I just made a big batch of lao gan ma (chilli crisp), but I overcooked the shallots just a tinge. I’m going to have to try it in a salad like this. Fewer mandarin oranges, more Sichuan peppercorns.

My cat likes to lick bread.  Not eat it mind you, just to sit there and lick it.  He’ll tear a hole in an unattended bag of hamburger buns to get that tasty bun-licking experience.

He was about this big at the time

Dinosaurs are a classic, but with 3D printing I imagine we could make really elaborate dinosaurs.

If we’re printing the chicken, can we make them into cool shapes at least?

When Ozzie was a kitten he once stole a whole piece of pizza from my plate, ran off, then hissed at me when I took it away from him.

I wonder what your accuracy rate would be at spotting the teens in disguise by “what they are choosing to buy.”

There may be no ethics more clear cut than bean ethics, and yet...

“Robots take your menial, boring job so you don’t have to do it anymore” should be the sort of thing to celebrate, had we not decided as a society to tie “you can meet your needs” to “employment.”

I initially read this as most ironic foods of every state, which would be a much more interesting list.

If the soup were contained in little containers (like the ones you use in the Bank drive-thru, but soup-proof) you could send all sorts of things via the soup tubes.

Are we going to do Trick-or-Treating in this plague year? I’m not sure opening my door to a bunch of strangers is the best idea in “these uncertain times”.

Will CEO (Community Effort Orlando) supplant Evo as the top FGC event going forward?  I get that CEO has an SEO problem, but maybe Alex Jebailey isn’t a creep and that would be an improvement.

Man, remember when Fallout was a blisteringly dark satire of unchecked capitalism and how this combined with America’s fondness for believing it’s own bullshit lead to ruin?

At most Tex-Mex restaurants most everything except the fajitas just come drowned in shredded cheese. Why did this woman not just order basically anything else?

Like I get the appeal of watching someone else play a video game in case either a) they are incredibly good at it (like the Street Fighter finals at Evo), or b) you are not sure whether or not the game appeals to you, so this is a cheap way to find out.

One of the most exhausting things in video game culture these days (in addition to all the bad stuff that is not new) is just “keeping track of who all these inexplicably famous twitch people are”.

I look forward to our “post-Covid era” in which the surviving “masks are tyranny” people attempt to get service with neither shirts nor shoes.

Last gen didn’t we used to have a bunch of like 10-20 hour games that told their story and then were over? Like Bioshock, Uncharted 2, Portal 2, Dishonored, Arkhan Asylum. Not only were those games well received, they were some of the best received games of the whole 7th generation.

It’s kind of funny that it’s taking WotC this long to do this, since there have been other people (even in the d20 fantasy space) running away from the “some species are just inherently evil and evoke IRL stereotypes” thing since the dawn of the OGL if not earlier.