Was it the first heist, where you escape through the tunnels in motorcycles? I remember having an insanely tough time at that section when I played the game for the first time on XB360.

I chose the option with the driver that gave the crew souped up street motorcycles for the first try because fast bike go vroom. I kept running into shit in the tunnels though because I was too fast. Attempted that section several times before I finally broke through the other side of it, and there wasn’t a sense of accomplishment when I finished. I was just annoyed with the mission and relieved it was over. When I played it on pc years later, I chose the other driver and had a fun time in the runnels.

The other diver gives you dirt bikes, and that’s the one you want. So much easier, and you actually get more of a payout at the end because one of your crew wipes out in the tunnels with the fast street motorcycles, just like I did probably 100x ten years earlier.

Glad to hear he actually checked with the women in his life for their perspective. I’m sure the guy in my example did not have any friends who were POC. If he did, he never bothered to ask them about their experiences with racism and they never felt comfortable enough with him to tell him about their experiences. Based on his age, in the era he grew up, the state was over 95% white people, and that was likely more concentrated to urban areas. If I had to place a bet, I would say the area he grew up in was rural or suburban. It was just wild to me that he never considered that things could be different for other people living in a different area.

If I’m remembering correctly, this was during the time that NFL athletes were kneeling for the national anthem and conservatives were losing their minds over it. He was watching a game playing on the TV, watched them kneel instead of stand, and commented that BLM is a stupid, pointless movement. The conversation ensued from there.

But the text could go in the center easily, without moving the pill there.

My roommate got a top-of-the-line iPhone a while back. The choice to go with the most expensive iPhone was specifically so he could also use it as a camera.

Pretty much every time I see him send or post a picture, it has the smudgy sheen, and pretty much every time, I tell him to clean his damn camera lenses. I think the camera roll in my Galaxy S21+ has, on average, better looking and more detailed photos than the ones on his phone. Not because the camera is better, but because I usually wipe the camera lenses before taking a picture.

Unfortunately, I had a middle aged white dude make that argument to me while I was a bartender. This was a little before the pandemic, in one of the least diverse states in the U.S. (population is ~90% white people). He said that in his entire life, he had never witnessed or experienced anyone be racist to anyone else, ever, and the only reason why people think it’s an issue is because the news is overly sensational and tries to divide us. I tried to tell him his experiences are not universal and cannot be taken as representative of the experiences of a person of color, but he was not having it. Since I was about half his age at the time, he said I didn’t have enough life experience to know that. This is despite the fact that I have several friends with first hand experience with racism in the same state he lived. They’ve been called slurs, followed around in stores, harassed by police and school administrations in public school, been told to go back to their own country (even though this is their own country, and the person telling them this is not indigenous), and numerous other examples.

It was a frustrating conversation that didn’t go anywhere. It’s especially disheartening that he at least recognized that the news tries to divide us, but then started repeating Fox News taking points when I tried sharing some of the things my friends have been through.

I think it’s this style of ceramic tile. They’re the hip thing U.S. contractors choose when doing new construction or renovations.

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Style-Selections-Woods-Graphite-6-in-x-24-in-Glazed-Porcelain-Wood-Look-Tile/1000477955

I was just about to say, that looks like the wood grain patterned ceramic tiles that are often put in new construction. They’re cheap and trendy(ish). Plus it comes in millennial gray, the landlord/contractor special.

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Style-Selections-Woods-Graphite-6-in-x-24-in-Glazed-Porcelain-Wood-Look-Tile/1000477955

The itsy bitsy spider, when she crawled up the water spout again.

Wow, I never actually listened to this song’s lyrics, so I never made this connection until now. It was always playing in the background on a Nina Simone Pandora station while I was at work (bartending at a restaurant) when I heard it before.

Thanks for sharing.

Oh really? I don’t see you with a fungineering degree.

I stopped getting Doritos when they went above $4/bag (prices are in USD and are what is printed on the bag, not what is displayed on the store shelf). I was already on the fence when it was $3/bag and stopped buying it on impulse from convenience stores. I would still indulge occasionally, but only when I could snag a deal at the grocery store. Then, around the time of the COVID price gouging, it went above $5 and I consider that insane for tortilla chips sprinkled with powder. Last time I saw the price of a bag of Doritos, I was at a 7-eleven and it was over $6. That’s fucked up. You’re mostly buying air anyway.

I was using a GTX 670 until 2022. To be fair, I also got a Steam Deck when it came out, which tided me over for a year or two with a couple new releases I wanted to play (mostly Elden Ring).