continuing with hbo max
finished the last of us. it was just OK, probably the most "OK" show i've seen in a long time. it's not as big as a disappointment as the star wars prequels, but it's close. as my brother said, at least TLoU was interesting.
video game dude bros complaining about the lack of fights against the infected. but that's a video game thing. video games are about things to do, stuff to collect and/or build & a world to explore. tv series are about the story that's happening as you go along & during the cut scenes.
the other thing we're watching is the documentary mcmillions about the big mcdonald's monopoly game scam that went on in the '90s.it's the mob, it's always the mob.
since the guys involved were white & middle-aged men, the friends that they sold the tickets to were the same (except for the one guy's mistress). the wife of one of the guys (jerry c.) finding people to sell the tickets to was like get a non-white woman. which mcdonald's made a bid deal about, because there's was so few women who won & almost no non-white people.
i felt sorry for that "winner" because she was hoping to better her & her son's lives, but she had to mortgage her home to buy the ticket & then Jerry c. took most of the winnings and she still had to pay tax on the money.
i'm still not 100% sure that the wife of jerry c. didn't cause the car wreck with them and their young son. she was trapped in an abusive marriage & probably thought that if she took them all out she would not be blamed for his death. and their son would not have to be an orphan or live with knowing that his mother killed his father.
still annoyed all these years later that mcdonald's idea of making things up to people was giving random people in random madonald's restaurants big prizes (you know there was implicit/explicit bias) . instead of doing like a week of BOGO deals on the big sandwiches or something.
video game dude bros complaining about the lack of fights against the infected. but that's a video game thing. video games are about things to do, stuff to collect and/or build & a world to explore. tv series are about the story that's happening as you go along & during the cut scenes.
the other thing we're watching is the documentary mcmillions about the big mcdonald's monopoly game scam that went on in the '90s.it's the mob, it's always the mob.
since the guys involved were white & middle-aged men, the friends that they sold the tickets to were the same (except for the one guy's mistress). the wife of one of the guys (jerry c.) finding people to sell the tickets to was like get a non-white woman. which mcdonald's made a bid deal about, because there's was so few women who won & almost no non-white people.
i felt sorry for that "winner" because she was hoping to better her & her son's lives, but she had to mortgage her home to buy the ticket & then Jerry c. took most of the winnings and she still had to pay tax on the money.
i'm still not 100% sure that the wife of jerry c. didn't cause the car wreck with them and their young son. she was trapped in an abusive marriage & probably thought that if she took them all out she would not be blamed for his death. and their son would not have to be an orphan or live with knowing that his mother killed his father.
still annoyed all these years later that mcdonald's idea of making things up to people was giving random people in random madonald's restaurants big prizes (you know there was implicit/explicit bias) . instead of doing like a week of BOGO deals on the big sandwiches or something.