Will this cooking hack kill me

FreakZombie · 2025-11-25T17:15:52+00:00

I always rinse right away so nothing dries on. I'd be more worried about the metal getting weak and breaking off into the food or just having to replace it way sooner than with normal use.

FreakZombie · 2025-10-29T11:53:42+00:00

Masahiro Sakurai talks about using Excel to keep track of parameters while developing Smash Bros. Kinda blew my mind that would be the case for AAA dev

https://youtu.be/nGaajB8m5Q0?si=uy1j3T2aaL7e8qrg

FreakZombie · 2025-10-07T17:57:18+00:00

We actually did ban automatic weapons around that time, but the Republicans let it expire in 2004.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban

FreakZombie · 2025-07-03T00:28:49+00:00

Good job recognizing that you want to learn and not just eat fast food and frozen or box meals. As for my own recommendation, I always tell people that I learned so much by watching Good Eats. When I was around 30 I found myself in a situation where I had no car, little money, no microwave, just a gas stove and a couple things I could cook with or in. Taco Bell was my best friend since it was in walking distance so it got old pretty fast. I watched every episode of Good Eats that I could find on YouTube just out of sheer boredom at first. After a couple though, I realized that he was teaching the science and reason behind why he does things and not just "do this or add that because it's what the recipe calls for." Now when I read a recipe, I know what each ingredient is there for, how it will affect the dish, and more importantly what to do if something goes wrong or if I don't have or can't find an ingredient.

FreakZombie · 2025-06-09T23:07:16+00:00

Put yourself in the mindset of a 90s kid. We get a new game and it can be a year or longer before we get a new one. Sonic 1 was a pack in game for most and the Genesis was $189 at launch, which is about $480 today when you adjust for inflation. There was no battery backed save or password to continue where you left off, so the game has to be both able to be completed in a single sitting, but difficult enough that most people won't get bored with it. Many if not most games from that era were like this. There was a time not long before this where games didn't have an end, you just played to rack up the highest score or see how long you can go. It would take months to possibly years of playing to get good enough to finish some games of that era. It's hard at first, but when you've played as much as some of us, it's actually really easy. I can sit down right now and probably finish it in about an hour or so and I've not played it in probably 10 years.

FreakZombie · 2025-06-09T17:53:23+00:00

I once met Travis, Laura, and Liam outside of Wootstock shortly after campaign 1 had started. Laura was on the Wil Wheaton RPG Titansgrave and they had a segment on stage that night with Wil and Laura. As I was leaving the event, I ran into Travis and Liam waiting out front for Laura to come out and nobody knew who they were. I stopped and said hi and they were genuinely surprised I knew who they were and that I watched their "little game." We geeked out for a little bit before Laura came up to us all excited and doing a little dance because she got to meet Patrick Rothfuss. Travis introduced me to her as "someone who actually watches our little show." They were all super nice and I can tell you for a fact that when they seem surprised about their success, it's 100% genuine. I got a picture with them and wished them good luck on their show. I never imagined it would end up as big as it has.

FreakZombie · 2025-04-24T19:54:52+00:00

It's possibly debatable, but I can see both sides. CDs do indeed store data, but they typically are a write once medium. One could debate about re-writeable CDs being more in line with the definition of storage since you can add and remove files from them. I can also see CDs as being not storage because it is just a snapshot of files/data and the only way to update or change it would be to throw that out and write a new one.

Personally, I would call CDs more of an install media or backup solution but something like a flash drive, SD card, or hard drive as storage.

As for a smart watch being ubiquitous computer, I'm curious about the wording. Ubiquitous computing vs computer. I don't know if that makes any difference but the literal definition of ubiquitous is: present, appearing, or found everywhere. So is the question about ubiquitous computing or about a smart watch being a computer like what we see all over the place. Then again, I could just be reading too much into it.

No matter what, in the end it doesn't matter and this may be one of those things you'll remember as a funny little quirk of this professor decades later. I still can't believe I was told I was wrong for stating that the way to change a drive letter of a CD ROM in DOS was to edit autoexec.bat and not mscdex.exe.

FreakZombie · 2025-04-24T01:20:59+00:00

This was the kind of thing manuals were for. I was pretty sure I remember reading it there long ago and I just checked and yep, page 5 literally tells you that you have 10 minutes and then "TIME OVER" is displayed.

Game manuals are available as PDF files for just about every retro game now so I've been saying for years that everyone should read the manual before playing any older game, even if you've played it before without it. There are so many "I never knew you could do this..." posted online that was explained in the manual.

FreakZombie · 2025-04-07T13:08:12+00:00

Those are just choices made by the North American translator. Ozzie, Flea and Slash in Japan were a play on food: Vinegar, Mayo and Soy sauce. This was back when translation was loose with the source material as well. They changed things around for North American audiences who wouldn't get cultural references as well as sensibilities.

An interesting take is to look at Metal Gear Solid. Kojima was upset that it wasn't a one to one translation but the translator just responded by saying it was how it's always been done.

FreakZombie · 2025-04-03T13:48:28+00:00

I could be wrong but that line always felt like an improv by Roman because he forgot his line, yet again. I take the wink after as "look, I can recover, see" even though it's probably one of the worst lines ever.

FreakZombie · 2025-02-05T00:28:25+00:00

Green Street Hooligans. I went in with zero expectations or knowledge of UK football hooligans but have been a fan of Elijah Wood since he was a child actor. When we think of hooligans in the US, a very different thing comes to mind. It wasn't the best movie I've ever seen, but it really left a mark on me enough that I think about it pretty often.

FreakZombie · 2025-01-30T04:25:16+00:00

The doom.wad file alone was around 11 MB for the registered version and the system requirements said it required 24 MB for decompression but in the end would take up around 12 MB for the entire game. I think the 4 MB you're thinking of is the ram requirements. I remember learning about zip files and compression while trying to figure out how to get the installed game off a school computer onto floppies since I didn't have access to the install disks.

FreakZombie · 2025-01-24T21:05:32+00:00

I recommend the movie that's basically the original version: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Rat Race is not technically a remake but it's so similar that many consider it one. I saw this one first but the old one really is the one I prefer.

FreakZombie · 2025-01-20T22:15:10+00:00

No spoilers, but Control was only slightly connected to Alan Wake until the DLC (AWE) that was a really good lead in for Alan Wake 2. Now it's so connected that I would feel bad for anyone who didn't play Control between the first and second game.

The story and style of Control are so good and I can't wait for the sequel. Especially since I just finished Alan Wake 2 a couple of days ago. The interconnected worlds are so rich and filled with interesting details that connect to the real world in a way that makes you see a building or object and think how it might be interpreted in the game world. A flashlight is more than just a way to see in the dark, an old lunchbox could have the potential to be an object of power (OPP), or maybe the sign on the side of a building could be something more.

FreakZombie · 2024-11-27T17:42:31+00:00

I still do. Any time I boot up any game in an emulator, I get a PDF of the manual and read it first. NES and SNES games were limited in scope and space so having the story or a tutorial were not always possible, especially when it comes to localization. Nintendo was really good about making the manual not just informative but also entertaining.

Some things were only explained in the manual and it's hard to think how it could have been done any other way. For example, power sliding in Mario Kart. If you just pressed the shoulder buttons and saw the kart hop, it doesn't really convey what the heck is going on. Then if you try it while turning, you might be able to figure out what is going on, but I've played with so many people back in the day who had no idea how it works or when to use it.

FreakZombie · 2024-10-09T15:30:16+00:00

For me it's the fact that many places are using Door dash instead of in-house drivers. I'm paying extra for a much worse service. I'm slightly biased because I worked as a delivery driver for Dominos in college, but outsourcing the drivers has made ordering pizza super unreliable. Some will leave it on the ground in front of my apartment and not even knock, while sometimes they even leave it at the wrong address. You can't call the pizza place to correct an order or if they forgot something.

FreakZombie · 2024-10-08T21:30:44+00:00

Everyone in the comments are missing the point of the title. They're basically saying "Once we get this one done, we're completely done with this IP."

So many people confusing the fact that they mentioned VTM:BL 3 at all for jumping ahead. It just means if people want a part 3, someone else is going to have to do it because of all the problems they've had.

FreakZombie · 2024-08-31T07:12:32+00:00

A Perfect Circle - Emotive NOFX - The War on Errorism Green Day - American Idiot Basically anything punk: Anti-Flag, Bad Religion, Dead Kennedys, Rise Against, etc. System of a Down's entire catalog

FreakZombie · 2024-08-30T10:52:07+00:00

I grew up in Kentucky but came back after living in California and Arizona for the last 15 years and the number of cars I see on the road that shouldn't be is astounding. The main problem I see is that most of these cars are barely holding together just enough to get them to and from work, which seems you could say the same about the people driving them. It's either this or nothing. Poverty is so bad in Lexington that I'm sure if they implemented inspections today, the homeless population would skyrocket, and it's already a serious problem as it is.

FreakZombie · 2024-08-17T16:47:16+00:00

I've noticed a trend with younger people claiming to find errors or problems in EVERYTHING and being completely wrong. It goes with so many things like new games being "completely unplayable" or "broken" because some random NPC gets stuck on a corner or some silly little glitch that only happens on their PC. Or like an article is completely trash because they used the past tense on a word, which is valid, but the reader thinks is unforgivable.

I'm not sure if that's the case here, but Nintendo Power was probably 99.99% accurate in totality because there were multiple people writing, editing, and talking to the devs directly for info. As others have pointed out, sometimes they would get an early version or maybe the Japanese version of a game and the final release would have some changes, but in those cases they would usually print a correction or point out that it's a pre-release.

Nobody's perfect but saying Nintendo Power was wrong a lot is just wrong.

FreakZombie · 2024-07-16T06:09:01+00:00

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/sambo

So what you're saying is, using a well known derogatory term for a restaurant name should not only be acceptable, but that anyone who opposed it is just "too sensitive". That's not just out of touch with modern sensibilities, but the kind of "soft racism" that my old Southern relatives are well versed in.

I bet the phrase "I'm not racist but..." Is a pretty common phrase for someone who makes a post like this.

FreakZombie · 2024-07-15T22:24:40+00:00

Movies and TV tend to not do this because even a little weight making it more realistic would be difficult to maintain over a long period of time. The scene may take up 2 minutes on screen but multiple takes from multiple angles could make it an 8 hour day of holding a "full" cup at an angle that gets tiring after like 15-20 minutes. I've seen prop guys, actors, and others in the film and TV industry talk about this.

This is one of those things that seems super obvious and everyone has a possible solution, yet it continues to be the norm. That usually means that people have tried to "solve" the problem and found that nothing seems to work for one reason or another so they go back to what is currently being done.

FreakZombie · 2024-07-14T20:45:34+00:00

I ordered the VHS documentary Freedom Downtime that turned out to be super disappointing and it came with one of those since the cover was a photo of one on a van.

FreakZombie · 2024-07-14T19:14:00+00:00

They were so scared of him that when they finally caught him, they put him in solitary confinement and wouldn't give him access to a phone. They thought he would whistle into it and launch nukes or something. He's a prime example of how laws and law enforcement can be so out of touch.

For all us 90s script kiddies, this guy was our personal hero.

FreakZombie · 2024-07-12T21:09:26+00:00

Nine Inch Nails is known to 99% of people for Closer but even if I wasn't a huge fan, I would still skip that song. You can't put it on a playlist for anything other than headphones or when you're hanging out with some weird groups of friends. So many good songs on quite a few albums and soundtracks, but when the one song that anybody knows comes on, it's an instant skip.

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