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Hey, he’s like, just this guy, you know?

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Apparently you can connect up to 4 Xbox controllers, but only one at a time can be the “Primary” controller, the one that moves around the UI and picks the games, etc.

partitionwizard.com/…/use-external-controllers-on…

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Outer Worlds has a great sense of humor.

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Check to see if there’s a recall repair.

Recall repairs go beyond the warranty.

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Photo after baking the glaze:

https://lemmy.one/pictrs/image/992c9829-5434-46b7-b270-ea658b7f2488.jpeg

How the fuck can I kill 20 hours?

My 13 hour flight just got delayed 7 hours, I’m stuck at my second airport, and I dont think I’m gonna make it. I have some movies and audio books on my phone, but really only anticipated having to burn the flight time via napping and some media, not 7 hours leading up to it, and I’m pretty sure I’m gonna mentally burn...

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Buy books? 20 hours man, I could burn through at least two.

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Sweet onions native to Walla Walla, Washington.

They look like yellow onions, but they’re sweet.

specialtyproduce.com/…/Walla_Walla_Onions_20332.p…

“Walla Walla onions develop their sweet flavor from the low-sulfur content in the soil.”

There’s a Pacific Northwest fast food chain called “Burgerville” that uses them to make the best onion rings:

burgerville.com/walla-walla-sweet-onion-farm/

youtu.be/a2tTg0HpGrE#t=1m40s

LOL - 3 is the small order. The large is FIVE.

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Thanks! I was very happy with how it turned out, especially since I was kind of making it up as I went along!

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I had a problem with [email protected] just creating communities to copy paste from reddit and blocking all other submissions.

Blocking that one user cleaned up an awful lot of my feed without having to go community by community.

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Yeah, in that case, blocking multiple bots due to admin bad behavior, there’s really no recourse.

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What’s the resolution on the TV? I’d think you’d want at least 1080p for it to be effective.

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The ouch cowch!

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The fascinating thing is that it very well be a real phenomenon that we don’t fully understand.

Don’t mistake me, it’s definitely NOT spirits of the dead or infernal beings from the underworld.

But what it very well COULD be are things like infrasound or magnetic fields having a field day with our senses, making us see, hear and feel things that aren’t there.

As with all of human history, things we don’t comprehend get attributed to “spirits” and as we learn more, the belief in those things dies off.

Good reading on infrasound and ghosts here:

higgs.ph.ed.ac.uk/outreach/…/haunted-frequency

…howstuffworks.com/…/infrasound-paranormal-activi…

On the electromagnetism side, check out “The God Helmet” which can induce feelings of religious fervor.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7966009/

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_helmet

The big problem with this field of science is that “everybody knows” ghosts aren’t real, so why study it?

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"Oh? You hate your job? There’s a support group for that, it’s called ‘Everybody’, we meet at the bar!"

  • Drew Carey
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St-hee-hee-mdeck?

Help deciding PC upgrades

So…I’ve been increasingly struggling to run the latest games, as the age of my 6 years old desktop is starting to show, and Starfield denying my GPU just pissed me. I know it’s a bug and I can probably play it, but it’s outright the minimum for this game, and so I’d like a refresh of the worst, or should I consider a...

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Videocard Benchmark here:

www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

Figure out your price point, then get the highest scoring card in that range.

Say for the sake of argument you don’t want to spend more than $300 on a GPU:

GeForce RTX 3060 TI at $302 and change, not bad.

Radeon RX 6750 XT out performs it, but it’s also $360 instead of 302. So are the extra 500 points on their performance scale worth $60? Probably not.

Prices are more of a guide, search around, you might find them for less. Just using the shopping tab at Google, I found the GeForce for $250 at NewEgg.

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I would be in so much trouble… “Who wants dried shrimp treats!!!”

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One at the bottom too!

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

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lords_of_Finance

Unfortunately, for how we got OUT of it…

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

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

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Unsure, I had to block [email protected] because my feed kept getting filled with copypasta from reddit.

I have to admit, as much as I like looking at accidental rennaissance, I haven’t really looked for content to submit. :(

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Yeah, and the communities they post to ONLY accept posts from the bot…

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

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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. :(

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Yup, yup… regardless, poor puppers!

Not counting games that were unfun because of bugs, what’s the most unfun video game that you’ve played and what made it unfun?

Most of the video games I’ve played were pretty good. The only one I can think of that I didn’t like was MySims Kingdom for the Nintendo DS. Dropped that pretty quickly. It was a long while ago, but I’ll guess it was because there were too many fetch quests and annoying controls.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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Bonus: Shakshuka:

https://lemmy.one/pictrs/image/434a1a16-f741-440f-8724-29fdc14b31de.jpeg

Recipe:

www.themediterraneandish.com/shakshuka-recipe/

Only change I made to it was cooking up some maple sausage first, then adding that to the mix with the tomatoes and tomato sauce.

OH! And I used a red/yellow/orange pepper combo instead of 2 green peppers.

The smell of the peppers with the onion, garlic, coriander, cumin and paprika is AMAZING!

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Sign up for their mailing list and they will regularly send you coupons and sales for 30% to 60% off. :)

I am totally an enabler. Sorry!

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Yeah, I may have scorched a countertop once… ;) Once!

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Cast iron is so hot right now! :)

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

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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.

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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.

www.lecreuset.com/stores

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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.

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

Either that or this one:

www.lecreuset.com/…/LCR-2748.html

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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.

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

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

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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. :(

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Nice! Hope they get used and loved!

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Cast iron cooking is a whole different experience… Enameled cast iron makes it super easy, no seasoning required.

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The center pot I inherited when my grandmother passed away, she bought it on a trip to Spain in the 1950s.

The rest I bought one at a time through various sales at either the Le Creuset website or heavily discounted from their outlet store.

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They rated the Cuisinart one highly as well and it’s the one they use in the demos on the most recent seasons.

youtu.be/KDfNwXXESiU

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Bare cast iron needs to be seasoned to establish a slick, non-stick, surface.

Enameled cast iron already has an enamel coating on it, no seasoning required.

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Lodge is well liked, and the America’s Test Kitchen folks rated the Cuisinart dutch oven highly, it’s just slightly heavier than Le Creuset.

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