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| Topic | How long could you go without your cell phone? |
| sveksii 07/27/21 7:28:32 PM #10 | I had my last one break and didn't replace it for over a year because I hated everything that was available on the market. |
| Topic | The best true berries thread for the connoisseur of true berries |
| sveksii 07/27/21 2:12:36 PM #29 | ReggieTheReckless posted... SASKATOONSWhile tasty, as a type of serviceberry saskatoons are not botanically berries. They actually are a pome, the same type of fruit that pears and apples fall under. Yes, I know. Botany is silly. |
| Topic | The best true berries thread for the connoisseur of true berries |
| sveksii 07/27/21 11:41:07 AM #23 | @Lil_Bit83 Lil_Bit83 posted... Blackberries are the best berries. So there! It is my dream to try cloud berries one day. They sound delicious!Blackberries can be good, but the commercially available ones tend to be too sweet. I prefer more sour varieties that you have to grow yourself. I've actually been curious about cloudberries myself. Honestly, if I ever had a bucket list it'd probably include trying every edible berry (botanical or otherwise) available. And my one lament is all the poisonous berries that you really shouldn't be eating that I see and wonder what they'd taste like. |
| Topic | The best true berries thread for the connoisseur of true berries |
| sveksii 07/27/21 11:35:08 AM #22 | Lil_Bit83 posted... @sveksii Why are gooseberries banned? I have seen currant jams popping up in the grocery stores over the last couple years.Both currants and gooseberries are potential carriers of white pine blister rust. While not serious for them, the fungus can have devastating effects on white pines. To protect the pines the US government decided to enact a federal ban on the growing of any currants/gooseberries in the US in the 1920s. While the federal ban was lifted in 1966, there are still various state and local restrictions and bans. If you try to order the plants from any nurseries you'll see a long list of states that they can't ship to. This ban made them rare in the US for decades, but they're slowly becoming more common. Also as a side note: If you ever see zante currants, they have nothing to do with actual currants (Ribes) and are actually a variety of small grape (Black Corinth). So if you're seeing currant jam it's presumably actual currants. But if you're reading something and it has dried currants chances are it's actually those grapes. |
| Topic | The best true berries thread for the connoisseur of true berries |
| sveksii 07/25/21 12:07:35 PM #16 | BlackScythe0 posted... I've heard of most of those in video games and stuff. Reality is I don't even know where you would find any of them but blue berries and cranberries, maybe goji berries are relatively common since I hear them mentioned often. However, I can't really see any point to this aside from silly pedantry since I doubt many people have even heard of any of those options aside from blueberries cranberries (which are not known for tasting good) and maybe goji berries.If you want fresh/frozen, you're probably going to have to go out of your way to find anything other than blueberries and cranberries. A lot of the berries are rather regional and not commercialized. Goji berries got considered a "super food" by health nuts and are easily found dried. Depending on where you live you can find some of them at local farmers markets. Other than that, you'd have to rely on specialty stores or grow your own. Gooseberries/currants are somewhat hard to find in the US due to previous bans on the plants (still banned in some states), but are more common in Europe. Cranberries are delicious, but they're rather sour and most people apparently hate sour things. Gaawa_chan posted... Huckleberries, if they count. I think they're related to blueberries though I admit my knowledge of plants is very limited. They grow a lot around where I'm at.Yep. Huckleberries count. I didn't have enough room on the poll, and they got bumped off to the comments since they have no commercial presence and are rather regional. Both huckleberries and blueberries are in the heather family. |
| Topic | The best true berries thread for the connoisseur of true berries |
| sveksii 07/25/21 12:30:08 AM #8 | IronBornCorps posted... RudeDon't get me wrong, I love non-botanical berries too. Mulberries and chokeberries are underappreciated. Just a pity that the red mulberry trees are so hard to come by in the US thanks to people introducing white mulberries back in the day. Probably should of included goldenberries. They're the one edible member of the nightshade family that are considered a berry from the non-technical sense. I suppose you could argue potato berry, but no one really eats them and they may or may not kill you. Sarcasthma posted... Roasted!Roasted bananas are good. |
| Topic | The best true berries thread for the connoisseur of true berries |
| sveksii 07/24/21 11:43:06 PM #3 | adjl posted... Being pedantic about the definition of "true berries," but missing the opportunity to include bananas? How disappointing.Fine. Edited my post to explicitly mention them as a disqualified fruit, as they only meet the botanical definition of berry. |
| Topic | The best true berries thread for the connoisseur of true berries |
| sveksii 07/24/21 11:38:50 PM #1 | So which true berry is best?
Vote
So no raspberries/blackberries/hybrids: aggregate fruit No strawberries: accessory fruits No mulberries: multiple fruits No chokeberries/serviceberries: pomes No cherries/bayberries/crowberries: drupes No tomatoes/melons/grapes/bananas/etc: botanically berries, but not normally considered berries For better or worse there's more than 10 available options, but I'm not going to put an other option in. Otherwise people are just going to vote other, and choose something like raspberries that don't even qualify. Most other berries most people probably have never tried, assuming they ever even heard of them. If you like jostaberries, just choose black currants/gooseberries depending on what stage you prefer them as and post in the comments. Or comment if you like huckleberries, maqui berries, pink mountain berries, arbutus unedo, amla, or bearberries. There's also stuff like seaberries, which don't really fully meet the definition for berry or drupe. There's also coffee cherries, where it's arguable whether it's a drupe or a berry, but almost no one actually eats the actual berry part... Countdown to blueberries winning (even though honeyberries are a better blueberry), since cranberries are probably the only other berry that most people have even had experience with. |
| Topic | What berry is best? |
| sveksii 07/24/21 11:32:49 PM #18 | LinkPizza posted... But raspberries, strawberries, and blackberries arent berries Not sure about boysenberries, tbh But probably not Youre also missing other berries like watermelons, bananas, and pumpkins Plus, many people love avocados. Which are also berries IronBornCorps posted... Pumpkin is a gourd, and watermelon is a melon. My understanding of berries is soft flesh that is consumable(not banana peels) and easily torn by teeth, and many small seeds within the fruit. Avocado is in the same category as mango imo. I'll give you grapes, which would fit under "other" since there are so many types.Boysenberries are just a raspberry/blackberry hybrid. But other than that you're fighting with two different definitions of berries, that have some overlap.From the botanical sense bananas, watermelons, and pumpkins do classify as berries. Avocados are an oddball in that berries generally are multi-seeded but it doesn't have a hardened endocarp, so it's not a proper drupe. |
| Topic | Attention: Insect loving nerds |
| sveksii 07/23/21 12:10:30 AM #10 | Mead posted... Dont fuck around with roaches. Go nuclear on their asses with chemicals and diatomaceous earthI've only ever had to deal with wood roaches. They don't infest so I just catch them with my hands and take them outside. Cute and harmless. |
| Topic | One pizza topping |
| sveksii 07/18/21 5:18:00 PM #25 | So you're asking what kind of none pizza people would want?: https://pizzarules.com/56 |
| Topic | Post#MAGAAlert: 22 Year Old Crypto Millionaire Develops MAGA phone! |
| sveksii 07/18/21 5:12:36 PM #9 | Krow_Incarnate posted... The branding is dumb, but the design of the phone itself in regards to the OS, apps and whatnot is a step in the right direction.Making a less secure phone from both a hardware and software standpoint is moving in the right direction? It's also ironic that while Erik Finman's rallying cry for the phone on twitter is the need to fight censorship from big tech, he's hiding any reply that criticizes the phone. |
| Topic | there are a couple of tomato hornworms in my garden |
| sveksii 07/01/21 11:33:36 PM #24 | They can be horribly destructive, but they are adorable. Not as cute as some of the hummingbird lookalikes in the Sphingidae family, though:   |
| Topic | Can you tell which is the FROG and the TOAD?? I bet you CAN'T!!! |
| sveksii 06/28/21 11:14:56 PM #9 | All toads are frogs, so they're both frogs. |
| Topic | potato salad with hard potatoes sucks ass |
| sveksii 06/25/21 1:28:00 PM #28 | ParanoidObsessive posted... Actually, I don't eat potato salad at all because I loathe mayo with the heat of a thousand fiery suns, and avoid the hell out of any food made using it.Next you'll be saying you don't eat pie, because you loathe anything with apples in it... |
| Topic | Metroid: DREAD trailer... |
| sveksii 06/16/21 11:43:16 PM #60 | OhhhJa posted... Well, it's only fair that I counter your ridiculous assertion about prime being mediocre with simple facts. If they were mediocre then why did it get two more installments after the first game? Why did prime 1 sell better than super metroid? Why did prime 3 sell better than super metroid? Why after all these years is there still enough demand to warrant a 4th installment?Why did Prime sell more than Super? Perhaps it's because the overall video game market was larger when Prime was released? Perhaps it was because there was less quality games to chose from for Gamecube owners that would have eaten into Prime's overall sales. Perhaps FPS were more popular than platformers. There are thousands of reasons you could argue. However, that's irrelevant. You're arguing fallacies. Popularity does not imply quality. Are you going to argue that FarmVille is a far better game than any of the Metroid series? Honestly, I wasn't even really commenting on the quality or lack there of of Prime. It was more a criticism of usage of "nostalgia goggles" to hand wave away any valid discussion on the quality of 2d Metroid games. If you want to argue that Super was an old game and that positive opinions of the game are due "nostalgia goggles", at this point Prime is also an old series and you could likewise argue that positive opinions of the game are due to "nostalgia goggles". |
| Topic | Metroid: DREAD trailer... |
| sveksii 06/16/21 10:47:43 PM #53 | OhhhJa posted... Super metroid: 1.42 million units soldCongrats on your ability to manipulate statistics by directly comparing game sales without factoring in differing market conditions at the periods of release, which makes direct comparisons invalid. More importantly, your argument I quoted was that Prime was a better game than Super. Argumentum ad populum is not a valid argument in that favor. |
| Topic | Metroid: DREAD trailer... |
| sveksii 06/16/21 7:59:13 PM #43 | OhhhJa posted... Nostalgia goggles. I love the old 2D metroids but the prime games were great.If you want to go down that route, then Prime was just a a mediocre trilogy that was released 14-19 years ago. Arguing otherwise is just nostalgia goggles. |
| Topic | S T R a W B e R R i e S !!! |
| sveksii 06/15/21 5:36:56 PM #8 | Eww, supermarket strawberries are nasty. They sell the varieties that have been bred to have no flavor. |
| Topic | Metroid: DREAD trailer... |
| sveksii 06/15/21 5:33:54 PM #12 | Don't like the art style (honestly I'd rather have pixel art), don't like the music, don't like the preview's focus on the cinematic. Solid meh so far. And Nintendo has been mostly fucking up the series since Super so I don't have high hopes. |
| Topic | TCU will no longer use 'Freshman' due to 'Gender' types |
| sveksii 06/10/21 7:47:19 PM #25 | User728 posted... Clearly the words woman and women need to be changed to womyn and womin.Just go back to wer and wyf. English had this figured out ages ago until people had to go and fuck it up. |
| Topic | $1000,000 or being able to eat as much as you want without health issues? |
| sveksii 06/10/21 7:44:22 AM #19 | SomeUsername529 posted... The first thing that came to mind is that I could eliminate nuclear waste and probably make a ton off government contracts doing so.Even if the power gave you the ability to ingest it, you'd end up dying from radiation poisoning from being around the waste. |
| Topic | Favorite cheese for grilled cheese sammies |
| sveksii 06/08/21 1:51:08 PM #28 | MeteoricBurst posted... You mean cheddar or American. Both melt good but American melts the best, probably of any non soft cheese. I mean that's it's biggest (only) selling point because it has a bad rap.American has a bad rap because legally it doesn't even qualify as cheese. If you really need something that melts you should just use a soft cheese that actually tastes decent. Honestly, unless you're working with the equivalent of a super aged parmesan, or a cheese that specifically is designed to not melt like halloumi, you can get pretty much any cheese to melt if you're careful how you do a grilled cheese. |
| Topic | Favorite brand of plain corn chips |
| sveksii 06/07/21 4:54:08 PM #5 | Do non corn based tortilla chips count? ParanoidObsessive posted... I'm allergic to salsa.What? You can't be allergic to a type of food. Salsa is a grouping of sauces, some of which use entirely different ingredients/preparation methods from each other. |
| Topic | After years of meditation and breathing exercises, I've leveled up. |
| sveksii 06/02/21 12:51:19 PM #28 | SunWuKung420 posted... I can learn anything at this point.DirtBasedSoap posted... can you learn...SunWuKung420 posted... No. SunWuKung420 posted... Like a true martial art master, only my son will learn my secret arts.Lying? |
| Topic | If you had to imagine a Western RPG set in modern times what would it look like? |
| sveksii 05/16/21 5:21:16 PM #31 | ItsKaljinyuTime posted... Let's say I wanna play Mother 4, but I can't because it doesn't exist. Are there any RPGs set in modern times that I can hitch my fandom wagon to? |
| Topic | A Bill Gates presidency would be just as bad as Trump. |
| sveksii 05/04/21 9:14:37 AM #30 | BlackScythe0 posted... Objectively so.No he wasn't. "Bad" is inherently subjective. You can't objectively quantify that. |
| Topic | What are some really nice PC speakers? |
| sveksii 05/02/21 4:25:44 PM #9 | really niceThat combo doesn't exist. If you really want to buy something to rub in others faces go investigate rigging your PC to a multi-thousand dollar home theater system. |
| Topic | Joke presidential candidate turned joke mayoral candidate Yang offends everybody |
| sveksii 04/23/21 2:35:44 AM #33 | Zeus posted... Attack of the alts!Not an alt. I normally just lurk, as I'm mainly here for poll topics because I like polls for some stupid reason. And even if I was, it's irrelevant. Arguing otherwise is just being fallacious. And if the board hasn't posted about Yang it shouldn't matter. This is the same type of stuff that Trump was accused of, that you argued was an unfair representation of him. So if these kind of misquotes/misrepresentations aren't relevant, as you established when defending Trump, there should be no reason to post about them. Feel free to dismiss this with personal insults, though. It's what you've done in the past when I pointed out that you posted something that was factually inaccurate. |
| Topic | Joke presidential candidate turned joke mayoral candidate Yang offends everybody |
| sveksii 04/22/21 9:47:20 PM #15 | Trump says something stupid and media calls him out on it. Left leaning centrist Zeus in to save the day and defend him as being a misrepresented saint. Yang says something stupid and media calls him out on it. Left leaning centrist Zeus comes to shit all over the evil communist. K |
| Topic | Do you use Gab and Bitchute? |
| sveksii 04/21/21 6:29:22 PM #37 | Revelation34 posted... How is posting a picture of Hitler in shorts banworthy? I don't have time to watch the clip though.Read what he wrote. He didn't post that. He posted something "like" that. If you're going to complain about something, but not give all the details it comes across as your hiding something. What does "like" that entail? It could be something innocent. Or, he could of posted that picture with text imposed on it complaining his neighbor was a Jew and asking how to kill them. |
| Topic | Do you use Gab and Bitchute? |
| sveksii 04/21/21 8:47:58 AM #13 | Stim9 posted... ...posted a comment like this...So you're saying you posted something ban worthy, and you're trying to make yourself look innocent by misleading people on what you actually posted. |
| Topic | Cinnamon is JUST WOOD |
| sveksii 04/10/21 8:13:01 PM #20 | captpackrat posted... Have you ever seen nutmeg? It's literally just a nut.It's a seed, not a nut. |
| Topic | I heard Americans don't put ketchup on their grilled cheese |
| sveksii 04/06/21 8:14:09 PM #33 | Why would you use ketchup when bbq sauce exists? |
| Topic | Mail-in voting |
| sveksii 04/02/21 10:40:23 AM #5 | kind9 posted... Is it just nitpicking to point out that "generally" already implies "not totally" and this option is a non-answer?It's TC's gimmick. Most of his polls have improper options that don't answer/aren't directly related to the question he's asking. |
| Topic | I've decided that I won't be getting the coronavirus vaccine anytime soon. |
| sveksii 04/01/21 8:14:46 PM #96 | All I got from this thread is TC is pro abortion. |
| Topic | Happy daylight savings day |
| sveksii 03/14/21 12:31:50 PM #16 | Happy illness and death day indeed. rexcrk posted... In all seriousness, though, what IS the benefit to changing times twice a year? There has to be SOME reason that people justify this.There is no real benefit. The supposed benefits have been disproved by various studies. But people cling to it because "change bad". faramir77 posted... Work schedules are a thing. If I have to be at work for 8am, I don't want to drive there in the dark in December.Nothing like arguing for daylight savings by using an example to justify it when daylight savings isn't even active (December). |
| Topic | Anyone know where to get cheap Windows 10 Pro keys? |
| sveksii 02/23/21 11:55:11 PM #13 | Technically the Windows 10 free upgrade method is active and there are methods to apply the activation. If I was to do anything I'd go that route over buying a cheap key of unknown value. The Windows Education Edition is based off of Enterprise, and as such is actually better than Home/Pro if you can get it (although you'll likely have no use for the extra features). |
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