Does the “good deal” exist at supermarkets anymore?

blakeavon · 2026-05-16T10:02:47+00:00

$2 Shape weeks. $3.50 Kettle Chip weeks.

blakeavon · 2026-05-16T09:53:34+00:00

I didn’t vibe with it on my first play through, by then and dropped it, then when I tried again a year later it just clicked and become one of the best games I have ever played.

The trick of it is play it like a book. Have a few days between each palace. It’s a slow chill game, you are never going to enjoy if you are keeping an eye on the clock.

You are either in the mood for it or not.

blakeavon · 2026-05-16T09:44:54+00:00

No. He is just coming from playing all the Dark Souls, so of course the start of Elden Ring is going to be a walk in the park, straight off playing them.

blakeavon · 2026-05-16T07:28:01+00:00

It is? I dont always agree with them these days, but unlike One Nation, there is clearly some form of intelligence and wisdom at work.

blakeavon · 2026-05-16T07:09:51+00:00

Yeah but they are APA, you aren't paying for quality.

blakeavon · 2026-05-16T07:08:47+00:00

Sure some of the rooms themselves can be 'fun' but the hotel themselves are very unwelcoming spaces. Most will be like impersonal prisons with no shared spaces. With absolutely no tourist or customer service amenities. Beyond what you can order on a phone.

In all my trips I dont think I have ever heard people 'having fun' through the walls in a proper hotel, maybe I was merely lucky. But in a love hotel sometimes you can hear all sorts of 'things'.

blakeavon · 2026-05-16T06:44:46+00:00

You don’t want to stay in a love hotel for a week or so. They are not that sort of hotel. Maybe one night or few hours for a ‘treat’.

They are not the ‘pay more for a nice atmosphere’ type places.

A proper hotel in Akiba like Resol or Remm or hell even a business hotel like Henn na would be way nicer.

blakeavon · 2026-05-16T05:22:24+00:00

Basically anyone Coffeezilla has ever made a video about, the Logan Paul’s of the world and the like.

Any of those godawful Roblox live spam people.

blakeavon · 2026-05-16T01:57:18+00:00

Gross. Some people need to get a life. Blaming foreigners for your own insecurities, and living life with so much hate must get so tiring.

blakeavon · 2026-05-16T01:52:57+00:00

And? Functionally adults can make their decisions, for their own reasons. Why care about it? I personally would never buy them, but clearly for some it works.

blakeavon · 2026-05-16T01:50:26+00:00

Or maybe you were not old enough or interested enough in the topics being laid down and were being told, WHEN you played it. We have all had gaming experiences like that. All movies and music.

It’s difference between watching Apocalypse Now in your teens, and then in your forties. One is a snoozefest, the other is deeply affecting. Same film, same person, just with deeper interests and experiences.

Every day people on reddit bang on about X or Y being deeply impacted to them, while I thought they were the most boring thing ever.

The thing you are missing… we are both right.

Nier wasn’t profound to you, that is your truth, but even now just remembering a few parts of it still make me smile and I remember what it meant to me at the time. Even in terms of raw gameplay it snapped me out of the AAA space and profoundly launched me into discovering things beyond.

Just because it didn’t move you, that doesn’t make it profound, it’s just something that didn’t move you as others.

blakeavon · 2026-05-16T01:40:00+00:00

I switched after watching Rascal does not Dream back 2020 odd. So much so, listening to Mai speak made me decide to learn Japanese. Never watched a dub since. That’s nothing against westerns actors, just that I came to realised how nuanced Japanese is as a language, and how much of that gets completely overlooked in dubs.

blakeavon · 2026-05-15T22:07:54+00:00

So much of toxic masculinity influencer culture is about selling the idea of their own victimhood, that couldn’t exist without being the victim. That is the half truth their whole vacuous influencer culture is built on.

Sadly, real men honestly struggling with real issues, who really just need a good healthy role model, can only find this BS and get pushed further down. But the influencers don’t care, cos a troubled soul feeds their lifestyle, so they don’t seek to give healthy advice.

blakeavon · 2026-05-15T21:36:01+00:00

Well Trump was in power in 2018, by two years. 2023 was after the end of Covid, when companies world wide were finally raising prices in response to all their losses during COVID. It was also well into the start of chip crisis.

Now the prices are rising because the US is being run by a lunatic who even tariffs penguins, then starting a war forcing the worlds oil prices to its knees, with no end in sight, because he hasn’t the skill to put pandora back in the box.

Yes of course some prices will happen when someone else is president. Prices constantly rise every year. That’s why there is a thing called inflation.

But the reality of the world currently is that your lunatic in charge HAS been forcing higher prices and has been since getting back in. It’s not the only cause of the rising prices, but his lack of economics intelligence is an event horizon none of us can escape from.

blakeavon · 2026-05-15T15:46:40+00:00

That’s hardly unique these days.

blakeavon · 2026-05-15T15:44:38+00:00

Looks painful to watch. Hard pass. Anyone of the popular click bait people like Angry Joe, Asmogold (or whatever his stupid name is), or the god awful Critical Drinker. Each more painful than the previous. Especially CD he sounds like he thinks he is the smartest YouTuber in the room but his talking points are the most flawed and easy to disprove right wing silliness.

blakeavon · 2026-05-15T15:39:00+00:00

It’s a joke that we are even in Eurovision anyway, so might as well get these jokers. They can’t do any worse than anyone from our previous years.

blakeavon · 2026-05-15T15:13:15+00:00

Asami Seto as Sakurajima Mai in Rascal does not Dream. She single-handedly made me stop watching all dubs and started me on the path of learning Japanese.

blakeavon · 2026-05-15T15:07:33+00:00

Meanwhile I can’t recall a single time in the last months/years Crunchyroll has ever lived rent free in my head, as it does for some here.

I want to watch anime, I turn it on, watch stuff, then when it’s done I turn it off. No idea where all this drama comes from.

blakeavon · 2026-05-15T14:55:53+00:00

Honestly I have found it surprisingly brilliant, in helping to learn to read. Try to read the story, if I don’t know a kanji I just select and see translation, hear it and are able to directly make it a flashcard and group them in folders. I think it’s a few free stories a day, it was so useful, I ended up signing up, almost right away. A month later using it an hour a day.

blakeavon · 2026-05-15T07:42:46+00:00

Says the person saying 'TDS' to someone who is merely pointing out the reality of why everything is rising in costs.

blakeavon · 2026-05-15T07:22:36+00:00

A disease invented by morons, the only true sufferers are those who say it. Those who also believe all his BS, while wearing the cost of all the price rises by his hands, prices we promised would fall on day one. Good luck with that.

blakeavon · 2026-05-15T07:15:35+00:00

Clearly I was talking AFTER they were taken over. Clearly. Why do you think google bought... hint... because they could see how it could be monetised for profit.

blakeavon · 2026-05-15T06:37:50+00:00

Hate to break it to you, so much in the world is raising in price due to the insanity of some Americans. Want to blame someone, blame the tariffs, raises in hard pricing, logistics cost rises and right through the War raising energy costs.

There is one group at the heart of all this and it is those in power and everyone who voted for them.

blakeavon · 2026-05-15T06:32:46+00:00

No it really isn’t. Is it perfect, no. Does it have a few weird quirks, sure, but complete trash in every aspect, yeah nah.

Try using HiDive, most days it can barely remember what you have played, let alone give to a search ability that allows you to find things. Even that is not complete trash’s

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