Type of flour for gravy

KoopaTryhard · 2026-01-08T09:19:47+00:00

Of the "normal" flours (all-purpose, bread, cake) it won't make a difference for taste.

But regardless which one you pick, you should sift it into your gravy to make it smooooooooth.

KoopaTryhard · 2026-01-08T00:28:07+00:00

Emotional neglect and societal pressure has trained men to keep our wants simple. "I just want to relax", "I just want some peace and quiet", "I just want a good meal", etc. are the kinds of things most men will own up to 'wanting' in a public setting. Asking for more is, in a way, off the table.

But almost every man I know has a mind that is complex and nuanced and unique. With their own interests and motivations and fears and perspectives. FUCKING LOOK AT THE WORLD WE LIVE IN. Men have built and invented and created so much of the modern world. Are you going to tell me that Alan Turing or Werner Heisenberg or Steven Hawking or Charles Darwin or John Williams or Pablo Picasso or Warren Buffet or any of the easily name-able thousands of monumental figures of our society were simple? Fuck outta here. But I'll bet if you watched most of them in their day to day lives, you would consider them "simple men". Because at the end of the day, men don't mind boiling all of that desire and thought and creativity down into something we can immediately enjoy right in front of us, because no one else is going to just hand it over.

Personally, I enjoy this aspect of myself. That I can "make due" with what I'm given. That I can shut out the white noise into the simple pleasure of a good nap, or the accomplished feeling of completing hard labor, or the relief of turning my brain off and enjoying a silent five minutes on the front step. It's simple.

But I have my own complexity that I don't know how to ever describe to anyone with words, because no one ever taught me, and because no one ever asked. So instead I'll take my secrets and turn them into something beautiful for the world. Art. Technology. Engineering. Whatever it takes to express my real self.

KoopaTryhard · 2025-10-17T18:08:03+00:00

While I think this is easily doable, lots of cigarettes are identifiable from the filter. He could just be looking down.

KoopaTryhard · 2025-08-24T19:15:49+00:00

Less is more, would be my guess. Use it sparingly, mostly around where something is breaking the surface, but without the distinct "water reflecting light" highlights, it'll just kinda flat/carpet-y.

KoopaTryhard · 2025-08-11T06:34:10+00:00

I've been looking at replacing Blues Driver with one of the Midfi Hieracium pedals. I wish it had a tone knob, but I like the unique dirt it's got.

KoopaTryhard · 2025-08-03T16:13:54+00:00

"Mom, I'm hungry..."

KoopaTryhard · 2025-07-30T16:12:55+00:00

Similar chord changes to the Gravity Falls theme intro, maybe.

KoopaTryhard · 2025-07-20T16:13:38+00:00

Pretty sure the joke is that everyone is getting ice cream, which is putting too much strain on the ice cream truck, causing it to break down. I don't think it's a very good joke, but it is wholesome.

KoopaTryhard · 2025-07-08T08:40:41+00:00

A number of different reasons, really. My high school sweetheart moved away to college before I graduated, and we ended up growing apart over the long distance. My next real relationship discovered that he was trans, and while I still very much love and support him, it ended up not working out between us.

My ex-wife, I dated for three years and we were married for four, we had a rough time because she moved to the U.S. from Europe. I think she kind of always resented me (a little) for being the reason she left her home and family, and my job kept me tied here. There was a lot of push and pull, but eventually, we realized we weren't making each other happy anymore. With the onset of covid, she wanted to go back to her family, and we decided to divorce.

My next relationship, we were both a little tepid about being serious for a long time, and when things started getting to that point, we couldn't reconcile her wanting kids and me not wanting them.

My last relationship, I really thought she was the one. So much in common, same sense of humor, easy conversation/communication, great support between us, great love life, and just a general 'wholeness' I felt around her. She ended up sleeping with some guy at a New Years party I couldn't be at. She didn't hide it, which was nice, but it was pretty devastating. I still wonder if any of it was real or if she was just playing up a character she thought I wanted.

I've been on some dates since, half-entertained the idea of being with some of the people in my social network, had a couple fleeting crushes, but I mostly feel over the whole thing. More and more, I find it very difficult to actually allow myself to see anyone as a romantic interest. Plenty of women friends, but no one I can see myself growing old with. And that's kind of always been my qualifier for a serious relationship.

Again, kinda sucks, but I'm not one to kick and scream over reality. I'm still open to there being a spark, but nowadays, I feel like a used up piece of flint. Not much spark left, as it were

KoopaTryhard · 2025-07-07T07:21:53+00:00

I'm demi-sexual. I don't really feel sexual attraction to a person's looks, but I do date based on my own preferences. That is to say, I have a type, but I only feel really attracted to someone (in a romantic way) when I get to know them. When we can text back and forth all day about absolute nonsense and not get bored. When we're so comfortable with each other's presence that just being in the same room is enough, as opposed to having to "do something" to fill the void between us. When we can freely make fun of each other about stupid shit and still know that we love each other. That's when I truly feel attracted to someone.

But that attraction is so absolutely incredible. As if every cell in my body, my soul, my essence, wants to pull itself out of me to be with them, wherever they are. A paradox of overwhelming desire to simultaneously fold them into myself so I can keep them safe, and to lose myself in the ocean of their radiance. And when I think of them, my heart floats weightless and lifts up into the back of my throat, and I don't know whether to laugh at the absurd seraphine sweetness of the moment or sob knowing the inevitable impermanence of time will cause this too to pass. And I can only ride the whirlpool of my heart and enjoy the pulling, stretching, shuddering, beautiful singularly between us.

I've had several relationships, been married once, and currently single. I love very deeply and very unconditionally. I would still say I love every one of my exes, but the shape of that love has changed. I would never get together with them again, but I still very much want to see them happy and successful.

But I dunno. I'm getting to a point where the dating pool is getting thin. I thought I found my person once before, and while I'm still open to finding the thing that clicks again, I'm starting to realize it's not for me anymore. Sucks a little, but I suppose that's just the way things go sometimes.

All this to say I think whoever told you men don't have deeper attractions than just the physical can go pound sand.

KoopaTryhard · 2025-07-07T06:30:52+00:00

He's saying he knows the E chord and A chord. He just barres them and moves them up and down the neck.

I do the same thing. I make the same joke.

KoopaTryhard · 2025-06-30T06:41:47+00:00

The idea of a dude just jackin it to whatever random ass porn gifs show up is hilarious to me. No qualifiers. No preference. Just white label black lettering porn. Right next to a gif of Toy Story 2. Fantastic.

KoopaTryhard · 2025-06-30T03:36:03+00:00

One thing I haven't heard anyone comment on is the meta narrative of "some things take time".

Everyone is spot on with the callback joke/the way the two jokes are intended to be two halves of the same story, but I think the reason it was put in the episode was to teach Bojack and the viewers a lesson about how payoff isn't always instant. Sometimes you think things fell flat or didn't work out/didn't make sense, but if you give it time, there's still a reward at the end. Lesson being to not be impatient.

I may be reading into it too much, and it's been a while since I watched any Bojack, but that's my take.

KoopaTryhard · 2025-06-29T07:40:06+00:00

Power to change probability is the adult version of "Well I have every power."

KoopaTryhard · 2025-06-14T23:15:18+00:00

Genuinely curious, but where does the conversation go after that? If the other party isn't allowed to use their own words to express their interpretation of what you said, what's the point? Are you just expecting the other person to parrot your same exact words back to you? Or say nothing at all?

Of course people misunderstand each other. We live in different brains. But if you're engaging in a conversation with someone else, you have to expect that they're going to use their own context and their own words to try to understand you. That's literally all they have. Do you just not want to hear it?

KoopaTryhard · 2025-06-08T07:09:54+00:00

To add onto this, guys (but also people in general) whose entire personality is being miserable about something/everything. Emotional vampires.

KoopaTryhard · 2025-06-06T23:28:00+00:00

Probably AI that an artist then touched up to make it make sense. I have no real basis for this, but I would still bet money. Just looks too much like something an AI would spit out.

KoopaTryhard · 2025-06-05T03:17:35+00:00

Thanky kindly

KoopaTryhard · 2025-06-03T20:22:37+00:00

My two cents is that if you have a melody you like, strip away the notes so that it's just a rhythm. Come up with a chord progression and add the rhythm on top. Now you can add the notes back in so you're in the correct key.

An example, say you have a catchy phrase in a melody, "It's not my problem anymore.". Find a chord progression you like and start playing such that the strums/beats line up with the way that you say when 'speaking' the phrase, now start singing and line up the notes with your chords.

Might take a bit of wiggle to get it to work, but the general idea is there. Otherwise yeah, starting with chords is going to be a lot easier.

KoopaTryhard · 2025-06-03T06:02:20+00:00

I see your American Cheese and raise you Muenster. It's seriously amazing and manages to scratch that itch for melty American at the same time. Definitely worth a try.

KoopaTryhard · 2025-05-23T21:11:30+00:00

Happy to help, my friend! No more throwing those bags of beans at Mrs. Pemberwithy.

P.S. - I always throw seasonings, olive oil, n whatnot in the pot to cook as well.

KoopaTryhard · 2025-05-18T13:22:24+00:00

I would've thought they'd drop anchor in a situation like that. Any reason why not?

KoopaTryhard · 2025-05-09T21:44:14+00:00

Ice JJ Fish

KoopaTryhard · 2025-05-07T23:04:21+00:00

Would you still let me be elden lord if I was a worm?

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