I love hanging out with Varric. More Varric in any context is just fine with me. I would also be very happy with more Leliana. What I don’t want is more batshit silly Sera.

Random trivia: the Reaper HHHNNNNNGGGGG is apparently the sound of ... a compactor.

Also: Plugra and Vermont Creamery make the best salted eatin’ butter that is commonly available in grocery stores. Finlandia and President are also acceptable. Kerrygold is okay but doesn’t have a whole lot of personality.

I always leave my good salted butter out on the counter - covered, although not airtight. I have a bigger problem with it absorbing odors in the fridge than I do on the counter, and I usually go through it quickly enough that it doesn’t go bad.

Seconding Smucker’s Chunky. If I can’t get farmers market peanut butter, I always get Chunky.

“Broach” is typically a verb, but it can be used as a noun/alternate spelling of brooch, it’s just much less common usage.

I bought a Polk Audio Signa S2 during Prime Days for $150 - I am mildly hearing impaired and high-end gear is wasted on me, but I wanted a step up from the TV speakers. This had really good reviews. Setup was a tad frustrating, but that was about 90% user error and 10% instructions need to be a little more clear.

I bought a Polk Audio Signa S2 during Prime Days for $150 - I am mildly hearing impaired and high-end gear is wasted…

A relative and I once spent one Christmas trying to find a place to eat - it was just the two of us that year and figured there was no point in cooking, and there was bound to be at least a couple restaurants open. NOPE. The only two places open for miles around was a Chinese place next to a cheap motel where she (a…

My first Thanksgiving on my own was also the Worst Ever for much the same reason - couldn’t go visit family because of distance + Black Friday and I didn’t have any local friends. I think I sat on my futon and cried for a little bit, ate some crap, watched some TV and played some games. After that year I started going…

Even on easy, pikemen are annoying - I have to dodge yellow pikers almost as much as I do zealots, but I can just mow through everyone else. The stealth does suck, but I still can zip around rooftops picking off the guards, which is all I want out of AC games. I do miss yoinking guards off rooftops - it was in the…

No worries, carry on!

I wasn’t lumping them together, I was noting the irony of brown people approving of a policy that disproportionately has a negative impact on brown people.

There was a similar one from a Latinx saying they supported Trump primarily because of his immigration policy. Erm...

I swooped on that 80k Chase Sapphire - I’d been watching for it for at least six months, because I had some large necessary-but-not-urgent household purchases to make, and had inheritance $ set aside to pay it off. Might as well get that extra bonus!

Also: “please,” “just looking,” “next stop.”

Sorry, I was just trying to be helpful with the correct spelling. :)

Perkele (roll that R) means “satan” or “the devil,” but it’s basically the Finnish catch-all word for goddammit, fuck, shit, etc. Kind of like the French “putain!” There’s a hysterical video on Youtube of a Finnish guy finding a bear rummaging through his trask and scaring it off by shouting PERKELE! at it.

I have the re-texture mods from NexusMods, but even those are, what, a few years old at this point, so if this is a substantial improvement even over that, I am down to spend another hundred hours with my favorite squad.

Point! I have been in small apartments with their own personal saunas, but was not sure if this was universal or if there were cheaper places with shared saunas, and I am a little too American to be comfortable with that just yet, lol.

Kiitos!