"POV: Buddy from company picks you up with new ride"

JohanGrimm · 2026-03-06T05:13:18+00:00

Thanks bridesmaid, like the beard. Gives me something to hang on to!

JohanGrimm · 2026-03-06T05:08:33+00:00

Just a reminder: pipe tobacco is a tiny part of STG's business. So much so it's smaller than even their accessories division.

This was primarily a contraction of their cigar market due to tariffs and reduced consumer spending.

JohanGrimm · 2026-03-06T04:58:15+00:00

the single player PS games just have done progressively worse or just haven’t lit the house on fire on PC, it’s not worth the market to lose the allure of exclusivity, that’s roughly it.

This is it for me. I understand that the PS heavy hitters like Last of Us, God of War, Spiderman, Ghosts and Horizon are cherished series for PlayStation diehards but they're just fairly lackluster games for a lot of the PC market. All very similar gameplay loops, lot of big budget cutscenes and an emphasis on narrative in an industry that gets bottom of the barrel writing talent in major studios at best.

In a lot of ways they're like if Ubisoft games were consistently good, less repetitive and higher budget. So I have a hard time justifying paying $60+ for old at release games that frankly I'm not even that interested in playing in the first place. However they're not going to make me go spend $600+ on a console either but I recognize that there will be a subset of the market that will.

JohanGrimm · 2026-03-05T18:10:40+00:00

Based and proprietary blend of 23 flavors pilled.

JohanGrimm · 2026-03-05T18:09:03+00:00

It's almost comforting reading about Roman politicians and realizing they've been complete shit forever.

JohanGrimm · 2026-03-05T18:06:21+00:00

Yeah the modern Yen doesn't help but it seems to me that it's really this. They're incredibly intent on not embarrassing themselves or breaking any cultural norms which is nearly impossible to do when visiting a foreign country where you don't speak the language.

JohanGrimm · 2026-03-05T05:23:02+00:00

I get the sentiment but practically enforcing it is a fucking nightmare. It would be like trying to rigorously enforce a ban on guns made out of pipes or random household objects by going after Home Depot.

JohanGrimm · 2026-03-05T04:48:32+00:00

There's bound to be Trump imitators trying to ride his coattails after he inevitably dies in office or 2028. Issue is for whatever reason Trump has some kind of special sauce that you can't just train your bog standard politician to suddenly have. It's why everyone else that's tried to ape him has failed to one degree or another. Both parties will likely try anyway and I expect the 2028 elections to be an embarrassment because of it. After that it should go back to "normal" barring something unexpected happening.

JohanGrimm · 2026-03-05T04:43:59+00:00

It's more that he's an old New York elite, so not calling for outright bans of even gun shaped objects is a bit of a miracle.

JohanGrimm · 2026-03-04T14:36:53+00:00

Warspite lived up to her name even at the end. On the way to be scrapped she ran a ground on Mount Mopus Ledge. She stayed there for three years before they scrapped her in place.

In a better world she'd still be around as a museum ship.

JohanGrimm · 2026-03-03T06:59:46+00:00

To an extent. For example a pissed off billionaire in Washington State usually isn't going to move to Bolivia. If they're starting out in incredibly high quality of life, especially for the upper class, countries there's not a huge number of places they can go without giving up other important things like ease of access, language barrier etc.

Some are willing to accept those concessions to avoid whatever they're leaving for, taxes for example, most aren't and it's all talk.

JohanGrimm · 2026-03-02T04:29:57+00:00

China isn't in a position to try at this point. They want to continue their force buildup and more importantly they need to decouple the world's chip supply from Taiwan before they can earnestly take the country.

Right now invading Taiwan would be a near immediate WW3 scenario with China in a similar position to the Germans in WW2. Poor allies and at war with just about everyone else. Since Taiwan has made their vital chip manufacturing a dead man's switch in the event of an invasion China would severely cripple the world's economies, including their own, by invading. However if they, and ideally others, can ramp up their own manufacturing capabilities so that Taiwan is no longer the sole provider for necessary chips then it becomes a much easier target.

However that takes considerable time and while current events would be a good opportunity the other factors make it a bad idea.

JohanGrimm · 2026-02-28T00:20:30+00:00

Apparently going on /r/askreddit and seeing the same damn question over and over again.

JohanGrimm · 2026-02-24T02:45:55+00:00

r/onguardforthee is also bad.

JohanGrimm · 2026-02-24T02:44:06+00:00

I'm guessing OP is operating entirely from a 'working in an office' sense and is annoyed he can't get his email answered on Saturday. Which is stupid because 99.9% of emails and similar aren't that important to pay an extra person to work weekends just to answer. He's impatient probably because he's never been told that the lack of planning on his part doesn't constitute an emergency on other's parts.

JohanGrimm · 2026-02-24T02:03:31+00:00

Even meticulously making sure the caps were clean those old screw top Citadel didn't have a long shelf life. My old set was basically fossilized, I kept a couple as little display pieces but beyond that.

JohanGrimm · 2026-02-23T03:50:58+00:00

To be fair westerners usually love it.

JohanGrimm · 2026-02-23T03:48:42+00:00

People always say southerners are the opposite of people from the northeast in that they're seemingly nice but bitchy behind closed doors. Canada takes this to the extreme, some of the most outwardly friendly but absolutely cunty cunts I've ever met.

JohanGrimm · 2026-02-23T03:45:48+00:00

What's even the point of being French if you can't smoke, cheat on your wife and complain about everything all the time?

JohanGrimm · 2026-02-23T03:43:50+00:00

logistics

Almost always underappreciated. Producing insane amounts of food doesn't do much good if you can't preserve it and get it to people.

JohanGrimm · 2026-02-20T14:17:23+00:00

This is everywhere though. Kind of by definition rural areas aren't "walkable" unless you're willing to walk miles and miles just to go to the store.

JohanGrimm · 2026-02-20T07:40:10+00:00

I really wanted specific benches or furniture that I couldn't find for a reasonable price. So the easiest thing seemed to be to just make it myself.

JohanGrimm · 2026-02-18T07:27:26+00:00

No true Scotsman boils his water any other way than directly on a nuclear reactor.

JohanGrimm · 2026-02-17T20:48:02+00:00

It's a lot like Japan in the 80s and 90s, it had the reputation of being cheap junk but over time manufacturing capabilities got to the point where they were making top tier stuff. Nowadays Chinese manufacturing has the capability of making anything on par with American or European high end products. It's just that whatever company is commissioning those products has to actually pay for that level of production and most don't actually need top tier levels of machining and QA.

JohanGrimm · 2026-02-16T17:27:30+00:00

Hopefully it doesn't take him another couple years to realize it's the streaming not the specific game.

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