I think it is a great game - I'm loving the sandbox feel and the "anything goes" way of traversing the map, solving problems etc - but I admit it doesn't have the same sense of wonder and immersion (I think?) as BOTW somehow.
It's also the first time I've made use of any item duplication glitches (it seems like the only "fun" / non-grindy way of making use of the new building mechanic) so maybe that, plus being able to just fly around everywhere on DIY contraptions, has taken some of the fun / point out of wandering around the map 🤷♂️
Tears of the Kingdom every evening since it arrived. It's so good.
My steam deck is gathering dust somewhere, barely used since I got it!
Any chance you can add swiping to hide posts once you've read them?
It's so handy to be able to refresh or come back later in the day and see totally new posts.
Thanks!
Sell me on the idea of pourover!
Hi, this idea for a post came about after reading the other post asking people to describe their daily brew method.
I've been into coffee ever since I started chasing the ability to get decent coffee at home that's strong enough so that most of the cup can be hot milk.
Cafetiere was always disappointing, the flavour always seemed to be a bit... "woody" if that makes sense? Almost like you'd expect ground coffee beans to taste like, and not the "actual extracted coffee flavour" that you'd expect.
I never bothered with any of the pourover methods because I couldn't see how they were any good for "milk drinks", they just seemed like different ways of making caferiere strength coffee but with more control over the brew.
I was never aware of aeropress really early on, and when I did hear about it it just looked like another way of making filter strength coffee so I steered clear of that.
Then I discovered the Moka pot which I used for years by cramming it with as much coffee as I could get into it which used to get pretty close to espresso strength but obviously not proper espresso.
Eventually we bought a Bambino Plus in lockdown and have been knocking out at least decent 2 lattes per day ever since (usually more if my wife is home)
The confusing thing for me has always been that the guys I have worked with over the years who have been really into their coffee have always used pourover or aeropress, and I've always been a little bit puzzled as to why they haven't upgraded to an espresso machine yet (these people are all well paid and could definitely afford one if they wanted one, looking at the grinders they used to buy)
With all of this context in mind, what is the attraction to pourover or aeropress style coffee vs. espresso? E.g. espresso can = americano if it's just a case of liking watered down coffee without a lot of milk, just add hot water. Please sell me on the idea of pourover or similar methods 🙂
For me it's the ability to get coffee that's strong enough so that most of the cup can be hot milk. I've been chasing that for years.
Cafetiere was always disappointing, never bothered with any of the pourover methods because I couldn't see how they were any good for "milk drinks". I was never aware of aeropress really and when I did hear about it it just looked like another way of making filter strength coffee so steered clear of that.
Then I discovered the Moka pot which I used for years by cramming it with as much coffee as I could get into it which used to get pretty close to espresso strength but obviously not proper espresso.
Eventually we bought a Bambino Plus in lockdown and have been knocking out at least decent 2 lattes per day ever since (usually more if my wife is home)
Still not convinced I can get enough coffee in each shot though... I'm regretting the 53mm basket size!
The problem I always have with off brand / mass produced beans (Aldi, other supermarkets' own brands, Amazon...) is that they're usually burnt to shit, literally acrid smelling and dark af. Maybe some people are into that?
I don't know whether it's just all coming out of the same factory or they're all trying to cover up inferior beans but none of them have heard of light or medium roast apparently, even when it says that on the packet.
Peas
Hi, I'm looking at growing some peas in our raised beds, the type you just eat fresh from the pod but I saw a line in a book that said you can't get pleasant/sweet tasting peas from planting out dried peas? Is that true? If so, what's the best way of growing them? Thanks
Maybe? I thought I read that to search for communities across all instances you have to use some external website that indexed them all (can't remember the name)
I've been thinking about setting up my communities based on what I used to follow on Reddit but honestly, I get about 30 seconds to browse at a time and it's too much of a mental hurdle to be like ok...I need to go to what site was it? And I need to keep going back to my Reddit subreddit list, then search for every subreddit on [whatever that site was] then go to the app and paste some URL in... All of this is a pain in the arse on mobile and if it's not the sort of thing I can do in a minute or two then it's not going to get done.
Maybe someone will write a service that lets you enter your Reddit username and it just auto-searches for the closest matching community for each subreddit you are subscribed to and auto-adds them to your Lemmy account
That makes sense, and if you're talking about being purely read only, it can all be cached relatively cheaply