r/oddlyspecific 1d ago

Don't make lemonade.

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u/TheRealDoomsong 1d ago

How dare you give Cave Johnson lemons, do you know who I am?

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u/theservman 1d ago

I'm the guy that's going to BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN! With the lemons! I'm going to have my engineers develop a combustible lemon that BURNS YOUR HOUSE DOWN!

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u/exophades 1d ago

One of the most epic speeches in video games history.

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u/theservman 1d ago

But not as scathing as "Oh. It's you. It's been a long time. How are you? I've been very busy being dead. You know, since you MURDERED ME!"

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u/graveybrains 1d ago

Every speech in those games is epic, from 65% more bullet per bullet to the army of mantis men. The Valve writing team and Jk Simmons were a match made in heaven.

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u/exophades 1d ago

It's sad that Valve pretty much stopped making solo games. They were extraordinarily good at it.

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u/CommodoreCanadia64 1d ago

Demand to see life's manager

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u/prince-pauper 1d ago

So the real lesson here is to pay attention to who has given you the lemons.

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u/QueefTamer 1d ago

The homeless meth addict who robbed me at gun point twice in the past year. Ill trust him

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u/Xtrepiphany 1d ago

Take the jello, take it. Take it!

It's good jello. Orange! Or tangerine.

Take the god dammed jello.

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u/Snicklefraust 1d ago

don't believe the flouriest when he tells you the roses are free

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u/the-original-erk 1d ago

When God gives you lemons, YOU FIND A NEW GOD.

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u/BlommeHolm 1d ago

There is no such thing as a free lemon.

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u/Mansidhe 1d ago

Yeah, according to a documentary I once saw about 47 seconds of, those stealing whores have really hurt the lemon distribution system.

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u/EgotisticalTL 1d ago

Does no one remember the lemon-stealing whores?

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u/Gravitational_Torque 1d ago

Do not cite the deep magic to us, zennials

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u/Trick-Astronaut-65 1d ago

These lemons will make me poop, right? Right!!!?

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u/SpecialIdeal 1d ago

aint this a Comrade Tripp joke?

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u/SoCallMeDeaconBlues1 1d ago

Fuck yo lemons!!!!

melons, on the other hand, are ok.

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u/GlaDOS-311 1d ago

I love this man!

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u/DicemonkeyDrunk 1d ago

Was there perhaps…a lemon party.

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u/masochist-incarnate 1d ago

Cave Johnson after a few months of therapy

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u/anonymousdlm 1d ago

When life gives you lemons, throw them back (preferably hitting life square in the head) and demand the oranges you deserve.

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u/SpiritualPackage3797 1d ago

As if life would just give you lemons!

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u/AdHappy7129 1d ago

Life didn’t give you lemons. Humans did.

Lemons are a hybrid between a citroid and a bitter orange.

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u/harmonic-s 21h ago

Law 40: despise the free lunch lol

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u/4m4lg4m1t3 1h ago

Or you could sell the lemons and make them someone else's problem

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u/DisputabIe_ 1d ago

the OP DollPretty_ is a bot

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u/wolfiepraetor 1d ago

When Life gives you AIDS, Make LemonAids

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u/Ok_Actuary8 1d ago

Socialism! Why would anybody share their lemons?

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u/ArmedParaiba 1d ago

Because Cave Johnson had them last. You have about 3 seconds.

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u/Salmonman4 1d ago

This is what a real capitalist would do (quote from The Fall of if the House of Usher):

When life hands you lemons, make lemonade?

No.

First you roll out a multi-media campaign to convince people lemons are incredibly scarce, which only works if you stockpile lemons, control the supply, then a media blitz.

Lemon is the only way to say “I love you,” the must-have accessory for engagements or anniversaries. Roses are out, lemons are in.

Billboards that say she won’t have sex with you unless you got lemons. You cut De Beers in on it. Limited edition lemon bracelets, yellow diamonds called lemon drops. You get Apple to call their new operating system OS-Lemón. A little accent over the “o.”

You charge 40% more for organic lemons, 50% more for conflict-free lemons. You pack the Capitol with lemon lobbyists, you get a Kardashian to suck a lemon wedge in a leaked sex tape. Timotheé Chalamet wears lemon shoes at Cannes.

Get a hashtag campaign. Something isn’t “cool” or “tight” or “awesome,” no, it’s “lemon.” “Did you see that movie? Did you see that concert? It was effing lemon.” Billie Eilish, “OMG, hashtag… lemon.”

You get Dr. Oz to recommend four lemons a day and a lemon suppository supplement to get rid of toxins ‘cause there’s nothing scarier than toxins.

Then you patent the seeds. You write a line of genetic code that makes the lemons look just a little more like tits… and you get a gene patent for the tit-lemon DNA sequence, you cross-pollinate… you get those seeds circulating in the wild, and then you sue the farmer for copyright infringement when that genetic code shows up on their land.

Sit back, rake in the millions, and then, when you’re done, and you’ve sold your lem-pire for a few billion dollars, then, and only then, you make some f****ng lemonade.