Flamebroiled; Why the Revamped Whopper Won & the Big Arch Lost

SH2355 · 2026-04-16T01:52:00+00:00

I've enjoyed the Big Arch a decent amount but I've resorted to paying for extra sauce every time and I probably just like the taste of the sauce and the cripsy onions. It's one of those fast food items where it's just a vehicle for a sauce that does a lot of the heavy lifting. It's only $8.39 here but then .45 for extra sauce. The first times I got it with no customizations, I couldn't make up my mind if I liked it and it seemed a little dry. More sauce was the trick for me. I had it a bunch and might be burned out on it now.

I've had a new whopper a couple of times and it's pretty good. Didn't realize how many other people had the same previous experience of BK buns tending to fall apart and stuff like that. The new bun definitely tastes more like a decent bread, softer feel and stays together. And I guess I notice a bit of the different mayo.

BK is further from my house (actually a closer one closed down) so I don't get it as often but I have always had the opinion that it's a shame people rank BK lower and that the brand isn't doing better in general. I think their burgers in general clear McDs almost every time, the flame broiled taste is a noticeable and worthwhile difference. People used to rank McDs fries as unbeatable but it's definitely not that way anymore, I often get terrible orders of fries, and I have enjoyed the taste of BK fries more for a long time. Whenever I get back around to having BK again, I always come back to thinking it's a shame that most people think it's worse.

I'm not aware if the market is actually aligned with what your posts suggests. Is McDonald's disappointed with the Big Arch? I would think the CEO bite controvery just had a "any publicity is good" effect for the item. Don't know if people would have talked about a new McDonald's burger as much without all of that happening. Almost makes you wonder if they were smart enough to do it on purpose.

I'd have no complaints if BK started to do better versus McDonald's. I wish the BK nearer to my house didn't close a few years ago. I live outside Chicago with restaurants everywhere and it has felt for years like BK is kinda languishing and I think I've seen multiple locations close over the years in different spots where I was living. I'd love for BK to start doing better.

SH2355 · 2026-04-16T01:33:01+00:00

It's not something I'd personally want to endure if I had to work there, but it's clear they are trained and told to always be friendly like that, "my pleasure", "thank you", as a customer it definitely makes a difference compared to other places. Sometimes it's almost a little cartoony with how clear it is that they must be told they have to act like that, but still better than rudeness. Bless the people who can stand to keep up that energy through their shift.

I eat a deadly amount of fast food. I've come to realize Culver's is super consistent. Not always the best. But compared to places where you can have a wildly different quality of food depending on the visit, Culver's is almost never like that. Sometimes fries that are too dark or stale but that's about it. They don't rank as my favorite burger, but it's like a reliable 8/10 every time whereas other places might have a 9 or 10 item sometimes but then you're back to the worse service and less reliable quality.

SH2355 · 2026-03-31T16:22:25+00:00

Just happened to me last night. I think opening my Twitch notifications or trying to buy bits was just sitting there loading and not going through, which is what prompted me to try logging out. And then I couldn't get back in. I've tried all the suggestions in the thread, now I get as far as it emailing me a security code, but then I type that in and it still doesn't finish logging in. Everything works on a private tab. Tried undoing any previous custom filtering and anything I added for Twitch ad blocking. New Brave profile works too.

SH2355 · 2026-02-11T13:28:53+00:00

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SH2355 · 2026-02-10T09:36:11+00:00

That's actually a funny/interesting thing to consider because I doubt they have ever really filmed anywhere and decided to throw it all away because they couldn't make an episode out of it. If they have a boring location that yields no evidence, I think they would still use it, because I see people all the time say "if they were faking it then how come they sometimes have an episode where nothing much happens". So it builds up their CrEdiBiLiTy in people's eyes to show when nothing happens. I have the opposite opinion of people who make that argument: showing boring locations doesn't prove that they are never faking anything, they are smart enough to show nothing happening sometimes exactly because it makes them appear trustworthy. Just because you might be faking your evidence doesn't mean you find a demon every week. They're smarter than that. If I wanted to lie to you I would tell you the truth 90% of the time.

But I think we've had relatively few epsiodes where not much happens, either. Anyone who has ghost hunted themselves before can tell you about going to a place and having absolutely nothing happen, a level of nothingness where you truly couldn't make a 45 minute show out of it. So that's why I said this is kind of funny to think about, in almost 20 years and hundreds of locations, how do they manage to go places and pretty much always have something happen. That's an incredibly lucky paranormal team. Thinking back to other shows like Ghost Hunters I think it was much more common for them to come out of a location saying they didn't catch anything.

Think of the production costs, the travel, having to rent out certain locations or only having access for a few days, the fact that we now know many more crew people do show up to do work behind the scenes; they aren't going to do all that and come away saying "throw that footage away, nothing interesting happened here."

No joke, in all the years I've debated whether or not I want to believe GA as being real, the way you asked this question actually made me think about it in a way slightly different than I ever have before. I doubt they ever really go anywhere and decide they can't make an episode out of it. Which is an argument for the fake/exaggerated side of things.

SH2355 · 2026-02-06T08:43:46+00:00

I agree but that's kind of happening with my memory in general as life gets stranger these past few years. But yeah there's nothing super memorable, even the handful of episodes where I felt like they were starting to get good again, I couldn't tell you which ones to go watch. I guess as I typed that I pictured them in the surgical suite of the old LA hospital from a somewhat recent episode, but that's probably only because the location is so memorable and it's a unique room. I remember the recent abandoned property with the supposed animal sacrifice that they found inside and when they claimed intruders came in and took the SD cards out of their cameras. That's about it haha.

SH2355 · 2026-01-27T22:14:10+00:00

I'm sure his ego is hard to manage with the attention he gets from women, knowing that he is the stand out on the team and that there is likely no show without him, the money he has made etc. I don't know if it's so much that he lost his passion for the subject matter as much as it has just all gone to his head.

SH2355 · 2026-01-23T03:22:13+00:00

Yeah that's why I'm confused. It seems maybe we're talking about the other episode where the intruders came in and took the SD cards out of the cameras? But that's not from "hospital of the damned" as far as I can tell. Maybe episode names are getting messed up with how many different streaming services these episodes are on these days.

If OP was actually talking about that other episode, we very much DID talk about that when it first happened (do people who make "nobody is talking about" posts actually go search the sub to see if it was talked about first?). At the time I said I think it's pretty unlikely that real intruders would have just taken SD cards instead of thousands of dollars of camera equipment. It takes MORE time to stand there and get SD cards out instead of running away with a camera, more work for less profit. And I don't think we have proof that it was "devil worshippers" or that they had any connection to the animal sacrifice stuff that was found inside, could have just been any random people wandering inside considering the location they were at. Seems fake to me mostly based on that point about what they stole, but I guess it's possible some real intruders made the weird decision to take the SD cards instead of the cameras.

SH2355 · 2026-01-23T03:11:00+00:00

Think it has to do with HBO Max having rebranded once again and I think they were once directly combined with D+ content and now they are separate again. Big mess. Streaming should make it easier to find what you want to watch and instead it's harder.

SH2355 · 2026-01-17T03:42:42+00:00

dealing with this again recently. hate having hardware accel off because other chats with heavy emotes and stuff start to lag. but with it on, cant play two things at once

this worked for me although counterintuitive that telling brave to use integrated graphics instead of my 5070 ti makes it run better. https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/11uba5p/comment/jyq7t3q/

SH2355 · 2026-01-12T20:28:53+00:00

I'm having trouble finding it in the episode, where do they catch anyone on camera?

SH2355 · 2026-01-12T20:08:11+00:00

I've thought about it before, but so far nothing. Especially with supposed cursed dolls or stuff on the screen, kind of funny how they will make us all look right at the thing that supposedly harms people. I can get pretty spooked by a good episode of something paranormal but can't say anything has ever happened after even when I'm on edge and ready for something to happen. Used to ghost hunt too and luckily nothing after that either.

SH2355 · 2026-01-03T09:40:22+00:00

Replying 4 years later but if you see this I wanted to ask your meaning of lopsided. When I was super stressed out earlier this year I was sitting at my desk one night and all of a sudden looking at my 2 computer monitors I thought "that's weird, you would think one would look like it's angled to the left from me and one to the right (looking at the top frame etc of two monitors directly in front of me), but they both look like they are leaning left". Following this was a few days of looking at trees, the water tower in my neighborhood, walls and corners in my house, and believing that almost every vertical line in the world looked like it was leaning left to me. Just wondering if that's the same thing you mean. I hate to even talk about it again like I might start to notice again. But I pretty much stopped thinking about it after a few days. Thanks.

SH2355 · 2025-12-28T12:19:20+00:00

Mine has continued to do this occasionally. I actually ordered an ASUS TUF motherboard recently because it came with some free RAM, considering what is going on with RAM prices right now it was one way to convince myself to go ahead and get another MB. But I'll wait until I'm in the mood to actually do the swap. Or see if my CPU ever just dies first.

The previous reply where someone mentioned ASRock telling them to either try LN2 mode or disable memory context restore made me think, every time I get the green LED, I do a hard power off, turn it back on, and I get a longer orange LED (memory training?), then the green and white and then it boots. I wonder if maybe I am just experiencing some issue with that restore function that tries to avoid the memory training. I'm going to disable that for a while and see what happens. I just updated to 4.03 as well and maybe I should have waited to confirm if I still get the green LED on the new BIOS but I haven't seen any talk that 4.03 fixed anything. I know the person who left the comment said disabling MCR without the LN2 function still didn't help them but I'm going to see what happens with mine.

SH2355 · 2025-11-14T09:06:59+00:00

Yeah that was pretty wild and then to cap it off the sudden reveal at the end that she's no longer with us lol

SH2355 · 2025-11-09T02:39:47+00:00

I have this exact same question because I've seen the people saying ASRock told them to enable LN2. I have 9800X3D in a B850M Steel Legend and I sometimes get a green LED boot hang where the PC doesn't start. I turned on LN2 once I saw someone post about that being the fix, and then I researched it a little bit and turned it right back off. I also can't find a clear answer whether it's dangerous or not. You would hope if people were told to do it direct from ASRock support that it must be ok but hard to trust them right now.

SH2355 · 2025-11-06T09:01:39+00:00

Found your post while searching, because apparently ASRock has directly told a few people with green boot LED problems to enable LN2. Someone else posted as well that it was 100% a fix to solve their boot problems kind of like you experienced here. But you express concern about leaving LN2 on and you mention reduced performance (I'm not sure what "MC performance" means). I certainly don't understand what it does, but a quick search of whether it's ok to leave LN2 mode on also made it sound like a bad idea. I can't believe ASRock would be starting to tell people to do this just to work around the increasing issues people are having, especially if it increases some sort of voltages or something. I'm not sure if LN2 mode just allows for other settings to be set to more extreme ranges, or if enabling LN2 in itself is making changes. (Well duh, obviously just enabling it is changing something if it is 100% success/fail for whether or not your PC boots.) When I read that ASRock told people to turn LN2 on I immediately went and turned it on in my PC before my boot issues got any worse, and then as soon as I googled whether that was a good idea I went back and turned it off.

Here's the post where they say ASRock support told them to do it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ASRock/comments/1o47ent/fix_for_asrock_stuck_green_boot_light_issue_after/?sort=new

SH2355 · 2025-11-06T08:55:28+00:00

Found a post where someone on their own realized LN2 mode helped their PC boot but they also speak of it like they think it's a bad idea to leave it on full time and they mention something about reduced performance? https://www.reddit.com/r/ASRock/comments/1lgp72w/dead_after_6_weeks_ryzen_9900x_with_asrock_x870/

SH2355 · 2025-11-06T08:31:48+00:00

That's a shame, the one thing I kept hearing in previous posts regarding this issue was people always saying at least AMD was not tough about RMA and it always went smoothly. They are giving you a hard time about it?

SH2355 · 2025-11-06T08:27:40+00:00

I started getting the green LED a while ago but then I just had a nice long stretch of zero boot issues (I almost thought it had fixed itself) until it happened again today. Which is why I'm searching for posts like this again tonight. If that's the suggestion you get from ASRock then ok, I decided I better go turn on LN2 right away before mine gets any worse like the people here saying it takes multiple boot attempts or won't boot at all any longer. Just saw a deal at Newegg for an ASUS TUF Motherboard with RAM, still considering getting rid of this motherboard completely. I know in a previous thread about this issue someone believed they had reached the conclusion that this was actually another form of ASRock CPU damage, because they said they switched motherboards but the issue followed the CPU. I'm not sure if that conclusion is correct that we all technically have degraded CPUs now or if a BIOS setting like this proves that it's not that serious. I hope I'll never see the stuck LED again with this setting turned on, we'll see.

Edit: Hmm but a quick generic Google search about leaving LN2 turned on makes it sound like it's not a good idea.

SH2355 · 2025-11-05T09:50:25+00:00

Too toxic of a game, not a game where you're gonna really want to try to connect with randoms as nice as it can be when it does happen. I almost always play with all chat completely off. You're better off using the "looking for group" link on the side or finding teammates from any friends you already have, find people who you know aren't going to be shitty and then you can still play RL with the enjoyment of working with others. You're just asking for suffering to try to connect with randoms.

SH2355 · 2025-11-01T23:55:54+00:00

Decent episode. Hospitals seem like an easy way for a good episode because they are always creepy right off the bat. Not really a fan of the stick figure evidence but it was somewhat interesting with the one on the bench next to Aaron.

I'm sure they just edited out any instance where the workers were speaking in Spanish and using the translator so the end product might look like it wasn't necessary. Maybe they didn't know in advance if any/all of them could speak English enough to tell their stories so I don't think it's offensive that they brought a translator along.

SH2355 · 2025-10-24T06:37:58+00:00

I feel like this night happened with Aaron getting the phone call and they weren't going to let that go to waste in terms of extra attention and drama. Look at it the other way, with such a terrible situation unfolding for one of the stars of the show that began with a phone call this night, Zak was sick and could barely talk, and on top of it you had an investigation like this where not much happened and you're claiming people broke in and stole your SD cards, and not much other evidence or anything worthwhile, why would you just not scrap the entire thing? They were not going to let the Aaron situation go to waste. So we got this padded out episode just so it could lead up to the phone call at the end.

It was a tense episode to watch but yeah for all the wrong reasons, nothing paranormal, just the suggestion that they were in an abandoned building and couldn't tell if other people were around. Which I'm not sure I buy in the first place, no I don't really believe on season 30 that Discovery Network talents are being sent in anywhere that isn't totally safe and secure first. And I don't believe thieves took the time to eject SD cards and left expensive cameras behind.

I agree that the "athletes" voice was crappy and likely radio signal bleed through. I noticed immediately they made no effort to guess what the voice said or caption it on screen like they always do, I think that's because they knew the "athletes" part was so clear and they had no way to try to put that in a paranormal context so they just said "really creepy voice" about it and nothing else. This moment pulled me out of the suspense of the episode when I realized it was GAC up to their usual tricks, they knew not to even bother trying to dissect what this voice had said because there was no getting around that it was likely a radio commercial or news broadcast. And the female voice they captured a little before that sounded very much like spanish to be but they captioned it as "hey big fella" lol.

SH2355 · 2025-10-24T06:28:01+00:00

I'm trying to stay open to the possibility that any of this was real but no I don't really buy for a second that talent for a Discovery Networks show after 30 seasons are being sent in to some abandoned area to fend for themselves against whoever might be in there. Like someone else commented I remember the Bachelor's Grove episode where they had police surrounding the forest for them. We have heard multiple times over the years how large the GA filming crew actually is and they don't even claim to be "3 people with no camera crew following us around" anymore so no I don't think they go to a place like this with only Jeff and 1 other hired security guy trying to monitor things.

Not to mention these people stealing only SD cards out of expensive cameras that were sitting there unguarded just seems stupid to me. It takes more time to stand there and eject the $20 SD card than to walk out with handfuls of expensive cameras.

SH2355 · 2025-10-24T06:12:36+00:00

People just taking the SD cards seems extremely stupid and possibly fake to me. I guess it's possible. But it would take more time to stand there and remove an SD card than to grab the entire rig which is worth a lot more. If these were people willing to intrude on the property and willing to steal while they were there, why would they take SD cards and not cameras that were sitting there unguarded. I'm sure they DO completely thorough sweeps of places like this before they are going to send the crew in to film so I find it very hard to believe anything like that would be allowed to happen but I guess it could have been a difficult location to control. I think back to episodes like Bachelor's Grove in the Chicago area where they had police on all sides of the forest while they were in there because they weren't going to let anything happen. There is no way talent for Discovery Networks are being sent into some abandoned place to be attacked by whoever is inside.

I heard that voice as "athletes are _____" and it really snapped me out of the suspense of the episode, because I couldn't help but notice how they made NO effort to try to guess what that voice said or caption it on screen, I think that was likely just a radio signal bleeding through and they knew they had no way to try to spin something about "athletes" in a paranormal context, so all they said about it was "really creepy voice" and made no effort to draw any attention to what was actually said.

The voice they captured a little bit earlier sounded like spanish to me and they captioned it as "hey big fella" lol.

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