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General Discussion / Re: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)
« on: May 18, 2024, 11:02:30 pm »
I'd stopped buying it for the exact same reasons as you, but it's really nice to have the option to prep my own for cheap when 90% of my vacations are a week or two of hiking and kayaking in bumfuck nowhere. IMO this is the way to go if you're going to eat it at all. Good-quality lean grass-fed ground beef isn't the worst thing in the world as long as it's not loaded up with preservatives, HFCS, and salt. (You can also do it with ground turkey but it feels like it's harder to find good quality there. You can theoretically do salmon jerky as well but the stench is unbearable.)

Going off of US average prices, a 1lb pack of good ground beef is ~$6-7. You get ~1/3 of the starting weight in jerky, or ~5oz and a bit. If you're talking store-bought jerky made with high-quality ingredients, you're potentially looking at $4-6/oz (if not more), and a lot of that weight is filler in some brands. Homemade is closer to ~$1.50/oz. That pound of chuck can give you two weeks worth of relatively healthy high-protein snacks for the price of a coffee or cocktail. That's without even getting into being able to guarantee no nitrates are in it, knowing exactly the condition of the spices used, being able to do custom flavor profiles instead of "salty", "salty with fake BBQ smoke", or "salty with one red pepper flake per bag"... I have this one I make with garlic powder, red pepper, local honey, and Worcestershire sauce that's killer.


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General Discussion / Re: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)
« on: May 18, 2024, 08:25:55 pm »
Got myself a food dehydrator, been making ground beef jerky, fruit leather, kales chips, &c. Finally got the jerky timing just right and oh my lord this is a danger to have in the home.

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Roll To Dodge / Re: Cracked Mirror
« on: May 16, 2024, 05:49:46 am »
"Let's see where the hell we are, then," Val mutters, half to himself and half to the lizard. He opens the door carefully.

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Roll To Dodge / Re: Cracked Mirror
« on: May 13, 2024, 10:46:40 pm »
Val chuckles nervously, "Yeah, you sure ain't no chicken, fella." He eyes the candle, gauging it has left, before going back to the door and testing the key in the lock.

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Roll To Dodge / Re: Cracked Mirror
« on: May 10, 2024, 09:27:46 pm »
Val reaches out hesitantly, stroking the newborn's snout with a single finger, brushing away a fragment of eggshell. "C'mon, little one. C'mon then, there you are..."

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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Roll To Dodge / Re: Cracked Mirror
« on: May 09, 2024, 10:14:20 am »
Val slips the key from the coathanger and moves back to the bed. He leans over and taps the egg gently with the key. "Ah, ain't like I've got anywhere to be. Open up, little one," he chuckles.

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Roll To Dodge / Re: Cracked Mirror
« on: May 08, 2024, 09:26:42 am »
Val takes a few deep breathes, filling and holding before exhaling. Obvious oddities aside, he feels better today than most hungover mornings, even if the room is a mite strange for a flophouse or county jail. He glances at the egg curiously, "What the hell kind of hen laid you, pal?" He shakes his head, then turns to walk carefully to the door, putting an ear against it and listening closely.

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Roll To Dodge / Re: Cracked Mirror
« on: May 03, 2024, 08:07:08 pm »
Spoiler: Timothy Valentine (click to show/hide)

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: May 03, 2024, 07:32:56 pm »
Quote from: heydude6 on May 02, 2024, 11:50:19 am
The book was sincerely advocating

Was examining ideas. A lot of Heinlein's novels were like this. Stranger in a Strange Land: the effects of organized religion on culture, cults, and free love. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress: colonialism, libertarian ideals in extreme environments, polygamy, to some people telling a story from the perspective of a character with an intellectual disability. I Will Fear No Evil: body dysphoria, the privilege of wealth, multiple personalities occupying the same body. Starship Troopers was an examination of self-sacrificing behavior and civic responsibility.

Quote from: heydude6 on May 02, 2024, 11:50:19 am
for a democratic government where only soldiers were allowed to vote.
Only people who worked in public service for a set period of time. Soldiering was the profession focused on because Heinlein was interested specifically in self-sacrificing behavior, but it is explicitly laid out that any government work qualifies a person for citizenship, regardless of whether they're a scientist, a pilot, or a janitor. If a person wants citizenship but is totally incapable of any useful work, nasty and annoying work will be created for them to do -- IIRC the example given was counting the hairs on caterpillars by touch -- and so long as they complete their service they can still be a citizen.

Quote from: heydude6 on May 02, 2024, 11:50:19 am
Helldivers though, is a satire of American post-911 jingoism. It's loosely inspired off of the movie, which itself is only loosely inspired off of the book.

As a result, trying to draw a direct connection from the book to the game is going to lead to a disappointing lack of similarities. I'd say the satire of Helldivers 2 is better than the movies, simply because the thing it's satirizing actually existed in the world in some meaningful way.
Correct in all regards. Verhoeven was a hack with an agenda who satirized a book that did not exist and openly admitted that he assumed Starship Troopers was pro-fascist propaganda and that he had never read it. It's pure coincidence that he managed to make a pretty funny B-movie. As you say, Helldivers and the sequel are a much funnier take on the topic both because they're produced with more attention to detail and because they're not intrinsically slandering a genuinely interesting book and author by existing.

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General Discussion / Re: Emotional Responses to War in Ukraine - Trollbait 2.0
« on: April 14, 2024, 06:21:29 am »
Quote from: Cathar on April 14, 2024, 06:13:08 am
Quote from: Strongpoint on April 14, 2024, 12:11:35 am
ICBMs is the only open question.
We know for a fact that Patriots can intercept Kinzhals. At this point it is important that we stop being cowards, Russia cannot end the world, this much became clear, and maybe we should end them before they develop this capacity anew.

Part of me wants Israel to make a big pile of ashes with Iranian oil sector. Not only because putting americans in front of their open hypocrisy would be hysterical, not only because it would expedite the process of making them hold their word for once, but also because a high price for oil is now a positive for us, as Russia became an importing country.

Not to mention that ICBMs require this thing called maintenance. You can't just leave them sitting in their silos for 40 years. Anyone who seriously thinks that the Soviets and their Russian Empire Federation successors were doing this consistently (and that the people responsible weren't selling everything from the warheads to the wiring on the black market) is a fool. And you can't tow an ICBM into a warehouse to slap on a half-assed modernization kit to pretend it's new production like you can with a T-72.

I am also inching closer to the "MacArthur was thinking too narrowly" camp.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you laugh today: some people notice when 1 change the title
« on: March 08, 2024, 09:55:08 pm »
Deep in a bottle of Old Grand Dad bonded 100-proof, while stumbling through youtube recommendations, I found the dichotomy of life: on the one hand you have... ...but on the other, witermlon.

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General Discussion / Re: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)
« on: January 19, 2024, 12:07:19 pm »
Just finished installing a new CPU cooler after the old one died. Idle temp dropped from 65C to 26C, the radiator+fan array just barely manages to clear my GPU with a ~2cm gap, and it looks like I didn't fry my CPU sitting at 105C multiple times before I noticed the abnormal temps. First time I've done a cooler install so I'm just glad I didn't break anything.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Any guidance?
« on: December 24, 2023, 08:37:53 pm »
Pause. Any time you're confused, any time you want to look at something, any time anything happens which you're not sure about, pause and investigate.

Everything else is a matter of learning what things are and do, but pausing immediately is what will let you catch things as they happen instead of trying to reconstruct from the aftermath.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: What happened to dwarf fortress?
« on: December 24, 2023, 08:34:24 pm »
Quote from: Telgin on September 29, 2023, 10:45:01 am
That sums up my feelings too.  I get that people were used to the old UI and controls, but I think this is a much better direction for the game's UI.  It's much more consistent compared to different commands using different keys to change stockpile / zone / designation dimensions, and being able to just click on things instead of having to use different key commands to enter look vs. unit mode is much better to me.  I can understand people who want to be able to play with just a keyboard and I support efforts to restore that ability to the game, but I really like being able to play with a mouse.

This is a really bad take. Keyboard shortcuts were vastly superior for many use-cases (especially menu navigation) compared to mouse control. Note, also, that pre-Steam we had both the normal UI and mouse control for the content where it was most relevant (moving the cursor around when viewing/selecting/designating) for years. There's absolutely no reason to not have both, and in the grand scheme of things the control lost by getting rid of hotkeys vastly outweighs the control gained from clickable UI buttons. The only thing the latter are better for is a smoother new player experience (which is important too, don't get me wrong).

Being able to hammer out a three or four-layer menu selection in a second or two is just plain faster than clicking through buttons and popup windows to do the same thing, and that adds up over the course of thousands of actions.

This is going to be even more evident when adventure mode hits Steam and you have to manually click through every... single... attack target. Though I expect most people who don't like hotkeys aren't going to be using advanced attack anyways, just walking into enemies and letting the game pick attacks.

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General Discussion / Re: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)
« on: October 12, 2023, 06:37:45 pm »
The real problem is that tofu often doesn't get prepared or cooked right, so you end up with chalky tasteless garbage. Silky smooth for soups, otherwise pressed and fried.

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