Iām not sure what other people would think of this (if they should have it happen to them), but I find when cashiers, clerks, or whichever enthusiastically say the word āPerfect!ā it seems so fakeā¦ Patronizing? 
ā¦ almost sarcastic or like itās some ācorporate brown-nosing speakā as if theyāre trying so hard to make sure Iām just all buttered-up and wonāt, perchance, yell at them for the smallest hiccup that might happen with whatever Iām getting from them.
This is just something Iāve noticed from 3 places (fast food) in town, 4 different individuals. So that gives me the impression itās a practice encouraged by (some?) businesses.
I dunno. Maybe it IS some suggested language to use from corporate higher ups to placate any potentially hostile customers, and theyāre just doing as they were told. Iām usually easy going, not one to complain a whole lot unless itās something pretty big. Iāve never gotten angry at a customer service worker (being one myself), but of course that doesnāt mean other people wonāt.
Anyway, Iām āperfectā ly fine with a āThank Youā or whatever phrase would fit the situation. No need to ham it up.
Death Stranding sucks.
It is pretentious, boring, and nonsensical. The gameplay is not enjoyable. The plot, in its inscrutability, becomes forgettable. The building blocks of the gameās systems are poorly implemented. NPC and real-life-player interactions are boring.
I played for like 20+ hours on PS4, experiencing the occasional moment of interest but mostly powering through and not caring. Now it is on Xbox and getting some more press.
It it a sucky game that sucks.
Signed,
A pretentious person.
Can you tell me what that game is even about, because anything I use to read up on a synopsis is unclear at best, and all I remember from the reveal trailer is Norman Reedus carrying a baby in a jar inside his body or something.
you play a porter named sam porter bridges whose job it is to bridge the chiral network across the post-apocalyptic united states and your momās the president and thereās a lady in a red dress on a time beach and a lady in a skintight hologram suit on a motorcycle and a few guys with skull masks and you press l2 to not fall to the left and r2 to not fall to the right and you mess around with clunky overly lit inventories a lot to bring supplies to survivors who you rarely actually meet and over time you can build faster transportation which is oh my god just so exciting and then when youāre not falling down over rocks youāre also soothing a crying baby in a pod who alerts you to time distortion bad guys and oh yeah rain speeds up time so donāt get caught in the rain and various famous faces from cinema show up to make things appear legitimate but ultimately it all goes back to generational trauma from the second world war but also remember time plays tricks on you
Yeah, remember when I said all the synopsis Iāve read are unclear at best?
Like, what is happening? Is this supposed to be the future or an alternate universe with completely different laws of physics? What happened to make the world like this and why does it make everything you described there happen?
Death Stranding is kafkaesque.
It was a world like ours.
Then the process of death stopped working as it supposed to. Which came to everyone surprise. Because (1) everyone discovered that death was a process the same why something like gravity is. And (2) it completely changed one day.
The game takes place in the aftermath. The rules humanity lives by are exotic to say the least. But one can live by it. You play as a government courier trying to reconnect the pockets of human lives that still exist.
Also you personal life is written by Hideo Kojima. From your family, to your friends, to everyone you will meet. This does not help.
Today I learned who Hideo Kojima is. Turns out that, with the exception of Cyberpunk 2077 (which he has an acting credit for), Iāve never played any games that he had anything to do with.
I was born in the 1970s. I have never liked, and do not currently, like anything Madonna has ever done.
Turkey is a nasty meat. No respectable chef features a turkey cut as meat dish. Also, whatās the reason that turkey had to be eaten with gravy or some sort of sauce?
For the reasons you mentioned you donāt like it. Its hardly and unpopular opinion.
Any meat can be ānastyā if itās prepared incorrectly. Turkey can be, and most often is delicious. Iād be curious as to why youāve reached that conclusion. The worst turkey Iāve ever had was dry. Most likely due to being cut while it was too hot or recently removed from the oven, all that steam comes out drying the meat out, making it chewy or needing some (as you mentioned) sauce or gravy, or just a glass of some liquid/beverage to wash it down. If a turkey is allowed to sit for some minutes after being removed from the oven (having it covered may help, but the skin may suffice) it can retain its juices.
Iād guess chefs donāt (typically) feature it as a meat dish because itās considered a seasonal or Thanksgiving dish (here in the US) and either that or ham for Christmas. But either can be used for either holiday.
On the subject of needing a sauceā¦ Well, if youāre thinking of gravyā¦ That can help if the meat is dry. But assuming the ācookā didnāt goof and waited, you wouldnāt need any āsauceā. Gravy typically goes on or with the mashed potatoes usually served alongside turkey. But, gravy doesnāt hurt turkey if itās moist anyway. Thatād be up to the person eating.
Turkey is dry and mostly tasteless. Nearly any other bird would make a better substitute, but we continue to include this heavily engineered fowl into Thanksgiving every year, even though the first Thanksgiving had nothing to do with it, because itās a societal custom and humans have real trouble letting arbitrary rituals go. Thanksgiving turkey takes a ridiculous amount of preparation just to be somewhat palatable. Even deli slices of turkey are barely worth their addition. Every year the internet is flooded with stories of people who dislike turkey, dislike a majority of Thanksgiving food, and dislike the family gathering aspect of the holiday. But, because it involves a day off, it gives a boost to the profits of corporations, and us damn white people just canāt let go of a tradition that legitimizes our social supremacy in this country, we just keep on torturing ourselves with this stupid holiday year after year ad nauseam.
This went from food toā¦ Not food. But this isnāt a day for arguing.
People insist on carrying turkey legs around Renn Faires for the same reason. Itās just a day to remember that sometimes family is more important than politics, infighting, and other disagreeable issues. Probably particularly important things this year.
Except itās really not. Thatās used as a way to guilt-trip people into attending these veritable hostage situations because of blood relations. Most blood families suck. We donāt need to tell ourselves to use a falsely-celebrated holiday with terrible food as a means of gathering as a family, assuming we even want to do that in the first place. If you canāt do that in the first place on any given day, if you need this ācelebrationā in order to justify coming together again, itās already failed.
In fairness to Thanksgiving, Christmas is worse.
well, this is the unpopular opinion thread so I guess itās fitting.
it must suck being held hostage by family members who canāt cook, but that doesnāt apply to everyone.
itās significantly easier to get time off work/studying for christmas/thanksgiving/etc than it is to arrange a random day when everyone is free. nobody is forcing you to spend time with family, but for the people that want to, itās incredibly helpful to have those dates set aside every year