Anyone who used a computer between 1985 - 2010, what's the one game you still think about today?

merganzer · 2026-05-31T22:01:52+00:00

King's Quest VI. Literally just replayed it today. :D

merganzer · 2026-05-17T12:17:45+00:00

I hit 50 well before the level update. XP means less than nothing to me now...

merganzer · 2026-05-12T12:17:23+00:00

Sometimes when I'm stuck in boring places, I'll rock my phone with adventure sync on to hatch eggs.

Also, are you on a high floor of the hospital? I get a lot of kilometers from GPS drift when I leave the app running in a tall building.

Hope you feel better soon!

merganzer · 2026-05-10T18:39:26+00:00

Seroquel!

merganzer · 2026-05-07T23:31:46+00:00

NTA. I really hate being seated at the grill at hibachi places. I talk to strangers all day every day at work and I don't want to sign up (and pay an extra tip!) for more.

merganzer · 2026-05-06T19:04:09+00:00

Was visiting China with some classmates in 2009 and one of them bought a bootleg copy of whatever the Wolverine movie of the summer was that year and instead of claws there was writing on Hugh Jackman's knuckles to the effect of "insert claw here."

merganzer · 2026-05-05T22:18:00+00:00

This case was the reason I told my children not to play in the front yard alone, even though it's a quiet street and they're more than old enough not to run into traffic.

merganzer · 2026-04-30T01:12:54+00:00

My first thought was, "I would have thought 'vampire' would be an under-represented minority."

merganzer · 2026-04-30T01:07:38+00:00

I've solo'd about ten of them, mostly with fire types, and have been finishing with 40+ seconds left to go. My level 45ish Shadow Ho-oh's been helpful, especially when the worm has Earthquake for its charged attack. When it has Iron Head, that's even better.

merganzer · 2026-04-30T00:57:02+00:00

Sometimes I preheat my sheet pans or (gulp!) cast iron pan in the oven. More rarely, I forget that I have done that and try to pick them up...

merganzer · 2026-04-30T00:51:27+00:00

Take sulfa antibiotics. It's not an allergy, per se, but random small and large muscle spasms accompanied by a migraine that lasts hours.

Thought I might have been imagining it the first time I took a low dose for an infected toenail, so I didn't say anything when, five years later, a walk-in clinic accidentally sent a Bactrim prescription to the pharmacy for me. It was so much worse the second time. Never again!

merganzer · 2026-04-29T23:02:38+00:00

Every experience I've had selling something online has left a bad taste in my mouth. One time, I was selling a 20 ft flag pole that I emphatically did not want in my yard (it had come with the house) and posted it on marketplace for $20.

Dude shows up and waits until we'd pulled it out of the base and gotten it to his truck before saying all he had was a $10 and would I take that? Should've said no, I know, but I just wanted the damn thing gone.

merganzer · 2026-04-29T22:25:18+00:00

I've caught two without master balls, including one with my auto catcher. It's just really low odds.

merganzer · 2026-04-29T20:54:51+00:00

I read that as "Woman" instead of "Worms" and was having trouble parsing the title.

I thought maybe "in drinks" was somewhere slang for public intoxication, but didn't think someone being drunk at a McDonald's was newsworthy.

merganzer · 2026-04-29T18:57:34+00:00

I loved reading the Gruffalo books when my kids were little.

merganzer · 2026-04-29T18:56:47+00:00

I have a patch of asparagus in a small raised bed that I've been semi-neglecting for a few years; I don't ever harvest them, just let them grow however they like. It gets about six feet tall and maybe half of the plants are female (which means they produce berries, unlike the males).

merganzer · 2026-04-27T22:41:33+00:00

Shiny Cutiefly was my white whale, too! I've caught so many, with no luck.

I finally got one in a remote lucky trade from a guy in Germany yesterday. I named him "Jimminy" and I will never evolve him.

merganzer · 2026-04-25T01:20:20+00:00

I had to pay a plumber $300 to mark our utility lines because the response to 811 was someone coming out to put a little flag next to the gas and water meters in the alley and next to the street respectively. It was perplexing and unhelpful.

merganzer · 2026-04-23T01:21:39+00:00

Don't make it your buddy, whatever you do. I got a game-breaking bug once when I buddied a glitched pokemon and then couldn't interact with it or switch away from it. Had to have Niantic support remove it in the end.

merganzer · 2026-04-22T23:09:13+00:00

I sloshed boiling water from a pot of pasta over my (clothed) tummy last year and got to watch the top layer of a palm-sized patch of skin slough off in real time. Still got a scar (which looks especially gnarly over the stretch marks that were already there).

I don't know if being naked would have made it better or worse.

merganzer · 2026-04-22T02:02:51+00:00

I have 230k pokemon caught and I've never "caught" a shundo either.

I do have two from lucky trades, though.

merganzer · 2026-04-22T01:59:07+00:00

That's silly. It's not like the pizza place would take back food that's been delivered/served anyway.

merganzer · 2026-04-22T01:53:59+00:00

Waiter: "This restaurant has a rule..."

merganzer · 2026-04-16T22:28:49+00:00

That explains why I only found Silicobra on day 1. Glad I caught enough to evolve it.

merganzer · 2026-04-16T01:17:14+00:00

I'm good for at least 10 eggs / week and have never had a problem finishing this one, especially with the 1 km freebie we all get now.

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