The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXIV

[Arakhor]

Your wording suggests you don't know.

And you would be right.

 

[Rashiminos]

You mean Ronald, and not his son Ron, yes?

Yes. V

To commemorate its reappearance on the front page, is there some other nation in some other region suitable to a "Where is Poland?" style debate?

 

[Lord Baal]

See the story I heard was that the fans had correctly identified that

Spoiler In case Hobbs is going to continue watching :

the island was really purgatory

after the first season, a fact that J.J. Abrams vehemently denied on a couple fan forums, and so he spent the next 6 seasons trying to do everything possible to convince people that it wasn't that, just so he could return to it in the final season for the Big Twist Ending.

That idea was way too clever for Abrams or Lindelhof to have thought of it.

 

[_random_]

Yes. V

To commemorate its reappearance on the front page, is there some other nation in some other region suitable to a "Where is Poland?" style debate?

V has been known to challenge the fact that Ohio is in the Midwest.

 

[timtofly]

Playstation+ says you receive 12 free games upon signing up, with a new selection of games every month. Does this mean that you can get 12 games in total or that you receive 12 initially and then get to pick from the selection each month?

As long as you keep up the membership, you can have as many "free" games as you want, even if they are deleted from the hard drive. You may end up running out of room sooner or later. You can keep the games you purchase even without a membership.

It sounds like they are not forcing you to pay a membership fee, but as long as you do, you have "unlimited" access. They are technically not free. They are yours to enjoy as long as you are a member, and have room for them.

They are going to teach communism one way or the other. This is not a bad idea, just saying....

 

[bhsup]

V has been known to challenge the fact that Ohio is in the Midwest.

Well in my defense, it's not. It's in the Northwest Territory! It cannot be northwest AND midwest at the same time! Really, the Midwest doesn't go any further east than Indiana.

 

[Synobun]

As long as you keep up the membership, you can have as many "free" games as you want, even if they are deleted from the hard drive. You may end up running out of room sooner or later. You can keep the games you purchase even without a membership.

It sounds like they are not forcing you to pay a membership fee, but as long as you do, you have "unlimited" access. They are technically not free. They are yours to enjoy as long as you are a member, and have room for them.

They are going to teach communism one way or the other. This is not a bad idea, just saying....

This sounds... Fantastic. What's the catch? You say that you keep the games even when you delete them (so something like Steam?), that you have unlimited access to the selection and can pick whatever you want... So you can go beyond the initial 12? How many can you select from each month's selection? One? Two?

... All of them?

I can't believe I haven't heard of this before.

 

[_random_]

Indiana and Illinois are also in the Old Northwest. You can't discount Ohio on that basis and not count them.

 

[bhsup]

I'm actually fine with that. Stuff anything east of the Mississippi, I say! But... well Illinois and Indiana are just much harder to exclude, so it's not worth it to me to press the issue. Ohio, on the other hand is just so darned far east it's ridiculous to even consider it being part of the midwest.

 

[_random_]

Chicago is the iconic Midwestern city. It seems pretty evident that the flaw is with how you're defining "Midwest" here.

 

[bhsup]

Pfft. Chicago? No, not even close. I don't want the Midwest represented by an iconic city with the reputation of Chicago. Mobs, dirty politics, crime. Aimes, Maryville, those are typical midwestern cities.

 

[Lord Baal]

I was under the assumption that Midwest farmer's daughters really make you feel alright?

 

[bhsup]

EXACTLY! Know a lot of farmers in Chicago?

 

[_random_]

No, but I have met people from literally the entire rest of Illinois.

 

[Lord Baal]

EXACTLY! Know a lot of farmers in Chicago?

Wouldn't embezzling state funds count as farming, in the strict sense? You skim just enough resources off the top to keep yourself comfortable, but allow the majority to recirculate so as to begin all over again next year?

 

[Mise]

edit: nvm

 

[Traitorfish]

Chicago is the iconic Midwestern city. It seems pretty evident that the flaw is with how you're defining "Midwest" here.

I would have thought it was Minneapolis-St.Paul. More provincial, full of Germans, surrounded by six billion miles of featureless corn-field, etc. Chicago is too cosmopolitan and has too much geography to be iconically Midwestern.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Chicago has all of those features as well...

 

[Traitorfish]

Not with quite the same degree of purity, though. You need that rolling eternity of cornfields and liverwurst for the true Midwestern spirit.


Also, genuine questions, do Nebraska and the Dakotas count as the "Midwest", or are they just "the West"? And is Kansas viewed as a Western state or a Southern one?

 

[Ajidica]

I live in Minnesota and I would say Kansas and the Dakotas are in the Midwest.