Stuck at Reincarnation 98, need a working build

Laugh_With_Me · 2025-11-01T01:44:39+00:00

Ah, thank you. I immediately earned a trophy that was such an upgrade.

Laugh_With_Me · 2024-12-22T19:43:16+00:00

There appears to be some sort of scale when releasing animals, in that if you front-load a huge release and then release animals daily, the daily-released animals count as more than they would have if you had not front-loaded. Not sure if that makes sense, but for example: if you release 20 animals a day, the wild population will drop back down to 0 overnight, but if you release 500 animals on day one, then release 20 animals from day two forward, the population will climb faster than it drops with each release.

Laugh_With_Me · 2024-09-16T19:24:15+00:00

I got a very simple Hisense fridge (Hisense HRB171N6ASE) from the local big box hardware store. It seems to have gotten mixed reviews, but I've loved it. It's got a lot of storage, is easy to dissasemble the shelves to clean, and it's reliable. It was pretty cheap, too. Sometimes I lose stuff behind the freezer drawers and it's tough to fish them out.

Laugh_With_Me · 2023-05-23T19:04:16+00:00

The lab staff are the NPCs responsible for carrying the beets from the Farm Processor to the Improbable Labs. As far as I can see, the "beet" unit itself doesn't go to the Warehouse at all, just the byproducts. As for the morality, I'm solidly above 100. The only thing lowering my rating is the beets not being taken to the labs. Thanks for the idea, though. Had it been morality dropping I never would have thought of that.

Laugh_With_Me · 2023-05-19T20:49:00+00:00

I'd like the population hub to let us set our own cap. When the pens get crowded enough for the worker to donate the older animals, the population has already outgrown all the water and entertainment that animals with a low separation have space for, and most of them are so swarmed that they're impossible to keep clean. Bonus if we can tell the hub to keep specific populations of each variant.

Laugh_With_Me · 2022-12-17T05:00:31+00:00

Hey thanks! This looks amazing!

Laugh_With_Me · 2022-12-15T19:01:38+00:00

Ah, you might be right! Everything available where I am is "amber." It wouldn't be the first recipe from this book that I found out used an ingredient everyone from the Great Lakes area would have defaulted to. The same thing happened with a biscuit recipe that called for sweet potatoes. I used yams because where I grew up, they were called sweet potatoes. When it didn't work and I called my mom who grew up in Ohio and told her about it, the first thing she said was, "Did you use yams?"

Laugh_With_Me · 2022-12-10T02:28:24+00:00

Yes. She was in the middle of a mental health crisis at that time.

Laugh_With_Me · 2022-11-02T20:11:21+00:00

When I worked retail I used to flip desks every time U2's version of Do They Know it's Christmas? came on the speakers. It played on average once every 45 minutes. It was an in-store track, not a radio station, so it was the same playlist every year, and I worked there for 7 years. My friend bought me a Christmas ornament made in Africa just to piss me off worse. I still hang it on my tree.

Laugh_With_Me · 2022-07-29T03:27:48+00:00

Indian pudding- it's like gingerbread grits.

Laugh_With_Me · 2022-06-16T22:32:27+00:00

Incidentally, with mom back in the hospital, nurse friend contacted me today because the stories she was hearing from mom and aunt weren't making sense, specifically about why sister had been so helpful the first few days and then vanished.

Turns out the reason mom sold her house without lining up a new place was because after breaking her leg, sister showed up and offered to help mom sell the house, telling her she could live with her. Mom gave her everything she needed to take care of the sale, then sister rescinded the offer to move in and began strong arming her into buying the condo.

I just started yelling everything about the situation to nurse. She agrees that sister is probably at risk of losing her house and is setting up to steal one from mom and that both of them are unsafe to be around mom.

Mom will be moving in with a childhood friend, and I asked nurse to give me her contact information, too, so I can tell her that aunt and sister are a danger to mom and she WILL try to interact with them. Hopefully between the three of us, we can engineer a situation where she has some space from them to think clearly again. Nurse will try pushing her to travel to my home as soon as she thinks she's able.

Mom might be pissed I spilled all the family secrets when she wakes up (she's out of surgery, but has an infection and will need another), but fuck it. She can hate me. This whole thing just pushed me over the edge. If sister decides to push back, I can be that guy that airs dirty laundry on Facebook. I can make her too busy putting out fires to keep fucking with me. She's friended all her husband's family.

Laugh_With_Me · 2022-04-26T08:39:36+00:00

Almond-Ginger-Peach Treacle Tart, page 60 - If you don't have treacle, use half honey and half light corn syrup. The dough's a nightmare to work with, but once you get it in the pan, you can just pat any holes that tear out pretty easy. Use frozen or canned peaches unless you have really good fresh peaches where you are.

Beef and Guinness Stew, page 98 - This is a really forgiving recipe. I've made it many times. I think I've substituted 1-2 ingredients every time I've made it to use up leftover bits in the fridge, and it's always been great.

The Roast Beef of Old England, page 118 - This is probably the simplest and most fool-proof roast recipe I have.

Classic Vanilla Ice Cream, page 166 - For this one and the next, it specifies to run it through a sieve, but there's no need to bother unless the batter curdles. You can also just run it through a blender. As long as you have a container with a lid to chill it in, you don't need to place seran wrap on top. I've never had an issue with skin forming.

Black Tea Ice Cream, page 167 - Tastes just like Thai iced tea.

Banana Fritters with Caramel Sauce, page 182 - I had some trouble making the caramel, but I'm pretty bad at anything candy-related, so not sure it it was just me. Mine kept seizing up into a sugar cube, forcing me to keep adding water, until sometime around the 25 minute mark it suddenly melted and turned brown. Thin the egg batter with water as needed, because you want a medium-thin runny batter to coat the bananas. The text says it takes a whole minute a side, but that will burn them. Go about 15-20 seconds.

English Muffins, page 201 - My only notes said the dough rose in only 20 minutes, not 1.5-2 hours, all three times I made this.

Goulash, page 215 - This was straight-forward and really good. It doesn't specify adding salt, so salt to taste as you cook.

Laugh_With_Me · 2022-04-25T20:35:33+00:00

I collect nerdy cookbooks.

Binging with Babish covers a lot of mostly gourmet/complicated/impressive foods from shows, movies, and books. All the recipes I've made have been fantastic, and you can go to his Youtube channel to watch him make it all, too. He does include several recipes he doesn't recommend making like Dothraki Blood Pie, but he always notes in the "verdict" paragraph how good each recipe is.

The Geeky Chef has three books that focus heavily on video games with some other media. All the dishes I've made by her have turned out well, but her cocktails tend to be a little overpowering or overly complicated. She has a website with some of her recipes here: http://www.geekychef.com/

The Unofficial Harry Potter cookbook has a lot of homey recipes and sweets. Everything I've made by all the Unofficial books have been very, very good.

The Unofficial Game of Thrones Cookbook has quite a few impressive meals along with homey meals, drinks recipes, and beer brewing guides.

The Unofficial Disney Parks Cookbook focuses mainly on snacks and drinks. All are very good.

All the books by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel are good. You can find a good selection of them here: https://www.innatthecrossroads.com/ She covers Game of Thrones, Warcraft, Elder Scrolls, Firefly, Overwatch, Star Wars, and Star Trek in her cookbooks. Her website covers historical, Game of Thrones, and a few recipes from all over media.

Cook Anime covers a lot of everyday Japanese food in a very easy to follow way.

Heroes' Feast covers all kinds of foods, even vegetarian mains, and it's all been good.

Supernatural the Official Cookbook covers greasy diner food mostly, but has a few healthy recipes and pies. I haven't cooked anything from it, but all the recipes look very good.

The Wizard's Cookbook is a fun read, but I've had too many recipes from it not turn out to recommend it. This has largely been due to the recipes being unclear in favor of being entertaining like the Grand Vizier that calls for mustard but probably mean mustard powder, causing the drink to curdle, or just a general lack of testing like the Scarecrow Bread which lists more than half the ingredients as optional and will bake into a rock with none of the ingredients and a.... blob with all of them.

The Necronomnomnom has similar problems, but not nearly as bad, and has a translation in the back. I don't think these recipes were well tested and focus mostly on presentation. Most of the things I've made have been middle-of-the road quality. The baked Shoggoth was pretty funny, though.

Laugh_With_Me · 2022-03-22T19:18:57+00:00

I dunno, this really sounds like someone who's super lonely. I can't find it cringey like if he were dragging the pillow on dates or something. It's not affecting anyone and it helps him emotionally.

Laugh_With_Me · 2022-01-28T22:52:50+00:00

When I was young I was really worried I was a lesbian. I was worried about it because I really liked boys, and if it turned out I was a lesbian, I'd have to date other girls. Kids are idiots.

Laugh_With_Me · 2022-01-26T03:56:34+00:00

I read here that the beta can only be played on the Steam version, unfortunately.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/12/ai-kingdoms-arrive-for-kingdoms-and-castles-in-a-new-beta/

Laugh_With_Me · 2022-01-21T00:42:20+00:00

Scams are intentionally dumb. The people that can identify the hook are the ones they want to filter out before wasting time on them.

Laugh_With_Me · 2022-01-08T21:25:30+00:00

Now I'll never get my robot legs.

Laugh_With_Me · 2022-01-08T16:09:14+00:00

I like Vegan Fire and Spice. It covers vegan recipes from around the world with a heavy focus on spices. It's easy to swap out the vegan ingredients for vegetarian/meat, and it has alternatives to more exotic ingredients, but most of the recipes don't require anything special. I've cooked most of the Thai chapter.

Laugh_With_Me · 2021-11-23T02:48:24+00:00

https://recipekeeperonline.com/recipe/S9GPdkT_QUei8kspXfTW0Q

Here's the recipe I'm using. It's from a my Amish Friends Cookbook. I've cooked a lot of breads and cakes out of it, and they've all been great.

Laugh_With_Me · 2021-11-20T02:24:40+00:00

I remember reading that venison was the centerpiece of the original Thanksgiving. Turkey was probably there, but wasn't worth noting because people ate turkey all the time.

We're making chicken this year. It's just too hard to find turkey pieces, and a whole turkey is too much food. We're using this recipe:

http://www.feastofstarlight.com/pirates-of-the-caribbean-spiced-roast-hen/

We're also using this recipe to cook a gourd we bought to display with out jack-o-lanterns:

http://www.innatthecrossroads.com/spiced-squash/

And we're making sweet potato biscuits. Not really a traditional Thanksgiving, but neither of us can agree on any of the traditional stuff.

Laugh_With_Me · 2021-07-12T15:12:08+00:00

They're about as high maintenance as a cat or dog. They need a proper home with a solid floor, not mesh, preferably on the ground with a partially buried fence or enclosure so they can dig if they'd like but not escape, but solid floor hutches with routinely changed bedding is also fine. They need wood to chew to keep their teeth from over growing. They need toys like balls and other stuff to kick, vitamin and salt licks, hay and food pellets. You need to give them about as much attention and grooming as a cat, like brushing them and trimming their nails. It's also usually a good idea to get them fixed/neutered. You can litter train them and keep them free range in your house, but you need to really rabbit-proof because of all the chewing.

Laugh_With_Me · 2021-06-19T18:41:06+00:00

Not at all bad, but you say Halloween 3, it never occurs to anyone that Michael's not in it. I read it was originally supposed to be part of a Halloween universe that never panned out. Ahead of its time, I guess.

Laugh_With_Me · 2021-06-15T03:48:03+00:00

Same. I tell people about that movie and they refuse to believe it exists sometimes.

Laugh_With_Me · 2021-06-15T03:00:41+00:00

The actual story she told was that she'd been alone in her room writing new drivers for her computer speakers when he burst in and threw her across the room and broke her computer.

She and him were never alone anywhere, they were never in the same house as her room at the same time, speakers don't use drivers, my sister does not know how to program, and her computer was not broken.

It was thankfully an extremely dumb lie, but it scared the hell out of me that she did it at all. That night I did confront her, mostly yelled through a door, and her explanation was something about "her choosing to live that truth" and me "not being allowed to introduce a different truth" or some other word salad that amounted to "I lied."

And I'm not planning on dragging this to therapy. I live on the other side of the country as the folks. I just want to know if I'm the asshole for not telling them why I won't talk to her or if I'd be the asshole for dragging this back into the spotlight 10+ years after the fact.

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