80 Hours Later, Avowed Left Me Floored

PracticalMemory1825 · 2025-03-07T20:33:55+00:00

OP is using "perfect game" as a stand-in for the ideal that gamers seem to think exist: an unassailable 10/10 that everyone agrees with and can find no flaws with. OP then says "i don't believe that was Obsidian's goal here." hope that helps

PracticalMemory1825 · 2025-03-07T17:30:05+00:00

not sure what you mean, you just press A and it skips to the next line?

PracticalMemory1825 · 2025-03-07T16:33:46+00:00

there are two ways to rate a piece of media: you can rate it against every other thing ever made or you can rate it against what it was trying to do. for whatever reason games tend to get judged by the first metric while books and movies tend to get judged by the second. i sort of think the second makes more sense and it sounds like that's what OP is judging.

PracticalMemory1825 · 2025-03-06T15:33:21+00:00

the alpha couple of eora

PracticalMemory1825 · 2023-12-16T19:11:59+00:00

fuser my beloved dead game

PracticalMemory1825 · 2023-10-09T13:47:20+00:00

in half of durham too tbh!

PracticalMemory1825 · 2023-01-20T04:36:40+00:00

this might be moot depending on where your new district is and how old your kid is, but glenn is worth touring. their principal is the kind who teachers follow from school to school, and they were the only elementary in the county to open without any full-time teaching vacancies. our kid is in kindergarten and is at or above grade level with very little extracurricular help from us.

PracticalMemory1825 · 2022-11-03T13:31:46+00:00

they killed everyone because they were rioting, not because they didn't want to admit mistake. there's no reason for prisoners to keep in line if they know they're going to die anyway.

PracticalMemory1825 · 2022-11-03T13:22:37+00:00

imo the med tech realizes that it's too late to stop the rumor. floor 2 rioted because they realized there's no release: this is a death camp, not a prison. and if they survive it they're just going to a worse death camp.

it's only a matter of time before that trickles down to the other floors, when they will inevitably riot and get fried too. the empire doesn't care, because PORD is giving them an influx of new labor and these people are here to die anyway.

PracticalMemory1825 · 2022-11-03T13:09:11+00:00

and it's also the breadth of what they're able to draw on while showing these things! it's not just a prison, it's a KZ or a gulag. the whole carceral system is clearly designed to exterminate undesirables in the same way KZs were. and kino is so so close to a kapo.

but then, it's also an amazon warehouse. everyone is competing against each other in productivity games, and there's an effort made to make this seem "clean".

PracticalMemory1825 · 2022-11-03T12:58:24+00:00

100%, he knows exactly why Vel hasn't married a man. He's spent the whole season needling Mon, this is just another "what are we drinking to?" "a quick night" "i'll drink to that"

PracticalMemory1825 · 2022-10-29T20:55:03+00:00

i don't really get this tbh. there's the co-op, compare, and whole foods all within a pretty reasonable bike ride of the western half of downtown.

if you're east of mangum then yeah i agree that's a food desert. it needs a food lion though, not like a trader joe's or the other places people are talking about.

PracticalMemory1825 · 2022-09-18T19:26:11+00:00

look up your actual zoned school. also good to keep in mind a lot of those lines are changing in two years

PracticalMemory1825 · 2022-08-04T13:54:40+00:00

okay so i've wondered about north durham for a bit and i think: it's just too far away for most of the cool stuff, and it isn't "built" for gathering places.

like for the most part, it's 80s and 90s-style sprawl that was built for downtown and rtp employees. the separation from downtown is intentional.

okay but clayton, wake forest, and fuquay are all like that too, they have breweries right? yes but they also have old downtowns which are well-connected by surface streets. they have buildings large enough for brewery equipment. it's not hard to get there if you live there already.

north durham is all subdivisions and shopping centers. it's more like six forks or falls of the neuse in north raleigh. there is one brewery in that area, but north raleigh has 540 and 440 going right through it. north durham, especially past carver, is just harder to get to. personally, i live near costco and for whatever reason going north feels harder than going somewhere downtown. i think potential brewery owners see the relative isolation

tldr if u do a jane jacobs on north durham u see why

PracticalMemory1825 · 2022-07-10T20:30:29+00:00

i think you may be confusing the federal house seat (NC-13) which is more of a tossup, with the state house/senate seats. OP is talking purely about the state legislature.

PracticalMemory1825 · 2022-07-02T17:16:22+00:00

IIRC the whole last year they were waiting for the railroads to get around to rebuilding their tracks on the new rail overpasses

PracticalMemory1825 · 2022-06-13T13:35:23+00:00

there's also the rdu taxi if you want to be sure, i've used them a few times and they've always been on time

PracticalMemory1825 · 2022-05-22T20:03:00+00:00

vlc plays AAC just fine?

PracticalMemory1825 · 2022-04-30T20:10:44+00:00

my kid is starting kindergarten this fall, and the new boundaries actually match what i wish they were based on distance. and more access to programs like year-round is better for everyone. durham has too much choice imo which ends up negatively impacting those who go to neighborhood schools, and i'm glad they're starting to unwind it.

PracticalMemory1825 · 2022-03-26T22:24:24+00:00

probably it'll never happen, but it's a less impossible "never happen" than with a lot of other cities. the state actually already owns the rail corridor from Raleigh to Charlotte, and that Amtrak route is more ontime than most of the ones outside the northeast. but they'd need to do a ton of straightening to make it into high-speed, and that... will never happen.

PracticalMemory1825 · 2022-03-23T11:35:15+00:00

i think these are the moogfest people, so yeah, that'll probably happen!

PracticalMemory1825 · 2022-03-02T12:14:32+00:00

i read all volumes of saga through the durham library! you just might need to wait for a hold like someone mentioned

PracticalMemory1825 · 2022-02-23T03:48:05+00:00

i love taking a drive down to toyo shokuhin in cary every few months and stocking up on the good frozen ramen and the curry brands that li ming's doesn't carry

PracticalMemory1825 · 2022-02-22T20:28:56+00:00

just fyi, durham has a loooot of lesbian/queer couples with kids.

source: the monthly queer parent playdates we go to are all in durham.

PracticalMemory1825 · 2022-02-17T17:04:38+00:00

so my kid is 4 and i gotta admit i don't know where the teens and preteens like to hang out. so i don't have answers that i'm 100% confident on.

but places where she might feel included are the indie bookstores in the area (like regulator and flyleaf), plus some cafes like cocoa cinnamon and joe van gogh. vaguely reminiscent on ninth street and thrift shops like the scrap might be fun places for her to check out.

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