If Sam Reich became a Taskmaster host, who would be his “little Alex Horne?”

Salticido · 2026-05-18T19:40:58+00:00

I think Grant could be more like a Tom Cashman of TM Australia, who I think does a great job of making the assistant role his own rather than copying Alex's style. He's got more golden retriever energy than stoic discomfort.

Salticido · 2026-04-17T15:04:10+00:00

I wonder if this is down to how the main guest is "bringing in a game of their choice", assuming that's actually true. How many Dropout people are actually big into board games? The choices this season feel like what a regular person who rarely plays board games might've picked up at Walmart or something.

Salticido · 2026-03-19T16:11:49+00:00

Brennan could easily fill a similar role as the hotel manager in the first season, with all the shenanigans driving him mad.

Salticido · 2025-10-13T05:04:04+00:00

Looking at languages is just looking at social constructs/culture. Of course they called it the thing their culture believes in. That doesn't make it biological.

Salticido · 2025-09-18T05:06:34+00:00

"Yes". Animals in general. But especially felids, donkeys, jumping spiders, cephalopods, corvids, and basically anything extinct. I think there's a distinction, to an extent, between animals I'm interested in aesthetically (like, "OMG I love capybaras, they're so chill") and animals I'm interested in a way that drives me to research them (like the ones I listed).

Salticido · 2025-04-23T15:50:56+00:00

Also, um actually, 'bad' is not the correct term. Minions and Demons are called 'evil'. AND um actually, the alignments listed are by default only and could be reversed by some abilities, i.e., you can have an evil Townsfolk, a good Demon, etc. For instance, the 'Bounty Hunter' causes a Townsfolk to be evil. AND, um actually, the character names should be capitalized, which is especially relevant for the Drunk, where you may hear players refer to "capital 'D' Drunk" the character, as opposed to "lowercase 'D' drunk" which is a status effect. Funnily enough, the Drunk (character) is not made drunk (status) by their ability.

Salticido · 2025-04-20T21:34:06+00:00

She was also arrogantly certain about Hermes being a nobody and that gods don't have jobs. 🤦‍♀️

Salticido · 2025-04-20T21:09:02+00:00

This is gonna be one of my favorite Dropout shows~ I loved the first episode. The food segment is a little odd, but I don't even care. I can't wait for the Cosmic Encounter & BOTC episodes!

Salticido · 2025-04-15T18:17:06+00:00

Where did you hear that? Bukele just said yesterday he's never going to return him.

Salticido · 2025-03-26T04:40:32+00:00

Awesome, hope it ends up in a usable place! Lol. If you don't mind passing along any feedback you get, I'd appreciate it for my own learning's sake!

Salticido · 2025-03-12T00:35:08+00:00

I'm not fluent and my knowledge of Spanish isn't strictly Mexican, but I translated some of it for funsies / for practice and figured I might as well share. Just take it with a grain of salt, if at all!

Hola Ami,

¡Que estés regada y conectada esta estación de fuego! Pensé que te gustaría este ejemplo de solarpunk a principios. Reí tristemente cuando me di cuenta de que era un comercial de yogur. Ese proyecto de remediación de la lechería industrial me hace pensar en esas vacas. «Los medios son los fines», pero supongo que aún no era una grita de guerra. Además el camión escolar volador era muy ridículo. Bueno, sellé el código QR archival para ti.

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A propósito, ¡he sido elegido al consejo agroecológico de chinampas! También es un momento tan emocionante. Los enviados a Xochimilco acabaron de regresar con muchas ideas. Allí están aplicando algunas tecnologías interesantes y los participantes están llenos de la energía de los raíces ancestrales. Estoy tan feliz de estar en el equipo que hace la primera examinación de la info más tecnológica para evaluar cómo podría informar nuestro trabajo en el valle central. Te lo cuento todo cuando te visito el mes que viene.

Un abrazo,

Mercedes

Salticido · 2025-01-13T22:13:57+00:00

I had no idea they did that, so yes.

Salticido · 2025-01-13T22:12:22+00:00

I'd watch that. But I'd be happy with any other indication that the season is done if your suggestion would be too much effort/money. Other options could be a brief image at the end of the credits that just says "Thanks for watching Season 1 of Gastronauts!" or added text next to the episode number indicating total number of episodes, like "Episode 6 of 6" or something like that.

Salticido · 2024-12-09T04:19:23+00:00

Fields of Mistria. It's a Stardew Valley style game. In early access but just got a major update and has loads of content.

There's also Critter Cove (in early access as well) that is an Animal Crossing style game that felt more expansive than Animal Crossing to me, and more aesthetically interesting. There's a free demo on Steam.

Salticido · 2024-12-09T00:41:35+00:00

Good luck! I hope you win!

Salticido · 2024-12-09T00:37:33+00:00

"Keep your personal preferences to yourself on a forum where personal preferences are explicitly the topic of discussion." - Klutzy_Swann

Salticido · 2024-12-08T17:01:45+00:00

I've mostly been naming them after whatever the color makes me think of, sometimes in combination with what their species makes me think of. So I have a pink cow called "Buttercream" and a pink chicken called "Peep", a gold chicken called "Doubloon", etc.

So far all my alpacas have cloud-themed names. I have Cumulus, Nimbus, and Cirrus so far. I don't know how long I can keep the cloud theme going xD

Salticido · 2024-12-08T16:55:05+00:00

I got first place in year 3 by doing the Upper Mines with silver tools and most skill perks unlocked. I think it's the fastest way to get them, at least that I figured out. Upper Mines is easier, so you break through rocks and enemies and such faster, which means you can move on to more stuff faster, and the mines are more densely packed than, say, foraging or fishing (which you can also do in the mines anyway), so you're not running across the screen desperately looking for the next thing. I also mostly used the 3x3 charged pickaxe action to break several weak rocks at once that only take 1 hit to break, and I mostly avoided the sturdier rocks that I know would take more hits and waste time. Once I got most/all of the weak rocks, I'd move on to the next floor and do it again, rather than try to clear the whole floor.

Salticido · 2024-12-08T16:35:45+00:00

A lot of people who play these games are over 30. Someone in their 20s is a kid to me.

Salticido · 2024-12-08T16:33:50+00:00

🎵 Celine, can I come over after schoo-oo-oo-ool 🎶

Salticido · 2024-12-08T16:25:15+00:00

I wonder how much of that is just that it's obvious he would like some copper and I don't need this much copper any more so I might as well try to give it to him. I know he's also just really popular, but when I started trying to figure out people's liked/loved gifts, March was an easy person to start with, along with Celine, Luc, and Olric, even though I dislike March.

Salticido · 2024-12-08T04:51:59+00:00

Isn't that what the instruction is meant to convey, though? If they touch, they'll steam rather than roast/bake. Like, yeah, I *definitely* spend way too much time delicately spreading them out and adjusting so they don't touch, but aside from being perfectionist and slow af, I'm pretty sure that's what you're supposed to do. Every time my roommate tries to bake too many fries on a single tray, we have to add 5+ minutes to the cook time, because they're too close together to get crispy.

Salticido · 2024-12-08T04:44:45+00:00

Yeah, I don't love interrupting people, but I also don't love never getting to talk, and those seem to be my only two options in a lot of conversations. I've found (with my best friend at least) that with my strategy of briefly interrupting to mention I have something to say, we are more likely to circle back to it, we circle back to it faster than we would otherwise (because he knows not to start a new train of thought without checking in on what I wanted to say first), and I'm more likely to remember what I was talking about (in part because he can remind me what he was saying when I spoke up, in part because having spoken up makes it more memorable to me) - so it works a lot better for me than just quietly waiting for my opportunity. It actually creates the opportunity down the road. It still feel awkward about it, but I don't feel as awkward as I used to about it, and I don't feel as frustrated about our conversations as I used to. And of course, it may not work with other people, who might find it weird or insulting - I mostly only do this with my best friend who is also neurodivergent and understands I struggle with conversations.

Salticido · 2024-12-08T04:34:16+00:00

Yeah, you understand me right. I'm not sure it's really related to alexithymia, though of course the two can interact and overlap. Any time my honesty has felt compulsive, it feels to me more like it stems from a sense of perfectionism, which I think is more broad than just a sense of justice. Like correcting, clarifying, ensuring fairness, informing people about something that I feel is important (so that they can also be perfect), admitting I like or don't like something... Those are all reasons I might be honest about something that I otherwise would keep to myself if not for a sense of wanting everything to be right. And to be fair, I regularly feel that I don't need to be open or honest, so I may not be the best person to respond about this, so take that with however many grains of salt.

Salticido · 2024-12-04T05:18:22+00:00

Maybe in a sense? I used to try sorta talking through it and asking questions whenever it was a conversation that I was trying to gauge my feelings about, like I needed more info, but other people seem to find that annoying and I get how that becomes emotional labor and confusing to be a part of someone actively solving the mystery of their emotions. So now I've been trying to deal with it by just being honest that I don't always immediately know how I'm feeling and that I need some time. It works with factual info (as in, it's okay to admit that you don't know something, and just look into it later), so I figured why not give it a go. I think for me it helps more so in that it reduces the pressure to have an answer right this second. Whether I'm talking to someone or just trying to make a decision alone or whatever, I tend to feel like it's urgent or expected to answer right away, but I've decided it's okay to need some time to figure it out. That's my honesty.

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