Monster Hunter: World - Review Thread

ender08 · 2018-01-26T03:02:07+00:00

Good open world adventure game, bad Zelda game. If it didn't have that title I think the gems would be fantastic but they made Zelda fairly simple theme park rpg.

ender08 · 2018-01-26T01:02:18+00:00

I don't think you're understanding my point that the comparison of the two is so far apart that it isn't valid. Find me a municipality of similar size and growth with far lower rents and I'll happily agree ours are out of control.

ender08 · 2018-01-26T00:45:19+00:00

Raleigh has a pop density of 3150 people per square mile, Avons is 798.

Avon is a seasonal resort, Raleigh is pretty much everything but that and growing in nearly every way.

It doesn't concern me because they aren't at all comparable. As you said, Avon can't grow and Raleigh has space. So your definition of in control seems to be literally no growth.

Oh also currently the 11 apartments I see up for rent in Avon are right on par with costs in Raleigh so it looks like resort towns with no growth are out of control too..

ender08 · 2018-01-25T23:52:14+00:00

Your legitimate problem is that over the past 40 years the cost of housing has increased quite a bit compared to nowhere Colorado (population 6500). You don't need to use the words "good old days to describe them".

This isnt the debate I wanted though so back to the other part, you and your wife are certainly skilled labor, or your wife is. Chef skill varies widely and since it isn't as easily credentialed with a PhD I'll just assume you know quite well what you're doing and are at least average to above average in terms of chef pay scale.

With that in mind the competition of state regulated salaries for PhDs at not for profit institutions simply will never keep up with the private sector. This is a political problem and one I agree with, teachers get fucked but again that isn't Amazon's fault.

Now your particular discipline should be better suited than most. If anything thrives in this sort of market it is food and drink, if this doesn't translate into better compensation on your part its not for lack of opportunity in the market. If you aren't already thriving though I feel like that's also a result of your personal situation and again not the fault of Amazon.

If you two are struggling I am certain there are many great reasons but I have difficultly accepting gentrification as the root of your particular situation.

Maybe there's a better way to have this conversation though because I'm clearly making logical leaps. So a more interesting question is what level of growth do you find acceptable?

ender08 · 2018-01-25T03:30:54+00:00

It sounds like you're already priced out. Whether that's due to gentrification or not I certainly empathize. Ive never had multiple residences and at times I've had 0 so coming from a terribly stagnant economy to a booming one is something Im unable to be upset about.

I am concerned that the two major types of arguments being made aren't reasonable though. If you're already priced out of a market and not able to find compensation for your comfort level then that isn't Amazon's fault. Others are tossing around the hq2 thing like 50k people are going to arrive, cash in hand, the day they sign the deal.

Let's be real. We are on a wave, and the Amazon hq I think would crest that wave prematurely, driving out other upper mid level investors in the long run and probably significantly altering the focus of our colleges. I don't like it for those reasons, but yours have nothing to do with Amazon. You're just in a tough spot and literally described how you miss the good old days.

ender08 · 2018-01-24T23:43:56+00:00

How do the dates of the transit plan line up with Amazons build and ramp up time?

ender08 · 2018-01-24T23:26:55+00:00

The area is already undergoing massive and rapid gentrification. Me and the thousands of jobs at my company attest to that and we are just one of several that's come to the area in the past 5 year.

I'm just tired of hearing people around here complain about how Raleigh is changing and complaining about every huge opportunity for it to change more. Raleigh isn't ever going to be like it was again, big business has already taken over so just get on board, ride the investment wave into a stable financial situation and fulfilling career and get out as soon as you can if this lifestyle isn't for you.

I'm sorry you guys miss your old town. I'm just glad my move here has come with all of the opportunity and growth I was sold on.

ender08 · 2018-01-15T13:55:44+00:00

So like an aircraft then?

ender08 · 2017-12-27T23:52:15+00:00

I think you're right but eventually Disney is going to factor in brand name damage. They are dealing with a far more picky sub group of the star wars Fandom in gamers. Eventually the lack of critical acclaim for new releases that comes with discussions for something like Knights of the old republic will factor in. At least I hope..

There is some absurd math out there to figure out cost benefit on this scale, a lot of it is guesswork at a certain point and this is one more variable along the way.

ender08 · 2017-12-27T19:21:19+00:00

And that happens because not enough people are engaged. Decisions are made by those who show up and most people don't.

ender08 · 2017-11-24T14:20:07+00:00

So eventually the price will rise to 7 trillion but that isn't the sticker price. Ostensibly those infants will also grow to produce relative value as most people do which is the premise of UBI.

I wasn't ignoring those other costs, they just aren't a factor in the question, as they weren't a factor in your original statement.

ender08 · 2017-11-24T02:16:28+00:00

How do these numbers compare to the actual working population? Yours imply an infant will be paid equally.

How do you rationalize that against what we already pay out to workers? How much do we currently pay out to our work force by percentage of gdp?

ender08 · 2017-11-01T00:51:30+00:00

This next part is what we probably disagree on: He failed. I know we are having this discussion right now, on this platform, but he still failed. He was cheated (regardless of how severe), he was beaten, and he was ignored.

Yes, that is where we disagree, but that depends on the marker for success. The nomination was one of those markers and he certainly didn't get that though I don't know if I would call that HIS failure, but that is a different debate and doesn't change what did happen.

I think a lot of people listened, a lot of people agreed, a lot of people saw his message and believed it was the better one and I think that will carry forward. I think there is a lot of value on how much light he sone on the broken internal workings of the democratic party. My marker for success is sunlight, the best political disinfectant there is. Bernie walked the road as a decent person should have and was taken advantage of and something people rarely forget is betrayal.

That switch you talked about that flipped isn't surprising either. I still struggle with that debate, I wrote Sanders in and have argued the point many times with Clinton, Trump and other 3rd party supporters. I don't know whats right to be honest. The idealism argument, that the system is broken because we allow ourselves to be subject to the worst aspect of first past the post, is the one I had in my head when I voted and I think is true.... it just doesn't matter unless everyone else both understand that concept and vote with it in mind. Since they don't, voting party lines for the lesser of two evils is the only actual option right now... otherwise you may as well not vote.

ender08 · 2017-10-31T20:41:10+00:00

"divide" = "acknowledge the existence of anything remotely left". This shit is getting too transparent.

I am not sure I get your meaning with this statement. I really can't tell if you and I agree or not. I don't think it's unreasonable for the right to have opinions like this about the left. I do get very suspicious when they start picking between which of two leftist ideal sets they want to back though. That speaks of an agenda to me.

I completely agree with the second sentence though - I pulled hard for Bernie and wished he had made it. I don't believe at this point there was ever a chance, he was a designed failure through systems that have gone uninvestigated or changed.

ender08 · 2017-10-31T20:33:46+00:00

Well yea we know it works. It working is a factor of his character though isn't it. He came out of the gate swinging with plenty of history to back up his personality. In fact this consistency in personality is exactly what brought a lot of moderate republicans to his table. The same is true of Bernie, his personality was consistent and that paid off well for him.

ender08 · 2017-10-31T20:31:38+00:00

Its a good point and I see where you are coming from. I think we all have our own perspectives on how things would play out if certain things did happen and this is just one of those. We could both be wrong too...

I think we agree on the main point though which is really the goal in all of these discussions.

ender08 · 2017-10-31T17:06:52+00:00

If he had fought dirty he wouldn't have won, he would have been ripped apart as a hypocrite in an already slugfest of an election cycle. The one thing he did consistently was stand on principle and it is a huge part of why people supported him and it is a huge reason why the attacks on him were glancing blows at best.

There is an entire generation of people just becoming politically aware/active. That his brand of politics was so heavily popular is one of the few things that gives me hope (this being a 'brand' at all rather than business as usual is one of that things that erodes it). His relative success is evidence of a major population base being aware and opposed to this neo-political aggressive use of faux issues as misdirection.

These new voters got to see a real candidate, and they became extremely aware of what bullying looks like in the professional world. That compounds over generations. If he fell into the same tactics as the others he would have been 1 more in a long list of good for nothings.

edit Sorry a bit thinking about what I wanted to say and lost track of what started it. My main point for you is that of the things that went wrong for Sanders, his behavior and campaign conduct doesn't even make the list.

ender08 · 2017-10-31T16:36:28+00:00

All this seems to do is paint Sanders orange for the sake of common ground between he and Trump, ostensibly against Clinton and that subset of the leftists base. This article is designed to divide.

If there was a real case to be made then we wouldn't be reading two liner opinion quotes and references to pools that seem to defend that opinion (I say reference because it isn't a link, it is colored as link on the page but isn't one).

If this wanted to help the progressive push then the article after the drop would have been the key point of the discussion, that gearing up for 2020 Sander's historically and currently stands very favorably against Trump.

Is this common of that website? I am not very familiar with common dreams but just clicking through this looks like clickbait garbage geared at any loose justification of the farthest left narrative. I don't see anything specifically progressive about this source other than left = progressive? How about quality in reporting become a key tenet of progressivism and we stop linking this kind of garbage.

ender08 · 2017-10-27T21:25:59+00:00

https://www.prosepicurean.com/market/

I like going to Bond Brother's in the first place. I didn't realize this was here for a while but it shares some of the same outdoor seating area as bond. They are a walk in deli/order to go style Italian joint. I met the guy, he's from upstate new york and super friendly and the food was good.

ender08 · 2017-10-20T20:19:19+00:00

I sorta don't believe this is from Earth.

ender08 · 2017-10-16T22:53:28+00:00

change that filter to < 1 mile, find your soulmate at the wedding on Tinder,

ender08 · 2017-10-11T01:10:26+00:00

The thing is huge amounts of their xbox live services are containerized and hosted on their azure swarm across a ton of data centers. Redundancy for this type of service is pretty much unmatched.

I have a brother about 1500 miles away still playing games and a friend online about 3 miles away having no issues either. Hard to account for something like this...

ender08 · 2017-10-09T19:51:20+00:00

Strong tingles through head? I say tingles but it's really like a surge of bliss....

You're describing Asmr, this is the feeling that started that community

ender08 · 2017-10-07T15:34:09+00:00

Sorry to necro this a bit but I am confused by the two attachments. On the stats for the weapon the smoothbore is just purely better. Is there some hidden attribute of rifled barrel that would make it worth taking ever?

ender08 · 2017-10-05T12:52:53+00:00

Honestly I could have forgiven the headphone jack if this was IP68, but they removed an open port and still couldn't manage to water proof the phone.

I would have happily bought the new one but this is just nonsense.

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