ShadySands

I've been under the weather, as is my way every wintery season, and am currently making the same soup for the second time this month. Sopa de Fideo 1 bag 7 oz-ish fideo (the little thin short noodles) tomatoes or as I prefer to just buy a 14.5 oz can of stewed tomats, diced 1 bunch cilantro, chopped - just the leafy part small handful garlic, halved 1 onion, sliced chicken broth - however much makes a decent pot size oil, I prefer olive oil - enough to coat the pasta well salt, pepper, spices - I like to use Goya brand adobo with cumin, a dash of Lawry's, and crushed red pepper but you can taste it as you can and adjust to your liking Throw the broth, tomatoes, garlic into a pot and bring it to a light/medium light boil * Fry the noodles in a pan with the oil until they are nice and browned. More brown is preferable to less brown and some should be fairly dark. Toss the onion in the pan while it's still somewhat early in the browning process, they don't need to be fully cooked through but I like the texture of lightly frying them before putting them in the pot Dump that in the broth you have going, stir, and add cilantro Let that cook for a bit and then you're done *I like to punch it up a little bit and add a little extra chicken bullion (Better than Bullion is my go to here) and sliced fresh jalapeno Also made some shrimp recipe that I got from my mom, one of few dishes that she ever taught me to make. If you hate how my usual recipes are somewhat directionless then you're really in for a treat here. shkrimps, whatever you prefer but I go for the cooked, peeled, deveined, tail on but raw and all the same works great if you can find it kalamata olives chopped with some juice garlic crushed or chopped lemon juice parsley dried or fresh crushed red pepper an Italian spice blend white wine butter optional sun dried tomats finely chopped optional chunk of crusty bread Everything but the shrimp and parsley (and bread if you are using it) into the pot and bring to a light boil and reduce heat a little Taste the broth and adjust portions to your liking (sorry but this is how almost all recipes go back home) Once you have that then toss in the shrimp and sprinkle with parlsey and cover. This cooks quick so you probably want to constantly monitor it. I think this kind of thing is somewhat obvious but my wife is the queen of walking away from the stove for way too long. You'll want to give it at least one good stir but may need more depending on how much shrimp you tossed in there and the size of your pot Went the shrimp start curling up then take it off the heat and give it one last stir and toss more parsley on top give it a moment with the lid on and then serve.

The next stretch goal is the prisoners of marzipan or something It's not the last one though as people are already guessing the stretch goal after that. I don't want to post what some think it is because I think it will do more harm than good here around Obisidian's lovable naysayers and ne'er-do-wells. Besides that I'm not even sure that we'll hit this goal

30, 30, 30, 8, hours to go I wanna be sedated Nothing to do, nowhere to go, oh I wanna be sedated 38 hours to go and we just passed $1,790,000

Key's gone now but I may have a GOG key for Sunless Skies coming my way soon

Sold!

Your post made me do a quadruple take And then bust out laughing And then start crying because you and majestic might be right since they'd likely have to be as awful as new Trek has been so far

Got a Steam key for Stygian if anyone wants. PM me and whatnot... Or don't or whatever. Sometimes you gotta take a stand.

At least he knows what he's doing. Bangs down over mullet back.

I also wonder if Microsoft Daddy is pulling those IPs (Shadowrun, BattleTech) back in house for new games. But maybe that's just me still not giving up hope for an Obsidian Shadowrun game.

It's been nicer, but still too cold for me, weather recently so my MiL has been hanging out on the back patio a lot. She's kinda weird in some of the things she does but yesterday upped her game. She took some pillows off of our couch, which is the most expensive piece of furniture that we have, and took them outside for some unknown reason. Anyways, nobody realized she did this yesterday until I released the hounds this morning and saw them still sitting outside on the patio furniture. We have outdoor pillows and cushions already out there and we have extra outdoor stuff in the garage so, yeah, I dunno.

The latest battle over the Confederate flag isn’t happening where you’d expect I grew up not that far from the westernmost battle* of the Civil War and find "the Far Western Front" stuff pretty interesting because it's local history and usually ignored or glossed over. *It was less than 2 dozen people so I want to make sure to set expectations appropriately. Also, the badder guys won.

Hmm, I'll try to keep an open mind but none of their games outside of Shadowrun and Battletech have interested me.

A new Tecmo Bowl when?

Yes, it's completely optional

HoMM style tactical combat? That's a stretch goal that I never knew I always wanted.

Can't say I agree with that. I think Biden would at least appoint better people and also actually listen to them.

Oh yeah, I think we've got Trump again for the next however many years.

I guess technically it could be considered a conspiracy but it's pretty much what happened last time as Zor pointed out. The party is allowed to try to tip the scales as it sees fit and while it might be unfair to Bernie such is life.

No, not really and not directly. They are trying to drive down and explain away his support somewhat gleefully though. Biden was basically saved by Jim Clyburn and then bolstered by the other candidates in his lane all dropping out and supporting him

I don't like the past tense part but otherwise I'm open to it

I doubt it too. They spread that same rumor last time around.

Enslaved nations with necromancy

Bump because it's still relevant Give us us Star Trek RPG

Interplay had some Trek titles that he may have worked on but I was referring the time when Feargus as CEO of Obsidian passed on Star Trek . https://kotaku.com/the-knights-of-new-vegas-5968952

Feargus passed on it But even still there are some of us who still hold out hope