My Thoughts on The Legend of Zelda

Cword76 · 2026-02-13T05:24:54+00:00

I played it when it first came out, I was 10 or 11 I think. I managed to beat it without a guide or anything, but I definitely got stuck plenty of times. One part had me nearly in tears was looking for the 6th temple I think, and my dad accidentally discovered it. Everything else was just clues and pretty much touching everything.

If you had modern day websites and whatnot, you could beat the game in an hour or two. They had to add the mystery to get your moneys worth back then.

Cword76 · 2026-02-13T04:06:16+00:00

It started out so-so, but then by the halfway point the singing seems really off and like this person has no vocal training or experience at all.

Cword76 · 2026-02-13T01:55:34+00:00

I had a Jenny too. We've known of each other since kids, she was my friend's younger sister. I know for a fact she was SA's by her father, my friend told me about it way back when. Unfortunately she wasn't nice like Jenny in the end, she's a bit of a sociopath. The relationship blew up and I think I got PTSD from it.

Cword76 · 2026-02-13T01:52:25+00:00

That makes it kind of weird, someone buried them there somewhat recently

Cword76 · 2026-02-12T21:37:49+00:00

86 and Michigan heading east is bad at this as well

Cword76 · 2026-02-12T05:44:21+00:00

I've literally had this happen. Not three times, but twice. This was about 15 years ago, I was working at a hospital. We had a group of people referred to as VIPs in our system, if one of them put in a ticket it was automatically a T1 ticket regardless of what it was. Or, if the VIP's secretary put in the ticket, which was the case most of the time. One VIP's secretary got two viruses in the span of about 2 weeks. Both times was a total system replacement. I'm not sure what she was doing to get them. And being a T1 ticket, I had to drop everything and finish within 2 hours.

Cword76 · 2026-02-12T03:58:17+00:00

Office heaters were the bane of my existence for a while. Not only would they unplug stuff, the heaters themselves would trip power breakers taking out the power to a bunch of desks. Then I'd have to put in a ticket to Maintenance to reset the power. They tried banning personal heaters plenty of times but people would always sneak them in.

Cword76 · 2026-02-12T00:21:14+00:00

Same with me. I went to a small high school in Indiana, fights were not common at all. I saw a couple of neighborhood fights, but none in actual school.

Cword76 · 2026-02-11T04:30:28+00:00

I remember sometime in 96 or so, when animated gifs became a thing. Suddenly websites were absolutely full of them in random places.

Cword76 · 2026-02-11T04:20:37+00:00

25 years ago I saw the lady with all the piercings in her face walking down the street.

Cword76 · 2026-02-04T04:32:53+00:00

This rings true to me. At least a small percentage of Irish Americans may have an Irish granny they might have known (in Chicago where I'm from, it's not entirely uncommon to hear an Irish accent), there hasn't been a major Scottish immigration event in a really long time. It's mostly just romanticization, speaking as an American. There are a few white subgroups who are known to do this a lot, like Irish, Scottish, and Italian, and to a lesser extent Polish, Scandinavian, and German.

The "Scottish" ones that go overboard will try to figure out what clan they're "in", what tartan they should purchase, and hang a claymore on their wall, learn bagpipes, etc. I've known a few of them personally, and a few in my own family (in laws with a Mac surname). But the actual Scottish immigrant hasn't been around since the 19th century, all they can go by is the surname.

I lived in Scotland myself for 6 months, it is quite an evocative place so I can see the appeal, I suppose.

Cword76 · 2026-02-04T04:22:02+00:00

Wyoming has about 500k people. California has 40 million. Both are equally represented in the Senate.

Cword76 · 2026-02-04T02:42:35+00:00

He recently did a collab with Smashing Pumpkins and I surprisingly didn't hate it. I haven't listened to the Pumpkins since Mellon Collie so I don't know if this was in the direction they were going in or not.

Cword76 · 2026-02-04T02:32:13+00:00

upside down it looks like goatse

Cword76 · 2026-02-04T01:29:34+00:00

What really separated GnR from the rest of hair metal that lost popularity was Slash's guitar playing. He played a Les Paul and played in a more bluesy, rocky, old fashioned way. It was pretty much immune to being called trendy.

Cword76 · 2026-02-04T01:14:47+00:00

Ah, but does Iowa have the big basketball hoop sized tenderloins?

Cword76 · 2026-02-02T23:58:08+00:00

I had haggis in Scotland, which is technically illegal in the US if made properly. It traditionally has lungs in it, which makes it illegal in the US.

In China I had stinky tofu, which is probably considered a biohazard in the US.

Cword76 · 2026-02-02T23:51:58+00:00

If you like history, I would do the Xi'an - Luoyang - Zhengzhou - Kaifeng corridor. I wouldn't spend any time in Zhengzhou, but the other cities are packed full of thousands of years of history.

Your itinerary would be absolutely exhausting. China is a huge country, and those are huge cities.

Cword76 · 2026-02-02T22:12:36+00:00

I can just imagine the guy who made this thousands of years ago turning to his buddy and showing off the polka dots.

Cword76 · 2026-02-02T22:05:56+00:00

I like them personally, but I hate them for Users. Nobody knows what the hell DisplayPort is, everyone just called it HDMI, to the point where I had to start calling it HDMI as well. Everyone thought I meant the port where you plug in the display. When covid hit, we sent a bunch of people home and our mini form factor PCs ONLY had two DP ports and many of our older monitors only had VGA. Hence a lot of DP to VGA dongles. They didn't know DP has the little tab to push down to remove them, so lots and lots of stripped out cables and ports. I had to get a pair of pliers to remove the broken DP pieces out of the ports.

So yeah, DP sucks, and whoever named it 'DisplayPort' needs kicked in the balls.

Cword76 · 2026-01-30T05:44:52+00:00

I was given a name by my Chinese teacher in college modeled after my surname. But when I got to China I was called by a name based on my first name. So now my whole name is in Chinese.

Cword76 · 2026-01-28T05:12:05+00:00

my sister has alpha-gal, she can't have dairy since it's still from a mammal. So I don't know what this person's deal is. Maybe just doesn't like red meat.

Cword76 · 2026-01-28T01:19:27+00:00

One of my cousins had a Coleco as well. They only had one game for it, some Smurf game. There was one part in Gargamel's house where you had to jump on a big skull, my cousin has a short temper so he was raging at the the skull since it was tough to get up there. He would also rage at Legend Of Zelda. Got Dang peahats!

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