wizardbeard

Good luck, and thanks for sharing your experience like that. I've always been a proponent of sharing, because you never know if some detail might help someone else. Yours helps me and your attitude is inspiring.

Not fishing for a response, but for context I've been having minor issues with dry heaving and vomiting for about a month. Mine seems to be related to sinus pressure, far as I can tell. Already have appointments, but was getting nervous of what they might find, or that they might not find anything.

The funny thing to me is, I think that 3D render is either from Conker's Pocket Tales (an isometric GameBoy game using the original family friendly plan for the character), or for the original family friendly N64 game before they shifted gears entirely into Bad Fur Day.

The team that made Banjo-Kazooie, a cutesy animal mascot platforming game, made another animal mascot platforming game that was as not child friendly as possible and had tons of references to pop culture media and movies at the time.

One of your first goals is to cure your hangover. Along the way, you give laxatives to cows, collect bees to tickle a flower with big boobs to stop covering them up so you can use them as a jump pad, murder living teddy bears filled with meat in a war, have a boss battle against a giant opera singing pile of shit (probably the most well known scene of the game, the great mighty poo), and more. It was shocking for the N64 era, and they really worked some programming magic to get absolutely every ounce of power they could out of it.

If you have xbox gamepass, it's included in Rare Replay (which at least used to be part of gamepass).

Awesome! I'd love a mod that decreased the chances and made them use boats though, kind of like the mod that lets pawns ride animals.

If you do, I can't reccomend the Viva New Vegas modpack enough. It's a wonderful "vanilla-plus" pack that keeps the feeling of the base game while fixing bugs, improving the balance and leveling curve, reintroducing appropriate cut content, and giving it all a consistently good new coat of paint. And it’s not crash prone, which even the base game has trouble with at times.

I can't help myself from tinkering further, but it's the best baseline setup I've found since the game released over a decade ago.

There are also sister packs done by the same team for 3, and Tale of Two Wastelands (another mod that puts 3 into New Vegas's slightly improved engine, which a lot of people prefer to playing 3 on it's own). I haven't used them myself, but they look to be up to the same gold standard.

Lord, they really just ended up abandoning all subtext about the BDSM undertones didn't they? This isn't the first one of these posted here.

You should look into the Dreamcast conversion mod and the Lantern Engine (lighting engine tweaks) at the very least. Pretty much everything that comes with the "Better SADX" modloader is great.

In short, when they updated the Dreamcaast original to DX, they changed the textures entirely along with most of the player models and broke the lighting engine. Every time the game was ported after that, the textures have gotten more compressed and lower quality, and more bugs have been introduced.

For example, you know the spot in Emerald Coast where Sonic can clip through the wall really easily and drown? Never happens in the Dreamcast original, fixed by the conversion.

So mods that restore stuff tend to bring the quality up considerably and fix bugs. Personally I prefer the DX player models (the Dreamcast ones look barely better than PS1), but you can adjust the DC conversion mod to switch off whatever changes you don't like.

Oh, and for replayability, the time trial ghosts mod is great. It displays a see through playback of all your movements from your fastest playthrough of the level, like racing games do. So you can race yourself.

Also, with the modloader you get real widescreen. No more inane borders on the side squishing things to 4:3.

Only thing that stands out to me is the percentages you've listed. I was always taught (and most of my peers seem to have been as well) that the normal tip for average service was 15%. Poor service (that is in the waiter's control) gets 10%, and good/great is 18-22% (but usually 20%).

I was born in the early 90s if it makes a difference.

There are mods for it to restore the soundtrack and other little tweaks.

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Step 1, get rid of all your network cables. Extra savings: everyone knows the internet is wireless now anyway.

Step 2, set a company policy that only one device can be connected to the internet at a time. Even more cost savings as you don't need such an expensive connection for just one machine. Fosters better inter-departmental communication, and ensures the entire company is synergized and aligned to ensure optimal use of resources. Encourages radical, out of the box thinking styles so the company is better prepared to disrupt existing norms and capitalize on unique opportunities that other companies are too influenced by outside online opinions and information to actualize.

Step 3, Profit. You've provided the IT infrastructure and technology to meet the company's needs according to policy, so you can kick back, knowing that any complaint is firmly not your problem. Employees attempting to use resources against company policy is a training or disciplinary issue for their managers to handle. Time to get back to playing online games in the server closet using the backup internet connection you have for failover purposes.

Is it terrible to say that I'm surprised this sort of thing doesn't happen more often with big money execs?