I don’t really remember any of the short stories assigned in English specifically, but I do remember one in my middle school textbook that I only remember because of the artwork. It was done by Stephen Gammel; the same dude that did the original artwork for Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. It’s especially memorable because the story was just about some cute anthropomorphic animals working on a farm or something, but it had the same crazy “spider webs dripping with blood” style from the Scary Stories books.

I hella wish I could remember the name of the story, or at least the specific textbook it was in.

I used to think that was just the name of whoever invented it until I got interested enough to see that wasn’t the case. It was made by some dude name Chuck. Wasn’t even a doctor!

Reading and writing happen to be one of the things my brain likes, so I never really had any problems in English until I had a group project and we all divided out what parts to do, and I did my part but nobody else did theirs and it was embarrassing as fuck just reading 1/3 of a presentation, and it was the middle part. I’ve done theatre and had solos and such, but never did I have stage fright more than that moment, and I literally couldn’t speak.

What, like a wheel and some pedals? Or would you go full-on actual car stuff? I met a guy once who turned the entire back half of his trailer into a plane cockpit for his flight sims. Had actual instruments and switches and stuff. I’m sure with what it had to cost, he could have just bought a real plane. lol

They won’t stop you at Walmart, though. Not paid enough, plus you can only do “aggressive hospitality.” Which is basically just asking if you can help them find anything. Just continue fucking with the produce; they can’t stop you.

Calls Vader’s religion bullshit

Gets telepathically choked out

Vader: “Oh I guess it doesn’t hurt since it’s all bullshit, huh? I find your lack of faith disturbing. Especially since you’ve seen me do this shit, like, a million times before.”

“I can quit any time I want. I just don’t want to.”

Elon Musk didn’t buy the company did he? This is the dumbest business decision since he changed Twitter’s name to X.

Or did someone just post their April fool’s joke way too late?

It’s only that way because developers don’t seem to be, you know… Developing shit for it.

Like, I love a lot of what’s available and the tech itself is great; but there is no killer app. There is next to nothing but novelty bullshit being made. Even if Meta wasn’t the one with the cheapest headset, people wouldn’t necessarily be buying into VR because there’s not really much to do with it yet.

One Half-Life game, a chatroom, and a bitching rythym game isn’t enough.

Provolone Panini

I could write a whole novel as a Lemmy comment, but then I wouldn’t get paid. I mean… What if it was good?

I would very much buy a shulker box if they work the way they do in the game. (That is the one that lets you access the same inventory from anywhere, right?)

Maybe it’s just a really big house.

I still think ZIP drives are pretty cool. Or using cassette tapes of any kind for data other than video/audio. Hella wish I had a DAT drive still.

Being happy.

I can be a bad programmer without using AI generated code. 😤

I still see it semi-frequently, but more because I don’t use my computer as much and it’s usually off. So after a week of non-use, Steam has often accumulated enough updates to necessitate a reboot.

It is still not nearly as frequent as new Nvidia drivers needing a reboot, though.

Yes! Someone gets it! 🥹

My husky goes ballistic with howling if you say “space camp” and it’s pretty much the only time she gets loud. She is very unlike most huskies lol