MoonMelon

@MoonMelon@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits America⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Norfolk

  I hope Groverhaus is OK.

  Detached garage

  Phew!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has the spirit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Homer, are you still holding the can?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard Co-Founder Reveals True Reason For Departure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.