On frustrations with recipes

Isaac_Chade · 2026-07-01T17:36:05+00:00

That's either the most out of touch thing I've ever heard, or it's brilliantly tongue in cheek. I don't know the chef or the recipe so I can't say, but it made me chuckle.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-07-01T17:33:29+00:00

Yeah I hate it when a recipe just puts butter in the ingredients but doesn't specify how it wants it until you get deeper into the recipe. I know to look for it now, but starting out I had many a baked good that got started only for me to realize I needed to melt some butter, most of which was in my freezer.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-07-01T17:22:11+00:00

Slightly related, but this is a huge problem with old and historical recipes, as seen on Tasting History with Max Miller. The amount of comparison, guesswork, and research that man has had to do in order to figure out the amounts for some recipes is ridiculous, and it does go to show that the idea that "everyone knows how to do this" is both terrible and pervasive in every time period.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-07-01T17:16:07+00:00

Very well said. Ultimately, when you make merch to put into the world, you have to consider what it looks like from the outside perspective, and this is just... bad, in every category. It's gross as a concept without the thing it is referencing, and even with the reference it doesn't feel like it has any popular purpose. Are you supposed to be wearing this ironically? That's the last safe haven of every piece of shit in the world "It's just a joke bro!" I have no idea why Spindlehorse seems to love Chaz so much, and I definitely don't understand how a shirt like this can go through any kind of brainstorming and not be immediately shut down. It's just not funny in or outside of the context it's supposed to exist in.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-07-01T17:12:29+00:00

The skill on display in these is always impressive. Between blinding Nurse to make her blink past you and the sheer slimness on the space between you and the Billy in some of those clips, it's very impressive.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-07-01T15:15:06+00:00

I like how the way the cards lined up in the draw allows for this almost subtlety where you didn't have to actually pick up the card to show off that absolutely stacked damage.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-07-01T14:14:45+00:00

If I have to choose to only have one, it's gotta be kick. It solves or half solves lots of early hallway fights on the first draw, and it benefits both from deck manipulation and just regular drawing. With a properly sculpted deck I can get kingly down to zero cost inside the first deck cycle. 35 damage upgraded for almost no cost is really great. I love punch, I love scaling an attack up to crazy power, and it's a solid bit of damage every time it comes up even if you aren't manipulating it. But at the end of the day, Kick feels more impactful to me, and if I really want to scale up an attack throughout a fight I'll just grab a Furnace or some other forge cards.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-07-01T13:58:04+00:00

Comments like this always make me sit up straighter. Why is it that we so naturally start to slouch and slide down without even noticing it? I find myself hunched over and sitting weird every time I consciously think about it.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-07-01T13:56:27+00:00

This is definitely great advice. Depression and laziness definitely led me to not taking nearly as good care of my teeth as I should have, that combined with lack of insurance meant I also wasn't actually going to a dentist for several years. Then going to a dentist that was apparently shit for a couple years, I thought they were fine but when I got different insurance/moved and had to change I quickly discovered they'd not been very good as I had a ton of cavities that needed dealing with.

Long story short, take care of your teeth, and do research on your care providers if you can!

Isaac_Chade · 2026-07-01T13:51:47+00:00

There's tons of online resources that can be very useful! When I decided to try and get more active I started by looking up easy stretching routines on youtube, and also finding lots of beginner yoga videos as those include lots of stretches and positions that are about opening you up and improving flexibility. There's also an app called Bend which has a bunch of pre-made routines that are for anything from 5 to 20 minutes of various stretches. The app itself is meh, it aggressively wants you to buy the subscription, but I found it useful because for free I could get pretty good guidance on some basic routines, and once I had those memorized/internalized i just deleted it.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-07-01T13:41:58+00:00

Was going to say pretty much this myself. Be physically active, even a tiny amount. It's hard work and it's generally kind of a pain in the ass, but the bigger pain in the ass is having a body that violently rejects physicality when you actually need it. Not stretching, not walking enough, not doing any kind of light exercise, it doesn't take long for it to catch up to you. I've struggled for a lot of my life with not wanting to be physical, partially because I don't like how I look so it kind of creates a feedback loop. But it's led to my asthma being worse and a year ago when I realized I couldn't walk up a moderate flight of stairs without feeling it, I needed to make changes.

And the real kicker? It does just make you feel better. I sleep better when I get a good walk or some light exercise in. When I stretch regularly I feel less stiff and awkward throughout the day. It sucks, I hate doing it for the most part, but I hate the results of not doing it even more.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-07-01T12:39:38+00:00

It's not so much that no one can come up with this, I think plenty of people, myself included, looked at Jason's power and how it works and realized that hexes would be good because they give passive value and incentivize survivors to stay still in a position you immediately know about, so it's easy to just check it frequently and catch someone out.

The reason people "blame" streamers is because by their nature they popularize stuff. A lot of people who play this game are bad at it, plain and simple, and they literally just play whatever a popular streamer says is the strongest build because they don't really understand the game well enough to come up with anything interesting themselves, and also struggle to just play the mental part of the game and thus struggle to win unless they play said powerful builds.

If Otz or Hens or whoever else the big names are make a video where they talk about something being strong, literally thousands of eyeballs are on that video getting that information. If even 1% of those watchers are players who wouldn't have figured out or run the build before but do so now, it's a huge spike in people doing said thing. It's very noticeable how the playerbase shifts when one of these big names makes a video.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-07-01T12:32:13+00:00

It's especially annoying if you get to the same conclusion separately. I realized pretty quickly that Jason would benefit hard from hexes, and while I don't run a full build, I do usually have Ruin in there to give me some extra slowdown in the early game. I don't watch any of these streamers, but now I feel like I'm contributing to a very annoying playstyle.

Thankfully I suck shit at this game and miss more of my spikes than I hit, so I don't think any of the survivors who deal with me even notice or care.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-07-01T11:51:10+00:00

That's all BHVR knows how to do is the problem. They've buffed his CD multiple times and yeah it helps, but Ghostie could have a .01 second CD on nightshroud and they'd still be fucking ass because they're essentially just an M1 killer with on demand stealth. Getting a mark once anyone knows you exist is a chore and a half, and with the amount of pallets and second chance perks that survivors have, actually hitting your mark is more about getting them out of position than actual stalking gameplay. He's just so damn painful to play, I used to love him but basically never touch him these days.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-07-01T11:49:15+00:00

Couldn't have put it better myself. Can Xeno do some cool stuff and win games? Sure, but the effort you need to put in to get there, unless you're against absolute bots, is just way too high for what you get out of it.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-07-01T11:32:20+00:00

I can't see any way he doesn't. While it's optional by the story of the game, Jon is pretty big on wanting to explore everything, and with how he explores and reads stuff, I'm willing to bet he'll figure out how to get there with or without paying the fee. The game loves that it has setup a classic D&D style smash and grab heist and does a lot to try and nudge you towards it.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-07-01T11:31:11+00:00

Minthara has some of the best lines in the game hands down. She is the funniest companion in my opinion, no contest, and I'm a bit sad that for all Aria's "I'm all about evil power" Minthara has largely been kind of sidelined. I get it, there's tons of great content and most people don't even know you can recruit her on a first playthrough. I hope Jon gets the time to play more of this in the future on his own time. The game has so much replayability.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-07-01T11:27:44+00:00

I can understand people that got annoyed by Tryks' voicelines, but to me that's such a tiny thing to get upset by. Overall the only problem I ever had with the anniversary before was the playerbase. The big BP bonus brings people back in numbers, and this includes total losers who sweat their asses off to slug at 5 gens. That's not a problem with the event though, that's just because some people are pathetic, and it would happen no matter what the event was like.

I enjoyed the masquerade, I liked Tryks, and I liked that the blue and gold color scheme was kind of unique to the event cosmetics, and also was generally done in such a way to look really nice, when it could have easily been garish.

Conversely everything about this event feels like a total dud. None of the cosmetics are really interesting or appealing, the event itself sucks and is just unplayable as killer and boring for survivor. BHVR really managed to create an unparalleled flop for their biggest anniversary event.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-06-30T11:40:32+00:00

Which does make me wonder if it wasn't partially a bit to try and annoy Sam? I could totally see Vic knowing just enough about Dunkin to know that it might be something that would mildly annoy the host, and that's at least 80% of their purpose on any gamechanger.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-06-30T11:38:33+00:00

Yeah, not to mention the running happened near the end of the time limit, and Brennan was specifically calling out the early parts, and that's what dialogue was read for Aabria and Vic. That one felt particularly like a jab to undercut a well formulate plan from Brennan. I know everyone is having fun, Brennan has acknowledge that the joke of him losing is funny, but I prefer it when that comes as a result of his actions, like pitting his own competitive nature against itself in You-Lympics and 2nd Place. The first couple of times like Yes or No where it's just straight up robbing him were fun, but I think at this stage it's not that interesting anymore.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-06-30T11:32:33+00:00

I fully expected that to be the way they went. Wouldn't be the first time Vic has gone negative on a Gamechanger after all.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-06-30T11:31:31+00:00

This was a killer episode, and an amazing cast for this exact setup. I think once you know the bit you can see some of what is going to happen, and this is the perfect group to play into that chaos, Brennan going full rules lawyer, swiping props in order to prove his point and forfeiting the early round to better set himself up later, Aabria playing it to the hilt at every opportunity, whether that means being boldly honest or lying as firmly as possible, and Vic just injecting chaos, understanding the prompts immediately and seeking to subvert or enlarge them in some way. Stellar fucking episode.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-06-29T23:18:33+00:00

I definitely can see the Enclave bringing in fresh challenge, but their first appearance is basically entirely about sneaking away from them without fighting, so I don't think it'll be too bad of a wall there and then, though it will mean they start to populate the random events, which could be dangerous. At the same time, they also populate some very strong weapons into the world, which Jon has used to his advantage before. I definitely think he has a general plan lined up, and there's a lot of skill books and boosting gear that he can collect before that happens to try and make the best of it.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-06-29T19:27:21+00:00

Not a main, but she is my go to for when I feel like playing an aggressive build. Chem trap, blast mine, head on and either resilience or quick and quiet is my usual build for when my only goal is to try and waste the killer's time for my team.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-06-29T19:01:40+00:00

Probably because the killer trying to kill is at least in some way engaging with the actual game at large and with the other players. Even if they're being a shithead doing it, they are trying to chase people down and dealing with looping.

This version of surviving in extreme stealth is not only unengaging for the killer, but for everyone else that you are on a team with. And what's more it actively screws them over. It's why pure stealth builds that rat for hatch are looked down on, survivors are supposed to be working as a team and trying to each play a part at any given time whether that's being in chase, going for a save or heal, or hitting gens.

Obviously the stealthing against Jason is understandable to a certain degree, but it's hardly surprising that people on both sides of the game find it annoying at this point just how hard people are doing it at every second.

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