1. Yes and not overdone. Definitely a lovely moist chewy burger.
2. Power Rangers. Sabertooth tiger was the best.
3. Stardew Valley. I think she’d like the orderliness, the Science Family, and how easy to understand the huans are
1: I like 5 Guys burgers, I typically get them with mayo and hot sauce, sometimes caramelized onions if I’m in the mood for it, also a small Cajun fries
2: The old Digimon anime, also I’d watch the movie literally everyday until the VHS tape broke
3: I don’t know why but I feel like she’d enjoy The Sims
I like 5 Guys too. They offer grilled mushrooms, my favorite topping, and are one of the few places in the US that have malt vinegar for the fries.
StClair
Five Guys for me too. I love the grilled mushrooms (but not onions, grilled or otherwise). And they give you SO MUCH FRIES.
There’s one a couple of blocks from my place. I dare not go there more often.
Segnosaur
Really?
I have tried 5 Guys here, and was less than impressed. Bun was greasy, and the burger didn’t seem to be any better than you might get on the McDonald’s value menu. (Granted, this is in Canada, so maybe they don’t quite have the same menu or quality control up here as in the U.S.)
80-watt Hamster
It’s probably like any franchise, quality can vary widely between locations, even down to who’s working and what kind of day they’re having. I’m not super keen on 5 Guys TBH, but it’s typically a durn sight better than McDonalds, at least the location near me.
There is a chain here in Ontario, Canada called The Works that sells specialty hamburgers with all sorts of toppings… Mac & Cheese, Peanut Butter, Blue Cheese, Brie, Avacado, pineapple, arugula, onion rings, etc.
1. I prefer chicken/fish sandwiches, I get them from Mcdonalds.
2. I loved the original Pokemon anime and stuff on Animal Planet.
3. Maneater, You get to play a Megalodon, which isnt a dinosaur, but it is from around the same time, and is a very big carnivore. Sure its not accurate and your shark gets superpowers, but I have a feeling she would enjoy playing it and pretending all the people she is eatting as the shark are people who deny dinos exist.
Megalodon didn’t live at the time of the dinosaurs. It lived much later, only just before modern humans. That said, there was a similar giant shark in the Cretaceous called Cretoxyrhina.
Switchchris24
Thank you for correcting me, I most likely saw that name, saw that it looked exactly like the Megalodon, and mixed them up. Wouldnt be surprised if the Megalodon was a Direct decedent though.
1: In LA, there’s this lovely chain of burger places called The Habit, and their cheeseburgers are exactly how I love them, completely unhealthy.
They do this great version with avacado and sourdough bread too. After a long trip to another country, years back? First meal I had was one of those, a good, American Cheeseburger…
2: The DCAU shows as a whole, particularly Superman the Animated Series, as well as Batman Beyond. Terry McGinnis needs to be used more, dang it.
3: I don’t know why, but I get this real Stellaris vibe when I think of her.
1.) Fuddruckers. The mass closure of their locations hurt me feel inside; I miss being able to top a 2/3 pound patty with a freaky obscene later of pickle slices.
2.) Um. Geez. So, as an 80’s kid I couldn’t say for sure if it was He-man, Transformers, Voltron, or what.
Oh wow. I haven’t been to a Fuddruckers since before lockdown. LOVE their burgers. I haven’t driven past the location in ages either, so I have no idea if they’re still open or not. Guess I’ll be doing a drive-past next weekend to check!
If they’re gone, it’ll hurt as bad as when the Chevy’s near me closed almost 20 years ago. We used to go there for lunch since it was across the street from the office, or go for drinks after work.
1. Probably Whataburger, even if they’ve discontinued my absolute favorite burger that they once had.
2. When I was really little, I watched a lot of PBS Kids stuff– I really liked Sesame Street. When we got cable (which we won in a raffle) and started having access to Nickelodeon, I was into both The Fairly OddParents and Jimmy Neutron. (SpongeBob was banned.) Around middle school I shifted to Phineas and Ferb.
3. Without involving dinosaurs… my gut instinct is Pokemon for some reason? Although she’d probably be annoyed by its misuse of the term “evolution” to refer to changes undergone by an individual organism, rather than gradual changes in a species as a whole– the same kind of error made by people who say evolution can’t be real because if it were we’d see monkeys turning into humans all the time.
I would imagine she would be more annoyed by the concept that Humans are able to subdue those powerful beasts and send them into battle. I love pokemon but Logic does not exist in that world lol.
1) five guys. great burgers, plus I love that they assume you want nothing on your burger and you tell them to add stuff to it, instead of how most places do it where I have to ask to omit stuff. it’s much nicer to ask for bacon, cheese, BBQ sauce, ketchup and mayo, than it is to ask for no lettuce, no tomato, no onions, no pickles, no mustard, and then worry they have other stuff I’m not aware of that I don’t want either
2) totally spies
3) I’m not super familiar with no man’s sky, but based on my limited understanding of what that game is about, I’ll say that as my answer
Wherever I go for a burger, I usually say “JUST cheese, ketchup and mustard”, just like that, usually there’s no problem except for the unavoidable instances they get the order wrong anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
angie
well sometimes I’ll just say no vegetables, since mustard isn’t the end of the world and I’m fine with most other condiments too, but saying that out loud as a fat girl is kind of embarrassing. honestly most of the time I just order it normal and hope that the lettuce is one big leaf instead of shredded so it’s easy to take off. I just hate that crunch it is the worst texture
My favorite place to get a burger was a bar and grill that no longer exists in a town I left behind 1.5k miles away. *Sigh* tbh I haven’t been to actual restaurants much since moving, so unless I cook it myself, my favorite burger is an ultimate cheeseburger from jack in the box.
2) power rangers
3) I think she’d like stealth games.i picture her being very good at and really enjoying Untitled Goose Game
Untitled Goose Game is an inspired choice for Dina’s favorite game. I think it’d be in character for her to enjoy something where she runs around causing chaos and HOMPKing at people, as dinosaurs were wont to do.
1. Local fish and chip shop. Must have cheese…and then order extra cheese. Oh, and beetroot.
2. Dragon ball Z
3. Dawn of Man, or Warhammer Total War. Hey, if you cant have dinosaurs you can at least have dragons. Although Im now reminded of how badly Joyces story about fire breathing dinosaurs went but…oh well.
1. My local diner. They’re smart too, they pipe the exhaust from the grill directly out onto the street, so walking by you always smell their burgers. It’s the best possible marketing and I’m almost always in some level of craving for one.
2. I don’t know about favorite, but the thing that’s coming first to mind is a cartoon I used to love called The Centurions, which was about a team of folks who wore these suits that specialized…basically mechs could be beamed down from orbit to help them do anything they needed to do. I miss that show, I should see if it’s available anywhere.
3. I agree with Laura about Tetris, and also I think games like Animal Crossing, which specifically have set routines to fulfill.
1) Smoke. Sadly, they went out of business during COVID. Now I guess… Red Robin?
2) Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea
3) Xenogears. Because I love Xenogears and so might she. Oh, and because one of the major villain groups is a thinly veiled expy of the Catholic Church.
1. I don’t eat burgers, but when I was living in New Hampshire there was a place called Local Burger that, aside from a really good crispy chicken sandwich, had chicken fingers breaded with Cap’n Crunch. Delicious.
2. I was big on Batman: The Animated Series.
3. Dina seems like a survival sim kinda person to me. Yes, that includes Ark: Survival Evolved, but I bet she’d play all kindsa titles in that genre. I bet she’d even be disappointed at Fallout 76’s Wastelanders update changing the game so fundamentally. I know I was.
1-Dugg Burger. They dig out parts of the large bun to make room for all the ingredients. Hickory smoked bacon, Fire-roasted peppers, Sauteed mushrooms, Caramelized onions, Dill pickles, Chili lime slaw, Mixed greens, a combination of barbeque sauce and honey mustard, Pepper Jack Cheese, and a generous patty of freshly ground beef. Ideally accompanied by one of their legendary shakes.
2. Micky Mouse Club. Who wasn’t in love with Annette?
3. No video game without dinosaurs would ever be worthy of Dina!
1) I like either carls or fatburger best but in general i will never say no to any burger.
2)Its hard for me to pin down a favorite since i was one of those kids that was primarily babysat by tv but hey arnold and later yu yu hakusho were two of my big ones
3) maybe carmen sandiego?
1 There’s this place where I used to like called Meat Bbq and they had the best burgers. I get mine loaded lettuce onion bacon egg with the in house coffee bbq sauce and aioli cooked at a medium with a side of brisket fires. (Note due to obvious I get this meal at max twice a year)
2 Power Rangers its still a love of mine and most of my usernames reference it
3 I think she’d like nonaction Rougelikes something like Slay the Spire
1. My own home. Nothing compares self-made burgers.
2. Darkwin Duck, Talespin, Dragon Bal (Without Z)
3. Spore. Because causing her own evolution – and blowing up planets.
1) McDonalds or Burger King. I prefer Micky D’s generally, but i’m not fussy. 🙂
2) Favourite show as a “kid” – depends on what age we’re talking. Tweens and up – Grange Hill. Younger childhood – My Little Pony and Disney’s Gummi Bears. 😀
3) For videogames, I think Dina would actually quite enjoy RPGs. I would recommend her the Gaia trilogy from the SNES (Soulblazer, Illusion of Gaia, Terranigma) and the PS1 Granstream Saga. 🙂
1) My kitchen, since I no longer live anywhere with a Whataburger. I cook mine smashburger style.
2) Land of the Lost, maybe? I’m old-ish. My being a kid was a long time ago.
3) Eldenring. And she’s really good, which I am not.
1. An American friend made burgers at a barbecue around 6/7 years ago and every burger since has been a disappointment, to the point where I just don’t really eat them anymore.
2. Thomas the Tank Engine, the ones with Ringo Starr narrating.
3. I dunno, Zach-likes maybe, but they seem a bit too obviously sciency.
Burgers: since the Turkish-owned greasy spoon over the bus station in the town centre closed down, I haven’t eaten burgers. After theirs, anything else would be a let down.
Favourite TV show as a child: Doctor Who. (Favourite as an adult: same answer.)
Game: I can picture Dina enjoying Fez – happily exploring all those uninhabited 2/3D levels, figuring out the ancient inscriptions.
1. MorningStar Original Veggie Burger, made at home… but only because I can’t eat beef anymore (lousy virus). Love it with Carolina Reaper Barbecue Sauce, romaine lettuce ? and fresh onion ? and tomato ?
2. “Ark-II” is the reason I became an engineer.
3. Good question. Probably “The Sims” due to the level of control available.
1. Cheeseburger with ketchup only! Best around here is at (ironically enough) a place called Double Dogs.
2. Probably Loony Tunes; deciding on favorites is hard but I watched that the most.
3. I think she’d really enjoy survival craft sims! Minecraft is the default assumption, but I like to imagine she’d go through a similar path to enjoying them as me: She’d be at least as disappointed by ARK as I was, but find much more fun options like Conan Exiles, Valheim, or Raft. (I wish I liked minecraft; then I’d be able to find people to play with.)
1. The only place I ever got a burger from in the US was from Modern Love NYC? But otherwise the best I ever got was from the Las Vegan collective kitchen at a grindcore festival. For vegan, rare is rarely an option. I make pretty decent (vegan) burger every now and then.
2. Transformers.
3. online Bagh Ghal, she plays tigers because she likes winning.
1. I don’t eat burgers much, but if I had to choose I’d probably pick Burger King. Though I generally prefer to get chicken nuggets when I go there.
2. Not 100% sure if this was my favorite, but probably Star Trek: Voyager, though I also loved TNG as a kid. I like all the older (pre-Discovery and Picard) Star Trek shows, and I’ve been watching DS9 for the first time for the past few months and really enjoying it.
3. I’m not sure I can answer this one. I imagine if Dina has a favorite video game, it almost certainly has dinosaurs.
1.Hmmm you know I don’t eat burgers much but there was this place just called “burger.” in my college town which had a turkey burger topped with grilled pineapple, teriyaki sauce, and some other stuff I can’t remember – that was really good.
2. Toss-up between Ben 10 (the first one) and Static Shock, I think. Haven’t watched either of those in ages, but they really excited my imagination as a kid.
3. I feel like “has cool dinosaurs” would actually be a very important criterion for Dina when she’s choosing video games to play, but if we’re talking NON-dinosaur games, I can see her really enjoying Factorio. She’s very loyal, ambitious, and analytically minded, so building a massive manufacturing complex/research lab while defending it from endless waves of hostile aliens sounds like exactly her jam.
1) I don’t think anyone beats out my dad’s burgers actually. I like mine a tiny little bit charred, dressed with a healthy coating of bbq, an unhealthy coating of bbq, cheese, pickles, mustard on the top bun, mayo and ketchup on the bottom bun.
2) oh shit, how kid are we talking? I think Digimon? geez my memory ain’t the greatest. uhh, I prob traded digimon for inuyasha, and then inuyasha for fullmetal alchemist? I think by the time I traded fullmetal out, I wouldn’t have counted as a kid anymoer
3) DKC2 because it’s just the best video game ever [/hyperbole] and if she can’t at least appreciate it, then I’m not sure she deserves any of my other recommends
your anime evolution is pretty much exactly most of my anime friends’, except half of us were more pokemon than digimon (and there were a couple with CCS or Sailor Moon before they watched Inuyasha). The friend who introduced me to FMA literally introduced it as “even better than Inuyasha,” and I was like “don’t be silly, there’s nothing you like more than Inuyasha.”
Kazuma Taichi
okay that’s pretty hilarious
worth mentioning that I was also watching pokemon, sailor moon, and CCS, it’s just none of those were my favs. Inuyasha would have been the first I knew was anime, and yeah the person who started urging me to watch FMA was also the only other person I knew at the time that watched inuyasha, so it seems to be a common pattern
1. Was Fuddruckers until they closed, and 5 guys was a go to when I went to visit my parents in Arizona. Currently my favourite is a mushroom swiss at Fatburger.
2. Good question, I grew up with peasant vision growing up in various remote Canadian air force bases, so usually only 3 channels, and one was in french. I liked Ultraman when I was little and didn’t know any better, Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet were also favourites when I was preschool/early grade school age. I was a huge Monty Python’s Flying Circus fan as a teenager.
3. That is a very interesting question. Maybe Theme Hospital or Dungeon Keeper 2; or for something more current, any of the farming gamealikes. Was going to suggest pokemon, but I am not sure how she would take the “evolution” part of the game.
1. Used to be a great place called Cabin 12, long closed now. Had an amazing one at a place called Laverne’s iirc too. For chains, Triple-Os. Veggie patty with caramelized onions, mushrooms, swiss, but I’m happy to try other things.
2. What was your favorite show as a kid? ?
Very young – Pokemon
Middle grade – Malcolm in the Middle
Teen – Fullmetal Alchemist
3. I think Dina would like monster hunting games (like Pokemon, Yokai Watch, etc). Actually, I don’t know if she’d LIKE them, but she has a good memory so I think she’d be really good at them. I don’t know how to explain it but I do think she’d like Stardew Valley (I guess because: relaxed, any pace, instructions are clear but there are still lots of surprises)
1. I visited a place in Cape Cod years ago called the Next Door Burger Barn, and it was the only $15 burger I have ever had that was worth the price. So good. Just a regular hamburger, but so good.
2. There was this PBS show called America’s Kids I liked, also anything on Animal Planet
3. I don’t really play video games, but if Dina wants a good fidget activity that allows you to remain quietly in a corner and let people come up to talk if they want to I would happily teach her to crochet.
1. Since I’ve turned vegetarian, I really like getting burgers from a restaurant called “Swing kitchen” (it’s really just a normal restaurant chain/franchise over here, and vegan) or “Peter Pane” (they serve very good meaty and vegetarian burger) – but since they are more on the expensive side of things, and I try to watch my weight, I only go there like 2-5 times a year.
Oh yeah, and I like my burger with cheese, sometimes jalapenos and lots of veggies.
2. Honestly, too much to choose from. I loved the Ducktales, Darkwing Duck, Pokemon, Dragonball + Dragonball Z… I watched too many. Let’s just say “animated ones”. Still know all of the songs as well (in my language, though).
3. Maybe Sims, because she can experiment with human interaction and I believe she might find joy in simply creating characters and letting them interact nearly independently to answer a specific thesis, while she sits in front of the PC making notes for possible changes etc.
3. Tell me what kinds of video games you think Dina would like and why, but your answer CAN’T involve dinosaurs! ?
Wow it’s a good thing Jennifer had already guessed that or I would have been mad at Sarah for telling her that without Joyce saying it’s ok to tell her
375 thoughts on “Stacking”
Ana Chronistic
quick, to the cosplay closet full off everything required to create the semblance of the past, including an entire Toedad
…for punching reasons
ThunderNight
Toe to Scale
Nono
Wait no, Ryan’s back, go back, go back
Decidedly Orthogonal
Gotta Toe the line.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
And an entire clo—erm, I mean copy of Mike too, for snarking reasons. And so peoples’ moms don’t get lonely and have loads of nickels.
Or something. ;D
bcb
Gotta get that Billie FAAAAAACE!
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Geez, there’s a blast from the FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE xD
The Wellerman
*takes deep breath*, first things first
For those who want a break from HARD DISCUSSION:
1. Where’s your favorite place to get a burger, and how do you like yours? ?
2. What was your favorite show as a kid? ?
3. Tell me what kinds of video games you think Dina would like and why, but your answer CAN’T involve dinosaurs! ?
Nep
1. Yes and not overdone. Definitely a lovely moist chewy burger.
2. Power Rangers. Sabertooth tiger was the best.
3. Stardew Valley. I think she’d like the orderliness, the Science Family, and how easy to understand the huans are
alongcameaspider
1: I like 5 Guys burgers, I typically get them with mayo and hot sauce, sometimes caramelized onions if I’m in the mood for it, also a small Cajun fries
2: The old Digimon anime, also I’d watch the movie literally everyday until the VHS tape broke
3: I don’t know why but I feel like she’d enjoy The Sims
Doctor_Who
I like 5 Guys too. They offer grilled mushrooms, my favorite topping, and are one of the few places in the US that have malt vinegar for the fries.
StClair
Five Guys for me too. I love the grilled mushrooms (but not onions, grilled or otherwise). And they give you SO MUCH FRIES.
There’s one a couple of blocks from my place. I dare not go there more often.
Segnosaur
Really?
I have tried 5 Guys here, and was less than impressed. Bun was greasy, and the burger didn’t seem to be any better than you might get on the McDonald’s value menu. (Granted, this is in Canada, so maybe they don’t quite have the same menu or quality control up here as in the U.S.)
80-watt Hamster
It’s probably like any franchise, quality can vary widely between locations, even down to who’s working and what kind of day they’re having. I’m not super keen on 5 Guys TBH, but it’s typically a durn sight better than McDonalds, at least the location near me.
Mr D
There’s a place in my country called Pedro Juan y Diego where they sold a special burger with caramelized pineapple and arugula.
Dragon ball, still is.
I dunno, I don’t think about what certain characters like to play.
Segnosaur
There is a chain here in Ontario, Canada called The Works that sells specialty hamburgers with all sorts of toppings… Mac & Cheese, Peanut Butter, Blue Cheese, Brie, Avacado, pineapple, arugula, onion rings, etc.
Switchchris24
1. I prefer chicken/fish sandwiches, I get them from Mcdonalds.
2. I loved the original Pokemon anime and stuff on Animal Planet.
3. Maneater, You get to play a Megalodon, which isnt a dinosaur, but it is from around the same time, and is a very big carnivore. Sure its not accurate and your shark gets superpowers, but I have a feeling she would enjoy playing it and pretending all the people she is eatting as the shark are people who deny dinos exist.
Korthaek
Megalodon didn’t live at the time of the dinosaurs. It lived much later, only just before modern humans. That said, there was a similar giant shark in the Cretaceous called Cretoxyrhina.
Switchchris24
Thank you for correcting me, I most likely saw that name, saw that it looked exactly like the Megalodon, and mixed them up. Wouldnt be surprised if the Megalodon was a Direct decedent though.
The Wellerman
A sincere “Thank you for correcting me”,
Now THAT’S something you don’t see everyday. ?
BTW love your passion for prehistoric breasts, Switchchris!!! ?
Wraithy2773
1: In LA, there’s this lovely chain of burger places called The Habit, and their cheeseburgers are exactly how I love them, completely unhealthy.
They do this great version with avacado and sourdough bread too. After a long trip to another country, years back? First meal I had was one of those, a good, American Cheeseburger…
2: The DCAU shows as a whole, particularly Superman the Animated Series, as well as Batman Beyond. Terry McGinnis needs to be used more, dang it.
3: I don’t know why, but I get this real Stellaris vibe when I think of her.
Bysmerian
1.) Fuddruckers. The mass closure of their locations hurt me feel inside; I miss being able to top a 2/3 pound patty with a freaky obscene later of pickle slices.
2.) Um. Geez. So, as an 80’s kid I couldn’t say for sure if it was He-man, Transformers, Voltron, or what.
3.) Hm. This one requires more thought.
Cholma
Oh wow. I haven’t been to a Fuddruckers since before lockdown. LOVE their burgers. I haven’t driven past the location in ages either, so I have no idea if they’re still open or not. Guess I’ll be doing a drive-past next weekend to check!
If they’re gone, it’ll hurt as bad as when the Chevy’s near me closed almost 20 years ago. We used to go there for lunch since it was across the street from the office, or go for drinks after work.
Jon S.
1. Burger King, ’cause I’m just a basic kind of guy. (I get a lot pickier about where I get Mexican.)
2. Star Trek, because I’m an old. (And I mean the old-school Trek, with Kirk and Spock just ignoring the Prime Directive all over the quadrant.)
3. I think she could enjoy any game that let her play as some sort of reptile.
RassilonTDavros
1. Probably Whataburger, even if they’ve discontinued my absolute favorite burger that they once had.
2. When I was really little, I watched a lot of PBS Kids stuff– I really liked Sesame Street. When we got cable (which we won in a raffle) and started having access to Nickelodeon, I was into both The Fairly OddParents and Jimmy Neutron. (SpongeBob was banned.) Around middle school I shifted to Phineas and Ferb.
3. Without involving dinosaurs… my gut instinct is Pokemon for some reason? Although she’d probably be annoyed by its misuse of the term “evolution” to refer to changes undergone by an individual organism, rather than gradual changes in a species as a whole– the same kind of error made by people who say evolution can’t be real because if it were we’d see monkeys turning into humans all the time.
Switchchris24
I would imagine she would be more annoyed by the concept that Humans are able to subdue those powerful beasts and send them into battle. I love pokemon but Logic does not exist in that world lol.
angie
1) five guys. great burgers, plus I love that they assume you want nothing on your burger and you tell them to add stuff to it, instead of how most places do it where I have to ask to omit stuff. it’s much nicer to ask for bacon, cheese, BBQ sauce, ketchup and mayo, than it is to ask for no lettuce, no tomato, no onions, no pickles, no mustard, and then worry they have other stuff I’m not aware of that I don’t want either
2) totally spies
3) I’m not super familiar with no man’s sky, but based on my limited understanding of what that game is about, I’ll say that as my answer
The Wellerman
Wherever I go for a burger, I usually say “JUST cheese, ketchup and mustard”, just like that, usually there’s no problem except for the unavoidable instances they get the order wrong anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
angie
well sometimes I’ll just say no vegetables, since mustard isn’t the end of the world and I’m fine with most other condiments too, but saying that out loud as a fat girl is kind of embarrassing. honestly most of the time I just order it normal and hope that the lettuce is one big leaf instead of shredded so it’s easy to take off. I just hate that crunch it is the worst texture
Joe Moose
Watabuger – No.1 all the way with grilled onions, toasted bun, mayo, jalapenos
Toss-up between 3-2-1 Contact and Square One TV. Both PBS shows and *really* shows my age. XD
Clue, certainly.
Laura
3. Tetris
Robbie
My favorite place to get a burger was a bar and grill that no longer exists in a town I left behind 1.5k miles away. *Sigh* tbh I haven’t been to actual restaurants much since moving, so unless I cook it myself, my favorite burger is an ultimate cheeseburger from jack in the box.
2) power rangers
3) I think she’d like stealth games.i picture her being very good at and really enjoying Untitled Goose Game
powerpowerpow
Untitled Goose Game is an inspired choice for Dina’s favorite game. I think it’d be in character for her to enjoy something where she runs around causing chaos and HOMPKing at people, as dinosaurs were wont to do.
Robbie
I know, right! She’d love it!
HOMPK!
ktbear
1. Local fish and chip shop. Must have cheese…and then order extra cheese. Oh, and beetroot.
2. Dragon ball Z
3. Dawn of Man, or Warhammer Total War. Hey, if you cant have dinosaurs you can at least have dragons. Although Im now reminded of how badly Joyces story about fire breathing dinosaurs went but…oh well.
mrnoidea
Burgers are best from those independent, only-one-location places. The ones with the walk-up windows!
The Last Airbender, for sure
If Dina had to play a game without dinosaurs, it would probably involve science education.
JessWitt
1) Local Bigger Burger, the name says it all. I take my orders medium-well.
2) Ed, Edd n Eddy. I still check out clips from time to time.
3) Computer solitaire.
Devin
1. My local diner. They’re smart too, they pipe the exhaust from the grill directly out onto the street, so walking by you always smell their burgers. It’s the best possible marketing and I’m almost always in some level of craving for one.
2. I don’t know about favorite, but the thing that’s coming first to mind is a cartoon I used to love called The Centurions, which was about a team of folks who wore these suits that specialized…basically mechs could be beamed down from orbit to help them do anything they needed to do. I miss that show, I should see if it’s available anywhere.
3. I agree with Laura about Tetris, and also I think games like Animal Crossing, which specifically have set routines to fulfill.
Rose by Any Other Name
1) Smoke. Sadly, they went out of business during COVID. Now I guess… Red Robin?
2) Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea
3) Xenogears. Because I love Xenogears and so might she. Oh, and because one of the major villain groups is a thinly veiled expy of the Catholic Church.
june gloom
1. I don’t eat burgers, but when I was living in New Hampshire there was a place called Local Burger that, aside from a really good crispy chicken sandwich, had chicken fingers breaded with Cap’n Crunch. Delicious.
2. I was big on Batman: The Animated Series.
3. Dina seems like a survival sim kinda person to me. Yes, that includes Ark: Survival Evolved, but I bet she’d play all kindsa titles in that genre. I bet she’d even be disappointed at Fallout 76’s Wastelanders update changing the game so fundamentally. I know I was.
Clif
1-Dugg Burger. They dig out parts of the large bun to make room for all the ingredients. Hickory smoked bacon, Fire-roasted peppers, Sauteed mushrooms, Caramelized onions, Dill pickles, Chili lime slaw, Mixed greens, a combination of barbeque sauce and honey mustard, Pepper Jack Cheese, and a generous patty of freshly ground beef. Ideally accompanied by one of their legendary shakes.
2. Micky Mouse Club. Who wasn’t in love with Annette?
3. No video game without dinosaurs would ever be worthy of Dina!
Concolor44
That Burger Sounds Life-changing.
TheHorseCouncil
1) I like either carls or fatburger best but in general i will never say no to any burger.
2)Its hard for me to pin down a favorite since i was one of those kids that was primarily babysat by tv but hey arnold and later yu yu hakusho were two of my big ones
3) maybe carmen sandiego?
Tiger
1 There’s this place where I used to like called Meat Bbq and they had the best burgers. I get mine loaded lettuce onion bacon egg with the in house coffee bbq sauce and aioli cooked at a medium with a side of brisket fires. (Note due to obvious I get this meal at max twice a year)
2 Power Rangers its still a love of mine and most of my usernames reference it
3 I think she’d like nonaction Rougelikes something like Slay the Spire
Lars
1. My own home. Nothing compares self-made burgers.
2. Darkwin Duck, Talespin, Dragon Bal (Without Z)
3. Spore. Because causing her own evolution – and blowing up planets.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Let’s see…
1) McDonalds or Burger King. I prefer Micky D’s generally, but i’m not fussy. 🙂
2) Favourite show as a “kid” – depends on what age we’re talking. Tweens and up – Grange Hill. Younger childhood – My Little Pony and Disney’s Gummi Bears. 😀
3) For videogames, I think Dina would actually quite enjoy RPGs. I would recommend her the Gaia trilogy from the SNES (Soulblazer, Illusion of Gaia, Terranigma) and the PS1 Granstream Saga. 🙂
danimagoo
1) My kitchen, since I no longer live anywhere with a Whataburger. I cook mine smashburger style.
2) Land of the Lost, maybe? I’m old-ish. My being a kid was a long time ago.
3) Eldenring. And she’s really good, which I am not.
wwwhhattt
1. An American friend made burgers at a barbecue around 6/7 years ago and every burger since has been a disappointment, to the point where I just don’t really eat them anymore.
2. Thomas the Tank Engine, the ones with Ringo Starr narrating.
3. I dunno, Zach-likes maybe, but they seem a bit too obviously sciency.
spriteless_auntie
Do you have a discord? You have a lot of energy for text communication, I wonder if you would enjoy discord
The Wellerman
I do in fact! My handle is in my Newgrounds page if you click my name ?
Vukodlak
Home, I don’t really go out for burgers.
Favorite show a kid, Gargoyles
Dina would like Minecraft.
davidbreslin101
Burgers: since the Turkish-owned greasy spoon over the bus station in the town centre closed down, I haven’t eaten burgers. After theirs, anything else would be a let down.
Favourite TV show as a child: Doctor Who. (Favourite as an adult: same answer.)
Game: I can picture Dina enjoying Fez – happily exploring all those uninhabited 2/3D levels, figuring out the ancient inscriptions.
Concolor44
1. MorningStar Original Veggie Burger, made at home… but only because I can’t eat beef anymore (lousy virus). Love it with Carolina Reaper Barbecue Sauce, romaine lettuce ? and fresh onion ? and tomato ?
2. “Ark-II” is the reason I became an engineer.
3. Good question. Probably “The Sims” due to the level of control available.
TCS
1. Cheeseburger with ketchup only! Best around here is at (ironically enough) a place called Double Dogs.
2. Probably Loony Tunes; deciding on favorites is hard but I watched that the most.
3. I think she’d really enjoy survival craft sims! Minecraft is the default assumption, but I like to imagine she’d go through a similar path to enjoying them as me: She’d be at least as disappointed by ARK as I was, but find much more fun options like Conan Exiles, Valheim, or Raft. (I wish I liked minecraft; then I’d be able to find people to play with.)
khn0
1. The only place I ever got a burger from in the US was from Modern Love NYC? But otherwise the best I ever got was from the Las Vegan collective kitchen at a grindcore festival. For vegan, rare is rarely an option. I make pretty decent (vegan) burger every now and then.
2. Transformers.
3. online Bagh Ghal, she plays tigers because she likes winning.
Keulen
1. I don’t eat burgers much, but if I had to choose I’d probably pick Burger King. Though I generally prefer to get chicken nuggets when I go there.
2. Not 100% sure if this was my favorite, but probably Star Trek: Voyager, though I also loved TNG as a kid. I like all the older (pre-Discovery and Picard) Star Trek shows, and I’ve been watching DS9 for the first time for the past few months and really enjoying it.
3. I’m not sure I can answer this one. I imagine if Dina has a favorite video game, it almost certainly has dinosaurs.
Mturtle7
1.Hmmm you know I don’t eat burgers much but there was this place just called “burger.” in my college town which had a turkey burger topped with grilled pineapple, teriyaki sauce, and some other stuff I can’t remember – that was really good.
2. Toss-up between Ben 10 (the first one) and Static Shock, I think. Haven’t watched either of those in ages, but they really excited my imagination as a kid.
3. I feel like “has cool dinosaurs” would actually be a very important criterion for Dina when she’s choosing video games to play, but if we’re talking NON-dinosaur games, I can see her really enjoying Factorio. She’s very loyal, ambitious, and analytically minded, so building a massive manufacturing complex/research lab while defending it from endless waves of hostile aliens sounds like exactly her jam.
Kazuma Taichi
1) I don’t think anyone beats out my dad’s burgers actually. I like mine a tiny little bit charred, dressed with a healthy coating of bbq, an unhealthy coating of bbq, cheese, pickles, mustard on the top bun, mayo and ketchup on the bottom bun.
2) oh shit, how kid are we talking? I think Digimon? geez my memory ain’t the greatest. uhh, I prob traded digimon for inuyasha, and then inuyasha for fullmetal alchemist? I think by the time I traded fullmetal out, I wouldn’t have counted as a kid anymoer
3) DKC2 because it’s just the best video game ever [/hyperbole] and if she can’t at least appreciate it, then I’m not sure she deserves any of my other recommends
Axel
your anime evolution is pretty much exactly most of my anime friends’, except half of us were more pokemon than digimon (and there were a couple with CCS or Sailor Moon before they watched Inuyasha). The friend who introduced me to FMA literally introduced it as “even better than Inuyasha,” and I was like “don’t be silly, there’s nothing you like more than Inuyasha.”
Kazuma Taichi
okay that’s pretty hilarious
worth mentioning that I was also watching pokemon, sailor moon, and CCS, it’s just none of those were my favs. Inuyasha would have been the first I knew was anime, and yeah the person who started urging me to watch FMA was also the only other person I knew at the time that watched inuyasha, so it seems to be a common pattern
Roborat
1. Was Fuddruckers until they closed, and 5 guys was a go to when I went to visit my parents in Arizona. Currently my favourite is a mushroom swiss at Fatburger.
2. Good question, I grew up with peasant vision growing up in various remote Canadian air force bases, so usually only 3 channels, and one was in french. I liked Ultraman when I was little and didn’t know any better, Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet were also favourites when I was preschool/early grade school age. I was a huge Monty Python’s Flying Circus fan as a teenager.
3. That is a very interesting question. Maybe Theme Hospital or Dungeon Keeper 2; or for something more current, any of the farming gamealikes. Was going to suggest pokemon, but I am not sure how she would take the “evolution” part of the game.
Opus the Poet
Whataburger,
Hurculoids,
I only play Gran Turismo, can’t help on that one.
Axel
1. Used to be a great place called Cabin 12, long closed now. Had an amazing one at a place called Laverne’s iirc too. For chains, Triple-Os. Veggie patty with caramelized onions, mushrooms, swiss, but I’m happy to try other things.
2. What was your favorite show as a kid? ?
Very young – Pokemon
Middle grade – Malcolm in the Middle
Teen – Fullmetal Alchemist
3. I think Dina would like monster hunting games (like Pokemon, Yokai Watch, etc). Actually, I don’t know if she’d LIKE them, but she has a good memory so I think she’d be really good at them. I don’t know how to explain it but I do think she’d like Stardew Valley (I guess because: relaxed, any pace, instructions are clear but there are still lots of surprises)
Axel
Pre-Pokemon age, Batman ’66-68 and also anything else batman my brother and I could watch
Axel
Apparently Laverne’s closed in 2018 🙁 Didn’t know as it isn’t local.
Sarah R
1. I visited a place in Cape Cod years ago called the Next Door Burger Barn, and it was the only $15 burger I have ever had that was worth the price. So good. Just a regular hamburger, but so good.
2. There was this PBS show called America’s Kids I liked, also anything on Animal Planet
3. I don’t really play video games, but if Dina wants a good fidget activity that allows you to remain quietly in a corner and let people come up to talk if they want to I would happily teach her to crochet.
coma
Finally a discussion I can take part in!
1. Since I’ve turned vegetarian, I really like getting burgers from a restaurant called “Swing kitchen” (it’s really just a normal restaurant chain/franchise over here, and vegan) or “Peter Pane” (they serve very good meaty and vegetarian burger) – but since they are more on the expensive side of things, and I try to watch my weight, I only go there like 2-5 times a year.
Oh yeah, and I like my burger with cheese, sometimes jalapenos and lots of veggies.
2. Honestly, too much to choose from. I loved the Ducktales, Darkwing Duck, Pokemon, Dragonball + Dragonball Z… I watched too many. Let’s just say “animated ones”. Still know all of the songs as well (in my language, though).
3. Maybe Sims, because she can experiment with human interaction and I believe she might find joy in simply creating characters and letting them interact nearly independently to answer a specific thesis, while she sits in front of the PC making notes for possible changes etc.
3. Tell me what kinds of video games you think Dina would like and why, but your answer CAN’T involve dinosaurs! ?
Sirksome
Please. Jennifer easily still has enough hair to pull off a ponytail. Nice try, Sarah!
FaerwenOfValenwood
but, Joyce, the shorter hair is Hot™️
alongcameaspider
Wow it’s a good thing Jennifer had already guessed that or I would have been mad at Sarah for telling her that without Joyce saying it’s ok to tell her
RassilonTDavros
…oh, this comments section should be fun.
The Wellerman
If it’s any consolation, there’s a heat wave where I am and it’s probably gonna be too hot for me to think on hard issues and discuss here anyway.
If I hell-dive into discussion anyway, please remind me to work more on the DOA fan game. ?
Thag Simmons
The appropriate response