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Cake day: June 21st, 2024

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  • I am absolutely aphantasic. It’s like my brain operates with a command line interface. Like, there’s that mental exercise of picturing a ball rolling off a table. I can tell myself that I’m thinking about a ball rolling off a table, but I can’t actually see the image of it. If I try to remember something falling off a counter or whatever, I can’t recall the event visually, but I can remember the details involved. It’s like reading the summary of a video clip, but not being able to actually see the video.




  • Looking back, I actually missed an ingredient. The glaze was 2 parts ginger honey, 2 parts hot honey, 1 part orange blossom honey, plus the garlic. The orange did a really good job of mellowing out the hot honey and rounding the flavors out. If you ever get the opportunity, I would very seriously recommend getting a smoker. It’s a lot of fun to do, and the food is great.






  • I will tell you the recipe I used is really excellent. Very simple, easy ingredients. The most important thing this recipe gives you is the drying step. Drying the fish in the fridge overnight develops a pellicle on the meat, which seals the juices in the fish to keep it tender, and it gives a tacky surface that the smoke sticks to. Definitely not something I would have thought to do, that’s for sure.







  • BL2 is lightning, and all the others are potato batteries. The 1st game didn’t know what it wanted to be. PreSeq did a decent job of walking in the shadow, and it might even be considered underrated by some, but didn’t push any envelopes. Nothing it did really stood out. Tina’s Assault… exists? I guess? And then there’s 3.

    BL3 spit in the face of anyone who ever enjoyed anything about BL2 (again, the standard all others in the franchise are measured against); you liked the story set up by 2? This game ignores every single one of those plot hooks and delivers a flaccid mimicry of 2 instead. You liked the playable characters? How about we kill one, and turn two others into talking heads that spit out throwaway dialog in a dlc gamemode. You like the humor? Have a mission that makes you collect poop. You liked the villain? Have obnoxious streaming siblings. You like exploring the world? Sucks to suck, this world is empty.

    This big wild rant just to say we all want to forget BL3 happened.