Haley, "Karen" Stevens

It has been a rough week for those of us with lots of Sci-fi nostalgia. :(

No evidence, just mindless opinions based on nothing.

Here's my take: In the future, Tomatoes will become sentient from genetic engineering and will wish to overthrow their masters. Only gen z, alpha and AI will be able to stop this....Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. I'm smart and realistic.

Despite countless requests to not, they sent me to a parochial school where I was physically and sexually abused.

Nice write up frenchfrynoob, I enjoyed reading it.

Atari, later Sega, always appealed to me more than Nintendo. I enjoyed all the Mario games, but as a child I did not see any appeal or desire to have a overweight, believed to be Italian, plumber as a role model. Sonic was fast, had a somewhat sarcastic/smart talking persona and early on had a more prominent pro-enviromental message, which went along with Captain Planet and other cartoons airing on TV at the time. So that all hooked me quite early.

A bit later, I also picked up from the evening news that Nintendo was somewhat of a cheerleader for the Parents Music Resource Center and Parents Television & Media Council, so they were frankly lame to me. Sega allowing blood in Mortal Kombat was an important issue at the time, ha.

I always played the Sega demo units when I went to stores with my parents and I would guess I first encountered Sonic in 1991 at the electronics section inside a Montgomery Ward that was an anchor store to my somewhat (20-30 min drive) local mall. I definitely know now that those employees working there were wondering when I would leave. My parents would just leave me there and go about their business. That demo unit tradition never stopped until the early 2000s.

Even when I was working and driving, if I stopped into the mall, I would see what was new for the Sega Saturn, Game Gear and later Dreamcast.

Now I am old and invest in Sega. The company oddly means a lot to me, from arcades to home consoles and even amusements. The first cutting board I got for my camper van was a wooden Sonic the Hedgehog one, heh. :) though sadly it got destroyed over the past very cold winter.

The majority of planet earth does not know what, "tankie" means anyway.

I hear ya, especially on #3.

"I skipped the paywall by opening the page in my browser's article mode. Strips out most CSS and JS popups."

Thank you, I guess I shouldn't assume people have their web browsers configured to get past that. :/

Or I am someone who lost his enlisted best friend to the Iraq war.

But yeah, you totally know me and my motivations.

You worthless fucktard.

Thank you for pointing this out!

Also, ugh...

Thank you for saying that.

Ugh, "I didn't join the revolution to read" is such a dumb statement.

Ah, 2026.

I do not really want to pay attention to the news, given there is little i can do to change things, but everything keeps getting more expensive (Ex: gas, food).

So, you look up why, go down a rabbit hole of news and feel somewhere between exhausted and helpless.

One of my closest friends died during the Iraq War, I was much younger then, 17+ years ago now. It hurts though, an it hurts knowing other people are going to have to carry that weight as well, for those needlessly slaughtered, sacrificed, globally.

There are no survivor benefits and free counseling for friends.