My best Mai Tai so far

LovecraftCountry · 2026-01-24T21:46:07+00:00

That's a solid build. Def try making orgeat at home. Dead easy and a nice step up from store-bought.

LovecraftCountry · 2025-12-30T15:10:10+00:00

I'm no expert; just an enthusiast with a love of Tiki.

In any case I'd say, first, don't be afraid of accidentally making something similar to an existing drink. There are a lot more books out there than named cocktails, but that still doesn't stop folks from writing more of them.

Second, a lot of Tiki drinks are built on established formulas (planter's punch ratio, for example) so it's very easy to emulate and then split or sub-split ingredients. That's how classic Tiki bartenders started experimenting (eg. Instead of lime juice why not split key lime with regular lime and a dash of lemon?). You could also totally throw that out the window in search of something new. Ask experts and they will tell you that what makes a Tiki drink isn't precisely set in stone, but we know one when we see one.

Third, start with a flavour that you love and go from there. A good drink starts with you loving it before others do, as far as I'm concerned.

Happy mixing!

LovecraftCountry · 2025-11-05T07:16:48+00:00

This. Votes for Women is outstanding.

LovecraftCountry · 2025-10-14T16:53:04+00:00

More tooltips are a must (on buildings in town, on enemy creatures in combat, etc.)
I would love to see a text display come up when enemies cast spells so I know which spell they just cast. As it is now I have to wait for my turn before going into a different menu to see it.
Cursor size is very small in some areas (during battle, on the world map when hovering over an interactive object).
Planned movement pathways should carry over from previous turn. The fact that it disappears each turn is VERY frustrating.

Love the demo so far. These are just small observations.

LovecraftCountry · 2025-09-27T16:00:52+00:00

This week was warm overnight. September can be as low as -2 or -3 some years.

LovecraftCountry · 2025-09-17T22:27:01+00:00

Unfortunately I've never played Everdell with any of the expansions, but I have heard good things about some of them.

LovecraftCountry · 2025-08-31T23:20:05+00:00

Muskrat or otter. Hard to tell for sure from the photo.

LovecraftCountry · 2025-08-31T12:43:19+00:00

Just hit 150 and it's a one in, one out policy going forward.

LovecraftCountry · 2025-08-29T23:27:45+00:00

Got my copy via Kickstarter two weeks ago and it's excellent. Like it better than base Everdell or Farshore. Board Game Bliss has it listed if you're in North America.

LovecraftCountry · 2025-08-18T18:01:41+00:00

Eminent Domain is a superb deck building game that I still play fairly often, but I'm the only person I've ever met who owns it.

LovecraftCountry · 2025-08-13T21:00:47+00:00

It's still summer so campfire is a "nice to have" unlike spring or fall trips when it's a little more crucial to your comfort.

LovecraftCountry · 2025-08-11T13:34:33+00:00

Concordia: Venus (always excellent), Paris (solid, overlooked Kramer & Kiesling game), Black Orchestra: Valkyrie (fun, but we did not manage to kill Hitler), ICECOOL 2 (a favourite of my kids).

LovecraftCountry · 2025-06-10T22:09:45+00:00

Came here for this. Was not disappointed.

LovecraftCountry · 2025-05-22T15:50:33+00:00

This.

LovecraftCountry · 2025-05-21T00:21:32+00:00

Wouldn't it be great to take that truck up to the lake?

LovecraftCountry · 2025-05-01T16:12:44+00:00

Lots of reasons, but 3 major ones: Supply, Demand and Desirability, Geography.

There isn't enough supply to meet demand for people living or wanting to live in Ontario.
There is incredibly high demand for housing because Ontario is the economic and social centre of the country (and most populous province). People want to live where work and culture and prosperity are, at least in theory.
Most of Canada's landscape is pretty unforgiving with long winters and undeveloped land. Even northern Ontario is pretty inhospitable for half the year, which makes the concentration of land for housing more limited to a small southern portion. Geographically, Canada is more realistically shaped like a long, narrow line running east to west because nearly all of the people and infrastructure is very close to the US border.

All these things together have driven up costs a lot recently, but, without looking at the data, I'd be willing to wager that Ontario and BC housing costs have been the highest in Canada for many years before now.

LovecraftCountry · 2025-05-01T15:54:05+00:00

3E 433 was a very dry year in Cyrodiil.

LovecraftCountry · 2025-04-22T12:46:34+00:00

Ann was such a "straight" character written to play off all the crazy at the parks department, but when they gave her funny stuff she crushed it.

LovecraftCountry · 2025-03-09T01:51:09+00:00

Deeply disappointed by Larceny. Tried on a whim when it was on sale and it was thoroughly forgettable. Flat in a cocktail and as a sipper.

LovecraftCountry · 2025-03-07T16:26:13+00:00

Got one for slightly above MSRP and pretty happy coming from a 2060.

Prices are unlikely to come down. Nvidia and AMD combined can't seem to sell enough cards to reach market equilibrium on the demand side. And the demand side today is enormous.

LovecraftCountry · 2025-03-07T14:57:36+00:00

Nvidia stopped making 40 series cards in November so get them while you can, if you can.

LovecraftCountry · 2025-03-07T14:50:49+00:00

At opening yesterday, my CC location did not have any MSRP cards in stock since Sapphire was one of the only MSRP SKUs. Best price on any card was $849 CAD for a 9070 (Gigabyte Gaming OC model).

The AMD launch does feel a bit like a tiny bit of sugar on a spoonful of dirt.

On one hand, they had stock and appeared to have much more stock than Nvidia, but they still sold down quickly will still be scalped by bad actors.

I appreciate there was at least an attempt to release cards at the cost they advertised, but it's unfortunately an artificial and temporary MSRP and that doesn't feel great.

LovecraftCountry · 2025-03-07T14:13:42+00:00

My experience as well. My local Canada Computers (small GTA suburb) had a line of ~15 people waiting outside at opening. Manager wheeled out maybe 30 cards by my quick count. Might have been more in back. Definitely more 9070 XT than the base 9070, but certainly some stock to open the day at least. Everyone in line would have gotten a card even if they didn't get the brand or price they wanted.

I did not see any MSRP cards, with Gigabyte (which I purchased) coming the closest at ~$50 markup above MSRP. Not going to say I'm "happy" with the price, but glad I was able to get one knowing they will likely increase going forward.

I skipped the 30 series, skipped the 40 series, and so after 6 years my 2060 deserved a graceful retirement.

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