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Pets Sunday - how are they doing?
  • My 18 year old sphynx, Hairry, is doing well in his recovery from heart failure. Not as active as he used to be, but his appetite and thirst are at reasonable levels again and he's able and willing to move with the sunbeams across the house.

  • Could pawpaw, the US-native fruit, become the new kiwi or mango?
  • It's not mentioned in the article, but the reason the pawpaw isn't more widespread is because it doesn't ship or keep well. Several years ago there were some attempts to get it distributed by freezing it and it sounds like a lot of the uses in the article are as an ingredient in something else.

  • Languages
  • Esperanto always struck me as more perl-like with each part of speech having its own suffix like perl has $ for scalars, @ for arrays, and % for hashes. Though perl is probably more like a bunch of pidgins...

  • How A New Kind of Veganism Took Over
  • I hate this article and the way it's written. It's full of mean, petty stereotypes that make the author sound like an ass and its content seems to boil down to: "I like meat and vegans do, too, so yay for all the ultra processed substitutes because my palette won't let me consider a meal without something that looks and tastes like flesh in it."

    I am really sick of how absolutely boring this new type of vegan food is and how much it's trying to be like meat. I don't want it to be like meat. I want it to be interesting and actually tasty, not some generic fake burger they try to make look like it bleeds. I get that it's allowing more people to eat more vegan things, but it's still boring and gross to me.

  • Self study; Changing my own Biology Successfully
  • my developments

    What developments? You're just speculating about something that is currently impossible.

    why wouldn't you try?

    You're not seeking a way to alleviate the actual circumstances, you're engaging in escapism. That's fine, but don't cloak whatever this is with the mantle of science.

  • I wish my house cleaned itself

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    Hunting and fishing are for psychopaths

    I'm not talking about the consumption of animals here, to be clear. What I'm talking about is spending days and a bunch of money planning to kill something, doing the killing, and skinning/eviscerating what was killed, and often displaying the stuffed corpse. Hunters and fishers refuse to admit they're obsessed with taking pleasure in killing something.

    Miss me with the "tradition" stuff, it's just peer pressure from the dead and a fallacious argument. Don't tell me it's to eat, like I said, I'm not talking about the consumption here, so please prove to me you are literate by not bringing up that point. And don't tell me you're respectful to the animals you kill; I don't believe the planning, stalking, and killing is a good way to show respect.

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    The Dead Salmon

    Inspired by https://www.farrow-ball.com/us/paint/dead-salmon

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    A cruciverbalist that I enjoy

    Looks like the hasn't made any crosswords for a while but the old ones are still available. Link goes to the themed ones and there's links to online versions in each post. Enjoy!

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    Knives go in the dishwasher and get sharpened with a pull through sharpener

    My tools serve me, not the other way around. It's not worth the time and effort to wash by hand or sharpen on a whetstone. I don't need an expensive knife to cook at home. A pull through sharpener and honing steel are adequate. Get the right material and you don't have to worry about the metal in the dishwasher.

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    Make blocked users not show up in inbox and profile views

    Blocking a user hides their content in comments, but it still shows up in inbox when viewing all as well as in comment chains in the profile view. It would be great if blocked users didn't show up in these places.

    Let me know if there's more info needed.

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    Rabid Wombat - Kaja Foglio

    I still remember this card and its artwork. Holy moly, the date on it is 30 years ago.

    The Foglios have been involved in quite a few projects over the years and it took a while for me to make the link between this card and Girl Genius.

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    Coop Board game Shadows of Brimstone

    boardgamegeek.com Shadows of Brimstone: City of the Ancients

    Co-op dungeon crawl the monster-ridden Old West mines and frozen Targa otherworld.

    Shadows of Brimstone: City of the Ancients

    Western setting where a new gold rush for dark stone pits gunslingers, lawmen, saloon girls, etc against tentacles, the undead, mutated gangsters, snakemen, and lost technology as they travel between worlds.

    It's coop and there are different missions, most of which have randomly generated maps that are created from a deck on you explore, giving it endless replayability. Characters gain experience, skill, and gear but also can become injured or mutate (nothing the church or surgeon in town can't fix for a price).

    It also has tons of expansions. While the physical games add up in cost and require a lot of organizing, you can give it a try on tabletop simulator.

    There's even a Japanese themed set that can combine with the Western ones.

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    Combat feels so slow

    When I was doing some cleanup and running into enemies in old areas, it made me realize how slow combat is and why. If you have timed blocks, it has to be slow to give players time to react to attacks, so every enemy attack animation ends up being long and they all add up.

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