The demo was locked to the hard difficulty setting. The games tend to be much more forgiving on the normal and easy difficulty settings. The hard difficulty is really only for people that want to dive deep into the mechanics and have no problem with grinding.

I’ve been spared that because I don’t use Facebook.

The problem with volatile stocks is the time delay with trades. They don’t happen immediately for the exact prices you saw. Brokers have to find someone that wants to sell the stock before you can actually buy it.

I’m reminded of this goofy “rumble backpack”.

The ice cube stems from the complications of using browned butter. The ice cube serves 2 purposes. It helps to solidify the browned butter for creaming and compensates for the water lost from the butter when you brown it.

I want more stories about the adults. Learning about their silly grudges and unresolved family problems really helped to show how there is more to life than just winning against the villains.

I wish I had bailed early on like you. I foolishly stuck with it as the show slowly began its descent into madness. Seasons 5 was my breaking point.

In 2008, the New York Times shared a legendary chocolate chip cookie recipe by Jacques Torres that spread through the food blogosphere like wildfire. The secret was aging the cookie dough. Countless people tested this trick to understand why it makes a difference. Letting the dough age/rest allows time for the flour…

Faulkner: This isn’t what I meant by “kill all your darlings”.

I could never convince myself to buy bread flour for that variation.

...very few popular chocolate chip cookie recipes mention aging at all.

I’m curious as to how they intend to repackage these elements for a global audience. People these days are more educated about the realities of colonialism and the theft of cultural artifacts from their country of origin.

I remember watching the first season out of boredom last summer. I found myself scrubbing through the episodes because there are a long stretches where nothing interesting happens.

“supersized physical competition”—think Wipeout, but jumping on logs and dodging traffic.

She attributes her survival to “one weird trick” instead of the vaccine that reduced the severity of her COVID infection from life-threatening to mild.

Netflix has shown that with a streaming service, quality only gets people into the door. You need quantity for people to stay in this closed ecosystem. This revival show is for the latter.

Voter suppression and gerrymandering play a big role in preventing Texans that aren’t drinking the Kool-Aid from turning things around.

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I’m a big proponent of using a microwave lid. Besides catching splatters, they are great at preventing food from drying out in the microwave.

As opposed to Family Guy, who just picked some dude off YouTube to voice Cleveland.