I’ve definitely bought two different products with “cream” and “coconut” on the label at the same store, one of which was extremely sweet... one of which was barely sweet.  Probably safer to go with the less sweet one since it’s hard to make something less sweet, but “more sweet” is doable.

I just want to be sure that the “ cream of coconut milk” is *not* the super sweet stuff that people mostly only buy for piña coladas, right?

The secret to raw eggnog is “let the alcohol kill all the bugs in your eggs.” What I do is, on December 3rd, mix together a dozen eggs with 1.5 cups of sugar and like 2 1/3 cups of whatever mix of 80 proof alcohols you like (bourbon, rum, brandy, w/e). Then let that age in the fridge for 3 weeks, shaking it…

There seems to be a large number of people in this hobby who have not encountered “people like a thing more/less than you do” in a wide enough variety of contexts that this becomes normal.

Machine God Shepard is the best ending.  Damnit, I promised Liara “lots of little blue children” and we’re going to find a way.  Sure, this is an unreasonable amount of power to invest in one person, but this person is the player character and I can thus trust them.

Yeah, the trick is to include lots of little details that could serve as evidence for a specific outcome, but don’t completely rule out the other potential outcomes. Since people are going to read it as “the thing that happened in my game is the thing that happened” that way.

I’m reasonably certain they won’t canonize any ending of ME3 (except for the defiance ending, which is stupid and out of character for Shepard). You just set the game far enough in the future (Liara’s got another ~900 years in her) and the three endings kind of converge. I mean “there’s a dead reaper” doesn’t mean…

“But to penalize a game made by lots of those people affected by crunch is dumb.”

Blaseball was robbed.  Hades would have been acceptable, but nothing else was.

I’m not signing up for Disney Plus until we get 10 new Muppet shows.

Tevinter looked cool, and I’m always glad to hang out with Varric at least.

Or you know, talking to them- another thing that does not involve what’s in your pants.

It’s weird that despite all the cyberware you can get in the game, nothing will let you change from Penis 1 to Penis 2.  You’d think, diagetically, that would be a surgery people would be interested in!

I still have no idea how “let’s have fully rendered genitals” was a thing that made it through even one pass of “feature wish-list triage.”

I feel like if I ever ended up in a “pay it forward” line like this, I would just say “oh, never mind then” and then leave and go somewhere else.

I personally believe everything is a sandwich, since we can arbitrarily define layers.

I honestly find “starting short games” to be harder for me than “finishing long games”.  It takes so long for me to like “become fluent” in a game, that once I do it I can just stick with it as long as there’s something that feels worth doing available.  What I need is advice for those games where I feel like I’ll be…

I once smuggled in the rest of a bowl of pho (in the takeout container) because I wasn’t going to be able to finish it before the movie started. I had just put it in my bag, and carried it in.  Midway through I realized that “letting soup sit at room temperature for ~2 hours” is probably a recipe for food poisoning if…

Sports may come and go, but Synchronized Swimming has been part of the summer games since 1984 and is kind of a weirder form of artistic and athletic movement to celebrate in the Olympics than Breaking is.  Like if aliens came down from space and chose sports for the Olympics “individuals move their bodies in…

FWIW, there’s a huge f***ing difference between “this game might cause seizures” and “a significant (and unskippable) part of this game involves a sequence of flashing lights based on a medical technique that is intended to cause seizures for diagnostic purposes.” Ascribing intent is always tricky but this passes well …