Its not really cool to l lie about food allergies; doing so makes it less likely for people with food allergies to be taken seriously.

Though tbh, I avoid eating out unless I literally have too anyway, been poisoned too many times from I assume cross contamination or negligence.

(and, I am also vegan, which doesn’t make ‘eating out’ easier)

That would literally kill me (well, probably actually just sent me to the hospital).

I thought, when I first went vegetarian (vegan now) years ago, that I wouldn’t need to specify ‘no fish’ when I ordered food labeled ‘vegetarian’. But Fish sauce or Oyster sauce has sent me to the hospital at least once.

I no don’t really eat out ever anymore, as I don’t feel like gambling on the 1% cross contamination chart (got several other allergies too), but its crazy to me that food labeled as vegetarian is allowed to have fish sauce in it.

A lot of languages also don’t consider ‘meat’ to include ‘fish meat’, having entirely separate words for the two.

but yeah, I think in the US, its mostly catholicism brainworms

You are right. But like, ‘learning to do sportstalk’ to help with ‘socialization’ (especially at work) doesn’t make me like sports. If anything, I kinda makes me think its dumber.

But yeah, sports, beers/alcohol, guns, hunting, all classic ‘guy talk’ I’m decently good at, despite none being things I’m really into.

Can’t relate; I do think its pretty boring. Its up there with like; clubbing or bar culture. I don’t hate it, but I’m left wishing it was just like, a house party or something, somewhere less loud and crowded.

I don’t shit on sportsfans or anything, I just can’t understand why its enjoyable to watch. But like, there’s lots of hobbies I don’t ‘get’, so I’m not judging people for liking things I don’t. And I do like playing sports, generally speaking.

I didn’t care for it. Very much ‘skill issue’, but all the games I’ve played so far against people has felt like I lost the game in the first 10 minutes, and then had to endure 30 minutes of getting my balls stepped on for the game to end, since there’s no surrender option, and didn’t feel like there’s any ‘comeback’ mechanics, but also the winning team feels like it takes a while to actually secure victory.

Compared to League of Legends (which I haven’t played in years, but did rack up many hours back in college), where a) you can surrender, and more importantly b) its possible to win quite quickly, both from just being ahead, but also from doing a cheeky ‘backdoor’.

Deadlock, it feels like the ‘securing victory’ route requiring minions, and also just being a multistage affair with mandatory wait periods in between, just makes it feel like a slog, both being on the winning or losing side.

‘scallops’ from king mushrooms might be my favorite

Chicken/hen of the woods ‘pulled pork’ tacos are excellent (oyster mushrooms also work)

Lion’s mane ‘crab cakes’

Combined with Beanis for blackbean and mushroom burgers

Also just, in soup. Minestrone is a classic, but I’ve been liking as a side some miso soup with just a bit of diced button mushrooms and seaweed

I’m sorry she’s cringe. Its not my fault (its the writers)

Gale is the fucking worst. He talks like a redditor. Probably only Astarion is worse.

Karlach I guess I can see people liking; to me its less the character, and more the writing. She isn’t sold to me; she comes off not like a person, but like a new player’s first barbarian trying to fight for ~power and love and violence!. I can’t take her seriously, she just feel like a tumblr post made live or something.

Ugh, yeah, that tracks.

#1 complaint (and, really only, aside from bugs) about BG3 is just how unlikable every single companion is. And yeah, they do got big Morrigan energy, for worse.

Love Thai curry! Almost never make it though, as none of the Asian markets near me carry thai curry paste that is both vegan, and doesn’t contain any allergens to me (Cardamon being the big one there). I’ve made the paste from scratch a few times, but its a fair amount of work.

I only really take it once a week, though, I do also use nutritional yeast a lot. My last bloodwork showed by B12 as fine, but ymmv.

Thank you for the answer! That makes it a lot more clear what’s going on; the impression I got from the marketing material was kind of all over the place and made it seem a “do everything” mess.

Probably not the game for me? Sounds like I might like 2/5s of the core gameplay, but also probably will mildly to strongly dislike another 2/5s. I like puzzles and platforming, but I find hack and slash combat extremely boring. I do like that there’s no ‘timed social links’ like in Personal; one of like 3 major reasons why I don’t like those games.

I agree a lot. To me, I’d describe it as a ‘head in the clouds’ kind of feeling. Like there’s some long tether between ‘feelings’ in the visceral sense, and the conceptualizing and wandering thoughts of my ‘conscious mind’. And any big emotional change feels like its distant and takes time to ‘work its way up’, not to mention just the various impressions that I just don’t feel emotions on connect to reality the same way others do. One of the little things that is just kind of petty but always makes me feel alien, is I just don’t like most media. I don’t like movies or TV, I don’t like the vast majority of music.

I also definitely have that ‘veiled third eye’ feeling, or the sense of catching snippets of sounds or sights that are hidden or Important. But its worth noting, I have schizophrenia, so I know what that part of it is all about. But a big part of those kinds of things for me isn’t just the hallucination of the sense, but the delusion that it is real and important, the same way some thoughts feel profound and correct, and I gotta recognize and ground or check in with others.

I don’t especially get what kind of game it is from its trailer. I glossed over it because of this when I saw it on Steam.

It looks kinda open world hack and slash-y? Which are two genres I mostly hate. But also, it has some mention of puzzles, which I do like. But its hard for me to tell “what is the thing you spend most of your time doing” while looking at its press material.

Star control 2 fucks. Highly recommend. Basically a proto Mass Efect, but still better thannit in a few ways (if obviously much less ‘cinematic’ and character driven).

I think his analysis of election numbers is solid, maybe the best out there.

But goddamn is he a fucking dumbass. I love his post breaking down the ‘democrat coalition’ into liberals and progressives, and genuinely good (if very very basic) description about how different they are, only held together by the threat of the right wing. And then being like, ‘yeah so I’m a liberal because progressives suck’.

You can also make Seitan yourself at home, by ‘washing flour’, or just by buying ‘vital wheat Gluten’ flour.

1 part flour (or besan (chickpea flour) for extra protein) to 3 parts gluten. Some veggie stock, garlic, and onion powder, and salt.

Knead, rip into nuggets, steam 10 minutes, pan fry 2 minutes per side with a bit of sauce.

‘vital wheat gluten’ is like, 77% protein by weight. That puts it just under ‘whey protein’.

The ‘washed flout’ technique I think gives better flavor/texture, but is more work.

bro really expects us to not recognize cheeseburger freedom man, smh

I don’t say this to go to bat for Kamala, but like, I think she absolutely has better odds of winning the election than Biden.

Like, so much electoralism is ‘vibes’. People have pointed to her polling worse than Biden as some ‘gotcha’ over her being a weaker candidate, but like, if she’s only polling a point or two worse that Biden, despite not campaigning or doing anything at all, that says a lot about how weak of a candidate Biden is/was.

Not saying I expect Kamala to like, ‘slay queen’ or whatever the fuck, but like, if she can not be a zombie corpse on stage, she can earn some ‘points’ back.

I guess we’ll see; she is a weird alien in some ways, and maybe that will kill her vibes or w/e. (which, mocking her weird laugh is dumb, as dumb as mocking trump for ‘lol he orange’ instead of y’know, the fascism, but ‘politicians not be weird’ is definitely a bar the average voter cares about.)