A snapshot of heaven

The only problem with that setup is the grease from the pizza box getting on the carpet.
Balance it precariously on top of a too-small box, you heathen.
- A too-small box such as the GameCube.
  
  You have been unsubscribed from game night invites.
  
  Nah fam
  
  I remember reading that Nintendo designed the SNES with a hump to help prevent people from setting food and drinks on it since the NES made a great table for things to spill on. Guess they gave up when they designed the Gamecube!
  
  That's why they vent out the sides, like a open air convection oven

This hurts my back.
- Neck too from when you eventually lay down to deal with your back pain.
  
  Then tailbone, from when you try to awkwardly prop yourself up into a hybrid position.

I may be a man, but my back hurts just looking at that picture.
Give me a comfy chair if I'm going to game and drink and eat pizza.
Also, there is a distinct lack of doggies.
- Also, there is a distinct lack of doggies.
  That's what it was. I was wondering why it looked odd. The carpet is too clean. They must have just moved in. There should be dog hair in it.
- No dogs or cats. No chair. Otherwise is fire

Imagine shitting on someone’s way of life because it’s not your own
- Well they are playing with a cube and look at the viewing angle of the TV. Eat that pizza and stick it under the Tv so your neck doesn’t get sore.
  
  Hard agree. I once when moving in a friend asked where they were going to mount their tv. They said "Over the fireplace... There's not really anywhere else to put it." End of day the "fireplace" (shit electric thing it was) was ripped from the wall and chilling in the garage.
  Friends do not let friends play video games at shit veiwing angles.
  
  Lay down with your tummy on the carpet for a different neck and back pain 😀
- Ok I'm gonna guess you're missing the joke for autism or whatever, so I'll explain. The person in the pic probably uploaded it themselves and just wanted to share their nostalgia.
  
  I understand the joke, and as an aside brought up that real people do this irl.
  Nothing to do with autism lmfao. Sorry you couldn’t understand what I meant and felt the need to say some ignorant ass shit instead lmao.
- Or it could just be a humorous joke that everybody enjoys, except for that one miserable douchbag who insists on ruining everybody else's fun because mama didn't love them enough or whatever your problem is.
  
  Username checks out

The only thing I have issue with is putting the greasy pizza box on the carpet.
No reason to destroy your carpet just because you want to be minimalist.
At least put a blanket down. Then you can just pop it in the wash.
- No reason to destroy your carpet
  I would argue there is no sane reason to have wall to wall carpeting in the first place in most situations especially if you have pets.
  
  I can’t disagree with you there.
  Perhaps this gentleman decided he didn’t want carpets anymore and doesn’t care what happens to them until the day comes to rip them out.
  However my guess is he never even thought that far ahead.
- does grease soak through the bottom of pizza boxes?
  
  Oohhhhh ya. That’s why you can’t recycle pizza boxes. They soak up grease.
  Take a look at the bottom of a pizza box next time you order pizza.
  
  This is going to sound obvious but that depends on how greasy the pizza is. It can happen.
  
  Not if you get good pizza
- The pizza in general looks nasty. Too small in diameter, too much dough for the toppings, too much grease. I've had frozen pizza that looked better than this abomination.
  
  I mean to be fair, it looks like Little Caesars. The point of it is it's cheap.
  
  Also they left the lid open so the pizza is getting cold quick.
  
  Agreed. This is your run of the mill franchise pizza. It’s all garbage imo compared to real authentic pizza.
  Sadly most people have never experienced authentic pizza because out west it’s all franchise pizza. You gotta come to the east coast for the good stuff.

That wireless controller is a bit pointless if you’re sitting 1.5m away from the screen. Gotta give her that.
- It's called a WaveBird!
  And you had to sit that close or else a cordless phone or other wireless device might interefere with the signal and stop registering inputs.
  
  Cordless... phone...?
  Haha you're old! (and so am I but never mind that)
  
  Wavebird is the GOAT. Best name, best controller. Personally, I never had interference problems that couldn’t be fixed by changing the channel on the controller and even that was pretty rare.
  
  Depends with the Wavebird. Due to using RF, the range can be pretty good. Or really bad if you live in a busy city.
  
  Every '90s and '00s manufacturer looking at 2.4GHz
  is for me 🥺?
- Now you can move the pizza directly in front for the perfect loading screen snack with no obstacles!

I mean... it's not like the place is filthy. No piles of dirty clothes or dishes.
Also I'm reminded of a woman I know who has a very nicely decorated home, but mounted her TV so none of the ports are accessible. Want to plug something into the hdmi port? Well, you can't. TV looks nice on the wall, though.
- To be honest with a smart TV most of the ports are useless. Most women I know don't have many extra things to plug in to the TV
  
  Until a year or two after you buy your "smart" tv when it doesnt have the resources to run netflix with subtitles on because apparently that's too intensive
  speaking from experience here.
  Smart TVs are dumb, set top boxes are king
  
  Yeah I don't need pesky wires or plugs to connect my surround sound system to my fancy smart TV, I can just use hopes and dreams
  
  Yeah seriously; why do TVs even come with more than one HDMI port? A PC and a smart TV alone all the games and media one could ever need in their household. Hell, if you don't game and don't have a work from home job, you could get away with a just the TV itself.

I am a man, and I see many problems with this:
the TV is at least two sizes too small
WAF is a non-factor, so there would absolutely be some oversized speakers beside that tv
my ass isn't lying on the floor, when a couch would be far more comfortable
the couch would make floor pizza too far away, so there would be a "coffee table"
- A couch? A coffee table? OK, King Louis XIV. The rest of us will make do with a floor gaming chair.
  
  I'm not sure you realize how much heavy lifting I'm making the quotations around "coffee table" do.
  
  Ehh but they've got a wavebird, so you know they're already ballin.
  Or they were very specific for their birthday request
  
  Neah, get some milk crates and a used futon!
- Yes, this looks like back pain.
  
  Clearly it is a young man's place. A more mature man would have a second hand recliner and a bottle of alcohol to wash down the bitter taste of divorce.
- Just some plastic chair, table and pillows would be enough
- Yeah, this is more like what would be acceptable 20 years ago.

The Donkey Kong Bongos accessory on top of the TV is just...chef's kiss. Perfect.
Donkey Kong Bongos
- It's called interior decorating
- My wrists never truly recovered… and it was worth it
- https://youtu.be/aZ77AXeOwNY?si=L9vT_5eY4Elw7jH-
  It also reacts if your laugh is too high pitched.
  Japanese girls learned this the hard way.
- That video is titled "The Forgotten Accessory." Since when was it forgotten? I guess you can throw that onto any video for clickbait.

- Ate Lavish Meal +12
  
  Ascetic +5

I am grateful to Fairlife for making single serve choccy milk that isn't owned by Nestle.
- Yeah but its owned by Coca-Cola
  
  If it isn't Nestle, it's Coca-Cola. If it isn't Coca-Cola, it's Keurig Dr Pepper. If it isn't Keurig Dr Pepper, it's PepsiCo. Late stage capitalism sucks.
- Choccy plant-based milk is easily better tho
  
  Oat milk is the superior milk. I will die on that hill.

Gotta get a beanbag chair or something. Aside from that, I don't see a problem (for a bachelor who is content to remain a bachelor).
- shoulda put the box from the top left of the pic under the tv. other than that it's perfect.
  
  That's a CRT, so heavy af. It's going to sink right through the box.

That's not how men live, that's how teenagers live. The place lacks a woodworking bench, a 3D printer farm, a chef knife wall with an industrial wok burner, and a rack of mountain bikes. Also not a single cat in the picture, savages...
- Not to mention it's clearly been vacuumed
  
  I mean, I just vacuumed. Clean carpet is nice to lay on and think
  
  Why shouldn't it be vacuumed? Roomba exists.
- Good point.

The only thing wrong is that there is carpet. Also, I miss those days of freedom. I never appreciated them when I had them.
- 90s childhood: that carpet, Sega Genesis/SNES, cathodic TV, some gaming or Sports Illustrated paraphernalia, Pizza & some shitty pop.
  But fully agree that back then, it felt like it would last forever. Nostalgia is strong with this one.
- Broke freedom to rich bondage. I’ve lived both. Honestly can’t tell you which I prefer.

Does anyone else get irrationally upset when people leave pizza boxes wide open like that? You're letting all the heat escape!
Meanwhile I have to keep everything I eat in a food warmer up until the very minute I'm about to eat it. Warm foods taste so much better when they're hot.
- I want the heat to escape. I'm a weirdo who likes my food to be just above lukewarm.
  
  I just take so long to eat anything that as much as I might savor those first hot bites, I know I can't eat fast enough to enjoy more than that unless I wanna warm it back up before every bite
  
  What if you drop your controller? Do you want controller in your pizza? Pizza on your controller?
  This is the same as the toilet lid conversation, isn’t it? If you’ve ever witnessed something falling in or even heard of it, for the love of god, why aren’t you keeping that closed when it’s not in use?

Pizza and chocolate milk?
I mean I like them both, but together?
- I just like flexing on lactose intolerant people.
  
  I miss ice cream.
- Takes me back to school lunches
  
  Did that the other day eating lunch with my youngin at their school.
  Was definitely not as appealing as I near my 40s. But back in the day that shit was fine

I thought the beverage was a fifth of Jack Daniel's before I zoomed in.
- Choccy milk and Jack Daniels make my stomach ache something fierce.
  
  The brown Kentuckian never caught on like the white Russian
- Same

Is there a c/malelivingspace anywhere on Lemmy?
- MaleLivingSpaceCircleJerk

Even got the Choccy Milk to wash it down? Thats fuckin decadent

The Carpet is overkill/bloat
- Spartanburg

This game was proof all you need to make a great Pokemon game is to let someone other than Gamefreak make it. Legends Arecus is a huge step in the right direction but it was more of a demo than a complete experience (it was short when you remember most of it is repetitive and lacked Pokemon basics such as abilities).
- Yeah, no wonder Palworld is mopping the floor with them.

What's the problem here?
oh nice, pizza! *grabs a slice

Can I come over... ?

Floor pizza? HELL YEAH BRUTHER

It feels like this picture is missing the indoor fort (i.e. a couple of chairs with a big blanket thrown over the top)

The problem I see is there are bongo drums but I don't see a copy of donkey konga

Wavebird wireless GameCube controller FTW! I still have mine, 20 years later. Still works too. I bust it out once or twice a year when we play Mario Party 5 or 7.
- It's crazy that I still have a ton of gamecube controllers in perfect condition that have hundreds of hours of use each and yet I've got a box of useless joycons.
  They literally don't make them like they used to.
  
  I've had to throw away 3 Switch (3rd party) controllers due to drift issues, and I had to send my stock joy cons back to Nintendo for repair due to drift. Ridiculous.
- I broke my first one raging at Soul Calibur 2, but my replacement is still going strong!

Is that a little Caesars? Hell yeah.

Swap our the pokemon for timesplitters, and the fairlife for seltzer water and that's an ideal night for me.

raw as hell
what did they mean by this?
- It's capped
  
  sorry I don't speak teenager
  
  It's capped
  what did they mean by this?
- Definitely not mid.

This is how detective Halligan lives.
- Do you know how hard it is to get meat right off the bone like that. Halligan was damned lucky to get a bite. Also I dont think he particularly cared.

Is that a gas wall heater? Man, I haven’t seen one of those in years.

“I’ll take Trevelyan if that’s cool. Are we banning Oddjob or just ripping on people who pick him.”

also is that the fuckin like wavebird (? iirc) thingy?? way ahead of it's time

Gale of Darkness to replace Colosseum and I am sold. Give me a TV stand and a chair with a back and this is golden.

Bongos eh? I kind prefer a spirit drum

stop drinking stuff like milkshake or chocolate milk with pizza and hamburgers please, what the fuck is wrong with you? Seriously jeez...
- Curious as to what the scientific explanation of why this is bad is?
  
  Pizza is at war with chocolate
  
  If you have too much fun at once, it shortens your lifespan.
  
  There is none. They're just salty because they're lactose intolerant (maybe). They wish they could do that.
- Yeah, even thinking of this gives me diarrhea. The whole night.