And here I am still with a 1080

The echo chamber on this platform is spacious.

Way more than that I’m afraid!

John Morrell, the meat packing company has acceptable levels of animal parts like teeth and hair, cause you can’t always prevent a rat from crawling into the meat grinders!

The device being described in the image is an alternator: a device that captures energy from the movement of the machine.

I think everyone on this thread understands that alternators do not overcome entropy and that there is no infinite energy, but that’s besides the point.

So an alternator?

Pretty sure a used engagement ring is worse than lab grown in the eyes of the unwashed masses.

If you want a great turn based rpg with a long running story check out the ‘trails’ series.

The series started in the early 2000s and are still releasing games today that are part of the same universe, within roughly the same time frame (about a 10 year spread), and have reoccurring characters. The turn based combat also has a bit of positional/range aspects reminiscent of tactical RPGs but does not cross the line. Older games are sprite based and newer games look like more like anime.

Do note that the starting trilogy, trails in the sky, is currently being remade with a release this year. The story is told in order so do not skip around or jump to a later series.

Not only expensive but it’s just aweful.

Wasn’t nearly as bad when I was kid

Where I shop, if you go too fast it confuses the machine and calls an attendant over to clear it while a video of what I was doing plays. Which is bs.

lol, precisely!

Why do people gamble? Because that’s what this is.

The companies don’t even care about the average player. They are trying to hook rich people with more money then sense, aka whales.

A long time ago the industry realized an extremely small percent blows way more money than all the others combined.

If you ever played a game with any kind of monitization and asked yourself why everything is $40 and how the average player can afford it, this is why.

And honestly I think that’s what’s missing in “modern” mmos: the human element. Or rather the social one. Which is ironic.

They are now way too friendly towards solo play and systems like ff14s duty finder removed the social aspect by automating group comp with complete randos that you will probably never see again since it was cross server.

In evercrack and even ffxi you were required to shout for groups from a pool of players on your own server so you got to know people. Who was good and who was not so good. You built a reputation.

It was a lot harder for sure, but it felt more meaningful.