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There's a reason stock/broth is a fairly standard base for soups, rice dishes, etc., etc., etc., heh.

Personally, I've mostly just stopped using actual salt when a recipe calls for it and use bullion (or various salty sauces) instead. More flavor, same health concerns :P

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General Discussion / Re: Whassup with all these bans?
« on: April 09, 2016, 04:45:22 pm »
You can... kinda' check the moderation log to see if it's more than usual. 1-3 in a month is fairly normal, looking back the last couple years. What's causing them to be banned is kiiiinda' stated in the log -- they were doing whatever they were banned for. Not really much else to it.

As for not getting banned, there's a forum guideline. If you stay within those bounds (and perhaps additionally make sure you're not regularly causing/being heavily involved in problematic arguments/etc.), you'll be fine. Generally, be chill, don't make personal attacks on other forum members, avoid being a bigoted nitwit, don't advocate violence against people on forum or otherwise, don't bring drama to or form other places on the internet, be careful with the lewds, and that's about it.

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Other Games / Re: League of Legends - Patch 5.1 - Open the Gates
« on: April 09, 2016, 01:47:13 pm »
Reddit is basically the last place to get meaningful context regarding anything related to LoL, so far as I'm aware. Linked page doesn't seem to repute that to any degree, heh.

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Other Games / Re: Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension
« on: April 09, 2016, 01:00:30 pm »
Though to expand a little on the province question, the general rule of thumb is averaging one province per turn, up until you can no longer expand without attacking someone (and possibly then, too :P). If you're below that level, it's relatively likely you're going to have trouble, especially compared to everyone else that isn't.

Naturally, more than one per turn is better, but that's usually cited as your minimum.

All that said, though, if you're playing an entry level Dom4 MP game, you may not exactly need to be that efficient, heh.

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I'unno, I did ask in the food thread a lil' bit ago about using apple juice in a pressure cooker (which is basically what a rice cooker is, heh). Could be what you're thinking about?

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Generally, yeah, it's fine. So long as it'll steam or whatev' instead of caramelize, and possibly even then. Just give it a shot, see what happens -- usually the worst that can occur is you have to give the inside a good scrubbing. Well, and keep an eye on it when you try it for the first time, of course. The unusually worst that can occur involves fire and/or explosions :V

... also, sheb, last I checked (like... part way through last year, when a family member was dealing with dehydration) the 8 (8oz) glasses of water a day is actually fairly close to the recommend amount of fluid intake to avoid dehydration. A little low for most people (and it varies by person, o'course), but close to it, though it ignores food-based fluid intake. It has a scientific basis, it's just very generalized and a bit inaccurate. Sorta' like a lot of low level history or science or IT or math (or...) teachings.

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... so are we actually talking US politics at this point, or is wierd just going bugnuts again? Because the few seconds I just spent skimming over the last few pages is strongly pointing to the latter, and it'd be really nice if y'all would just take it to PM or somethin'.

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... you do realize why that option doesn't exist, right? Because if you can download that, so can I, and everyone else actually playing the game :P

I will admit, I'm now kinda' wondering what a game would be like with everyone playing having access to every nation, though. All the .trn files going to the same email address, anyone can submit a turn for any side. Each player would still have an assigned nation, of course :P

Maybe have victory on a point system, though. Score is number of turns survived, x1.5 for the winner, with some penalty (1-5 points, probably) every time you submit a turn for another nation, ehehe. Just not entirely sure how you'd track that last bit.

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It'd work, yeah. Weight loss is mostly just increasing activity and keeping an eye on the diet. The kind of activity is somewhat irrelevant if you're not after specific results muscle/etc. wise. Walking, gardening, whatever really, so long as you're doing more than you were.

Though it's not just eating less! How you eat matters, too, often just as much as what or the amount. I'd be losing weight, ferex, if I'd just start eating more and smaller meals, instead of one or two large-ish ones a day. As is I'm just maintaining, heh.

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Worse.

More seriously, it varied by state -- there was some federal options available, but only for folks in fairly specific circumstances, and access and whatnot usually depended (well, still depends -- the ACA helped a lot, in a lot of areas, but it still isn't exactly a complete safety net.) on state-level stuff. So it depended on the state in question. Low-income with kids, disabled (though good goddamn luck qualifying for that -- FL, ferex, takes 2-4 years of a documented debilitating condition before they even consider counting you as disabled), you had a not entirely terrible chance of getting some assistance (if not full coverage or whatev'). More or less everyone else was just kinda' buggered, so far as governmental assistance re: medical coverage. Generally you just sucked up whatever insurance costs you could afford, and if you couldn't afford any, you didn't go to the doctor.

Honestly, for a lot of people the "safety net" was "rack up uninsured hospital costs and then don't pay them." There's a reason bankruptcy due to medical costs was/is a very substantial portion of the states' current bankruptcy numbers, heh.

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Other Games / Re: Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension
« on: April 08, 2016, 09:27:10 am »
Yeeaaah, I was playing around with gemless/debug mode and had like... ten debug senseis dropping horror seeds on the (fairly heavily entrenched) enemy capital for something like a dozen turns. It... barely did anything. Like, I'd sit there for five or six turns, letting the horrors build up, then drop a ghost rider on them or earth attack or whatever, and most of the time the horrors still wouldn't pop out. And even when they did, they usually didn't do anything.

It's honestly almost demoralizing to watch a horror pop up in the middle of a bunch of PD and instantly die to militia/light infantry.

Dream horrors, though. Dream horrors are the way to go. Cheaper than the seed, hard to catch (they're stealth 80!), jacks the unrest straight through the roof, and even if someone finds them they'll at least do a bit of damage instead of being immediately surrounded and poked to death. They're basically monster boars on steroids. Only problem is taking the province once it's been shut down and wrecked by unrest -- then you have however many dream horrors infesting the province to deal with, ahaha.

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Look OW, just because early onset senility is setting in for you doesn't mean the rest of us have that problem :P

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That...

... why did they put her in Bulma's outfit? And bernie not in an appropriate suit. It hurts my brain just by how much it doesn't mesh with what it's riffing on.

E: +1 for effort, -(Everything) for execution. You can't pull that shit on the generations that actually grew up having watched the show :-\

E2: Though... does that mean bill's vegeta? Trunks got 63'd, I guess.

Also it'd... kinda' fit better the other way around. Bulma actually had a notable relationship with someone else, whereas vegeta was fairly monogamous so far as I can recall. Which would fit with the text better! Except the outfits are all wrong. It'd have to be crossdressing for everyone to make this analogy fit.

Except bernie, I guess. Though portraying him as a (kinda' murderous!) high ideal idiot savant is...

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otome game for 2016 candidate lineup when

Actually, yeah, if they did that, Christi(n)e would have to be the main character, all the republican and democratic nominees the potential capture targets. When doing that sort of thing, the jowliest one goes in the frilly dress.

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Other Games / Re: Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension
« on: April 07, 2016, 03:17:27 pm »
I'm... fairly sure the wild hunt can hit stuff outside of forests. The lord might not, but I could swear at the very least the ancillary attacks can.

E: Though testing it definitely looks like they can't. Nevermind, then, haha!

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