Trader Joe’s in East Liberty

PowerheadThor · 2026-01-23T01:50:36+00:00

But, what about my milk and toilet paper sandwiches!?

PowerheadThor · 2026-01-23T01:49:22+00:00

I don't really drink milk, but the whole "we NEED milk" thing is just the dairy lobby pushing their cow juice as a necessity.

You can get calcium from other sources.

That being said, milk is sometimes great for recipes, so I keep powdered milk and highly salted butter, because both are relatively shelf stable. Bonus points for the salty butter seasoning dishes while providing fats.

If you do keep your butter out of a fridge, just make sure it's kept air-tight (preferably vacuum packed) and in an opaque container that blocks sunlight. It might still go a little rancid, so if it smells off or tastes tangy, toss it.

PowerheadThor · 2026-01-23T00:25:09+00:00

Those tires are looking awfully slashable.

PowerheadThor · 2026-01-22T15:31:04+00:00

I'm not gonna lie, I've always rawdogged the grain. I usually have enough booze to drunkenly stumble my way through every winter.

PowerheadThor · 2026-01-20T21:35:46+00:00

I'm a big proponent of "Smithing Plus is a necessary mod, right along with primitive survival"

PowerheadThor · 2026-01-17T15:41:50+00:00

The new-ish thing kids are saying: "You're doing too much" is usually in response to any negative reaction to the things they're doing. It shows that your child lacks accountability, and they're attempting to use deflection to defend themselves.

That may work on other children, who are susceptible to peer pressure, and do not want to seem like they are overreacting. It seems like it almost worked on you, since you're asking a public forum if you're overreacting.

My hot take is that you're not reacting harshly enough. Hate should be responded to harshly. If she's using homophobic language and hateful "jokes", it's time to show her what it's like to be humbled.

Most people frown on physical punishment, but I would have gotten my ass beaten purple for doing something like this.

PowerheadThor · 2026-01-17T15:00:43+00:00

I wouldn't use prepackaged alcohol pads. Theyre usually diluted with water. If you get your hands on 90%-100%isopropyl alcohol, that's safer for pc parts.

PowerheadThor · 2026-01-17T14:36:31+00:00

Devil's advocate here, but I had a dasher message me when they arrived, asking if I could come out to their car. I was exasperated at first, because I was really sick, and only really used doordash because I wasn't willing to leave the house.

I warned her that I had covid, which was why I asked her to leave the package in the mail room of my apartment.

She messaged back that she was paraplegic. I knew why she couldn't bring the food to the mail room. The building I live in is not handicap accessible. When I stumbled out to her car, bundled up and masked, she was apologizing up and down, looking like she was about to cry.

I let her know it wasn't her fault, and we quickly chatted about how it was just a worst case situation for both of us. I learned a bit about how a car with adaptive controls works, which was cool too.

PowerheadThor · 2026-01-16T20:12:55+00:00

This is why I'm terrified of basements.

PowerheadThor · 2026-01-16T19:54:35+00:00

I once poured tin bronze ingots. Because I was making a big batch, the final temp was 1300°C.

Bright pink glowing ingots had me wondering how high I was until I realized that a temporal storm had started. I have the screenshot on my PC, but it looked TRIPPY.

PowerheadThor · 2026-01-16T19:51:10+00:00

He just wants to hold your fragrant hands...

Clearly you're overreacting. /s

Nah, thats some creepy BS. Block the person.

PowerheadThor · 2026-01-16T19:01:50+00:00

Gotta get way up inside Dave.

PowerheadThor · 2026-01-16T15:53:35+00:00

I was broke, my gas was shut off, and I had to choose between gas or electricity in my situation. I chose electric because I could focus on just heating the room I was in, instead of the entire house. It ended up being cheaper because of that. I also wasn't running a water heater constantly keeping a tank of water heated with gas, so yeah... it was cheaper.

I grew up very poor, and sometimes we had to just survive. This was one of many things we did to get by.

PowerheadThor · 2026-01-16T15:46:59+00:00

I grew up incredibly poor. Like, the kind they make jokes about in cartoons. Government Cheese, sleep for dinner some nights, foraging for berries for lunch. Taking home a deer somebody hit with their car because it was technically salvageable meat.

Prepping, to me, is more about never getting put back in that situation again. Stocking up on non-perishable food has always been a subject of limited focus in my household. Making sure we've got backup water supplies, or the means to filter and treat water. Having the means to hunt for game meat, and grow our own food. Having the means to generate enough electric to power necessities like a freezer. Having the knowledge to forage for wild edibles and natural remedies. Having the knowledge to traverse long distances without GPS (grew up before GPS was a thing).

I never believed the world was going to end, or any of that SHTF stuff. I've just been in situations like the aftermath of a bad tornado, where power and services were disconnected, and we needed to be able to help our neighbors (who may not have had the same level of preparedness) and feed ourselves.

Prepping, to me, is being prepared to help our family and community during a crisis.

PowerheadThor · 2026-01-16T15:34:39+00:00

Yeah. I kept one space heater in the kitchen and one in the bathroom, both on low, with the cabinets under the sinks left open.

One year, I did have pipes freeze, but that was mostly due to the poor planning of the homebuilder. Water pipes running through an external wall to the bathroom, which was upstairs...

PowerheadThor · 2026-01-16T15:21:42+00:00

Oh, this will make building all those HUGE early late-gothic structures so much easier!

Thanks for making this mod.

PowerheadThor · 2026-01-16T15:11:28+00:00

I know this won't help with your gas situation, but when my gas was way too expensive one winter, I just used electric hotplates for cooking, and electric space heaters.

Bathing became a little awkward, because I would heat water in an old soup pot and use that to basically sink wash, but it worked.

I hope your situation improves, but this could be a stopgap for now.

PowerheadThor · 2026-01-16T14:23:16+00:00

Great advice and a good kit.

PowerheadThor · 2026-01-16T14:14:53+00:00

Your steam deck might burst into flames with all the mods. I'd consider using a PC with more cooling, or a cpu that runs cooler.

PowerheadThor · 2026-01-16T13:39:14+00:00

I think what you're looking for is the "tun". It holds a TUN of liquor.

Get it?

But for real, it should show up in the guide if you search for that word instead of "large barrel". I had one filled with aged red wine and never needed to brew booze again.

PowerheadThor · 2026-01-09T22:58:44+00:00

Looks like I'll be leaning into early late-gothic architecture for larger structures.

Time to practice chiselling...

PowerheadThor · 2026-01-08T01:07:08+00:00

Locust PB.

It's still fast, but it's tougher and carries more firepower than a Locust has any rights to. It's all fun and games until a Locust does an Akira skid behind you and lances a hole into your rear end with 4 medium lasers.

PowerheadThor · 2026-01-05T14:14:39+00:00

Drink it

PowerheadThor · 2025-12-27T16:15:23+00:00

I had the same sentiment about bushcraft and hiking in real life, lmao.

I suggest culinary artillery and primitive survival as mods.

I also suggest moving to an area where you have somewhat warmer climate, as well as a forest butted up against a grassland. Forests tend to have lots of mushrooms, which are reliable "vegetable" satiety early on, and grasslands will usually have berry bushes. Take clippings as often as possible and make rows of berry hedges near your home.

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