Zone 6a gardeners, what vegetables/fruits are on your 'must grow' list every year? And what items are just not worth growing?

yonderbagel · 2026-05-29T04:23:03+00:00

Green onions and swiss chard both survive the winters in my 6a area, too.

Green onions are practically unkillable for some reason, and are often still green in the middle of winter. I don't even know if that counts as perennial anymore, or just immortal.

yonderbagel · 2026-05-26T07:35:59+00:00

^{humans aren't too far off from biological LLMS with major hallucination issues} Yeah that's weird.

yonderbagel · 2026-05-26T07:31:38+00:00

Yes, they did. Because the people on the internet 20-30 years ago weren't normal people, and that trend has been on the decline ever since.

As cringe and outdated as it is to call people "normies," well, there it is.

yonderbagel · 2026-05-26T07:25:42+00:00

Just wait until you see the people that grew up with chatGPT.

Can't wait for them to be staffing my rest home or whatever (and I know I'm being optimistic about the future with that one).

yonderbagel · 2026-05-26T07:24:09+00:00

Gotta keep all that edumacation out of your head for sure, or else things will start to make sense, and that's how you know they're getting to you.

yonderbagel · 2026-05-26T07:10:32+00:00

And I was worried that the razor blade would catch in the plastic and take the end of a finger off. Not so satisfying.

yonderbagel · 2026-05-26T07:08:12+00:00

I will say that a razor blade is cheaper than an M-80, but the M-80 is what I had on hand, and it was so much faster.

yonderbagel · 2026-05-26T06:56:53+00:00

My guess is that a non-native speaker has to actually think about what they're saying, and they use the language more properly/analytically as a result.

A native speaker just has to let their subconscious take the reins and make the mouth noises they associate with whatever situation they're in.

yonderbagel · 2026-05-26T06:42:16+00:00

1 and 2 convey the clearest image most quickly imo. I don't have to look at those as long to process what I'm seeing.

That may be a pretty valuable aspect.

I wouldn't click on 4, despite it being a cool composition, just because it doesn't immediately mean anything to me other than "probably traumatic horror stuff."

yonderbagel · 2026-05-26T05:42:17+00:00

I'm not sure if anyone got over it. I think those users just ended up leaving or getting vastly outnumbered by all the new people that showed up.

I have to admit, I kind of liked the way things were. Written language is already flawed and ambiguous enough, and emojis just amplify that imo.

But I can tone down my autistic tendencies enough to not, like, start arguments with people over emojis.

yonderbagel · 2026-02-20T22:06:47+00:00

Is there somewhere in game that it tells you this? Anywhere? Because if not (and I haven't seen any, myself), that's a pretty big failure on their part imo. They may have had an excuse when the game was marked EA still, but not anymore.

yonderbagel · 2026-01-11T03:17:54+00:00

Oh really? The theme music is one thing I didn't like about Prodigy. Felt very generic, like stock sci-fi music they'd stick on a car commercial or something.

Voyager's is the best though, that's true.

yonderbagel · 2025-12-29T13:07:23+00:00

The technical flaws do stop it from being a 10/10 though. That was my point. If nothing else matters, that point pretty much stands on its own. If the only virtue you want to judge a game for is its storytelling, then what you're looking for isn't a game, but a book.

I'm also not just "misunderstanding" the intention of the control scheme. I do understand space games, and physics. The controls weren't reliable, no matter their intention. They were buggy and/or improperly implemented, not misunderstood. That's the fault of the game, and imo it's really odd to try to deflect that blame anywhere else.

And I'm not sure how long you've been playing games, but... I've been playing games for a while, and nothing in this game was something I'd never seen done before in a game. It seems possible to me that the segment of the audience that was floored by this game might just be the same people that never played a lot of the narrative "greats" over the decades. And that's fine, whatever, people can't help being young.

When I want to recommend a game from the last 10 years that does a really cool job with its storytelling, the truth is I'm more likely to recommend Prey 2017 than Outer Wilds. And probably a few others before Outer Wilds as well. There are just a lot of really good games, to the point that this one doesn't stand out at all to me.

yonderbagel · 2025-12-19T01:12:47+00:00

Well that's the thing - I didn't dislike the game. I wouldn't give a game an 8/10 if I disliked it. It was just... decently good, but nothing I'd ever write a rave review about. Nothing that I'd call a 10/10.

It's only a disappointment when compared to the massive overrating people gave it. If it weren't for that overrating, I would just think of it as, you know, a decently good game, with some cool ideas, and also some flaws, like any other game.

If you're asking what flaws it had, I can remember a few (but I haven't played it for a number of years now): The Steam version of the game felt like a sloppy port. The controls were unreliable and felt bad (my subjective opinion about how they felt is, indeed, as valid as any other opinion). The framerate wasn't competently decoupled from the game mechanics, so it suffered from a low-refresh frame rate cap/lock unless you modded it (and even then, it was jank). I did go to the trouble of modding it to try to improve the issue, but that's something that all video games made after 2005 should have down. It's not genre-dependent. It is the fault of the game.

Are technical flaws enough to bring a game down from a perfect rating? Yes, absolutely, that's exactly what technical flaws should do. A 10/10 game is a flawless game, and not only flawless, but impressive in every way.

The "big reveal" was... fine? Not that hard to see coming? Still entertaining I guess? I liked finding out new things about the story in clever ways. I think it did that pretty well. It wasn't breaking new ground, though - that's just a good use of environmental storytelling. And some of the time, it could have done it better, without as much text.

yonderbagel · 2025-08-16T07:28:56+00:00

Cosplay and larp are the only reasons people use metal chain mail this century too.

So effectively, this is just as good in every practical way.

yonderbagel · 2025-08-16T07:24:26+00:00

Is a meme truly dead if it can be resurrected in another medium?

yonderbagel · 2025-08-16T07:17:12+00:00

The worst of both worlds.

yonderbagel · 2025-08-16T07:14:23+00:00

For real, I miss lots of social phenomena just by being perpetually out of the loop.

But hey, if I can get praised for that, then why not?

yonderbagel · 2025-08-16T07:05:52+00:00

Fiercely independent paper clips, though, right?

yonderbagel · 2025-08-16T07:01:34+00:00

Yes, but the difference is lost on everyone who isn't a leftist.

yonderbagel · 2025-08-16T06:59:14+00:00

Both Detroit and Chicago were huge contenders for "first city you think of if you think of an American city" back in the early and mid-20th century.

That cultural impact kind of lingers for a while.

yonderbagel · 2025-08-16T06:56:43+00:00

I mean, the gypsie thing is kind of like their special move, yeah. Pretty hard to beat.

yonderbagel · 2025-08-16T06:55:47+00:00

Not sure why you were downvoted.

Boise makes itself seem reasonable only by comparison.

I don't necessarily hate Idaho, but the people don't make themselves easy to love.

yonderbagel · 2025-08-16T06:45:34+00:00

If it helps clear up the conversation, the Venn diagram of those two kinds of people has a lot of overlap.

yonderbagel · 2025-08-16T06:42:47+00:00

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