if you ever get some money, travel the world. don't even think for once that you'll spend too much
see other civilizations, monuments, stories, try new food, even try flirting with locals
the world is shittier than ever and things may get worse, our lives are small and not worth spending only in our town.
i've spent money traveling that i "should" have held and i've never once regretted it, not once.
get the passport, book the flight, figure it out when you land.
the world is waiting and you're only here once.
f*ck narrow mind decisions and live.
The poster child of grifters - Batman: Arkham night.
This game is commonly used with a false narrative, that games used to be: "Optimized and look just as good"
It was the worst optimized game on PC in 2015 and while it looked impressive, no one could run it at stable 60fps.
We’ve been living in NYC for over four years now.
I don’t like that I haven’t felt the sun on my face since October and won’t for months more.
I don’t like that, at least once a day, I walk past someone who isn’t all there, and for a few seconds there exists a slight possibility in my mind that they will confront me.
It happened once on the subway. The guy started violently waving a metal baton in the air as we all scrambled to the next car in a panic.
I don’t like that my son watches as the person in front of us jumps over the subway turnstile and doesn’t pay, with no consequences.
I don’t like the random extra income tax you pay on top of federal and state.
So many things do suck here.
Why stay, then?
I like that I’m surrounded on all sides by people who are living their dreams.
I like that my kids have access to some of the best schools in the world.
I like that we are blocks away from some of the best food in the world.
I like that the doctors here are some of the best in the world.
I like that we can walk anywhere we want: dentist, coffee, haircut - just walk out the door and you’re there in a minute.
I like that everyone comes through here, so we see distant friends constantly.
I like that my kids have countless playdate options all around us.
I love that my kids’ hangout spots are the Met and the Museum of Natural History.
I love the access to world-class sports entertainment.
I like how fascinating the people I meet on a daily basis are.
I love how friendly the people of New York City are. Never expected it - the community is as warm as you can imagine.
I like how fired up I’m going to feel tomorrow morning as we embark on another year of endless possibilities.
Crazy things are going to happen this year that wouldn’t be possible anywhere else - and the best part is I don’t even know what they will be yet.
Yes, there’s a price to being here.
Yes, there are things that totally suck.
But despite all the nonsense and everything you can point to that’s terrible, there’s a reason people who can choose to live anywhere still choose New York City.
There’s a subsection of people who like COD that are gonna miss out on Black Ops 7, check in for MW4, see all the good stuff since MWII reverted and then bitterly think the franchise and studios are all the same and leave again. The studio that people say pushes the franchise forward is ironically the one that holds it back the most.
Entertainment subscriptions are (or was) valuable because you can/could subscribe to them and essentially forget about them, and I think that's what has made them so popular and profitable for a long time. As soon as it becomes a conscious decision because of the price point, you've lost a lot of people.