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- Comment on I neither confirm or deny that I just procrastinated away from jobs to draw my rendition of 'myth of sisyphus' laundry edition 1 week ago:
having kids now and being in charge of cleaning for a decade and a half, I really get anakin’s
Oh no, oh fuck…
hatred of sand
Ah. Nevermind.
- Comment on I neither confirm or deny that I just procrastinated away from jobs to draw my rendition of 'myth of sisyphus' laundry edition 1 week ago:
Machines of legend, said to have existed before The Collapse, but archeologists have yet to physical evidence, just old tales called “user manuals” passed down from generation to generation.
- Comment on Why? 1 week ago:
I think around 2016 is when Razer really went down the toilet. There was a time when they built good quality hardware, but they’re just enshittified garbage with a flashy hue cycle now.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
If having two people talking to you at the same time makes both of them just mix together into meaningless gibberish, you might want to see an audiologist and ask about “auditory processing disorder”.
It’s a weird one where your ears themselves are fine, but your brain does kind of a shit job of handling the signals from them.
So, you’ll pass a normal hearing test with flying colors, but then constantly need people to repeat themselves in real world conditions.
- Comment on 🤔🤔🤔 1 week ago:
In all fairness, 20% of that town’s population is Professor Oak. Other than him we’ve got Ash, Ash’s mom, and Oak’s 2 grandchildren: MrPoopyAssFucker and his sister… am I missing anyone?
- Comment on They never even notice 1 week ago:
Free food is good food.
…that sentence has way too many o’s.
- Comment on All that I need 1 week ago:
Does that make it more acceptable?
The thing I take issue with is the obligation we’ve been trained to feel when certain days come to buy something for everyone close to you.
If you’re buying someone a gift because you see something you know they’ll enjoy, then hoard it until some gathering like Christmas because that’s an opportune time to give it, nothing about that rubs me wrong. If you buy someone a gift because it’s Christmas then it’s just a material ritual that lacks that personal connection that makes gifting meaningful.
And like, even I will send some bullshit to my nieces and nephews for birthdays and such, cuz they’re like 6 and fucking love that shit - there’s no deep personal connection or anything, but lil Timmy doesn’t give a fuck: he had nothing from me a minute ago, and now he’s losing his shit over some $5 squirt gun. It’s fun for fun sake.
But like, when my mom calls me (and I’m pushing 40) asking what I want for Christmas… Mom, love ya, but stop worrying about that kind of shit. Let’s go out for some dinner or something so we can reminisce about how much of an asshole I was when I was lil Timmy’s age.
- Comment on All that I need 1 week ago:
My answer is basically to stop letting a calendar date guilt trip you into wasting money on me because you’ve been marketed into some obligation so send me shit I don’t need. If you happen to find something you think I’d actually appreciate, go for it, but even then it doesn’t have to be for some stupid holiday.
I’ve kinda just stopped giving a shit about things like christmas or birthdays, both for me and for the people I’d consider giving a gift to, but I give them the same treatment: if I find something they’d like, I’ll just buy and gift it as soon as it’s convenient. And honestly the reactions are much better anyway, since it shows you’re actually thinking of that person and not just fulfilling some annual ritual to send them shit cuz the commercials say it’s time.
- Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 2 weeks ago:
…well if we’re going to legislate something out of gaming ‘fOr tHe kIDs’ let’s start with the slot machine bullshit and other gambling mechanics seem in things like loot boxes.
At the very least, the presence of that stuff should be an automatic Adult rating. With less predatory (but still predatory) things like subscriptions being rated as Mature.
Guessing that’s not what the dickhead in the article is talking about, but I’m not gonna bother reading another rant from some pearl-clutching cunt imagining a bunch of fake problems caused by video games.
- Comment on Turn your workday into a half-day with this simple trick: 2 weeks ago:
With practice, you can do both steps in one fluid motion!
- Comment on Ah, Beans 2 weeks ago:
saag paneer or tikka masala
Can’t go wrong with those! Indian food is some of the best on the planet. I think paneer tikka masala was the first time I had paneer - didn’t have a clue what it was, just know I really liked the chicken version and there was an unfamiliar word next to one of my favorite dishes. Ordered it just out of curiosity. First thought was “oh, it’s tofu” and was a bit disappointed cuz I didn’t care for that squishy texture (it’s grown on me since though… noms…). Took a bite – second thought was “this is the best fucking tofu I’ve ever had!”. Did some digging online and quickly discovered I was wrong on both counts: it’s cheese! …that doesn’t melt… hmmm…
I’ve since experimented a good bit with it and different rubs and marinades on the smoker. Garlic herb and pepper rub is probably my favorite so far. Today’s batch was “Kewpie Deep Roasted Sesame” mixed with some balsamic, and I’d say ranks #2. Terryaki + soy sauce came out decent. BBQ was meh. Pesto was (surprisingly) meh. …and by ‘meh’ I mean “still delicious, but nowhere near its potential, so not gonna bother with that one again”.
- Comment on Ah, Beans 2 weeks ago:
I fuckin love paneer! I literally have some on the smoker as we speak (bite sized blocks of paneer + pretty much any sauce you’re in the mood for + lowish temp smoke for 90 minutes or so = insanely delicious).
Today’s sauce is a sesame based marinade I found in our local Asian market - was a really good dipper for meats and veggies, so I have high hopes for this batch of paneer!
- Comment on Ah, Beans 2 weeks ago:
as are nuts (can’t have those myself unfortunately)
Unsolicited story time!
I made a few batches of baklava for my coworkers a while back, with various fillings. Most recipes call for dates or some kind of nut, so I was just like ‘fuck it, we’re trying them all’.
One of those coworkers had a nut allergy, so I make a batch that used sunflower seeds instead (no recipe for that, just sub the nuts 1-1) and honestly is was one of the best of the 10 or so different types I made. Baklava is something a lot of people with nut allergies have never tried cuz it’s always got some kind of nut in it. - if you’re one of those, definitely give it a whirl some times (and do NOT use one of the recipes that go through making your own filo dough… that stuff is… involved. You can get premade rolls in most grocery stores - look near things like those refrigerated tubes of cookie dough, or in the frozen section).
I’m sure sunflower seeds as a nut substitute is nothing new, but baklava specifically might be something that wasn’t previously on your radar. (if that’s the case, and you do go for, shoot me a message to let me know how it went /^_/^)
That coworker was fucking stoked - when people bring in food for the group they don’t usually put much thought into things like allergies or religious accommodations, but hooking those folks up with some noms when they’re expecting to be left out is a great way to make their day.
- Comment on Ah, Beans 2 weeks ago:
Is there some kind of food that’s basically tofu but made from beans other than soy? I’ve had em whole and mashed up into a past, but iirc soy beans are the only one’s I’ve had as their own cohesive block,
The texture of tofu is a turn off for a lot of people, but what if you make tofu from like kidney beans or something? A product that’s firmer and chewier (and probably not called ___ tofu, cuz people are idiots) could potentially be a hit.
- Comment on Recession indicator, what do you call this dish? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, 100% this is unhealthy as fuck. I gained a ton of weight when I was piss broke cuz all I could afford was rice - exceptions were a treat. When your that tight on cash though, you start to prioritize it over pretty much everything else, including your own body.
Spending any more on food would have required cutting into something critical like rent - I never did have to deal with homelessness, but boy did I toe that line.
In any case, this is desperation diet - hopefully for a very short term leading up to having the means to live a healthier lifestyle.
- Comment on Recession indicator, what do you call this dish? 2 weeks ago:
Happy to say I’m past the piss-broke stage of life, but I’ll never forget how much is sucks. One of the really shitty things about it is all the products marketed toward selling us a ‘cheap’ meal, and we buy it because you don’t question it: it’s poverty food, right? Must be among the cheapest options in the store, right?
Then you start pricing stuff out by things like cost-per-gram and realize you’re getting ripped off. To answer OPs question, I’d call that dish: predatory, bc it’s an up-charged box of ingredients that you can buy separately in probably that same aisle for much cheaper.
For anyone reading this who is stuck in that hell, first off: /hug. Second, the real poverty food MVP is rice. I don’t recall the price off the top of my head, and even if I did I’m sure it’s inflated since I was a frequent buyer, but look for “fortified short grain” which is usually the least expensive and is ‘fortified’ with some extra nutrients to get something other than carbs. Buy it in bulk - you can get it in 50lb bags at places like Costco (if you don’t have a membership, mooch a ride there off someone who does, they can get you through the door/checkout) or Asian/Middle Eastern grocery stores. Price it out to what you’re paying for the amount used in a single meal, and it’s like a literal nickel.
Rice makes for a boring meal by itself, but it’ll fill you up. Your second best friend is the clearance shelf. Pretty much any meat or veggie can go with rice. You’d be surprised how well other shit work with rice too… I recall having a single slice of shitty supreme pizza in the fridge; not enough for a satisfying meal, but, fuck it, whipped up a serving of rice, chopped up the slice of pizza crust and all, and threw it in when the rice was just about soft enough to eat and kinda stir fried it in. The oils from the cheese and sausage all got soaked up by the rice… end result wasn’t amazing by any stretch, but it was away more satisfying than a single slice of pizza or bowl of plain rice, tasted decent, costed pennies.
Pro tip: buy some snack-sized ziplock bags, measure out what you need for a serving, portion it into a ton of individual bags, and keep those in a sealed 5-gallon buckets. There’s a type of beetle that lays its eggs in rice, and it may not hatch until after you’ve bought it. Then they propagate, and there are tiny beetles all over the batch… and losing the better part of a 50lb bag to those fuckers is pretty heart breaking. If you portion it out first, and then it hatches, you lose a single-portion ziplock full. No biggie. Also keep the empty ziplocks and reuse them for the next big bag of rice.
Also get a cheap rice cooker as soon as you can afford it - a pot works fine, but a rice cooker will get you much more consistent results for much less effort.
- Comment on He escaped 3 weeks ago:
A country as developed as the US shouldn’t require an armed para military force to police its citizens and, arguably, the US doesn’t require one.
…we need an armed paramilitary force to police our politicians. I mean, on paper we have one, but in practice they seem to just follow a domestic enemy’s orders with no thought at all so long as that enemy is holding an office like POTUS.
- Comment on He escaped 3 weeks ago:
The Frankenstein trope did the creature dirty. Both Dr. and creation were basically geniuses. The creature in particular taught itself how to speak and iirc read/write all by discretely observing some peasants, and how to cook by just experimenting with raw ingredients + fire. If the Dr. that made it actually nurtured and trained the thing, the pair would have been unstoppable. But, that’s the whole spiel of the story - he got cold feet, treated his creation like shit, and that came back to bite him in the ass again and again.
If you can tolerate the oldish English, the Mary Shelley’s original story still holds its own - definitely recommended, if for no other reason than to appreciate how Frankenstein in media since then has missed the mark fucking hard.
- Comment on Bang! 3 weeks ago:
Luigi! <3
- Comment on *Throws grenade and runs* 3 weeks ago:
Well, rolling with the artificial flavors analogy, we can start by stopping the infuriating trend of adding artificial grape flavor to every fucking food item under the sun. No one asked for or wanted that shit, but now it’s become a chore to find so much as a bag of coffee beans that doesn’t have some blip on the packaging advertising “Now with grape!!” Not only does it taste bad, but it’s caused the cost of food to fucking double.
Second, we can start being honest about what it actually is. Again, it doesn’t taste like grape, so why the fuck are we calling it grape? With AI this is as much on us as it is with the companies marketing that garbage - for ages we’ve been calling so much as an NPC’s pathing algorithm in a videogame “AI” even though there’s objectively no intelligence at play. We’ve since tried to move the goal posts a bit by relabeling actual AI as “AGI” but I guarantee that’ll just become another term to muddy the waters with marketing bullshit. The shit we’re calling “AI” is just categorically not even on the same path as the the kind of AI we see in sci-fi. So if you want Data to see the light of day, we’ll need to stop wasting our time and money on what is effectively a spell checker that’s wrong occasionally.
Unless you think Data is just a chat bot with no consciousness, in which case, hooray, we’ve done it: AI. 🎉 …now can I please have a mug of coffee without Grape™ syrup in it? I know, such a Luddite, drinking coffee without grape! Guilty as charged. But adding that shit to my coffee is never going to get us a product that tastes and feels etc like a grape, so if that’s what you’re after, maybe keep it in R&D and off the fucking grocery shelves.
- Comment on *Throws grenade and runs* 3 weeks ago:
Artificial intelligence in science fiction is intelligence that’s artificial.
Artificial intelligence in real life is more akin to what we’d call “artificial flavors” in some fruit drink that contains 0% fruit. Isn’t fruit, doesn’t taste like fruit, but it’s purple and sweet, so fuck it: “grape”. We’ve accomplished the “artificial” part, but not the bit that actually matters.
So, yeah, AI in sci-fi is unironically great. “AI” irl is shit. If the real version ever comes close to the sci-fi version, you’ll see a lot of the haters change our tune, but until then we’ll call a turd a turd.
- Comment on Sometimes the simple Minecraft cave base is the best base 4 weeks ago:
It’s been ages since I’ve played Minecraft, but my favorite and most frustrating base was one of those guardian temples in the ocean. The kicker was that it was a fresh server, and my buddy and I tackled that as our starter base. No armor, stone tools… Just a few stacks of sand and some doors to drain of, and lots - LOTS - of dying.
When we finally got that thing drained and hollowed out… so satisfying!
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 5 weeks ago:
my mind reels thinking about it.
You might have seen people say “the cruelty is the point” when talking about republicans / right wingers. This is what they’re addressing. So many of the actions taken by that side of the aisle are so jaw-droppingly stupid or hypocritical or self-defeating, that trying to make sense of it just leaves anyone capable of critical thinking stuck in a “wtf” loop.
But, the cruelty is the point. You might wonder why they care so much about bathroom security: they don’t. They just want to hurt trans people. You might wonder why they care so much about abortion: they don’t. They just want to hurt women. You might wonder why they care so much about border security: they don’t, they just want to hurt brown people. …etc.
Any of those you can approach logically and try to explain the reality of how each action they take doesn’t accomplish their stated goal… requiring trans men to use their birth gender’s restroom will increase the number of men in womens’ restrooms; abortion isn’t actually against their religion (it’s mentioned twice in scripture - once as an accidental result of an assault on a pregnant women, for which the assailant owed her a fine; and once as a fucking how-to guide… the bible does not fuck about abortion); how the majority of immigrants aren’t here to break a bunch of laws, but just want to work and are indeed critically important to our economy. The team shoots itself in the foot constantly, which leaves you wondering why the fuck they would do that: it’s the cruelty. They don’t care about the foot they’re shooting, they care about the out-group on the other side of that foot. If they need to harm themselves in order to harm someone else even more, they will.
Start looking at their words and actions through this lens, and suddenly they’re a lot less baffling. They make sense, and are predictable… in the worst possible way.
- Comment on You have to stop doing this. 5 weeks ago:
That face says Nurse Joy is on call, and a patient just checked into the ER after she, uh, tripped.
- Comment on You have to stop doing this. 5 weeks ago:
One in each prison pocket.
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 5 weeks ago:
I think they know Trump is full of shit, they just don’t care so long as he’s ‘hurting the right people’.
They’d let Trump shit in their mouth if it meant a ‘librul’ would have to smell it.
- Comment on I GOT THE MOVES LIKE JAGGER 1 month ago:
Oh god that’s horrible. I will 100% troll my coworkers with this. We routinely play music at our workstations via youtube since most streaming services are blocked. The second they turn their back, this shit is getting added to their playlist.
- Comment on I GOT THE MOVES LIKE JAGGER 1 month ago:
Dude had an idea he thought would help; wasn’t a prideful dick when it was clear that it wasn’t helping, and shelved the idea.
Honestly, respect.
- Comment on I GOT THE MOVES LIKE JAGGER 1 month ago:
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- Comment on I can't help myself, they're eggcellent. 1 month ago:
/shrug. It’s all fiction. Don’t lose any sleep over a specific character’s lore.