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  • MadCaddyMadCaddy Riksadvokate Registered User regular
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Speaking of cultural diversity, I remember some Canadian trying to tell me that Toronto was the most culturally diverse city on the planet, which didn't strike me as right.

    Trying to do research online has lead to as many different top ten lists as there have been pages I checked. I guess it is a tricky thing to measure.

    But so far the only thing that has said that Toronto is the most diverse city (or even mentioned Toronto at all) has been Toronto's wikipedia entry.

    Toronto is a pretty sweet town, I prefer Vancouver personally, but Toronto is Canada's Bonafide metropolis. I'd equate it to like a Houston or Seattle in American terms, maybe a little lesser.
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  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    Podly wrote: »
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    Organichu wrote: »
    Podly wrote: »
    Indian food is the one major world cuisine with which i'm pretty ignorant. I've eaten it plenty of time but I usually just let someone order for me or text shaz what I should get.

    It's also likely I've never had really really good indian food because lots of my friends love it and if I never ate indian again I wouldn't be too upset.

    yo, gandhi, connect a n-word

    It's funny because shaz knows all about indian food but I'm pretty sure he would much rather eat ANYTHING else than indian food.

    Shaz and I got some kick ass ramen a few weeks ago.

    Chuko's is da shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

    *looks down nose at you*

    Chuko's? *spits*

    Yeah, sure it was real good, bub.

    Have fun dancing after midnight without the police shutting you down.

    ?_?

    Is that supposed to be a thing?

    http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2012/09/23/general/antidancing-law-out-of-step-with-japans-youth-culture/#.UZSAZeD58yE

    Weird. I've danced past midnight before, and plan to do so again next Friday.

    If that is a law no one seems to care and no one seems to enforce it in my area.

    Edit: Looks like a handful of crackdowns in a few areas, and all very far away from me.
    Inquisitor on
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  • OrganichuOrganichu Registered User regular
    you know what i find interesting is i feel like americans are disdainful about 'fatty' fat- like, "you have to pay a little extra to get beef ribs, they're not as fatty'' or chewing around gristle and chewy fat and stuff.

    and then when i've had some asian dishes where it's like, succulent, soft, basically-disintegrating fat is a tasty morsel that lends flavor and richness

    like, even cooked crispy the pork belly that i enjoyed a lot in ramen and pho would i think be regarded by most of my family (who don't really eat foreign cuisine) as disgusting
  • PodlyPodly RUDEASS TITTIESRegistered User regular
    fat is flavor
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  • OrganichuOrganichu Registered User regular
    @jacobkosh

    have you seen the new die hard? it's so bad...
  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    you know what i find interesting is i feel like americans are disdainful about 'fatty' fat- like, "you have to pay a little extra to get beef ribs, they're not as fatty'' or chewing around gristle and chewy fat and stuff.

    and then when i've had some asian dishes where it's like, succulent, soft, basically-disintegrating fat is a tasty morsel that lends flavor and richness

    like, even cooked crispy the pork belly that i enjoyed a lot in ramen and pho would i think be regarded by most of my family (who don't really eat foreign cuisine) as disgusting

    In Japan the more you pay, the fattier the meat is, pretty much.

    Which is amazing for me because I can get a cut just the way I like for pretty cheap.
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  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp! I can show you how to be a real man!Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    LA sounds like my idea of hell, honestly

    being able to drive for like three hours in any direction* and never leave this kind of half-urbanized sprawl of big box stores and fast food franchises and traffic everywhere jesus christ

    I would legit lose my mind
    * that the roads go, because I know someone will be like WHAT ABOUT WEST HEE HEE or WHAT ABOUT DOWN o something

    I'm not sure where else I would live if given the opportunity. The Pac Northwest is the most likely and obvious candidate. The weather and the politics certainly agree with me. I've also thought about the Twin Cities; for some reason there's a really large KC expat community there and I'd have a ton of people to hang with and there is a lot to do.

    I love Chicago but kind of more to visit than if I had to live there and drive every day. It's on the "if I was independently wealthy/could work from home" list.

    There are a lot of cool "liberal enclave" type places here in the Midwest, like Madison, WI or Austin or Omaha, but none of them have enough different from here in KC that I would want to leave.

    I don't think I would want to live in the Southwest but Albuquerque seems like the best of a bad lot in that regard. It struck me as skewing more toward blue collar/denim/outdoorsy types and less to hateful retirees and there are a ton of outdoors things to do in the immediate vicinity.

    Florida is a rancid shithole. I don't hate many places, but I hated my time in Florida.
  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp! I can show you how to be a real man!Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    Organichu wrote: »
    @jacobkosh

    have you seen the new die hard? it's so bad...

    no, it looked terrible, and I say this as someone who loves 1 and 3 and Bruce Willis in general
  • OrganichuOrganichu Registered User regular
    kosh i notice that you conveniently omitted the northeast

    you wanna go, brah?
  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    LA sounds like my idea of hell, honestly

    being able to drive for like three hours in any direction* and never leave this kind of half-urbanized sprawl of big box stores and fast food franchises and traffic everywhere jesus christ

    I would legit lose my mind
    * that the roads go, because I know someone will be like WHAT ABOUT WEST HEE HEE or WHAT ABOUT DOWN o something

    Nah, LA isn't really like that. You can drive three hours in plenty of directions and get out of the urban sprawl (though you'll often end up in a desert) and the traffic is really overstated. Just certain times of the day in specific locations, really.
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  • EchoEcho Per Aspera Ad Inferi Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    Morning.

    Now I'm off to sit on a horse and be in the general vicinity of this one girl.

    The girl isn't the horse.
  • OrganichuOrganichu Registered User regular
    i even liked the die hard before this with the hacking and everything, i thought it was pretty entertaining

    but this is just dreadful, everything about it is un-good
  • RiemannLivesRiemannLives Registered User regular
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    LA sounds like my idea of hell, honestly

    being able to drive for like three hours in any direction* and never leave this kind of half-urbanized sprawl of big box stores and fast food franchises and traffic everywhere jesus christ

    I would legit lose my mind
    * that the roads go, because I know someone will be like WHAT ABOUT WEST HEE HEE or WHAT ABOUT DOWN o something

    I'm not sure where else I would live if given the opportunity. The Pac Northwest is the most likely and obvious candidate. The weather and the politics certainly agree with me. I've also thought about the Twin Cities; for some reason there's a really large KC expat community there and I'd have a ton of people to hang with and there is a lot to do.

    I love Chicago but kind of more to visit than if I had to live there and drive every day. It's on the "if I was independently wealthy/could work from home" list.

    There are a lot of cool "liberal enclave" type places here in the Midwest, like Madison, WI or Austin or Omaha, but none of them have enough different from here in KC that I would want to leave.

    I don't think I would want to live in the Southwest but Albuquerque seems like the best of a bad lot in that regard. It struck me as skewing more toward blue collar/denim/outdoorsy types and less to hateful retirees and there are a ton of outdoors things to do in the immediate vicinity.

    Florida is a rancid shithole. I don't hate many places, but I hated my time in Florida.

    Southern California is at least purgatory yeah. But the most horrifying place I have ever seen is Dallas / Ft Worth. It is sprawl as far as the eye can see and totally flat. At least in socal you can look around at the hills and there's an Ocean and such.

    And of course it's Texas so you have the worst school board and state government in the country to deal with too.
    What you think "makes sense" has nothing to do with reality. It just has to do with your life experience. And your life experience may only be a small smidgen of reality. Possibly even a distorted account of reality at that. So what this means is that, beginning in the 20th century as our means of decoding nature became more and more powerful, we started realizing our common sense is no longer a tool to pass judgment on whether or not a scientific theory is correct. - Neil Degrasse Tyson
  • ElldrenElldren Registered User regular
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    though i totes get the people who are anal about coffee prep, even though i don't drink coffee. even if you get super marginal returns it is just satisfying in some ways to have a ritual, to have something you invest yourself in a bit. i like a lil ceremony (in the things i care about, i mean. for something like coffee i couldn't give two shits)

    Yeah ritual is good.

    *idly sharpens his dagger*
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  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp! I can show you how to be a real man!Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    Organichu wrote: »
    kosh i notice that you conveniently omitted the northeast

    you wanna go, brah?

    I never imagine myself making enough to live in the northeast in conditions I wouldn't find utterly intolerable

    I mean unless we're talking Maine or New Hampshire or something, then sure
  • ShivahnShivahn Registered User regular
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    LA sounds like my idea of hell, honestly

    being able to drive for like three hours in any direction* and never leave this kind of half-urbanized sprawl of big box stores and fast food franchises and traffic everywhere jesus christ

    I would legit lose my mind
    * that the roads go, because I know someone will be like WHAT ABOUT WEST HEE HEE or WHAT ABOUT DOWN o something

    I'm not sure where else I would live if given the opportunity. The Pac Northwest is the most likely and obvious candidate. The weather and the politics certainly agree with me. I've also thought about the Twin Cities; for some reason there's a really large KC expat community there and I'd have a ton of people to hang with and there is a lot to do.

    I love Chicago but kind of more to visit than if I had to live there and drive every day. It's on the "if I was independently wealthy/could work from home" list.

    There are a lot of cool "liberal enclave" type places here in the Midwest, like Madison, WI or Austin or Omaha, but none of them have enough different from here in KC that I would want to leave.

    I don't think I would want to live in the Southwest but Albuquerque seems like the best of a bad lot in that regard. It struck me as skewing more toward blue collar/denim/outdoorsy types and less to hateful retirees and there are a ton of outdoors things to do in the immediate vicinity.

    Florida is a rancid shithole. I don't hate many places, but I hated my time in Florida.

    Have I ever told you about when I had to drive from San Diego to San Francisco?

    And I left at the wrong time and hit LA in the middle of the day

    and it was the last Lakers game of the season

    and it was the last day of E3

    Because actually LA doesn't sound like hell, it is hell. Two hours got me about four hundred feet.

    Also I would love to live in the Pacific Northwest and hope to be able to move there after getting my degree in whatever it is I'm studying.
  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    That fact you guys are listing hellscapes and none of you have even mentioned Phoenix means you know nothing. :P
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  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong and a cast of thousands Registered User regular
    Podly wrote: »
    fat is flavor

    Fat creates flavor but it doesn't really have any of it's own. Chowing down on big chunks of pure fat is gross.
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  • PodlyPodly RUDEASS TITTIESRegistered User regular
    fuck i'm hungry

    and it's late

    and the diner delivery menu on my desk is taunting me
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  • ElldrenElldren Registered User regular
    naan is delicious

    and now it's 2 AM, I don't have food, and I'm hungry

    thanks, [chat]
  • RiemannLivesRiemannLives Registered User regular
    Podly wrote: »
    fat is flavor

    Fat creates flavor but it doesn't really have any of it's own. Chowing down on big chunks of pure fat is gross.

    also: worst. texture. ever.

    so gross.
    What you think "makes sense" has nothing to do with reality. It just has to do with your life experience. And your life experience may only be a small smidgen of reality. Possibly even a distorted account of reality at that. So what this means is that, beginning in the 20th century as our means of decoding nature became more and more powerful, we started realizing our common sense is no longer a tool to pass judgment on whether or not a scientific theory is correct. - Neil Degrasse Tyson
  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    LA sounds like my idea of hell, honestly

    being able to drive for like three hours in any direction* and never leave this kind of half-urbanized sprawl of big box stores and fast food franchises and traffic everywhere jesus christ

    I would legit lose my mind
    * that the roads go, because I know someone will be like WHAT ABOUT WEST HEE HEE or WHAT ABOUT DOWN o something

    I'm not sure where else I would live if given the opportunity. The Pac Northwest is the most likely and obvious candidate. The weather and the politics certainly agree with me. I've also thought about the Twin Cities; for some reason there's a really large KC expat community there and I'd have a ton of people to hang with and there is a lot to do.

    I love Chicago but kind of more to visit than if I had to live there and drive every day. It's on the "if I was independently wealthy/could work from home" list.

    There are a lot of cool "liberal enclave" type places here in the Midwest, like Madison, WI or Austin or Omaha, but none of them have enough different from here in KC that I would want to leave.

    I don't think I would want to live in the Southwest but Albuquerque seems like the best of a bad lot in that regard. It struck me as skewing more toward blue collar/denim/outdoorsy types and less to hateful retirees and there are a ton of outdoors things to do in the immediate vicinity.

    Florida is a rancid shithole. I don't hate many places, but I hated my time in Florida.

    Have I ever told you about when I had to drive from San Diego to San Francisco?

    And I left at the wrong time and hit LA in the middle of the day

    and it was the last Lakers game of the season

    and it was the last day of E3

    Because actually LA doesn't sound like hell, it is hell. Two hours got me about four hundred feet.

    Also I would love to live in the Pacific Northwest and hope to be able to move there after getting my degree in whatever it is I'm studying.

    Oh god that sounds terrible.

    But also... uh...

    There are freeways that go around LA.

    It is kind of on you in this scenario for taking the wrong freeway.
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  • ThomamelasThomamelas Registered User regular
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    kosh i notice that you conveniently omitted the northeast

    you wanna go, brah?

    I never imagine myself making enough to live in the northeast in conditions I wouldn't find utterly intolerable

    I mean unless we're talking Maine or New Hampshire or something, then sure

    Maine....is clannish. Like Hatfields and McCoys clannish. And New Hampshire is...well just don't live there.
    There's no living with a killing. There's no goin' back from one. Right or wrong, it's a brand... a brand sticks. There's no goin' back. Now you run on home to your mother and tell her... tell her everything's alright. And there aren't any more guns in the valley.
  • ShivahnShivahn Registered User regular
    Elldren wrote: »
    naan is delicious

    and now it's 2 AM, I don't have food, and I'm hungry

    thanks, [chat]

    Naan IS delicious.

    Now I'm hungry.
  • ShivahnShivahn Registered User regular
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    LA sounds like my idea of hell, honestly

    being able to drive for like three hours in any direction* and never leave this kind of half-urbanized sprawl of big box stores and fast food franchises and traffic everywhere jesus christ

    I would legit lose my mind
    * that the roads go, because I know someone will be like WHAT ABOUT WEST HEE HEE or WHAT ABOUT DOWN o something

    I'm not sure where else I would live if given the opportunity. The Pac Northwest is the most likely and obvious candidate. The weather and the politics certainly agree with me. I've also thought about the Twin Cities; for some reason there's a really large KC expat community there and I'd have a ton of people to hang with and there is a lot to do.

    I love Chicago but kind of more to visit than if I had to live there and drive every day. It's on the "if I was independently wealthy/could work from home" list.

    There are a lot of cool "liberal enclave" type places here in the Midwest, like Madison, WI or Austin or Omaha, but none of them have enough different from here in KC that I would want to leave.

    I don't think I would want to live in the Southwest but Albuquerque seems like the best of a bad lot in that regard. It struck me as skewing more toward blue collar/denim/outdoorsy types and less to hateful retirees and there are a ton of outdoors things to do in the immediate vicinity.

    Florida is a rancid shithole. I don't hate many places, but I hated my time in Florida.

    Have I ever told you about when I had to drive from San Diego to San Francisco?

    And I left at the wrong time and hit LA in the middle of the day

    and it was the last Lakers game of the season

    and it was the last day of E3

    Because actually LA doesn't sound like hell, it is hell. Two hours got me about four hundred feet.

    Also I would love to live in the Pacific Northwest and hope to be able to move there after getting my degree in whatever it is I'm studying.

    Oh god that sounds terrible.

    But also... uh...

    There are freeways that go around LA.

    It is kind of on you in this scenario for taking the wrong freeway.

    Well I hated LA already.

    It seems more fun to blame that than my poor planning. And the fact that I didn't know there was a basketball game until afterwards.
  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Registered User regular
    Oh shit Arrow;s season finale was on tonight and I missed it :(
  • RiemannLivesRiemannLives Registered User regular
    out in Wala Wala (where my dad is from) in the Barren Lands east of the mountains it's almost kind of cool for a visit. Wouldn't want to live there but in the summer you can stand in a mildly radioactive onion field and if look up to the hills and the horizon then it looks like pictures from the mars rovers.
    What you think "makes sense" has nothing to do with reality. It just has to do with your life experience. And your life experience may only be a small smidgen of reality. Possibly even a distorted account of reality at that. So what this means is that, beginning in the 20th century as our means of decoding nature became more and more powerful, we started realizing our common sense is no longer a tool to pass judgment on whether or not a scientific theory is correct. - Neil Degrasse Tyson
  • simonwolfsimonwolf Registered User regular
    Kanji revision done

    now to sit back and read this free cyberpunk RPG based on Lady Blackbird
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  • PodlyPodly RUDEASS TITTIESRegistered User regular
    Podly wrote: »
    fat is flavor

    Fat creates flavor but it doesn't really have any of it's own. Chowing down on big chunks of pure fat is gross.

    now what am I gonna tell the investors of "podly's fine lard and unfried chicharitos dining experience?"

    we already bought the coagulated pork fat iv lines!
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  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp! I can show you how to be a real man!Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    LA sounds like my idea of hell, honestly

    being able to drive for like three hours in any direction* and never leave this kind of half-urbanized sprawl of big box stores and fast food franchises and traffic everywhere jesus christ

    I would legit lose my mind
    * that the roads go, because I know someone will be like WHAT ABOUT WEST HEE HEE or WHAT ABOUT DOWN o something

    I'm not sure where else I would live if given the opportunity. The Pac Northwest is the most likely and obvious candidate. The weather and the politics certainly agree with me. I've also thought about the Twin Cities; for some reason there's a really large KC expat community there and I'd have a ton of people to hang with and there is a lot to do.

    I love Chicago but kind of more to visit than if I had to live there and drive every day. It's on the "if I was independently wealthy/could work from home" list.

    There are a lot of cool "liberal enclave" type places here in the Midwest, like Madison, WI or Austin or Omaha, but none of them have enough different from here in KC that I would want to leave.

    I don't think I would want to live in the Southwest but Albuquerque seems like the best of a bad lot in that regard. It struck me as skewing more toward blue collar/denim/outdoorsy types and less to hateful retirees and there are a ton of outdoors things to do in the immediate vicinity.

    Florida is a rancid shithole. I don't hate many places, but I hated my time in Florida.

    Southern California is at least purgatory yeah. But the most horrifying place I have ever seen is Dallas / Ft Worth. It is sprawl as far as the eye can see and totally flat. At least in socal you can look around at the hills and there's an Ocean and such.

    And of course it's Texas so you have the worst school board and state government in the country to deal with too.

    oh yeah I didn't even consider Texas. the politics and the heat are all like neon signs saying KEEP AWAY JACOB
  • redxredx Dublin, CARegistered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    you know what i find interesting is i feel like americans are disdainful about 'fatty' fat- like, "you have to pay a little extra to get beef ribs, they're not as fatty'' or chewing around gristle and chewy fat and stuff.

    and then when i've had some asian dishes where it's like, succulent, soft, basically-disintegrating fat is a tasty morsel that lends flavor and richness

    like, even cooked crispy the pork belly that i enjoyed a lot in ramen and pho would i think be regarded by most of my family (who don't really eat foreign cuisine) as disgusting

    Not fans of prime rib then? Cause, that stuff is fatty as hell, and absolutely fucking delicious, and pretty popular in the states.
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  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong and a cast of thousands Registered User regular
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    kosh i notice that you conveniently omitted the northeast

    you wanna go, brah?

    I never imagine myself making enough to live in the northeast in conditions I wouldn't find utterly intolerable

    I mean unless we're talking Maine or New Hampshire or something, then sure

    The northeast is really well-marbled. You have urban areas and suburbs, but it doesn't take long to drop directly to rural. Maybe 30 minutes of driving from downtown Boston if you know where to go.
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  • thatassemblyguythatassemblyguy Registered User regular
    Naan with butter chicken? Fuck yes.
  • OrganichuOrganichu Registered User regular
    redx wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    you know what i find interesting is i feel like americans are disdainful about 'fatty' fat- like, "you have to pay a little extra to get beef ribs, they're not as fatty'' or chewing around gristle and chewy fat and stuff.

    and then when i've had some asian dishes where it's like, succulent, soft, basically-disintegrating fat is a tasty morsel that lends flavor and richness

    like, even cooked crispy the pork belly that i enjoyed a lot in ramen and pho would i think be regarded by most of my family (who don't really eat foreign cuisine) as disgusting

    Not fans of prime rib then? Cause, that stuff is fatty as hell, and absolutely fucking delicious, and pretty popular in the states.

    my family can't afford prime rib you joker

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  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    I guess its just a bit of a head scratcher to me.

    Everyone always talks about LA traffic so much.

    But after living in LA for ~15ish years I have sat in down town LA traffic like, less than 20 times probably?

    It's kind of overblown.
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  • PodlyPodly RUDEASS TITTIESRegistered User regular
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    kosh i notice that you conveniently omitted the northeast

    you wanna go, brah?

    I never imagine myself making enough to live in the northeast in conditions I wouldn't find utterly intolerable

    I mean unless we're talking Maine or New Hampshire or something, then sure

    Maine....is clannish. Like Hatfields and McCoys clannish. And New Hampshire is...well just don't live there.

    southern new hampshire is ok

    northern new hampshire is nice if you're the kinda person prone to sending anthrax to public officials
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  • EchoEcho Per Aspera Ad Inferi Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    Podly wrote: »
    fat is flavor

    Fat creates flavor but it doesn't really have any of it's own. Chowing down on big chunks of pure fat is gross.

    also: worst. texture. ever.

    so gross.

    One part of my spergness is being really sensitive to textures. Food in particular. I can't stand eating fatty things.
  • OrganichuOrganichu Registered User regular
    this movie is so terrible. i mean, the basic sound editing is done awfully. all of mcclane's little one liners? they're muted and overridden and it sounds like they used the wrong 'take' from the voiceover room haha. it's just awful. one of the characters has said 'damn you, john' about 6 times in 15 minutes.

    this is like, The Room with a big budget

    what a disaster
  • ElldrenElldren Registered User regular
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    That fact you guys are listing hellscapes and none of you have even mentioned Phoenix means you know nothing. :P

    Phoenix is a total hellscape
  • MadCaddyMadCaddy Riksadvokate Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    LA sounds like my idea of hell, honestly

    being able to drive for like three hours in any direction* and never leave this kind of half-urbanized sprawl of big box stores and fast food franchises and traffic everywhere jesus christ

    I would legit lose my mind
    * that the roads go, because I know someone will be like WHAT ABOUT WEST HEE HEE or WHAT ABOUT DOWN o something

    I'm not sure where else I would live if given the opportunity. The Pac Northwest is the most likely and obvious candidate. The weather and the politics certainly agree with me. I've also thought about the Twin Cities; for some reason there's a really large KC expat community there and I'd have a ton of people to hang with and there is a lot to do.

    I love Chicago but kind of more to visit than if I had to live there and drive every day. It's on the "if I was independently wealthy/could work from home" list.

    There are a lot of cool "liberal enclave" type places here in the Midwest, like Madison, WI or Austin or Omaha, but none of them have enough different from here in KC that I would want to leave.

    I don't think I would want to live in the Southwest but Albuquerque seems like the best of a bad lot in that regard. It struck me as skewing more toward blue collar/denim/outdoorsy types and less to hateful retirees and there are a ton of outdoors things to do in the immediate vicinity.

    Florida is a rancid shithole. I don't hate many places, but I hated my time in Florida.

    You, obviously, have only cliches about it like most whom haven't spent a tremendous amount of time around here, But let me assure you there's reasons why I've chosen to come back and live in LA and pay more in taxes to do so, even with my wayfarer ways.
    I've been a resident of five different states at one point or another, and try not to be biased by nostalgia, and don't even live near where I grew up, it's more of a work opportunity decision for me. Truthfully, bring an expat and living overseas would make the most fiscal sense for me, but there are just certain cultural perks I enjoy about LA. Different strokes for different blokes, and I can see the fact you choose to chime in to bash on my hometown while ignoring my PMs about our other little conflict as being telling of the objectivity of your valuation.

    I had aimed it at Will because he and I have gotten along about a few other things without any blatant disrespect from one side or the other, and I value his opinion and feel a sense of respect when I converse with him. The same cant be said for you any longer for the above mentioned reason.
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