Posts made by Derp

I had a teacher named Takeela.

I was just like -- your parents did not think that one through.

@ganymede

Oh, I meant in general, not for that dude specifically.

The universe is a crap place, most of the time, in general, for most things.

@wizz said in 2022: A New Year, New Dead Celebrities:

the universe is incredibly shitty

This about sums it up/.

@wizz said in Critters!:

I have NO IDEA how, but this little punk has figured out how to open my kitchen cabinets and drawers and it's practically all she does now. She finds it especially funny to climb into them at 3 AM and startle me awake by knocking shit out of them, and then loudly complain when I try to take her out.

Childproofing! Not just for children!

@ganymede

May your money and treasures be plentiful!

@macha said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@too-old-for-this CNY?

Chinese New Year

@macha said in The Work Thread:

@misadventure I have not. Simply because the chair needs to be replaced, and 140 + tax is hard to beat, even without the footrest

Link me this chair. I paid more than that for the one I have now and I kind of hate it.

@faraday said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

That is what the vaccines are for--preventing serious outcomes, not for eradicating the disease.

Tell that to smallpox.

Just saying. We absolutely can eliminate viruses. We've done it before.

@puppybreath

If either you or your partner have any kind of mental health diagnosis, you can try to have him registered as an emotional support animal or psychiatric service dog. One of the criteria for PSDs are usually 'helps me maintain healthy routines' or something similar, and then it doesn't matter whether they normally allow animals or not. You can take him anywhere.

Forgot to tag @reimesu in here because it's her find but I was le tired.

Yeah, the only source I'm seeing on it is TMZ, and -- do we really trust TMZ? Especially right after she was on People talking about her 100th birthday on the 17th?

Let's give that one a minute.

@silverfox said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

In my household my husband does 90% of the cooking. Not because I CAN'T cook, but because of several reasons.

On the nights I do cook (like today, when there are fucking wildfire evaccuations in DECEMBER and husband must cover them...) I'm reminded of one of the major reasons why I was happy to give up the chore. Mostly because I cannot have the kitchen dirty before I cook, nor leave it dirty after I cook. So on top of the actual prep, here's an easy 20-30 minutes before and after cooking.

DOES ANY ONE ELSE DO THIS?!

I think anyone who has worked in food service for any length of time does this tbh.

@three-eyed-crow said in The Wheel of Time:

I was OK with the wife-killing initially but it doesn't feel like they've done anything particularly worthwhile with it in terms of Perrin's character (and it makes other stuff they are doing more cringe than it'd otherwise be).

...what?

Seriously, what do you mean 'anything particularly worthwhile with it'? Because right now he's very much struggling to embrace the Way of the Leaf because of it, even though he's being called to violence.

I'd say that's pretty significant. It's only slightly different between his hammer-and-axe arc from the books.

And I still don't get why some people are bent out of shape about it. Why could it possibly matter whether it was her or Luhan? Why is Luhan better other than to like, score brownie points with the ultra-woke? A wife is an easy explanation in a short time window, your mentor wracking you full of guilt and sending you on a quest takes a bit more time.

Like. Guys. It's fine.

I'm still voting for vaccine tranq guns or whatever else we have to do.

These idiots wanna play the oppressed victims either way, we might as well be actually doing the thing to make us all safer.

@greenflashlight said in Recipes and Shit:

...cook tomatoes ... a less mushy texture.

One of these things is not like the other.

That said, I make some make-ahead egg muffin things out of eggs, feta, spinach, tomatoes, and black olives with some seasonings and such that are pretty good. Here is a recipe that isn't quite like the ones that I make but are pretty close. This one horrifies me because it uses the dishsoap herb, so if you aren't a fan of that, like me, then sub out some spinach.

https://ikneadtoeat.com/greek-egg-muffins/

ETA PROTIP: I'm not sure why they're doing it like they are in the video / directions. Don't do it like they do. That way is a silly way.

Take all of your solid ingredients and just divide them up between then muffin tins, to ensure even coverage, and THEN just cover that with the egg mixture, which is gonna be less messy anyway.

Trust me.

@mietze

Mix it up a little and do a scampi?

@seraphim73 said in The Wheel of Time:

Healing the dead

Everyone keeps making a big deal about this and getting up in arms about what the One Power can and can't do, etc.

But I think people forget that Egwene is a Dreamwalker, and in Tel'aran'rhiod that is absolutely possible. The same as it is possible to spin up entire people out of the world of dreams -- which is bad. Because they have no soul. Kind of like Rand's little girl wouldn't have had one.

And Rand was very clearly in the world of dreams.

So.

This doesn't seem that big of a stretch to me. Egwene could have shunted them off to Tel'aran'rhiod or the In Between Place for that instant that it took to manifest that reality, the same as Rand could have manifested the little girl out of the In Between Place.

It's not even that much of a stretch from book canon.

Prey is bonkers fun. I love that game so much. It's never the same twice.

@arkandel

I mean, I get that you have STRONG OPINIONS for reasons, but I think I am going to to with Hard Disagree that any work transferred between mediums has to be absolutely chained to the original, especially when the original had both aged poorly and been met with so much criticism of the content in it.

The Expanse is another one that has done relatively well, and has now diverged quite a way from the books it is based on.

@wretched

As someone who read the books, they have more personality in the show than the first book.

Rand, in the books, is your basic personality-free neutral mask hero where anyone can slot themselves in a la Keanu in the Matrix.

Mat is a hyperactive trickster type that never stops fucking talking and testing limits to just test them.

Egwene is Ms. Men Are Stupid, Women Rule to the point of being almost comically obstinate if the suggestion came from anyone other than a woman, even if it's the exact same conclusion a woman reaches later, worded differently.

Nynaeve is almost absurdly standoffish. To everyone. On everything. Always. She is a walking pile of righteous anger and indignation.

Lan is a condescending prick who is really, really hard to like.

Moiraine only has half the story and is wrong about half the time but speaks with such utter confidence that you want to trust her, until you get into the later books and realize how much she was just pulling out of her ass and making up on the fly because Aes Sedai R Right, Duh.

And Perrin is the slow, pensive type that would make a LotR Ent look almost brash by comparison.

They got more nuance in the show than in the books.