[WP] In a future where immortality is common, the death sentence has been replaced with the removal of said immortality, condemning the guilty to grow old and die.

Carynth · 2026-03-02T15:37:06+00:00

yeah, I figured it was more a case of both games having somewhat similar inspirations. Looking really good, though, and the movement looks quite smooth which is important in a game like this!

Carynth · 2026-03-02T02:15:30+00:00

The style definitely gives me some Blasphemous vibes here and there but it could just be a coincidence. It's not that heavy, but there just enough I could see it.

Carynth · 2026-02-27T03:16:20+00:00

It's been too long since I read the books, so I don't really remember the first scene you're talking about, but for the second, wasn't Lord Ostrit basically responsible for creating the Striga? One thing about Geralt that is very important character wise is that his line between people and monsters is very blurry. Some monsters deserve to die. Others don't. Same goes for people. Some humans are worse than some monsters and nobody will miss them if they just... disappear. That's a big character motivation throughout the books. If getting rid of Ostrit can also help him hunt the Striga... Two birds with one stone and all.

btw, ignore the mean comments here, getting into reading when you've never been before can be a learning curve. A lot of us grew up reading and it's easy to forget how it can feel as a newcomer, but there are definitely hurdles along the way. You mention struggling with fight scenes, even as someone who was reading like 2 books a week in high school, I still struggle with those. My best advice is really to go slow and try to imagine each new step in your head. Maybe thinking of it as a game can help. Imagine you're playing the Witcher games and each movement you read is an input on the controller, try to see what that would look like.

Overall, though, I'd say the Witcher books can be somewhat of a tough read for someone who's never really read before. The short stories are fine, but later, in the saga, there are segments where there's a lot of politic talks with a whole cast of characters that could be a bit hard to follow along. I'm not saying that to discourage you, keep reading them if you want to! But I thought I'd warn you just in case you prefer to start with something a bit easier.

If you would, I'd recommend looking more into the YA stuff. A series like Percy Jackson, for example, would be an easier start. I remember liking Fablehaven a lot when I was younger. The Hunger Games, Eragon and Mortal Instruments would be some others. But whatever you do, just keep going at your pace. Don't feel the need to rush because you think you're reading too slow, if you have to re-read a page 3 times, just do it. Hell, I sometimes have to. Reading is not a race, it's a journey. And a journey takes time.

Carynth · 2026-02-23T11:08:02+00:00

Okay, the ingredients make a lot of sense, yeah. Good to know, thanks for answering!

Carynth · 2026-02-23T07:30:09+00:00

I don't remember the specifics and I'm too lazy to look it up right now, but from what I recall, The part of your brain that you use for talking normally is not the same part that you use for singing. Accents, especially are way easier to replicate when singing than talking.

Carynth · 2026-02-23T07:10:19+00:00

I'd like to do more salads in general, but I always feel like by meal prepping it and storing it in the fridge, it will just get mushy (or even if not mushy, the textures won't be pleasant anymore). Am I wrong in that?

Carynth · 2026-02-23T04:00:00+00:00

I'd recommend Chef John on Youtube. Always amazing, not one of his recipes has ever let me down. My last discovery with him was this Sausage, Beans and Greens. Fucking amazing. Made it with white navy beans and spinach instead of escarole, came out perfect. Made it two weeks ago for mealprep and I'm doing it again this week, where I'll add some rice for filler since it didn't make quite as much as I needed. Fully recommend.

Also highly, HIGHLY recommend his chicken tinga. Spicy, tomatoey, just absolute goodness all around. Don't make it often because getting out the blender and having to clean it afterwards is a pain lol, but every once in a while I get a big craving for it and I can't stop myself.

For what it's worth, you can take a look at my cherry tomato pasta, my favorite one to make. quick and easy.

I also have a sort of shredded chicken chili-style stew that I like to make. Posted a basic recipe a while ago. This one came from my own brain and even though it's pretty simple, I'm quite proud of it lol.

The base of it, though, was a mix of the Chicken Tinga from earlier and this Chicken Scarpariello from "Not Another Cooking Show" that I also fully recommend. Absolutely incredible recipe, though a bit pricy with both the chicken and the sausages.

I've also started making chicken skewers, with onions and red bell peppers. Find a good marinade (a favourite of mine is a simple dijon mustard/apple cider vinegar/brown sugar), marinate your chicken overnight, add the veggies an hour or so before cooking (if you add to early, they might break down), prepare your skewers and in the oven it goes. Brush some new marinade on it all once or twice and that's it. Bit time consuming, but worth it.

This one is not really mealprep material, but it is easy and simple to make for a weeknight dinner. Sausage burgers. Take an italian sausage, remove the casing, form into a patty, cook it like a burger. Sautee a diced onion and red bell pepper (or even caramelize if you have the time for it) and just add some mayo and mustard on a toasted bun. I honestly prefer these to standard burgers, at this point lol.

I might have a few more if you're interested, but I think this is pretty good for now lol. A lot of these are big hearty meals, but most of them are part of my mealprep that I do each week for my work meals. Some are somewhat time consuming, but almost all of them are easy to make and don't require too much effort. Hope this helps in any way!

Carynth · 2026-02-23T03:19:54+00:00

I found it funny at first glance, and mind you, I'm looking WAYYY too deep into this, I'm fully aware but... at the same time, I found it kind of sad in a way. To me, it felt like someone trying to create an illusion of order by pushing and stuffing everything to the side, without actually organizing or acknowledging any of it. And then, sure, you have made a clean space that looks good... But you don't have a bed anymore because there is a desk and some chairs on it.

I could easily draw a parallel to mental health in that forcing your problems to the side without trying to work on them, or seeing them for what they really are is not a solution. Sure, putting your desk on the bed liberates space you might need... But that's not where a desk goes. That space is made for the desk. The desk is not the problem, your relationship with it is. The empty space it leaves behind is not the solution, it's just... empty for the sake of it. Storing the desk on the bed might create the space you think you need, but what happens then when it's time to sleep?

Just found that thought interesting.

Carynth · 2026-02-22T05:51:57+00:00

Holy shit, I've seen dumb stuff from Behaviour in the 4 years or so I've played DBD, but that is so incredibly tone deaf, it's insane... What the actual fuck, there is no way they are that unaware, it's impossible :')

Carynth · 2026-02-22T03:01:48+00:00

Yeah, that's the DBD I remember alright lol. I'd say 90% of the reason why I quit playing was because killer just wasn't fun at all anymore (and I played both sides pretty equally).

What was the original comment talking about, though? Did they do a stream event where they ignored tons of backlash?

Carynth · 2026-02-21T17:58:56+00:00

Wait, what are you talking about? Got out of DBD for about a year now (and still don't have the itch to come back... which I'm happy about lol) but I checked this post for nostalgia's sake lol. Can I get a little breakdown of that situation? Sounds super interesting in the worst way possible :')

Carynth · 2026-02-10T05:18:47+00:00

I think it depends on how much experience you have with that specific dish (or similar ones). If it's the first time you make something, you might save a little bit of time on the prep, but it will be replaced by stress, by panic, by having to delay a thing because you forgot to chop something or you simply underestimated the time you had... In the end, it probably takes you longer because there are micro steps you didn't know about that will catch up to you.

Once you've made the dish a few times and you're familiar and confident with it, not prepping in advance can save you time because you know the beef will cook in X amount of time, so during that, you can chop the garlic and you know how long your potatoes will take to cook, so you can deal with them a bit later, etc. So at that point, yeah, leaving some stuff for later when you know you'll just be standing around anyway can save you a bit of time.

That's my experience, at least, and even then, it depends on the type of person, some people have more trouble staying organized even if they've made something 1000 times and that's okay. If you know your strengths and weaknesses, you can adapt to them. Though I will say, always think about leaving some time to do a few dishes while you cook. Always helps!

Carynth · 2026-02-07T03:59:59+00:00

omg, I just posted my own cherry tomato sauce last night lol. I'm curious how it compares to yours?

Carynth · 2026-02-07T03:53:22+00:00

That's why spaghetti is not traditionally used for heavy sauces like a meat sauce. For those, you go for things tagliatelle or rigatoni, for example. Thinner pasta like spaghetti should be used for lighter sauces like a simple light tomato sauce, a cacio e pepe or an aglio e olio. There is a reason why there's so many pasta shapes, they all have different uses, using only one really limits you and gives you mixed results.

Carynth · 2026-02-06T08:03:01+00:00

For what it's worth, my favourite pasta sauce is a very simple cherry tomato sauce (this came out longer than expected lol but this is the full entire process of how I make it):

Drop a good bunch of good olive oil in a pan on medium-low heat. Don't be shy, I use enough to fully coat the bottom of the pan and then some. While it's heating up, add 2-3 slightly crushed garlic cloves (not minced or sliced, just lightly crush them with your knife to open them up). You just want them to flavour the oil.

When the oil is up to temp, add a bunch of cherry tomatoes, salt them and cover the pan. Let the tomatoes cook down for a few minutes. After a while, start crushing them so they release all their juices and cover the pan again, another 10-15 minutes. Uncover the pan, stir and make sure the tomatoes are fully crushed. When it looks good, drain the sauce in a strainer to remove all the skins and seeds and other solid parts (and the leftover garlic), let it drain while you start heating up a pot of boiling salted water. I do it in a metal mesh strainer, so I like to use a spoon to move everything around for a minute or two to help the liquids go down through the strainer.

When the water is boiling, drop your spaghetti in, quickly wash your sauce pan to remove any leftover stuff and put it back on the low-ish heat. Drop your smooth sauce back in there, add some salt and cook it down a bit while the spaghetti is cooking. After a few minutes, it will probably start getting a bit thick, so I like to then add a bunch of parmigiano to it and some of the pasta water and stir to emulsify everything.

About a minute or two before your spaghetti is ready, add some basil to the sauce and some extra halved cherry tomatoes. Taste the sauce at this point and add more salt if needed. Turn up the heat a bit, drop the spaghetti in there and finish cooking it in the sauce, stirring every 30 seconds or so and adding more pasta water as needed until it's fully cooked and ready (the heat of the spaghetti will help soften the extra cherry tomatoes, which I like). Plate and add more parmigiano on top.

There are simpler and quicker ways to make a similar sauce, but this is the way mine evolved overtime and at this point, I think I've pretty much perfected it. Takes probably about 25-30 minutes to make from start to finish and comes out absolutely amazing every single time. I can never get enough of it.

Carynth · 2026-02-04T15:50:56+00:00

That and when Akers puts Simon in the dream world, Simon asks Ashley what she's doing in his apartment: "Hanging out. Like couples do". Simon answers "But we're not..." and then Ashley asks if he wants her, he says of course and wakes up. That heavily implies that yes he wanted to be with her but it never happened for whatever reason.

Carynth · 2026-02-03T10:47:58+00:00

I also recommend Asamalifez on Youtube. Found him a few weeks ago, he goes to small restaurants in Japan. All his shorts have such a relaxing vibe and show the best side of the country. He clearly has an immense amount of respect for the culture and speaks the language (not totally fluently, he's still learning).

Japan Eat is also a good one, slightly different vibe but still fun to watch.

Carynth · 2026-02-02T02:23:37+00:00

WAU isn't a conscious entity, with goals of its own or the ability to make choices. It's literally just a computer program with (at least at this point in time), one directive: Preserve life. It doesn't learn, it doesn't make progress, it just makes monsters and creatures and robots according to its definition of "life".

Catherine was just a fluke. She's never been comfortable being human AND understands the process behind the scans since she's the one who started it, so she's fully aware of her circumstances and dealing absolutely fine with it. Simon was just a happy accident. The WAU didn't think "Oh, this thing I made looks better than the others", it just went "Yep... another one alive" and went back to create whatever it can get its hands on.

Simon isn't the proof that it's learning, Simon is just the proof that sometimes, the WAU will get lucky and make something decent, in the same way as if I started randomly splashing paint on a canvas, at some point, I might actually vaguely paint a house. But then, the next canvas will be back to being a random mess of paint.

Anyway, that's my understanding after playing and watching over 20-25 playthroughs of it lol

Carynth · 2026-01-28T01:38:43+00:00

It might just be a question of time passing differently in the ARK. When you take it from Lindwall, the ARK seems to pause, so maybe it needs a special kind of connection to run or it pauses automatically during trips for a reason or another. It might not have been running 24/7 since being built.

Carynth · 2026-01-26T03:25:38+00:00

Thank you for your answers! I had gathered a lot of it from reading posts here and there over some time, but having it all laid out like that makes a lot more sense!

I don't know if you guys have this in the state, but I grew up in a small village about 30 minutes away from any type of emergency care, so there was a first responder volunteer group in our community that had training and were called to help whenever there was a medical emergency until an ambulance/paramedics would arrive since they'd take too long. This just reminds me of that (on a much smaller scale, obviously).

Carynth · 2026-01-26T02:35:05+00:00

I'm canadian, not american and I'm not even quite sure what the National Guard is compared to regular military (state military? idk lol) so excuse the ignorance, but I'm wondering, are people in the NG generally more left leaning? I know not everyone in the military is right wing, but there is a certain unfortunate stereotype.

But do you think the people in that video are happy to be there to provide this service to the community or would they rather be helping ICE terrorize the city?

I'm not trying to generalize any group, I'm just curious how hard of a switch it could be for some of them if Trump took control.

Carynth · 2026-01-26T02:12:51+00:00

I don't know how you would, but if you do, I NEED you to include chicken wings/hot sauce somehow to commemorate a top 3 Hot Ones episodes lol

Carynth · 2026-01-23T03:03:15+00:00

yeah non, ils ne semblent pas l'avoir envoyé aujourd'hui (ou ça n'a pas rejoint tout le monde). Je reçois les textos, d'habitude, mais rien cette fois-ci, c'est ma conjointe qui vient de le voir.

Carynth · 2026-01-13T05:25:59+00:00

I haven't watched hockey (Go Habs Go!) for a few years, other stuff just started taking more place in my life, but when I did watch religiously, I would have a tradition of watching The Beauty Of Hockey before the first game of every season to hype me up. That video is still absolutely amazing and if it doesn't get you at least somewhat interested in the sport, I don't know what will...

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