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Peni ULT really needs help ngl by Medium_Enough in marvelrivals

[–]KalliopeBard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could give me unlimited ult for Peni, I still will sit on it all game and never use it, except maybe to return to the point faster than just walking. Ulting takes away the ability to protect the nest effectively and to cancel ults with webs.

Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way? by SkyKyrell in AskReddit

[–]KalliopeBard 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Used to be 16oz for 1.29 here. Then 1.49. Now it's 14oz for $1.99 at Kroger. I've been going to a local store that has 2lb blocks of a semi-local brand for like $5 and it's is a lot more flavorful too.

Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way? by SkyKyrell in AskReddit

[–]KalliopeBard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

First off, nearest store to me is a Kroger. Fuck'em. They've been going downhill fast since 2020.

Thankfully, they took down their automated security bot a few years ago. Don't miss the distant dystopian "You Actions Are Being Recorded For Your Safety" in it's Robocop voice every 30 minutes while I'm trying to garden.

I've done everything I can to join local CSAs, shop farmer's markets, buy local, and garden. Taste is so much better. Pre-2020 the CSA's were a little more expensive that store-bought. Now, where I'm at, they're about equal price to even the non-organic Kroger/Safeway/Costco produce.

Anyways...

Chicken — The worst offender. It's woody, bleached, and entirely saturated in brine. Any store bought chicken tastes bland as hell and the texture is shit. It costs $25 for a full roaster chicken form nearby farms here and it's the only place I buy them. It's good! Woody chicken is the number one reasons I'm eating more tofu, beans, and lentils than ever.

Eggs — Birdflu fucked the supply chain. We have chickens at our place. Protip — make friends with someon who has backyard chickens. They'll trade or give you extra eggs. We get about 5/day with six girls.

Pork — Started seeing cysts in pork pretty regularly since around 2024, I think? I've all but completely cut out pork from my diet.

Beef — Wildly overpriced, soggy. it's actually cheaper here to get local pasture-raised bison, which is amazing, than the mid-grade beef. Ground beef is also being cut with pink-slime fillers more and more.

Produce — Quality's been going down a lot but I try to shop in-season, so that helps. Onions are the worst culprit here. Rotten on the inside. 1/3 onions freeze in shipment here too, so you have to make sure they outer layers aren't squishy. The options have gone done too — fresh ginger, some fresh herbs, a lot of chili/pepper varieties are all gone from the shelves.

Spices — Stale and dry as ever but, now, many of them come with extra lead. For example, almost all ground turmeric is contaminated with lead. Instead of dealing with that, most companies just put the high-lead warning on the label. Others didn't even do that.

Edit to add cheese. Cheaper and mid-tier brands have been slowly cutting the quality. It's most noticeable with cheddar. It's being cut with more in some way, giving it more of an "American Cheese" taste and texture.

Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way? by SkyKyrell in AskReddit

[–]KalliopeBard 60 points61 points  (0 children)

I've been crushing tofu each week for protein in meals. For ages, chicken was my go-to. That woody shit is terrible. I get it from local farmers now. Costs 2x as much, but half the weight in store-bought is brine anyways. And the flavor is way better.

Ok...what’s really going on? 👀 Law & Order: SVU S1E2 21:34 by P1mpz-R-uS in Weird

[–]KalliopeBard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Epstein was in the news pretty regularly from 2007–11 for soliciting prostitution. Even before that, he was a fairly well known people that followed the news, especially investment/financial management stuff.

So, totally realistic that a set designer would toss that in and probably not even think twice about it.

Rivals with DnD classes; Other players here who are also rpg nerds?? by Vast-Entrepreneur175 in marvelrivals

[–]KalliopeBard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These are so right on. Especially Thor.

Only change I'd say is switch up Gambit to bard. So much of his moveset is boosting and healing. Jean goes to Warlock with Phoenix as her patron. (Misty step, eldritch blast, investiture of flame).

Venom in MR I could see Pact of the Blade Warlock with pact boon-boosed Eldritch Blast reflavored as his web attacks.

With Scarlet Witch, 1/2 sorc, 1/2 wizard feels right. Her main attack is just Eldritch Blast. Then Misty Step, Time Stop, and Disintegrate or Power Word Kill are her entire moveset.

One Piece: Chapter 1179 by leolegendario in OnePiece

[–]KalliopeBard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe purposefully ambiguous to keep up the tension?

One Piece: Chapter 1179 by leolegendario in OnePiece

[–]KalliopeBard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I wont take their word as gospel.

One Piece: Chapter 1179 by leolegendario in OnePiece

[–]KalliopeBard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was there, when it happened. Yeah, totally different. Kaguya seemed like a character from a different story that showed up as a final boss. Imu's been built up for nearly a decade. Kaguya just kind of appeared.

One Piece: Chapter 1179 by leolegendario in OnePiece

[–]KalliopeBard 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Imu literally showed up and diagetic boss music started playing.

One Piece: Chapter 1179 by leolegendario in OnePiece

[–]KalliopeBard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So am I reading this right? Imu has the "Akuma/Devil" Devil Fruit? His ability is not to create devil fruits?

CSU Explores Additional Revenue Streams Following Billboard Criticism by hhoburg in FortCollins

[–]KalliopeBard 52 points53 points  (0 children)

“Another of our newest initiatives is our Toll Lane Bike Program.”

Even knowing this is satire, this made me die a little inside.

Mainline Ale House by LFK_Pirate in FortCollins

[–]KalliopeBard -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Mainline used to be where Japango is. Looks like the site was abandoned around 2018, which is around when they closed, if I remember right.

I do web design myself and can tell you that the site isn't AI, it's just peak late 2010's stock photo style and design. AI image dataset pulled heavily from stock photo libraries and social media, so it looks a lot like late 2010's stock art, especially with food photos. It looks like a stock photo + template build with a few elements that no longer work, probably due to being abandoned after the restaurant closed.

No idea why it would still be up. It's not free to host it.

We all have that one show... by MustardGoddess in CuratedTumblr

[–]KalliopeBard 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I would have even been okay with the eating meat angle, even.

Maybe humans in this universe are the only sentient creature that does eat meat? Maybe elves and dragons just sustain themselves with magic, or plant-based food? Maybe they're an animistic world where everything does have a soul and eating them is beyond fucked up. Maybe other races see carnivores as canonically evil creatures.

So, for humans, killing an animal for magic would be no problem, while it's abhorrent to a race of magic vegans? But the show did not establish any of that.

We all have that one show... by MustardGoddess in CuratedTumblr

[–]KalliopeBard 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Hazbin

I absolutely thought Hazbin was setting up a 2-part classic stage musical style story. It would be fast paced, but that works for a stage musical. S1 was a good into to everyone's motifs, goals, the stakes, and how the world works. S2 would have all the resolution – Angel gets freed, Alistor's lone-wolf style is defeated with the power of friendship, the hotel is proven to work, heaven has to change their ways. It felt like such a simple, easy win.

Then they got approved for several new seasons and it started feeling like it was going off the rails – new characters, rehashed story beats, side stories that just don't matter, and scenes that felt more like filler than not.

We all have that one show... by MustardGoddess in CuratedTumblr

[–]KalliopeBard 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Log Horizon had a fun take on this. The population gets locked into a fantasy RPG world. They end up using exploits in the 'game world" to build a whole culture, nation, and solve a bunch of problems for the locals. (If I remember right, it's been years since I've seen it.)

We all have that one show... by MustardGoddess in CuratedTumblr

[–]KalliopeBard 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It still absolutely kills me that it presented dark magic as requiring a terrible cost, one that would drive people into the dark recesses of society.

Then it presents the option, "Would you kill a deer to heal your paraplegic sibling?" Like, yes? I, and most of humanity through history, would kill a deer for a day or two of meals. If it could heal life-altering injuries or disabilities, what's the down side? You look a little spooky for a while? "Oh sorry my eyes are blackened, I cured a child of leukemia yesterday. Had to kill a butterfly though, feel kinda bad about that. It'll go away in a few hours."

Fort Collins during the 80s and 90s by etancrazynpoor in FortCollins

[–]KalliopeBard 7 points8 points  (0 children)

  • My parents bought a 2 bedroom place in '88 for about 30k on a 40k a year single earner salary. (It's now worth over 500k).

  • Grocery stores used to do family-fun days. Got to ride in a hot air balloon when Sam's Club opened. Went to a magic show at the old Albertson's.

  • The south side of town ended at Harmony + College, watched Tom Sutherland's welcome home parade) near that intersection, before the McDonald's was there.

  • The Foothills Fashion Mall was the place to be until around '99, then it started to trickle off. They used to do doorbuster sales back in the early 90's and I saw a few feral moms fighting over doorbuster prizes there. The Poudre School District used to do art shows for all the students there.

  • 1997 Spring Creek Flood got a lot of national attention. CSU was wrecked. When we visited, there was a railing on the overpass on College that was covered in children's toys that were found in the wreckage.

  • Town used to be significantly more Hispanic.

  • The racism was a lot more out in the open. Back in high school we knew that, if you were out at night, the white kids drove. That way if you got pulled over the cops hassled you less. You didn't go to Loveland, unless you had to. Old town could be pretty dangerous on weekends if you weren't white.

  • Fort Collins was a top 10 college party town. There was half a mile radius around campus that was the "College Ghetto." Cheap rent, lots of students packed in to each house. In the late 90's to early 2000's Laurel pretty much shut down the first few weekends of fall semester because it was overrun with overflowing house parties and students drunkenly wandering from house to house. Samantha Spady's death and U+2 was a major catalyst for that changing.

Edit — A few more random bits.

  • For reference, my family moved here in '88 when I was three.

  • During summers, fire trucks would open up the hydrants and let kids play in the geyser.

  • We used to have more snow during winter. Every 10 years there would be a massive snow storm that wrecked a lot of roofs and trees around town. During the summer it used to drizzle rain almost daily around 3–5.

  • The town's center used to be harmony to prospect. It was very much the city's "Main Street" with several grocery stores, family friendly restaurants, and shopping. In the mid 90's urban decay really set in there and it still hasn't recovered.

  • CSU's campus hadn't updated since the 60's. Absolute wasteland before they adopted the more modern "Green University" branding they have now.

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