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Ngl, my legit favorite way to make mac and cheese is just nuke it -- standard box is two cups water to the box, microwave 3 minutes, three times, stirring each stop. It tends to make a pretty nice consistency out of the mac, and you can do other stuff after to make the cheese do well. There's probably better ways to do it, but it's quick and remarkably effective, only issue is it'll boil over a bit, sometimes (also the bowl you cook it in may try to melt your flesh, so, y'know, oven mitts or paper towel when removing or something). If you've never cooked a box of mac and cheese in the microwave, I'd recommend giving it a shot.

... anyway, the cheeto thing didn't have a watery consistency -- the cheese and whatnot congealed or whatever just fine. Texture/consistency of the cheese was okay. The taste was just remarkably weak for something that looked and smelled like a cheese abomination. It didn't taste like a cheese abomination, it tasted like barely anything, which isn't something that should happen in regards to something that shade of orange. That shit should taste like cheese acid or something, but it doesn't.

also yeah the crispy bits of the lasagna is the best part, same for the cheese of a similar consistency on pizzas -- stuff is basically like fried chicken skin, except cheese. Someone really needs to figure out how to market that stuff as like... cheese jerky or something, y'know?

In unrelated wtf, cheetoes mac and cheese... exists. I saw it existed, and had to try. I'm about to try -- it is cooked. It looks... like cheetoes (probably the most inappropriate color of mac and cheese I've ever made, the king of what-the-hell-is-this-no-really orange). It smells like cheetoes.

It tastes... like watery cheetoes. Okay. I'm not sure if this is the worst mac and cheese I've ever eaten, but. Close! Ahaha!

E: That said, the noodles they used are actually pretty decent quality. I've definitely had much worse macaroni in my mac and cheese. Too bad about the rest of it :V

Can confirm it's a pretty nice take on Magic Survival's design. Notably better in some ways -- among other things, its drops don't disappear, so :V

It is still in EA, though. Still got a ways to go before completion, too.

...it's also cheaper to pay someone unemployment than to pay for them to be in jail.

Seriously, nobody understands how fucking expensive it is to jail people.

I vaguely remember seeing the rikers price tag up in new york recently, something like 120-170k annually, i.e. 10-15x my income and enough to put six or seven four people households over the federal poverty line. Per prisoner. Price tag's going to be cheaper elsewhere, but... well, country average is still 25-30k per head.

... unfortunately, if you just lifted that price per head wholesale it'd only pull about a twentieth of the folks below the poverty line out of it (bit under 2 million vs 37-ish m), but... still. If our country nixed the prison spending and just gave poor fuckers the money, it'd cut our poverty rate by one household in twenty, right then and there. Solid tenth if you go per person instead of per 3-4 person household.

Pricetag of the carceral state: At least one out of every ten people in the US identified by the state as impoverished, probably more considering the massive net negative knockon effects

Quote from: heydude6 on January 28, 2022, 02:06:36 am

Quote from: Flying Teasets on January 28, 2022, 01:30:02 am

Well r/antiwork has descended into pandemonium after an unpopular interview between one of the mods and Fox News. Allegations of transphobia, sexual assault, banker infiltration, incest and corruption are flying. A migration towards r/workreform is ongoing but reports of Reddit admins meddling in their mod roster are coming in.

That is such a bizarre list of alleged crimes. It’s like people just made up a list of every bad thing they could think of. They don’t cohere at all. Is anyone actually believing this crap?

They're not all aimed at the same person.

... beyond that, the incest thing's the only one that particularly fails to cohere. Banker infiltration (assuming that's not just coded anti-semitism, anyway -- I'm not nearly curious enough about this to actually inflict a fox news interview or reddit on myself to find out, tbh) and corruption goes hand in hand, as does transphobia and sexual assault, and the latter pair being involved with the sort of shits that would be getting up to the former is depressingly common.

The incest is out of place, but the rest are only incoherent if you haven't been paying attention to workplace horseshit for, like, the last, uh. Century or somethin', I'unno.

Yeah, that's the one thing I've found that can particularly stop a warp archer. Only solution I've found for it is basically "avoid tanks" (they're the enemy class doing that) until you're able to one-shot more or less everything. You're good once you hit that point, which is extremely reachable if you find a good enough sniper bow (I've had runs that were eventually critting for six digits at a minimum, and every once in a long while seven, off the power of a quooze/masterwork sniper bow), but before then there's precious little you can do to kill one of the buggers. Avoid them or die, heh.

Only build I've found so far even remotely as broken is seemuth warpers -- get a nice gem wand for sufficiently low cooldowns, turn on pause, and then spam teleport literally forever, utterly invincible until you get tired of pressing the button. Kills anything, genuinely can't be damaged by anything, can clear a level faster (in game time, at least, not necessarily real) than even warp archers, it's some wildly busted stuff.

... so what they try that almost got you?