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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Bogart wrote: »
    Jubal77 wrote: »
    Bogart wrote: »
    Jubal77 wrote: »
    The real FF2 wasnt initially released in west because it was too tough for us. And in retrospect it probably was for a lot of us.

    Was it tough like Dark Souls interesting tough or tough like hey now go grind for twenty hours because it's not like you've anything better to do you loveless JRPG player tough?

    I say this as someone who most definitely ground out ten or so levels to take down O&S.

    Dark Souls has its own grind like any other game.

    You can grind. Or you can
    git
    gud

    How about something even crazier
    Get
    Good

  • AbdyAbdy Registered User regular
    Honk wrote: »
    My favorite ice cream in recent years is frozen yoghurt. It tastes great and it's yoghurt so it's basically breakfast, and breakfast is healthy.

    I hate frozen yoghurt's existence

    I have never eaten frozen yoghurt and not thought "why the fuck am I eating this, when there's ice cream instead? Why does this exist?"

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  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    syndalis wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    All these big companies keep cutting portion size and reducing the quality of their ingredients.

    I wonder if, just, like, a company started up and made a good quality chocolate bar or ice cream and the right proper proportion they should be at, if they'd honestly really be noncompetitive? I understand wanting to find ways to squeeze a few pennies per item, but, why not just not become a publicly traded corporation with a board of directors that needs to be appeased and just sell ice cream and not worry about squeezing an extra few million by cutting quality?

    Häagen-Dazs has kept both largely consistent, quality in particular. Size has shrunk a bit but not much. Their ice cream has steadily increased in price every single time I see it. It’s also the only brand I buy.

    Ben & Jerry's seems of a similar stripe where the size has mostly stayed the same for the past 10-20 years, ingredients are good, and my money spent on that ice cream goes both to my waist and also

    s o c i a l i s m

    The issue with Ben And Jerry’s is every flavor has so much stuff in it. I don’t want to taste brownie and fudge and caramel and peanutbutter in ultra-rich coffee ice cream. I want like, strawberry. Chocolate. Maybe a cookies and cream if I’m feeling crazy. Gimme flavors that are simple and versatile and let me construct my own dessert. Let me taste simple perfection.

    I get this and all but Americone Dream is fucking outstanding.

  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    Bogart wrote: »
    Jubal77 wrote: »
    Bogart wrote: »
    Jubal77 wrote: »
    The real FF2 wasnt initially released in west because it was too tough for us. And in retrospect it probably was for a lot of us.

    Was it tough like Dark Souls interesting tough or tough like hey now go grind for twenty hours because it's not like you've anything better to do you loveless JRPG player tough?

    I say this as someone who most definitely ground out ten or so levels to take down O&S.

    Dark Souls has its own grind like any other game.

    You can grind. Or you can
    git
    gud

    That damn archer's ledge in Anor Londo was the only time I can remember actually throwing my controller as an adult.

    There were also a couple of times in Dark Souls where I just set the controller down and shut down the system out of spite.

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    gotta git gud

    https://youtu.be/mpCAZwysBmM

    shit wrong video

    https://youtu.be/31saJNW7BqY

    got gud

  • BowenBowen Sup? Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    Couscous wrote: »
    There is probably some general rule about how the quality of the inversely proportional to how much effort the packaging tries to sell it with a ton of buzzwords.

    For example, a bell pepper has no packaging and it is better for you than most of the packaged things in the store.

    They're packaged at my store.

    get a different store

    food deserts yo

    they just toss them into bags for people and label them, the same as if you were to do it yourself

    same price per lb

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • Sir LandsharkSir Landshark resting shark face Registered User regular
    Jubal77 wrote: »
    Jubal77 wrote: »
    Bogart wrote: »
    Jubal77 wrote: »
    The real FF2 wasnt initially released in west because it was too tough for us. And in retrospect it probably was for a lot of us.

    Was it tough like Dark Souls interesting tough or tough like hey now go grind for twenty hours because it's not like you've anything better to do you loveless JRPG player tough?

    I say this as someone who most definitely ground out ten or so levels to take down O&S.

    Dark Souls has its own grind like any other game.

    I never had to grind levels in dark souls 1 or 2

    You can make it trivial like any other game with "grinding" game systems out in certain ways. You dont have to grind in FF games either. Watch speedrunning.

    ok I misread your post mb

    Please consider the environment before printing this post.
  • HonkHonk Honk is this poster. Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Honk wrote: »
    My favorite ice cream in recent years is frozen yoghurt. It tastes great and it's yoghurt so it's basically breakfast, and breakfast is healthy.

    I hate frozen yoghurt's existence

    I have never eaten frozen yoghurt and not thought "why the fuck am I eating this, when there's ice cream instead? Why does this exist?"

    haters are my elevators

    PSN: Honkalot
  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    Graeter's Ice Cream is pretty good about only having flavors with large chocolate bits in it. Like blackberry chip, or whisky chip. If you're local grocery store is a Kroger-owned chain you'll probably find it next to Ben & Jerry's.

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  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User, Transition Team regular
    actually I forget about my texas produce privilege. Visiting my mother in the Boston suburbs was amazing, you had to actually work to find a vegetable. The local supermarket was just embarrassingly bad. I remember standing in the "produce section" and thinking no fucking wonder, look at the state of this place. If that's your idea of what vegetables look like, of course you're going to buy a neon-colored VeggieBlast PowerBar instead.

    It was depressing.

  • Sir LandsharkSir Landshark resting shark face Registered User regular
    God Capra Demon in DS1 was perhaps the only fight where I was like

    ok this shit is unfair

    cuz I was running a basically zero poise caster build and lol staggered+dead upon zoning in more than 75% of the time

    Please consider the environment before printing this post.
  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    [Ben] Cohen [of Ben and Jerry’s] has severe anosmia, a lack of a sense of smell or taste, and so relied on "mouth feel" and texture to provide variety in his diet. This led to the company's trademark chunks being mixed in with their ice cream.

    Yeah that sounds about right for why their ice cream has a million chunks of intensely flavored things in it.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    A lot of early RPGs had fun bugs.

    Heck, even FFVI had a stat that did almost nothing due to a bug.

  • BowenBowen Sup? Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    actually I forget about my texas produce privilege. Visiting my mother in the Boston suburbs was amazing, you had to actually work to find a vegetable. The local supermarket was just embarrassingly bad. I remember standing in the "produce section" and thinking no fucking wonder, look at the state of this place. If that's your idea of what vegetables look like, of course you're going to buy a neon-colored VeggieBlast PowerBar instead.

    It was depressing.

    The worst part is if you're shopping at night, you get the shitty leftovers that've been picked through through the day.

    I lean heavily on frozen veggies for this reason usually. They taste better too, oddly.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • Jubal77Jubal77 Registered User regular
    Jubal77 wrote: »
    Jubal77 wrote: »
    Bogart wrote: »
    Jubal77 wrote: »
    The real FF2 wasnt initially released in west because it was too tough for us. And in retrospect it probably was for a lot of us.

    Was it tough like Dark Souls interesting tough or tough like hey now go grind for twenty hours because it's not like you've anything better to do you loveless JRPG player tough?

    I say this as someone who most definitely ground out ten or so levels to take down O&S.

    Dark Souls has its own grind like any other game.

    I never had to grind levels in dark souls 1 or 2

    You can make it trivial like any other game with "grinding" game systems out in certain ways. You dont have to grind in FF games either. Watch speedrunning.

    ok I misread your post mb

    Sorry on my side too.... its early and my eyes are especially puffy today. Plus the breathe right strip made my nose look like santa.

  • HonkHonk Honk is this poster. Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    For real tho Abdy frozen yoghurt basically tastes exactly like flavored soft serve ice cream to me, that's probably why I like it a lot.

    PSN: Honkalot
  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Couscous wrote: »
    A lot of early RPGs had fun bugs.

    Heck, even FFVI had a stat that did almost nothing due to a bug.

    Meant everyone had cool sunglasses

  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    The archer's ledge and O&S were the major speedbumps in DS1 for me.

    I say this, but I also gave up after like an hour because I went the wrong way and thought hmmm nope this isn't fun and then started a couple of years later and got to the depths and fell down a hole and got gassed by a frog and thought hmmm no this isn't fun and then a couple of years later picked it up again and then got every achievement, even the one that meant I had to kill Smough first and thus fight O&S like twenty times like a masochist.

  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    bowen wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    actually I forget about my texas produce privilege. Visiting my mother in the Boston suburbs was amazing, you had to actually work to find a vegetable. The local supermarket was just embarrassingly bad. I remember standing in the "produce section" and thinking no fucking wonder, look at the state of this place. If that's your idea of what vegetables look like, of course you're going to buy a neon-colored VeggieBlast PowerBar instead.

    It was depressing.

    The worst part is if you're shopping at night, you get the shitty leftovers that've been picked through through the day.

    I lean heavily on frozen veggies for this reason usually. They taste better too, oddly.

    they taste better because they can be allowed to ripen naturally for longer since they don't have to survive being stored out in the open

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • wanderingwandering Russia state-affiliated media Registered User regular
    Throughout my life I've gone back and forth on Ben and Jerry's maximalist flavor philosophy but currently I am all in

    Overwhelm my tongue with 100 different delicious flavors and textures at once

    When I take a bite I want to feel like this

    ZcxXivz.gif

  • SleepSleep Registered User regular
    chunky monkey is a good reason to keep being alive.

  • BowenBowen Sup? Registered User regular
    Chanus wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    actually I forget about my texas produce privilege. Visiting my mother in the Boston suburbs was amazing, you had to actually work to find a vegetable. The local supermarket was just embarrassingly bad. I remember standing in the "produce section" and thinking no fucking wonder, look at the state of this place. If that's your idea of what vegetables look like, of course you're going to buy a neon-colored VeggieBlast PowerBar instead.

    It was depressing.

    The worst part is if you're shopping at night, you get the shitty leftovers that've been picked through through the day.

    I lean heavily on frozen veggies for this reason usually. They taste better too, oddly.

    they taste better because they can be allowed to ripen naturally for longer since they don't have to survive being stored out in the open

    Supposedly the have better nutritional content too.

    Eh, it's easier to store and use them as a single person so that's what I prefer.

    It doesn't always go so well with certain dishes like if you're doing a stuffed pepper or something so in those cases you'll still need fresh.

    Farmer's market should start up here pretty soon I think.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    God Capra Demon in DS1 was perhaps the only fight where I was like

    ok this shit is unfair

    cuz I was running a basically zero poise caster build and lol staggered+dead upon zoning in more than 75% of the time

    i'm gonna blow ur mind

    aural decoy

  • HonkHonk Honk is this poster. Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    I feel bad every time I open edge on a new install, it shows the "Edge is great you guys" page, and the first thing I write into the bar is "get chrome".

    It feels so disrespectful towards edge, it's probably perfectly nice.

    PSN: Honkalot
  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    Dark Souls 1 had a lot of problems, but it was probably the most influential game of its generation.

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  • navgoosenavgoose Registered User regular
    Couscous wrote: »
    A lot of early RPGs had fun bugs.

    Heck, even FFVI had a stat that did almost nothing due to a bug.

    You could dupe weapons in 4, 6 used evade and m evade for everything as well as some spell shennannigans and sketch.

    But the first was bugged to high heaven.

  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User, Transition Team regular
    bowen wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    actually I forget about my texas produce privilege. Visiting my mother in the Boston suburbs was amazing, you had to actually work to find a vegetable. The local supermarket was just embarrassingly bad. I remember standing in the "produce section" and thinking no fucking wonder, look at the state of this place. If that's your idea of what vegetables look like, of course you're going to buy a neon-colored VeggieBlast PowerBar instead.

    It was depressing.

    The worst part is if you're shopping at night, you get the shitty leftovers that've been picked through through the day.

    I lean heavily on frozen veggies for this reason usually. They taste better too, oddly.

    It's not odd, modern flash freezing technique means that for a lot of vegetables, what you're eating is fresher and better for you than "fresh" produce that has been delivered alongside it. Also, if your store doesn't give a shit about produce, they probably don't often reject a load that has been delivered under temp - so the flash-frozen stuff stayed frozen but the fresh stuff stayed too cold, and the shelf life was at best reduced by days. At worst it's inedible mush within 24 hours.

  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Honk wrote: »
    My favorite ice cream in recent years is frozen yoghurt. It tastes great and it's yoghurt so it's basically breakfast, and breakfast is healthy.

    I hate frozen yoghurt's existence

    I have never eaten frozen yoghurt and not thought "why the fuck am I eating this, when there's ice cream instead? Why does this exist?"

    "There’s something so human about taking something and ruining it a little so you can have more of it."

  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    hot take: the anor londo archers are not that hard

    run roll parry ez gg no re

  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    Bogart wrote: »
    The archer's ledge and O&S were the major speedbumps in DS1 for me.

    I say this, but I also gave up after like an hour because I went the wrong way and thought hmmm nope this isn't fun and then started a couple of years later and got to the depths and fell down a hole and got gassed by a frog and thought hmmm no this isn't fun and then a couple of years later picked it up again and then got every achievement, even the one that meant I had to kill Smough first and thus fight O&S like twenty times like a masochist.

    That's crazy to me, because I think I've only had Ornstein die first once, maybe twice.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    I hate having to buy a ton of carrots around here when a recipe calls for one or two because the store only sells them in silly bundles.

  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    Chanus wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    actually I forget about my texas produce privilege. Visiting my mother in the Boston suburbs was amazing, you had to actually work to find a vegetable. The local supermarket was just embarrassingly bad. I remember standing in the "produce section" and thinking no fucking wonder, look at the state of this place. If that's your idea of what vegetables look like, of course you're going to buy a neon-colored VeggieBlast PowerBar instead.

    It was depressing.

    The worst part is if you're shopping at night, you get the shitty leftovers that've been picked through through the day.

    I lean heavily on frozen veggies for this reason usually. They taste better too, oddly.

    they taste better because they can be allowed to ripen naturally for longer since they don't have to survive being stored out in the open

    Everyone learning to cook always makes the mistake of trying to make tomato sauce from fresh tomatoes at least once.

    Of my god it’s like gritty battery acid why is this happening!

    Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
  • BowenBowen Sup? Registered User regular
    Honk wrote: »
    I feel bad every time I open edge on a new install, it shows the "Edge is great you guys" page, and the first thing I write into the bar is "get chrome".

    It feels so disrespectful towards edge, it's probably perfectly nice.

    it's better than IE

    the lack of features for a modern browser is a bit sad tho, they've probably improved that

    They should just give up, wrap it all into IE, and just give up on trying to make old websites from 2003 work at all.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User, Transition Team regular
    Couscous wrote: »
    I hate having to buy a ton of carrots around here when a recipe calls for one or two because the store only sells them in silly bundles.

    ... just eat the rest of the carrots!

  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited May 2018
    Finding decent berries at stores around here is almost impossible despite living in an area where they are grown.

    Couscous on
  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    navgoose wrote: »
    Couscous wrote: »
    A lot of early RPGs had fun bugs.

    Heck, even FFVI had a stat that did almost nothing due to a bug.

    You could dupe weapons in 4, 6 used evade and m evade for everything as well as some spell shennannigans and sketch.

    But the first was bugged to high heaven.

    I rocked the end battle by cloning Excalibur and having the ninja chuck it every turn.

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  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User, Transition Team regular
    Side note: My dogs will sit perfectly still in the kitchen and wait for me to throw them a scrap of bell pepper now. It's pretty great.

  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    Chanus wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    actually I forget about my texas produce privilege. Visiting my mother in the Boston suburbs was amazing, you had to actually work to find a vegetable. The local supermarket was just embarrassingly bad. I remember standing in the "produce section" and thinking no fucking wonder, look at the state of this place. If that's your idea of what vegetables look like, of course you're going to buy a neon-colored VeggieBlast PowerBar instead.

    It was depressing.

    The worst part is if you're shopping at night, you get the shitty leftovers that've been picked through through the day.

    I lean heavily on frozen veggies for this reason usually. They taste better too, oddly.

    they taste better because they can be allowed to ripen naturally for longer since they don't have to survive being stored out in the open

    Everyone learning to cook always makes the mistake of trying to make tomato sauce from fresh tomatoes at least once.

    Of my god it’s like gritty battery acid why is this happening!

    Add some sugar?

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  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Chanus wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    actually I forget about my texas produce privilege. Visiting my mother in the Boston suburbs was amazing, you had to actually work to find a vegetable. The local supermarket was just embarrassingly bad. I remember standing in the "produce section" and thinking no fucking wonder, look at the state of this place. If that's your idea of what vegetables look like, of course you're going to buy a neon-colored VeggieBlast PowerBar instead.

    It was depressing.

    The worst part is if you're shopping at night, you get the shitty leftovers that've been picked through through the day.

    I lean heavily on frozen veggies for this reason usually. They taste better too, oddly.

    they taste better because they can be allowed to ripen naturally for longer since they don't have to survive being stored out in the open

    Everyone learning to cook always makes the mistake of trying to make tomato sauce from fresh tomatoes at least once.

    Of my god it’s like gritty battery acid why is this happening!

    it's so counterintuitive given what we're all taught about fresh food

    but man

    canned tomatoes or bust

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • wanderingwandering Russia state-affiliated media Registered User regular
    edited May 2018
    The great thing about Ben and Jerry's is that they could use their goofy marketing and aggressive flavor combos as a crutch but they don't. It's high quality shit, they don't foist some Dairy Queen style garbo on you

    wandering on
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