“does not have the same robust molding capacity as the gelatin-based original.”

“over the last 20 years they have been steadily shrinking their store sizes, pushing used product, and removing storage so that if you want a game you need to buy an open one new.”

There’s a reason why Microcenters are located where they are and why there so few locations. And why more distributed retailers give so little space to it.

All things that are SUPER easy to do with tiny strip mall stores in outlying areas, or in collapsing classic flavor shopping malls. That are run down and leased.

“The Amazon of x” is a 20 year old also ran idea from when Amazon mostly sold books and other media.  

Not neccisarily. You get too strong and it might damage seals and shit, or leave a dangerous amount of residue. It’s certainly more dangerous to handle.

Residue will build up over time, and some of the shit running around in coffee can combine with hard water minerals to make a pretty nasty scale.

I both have the time often enough, and am a fan of long, complicated games, RPGs and open worldy stuff.

Movies have not always been that way.

I don’t know that you can lay it on the pandemic though. I started playing Odyssey recently, and a lot of what you describe above is all over that one. Even two years and a bit after release. I haven’t run into anything quest or game breaking that can’t be resolved with restarting the game and reloading a save (though…

It’s still possible for a vaccinated person to both get covid and infect others. Particularly before that person has gotten both shots. It’s much less likely, and any covid infection in a vaccinated person is going to be much less severe. Which means asymptomatic cases where you don’t know you might be spreading it.

Absolutely. Granted it is not an every day sort of thing. I grew up with a full breakfast every Sunday after church, cooked by my off the boat grandfather. That approach seems pretty common, the cousins in Dublin do the same. And they used to send us an Irish breakfast package from Galtee every year for Thanksgiving.…

Were you up north? A full breakfast varies a ton regionally. Even within a given country.

White pudding great. Basically just the black pudding without the blood added. Tommy Maloneys makes a good one in the US and it’s available mail order. 

Heinz beans suck though. Taste like raw, unseasoned tomato sauce. If you can't get Bachelor your honesty better off with American beans. 

Porridge has nothing to do with a full breakfast. It’s something you would have *instead* of a full breakfast. I couldn’t imagine eating a big bowl of oatmeal than having a go at a fry up.

And yet they described it in a way that makes it sound like some kind of blood porridge.

Corned beef is increasingly popular over there. Ireland have always been a major producer it just wasn’t affordable for most people historically.

Or use baking soda. Which you already have, your coffee maker’s manual probably recommends and costs like a dollar.

Likely rancid. Rancid olive oil can definitely smell “aggressively green”, before it goes full on fishy stinks and pepper.

Part of what makes oils go rancid or off. Especially olive oil is light exposure. So it’s possible it was not technically rancid, but light had fucked it all up already. Kinda like a skunked beer.

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