Jordan Lund @ jordanlund @lemmy.one

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The first thing I do in games like that is Zerg Rush to all the towers needed to open the map and unlock fast travel.

Once you do that, the rest of the game becomes a lot easier.

I got about 1/2 way through the game, but as soon as I hit the first boss of act 3 I just couldn't progress. He'd wipe the party every time. Walkthroughs were useless.

The one in the center is almost 70 years old. The others I've added over the past 10 years or so.

Part showing off :) But also part missing the Le Creuset sub on reddit. :(

And now they just remove previous ones you already paid for!

My wife describes that as being a pizza cutter, all edge, no point.

Lords of Finance won a Pulitzer for history, so that's a good book on how it all started:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lords_of_Finance

Unfortunately, for how we got OUT of it...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

Basically what my grandmother did forever... (that the subreddit will tell you to NEVER do!)

Comet Cleanser powder + Blue Scotch Brite pads + elbow grease. ;)

Comet is kind of hard to find now, not sure why.

https://cometcleaner.com/cleansers/comet-cleanser-pine/

Don't use green scrubbers, they will scratch. Blue scrubbers are safe.

I feel seen... If I were asked "what's the ideal family size?" I would answer "2". Because that way you don't have one kid flying solo and at the same time mom and dad aren't outnumbered.

That being said, how many have I personally had? 0. Lots of different reasons for it. I was RESPONSIBLE for one after getting married to a single mom (bio dad died), not the same as having my own.

Having my own now is increasingly unlikely as we get older and I had a heart attack and open heart surgery.

Destiny 2. I played THE HELL out of Destiny 1, then 2 rolls around and it was like they forgot everything that people liked about 1.

You couldn't access the story missions from the map, and you couldn't replay them on demand, you could only play them off a playlist. There was a weekly heroic story mission that gave a powerful engram reward, then they removed the reward and people stopped playing even that. Eventually they removed the story missions entirely "because nobody was playing them". Big brain move there!

In Destiny 1, each series of missions on a planet ended with a higher level "strike". So you'd pick the missions off the map based on your light level, then level up to hit the strike, then move on to the missions on the next planet.

In D2, not only could you not see the missions, or what level you were supposed to be, the strikes weren't present on the map at all, you could only play them on a play list and the play list was randomized. It was also bugged, often delivering the same strike over and over and others not at all, leaving gaps in the storyline and player experience.

They did patch things, like being able to play strikes on demand, then about 1/2 way through the life cycle Bungie decided to just delete 1/2 of the content in the game. New players would come in, have no access to the original story missions, no idea what was going on, and no idea how to proceed without watching a bunch of youtube videos showing the content removed from the game.

For existing players, they decided that people had spent too much time, in some cases hundreds of hours, curating their perfect weapon and armor sets. Rather than create better gear to replace what people loved, they artificially capped old gear to sunset it and force people to "upgrade" to crappier gear that replaced it. They intentionally didn't make better gear because they were afraid of "power creep" and legitimately "explained" that they no longer knew how to design the game around the old gear. Funny, they didn't have that problem when it was the ONLY gear.

Maybe it's better now? I dunno, the way Bungie totally disrespected the time I spent playing and money I spent on expansions, they'll never get another dime from me.

Yup, yup... regardless, poor puppers!

Poor thing! Did they give you any painkillers? Sounds like she's having a tough time of it!

If this is a result of an injury, the stitches make it look like that, she may also be having anxiety of some kind. You might want to try a thundershirt.

Apparently dog CBD gummies are also a thing. I can't personally vouch for them, gummies have zero effect on me. :(

Based in the shaving and the stitches, looks like an injury of some kind. Maybe she got bit?

Wait, JetBlue was flying to Cuba?

Pretty easy to make! Thinking about doing it again tomorrow, or maybe Labor Day?

Either that or this one:

https://www.lecreuset.com/bbq-beef-roast-with-sweet-bourbon-glaze/LCR-2748.html

It's an interesting mix, a cast iron base with a ceramic cone. Totally unlike all the rest which is all cast iron or ceramic. +1 glass lid.

Lodge works just as well, but you can also get on Le Creuset's mailing list for discounts and they have outlet stores with deals too, that's how I built this out. Sales + free shipping.

https://www.lecreuset.com/stores

You can get a Lodge dutch oven pretty inexpensively if you want to try out enameled cast iron. Fred Meyer here in the NW is the local Kroeger affiliate sells them, and I think Target has them too. Around $80 to $100 depending on size.

The braiser is a super good tool. I did the shakshuka in it, and the chuck roast turned out amazing!

Cast iron is so hot right now! :)