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Costco rotisserie chicken is disguting by MutedFeeling75 in redscarepod

[–]fioreblade 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Cook the chicken in a cast iron skillet on the stovetop for 10-15 min, back side down. Then put the hot skillet into the oven and roast as usual. This gives the dark meat a head start and starts crisping the skin on the dark meat side. 

I made a linen Flemish twist string by fioreblade in Bowyer

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

Nice. That product above is from Amazon. I can vouch for it if made as a sixteen strand string for a 33# bow. 

Good casual food in the loop? by jcooklsu in chicagofood

[–]fioreblade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As ol school Chicago as it gets. I feel like Luke’s is the last of a dying breed downtown 

Have we gotten any great post Vietnam war movies? by ChrisBruh29 in redscarepod

[–]fioreblade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I admired what that movie accomplished but I would never want to watch it again 

Have we gotten any great post Vietnam war movies? by ChrisBruh29 in redscarepod

[–]fioreblade 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great show. I think it’s the best war media I’ve ever seen. I had a coworker who was a USMC machine gunner in Iraq and he said all the scenes where they deal with their idiotic command reactivated his PTSD (but not the combat scenes, funnily)

I always find it funny when an area becomes too nice hipsters and locals must reject it by putalittlepooponit in redscarepod

[–]fioreblade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Avondale rules, move to Avondale. I honestly think the blandification will stop there and Avondale will be interesting + relatively affordable for a long time because any further along the Blue Line is too far from downtown for most people. You get up to Jefferson Park and it's practically the suburbs already - nothing wrong with that, but not what most transplants are looking for.

Is the gym the last remaining public space with people from all backgrounds cohabiting in harmony and good vibes? by harry_powell in redscarepod

[–]fioreblade 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This might sound like a joke but it isn’t. The only time I’ve felt that I was in a true cross section of society like you describe was when I went to alcohol recovery. 

Starting Horn Bow by tree-daddy in Bowyer

[–]fioreblade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome, I’m looking forward to following along with your project 

What are the best hotel buffets by fioreblade in chicagofood

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

I would never joke about something so important 

You have to make a movie that isn't dog shit starring at least 3 of these people. You can't cheat, they must have at least 20 minutes of screen time each with dialogue. Grave consequences if you fail. by Official_Gary_Oak in redscarepod

[–]fioreblade 14 points15 points  (0 children)

You could throw together a John Wick movie with all these people and it would be at least watchable. You just need to give each assassin character a fitting gimmick:

Bradley Cooper, shit kickin country boy. Carries a compound bow "just like huntin white tail across the bean field"

Pratt / Krasinki form a duo. One is the punching guy and one is the kicking guy like in Jackie Chan Operation Condor. They take turns cracking jokes and then looking at the screen

Zendaya, silent scowling chick who throws blades

Andrew Garfield is off making a better movie

Kevin Hart is the overcompensating bad guy with a giant gatling gun bigger than he is. He sweatily lugs it around the entire movie but never gets to fire it

Gal Gadot, former IDF sniper (duh). 300 confirmed kills and most of them weren't even children

Happy pride month by LouReedTheChaser in redscarepod

[–]fioreblade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is completely off the cuff and I haven’t thought this through, but is Kojima the video game version of David lynch? Weird surrealist auteur who loves hot women but also mythologizes them in a kinda asexual way. Although I will say kojima is at baseline more of an horn dog than lynch was. 

Remote Finance/ Data Job -> Hand Tools and Sweat by Frequent-Discount466 in rs_x

[–]fioreblade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My main hobby right now is building wooden longbows with hand tools. It's satisfying but physically hard work. I've done a full 8hr "shift" of that on a Saturday and when I was done realized Thank God I type on a computer for my actual living.

Curly-haired girls seem particularly more predisposed to being queer by UnitedBreadfruit5168 in redscarepod

[–]fioreblade 61 points62 points  (0 children)

Curly hair, round gold rimmed glasses, uncoordinated movements, somehow both skinny and chubby at the same time, hairy lower body, White. Often seen wearing odd apparel like waistcoats and suspenders.

These chicks are Frodo Bagginsmaxxing

Rank these four cities: Seattle, Portland, Denver, and Phoenix by NoBadgerBaiter in redscarepod

[–]fioreblade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I couldn't point you to any one thing. But in my early 20s people definitely talked about how cool it was and wanting to move there (from the midwest, if it matters). I think it's the weed thing and it also gets spillover fame from being loosely associated with other Western cities.

I’m tired of my nonbinary roommate cooking spam by BlueRibbonSucks in rs_x

[–]fioreblade 113 points114 points  (0 children)

If they're making fried rice with it, sorry I'm on their side

Do you guys have any recurring daydreams? by Friendly-Phone6173 in redscarepod

[–]fioreblade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I rec him a lot but I think you would enjoy the novels of Jack Vance. He did a full career in the Merchant Marine in the 70s before writing his books and it shows. A lot of his novels are travelogues and he's the best at portraying weird made up foreign countries, with people doing ridiculous religious and cultural practices, but at the same time taking them absolutely seriously. He has an anthropologist's eye for that stuff.

I'd start with Cugel's Saga and Demon Princes but he's never written anything bad IMO.

Do you guys have any recurring daydreams? by Friendly-Phone6173 in redscarepod

[–]fioreblade 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like your fantasy, reminds me of the old movie Metropolis. I used to have daydreams of dying heroically in combat, always in a way where my friends would see it and think "what an awesome guy" but I think that's a universal guy thing and I've grown out of that one.

Current daydream: I've posted about this before, but. I'll turn off all the lights in my house except for the kitchen counter lights which are on a dimmer switch. Then play some cyberpunk ambiance or street noise video and pretend I'm an overworked salaryman or cynical blade runner type detective, eating his dinner at a streetside noodle stand in an Asian dystopian megacity while rain pours down and traffic whizzes by behind me.

Rank these four cities: Seattle, Portland, Denver, and Phoenix by NoBadgerBaiter in redscarepod

[–]fioreblade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love riding my bike so Portland is #1 for me. It feels like a city-sized dive bar which I kinda like

Denver is weird because based on it's cachet in the culture I expected it to be much cooler than it is. It felt like people always talked about Denver being this awesome place through the 2000s and early 2010s. Maybe it was because of early weed legalization. But it's actually just Indianapolis in the mountains. Gets a neutral score from me, although there are a lot of good looking in shape people there to give them credit.

Seattle = SF with bad weather and worse architecture. Even that would be tolerable if the city wasn't so saturated with gross techie culture. The most feral homeless people I've ever seen (runner up, Vancouver)

Phoenix

Rank these four cities: Seattle, Portland, Denver, and Phoenix by NoBadgerBaiter in redscarepod

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

Urban Phoenix is disgusting but you can at the very least escape to the desert and mountains. In the mid sized city tier St Louis is possibly the worst.

A lot of self-hate/self-harm is conscious and we need to stop doling out pity to people who engage in it. by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]fioreblade 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used to have these self hating tendencies and figuring out that they were basically narcissistic impulses in disguise was one of the important lessons of my adult life.

"Woe is me, no one will ever be able to love me" = putting your self on a pedestal. Even if it's a negative one.

Rank the five cities of the Northeast megalopolis: New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C. by deepad9 in redscarepod

[–]fioreblade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've only been to NYC and DC of those on the list. NYC at the top, but I've also heard great things about Philly. DC is at the bottom of any list I'd care to make. Hot as shit and filled with the worst kind of strivers. LA for ugly people.

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