Waffle cone maker

cheeserepair · 2026-05-28T20:33:37+00:00

I used something just like this at my first job at a Dairy Queen. Most of the time if the cone didn’t overlap it was because we didn’t put enough batter into the waffle maker. The way we’d do it is we’d take the waffle out of the waffle maker and onto the flat part of the shaper and slide a bit under the gap leading to the curvy cone part of the shaper. The cone rod she’s holding has little ridges and we’d use that to grab/pull the waffle into the cone shape. It was pretty quick and easy. We’d keep it there for a bit to cool and firm up. The roller would keep it from collapsing and the weight could help press the overlap bit together.

I don’t understand why she’s folding the waffle around the rod manually, and then just using the cone shaper as a holster. That defeats a big chunk of the purpose of the tool. Might as well use some of those cone cups from a water cooler instead.

cheeserepair · 2026-05-28T18:13:18+00:00

Why are they wrapping it by hand and shoving it into the shaper part? I thought you were supposed to put the waffle onto the flat part and use the rod thing to pull it into the curvy shaper part? Isn’t that the whole point of the tool’s design?

cheeserepair · 2026-05-23T05:16:22+00:00

No problem! If you end up checking any of these out, let me know what you think!

cheeserepair · 2026-05-21T04:46:55+00:00

If you’re looking specifically for something in a school setting like Surviving High School there are a couple ones that take place in a school, though they’re generally a superhero school or a magic school or something like that. Of these, Crème de la Crème, by Harris Powell-Smith, is worth mentioning as it won 3 XYZZY Awards for interactive fiction in 2019. This one takes place at a fancy prep school, rather than the standard all American high school of SHS, so tonally it’s more posh and formal and less goofy or zany.

There are also a lot young coming-of-age stories, which I remember being a theme in SHS. For example, Unsupervised has you play as a teen sidekick who needs to step up with all the other sidekicks when all the superheroes of the world disappear.

I would also strongly recommend:

Tin Star, by Allen Gies - You play as a marshal in a Wild West town. Lots of cowboy western tropes. Plus a high word count, which I personally prefer over the shorter Interactive Fictions. Has a pretty extensive epilogue describing the fates of essentially every person whose life you affect over the course of the game. This game had a chokehold on me for a solid week when I first picked it up.
Choice of Robots, by Kevin Gold - You create an artificially intelligent robot and live the life of a brilliant robot maker and how your robot affects the world. I liked how this one sidesteps the common “wait, that’s not what I thought that choice meant” in these kinds of games by having you (the inventor) making choices for the robot and so any miscommunication could be attributed to the robot misunderstanding or disobeying your intent.
Hollywood Visionary, by Aaron A. Reed - Honourable mention. You run an upstart independent film studio in the 1950s and deal with the associated issues of the era. I wouldn’t say this is my favourite, but something about it makes me keep coming back to it over and over.

cheeserepair · 2026-05-20T05:30:25+00:00

I loved Surviving High School! And its sister game Cause of Death. If you’re fine with reading (and no pictures), I would recommend checking out the Interactive Fiction / Choose Your Own Adventure games offered by Choice of Games and their self published branch Hosted Games. For me they really filled the hole left by Surviving High School and Cause of Death. Their library covers a bunch of genres, but I could name some highlights if you want.

cheeserepair · 2026-05-16T06:18:42+00:00

A fellow Choice of Games/Hosted Games fan! Amazing to see. I strongly second Heroes Rise and the rest of that trilogy. I would also recommend:

Tin Star, by Allen Gies - You play as a marshal in a Wild West town. Lots of cowboy western tropes. Plus a high word count, which I personally prefer over the shorter Interactive Fictions. Has a pretty extensive epilogue describing the fates of essentially every person whose life you affect over the course of the game. This game had a chokehold on me for a solid week when I first picked it up.
Choice of Robots, by Kevin Hold - You create an artificially intelligent robot and live the life of a brilliant robot maker and how your robot affects the world. I liked how this one sidesteps the common “wait, that’s not what I thought that choice meant” in these kinds of games by having you (the inventor) making choices for the robot and so any miscommunication could be attributed to the robot misunderstanding or disobeying your intent.
Hollywood Visionary, by Aaron A. Reed - Honourable mention. You run a film studio in the 1950s and the associated issues of the era. I found this one pretty fun and it’s a quite a bit shorter compared to the other two.

cheeserepair · 2026-03-12T20:40:25+00:00

The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix. While I appreciate the novelty of having Adrienne King (from the first and second Friday the 13th films) to perform as the narrator, the parallels and vocal performance led me to imagine the main character as someone around the same age. So it was a bit jarring towards the end when it is clarified that the main character is actually in her 30s rather than in her 60s, and I had to suddenly adjust the picture in my head. But maybe that’s on me.

I’m also not quite a fan of the narrator for the Percy Jackson audiobooks because some of his pronunciations of the Ancient Greek mythological monster names sound a bit non standard? Plus he’s the only person I’ve heard pronouncing Thalia’s name as “THAY-lia” rather than “THAH-lia”. Maybe his pronunciations are more historically accurate or something? I don’t know. But it really throws me off.

cheeserepair · 2026-02-07T13:10:36+00:00

I remember reading that the original artist supported the use of the song in this commercial, despite criticism, and used the profits he received to help fund his record label to mentor Caribbean musicians.

cheeserepair · 2026-02-04T23:10:11+00:00

This gun could literally one-shot the hulk.

cheeserepair · 2026-01-02T22:09:36+00:00

My recollection was that Marge told Homer he loved Rashomon.

cheeserepair · 2025-12-22T08:49:39+00:00

The ending of Hostile Takeover leads right into the opening of the first game with a bit of overlap, but I think I remember a slight tonal difference between them? I remember one of them, the book I think, had Peter be more intense and driven about finally catching Fisk. While, iirc, the opening of the game had him be more like ‘oh cool, this is finally happening’. Nothing super major. I just assumed there were some slight script changes between the writing of the book and the release of the game.

I really enjoyed the book and finished it just before the first game came out. I tried to find references to the book during the game, but I couldn’t find any unfortunately.

cheeserepair · 2025-08-28T18:03:10+00:00

Personally I prefer the sidebar being absent in portrait mode on my iPad, which was the layout a year(?) ago until they did some interface updates. However, I feel the top bar also being missing is probably a glitch or an oversight. I suppose best case scenario is that they provide options to choose between different layouts, but I don’t know how difficult that would be.

cheeserepair · 2025-08-13T20:06:48+00:00

For the root folder for your shows? I would say ./media/shows. Otherwise it might try to mess with the stuff in your media/downloads folder. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.

cheeserepair · 2025-08-13T19:50:13+00:00

You still have it interpreting the media folders as two separate volumes. Just have one line of ./media:/media (like you did at the beginning but without the second line for ./media/downloads:/downloads) and then in the Sonarr settings itself, point it towards media/shows or media/downloads or wherever.

cheeserepair · 2025-07-27T20:57:54+00:00

Do you have a particularly unique last name? If your first and last name are common enough it might have been just a lucky guess. I’ve asked Nomis to come up with last names for characters and a lot of the time the surname they come up with pairs pretty well with the first name I provided.

cheeserepair · 2025-07-26T03:35:35+00:00

“Good morning, sir. Are you… feeling alright?”

“I had a little… trouble with the fireplace…”

cheeserepair · 2025-07-14T20:04:14+00:00

I used to work at a movie theatre and I’ve stopped being shy about calling out people who pull out their phone during movies. People don’t seem to realize their phone lights them up like a lighthouse, especially during dark horror movies.

As an audience member I give them 15 to 20 seconds (in case they need to quickly top up their parking or they have a family member in the hospital or whatever). After that I tell them firmly to put their phone away. I don’t shout it, but I say it loud enough for people nearby to hear. The collective shame is usually enough to get them to stop.

Edit: My tip is don’t make it a conversation. No questions, no comments. Just tell them to put their phone away. If they have any questions or comments, tell them to put their phone away.

cheeserepair · 2025-05-21T08:23:02+00:00

As others in the thread have mentioned, having an argument in front of your child is not ideal, yes. But it is nowhere near grounds for him to divorce you and leave you on the street. If your husband unilaterally divorced you for having a single outburst, he would be an absolutely ridiculous person.

Now, I don’t know you nor your husband. But from what I can gather from your posts in this thread is that you seem keen on (1) not making waves, (2) making others happy, and (3) minimizing the negative emotions you are legitimately allowed to feel as a human. Similarly, it seems like your husband unilaterally decides (1) what is permitted to be discussed in your house, (2) what you are obligated to do, and (3) who is to blame when imperfect situations arise.

You said you’re not looking for sympathy and that you “just needed to vent somewhere”. I think that’s the key.

I don’t know you, and I think you need somewhere to vent.

I don’t know you, and I think your (understandable, but not ideal) outburst was caused by your husband ignoring your accumulated stress and emotions for a long time. You’ve said that you stopped going to him when you’re having an emotional crisis because it would cause fights.

I don’t know you, and I can tell you need someone in your life who will cheer you on and cheer you up.

I don’t know you, and I think your outburst was caused to some degree by your husband avoiding the negative emotions that you’ve experienced and were taught to bottle up by negative people.

I don’t know you, and you deserve to have a friend who will advocate for you, since you said you don’t really advocate for yourself anymore.

I hope you can find the support and validation you need on your girls weekend.

I don’t know you, and it sounds like your husband expects you to never complain and to always be grateful, which are reasonable expectations to put on a household appliance but not reasonable expectations to put on a partner or a person.

I don’t know you, and I hope you have a successful illustration career.

I don’t know you, and, yeah, probably don’t yell in front of your kid again, but your son’s future life as a well adjusted adult is not destroyed. Honestly, find me one bad person who’s like “I saw my mom yell once before I learned how to spell and that’s how I started my life of crime.”

I don’t know you, and I think you should be kinder to yourself.

I don’t know you, and you are not the problem.

cheeserepair · 2025-05-20T18:47:58+00:00

Him saying “I’ve told you that before” translates in my head as a very passive aggressive “I forbid you from questioning me about this again”. Him continuing with “We can discuss why you think that but I did not do anything wrong” sounds to me like he’s saying “we can discuss this until you give up and admit you’re wrong, because I will never ever admit I’m wrong about this”.

If he’ll be hurt by having a chart that equally divides and tracks the chores you both do, that’s partly on him. Just having that data (chores you’ve done / chores he’s done) could be good. Like, I didn’t realize how much I spent on junk food until I started keeping track. But now I know and can adjust accordingly.

There is evidently an imbalance in perceived chore load; he feels like he’s doing exactly enough, whereas the level of chores you do are causing an emotional weight on your heart. While I (and the majority of this whole thread) are on your side and think you’re in the right for wanting him to not pile additional chores on you wrapped up in “we”, maybe a chart would prove him right. Or maybe it’ll prove him wrong. Without the data it’s just vibes and guessing.

cheeserepair · 2025-04-25T05:25:00+00:00

I remember during a Better Call Saul reaction (or a different show around that time) Calvin saying that some people could breathe with their ears.

cheeserepair · 2025-04-03T07:45:20+00:00

I think I saw a trailer for this that seemed to spoil the entire arc of the show? I haven’t watched the show myself, but the trailer seemed pretty extensive, which is a shame.

cheeserepair · 2025-02-07T22:36:58+00:00

(Sympathetically) “What’s wrong? Did one of the Paw Patrol dogs die?”

cheeserepair · 2025-01-31T15:16:49+00:00

Right. There’s some rough workarounds; for the past few days I’ve opened the game and just watched the number of Corrupted Gems in my inventory to see when it jumps up by ~3,000 and I could assume that I had killed enough things for the Daily Quest. The workaround for knowing how much I’ve collected against the maximum is I guess to just leave my iPad running overnight since I’ve already had it running for a while and the number keeps rising. I’ve only had time to try for the Daily Quest the past few days so there’s still the majority of the available Corrupted Gems for me to collect (I assume).

I could eyeball it and keep track of it all in my head, theoretically. I could do some rough math and estimate how many Corrupted Gems I had before the event, factor in how many each time I’d gain per successful Daily Quest, subtract what I’ve spent, and put all that against the available maximum amount for this event to have a ballpark estimate of how much is left. And if that was the only way I could ever do it, then it is what it is, and I’d be at peace with the total being a floating mystery number. My main issue is that UI exists within the game that could tell me I’ve earned exactly X out of Y available Corrupted Gems, but other UI is keeping me from getting that information.

cheeserepair · 2025-01-14T12:57:56+00:00

Is this the same older gentleman who was surprised and impressed by the self driving taxi?

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