Fuck that got dark quick. Nothing is worse that dropping a slippery pickle.
Unfun fact:
A lot of that infomercial gear is originally invented as a disability aid, and has to go for this fringe market to get manufactured if a big medical equipment supplier doesn’t license it. You either make a tool that can do something big like helping a maimed soldier fight again, or your disability aid gets a silly-seeming commercial that mocks the difficulties faced by the people that the gadget’s creator was attempting to help.
Lemmy always in with the super grim takes. Jeez guys can’t I just open Lemmy for a sec and look at a meme without getting terribly depressed? Mostly sarcasm but also on the real
Along those lines, I have a specialty undergarment I wear that is no longer manufactured because they couldn’t figure out a way to infomercial it outside of its intended use. A solitary person made them for thirty years and wanted to retire, and nobody wanted to just make them for people with disabilities. Now they’re gone. I bought a lifetime supply (they last about five years of heavy use, I bought ten. If I survive longer than fifty years, oopsy poopsy) before he shut down. We’ve found some decent adaptive gear through those commercials tho
Honestly if it helps get it made to help people I 100% support it. I don’t even think of them as silly, just odious.
“You should have held that… pickle, more firmly, Mr. Freeman”
“The right pickle in the wrong place can… make all the difference in the world, mr. Freeman”.
“You want to… prevent games from… being killed? We’ll see… about that!”
When I pause my rpg (DQ3 2DHD, which doesn’t have a standard pause screen) to go do something, and I’ve left my group in front of a item vendor, so in the game, they’re just standing there for 30 minutes awkwardly in front of the vendor.
“Player just walk away from the console?”
“Sigh, yeah, asshole does it all the time. We’re just lucky we’re in town this time.”
“Fucking hell, player must’ve left you in some bad places, I’d imagine.”
“Side of a mountain once. For two fucking hours, in the middle of the night, in these clothes. That silk robe the priestess is wearing doesn’t do shit for mountain-side nighttime temperatures, goddammit! … Oh thank fuck, they’re back. See you later, potion seller.”
~(I’m the captain of the USS Callister, btw.)~
The NPCs you call in GTAO kind of comment on you just sitting there in a menu if you do it for long enough.
My potions are too strong for you, traveller!
😂 bingo!
if youre frozen in time, doesnt that imply that your neurons and the cell activity that feeds them are frozen too, and thus that you cant think to perceive being so frozen anyway?
In a universe where an infomercial demi-god can freeze you in a moment of pure embarassment, they can also have the power to keep you cognizant of everything around you as well.
Doesn’t seem very private to me😧
