MoonMelon

@MoonMelon@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon blames millennials⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The baby boom in the USA was a real demographic phenomenon but every “generation” after that gets fuzzier to the point where its now just rage bait nonsense or just a proxy term for complaining about changing fashions. Even within the Boomer cohort people had wildly different experiences growing up across such a large span. That said, every game studio I ever worked for was run by Gen X and Boomer aged people.

  When they started in the industry it was small teams, tight budgets, a new frontier with a low bar to entry. Now it is highly corporate, capitalized, shareholder driven behemoth (like everything else). This transform happened when the millennial cohort was in our 20s, we had no influence on this, and it mirrored similar larger-scale transformations in the rest of society.

  I’m fortunate in that I basically retired early, although I wouldn’t mind going back to work with a good group of people, even for cheap. Like the old days again. I still like the work I just hate the business. But it doesn’t matter, the whole industry is in ruins now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨succession⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oak are great. A lot of the understory in oak/hickory forest is now maple and tulip poplar due to shifting climate and possibly deer pressure. It’s called mesophication.

  My property is also oak/hickory complex and I can say anecdotally that the native understory has a lot of tulip poplar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨succession⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my experience if you have access points for mice they will get in whether you have a suburban turf grass lawn or not, and a cat can’t get them if they are in the walls or crawlspace. So the best bet is to seal up any holes and keep all vegetation, native or not, at least a couple of feet away from the house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨succession⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re going to have ticks in the native area too. Ticks are native insects, unfortunately. Remediating your land for native insects’ benefit will actually be better for ticks than having an acre of 2" turf grass, but that’s just because short lawns are totally ecologically dead.

  When I was more uninformed I was more of a purist. The more I’ve done on my own property, and the more I’ve consulted with experts, the more I’ve learned that it’s actually a balance between human needs and ecology. Now I’m sort of in the “if planting turf grass by your house is what you need to be on board with the rest of it, fine.”

  We can’t promise people ticks will go away, more like teach people the critical value of native insects. Keep tall grass away from your house, sure, but think about walkways instead of acres of lawn for the rest of it. People plant laws and call Mosquito Joe to fog it all so “their children can play” but consider your children living in a world with no bugs at all. That’s the trade off. IMO it’s a lot more scary than ticks, and I fucking hate ticks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits America⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that worker is one of two in the entire restaurant. She has to take your order plus the five behind you, the drive-thru orders, make fries, bag it all up, take your monkey, clean tables, make coffee, refill the ketchup/soda/milkshake/yogurt contraptions with their various bags of sugary goo, restock counters/tables with all the varied plastic and paper geegaws, take out the trash, stock the walk-in, clean the bathrooms somebody sprayed with liquid shit, then count out and get to her other job by 3pm so she can then do it all again tomorrow. She doesn’t give a fuck what anyone orders, it’s just a blur of colors and lower back pain.

  If she “sremoved” it’s probably the best she can do to fake a smile because you might be a secret shopper who is going to ding her points for not saying, “Welcome to McDonald’s Home of the McFlurry™ now with DoubleStuff™ Oreo™, what can I get started for you today because It Just Tastes Better!!℠” with the proper amount of obsequiousness.

  There’s plenty of reasons to hate the hellscape, no reason for anon to invent some.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨F.B.I. Says It Found Largest Cache of Homemade Explosives in Its History at Va. Farm⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Norfolk

  I hope Groverhaus is OK.

  Detached garage

  Phew!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has the spirit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, I remember the same. It’s the same phenomenon as beatniks and hippies. They cast a large cultural shadow because of art and media that came from the subculture, but at the time it wasn’t that many people.

  Also it’s easy today to forget about the reach of radio. Radio basically dictated what was popular, and even in the 90s there were still regional radio markets that were totally independent. I remember only the rich kids had MTV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Homer, are you still holding the can?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard Co-Founder Reveals True Reason For Departure⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked there during this time, and this pretty much confirms what everyone feared when the merger was announced. Part of me wants to read this book, but I know it will make me really mad.

  Just a little anecdote, we had a meeting shortly after where Frank Pierce told us that major changes would basically happen over Morhaime’s dead body. So when he left (and Pierce also) it was clear that it was over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ironing⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, old shirts came out of the wash looking like a fucking Calabi-Yau manifold, even casual wear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riven | Official Launch Trailer | Available June 25th⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In cyan’s defense, every other point and click mystery/adventure game at the time was so much worse about this shit. Spacequest had stuff like if you forgot to do something in the first room you fail in the last room and can’t fix it. Even Nancy Drew, which was made for kids, had some bullshit (but at least a built-in hint system). Game design had come a long way. The new monkey island games are great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mushroom ID⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think some people want to find morels so bad they get a sort of “buck fever” and convince themselves they’ve found one. That’s all I can imagine because to my eyes they would be hard to mix up. Same with chanterelle and false chanterelle. Like… sure, I guess if you are profoundly incautious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lightning bugs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Between deer pressure and Lymantria dispar I’m worried my woods will never see a mature oak again after the current over story dies out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The show was also conceived with Bart as the main character, with the world being from Bart’s perspective. As a kid Bart’s age of course your dad is dumb. Homer is the irl name of Matt Groenig’s dad.

  As the show progressed the writers ended up latching onto Homer more and he gradually became the core of the show. Also the characters “Flanderized” (literally!) more and more as time went on and he became more ridiculous. The Frank Grimes episode is pretty genius for capturing all this in a funny way.