spicytuna62
@spicytuna62@lemmy.world
- Comment on Im So Smart 12 hours ago:
I’ve done this once before. It was GTA V on PC, and it was because Rockstar kept delaying it. I appreciated that it wasn’t gonna be a total mess, and I didn’t regret it.
I did buy Tears of the Kingdom on Day One. Love that game, but the Switch really showed its age with that title.
- Comment on When you do this things always seem so much smaller than how you remembered them 1 day ago:
I grew up in a lot of homes. It happens when your parents aren’t just poor, but also drug addicts. So for me, it’s interesting to go on Google Maps and see the ones that I’ve lived in and how they’ve changed.
I remember one particular house in Sweetwater, Texas. We lived there around '97, which would have made me 4-5 years old. These are my earliest memories so I’ve worked hard to keep them.
My younger brother and I shared a red bunk bed. I believe it had a slip cover to look like a firetruck. We had a Super Nintendo. We grew up playing a lot of Mortal Kombat. The old man wasn’t known for taking it easy on us so on the off chance someone beat him for whatever reason, it was the one time we got away with cussing. Yes, I would tell my father I beat his ass. But there was another kid our age across the street. His name was Bo, and Bo had a Nintendo 64. So we’d go over there and play Mario Kart with him a lot. We had a Power Wheels Jeep that got a bit of a sun bleaching from red to pink. It didn’t have a battery either so my brother and I would take turns pushing each other in it. This was the year I started going to school. I remember the name of my Kindergarten teacher. I remember how every day, she turned off the lights for an hour for nap time. I remember never falling asleep at nap time so I’d lay there and count the ceiling tiles to kill time. About a week after we did pictures, the teachers all did this thing for the kids over the weekend. They assembled a collection of boxes and made a box fort in the gym and we got to have a day playing around in it. That might be a core memory for me. I remember being unable to explore every nook and cranny of the thing, even though I’m sure that it wasn’t all that big.
And yeah, I remember the address of that house. When we lived there in the 90s, it was yellow. I thought it was such a nice and cool house at the time. But when I pull it up on street view, man is it dilapidated. And it never was in good repair, either.
Learning that kinda put a tarnish on all those memories from that time in my life. But I don’t mind taking off the rose tinted glasses. My childhood kinda sucked in a lot of ways. Parents with drug addictions will do that. But I still cherish those memories. That was the best my childhood was ever going to be.
The happy note to end this one on is that I did make it to adulthood. I ended up in foster care. I got to go to and graduate from college. I’ve got a job in the field I studied, and while I’m not filthy rich, I got to buy a house with my wife the day before I turned 30. We keep our bills paid, and we get to go on vacation every couple of years. I’ve been to therapy, I took it seriously, and I found my will to live. I still get that voice in the back of my head that degrades me, but I’ve learned that voice is also wrong a lot of times, and I learned how to dismiss it. So yeah, I’m doing alright now. Took a while, but the important part is I made it. My brother did too.
- Comment on Even more of a challenge if you were smoking a butt while driving this type of car 1 day ago:
Neither do I. I’m too young to have experienced three on the tree. But I do miss column shift automatic transmissions.
- Comment on Go ahead. Look it up. You know you want to. 3 days ago:
- Comment on Audit time. 3 days ago:
Spike isn’t a licensed CPA. He didn’t even pass Financial Accounting freshman year. Spike doesn’t understand debits, credits, GAAP principles, separation of duties, IFRS, or the differences between FASB and GASB. He knows nothing about the SEC or what a Form 10-K is. He’s never prepared financial disclosures for a lemonade stand, let alone a “legitimate” business.
Ofc the paperwork is wonky.
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- Comment on Go ahead. Look it up. You know you want to. 3 days ago:
Maybe stay uninitiated on this one, friend. Your life is better this way.
- Comment on I tell you hwat 3 days ago:
So Hanklejack is a millennial in a mall selling you a Mac and 51 different dongles. Got it.
- Comment on Audit time. 3 days ago:
Not in front of the Americ
an football house!
- Comment on Audit time. 3 days ago:
She’s got contacts in the forest.
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- Comment on Yeah, the Harvard Bellevue cemetery 1 week ago:
No lie, first time I read it, I thought I saw
Heaven here we come!
- Comment on Nintendo TOOTing their own horn again 1 week ago:
Side note: FRLG was peak. We don’t need to keep remaking Kanto. You are never going to recapture 90s era Pokémania.
- Comment on everything reminds me of her 1 week ago:
Thanks! I hate it!
- Comment on Not my day today 1 week ago:
That’s when you stab the side with a sharp object and get chugging.
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- Comment on Oh man I hope- 1 week ago:
Which means this is the Democrats’ second chance in a decade to do something. They dropped the ball when they had a trifecta between '21-'23 and this Congress showed them how it’s done. They need to take a page out of the Republican playbook, do away with decorum, and use a trifecta to fucking steamroll the opposition.
In this instance, it’s a chance for Congress to pass whatever legislation it wants to. And when it either sits on the president’s desk collecting dust or getting vetoed, they need to make the world’s biggest foam finger (ideally with the middle finger up) and point it straight at the Oval Office to tell Americans exactly who is keeping Congress from doing its job.
- Comment on Me_IRL 1 week ago:
Imagine that!
~For those out of the loop, that’s our new tagline. It’s at the bottom of our license plates. It’s dorky, a lot of us make fun of it, and the state spent millions of taxpayer dollars to come up with it.~
- Comment on Me_IRL 1 week ago:
Oh, this race made me very hopeful for 2030. No counties voted for Harris in '24, but Munson won OKC, Tulsa, and Norman by huge margins, and even Stillwater went with her. I can only hope the left keeps the momentum going and that Stephanie Bice gets fired in '28.
- Comment on Oh man I hope- 1 week ago:
This has been a huge flip year. I only hope that Congress actually uses its power and keeps the momentum going. I hope this is our generation’s 1930. I hope '28 is Blue Tsunami 2: Electric Boogaloo. I hope we have >40 years of Republican irrelevancy. I hope we get a 21st century New Deal. I hope there’s a future for the kids of today, including the ones I don’t have yet. I hope they grow up in a world that is good and wholesome and nurturing.
- Comment on Me_IRL 1 week ago:
I’m from Oklahoma. We have the 50th best education system in the country, and it fucking shows.
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- Comment on Everything reminds me of her 2 weeks ago:
It’s meant to be shared.
- Comment on Correct 2 weeks ago:
Not me waking up at 3 AM from a nightmare where I died for no fucking reason.
Apparently, I (35M) lent my brother (33M) one of my cars (29Car). I also apparently didn’t tell him which one to take, so he took my '97 Honda that was driving on a wheel with no tire on. He was driving our youngest brother (22M) around in it. I thought he’d take something nicer and newer even though literally zero of my three vehicles are as new as his own (7Truck). Anyway, when I saw him in that car, I made him swap with me so I could put the spare on it and get it home.
I was back in my neighborhood suddenly (as in I drove for all of 1.7 seconds), on my way to the tire shop when out of nowhere, a group of nice young gentlemen with shaved heads and white t shirts were in the street, aiming firearms at me. I didn’t notice this until it was too late. I stopped the car to avoid hitting them. Then I saw the guns. Then the guns were firing.
Fucking annoying shit. I already had a hell of a time going to sleep. Now I have to be up at 3 AM because I died in my dream. I’m fine, just extremely annoyed.
- Comment on Got my guys house stuff and a whole new wardrobe 3 weeks ago:
The sheer number of flammable metals out there is a little scary lol It’s not that many, but it’s more than most people realize.
Living in an oxygen-rich environment has its drawbacks lol
- Comment on Got my guys house stuff and a whole new wardrobe 3 weeks ago:
William Osman made the tungsten cube so expensive. It was like $2k when he did his video wrecking shit with it. Now they’re asking $10k for the 3 inch cube.
I respect the hustle, but damn.
Still, the 1 cm model is like $50 and would still be absurdly heavy for its size, even if it only weighs 19¼ grams.
Might be worth it to find yourself a bunch of old incandescent lightbulbs and get the filaments out instead.
- Comment on SBA #275 Time for a Commercial Break! SpongeBob Adventures is brought to you by... 3 weeks ago:
I sometimes have dreams that I’m eating batteries. Like I’m biting through them like they’re made of cake. And I’m like, “What am I doing? This will kill me! Lol” and then I wake up very confused.
- Comment on new Tesla Roadster prototype 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Banana for scale 4 weeks ago:
Violet
Huh. I must have missed this book in A Series of Unfortunate Events.
- Comment on Must be a strange feeling that something you used to use is now only seen in museums 4 weeks ago:
I knew about 5-digit dialing, but never knew people used to dial only 4 digits. That’s pretty neat, and probably made life with a rotary phone much easier than people my age realize.
I’m a younger millennial so it was no big deal to grab the landline and dial 1+10 digits to call my girlfriend long distance in 2009. On a rotary phone, it’d probably have taken til supper just to dial lol
I did find a rotary phone in a box at my great grandmother’s house once and played with it because it was fascinating to me. Then I dialed a random 800 number on it and remarked that it was kinda amazing that so many people bought things over the telephone in the day lol
