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Turtlicious posted:There's also a problem with your metabolism slowing as you live a less active lifestyle, like according to my nutritionist my BMR (basal metabolic rate,) isn't accurate if you use the standard formula, it's a lot lower. I have to eat around 700 calories a day to lose weight at 346 lbs. I know some people are going to say this is impossible, and isn't accurate, and is unhealthy. I have an eating disorder, and came to this number with my physician, therapist, and nutritionist. Some people have hosed themselves up for life because they played video games and stayed indoors for the majority of their life. Your body still spits out ghrelin as if it's starving, so you feel hungry constantly and it's hell trying to lose weight. I'm in a somewhat comparable situation, but knowing that being horrible to obese people is still politically correct I don't talk about it. At the end of the day, the "validity" of any condition, quirk or problem comes down to whether people are sympathetic or not.
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Turtlicious posted:There's also a problem with your metabolism slowing as you live a less active lifestyle, like according to my nutritionist my BMR (basal metabolic rate,) isn't accurate if you use the standard formula, it's a lot lower. I have to eat around 700 calories a day to lose weight at 346 lbs. I know some people are going to say this is impossible, and isn't accurate, and is unhealthy. I have an eating disorder, and came to this number with my physician, therapist, and nutritionist. Some people have hosed themselves up for life because they played video games and stayed indoors for the majority of their life. Your body still spits out ghrelin as if it's starving, so you feel hungry constantly and it's hell trying to lose weight. Just eat at McDonald's all day every day, it's healthy. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Nov 4, 2019 02:41
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There is a McDonalds a block from my house and the only reason I don't eat there all the time is because their value menu is a joke and only has a couple things on it. 80% of the options are bullshit drinks or other stuff that you wouldn't go to McDonald's for anyway. The reason for this is because my city (Seattle) has a super high minimum wage so franchise operators can't offer these deals and stay afloat. If you drive ten minutes south to a neighboring city you can get 2000 calories for $5 no problem. Are we back on topic yet?
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Nov 4, 2019 03:28
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If my nutrition depends on people being exploited, so be it.
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Nov 4, 2019 03:39
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:There is a McDonalds a block from my house and the only reason I don't eat there all the time is because their value menu is a joke and only has a couple things on it. 80% of the options are bullshit drinks or other stuff that you wouldn't go to McDonald's for anyway. e: Laterite posted:lol 
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:Are we back on topic yet? It's like the floater that won't flush. 
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Nov 4, 2019 04:22
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Shrecknet posted:Then how does Dick's Drive-In pay more than min wage, offer heathcare and college, and can't grow fast enough? (and is also better food) I had to Google this to be sure it was a real place.
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Nov 4, 2019 04:57
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Yeah I know the reason is bullshit and I thought about putting an asterisk on it but didn't. It's definitely what the operators imply with all their lovely signage about why extra condiments cost 35 cents and refills aren't free.
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Nov 4, 2019 05:11
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BarbarianElephant posted:I had to Google this to be sure it was a real place. Dick's is cut from the same mold as In-N-Out Burger but less successful (and less Christian?).
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Nov 4, 2019 06:31
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Drop obesity by tracking everything you eat with roughly estimated calories, track for a few weeks, then start cutting back a little at a time until none of your pants fit and you have to buy new jeans but can't because all the malls closed down so now you have to make jeans out of potato sacks using floss for thread
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:There is a McDonalds a block from my house and the only reason I don't eat there all the time is because their value menu is a joke and only has a couple things on it. 80% of the options are bullshit drinks or other stuff that you wouldn't go to McDonald's for anyway. The state minimum is $12.00 an hour, about to be $13.50 an hour next year. It is very unlikely that the minimum wage is the factor you're looking for.
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blatman posted:Drop obesity by tracking everything you eat with roughly estimated calories, track for a few weeks, then start cutting back a little at a time until none of your pants fit and you have to buy new jeans but can't because all the malls closed down so now you have to make jeans out of potato sacks using floss for thread You laugh, but designers like Demobaza could make you look like some sort of post apocalyptic techno-ninja using nothing but burlap and dental floss. Gonna cost you $2500 for those pants though. Edit: Which illustrates a sort of truth: Everything is either hoping to score some hidden treasure at a TJX or Nordstrom related marquee or astronomically expensive and hand made. There is no middle.
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This thread reminded me of the trailer parks that form outside of Amazon warehouses during holidays. I was concerned about it but talked to a couple living there and they loved it. Apparently it is a whole culture where they pound out crazy hours during the holidays, then use that money to spend the rest of the year traveling the country/national parks in their trailer.
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TyroneGoldstein posted:Edit: Which illustrates a sort of truth: Everything is either hoping to score some hidden treasure at a TJX or Nordstrom related marquee or astronomically expensive and hand made. There is no middle. He also went on to go full "heh  " about how dumb corporations used to be decades ago when they expanded into many different business instead of the vastly superior way of only limiting themselves to one particular thing in one market to focus on being the "best" at that.I suppose it makes sense if you support the idea that managers need not bother knowing any details how the company works (or give a single poo poo about it) and just run them for short term profits and hop to another higher paying position in another company when it inevitably goes bust from putting all eggs in one basket.
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TyroneGoldstein posted:You laugh, but designers like Demobaza could make you look like some sort of post apocalyptic techno-ninja using nothing but burlap and dental floss. Gonna cost you $2500 for those pants though. Googles Demobaza Is this for real?! Also I was going to mention Amazon blocking 3rd party sellers of Nintendo products, but apparently that was an “error.” https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/1/20943772/amazon-marketplace-nintendo-deal-used-retro-games-consoles-counterfeit The level of counterfeits and fraud on Amazon now is insane. Just just product boxes filled with rocks. I’m actually fine with “reproduction cartridges” as long as the buyer knows that’s what they are getting. The “retro gaming market” does have a lot to unpack, though. You have collectors who just buy old games at exorbitant prices to invest in but never play, and then you have people who do want to play old games, but on original hardware. I used to be one of the later. I don’t know how to feel about it. On one hand I think it’s fun. On the other it feels a little superstitious to want to possess the physical object. Also Amazon, eBay, and the rest of the web basically killed my local retro gaming and used book stores. You used to be able to buy great used media at reasonable prices at those stores, garage sales, and flea markets. Now it’s impossible. Everyone can look up what their old stuff is worth instantly and sell it online. Anything good that does make it to the stores is placed in the back to sell online. My local stores are filled with the bottom of the barrel unsellable stuff (old sports games and grocery store paperback romance novels).
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Pulcinella posted:Also Amazon, eBay, and the rest of the web basically killed my local retro gaming and used book stores. You used to be able to buy great used media at reasonable prices at those stores, garage sales, and flea markets. Now it’s impossible. Everyone can look up what their old stuff is worth instantly and sell it online. Anything good that does make it to the stores is placed in the back to sell online. My local stores are filled with the bottom of the barrel unsellable stuff (old sports games and grocery store paperback romance novels). Everyone I've talked to that's run a game store has to run it with this same mindset, the store is a storage space for your online business that people can walk into and buy stuff directly from too. Clothing is another situation where there's tons of counterfeit/fake stuff on Amazon. Like often if you look a costume as an example you'll see a variety of different entries that all use the exact same picture and are all worded as if they're that particular item, but is not at all representative of the actual product's materials/quality/etc. and you're actually looking at multiple completely different things. And due to how they list stuff now it will often still say it's a purchase "from Amazon" itself even if it's a third party. You can catch on very quickly to what's bullshit by looking at reviews and the Q&A section but they basically do everything possible to allow for bullshit to pass. Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Nov 4, 2019 |
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Kinda hard to hold it against a game store. Used games aren't time-critical items, people are willing to wait a few days, and if you're only exposing yourself to you local customer base a whole lot of inventory is going to sit unsold.
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It's like I've said with things like games, toys, books and mass merchandise in general; it's the retail segment that's most vulnerable to online because they're generally pretty much the same regardless of where you buy it from. (Probably telling that Amazon started with books) Clothes are a different story for a few reasons, in part because it seems like there's a much more developed bootleg sector which online retailers have no interest in curbing. And the industry just seems to be a complete mess in general.
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I have a coworker who is really into retro gaming and he doesn't really like talking to me about it because I play emulators and he "only [plays] on original hardware." It's weird but whatever. He's in his twenties and doesn't have anything else going on. I used to be the same way but about lossless audio instead. I imagine he will get over it or go broke if he doesn't.
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:I have a coworker who is really into retro gaming and he doesn't really like talking to me about it because I play emulators and he "only [plays] on original hardware." Unless he has a CRT tv for duck hunt he needs to quit it!
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Torpor posted:Um, I regret to inform you that slavery is still happening and it is widespread. There is nothing more aggravating than an idiot who gets into such a frothing rage to post a sick burn that he doesn't even manage to fully read the post he's referencing.
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TheScott2K posted:Kinda hard to hold it against a game store. Used games aren't time-critical items, people are willing to wait a few days, and if you're only exposing yourself to you local customer base a whole lot of inventory is going to sit unsold. Oh yeah I don't hold it against them at all, just that's how it is. poo poo POST MALONE posted:I have a coworker who is really into retro gaming and he doesn't really like talking to me about it because I play emulators and he "only [plays] on original hardware." I used to be like this, and we still have a pretty large collection of video game stuff, but I can't even imagine at our lives now ever reaching a point of like, being able to have a bunch of systems hooked up all at once like I used to or having the $$$/time to actually maintain all of the hardware involved. I'm glad emulation reached the "good enough" point for old stuff we want to play a long time ago.
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HootTheOwl posted:Unless he has a CRT tv for duck hunt he needs to quit it!
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He definitely owns a PVM and a Framemeister.
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One thing particular to the "retro gaming" sector is it kinda has an inevitable death as a business. You're not going to see continued growth as far as NES/SNES goes because there's a pretty set number of adults who want that copy of Earthbound, and once they have it they have it. You also have the problem where everything after, say, the 360/PS3 generation depends on servers and online content/players that will absolutely go dark someday. A 15 year old Xbox One game isn't going to be as playable as a 15 year old PS2 game, and the later "retro" gens don't have the scarcity factor that the early stuff does. What I'm saying is, if you own a retro games store you should probably think hard about what your thing is going to be in five years.
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Neo Rasa posted:Oh yeah I don't hold it against them at all, just that's how it is. Yeah I don’t hold it against anyone either. Gotta make a living and selling used items probably actually has positive “morality points” compared to most of capitalism. Also agree with your second point, especially with regards to time. I don’t have the time to play everything I want to even if I had infinite money for video games. It’s retail in general, but I do feel bad for used bookstore employees. The selling counter at my local store always has irate sellers personally offended they aren’t getting $10/book for their trade paperback stack of Dan Brown books.
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Pulcinella posted:It’s retail in general, but I do feel bad for used bookstore employees. The selling counter at my local store always has irate sellers personally offended they aren’t getting $10/book for their trade paperback stack of Dan Brown books. Haha yeah I feel this. I think people don't realize the mindset that like, when you're getting rid of a bunch of books it's for making space and not necessarily making money.
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Neo Rasa posted:Everyone I've talked to that's run a game store has to run it with this same mindset, the store is a storage space for your online business that people can walk into and buy stuff directly from too. Yeah, the local indie game shop next door to my store does this. It is either that or go out of business, and they are doing well.
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TyroneGoldstein posted:You laugh, but designers like Demobaza Holy poo poo if I had money when I was 20 I would have been all over this, it's like if the guy from Assassin's Creed wanted to look even more suspicious
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HootTheOwl posted:Unless he has a CRT tv for duck hunt he needs to quit it! I do have a (relatively large) CRT, but no NES, and I've run into the problem that I cannot find many potential stands for it. Those things are not only deep, but very, very heavy.
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JustJeff88 posted:I do have a (relatively large) CRT, but no NES, and I've run into the problem that I cannot find many potential stands for it. Those things are not only deep, but very, very heavy. Go to a thrift store, get someone's old home entertainment stand. That's what they were built for after all.
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JustJeff88 posted:I do have a (relatively large) CRT, but no NES, and I've run into the problem that I cannot find many potential stands for it. Those things are not only deep, but very, very heavy. I know you can't with HDTVs but can you play on the early flatscreens that were projectors with light bulbs and mirrors inside
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HootTheOwl posted:I know you can't with HDTVs but can you play on the early flatscreens that were projectors with light bulbs and mirrors inside I have a relatively small LCD tv that I use for modern (Read: HD) systems and it has a component/composite input, but I find that pre-HD systems with perhaps the exception of the Wii just look better on CRT, which is why I hold onto that colossus. Also, it has a VCR and DVD player, and I still have a few of the former and a few more of the latter.
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Shrecknet posted:Then how does Dick's Drive-In pay more than min wage, offer heathcare and college, and can't grow fast enough? (and is also better food) Interestingly from a food industry perspective (and relevant to retail collapse) the issue may very well be franchise fees. McD's is notorious for having viciously high franchise costs, to the tune of $45k a year in the US on top of requiring owners to source through their suppliers for everything.
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y'all know you can just point the zapper at a white wall and it will always hit, right?
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Shrecknet posted:y'all know you can just point the zapper at a white wall and it will always hit, right? Yeah you can also just write some numbers on a sheet of paper and show it to your friends as your High Score, maybe write a big "I Win" on there for good measure, everyone will be so impressed "This video game is so easy, it's absolutely trivial" I say while playing with God Mode and Infinite Ammo
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Solenna posted:What's funny is how hard they're pushing Black Friday in Canada now too. Same except I live in EE. And our second biggest online retailer's branding is "make black friday great again", on a red cap. :facepalm:
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Smiling Jack posted:you can control the ducks with the second controller Also you can do some Weird poo poo in MegaMan 3 using the second controller
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