skulblaka

Basically, yeah, but if every single LBP level wanted to nickel and dime you out of five bucks.

I remember trying to play Earthbound when I was younger. The story is fascinating, I really want to love the game, but the actual gameplay didn't really grab me. I remember getting to the first major town area and getting my ass beat by the gangsters or whoever that you need to fight there. Never made it past that point.

Any tips, if I wanted to pick it up again? Is this a game that expects you to grind? I found the early game to be really difficult, and I'm not usually one to be turned off by that but I really felt like I was hitting a brick wall and I think I must have missed something fundamental.

I was being fed that line in 2008 when everyone in the class did, in fact, have a calculator in their pockets

Frankly, these days? Yeah you totally can. "Hey Siri, what's 3% of 235,889?" or "Hey Siri, what's 8/37ths converted to 300ths?" will most likely just feed you a correct answer.

Unfortunately that's a minority of cases. Most bullies in my experience, and especially those bullies that are themselves using physical violence, only respond to violence.

Don't meet violence with violence as your first option. But keep it on the table. It's a viable solution if nothing else works. Some people just don't respond to anything short of getting punched in the mouth, especially kids/teens with their brain chemistry fucked six ways to Sunday by puberty.

Our leaders care more about personal enrichment than they care about leading a nation. The problems are multifaceted, but I feel like most of them tie back to that and if that were to somehow change most others of our problems would follow.

Unfortunately I don't know how to change it. I can only sit here and watch it happen.

At this point I just feel like America deserves whatever happens to us. Our problem is obvious and won't be prevented. We have successfully completed the Roman Empire any% speedrun, it's time to pack it up before we get ourselves a Caligula.

I hold out hope that we can destroy and then rebuild ourselves, like how Germany has done for example. But those hopes aren't high and they're unlikely to come to fruition during my lifetime. We need to wipe the American political slate clean and start over from scratch but that's never ever going to happen until after the existing government literally collapses under its own weight. It will require the complete and total death of America as a nation, in order to save America as a nation. I wish luck to future generations. Me, I'm moving to Australia or Korea before it all hits the fan.

Right. There have been folks getting paid for (and enjoying) being the center of attention since culture has existed. The entire concept of cinema comes from this. I wouldn't call Rowan Atkinson or Penn & Teller "attention whores or people who only want free shit" but they are the "influencers" of their time.

The dynamic has shifted, but I don't see it as some inherently bad thing, this just reads as a "kids bad!" kind of statement.

I don't know what "right" key wording you want if not the exact model and part number.

Always trust a fat guy to have good food

Arise now, arise, Riders of Théoden! Dire deeds awake: dark is it eastward. Let horse be bridled, horn be sounded! Forth Eorlingas!

Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter! Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!

I was once that first year compsci student. Hanoi kicked my ass, I had to go recruit help from my smarter friends. Though to be fair the teacher didn't explain it that well and just sort of threw it at us to see which of us would sink or swim. After we all complained about it he gave us a proper lesson on recursion and it was a little easier after that but I still struggled a lot on that project. We also implemented Conway's Game of Life that semester and I preferred that project by a lot.