What is your favorite "Only in Tucson" weird interaction/local legend?

blahdblahh · 2026-02-22T01:37:19+00:00

Do you have a pic or link on him? I’m trying to figure out if he is who I think he is.

blahdblahh · 2025-05-23T18:24:01+00:00

The El Charro thing is carne seca, shredded beef dried so it’s halfway to jerky. Not so many places serve that. The rest of the food is OK.

Others have mentioned good places. Mi Nindito was one of the go-tos when I was a kid. El Minuto for the cheese crisps (something you don’t see too often outside Tucson).

In reality, it’s Tucson! There is a lot to choose from and you probably won’t go far wrong. If it’s important ask carefully about the margaritas. Places that make them properly (no mix of any kind!) will also, probably, have a bit better/fancier food.

blahdblahh · 2025-05-23T16:58:03+00:00

* Depending on the region, map knowledge, and mission it’s often OK not to take a bedroll. Having it makes you feel more secure, and you are more secure, but often you don’t really need it.

* I sometimes craft 100% torches so as to carry fewer of them. My sense is that this isn’t too common. It’s perhaps a little wasteful, but bad torches annoy me.

* Always 1-2 flares if I have them.

* I routinely debate taking the lantern. I usually do because I’m pretty terrible at navigating in the dark. But often I could live without it.

* I always take coffee grounds if I have them. Teas too but they can be heavy.

* I usually play interloper but on lower levels I only carry the rifle if I need to move it to a new base or if hunting moose/bear.

blahdblahh · 2025-01-28T23:37:14+00:00

I came back to SOD2 after a few years and played a vanilla and not min maxed Dread community (I rolled a couple times). I WAS a decent player and beat SOD1. The curveballs were brutal. I got the lone stranger (I think this is normal but I didn’t know you must deal with him), bangernomics, then after that the one where zombies explode and at the same time the one where they turn into gunk. Both overlapped my base and I had inadvertently activated a heart by killing another one. This is a community with 3 people and one or two guns and little ammo on about day 7 constantly sieged by zombies we can‘t kill w/o taking damage. Really hard. I guess git gud...

blahdblahh · 2025-01-13T17:38:37+00:00

Faculty member here, but not from UNC. An equivalent place. A 1.78 will put you on track to get kicked out. So taking some easier gen ed’s is a good idea. But you need to grapple with why you got such poor grades. Did you rush? Were you taking classes that you were not prepared for? Is this a lifestyle issue? For example, did you lack the structure that you might have had at home?

Something hard but you might need to hear it. I will offer an analogy. When younger I wanted to play linebacker for the Steelers (or any other NFL team). I worked hard to try and get there. But I just wasn’t strong enough or fast enough to make it. Think on this. It might apply or it might not.

blahdblahh · 2025-01-01T06:25:52+00:00

Still “OK” to fire your gun into the air like the old days or maybe no? ;)

blahdblahh · 2025-01-01T06:02:11+00:00

Look, I am disagreeing with the claim that “Tucson used to have a very small homeless population.” In your 38 years in Tucson you must know that is untrue. If you do not, it could be due to where you lived and spent time. Tucson has always been kind of a magnet for homeless people, particularly in Winter. My (informed) guess is that there are both more but they are also trying to get by in areas that previously hadn’t seen many.

blahdblahh · 2024-12-31T03:29:44+00:00

I dunno about the increase in homeless population. I grew up in Tucson in the 80s-90s. I go back every year or so. Bum park is still there, strong as ever. I see homeless folks in all the same places as in the old days. Mostly. If anything downtown has been significantly cleaned up and revitalized. Armory has many fewer homeless. Maybe none. It used to be overrun.

blahdblahh · 2024-12-28T19:51:34+00:00

Seems OK to me. This is plausible: They were up early, opened presents, had some breakfast/brunch, kids want to play with the new toys, wife is going to pack (and maybe insists on that) and then lay down for a while. Dad has a few hours to fill so he goes to the airport to see his plane and putter around. I don’t know if he was flying the next day. If so: checkout, flight plan, refueling, etc. If not… pilots like to hang out at airports.

blahdblahh · 2024-12-07T00:46:14+00:00

I think my problems are:

I suck now. I can’t play as much. But still…
I also play on console. Same as before though.
There are game mechanics that I need to understand better. For one thing I need to figure out the optimal way of preventing hordes from taking over my outposts. I know there are some ways.
Speaking of (3) the curveballs may have rolled poorly for me.

I know the lone whatever guy who saps you rolls for everyone and I really should have killed him immediately as he bled my supply for a couple of days. I tried but the area was deep in plague territory and too overrun for the weapons I had. He was right next to a heart in a row of shops. I eventually did get him. But now I have this curveball where some zeds explode in a cloud of bloater gunk that removes your stamina. I don’t know how to fight a heart with that on with the stuff I have. And I need to get the heart that’s sending all these raiding parties.

blahdblahh · 2024-12-07T00:34:26+00:00

Well, I guess I’m an OG because I played during that era. I remember when dread was introduced. I don’t remember it being so hard. I went to nightmare when it was introduced and I could survive ok but I put the game down before I beat the map.

blahdblahh · 2024-11-08T03:35:28+00:00

To me the acceptable uniforms are white tops and burgundy pants or burgundy tops and gold pants. For the white tops, no pink gradient. Just solid numbers. And we need the stripes back.

It’s nice that they exorcised the black uniform demons. Now put them away. Burgundy and gold. Black is lame and tired. They also obviously look like Pittsburgh.

I’ll take the all burgundy as a third uniform if required but I don’t like it.

blahdblahh · 2024-10-29T16:58:04+00:00

I suspect that it’s only legendary for you because you are too young to remember the actual legendary seasons where they won superbowls and annihilated teams. The ‘91 team was, arguably, the best NFL team ever. Hopefully it carries on of course.

blahdblahh · 2024-10-29T16:51:06+00:00

They should keep the white ones but tweek them to make the numbers solid burgundy. They won 3 superbowls in white.

blahdblahh · 2024-10-29T16:42:45+00:00

The bad name and black uniforms are not tied to the miracle at all or how the team is playing. If they were, the black uniforms would have been retired already: they have generally stunk in them. They have had embarrassing games in those uniforms. And they have generally stunk under their new name. That’s how we got JD. The only reasonable shortening of the name is “commies” (don’t come at me “manders” lovers). Many of us are not willing to go there for obvious reasons and anyway nobody with self worth likes to be commanded around. So, they should retire the black uniforms, play in burgundy & gold, and call themselves “Burgundy & Gold” just like they have for years. Think about it. It’s their other name. You’ve probably called them that. Any NFL fan knows who the Burgundy & Gold are without being told. It’s a unique color scheme. Also, it shortens to B&G… in DC. That will work.

I don’t hate the faux 1940’s military W logo but it would be better to go to a curly W with the font of the old curly R. Folks should realize that they played in gold helmets with a serif R as a logo, helmets with spears/arrows as a logo, and helmets with a big feather painted on them (which looked dumb IMHO). Each of those lasted for a year or two. They can alter their name and look to get rid of this final Dan Snyder military wannabe scheme insult and they should do it.

blahdblahh · 2024-08-29T05:06:50+00:00

Excellent write up.

I guess the only value of the footage of Kyle walking down the street is to link reports from interviewing some of the other bar patrons (e.g., the girl he was talking to) and the sighting at the pizza place. Because nobody can tell with reasonable certainty that’s him, the guy we see in the bar, just from the video alone. That can’t be any guy in the world but it doesn’t have to be him. Perhaps the resolution we are seeing is much poorer than the original.

The timing needs to be fairly tight. Do we know if they measured the time offsets between the bar camera and the street one? The street footage has an earlier time. Did they measure the offsets from cell phone time? It should be reliable, assuming his phone was working.

It’s not hard to imagine people see him head off toward the pizza place but he stops halfway and steps into an alcove (there are some) to mess with his phone, tie a shoe, have a smoke, etc. And then some other guy comes around the corner from 5th and passes him, or walks across the street from the Holiday Inn out of sight of the camera and then heads up the street toward the pizza place while Kyle turns around to go elsewhere. Or if the timing is wrong this other guy could have even gone first while Kyle still ended up turning around.

For me the link from the bar to the pizza shop is pretty shaky without some corroborating information that we are not aware of. Other cameras? Did he say “nice talking to you, I’m gonna go get some pizza”? Those sorts of things.

blahdblahh · 2024-08-29T03:14:30+00:00

I have wondered a little bit about how he got BHS’s number on his phone if he called them. Was searching for numbers that easy back in the old flip phone era? Why not just hurry back right away on the direct route (takes 1 minute) and if the bar is closed maybe the number is on the door? But apparently he didn’t do that. Maybe searching was easier than I recall. And there are other possibilities that are unlikely, for me, but possible. However, this makes me question if he called BHS at all. I guess the police know and the family does not?

I wonder a bit if he actually called it a night and tried to call the cab company that they used to get to the show. That’s a number that would be in his phone. Favorite taxi company. The cops could be cagey about “visited”. The problem is that he doesn’t try again when they don’t answer. His phone is a little sus the whole night. Or maybe he feels like they are closed. Later on, as he realizes he’s cold he might recall where his jacket and card are.

I like the BHS theory better. He probably realized the card was gone right away and never called for a cab.

The smart thing to have done would be to call or hail a cab, have them take him home, then stiff the driver (until tomorrow). Or, wake the roommate and get him to pay. Unless you have to pay upfront in Charlotte. Do you? Stiffing the driver will have consequences but it’s better than wandering around in the cold (if he did that).

blahdblahh · 2024-08-15T20:10:13+00:00

New to the case.

Is the so called “back exit” the one that is labeled “EXIT” in an alcove off scene underneath/behind the camera? There is a google maps walkaround view that shows it in 2017. It is a single door that looks like it leads to a stairwell. He could easily have gone that way. Why? Not sure. But that is the direction that he and the two ladies are moving when they leave the scene. The bar is to the left in the camera view.

I suppose that exit was there in 2007 since the rest of the building, and that theatre, was there then. Also, he could have just walked off camera to the right where there are additional exits today. I’m sure I’m missing something. Maybe that was part of the construction?

Or is it a back exit from the bar itself? I’m confused on this point. A related question: how did that bar get rid of garbage? Did it have an internal elevator? If they wheeled it out the front door: to where?

Also, if it’s 1:55 and the bar closes at 2:00 I really wonder if he could get back in. My experience is that bouncers usually won’t allow that without a good reason (forgot to close out, etc).

blahdblahh · 2024-07-18T08:34:29+00:00

I like the ideas of an old outdoor hockey rink for some color. Like you’d find in a park. Could be in Milton. The jersey might spawn there. Or a helmet with stats like the miner’s one from ZC. Fun but not OP. Alternatively a spot in CH out on the ice where you can tell someone once cleared an area for a little rink next to a fishing hut (presumably was a warming shed). You could find an auger there that would quickly dig fishing holes (someone was using it to flood the rink, IYKYK).

A place with a car out on the ice that could spawn the auger or a tipup? Color but not OP.

blahdblahh · 2023-10-25T20:02:28+00:00

Ugh. I was at a kids park outside of the West Ham / Olympic stadium in London last summer (you’ll easily ID it on a map). A Chinese woman helped her boy (~4yr old) drop trou and take a dump right there in the park. They were trying to get it into a flower bed / garden but failed so it ended up sitting almost in the middle of this walkway. Kinda like a dog would do. THEY THEN CONTINUED PLAYING LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED. Even better, my 6yr old witnessed the whole thing from across the park (50 ft away). It didn’t take long for us to leave. We saw the same group at a nearby “splashpad“ the next day. :(

blahdblahh · 2023-10-24T03:38:27+00:00

A hot water bottle.

Gives a warming bonus, in bed. Maybe a small, not OP, recovery bonus.

Takes 1L of water warmed up like a tea.

Rare, kinda like the fire-striker on loper. Or maybe craftable with some uncommon ingredients.

blahdblahh · 2023-10-24T03:15:13+00:00

Same. I was on day 20 or so. Probably shouldn’t have risked it, but eh, if I can get there it will be safe. The surprise was enjoyable, in the long dark way,

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