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Far-Queue posted...

I was on dessert duty this year and whipped up some homemade peppermint patties and they're insanely easy to make. Like 4 ingredients and no baking

I did that for a gift last year. They were pretty fantastic, and as you said, stupidly easy to make (just condensed milk, icing sugar, and peppermint extract, then dipped in melted chocolate mixed with butter so I could skip tempering). I've been saying for years that I want to try making my own girl guide thin mints (a patty recipe like that, a basic chocolate wafer, then dipped in chocolate with a bit of peppermint extract added), but I've never actually gotten around to doing so and last year was my first time trying to make the patties.

Jen0125 posted...

What is the interior for the peppermint pattie? Peppermint and some type of powder sugar frosting?

This is the recipe I used:
https://www.dinneratthezoo.com/peppermint-patties-recipe/

Only with baking chocolate instead of chips because I had it handy, and butter instead of shortening because shortening is nasty.

Probably 2, but it had the added benefit of not needing to introduce people to the concept, so it's not entirely fair to do a direct comparison. A sizable number of 1's puzzles (pretty much everything up to the end of the chamber where you get the orange portal) just serve as a tutorial of sorts, which inherently means they're going to be more simplistic and therefore less interesting once you know what you're doing. 2 got to skip that and therefore got to add extra mechanics to spice things up a bit.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

There's also the issue of how blatantly staff disregards any responsibility. I know I've heard a story IRL about someone who had epi-pen level allergies to tomatoes, and went to a Chili's or Chipotle or some place like that (I forget the actual place now, I heard this story in passing like 10+ years ago), and ordered a beef bowl thing (basically, the kind of deal where you get taco meat in a bowl and dip tortilla chips into it). Since it normally comes with salsa/tomato, the people at the table who ordered it explicitly asked to have it without tomatoes, and straight up told the serving staff that the one guy had a severe allergic reaction to it and it could literally kill them if they didn't keep tomatoes away from it.

So when the food got to the table, it looked like there was no tomato, so the allergic person ate some. Then they figured out that it still had tomato, and that all the tomato was on the bottom under the meat, so you literally couldn't see it until it was too late. In that scenario, I'd sue the ever-living fuck out of the staff and the restaurant regardless of whether or not the person even had an allergic reaction. Because that's pretty much borderline criminal irresponsibility.

Precisely. While there are plenty of instances of people with allergies simply assuming that they'll be safe and not telling anyone about them, then getting mad at restaurants when they have a reaction, instances where the person does tell staff about the allergies, the restaurant needs to either accommodate the allergies or refuse service. Any other course of action is a reckless decision to endanger the person for which staff are absolutely culpable.

Usually because they like going out to eat and have reason to believe they can do so safely. Most restaurants are willing to accommodate allergies up to a reasonable point, provided the customer lets them know first. Sometimes, it's not possible or reasonable to accommodate the allergy (usually because the allergen is inextricably mixed in to the food or because the kitchen's too small to prevent cross-contamination), and in those cases the restaurant has a responsibility to refuse to serve the person with the allergy. Depending on where you are, certain common allergens must also be clearly indicated in the ingredient list (though that's more for packaged foods than restaurants).

Now, if staff weren't made aware of the allergy and didn't advertise their products as being free of the allergen, that's around where their responsibility ends. Pretty much everything is an allergen for somebody, and it's not realistic to expect restaurants to omit everything for fear of triggering a reaction. The customer needs to do their part for the restaurant to be able to keep them safe.

hungrymike posted...

Also, you are mistaken that libertarianism is anarchism. they May share some similarities but they are distinctly different

Libertarianism is anarchy but with the laws you like.

It's probably about 2-3 years too late for this to be a good idea. When they still had a decent market share and giving up Netflix meant losing access to a lot of content, they could likely have gotten away with cracking down on password sharing. Now, though, after so much content has been gobbled up by other services and they've already got a lot of people questioning their subscriptions after several price increases, I expect quite a lot of people will rather give it up than pay the extra fee/full price for an account.

FrozenBananas posted...

My son asked if they will get stoned in this one

They do in the trailer.

ArvTheGreat posted...

looking at them douche bag kids they are going to make 90s kids look like morons

70's didn't exactly make 70's kids look like geniuses. Kids are morons, for the most part, and any comedy featuring kids tends to exaggerate that as the main source of its comedy.

That said, these kids are giving me 2010's Disney Channel comedy vibes. Not sure what it is, exactly, but it's a little off-putting.

TheGuiltySpark posted...

I'll never embrace this idea of "I'm only going to work x% of my total output capacity because I personally think that is how much their pay per hour is worth."
Like, it's your job. You were given the job description and told how much you were getting paid before you ever punched in for your first shift.

I believe a lot of it has to do with it being an accountability and mindset thing... I'll forever thank my dad for drilling it into my head. Because of him and I won't allow myself to do a shit job at work because I'm not willing to sign my name to something of poor quality. If I'm going to do something, especially where other people are depending on me to perform - then I'm giving it full effort.

Even putting aside how often the actual work ends up significantly exceeding the job description you were given upon starting (whether because you end up picking up others' slack, you get extra duties because your manager thinks you can handle them, or the job description just wasn't written well), taking a job like Walmart is very rarely a matter of "I've decided this job and wage are worth my effort and dedication." It's much more commonly a matter of "I need money and this is the best/only opportunity I've got right now, so I'll put up with it while I work toward something better." They're not an employer that particularly cares about or tries to earn employees' respect, so why should employees respect them?

BeerOnTap posted...

This is your money being spent haphazardly without any care or deliberation.

While I agree that a spending bill of that size obviously isn't being read by the people voting on it, and that's kind of a problem, it's not like somebody in some back room somewhere threw together a bunch of random numbers and sent it off to be rubber stamped with no oversight. That bill is the product of numerous rounds of lower government officials conducting analyses and working within their own departments and smaller teams to put together their pieces of the budget, passing through multiple layers of more detailed scrutiny and approval before ultimately coming here for final approval. There is plenty of care and deliberation happening, it's just happening behind the scenes.

If anything, bringing something of that size and complexity to the top like this is stupid, since the vote for approval mostly boils down to "did somebody I like put this together?" and "do the people who voted for me want me to approve things or not?", rather than actually doing anything to assess the content or context. It should really be split into multiple bills and left to multiple departments to handle, with final approval consisting mostly of "each department wants X and has scored Y points on our prioritization algorithm, how should we distribute it?" As it stands, it's pretty much just performative.

jorgamund posted...

Wow i fall asleep and you kids are still up and chattinh

As a general tip, the whole flippant "oh look at all you silly plebs caring about things while I go about my fabulous life" thing works a lot better when it isn't the first post in 26 hours. It still doesn't work very well, but at least then you can pretend that you didn't actively seek out the topic for the sake of proclaiming that you don't care about it, which absolutely everyone in the world can see through.

They aren't going to be able to claim damages, but as the article says, the fact that the consumers speaking out against the merger is going to undermine Microsoft's attempts to convince the necessary politicians that it's doing this to benefit consumers. Granted, nobody with a quarter of a brain cell ever thought this was about benefiting consumers, but politicians are even more out of touch than usual when it comes to video games, so it might make a bit of a difference.

Generally speaking, turtling until you have a top-tier army isn't a great way to play RTS games. While you sit there waiting for upgrades, your opponents will be able to take advantage of your passivity to expand and collect more resources than you, which will actually enable them to produce a larger army and upgrade them faster than you can. That's not to say you should immediately launch a full assault on their base every time a Marine finishes training, obviously, but don't be afraid of sending out smaller squads to claim new territory or harass your opponents to weaken their economy, even if you end up losing those units. It's a balancing act that you'll get better at the more you play and try to improve.

Now, saying that, I also tend to err too much on the side of "make super army and hope I don't get killed first", while neglecting expansion and other macro aspects, so I get where you're coming from. But that's why I'm not very good at RTS's.

I never actually saw it. Lucky me, I guess, unless that's just NoScript doing its thing.

Ogurisama posted...

my favorite scene in all of the MCU was "Portals" the scene just felt so epic with everyone coming into the final battle

This really captures what Endgame did well. It was fanservice through and through: Revisiting familiar scenes, having every character imaginable show up in various settings, the massive final battle with everyone fighting at their absolute strongest... Everything about it pointed to it being a final celebration of the franchise up to that point, and it did a great job of that. The flip side of focusing so much on fanservice, though, is that as its own movie, it wasn't as strong.

agesboy posted...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1794680/Vampire_Survivors/

incredibly addicting for a cheap game, and they aren't jacking prices up either after their huge surge in popularity. their new big dlc costs a whole two bucks, and there's been a massive stream of updates since the game launched

Vampire Survivors is one of the very, very few video game impulse purchases I've made, and I regretted absolutely nothing about the decision. It's just way more fun than it has any right to be and an astounding value.

I think Infinity War was the better movie in its own right, but Endgame was a very satisfying conclusion to it and the entire MCU up to that point and I don't think Infinity War would be as good as it is if Endgame hadn't achieved that.

BigOlePappy posted...

Pokemon is dead. Autopilot..but dead

The only salient metric for whether or not a franchise is alive is sales, and S/V have set sales records for the franchise. Whether or not it's good is much more subjective, as is whether or not you want to play the games, but dead/alive is an objective assessment, and Pokemon is objectively very much alive.

Not sure about exactly 10 years ago, but 10 years ago this past spring/summer I would have been playing the hell out of the first Xenoblade.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Maybe? But the US has gone really hard pro-corporation the last few decades it's unlikely that will go anywhere even if someone tried it.

I also kind of doubt that avenue would succeed in the US, but it just struck me as a way it could be illegal without having to consider questions of free speech.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Nothing about it is against the US version of freedom of speech. The US doesn't compel private actors to publish the speech of others.

Forbidding users from mentioning competitors while using the service may fall under anti-monopoly laws, though.

SoreChasm posted...

Cant even come up with an actual argument?

Did you expect anything more from the sort of person who believes the only difference here is which side of the political spectrum the people being banned lie on?

GTAV is, however, the most profitable piece of media ever. I'm guessing that's the confusion.

Lokarin posted...

i think it's like -37F, -40 F and C are the same

I generally just treat everything between -30 and -50 as being the same in Celsius and Fahrenheit. That's not entirely accurate, since -40 is the only equivalent point, but as a rough estimate it's accurate to within a couple degrees, and given that those couple degrees only make the difference between "too cold" and "too cold," I'm not too concerned about them.

At least that's not too much wind.

captpackrat posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/4/8/AAQwHjAAEAlE.jpg

What kind of chaotic monster starts with the middle of a puzzle?

My impression isn't so much that they didn't care about the game as it is that they were given an impossible production timeline, given their inexperience with 3D games, open worlds, and many of the other things they tried to incorporate that Pokemon simply hasn't done before. S/V were quite ambitious, in a lot of ways, and ambition is hard to reconcile with deadlines that are based entirely on getting merchandise on the shelves and care very little for the realities of game development.

Beveren_Rabbit posted...

and was buried there after his 2001 death.

Uhh...

Step 1: Try something new
Step 2a: If you like it, keep doing it
Step 2b: If you don't like it, see if communities around that activity can tell you if you're doing something wrong to hamper your enjoyment, otherwise, try something else.

Metalsonic66 posted...

The sad thing is... if he had sold literal, physical trading cards instead... it would probably be a hit

I mean, they sold out overnight, which I fully expected them to. Trump's fanbase will lap up pretty much anything he tries to sell them, no matter how stupid it is.

BlackScythe0 posted...

So uh... found a twitter thread showing where some of the images might have come from.
https://twitter.com/mattsheffield/status/1603642894224543744

Looks like he might be facing more lawsuits.

Calling it now: They're going to fall back on "we didn't sell the art, we just sold NFT's that reference it" to get out of accusations of stealing material for commercial gain.

Lokarin posted...

cuz otherwise WHAT'S THE POINT

Pretty much. The entire value of NFT's is as collector's items. Think of it like a certificate of authenticity that comes with a limited-run figurine or something and indicates that you own #4863 of 10,000, only for a digital asset. The concept kind of falls apart in that the digital asset can be replicated infinitely if anyone so chooses, but the NFT is still a unique certificate that proves you own an "authentic" copy.

Lokarin posted...

That's where I'm confused... what's the difference between an NFT and a cryptogen (or whatever the term is)

NFT's are pretty much just a blockchain-backed unique receipt for a digital item. The actual artwork is entirely independent of them, and an NFT-"protected" image can just be copy-pasted and distributed like any other piece of digital art.

Sounds about right.

You should get into Dota instead, just to maximize his disappointment.

I like your boyfriend as a friend.

Lokarin posted...

oh, if I were to make a game based on NFTs I'd have the player's gameplay itself generate the NFT... so every single time you beat the game you get a unique looking NFT using your keystrokes as the cypher.

Of course, if you TAS the game you'd get the same NFT - cuz it's not meant to be tradeable, it's just meant to be a cool prize for the player

You don't really need NFT's for that, though. Just an algorithm for generating the artwork. What you're describing is basically just an evolution of Metroid showing you different end screens depending on your clear time/percentage.

Yellow posted...

If NFTs weren't completely tainted publically I would use them for item pickups in games I make, you could take them to a decentralized marketplace and trade them, actually own them. It wouldn't be a scheme to make money, because I wouldn't sell them, and I wouldn't want them to be valuable.

So it would be Hearthstone, except you could sell and trade your cards. So NFTs could immediately make Hearthstone more consumer friendly.

That's also not really reliant on NFT's. Steam's marketplace already does that for some games, while others have their own in-game options.

captpackrat posted...

I'm sorry, but "gaol" is just WRONG WRONG WRONG.

Indeed. Same with "oesophagus."

Muscles posted...

What made me make this topic is that recently me and my friend heard party rock and they acted like it was an old song and I was confused because it's from 2011 which feels like it's still new to me

That probably speaks more to how your respective lives have changed: If their life has changed quite a bit since 2011, they'll find that it invokes a certain degree of nostalgia because they associate it with a time in their life when things were different. If yours hasn't changed much, it's more likely to blur together and not stand out as being older.

Stylistically, it's not tremendously different from anything modern, so I wouldn't say it stands out as being "dated."

Nothing formal. Just a few paid holidays (Christmas day, Boxing Day, and New Year's, or the next would-be work day if they're on weekends, and informally Christmas Eve is always a half day) and a team christmas party that effectively ended up being another paid day off where my director paid for our first round of drinks.

agesboy posted...

https://twitter.com/marqui_zzz/status/1593361422200672258

i'm sorry but they absolutely are bad

To be fair, Monolith is staffed entirely by absolute wizards of optimization, given what they've been able to squeeze out of the Wii, WiiU, and Switch with each Xenoblade game. They aren't necessarily a standard to which other studios can be reasonably held.

That said, there are plenty of other games on the Switch that also look much better than S/V and the only reason S/V looks like it does is because Gamefreak was too incompetent/lazy/rushed to put in the optimization work it would need to look and run better. It doesn't necessarily need particularly HD textures, since that's not the art style they're going for, but the environments are pretty barebones and still perform horribly despite not having much going on.

It's also the blatant hypocrisy of "I'm going to buy Twitter so they stop censoring free speech," and then proceeding to censor anything he doesn't like. Bonus whiny baby points where so much of what he doesn't like is simply anything that threatens his exceptionally fragile ego.

jorgamund posted...

Twitter is a Private Company though? Amazing how people were fine with Nazis being Banned. But the Left get Banned and people start whining

ftfy

ReturnOfFa posted...

I've been playing since day 1 and found the bugs and glitches weren't enough to hamper gameplay. Sure, it's funny that you can see through the floor at a certain angle. That's how most games were in the 90s. Yeah, there's some funny lazy graphical stuff. Personally, I've been enjoying the game a lot.

I haven't played it, but this has been roughly my understanding. The level of quality control is utterly pathetic and Gamefreak should be ashamed of pushing out such a clearly unfinished product, but they generally don't interfere with people's ability to enjoy the game, and in some ways almost add charm/entertainment value.

I think a lot of what you're describing is just a matter of how relevant technological advances are to the pieces of media in question, which isn't necessarily something inherent to the medium. Early 2000's CGI looks dated because it was the best they could do at the time and now we can do better. Early film/tv sounds dated because it was the best recording technology they had at the time and now we can do better. Most N64 games look more dated than most SNES ones because the technology of the SNES was able to tap into most of what the 2D sprite art style had to offer, while the N64 was barely scratching the surface of what could be done with 3D graphics.

Beyond that, there's the question of whether or not whichever pop culture norms a given piece of media demonstrates ended up sticking around. Sometimes, that's because that particular piece pioneered a new norm (Citizen Kane being the Citizen Kane of that phenomenon), other times it's just a coincidence that something that imitated the pioneer picked the right thing to imitate (like dual stick FPS games mimicking Halo's control scheme). This is generally quite noticeable in music, where certain songs will sound very much like products of their time, but others will fit right in with more modern stuff. Music has also been around for the entirety of human history, so it's to be expected that whatever evolution has happened within the last few decades is pretty small compared to what's happened in media where those few decades represent their entire existence.

Revelation34 posted...

Soccer vs football and color vs colour.

By and large, UK people don't care about "soccer" (it is in fact a British term, distinguishing between association football ("soccer") and rugby football ("rugger"), but it just fell out of use in Britain while handegg means it became standard in NA). As far as spellings go, they'll use the British spelling, but most don't care if other regions use the American ones. By contrast, this topic is full of Americans insisting that the British English variants for common terms are wrong.

BADoglick posted...

Pokemon scarlet and I'm really enjoying it, don't get all the hate

The impression I've had is that most people agree it's a really fun game and have a good time with it, just that there's absolutely no way it should have been released in such a clearly unfinished state. The hate isn't so much "this is a bad game" as it is "shame on you, Gamefreak."

pionear posted...

Didn't realize there's so many Pokemon fans still around

S/V have sold better than any other games in the series and also came out less than a month ago, so it's to be expected that a lot of people would be mentioning it.

blu posted...

Buying something used to give to someone.

That's fair game, then (presuming, as you say, that it's clean and in good condition). There's really no reason for somebody to feel it isn't unless they're the sort of person that demands a certain amount be spent on their gifts, and that's just not a sort of person you should bother exchanging gifts with.

rjsilverthorn posted...

I can't help but think that the people primarily interested in NFT's don't really overlap Trump's core demographic.

I tend to presume that most crypto bros are the sort of people that really like Trump, actually. I realize I don't have much basis for that assumption, so I could be way off, but it's the rough impression I have.

That said, pretty much anyone remotely in touch with crypto has abandoned NFT's at this point because they're an obvious flop. Efforts to jump on the bandwagon now generally seem to be trying to pick up some of the leftovers and/or get the late adopters who don't know what's going on on board.

SpaceBear_ posted...

It's a very accessible sport. Open to everybody. You don't need to buy any equipment or anything. Hell, you don't even need a ball.

Pretty much. More so than just about any other sport, anyone can play soccer, which in turn means anyone can develop an interest in soccer. That's inevitably going to result in a larger global audience than anything less accessible.

wpot posted...

My sister works in an ER and she would tell you that many/most people who go to the ER shouldn't really be there. Many people go to the ER for more or less any problem they have. Likewise the system is its own worse enemy: there are about 50 trigger phrases you can use when describing your issue to a nurse that will cause him/her to send you to the ER instead relying on a clinic visit. It's good to be cautious, yes, but many times the forwarding is something that's clearly being done for legalistic (not realistic) reasons.

A ton of the people waiting in the ER here are only there because it's their only option to get prescriptions renewed, since they don't have a family doctor and walk-in clinics fill up too fast for them to get in. It's very much not ideal, but the government refuses to clue in to the fact that paying family doctors less than they get paid literally anywhere else in the country means we don't have enough doctors, so...