Badfinger

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  1. Idle Food - Cooking!

    I know I'm the only one posting in this thread now and I don't care. Final result of the experiment: Less salty than commercial lox, and very slightly more fishy. Same glossy sort of texture, really happy with the result. I might skip the beets if I ever do it again. It looks amazing but beets are a pain in the ass. Stained my cutting board because I had the food processor sitting on it for like 2 minutes.
  2. A lot of that has to do with the fact that, as seen above, the people that make KoL give a shit about that sort of thing.
  3. Life

    WHAT.
  4. Baby Animal Gif Emergency Rations

    I needed this thread very badly tonight. Thanks, everyone. http://i.imgur.com/NWq5WIq.gif[
  5. Idle Food - Cooking!

    http://blogs.buffalonews.com/hungryformore/2013/04/recipe-beet-cured-salmon-gravlax-from-the-new-jewish-table.html I am branching out and trying something I've never made before. In fact, I've never even used beets in any capacity before. I have had this kind of lox, and it's incredible, so I have high hopes.
  6. I'd be willing to suggest you're not comparing things that show a comparison of strong and weak traits so much as you're comparing a thing that's competent with a thing that's not in the slightest. None of those joke setups are even the least bit humorous, referential or no. Sometimes things are just bad. The original Scary Movie was a relatively decent movie, but we're almost 15 years deep with people trying to copy that style and spit something out based on the last 18 months of pop culture. Watching the Super Time Force QL and listening to the Bombcast, to me they seemed to really LIKE the dumb double-eyepatched general. Interesting that you got the opposite vibe.
  7. Idle Workouts

    I found out today that I've been doing squats and burpees a little incorrectly. What a difference in the workout, wow. I also loathe running. High five.
  8. On the flip side, there are some people that are worth working for and those relationships are worth cultivating even if there are rough patches. I sure am looking at myself here.
  9. Sports

    Nah, cricket is extremely popular in India. It's a cultural question. Just ask if any of them are fans. It'd be like them asking you what football's all about. It might be a bit stereotypical but it's not racist. Besides, how are you going to learn if you don't ask!
  10. I actually know that about PER, but it was the basketballing stat I grabbed for. I want that to be the color commentator's job. I find that across all competitions guys that do color are just SO BAD, and my preferred color commentary is heavy on analysis. It doesn't have to be stat focused but it should be stat driven. I don't give a fuck about heart and grit and wanting it more, I want to know why positioning and strategy win games. Even if a deciding teamfight is just because one dude is SO FED, there are interesting and relevant reasons in the previous 30 odd minutes that got him there.
  11. His point isn't that the viewing wouldn't potentially be enhanced by running the spectator client, it's that you can't build non-player coverage around tools inside the game because the people you're trying to appeal to may not even have heard of Steam before. You just have to approach non-player viewership as if you were presenting a telecast.
  12. I meant analysis during a game, but thank you. I know enough to ask some questions. I have general knowledge about some things and I'm familiar with multiple forms of managing lords in general. I need specifics, which is not to say you have not provided useful information, but more to say that my competition watching brain demands them. I'm a member of SABR (well, was until I let my dues lapse), I watch All-22 film of football games, I know where to look up my hockey team's Fenwick scores, Kevin Durant was a deserving winner of the MVP award because he led the league in PER. I want my casters to go into strategic depth, because the basic tactics and strategy get absorbed easily. I like numbers'n stuff.
  13. I'm a watcher not a player, but I want the DEEP strategy. I want to know why people pick comps and counter comps. Even if it's just because you have to get this lord because they're super popular right now, I want to know why. I want to know why they have a lane setup like they do. I want to know what parts of the map they're trying to control. I want to know why teams will glyph in some cases but not in others (is there strategic significance to glyphing as often as possible, for example, or saving it for the Most Important time (aka the RPG Potions Theorem)). Something that is probably more basic is sometimes casters show concern when teams are down by X amount of gold or experience and sometimes they're like "no they'll be fine". I want more explanation about that. Sometimes it seems simple and sometimes it's not. Here's my lord and item knowledge: BKB gives you magic immunity, force staff shoves people around. Invoker has a lot of buttons. Wraith King was cooler as Skeleton King. That's it. Teach me the important parts of the game! I'll pick up spell names as I go.
  14. Titanfall

    Keyboard uber alles. A controller is for platformers and assassin's creed.
  15. I changed my phrasing, because the word "beta" is not really relevant to the point of the comment.
  16. Ok, fine. I find it incredibly weird and fascinating that both Dota and LoL are rolling out big announcements for pro fantasy leagues in the same week! Confluence, indeed.
  17. I find it incredibly weird and fascinating that both Dota and LoL are rolling out betas of pro fantasy leagues in the same week. It's obviously not something you can just whip up in a couple of hours, so someone probably threw up their hands when the other side beat them to it.
  18. Diablo III BattleTags

    I am enjoying the changes to my Crusader. A lot of the other changes don't have a direct impact on my preferred playstyles, but I can see why they're important and healthy.
  19. A "P" word to describe a sagging pop screen would be pouched, perhaps? Sean I'm in the same boat as you described. I put a ton of hours into DayZ, but basically all but 90 minutes or so of that time is prior to the day of the Least Dangerous Game. Even as fast as they were issuing iterations (extremely fast for a stable game state), everyone could consume it faster. I think time away just for the pure ability to have new experiences in the game is healthy for it and for me.
  20. Titanfall

    I don't think you can say with certainty that the base is too small (even if that is the case), just that those modes were the least popular. If a lot of people were playing variety pack and dropping when one of those modes came up, it doesn't matter how big the user base is if no games are starting.
  21. Titanfall

    Every time I load the game up, I'm not able to get a lobby.
  22. Idle Workouts

    Decided to attempt C25K again as my cardio workout to supplement resistance exercises. Got about halfway through the first session and could feel my shins dying. I didn't feel over exerted cardio-wise, just knew it would be a bad legs idea to keep going so I switched to a bike for the rest of the clock. I don't think this is going to work on a treadmill for me. Same thing happens to me on any sort of elliptical. I end up not out of breath but my quads are killing me, and that's not why I'm trying to use the machine. There's no real substitute for running, is there?