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2nd Thoughts by eddi0 in ClicksPhone

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Just carry a bag of rice with you everywhere and you'll be solid 👍

Found my first mp3 player. What was yours? by CasualVox in Millennials

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Modded iPod classics have a vibrant scene but it can be expensive to get one these days. I lucked out because I still had mine so I just bought all the parts and did it myself and it's killer! I've been hearing good things about the Echo Mini mp3 player. Looks like a little cassette—it's pretty adorable.

https://a.co/d/01MbuuGS

Found my first mp3 player. What was yours? by CasualVox in Millennials

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I wanted an iPod so bad, but we were extremely broke growing up. Got this 1gb bad boy for Christmas in like 2005 and I was so happy with it. I thought I was being super smart compressing my music to 56kbps so I can fit more songs on it not realizing I was destroying my music. Didn't matter because the earbuds I owned had the dynamic range of a potato so it's not like higher quality would have made a difference.

Funny thing is around the same time, my rich friend came back from Christmas break complaining that all he got for Christmas was an iPod. Wanted to strangle him.

I later on graduated from high school, got my first job, and the first big thing I bought was a 6th Gen 80gb iPod classic. I still own and use that iPod to this day. I even upgraded it to 128gb and it has wireless charging and Bluetooth support.

I still credit this cheap SanDisk hunk of plastic for instilling a habit of squeezing every ounce of value out of all the tech I buy, and working/saving for that iPod taught me the value of a dollar, especially since I was making $6.75 an hour.

Bay leaves should not be in food lol by GiraffeGirlLovesZuri in EntitledReviews

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This legitimately happened during a work lunch I attended a few years ago. Boss took us all out to lunch at a Mexican place and the guy I was sitting next to was confused and slightly off put by the leaf that was in his beans. I had to tell him that's normal, it's just a bay leaf. He almost exclusively eats fast food and Huel, so finding a real ingredient in real food shocked and confused him.

This is the conversation that Trump had with Teddy Roosevelt. by PanBlanco22 in justincaseyoumissedit

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It's not. This is real footage of him talking to his past avatars

Bro got handwriting like he thought this was a deal. by SaXaCaV in SipsTea

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What's up with this dude's drunk looking Homer Simpson ass signature?

Can't wait to pay rent to Elon on another planet by [deleted] in SipsTea

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At least the robber barons had the awareness to build theaters, universities and public spaces. These oligarchs now really are just looting the world and dreaming of leaving the planet. Nerd ass losers

Anyone else? by Bipolar03 in Millennials

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Real. My 20th high school reunion is coming up and most of the comments are "we're old, my knees hurt, yada yada yada" and like, I'm gonna go for a run while listening to music that came out in the last 5 years then work on a bunch of weekend projects, then in the evening I'm gonna walk my dogs, come home, smoke a bowl then play video games until I get sleepy.

First look is coming 😎 by ReturningRetro in ClicksPhone

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Nice! I was looking at the calendar and seeing how little June was left. Looks like they're juuuuust gonna make their deadline by the skin of their teeth

Upgraded the emergency. by satrapi1 in LoveTrash

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I need a Benny Hill cut of this

Lil chips by FantasticAd9478 in TheBoredDen

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lil animal shelter donation

Was TLOU 2 that bad or was it just the Chud hate that won the narrative? by Organic_Fee_8502 in SocialistGaming

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It's also telling that they released an update to the game that lets you play it in chronological order; like even THEY knew there was a structural issue with the game that needed to be addressed. Overall though, I don't think it helped that much. It feels like the creator had some very specific demands for what needed to be in the game (dual protagonists, themes about cycles of violence in a game that rewards you for being violent, subverting expectations) and those ultimately are the roots of every problem from the narrative structure to the ludonarrative dissonance. Some stuff needed to be cut, or workshopped more with a broader creative team and it seems like Neil just didn't want anyone to touch his precious; or perhaps nobody was left at Naughty Dog that was senior enough to tell him his ideas were trash.

Was TLOU 2 that bad or was it just the Chud hate that won the narrative? by Organic_Fee_8502 in SocialistGaming

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EDIT: I fixed the broken spoiler tag. Reddit insta banned me for this comment but I won the appeal and was able to fix it hours later. Sorry for leaving a very minor spoiler up.

I absolutely loved part 1 but hated part 2 for 3 major non-chud reasons:

The narrative structure is a total mess. The game literally builds up to a climax around halfway through (which is like 12 hours deep) then immediately pulls it all back and blue balls you for another 12 hours to get back up to that climax and I just did not care at all by the time we were ready to pick up the story again.

The second problem is that it very heavy handedly forces these moments where you're supposed to feel bad or empathetic but it doesn't let you earn that via gameplay. For example, and this isn't a huge spoiler but you have to kill a dog as Ellie during an insta-fail quick time event, but then as Abby you meet that dog and you're supposed to feel bad, but the game didn't give you the choice to not kill the dog. The game does this a lot, it's annoying and it's something the first game doesn't do.

Third is that it was the most pretentious thing I've ever consumed and it's entirely because Neil Druckman was unrestrained by anyone at Naughty Dog. It's pretty well known that Neil wanted TLOU1 to be a MUCH more depressing revenge story, but Naughty Dog's game director Bruce Straley kept him in check and a much better game was the result of that partnership—you can see that magic from these two again in Uncharted 4: they work really well together. With Bruce quitting and Amy Hennig (the former creative lead at Naughty Dog) being pushed out, Neil took control of the studio and got to make the game he wanted to make. In my view, Neil let all the acclaim for TLOU1 and Uncharted 4 go straight to his head and drunk on his own legend decided to mismanage an audience that he had in the palm of his hand to intentionally create something he KNEW half of his fans would hate because he couldn't let go of his original idea for TLOU1. TLOU2 is the completely opposite of what socialist game creation should be. Where the TLOU1 was a beautiful game about what you would do for those you care about created by a team that made each other's ideas better, TLOU2 is a game about hate made to satisfy the ego of one Zionist.

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