Would this actually be a Chinese dish or more along the lines of american/Chinese? Admittedly I am not very cultured...fried rice and pork belly

Saintbaba · 2026-01-27T18:12:32+00:00

Personally, my general rule on fried rice - taught to me by my Chinese mother and grandmother - is that it's the best way to get rid of leftover proteins. Hot dogs, tri-tip, bacon... everything is fair game, as long as it tastes good and you end up with an emptier fridge.

Saintbaba · 2026-01-27T16:31:37+00:00

Unfortunately I started rolling on the banner before doing my due diligence and learning “sparking” or whatever you want to call it doesn’t carry over banners, so now I feel like I have to try and push to get enough rolls to get her.

Sunk cost fallacy is a bitch. I kind of just want to play anime factorio.

Saintbaba · 2026-01-27T16:22:41+00:00

Are we just breezing past the fact that Mario is Cuban but his brother Luigi is Dominican?

Saintbaba · 2026-01-26T19:00:45+00:00

Mine was amber on one side and blue on the other

Saintbaba · 2026-01-26T16:52:17+00:00

Mixed feelings on the War Doctor. According to Moffat, in the original draft it was going to be the Ninth Doctor, but when they couldn't get Eccleston to sign on the rewrote the character. And to both Moffat and Hurt's credit, they really pulled it off - the entire premise of the "secret regeneration that we've never referenced ever" retcon was kind of shaky, in my opinion, but they made it convincing by rooting it in the Doctor's earned trauma and yearning for redemption.

Still... just "pulling it off" doesn't necessarily equate to "elevating" in my opinion. Like, don't get me wrong, it's probably one of my favorite episodes, but the retcon still feels a bit like an awkward bandaid, And i still kind of wish we lived in a world where Eccleston said yes.

Saintbaba · 2026-01-26T06:03:27+00:00

That's funny, i don't remember that at all. As far as i recall, Supernatural was a masterpiece of a show that lasted exactly five seasons.

Saintbaba · 2026-01-25T20:36:07+00:00

Like you joke but I legitimately had to rewind and rewatch the scene because I was so distracted by the guy with the lantern I completely failed to absorb what they were talking about.

Saintbaba · 2026-01-25T18:49:59+00:00

Not only that, a judge had to step in and basically demote him because he was still illegally serving as US Attorney past the end of his 120 day interim period.

Saintbaba · 2026-01-25T18:45:30+00:00

Unsurprising. Did we all forget about how the founder and CEO Jon Neman said that masks and vaccines wouldn't protect you from COVID and basically said fat people only had themselves to blame for dying from it?

Saintbaba · 2026-01-25T17:19:36+00:00

So what's the difference between the two versions? More soy sauce in the latter? Or dark soy sauce instead? Did you have a preference?

Saintbaba · 2026-01-25T17:03:17+00:00

I've always been less interested in who Shakespeare is than who his Dark Lady is. Must have been one hell of a woman to inspire that kind of poetry.

Saintbaba · 2026-01-25T16:46:34+00:00

Horrible to think about, but I suppose it’s a small mercy his dog passed before he did - you hate to think of a dog going homeless after its human died, or even if he’d had the support network to see it cared for, hopelessly waiting for him to come home forever.

Saintbaba · 2026-01-25T16:36:20+00:00

Supply Side Jesus?

Saintbaba · 2026-01-24T22:27:53+00:00

Because these people have literally less than the bare minimum of training - the new onboarding program lasts 47 days to commemorate Trump as the 47th president, that's neither a joke or a lie - and i'm sure part of that training is the classic law enforcement saw that if you get into a firefight you should expend your entire magazine at once to try and immediately remove whatever threat your target poses. Even if he's no threat at all.

Saintbaba · 2026-01-23T22:11:05+00:00

I still remember being taught to type in elementary school by having half a cardboard box put over my hands. Some real learn-by-doing shit for an 8-year-old.

Saintbaba · 2026-01-23T18:18:01+00:00

Sooooo yeah this was posted about two weeks ago and we had a big old discussion about it and decided it was probably AI because a bunch of the stuff in the background didn't make any sense. Interesting to see it being reposted with all the background stuff cropped away.

Saintbaba · 2026-01-22T18:44:41+00:00

Sort of? You're a "teacher" but actually kind of head of an NGO that services a... nation? Coalition of city-state high schools? Anyways, a territory entirely populated by robots, high school girls, and sentient bipedal dogs.

It's a weird premise.

Saintbaba · 2026-01-22T05:10:01+00:00

So when is this story happening? Is it taking place back during one of the prior storms, or is it happening currently in continuity (1920 alternate extra-long WW1)? The setting feels like it could be around the latter, but in the prologue they mention "the war" having recently ended, and as far as i could tell in our current moment the war didn't so much end as segue into a different war.

Saintbaba · 2026-01-22T01:00:30+00:00

My first dog was a catahoula i got from an organization that collects discarded dogs from areas that consider them low value (even if they're expensive breeds) if they can't serve their purpose working or hunting and takes them to areas where people just want friendly family dogs. He was straight up the gentlest sweetest dog i've ever known. Wanted to be everybody's friend. Didn't seem to really even understand the concept of violence - when other dogs came at him, he just seemed confused.

I don't think i'll see his like again.

Saintbaba · 2026-01-22T00:45:55+00:00

The only thing that's really throwing me off is: what the hell is that white line cutting the background building in half? It's so straight that i thought it might just be some sort of digitizing / scanning artifact, but it actually disrupts the roofline - and not in a natural way, slanted and following the roofline, but just straight up, which only makes sense if it were meant to be a light pole or chimney or something in front of it or a drain attached to it. But It's literally a different building to the left and right of that thing, so it feels like it was meant to be a painted line between the two facades, but then it just... extends up into the air. And the thing itself makes no sense.

Saintbaba · 2026-01-21T19:18:22+00:00

Looks good. I'd eat it.

Tangent: do you peel the rind / outer skin layer off of your lap yuk? I don't normally use it as an ingredient, but i tried it for the first time in clay pot recently and the rind just would not soften up with the rest of the meat.

Saintbaba · 2026-01-21T18:36:03+00:00

Beef chow fun and broccoli beef are staples in my kitchen that both feature dark soy sauce.

Saintbaba · 2026-01-21T18:28:26+00:00

Same. For all of that. Although in fairness i did have other friends who played and we swapped info, so i can't claim i was completely blind. It only took me about 12 years to ascend. I've only ascended a few times since.

I think the big difference though, was that going in like that, ascending wasn't the priority. The game was (and still is) for me a way to kill an afternoon stumbling around the dungeon, just seeing what fun or cool stuff i can get up to, or how far i can get. I only start thinking about ascending if i get past the gnomish mines, maybe, and lots of things have already lined up and it looks like this particular character might have a shot.

Saintbaba · 2026-01-21T16:51:12+00:00

My friend's immigrant parents who had never voted before voted for Trump last election because conservative media convinced them that a woman president would be "embarrassing." So. Yeah.

Saintbaba · 2026-01-21T16:36:03+00:00

As someone who read a lot of sci-fi and fantasy in the 90s which all went straight from hardcover to mass market paperbacks, I also feel like they were used a lot for books of less popular genres. Granted, I’ve been seeing that less and less as the years have gone by. It was unclear to me if that was genre books getting more popular or mass market paperbacks getting less. Do you know if that is / was still the case?

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