Hug time!

2+2 = 5

…for sufficiently large values of 2

My house was built in the late 1800s. That or a chair that my great great grandpa bought

My house was built in the late 1800s. That or a chair that my great great grandpa bought

Pauline of the Kongdom

It’s not my kink, but I know a few folks that would enjoy that.

Heck yeah Warioland!

Ooooh! Didn’t realize it was out on switch now

Aw man, you’ve got some nerve posting that in the Nintendo community! 😝

I’ve heard good things. Enjoy!

Random field trips for shits and giggles?. Especially impromptu ones. That’s a bad idea. It’s a recipe for “I didn’t wear the right shoes for laser tag”, or “I don’t want to go see that [event/show]”, or “I have a deadline I need to meet, I’m going to be stressed the whole time”

Field trips should be planned, paid, during business hours, and if not related to business function, optional.

A neutral field trip would be: Hey, we are going to a restaurant for lunch Friday. The company is paying. Your lunch break will be extended, but the extension will be paid.

A good field trip is one you can make relevant to the project, that’s a different story. Say you are working on a medieval/fantasy action adventure: go to an arms or art museum and see all the cool swords, spears, and armor. If it’s a farm sim, maybe tour a cider mill or a historical/working farm: learn about the tools and equipment they use, etc.

Well, if we are counting all the post launch bundles, then the OG Switch definitely had pack-ins too. I bought mine bundled with MK8DX.

But if you want to talk launch pack-ins, the only ones I know had them for certain were the original NES, Game Boy and Wii. The GBP, GBL, GBC, GBA, GCN, all did not launch with pack-ins The DS technically had a Metroid demo and a messaging app. I don’t think the N64 launched with any bundles and SNES looks like it had a launch bundle in North America only. I’m not sure about the 3DS or WiiU, but the NEW 3DS didn’t even come with a charging cable.

So, yeah. It’s very stupid that Welcome Tour isn’t a pack-in, but it is not unprecedented in the least.

Was it because Trump didn’t say “thank you” after the last time Ukraine shared top secret war plans?

The US election was 8 months ago. The operation was probably still in the planning stages. After that day, Ukraine would have known not to share any sensitive info with the US unless absolutely necessary, knowing that a Putin fanboy would soon have his hands on it. Had Biden still been in office today, he may have gotten a heads up before the actual execution, but then again, why would he need it. It is not like that information would have been actionable to anyone except the target.

Does Portal 2 count…?

I remember enjoying Left 4 Dead back in the day.

Calm down Diogenes. Go back to your Barrel.

Forward facing eyes are indicative of a predator.

Butter is great for general cooking but not frying. What is burning is the milk solids still left in the butter. Browning butter (basically lightly frying the milk solids) is a process that can be used to impart at different flavor to the butter.

If you want to fry with that buttery flavor but don’t want to burn it, you need to clarify it first: boil out the remaining water content, skim the milk solids off the top, then pour the clear fat off the other milk solids that settle out. Or you can just use ghee, which is basically preclarified butter.

Fun fact: it’s the milk solids that go off first in butter (and the water content allows microbial growth). “Potting” is a preservation technique like “canning”, except instead of sealing something with a metal lid, you pour clarified butter over the food. It fills in gaps between solid pieces and forms a cap on top as it cools.

Meter‽ We are more than well acquainted.

‘a meter’

I did not have Gattaca on my bingo card…

Great for the kid, though. I wish them a long and prosperous life.

Yes, though it does not affect the nutritive content or prevent subsequent cultures from taking root, so you can still inoculate irradiated foodstuffs with live ginger bug, yeast, scoby, mother, etc. or open air ferment.

Windows 11 ended support for vertical taskbars and the default setting is along the bottom with the tasks centered. You can change the “taskbar alignment” setting to “left” but that just aligns the tasks to the left side of the bar. There apparently was a registry hack that allowed you to move the taskbar, but that got patched out by the time my work updated my workstation