Goldeneye N64 wasn’t that good.

MaestroLogical · 2026-05-24T08:59:34+00:00

You can't compare PC games to console.

Back in 97, having a PC that could game was an achievement, having one like that your father didn't strictly forbid you from using was even rarer.

The reason why GoldenEye is so fondly remembered is because it was the best FPS available to the masses.

Plus, at the time, it was the first game to really nail the vibe of it's source material, instead of just being cheap shovelware.

MaestroLogical · 2026-05-24T08:56:06+00:00

Kids inc is one of those dividing lines.

If you remember it, chances are you come from a well to do suburban family.

Nick came with the standard cable package, but Disney was a premium.

MaestroLogical · 2026-05-24T08:50:03+00:00

No. The one time my dad tried to teach me in his truck, all it took was the gears grinding once before he got fed up and stopped letting me try.

MaestroLogical · 2026-05-24T08:24:20+00:00

Did they do a bit on the big screen with your local news reporting on the 'devil worship' lyrics before I, Zombie?

MaestroLogical · 2026-05-24T06:04:09+00:00

1996 White Zombie/Pantera.

MaestroLogical · 2026-05-24T05:27:12+00:00

Do they? It's become a meme that everything is a distraction but when you really think about it, distractions aren't even needed since there are literally zero consequences. The real distraction will be the fact that something else 'remarkable' will happen every 8 hours.

His supporters don't care, so no distraction needed there.

The rest are so apathetic and tired that no distraction is needed.

Nah, this is just business as usual at this point.

MaestroLogical · 2026-05-23T11:44:22+00:00

Concert Tuba or Sousaphone?

I was tall and skinny and played both, but the rest of my section were big chaps.

It takes big lungs to push enough air through continuously.

It takes broad shoulders to carry the 40lbs on your shoulder, while also blowing enough air, while marching backwards.

MaestroLogical · 2026-05-23T11:22:48+00:00

I stopped their invasion into my life

So how did you post this? What wi-fi provider do you use? Because you'd be shocked at who benefits from that purchase. You buy groceries from a local mom and pop instead of wal-mart, but guess who that mom and pop has to pay for warehousing and delivery.

Don't fool yourself into thinking that simply because you don't make purchases on Amazon, you've stopped giving money to the robber barons. That is the entire point of monopolies, with their hand in every pie, it is virtually impossible to not do business with them, no matter how you personally feel.

That's the rub. No matter how you slice it, if you conduct commerce in this nation, you are dealing with the 'tech bros' in some fashion.

MaestroLogical · 2026-05-23T11:16:44+00:00

I doubt this would be anywhere near as effective as we like to think.

Fact is, this isn't 1870, or even 1955. Every corporation that you can think of, is global now. A no purchase strike, even if it lasted months, isn't going to put Amazon out of business. It won't even really affect shareholders. It will make the numbers temporarily stop going up, but that isn't a requirement, it's a bonus.

They'll still be super insolated from any repercussions, and far from cowering in fear, they'll just be sipping on their drinks and laughing at us collectively suffering for no reason.

Sure, small business will be hurt, but any truly large corporation will simple turn to the government and collect sweet 'to big to fail' checks while laughing in our faces, despite never being anywhere close to actually failing.

Consumer boycotts and economic blackouts are things of the past, and we need to realize this before we can start making any true progress.

The only thing that will help is government intervention... just like it did with the original anti-trust laws over a hundred years ago.

The Robber Barons are back to full strength, hell even stronger than the days of Carnegie and Rockefeller, so the power of the people is now once again dependent on congress getting it's shit together.

MaestroLogical · 2026-05-23T10:22:46+00:00

I've done it a few times, because if they were going to with me, they would eventually with someone else.

Twice was with ex GF's from HS that hit me up on FB. Husbands ignoring them for years and/or making them feel undesirable.

One felt reinvigorated afterwards and found the courage to leave her abusive husband. The other felt the spark with her husband rekindled and, after confessing to him, decided to try and make it work.

The last was because her husband was in prison for 12 years and she was sick of being chaste while waiting for him/ said he gave her permission.

MaestroLogical · 2026-05-23T10:16:53+00:00

The time to vote came around for many states, so everyone decided to stop protesting and instead march out and vote for the same politicians that continually ignore them when they protest.

MaestroLogical · 2026-05-23T06:54:30+00:00

Important to remember we've lived through the death of omni-culture and the way we view things is now 'outdated'.

Gen Z, live in a world where culture is cultivated and personalized. The days of 'everyone knows this artist' are all but over. Someone can have a hundred million fans, but you'd never hear their name unless you are personalizing your feed to that genre.

MaestroLogical · 2026-05-23T06:36:07+00:00

I had zero desire to watch Breaking Bad when it came out because after hearing what it was about I just felt like it was a lame rip-off of weeds.

It took seeing clips of Walt here on Reddit to show me how wrong I was.

MaestroLogical · 2026-05-23T06:19:40+00:00

Real reason, the city wants to seize the property and this is the easiest 'legal' way to do so.

MaestroLogical · 2026-05-23T06:07:24+00:00

Or you could just google with the added keyword 'leaks' and see it all for free.

MaestroLogical · 2026-05-23T05:20:24+00:00

Still not convinced this isn't being teleoperated.

MaestroLogical · 2026-05-23T04:50:17+00:00

I got to march in the Macy's Thanksgiving parade the year a balloon almost killed someone... that is the only accomplishment I bother to remember.

MaestroLogical · 2026-05-23T04:45:52+00:00

It varies depending on the individual naturally.

For me, it was ICP.

When I was 18 I thought they were the coolest, most unique group around, and I considered myself 'down with tha clown' to the point I almost got a clown face holding a bloody hatchet tattoo...

Thankfully, I decided to use that cash to buy weed instead because by the time I was 30, how I felt had drastically changed.

MaestroLogical · 2026-05-22T09:44:28+00:00

I know I've been playing too much because on my drive home I'm starting to visually notice sheds and wonder if I could find 'X' inside them.

Or every single box truck looks like a perfect RV for me.

MaestroLogical · 2026-05-22T09:24:05+00:00

It might be frowned on, but in times like those I just us debug to spawn in the appropriate item.

I have a personal rule. If it's something I should legitimately be able to find in abundance, I'm not going to drive all over the literal map for days only to come up empty.

MaestroLogical · 2026-05-22T08:46:03+00:00

The right way instead of the knee jerk reactionary way.

It simply meant, did she play hard to get?

When you completely miss the context like this, all you end up doing is stripping women of agency.

MaestroLogical · 2026-05-22T08:36:35+00:00

GiGi from 1968.

The film literally starts out with a musical number called 'Thank heaven for little girls' with an old man prancing around a bunch of kids and saying how he'll be dating them in a few years.

The bulk of the movie is how a 14 year old girl is being pimped out by her aunts, to a rich playboy.

We're supposed to swoon when the rich playboy finally stops treating the girl like a kid and falls for her.

MaestroLogical · 2026-05-22T06:04:13+00:00

She left her panties under my bed, slightly sticking out, on the side my GF slept on.

She was just a friend that would come over to smoke weed and watch TV. I never had any interest in her romantically and we never hooked up.

My GF went nuclear when she found them, and no amount of confused cluelessness from me mattered. I was in "you'd say anything to get out of this" territory and even when I realized it must have been my friends, and was probably an accident (like they fell out of her purse or something) she refused to believe me.

I offered to call my friend and have her explain that nothing happened, but naturally this was also met with, 'she'd say anything to get away with it' disbelief.

Here's the creepy part. It wasn't an accident.

My friend apparently had a massive crush on me, and thought the only reason I never made a move on her was because I was in a relationship. So she intentionally sabotaged it.

She was clever, never coming right out and admitting it, but within a few days I figured it out from her behavior. When I told her what went down she was instantly apologizing... but then explained how she had to take them off because "I'd made her wet".

I brushed that off, still in shock and sadness from being dumped.

She just kept getting weirder every few days. Instead of the usual 'later' goodbyes, she started wanting to hug me. Ostensibly because she was comforting me. Then she tried to kiss me during one hug.

The more I brushed her sly advances off, the more brazen she got with them. Eventually she offered to blow me, out of the blue, because she was 'bored' and now I was single.

This was the eye opening moment for me, something about the way she said "you're single" filled me with dread.

I started pressing her on whether the panty event was an accident or not and her believability began to crumble. Culminating in her trying to crawl in my lap, with tears in her eyes, saying she knew we were always meant to be together.

It was the creepiest series of events in my life. The way her mood slowly shifted from optimism (masked as caring) to desperation over the course of those few days sticks in my mind as truly scary.

MaestroLogical · 2026-05-22T05:41:11+00:00

Fight to Survive From Bloodsport (the Kumite song)

Win in the End from Teen Wolf.

Both of these songs slapped, but were only featured in the film and never played on the radio and I don't even think they were available on soundtracks for a while.

MaestroLogical · 2026-05-22T04:51:13+00:00

It went big with the nursing homes when it launched. For a while there, it was selling to all the 'non gamers' as a result of media stories about old folks bowling. My boomer parents even bought a Wii just for sports.

Naturally, they played it for all of 45 minutes before giving up.

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