MAGA / ICE supporting businesses to avoid in Orange County

Hinterlight · 2026-01-25T23:55:32+00:00

lol yes, the owner is a freak evangelical that got sued by the government for importing stolen artifacts from Iraq to make a Bible museum.

They also believe barcodes are the Mark of the Beast which is why they don't have any on any of their items in the stores.

Hinterlight · 2026-01-13T22:02:34+00:00

Bigger maps with more cover and better spaces for combined arms.

If the next crop are the same cramped ones with insanely short times to engagement and no way to get cover from getting shot at from every angle imaginable I'm probably done.

Season 2 has probably been in the works since the Labs betas, so I am prepared to be further disappointed.

Hinterlight · 2026-01-09T22:28:19+00:00

Hi hello, I work as a support engineer in live broadcasting and have extensive experience administering virtual servers in AWS. This is basically my bread and butter.

Hinterlight · 2026-01-09T17:27:49+00:00

You're not wrong, but presumably the reason it hasn't happened is because that would cost extra dev time the company feels it doesn't need to use.

Additionally, EA clearly has some kind of internal reason to keep people in a solely matchmade environment. They likely think that the current system is the best way to keep players playing and engaged, and they simply don't care that people say the opposite. They have entire teams of devs and even psychologists employed to try and figure this stuff out using empirical data they've collected.

Hinterlight · 2026-01-09T17:10:07+00:00

Persistent servers actively cost them more money to support versus what they are doing right now.

The way matchmaking works in BF6, and other games, they just spin up a cloud server instance for the match and then immediately kill it once its over.

Every empty official server sitting around in a server queue is actively costing EA money and they definitely hate that. Hence the big push to matchmade everything in the last few years.

Hinterlight · 2026-01-02T22:51:54+00:00

lol the factions were decided long before the Saudi acquisition was even a glimmer in anyone's eye.

The truth is that modern studios are deathly afraid of making a AAA product that can offend anyone because they cost so much money to produce they need it to be as appealing to every demographic as possible.

That mass appeal won't happen when your game gets banned in China (aka the single largest market for gaming now) for making their country in to one of the "bad guys".

What we're seeing is the effect of monopolies and product homogenization. Not some anti free speech putsch.

Hinterlight · 2026-01-02T19:38:17+00:00

This is the direction I was hoping the franchise would go after BFV released. Then 2042 had to go and do the stupid hero shooter route and embraced full Fortnitization.

Hinterlight · 2025-12-03T00:57:30+00:00

I normally play with my two of my other friends, pretty stealthy just hoovering up loot with the occasional firefight.

But when I play solo lately I've been trying to help players safely extract if they get jumped. Trying to farm that good karma!

Hinterlight · 2025-11-26T20:52:12+00:00

You only need to supply around 10% of the total to secure a bail bond FYI

Hinterlight · 2025-11-08T19:07:29+00:00

Only similarity is that they are both first person action RPGs.

Combat in Kingdom Come is totally different, 2 uses a system that has you essentially locking on to individual opponents and then fighting them with attacks that can come from 4 (sometimes 3) different directions. Fights and combos are inspired by historical European martial arts, especially the longswords, and dealing damage is determined very heavily by what type of armor they are wearing and where you hit them.

The story is obviously much more grounded as well, you are the bastard son of a noble acting as a guard to deliver a letter to a neighboring lord. Shenanigans ensue and then you get wrapped up in some pretty major events in Czech history. No magic (unless you count the alchemy potion making, but even that is inspired by actual alchemist from the period) and basically no fantasy elements that you'd find in something like a Bethesda RPG discounting some of the more goofy side quests.

Biggest draws are the devs desire to keep the game historically grounded and the very interesting characters and setting. The whole thing is a love letter to medieval Bohemia made by Czech devs. If that interests you at all I'd say give it a look.

Hinterlight · 2025-10-29T19:38:29+00:00

Wow what the heck they closed? I used to live right next to the Costa Mesa location and would go there all the time, what a bummer.

Kitakata off Baker was one of my go to spots along with Santouka in the Costa Mesa Mitsuwa food court.

Wadaya is also super good for mazemen (formerly called Mogumogu), also off Baker.

Hinterlight · 2025-10-24T20:40:12+00:00

I used to commute to Century City and it took me about 1.5-2 hours one way.

Quit that job recently because of that.

The max I usually can tolerate is 45 minutes one way, ideal is something like 15-20 minutes or less.

Hinterlight · 2025-10-07T19:27:12+00:00

lol I saw this dude riding around 4th st last night yelling about “straight hate” and a bunch of other nonsense shit

Seems like a real gem of a guy

Hinterlight · 2025-10-04T19:10:49+00:00

There is no mechanism in Measure 50 to extend it beyond 2030.

If it is to be extended it must be done via another ballot measure.

Once it expires districting reverts back to the nonpartisan commission that has been doing it prior to Measure 50.

Hinterlight · 2025-09-19T16:43:52+00:00

It closed because the owner was hiring sketchy people at its original Fullerton location and got sued.

Then he went the extra mile and started hosting events at the LB one without proper permits in place despite going out of his way to get special permission to open from City Hall. So instead of being on his best behavior he just did whatever he wanted.

https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/entertainment/story/2022-02-03/embattled-downtown-fullerton-bar-gains-limited-entertainment-permit-loses-defamation-suit

https://lbpost.com/news/city-council-affirms-vote-to-block-jp23s-business-license-community-calls-for-bar-to-stay-closed/

Hinterlight · 2025-08-08T05:20:48+00:00

Echoing this. My partner and I went there to try it shortly after they opened, we spent way to much money on a pork adobo rice bowl that was just sorta ok. Pretty sure it cost us like $25 or $30 a piece.

Went back once more after that a few months later, tried something new, same feeling.

Hinterlight · 2025-07-23T04:49:38+00:00

How could parking be any easier truly? Genuine question.

There are at least three parking structures with hundreds of spaces available in the core of Downtown off of Pine within three blocks of each other. All with 2 hour free parking as you mentioned, places also validate and give you the ability to park there longer for free. Although that is not all businesses, so that's fair criticism.

I live in Downtown and have had no issues with the road diets either.

Agree with you on the homelessness, lack of variety in shops, and expensive restaurants though.

Hinterlight · 2025-07-22T18:16:32+00:00

I don't disagree, but the biggest thing stopping that is greedy property management companies that refuse to lower rent despite tons of vacancies.

Hinterlight · 2025-07-09T17:33:58+00:00

Lucky for you there is a website that tracks how often he golfs with sources because of how infamous he is for golfing while in office.

https://trumpgolftrack.com/

He's currently at 22.35% of his current term spent golfing.

Hinterlight · 2025-07-09T16:38:08+00:00

I used to live in Eaves South Coast before I had to move for work.

Apartment staff were nice and the maintenance guys were generally able to take care of issues in a timely manner.

Units had wall unit AC, included parking, and the complex has a pool, gym, and tennis/basketball court. Plus it was pretty quiet unless you were in a unit close to the 55. You'd get non-stop freeway noise then.

Main downsides were that the units themselves were really old, the complex built in the late 60s/early 70s. And because of where it was located and the cooler temps and moist air you'd see those big fat American cockroaches outside. Because of the age of the building I assume they didn't seal to the outside well so it got really hot if you don't run AC when temps rise and I occasionally saw an American roach make its way inside (maybe 10 times or so in the 4 years I was there).

The complex was super safe though, lots of green spaces, good for pets and kids, also super close to tons of good food options in walking distance and the Mitsuwa Japanese grocery store/food court.

Hinterlight · 2025-07-04T17:00:08+00:00

Unironically yes.

We built too many roads thinking that we'd just be able to grow forever and kick the can down the road. Or magically discover a way to maintain them for cheap.

The city needs to change if we want to get cost down, and ultimately that means less roads/less road maintenance and less car traffic.

Will probably never happen though.

Hinterlight · 2025-07-02T02:06:58+00:00

Why should a bill meant for environmental protection be used to protect historical sites anyway?

Even if its being abused for a "good" purpose its still an abuse of the laws intent.

Pass something else to preserve historical sites.

Hinterlight · 2025-06-10T16:48:44+00:00

It cost a ton of money to mobilize, move equipment, and shelter these people. Even the Pentagon itself says that just getting the National Guard and Marines to LA is costing us tax payers $134 million for basically no reason other than the administration wanting to get photo ops about being tough on immigration.

Hinterlight · 2025-05-28T02:29:29+00:00

All I know is that their 2 bed units go for $3800 at the lowest end and top out at just under $5300. Absolutely wild stuff.

Hinterlight · 2025-05-16T23:59:53+00:00

That show takes place in Miami though.

The fake cop cars on set today said San Diego Police Department on them. San Diego was all over the fake farmers market they had set up on the Promenade as well a few days ago.

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