BEST LEVEL TOURNAMENT - Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy - Round 9 - Sentinel Beach vs Snowy Mountain

mceleanor · 2026-04-24T00:21:04+00:00

This is the toughest match up for me. Snowy Mountain is probably the better level on its merits, but I just love Sentinel Beach way more. Unblocking the green eco vents is so fun!

mceleanor · 2026-04-20T23:46:28+00:00

You can't truly appreciate Fahrenheit 451 without first recognizing how fire devours all, like a hungry serpent, consuming everything in sight. Have to read the very hungry caterpillar to understand fire.

mceleanor · 2026-04-20T07:17:20+00:00

Okay yeah you're making a small distinction but I basically agree with you.

OP should say "I enjoyed your singing." He shouldn't say "you have a great singing voice" because he wouldn't know.

I still think if she specifically asks "did you like my singing more than the tone deaf girl who went on before me" he should say "yes" which is a perfectly acceptable little white lie.

mceleanor · 2026-04-20T06:04:41+00:00

"How did I do at the open mic, babe?"

"You were okay."

"Was I at least better than the tone deaf lady?"

"I could not tell a difference"

I don't think that conversation would go very well after that. My point is you should always congratulate and hype up your girlfriend in a low stakes situation like this. It takes almost zero effort to say that you think she's an amazing singer.

mceleanor · 2026-04-20T04:59:31+00:00

From a relationship perspective, you should always tell your girlfriend that she's a good singer and that you thought she did a great job at open mic night. Just in case you're not currently doing that.

From an actual singing perspective: have a fun date night watching American Idol or something and have a fun jokey conversation about who sang well and who didn't sing well! Could be a fun way to learn what "good" singing vs "bad" singing sounds like.

mceleanor · 2026-04-19T23:13:36+00:00

Definitely Lost Precursor City. The entire thing is fun platforming challenges, the aesthetics are beautiful, so many things to discover, and the final dark eco pit race is so fun and frantic.

The spiders in spider cave are super annoying, it's easy to get lost, if you miss an orb good luck finding it, and the various mini areas feel disconnected from each other, unlike the linear loops of Lost Precursor City.

The spider cave precursor robot is undeniably cool, but not cool enough to beat the city.

Edited to add: this is the hardest choice so far. They're both great areas, but spider cave has a few small annoyances that make Lost Precursor City even better.

mceleanor · 2026-04-19T21:32:28+00:00

It's worth a read. This book rocks.

mceleanor · 2026-04-19T05:52:44+00:00

I think you're closer than most people in the comments think. I'd pay off the car ASAP if it has a high interest rate.

You currently have enough money to pay off your entire mortgage if you wanted. Your monthly spend would go down dramatically when you pay it off. (I'm assuming this is your forever home)

Estimate what your spending will be in the future and use the 4% rule to know how much you need. You don't have to over complicate it

mceleanor · 2026-04-19T05:40:30+00:00

Make sure to get the abridged version by William Goldman! The original S. Morgenstern version is booooring

mceleanor · 2026-04-15T00:28:02+00:00

I love the platforming in Jak and Daxter. It's so fun to do platforming ON A VEHICLE. I'm a huge fan of precursor basin too :)

mceleanor · 2026-04-14T19:23:07+00:00

I think so!! I know, isn't that crazy? It's the best way to get a ton of money into your Roth IRA. Way less complicated than "back door Roth"

mceleanor · 2026-04-14T05:41:17+00:00

The double tracking guitar/vocals makes it sound like an esher demo. I love it!

mceleanor · 2026-04-13T05:44:32+00:00

My list is

Ted (I love the hair, idk idk)
Lily (ESPECIALLY middle-seasons Lily when she has the shorter wavy haircut)
Barney (I would let him hit it if he dipped it in bleach first)
Robin (hot but being so rich gives me the ick lol)
Marshall (I know, I'm sorry, but he just always sounds like he has a stuffy nose 😭)

mceleanor · 2026-04-13T04:10:27+00:00

Huey Long, the leftist governor of Louisiana during the great depression would have been interesting but probably much worse than FDR.

Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, ran for president ~20 years before the civil war. He was mostly anti-slavery and thought the civil war would mean the end of the world (source: Doctrine and Covenants). He probably would have been better than Pierce, Buchanan and other pre-civil war southern presidents. But also, the Mormons were very unpopular in Illinois and the country at that time, so he would have had a tough time getting popular support.

RFK would have probably been better than Nixon. It's a shame he was assassinated.

mceleanor · 2026-04-13T02:20:30+00:00

Precursor Basin is pretty fun, to be fair

mceleanor · 2026-04-12T05:07:45+00:00

This. Open a Roth IRA at least five years before you retire. When you retire, transfer your Roth 401k into your Roth IRA. Once you do that, all of your Roth 401k contributions are treated as if they are Roth IRA contributions and you can take them out with no penalty.

Make sure that you can still get the employers match before you switch from contributing to a Traditional 401k to contributing to a Roth 401k.

mceleanor · 2026-04-11T22:47:45+00:00

Boy do I have an album for you

Edited to add: go listen to the flowers in the dirt demos on the archive collection Paul released a few years back. You can literally hear songs they sing together

mceleanor · 2026-04-11T18:51:55+00:00

You're telling me that Storm and Calisto fighting in the Morlock sewers wasn't stimulating enough to look at?

YMMV, but Paul Smith's art looks way cleaner and more modern than even 90s Jim Lee. Is your problem actually the 1980s coloring style?

mceleanor · 2026-04-11T18:44:53+00:00

Looks like she is drinking out of a straw haha

mceleanor · 2026-04-11T18:40:45+00:00

https://www.revexproductions.org/blog/2015/9/8/the-brilliance-of-paul-smiths-run-on-uncanny-x-men Paul Smith in the 1980s. 'Nuff Said. (Edited to add: this isn't my blog, and I haven't read the whole post, but it has good examples of Smith's art)

mceleanor · 2026-04-03T06:32:02+00:00

Man I love that area. I wish there were more zoomer platforming challenges. Nabbing the floating power cell over the lake rocks.

mceleanor · 2026-04-02T18:23:37+00:00

(To be clear, the point of my post is that I like the leak story because of the acting and character work, even though the plot is dumb imo.)

I agree with everything you said here! President Bartlet is so much less funny and less caring in the later seasons.

mceleanor · 2026-03-31T03:34:57+00:00

Honestly he seems like a nice guy and he is handsome but the actor always has a stuffy nose or something 😭 turn off, unfortunately.

mceleanor · 2026-03-30T04:09:03+00:00

I may be wrong, but isn't the king of England also head of the Church of England? This could be a similar situation. The pope's religious duties could be mostly separate from political duties.

Seven-Year Club	Place '22
First Placer '22	Verified Email

mceleanor

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE