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It (and Rat) made me and most of my early middle-aged traveling group so nauseous. Never again. It was also so bare and boring looking compared to the lushness of GMR. I have inner ear issues and can't ride coasters or screen rides (I can watch shows, though) so all the ride transformations of...

Retrowdw podcast did an excellent Golf Resort episode a few years ago, and their website has a fantastic cache of photos.

I don't get all the commenters who are struggling with this concept just because they don't like Star Wars. I was a huge fan of the original trilogy in my tweens and teens who lost my fangirl status over the disappointment of the prequel trilogy (and I loathe the new series) but this is a NEW...

retroWDW has clips on their website.

I'm not offended. Yes, I'm a woman, and I frequently wish these guys' mothers, daughters, and wives could see them. I'm the preferred mask-enforcer at the store because they're so much worse to the male employees.

To the point of assault?

I've been filling in at a friend's small hardware store while the college I work at is closed. The City of Charleston requires masks indoors, and has for months, yet I daily have completely sober men at all hours of the day threaten me when I politely ask them to wear one, and offer a free...

I don't know if this sheds any light on long-term plans for WDW or not, but I work at a pretty well-known college here in Charleston (cough, cough) and the CDC briefing to the collective community of colleges and universities last month told the Advisory Board to expect and prepare for this to...

Right now legislation is being drafted to deny unemployment to workers who are forced either to quit or to go back to work before extensive testing/tracking is in place. If I get seriously ill from covid-19 and suffer life-long effects because I was caught between a rock and a hard place, yeah...

Unlikely, at best, at least stateside and with the current management, even before the pandemic. They much prefer repurposing existing attractions. Also the existing WDW parks needed more capacity/stuff to do before all this. New gates do not need to be built until what's already there is...

All the arguing about Mario and Pokemon re: Nintendo's popularity is missing a huge point- the Legend of Zelda series is a masively-popular, multi-generational game with numerous titles listed as 'Best of' while making buckets of money and selling insane amounts of merch, easily up there with...

THIS. I work at the College of Charleston, a medium-sized school in the heart of Charleston, SC, a densely populated area confined to a small peninsula. Our population almost doubles during the school year. If/when the College reopens in the fall, students from all over the country and the...

okay, boomer :D You know the oldest millenials are in their 40s, yeah? And if they're on their parents' DVCs, it's likely because they came of working age in a world that rarely provides a living wage without a fight and where employers have no loyalty. Why shame someone for being fiscally...

I’m staying at the Swan, and the TV streaming has been pretty terrible in general. Lots of crashing. Disney+ wasn’t working when we left for Animal Kingdom at 8:40 this morning, and I’ve been trying since 5 😱

Here in downtown Charleston the water was less than expected (but of course we still flooded out the usual intersections) but the wind was worse than I thought it would be. We never lost power, but I’m in the hospital’s grid, so we rarely do. I lost a large plot of bamboo to the wind and the...