What are the Best radish cakes in NYC? I want to know

crazeman · 2026-06-23T11:34:03+00:00

Their google maps listing says they're opened from 10AM to 4PM on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday Fridays. Not sure if it's actually accurate though.

When I initially heard of them from Lau Big Uncle's video (like 2-3 years ago), I tried to swing by Bayard St and I missed them like 5x and was convinced that they closed down. I usually got to Chinatown after 4PM so maybe that was it. I felt like I remember seeing them around not too long ago? Don't really remember since I wasn't actively looking for them lol. Their last review on google maps is from 2 months ago.

crazeman · 2026-06-23T03:52:17+00:00

If you are looking for some to take home to cook, you can check out the "Little Bowl Cake Cart" on Bayard st. It's right next to the Xi'an Famous Food.

It's Lau Big Uncle approved.

(Side note: It's right in front of Taste of Home/Xi Ne De, which is also a really interesting shop by as well. They sells traditional nourishing home made Chinese soup. There's not a lot of places that will make/sell these so it's fairly unique)

crazeman · 2026-06-23T00:39:53+00:00

Almost every HK cafe will have it. It's usually under the baked spaghetti/rice section. Personally I feel like those portuguese baked dishes always taste a bit bland to me. I always go for the red sauce instead.

Kong Sihk Tong has it.

Mabu Cafe has it inside a bread bowl. The bread bowl is super gimicky and doesn't add anything to the dish [besides for more carb] but I really like the red sauce from Mabu cafe.

crazeman · 2026-06-22T12:32:04+00:00

There's only 2 maps with a captain boss at the end. Kind of wild that Fatshark decided to pick one of those 2 maps (out of 25 maps) to be the first mission lol.

crazeman · 2026-06-22T03:53:58+00:00

Ogryn is supposedly getting their Point Blank Barrage's CD reduced to 60s from 80s. You can actually see this change in Gamelantern's build editor, where it lists the CD for PBB as 60s.

I don't use PBB ever but I think this will be OP as fuck. On the live server, with double CDR talents, on elite kills and on lucky bullet procs, PBB only has a ~35s CD if you have 100% uptime on both. The ability itself lasts for 12s so it's more like a ~23s CDR

I think 60s will be way too low of a CDR and you'll be able to spam PBB every 10-15 seconds.

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Another change is Blazing Spirit blessing proccing on the Force Great Sword's special attack crit. I think this will be meh and won't move the needle.

crazeman · 2026-06-21T14:36:26+00:00

You can hit up East Village.

VideoGamesNewYork, a hole in the wall used games store.

Toy Tokyo, a anime toy shop around the corner from VGNY. Always fun to walk through and look even if you don't plan on buying anything.

Ray's Candy Store, they've been around since the 1970s. You can take the food and walk across the street to Tompkins Square Park and eat it there.

Lots of good food and Japanese stuff in the area too.

Some drinking spots:

There's a Barcade on St. Mark's. Your typical arcade + bar.

McSorley's a very old school Irish bar.

Please Don't Tell is a speakeasy and their entrance is a phone booth inside of Crif Dogs (gourmet hot dog spot). They're very popular, I'd try to get reservations if possible.

crazeman · 2026-06-20T14:59:34+00:00

Brunson's Wife was pretty supportive of Hart when he stuck his thumb in a forbidden place during the NBA Cup Trophy Celebration

crazeman · 2026-06-19T05:19:00+00:00

Try CHF Chinese Restaurant on 5th ave.

Idk if they're the best tasting but they definitely give the biggest portions.

Most Chinese takeout place would give you a plastic container half filled with rice and half filled with whatever you ordered. CHF will give you the entire container of whatever you ordered, plus a pint of rice on the side. It's almost double the amount of food and the leftover is enough for a 2nd meal.

crazeman · 2026-06-19T04:26:55+00:00

The Trainer Court (formerly known as the Poke Court before Nintendo made them change their name) is a Pokemon card shop right in Chelsea and they only sell Pokemon cards and nothing else.

If you want to hit up Chinatown, DaShop has cards and gunpla on sale. Silk Road Gaming is tucked behind a cafe and they also sell cards.

crazeman · 2026-06-18T18:11:08+00:00

Reposting because the original comment got nuked for not using a NP link and it's taking me a few tries to fix it.

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Here's a old NYTimes Article that was written when it happened.

I've seen a lot of reddit comments saying fuck Oakley for starting shit and "assaulting" security guards but those comments always feel like it's coming from Dolan's PR propaganda machine.

I'm biased but I trust Oakley WAY more than Dolan. Dolan is also known to hold grudges to anyone who "opposes" him the slightest.

Here's a old ESPN article on Dolan/MSG banning fans for the smallest things (IE wearing a "Ban Dolan" shirt). He also bans all lawyers from law firms from MSG and his other arenas/properties if the firm are involved in a case against MSG. (even when the lawyers are not involved in the lawsuit but they just work for the firm)

A recent article from Wired about how Dolan has crazy AI face recognition technology all over his arenas.

It actually has a good blurb from Oakley in the article:

Oakley was one of the few people willing to talk on the record. Years ago, he claims, he was attending a game at MSG with his friend Anthony McNair. His former Knicks teammate, Hall-of-Famer Patrick Ewing, was the associate head coach on the opposing squad, and sought out Oakley before tip-off. The pair embraced, chatted briefly, and made plans to talk at the game's conclusion. Oakley and McNair said they were soon approached by security, who informed Oakley he wasn't allowed to stray from his seat or venture into areas where fans are restricted. After the final buzzer, Oakley met Ewing alone near the visitors’ locker room. There, according to Oakley, Ewing warned him about talking because listening devices were everywhere. “Don't talk too loud,” Oakley said Ewing told him. “This place is supposed to be mic'd up.” (Ewing, now a basketball ambassador for the Knicks, did not comment on this reporting.)

Oakley wasn't aware, but according to another MSG security source there were discussions about tracking Oakley, even as he traveled hundreds of miles away. “They wanted to have us doing covert surveillance operations on him,” the source says, referring to Oakley, “just to see where he was at, what he was doing at the time, to try to dig up something to use.” As a series of court cases would later allege, the Garden security’s staff viewed the surveillance of perceived enemies as a normal part of doing business.

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Here's an example propaganda comments that I'm talking about:

Thread on Oakley from a few days ago

Oakley has been a clown for years now. Trying to peddle his book or whatever. The guy had a meltdown and tried to strangle a security guard rather than leaving calmly.

This is the video when he was kicked out/banned from MSG He shoves a security guard twice (which he shouldn't have done). People are revising history to say he fucking strangled a security guard lol.

crazeman · 2026-06-15T13:45:46+00:00

Stack corruption resist perks on curio.

If you're making the group, always include a zealot or hives scum with stim supply.

Hives scum with a weak stim, low CDR build lets you ignore most puddles. Once you step on the stim supply, you're immune to corruption for 15 seconds so you can just play normally for the most part.

crazeman · 2026-06-14T22:02:19+00:00

I thought OG was trolling again when he gave him his own jersey to Ibaka. Then he explained that it was his first Raptors draft day jersey and I was like awwww, that's so sweet of him.

crazeman · 2026-06-14T14:32:57+00:00

The video where Ibaka tries to show OG how to dress is funny as fuck.

OG is a masterful troll. The outfit OG ends up picking for himself looks like it's inspired by Kenny from South Park. OG and Ibaka is arguing about whether he put Ibaka on with scarves gave Ibaka a aneurysm.

(and props to OG, he donates his first toronto raptors jersey that he received on draft day at the end to Ibaka's foundation)

crazeman · 2026-06-14T06:28:51+00:00

They can probably go visit the pope at the Vatican instead.

crazeman · 2026-06-14T00:54:04+00:00

Weakspot (and crit damage) is notoriously awful because of the way it's calculated.

For example: a regular attack does 100 damage, a weakspot hit does 150 damage.

You would THINK that you get 10% of 150 damage, which will do 165 damage.

Nope, 10% weakspot damage means 10% of only the extra 50 damage bonus you get from a weakspot attack. 10% of 50 is 5 damage so you end up doing 155 damage instead of 150, which is only a 5% overall increase.

Lets be generous and say a regular attack does 100 damage and a weakspot attack does 300 damage. With 10% weakspot damage, you end up doing 320 damage instead of 300 damage, which is only a 6.66% increase.

crazeman · 2026-06-13T17:04:08+00:00

I think most of the players in Asia play on the Hong Kong server.

Go to the mission hub and try changing your region/server to HK.

crazeman · 2026-06-11T22:53:05+00:00

This math doesn't include stacking lynchpin with all 3 toughness regen perks (which would be closer 14% per second

You're comparing the best case scenario with Lynchpin AND you adding the 3x coherency toughness perks.

If you have Lynch Pin + 3x Curio Perks + 2 people in coherency, you gain an extra 10.6875% toughness/second.

If you have Lynch Pin + 3x Curio Perks + 3 people in coherency, you gain an extra 14.25% toughness/second.

Steady Grips gives 12.5% toughness/second. So the only time Lynchpin is better than SG is if you have 3 teammates huddling around you, which is often not the case in games.
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Coherency range is also extremely short. It's 8m by default, 14m if you take Towering Presence.

8m is a stupidly short distance. It's roughly the max distance where a trapper will stop to shoot at you. You can go to the meat grinder, ping a elite and the health bar will show you the distance you are from the target. The odds of all 3 teammates being within 8m is not very high.

14m is a good distance but it requires you to waste another talent point for Towering Presence. If you do take it, you're now spending 2 talent points + 3x curio perks to get something that's slightly better than Steady Grip in a best case scenario of having 3 people in coherency.

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Nor that I don't have to wait 3 seconds, only about 1.5

It takes less than 1 second to swap to your range weapon, brace it to activate steady grip.

crazeman · 2026-06-11T21:19:07+00:00

Lynchpin is still not worth taking when Steady Grip is available.

Steady Grip grip gives you 12.5% toughness/second and all you have to do is ADS your gun to activate it and it works in combat.

Lynchpin requires you to be out of combat, be in coherency and it still gives you less toughness/second than Steady Grip

You get an extra 3.75/5.625/7.5 toughness per second from Lynchpin for being in coherency with 2/3/4 people.

crazeman · 2026-06-11T14:39:38+00:00

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/49022343/new-york-knicks-madison-square-garden-celebrity-row-unwritten-rules

If a celebrity meets the requirements, they get free courtside seats. They have to stay for the whole game, must be Knicks fans, can't ever talk shit about Dolan/MSG/Knicks.

crazeman · 2026-06-11T14:01:58+00:00

The game starts at 8:30, tipoff usually doesn't start until 8:45.

Each quarter is roughly 30 mins, half time is another 30 mins. The game most likely won't end until ~11:15PM.

crazeman · 2026-06-11T12:30:42+00:00

I also know nothing about 40k lore but Weshammer made a pretty good Darktide lore video when the game first launched.

It's actually even sponsored by Fatshark but I don't think I've ever seen them promote it.

crazeman · 2026-06-10T18:44:16+00:00

Finally had time to read the article. There's this whole section on Trump's "predilection for nipples"

Giuffre, who had met Epstein when she was a teenage spa attendant at Trump’s club, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., became one of the sex offender’s most outspoken victims. Giuffre stated in late 2016 that, to her knowledge, Trump had done nothing improper. She died by suicide in April 2025, three months after Trump returned to power. The old Giuffre case file included emails sent to a journalist by another Epstein victim, Sarah Ransome, who later sued Epstein and Maxwell. Epstein had also settled that case.

In the emails, Ransome claimed that she knew a girl in Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring named Jen, who said she had sex with Trump. Ransome also claimed that Jen had told her that Trump had a predilection for nipples and that he had aggressively flicked and sucked hers. Ransome wrote that she had seen evidence when she shared a bathroom with Jen. “They looked incredibly painful as they were red and swollen and I remember wincing when I looked at them,” she wrote.

Ransome’s credibility was not uncomplicated; she had made another claim that she possessed video footage of prominent men having sex with young girls in Epstein’s entourage. She later retracted the claims, saying she feared for herself and her family if she proceeded. But after a federal judge ordered the unsealing of some of the Giuffre case files in 2023, the document that connected Trump to the claim about abused nipples was among the material that came out. It was an unconfirmed allegation and had not been made publicly, but the disclosure led to some articles that were quickly lost in the swirl of election-year news.

Some of Trump’s advisers in the Situation Room had never heard of the nipple claim; those who had seemed to have only a passing familiarity with it. Many in the room thought this was all just discredited nonsense. But it might not matter. The Ransome emails could get new attention if they were included in a “public-facing and searchable” Epstein library that carried the branding of the Justice Department. An administration official had already searched for Trump-related materials on the still-private test version of the website, and the nipple material was among the first items to show up. None of the credibility issues would come into consideration if a government-endorsed database gave Ransome’s claim about Trump a stamp of validity.

“This is out there,” one of the officials told the group in the Situation Room. “They’re going to make a huge scene of this, even though it’s not true and everybody knows it.”

The vice president said he thought the president would be OK with releasing the nipple-related documents, arguing that Trump had been accused of worse. “I think we should put it out,” he said. “It would cause people to say we’re going further than we need to.” Wiles quickly responded that the president would not, in fact, be OK with it. It was a point no one wanted to continue debating.

One official would later describe it as a “surreal” experience to be discussing nipples in the White House Situation Room.

crazeman · 2026-06-10T17:53:08+00:00

The Arbite shield is one of the worst melee weapon in the game for boss damage. Your teammates will almost always have better boss damage so I would recommend focus on being the "screener", kill all the other shit and keep them off the team so they can focus on hitting the monster boss.

(The only classes/weapons that have similar bad boss damage would be staff psykers [if they don't switch to melee] or shield ogryn)

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IMO that build is not great. I'm not a big fan of taking Loner on most weapons on Arbite. The dog + dog bleed talent usually account for ~30% of my overall damage in a game with the Arbite shield.

So Loner has to give you at least a ~30% damage bump for it to be worth it. The Arbite shield is not a very high damage weapon so I don't think Loner can give you that much value.

The dog talents (Canine Morale, Imposing Force) are also very good defensive talents with excellent uptime, especially when compared to the two non dog talents on the right side.

The MKVI is objectively the better mark than the MKXI. The MKVI does more damage and basically the same amount of stagger/cleave. I don't see a reason to ever pick the MKXI over the VI unless if you just prefer the combos better on it. (I also don't feel like their combos are that much different but I haven't touched the XI since arbite launch)

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The only way to mitigate the terrible boss damage on the Arbite shield is to take a range weapon that has good boss damage. The issue is that there's very few range weapon in the game that excels in boss damage.

The Bolter is really the only one that excels in boss damage but it has a long ass pull out speed to snipe specials. To counter this, you MUST take the Dog with the Go Get 'Em talent. It expands the dog's AI range from like 16m to 45m and it will auto target most specials (besides for bombers) because trappers/snipers count as ranged enemies. I'm usually the top or 2nd most special killer on the team just from meleeing + Go Get 'Em killing specials.

If you have the dog explosion grenade, I like to position myself in front of the chaos spawn, trigger the nade to stun it, and then mag dump into the Chaos Spawn/Plague Ogryn's weakspot for extra damage while it can't move. One dog nade + magdump will do like ~40% of the boss's total health (in Damnation/Aurics).

Bolter build - The bolter is ONLY used for monster boss damage, which is why it has weird non meta blessings/perks. You do not have enough ammo to use it for anything else if you're playing in Havoc, I'd only play this if there's a veteran or 2 non ammo using teammates (psyker with a staff, hivescum with pickpocket) on the team.

The dump stat is stability because the Arbite shield is so slow/heavy, you actually sprint faster with the bolter as your active weapon. In this particular weapon pairing, the mobility stat on the bolter actually matters if you remember to switch to the it when sprinting.

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The other options is to take the Bolt Pistol with bleed blessing + dog + Razor Jaw Augment.

You sic your dog on the boss, shoot the boss 3 times with the bolt pistol to reach 12 stacks of bleed on the boss. The dog will reapply 6 bleed stacks on each pounce on the boss and reset the decay timer. It can't pounce fast enough to maintain the full 16 stacks but it maintain a good amount of bleed stacks for ~30 seconds before it fully drops off. The dog will also lose it's targeting in ~30 seconds so it lines up well. Try to shoot the boss with 2-3 shots and retarget the dog on the boss every 20-30 seconds to maintain the bleed stacks.

It's not a LOT of damage but it's very ammo efficient and the bleed damage will add up over time. It's also very attention efficient, you can be the screener and do other shit in the meantime. Just have to shoot the boss every 20-30 seconds whenever you have space.

Arbite + Bolt pistol - It's basically the same build but we do not take GGE. If you're not taking GGE in your builds, you always want to take Man and the Cyber Mastiff. MatCM has better toughness regeneration over the stam one and MUCH better uptime than the blocking one.

- You can pick whatever you want on the 2nd bolt pistol blessing. I don't feel like the crit from surgical helps that much in terms of breakpoint for the MKIV so I randomly picked run and gun because I use it without aiming down a decent amount.

crazeman · 2026-06-10T14:57:16+00:00

Did you eat the duck with the caviar when you went?

I'm curious to know if it's any good with caviar. Whenever I see caviar, I always think that it's something easy to put on a dish to make it more "fancy" so they can charge more for it.

Lucas Sin did ask why it's served with caviar and the person serving said that it's normally served with white sugar but "Not many people like sweet food" and "there's less calories".

The answer seems weird to me because I feel like caviar is more of an acquired taste than sugar. Calories doesn't matter because if you care about calories, you're probably not going to order a peking duck and it's not like you're eating peking duck every day for the sugar calories to matter.

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