LadyCrimson

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Saw videos on the Impossible burger meat (Burger King has an Impossible Whopper apparently, and you can get it as ground "beef" at a store). Plant based, frankenstein lab food or something. "Everyone" saying it tastes just like, or almost just like, real beef. Unlike real meat, it has a bit of carbs but not too bad. It is not low-fat and currently costs more than real hamburger. Was curious, so I bought two pre-formed burger patties made of the stuff. Pan fried them. Used olive oil in the pan. They stuck like crazy, to the point I took them out, washed the pan, then put them back in. Once already browned a bit they don't stick as much. They smelled ... maybe like 80% real cooking beef. I ate one as patty only, hubby made a sandwich/burger out of his. As (pan fried) patty alone, no weird taste, aftertaste, or texture, and the flavor was kind of like ... well, a much less spiced/less flavorful breakfast sausage maybe. eg, not really like beef, but tastes enough like meat I'd eat it. With condiments/bread I'd imagine it'd be quite fine. Far better than those other plant burger things I've ever tried. Still - as my husband says ... "You know what else tastes just like beef? Beef." But I guess if you're really concerned about cows and the environment, or a vegan really jonesing for meat flavor, it'd work, if you don't mind the frankenstein lab aspect. Getting closer to Asimov's Caves of Steel fake yeast-based meat/protein reference ... I forget what he called it ... zyvomeal? ... that Earth humans were eating because of resource shortages.

Yeah, from the sound of it, your general activity level would need a lot more calories, or at least periodically, which could be hard to get into a single meal without feeling overstuffed for several hours or something. I remember one time trying that "lemon/pepper/honey drink" fast. Hubby thought he was dyin' after 20 hours (felt weak/fainter) and after 24 he quit. I lasted closer to 48. Since there was still a few calories in that drink, I didn't feel weak/faint or anything like that at all, just wanted to eat solid food. Not to mention, that drink didn't taste all that great.

@majestic I don't think I'd call it euphoria. It's just ... once I even noticed it ... interesting. I've always had long periods where I'll hardly eat anything, or only one meal a day, no snacking etc. I've never found going 12-16+ hours without eating stressful physically (lack of hunger pangs most of the time). To me a "fast" is defined as at least 24 hrs. That boredom eating problem cropped up a lot tho, in short phases. Lately I'm still bored, but food isn't entertainment anymore, is all, therefore it's just not crossing my mind because it's no longer a boredom solution. It's not that I don't still think pizza or ice cream sounds/tastes good. I'm sure I'll have a slice, or a couple street tacos, or a few BBQ (sugar...) ribs, now and then. I'm not really aiming for hardcore "ketosis" and I don't particularly watch calories, outside of taking my lack of activity into account (2000 a day would be way more than I need - I'm more like 1500 or lower); my weight is fine. Oh and as far as "ice cream" goes - a while back I found Arctic Zero, Purely Chocolate, non-dairy. 50 cal., 0 fat, 8 net carbs per 83g (about 2/3 cup). I keep a couple in the freezer and over a month or so just have a few tablespoons right after a meal sometimes. It's not Haagen Daz or real ice cream, but it's actually pretty good tasting - that said it does freeze like a brick so I just nuke the pint for 20 seconds. It's kept me from desiring anything else sugary for a long time now tho, at any rate.

I tried for the first time not taking insulin this morning at all (I've still been skipping the evening shot, btw). Ate a large-ish round of food. 45 minutes later, blood sugar reading was no different than what it has been after a meal *with* insulin, for ages now (goes up 50-80pts). So ... hmm. There might be something to this keto/two meals/don't eat for 16 hours in a row stuff after all. At least for me. A lot of brain fog has lifted already, I feel less draggy. Was already on pretty low-carb so it's not simply that I think. Not hungry at all, mental/physical munchie urges have largely gone away. This is interesting.

Pan-cooked a small salmon fillet for my 1st meal of the day. Was trying to vary my meat vs. all-beef. It was fairly tasty I suppose, but now the house stinks and for three hours I have had doors/windows/ fans going to try to make it not stink. And changed my clothes. Man that lingers forever and ever. I have three more fillets. I''ll be pulling the outdoor gas grill out of mothballs for them, and likely going to stick with just beef. Of course ... I'm sure there are those who think cooking beef just smells terrible - do such people spend hours trying to get the smell out of their house too? It's all relative, right?

The Empty Man, via HBO (it's on HBOMax too I think) Has a long drawn out history that in short = bigger studio not knowing what to do with an experimental movie and kind of tossing it to the side (not even a DVD/blu-ray release given). The trailer makes it look like another Slender Man/Candy Man or some such type horror movie, and parts of it do kind of feel like that in a way. But the trailer is also very misleading ... I'm going to say I liked it quite a bit more than expected and while it's really long for its genre (2 hrs. 17 minutes) I wasn't annoyed by that. I don't think I'd cut very much out, maybe 5-8 minutes at most. There are criticisms: may not be enough typical "horror" for those wanting such, could be seen as too slow/boring, and it's rather bleak in a mental way (vs. visceral horror) the film is split into three sections, with a very long past-prologue that is very different styled from the other two, and an ambiguous, multi-possible explanation ending (on purpose) that might leave some feeling confused/annoyed, or unsatisfied/burned (edit: or one could take it simply at face value I suppose). That said, from the very start I found myself unable to stop watching. Maybe it's because of the way most of the shots were framed, and the pacing of the camera work, I found it visually interesting/hypnotic wanted to see more. The last few minutes did annoy me just a little bit, but then again, I kept thinking/analyzing the film long after. It's kind of a mild mind-you-know-what. Could definitely see it becoming a cult horror/supernatural/psychological film.

I guess they really wanted you to watch their movie. I wonder how "successful" they consider it to have been vs.typical meter of box office. Also, I think local grocery prices seem to be going up again. Not that I buy "super economy" style, mind. But fresh produce, (any) meat/fish etc. Doesn't help I can't buy/eat lots o' rice, potatoes, pasta, ofc. Another 15 years monthly grocery (food+other household grocery) is probably gonna be outta sight.

^ So maybe it's actually that you are not taking me seriously, then I take you too seriously, then you take me seriously (in a certain way), then I don't take you seriously, then you don't take me seriously either and then I take you seriously ... this could get worse than a badly written time loop! Anyway ... that scene with Eddie Murphy is funny yet kind of ironic (?), because in his stand up specials Delirious (before BH Cop) and Raw (after BH Cop), he dressed almost like that on stage. I always saw that scene as him poking self-aware fun at both that trend and himself. Or something.

Condemnation? That's a rather strong turn of phrase. You take me way too seriously at times. That said

I wasn't liking it all that much at first, but then for some random reason I put playback at .75 and it suddenly became much more my speed (pun intended). Now I must try this with many songs.

If I *was* going to get one, I'd do the same. 64GB would be, like, are you mad, no, nope, no way. Now I'm wondering how FFXV would play on the thing....I'm guessing Ansel wouldn't work/be available on it tho. Or...

1 wasa cracker = 5 net carbs (total carbs minus dietary fiber carbs) broccoli/spinach mixture w/every meal = maybe 3 net carbs each meal some kind of not-low-fat beef = 0 net carbs 2-3 tablespoons plain 5% fat greek yogurt (heaped on that cracker) = maybe avg. 2 net carbs Total net carbs: 10 +/- carbs x 2 = 20 per day *Keto's supposed general net carb aim - 30-50. ...carbs in an average "large" choc. chip cookie - 8.5-9 ...does this mean I can have a cookie? *Note: I'm not currently trying to be severe Keto's, just trying some things out, we'll see

I don't think I need either the Switch or Steam Deck to play slot or jigsaw puzzle apps, so ... nah. Not knocking them, I can understand/see their use. Such devices are not aimed at me is all. Speak for yourself. I'm the total opposite, where while I can use an xbox sort of controller, I can't stand their form, weight, or sticks - they make my hands hurt etc. Even before I became velcro-fingers. It's just an individual comfort. I always hear PS ones suck more re: breaking but I haven't had any issues re: ps4 sticks or buttons in 4+ years (I have 4), with 100s/1000's of hours of use. Maybe I'm just weirdly extra-gentle or something. Their rechargeable battery - how long before they don't hold a charge for as long - happens a little faster than I'd like, but dunno. The one I use on the PC I bought a long cable for it anyway so no issue there. I do wonder if having the buttons more directly to the side of the stick (Steam Deck) would be better for my trigger thumb/joint issues - so it'd be more of a slide over to them vs. (for me) a thumb stretch upwards. When the thumb has to stay almost ramrod straight, moving it over/upwards means sometimes sliding over the X(A) or square(X) button and accidentally hitting them while trying to reach for the triangle(Y) button. >.>

^ I play "annoy the husband." Which ultimately is the best game ever.

I don't do MMO's anymore either, although I've occasionally been tempted by FF14. But I think my main problem is "I don't remember all those 20 different options and their controls ... whatever ... charrrrrrrrrrrrrrge!!!!" ...which is why in Death Stranding all I did 99% of the time was run up and punch bandits in the face. Luckily that was apparently ok.

I need another non-linear exploratory, can-ignore-story, casual combat, lowish learning curve (easy to drop in and out of) but with busy-work, item collecting, open world-ish, decent/pretty 3D graphics game. Base building optional. That's not early access or underwater/outer space. Probably doesn't exist. *turns on the TV again*

^ We all thought we were so cool (style), in the 80's. We were wrong.

Maybe they reproduce by budding clones, like some aphids. And eat mud and algae. And have very very tiny appetites from doing nothing but lying in said mud playing video games while avoiding sonar and giggling.

I don't believe in souls, afterlife/reincarnation, etc, so no, I don't believe in paranormal. That's just my choice tho. People believe what makes them feel most comfortable within their own headspace. Heck, for we all we know, one's belief and desire is what somehow cosmically dictates what one will encounter upon death. And thus my mom will be waiting thru eternity for me to show up. Sorry, mom. Edit: for some reason this makes me think of Firefly/Serenity and "I'm a leaf on the wind."

I don't believe in ghosts, therefore I will always attribute weird things to non-haunting causes - "darn neighbors, darn dogs, this house sure has weird acoustics" - and go back to staring at the internet, likely frustrating any ghosts into boredom/retirement. It's worked so far.

(didn't really watch the video, altho I do love Tom Scott) Well, I don't know anything about technically having support in terms of file or backward compatibility aspects. I just meant the hardware connectors. I still have HDD's and disc drives and even my 11+ year old Win7 rig has all SATA. I haven't seen IDE cables in a long time but I'm not trying for backward compatibility. Although I probably do still have a small box of 3.5 floppies full of unreadable text/doc type documents. Not sure why, I have more modern copies of them. Nostalgia I suppose.

I thought that had already happened. I haven't seen those things in ages, feels like. Although I'm sure hubby also has some in a dusty box somewhere.

Finished season 2 of Ragnarok. All I have to say is there better be a season 3. ...Loki is a great character for actors to get to play, apparently. The guy playing him in this one is probably one of the better roles. Not that the other actors aren't doing fine, but ... Loki just kinda stands out chr/lore wise, to me anyway.

I know I'm a pathetic opponent, but picking me up by the face is just rude. Also, are these guys even human? Look at the size of those fingers!