Bad publicity gives the Runner money during runs, as Cecilia said, rather than doing nothing until it hits a threshold and then making the Corp lose. Traces are not blind bidding, and Runners can contest them without having specific cards installed. Having an identity card that is active from the start of the game…

Oh, that is such a good idea!

It definitely was not great.

I think they have enough sensors and processing power in there that they *could* do the sorts of things fuzzy logic rice cookers do. But they pretty clearly don’t. Maybe some future version will feature improved rice.

I’ve made yogurt in my Instant Pot a couple times. It’s pretty easy, the Team Yogurt people have just gone into a lot of detail and added some fancy extra steps that I think can be safely skipped. I use the milk I usually buy; I don’t really worry about condensation drips; I don’t hold the milk at 180 F for five…

I looked it up, and the wine box is supposed to stop the wine from going off quickly after you open it, by keeping air from it.

I don’t think they’re changing the billing dates now. They’ve just explained that they plan to change them in the future, and that’s why the fee is set as if each pledge is a separate transaction.

Treacly nut-and-custard pies...

Make a three-course dinner for yourself. Use your nicest dishes, tablecloth/placemat, etc. If you feel really fancy, add a candle. Maybe try to ignore your phone while you eat.

Carrot pie? It tastes a lot like pumpkin pie, but it might sidestep your aversion to eating the same type of plant twice in one meal.

The nut section seems to be largely about gluten-free food rather than vegan food, for some reason? Vegan pie crust and bread are not that hard to make or buy.

Store-bought canned green beans are better than frozen. But home-canned green beans from the garden are better still. They’re so good they might even be worth the effort of growing and canning them.

Same! The turkey gets carved in the kitchen.

Traditional roasting leaves the breast more exposed than the legs, which are shielded by the sides of the pan[.]

Look, what the kitchen needs to know is: do you need them to take special measures to reduce the odds of cross contamination and/or to ensure you don’t get food that you might not realize contains whatever ingredient?

Don’t claim your preferences are allergies. The kitchen is perfectly willing to accommodate both, but allergies are a lot more trouble, and asking the kitchen to go to that trouble for no actual reason is a jerk move. Special shout-out to the customer whose egg allergy disappeared when the contents of caesar dressing…

Ok, you’ve made your case for sweet potato over pumpkin, but how does it compare to carrot pie?

Vegetable and dressing salads aren’t necessarily sad. Some of them are very tasty! But they aren’t meals, they’re side dishes. Or the lighter course of a multi-course meal, if you’re feeling fancy. People having them as meals is sad.

Maybe they could move the pre-movie ads and previews to the intermission? It’d fix Fin Fang Flareon’s complaint about movies actually starting twenty minutes late, and it would prevent the intermission from reducing the number of screenings they can hold.

Because the human mind is amazing in bizarre ways, placebos can actually cause side effects, presumably through the same mechanisms by which they have helpful effects. So I’m doubtful that homeopathic remedies are actually free of side effects. I mean, obviously the plain water itself isn’t going to cause you harm,…