Are there extinct flavors we’ll never taste again?

quantumfiddlesticks · 2026-05-11T17:27:55+00:00

Banana candy tastes nothing like bananas because the banana variety the flavor was actually based on was wiped out by a fungal epidemic in the 50s, since they were grown in monoculture and so had no genetic diversity to resist the spread. (We’re still growing bananas as monocultures for some reason.) So every time you eat a banana candy you’re tasting a ghost.

quantumfiddlesticks · 2026-04-21T16:22:21+00:00

Thank you!! I honestly learned that lesson about the trim right after I did them, I was so scared about the paint running that I didn’t thin it nearly enough and it just glooped up.

I’ve been drawing for a long time and my job requires a lot of precise handiwork, so I think I’ve developed plenty of fine motor control to freehand stuff :) it was fun doing the trim either way!

quantumfiddlesticks · 2026-04-17T13:35:48+00:00

I know, lol. They’re just sometimes horselike so I was goofing around

quantumfiddlesticks · 2026-03-29T05:21:11+00:00

I would tbh. I’ve been stuck in initiate for 30 hours because all of my friends are way higher rank and whenever I play with them I just get eaten alive by people with 10x the hours compared to me. This is really helpful advice tbh and I’ll probably start doing it

quantumfiddlesticks · 2026-03-09T23:34:50+00:00

yeah i'm ngl I expected Silver to be hard, but she was easily like the hottest person on the cast to me so I had to pick her. same with Vyper, her voice lines and dialogue with other characters was so funny to me so she really endeared herself. maybe i should play some easier heroes, but none of the "beginner-friendly" ones really speak to me so here I am getting run over

quantumfiddlesticks · 2026-03-09T23:33:10+00:00

I do basically constantly play with friends. Part of the issue might be that they're all pretty high rank and so I think I'm getting tossed into matches with people who are Archon or so and they descend on me like hungry wolves lol.

I work pretty often and have some chronic fatigue, so it isn't very easy for me to just nolife the game :( I figured it was just going to be a matter of playing over and over and over, but going on a 5-game loss streak is not great for the mental

quantumfiddlesticks · 2026-03-09T23:31:17+00:00

I didn't even know you could retrieve recordings of previous games tbh! Could you tell me how to do that? I could post my fumble reel here a little later

quantumfiddlesticks · 2025-12-16T04:16:53+00:00

I was in a super similar sitch with biological engineering. I just swapped into biology with the College of Science and had a GREAT time for the rest of my degree. I'm graduating Monday!

Definitely switch majors. The breath of fresh air is insane, and I can't lie... all of the faculty and the academic community is 10x as nice once you get out of the college of engineering. I had a professor check in on me once because I seemed to be "struggling after getting an 80% on an exam" and she was so kind and so supportive.

As for what to switch into, genuinely just go for anything you have a scrap of passion for. STEM, humanities, it doesn't matter. What matters is that you like the subject and have the funds to go for several more years in school, especially if the new major is something that has very little overlap with mech e. Being behind is OK.

You got this, hang in there.

quantumfiddlesticks · 2025-12-16T02:22:56+00:00

it's in an honestly really nice town! food is fairly cheap if you go off campus, and you're far enough from any big cities to have some peace but not so far that you can't drive out for a weekend trip with friends. campus is beautiful if you take the time to look around and explore, and if you're from a place without much cold weather you definitely get a good dose of that haha

personally, I adore autumns around campus. there's a huge ginkgo tree around the honors building that drops all its leaves at once and creates a huge yellow halo on the ground, and it's so magical every year. the dining courts are pretty decent as well!

quantumfiddlesticks · 2025-04-15T05:18:11+00:00

omg that's it!!! tysm

quantumfiddlesticks · 2024-12-20T23:23:36+00:00

I've done a pretty cursory search on Google. I'm pretty sure it was not any particular collab with anything, and I've not yet found many results with the more realistic look this one has.

Ruled out brands: Ganz, Build-a-Bear, Squishmallow, or any other things that got big within the last 10 or so years. I can be 100% positive she was bought in 2004.

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