DeathscytheX

Why do they have to fuck up everything?

I'm banking on the fact that you aren't in a rush to get one, so therefore it will be the greatest console launch ever packed with amazing games.

I really enjoy Clone Wars. I'm into season 5 now. But I still have major gripes.. like every "escape" ever fails. Every escape ends in capture of everyone or someone where they have to go back and save them. They still fall back on silly story arcs. Like it was really getting good with the whole Savage/Maul episodes, and then we go to younglings and droids doing missions. I will say Hondo is such a great character. It would be cool to see him and Cad Bane in a future season of the Mandalorian.

General Grievous was such a wasted opportunity in the prequel movies and so was Dooku. They honestly could have canned the whole idea for Ep 1, never had Darth Maul at all and just did 1-3 with Grievous and Dooku as the main villains.

You can tell that Respawn were Clone Wars fans. They did an excellent job with Dathomir and Ilum in Fallen Order. I'm sure it was/is much more of an experience for Clone Wars watchers to go to these places.

I'm not an avid music listener unfortunately. While they have more than that, I already have too many subscriptions to stuff. YT Red, Funi, Hulu, Black Rifle Coffee, Netflix, FFXIV, and I'll go ahead and toss AL and Arknights in there since I buy the monthly cards for both. (gotta have that extra daily oil/sanity). Definitely outweighs my need to listen to 1 podcast. Plus while JRE has been my daily driver mostly, I skip more than 60% of his episodes. If its not a celeb I like, or a scientist I'm not really interested. I tried to listen to some where he has a fellow comedian on or some other random actor/tradesman and its just not for me. Since his show is 2-3hrs and ep. a single ep lasts me a few days since my commute is 15-25 minutes.

Good for him though. $100 mill. I'd do that too in a heart beat. I'll probably just switch over to Tim Pool. I've been listening to a lot of his stuff lately and I like it. Its more non serious current events. I really hate how YT has tightened up on all their censorship. Watching people tip toe around the rules is sad... and clearly its a double standard. Like JRE they said "fuck" all the time, but if someone like The Quartering or YongYea does it, then they get demonetized. Which while Jeremy doesn't think that's why Rogan is leaving, I think it is. Hopefully it will be a wakeup call for YT that their biggest channel is gone starting in September.

I enjoy a lot of YT people from science to gaming. Whether its Tectone screaming about how OP Lappland is, Ander telling me to blow all my Wisdom Cubes for Amagi, Anton Petrov talking about some random brown dwarf 2 light years away, or AuroraPeachy squealing about the new Sailor Moon movie or a Guild Wars 2 trailer.... I waste so much time on YT its probably my favorite platform. I just hate how they're so flawed with their standards and practices and strike system.

I could have sworn there was an Astrum topic, But it was years ago when I shared his stuff so maybe it got pruned or lost in an update. Anyways, I'm combining his content with Ridddle and Anton Petrov's "What the Math" since they cover similar topics.

Man that sucks. So much for my daily drive podcast.

I didn't know HeluvaGood made cheese, We have their dips down here. I'd say Cracker Barrel takes the cake here. (Not the restaurant ) They have a lot of good super sharp cheddars. For me its gotta be packaged in something different from what Kraft and store brand uses... I guess its a hangup of mine. They also have a pre-sliced bar that you can get some ritz crackers and some fancy deli meat to make some top tier lunchable stacks.

https://www.crackerbarrelcheese.com/

My deli has a whole case of just random cheeses. It gets really exotic around the holidays, but the rest of the year most the stuff in each category is pretty similar. They got some super sharp cheddar that will put anything else to shame in the lunchmeat/dairy case. Its just like $8 a block though. Since my company is pretty big on selling wine I guess we try to keep a large variety of imported cheeses. The big plus side to that is I can always get goat cheese when ever I want. If you like some real pungent cheese flavor, not much can top goat cheese.

This makes me sad and angry. You never know what someone is going through. This guy has genuinely loved the game and has done nothing but hype it up and display excitement and enthusiasm in every video he's ever made. I got into this game because I ran into his channel the day before Arknights launched. I generally only posts his videos hyping the next event or banner. But he does a ton of different videos from parody, to skill breakdowns, to him being a whale and trying to pull for a character. He doesn't look at spoilers from the Chinese server which is months ahead of global, and I wish he didn't really care about that community which is basically "fake newsing" him. So apparently they're trashing his advice since he's only giving it based on what we have on global. Either way I don't really use him for guides when I'm stuck, I just watch him because I genuinely enjoy his "loudness" and overly excited nature. I think most people watch him for that and people apparently are making fun of him for being that way... its fucking stupid. And I really hate when people try to take away someone's joy for something they're passionate about. Hopefully he'll be fine. I left a comment of encouragement on the video, and I rarely leave comments on the cesspool that is youtube. Its just a damn shame.

16 hours ago, Sledgstone said:

I'm guessing it has a good shelf life since its literally is dried over 3+ months. It doesn't look like the guy cleans any of the penicillin mold off either before taking a taste.. I suppose that's safe and adds flavor. Lol.  I've seen prosciutto sold in packages at grocery stores before but never tried it. I think the only downside is it looks like it needs to be kept refrigerated.

I've bought the store package Prosciutto and its really good... just super pricey. There are a few sub shops around here that have it as one of the meats and I always go for it because its a distinct flavor. Its a little pungent, and slightly chewy. Its good with some salami, pepperoni, or ham. Don't make just a whole prosciutto sandwich, you'll be chewing for days. Its sliced very thin for a reason. Its almost like when you don't cook bacon long enough to a full crisp and there is that end section that's a little chewy. Capicola and Soppressata are really good too. If you ever find a sampler pack at your deli, its worth a try. My deli even has mozzarella sticks wrapped in prosciutto. And the meat dept as a fancy "lunchable" with prosciutto as well. Its not made by lunchable tho its some other brand. I can't remember the name. If they ever have one of those premade Charcuterie packages it should have some of those meats in it. I love "exotic" meats and cheeses. I'll try them all when I see something I've never had before. Cheese is a little harder, because a lot of "different" cheddars and whatnot all taste the same, and smoked cheese is hard to find around here but I loved some good smoked cheddar or gouda.

I never heard of Biltong until I ran into an Instagram ad a few days ago. I ordered a 16oz bag of sliced fatty cut from Dakota Pioneer after checking out their facebook and seeing all the super positive comments on their posts.

I'll buy a few slabs if its good, which I have a feeling its going to be amazing.

https://dakotapioneer.com/collections/all

Season 3 the series has definitely picked up, and has started shifting towards more mature despite the TV-PG rating. But it kinda fell back on dumb situations nearing the end here. Like Ahsoka getting captured by lizard people in the middle of a war that has nothing to do with them? Really? My main gripe is how often Jedi get KO'ed and lose their lightsaber. Especially to inferior enemies like droids. I also like how Savage Oppress could become an intermediate level force wielder in a couple of days... wtf? So many Jedi have died so easily in this series.

I feel the most sorry for Padme though... not only does she have the same rib cage as 3CPO, but she's constantly getting undercut. Like all her plans fail and her friends get killed. Obviously she can't know that Palps is one step ahead of her at every corner. But even as a viewer in the know, its still frustrating to watch. The show does do a good job of making issues that you already know exist, still evoke a negative emotions.

Going down the rabbit hole, Watching this Estonian solider get surprised by American military might is a fun watch.

The problem is, they'll never not touch it. Even if they make some kind of law that they can't they will. Some POTUS down the line will sign and executive order citing some emergency and take out of it. People don't care because they don't understand that it won't be there one day when it's their turn. The generations coming up after us, have no sense of self reliance or general responsibility. Also, a lot of people think it will be enough for them to live off of, which is what happened to the people I know. They thought they could just live off social security when they retire, because i assume at some point long ago, you actually could. The only way anyone could do that now is if they have their shit 100% together, have every single debt paid off the day they hang it up, and then live frugally the last years of their life.

Thankfully the company I work for has private stock you earn off accumulated hours. You can also buy some at certain times of the year. If I work here for another 30 years, I could live off the divined checks rest of my life. Apparently more people retire from my company as a millionaire than almost any other company. There are some people raking in 100k a dividend check. Of course that could always change in 30 years, some shitbags could get on the board and decide to go public and ruin everything. Seems to be my luck in this industry. The last company I worked for, people that been there for 30-40 years were making bank and ran the thing into the ground for everyone else as they hopped off the sinking ship.

Social Security should be abolished. It should be paid out to a certain cut off date for people, and when they die it should be done away with. In its place should be a federally insured private savings fund. Something you can set up with your bank. There should be something that strongly encourages people to set this up, like a tax break, and maybe while you can't touch it until you're 65, you can still collect the interest off of it while it grows. Have other options like said interest can be deposited right back into it, and you can add more into it yourself at any time. While you could up how much of your check goes into it, there has to be a reasonable base minimum. that way people can't just put $1 a week in and complain that the system doesn't work. There has to be a new system where the government isn't "safekeeping" it for us.

I'm trying to understand the mechanic of the meter at the bottom. It looks like a type of stamina meter.

I doubt there is a small amount of hit points, and its the latter. I dunno if you've ever played the inFAMOUS games, but Sucker Punch has generally had the theme where you're super OP on offense, but incredibly weak on defense. So if I had to guess, they kept with that and while you hit hard, so do the enemies and they can kill you just as easily if you aren't at least a little methodical. During the samurai game play, it looked like you could parry and land a one hit kill, but some of the enemies he didn't and had to hit them 2-3 times. It looks like they had a guard meter he broke before landing the kill. I'll assume taking more time kill someone while surrounded will be risky.

Like in all the inFAMOUS games you had crazy OP powers that could one/two shot any normal enemies in the world, but all it would take would be a a few people with guns to take you out in 3-5 shots. You had to use the cover and dodge system, you couldn't just button mash and go in full charge. It was an interesting balance of satisfying offensive power, but keeping you honest when facing tough encounters.

I put in for the week off for this. This looks amazing... and the little detail with the detection meter to actually know how close you are to being spotted is just outstanding to me.

Social Security was already obsolete. I can't count the amount of older people I know that hit retirement age and had to come back or do some part time work to supplement. The government has abused it for years, borrowing from it, all the way back til the Clinton presidency, maybe even the HW era. I gave up on it long ago and won't be counting on it to be there. At this point it should just be abolished, its not cool it gets taken out of our checks and it wont be there when its our time to collect.

As we slowly open back up, the businesses that didn't make it are coming to light and its a damn shame.

Honestly the Federal Government isn't fully to blame. Remember at one point the WHO said the damn thing wasn't even transferable or contagious. Because the head of it was put up there by China... I mean the guy wouldn't even acknowledge Taiwan's existence in a press conference.  Maybe the Fed could have handled it better either way, but the WHO and China lied about a lot which gave the rest of the world a late start on preparation. The travel bans were also called racist and blocked by judges. Our own bullshit stupid ass partisanship made this worse than it should have been.

Pelosi isn't offering any better solutions, shes just making it worse. https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosis-bill-gives-massive-tax-break-to-the-rich-in-mostly-blue-states-taxpayer-money-to-illegal-aliens?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwbrand

Everyone is just trying to line the pockets of their base now I guess. These "relief packages" should only be helping the public, it should have nothing to do with Unions, Illegals, Pro Life, Pro Choice, Anti or Pro 2nd Amendment, Free speech, or anything besides helping people. this pork barrel shit is getting so old where we hold up important legislation because of some fucking wishlist by one side where they block a resolution for something that's completely unrelated.

Eyjafjalla is hands down the best caster in the game. BUT imo if you don't have Lappland or Ptoplisis, I'd wait for one of their rate up banners. All 3 have been in the cert store as well so I'd save all your yellow tickets.

My meat market manager tells me its coming. Here we're having trouble getting everything except beef. We have limits on chicken and pork. The Deli is having issues with the brand name meats, and the chicken orders are getting cut inconsistently. I think because not enough people are paying attention, and its not being widely reported, meat has a chance to rebound quickly. Otherwise there would be another panic buying wave.

I think the most impressive thing so far is that Corona beer is still on the shelf. They stopped production last month, they must churn that out like crazy. Even with the sales taking it hit because of dumb people and name association, it's still impressive that we keep getting deliveries. Although I've noticed recently its mostly light and extra and not regular Corona.