"They’ve got me waiting on a day when we can say ‘fuck the police!’ with a little bit of integrity,

When it’ll mean: ‘I’ve got your back if you’ve got mine!’"

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Joined 3 years ago
Cake day: June 7th, 2023
  • j_roby@slrpnk.nettoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Americans who live near state borders,how do you notice you've crossed the border?English
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    4 months ago

    I once lived in a small city right on that state’s border. It was sort of a suburb tho to a very large city in the neighboring state. The major roads would have signage, but on the smaller roads there really wasn’t any way to tell. The main difference tho was that the large city’s public transit options extended pretty far out even into the small towns along the border, but wouldn’t at all come into my small city…

    Where I live now, you have to cross a very large river to get into the neighboring state. What’s worth sharing here tho, is that there is a nearby county line, where even tho there’s a sign, you don’t need it at all. The landscape/biome changes pretty much at the county line.
    It goes from a sort of temperate rainforest-like climate, to arid grassland/high desert climate. You’ll be driving thru areas with large, old growth evergreens and lots of ferns underneath, and then it turns to dead, dry, brown grass and sagebrush shrubs everywhere. Like, it could also even be raining the whole first part of the drive there, but once you get to this county line the rain almost always dissipates. It’s pretty wild.

  • j_roby@slrpnk.nettoMemes@lemmy.ml•I guess I'm doing my partEnglish
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    2 years ago

    It really seems like my grocery store (a Kroger brand) has been doing this for a bit now.

    Prices on certain things vary wildly depending on the time of the month or the day of the week. Plus, with their bullshit, incessant push for everyone to use their app and online ordering, it seems like this will be much more common moving forward.

  • j_roby@slrpnk.netOPtoADHD memes@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Bonus ThoughtsEnglish
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    2 years ago

    stream of conscience-y

    I think that’s why I relate to the OP tweet so much. When I’m writing a text or comment, it’s usually in a inner-voice type of thing where I’m imagining myself speaking directly to the person. And I definitely speak with lots of parenthetical “bonus thoughts”

    When I’m writing out something important, an official letter or work email, etc. I take my time to form the full thoughts and put that all down in writing as properly as I’m able to.

  • j_roby@slrpnk.nettoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What was a profound moment that a video game caused you to experience, and why?English
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    2 years ago

    Nothing as profound as what you described there…
    But… The Last Of Us was an experience for me…

    I hadn’t played a “new” game in about 8-10 years at that point, so the huge increase in development was mind blowing to me.
    But really, the intensity of the story is what really did it for me. I legit got teary eyed in the intro, and then the burning restaurant scene made me ball my eyes out…

    Phenomenal fucking game

    Or, to bring it back to my youth… The Illusion of Gaia was probably the first game I played that made me feel things. That was so long ago, and I was so young when that came out that being specific about it is hard. But I think I really related with the main character, and I remember really feeling things during the lost-at-sea raft scene.

    I might need to go find the ROM now…

    **Or, to go a bit further back, Dragon Warrior.
    That was the first game I ever played that really captivated me. It was the first RPG I ever played, and even tho the storyline is incredibly basic and cliche, it was the first time I experienced a story at all in a video game. It’s definitely the reason that I prefer fantasy RPGs over every other type of game