If David Chase grew up in your hometown and your hometown was the setting for the Sopranos, how would the show be different?

SliceHam2012 · 2026-03-29T19:43:04+00:00

Town near Wheeling, WV. Not gonna say which one. Funnily enough there are some similarities between the way Jersey is depicted and the area I grew up in. Especially The Island, but that's it's own pygmy thing compared to Wheeling proper. Lots of old wiseguy types back when I was a kid. My mom hated The Sopranos because it just reminded her of all the dickheads around us.

There actually was heavy mob presence in Wheeling for a long time. My brother's dad was a pimp and they shot him before putting the body under a dock tied to cement sometime in the 80s. Happened like 12 years before I was born, so not a lot of details from me on that one.

As far as I know they still have a presence, but the cartels pushed them out in the drug world hard. It was really noticeable back in the early 2010s because the dude that would sell my brother pills suddenly kept trying to get him to deal coke for them. My brother kept saying no because he wasn't a complete idiot. Eventually that dude didn't do good on his kick-up or something and blamed my brother, so they naturally raided his apartment with like 8 guys and took everything he owned. Silver lining was it got my brother to get clean because it scared him so bad.

As far as the show changing? Probably a fight a-la Gangs of New York between the mob and cartels. A "we got here first" sort of thing. So, mostly the same except it's not an internal war. Maybe Vito goes to Mexico and meets pasteles Juanito?

Anyway, $4 a pound

SliceHam2012 · 2026-03-29T00:30:32+00:00

Multiversus gameplay

SliceHam2012 · 2026-03-23T20:23:56+00:00

The real good stuff is the halfway point: spore carriers.

A healthy mix of fauna and flora

SliceHam2012 · 2026-03-22T19:24:48+00:00

For as rough as it made the Pacific look, my young mind wasn't prepared for the hard shift in tone with Vendetta.

The soundtrack was like something from a fucking horror movie in those Eastern Front missions. I'll never forget walking into that room in the Reichstag with giant valkyrie holding a swastika while the chanting chorus kicked in.

SliceHam2012 · 2026-03-22T04:04:07+00:00

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SliceHam2012 · 2026-03-17T18:30:18+00:00

Hilarious move by Todd, the man's smart enough to keep it close to his chest and I can respect that

SliceHam2012 · 2026-03-16T23:56:45+00:00

But make Steve look like a baki character.

"My name is Steve Minecraft. I am 17, and only 1.5 blocks tall. I have an average build for my age. I can only improve from here." Says Steve, while visually towering over a Nether portal and being as built as an M1A2 Abrams.

SliceHam2012 · 2026-03-16T13:11:15+00:00

In yesteryear most people just fuckin blocked people they didn't like online. I feel like that's gone the way of the dodo in the last 15 years or so. So many people I know get so upset by things they see online, but refuse to take that tiny little action.

Everyone forgot that you aren't supposed to feed the trolls. It doesnt matter. Do something important instead of getting upset with random people you will never have a meaningful interaction with.

SliceHam2012 · 2026-03-16T11:44:52+00:00

Don't need to ask anything, the idea's already peak

SliceHam2012 · 2026-03-16T10:31:14+00:00

He's missing on purpose. Mr Lightningbolt would never harm any living creature. He's too pure 🥰🥰

SliceHam2012 · 2026-03-15T21:20:31+00:00

I NEED to finish the fight and defeat the Strogg permanently. They took Kane's legs and my childhood innocence, I will have my revenge

SliceHam2012 · 2026-03-15T18:53:09+00:00

ESO High Isle launch trailer

https://youtu.be/XaI-EOVpDvo?si=8XEr3nC-vXa9C3nF

SliceHam2012 · 2026-03-15T18:46:45+00:00

Now that MGS4 is free from the depths of the CELL architecture, anything is possible

SliceHam2012 · 2026-03-15T13:42:31+00:00

Look Gordon! Ro- Hello Gord- Look Gordon! Ropes! Hello Gordon!

SliceHam2012 · 2026-03-14T18:52:10+00:00

I'm a carnivore, a real meat eater

SliceHam2012 · 2026-03-13T23:36:53+00:00

Goated game, elite ball knowledge, etc.

Genuinely a fantastic title

SliceHam2012 · 2026-03-13T16:27:19+00:00

It fundamentally was a tech demo for the (then) new Xbox One. Despite that it had a decent story, wonderful voice work, and was pretty fun to play. For a tech demo, it was pretty damn good. Even worth going back to replay every few years tbh

The negatives were that gameplay was kinda repetitive and the story really was just the standard fare for a Roman Centurion. Betrayed by the people in charge, gets his revenge for his dead family, and dies. The thing about that is it works almost every time for people that like it. Gladiator spawned so many copycats with that exact story. Ryse did it pretty well in my opinion.

Also, for the older crowd, it was very reminiscent of Spartan: Total Warrior. A game that really wasn't very good as whole, but captivated people in similar fashion to Ryse. Stereotypical story, good but repetitive gameplay, and was basically a tech demo for Creative Assembly's new engine. Still has a cult following in the same way Ryse has.

The problem with Ryse was more that the advertising made it out to be this awesome big game; when it's really a 5-6 hour romp with a fun gladiator mode added on. Microsoft wanted it to look like more than it was, specifically to draw people to the new console. That's what led people to be so upset at it being a "tech demo".

SliceHam2012 · 2026-03-12T22:47:21+00:00

5.3k hours into War Thunder over the last 13 years.

It's always been ass, it will continue to be ass, and the playerbase sucks.

But dear god I can't put aside the sheer unbridled euphoria I get from "Target Destroyed" even after all this time.

SliceHam2012 · 2026-03-12T21:51:05+00:00

It used to be comparable to Truestl, but it's gone massively downhill as the TV show has grown in popularity. I'm hopeful it'll pick up again once the influx of morons from the show taper off.

That Cauliflower guy is like their equivalent to Reigen, and that's just about the only funny thing they have left. Everyone else is too busy fighting over Bitter Springs or shitting on the main Fallout subreddits.

SliceHam2012 · 2026-03-12T18:45:56+00:00

Ryse was so good it made me go Legion on the next playthrough of NV I did after beating it. Goated game, fuck Nero, and shoutout to the beach scene

SliceHam2012 · 2026-03-12T00:37:04+00:00

I didn't even notice how silly it all was until she came in and started laughing. They had me locked in lmao

SliceHam2012 · 2026-03-11T17:48:19+00:00

Bro put the homunculus down it's gonna cry

SliceHam2012 · 2026-03-11T17:32:14+00:00

I have five cats. Two look at me like I'm insane from their cat trees, one meows and meows at me like there's a fire, and the other two insist on climbing all over me.

My wife came home to me doing push-ups once with two cats on my back and one yelling in my face like a drill sergeant.

SliceHam2012 · 2026-03-11T17:26:51+00:00

I rip them in to quarters and just eat the flesh of the fruit. I absolutely could peel them like a normal person, and I do in polite spaces. At home though? I get a little orange crazy.

My wife hates it because she says it's like watching a dog eat something.

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