Suitedjustice's Ongoing Mid-life Crisis

Perhaps it is indeed a small intrinsic factor, yes... But nowadays, I would guess that it has more to do with Canadian hunting laws (Canada is a heavily regulated country), even if Natives benefit from WAY more leeway than your non-Native hunter. Moreover, the moose population outweighs heavily the bear population. Combined with the fact that moose meat is actually pretty darn good - I have yet to try bear meat, but moose meat >>>> bison meat, as an example - and that every part of the animal is consumed - the butcher in town is busy for a couple of months during hunting season chopping down moose daily brought in to sausages, steaks, burgers, ground meat etc.

As an example of how regulated Canada is in terms of fishing and hunting : when the salmon swim up-shore the Yukon River at the end of every summer, Alaskans fish the living shyt out of them before they reach the Canadian frontier, so by the time it reaches our shores, there is usually less then the 100k minimum threshold required to fish them 😊:(. As mentioned though, Natives still have a right to fish them, but other folks and commercial endeavours do not.

As someone that use to be a chef, this royally sucks, as I do remember the times back in 2001-2004, where local fishermen will come knocking at the backdoor of the kitchens' I was working in, I would then quickly phone the owner of the hotel, get an A-okay, and purchase everything that the fisherman had in hand at 2-4(CAD)$ a pound!!! Which is illegal as far as the Canadian food industry goes, as we are usually limited to having to purchase farmed salmon, halibut, sole, snapper etc. that is sold at 16-18$ a pound - this was the price back in 2011 (the last time I worked in a kitchen), but it is probably in the tune of 30-50$ per lbs nowadays, me thinks... -, as it is farmed up north, baggaged down south and has to come back on trucks that take 2-3 days from Vancouver-Edmonton :shocked:😮:(. So pretty darn sad to have a TON of moose, bear, bison, salmon etc. literally in our backyards/ponds, but being legally restricted from selling them to USA and German tourists that want to experience our local wild game food :(

edit : Moose population is estimated to be in between 175-200k in the Yukon (so thus exluding the Northwest Territories and Nunavit). The bear population is 15-17k.

Yeah, I can picture it being more of a thing in Alaska than in the Yukon. I can also fathom it being more of a trophy-hunting thing, then the Yukon Natives or locals.

seeing a bear skinned looks damn near as close to canibalism as humans can get

Moose and Buffalo burgers both are so freaking good. I ate buffalo once and instantly understood why we nearly ate them extinct.

Moose is surprisingly tender and juicy. I felt a little bad about it, but then remembered how they are gigantic, aggressive aholes, and felt less bad.

Someone once suggested I eat sheep and I insisted:

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I just finished Squid Game. The show was very well done, high quality television, and at 22 episodes, it was the perfect length for the story told.

I don't have a review, just a quick comment which I'll put into a spoiler, where it belongs.

I have never eaten either Moose or Bison burgers or whatever other meat derived from them.
But I have eaten eaten a lot, like over 1yo, I guess you could call it wild, chicken from my parents neighbors. So yeah that is a wholly different level from that industrial, quickly culled garbage served to us nowadays. I'd guess it's similar for these types of meat, just sayin'...

spoiling from the start in anticipation of derail
apologies sj

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there are many reasons bison nearly became extinct, as a human food source is not nearly the longest lever

found this to be a fair and concise summary from the nps

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/what-happened-to-the-bison.htm

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What Happened to the Bison? (U.S. National Park Service)

my frame of reference is growing up in the arkansas river basin among people of the tribes they mention two decades before Dances with Wolves was released.
their family elders still alive telling stories about living through bison masacres

any following emphasis is mine

Humans also played an important role, especially between 1825 and 1850. Increased traffic along the Santa Fe Trail disrupted bison herds, and New Mexican ciboleros (bison hunters) continued to kill between 15,000 and 25,000 bison each year. The US government’s removal policies sent roughly 50,000 eastern Indians into present-day Oklahoma, where many were granted hunting rights on the prairies. Perhaps most importantly, dwindling bison herds motivated the Comanches and their Kiowa allies to seek peace with the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, and Kiowa-Apaches in 1840. The prime bison habitat of the Arkansas Valley—formerly a boundary zone between warring nations—became a shared hunting ground, and the bison population simply could not keep up. The peace of 1840 also gave Comanches and Kiowas access to William Bent’s fort, where they (and other Plains peoples) were drawn into the bustling bison robe trade. Motivated by market forces, they harvested bison like never before

Beginning in the 1860s, conflict raged on the prairies as the US Army attempted to subdue the Plains Indians in order to make way for white settlers and railroad lines. Federal officials recognized the importance of bison on the Plains, where Native nations had yet to be forced onto reservations. In 1873. the Secretary of the Interior noted that “[t]he civilization of the Indian is impossible while buffalo remain on the plains”; following this logic, the Army provided free ammunition to hide hunters, who brought bison to the brink of extinction. By 1894, Yellowstone National Park hosted the only known wild herd in the United States. Ironically, the US Army—which managed Yellowstone—would play an important role in the return of the bison a few decades later.

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No worries, REDeYeS00! It was biological warfare, plain and simple. They knew what they were doing.

Sorry for the long gap between posts. I've become addicted to the Cyberpunk 2077 video game to a similar extent as that somewhat shopworn sci-fi trope where some of the main characters get hooked on a virtual reality geegaw.

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When Cyberpunk 2077 first came out, it was so heavily bugged and glitched that they withdrew it entirely from the PS4 console—the game would barely even start on that machine.

Years later, I found a used PS4 physical copy for like $8.99 at GameStop and asked the clerk, "Isn't this game bugged as all get-out?"

"Oh no; they patched everything. Runs good." was his answer. He wasn't lying. It does run fine—only crashes every 4 hours or so, which is better than anything comparable from Bethesda. And it's a fantastic game. Night City, the setting, is a revelation. It's huge and there's seemingly thousands of NPCs and it feels established and lived-in.

So I'm wondering if CD PROJEKT RED's strat was to release a broken game and then hope that the initial revenue would facilitate the patching of said game. And if it didn't, did they think they could just cut their losses; maybe decamp and pop back up with a new company name?

In any case, I'm hooked. Which is not good for either my work or this here thread.

The regs here and I have put a lot of work into this thread, and I don't want to see it die. Tonight, I'm heading to the casino. I will post about it tomorrow, and I will post more in general.

Thanks, Sheep!

I did it. I got on to the floor for 3 hours last night. I figured that I'd start off easy, take a half day like the ones that sometimes marked the first day of school when I was a kid.

Right off the bat, I found a play on a Rich Little Hens machine and, twenty minutes later, I was down $400 on it, and I had built up the potential payout on the machine to a point where there was no way I could abandon it without sacrificing a huge amount of EV and making some other slot grinder very happy.

I'm down to low funds thanks to my extended video game break, and the payouts on Rich Little Hens hit randomly, so at that point I was no closer to hitting anything than I had been $400 before, and I found myself with that sinking feeling in my belly, thinking: "I lost that $400 so quick. What's to say that I won't lose $400 again, and again? Is this really it? Is this where I go busto? Facing a trio of merciless cartoon chickens?"

Here's where I'm supposed to mention that I hit a big jackpot on the Rich Little Hens, but alas, I did not do that. I clawed back some of it, and I ended the night down $150.

Still, I was happy to be back on the floor. I covered 2.7 miles (4.3 km) in my wanderings, further than I'd walked in total for the two weeks prior.

Speaking of exercise: I'm still doing the stretches and the pushups and the bicycle crunches; been doing them since early March. But something odd has been happening with one of the standard leg stretches.

I started my stretching routine being much less limber than the model above, but every day I stretched an imperceptible amount further, until I got to where she is, and then I got further than that.

I have now stretched my legs out far enough to where I might be able—in the not very distant future—to do a split. Can you imagine that? Chubby guy in his 50s with an overhanging belly who can do a split?

This...this might make for decent prop bet fodder. I will update if anything significant develops from it.

Nice comeback! Hens is such a scam AP and founding feathers is even weaker than Rule the Roost, but all the recs will always play feathers over roost given the choice. It’s just crazy to me because they surely all have had a triple pop that barely pays 100x if that. Time to Quack! is a stronger game than hens and it isn’t even strong imo. Just wild how hard Light and Wonder is scamming nowadays.

Good work on stretching, doing laps in big casinos with marble floors make me so tight I have to stretch and roll out on a lacrosse ball before and after every long session.

Great thread Suited, I also have a buddy that will leave me the bonus streak plays and take the regular X plays, which I appreciate. I like bonus streak much more than X but you’re right it is harder to find playable situations and it is definitely higher volatility.

i swore off all of those for a while, didn't even bother checking because there was never a play and often lost on it

but then there's one sportsbook that is 1.5 hours away and i've been backed off so gotta do something to justify the drive and there's very little beyond variants of that so i've been forced to check those and found some good numbers and i've hit a bunch of triple pops (maybe hit 1 total previously) so now with the "what have you done for me lately" mindset i'm all in on those again

super interesting you think there's a big gap between the many variants - i've always suspected that some play easier than others but never collected any data

i used to suspect that the wheel variant was better because you could unlock extra spins mid feautre via the wheel but now i'm figuring that's probably "priced in"

but i still absolutely love it when i pop the bonus in less than 10 spins and make $4 on a total whiff because it reminds me just how terribly it could have gone

Regular piggies is way stronger than hens and the purple multiplier hen is stronger than the blue credit hen imo. I haven’t had enough plays on the wheel versions because they only lasted a few weeks around me, before they got yanked out and I doubt it was due to lack of play. Fastest I’ve seen machines pulled and I originally thought they were scams because free games capped at 40, best guess is they are pretty good.

Hello Lionelhuttz. Thank you for the kind words! It's good to hear from a fellow slot grinder—though I can't really call myself that lately, as the only thing I've been grinding is the PS4 controller.

Fortunately, I have you and rickroll to get me excited about hitting the floor again, not to mention a quickly-looming rent bill.

Late last night I sautéd two nice chunks of bacon-topped meatloaf in my frying pan, and then I found myself without a container in which to pour the leftover grease.

My trash bin was almost full, so I poured the grease in there and pulled the bag and headed for our apartment complex's dumpster.

Our dumpster fronts a decent-sized patch of woods, and as I made my way to it, something very large and very close started stamping around the woods right in front of me.

Now, squirrels can make a lot of noise in the woods, but they can't break big branches by stepping on them like this thing was doing. It was louder than a dog or a coyote or a bobcat or a deer. It could have been a human, but there are no paths back in these woods, and the area is adjacent to nowhere interesting. If someone was skulking back there, they were doing a terrible job of it.

We have moose; a few years back, one of them strolled through the center of our town ala the Northern Exposure show intro.

I think it was a bear. We've had plenty of bear sightings around town. And with that fresh bag of meatloaf grease in my hand, I smelled absolutely delicious.

So I loudly cleared my throat a few times, making it sound as much like a growl as possible, and I stepped up briskly to the dumpster, tossed the bag, and then backed away as quick as I dared, without turning my back on the woods. Fortunately: no bear attack.

so the wheel itself is a scam - it almost never pops mid play and the one time it did for me (probably over 1k spins) i didn't get the major or triple pop etc i got something so bad i don't even recall what it was and was pretty worth about 20 credits etc - maybe it was a single pop of a regular chicken or just a minor idr

but... i've had times where i hit a single jackpot hen for 7 spins but along the way hit some wheel spins which gave free spins or even unlocked an additional hen - so what could start as a low expectation payout could really build into something strong

i suspect though that the wheel comes at a cost - ie each wheel icon was at the sacrifice of another one

i have very limited sample sizes though - but about 2/3 of the time i have hit a wheel for a few extra spins or to include another bonus into the one i'm currently doing - so i think you could potentially view a marginal play as a good one to play assuming that you'll get an extra 2-5 spins out of it than "expected" fairly often

Sounds correct to me, have popped the wheel once mid-play on $7.50 and it only paid $37.50. You’re right the wheel seems to pop frequently in a bonus, which I guess explains why free games are capped at 40. I assume the hens wheel version is weaker but have never found a play on it. I agree I think the wheel is meant to bait APs and recs to take lower numbers. These new games are a lot tougher to “solve,” which is actually good for us, games like treasure box and master diang are just so easy to hustle.

Good to take breaks Suited, especially since you seem to put in tons of hours grinding. You gotta be tough to play as many games as you do over that many hours/days.

I wish that was true, Lionelhuttz, but I've had a lot more break than grind.

RIP Ozzy

When I first heard Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" on the radio at my older cousin's house, I was 8 years old. The song came from an album that had already been out a little longer than I'd been alive, but I'd never heard anything from it before.

My musical experience up to that point consisted of being subjected to my parents' radio station, their soft contemporary hits of the 70's: Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow, The Eagles, James Taylor, "You Light Up My Life", "Up, Up and Away (In My Beautiful Balloon)", "The Pina Colada Song"; you know, the same pop crap that pervades the listening space in every decade.

Hearing "Iron Man" was a gamechanger, a life changer. The song told a harsh and dissonant story of doom, and it rocked so ****ing hard I could barely keep myself together when it played. I will never forget how it made me feel the first time I heard it.

Two years later I cobbled together my lawn mowing money and bought the album that "Iron Man" was on: Black Sabbath's Paranoid. I slapped a sticker on the cover that had my name on it surrounded by a rainbow. I was still very young and hadn't quite gotten a handle on heavy metal's raison d'être, but I would learn.

What an album it was! Paranoid had everything on it: doom and gloom, anti-war protests, warnings about addiction, musings about insanity, portents of nuclear annihilation, even mellow psychedelia, and of course the song with the drum solo, a live spot where the rest of the band could sneak off for a smoke and a drink and a pill and a snort while Bill Ward banged the skins for 7 minutes straight. I loved that album, and I always will.

Around that time I discovered my own radio stations: Connecticut's album-oriented rock stations WHCN and WCCC, and they turned me on to Ozzy's new solo stuff: Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman. I especially loved Ozzy's opening on "Crazy Train."

ALL ABOOOARD AHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I was aboard for it, all right.

Years went by and my tastes expanded and changed, and Ozzy went on to become kind of a doddering, sadly humorous figure, but I'll always love him for showing me at a very young age that music isn't just the crap that's on in the background in the workplace or the grocery store. Music is the stuff that moves you. It makes you want to jump up and move around and realize that life is worth living; hell, even if it is doomed, we can sing and dance along the way.

RIP Ozzy, and thank you.

ozzy madness,
appears this perceived bitch sharon was shilling the prince of darkness to pharoahs

From the little I know, Sharon seems like a complicated person—containing multitudes—and I doubt that anyone outside her immediate circle could speak her truth.

I do believe that Ozzy wouldn't have made it much past 40 if it weren't for her. Both of them have talked about how she fetched him out of several epic benders that would have shortened his life significantly if they'd been allowed to go on.

do not disagree with any part of your response sj
my previous post was also subtle wordplay on this poem