More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
yayz, I finally read how to get the 1-up in Espgaluda, after all this time. It is very much a "guide dang it" thing, but maybe arcade games are designed to have secrets like that, so casual players who don't play the game regularly will put more coins in the machine.
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
btw I read a thread on Steam today where some people said that CAVE games are meant to be impossible and steal people's money. It irks me that people would view beautiful pieces of art like that. They are quite fine-tuned and entirely possible to clear with one life.
i have never in my experience found understanding a Texan accent particularly difficult, but i imagine i might struggle to understand a thick rural Texas accent
i'm half american and if i wanted i could go and live there tomorrow. but i would never. america is fine as a country in principle but for a lot of people, living in america is really awful in terms of quality of life, and i dont care how big and powerful my country is so long as i have a good quality of life. i dont envy the power of america and i dont envy the americans who have to live there
anyway the uk is not, i think, 'unimportant', or even relatively unimportant to america. hilariously subordinate, perhaps, but not unimportant. i think i would prefer the uk to be less important in all honesty. let's let london form its own nation-state and be autonomous and important, and let's have scottish independence so i can move to scotland, and independence for cornwall, and cumbria, and we can be chill and cool and independent and quasi-scandinavian. the rest of the country can just continue being boring and conservative on its own.
i suppose you could fit most of europe into america. when you have that much to explore there is less need to leave, maybe
though at the same time we're kind of lucky in europe to have the insane level of cultural difference crammed into such a tiny area. that makes it more desirable to travel. i can just go round on trains for a month and experience ten different, distinct countries. is massachusetts so different to oregon? geographically probably, but culturally?
The states that have enough people in them to have a culture are fairly different from one another.
Southerners in particular are pretty distinct from everyone else, in a bad way mind.
In any case my impression has always been that The United Kingdom is worse in terms of average standard of living, but that is an impression fueled by many "the Tories passed some bill or another and now me and my mom can't afford heat" posts on Tumblr rather than numbers, so I suppose I wouldn't actually know.
also because of the way American law is structured, state and even county laws often matter a lot more than federal ones do, even if people tend to care more about the latter for symbolic/political reasons. The US is rather decentralized in some respects (not a majority, mind).
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
FWIW, it's not just British people; American television tends to subtitle anyone who has a thick accent, even if they're speaking perfect English. I've always found it a bit insulting, myself.
In any case my impression has always been that The United Kingdom is worse in terms of average standard of living, but that is an impression fueled by many "the Tories passed some bill or another and now me and my mom can't afford heat" posts on Tumblr rather than numbers, so I suppose I wouldn't actually know.
being poor over here has definitely gotten worse over the past few years because of tories and there are people who cant afford to heat their homes (this has as much to do with energy prices here as the govt, though theyre certainly not helping!!) and genuinely disabled people who have been refused disability allowance, and end up committing suicide because it is that or starve to death (though that is a uniquely british problem thanks to the ATOS disability testing system which is more or less murdering people)
though i always got the impression that being poor in america was pretty fucking bad too. over here, at least, we have far far less of a prison industrial complex, we have fewer totally ghettoised areas, we don't have people dying of a toothache because they can't afford the dentist bills... i'd say probably it is comparable thinking about it broadly, but healthcare, education i dont have to pay tens of thousands of pounds a year for, a broadly tolerant society... that stuff is important to me particularly. i suppose as ever it depends on what area of the country you're living in and how much money you have. but for me there are a few universal things which make over here better across the board.
if you look at numbers... there are some statistics which say things like in america the child poverty rate is 1 in 4, while in Britain it's more like 1 in 9 or something like that, and while a lot of it has been cut, the UK still gives out more welfare money to the poor than the US (as a percentage of GDP.)
i think the 'we cant heat our homes' issue is also due to the cost of energy over here which is much higher than in america.
though of course you can find numbers also saying quality of life is, on the whole, better in america, even in the case of the bottom 10% vs the bottom 10%. as ever statistics can say what you want them to. these things are never clear and 'quality of life' is a pretty abstract thing anyway
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I always got the impression that my quality of life would be better in the UK versus over here, but that might be because I'm bitter at how much American society has totally screwed me over. *shrug*
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^I wasn't, for what it's worth
so really i guess i don't know what i'm talking about
but like, nobody on Doctor Who has a thick accent relative to the RP... so idk really
i guess i resent feeling like i live somewhere that's considered relatively unimportant
nobody needs subtitles to understand the major US accents because America is important and people care what Americans have to say
are you suggesting that they do, or that they are incomprehensible?
i have never in my experience found understanding a Texan accent particularly difficult, but i imagine i might struggle to understand a thick rural Texas accent
i guess that was a dumb thing to say
i envy Americans sometimes
"Was that a boy?"
though at the same time we're kind of lucky in europe to have the insane level of cultural difference crammed into such a tiny area. that makes it more desirable to travel. i can just go round on trains for a month and experience ten different, distinct countries. is massachusetts so different to oregon? geographically probably, but culturally?
Southerners in particular are pretty distinct from everyone else, in a bad way mind.
In any case my impression has always been that The United Kingdom is worse in terms of average standard of living, but that is an impression fueled by many "the Tories passed some bill or another and now me and my mom can't afford heat" posts on Tumblr rather than numbers, so I suppose I wouldn't actually know.