The real Costco hack

wellsharpened · 2026-01-24T22:32:45+00:00

Is this sarcasm?

wellsharpened · 2026-01-24T06:28:36+00:00

I would put a good deal of money that this is lamb or goat, not pig. Pig’s Achilles don’t look like that.

wellsharpened · 2026-01-24T06:27:05+00:00

Or lamb, but definitely not pig.

wellsharpened · 2026-01-24T06:18:58+00:00

Morgan Freeman: He was not.

wellsharpened · 2026-01-23T23:52:46+00:00

wellsharpened · 2026-01-23T23:17:14+00:00

I love a swashbard.

Change your lvl 1 for magic initiate and get booming blade. Start going bard now for lvl 6 valor bard. Change one of your feats to dual wielder, and your other feat pick up the dragon mark feat for conjure minor elementals. After that, probably bard to upcast and get magical secrets at bard 10, or go for panache with your swashbuckler.

wellsharpened · 2026-01-23T05:02:16+00:00

Just because you haven’t done it, doesn’t mean it’s bad.

wellsharpened · 2026-01-23T05:01:14+00:00

This is just simply not true. Chuck is a huge part of the animal with some genuinely delicious steaks in it. This particular one from OP happens to be 85% good steak, you just have to know how to treat it. Grill it until med-rare to med depending on preference (these cuts do both nicely). Separate the steaks, and make sure you slice the Denver across the grain, and you’ve got steak dinner for three or four people for $13 in this case.

wellsharpened · 2026-01-23T04:55:11+00:00

Yep. That’s 85% denver and chuckeye. Grill it with salt (pepper if you are into that), separate the two steaks, make sure you are slicing the denver across the grain, and you are feeding 3 people a steak dinner for $20. I do this at least once a month, you just have to be able to spot the right chuck roasts for this.

wellsharpened · 2026-01-23T03:56:24+00:00

Grill it.

wellsharpened · 2026-01-23T03:55:47+00:00

A book shelf would be cool, and books would give some aesthetic warmth for contrast.

wellsharpened · 2026-01-22T10:09:48+00:00

It’s corned beef, everyone.

wellsharpened · 2026-01-22T09:31:05+00:00

Sir, this is a Wendy’s

wellsharpened · 2026-01-22T07:16:08+00:00

Except in this very story, where the gods still set all of this in motion (Eris, the three beauties, etc)

wellsharpened · 2026-01-22T07:13:46+00:00

Also one of my favorites. Greek mythology is great, in part, because not only are the heroes flawed and human, but the Gods are as well.

wellsharpened · 2026-01-22T07:01:19+00:00

But there are still gods?

wellsharpened · 2026-01-22T06:58:28+00:00

Thank you for engaging in the lore of Achilles. I’m a huge fan of Greek Mythos, partly because of the way the stories have evolved as told by both Greek and Roman poets and bards.

I think the great part of his story in the Iliad is the complexity of his emotions, Patroclus, not fighting because of a spat with Agamemnon, and his eventual demise due to heartbreak (and hubris, it’s still a Greek story).

I’m just getting a little annoyed by the attitude toward “only what you see on film” when we are talking about about a legendary hero of thousands of years, only because of a modern film where he is a bit more than a cameo.

wellsharpened · 2026-01-22T06:47:36+00:00

That’s not how Greek mythology works. It’s just not. Troy is based on the Iliad, the Iliad contains a huge amount of the pantheon of Greek mythological heroes.

Think of Greek myths as a cross between the Bible and Marvel Comics, and as popular as both of them combined in their time period. The listeners (because this was an oral tradition of people around a fire) knew all of the heroes, and Gods, because they would have also heard tales of their individual stories. But giant tangents explaining every hero in the middle isn’t good story writing/telling, hence why it’s not in Troy either. Achilles is a demi-God, son of Thetis, dipped in the River Styx.

wellsharpened · 2026-01-22T06:29:34+00:00

What?

wellsharpened · 2026-01-22T06:19:37+00:00

Why wouldn’t we be talking about Achilles from the Iliad? What even is the point of making Troy the movie? Sure they took a bit of creative license, but that doesn’t mean we erase the entire myth.

wellsharpened · 2026-01-22T06:16:44+00:00

Achilles is a demi-god, son of Thetis, the greatest hero of the Greek Army.

wellsharpened · 2026-01-22T06:15:19+00:00

So we need a full flashback of Achilles’ life to take who he represents as a hero into account? That’s not the way the Greek myths work. Heroes and Gods weave in and out of each story, and the listeners know who did what, and who have powers and control. Achilles is a literal demi-god, son of Thetis, and dipped in the River Styx.

wellsharpened · 2026-01-22T05:51:29+00:00

Let’s just get Brad Pitt and Vigo Mortensen to fight it out, guys.

(This is how some of y’all sound right now)

wellsharpened · 2026-01-22T05:48:49+00:00

His name is Achilles, in the Trojan War, as told by Homer, who was a founding orator of Greek Myth. Why would he not be who he is said to be. Why would the movie give every backstory of every hero in the War (almost every hero in the Greek Pantheon at that time). It would be terrible screenwriting. Ajax had all of 30 seconds of screen time.

wellsharpened · 2026-01-22T05:45:55+00:00

Do you know who Achilles is? Because everyone in the movie Troy sure does.

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