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.
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.
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.
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
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).
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
Basically
More like Spo-Can
I've heard people say it as wrong as Spo-Cane before which was pretty rough
The easiest way to spot someone from out of the area is when it rains, ask them about the weather. We've got a lot of words for rain up here in Washington, so what they pick will say a lot.
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.
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.
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.
Today I learned pnw is pacific northwest. =) Also, side quests are a thing and sound fun.
Many of us also use 'Cascadia', in reference to the mountains we reside in and around.
I'm from the PNW and I read this thinking "mmhmm yep I could see how that could happen."
It took me reading this comment to appreciate how out of the ordinary this must sound to someone not from here.
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."
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.
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.
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.
I unironically just want to be a Stalker living on the Skadovsk and trading vodka for runors and sidequests.
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.
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?
Funnily enough taxes wouldn't bother me so much if the ultra wealthy and corporations actually paid their fair share.
Fair share and fair point. Add here an actual control over their spending. I'd prefer less bombs if it'd mean less homeless.
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.