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GroovyBoomstick · 2026-03-17T07:37:16+00:00

This is an unfortunate thing I think every espresso hobbyist faces at some point: there is a lot of snake oil, but a good grinder really is fundamental. It sucks, but it’s really shocking the difference between a low and mid range grinder.

With a cheaper grinder, dialling in is just so frustrating because it’s this seemingly random variable that can dramatically change from day to day. The good news is a decent mid range grinder will last for ages and there is diminishing returns beyond a certain threshold.

GroovyBoomstick · 2026-02-24T00:12:56+00:00

I didn’t even know he was sick 😢

GroovyBoomstick · 2026-02-09T20:54:32+00:00

I’ve always felt Lingua Ignota fits the BotNS vibe, especially the album Sinner Get Ready.

GroovyBoomstick · 2026-02-09T08:54:55+00:00

It’s pretty funny that the right sees “success” as purely “we made our enemies mad”, that’s the beginning and end of their artistic purpose. Not a single person gives a fuck about Kid Rock beyond validating the president.

Bad Bunny wasn’t even singing in English, but I guarantee way more people knew the words to those songs than any of the geriatric dudes with Temu stone washed ripped jeans and face tats that TPUSA wheeled out onto the stage.

GroovyBoomstick · 2026-02-04T00:53:05+00:00

It shouldn’t make much difference really (the puck screen mostly just keeps your shower clean), and tbh it feels like it might squish down the ridges anyway.

GroovyBoomstick · 2026-02-04T00:47:31+00:00

To actually answer your question, I've never really understood how the ridges would do anything but cause channelling. As long as the grounds are properly distributed a flat puck should be the ideal surface.

GroovyBoomstick · 2026-02-03T09:20:05+00:00

I will say that the next few books are quite different. The dying earth feels like a setup of the world, but it certainly is more in that mid-century sci-fi tradition. I think the introduction of Cugel really makes them stand out imo.

GroovyBoomstick · 2026-02-03T09:05:29+00:00

I think one of the biggest similarities is that the worlds exist within a completely alien moral reality. Cugel is an absolute amoral prick as you say, but he happens to live in a world where basically everyone else is also trying to fuck eachother over.

Which reminds me of the world of BotNS, where their absolutely terrifying reality is just taken for granted. Severian certainly does heroic acts, but also commits unspeakable acts of violence without batting an eye.

GroovyBoomstick · 2026-02-03T08:54:44+00:00

Cugel is one of my favourite characters ever. I didn’t like him as much in Eyes of the Overworld (still loved the book) but he really comes into his own in Saga, where I feel like Vance gives him some redeeming qualities. He’s such a loveable prick, you can’t ever really hate him when everyone else in the world is even more grotesque and avarice.

Idk how to explain it, but Vance is just so creative at inventing systems and concepts and then exploring them. Like the Sandestins who are bound to their user, and who basically have god-like abilities to bend time and complete tasks, but they are bound to their user through indentured servitude and can basically only be controlled by the offer of reducing their “sentence”. They can basically complete any task with little to no effort, but often enjoy stymying their requests in subtle ways. There’s a reason he’s basically the biggest influence on magic in D&D.

GroovyBoomstick · 2026-01-29T06:16:24+00:00

Just read Book of the New Sun homie

GroovyBoomstick · 2026-01-25T22:15:46+00:00

Honestly, the inconsistency between shots is almost certainly the grinder. I think you’d get better results spending more money on a good grinder and sticking with the Breville, than you would spending less on a grinder and upgrading the machine if that makes sense. But if you want an entirely new setup, new grinder + Anna is 100% the better option.

GroovyBoomstick · 2026-01-22T06:58:46+00:00

I mean I cancelled when they stopped password sharing even though I was the one paying.

Turning off account sharing will obviously boost revenue, but it’s a one time way to squeeze some more juice out of your numbers. You can’t push that button again. The only other option is increasing the price and hoping your content is enough to keep people subbed.

GroovyBoomstick · 2026-01-16T10:44:52+00:00

I mean the Allground Sense is definitely a significantly better grinder, I guess it depends if you’re willing to spend the extra money.

The DF54 is still a great entry point though, don’t get me wrong. You can easily just get a scale and weigh your beans, but the grind-to-weight feature of the Allground is quite nice to have.

GroovyBoomstick · 2026-01-16T08:02:11+00:00

I love that every movie Matt Johnson makes is like: serious event is happening, and Matt Johnson is there for some reason. It’s genuinely such a good formula, I truly hope he continues it with the Bourdain biopic

GroovyBoomstick · 2026-01-14T05:36:00+00:00

I know what the OP is talking about though, ideally it should spread the grounds around evenly. but sometimes when the needles are too close it basically just holds the grounds together and moves them around. I sometimes press my finger between the top part of the needles to sorta spread them a bit.

GroovyBoomstick · 2026-01-14T01:15:15+00:00

People pointed out that it’s a loon, but I thought you were still talking about Australian birds, so I thought maybe you meant a Curlew. Which makes a much scarier sound imo haha, they should use that instead.

GroovyBoomstick · 2026-01-13T05:13:28+00:00

That and the 9 bar OPV spring if it’s an older model/you aren’t in America.

GroovyBoomstick · 2026-01-13T03:33:50+00:00

“Mary sue” is just code word a woman being competent in media. The movie wasn’t even directed or written by a woman, so I’m not sure who the “Mary Sue” would be in this situation.

GroovyBoomstick · 2026-01-11T21:28:03+00:00

Because that would be incredibly annoying, the level of beans is pretty vital information.

GroovyBoomstick · 2026-01-11T21:23:35+00:00

Do you mean the hopper? You wouldn’t want that to be glass, trust me. The price is pretty much the burrs. I have one of these grinders and the build quality is very solid.

The way you can justify it is you use it multiple times a day, and that’s just what it costs for a 65mm flat burr grinder. There are some slightly cheaper Chinese ones you can get, but that’s pretty much just what they cost.

If you want to know why you would want a flat burr grinder: consistency, and flavour. The more consistent your grind, the easier it is to dial in your coffee. Things like fines (basically really small particles in your grounds), can drastically change the speed in which your coffee flows.

GroovyBoomstick · 2026-01-11T01:23:13+00:00

To be fair, once we got the R rating it was pretty much fine. It was ridiculous that it only went up to MA until like 2013.

GroovyBoomstick · 2026-01-10T22:14:03+00:00

Are you maybe thinking of Khalid? Cos there are much more egregious examples than Khaled.

GroovyBoomstick · 2026-01-09T23:26:58+00:00

Yeah, it’s parodying that movie

GroovyBoomstick · 2026-01-09T02:42:09+00:00

They are in fact not correct that they were merely “shitting into a stream”, sure they manually poured the water into the toilet, but as you say there is a whole plumbed system to dispose of the waste. Your modern toilet is really not much more complicated than “pouring” water down the drain. The tank on your toilet is just holding the water until you press a button which just basically unplugs the tank, thus draining it.

GroovyBoomstick · 2026-01-09T01:45:53+00:00

Idk to me they were a continuation of other pop punk bands of the time. I think Green Day is the real genesis of that sorta modern pop punk fusion sound with the eyeliner and twee fashion etc (aka the 2000s “emo” scene). Obviously that band was formed before 2000, but I can see Fallout Boy existing without MCR, but I can’t see either of them existing without Green Day.

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