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[–] Xenny 115 points 1 year ago (8 children)
[–] capt_wolf 70 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 4 points 1 year ago
[–] obrenden 40 points 1 year 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 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Clatskanie is a good one too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

"Brew pub" is the correct term, at least in my experience as a Portlander.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year 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.

[–] ohlaph 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Agent641 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As opposed to a whisky bar maybe?

[–] Kyrgizion 74 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] grue 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] ohlaph 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So how much XP for killing and skinning the sasquatch

[–] ohlaph 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] CascadianGiraffe 12 points 1 year ago

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

[–] SimplyATable 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Volunteer firefighting/search teams are basically this irl

[–] reversebananimals 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Jerkface 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year 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.

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[–] ohlaph 6 points 1 year ago

Just a weekend adventure over here.

[–] danque 41 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

new skill learned: "investigative journalism"

[–] Agent641 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 12 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Never underestimate the power of gossip, my man

[–] Okokimup 11 points 1 year ago

Did you accept the quest?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This reminded me of Julian Sands. :( RIP

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

His name was David Johnston

(His name was David Johnston)

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