The arch was out when I worked there, I used to make Big Mac using the arch sauce for my break every day. It was amazing, I miss that pretty much every day of my life.

I worked at McDonald’s late 90s and the cheddar melt was a special promotion every year. The terryaki is added to the onions when they’re cooked on the grill which is probably why you don’t recognize it, it’s subtle. We actually had to caramelize the raw onions on the grill and I think the sugar in the terryaki helped…

Probably pretty anticlimactic tourney year when the town drunk shows up to fight Goro after killing Johnny Cage in a head on collision.

There are always going to be trolls and liars on the internet, they’re all pieces of shit, but let’s not ignore the real problem is people who pick up the pitchforks right away without considering that it might be bullshit. I don’t follow reddit drama typically but all weekend I kept seeing this story in my feed…

I live in the city and my tips are slightly different. First never take a cart, only a hand basket then you can never buy more than you can carry. Second, in my case the store nearest me is open 24/7 and shopping late at night is awesome. Sometimes (most times) I’d go to bar, have a few pops while I make a grocery…

I think it’s because drastic changes in visual style and technology kind of apexed around that time. Video games and movies look better today, but only as a natural progression from the prior generation (some CGI looks worse today). We got smart phones around that time and though they’ve evolved not they’re generally…

I’m with others in that I can’t say there are many boss fights I truly enjoyed outside that satisfaction of beating them. Typically I dread boss fights and find them stressful not enjoyable. 

When I worked at McDonald’s in the late 90s we had a crispy chicken deluxe sandwich that came out when the arch deluxe did. It was pretty good, but the mayo was the same basic mayo as everything else. I’m not sure when that iteration was discontinued but it was decent. Looks similar to this, wonder is this a…

At work I often get included on email chains mid way through a lengthy discussion without much background. Recently trying to figure out what the hell was being asked of me reading the full email chain, someone was using the singular form of they to refer to a single person but it was unclear initially if they were…

Barenaked ladies? 

Is the ‘boys are back in town’ also a bit from something? I was in a bar on Christmas night about 5 years ago and a group of bros did this. Almost ended up with a fight breaking out when another group got annoyed. 

I definitely have been saying this seems more sophisticated and coordinated than just some viral buying trend. I’ve got the feeling that some of the WSB posters are former (or current) insiders or market makers with deep institional knowledge who know how to manipulate a stock but couldn't due to checks and balances…

This basically just a public boiler room scheme the same as the movie of the same name and wolf of wall street. Talk a bunch of rubes into running up a stock you bought cheap the sell and leave them holding the bag as it crashes. In this case it’s done under the guise of turning the tables on institutional money to…

I think the difference is this isn't as much running a group through a dungeon, but having them wait outside while you bring everything to them so they get a dungeon worth of xp without stepping foot inside. 

I first got into wow only 6 months after the official launch and already the world felt fairly picked over. Never once was I able to really experience things as new because every dungeon group I joined had always seemed to people on thier third alts who have run each dungeon a hundred times before. They’d know each…

Like I said I hate to use the term dumbed down because it evokes responses about toxic gamer culture which isn’t my goal. Maybe I should say over simplified to support the narrative at the cost of game play? While I personally liked the inventory management of the first mass effect, because for some sick reason I…

Also I hope someone from law enforcement followed up with that guy who took up Borats offer to name a price for his 15 year old daughter. The guys daughter, overhearing, calls him gross, makes a face like a kid would for a bad dad joke, then carries on with life as if her father didn’t just solicit a child in front of…

Funny you mention it, I also finally finished mass effect 3 during the first month of the lockdown. That game to me probably proves your point about playing it safe as I found it very linear and a step back from 1 & 2 which I very much enjoyed. When talking about cyberpunk commercials mass effect 3 is kind of the…

All really good, well informed points and I agree with you. Maybe I under estimate CDRs reach outside those of us who read game blogs and also watch football every week.

Right I’m not saying I haven’t seen game ads on TV during sports events. But as you said they do tend to be from major studios like EA or Sony for Playstation exclusives an sequels to big well established franchises which can recoup the ad costs.