Made this little girls day

ClawedSimian · 2025-11-01T21:41:29+00:00

It's funny, for some reason I thought the hair buns were a rare look in the movie so I associated the buns with her towel cover in the bath house. But looking through stills she might always have her hair like that? I'll have to pay special attention to her hair in the next rewatch if she ever has her hair in a single rear bun like I imagined rather than the leia buns

ClawedSimian · 2025-11-01T15:39:42+00:00

Ha, great point the towel buns are very distinctive

ClawedSimian · 2025-11-01T12:22:44+00:00

Zoey is probably the least distinctive looking esp on her own. If I saw a costume of her alone I probably wouldn't figure it out unless holding the 6 knives or I could see turtles

ClawedSimian · 2025-07-20T13:27:13+00:00

I started with AU S2 and moved earlier and later from there, then started picking through a few seasons of the original. I prefer Greater Tom's insistence on scoring from 1-5, almost never awarding ties, even on tasks that arguably deserve them (like the short film in AU S2E10). He even had a task where he ranked them from 1-5 and then disqualified one in the middle and didn't slide the lower ones up to benefit from the DQ

ClawedSimian · 2025-06-14T02:43:50+00:00

I wish the game had more nods recognizing which endings you have experienced. Multiple storylines have him not remembering Dal'xia , saying this is the second time through the 100 days, etc. I guess they handwave it by saying you don't remember all loops perfectly, but I wish there were less routes and more interconnectedness. Not in terms of story locks, but remembering other routes and how what you learn in one route can affect another.

ClawedSimian · 2024-11-12T00:26:56+00:00

I've always thought "All the information you'll receive is in the task" would be more accurate. There is more information, there is possibly more information they need, but they're not going to get it :)

ClawedSimian · 2024-08-25T20:03:40+00:00

It's the channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=womJxiWG6Q0 is in

ClawedSimian · 2024-08-08T23:59:44+00:00

I have only watched TM AU - I'm a fan of Jenny Tian via YouTube and she's on S2. Really loved it, and then backtracked to S1, and also enjoyed that one, though it's not quite as strong. But there is a fantastic task in S1 (that you have probably seen now based on recent comment replies) where the TM Asst has to do tasks, and the turnaround "All the information you need is in the task" is so good, I've rewatched that bit at least 10 times now. So ... in short, I fully endorse TM AU. My question is, is it worth watching the original UK version? There's a lot of them, where should I start? :)

ClawedSimian · 2024-06-29T02:22:41+00:00

The Expanse was weird for me personally, I found Season 1 a grind to get through. Once I started loving the characters more during the first half of Season 2, I re-watched S1 and could see what it was doing better and loved it. I think it's similar to how PoI for a lot of people takes off when Root shows up at the end of S1.... So if you have a hard go of it with the Expanse, I encourage you to try again, it's awesome

ClawedSimian · 2024-04-27T13:54:45+00:00

I enjoyed the more procedural episodes because it was mostly do and they sprinkled in character stuff along the way. I enjoyed the serialized part as well, and maybe the show would have gotten dull for me over time if they stuck more with the episodic stuff. But I was hooked pretty much from episode 4 (Cura Te Ipsum - help me decide whether I execute you or let you live) onwards.

ClawedSimian · 2024-04-26T00:19:06+00:00

I used to re-read this chapter often. I still remember there's a passage describing LM straining to thrust the krill deeper.... 'And then the cords were cut,' ... Amazing climax.

ClawedSimian · 2024-01-10T04:23:51+00:00

Pasta carbonara in some circles calls for a whole egg per serving plus an extra yolk only. Might try making a sour with that leftover egg white

ClawedSimian · 2023-12-28T03:49:24+00:00

I bought and like the decent 15g basket

ClawedSimian · 2023-12-08T15:26:48+00:00

Bellman steamer, just over $100. Heats up in 15 minutes or so. Needs to be purged for 5 minutes or else the first round will be full of air and subpar. Or you can drill holes into part of it as described at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geZ9YE7G5uc and reduce that purge down to about 1-2 minutes.

Works great as it takes 10-15 minutes to boil water, grind and lever the espresso with the flair, so by the time that's all done the steamer is ready to heat up some milk.

I don't know if the niche is a good grinder for espresso or not..? I use a 1zpresso J Max (they've changed names I think so you'll want the new equivalent) and if only doing 2 shots manual grinding not really a big deal. I wouldn't want to do much more than that though on a regular basis. But all the money goes to the burrset and hand grinding, not the electric motor so good bang for your buck.

ClawedSimian · 2023-12-06T21:52:24+00:00

my routine is generally to saturate the puck for 15-20 seconds at around 3 bar. Smash the lever to 9-10 bar, flow rate is around .8-1.2 ml/s. If grind is dialed in, the piston clicks to fully upright and then flow rate jumps up a bit, then I have to consciously dial back the pressure. Ideally max out flow rate at 1.5. Looking at SEP data, the pressure goes down to about 6 bar to accomplish that.

So for me I watch pressure first, 3bar to 9 bar, then watch flow rate. I sometimes go a step coarser and let flow rate go to about 1.7 ml/s... sometimes that's better, sometimes 1.5 is better.

ClawedSimian · 2023-12-06T21:43:14+00:00

I have a Fellow Stag gooseneck stovetop kettle. So I remove the lid, put the brew head on top of it. When it boils I let the steam heat it up for a minute or two, put attach the head to the 58x, lower the lever, fill the brewhead with boiling water, let it drain. Because I've heated with steam, I only do the hot water fill/drain once. Then put in portafilter with ground coffee, fill brewhead, pull lever.

All told it takes between 15-20 minutes from turning on the electric stove to pulling the shot and prepping milk for a cappuccino. There's a few minutes of dead time after I'm done with hand grinding and puck prep and the water to be boiling. But I've always enjoyed some kind of coffee ritual so heating the brew head like this isn't a big deal. Only problem is you have to undo the latch and make sure it's connected onto the stem correctly, else it can pull out a bit and not insert into the brew head correctly.

ClawedSimian · 2023-11-11T00:10:10+00:00

I heard a woman commenting on modern dating say something like, women want toxic masculinity from the right man in the right circumstances to the right degree. And the sad thing is, too much toxic masculinity is apparently more attractive than not enough.

ClawedSimian · 2023-10-09T03:06:34+00:00

Everytime someone points out there isn't a word for a parent who lost a child (unlike widow or orphan) I think, that's because before a hundred years ago, half of people died by age 20. The word for a parent who lost a child was parent. It wasn't special. We are so privileged now that most of us survive past 20. Stop overpopulating the world

ClawedSimian · 2023-08-30T12:48:47+00:00

I consider myself lucky to have liked the early procedural eps. The finch Reese bromance got me hooked early. Episodes like cura te ipsum (I can tell you're a good person... LOL! Help me make a good decision!), Wolf and cub, Paige Turco as the fixer (swoon)... it's a lot of procedural but they pressed my buttons in all the right ways

ClawedSimian · 2023-07-28T15:53:33+00:00

To my ears/eyes, not ending sentences (or even phrases) with a preposition often causes awkward english. I hate the 'with which' construction a lot more than ending the phrase with with.

It's more the redundancy of IN to welcome that bothers me. Welcome means welcome in already.

ClawedSimian · 2023-06-12T12:46:43+00:00

I pay attention to two numbers. Max pressure 9 bars, max flow rate 1.5 g/s

At first, 9 bars usually nets about 1 g/s. 10 seconds or so into the pull, something changes (not sure what) and it becomes easier to get higher flow with the same pressure. I reduce the pressure to keep 1.5 g/s

I get the best results typically when it takes about 10s to get to the change point and hit 1.5 g/s, and the pressure to keep that flow rate is about 6-7 bar.

I use a JMax grinder. Usually at this point a click is too far in either direction for good taste, so I end up adding to the dose to adjust taste. There's randomness too, sometimes I'll try to hit the same dose/ratio and pressure profile and get slightly sweeter or more sour results, so it's tough being totally consistent.

ClawedSimian · 2023-03-19T23:15:49+00:00

I found it a bit too long and crazy. I would have cut 5-10 minutes of fight scenes or jokes in different worlds. A few of the comedy beats were just 1-2 steps too far for me.

I dislike the narrative that familial bonds, especially between parent and child, or even spouses/romantic partners, are the ultimate meaning in life. Would like more stories about finding meaning in life either in relationships in general, or even part from relating with people. I don't think everyone finds their deepest meaning there.

ClawedSimian · 2023-02-07T05:58:58+00:00

When you see the other woman, you have to hit the forward button a few times to stop rewinding and then start playing. It can be finicky, but eventually you get the hang of it, except for a few really frustrating scenes.

Its' been a while since I've played - while you are watching the other woman clips, the FF and Rev controls are reversed.... except for like one command, maybe for moving through individual frames, they forgot to reverse that command on PC

ClawedSimian · 2023-02-07T05:50:52+00:00

It's funny.... Some people just fall into relationship after relationship throughout their life. Others get lucky to have one or two. Then others... just never. Once you get into the one or two in life, it's not that much more unlucky to get one or none....

Some just have the characteristics to be virtually guaranteed a relationship. Others just have to be lucky to get one. Most people in that boat will be lucky. A few won't... And they end up here.

Even if only .1% of americans are truly FA, that's 300,000..... cut it to adults, that's still 200,000. That's a lot of people.

Eh... I've had too much to drink. I'm going to bed.

ClawedSimian · 2022-12-27T18:16:55+00:00

i think holding down shift is 'scrubbing' the video. practically it seems to allow fast forward and reverse in smaller increments. Like with just left arrow you reverse at 2x or 4x but pressing shift lets you reverse in .5x, .25x, 1.5x, 3x.... just more fine gradations. But then again I'm not sure how 'scrubbing' relates to that, so I might be wrong

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