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PK htiw klaw eriF
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40 minutes ago, Keyrock said:
I'll pan fry my steak in butter garlic and thyme then spoon a bunch of the sauce from the pan on top of the steak sometimes (typically when I'm too lazy to make a chimichurri). That kind of feels like cheating, though; you drown something in butter of course it's going to be delicious.
I'm thinking of something like a bordelaise with pan sauce. It tastes very good and is a way to reincorporate the fond back into your steak. But red wine reductions with butter are luxurious regardless.
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11 minutes ago, xzar_monty said:
I have never heard of this infamous case of yours, either, but would like to know what you're referring to.
Donald Trump eats his steaks well done and slathered in ketchup.
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1 hour ago, Keyrock said:
Ketchup only belongs on meatloaf, it's disgusting on anything else, fries included... Well, it's okay on hot dogs, but there's a handful of better options.
Reported for poor taste.
21 minutes ago, ShadySands said:Not on steaks or we wouldn't be together but still.
13 minutes ago, Keyrock said:If you so much as put a ketchup bottle on the table while steaks are getting eaten we're getting into a fist fight.
Aside from allegedly one very (in)famous case I can not think of anyone who puts ketchup on a steak. Who the hell actually does that?
I typically like my steaks just seasoned or basted with butter, but sometimes a pan sauce can be pretty dope.
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2 minutes ago, ShadySands said:
I like cheese sauce myself but I grew up with cheese fries being a treat at the school cafeteria. Add some pickled jalapenos and you've got nachos with fried potatsi instead of tortilla chips. Carne Asada fries are also not to be missed
I didn't say cheese sauce or chilli because imo those are more things to put on top of fries than dip them in, but if we're going beyond dipping I'd rate putting chilli and queso on fries as top tier fries. Carne asada fries are also in that tier.
I'll have to try the harissa and ketchup next time I have fries.
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I turned 32. Maybe it's eating (marginally) better or exercising or reducing the intake of certain substances but I feel and look better than I did back in covid year 1. Huh.
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11 hours ago, Keyrock said:
Hot take: The best french fry dipping condiment is tartar sauce.
The best FREEDOM fry dipping condiment is spicy ketchup (for something quick, mix ketchup with some hot sauce like sriracha). Believe me.
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The Cat From Outer Space (1978)
It's a Disney movie from the 70s, the wacky name was the best part of it.
The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)
Jesus ****ing christ, this is incredible. David Bowie as an alien, 70s surrealist scifi, TV as an addiction, incredible music, and perhaps the greatest sex scene to have ever been shot (I won't spoil it, but it is an incredible fake out). I am so happy I could scream. Absolutely incredible.
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Finally got through TTA and played LoN for a while. So far I like the aesthetics of the frozen wasteland and the first shard area. Of course Owlcat does Owlcat and there's plenty of jank, and I have to say that I prefer the feelz of TTA in being an urgent struggle for survival while this feels like something that the party can take their time with. Perhaps the biggest complaint is the usage of the mercs who, so far at least, can't get the shard powers. Also wish the Android companion had a proper unique/new owlbrew archetype instead of Thundercaller that uses INT.
As always for the Owlfinder games complaints aside I'm having fun. For me it's not BG3 good but there's a certain charm in this stupid **** that I can't help but enjoy.
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My dad got out of the hospital a few days ago, I thot I posted about it but forum software must have eaten the post. He's going to be on oxygen for a while (if not forever) and has got a couple of oxygen compressors. Obvious issues with that aside, he's doing better than he has in a long time.
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On 1/5/2024 at 4:08 PM, Keyrock said:
I got a pasta maker for Xmas and I put it to use for the first time yesterday. You can, of course, make fresh pasta without a machine, but it's quite tedious. The machine makes it significantly less tedious, which means I'll actually do it. Anyway, I just made spaghetti, nothing special. Still, fresh pasta tastes so much better than dried, it's a night and day difference.
imo it depends on the recipe and I view them as different ingredients rather than equivalent substitutes. Fresh pasta is an absolute must for lasagna but I wouldn't want to use it with any of the Roman pastas (a Zozzona with fresh pasta is la bombe tier) or anything you need or want a good al dente for.
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Just now, Sarex said:
I watched it a long time ago, don't know if I finished it though. I think I did not. Can't remember why though.
I'd say give it another chance. It is 22 episodes but they feel pretty tight and well paced.
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Finished Psycho Pass
I very much liked it, perhaps even loved it. Frankly it's the kind of thing a lot of (western) live-action series on streaming services try to pull off but can't because they get cancelled too quickly to tell the whole story, which is exactly what I thought when I began watching it. There's apparently a couple of sequel series and some movies, I'll maybe check those out and see what they're like but imo as a limited series this can stand alone. I'd tepidly reccomend it to the folks here, though as always the naughty
brain of @Bartimaeus may short circuit and drive him into enough of a rage to complete his unholy ritual to summon a demon that will try to kill us all.
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5 hours ago, majestic said:
Edit: Anyway, my game is a state of complete breakdown. Lines repeat during dialogue, rumors are finished but still active, there's some sequence breaking in the dialogue too as people talk about events that have not happened yet and lastly for some reason the game keeps referring to my character as both male and female. In other words, chapter four has been the original Owlcat experience so far.
Edit 2: The dialogue also has a bunch of missing prepositions, missing articles and, even weirder, missing verbs. One can infer the meaning of what is going on, but this is a step back from Wrath. Not as bad as it was in Kingmaker though.
Incredible. I guess waiting for a long time was the right move.
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4 hours ago, Sarex said:
I was thinking real hard about getting the last companion and even recruited him, but them I reloaded and killed him. He is icky.
Are we talking like Cameillia icky or Bruno icky?
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1 hour ago, bjhbgjh said:
What aspects of the game resonated most with you guys?
Personally, the dice failures. For a long time I'll fondly remember trying to scare the owlbear, failing miserably, and then getting attacked. There's a level of storytelling in that which hasn't been there in the last few rpgs I've played and it made me much more likely to just roll with failing instead of reloading.
Other than that....I really liked the vibe of the shadow cursed lands as close to a complete 180 compared to the previous area. Maybe that's because there isn't a day/night cycle in BG3 (my biggest problem with the game) and being in an eerie darkness was a nice change of pace from the normal nature areas of the grove. The music is in general on the top end of videogame music but that undead infested wasteland was just on point.
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24 minutes ago, Bartimaeus said:
Oh boy, I just checked and that movie is literally already on my to-watch list. I don't feel so good...especially because it's a damned French film and I am just growing to loathe French cinema the more I experience it. Out of like the 25 French films I've seen throughout the course of my life, I think I've liked exactly one while disliking or outright hating the rest, so I don't really know why I keep bloody trying. Oh lord, it's a Godard film too...I have not had a good time with Godard films.
I think that issue with the score alone drug the film down. I found the whole movie on youtube and tried to locate it but didn't notice it as much, but it could be that the soundbar on my tv is better than my speakers or that the experience is different when you're focused on the film completely instead of listening to it while you ****post and do paperwork.
But as it digests in my head....for a film with copious shots of Bardot's nude body and implied sexual betrayal I have to say I found the whole film very unsexy. Like based solely on the performances I do not believe that Paul ever really desires Camille either sexually or romantically while the horny producers flirtations with Francesca and Camille feel empty. I don't think the film would necessarily be better if they did a lot of simulated sex but on the whole I felt a lack of passion.
24 minutes ago, Bartimaeus said:I really didn't think Crimes of Passion was nearly as crazy as its billing seemed to suggest. I mean, okay, it's a little crazy, but I guess it felt a little too unserious for me to do anything but kind of laugh good-naturedly at where it went. I think a darker and more grounded/considered approach focused on Joana, as you said, instead of the boring guy with his marital problems could've had me in love with the film instead. Still, you can do a lot worse than Crimes of Passion.
I think I have watched too much anime to really be surprised by supposedly crazy films. You think a horny stalker playing with sex toys is weird? I have seen undead Jack the Ripper jump out of a horse.
But yeah, the divorced dad should have been a side character and more attention should have been paid to Joana and to a lesser extent Shayne. I get the feeling that we never know Joana, we see her China Blue persona but Joana herself is still a mystery at the end of the film, which is a shame.
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1 hour ago, Hurlshort said:
Are we sure Trump is going to be the candidate, though? I mean, he's not even going to be on the ballot at this point in a number of states. He's not been part of the primary process. The primaries stretch out until July and who knows what will happen before then.
Maybe not the candidate but even if the GOP pulls some funny business to block him you know that'd he do an independent run out of spite. I've said this a lot, but the only thing that stops Trump from running this year is if he dies....which given his age and health is decently possible.
1 hour ago, Keyrock said:The ethnic cleansing going on in Gaza, let's just call it what it clearly is, is certainly doing Biden no favors. It's not just muslims either, he's completely lost young people. At this point his support is mainly those 50+, he's lost a lot of people under 50 and the vast majority of people under 40. There's a lot of time between now and November and things can change, but things are headed in the wrong direction for Genocide Joe right now, which, by the way, Bibi is totally fine with, since The Donald is likely to be an even better ally for his purposes.
Oh yeah, I have no doubt that Biden has burned a lot of the zoomers and yunger millennials with his (in effect) uncritical support of Israel's campaign of ethnic cleansing, probably to the point of turning off a sizeable number from the dems period. I mean it's hard to muster support for a guy who didn't do **** about your student loans, wages, healthcare, the environment, etc. but managed to pull billions out of the air and bypassed congress (apparently illegally, for what it's worth) to help kill thousands of children.
On Bibi and Trump, lmao
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15 minutes ago, Sarex said:
That one is a banger that I think both m and b would maybe like or at least not dislike.
......could it be what finally ends the world?
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On the whole I doubt that many awards are that big of a deal on our end as players/consooomers. With the beeg game awards where Yung Wonka and True Detective showed up, the biggest thing about it I heard was that people were mad the winners got less time to talk than people hyping AAA projects. Like when I think about the people I know personally who ended up buying and playing the GOTY 2023 it had nothing to do with the awards it won from Steam or the Dorito Pope but stuff like memes, word of mouth, or one guy buying it to play with his daughter.
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1 hour ago, InsaneCommander said:
The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash
Only if they also meet a catgirl from the strongest race.
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Contempt (1963)
I did a @Bartimaeus and broke my brain on this one. The cut I watched on Criterion (recently remastered I think) did this thing where when the score would kick in and it was just exceedingly loud and distracting. I think if it wasn't for that I'd have rated the movie as being great, and there are indeed some fantastic shots and compositions, but the score just bursting out was like driving a pickaxe through my ear.
Crimes of Passion (1984)
This got sold to me as being very wild, and in many ways it was. But again there was one aspect I didn't like that really sunk it for me and that was the China Blue persona being played as.....I dunno a sassy girlboss when dealing with the tricks. Tonally it just reminded me of some Joss Whedon stuff, which I have grown to absolutely despise. I think that if it was just delivered a little differently or if there were more focus on Joana Crane than that'd be much better.
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Three months ago I would have said that Biden will probably win despite being unpopular simply because Trump (who will be a nominee barring death) is deeply unpopular outside the MAGA cult. But then there was the Biden response to Israel's bombardment of Gaza, which appears to have torpedoed his support from Muslims and transformed him from a disappointment to "Genocide Joe" among folks who would have grudgingly voted for him to prevent Trump. Right now I'm going to predict that this election is both a repeat of 2016 with 2020's candidates, we'll see an uptick in votes for 3rd parties and the real winner of the plurality being not voting.
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16 minutes ago, Sarex said:
Happy new year!
Let's hope so, I'd prefer to not see December 32nd.
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3 minutes ago, Sarex said:
Here's my take after watching it.
Overall I'm with @Keyrock. Better than the previous movie, but nothing special.
So does the apocalypse fall to me? Or do they already have enough people liking the movie?
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Food Thread - Those that eat
in Way Off-Topic
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I made some mac and cheese and steak. The mac used pecorino romano, gruyere, taleggio and marscapone and was fantastic. Probably won't do it for a while because it's a ton of calories and that cheese wasn't cheap, but it was good for a fancy take. For the steak I used the cold sear method and it wasn't the best, cooked a perfect medium-rare but lacking a good crust.
I've heard that before, as well as.....older inventory being more likely to give to folks asking for well done.