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The anime girl's Suguri, from the eponymously named SHMUP, for what it's worth.

... iirc, the source image that was modified into The Image, uh. Can't be linked to without violating the forum ToS, heh.

termites *grumbling noises*

bugkillin' folks gon' be here... sometime this week

hopefully

it do suck when you notice a hole in the wall what wasn't there and then look closer 'cause where did this hole come from and then you notice the hole is goddamn wiggling and you're like fuuuuuuck

I never knew there was an attack of the killer tomatoes video game, guess that's something I need to look into later.

Checking, it's actually a little weird. There's an old computer game released on the spectrum and a couple other machines, then one that got released on the NES and Gameboy... except the gameboy version wasn't a port, it was apparently the same game, but developed and published by entirely different people. Friggin' weird. Also I think I might have rented the NES one at some point? I'unno, that was a long time ago and I was tiny.

There's also an atari game called Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes that's... apparently unrelated to the killer tomato ones, though probably inspired by them on some level. Even odds there's even more out there themed around murderous tomatoes, I'unno, those are the ones I know of now.

Basically there's a weird amount of killer tomato related video games, in the ol' "I only have three but it's really strange it happened more than once" sense. The old SNES Tomato Kingdom wait no that's tomato princess on the nes Vampire game (Twisted Tales of Spike McFang!) is unrelated but actually pretty good!

Won't the heat and time required for frozen fries end up cooking off a lot of volatiles like garlic, chili, pepper and the like?

It sure didn't taste like it :V

At least for air frying, frozen spud only needs to cook for, like... two or three more minutes at the same heat, or something like that? There's barely any difference in cooking time between frozen and homemade, and pre-seasoned home fries come out the cooker tastin' even better than they do if you season after you pull them out, least to me.

So that... might be a concern if you're oil/deep frying? I don't think it would, because the last few times I've actually used an oil fryer with pre-seasoned home fries, while some of the seasoning did come off in the cooking oil, most of it cooked into the fries real well -- and as with air frying, doing frozen doesn't actually change your cooking profile much in terms of time or heat.

Most other cooking methods it's definitely neither hot enough nor cooked long enough to burn off much seasoning, in any case. Like, idle checking suggests it happens to some degree, but from what I've seen all my life, if you throw a pile of black pepper (or whatever) onto spud before cooking it, there's still going to be a pile of black pepper on it even if some amount of it cooks off, and that's true if you're boiling it, baking it, frying it, air frying it, microwaving it, pan cooking it, grilling it, steaming it, and probably some method or another I'm forgetting. I can't remember if I've broiled or braised potatoes before, but now I kinda' wanna' try braised potatoes...

Dunno why it'd be selfish? 'Bout the worst thing about frozen fries is usually the sodium in 'em, and as things go they're usually not that bad on the salt front. Just don't go too crazy on them or eat light for the rest of the day and you're good.

I'd totes recommend doing more than just salt and garlic, though, especially for fries what already got salt in 'em. You can go pretty wild on seasoning spud and it'll still taste real good, so... go wild

Like... you could, but the problem (such as it is, just... ignoring everything going on with the latest mess is an option) is that Israel's about as reliable as Hamas when it comes to claims about what's going on. If you're going to ignore claims going one way, you don't really have grounds to be trusting ones going the other.

Reality is it's an active conflict and bombing campaign in an urban area, between two groups that have a history of publicly lying about basically everything. Reliable information is going to sparse for a long damn time for anyone, foreign intelligence services or otherwise, and it's not going to come from the genocidal terrorists or the folks running ethnic cleansing campaigns that lie about murdering reporters, regardless.

Though in fairness, ignoring any particular claim of israeli warcrime is probably fine. Their bombing campaign and subsequent occupation's almost certainly going to kill a lot fewer civilians than the ongoing blockade of vital resources, so stuff like individual bombings, no matter how deadly in a localized area or in aggregate, is probably going to end up peanuts compared to deprivation, starvation, dehydration, and lack of medical care.

... just the original? What about one of the three sequels? The cartoon series?

There's also two different video games, a comic book, and a novelization (released this year, even!), for that matter.