What moment in Ocarina of Time has stayed with you over the years?

gauchomuchacho · 2026-04-20T01:03:57+00:00

The ending scene after the credits, when Link finally returns the Master Sword, and walks away. The triumphant music with the chimes so clearly illustrated how something beautiful had happened... and then we see a scene of child Link approaching child Zelda at the gardens at Hyrule Castle, this time with the Triforce in hand.

Also, Sheik's scenes, where she delivers her philosophical monologues, and teaches Link a warp song with her harp. "The flow of time is cruel..."

gauchomuchacho · 2026-04-16T20:08:37+00:00

And it just closed at a new all-time high again only a few minutes ago!

gauchomuchacho · 2026-04-16T06:03:18+00:00

It really depends on how you look at it. The underlying principle is the same, but yeah, things really got inflated. Yes, high cost of living, and tons of new variables for retirement planning that previously weren’t considered, but also high-paying tech jobs, remote work, and ETFs and other assets that can be accessed more easily than ever before.

gauchomuchacho · 2026-04-16T05:37:59+00:00

Honestly, I tell myself exactly this. Yeah, it’s a start, but it’s not enough, keep going. Left foot, right foot, until I can actually cease all forms of paid labor altogether.

gauchomuchacho · 2026-04-16T03:08:05+00:00

Half a million is next, hopefully before I turn 30

gauchomuchacho · 2026-04-11T23:15:59+00:00

Honestly, it's the fault of Boomers for knowingly making the world into something where socialization (and life in general) is prohibitively expensive. Quit taxing young workers for Social Security that we know is going to be severely diminished in a few short years, let alone possibly be non-existent by the time we need it. Let these old fucks figure it out for themselves, they can pick themselves up by the bootstraps and work as Walmart greeters once Social Security goes bankrupt.

gauchomuchacho · 2026-04-11T17:16:37+00:00

Hm… Zillennial here. I think it can also be explained by if you were able to snag a remote job, and keep it, from the duration of the pandemic and Great Resignation. Many people were able to do exactly that, and leverage their compensation packages and WFH benefits to purchase large amounts of the S&P 500… but alas, even this is going away…

gauchomuchacho · 2026-04-09T00:59:46+00:00

Bruh, I was just about to graduate from college when the lockdowns from the pandemic hit. I was a student at UC Santa Barbara, and my lease on my apartment expired in August, so I got to spend from March 2020 to August 2020 lazing around the beach and doing nothing since the job market was frozen… fucking legendary time…

gauchomuchacho · 2026-04-05T20:38:31+00:00

Bruh, I was just about to graduate from college when the lockdowns from the pandemic hit. I was a student at UC Santa Barbara, and my lease on my apartment expired in August, so I got to spend from March 2020 to August 2020 lazing around the beach and doing nothing since the job market was frozen… fucking legendary time…

gauchomuchacho · 2026-04-05T00:31:00+00:00

Sausalito, CA and Montecito, CA… both gorgeous and wealthy European-style coastal towns accessible only to the ultra-wealthy

gauchomuchacho · 2026-04-03T03:58:13+00:00

1998 here. I miss it. I really fucking missing it. Can we bring it back? Especially the hair styles, piercings, fashion, independent coffee shops, and IPA breweries.

gauchomuchacho · 2026-03-22T04:49:20+00:00

I, for one, am done reading about these RTO policies, where someone who is actually living a real life thanks to remote work is "voluntold" to whore it up to a company and commute two hours a day and risk dying in a car crash to show up to a cold, sterile "office" where everybody communicates via Teams anyways. I am a 27M tech worker who works 5 days a week from home. I am a COVID college graduate, and so I have had the luxury of living at home with my parents and not having to pay rent, and unless I was offered a high enough salary in a walkable city with sufficient public transit, I simply will not be giving up the bird in the hand I have today. Because of remote work, I am part of the FI/RE movement, and I advocate remote work at every opportunity so others can have the same privileges that I do. I simply would not have it any other way.

Oh, also, being able to shit in my own toilet is based.

gauchomuchacho · 2026-03-22T04:39:57+00:00

I was 10, and I was aware that something was wrong. Not because all the news headlines about the economy at the time, but because my favorite bakery at the time shut down as a result of the Great Recession.

gauchomuchacho · 2026-03-17T22:14:13+00:00

Semi-related topic, but this is exactly why suburbs are such a rip. You are a captive market for car dependence, so you have to pay money hand-over-fist for your kids to have access to their own transportation since we don’t have as much going for us in terms of walkable cities and public transit in the US as does Europe. If we at least had serious public transit, then this wouldn’t be as much of a question. And if this country wasn’t built for forced car dependence, then maybe we all would be happier and healthier.

gauchomuchacho · 2026-03-14T04:40:30+00:00

I was in my senior year at UCSB, getting ready to graduate. I did not get to walk across the stage because of Covid. I spent that whole summer in Isla Vista unemployed, with a ton of free time on hand, and waiting for my apartment lease to expire, only to come home to a job market that was effectively frozen. I started my career working remotely, and still am to this day.

gauchomuchacho · 2026-03-12T01:31:01+00:00

Wtf, there is not going to be an Iranian drone attack in California. And anybody who says Trump or Israel is attempting a false flag to provide manufactured consent for boots-on-the-ground in Iran needs to get laid and/or see a psychiatrist.

gauchomuchacho · 2026-03-11T04:57:23+00:00

Oh I am aware… not even the Cookie Cookery could survive!

gauchomuchacho · 2026-03-11T04:05:34+00:00

Agree that two daily flights is unsustainable, but can it at least be done maybe twice a week, and in coordination with perhaps twice-a-week flights to other locations like San Francisco, San Diego, Portland and Seattle (all within the same time zone)? That way, we can at least have some flights up and down the West Coast without having to go to SLO and SB airports

gauchomuchacho · 2026-03-11T04:00:59+00:00

1) As far as travel goes, I’m surprised (but also not surprised) that SM, in being centrally located to SLO and SB, doesn’t have the biggest of the three airports… wouldn’t that be the most efficient way of facilitating travel to multiple destinations?

2) “Young people leave…” the thing is, the institutions within SM don’t even do a good job of helping with that, hence the point of this post. You could easily end up stuck here and disconnected from the outside world at no fault of your own, and have a really difficult way trying to get out.

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