U.S.A. What Does' "Parents' Rights" Really Mean?

[Jon]

I was driving through West Virginia two months ago and stopped at a Wendy’s that had a huge banner out front ADVERTISING that their starting wage was $9 an hour. Like that was best-in-class.

Different place.

 

[Mark]

I was driving through West Virginia two months ago and stopped at a Wendy’s that had a huge banner out front ADVERTISING that their starting wage was $9 an hour. Like that was best-in-class.

Different place.

Dude, it’s like a fucking wasteland there. I dunno how people get by. My friend in Tera Alta says there’s a sawmill keeping the town afloat when it all used to be all about mining and quarrying back in the day.

I'd always assumed they were once just "Virginia" and "Carolina" until Cletus A got mad at Cletus B bad enough that they put an imaginary border on a map.

You’re not far from the truth.

 

[Jon]

Dude, it’s like a fucking wasteland there. I dunno how people get by. My friend in Tera Alta says there’s a sawmill keeping the town afloat when it all used to be all about mining and quarrying back in the day.

Sounds like a locale for a great Fallout game!

Oh wait....

 

[Mark]

Sounds like a locale for a great Fallout game!

Oh wait....

Hey, 3 hit the nail right on the head for 2020’s Maryland/VA/PA.

 

[Jon]

Hey, 3 hit the nail right on the head for 2020’s Maryland/VA/PA.

You never played Fallout 76, huh?

 

[Mark]

You never played Fallout 76, huh?

Nope, got it sitting in the library, but the whole mess at launch turned me off of it. Love the others, though.

 

[Advocate for Ants! Mouth]

I'd always assumed they were once just "Virginia" and "Carolina" until Cletus A got mad at Cletus B bad enough that they put an imaginary border on a map.

Correct on Virginia (West Virginia left during the civil war after Virginia seceded from the union so it could stay), but the Carolinas do not have the same origin story, sadly.

 

[Ben]

You never played Fallout 76, huh?

If I know anything about @Tommy Boy, it's that he loves him some Fallout. I think 76, too.

I have no real reason for mentioning this except I want to summon someone to a thread like some kind of bored internet wizard.

 

[Jon]

Nope, got it sitting in the library, but the whole mess at launch turned me off of it. Love the others, though.

Yeah, I made the mistake of playing it at launch. And I gave up on it. Loved 3 and New Vegas (probably the best imo). 4 was ok. But 76 was flat out disgustingly bad.

 

[Mark]

Yeah, I made the mistake of playing it at launch. And I gave up on it. Loved 3 and New Vegas (probably the best imo). 4 was ok. But 76 was flat out disgustingly bad.

I have 4 on my PS4 still, I started a new run through with the game loaded with mods. Definitely fixes a lot of the issues I had with it, but not all of them. It just took me a while to get the map down, it was easier knowing which direction to head to get places based on their real life location.

 

[Ben]

I will admit to having spent a lot of time in Fallout 4 playing with factory mods. I had a whole automated conveyor system that would sort junk into types, break it down, all that shit. Spent most of my time after beating the story line just making it more and more efficient.

I have problems.

 

[Mark]

I will admit to having spent a lot of time in Fallout 4 playing with factory mods. I had a whole automated conveyor system that would sort junk into types, break it down, all that shit. Spent most of my time after beating the story line just making it more and more efficient.

I have problems.

Dude, I turned Sanctuary into a brutalist hellscape. The cul-de-sac at the end is a fortress with more turrets than enemies and my people have their own hoard of Deathclaws. I LIKE problems.

 

[shortkut]

Yes Bill Gates injected me with my chip personally, every frog I have been near since has turned gay

That should help with Australia’s invasive species problem

 

[Tommy Boy]

If I know anything about @Tommy Boy, it's that he loves him some Fallout. I think 76, too.

I have no real reason for mentioning this except I want to summon someone to a thread like some kind of bored internet wizard.

Ahhhh yes, I put a lot of time into Fallout 76. Fuckin hated it at first. Didn't touch it from 2018 - 2020. When I finally forced myself to pick it up during COVID, I fell in love. It's Fallout 4 with multiplayer and updates. The lore was really good, the story was really compelling. It was overall a fantastic game. I'd still be playing now if I hadn't run it into the ground in 2021.

All the launch problems are fixed. It's intimidating playing on a mutliplayer server at first, but there are rarely griefers. Just mostly people helping. I said fuck it and bought Fallout 1st (paid monthly membership) while I was active, gives you your own private server if you really feel like you can't play with others. I played the entire story line alone on my private server before ever going pub. Once I went pub, I had quickly forgotten what I was afraid of. The community was fuckin awesome.

Highly recommend.

 

[VashTheStampede]

Fallout 76 is good

No Man's Sky is good

Cyberpunk 2077 is great

I love gaming comeback stories

 

[Kat]

No Man's Sky is good

Is it finally good? Every time I've tried to pick it back up, it's been even buggier than the last time I gave up on it.

 

[VashTheStampede]

Is it finally good? Every time I've tried to pick it back up, it's been even buggier than the last time I gave up on it.

Its been good for a couple years now IMO, and they keep adding a ton of stuff every few months. I've never had bug issues with it, maybe I've just been lucky. I play on console, if that makes a difference.

 

[Ben]

I played No Man's Sky a few years back and never had noticeable bugs, either, on PS4/PS5. Really good game though, and the progression from surface level into space felt fairly well scaled.

I also played a ton of Ark, but that just... Stayed buggy. And they kept releasing new expansions without fixing existing bugs. Now they seem to have ditched Ark 2 in favor of rereleasing Ark with updated graphics and are pushing even more DLC. Been over that for a few years.

 

[Crystal]

I played No Man's Sky at launch and had no issues with it whatsoever...it wasn't much of a fleshed out game, but it was fine. Nice to see they still add to it.

 

[Mark]

I also played a ton of Ark, but that just... Stayed buggy. And they kept releasing new expansions without fixing existing bugs. Now they seem to have ditched Ark 2 in favor of rereleasing Ark with updated graphics and are pushing even more DLC. Been over that for a few years.

Ark was recommended to me, I played the PS4 version. I died trying to navigate rocks and obstacles. It’s not for me, because I died the same way in another first-person survival called “Stranded Deep”… just trying to figure out how to move around the world.

 

[VashTheStampede]

I died the same way in another first-person survival called “Stranded Deep”… just trying to figure out how to move around the world.

That's too close to real life for me

 

[Mark]

That's too close to real life for me

Exactly. I wanna escape, not relive.

 

[Ben]

Ark was recommended to me, I played the PS4 version. I died trying to navigate rocks and obstacles. It’s not for me, because I died the same way in another first-person survival called “Stranded Deep”… just trying to figure out how to move around the world.

It's very unforgiving to new players. If I wasn't such a dinosaur nerd I wouldn't have stuck with it.

There were absolutely times that my real life relationship was strained by that game, playing it with my partner. By about the fifth time she caused us to lose our pteranodons, or when we caught swamp fever, I had to take a break.

I absolutely never got into multiplayer. Without a huge clan, you're just continually reset by asshats who live on the game 24/7. Very hard to make progress as an antisocial solo player, but I guess that's why singleplayer exists.

 

[Tommy Boy]

By about the fifth time she caused us to lose our pteranodons, or when we caught swamp fever, I had to take a break.

Oh god, I can imagine. Pretty much the entire reason I don't play these types of games with my GF. We can't even get through It Takes Two

 

[Mark]

Oh god, I can imagine. Pretty much the entire reason I don't play these types of games with my GF. We can't even get through It Takes Two

 

[Ben]

Oh god, I can imagine. Pretty much the entire reason I don't play these types of games with my GF. We can't even get through It Takes Two

Hah.

We actually got through It Takes Two without too much drama, so I guess we've grown and learnt our lesson. But it's also pretty poignant since our actual daughter is called Rose, so the whole thing felt more personal.

That's also the same reason I had a hard time getting through Resident Evil Village, because... Y'know.

 

[Mark]

Hah.

We actually got through It Takes Two without too much drama, so I guess we've grown and learnt our lesson. But it's also pretty poignant since our actual daughter is called Rose, so the whole thing felt more personal.

That's also the same reason I had a hard time getting through Resident Evil Village, because... Y'know.

We really enjoyed It Takes Two, we just played through it a second time and realized that we missed a whole bunch of stuff the first time through.

 

[Smacktard]

Oh god, I can imagine. Pretty much the entire reason I don't play these types of games with my GF. We can't even get through It Takes Two

We loved It Takes Two. If any part was a little frustrating, the game cheats a little bit and pushes you ahead. For some really tough parts though we had to switch controllers haha.

Now the wife wants to play Overcooked, so I fully expect we'll hate each other soon and destroy the bond we created with It Takes Two

 

[Mark]

We loved It Takes Two. If any part was a little frustrating, the game cheats a little bit and pushes you ahead. For some really tough parts though we had to switch controllers haha.

Now the wife wants to play Overcooked, so I fully expect we'll hate each other soon and destroy the bond we created with It Takes Two

She’s trying to get me to try Overcooked, but isn’t it just like one of those time-management cooking games that those damn kids play?

 

[Ben]

Overcooked is the devil. Definitely builds frustration and blame like a motherfucker.

It's not really "time management" per say, but definitely one where it's possible for one player to mess up the whole flow and make you fail a level.

I much preferred Moving Out in that regard. Still coop, but it's so whacky you only laugh at the fails.

 

[Tommy Boy]

We liked Movin Out. We cannot play Overcooked. Fuck no.

 

[Mark]

We liked Movin Out. We cannot play Overcooked. Fuck no.

We’re at the part of Moving Out where you smoke a few bowls before you start, and then take care of the munchies.

 

[VashTheStampede]

We liked Movin Out. We cannot play Overcooked. Fuck no.

Christina becomes some sort of evil demon lady when we play Overcooked.

My friends get scared of her.

 

[VashTheStampede]

She started kind of yelling at me for just bringing this up.

"THERE HAS TO BE AN ORDER TO THINGS!"

 

[Mark]

Christina becomes some sort of evil demon lady when we play Overcooked.

My friends get scared of her.

So… it’s safe to say that’s her equivalent of D&D for you?

 

[Christina]

Yes Chef!

 

[shortkut]

Yes Chef!

 

[Fire Queen]

no one here has yet mentioned the ultimate relationship test: portal 2 co-op

 

[Christina]

Man, Vash and I have enough issues with lego games. I apparently am not that good at lego games.

Oh story time!!!

So we were going to play halo co-op together and play through all the games. I don't really play a lot of shooter type games and I suck. So we could never finish the first Halo game because at the end I wasn't good enough to be the shooter and I sucked so bad at driving the warthog.

 

[Tommy Boy]

no one here has yet mentioned the ultimate relationship test: portal 2 co-op

God this game. We want to play SO bad but her MacBook doesn't support Portal 2. Other games yeah, but for whatever reason there's a cutoff for certain Macs that are able to play this game in particular. FFS.

 

[Jon]

God this game. We want to play SO bad but her MacBook doesn't support Portal 2. Other games yeah, but for whatever reason there's a cutoff for certain Macs that are able to play this game in particular. FFS.

You can't access steam on Macs?

 

[Raine]

What in the name of Baphomet…

That gif with the guy walking into the burning apartment carrying pizza isn’t remotely qualified for the sensation of returning to this thread a couple of weeks later. I’ve missed a lot, huh?


Overcooked is really fun, just as long as you don’t actually care about winning. Perfectly accurate simulation of what a kitchen is like with more than one person!

and I sucked so bad at driving the warthog.

It’s okay, everyone sucks at driving the warthogs. Thing controls like complete ass.

 

[Mark]

What in the name of Baphomet…

That gif with the guy walking into the burning apartment carrying pizza isn’t remotely qualified for the sensation of returning to this thread a couple of weeks later. I’ve missed a lot, huh?

Shitposting department redirects threats threads.

 

[Tommy Boy]

You can't access steam on Macs?

Apple deprecated, then eventually removed, support for 32-bit applications entirely from MacOS Catalina onward. The only way you can play the MacOS ports nowadays is to dual-boot MacOS Mojave and make sure the Mojave install doesn't auto update, which she's entirely unwilling to do, for obvious reasons.

 

[Tommy Boy]

So really just 32-bit games don't work. There are plenty of 64-bit games on the store, but kind of limited to the cross-platform stuff.

 

[shortkut]

So really just 32-bit games don't work. There are plenty of 64-bit games on the store, but kind of limited to the cross-platform stuff.

Why doesn’t she just make a windows partition and dual boot. They’ve had that functionality for a long time

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Oh god, I can imagine. Pretty much the entire reason I don't play these types of games with my GF. We can't even get through It Takes Two

I played a good chunk of It Takes Two with my brother when I was visiting him for the holidays. Fantastic gameplay aside, those two characters are insufferable. I don't know how people like that get married in the first place if they get upset at each over the pettiest shit.

 

[Kat]

I played a good chunk of It Takes Two with my brother when I was visiting him for the holidays. Fantastic gameplay aside, those two characters are insufferable. I don't know how people like that get married in the first place if they get upset at each over the pettiest shit.

I'm not disagreeing, but I found it to be relatable.

 

[Mark]

I played a good chunk of It Takes Two with my brother when I was visiting him for the holidays. Fantastic gameplay aside, those two characters are insufferable. I don't know how people like that get married in the first place if they get upset at each over the pettiest shit.

CO-DDDDDDYYYYY.

You didn’t like hearing that over, and over, and over?

I'm not disagreeing, but I found it to be relatable.

Yes, because I often find myself battling sentient vacuums and listening to books tell me about how much of a fuck-up I am.

 

[Tommy Boy]

Why doesn’t she just make a windows partition and dual boot. They’ve had that functionality for a long time

She doesn't wanna do that either.