Speaking about McDonald burger....
There is a Special Limited time Indonesian flavor burger and side dish during August.
Only available in Indonesia. 😉
@DenDen off topic, I know your a mana guy. Just started final fantasy adventure yesterday and im a couple hours in. Really enjoying it thus far. Reminds me an awful lot of a topdown 2d zelda, which is a good thing( my favorite series). Its just like links awakening. Heck there's even breakable walls in dungeons!
@NEStalgia great post about the washing machines and i completely agree. Nowadays they make them so you can’t repair them. They are all welded on from all corners of the panel except the back. So to open the washing machine, you have to break the metal weldings first. They are made to replace not repair
@NintendoByNature - Yeah, I’ve since learned a little more about it. It’s going to be an entire entertainment complex. It’s a Japanese company called Round1, I guess they already have over 30 of these around the country. They’re moving in to a 120,000 SF retail space (It’s 2.75 levels, an old Carson’s department store), and they’ll have bowling, billiards, games of skill, a kid’s area, restaurant and bar, and a large dedicated space for arcade and pinball. Sounds kind of like a Dave & Busters, but I’m excited about the arcade. It’s close to home as well. Should be ready in 2021.
I’m going to be about 65-70% of the way to Chicago this weekend. I’m meeting college friends in Michigan City to hang out on the beach and tell embellished stories about poor choices we made when we were young.
Edit - Oof, sorry to hear about the water heater. Cold showers are the worst. Mine blew on my birthday last year and a piece of rusty metal plugged the drain valve. I couldn’t get my plumber until Monday, so I spent the entire weekend using the shop vacuum to suck up gallons of water as it seeped out in my crawlspace.
@bimmy-lee man, that sounds pretty sweet. I just want to find an old style arcade with all the old stuff packed in. We have Dave and busters out here but meh.
I've been to Michigan city before, it's really fun. A buddy of mine had a Sumer home there and we used to, of course, do stupid things. All fun though nonetheless. I hope you have a good time.
Yea the water heater..... blasted thing. Can't believe I'm having all these troubles after only 3 years.
Happy Tuesday! Hopefully it's not as wet and stormy for everyone else as it's been here.
There's a Taco Bell here, but that's emergencies only. I'd rather eat at almost any other fast food joint nearby. This particular location is pretty meh.
The McDonald's closest to me isn't much better, but the one closer to the interstate is decent. Fast food is more of a once in a while thing with me these days.
@ThanosReXXX It wasn't quite a redneck wedding. I've been to an intentional one before lol. There was no dress code per se, but unless instructed otherwise I typically show up in nicer clothes that I'm comfortable in.
I had a heck of the time finding the church though. It was near the area I grew up in, but I had never had a need to go to that particular neck of the woods before. Google Maps on my phone had the correct road in the end, it just kept getting confused on the exact address since the numbering out there is weird. XD
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@Tyranexx After having posted that, I thought afterwards that it might have come across as a bit harsh, regardless of the smiley indicating it being a joke, so my bad if it did, but I did wonder about how much more you can dress down from business casual before you go full-on hobo...
I get that sentiment of not being able to find something that's supposed to be really close to where you live. Especially what with all the small alleyways and streets around here.
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
Now with the extra benefit of loss of cellular data so now it's no power, no home wifi, and no personal hotspots either.
Ain't it cute.
On the brighter side, I found a mini USB fan I can use with an external battery, so at least my face can be fresh while the rest of me suffers in the dark.
@NintendoByNature - Water heaters seem to be the least reliable major mechanical in any given home. Maybe it’s by virtue of their odd job of storing and continuously heating water in a big tank. Three years is absurd though, and sadly indicative of the throw away nature of what’s on offer, even on large expense items. Hopefully you can get it fixed up, and it has a long life. I looked in to tankless even before mine went out last fall, but it wasn’t right for the space.
@RedderRugfish - Man, that’s music to my ears. I was getting kind of disheartened as I learned more about it (thinking it was just a D&Bs), but the article was specific to mention a total of 200-250 cabinets. I’d be thrilled with anything you mentioned, and maybe some retro in there too. This will be less than five minutes by car from my house. I have great memories of two different KI cabinets. It was like a party playing that back in the day. It’s the perfect fighter for people of any skill level.
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There is a DDR A20 at my local arcade center.
Actually it was an update from DDR A to DDR A20.
So excited to play the newest DDR Arcade.
@ThanosReXXX Yeah that's reasonable. Both about console care and food. I'm sure part of my issue with McDonald's is something more because of my own stomach. I've had it suggested to me that it has something to do with how they cook and then recook their fries that makes something in them hard for certain people to digest. I'm frankly not willing to test this theory though.
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@NintendoByNature I mean, you can get better options for the same price probably. That said, just because there are better quality options doesn't always mean those choices are as convenient. Even when I was willing to risk McDonald's it was never my first choice. I used to call it the ultimate 3rd choice, when you and your group of friends can't agree on anyone's first or second choice, well, there's always a McDonald's. Ah, high school, how different life was...
@NEStalgia Don't get me wrong, I understand a lot of what you're saying and I think most people my age and many people younger than me actually do too. (And I honestly REALLY hate that mindset of thinking the younger generations are ignorant, blind, brainwashed or stupid - it's a load of BS, please don't go there) But what can we do about it? Go without washing machines, phones and computers? Okay sure that's possible but no way people are going to do that in enough numbers to affect the companies enough to force them to change. Companies might make excuses about color or say they are going for energy efficiency to appease some environmentalists but those are just excuses and lies. The only thing corporations care about is profit. They measure consumer purchase patterns and sell products they think can best take advantage of it.
Maybe at some point companies actually did simply try and make the best, highest quality, consumer friendly products around - but I don't believe any major multi-national corporation cares in the slightest about doing this. Selling a product that lasts a consumer for 20+ years means that consumer isn't going to buy another one from you for 20+ years - that doesn't encourage profit the way selling a product that needs to be replaced every 5 years does.
There probably are some smaller companies that do still try the old ways - and I think they are doomed. You can't compete that way. No small family owned company building products that last and are easily repairable can compete with giant multi-national corporations and if they get popular enough, big multi-nats will just openly undercut them and shut them down.
Another factor is that repairable products are also bad for business. Unless these corporations also run repair companies, there is no profit to be had in selling a product that is easy to fix. Companies want to walk that line between a decent product and one that will eventually fail and encourage another sale, rather than a repair.
That's the unregulated free market everyone loves so much, whether they want to admit it or not.
@ThanosReXXX I didn't really take it as a harsh statement. I was in nice dress pants and a nice shirt, which was more or less what I would wear at my previous job. A step down for me are nice Jeans and a t-shirt, which is my preferred attire. Below that are well-worn/everyday clothes and casual shorts. There are even lower tiers, but I don't think I need to go into detail about those. XD
I would have had an easier time finding the church if I had searched the full name (which I didn't know at the time) instead of the address. It also would have helped if someone would have told me there was a cemetery nearby since those can be easily seen on maps.
@StableInvadeel Bummer. Hopefully the duration is short-term.
@Heavyarms55 I have a friend who also has a tough time with fast food. Not all of it affects her, but something about it in particular really puts her stomach through the wringer.
Ever since I changed my diet for the better, too much of that stuff does physically make me ill. I do occasionally eat fast food for a rare treat and don't typically have problems. Unfortunately, I also like long, crisp French fries, and generally homemade alternatives don't QUITE cut it for me.
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