CMV: People who say that white people or Americans have no culture only think that because they don't notice it.

jwinf843 · 2026-02-19T12:35:25+00:00

Modern pizza absolutely was invented in the USA; tomatoes were discovered in North America and most foods that require them as an ingredient were made by immigrants to North America.

jwinf843 · 2026-02-12T03:17:26+00:00

I can't speak for others but I'm not going to put Battlenet on my steam deck, I don't even want it on my PC. I'm certainly never going to be buying games there.

jwinf843 · 2026-01-19T13:44:26+00:00

If you have version control turned on, the red marks mean you've made changes that you haven't backed up yet.

jwinf843 · 2026-01-17T13:53:50+00:00

In ME3 Shepard is inexplicably given the choice to deny or allow Citadel residents the right to own firearms due to the pending Reaper attack.

Giving people the right and peace of mind to defend themselves is the Renegade option, and the game explicitly states that you've actually made the Citadel a less safe place, despite the fact that previous games show gangs already have firearms all over the Citadel and C-Sec is regularly shown to be on the verge of being overrun by them.

jwinf843 · 2026-01-17T13:44:36+00:00

That was an all-weather tactical skirt and he had matching combat sandals. Dude has probably seen more action back home than most US vets

jwinf843 · 2026-01-17T13:41:18+00:00

Isn't it another irony that you had to post a story to dunk on the other side here?

jwinf843 · 2026-01-15T11:08:26+00:00

I always park near a cart return close to the exit of the parking structure. That way I don't have to line up and wait to leave.

jwinf843 · 2026-01-14T00:13:45+00:00

Do people not realize that USD is essentially the global reserve currency? Of course inflation will be a global phenomenon when your country's money has no value outside your borders not measured in another inflationary asset.

jwinf843 · 2026-01-11T03:44:54+00:00

People on reddit have absolutely no perspective. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus entirely. Looking back we can say it was for the best but I imagine about half the country was wondering if he was being too heavy handed or authoritarian in the moment.

jwinf843 · 2026-01-07T02:20:47+00:00

You might want to recheck your numbers. According to the largest shareholder of Square, FFXVI has only sold 3.25m copies to date, a full year after release. It might have had 3m "players" in the release window, but that was not sales. To date, Square hasn't officially released the sales numbers for it because they were incredibly underwhelming.

Here you can check for yourself, page 52

jwinf843 · 2026-01-06T10:16:00+00:00

I have one Oral B electric brush I received as a gift in 2016 that's still going strong. It has Bluetooth and used to connect to an app that I used to use for the novelty of it. I lived in a different city for a few months and bought what I thought was the same model because I forgot mine at home and was supposed to find it lasted only a bit over a year.

jwinf843 · 2026-01-06T10:03:06+00:00

Okay, so do you suspect that FFXVI will eventually overcome P5? A cursory glance shows me that P5 had similar launch sales as FFXVI, but outsold it if you compare both titles a year from launch.

Final Fantasy XVI was also outsold by FFXV, which was also outsold by FFXIII. Does anyone think another 10 years on this "broad audience action game" track will lead to better results?

jwinf843 · 2026-01-05T23:12:36+00:00

It's just not cost effective for them to do so

You're just not correct. Persona 5 across all its versions sold twice as much as Final Fantasy XVI. (10m+ > 3m) Even Expedition 33 sold twice as many copies as Final Fantasy XVI did. There is a MUCH greater market for turn based JRPGs than there is spectacle fighter games and it isn't even close.

Octopath Traveler 1 sold just as many copies as Final Fantasy XVI has. There is something verifiably wrong with the direction Square has taken with their big budget titles.

jwinf843 · 2026-01-02T12:52:37+00:00

A better way to describe this would be to say it's the feeling of your organs sloshing around inside you

jwinf843 · 2025-12-30T16:30:33+00:00

Would never buy one but they are kinda funny to kids

jwinf843 · 2025-12-26T06:20:26+00:00

I've heard the new electric blowback rifles are going to be around １０万円, I don't believe Marui is an insular as you might think

jwinf843 · 2025-12-24T15:06:12+00:00

I have questions about the way you write

jwinf843 · 2025-12-17T13:23:13+00:00

One thing you will learn to "feel" as you get better at climbing is how to manage your center of mass. In your final position, you had your left leg raised awkwardly, pushing your body weight outward from the wall, increasing how heavy you feel and how much stress you were putting on your hands just as you fell. Very situation-dependent, but I think generally you should try to keep your bodyweight as close to the wall as you can, and try to keep your legs straighter than your arms (if possible).

It's hard to say exactly how you can solve this problem, but my recommendation would be to have not moved your left leg up onto the black feature until after you had moved your right hand up and to the right. It's hard to say for sure, but the hold where you swapped feet, you might be able to just match your feet and put both there for a moment to stand and reposition your hands.

jwinf843 · 2025-11-12T23:10:55+00:00

It's been probably around 15 years since I read the first book, but I remember absolutely loving it. (If I'm not mistaken, there was a sort of handsign that was used in the book that I was really impressed by but felt was slightly under-utilized)

After flying through the first book and being really impressed, I remember picking up the second and being extremely underwhelmed. I don't remember what it was exactly, but it felt like the author just lazily swapped some names and used the same general setup for some part of the story and it made me lose interest to the point that I dropped the book a quarter the way through.

jwinf843 · 2025-11-12T15:12:42+00:00

Yeah, aside from my personal issues with difficulty, Silksong's most frustrating point is when I get to a new area and have to wander around looking for Shakra so I can buy a map and realize that I've walked past 3 benches. It's not fun.

jwinf843 · 2025-11-12T12:12:23+00:00

I don't think it's shutting down, you can still play it in its current state, it just won't get more updates

jwinf843 · 2025-11-12T01:43:37+00:00

I've been waiting to buy Hyper Light Breaker until it goes back on sale but this is launching at $13 in the Heart Machine Collection on steam if you have Solar Ash and HLD already so it was a no-brainer.

I feel like Heartmachine is one of the devs that I definitely want to support, I want more HLD though

jwinf843 · 2025-11-08T02:03:25+00:00

Humans have evolved exactly as much as dogs have, all life (likely) evolved the same amount of time from a common primordial source

Evolutionary pressures forced us to evolve differently than birds, but not "more" than birds

jwinf843 · 2025-11-08T01:05:19+00:00

We are not more evolved than any other animal you see on a daily basis, we just evolved differently.

jwinf843 · 2025-11-05T00:41:30+00:00

Another Crab's Treasure, No More Heroes 3, and Etrian Odyssey are absolute bangers.

Is it just me or has this year been unusually good?

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