So they added Jessie and James to Pokémon Go and they look super weird because they kept the big anime eyes.
I've seen the normal Rocket balloons, but I haven't spotted them or the Meowth balloon yet. I'm just glad they're in! Nice nod to fans of the anime.
@Heavyarms55 Yep, that's an ultimate catch-22 here as well. There is a taxi service, but it adds up fast. Same with a senior citizen bus, though that understandably only applies to its target audience.
For public transportation that serves the area, there is an Amtrak line. It's not nearly as reliable as metro services though as it's at the mercy of the freight lines who own the tracks. What should be a four hour journey can easily take six+ hours. There also used to be a Greyhound bus station here, but due to a combination of declining use, increased upkeep, and complaints of how some people would mistreat the station area, it closed many years ago.
Frozen pizza for me generally falls into the soggy or cardboard category. Not that I haven't had any good frozen pizza, but I'd rather just get it fresh from a restaurant. Plus, some of the preservatives used in some frozen brands are pretty horrifying.
@Eel Wait, Meowth didn't even make a cameo appearance? That's disappointing. Maybe it's in their Pokemon pool though? I know they can rotate for some of the Rockets.
I only got a normal Rocket while playing yesterday, but Arlo stalked me the two times the balloon appeared for me earlier this week.
@BruceCM It does seem a lot of people like that one! The good news is I've ordered a copy for a price that I found reasonable. The bad news is, it's shipping all the way from the UK and won't arrive until late this month.
A comment I saw on a certain gaming website one day, a long time ago and I just had to save it:
"Real gamers, give mme a break what that even mean, those brain rotten potatoes who sit entire days and play you try to praise naming them REAL GAMERS? NO they are poor souls with nothing to do than bashing pad's/M&K.
I play games starting in 1993 with my Commodore C64, Amiga, then PC, PSX and so on to this day, played many many games, across all generations rarely spending more than 3h a day of play and if then it was back in the days when i was stupid kid/teenager even few times at my 20's but then realize it is waste of time. While i still play games and got few platforms i dont do this HOURS ON END, do i call myself REAL GAMER? No. Do i want to be called this way? HELL NO cause for me this is synonym of sstill not fully mentally grown person. Few hours at max, not HOURS ON END.
My platforms:
PC, PS4, Xbox, Smarphone FOR MOBILE GAMES (mainly PC ports when in the plane/ train traveling)
SWITCH?? No i have device for playing already in my pocket which is my phone, SWITCH hardly fit in the pocket so not even know for what it can be for me..."
You see, there are a lot of guys who keep spitting out rules for being TRUE gamers, this guy is the bane of their existence. The anti-TRUE GAMER who sounds just as obnoxious as one.
This blue eye perceives all things conjoined. The past, the future, and the present. Everything flows and all is connected. This eye is not merely seen reality. It is touching the truth. Open the eye of truth... There is nothing to fear.
I have gone into the Commodore 64 SID sound chip rabbit hole. It's a deep hole to be in.
Btw it has some cool games as well. Not a lot of on screen colors but great scrolling and animation for its time. Enjoyed some Katakis recently.
This blue eye perceives all things conjoined. The past, the future, and the present. Everything flows and all is connected. This eye is not merely seen reality. It is touching the truth. Open the eye of truth... There is nothing to fear.
@Tyranexx US train lines like Amtrack are honestly not even a joke compared to Japan lines, and forget the big ones like JR, even small local lines are just completely superior in every way. It's embarassing to be honest that the nation that built the transcontinental railroad now has train lines that are, at best, 40 years obsolete.
@Vinny That guy is either so mad that he lost his grammar skills, or he isn't a native English speaker. Either way, he's a massive tool. And I've been playing games FAR longer than him. I've seen it ALL, ever since I played Pong on a Pong console on a portable black & white CRT TV, so if there's one true gamer, then it's this guy. (points at own chest)
'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.'
@Vinny Shame he is true grown person that apparently spend all time getting drunk and doing whatever. All that time freed up by non gaming was clearly not spent reading or doing anything informative given that remarkable writing skill demonstrated in that post. I'd rather have nothing to do but bash pads and be literate than be involved in the real world and illiterate.
I bash pads all day to avoid the rest of the world because the rest of the world is filled with insufferable holes like himself, and given the choice between being exposed to them and therefore necessitating murdering them, or bashing pads, I just bash pads. Literately.
@Heavyarms55 Uh oh, @ThanosReXXX....Amtrak was mentioned. You may want to go in another thread and talk to Anti about DDR or something.....imma' be a while...
Seriously, though, your point is right, but there's basically two different Amtraks. There's the Northeast Corridor which is a real railroad, kinda. And then there's the rest of it. NEC is modern. Modern coaches, modern rails, concrete ties, funded, they just rebuilt the rails in the past decade, etc, heavy traffic. It's the only part of the system that actually turns a profit and funds the rest of it. Then there's the rest of it, like out mid-west. they don't actually own any rails there. They just lease time on freight rails. So the outdated ancient rails you're talking about are owned, operated, and maintained by, probably in your area, CN (largely owned by Bill Gates.....) and BNSF (largely owned by Berkshire Hathaway/Warren Buffett). It's "just good enough" for freight trains to get by. If Amtrak wants to pay to use it, fine by them....but Amtrak has zip all control over the rail condition....they're just using someone else's road. And there's less than zip all chance the government would actually build new railroads when a highway and airport can be built. And honestly it's hard to blame them because nobody rides the things anyway.....every single passenger line outside the Northeast Corridor loses money. Heck, even before Amtrak in the waning days of the mighty PRR (think of them as Google of the 19th century) most of the passenger lines were losing money. They went bankrupt in part because they wanted to cut nearly all passenger service and go mostly freight and infrequent stops (like current Amtrak) and the government wouldn't let them. And that was the 60's!
Worse, after the plague, Amtrak estimates radical ridership drop, they just got rid of 30+ percent of their total staff, and are shutting down a lot of routes to operate just once a day, some just once a week. With that, they're essentially gone. They exist as a name. But basically passenger rail in the US outside inter-city commuting and some of the Boston-DC route, we've basically just ended the last of passenger rail in the US. And we'll give another 3 trillion to airlines....heaven forbid we lose the airlines. I want to see airlines and cars vanish from the earth. I still don't get this world where everyone flies all the time. When I was a kid flight was a rare thing for mostly rich people for unusual events like a rare vacation or high powered business people, celebrities, leaders. I don't know how or when it became the new Grayhound. It existed, it was commercial, but it wasn't common. It certainly wasn't a normal part of life...it was something someone might do a few times in a lifetime if they had the money. I still can't comprehend what it's become and still can't believe post-plague people actually want it to continue.
And I was hoping we'd gradually move beyond the car at this point, but instead with the plague we're doubling down on it. It's like 1955 all over again but endless gridlock because back in 1955 every family had one and only one car, and mostly only men drove, and there was 1/10 the current total population.....so population * .10 (/ 2) and cut that in half per family....and there were a LOT less cars on the road. Cars are sentence of unending misery. That we're stuck with them is like an unending nightmare. If they would do the automated cars it would be ok....the routes could be planned and managed and a much better organized system could get things where they need to go. Things would move smoothly, the machines would move in diciplined, organized fashion, and you wouldn't have to dedicate your life to operating this ridiculous turn of last century machine while everyone tries to guess what everyone else is going to do next. Or if they actually enforced the laws. 45mph means 45.000000000 or below. PERIOD. Not this ridiculous "I go what speed I want to go, I won't get caught!" that rules the road now. If nothing else, install governors in every car and sensors on every road. What good is a LIMIT a.k.a maximum if people treat it as a MINIMUM? If you're going to do that why not eliminate limits entirely and let everyone do whatever they want for real...which is the same thing they do now, except the people that try to follow the rules to the letter no longer get crushed underfoot...everything is fair game rather than only being fair for the abusers. The people that do follow the rules get crushed under foot. It's like the plague and masks. What people call "freedom" is really "the ability to ignore the rules and do as you please to others, so long as you're the one getting the advantage out of it."
Heck, legalize murder. We can make the whole thing Carmageddon which is what the public really wants anyway. The only difference between Forza Horizon and real life is there's no gridlock in Forza. But you get points for near misses and sideswipes in both.
@Vinny That guy is either so mad that he lost his grammar skills, or he isn't a native English speaker. Either way, he's a massive tool. And I've been playing games FAR longer than him. I've seen it ALL, ever since I played Pong on a Pong console on a portable black & white CRT TV, so if there's one true gamer, then it's this guy. (points at own chest)
I played Pong once. It was on an iPad though... hey, I’m a relatively young gamer, okay!? Wait, was there actually a console called Pong, though?
@BruceCM Yup, and it was an absolute b**** to find the channels/picture on, with all these turning knobs and wheels. All analog and SUPER-sensitive. But we still had a blast, even though it was just Pong. But it was the 70s, so to us, this was all new and exciting, because computer games were something entirely new. Up until then, all we had was board games and outdoor play activities.
To give you an idea of what it looked like, here's two Pong home consoles that came closest in design to the actual device we used, in regards to similar design aspects that they shared with the ACTUAL Pong console we had (which I annoyingly couldn't find, even after an hour of Googling images):
The actual controllers looked more like the first picture, but the mid section of the second example comes closest to that of the console we had, albeit on our console, that mid section had all the text and so on displayed on an aluminium/aluminum plate, as a lot of these consoles had, back then. Well, either that, or wood veneer paneling, although that became more prevalent in the eighties, such as with the Atari 2600.
'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.'
@BabyYoshi12 Yes there was, or actually: there were. Dozens of them. Supposedly, the Atari Pong home console was the original, which was in turn inspired by the Pong Arcade machine, which was the very first arcade cabinet (it came out in 1972):
It was available in a range of colors, probably to make up for the actual screen being black & white...
'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.'
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