BurntWits
@BurntWits@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 2 hours ago:
I was an only child and had an excellent childhood/teenage years and am still really good friends with my parents. My goal with my daughter is to do as good of a job for her as my parents did for me. I don’t live a perfect life but my relationship with my parents is not something I could ever have any complaints about. Don’t worry, as long as your kid knows you love them and you try your best to do what’s best for them (and not just what you want to be best for them), I wouldn’t have any worries personally.
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- Comment on Winnie The Shit 1 day ago:
- Comment on Anon is 23 1 day ago:
Where are you that plumbers don’t get paid well? At least where I live, plumbing is the default “I want to make a lot of money and don’t know what to do with my life” recommendation. Most trades people I know, on average, make more money than most office people I know, on average. Office jobs may have a higher ceiling but that doesn’t necessarily mean most people are making more. Cut out the top and bottom extremes in pay and trades are definitely the better route to decent pay cheques, at least where I live.
- Comment on Videogames: Then and Now 5 days ago:
It’s referencing this.
Basically, Valve released a mod for Skyrim that added a space core near Whiterun. - Comment on Badge of Honor 6 days ago:
Can I join? I’m also not on the ban list.
- Comment on Bethesda Announces New ‘Fallout’ Roadmap Following Xbox Reset 1 week ago:
I feel like FromSoft did that somewhat recently but I could be misremembering.
I don’t think it was quite a silent launch, but more like a game announcement the day of or the day before it came out. I could be thinking of a different studio though.
- Comment on Bethesda roadmap: more Fallout is coming, Starfield support continues, but Elder Scrolls VI is the main priority 1 week ago:
From what I understand, Bethesda will be making Fallout 5 while Obsidian makes New Vegas 2 or something similar. Maybe they’ll have two Fallout series now, one from each dev. Sort of like how there’s 3 studios making CoD games (I think, I haven’t touched that franchise since the 360 days).
- Comment on not getting it™ since 2024© 2 weeks ago:
I guess I’m from before time (3y).
- Comment on Flirtation 2 2 weeks ago:
Well my dishwasher sucks so I always have to scrape and rinse beforehand.
But in other situations, I mean our pipes are wide enough that little bits of food aren’t going to clog, and I guess our system is good enough at flushing everything through that it just isn’t much of an issue. We have drain baskets in our kitchen sink drains that filter out larger debris, too. I’m also new to having a dishwasher, I hand washed everything up until a few months ago, so someone else might have better answers than me.
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #68 - 007 First Light 3 weeks ago:
I’m a big fan of both James Bond and Hitman WoA so I was super excited to hear about this. I’m dedicated to being a patient gamer though so I’ll have to wait a while first. I am really excited though.
- Comment on Flirtation 2 3 weeks ago:
It’s so wild to me that Americans have garbage disposal in their sinks. I visited the States a few years back, wondered “what’s this light switch next to the sink for?” and it scared the shit out of me, I almost jumped out of my skin.
- Comment on Of course 17-24 NEVER looked like the picture 3 weeks ago:
Not sure if it’s exactly the same but it looks like Chapman’s Strawberry Shortcake Crunch Yukon Bar that we have in Canada.
- Comment on hockey team owner selfishly engraves his whole family on the Stanley Cup 3 weeks ago:
Hockey, not lacrosse. And yes, it gets reused every year. Each person who won gets 24 hours with the cup to do whatever they want with it, and then it goes to the next person. The bottom part of the cup is made of a bunch of bands or rings, that get engraved with the winners every year. The whole cup can hold up to 50 years of names, and when they need more space they remove the oldest band and put it in the Hockey Hall of Fame. It looks like the owner added all his family to the cup. It’s happened before and the extra names got struck out. It’ll probably happen again this time too.
- Comment on Well you see, uh... 3 weeks ago:
Mine is just starting to say a couple words and I’m quite excited for these conversations.
- Comment on The function of your product is WHAT?? 3 weeks ago:
I’m assuming it means 1 set of 5 pieces, as in a box of 5 units. The seller might offer more bulk options. I usually see it as 1x5pc rather than 1-5pc where I work, where we deal with lots of bulk shipments, but it could just be regional differences.
- Comment on Sony 3 weeks ago:
This is the correct take. The option should be there for everyone. Lots of folks here are with you, where the practicality of DRM-free digital format media is more important. To people like me, collecting physical media is a hobby itself. I probably spend more time shopping for records and equipment than listening to them, for example, though of course I do listen to them as well. I used to be the same with games, which is why I have a ton of OG Xbox and 360 discs, and for movies I have a bunch of blu-rays and DVDs. Yeah, it’s hard to find space for it all but that challenge is part of the fun, at least for me. Plus it can work as interior decor too. And I know I’m not alone, CD sales are the highest they’ve been in over 20 years, and I’m sure other formats are similar. But again, having the choice for DRM-free digital is also important. Taking away our choice is bad for us all.
- Comment on What is your favourite gaming console you have played? 3 weeks ago:
With the rising cost of storage I wouldn’t be surprised to see a boom in smaller games. Something doesn’t need to be 100GB to be fun. Skyrim was once small enough to fit on a 360 disc and I’ve managed to pour thousands of hours into it.
I’m so jealous you got to experience Portal 2 for the first time recently. That’s an all-time favourite for me.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like something 6ixBuzz would do, if they’re the one who posted the update.
For those unaware, 6ixBuzz is probably the most popular conservative social “news” network for Toronto and surrounding areas. Kind of like a local Fox News. The posts are bad enough but the comments, at least on Instagram, are awful.
- Comment on What is your favourite gaming console you have played? 3 weeks ago:
Playing games as an adult that you couldn’t as a kid/teen is one of the great joys of adulthood.
The 360 feels like the last era of games for fun over games for profit, at least to me. It was also the last console generation where you could just insert a disc and play the game, no downloading required. That’s huge, at least to me. I’m totally fine with the smaller game files, that’s a trade off I’m willing to make for the convenience of plug and play (or insert and play, I guess).
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 4 weeks ago:
I only really use 500 for broiling or burning the tips of veggies. It’s really useful for making homemade soups, but I only do it for the last few minutes of the roasting process. I’ve never tried it with pizza, I’ll have to give it a go.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 4 weeks ago:
Most common oven temperatures:
325°F/160°C, 350°F/175°C, 375°F/190°C, 400°F/205°C, 425°F/220°C
So functional range of temps for most baking is 160-220°C with 175°C being the most common for most standard dinner recipes. Every non-commercial oven I’ve ever used defaults to 350/175 unless you set it otherwise, and I’ve used a lot of ovens. Commercial ovens are a bit different, most don’t have a default or if they do they have memory built in to default to your last temp used, but in my experience the most common temp for commercial baking is more often 375/190.
Though obviously individual recipes vary, that’s just averages across the many recipes I’ve made in both home kitchens and commercial kitchens. I’ve used 425/220 many, many times, as have I used 325/160 many, many times. I’ve also used outside that range but it’s far rarer. That’s mostly for specialized techniques or a very specific ingredient, or slow cooking and broiling obviously.
- Comment on This is why we have two-factor authentication. 4 weeks ago:
No it was USA only. We have three mobile carriers that own all the cell towers here. You’re either with Rogers, Bell, or Telus, or one of their derivatives. There’s zero competition here, it’s ridiculous.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 4 weeks ago:
I hope I get downvoted because it means this game got more attention than I thought, which it greatly deserves. I used to play it on iOS many years ago now. I haven’t played it in several years and probably still have all the puzzles memorized. It’s not filled with super obscure puzzles, but it’s the right amount of challenge with a fantastic atmosphere and vibe. Seriously, if you don’t completely hate point and clicks, give it a shot. It’s truly an excellent game.
- Comment on Is gaming better as a kid or an adult? 5 weeks ago:
I hadn’t felt that feeling in many years, until I played Elden Ring’s DLC. It was the first time since being a kid that I felt a true sense of awe and wonder. I wish I could relive that feeling again.
- Comment on I am el french 5 weeks ago:
Where I live (Canada, not Quebec) we mostly either do a mocking pronunciation similar to the OP or “cruh-SONT” if we’re pronouncing it normally.
- Comment on What is your favourite gaming console you have played? 5 weeks ago:
My wife still has her 360 too, so we’ve got two at home, just one is put away but I know exactly where it is. Maybe I’ll give it a go one of these days.
- Comment on What is your favourite gaming console you have played? 5 weeks ago:
I’ll always have a 360 laying around ready to be played, so probably that if I had to choose. Every other console has come and gone, and now I don’t have time for games anymore, though I do have a pc and a ps5 (ps5 is mostly for BD/DVD these days), but I still have my 360 plugged in and off, just needs to be turned on and hdmi connected.
- Comment on Especially of they have 6 fingers. 5 weeks ago:
Created! !chrissimpsonsartist@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Especially of they have 6 fingers. 5 weeks ago:
I’m tempted now to make a community for Chris (Simpsons Artist) posts.