@ThanosReXXX shopping mostly happens on weekends here as well, but of course it's everyone descending on the I've regional place all at once, so more gridlock. Food of course is any day.
Ahh, well, here everything is run by greased pockets, business first (the public exists to benefit business), and personal agendas for social (and economic) engineering, pretty much exclusively. Whatever individuals or group is organized enough to drive all agenda gets their way. The Public is apathetic and pays no attention assuming government will just do whatever, and government and their business partner agendas some to move fast, implement what they want as quickly and quietly as possible before anyone can notice and before you know it "these changes have been in the works for years, it's too late to change it now!". There's never public consent, it's decided for us by our betters. And the business proposing the changes always has the better of all the options, of course.
Most of the local politicians approving this stuff aren't people from here. They lived here between 7 to 20 years individually. They came from more moving and shaking places, and are, themselves, of course the luxury people. Heck, some of them aren't even from the country let alone the municipality. They want to build Place that suits them and their kind. Most don't stay here. Local government is a resume and networking opportunity. They leave, often abandoning their elected position mid term (the party appoints a rubber stamp in their place like)... It's a stepping stone for better corporate careers and political positions. The more they can transform an area to higher profitability and demonstrate their support to lobbies and business, the better their portfolios. Burning a few thousand locals is nothing. The luxury business site they helped build overnight demonstrates their value.
@ThanosReXXX it's been some time since I've checked the exact figures, but typically $600 would get you a serviceable older house with a bit of a yard and MAYBE include a utility. Apartment rent varies widely and also depends on if you're splitting the cost with any living mates.
Cost of living isn't generally bad where I'm at, though mine would be higher if I were in the city limits of the nearest town. Property tax differences were a large factor that made me decide to reside a couple miles outside of town. I do live along a main road that heads into town that brings both positives and negatives. The accessibility is nice, but I dislike the morning and evening traffic. That in itself wouldn't be so bad if my mailbox wasn't across the road lol.
There are trade-offs of course; I'm still a couple hours from the nearest major city and a little over an hour from a couple smaller ones. Plus, there are some perks of living in the closest town versus being just outside of it. Though with how the city limits keep expanding, I may be in them before long....
Currently playing: Pokemon Scarlet DLC, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury (Switch)
@NEStalgia Yeah the great irony is that if standards get lower than they already are, the system runs the risk of collapsing on itself and undoing whatever progress and short term gains the wealthy have accumulated. Looking at the economy and GDP of the US you can see where all the profits are going. That’s not politics or partisan propaganda, that’s just the numbers and the data. People are so accustomed to saying “well we’re coming out of the recession”, but the numbers prove that many are still very much in a stagnant or downward rut financially.
@Tyranexx That’s good the GS is still going strong in your area. People give them a hard time for ripping consumers off with their trade-ins (for good reason), but it is one of the last specifically gaming related chains out there. I used to get a ton of good deals on their used and preowned stuff in there.
Is the place with the retro games a thrift store or Goodwill by any chance? They used to have a lot of good NES and SNES games there for 1 or 2 bucks. Not sure they know the value of a lot of the items they get donated, so it always feels like a huge win when you find something awesome. It’s the modern day equivalent of treasure hunting rummaging through the boxes in those places.
@Joeynator3000 I don’t know if is based on the settings on the TV or it’s just native resolution in the games being different. Odyssey and BOTW both run at 900p, probably with dynamic res scaling in some of the more taxing areas. Smash and Mario Maker are both a constant 1080p, so that might be the reason they look more crisp.
I’m not a resolution snob or anything, but I think that could be one of the factors.
Added: BOTW and Odyssey also don’t have AA enabled.
I bought a really cheap windows 10 tablet that is understandably limited in what it can do (32 bit, low storage, 2gb ram, stuck in an old version of W10), so it's been fun seeing what can or can't it run.
So far I have successfully installed several small games on it, and apparently since it's relatively small, the Microsoft office apps are permanently free on it, so that's nice.
Interestingly, basically every game in the windows 10 app store says it's not compatible with it. So steam has been my main source of games.
It's actually not all that slow, so I bet I could install the software I use for work and use it as a super portable work station. But I'm lazy.
@Eel I have a cheap Windows tablet Lenovo Miix 2 8` with Windows 8.1 and it is wonderful for playing Heroes of Might and Magic games and Point and Click adventures.
It can even Run Heroes of Might and Magic 6 with low settings.
@Tyranexx Yeah, there's always trade-offs, I suppose. I live pretty close to a fire brigade, so whenever something's up, they race past my house, sirens screaming and lights flashing. And that can be at any time of day or night, obviously. And of course the less than fresh air.
I especially notice that difference in the summertime, when I regularly go to see my dad in his summer house at the community garden, which is just outside the city, in the so-called green ring, and if you sit in the garden in front of the summer house, it's quiet as a mouse, everything around you is green, and the air definitely smells different.
'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.'
Aw, snap !
Sonic movie 2020 hasn't released yet here in Indonesia.
It said In Cinemas Soon from the promotional standee i saw just now.
I guess i have to wait a little bit longer during February 2020.
Oh, the Sonic standee was look great.
Btw, this morning i got Chocolate gift from my male student grade 6 during Valentine's Day. All teachers got that chocolate gift.
Our rocks turned out great after about five weeks of tumbling. The tumbler was a tad bit loud even though it was in the basement. It’s kinda nice that it’s over for a little while. My kids made made the jewelry for my wife, but I didn’t even need to use the precision tip glue gun. I’m hoping something comes up soon that requires precise hot glue placement.
@Eel I have a cheap Windows tablet Lenovo Miix 2 8` with Windows 8.1 and it is wonderful for playing Heroes of Might and Magic games and Point and Click adventures.
It can even Run Heroes of Might and Magic 6 with low settings.
Mine is a bit more generic, a Vulcan Challenger 2 EX or something like that. It was something like 60 US dollars. (Which is extremely cheap for a windows 10 tablet here in Mexico).
I tried Farming Simulator 13 and 17 via steam, and while they do run, it’s not optimal. Since the Microsoft store is useless I also tried to install blue stacks to try tinier games, but it was just that slight amount of lag that is enough to be annoying, so I uninstalled it in the end.
I right now I have stardew valley, plants vs zombies, puzzle quest, and a few other small casual games I found for cheap (puzzlers, sudoku, etc). They all run perfectly (though SV needs a controller, of course).
Machinarium seems to run just fine, but for whatever reason it seems to disable the touch screen whenever I open it, so I can’t play without a controller, even though it should be possible.
@bimmy-lee if you need an excuse to use a fancy hot glue gun, I’d recommend watching YouTube. Lots of useless hot glue ideas there!
@Zuljaras Oh, well. What did you expect?
He'll always try to sneak in some boy or six pack reference, after all...
On a side note: I noticed there's also some Engrish on the chocolate packaging...
@gcunit So much for square pegs, then. Or are those still the exception?
Huh, for the first time ever, an NL message got sent to my spam filter...just got the notification from this post from my spam monitoring!
Anyway, yep, I absolutely agree with that. It feels like the late 19th century all over again. Much of the same structure. That ended with the WWII tyrants when the masses finally decided to "take it back by any means available." Through that lens, the tyrants and public support of them make a lot of sense. I'd argue they were even necessary, or at least inevitable.
Currently most of the problem is the gains are not coming through employment, at all, but through investment. Sure the rich have 6 figure careerist jobs and most people don't. But that's still not most of their spending money by half. Their spending money is coming from investments. The masses aren't close to being part of that and never will be. All the GDP is, really, through capital gains. Automation, consolidation, and efficiency mean there's really not many people needed to do many jobs, at least of the variety that pay well. And telling everyone to violently compete for the handful of ever more demanding jobs isn't going to work either. Politicians like to talk about "jobs of the future" but never seem to know what those might actually be. They just hope it works itself out, sometime after their tenure.
@ThanosReXXX I think that's how it's intended, but if you look at the actual spacing, it's Let love & blooms be happy, you bloomophobic bigot.
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