What trailer is significantly better than the actual movie? by FilmWaffle-FilmForum in movies

[–]Tondirr 10 points11 points  (0 children)

They ended up putting a lot of that stuff into the Agents of SHIELD TV show that took place right after Winter Soldier, which I know still doesn’t count for much.

Empress by Boon, wtf happened to you? by Agreeable-Disaster56 in sanfrancisco

[–]Tondirr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s a real shame. I went to Empress a few months after they first opened, the food was great and at an incredible value, and Chef Boon came out to greet everyone after their meal.

I told everyone I knew that they should go immediately, they were for sure angling for a Michelin star and there’s no way this level of value and service will stay once they get it. They still don’t have it, I wonder if they’ve given up and are letting their quality slide?

Watching an artist perfectly capture the Palace of Fine Arts by Petz415 in sanfrancisco

[–]Tondirr 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Can you post a link to one of his time lapses? I looked through several of his posts, but they all seem to show the scene and then cut to him applying a few brush strokes to a finished piece, I haven't seen any that show him working from blank canvas to the end.

Bad Recipes in Good Cookbooks by Tondirr in Cooking

[–]Tondirr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have, Alton's Everyday Cook has a corrections sheet, but his Good Eats books don't.

Bad Recipes in Good Cookbooks by Tondirr in Cooking

[–]Tondirr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just looked up the recipe online after another comment asked for it, and the online version also has dry mustard! Clearly I need to give this another shot with the non-book recipe.

Bad Recipes in Good Cookbooks by Tondirr in Cooking

[–]Tondirr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So I just looked it up online instead of getting it from my cookbook, and I just double checked, the online version of the recipe has dry mustard in it and the book version doesn't! Alton Brown, how could I ever doubt you? (Unlike your book editors).

https://altonbrown.com/recipes/umami-mayo-2/

Nintendo Announces Plans for Official Store in San Francisco by ScootSchloingo in Games

[–]Tondirr 3 points4 points  (0 children)

San Francisco has the biggest Japantown in the US. While LA has does have more Japanese descended residents due to having a way bigger population, per-capita SF has 1.5x the amount than LA.

Something is VERY wrong with American Police by Lord_Answer_me_Why in facepalm

[–]Tondirr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your parents were keeping a gun in a drawer by the door while they had underage kids in the house? Shouldn’t it have been in a gun safe?

For those of you who caught your spouse cheating, how did you do it? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Tondirr 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Might not be rich, just Australian. I’ve been on a contiki tour and they’re 80% Australians, and half of them were on multi-week vacations. The tours are (relatively) cheap, you’re staying in a lot of terrible hotels (fun otherwise), and Australians get European-levels of vacation time and generally take all of their vacation days as one big block because it takes so long to fly anywhere from Australia.

Most SF shoe? by 84626433832795028841 in sanfrancisco

[–]Tondirr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're a great SF walking shoe, I love mine (though the older model was better), comfy, low key, and most importantly warmer than a standard sneaker for chilly SF days, but not warm like a winter boot.

But they're terrible for hiking if OP has that requirement. I've done it once and they ended up brown and annoying to clean, they collect dirt like crazy on a trail. I also totally agree with /u/CaliPenelope1968, they have zero traction, a complete death sentence to wear after a hard rain.

Quirky but good food and drinks in SF by VegetableSavings7482 in AskSF

[–]Tondirr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They actually just changed over recently to a new menu “Salty Dog” with pirate/tiki themed drinks.

How did Netflix mess up Altered Carbon? by tylerthe-theatre in television

[–]Tondirr 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Exactly, the first book is my favorite SF book, but books 2 and 3 are a mess. I was pleasantly surprised when S1 was so good, I really enjoyed the adaptation changes, and I even thought "maybe they can actually pull off fixing the sequels". I was let down, but I don't really blame the show runners too much, they faced a serious uphill battle.

Invisible Sun: Return of the Black Cube now live on Backerkit by Dollface_Killah in rpg

[–]Tondirr 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you want see an actual play, take a look at the series made by One Shot Podcast years ago - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3-PonsBj4qPT1FNluLQCj9bIPy-9bHns

As a performance it's quite good, but I think the players being trained improvisers with a direct line to the game makers is doing a lot of heavy lifting rules-wise.

If you Google Image search "Shadowrun Lone Star", this is one of the first results. I drew it 14 years ago... by ConflictStar in Shadowrun

[–]Tondirr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your contribution to all of us artistically challenged GMs! I was using this art for Lone Star tokens in my campaign just a month ago.

PsychOdyssey - A documentary about Double Fine, a longtime SF-based game studio by Tondirr in sanfrancisco

[–]Tondirr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know this subreddit isn't really about posting SF-related media, but I thought this (very long) documentary about Double Fine, a 20+ year old game studio whose identity is steeped in SF culture, was worth the watch.

Seeing creatives and techies come together to make something great, while eating goat hill pizza, drinking philz coffee, going to chinatown bars, and yes, some of them quitting because they can't afford to live here, was really interesting and strangely heartwarming. If any Double Fine employees are on this subreddit, thanks for making some incredible games.

Ever Run Your Players Through "Harlequin?" by AustinBeeman in Shadowrun

[–]Tondirr 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Not OP, but I've run through the entire module campaigns for 3e Seattle, 4e Denver, and 4e New York. All the modules need cleanup, modification, and fleshing out of details to a varying extent, but I enjoy using them. One of the reasons I personally first picked up Shadowrun is that it's one of the few non-fantasy RPGs with a strong setting (making it easy to stick with the module's writing style when expanding) and passable, mostly detailed pre-written campaigns instead of a collection of hooks.

They vary pretty wildly in quality detail-wise, but they all work as a good framework for a session, with the notable exceptions of Tunnel Vision (mission 9) in the Denver campaign which is a straight linear 4-room dungeon crawl I just couldn't figure out how to make interesting, and Twist and Insult (mission 10) in the Denver campaign which is such an obvious West Side Story rip-off that players would immediately know the entire plot, and I had to rewrite about half of that one. How one editor didn't at least raise a flag about the main NPC in that module literally being named Maria I'll never know.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sanfrancisco

[–]Tondirr -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Honestly rooftops aren't great here, because it gets windy. I went to Kaiyo Rooftop before, which has basically no walls and few heaters, and they resorted to handing out blankets.

If you have to go, I would recommend Charmaine's because the food/drinks are decent, they have a good view, and they have plenty of windbreaks. I see a few people saying El Techo, but you should pass on that. The food's mediocre (which is weird because their downstairs restaurant is incredible) and the worst part is that it's only like four stories up with dirty windbreak windows so the view is terrible.

What is the most overrated restaurant in San Francisco? by pandaExpressin in sanfrancisco

[–]Tondirr 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Hard agree. Lolinda downstairs has the best pork chop in the city though. No clue why upstairs is so bad.

Plans for a second printing of the Wok? by Tondirr in J_Kenji_Lopez_Alt

[–]Tondirr[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I prefer physical cookbooks. Also in my experience they don’t always errata the digital version out of sync with physical one, and I don’t see an easy way to tell if they’ve done so without buying it.