I can no longer take for granted that I live in a world where Tucker Carlson will not use his platform to tell every English-speaking person on the planet that he harbors fantasies of picking up the green M&M at a bar because her footwear really triggers his fetish.
Farnsworth meme here.
Moving my couch to block the patio door has really done wonders for keeping the downstairs warmer.
@arkandel Yeah, don't even get me started on the show's sexual politics. The new season is better about it, but still kinda pings my creep radar.
@arkandel I find Cobra Kai generally enjoyable but also weirdly frustrating in parts. My biggest gripe is with little moments where child characters are written as having to reassure the sixty-year-olds (and thereby the show's audience demographic) that hey, old stuff is still cool and it's okay to have not listened to new music since 1989. Little stuff that I suspect gets on my nerves in a way it wouldn't do to others, which means it's gotta be pretty good overall, right?
@sunny said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I’m sure we’ll be fine. I am…not, right now.
I believe your story, and I'm sorry for everything you're going through. I'm also going to stop asking questions because I interpret this as a hint that you would like to have some time to sit with it, but if I've misread you, my DMs are open.
I have not been able to stop thinking about this game. Several questions about the setting have come up. I ask them from a place of excitement, which I say because with my tone I probably come off like I'm being a downer.
How does the law treat non-human heroes? For example, someone gets bitten by a radioactive weevil and develops weevil-like powers, so they go to their doctor to find out what's wrong with them. Does the doctor still have a responsibility to protect Weevil-Man's private medical information and not disclose this mutation to a government agency?
How much do you intend to define other races in the setting? Will players be allowed to say they come from a secret subterranean race of creatures? Will you provide a list of aliens and their traits which is permissible for players to choose to base their characters on? How about which mythologies, if any, are true or at least based in fact? Will characters be permitted to help define the setting by creating characters who are part of a pantheon and/or the secret Ancient Aliens who really built Stonehenge or whatever?
What overall tone are you going for? If this game was a movie, what would the MPAA rate it?
If you're using a system that has mechanics to model them rather than a consent-based system like most mixed universe games, do you intend to implement any particular rules or protections against effects that can control another character's mind?
@buttercup I'm not watching it, so this is a question rather than a challenge. What's so bad about it?
It's Fine, I Wasn't Using My Heart For Anything Anyway
1 clove crushed garlic
1 tbsp crushed ginger
3 tbsp soy sauce
3 tbsp sake
1 tbsp mirin
0.5 tsp white sugar
0.25 tsp black pepper
0.25 tsp kosher salt
0.125 tsp sesame oil
1.25 lbs boneless, skinless chicken thighs
1 cup potato starch
Mix that first batch of ingredient together in a biggish bowl to make a marinade.
Cut the chicken meat into fingers or nuggets as you prefer. Dump them into the bowl and give everything a good hand mixing to try to coat every surface. Cover the bowl and leave it in the fridge for somewhere between 1 and 10 hours.
When the chicken is marinated to your tastes, put the starch into a shallow bowl or pan. Transfer one piece of chicken to the bowl at a time, rolling the chicken over to make sure every piece is very lightly coated: you're looking for the chicken to be pale rather than white, but don't worry about it, you'll get a chance to fix it if you get too much starch on any given piece. Transfer the coated chicken to a wire rimmed surface set in a baking sheet, and repeat until there is no more chicken to transfer from marinade to bowl to sheet. Put the sheet in your fridge for fifteen minutes. This is the time you should be using to get the cooking ready, but how you do this may vary, so I will skip ahead of myself and say when you remove the chicken tray from the fridge, lightly bap any pieces that have too much starch against the wire rim to knock excess starch off before cooking.
So, right, the cooking part. A quart of oil in a pan heated up to 350F is the traditional method here. Lower the chicken into the oil in small batches so it doesn't crowd, because these things WILL glue themselves together if they touch. Give them three minutes until golden brown, then fish out and transfer to a clean wire rim or plate lined with paper towels to cool off and drip.
If you're like me, you don't want that much oil in your meal, so use an air fryer for the same heat and time. It will look white rather than gold, which is kind of off-putting, but it tastes just as good.
Apparently you're meant to eat these things while squeezing juice from a fresh lemon wedge over them. I tried that and it didn't work for me, but I used low-sodium soy sauce in my marinade. I feel like the lemon juice would really pop if I'd used the full salt soy sauce.
@too-old-for-this No problem. I do that all the time.
@ganymede Just season 5 of She-Ra at this point, honestly, and I wonder if I need to keep paying for access to that because it's not like every minute isn't seared into my brain at this point.
@too-old-for-this That was Solstice, not me. But otherwise, yeah.
I was just introduced to a handy website that tells me what streaming services host which movies. None of the ones I want to watch are on Netflix. Why do I still have a subscription to this?
@solstice said in The Work Thread:
Am I taking crazy pills?
No. But your health and safety are impediments to your bosses making as much profit as they want to make, so they will command you to pretend everything's fine to remind you what your place is: silent and still beneath their boot.
As much as those names make my eye twitch, I support anyone who wants to force English spelling to make sense. Bruklin it is, by gum.
@betternow I'll have to try that in the future! Thanks.
Post-Depression Been Eating Nothing But Bread and Now Need Some Vegetables
1 squash
1 zucchini
1 red bell pepper
1 thing of mushrooms
1 jar/bottle Italian salad dressing
Slice all the vegetables into pretty much the same size and thickness, which probably means starting with the pepper and using it to determine the others. Toss it all into a bowl and lightly coat with Italian dressing. It's real easy to overpower this, so try not to. Cook them on a grill. If you're using a Foreman grill or something, then just cook it in batches right on the grill, but if you're using a proper grill, make a sealed pocket out of tin foil so nothing falls through the grate and kinda let it steam in there instead of searing. Either way you'll have fun.
I'm interested, though I'm terrible at M&M, so I hope you're forgiving of people who want to make sheet changes because they don't quite get the intricacies of building powers.
"His best friend" is such a weird way for an article to repeatedly describe a murder victim. Come on, People.
@solstice You've already tried the obvious stuff like buying a bag of earplugs from Walmart?