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I had more raisin bran bruh. And a small piece of the Japanese Milk Bread I made the night before.

yes but no. My unpopular opinion related to this though. (I'm not saying that this is you, BUT, half the officers I work with think this way). A lot of men anyways, don't like cats because they think "it makes you gay," or "it makes you look gay" to have a cat instead of a dog. My apartment complex won't let me have my dog, she's husky/german shepherd mix. Luckily my parents live across town so she stays there. But my cat is fine. Both know I'm their human and my cat even follows me around like a dog. But I bring up my cat at work, they think that somehow makes me less manly?

True, half the county is on the rez.

I'm on the opposite end of the state, so we don't get even stuff like that that Fargo does. But I'll keep an eye out for it. I'm switching off of overnights here in a couple days, so I plan to stop at Walmart one day and see if maybe I can find a good deal.

it's what I got, and I like to eat it. So I'll buy it frozen even. It's not as good as fresh, sure, but it's still good enough for out here, tbf.

I've not had octopus raw yet, but I have had cooked squid and octopus and I love both. I've been craving it again, but ever since I left dallas and moved to the state I am in now, no one serves it.

I have an unpopular, non offensive, opinion. Since some real jerks believe depression is make believe and that his facebook conspiracy theories is the answer to everything. Seafood gets a bad rap. I love seafood, I've tried almost all of it. The amount of people I meet that refuse to even try it because the name sounds weird or the fish or cephalopod while alive looks weird. It's such a close-minded worldview. "I refuse to try octopi cause it has suckers." And? It's cooked, it tastes amazing when cooked right. I was raised with the mindset of, if it's food, try it at least once before you say you don't like it. I've discovered that most seafood, tastes great. But people don't want to try a fish or anything else cause, "it comes from the water and it sounds/looks icky wicky!" This isn't me talking about people that have allergies, that makes sense. It's the people that refuse to try it without having an allergy.

This is honestly part of why I have slowly moved away from PC gaming. I went through two mining crazes now and it's irritating when I do want to upgrade... well anything. I'm mostly happy with my setup but I would like to replace my RX 590. LMAO I can't. It struggled with settings I like to play at (for a single player game), in Jedi Fallen Order. Now sure, 9th gen consoles are hard to find right now. But I own a PS4, Xbox One S, and Switch. I always liked to collect games while my main platform was PC for a few years now. But Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury just came out as an example. I didn't need to upgrade my GPU or CPU for the Switch. I just walked into Walmart, paid $50, and went home and played it. (walmart sells new switch games at $50 instead of $60 btw, in store only). And with this happening again, yeah. I see the appeal. I don't have to worry if my hardware is up to snuff for the latest game. I just walk into a store and buy it, pop it in the console, and just play. Plus as someone mentioned way earlier with electricity used, the environmental impact of miners.

I drive a 2019 Jeep Renegade. I know that's a controversial pick. I like it.

I had a bowl of raisin bran.

The game library issue is more first party games, the Wii U has fun games, a lot of them are a lot of fun and worth playing. The issue is Nintendo would then invalidate the library with straight ports to the 3DS or just, similar enough games. So like, why spend $300 on the Wii U, then $60 per game, when you could buy a 2DS for $70, then spend $40 per game. Spoilered to not take up to much space. Also what happened with Nintendo and 3rd parties started with the N64. When they stuck with cartridges while everyone switched to CDs. It got a little worse with GameCube with the mini DVDs. The Wii was underpowered but it got games cause it sold 101 million units (even Activision had CoD on the Wii). Then the Wii U, devs were just done. It still had the same PowerPC architecture (oh I forgot to add that earlier, the hardware of the Wii U helped it fail), and the tacked on inclusion of the gamepad, on top of the low install base (the Wii U's lifetime sales are 13.56 million, less than the Vita). But yeah, on the CPU. So the gamecube used a PowerPC 750 based CPU (same CPU architecture used in the iMac G3 from 1997), which was overclocked in the Wii, which was made tricore for the Wii U. (sorry btw, the Wii U isn't my favorite Nintendo console but it holds a special place in my heart, and I just love discussing both why I like it, and why I was so frustrated with it and why it failed at the same time).

Oh the name Wii U was very much part of a much bigger problem with the Wii U. I was there for it all. I owned one since the beginning. I remember that entire generation. Marketing was the biggest issue with the Wii U. But the name Wii U didn't help, at all. Wii U sounds like another Wii accessory or game in the Wii series (Wii Play, Wii Sports, Wii Music, etc). Instead of being cutesy, even with the bad marketing, Nintendo could have fixed part of it by calling it the Wii 2. At least people wouldn't get confused that it was in fact, not an add on. At that point in history, people were tired of gimmicks. People were moving on from the Wii and motion controls. People saw this tablet of a controller, crap marketing, and showing people using Wii remotes as second controllers turned people off hard. It didn't help that when the game launched, the big Nintendo first party title was a New Super Mario Bros game, when we already go New Super Mario Bros 2 that same year. Now you can just try to invalidate all this by going, "well the switch is a gimmick." Which, sure, it is. But it's a gimmick that fills a niche. For once, you have actual uncompromised AAA gaming on the go. Sure you can bring a laptop, and a mouse, and a headset, and a gamepad, and the charger, and find a place to sit down and plug it in. Or if you're in an area with good enough reception, assuming you got a phone Stadia or XCloud works on, you can stream. But the Switch? I pop in my cartridge of The Witcher 3, or Doom Eternal, or whatever, or any AAA Nintendo first party release, and I'm.... playing the full game. No content is cut out. I don't need to worry about extra controllers or cables, or worry about the charger, it has decent enough battery life to get you at least a few hours of playtime. And also, it doesn't matter what Xbox>Xbox 360>Xbox 1. We aren't discussing that. But bad marketing on top of a bad name helped the Wii U flop. I can go over various reasons why the Wii U failed, because it had multiple reasons. Hell without going into too much detail I'll list them here: Marketing Name Gimmicks Game Library Initiative

I honestly don't think they'll call a "switch pro" the super switch. The Super Nintendo wasn't an NES revision, it was the successor. If we get a Switch revision, I honestly have no doubt that Nintendo will call it the "New Nintendo Switch (XL)." I mean, this is the same company that thought Wii U was a great name for the successor to the Wii, while New Nintendo 3DS was a great name for a 3DS revision.

So the postal service is taking forever with my package. But once it gets here... I'll have a physical copy of Va-11 Hall-A on every system that got a physical copy, on top of that, I own it digitally on every platform it's available on too. I guess now I could start looking at NA releases of the game on PS4 and Vita, but that's expensive AF cause Limited Run Games.

If you have gamepass and that's good enough for you. Go the Series S. It's not bad. It only has 500GB of storage but think about it in the sense that you play one maybe two games at a time. So uninstall as you finish. With the One X, it's fine, it's not as powerful as the Series S, but it still has enough power to hold up. But the thing is that it's last gen. We assume Microsoft will support it for at least a couple more years, but you shouldn't assume anything, better to drop the little bit extra on a Series S or Series X, instead of 200 now and then an extra however much a couple years from now. If you can find a Series X for MSRP, get that instead, it's more expensive than the One X or Series S, but you get a lot more console. The Series X is fully backwards compatible too, and provides enhancements for many games. Then just stop at a used gamestore or your country's equivalent of eBay or something, and pick up a bunch of old Xbox One games used for not a lot of money.

I upgraded my phone right. So I sent my old phone back to AT&T with the prepaid label. So I dropped it off at my local UPS store. I remember dropping it off and giving it to the lady at the front counter. The tracking hasn't been updated at all. They didn't even scan it in, it's just stuck at, "shipping label created." I'm just supposed to call AT&T once a week and see if they can run the IMEI number from the old phone to see if they got it back. Like what the fuck? So it may show up it may not.

Dude it was hype for me. Splatoon 3, LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO No More Heroes 3 has a release date, HELL YEAH! I'VE BEEN WAITING SO LONG Pyra and Mythra in smash, I was losing my shit! Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is my favorite JRPG of all time so seeing them in smash is HYPE The Monster Hunter Rise controller is dope. I am needing a second pro controller as it is, cause I like to have at least two official controllers for every console. I'll see if I'm able to grab it in store cause I missed the preorder, as they're all sold out. Skyward Sword HD. Hell yeah! It has a more regular control scheme now, it's opened up to way more people now. HD, duh. They have it in 60fps, which means they really had to put work into the physics engine, since Zelda games are notorious for doing funky shit with tying together physics and framerate. I'm going to wait and see what more they put into it, as we only saw about 30 seconds so far. The controls alone is dope though, people forget how much people dissed on the motion controls of the original. (still glad they kept motion controls too though) Speaking of Skyward Sword HD, those joycon. Omg I want those joycon. New Mario Golf. I actually like the Mario Sports series, and I'm not a big sports video games person. So this is dope, love to se the return of Miis outside of smash also. Miitopia. I missed it on 3DS, so to see it here is awesome for me. I'll definitely be checking it out. The Famicom Detective Club series is pretty neat, tbh. I'm always down for finally being able to play games that were previously stuck in Japan only. Even if it's not much, it's still neat to have.

Since you're new to the platform, and the series X is backwards compatible across all generations of Xbox. Halo Master Chief Collection and Halo 5. Halo's campaigns, all of them, are solid AF, even the weakest one is still a fun time. IMO, the series has lore with it's games, movies, series, books, etc, to rival that of Star Wars. Gears of War 1-5 at least. Gears is another staple of the Microsoft brand image, and imo, it's really fun. I even enjoyed the campaigns of 4 and 5. Forza Horizon 4 Rare Replay. These are older titles, some are from the N64, some are from the OG Xbox and 360, but they're all solid games and a good look into Rare, one of the studios Microsoft owns. Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps Hellblade Sunset Overdrive. It's such a fun game, and imo, overlooked and underrated. Forza Motorsport 7, if you like traditional racing that is. If you like RTS games, Halo Wars 2 and Gears Tactics are good to look at. Crackdown 1 and 2. Crackdown 3 isn't good, but the first two are fun times. These are some of the games, there's more (such as Viva Pinata) but I am thinking of bigger ones

I have another hot spicy take. Screw the #freemelee community. Nintendo was heavy handed, yes. They could have better worked with Big House, yes. But they still gave options. They asked Big House to basically only confirm the copies of melee were valid. Big House refused to. So Nintendo said, "okay, then no melee tournament, you can do ultimate though." Big House told them no we're doing melee anyways. No wonder they got hit with the cease and desist. But what made me really just... not like the community. So Nintendo made a post about Nintendo Minute, they were doing some charity stream or video. Something about donating to kids in hospitals, okay. The #freemelee community decides to brigade the post, and derail it about their stupid hashtag. Then when some people understandably call them on their shit, because, you know, a post about dying kids isn't the place to talk about your old ass video game. They have the gall to go, "we're the real heroes, we're trying to save our community." Nintendo isn't a hero for donating to charity, no one brought it up, but god damn read the room. I have screenshots from one of the most egregious examples. Then, the next big thing. Before Nintendo canceled the livestream of the Splatoon NA Open finals, they had made a twitter post announcing it was coming up. #freemelee once again comes derailing it and brigading the post. "Why would you live stream this stupid kiddy game and not our real fighter game smash melee" and stuff like that. It wasn't until Nintendo canceled the livestream that suddenly free melee wants to be all like, "we..we're in s..solidarity with the splatoon community guys, please we swear!" Nah you fake jerks, you weren't. You just used it after doing nothing but ragging on it. After that, just screw the free melee community, they're fake, they're assholes, and they think they're more important than anyone or anything.

Do the games suddenly become shit when a new generation hit or a console hits a certain age? Regardless of if the games are on PC, or all backwards compatible on Series S/X, the Xbox One still is good, because it has a good library of games. It's overshadowed by better ways to play those games, but that doesn't make it shit. It has a very solid library of games, has some, imo, overlooked first party titles, and third party titles on it are really solid. Now if you're looking to buy one in 2021, unless you're a collector, just wait till the Series S/X is in stock. Both will run circles around the Xbox One, and it'll have even more games coming out in the future. But if the Xbox One is something you currently have, and it's really all you have. Yeah, it's still good. It still plays games and it plays the games already out for it, and the ones still to come out for it. There's over 2600 games for the Xbox One, you have a good selection of stuff to play there.

I like this approach he's been doing. Typically I'm not the biggest fan of a bunch of exec orders, but Biden has been trying this approach of lets at least try, fucking anything at this point. It's a good approach for right now, at least something is being attempted to make things better. It's much better than doing nothing or even actively being malicious and trying to ruin something. I doubt this will do too much to help, but it's an attempt being made.