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12 minutes ago, Jose said:

I mean, at least if you're going to do pizza and burgers, do it right. Like Shake Shack and some solid pizza chain from DC would have been fine.

He could have also just order catering from his own hotel that is literally a couple blocks away.

Cool, so the plan was to leave Syria to Russia and Iran and then destroy Iran. Am I keeping score right?

6 hours ago, The def star said:

I'm not afraid to lose weapons it's just there is no incentive to fight random encounter enemies. The combat isn't fun to enjoy it and after the fight I done used up my weapons. I get that you can take your time with the game but I'd rather there be interesting characters to find along the way to my destination. Side stories to encounter. Engaging fights. The reason I'm going from point A to point B is because there isn't anything to do in point A I want to encounter something For example I just turned in the camera to that old lady in Koriko village I think. I see the 4 divine beast on my map now. Great want to go fight them but I have to travese this empty world. I helpd some last on a bridge being attack, found a horse stable and  it started raining spent 1 hour and that's all I got done because spent most of the time running in the rain. Others games have addressed the issues of filling up their open world's but sad I'm sad that Zelda didnt. Doesn't help that my stamina is low and climbing in the rain sucks.

 

I really want to enjoy this game. Any pointers in what I should focus on. I have 5 hearts, 1 circle of stamina and about 15 shrines under my belt. I can't fight those machines yet cuz I die in one shot so I just end up running away from them. Also can I craft arrows? I'm all out. Other than finding them do I have to buy them?

Here's my suggestion for getting the most out of the game. Climb up a tower, look around, out in the distance, and mark things that look interesting. They don't need to be story specific or a key destination. A weird looking out cropping? A small chunk grouping of trees? A random bridge or tree in the middle of nowhere? Mark that off, walk there, and see what you find along the way. Don't feel you need to be productive. The game is designed to just get you lost wandering around. There are like 120 shrines and many of them are locked behind quests.

2 minutes ago, The def star said:

Man I wish I could get into BotW. I'm a big Zelda fan but traversing in this game is a chore. I haven't been able to mount a horse successfully. So far I'm about 4 - 5 hours in and other than shrines and knowing where the Devine beast are I feel like there isn't much to do. The combat in the game isn't that great and other than collecting materials there is no incentive for me to fight the random enemies that pop up because they will just deteriorate my weapons. Maybe it's because The Witcher has spoiled me on open world fantasy games but Im just not having any fun with this game. I have been trying for the past year

This game is really about exploring and taking your time with things. If you're afraid of losing a weapon, you're already going into it with more gamer OCD than you probably should.

Amusingly, I have a few mounts, but I never really bothered with horses until very late in the game. The horses are good when traveling from one point to another quickly, but this game is really not about hitting icons on the map. I just don't see the need to rush from point a to b in this game, especially early on.

21 minutes ago, PaladinSolo said:

The problem is the childcare in many cases costs as much or almost as much as the second income, having 2 kids in childcare can easily cost you 500 a week or more, price is even higher for infants.  

I am crazily well aware of that. Before I had my third, my wife was working as a preschool teacher. Even with her discount, it still was wildly expensive. In my area, daycare for all three of my kids would run us nearly $1000 a week, which is more than most people make in a week. If it weren't for family, we would have had to space out our kids far enough that our oldest would be in school by the time we started on our next.

Just now, Anathema- said:

If you consider the fact that one parent is forgoing an income to do a ton of work at home for nothing it's not hard to imagine how expensive childcare is even for those that didn't have to shell out for it. 

Yeah, saving money in childcare by cutting your household income in half isn't really saving.

6 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Is this an intentional reference to daycares being a major vector for spreading disease?

Blah. Autocorrect.

21 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

We have three. They aren’t THAT expensive, but my wife had never planned to work outside the home so we haven’t had stuff like day care to pay for.

Day care is SO expensive. We have three. The cheapest daycare in the area charges close to $300 per child per week. Luckily we have family that helps watch the kids. Otherwise, I'm not convinced we could have afforded anything beyond our first.

4 hours ago, Bloodporne said:

I wonder what is ultimately worse, not having made one single decently funny movie like Hart...ever...or having made potentially two and then unloaded garbage for 20 years after haha. The philosophical debate goes deep here.

Adam Sandler is way worse. I don't know how much depth Kevin Hart has, so he's milking his talents for what they're worth. I can respect that. Adam Sandler may actually be a mildly talented actor...maybe. However, he seems content to just make movies that are mostly just excuses to party on a studio's dime.

3 minutes ago, Dodger said:

 

As in that if we weren't aborting approximately 800k babies a year in the U.S., so those 800k babies get born, would it have a statistically significant impact on the annual birth rate? So yes assuming abortion "totally ceased"

There are 11.8 abortions per 1000 woman in the US, so that 1.77 per woman would become 1.78 per woman.

7 minutes ago, Xbob42 said:

Yeah I get that, but wouldn't that be 2+ children per woman per lifetime, not per year? I should really, really go to bed. I feel like I'm gonna read this later and have a good chuckle.

No, the article is written dumb and they fixed it. It was 2.1 children per woman over that woman's lifetime. It's now 1.77 children per woman over hat woman's lifetime.

36 minutes ago, Xbob42 said:

Am I missing something here?

You missed the part where it says the current rate is 1,765.5 per 1,000. 2 children for every 1 woman keeps the population flat. Less than that and you end up with a declining population. For instance, Japan has been below 1.5 children per woman for a while now and it's freaking people in the country out. 1.77 children per woman is pretty bad unless you start supplementing that aging population with immigrants.

4 hours ago, ALIEN-gunner said:

What stuff are you hiding on that thing?

Ha. It's the same security stance I take on everything, so nothing of particular importance. I just don't have a low security setting in my brain.

5 hours ago, Jason said:

 

Everyone else is saying it's a port...

I meant that it was a new game compared to the previous New Super Mario games in the Wii and 3DS. If you've never played it on a Wii U, this is entirely new to you and totally worth the price. I'd double dip if the price were lower, but I'll likely pass stone I have it on the Wii U.

1 hour ago, Paperclyp said:

Are you doing that for security reasons or something? I never have to enter my password. 

Correct. I don't like my password being saved on the Switch because I don't trust its security. I don't leave a saved credit card either for the same reason. That's why I use PayPal for eShop purchases. Also, my password is like 30+ random characters. It's annoying to type out.

1 hour ago, DarkStar189 said:

I haven't checked the Switch store for a few months. Are the top downloaded $0.99 games cheap junk? It wouldn't surprise me if people are gaming the system the same way they do on Amazon. Either flooding the market with fake reviews, or in this case potentially paying people or companies to inflate the sales. Making them pop way up at the top of the Top Downloaded list. 

I don't know if Nintendo tweaks the best sellers list, but you can see it here: https://www.nintendo.com/games/nintendo-switch-bestsellers

I rarely check the store from my Switch. I usually just go through the browser store. It's so much easier than typing out my password on the touch screen.

1 hour ago, Jason said:

Is what came out on the 3DS the same as the Wii U versions or were those different? Not having had a Wii U I don't mind paying $60 if it's stuff I haven't played before.

This is a whole new game and it's fantastic.

The real answer is to just buy up a ton of commercial time nationwide and just air footage of Trump taking ownership for the shutdown.

Either that, or kill off fights heading into Palm Beach International. I mean, those flights are going to die off eventually if this keeps up, but Trump will be a whole lot more cooperative if his buddies can't fly out to Mar a Lago.

5 hours ago, ort said:

 

If I remember correctly, Gi-Ant Man was in Civil War TV commercials like a week after the movie came out.

You got it wrong. Giant Man was spoiled by Lego when they threw him on the cover of the boxes for the Civil War sets that came out leading up to the movie.

Just now, GameDadGrant said:

I wonder about that. Is it really more expensive for Nintendo? I mean, they ported over Captain Toad to 3DS last year, and that was a Wii U game...?

In Rainbow curse's case, you'd have to reformat the game away from the Wii U's widescreen aspect ratio or do some weird mouse control for touch screen versus the wide top screen. It just seems like a lot of work on a console Nintendo is trying to keep alive with ports. Captain Toad is an amazing port, I'll give you that. I didn't even think it was possible for it to end up looking so good on a 3DS.

3 hours ago, GameDadGrant said:

Two-player co-op better still be in this. 

 

When porting a console Kirby game to the 3DS, it honestly would have made more sense to port over Kirby and the Rainbow Curse instead, IMO. 

Yeah, but a Wii U to 3DS port would have been a lot more work than a Wii to 3DS port. These ports to keep the 3DS alive are really cheap ones.

2 minutes ago, nublood said:

Fair enough. But a wall physically, metaphorically, or whatever you want it to be, doesn't mean we don't want you here. It just means we want you to find the appropriate points of entry along said wall, and come into this country the right way. The current system in place just isn't working well enough.

There's a super easy way to illegally live in the country. Just legally enter the country with a passport or a visa and then never leave. That's how the vast majority of undocumented immigrants enter the nation. I'm not sure how a wall helps.

9 minutes ago, nublood said:

I guess I don't know the difference between a "wall" and a "barrier" then. Because the Dems (Sanders, Clinton, Obama, Biden, Schumer etc.) voted both in 2006 and 2013 for measures improving fencing and barriers to keep out illegal immigrants. So the stance they're taking now seems to be in stark contrast and quite frankly pretty hypocritical.

There's a difference between shoring up the wall that's already in place and using eminent domain to seize private land and build a wall there. We're talking about building a wall right down the middle of ranches and other protected lands. We're also tlaking about building a wall in places where one was never needed because natural obstacles already exist.

29 minutes ago, ThreePi said:

Paws Place is a front for something, isn't it?

It certainly is weird that Trump 2020 is donating campaign funds to them.

39 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:

 

I actually feel the opposite.  Since money enables speech, especially speech that you want a lot of people to hear, telling people or groups of people they cannot spend money to express their speech IS a restriction on their speech.

Then let's just restrict who can spend their money in elections to entities that can legally vote. Anyone arguing corporations are people can get in court and argue that their 18yo company should have the right to vote.