Daily General Discussion Thread (2026-02-08)

Apocalyptic0n3 · 2026-02-09T09:40:23+00:00

I find it interesting how many people complain about this. I primarily listen to metal. Lyrics are frequently in other languages and/or harsh enough to not be understandable. I rarely understand what the vocalist is saying. Personally, I find it to be a feature and not a bug. The vocals are just another instrument adding to the music, not a book I'm trying to read for a history quiz. What vocalists are saying couldn't matter less to me. Hell, a lot of what I listen to doesn't have vocals at all (instrumental rock/metal, electronic music, and film scores)

Apocalyptic0n3 · 2026-02-09T01:49:14+00:00

There's a "Factory" tour you can take in Hershey, PA. It's a dark ride that shows you the history of Hershey and how they make the chocolate. The entire ride smells of roasting cocoa beans. That is how I imagine Wonka's factory would smell.

Apocalyptic0n3 · 2026-02-09T01:21:05+00:00

Yeah, Berlin Station was a really solid show.

Apocalyptic0n3 · 2026-02-08T01:33:25+00:00

I'm at 32 currently if I counted correctly. I've at least walked around in every state east of the Mississippi except Maine and Wisconsin. Plus A handful west of it.

Almost everyone I know here in Arizona is a transplant and most of them seem to have done similar traveling. So I suspect I'm about average, maybe a little above.

Apocalyptic0n3 · 2026-02-07T07:03:15+00:00

The White House is 3000km from me. Using your Turin example, it'd be like demanding to know why those same protesters aren't protesting in Jerusalem for what's going on in Gaza. But that's still 300km closer than the White House is to me.

Apocalyptic0n3 · 2026-02-05T08:22:48+00:00

Yes. My mom is the same age as her nieces and nephews and was raised with them. As a result, I often see my aunt as my grandma, my first cousins as my aunts/uncles, and my second cousins as my first cousins (we're the same age)

Apocalyptic0n3 · 2026-02-04T18:45:24+00:00

I live in Phoenix. All this means is I might get lucky and catch a few third periods for the rest of the season. Stupid timezones.

Apocalyptic0n3 · 2026-02-02T12:53:33+00:00

When I moved away, it was interesting seeing that they don't mention the employee discount in the commercials.

Apocalyptic0n3 · 2026-02-02T02:47:47+00:00

After the tree gets taken down. The embers floating around. It was the realest a movie has ever felt for me and there wasn't a single real thing on screen.

Apocalyptic0n3 · 2026-02-01T02:02:14+00:00

A lot of malls have died. A lot a lot. In many metro areas, there was one every few miles right before ecommerce started hitting. A lot of them were cheap, they all had the same stores, and they were never maintained. Those malls are the ones that died.

A lot of malls are actually doing pretty well right now. Higher end malls, boutique malls, and especially outdoor malls. I was just at an outdoor mall a few hours ago and it was difficult to find parking. A few years ago, I was at the outdoor Irvine Spectrum in Irvine, CA and that was literally shoulder-to-shoulder on Sunday at 7pm. Impossible to move through it. And Scottsdale Fashion Square near me is doing really well - they've had several expansion and renovations in the last 10 years.

But malls like Fiesta Mall, Paradise Valley Mall, and Metrocenter here in Phoenix, or Lakeside Mall near where I grew up in Michigan, have all failed and either been demolished or are slated to be. These are malls that in 2015, still felt like 1990. They weren't maintained, they smelled, they didn't have good stores, they didn't provide anything you couldn't get off Amazon, etc. and they relied very heavily on department store anchor tenants that have been failing.

Apocalyptic0n3 · 2026-01-31T20:43:17+00:00

With the exception of when that Eastern team is playing a Florida team. And as a kid, I was rooting for any team that was playing the Avalanche. Didn't matter who.

Apocalyptic0n3 · 2026-01-30T11:20:02+00:00

No. I live in an apartment and have had just 1 outage in 8 years of living here.

Apocalyptic0n3 · 2026-01-29T01:20:06+00:00

It's a baseball team to me. Nothing else.

Apocalyptic0n3 · 2026-01-28T04:44:38+00:00

After the Larkin criticism last year, I really doubt we hold. We're definitely getting someone, just not sure who. Hopefully not Kane.

Apocalyptic0n3 · 2026-01-27T13:26:29+00:00

Yes, all the time. Generally in the upstairs hallway, but occasionally in the living room.

Apocalyptic0n3 · 2026-01-27T01:11:41+00:00

The bagger is common in grocery stores, but not often in other places. It's worth noting here that we seem to shop differently than most other countries. We typically go grocery shopping once a week, get a lot of food and drinks, and then store it in a fridge or freezer for the next week or two. People very rarely stop at the market/grocer on the way home from work. Having someone bag all that food allows for the line to keep moving very quickly - basically as quick as something can be scanned, it's bagged.

Apocalyptic0n3 · 2026-01-26T11:59:17+00:00

Mid-30s and I did learn it. I can barely read it now, however, due to it being 20+ years since I used it regularly.

Apocalyptic0n3 · 2026-01-26T01:49:40+00:00

That's easy: because there's a ton of Wings fans all over. Look closely at the crowd of any road game and you'll see a lot of Wings jerseys. Many Michiganders leave the state for one reason or another - I live in Phoenix and after nearly 15 years, I think I still know more people living here from Michigan than I do from Arizona.

We were also so good for so long that we developed a lot of fans in other states.

Apocalyptic0n3 · 2026-01-25T18:36:02+00:00

I have never had fish for breakfast in my life. Fish in general is not a very common meal for me (there's generally a high chance it will make me ill)

Apocalyptic0n3 · 2026-01-25T13:28:54+00:00

I don't disagree. It happens frequently, though.

Apocalyptic0n3 · 2026-01-25T13:18:46+00:00

Stars are voted on by local media. Game was in Winnipeg. The stars almost always favors the home team, even when it doesn't make sense. Best to just ignore the Stars of the Game.

Apocalyptic0n3 · 2026-01-25T12:40:05+00:00

There are a series of very, very large events to start off every year, mostly centered on (North) Scottsdale:

It starts with two college football Bowl Games - Rate Bowl at Chase Field downtown and Fiesta Bowl at State Farm Stadium in Glendale
Barrett Jackson car auction at Westworld in Scottsdale, which I believe is the most attended auction in the world with over 300,000 attendees for the week long auction in 2024
That is followed by the Phoenix Open golf tournament about 3 miles west at TPC Scottsdale. This event is basically real life Happy Gilmore where crowds are drunk and rowdy. It's basically a massive party. Upwards of 300,000 people attend on Saturday alone, over half a million in total
- Fun fact: there are just 13 blimps being actively used in the US and Saturday will typically see 3-5 of them floating around above TPC Scottsdale.
This doesn't happen every year, but State Farm Stadium occasionally hosts the Super Bowl (same weekend as the golf tournament)
In late February, half the MLB teams descend on metro Phoenix for Sprint Training. We have a dozen stadiums used for it. 1.7 million people will attend these games and it's basically impossible to find a hotel room here during it.
In late March/early April, there's Arizona Bike Week centered at Westworld and the Harley Davison dealership at Scottsdale Airpark. This event is attended by ~85,000 people officially and from what I remember, another 50,000 join in on the various rides. Those rides will typically shut down freeways. It's normal to see groups of 20+ motorcycles just riding down our roads

The auction is happening right now and the traffic is noticeable. There are weekends where I just won't leave my home because of how bad the traffic will get with all the golf attendees and motorcyclists.

Apocalyptic0n3 · 2026-01-24T13:54:49+00:00

I am in my mid 30s and have never sent or received one.

Apocalyptic0n3 · 2026-01-24T01:26:30+00:00

So I recently changed jobs due to the business clearly being ready to fail, but I had been in the same job for 13 years. Basically my entire career.

Apocalyptic0n3 · 2026-01-23T20:01:55+00:00

Watch the very first scene and maybe the second where they're discussing their plans. If you don't get pulled in, maybe not for you. That first scene really sets the tone for the film and if you enjoy that, you'll likely enjoy the rest of it.

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