Cylusthevirus @ Cylusthevirus @kbin.social

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Excuse me this is Switch erasure.

"We have been trying to reach you about your carriage's extended warranty."

Okay but like ... ingredients spoil. I don't want something that's been sitting in your walk-in for 3 weeks because nobody else ever orders it.

BE NOT AFRAID, NOW GET TO BONING I HAVE A BET TO WIN

Culinary arts are valid.

It costs a lot because the ingredients are expensive and there's a ton of labor involved. Seriously you should see the level of chemistry, preparation, and precision that go into some dishes.

If you can't appreciate it, that's fine. Not everybody gets any given work of art and some people don't get culinary arts at all. But this "fine dining is a scam" thing I've seen in this thread and elsewhere is a bad take. It amounts to "things I don't have the capacity to appreciate are garbage because I lack the ability to understand that others experience the world differently than I do."

Does it get treated as a status symbol? Sure. But all art gets the same treatment. Picasso is no less valid because some rich asshole buys his work.

That said, there's a kernel of truth to the sentiment, but these little mom and pop local places aren't good just because they're cheap. It's that their main competitor at the price point, chain restaurants, are trashy, factory made garbage. There's a lot of mid range chains (or higher end chains, like Ruth's Chris). They make their money by leveraging economies of scale and a consistent product, but there's not any soul to that food. You can usually do better at home for less. Not to denigrate it too much; I've got chain food I like (don't we all enjoy some junk food from time to time?). Hell, I know a Michelin Star chef that has a hot wing at one of the national wing chains he craves, but then that dude eats everything.

Local mom and pops are often immigrants from other nations making food the way they know how ... which often involves more down to earth ingredients and methods instead of processed trash bought from Sysco. I've had some amazing food on the cheap from immigrants from different areas of Mexico, Ethiopia, Czechoslovakia, lots of South East Asian countries ... you name it. They're not all great, but there's been some incredible flavor : value ratios.

So try your local places, but understand that fine dining needn't be a scam if it's a chef busting his ass to be creative and delicious, even if it's very expensive.

Turn about is fair play, I say.

That's an hour long, about a different video than the one I linked (or at least the bits I skimmed were), and so far as I know Gates understands that climate change is a huge threat. Greenwashing is a weird accusation and I don't understand how it applies here.

But whatever, welcome to the block list.

There's a strong argument to be made for nuke plants, but there's a solid, high production value video here. It's Kurzgesagt if you know them.

Newscorp owned site.

I think Fetterman's showing the senate level of reverence it deserves.

Feels like something Zoidberg would say.

"It's good for you probably! Your carapace will protect you fine. ... what do you mean humans don't have a carapace?"

YESSSSSSS. I played a mod called renegades that had some different weapons, classes, and things like deployable base defenses. It was SUCH a fun game. Few things will ever match the cool factor of aerial disc duels.

Ah, the image must not have loaded for you. Here's a mirror.

Gonna be first against the wall in the Robacalypse.

For some reason he reminded me of this one Bill Murray flick.

Lol, one of the two options listed is what I'm using. Need to find something with support for fantasy stuff and if possible, alternative hacking rules. Hamish who wrote it mentioned he wasn't super happy with how it turned out.

Brought to you by the same people that cheered like baboons for the Patriot Act. 9/11. Murica.

I love that setting, but those mechanics. Ooof. Way too heavy. I actually meant the genre not the system. In reality I've been running The Sprawl but I'm looking for a narrative forward cyberpunk game that can accommodate urban fantasy.

The way this CEO operates is absolutely worthy of condemnation and viewing him through the lens of unfeeling cosmic horror is, if anything, a nicer take. But it's fair to say that people operating at that level of wealth have become detached from and profoundly alien to normal folk.

I don't think you're parsing this comic fairly or engaging with its content by labeling it "edgelord violence or insults."

Pretty much ALL of Hbomb's substantive examples from the video are from CTRL-ALT-DEL which is like ... the worst example imaginable. There's screenshots of PA's art, but beyond the one dumb gag about "stake me bro" he never really gets into PA's writing. ODD, THAT. Because if you actually read Jerry Holkin's posts, you'll find a level of writing that puts the lie to the notion that these are idiots making cheap, derivative work. Setting aside the fact that they've been doing this so long that they basically defined the genre.

And as an aside, really Harris, web comic artists as targets? You've done it, you've achieved the epitome of punching down. These and other extremely sane takes from the guy that brought you an almost 2 hour long video on the goddamn Roblox "oof" sound effect.

CEO as cosmic horror is a concept with legs. This'll spice up my next cyberpunk campaign.