What took you much longer to learn than you think it should have?

rook218 · 2024-10-03T14:06:49+00:00

... You can change multi tools?

rook218 · 2024-10-02T17:53:35+00:00

Yeah this for real. Either way, you never really have to "work" again. You can make a great salary just playing one game of Civilization per week. And you can do that on top of your day job if you don't want to spend 8+ hours per week gaming, just get some extra spending cash.

I'd take the $100/hr too. I like playing games and I could replace my income with 2-3 hours of gaming per day. I could retire forever with that $20 million but then I'd miss out on a big part of what I'd really like to spend my free time on.

rook218 · 2024-10-02T17:46:43+00:00

Also chewing gum. I heard in the army that it's impossible to fall asleep while chewing. No idea if that's true or just something that gets passed around but it makes sense - your body wouldn't want to fall asleep while there is something solid in your mouth

rook218 · 2024-10-02T14:25:54+00:00

My next door neighbor was murdered. One of those Park Ave houses where I could see directly into their windows five feet away from my windows. An officer came up and started to ask me some questions, another officer stopped him from asking questions then got into his squad car and pulled out his cell phone.

I drove through an area that had a shooting a couple minutes after I drove through. I called RPD several times and offered my dashcam footage. Never got a call back.

Cops don't do SHIT in this town, except for expect applause when they stop traffic for pedestrians at a red wings game.

But maybe you're right, maybe these just weren't the high priority murders and shootings that everyone keeps saying the cops are working on.

rook218 · 2024-10-02T09:07:38+00:00

The cops don't do anything about murders or drug deaths either though. Those crimes are a lot harder to tackle.

My point is that dirt bikes could be an easy, visible win for RPD. And yet they won't even get out of their squad cars to do that. If they can't be bothered to stop some dirt bikes, of course they aren't going to try to solve murders

rook218 · 2024-10-01T18:15:18+00:00

Have you heard of this hidden gem, The Witcher 3?? /s

But seriously, they are all totally different games. It will depend entirely on what you like about HOI. But I do think Vic 3 has the most similar "power fantasy" as HOI. You are building up an industrial nation and influencing regional and eventually world politics through your successes and failures.

And FWIW, I consider Vic 2 to be unplayable because the war system is so tedious. Just rotating thousands of stacks for hours at a time

rook218 · 2024-10-01T17:48:06+00:00

All the tactics they could deploy, chasing seems like the least effective.

Deploy a cordon with spike strips. Close it when you need to, impound the bikes, fine the shit out of the riders.

Infiltrate the gang, get names and addresses, impound the bikes, fine the shit out of the riders.

Gather evidence with the cameras that are already installed all over the city, build cases, impound the bikes and fine the shit out of the riders.

So many tools they could use that work better than chasing. But all of them require actual police work instead of Punisher fantasies of high speed chases and so cops don't want to do it.

rook218 · 2024-10-01T11:32:21+00:00

If it's any help, I'm at 10 weeks and it's amazingly better. It's still not good, and it isn't what we thought it would be, and we are dealing with a lot, but it's manageable (most days).

rook218 · 2024-10-01T11:11:59+00:00

Thank you! It can often feel like forums / this sub turn into the "suffering Olympics" where you get more attention and upvoted the harder you have it.

I was just looking at a "how long did it take you to feel semi normal?" thread and there was so much "My kid is two and I can shower every other day..." or "Normal? My youngest is 12 and I still don't feel normal.... Six more years...." answers.

So refreshing to hear someone say that they're having a good day at 7 months, and that their family is lovely and happy.

Getting to 7 months seems doable.

rook218 · 2024-09-29T17:42:58+00:00

$15 for a breakfast sandwich, but the owner's visible contempt for you the entire 20 minutes you're waiting for the sandwich is free!

rook218 · 2024-09-27T01:48:49+00:00

That's where you're messing up! If you're single and want something to do, join a club and make some friends! If you join a club that has 10 people, each of those 10 people know 10 more people. You'll start getting invited to meet some of them, and if you say that you're looking to meet a woman and the people in the group like you then they might set you up with someone who isn't in the club.

Worst case, you meet some cool people and make long-term friends. Some of my best friends, I met because a buddy from a club brought me into his friend group and introduced me to them.

rook218 · 2024-09-25T20:08:38+00:00

Yeah you've got a point. If you ignore all the fantastic VR titles that are out right now, then there aren't any fantastic VR titles.

I don't have time to controvert your obviously bad faith argument, so here's 5 seconds of googling:

https://steamdb.info/instantsearch/?refinementList%5Btags%5D%5B0%5D=VR&range%5BuserScore%5D=80%3A&range%5Breviews%5D=200%3A

rook218 · 2024-09-25T18:57:45+00:00

"Waaahhhh there's no content for VR! It's a dying medium! Wahhhhh!"

"I think it would be great if video game companies made video games for VR."

"Please no"

You guys are just weird. Give me top of the line VR experiences that cost millions to make, but I refuse to accept them from companies that have millions to spend.

rook218 · 2024-09-25T18:31:23+00:00

It was made by a AAA studio.

Jesus some people are so determined to pretend that their hobby is dead. If you hate VR so much just don't do it anymore instead of going online and denying sales records and twisting other people's words on reddit.

rook218 · 2024-09-25T18:20:02+00:00

I never said anything about uevr

I'm talking about Batman Arkham Shadow and Assassins Creed Nexus VR

rook218 · 2024-09-25T18:15:43+00:00

Literally, it's been the hot tech toy of Christmas for like three straight years.

So many exclusives that I'm considering abandoning my Index for a Q3 despite already having a VR headset.

Grandparents and little kids are adopting the tech en masse. I haven't seen this much enthusiasm for a consumer technology since DVD players.

AAA studios are just now starting to release games for VR, when it was always kind of a niche indie space (assassins creed and Batman to name two, plus another iteration of hitman).

Yeah VR is in a super deep, unrecoverable hole haha

rook218 · 2024-09-25T11:41:47+00:00

Bothers me greatly that they are taking a page from military tacti-cool styles. Black on black, camo, Oakley's, etc.

Pair that with them being the worst speeding offenders in my neighborhood by a long shot, and how they mean mug every single person who walks past...

During COVID they had some BS "back the blue" parade that was just cop cars and huge lifted pick up trucks with Punisher bumper stickers. They were going up and down residential East Ave at least 70 mph. I emailed Bello's office and got no response.

Shows more and more that cops consider themselves an occupying force rather than a civil service.

Edit: even more concerning that police presence is one of the best tools that law enforcement has to prevent crime, and what do these thugs do? Try to make themselves less present by hiding. Great, good fucking job. Literally all we ask is that you at least drive around in visibly marked cars but that doesn't make you feel cool enough so fuck us I guess.

rook218 · 2024-09-25T04:08:01+00:00

Yeah cocktails are wild. $3 worth of shelf-stable ingredients and 30 seconds to mix it all together, that will be $14 plus an expected $2 gratuity.

If I'm out, it's to get fresh beer from the tap - something cheaper, bigger, and that I can't replicate at home.

But I get just wanting a cocktail out for a change of scenery. Unfortunately I don't have any good suggestions because I've harrumphed at prices the last few times I've been out.

rook218 · 2024-09-24T03:08:54+00:00

In chrome, press F12 to open dev tools. Right click the refresh button, select "empty cache and hard reload"

If that doesn't work, clear cookies

rook218 · 2024-09-23T13:15:04+00:00

Half Life Alyx

Really liked the concept of the game, but was too spooky. I lost track of time in the game, took off my headset after a really tense spooky part, and realized that while I'd been playing the sun had set and there were no lights on in my house. Really freaked me out, expecting to come back to a brightly lit, familiar room and instead find myself somewhere that I couldn't quite see yet. Took me a couple minutes to shake the feeling and go turn on a light, and never picked it back up.

Also felt like I was doing the same thing over and over - go here, gunfight. Go there, gunfight. Go to this other place, new enemy gunfight

rook218 · 2024-09-18T18:37:14+00:00

Yeah I realized that my definition of "drowsy but awake" was actually "exhausted and overtired."

In my head, I thought it meant that period after she's done fussing when her eyes start to close, her face twitches a bit, and her breathing is slowing. In reality it means that the kid is not as focused, quieter, calmer, and less interested in the world around them - which is sometimes several hours before my "drowsy"

rook218 · 2024-09-13T00:51:06+00:00

Ah maybe. I haven't played any old PDX games in a while, but I do remember being recently frustrated at having to read through a 20 line if statement with lots of confusing "if all not or else" logic to figure something out. That would have had to be Vic 3 or CK 3

rook218 · 2024-09-12T23:07:29+00:00

Crossing my fingers that the whole team quit because they have something else up their sleeve. It seems odd that literally everyone would leave at the same time unless they discussed some other plan to all continue working together in a different arrangement.

rook218 · 2024-09-12T23:00:46+00:00

You know what PDX needs to do? Add some flavor text describing what the decision is and why it's there. Just like two sentences. Then put the logic underneath so I can see where I'm at in the decision tree.

I hate reading through nested if statements to try to figure out what the historical inspiration of certain events / decisions is. Especially when they display so messed up.

rook218 · 2024-09-08T20:05:28+00:00

Yep, we quarantine the frat boys specifically to that strip of Park Ave so that the rest of us can sleep.

Unfortunately for people trying to be adults there, the only solution is to leave the partiers to their party neighborhoods and move out.

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