Hah! I'm gonna go with the last one, hahaha!
sp3ctr4l
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Anywhere in MA I can rent a studio apt for ~$700 a month?
Probably not lol, I'm on SSDI, but an actual proper city/town sounds great!
Uh, in a few words:
Great Depression 2.0, potentially worse.
The dollar has lost roughly 10% against all other currencies, because we are a debt laden nightmare that is either going to or beginning to default, going to not be the world currency / favored safe asset nation for bonds.
And we produce basically nothing tangible, we import a lot, so... everything gets more expensive.
Also we functionally just fired all our construction workers and farmers via ICE raids, so food goes up in price a lot, probably shortages, ie, famine... and we can't actually build any new houses or warehouses or office buildings or anything without much higher cost, from both imported materials and higher labor costs...
Oh right and the dollar tanking generally means oil, gas goes up in price, so anything involving logistics is now considerably more expensive.
Oh and basically everyone in the bottom 2/3rds by income distribution is in massivr amounts of debt, so, garnished wages, reduced consumer demand...
Yeah, I could go on, but I am quite serious when I say this could actually be worse than the Great Depression.
... I hope to god you didn't buy in roughly the lower 1/3rd of the country, almost all of those areas will be uninsurable within 10 years due to more frequent and more severe climate/weather events.
SoCals gonna burn down, Florida's gonna sink/melt into the ocean, get washed out by hurricanes.
Possibly the only possible bright sidd is that if you have significant stock investments of some kind, those might 'melt up' to roughly keep track with the devuation of the dollar, so you may have a chance at at least treading water there...
... but basically everything else is going to be a shitshow, business can't afford to pay the wages that would be necesssary for a worker to survive, amped up to 11... rents will probably start to trend down after a while though, as housing values nose dive.
Or maybe they'll just say you need to have ridiculous income level to qualify, but we'll give you 3 to 6 months of free rent.
They tend to do literally everything other than just lower prices for as long as they can.
I'd fuckin watch that.
Yes, it will restrict developer... well, really, mostly publisher choice, in 99% of the scenarios this will actually affect, if you go by amount of money involved.
Specifically their choice to Thanos snap all of your MTX purchased items out of existence, their choice to EoL a game without having some kind of at least mostly functional final patch and/or release of a stripped down dedi server binary.
Yep.
They're right.
It would restrict those choices.
Like how we have lemon laws that restrict the choice of a car dealer/mfg to sell you a catastrophically broken piece of crap.
Bunbun ... buns?
Yeah, not 100% sure but that looks like maybe... 4 .410 barrels and one 12 gauge, possibly 10 gauge as you say?
My guess would be this thing has at least two triggers, its got two visible ... percussion cap? hammers?
I... I think this is like, a modern, custom, 'reproduction' type thing...
I guess its possible it could be an actual like... 150+ yo custom gun?
That... seems less likely though?
Also... presumably that little flipper like thing on the right of this image, and... probably at least one other lever, maybe further down the butt stock, out of frame... would be needed to switch between different 410 barrels or the 12 gauge barrel, or ... something?
Unless it just fires ... everything at once.
Which... is possible, but that'd knock probably most people on their ass or fly out of their hands or break your collarbone/face lol.
But yeah, a total of 5 barrels is so uncommon I am inclined to think it is at this point basically a one of a kind heirloom, or more likely a more modern custom job by a gunsmith who specializes in wacky shit, lol.
Could be percussion caps, could have a stiker firing mechanism that just looks like the old school percussion cap style hammers externally...?
...
My family had at one point an over-under rifle/shotgun combo, but it was just .22lr and .410, just two barrels, break open... but from like the 1950s or 60s, with more modern firing mechanisms.
It had one trigger, and a sort of switch/lever to change the single hammer from striking either chamber, and then a button, kinda like a mag release on a pistol, to allow you to break it open to extract and reload.
Think it might have been a Savage 24, wood housing... but the stock actually developed a nasty crack and iirc, we just sold it at a discount to some gunshop who would replace the stock and then sell it.
I agree with your specification.
The kind if mixed use, areas that are walkable, have seating, various kinds of shops... usually only in a few districts of a few fairly large towns or large cities.
There is seating, sometimes, in like... restaurants in basically a strip mall type set up... but they're like islands, surrounded by acres of parking lots.
All the way up and down the West Coast, multiple times, over the course of more than 2 decades of being driving age... from Bellingham WA down to LA / San Diego... many, many places in between... also many places all the way out to South Dakota via I 90.
If I gave you a full list, I'd have to rewrite Johnny Cash's "I've been everywhere"... I've actually been to a good number of places in the original lyrics.
Basically yes.
We don't do that in the US anywhere near as much.
Maybe a park will have a table and bench, maybe some certain restaurants in certain parts of certain cities will have them.
But its much, much less common, as our society is designed to be unwalkable, designed for cars and parking lots and air conditioning.
san yon go roku shichi hachi kyu jyu!
...jyu-ichi jyu-ni jyu-san...
Ok I'll stop now.
Ahem, not bilingual, but I definitely have a small chunk of Japanese drilled into my head after a decade + of Karate, haha.
Dang, I can't say I've ever heard You Bun Too... thats new to me!