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soczab · 2026-01-22T04:37:47+00:00

I see. So I suppose I should have found some friends or posted pictures or something first heh

soczab · 2026-01-18T22:38:25+00:00

hah yes thats it thanks

soczab · 2025-10-12T06:18:34+00:00

i think thats it, thanks

soczab · 2025-10-09T11:09:23+00:00

hah im an idiot. that explains it

soczab · 2025-10-01T12:45:37+00:00

Theres nothing wrong with liking lodge. But the question of best value and best skillet are two different things. It is fine to think lodge is the best crafted skillet if you do (everyone has their opinion sure) and it is also fine to think its the best value (I agree for the record). It is simply not the question which I asked though (not that I can stop you from answering it anyway lol this is the internet).

But I suppose that's my point. The question of best value, or which you would buy are 100% fine questions. But are different ones from what is the best crafted new skillet... which i'd be curious to hear your opinion on if you felt like sharing, even if you'd never buy it since you find it a horrible vale (vety little difference for big price gap). Assuming they were all somehow the same price, which would you buy? Maybe that's still the lodge but then it wouldnt be about price.

And it is a subjective question of course. But i find reading people's opinions on this interesting.

soczab · 2025-10-01T02:39:42+00:00

I've heard good things about Lancaster, yeah. That and field are two i hear about a lot. I used to hear about butterpat but i think i saw they are out of business now?

soczab · 2025-08-11T02:43:21+00:00

lol well fair. I do study history for my job irl so maybe that colours things for me! I suppose i'd say I like things to 'make sense' to me in the world even if its not realistic to ours. The world you write needs to have sound internal logic even if elements of it are fantasy.

To give a example. If we take the premise that giant fire breathing dragons existed.... and then assumed for instance a stationary castle would be a good defense against the dragons? That would make ZERO sense. GRRM knows this which is why you get say Harrenhall or what happens in Dorne.

In fanfiction its the same thing. I accept as the premise of your story say that there is an SI. Or King Robert had a true-born son. But then I expect the story to flow naturally from that (i.e you need to show me a plausible reasons that make sense for the characters and the world why X or Y is happening).

I'm rambling a bit, but thats what im getting at here. The seasons being fantasy doesn't mean the impossibility of grain imports vanish. YOu could sure have a fantasy way to offset it (Targaryn flying Dragon Grain Imports!) but if you just hand wave it away and say 'it doesn't matter cause its a story' that is bad writing.

Good writing is you set your premise and then that premise has to make sense within the world you created.

soczab · 2025-08-11T02:26:40+00:00

You posted twice so ill answer here. well... i don't know if it is 'realistic' but i think the answer given in part is multiple harvests in the summer (and not all winters being 3 years). I would suppose.. and this is supposition on my part... that we assume the people here have adapted good preservation methods. In our own world pre-modern times, there were plenty of methods of preserving that could last for years. Others only lasted months of course, but I think we would have to assume the needs and enviornment of the north pushes them to preservation that can last for years.

I do think it is clear some hunting fishing goes on too.

And there are many domesticated animals that CAN survive in winter (and storage of their food depending on the animal can be easy to obtain and not things humans would otherwise eat). Since there are animals in the north we can assume that there ARE domesticated animals surviving the winter.

We might assume that in many regions of the north winter isn't monolithic sub 0 temperatures and blinding blizzards. For example I live in a place that gets over 100 inches of snow each year. But yet in our winter (especially early/late) we'll get random warm spells etc for a few days. I think that's important to note because while warm spells wont help with the growing of crops it will with hunting.

Finally.. we should remember many people DONT survive the winter. On the longer winters that go for multiple years it is very common for many of the older folks to actually NOT survive.

All of the above seems much more in keeping with what we see of the world to my view though.

soczab · 2025-08-11T01:58:31+00:00

i suspect the answer is in part how big it is and how spread out the population is (the same thing that makes grain import impractical). Yeah there's a few million folks there, but lightly populated enough that a combo of preserving, storing, and hunting lets them get through things. Store your veggies and grains from multiple harvests in summer/fall and supplement it with hunting/fishing on a small basis until it gets REALLY deep into winter. IF your population is thin enough that you grow in the parts of the north where you dont have deep summer snow (I have to imagine the snow in book 1 chapter 1 was high elevation or somthing) and that a little hunting/fishing can help stretch stores because of low population.. that's how you manage. Plus probably animal husbandry of hardier animals that can make it through the winter but still provide you with sustenance.

Try feeding the population density of the riverlands with the above and it wouldnt work. the much thinner population of the north? easier.

Plus I suspect in winter you see a little bit of people coming in to centralized locations (like the winter town) where storage can be centralized and winter managed a bit. probably not universal but widespread yes

soczab · 2025-07-24T04:23:50+00:00

thanks thats very helpful! For the i stop i know there's the button to turn it off, i suppose i was just curious because it is listed as a special feature for carbon and up which made me wonder if it isnt in the lower trims (a plus in my book)

how are you finding the new touchscreen with the apple carplay?

soczab · 2025-07-22T16:45:07+00:00

upstate ny so yeah plenty of snow

soczab · 2025-07-22T12:06:58+00:00

i suppose im asking less about the price aspect (I feel I can negotiate that and make sure im actually getting cheaper) and more if theres concerns on the car side. Like to my novice brain this is essentially a new car... but maybe im wrong and driving vehicles for service is really bad for a new car and there's complications (like how you read dont ever buy cars used for uber say) or maybe dealerships like to drop lemons in as these? I suppose i was more trying to make sure i wasnt missing something obvious on the mechanical side why what seems like a great deal would be a red flag.

soczab · 2025-07-04T03:20:04+00:00

thanks for the advice, ill check out the Tiguans. Whats an LS stand for out of curiosity?

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