I went to In-N-Out and ordered a cheeseburger. The cashier, a calm young woman named Destiny, asked me a question I did not expect.
"You want that Animal Style?"
I paused.
I did not know what this meant. But a samurai does not admit he does not know. So I answered with weight.
"...Animal Style."
"Cool. So that's mustard-grilled, extra spread, grilled onions, pickles. Yeah?"
I understood now. This was a sacred permission. For one meal, I was being told to put down my manners at the door. To eat the way a beast eats, without shame. I had waited my whole life for someone to give me this order.
"Yes," I said. "I will become the animal."
Destiny did not blink. "...Okay. You want your fries Animal Style too?"
I stopped. Even the potatoes?
"The potatoes also become animals?"
"I mean, they get cheese and sauce and grilled onions, so..."
"Then yes. Let the potatoes abandon their restraint as well."
"...Got it." She was the calmest woman I have ever met. "3x3, 4x4, or just the one?"
I did not know these numbers, but I knew a challenge when I heard one. "How many must I face?"
"It's, like, how many patties you want."
"How many is the most honorable?"
"...Four is a lot."
"Then four. A warrior does not ask for fewer."
She wrote it down without argument. A 4x4, Animal Style, with animal fries. She warned me once, kindly. "That's gonna be huge." I told her I was counting on it.
It arrived. It was a tower. Cheese and sauce ran down my hands the moment I lifted it. There was no clean way to eat it. There was no dignified way. That was the entire point.
I ate it like a beast. Both hands, no honor, grilled onion on my chin, and I have to be honest with you, it was the best thing I have ever put in my mouth.
For thirty years I have kept my manners at every table in the world.
They handed me a burger and told me to be an animal, and I have never felt so free.
So tell me, America.
The whole country knows the secret menu. What else are you hiding in plain sight?
And "Animal Style." Was I eating the animal, or finally becoming one?
Everyone excited over the new TCG and I'm just worried about how the hell will Bandai keep up with the demand if they can't do that with their current TCGs out now
Happy to announce this.
THE GAME YOU'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR IS BACK!
Grab it while its hot!
Spiderman Shattered Dimensions (2015)
Updated and playable for modern PC's, Steamdeck support and more!
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@kirionatheninth It sucks. I'd love to hang out with a group that played magic until lots of inside jokes and references kept coming up that I didn't know. And many "oh I saw that in the GC" and i check the "GC" and it's been silent for 3 weeks. I didn't really love hanging out anymore lol
@ContractorsBR hello not sure if it has been reported but I am on PCVR playing this on steam. And many times my player spawns under the map and if I fall long enough it tries to respawn me but other times I'll hit a floor under the map and just be stuck with no option to get out