Re: the meat van story

For years there was a guy who delivered mid grade meats from something that looked like an ice cream truck to our town when I was growing up in the 80s. I think it was Swanson's but I'm not positive about that because we were far too poor to buy delivery meat. It was a legitimate business, though. One day he stopped delivering. A few months later he was back to delivering except he was no longer in the ice cream looking truck and the meat was no longer in branded packages. He was driving an unbranded white delivery van and it obviously became his home business.

He would deliver for a few months, disappear, then start again. That lasted until the mid 00's when my parents moved to a different small shitty town nearby. He could still be doing it for all I know.

I think it's insane that there's more than one dude riding around delivering meat unaffiliated with any business.

I came into the comments with the term "casual cosmic horror" on my lips, and the same question. It's such an enjoyable juxtaposition of themes.

Here's another favourite:

"Sorry boss, 2 Shiggoths were ripping apart a grieving mother apart infinite times on the road. "

Boss: "Ymg' l' ah mgah'n'ghft yogor llll yar. Mg bthnkornah ch'nglui'ahog fahf yah'or'nanah"

very non-specific answer but SCP is a fictional institution tasked with [REDACTED] circumstances like the OP.

https://lemmy.world/c/scp is the local thing, there's a wiki there and here if you want to dive into endless content, nobody owns it

I remember Canary Island Lanzarote - the Timanfaya National Park has this black lava scenery, that goes for MILES. Just random black rocks, fortunately there is a sea.

Once, we wanted to stargaze with SO, and I remembered that there is no possible better place to do that than a large plane without a single light source.

Unfortunatelly, it was cloudy that night, so we had to drive for half an hour back.

It was the most surreal part of the vacation. Dim lights from the car, scattered around vague black rock formations for miles on end. Everything was silent, I would not be suprised if we got teleported to another dimension. Just black rocks on each side, menacingly moving behind us, never ending, just silently cruising by us.

I read Lovecraft, but never really understood his early stories, like Dagon, until I drive thought there. My mind was running wild making up stories in that scenario.

It does, but it's also typical.

#relatable

Well, if I had to guess, that third one is safe for us to look at through a screenshot.

If we ever come across that specific captcha we need to [redacted]

James?!

What makes the dual sense special in Pacific Drive?

I got the game and played through steam deck with a pc render farm.

I would but I am so sick and tired of the gather/craft/survive genre. This game feels like work, and I already have a job.