We are making Marcella Hazan’s tomato sauce which is literally just a can of San Marzanos, a onion cut in half (then removed after cooking), butter, and salt.
I am skeptical, but I definitely respect the commitment to simplicity and am prepared to be pleasantly surprised.
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I feel you're kinda understating the rather large amount of butter in that sauce. It works really well but leaves me feeling like it shouldn't be a staple because it can't be that healthy for you.
the default fantasy government is like, a king?? palace intrigue? and, okay, but have you seen the kind of hectic shit that goes on in free democratic elections. it's basically made for a bunch of adventurers to fuck with
I don’t really want to talk about politics right now but I’d love to whine about politics
If I were Amy I would simply make a new primary thread
I keep running into our reading articles about these alleged Democrat boomers who are like, “Lol socialism. We can’t win without appealing to the Center-Right.”
And I all I see is red
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AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
Damnit, I just said NO ALT HISTORY POLITICS IN CHAT!
... Ah well. Did you know that Dunkelzahn actually was fairly close in the vote to win? FASA really did tally up votes to see which candidate would become President.
Anyways, I have some bonus swag for this too.
And the backs of these books are just as entertaining as the fronts in many cases.
I apologize that the photos aren't that great. I'm trying really hard not to break the spines on these books, because they are old and the binding is known to be crappy. So I'm trying my best to provide as much readable space as possible.
We are making Marcella Hazan’s tomato sauce which is literally just a can of San Marzanos, a onion cut in half (then removed after cooking), butter, and salt.
I am skeptical, but I definitely respect the commitment to simplicity and am prepared to be pleasantly surprised.
Edit:
I feel you're kinda understating the rather large amount of butter in that sauce. It works really well but leaves me feeling like it shouldn't be a staple because it can't be that healthy for you.
We are making Marcella Hazan’s tomato sauce which is literally just a can of San Marzanos, a onion cut in half (then removed after cooking), butter, and salt.
I am skeptical, but I definitely respect the commitment to simplicity and am prepared to be pleasantly surprised.
Edit:
what you'll get there is an onion flavor without any of the sweetness that actually chopping up and browning the onion would get you.
So, first of all, it’s really good. It succeeds perfectly at what it’s trying to do. I agree the butter does a lot of work to round it off.
I think the point is to minimize the onion. It’s definitely there, but less the focus. It doesn’t actually need any more sweetness, oddly.
But: It’s not what I would want for like a centerpiece or main dish, it’s kind of too simple for that. But I think it would work great to accompany a deeper or more complex protein without overwhelming it like sometimes happens with tomato sauces.
Check out last page, you probably would appreciate it. Forgot to tag you originally, but needed to verify you were the right person to batsignal and the forum search around here is horrendous.
I think someone else has made basically this exact post in chat before, but I wish more action media didn't use that trope of being able to whack someone in the head and knock them out for hours without giving them massive brain damage. Because it's unrealistic, obviously, but I also think there's some cool stuff you could do tonally or thematically with it. Having to confront that you can't really do consequence-free violence, that if you escalate things to that point outside of narrow circumstances where you can like, pin down and handcuff someone, you are going to kill people. Gets the characters to try more kinds of approaches to the conflicts to avoid things getting to that point, and gives it more gravitas if it gets there regardless.
I've delivered DoorDash to this guy 4 times, I'm pretty sure I've never delivered to anyone else even twice. It must be destiny
You do the doordash delivery thing? Is it true they don't give you the tips if people tip digitally?
Nah we get the tips. What is fuzzy about it is that there are two parts of the pay: doordash's pay and the tip. When someone declines the order DoorDash raises their pay so the next person is more likely to accept it. So if you tip $10 and you live a mile away, the first person to see it is going to accept it. If you tip $1 it'll probably get rejected until DoorDash raises their pay enough to compensate. This kind of system needs to exist for them to be able to guarantee someone takes the order eventually, when as independent contractors they cannot punish drivers for refusing orders. I have a 20% acceptance rate because so many of the orders are bad. So in a sense you're subsidizing DoorDash when you tip in the app, but you also want someone bring your food in a reasonable amount of time
I think someone else has made basically this exact post in chat before, but I wish more action media didn't use that trope of being able to whack someone in the head and knock them out for hours without giving them massive brain damage. Because it's unrealistic, obviously, but I also think there's some cool stuff you could do tonally or thematically with it. Having to confront that you can't really do consequence-free violence, that if you escalate things to that point outside of narrow circumstances where you can like, pin down and handcuff someone, you are going to kill people. Gets the characters to try more kinds of approaches to the conflicts to avoid things getting to that point, and gives it more gravitas if it gets there regardless.
The narrative use of it is against the protagonist like 90% of the time though so you can't really confront different approaches to conflicts with it much. It's mostly just a way for our protagonist to be put out of commission temporarily.
What are the principal grievances of the peasants, the main causes of their sullen and deep hatred of the city? They are:
1. The peasants feel that they are despised by the city workers.
2. The peasants imagine, not without many and good reasons, and many historical examples to support their view, that the cities want to exploit them and force them to accept a political system that they abhor.
3. In addition, the peasants think that the city workers favor the collectivization of property and fear that the socialists will confiscate their lands, which they love above all else.
What should the city workers do to overcome the distrust and animosity of the peasants? They must first of all abandon their contemptuous attitude. This is absolutely necessary for the salvation of the Revolution and for the workers themselves, for the peasants' hatred constitutes an immense danger. If it were not for this distrust and hatred, the Revolution would have succeeded long ago, for it is the animosity between the city and the land which in all countries sustains the reaction and is its main base of support. City workers must overcome their antipeasant prejudices not only in the interests of the Revolution, or for strategic reasons, but as an act of elementary justice. There is no justification for these prejudices. The peasants are not parasites; they too are hard workers, except that they toil under different conditions. The city workers who are exploited by the bourgeois masters should realize that the peasants, who are also exploited, are their brothers...
Bear this in mind. The peasant hates all governments and obeys the laws only because it is prudent to do so. He pays his taxes regularly and tolerates the conscription of his sons into the army only because he sees no alternative. And he is averse to change, because he thinks that new governments, regardless of their forms and programs, will be no better than their predecessors, and because he wants to avoid the risks and expenses involved in what may very well be a useless or even more harmful change.
Does any of this sound familiar to anyone else?
There's even a large section where Bakunin explains that the peasants love the Emperor because they are ignorant and have been mislead into believing that the Emperor is the enemy of the bourgeois landowners, because they fundamentally hate the rich and see the Emperor as protecting the peasants from the rich. Also, that they are ignorant because they are under the sway of the priests, who use religion and dogma in order to control the peasants and push the will of the Emperor on them.
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VanguardBut now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
Bakunin rules
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VanguardBut now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
I think someone else has made basically this exact post in chat before, but I wish more action media didn't use that trope of being able to whack someone in the head and knock them out for hours without giving them massive brain damage. Because it's unrealistic, obviously, but I also think there's some cool stuff you could do tonally or thematically with it. Having to confront that you can't really do consequence-free violence, that if you escalate things to that point outside of narrow circumstances where you can like, pin down and handcuff someone, you are going to kill people. Gets the characters to try more kinds of approaches to the conflicts to avoid things getting to that point, and gives it more gravitas if it gets there regardless.
The narrative use of it is against the protagonist like 90% of the time though so you can't really confront different approaches to conflicts with it much. It's mostly just a way for our protagonist to be put out of commission temporarily.
It's super common in video games with choices between lethal and non-lethal takedowns. Playing the new Metro expansion is part of what made this come to mind. Though, there's also stuff like Person of Interest's kneecappings, which isn't the exact same trope but it sorta coming from the same place.
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SixCaches Tweets in the mainframe cyberhexRegistered Userregular
I ordered food at 7:57 and it never arrived and the restaurant is closed so now I’ve gone out to eat.
can you feel the struggle within?
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VanguardBut now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
Six come grab a beer at Mekelburgs with me
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SixCaches Tweets in the mainframe cyberhexRegistered Userregular
Yeah as a person who frequently does the non-lethal option in games, it's often a very silly "You hit 90 people on the head with concrete blocks so hard they didn't wake up for an hour but um they're... fine..."
That or the old "Huh. Every single one of the guards at this outpost has disappeared one-by-one over the last 20 minutes. Oh well, I searched around for about 30 seconds, better get back to my pre-scheduled patrol route!"
I think someone else has made basically this exact post in chat before, but I wish more action media didn't use that trope of being able to whack someone in the head and knock them out for hours without giving them massive brain damage. Because it's unrealistic, obviously, but I also think there's some cool stuff you could do tonally or thematically with it. Having to confront that you can't really do consequence-free violence, that if you escalate things to that point outside of narrow circumstances where you can like, pin down and handcuff someone, you are going to kill people. Gets the characters to try more kinds of approaches to the conflicts to avoid things getting to that point, and gives it more gravitas if it gets there regardless.
That was always weird, that everyone knows the exact amount of force to apply to a skull with the butt of a rifle to knock someone unconscious without causing lasting damage
A single blow like that could kill someone pretty easily
They are not too hard to make but I made dinner so I’m glad I didn’t have to
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SarksusATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered Userregular
a stealth game that could devolve into the entire enemy organization steering all of its resources into finding you would be great
you sneaking through a vent above a board room
a powerpoint presentation going on, live streamed, giving a high level overview of the organization's pivot strategy, realigning each team to a new goal, introducing a consultant on agile patrol patterns
pop open a laptop in some disused corner of the compound, people complaining via email about unrealistic scopes of work
the true ending is to launch a misinformation campaign to discredit the board and have them replaced with your patsies
The fuck are they planning to do with those pineapples?
the next level of the grapefruit technique
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SarksusATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered Userregular
I assume they're making a joke about how pineapple makes your cum tastes good but it's not like they've even tasted their cum to confirm whether it's true so who are they fooling
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this bit rocks btw
I feel you're kinda understating the rather large amount of butter in that sauce. It works really well but leaves me feeling like it shouldn't be a staple because it can't be that healthy for you.
the default fantasy government is like, a king?? palace intrigue? and, okay, but have you seen the kind of hectic shit that goes on in free democratic elections. it's basically made for a bunch of adventurers to fuck with
I keep running into our reading articles about these alleged Democrat boomers who are like, “Lol socialism. We can’t win without appealing to the Center-Right.”
And I all I see is red
Damnit, I just said NO ALT HISTORY POLITICS IN CHAT!
... Ah well. Did you know that Dunkelzahn actually was fairly close in the vote to win? FASA really did tally up votes to see which candidate would become President.
Anyways, I have some bonus swag for this too.
And the backs of these books are just as entertaining as the fronts in many cases.
I apologize that the photos aren't that great. I'm trying really hard not to break the spines on these books, because they are old and the binding is known to be crappy. So I'm trying my best to provide as much readable space as possible.
^^^
Sigh. Simpler times.
She’s been really upset all day and looking at Google images searches for people with mandibular cancer and it’s not pretty
Those are in some of the earlier adventures. You happened to pick a later page.
Oh shit, Atomica. It's treatable, I hope?
Happy Valentine's day [chat].
Right now we have no idea. We’re supposed to see the oncologist in two weeks and have a biopsy. Lots of sitting around and waiting.
The good news is that the area has never been painful or distended, which bodes well.
So, first of all, it’s really good. It succeeds perfectly at what it’s trying to do. I agree the butter does a lot of work to round it off.
I think the point is to minimize the onion. It’s definitely there, but less the focus. It doesn’t actually need any more sweetness, oddly.
But: It’s not what I would want for like a centerpiece or main dish, it’s kind of too simple for that. But I think it would work great to accompany a deeper or more complex protein without overwhelming it like sometimes happens with tomato sauces.
@DevoutlyApathetic @spool32
Check out last page, you probably would appreciate it. Forgot to tag you originally, but needed to verify you were the right person to batsignal and the forum search around here is horrendous.
It has a surprise at the end.
So tip less but order early. Gotcha.
The narrative use of it is against the protagonist like 90% of the time though so you can't really confront different approaches to conflicts with it much. It's mostly just a way for our protagonist to be put out of commission temporarily.
Does any of this sound familiar to anyone else?
There's even a large section where Bakunin explains that the peasants love the Emperor because they are ignorant and have been mislead into believing that the Emperor is the enemy of the bourgeois landowners, because they fundamentally hate the rich and see the Emperor as protecting the peasants from the rich. Also, that they are ignorant because they are under the sway of the priests, who use religion and dogma in order to control the peasants and push the will of the Emperor on them.
Waiting for a pizza at Ogliastro at the moment
That or the old "Huh. Every single one of the guards at this outpost has disappeared one-by-one over the last 20 minutes. Oh well, I searched around for about 30 seconds, better get back to my pre-scheduled patrol route!"
That was always weird, that everyone knows the exact amount of force to apply to a skull with the butt of a rifle to knock someone unconscious without causing lasting damage
A single blow like that could kill someone pretty easily
There is no room for food at this point or I would! let’s just commit to a neighborhood day with @Shazkar Shadowstorm in the near future
I wonder if this is true
They are not too hard to make but I made dinner so I’m glad I didn’t have to
you sneaking through a vent above a board room
a powerpoint presentation going on, live streamed, giving a high level overview of the organization's pivot strategy, realigning each team to a new goal, introducing a consultant on agile patrol patterns
pop open a laptop in some disused corner of the compound, people complaining via email about unrealistic scopes of work
the true ending is to launch a misinformation campaign to discredit the board and have them replaced with your patsies
the next level of the grapefruit technique
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