Nefara

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

I am a big fan of the books, read all of them plus shorts a couple of times now. Sure I would have cast a different look for Murderbot but they have direct quotes and scenes straight from All Systems Red right there in the trailer. I am also a fan of the Witcher books and Wheel of Time, so in contrast to those adaptations I am hyped haha.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

I honestly wasn't expecting to see Sanctuary Moon but now that I have I must see more ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, since that unfolds later on maybe they can sneak it in without too much feather rustling. It's not out front and center and they could include it without making it a focus pretty easily. Bojack Horseman did it, hopefully they won't balk at it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Really enjoyed the whole series, and when I heard about the adaptation I was psyched. It's a very cinematic series that is begging for adaptation. While there's definitely a lot of deadpan humor in the books, the trailer seems a lot more "whacky" than it should be. Hopefully they're just playing it up for the trailer. I was also hoping for a more androgynous/NB murderbot but I could be won over. Either way, I'll definitely be watching

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I have never been, nor seem to be able to get motion sickness. No seasickness either. I can read books on all sorts of moving vehicles, and I love roller coasters. Whip me around upside down in pitch dark at 60mph and I'll just call it a good time. My husband says I am squandering my powers because I can play as much of whatever motion intense VR game as I want, but I just end up playing Beat Saber most of the time.

[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

For a while, I played the MMO Guild Wars 2 as a music simulator. It has playable in game musical instruments that you can equip, and play with the number keys. A-G are represented with the numbers 1-8 with 9 and 0 swapping an octave lower or higher. Killing monsters? Doing dungeons? Raids and world bosses? Nah I'm just chilling on a beautiful forested cliffside near a waterfall figuring out an arrangement for the Lord of the Rings theme.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Cute idea, but disappointed that it's just a reskinned car racing game. I read the title and I imagine a "cat scale" racer, running around indoors having to jump sofa arms and climb cat towers or doing an obstacle course in someone's yard, going under bushes and through kids forts etc. Just realizing now a cat parkour game in the style of Mirror's Edge would be good silly fun.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I have an indoor only cat. I trim his front nails and have trimmed them his whole life. He sits completely passively and doesn't complain when I clip them. I trim them well away from the quick and only do so when they've gotten long enough that he gets caught on things or that I feel them or get scratched when he jumps in or out of my lap. He has no problems with me touching his paws and is very chill.

I had an indoor only cat who had been declawed by his previous owner. He was extremely on edge about his paws being touched, and growled, hissed and even bit if he thought you were going to try. He went straight to attempting to bite if you tried to touch him in a way he didn't want to be touched. He was extremely distrustful of all humans and it took me a long time to win him over.

IMO the difference is obvious and there's no comparison. Trimming a cat's nails, if done correctly, causes a cat no real discomfort or lasting trauma. Declawing a cat violates a cat's trust and causes lifetime behavioral issues and real harm. They are nothing alike.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Well, the nice thing is GW1 is still there. They decided to keep it going because the cost was minimal enough that it was worth it to them, so all of that content is still perfectly playable and there are still people running ATFH and Droks etc. It has a small dedicated following and is still a fun game in its own right. They're different games but I enjoy both.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I always enjoy the April Fools efforts from Guild Wars. They've done all sorts of things from making all players tiny, giving them bobbleheads, making them go into "airplane mode" (a reference to a t-pose animation glitch but with added "homemade" sound effects) to entire quest lines and even an entirely new game mode inspired by 8 bit platformers that spawned its own festival because it was awesome. This year you can relive some highlights from recent years, but the new addition is being able to open your own Cat Cafe in your homestead.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I find this funny because while reading this post I thought to myself "I don't see why I wouldn't date someone like that?" and I identify as demisexual. I'm already taken, unfortunately for OP, but I'm sure if he were to mention wanting someone to cuddle or being lonely to those friends who called him "cute" and "adorable" someone may step up and either find him a match or admit interest.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I really love tilapia in butter with a bit of lemon, salt and pepper. It's a mild and subtle tasting fish, and it's hard to mess it up when cooking. You can get frozen loins for cheap because they're plant fed and easily farmed. Cook until flakey, don't burn it, serve with some pan fried or roasted veggies and rice or quinoa. I've only ever had it take on that "fishy" smell when I left it to thaw in the fridge too long.

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Still makes me laugh

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

By far my most consistently asked for ice cream is peanut butter. Our friend circle is increasingly filled with radicalized peanut butter supremacists. It's also one of the easiest to make. I decided I'm willing to share my secrets ;)

You'll need:

Ice cream maker (obviously)
Batter bucket (big mixing bowl with measures on the side and a spout, I use an 8 cup glass one)
Silicone spatula

Ingredients:

1 cup smooth peanut butter. I've tried crunchy but the bits don't mix well. Skippy Naturals is my recommendation
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup light cream
2 tbsp vanilla extract
Whole milk

First, stir the peanut butter thoroughly to incorporate any oil that's settled to the top. Pour it into the batter bucket using the spatula until you've roughly reached the 1 cup line when leveled. Add the sugar, and mix. Add the cream in portions, stopping to mix it into the peanut butter as you go to avoid lumps. Add the vanilla extract, and then add whole milk until you reach the 4 cup line on your batter bucket. Stir until homogenous. Optional: pre-chill the mixture in the fridge for a faster freezing time. Pour it into your ice cream maker, and churn for 15 minutes if pre-chilled or about 25 minutes if not, until the ice cream is a soft serve consistency. Scoop it into your preferred containers and put into the freezer to firm up.

Serve with a drizzle of your favorite chocolate sauce. I suggest SMALL PORTIONS. It's extremely rich and you can always go back for more.

If you don't have a batter bucket, I can't recommend one enough. Scooping peanut butter out of and then cleaning the measuring cups is a giant pain. Being able to pour the mixture from a spout is a huge upgrade over a bowl. It's immensely helpful in ice cream making and if you plan on making it more than once in your life just get one already.

Enjoy ;)

 

One of my favorite home made flavors is MANGO! Don't try to tell me it should be a sorbet, I don't care.

Makes about 2qts

Ingredients:

1 cup light cream 2 cups mango puree or blended frozen mangos 3/4 cup white sugar 4 tbps mango or coconut rum (~12% alcohol) ~3/4 cup whole milk

In a blender, add about 2 1/2 cups of frozen mango chunks and the 1 cup cream and blend until smooth. Add some milk as needed for blending. You should end up with approximately 3 cups of a mango and cream mixture. Pour it into an 8 cup "batter bucket"*. Add the sugar and rum and stir until the sugar is dissolved and you no longer feel grains (can take a minute). Add the milk to get the mixture up to the 4 cup line of the batter bucket, approximately 3/4 cup. Stir, and once it's a homogeneous color pour into a 2qt ice cream maker to churn. It should be in a soft serve state within 15min if you used frozen mango, or 20-25min if you used a mango puree. Remove from ice cream maker when it's the consistency of soft serve frozen yogurt and scoop into containers of your choosing. Allow it to firm up in the freezer for a few hours.

*it's a giant measuring cup that also works as a mixing bowl and it's immensely useful for ice cream making and anything else where you need to end up with a finished product that has to be poured.

The alcohol helps keep the ice cream from freezing too hard since this recipe doesn't have as much fat. The mango rum I use is by Cruzan and personally I can't taste it in the ice cream, but serve to kids at your own discretion.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

For those who missed the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pygcgE3a_uY

Don't try to tell me Beyond Earth was a sequel, Stellaris is more of a sequel to SMAC than BE was.

 

Found myself starting to think about trying some new thing that sounded cool, and realized it might be fun to think about all of the random interests, crafts, hobbies and pursuits I've chased on tangents to my life. It's easy to feel like a bum or a failure for dropping hobbies and that could cause hesitation in starting something new, but on sheer volume I bet some of us have impressive lists. Requirement is that it never made you real dependable income and wasn't a career for you. Aside from that, sky is wide open. It can be something you tried for a few weeks, years, or still do. What's your trail of hobbies?

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