SuperBiasedMan

Good point! I was thinking Wednesday/Thursday. I'd guess that middle of the week is easiest so that people can shop or cook either on the weekend or start of the following week. Also do people want to do it every 2 weeks to get more time?

Alright! Since a few people like the idea, we can each suggest a new food as our turn comes eg I'm suggesting lasagne for this week (you may have noticed the title update). You have no obligation whatsoever to follow the week's dish, instead of lasagne feel free to make chili, or guacamole, or cake. It's just a suggestion that we wont be policing. I edited the first post to have a list of participants, let me know if you think you should/shouldn't be on there. Cm0nster I'm not sure if you want to take part in the suggesting and would like to just cook along. If you do, that's fine and I can remove you from the list, I just took a guess. And Cordeos I don't know if you wanted to join up or just respond to my lasagne so I didn't add you, but I can if you want. I'll stick my usual shepherd's pie recipe in here. It's mostly adapted from a regular meat one using the veggie mince you get that's dry in bags. Veggie mince is really good, it has the right texture though it's bland if not properly flavoured as you cook it. That's generally not a problem with shepherd's pie since you're cooking it in the sauce anyway, but I extra flavour the mince with stock. You're supposed to soak the dry mince in boiling water to turn it into food, but I always use vegetable stock instead of hot water so that the mince starts off with a nice taste even before adding other spices. Here's the recipe.

That's a good point cordeos. I did pour on all the sauce I had but it didn't fully submerge it so a lot sank (especially cause it was thin). I was confused about whether or not you even could (should) boil the sheets the way you do other pasta, cause there were no instructions on the box and I hadn't made a lasagne myself before. I made my roux with a sunflower based oil spread thing that's butter like. This one. I didn't actually know what a roux was (and didn't look it up in advance), I don't always substitute smartly. I did wonder about having a recipe we all do, or even a themed one like we all make shepherd's pie together. But would the constraint be off putting? I wasn't sure how many people would be up for it, but I guess it could always be a suggested dish, leaving it up to individuals whether they conform to it or not. Likewise if we do that, I don't wanna push people into cooking what they don't want, so I wouldn't even really pressure for veggie unless everyone else was up for that. I obviously wouldn't try to make people cook vegan. (though if anyone specifically wanted to know or ask I'd be happy to explain it). EDIT: If anyone is interested in the lasagne, I can share the recipe for it.

In addition I'll say that I liked the 2D Zelda games the most, and they'll all handhelds. Anyway, the 3D 'classic' ones are on 3DS now. Majora's Mask and Ocarina of Time. By the sound of it, the biggest one you'd miss is Wind Waker. Which I liked, but would not lose sleep over.

As a brief tester of how these things might go, I made a vegan lasagne today! I made small adjustments to a recipe from my River Cottage Veg cookbook. I hadn't had lasagne in a long long time so I wanted to treat myself. It's a mushroom and kale lasagne (so it definitely sounds very veggie) but it's tastier than that makes it sound. Here's all the ingredients, note the massive bag of kale, all of that went into it. It was mostly pretty simple, just cooking the kale and mushroom. But I also made the béchamel sauce from scratch with... questionable results. I used soy milk, which is pretty thin compared to fatty milk and the sauce didn't really thicken enough. It's either the soy milk being thin or I flubbed mixing the flour and butter before pouring the thickened milk over it. Either way I know I botched that sauce. Despite that, it cooked quite well for the most part. Except the pasta slices on top got over done, possibly due to the thin sauce? Either way, everything underneath the crispy topping was delicious, I barely noticed that I was eating 40% leaves! It doesn't quite look like the photo, but close enough. To make it again, I'd add way more mushroom and make sure the sauce was properly thickened, but the actual taste was spot on.

Yeah, if there was differently styled clickables that could be helpful. You could have different looks to indicate whether one actually progresses or leads to a panel that loops back to where you started.

Oh you did write moisturiser come to think of it, I just didn't realise that meant it was moisturiser. I still thought it might be a glove that smelled of it or something. Also you're probably right that it'd be most elegant to have one panel where you can just turn back to investigate more. I know that always allowing any roll back isn't necessarily what creators would want.

It has always been a SNES. We had no Nintendo Entertainment System so to us it was just the snesss, it was more fun to say.

This was fun! It worked well on the Wii U tablet thing so nice work on that front. I have some small gripes about readability, but probably cwine can be blamed a bit. It was really hard to tell what was click able. If I showed this to someone and didn't say it was an interactive comic, I don't think they'd get it at all. But also your first panel with click ables could have been better. It would introduce the concept better if you had a non choice based click able early on that took up most of the panel and was clearly click able. Then someone knows stuff will be click able and what it'll look like. I also thought that the cut away TV gags was a bit confusing because it hopped about too much without establishing that it was a TV screen. Making stuff more visually obvious and less ambiguous is a must for comics. More so with the evidence part. I couldn't tell what the thing hanging on the window was, and all the text showed me was associated ideas that didn't explain what the weird shape was. That's too much negative now, so more positive! It was a lot of fun to explore the optional parts, it was funny and I was pleasantly surprised by the investigation aspect. That does remind me of another problem that's Cwine's fault. I misclicked on the investigation scene and skipped past looking at any items. There should ideally be a way to roll back choices, like how twine can revert to a previous passage. That may be funky especially with games storing dynamic variables etc. But it'd be great if it was doable.

You can switch to just entering pure html for a post, so I assume that's how people do it.

For the record, by not the point I mean the main point is the story. If you don't like the story much, I don't think you'll care about the fights. They serve well to assist the story but I wouldn't have stuck with them for long on their own (Unless every fight was a boss fight, the boss fights were super good)

Oh wow, I ain't doing that. XD I guess it's semantics that I don't think scepticism should necessarily only be applied to the important parts. She talks as if this is definitively what happened to Bergdal, not acknowledging that she's largely just trusting his account. Admittedly it is also quite a choice to publicly say that this POW could be lieing about his personal experiences as a POW.

Yeah it kept coming up. Admittedly the Doctor has a long lost of achievements by then, but I liked before when he was just a man with his ship who fumbled around, knew a bit but relied more on luck on charm than anything else. Which he technically still was, but then was also treated as a bad ass superhero persona.

I found the introduction of Matt Smith as the doctor to be questionable and the show never really won me back from there. It's less about liking Tennant more, it's that the tone of that series was just not doing it for me. It seemed like the show was simultaneously trying to be more serious and more silly, neither of which worked for me.

Personally that's true for me in many games so without a good story I ditch most of the games I play cause even with mechanics I like I "get" them after a bit and then I'm done. I do think they underline the story well, so they're better personally than most story games I play. Also I meant to say if you do play more, I'd think the passive approach to fights is more interesting cause it changes from enemy to enemy rather than the fight command that's always the same and pretty simple.

This slack is weird, why are there so many megaslacks?

The mechanics are totally not the point of that game, they just serve the story pretty well. If you're charmed enough to see more story I encourage you to continue cause there's good stuff to the story up ahead. (I'm getting deja vu so if I already said this or you just don't want to be compelled to continue then never mind this post!

That's what our slack basically is.

I can't do a list as I'm just on my phone but number 1 is unquestionably Undertale. It gave me everything I want from a game, and tackled a thematic message that's been terribly neglected in games for so long. It's not for everyone, but I think everybody should try the demo of this weird upstart. (I also apologise for the rampant fandom)

Having listened through episode 3, does anyone else think she's oddly lacking in scepticism? Season 1 has scepticism all round because everything seemed shaky. However at the moment it seems like she's just accepting Bergdal's account of what happened. There's some mild corroboration with the Taliban sources but it doesn't seem like she's treating it with the same rigor as before. Maybe it's because scepticism won't lead to more info (due to limited sources), or the assumption that there's no reason for him to lie about it. Or maybe scepticism will come later? Does anyone else think it's been a bit weird so far.

I thought the buyer always paid separately for postage. Has that changed since I ebayed?

In this context spoiler culture is the culture of avoiding spoilers. So if you hate that culture, you think people should care less about avoiding spoilers and Ben wants to know how people define the excessive aspects of the culture they hate.

Oh wow. My copy of Broken Sword had the same problem... But I never figured it out til listening to this podcast just now.

Not enough emoji in there. 0/10

Because trigger warnings are just for women and cucks who have 'feelings'. Spoiler warnings preserve the pure artistic intent in masterpieces like Star Wars VII by the Disney corporation.