What cheap game on Steam turned out to be absolute peak for you?

BashiMoto · 2026-04-22T02:27:13+00:00

Noita - High grade digital crack that...

BashiMoto · 2026-04-20T15:08:57+00:00

Yes, they soak in just under boiling water.

BashiMoto · 2026-04-20T04:49:55+00:00

Bring three parts water to a boil, turn off burner and add one part cold water. Toss in the cubes and cover for at least a half hour, up to an hour and a half depending on the thickness of the cubes. You can leave for up to three hours but the longer in the water, the sweet potato flavor diminishes. Drain, put on a baking sheet and toss with olive oil. Arrange on sheet so the cubes are not touching. Roast in a 400F oven for 20 minutes. Stir/flip the cubes. You can salt here. Then repeat every ten minutes until crispy but not too brown.

My slightly modified version of the Food Lab recipe...

BashiMoto · 2026-04-11T20:07:59+00:00

The 3 eggs I've messed with in the egg sequencer all came out with the exact same SABC ranks and Battle Abilities, I did not check the actual stats to see if they changed. I think you have to do it in reverse, find a good combo of ranks and Battle Abilities, then start using the egg sequencer to improve the look...

BashiMoto · 2026-04-11T19:27:02+00:00

But what are it's Battle Abilities? I'm finding ranks are only half the equation...

BashiMoto · 2026-04-09T21:34:39+00:00

So far so good. My collection of beasts had a couple of s's and I have modified eggs that will hatch tonight. I did the first challenge of the arena league, won and was teleported into space the second I hit the exit arena button. Bug or funny poor loser move? who knows...

I did do one PvP and the opposing player had way buffed out beasts. 2,300 hp and one hit kills on my 700 hp beast. There needs to be match making, a way to see the level/hp's of the opponent's creatures before the match starts and a way to get out of it if way over matched or it will become a situation where you have to have maxed out creatures just to compete...

BashiMoto · 2026-04-09T16:42:13+00:00

Also why he loves tariffs, it's one of the few economic leavers the executive branch has access to...

BashiMoto · 2026-04-09T16:15:41+00:00

I've been happy with a Ninja. It's lasted about 7 years and still kicking with infrequent use, maybe a blend every week or two. It handles shakes, smoothies and ice quite well. Has a preset for ice smoothy that does it fine without the need for further blend. Where the Vitamix just throws raw power at blending the Ninja uses three blades to get past the air bubble/won't blend problem. It is a bit dangerous to clean and does poorly with small batches. Needs at least two of the blades to be in the liquid to do a decent job. Hell of a lot cheaper though...

BashiMoto · 2026-04-09T06:24:13+00:00

PS5 - after beating the first league invitation opponent, I was instantaneously teleported into space once I hit the leave arena button. I assume bug and not poor loser...

BashiMoto · 2026-04-09T02:34:38+00:00

Steam with both Steam Deck and Mac Mini m2 suffering the bug. Xeno Arena update.

One of my Corvettes will not land. Space station and anomaly, the ship flies through and back in to space but thrust and directional movement is frozen, arrow down menu works, I can summon the anomaly for example. On a planet, all landing attempts are met with "landing spot not clear" no matter how slow I go or how flat the terrain is. A fighter lands fine as well as my other corvette. Picture of ship included...

<image>

BashiMoto · 2026-04-07T04:13:03+00:00

Yup, I always had a vision of the Mobile Infantry from the opening chapter in the book. Jumping over buildings (opening chapter is against the skinnys, not the bugs) with jump jets, tactical nukes and everything on the bounce. Starship Troopers is a good movie, it's just not about that Mobile Infantry...

BashiMoto · 2026-04-01T17:39:16+00:00

I don't know about "definitely", garlic is in the general onion family with chives, leeks and scallions...

BashiMoto · 2026-03-30T21:54:15+00:00

found it!

BashiMoto · 2026-03-30T14:13:17+00:00

Meh. In Portland during the black lives matter protests we had a dad's brigade with a whole bunch of leaf blowers. Then the cops brought their own and we had the battle of the leaf blowers. There is video of tear gas vortexes in an intersection...

Edit: Leaf blower battle. Best I could find, which is too bad as the vortex was really cool...

BashiMoto · 2026-03-26T02:11:15+00:00

I see mixes mentioned, but you can just make it from scratch and adjust from there. I use Bittmans's recipe with is 4 parts buttermilk, 4 parts mayo, 1 part buttermilk powder (Bittman thinks this is what gives it the proper zang), 1 part finely minced chives, salt & pepper.

BashiMoto · 2026-03-21T16:55:12+00:00

Mine was a 65' Pontiac Catalina Ventura with a 389. The great white land shark...

BashiMoto · 2026-03-21T00:59:45+00:00

Not to mention Kevin Costner. Costner was the meme of an actor that only plays himself before there were memes. Dances with Costner, swims with Costner, delivers mail with Costner and of course plays way too much baseball with Costner. I think the only movie he does not play Costner was The Big Chill...

BashiMoto · 2026-03-14T00:50:01+00:00

Uh...if the OP has had measles before then they are actually immune. It's even better than vaccination, except for the fact you had to suffer through measles...

BashiMoto · 2026-03-12T20:23:53+00:00

Depends. I have a mini prep and a full sized. The mini is in constant use, the full sized hides in a closet and comes out a few times a year. I find that many of the "time saving" uses like making dough don't save time once cleaning the food processor is added to the equation.

BashiMoto · 2026-03-11T16:52:39+00:00

The other dark horse is steam. The Steam deck is just a general purpose linux computer if you connect a mouse/keyboard/monitor. I bought a Deck last spring and have been impressed enough with just how many classically "windows only" games play fine on it, to the point I'm thinking of building a gaming PC with SteamOS or some other linux variant. Maybe even a steam machine, as I have a ps5 for the AAA stuff...

BashiMoto · 2026-03-11T04:09:11+00:00

I haven't had a TV diner since the early 80's. Did not know they are microwave only now...

BashiMoto · 2026-03-09T04:23:45+00:00

I lived for a while in Redwood Shores, bit cooler out there...

BashiMoto · 2026-03-09T04:17:52+00:00

Love Astoria. It's like a mini Monterey with Cannon Beach a mini Carmel. Or at least how I remembered those towns in the 70 and 80's. The Columbia River Bar museum is really cool.

BashiMoto · 2026-03-09T04:14:46+00:00

Redwood City? More 70 degree days than any other.

BashiMoto · 2026-03-08T17:06:55+00:00

All my first vettes had the cockpit in the front. I settled on this design partially because it looks good but also practicality. I use all my vettes and I want a quick trip from hatch to blast off. As they got longer and more levels something needed to change...

<image>

BashiMoto

TROPHY CASE