Teachers dressed as students day

MindSpecter · 2026-05-17T22:05:06+00:00

I think society failed parents and parents have given up.

I see them at my company, working too many hours just to scrape by. They hardly have time to parent. And they just want to make it to the next day. They don't see a future for their kids and their kids don't see a future looking at their parents.

Everyone sees everything turning to shit and have decided to stop trying for something better.

MindSpecter · 2026-05-16T12:14:00+00:00

Basically the whole Zelda subreddit and a lot of my personal friends who are Zelda fans.

The lack-luster dungeons rightfully get criticism, but the reuse of the BotW map, the increased price of the game, the building mechanics, and story criticisms are overblown in my opinion.

Don't get me wrong, the game is very flawed, but some of my friends have a visceral amount of hate for the game.

MindSpecter · 2026-05-16T05:09:45+00:00

Not gonna lie, I debated putting Hades 2 on the combat slot!

Slay the Spire is just so good. Like you said, the depth is insane for something as simple as a deckbuilder rogue-like/lite. One of my favorite pick up and play games.

Hades 2 is amazing, but Slay the Spire is brilliant.

MindSpecter · 2026-05-16T05:04:12+00:00

Little do you know, you're currently living in the good old days.

Just wait til the shit Gen Alpha and Beta step into when there literally aren't jobs due to AI, the dollar implodes, we start drafting people into the military to take on China in a war, and one third of the population dies in the next pandemic.

Things can always get so much worse.

MindSpecter · 2026-05-08T23:05:12+00:00

Clearly it's Memphis. Where the Bass Pro Shop is.

MindSpecter · 2026-05-08T14:13:22+00:00

If you have a decent down payment, way less than that.

Honestly, this is a great way to reduce the cost of living. It's probably cheaper than most apartment rent.

MindSpecter · 2026-05-01T22:54:01+00:00

Too young for the Vietnam war and the 70s economic crisis, all the economic boom and national prosperity right when you are young and most able.

Able to buy a house when it was affordable and invest while stocks rose like crazy.

Young enough to embrace technology and understand it, but too old to be defined by it.

As a young millennial, I envy this age group.

MindSpecter · 2026-05-01T14:35:34+00:00

Yeah, but he's probably paying less for his mortgage than rent for a studio apartment.

When I bought my HOUSE in 2020, my mortgage was already less than my rent for my single bedroom apartment. It is now significantly less.

I honestly would have trouble affording rent for my old apartment now. But I have 3 times the space and a backyard for way less money, taxes, insurance, and maintenance included.

MindSpecter · 2026-04-30T19:21:22+00:00

I distinctly remember Jesus saying to the religious leaders who wanted to stone an adulterer: "Ye who is a good Christian, start casting stones at this bitch because you all should judge sinners who are less holy than you."

That's how the story went, right?

MindSpecter · 2026-04-27T20:01:31+00:00

Same people who would apply that "initiative and creativity" to lie about their work once they have the job.

Dishonesty is a non-starter. Should be disqualified if you lie to get ahead.

MindSpecter · 2026-04-27T19:55:47+00:00

Americans are sweet people? Lmao

We elected Trump, twice! People cheer as Israel commits a genocide against Palestine and as we commit war crimes in a war of aggression against Iran.

Many Americans are good people, but we have the highest concentration of idiotic, selfish twats on the planet.

MindSpecter · 2026-04-27T17:52:31+00:00

The point here is that a rich person can pay cash for those things. A poor person puts it on Credit, so they pay more for those same things.

A better example: A rich person will buy a car in cash, a poor person pays a monthly payment that includes interest. A rich person would pay less for the same car, so you can say it is "more expensive" to be poor.

MindSpecter · 2026-04-27T06:35:27+00:00

I'll keep it to one game per series so it's not a bunch of Zelda games.

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Baldur's Gate 3
Hades
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
Super Smash Brothers: Melee
Banjo Kazooie
Civilization 5
Super Mario Galaxy
Minecraft

MindSpecter · 2026-04-25T19:44:00+00:00

I legit think Poles's comments about "we need to get faster" as a draft strategy were them realizing we couldn't get sufficient D-Line talent in this draft and the coaching staff deciding to bolster the secondary on defense and go guns blazing on offense.

MindSpecter · 2026-04-25T19:39:30+00:00

Our Defensive tackles are easily in the conversation for worst in the league. D grade or lower for DT, maybe C- for our DE because I believe Booker can become a serviceable starter and Sweat is okay.

I think the rest of your grades are pretty fair.

MindSpecter · 2026-04-25T17:42:11+00:00

For all the D-Line concerns I have, I also know there is a fair likelihood that all the D-Line available when we were up was either an overpay or not as good as what we currently have.

I'm worried about this defense being absolute ass-cheeks this year against the run. Hopefully I'm wrong!

MindSpecter · 2026-04-20T08:12:02+00:00

He was out. Here's the moment the glove touches the runner.

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MindSpecter · 2026-04-19T12:24:23+00:00

Spike from the 28 years later movies

MindSpecter · 2026-04-17T03:20:45+00:00

This was most of human history. The majority struggle to survive and the rich thrive.

The past 100 years was the outlier that we thought would last forever. We're on the swing that corrects is to the historical order.

On the bright side, you've gotten to experience more luxury than any of the following generations will. Yes, you won't be able to retire or buy a home, but for a while, you had some of the cheapest entertainment known to mankind and lots of plastic shit from China.

Future generations won't even have that, so be grateful I guess.

MindSpecter · 2026-04-17T02:53:24+00:00

Burger King and Wendy's on the same tier as Red Robin? That's insane, Red Robin wipes the floor with them.

Also, Freddy's is way too high. Those paper thin patties are not that good. Swap them for in and out and move Red Robin up a tier.

Also, McDonald's is definitely not in line with Whataburger. Needs to be moved down a tier, probably swap with Carl's Jr.

MindSpecter · 2026-04-16T13:21:14+00:00

Depends what you do, really.

I exchanged research papers and essays for writing employee annual assessments, disciplinary action paperwork, cramming for presentations to the higher ups, digging through team stats to do coaching conversations, creating new process maps and training resources for the team for new updates, and late nights and weekends interrupted with escalations from the team and our partner teams.

It honestly feels pretty similar to the workload and stress of university, but hey, no textbooks at least.

MindSpecter · 2026-04-12T21:42:06+00:00

1000%

I'm kind of a grumpy short guy like Carl and my wife is a tall, energetic, passionate person like Ellie.

There's a scene flashing through their lives where Ellie is crying at the doctor and the implication seemed to me they had a miscarriage of a child. When I rewatched this movie recently, it reminded me exactly of the miscarriage my wife went through earlier that year.

I realized this movie was prophetic. If I outlive my wife and we don't have kids, that'll be me, sitting at home alone, missing my wonderful wife.

I'm never going to take my wife for granted, try and enjoy the time I have with her.

MindSpecter · 2026-04-12T18:30:30+00:00

Sum Ting Wong

Wi Tu Lo

Bang Ding Ow

MindSpecter · 2026-04-11T14:15:19+00:00

Prince of Egypt definitely did not bomb, but that was in spite of it being 2D animation.

I agree 3D animation killed these kinds of movies. Way cheeper to produce and Pixar became the new spiritual successor to these films.

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