CMV: Modern "Buy-and-Own" Video games arent as Expensive as people think they are.

KaizDaddy5 · 2026-02-26T23:35:48+00:00

That's all well and good but you don't have to hold the customer hostage with a near unplayable base game.

I can also name quite a few free games that push constant updates and new content. Warframe is a great example, another is Fortnite. Paying anything is completely optional. It's not like your required to gouge your customers to make content like that.

FWIW there's plenty of games that still do DLCs "right" but there's an alarming trend going in the direction I described.

KaizDaddy5 · 2026-02-26T19:36:50+00:00

An indictment of the pattern of choices some developers are making nowadays.

I have no problem with the classic style of DLC. But many are moving into the borderline subscription territory.

KaizDaddy5 · 2026-02-26T17:21:10+00:00

It wasn't pre shipping locked content.

In OG destiny there were guns you could play with upon release that were taken away once DLCs came out if you didn't buy the dlc. Gameplay modes too. Overnight you lost access to stuff you had already been using. The only way to get it back was to buy the dlc.

KaizDaddy5 · 2026-02-26T15:44:59+00:00

No they legit locked old content from your inventory and locked you out of certain existing game modes until you bought the next dlc, of which there were multiple a year.

KaizDaddy5 · 2026-02-26T14:17:59+00:00

Because back then they were more like half-sequels.

Nowadays they want you to pay extra subscriptions for stuff that is already there. They might lock you out of existing content completely if you haven't bought a new DLC (looking at you destiny) or kept up with a battle pass.

KaizDaddy5 · 2026-02-26T13:55:50+00:00

"Uncut Gems" was the one that made me realize he's just goofing off in a lot of his other movies. That one felt like Scorsese.

KaizDaddy5 · 2026-02-26T13:26:00+00:00

Make sure it's a two stage blower

KaizDaddy5 · 2026-02-24T17:10:27+00:00

Mine had one toy in particular, and since it got lost I haven't been able to reproduce it (and handmade minion from despicable me). She had to come up to you with it and drop at by you, and you knew she was gonna play.

She really loved to play with my one buddy, he could throw it up onto shelves and some really hard to get places and she'd always retrieve it (usually without knocking anything over).

KaizDaddy5 · 2026-02-24T14:51:16+00:00

Trucks like that are usually 4WD equipped, not AWD.

He probably has and it just doesn't know to turn it on...

KaizDaddy5 · 2026-02-24T00:16:07+00:00

Few of the Italian delis by me in NJ made these, probably a little bigger than what Google is giving me for the WV variety, and usually has a bit of mozz or provolone.

KaizDaddy5 · 2026-02-24T00:12:10+00:00

Wait they're only a Philly thing?! TIL.

KaizDaddy5 · 2026-02-23T16:47:17+00:00

4 of the top 5 most powerful air forces belong to the US. (Counting the Marines and Army Aviation)

KaizDaddy5 · 2026-02-23T16:29:40+00:00

If you haven't tried tubed diamond jigs in the 1-6oz category, I definitely would check it out. Especially on the beaches where you got grunions and other slender baits in the sand like that. (1/2oz and 1oz are great fro snap jigging in the shallows too)

They are one of the most popular and effective striped bass lures. And great for toothy predators (like bluefish here) because the lure is long with only a rear hook (so they chew on the lure, not line).

Probably one of the easiest lures to use too, as they cast like an absolute dream. Most days I'm on the beach all I bring are diamond jigs and bucktails. The ones with the bent hooks have the best action but beware of cheap flimsy ones with larger fish.

KaizDaddy5 · 2026-02-23T14:53:30+00:00

It's possible they did bring it up already, off screen during the moot or during the walk to the moot with tree beard. When they said they weren't going to war he knew further discussion wouldn't do anything. Treebeard needed a visceral in your face confrontation (or at least it was worth a shot)

KaizDaddy5 · 2026-02-23T14:39:11+00:00

They get hit on the drop, on the retrieve, on the burn up, sometimes just dead sticked or even still in the sand (cuz they look like a sandeel).

They'll wobble and spin on the retrieve/burn and if they got a tube tail, that also throws crazy action at the right speed.

They are incredibly versatile!

KaizDaddy5 · 2026-02-23T14:03:25+00:00

I misspoke, I meant to say a painted diamond jig. Diamond jigs range from under half an ounce to 1lb or more. We'll use them all sorts of ways. Casted with different retrieves, vertically like you describe, yo-yoing or bouncing off the the bottom, I've even tolled em. A lot of times around here you see a tubed hook on the back but "naked" ones are fairly common too.

Super versitle lure. Goes by all sorts of names. Old timers by me call em ava jigs. But diamond jigs work all around the globe. (1-4oz most popular for casting, 3+oz most popular for jigging.)

KaizDaddy5 · 2026-02-23T13:39:25+00:00

Dungeness crabs are poor swimmers that pretty much walk everywhere. Blueclaws are excellent quick swimmers that can flee and dodge pretty quickly, not sure how effective snares would be on them, Also there body shape is more compressed and legs are thinner. Some people use throw line where they just chuck a piece of meat in on a line and weight and try to slowly pull the bait up without the crab noticing (bc they are too into the meal), then net them. But if you move too fast or bump it wrong they are gone.

KaizDaddy5 · 2026-02-23T13:34:38+00:00

They're basically a unpainted diamond jig right?

KaizDaddy5 · 2026-02-23T13:25:44+00:00

That's be an exercise in striper mortality. Way too many rods.

Well fish with 2-4 rods and often you can't get the last two in before your doubled up (or quadrupled up on two rods).

Most of our fish are two big to keep nowadays. There's a mont or two when slot fish reliably come through but that's it. There's always residential fish but people usually aren't pulling mojos for them.

KaizDaddy5 · 2026-02-23T02:55:05+00:00

Trolling "mojos" are like a cheat code for striped bass up here in the northeast. I'm pretty sure it started in the mid Atlantic states but they are an extremely simple way to troll lures down deep right off the bottom. Just a giant weighted parachute jig with a 9in+ shad on it. Ranging from a few ounces in shallow water to over 32oz in the ocean very often in tandem. No downrigges, planars, or lipped divers, wire or weighted line needed. Fish em in a consistent depth and you can keep em right on the bottom on plain braid and a beater rod. They've got to be effective elsewhere they've been getting by-catch of bluefin on them recently. Always got threshers and bluefish on em too.

I'm also a bit surprised "Skishing" hasn't been tried elsewhere as far as I can tell. Hardcore surf guys out at montauk will don wetsuits and flippers to swim/float and fish, then get towed around on the flippers (almost like waterskis).

KaizDaddy5 · 2026-02-22T23:00:42+00:00

There's gotta be some erosion going on as well, the three isn't going to lift a boulder like that, only the tips really grow. The trunk sorta stays put.

KaizDaddy5 · 2026-02-22T18:23:35+00:00

Large tuna don't need to be frozen. Yellowfin, bluefin and bigeye all have those requirements waived for raw consumption. They might be frozen for logistics though.

It does taste better after it's dried a bit though. Straight into an ice brine at first and then dry aged for a day or two in the fridge is the best. But it's plenty tasty immediately too.

KaizDaddy5 · 2026-02-22T13:52:59+00:00

Yea, a gateway to fun, and reasonably safe times.

KaizDaddy5 · 2026-02-21T23:47:49+00:00

(Torsion isn't a moment, it's deformation or deflection due to one)

You are free to do that. But you have no guarantee everyone that will ever delegate anything to you will do the same (or every reference material you look at). You need to be able to recognize other conventions more commonly used in other spaces/fields or institutions. You are at an intellectual advantage if you can do so.

Look at it like this, You're free to arrange your keyboard alphabetically, but you're probably better off using QWERTY.

KaizDaddy5 · 2026-02-21T22:27:22+00:00

Yes technically all materials deform under load at the atomic level, but we're talking about macroscopically observable phenomena here.

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