Nothing too serious, i want to hear your petty, your eccentric, your off beat takes.
YYYY-MM-DD is the only acceptable numeric date format and should be the standard taught in schools.
American cheese is “real” cheese, and it’s called a “process cheese,” not “processed cheese,” because process cheese is a culinary term for a cheese made from a mixture of cheeses. Also it melts so good because of a perfectly safe food additive called sodium citrate which just prevents the fat from separating.
American cheese is “real” cheese
And box-wine is wine, Temu is a fine vendor, the lottery is a retirement plan, and a kleptocracy is a government. Just, none of those are good examples of their group.
I like to make smash burgers. The first time my wife and I had people over for burgers, very early in our marriage, she wanted to buy cheddar and swiss and gouda to give people options. Which is fine and all, but I begged her, “Please, trust me on this. I have the cheese covered.”
Deli-style American is the greatest burger cheese. Don’t get me wrong, plenty of other cheeses are good on burgers, but if you want just a staple burger, I recommend a good American cheese. None of that Kraft Singles shit, get the good stuff.
I prefer swiss on a burger
Swiss is great on a burger! Especially when combined with grilled onions or mushrooms.
She was right about buying all that cheese tho. Maybe not for the burgers, but just for snacking
Oh most definitely. We generally have a pretty good collection of cheeses for snacking.
My personal favorite lately is a Carolina Reaper pepper jack. It’s phenomenal. When we first started getting it it was so hot it gave me hiccups, though I’ve gotten used to it since.
Well specifically it melts at a lower temperature because it’s mixed with milk. The cheese part doesn’t separate from the milk due to the additive, which is called an emulsifier. That also might sound artificial, but it’s just the name for things that keep fats from separating from water and water-soluable foods. For example egg white is another emulsifier, and it’s used in making mayonnaise.
Also 100% agree with American cheese being real cheese. It’s not the best in every place you would want cheese, but that’s true of any cheese. I don’t want blue cheese on my nachos, and I don’t want American cheese in my salads. But it’s great on meat, and it’s a good complement to a lot of warm foods.
Idk about it being the milk. When I make nachos or queso I add a pinch of sour salt and it stays stable and smooth at a much cooler temperature
+2 for sour salt
It’s one of two objectively correct cheeses for a cheeseburger, the other being provolone if you’re going for kind of a philly thing.
cheddar??
Doesn’t melt as well as American.
I think that’s preferable, I don’t want the cheese falling off the burger, I want it to stick to the burger
Doesn’t really help that during the cooking process, and cheddar re-coagulates and gets kinda hard as the burger cools.
I’ve always kinda liked that, but can understand that some people don’t. Course, eating the burger immediately after it’s been dressed, while the cheese is still melty, is definitely the best time to enjoy it. God do I hate soggy lettuce or wilted greens on a burger 🤢
I eat too much sodium citrate probably. I sprinkle some on my fruit popsicles and turn them into sour popsicles. It is probably not great for my teeth
Grogu is cuter than Paddington. I have in fact had arguments about this.
Nah, Grogu is the result of focus grouping the shit out of what cute character could sell the most toys. Paddington was one man’s idea.
Basic gardening should be considered a life skill. If for nothing more than the joy of using your own herbs and greens every day
The $2 coin in Canada should’ve been called a doubloonie but we got twoonie instead. (Both play on the $1 coin being called a loonie after the loon pictured on the tail side. As a bonus inconsequential hot take, I believe all tail sides of coins should feature an animal with an actual tail, for clarity. So the loonie is fine, as is the Canadian nickel, which features a beaver with a big ass tail! The quarter features a moose. While said animal has a tail, only its head is shown on the coin, so that’s a bit confusing.)
More games, if not all games, should include cheats or extra sliders for both difficult but also gameplay options.
Let have infinite mana or slow mo or increase my speed or whatever. At the end of the day games are entertainment and you should be able to tweak things to better enjoy it.
(I know mods exist but those are a mixed bag in terms of if they exist and what they support)
I like the way Pacific Drive did it.
- Here’s the way we intended it.
- Here’s an easier and a harder mode.
- Here’s a bunch of difficulty settings in detail, select what you like.
I understand from a resources perspective why it’s not always done. But from a player’s perspective, I totally get you.
Learning to use cheat engine is a game-changer. It can pretty much automatically single out a memory location for something like mana just by casting a spell a few times.
There’s a game I played last year, the name of which I now completely forget, which I never actually finished because the final boss was such a bitch that I ended up rage quitting. Even set to easy. I’d never been so angry at a game.
Watched the ending on YouTube instead.
that was kena bridge of spirits for me. got all the way to the end boss and too hard.
I’m looking at you, Black Mesa.
How can that damn alien spider take 8.000 rockets and still kill me?
Moving Out has this. Even though I’ve never used it, I found it to be a wholesome addition to the game.
I do miss cheat codes.
I love how many difficulty settings Rogue Legacy 2 had. I prefer to game on normal difficulties, but it was good to have options for those who don’t
I totally support this. I’m also ok as long as games are structured to allow easy modding to do the same. It should be common enough that a specific warning on games that don’t have it on platforms like Steam.
They’re not inconsequential but they’re at least not divisive enough to get me killed, this time:
- boobs are better than butt
- all physical appearance attributes that a human can have are attractive to someone
- Generally speaking, modern buildings are better than old ones. and actual ruins should be integrated into a modern structure on top rather than just left wasting space. (I am not in favour of removing well built old buildings like churches, but i live somewhere where the cult of preserving old housing stock which is no longer fit for purpose, for “historical” reasons, is ruining the country. If you can make something more eco efficient, it must be done.)
- to expand on the previous point: people are extremely negative about structures from 1901-2001, and about 2001-2026. There’s beauty in them. People will literally learn to hate anything if they hear other people express that it is ugly. These buildings are simply not that bad at al, nor are new buildings.
Well those are 4 superficial takes
More: -Wagner’s philosophy to music is a disgusting and world-ending kind of attitude. He became racist out of anger of being ignored by mendellssohn, supposedly; a fun fact.
boobs are better than butt
Ok you lost me there, that is an incomprehensible sentence
It’s downright blasphemy!
I love that some people feel that way, considering I have a spectacular butt. Especially when those people have a killer rack.
My rack leaves much to be desired, but congratulations on your butt, good effort!
tiny boobies and big ol’ butt is literally the perfect combo. big ol’ boobies stretch, sag, and get veiny with age. butt just gets bigger. thinking long-term
What next, are you going to warn me that if I order lemonade I’ll get something both sweet and sour?
Sure when I was younger I only liked pert breasts, but in my 30s I like the bodies of women my age (and a fair bit older tbh), sags, stretch marks, veins, and all
people are extremely negative about structures from 1901-2001
I think that’s starting to turn around, I’ve seen more appreciation for brutalism and mid century modern recently.
What part of Wagner’s views specifically are you referring to? (The music I mean, not the racism since that’s just a whole big, sticky, knotted mess to try to unpack.) But yeah, are you referring to Gesamtkunstwerk?
I often hear it said that he felt music should always tell a story, rather than just being something to listen to; one of a few reasons why he focused on opera. He only approved of music connected to story telling. I think music
transcendsspans story telling and also it’s own space, of existing just to be listened to (e.g background music) and doesn’t have to have storytelling intentions.Otherwise ambient music shouldn’t exist. Classical pieces that are purely technique and not thematic - which many chamber music pieces are - are disowned.
I might just misunderstand him. I actually didn’t know that much about gesamtkunstwerk until i read up on it, so clearly my knowledge isn’t comprehensive.
Wales isnt real
You’re right, it’s Cymru.
Of course they is! I seens ‘em in the water from a boat! Spittin’ water out their head!
Onions are the superior vegetable. Depending on how they are prepared they can taste so many different ways.
i will grant this only because we classify garlic as an herb
Garlic is an onion, other poster didn’t specify white onion
All I know is I get leaky without them both
Binary prefixes are stupid and unnecessary. Yes, I know “kilo” means 1000, not 1024, I don’t care because it’s obvious from context. RAM manufacturers know what’s up - I’ve never seen the word “gibibyte” or “GiB” written on a stick of RAM.
I also hate these stupid bandwagon pet peeves:
Pineapple on pizza is great and if you disagree you don’t have to eat it.
There’s nothing inherently gross about the word “moist”.
Toilet paper orientation doesn’t matter at all.
I was with you until the last one. Anyone who doesn’t put their toilet paper in the holder vertically is an idiot.
You had me with the first half, ngl
You don’t punch a hole through it so you can put it horizontally? For shame.
Toilet paper orientation doesn’t matter at all.
Unless you have cats.
Both my cats have never given a single fuck about my TP. Am I just lucky?
Unless you have cats.
Said cat is in my lap this moment, and any time the TP was installed wrongly she’d run amok – for 15 years.
i was going to tell you to close the damn door, but then i remembered how i open doors for the stupid cat even when there is a cat flap he can use. and the other cat has figured out door handles so we had to put knobs on the exterior doors.
Superman 3 is worse than Superman 4.
Geology is the superior hard science because it incorporates all others. It is the beautiful combination of math, physics, chemistry, and biology that is far more than the sum of its parts and plays a role in so many parts of daily life that people may not connect to geology.
Biology? Maybe compressed carbon from plants but it doesn’t feel right.
Biology is far more intertwined with geology than that. Paleontology is extremely important in determining the relative age of rock units and features through marker fossils, which are time limited but geographically ubiquitous. Charles Darwin was a geologist first, and his journey on the HMS Beagle allowed him to find various fossils that eventually led him to developing the theory of evolution by natural selection.
There is so much more connection between the two sciences than you might think.
You can’t talk about erosion without talking about vegetation at some point
I like this, didn’t consider that!
I get annoyed when people describe the taste and flavor of coffee as “strong”.
“Strong” is just the concentration of coffee particles in water. An espresso is stronger than an Americano for instance.
Coffee tastes bitter, sour and maybe a little sweet. The flavors can be quite complex involving fruit, nuts, spices and such. Don’t just say “sTrOnG” like an oonga boonga caveman.
People who cannot return a shopping cart to a proper location should not be able to use said shopping cart.
Oats are the worst grain to make a porridge from. Rice, millet, buckwheat, maize, and wheat all make much better porridges.
This take is so hot, really though, where did the groat hurt you?
Explain yourself, are you using whole or flaked grains for porridge?
Also barley, am I a joke to you?
I love a groat, I just prefer a buckwheat groat or a millet groat to an oat groat!
I mostly use whole grains.
I don’t know that I’ve tried a barley porridge but I’d get one before an oatmeal for sure.
C’mon @combatwombat, we need answers!!
Sorry I was making a delicious millet porridge
Millet? Well now I’ve heard everything
Man buckwheat? That’s a hot take indeed, big upvote from me
I had a Ukrainian roommate who would boil buckwheat groats and mix it with an unhealthy amount of mayonnaise and ketchup and it is better than you expect.
it is better than you expect.
That’s a fairly low bar to clear …
When I was younger I would go through an entire box of Cream of Wheat (a brand of instant wheat porridge) in a week. It’s way better than regular oatmeal.
Well, the brown sugar and apple cinnamon varieties are. Plain cream of wheat is absolutely vile.
