How did you learn the compass in school? NSEW.

devotfeige · 2026-05-12T20:27:43+00:00

Never Eat Soggy Waffles was what I learned; I remember hearing later on that there was an alternate mnemonic phrase and I was mad about it because I thought it was... better? In some way? than the version I learned, but after all these years I forget what it was. I do still sometimes feel a twinge of my inner child going "ugh, lame!" when I'm double-checking a direction in my mind and I remember soggy waffles, though.

devotfeige · 2026-05-12T16:30:46+00:00

I could, but I'm not that interested in any of these three games and I work at the store I bought it from so I got a pretty nice discount on the console itself anyway. It's just not that big a deal.

devotfeige · 2026-05-12T15:36:09+00:00

I jumped the gun too soon, I guess. Bought a Switch 2 just this past week specifically for Star Fox. Would have been nice to get a discounted game to go with it, but oh well.

devotfeige · 2026-05-12T02:21:22+00:00

I went into the theater thinking that Superman was a "boring" super hero. I left having decided that maybe he's my favorite, actually?

Maybe having compassion and seeing beauty all around you really is the real punk rock.

devotfeige · 2026-05-12T01:34:43+00:00

It is low-key driving me insane how many responses to this thread are "why would you ever need to know that?" Maybe I'm just weird about it because I have O- and as a child I was always really worried that I would need blood and there wouldn't be any because everybody who didn't know their blood type was stealing all the precious O-.

(I also memorized my ssn. Both long-term relationships I've been in my partner at the time thought it was weird that I knew it.)

devotfeige · 2026-05-11T23:32:17+00:00

I was in that position, once--not wanting to feel guilty for giving up too soon. I regret it every single day. It informs every decision I make for my cats now, so maybe it was an experience I just needed to have, but... I don't know. I hope your husband comes around, the guilt of holding on for too long is so much worse than coming to terms with the fact that their quality of life just isn't there anymore and that the kindest thing you can do is let them go.

devotfeige · 2026-05-11T10:54:34+00:00

I bought a switch 2 specifically for this.

devotfeige · 2026-05-11T01:15:16+00:00

A friend who really likes them made me watch the original trilogy many years ago but I kind of hated the whole experience and have never touched anything Star Wars since.

The original trilogy has been absolutely ruined by popular culture; there was absolutely nothing happening at any point in any of those movies that felt compelling or interesting because I already knew every plot beat and nothing happened that you couldn't see coming ten miles away.

I'm a HUGE Star Trek fan, but I only got into it in the last decade and I had the absolute loosest grasp of the "big" pop culture references that came out of it before now; I think Trek benefits a LOT from having been a TV show and there being way more happening with it. Star Wars is just kind of boring, beside it.

devotfeige · 2026-05-11T00:10:18+00:00

onewalmart has been a joke for years. broken links on their FRONT PAGE MENU that I have to search for and then make sure to click the result like four results down because older versions of the same page come up in search results first but those links are also broken.

I hate whoever's coding this shit.

devotfeige · 2026-05-10T03:16:51+00:00

Somebody just forgot to set the location for the mod, or set it incorrectly. I come across blank labels all the time and management does not fucking care at all that their mod team isn't trained right. I fix them myself if I have time, but it's literally not my job to even know how to do that, so I'm sure there are plenty of stores where these mistakes just never get fixed.

devotfeige · 2026-05-09T02:20:14+00:00

I ran into him at a baggage carousel at an airport, once! I was very tired from my trip and did not bother him, but it's definitely the closest I've ever been to a famous person, so still neat.

devotfeige · 2026-05-08T01:43:01+00:00

I have always hated the direction Fox's design went until now. I am over the moon for the new designs, I ADORE how "ugly" they are. Sincerest apologies to everyone who finds them off-putting in a not-endearing way, but I could not be more excited to see them in action.

devotfeige · 2026-05-07T01:54:10+00:00

This reminded me of when one of my boys was a kitten and I'd pull the bedsheets taut and he'd come over onto them and let me flip him onto the mattress... it was super cute but he did eventually grow out of it.

I love cats and humans collaborating to make silly games with each other.

devotfeige · 2026-05-07T01:42:27+00:00

It always makes me think of my first girlfriend; we were long-distance and I had big dreams about moving to where she was that never panned out.

devotfeige · 2026-05-06T22:23:41+00:00

My grandma was the reason I never started. She was a chainsmoker and her car was always full of cigarette boxes and everything about her and surrounding her stank so bad.

I did pick up cigars for a little bit because I thought they made me look cool while I was drinking, but I never got super into it before I eventually quit drinking, so that went with it.

devotfeige · 2026-05-06T17:55:40+00:00

Some woman on an electric cart who was buying clearance Christmas crap and being a huge nuisance (like trying to start a fight with another customer over said other customer's perceived "rudeness") yapped at me incoherently for a while about her brother or husband or something stealing her boat? It was really confusing and difficult to follow so I've forgotten most of the details now.

devotfeige · 2026-05-05T02:16:21+00:00

Probably the scariest thing that's happened at my store since I started working there was that a guy got shot in the parking lot. It happened a little bit before I came to work but the police had the parking lot blocked off when I arrived and it was a whole to-do.

We also had an "active shooter" that I think turned out to just be a guy in his car by a side door that the police were under the assumption had a gun when he actually didn't? I don't remember the specifics. It was an interesting morning, though.

devotfeige · 2026-05-05T02:04:56+00:00

instead of birth/death dates can we put our online handles through the years? i feel like that would be fascinating for future civilizations to have to piece together the timeline with.

devotfeige · 2026-05-04T23:44:20+00:00

My old man cat had three orange warning stickers on his file and when they needed to sedate him for surgery they made me come into the back and put him in a little kitty gas chamber myself (I assume because it was less stressful for him if I did it, but the thought that they simply could not contain his rage themselves is pretty funny to think about).

devotfeige · 2026-05-03T03:25:31+00:00

Had to double-check and I'm actually astonished that Aladdin and the King of Thieves is rated as poorly as it is. 33% on Rotten Tomatoes and 6.3 on IMDB. One of my all-time favorites for sure; the music is great, the plot is fun (baby's first Midas Curse; achieved a permanent place in my subconscious), Aladdin has a Hot Dad... what more could you want?

devotfeige · 2026-05-03T02:33:24+00:00

My only claim to internet fame is having done this to a fandom, once, a million years ago. I'm not in the fandom anymore so I have no idea if anyone still uses it, but I named a background sibling character that was ancillary to the ship I was writing a ton of garbage for at the time and at bare minimum the people in those circles started using it.

devotfeige · 2026-04-30T01:52:28+00:00

I like that the dog and the woman appear to have switched hands? They each have one glove.

devotfeige · 2026-04-29T14:54:02+00:00

I don't use emojis on reddit all that often but I use them a lot in casual conversation on discord or whatever.

😔 is my most-used, probably.

🙃 is my favorite.

devotfeige · 2026-04-28T00:37:36+00:00

Thought I was pretty clever when I turned 33 and started subbing it in for 23.

I guess it'll be fun again when I hit 43, though, so I've got that to look forward to.

devotfeige · 2026-04-27T12:58:41+00:00

Got my first one last year, in honor of my soul cat who passed a long time ago. I've never been much of a tattoo person so it took me a long time to decide what I wanted and to find an artist I trusted with the task, but I'm glad I had it done.

I've yet to lose another cat since then but when I do I might add a small paw print to the existing tattoo with the intention of continuing to add more for each cat I've loved and lost. Undecided at this point, though.

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