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I heartily recommend also taking a gander at the wikipedia page for the Gavle goat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gävle_goat The exploits trying to destroy the thing are great reading as well.

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Those shots are amazing Valyrian. The second one looks like a Civ advisor portrait in the best possible way.

Shadowverse I just can't get over the art. It's so gross. Shame too because it looks fun to play.

I've mostly switched to other computer CCGs, that also mostly are a lot more generous to low-budget players than Hearthstone. Right now Gwent's mostly grabbed my interest, and I occationally dip into Eternal, Duelyst and Elder Scrolls: Legends. I recommend trying those out, they're all very, very good in their own ways. ES:L especially manages to be a Hearthstonelike that adds a lot of interesting decision making.

I'm also extremely thankful that transcripts are provided, those fit my preferences better.

OK. Try to cool off a bit and do some of that allegedly deep thinking about more than The Witness.

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Dang this page has some good-lookin' gents

As a great fan of DFW, I think that's a great article. I'm happy I've mostly grown out to recommending things without considering the audience, so there's not much pain reading this, mostly retroactive embarrassment I'd already handled. The Zadie Smith piece she mentions is also excellent by the way.

Wonderful! That looks very good. Want to taste dat bread :o) Wife's also quite impressed!

Wow Roderick. Superdupercongrats! That's amazing.

The biggest variable is the flour. The culture in your starter mostly comes from the wild yeasts and lactobacillae living on the grain and hence in the flour. If the flour's been sterilised things aren't going to get off any time soon. I'd advise trying out several flours in separate starters to see what works for you. The general process is always the same, add equal parts by weight water and flour daily (we do ~40g or so) and stir (consistency should be like yogurt), then let it sit covered. Within a week there should be small bubbles appearing, and the mass should give off a mildly sour, yogurt-like smell. The consistency also may have changed somewhat, becoming more stringy as the gluten are separated from the starch. We got the nicest starters from buckwheat and especially spelt flour. @RubixsQube that looks great! About this popping up, I can't speak for others but for us our latent desire for home-baked bread came to the fore because we watched the Cooked! series on Netflix. The bread episode left us both slavering.

I'm going to endorse baking your own bread. It's both enormously simple and enormously satisfying. You start with a flour and water porridge, let it develop into a starter over a week and then you're set. We've not bought bread for several months now and we're very smug about it. I've mostly been using Dutch language resources so I can't help you much there but there's a crapton of resources out there. A lot of the joy is in the experimentation anyway. Go!

@TychoCelchuuu what on earth is the flour/starter on that bread, dang it looks light & fluffy, never managed that on my own sourdoughs. Not whole-wheat I'm guessing? My best effort:

I'm considering getting a sheep because I'm so fed up with mowing the lawn if that counts.

Ryan North's To be or not to be also has some unreachable pages. They contain pretty good jokes. Heck, the choose your own adventure thread I once made together with some friends on a long-defunct forum also had an unreachable node. As I recall, it involved you making out with Spiderman.

I just checked, I'm still on impulse drive.

I just love the name Warpgate. No issues so far except the known joycon one.

For what it's worth, Iron Council is my favourite of the three by some distance. There's some real urgency and the plot feels more focused politically. I'm very curious what you'll think of the ending, I kind of liked it but it gave me Thoughts.

Came in here to post this, left pleased.

My point was more that none of the events, techniques, etc. come from fiction, dystopian or otherwise. It's in the article you & Chris cited as it turns out:

I actually believe the opposite, that firing him with this delay makes them look less like idiots for taking him on board in the first place and lets them just go 'doop de doo nothing to see here just parting amicably.' This way the bad thing is not brought to people's attention again within the outrage window.

I adored this episode. I don't think Chris has sounded this much like his ballpoint fan drawing in quite some time. Hoisted by his own horn, indeed.

I love this book. Atwood is one of my favourite authors. Her Oryx & Crake trilogy is also very, very good as is really almost all of her other work. The Blind Assassin especially is amazing. I think as far as speculative fiction with impact goes, probably only Ursula LeGuin's The Dispossessed beats it for me in terms of being both plausible, human and thought-provoking (I would love for that book to come up on the 'cast one day btw). One thing that Atwood has said about the book that didn't come up, I believe, is one of my favourite things about it: nothing that happens in the book hasn't happened/been done by people at some point in the past. Everything in here has really happened at some point, though obviously not in this combination. Finally I agree that the appendix is infuriating and disempowering/objectifying towards the narrator. Men being glib and jokey about a real woman's real suffering doesn't unfortunately even require the distance in time that is present in this version of affairs.