Shiggles
@Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Does the USA simply have no food safety standard at all? 4 days ago:
Cooking a food in a sealed plastic bag is referred to as “Sous Vide”, and was invented in 1974 by the french. It can also be performed in a glass jar, so we definitely could remove the plastic from the equation, but there are “food safe plastics” which have been demonstrated to have no known health issues when used for this purpose.
Some plastics, like BPA or PVC, are dangerous to consume/do easily leach into food/water, but “plastic” is a very broad term that refers to a lot of different materials.
Note: microplastics are a whole different story, and we’re not really sure how bad they are for you. It is perfectly reasonable to ask the question, but society at large has essentially decided the convenience outweighs the risk, and good luck trying to avoid it in your food.
- Comment on Day 154 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 4 days ago:
What’s giving you trouble? Combat just takes some getting used to, but you also need to recognize when you’ve got too much heat and bail - you walk faster than the zombies, after all. Walk into the woods, do a big loop, and come back out with maybe 3-4 zeds still on your tail.
- Comment on EXCLUSIVE - Ubisoft Wants to Change the 'Far Cry Formula' with Far Cry 7 and Maverick 5 days ago:
3 was great, 4’s biggest improvement was functional multiplayer. I have core memories of hunting every animal that moved from the side of a gyrocopter piloted poorly by a very inebriated bud.
- Comment on nuclear 6 days ago:
almost certainly no private investment in nuclear in the future
I too refuse to read any news, ever, if it doesn’t support my viewpoint. Definitely no current investments in nuclear at the moment.
I like wind and solar! They’re not the whole of the solution for the whole globe though. There’s no reason to keep spreading the fossil fuel industry’s propaganda for them.
- Comment on nuclear 6 days ago:
You’re so right - we should just pump all our crap out into the biosphere instead and keep burning coal.
- Comment on Meme. 2 weeks ago:
While I think the meme’s a bit far, if I see a .ml talking about how great China is, I’m going to just glaze over whatever they’re saying.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 5 weeks ago:
How greedy of the man, to checks notes admit to not wanting to make a cash grab and instead leaving the series unfinished because they didn’t think they could do it justice.
- Comment on But yes. 5 weeks ago:
Most power generation is just steam spinning turbines. Solar’s just weird. Wind cuts out the steam loop.
- Comment on Whould everyone doing nothing be a viable option? 1 month ago:
The main difference between a prime minister and a president is the fact that they’re appointed, not elected, no? Little difference when you consider the state of national primaries in the states, but still.
- Comment on He's a little feisty, but he looked cold 1 month ago:
Their face looks like “you know, I was going to murder you, but I’m just gonna see how long you keep this up for until you realize.
- Comment on Planet Coaster 2 review 1 month ago:
As much as I hate being a corporate shill: ask yourself this. Is the game worth the asking price with no DLC? You don’t have to buy every DLC, that’s just the cost of the additional game development time. And maybe the game isn’t worth the price now, but in two years you can probably pick it and a few of the best DLCs up for the same price as it is now and get your money’s worth.
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 1 month ago:
Realistic as in “this is a believable real person” not “this is exactly what everyone looks like”
- Comment on Fields of Mistria is one of the most impressive games I've ever played 2 months ago:
Sun haven was a pleasant experience. Rather than automating farming, I just cause earthquakes and rainstorms to plow and water respectively. My only complaint is my thumb hurting from constantly air dashing around.
- Comment on Behaviour Interactive (Dead By Daylight devs) acquire Red Hook Studios (Darkest Dungeon devs) 2 months ago:
Please keep behavior far away from fromsoft thanks
- Comment on 'Melts our frozen-solid hearts': Frostpunk 2 devs celebrate 350,000 copies sold—covering the production and marketing costs 2 months ago:
Lmao okay so you had a skill issue and got salty, got it.
- Comment on 'Melts our frozen-solid hearts': Frostpunk 2 devs celebrate 350,000 copies sold—covering the production and marketing costs 2 months ago:
Tedious: too long, slow, or dull; tiresome or monotonous
I think what you were going for was challenging and/or punishing. The first game explicitly has ends to each city type, and I certainly wouldn’t describe watching the city steam a man alive to get the people to tolerate you putting sawdust in their food “dull”
- Comment on Big Penny! 3 months ago:
What are our bets on what forever chemical is our generations leaded gasoline?
- Comment on Things that we hate 3 months ago:
Step 1. Have an idea
Step 2. Google idea
Step 3. Someone thought of it before you were born
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Those who just live by a philosophy might browse there for recipe ideas and that’s about it.
- Comment on How to treat a man 3 months ago:
Instead we chuckle at a message of violence and wonder why people get radicalized.
- Comment on Valve bans Razer and Wooting’s new keyboard features in Counter-Strike 2 3 months ago:
That’s cool granddad, you must be such an open minded and pleasant individual
- Comment on What’s a game you can 100% without hating by the end? 4 months ago:
Why? The padding is there for those with the stomach for it, but you can just… play a new game once you’ve stopped having fun?
- Comment on Shadows of Doubt, the procgen private-eye immersive sim, is leaving early access next month 4 months ago:
If my experience is anything to go by, you mug everybody you see, steal everything in their wallet to “identify them”, interrogate them while vomiting drunk in their apartment, and maybe solve a murder or two on accident.
- Comment on Anon plays Persona 5 months ago:
Lotta words to say you’re mad 🤷🏻♂️
- Comment on Garfield 5 months ago:
Garfield’s injection of +c reminds me of when I was a wee little shit and, annoyed at losing points on a test for forgetting to write “+ c”, decided to exclusively write “- c” for the rest of school. Dropped the habit in college because I stopped caring, but I am always tempted.
- Comment on Sun Haven is for Stardew Valley fans that want more and it now has controller support 6 months ago:
My only complaint is my thumb hurts from air dashing 24/7
- Comment on The men vs. bear saga reaches the inevitable conclusion 6 months ago:
It’s saying that and it’s saying they have no concept of the dangers of wildlife. But everyone takes addressing the latter as ignoring the former, when they’re two separate conversations only combined by the dumb analogy.
- Comment on The men vs. bear saga reaches the inevitable conclusion 6 months ago:
Polar bears will in fact just kill you and eat you. Grizzlies, very likely to be territorial. Black bears are the most “cowardly”, but all three will fuck you up to protect their young, hence why the season matters.
I haven’t exactly done the math on relative bear populations to tell you if your odds are better with a random bear or a random man, but it doesn’t matter, you wouldn’t consider any of my statements valid even if I wrote a whole ass thesis.
- Comment on The men vs. bear saga reaches the inevitable conclusion 6 months ago:
Absolutely depends on proximity, and probably how close we are to (bear) mating season. And type of bear, for that matter. If we’re including all men with no restrictions, it’s only fair to include all bears too, right?
- Comment on Our bffs 7 months ago:
The second most useful thing I learned from statistics courses was the statistics. The first was just how terrible most people are in their application.