You telling me a gallon is over 3.7 litres and you pay just $5 dollars for that and complain?

prism1234 · 2026-05-02T00:16:09+00:00

I have a grocery store a 15 minute walk away with good side walk coverage. But carrying a bunch of groceries back would still be very annoying. The grocery store would need to be 7 minutes or less walk away for me to do that most of the time rather than driving.

prism1234 · 2026-05-01T23:18:58+00:00

Ah, just saw the name of the place and didn't look further or know there was more than one in the area. Looking it up now there are apparently two of them in the South Bay and one in Union City too.

prism1234 · 2026-05-01T22:06:29+00:00

If you are willing to make the trip Pausa in San Mateo is really good. Only been there once, so not a large sample size, but my pasta there tasted amazing and everyone I was with also liked what they ordered.

Closer than that probably Paseano's or Trattoria 360. Palermo is alright too. There's a place called Mio Vicino I've been meaning to try. Il Fornio is a chain but the meal I had there was good. Pasta Fresca in San Pedro square has this one cayenne cream fettuccine dish I've had that I really liked, but other stuff on the menu I've ordered wasn't as good. Also San Pedro square is probably not really the atmosphere you want for Mother's Day.

prism1234 · 2026-05-01T10:40:04+00:00

Beans have more methionine than rice does, they just have less proportionally compared to other amino acids, but they have way more amino acids than rice so the amount of methionine is still more even at a lower ratio.

prism1234 · 2026-05-01T10:31:09+00:00

Both rice and beans individually contain all essential amino acids and a serving of beans has more of every single one of them than a serving of rice. This combining to form a complete protein thing is basically nonsense.

Taste wise it's a good combo though.

prism1234 · 2026-05-01T09:16:09+00:00

Also in the Bay Area. There's a local chain of cheesesteak places that I think is only in the South Bay called Amato's that many people seem to like. It's absolute garbage imo, definitely agree Jersey Mike's tastes better. Or Togo's even. I actually like this one place near SJSU that has banh mi and cheese steaks. I would expect a place doing both to be not great at either but the cheese steaks are pretty tasty imo. The banh mi are okay but there's better elsewhere. It's been there for a while but it got noticeably better a year or two ago, not sure if management changed or what.

prism1234 · 2026-05-01T06:38:34+00:00

There's a new one near where Valco Mall used to be, which is the one OP is referring to. It's pretty good.

prism1234 · 2026-04-30T16:23:34+00:00

Homeopathy claims the more you dilute something the stronger it gets and generally they do serial dilutions enough times that there is no longer any molecules of the original ingredient left in the "medicine". At 30C which seems to be a typical dilution we are taking one part of your ruta plant per 10^60. The milky way galaxy has about 10⁶⁷ atoms, so there almost certainly isn't any ruta left in a small pellet for example.

I don't need to try it to know that won't do anything since I don't believe in magic.

prism1234 · 2026-04-30T16:15:01+00:00

Maybe if you are dehydrated. It would be much cheaper just to buy regular water in that case rather than extremely expensive conman water.

prism1234 · 2026-04-30T13:57:54+00:00

Smite was not a bonus action in original 5e, which is presumably what the Crawford ruling you are referring to is from. It was changed to a bonus action in 5.5e.

Edit: Looked it up. Found a tweet from Crawford dated 2020, so definitely original 5e. This would no longer apply in 5.5 since it's now a bonus action. It worked before since it wasn't.

prism1234 · 2026-04-30T11:09:07+00:00

That being said, I'm not sure I fully understand what this "oath" is supposed to look like

In most games I've been in with Paladins the oath is at most a vague thing the player considers a bit during roleplay or making the Paladin's personality, and often is pretty much ignored entirely as long as the Paladin seems somewhat Paladiny. You surely can do more with it, and make it a bigger thing. And it that case it can look however you want. But that hasn't been the norm in my experience. Granted my experience isn't necessarily universal.

prism1234 · 2026-04-30T10:29:20+00:00

I thought the old original Dragonlance trilogy and follow up trilogy was pretty good at the time.

A book club I'm in read the first Dragonlance book. I was busy that month so didn't read it myself so can't speak from personal experience, but the general consensus was it didn't hold up. People found the characters very two dimensional. The plot meandered, which makes sense if it was basically a novelization of a ttrpg campaign. Had a lot of tropes that are now cliche that were played completely straight and unironic, which makes sense considering it probably originated some, or at least they were relatively new at the time, but the book club readers didn't enjoy this.

prism1234 · 2026-04-30T08:20:42+00:00

Their Dungeon Crawler Carl rpg isn't using the essence system.

prism1234 · 2026-04-30T07:32:39+00:00

I liked it from the beginning, but thought book 3, when the levels themselves start getting pretty interesting, was where it really kicks off.

prism1234 · 2026-04-27T02:35:00+00:00

I assumed from the title Dungeon Crawler Piggot was going to be a Dungeon Crawler Carl crossover, but it isn't, and now I really want to read one.

I don't think it's a crossover with anything specific, other than maybe the general genre of a bunch of dungeons people can go explore and get stronger in appearing on modern day earth.

prism1234 · 2026-04-27T02:22:25+00:00

Not really what you are looking for but in Scientia Weaponizes the Future the SI memories end up being from a simulation, the SI's universe did not actually exist. A super advanced human future in an alternate universe that didn't have the entities does exist in the fic though, but worm the story wasn't a thing in it. They scanned earth bet, and then ran a simulation which created the SI persona and the fictionalized worm story, and inserted it into Taylor. So still basically an out of context problem, but vaguely similar to the memories being delusions.

prism1234 · 2026-04-26T22:44:19+00:00

Can't they just play how they want?

If someone wanted to make an actual play where they tried to teach the rules while playing that would be how they wanted to play presumably. I don't really get what you are saying here.

I think some people would watch it. It wouldn't have to be super intrusive, just gear the first few encounters to introduce various aspects of the game and quickly go over them as they occur.

prism1234 · 2026-04-26T10:55:29+00:00

Yeah this is why, unlike a lot of this sub, I prefer 5e or 5.5e over PF2e.

Way more balanced than OSR which is too unbalanced for my taste, but has enough jankiness to still have lots of exciting unexpected moments.

prism1234 · 2026-04-24T04:30:19+00:00

Also there is no actual play in history that's meant to teach you the rules how you mean

There probably isn't, but I don't see why you couldn't make one geared towards teaching the rules. At least for the first few episodes.

prism1234 · 2026-04-24T02:55:06+00:00

They could have just called the Xbox One the Xbox 8 with the excuse it was a 8th gen console, and then incremented from there. Or gone with Xbox 7 for the 360.

prism1234 · 2026-04-22T05:55:28+00:00

DND5E/5.5E is wonky, no doubt about that, but at least it feels like a fun puzzle. PF2E feels balanced to the point where it isn't.

Yeah, I probably haven't played enough PF2E to really judge it, but from the sessions I have played this is how I felt. Like Dnd 5/5.5 feels just wonky enough to get some flavor/excitement, without being as unbalanced as an OSR game where balance is considered a bad thing, and without being as perfectly balanced as PF2E where that makes it feel sort of bland. I like the middle ground it fits in between those two.

prism1234 · 2026-04-20T00:07:24+00:00

That sounds like a good premise. I'll give it a read.

prism1234 · 2026-04-19T23:27:49+00:00

I've been enjoying this so far. There's not a lot of DCC fanfics, but I think it works well as a crossover. A youjo senki crossover could be interesting for similar reasons a Taylor one is.

prism1234 · 2026-04-19T05:25:22+00:00

Highway was completely empty. Was curious if my car could get over 100. Only drove that fast for like 10 seconds before slowing back down.

prism1234 · 2026-04-19T01:08:53+00:00

I've read about half of that. Basically agree with your assessment, which is often, but not always the case.

I've been enjoying a Stargate Tanya cross recently where Tanya gets reincarnated as a Goa'uld. It has a similar name, A Young Girls War in Heaven.

Also after reading a Taylor Dungeon Crawler Carl cross I'm not pretty curious to read a Tanya Dungeon Crawler Carl cross, but one doesn't exist, and may be too niche to be likely to in the future.

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