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  • GooberEar@lemmy.wtftomemes@lemmy.worldService dog
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    8 hours ago

    This happened to me once in real life, sorta. I was several miles deep into a trail along the base of a mountain when a couple of loose dogs and I crossed paths. Of course there was no cellphone reception, so I was a bit at a loss as to what I should do. Neither one of them would actually come up close to me, but they were close enough that I could see they didn’t have collars. I feel like there’s a learning opportunity there, always keep your dogs on a leash when you’re out in public.

    Anyway, first I tried to follow them as best I could, thinking they might pull a Lassie and lead me to their owner or owners. Maybe it was someone in need of help, after all. After what felt like hours of walking, still no sign of the owners. At this point I was getting tired and running low on water, plus it was getting late and starting to sprinkle.

    I decided to turn back. Figured I’d call the cops or something once I got back to my car and could get close enough into town for my phone to start working again. Go figure, the dogs followed me. That whole time I thought I was following them. Anyway, get to the stairs leading up to the parking lot, and this lady at the top belted out a screech that could have shattered adamantium. Apparently the dogs were “wild coyotes”. Like I was supposed to know that somehow?


  • I haven’t been to Burger King in years, but I have been feeling the call of the void the past few times I’ve been traveling and needed a place to stop and grab some food.

    I stopped eating at “BK” for the better part of a decade after I got terribly sick from eating one of their “Rodeo Burgers”. It was basically the low-end burger option, except they replaced the onion with onion rings and used ketchup-based barbecue for the sauce.

    The onion rings must’ve been the previous day’s unsold rejects or something. I remember having the worst heartburn I’ve ever experienced in my life and then feeling so terribly sick for the next 2 days.

    I’m 99% sure I have had BK since then, but it was breakfast-only.

    Back in the day, it was the only fast food option for onion rings where I was growing up. They sucked compared to the real thing, but despite that they had their appeal. Now my stomach turns just thinking about them.



  • In this thread: I’m mostly finding people I feel I need to add to my “no longer like them” list for irreconcilable differences.

    I’m having a hard time deciding what qualifies as “HATED” or highly disliked.

    A lot of people hated Edge of Tomorrow because Tom Cruise. But I am actually quite fond of the movie.

    A lot of people hate Apocolypto, and it’s objectively a terrible movie from a historical as well as moral/ethical perspective, I don’t disagree there. But at the end of the day it is entertaining if you can turn your brain off.



  • During the few months of the year I consider to be my “gaming season”, I mostly stick to 1 game at a time as my primary focus, but I’ll often have a game or few on the back burner that I’ll work into the schedule now and then.

    This year I’m focusing on the Doom remake (Doom 2016) as my main game. To be honest, the game is stressful for me, so even though it’s been an absolute blast for me to play, it’s nice to have some alternative games to switch over to after I’m done with Doom.

    I agree, it’s very hard to keep up with the stories when juggling multiple games at the same time. Almost as hard for me, if not harder, is keeping up with the controls. Every game is different. Games in the same genre can and will have vastly different control set-ups. Even games in the same franchise / series can have different controls from game to game. Yuck.

    So, the control aspect and the story aspect are part of my inspiration for my secondary games. Right now I’m playing Halls of Torment. I guess there’s a story? But it doesn’t seem super relevant or necessary to keep up with. This game is in the same genre as another secondary game I play (and the main one from last year) called Vampire Survivors. Controls for both of these games is super basic. As I mentioned, if there’s even a story line to them, it’s irrelevant to my enjoyment of them.

    I also have the Castlevania Dominus Collection which is includes all the metroidvania-style Castlevania games from the Nintendo DS. I played all of them back in the day on original hardware, so there’s a great deal of “recall” in terms of controls and story. And this is probably one of my favorite genres of game.







  • Over the past year? Probably Vampire Survivors.

    As of late? Doom (the 2016 reboot).

    Of all time? I’m actually not sure, especially if you include my pre-internet / pre-always-being-spied-on-and-tracked history. But probably it would be one of the Street Fighter 2 iterations.

    I don’t think I’ve even played 450 hours total of games in the past 25+ years, though. So, I’m probably a bit of an outlier around here.