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amateurhour
One day I'll be professionalhourThe woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
One day I'll be professionalhourThe woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
It's late and I shouldn't even be up right now but I had to work tonight.
Y'all rock, I can't wait to see some of you in 2024, and since my arm works I hope to garden as much as I did in 2022 so I can send a bunch of you stuff(s)
Thanks for being a good place to talk.
Y'all rock, I can't wait to see some of you in 2024, and since my arm works I hope to garden as much as I did in 2022 so I can send a bunch of you stuff(s)
Thanks for being a good place to talk.
are YOU on the beer list?
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The powerball was 7
Right now
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Really kicking myself for finishing Slow Horses over the last 3 days. I can't recall who rec'd that but holy shit that was chef's kiss.
my wife just binged the first 2 seasons in 2 days. working on the 3rd. is good
Time travel was a mistake
Among others
He's from the future! But he's stuck managing a bunch of wannabe gangsters AND he knows how everything will turn out. There's no mystery, no question of what will happen next.
Its a movie that gets worse everytime I think about it.
WELL TOO BAD
I hate whatever the opposite is just as much.
Their meat is so stringy, and it’s always difficult to find ethically raised snobs to butcher.
What?
The past two weeks I finished
Leverage Redemption s1 & s2
DnD Honor among thieves
Loki (both seasons)
Prey (predator)
They were all good. Especially Leverage and DnD HAT. I really wasn't expecting a good DnD movie.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
me too, soon as i save up for the surgery
Yesterday I was tired but not "emotionally crying at 30 Rock" tired and I hadn't been in pain most of the day... as soon as I got hit by that wave of emotion though, my first thought was "ope, I'm getting sick, it wasn't just the fan!". I second guessed myself though... should have tested right there.
Totally unrelated to the above, it was probably a mistake to finish this 30 Rock rewatch today. I just got done weeping off and on for like the last 3-4 episodes.
In the words of Jenna Maroney, I've got "drunk-in-the-bathtub face"
Or Torchwood, where dashing gay immortals hunt aliens
And it really is a cool vibe, being a maid in a snowed-in hotel, going around snooping through people's stuff and figuring out what is going on in their internal lives. The game looks great too, even with pretty barebones animations it has great lighting and sound.
Also like the main character and her kinda oddball energy, getting a big book of gossip about all your coworkers, figuring out who's banging who, etc.
But I think it would've been better if it was more episodic, more Telltale-ish, snoop through a room and then go gossip and then go through another (granted it's an indie game and they probably didn't have money to actually do that). The game mostly has one big mystery and while it does a satisfying job of doling out reveals for about 60% of it, once you realize what it's drawing from* it kinda loses energy, and it goes from a very complex messy little series of mysteries into having a Big Theme about a Big Cause. There's a couple lines at the end that are so bleeding heavy handed I kinda hated it, even though I agree with where the game is coming from.
There's also a couple of bits where guests are like, haha I sure do love designing puzzle boxes to hide my documents in! and anytime that happens it always feels like the game creators have run out of ideas for ways to piece together clues organically. There's also a few mysteries that feel like they don't really get answered convincingly, though I know I missed some content so maybe it was hidden away there.
Spoilers
So like there's a fair bit of evidence to suggest that maybe the women were really thinking about killing the husband, but the game really never entertains the idea that it's possible because gay people are morally good. The weird creepy guy who's taking photos of you is gay, so he can't actually do something bad either. There's only one straight guest left in the building, therefore he's the killer.
I dunno, I just wish it had more of an old school thriller sort of sensibility to it. Let our protagonist get genuinely weird with her constant voyeurism and make us think a little about how fucking invasive she is. Make it feel more possible that the women did a real bad thing for a sympathetic reason. Make things a little more challenging. The game takes a lot of inspiration from Hitchcock I think, but Hitchcock or other thriller directors from past decades let their protagonists get weird and questionable, and I think that would've helped this game a lot.
Anyway still definitely seconding the recommendation, it's a cool change of pace, even if I think the writing could've taken a lot more risks.
Or maybe I'm just super dumb right now cause of the VID. Last time it absolutely made me more stupider.
now my ancient cat is losing another fang, which is bad, but at least we have an explanation for his pained behavior. the tooth is like, almost horizontal in his mouth, the poor guy.
he's going from 3 fangs to 2; presumably since the remaining teeth are both on the bottom he'll look like a gremlin 24/7.
we're just hoping he can hang in there in the meantime, he's been sickly this past year and needs to retain the little bit of weight he has left.
The weird thing is I've seen him on some podcasts and he was... fine?
But yeah in his own content he comes across as just the most insufferable prick next to maybe Bill Maher
It’s beef stock, babe
It shouldn’t cost half a bill
I was sorta wondering how from scratch you were going to go for "right now".
wake up, babe
new billionaire's shortbread recipe just dropped
Spoiler for 2024
Here’s her ingredients list just for the stock:
4 pounds beef bones
2 large carrots,
2 yellow onions
2 celery ribs
7 quarts cold water
3 large cloves fresh garlic
1 can Italian plum tomatoes
1 each herb bouquet Tie, in a piece of cheese cloth,
4 allspice berries,
6 black peppercorns,
1/2 tsp dried thyme,
1 small bay leaf
4 sprigs of fresh parsley
Even at, like, WinCo prices I think that list has to go for $20-30
Then the soup recipe calls for six more large sweet onions, butter, red vermouth, peppercorns, flour, white pepper, and nutmeg
It’s a ridiculously expensive way to make French onion soup 😰
I just have a hard time believing that the inclusion or ommission a single small bayleaf or 6 peppercorns or half a teaspoon of tyme are going to be even detectable in a gallon or so of stock. Esp after you've simmered it down for hours.