Posts made by GreenFlashlight

@auspice said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

I don't know how people can. You can't look at two eyes at once.

Wait, can people look someone in both eyes at once? Is that something other people can do?

Not a lawyer, but I love a good lawyer joke. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBL0ClcLwF4

@caryatid Personally, I don't trust people who don't have reasons to cry during the holidays.

@cobaltasaurus said in The Dog Thread:

Eta: currently all he does is sleep and cuddle.

Hims misses him mama :`(

@auspice said in How are you coping with COVID (and other 2020 fun)?:

I love pasta too much ;.;

I find that chick pea pasta is a pretty good substitute, but it's just not quite right for pasta aglio e olio.

@ominous said in How are you coping with COVID (and other 2020 fun)?:

On the topic of easy pasta dishes, I find carbonara pretty easy to make. The only tricky bits are you got to cut up the bacon and fry it and separate one egg yolk from its white.

Have you ever tried making it the authentic way, with prosciutto* and whatever the hell else goes in it? I hear it's not really worth the expenditure or effort for the result.

*EDIT: Guanciale. Whatever it's actually called.

@derp Let me know what you think of it. I've only done it once, before I got diagnosed as pre-diabetic and decided I had to cut the noodles from my diet.

@derp That recipe is fine, and it was the first time I'd ever heard of pasta aglio e olio, but I recommend using an entire head of garlic, and crushing it rather than slicing it so it gets a nice crispy texture and clings to the pasta a bit better. And this will sound bizarre, but seriously, dissolving two sardines in the oil before adding the garlic adds a weird but really compelling flavor.

@waller said in General Video Game Thread:

Tangential to the conversation:

Jim Sterling is nonbinary and their pronouns are they/them.

Thanks! I probably could have found that out by checking Twitter, but to hell with Twitter.

@insomniac7809 said in General Video Game Thread:

When, exactly, did we collectively decide that "well, it's day one release" was an excuse for a game to be buggy?

When we decided self-respect was less important to us than making sure the hype prophecies we tell ourselves about the toys we play with are self-fulfilling. I'm bad with dates but I think it was about eight years ago.

@tnp said in General Video Game Thread:

Define crunch in this context?

Crunch is the practice of expecting laborers to put in excessive, dangerously high number of hours per work week to get a product out at the advertised time.

@rucket said in General Video Game Thread:

Yeah, if anything the absurd crunch is what led to a lot of these problems. You work people 100 hour weeks for like 9 months straight (or longer) and fucking mistakes are going to be made. I do hope crunch ends up going away for the industry sooner or later, but it's also been over a decade since the "EA Spouse" blog that brought up shit working conditions and, well, here we are.

Crunch won't go away. The only thing corporations like more than profit is not having to change the way they do things. They'll happily continue putting out shitty, unplayable games they have to refund if it means getting to preserve their calcified business model.

@sunny So sorry for your loss, Sunny.

@sunny said in How are you coping with COVID (and other 2020 fun)?:

Damnit. I love you guys. I'm sorry so many folks are having such a shitty time. I wish I was SURPRISED by that, but I am not really. I was hoping more people were doing better than me, though. Everybody else seems so chill to my...not-chill.

For me, there's a certain serenity in helplessness. The options available to me are so horrific as to not be options at all, and I'm fatalistic enough that when there are no options, I can be at peace with how things are even if I hate it. So, I guess there's a form of chill in it, for me? If that makes you feel any better.

(Admittedly that applies only to my personal circumstances and not the genocidal shitshow of mismanagement that put us here, but hey, I'll take what peace I can get these days.)

Oh no, Parkinson's?

Wow, your landlord sounds like a complete dick.

Endure. That's all I can think of to do. I keep working because I'm "essential" (but not essential enough to be paid a living wage, which makes me want to burn the "heroes work here" signs in front of the building) and I stay away from my family to keep them safe. I watch myself grow angrier and watch my social skills atrophy, both with dismay but with no idea of how to prevent or reverse either. I just keep reminding myself I'm okay, I'm not great but I'm okay, I can get through this, just five more months to go until I probably have a vaccine and the people I want to visit probably have a vaccine...

In the meantime, I sleep a lot.

@il-volpe Aw, look at him fur bib!

@snackness Yay, that boi is doing such a good job sitting!

@fauxgiraffe This snootpupper is fantastic.

@derp That pandaboi is outstanding.

@cobaltasaurus said in The Dog Thread:

1. Socialize puppy often.
2. Train puppy not to jump on people / furniture
3. Work on potty training puppy
4. Work on crate training.
5. Post lots of pics of pupperschnupp for MSB people to squee over.

Fixed that for you.