Sounds about enough for a decent down payment on reliable vehicle. Then I would still have to pay off whatever is left and make insurance payments and licencing tax, so ironically if I magically made 20k, I would end up spending more than solving anything.

Meanwhile in my country 20k USD is like, your mortgage payments and property taxes and insurance for almost half a year if you have a decent home in or near a city.

Sounds like some cheap ass motorcycles tbh

While we still can, sure.

In about another year or two, even the most detailed inspection is going to be almost impossible to differentiate so we might as well get some enjoyment now in kicking them out.

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Media has fallen off a cliff in the last few years. Nobody but some of the older, more respected institutions do anything but publish rage-bait, pandering nonsense and clickbait headlines and filler stories meant to get grabbed by algorithms in content aggregation social media sites so they get traffic. It’s doing all of us a lot of harm being fed just the shit we want to hear, it’s literally why we have people arguing about the shape of the Earth right now.

The timing is great as I learn my healthcare premiums are likely to go up by over a thousand dollars a month.

The hard reality is that if you are pursuing higher education and you’re not also part of the culture of connections and schmoozing and socializing and having your parents party with the parents of faculty members and deans and heads of this and that, your chances of getting a job with your degree are about the same as your chances of just lying on linkedin.

Speaking as someone who landed a corporate tech job from lying on linkedin, and seeing friends with degrees flipping burgers if they’re lucky.

Likewise, going to college alone does nothing to ensure you’re going to get a job that can afford a house.

Gotcha, fixed.

The biggest crime here is that people are actually looking forward to a game that will INEVITABLY be the same GTA slop we’ve been playing since the turn of the goddamn millenium.

Graphics are no longer a selling point, we can make anything look like anything now. Unique gameplay and immersive narratives and interactive mechanics are now the way games stand out. Look how popular far simpler social games are like Repo and the like. look how well a goddamn knockoff of S.T.A.L.K.E.R did (Misery) and it was the most basic survival mechanics and it was made by one person and it looks like it crawled out of a Playstation 2… but it was engaging and addicting because it was trying new ways to do old things.

All that aside, yeah our countries hate unions and hate workers and everyone in power hates you and wants you to die.

A religious state is a funny thing. There’s a pretty fuzzy line between legality and cultural taboos. I mean, the place has a president and a supreme religious leader. A religious mandate is almost the same as a law in these kinds of conditions, but like with everything, everywhere, Iran is a big place and I’m sure it varies a lot by region and neighborhood.

“Ivan, pull the lever to lower the price of vodka a leetle bit more, the peasants need to be pacified.”

It’s not so much a nation as it is a very large swath of land nobody wants to live in, controlled by a somewhat organized crime syndicate who gained control of some production and defense capabilities like petroleum and nuclear weapons.

Calling them “colonial” almost makes it seem more systematic and organized than what it is, it’s kleptocracy and they are trying to steal land with resources from targets of opportunity.

We’re only a matter of time from a sporting regime where it’s just broadly “open” to a level bordering on chaos, and it’s the only thing that is going to keep people watching.

The “should trans people compete” debate is going to be overshadowed by the “should people with extra hearts and enhanced organs be allowed to compete” debate.

The idea of “preserving fairness” in sports is wild when you think about it. Nothing about sports is “fair” you only succeed by getting an unfair advantage over your opponents, we just like to delude ourselves into thinking that because we set some kind of parameters around this capability to gain an advantage, that it’s “fair.”

For a game that is supposed to encourage exploration to start off saying not to?

It’s an odd point to get hung up on, I can certainly describe a lot of areas the game is lacking by today’s standards and some other open-world type games, but this wasn’t one of them for me. Some people are going to feel challenged by being told “don’t go there” and some people will feel offended and some people won’t think much of it I guess.

I’m pretty sure out of the 340,000,000+ Americans, there are probably SOME who aren’t ICE agents.

Yeah so you do have a point though that it seems more challenging to make friends, as a strange new form of mass-hysteria has enveloped the younger population in particular that makes everyone not want to hang out with everyone else and withdraw into their own heads, overthinking everything.

But it’s not the entirety of the nation. Not yet anyway. It just seems that way from what we see and read, but the people who do want friends and connection are still out there doing things. So our challenge if we want to nurture our social lives is be out doing things. Have interests, passions, have energy. If you’re tired and groggy and achy from staying inside, then that’s your cue to stop staying inside.

1. Do things until you find something that ignites a spark of some kind of feeling or emotion.

2. Pursue that thing until that spark turns into a passion. Or even a healthy interest that holds your attention. You might need to force it a little to break your habits.

3. The passion is shared. There are enough people to guarantee this. It will happen naturally if you’re not deliberately trying to avoid people. The internet and discord-type groups should be your “staging area” not your substitute. It doesn’t matter if it’s Warhammer miniature gaming or rock climbing or reading books, there is someone out there somewhere who wants to share the enjoyment with someone else.

I mean… sure, I guess it bears mentioning my first playthrough I did brave the deathclaws and survived by being sneaky and took a wildly different path than most people at the time.

The idea isn’t that there’s an easier path of least resistance you can take, but that it actually let’s you go off the rails if you give it effort or come up with some logical ideas.

In modern gaming, solving problems with logic is almost dead, and NV had a lot of that.

If this is your only option for socialization… then something is wrong with your life, please do something before settling on this den of shut-ins and literal children.

I couldn’t connect with Outer Worlds either. I gave it a good shot but it didn’t give me any new feelings or enjoyment.

New Vegas was one of the best games of its type… for the time. It doesn’t hold up well on a technical level, the side quests are largely less immersive and interesting because our expectations have broadly changed. It was by far the best game I had played… in 2010. A lot has changed in the intervening 15 years and now the game feels small, cramped and limited in scope, to say nothing of how dated the graphics are.

What people are really saying when they hype up New Vegas was how much the story mattered. And how you had actual choices that impacted things, something that is dreadfully absent in modern games that have to play it safe and make sure the player has exactly the experience intended. When was the last time you played a game where you could skip right to the last boss and kill him (or join him!) and then the game goes on and people now know what happened or can learn that you did it? It would be AMAZING with today’s technical advances to have that kind of freedom and involvement with a storyline.