Nothing too serious, i want to hear your petty, your eccentric, your off beat takes.
Microphone is shorted to “mic” not “mike”.
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
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 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
Losing in-game progress is as real as losing real life progress. No, I will not starve if I lose game credits (regular credits, not microtransacrion credits), but games are a transaction. For any progress, real or virtual, you’re spending time and effort to get a reward back. Having fun while earning credits is like having fun while learning how to build/repair something. If you fail at the end, you’ve invested time with little or no payoff. The game credits are there to get you better equipment and such, making your future play better in some way. As I’ve gotten older and busier, my limited play time is more valuable, and I want to progress. If I don’t or can’t, then the game doesn’t provide as much reward, and the game loses entertainment value despite a fixed monetary cost.
All to say if progress is at risk in MMOs, I stick to solo modes or non-PvP groups so I can remain the main character who rarely dies
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.
i was suprised to learn recentlyish that most people prefer crispy french fries over soggy ones. the ideal fry is somewhere in the middle but between the two extremes i’ll take the sog every day of the week
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!
I guess this hot take depends on the audience… But if you don’t have bay leaves on hand for a recipe, your family and friends aren’t going to notice the difference. When push comes to shove, it’s probably the least important part of any recipe.
Bay leaves are kind of like bass in music. It adds an earthy undertone to everything. Whatever you’re making won’t necessarily be bad without it, but it’ll be thin and less impactful.
Nah. A lot of music sounds much worse without bass, you’re just missing an entire frequency spectrum.
I agree. They’re obviously not mandatory but I really like them being there
You can notice the difference, its just that you probably won’t know what is missing.
I’m partial to kombu over bay leaves, though it’s hard to source where I am. It is at least edible after you cook it to death, and it has some additional merit as a folk cure for flatulence.
Bay leaves are so stupid
Yeah, it’s not as important as professionals make it out to be. Like, if you under-salt a dish, people will notice that the meal doesn’t taste as good as the last time you made it, even if they can’t identify why. But the “depth” that bay leaves are supposed to add to a dish, probably won’t even register for most people. I don’t think bay leaves are entirely useless, but I do think it’s safe for home cooks to consider it an optional ingredient.
I was about to go off about who didn’t have bay, laurel (and rosemary and the third thing I forgot what is called. It’s yellow.) grow like weeds up here.
What do you mean y’all don’t live where I live
Turmeric, cumin, mustard?
i don’t put turmeric in my mustard but that one batch with cumin was good
People who cannot return a shopping cart to a proper location should not be able to use said shopping cart.
If you live in a climate that needs air conditioning to be comfortable most of the year, your roof and walls should be as white as possible. I have seen black shingles on new construction in Texas…
Also, toilet paper direction is a personal preference and is often driven by needs like pets and toilet/wall distances.
We should continue to gently correct spelling and grammar mistakes online.
If it doesn’t come entirely encased in pastry, then it isn’t a pie, it’s a bloody casserole with a hat!
Pubs that serve “pies” and then give you slop with a square of pastry that clearly wasn’t even in contact with the slop before it hit the plate should be turned into Costa coffee shops for their crimes.
(Shepherd’s pie and cottage pie are so named for historical honorary reasons, and may continue to be so.)
Borderlands was better than Borderlands 2.
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.
