Oh yeah, completely fine! This was more just her deciding: that is not for me for absolutely no reason (also, weirdly I'm from an area with a large Syrian population so she had ample opportunities to at least try it). She just hadn't had middle eastern food and thought she wouldn't like it.

Oh yeah: she's not terrible or anything but she would get it in her head that she didn't like something (for no real reason) and I, being a small child at the time, was a good excuse.

I do still drag her for telling me I hated Syrian food though (turns out she also loved it but hadn't tried it).

My mom (who claims she loves all food) spent years telling me I hated stuff because... she didn't want to eat it. Turns out that I love basically everything (except canned tuna).

Oof. Yeah, I feel bad for people who are taking the abuse that goes along with the increases.

Like, the guy behind the counter? He's as fucked as you. Don't be an asshole.

The funniest part is my local farmers market? Every stall, if they don't have what you want, will happily direct you where to get it from and they've all been there since approximately before Noah.

Some people are just nuts.

When I was little I lived in an apartment where two small grocers (the "new one" had been there for like... 20+ years) were basically across the street from each other.

It was a blood feud. One place didn't have something? You had to go home, drop the bags off, and wait like 20 minutes.

Blue Prince is a roguelike house building game (so I think it falls into what you're looking for. No combat and there is a bunch of exploring)... where you try to reach the 46th room in your family's house. There's a lot of story but even starting to go into it spoils a lot.

His whole family is calling everyone trying to figure out what to do, what can legally be done, what his wishes were. No one knows.

So, I don't know what the point of this is. Maybe I just need to ramble a little. But have a proxy because this is becoming madness.

I want this framed on my wall next to the Richard Spencer punch (which I need to get out of storage).

I like that you casually drop an absolutely bonkers drawing as "I have drawn a thing."

... I adore this game: it's kind of dumb and a lot of the philosophy espoused falls apart with the slightest of side-eye.

And it's perfect.

Wow.

Oh we're back to this point in the never ending cycle again. Cant wait for next week's "mocktail bars are going to be bigger than cocktail bars" headline.

Someone in my complex has one (their second probably - I watched one get towed and I refuse to believe I live near two people who would buy it) and every time I walk past I notice another horrible detail that makes it more insane.

Cosmic horrors don't have shit on that thing.

My nephew will eventually murder me because I am not a cat*.

* - awhile ago he was FaceTimed while I cooked dinner. I was watching a neighbor's cat and he went nuts when the cat was on screen. The look on his face when they handed me the phone was disappointment and anger. Which? Understandable.

My dad was never really around outside of parading me around as a trophy and... dear god I wish I had this when I was a kid.