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General Discussion / Re: Cinder
« on: August 29, 2019, 12:27:59 pm »
grisha cannot die. grisha cannot be forgotten. grisha is eternal. grisha will be here long after everything else on this forum is gone.
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General Discussion / Re: Food Thread: Kitchen Chemistry
« on: June 25, 2019, 10:09:07 am »
Apologies again for the lock. I must have misclicked while reading the thread a while back (probably on my phone) and since I don't check the forums as often as I used to, I didn't catch it before it fell off the front page. Feel free to PM me if anything similar happens in the future.
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General Discussion / Re: New Food/Cooking Thread
« on: June 24, 2019, 07:12:20 am »
... I have no idea how or why the other thread got locked. Probably a misclick on my part. I unlocked it.
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General Discussion / Re: Time Capsule 2019
« on: December 30, 2018, 06:36:44 pm »Spoiler: dear 2020 penguin (click to show/hide)
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General Discussion / Re: ITT: I find a reason to lock this after around 50 posts
« on: July 03, 2018, 05:44:38 am »
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Other Games / Re: A Thread about the Pokemans: The ULTRASun and ULTRAMoon Rises
« on: May 28, 2018, 04:15:24 pm »
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General Discussion / Re: The SCP foundation, Site B12
« on: May 11, 2018, 12:35:48 pm »
Yeah, the site was only good back when they were making serious, suspensful SCPs like a brooding, angry guy who's so good at swordfighting he can beat anyone and he's immortal and he can summon swords out of thin air so you can never beat him.
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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol: new thread subtitle pending
« on: April 27, 2018, 10:39:12 pm »
You don't have to make up hypotheticals to see the double standard. You can just notice that nobody on the far left seems to think "Bernie lost to Hillary, therefore he is by definition the worse candidate" is a legitimate argument.
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General Discussion / Re: Gardening thread!
« on: April 17, 2018, 07:12:08 pm »
In Kentucky the 2018 gardening season has begun, despite spring being unusually cold this year. I've got plenty of vegetables going already - peas, fava beans, spinach, kale, radishes, and the garlic I planted last fall. My perennial herbs have started growing again too - sage, thyme, oregano, garlic chives, lemon balm, and anise hyssop. My rosemary died in the winter, but I bought a new rosemary plant to replace it already, and some lavender.
I'm very excited for my flowers this year. Last summer I got some irises from my grandma (which she got from her mother) and now they're putting up a ton of flower buds. My geraniums and phlox are spreading nicely, and my yucca is getting bigger. My hostas didn't die over the winter, which I'm happy with because I made some big mistakes with them last year. One got too much sun and the leaves burned, so I had to transplant it a second time to a shadier area, but luckily it's been thriving since then. The other yucca got planted next to my lamb's ear, which is a mint, so it completely overtook the hosta and nearly killed it. But this year it's putting up some healthy growth, so I've got to rescue it from the lamb's ear in the next couple weeks and find a new place for it.
Honestly, a big lesson for me this spring is that perennial plants are a lot harder to kill than I thought. My lilies of the valley didn't visibly grow at all last year after they were transplanted, and I assumed if they didn't have enough energy to grow, they didn't have enough to survive winter, but they're coming up bigger and stronger than last year and putting out adorable tiny flowers.
Turns out plants have a will to live! Don't underestimate them. Also pictured on the left are my columbines, which I thought were an annual, but the foliage survived through the winter and they just kept growing. Underneath the lilies is some creeping Jenny, which has started filling in empty spots between flowers very nicely. And on the right are black-eyed Susans, which are the hardiest plants in the garden (except maybe the wild violets).
The success with last year's perennials has inspired me to get started on some new ones this year, so I've already planted some asparagus crowns and begonia bulbs. And I just bought some strawberry plants, but I haven't put them in the ground yet.
Keeping a worm habitat instead of a regular compost pile is definitely a thing. It's called vermiculture. Generally the container is opaque, because people don't want to see their food garbage, but I'm sure you could make one with a transparent container if you want it to double as a terrarium because worms are cool. I've seen tutorials on how to make them out of plastic bins.
I'm very excited for my flowers this year. Last summer I got some irises from my grandma (which she got from her mother) and now they're putting up a ton of flower buds. My geraniums and phlox are spreading nicely, and my yucca is getting bigger. My hostas didn't die over the winter, which I'm happy with because I made some big mistakes with them last year. One got too much sun and the leaves burned, so I had to transplant it a second time to a shadier area, but luckily it's been thriving since then. The other yucca got planted next to my lamb's ear, which is a mint, so it completely overtook the hosta and nearly killed it. But this year it's putting up some healthy growth, so I've got to rescue it from the lamb's ear in the next couple weeks and find a new place for it.
Honestly, a big lesson for me this spring is that perennial plants are a lot harder to kill than I thought. My lilies of the valley didn't visibly grow at all last year after they were transplanted, and I assumed if they didn't have enough energy to grow, they didn't have enough to survive winter, but they're coming up bigger and stronger than last year and putting out adorable tiny flowers.
Spoiler: lily of the valley (click to show/hide)
Turns out plants have a will to live! Don't underestimate them. Also pictured on the left are my columbines, which I thought were an annual, but the foliage survived through the winter and they just kept growing. Underneath the lilies is some creeping Jenny, which has started filling in empty spots between flowers very nicely. And on the right are black-eyed Susans, which are the hardiest plants in the garden (except maybe the wild violets).
The success with last year's perennials has inspired me to get started on some new ones this year, so I've already planted some asparagus crowns and begonia bulbs. And I just bought some strawberry plants, but I haven't put them in the ground yet.
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Keeping a worm habitat instead of a regular compost pile is definitely a thing. It's called vermiculture. Generally the container is opaque, because people don't want to see their food garbage, but I'm sure you could make one with a transparent container if you want it to double as a terrarium because worms are cool. I've seen tutorials on how to make them out of plastic bins.
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General Discussion / Re: I'm pretty goddamn disappointed at the lack of april fools stuff happening here.
« on: April 01, 2018, 05:55:58 pm »
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General Discussion / Re: Nostalgic Going-Ons Thread
« on: March 29, 2018, 05:25:16 pm »
As I recall, the fortress itself was a big PNG image in the OP, depicting a spiky wall of ice and all the penguin avatars of the people participating in the thread.
There was also a list of military/government positions that people could volunteer for. Fun penguin fact: that's where my forum title "Minister of Love" comes from. I had just recently read 1984 at the time.
There was also a list of military/government positions that people could volunteer for. Fun penguin fact: that's where my forum title "Minister of Love" comes from. I had just recently read 1984 at the time.
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General Discussion / Re: Nostalgic Going-Ons Thread
« on: March 28, 2018, 06:43:13 am »snip
That's mostly right except people are still allowed to move threads between forums. I'm not sure why people keep saying otherwise, especially since it's a pretty regular occurence for new people to post DF questions in this forum and we always tell them to move the thread. Just go to the bottom of any of your topics and there'll be a little move button next to the lock button.
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General Discussion / Re: Shit, let's be Darkleather Rain Dark Blood Scythe Repentance Coterie of Seattle
« on: March 27, 2018, 11:36:34 am »
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General Discussion / Re: Nostalgic Going-Ons Thread
« on: March 27, 2018, 11:23:42 am »
The mobile penguin battle fortress was, objectively, the high point of Bay 12 forum culture.
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Other Games / Re: Into The Breach (from the makers of FTL)
« on: March 18, 2018, 05:47:59 am »
Threw this on my wishlist a month back because I loved Advance Wars and I loved FTL. Glad it's getting positive reactions.