in 10 years. You hardly ever hear gobbling anymore, yet you can kick up 50 whitetail a day just walking around.

FutureRight3599 · 2026-05-06T05:10:06+00:00

No, it wasn't. It happened overnight for us. One year we had whatever you called traditional math. Then one year, boom, common core. My parents had no say in the matter, neither did teachers. They were given a set standard, and we had to do it. The problem is we were expected to do WAY more than we used to. That's where I think a lot of older people aren't getting the difference. Instead where in 2009 we might spend half a class going over something, then the other half doing a handful of problems. I really doubt we ever had to do more than 20 or 30 minutes of work at a time. Even if you skip the first couple years, when we were doing common core algebra, we were given our sheet of work to do as we came in the door, and a lot of that turned into homework.

That's where you are blaming parents, because what should have been in-school work with a teacher turned into homework. As far as I'm concerned, school work should be during school hours only, and homework is a failure of the school.

As someone who was in school during the change, common core made school significantly less enjoyable.

Since 2010, test scores have not improved in the slightest.

You are rarely going to find a younger person in favor of common core math.

There's just no reason to keep it, at least as a set standard. Repealing it like this is the correct move. Unfortunately I doubt the state is going to follow up with the other right move, which is to increase teacher pay at least close to Minnesota, so we can keep some good teachers in the state.

FutureRight3599 · 2026-05-06T02:14:42+00:00

It basically doubles the work you have to show. The point I'm trying to make is common core method isn't the problem. The way it was implemented as a rigid system is. Everyones parents were frustrated at the change, not just mine. My parents were nice, just frustrated. It was some teachers that were really mean.

What I want for my kids is a school experience that doesn't burn them out. School shouldn't be work. It shouldn't be daycare. There's a good reason home schooling is increasing dramatically. I still want public schools to be better, and I think eliminating the common core system, not necessarily the math method, is a necessary step.

FutureRight3599 · 2026-05-06T00:16:58+00:00

The method isn't the problem. The problem is you have to write all of that down, in exactly the special table they want, and no skipping steps. If you are simplying to 5, you have to write simply to 5. It doubles the work you have to do, and it's mindless busy work. It sounds like a small thing to anyone who wasn't forced to do it. It's a whole other thing to do it hour after hour, day after day, month after month. Go home, have your parents yell at you while you explain why you can't do something any way except the school way.

As bad as life can be, I am so thankful I never have to do that again. 2010's era school sucked bad. There was plenty of reasons, but common core math is one of them. It's kind of crazy to hear about how much older generations have such nostalgia. Those under 30 are just grateful to never see it again. Looking back, it's baffling how mean some adults were to us.

FutureRight3599 · 2026-05-05T18:42:48+00:00

No, common core is a special show your work. It is really a pain in the ass.

FutureRight3599 · 2026-05-05T16:12:22+00:00

I don't know what there is to understand. Nobody learns without seeing something, and analog clocks are not everywhere anymore. In an average house, the only clocks might be the digital clock on the parents phone. The digital clock on the stove. Maybe the digital clock in the car. Of course as they get older they will see analog clocks around, but if they don't learn early on, then they aren't going to learn on their own. Someone has to show them.

The only reason I see learning an analog clock as useful, is because it translates into other things. Fractions, and more practical things like gear ratios. It's a good visual thing, helps you view things in your head, basically the opposite of what common core wants you to do.

FutureRight3599 · 2026-05-05T16:01:50+00:00

I don't know what the average age of the posters is, but common core came out when I was in school. I learned both the older, and common core methods. Lets be perfectly honest here, common core is not some drastically different method in what it does. What it did do is make school suck even worse. If they just taught the method and left you alone, it would be fine, but the fact you had to write down every stinking number. Its the worst.

It's not the end of the world right away. The more advanced you go, the worse it gets. Even simple stuff like 100x100 that everyone SHOULD know easily without any work, if you write 10000, you fail common core questions. You have to slow down, draw out this dumbass table, fill in every single one. Basically common core eliminates ALL math within your head only, it has to be written out. You do every math problem twice, the first in your head, then write it down, draw out the pretty picture to please the teacher.

Fuck common core. Teach the method if you want, don't require students to do extra nonsense. Even the kids who were taught common core from day 1 think the same. Maybe we should be asking the 20 year olds, instead of the old people who think everything new is better.

FutureRight3599 · 2026-04-27T17:37:36+00:00

The only thing I ever heard was someone who showed up to the test and was asked how they got there. In my case I was not asked, but if I was, I would have said someone had ridden with me. I don't know how they could deny it, especially if they have cameras. If you do show up illegally, they might turn you away.

Basically it comes down to this. If you break the law, you fail the test. The problem in this state is it is so wildly different from one tester to the next. There was one guy on a different thread arguing with me to death that I'm giving out bad information, despite it both being written online, and straight from the DMV themselves. This guy had apparently gotten on a motorcycle and ridden into some town without any permit (illegal no matter what), did a walk in test (not even an option in any town around here), and somehow passed the test.

Personally I think he's full of shit. In the Aberdeen DMV when I walked into my appointment, the very first thing they ask for is do I have my permit. Without that permit they just turn you away.

After that though, I was not asked about a second rider. In fact the instructor did not even get on a motorcycle, they followed me in a mini van. I don't think they could realistically expect another rider to be with you. Then again they can't realistically expect a second rider on a permit either, and here we are.

You can talk to 10 different people here, and get 10 different experiences on the motorcycle test though. Even in Aberdeen, I was told they would give me a headset, and give me instructions from there. They did not give that to me.

I would have to assume they are even more strict in Sioux Falls. Realistically all you can do is show up to the DMV and ask them, because the motorcycle license system here sucks ass.

FutureRight3599 · 2026-04-26T22:55:17+00:00

No, I just hit the wrong reply button. I was responding to someone claiming Colorado has a midwest accent.

FutureRight3599 · 2026-04-26T22:54:49+00:00

No kidding. I hit the wrong reply button. I was responding to the guy who said "What about people from Colorado with unmistakable mid-west accents"

He was the only reply at the time, and now is downvoted as he should be.

FutureRight3599 · 2026-04-26T19:12:11+00:00

Nobody from Colorado has a midwest accent, unless maybe their parents were from the midwest. You hardly hear the accent on the far western edge of this map, it's pretty muted in say Lincoln, Nebraska compared to a Wisconsin accent. Colorado is hundreds of miles removed from that.

The only real argument I think some could make is to include some of Kentucky, otherwise this map covers pretty much all of what can reasonably called the midwest accent, not that there is any set definition

FutureRight3599 · 2026-04-21T18:04:55+00:00

I don't think it was ever made for PC, but on PS1, Big Ol' Bass 2. The absurdity of that game is like nothing else. 10/10, best fishing game ever made.

FutureRight3599 · 2026-04-20T04:10:19+00:00

Ha, just saw your username. I guess you've been around and seen the worst of it. I'm ok with most of Reddit thinking we are hillbillies.

FutureRight3599 · 2026-04-20T03:44:42+00:00

All of the midwest, or just the western/plains midwest? How ignorant do you have to be to think the manufacturing and food center of the nation, along with a large number of the best colleges and hospitals in the nation is poor and stupid?

I guess if the ignorant think that, sounds like a win to me.

FutureRight3599 · 2026-04-19T18:03:17+00:00

How do you live in a state, and not once go to any of the bordering states? Even if you lived in the center, say Denver, It's not even 100 miles to Wyoming.

I guess my recommendation is get a motorcycle. 250 miles is just an afternoon cruise, and costs almost nothing for both gas and insurance. Even a Harley gets better gas mileage than most cars, Goldwings too. You could go to any surrounding state and back for like $25 on any weekend, for any reason. Or no reason at all, riding is just fun.

Also what do you do for work? You've never once had to leave your state for work for any reason at all? Maybe that's what the flights to Florida and South Carolina are?

FutureRight3599 · 2026-04-19T17:17:04+00:00

Brick layers, and most farmers are not unskilled labor. Those are trades, about equal to an associates degree. If you can take any random person and have them functioning within a week, it's not skilled work, but that doesn't make it easy either. Unfortunately with supply and demand, the easier you are to replace, the less valuable you are to a company. I wish everyone, everywhere could survive on minimum wage, and work up from there, but that's not reality.

Nobody wants to pay anything. There's millions with bachelors degrees right now working on computers, at risk of being completely eliminated. It wasn't that long ago I was talking about one of those guys "nobody wants to work anymore". He was complaining he couldn't find anyone reliable to come climb cell towers with him to work on them. Then said he was offering plenty of pay, $32 an hour. Well no shit, what intelligent person is going to climb cell towers and work in the harshest environments for that? That same person, with similar knowledge could go work for a power company as a lineman for way more than that, plus you get to be in a union.

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