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5 hours ago, arnold layne said:

You would rather drink Milwaukee's Best over Keystone?

Ever have Keystone Ice?

I was in the Dominican Republic a few years ago and it surprised me how much the locals drink it. It's as commercial as Bud Light. 

 

My old roomy and I used to kill 2 sixers of tall boys of Keystone Ice, EACH, during our heyday. Much later on down the line, I thought to myself, I have 4 dollars and want to get drunk," so I bought a sixer of Keystone Ice. It tasted like actual poison. Though I can't say Milwaukee's Beast is any better. (Shudders)

3 hours ago, AxlsFavoriteRose said:

it's an import and it's good from the bottle but oh that pony keg was killer! 

St Pauli is wonderful.

Heineken can suck a bag of cocks.

The only time I add red pepper is as an ingredient. I put it in my sauce tonight.

Marinara and pizza sauce are interchangeable to most people.

The correct answer to the easier discussion about cheese or toppings on top, is both. Toppings on top, light dusting of cheese over them. This is so caramelization of cheese can happen even in places covered by toppings, without interfering with the caramelization of the toppings themselves. Observe:

Not for a long time. We've toyed with the idea of drones doing my field surveys for me, but I still have to know what to do with the data. The robots can't get creative with that. Yet.

Fruit picking robots will be highest on the list. People bitch that actually enforcing our laws will make produce more expensive. They've tried paying Americans more money to do it, they don't want to. Well, here we are.

It is also the responsibility of the refugees to integrate into the country in which they enter. They have a right to retain their culture, not to change someone else's.

Is this coming up as an issue again? If it's a direct tape transfer, you will get 240p. That's the maximum possible for the technology. If it was filmed (unlikely) THEN you could get a 720, maybe 1080 transfer (you probably won't).

5 hours ago, ZoSoRose said:

So many talented and kick ass musicians here

You flatter me

Write what you feel. That's all you can do. If you don't write to express, you're just writing bullshit. If that's ok with you, write what you think people want to hear.

As far as coming up with stuff late, many studies have shown that creativity is much more active late at night, 1, 2, 3am. It just happens.

What motivates? Absolutely nothing. It's always random for me. Sometimes I'll have an idea that crosses my mind and I brush it off, and it comes back later. Sometime an idea pops in, and I recognize it's really good and I know I have to write it down.

On 3/13/2017 at 11:52 AM, downzy said:

Nintendo isn't actually making $300-$400 per unit.  It's still unknown how much Nintendo makes from each Switch sold, but it can't be any more than $20-$50 (though, based on the components, it's likely on the low side).  There's a reason why there are no Switch game bundles, because it would result in a net loss per unit.  They might make a few extra bucks off accessories, but once you factor in those plus a couple of games you're looking at an experience that will run $500-$700.  That's an awful lot of money to play Mario and Zelda.  I'm certainly not going to pay that price and I imagine many other older Nintendo fans or casual fans aren't either.  But I would pay $10-$20 a month if I could play all of Nintendo's back catalogue plus new games through a streaming service.  The high costs of system design and product could be directed into streaming infrastructure.  They'd then be making money off people like myself who pass on such a heavy start-up cost plus others who would pay for a Switch (at $15 a month, consumers would have essentially paid the same for a Switch, but a got a whole lot more value).  

As for the music industry, many artists still make money of music sales, it's just fewer do.  The old model of selling CDs wasn't sustainable and provided space for piracy.  The only solution to the problem was getting everyone to pay a little for a convenient music experience.  Console gaming doesn't have the same problem with piracy music does, but Nintendo still suffers from the fact that the price for admission to play Zelda or Mario is akin to the price for a CD that only has one or two hits.  Twenty years ago you couldn't avoid paying the steep price of a CD to get the one or two songs you wanted.  Similarly, twenty years ago there were fewer opportunities to play games outside of Nintendo or Sony.  Nintendo must now compete with not only Sony and Microsoft, but PC gaming has grown exponentially and smartphones have challenged them in the mobile market.  Unless Nintendo can offer a system that doesn't live or die off of nostalgia, it's going to need to do something.  In my opinion, and I could definitely be wrong on this, changing to a streaming model might be it's only option eventually.  There are a lot of pitfalls to be sure, particularly ensuring that people aren't playing off of other people's accounts.  They'd have to do a much better job of enforcing violations pertaining to account sharing than what Netflix currently does.  There are plenty of up sides as well.  Think of how much they could cut down on piracy if a game is only released through a streaming subscription.  

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-20/spotify-apple-drive-u-s-music-industry-s-8-first-half-growth

 

 

 

Do they make much? Who knows. But Nintendo has a habit of making it a point to make profit on their systems, which is less than you can say for Microsoft or Sony, often losing hundreds per console and relying on licensing to recoup losses. Nintendo, meanwhile, makes profit on consoles and is largely 1st party dependent. They have a completely different model than other companies. Call the Gamecube a failure, but I guarantee you they made money on it. Same with the Wii U, I bet their "failure" still netted them a profit.

4 hours ago, ZoSoRose said:

Jealous... I want pizza

Get a pizza stone, I will share with you the secrets of my people.

Who's going to pay? Well if I recall the Donald, between grabbing women by the pussy and presumedly eating babies, convinced the Saudis to pledge toward safe zones in Syria and Yemen. Think of the cost to settle a refugee here, vs how far that money would go in Syria. 

Can't. Eat. Anymore.

I don't feel good about myself.

Stuffed beer crust.

We shouldn't be burdened with taking them in. If we're going to expend resources, they should go towards safe zones in the country in question. Just because their country is shitty, doesn't mean we should make our country shittier taking them in. I'm all for helping out, but we have domestic issues as it is to deal with.

Cole is definitely annoying, and does ruin moments like that, but after hearing his leaked headset feed where he says to someone, "I said it 3 damn times already" or something like that, I can't help but wonder if someone in his ear kept saying, "REMIND EVERYONE OF WHAT A MOMENT THIS IS!!"

Oh my FUCK!

Any time anyone thinks Shane can't be in an amazing match, I emplore you to watch his King of the Ring match with Kurt Angle. When he talks about it, Angle said Shane flat out demanded that he keep abusing him. I don't think Shane can take that kind of beating anymore, but he's got a 1st class wrestler to help him out together a hell of a match.

Didn't Trump get the Saudis to pledge a fuckton of money towards setting up a safe zone in Syria?

2 hours ago, downzy said:

Topic renamed due to the fact that the OP seems more interested in discussing the merits of refugees and immigrants than European politics.  

Haven't they pretty much become one in the same at this point?

10 minutes ago, Dazey said:

I would argue that the N64 wasn't really that great a success either. I think it's remembered more fondly than it was thought of at the time. Nintendo basically shot itself in the foot with the N64 and gave Sony a blank check to take over the industry. The insistence on cartridge media vs CDs cost them big time. Nintendo always had a stranglehold over software production on their consoles. They not only produced the console hardware but 3rd party developers were also required to buy the actual cartridges off of them.

If you were making a game for the NES, SNES or N64 then you had to commit to a specific number of cartridges and buy them from Nintendo in advance. Basically you had to predict your sales up front and get it right or you'd be out of pocket. Now think about paying a few $ per cartridge vs pennies for a PS1 CD and you can see why 3rd party developers deserted Nintendo en masse back in the late 90's.

You take that back, you N64 hating motherfucker.

Stupid old fucking neighbor piece or shit let his dog run around the neighborhood again today, went right for my yard, fought with my injured dog at the fence. His mouth was bleeding when I caught it happening. I talked to his family at the house and they apologized, but GOD FUCKING DAMMIT I hope that guy dies soon.

I told them if I had to take my dog to the vet again, I wasn't gonna be the one paying for it.

The reason Nintendo can rely on their own games without 3rd party support, is because their 1st party shit is that fucking good. They know if they release a Mario game, followed by Mario kart, and a Zelda game, followed by sports game with intellectual property as players, they'll make a profit.

If I recall, Colecovision. The one I remember vividly, NES motherfucker. I still have every system I've ever had.

It's getting so much better. I think I just got apathetic to writing, and sitting down with a drink has turned me into a riff machine. I'm digging it. I think addressing that I wasn't playing made me concentrate on playing.

I got inspired today. Wrote a bunch of riffs, and started on a song. Felt good.