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... current train of discussion is honestly distasteful enough without bringing that nonsense into it. Let's not?

It would be hella' interesting to find out most of the way through a campaign the character you're incredibly dependent on and absolutely need to achieve the campaign's goals, has in fact been abducting children and sending them off to be eaten by a cannibal tribe the whole time. Bonus points if mr. homophagus was the most affable and charitable character of the lot of them, and otherwise an outstanding paragon of all that is good and righteous. Except for the baby eating.

It's always something, I guess.

If Batman is an effective template, the answer is significant amounts of "hero" induced brain damage. It starts as a little petty crime, and then you have your skull spiked into pavement and things just kinda' go from there. Eventually following the guy that's murdering people left and right for trivial mistakes seems like a good idea. Also your best friend is an invisible six limbed ostrich and you probably fornicate with brick walls in your off time. Cranial swelling is a hell of a drug.

I think the worldbuilding answer is usually "something offscreen". You generally don't see payday, or when the big bad captures a mook's family, or whathaveyou, on screen. Maybe there are actually crippling societal issues that the Big Bad is doing something about (and/or taking advantage of), but the story doesn't bother to touch on it. The list just kinda' goes on.

Honestly, I can only assume altitude or something has an effect, too. I've literally never thought about the rice more than following the directions on the bag it comes in, and burnt it all of once in my lifetime, when I was horribly sick. And it pretty much always just comes out fine.

Basically, I'm the absolute worst person to ask about rice preperation, because all I can say is "Follow the zoggin' directions", which is also what I say to 90% of the cooking inquiries I get

Once you're on the train, there's no getting off unless the thread gets locked or deleted.

Or you make a new account, I guess. Fairly sure it doesn't follow you that far, though it would be the most amazing of things if it did.

No need to waste a perfectly good game cartridge and/or CD on that, anyway. Or even a perfectly bad one.

Breakfast riiiiiice. Sorta'. Cup of white rice, bit of beef bullion, two eggs, bit of cheese, part of the beef from stirfry someone else was making, bit of black pepper. It's been a while since I've done egg'd rice, and my breakfast rice usually uses bacon (and sometimes mac & cheese) instead of beef, but whatev'. It was delicious ;_;

I just want to state for the record adding eggs to rice is amazingly good for how little effort it is. You beat the eggs into that fine, omelet-cooking-like slurry, and then the last three or four minutes of the rice cooking you just stir the stuff in. Eggs get cooked and mixed with the rice to more or less perfection. It's wonderful, and basically zero effort.