I’m disappointed I didn’t see a piracy parody of this before seeing this. Come on internet.

Gaming LoFi, Gaming Metal, Gaming Jazz, Space Folk

Nice! I read another of her’s without realizing it: The Loom saga. I enjoyed it and would read more. It seemed a lot less YA, though. So if it lines up to get it again, I’ll see how she handles that audience.

And perfect timing, it’s been a few since I checked on Lemmy.

There ARE people in the world who say, “it’s awful that the only way to make x happen involves suffering. I’ll be respectful of that suffering and try to eventually remove it and minimize other suffering in the process too.”

We just also need to remember that there are also people who say, “If we wanted to be seen as good, we wouldn’t do x in the first place. The fact that y and z causes suffering too is negligible.”

Another thing to remember is that capitalism self-selects for the second type.

Sounds very little like Shadow and Bone, but good try ChatGPT. Especially after the edit, so might have been an even better try initially.

It sounds like the world of Cinder Spires meets Shadow and Bone with a hint of Golden Compass, but not enough like any of them to remotely be a match.

How was that series? I almost picked it up via Audible sale, but I wasn’t sure at the time. It looked like it could have hit a few different levels of quality.

Genuinely curious:

Is the author saying that ACO and VBC were decent ideas that got UHG’s fingers grafted into the legal structure, or are they just saying that ACO and VBC are bad in general?

And I knew that we had some awful structures within our healthcare system, but I LOATHE UHG and didn’t realize that they OWN our medical system. Disgusting.

Well, I never wanted you to be any kind of model, but here I am.

I see someone has found the back alley of the Geoff’s Trash Anime restaurant.

For those looking for more. Fez is a delight and a classic in the genre. The very last puzzle is more interesting from a community lore standpoint than actually being a decent puzzle, though. So be kind to yourself on that one.

The update has been queued for about a month on my work computer. No. I won’t do it.

Guess I’m no longer an Apple fan. Huh. I’m just locked in at this point. Switching would just spread my data around more and I’m already committed to not upgrading for a few years.

Enjoy! I was eating it while writing, so had all the “wish-I-hadas” fresh in my mind!

And fair warning, I’ve enjoyed failed attempts as many times as successful ones, but if I don’t kill it with soy sauce it’s usually still delicious.

I see “radial” and think radius and go for the equator of the onion, but I think you’re right and say, an onion ring would be an orbital(?) cut.

When I say “pole-to-pole”, I don’t get confused at the terminology, so I go for that and can be confident. The others get me in negation loops around thinking it was one thing and remembering that I got it wrong last time and it wasn’t…which one?

Do a breakfast bowl, usually on a weekend and much closer to lunch than a normal breakfast, but it’s still great:

Leftover rice; breakfast ham, sausage,or chicken; sautéed red and green onion, sautéed tomato chunks; and eggs both folded into the rice before frying and separately scrambled and quick fried.

The key is the sauce: light and dark soy, rice vinegar, oyster sauce, brown sugar or honey, minced garlic, and a cornstarch slurry.

This combo is sweet, salty, savory, and still pretty complete.

If you’re doing one wok or sauté pan, get your ingredients ready and turn up the heat.

I do the eggs in a clean pan with only hot oil. I pour in scrambled eggs (with a little soy and parsley). This cooks them instantly, puffs them up, and browns them soon after. They’re meaty and fluffy. It’s great.

Next is the meat. In the pan, cook it through, add a little sauce, out to the side, staying warm with the eggs somewhere.

After that are veggies chopped to be picked up. I save the very top of the green onions for garnish and the very bottom for the fried rice. The middle gets cut into logs and sautéed with thicker-cut onion slices (half-onion, pole-to-pole) and cubes quarters or sixths of tomatoes, salted and seasoned. Cut, salted, cooked in a little oil or butter until lightly charred, then out and warmed.

The rice should also get an egg stirred in during prep and a little soy sauce and garlic, parsley, etc. to preference. Then oil the hot pan with a little more than you’d think and once the eggs are in, stir vigorously then stop and let cook, repeating every 30 seconds or so until each piece is a little brown and golden. Then add back everything, coat it all in sauce and stir vigorously. Alternatively, sauce the rice with half and add the rest back for the other half.

It’s delicious and gets plenty of protein and veg. It’s DEFINITELY healthy for you if you don’t think about it and just take my word.

Saw an Xbox ad for Palworld that was the epitome of a filler ad: “check out the hottest new game here” that’s what I write when I’m trying to wireframe a template, not when I’m trying to actually sell something.

Tell me your marketing team was replaced with AI without telling me your marketing team was replaced with AI

Been playing Dishonored for the first time and really enjoying it. I’m only at the bridge and trying to play a low/no kill game. I’m not succeeding just yet, but it’s been really enjoyable and they do stealth really well. I’m baffled that they mismanaged to get the team that made this and Prey to push out Redfall? Man.

Just picked up FFVII after the second or third hiatus or my third or fourth attempt to play it. FINALLY made it to the Nibelheim story and past Midgard. And that somehow still manages to work on me as a first time player.

Just beat Banner Saga 1 and have never felt so much like a failure after “beating” a game. That game is trying to unseat This War of Mine for decisions regretted/minute.

I’m wanting to start up my Nintendo series playthroughs again by either starting Mario Galaxy 2 or trying to remember what on earth was happening in Majora’s Mask (3DS) something about the water temple maybe?

“Oh man! We screwed up and sent out potentially deadly food to customers, isn’t this a great opportunity to gather their marketing information?”

Hmm…

So I only use Brave for YouTube. I definitely won’t be recommending it, but I’m torn between whether I’m being a leech of ad-free user generating what should be near zero revenue or if I’m being valuable as a number to ad to user counts.

I use “Observational Maintenance” all the time:

When you ask someone to look at a problem and it’s fixed by the time they do.

A friend showed me an issue they’d been having for over a YEAR. I did almost NOTHING and it was working by the time I looked at it.

More often than not it’s me that looks dumb, though.p