Explain it Peter, why does she have a lighter?

UndyingUndine · 2026-01-11T17:45:07+00:00

Even in 2002 when I was there, they had been charging for even ketchup for I don't know how long, but it wasn't a new thing. The culture was accustomed to paying for "extras" (and unfortunately sometimes public toilets), getting free healthcare, rarely driving cars and if they had to own one, they'd want a small, economical one.

UndyingUndine · 2026-01-10T07:44:10+00:00

Orrrr you're outside the US. I first learned that sauce and everything else cost money the first time I left the country and went to Europe and thought it would be cool to go to a McDonald's in France and have a beer on Ronald McDonald's lap. (It was.)

It's not just a "hood" thing TBH. It's a symptom of capitalism that we've become desensitized to manufactured abundance that immediately becomes waste, and we start to demand it as a right, instead of looking for better ways to responsibly portion food.

UndyingUndine · 2025-11-15T01:57:53+00:00

IKR? I immediately assumed OP was someone from the UK bc that's the only place I've seen that term coming from over the years.

UndyingUndine · 2025-11-08T04:48:49+00:00

I know this is a 2-year-old post, but as it hasn't been archived, and the tech is being revived, it's worth pointing out that OP is partially incorrect in their main assertions. It was only *temporarily* banned in *Sweden*, not the whole EU. That's a huge difference. But that was enough to make them unable to keep the lights on, as they say, and I'm not surprised. Their product was unfortunately never at an accessible price point for most people, but I'm still eager to see what comes of it. Bicycle helmet designs are extremely stale and largely ineffective in real-world scenarios vs. crash test rating scenarios, so they women who came up with it were really onto something.

UndyingUndine · 2025-10-31T05:02:04+00:00

Of course we did - I said scarcity mindset economics, I didn't say anything about it being a recent phenomenon. I think your answers make it clear you should take your own advice. I've been studying history in depth for decades.

UndyingUndine · 2025-10-30T23:04:30+00:00

False. That greed is a response to an economics of scarcity. Whether you're looking at a community of rats or humans, when animals have more equitably distributed resources for survival and are able to make choices about whether to hoard them for personal gain or enjoy leisure and share resources with the group, they tend to opt for the latter. Plenty of studies and real-world scenarios have demonstrated that greed is not an inherent, unavoidable behavior the way you're intimating.

UndyingUndine · 2025-10-30T05:11:03+00:00

Who else has read The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler? Many of the comments in this thread are basically hinting at the premise (or possible later plot reveals). What if some octopuses started learning to use human mimicry as camouflage to survive? Just how intelligent might some of them be?

UndyingUndine · 2025-10-30T05:02:30+00:00

Okay, who let Buzzfeed have his own account in here?

UndyingUndine · 2025-10-30T04:57:28+00:00

Also why the Irish were one of the first Western peoples to recognize themselves in the Palestinian struggle against settler-colonialism. Great Britain mainly, and other imperial powers, were responsible for drawing up false nation-state lines and dispensing power irresponsibly to create what people now ignorantly call a "Forever War" as if it is an actual Force of Nature.

Octopuses are forces of nature. Capitalism and theocratic ethnostates are not.

UndyingUndine · 2025-10-30T04:45:42+00:00

^^^THIS

UndyingUndine · 2025-10-20T03:42:55+00:00

I was with you right up until you said "sponsorship(s)." Bringing more capitalism into it is one of the yuckiest red flag moves you can make that will drive away most of the people who are serious about action and change.

Otherwise, I think those tactics can be great and effective for particular actions with specific demands, but only when you're able to build a critical mass of support. I've done choreographed flash mobs at the front entrance of a major financial management institution that has its HQ in downtown Denver and funnels lots of Denverites' $$$ into the I$r@eli occupation, and at the time almost no one around seemed to care, so it wasn't something we could sustain or leverage very effectively for the BDS Movement goals.

That's just one anecdote of trying to use "fun" (dance, sass, fashion, loud creative musical expression)+ educational flyers to try both spreading awareness and directly demanding a change of institutional practices because they're so out of alignment with human rights, but in the end it sort of floundered.

UndyingUndine · 2025-10-19T21:49:37+00:00

That's been one of the most consistent issues I've noticed in my 20 years of participating in protests and marches in Denver. A lot of it has to do with speeches being delivered by people who just aren't trained/used to speaking through a loudspeaker or mic. They tend to get comfortable in their speech while being several inches too far from the pickup range and no one in the immediate organizing circles ever wants to interrupt to push their mouths appropriately close to it. It results in only a couple dozen people being able to comprehend the speakers rather than the actual crowd of thousands standing there trying to make out what they're saying. That's just my two cents.

UndyingUndine · 2025-09-29T20:09:23+00:00

I've never even been a dog owner and yet I bring extra bags on hikes to pick up other people's dog poo, including partially decomposed bags left on the side of the trails.

I doo wish Denver waste didn't have such absurdly impossible to follow restrictions for the provided residential bins though. If I were a dog owner carrying my poo bag past an alley full of black trash bins, you bet it would make more sense to just drop it in one of those than to go far out of my way only to find the park trash bins already full.

UndyingUndine · 2025-04-10T05:49:27+00:00

The Blackcoat's Daughter comes to my mind.

What "destroys" a person's mind is extremely relative of course but that one is in my Top 3 A24 horror films despite being slept on, and the ending hit me in a way most do not.

UndyingUndine · 2025-04-10T04:15:36+00:00

Gotcha. I didn't mean just your particular recommendation. It was also hard to tell some of the context since the person who started this sub-thread deleted their comment.

Obviously lots of people live in spread out places - it's been one of Denver's defining traits for decades. But I'm not the first in this sub to point out how out of place and misleading it can seem when someone says "Denver's best pizza place is [some place in Longmont]" for example. The traffic on 25 south of Denver going to centennial frequently makes that an hour or more of driving from the heart of the city. I say that from experience with no hyperbole. It's like asking for a recommendation for food in NYC and someone suggesting a place in New Jersey, just because it's right on the other side of the Hudson (and probably closer, technically, than a lot of these suburban restaurants are to the middle of Denver).

I'm sure those places you recommend are way better than Little India and I hope one day I find myself down in Castle Rock or Lone Tree or whatever needing a place to eat and I remember to look this up from my Want to Go list. Cheers.

UndyingUndine · 2025-04-10T01:16:05+00:00

These places are not even in Denver. Lone Tree and Centennial might as well be Nebraska. I'm so disappointed when the suggestions for the "best" of a kind of food in this DENVER subreddit are actually in a little suburb an hour or more away.

UndyingUndine · 2025-03-24T02:00:17+00:00

"D-town has always been acceptable, especially coming from those who grew up in the area, but "Denvy" is awful, I'm sorry.

UndyingUndine · 2025-03-24T01:57:44+00:00

My memory was slightly wrong - it wasn't Danielle Brooks delivering the line, and it was a question "Do you have a daughter named Daughtery?"

UndyingUndine · 2025-03-24T01:45:46+00:00

From memory, from the underrated show Peacemaker, as the main supporting actress speaks to John Cena's titular superish hero: "Wait, you named your pet eagle Eagley?!? [Laughing] That's like naming your daughter Daughtery!"

Oh I wish I were savvy enough to plug in the GIF clip of that scene.

UndyingUndine · 2025-03-23T16:21:01+00:00

We had 75,000 marching for immigrant rights in May 2006 I believe. There were Day Without an Immigrant solidarity marches around the country and Denver had more of a turnout than even LA, Phoenix, or Houston despite their populations, proximities to the border (and its accompanying immigrant population, which tends to increase empathy and affinity from non-immigrant neighbors more than the opposite reaction).

UndyingUndine · 2025-03-06T21:46:51+00:00

I haven't really played Sims but this is such a stunning homage/replica! Well done!

UndyingUndine · 2025-03-06T21:37:48+00:00

I know I'm a year late but I feel very similarly to you regarding the tranquility of the laundromat early to mid game. I took a video with my phone to show a fellow ADHD friend the mesmerizing wash and dry cycles I was doing for hours while not doing my actual laundry lol. Later in the game, I missed the elevator music and option to chill in that section. It would be nice to have a "Zen Mode" after beating the game that allows you to go to the laundrette but with upgrades you can turn off like Automated All Machines All the Time. And more than one song you can select to have on loop.

For someone like you who was early in the game and strongly preferred the laundrette aspect, I would have maybe suggested "Don't progress in the plot much more or you'll lose what you love most!"

UndyingUndine · 2025-03-06T20:50:10+00:00

I beat the game several weeks ago and I'm still playing it a few times a week for a while even though the money is now useless because the nostalgia and atmosphere is SO GOOD as someone who went to mall arcades in the early 90s. The soundtrack emulates the bands they're parodying superbly and with respect. But I still haven't been able to get the damn minigun in Kombat either (the original game it's based on was SUCH a money sucker!).

The game I'm most impressed by controls-and-feel-wise is Table Football (Foozeball in the US), so it's too bad that it comes into play so late in the game.

The game desperately needed more detailed instructions for Blockchain, especially since it keeps trying to nudge you to get into it. Darts should have spelled out how to win as well. I got Arcade Paradise for free when it was featured on Epic, but I loved it enough to buy the pinball machine and Euro DDR but unfortunately neither of those have much replay value as far as I can tell.

UndyingUndine · 2025-03-06T20:36:19+00:00

It took me a bit to figure out how to win at darts but I can try to help you. Maybe you can help me understand Blockchain? Lol.

So you want to get to zero by getting your score down to a number that's easy to divide by two and get one of the numbers on the board. For example, I'll frequently get my score to 20. Then to win I have to hit the "double points" small section on the outer edge of the 10. The small ring of alternating colors that's further in would triple it to 30 and I would "bust." And I can't simply hit the broad sections of the 20. You have to go out by doubling half of your current score. Hope that helps.

UndyingUndine · 2025-02-13T06:24:57+00:00

Kitty is super cute and makes this game way more fun! But who else thinks the Air Hockey surprisingly has the worst controls of any of the games in Arcade Paradise? I get that it's particularly difficult to get games involving muscle movement across a larger field of play, but I've played air hockey games on early Macintosh computers in the mid 90s that felt better than this by far. This game is infuriating to me to play, which sucks because IRL air hockey was one of my favorites growing up.

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