@Princess_Lilly Ah yeah I enjoyed Octo Expansion as well, might just be the best story mode of any Splatoon game. It's gotten a bit challenging as well. I have pretty high hopes for Side Order myself!
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I’m a bit of a frequent flyer. And it’s always an… experience…
First you gotta be there like two hours before your flight (which is super cool when the flight takes off early in the morning).
During the security screening, they make you ... then you have to scramble to put everything back together while still getting to your gate in time. Now all disheveled and sweaty.
Sounds like things haven't changed, then. It's been a while for me, but... yeah, they've trained us very well to progressively accept humiliation, deprivation of our rights as passengers and people, and bloody inconvenience in the bargain. And if we don't play along with absolutely all of this, if we dare to question, they try to shame us, as if expecting paid customers to have rights is the most unnatural thing in the world. Between "services" like United Airlines and regional monopolies in North America, it's like they're trying to kill their own industry.
For a while there in the '10s, flying out of the big airports in eastern Canada, I would be selected for "random security screenings" every single time I flew. Being on your own home ground when this nonsense happens should make you bolder, and I objected quite politely but firmly. Flying out of the USA, Latin America and Europe, though, is another matter...
Some of my American friends almost died and begged me to relent when I refused a security screening at LAX, but that California chill is real, and the airport security types were actually very polite. I think they were more surprised than anything else; no, I won't submit to being showered with X-rays by people with no background in medical imaging. I'm sure I wasn't the only one to refuse in such a big place, but people seem surprised when you assert yourself, nonetheless.
And then there’s the part where you anxiously wait for your documented luggage to reappear, because there’s always the chance it won’t! ... you better hope there’s no one else in your seat because that’s just awkward.
I must admit that no one has ever tried to steal my seat, so... maybe you have uniquely bad luck? All of this is to say that I can empathize with you here, Eel. These days, more than ever, we have to stand our ground.
I’m a bit of a frequent flyer. And it’s always an… experience…
First you gotta be there like two hours before your flight (which is super cool when the flight takes off early in the morning).
During the security screening, they make you ... then you have to scramble to put everything back together while still getting to your gate in time. Now all disheveled and sweaty.
Sounds like things haven't changed, then. It's been a while for me, but... yeah, they've trained us very well to progressively accept humiliation, deprivation of our rights as passengers and people, and bloody inconvenience in the bargain. And if we don't play along with absolutely all of this, if we dare to question, they try to shame us, as if expecting paid customers to have rights is the most unnatural thing in the world. Between "services" like United Airlines and regional monopolies in North America, it's like they're trying to kill their own industry.
For a while there in the '10s, flying out of the big airports in eastern Canada, I would be selected for "random security screenings" every single time I flew. Being on your own home ground when this nonsense happens should make you bolder, and I objected quite politely but firmly. Flying out of the USA, Latin America and Europe, though, is another matter...
Some of my American friends almost died and begged me to relent when I refused a security screening at LAX, but that California chill is real, and the airport security types were actually very polite. I think they were more surprised than anything else; no, I won't submit to being showered with X-rays by people with no background in medical imaging. I'm sure I wasn't the only one to refuse in such a big place, but people seem surprised when you assert yourself, nonetheless.
And then there’s the part where you anxiously wait for your documented luggage to reappear, because there’s always the chance it won’t! ... you better hope there’s no one else in your seat because that’s just awkward.
I must admit that no one has ever tried to steal my seat, so... maybe you have uniquely bad luck? All of this is to say that I can empathize with you here, Eel. These days, more than ever, we have to stand our ground.
Having lived in multiple countries in just a handful of years I've got experience travelling on many levels... and I've grown to absolutely despise it the older I get. My parents' job meant we could fly business for the super long-haul trips (Singapore to London for example was 14 hours) once every blue moon, and that definitely eased the exhaustion of travelling both in the airports and on the plane. But we flew pretty frugally wherever possible, and we've had some really bad ones in the past, like the budget airlines that take away a lot of the complementary things and sell them back to you at a premium. Somehow even though I checked in a suitcase with a PS5 stuffed with clothes it not only appeared but in perfect condition too.
The treamtent thing is a fair point, though I can't speak about it on the same terms since I've never used an American airline. Once in India our flight was delayed three hours, we missed our connection, and had to spend the night in Delhi in a moth-eaten motel. But that was a super freak incident... though as far as actual airport experiences go I've been through airports in the Middle East and they've got it down to perfection as far as I'm concerned, on a normal day you can get from the airport entrance past passport control in ten minutes. By comparison in the UK they've just began letting you keep your electronics inside your bag, something the Middle East (and other countries I'm sure) has had for at least six-seven years now.
By comparison in the UK they've just began letting you keep your electronics inside your bag, something the Middle East (and other countries I'm sure) has had for at least six-seven years now.
Bag as in checked luggage, or carry-on?
that was a super freak incident... though as far as actual airport experiences go I've been through airports in the Middle East and they've got it down to perfection as far as I'm concerned, on a normal day you can get from the airport entrance past passport control in ten minutes.
Thank you for your perspective. I mean, this is kind of the point of travel - that we get to compare and contrast different places, different experiences. Maybe people in the North Atlantic countries have become too insular, and not enough of us see how many places in the world are outclassing us. I really regret not seeing any part of Asia as yet.
@IceDomino I had a few Japanese friendsonline, and tehy were really nice. I helped them with their English and they helped with my Japanese, it was pretty cool.
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What I also know is that South Korea is NOT too fond of Japan, so “WarioWare: Smooth Moves” had to edit that samurai micro game (where you pick up the Wii Remote to attack an assassin) so it’s about Wario defending a pile of bananas from a monkey instead, using the same controls.
I’ve only used Mexican airlines, so I can’t speak for other countries’ (though I’ve seen that video of the American airline that had airport security beat up and forcefully remove a doctor because they oversold a flight and needed the seat for a different passenger, so at least ours aren’t that level of evil).
My worst airport experience was at the Tijuana airport, we got in using the paid USA-Mexico tunnel that leads directly to the Tijuana International Airport. Mind you this was after being in the USA for over a week.
There were literally hundreds of people waiting in line to document luggage, and only one single person working at the desk. After several hours of waiting in an overstuffed room full of annoyed people, it was finally our time to document. We had to prepare an extra bag last moment due to reasons, but no biggie, we were expecting the charge, we had dollars at hand, and money in the bank account. But then….
In this big international airport, at a desk that is (literally) directly outside the exit gate from the United States… They did not accept credit, debit nor dollars. They wanted pesos in cash, exclusively. We didn’t have enough pesos in cash! We had been in the United States for over a week: the only pesos remaining was the chump change that didn’t get turned into dollars before the trip.
Our only option was to run to the closest convenience store outside of the airport, because obviously, at this huge international airport, they also don’t have any working ATMs, and run back in as soon as possible because the gremlin at the desk refused to attend anyone else until we finished our transaction.
So then you have the one and only person working at that desk, with a line of people that is still in the hundreds behind us, doing nothing for like 20 minutes, waiting for one of us to run the huge lap between the desk and the convenience store that, again, is outside of the airport grounds.
In the end, another person waiting in line completed the payment for us out of desperation before we returned with the money.
Can’t I just fry them in butter and make them less bitter? Or can I just take a pill that gives me their vitamins without needing to deal with the gross textures of those plants?
@IceDomino I mean this only as genuine curiosity, not provocatively, but you often talk about how you’re getting into arguments on this site yet I’ve never seen you argue with anyone. So I’m wondering if this type of exchange about vegetables you just had is something you’d consider an argument?
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