@HobbitGamer Ah, missed your comment earlier, because you didn't tag me.
I'd say things/locations being so spread out would/should be the precise reason why you WOULD want to have a passenger-dedicated (high speed) railroad network. Especially in a country as big as the USA.
I mean, just take into account my earlier comment, about getting from Amsterdam to Paris, in less than 3 hours. Normally, that's about a 10 hour drive if you take the car or a coach/bus, and that's not even takinh into account traffic jams and pit stops...
So, imagine being able to travel from east to west in about 4 - 6 hours, which could easily be done, if you draw a more or less straight line across the American continent. People traveling by car would of course say that it's not just about the destination, but also about the experience of traveling through the various states, but I'd just advise these people to binge watch all the National Lampoon's American Vacation movies. That oughta put 'em off from taking any more week long car trips...
@Morpheel Your parents do seem to travel a lot. And they've got enough cash to hand out laptops, phew...
Job opportunities and quality of living must be solid in your neck of the woods. Either that, or your family belongs to a smaller, but more fortunate group. Either way, guess I'm going to Mexico, instead of to the US, that is:
if I ever decide to return to the American continent...
P.S.
Sinaloa?
@NintendoByNature Already evening over here: 6:35pm.
Woke up today, slowly realizing that I've spent quite a few euros (too much) on Nintendo games and a Pro Controller, over the last few days...
Still enjoying the hell out of them, though, so that kinda softens the blow to my wallet...
@HobbitGamer dude i wish I could take a deep nap. I can honestly say it's been years since I've been able to nap( kids and such). Even when they nap I try to take one myself but my mind starts racing about things I should do around the house so I cant commit to it. Either that or I'll take their nap time as a reason for me to game for a few minutes 😁
@ThanosReXXX nice my man! I actually returned re0 today. It just wasn't as fun as i remember it being back in the day. Same goes for re1. While I'm having more fun than I did with re0 it just doesn't have the same wow factor it used to give me back in the day. Maybe I'm getting old. Thankfully I only lost out on a couple bucks from returning re0 so it wasn't too bad but still, wish I didn't get it
@ThanosReXXX my parents are both retired, but both were successful doctors, and I work on the computer, so I can tag along on their trips.
We also plan and save a lot so it's not like we just go on random trips every other week. That would be rough.
Yeah, Sinaloa is where most of my dads side of the family lives. The place's got kind of a bad rep, but like most of the country, nothing bad happens unless you go looking for it.
@Tyranexx the mall heyday was the 70s and 80s. They were just plain fun. With something for everyone...a kind of dark, dare i say Tokyo-esque atmosphere (a lot of them were built by Japanese companies do the architecture really is very 70s Tokyo.... Geometric shapes, unconventional angles, layers, etc.). I loved it. It also drew youth riff Raff. They thought that was hurting malls, so in the 90s they retooled to make them brighter, more open, "safer".... In the process they ruined what made it great. Moreover the original design of malls was to recreate the city center in suburbia. It was supposed to be a community center with events and such. For a while it was. Then in the late 80s and into the 90s it became a monument of consumerism and was just all indoor strip center. And then it failed. Ml
It's sad, the rest of the world is building new make while we tear ours down and call it "better". It's like living in theodesius' era of the Roman empire.
@ThanosReXXX Oh Amtrak's train sets are quite nice. It's the track in most of the us that isn't. They can't do anything about that, they only own track in certain areas, mostly inherited from the bankruptcy of Penn Central. Including the electric NEC. the rest of the US it's almost so freight rails. Owned by Norfolk southern, Canadian national (mostly owned by bill Gates now), BNSF (mostly owned by Warren buffet/Berkshire), and CSX. They've streamlined they're tracks, peeling back to single tracks in most areas, too. Amtrak leases most of those rails, mostly old, wooden, but fit for hauling 900 cars of 3 week old Chilean broccoli once a week. It's bumpy, slow, and the owner gets first priority, so you're 6 express train just has to wait for the 8mi long broccoli train to go by at 30mps.
Not amtraks fault. They can't just demolish so the buildings and roads built during the rise of the Auto and air business to buy track real estate.
Unfortunately i despise airlines even more than cars. I just want to be a hermit.
digital:
Horizon Chase Turbo
Steam World Dig
Steam World Heist
Worms W.M.D.
Valkyria Chronicles
physical:
ARMS
1-2 Switch (yeah, I know. Just had to have the showcase title, no matter what, and I got it at a €10 discount)
And of course, the Switch Pro Controller.
And later that evening, I also bought 3 discounted Xbox One titles from a web shop, so now I'm truly done and dusted, for the next two, three months to come.
@Morpheel I know, and like most of these specific places, you only hear about it when they're connected to anything bad, and of course, my immediate thought with Sinaloa was "drug cartel".
Don't know about any bad rep about the whole of Mexico, other than some idiot president wanting to build a wall on its border, and there sometimes being some talk about corruption, but other than that, nothing Earth-shatteringly damning about the country as a whole. And my cousin's wife comes from Mexico, so I'm already kinda familiar with the locals...
@NEStalgia Well, you already live in a cramped, greasy, badly ventilated man cave, so hermit will probably suit you just fine...
Concerning the downfall of malls: I guess the zombies won after all then, huh?
It may not be the actual ones from the movies and games, but it would seem to me that the proverbial smart phone zombies did us all in, in the end...
@rjejr No, I didn't know what NEC means, but @NEStalgia likes his acronyms/abbreviations, and he's so used to it by now, that I guess that he kinda assumes that we're all on board with the meaning of whatever it is that is "acronymized"...
Acela just sounds like someone started to say "accelerator", but decided that using only half of the word was decidedly cooler and more catchy...
As for The Passage: no worries, my friend: I've finished the entire 10 episodes long before you even started watching the third one. It was something of a chore to keep my mouth shut, though, waiting for you to finish them as well. It was a good first season, but basically, it was more of a prologue to a series, than an actual series in and of itself. Hope that they gathered enough of a crowd and enough good will from the network they're on, to make a second run of episodes, and here's hoping that's going to be longer than just 10 episodes...
Well, now that you've finished that, I'd say on to The Black List. Season 6 just ended over here, and man was it good. It's one of the few series that I've watched over the years, that seems to go from strength to strength, instead of sort of fizzling out/losing steam after the second season, like so many other shows do.
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
Will do. I’m jumping in now on handheld to do the beginning section, then going to dock after I switch to Connor. I just ran through the “movement tutorial” with Desmond, and it seemed fine to me. And some textures and light already do look good. I played the original version on 360, then a bit on WiiU and this does look and sound better so far. The text in handheld is clearly visible
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@ThanosReXXX That's a bummer. I'm fine with minor delays and generally try to plan for them, but several hours' worth? That's a big, unhealthy "ouch".
Speaking of buses, are you fully recovered from that nasty accident?
@NEStalgia They do still hold a couple of community events at this one. Still, it wouldn't surprise me if the part with the theater survives as its own building while the rest gets torn down. The theater company bought out part of the mall and is expanding/renovating into it.
While I wouldn't be sorry to see it go, it would displace a couple of fairly decent businesses as well as the location of my "seasonal job"....But there are always other locations i suppose.
@Morpheel: I'm hoping with my job change that they'll actually issue me a laptop so that I can work remotely if I really need to. I'd still need to be on location a lot of the time, but there's the occasional day where I have a lot to do around home. XD
Are you in web development by chance?
Currently playing: Pokemon Scarlet DLC, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury (Switch)
@Anti-Matter I already tried a couple of 1-2 Switch games, including Safe Crack (NOT Safety Crack), but seeing as they are all multiplayer games, it isn't really very useful to play them by yourself. I just wanted to own this title, to be able to show off HD rumble to other people.
@HobbitGamer Huh? That's not a Die Hard T-shirt at all...
As for Assassin's Creed III: it's odd how many positive user-reviews/first impressions I've seen on here, while practically all professional reviews of it are either mixed or bad. If you take a look at that Digital Foundry video that Nintendo Life posted, you wouldn't even want to be caught dead owning the game...
@Tyranexx Haha, well, I don't use the train to get anywhere, so a train strike isn't going to affect me at all, and in this time of the year, I mostly use the bike to get around, so even the (due to the upcoming train strike) over-crowded buses won't be bothering me. (edit: and the strike is only for one day)
And yes, fully recovered. Have been for around a week or six, I think. Thanks for asking.
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