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I like my coworkers. They're cool. I just went to acro yoga with one, and go bouldering with another. We show up, talk shit, and get the job done - sometimes it's a good time. Sometimes we get our asses kicked. But that builds camradrie, too.

I will say, this is blue collar stuff. When I worked as a software dev, I definitely didn't care about spending much time with my coworkers.

Moe is when you take your fetish/the type of girl you like, then draw an anime girl about it. But the girl is cute, not sexy, and fully clothed and doing normal, not sexy things. It is very weird. I do not understand this level of sexual repression. It feels like the online porn art equivalent of getting a human shaped pillow to hug while you sleep at night.

Idk. I don't fuck with them, they don't fuck with me. Bees are pretty docile in my experience. Been stung plenty by wasps, though.

I agree with this comment in general, but don't think Ferrell is a good example. Or really, maybe he is a good example, but the way his movies are shot isn't a good example.

In Ferrell movies, the gag is that the actor says or does something outrageously dumb, and then the other actors largely go along with it, either pumping up the idea, or being coerced by it, or stomping it down in a hilariously insulting fashion. If there is ever a moment of awkward silence, it lingers for a second before the scene ends. Arrested Development is another example of this being done well. It's a farce - the actions are so bizarre and outlandish that we can't possibly imagine ourselves doing it, so we are absolved of sympathy for the cartoonish actor and enjoy seeing them fumble their way through the scene.

But there is a new wave of "cringe comedy" that seems to not understand what a farce is. A character will do something just beyond the limit of what we could imagine ourselves doing, so we can still identify with the character. Then the other characters react in the way people would react in real life - with stern condemnation or cold shouldering. And the scene goes on and on and on. It is terrible.

Right! We're a bunch of 16 year old white boys who worship Xi!

You can just turn on the NSFW filter for your main feed. Removes pretty much everything except the "moe" communities.

Sidenote: you Moe people are weird af. Please tag your communities as NSFW. I would honestly rather have someone look over my shoulder and see a hardcore gangbang post than see me looking at fully clothed anime girls.

These are all reasonable points to make with literally any example other than McDonalds. Saying everything is worse and ruined by capitalism because no one cares about anything except profit anymore is not the trajectory that McDonalds took.

McDonalds in the 1990s was just as cold hearted, capitalist, and profit-seeking as it is today. Its target demo was children who would cry until they got a happy meal, and their weak-willed parents. Thus, it used bright colors, clowns, and ball pits to entice its demo into bringing their money in. McDonalds didn't suddenly become more greedy and capitalist. They were already maximally greedy and capitalist. What happened is that the government told them they couldn't advertise to kids anymore. So McDonalds, being greedy and capitalist, pivoted to appealing to adults. They got rid of the play places and ball pits, which were expensive and labor intensive to maintain and which were constantly covered in children's saliva, puke, and shit. They toned down the color scheme to be less assaulting on the eyes and more relaxing. They improved the quality of their food, and they replaced benches made of cheap hard plastic for padded seats made with some kind of fabric. In many ways, the McDonalds of today are superior to the McDonalds of 20 years ago - it's a place you'd be comfortable grabbing a quick lunch with some coworkers without feeling like you suddenly stepped into an overstimulating children's movie.

I honestly like the new look. It says "We're McDonalds. We sell cheap hamburgers so you can eat and leave quickly, because you aren't rich enough to have free time. We know it, you know it, we're all adults here so we don't have to pretend. Come grab a cheeseburger and get on with your life."

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Congratulations. You successfully managed to both not engage with my point in any meaningful way, and also provided a solution I already deflated in the comment you are responding to.

Play places? Cool aesthetics? Fuck you, we need to maximize the resale value of our real estate, shut up, you’ll eat our bullshit anyway.

I really have to push back if you are describing McD's previous aesthetic as "cool". That shit hurt my eyes and my soul.

The removal of play places was due to a number of reasons, not least of which were regulations barring how much fast food restaurants could advertise to kids. Without being able to target children as effectively, McD's changed strategies to appeal to adults more. More comfortable seating rather than hard plastic benches; dim, relaxing lighting rather than bright colors; fewer ball pits full of shit, drool, and vomit. It became more of a neutral place where an adult on lunch break with some coworkers could get a hamburger without feeling like a pedo or expecting to be assaulted by the screams of uncontrolled children.