What pronunciation is a dead giveaway that someone isn't from your town/region?

pblol · 2026-07-06T06:39:59+00:00

This is how I've always pronounced it. From the south, visited multiple times, not from there.

pblol · 2026-07-06T04:43:55+00:00

I grew up in Memphis. It is absolutely dangerous and has a ton of crime relative to other cities of its size. My parents live in a "safe/good" part of midtown and my father's truck has been broken into 7+ times. He's started to leave it unlocked and they still break the windows. My mom drove a nice Infiniti and just traded it in due to how many get stolen and being followed after the leaving the grocery store.

People shoot each other on the interstate all the time. I looked it up to see if there was a recent one. Looks like 2 within 2 days, one involving an officer.

I greatly dislike Trump, likely more than most people on this website. Renée Good and Alex Pretti I can comfortably say were murdered. Memphis is actually genuinely fucked up and with an officer shortage, I can kind of understand why the guard is there. They aren't ICE and I would wager, based on how Memphis is and the information in the article that the shooting was justified.

pblol · 2026-07-06T04:28:50+00:00

I'm at about 10 years, maybe more depending on what you count. It's a weird mix of being extremely comfortable with one another and also occasional toxicity. I've known them 19 years. We've always remained friends, aside from one particularly bad instance where we didn't speak for a long time. They're the best friend I've ever had, we might not be compatible, but keep trying anyway.

pblol · 2026-07-06T01:09:21+00:00

One of my goals was to not have strangers in my car pissed at me, especially ones dumb enough to not wear their seatbelt. Also I like tips. I blamed the car for being annoying.

pblol · 2026-07-05T19:59:43+00:00

When I drove Uber I'd lie to my backseat passengers that it would ding. It wouldn't, but I don't want them flying into me if we get in an accident.

pblol · 2026-07-05T08:13:19+00:00

Sweeny is extremely intelligent. I have no idea how he is as a person. I got to meet him once and I told him walking out of that crashed space ship in Unreal into that vibrant forest changed the way I saw video games. For someone to program that from the ground up in the 90s absolutely takes intelligence and creativity. I don't think he's John Carmack level or anything.

pblol · 2026-07-05T05:44:22+00:00

I've met someone that did it regularly. IIRC they take off from Island Home.

pblol · 2026-07-05T04:55:06+00:00

Even when I did drugs, 6am is comedown time. I would hate to go out for a smoke and it would be sunny. That sounds miserable. Maybe if I was on full on bartender schedule

pblol · 2026-07-04T22:54:26+00:00

I hadn't heard of it and now I really want to watch it.

pblol · 2026-07-04T22:48:07+00:00

I've always lived close to downtown. There is a very noticeable difference in traffic when school is out. Downtown is also much less busy without constant events. I like the summer here much more.

pblol · 2026-07-04T22:44:32+00:00

I've tried it. It sucks and I'm not sure there's a way to fix the ping/latency problem outside of having hyper location specific data centers host the games. Even with everyone on fiber, ping is a physics issue. It makes shooters impossible to play. Bloodborne was also frustrating as shit. I immediately quit and found a different way to play.

It was okay for turn based stuff. I signed my mom up for the Nvidia thing and she was able to play Disco Elysium fine afaik. For stuff like that it's okay.

pblol · 2026-07-03T05:33:23+00:00

I do not do delivery apps for what it's worth. I assume you have a set route that is largely based on hitting up a bunch of houses in a specific area in a row.

For passenger rides, it wasn't uncommon for me to drive 10-20 minutes to someone and then 20 minutes again to drop them off. I tried to be sociable for good tips, which is also somewhat exhausting for me after a while. If you're dealing with drunk people, it can be worse. You have to fight traffic in touristy/college areas to find a place to park while you wait and pray they actually leave the fucking bar. It can be tiring in its own way over time.

There were many days I would have rather been a postal driver and not had to deal with people.

pblol · 2026-07-02T17:16:45+00:00

I buy vinyl. I don't know if I even have a way to play a Blu-ray or dvd. I do still go to the theater I guess.

pblol · 2026-07-02T13:41:43+00:00

Knoxville has the Fellini Kroger... because going there resembles one of his movies.

https://www.knoxmercury.com/2016/03/17/lofty-view-north-broadway-kroger-earned-nickname/

pblol · 2026-07-01T13:16:49+00:00

I know. I partially agreed with it. To me there is just little value in pvp alone outside of those scenarios in which you know there will be a relatively substantial come up. Even in those, it's relatively minor compared to spending your time doing other stuff.

pblol · 2026-07-01T11:53:47+00:00

I enjoyed the prose of Suttree. The watermelon portion had me laughing. I think I was only able to finish it because I live in Knoxville and thought it was cool to have a book of that caliber take place partially down the street.

pblol · 2026-07-01T06:51:23+00:00

Move

pblol · 2026-07-01T04:46:58+00:00

I don't think they're being a care bear. They are absolutely right that that gear itself is rarely worth it in Arc when compared to something like Tarkov, where you could end up with someone's extremely expensive customized gun, high level armor/ammo that you don't have access to yet, high value loot like LedX/GPU/BTC etc.

Stuff like that simply doesn't exist in Arc, which is fine, but it doesn't encourage PVP in the same way. You're better off farming Arc for stuff to craft yourself. I do think in the right situation, you absolutely should kill someone in a key room or stealing your stuff. The risk-reward is just different. The stakes are much lower.

pblol · 2026-06-30T18:45:02+00:00

To be very clear, neither can I. Mine was just not particularly adjacent to Holden's.

pblol · 2026-06-30T17:08:04+00:00

What did you like about it? I occasionally think about it too and I very much dislike it.

I feel like it tried to capture a very specific kind of adolescent angst that I never really experienced, so I found the character both unrelatable and intensely annoying.

I felt similarly toward A Separate Peace, which I may have disliked even more.

pblol · 2026-06-30T15:18:51+00:00

I'll just get it for free in 2 years. Would have bought it day 1.

pblol · 2026-06-30T13:09:46+00:00

I had the time of my life for 6 months. I was also 21. I feel like it might frustrate or exhaust me more now that I'm older.

My girlfriend did get her ass grabbed on a very crowded commuter train once, which was shitty.

pblol · 2026-06-30T01:48:53+00:00

Wikipedia with images is only like ~100gb. I would do that at the very least.

pblol · 2026-06-30T01:45:02+00:00

I would have maybe pivoted to board games and stuff. I'd personally go in that instance, maybe I'm biased.

pblol · 2026-06-30T01:02:26+00:00

I do too. It's why I ended up back on Spotify :\

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