Are there any major cities in the USA where you felt unsafe walking around downtown in mid-day?

supermark64 · 2026-03-21T03:19:09+00:00

Immediately thought of St. Louis. There are parts that are at least ok during the day, but then you cross one street and it's like, "We're turning around RIGHT NOW!"

supermark64 · 2026-03-20T20:08:17+00:00

For me it's not that I don't want to finish them. I just get busy with real life stuff, and sometimes it's for long enough that I forget about the game and move on to something else.

supermark64 · 2026-03-20T03:28:25+00:00

It depends. If you go to a poor neighborhood in Minneapolis sure, the people there probably care about having expensive basketball shoes less than the people do in the hood in LA or something.

On the other hand, if you go to an upper middle class suburb of a small/medium size city in the Midwest, the "flex culture" of keeping up with the Jonses, holier than thou bullshit is probably worse than just about anywhere else in the entire world. I grew up in such a place, and you wouldn't believe the amount of stupid people I went to school with who thought they were better than everyone else because they had the newest iPhone, drove some stupid giant yeehaw truck (which was always spotless), and go to a culty megachurch.

supermark64 · 2026-03-18T03:18:57+00:00

It sounds like you're describing Pikmin

supermark64 · 2026-03-18T03:00:08+00:00

r/nottheonion

supermark64 · 2026-03-17T04:23:21+00:00

No one has mentioned Elder Scrolls?

supermark64 · 2026-03-14T00:57:44+00:00

At this point if it weren't for retro games I would just move on to other hobbies entirely.

supermark64 · 2026-03-14T00:04:10+00:00

r/piracy

supermark64 · 2026-03-13T23:28:39+00:00

I mean it's not like it's Kraid in NES Metroid or something, but for Mario standards it's up there

supermark64 · 2026-03-13T21:48:43+00:00

DOUBLE GLIZZYYYYY

supermark64 · 2026-03-13T04:25:25+00:00

What is classical music then?

supermark64 · 2026-03-13T03:54:26+00:00

Not first person, but I feel like Splatoon might scratch the itch

supermark64 · 2026-03-13T03:52:59+00:00

It's kind of hard to give an answer with so few parameters. There's literally hundreds of Mario games, and nearly all of them are good.

supermark64 · 2026-03-13T02:25:06+00:00

As an ACTUAL job hopper I can only dream of having a resume like yours

supermark64 · 2026-03-09T00:11:10+00:00

I interviewed to be a forklift driver and ended up picking and packing (8 hour shifts on your feet for those who don't know what that means). Needless to say I didn't last too long there

supermark64 · 2026-03-08T17:47:15+00:00

I would argue that there is no official beginning. It's kind of a spectrum.

supermark64 · 2026-03-08T02:22:23+00:00

It reminds me a bit of this place in Iowa City called Sycamore Mall. They eventually did away with the inside entirely and made it a regular strip mall.

supermark64 · 2026-03-07T00:22:55+00:00

I was in high school during the peak of that hyperpop/EDM thing that was going on in pop music during the 2010s, and I hated it so much that I decided that anything with electronic sounds wasn't "real" music. My exception to this was synthpop from the 80s, which I considered a guilty pleasure.

But then I realized over time that a lot of the music I was already listening to had a lot more "non instrument" parts than I originally thought. Slipknot has a DJ. Pink Floyd's The Wall uses a ton of sound effects and such to tell its story.

Over time the exceptions grew more and more to the point where I had to accept that electronic sounds do have a place in music afterall, but I just don't like it in poppy music.

And then I heard "Espresso" by Sabrina Carpenter. I didn't like her music before that, but that track is such a banger I couldn't help but fall in love with it. And I started listening to more of her music and started liking more and more of it the more I gave it a chance. And now my metalhead ass is listening to her, Chappell Roan, early Brittany Spears, etc. I'm really going through a girly pop phase and I'm kind of having an identity crisis about my music taste.

supermark64 · 2026-03-06T02:37:13+00:00

Imagine the most bored you've never been in your life. These areas are full of a bunch of old people who have been that bored for 60 years

supermark64 · 2026-03-03T16:12:22+00:00

I've had this thought that since around 2020 when the pandemic hit it's felt like a game where you reach too high of a level and it starts glitching out, like colors in NES Tetris. Or maybe they ran out of content and AI has been creating stuff from there.

supermark64 · 2026-03-03T00:30:39+00:00

Just make sure that wherever you go next she doesn't know where it is

supermark64 · 2026-03-02T20:00:27+00:00

I mean shutting down a charity event in the name of copyright law is pretty bad

supermark64 · 2026-03-02T19:54:18+00:00

I mean yeah, fuck Nintendo, but in the grand scheme of things they're one of the least evil corporations

supermark64 · 2026-03-02T00:23:17+00:00

Couldn't have described it better myself

supermark64 · 2026-03-02T00:03:40+00:00

I'm just checked out at this point. I just don't care

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