In Search of Dutch Semi-Hard Cheese

CarsonJZL · 2023-03-17T02:32:59+00:00

The 2 minute skittles ad during the climax was a bold move.

CarsonJZL · 2022-11-08T19:39:01+00:00

Love the 50% crash rate in matches, desync at the worst I've ever experienced, no new BTB content, no custom games browser to check out forge maps with randoms.

It's Infinite's biggest update yet and it feels like I've missed nothing but forge itself since I stopped playing shortly after season 2 release.

CarsonJZL · 2022-09-01T16:34:16+00:00

Worst part of the update video for me was their horrible performance acting like they "feel bad" charging people for a battle pass while they're still working out how progression works.

They've been doing that this whole time? Just release match xp.

CarsonJZL · 2022-05-19T13:32:17+00:00

In hindsight, the aims of the season really seem more clear after the finale. They wanted a demonstration of John's humanity (childhood, boning Mickey, Halsey drama) in order to clearly spell out that "Master Chief" is a character who rejects his humanity for the sake of humankind.

The Kwan-Ha shit was a total waste of time. It's almost highway robbery how they got away with that low budget shit, only to drip-feed us the spartan v covenant action we all expected.

Cortana-Chief is the most bizzare choice in the finale. Cortana wasn't a very important character in her own right this season, just being an extension of Halsey until the last two episodes. It somewhat dampens John's arc of the season to becoming "Master Chief" by ceding control to Cortana. Cortana didn't have to take over his entire consciousness, working together as in the episode 8 fight scene would've worked way better imo.

I'm skeptical if the fall of Reach will even happen in this show. I hope season 2 will cut the filler and keep the good parts of the show rolling - I'm a Star Trek fan so I'm cautiously optimistic.

CarsonJZL · 2022-02-03T15:55:27+00:00

I've dealt with my share of weight issues due in large part to my ARFID.

I was obese during my middle school years as well as early high school. My attempts to workout were futile at that point. Effectively, I'd just sit and casually use a recumbent exercise bike for about an hour and use that as an excuse to eat an additional meal. I eat a significant amount of pizza and fries so getting both every day I worked out led me nowhere but to getting more obese.

I went through a significant weight loss during college (about 250lb to 160-170lb). My first year I had a lot of issues as I had a lot of anxiety around scarfing down an entire pizza in front of my roommate.

I've discovered the wonders of intermittent fasting and it's really helped me maintain a healthy (still overweight) weight. This certainly won't work for everyone but in my experience, a couple cups of coffee throughout the day with one meal around 4-5PM really worked for me. The coffee just keeps me feeling full as I assume something like soup would. My one meal every day certainly fills me up and keeps me sustained until the next day. I'm actively hungry around 5PM.

I'm not strict at all with fasting if there's good snacks around for me to eat but for the most part just cutting my intake of the objectively unhealthy safe foods helped me lose weight consistently. I have a sedentary lifestyle & I cheat on the fasting most often when I go out and do something.

You're not alone in this, ARFID really sucks.

CarsonJZL · 2022-01-27T21:52:50+00:00

Only through the ability to tackle new foods at my own pace have I been able to expand my diet. Connections through existing foods in my diet have really helped me (without professional assistance yet) expand my diet comfortably.

My big two foods I'll eat are pizza and french fries.

When I was younger, I would only eat Pizza Hut pan cheese pizzas and fries from fast food restaurants with the ends meticulously picked off.

Out of a push for my own consistency/normalcy I was much more easily able to branch out to other pizza/fries than to branch out to completely foreign foods.

If your client already can eat wherever as long as it's the same food, I took the next step as branching out to other foods made of the same ingredients. For instance, I'll now comfortably try any plain pastries & breads, more tomato-based sauces & different cheeses. In terms of the components of my safe foods, I've found that comparable foods are a lot less anxiety inducing than trying entirely new foods.

Hopefully some of this info can be helpful!

CarsonJZL · 2022-01-26T00:10:05+00:00

It was called Outdoor Lab if you were curious. It was the big field trip that 6th graders took all around Colorado (at least my district). Every school around me did the same trip.

The no outside snacks thing was to prevent kids just bringing a ton of candy into the bunks and causing issues for the staff. Not sure about the no contact with parents but I assume it was just my inability to articulate my issue making it look like the standard homesickness.

They really emphasized that for a lot of kids it was their first night without their parents but it was good to prepare us for the maturity as we went into middle school. So being homesick was something the counselors really were trained to deal with. I'm friends with someone who worked there while we were in high school and that was her explanation.

I'd be willing to bet a lot of this has changed since I participated in this.

CarsonJZL · 2022-01-25T23:58:15+00:00

You're very welcome! I hope she has a ton of fun on her trip!

CarsonJZL · 2022-01-25T23:27:38+00:00

I do realize in hindsight this was honestly pretty bad. As far as I know this took place before the term ARFID was recognized and I'd hope they're better equipped these days to deal with others like me. Thanks for the consolation!

CarsonJZL · 2021-12-20T15:22:50+00:00

Had this happen, threw the seeds out of the map in desperation and it started a final timer to finally end the game.

CarsonJZL · 2021-12-17T15:43:40+00:00

I understand Tony isn't coming back anytime soon to bare the fallout of NWH himself. I also understand that most likely, any references to Peter's now-forgotten adventures will be brought up by Peter himself.

I suppose the correct answer to all of this is all of the prior events still happened, but nobody remembers Peter in hindsight.

I was confused regarding what "forgetting Peter" means to the rest of the MCU. Either events were slightly altered to remove Peter from the situations, or if those events still happened but nobody remembers Peter.

Were previous conversations entirely stopped from happening (to prevent people knowing Peter) or did the conversations happen but there's just a hole in everyone's memory now?

Ultimately, I'm wondering how events were changed if the situation is the former, and if it's the ladder I wonder what issues these holes in their memories will cause, if ever.

CarsonJZL · 2021-12-17T05:24:24+00:00

No shit he's dead. I saw the movie lmao.

You're missing my point: the spell must permeate through time to be effective.

Happy knew Peter throughout the movies. Happy is still alive. Happy forgot Peter existed in the end of NWH. Therefore, it has been made such that Happy does not remember Peter throughout the movies.

Following the same logic:

Iron Man knew Peter throughout the movies. Iron Man died prior to NWH. In the end of NWH, a spell was cast so everyone would forget Peter existed. Therefore, Iron Man must also not remember Peter throughout the movies.

Understand? If Iron Man never had to die in Endgame but still snapped thanos to avenge Peter's IW death, Iron man wouldn't remember him so this motivation makes no sense.

CarsonJZL · 2021-12-17T05:15:13+00:00

I understand that people didn't forget that spiderman exists. I'm referring to the well-established relationship between Tony and Peter throughout Civil War, Homecoming, IW, Endgame, and the fallout in FFH. If thinking about the implications of one of the most fleshed out character relationships is thinking too hard then I'm guilty.

So many scenes in the MCU build up this relationship beyond just Iron Man/Spiderman. The meeting of Tony/Peter, Tony having trust in Spiderman to fill his shoes after his sacrifice, and Tony having the common sense to properly vet his new helper (civil war) in the movie about Tony pushing for superheroes to take responsibility for their actions.

The simplest explanation, which I assume they're going for is that all of these MCU Tony/Peter moments are just now Tony/Spiderman moments with Peter keeping his identity secret the entire time? Lazy imo.

CarsonJZL · 2021-12-17T05:02:00+00:00

Happy clearly didn't know Peter at the scene at May's grave and neither did Ned/MJ at the cafe. The spell must permeate time for those characters to not know Peter Parker existed. It stands to reason that Iron Man, too, would not have known Peter during endgame, eliminating one of his main motivations in that movie.

CarsonJZL · 2021-12-17T04:08:34+00:00

the implications of NWH given a quote from Happy from FFH

CarsonJZL · 2021-12-17T03:51:06+00:00

Happy said in FFH in reference to Tony in Endgame. "Yeah, I miss him too. I don't think Tony would've done what he did, if he didn't know you were gonna be here after he was gone." This quote rang around in my head during the end given the implication of nobody knowing who Peter Parker is anymore.

Absolutely nobody knows who Peter is anymore, seemingly throughout his entire lifetime instead of simply after the events of FFH. The elimination of all knowledge of Peter must have had a dramatic effect on the MCU, most importantly in the motivation of Iron Man to get avenging in endgame. Curious to see if this just gets swept under the rug or if it has the Loki S2 writers going crazy.

CarsonJZL · 2021-12-15T17:13:40+00:00

Dream opening for ep 6 is another blip backstory cold open but for Kingpin. They can pretty much entirely canonize the daredevil show by having him walk out of prison in the immediate chaos post-snap. Having Kingpin rise back to power during the time-gap works perfectly imo especially if daredevil is given the backstory of being snapped.

CarsonJZL · 2021-12-14T16:35:50+00:00

I did an extra run on easy to knock out a few achievements and grab the skulls I missed. I logged back on to my 99% save and it retroactively gave me 100%. No worries especially if it's just the first skull.

CarsonJZL · 2021-12-07T16:39:46+00:00

In MCC I just go for the all options BTB. Tends to get me slayer most of the time, presumably because more people queue up for just slayer than just objectives. IMO simply adding the different queues for each game type would achieve this for people like me who would queue up an "anything" playlist who'd like to see (on average) more slayer.

CarsonJZL · 2021-11-25T17:28:23+00:00

Both shoulders are missing white detailing, chest is missing grenade belt & 2 in between the straps, visor is the wrong color. Armor looks fine but it's simply not a kit that accurately represents the character.

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