@Luna
That's all anyone in Portland talks about these days with the recent tech boom. And from what I understand, it's similar in Austin. We tend to have less of the McMansion "problem" here (unless you go up to the west hills as referenced in that Everclear song, or if you're heading into Gresham which is getting a lot of urban renewal), but there's always been a serious issue with people bitching about transplants and how they're "ruining the state of the city." Mostly people from California. Oregonians appear to treat Californians like the entire state conspired to kill their parents or something. The biggest issue that I've found with the PDX metro are our rental properties and the tiny house phenomenon. As an example, I live in an apartment complex that's relatively new. When I mentioned where I lived to someone who was a native, they talked about how there was "a lovely park and a nice restaurant and blah, blah it's all gone because people like YOU live there. I mean you're not even FROM here!" Cities grow. Successful cities grow and change. It's built into human society, folks.
RL peeves! >< @$!#
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@Luna
That's all anyone in Portland talks about these days with the recent tech boom. And from what I understand, it's similar in Austin. We tend to have less of the McMansion "problem" here (unless you go up to the west hills as referenced in that Everclear song, or if you're heading into Gresham which is getting a lot of urban renewal), but there's always been a serious issue with people bitching about transplants and how they're "ruining the state of the city." Mostly people from California. Oregonians appear to treat Californians like the entire state conspired to kill their parents or something. The biggest issue that I've found with the PDX metro are our rental properties and the tiny house phenomenon. As an example, I live in an apartment complex that's relatively new. When I mentioned where I lived to someone who was a native, they talked about how there was "a lovely park and a nice restaurant and blah, blah it's all gone because people like YOU live there. I mean you're not even FROM here!" Cities grow. Successful cities grow and change. It's built into human society, folks. -
So, Portland basically really is Portlandia?
Austin we scorn, bunch of crazy hippies. But all Texas cities have a sort of hate for the other ones. At least the major ones. San Antonio is trashy. Dallas/Fort Worth is full of snobs. (Mind you, people from Dallas/Fort Worth hate being lumped in together) Houston is AWESOME. (It's kinda awesome. I mean, I like it, but really id be at a loss of things that someone would just have to see if they visited. It's a really large city with a lot of diversity. That pleases me.)
Fun? What is this fun thou speakest of?
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I'm a native Portlandian transplanted in Austin, and I'd go back to Portland if there was a video game industry presence outside of indie studios. But alas... I'm trapped.
And yes, I've lived in Austin for at least four years now and already am like "everyone else, stop moving here". My rent's already gone up 30% since I moved in since my area is blowing up like crazy. I'm already looking at moving into more of the outskirts of town to get away from it.
But I'd move home to Portland if I could.
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@FirePuff
Hey, we sorta traded places, almost. I moved here from Oklahoma City about five years ago. I've wanted to move to Austin for a couple years now. One of these days.You're right about the gaming industry here. It's mostly local indie folks that are making arthaus games; nothing at all like Bioware or anything. I used to live across the street from that Leftbank studio just before the Broadway Bridge, and when I would go out to smoke, I'd talk to a really nice couple that were talking about starting up an indie gaming company to reinvigorate the adventure game genre (like Monkey's Island and shit). This was pre-Telltale Games Walking Dead, so I don't know what happened with that.
That mentality does kinda get into you a bit, though. Like I've even come to start having a knee-jerk reaction if someone with California plates pulls in front of me, like FUCKING CARPETBAGGERS, GO HOME. There's a really good exploration of that mentality in a book called Wiser (and the author was recently interviewed on the Daily Show) about how groupthink can affect your logic in certain situations.
@Luna -- Some of the things in Portlandia aren't too out of bounds. Obviously the mayor doesn't have random citizens helping him out with day-to-day business, but nuggets of truth. I dated this waitress over the summer (who was hardcore into indie music, had full sleeve tattoos and 2" gauged ears, naturally) who did have customers asking about how the animals were treated and whether they lived a good life.
There are a collection of RL peeves for me illustrated in the above. I hate the terms liberal or conservative (in reference to the book that I mentioned) because it's a limiting factor and drives an ideological wedge into your thought processes on how you react to things; I really hate it when people apparently try to make themselves feel better by eating "cruelty-free" food, because there's a good chance they'll eat it regardless and you don't know if someone's lying, plus dying isn't particularly humane; and I'm not a fan of artist collectives that charge an exorbitant fee for the sake of you living among them in a shitty loft.
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People who try to push past those getting out of a train/bus/tram. Doubly pissed off if the person getting off has to walk with a cane. Seriously, 5 seconds worth of patience.
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Burners. This goes along with the mention of Austin. I fucking hate Burners. I had to pull back from a friend of mine who started taking her kid to burns and is being a DJ and stuff. YOU ARE FUCKING 35. STOP DOING THAT.
I'm kind of over alt things in general. It's just become alt=irresponsible adult going nowhere in life. Obviously, yes, exceptions to the rule and it's hypocritical since I have blue hair but I assure you, I'm a complete sellout and I'm ok with it. When you start thinking about what shade to dye your hair in conjunction with what colors Kors is going to use in his spring bags, you've sold the fuck out.
Fun? What is this fun thou speakest of?
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@Luna said:
Burners.
Please link to Urban Dictionary on this one, as I cannot imagine someone "going to a pre-paid phone".
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My guess is, people who go to Burning Man and are all about that culture.
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@Thenomain http://blog.burningman.com/2008/06/eventshappenings/what-is-a-burner-anyway/ - That. Or basically people who do Burning Man type events and then talk about how they have to come down from their spiritual crazy person amazing journey because burns are not just about getting high in the wilderness (yes, they pretty much are) but are about the JOURNEY. You know. The spiritual journey. You'd have to be there.
The friend in question got mad because people were like 'Hey maybe don't take your 4 year old to the event where people are getting high in the wilderness'. It cramps her spiritual journey to find a babysitter.
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To be fair, I'm old and kinda always wanted to go to Burning Man. I haven't. I sort of want to. Except, I like comfy mattresses and really love my showers. Oh, and I don't do drugs. Yet, there is part of me that really wants to hang out and watch the subculture.
Annoyance of the moment: Me.
Why am I reading this thread and eating leftovers when I should be in bed? I should be old enough for healthy habits.
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The only thing I know about the burning man is that they cut off Nick Cages legs. Or am I thinking of something else?
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I mostly just hear about a lot of rape.
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@Catsmeow You're not missing anything. Promise. It's hot and dirty and I don't mean just the desert Playa. The local events were pretty much the same, minus desert, plus humidity. And a lot of naked people who shouldn't be naked. So basically quite similar to the Wiccan camp outs.
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@Cobaltasaurus
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That these are going to be considered wildly onerous system requirements by so many people:
Minimum System Requirements
Intel CPU Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz
AMD CPU Phenom II X4 940
Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 660
AMD GPU Radeon HD 7870
RAM 6GB
OS 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)
DirectX 11
HDD Space 40 GBHow dare they build a game to require at least moderately current specs? If by 'current' we mean 'shit that came out 3 to 4 years ago'.
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@HelloRaptor What game is that for?
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The fact that it takes 8 to 10 business days to take money from my Canadian bank account and put it in to my Canadian Paypal account.
I take that back; it takes my money away immediately, but it takes that long to show up in the Paypal account.
Nebulous Canadian loonies floating around in cyberspace when I want to buy things.
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@darksabrz Witcher 3
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Wait... I can wear a bear suit and hit people?! Sweeeet! Let's go. You come along. Also you drive. I'll stock up on water. We can sell it for $$$