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    The Food Thread

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    5 hours ago, ShadySands said:

    I have a problem with eating regularly as I often forget to eat because I get caught up in whatever I'm doing.

    I made my wife a burrata salad with arugula, roasted cherry tomatoes, strawberries, crushed hazelnuts, and drizzled with balsamic vinegar. I made myself a grilled cheese sandwich and then spent the remainder of the evening with a stomach ache.

    In college I developed the habit of entering long periods of deep calories deficits and odd eating schedules. It's sort of like intermittent intermittent fasting.

    Music Listening & Sharing

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    Yeah, I don't particularly think he's doing any philosophical heavy lifting there. He's ultimately more speaking about himself on the cowardice. Still it's a fascinating personal testimony from a very unique walk through life.

    Swkotor 3

    in Obsidian General

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    10 hours ago, daven said:

    What these guys said. Swtor is ehhhhh.. nowt special. But yeah I gave up caring about a 3rd game many years ago. Sometimes you have to just move on.

    Yup. It's dead jim.

    I held on hope for so long, but that died with the mmo. Likewise HL3 died for me when Laidlaw gave his intended ending and synopsis.

    Feels weird to move on after so many years, but then you do and it all feels like a fond memory in the past.

    TV & streaming thread

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    4 hours ago, Hurlshot said:

    So what shows do you folks feel ended well?

    I'd probably put Breaking Bad, The Wire, and The Shield in my list. Weird how those are all a bit similar. I guess in less serious shows, The Office and Parks and Rec ended well too.

    I agree about Breaking Bad, The Office, and Parks & Rec. Though The Office obviously suffered towards the end. Haven't seen those others. Band of Brothers was also really good.

    Arrested development's ending is flawlessly immaculate in every sense had it truly ended at Season 3 instead of being brought back.

    While divisive, I really liked the ending of Battlestar Galactica.

    Also Peep Show. Probably my favorite comedy show of all time, a very fitting way to end.

    edit: I almost forgot. Mad Men. Whew what a ****ing ending! Probably my favorite ending actually!

    edit2: I'll add Cowboy Bebop and Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood for animes.

    Weirder, More random, More Interesting.

    in Way Off-Topic

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    10 minutes ago, ShadySands said:

    ‘Playing Catch-Up in the Game of Life.’ Millennials Approach Middle Age in Crisis. New data show they’re in worse financial shape than every preceding living generation and may never recover

    I thought this would be interesting as we discussed something similar in PoE2 section a while back.

    Also, Why Are Millennials Rejecting Prized Family Possessions? The experience economy is upending tradition

     

    With millennial, you'd think that the parents and grandparents would be more of an asset, but often times it seems like they aren't. So much of the previous generations wealth is locked away in the home, in hsas and retirement. I think most assumed the cost of school and housing wasn't going to change for their kids, so they were left to societies faculties, while the parents basically deferred their liquid wealth for retirement. Instead of using it raise the next generation. It's especially telling how with a lot of old people, the only way to access their fortunes is to go into the medical industry and get payed out of the boomers insurance plans.

    As far as boomer's possessions. I can't help but feel an entire generation largely bought material goods which aren't heirloom worthy. And for antiques so much of it was luxury stuff related to "domestic ceremony" that just has no place in our modern world.

    When I watch artisan videos on youtube, it makes me want to have fewer but more prized and personal possessions. By valuing the minimal more, your life is in someways less bound to the material, because each thing has a personal important in your routine or life. Just having things to have them is what becomes taxing, even if they are so replaceable that you'd say that "you have no attatchment to them." Maybe true, but your more of a slave to them, as opposed to them being the tools to you.

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    RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS

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    I'm sure there are plenty of kids not being "ruined" by this new age of media, but I can't help but feel those who are left to fall into this stuff (either being lonely latchkeys or otherwise) are probably suffering for it more-so than previous generations.

    In the entertainment world, it often seems like the route to a persons wallet is through their kid. And anything that can be done to encourage a youth culture that entices spending will be marketed to the fullest. That's not necessarily new, but it's very aggressive these days, and all within an economy that is far less mobile than in the past.

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    Politics and Statesmenship: A Forum Special Report

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    All countries hold debt as leverage. You default at your own risk. You also issue debt at your own risk. I don't know the specifics, but if Argentina is defaulting because they were given bad loans, then you have to go back to the issuer. Of course the issuer never wants to clear the debt, they just want to restructure enough so they renew their cash flow. Something is better than nothing.

     

    I've seen enough of Greece's situation to know better than blame it all on them. In fact I'd blame most of it on Germany and Brussels.

    Again, I have no idea if this is apropos of Argentina or not.

    The Next Funny Stuff Thread

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    lol, to be fair though the peachy tan crayola color was indeed called "flesh"

    Probably accurate for how the english world historically called that color, but it hasn't aged well and I guess this is a political statement on that.

    I just googled it to see when they switched, and apparently after 1962. But I also found a lot of personal testimony of people in the 70s and 80s having boxes with the flesh color. I know I had them in the late 90s. So... I would have expected the switch in the 2000s not way back then.

    I guess crayola wasn't as woke as their rewritten history would like us to believe? Granted I may have been getting the flesh color out of the "big box" not the smaller base colors, but it still doesn't change the fact that there is no flesh color.

    The Food Thread

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    Canola really doesn't have a shelf-life any longer than other oils. If it's starting to smell a bit like crayons, it's soiled.

    I use EVOO for basically everything. Though I do like Grapeseed oil quite a bit if I need a less heavy oil. A few things I use smart balance for like fried rice and green beans and steak.

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