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[-] Xenny@lemmy.world 118 points 9 months ago
[-] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 69 points 9 months ago

Oddly, I feel like you need to specify this in the PNW...

Beer bar, whiskey bar, coffee bar, chocolate bar. There's a lot of ten guys out there who'd get confused.

[-] Elivey@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago
[-] obrenden@lemmy.world 41 points 9 months ago

Beer bars (sometimes called taverns or pubs) are legally restricted to selling only beer, and possibly wine or cider. Liquor bars, also simply called bars, also sell hard liquor.

[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 34 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Oregon has weird liquor laws. Taprooms that only sell beer and can't serve spirits are actually pretty common, and they'll have fancy beers brewed in a room behind the counter. (Most of them like to highlight the existence of the brewery by making it visible to the rest of the room.) People don't usually call em "beer bars" but that's exactly what they are.

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 9 months ago

You can definitely tell it's a non-native by what they call those places

Also how they pronounce some of the smaller cities

Like Chelatche

[-] Killing_Spark@feddit.de 5 points 9 months ago
[-] osbo9991@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

Haven't heard anyone say chelatchie out loud before, but I live in the pnw and I would guess it would be pronounced cheh-latch-ee, which is similar to how "Wenatchee", a pnw city, is pronounced (not helpful but interesting nonetheless).

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 9 months ago

Very close, sha-latch-ee

No worries though

It's a really small place and the closer one lives to it the more likely I've seen people be able to get it

Spokane is a fun one to hear people say though when they're from a few states away

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[-] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 4 points 9 months ago

Clatskanie is a good one too.

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[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

There are wine bars and cocktail bars. A "beer bar" is the default, so it's a bit weird to hear, but it also sensible to be specific.

[-] pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago

Just to differentiate it from all the milk bars, you know

[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

We call them tap houses here, and we have a lot of them.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

As opposed to a whisky bar maybe?

[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 74 points 9 months ago

So did they hike to the volcano to loot the missing man's corpse? What loot did he drop?

[-] odium@programming.dev 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That's if you fail the time challenge. If you're fast enough, you can instead get the rescue operation quest and collect a higher reward and some fame.

[-] Gabu@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

No way, that quest is bugged - if you get close to it, the physics engine freaks out and starts throwing rocks everywhere.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

And if you're too slow, Bigfoot shows up like the Yeti in SkiFree.

[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

He actually broke his ankle, but sasquatch was nearby and was able to mend him, but it took a few weeks before he could properly walk.

I heard he's doing much better now. Just had a small limp.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

So how much XP for killing and skinning the sasquatch

[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Killing? He's our mascot, he's off-limits.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago
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[-] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 64 points 9 months ago

Today I learned pnw is pacific northwest. =) Also, side quests are a thing and sound fun.

[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 16 points 9 months ago

I thought it was a hacker convention or something. My mind read "pwn"

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[-] CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Many of us also use 'Cascadia', in reference to the mountains we reside in and around.

[-] ssfckdt@mastodon.cloud 9 points 9 months ago
[-] SimplyATable@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

I live there, it's a great place! Plenty of side quests

[-] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

Volunteer firefighting/search teams are basically this irl

[-] reversebananimals@lemmy.world 59 points 9 months ago

I'm from the PNW and I read this thinking "mmhmm yep I could see how that could happen."

[-] Jerkface@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

It took me reading this comment to appreciate how out of the ordinary this must sound to someone not from here.

[-] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago

I'm not from the US and to be honest, it still sounds like something "normal". That's not a rumor. That's just something that happened. A rumor is more like "I heard our ethics teacher has a wooden foot and that is because she got stuck in a bear trap when scaring off a weasel while comforting our biology teacher who found a corpse while scuba diving in the town's lake."

[-] tryptaminev@feddit.de 8 points 9 months ago

Unless the guy who tells it to you has direct involvement or there is public reports i'd say it is still a rumor. Because he heard it from someone who probably heard it from someone.

At least that's what some guy at a bar told me the other day.

[-] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Yea but we don’t teach ethics in the US outside of a few specific occupations

[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Just a weekend adventure over here.

[-] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 42 points 9 months ago

Yeah, the west coast can get brutal.

E.G. I know a park that has a standing rule that all visitors hiking north (aka up until the wild) should sign in and out, and that search and rescue will be called on any cars left in the parking lot at night.

Not the police. Search and rescue.

Because if you go off the trails you can literally walk off a cliff because the underbrush is so thick.

[-] danque@lemmy.world 41 points 9 months ago

Art imitates life. Before television, rumors were the way people heard about things. Before newspaper people would know of stuff happening in other place by word-to-mouth.

[-] UnkTheUnk@midwest.social 25 points 9 months ago

new skill learned: "investigative journalism"

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago

I unironically just want to be a Stalker living on the Skadovsk and trading vodka for runors and sidequests.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago

Imagine waking up as Sidorych, eternally trapped in a small underground shack, communicating with mute persons via textboxes and exchanging legs of mutated pigs for ammo.

On the other hand, if it means I am not obliged to work a daily job and pay taxes, why not?

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 9 months ago

Funnily enough taxes wouldn't bother me so much if the ultra wealthy and corporations actually paid their fair share.

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[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Living in the more rural areas of my state near the National Forest is not too far off

But have fun being 2+ hours from the nearest city if it rains and 4+ if it snows

Edit for added context:

The area is typically beautiful

But if you need to leave the food desert you inevitably will find yourself in, it's a nightmare.

[-] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

I live in Oregon! Someone tell me how to do the Bethesda potion hack so I can raise all my stats to reality-breaking extremes.

[-] danque@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

First you start with a bucket or container on your target's head. If done correctly he won't spot you and you can grab everything. Watch out for when the bucket falls off.

[-] Restaldt@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago
[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 14 points 9 months ago

Never underestimate the power of gossip, my man

[-] Okokimup@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Did you accept the quest?

[-] Slovene@feddit.nl 5 points 9 months ago

This reminded me of Julian Sands. :( RIP

[-] ssfckdt@mastodon.cloud 3 points 9 months ago

His name was David Johnston

(His name was David Johnston)

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