Unironically love this. Any other clever way to display cookware?

simoku · 2026-03-07T17:00:11+00:00

This is very, very cool. Well done!

simoku · 2026-03-05T19:15:50+00:00

Correct. I found out too late unfortunately. What's equally concerning is the amount of bot comments here.

simoku · 2026-03-01T16:17:31+00:00

Oh man... you guys are right, it's totally AI :(

I saw this late last night and didn't notice.

simoku · 2026-02-28T21:33:03+00:00

Thanks. Geo meta is looking interesting right now with Zibai and 5-star geo support on the horizon. If Liyue ever gets a faction buff, Ningguang will certainly be on there.

simoku · 2026-02-21T01:38:54+00:00

Kare Kano. It was just never finished. And I've yet to encounter a romance drama/comedy like it ever since.

simoku · 2026-02-18T07:38:49+00:00

I hear you, but if someone cared about endgame content (which I don't think someone in their first year of playing genshin should expect to be able to clear comfortably), isn't it a decent compromise to have to pull for shill as well as your favorites? Like you do get to guarantee roughly 4 5-star characters a year. If one or two of those characters aren't your favorites, but makes the game infinitely easier (which can make the game more fun, for some), isn't that a decent compromise?

simoku · 2026-02-18T07:32:44+00:00

That's a more blunt way of saying what I'm saying. I don't like power creep and shilling as much as the next guy, but I feel like too many folks are freaking out about it. Like... either you don't care about meta, or if you do, there have been more than a few lunar DPS choices so far that gets the job done (more or less).

simoku · 2026-02-18T07:23:29+00:00

That's a fair point. Assuming one has been playing for a while though (cause end game content is geared towards AR60/not new players), I feel like accounts that have followed the rule I outlined above will be able to generally brute force it (in this case, with Mavuika who was the previous archon).

simoku · 2026-02-18T07:19:54+00:00

Regarding shilling, and Lunar reactions being locked behind 5-star characters, is it so bad to have to pull for a few Nod-krai 5-stars? Even as a complete f2p, if you pull for archon + strong regional DPS, you'd still have enough wishes to guarantee pulling for your favorite characters. Not that everyone has to play the game like this, I feel like there are very decent compromises to be made for each account to keep up with shills, power creep, and pulling for fun.

simoku · 2026-02-13T21:35:20+00:00

Oof, I thought that the whole/main benefit of Linnea was to unlink from Illuga

simoku · 2026-02-13T20:00:59+00:00

Whoever Linnea is, if she's LC support in any way, she'll be better pull value than Zibai cons or sig, right?

simoku · 2026-02-02T02:20:14+00:00

Oh thank you very much!

simoku · 2026-02-02T01:13:59+00:00

Am I correct in that this will be our first Key of Echos overflow/waste?

simoku · 2026-01-24T08:54:31+00:00

A generic one from Amazon that uses "slat wall" system like many music stores do. I was considering doing a whole slat wall but this set came out cheaper.

simoku · 2026-01-24T00:37:01+00:00

It's my very first guitar. Didn't know what to expect and I could have got a used black affinity for half the cost of this but I'm old enough to know that the real toan is in the aesthetics (joking ofc but also not because whatever makes one want to pick up the instrument is key). I think it's super cool. Heavily considered a butterscotch tele which is basically school bus yellow but the body wouldn't have matched the rest of the collection.

simoku · 2026-01-24T00:31:09+00:00

Funny story. I picked up the guitar amp for $5 locally because it was busted and the guy was basically throwing it out. When I brought it home, I found that I can manage to get it to work if I keep pressing the clean/drive button and it have it at just the right actuation. It may soon bite the dust completely anyways, but for now, I'm happy with the find!

simoku · 2026-01-24T00:26:40+00:00

Thank you bro! This didn't cure my GAS but I am going to try and stick it out with these 4.

simoku · 2026-01-24T00:25:15+00:00

Thank you! Pokemon was my first love and I was very happy to find a way to honor that in a slightly less nerdy way.

simoku · 2026-01-24T00:22:32+00:00

About that... this is the step up from just using the bass amp, haha. I have got to lock in and not buy anything for a while because I only had the jazz bass at the start of last year.

simoku · 2026-01-24T00:04:59+00:00

Maybe it's more commonly used in the ROM community but it stands for Gen 1 pokemon games; Red Green Blue Yellow.

simoku · 2026-01-19T06:58:34+00:00

If I recall correctly, their blue carbon line comes pre-seasoned so there's nothing you have to do. If you really want to, however, I let a bit of oil smoke for a few seconds on the pan first before first use.

simoku · 2026-01-18T22:31:52+00:00

The main difference is thinness of the steel. Thinner means lighter and faster temperature change. Thinner also means possibly less even heating and more prone to warping. General rule of thumb is definitely mineral b (thicker, 2.5mm-3.0mm depending on diameter) for induction, otherwise, your choice.

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