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[cowdogpaws]

[slimes-on-you]

OKAY YOU KNOW WHAT LISTEN.

The global market model bullshit in making games one fucking universal price  is terrible (blessed ‘Hi-Fi RUSH’ being 30 buckos, like back in the day when Katamari was only 30 bucks when new).  BUT....

remember when games cost MORE money back in the day?  ‘Perfect Dark’ and others were $80 (some older games coming out at an even higher price).  Even if you take into account how shit has gone up in price due to inflation, the only folks stuck at paying +100 munny for games are like, australians and shit.  Not justifying, but reminding here.

‘Breath of the Wild’ was damn near a launch title for the Switch.  It was the transition game, bridging the WiiU and Switch.  This game is like 6 or 7 years old now.  ‘Bout 3 years after the game came out, talk of a sequel was in the works, and they were like “hey we’re gonna basically use the same engine/map and shit from the first game, so we can improve the game down more and make it even better”.  And past few years they’ve pushed and pushed and pushed it, saying “fuck look we don’t wanna rush this.  We want to make sure this is GOOD.”.  It’s been a while since Nintendo had one of their one big name things get worked on and they paused giving a release date or even show off something about a game like this.  This think could have been being worked on for the past 4 years or more for all we know.

This is one of those times where I’m excited for a game and have high expectations and high hopes for.  And while the price for the game is bullshit, it’s probably something I think might be legit worth it.  This ain’t like GameFreak or Squeenix or whatever pumping out a stinker a few times then relying on some other party to put out a banger to try and fix the release rep.  This is first-brand Nintendo here.

[tygerseye-deactivated20250810]

Myst was between 80 - 120 dollars when it came out and that was 90s money... So probably the equivalent to 110 - 160 today. Fact is base game prices haven't changed in about 20 years but the economy has.

[pillowtiger]

Paying $70 for games right now is about the equivalent of paying around $35 in the mid 90's. Even if you want to use the argument of "well cartridge games were more expensive, Playstation games were cheaper because printing CD's had lower production costs." Even Playstation games around that time were around $45. So even with this price hike, video games are cheaper now than they have ever been.

[everythingfox]

awoooooooo

(via)

[influxence]

look at this beautiful girl

[everythingtigers]

AW

[mxnrique]

i am begging y’all to just stay home and leave us the FUCK alone

[mxnrique]

[mxnrique]

[mxnrique]

[thehotgirlproject]

Bitch I am neck deep in that warm bread before the basket touches the table.

[quinintheclouds]

the... the bread IS the pregame meal.

[deliriumcrow]

If you have the opportunity to eat warm bread with butter melting into it rather than floating coldly on top of it, you fucking take it. Respect the goddamn bread.

[simon-newman]

I talked about balancing my sins today already.

For gluttony - if there’s food I’ll eat it. At the restaurant I’ll eat the bread, I’ll eat the meal, I’ll eat the edible decorations and finish my date’s meal. End of story, next course please.

[eric-coldfire]

Free bread is free food.

[tygerseye-deactivated20250810]

At good restaurants, food is served at optimal temperatures which a chef determines.  If you DON’T eat that bread, you’re being disrespectful to the people that prepared it for you.

It’s like turning down a gift.

[kittensaysfuckyou]

White privilege is never having to spell your last name.

[generallemarc]

I’m descended from Italian immigrants-nobody ever gets my name right first try.

[misshorrorotaku-deactivated2024]

My last name is German. No one can ever spell my last name until I tell them, and even then they struggle. Granted, I’m mixed race, but still.

Anyone who genuinely believes the OP apparently has a very sheltered view of white people and their cultures.

[antelopian]

I’m white and I’ve had to spell my name for every person I’ve ever met. first name included.

[theroofkorean]

Paging Mr. Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz.

[multipurpose-rp]

Eh, I’m white and while people get my first name easy enough, I’ve had to spell my last name quite frequently.

[sunder-the-gold]

50 Shades of White. Name all of the European countries that could possibly qualify which have NONE of the linguistic bases of Modern English.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

I’m a black guy with a very white name and people in my black-majority, English-as-a-first-language home country constantly misspelled it. First and last. 

Every single time posts like this come around, there’s folks talking about the many, many white people whose names are commonly misspelled. Especially poles. 

Also, now that I’m living in England…the nice lady who registered me for a library card got my first name wrong, which amuses me.

[morrivar]

My last name is Miller.

You’d think, if anybody, this post would apply to me.

Nope!

It’s not common, but I do occasionally get asked how to spell the 6th most common last name in the nation.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Miller?

[just-a-cruel-white-man]

My name is the most french name possible.

I live in France.

People who live in France and are by definition french people, still have enough trouble spelling my french name that I have to spell it every single time.

[drdrunkpigeon-phd]

Lmfao no one gets my first name right, my manager mispronounced it for the first month i worked there even when i corrected him every time

[the-based-brit]

My first name is only four letters long and it’s very easy to pronounce, but my family comes from Ireland originally and people tend to mispronounce my last name from time to time lol

[tygerseye-deactivated20250810]

I’m about as white as it comes.. red hair, pale skin, irish/scot heritage… both my maiden name and my married name are mispronounced and misspelled all the time.

[pillowtiger]

I'm white and I constantly have to spell both my first AND last names and they both have british origins. Try again.

[funnelcloudd]

How come semi trucks in Europe look like “toot toot :)” and in North America they look like “HONK HOOOOOOOONK >:|”

[funnelcloudd]

“Henlo I am big twuck pwease give me wots of woom tank u :)”

“I WILL FUCKING PANCAKE YOUR CUCK ASS”

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

@trainwreckgenerator why did you hide these in the tags

[digitaldiscipline]

This suggests that Maximum Overdrive was Jurassic Park for motor vehicles.

[cheesedemon]

I’m sorry, but that is misleading as hell. American and European trucks are bred for different purposes.

American trucks are bred for long hauls on largely straight roads. They can go for hours without a break. A European truck needs more breaks and a lighter load, and they would indeed take great internal damage if they tried to keep up with the Longsnout.

The European Shortsnout is not bred for looks, but for agility! They navigate the windy roads of Europe in a way that would be way too risky for the powerful, but more clumsy American truck. It is true that the European overheats faster at high speeds, that is the very reason that breaks every 4,5 hours are mandatory for both the truck and the handler and a day of driving can never be longer then 9 hours.

So, all in all, appreciate all of our trucks and our shared history, and be the responsible owner that gets the right breed for the right job.

[kedreeva]

To be fair, the US does have shortnose trucks as well, they’re just a breed kept mainly for very local work where, like the above says, they are working in places with lots of turns, shorter drives, and plenty of stops. I see them used for garbage pickup a lot, where a longnosed Mack wouldn’t be able to fit much less maneuver, and the short nose prevents them from getting rubs (raw skin or even open sores) on their snouts.

I would also like to point out that the tags have got it backwards. The wild trucks (which I’m pretty sure are extinct in the wild now) that all modern breeds stemmed from were shortnose trucks. We had known about automobiles and domesticated several species, but the truck species was not discovered until close to the start of the 1900’s, in Germany, which I BELIEVE was the first country to breed them in captivity, although England was the first country to really start using them for work. I managed to find a photo of taxidermied specimen

As you can see, it resembles both long and short nosed breeds, as well as the far more common house truck used by individuals instead of for commercial work.

As to the aggression, while the mack longnose LOOKS aggressive, they’re generally gentle giants (although please do give them space on the road! not seeing you in their blind spot is NOT the same as aggression!), it is actually the smaller house truck that is often trained by their handler to be aggressive: the keyword being TRAINED, they are also not naturally aggressive. The only time I have seen a mack be commonly aggressive is when they are pulling 2 gravel trailers, and I would be cranky if I was being overworked, too. If you see them hauling that kind of load, just give them space, and you’ll be fine.

[ub-sessed]

I feel like somebody should add something about the Australian variants.

[nudityandnerdery]

From my understanding of Australian wildlife:

[tygerseye-deactivated20250810]

I can’t overstate how much I laughed and cried

[pillowtiger]

Here I am back on my shit again~