personally I just show them a replay where I got a double freeze off blizzard in a room tour finals and say I am even luckier to have found you and then they run away, but this might work better
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i have actually bought it, i can send a picture for proof later if you want
pictures aren't enough, make sure to send your credit card number so we can check the purchase history
I made a US map that reduces the number of states and had fun. I brought it down to 32 states I felt were reasonable. Couldn't justify paring down more to myself. Curious what people think about it.
My Requirements
1) Only merges, no changing borders around more granularly.
2) New states should make sense geographically.
- No merging disconnected states.
- No gerrymander-style wacky shapes.
- Traveling from one state to the other shouldn't be a huge pain.
3) New states should make sense in culture/vibes ways.
- Like, I'm definitely not reuniting the Virginias here, just because they were together 150 years ago.
I identify new states by the primary city in their borders.
West (4):
Seattle State
California
Nevada
Phoenix State
Far West (2):
Alaska
Hawai'i
Mountain West (4):
Boise State
Utah
Colorado
Sioux Falls State
Midwest (5):
Omaha State
Twin Cities State
Chicago State
Michigan
Columbus State
Heartland (3)
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Deep South (4):
Texas
Louisiana
Atlanta State
Florida
Appalachia and Lehigh (3):
Nashville State
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Mid-Atlantic (3):
Charlotte State
District of Columbia
Baltimore State
Big New England (4)
New York
New Jersey
Boston State
Manchester State
My Requirements
1) Only merges, no changing borders around more granularly.
2) New states should make sense geographically.
- No merging disconnected states.
- No gerrymander-style wacky shapes.
- Traveling from one state to the other shouldn't be a huge pain.
3) New states should make sense in culture/vibes ways.
- Like, I'm definitely not reuniting the Virginias here, just because they were together 150 years ago.
I identify new states by the primary city in their borders.
West (4):
Seattle State
California
Nevada
Phoenix State
Far West (2):
Alaska
Hawai'i
Mountain West (4):
Boise State
Utah
Colorado
Sioux Falls State
Midwest (5):
Omaha State
Twin Cities State
Chicago State
Michigan
Columbus State
Heartland (3)
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Deep South (4):
Texas
Louisiana
Atlanta State
Florida
Appalachia and Lehigh (3):
Nashville State
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Mid-Atlantic (3):
Charlotte State
District of Columbia
Baltimore State
Big New England (4)
New York
New Jersey
Boston State
Manchester State
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Michigan is unchanged, so I support this map.
if you're gonna merge washington and oregon together like a maniac could you consider donating everything east of the cascades to idaho?
I know it would break your rules but I have to throw in a shot at Jersey whenever I can, so I have to say merge north Jersey with New York (wannabe NYC) and south Jersey with Pennsylvania (wannabe Philly).
Yes, I am the person who hates to see a bitch from New Jersey winning
Yes, I am the person who hates to see a bitch from New Jersey winning
no :)
if this were to be made law, then i would be moving out of indiana asap so i dont have the misfortune of being in the same state as ohio
I don’t want Idaho to have our apples tho
boiii only in ohio 67
Something prompted this. I must know.
"hate. let me tell you how much ive come to hate you since i began to live" ahh post
I actually didn't want to post it and wanted to work on it, but I guess my finger slipped
I wanted to read up on some MS experiences after my diagnosis and I went to the ms subreddit and all these people are fucking awful
Every post is "I was diagnosed 10 years ago, refused treatment and healthy lifestyle choices, and now my life is ruined from no fault of myself. Life sucks and fuck my doctors"
It's self made misery concentrated. And that's all of reddit. People that ruined their lives through hubris and plain stupidity that make statements about society and the world surrounding them based entirely on their failures as a human. A place for people that are mid witted drones
I wanted to read up on some MS experiences after my diagnosis and I went to the ms subreddit and all these people are fucking awful
Every post is "I was diagnosed 10 years ago, refused treatment and healthy lifestyle choices, and now my life is ruined from no fault of myself. Life sucks and fuck my doctors"
It's self made misery concentrated. And that's all of reddit. People that ruined their lives through hubris and plain stupidity that make statements about society and the world surrounding them based entirely on their failures as a human. A place for people that are mid witted drones
>Find cool main protagonist of a show
>Consider watching said series, look up character's name for more info
>"<Character> death" is the first auto-complete result
Well, I finally forced myself to read the remaster's new additions to the Mario Galaxy storybook. I did not think they would be good. As I've complained enough about in other fora, Nintendo quickly abandoned the heart of Mario Galaxy 1, its earnest emotional core and wisdom. Galaxy 2 replaced it with that of traditional Mario games, but at least respected Rosalina as a character and made her brief presence sensible. Post-Galaxy 2, her character has been scrapped and reworked to become a Peach/Daisy-like. Given all this, I did not think their attempt to return to the beating heart of Galaxy's heart, the storybook, would go well.
It didn't go well. It was terrible pissing. Besides the art, which is often (not always) above complaint, it was predominantly nonsense and trite. The edgelord luma from the movie is here and he references the movie!!! Wow!!! So cool worldbuilding!!! Great brand cohesion tie in!!! Even the music strikes me as hollow. Surely the circumstances don't help, but I was distinctly unenamored with the new track I listened to before seeing the story. I don't understand why they'd bother making this. If they wanted a hot new thing to snag people in, surely they could've just made a new level, instead of this junk and lore video fodder?
I'll highlight some of the worst panels/bits. The worst offenders are in the 2 storybook, 1's additions are more just, trite empty calories.
Wowie brand tie in corporate synergy xo!
Creepy art. Creepy text. What and why.
Show, don't tell.
One might think, like, Galaxy 2 is taking the "storybook" assignment very literally, and being something that you'd read to toddlers?
Well, probably not, because it's all about your family members being separated from you for a hundred years and dying.
God help you if you thought "a hundred years" was me being metaphorical.
Anyway.
I honest to god don't know what "the path" is supposed to mean. Maybe it's not supposed to mean anything. Maybe this storybook is not supposed to mean anything.
Yeah we don't encourage evaluating people by how "useful" they are here.
Trite.
OK I'll say a nice thing. This art of Lu(bba) is actually funny and cute. I like it.
There's like, bigger-picture issues than these individual panels, especially with 2's, but I just can't. Get into it all right now. There's so much on like every level. It's worse than line by line, it's also meta-line by meta-line. I'll just highlight the unhinged nonsense of Galaxy 1's storybook chronicling Rosalina's complex growing understanding of her loss, and Galaxy 2 being like, yeah the characters will find each other again it's fine :)))))).
Here are some of the comments of the video showing the new Content, which is a good indication too.
I want to restrain myself here. Being a lorehead, or struggling to grasp art, or not caring about the particular art piece of the real storybook, isn't, like, bad. We all have things we find fun, even if they're not high-falutin' capital M Meaningful, and we all have dimensions of the human experience we don't take in as strongly. I am not better than these people, but they do not Get It in this particular subject.
As for why they'd make it instead of a level or something, laziness is a reasonable explanation. They could tack "storybook material" onto something existing, and tack on they did. In addition to the content being tacked-on in ways I won't; Get into right now; the Galaxy 2 book was randomly stashed in the Engine Room. (Same book and chair assets as Galaxy 1! By the way! Couldn't even make new assets!) In Galaxy 1 the storybook was important enough to get its own room. Now it's an afterthought.
This honest to god looks like a genuine placeholder or developer screen for beta testing.
I didn't have to care about this. Companies make shitty art all the time, and shitty art that shambles the corpse of real art all the time. But it got to me.
But you know what.
While getting to the new stuff, I saw glimpses of the old storybook, so earnest and true which I loved. It was an excuse to go back to that book. And, beyond being a good and valuable piece of art that I like, it fit in really well to mean a lot to my life personally. And it made me smile to have that play on, and while I'll intellectually remember my analysis points of the new stuff, I think my soft contentment at seeing the old stuff will matter more than my gamer rage at the new stuff (even if it was good to get off my chest). And that's good, really.
It didn't go well. It was terrible pissing. Besides the art, which is often (not always) above complaint, it was predominantly nonsense and trite. The edgelord luma from the movie is here and he references the movie!!! Wow!!! So cool worldbuilding!!! Great brand cohesion tie in!!! Even the music strikes me as hollow. Surely the circumstances don't help, but I was distinctly unenamored with the new track I listened to before seeing the story. I don't understand why they'd bother making this. If they wanted a hot new thing to snag people in, surely they could've just made a new level, instead of this junk and lore video fodder?
I'll highlight some of the worst panels/bits. The worst offenders are in the 2 storybook, 1's additions are more just, trite empty calories.
Wowie brand tie in corporate synergy xo!
Creepy art. Creepy text. What and why.
Show, don't tell.
One might think, like, Galaxy 2 is taking the "storybook" assignment very literally, and being something that you'd read to toddlers?
Well, probably not, because it's all about your family members being separated from you for a hundred years and dying.
God help you if you thought "a hundred years" was me being metaphorical.
Anyway.
I honest to god don't know what "the path" is supposed to mean. Maybe it's not supposed to mean anything. Maybe this storybook is not supposed to mean anything.
Yeah we don't encourage evaluating people by how "useful" they are here.
Trite.
OK I'll say a nice thing. This art of Lu(bba) is actually funny and cute. I like it.
There's like, bigger-picture issues than these individual panels, especially with 2's, but I just can't. Get into it all right now. There's so much on like every level. It's worse than line by line, it's also meta-line by meta-line. I'll just highlight the unhinged nonsense of Galaxy 1's storybook chronicling Rosalina's complex growing understanding of her loss, and Galaxy 2 being like, yeah the characters will find each other again it's fine :)))))).
Here are some of the comments of the video showing the new Content, which is a good indication too.
I want to restrain myself here. Being a lorehead, or struggling to grasp art, or not caring about the particular art piece of the real storybook, isn't, like, bad. We all have things we find fun, even if they're not high-falutin' capital M Meaningful, and we all have dimensions of the human experience we don't take in as strongly. I am not better than these people, but they do not Get It in this particular subject.
As for why they'd make it instead of a level or something, laziness is a reasonable explanation. They could tack "storybook material" onto something existing, and tack on they did. In addition to the content being tacked-on in ways I won't; Get into right now; the Galaxy 2 book was randomly stashed in the Engine Room. (Same book and chair assets as Galaxy 1! By the way! Couldn't even make new assets!) In Galaxy 1 the storybook was important enough to get its own room. Now it's an afterthought.
This honest to god looks like a genuine placeholder or developer screen for beta testing.
I didn't have to care about this. Companies make shitty art all the time, and shitty art that shambles the corpse of real art all the time. But it got to me.
But you know what.
While getting to the new stuff, I saw glimpses of the old storybook, so earnest and true which I loved. It was an excuse to go back to that book. And, beyond being a good and valuable piece of art that I like, it fit in really well to mean a lot to my life personally. And it made me smile to have that play on, and while I'll intellectually remember my analysis points of the new stuff, I think my soft contentment at seeing the old stuff will matter more than my gamer rage at the new stuff (even if it was good to get off my chest). And that's good, really.
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Everytime that happened to me, it turned out that the character didn't die, but that people just speculated that they would die
The question "was there a sonic golf game" has lead me to discover that there were 3 sonic golf games made for 3 different mobile devices that I have never heard of. Why were these games made? Who was going to play them?
